Recaps

After completing the entrance exam, Yang Yi examined the strange university’s rules and his own damaged condition. He planned to seek materials in the medical technology building’s Morgue to restore his missing limbs.

• Yang Yi left the admissions building, convinced that submitting his exam before other examinees arrived had secured him first place.
• Yang Yi noticed threads connecting the old man and other figures to an unseen controller, while uniformed students mistook him for an escaped test subject.
• Yang Yi read his student handbook and learned that he ranked first, had 100 credits, and faced a comprehensive graduation exam in 96 days.
• Yang Yi reviewed his status and abilities, noting his near-full pollution depth, low stamina, and severely incomplete body.
• Yang Yi chose the Morgue in the medical technology building as a possible source of materials to repair his body.

Yang Yi found Su Na at Miskatonic University and explained how he had enrolled with a blank exam paper. After learning that Su Na had extensive academic rankings but placed 134th in physical education, he saw a possible way to earn credits.

• Mentor Michelin restored the Admissions Building and decided to close the loophole that had let Yang Yi enroll in first place with zero points.
• Yang Yi asked students if they knew a senior surnamed Su, then found Su Na near the Medical Technology Building.
• Su Na brought Yang Yi to her laboratory and questioned him about his status before checking his student handbook.
• Yang Yi explained how he had entered the university, and Su Na reacted with disbelief when she heard he had burned down the Admissions Building and scored zero on the exam.
• Yang Yi checked Su Na's rankings and noticed she placed 134th in physical education, which he saw as a chance to earn credits.

Yang Yi and Su Na visited the university Morgue, where they found the recently deceased Charles and discussed whether to remain at Miskatonic University. Yang Yi rejected the idea of staying and urged Su Na to leave with him.

• Su Na explained that students who lost their passion for learning could apply for the university's death service, which reclaimed their knowledge and sent their bodies to the Morgue.
• Su Na brought Yang Yi to the Morgue, where they bought a healthy human corpse from Professor Amanda.
• Yang Yi and Su Na recognized the corpse as Charles, who had died within the past ten minutes.
• Su Na suggested they stay at the university and focus on studying, but Yang Yi warned that Charles could be their fate.
• Yang Yi attached Charles's arms and legs to himself with magic, then asked Su Na to leave the university with him.

Yang Yi persuaded Su Na that they could win the graduation exam by preventing the other candidates from taking it, giving him a possible way to graduate. After Su Na left for class, Yang Yi explored the university and registered for several practical courses.

• Yang Yi proposed keeping the other candidates out of the exam hall or killing them so he and Su Na could take first place, and Su Na agreed to try the plan.
• Yang Yi suffered a headache from the Spirit Potion's side effects, then asked Su Na about her Pollution Depth and mutation; she avoided answering and left for class.
• Yang Yi left the Laboratory, tested the Course Registration System, and learned that many courses had very few students.
• Yang Yi registered for courses including Physical Education, Boxing, Weapon Fighting, Shooting, and Blacksmithing.

Yang Yi explored Miskatonic University, collected a student uniform, and discovered the cafeteria’s unlimited meal plan was a bargain. When he tested the campus boundary by digging into the ground, Mentor Michelin stopped him and handed him the student rules, warning that he could lose credits for breaking them.

• Yang Yi reviewed the university’s credit-heavy courses and hidden classes before exploring the campus in his broken Transformation Belt.
• Yang Yi collected a student uniform, drank free nutritional paste, and bought a basic meal card for unlimited cafeteria food.
• Yang Yi traveled to the campus edge and found that he could not move beyond its spatial boundary.
• Yang Yi tested the boundary with his Greatsword, then dug a pit to investigate what lay beneath the ground.
• Mentor Michelin appeared, warned Yang Yi that his actions could cost credits, restored the ground, and gave him the student rules.

Yang Yi adapted to Miskatonic University’s new conduct rules by pretending to become a diligent student while planning his next move. At Physical Education, his natural strength and stamina exceeded the course requirements, so the teacher passed him immediately.

• Yang Yi noticed that the university had added rules against public nudity and damaging the grounds after his recent actions, and found the same rules in the Student Handbook.
• Su Na confronted Yang Yi about the new Student Code of Conduct, and he secretly sent her a coded message explaining that the university monitored students and that he planned to act within the existing rules.
• Yang Yi spent the night considering his options, then jogged cheerfully to his morning Physical Education class.
• Yang Yi heard other students discuss the demanding graduation tests and joined six students as the teacher assigned a punishing series of exercises.
• Yang Yi completed the run and began jumping rope at extraordinary speed, so the teacher determined his natural attributes already met the requirements and passed him.

Yang Yi rapidly earned credits by completing courses and planned to tackle increasingly difficult hidden classes. His first Unrestricted Combat lesson began with the instructor testing him using a trap, a wooden sword, and a blank-firing gun.

• Yang Yi passed advanced Boxing by overpowering the instructor, then completed several other advanced courses and earned extra credits for his sculpture.
• Yang Yi discovered new hidden courses, including God Statue Sculpting, Greatsword Technique, and Gun-Fu, and planned how to spend his remaining credits.
• Yang Yi’s paintings disturbed students, leading the university to ban painting disgusting pictures in public and provide him with a private studio.
• Yang Yi received a note announcing Unrestricted Combat and went to the park for the lesson.
• The old instructor tried to ambush Yang Yi with a smoke bomb, then attacked with a wooden sword and fired a blank, scolding Yang Yi for watching the sword instead of anticipating the gun.

Yang Yi studied Teacher Sun’s unrestricted combat and spent a month and a half advancing through demanding courses at the school. After finally completing Teacher Sun’s course, he reviewed his improved attributes and began preparing for the graduation exam with Su Na.

• Yang Yi chose to learn Teacher Sun’s unrestricted combat and studied the manual’s unconventional tactics, which inspired his graduation-exam plans.
• Over a month and a half, Yang Yi advanced to Legendary, accumulated 1,294 credits, and completed intermediate Greatsword, basic gun-fu, and muscle courses while struggling with more advanced classes.
• Yang Yi and Su Na used armor, potions, and other tools to corner Teacher Sun during a practical lesson, and Teacher Sun accepted Yang Yi as having completed the course after he threatened to use an alchemical bomb.
• Yang Yi reviewed his base attributes and told Su Na he wanted her to secretly prepare special-effect potions for the graduation exam.

After completing Unrestricted Combat, Yang Yi considered entering the Truth Library and learned from Su Na about its powerful but dangerous effects on Sanity. Su Na revealed her Double Face mutation and Pollution Depth, and Yang Yi redeemed a bachelor's degree so he could visit the library with her the next day.

• Yang Yi discussed the Truth Library with Su Na, who described how prolonged study there had once driven her Sanity dangerously low and erased some of her knowledge.
• Yang Yi asked Su Na about her Pollution Depth and mutated organ, and she showed him the second face on the back of her head, identified as Double Face.
• Su Na explained that Double Face increased her maximum Sanity but made her more likely to lose control if she went mad, and she said frequent Truth Library visitors could emerge in despair and choose death.
• Yang Yi decided to accompany Su Na on future library visits for safety and redeemed a bachelor's degree to enter the Truth Library with her on Friday.

After earning his bachelor's degree, Yang Yi entered Miskatonic University's Truth Library for the first time, where librarian Sun Jin gave him access to a study room. The chapter left Yang Yi about to discover what the library had to offer.

• Yang Yi escaped a white-powder booby trap left by his teacher and reflected on his progress in woodworking, smithing, sculpting, and combat.
• Yang Yi reached the Truth Library and entered through its changing, unusual building after confirming he now met its bachelor's-degree requirement.
• Yang Yi tore off the library's wooden entrance door while testing it, then repaired it with a hammer.
• Yang Yi recognized the disguised librarian as Sun Jin, apologized, and asked to study in the library.
• Sun Jin gave Yang Yi a Blue Token for study room 47 and one hour of access.

Yang Yi entered Study Room No. 47 in the Truth Library and explored its unusual tower of bookshelves. He discovered that Three Eyes let him see strange fragments flowing into other students, but inhaling them himself had no effect.

• Yang Yi entered and exited the library before Old Man Sun explained that its study rooms used spatial folding technology.
• Yang Yi returned to the library and found himself in Study Room No. 47, where his reading card's timer began.
• Yang Yi examined the tower's shelves and chose Soul Craftsman, Intermediate Volume to read.
• Yang Yi saw fragments of numbers and symbols flow from books into nearby students, then tried inhaling the fragments himself.
• A nearby student asked Yang Yi to be quiet, and Yang Yi apologized while realizing the fragments did not affect him.

Yang Yi discovered that the Truth Library was made of tangible knowledge and that the Maw of Gluttony could consume it, giving him vast understanding at the cost of his sanity. After he vomited up what it had eaten, students rushed to devour the discarded knowledge, leaving the library in chaos.

• Yang Yi blamed his Fool title for making it difficult to read and prepared to leave the Truth Library.
• The Maw of Gluttony ate part of a desk, and Yang Yi suddenly understood Soul Forging and other advanced knowledge by consuming the library’s material.
• Yang Yi realized the library’s books, furniture, and drifting fragments were knowledge made tangible, but his sanity plunged as he absorbed it.
• The Maw of Gluttony vomited up the consumed books and wood, and Yang Yi recovered with 32 sanity remaining.
• A student ate the vomited knowledge and gained insight, prompting other students to eat books and desks as a commotion broke out.

Yang Yi witnessed students devour knowledge and mutate before Sun Jin stopped the rampage with a Mental Purification Ray. After waking in the infirmary, Yang Yi learned that the other students had forgotten the incident, while Sun Jin had warned him that the university was becoming unstable.

• Students began devouring books and furniture, and the first student to do so transformed into a monster.
• Sun Jin cut down the mutated student and used blue rays from the red lights to knock the others unconscious; Yang Yi was hit but remained conscious because of Madness+.
• Sun Jin confronted Yang Yi about the stolen book, then stabbed his shoulder to make him appear unconscious while discussing whether to protect or dispose of him with Mentor Michelin.
• Mentor Michelin backed down and agreed to send the students to the infirmary, and Sun Jin quietly warned Yang Yi that the university was becoming unstable.
• Yang Yi woke last in the infirmary, where the other students had forgotten much of their knowledge and the day's events before rushing back to study.

Yang Yi accompanied Su Na to the Truth Library, where she absorbed knowledge fragments while he pretended to study and then practiced swordsmanship outside. More than half a month later, he had completed Advanced Greatsword Technique and several other courses as he prepared to leave the dangerous university.

• Yang Yi acted as though he had forgotten his plans, then accompanied Su Na to the Truth Library, where Sun Jin gave them reading cards.
• Yang Yi and Su Na entered the underwater library; fragments of knowledge flowed into Su Na, while Yang Yi pretended to read Soul Forging (Middle Volume).
• Yang Yi left the library to practice swordsmanship and cut down a grove of trees, storing the logs in his Molten Giant Worm Ring.
• Su Na emerged an hour later and found the area around the library stripped of trees; Yang Yi said he had cut them down for exercise, whether or not he could keep the lumber.
• Over half a month, Yang Yi defeated the Advanced Greatsword Technique teacher and completed that course, Intermediate Soul Blacksmithing, God Statue Sculpting, and several others.

Yang Yi spent nearly two weeks planting trees around Miskatonic University after the university banned cutting them down, but the graduation exam was suddenly moved forward. As students struggled to reach the Examination Building through a wall of rapidly grown trees, one student began blasting a path through them.

• Yang Yi posted a self-criticism letter whose hidden message denied his guilt, angering Mentor Michelin, and then spent his days planting seeds and trees.
• With thirteen days left before graduation, all enrolled students received notice that the exam would begin in twenty-four hours, with two exam sessions scheduled one minute apart.
• Students arriving to inspect the Examination Building found dense, towering trees blocking the way and suspected Yang Yi had caused them to grow overnight.
• After students hesitated to spend credits cutting a passage, a long-enrolled student drew an energy pistol, paid the weapon-drawing fee, and fired into the trees.

Yang Yi used the Student Code of Conduct and a potion-made wall of trees to block candidates from reaching the Examination Building while protecting his food supplies. Mentor Michelin accepted that Yang Yi deserved to graduate, but left Su Na’s outcome uncertain and revealed that Miskatonic University’s staff had known about the players all along.

• Students extinguished a fire started by a gunshot, but the shooter lost 1,050 credits after the Student Handbook counted the attack on Yang Yi’s trees as multiple violations.
• Yang Yi relied on five food-making machines and trees grown with Su Na’s Emerald Shelter potion to fortify the Second Examination Hall.
• Yang Yi connected the trees to the Maw of Gluttony, making them part of his body so that attacks on them counted as fighting under the Student Code of Conduct.
• Candidates were unable to break through the grove without risking penalties, and some unregistered candidates left while registered candidates faced repeating their studies.
• Mentor Michelin decided Yang Yi deserved to graduate and told Sun Jin that Su Na’s success depended on someone else before departing.
• Sun Jin realized Michelin had aligned himself with his spiritual original, and the narration revealed that Miskatonic University’s staff had known the players’ identities from the start.

Yang Yi and Su Na kept the examinees out of the Examination Building with a wall of forest, while many students outside broke down and abandoned the exam. Professor Amanda moved Yang Yi to examination hall two, where Sun Jin arrived to invigilate.

• The students outside found that the forest’s dense roots, rapid regeneration, and the Student Code of Conduct made it impossible to break through, and many lost control of their emotions or withdrew from the exam.
• Sun Jin watched from above and said the students were excellent and that their teachers would face what was coming alongside them.
• Yang Yi stopped the Greedy Maw of Gluttony from eating more and told Su Na to hand in a blank paper as soon as the exam began.
• Professor Amanda appeared, moved Yang Yi to examination hall two, and restored the examination room after clearing away the food, machines, desks, and chairs.
• Su Na reassured Yang Yi that Amanda was there to invigilate, and Sun Jin arrived as the invigilator for examination hall two.

Sun Jin began the exam while Su Na faced her Potion Studies test under Amanda, who forced her into a timed contest. Su Na and the second personality on the back of her head worked together to answer faster, while her pendant began to glow.

• Sun Jin appeared before Yang Yi, got punched, and brought out the sealed exam papers.
• Amanda started Su Na's Potion Studies exam and reminded her that she had nearly failed the course.
• Amanda proposed taking the exam alongside Su Na and shortened the time, threatening Su Na's chance to escape and reclaim her identity.
• Su Na summoned an Energy Singularity, but Amanda erased it and began answering a second exam paper.
• Su Na Na took over the difficult calculations, and Su Na answered different questions with both hands as her pendant glowed.

Yang Yi and Su Na graduated from Miskatonic University and were sent away from the examination halls. Yang Yi was thrown into a strange space before he could learn what lay beyond it, while Su Na returned to a familiar laboratory after Amanda revealed that the university stood in the Abyss.

• Yang Yi handed in his blank exam paper, and Sun Jin congratulated him on graduating before Yang Yi rose away from the university.
• Yang Yi recalled rescuing Su Na and gaining strength, then fell into another space where his right eye could not see and Three Eyes revealed an inverted, lighthouse-like building radiating fragmented knowledge.
• Su Na focused on her exam while Amanda finished first, then Amanda graded Su Na's paper and awarded her 98.3 points.
• Amanda told Su Na that she had graduated, revealed that Miskatonic University was in the Abyss, and sent her away with the black pendant.
• Su Na reappeared in a familiar laboratory and came face-to-face with a Light Fairy holding a freshly picked Vitality Long Legs.

Yang Yi emerged from Miskatonic University into the newly formed Boiling Sea, badly damaged and far from the Nightmare Star. He discovered the Fire Worship Cult had built an altar around a small Charred Tree and was worshipping statues of him as the Lord Fire Bearer Charles Ba.

• Yang Yi surfaced in the Boiling Sea near the Deathbirth Star’s wreckage and used the Limb Restoration Spell to begin repairing his body.
• Yang Yi found that his supplies were gone and decided to seek limbs or food, then spotted an island with Fire Worship Cult ships and headed toward it using his Flame Body.
• Yang Yi reached the island and saw over five thousand Fire Worship Cult believers gathered around a burning altar and a small Charred Tree.
• The believers recognized Yang Yi as the Lord Fire Bearer Charles Ba and thanked him for bringing the Lord’s image into the world.
• Yang Yi recognized the deformed god statues around the altar as depictions of himself in Wolf Transformation.

Yang Yi accepted the Fire Worship Cult believers’ ship and food, then used the Firebearer to travel toward the Nightmare Star while testing its flight and fuel. After learning the ship’s bonfire required believers’ flesh to produce flight-sustaining black smoke, he accidentally set his tongue alight and sent the ship rocketing skyward.

• Yang Yi accepted the Firebearer and a shipload of charred food from the Fire Worship Cult believers, who hailed him as their Lord Flamebearer.
• Several believers set themselves alight on the deck, producing black smoke that lifted the Firebearer into the air.
• Yang Yi tested the ship’s flight, photographed its balloon structure, and ate the food to repair his body as he traveled across the boiling sea.
• After the Firebearer landed, Yang Yi found that an Arsonist fragment fueled the bonfire, while ordinary food only strengthened its flames slightly.
• Yang Yi identified the bonfire as relic ship equipment that used Fire Worship Cult believers’ flesh to create flight-powered black smoke, then accidentally ignited his tongue and launched the Firebearer skyward.

Yang Yi tested the Flamebearer, reunited with Su Na through private messages, and caught up on news from the players. He arranged to meet Su Na in about ten days and agreed to join Yu Dawei in attacking Steam Island, whose defenses made an underwater approach the safest option.

• Yang Yi tested the Hot Air Balloon by burning one of the Greedy Maw of Gluttony's tongues and found that the Flamebearer's maximum speed remained around 120 knots.
• Yang Yi contacted Su Na, learned that she had scored 98.2 on the graduation exam, and arranged to rendezvous with her aboard the Nightmare Star.
• Yang Yi closed his shop temporarily, read reports about the Boiling Sea and the Fire Worship Cult's fleet, and suspected the cult was moving toward the Charred Tree.
• Yang Yi contacted Yu Dawei, who confirmed he was in the Boiling Sea and warned that Steam Island had formidable defenses.
• Yu Dawei advised approaching Steam Island underwater to avoid its torpedoes, and Yang Yi told him he had already swum through the hot seawater.

A week after the battle, Yang Yi recovered his Qi and Blood but became dangerously obese from eating aboard the Firebearer, so he began fasting and exercising. He reconnected with Su Na and Cui Xiya, then spotted the Nightmare Star and prepared to return to it.

• Yang Yi checked his status, found that he had become a Legendary powerhouse with greatly increased attributes, and started fasting and running to lose weight.
• Yang Yi messaged Su Na and then Cui Xiya, who eventually replied that she was fine aboard the Nightmare Star.
• Su Na sent Yang Yi a photo of Cui Xiya drinking soup in the Witch Laboratory, and Yang Yi checked her status before deciding he had been too suspicious.
• The next morning, Yang Yi spotted the Nightmare Star about two nautical miles away and kicked the bonfire overboard as he prepared to return.

Yang Yi returned to the Nightmare Star and drank Su Na’s Slimming Potion, only to learn that Cui Xiya had supposedly been sacrificed to reduce his dangerous Pollution Depth. After Yang Yi’s Pollution Depth fell, he found Cui Xiya alive in the Captain’s Quarters, and Su Na gave him a potion to wake her.

• Yang Yi landed on the Nightmare Star, drank Su Na’s Slimming Potion, and vomited out fat that Su Na collected as valuable Fire Bearer’s Grease.
• Yang Yi checked Cui Xiya’s crew panel and saw that it listed her as dead, then confronted Su Na, who said she had put Cui Xiya in the potion to save him from falling into the Abyss.
• Yang Yi contained his anger as the High-Rank Variant Light Fairy greatly reduced his Pollution Depth, and he went to the Captain’s Quarters to sleep.
• Yang Yi found Cui Xiya lying alive on the desk, and Su Na handed him a potion to give her so she would wake up.

Yang Yi learned that Su Na and Cui Xiya had tricked him with a fake-death potion, and the reunited Nightmare Star crew discussed surviving the Boiling Sea. After Cui Xiya transformed a rusty sardine gun into a mobile ship called the Long-Legged, Yang Yi touched it and caused its rust to vanish.

• Yang Yi discovered that Su Na and Cui Xiya had used a Fake-Death Potion to make him believe he had eaten Su Na, and Su Na warned that the trick would only work once.
• Yang Yi poured the antidote into Cui Xiya, who revealed she had been faking death and then joined the crew meeting aboard the Nightmare Star.
• The crew discussed adapting the ship to the Boiling Sea, and Yang Yi explained that the waters had changed after The Charred Tree nearly descended.
• Yang Yi chose Steam Island as the crew's next destination and asked Cui Xiya for the Rusty Long-Legged Sardine Gun so he could use the Pioneer Ritual to find it.
• Cui Xiya showed Yang Yi the modified Long-Legged, which the system now identified as a miniature ship, and Yang Yi's touch caused its rust to rapidly disappear.