Chapter Summaries

Yang Yi used the Light Fairy Shards to unleash Holy Light and free the Nightmare Star from the Black Fog Giants. As the ship sped away, the giants pursued as a black tide, and Yang Yi warned Su Na not to use the Light Container again until they had escaped.

• Yang Yi ordered Su Na to steer forward while he prepared to place the Light Fairy Shards on the Execution Rack and activate Light Theft.
• Su Na drank a Fluorescent Eyeball Potion, allowing her to see the Black Fog Giants surrounding the Nightmare Star.
• The giants seized the ship from both sides and reached for the Light Container as Yang Yi swapped the Rat King Skull for the Light Fairy Shards.
• The Light Fairy Shards released brilliant light that shattered the giants and cleared the fog, letting the Nightmare Star accelerate to seventy knots.
• Yang Yi took the helm and covered Su Na's eyes with his Captain's Uniform while the remaining giants pursued the ship as a black tide.

Yang Yi used the large Darkness Core as a trophy, greatly improving the Nightmare Star’s speed and safety in the Sea of No Light, and traded another core for alchemical magic ink. Five days later, the ship continued its quiet voyage, while Yang Yi caught an unusually large number of Bristle-Flagellum Pipefish.

• Yang Yi and Su Na divided the two Darkness Cores, with Su Na keeping the large tetrahedral one and giving Yang Yi the smaller core.
• Yang Yi tested a Darkness Core on the Execution Rack and learned that a large one increased the ship’s speed and made it nearly immune to black-shadow attacks.
• Yang Yi replaced the small core with the large one as a trophy, then used the small core in the Octopus-Head Gacha Machine to obtain Alchemical Magic Ink for Su Na.
• Yang Yi had the cabin supplies sorted, then fed damaged food and dirty water to the Vitality Sardine Tree.
• Five days later, Yang Yi enjoyed uninterrupted fishing and caught a bucketful of Bristle-Flagellum Pipefish.

Yang Yi discovered that Bristle-Flagellum Pipefish attacked from the sea and caught 1,491 of them before the school disappeared. After trying one raw, he went to the Witch Laboratory, where Su Na showed him the Prototype Beam Hand Cannon floating with glowing patterns.

• Yang Yi spotted a huge school of Bristle-Flagellum Pipefish beneath the Nightmare Star and watched one leap from the sea and smash into his Crystal Great Shield.
• Yang Yi matched the ship’s speed to the school, used himself as bait, and caught more than three hundred pipefish in an hour before the school vanished.
• Yang Yi counted 1,491 pipefish, told Xiaoji to prepare them as salted fish and braise some for dinner, and ate a large one raw on his way to see Su Na.
• Yang Yi entered the Witch Laboratory, where Su Na showed him the Prototype Beam Hand Cannon floating in midair with faintly glowing blue patterns.

Su Na created Animated Weaponry, a spell that gave objects temporary souls and let them act on her orders. After Yang Yi failed to find the Golden Commerce Guild and planned to sail toward Cook Island, he discovered a third player had appeared within the region.

• Su Na explained that she created Animated Weaponry using liquid soul from an Abyss Soulstone, and demonstrated it by making the Prototype Beam Hand Cannon float and fire.
• Yang Yi recognized the spell’s combat potential and planned to buy more Abyss Soulstones and Artisan Inscription Stones.
• Yang Yi and Su Na celebrated Su Na’s invention with a Bristle-Flagellum Pipefish feast prepared by Xiaoji, though Su Na rated the sour fish soup as average.
• Six days later, Yang Yi reached the Golden Commerce Guild’s charted location but found no ships, so he decided to change course for Cook Island.
• Yang Yi noticed the Regional Channel player count had risen from two to three and told Su Na that a third player was nearby.

Yang Yi enhanced several pieces of equipment and bought supplies to improve the Vitality Sardine Tree. A surviving player then reported being captured by strange Indigenous People and possibly sold to the Golden Commerce Guild, leaving Yang Yi to suspect the Limb Spider Cult was involved.

• Yang Yi contacted the Regional Channel and learned that Su Na was the only other player to respond.
• Yang Yi used Enhancement Stones to upgrade his Crystal Great Shield, Beak Mask, Captain's Uniform, and Sharkskin Swimsuit.
• Yang Yi bought Delicious Fertilizer and Delicious Jerky to restore the Vitality Sardine Tree's fruit quality.
• An anonymous player said strange Indigenous People had captured them, taken their ship, and planned to sell them to the Golden Commerce Guild.
• Yang Yi suspected the player had been captured by followers of the Limb Spider Cult and was aboard a Golden Commerce Guild ship.

Yang Yi formed a fleet to locate Mars, a captured player, and pursued the coordinates across the sea. He caught up with a brightly lit convoy of golden ships, but its identity and Mars’s fate remained unknown.

• Mars told Yang Yi that he was subdued aboard a moving ship, unable to use his senses, and sent a photo of his captors, whom Yang Yi identified as the Limb Spider Cult.
• Yang Yi registered the Official One-Eye Fleet, invited Mars to join, and used the fleet interface to locate him near the Nightmare Star.
• Yang Yi ordered the Old Captain to pursue Mars’s coordinates and spent the next nine days preparing supplies and waiting for a ship to catch.
• Yang Yi spotted a convoy of one large vessel and more than a dozen smaller ships, then sailed toward it while warning Su Na to prepare for battle.
• Yang Yi slowed the Nightmare Star and observed the convoy from a distance, seeing golden hulls and a huge round lead vessel topped by a broad platform.

Yang Yi and Su Na approached the Golden Commerce Guild’s convoy aboard the Nightmare Star to trade for crystal diamond and Light Containers. The Guild welcomed them and directed them to the Treasure Ship, where a sudden outburst of gunfire and the old dwarf’s furious shouting disrupted the meeting.

• Yang Yi studied the Guild’s seventeen gold-plated ships while Su Na waited for her turn with the telescope and became fascinated by the strange creatures aboard.
• Yang Yi prepared the Nightmare Star and its crew for possible trouble, then steered toward the convoy after replacing the trophy on the Execution Rack with the Rat King’s head.
• An elderly dwarf aboard the Treasure Ship spotted the Nightmare Star, judged it a likely customer, and ordered his crew to let it approach.
• The Guild’s sailors guided Yang Yi through the convoy to the Treasure Ship, where gunshots and the old dwarf’s angry curses suddenly rang out.

Yang Yi and Su Na met Dad, the deformed dwarf in charge of Golden Commerce Guild Caravan No. 1933, and gained VIP trading terms with an ancient gold coin. They boarded the treasure ship to shop, and Yang Yi asked about its crystal diamond stock.

• Dad woke Zhuangzhuang, a huge Cyclops whose body withstood gunfire, and ordered him to greet the guests.
• Dad introduced himself and Zhuangzhuang to Yang Yi, then demanded a trading deposit of one hundred thousand Conch Coins.
• Yang Yi offered an ancient gold coin, and Dad recognized him as a high-ranking VIP, granting him a twenty percent discount and waiving the deposit.
• Yang Yi warned Su Na to stay alert as Dad led them aboard the treasure ship, where they examined goods for sale.
• Yang Yi asked Dad about the price and stock of crystal diamond, and Dad summoned a bat with a monkey's head to check.

Yang Yi and Su Na bought the treasure ship’s remaining Crystal Diamond while secretly investigating Mars’s location and noticing their Exposure had increased. Pops offered to sell Zhuangzhuang at a steep discount, but Yang Yi refused, leaving the Crystal Diamond delivery underway.

• Yang Yi bought all 27,952 units of Crystal Diamond for 11,180,800 Conch Coins, and Pops sent Zhuangzhuang to fetch them.
• Yang Yi checked the Sea Chart for Mars and noticed his Exposure had risen to 8%; Su Na’s had risen to 3%, so they suspected their dealings with Indigenous People were increasing it.
• Zhuangzhuang operated a cableway to transport the Crystal Diamond, and Yang Yi assessed the Cyclops’s immense strength.
• Su Na asked whether Zhuangzhuang was for sale, and Pops offered him for 800 million Conch Coins before lowering the price to 700 million.
• Yang Yi refused to buy Zhuangzhuang, and Pops continued directing him to move the goods.

Yang Yi learned the dangers and prices of Light Containers and negotiated with Old Dad for a dying Light Fairy before exploring the Treasure Ship’s hold. He discovered that Mars had awakened and was imprisoned among the ship’s living merchandise.

• Old Dad explained the sizes, prices, and limited shelf life of Light Containers, then warned Yang Yi that trading whole Light Fairies brought a Grave Sin Mark and the attention of the Radiant Holy Church.
• Yang Yi bargained for a Light Fairy, and Old Dad offered him one that was close to death for a lower price.
• Old Dad led Yang Yi and Su Na through the magic-item shop and down into the hold, where numerous creatures and even guards were displayed for sale.
• Yang Yi searched the cages for Mars without knowing his appearance, then saw Mars’s message asking him to come and save him.

Yang Yi and Su Na visited the Live Specimens Market, where Old Dad showed them a defective Light Fairy for sale. Yang Yi negotiated over her price and offered eight million Conch Coins.

• Old Dad led Yang Yi and Su Na through the market while Yang Yi searched for clues to Mars's location.
• Yang Yi and Su Na entered a black tent where a four-armed man processed captive Light Fairies into Light Containers.
• A damaged Light Fairy escaped her cage and attacked Yang Yi before Old Dad caught her and returned her to the cage.
• Old Dad explained that the Light Fairy could not regenerate, was too damaged to risk further injury, and had cost him eighty million Conch Coins.
• Yang Yi asked Old Dad to lower the price and offered eight million Conch Coins for the defective Light Fairy.

Yang Yi bought the injured Light Fairy Cui Xiya and shards from Dad, then learned more about the Radiant Holy Church and the Limb Spider Cult from Bales. After Bales recognized Yang Yi’s Grafting Kit, Yang Yi secretly removed one of Bales’s arms and prepared to reattach it.

• Yang Yi negotiated with Dad and bought Cui Xiya for sixteen million Conch Coins, then learned she had ties to the Holy Capital and could be placed in the Monster Gacha Machine.
• Yang Yi paid Dad, bought Light Fairy shards, and heard from Bales that healing a Light Fairy through Grafting Surgery was nearly impossible.
• Yang Yi asked Dad about Limb Spider Cult materials, and Dad sent Bales to guide him through the market.
• Bales explained that Yang Yi’s new grave sin mark identified him as a heretic, then offered to join his crew as a ship’s doctor.
• Bales recognized Yang Yi’s Grafting Kit, so Yang Yi removed one of Bales’s arms and prepared to reattach it as a demonstration.

Yang Yi practiced Grafting Surgery by reattaching Bales’s severed arm, then went with Su Na to inspect the Grafting Order’s white tent. They browsed preserved limbs, organs, and corpses while keeping an eye on their exposure level.

• Old Dad checked the cracking goldfish bottle and reflected that he was nearly ready to summon the Collector for a final trade.
• Yang Yi used his beginner Grafting Surgery skill, with Su Na’s guidance, to reattach Bales’s arm while Bales screamed and eventually passed out.
• Cui Xiya watched Bales suffer, but Yang Yi pushed her back into his pocket and warned Su Na that their exposure had reached 41%.
• Yang Yi and Su Na entered the chilled white tent and examined the preserved body parts and their prices.
• Su Na said intact specimens, preferably living ones, would be more valuable for her research, and the pair continued browsing the tent’s rooms of limbs and corpses.

Yang Yi and Su Na discovered that Mars had been turned into a sealed, senseless head, and Yang Yi contacted him about saving him with replacement limbs. Mars offered the Limb Spider Cult’s location as payment, leaving Yang Yi willing to fund part of his rescue.

• Yang Yi and Su Na inspected the corpses for sale, and Su Na selected several, including a Dwarf corpse.
• Yang Yi found a room full of severed heads and identified one as Mars, whose soul had been sealed inside his head.
• Su Na examined Mars’s head and concluded that telling him his condition could cause him to die.
• Yang Yi contacted Mars, who panicked after hearing that the cult had taken his hands and feet, but agreed to accept replacement limbs.
• Mars offered the Limb Spider Cult’s location in exchange for help, and Yang Yi offered up to 50,000 Conch Coins toward the rescue.

Yang Yi and Su Na assembled a powerful mixed-species body for Mars, who chose the risk of Otherworldly Demon limbs because he wanted to become stronger. After buying experimental creatures and arranging for their Slave Marks, Yang Yi left to browse magic items and books while the Marks were prepared.

• Mars asked Yang Yi to give him powerful Otherworldly Demon limbs, and Yang Yi warned him that they could make him lose control and turn into a monster.
• Mars privately told Yang Yi, "I want to become stronger," and Yang Yi and Su Na selected a Giant Clawed Shrimp claw, a squid tentacle, and two Cyclops legs for him.
• Su Na bought a badly damaged Deep One corpse to serve as Mars's torso, bringing the cost of his assembled body to 228,000 Conch Coins.
• Su Na bought several living creatures for research, and Yang Yi used Old Dad's twenty-percent discount to pay approximately 5.5 million Conch Coins for the purchases.
• Old Dad said the Slave Marks would take about two hours, and Yang Yi said he would browse magic items and books while he waited.

Yang Yi rejected Old Dad's proposal to put a Slave Mark on Cui Xiya and learned how Brain Worms controlled their hosts. He and Su Na left the Treasure Ship's interior, where Yang Yi noticed his Exposure had risen to 46% and discovered that the shop's most expensive armor was counterfeit.

• Old Dad suggested putting a Slave Mark on Cui Xiya, but Yang Yi refused while a Dwarf marked the unconscious Cyclops.
• Su Na bought ten Brain Worms for her research, and the other live merchandise besides the Cyclops and Stone Men avoided being marked.
• Yang Yi recorded that contact with Indigenous People could raise Exposure, noted that his Exposure had reached 46%, and planned to share his observations on the forum.
• Yang Yi and Su Na visited the Magic Item Shop, where Yang Yi examined the Fearless Knight Armor and discovered it was a counterfeit with no stat bonuses.

Yang Yi discovered that acting unlike a player lowered his Exposure, while Cui Xiya revealed how Light Fairies broke down materials and how she planned to escape. After Su Na concealed herself from a Monkey Bat, Yang Yi paid for their purchases and planned to shop upstairs.

• Yang Yi tested a fake Radiant Church Knight Sword and found that pretending to buy it lowered his Exposure from 47% to 45%.
• Cui Xiya warned Yang Yi about fake merchandise, announced her escape plan, and dissolved his blue yarn with her special saliva.
• Cui Xiya explained that Light Fairies could identify and break down most materials, prompting Su Na to record that Darkness Cores could restrain them.
• Su Na questioned whether Cui Xiya could break down her own body, but Yang Yi stopped her when a Monkey Bat appeared overhead and Su Na's Exposure climbed to 82%.
• Su Na swallowed a Stealth Capsule and dropped her Exposure to zero, after which Yang Yi paid for their selected goods and Enhancement Stones.
• Yang Yi spent 664,000 Conch Coins after a discount and planned to buy Exceptional Enhancement Stones and books while keeping two million Conch Coins in reserve.

Yang Yi and Su Na browsed the upper floors of the Golden Commerce Guild’s Treasure Ship while avoiding the entity watching them through the Indigenous People. They witnessed Sirens sell captured people to Old Dad, bought storage items and potions, and reached the book floors to continue shopping.

• Yang Yi and Su Na privately agreed that someone was watching them through the Indigenous People and decided to finish shopping quickly.
• Yang Yi examined the Blood Ratchet, recognized it as the weapon he had seen in a dream, and learned from Old Dad that it had belonged to the previous Governor and demanded a great deal of blood to use.
• Yang Yi, Su Na, and Cui Xiya saw a group of Sirens arrive with more than thirty captive women and several corpses, which Old Dad bought from them.
• Yang Yi and Su Na searched the third floor; Su Na chose seven unspoiled potions, while Yang Yi bought three Spatial Storage Items, including a Pocket-Sized Coin Pouch.
• Yang Yi and Su Na went to the fourth floor to look for books and found shelves of books priced around 1,000 Conch Coins, including the World Sea Chart.

Yang Yi and Su Na bought more than two hundred ordinary books before moving to the library’s dim final floor, where valuable books were kept in crystal counters. They discovered a fake Magic Book and a damaged alchemy manual, and Yang Yi agreed to buy the manual as they continued examining the remaining books.

• Yang Yi learned the ghoul, abyss, fishman, and ancient Ilian languages, then began selecting books with Su Na.
• Yang Yi bought a suspicious suicide guide and a pinyin-titled Siren book, while Cui Xiya watched him and objected when he pushed her back into his pocket.
• Yang Yi and Su Na bought more than two hundred non-duplicate books for 254,400 Conch Coins after the discount.
• Yang Yi and Su Na found several valuable books on the final floor, including a fake Magic Book that caused mental interference.
• Su Na showed Yang Yi a burned alchemy manual containing valuable arrays and techniques, and Yang Yi agreed to buy it for 500,000 Conch Coins.

Yang Yi bought several Magic Books and other supplies at the Golden Commerce Guild, then returned to the Nightmare Star with Crystal Diamonds and chained slaves. Old Dad gave him a Senior VIP Card that could grant him entry into the Golden Commerce Guild and unlock the Golden Merchant path.

• Yang Yi bought the Limb Spider's Book after noticing its information differed between him and Su Na, and he considered the cursed Apocalypse of the Great Sage too dangerous and expensive.
• Yang Yi bought the Pioneer's Guide, a Magic Book whose ritual could determine a voyage's direction, and Cui Xiya questioned how he had found the Guild without it.
• Yang Yi settled the discounted bill, leaving him with 16,647,787 Conch Coins, then returned to the deck with Su Na and Cui Xiya.
• Yang Yi collected more than twenty thousand Crystal Diamonds into his Stomach Pouch and took the chained slaves toward the Nightmare Star.
• Old Dad gave Yang Yi a Senior VIP Card offering an unconditional twenty-percent discount and a chance to join the Guild as a Golden Merchant.
• Yang Yi returned to the Nightmare Star, where Xiaoji had kept watch, and Su Na led the slaves toward the cabin.