Recaps

Bai Yi survived the end of novice protection, transformed his shelter, and grew stronger alongside Little White. When Wang Ziyi’s shelter was surrounded by Rotting Corpses, Bai Yi killed the horde and joined his teammates in forming the Ashen Echo team, which began setting rules and sharing vital information.

• Bai Yi endured the end of novice protection, gained abnormal statuses, and used a lump of flesh and bone to upgrade his shelter into a living structure with new facilities.
• Bai Yi joined Wang Ziyi’s team, hunted Rotting Corpses, and used his shelter to process hundreds of them while replacing Little White’s damaged eye.
• Bai Yi studied Basic Flesh Alchemy, strengthened his body, and learned the spells Boiling Blood and Flesh-Bone Conversion as his teammates warned that Wang Ziyi was in danger.
• Bai Yi reached Wang Ziyi’s shelter and charged into the horde of Rotting Corpses, using Boiling Blood, bone blades, Little White’s Snowfield Howl, and Steel Spine Will to kill hundreds.
• Bai Yi returned with organs from mutated Rotting Corpses, received a sanity-recovery elixir from Li Zihua, and warned the team that black fog was approaching.
• Bai Yi and his teammates shared their talents and resources, agreed on emergency medicine priorities and fair trades, exchanged information about threats, and chose Ashen Echo as their team name.

Bai Yi and his team ventured into the black mist to gather treasure, where they fought powerful aberrations and suffered devastating injuries. Bai Yi returned to the shelter with the survivors, while Xie Xu treated him and the group prepared to recover in medical pods.

• Bai Yi discovered that Brain-Stealing Slugs had consumed Mu Mu’s brain and were controlling her body, and Mu Mu died soon afterward.
• Bai Yi survived a trap in the black mist, where Star-Color hatched, gave him a Phase Ring, and returned to the stars.
• Bai Yi created Hibernation Pods to counter the Wail of the Dead, and Xie Xu organized the squad to explore together when treasure chests refreshed.
• Bai Yi led the squad into the mist, where they practiced fighting Rotting Corpses and killed the Bone-Cleft Whisperer before defeating the Inverse-Bone Walker to claim a golden chest.
• The Pulse-Wheel Albatross ambushed the team, biting off Tang Zheng’s legs, tearing away Li Zihua’s arm, and badly injuring Zhang Zhen and Wang Ziyi.
• Bai Yi drew the Albatross away from the survivors and escaped when it began fighting the Molten Iron Curse-Binder, then found and took another treasure chest.
• Bai Yi fought through the mist and killed the Man in the Mist by shooting its hidden core, and Xie Xu found him and treated his injuries.
• Bai Yi brought the injured team through the portal to his shelter, where he placed them in medical pods and decided to keep Wei Fen’s frightened reaction to a tentacle’s eyeball to himself.