Recaps

Yang Yi and Su Na explored the expanded Nightmare Star, and Yang Yi upgraded its Ancient War Rooms and Lookout before building a new special structure, the Execution Rack. He learned that upgrading the Nightmare Star to level five required 30,000 Crystal Diamonds.

• Yang Yi and Su Na explored the ship’s expanded deck, hold, and two-level Witch Laboratory, where Yang Yi gave Su Na 500,000 Conch Coins for research funding.
• Yang Yi discovered the Execution Rack among the available expansion buildings and learned from Shen Guanquan that special ships unlocked special buildings at different upgrade levels.
• Yang Yi spent 423,000 Conch Coins on materials and upgraded the Ancient War Rooms and Lookout, doubling the cannons and extending the scanning range to 1,800 nautical miles.
• Yang Yi built the Execution Rack atop the other mast and found that upgrading the Nightmare Star to level five required 30,000 Crystal Diamonds.

Yang Yi tested the Execution Rack by hanging up ordinary remains and specimens from Su Na’s Laboratory, discovering that more dangerous creatures and better-preserved trophies produced stronger ship effects. He borrowed the Tinder Wool Spider Queen’s head to display on the mast and concluded he should test trophies before using them for Gacha.

• Yang Yi wondered whether upgrading the Nightmare Star with Crystal Diamond would improve the Astrologer’s skills, then considered what trophies to hang on the Execution Rack.
• Yang Yi hung a Long-Legged Sardine, weeds, vines, Meat Lumps, and a skeletal arm on the rack and checked their appraised effects.
• Yang Yi borrowed specimens from Su Na’s Laboratory and found that the Spider Queen’s head increased hull durability and sailing speed while attracting spider-type Otherworldly Demons.
• Yang Yi determined that dangerous creatures and complete or important body parts produced stronger effects, then asked Su Na to borrow the Tinder Wool Spider Queen’s head.
• Yang Yi dismissed the idea of hanging himself on the rack, returned the other samples, and decided to test trophies before using them for Gacha.

Yang Yi learned to rely on the old captain to steer the Nightmare Star, then discovered that the Gale had already reached the Abundant Sea's exit and prepared for the long journey ahead. The Weekly Magazine published leaked photos of Yang Yi, which he shrugged off as he turned to read about the exit.

• Yang Yi tested the old captain's abilities and handed him the Nightmare Star's sailing duties, then killed an attaching Delicious Meat Lump and received Delicious Fertilizer from the Gacha.
• Song Yingwen told Yang Yi that the Weekly Magazine would publish information about the Abundant Sea's exit and leaked photos of him.
• Yang Yi used Peering to locate the Gale and found it stopped on a black sea beyond the Abundant Sea, roughly twenty days' sailing away before detours.
• Yang Yi assessed his food supplies and bought forty loaves of Black Bread from Shen Guanquan as emergency provisions.
• The Weekly Magazine published unflattering photos of Yang Yi, and he ignored the teasing in the Chat Channel and began reading its article about the Abundant Sea's exit.

Yang Yi and Su Na learned that leaving the Abundant Sea would mark the end of the Origin Sea and grant players access to a larger ocean. As their voyage continued toward the endpoint, Yang Yi gathered information and trained while preparing for the dangers ahead.

• Yang Yi read Mo Dayan’s report and discovered that the region beyond the Abundant Sea was labeled the Origin Sea (Endpoint), prompting him to tell Su Na to read it.
• Yang Yi and Su Na considered Mo Dayan’s Pocket World Hypothesis and discussed the dangers of entering an unpredictable open ocean filled with native factions.
• Yang Yi learned that players would receive points after leaving the Abundant Sea, then sold information about the Limb Spider Cult and the Keepers’ Society to Song Yingwen for 4,000 Conch Coins.
• Yang Yi received 20,000 Conch Coins for photographs and information about the Forest Fairies, while the old captain sailed the Nightmare Star and caught fish for food and fuel.
• After twenty days of training and weight loss, Yang Yi checked his attributes and found that he had become muscular, with his strength, agility, and other abilities recorded on his status panel.

Yang Yi and Su Na reached the exit from the Abundant Sea and entered the Origin Sea, earning large numbers of Player Points. They found themselves inside a dark, restricted stretch of ocean bounded by invisible walls, with an apparent light ahead that Yang Yi’s Three Eyes revealed was an illusion.

• Yang Yi admired his strengthened physique, refused Su Na’s request to take one of his ribs, and checked the World Sea Chart as the Nightmare Star neared the Abundant Sea’s exit.
• Yang Yi reviewed reports about the finish area and continued sailing toward the exit while Rotting Whales grew scarcer around the ship.
• Two days later, the Nightmare Star entered the Buffer Zone, and a system notification awarded Yang Yi 83,279 Player Points for clearing the Origin Sea.
• Su Na reported earning 66,701 points, and Yang Yi discovered that invisible walls blocked the sea behind and ahead of the Nightmare Star.
• Yang Yi used the Eye of Greed to inspect the darkness ahead and found that the apparent distant light and surrounding darkness were an illusion.

Yang Yi waited in the lightless finish area, bought supplies, and fished while the market settled. He caught a giant Abyss-polluted Anglerfish, but the Old Captain went on strike after witnessing the catch.

• Yang Yi confirmed that the finish area remained sunless and bought five units of crystal diamond while selling fourteen tonnes of sea salt.
• Yang Yi spent 15,000 Conch Coins on fifty loaves of Black Bread to replenish the Nightmare Star's food reserves.
• Yang Yi fished alongside the Old Captain, then used a Long-Legged Sardine as bait to fish deeper.
• Yang Yi fought and shot a huge fish before hauling the dead Mutated Giant Anglerfish onto the deck in Wolf Transformation.
• The Old Captain became furious after watching Yang Yi catch the giant fish and went on strike for one day.

Yang Yi tested the Mutated Giant Anglerfish’s trophy effect, then used its lantern in a gacha draw and gained ship equipment that improved fishing. A week later, He Qi arrived at the endpoint aboard the Fisherman, and Yang Yi recognized him and sent a message.

• Yang Yi rejected hanging the Mutated Giant Anglerfish as a trophy because its light could attract dangerous creatures, then asked Su Na whether she could make a potion from it.
• Su Na said she could make a potion that made Yang Yi’s head glow, while she gathered ingredients to brew a stronger Spirit Potion.
• Yang Yi fed the fish’s lantern into the Monster Gacha Machine and received a Giant Anglerfish Lantern that dispelled illusions and increased fishing catch rates.
• Yang Yi installed the lantern on the Nightmare Star and caught two Long-Legged Sardines in thirty minutes while testing it.
• A week later, Yang Yi saw the Fisherman emerge near the endpoint and messaged its captain, He Qi.

Yang Yi met He Qi aboard the Fisherman, where he learned that He Qi had recruited a Siren-human hybrid named Qiqi as a crew member. After returning to the Nightmare Star, Yang Yi asked Su Na whether a Siren could live without eating people, and she said it was impossible.

• Yang Yi and He Qi met for the first time and shared food and liquor aboard the Fisherman.
• Yang Yi learned that He Qi spent most of his time fishing and had caught the seafood they ate.
• He Qi revealed Qiqi, a shy Siren-human hybrid, and explained that a Crew Registration Card had made her a crew member.
• Yang Yi showed He Qi information about his Ship Merging Card and mentioned that someone else was aboard the Nightmare Star.
• Yang Yi returned to the Nightmare Star with seafood and told Su Na about Qiqi.
• Su Na told Yang Yi that a Siren needed to eat people to keep her body from breaking down.

Yang Yi waited at the endpoint as more players arrived and the Iron Brotherhood fought the New Humanity Fleet. The system then announced that all players had left the Abundant Sea, bringing the voyage to its end.

• He Qi bandaged Qiqi, who warned him that Yang Yi was a dangerous demon hunter and a secret member of the Fire Worship Cult after smelling the Charred Liquor.
• Yang Yi moved the Nightmare Star away from the entrance after players shared pictures and speculated about the ghost ship in the Chat Channel.
• Yang Yi caught enough fish to meet his protein needs and build up his dried-fish and Black Bread supplies while more than two hundred ships gathered near the exit.
• The Iron Brotherhood fought the New Humanity Fleet near the endpoint, and reports indicated that the Iron Brotherhood won while the Sakura and several other ships escaped.
• The system announced that all players had left the Abundant Sea before the black fog reached the endpoint.

Yang Yi read the major update and learned that players would be sent into the full ocean, where a quest to find and liberate ten Player Islands awaited them. As teleportation began, he checked the revised rules aboard the Nightmare Star.

• Yang Yi suspected the system's praise meant an earlier batch of players had come before his.
• Yang Yi read the main quest to find and liberate ten Player Islands, then saw a distant, illuminated metropolis identified as Island No. 7.
• Yang Yi learned that clues to the islands would emerge as players explored the sea and earned points.
• Yang Yi checked the updated Sailing Log, fleet interface, and Regional Channel while the World Chat and trading system remained closed.
• Yang Yi noticed characters floating out of the Nightmare Star and himself, and the system announced a 60-minute teleportation countdown.

After the transfer, Yang Yi and the Nightmare Star remained behind in a lightless sea while all other players vanished. Yang Yi and Su Na investigated their isolation and discovered black fog rising over the water.

• Yang Yi read the updated rules, including the new Exposure system and warnings about darkness, and discussed them with Su Na.
• As the transfer began, Yang Yi prepared for danger, but the Nightmare Star stayed in place while the other players disappeared.
• Yang Yi scanned the eerily still, pitch-dark sea and found no nearby players in the regional chat channel.
• Yang Yi checked the updated world map and weather screen, learning that they were in the Sea of No Light with no daylight.
• Su Na spotted a layer of black fog rising over the water, and Yang Yi went to look.

Yang Yi and Su Na investigated a newly appeared layer of black fog that rapidly aged living things and spoiled food, while leaving most inorganic materials unaffected. Yang Yi then found the ship’s Point Vending Machine and recognized the symbol on it from protein bar packaging.

• Yang Yi tested the black fog with a Long-Legged Sardine, which died of old age, and Su Na stored it for dissection.
• Yang Yi managed to trap some black fog in a bucket, and Su Na sealed a sample in a glass bottle for laboratory testing.
• Yang Yi and Su Na found that the fog rapidly aged or spoiled living things, corpses, and food, while its effects on inorganic materials were negligible.
• Su Na suspected the black gas produced by evaporating seawater was related to the fog and went to test whether it dissipated.
• Yang Yi found that firelight could not disperse the fog, then set the Nightmare Star toward the direction of the earlier Player Island apparition.
• Yang Yi found the Point Vending Machine in the Captain's Quarters and recognized its symbol from protein bar packaging.

Yang Yi explored the new vending machine, learned what its special items and blind boxes offered, and spent points on Stealth Capsules and ten micro blind boxes. The guaranteed prize appeared to be two tickets, but the chapter ended before he identified them.

• Yang Yi activated the vending machine and examined its special items, including crew registration and ship merging cards.
• Yang Yi sent Su Na information about the items and learned that several exchanges were unavailable to him.
• Yang Yi decided blind boxes could offer rare items, but first bought twenty-four Stealth Capsules for 2,200 points.
• Yang Yi opened ten micro blind boxes, receiving snacks from the first nine and triggering the guaranteed prize on the tenth.
• Yang Yi stared silently at the two tickets that appeared in his hands.

Yang Yi spent points on blind boxes, chasing guaranteed rewards after receiving mostly poor prizes. Su Na gifted him 20,000 points, and after they discovered the guarantee counter was tracked separately for each person, Yang Yi spent nearly all his points on nine large blind boxes.

• Yang Yi opened small blind boxes and spent more points to reach their guarantee, receiving supplies and a voucher for a large blind box.
• Yang Yi opened the large blind box and got rainbow-filled gummies, then discovered its guarantee counter reset after 24 hours.
• Yang Yi asked Su Na to lend him 20,000 points so he could reach the large-box guarantee, and she gifted him the points instead.
• Su Na tested the vending machine and found that the guarantee counter was tied to each person.
• Yang Yi spent 89,500 points on nine large blind boxes, leaving himself with 2,729 points.

Yang Yi opened the final guaranteed mystery box and obtained a Portal Exchange Ticket stained with what appeared to be blood, which Su Na took to investigate. Su Na then showed Yang Yi that Clustered Darkness could be temporarily immobilized by intense heat, and they planned to use fire as a last-resort defense while seeking a better solution.

• Yang Yi opened the last large mystery box and received a Portal Exchange Ticket, which Su Na identified as bearing bloodstains and took for examination.
• Su Na explained that the system dispersed black fog in the safe zone and showed Yang Yi her experiments with heating it.
• Yang Yi heated a sealed sample until the Clustered Darkness became dust, heard chilling wails, and learned that it could endanger ships in the Sea of No Light.
• Yang Yi and Su Na found that ordinary firelight and other lights did not disperse the darkness, which was slowly creeping up the hull.
• Yang Yi planned to move the vines and prepare campfires and water to create a high-temperature barrier, while considering the Lookout as a possible refuge.

Su Na tested the darkness and reported that it eroded materials and multiplied, while Yang Yi prepared fire defenses aboard the Nightmare Star. He also tested Micro Blind Boxes before the world chat opened and decided to save his points.

• Su Na found that cold slowed the darkness, fire could not reveal a soul within it, and the substance spread by eroding living and nonliving matter; she also reported fresh-looking human blood on the Portal Exchange Ticket.
• Yang Yi told Su Na to stop experimenting and rest, then set up bonfires in the Atrium as a temporary barrier against the darkness.
• Yang Yi checked the darkness's increasing spread, noted that it could reach the deck in less than a week, and rationed his dwindling Vitality Coconut Juice Refresher.
• Yang Yi spent points on Micro Blind Boxes, confirmed that lower-tier boxes could yield exchange tickets, and stopped drawing after using two tickets.
• The world Chat Channel opened at 23:00.

Yang Yi used the World Chat Channel to learn that he and other players had been teleported to the Sea of No Light, where darkness threatened survivors. He shared ways to suppress it, bought large supplies at great cost, and ended with Shen Guanquan asking to trade Canned Apples for blind box exchange tickets.

• Yang Yi questioned players about the Sea of No Light and learned that players had different daylight conditions in their regions.
• Qin Ming told Yang Yi that holy light from his treasured-quality armor dispersed the moving black fog, and revealed that his region's population had fallen from seventy-two to three.
• Yang Yi shared that high and low temperatures and holy light could suppress the darkness with other players stranded in the Sea of No Light.
• The Great Newspaper announced a publication pause and higher prices, while players discussed blind box rewards and exchange tickets in World Chat.
• Yang Yi bought lumber, cloth, stone, steel, crystal, and 300 loaves of Black Bread, spending 260,000 Conch Coins and retaining 1.22 million.
• Shen Guanquan asked Yang Yi whether he had blind box exchange tickets to trade for Canned Apples.

Yang Yi prepared for the Sea of No Light by buying Holy Water, continuing toward a guaranteed mystery box reward, and sailing onward despite finding nothing. The next day, he tried fishing and caught a Skeleton Mackerel while the Old Captain hauled up a dead Long-Legged Sardine Elder; Yang Yi then hooked something very heavy.

• Yang Yi told Shen Guanquan he had no mystery box exchange tickets to spare and learned that repeated draws reduced the chance of obtaining high-tier tickets.
• Yang Yi bought twenty bottles of Holy Water from Zhou Dai, but Zhou Dai refused to sell him a treasured Radiant Holy Church knight's sword.
• At midnight, Yang Yi found that the World Chat Channel had stopped and the Gacha Machine had produced no items, then chose to keep sailing in the same direction through the darkness.
• The next day, Yang Yi woke after four hours of sleep and began fishing at the bow while the Old Captain fished elsewhere.
• Yang Yi caught a Skeleton Mackerel, while the Old Captain caught a dead Long-Legged Sardine Elder.
• Yang Yi continued fishing, and after another hour he felt that he had hooked something very heavy.

Yang Yi fished undead creatures from the dark sea, turned their corpses into items, and decided how to keep the Nightmare Star supplied safely. He planted a Vitality Coconut in the Delicious Potted Plant, but after seeing its lengthy growth time, he buried several sardines in the pot instead and awaited their sprouting.

• Yang Yi killed a Drowned Dead that climbed aboard the Nightmare Star, stored its corpse, and got Drowned Dead's Hatred from the Monster Gacha Machine.
• Yang Yi fished for eight hours while the Old Captain caught a Skeleton Monster, whose corpse produced a White Bone Token.
• Yang Yi decided the Old Captain should fish for eight hours daily while he was awake and avoided using the Fishing Net in the darkness.
• Yang Yi planted a Vitality Coconut in the Delicious Potted Plant and learned it would take more than 13,000 hours to mature.
• Yang Yi buried five Long-Legged Sardine Elders and a fresh Long-Legged Sardine in the pot, which gave an unclear planting result with 37 hours until sprouting.

Yang Yi and Su Na discovered a pattern of tiny zeros in the bloodstain on the Portal Exchange Ticket, then used it to obtain and install a Player Island Portal. The Portal failed to connect to the numbered islands, so Yang Yi entered a long string of zeros and pressed confirm.

• Yang Yi fertilized the Delicious Potted Plant and told Su Na he was growing it in the Captain's Quarters.
• Su Na showed Yang Yi the regular rows of oval shapes in the ticket's bloodstain, and Yang Yi confirmed with Three Eyes that the ticket had a similar pattern of tiny circles.
• Yang Yi recalled the digits on Player Island's tallest building and used the Portal Exchange Ticket in the Gacha Machine, which produced a Player Island Portal.
• Yang Yi installed the Portal in the ship's Atrium and tried connecting to Player Islands 01 through 10 and 00, but each attempt failed.
• Yang Yi realized the Portal accepted more than two digits, entered zeros for five minutes, and pressed confirm.

Yang Yi and Su Na activated the Portal, but its connection opened onto a horrifying mass of dead players that flooded the ship’s Atrium. After Yang Yi forced the connection to end, Su Na found a damaged force-field shield among the remains, which Yang Yi gave to her.

• Yang Yi grew uneasy as the Portal’s connection began, and its blue patterns turned red before the connection succeeded.
• Red slurry poured from the Portal, and Yang Yi’s activity log identified nearly a thousand dead players within it.
• When dark red fingers reached through the doorway, Yang Yi fired the Flintlock in Roaring Mode and drove them back until the connection ended.
• Yang Yi and Su Na examined the harmless but revolting slurry, and Su Na collected a sample while Yang Yi ordered the Ancient Skeleton Arms to clean the Atrium.
• Su Na found a damaged Exceptional force-field shield beneath the slurry, and Yang Yi tested it before giving it to her.

Yang Yi found damaged equipment among the corpses on the Nightmare Star, then discovered that the darkness was rapidly climbing the hull and damaging the ship. He and Su Na prepared to seal the cabins and carry supplies to the Lookout, while Su Na’s examination of the remains revealed that they contained no bone fragments.

• Yang Yi found a Red-Dyed Hilt Dagger and a Red-Dyed Rusty Engineering Glove among the corpse remains, but judged the glove nearly useless.
• Yang Yi noticed the Nightmare Star losing durability and saw the darkness climbing the hull and consuming its warning-line vines.
• Yang Yi ordered the vines to absorb the corpse remains, restoring the ship’s durability and slowing the darkness’s spread.
• Yang Yi told Su Na to seal the first-level openings, then packed the food and fresh water in preparation for holding out in the Lookout.
• Su Na sealed her specimens and windows, then examined the remains and found only damaged cell fragments, with no trace of bone.

Yang Yi avoided reopening the dangerous portal and focused on preparing for the spreading darkness, moving himself and Su Na to the Lookout as the fog swallowed the Nightmare Star’s deck. With no supplies delivered and no refuge found yet, he prepared to set the ship alight as a last resort.

• Yang Yi warned Su Na not to reconnect to the dangerous island, while Su Na argued that blood on an exchange voucher might belong to a survivor.
• Yang Yi dismantled the Player Island Portal and told Su Na that the darkness would soon reach the deck, leaving them to shelter in the Lookout with the Old Captain steering the ship.
• After two days, Yang Yi moved the sprouted Vitality Sardine Tree Sapling to the Lookout to protect it from the darkness.
• Yang Yi expanded and reinforced the Lookout platform, and Su Na joined him there as the darkness climbed over the Nightmare Star’s deck.
• Yang Yi checked the sea chart and prepared to set the ship alight if they could not find an island or other refuge before the black fog spread farther.

Yang Yi and Su Na waited on the Lookout while darkness consumed the Nightmare Star, fishing and preparing for Yang Yi’s delayed trades to arrive. After lighting a route across the deck, Yang Yi went down toward the Gacha Machine to collect the items.

• Yang Yi found that the darkness had disabled most of the vines and damaged the Nightmare Star, while the Ancient Skeleton Arms remained unaffected.
• Yang Yi and Su Na reviewed reports about islands, Indigenous People, the Radiant Goddess, and Exposure, then spent two days exercising and fishing on the Lookout.
• Su Na caught several Otherworldly Demons, including a powerful Skeleton Monster that Yang Yi killed with his Flintlock.
• Yang Yi received notice that his traded items would arrive at 23:00 and prepared to descend while Su Na lit the bonfires with flaming arrows.
• Yang Yi put on parts of the Penitent Armor, transformed into a Werewolf, soaked his fur, and used Molotov Cocktails to create a fiery path across the deck.
• Yang Yi leaped into the bonfires and ran toward the bow and the Gacha Machine.

Yang Yi used Holy Water and fire to drive back incorporeal shadows that appeared on the Nightmare Star's deck, but the disturbance drew even more of them. He and Su Na remained on the mast as more than fifty shadows gathered below.

• Yang Yi obtained a Bone Demon Javelin from the Gacha Machine and collected his delivered Holy Water and Black Bread.
• Su Na warned Yang Yi about a shadow on the deck; his attacks passed through it, but Holy Water dispelled it and the surrounding darkness.
• Yang Yi gave Su Na Holy Water and retreated with her to the mast as the flames died and thirty-two shadows gathered below.
• Yang Yi threw Molotov cocktails onto the deck, dispersing the shadows, but he counted more than fifty after they returned in greater numbers.