Chapter Summaries

Yang Yi sold Great Sea Lung Brain Fluid to Zhou Dai and learned more about the people around the Shadow Society. Saintess Istil discovered a possible connection between Charles Ba’s companion and Su Na, while Yang Yi ended the fishing contest by conceding half the wager to Reinhardt.

• Yang Yi sold Zhou Dai several dozen bottles of Great Sea Lung Brain Fluid, then left as Meshal begged Zhou Dai for some.
• Saintess Istil met secretly with Chekhov, who reported that Zhou Dai had changed bodies and that Charles Ba’s actions had disrupted their planned arrest.
• Chekhov reported that Dororov’s soul might be inside Charles Ba’s armor, then said Charles Ba’s companion had briefly shown red eyes.
• Saintess Istil reacted strongly to the report, used a Sleeping Potion to connect the clues, and identified the woman as Su Na, the Witch Who Peep into Truth.
• Yang Yi, Xiaoji, and Reinhardt competed at fishing for five million Conch Coins, but Reinhardt caught several fish while Yang Yi and Xiaoji caught none.
• Yang Yi conceded half the wager by paying 2.5 million Conch Coins and left the fishing contest with Xiaoji.

Su Na revealed that the Holy Capital’s churches, buildings, and sewers formed a vast magic array that gathered faith and wishes, but Saintess Istil arrived before the secret could be acted on. Istil captured Su Na Na in a White Box and stopped Yang Yi’s brief eruption of flames, while Reinhardt arrived at the scene.

• Yang Yi returned to his quarters after conceding his fishing contest with Reinhardt and saving half his wager.
• Su Na showed Yang Yi a map revealing that the churches’ Goddess Statues all faced the enormous statue in Goddess Square.
• Su Na and Xiaoji overlaid the city’s buildings and sewers on the map, exposing a giant magic array that gathered faith or wish power.
• Saintess Istil entered the room after restraining Yang Yi, praised Su Na’s discovery, and trapped Su Na Na’s witch form in a White Box.
• Yang Yi’s flames briefly engulfed the room and nearby gardens, but Istil used his pendant and the Pure White Shard to extinguish them.
• Reinhardt arrived with his fishing rod after noticing the disturbance.

Yang Yi tried to bargain with Istil for Su Na, but used a distraction to attack her and reclaim the Holy Casket. As the Holy Capital shook, Zhou Dai’s Brain-Eating Demons launched their plan underground, where she prepared to free a chained creature resembling the Radiant Goddess.

• Yang Yi offered to leave with his people if Istil returned Su Na’s head, but Istil refused and warned that witches threatened the Holy Capital and humanity.
• Yang Yi distracted Istil by ordering Reinhardt to act, then used the Infinite Flintlock to strike her with a Fake Salt Spike and seize the Holy Casket.
• Istil cut away her infected shoulder and attacked Yang Yi, but her slash split the Holy Casket in two; Reinhardt was interrupted by an earthquake shaking the Holy Capital.
• A Brain-Eating Demon near Yang Yi’s residence noticed Istil’s attack and relayed an order to notify Zhou Dai and begin the plan.
• Zhou Dai received the message, directed the signal underground, and killed the clergy in the chamber where Musius had transformed.
• Zhou Dai vowed to free the chained creature resembling the Radiant Goddess and left the underground room.

Yang Yi used Forbidden Magic to force Saintess Istil back to the Holy Capital, hoping to recover the other half of the Holy Casket and save Su Na. Reinhardt and Istil prepared to stop him as his flames spread and Three Eyes revealed the secret behind Reinhardt’s regeneration.

• Yang Yi chased Istil for the other half of the Holy Casket, but Reinhardt blocked his way and demanded a spar.
• Yang Yi swallowed his half of the Holy Casket and his Pendant, then activated Burn with Me to threaten the Holy Capital.
• Su Na warned Yang Yi that Su Na Na’s consciousness might be erased if he did not retrieve her soon, but Yang Yi suspected the warning was a lie from Double Face.
• Yang Yi became a Flame Giant and fought Reinhardt, who failed to extinguish the flames despite regenerating from his injuries.
• Istil returned and asked Reinhardt to help stop Yang Yi, while Three Eyes revealed that Reinhardt’s healing power came from tiny Fireflies inside his body.

Yang Yi’s spell escalated while he fought Reinhardt and tried to bargain with Istil for Su Na’s release. Beneath the Holy Capital, Zhou Dai devoured the brains sustaining its Magic Array and killed the Knight Captains who confronted her.

• Yang Yi used the Limb Restoration Spell to reattach his severed hand and urged Istil to release Su Na, but Istil hesitated as the spell entered its next stage and spread scorched earth across the battlefield.
• Zhou Dai ate the brains stored in the Holy Capital’s secret room, destroying the core of the surface Magic Array.
• Chekhov led Holy Church Knight Captains into the room and ordered them to kill Zhou Dai.
• Zhou Dai used a spell learned from the Crimson Witch to kill the Knight Captains, while her growing power carried her farther from humanity.

Zhou Dai broke the White Knight’s control over the dead knights while Saintess Istil began losing the Goddess’s power and ordered people evacuated from the Holy Capital. Yang Yi agreed to Istil’s demands, and she froze into an Ice Egg as a Pure White Gate appeared behind her.

• Zhou Dai used the Supreme Holy Slash to destroy the threads controlling the dead knights, severing White Knight Hetis’s connection to them.
• Saintess Istil told Hetis not to go underground and sent a final order to the Paladins, while she began losing her power as Saintess.
• Mosen allowed Players to leave through the Gate of Glory, and Ito Sho directed the departing crowd toward ships at the Port.
• Yang Yi continued fighting Reinhardt as the scorched ground spread and residents who saw it burst into flames.
• Istil offered Yang Yi the Truth in exchange for two requests, and Yang Yi agreed.
• Istil’s blindfold slipped away, revealing blood-red eyes like Su Na’s, before she froze into an Ice Egg and a Pure White Gate appeared behind her.

Yang Yi was thrown through the White Palace gate and encountered the frozen Ice Nest Lord, but Reinhardt pulled him back before he could remain trapped there. After the gate vanished and Istil became an Ice Egg, Yang Yi set out to reunite with Cui Xiya and Xiaoji.

• A freezing gate opened, and Reinhardt grabbed Yang Yi and kicked him into the White Palace after Yang Yi swallowed the remaining half of the Holy Casket.
• Inside the palace, Yang Yi saw the Ice Nest Lord and became frozen near the gate when his flames went out.
• Reinhardt pulled Yang Yi out by sacrificing his right hand, which he regenerated with glowing green bees.
• Yang Yi found that the gate and the effects of "Burn with Me!" had vanished, while Istil had become an Ice Egg in Reinhardt's arms.
• Yang Yi reconstructed the Nightmare Star, contacted Cui Xiya and Xiaoji, and learned they were coming to meet him.
• The Abyss Nautilus emerged and gnawed at Yang Yi's scalp without breaking it.

Yang Yi restored Su Na and learned that the Gate of Glory was a seal keeping something dangerous inside. As Light Fairies began devouring people fleeing the Holy Capital, Rose Knight Mosen tried to close the gate, revealing that it was marked as Experiment Center No. 3.

• Yang Yi reunited Su Na’s heads and body, and she explained that Su Na Na had lied about being the one he held.
• Su Na concluded that Yang Yi had avoided becoming a Fire Man because two opposing powers had canceled each other out, and she suspected the Gate of Glory was an inward-facing seal.
• Yang Yi and Su Na saw Light Fairies attacking and eating people as the Holy Capital descended into chaos.
• Mosen decided to close the Gate of Glory, using Pale White Flames to block the fleeing crowd and the pursuing Light Fairies.
• Mosen equipped himself with weapons and chains, gained enough strength to move the gate, and exposed the warning labels and the designation Experiment Center No. 3.

Light Fairies rampaged through the Holy Capital, and Yang Yi found the Teleportation Array damaged beyond repair. As he searched for another way out before the Gate of Glory closed, Reinhardt arrived above the Nightmare Star, radiating a powerful, familiar light.

• Yang Yi rescued Cui Xiya from the Light Fairies and cleared the swarm around the damaged Teleportation Array.
• Su Na said the Twin Magic Array could not be repaired, so Yang Yi began considering Falling Star, upgrading the Nightmare Star, and the Player Island Portal as escape options.
• Yang Yi ordered the Old Captain to head for the exit and checked his supplies, finding he still needed Legendary Remains to upgrade the Nightmare Star.
• Yang Yi examined Istil's Paladin armor and learned that it had lost its blessing and fallen from relic to Hero-level treasure.
• Yang Yi sensed Reinhardt's powerful aura overhead and saw him shining with white light.

Reinhardt delivered Paladin corpses and the corrupted Cui Bisi to Yang Yi, then warned that corruption was taking hold of him and urged Yang Yi to escape. Yang Yi upgraded the Nightmare Star to level 7 and discovered its new Treasure Light skill, leaving him ready to attempt an escape from the Holy Capital.

• Reinhardt gave Yang Yi five Paladin corpses and Cui Bisi, asking him to take her along, while Su Na offered to help Istil but Reinhardt refused to leave her behind.
• Reinhardt warned Yang Yi that a corrupting power was affecting him and secretly asked Yang Yi to return and kill him if possible.
• Yang Yi concluded that the Paladins had been corrupted, stripped the corpses of their equipment, and upgraded the Nightmare Star.
• The Nightmare Star reached level 7, gaining increased size and new skills including Treasure Vault and Treasure Light.
• Yang Yi realized Treasure Light could reduce skill cooldowns and believed he had what he needed to escape the Holy Capital.

Yang Yi activated Falling Star to teleport the Nightmare Star out of the Holy Capital and used a Hero-level breastplate with Treasure Light to shorten the countdown. As the ship vanished with a group of fleeing players aboard, the Goddess Statue emerged amid deadly light, and Reinhardt watched a powerful slash strike toward it.

• Yang Yi activated Falling Star, setting the Nightmare Star’s destination ten nautical miles from the Shelter and starting a ten-hour countdown.
• When the Holy Capital shook and the Goddess Statue began sinking, Yang Yi used Treasure Light on a Hero-level breastplate, reducing the countdown to 2 hours, 14 minutes, and 18 seconds.
• More than thirty fleeing players asked Yang Yi for passage, and he let them board the Nightmare Star as crystalline skeleton warriors drove off pursuing Light Fairies.
• The Nightmare Star vanished in a burst of Treasure Light as Falling Star activated.
• The Goddess Statue rose from underground with twelve pairs of wings of light, evaporating nearby believers while Reinhardt noted that Yang Yi and his group had disappeared.
• A powerful slash of light cleaved toward the emerging Goddess Statue.

Mosen sealed the Gate of Glory as the Radiant Goddess descended upon the Holy Capital, turning its believers into frenzied worshippers and making Reinhardt her fanatic. After Zhou Dai consumed Istil, she stood up in Istil’s body with ten pairs of wings.

• Ito Sho fled the Holy Capital by boat, but the system erased him as soon as he crossed its boundary.
• Mosen used his transformed arms to pull the Gate of Glory shut, and a streak of multicolored light escaped through the closing gap.
• The Radiant Goddess’s light blinded the believers and drew them into worship, while many residents burned or evaporated.
• Istil thawed beneath the Goddess’s light as Zhou Dai, now a Saintess, confronted her and threatened to eat her brain.
• After hours of chewing, Zhou Dai stood up in Istil’s body and spread ten pairs of wings.

Yang Yi brought the Nightmare Star and its passengers safely to the Sea of No Light after escaping the Holy Capital. He set course for a nearby base and arranged for the rescued players to reach Steam Island, leaving their next steps dependent on what they learned about the situation outside.

• Yang Yi checked the ship’s location in the Sea of No Light and prepared for its descent while the passengers clung to the deck’s vines.
• The Nightmare Star slowed above the sea and landed with a splash, leaving the passengers mostly unharmed.
• Su Na took the damaged Xiaoji to the Laboratory, while Cui Xiya covered Cui Bisi’s head with a Small Light Container and prepared to fish.
• Yang Yi told the players he planned to visit a nearby base and asked Su Na to have Xiaoji contact the Shelter.
• The players asked Yang Yi for money and passage to Steam Island, and he agreed to open a Portal and direct them to Zhang Zhi for a loan.

Yang Yi returned to Steam Island and found it overgrown with vegetation, then learned from Yu Dawei that the players had recently captured Green Island. The chapter shifts back a month to the New World Fleet’s advance team beginning its Green Island operation under Shen Guanquan.

• Yang Yi redeemed a Portal Exchange Ticket, opened a Portal to Steam Island, and brought his group through.
• Yang Yi found Steam Island covered in grass, mushrooms, trees, and vines, with players and robots clearing the growth.
• Yang Yi asked Yu Dawei about the changes and learned that the players had captured Green Island after fighting for half a month.
• A month earlier, Shen Guanquan joined the New World Fleet’s elite advance team as it arrived near Green Island.
• Xu Da led the team ashore, and the Gale turned invisible while one crew member stayed behind to await their return.

He Qi led the expedition deeper into Green Island’s forest, where mimicking plants attacked the team and the ground itself came alive. As the group retreated, Wang Yuan sensed a strange singing sound that only Qiqi seemed to hear.

• Zhao Tie Tou relayed underwater findings and Doctor’s request for plant samples as the party advanced through the forest.
• He Qi sensed they were being watched and ordered the team to withdraw, but vines attacked and Balot identified the hostile plants as Otherworldly Demons using mimicry.
• Balot warned the others about the collected samples, while Doctor urged them to capture some and Shen Guanquan’s group fought off the living forest.
• Xu Da stopped a shaking tree trunk by touching it with his deformed arm, and He Qi cut down falling trunks as the team retreated in formation.
• Zhao Tie Tou asked whether anyone heard a strange singing sound for Wang Yuan, and Qiqi said she could hear something as she looked toward Wang Yuan.

Wang Yuan heard the Song of Creation near Green Island, and the returning expedition members later fell gravely ill. Yang Yi learned about the gramophone and its effects from Yu Dawei, then discovered that portals to the Sea of Miracles had stopped working.

• Shen Guanquan asked Wang Yuan to locate the unusual melody, and Wang Yuan nearly played his suona before stopping himself.
• Wang Yuan estimated the sound was behind the group, and the expedition withdrew from Green Island aboard the Gale.
• Several hours later, Shen Guanquan, He Qi, Xu Da, and the others who had returned developed persistent high fevers.
• Yu Dawei told Yang Yi how the Song of Creation had affected Steam Island and shared information about its gramophone and evolutionary effects.
• Yang Yi asked Yu Dawei for a weakened copy of the recording and questioned him about changes in the Holy Capital and arrivals from the Sea of Miracles.
• Yang Yi found that player teleportations to the island had plummeted, and a player discovered that his Portal no longer worked.

After returning from the Holy Capital, Yang Yi showed Yu Dawei his increased strength and resumed managing Steam Island’s shops and construction. He left Steam Island nearly ready to transform and fight, while putting off a future return to Miracle Island.

• Yang Yi told Yu Dawei and the players that the Radiant Goddess had descended in the Holy Capital, then crushed Yu Dawei’s mechanical hand to demonstrate his strength.
• Yang Yi transferred four billion Conch Coins from Steam Island’s corporate account and met Banks at the blacksmith shop.
• Yang Yi gave Banks Paladin equipment and items from the Eden Fleet to repair, display, or sell, while keeping valuable equipment and treasures for himself.
• Yang Yi visited Su Na and Su Na Na’s neglected potion shop and considered selling high-value potions there.
• Yang Yi learned from Zhang Zhi that Steam Island’s construction was 72% complete and that it had over fourteen thousand modified Fear-Killing Cannons.
• Yang Yi considered using Steam Island to attack the Gate of Glory, but postponed the idea and resolved to return to Miracle Island someday.

Yang Yi returned to the Nightmare Star, where Su Na shared her theory that the Radiant Goddess could predict the past and future by processing vast amounts of information and might depend on devouring wishes to sustain her power. The chapter left Yang Yi wary of confronting the Goddess unprepared, while Su Na began investigating an unusual recording from the newly captured Green Island.

• Yang Yi returned to the Nightmare Star and accepted Cui Xiya's Long-Legged Sardines as materials for treating Cui Bisi.
• Yang Yi found Su Na carving the Insoluble Remains and heard her speculation that the Radiant Goddess was an incomplete Laplace's demon.
• Su Na suggested that the Goddess might draw strength from wishes, which could offer a way to weaken and seal her.
• Yang Yi rejected the idea of handing the Goddess over to the system and preferred to find a way to kill her.
• Yang Yi gave Su Na a recording from Green Island, whose unusual audio reportedly promoted the growth of plants and fungi, and she prepared to play it.

Su Na and Yang Yi tested a hostile recording that increased plant growth, then Yang Yi began experimenting with muscle enhancements on the Light Fairies. The chapter ended with Cui Xiya nearly unconscious after surgery as Yang Yi cast a Limb Restoration Spell on her.

• Su Na played the recording, which sent the Long-Legged Sardine Tree into a frenzy and made the Nightmare Star's vines restless.
• Yang Yi told Su Na the recording boosted plant growth and suggested they visit Green Island to see its Song of Creation Gramophone.
• Yang Yi restrained Cui Xiya alongside Cui Bisi and explained that he intended to test whether Light Fairies could exceed their strength limit.
• Yang Yi cut muscle fibers from his own arm with the Fool's Short Sword and surgically implanted them into Cui Xiya.
• Yang Yi cast a Limb Restoration Spell on Cui Xiya after the surgery left her barely conscious.

Yang Yi modified Cui Xiya and Cui Bisi, transforming their bodies and changing their abilities. Afterward, he returned to the Shelter, where its security system mistook him for an unknown organism until Seerte recognized him and cleared the alarm.

• Tiny Spiders modified Cui Xiya, whose new panel showed improved attributes, regeneration, and the Variant Fairy and Heretical Fanatic paths.
• Yang Yi operated on Cui Bisi, removed Cui Xiya's restraints, and left her a Crew Registration Card before heading to the Shelter.
• Cui Bisi woke from a nightmare about the Radiant Goddess swallowing Reinhardt and argued with Cui Xiya over whether Reinhardt was dead.
• Yang Yi praised Xiaoji for installing Light Containers and arranging for Little One and the others to maintain them.
• The Shelter's security system flagged Yang Yi as an unknown organism, but Seerte intervened, recognized him, and welcomed him back.