Chapter Summaries

Ling Chu and her allies infiltrated the royal bedchamber to rescue Jita, killing or freezing the guards who stood in their way. They reached the room, where the witch doctors were preparing to operate on Jita.

• A bat carrying You Jiali's voice reassured Jita that Slachi's friends would rescue her if she cooperated.
• Serki lured four guards, including both Seventh Tier guards, away from the bedchamber by claiming the royal treasury was under attack.
• Ling Chu, Huang Xiaowen, and Atasha attacked the remaining guards and killed or froze them in under half a minute.
• Inside the bedchamber, Ling Chu silently killed one guard, while Huang Xiaowen froze the other as he followed him into the corridor.
• The witch doctor looked up from his surgical instruments and saw three faintly smiling faces in the room.

Ling Chu and her allies rescued Jita and gave the Mermaid King an antidote, while Serki attacked the palace guards and accused Seliuxi of poisoning his sister and plotting to seize power. The chapter ended with Seliuxi summoning reinforcements to surround Serki.

• Atasha used Guardian Bubble to protect Jita, and You Jiali subdued the witch doctor while Ling Chu and the others bound the captors.
• Ling Chu freed Jita, who recognized You Jiali as the man she had rescued on an island.
• Atasha gave the Mermaid King Serki's antidote, but when she did not wake, Ling Chu poured an Antidote Potion into her mouth.
• Serki ambushed the mermaid guards near the storeroom, while his secretly trained subordinates blocked two guards from reporting to the royal consort.
• Seliuxi arrived and confronted Serki, who accused him of poisoning the Mermaid King with soul-devouring algae and plotting to seize control.
• Seliuxi called for guards to seize Serki, and more mermaid guards surrounded him.

Seliuxi used the Soul-Suppressing Conch to disable Serki, but Clumsy Bear arrived and attacked him. Seliuxi retaliated with Suffocation Bubble, trapping Clumsy Bear in a vacuum while Serki struggled to free him.

• Seliuxi activated the Soul-Suppressing Conch, disabling Serki and allowing a seventh-tier mermaid to stab him with a trident.
• Sveti arrived as Seliuxi taunted the wounded Serki.
• Clumsy Bear burst from the seagrass, defeated the seventh-tier mermaid, and punched Seliuxi despite the conch's sound waves.
• Sveti attacked Clumsy Bear with a dagger, and Seliuxi struck him and Serki with Surging Wave.
• Seliuxi trapped Clumsy Bear inside a Suffocation Bubble, and Serki's spear puncture quickly sealed over.

Squid Ball freed Clumsy Bear from Seliuxi’s bubble, and Ling Chu awakened Leanna by removing the Stillness Jade from her mouth. After learning how Seliuxi had poisoned and deceived her, Leanna set out to confront him while the battle continued in the palace gardens.

• Squid Ball used the Magician's Staff to break Seliuxi’s bubble, and Clumsy Bear struck Seliuxi and Sveti, shattering Sveti’s shoulder.
• Ling Chu discovered the Stillness Jade beneath Leanna’s tongue and removed it, waking the Mermaid King.
• Atasha told Leanna that Seliuxi had poisoned her, blocked visitors, and planned to use a mixed-blood sea monster as a vessel for her eggs.
• Leanna recalled using the Stillness Jade to escape Seliuxi’s poisoning and ordered that he be brought to her.
• In the palace gardens, two seventh-rank mermaid guards forced Clumsy Bear back while Serki fought them despite his injury.

Leanna emerged from her poisoning and stopped Seliuxi’s coup, reuniting with Serki and condemning Seliuxi to severe punishment. The chapter ended as guards brought scissors to carry out her order to cut off his fish tail.

• Seliuxi sent Guards to attack Clumsy Bear, Serki, and Squid Ball while he tried to control the battle.
• Leanna bound Seliuxi with chains and revealed that she had recovered, while Ling Chu and the others had helped her escape.
• Sveti knelt before Leanna, and Atasha ordered the Guards to stop fighting.
• Serki reunited with Leanna, who learned how he had risked himself to find ingredients for her antidote.
• Leanna ordered Seliuxi’s tail cut off, his eyes gouged out, and his imprisonment in the Deep Sea Water Prison.
• Seliuxi wet himself in fear as a guard brought scissors to carry out Leanna’s order.

Leanna punished Seliuxi and Sveti for their crimes, then invited Ling Chu and her companions to the palace to thank them for saving the Mermaid Race. She also freed Slachi and Jita and vowed to demolish the Hatchery and release the imprisoned sea demons.

• Leanna had Seliuxi's tail fin cut off and ordered him sent to the Deep Sea Water Prison after Slachi explained that Poison Stem Algae permanently silenced mermaids.
• Leanna stripped Sveti of her royal status and sentenced her to thirty years in the Deep Sea Water Prison for helping Seliuxi, framing Atasha, losing the Jade Tablet, and attempting to seize human territory.
• Serki rebuked Sveti as guards dragged her and Seliuxi away, while the witch doctor arrived to treat Serki's wounds.
• Squid Ball gathered the bee stingers, and Clumsy Bear returned to human form with his stomach rumbling.
• Leanna invited Ling Chu, Slachi, and Jita to the palace for dinner, freed Slachi and Jita from slavery, and promised to tear down the Hatchery and release the sea demons.

At a royal banquet, Ling Chu received the Stillness Jade she had requested, along with pearls and gifts from Leanna. After learning that Ling Chu had found a necklace Leanna once gave to a human fisherman, Leanna blessed a Voice Conch and offered Ling Chu her support.

• Jita cried with hope as Slachi comforted her at the royal banquet.
• Ling Chu asked Leanna for the Stillness Jade, and Leanna gave it to her along with five boxes of pearls.
• Leanna presented Ling Chu with a Jade Tablet that granted access to the royal palace and a Voice Conch for contacting her.
• Leanna recognized her necklace on Ling Chu and explained that she had given it to a fisherman who freed her from a net.
• Leanna blessed the Voice Conch, improving its quality and adding attributes and the ability to intercept another user's transmission.

Ling Chu discovered that the Mermaid King Leanna loved the human foods she brought and traded them for a fortune in pearls and Shark Silk. Leanna offered to stay in contact through Voice Conches, opening the way for future business across the ocean.

• Leanna blessed Ling Chu’s Voice Conch, giving it three base attribute points and a cross-channel function, and Atasha explained that mermaids risked their lifespans if they exceeded their limited blessings.
• Ling Chu shared milk with Atasha and Leanna, then brought out chocolate, sugar, and cakes from her Storage Ring for them to try.
• Leanna eagerly exchanged five boxes of pearls and three boxes of Shark Silk for Ling Chu’s food, and both considered the deal a bargain.
• Leanna offered to contact Ling Chu through a Voice Conch and send nearby mermaids to collect future food shipments.
• Ling Chu packed milk, chocolate, and cake for Jita and urged the thin sea demon to eat and build up strength.

After Leanna promised Slachi and Jita a better home, Ling Chu and her companions visited their dwelling in a vast underwater dump and learned how harshly the Mixed-blood Sea Monsters lived. As Ling Chu accepted Jita’s handmade bracelet, her Bounty Sense detected a wild Treasure Chest nearby.

• Leanna promised to clear part of the western coral reef so the Mixed-blood Sea Monsters could move to a better area.
• After the banquet, Slachi removed his iron collar, and Ling Chu and her companions followed him and Jita away from the city.
• Ling Chu saw the trash mountains where the Mixed-blood Sea Monsters lived and learned that Jita sometimes survived on food salvaged from the refuse.
• Jita welcomed the group into her tidy wooden home and gave them handmade shell bracelets, which they accepted.
• Ling Chu noticed a red point of light behind Jita and realized her Bounty Sense had detected a wild Treasure Chest.

Ling Chu led the Ghost Ship crew and nearby Mixed-blood Sea Monsters in digging through a Trash Mountain for a buried Treasure Chest. The chest contained Sea Shells, a Jadeified Scale, and an Elven Stone Slab (No. 6), leaving Ling Chu thrilled by her discovery.

• Ling Chu followed a red dot to a Trash Mountain and persuaded the Ghost Ship crew to dig for a Treasure Chest beneath it.
• Ling Chu recruited more than twenty Mixed-blood Sea Monsters by offering them one pearl per hour to help dig.
• The diggers uncovered a rusty Iron Box, and Ling Chu paid each Mixed-blood Sea Monster two pearls before opening it.
• Ling Chu found 120 Sea Shells and a Jadeified Scale in the chest, then pulled out an Elven Stone Slab (No. 6).
• Squid Ball reacted in shock, while Ling Chu grinned at finding the rare stone slab beneath the deep-sea Trash Mountain.

Ling Chu recovered another Elven Stone Slab from a garbage mountain and asked Slachi about sea monsters, leading him to offer to take her to Archimedes, a being said to know everything about the sea. The group survived an encounter with a gigantic creature in the deep and reached the enormous light Slachi had pointed out.

• Ling Chu found an Elven Stone Slab buried in the garbage and stored it in her Storage Ring.
• Ling Chu asked Slachi about sea monsters, and he told her Archimedes knew everything that happened in or above the sea.
• Slachi left Jita behind and led Ling Chu, Squid Ball, and Huang Xiaowen toward Archimedes on Tide Day.
• Slachi made the group extinguish their light and stay still while a gigantic creature swam overhead.
• The group followed a distant light until it grew enormous and left them staring in amazement.

Ling Chu and her companions entered a giant jellyfish that held an island inside and followed Slachi through a settlement inhabited by the rare Medusa Tribe. Slachi led them through the busy coral market to Archimedes’ shop.

• The group followed Slachi into the jellyfish through its pulsing oral arm and reached the island inside.
• Ling Chu saw the island’s coral trees beneath the jellyfish’s transparent dome.
• Slachi showed the group a bar where members of the Medusa Tribe drank sea aloe juice, which cost fifty Sea Shells per cup.
• Ling Chu asked how Archimedes accepted payment, and Slachi said it took Sea Shells or pearls.
• Slachi led Ling Chu and the others past busy stalls and traders to a shop.

Ling Chu and her companions visited Qiong’s weapon shop to buy information from Archimedes, and Qiong revealed that Archimedes was hidden behind a partition. The enormous eye behind the gelatinous barrier began examining them.

• Slachi woke Qiong, the Medusa Tribe blacksmith, and introduced him to Ling Chu’s group.
• Clumsy Bear was shocked when he shook Qiong’s hand, and Qiong apologized by offering to enchant a weapon for free.
• Qiong examined Ling Chu’s legendary weapons and recognized the special craftsmanship and blessings on the group’s equipment.
• Slachi explained that the group wanted information from Archimedes, so Qiong rang a wind chime to open a concealed partition.
• A gigantic eye emerged from behind the gelatinous barrier, and Qiong respectfully told his mother that the visitors wanted to buy information.

Ling Chu paid Qiong’s mother, a giant jellyfish, for information about Lucas and learned that his ship had been active in specific sea coordinates under a nautilus sail. Qiong then enchanted You Jiali’s sleeve blades with lightning paralysis, and the group left with a clear destination and a more powerful weapon.

• Ling Chu showed Qiong Lucas’s wanted poster, and Qiong’s mother identified the sea coordinates where Lucas had been active and said his sail bore a nautilus.
• Ling Chu paid one thousand Flawless White Pearls for the information and memorized the coordinates, despite the Ghost Ship being about a month away from those waters.
• Qiong offered You Jiali a free enchantment to make up for his earlier actions, and You Jiali handed over his Blood Count’s Sleeve Spikes.
• Qiong used a Thunderheart Stone to enchant You Jiali’s sleeve blades, adding an attribute that paralyzed enemies struck by them.

Ling Chu and her companions left the Jellyfish after visiting its coral island and saying goodbye to Slachi, then continued their ascent toward the surface. When a Pig-Lipped Wrasse bit Huang Xiaowen, You Jiali tested his newly enchanted sleeve blade and killed it.

• Ling Chu took a group photo with her companions, and Squid Ball noticed You Jiali was looking at Ling Chu instead of the camera.
• The group left the Jellyfish, and Ling Chu took a photo of the drifting island before telling Slachi to return home.
• Slachi tearfully said the group would always be his friends, then swam back toward the garbage mountain as Ling Chu and the others headed upward.
• A Pig-Lipped Wrasse bit Huang Xiaowen, and You Jiali stopped her from attacking it so he could test his enchanted sleeve blade.
• You Jiali shocked the wrasse for five seconds, then pierced its head with the blade and killed it.

Ling Chu and her crew escaped a migrating school of Diamond Swordfish by using Space Spores to return to the Ghost Ship, then washed up and gathered for dinner. After Lingering Wind and Fading Moon delivered the finished underwater breathing potions, Ling Chu messaged A Silly Bird to ask how things were on Hope Island.

• Ling Chu spotted a school of Diamond Swordfish rushing toward the crew and ordered everyone to use Space Spores to return to the Ghost Ship.
• The Swallowing Pitcher Plant spat out Ling Chu and the others, leaving them covered in sticky stomach fluid, and Ling Chu told them to wash up and meet in the dining hall.
• Lingering Wind and Fading Moon gave Ling Chu the bottles of underwater breathing potions they had refined from the Lantern Coral Fruits.
• You Jiali served the braised Humphead Wrasse, and the exhausted crew ate together in the dining hall.
• Ling Chu messaged A Silly Bird and asked how things had been on Hope Island.

Ling Chu learned that Hope Island had reached Level 7 after A Silly Bird placed the sixth Elven Stone Slab on its altar. She discovered that Star River Enters Dream had been badly wounded and stranded after a battle with Smiley’s Circus Ship, so she sent him a teleportation ticket to Hope Island.

• Ling Chu gave A Silly Bird the sixth Elven Stone Slab and instructed him to place it on Hope Island’s altar.
• Hope Island reached Level 7, tripled its plantable area, extended its landing period to three months, and began producing 500 Teleportation Tickets per day.
• A Silly Bird told Ling Chu that Shark Daily reported Star River Enters Dream had lost his left arm and fled Smiley’s Circus Ship by entering an instance dungeon.
• Ling Chu contacted Star River Enters Dream, who said he had no ship and expected to die after his instance ended.
• Ling Chu traded Star River Enters Dream a Hope Island teleportation ticket so he could escape to her island.

Star River Enters Dream accepted Ling Chu’s help and entered an arena fight, where he defeated a towering shrimp-armored opponent despite his injuries. Meanwhile, Ling Chu prepared for her confrontation with Lucas, spending her new wealth on supplies and noticing that her route passed Babu Jiujiu’s island.

• Star River Enters Dream used the teleportation ticket Ling Chu had arranged and entered the arena with one hand, where he killed the shrimp-shell fighter with a single strike of sword qi.
• Ling Chu learned that A Silly Bird had no livestream footage of the Circus’s attack on Star River Enters Dream’s ship.
• Ling Chu sent photos of the Stone Tablet to Squid Ball for help deciphering its elven text.
• Ling Chu traded three chests of Shark Silk to Mickey Meow Witch to be made into clothes and checked her Wealth Points ranking, which showed 370,000.
• Ling Chu decided to buy more combat equipment before reaching Lucas and spotted Babu Jiujiu’s island along the Ghost Ship’s route.

Ling Chu listed Shark Silk clothes made by Mickey Meow Witch on the Trading Post and persuaded skeptical players to buy them by offering a ten-minute trial and refund. After the clothes began selling, Chen Piaopiao bought fifty pieces, and players asked Ling Chu whether her upgraded Hope Island had teleport tickets.

• Mickey Meow Witch delivered the Shark Silk clothes, and Ling Chu praised her work and gave her two dresses as payment.
• Ling Chu listed two hundred garments for two thousand Sea Shells each, but players questioned the price and doubted that mermaids existed.
• Ling Chu offered buyers a ten-minute trial and refund, prompting Give You a Dalieba and Engineering Men Have No Love to praise the clothes’ comfort and protective qualities.
• Players became more willing to buy the garments, and Ling Chu received orders from Chen Piaopiao for fifty pieces.
• Half an Avocado asked whether Hope Island had upgraded to offer teleport tickets, while other players explained they had noticed signs of the upgrade.

Ling Chu sold teleportation tickets, welcomed Clumsy Bear Who Can't Get Full to the Ghost Ship, and discussed how to find Glimmering Feather for the ship’s level-seven upgrade. Squid Ball’s wish failed, but the crew offered to help her train, and the Scorching Sea Furnace disaster ended with the next disaster due in fourteen days.

• Ling Chu listed three hundred teleportation tickets for 1,000 Sea Shells each and announced daily sales.
• Clumsy Bear Who Can't Get Full joined Ling Chu’s Fleet, and You Jiali served Ling Chu chicken soup noodles for breakfast.
• Squid Ball showed Ling Chu her translation of the Elven Stone Slab, which described using bloody flesh to lure a vicious shark away from its route.
• Ling Chu asked Squid Ball to wish for Glimmering Feather, but the wish failed because Squid Ball’s Astrologer class was only Tier 4.
• Huang Xiaowen and Clumsy Bear Who Can't Get Full offered to practice with Squid Ball as she trained to reach Tier 5.
• The Scorching Sea Furnace disaster ended, and the system announced that the next disaster would arrive in fourteen days.