Recaps

Yang Yi decided to travel through the ice field as a merchant and arranged for Yu Dawei to destroy and rebuild the Nightmare Star so it could eventually bring Steam Island’s goods to him. While preparing to trade with limited help, Yang Yi used the Mirror of the Long-Legged Sardine to create a strong, intelligent worker, then began producing more.

• Yang Yi chose to head into the ice field to trade instead of sailing out to find another player, and planned to rebuild the Nightmare Star to reconnect with Steam Island.
• Yang Yi told Yu Dawei to move the ship’s supplies, lure away the Vitality Sardine Tree, and destroy the Nightmare Star safely.
• Yang Yi confirmed the ship’s rebuild, which would take twenty-one days, and continued preparing merchandise for trade.
• Yang Yi used the Mirror of the Long-Legged Sardine for twenty-four hours until a Super Long-Legged Sardine emerged.
• Yang Yi tested the sardine’s strength and intelligence, then tied it in front of the mirror and began mass-producing workers.

Yang Yi turned the Treasure Ship into a shop staffed by Long-Legged Sardines and continued traveling across the ice in search of customers. When the Nightmare Star was rebuilt, an Ice Nest Elder spotted the ship and tried to alert the Ice Nest Cult, so Yang Yi killed the Elder and the entire swarm before they could report him.

• Yang Yi trained thousands of Long-Legged Sardines to organize the Treasure Ship and prepare to serve customers.
• Yang Yi traveled across the ice as a Flame Giant while Su Na controlled the Treasure Ship, but found no customers.
• The Nightmare Star finished rebuilding, and an Ice Nest Elder and its swarm spotted it, triggering a warning that Yang Yi had to eliminate all witnesses within 15 minutes.
• The Ice Nest Elder recognized Yang Yi as a Player and tried to return to activate the Mist.
• Yang Yi killed the Ice Nest Worms and crushed the Ice Nest Elder's shell with his flaming hand.
• Yang Yi confirmed that no witnesses remained and returned to the Nightmare Star with the Elder's remains for Gacha.

Yang Yi processed the remains from the collapsed Mirror Tower, turned most of them into Gacha rewards, and restored the Nightmare Star to level seven. He then opened a Portal to seek new merchandise and a solution to crossing the Ice Field.

• Yang Yi gave the Book of Pure White, middle volume to the long-legged squad captain, who froze solid, so he handed it to the Old Captain instead.
• Yang Yi fed a Wise Fox (Yang Yi) corpse into the Gacha Machine and obtained glasses that he intended to give to Su Na.
• Yang Yi upgraded the Nightmare Star back to level seven, but found no mythic-level remains and no changes to the ship's skills.
• Yang Yi kept the Great Limb Spider, the Silver Wolf Knight, and Black Staff, while turning the other corpses into equipment, soul stones, inscription stones, and other rewards.
• Yang Yi planned to stock the Treasure Ship and One-Eye Smithy with merchandise, then opened a Portal to find unusual goods and address travel across the Ice Field.

Yang Yi expanded the Treasure Ship’s business and returned from the Infinite Trial Tower to find its first customers browsing aboard. He approached the frightened pair just as they were about to leave, leaving their purchase—and the caravan’s prospects—uncertain.

• Yang Yi outfitted the Treasure Ship with sled runners and Snow Walkers, bought Player Island Portals for his companions, and acquired new talents for Cui Xiya and Cui Bisi.
• Yang Yi and Su Na found that the Infinite Trial Tower gave powerful players mostly Long-Legged Sardines, so Yang Yi left after earning few Player Points.
• Yang Yi returned with fruit and vegetables and discovered that the Treasure Ship had stopped beside the Nightmare Star because customers had arrived.
• Cui Xiya showed an unfamiliar man and woman around the shop, but they found the merchandise too expensive and prepared to leave.
• Yang Yi called out to the pair, who froze in fear at the sight of the bald, eyepatched man.

Yang Yi made his first sale as a traveling merchant, giving two siblings a Super Apple as a gift after they could afford only water. He followed them to their hidden settlement beneath the ice and prepared to investigate it.

• The siblings bought a bottle of water, and Yang Yi gave them a Super Apple as the caravan’s first customers.
• Cui Xiya teased Yang Yi about losing money on the gift, while Yang Yi inspected a Golden Hourglass that recorded his first transaction.
• The siblings traveled across the snowfield and entered their underground settlement through a tunnel dug by their Snow Wolf.
• Yang Yi followed them to the entrance and, after speaking with Su Na, used the Darkness Bodysuit’s invisibility function to enter.

Yang Yi infiltrated an underground settlement and discovered that its miners extracted White Shards linked to the Ice Nest Cult. He stole a large haul and returned to the surface, leaving the cult’s underground operation undisturbed.

• Yang Yi slid down the icy passage, missed the siblings’ platform, and crashed into a wall near the mining area, distracting the guards.
• Yang Yi slipped past the guards and entered the mining area, where he saw workers extracting White Shards from grains of ice and reported his findings to Su Na.
• Su Na told Yang Yi to steal a bucket of shards, and he secretly took miners’ buckets and their contents.
• Yang Yi explored the settlement, saw its church and an Ice Nest Elder, and stole the White Shards piled inside the church.
• After three hours, Yang Yi emerged onto the Ice Field and headed back to the Treasure Ship.

Yang Yi brought a huge haul of White Shards and Ice Eggs back to the Treasure Ship, where Su Na studied their properties and the Golden Hourglass. His business-sensing skill detected a bustling marketplace as a massive Ice Nest Swarm approached the caravan.

• Yang Yi returned to the Treasure Ship with piles of Ice Eggs and White Shards, explaining that Su Na wanted them for research.
• Yang Yi and Su Na discussed the Ice Nest Cult’s underground settlements, their food and fuel, and Su Na’s theory that oxygen came from the ice.
• Yang Yi delivered dozens of Ice Eggs to Su Na in the Witch Laboratory, where she examined them alongside a White Shard and the Golden Hourglass.
• Yang Yi used his business-sensing skill from the Lookout Tower and detected that the area was likely to see many transactions.
• Yang Yi spotted a huge Ice Nest Swarm, including many Ice Nest Elders, gathering ahead of the caravan and prepared to receive them.

Yang Yi confronted eighteen Ice Nest Elders who accused him of stealing White Shards, but he invoked his merchant status and agreed to trade. As the Elders searched the Treasure Ship for the shard, Yang Yi and his crew prepared to trap them with inflated prices and a billion-Conch-Coin heating fee.

• The Ice Nest swarm surrounded the Treasure Ship and brought the frostbitten young man and his sister, who had been frozen in ice, to accuse Yang Yi of stealing White Shards.
• Yang Yi denied the accusation, threatened to invoke the Golden Commerce Guild’s protection, and offered to trade; the Ice Nest Elders shattered the ice sculptures holding the young man’s sister and others.
• The Ice Nest Elders boarded the Treasure Ship, freezing the Long-Legged Sardines and damaging merchandise as they searched for the White Shard.
• Yang Yi secretly raised the prices of many goods to one billion Conch Coins and followed the Elders as they headed toward the cabins.
• A plump Light Fairy posted signs along the route declaring that the heating service ahead cost one billion Conch Coins, setting a trap for the searching Elders.

Yang Yi guided the Ice Nest Elders through his Treasure Ship and returned the White Shards they had come to retrieve. When one elder refused to pay the Wealth-and-Fortune Staircase fee, Yang Yi killed him with Liquid Flowing Fire, leaving the others stunned by his power.

• Yang Yi showed the Ice Nest Elders his shop's salted-fishified weapons and led them down to the lower decks.
• The Ice Nest Elders found their White Shards among the Ice Eggs, and Yang Yi returned them while denying that he had stolen them.
• As the elders tried to leave, Yang Yi charged them for the diamond lounge and the Fortune-and-Wealth Blessing Staircase.
• Yang Yi attacked the elder who refused to pay the increased staircase toll, transformed into a towering wolf-faced figure, and burned the Crystal Giant to charcoal with Liquid Flowing Fire.
• The Ice Nest Grand Elder stopped the others from attacking after sensing Yang Yi's strength, while tens of millions of Conch Coins and a Golden Commerce Guild VIP card spilled out.

Yang Yi’s transformed Treasure Ship became a blazing Firebearer, while Su Na used a super shard to expose the Ice Nest Elders’ reliance on heat and freeze their Grand Elder. The fire also awakened the first Ice Field native to join the Fire Worship Cult.

• The Nightmare Star’s Mimicry transformed the Treasure Ship into the burning Firebearer, whose flames warmed a freezing young man beside his ice-encased sister and turned him into a Fire Worship Cult believer.
• Yang Yi charged the Ice Nest Elders more Conch Coins for each step through the burning ship, while the Grand Elder paid to pass and abandoned the others to fight Yang Yi.
• Su Na stopped the fleeing Grand Elder and explained that the Ice Nest Elders used their White Shards to draw heat from extreme cold and sustain themselves.
• Su Na stripped the Grand Elder’s White Shard from his forehead, freezing him into an ice sculpture as a brilliant sphere of light erupted into the sky.

Yang Yi and his allies evacuated the burning ship and destroyed the Ice Nest Worms, while Yang Yi healed North’s shattered sister. A new Ice Nest leader arrived at the wreckage and ordered a search, suspecting the Fire Worship Cult had escaped.

• Yang Yi and Su Na gathered the Ice Nest Elders’ bodies, while their allies moved the merchandise and Mechs away from the burning ship.
• Yang Yi led the group outside to fight the Ice Nest Worms, and their Iron Skeletons and vines attacked with golden energy and flaming whips.
• Yang Yi met North, a newly converted Fire Worship Cult Believer, and used the Limb Restoration Spell and Healing of the Flame to restore North’s sister.
• North’s sister recovered and recognized him, while Yang Yi and the others finished off the Ice Nest Worms.
• A new Ice Nest leader arrived with more Ice Nest Believers, found the burned wreckage, and ordered them to activate the Mist Formation and search for signs of escape.

Yang Yi fled across the Ice Field aboard the repaired Treasure Ship and questioned Noelle and North about the Ice Nest Cult and the mining settlements. When thick Mist rose around the ship, he hid all firelight and learned of a possible cult base beneath a mining hollow, then focused on the natives’ meager earnings and his plans to do business.

• Yang Yi used his ability to swallow the Treasure Ship and nearby people, Mechs, and strange fish, then escaped and later spat out the ship after it had begun repairing itself.
• Noelle introduced herself and North to Yang Yi, and she described the Ice Nest Cult’s bishops and its presence in 127 known settlements.
• Thick Mist rose ahead of the moving Treasure Ship, so Yang Yi extinguished the braziers and concealed the ship’s firelight before continuing onward.
• North told Yang Yi that a miner had fallen into a mining hollow and later returned as a head-only church bishop.
• Yang Yi asked how much miners earned and learned they received only ten to a hundred Conch Coins per day for their White Shards.

Noel and her brother opened One-Eye's Mystery Shop aboard the Treasure Ship to a group of player customers, while Yang Yi monitored their purchases and learned the Golden Hourglass could generate Senior VIP Cards. After confirming the shop was working, Yang Yi disguised himself and returned to the settlement's market to buy White Shards.

• Noel welcomed the first customers to One-Eye's Mystery Shop, where her brother served as a security guard and Golden-Armored Skeletons enforced the cabin's safety rules.
• Hamof visited the shop to inspect its competition and consider hiring an attractive assistant, while customers browsed merchandise and sampled food and drinks.
• Yang Yi confirmed that transactions aboard the Treasure Ship added golden sand to the Golden Hourglass even when he was elsewhere.
• The Golden Hourglass produced a Senior VIP Card after a player with a perfect bonded item completed a transaction, and Yang Yi told Su Na how it worked.
• Yang Yi put on a black robe, infiltrated the settlement's market, and posted a sign offering to buy White Shards at high prices.

Yang Yi’s Mystery Merchant appearances weakened the Ice Nest Cult’s control as he bought White Shards from settlements, and he discovered one settlement frozen after a violent crackdown. Su Na produced a potion to help him survive the extreme cold, while the Mystery Shop’s salted fish toys grew popular among players.

• Yang Yi continued buying White Shards across settlements, paying with Conch Coins, food, water, and necessities while abducting local Archbishops.
• A week later, Yang Yi found a settlement whose inhabitants had all been frozen, apparently after the Ice Nest Cult violently suppressed a riot.
• Yang Yi reported the frozen settlement to Su Na and planned to infiltrate the underground beneath the mining area.
• Su Na showed Yang Yi a Pure White Potion made from White Shards and Ice Nest Elder brain matter, which could help its user withstand extreme cold.
• Noel and the others expanded the Treasure Ship’s Mystery Shop, where salted fish equipment and free blind-box toys became popular with players.

Yang Yi infiltrated a vast frozen mining complex and discovered that the Truth Society had excavated tunnels toward the White Palace to study the Ice Nest Lord. He followed the minecart tracks toward the central No. 0 Excavation Site, which he suspected was the Ice Nest Cult’s headquarters.

• Yang Yi used the Pure White Potion and a White Shard to withstand the mining area’s extreme cold before descending into its deepest cavity.
• Yang Yi found the frozen bodies of Ice Nest Believers and uncovered advanced rail tracks beneath them.
• Yang Yi spotted the Truth Society’s emblem and used nearby maps to learn that the tracks connected excavation sites, a warehouse, and a relay station.
• Yang Yi concluded that the mining operation had been aimed at the White Palace and the Ice Nest Lord.
• Yang Yi chose the route to No. 0 Excavation Site, roughly two hundred kilometers away, believing it could be the Ice Nest Cult’s headquarters.

Yang Yi traveled toward Dig Site Zero and found a Truth Society research photograph identifying Istil as Lilyas Tiel, a former national chief researcher. He reached the site, encountered a massive Crystal Giant, and slipped past it while trying to discover what the Ice Nest Cult was doing there.

• Yang Yi searched a Relay Station and found empty mine carts and powerless construction vehicles, then continued toward Dig Site Zero.
• Yang Yi uncovered a preserved Truth Society team photograph and recognized Istil, whose caption named her Lilyas Tiel, national chief researcher.
• Yang Yi photographed the discovery but could not contact Su Na from the special area.
• Yang Yi reached Dig Site Zero and observed a nearly fifty-meter Crystal Giant after an intact-bodied Ice Nest Elder and its escorts moved on.
• Yang Yi recalled that nearby White Shard walls bore images that harmed his Sanity, then used his invisibility suit to slip past the Crystal Giant and approach the site.

Yang Yi infiltrated the Ice Nest Cult’s excavation site and overheard Senge and Leimo discuss crushing resistance, completing an armor suit, and reopening the White Palace. He discovered a sealed breach in a massive door and suspected that Istil’s spiral spear had pierced it, while the fate of the original researchers remained unclear.

• Yang Yi followed the Ice Nest Swarm into a vast excavation chamber and hid from a Crystal Giant while Senge spoke with Leimo.
• Senge explained that the cult planned to freeze rebellious settlements and replace their residents if necessary.
• Yang Yi noticed a huge ice formation covering what looked like a door beneath the White Palace, with a spiral spear sealing a breach and people frozen inside.
• Leimo said the cult was finishing a suit of armor that would let them reopen the White Palace and spread the Lord’s gospel.
• Yang Yi saw that thousands of Crystalline Elders were confined in glass canisters and suspected the cult had converted or produced them.
• Yang Yi wondered whether the missing researchers had fled, become Ice Nest Worms, or remained inside the door.

Yang Yi infiltrated the Truth Society’s station to search its computers for information and discovered records of human experimentation and the cultivation of cold-resistant people. After stealing several computers, he headed toward the large building likely to be Istil’s research institute.

• Yang Yi slipped down the cliff and entered a warehouse, where he found White Shards and quietly removed components from a broken computer.
• Yang Yi entered a Biochemical Cultivation Room and hid when an Ice Nest Elder came in to unlock its computer.
• Yang Yi swallowed the Ice Nest Elder with the Maw of Gluttony, then searched the computer and learned about human experiments, gene databases, and efforts to cultivate people for the White Palace.
• Yang Yi decided to take the computer and then carried off six more computers or towers from other buildings.
• Yang Yi headed toward the large research building near the Crystal Giant, suspecting it was Istil’s institute.

Yang Yi broke into the Laboratory to seize the White Armor, fighting past Leimo and Senge before reaching its protective barrier. He guessed the password just as the Crystal Giants entered, leaving him with access to the armor but surrounded by enemies.

• Yang Yi rushed toward the unusual building after collecting the White Shards, but Leimo detected him and attacked.
• Senge trapped Yang Yi in an Ice Giant Fist, but Yang Yi broke free and struck Senge and Leimo with the Fool's Greatsword.
• Yang Yi repeatedly used Shatter Slash to break through the building's wall and entered the Laboratory.
• Yang Yi found the damaged White Armor behind a barrier and tried passwords based on Istil's name.
• Leimo, Senge, and the awakened Crystal Giants entered as Yang Yi guessed the password, opening the barrier.

Yang Yi broke free of the White Armor’s freezing effect by igniting the Burning Giant’s Heart, but the armor flowed over his body and began draining his heat. He escaped the research facility and raced toward the Witch Laboratory aboard the Treasure Ship, seeking help before he froze again.

• Yang Yi touched the White Armor and froze solid, leading Leimo and the Ice Nest Elders to assume he had died.
• Yang Yi’s heartbeat grew stronger as he burned fuel with the Burning Giant’s Heart, melting the ice and restoring his movement.
• The White Armor flowed over Yang Yi, and Leimo attacked him but lost his arm when the armor stole his body heat.
• Yang Yi vanished through the facility’s crystalline material, and Leimo sent the Ice Nest Believers and Elders to pursue him.
• Yang Yi fled toward the Treasure Ship’s Witch Laboratory while the armor continued draining his limited supply of heat.

Yang Yi struggled to keep the damaged White Coffin from freezing him and contacted Su Na for fuel. With the immediate danger contained, he planned to investigate the White Palace and its research institute, while Ice Nest Cult believers pursued him; aboard the Treasure Ship, Noel’s trained Long-Legged Sardines entertained customers and Hamof watched their show.

• Yang Yi learned that the damaged White Coffin drained heat and used his own hands and the Maw of Gluttony's tongue as fuel for the Burning Giant's Heart.
• Yang Yi reached Su Na, who transferred Pale Worm Grease and his own grease through the Treasure Bag to keep him from freezing.
• Yang Yi sent Su Na information and photos, then said he needed to remove the armor and investigate the White Long Spear and the research institute, but the Ice Nest Cult believers had chased him out.
• Noel's trained Long-Legged Sardines performed tricks for Treasure Ship customers, while Hamof watched and wondered whether he should train something for a show.

Su Na prepared the Treasure Ship for an expected Ice Nest Cult attack, but Yang Yi returned in a strange white armor that brought extreme cold with it. After Su Na found evidence that someone had gone inside the armor, she told Yang Yi to use Burn with Me! to escape it.

• Su Na warned the Treasure Ship's customers that the Ice Nest Cult might attack and sent most of them away.
• Su Na placed the ship on combat alert, and Steam Island robots and volunteer players hid beneath the ice, ready to fight.
• Yang Yi emerged in white armor that caused temperatures to plummet, and the players mistook him for an enemy and opened fire.
• Yang Yi hurried to the Witch Laboratory, leaving a trail of ice behind him, and asked Su Na to remove the armor.
• Su Na revealed that the files showed someone had gone inside the armor and told Yang Yi to use Burn with Me! to free himself.

Yang Yi used “Burn with Me!” to balance the cold of the White Coffin armor while Su Na examined Istil’s records and found a way to remove it. The records warned that the Pure White Gate must remain closed, and Yang Yi learned he would have to enter it for eight hours to cool down and escape the armor.

• Yang Yi activated “Burn with Me!” on the ice, melting snow from the Treasure Ship and rekindling the Fire Worship Cult player and the Waiter.
• Yang Yi told Su Na that the spell had balanced his temperature, though flames still escaped from a breach in his abdomen and melted the surrounding ice.
• Su Na used the computers’ hidden records from Lilyas Tiel, who warned that the Pure White Gate must never be opened or destroyed because doing so caused ecological mass extinction.
• Su Na learned from Istil’s records that controlled use of the forbidden spell could extend White Coffin’s duration, but removing the armor required its wearer to enter the Pure White Gate for eight hours.
• Yang Yi learned the method from Su Na and remarked that Istil had also been a Fire Worship Cult fanatic.

Yang Yi’s allies battled the Ice Nest Cult’s forces aboard the Treasure Ship as Crystal Giants broke through their defenses. Ma Dabao and Yu Dawei joined the fight, but the clash continued amid mounting chaos.

• Su Na warned Yang Yi that Senge could travel through the Pure White Gate, and Yang Yi said he would burn him before he could cast a spell.
• Yang Yi’s Forbidden Magic cleared the fog, drawing a vast swarm of Ice Nest Believers toward the Treasure Ship.
• The players and Combat Robots fought off the swarm until Ice Nest Elders arrived and Crystal Giants breached the ship’s defenses.
• Ma Dabao brought his monstrous pets into the fight and helped the players regain control of the deck.
• Yu Dawei fired a miniature nuclear bomb from his combat body, destroying a large part of the Ice Nest Swarm.

The players held the Treasure Ship’s battle line until Reno’s freezing magic overwhelmed them, prompting Su Na’s side to counter with a transcendent defensive spell. Senge recognized the defenders as players and moved to confront Su Na, but a giant white hand seized his head before he could act.

• The Ice Nest Cult sent a nearly five-hundred-meter Crystal Giant into battle, and Yu Dawei fired nuclear missiles at it.
• Reno froze the missiles before they could explode and used heat-stealing rays to freeze the Treasure Ship, its players, and many of its robots.
• White Shards formed a barrier, and explosions cleared away surrounding enemies before a towering Ice Wall blocked the attack.
• Senge recognized the defenders as players and announced that he would deal with Su Na.
• A huge white hand reached through the Wall of Sighs and clamped down on Senge’s head.