Chapter Summaries

Yang Yi upgraded the Nightmare Star to level five, unlocking a teleportation skill that could send the ship to previously explored coordinates. Su Na noticed a new special building in the expansion list, leaving them with another discovery to investigate.

• Yang Yi checked that the Golden Commerce Guild’s ships were gone, noticed Cui Xiya was shrinking, and locked her in a soundproof black bag.
• Su Na confirmed everything was ready for the upgrade, while the Witch Laboratory’s living specimens watched as the Otherworldly Demons were dissected.
• Yang Yi spent thirty thousand crystal diamonds to upgrade the Nightmare Star to level five.
• Yang Yi checked the ship’s new Falling Star skill, which could teleport it to designated coordinates after twelve hours, and sent the information to Su Na.
• Su Na told Yang Yi to check the expansion building list, where a new special building had appeared.

Yang Yi upgraded the Nightmare Star’s expansion buildings and began repairing Cui Xiya after discovering she had tried to dissolve herself with her saliva. He restored most of her body with the Limb Restoration Spell, but still did not know whether she was alive.

• Yang Yi found the Crystal Cottage’s construction cost and asked Su Na to decide whether to build it or prioritize the ship’s level-six upgrade, but she left the choice to him.
• Yang Yi upgraded the Ancient War Rooms and Lookout to level four, then replaced the ship’s trophy with a large Darkness Core and set course for Cook Island.
• Yang Yi discovered Cui Xiya had dissolved parts of herself, leaving less than a third of her body intact, and decided to try to save her.
• Yang Yi opened the Light Container and used the Limb Restoration Spell to repair Cui Xiya’s limbs and torso, spending nine Mana.
• Yang Yi asked Su Na how to tell whether a Light Fairy was dead, and she suggested checking Cui Xiya’s breathing, heartbeat, and pupils.

Yang Yi repaired Cui Xiya with fish-bone and fish-skin grafts, confirmed that she was alive, and discovered that she had become a Variant Light Fairy. He and Su Na enhanced their equipment, leaving Yang Yi with a larger storage ring that could spray burning oil.

• Yang Yi used Long-Legged Sardine bones and skins to graft a jaw and two pairs of wings onto Cui Xiya, then cast the Limb Restoration Spell to attach them.
• Yang Yi found that Cui Xiya’s information had changed to identify her as a Variant Light Fairy who had recovered from the brink of death, and decided to speak with her after she woke.
• Yang Yi enhanced the Witch’s Magical Treasure Bag and gave it to Su Na, who noted that it could provide tools for on-site experiments and surgery.
• Yang Yi used the Mid-Tier Abyss Soulstone to enhance his Charred Black Worm Ring, increasing its storage and giving it the ability to spray burning oil.

Cui Xiya recovered her memories and revealed that the Radiant Goddess was an evil god in disguise. She asked Yang Yi to help her return to the Sea of Miracles, and he recruited her as a crew member of the Nightmare Star.

• Cui Xiya woke from a nightmare about the Great Blasphemer and remembered her past.
• Cui Xiya told Yang Yi that the Radiant Goddess was an evil god and that she wanted to return to the Sea of Miracles.
• Cui Xiya explained that her damaged memory had made her seem foolish, and she offered to serve Yang Yi as an exceptional Light Fairy.
• Yang Yi used his Crew Registration Card on Cui Xiya, and she joined the Nightmare Star as a crew member.
• Su Na messaged Yang Yi after receiving the notification that he had recruited Cui Xiya.

Yang Yi introduced Cui Xiya to the Nightmare Star crew and appointed her Navigation Consultant, then allowed Su Na to take her for a checkup. Cui Xiya discovered Su Na's Witch Laboratory and panicked as the examination began, while Yang Yi managed her permissions and equipment from the Captain's Quarters.

• Yang Yi introduced himself, Su Na, and Xiaoji Robot to Cui Xiya, then assigned her the provisional position of Navigation Consultant.
• Su Na insisted on examining Cui Xiya, who followed her below deck after Yang Yi privately assured her there was no danger.
• Cui Xiya drank Holy Water and entered the Witch Laboratory, where she saw a mutilated Deep One corpse and containers of Otherworldly Demon organs.
• Cui Xiya realized Su Na was a Witch and struggled against the restraints, but Su Na began the examination as Cui Xiya screamed.
• Yang Yi assigned Cui Xiya ship permissions and looked through her public crew panel.

Yang Yi reviewed Cui Xiya’s abilities, then updated his shop and found players organizing a One-Eye Cult on the forum. After One-Eye Big Guy No. 37 sent him 100,000 Conch Coins and offered to manage the group’s funds, Yang Yi decided to let the cult continue.

• Yang Yi examined Cui Xiya’s status and concluded that she was more valuable as a support worker than a fighter.
• Yang Yi wondered which heretical god Cui Xiya now worshipped, then returned to studying Hot Siren Paradise Volume Three.
• At eleven, Yang Yi updated his shop with cheaper Rat Fur Sets and Exquisite Sardine Legs priced at 10,000.
• Yang Yi saw that players could now set forum titles and discovered a post recruiting members for the One-Eye Cult.
• One-Eye Big Guy No. 37 sent Yang Yi 100,000 Conch Coins and offered to serve as his deputy cult leader.
• Yang Yi deleted his planned reprimand and allowed the One-Eye Cult to carry on.

Yang Yi learned how the One-Eye Cult began and allowed it to continue, giving it a doctrine centered on survival and self-interest. Ma Dabao embraced the doctrine while Yang Yi moved on to publish information about the Golden Commerce Guild, Exposure, and the Sea of No Light.

• Yang Yi discovered that fans had formed the One-Eye Cult and considered distancing himself from it before speaking with Deputy Cult Leader Ma Dabao.
• Ma Dabao explained that players had created the cult as a way to discourage Indigenous missionaries from approaching them.
• Yang Yi tacitly permitted the cult’s growth and declared its doctrine: eat well, drink well, live each day well, survive, and let the Lord not care about anything else.
• Ma Dabao praised the doctrine aboard his level-four Zoo and promised to pass it on to the cult’s members.
• Yang Yi published a post describing his visit to the Golden Commerce Guild, ways to manage Exposure, goods found in the Sea of No Light, and a Higher Siren.

Yang Yi received payment for his post and decided not to use the Golden Commerce Guild card yet. He found Cui Xiya nearly driven mad by Su Na’s examination and tried to calm her, but she warned him that witches were the root of calamity.

• Yang Yi’s post was featured, earning him forty-five thousand Conch Coins, while he kept the method of joining the Golden Commerce Guild secret.
• Yang Yi decided the risks of summoning the Guild’s Collector president outweighed the promised ship, funds, and merchandise.
• Yang Yi saw Cui Xiya’s frantic messages and discovered that her Sanity had fallen to 50 after Su Na examined her in the Witch Laboratory.
• Yang Yi arrived as Su Na released Cui Xiya, who tried to flee and accused them both of being demons.
• Yang Yi stopped Cui Xiya and promised the examinations would happen less often, but she warned him that witches were the root of calamity in the world.

Yang Yi learned that Cui Xiya’s vision of the Great Blasphemer had made her a believer, while Su Na investigated the Light Fairy’s unusual nature. Su Na concluded that Yang Yi’s Limb Restoration Spell had repaired Cui Xiya’s magic circle and altered her faith.

• Yang Yi calmed Cui Xiya by promising to build her a private house, then heard her describe a dream in which the Great Blasphemer had saved her from death.
• Cui Xiya praised the Great Blasphemer and tried to convert Yang Yi, who warned her to avoid discussing faith around Su Na.
• Yang Yi told Xiaoji to watch Cui Xiya and gave it the storage backpack and waist pouch for their upcoming journey.
• Su Na explained that Light Fairies were advanced Constructs with souls and self-repairing magic circles that could control their thoughts and beliefs.
• Su Na showed Yang Yi that Cui Xiya’s distorted magic circle had been repaired during his treatment, apparently changing her faith.

Yang Yi learned from Cui Xiya how the Sea of No Light shifted and how sailors found their headings through rituals. When thoughts of The Charred Tree nearly caused him to catch fire, Cui Xiya grew wary and began explaining the ritual’s stages.

• Yang Yi installed a crude wooden house for Cui Xiya, who criticized his craftsmanship but agreed to improve the house herself.
• Yang Yi asked whether Cui Xiya could make equipment, and she admitted she could produce only Fine equipment slowly and without a blessing.
• Cui Xiya explained that most seas in the Sea of No Light moved and changed coordinates, making maps useless and necessitating rituals to find a heading.
• Yang Yi and Cui Xiya discussed the known special seas, and Yang Yi questioned why there was no Burning Sea despite his memory of The Charred Tree.
• Yang Yi’s Sanity dropped by over thirty points as he recalled The Charred Tree, and strange signs of burning appeared until Cui Xiya snapped him out of it.
• Cui Xiya suspected Yang Yi of being a Fire-Worshipper, then explained that the heading ritual had three stages: sacrifice, inquiry, and guidance.

Yang Yi performed the Pioneer Ritual to find a direction where crystal diamonds were abundant, and an unknown entity pointed toward the bow before taking his offering. He recorded the result and began a second ritual to check whether the direction was reliable.

• Yang Yi learned that the Pioneer Ritual could be performed up to three times a week at the same location before risking angering a repeatedly summoned entity.
• Yang Yi stopped the ship, laid out the ritual array, and placed a crystal diamond and a Vitality Sardine Leg in it while Su Na watched and took notes.
• After eight minutes, an enormous eyeball emerged from the array, examined the offerings, and shifted the crystal diamond toward the bow before taking the fish leg.
• Yang Yi recorded the indicated direction and started a second ritual, replacing the offering with a bag of ten thousand Conch Coins.

Yang Yi and the crew settled on a sailing route after a failed ritual, while Cui Xiya explained the Radiant Holy Church’s powerful Paladins and began teaching Yang Yi swordsmanship. Two days later, Yang Yi had made rapid progress, and Su Na summoned him to attach Mars’s head to the newly stitched body.

• Yang Yi confirmed the crew’s heading with a ritual and proposed stopping for crystal diamond and visiting Cook Island along the way.
• Su Na tried using Sea-Brewed Rum as an offering to ask whether a ritual could locate the system, but the ritual failed without a response.
• Cui Xiya explained that Paladins were elite Church-raised fighters partnered with trained Light Fairies, and said they were stronger than Old Dad.
• Yang Yi asked Cui Xiya to teach him swordsmanship, and she began giving him orthodox training.
• Two days later, Yang Yi had improved greatly and cut through a wooden post with a smooth strike, though Cui Xiya said he could not use Supreme Holy Slash without the Radiant Goddess’s grace.
• Su Na messaged Yang Yi that she had finished stitching Mars’s body and asked him to come attach the head.

Yang Yi brought Mars to Su Na’s laboratory, where she had assembled a heavily altered body from several monsters. He prepared to resurrect Mars aboard the ship, leaving the outcome uncertain as the spell began.

• Yang Yi entered Su Na’s laboratory with Cui Xiya and saw Mars’s body grafted with monster limbs and a Cyclops eyeball.
• Su Na explained how she had modified the corpse, including adding worm tentacles for underwater movement and a Cyclops eyeball to strengthen its muscles.
• Yang Yi and Xiaoji Robot carried Mars’s body to the ship’s Atrium and set up precautions in case Mars lost control.
• Yang Yi injected Mars with Cyclops adrenaline and told him the body had cost about 1.5 million Conch Coins, promising he could repay the expense later.
• Mars eagerly praised Yang Yi and vowed to follow his commands, while Yang Yi worried Mars might call him a devil after seeing his new body.
• Yang Yi cast the Limb Restoration Spell.

Yang Yi successfully restored Mars by attaching his head to a body assembled from several creatures, but Mars awakened in a manic, worshipful state. Mars’s status panel revealed that he had become a Great Limb Spider and a Believer in Yang Yi, leaving Su Na curious about faith as a way to preserve sanity.

• Yang Yi used the Limb Restoration Spell to attach Mars’s head to the assembled corpse, then privately asked Mars how he felt.
• Mars awakened upside down, praised One-Eye, and struggled to understand his altered body before flipping himself upright.
• Mars tore the stitches and skin from his face, then prostrated himself before Yang Yi and called him his creator and the one true god.
• Su Na questioned Mars and asked for his status panel, which showed his new Great Limb Spider and Believer paths and his belief in Yang Yi.
• Yang Yi warned Su Na not to worship him, and she replied that she believed only in truth.

Mars left to reclaim his ship after Yang Yi revived him, while the Nightmare Star continued toward Cook Island. Yang Yi later discovered strange, anguished faces clinging to surfaces in Su Na’s Laboratory when he used Three Eyes.

• Mars thanked Yang Yi, declined dried fish, and swam away toward his ship, which was about fifty sailing days away.
• Yang Yi found a hidden pinyin message in "Volume Three: Hot Siren Paradise" that read, "Follow the wind, and you can find its source," and he and Su Na connected it to the Storm Sea.
• The Nightmare Star continued toward Cook Island as Yang Yi trained, checked supplies, and reached ten points of base Constitution.
• Cui Xiya advised Yang Yi on his sword technique, and the group ate Black Dragon-Beard Noodles made from a worm caught by the Old Captain.
• Yang Yi entered the Laboratory with Su Na and Cui Xiya, used Three Eyes, and saw glue-like substances with anguished faces clinging to its surfaces.
• Yang Yi sent Su Na a black-and-white photograph of the strange figures he had seen.

Yang Yi collected despair souls from the Laboratory using a bottle Su Na had made from Abyss Soul Stone fragments, then tested specimens as ship trophies and found the Cyclops’s eyeball especially useful. While reading a mystery book about Outsiders, he asked Cui Xiya how she had recognized him, and she explained that the Holy Capital had records of Outsiders.

• Cui Xiya identified the invisible remnants in the Laboratory as shattered souls formed from pain and despair, and Su Na gave Yang Yi a handmade bottle to test as a soul container.
• Yang Yi used the bottle to collect souls from the Laboratory’s second floor, where they became visible as writhing black liquid and received the name Bottled Despair Soul.
• Yang Yi tested specimens at the Execution Rack and found that the Cyclops’s eyeball increased ship durability and Strength and Constitution experience gain, while most other specimens offered little benefit.
• Yang Yi returned the specimens to Su Na, reminded her to rest, checked the ship’s heading, and went to read in his quarters with Cui Xiya.
• Yang Yi read Beware the Despicable Outsider and asked Cui Xiya how she had discovered he was an Outsider; she said she had guessed and knew Outsiders were documented in the Holy Capital.

Yang Yi discovered Su Na practicing a strange alchemical ritual in the Witch Laboratory and paid her a million Conch Coins to keep him from visiting again. Meanwhile, players debated exploring the Sea of No Light, and the Iron Brotherhood prepared to enter it.

• Yang Yi read about the vanished Duchy of Kambal and the Radiant Goddess before deciding to check on Su Na.
• Yang Yi entered the Witch Laboratory and found Su Na wearing a revealing outfit, covered in patterns, and performing strange movements as part of her alchemy practice.
• Su Na demanded either a million Conch Coins or another visit to her laboratory, and Yang Yi transferred her the money.
• Yang Yi reviewed the growing forum interest in the Sea of No Light, where players weighed its greater opportunities against its dangers.
• The Iron Brotherhood prepared to formally enter the Sea of No Light.

Yang Yi read a featured post tracking major fleets before the World Chat and trading channels failed to open at eleven. A system update restored them, distributed Player Points for clues he had discovered, and led Yang Yi to repay Su Na’s 20,000-point loan.

• Yang Yi read the fleet report, which described the New World Fleet’s construction plans, the Iron Brotherhood’s preparations to visit the Lost Ruins, the One-Eye Fleet’s spreading of its faith, and the Expedition Group’s map of the Sea of Miracles.
• Yang Yi noticed that the World Chat Channel, trading channel, and forum had not opened at eleven, and he alerted Su Na.
• At 11:03, the system announced that its update was complete and that Player Island clues had been released and points distributed.
• Yang Yi received 40,211 points for discovering clues to Moon Island and Garbage Island, bringing his balance to 42,740 points.
• Su Na reminded Yang Yi that he owed her 20,000 points, and Yang Yi transferred them to her.

Yang Yi reviewed the newly revealed Player Island information and discussed with Su Na why the system made players discover islands, leading them to suspect it had reformatted and forgotten its past. He found few valuable clues or Hero-level items, then noticed the system would pay players for books and decided to contact Song Yingwen.

• Yang Yi checked the new Player Island section and read details about Moon Island, Garbage Island, Steam Island, Dream Island, and Mirror Island.
• Yang Yi focused on Dream Island and wondered whether its discoverer, the leader of Eden, had dream-related abilities like Beautiful Dream.
• Su Na suggested that the system had reformatted itself to escape an entity hunting it, erasing its memories and forcing it to gather information again.
• Yang Yi read players' comments, found no Hero-level items for sale, and saw that the forums were preparing a Player Island subsection and a book-collecting Player Library.
• Yang Yi realized he could get Song Yingwen to pay for his books and immediately messaged him.

Yang Yi sold Song Yingwen photos of Su Na’s ordinary books and then reviewed a recruitment post for Shen Guanquan’s Black Parrot Pirate Group and the stats of its level-six ship, the Pirate. He also offered to take over designing the One-Eye Cult’s statue for Ma Dabao.

• Yang Yi photographed Su Na’s ordinary books, removed duplicates from the collection, and accepted Song Yingwen’s offer of 732,000 Conch Coins for forty-odd books.
• Yang Yi read a recruitment post for the Black Parrot Pirate Group, led by Wu Jinshui, and recognized it as a branch group set up by Shen Guanquan.
• Yang Yi examined the level-six Pirate’s stats and compared its speed and capacity with the Nightmare Star, deciding it was better suited to robbery than exploration.
• Yang Yi saw Ma Dabao’s bounty post seeking a design for a One-Eye Statue and asked Ma Dabao to transfer the funds so he could choose the statue’s design.