Recaps

Zhang Ming returned to the sailboat with Corgi and the Donkey-Headed Monster’s corpse, and the group ate after he butchered his prey. He discovered the monster had granted him the powerful Soul Split ability, but its risks led him to consider it mainly for its soul-regeneration power.

• Zhang Ming returned to the sailboat with Corgi, Stone Mama, and the Donkey-Headed Monster’s corpse, where Little White had prepared boiling water.
• Zhang Ming dissected the monster, noted the strange properties of its hide, and grilled its meat for the group.
• Zhang Ming fed Corgi ordinary bird meat because the dog was too weak to eat the Donkey-Headed Monster’s flesh.
• After eating, Zhang Ming gained five attribute points and discovered the unactivated Soul Split ability on his Attribute Panel.
• Zhang Ming read that Soul Split could regenerate and divide souls, but possession risked a fractured psyche and soul mutation, and he decided to value it as a soul-healing ability.

Zhang Ming discovered that splitting off a piece of his soul could cleanse a strange object of its mental backlash without removing its powers, making him realize he could create Legendary Masterpieces. He then searched the Memory Library for information about the Donkey-Headed Monster and found an ancient account linking soul-separation victims’ remains to an offering at the Summit of the World.

• Zhang Ming used Soul Split to leave his body, tested his soul’s abilities, and attached a fragment to a bone kitchen knife.
• Zhang Ming set rules for the new Corgi, assigning it chores and lookout duty aboard the boat.
• The soul fragment removed the knife’s malice while leaving its Diamond property intact, and Zhang Ming realized he could make Legendary Masterpieces by sacrificing part of his soul.
• Zhang Ming searched the Memory Library for information about the Donkey-Headed Monster but found none in the Flame-Horned People’s forging or monster texts.
• Zhang Ming found an ancient account describing a soul-separation plague and stating that soul ash could be offered at the Summit of the World.

Zhang Ming used the World Tree and the Source of the World to connect with Earth's Gaia Consciousness, survey the transformed planet, and summon prominent people to warn them that a World Hunter may have infiltrated Earth. He identified the suspected creature as a Soul Splitter and linked it to living-dead outbreaks.

• Zhang Ming studied the World Tree and used the Source of the World to activate Earth's consciousness connection.
• Zhang Ming surveyed Earth through Gaia's interface and saw how the planet had changed after eight years of disaster.
• Zhang Ming connected with more than twenty prominent people, including Old Wang, in Gaia's space.
• Zhang Ming warned the group that a World Hunter might have appeared on Earth and that a Soul Splitter could be behind the living-dead outbreaks.

Zhang Ming warned Earth’s leaders about powerful, mind-controlling Soul Splitters and urged them to investigate the living dead disasters and prepare for the threat. After answering questions in the Gaia Space, he ended the costly meeting and spoke privately with Wang Fumin.

• Zhang Ming described the Soul Splitters he had encountered overseas, explaining their possession, reproduction, strengths, and weaknesses.
• Zhang Ming warned that only people who had broken through the first human-limit threshold had a chance of surviving in the Demon God's Sea, and urged the leaders to investigate remote living dead disasters.
• Zhang Ming explained that killing Soul Splitters might strengthen the Gaia Consciousness, reminded the leaders that Earth had only several thousand units of Source of the World, and called for humanity to unite.
• Zhang Ming answered questions about mental defenses and breathing techniques, then ended the meeting when the costs of the Gaia Space became too great.
• Zhang Ming dismissed everyone except Wang Fumin, and the two old friends exchanged news about their lives.

Zhang Ming reunited with Wang Fumin, who shared his concerns about his daughter and his hopes of working with Qin Yiwei to unify Pangaea. The next day, Zhang Ming sailed to explore the freighter and tried to get it running, but its electronics and machinery had deteriorated.

• Wang Fumin told Zhang Ming he had no desire to remarry and hoped his daughter could live an ordinary life despite [Lone Star of Calamity].
• Wang Fumin introduced Qin Yiwei, whose mental attribute was nearing its bottleneck and who shared his belief that Pangaea should be unified.
• Zhang Ming and Wang Fumin ended their call after discussing future deliveries of electronics and agreeing to stay in touch.
• After sleeping for eight hours, Zhang Ming ate breakfast, named the dog Brother Hao, and sailed toward the freighter with the dog and Stone Mama.
• Zhang Ming started the freighter's diesel generator and explored its bridge, but the computers would not turn on and the ship's machinery showed extensive deterioration.

Zhang Ming salvaged equipment from a freighter and spent half a month outfitting his sailboat with electrical systems, then heard that a multinational coalition had destroyed the Living Dead Calamity’s island with nuclear bombs. The chapter left him weighing the news as the broadcast claimed the disaster had been contained before reaching the Pangaean mainland.

• Zhang Ming abandoned plans to operate the freighter and explored it with the Corgi, discovering the dog’s unstable Alternate Space ability.
• Zhang Ming collected electronics, communications gear, and a massive storage battery, then moved them to his sailboat and renovated it over half a month.
• Zhang Ming completed the electrical installation, powered on a light, and played offline games with Little White.
• Li Xianfeng announced that a multinational coalition had used twenty-two neutron bombs and twelve hydrogen bombs to destroy the Living Dead Calamity’s island.
• Zhang Ming stopped gaming to listen, then reflected on the nuclear attack and the possibility that innocents had been killed.

After humanity’s nuclear strike wiped out the Donkey-Headed Monsters on the island, Zhang Ming turned to Plants vs. Zombies while Little White became increasingly obsessed with watching him play. Little White left determined to resist the temptation, but soon returned to peek and began plotting to get stronger than Zhang Ming so it could take the computer.

• Li Xianfeng reported that the nuclear strike had killed the island’s monsters and that the Supernatural Anomaly Investigation Bureau would be established to handle supernatural threats.
• Zhang Ming dismissed the political announcements and started playing Plants vs. Zombies, captivating Little White.
• Little White’s gaming addiction worsened, but Zhang Ming and Stone Mama made it do homework and limited it to thirty minutes of games a day.
• Little White repeatedly returned to Zhang Ming’s room under the pretense of submitting homework or getting food, then secretly tried to watch the computer.
• Little White resolved to train until it was stronger than Zhang Ming and could take the computer for itself.

Zhang Ming left the freighter with his companions and began a new leg of his journey across the Demon God's Sea. After losing a week to games, he disciplined himself and returned to studying and training.

• Zhang Ming and his companions gathered supplies from the freighter, then sailed away and left the Giant Pelican to guard the ship.
• The Giant Pelican stayed behind, resolved to defend the freighter, and fought a ghoul-like monster that climbed aboard.
• Zhang Ming began a diary to track his plans, but spent a week playing games instead of working.
• Zhang Ming whipped himself with lightning to break his gaming habit, then shut off the computer and set limits on when he would play.
• Zhang Ming entered the Large Seashell to study the Flame-Horned People Forging Technique and research Strength Burst.

After two years drifting through the Demon God's Sea, Zhang Ming recorded the dangers he had survived, his growing attributes, and the state of Earth. In the twenty-seventh month, he spotted ordinary sea life and a seabed beneath the water, suggesting his boat had reached a mysterious region or a new continent.

• Zhang Ming recounted how he and his companions survived poisonous Gas Bombs, singing monsters, vast swarms of self-destructing fish, and a battle between two enormous sea beasts.
• Zhang Ming noted that he was thirty-four, had gained attributes rapidly, and had mastered Strength Burst to 100%, allowing it to remain an innate ability even when removed from a merge.
• Zhang Ming planned to merge the Stone-Skin Gland ability and recorded that Earth had stabilized after Pangaea formed, though its population had fallen and humanity still lacked political unity.
• Zhang Ming noticed the Demon God's Sea growing shallower and used Extraordinary Vision to see an azure seabed filled with ordinary marine life.
• Zhang Ming caught a golden fish that was not supernatural and realized his boat might have reached a new continent or mysterious region.

Zhang Ming and his companions encountered a friendly pod of orcas, and he won their affection by entertaining and feeding them. As Zhang Ming played in the sea, Little White fell asleep dreaming of becoming a great guardian turtle before strange cries woke it.

• Zhang Ming spotted land nearby and sent Little White to look for fellow turtles while he hoped to leave the ship after two years at sea.
• Brother Hao warned Zhang Ming as a pod of orcas chased Little White back to the sailboat, but the orcas showed curiosity rather than hostility.
• Zhang Ming, Brother Hao, Stone Mama, and Little White performed for the orcas, who eagerly gathered around them.
• Zhang Ming fed the orcas frozen monster meat for over two hours, then jumped into the sea to play with them while Brother Hao stayed aboard with Little White.
• Little White rested on Brother Hao's head, dreamed of growing into a Black Tortoise-like guardian, and woke when it heard strange cries.

Zhang Ming reunited with Big Sister Pelican, learned from the orcas that land lay along their route, and fought Pelican after she challenged him for control of the ship. The orcas headed off to rest, and Zhang Ming prepared to sail toward the land the next day.

• Little White woke to find Brother Hao facing off against Big Sister Pelican, who returned to her old spot on the deck and laid an egg.
• Zhang Ming asked the orcas whether there was land nearby, and the largest orca pointed out a direction along their route.
• Zhang Ming challenged Pelican to a fight for the largest territory aboard the ship, and she charged at him.
• Zhang Ming knocked Pelican unconscious with his Fishbone Spear and noted that she had grown stronger over the past two years.
• Zhang Ming returned Pelican’s unfertilized egg, then made dinner with Little White and Stone Mama as Radio’s broadcast began.

Zhang Ming crafted a Soul-Pinning Pistol and sailed toward the New Continent with help from a pod of orcas. After twenty days, the orcas turned back at the edge of dangerous waters, leaving Zhang Ming to continue alone toward a place where he could repair his boat and eventually return home.

• Zhang Ming listened to reports about Qin Yiwei’s appointment and studied strange-object theory to improve his crafting.
• Zhang Ming completed a Soul-Pinning Pistol that reproduced part of the Six-Eyed Monster Bird’s ability and gave a weak version to Little White.
• Zhang Ming sailed toward the New Continent with the orcas while Big Sister Pelican, Little White, and Brother Hao bickered aboard the boat.
• After about twenty days and two thousand kilometers, the orcas refused to enter unfamiliar, dangerous waters over the continental shelf.
• Zhang Ming said goodbye to the orcas and continued toward the New Continent alone, hoping to repair his boat and return to his homeland.

After a month of searching for the New Continent, Zhang Ming encountered a black-canopied boat in the fog and tried to learn whether it could lead him into a hidden world. The boat remained silent and empty, then its two dead softshell turtles began towing it away.

• Zhang Ming agreed with his companions to search for the New Continent for ten more days before leaving.
• On a foggy full-moon night, Zhang Ming sensed something approaching and spotted a black-canopied boat through the mist.
• Zhang Ming found that two dead softshell turtles were towing the boat and asked whether he could enter their world.
• Zhang Ming used lightning to search beneath the canopy and found the boat empty, then examined the turtles and saw strange glowing symbols on their shells.
• The dead softshell turtles suddenly moved and towed the black-canopied boat away.

Zhang Ming followed the Black-Awning Boat into a hidden world beneath a vast blood moon, which Stone Mama identified as a demon god. He reached the strange sea safely but remained unsure who had built the boat or where it was taking him.

• Zhang Ming failed to track the Black-Awning Boat into the hidden world, then spent two years studying the Soul Splitter's hide and made an Invisibility Cloak.
• Zhang Ming finished the cloak, made two Soul-Pinning Guns, and left Little White, Brother Hao, and the Giant Pelican aboard the sailboat while he boarded the Black-Awning Boat.
• Zhang Ming crossed a hazy boundary into a world beneath an enormous scarlet blood moon, and Stone Mama called the moon a demon god.
• Zhang Ming tested the moonlight from beneath the boat's awning and found that it did not affect Stone Mama or a leafy green he tossed outside.
• Zhang Ming asked Stone Mama about demon gods and their power, then wondered whether the Black-Awning Boat's creators were fighting the blood moon.

Zhang Ming reached a colossal tower built by an ancient civilization and found that a glowing crystal opened its entrance. He boarded a mysterious rail cart that carried him deeper inside.

• Zhang Ming saw the enormous tower beneath the red moon and suspected it was restraining the red moon demon god.
• Zhang Ming and Stone Mama discussed the vanished civilization and the Flame-Horned People as the Black-Awning Boat approached the tower.
• Zhang Ming studied the tower’s murals and crystals, naming its former inhabitants the Blue Crystal People.
• Zhang Ming touched a crystal, which opened a door into a dim passage.
• Zhang Ming stepped onto a rail cart, and it sped through the passage under an unknown power.

Zhang Ming explored a submerged tower, defeated a phantom warrior of the Blue Crystal People, and received a token granting him guest privileges. After returning to the Black-Awning Boat, he realized the tower had begun an ancient reception procedure, leaving him to consider the dangers of exploring the vanished civilization’s legacy.

• Zhang Ming rode a car through the tower and faced Tea Valley, a phantom warrior who challenged him to a fight.
• Zhang Ming fought Tea Valley, adapting to his growing strength and golden aura before defeating him with a shoulder throw.
• Tea Valley vanished and left a crystal behind, while the tower gave Zhang Ming an engraved token and returned him to the entrance.
• Zhang Ming returned to the Black-Awning Boat and concluded that the tower had recognized him as a guest from another race.
• Zhang Ming sailed around the area looking for a coral reef to repair the boat, while the Giant Pelican hunted for food.

Zhang Ming hauled his sailboat onto a coral reef, repaired its hull, and coated it against marine growth. As night fell, he examined a speck of golden light inside his body that had seeped into him during his fight with the Blue Crystal man.

• Little White led Zhang Ming to a small coral reef after the pelican agreed to guide him in exchange for a fish.
• Zhang Ming carried the sailboat onto the reef while the pelican, Little White, and Stone Mama flew overhead and Brother Hao raced around below.
• Zhang Ming reflected on how his low body weight limited his ability to move heavy objects and use his strength effectively, and he planned to contact the turtles on Turtle Island for help.
• Brother Hao brought Zhang Ming his tools, and Zhang Ming scraped marine growth from the hull and patched the damage caused by the exploding fish.
• Zhang Ming finished repairing and coating the boat, then examined his body and found a tiny speck of golden light inside it.

Zhang Ming used his soul to investigate the token and experienced a Blue Crystal person’s death and the civilization’s struggle against Demon Gods before escaping the vision at great mental cost. After recovering from a long sleep, he found his companions safe and decided to make them more offensive Strange Objects.

• Zhang Ming concluded that the golden light weakened opponents and resisted staggering, then tested the bronze token and discovered it could summon the Black-Awning Boat.
• Zhang Ming sent a Soul Sub-Entity into the token’s gem and received a vision of the Blue Crystal civilization building a tower to hunt the Space-Time Worm beneath a living Blood Moon.
• Zhang Ming experienced a Blue Crystal worker’s death, fell into absolute nothingness, and escaped when a purple electric current reached him.
• Zhang Ming woke in his workshop after three hours, suffering severe mental backlash, and slept for sixteen hours to recover.
• Zhang Ming confirmed that Brother Hao, Little White, and the others were safe, then resolved to make more offensive Strange Objects for his companions.

After recovering memories from the diamond-shaped gem, Zhang Ming concluded that the Blue Crystal People had used the supernatural power of their dead people's last wishes to build their civilization and fight Demon Gods. He left determined to seek transcendence himself, while the Blue Crystal Civilization’s fate remained mysterious.

• Zhang Ming recalled a vision of the Red Moon and realized that powerful civilizations in the Demon God's Sea hunted Demon Gods.
• Zhang Ming told Stone Mama that he would seek transcendence through strength and asked how to become a Demon God.
• Zhang Ming offered the pelican her deck space and asked to ride her coattails once she became a Demon God.
• Zhang Ming examined the gem’s memories and inferred that Blue Crystal People used gem-embedded puppets to build their tower.
• Zhang Ming deduced that the crystals gained supernatural properties through their owners’ last wishes, which could reinforce materials, power puppets, aid cultivation, and challenge Demon Gods.

After recovering from his previous ordeal, Zhang Ming returned to the tower to investigate the submerged Blue Crystal civilization. Stone Mama deciphered a book that showed young Blue Crystal people advancing to the rank of Shi, leaving Zhang Ming with a glimpse of the civilization’s hierarchy.

• Zhang Ming persuaded Pelican to search for underwater ruins with Little White, and spent ten days recovering while they found little of value.
• After fifteen days, Zhang Ming summoned the Black-Awning Boat and traveled with Stone Mama to a different entrance of the tower.
• Zhang Ming entered a hall filled with the skeletons of Blue Crystal people and found mold-covered books, machines, and strange crystals.
• While Stone Mama studied the books, Zhang Ming discovered that crystals in the tower could repair damage and sensed that the structure had powerful defenses.
• Stone Mama deciphered a passage that revealed students had advanced from Ding to Shi and were encouraged to strive for the rank of Neng.

Zhang Ming learned about the Blue Crystal Civilization’s ranks and its Last Wishes, then reflected on the tension between individual and collective purpose as he described himself as a “hero-coward.” He remained trapped in the eerie tower and asked Stone Mama to help, but Stone Mama needed to rest after reconstructing the past.

• A middle-aged man explained that the Blue Crystal Civilization’s people advanced through service, cultivation, and recognition, and that worthy and sage Last Wishes could guide later generations.
• Zhang Ming learned about the civilization’s five social ranks and heard a student question whether people lived only to contribute their final Last Wishes.
• Stone Mama confirmed that the student’s lament had appeared in the historical reconstruction, and Zhang Ming reflected on individual freedom and the meaning of life.
• Zhang Ming said life involved both individual and species-level continuation and called himself a “hero-coward.”
• Zhang Ming found that the crystal-embedded western door would not open and asked Stone Mama for help, but Stone Mama needed time to rest.

Zhang Ming searched the High Tower’s records for a way to gain higher access, then used Soul Split to read the memories of a Blue Crystal Person. The painful memories revealed an old man’s final last wish and left Zhang Ming recovering aboard the Black-Awning Boat, where he began examining the man’s fragmented childhood memories.

• Zhang Ming and Stone Mama translated old documents, but Zhang Ming found no way to bypass the High Tower’s verification process.
• Zhang Ming chose a crystal on an office desk and sent a soul sub-entity into it after leaving the High Tower aboard the Black-Awning Boat.
• Zhang Ming experienced the final memories of an elderly Blue Crystal Person, who accepted his approaching death and urged his descendants to keep building the Pillar of Heaven.
• The old man’s final last wish was to shout, “Passing the Torch can slay Demon Gods!” before he died, and Zhang Ming endured the terror of the experience.
• Pelican carried Zhang Ming onto the boat, where he recovered from the mental backlash and later examined the old man’s fragmented memories of childhood and political instruction.

After spending ten days studying the Blue Crystal People’s memories, Zhang Ming learned about their civilization and found several recurring number strings that might be important. As a persistent sense of danger grew, the pelican fled, leaving Zhang Ming and his companions aboard the ship facing an approaching crisis.

• Zhang Ming discovered that the Blue Crystal People relied on Last Wish, had limited industrial development, and feared the Demon God called the Space-Time Worm.
• Zhang Ming found over thirty recurring strings of numbers that might be passwords, but he delayed investigating while his Mental Value recovered.
• The pelican sensed danger, rejected Zhang Ming’s offer to carry everyone away, and vanished into the night.
• Zhang Ming and his companions realized they could not escape quickly as his sense of danger intensified and Little White repeatedly divined with the Ancestor Turtle Shell.

Zhang Ming and his companions survived a red-moon disaster that aged the ship and killed most life in the surrounding sea, then returned to the High Tower to investigate the Blue Crystal People’s access system. Stone Mama uncovered a recording explaining how outsiders could earn merit and trade for sanctuary, goods, knowledge, and Diamond.

• Zhang Ming prepared the ship and assigned Brother Hao’s Alternate Space ability to shelter the group from supernatural disasters.
• A crimson moon appeared and rapidly aged exposed materials while killing sea life; Zhang Ming and his companions survived inside Alternate Space.
• After the red moon vanished, Zhang Ming and Stone Mama concluded that the Space-Time Worm’s escape attempt depended on a rare alignment with the natural moon.
• Bird Mama returned after fleeing the disaster, and Zhang Ming cleaned the ship before using the Black-Awning Boat to reach the High Tower.
• Zhang Ming successfully accessed the Blue Crystal People’s information system, and Stone Mama uncovered Cha Lang’s explanation that outsiders could earn merit through contributions and exchange it for sanctuary, trade, and Diamond.

Zhang Ming registered for access to the Blue Crystal People’s Pillar of Heaven and learned how its merit system worked. He traded the Herculean Strength Technique for 1,400 merit points and suspected he had found a pricing loophole.

• Cha Lang explained that merit could be earned by selling lifespans, contributing knowledge, trading materials, or taking on special duties, while outsiders could enter Blue Crystal territory only in emergencies.
• Zhang Ming copied the registration records, verified his identity with the antique bronze token, and gained access to the Pillar of Heaven.
• Zhang Ming explored the tower’s rooms, found equipment for extracting lifespan and a combat assessment area, then encountered a golden sphere that accepted knowledge for merit.
• Zhang Ming transmitted the Herculean Strength Technique, accepted the sphere’s offer of 1,400 merit points, and realized its novelty as an animal-derived ability might have earned it an unusually high price.