Recaps

Yang Yi and his companions settled into life in the Holy Capital while he trained at the Radiant Holy Sanctuary and the Oracle Saintess recruited players by offering them powerful equipment. Three months later, Yang Yi combined a gunshot with a sword strike to catch Reinhardt during a sparring match.

• Yang Yi's group adapted to the Holy Capital as Su Na joined the church, Xiaoji fished, and Cui Xiya turned their garden into a dangerous vegetable patch.
• Yang Yi trained at the Radiant Holy Sanctuary and secretly used Su Na's potions to improve before sparring with Reinhardt.
• A player revealed that players had sub-systems and that occupying Miracle Island required exterminating its indigenous inhabitants; Istil gave him Superior Fearless Knight Armor to win his allegiance.
• Over the next three months, players continued defecting to the Radiant Holy Church in exchange for status and equipment.
• Yang Yi swung Broken Iron and fired a shot at Reinhardt, then used Three Eyes to track Reinhardt's dodge and exploit the opening.

Yang Yi continued training with Reinhardt and later learned that the Saintess had secretly dealt with players hiding in the Holy Capital. A Cleric questioned him about Zhou Dai, and Yang Yi realized she had replaced her head or possibly her entire body.

• Yang Yi sparred with Reinhardt for nearly five hours, and Reinhardt praised his rapid improvement before ending the fiery training session.
• The Forsworn Soul assessed Reinhardt's swordsmanship as exceptionally skilled and coached Yang Yi on how to respond to his attacks.
• Yang Yi returned home and rescued a Cleric from a giant flesh-colored cabbage that was trying to digest him.
• The Cleric told Yang Yi that the Saintess was investigating a player believed to have infiltrated the Holy Capital and showed him a list of nine players she had secretly dealt with.
• Yang Yi recognized Zhou Dai in the list, claimed he had encountered her before, and concluded that she had replaced her head or perhaps her whole body.

Yang Yi exposed the Cleric as Hogru, a Brain-Eating Demon and Zhou Dai’s third offspring, and learned that Zhou Dai had escaped the Holy Capital’s purge. Hogru revealed their plan to overthrow Saintess Istil, whom they believed was impersonating the Radiant Goddess, but a commotion outside interrupted him.

• Yang Yi stopped the Cleric from leaving and demanded that he grow two replacement giant Chinese cabbages.
• Yang Yi brought the Cleric into his dark residence, where the Cleric revealed himself as Hogru, a Brain-Eating Demon.
• Hogru identified Zhou Dai as his Mother and explained how she had escaped the Holy Capital’s purge by abandoning her body and arranging for someone else to die in her place.
• Hogru explained that he and Zhou Dai believed Saintess Istil was a fraud and that the Radiant Goddess had called on Zhou Dai to overthrow her.
• A commotion and shouting outside made Hogru stop speaking and watch the door warily.

Yang Yi and his companions questioned Hogru, a Brain-Eating Demon who claimed that the Radiant Goddess had chosen a hidden Mother as her true Saintess. Hogru left without revealing Mother’s identity or location, while Su Na’s questions suggested that she suspected Mother was beneath the Holy Capital.

• Yang Yi stopped Cui Xiya from feeding Hogru to the vegetables and heard that the woman he had asked her to find had been executed as a Heretic.
• Hogru revealed his true form, startling Cui Xiya, before Su Na and Xiaoji returned and asked about him.
• Hogru explained that Mother was the Radiant Goddess’s chosen one, but refused to disclose her identity or location.
• Su Na questioned Hogru’s claims and guessed that Mother was beneath the Holy Capital, but Hogru would not confirm it.
• Su Na asked Hogru for reproductive cells, which he refused to provide, and Yang Yi sent him away with cabbage leaves and fertilizer to plant two vegetables.

The New World Fleet assembled its forces and began its campaign to capture Green Island. In the Holy Capital, Hogru told Yang Yi that the Saintess would enter the underground the next day, creating an opportunity for secret activity.

• The New World Fleet prepared warships, mechs, robots, and allied forces for its assault on Green Island.
• Shen Guanquan warned the assembled factions that the system would determine contributions and threatened those who disobeyed orders or exploited the campaign.
• Xu Da reported that Green Island remained unchanged and confirmed its location, after which the operation officially began.
• Yang Yi continued training and protecting the growing cabbages while Hogru visited to fertilize them.
• Hogru told Yang Yi and his companions to meet him and his mother in the sewers beneath Goddess Square at nine the next morning, while the Saintess was underground.

Yang Yi arranged to skip training so he could meet Zhou Dai, then provoked Reinhardt into beating him badly enough to need treatment. As Su Na considered staying in the Holy Capital for a comfortable life, Yang Yi refused and chose to pursue the city’s secrets with Zhou Dai.

• Yang Yi decided to have Reinhardt injure him so he could miss training and meet Zhou Dai without arousing suspicion.
• Yang Yi provoked Reinhardt into kicking him out of his building, and Reinhardt carried him to the Temple Area for further sparring.
• Reinhardt brought the severely injured Yang Yi to Su Na, who treated him with magic, potions, and surgery.
• After Yang Yi recovered, Su Na suggested they stay in the Holy Capital, but Yang Yi chose to meet Zhou Dai and continue investigating.

Yang Yi and his companions sneaked beneath the goddess statue and followed Meshal through the plaza’s hidden waterways. They reached the Shadow Society’s concealed antechamber, where an argument could be heard beyond the door.

• Yang Yi slipped through a concealed floor opening into the water, and the others disappeared from public view soon afterward.
• Yang Yi, Cui Xiya, Su Na, and Xiaoji met underwater and entered the sewers beneath the plaza using Xiaoji’s map.
• The group emerged into the underground passages and met Meshal, a Brain-Eating Demon who introduced herself as Mother’s seventh offspring and offered to guide them.
• Meshal led the group through the passages to a hidden entrance, where Su Na recognized soundproofing and aura-concealment magic arrays.
• The group entered the antechamber and found a plaque marked “Shadow Society” beside a door from which arguing could be heard.

Yang Yi and his companions met the Shadow Society, whose members were divided over whether the Radiant Goddess existed. Yang Yi gained their trust by invoking Dororov’s memories, while Zhou Dai’s claims about the true Goddess remained unproven.

• Yang Yi entered the Shadow Society’s meeting and Zhou Dai introduced him as a powerful Player who could aid their plan.
• Chekhov confronted Yang Yi, but Yang Yi repeated secrets and a fighting stance associated with Lord Dororov, then revealed the Oathbreaker Armor and explained the connection.
• The Shadow Society welcomed Yang Yi and his companions, while its members ignored Zhou Dai’s insistence that the group should become the Radiant Goddess Church.
• Su Na asked why the others rejected the Goddess and why Zhou Dai believed the worshipped Goddess was false.
• Zhou Dai claimed she had heard an Oracle saying Saintess Istil had hidden the real Radiant Goddess and monopolized her powers, but offered no evidence.

The Shadow Society debated whether the Radiant Goddess existed, but Zhou Dai revealed that divine prophecies had guided her and predicted Yang Yi’s arrival. The group prepared an operation to enter the hidden space beneath the Holy Capital and find the Goddess, if she existed.

• Su Na listened as Zhou Dai and Chekhov’s allies traded arguments about the Radiant Goddess, with neither side offering decisive evidence.
• Zhou Dai explained that the deity had guided her to the Shadow Society and predicted that a liberator would come to welcome the Goddess back into the world.
• Yang Yi learned that Zhou Dai had foreseen his arrival more than half a year earlier, though the prophecy had only recently become clear.
• The Shadow Society planned explosions, fires, and a prison break to distract the Radiant Holy Church and the Holy Church Knights.
• Yang Yi, Zhou Dai, Chekhov, and the others prepared to use the chaos to descend beneath the Holy Capital, gather evidence, and liberate the Radiant Goddess if she existed.

Yang Yi rejected the Shadow Society’s plan to reach the Radiant Goddess beneath the Holy Capital and left its meeting. Zhou Dai later asked him privately to accompany her below and to sell her Great Sea Lung brain matter, but Yang Yi remained wary of releasing the dangerous lifeform.

• Yang Yi refused to cooperate with the Shadow Society and left with Su Na, Cui Xiya, and Xiaoji.
• The other Shadow Society members blamed Zhou Dai for bringing Yang Yi, then abandoned the meeting, leaving Chekhov and Zhou Dai behind.
• Meshal met Yang Yi outside and led him to a second meeting room for a private conversation with Zhou Dai.
• Zhou Dai and Meshal switched bodies, after which Zhou Dai apologized and said the Radiant Goddess was beneath the Holy Capital.
• Zhou Dai claimed the Goddess had given a revelation urging Yang Yi to go below with her, but Yang Yi remained unwilling to risk releasing the dangerous lifeform.
• Zhou Dai asked Yang Yi if she could buy some Great Sea Lung brain matter, making him recognize her familiar nature as a Brain-Eating Demon.

Yang Yi sold Great Sea Lung Brain Fluid to Zhou Dai and learned more about the people around the Shadow Society. Saintess Istil discovered a possible connection between Charles Ba’s companion and Su Na, while Yang Yi ended the fishing contest by conceding half the wager to Reinhardt.

• Yang Yi sold Zhou Dai several dozen bottles of Great Sea Lung Brain Fluid, then left as Meshal begged Zhou Dai for some.
• Saintess Istil met secretly with Chekhov, who reported that Zhou Dai had changed bodies and that Charles Ba’s actions had disrupted their planned arrest.
• Chekhov reported that Dororov’s soul might be inside Charles Ba’s armor, then said Charles Ba’s companion had briefly shown red eyes.
• Saintess Istil reacted strongly to the report, used a Sleeping Potion to connect the clues, and identified the woman as Su Na, the Witch Who Peep into Truth.
• Yang Yi, Xiaoji, and Reinhardt competed at fishing for five million Conch Coins, but Reinhardt caught several fish while Yang Yi and Xiaoji caught none.
• Yang Yi conceded half the wager by paying 2.5 million Conch Coins and left the fishing contest with Xiaoji.

Su Na revealed that the Holy Capital’s churches, buildings, and sewers formed a vast magic array that gathered faith and wishes, but Saintess Istil arrived before the secret could be acted on. Istil captured Su Na Na in a White Box and stopped Yang Yi’s brief eruption of flames, while Reinhardt arrived at the scene.

• Yang Yi returned to his quarters after conceding his fishing contest with Reinhardt and saving half his wager.
• Su Na showed Yang Yi a map revealing that the churches’ Goddess Statues all faced the enormous statue in Goddess Square.
• Su Na and Xiaoji overlaid the city’s buildings and sewers on the map, exposing a giant magic array that gathered faith or wish power.
• Saintess Istil entered the room after restraining Yang Yi, praised Su Na’s discovery, and trapped Su Na Na’s witch form in a White Box.
• Yang Yi’s flames briefly engulfed the room and nearby gardens, but Istil used his pendant and the Pure White Shard to extinguish them.
• Reinhardt arrived with his fishing rod after noticing the disturbance.

Yang Yi tried to bargain with Istil for Su Na, but used a distraction to attack her and reclaim the Holy Casket. As the Holy Capital shook, Zhou Dai’s Brain-Eating Demons launched their plan underground, where she prepared to free a chained creature resembling the Radiant Goddess.

• Yang Yi offered to leave with his people if Istil returned Su Na’s head, but Istil refused and warned that witches threatened the Holy Capital and humanity.
• Yang Yi distracted Istil by ordering Reinhardt to act, then used the Infinite Flintlock to strike her with a Fake Salt Spike and seize the Holy Casket.
• Istil cut away her infected shoulder and attacked Yang Yi, but her slash split the Holy Casket in two; Reinhardt was interrupted by an earthquake shaking the Holy Capital.
• A Brain-Eating Demon near Yang Yi’s residence noticed Istil’s attack and relayed an order to notify Zhou Dai and begin the plan.
• Zhou Dai received the message, directed the signal underground, and killed the clergy in the chamber where Musius had transformed.
• Zhou Dai vowed to free the chained creature resembling the Radiant Goddess and left the underground room.

Yang Yi used Forbidden Magic to force Saintess Istil back to the Holy Capital, hoping to recover the other half of the Holy Casket and save Su Na. Reinhardt and Istil prepared to stop him as his flames spread and Three Eyes revealed the secret behind Reinhardt’s regeneration.

• Yang Yi chased Istil for the other half of the Holy Casket, but Reinhardt blocked his way and demanded a spar.
• Yang Yi swallowed his half of the Holy Casket and his Pendant, then activated Burn with Me to threaten the Holy Capital.
• Su Na warned Yang Yi that Su Na Na’s consciousness might be erased if he did not retrieve her soon, but Yang Yi suspected the warning was a lie from Double Face.
• Yang Yi became a Flame Giant and fought Reinhardt, who failed to extinguish the flames despite regenerating from his injuries.
• Istil returned and asked Reinhardt to help stop Yang Yi, while Three Eyes revealed that Reinhardt’s healing power came from tiny Fireflies inside his body.

Yang Yi’s spell escalated while he fought Reinhardt and tried to bargain with Istil for Su Na’s release. Beneath the Holy Capital, Zhou Dai devoured the brains sustaining its Magic Array and killed the Knight Captains who confronted her.

• Yang Yi used the Limb Restoration Spell to reattach his severed hand and urged Istil to release Su Na, but Istil hesitated as the spell entered its next stage and spread scorched earth across the battlefield.
• Zhou Dai ate the brains stored in the Holy Capital’s secret room, destroying the core of the surface Magic Array.
• Chekhov led Holy Church Knight Captains into the room and ordered them to kill Zhou Dai.
• Zhou Dai used a spell learned from the Crimson Witch to kill the Knight Captains, while her growing power carried her farther from humanity.

Zhou Dai broke the White Knight’s control over the dead knights while Saintess Istil began losing the Goddess’s power and ordered people evacuated from the Holy Capital. Yang Yi agreed to Istil’s demands, and she froze into an Ice Egg as a Pure White Gate appeared behind her.

• Zhou Dai used the Supreme Holy Slash to destroy the threads controlling the dead knights, severing White Knight Hetis’s connection to them.
• Saintess Istil told Hetis not to go underground and sent a final order to the Paladins, while she began losing her power as Saintess.
• Mosen allowed Players to leave through the Gate of Glory, and Ito Sho directed the departing crowd toward ships at the Port.
• Yang Yi continued fighting Reinhardt as the scorched ground spread and residents who saw it burst into flames.
• Istil offered Yang Yi the Truth in exchange for two requests, and Yang Yi agreed.
• Istil’s blindfold slipped away, revealing blood-red eyes like Su Na’s, before she froze into an Ice Egg and a Pure White Gate appeared behind her.

Yang Yi was thrown through the White Palace gate and encountered the frozen Ice Nest Lord, but Reinhardt pulled him back before he could remain trapped there. After the gate vanished and Istil became an Ice Egg, Yang Yi set out to reunite with Cui Xiya and Xiaoji.

• A freezing gate opened, and Reinhardt grabbed Yang Yi and kicked him into the White Palace after Yang Yi swallowed the remaining half of the Holy Casket.
• Inside the palace, Yang Yi saw the Ice Nest Lord and became frozen near the gate when his flames went out.
• Reinhardt pulled Yang Yi out by sacrificing his right hand, which he regenerated with glowing green bees.
• Yang Yi found that the gate and the effects of "Burn with Me!" had vanished, while Istil had become an Ice Egg in Reinhardt's arms.
• Yang Yi reconstructed the Nightmare Star, contacted Cui Xiya and Xiaoji, and learned they were coming to meet him.
• The Abyss Nautilus emerged and gnawed at Yang Yi's scalp without breaking it.

Yang Yi restored Su Na and learned that the Gate of Glory was a seal keeping something dangerous inside. As Light Fairies began devouring people fleeing the Holy Capital, Rose Knight Mosen tried to close the gate, revealing that it was marked as Experiment Center No. 3.

• Yang Yi reunited Su Na’s heads and body, and she explained that Su Na Na had lied about being the one he held.
• Su Na concluded that Yang Yi had avoided becoming a Fire Man because two opposing powers had canceled each other out, and she suspected the Gate of Glory was an inward-facing seal.
• Yang Yi and Su Na saw Light Fairies attacking and eating people as the Holy Capital descended into chaos.
• Mosen decided to close the Gate of Glory, using Pale White Flames to block the fleeing crowd and the pursuing Light Fairies.
• Mosen equipped himself with weapons and chains, gained enough strength to move the gate, and exposed the warning labels and the designation Experiment Center No. 3.

Light Fairies rampaged through the Holy Capital, and Yang Yi found the Teleportation Array damaged beyond repair. As he searched for another way out before the Gate of Glory closed, Reinhardt arrived above the Nightmare Star, radiating a powerful, familiar light.

• Yang Yi rescued Cui Xiya from the Light Fairies and cleared the swarm around the damaged Teleportation Array.
• Su Na said the Twin Magic Array could not be repaired, so Yang Yi began considering Falling Star, upgrading the Nightmare Star, and the Player Island Portal as escape options.
• Yang Yi ordered the Old Captain to head for the exit and checked his supplies, finding he still needed Legendary Remains to upgrade the Nightmare Star.
• Yang Yi examined Istil's Paladin armor and learned that it had lost its blessing and fallen from relic to Hero-level treasure.
• Yang Yi sensed Reinhardt's powerful aura overhead and saw him shining with white light.

Reinhardt delivered Paladin corpses and the corrupted Cui Bisi to Yang Yi, then warned that corruption was taking hold of him and urged Yang Yi to escape. Yang Yi upgraded the Nightmare Star to level 7 and discovered its new Treasure Light skill, leaving him ready to attempt an escape from the Holy Capital.

• Reinhardt gave Yang Yi five Paladin corpses and Cui Bisi, asking him to take her along, while Su Na offered to help Istil but Reinhardt refused to leave her behind.
• Reinhardt warned Yang Yi that a corrupting power was affecting him and secretly asked Yang Yi to return and kill him if possible.
• Yang Yi concluded that the Paladins had been corrupted, stripped the corpses of their equipment, and upgraded the Nightmare Star.
• The Nightmare Star reached level 7, gaining increased size and new skills including Treasure Vault and Treasure Light.
• Yang Yi realized Treasure Light could reduce skill cooldowns and believed he had what he needed to escape the Holy Capital.

Yang Yi activated Falling Star to teleport the Nightmare Star out of the Holy Capital and used a Hero-level breastplate with Treasure Light to shorten the countdown. As the ship vanished with a group of fleeing players aboard, the Goddess Statue emerged amid deadly light, and Reinhardt watched a powerful slash strike toward it.

• Yang Yi activated Falling Star, setting the Nightmare Star’s destination ten nautical miles from the Shelter and starting a ten-hour countdown.
• When the Holy Capital shook and the Goddess Statue began sinking, Yang Yi used Treasure Light on a Hero-level breastplate, reducing the countdown to 2 hours, 14 minutes, and 18 seconds.
• More than thirty fleeing players asked Yang Yi for passage, and he let them board the Nightmare Star as crystalline skeleton warriors drove off pursuing Light Fairies.
• The Nightmare Star vanished in a burst of Treasure Light as Falling Star activated.
• The Goddess Statue rose from underground with twelve pairs of wings of light, evaporating nearby believers while Reinhardt noted that Yang Yi and his group had disappeared.
• A powerful slash of light cleaved toward the emerging Goddess Statue.

Mosen sealed the Gate of Glory as the Radiant Goddess descended upon the Holy Capital, turning its believers into frenzied worshippers and making Reinhardt her fanatic. After Zhou Dai consumed Istil, she stood up in Istil’s body with ten pairs of wings.

• Ito Sho fled the Holy Capital by boat, but the system erased him as soon as he crossed its boundary.
• Mosen used his transformed arms to pull the Gate of Glory shut, and a streak of multicolored light escaped through the closing gap.
• The Radiant Goddess’s light blinded the believers and drew them into worship, while many residents burned or evaporated.
• Istil thawed beneath the Goddess’s light as Zhou Dai, now a Saintess, confronted her and threatened to eat her brain.
• After hours of chewing, Zhou Dai stood up in Istil’s body and spread ten pairs of wings.

Yang Yi brought the Nightmare Star and its passengers safely to the Sea of No Light after escaping the Holy Capital. He set course for a nearby base and arranged for the rescued players to reach Steam Island, leaving their next steps dependent on what they learned about the situation outside.

• Yang Yi checked the ship’s location in the Sea of No Light and prepared for its descent while the passengers clung to the deck’s vines.
• The Nightmare Star slowed above the sea and landed with a splash, leaving the passengers mostly unharmed.
• Su Na took the damaged Xiaoji to the Laboratory, while Cui Xiya covered Cui Bisi’s head with a Small Light Container and prepared to fish.
• Yang Yi told the players he planned to visit a nearby base and asked Su Na to have Xiaoji contact the Shelter.
• The players asked Yang Yi for money and passage to Steam Island, and he agreed to open a Portal and direct them to Zhang Zhi for a loan.

Yang Yi returned to Steam Island and found it overgrown with vegetation, then learned from Yu Dawei that the players had recently captured Green Island. The chapter shifts back a month to the New World Fleet’s advance team beginning its Green Island operation under Shen Guanquan.

• Yang Yi redeemed a Portal Exchange Ticket, opened a Portal to Steam Island, and brought his group through.
• Yang Yi found Steam Island covered in grass, mushrooms, trees, and vines, with players and robots clearing the growth.
• Yang Yi asked Yu Dawei about the changes and learned that the players had captured Green Island after fighting for half a month.
• A month earlier, Shen Guanquan joined the New World Fleet’s elite advance team as it arrived near Green Island.
• Xu Da led the team ashore, and the Gale turned invisible while one crew member stayed behind to await their return.

He Qi led the expedition deeper into Green Island’s forest, where mimicking plants attacked the team and the ground itself came alive. As the group retreated, Wang Yuan sensed a strange singing sound that only Qiqi seemed to hear.

• Zhao Tie Tou relayed underwater findings and Doctor’s request for plant samples as the party advanced through the forest.
• He Qi sensed they were being watched and ordered the team to withdraw, but vines attacked and Balot identified the hostile plants as Otherworldly Demons using mimicry.
• Balot warned the others about the collected samples, while Doctor urged them to capture some and Shen Guanquan’s group fought off the living forest.
• Xu Da stopped a shaking tree trunk by touching it with his deformed arm, and He Qi cut down falling trunks as the team retreated in formation.
• Zhao Tie Tou asked whether anyone heard a strange singing sound for Wang Yuan, and Qiqi said she could hear something as she looked toward Wang Yuan.