Chapter Summaries

Ling Chu raced the Ghost Ship toward the Whispering Tower, where Circus was already waiting, and the Mechanical Fortress Ship followed after using a Pirate Hunter skill to teleport near her. The three top-ranked fleets faced off beneath the lighthouse as other ships and livestream viewers watched.

• Engineering Men Have No Love accepted Ling Chu’s bounty, used her coordinates to open a whirlpool, and brought the Mechanical Fortress Ship after her.
• Ling Chu ordered the Ghost Ship to accelerate toward the lighthouse and arrived to find Circus’s ship moored there.
• Smiley and Circus’s core members appeared on deck, and Ling Chu realized none of them had entered the Whispering Tower yet.
• Engineering Men Have No Love arrived between the Ghost Ship and Circus and greeted them over a loudspeaker.
• Other fleets gathered at a distance while Silly Bird began livestreaming the standoff and Crispy Shark prepared coverage.

Ling Chu, Smiley, and the engineering guy agreed to draw cards to determine the order of their Fleets’ attempts at the Whispering Tower. The engineering guy drew a J, Smiley drew a card and pocketed it unseen, and Ling Chu was left to draw.

• Squid Ball spotted a player called Squid Ball Support Club in the livestream chat, while Clumsy Bear searched in vain for his own support club.
• Ling Chu proposed dividing the Whispering Tower’s three attempts among the Ghost Ship, Circus, and Mechanical Fortress Ship, and the engineering guy suggested one attempt per Fleet.
• Smiley agreed to draw cards to decide the order, after Ling Chu confirmed that Jokers ranked above K and A was the lowest suited card.
• Ling Chu and Huang Xiaowen crossed to the Mechanical Fortress Ship, where Smiley used a movement skill to join them and Ling Chu’s Eyepatch could not reveal his character panel.
• The engineering guy drew a J, then Smiley drew a card without looking and put it in his pocket before handing the deck to Ling Chu.

Ling Chu let Smiley enter Whispering Tower after he cheated their card draw, then returned to the Ghost Ship and reunited with the Qingshan Ship. Shen Qingshan thanked her in person for saving his crew.

• Ling Chu drew a Big Joker, but Smiley revealed another Big Joker and changed Ling Chu's card into an Ace of Hearts.
• Ling Chu realized Smiley controlled the deck and let him enter Whispering Tower with Juliet, Chen Piaopiao, and Plucking Flowers and Seeking Willows.
• Ling Chu refused the engineering guy's invitation for tea and raised the price of Sulfur she would sell him to double.
• Ling Chu contacted the Qingshan Ship, and its familiar crew came alongside the Ghost Ship.
• Clumsy Bear embraced Zhen Qingshan, and Shen Qingshan bowed to Ling Chu and thanked her for saving his crew.

Ling Chu welcomed Shen Qingshan and the Qingshan Ship crew aboard the Ghost Ship, then asked Star River Enters Dream about his encounter with the Circus. He learned that Smiley’s invisible threads had severed Star River’s arm and that Plucking Flowers and Seeking Willows may have cursed his luck.

• Shen Qingshan brought more than two hundred Qingshan Ship crew members aboard the Ghost Ship, and Ling Chu told everyone to avoid drinking alcohol until they knew what was happening inside the tower.
• Zhen Qingshan said Hope Island was safe after Runny Egg supplied cinnabar for his talisman sword formation, while Star River Enters Dream had fought off many Drowned souls.
• Squid Ball asked whether Star River Enters Dream’s arm could recover, and he said its loss did not greatly affect his swordsmanship.
• Star River Enters Dream told Ling Chu that Smiley had ambushed him and used invisible, razor-sharp threads to cut off his arm.
• Star River Enters Dream recalled that Plucking Flowers and Seeking Willows seemed to make him unlucky during the fight, helping Smiley defeat him.

After Circus failed to crack the Whispering Lighthouse, the Ten-Thousand-Bone Giant was released, and Ling Chu’s crew watched the injured Circus members emerge. A tremor shook the sea near the Ghost Ship, where an enormous head burst from the water.

• Star River Enters Dream described how Circus had defeated him, and Ling Chu gave him a Teleportation Ticket while acknowledging the information he provided.
• Zhen Qingshan gave Ling Chu a Mountain Ghost Coin Peace Talisman, which could resist a curse and be repaired with a Primary Mana Stone.
• Star River Enters Dream mistook You Jiali for the bearded disguise he had seen before, prompting the crew to laugh as they shared cookies.
• The system announced that Smiley, Chen Piaopiao, Juliet, and Plucking Flowers and Seeking Willows had failed the Whispering Lighthouse challenge, releasing the Ten-Thousand-Bone Giant.
• Silly Bird livestreamed as the injured Circus members came out of the tower, and the sea began to tremble near the Ghost Ship.
• An enormous head burst from the sea in front of the Ghost Ship.

The Ten-Thousand-Bone Giant emerged from the sea and attacked the ships near it, revealing a threat above level eight. After learning that another giant had appeared near Hope Island, Ling Chu helped the Qingshan Ship escape its strike and race home.

• The Ten-Thousand-Bone Giant rose from the seabed, and fleeing pirate ships watched it smash two level-five ships with one swing.
• Ling Chu used her Eyepatch to inspect the giant and learned that its bone hands could separate, merge, and reshape.
• Ling Chu discovered through the Ally Channel that a Ten-Thousand-Bone Giant had also spawned near Hope Island and ordered Zhen Qingshan and Star River Enters Dream to return there.
• Silly Bird stayed aboard the Ghost Ship to livestream the monster while Ling Chu and her skeletal crew prepared the Hydraulic Howitzers.
• Ling Chu fired two shells at the giant's shoulder, briefly interrupting its attack and allowing the Qingshan Ship to slip past its descending palm toward the whirlpool.

Ling Chu’s crew rushed to challenge the Whispering Lighthouse while Engineering Guy drew the Ten-Thousand-Bone Giant away from them. After rescuing Social Phobia and receiving Silly Bird’s miniature camera, Ling Chu reached the lighthouse and learned that it was a limited-attempt puzzle challenge.

• The Qingshan Ship escaped into a whirlpool, and the Ten-Thousand-Bone Giant attacked the Ghost Ship until Engineering Guy’s cannons opened a gap for it to evade.
• Engineering Guy volunteered to distract the giant, and Ling Chu ordered the Ghost Ship to head for the lighthouse.
• Ling Chu rescued Social Phobia from the sea and continued toward the lighthouse while the Mechanical Fortress Ship attacked the giant.
• Silly Bird gave Ling Chu a miniature camera, and she led Head Chef, Xiao Wen, Meatball, and Clumsy Bear ashore while Xiaoyue stayed aboard to make potions.
• Ling Chu knocked on the bone door and learned the lighthouse had two challenge attempts, allowed up to six participants, and imposed a two-hour limit.

Ling Chu and her companions entered the Whispering Tower to face the White Bone Maze Trail while the Mechanical Fortress rallied the pirate ships against the Ten-Thousand-Bone Giant. The Circus Ship abandoned the battle and escaped through the whirlpool, leaving the Ghost Ship’s challenge as the region’s best hope.

• Ling Chu led her companions into the dark Whispering Tower, where the system announced that success would end the Eerie Fog disaster and failure would release more Ten-Thousand-Bone Giants.
• Smiley decided the Circus Ship would not help the Ghost Ship and ordered his crew to find a chance to escape.
• Engineering Guy used the Mechanical Fortress to distract the giant and urged the pirate ships to attack together and keep moving.
• The pirate ships followed Engineering Guy’s call, circling the giant and firing Ballista Bolts while the Mechanical Fortress drew its attention.
• Smiley steered the Circus Ship into the whirlpool and escaped, prompting viewers to place their hopes on Ling Chu and notice something on the Ghost Ship’s deck.

Titch fought the Ten-Thousand-Bone Giant’s reassembling bone hands aboard the Ghost Ship until Lingering Wind and Fading Moon used Corrosive Potions to destroy them. Meanwhile, several ships arrived through whirlpools near Wild Duck Island and charged toward the battle to help Ling Chu and the Ghost Ship.

• Titch led the Ghost Ship against the Ten-Thousand-Bone Giant and ordered the howitzers to target its neck.
• The Giant’s bone hands climbed aboard, reassembled after being broken apart, and disrupted the Ghost Ship’s gunners.
• Lingering Wind and Fading Moon melted the bone hands with Corrosive Potions, then gave Titch bottles to use with ballista bolts.
• Several ships emerged from whirlpools near Wild Duck Island and headed toward the Ghost Ship and the Ten-Thousand-Bone Giant.
• Great Strength Creates Miracles led the Miracle Ship’s charge, while Flying Mouse called out to Ling Chu from her boat.

Titch’s Corrosive Potions damaged the Ten-Thousand-Bone Giant, while allied fleets rallied around the Ghost Ship and boosted the defenders with Moonlight Sonata’s music. As players sought ways to join the battle, Crispy Shark chose to stay and watch rather than flee.

• Titch’s skeletal crew used Corrosive Potions on ballista bolts to corrode the Ten-Thousand-Bone Giant’s neck, then saved the remaining potions and switched to grenade cannons.
• Moonlight Sonata played a harp piece that granted a temporary battlefield buff, and the Miracle Ship and Firewood, Rice, Oil and Salt Ship attacked the giant.
• Players watching Silly Bird’s livestream discussed joining the fight, and Chen Gouda’er explained how they could apply to Social Phobia for ally status and teleport to the battlefield.
• Social Phobia accepted a flood of ally requests after learning that players wanted to reinforce the Ghost Ship.
• Crispy Shark considered fleeing but decided to stay and keep watching the battle.

Ling Chu and her companions entered the White Bone Maze Trail and split up to explore its passages. Clumsy Bear escaped a crushing trap by breaking through a bone wall, but Squid Ball was soon chased by the moving walls.

• Ling Chu divided the five passages among herself, You Jiali, Huang Xiaowen, Clumsy Bear Who Can't Get Full, and Squid Ball.
• Squid Ball’s pendulum warned that her chosen path was inauspicious, but she entered the maze and took a right fork.
• Ling Chu chose left at each fork, while Clumsy Bear found a dead end and was told to return and take the left fork on Squid Ball’s route.
• The bone walls closed in on Clumsy Bear, who transformed, used his defensive abilities, and smashed through a wall to escape.
• Ling Chu heard the commotion and asked what had happened, then heard Squid Ball scream that the moving bone walls were chasing her.

Ling Chu and Clumsy Bear rescued Squid Ball from a pursuing bone wall in the maze. After the wall stopped and sealed the passage behind them, the group regrouped at the first fork, where You Jiali arrived to check on them.

• Squid Ball discovered that her passage was a dead end, and a mobile bone wall pursued her as she tried to return to the fork.
• Ling Chu used Ride the Wind while Clumsy Bear smashed through a bone wall, and they reached Squid Ball just as the pursuing wall nearly caught her.
• Ling Chu pulled Squid Ball away as Clumsy Bear held the bone wall back, then he escaped when he could no longer resist it.
• The bone wall stopped at a corner and returned to its place, leaving the group at the first fork with the right passage sealed.
• Ling Chu weighed ways to navigate the maze but rejected splitting up and relying on brute force, then You Jiali arrived and asked if she and Squid Ball were alright.

You Jiali used his bat form to scout ahead in the Tower Forest Maze, helping Ling Chu and the others avoid dead ends as they explored. Ling Chu realized the lighthouse challenge was more dangerous than it appeared, while Smiley watched from the Circus Ship and anticipated their failure.

• Ling Chu told You Jiali to fly above the team and warn them about dead ends and moving walls, and he agreed.
• You Jiali guided Huang Xiaowen, Clumsy Bear, and Ling Chu through the maze, improving the team's progress.
• Ling Chu watched the livestream of players defending against the Ten-Thousand-Bone Giant and resolved to clear the lighthouse challenge and destroy it.
• After viewers noted that the Circus crew had escaped the lighthouse covered in injuries, Ling Chu suspected the maze held a danger beyond its bone walls.
• Smiley watched You Jiali guide the Ghost Ship group and mocked their aerial scouting strategy, expecting Ling Chu to fail.

After escaping the Whispering Tower, Plucking Flowers and Seeking Willows concluded that the survival system had used the tower as a trap to kill the district’s strongest players. As the Ten-Thousand-Bone Giant attacked Hope Island, Dalieba decided to go help.

• Plucking Flowers and Seeking Willows recovered enough to explain that the system had lured strong players into the final Whispering Tower to eliminate them and release the Ten-Thousand-Bone Giant.
• Chen Piaopiao and the others agreed the tower seemed impossible to clear, while Smiley dismissed the insults directed at the Circus for escaping.
• Juliet reported that a Ten-Thousand-Bone Giant was attacking Hope Island, so Smiley postponed his plan to seize the island.
• On Hope Island, National Server Little Luban, Dalieba, Mickey Meow Witch, and Runny Egg watched the livestream after hearing that the Circus had failed.
• After seeing the giant loom over Hope Island on the stream, Dalieba stood up and said he would go help.

A second Ten-Thousand-Bone Giant emerged from the sea beside Hope Island and began destroying its defenses, leaving Edmund and the islanders to fight back against overwhelming odds. Edmund’s forces managed to sever one of the giant’s fingers, but its next strike demolished more of the wall and the falling bone finger wrecked National Server Little Luban’s newly renovated Blacksmith Shop.

• Dalieba spotted the sea’s disturbance, and a Ten-Thousand-Bone Giant rose from the waters near Hope Island.
• Dalieba ordered everyone to retreat behind the walls as National Server Little Luban sent urgent alerts; the giant struck and collapsed part of the city wall, burying citizens and injuring defenders.
• A bloodied Citizen asked Edmund to save his buried child, and Edmund rallied himself, ordering archers and ballistas to attack while rescue teams searched the rubble.
• The Qingshan Ship, Star River Enters Dream, and other players teleported back to Hope Island and joined the defense, but their attacks barely affected the giant.
• Edmund ordered the ballistas to target the giant’s fingers, and their concentrated fire severed one; the giant’s palm then smashed another wall section, while its falling finger damaged the Blacksmith Shop.

Ling Chu and her allies rushed to supply Corrosive Potion to the battle against the Ten-Thousand-Bone Giants while she continued through the Whispering Tower maze. A call from Hope Island ended amid a crash, and the group reached a strange stretch of bone walls covered in fresh green vines.

• Ling Chu saw pirate ships reinforce the Mechanical Fortress and watched Titch use Corrosive Potion to damage the Ten-Thousand-Bone Giant.
• Lingering Wind and Fading Moon agreed to publish the Intermediate Corrosive Potion formula and recruit Alchemists and Herbalists to brew more for the battlefield.
• Players across the district answered the call and began making potions, while Ling Chu worried about Hope Island's separate Ten-Thousand-Bone Giant.
• Little Luban told Ling Chu that more than half of Hope Island's walls had collapsed, then the call cut off during another crash.
• Ling Chu hurried through the maze with her companions and found fresh green vines covering the bone walls.

Ling Chu and her team fought through the vine-covered White Bone Maze and reached its apparent endpoint, but the challenge continued when cutting a vine awakened a giant assembled from the maze’s bones. Ling Chu identified the towering creature as the Moss Giant.

• Ling Chu warned the team about the attacking vines, and Huang Xiaowen and Clumsy Bear fought them off while Squid Ball stopped short of the danger.
• You Jiali spotted the maze’s endpoint, and Ling Chu sprinted through the vines and escaped the maze passage.
• Ling Chu found a huge sphere wrapped in vines and slashed one, triggering a violent tremor instead of the expected challenge-clear notification.
• The bone walls collapsed, and their floating bones gathered around the vine-covered sphere to assemble the Moss Giant.
• The Moss Giant completed its formation and crashed to the ground, shaking the tower.

Ling Chu’s group faced the Moss Giant hidden inside the maze, and Ling Chu discovered that its only weakness was a heart buried behind its breastbone. She and You Jiali failed to break through the layers of bone hands, so Ling Chu prepared to climb to the giant’s chest with Head Chef’s help.

• The Moss Giant emerged from the maze, and Ling Chu realized the lighthouse had trapped her five-person team in a fight against a Ten-Thousand-Bone Giant.
• The Moss Giant struck at Ling Chu, who used Ghostly Steps to evade its crushing blow.
• Ling Chu used Keen Eye to find a scarlet heart deep inside the giant’s chest and told her crew to hold it down while they broke through its breastbone.
• Ling Chu and You Jiali attacked the bone hands protecting the chest, but the layers quickly shifted and blocked their attacks.
• You Jiali said his Blood Burst was useless against the bloodless giant, and Ling Chu announced she would climb to its breastbone with Head Chef’s support.

Ling Chu and her teammates tried to reach the Moss Giant’s heart by climbing its chest, while the giant attacked them and You Jiali protected Ling Chu from its vines. Ling Chu continued upward as Smiley watched the Ghost Ship struggle and anticipated the battle getting worse.

• Ling Chu decided to use Corrosive Potion on the Moss Giant’s sternum, while Clumsy Bear, Huang Xiaowen, and Squid Ball attacked its vines to distract it.
• The Moss Giant struck at the group, but Huang Xiaowen teleported Squid Ball out of the way, and the teammates retreated from close combat.
• Ling Chu climbed the Moss Giant’s chest with two daggers, relying on her arm strength to avoid the skeletal hands below.
• The Moss Giant sent vine Whips after Ling Chu, and You Jiali transformed into a bat and drew the Whips away so she could keep climbing.
• Livestream viewers worried about the Ghost Ship’s danger, while Smiley watched with a mocking smile and expected the Moss Giant’s real terror to begin.

Ling Chu pushed through the Moss Giant’s deadly vines toward the scarlet point in its chest while You Jiali and Huang Xiaowen helped protect her. Outside the Whispering Tower, the Ghost Ship’s cannon jammed and its Wind Shield shattered as the Ten-Thousand-Bone Giant attacked, leaving Engineering Guy alarmed aboard the Mechanical Fortress.

• The Moss Giant unleashed a huge net of barbed vines, and Ling Chu was wounded as You Jiali struggled to deflect them.
• Huang Xiaowen cut vines with throwing knives while Clumsy Bear used Taunt to draw the Moss Giant’s attention, but Ling Chu remained trapped in danger.
• Ling Chu refused to retreat and climbed toward the scarlet point in the Moss Giant’s chest as You Jiali and Huang Xiaowen helped clear her path.
• Titch discovered that tiny bone hands had clogged the Ghost Ship’s left howitzer, and he rejected using Corrosive Potion because it would ruin the barrel.
• The Ten-Thousand-Bone Giant struck at the Ghost Ship, forcing Titch to evade; the ship escaped, but its Wind Shield shattered.
• Engineering Guy watched from the Mechanical Fortress as the Ghost Ship’s cannon was disabled and its shield broke.