Recaps

Yang Yi and Steam Island’s defenders fought their way through the Fang Leviathan, captured Mother in the upgraded factory, and escaped the Storm Sea’s Wind Fly. The arc left Yang Yi back with Seerte and Su Na as they dealt with damage to the Nightmare Star and its inhabitants.

• Steam Island fell into the Fang Leviathan, where Yu Dawei rallied its residents and fought Tooth Beasts with the Iron Giant God as the island’s defenses and supplies failed.
• Yang Yi and Su Na found the Fang Leviathan, and Yang Yi reached Steam Island, severed the creature’s tentacles, and awakened the damaged island with the Burning Giant’s Heart.
• Yang Yi drove Steam Island through the Leviathan’s flesh inside a Flame Giant, then joined Green Island’s forces to break through to Mother.
• Yang Yi and Su Na combined their powers to fire repeated volleys of Salt Spikes [Fake], shrinking Mother until Steam Island’s core factory captured her and became the Fang Core Factory.
• After the Tooth Beasts stopped moving, Yang Yi agreed to help Green Island’s wounded and appointed Haken deputy director of Steam Island’s planned hospital.
• Yang Yi discovered that a storm was threatening Seerte’s Shelter, fought the Wind Fly, and turned its mimetic heads and siphon tubes to salt so the Shelter could escape.
• Yang Yi returned to Seerte’s Shelter, examined the salvaged Wind Fly remains, and gave Su Na money to repair her laboratory after hearing that the Nightmare Star and Abyss Nautilus had suffered damage.

Yang Yi and his crew entered Mirror Island’s tower and fought through repeated battles against alternate versions of themselves as the structure began to collapse. Stranded in the Extreme Winter Sea, Yang Yi secured a Treasure Ship through a Golden Commerce Guild contract, but the ship’s guidance left him uncertain where to go next.

• Yang Yi prepared Steam Island for the worsening Sea of No Light, while the Weeding Plan targeted Plant People and Ma Dabao reported the Radiant Holy Church’s growing influence.
• Yang Yi and Su Na took their crew to Mirror Island and entered its Mirror Tower, where they defeated alternate versions of themselves through a series of increasingly dangerous battles.
• As the tower cracked and its trials escalated, Yang Yi’s crew survived battles against powerful mirror selves, but the tower shattered and dropped them into the sea.
• Yang Yi’s crew found themselves stranded in the Extreme Winter Sea after Mirror Island was destroyed and the Portal to Green Island went dark.
• Yang Yi salvaged supplies, escaped across the glacier, and used Su Na’s Mirror of Infinite Possibilities to produce a mirror that could copy living creatures and some items.
• After system maintenance, Yang Yi contacted Yu Dawei, learned Steam Island would build an Infinite Trial Tower, and instructed him to manage the islands and prepare a scouting party for Corpse Island.
• The President of the Golden Commerce Guild retrieved Yang Yi’s discarded VIP card, offered him a Golden Hourglass contract, and Yang Yi accepted the Golden Merchant identity in exchange for trading time.
• Yang Yi traded away most of his time for a Legendary Strength Potion and Abyss Soul Stones, then moved his crew and supplies onto the Treasure Ship, whose business-opportunity skill pointed back toward their previous location.

Yang Yi’s trading expedition exposed the Ice Nest Cult’s mining and research operations, leading him to the damaged White Armor and its connection to the Pure White Gate. As the cult attacked the Treasure Ship, Yang Yi and his allies fought back, and a mysterious white hand seized Senge.

• Yang Yi rebuilt the Nightmare Star, created a workforce of Long-Legged Sardines, and set out to trade across the Ice Field.
• Yang Yi followed North and Noelle to their underground settlement, stole White Shards, and later used the Treasure Ship to bargain with the Ice Nest Elders before a fight destroyed the ship.
• Yang Yi and Su Na escaped with their allies, while Yang Yi learned about the Ice Nest Cult’s settlements and began buying White Shards and abducting Archbishops.
• Yang Yi infiltrated the cult’s mining network and discovered links to the Truth Society, the White Palace, and experiments intended to cultivate people for it.
• At Dig Site Zero, Yang Yi found the damaged White Armor, put it on, and escaped the cult while the armor drained his heat.
• Su Na studied Istil’s records and learned that the White Coffin could be removed only by entering the Pure White Gate for eight hours, while opening or destroying the Gate could cause mass extinction.
• The Ice Nest Cult attacked the Treasure Ship, and its defenders fought the swarm, Elders, and Crystal Giants until Reno froze the missiles and trapped the ship in ice.
• Senge announced he would deal with Su Na, but a huge white hand reached through the Wall of Sighs and clamped down on his head.

Yang Yi returned from the Pure White Gate with a dangerously unstable body, while Su Na studied Istil and he tried to forge a belt that could control his heat. On Corpse Island, Balot’s expedition was overwhelmed by the Spider Mother Remnant, and Yang Yi arrived, rescued several captives, and pressed the attack as fire rose below.

• Yang Yi killed Senge, ended the battle at the Treasure Ship, and returned through the Pure White Gate, where he found frozen Istils and escaped the Ice Nest Lord’s freezing influence.
• Su Na thawed Yang Yi and explained that he needed the Spear That Pierces Everything, White Shards, and a Protective Suit to manage his body’s heat.
• Yang Yi recovered Istil’s remains and research equipment, while Su Na revived Istil with tissue from other copies and Yang Yi’s flesh and bones.
• Yang Yi returned to Steam Island, where Istil showed signs of understanding as he tried to hammer White Shards into his Transformation Belt.
• Balot led an expedition onto Corpse Island, where the Spider Mother Remnant attacked and captured members of the group as the battle escalated.
• Yang Yi arrived at Corpse Island, fought the Spider Mother Remnant, freed Balot, Hong Yanyan, and other captives, then found Mars and more survivors inside its body.
• Yang Yi escaped with the captives, refused Linnae’s offer to let them leave without occupying the island, and attacked her copies as fire rose from below.