Chapter Summaries

Yang Yi and Su Na planned to collapse the dream by freezing the Dream Demons inside the Deathbirth Star. During Charles’s inauguration, Yang Yi triggered the mass freezing and used Fire Magic to fight his way toward an exit.

• Su Na suggested that she and Yang Yi might be outsiders on Dream Island, and they agreed to collapse the dream by killing the Dream Demons.
• Yang Yi addressed the crowd gathered for Charles’s oath of office while Su Na coordinated the operation through his earpiece.
• Yang Yi gave the code phrase “All for death,” triggering coolant to flood the occupied areas and rapidly freeze the crowd.
• Some Immortality Order members and other residents used Fire Magic to resist the extreme cold.
• Yang Yi cast Fire Magic, seized a frozen Undead as a weapon, and charged through the liquid nitrogen toward the nearest exit from the Living Area.

Yang Yi reached the Living Area entrance, where Dream Demons and Deathbirth Star guards were trying to break through the gate, and stopped them with fire and Ice Nest Worms. The spell froze Yang Yi as well, and he later woke on a laboratory table while Su Na examined an Undead tissue sample.

• Yang Yi reached the Living Area entrance and found the robots destroyed, while burning Undead and Deathbirth Star guards attacked the gate.
• Yang Yi set the guards’ powered armor pilots alight, then let a refrigerant nozzle freeze him so he could cast Frozen Scream.
• Yang Yi released Ice Nest Worms from his mouth, freezing the burning Undead, but the spell froze him too.
• Yang Yi later woke on the Laboratory’s Metal Table as Su Na examined a frozen tissue sample from an Undead.

Yang Yi tested how to awaken dream demons and discovered that one apparent target was actually a living Dream Entrant whom he forcibly drove out of the dream. He and Su Na concluded that other players and the dream world's natives could also enter nightmares and lose themselves in roles.

• Su Na studied the Perfect Cube with an advanced electron microscope while Yang Yi watched and checked that her Sanity remained stable.
• Yang Yi tested a frozen corpse and two undead, finding that displaying a weapon could awaken dream demons, while simply using it did not always work.
• Yang Yi electrocuted a cursing man for hours before the man vanished and a notification revealed that Yang Yi had forcibly driven another Dream Entrant out of the dream.
• Players in the World Chat Channel reported similar cold nightmares, though most remembered few details.
• Su Na suggested that players and the world's natives could enter nightmares and lose themselves in roles, and Yang Yi agreed.

Yang Yi spent weeks killing Dream Demons and earned the Dream Demon Slayer title while Su Na researched the Perfect Cube and worked to access the Truth Society app. Su Na finally opened the app, but its network connection failed, leaving them with the option to browse limited information as an offline guest.

• Yang Yi killed Dream Demons for weeks, collected Dream Crystals, and received the Dream Demon Slayer title.
• Su Na told Yang Yi that her Perfect Cube research had revealed clues about the Death-Sleep Potion and Undeath Disease.
• Yang Yi asked Su Na about the Truth Society app, and she said she was close to solving its access problem.
• After another week of killing Dream Demons, Yang Yi felt sleepy and went to see Su Na, who had opened the app.
• Su Na tapped the new-user registration button, but the app could not find the Truth Network and offered offline guest access.

Yang Yi and Su Na accessed the Truth Society forum as guests and learned how it classified and researched great beings. They found records of several entities, including Moon Island, but no information about the Feast Master or the Radiant Goddess.

• Su Na and Yang Yi failed to connect to the Truth Network and logged into the Truth Society app as guests.
• Su Na suggested performing a craniotomy on Yang Yi to look for a Stone of Truth in his brain, and Yang Yi agreed.
• Yang Yi and Su Na learned that the Truth Society studied special entities and classified great beings as its highest concept level.
• Yang Yi insisted that great beings truly existed and told Su Na about seeing the Feast Master in the Sea of Abundance.
• Yang Yi and Su Na searched the database and found records for entities including The Charred Tree, the Ice Nest Lord, and the Mother of Ten Thousand Limbs.
• Yang Yi and Su Na found no records for the Feast Master or Radiant Goddess, but identified entity 82, the Moon of Mad Laughter, as Moon Island.

Yang Yi and Su Na discovered clues to Moon Island and learned about the Truth Society before sleeping in the dream. Yang Yi then woke on Dream Island, where a stranger mistook him for Yu Dawei and threatened him, only to be overpowered.

• Yang Yi and Su Na searched the app for information about Moon Island, but Su Na used up her attempts on its math lock.
• Su Na froze Yang Yi and examined his brain, finding no Stone of Truth, then asked him to remember the app’s information for after they woke.
• Yang Yi and Su Na discussed the Truth Society, its search for the lost Light of Truth, and its ties to the Kambal Duchy.
• Yang Yi fell asleep in Su Na’s laboratory and woke submerged in liquid on Dream Island among suspended humans and dream demons.
• A stranger pointed a rifle at Yang Yi, called him Yu Dawei, and ordered him to check his stats.
• Yang Yi crushed the rifle barrel and seized the fleeing stranger, who begged him to stop.

Yang Yi entered Dream Island, confronted an Eden operative searching for prominent players, and was overwhelmed by Dream Demons after the operative detonated a grenade. Back aboard the Nightmare Star, he and Su Na considered how deaths in dreams affected people in reality, while Eden’s strange ship revealed that a crew member had died after failing to escape in time.

• Yang Yi identified the armed stranger as an Eden operative searching for Yu Dawei and other well-known players, then questioned him while avoiding waking the Dream Demons.
• The operative pulled the pin on a grenade and put it in his mouth; Yang Yi struck him with the Broken Iron Greatsword, triggering an explosion that awakened many Dream Demons.
• Yang Yi was surrounded by Dream Demons on Dream Island and eventually died in the dream, triggering his return to reality aboard the Nightmare Star, where Su Na had already awakened.
• Yang Yi told Su Na that he had fought the Eden operative and learned that dying in the dream expelled him, while refuse death could activate there but still cost Sanity.
• On a peculiar ship in the Sea of Miracles, crew members found a dead sleeper whose head had been smashed and suspected that he had been killed by a Special Dream Demon.
• Su Na suggested that the Eden operative had tried to kill himself in the dream to escape Yang Yi, and Yang Yi said that the idea was possible but too dangerous to test.

Yang Yi documented what he remembered from the Truth Society app, then learned that the Death Plague Sea was expanding and that Proliferative Disease had spread into the Sea of No Light. After burning a Fish Monster and upgrading his swimsuit, he planned his next equipment upgrades and a trip to the Deathbirth Star.

• Yang Yi sent Su Na a few incomplete entries from his memories while she drew the Perfect Cube's structure, then learned from Cui Xiya that the Death Plague Sea had expanded.
• Yang Yi ordered the Nightmare Star away from the spreading sea and decided to visit the Deathbirth Star and expose information about Eden.
• Yang Yi caught a massive Fish Monster in the Sea of No Light, hauled it aboard while the Black Fog weakened it, and burned it before feeding the remains to the Octopus-Head Gacha Machine.
• Yang Yi received a Mid-Tier Abyss Soulstone and used an Artisan Inscription Stone to upgrade his Synthetic Sharkskin Swimsuit to Exceptional quality.
• Yang Yi decided to trade one Abyss Soulstone for a Ship Equipment Upgrade Card, save one for repairs, and use the last to upgrade the Pale Worm Fishing Rod.

Yang Yi tested his upgraded Multi-Headed Pale Worm Fishing Rod, then upgraded the Life Fireplace and discovered it could produce stronger life light. He prepared to share information about the dream and examined a dubious weapon sent by the Knight of Justice.

• Yang Yi activated the fishing rod’s berserk mode and hauled aboard four bloated Pale Worms, which disgorged mostly seawater along with fish, mermen, treasure chests, and trash.
• Yang Yi considered combining the fishing rod with the mast’s Execution Rack to catch Mimics and more treasure chests.
• Yang Yi exchanged a Mid-Tier Abyss Soulstone for a Relic equipment upgrade card and upgraded the Life Fireplace into an Exceptional-quality Life Furnace.
• Yang Yi fed Long-Legged Sardines into the furnace until it emitted advanced life light, increasing his attribute experience gain rate except for Spirit by 50% for two hours.
• Yang Yi prepared dream information to post in the World Channel, hoping to undermine Eden and raise the price of his Dream Crystals.
• Yang Yi inspected the damaged Fickle Beast-Swallowing Axe sent by the Knight of Justice and noted that it might attack its user when they were at a disadvantage.

Yang Yi warned players about Eden's dream-based searches and sold his Dream Crystals, raising his balance to over 236 million Conch Coins. He then transferred 200 million Conch Coins to Su Na, who kissed him before declaring that she would not repay the money.

• Yang Yi posted his discoveries about Dream Island and Eden in the Chat Channel, warning targeted players and explaining the risks of injuries and death in dreams.
• Yang Yi sold out his offered Dream Crystals in less than fifteen minutes, with Shen Guanquan buying a large share, and his balance rose above 236 million Conch Coins.
• Yu Dawei told Yang Yi that he did not need protection from dreams because he no longer slept and expected to reach Steam Island within the week.
• Yang Yi told the Knight of Justice that he expected to return the repaired shield the next day if repairs went smoothly.
• Yang Yi transferred 200 million Conch Coins to Su Na after she asked to borrow it, and she kissed his cheek before hurrying to the Laboratory.
• Su Na later messaged Yang Yi to declare that she would not repay the money.

Yang Yi learned that Su Na could not quickly develop the Death-Sleep Potion, but she planned to use the Stone of Truth to accelerate her research. While preparing to visit the Deathbirth Star, Yang Yi repaired the Knight of Justice’s shield into a powerful, insulting relic and tested it.

• Su Na said developing the Death-Sleep Potion would take time, showed Yang Yi a Waste Liquid Slime, and explained that its tissue could be used to make the Death Plague Stabilizer.
• Yang Yi told Su Na he planned to visit the Deathbirth Star alone, and Su Na proposed using the Stone of Truth to speed up her research at midnight the next day.
• Yang Yi gave Su Na Dream Crystals, then left to repair the Knight of Justice’s shield.
• Yang Yi transformed the shield with an attached axe into the Vicious Small Round Shield, whose mouths insulted attackers and could eject the axe.
• Yang Yi fired at the shield to test it, heard it abuse him, and decided he would buy it himself if the Knight of Justice did not want it.

Yang Yi completed his first shield repair for Qin Ming, then watched Su Na disappear after she swallowed the Stone of Truth. He suspected she had been teleported to Miskatonic University and decided he could follow by finding another Stone of Truth.

• Qin Ming accepted Yang Yi’s repaired buckler, paid five million Conch Coins, and agreed to provide an anonymous review later.
• Yang Yi bought Holy Water from Zhou Dai to produce Sleeping Potions and ended the trading period with forty-two million Conch Coins.
• Su Na swallowed the Stone of Truth in the Witch Laboratory while Yang Yi monitored her.
• Su Na glowed red, fainted, and vanished completely before Yang Yi could catch her.
• Yang Yi checked Su Na’s crew panel, saw that she was too far away, and suspected the Stone of Truth had teleported her to Miskatonic University.
• Yang Yi calmed himself and resolved to find another Stone of Truth inside the Deathbirth Star so he could follow Su Na.

Yang Yi rushed toward the falling Deathbirth Star to reach Su Na, while warning Cui Xiya and Xiaoji to protect themselves from the spreading Undeath Disease. Su Na’s status appeared stable, but Yang Yi suspected that time flowed differently where she was and continued toward a nearby Rocket Launch Base to reach her sooner.

• Yang Yi gave Cui Xiya control of the Nightmare Star and instructed her and Xiaoji to watch for danger before he set out to find Su Na.
• Yang Yi sensed the Undeath Disease spreading from the Deathbirth Star and ordered Cui Xiya and Xiaoji to wear protective suits at all times.
• Yang Yi flew toward the Deathbirth Star as it fell, and it stopped descending and reignited before he reached it.
• Yang Yi checked Su Na’s crew status and found her alive, healthy, and in a state of pleasure, with her sanity and stamina later recovering.
• Yang Yi suspected that time flowed differently for Su Na, remained wary of possible personality or consciousness distortion, and headed toward a nearby Rocket Launch Base.

Yang Yi reached the rocket launch base and found it overrun by the Fire Worship Cult, with the rockets apparently burned. When the cultists mistook his charred, fire-tree-like appearance for that of their Grand Elder, they prostrated themselves before him.

• After four days of nonstop travel, Yang Yi arrived at the rocket base and saw that the Fire Worship Cult had attacked it.
• Yang Yi entered the ruined base, found charred bodies and Arsonists, and pressed on despite his dwindling Stamina.
• Deep inside, the Fire Worship Cult's leaders argued over one of them burning the rockets they had come to seize.
• Yang Yi entered the room in werewolf form, with his out-of-control Source of Wings blazing behind him like a tree.
• The cultists recognized a charred scent on Yang Yi, mistook him for their Grand Elder, and bowed before him.

Yang Yi was mistaken for the Fire Worship Cult’s returning Grand Elder and used the identity to enter their abandoned branch. Victor explained the cultists’ dwindling numbers and the branch’s history as they reached the Rocket Launch Silo.

• The thirteen Fire Worship Cult elders recognized Yang Yi as the Grand Elder and bowed to him.
• Yang Yi asked whether the rocket had been destroyed, and an elder said only its fuel had burned away.
• Several believers spontaneously caught fire and burned to ashes as the cultists celebrated the supposed blessings.
• Yang Yi inspected the Black Crow Terminator and learned it was a dangerous biological weapon created by the Deathbirth Society.
• Victor told Yang Yi that the branch had nearly died out, that many members were Deathbirth Society ghouls infected with the Death Plague, and that the cult’s frequent turnover made his arrival seem plausible.
• Yang Yi followed Victor and the elders into the Rocket Launch Silo.

Yang Yi prepared to launch a damaged rocket toward the Deathbirth Star with Victor’s help. After a new elder named Heitanba joined the Fire Worship Cult, Yang Yi learned that Victor intended for him to power the rocket while the thirteen elders rode in its cargo compartment.

• Victor inspected the heat-damaged rocket and said it could fly if they refilled it with Charred Liquor and used Yang Yi to provide the oxidizer.
• Victor calculated that the rocket could reach the descending Deathbirth Star in about half an hour, and he directed the cult members to prepare the fuel and repair the rocket.
• Several cult members burned to death, while a Green Plant Disease survivor transformed into a burning elder and asked Yang Yi for a name.
• Yang Yi named the new elder Heitanba and told him to use the name Charles, prompting Heitanba to call him Grand Elder Charlesba.
• After an hour, Victor announced that the rocket was ready and said Yang Yi would ignite it from the combustion chamber while the thirteen elders rode in the cargo compartment.

Yang Yi launched the rocket toward the Deathbirth Star, entering its combustion chamber and taking control of its fuel and guidance systems. As the thirteen elders rode in the transport compartment, the rocket accelerated skyward, while the Burning Giant’s Heart began reacting inside Yang Yi.

• Yang Yi answered Heitanba’s blessing and prepared to launch the rocket while the thirteen elders waited aboard the transport ship.
• Yang Yi broke the rocket’s supports with his sword and cut away most of his wings so he could squeeze through a bottom nozzle.
• Yang Yi braced himself inside the combustion chamber, joined with the rocket’s systems, and ignited the Charred Liquor fuel.
• Yang Yi controlled the rocket as it accelerated toward the Deathbirth Star, while the elders remained strapped into the transport compartment.
• The Burning Giant’s Heart began reacting inside Yang Yi, and Heitanba picked up the severed black branches and thrust them into his body.

While Yang Yi was away, Cui Xiya defended the Nightmare Star from a Fishman assault and drove the attackers off using the remains of their king. Meanwhile, Yang Yi’s rocket accelerated toward the Deathbirth Star, leaving Victor alarmed by its speed and rising interior heat.

• Cui Xiya patrolled the Nightmare Star as acting captain after the Death Plague Sea expanded around it.
• Xiaoji detected a large group of Fishmen approaching from underwater, and Cui Xiya prepared her weapons while Xiaoji attacked with Eyeball Drones.
• Cui Xiya ordered the crew to use fire as Fishmen boarded, while Xiaoji swept the deck with the Rotary Energy-Concentrating Cannon and Cui Xiya fired her Seven-Colored Hummingbird.
• Cui Xiya hung the remains of Fishman Great Sage Kurich on the Execution Rack, frightening the Fishmen and Fish Monsters into retreating.
• Yang Yi’s rocket accelerated toward the Deathbirth Star as Victor noticed the cabin growing hot and questioned his inspection.

Yang Yi’s rocket accelerated out of control after the Burning Giant’s Heart and Charred Liquor caused the combustion chamber to overheat, and it crashed headfirst into Deathbirth Star. Yang Yi survived the impact, but the Fire Worship Cult elders were engulfed in flames, and he searched the wreckage for his missing Stomach Pouch.

• Victor realized the rocket had not slowed down and warned that it would crash into Deathbirth Star, but fire burst through the transport cabin floor before he could act.
• Yang Yi explained that the Burning Giant’s Heart had brought forth a smaller Flame Giant, so he kept the rocket moving by burning Charred Liquor, Craft Beer, and even water for propulsion.
• The rocket struck Deathbirth Star at over ten kilometers per second, punching through its outer shell and damaging the Satellite’s interior.
• Yang Yi stood up among the rubble, found the Charred Black Giant Worm Ring intact, and realized that his Stomach Pouch was missing and the Source of Wings was damaged.
• Yang Yi examined the fused flesh and metal around him, found the skull of Fire Worship Cult Elder Boke, and stored it in the Charred Black Giant Worm Ring.

Yang Yi searched the damaged Deathbirth Star for the Fire Worship Cult elders, then tried to figure out how to reach the undead while dealing with the side effects of a potion. He chose to sleep and recover, but as battle engulfed the satellite, a giant hand carried him away and began chewing on him.

• Yang Yi found and collected the fragments of all thirteen Fire Worship Cult elders, along with the destroyed Source of Wings and Fragrant Roasted Stomach Pouch.
• Yang Yi explored a ruined commercial district, sensed many undead nearby, and wondered whether Beta had made Charles eat them.
• Yang Yi found working vending machines, drank cola, and realized the collapsed passages made the Deathbirth Star difficult to navigate.
• Yang Yi checked his condition, saw that Hyperactivity Potion side effects had reduced his attributes and stamina, and decided to recover with a Sleeping Potion.
• Yang Yi slept through a battle that shook the Deathbirth Star, until a giant hand pulled him from the building and began chewing on him.