Recaps

Yang Yi performed the Pioneer Ritual to find a direction where crystal diamonds were abundant, and an unknown entity pointed toward the bow before taking his offering. He recorded the result and began a second ritual to check whether the direction was reliable.

• Yang Yi learned that the Pioneer Ritual could be performed up to three times a week at the same location before risking angering a repeatedly summoned entity.
• Yang Yi stopped the ship, laid out the ritual array, and placed a crystal diamond and a Vitality Sardine Leg in it while Su Na watched and took notes.
• After eight minutes, an enormous eyeball emerged from the array, examined the offerings, and shifted the crystal diamond toward the bow before taking the fish leg.
• Yang Yi recorded the indicated direction and started a second ritual, replacing the offering with a bag of ten thousand Conch Coins.

Yang Yi and the crew settled on a sailing route after a failed ritual, while Cui Xiya explained the Radiant Holy Church’s powerful Paladins and began teaching Yang Yi swordsmanship. Two days later, Yang Yi had made rapid progress, and Su Na summoned him to attach Mars’s head to the newly stitched body.

• Yang Yi confirmed the crew’s heading with a ritual and proposed stopping for crystal diamond and visiting Cook Island along the way.
• Su Na tried using Sea-Brewed Rum as an offering to ask whether a ritual could locate the system, but the ritual failed without a response.
• Cui Xiya explained that Paladins were elite Church-raised fighters partnered with trained Light Fairies, and said they were stronger than Old Dad.
• Yang Yi asked Cui Xiya to teach him swordsmanship, and she began giving him orthodox training.
• Two days later, Yang Yi had improved greatly and cut through a wooden post with a smooth strike, though Cui Xiya said he could not use Supreme Holy Slash without the Radiant Goddess’s grace.
• Su Na messaged Yang Yi that she had finished stitching Mars’s body and asked him to come attach the head.

Yang Yi brought Mars to Su Na’s laboratory, where she had assembled a heavily altered body from several monsters. He prepared to resurrect Mars aboard the ship, leaving the outcome uncertain as the spell began.

• Yang Yi entered Su Na’s laboratory with Cui Xiya and saw Mars’s body grafted with monster limbs and a Cyclops eyeball.
• Su Na explained how she had modified the corpse, including adding worm tentacles for underwater movement and a Cyclops eyeball to strengthen its muscles.
• Yang Yi and Xiaoji Robot carried Mars’s body to the ship’s Atrium and set up precautions in case Mars lost control.
• Yang Yi injected Mars with Cyclops adrenaline and told him the body had cost about 1.5 million Conch Coins, promising he could repay the expense later.
• Mars eagerly praised Yang Yi and vowed to follow his commands, while Yang Yi worried Mars might call him a devil after seeing his new body.
• Yang Yi cast the Limb Restoration Spell.

Yang Yi successfully restored Mars by attaching his head to a body assembled from several creatures, but Mars awakened in a manic, worshipful state. Mars’s status panel revealed that he had become a Great Limb Spider and a Believer in Yang Yi, leaving Su Na curious about faith as a way to preserve sanity.

• Yang Yi used the Limb Restoration Spell to attach Mars’s head to the assembled corpse, then privately asked Mars how he felt.
• Mars awakened upside down, praised One-Eye, and struggled to understand his altered body before flipping himself upright.
• Mars tore the stitches and skin from his face, then prostrated himself before Yang Yi and called him his creator and the one true god.
• Su Na questioned Mars and asked for his status panel, which showed his new Great Limb Spider and Believer paths and his belief in Yang Yi.
• Yang Yi warned Su Na not to worship him, and she replied that she believed only in truth.

Mars left to reclaim his ship after Yang Yi revived him, while the Nightmare Star continued toward Cook Island. Yang Yi later discovered strange, anguished faces clinging to surfaces in Su Na’s Laboratory when he used Three Eyes.

• Mars thanked Yang Yi, declined dried fish, and swam away toward his ship, which was about fifty sailing days away.
• Yang Yi found a hidden pinyin message in "Volume Three: Hot Siren Paradise" that read, "Follow the wind, and you can find its source," and he and Su Na connected it to the Storm Sea.
• The Nightmare Star continued toward Cook Island as Yang Yi trained, checked supplies, and reached ten points of base Constitution.
• Cui Xiya advised Yang Yi on his sword technique, and the group ate Black Dragon-Beard Noodles made from a worm caught by the Old Captain.
• Yang Yi entered the Laboratory with Su Na and Cui Xiya, used Three Eyes, and saw glue-like substances with anguished faces clinging to its surfaces.
• Yang Yi sent Su Na a black-and-white photograph of the strange figures he had seen.

Yang Yi collected despair souls from the Laboratory using a bottle Su Na had made from Abyss Soul Stone fragments, then tested specimens as ship trophies and found the Cyclops’s eyeball especially useful. While reading a mystery book about Outsiders, he asked Cui Xiya how she had recognized him, and she explained that the Holy Capital had records of Outsiders.

• Cui Xiya identified the invisible remnants in the Laboratory as shattered souls formed from pain and despair, and Su Na gave Yang Yi a handmade bottle to test as a soul container.
• Yang Yi used the bottle to collect souls from the Laboratory’s second floor, where they became visible as writhing black liquid and received the name Bottled Despair Soul.
• Yang Yi tested specimens at the Execution Rack and found that the Cyclops’s eyeball increased ship durability and Strength and Constitution experience gain, while most other specimens offered little benefit.
• Yang Yi returned the specimens to Su Na, reminded her to rest, checked the ship’s heading, and went to read in his quarters with Cui Xiya.
• Yang Yi read Beware the Despicable Outsider and asked Cui Xiya how she had discovered he was an Outsider; she said she had guessed and knew Outsiders were documented in the Holy Capital.

Yang Yi discovered Su Na practicing a strange alchemical ritual in the Witch Laboratory and paid her a million Conch Coins to keep him from visiting again. Meanwhile, players debated exploring the Sea of No Light, and the Iron Brotherhood prepared to enter it.

• Yang Yi read about the vanished Duchy of Kambal and the Radiant Goddess before deciding to check on Su Na.
• Yang Yi entered the Witch Laboratory and found Su Na wearing a revealing outfit, covered in patterns, and performing strange movements as part of her alchemy practice.
• Su Na demanded either a million Conch Coins or another visit to her laboratory, and Yang Yi transferred her the money.
• Yang Yi reviewed the growing forum interest in the Sea of No Light, where players weighed its greater opportunities against its dangers.
• The Iron Brotherhood prepared to formally enter the Sea of No Light.

Yang Yi read a featured post tracking major fleets before the World Chat and trading channels failed to open at eleven. A system update restored them, distributed Player Points for clues he had discovered, and led Yang Yi to repay Su Na’s 20,000-point loan.

• Yang Yi read the fleet report, which described the New World Fleet’s construction plans, the Iron Brotherhood’s preparations to visit the Lost Ruins, the One-Eye Fleet’s spreading of its faith, and the Expedition Group’s map of the Sea of Miracles.
• Yang Yi noticed that the World Chat Channel, trading channel, and forum had not opened at eleven, and he alerted Su Na.
• At 11:03, the system announced that its update was complete and that Player Island clues had been released and points distributed.
• Yang Yi received 40,211 points for discovering clues to Moon Island and Garbage Island, bringing his balance to 42,740 points.
• Su Na reminded Yang Yi that he owed her 20,000 points, and Yang Yi transferred them to her.

Yang Yi reviewed the newly revealed Player Island information and discussed with Su Na why the system made players discover islands, leading them to suspect it had reformatted and forgotten its past. He found few valuable clues or Hero-level items, then noticed the system would pay players for books and decided to contact Song Yingwen.

• Yang Yi checked the new Player Island section and read details about Moon Island, Garbage Island, Steam Island, Dream Island, and Mirror Island.
• Yang Yi focused on Dream Island and wondered whether its discoverer, the leader of Eden, had dream-related abilities like Beautiful Dream.
• Su Na suggested that the system had reformatted itself to escape an entity hunting it, erasing its memories and forcing it to gather information again.
• Yang Yi read players' comments, found no Hero-level items for sale, and saw that the forums were preparing a Player Island subsection and a book-collecting Player Library.
• Yang Yi realized he could get Song Yingwen to pay for his books and immediately messaged him.

Yang Yi sold Song Yingwen photos of Su Na’s ordinary books and then reviewed a recruitment post for Shen Guanquan’s Black Parrot Pirate Group and the stats of its level-six ship, the Pirate. He also offered to take over designing the One-Eye Cult’s statue for Ma Dabao.

• Yang Yi photographed Su Na’s ordinary books, removed duplicates from the collection, and accepted Song Yingwen’s offer of 732,000 Conch Coins for forty-odd books.
• Yang Yi read a recruitment post for the Black Parrot Pirate Group, led by Wu Jinshui, and recognized it as a branch group set up by Shen Guanquan.
• Yang Yi examined the level-six Pirate’s stats and compared its speed and capacity with the Nightmare Star, deciding it was better suited to robbery than exploration.
• Yang Yi saw Ma Dabao’s bounty post seeking a design for a One-Eye Statue and asked Ma Dabao to transfer the funds so he could choose the statue’s design.

Yu Dawei and the Iron Brotherhood struggled with a spreading Rust Disease aboard the damaged Iron Will, and Yu ordered the ship sunk so the patients could be isolated on wooden ships. He suspected the disease’s source lay in a direction that resonated with him and ordered the fleet toward the Sea of No Light.

• Yu Dawei checked his worsening Rust Disease and learned that severe cases aboard the Iron Will had lost speech and become hostile to nonmechanical beings.
• Zhang Zhi reported three more infections and warned that the crew’s protective measures might not prevent the disease from spreading.
• Yu Dawei ordered the Iron Will sunk and its patients transferred to wooden ships before the fleet headed at full speed for the Sea of No Light.
• Yu Dawei recalled that the Iron Brotherhood had released a rusted robot from a safe after raiding a pirate base, then fought it and found a clue to Steam Island.
• Yu Dawei remembered that touching the robot’s head had infected him and given him a vague sense of the Rust Disease’s source in a particular direction.

Yang Yi paid Cui Xiya for photographing books, then summoned Su Na to discuss two new special items in the Vending Machine. The chapter ended with Yang Yi proposing that they pool their Player Points to enhance one of their talents.

• Yang Yi received one hundred thousand Conch Coins from Ma Dabao, confirming that One-Eye had already been chosen to win the God Statue selection.
• Cui Xiya photographed all forty books and received ten thousand Conch Coins from Yang Yi.
• Yang Yi concealed the mouth on his stomach from Cui Xiya when she caught him talking to himself and chewing in the Atrium.
• Yang Yi called Su Na over to inspect the Vending Machine's new Talent Expansion Card and Talent Enhancement Card.
• Yang Yi asked Su Na how many Player Points she had and suggested pooling their points to enhance a talent.

Yang Yi and Su Na spent Player Points to enhance their talents, and Yang Yi tested his upgraded Iron Will by entering a stronger Madness state. Su Na also enhanced Witch’s Blood, which raised her Mental cap and allowed Mental to increase her Sanity cap.

• Yang Yi learned that he needed 28,000 more Player Points, and Su Na transferred him 30,000 while warning him to repay her.
• Yang Yi showed Su Na Knight of Justice’s example of an enhanced talent and recommended that she enhance a talent that raised her Mental cap.
• Yang Yi used a Talent Enhancement Card on Iron Will, upgrading it to grant a Mental cap increase and keep his Sanity and Mental above zero.
• Yang Yi tested Madness (+) through Wolf Transformation, gaining combat boosts and provoking Cui Xiya to suspect he believed in the Great Blasphemer.
• Su Na enhanced Witch’s Blood, increasing her Mental cap and making each point of Mental raise her Sanity cap.

Yang Yi enlisted Cui Xiya to make a statue of the Great Blasphemer by claiming it would earn her a blessing, while he created a more elaborate stone statue himself. After paying Cui Xiya 1,000 Conch Coins, he sent both statues to Ma Dabao to copy and planned to post them on the forum.

• After breakfast, Yang Yi caught Cui Xiya sneaking under his shirt, and she mistook his belly slit for a sign that the Great Blasphemer had blessed him.
• Yang Yi told Cui Xiya that making a statue could connect her to the Great Blasphemer, so she began carving one while he made a stone statue coated with crushed Long-Legged Sardines and charred it with fire.
• Cui Xiya finished a wolf-headed wooden statue resembling the Great Blasphemer and saw Yang Yi's larger, bone-limbed stone statue take shape.
• Yang Yi paid Cui Xiya 1,000 Conch Coins, and she realized he had tricked her into doing the work.
• That night, Yang Yi sent photos of both statues to Ma Dabao, then traded him the statues so he could copy them.

Yang Yi sold Su Na’s Cyclops-derived injections and discovered that reading Limb Spider's Book (Part One) had disrupted her ability to understand and speak normally. Su Na’s language began recovering through her moving body patterns, and Yang Yi left the Laboratory with the remaining injections.

• Yang Yi set prices for Su Na’s Abnormal Muscle Growth Agent and Super Adrenaline, then sold one dose of each to Shen Guanquan for 47,800 Conch Coins including shipping.
• Su Na struggled to study the incomplete alchemy text and read Limb Spider's Book (Part One), using up its final reading.
• Yang Yi entered the Laboratory and realized that Su Na had temporarily lost her ability to use language.
• Su Na used gestures to understand Yang Yi’s request and gave him the available injections from the freezer.
• Su Na’s body patterns formed a threatening message on her cheek as her language ability began to recover, and Yang Yi left with the injections.

Su Na created a spell that let her rearrange her own writing and drawings, while Yang Yi learned why the Death Plague was feared despite making its victims unable to die. He was warned to stay away from the Death Plague Sea, where the plague remained contained.

• Su Na created Live Specimens Text, a spell that let her rearrange text and drawings she had made herself.
• Five days passed at sea without wind, waves, suspicious ships, or major incidents, while the Player Forum added an offline Electronic Library.
• Yang Yi browsed the library, found no copy of Hot Siren Paradise, and reread his uploaded book about diagnosing the Death Plague.
• Cui Xiya told Yang Yi that Death Plague victims could not die and that immortality was already common through many means in their world.
• Cui Xiya explained that universal inability to die would consume the world's resources and destroy its order, causing Yang Yi to lose 10 Sanity.
• Cui Xiya said the Deathbirth Society had contained the plague in the Death Plague Sea, warned Yang Yi to avoid it, and explained that variant diseases could be cured by killing their first infected patient.

Yang Yi and the Nightmare Star fought off a Fishman attack while a fleet of Indigenous ships closed in. As the Fishmen began damaging the ship from underwater, Yang Yi prepared to send the Skeletal House Mice after them.

• Yang Yi caught a huge Bristle-Flagellum Pipefish, then killed a Fishman Knight and its mount when they rammed the Nightmare Star.
• Yang Yi and the Xiaoji Robot fought the boarding Fishmen as the Sea Chart revealed nearly a hundred Indigenous ships approaching.
• Yang Yi chose to hold position and turned the Nightmare Star’s cannons toward the approaching fleet.
• Su Na used Animated Weaponry to help drive the Fishmen from the deck, but they began attacking the hull from underwater.
• Yang Yi handed the helm to Su Na and raised the Rat King Skull, intending to use the swimming Skeletal House Mice against the Fishmen.

Yang Yi repelled the Fishmen attacking the Nightmare Star and discovered that a fleet was approaching. He prepared the crew for a naval battle, then spotted Half-Fishmen aboard the enemy ships.

• Yang Yi summoned a Skeleton Rat Swarm that devastated the attacking Fishmen, while Xiaoji blasted Fishman Knights who surfaced.
• Yang Yi took Cui Xiya underwater to follow the retreating Fishmen and learned that a fleet was approaching the Nightmare Star.
• Yang Yi and Cui Xiya returned to the ship, where he examined a Fishman Big Shot’s severed arm and confirmed the enemy fleet was closing in.
• Yang Yi met with Su Na, Xiaoji, and Cui Xiya to assign battle roles and prepare the Nightmare Star for the approaching fleet.
• Yang Yi spotted a fleet of 107 dilapidated ships, including five small Ironclad Ships, and saw Half-Fishmen aboard them.

Yang Yi and Su Na discovered a fleet of Fishmen and Half-Fishmen approaching the Nightmare Star and traced its likely origin to Cook Island. Yang Yi launched an underwater ambush, and the chapter ended as he and Cui Xiya boarded the enemy flagship and battle began.

• Yang Yi and Su Na observed a fleet of 107 ships crewed by Fishmen and Half-Fishmen approaching the Nightmare Star.
• Yang Yi spotted a circular island about 1,300 nautical miles away and suspected it was Cook Island.
• Yang Yi told Su Na about the island and decided to ambush the fleet before visiting it.
• The fleet reached the Nightmare Star's former position, and its leader realized the ship was missing.
• Yang Yi surfaced beneath the flagship with Cui Xiya, prompting the fleet to identify him as an enemy and attack.
• Yang Yi evaded the incoming weapons and boarded the flagship with Cui Xiya.

Yang Yi used weapons and a calculated ambush by the Nightmare Star to defeat the Fishmen and Half-Fishmen fleet. The battle ended with the surviving enemies fleeing and Yang Yi planning to head to nearby Cook Island.

• Yang Yi set enemy ships ablaze with the Flame Serpent's Fang, damaged others with Laser Grenades, and fought off attackers with his shield and greatsword.
• The Half-Fishman leader fled with the Light Container but was caught by Bone Arms when the Nightmare Star appeared from the Twilight Veil.
• The fleet fired its cannons at Yang Yi, who survived behind the Ice Crystal Great Shield in Tower Shield Mode and signaled Su Na to attack.
• Su Na, Xiaoji, and the Nightmare Star's weapons devastated the enemy fleet, while Skeleton Rats, arms, and vines deterred boarding attempts.
• The battle ended after about thirty minutes, with many ships sunk or destroyed; Yang Yi chose not to pursue the survivors and reflected on the Waterlogged Cannons' unpredictable ammunition.

After assessing the Nightmare Star’s minor damage, Yang Yi gathered the defeated ships while Su Na interrogated the captured Fishmen. The Half-Fishman leader revealed how Cook Island’s decline led its chief to transform villagers into Fishmen, and Su Na began examining him despite his plea for mercy.

• Yang Yi and Su Na assessed the Nightmare Star’s damage and found that only two Waterlogged Cannons and a small amount of supplies had been lost.
• Yang Yi used the Grappling Hook and Fishing Net to gather the defeated ships and salvage their wreckage and floating supplies.
• Su Na restrained the Half-Fishman leader, his brother, and a Fishman Big Shot in the Witch Laboratory and questioned them.
• The Half-Fishman leader explained that Cook Island’s declining population and resources had driven its chief to propose a Transformation Ritual that turned villagers into Fishmen.
• Su Na told the leader she had never promised to spare him and cut into the boundary between his human and fish halves.

Yang Yi salvaged and secured the defeated fleet, then searched its ships for supplies and hidden survivors. He began claiming the captured vessels and discovered that Sea Squirt Sour Juice came from Cook Island, a giant living sea squirt.

• Yang Yi, Cui Xiya, and Xiaoji recovered wreckage and supplies while Xiaoji searched the gathered ships for survivors.
• After five hours, Yang Yi finished gathering the wreckage and ships, tallied the salvaged materials, and gave Cui Xiya 5,000 Conch Coins.
• Yang Yi boarded the fleet’s largest ship with Cui Xiya and Xiaoji, which reported finding and eliminating five hidden Fishmen.
• Yang Yi began searching and claiming the seventy-four captured ships, recovering barrels of food and Sea Squirt Sour Juice.
• Yang Yi learned that Cook Island was a giant living sea squirt and that its inhabitants’ teeth had been damaged by drinking its sour juice.

Yang Yi finished inventorying the battlefield’s salvage and began processing the haul, including using Fishman corpses for Gacha. He obtained a treasured Big Fishman Headpiece and planned to check on Su Na before continuing preparations to sail for Cook Island.

• Yang Yi tallied the salvaged supplies and left Xiaoji to dismantle the ships in batches so he could sell the materials and head for Cook Island.
• Yang Yi priced his collected equipment for sale, while Cui Xiya asked for and received a Miniature Revolver, then practiced shooting it on deck.
• Yang Yi counted the Fishman corpses, food, and roughly 130,000 Conch Coins, and estimated that processing the haul would take about three days.
• Yang Yi fed scraps from the Fishman corpses into the Octopus-Man Gacha Machine and received supply chests, a Fishman Language Dictionary Manual, Fishman Scale Soft Armor, and a treasured Big Fishman Headpiece.
• Yang Yi planned to visit Su Na in the Laboratory after doing some Gacha, while keeping his plan to scan for Cook Island before sailing there.

Yang Yi tested a new Fishman headpiece while Su Na examined the remains of Half-Fishmen and found evidence they had eaten cooked human tissue. As the Nightmare Star prepared for its voyage to Cook Island, Yang Yi put Cui Xiya in charge of using the corpse-powered Gacha Machine and checked his store after the World Chat Channel opened, where he noticed a new Store Ranking.

• Yang Yi entered Su Na's laboratory wearing a Big Fishman Headpiece, explained its underwater-breathing ability, and learned that Su Na had found human tissue in the Half-Fishmen's stomachs.
• Su Na explained that the Half-Fishmen were incomplete Fishman transformations and suspected their cannibalism was connected to the transformation ritual.
• Yang Yi praised Cui Xiya's shooting practice, then explained the Gacha Machine and gave her permission to exchange the Fishman corpses for draws.
• Cui Xiya began using the Gacha Machine while Yang Yi entered the Captain's Quarters to read and wait for the World Chat Channel to open.
• Yang Yi checked his online store after the channel opened and noticed that a Store Ranking had appeared in the trading section.

Yang Yi browsed the shop rankings, bought supplies and crafting stones from Shen Guanquan and He Qi, and sold most of the seized equipment and ships. After three days of trading and dismantling, he confirmed Cook Island’s coordinates and prepared the fully repaired Nightmare Star to depart.

• Yang Yi found One-Eye's Fine General Store ranked ninth, then bought peanut oil, special crops, cigars, and tea from Shen Guanquan for 110,000 Conch Coins.
• Yang Yi bought five Low-Tier Artisan Inscribed Stones from He Qi’s Angler's Home for 420,000 Conch Coins.
• Yang Yi sold equipment and supplies during trading hours, earning 980,000 Conch Coins, including 20,000 for the Fishman Language dictionary sold to the Great Newspaper.
• Over the next three days, Yang Yi’s balance reached 4,782,787 Conch Coins as the seized equipment and dismantled ships were sold.
• After lunch with the Nightmare Star’s crew, Yang Yi used his skill at the Lookout to locate Cook Island and confirmed the ship was repaired and ready to set out.