Recaps

Yang Yi and Su Na landed on Crystal Island, an artificial structure where Xiaoji detected multiple life-forms hidden about ten meters below the surface. They entered a warehouse-like building and found it empty, leaving the source of the underground life-signs unresolved.

• Yang Yi brought the Nightmare Star toward Crystal Island after probing the coast, and Xiaoji detected multiple life-forms beneath the island.
• Yang Yi docked at the pier, and he and Su Na prepared to explore while Xiaoji stayed aboard the Nightmare Star.
• Yang Yi and Su Na discovered that the island and pier were artificial structures covered by Crystalline Disease.
• Yang Yi smashed through the nearest building's crystal gate with Supreme Holy Slash, and he and Su Na entered the empty warehouse.

Yang Yi and Su Na explored an abandoned Deathbirth Society base on Crystal Island, hoping to find clues about the Death Plague. They uncovered Black Crow Guards infected with Proliferative Disease, and Yang Yi shot one as it broke free from its crystal coffin.

• Yang Yi and Su Na followed House Mice underground after the creatures found unidentified life-forms.
• Su Na spotted the Deathbirth Society emblem on a wall and identified the ruins as one of its abandoned forward bases.
• Yang Yi and Su Na followed the pounding to a room containing crystal coffins and found maintenance instructions for Black Crow Guards.
• Su Na explained that the coffins held people infected with Proliferative Disease as several guards began breaking free.
• Yang Yi shot off a Black Crow Guard's arm, but it rapidly regrew more limbs and burst out of its coffin.
• The Black Crow Guard charged Yang Yi, who shot it in the head.

Yang Yi and Su Na fought the mutated Black Crow Guards in the crystal coffin room, using the Salt Bow and Su Na’s magic to stop them. Su Na’s Energy Singularity spell went out of control, and Yang Yi carried her out as the sphere exploded.

• A Black Crow Guard regenerated after Yang Yi tore him apart, and Su Na learned that temperatures above 1,000 degrees could kill the creatures permanently.
• Su Na used the Salt Bow to turn the Black Crow Guard into salt, while fourteen more guards broke free from their crystal coffins.
• A guard scattered Smelling Salts at Yang Yi and Su Na, but Yang Yi inhaled the powders and resisted their effects.
• Su Na cast Energy Singularity, extracting heat from the room and freezing the Black Crow Guards in place.
• Su Na warned that the spell could explode, so Yang Yi carried her out and shut the door before the sphere detonated.

Yang Yi and Su Na survived an explosion that collapsed much of the island, and Xiaoji dug them out with help from crystal House Mice. After Su Na treated her crystallizing leg, they prepared to explore the intact part of the island using information recovered from a Black Crow Guard.

• Yang Yi shielded Su Na from the explosion, and they were trapped beneath collapsed crystal rubble.
• Xiaoji detected signs of life, dug through the wreckage, and rescued Yang Yi and Su Na with help from crystal House Mice.
• Yang Yi asked the House Mice to search for Black Crow Guards, while Su Na discovered that crystallization had impaired her right leg.
• Su Na removed crystal fragments from her leg with her Witch's Dagger and regained limited mobility.
• Yang Yi gave Su Na a charred Black Crow Guard skull fragment, which revealed that the Deathbirth Society mass-produced the guards using proliferative disease and required them to undergo regular maintenance.

Yang Yi, Su Na, and Xiaoji explored the underground base and discovered that it had been assembled from four large ships with repeating layouts. They found Black Crow Guard equipment and a Deathbirth Society stabilizer whose label revealed the Society’s death plague grading system.

• Su Na identified the Black Crow Guards as ghouls infected with proliferative disease, and Yang Yi sent crystal House Mice to search for their remains.
• Yang Yi, Su Na, and Xiaoji entered another building and searched its underground levels, salvaging crystallized furniture while Xiaoji mapped the base.
• Xiaoji explained that the base consisted of four large ships with nearly identical layouts and the ability to separate and move independently.
• The group found intact Black Crow Guard maintenance containers that compressed the guards into shape.
• Su Na discovered a bottle of Death Plague Stabilizer and deciphered part of its label, which ranked diseases by patients’ resistance to death rather than by harmfulness or transmissibility.

Yang Yi and Su Na tested the Death Plague Stabilizer, which temporarily eased Su Na’s Crystalline Disease but caused severe damage and drug resistance. The group explored the base’s workrooms and medical floor, where they found crystallized equipment and headless ghoul corpses.

• Yang Yi drank half the stabilizer to test its toxicity, then warned Su Na that it was poisonous to those without the Death Plague.
• Su Na injected herself with 100 ml of the stabilizer, reducing her Crystalline Disease from moderate to mild while suffering pain and tissue damage.
• Su Na saved the remaining stabilizer as a reference sample, and the group continued exploring the second floor.
• Yang Yi found crystallized Black Crow Guard weapons, damaged protective gear, and canned human meat, leading him to suspect the Deathbirth Society was founded by ghouls.
• The group explored the third floor’s medical and experimental rooms and found crystallized corpses of ghouls whose heads had been removed.

Yang Yi discovered that crystallized Ghoul corpses and a captured Indigenous People base ship could yield thousands of crystal diamonds, then prepared to recycle nearby wrecks and corpses before exploring Crystal Island. He obtained several items from Black Crow Guard remains, including a tactical belt of dangerous Smelling Salts, and planned to deal with the island’s Crystal Source after maximizing his gains.

• Yang Yi found that crystallized Ghoul corpses could be recycled into crystal diamonds, and Su Na confirmed that Crystal Island held many living statues, including Otherworldly Demons.
• Yang Yi and Su Na received notice that they had captured a crystallized Four-Ship Base Ship, which could yield crystal and crystal diamonds when dismantled.
• Yang Yi postponed exploring inland and planned to recycle nearby ships and corpses, build the Expansion Buildings, and then confront the Crystal Source.
• Yang Yi, Xiaoji, and crystallized House Mice hauled Ghoul corpses and Black Crow Guard fragments to the dock while Su Na returned to the Nightmare Star.
• Yang Yi used the Black Crow Guard remains for Gacha draws and obtained a Smelling Salts Tactical Belt, two black Longswords, and a bottle of Death Plague Stabilizer.

Yang Yi used crystallized ghoul heads for five gacha pulls, receiving a plague suit, a questionable disinfection machine, and a dangerous Corpse-Eating Cult manual. After resisting its ghoul-transformation spell and learning Human Cooking Techniques, he hid the book and set out to recover crystal diamonds and dismantle nearby islands.

• Yang Yi used five crystallized ghoul heads in the Octopus-Head Gacha Machine and received a Death Plague suit, a shoulder-mounted disinfection machine, and the Corpse-Eating Cult Introductory Manual.
• Su Na suggested the disinfectant worked through the placebo effect and warned that panic could worsen Death Plague infections.
• Yang Yi read the manual, learned Human Cooking Techniques, and resisted its Wendigo's Banquet spell without transforming into a ghoul.
• Yang Yi decided to give Su Na the book after the current crisis, but hid it in the captain's quarters because her Sanity was too low.
• Yang Yi promised Cui Xiya a daily prison allowance and gave her novels, then dismantled the base ship and sailed along the coastline to search for more ships or islands to recycle.

Yang Yi gathered Crystal Diamonds from living statues and abandoned ships near Crystal Island, then built the Crystal Cabin aboard the Nightmare Star. He planned to spend ten more days collecting treasure before exploring deeper into the island for the source of crystallization.

• Yang Yi and Xiaoji searched Crystal Island, and Yang Yi shot apart statues that could not be salvaged for Crystal Diamonds.
• Yang Yi collected Crystal Diamonds from statues with the Grappling Hook while the crystal mice searched nearby ships.
• The crystal mice found another Deathbirth Society transport ship filled with corpses, and Yang Yi decided to focus on gathering wealth for ten days before exploring the island's interior.
• Yang Yi gathered eighty thousand Crystal Diamonds and built the Crystal Cabin, which could use ship models to disguise the Nightmare Star and grant it some modeled ship functions.
• Yang Yi considered making models of ships he had seen, including the Iron Will, the Radiant Goddess Ship, and the Shelter.

Yang Yi learned what was required to upgrade the Nightmare Star and began selling crystal diamonds, while a forum poll stirred up speculation about the strongest player. The Player of the Year announcement named the obscure Lord Abu, leaving players furious and confused.

• Yang Yi discovered that upgrading the Nightmare Star required Legendary Creature remains and noted that a Legendary Creature had an attribute above 30.
• Yang Yi published a bulk crystal-diamond sale and listed a crystallized sawfish spear in his shop.
• Yang Yi posted his discovery about Legendary Creatures on the forum, where a popular Player of the Year selection overshadowed it.
• Shen Guanquan bought 40,000 crystal diamonds from Yang Yi at a discount, and preorders soon filled Yang Yi's Warehouse sales for four days.
• Brother-in-Law announced that Lord Abu, captain of the Eden, had won Player of the Year, prompting players to ask who Abu was.

Yang Yi investigated the Eden fleet’s suspected ability to control players and warned his allies to stay vigilant while preparing to upgrade the Nightmare Star. The chapter ended with him unable to reach Cui Xiya because she was in a special state.

• Yang Yi suspected the Eden fleet’s abilities were connected to Beautiful Dream and grew wary of its captain.
• The Great Newspaper announced that Eden had infiltrated it and could remotely control players, prompting Yang Yi to suspect Song Yingwen’s account had been taken over.
• Yang Yi stopped replying to Song Yingwen and warned powerful fleet leaders, his Order’s Deputy Cult Leader, and Su Na about Eden.
• Yang Yi sold Crystal Diamond, prepared materials for the Nightmare Star’s level-six upgrade, and accumulated 27.49 million Conch Coins.
• Yang Yi tried to ask Cui Xiya about the possible Giant Knight on Crystal Island, but his message could not be delivered because she was in a special state.

Yang Yi discovered that Cui Xiya’s Crystalline Disease had reached its terminal stage and decided to go ashore early, while new heartbeats from Crystal Island and Su Na’s worsening condition added urgency. Su Na also shared evidence that the Giant Knight was an artificial life-form and suspected the Radiant Holy Church was concealing advanced knowledge.

• Yang Yi found that Cui Xiya’s Crystalline Disease had reached the terminal stage, leaving her unable to perceive the outside world, and decided to move up his plans to go ashore.
• Yang Yi discovered Su Na using an infusion pump to receive Death Plague Stabilizer, then both felt powerful heartbeats and heard them coming from Crystal Island.
• Xiaoji detected a tiny earthquake deep inside Crystal Island, and Su Na said something alive and enormous there was immune to Crystalline Disease.
• Yang Yi told Su Na about the terminal stage, and she revealed that her own Crystalline Disease was nearing the severe stage and her right foot had crystallized.
• Su Na explained that the Giant Knight appeared to be an artificial life-form and suspected the Radiant Holy Church was hiding advanced biotechnology and suppressing knowledge.
• Yang Yi planned to claim and dismantle the gathered ships before going ashore the next day or the day after.

Yang Yi and Su Na claimed a fleet of crystal-covered indigenous ships, then Yang Yi set out alone for Crystal Island. He left Su Na to dismantle the ships and walked deeper into the island, resolved to confront the Giant Knight.

• Yang Yi gathered more than thirty indigenous ships and boarded them with Su Na and Cui Xiya to claim them.
• Su Na showed Yang Yi that the Giant Knight’s hand was harder than the Penitent Armor, and Yang Yi said he would deal with him.
• After twelve hours, Yang Yi received 137,924 units of crystal and 27,952 units of crystal diamonds from the claimed ships.
• Yang Yi asked Su Na to dismantle the ships in batches and left Xiaoji to help her manage the excess resources.
• Yang Yi sailed to Crystal Island, crossed the shallows, and walked deeper into the island as the Nightmare Star returned.

Yang Yi crossed Crystal Island toward the mountain where he believed the Giant Knight was, preparing to fight while uncovering the island’s origins. He found a colossal head embedded in the mountain beneath a crystallized dome and urgently told Su Na to take the Nightmare Star away from the falling crystal particles.

• Yang Yi sped inland on the Ice Crystal Great Shield, told Su Na not to send Xiaoji or approach, and prepared Explosive Flame Bottles for a possible attack on the Giant Knight.
• Yang Yi noticed Cui Xiya’s Sanity had risen to 49 and that her Madness State had changed from despair to frenzy.
• Yang Yi found layers of crystallized creatures beneath the island and deduced that sea life had spread Crystalline Disease, forming the mountain from the seabed.
• Yang Yi felt a powerful heartbeat that caused searing pain and knocked him down, then saw a nearly three-hundred-meter human head embedded in the mountain beneath a crystallized dome.
• Yang Yi sent Su Na a picture and ordered her to take the Nightmare Star away from Crystal Island until it was clear of falling crystal particles.

Yang Yi tracked the Giant Knight’s heartbeat through the mountain and discovered a Deathbirth Society research base buried nearby. He planned to search it for useful records, but the crystallized ground was too hard to dig through.

• Yang Yi used Three Eyes to locate the Giant Knight’s heartbeat and advanced toward its source while restoring his stamina with food.
• Yang Yi spotted a buried Deathbirth Society research base and sent Su Na a photo of its symbol.
• Su Na urged Yang Yi to enter the base and retrieve anything valuable, suggesting he store it in his stomach.
• Yang Yi began digging toward the base with the Broken Iron Greatsword, but the ground barely yielded to his blows.

Yang Yi tried to remove a statue’s arm to use in a spell, but discovered that the statue could speak and that its bones were extraordinarily hard. After learning that Norton was a legendary creature, Yang Yi abandoned his plan to dig underground and decided to replace his own limbs to raise his attributes before facing the Giant Knight.

• Yang Yi inspected the statues and chose Norton, Champion of the Horned People, as a source of spell components.
• Yang Yi repeatedly struck Norton’s statue, heard its voice and other voices around him, and lost over ten points of Sanity.
• Yang Yi used surgical techniques to remove Norton’s right arm and learned that its strength was 35 and its agility was 21.
• Yang Yi realized Norton was a legendary creature and that the Giant Knight might be even stronger.
• Yang Yi abandoned his plan to use limb explosions to dig underground and decided to replace his limbs to improve his attributes.

Yang Yi used Limb Restoration Spell to graft a powerful arm from the Horned Champion and a swift lower body from a Silver Centaur, while the Maw of Gluttony’s voices threatened his Sanity. After recovering with crystallized tea leaves and cigars, he continued searching the statues for more limbs to prepare for the Giant Knight.

• Yang Yi attached the Horned Champion’s modified right arm, which gained strength and could fire movable horns.
• The graft’s voices drove Yang Yi’s Sanity down to 31, so he fed crystallized tea leaves and cigars to the Maw of Gluttony and recovered to 47.
• Yang Yi smashed a living statue and harvested the lower half of a Silver Centaur for another graft.
• Yang Yi used Limb Restoration Spell to attach the mutated Silver Centaur’s lower body, gaining speed, jumping ability, and the ability to run on water briefly.
• Yang Yi adjusted to galloping on his new body and continued searching the statues for another useful limb.

Yang Yi grafted a Burrowing Dragon Lizard's tail and an Evil Eye's eyeball onto his body, gaining powerful digging and vision abilities. After raising every attribute except Spirit to 30, he advanced to legendary status and received the title "Fool."

• Yang Yi cut off the Burrowing Dragon Lizard's crystalline tail and grafted it onto his chest.
• Yang Yi dug up an Evil Eye's eyeball, attached it to his left shoulder, and gained enhanced perception and searing-beam attacks.
• Yang Yi's new eyeball let him see colors, magnify distant views, and monitor his surroundings without blind spots.
• A notification confirmed that Yang Yi had advanced to legendary status and received the title "Fool" after meeting its attribute prerequisite.
• Yang Yi checked his panel and found that his attributes had broken past 30 and his attribute growth experience requirement had been halved.

Yang Yi entered the Deathbirth Society’s abandoned base beneath Crystal Island and searched its records for information about the Giant Knight. He found evidence that the crystal pillar had risen from accumulated marine life, along with experimental Death Plague Stabilizer, and continued into the archive room to seek more answers.

• Yang Yi used his Burrowing Dragon Lizard’s Tail to dig through the crystal roof and break into the base.
• Yang Yi read records describing Crystalline Disease and a rapidly growing crystal pillar, confirming that accumulated marine life had pushed the Giant Knight upward.
• Yang Yi found and stored more than eighty vials of experimental Death Plague Stabilizer, which he considered selling to Yu Dawei.
• Yang Yi searched the base, collected fingers from dead Black Crow Guards for Gacha, and entered the archive room to look for information about the Giant Knight.

Yang Yi searched the Deathbirth Society’s archives and learned how its decades-long efforts to study Crystalline Disease had traced the Crystal Source deep inside the Crystal Pillar. He discovered that the source was a Polluter with a bizarre mutated heart, and the final log revealed that the source had risen toward the surface as the Society’s researchers fled its dangerous heartbeat.

• Yang Yi’s Evil Eye scanned the archive logs, which described the Crystal Pillar’s growth, the spread of Crystalline Disease, and the Society’s attempts to contain its source.
• Yang Yi read that probes had detected a living creature’s heartbeat more than two thousand kilometers inside the pillar and that the sound was linked to the Crystal Source.
• Yang Yi uncovered a crystallized illustration showing a nearly statue-like, armless man with an enormous, abnormal heart.
• Yang Yi used Three Eyes to confirm that the illustrated heart was a mutated organ, positioned on the right side of the man’s body and lacking ordinary chambers and blood vessels.
• Yang Yi read that modified Black Crow Guards with sixty hearts had located the Crystal Source at roughly three thousand kilometers deep and that the Polluter had come up toward them, forcing an evacuation.

Yang Yi learned that the Giant Knight was a Polluter with a mutated heart and found records showing that the Deathbirth Society’s attempt to contain him had failed. As the Giant Knight began to awaken, Yang Yi realized his own heart was beating inside his chest despite having left it on the ship, and heard crystal shatter nearby.

• Yang Yi told Su Na that the Giant Knight was a Polluter and sent her the research materials he had found.
• Yang Yi read the archive logs, which revealed that the Deathbirth Society had lured powerful people to Crystal Island to fight the Crystal Source, but the plan had failed.
• The Giant Knight’s heartbeat grew stronger, stirring the Living Statues and causing Su Na and Xiaoji to sense a disturbance from the Nightmare Star.
• Su Na tried to contact Yang Yi and prepared to return to the island when his sanity plunged, but he replied that he had left his heart aboard the ship.
• Yang Yi discovered that a burning-hot heart was beating inside his chest, and heard crystal shatter in the distance.

Yang Yi discovered that his new Burning Heart consumed fuel to boost his Strength while risking his Constitution, and he used Molotov cocktails to enter its overheated state. He survived the Giant Knight’s Supreme Holy Slash and identified the knight’s Giant’s Heart, which pumped blood through his crystallized body and formed replacement limbs.

• Yang Yi’s Pollution Depth reached 43%, awakening the Burning Heart, which began consuming the Horned Champion’s fingers as fuel and engulfed him in flames.
• Yang Yi calmed the Maw of Gluttony and fed Molotov cocktails into his chest, increasing his Strength while reducing his Constitution.
• Yang Yi sensed an incoming attack and used the Burrowing Dragon Lizard’s Ice Crystal Great Shield in Tower Shield Mode, but the Giant Knight’s Holy Light sliced through the shield and severed the lizard’s tail.
• Yang Yi dodged just enough to avoid being cut in half and saw the Giant Knight’s beating heart pump blood through its body, forming replacement hands and feet.
• Three Eyes identified the knight’s organ as a Giant’s Heart, which could disturb nearby hearts and strengthen its host by circulating blood through its body.

Yang Yi fought the Giant Knight, using a severed arm’s explosion to crack his enemy’s body before donning the Penitent Armor. As the Giant Knight appeared before him, the armor’s remnant soul awakened and filled Yang Yi with hatred.

• Yang Yi used Roaring Mode to break the Giant Knight’s bone blade, then charged in and sacrificed his right arm to set up an explosion.
• The Limb Explosion Spell blasted Yang Yi toward the Crystal Pillar and scattered the Giant Knight’s blood-formed body, leaving cracks in his chest.
• Yang Yi realized explosions could damage the Giant Knight and checked his declining Constitution and rising Strength as the Burning Heart’s heat worsened.
• Yang Yi put on the Penitent Armor, activating the Oath of Atonement and allowing the Forsworn Soul to invade his consciousness.
• The remnant soul cursed the Giant Knight, who hesitated at the armor’s gray light before appearing directly in front of Yang Yi.

Yang Yi fought the Giant Knight while the Maw of Gluttony became frenzied and slipped out of his control. He used Oathbreaker Slash to cut off the Giant Knight’s blood-made fist, leaving the knight collapsed and trembling on the ground.

• The Giant Knight struck Yang Yi with Supreme Holy Slash, but Yang Yi blocked it with the Broken Iron Greatsword and lost most of his left arm.
• Yang Yi pressed his attack with Flame Projection and Evil Eye beams, but the Giant Knight threw his broken sword and punched through Yang Yi’s armor.
• The Maw of Gluttony bit into the Giant Knight’s blood-filled arm, entered a frenzy, and dragged Yang Yi toward him as Yang Yi lost absolute control over it.
• Yang Yi stopped resisting the Maw of Gluttony and joined its charge, using Oathbreaker Slash to sever the Giant Knight’s blood-made right fist.
• The Giant Knight’s limbs of blood collapsed after the slash, and he fell trembling as Yang Yi taunted him about the pain.

Yang Yi’s attempt to defeat the Giant Knight by feeding its heart to the Maw of Gluttony awakened the knight’s true blood-bodied form, which repeatedly crushed Yang Yi. With only minutes left before his protection expired, Yang Yi sent Su Na a final message and prepared to use his last trump card.

• Yang Yi intensified his flames and attacked the fallen Giant Knight while the Maw of Gluttony sucked blood from the knight’s heart.
• The Giant Knight’s chest shattered, and his heart emerged to form a towering body made entirely of blood.
• The Giant Knight struck Yang Yi with a massive blood fist, triggering his Refuse Death passive and reducing his Qi and Blood to 1.
• The Giant Knight stomped Yang Yi and the Maw of Gluttony repeatedly, but the Maw kept emerging and continued stealing spilled blood.
• Yang Yi messaged Su Na to stay away and told her that the red stone was in Xiaoji’s eye socket, then decided to use his final trump card.