Chapter Summaries

After Yang Yi found that the tiny spiders inside him prevented him from sailing far from Hu Wei’s island, Su Na examined Hu Wei’s corpse and Yang Yi’s blood. She discovered the spiders in Yang Yi’s bloodstream and offered to find a way to kill them.

• Yang Yi and Su Na transferred supplies from Hu Wei’s ship, then Yang Yi turned back when he sailed two hundred nautical miles away and was overcome by itching.
• Su Na found that Hu Wei’s corpse contained only skin and surface muscle, with no bones or internal organs.
• Su Na examined Yang Yi, drew his blood, and showed him tiny spiders in a blood smear under the microscope.
• Su Na told Yang Yi not to panic and said she would try to kill the spiders inside him.

Yang Yi repaired the Nightmare Star, kept watch near the island, and bought the Great Newspaper’s first weekly issue to learn about the market and maritime dangers. He found a sinister relic and a possible ranged weapon, then left an offer for the catapult as he prepared to read the newspaper’s reports.

• Yang Yi spent three days cruising near the island without spotting any ships while Su Na worked in the laboratory under his eight-hour limit.
• Yang Yi caught a poisonous Coral Cagefish and, after finding no treasure chests, noticed the Great Newspaper’s announcement and bought its first issue for 100 Conch Coins.
• Yang Yi read the trading section, recognized Zhou Dai’s Holy Water listing, and found a Corpse-Eating Cult Introductory Manual relic that he feared Su Na might buy.
• Yang Yi disabled Su Na’s trading privileges and offered 500 Conch Coins for a Savage Catapult listed at 2,000.
• Yang Yi finished reading the newspaper’s trading page and turned to the sections on Sea Storms and monster intelligence.

Yang Yi read reports about sea monsters, warned against night fishing, and sold the Great Newspaper information about Demon Hammerhead Sharks. Before dawn, a sudden attack of pain and spiders left him badly injured, and Su Na operated on him to remove the creatures.

• Yang Yi read He Qi’s warning about dangerous night fishing and reviewed the weaknesses of several sea monsters.
• Yang Yi sent the Great Newspaper information about Demon Hammerhead Sharks and received 800 Conch Coins.
• Before dawn, Yang Yi was overcome by pain and itching, steered the Nightmare Star toward an island, then collapsed after coughing up blood and spiders.
• Yang Yi dreamed that Su Na was cutting spiders out of him, then woke to find her performing the operation for real.
• Yang Yi checked that his vitality had fallen below 50 and his sanity to 37, apologized to Su Na, and watched her continue removing spiders from his body.

After Spider's Kiss nearly killed Yang Yi, he tested Su Na's powerful but painful Regeneration Potion and learned about a poison that could kill the spiders inside him temporarily. He planned to stock up on Spider-Death Potion before landing on the island, while also negotiating to buy four Catapults.

• Yang Yi woke after thirty-five hours unconscious, drank Su Na's Regeneration Potion, and endured its unbearable itching as his wounds healed.
• Su Na showed Yang Yi Spider-Death Potion, which could kill the spiders inside him temporarily but could not remove their source.
• Yang Yi decided to gather ingredients to make more Spider-Death Potion and poison the island's spiders before going ashore.
• Yang Yi caught a Coral Cagefish with Eyeball Fruit bait and sent it to Su Na so she could brew more Spider-Death Potion.
• Yang Yi negotiated with the Catapult seller and secured a deal to buy four Catapults for 650 Conch Coins each.

Yang Yi prepared hundreds of poison-coated delicacies and used the Nightmare Star’s new Catapults to lure spiders from the island’s forest. The spiders emerged, including an anomalous three-meter specimen carrying a withered human torso, and Yang Yi lost Sanity upon seeing it.

• Yang Yi bought two Catapults, bringing the Nightmare Star’s total to four, and installed them in the Atrium.
• Yang Yi bought spoiled food and whale meat, while Su Na made 104 bottles of Dead Spider Potion and Yang Yi turned 462 portions of rotten food into poison-coated ammunition.
• Yang Yi dreamed of a gigantic spider, then sailed the Nightmare Star to within range of the island while catching more Coral Cagefish.
• Yang Yi catapulted the poisoned bundles into the forest, drawing out spiders of various sizes.
• A three-meter spider carrying a withered human torso appeared, and seeing the anomalous creature cost Yang Yi five Sanity.

Yang Yi used Spider’s Kiss to understand the Tinder Wool Spiders and repeatedly poisoned them before preparing to explore their island with Su Na. A nearby ship called Good Luck arrived, and Yang Yi investigated it, discovering it had no cannons and was only a level-two ordinary ship.

• Yang Yi discovered Spider’s Kiss let him understand the Tinder Wool Spiders and lured them with spoiled food while giving them Dead Spider Potion.
• Yang Yi poisoned the spiders over the next three days and prepared to land on the island with Su Na.
• Yang Yi noticed Good Luck approaching the island and decided to investigate before anyone else could reach it.
• At daybreak, Yang Yi and Su Na approached Good Luck, and Yang Yi saw that it had no cannons and was a level-two ordinary ship.

Yang Yi found the Good Luck empty and learned its captain, Li Rong, had died after eating rotten bait on the island. Yang Yi and Su Na followed Li Rong’s trail ashore, where they realized he had eaten the bait Yang Yi had left out.

• Yang Yi fired stones at the Good Luck, then had Su Na tear open its hull and found the ship empty; he dismantled it after confirming its owner was dead.
• The chapter revealed that Li Rong had gone ashore before dawn, where a maddening fragrance led him to eat maggot-covered bait and rotten leaves until his sanity collapsed.
• Before going ashore, Yang Yi checked his status and joined Su Na in preparing to search the island for the Good Luck’s captain.
• Yang Yi followed Li Rong’s footprints, found his discarded machete and signs of disturbed soil, and Su Na spotted cloth caught on a branch.
• Su Na concluded that Li Rong had eaten the rotten meat Yang Yi had left on the island, and Yang Yi admitted he had not expected anyone to eat it.

Yang Yi and Su Na tracked the Good Luck captain’s footprints and found him mutated into a giant monster that compulsively ate anything he could find. After Yang Yi’s attacks failed to stop him, he used the Delicious Chef’s Knife to make a tree smell enticing and distract the giant.

• Yang Yi collected Tinder Wool Spider shells and hair while Su Na noticed that the captain’s footprints had grown much larger and deeper.
• Yang Yi and Su Na found the captain as a bloodied giant eating spiders, and they suspected that rotten meat had caused his mutation.
• Yang Yi shot the giant and tried to slow him with poisoned arrows, but the giant endured the attacks and spat corrosive fluid.
• The giant stopped to eat Delicious Poison from the ground, and Yang Yi used the Delicious Chef’s Knife on a tree to lure him toward it.

Yang Yi and Su Na killed the Glutton, discovered that dangerously low Sanity could cause human mutation, and brought his corpse back for research. Yang Yi then collected spider remains and used adult Tinder Wool Spider corpses for gacha draws, learning the machine’s payout rules and obtaining a heart guard and silk sac.

• Yang Yi used the chef’s knife to make the Glutton bite off his own limbs, then shot him repeatedly until he died; Su Na recorded the fight and collected his corrosive gastric juice.
• Yang Yi and Su Na identified the corpse as Glutton (Li Rong) and realized that Sanity below 10 could cause mutation, agreeing to keep their Sanity above that threshold.
• Yang Yi and Su Na dragged the Glutton’s corpse to shore, and Yang Yi collected spider corpses and 327 units of tinder wool spider hair before returning to the Nightmare Star.
• Yang Yi learned that ordinary adult Tinder Wool Spider corpses could not upgrade the ship, then used them for gacha draws while Su Na stayed in the laboratory to dissect the Glutton.
• Yang Yi received an Insect Carapace Heart Guard, a Silk Sac, supplies, and coins, and concluded that the first two draws for a monster type were nearly guaranteed to yield prizes.

Yang Yi returned to the island to search for the Tinder Wool Spiders’ nest and eliminate its dangers. He found the nest deep underground, where dead spiders and human remains suggested the colony had suffered heavy casualties.

• Yang Yi left the island at dusk, urged Su Na to rest, and used his wool to make two pairs of trousers and a sweater.
• Yang Yi sailed back before dawn with supplies and discovered that his Strength and Constitution had risen to 5.
• Yang Yi followed the concentration of spider corpses to a cavern entrance and descended into the nest.
• Yang Yi found Firefly Mushrooms growing on the cavern ceiling and learned that spiders used them as food.
• Yang Yi discovered dead giant Tinder Wool Spiders and collected tissue samples from them.
• Yang Yi saw human corpses hanging from spider silk and wondered whether the spiders were drying them before grafting them onto themselves.

Yang Yi found the seemingly dead Tinder Wool Spider Queen in the nest and called Su Na to collect her for research. He then discovered a stone statue that triggered an oath prerequisite quest from the Mother of Ten Thousand Limbs, leaving him urged to make an offering.

• Yang Yi followed the nest’s main passage, gathered giant spider tissue, and encountered the enormous Tinder Wool Spider Queen.
• Yang Yi shot off several of the Queen’s legs, confirmed she did not move, and identified her as an evolving Spider Queen before contacting Su Na.
• Su Na asked Yang Yi to keep the Queen intact and sent word that she would come to the nest.
• Yang Yi crushed newly hatched spiders as more emerged, unaware that the Queen’s eyelids had moved.
• Yang Yi entered the egg chamber and recognized a rock formation as a spider-like shape with a human figure atop it.
• The statue triggered a quest requiring offerings to the Mother of Ten Thousand Limbs, and Yang Yi heard the entity repeatedly demand an offering.

Yang Yi rejected the Mother of Ten Thousand Limbs and destroyed her statue, despite the terrifying loss of Sanity. The statue’s collapse left him contaminated with a mutated three-eyed left eye, and he turned to face the injured spider queen.

• Yang Yi resisted the Mother of Ten Thousand Limbs’ influence and chose to destroy her statue rather than complete the oath quest.
• Yang Yi shot the statue, bringing it down and triggering a cavern-wide earthquake.
• Yang Yi discovered that his left eye had mutated into a three-eyed organ and unlocked the transcendent path of Polluter.
• Yang Yi received a message from Su Na, who said she was coming to check on him.
• Yang Yi tested his new vision modes, dodged a strand of spider silk, and faced the spider queen as she emerged with two broken front legs.

Yang Yi used the Crimson Potion and his spider-silk gear to fight the Spider Queen, severing her humanoid head and blinding most of her eyes. The Spider Queen climbed onto the cavern ceiling, leaving Yang Yi with little silk and one final chance to attack.

• Yang Yi drank Su Na’s Crimson Potion, then lured the Spider Queen through the rubble by destroying her remaining eggs.
• Yang Yi used the Silk Sac to climb above the Spider Queen and beheaded her humanoid head, but she survived with her spider head.
• Yang Yi made a spider-silk meteor hammer and struck the Spider Queen’s eyes, blinding her compound eyes and injuring her abdomen.
• Yang Yi’s stamina dwindled as he damaged the Spider Queen’s last compound eye, leaving her with only one large eye.
• The Spider Queen shot silk to the cavern ceiling and crawled upside down beyond Yang Yi’s reach.

Yang Yi blinded the Spider Queen with a meteor hammer, but after his potion wore off, he lost his own sight as well. Su Na found him and suspected his brain had blocked his vision to cope with the overloaded signals from his mutated eye.

• Yang Yi baited the Spider Queen into diving at him and drove his meteor hammer into her last eye, but her collision badly injured him.
• Yang Yi drank his spare Regeneration Potion and recovered enough to approach the Spider Queen, then went blind when the Crimson Potion expired.
• Yang Yi drank water to recover from dehydration and contacted Su Na, who told him the Spider Queen was already dead.
• Su Na examined Yang Yi's mutated left eye and explained that his brain might have blocked his vision to avoid overload.
• Su Na gave Yang Yi a piece of insect shell to cover his left eye and block its visual signals.

Yang Yi returned to the Nightmare Star with Su Na after killing the spider queen, then discovered that facing the Mother of Ten Thousand Limbs had unlocked a dangerous Extraordinary Path through pollution. He hid the details from Su Na and fell asleep while she dissected the spider queen’s head.

• Su Na and Yang Yi removed the spider queen’s head and a humanoid head from the cave, then returned to the ship with the spider head.
• Su Na hauled Yang Yi aboard with a grappling hook and gave him a makeshift eye patch before returning to her laboratory.
• Yang Yi checked his status and discovered that his pollution depth was 6%, his left eye had mutated into Three Eyes, and his sanity was only 3.
• Yang Yi decided not to tell Su Na that low sanity could unlock the Extraordinary Path, then asked her to watch the Sea Chart while she worked in the laboratory.
• Yang Yi received an offer to buy flint on the World Channel, judged the price too high, checked the Sea Chart, and fell asleep.

After recovering his sight, Yang Yi found a Giant Tinder Wool Spider corpse and upgraded the Nightmare Star to level 3, gaining tougher defenses and new ship skills. He then built and upgraded two Ancient War Rooms with Waterlogged Cannons, while the materials needed for level 4 left him postponing the next upgrade.

• Yang Yi tested his recovered vision through his Three Eyes and messaged Su Na that he was going ashore to find a Giant Tinder Wool Spider corpse.
• After searching the woods, Yang Yi found a Giant Tinder Wool Spider on his way back and returned to the Nightmare Star.
• Yang Yi used supplies from Hu Wei's ship to upgrade the Nightmare Star to level 3, adding skeletal-arm protection and raising its durability to 4,500.
• Yang Yi dismantled Hu Wei's ship, built two Ancient War Rooms, and tested their Waterlogged Cannons on rocks near shore.
• Yang Yi upgraded both Ancient War Rooms to level 2, increasing the cannons' range to 350 meters, then put off the costly level 4 ship upgrade.

Yang Yi stopped Su Na from pursuing a dangerous method of bodily evolution, then tested the upgraded Nightmare Star and discovered that the island behind him was sinking. He read the latest newspaper, learned why fire strikers were flooding the market, and continued preparing to leave before the black fog reached him.

• Yang Yi found Su Na in the Witch Laboratory with her Sanity at 49, excitedly explaining that Spider Queens could consciously reshape their bodies and presenting a syringe of extracted cerebrospinal fluid.
• Yang Yi threatened to tear off any strange limbs Su Na grafted onto herself, and she destroyed her unfinished potion; her Sanity rose to 51, and she said the Energy-Recovery Potion still needed a few days.
• Su Na discovered that the Nightmare Star had reached level three, while Yang Yi tested its improved acceleration and saw an earthquake shrink the island by several hundred square meters.
• Yang Yi bought the Great Newspaper's weekly issue, sold information about Tinder Wool Spiders for 400 Conch Coins, and learned that a White Rose revolver had sold for 120,000 Conch Coins.
• Yang Yi read that players were harvesting Lava Slugs to produce fire-striker blueprints and lighters, but decided against sailing to the distant volcanic island because the black fog might swallow it before he arrived.

Yang Yi and Su Na returned to the sinking island to harvest spider corpses, but Yang Yi read the ancient writing in the nest and learned Limb-Spider Magic at the cost of nearly all his Sanity. They finished gathering supplies and prepared a raft, then watched the island sink by another quarter.

• Yang Yi and Su Na explored the spider nest, found ants consuming the spiders, and collected Tinder Wool Spider Hair, eggs, and corpses.
• Yang Yi read the writing on the Egg Chamber ceiling with Three Eyes, lost nearly all his Sanity, and learned Limb-Spider Magic from the complete Limb Spider's Book.
• Yang Yi dismembered the Spider Queen and used the Nightmare Star's grappling claw to bring her abdomen aboard.
• Yang Yi checked his panel, examined his four new spells, and continued harvesting spider corpses while Su Na collected them elsewhere on the island.
• Yang Yi made a simple raft from logs and spider silk, and another earthquake sank a quarter of the island.

Yang Yi used the Tinder Wool Spider hair to craft and sell woolen clothing, while Su Na tried to learn about the cave’s ancient symbols. After selling all four sets to Shen Guanquan, Yang Yi called Su Na back and prepared for the next day as the island continued to sink.

• Yang Yi refused to draw the cave’s ancient characters for Su Na, then gave her an abstract spider-like sketch.
• Yang Yi used tissue from two giant Tinder Wool Spiders in the gacha and received a Low-Tier Artisan Inscribed Stone and an Insect Carapace Heart Guard.
• Yang Yi traded his machete for salt, made four sweaters and four pairs of woolen pants, and sold all four sets to Shen Guanquan for 16,000 Conch Coins.
• Yang Yi turned away later buyers, called Su Na back from the Witch Laboratory, and got ready to sleep.
• Shen Guanquan gave sweaters to his subordinates but denied Zhao Tie Tou one after Zhao suggested wearing multiple padded coats instead.

Yang Yi gathered timber while Su Na awakened a new supernatural path and developed a potion that accelerated recovery by increasing appetite. The pale-yellow potion worked, but Yang Yi secretly hid the stronger orange-yellow bottle, wary of its effects.

• Yang Yi sailed to the shrinking island, cut down its remaining trees, and recovered 635 units of timber.
• Su Na created the Curling Touch spell while in a madness state, unlocked the supernatural path Truth, and collapsed from the strain.
• Su Na recovered, completed the Energy-Recovery Potion, and gave Yang Yi two versions made from Glutton's gastric juice.
• Yang Yi drank the pale-yellow potion, ate until he became well-fed, and praised Su Na after learning the potion's recovery benefits.
• Yang Yi concealed the stronger orange-yellow potion, fearing that it would make him ravenous enough to eat the ship.