Chapter Summaries

Ling Chu watched the Circus threaten players and learned that Runny Egg had cleared the Whispering Lighthouse alone. The chapter ended with Runny Egg revealing that her Diplomat skills had made the White Bone General surrender.

• Feng Qiusheng warned players that the Circus was using its safe zone to lure them into a trap, and Smiley threatened him.
• Lingering Wind and Fading Moon treated Ling Chu’s healed hand while players defended the Ghost Ship’s safe zone in public chat.
• Ling Chu offered Runny Egg a Jadeified Scale in exchange for explaining how she cleared the Whispering Lighthouse alone.
• Runny Egg revealed that her Special Profession was Diplomat and that her Surrender Without Fighting skill had made the White Bone General surrender.

Ling Chu traded Runny Egg a Jadeified Scale and considered recruiting her for Hope Island because of her powerful diplomatic class. As the fog thinned after District 666’s Whispering Lighthouses were shut down, an ancient God of the Underworld noticed the change but chose not to investigate.

• Runny Egg revealed her class skills to Ling Chu, who recognized that Surrender Without Fighting could make enemies abandon combat and decided to build a relationship with her.
• Ling Chu traded Runny Egg the Jadeified Scale for five thousand Sea Shells and warned her to be careful while guarding the safe zone alone.
• Huang Xiaowen and Ling Chu discussed how the thinning fog and cleared Whispering Lighthouses made the Drowned less dangerous and might help draw players into the safe zone sooner.
• Squid Ball suggested resting before searching for more lighthouses, hoping that clearing enough of them would disperse the fog completely.
• An ancient God of the Underworld sensed the fog thinning and saw the badly damaged Ghost Doll return to the Netherworld Sea, but decided not to investigate or ask Mortus for help.

After perfectly clearing the Whispering Lighthouse, Ling Chu received a special Justice Points reward and advanced her Bounty Hunter profession to Tier 5, gaining the Death Warrant skill. She reviewed her wealth and progress toward other profession upgrades, then headed to the deck to practice her skills.

• Ling Chu received a special reward of two thousand Justice Points for perfectly clearing the Whispering Lighthouse, though Huang Xiaowen and Squid Ball received none.
• Ling Chu's Bounty Hunter profession advanced to Tier 5, replacing Hunter's Mark and Tracking Technique with Death Warrant and upgrading Mark Erasure to Wanted Erasure.
• Ling Chu examined Death Warrant's ability to track and weaken marked targets, including non-player humans within her field of vision.
• Ling Chu reviewed her character panel and realized she was close to advancing both her Bounty Hunter and Wind Chaser Ranger professions.
• Ling Chu told Huang Xiaowen she was going to practice her skills and headed toward the deck.

Ling Chu trained Storm Ranger while watching the city repel a smaller Drowned attack, during which Star River Enters Dream found a rare Treasure Chest. Silly Bird opened it and obtained a printer blueprint, and as Ling Chu resumed training, a ship entered the Lighthouse safe zone.

• Ling Chu fired volleys of Storm Arrows and drank Mana Potions while her Mana Value recovered.
• Ling Chu watched Silly Bird's livestream as players, townsfolk, and Zhen Qingshan's formations helped repel the Drowned; Star River Enters Dream fought beneath the walls.
• Star River Enters Dream found a Treasure Chest among the Drowned's drops and asked Ling Chu who should open it.
• Silly Bird opened the chest and found a printer blueprint, two thousand Sea Shells, and ten pieces of Crystal Ore.
• Silly Bird bought the blueprint from Star River Enters Dream for five thousand Sea Shells and announced plans to publish Silly Bird Daily.
• Ling Chu resumed firing Storm Arrows and noticed a ship entering the Lighthouse safe zone.

Ling Chu practiced Storm Arrows near a safe zone as a Rift Whale emerged from the sea and rammed the Ghost Ship. The Seventh Tier monster retreated after the collision, leaving the ship damaged but afloat, and Ling Chu realized it could provide the skull the ship needed to reach level seven.

• Ling Chu fired fifteen Storm Arrows while another ship’s crew watched from a distance and chose not to approach.
• As rain clouds gathered, You Jiali ordered the Skeleton Henchmen to bring the dried fish and seaweed inside.
• Ling Chu spotted a shadow beneath the water and fired three Storm Arrows, revealing a massive Seventh Tier Rift Whale.
• The Rift Whale rammed the anchored Ghost Ship, reducing its Durability by 7% and scattering the crew and supplies across the deck.
• The Rift Whale noticed the damage to its head and dove back into the sea.

Ling Chu pursued a Seventh Tier Rift Whale after it surfaced near the Ghost Ship, but her attacks only drove it into the deep sea. She decided to wait in the rain for it to return to the shallows.

• Ling Chu marked the fleeing Rift Whale with Death Warrant and ordered the Ghost Ship to chase it.
• Ling Chu told Clumsy Bear, You Jiali, Squid Ball, and the others that the creature was a Seventh Tier monster.
• Ling Chu ordered the Skeleton Henchmen to fire the Whaling Crossbows, but both bolts missed the whale.
• Ling Chu struck the Rift Whale with three guided Storm Arrows, and it dove into the deep sea.
• Ling Chu told Titch they would wait for the Rift Whale to surface again, while Clumsy Bear asked whether they should go inside as the rain intensified.

Ling Chu traded food with Leanna and asked the Mermaid King to help bring a Seventh Tier Rift Whale to the surface. Serki and a group of mermaids arrived and hauled the badly wounded whale out of the sea.

• Ling Chu received a call from Leanna, who asked her to send more cake and milk.
• Ling Chu offered food for trade and asked Leanna to help draw a hiding Seventh Tier Rift Whale to the surface.
• Leanna agreed to send Serki, and Ling Chu returned the Ghost Ship to the safe zone.
• Serki arrived with mermaids hauling the chain-bound, battered Rift Whale out of the water.

Ling Chu received the captured Rift Whale from Serki and traded supplies for pearls and shark silk. After Serki left, she killed the whale, advanced her Wind Chaser Ranger class to fifth tier, and a nearby player briefly witnessed the encounter before doubting what he had seen.

• Ling Chu welcomed Serki, accepted the chained Rift Whale, and gave him the Mermaid King's requested supplies in exchange for pearls and shark silk.
• Ling Chu invited Serki aboard the Ghost Ship, but he returned to the sea with his guards to report to the king.
• Ling Chu killed the bound Rift Whale with Storm Arrows and advanced to fifth tier, gaining Blessing of the Wind and Borrow the Wind's Power.
• A nearby player saw the mermaids, Ling Chu, and the whale, but the carcass vanished before he could convince his companion he had witnessed them.

Ling Chu butchered the Rift Whale and distributed its materials to her crew, then used its kill broadcast to promote A Silly Bird’s upcoming newspaper. She ended the chapter preparing to upgrade the Ghost Ship with the whale skull.

• Ling Chu used the system’s automatic butchering function on the Rift Whale and stored its meat, hides, bones, fangs, and skull.
• Ling Chu gave Andrew bones and fangs, Aunt Martha whale hides, and You Jiali whale meat to use for equipment and food.
• Ling Chu discussed the Rift Whale’s value and her new wind skills, while reflecting on the importance of diplomacy with foreign races.
• The Rift Whale’s death triggered a server-wide notification, and players crowded the Public Chat Channel to ask about the monster and its materials.
• Ling Chu promoted A Silly Bird’s upcoming newspaper, and A Silly Bird promised her free pages and double payment for monster information.
• Ling Chu took out the Rift Whale skull and prepared to upgrade the Ghost Ship.

Ling Chu completed the materials and payment needed to upgrade the Ghost Ship, then ate braised Rift Whale meat and gained permanent swimming speed and defense bonuses. Finding the meat tough and fishy, she began selling it and traded some for grouper.

• Ling Chu used the Heavenly Spirit Bone, Glimmering Feather, other materials, and two hundred thousand Sea Shells to begin an upgrade estimated to take twelve hours.
• Ling Chu and the crew ate You Jiali's braised Rift Whale meat, and Ling Chu gained permanent bonuses of 2% swimming speed and 1% defense.
• Ling Chu listed ten thousand kilograms of Rift Whale meat for sale and warned players that it tasted tough and fishy.
• Players bought more than two thousand kilograms before sales slowed, and Ling Chu earned over sixty thousand Sea Shells.
• Engineering Men Have No Love traded Ling Chu 1,200 kilograms of grouper for 600 kilograms of whale meat, and Ling Chu asked why he wanted so much.

The Circus failed to buy whale meat from Ling Chu and learned that Feng Qiusheng had escaped to Hope Island, prompting Smiley to set sail and target the Ghost Ship. Meanwhile, the Ghost Ship upgraded, revealing a Summoning Altar facility, and a Skeleton Henchman rushed to show Ling Chu something.

• Chen Piaopiao and Juliet discovered that Ling Chu had blocked the Circus, so Juliet paid a player a steep fee to obtain whale meat for them.
• Smiley told Juliet to remember the player who charged them and rob him later, then learned Feng Qiusheng's coordinates pointed to Hope Island.
• Smiley ordered the Circus to leave the Lighthouse and search for another Whispering Lighthouse, intending to deal with Ling Chu during the Public Challenge.
• Ling Chu put a fresh grouper in the kitchen refrigerator, and You Jiali promised to cook boiled fish for dinner.
• The Ghost Ship completed its upgrade, and Ling Chu found a Summoning Altar among the newly available facilities.
• A Skeleton Henchman hurried up from the lower deck and called Ling Chu to come see something.

After the Ghost Ship’s upgrade, Ling Chu and the crew explored a new underwater deck and its ecosystem pod. Ling Chu placed the newly unlocked Summoning Altar on the stern and used a Nether Pearl to summon a creature, which began to take shape at the chapter’s end.

• Ling Chu led the crew to a new lower deck with a transparent 360-degree underwater cabin.
• Lingering Wind and Fading Moon identified an ecosystem pod suitable for raising Storm Jellyfish and asked You Jiali to care for them.
• The crew discovered their rooms had grown more spacious, and Ling Chu considered turning her new partitioned room into a workout area.
• Ling Chu placed the bone Summoning Altar on the stern deck and learned it could summon Netherworld creatures by consuming Nether Pearls.
• Ling Chu dropped one Nether Pearl into the altar, and a figure began to materialize at its center.

Ling Chu summoned an Executioner, stocked up on Nether Pearls, and examined the upgraded Ghost Pirate Ship’s new Whale’s Fury skill and improved capacity. The crew relaxed aboard the ship as Hans served drinks, ending with Huang Xiaowen nearly spitting hers out at Clumsy Bear’s oversized drink.

• Ling Chu summoned a Fifth-Tier Executioner, told the Skeleton Henchmen it was an ally, and watched it wander away from the altar.
• Ling Chu spent three hundred thousand Sea Shells on three hundred Nether Pearls after considering their value for future battles.
• Ling Chu checked the Ghost Pirate Ship’s upgraded attributes and learned that Whale’s Fury let it charge with a Rift Whale phantom.
• Ling Chu saw that upgrading the ship to Level Eight would cost more Sea Shells than she could afford.
• Ling Chu and the crew relaxed in the lower cabin while Hans served them drinks, and Huang Xiaowen nearly spat hers out when he presented Clumsy Bear with a supersized specialty drink.

The crew shared their Blue Star names and talked about what they had done before entering the game and what they would do if they could return. As the others answered, Huang Xiaowen asked Ling Chu what she would choose.

• Clumsy Bear revealed that his real name was Guo Miaomiao, and the crew agreed to keep calling him Clumsy Bear.
• Clumsy Bear said he had been a bodyguard team captain on Blue Star and regretted missing a promotion before entering the game.
• Squid Ball asked what everyone would do if they returned to Blue Star, and Lingering Wind and Fading Moon said she would continue her medical research.
• Huang Xiaowen said she would retake the college entrance exam, while Squid Ball planned to start a divination social media account.
• You Jiali said he would return to working at a restaurant, partly because he wanted to stay near Fluffball and the crew; Ling Chu had not yet answered when Huang Xiaowen asked her.

Ling Chu accepted Runny Egg’s plea for help and used an Alliance Card to link their ships, then set out with her crew to rescue her. Runny Egg remained captured as her attackers threatened her, while Ling Chu’s Ghost Ship approached through a teleportation vortex.

• Ling Chu told her crew she would return to an ordinary student life on Blue Star, then toasted the Ghost Ship’s upgrade with them.
• Runny Egg messaged Ling Chu for help after being tied up by raiders, and Ling Chu sent her an Alliance Card.
• Ling Chu and Runny Egg’s ships became allies, and the crew learned that Ling Chu had taken Runny Egg’s boosting job.
• Ling Chu activated a two-way teleportation vortex after receiving an alert that One Egg Ship was under attack, and she prepared the crew for battle.
• Runny Egg’s attackers discussed robbing players drawn to their safe zone and threatened to let the brothers have their way with her.

Ling Chu rescued Runny Egg by smashing the Qiangzi Pirate Crew’s Level 5 ship in half with the Ghost Ship. She boarded Runny Egg’s ship as the bald leader and his henchmen surrendered their weapons.

• The bald leader threatened Runny Egg while she silently begged Ling Chu to save her.
• Ling Chu accelerated the Ghost Ship with Wind Speed and rammed the pirate ship with Whale’s Fury, splitting it in two.
• The bald leader and his companions discovered their ship had been destroyed and recognized Ling Chu and the Ghost Ship.
• Ling Chu used Ghostly Steps to board Runny Egg’s ship.
• The bald leader signaled his henchmen to surrender, and they dropped their weapons onto the deck.

Ling Chu killed the Qiangzi Pirate Crew after they attacked Runny Egg, then rescued her and recovered supplies from the wreckage. Runny Egg clung to Ling Chu in relief after learning the pirates were all dead.

• Ling Chu slit the bald pirate leader’s throat when he tried to claim that they were allies.
• Ling Chu killed two attackers with the Blade of White Bones and shot the fleeing crossbowman with a guided Storm Arrow.
• Ling Chu checked the System Panel and received 1,200 Justice Points for wiping out the Qiangzi Pirate Crew.
• Ling Chu ordered the Skeletons to salvage supplies and found Runny Egg’s belongings in a pirate’s spatial backpack.
• Ling Chu freed Runny Egg, who broke down crying and clung to her after hearing that the pirates were dead.

Ling Chu helped Runny Egg after Pirates attacked her safe zone and offered her passage to Hope Island. Runny Egg gave Ling Chu a Teleportation Wooden Box, then left for Hope Island while Ling Chu returned to the original safe zone.

• Ling Chu gave Runny Egg her recovered supplies and warned her that remaining alone in the safe zone was dangerous.
• Ling Chu offered Runny Egg a Teleportation Ticket to Hope Island, and Runny Egg gave Ling Chu five thousand Sea Shells and a Teleportation Wooden Box instead.
• Runny Egg transferred her belongings into the ship's storage and handed the empty Teleportation Wooden Box to Ling Chu.
• Runny Egg sailed through a teleportation vortex toward Hope Island, and Ling Chu promised they would meet again.
• Ling Chu and Huang Xiaowen returned on the Ghost Ship through the vortex to their original safe zone.

Ling Chu traded a Teleportation Wooden Box, arranged trade with the Mermaid Race, and shared a hearty meal of luosifen with her crew. After setting sail from the safe zone, she found the crew gathered around the first issue of Silly Bird Daily and noticed its logo reminded her of Xiao Pai.

• Ling Chu traded the Teleportation Wooden Box to Give You a Dalieba and told him to give it to Edmund, then asked him to welcome Runny Egg to Hope Island.
• The crew enjoyed You Jiali's luosifen, while Ling Chu explained how to cook mushrooms to Leanna and gave her Hope Island's coordinates for future trades.
• You Jiali posted a menu in the Crew Channel, and the crew ordered dishes for the next day.
• Ling Chu set sail after seeing that only a little over three hundred players were in the safe zone.
• The crew read the first issue of Silly Bird Daily, and Ling Chu thought its bird logo resembled Xiao Pai.

Ling Chu reviewed Silly Bird Daily, whose sensational Ghost Ship coverage and useful articles quickly drew readers away from Shark Daily. Crispy Shark turned to the Circus for a new partnership, while Ling Chu explained that Runny Egg’s unusually warm reception on Hope Island came from her high-charisma profession.

• Ling Chu questioned Silly Bird about his embellished Rift Whale headline, then accepted a hundred cans of nuts as payment for using Xiao Pai as the paper’s logo.
• Players praised Silly Bird Daily’s exciting coverage and practical articles, and Shark Daily sales fell by a third.
• Crispy Shark ordered a crewman to seek a long-term partnership with the Circus despite its poor reputation.
• Silly Bird asked Ling Chu why Runny Egg was so popular with Hope Island’s townspeople and Lord Edmund.
• Ling Chu explained that Runny Egg had a special profession whose skills used high charisma, and Silly Bird relayed the explanation to the players gathered around him.