Chapter Summaries

Runny Egg’s high Charisma won over Hope Island’s residents, and she donated valuable cinnabar that Zhen Qingshan needed to defend against the Eerie Fog. Aboard the Ghost Ship, Ling Chu discovered a fleet of at least a hundred ships emerging from the mist.

• Zhen Qingshan asked Silly Bird to publish a request for cinnabar, while the others returned to their work guarding Hope Island.
• Runny Egg gave Zhen Qingshan two boxes of top-quality cinnabar from a native ship, and he hurried off to use them for defensive formations.
• Mickey Meow Witch offered Runny Egg a Charisma-boosting Shark Silk dress, and Black Skin gave her a bundle of homemade dried fish.
• Runny Egg told Mickey Meow Witch that Baboo Zhizhi had sold her two Mysterious Fruits for two thousand Sea Shells.
• The skeleton Lookout reported an increasing number of ships ahead, and Ling Chu used Undead Empathy to see at least a hundred vessels through the mist.

Ling Chu and her crew discovered a fleet of abandoned ships and found Babu Guanguan’s owned island beyond them. She left honey at his trading outpost and planned to return the next morning, while her crew suspected the island’s merchant might have a trap prepared.

• Ling Chu led the skeletons aboard several empty ships, where they found no people, corpses, or supplies.
• The Ghost Ship passed through the abandoned fleet and anchored at a clean beach on a level-five owned island.
• Ling Chu recognized the island as Babu Guanguan’s trading outpost and read its rules, including a warning against going farther inland.
• Ling Chu placed two jars of honey in the outpost’s wooden box and decided to sleep aboard the ship before returning in the morning.
• During dinner, Huang Xiaowen and Clumsy Bear warned Ling Chu that Babu Guanguan might set a trap.

Ling Chu and her crew followed a squirrel past the island’s warning sign to a cottage, where they began a trade with Baboo Guanguan. The chapter ended with a hidden figure asking Ling Chu whether she had left two bottles of honey in a wooden box.

• Ling Chu suspected the empty ships had been left by traders who died after dealing with Babu Guanguan.
• A squirrel threw hazelnuts at Ling Chu’s window and led her crew ashore.
• The squirrel erased the warning on the sign, allowing the crew to follow it without breaking the rule.
• Lingering Wind and Fading Moon spotted Blue Butterfly Grass but refrained from picking it because of the trading rules.
• The squirrel led the crew to a cottage, and Ling Chu entered to trade while Clumsy Bear waited outside.
• A hidden figure asked Ling Chu if she had put two bottles of honey in the wooden box.

Ling Chu negotiated to sell Babu Guanguan a large supply of honey, but Clumsy Bear’s pollen allergy destroyed the merchant’s flowers and blew off his face covering. Enraged that the crew had violated both of his greatest taboos, Babu Guanguan transformed and threatened to kill them and take their honey.

• Ling Chu agreed to sell Babu Guanguan five hundred bottles of honey for sea shells and asked to browse his goods.
• Huang Xiaowen noticed a sweet, alcoholic scent coming from sealed jars as Clumsy Bear began sneezing outside the cabin.
• Clumsy Bear’s sneezes stripped the petals from Babu Guanguan’s flowers and blew his face covering off.
• Ling Chu apologized and offered honey as compensation, but Babu Guanguan refused to listen and vowed to kill the crew and take their honey.
• Babu Guanguan’s body swelled, grew fur, and transformed into a towering figure over two meters tall.

Babu Guanguan transformed into a honey badger and attacked Clumsy Bear after the bear destroyed his flowers. Ling Chu’s group joined the fight, and Babu Guanguan drank from his wine jar as the battle continued.

• Babu Guanguan transformed and struck Clumsy Bear, sending him into a tree.
• Huang Xiaowen used “Let’s Swap” to move Clumsy Bear out of Babu Guanguan’s next attack, which smashed through the tree.
• Ling Chu identified Babu Guanguan’s Drunken Fist skill, while Huang Xiaowen and You Jiali prepared to fight him.
• Clumsy Bear transformed into a Gluttonous Giant Bear and fought Babu Guanguan, but Babu Guanguan’s speed and precise punches overwhelmed him.
• Huang Xiaowen and You Jiali attacked from the side, but Babu Guanguan evaded them with a backflip.
• Babu Guanguan pulled out his wine jar, drank several mouthfuls, and challenged the group to attack.

Babu Guanguan overwhelmed Ling Chu’s team with his Drunken Fist after boosting its power with wine. With Huang Xiaowen, You Jiali, and Clumsy Bear defeated, the others were left facing him as Clumsy Bear struggled back to his feet.

• Babu Guanguan feinted, grabbed Huang Xiaowen, and punched her away, but she used Let's Swap to change places with a broken tree trunk before landing injured.
• Ling Chu stopped Huang Xiaowen from charging back in, while Squid Ball hesitated to use Star Drawing Technique and Lingering Wind and Fading Moon tried Plague Touch.
• You Jiali tried to use Charm Control on Babu Guanguan, but it had no effect, and Babu Guanguan kicked and punched him into the grass.
• Clumsy Bear attacked Babu Guanguan from behind, but missed and was beaten down with a series of kicks.
• Babu Guanguan mocked Clumsy Bear’s abilities, and Clumsy Bear pushed himself back up, bruised and swollen.

Ling Chu tried to calm Babu Guanguan after Clumsy Bear damaged his garden and knocked off his mask, then realized his anger came from an old grudge against humans who had taken his teeth. She used Time Stop to force chocolate pudding into his mouth, hoping the soft honey-flavored food would reach him.

• Ling Chu stepped between Babu Guanguan and Clumsy Bear and tried to negotiate, but Babu Guanguan refused to spare the humans.
• Ling Chu showed Babu Guanguan her Teleportation Wooden Box and threatened to teleport away her honey and supplies, but he attacked her anyway.
• Ling Chu guessed that humans had taken Babu Guanguan's teeth, and his furious reaction confirmed it.
• Ling Chu offered Babu Guanguan honey-flavored chocolate pudding, but he charged at her instead of accepting it.
• Ling Chu activated the music box's Time Stop, pried open Babu Guanguan's mouth, and forced the pudding inside.

Ling Chu won over Babu Guanguan with chocolate pudding, then revealed that You Jiali could make many more desserts and soft foods. Babu Guanguan agreed to go aboard Ling Chu’s ship to eat, turning the encounter into an invitation to dine.

• Ling Chu gave Babu Guanguan chocolate pudding, and he eagerly ate both servings.
• Ling Chu told Babu Guanguan that her ship’s chef could make many pudding flavors, then revealed that the chef was You Jiali, whom Babu Guanguan had punched into the bushes.
• Babu Guanguan rushed to the bushes and shook You Jiali awake.
• You Jiali explained that pudding needed to chill until the next day and listed other soft foods Babu Guanguan could eat.
• Ling Chu invited Babu Guanguan to dine aboard her ship as an apology for damaging the flowers and plants.

Ling Chu tried to reopen trade discussions with Babu Guanguan after he enjoyed the ship’s food, while Clumsy Bear asked the formidable boxer to take him as a disciple. Babu Guanguan refused, leaving Clumsy Bear’s hopes of learning Drunken Fist unresolved.

• Babu Guanguan agreed to become Ling Chu’s master after suspecting the humans might be setting a trap.
• Babu Guanguan devoured the ship’s food and considered growing the ingredients on his island, while Ling Chu planned to discuss trade again.
• Clumsy Bear came out bruised from his earlier fight, and Babu Guanguan scolded him for complaining about the beating.
• Lingering Wind and Fading Moon had Babu Guanguan bite a soft white lump, then examined the bite marks and left without explaining.
• Clumsy Bear asked Babu Guanguan to teach him Drunken Fist and offered his hidden snacks, but Babu Guanguan rejected him.
• Ling Chu recognized that learning Babu Guanguan’s Drunken Fist could improve Clumsy Bear’s fighting ability.

Clumsy Bear worked to repair Babu Guanguan’s island, and Babu Guanguan joined the Ghost Ship crew for dinner and desserts. Lingering Wind and Fading Moon gave him a custom set of dentures, and Babu Guanguan began trying them on despite suspecting the humans had an ulterior motive.

• Babu Guanguan made Clumsy Bear replant the flowers and clean up the island as compensation for the damage.
• Clumsy Bear finished the repairs, and Babu Guanguan took him to the Ghost Ship for dinner.
• Babu Guanguan devoured the ship’s food and the desserts You Jiali had prepared.
• Lingering Wind and Fading Moon presented Babu Guanguan with a set of dentures.
• Babu Guanguan recalled that he had killed humans in the past and had once tried, unsuccessfully, to wear a human’s dentures.
• Babu Guanguan picked up the new dentures and brought them toward his mouth to try them on.

Lingering Wind and Fading Moon gave Babu Guanguan custom dentures made from Rift Whale teeth, restoring his ability to speak and eat. Babu Guanguan learned that the dentures were free and that Ling Chu had cured Babu Youyou’s headaches.

• Babu Guanguan tried on the dentures and found they fit perfectly and let him speak clearly.
• Lingering Wind and Fading Moon told Babu Guanguan the dentures could chew, and he proved it by cracking a hazelnut and eating the kernel.
• Babu Guanguan remembered how humans had pulled out his teeth and left him for dead, and he became overwhelmed with emotion at having teeth again.
• Babu Guanguan asked Lingering Wind and Fading Moon to name their price, but she said she would not charge him.
• Ling Chu told Babu Guanguan that Lingering Wind and Fading Moon had also cured Babu Youyou’s headaches, surprising him.

Babu Guanguan visited the Ghost Ship again for its spicy food and decided to teach Clumsy Bear boxing. Clumsy Bear formally accepted him as his Shifu, beginning a seven-day apprenticeship.

• Lingering Wind and Fading Moon explained toothbrushing and gave Babu Guanguan two boxes of tooth powder, while Babu Guanguan left the Ghost Ship after his grievances with Ling Chu's crew were settled.
• Ling Chu explained that she had not asked Babu Guanguan for payment or lessons because she hoped he would willingly offer to teach Clumsy Bear.
• The next day, Babu Guanguan followed the smell of Sichuan food to the Ghost Ship, and Clumsy Bear invited him inside after the skeletons stopped him at the entrance.
• Babu Guanguan decided to teach Clumsy Bear boxing for seven days, and Clumsy Bear knelt to offer him disciple's wine.
• Babu Guanguan accepted the wine and drank it, making Clumsy Bear's apprenticeship official.

Babu Guanguan trained Clumsy Bear in the first form of Drunken Fist while the island remained docked. After days of practice, Clumsy Bear mastered the move and gained a new skill.

• Babu Guanguan began teaching Clumsy Bear breathing techniques and martial arts, while Clumsy Bear endured painful training and learned to keep practicing.
• Babu Guanguan demonstrated the first form, Push Wine, Swap Cups, by turning a boulder to powder, and Clumsy Bear began practicing on stones.
• Clumsy Bear trained relentlessly for several days, shattering rocks as Babu Guanguan supervised and demanded food.
• On the sixth day, Clumsy Bear crushed half a boulder into powder and earned Babu Guanguan's recognition, though Babu Guanguan ordered him to smash ten more stones.
• Ling Chu used Eyepatch that night and saw that Clumsy Bear had gained Drunken Fist Eighteen Forms, First Form (Beginner).

Ling Chu tried to persuade Babu Guanguan to move from his small island to Hope Island, offering him a larger former Elf settlement, a new wooden house, and access to Ghost Ship food. Babu Guanguan rejected the offer for now, but lay awake that night torn between his attachment to home and his desire for the food he had tasted.

• Clumsy Bear clung to Babu Guanguan and begged him to teach Drunken Fist for a few more days.
• Ling Chu invited Babu Guanguan to move to Hope Island, promising him a larger, beautiful home and restaurants serving Ghost Ship food.
• Clumsy Bear urged Babu Guanguan to accept so he could continue learning martial arts from him.
• Babu Guanguan dismissed the offer and returned to his house, while Clumsy Bear resumed practicing outside.
• Babu Guanguan tossed and turned through the night, imagining the foods he might miss and questioning whether he should leave his island.

Babu Guanguan decided to visit Hope Island after receiving a reply from Babu Youyou, and Ling Chu gave him a Teleportation Ticket. Before they parted, he offered Ling Chu several legendary items for trade, and she chose the Grandmaster Disguise Potion.

• Babu Guanguan received a frosty reply from Babu Youyou and decided to visit Hope Island once the fog cleared.
• Clumsy Bear and Ling Chu visited Babu Guanguan before the Ghost Ship departed, and he jokingly warned Clumsy Bear not to claim him as a master after losing a fight.
• Babu Guanguan agreed to visit Hope Island, and Ling Chu gave him a Teleportation Ticket.
• Babu Guanguan offered Ling Chu four legendary items, and she chose the Grandmaster Disguise Potion.

Ling Chu bought a legendary disguise potion from Babu Guanguan, secured permission for Lingering Wind and Fading Moon to gather Blue Butterfly Grass, and sailed away with Clumsy Bear from the island. Back aboard the Ghost Ship, Ling Chu asked Lingering Wind and Fading Moon to study the potion, and she raised the problem of rare herbs she still needed for other potions.

• Babu Guanguan sold Ling Chu the legendary disguise potion for one hundred Sea Shells and allowed Lingering Wind and Fading Moon to gather Blue Butterfly Grass.
• Lingering Wind and Fading Moon and the Skeletons dug up baskets of Blue Butterfly Grass, then Ling Chu ordered the Ghost Ship to set sail.
• Clumsy Bear mourned leaving his master, but Ling Chu encouraged him to practice Drunken Fist so he could impress Babu Guanguan when they met again.
• Ling Chu tried to copy the disguise potion at the Fate Table, learned it could not be copied, and asked Lingering Wind and Fading Moon to analyze it.
• Lingering Wind and Fading Moon said she would try to make a weaker version of the disguise potion, then showed Ling Chu rare herbs she had been unable to find for several intermediate potions.

Ling Chu arranged for the Silly Bird Daily to publish herb purchase requests and learned that A Silly Bird’s newspaper business was thriving. After discovering that the Shark Daily had partnered with the Circus, Ling Chu read its interviews with Chen Piaopiao and Plucking Flowers and Seeking Willows and considered the potential of their skills.

• Lingering Wind and Fading Moon asked Ling Chu to publish illustrated herb purchase requests, and Ling Chu agreed to contact A Silly Bird.
• Ling Chu sent A Silly Bird the herb details and offered two thousand Sea Shells for accurate information about where the plants grew.
• A Silly Bird told Ling Chu that the Silly Bird Daily sold twenty thousand copies a day and earned ten thousand Sea Shells in net profit, while expanding production with help from Little Luban.
• A Silly Bird revealed that the Shark Daily had formed a long-term partnership with the Circus and published an interview with Chen Piaopiao.
• Ling Chu read Chen Piaopiao’s interview and guessed her skill might let her become lighter or more buoyant.
• Ling Chu read Plucking Flowers and Seeking Willows’s interview, learned he could turn glimpses of people’s fates into Fate Threads and alter them, and considered his ability troubling.

Ling Chu prepared for the Circus while prioritizing the fog disaster, then led her group through a punishing Whispering Lighthouse challenge. They reclaimed the Thousand-Year Bone and turned the lighthouse into a temporary safe zone, earning the Bumper Ball Master title.

• Ling Chu read Shark Daily’s coverage of the Circus and considered preparing items to resist curses, but found none for sale.
• Ten days later, Ling Chu, Huang Xiaowen, Squid Ball, You Jiali, and Clumsy Bear struggled to guide the rampaging Thousand-Year Bone into the Cave Entrance.
• After the last bone ball entered the hole, the lighthouse returned to normal and the system declared the group had cleared it.
• The system permanently reclaimed the Thousand-Year Bone and made the Whispering Lighthouse a temporary safe zone for up to 2,000 people.
• Ling Chu checked the Bumper Ball Master title and learned it granted an active rolling attack skill.

Ling Chu’s crew learned that only one Whispering Lighthouse remained, but it lay more than two weeks away by ship. Lingering Wind and Fading Moon demonstrated three new potions, while players hoped the Ghost Ship would clear the final tower despite the distance.

• Ling Chu’s crew saw the announcement that clearing the last Whispering Lighthouse would end the Mist Calamity early, and they found its distant marker on the Marauder’s Map.
• Lingering Wind and Fading Moon presented an Intermediate Mana Potion, a Scent Affinity Potion that made Xiao Pai affectionate toward Squid Ball, and a Corrosive Potion.
• Ling Chu told the public chat that reaching the final lighthouse would take the Ghost Ship over two weeks.
• Players in the public chat expressed disappointment and debated whether Circus could clear the final lighthouse, while many said they trusted Ling Chu more.

Ling Chu accepted Social Phobia’s offer to use an Island Raid Card to reach the Whispering Tower, then learned that several fleets were heading to Social Phobia’s Wild Duck Island as well. As ships began emerging from whirlpools around the island, Social Phobia hid and watched the arrival of the crowd.

• Social Phobia reminded Ling Chu that Ling Chu had once saved her by giving her resources after Babu Zhi Zhi swindled her, and offered her island as a teleport destination.
• Ling Chu learned from A Silly Bird that the Circus Ship and Shark Fleet were also heading to Social Phobia’s island, and she agreed to let Zhen Qingshan and A Silly Bird join her group.
• Social Phobia received notifications that the Ghost Ship, Circus Ship, Shark Ship, Qingshan Ship, Never-Sinking Ship, Wanderer Ship, and other fleets were teleporting to Wild Duck Island.
• Social Phobia hid in the grass as numerous whirlpools formed around Wild Duck Island and ships began emerging from the sea.