Ch. 226"Void Marsh"
A Commerce Pavilion exploration team became trapped in a mysterious sea region and landed on an unknown island, where a strange entity attacked them in the darkness. The boat captain killed the entity with his hand cannon, but he warned his surviving subordinates that more might be nearby.
- Chen Fan heard from Crippled Monkey that the Mortal Domain Spring Examination had drawn eager candidates and that the Logistics Pavilion had identified likely top performers.
- A Commerce Pavilion boat captain and his crew found their Flying Boat trapped in a Void Marsh, lost communications, and discovered an unknown island beyond the New Continent.
- The captain led three subordinates into the island's dead forest while Xun Ba stayed aboard, but the group noticed a sound, found their Eerie Fire missing, and one subordinate, Lao Yao, fled.
- As Eternal Night fell, the captain kept two subordinates beside him and endured repeated attacks from an unseen entity without moving.
- When the entity made physical contact, the captain grabbed it and fired his hand cannon until it went limp, then drank Altar Water and warned his subordinates that more entities might remain.