Chapter Summaries

Yu Dawei and the Iron Brotherhood struggled with a spreading Rust Disease aboard the damaged Iron Will, and Yu ordered the ship sunk so the patients could be isolated on wooden ships. He suspected the disease’s source lay in a direction that resonated with him and ordered the fleet toward the Sea of No Light.

• Yu Dawei checked his worsening Rust Disease and learned that severe cases aboard the Iron Will had lost speech and become hostile to nonmechanical beings.
• Zhang Zhi reported three more infections and warned that the crew’s protective measures might not prevent the disease from spreading.
• Yu Dawei ordered the Iron Will sunk and its patients transferred to wooden ships before the fleet headed at full speed for the Sea of No Light.
• Yu Dawei recalled that the Iron Brotherhood had released a rusted robot from a safe after raiding a pirate base, then fought it and found a clue to Steam Island.
• Yu Dawei remembered that touching the robot’s head had infected him and given him a vague sense of the Rust Disease’s source in a particular direction.

Yang Yi paid Cui Xiya for photographing books, then summoned Su Na to discuss two new special items in the Vending Machine. The chapter ended with Yang Yi proposing that they pool their Player Points to enhance one of their talents.

• Yang Yi received one hundred thousand Conch Coins from Ma Dabao, confirming that One-Eye had already been chosen to win the God Statue selection.
• Cui Xiya photographed all forty books and received ten thousand Conch Coins from Yang Yi.
• Yang Yi concealed the mouth on his stomach from Cui Xiya when she caught him talking to himself and chewing in the Atrium.
• Yang Yi called Su Na over to inspect the Vending Machine's new Talent Expansion Card and Talent Enhancement Card.
• Yang Yi asked Su Na how many Player Points she had and suggested pooling their points to enhance a talent.

Yang Yi and Su Na spent Player Points to enhance their talents, and Yang Yi tested his upgraded Iron Will by entering a stronger Madness state. Su Na also enhanced Witch’s Blood, which raised her Mental cap and allowed Mental to increase her Sanity cap.

• Yang Yi learned that he needed 28,000 more Player Points, and Su Na transferred him 30,000 while warning him to repay her.
• Yang Yi showed Su Na Knight of Justice’s example of an enhanced talent and recommended that she enhance a talent that raised her Mental cap.
• Yang Yi used a Talent Enhancement Card on Iron Will, upgrading it to grant a Mental cap increase and keep his Sanity and Mental above zero.
• Yang Yi tested Madness (+) through Wolf Transformation, gaining combat boosts and provoking Cui Xiya to suspect he believed in the Great Blasphemer.
• Su Na enhanced Witch’s Blood, increasing her Mental cap and making each point of Mental raise her Sanity cap.

Yang Yi enlisted Cui Xiya to make a statue of the Great Blasphemer by claiming it would earn her a blessing, while he created a more elaborate stone statue himself. After paying Cui Xiya 1,000 Conch Coins, he sent both statues to Ma Dabao to copy and planned to post them on the forum.

• After breakfast, Yang Yi caught Cui Xiya sneaking under his shirt, and she mistook his belly slit for a sign that the Great Blasphemer had blessed him.
• Yang Yi told Cui Xiya that making a statue could connect her to the Great Blasphemer, so she began carving one while he made a stone statue coated with crushed Long-Legged Sardines and charred it with fire.
• Cui Xiya finished a wolf-headed wooden statue resembling the Great Blasphemer and saw Yang Yi's larger, bone-limbed stone statue take shape.
• Yang Yi paid Cui Xiya 1,000 Conch Coins, and she realized he had tricked her into doing the work.
• That night, Yang Yi sent photos of both statues to Ma Dabao, then traded him the statues so he could copy them.

Yang Yi sold Su Na’s Cyclops-derived injections and discovered that reading Limb Spider's Book (Part One) had disrupted her ability to understand and speak normally. Su Na’s language began recovering through her moving body patterns, and Yang Yi left the Laboratory with the remaining injections.

• Yang Yi set prices for Su Na’s Abnormal Muscle Growth Agent and Super Adrenaline, then sold one dose of each to Shen Guanquan for 47,800 Conch Coins including shipping.
• Su Na struggled to study the incomplete alchemy text and read Limb Spider's Book (Part One), using up its final reading.
• Yang Yi entered the Laboratory and realized that Su Na had temporarily lost her ability to use language.
• Su Na used gestures to understand Yang Yi’s request and gave him the available injections from the freezer.
• Su Na’s body patterns formed a threatening message on her cheek as her language ability began to recover, and Yang Yi left with the injections.

Su Na created a spell that let her rearrange her own writing and drawings, while Yang Yi learned why the Death Plague was feared despite making its victims unable to die. He was warned to stay away from the Death Plague Sea, where the plague remained contained.

• Su Na created Live Specimens Text, a spell that let her rearrange text and drawings she had made herself.
• Five days passed at sea without wind, waves, suspicious ships, or major incidents, while the Player Forum added an offline Electronic Library.
• Yang Yi browsed the library, found no copy of Hot Siren Paradise, and reread his uploaded book about diagnosing the Death Plague.
• Cui Xiya told Yang Yi that Death Plague victims could not die and that immortality was already common through many means in their world.
• Cui Xiya explained that universal inability to die would consume the world's resources and destroy its order, causing Yang Yi to lose 10 Sanity.
• Cui Xiya said the Deathbirth Society had contained the plague in the Death Plague Sea, warned Yang Yi to avoid it, and explained that variant diseases could be cured by killing their first infected patient.

Yang Yi and the Nightmare Star fought off a Fishman attack while a fleet of Indigenous ships closed in. As the Fishmen began damaging the ship from underwater, Yang Yi prepared to send the Skeletal House Mice after them.

• Yang Yi caught a huge Bristle-Flagellum Pipefish, then killed a Fishman Knight and its mount when they rammed the Nightmare Star.
• Yang Yi and the Xiaoji Robot fought the boarding Fishmen as the Sea Chart revealed nearly a hundred Indigenous ships approaching.
• Yang Yi chose to hold position and turned the Nightmare Star’s cannons toward the approaching fleet.
• Su Na used Animated Weaponry to help drive the Fishmen from the deck, but they began attacking the hull from underwater.
• Yang Yi handed the helm to Su Na and raised the Rat King Skull, intending to use the swimming Skeletal House Mice against the Fishmen.

Yang Yi repelled the Fishmen attacking the Nightmare Star and discovered that a fleet was approaching. He prepared the crew for a naval battle, then spotted Half-Fishmen aboard the enemy ships.

• Yang Yi summoned a Skeleton Rat Swarm that devastated the attacking Fishmen, while Xiaoji blasted Fishman Knights who surfaced.
• Yang Yi took Cui Xiya underwater to follow the retreating Fishmen and learned that a fleet was approaching the Nightmare Star.
• Yang Yi and Cui Xiya returned to the ship, where he examined a Fishman Big Shot’s severed arm and confirmed the enemy fleet was closing in.
• Yang Yi met with Su Na, Xiaoji, and Cui Xiya to assign battle roles and prepare the Nightmare Star for the approaching fleet.
• Yang Yi spotted a fleet of 107 dilapidated ships, including five small Ironclad Ships, and saw Half-Fishmen aboard them.

Yang Yi and Su Na discovered a fleet of Fishmen and Half-Fishmen approaching the Nightmare Star and traced its likely origin to Cook Island. Yang Yi launched an underwater ambush, and the chapter ended as he and Cui Xiya boarded the enemy flagship and battle began.

• Yang Yi and Su Na observed a fleet of 107 ships crewed by Fishmen and Half-Fishmen approaching the Nightmare Star.
• Yang Yi spotted a circular island about 1,300 nautical miles away and suspected it was Cook Island.
• Yang Yi told Su Na about the island and decided to ambush the fleet before visiting it.
• The fleet reached the Nightmare Star's former position, and its leader realized the ship was missing.
• Yang Yi surfaced beneath the flagship with Cui Xiya, prompting the fleet to identify him as an enemy and attack.
• Yang Yi evaded the incoming weapons and boarded the flagship with Cui Xiya.

Yang Yi used weapons and a calculated ambush by the Nightmare Star to defeat the Fishmen and Half-Fishmen fleet. The battle ended with the surviving enemies fleeing and Yang Yi planning to head to nearby Cook Island.

• Yang Yi set enemy ships ablaze with the Flame Serpent's Fang, damaged others with Laser Grenades, and fought off attackers with his shield and greatsword.
• The Half-Fishman leader fled with the Light Container but was caught by Bone Arms when the Nightmare Star appeared from the Twilight Veil.
• The fleet fired its cannons at Yang Yi, who survived behind the Ice Crystal Great Shield in Tower Shield Mode and signaled Su Na to attack.
• Su Na, Xiaoji, and the Nightmare Star's weapons devastated the enemy fleet, while Skeleton Rats, arms, and vines deterred boarding attempts.
• The battle ended after about thirty minutes, with many ships sunk or destroyed; Yang Yi chose not to pursue the survivors and reflected on the Waterlogged Cannons' unpredictable ammunition.

After assessing the Nightmare Star’s minor damage, Yang Yi gathered the defeated ships while Su Na interrogated the captured Fishmen. The Half-Fishman leader revealed how Cook Island’s decline led its chief to transform villagers into Fishmen, and Su Na began examining him despite his plea for mercy.

• Yang Yi and Su Na assessed the Nightmare Star’s damage and found that only two Waterlogged Cannons and a small amount of supplies had been lost.
• Yang Yi used the Grappling Hook and Fishing Net to gather the defeated ships and salvage their wreckage and floating supplies.
• Su Na restrained the Half-Fishman leader, his brother, and a Fishman Big Shot in the Witch Laboratory and questioned them.
• The Half-Fishman leader explained that Cook Island’s declining population and resources had driven its chief to propose a Transformation Ritual that turned villagers into Fishmen.
• Su Na told the leader she had never promised to spare him and cut into the boundary between his human and fish halves.

Yang Yi salvaged and secured the defeated fleet, then searched its ships for supplies and hidden survivors. He began claiming the captured vessels and discovered that Sea Squirt Sour Juice came from Cook Island, a giant living sea squirt.

• Yang Yi, Cui Xiya, and Xiaoji recovered wreckage and supplies while Xiaoji searched the gathered ships for survivors.
• After five hours, Yang Yi finished gathering the wreckage and ships, tallied the salvaged materials, and gave Cui Xiya 5,000 Conch Coins.
• Yang Yi boarded the fleet’s largest ship with Cui Xiya and Xiaoji, which reported finding and eliminating five hidden Fishmen.
• Yang Yi began searching and claiming the seventy-four captured ships, recovering barrels of food and Sea Squirt Sour Juice.
• Yang Yi learned that Cook Island was a giant living sea squirt and that its inhabitants’ teeth had been damaged by drinking its sour juice.

Yang Yi finished inventorying the battlefield’s salvage and began processing the haul, including using Fishman corpses for Gacha. He obtained a treasured Big Fishman Headpiece and planned to check on Su Na before continuing preparations to sail for Cook Island.

• Yang Yi tallied the salvaged supplies and left Xiaoji to dismantle the ships in batches so he could sell the materials and head for Cook Island.
• Yang Yi priced his collected equipment for sale, while Cui Xiya asked for and received a Miniature Revolver, then practiced shooting it on deck.
• Yang Yi counted the Fishman corpses, food, and roughly 130,000 Conch Coins, and estimated that processing the haul would take about three days.
• Yang Yi fed scraps from the Fishman corpses into the Octopus-Man Gacha Machine and received supply chests, a Fishman Language Dictionary Manual, Fishman Scale Soft Armor, and a treasured Big Fishman Headpiece.
• Yang Yi planned to visit Su Na in the Laboratory after doing some Gacha, while keeping his plan to scan for Cook Island before sailing there.

Yang Yi tested a new Fishman headpiece while Su Na examined the remains of Half-Fishmen and found evidence they had eaten cooked human tissue. As the Nightmare Star prepared for its voyage to Cook Island, Yang Yi put Cui Xiya in charge of using the corpse-powered Gacha Machine and checked his store after the World Chat Channel opened, where he noticed a new Store Ranking.

• Yang Yi entered Su Na's laboratory wearing a Big Fishman Headpiece, explained its underwater-breathing ability, and learned that Su Na had found human tissue in the Half-Fishmen's stomachs.
• Su Na explained that the Half-Fishmen were incomplete Fishman transformations and suspected their cannibalism was connected to the transformation ritual.
• Yang Yi praised Cui Xiya's shooting practice, then explained the Gacha Machine and gave her permission to exchange the Fishman corpses for draws.
• Cui Xiya began using the Gacha Machine while Yang Yi entered the Captain's Quarters to read and wait for the World Chat Channel to open.
• Yang Yi checked his online store after the channel opened and noticed that a Store Ranking had appeared in the trading section.

Yang Yi browsed the shop rankings, bought supplies and crafting stones from Shen Guanquan and He Qi, and sold most of the seized equipment and ships. After three days of trading and dismantling, he confirmed Cook Island’s coordinates and prepared the fully repaired Nightmare Star to depart.

• Yang Yi found One-Eye's Fine General Store ranked ninth, then bought peanut oil, special crops, cigars, and tea from Shen Guanquan for 110,000 Conch Coins.
• Yang Yi bought five Low-Tier Artisan Inscribed Stones from He Qi’s Angler's Home for 420,000 Conch Coins.
• Yang Yi sold equipment and supplies during trading hours, earning 980,000 Conch Coins, including 20,000 for the Fishman Language dictionary sold to the Great Newspaper.
• Over the next three days, Yang Yi’s balance reached 4,782,787 Conch Coins as the seized equipment and dismantled ships were sold.
• After lunch with the Nightmare Star’s crew, Yang Yi used his skill at the Lookout to locate Cook Island and confirmed the ship was repaired and ready to set out.

Yang Yi discovered the dark, giant sea-squirt-shaped Cook Island and decided to investigate it alone before bringing the ship closer. Meanwhile, Su Na completed her first alchemy potion, which required two people to drink it together to enter a dream, and Yang Yi prepared to take Cui Xiya with him.

• Yang Yi observed Cook Island with Three Eyes, shared a picture in the Fleet channel, and learned Cui Xiya thought the island was a giant sea squirt.
• Yang Yi messaged Su Na about scouting the island, then found her in the Witch Laboratory after she ignored his message while completing an alchemy experiment.
• Su Na sealed her newly created Dream-Entering Potion and discovered that two people had to drink it together for it to work.
• Yang Yi told Su Na he would swim to Cook Island alone while she and Xiaoji watched the ship, and Su Na agreed.
• Yang Yi assigned Xiaoji to deck watch and went to get Cui Xiya, confiscating her book before unexpectedly telling her to put it in her wallet.

Yang Yi and Cui Xiya swam to Cook Island to investigate, discovered that it was a decaying Great Sea Lung, and found clusters of round growths attached beneath its surface. They reached the entrance without encountering Fishmen, but the source of the blood smell and the nature of the growths remained unknown.

• Yang Yi noticed Cui Xiya had gained weight and warned her that overeating could make it harder for her to fly.
• Yang Yi ate a Giant Vitality Sardine Leg to restore his stamina, then put on his Big Fishman Headpiece and entered the sea with Cui Xiya.
• Yang Yi and Cui Xiya swam toward Cook Island without being attacked, and Cui Xiya detected a foul acidic smell and the scent of human blood.
• Yang Yi touched the island's peeling surface and identified it as a Great Sea Lung, then shared its information in the Fleet's Chat Channel.
• Yang Yi spotted masses of plump, grape-like things attached underwater to the Great Sea Lung.

Yang Yi explored the interior of the apparently dying Great Sea Lung, documenting its structure and discovering a vast, abandoned harbor and digestive pool. He followed a strong smell of blood toward an illuminated area with braziers, still unsure why no Fishmen or Half-Fishmen had attacked him.

• Yang Yi identified Bristle-Flagellum Pipefish feeding on the Great Sea Lung and tested its thick, self-sealing skin with his sword.
• Yang Yi swam through the Great Sea Lung’s enormous intake passage and found decayed lamps, an abandoned harbor, and no ships or visible living creatures.
• Yang Yi removed his Fishman headpiece to inspect the harbor with Three Eyes, then put it back on to escape the foul smell.
• Yang Yi discovered a vast digestive pool separated from the passage by a valve, with buildings and bridges built throughout the Great Sea Lung’s interior.
• Yang Yi used Three Eyes to locate the bloody smell near a large chamber lit by braziers and headed there with Cui Xiya, warning her to stay close.

Yang Yi and Cui Xiya investigated the source of a fresh blood smell in Cook Island’s digestive pool and discovered that the Indigenous People were cooking human remains, possibly for a transformation ritual. They reached a nearby passage and overheard a nearly transformed Fishman asking the Great Sage why the ritual had not completely changed him.

• Yang Yi followed the bloodstains to a ladder and climbed with Cui Xiya to the inhabited thirtieth floor.
• Yang Yi found a pot of boiling soup containing a human arm bone and suspected the Indigenous People were eating humans as part of a transformation ritual.
• Yang Yi photographed the soup and sent it to Su Na, who asked him to search for a ritual array.
• Yang Yi and Cui Xiya continued toward the passage, where Yang Yi hid Cui Xiya under dark cloth and crept ahead with his flintlock.
• Yang Yi overheard a nearly transformed Fishman kneeling before the Great Sage and asking why he had not fully transformed.

Yang Yi discovered that the Great Sage’s supposed Fish Transformation Ritual was actually a plan to become human, then attacked him as he emerged from the Fishman Pillar. The Great Sage survived and invited Yang Yi to become his disciple, leaving Yang Yi facing a powerful enemy.

• Yang Yi reached the plaza, found a blood-drawn magic circle and Fishman Pillars filled with villagers, and sent a photo to Su Na.
• Yang Yi read a notebook describing the inhumane Fish Transformation Ritual and learned that the Great Sage had deceived the Half-Fishmen about its purpose.
• The Great Sage revealed that he had prepared a Human Transformation Ritual because he no longer wanted to be a Fishman.
• Yang Yi hurled a Bone Demon Short Spear at the Great Sage, but it failed to pierce the pillar, and the Great Sage broke free in a four-armed body.
• The Great Sage examined his new appearance, noticed Yang Yi, and invited him to become his disciple; Yang Yi asked Cui Xiya about the Great Sage’s identity.