Chapter Summaries

Ye Yuan confronted the research institute over Kuimu Island and the Underwater Museum, then discovered that its director was Zhao Ximin, whom he had rescued at sea. Zhao Ximin agreed to let him lease the island, but her plan to use fossils for genetic research on extinct animals left Ye Yuan unsettled.

• Ye Yuan argued with Zhang Jingkuan about the institute taking Kuimu Island and the Underwater Museum project.
• Zhao Ximin arrived and recognized Ye Yuan, and she asked to discuss the matter privately with him.
• Ye Yuan told Zhang Wujin that Zhao Ximin had agreed to the Underwater Museum and Kuimu Island, while keeping the reason vague.
• Ye Yuan recalled Zhao Ximin explaining that her institute planned to reconstruct extinct animals using genomes extracted from fossils.

Zhao Ximin revealed that she wanted horseshoe crabs and the contract rights to Kuimu Island so her team could research a special fossil, while Ye Yuan arranged to give biological recombination materials to Leonard. Later, Ye Yuan went fishing with his crew and spotted an unexpected herd of manatees near Blue Island.

• Zhao Ximin told Ye Yuan about her research mission and offered to exchange thirty horseshoe crabs for the contract rights to Kuimu Island.
• Ye Yuan decided to give the biological recombination materials and samples from the pirates to Leonard, who arranged to send someone to Blue Island City.
• Yu Hongbo reported that the crew had trained seven more members, and Ye Yuan said they also needed pilots and chief engineers.
• Ma Hua spotted a large group of grayish-white creatures approaching the fishing boat, and the crew recognized them as manatees.
• Ye Yuan wondered why a large herd of manatees had appeared in coastal waters where they had nearly vanished.

Ye Yuan warned Su Weiguo about a herd of manatees in the Yellow Sea, then gave him coordinates while teasing him over an earlier slight. As the boat continued searching for horseshoe crabs, Ma Hua asked to dive, and Yu Hongbo explained why he had kept the crew out of the water.

• Ye Yuan ordered the crew to steer away from the manatees and explained that they might accidentally collide with the boat.
• Ye Yuan called Su Weiguo to report the herd, but hung up after Su doubted him; Su called back, apologized, and asked for the herd's coordinates.
• Ye Yuan gave Su Weiguo the coordinates, said the manatees had swum northwest, and hung up to keep searching for horseshoe crabs.
• Ye Yuan felt pleased that he had left Su Weiguo flustered, then frowned at the trash piled on the deck.
• Ma Hua asked Ye Yuan to let the crew dive, and Yu Hongbo explained that earlier dives had found nothing and the boat had been losing money.

Ye Yuan took the fishing crew to a diving spot and gathered a basket of sea jelly while the newcomers explored the seabed. Wu Hao saw Ye Yuan dive without equipment and swim like a fish, leaving him impressed by his boss.

• Ye Yuan let Ma Hua know he would find a suitable spot, and Ma Hua excitedly told the crew there was hope of a big haul.
• The fishing boat caught little with its trawl net, then stopped at a diving spot Ye Yuan had chosen.
• Yu Hongbo organized the crew into diving groups and ordered the veterans to watch over the newcomers.
• Wu Hao followed Bao Chunyu underwater, where Bao showed him how to collect a large abalone.
• Wu Hao saw Ye Yuan gathering purplish-red sea jelly deep underwater without diving gear.
• Ye Yuan handed a full basket of sea jelly to Yu Hongbo, who asked why he was collecting something of little value.

Ye Yuan confirmed that Ma Hua had found a Map Conch, a rare cowrie shell that could sell for a few hundred yuan. Ma Hua led the crew back underwater to search for more, while Ye Yuan warned Yu Hongbo that finding many could drive the price down.

• Ye Yuan collected Gracilaria to have Fatty make it into a cold dish.
• Ma Hua showed Ye Yuan a shell he had found, and Ye Yuan identified it as a Map Conch worth a few hundred yuan.
• Ma Hua excitedly rallied the crew to dive back down and search for more cowries.
• Ye Yuan explained to Yu Hongbo that a sudden supply of many cowries could lower their market price.

Ye Yuan accompanied the crewmen to a reef maze where they gathered abundant shellfish and cowries. He found rare live Golden Treasure Conches, including tiny ones he planned to raise for Li Shiyun, and the chapter ended with Ma Hua learning that the crew’s large haul could lower cowrie prices.

• Ye Yuan followed the excited crewmen underwater to protect them as they explored a sprawling reef formation.
• The crewmen collected shellfish while Ma Hua selected valuable conches and the rookies stuffed their pockets with whatever they found.
• Ye Yuan discovered and took a rare live Golden Treasure Conch, then found tiny ones to raise in an aquarium for Li Shiyun.
• Ye Yuan urged the crewmen back to the boat, warning Ma Hua that gathering too many cowries could drive down their price.
• Yu Hongbo explained Ye Yuan’s warning to Ma Hua, who lamented that their discovery might reduce the value of their catch.

Bao Chunyu and Wu Hao returned from gathering abalone, and Wu Hao revealed a rare golden coral he had found underwater. Ye Yuan identified it as genuine golden coral and estimated it could sell for over ten thousand yuan, while Bao Chunyu reminded the crew that the money meant a great deal to Wu Hao and his family.

• Yu Hongbo realized Bao Chunyu and Wu Hao were missing, and a crew member said they had gone swimming in that direction.
• Bao Chunyu taught Wu Hao how to harvest abalone, and Wu Hao struggled to pry them off the reef.
• Wu Hao found and collected a cluster of golden coral before Bao Chunyu signaled him to surface.
• Bao Chunyu and Wu Hao returned to the boat, where Wu Hao asked Yu Hongbo to identify the coral.
• Ye Yuan examined the coral, confirmed it was genuine golden coral, and estimated it was worth more than ten thousand yuan.
• Ma Hua urged Wu Hao to treat the crew, but Bao Chunyu reminded everyone that Wu Hao's family depended on his earnings.

Ye Yuan received Starfish Grass seeds as a reward for completing a space-storage mission and learned that his next mission required him to evolve a creature. He considered how to use the seeds and planned to move more farming and livestock work from the space to Fishing Bay Island.

• The crew agreed that Ma Hua would pay for a meal to celebrate Wu Hao's bonus, despite Wu Hao's protests.
• Ye Yuan received a system notification awarding him a bag of Starfish Grass seeds for completing a mission.
• Ye Yuan learned that the new mission required one biological evolution and that the evolution potion cost two million points, more than he currently had.
• Ye Yuan decided to plant the Starfish Grass seeds in the waters around Fishing Bay Island rather than in the space, where workers were already occupied.
• Ye Yuan planned to move the Tina Bulls and, once the island had enough plants, the Kexi Bees out of the space and onto Fishing Bay Island.

Ye Yuan overheard Ma Hua reassuring Wu Hao that he could keep the golden coral money, then went shopping with Li Shiyun, who told him her second uncle’s notes described the cave beneath her family home as an ancient inner vault. The cave predated the Li family’s late-Ming treasure vault, and Ye Yuan wondered whether Li Zicheng had unknowingly chosen a site that already held treasure.

• Ye Yuan realized he had missed lunch, ate mackerel dumplings, and walked the three dogs along the beach.
• Ye Yuan overheard Wu Hao ask whether he could keep the money from selling golden coral, and Ma Hua told him small finds belonged to whoever found them.
• Ye Yuan and Li Shiyun shopped in Blue Island City and discussed her father’s trip to Kangaroo Country and the family’s strained relationship with her second aunt.
• Li Shiyun told Ye Yuan that her second uncle’s notes described the cave beneath her home as older than the Li family’s late-Ming treasure vault.
• Li Shiyun explained that her second uncle had discovered the cave accidentally while digging a passage, and Ye Yuan suspected the site had been a treasure site before Li Zicheng chose it.

Ye Yuan brought Li Shiyun to meet his family, then used a joke to cheer her up after dinner. The next morning, his uncle called with news that someone had sabotaged the village’s lobster cages, leaving Zhang Qingbin and the other farmers facing severe losses.

• Li Shiyun visited Ye Yuan’s family for dinner, bringing gifts and winning a warm welcome from his parents and relatives.
• After they left, Ye Yuan dodged Li Shiyun’s questions about Zhang Xin and made her laugh by joking about her stomach; they went to eat crispy chicken.
• The next morning, Ye Yuan woke at Li Shiyun’s home and received an anxious call from his uncle, Zhang Qingbin.
• Zhang Qingbin told Ye Yuan that someone had sabotaged North Mountain Village’s lobster cages, allowing lobsters to escape and sending dozens of cages out to sea.

After learning that someone had sabotaged North Mountain Village’s fish-cage ropes, Ye Yuan joined the villagers and nearby divers to search for the cages swept out to sea. He used his perception to locate more than a dozen cages and found that many lobsters had escaped, while the search continued.

• Zhang Qingbin told Ye Yuan that hundreds of fish cages had been swept into the sea after their ropes were sabotaged, and that more than half were still missing.
• Ye Yuan reassured Li Shiyun that his grandmother was safe, then drove to North Mountain Village to help.
• Ye Yuan brought divers from Fishing Bay Island and joined the villagers and volunteers from nearby communities heading out to search.
• Ye Yuan used his perception to find more than a dozen fish cages and discovered that lobsters from damaged cages were roaming the seabed.
• Ye Yuan left the nearshore cages for the villagers to find and focused on the urgent search for the missing cages.

Ye Yuan searched the deep sea and recovered the locations of dozens of North Mountain Village’s lost fish cages using tracking devices. At a celebratory dinner, he reunited with Li Menggui, who thanked him for helping the village.

• Ye Yuan dove into waters over a hundred meters deep and attached tracking devices to fish cages he found.
• Zhang Qingbin and the others saw three signals appear on the boat’s screen, and Ye Yuan found sixty-one fish cages over the course of the day.
• At dinner, Ye Yuan corrected rumors that he had found nearly a hundred cages while Wu Hao, Jin Wen, and You Zhiyong compared their own totals.
• Ye Yuan nearly called Li Menggui “Fierce Ghost Uncle,” then recognized him by the scar on his temple and learned the villagers now called him “Centipede Uncle.”
• Li Menggui and Zhang Qingbin thanked Ye Yuan and his friends for helping North Mountain Village, and they drank together.

Ye Yuan learned that Xu Hang had secured approval to build an airport on Fishing Bay Island. He visited his grandmother and found his aunt disciplining his cousin for going near a dangerous dry well.

• You Zhiyong told Ye Yuan that Xu Hang had delivered the airport approval documents, and Ye Yuan wondered how the application had been approved so quickly.
• Ye Yuan left the gathering and went to visit his grandmother in North Mountain Village.
• Ye Yuan heard Wu Yanfang scolding Zhang Ming for playing near the dry well on the back mountain.
• Ye Yuan entered the side room, and Zhang Ming escaped behind him while Wu Yanfang welcomed him.
• Ye Yuan noticed his grandmother's frailty, and Wu Yanfang invited him inside to talk.

After recovering fish cages and earning the villagers’ respect, Ye Yuan visited his aunt’s home and heard her worry about Zhang Ming’s future. He suggested that Wu Yanfang move with Zhang Ming and Grandma to Blue Island, but she feared the cost and doubted she could find work there.

• Ye Yuan visited his grandmother and asked how she had been feeling.
• Ye Yuan learned that Zhang Ming wanted to become the village’s greatest sea diver and listened as Wu Yanfang urged him to focus on his studies.
• Ye Yuan told Wu Yanfang that changing Zhang Ming’s environment could help him become more ambitious.
• Ye Yuan suggested that Wu Yanfang, Zhang Ming, and Grandma move to Blue Island.
• Wu Yanfang dismissed the idea, worrying about city expenses and her ability to earn a living there.

Ye Yuan prepared a self-caught lobster event in North Mountain Village to recover the village’s losses after a storm scattered its lobster cages. After locating most of the cages, he stayed overnight and awaited the first outside help, leaving the event’s success to be tested the next morning.

• Ye Yuan searched the sea and located eighty-six net cages, helping North Mountain Village recover 601 of its 652 cages, though 158 were damaged and thousands of lobsters had escaped.
• Ye Yuan reassured Zhang Qingbin that they would see whether tourists came, then shared dinner and memories with him before turning in.
• Wu Yutian arrived at the beach with a convoy of pickup trucks carrying diving equipment for Ye Yuan’s event.
• Wu Yutian greeted Ye Yuan and explained through his actions that he had come in person largely to meet the founder of Yuwan Seafood.

Ye Yuan and Zhang Qingbin prepared North Mountain Village for a surge of visitors by bringing in diving equipment and organizing parking and beach safety. As tourists arrived in droves, Li Shiyun joined Ye Yuan and teased him about Song Ran’s star power, leaving him to deal with her obvious jealousy.

• Ye Yuan met Wu Yutian, who brought 300 sets of diving equipment and promised to transfer 200 more if needed.
• Ye Yuan told Zhang Qingbin to manage parking as Li Shiyun, Jing Yu, and a coach bus arrived at the village.
• Zhang Qingbin organized villagers to direct traffic, and the village’s two parking lots filled within an hour.
• Li Menggui headed to the dock to help keep tourists safe in the water.
• Ye Yuan walked along the beach with Li Shiyun as she remarked sourly on Song Ran’s appeal, and he teased her for being jealous.

Ye Yuan brought Li Shiyun to meet his grandmother, then headed to welcome Song Ran after a crowd of fans gathered around her van in North Mountain Village. Song Ran arrived to take part in the lobster-catching event, though the crush of fans complicated her plans to dive.

• Li Shiyun agreed to visit Ye Yuan's grandmother and brought gifts, while Jing Yu stayed behind and watched them leave with mixed feelings.
• Ye Yuan's grandmother warmly welcomed Li Shiyun, who promised to visit every day if the family moved to Blue Island.
• Ye Yuan and Li Shiyun saw fans crowding around Song Ran's van, and Li Shiyun teased Ye Yuan before returning to the beach.
• Ye Yuan went to greet Song Ran, and Zhang Qingbin and the villagers organized the crowd so her van could reach the village committee square.
• Tourists posted photos of Song Ran diving and catching lobsters, confirming that she had joined the event, while her assistant and manager worried about her safety amid the fans.

Ye Yuan helped Song Ran safely take part in North Mountain Village’s lobster-catching event, which drew far more tourists than expected. As the village worried that the lobsters would run out before the event ended, Ye Yuan advised them to release more and honor their promise to visitors.

• Ye Yuan assured Song Ran’s manager that she would be safe underwater, and North Mountain Village sent five divers to support her appearance.
• Song Ran left after the event, and her manager asked whether Ye Yuan had inspired her song “With You.”
• Wu Yutian brought equipment to North Mountain Village twice, but even seven hundred sets could not meet tourist demand.
• Zhang Qingbin told Ye Yuan and Li Shiyun that tourists had caught most of the lobsters and asked whether the village should release more.
• Ye Yuan advised Zhang Qingbin to release the lobsters so the village would keep its promise to tourists.

North Mountain Village’s lobster-catching event drew huge crowds and earned the villagers a substantial profit. After returning to Fishing Bay Island, Ye Yuan found that the Starfish Grass he had planted had grown at an astonishing rate.

• Li Shiyun advised Zhang Qingbin to release more lobsters for the event, and crowds grew even larger on the second day as tourists returned and shared the attraction online.
• Zhang Qingbin’s village profited from lobster sales, packed restaurants, home-cooked meals, and sold-out dried goods, while Wu Yutian also earned money renting equipment.
• Zhang Qingbin thanked Ye Yuan at a celebratory dinner, and Ye Yuan stayed overnight because he had been drinking.
• Ye Yuan’s mother persuaded Zhang Qingbin to move his family to Blue Island, promised to cover their rent, and Ye Yuan’s sister arranged a seafood-store job for his aunt.
• After returning to Fishing Bay Island, Ye Yuan saw that the Starfish Grass seeds he had given Li Hui had grown to about fifty centimeters in only a few days.
• Li Hui questioned Ye Yuan about the rapid growth and asked him to give advance notice before assigning him unexpected projects.

Ye Yuan spent over two million points on an Evolution Pill for the Beast King, then discovered the system rewarded him with another pill after the evolution succeeded. The Beast King gained astonishing speed and strength, and Ye Yuan watched it eye the Shoushan Stone rockery as its next target.

• Ye Yuan exchanged his rough stones and some rare metals for enough points to buy an Evolution Pill.
• Ye Yuan fed the pill to the Beast King and waited anxiously while the system marked its mission as evolving.
• The system announced the mission’s success and awarded Ye Yuan another Biological Evolution Pill, leaving him furious about the points he had spent.
• The Beast King suddenly demonstrated greatly increased speed by leaping from Ye Yuan’s arms to the grape trellis and then across the courtyard.
• The Beast King snapped a piece of Iron Birch with its claws, astonishing Ye Yuan with its strength.
• Ye Yuan noticed the Beast King staring toward the courtyard’s Shoushan Stone rockery.