Chapter Summaries

Ling Chu resurrected Emily, the innkeeper’s daughter, who told how Lucas murdered her and the villagers before setting the island on fire. Emily explained that Siren’s Song trapped the villagers’ souls on the island, while Ling Chu realized the island’s cycle forced players to relive Emily’s final day and ended with her needing to kill Lucas.

• Ling Chu used her skill to resurrect a girl skeleton, who embraced her and introduced herself as Emily.
• Emily told Ling Chu that Lucas stabbed her with a red-hot Iron Sword and trapped her in a fireplace after she discovered clues to his crimes.
• Emily recounted how she suffocated as Lucas set fires across the village, killed her parents, and stole something from her father’s room.
• Ling Chu realized that players in the instance relived Emily’s final day and had to use Emily’s own abilities and resources to kill Lucas.
• Emily said the villagers’ souls were trapped on the island by Siren’s Song and could neither leave nor be reincarnated.

Emily explained that the sea monster's song trapped the villagers’ souls and that she had used their power to test whether someone could avenge her by killing Lucas. She revealed Lucas had burned the village to steal an Elven Stone Tablet, but the tablet he took was fake.

• Emily told Ling Chu that the sea monster's song trapped the villagers’ souls and that she had waited ten years for someone capable of avenging her.
• Ling Chu examined Andrew and Emily, learning that Andrew was a blacksmith and Emily could learn elemental and undead magic.
• Emily revealed that Stephen had found a rune-carved Stone Tablet in the Red Algae Forest and that Lucas returned to the inn during the village fire to steal it.
• Ling Chu suspected Lucas was the same man who had betrayed Titch over an Elven Stone Tablet and connected both betrayals to his pursuit of the tablets.
• Emily shocked Ling Chu by revealing that the Stone Tablet Lucas stole from the village was fake.

Ling Chu learned that Lucas had stolen a replica of the Elven Stone Slab while the real one remained hidden beneath the inn, and she explored the flooded passage beneath the Blacksmith Shop. After spotting a Sea Monster in the Red Algae Forest, she returned to lead her crew to the old dock and begin searching for Stephen’s skeleton.

• Emily told Ling Chu that her father had made the Stone Tablet Lucas stole as a replica and hidden the real Elven Stone Slab in the inn’s cellar.
• Emily said she had seen a faint glow beneath the seawater near the cellar, and Ling Chu suspected the Island Core might be there.
• Ling Chu moved the quenching tank in the Blacksmith Shop and swam through the flooded passage into the sea, where she spotted a swift, humanoid shadow in the Red Algae Forest.
• Ling Chu returned to the Blacksmith Shop, where Huang Xiaowen, Squid Ball, Lingering Wind and Fading Moon, and the Skeleton Henchmen had gathered.
• Emily led Ling Chu and the others to the former dock, where she sensed Stephen’s soul among a field of buried skeletons.
• Ling Chu gave everyone shovels and ordered them to dig up as many skeletons as possible before nightfall.

Ling Chu revived Little Yellow as a ghost and Stephen as a skeleton while her crew excavated the island’s buried bones. Stephen revealed how Qing Nang Fish paste could disguise someone from Sea Monsters, and admitted he had shared the trick with Lucas.

• Ling Chu used Ghost Revival to bring back Little Yellow, whose keen nose helped the crew find more buried bones.
• Ling Chu revived Stephen in his skeleton and learned that he had discovered the Red Algae Forest.
• Stephen explained that rubbing Qing Nang Fish entrails and swim bladder paste on the body could fool Sea Monsters’ sense of smell.
• Emily confronted Stephen about whether he had shared the disguise trick with Lucas, and Stephen admitted he had told him after Lucas offered him fishing gear and drinks.

Ling Chu comforted Emily over her unresolved hatred of Lucas, then led the crew back to the Ghost Ship when the Sea Monsters’ song stirred sorrow among the village souls. The next morning, the skeletons resumed excavating while Ling Chu went fishing for Qing Nang Fish and considered seeking materials to upgrade her ship.

• Emily blamed Stephen for accepting Lucas’s bribe, but Andrew defended him and explained that even he had failed to recognize Lucas’s true nature.
• Ling Chu promised to help Emily find Lucas and let her kill him, then encouraged her to seek happiness; Emily broke down sobbing before returning to the excavation.
• As the Sea Monsters’ song reached the Ruins, the village souls reacted with grief, and Ling Chu stored the unearthed remains and led everyone back to the Ghost Ship.
• Ling Chu assessed that her ship could house about three hundred skeletons and resolved to seek Ghost Wood and a Siren’s Mourning Pearl to upgrade it.
• After a restful night, Ling Chu sent Huang Xiaowen and Squid Ball to continue digging and cast her Lucky Frozen Octopus Fishing Rod to catch Qing Nang Fish.

Ling Chu fished up a Siren's Mourning Pearl, the special material she needed to upgrade her ship, and gathered Qing Nang Fish entrails to attract sea creatures. While harvesting rare red algae underwater, she found a Sea Monster and studied its formidable abilities.

• Ling Chu caught several Qing Nang Fish and discovered a Siren's Mourning Pearl inside a Pearl Oyster.
• Ling Chu fished through the morning, collected more oysters and fish, and mashed the Qing Nang Fish entrails into bait paste.
• Ling Chu coated herself in the paste and dived alone into the underwater hollow near the island inn.
• Ling Chu harvested about twenty kilograms of Dragon Beard Red Algae from the dense underwater forest.
• Ling Chu spotted a Sea Monster feeding on a rotten fish and used her Eyepatch to inspect its attributes and skills.

Ling Chu searched the Red Algae Forest for the Island Core and Elven Stone Slab, gathering Pearl Oysters and Ghost Wood along the way. A Sea Monster led her to its leader, where she spotted the Island Core and a Treasure Chest on a guarded platform.

• Ling Chu collected Pearl Oysters and dug up Ghost Wood while avoiding Sea Monsters.
• Ling Chu used a Friend Coupon on a Sea Monster and asked it to take her to its leader.
• The Sea Monster guided Ling Chu through the Red Algae Forest to a seafloor plaza crowded with more than a hundred Sea Monsters.
• Ling Chu saw the Island Core beneath the leader's head and a weathered Treasure Chest on the High Platform.

Ling Chu infiltrated a sea monster horde, stole the Sea Monster Leader’s Treasure Chest, and bound the Island Core while using her invisibility and movement skills. The leader noticed the Island Core’s new human scent as Ling Chu escaped its side.

• Ling Chu spotted the fifth-tier Sea Monster Leader guarding the Island Core and devised a plan to steal the Treasure Chest.
• Ling Chu used Curtain of the Dead, Ghostly Steps, and Ride the Wind to reach the High Platform and take the Treasure Chest without being noticed.
• When her invisibility ended, two sea monsters attacked, but Ling Chu used Omni Reset and Curtain of the Dead to vanish again.
• The Sea Monster Leader discovered the Treasure Chest was missing and blamed the two nearby guards, striking them as they reported seeing a human thief.
• Ling Chu used her renewed invisibility to reach the Island Core, bound it with her blood, and flashed away with Ghostly Steps.
• The Sea Monster Leader sensed an unfamiliar human scent on the Island Core and turned toward it.

Ling Chu escaped the Sea Monster Leader with the Treasure Chest and Level Four Island Core, then named the island Undead Island and began upgrading her ship with its special materials. She left the island’s skeletons to its production system and opened the chest, obtaining Elven Stone Slab No. 4 and other loot.

• Ling Chu used a Space Spore to escape the Sea Monster Leader, which ordered its tribe to search for her and waited for night to hunt her down.
• Ling Chu returned to her Ghost Ship with the Treasure Chest and Island Core, named the island Undead Island, and discovered it could produce skeletons and valuable materials.
• Ling Chu told Huang Xiaowen and Squid Ball to stop digging and return to the ship before nightfall.
• Ling Chu began upgrading her ship using Ghost Wood and Siren's Mourning Pearls as special materials.
• Ling Chu opened the Storage Chest from the Inn's Wine Cellar and obtained 10,000 Sea Shells, the Sea Monster Leader's Loincloth, a Sea Monster Figurehead, and Elven Stone Slab No. 4.

Ling Chu claimed the Sea Monster Leader’s chest and found an Elven Stone Slab whose runes might lead to the extinct Elf race’s treasure. As the Ghost Ship left Undead Shallow Beach with Emily and the recovered skeletons, Squid Ball recognized one of the slab’s symbols.

• Ling Chu claimed ten thousand Sea Shells, a Legendary Sea Monster Leader’s Loincloth, a Sea Monster Figurehead, and the Relic-quality Elven Stone Slab No. 4 from the chest.
• Ling Chu learned that Relic items could not be replicated and wondered how many numbered Elven Stone Slabs existed.
• Huang Xiaowen and the others returned after digging up more than forty skeletons, and Ling Chu ordered the ship north to leave the Sea Monster Leader’s waters.
• Ling Chu told Emily she had obtained the Island Core and could revive the island’s dead villagers, while Emily watched the ruins recede from the ship.
• Ling Chu told the crew about the slab and the Elf treasure; after the others failed to read the runes, Squid Ball recognized one symbol.

Ling Chu arranged for Squid Ball to study the Elf Stone Tablet and bought ingredients for Lingering Wind and Fading Moon’s cold-resistance potions. After taking over a Level Four Island, Ling Chu widened her lead in the Wealth Ranking, while Black Spade K worried that she might target him next.

• Squid Ball recognized a character on the Stone Tablet as a symbol for wind or flowing energy and copied the runes to study them.
• Lingering Wind and Fading Moon gave Ling Chu the recipe for a potion that raised cold resistance by 50% for half an hour.
• Ling Chu bought 350 batches of potion ingredients for more than 3,500 Sea Shells.
• After players noticed Ling Chu’s island and Wealth Point gains, Ling Chu told them that island levels generally matched the monsters’ levels.
• Black Spade K saw that Ling Chu had taken over another Level Four Island, and Nine-Tailed Cat reminded him that he had offended Ling Chu too.

Ling Chu leveled up her Ghost Pirate profession while reviving skeletons, gaining skills that could repair them and plunder almost anything from a target. After six hours, her ship became the first Level Five ship, and its transformation left it larger and more imposing.

• Black Spade K grew irritated with Nine-Tailed Cat and privately messaged several people from his friends list.
• Ling Chu ate four Intelligence Fruits, raised her Intelligence to 19, and continued reviving Skeleton Henchmen until her Ghost Pirate profession leveled up.
• Ling Chu gained Repair and Disassemble and Pirate Is More of a Bandit, a skill that could randomly plunder anything a target owned, including an island.
• Ling Chu reviewed her improved character panel, then continued reviving skeletons as they reunited with loved ones on deck.
• Six hours later, Ling Chu's ship upgrade completed, making her the first player with a Level Five ship and earning her a System Blind Box.
• The Ghost Ship grew nearly twice as long and wide, gained a basement, and incorporated Ghost Wood and glowing Siren's Mourning Pearls.

Ling Chu discovered that the upgraded Ghost Pirate Ship no longer needed fuel at full speed and that its Magic Plants had mutated and gained new abilities. After testing the Spore Mother Brain’s control over the plants, she built a Skeleton Rest Stop, whose Coffins delighted the Skeleton Henchmen.

• Ling Chu inspected the upgraded ship and found that its Magic Plants had each risen a tier and gained Ghost traits.
• Ling Chu bonded with the Spore Mother Brain and used its mind-link to monitor the ship and control its Magic Plants.
• Ling Chu tested Ghost Thorn’s new behavior with Huang Xiaowen, then taught it to recognize the rest of her crew.
• Ling Chu built a Skeleton Rest Stop with one hundred Ghost Wood Coffins in the ship’s basement.
• A Skeleton Henchman discovered the Coffins and ran to tell the others about the Captain’s luxury suites.

Ling Chu resurrected the skeletons from Undead Island and discovered that Uncle Valen was an expert farmer and Saka was a skilled baker. She had Saka bake Dragon Beard Red Algae Sandwich Bread, which permanently increased Strength when eaten, and the chapter ended with the fresh bread ready to try.

• The Skeleton Henchmen explored their new Ghost Wood Coffins while Ling Chu watched them through Fungus Brain.
• Ling Chu sailed Ghost Ship away from Undead Island, upgraded the ship, and settled into its improved cabin.
• After buying more Mana Potions, Ling Chu resurrected the remaining skeletons, including Uncle Valen and Saka, whose personal skills were Expert Farming and Expert Baking.
• Ling Chu assigned Valen to manage the farm and asked Saka to bake red algae bread, then bought an oven for the ship.
• Saka baked Dragon Beard Red Algae Sandwich Bread, which permanently increased Strength when eaten.

Ling Chu discovered that Saka’s bread and pumpkin cakes permanently increased attributes, then learned that Black Spade K was recruiting fleets to hunt her. Star River Enters Dream warned her, leaving Ling Chu aware of a new threat from three allied pirate crews.

• Ling Chu shared Dragon Beard Red Algae Bread with her crew, and they discovered that eating it permanently increased Strength.
• Saka baked Creamy Golden Pumpkin Cakes from Ling Chu’s pumpkins, and Ling Chu, Huang Xiaowen, and Squid Ball gained a permanent point of Constitution.
• Squid Ball reported that she had deciphered three characters on the Stone Tablet, meaning roughly “wind,” “gate,” and “earth.”
• Huang Xiaowen showed Ling Chu a message from Star River Enters Dream, who warned that Black Spade K had offered him a bounty to hunt Ling Chu and had joined forces with the Doll Ship and Dream Ship fleets.
• Star River Enters Dream said he warned Ling Chu because he preferred her to remain the dominant force, since the three fleets posed a greater danger to players and pirate hunters.

Ling Chu weighed the threat posed by Black Spade Ship and advised Squid Ball to decide for herself whether to warn other players about the coming Extreme Cold. Squid Ball posted a warning in the Public Chat Channel, where players doubted her because a scammer named Stall Fortune Teller Zhang Da Xian had recently spread a false drought prediction to sell water purifiers.

• Star River Enters Dream told Ling Chu that Black Spade Ship might join Doll Ship and Dream Ship against her, then sent her a friend request, which she accepted.
• Ling Chu told Huang Xiaowen and Squid Ball about the possible alliance and considered which fleet would be safest to attack if a fight became unavoidable.
• Squid Ball agonized over whether to share her prediction of Extreme Cold, and Ling Chu encouraged her to make the choice she would not regret.
• Squid Ball warned the Public Chat Channel that Extreme Cold was coming and advised players to prepare warm clothing and supplies.
• Players accused Squid Ball of lying because Stall Fortune Teller Zhang Da Xian had falsely predicted a high-temperature drought to sell his Intermediate Water Purifiers, making enough money to rank sixteenth in wealth.

Squid Ball challenged fortune teller Zhang Da Xian over his prediction of a drought and his sale of Water Purifiers, betting that the next disaster would be Extreme Cold. Ling Chu watched the argument and confirmed that her preparations for the cold were ready, leaving the public chat to await the disaster and the bet’s outcome.

• Squid Ball accused Zhang Da Xian of being a fraud and demanded proof that he had a fortune-telling Special Profession.
• Squid Ball and Zhang Da Xian bet that the loser would call the winner Grandma or Grandpa in the public chat, and players argued over whether to buy warming supplies.
• Ling Chu read the chat and judged Squid Ball more reliable than Zhang Da Xian, though she expected the temperature to drop only when the disaster arrived.
• Ling Chu tried on the cotton clothes Mickey Meow Witch had made from her cotton order and approved the clothes and quilts without changes.
• Mickey Meow Witch asked if Squid Ball’s Extreme Cold prediction was true, and Ling Chu said she trusted Squid Ball more than Zhang Da Xian.

Ling Chu reassured Mickey Meow Witch and A Silly Bird about their cold-weather supplies as players reacted to conflicting disaster predictions. After Tao Zai uncovered Ling Chu’s recent private contacts, Black Spade K concluded she was spreading a false Extreme Cold warning and ordered his allies to prepare for extreme heat.

• Ling Chu told Mickey Meow Witch not to worry that shark leather armor sales had slowed, and said the armor would sell as warm underclothes.
• A Silly Bird asked Ling Chu whether she had anticipated an Extreme Cold disaster when buying cotton, and Ling Chu said it was safer to prepare.
• Tao Zai used his Paparazzo skill to reveal Ling Chu’s private contacts from the past seven days, including Star River Enters Dream, Squid Ball, A Silly Bird, and Mickey Meow Witch.
• Black Spade K concluded that Ling Chu had arranged the Extreme Cold prediction to mislead his fleet and help sell cotton and shark leather armor.
• Black Spade K ordered Tao Zai to warn Little Girl Stepping on Mushrooms and Daydreamer that the Extreme Cold prediction was false and to stock up for extreme heat.

Ling Chu’s crew settled into life aboard the Ghost Ship while she prepared to use the Gambler Coin’s luck to open a System Blind Box. The box yielded a Heater Blueprint, and she gave Andrew the materials and Mana Stones to build ten heaters.

• Daydreamer trusted Black Spade K’s warning and ordered his crew to buy hot-weather supplies and water purifiers, while Little Girl Stepping on Mushrooms decided to prepare for both cold and heat.
• Ling Chu’s Skeleton Crewmates filled the Ghost Ship with activity, so Titch promoted Big Toe and Round Head to help manage them.
• After two quiet days at sea, Ling Chu opened her Blind Box under the Gambler Coin’s triple Luck and received winter supplies, a Heater Blueprint, and three Mysterious Fruits.
• Ling Chu showed the Heater Blueprint to Andrew, who said he could reproduce it but lacked Mana Stones.
• Ling Chu supplied Andrew with the required materials and eleven Mana Stones, telling him to make ten heaters.

Ling Chu prepared materials for heaters, used her daily luck to gain Primary Mana Stones and a Strength Boost, and improved her Agility with three fruits. She caught hundreds of pounds of Silver Belt Fish and ended the day eating fried fish with Pumpkin Porridge.

• Ling Chu bought Copper Ore and clay, gave Andrew the materials to make five heaters overnight, and used the Fate Table to obtain ten Primary Mana Stones for the price of one.
• Ling Chu decided against hoarding cold-weather supplies to exploit ordinary players during the coming disaster, reasoning that their survival would keep the server’s economy functioning.
• Ling Chu drew a Strength Boost from the Lucky Prize Wheel and ate three Agility Fruits, raising her Agility above twenty points.
• Ling Chu went fishing before the Extreme Cold disaster and caught three large baskets of Silver Belt Fish as the fish migrated through the area.
• Ling Chu stored some of the fish for later meals and ate fried Silver Belt Fish with Pumpkin Porridge.