Chapter Summaries

Yang Yi, Su Na, and their companions escaped the pursuing Abyss Fishermen and robots by collapsing the passage with Su Na’s spell. They reached the Fear-Killing Cannon’s shell-loading chamber and followed its tracks toward the factory.

• Yang Yi’s group caught up with Su Na and Xiaoji as Yu Dawei’s party escaped the passage and robots and Abyss Fishermen pursued them.
• Su Na cast Multiple Energy Singularities, freezing the pursuers and triggering explosions that collapsed the passage behind the group.
• Su Na noted that her Supermagic Potion had restored less Mana than before and said she would try to develop a stronger Mana-restoring potion.
• Yang Yi identified the enormous room as the Fear-Killing Cannon’s shell-loading chamber, where rails guided oversized shells toward the magazine.
• Yu Dawei warned that Steam Island’s forces would soon arrive, and the nine companions followed the shell tracks toward the factory.

Yang Yi and his companions fought through a robot production line, where Yang Yi unleashed a giant flame form and devastated the enemy ranks. The damaged platinum robot survived and engaged Yu Dawei, who trapped it and activated Overload Discharge.

• Yang Yi and his companions encountered Heavy Robots and Humanoid Robots guarding the factory passage, and Yang Yi warned the group about the Heavy Robots' armor-piercing cannons.
• Yang Yi charged into the robot formation, transformed into a towering Flame Giant, and used an extra-long Spinning Oathbreaker Slash to destroy most of the robots while the Maw of Gluttony ate their remains.
• The platinum robot emerged from the wreckage badly damaged, and Yang Yi asked Yu Dawei to handle it while he continued fighting.
• Yu Dawei activated Overload Mode and grappled the platinum robot after it cut his Chainsaw Sword in two.
• Yu Dawei endured the robot's slashes, trapped its blade in his cheek, and unleashed Overload Discharge to engulf them both in lightning.

Yu Dawei destroyed the elite robot Shadow Bee while Yang Yi’s Maw of Gluttony consumed enemy forces and carried the group toward Steam Island’s central factory. Yang Yi joined the Maw in its rampage, and the chapter ended as swarms of robots descended to defend the factory.

• Yu Dawei disabled Shadow Bee with an overloaded electrical discharge, then destroyed its energy core and computing center before taking its vibrating blade.
• Yu Dawei told the injured Gog to stand by, and Xiaoji carried Gog as a fixed gun emplacement while the group advanced.
• Yang Yi’s Maw of Gluttony began devouring incoming bullets, rockets, and robots, forcing his allies to retreat and fight alongside his rampage.
• Su Na monitored Yang Yi as his sanity dropped below 30 and stabilized, and Yang Yi consciously merged with the Maw to clear the passage.
• Yang Yi reached the enormous spherical factory at Steam Island’s center as robot swarms descended, and he heard a strange voice.

Yang Yi and his companions discovered that a voice was charming organic beings into attacking the Finite Miracle Factory’s control console, while the system announced that destroying it would let players occupy the factory. They decided to investigate the colossal chained box before destroying the console, and Yang Yi swallowed the group and headed toward it as a huge metal projectile rolled out to attack him.

• Cui Xiya was charmed into shooting the chained metal box, but her bullet barely scratched it, and the voice violently punished her when she failed.
• The system announced that players could occupy the Finite Miracle Factory by destroying its control console, while Yu Dawei and other mechanical beings proved immune to the voice.
• Yang Yi stopped Yu Dawei from attacking and joined Su Na in deducing that the central box might contain an intelligent giant sea monster fed by the factory’s pipes.
• Yang Yi, Su Na, and Yu Dawei agreed to inspect the box and its console before destroying anything, then Yang Yi swallowed the group and ran toward it.
• A spherical factory opened and sent a five-hundred-meter metal projectile rolling toward Yang Yi.

Yang Yi and the others fought through the factory defenses to reach its control console. Su Na discovered that the console rejected her, but severing a cable disabled the factory producing Second-Generation Iron Men.

• Yang Yi struck the giant cannonball off course, opening a gap in the enemy formation, then followed it down to the metal box containing the control console.
• Su Na, Yu Dawei, and the others emerged from Yang Yi’s Maw of Gluttony and advanced toward the console while Yang Yi fought off pursuing robots.
• Yu Dawei used Overload Mode to unleash a powerful Lightning Flying Fist, destroying his left fist and bringing down many enemy aircraft.
• Su Na found a skeleton wearing a helmet connected to the factory monitors, put on the helmet, and was denied access because her soul wavelength did not match.
• Su Na ignored the voice urging her to destroy the helmet and severed the cable for the Second-Generation Iron Men factory, stopping its machines.

Su Na severed Steam Island’s dangerous production lines, but the unknown creature retaliated by controlling the allied robots and destroying her helmet. As sea monsters attacked the island and dragged the metal box and factories underwater, Yang Yi escaped the collapsing area, and Su Na concluded that suppressing the creature was necessary to occupy the island.

• Su Na cut the production lines, shutting down the enemy robots, but Gog shot her helmet before a tentacle grabbed him and Yang Yi nearly swallowed him.
• Yang Yi restrained the affected allied robots while Su Na healed her injured hands, and Yu Dawei proved he had resisted the mental attack before helping shut down the others.
• Steam Island shook as a sea monster wrapped around its remaining leg and began dragging the giant robot underwater.
• Mouth-covered tentacles attacked the metal box, and Yang Yi rescued the others before escaping as the box and connected factories were hauled into the water.
• Su Na deduced that occupying the island required eliminating and suppressing the creature, then a crushing sound and shifting lights came from below.

Yang Yi, Su Na, and Yu Dawei discovered that the Original Source of Rust was a colossal sea monster whose many souls revived machines and restored factories. As the monster’s mental temptations drove Yu Dawei toward it and pursued the group, Yang Yi resisted and Su Na’s pendant triggered a strange power that made nearby objects float.

• Bizarre tentacles revived fallen mechs with multicolored soul-like radiance and thrust themselves into dismantled factories to restart them.
• The Original Source of Rust emerged as a gigantic, beautiful mechanical head surrounded by tentacles, and Su Na concluded that it and the tentacles had once been one creature.
• Yang Yi urged the others to escape Steam Island as the sea monster dragged it toward the deep sea and revived robots and tentacles pursued them.
• The monster tried to tempt Yang Yi and the others with promises tailored to their desires, but Yang Yi resisted while Yu Dawei succumbed and had to be stopped.
• Su Na’s hair turned white as the objects around her, including seawater and debris, began floating and stopping in midair.

Yang Yi, Su Na, and their companions fought through the Sea Monster’s assault as they tried to escape Steam Island. Su Na opened a path out, and Yang Yi escaped with Yu Dawei while the trapped tentacles exploded behind them.

• Su Na Na used a powerful spell to blast the Sea Monster’s tentacles and destroy nearby pursuing robots.
• Yu Dawei told Yang Yi he planned to sacrifice himself, but Yang Yi threw him toward the Sea Monster and then reeled in his separated, flying head.
• The Sea Monster ambushed the group at the exit and attacked them with mental assaults and tentacles.
• Su Na twisted the tentacles blocking the opening into a compact sphere, allowing Yang Yi and Yu Dawei to escape Steam Island.
• After they left, Su Na’s force vanished and the tentacle sphere spun backward and exploded into a vortex storm.

Yu Dawei detonated himself in a nuclear explosion that destroyed the sea monster’s tentacles and severely damaged Yang Yi. The survivors reached the Iron Will, and Yu Dawei took control as the ship escaped the whirlpool caused by the blast.

• Yu Dawei’s separated body charged the Soul Leviathan and detonated a nuclear explosion inside Steam Island.
• Yang Yi swallowed Su Na and Yu Dawei to shield them from the blast, then used his sword and fire to withstand the impact.
• The explosion devastated Yang Yi’s body and created a towering water column and a massive whirlpool that pulled the Iron Will toward the sea.
• Yang Yi reached the Iron Will and spat out Su Na, Yu Dawei, Cui Xiya, Xiaoji, and the other robots.
• Yu Dawei steered the Iron Will away from the whirlpool while Yang Yi’s Maw of Gluttony devoured sea monster corpses to repair him.

Steam Island survived the nuclear explosion and rose from the sea in a grotesquely transformed, gigantic form, revealing that the Soul Leviathan had taken it over. Yang Yi sent Su Na to defend the Iron Will while he swam toward the island, as the damaged monster began emergency repairs.

• After the whirlpool faded, Yang Yi stayed alert and warned the others when tentacles and a vast shadow rose beneath the sea.
• Yu Dawei tried to retreat the Iron Will, but fear overwhelmed him when he realized the nuclear blast had not killed the creature.
• Steam Island emerged with its top blown open, its machinery still running, and tentacles gathering sea monster corpses.
• Yang Yi warned Su Na that the island might counterattack, and she summoned her Soul Armament weapons to protect the ship.
• Yang Yi outfitted himself with warped limbs and swam toward Steam Island while Su Na prepared the ship's weapons.
• The Soul Leviathan's damaged head appeared atop the risen island as Engineering Robots rushed to repair it.

Yang Yi used the Fake Salt Spike to become the Salt King and appeared beside Steam Island on a salt palanquin, drawing the Soul Leviathan’s attention away from the fleeing Iron Will. After Su Na snapped him out of his royal behavior, he prepared to fight the beast.

• The Soul Leviathan pursued the Iron Will, attacking it with a tentacle arm while Yu Dawei, Su Na, and Cui Xiya defended the ship.
• Yang Yi appeared beside Steam Island on a salt palanquin carried by giants, and his subjects built a towering staircase at his royal command.
• Yang Yi urged the Salt Folk to hurry because his Qi and Blood were declining and he risked entering the Refuse Death state.
• The Salt Folk intercepted Steam Island’s attacks on Yang Yi’s palanquin, while the Soul Leviathan’s pressure on the Iron Will eased.
• Su Na called out to Yang Yi, breaking his royal fixation, and he said he would kill the sea monster and demanded to be called the Salt King.

Yang Yi commanded the Star-Chasing Knights to attack the Soul Leviathan, then struck it down with the King's Sword. The Soul Leviathan's head shattered, while the Iron Will continued fleeing.

• Yang Yi summoned 120 Star-Chasing Knights, who charged across the air toward Steam Island and withered the Soul Leviathan's tentacles.
• The Soul Leviathan tried to tempt Yang Yi and attack his mind, but Yang Yi resisted and made it feel insignificant.
• The Star-Chasing Knights attacked the Soul Leviathan's head, but their lances only scratched its armor.
• Yang Yi took the King's Sword and enlarged it, then slashed through the Soul Leviathan's skull.
• Yang Yi delivered over a thousand rapid slashes, shattering the Soul Leviathan's head into metal chunks.

Yang Yi defeated the Soul Leviathan but nearly died when the Fake Salt Spike drained his Qi and Blood. Su Na pulled it free aboard the Iron Will, and Yang Yi began rebuilding his disintegrating body by consuming sea monster corpses and a Proliferative Potion.

• Yang Yi killed the Soul Leviathan, leaving its tentacles and the remaining defenders to fight the island’s rampaging remnants as Steam Island sank.
• Yu Dawei turned the Iron Will back toward Steam Island after seeing Yang Yi’s victory, while Su Na warned that Yang Yi was close to death.
• Yang Yi read Su Na’s messages, discovered he had only 1 Qi and Blood left, and realized he could not remove the Fake Salt Spike himself.
• Yang Yi promised the Salt Folk he would return, then leaped down to the Iron Will and urged Su Na to save him quickly.
• Su Na pulled the Fake Salt Spike from Yang Yi’s neck, causing his body to dissolve into salt; the Greedy Maw of Gluttony consumed sea monster corpses and a Proliferative Potion to repair him.

Yang Yi and the Iron Brotherhood cleared the remaining threats on Steam Island after the Salt Spike’s removal left Yang Yi badly damaged and the island partially submerged. The players reached the corrupted Finite Miracle Factory, and the system announced that Player Island No. 03 had been fully explored and occupied.

• Yang Yi ate Sea Monster remains to stop his body from turning into salt, while Su Na treated her injured arm and Yu Dawei recovered from madness.
• Yang Yi warned that Steam Island still held some threats and needed to be cleared before it sank, and Yu Dawei said the Iron Brotherhood would join him within an hour.
• Two hours later, Yang Yi and the Iron Brotherhood entered Steam Island and eliminated the few remaining Grotesque Tentacles and Robots.
• Yang Yi’s group found the Finite Miracle Factory transformed, its pipes replaced by fleshy tendrils connected to the factories.
• After the players destroyed the last Robots, blue pillars of light appeared and the system announced that Player Island No. 03 had been fully explored and occupied.

After the fleets occupied Steam Island, Yang Yi and Yu Dawei received system rewards and began planning how to divide the spoils, while Su Na theorized that the player system was embedded in players. Shen Guanquan received news of the occupation and a coming system maintenance, leaving his own fleet’s next move undecided.

• Shen Guanquan considered whether to expand the New World Fleet’s mobile city or pursue a Player Island, then dismissed Eden Fleet’s invitation to develop Dream Island.
• Shen Guanquan recalled that his experiments through the Black Parrot Pirate Group had led to severe sin marks after they robbed a Radiant Holy Church supply ship, and that the survivors had renamed themselves the Black Sesame Pirates Group.
• Shen Guanquan received a system announcement that Player Island No. 03 had been occupied and that the system would undergo 24 hours of emergency maintenance.
• Yang Yi and the players on Steam Island learned that the island had been occupied, with Yang Yi’s fleet receiving the highest access privileges and a large number of player points.
• Su Na told Yang Yi that the system might be rooted inside players and could be responsible for player exposure, while Yang Yi discussed dividing the Soul Leviathan’s corpse and other spoils with Yu Dawei.

After gathering the Soul Leviathan’s remains, strange tentacles, robots, and a rusted Mechanical Big Swordfish, Yang Yi upgraded the Nightmare Star. The ship grew to sixty meters and gained metallic bones, green tentacle-like vines, and a Soul Leviathan-like figurehead.

• Yang Yi cleared the remaining underwater threats and collected more shriveled strange tentacles, leaving the Soul Leviathan’s body almost entirely destroyed.
• Yang Yi decided to use the Soul Leviathan’s Skull and remains as legendary upgrade material, then rebuilt the Nightmare Star.
• Su Na used a potion to rust a Mechanical Big Swordfish, and Yang Yi bought it from Yu Dawei to serve as the exceptional relic required for the upgrade.
• The Nightmare Star consumed the robots, the rusted fish, the Soul Leviathan’s Skull, and the nearby remains, growing to sixty meters long.
• The upgraded Nightmare Star remained a Skeleton Ship, but its bones turned metallic, its vines became green strange tentacles, and it gained a four-eyed Soul Leviathan-like figurehead.

Yang Yi and Su Na examined the Nightmare Star's powerful new abilities and expanded Witch Laboratory after its upgrade. While the crew recovered wreckage on Steam Island, Yang Yi and the Iron Brotherhood discussed their plans, with the Brotherhood intending to remain on the island and Yang Yi deciding to stay for a while.

• Yang Yi inspected the upgraded Nightmare Star, noted its increased durability, capacity, and speed, and deduced that the Eden might use a similar skill to send players into dreams.
• Su Na explored the expanded Witch Laboratory and found that its research materials and living creatures had survived the ship's destruction.
• The Nightmare Star's crew and the Iron Brotherhood continued salvaging sea monster remains and recovering robots from Steam Island.
• Yang Yi, Yu Dawei, Zhang Zhi, and others discussed their plans and how to distribute interests on Steam Island.
• The Iron Brotherhood planned to rest on Steam Island, while Yang Yi chose to stay for a while, knowing he could return or teleport away with the Nightmare Star.

After Steam Island finished formatting, Yang Yi and the others inspected its new Player Island interface and learned about the Twisted Finite Miracle Factory. They began considering how to develop the island, but its enormous costs and the need to capture a Leviathan left its future uncertain.

• The Finite Miracle Factory completed formatting, and the system repaired Steam Island before adding its interface to the Sailing Log.
• Yang Yi discovered that he held Steam Island's highest authority and read about its factories, capabilities, and sea-monster disaster.
• Su Na privately suggested that the factory might have been designed to limit humanity's technological progress and that Steam Island could be a social experiment.
• Yu Dawei celebrated the factory as a way to create his new body and learned that it could convert ordinary player ships into Twisted Metal Warships.
• Zhang Zhi warned that the blueprints had been erased and that operating the island would require vast resources, including a Leviathan core to reduce production costs.
• Yang Yi and the others faced the prospect of capturing a deep-sea Leviathan, even though a Leviathan might have caused Steam Island's destruction.

After the system announced that maintenance had ended and Steam Island was occupied, Yang Yi checked his rewards and examined the newly updated Player Island information. He learned how much he and the others had earned and reviewed the islands’ exploration details, leaving him curious about the newly revealed Miracle Island and Green Island.

• The system announced Steam Island’s occupation, distributed 1,000 Player Points to every surviving player, and introduced updates to chat, trading, and the Player Island interface.
• Yang Yi checked his Activity Log and found his combined rewards totaled 1,178,432 Player Points, then asked Su Na how many she had received.
• Su Na told Yang Yi to repay the points he had borrowed with interest, while Cui Xiya reported receiving 22,250 points.
• Yang Yi learned that Su Na had over 410,000 points, Yu Dawei had over 270,000, and each Iron Brotherhood member had received at least 5,000 points.
• Yang Yi reviewed the updated Player Island listings and World Sea Chart, noting the islands’ exploration progress, locations, and danger levels.
• Yang Yi considered the newly revealed Miracle Island, discovered by Zhou Dai, and wondered whether Green Island was dominated by plants.

Lord Abu learned that One-Eye had occupied Steam Island, overturning his Precognitive Dream and prompting the New World Fleet to reject his invitation. Yang Yi arranged to bring new players to Steam Island, set plans for its development, and prepared to spend his Player Points.

• Lord Abu discovered that One-Eye had occupied Steam Island and blamed the Bald Werewolf for changing his Precognitive Dream.
• Shen Guanquan had Zhao Tie Tou reply to Eden's invitation and privately asked Xu Da about cooperating.
• Ma Dabao told Yang Yi that the One-Eye Cult had three million Archbishops, and Yang Yi agreed to let up to ten thousand come to Steam Island.
• Yang Yi granted Yu Dawei and Zhang Zhi permissions to coordinate management as Steam Island headed toward the Shelter, a journey expected to take several years.
• Yang Yi and Yu Dawei planned a Gacha, supply purchases, and tests of the Magic Stone Conversion Factory, and decided to open Steam Island to other players in seven days.
• Yang Yi canceled his Wolf Transformation and considered how to spend his Player Points.