Recaps

Yang Yi harvested and sold thousands of units of wood, then arranged a large sale with Yu Dawei and a deal for Shen Guanquan to grow his Fire Bananas. Shen Guanquan revealed he also had Vitality Coconuts, leaving Yang Yi to consider another special crop.

• Yang Yi cut down trees on an island, hauled over four hundred ashore, and converted them into 4,789 units of wood.
• Yang Yi sold his wood for 149,100 Conch Coins and agreed to sell Yu Dawei 10,000 units the next day at a reduced price.
• Yang Yi confirmed to Shen Guanquan that he was One-Eye but refused to explain how he cleared the Extreme Winter Sea.
• Yang Yi offered Shen Guanquan Fire Banana seeds, and they agreed that Shen Guanquan would supply him with the fruit at cost.
• Shen Guanquan shared information about his Vitality Coconuts after Yang Yi asked what other special crops he had.

Yang Yi sold Pale Worm fat and Charred Liquor for a huge profit, then abandoned plans to refine more fat after a test showed poor yields. He and Su Na spent the day logging an island, selling 10,000 units of timber to the Iron Will before nightfall.

• Yang Yi sold 478 L of Pale Worm fat and 300 L of Charred Liquor, raising his balance to 498,100 Conch Coins.
• Yang Yi tested refining fat from a Gacha Machine-transported worm tentacle, but its low yield and Fine quality made him abandon the plan.
• Yang Yi enlisted Su Na to help cut down the island’s trees before timber prices fell.
• Yang Yi and Su Na hauled logs toward shore, bringing back 13,842 units of timber by nightfall.
• Yang Yi sold 10,000 units of timber to the Iron Will in two transactions for 250,000 Conch Coins.

Yang Yi sold timber from the island before a mysterious Collector appeared aboard the Nightmare Star and offered him three Supreme-quality items for trade. Yang Yi examined the items and learned that he had ten chances to trade before the Collector forced a deal, but he did not know what to offer.

• Yang Yi sold timber through the day as more players began selling timber in bulk, then planned to retrieve and sell the remaining logs by firelight.
• Yang Yi discovered a nearly three-meter-tall figure in a black robe on the shore, and it appeared aboard the Nightmare Star almost instantly.
• The system announced that the Collector had come to trade, and Yang Yi used Three Eyes to discover that its robe was empty and fine threads led from it into the sea.
• The Collector laid out a Mid-tier Artisan Inscription Stone, a Supermagic Potion, and Lost Penitent Armor for Yang Yi to inspect.
• Yang Yi learned that he had ten opportunities to trade before the Collector would force a trade, but he did not know what to offer.

Yang Yi tested different items to learn the Collector’s trading preferences and discovered that it wanted potions. The Collector accepted Yang Yi’s Unknown Potion as a suitable trade, leaving him to decide whether to complete the exchange or offer more goods.

• Yang Yi asked Song Yingwen about Collectors and learned that a player who had possessed a Collector’s Contract Item had later disappeared.
• Yang Yi offered the Sea Serpent’s Fang and the Ice Egg’s white fragment, but the Collector rejected both.
• The Collector seized the Stone of Truth, stirred the surrounding sea, then returned it because he could not offer an item of equivalent value.
• Yang Yi found that the Collector was interested in potions, though it rejected a second Appetite Potion as a duplicate.
• The Collector accepted Yang Yi’s Unknown Potion and allowed him to complete the trade or continue offering items.

Yang Yi and Su Na prepared rare potions and other unusual items to finish trading with the Collector before dawn. The chapter left them in the laboratory, making a special mold while Su Na worked with Yang Yi’s blood.

• Yang Yi confirmed that the Collector wanted the potions for his collection and went to ask Su Na for more trade goods.
• Su Na agreed to brew additional potions and proposed using Yang Yi’s blood to make a unique prototype.
• Yang Yi bought Holy Water from Zhou Dai, who asked whether Brain-Eating Demons counted as evil creatures.
• Yang Yi gave the Holy Water to Su Na, and they went to the laboratory to prepare the trades.
• Su Na drew Yang Yi’s blood and began mixing potions while Yang Yi asked her to explain crystal armor and make a special mold.

Yang Yi carved a grotesque crystal statue to trade with the Collector, and Su Na finished preparing two potions. The Collector accepted every item, especially liking Yang Yi’s statue, and the trades were completed.

• Yang Yi melted crystal into a cube and went to the Captain's Quarters to carve a statue, losing Sanity when he recalled the Mother of Ten Thousand Limbs and The Charred Tree.
• Yang Yi carved and repeatedly damaged a grotesque figure, then charred it and briefly burned it in the Life Fireplace to create the Unknown Statue.
• Su Na handed Yang Yi a Sleeping Potion and an Unknown Potion, completing the items they planned to trade.
• Yang Yi and Su Na met the Collector on the bow deck, and Yang Yi handed over their trade items, including the statue.
• The Collector examined the statue and liked it very much, leaving no trades remaining as Yang Yi took a photo.

Yang Yi completed a trade with the Collector and received a supreme-quality Satisfaction Contract Item that could summon another Collector. After the Collector vanished, the Lost Penitent Armor moved, revealed its previous wearer’s bones, and opened itself as if inviting Yang Yi inside.

• Yang Yi named the statue the Great Blasphemer and exchanged a handshake with the Collector, who left a gold Satisfaction Contract Item before vanishing into the sea.
• Yang Yi learned that the item could summon a Collector with better goods but might attract a different, dangerous Collector.
• Su Na examined the Supermagic Potion and said the Collector’s hand resembled one from a merman specimen in her laboratory.
• The Lost Penitent Armor turned toward Yang Yi and Su Na, then opened to reveal a small skeleton with blackened bones.
• Yang Yi realized the armor’s spikes would pierce its wearer, but he approached it despite Su Na’s warning.

After selling the island’s wood, Yang Yi drank a Sleeping Potion and slept for over twenty hours while Su Na worried about his deteriorating mental state. He woke to find Su Na had failed to locate another island, then sent Song Yingwen information about the Collector and learned that asking the Collector what it wanted might get a player deleted.

• Yang Yi and Su Na sold all the island’s wood, bringing Yang Yi’s balance to 1,521,070 Conch Coins, and Su Na persuaded him to drink a Sleeping Potion.
• Su Na left fourteen Sleeping Potions by Yang Yi’s bed because she feared his mental condition was worsening, and Yang Yi slept for over twenty hours.
• Yang Yi woke fully recovered, transferred 321,070 Conch Coins to Su Na, and learned she had found no second island.
• Yang Yi sent Song Yingwen information and a photo of the Collector, and explained that players could prepare items to trade with it.
• Song Yingwen warned Yang Yi that a player who asked the Collector what it wanted had their account deleted within two minutes.

Yang Yi investigated another player's fatal encounter with a Collector and inferred that sudden wealth and seeing one at night could trigger a trade. After enhancing his weapon and fishing in the Abundant Sea, he caught a Delicious Mushroom, which Su Na took to the laboratory for research as Yang Yi followed to make crystal weapon samples.

• Yang Yi received thirty thousand Conch Coins from Song Yingwen and reviewed the World Channel account of a player who died after asking a Collector what it wanted.
• Yang Yi compared the player's experience with his own and suspected that earning a large amount of Conch Coins and seeing a Collector triggered its appearance and trade demand.
• Yang Yi ate Black Bread, sailed toward the Abundant Sea, and upgraded the Sea Serpent's Fang into the exquisite Flame Serpent's Fang.
• Yang Yi fished for three hours and caught fresh water, fish, Eyeball Fruits, and a fragrant Delicious Mushroom.
• Su Na took the Delicious Mushroom to the laboratory for research, while Yang Yi followed to prepare sample crystal weapons for making molds.

Yang Yi tested crystal equipment production, made fine-quality crystal greatswords and shields, and planned to sell most of them for Conch Coins. After Su Na investigated Delicious Mushroom’s appeal to fish, she concluded its fragrance was reducing their appetite for other foods, so she and Yang Yi drank Appetite Potions to enjoy their crab dinner.

• Yang Yi cast a Crystal Longsword and found it was good quality but brittle, then made a fine-quality crystal greatsword modeled after Broken Iron.
• Yang Yi made a fine-quality Crystal Great Shield and decided to keep several pieces while selling the rest of the greatswords and shields for 20,000 Conch Coins each.
• Su Na found that Long-Legged Sardines preferred Delicious Mushroom to Black Bread and decided to feed them mushroom for several days to observe them.
• Yang Yi and Su Na caught One-Armed Crabs, but both found the crab meat unappetizing after exposure to Delicious Mushroom’s fragrance.
• Su Na suspected the mushroom’s fragrance dulled their appetite for other foods, and she and Yang Yi drank Appetite Potions to counteract the effect.

Yang Yi read the new Sea Weekly, which published advice about trading with the Collector and a theory about reaching the Extraordinary, then advertised his crystal weapons. He took several new orders and planned to ask He Qi about enhancement stones for Su Na’s Witch Set.

• Yang Yi trained in the Atrium to raise his attributes, then went to collect the newly released Sea Weekly.
• Yang Yi read One-Eye’s advice on trading with the Collector and saw readers misinterpret the accompanying image of an Evil Statue.
• Yang Yi read Knight of Justice’s theory that exceeding the attribute limit of 10 through an extraordinary path could lead to advancement to the Extraordinary.
• Yang Yi checked the trading section and posted that he wanted to buy Low-Tier Artisan Inscribed Stones to upgrade Su Na’s Witch Set.
• Yang Yi accepted orders for twelve more crystal weapons and shields, including five Broken Iron (Replicas) and five Crystal Great Shields from Shen Guanquan.
• Yang Yi planned to ask He Qi about enhancement stones the next day before going to sleep to recover his stamina.

Yang Yi bought enhancement stones from He Qi and had Su Na upgrade her witch equipment aboard the Nightmare Star. The chapter ended with Yang Yi planning further upgrades and purchases before the Abundant Sea.

• He Qi told Yang Yi how enhancing his cold-weather suit had helped him survive the Extreme Winter Sea and sent him information about his Treasured Giant Anglerfish Lantern.
• Yang Yi bought two Low-Tier Artisan Inscribed Stones from He Qi for eighty thousand apiece.
• Yang Yi gave the stones to Su Na, who enhanced her Witch's Casual Clothes and Treasure Bag from Fine to Treasured quality.
• Yang Yi examined the upgraded equipment and planned to enhance Su Na's dagger, gather supplies, and upgrade the ship to level 4.

Yang Yi tried Su Na’s Boiling Blood Potion, gained a powerful temporary boost, and survived its dangerous bleeding side effect with a Regeneration Potion and his Werewolf constitution. As players prepared to leave the Extreme Winter Sea and the Abundant Sea’s expansion drew closer, Yang Yi planned to replenish the Nightmare Star’s food supplies.

• Yang Yi finished crafting and shipping Crystal Equipment orders while Su Na continued developing a method to brew Charred Liquor from Fire Bananas.
• Yang Yi drank Su Na’s Boiling Blood Potion, gaining +2 to all attributes except Spirit for twenty minutes but losing 20 Sanity.
• When the potion’s effect ended, Yang Yi’s blood vessels ruptured, and he drank a Regeneration Potion while Su Na collected his blood for more potions.
• Yang Yi learned that timber prices were falling as players, including the New World Fleet, left the Extreme Winter Sea, and a system announcement said the Abundant Sea would expand once everyone had left.
• Yang Yi checked the remaining player count, then contacted Shen Guanquan about buying food and decided to stockpile supplies because food in the Abundant Sea might be inedible.

Yang Yi woke from a nightmare after transforming into a Werewolf and injuring Su Na, then suspected his hunger and craving for blood were side effects of the transformation. At daybreak, he resumed sailing toward the Abundant Sea and worked with Su Na on making greatswords.

• In a nightmare, Yang Yi escaped Su Na's restraints as a Werewolf and drank her blood, then woke to find he had transformed and wounded her in reality.
• Su Na treated her shoulder with a Regeneration Potion, while Yang Yi apologized and learned she had been checking on him because his nightmares kept her awake.
• Yang Yi licked the blood on his fingers, recognized that the nightmare had stirred a dangerous craving, and washed the blood away.
• Su Na examined hair she had secretly taken from Yang Yi's Werewolf form and considered how his transformation changed his mass.
• Yang Yi concluded that the nightmare's scenes were only for reference, resumed sailing toward the Abundant Sea, and decided to prioritize food supplies.
• Yang Yi began making greatswords after breakfast, and Su Na joined him in the laboratory in a notably good mood.

Yang Yi sold crystal equipment, caught a strangely fat sea bream that he suspected was linked to the Angler’s Curse, and later helped Su Na enhance her dagger. The chapter left Su Na preparing to make a new potion using Yang Yi’s wolf fur.

• Yang Yi and Su Na finished making the greatswords and Great Shields, while Yang Yi’s crystal equipment sales brought his Conch Coins total to 1.78 million.
• Yang Yi caught a huge Delicious Sea Bream, shared its image in the world Chat Channel, and discussed its possible connection to the Abundant Sea with He Qi.
• Yang Yi took the sea bream to Su Na and cremated the other fish that had gathered around it.
• Two days later, Yang Yi bought two Enhancement Stones and gave them to Su Na, upgrading her Witch’s Dagger to Treasured quality.
• Su Na asked Yang Yi for wolf fur to use in her new potion, and he transformed so she could pluck it from him.

Yang Yi found delicious seaweed in his fishing net and learned that Su Na’s Long-Legged Sardines had reached the final stage of transforming into delicious creatures. Suspecting the Abundant Sea was connected to the phenomenon, he prepared to investigate and stocked up on supplies, leaving with 1,597,500 Conch Coins.

• Yang Yi found no nearby islands, exercised, and decided to shop as food prices fell in the Extreme Winter Sea.
• Yang Yi hauled in Delicious, Juicy Seaweed and delivered it to Su Na at the Witch Laboratory.
• Su Na explained that the Long-Legged Sardines had progressed through addiction and fattening into assimilation, and began dissecting one.
• Yang Yi decided to investigate the Abundant Sea for signs of abnormalities linked to the delicious creatures.
• Yang Yi bought level 4 ship-upgrade materials, 200 Vitality Coconuts, and five kilograms of salt, leaving 1,597,500 Conch Coins.

Yang Yi bought two face coverings before investigating Su Na’s fourth-stage Long-Legged Sardine, which had grown into a monstrous, eating mass. After Yang Yi destroyed it, a scrap of flesh showed it could still consume and regenerate, and Su Na discovered the creature had become pure meat without organs or a stomach.

• Yang Yi bought a bloodstained scarf that disrupted smell and a Silver Beak Mask for Su Na, then saw a system warning that the Black Fog had sped up to 20 knots.
• Su Na explained that one Long-Legged Sardine had eaten the other and grown into a deformed fourth-stage monster that consumed the tank’s water and tried to eat its glass.
• Yang Yi insisted they kill the creature, and he shot the tank, then crushed a wriggling piece of flesh that tried to consume scraps and regenerate.
• Yang Yi examined a surviving chunk of flesh and shared its description with Su Na, who found that the creature had become pure meat without internal organs or a stomach.

Yang Yi sailed toward the Abundant Sea while investigating strange sea creatures and worsening dangers in the Extreme Winter Sea. He then tested the Lost Penitent Armor and discovered it understood his commands but deliberately disobeyed them.

• Yang Yi increased the Nightmare Star's speed and caught several grotesque sea creatures, which he burned in the Life Fireplace.
• Yang Yi read reports that falling temperatures had made Ice Nest Worms attack players stranded in the Extreme Winter Sea.
• Yang Yi took the Lost Penitent Armor into the Atrium and tried to communicate with it while keeping his distance.
• The armor indicated that it could not understand Yang Yi's speech, then obeyed his commands incorrectly by closing its breastplate when told to open it.

Yang Yi discovered that the self-aware armor deliberately did the opposite of his commands and put it away after it nearly punched him. He then helped Su Na test Craft Beer and underwent a spinal puncture so she could use his cerebrospinal fluid to develop a Mana-restoring potion.

• Yang Yi tested the armor, learned it obeyed commands by doing the opposite, and stored it after it attacked him and damaged Su Na's wall.
• Yang Yi sampled Su Na's Craft Beer, found it stronger than Charred Liquor, and decided it could serve as fuel aboard the Nightmare Star.
• Su Na asked Yang Yi for cerebrospinal fluid to help identify and make the Supermagic Potion, and he reluctantly agreed to a spinal puncture.
• Su Na extracted ten milliliters of Yang Yi's cerebrospinal fluid and said she also needed wolf fur as a catalyst.
• Yang Yi took a Regeneration Potion, rested for half an hour, and left the Laboratory wary of Su Na but hopeful that her potion could restore Mana.

Yang Yi tested the Lost Penitent Armor and discovered that wearing its gauntlet let him control the whole suit as an extension of himself. After he struggled to remove it, Su Na found that someone else had to order the armor to release its wearer.

• Yang Yi tested the armor’s strength and hardness, while he and Su Na observed its unpredictable responses to commands.
• Su Na suggested melting and recasting part of the armor, but Yang Yi refused to risk damaging the top-grade equipment.
• Yang Yi put on the armor’s right gauntlet, whose spikes pierced his hand, and discovered he could control the suit through another field of vision.
• Su Na watched Yang Yi test the armor, then later ordered its spikes to retract when he could not remove the gauntlet.
• Yang Yi removed the bloodied gauntlet and treated his wounds, while Su Na concluded that another person had to command the armor to release its wearer.

Yang Yi stocked the Nightmare Star with food and water while continuing toward the Abundant Sea, then discovered a sweet-smelling layer of liquid attracting sea creatures. He anchored at a safe distance and planned to investigate it with Su Na after daylight.

• Yang Yi tested his armor, stored it, and ate Bread Cans with Su Na after buying food for the ship.
• Yang Yi found an island about 1,400 nautical miles away and decided to record its coordinates and explore it on the return voyage.
• Yang Yi monitored the dwindling players in the Extreme Winter Sea, bought 500 liters of fresh water, and went to rest.
• Two days later, Yang Yi smelled a sweet fragrance, used Three Eyes to spot a strange liquid layer surrounded by feeding sea creatures, and retreated until morning.
• Yang Yi told Su Na about the discovery, anchored ten nautical miles away, and went to sleep after arranging to take the second watch.

Yang Yi and Su Na investigated a growing layer of delicious white liquid that had spread from the Abundant Sea, where sea creatures gathered to feed. As Yang Yi approached the Abundant Sea, Su Na discovered that evaporated seawater produced Delicious Honey and called him to the Laboratory.

• Su Na boiled seawater during her night watch and produced a Delicious Sea Salt Block, then Yang Yi took over and waited for dawn.
• Yang Yi and Su Na observed a vast layer of white liquid covered with fish and other sea creatures, and Yang Yi fired cannon shots before sailing closer.
• Su Na collected a sample of the liquid while Yang Yi photographed the conditions and continued toward the Abundant Sea.
• Yang Yi and Su Na encountered giant, well-fed whales and increasingly deep white liquid as they approached the Abundant Sea.
• Su Na concentrated and evaporated seawater from the Abundant Sea, produced Delicious Honey, and summoned Yang Yi to the Laboratory.

Su Na discovered that salt dehydrated the meat-like organisms of the Abundant Sea and that its milky water could sustain life without oxygen. Yang Yi made a brief expedition into the sea, withdrew after the organisms attacked the ship, and obtained coordinates for an island within it.

• Su Na showed Yang Yi her experiments, explaining that salt damaged the meat and that a pufferfish survived for hours without oxygen in combustion exhaust.
• Yang Yi steered the Nightmare Star into the Abundant Sea, where he found floating meat-like organisms that healed from gunfire and multiplied when cut apart.
• The meat organisms attacked the Nightmare Star and swallowed several Bone Arms, but salt made them shrivel and retreat.
• Yang Yi withdrew from the sea, proposed coating the hull with crystallized salt, and later used the Lookout to find an island about a thousand nautical miles inside the Abundant Sea.

Yang Yi discovered that the Abundant Sea’s sweet-smelling air could spread beyond its waters and inflict a craving called Gourmet Desire. He warned Su Na, found that their drinking water had been contaminated, and began preparing to protect the crew and supplies.

• Yang Yi decided to postpone exploring the island in the Abundant Sea, sailed toward an earlier island, and planned to sell information about the Abundant Sea after buying salt and other supplies.
• The last players left the Extreme Winter Sea, and the system announced that the Abundant Sea was expanding, its barrier restrictions were lifted, and titles had been unlocked.
• Yang Yi saw sweet-smelling air reach the surrounding waters and form delicious oily froth, then discovered that his status panel showed Gourmet Desire.
• Yang Yi warned Su Na that the Abundant Sea’s air was addictive, and Su Na confirmed that she had not developed Gourmet Desire.
• Yang Yi and Su Na found that uncovered drinking water had turned pale white, while their stored food remained unchanged, and Yang Yi went to buy smell-blocking masks and sea salt.

Yang Yi prepared supplies and shared intelligence about the Abundant Sea’s addictive sweet air and gourmet desire with Song Yingwen, prompting players to flee the affected area and stock up on salt and odor-blocking masks. As players learned that Yang Yi had acquired gourmet desire, they speculated that he was doomed to become a fat pig, while he felt no unusual symptoms beyond wanting something sweet.

• Yang Yi bought five Iron Beak Masks, 32 tonnes of sea salt, and 500 liters of fresh water, then prepared to preserve the crew’s food.
• Su Na found nothing abnormal in Yang Yi’s body, took blood for analysis, and confirmed that salt did not affect creatures below the fourth stage after their pufferfish died from being buried in salt.
• Yang Yi chopped up the food for canning, updated his intelligence about the Abundant Sea, and sent it to Song Yingwen, who rushed to print it in Sea Weekly.
• Players in the Chat Channel reported sweet air, unusual fish, and gourmet desire as Sea Weekly’s warning drove up demand for sea salt and odor-blocking masks.
• Players guessed that Yang Yi had gourmet disease and might turn into a fat pig, but Yang Yi checked his weight and felt only a desire for something sweet.