Recaps

Yang Yi endured nearly thirty hours of Abu Singh’s dream invasions by drinking Sleeping Potions, then prepared his crew for a decisive battle on Dream Island. As the Nightmare Star reached the coordinates, a giant crystalline cage trapped the ship while a fleet and a brilliant slash approached.

• Yang Yi repeatedly drank Sleeping Potions to end Abu Singh’s dreams, and Su Na began mass-producing large barrels of the potion.
• Yang Yi used Peering to locate the Eden Newspaper, and Abu Singh finally announced that he would wait for him on Dream Island.
• Yang Yi assigned Xiaoji to command the Robot Army, equipped the Security Robots with Sleeping Potion syringes, and prepared to fight alongside Su Na and Cui Xiya.
• The Nightmare Star neared the coordinates without finding Dream Island, and Yang Yi spotted a fleet of ships through the fog.
• Pale purple crystalline stems trapped the Nightmare Star in a huge cage as more than a thousand ships sailed toward it and a brilliant slash arrived.

Yang Yi used the Storm Horn to sweep away the fog and lead the Nightmare Star toward the Eden Fleet, then jumped into the sea to confront Abu Singh. Abu Singh stopped time and captured Yang Yi in his enormous golden hand, while a scheduled message from Ma Dabao confirmed that dreams and reality had merged.

• Yang Yi recognized King Sinda's golden slash as a provocation, ordered the Nightmare Star to prepare for battle, and learned from Xiaoji about a giant object beneath the sea.
• Yang Yi sounded the Storm Horn, which created a storm that cleared the fog and drew the Eden Fleet's cannon fire away from the Nightmare Star.
• Yang Yi spotted the Eden Newspaper and a fat man in golden armor but could not find Abu Singh, so he warned Su Na and Cui Xiya before jumping into the sea.
• The Nightmare Star's Security Robots opened fire as Yang Yi headed underwater, but Abu Singh stopped time across the battlefield and spoke to Yang Yi.
• Abu Singh seized Yang Yi in his giant golden hand, and Yang Yi swallowed Sleeping Potion without escaping as Ma Dabao's scheduled message showed that dreams had merged with reality.

Yang Yi learned that Abu Singh had brought Dream Island into reality within the Purple Crystal Prison and was using his dream powers to alter the naval battle. Though Abu Singh trapped him and changed the battlefield to demonstrate his control, Yang Yi remained defiant and fired Supreme Holy Slash at him.

• Yang Yi escaped Abu Singh’s golden hand by using the Pendant of Pure White, and Three Eyes identified Abu Singh’s mutated organ as the Phantasmagoric Eyes.
• Yang Yi asked whether Abu Singh was on Dream Island, then charged toward him, reasoning that the dream-reality fusion likely depended on the Purple Crystal Prison.
• Abu Singh resumed the frozen battle and gave the Eden Fleet Hero-level armor and weapons, turning its fighters into powerful combatants.
• Abu Singh changed the scene to show the Nightmare Star’s forces disappearing and Su Na, Cui Xiya, and Xiaoji facing the Eden Fleet’s attack, but Yang Yi still insisted his side would win.
• Yang Yi realized an almost invisible thread attached to his waist was holding him in place, then aimed his Antique Flintlock at Abu Singh and fired Supreme Holy Slash.

Yang Yi discovered that Abu Singh had merged with Dream Island and used the Player Island Portal to open a connection that poured red sludge onto the giant's head. He fled, then returned as a super Flame Giant to attack the Abu Singhs trying to stop the Portal.

• Yang Yi saw that Dream Island was a colossal mutated head and realized Abu Singh had used his body to bring it into reality.
• Abu Singh boasted of his godlike power and claimed that nothing could destroy his conceptual crystal body, while Yang Yi tested it with his Greatsword.
• Yang Yi revealed the Player Island Portal and entered a long string of zeros before connecting it to another island.
• The Portal poured warm red sludge and debris onto Abu Singh's head, alarming Abu Singh and his duplicate bodies.
• Yang Yi transformed into a super Flame Giant and charged back to strike the Abu Singhs with his Oathbreaker Slash.

Yang Yi fought Abu Singh until the Player Island Portal dissolved, causing Abu Singh to injure himself as a mysterious liquid spread through him. Meanwhile, Su Na Na took control of Su Na’s body to defend the fleet, and Yang Yi arrived as she returned control to Su Na.

• Yang Yi attacked Abu Singh with the Flame Giant, his weapons, and the Maw of Gluttony while Abu Singh created more duplicates and grew stronger.
• Abu Singh tried to destroy the Player Island Portal, but it dissolved before his fist struck, causing him to punch through his own head.
• Yang Yi saw a mysterious liquid dissolve the Portal and Abu Singh’s skull, then left while Abu Singh struggled against the spreading pool.
• As the dream resumed at sea, Su Na Na took control of Su Na’s body and diverted the incoming golden wave slashes with spatial distortions.
• Su Na Na flew toward the enemy Fleet with the Wave-Edged Scimitar, and Yang Yi arrived before she turned her head back to let Su Na regain control.

Su Na told Yang Yi that Su Na Na could take control of her body for an hour each day, possibly because of Su Na’s low Sanity. As the dream-induced body swaps failed worldwide and the freed players turned on the Eden Fleet, Yang Yi explained what had happened and charged toward the surrounded fleet.

• Su Na explained that Su Na Na could control her body for an hour each day, and Yang Yi worried that the takeover would grow worse.
• Cui Xiya pointed out that the battle had erupted into chaos as players woke from the dream and attacked the Eden Fleet, while some players’ bodies dissolved.
• Yang Yi used the Regional Channel to explain that One-Eye had defeated Abu Singh and disrupted the Eden Fleet’s plan, helping the freed players regroup.
• The freed players surrounded the remaining Eden Fleet members as the fat man in King Sinda's Legacy Set fought them off.
• Gleaming Wave Blade returned to Su Na, who explained how an item could learn intelligence through imitation, and Yang Yi leaped toward the surrounded Eden Newspaper.

Yang Yi broke the Eden Fleet’s resistance, killed the fat man wearing King Sinda’s legacy equipment, and escaped the collapsing Sea of Dreams with the treasure set. After discovering the Nightmare Star was too damaged to upgrade, he received a message from Song Yingwen and found him transformed into a blood-soaked monster.

• Yang Yi shattered the Eden Fleet’s defensive line, and the freed players overwhelmed the remaining fleet members.
• Yang Yi fought the fat man in King Sinda’s equipment, then killed him with Shattering Supreme Holy Slash and set the Eden Newspaper ablaze.
• Yang Yi returned from underwater as the Amethyst Cage and the dream’s fog dissolved, and he confirmed that the Sea of Dreams had returned to the Sea of Miracles.
• Yang Yi collected King Sinda’s Treasure and decided to use it to upgrade the ship, but postponed the upgrade because the Nightmare Star was badly damaged and he lacked supplies.
• Song Yingwen thanked Yang Yi in a private message, and Yang Yi spotted him among the distant ships as a blood-soaked, mutated vampire nearing transformation into a Bloodthirst Beast.

Song Yingwen escaped captivity and agreed to rebuild the Great Newspaper Fleet at Steam Island aboard the Eden Newspaper. After Yang Yi learned about the Eden’s dream abilities and Wisdom Tree, he ate one of its Wisdom Fruits.

• Song Yingwen told Yang Yi that torture had raised his Mental Attribute, most of the Great Newspaper had betrayed them, and Abu Singh was dead.
• Yang Yi invited Song Yingwen to move the Eden Newspaper and his surviving allies to Steam Island, and Song Yingwen agreed.
• The amethyst cage collapsed, and Yang Yi redirected falling fragments with King Sinda’s Straight Sword while the players dodged the debris.
• Yang Yi boarded the Eden Newspaper, examined it, and learned that its Wisdom Tree produced fruit that granted Spirit experience and Inspiration.
• Yang Yi picked a Wisdom Fruit and ate it despite Song Yingwen warning that its effects could lead to dangerous ideas.

Yang Yi accepted the surviving players into Steam Island, gathered the battlefield spoils, and burned the abandoned ships as the amethyst prison continued to collapse. Just as he prepared to leave, Reinhardt arrived aboard his ship with Cui Bisi, who recognized Cui Xiya.

• Yang Yi ate the last Forbidden Fruit of Knowledge but gained no inspiration because of his Fool title.
• Yang Yi agreed to take in the surviving players if they joined the One-Eye Cult, then opened the Portal to Steam Island and sent them through.
• Song Yingwen left for Steam Island, and Yang Yi had Cui Xiya and Xiaoji collect supplies and equipment from the battlefield.
• Su Na reported that the amethyst crystal could be refined into Dream Crystals, but Yang Yi showed little interest and later burned the stripped player ships.
• As the amethyst prison cracked again, Yang Yi prepared to flee, but Reinhardt tore open the prison and arrived aboard Yang Yi's ship with Cui Bisi, who noticed Cui Xiya.

Yang Yi tried to escape after Reinhardt, a Paladin, recognized him as a player, but Reinhardt and Cui Bisi exposed the grave sin marks on Yang Yi and Cui Xiya. Reinhardt struck at Yang Yi underwater, leaving their escape unresolved.

• Cui Xiya and Cui Bisi recognized each other, traded insults, and fought until Cui Xiya pinned Cui Bisi.
• Yang Yi admitted he had set the ships ablaze and challenged Reinhardt to join the Fire Worship Cult, but Reinhardt suspected he was a player.
• Yang Yi attacked Reinhardt with Broken Iron and the Giant Knight’s Supreme Holy Slash, then fled underwater with Su Na, Cui Xiya, Xiaoji, and the Light Fairy.
• Reinhardt caught up above Yang Yi and ordered Cui Bisi to unleash her light, which revealed grave sin marks on Yang Yi and Cui Xiya.
• Reinhardt identified them as fleeing sinners and swung the Lion-Swallowing Longsword at Yang Yi underwater.

Yang Yi confronted Reinhardt underwater, but the Saintess intervened through Cui Xiya and revealed that she had foreseen Reinhardt’s death if the fight continued. Reinhardt stopped attacking and swam away, while Yang Yi’s hidden identities were exposed.

• Reinhardt ambushed Yang Yi, severed his left arm, and seized the Salt Spike [Fake] after Yang Yi failed to use it.
• Yang Yi prepared to fight Reinhardt again, while Cui Xiya threatened him by holding Cui Bisi in her mouth.
• The Saintess took control of Cui Xiya and declared Yang Yi a Hero who had resolved the Dream crisis, causing his Grave Sin Mark to disappear.
• The Saintess addressed Yang Yi as the Nightmare Knight and Big-Mouth Knight, startling him with her apparent knowledge of his identities.
• The Saintess warned Reinhardt that he would certainly die if he continued fighting, and Reinhardt restrained himself and swam upward.

Saintess Istil used Cui Xiya's body to warn Yang Yi that the system sought to destroy the world and urged him to travel to the Holy Capital. Yang Yi agreed to go with Reinhardt, while the Forsworn Soul later claimed the Radiant Goddess was a fraud.

• Saintess Istil froze Yang Yi's exposure at 99%, promised to remove the system's restrictions in the Holy Capital, and offered him the title of Nightmare Knight.
• Cui Xiya regained control of her body, spat out Cui Bisi, and resumed arguing with her companion.
• Yang Yi told Su Na that Istil seemed to have a limited ability to predict or gather information, and he decided to go to the Holy Capital with Reinhardt.
• Su Na removed her Beak Mask and explained that she had dyed her eyes black to disguise them.
• Cui Xiya told Yang Yi that Istil had arranged her rejection and sale through the Golden Commerce Guild, then the Forsworn Soul declared that the Radiant Goddess did not exist.

Yang Yi traveled toward the Holy Capital with Reinhardt, Su Na, Cui Xiya, and Xiaoji after hearing the Forsworn Soul claim that the Radiant Goddess did not exist. During the voyage, the system announced an emergency update that gave players a way to infiltrate the Holy Capital and revealed the conditions for occupying Miracle Island.

• The Forsworn Soul claimed the Radiant Goddess was fictitious, but admitted its memories had been tampered with and offered no evidence.
• Reinhardt arrived by boat, gave Yang Yi the Salt Spike [replica], and refused to reveal details about his abilities.
• Yang Yi and the others set off for the Holy Capital, with Reinhardt eventually taking over steering.
• Yang Yi checked the system at eleven and saw an emergency update announcing a backup sub-system for infiltrating the Holy Capital.
• The system revealed that players had to eliminate all indigenous inhabitants of Miracle Island, including the Oracle Saintess and all Paladins, to occupy it.

Yang Yi considered the system’s demand to kill every native on Miracle Island and prepared for his journey to the Holy Capital. He learned that a nearby Grand Church had a teleportation array that could get him there in less than two days, then took over steering Reinhardt’s boat.

• Yang Yi read players’ reactions to the system’s occupation condition and the Radiant Holy Church’s recruitment, while Song Yingwen posted an account of the Eden Fleet’s crimes and Yang Yi’s role in stopping them.
• Song Yingwen announced that the Great Newspaper Fleet needed to recover and reorganize, that the Player Forum would be suspended for a month, and that its headquarters would be established on Steam Island.
• Yang Yi messaged Song Yingwen, Yu Dawei, Ma Dabao, and Banks with updates and instructions, but could not reach Zhou Dai because she was in a special area.
• Yang Yi asked Reinhardt how long it would take to reach the Holy Capital, and Cui Bisi used a holographic sea chart to identify a nearby Grand Church with an intact teleportation array.
• Yang Yi offered to take over steering Reinhardt’s boat, and Reinhardt handed him the helm.

Yang Yi delayed the boat’s arrival at the Holy Capital until the system added a Sub-System, then raced onward while planning to avoid exposing his identity. A message from Mars and a system announcement revealed the newly recorded Player Islands, including Corpse Island and the fully explored Burning Island.

• Yang Yi slowed the boat for two days until the Sub-System was added, then switched to it and sped toward the Holy Capital.
• Yang Yi and Su Na discussed the danger of entering the Holy Capital with his player talent temporarily disabled and agreed to avoid conflict with the Radiant Holy Church.
• Mars sent Yang Yi a photograph of a grotesque island in the Sea of No Light and asked what to do next.
• The system announced that all ten Player Islands had been discovered and distributed player points, prompting Yang Yi to inspect the island records.
• Yang Yi realized Mars’s discovery of Corpse Island had been credited to him because Mars was treated as his subordinate.
• Yang Yi saw that Burning Island had reached 100% exploration and now contained a towering tree, likely after Fire Worship Cult followers built their holy land.

Yang Yi and his companions reached the island housing the Radiant Holy Church, where they found a town whose inhabitants had dissolved after the dream incident. Reinhardt destroyed an Insoluble Remains monster, and Yang Yi and Su Na began collecting its bones as possible protection against dissolution.

• Yang Yi instructed Mars to retrieve his ship, avoid clashing with the natives, and gather information about occupying the corpse island.
• Yang Yi's group reached the island, and Cui Bisi illuminated it with a Light Spell before they went ashore.
• Yang Yi found the town covered in dried human slurry and realized nearly everyone had dissolved after the dream incident.
• Reinhardt destroyed an Insoluble Remains monster near the Grand Church and questioned Yang Yi about using dissolution-related dark arts.
• Su Na identified the monster's bones as Insoluble Remains and urged Yang Yi to collect them for possible use as outer armor.

Yang Yi and his companions used a series of Teleportation Arrays to reach the Holy Capital, where they arrived before the magnificent Gate of Glory. Yang Yi admired its design until he noticed a strange creature at the checkpoint beside it.

• Cui Bisi led Yang Yi's group to the Teleportation Array, and Reinhardt activated it with magic stones.
• Su Na studied and photographed the array while Yang Yi considered bringing teleportation technology to Steam Island.
• Yang Yi and his companions passed through more than a dozen arrays and saw two partially abandoned islands along the way.
• Yang Yi's group arrived before the enormous Gate of Glory, where Yang Yi noticed kneeling people and found 37 players in the Regional Channel.
• Yang Yi spotted a strange, humanlike creature at the checkpoint and struggled not to laugh.

Yang Yi and Reinhardt reached the Gate of Glory, where the Radiant Holy Church’s player guard demanded that arriving players surrender their belongings for inspection. Yang Yi passed through with Reinhardt and questioned him about the immense gate and the stronghold, leaving the players behind to follow Yang Yi’s lead.

• Yang Yi learned that the hairless mole in golden armor was a player named Ito Sho, then switched to the sub-system with Su Na, Cui Xiya, and Xiaoji.
• Ito Sho ordered arriving players to hand over their equipment and storage items, and the Holy Church Knights stopped one player who tried to leave.
• Reinhardt led Yang Yi and his companions through the checkpoint without surrendering their belongings, while other players recognized Yang Yi and decided to follow his lead.
• Yang Yi reached the Gate of Glory and asked Reinhardt who built it and what its enormous doors were meant to keep out.
• Yang Yi asked whether anything could fly over the stronghold, and Reinhardt said he had never considered the possibility.

Yang Yi entered the Holy Capital with Reinhardt and saw its vast, thriving waterways and buildings as they traveled toward the Oracle Saintess. After several teleportations, they arrived at the plaza beneath the colossal Radiant Goddess Statue, where Yang Yi noticed a sewer cover at its feet.

• Mosen returned to the checkpoint, learned that Reinhardt had captured One-Eye, and gave Ito Sho a strange spike before going to sleep.
• Yang Yi discovered that the system’s chat function was unavailable after he entered the Gate of Glory.
• Reinhardt led Yang Yi through the Holy Capital, where Yang Yi and Su Na observed its canals, buildings, churches, and execution platforms.
• Yang Yi and Reinhardt traveled by boat and then used three Teleportation Arrays to reach the Radiant Goddess Statue.
• Yang Yi examined the statue and spotted a sewer cover near its feet.

Yang Yi and his companions reached the temple district for an audience with Saintess Istil, who said the Radiant Goddess had foretold their arrival and their role in destroying the system. When Istil tried to remove the system’s restrictions from their bodies, Yang Yi attacked her with his sword.

• Yang Yi asked Reinhardt about the giant goddess statue, learning that the Divine Knight had made it in less than a day.
• Yang Yi, Su Na, Cui Xiya, and Xiaoji reached the temple district, while other players had to wait outside for their audience.
• Yang Yi entered the temple and met Saintess Istil, who said the Radiant Goddess had foretold he would help destroy the system.
• Istil told the group not to resist as she prepared to remove the system’s restrictions, and Yang Yi armed himself in response.
• Istil’s white light enveloped the group, and Yang Yi slashed through it with his sword toward her.

Saintess Istil revealed her hidden strength, removed the system restrictions from Yang Yi and his companions, and explained that they had been cultivated in a virtual world by the system to help it invade and destroy this world. The chapter left Yang Yi confronting the truth about his origins and the system’s purpose.

• Istil blocked Yang Yi’s attack with her cane sword and revealed that she was the original Divine Knight, far stronger than him.
• Istil extracted the system restrictions from Yang Yi, Su Na, Cui Xiya, and Xiaoji, then destroyed the four masses of blue-black substance.
• Yang Yi found that his system interface had frozen, though its system-switching button still remained usable.
• Istil accurately described Blue Star and told Yang Yi and Su Na that their former world had been a virtual environment built to cultivate them as data.
• Istil said the system had created them to invade and destroy this world.

Saintess Istil explained that the system threatened the world and asked Yang Yi and the other Players to stay in the Holy Capital until they could help find and destroy it. Yang Yi accepted her offer after taking a powerful suit of armor, and left with Reinhardt assigned to train and watch over him.

• Istil explained that earlier groups of Players had mostly met bad ends and asked Yang Yi to help destroy the system when the time came.
• Istil offered Yang Yi armor and a weapon in exchange for his agreement to stay in the Holy Capital and help her; Yang Yi quickly stored the armor and promised to thwart the system.
• Istil said Yang Yi was not yet strong enough to become a Nightmare Knight, assigned Reinhardt to teach him swordsmanship, and encouraged the Players to explore the Holy Capital.
• Yang Yi and the others left the Temple, where Yang Yi found Reinhardt unhappy about being assigned as his minder.
• More Players arrived at the Temple, and Yang Yi asked Reinhardt how many had come to the Holy Capital and whether any earlier Players or their descendants still lived.

Yang Yi and his companions settled into a prepared residence in the Holy Capital after Reinhardt guided them there. They suspected the Saintess could watch them through the light and discussed investigating a possible sewer entrance beneath a Goddess statue while searching for a way out.

• Reinhardt led Yang Yi's group through the layered Holy Capital to a detached three-story building prepared for their stay.
• Yang Yi asked Reinhardt where to find him for sword practice, and Reinhardt gave him Room 1701 and lent him a boat.
• Yang Yi found food and Happy Water in the residence, then covered its windows and doors to block out light from the Saintess's gaze.
• Yang Yi and Su Na privately wrote that most of the Saintess's claims were probably true but still required verification.
• Su Na proposed exploring the dark sewers through a manhole cover beneath a Goddess statue, since the group appeared trapped in the Holy Capital.

Yang Yi trained with Reinhardt at the Radiant Holy Sanctuary and tried to learn about the Church’s Holy Communion and its power of light. After White Knight Hetis stopped him from giving toys to the Paladin Apprentices, Yang Yi realized their teacher had warned them to avoid him.

• Yang Yi sparred with Reinhardt, who corrected his reckless swordsmanship and dismissed his tricks.
• Yang Yi asked why his Supreme Holy Slash could not use the power of light and suggested Holy Communion granted that power, but Reinhardt refused to explain.
• Yang Yi ended practice early to work on his basic attributes at the Paladin training facilities.
• Yang Yi tried to approach the Paladin Apprentices with gifts, but most of them fled or kept their distance.
• White Knight Hetis broke Yang Yi’s model toys, warned him not to lead the children astray, and allowed him to keep using the training facilities.
• Yang Yi realized Hetis had warned the apprentices to avoid him.

Yang Yi and his companions compared intelligence on the Holy Capital, its Paladins, residents, and possible hidden magic array while keeping their activities discreet. They continued investigating the city and its other players, planning to leave when the time was right rather than settle there or meet the system’s conditions for occupying Miracle Island.

• Yang Yi reviewed the five known Paladins with Su Na and questioned Cui Xiya about how many the Radiant Holy Church had, but she said she had left before learning such classified information.
• Cui Xiya reported that she had become the leader of the local Light Fairies and expected to learn where other players lived, but she had found no leads on Zhou Dai.
• Yang Yi assigned Xiaoji to map the area and probe the sewers, while Su Na watched residents and gathered intelligence and Yang Yi focused on Reinhardt and strengthening his combat ability.
• Su Na told Yang Yi that the residents’ harmony might be maintained by their shared faith, Heretic Arbitration incidents, and a vast magic array formed by the churches and God Statues.
• Yang Yi warned Cui Xiya and Xiaoji that clergy and the Saintess were monitoring them, urged everyone to blend in, and said he intended to leave the Holy Capital when the time was right.