Chapter Summaries

Yang Yi escaped the Pure White Gate after the Ice Nest Lord absorbed the heat from his uncontrolled flames, but emerged frozen and then burst into fire again. Su Na helped him recover and warned that he would need the White Shards, his spear, and a Protective Suit to control his heat as she waited to hear what he had seen inside the gate.

• Su Na arrived at the No. 0 Excavation Site and entered the Pure White Gate, where Yang Yi stopped his flames from engulfing her and ordered her to leave.
• Yang Yi deliberately exposed his uncovered left eye to the Ice Nest Lord, which absorbed the heat from him and let him escape the gate before he froze solid.
• Su Na discovered Little The Charred Tree growing beside the breach, where it blocked the freezing air and raised the temperature in No. 0 Base.
• Su Na used Xiaoji's infrared rays to thaw Yang Yi, who immediately burst into flames again until he took hold of the Spear That Pierces Everything.
• Su Na explained that Yang Yi could no longer contain the heat in his body and would need the White Shards, his spear, and a Protective Suit to control it.

Yang Yi told Su Na how he escaped the Ice Nest Lord and showed her the damaged perception-screening hood Unseen, while she examined the survivors among the Istils he had carried. After the Extreme Winter Sea became the milder Warm Winter Sea, Yang Yi covered Little The Charred Tree with the White Coffin and resolved to keep it contained.

• Yang Yi described his brief madness near the Ice Nest Lord, his escape using Burn with Me!, and his discovery of Unseen and a pile of Istils.
• Su Na examined Unseen and realized it could help humans resist Great Beings by screening their perception.
• Su Na identified the charred Istils as people who had begun mutating after thawing, while Yang Yi found more than twenty Ice Eggs still frozen.
• Yang Yi gave the surviving Istils to Su Na, planned to use the charred remains for Gacha pulls, and asked Cui Xiya about conditions at sea.
• Yang Yi found that the Extreme Winter Sea had become the warmer Warm Winter Sea, with Little The Charred Tree counteracting the cold.
• Yang Yi covered Little The Charred Tree with the damaged White Coffin and decided to keep it sealed away; Fire Bearer Charles Ba sentenced it to life imprisonment.

Information about the Warm Winter Sea spread among players, prompting migration plans while Yang Yi and Su Na investigated the No. 0 Excavation Site. Yang Yi redirected a group of Fire Worship Cult believers to Burning Island and chose to keep sailing toward Corpse Island.

• Players on Steam Island and Green Island learned about the Warm Winter Sea, and the region’s facilities drew Su Na’s attention as she searched for data.
• Fire Worship Cult believers arrived at the excavation site, mistook Yang Yi for an Ice Nest believer, and prepared to burn him.
• Yang Yi revealed his Burning Wolf form, sent the believers southeast to Burning Island with a spoken decree, and claimed their cult leader was being reformed inside the white knight’s armor.
• Players began migrating toward the Warm Winter Sea, and Green Island’s authorities announced plans to move there in two to three months.
• Yang Yi decided to continue toward Corpse Island, while the first hired players set out to investigate the island and its surrounding waters.

Yang Yi and Su Na returned from the Pure White Gate with a haul of instruments and frozen Istils. Yang Yi chose Istil's skull for its powerful ship effects, while Su Na began preparing the captured Istils for experiments in her laboratory.

• Yang Yi and Su Na sealed Little The Charred Tree and the hole in the Pure White Gate inside a heavily fortified hut, then began their return journey with the recovered equipment.
• Yang Yi swallowed the overflow of delicate instruments to transport them safely, and he and Su Na escaped through damaged passages to the Treasure Ship.
• Yang Yi tested the researchers' remains on the Execution Rack and kept Golden Witch Istil's skull for its increased ship capacity, crew growth, Sanity resistance, and new skill.
• Yang Yi fed the remaining bodies to the Gacha Machine, which produced high-level stones and hero-level creations, then asked Su Na about the blond Istil.
• Su Na ignored Yang Yi's message and arranged the recovered instruments before taking out the frozen Istils to study their mental Pollution.

After the Fire Worship Cult fleet departed, Yang Yi planned to return to Steam Island but rushed to the Witch Laboratory when Su Na reported a containment breach. He captured the escaped Istil, whose revival had turned her into a stitched monster, and Three Eyes identified her mutated hand as a Mutated Organ.

• Yang Yi watched the Fire Worship Cult believers sail away, added their trades to his Golden Hourglass, and decided to return to Steam Island after capturing Corpse Island.
• Yang Yi received a warning that the ship was under attack, then hurried to the Witch Laboratory after Su Na said a creature had escaped.
• Yang Yi found the laboratory wrecked and captured the fast-moving creature as it attacked Su Na.
• Yang Yi recognized the stitched creature as Istil and froze her with the white scepter while Su Na explained she had tried to revive her.
• Yang Yi inspected Istil with Three Eyes, which focused on her mutated right hand and identified it as a Mutated Organ.

Yang Yi and Su Na tried to stabilize the resurrected Istil, whose mutated claw made her violent and destructive. Istil calmed down only after Yang Yi shouted a strange phrase at her, though she still viewed him as a frightening block-shaped figure.

• Three Eyes identified Istil's mutated right hand as the Claw of Plunder, which stole attribute experience from targets while damaging her Sanity.
• Yang Yi carried Istil to the Main Laboratory, where Su Na explained that the resurrection used tissue from other Istils and some of Yang Yi's flesh and bones.
• Su Na gave Yang Yi ten of the seventeen Stones of Truth she had extracted and placed the partially repaired Unseen helmet on Istil.
• Yang Yi thawed Istil while restraining her, and Su Na tried to calm her by calling her Lilyas Tiel and showing her research papers and the Spear That Pierces Everything.
• Yang Yi shouted, "Istil of Gold! Have you surrendered to the dark power within you?" and Istil stopped struggling, frightened by the strange block-shaped figure she saw through Unseen.

Yang Yi activated Falling Star and returned the Treasure Ship to Steam Island, where he saw how much the island had grown during his absence. He planned to dock the Treasure Ship at the mobile One-Eye Grand Church and leave Noel and North in charge of trading.

• Su Na left the silent, apparently unintelligent Istil in Yang Yi's care while she returned to the Laboratory.
• Yang Yi activated Falling Star, and the Treasure Ship teleported toward Steam Island before landing safely in the Sea of No Light.
• Yang Yi, Noel, North, and the crew sailed through Steam Island's expanded waterways toward the second-ring port.
• Players, including Ma Dabao, Yu Dawei, and Zhang Zhi, gathered to welcome Yang Yi, while the rebuilt One-Eye Grand Church approached on its mechanical legs.
• Yang Yi decided to hang the Treasure Ship from the One-Eye Grand Church and have Noel and North manage it as a trading vessel.

Yang Yi toured the expanded Steam Island with Noel, North, and Istil, then reviewed the expedition to Corpse Island and tried to prompt Istil to craft items that might restore her memories. He left Istil unresponsive and turned to Banks for help with the danger of his body spontaneously combusting.

• An Iron Brotherhood guide showed Yang Yi and the others Steam Island's new facilities, including the Infinite Trial Tower and more than ten thousand Bigji Mark II robots.
• Istil reacted strangely to the Infinite Trial Tower, and Yang Yi photographed her and sent the image to Su Na.
• Yang Yi arranged for Noel and North to run the Treasure Ship and mysterious shop on Steam Island, then reviewed the team headed toward Corpse Island and found he still could not contact Mars.
• Yang Yi read reports about other islands' efforts to explore Moon Island and Garbage Island before bringing Istil into the Painful Wailing Cabin and offering her materials and a hammer to craft with.
• When Istil showed no response, Yang Yi considered crafting armor from the White Shard or upgrading his belt with the White Coffin to suppress his body's spontaneous combustion.
• Banks arrived at Yang Yi's request, and Yang Yi told him that Istil had once been a Legendary Craftsman but now seemed unable to understand simple things.

Yang Yi tried to forge his Transformation Belt with White Shards to control the dangerous flames in his body. Istil showed him how to reshape the shards with the spear, and Yang Yi began working them into a usable form.

• Yang Yi explained to Banks that he caught fire unless he held the Spear That Pierces Everything or cooled himself with White Shards.
• Banks suggested making a shield or upgrading Yang Yi's Transformation Belt, and Yang Yi chose to enhance the belt with the shards.
• Yang Yi's attempt to melt a White Shard extinguished the furnace, so he looked for another way to work the material.
• Istil pointed Yang Yi toward the spear and then his hammer, prompting him to strike the White Shards with the spear's shaft.
• Yang Yi successfully reshaped the White Shards by hammering them, while Istil struggled to explain that they needed to be worked at extremely low temperatures.

Yang Yi failed to fuse the White Shard with the Transformation Belt while Su Na investigated Istil’s apparent recovery and advised him on helping her communicate. Meanwhile, a team including Wang Chong and Balot approached Corpse Island to investigate it, hoping its power could reverse their transformations.

• Yang Yi told Su Na that Istil had briefly shown she could understand them, but Istil stopped responding when Su Na questioned her.
• Su Na compared Istil’s soul spectrum with earlier readings, concluded Istil’s mental state might be too poor for normal communication, and advised Yang Yi to engage her with smithing and research.
• Yang Yi hammered materials around the Transformation Belt until they became scrap metal, but the belt still had not fused with them.
• Yang Yi continued his routine for several days while Steam Island invested in construction and sailed toward Corpse Island.
• Wang Chong and Balot discussed using protective suits and posing as refugees to approach Corpse Island, hoping it could restore them to human form.
• Hong Yanyan asked Wang Chong and Balot for an interview about how Green Island had been taken.

Hong Yanyan learned why the Green Island assault had required varied powers, then joined Balot and Wang Chong on an expedition to investigate Corpse Island. After circling its corpse-covered, spider-shaped coast, Balot killed a Limb Spider that attacked their ship.

• Hong Yanyan recorded Wang Chong's account of how Green Island adapted to repeated attacks and how varied powers helped the fleet reach its heart.
• Two days later, Pink Cow used her monitor to survey Corpse Island while Balot led the expedition and Wang Chong watched the footage.
• The fleet approached the island, saw its coastline piled with human and Otherworldly Demon corpses, and began circling it while Hong Yanyan filmed.
• After eight hours, the explorers mapped the island's spider-like outline as Balot sketched it and Wang Chong explained that Balot had been an award-winning art teacher.
• A five-meter Limb Spider burst from the water, and Balot cut it apart with his Two-Handed Sword, revealing that it could be placed in the Monster Gacha Machine.

Balot’s team investigated the darkness-covered Corpse Island after defeating Limb Spiders, while Yang Yi used their reports to find a new way to repair the frozen object fused to his Transformation Belt. He began repeatedly attaching and severing his own hand to hammer the White Shard and belt together.

• Balot’s team killed several dozen Limb Spiders without casualties and concluded the creatures had spent a long time underwater.
• Balot and the others inferred that darkness had swallowed the inhabited island after a seaquake, and Balot ordered them to test it with a Light Container before deciding whether to land.
• Yang Yi received Balot’s pictures and report about Corpse Island’s black shadows, and the images inspired him to change his smithing method.
• Yang Yi attached his left hand to the ice with the Limb Restoration Spell, severed it, and used the flaming stump to keep hammering the White Shard and Transformation Belt together.
• Istil watched Yang Yi’s repeated attempts and began trembling with her hands pressed to her head.

Balot’s party landed on Corpse Island and began exploring while Yang Yi dangerously forged the Transformation Belt aboard the ship. Yang Yi stopped before sacrificing himself completely, and Su Na recognized that his Sanity could not fall to 0.

• Balot led the party toward a remote landing site on Corpse Island, with Haken joining them as an additional helper.
• Pink Cow used her camouflage while the group released Light Containers and Light Fairies to disperse the fog and distract the black shadows.
• The party entered the island and found that its occupation required killing the lord of Corpse Island and claiming authority over the Perfect Limb Spider.
• Wang Chong found discarded limbs with 0% health, while Balot sent their discoveries to Yang Yi and received no reply.
• Yang Yi cut away much of his flesh while forging the Transformation Belt, but stopped when he realized the item seemed to be consuming him.
• Istil brought Su Na to intervene, and Su Na explained that Yang Yi’s Sanity could never drop to 0.

Yang Yi finished a powerful Transformation Belt and left Istil with Su Na to respond to Balot's group, who had discovered corpses drained of their potential on Corpse Island. Haken sent skeletons to locate the danger, and after losing contact with two riders, he led the group southwest to escape.

• Yang Yi hung the nearly Master-level Transformation Belt at his waist while Su Na questioned Istil about great beings and the system.
• Yang Yi noticed Balot's messages about incapacitated torsos and tried to warn the group to leave Corpse Island, but his message failed to send.
• Several hours earlier, Balot's group reached the Town Area and found no living targets, only a corpse with its limbs and potential drained.
• Haken recognized the corpse as the victim of a great being and sent more than a hundred skeletons to search the town.
• After losing contact with two Skeleton Riders in the northeast, Haken led the group southwest and summoned more skeletons to distract the threat.

Balot’s squad fled across Corpse Island, but a gigantic spider assembled from grafted bodies emerged and attacked them. The system updated their objective to include suppressing the Spider Mother Remnant, leaving the squad facing a new threat.

• Haken warned the squad that his summoned skeletons were disappearing, and Pink Cow shot through the tentacles that had seized three Iron Brotherhood members.
• Balot and Hong Yanyan used potions to prepare for battle as the squad turned to face the pursuing creature.
• Balot warned the others about attacks from below, and the squad took to the air and cut down the tentacles with ranged attacks.
• A colossal spider rose from the corpse pile, its screams draining the squad’s Sanity and its body bearing the face of a Witch and a laughing skin sack.
• The Activity Log changed the mission requirements, adding the suppression of the Spider Mother Remnant alongside killing Great Limb Graftor Gwen.

Balot and the others fought the Spider Mother Remnant, whose flesh and tentacles invaded the minds of anyone they touched. Reinforcements arrived and gave the group a chance to retreat, but Gwen urged her goddess to use magic against them.

• Balot warned everyone to fight separately, then landed on the Spider Mother Remnant and cut through its limbs before its tiny spiders connected him to its body and invaded his mind.
• Wang Chong rescued Balot by severing his feet and lifting him onto Haken's carriage, while Balot warned the others to cut any tentacle that touched them.
• Hong Yanyan fought in Bloodthirst Beast Form, and Pink Cow repeatedly saved her from the tentacles until she was eventually captured and dragged into the Spider Mother Remnant.
• A member of the Iron Brotherhood was captured and turned against his companions, then Hong Yanyan was pulled into the creature's body as well.
• Two Twisted Warships and three reinforcements arrived, bringing enough firepower to damage the Spider Mother Remnant and give the group hope of escaping.
• Balot recovered and joined the fight, calling for everyone to retreat, while Gwen urged her goddess to use spells against them.

The Spider Mother Remnant used spells to restore and strengthen her Derivatives, turning the battlefield against the fleeing Iron Brotherhood and their allies. After capturing several fighters and destroying much of the island in an explosion, she left the survivors’ fate unclear.

• The Spider Mother Remnant screamed, and Balot recognized the words as a Limb Restoration Spell.
• A revived Spider Mother Derivative impaled Wang Chong, while restored Derivatives and tentacles attacked the group again.
• Wang Chong used Explosive Qi to fight back, but the Spider Mother Remnant cast Limb Enhancement and her creatures overwhelmed the defenders.
• The Iron Brotherhood members, the Pink Cow, and Wang Chong were captured as Haken and Balot continued fighting without the Portal ship’s support.
• The Spider Mother Remnant unleashed a violent explosion that destroyed nearly half the island and caught the two Twisted Warships in its blast.
• The Spider Mother Remnant’s body gathered itself back together amid cackling cries and calls to the Lady Goddess.

Yang Yi reached Corpse Island and discovered that the Spider Mother Remnant had emerged from the Perfect Limb Spider after a ritual consumed the island’s inhabitants. He met the creature in battle and hurled the Spear That Pierces Everything at it.

• Yang Yi entered a Portal from Steam Island and found himself near a ship surrounded by Limb Spiders.
• Yang Yi tried to contact Balot, Mars, and other players, then inferred that the Spider Mother Remnant had captured them.
• Yang Yi spotted the enormous Perfect Limb Spider and recognized the skins hanging from its legs as evidence of the ritual on Corpse Island.
• Yang Yi located Mars’s position on the island and fired a Fear-Killing Cannon shot, which the Spider Mother Remnant sent back at him.
• Yang Yi transformed into a Flame Giant, shattered the returning cannonball, and charged toward the Spider Mother Remnant.
• Yang Yi and the Spider Mother Remnant spotted each other, and Yang Yi hurled the Spear That Pierces Everything at the creature.

Yang Yi fought the Spider Mother Remnant, using a freezing spear and grafted limbs to weaken her while rescuing people she had absorbed. He searched for the missing members of his group and, unable to find them, began using Limb Restoration Spell on the Remnant to learn where they were.

• Yang Yi struck the Spider Mother Remnant with the freezing spear, but she used Limb Copy Spell to seize his limbs and recover Gwen.
• Yang Yi reclaimed the spear and severed arms, then attached arms belonging to Linnae and fled from the Remnant’s main body.
• Yang Yi detached Balot and rescued Hong Yanyan and other people grafted onto the Remnant.
• Yang Yi searched twice for Mars, Wang Chong, Pink Cow, and the Iron Brotherhood members but could not find them.
• Yang Yi stopped nearby offshoots from using Limb Explosion Spell, touched the Spider Mother Remnant, and activated Limb Restoration Spell to find out where the missing people were.

Yang Yi escaped the Spider Mother Remnant in White Demon mode and battled Linnae, discovering that his salt and freezing attacks could hinder her but not easily destroy her. As he dived toward the spider body to kill Gwen and freeze the whole remnant, fire rose from below.

• Yang Yi found Mars and several other clear-minded consciousnesses inside the Spider Mother Remnant, then used White Demon mode to freeze his way out with them.
• Gwen asked the Spider Mother to resurrect Linnae, but the remnant convulsed as Yang Yi burst out carrying the captured people.
• Yang Yi attacked the Spider Mother Remnant with Fake Salt Spikes, but its Tiny Spiders repaired the salinized flesh.
• Linnae created numerous copies and offered to let Yang Yi and his friends leave if they stayed away, but Yang Yi refused because the players needed to occupy Corpse Island.
• Yang Yi found that the Spear That Pierces Everything could stiffen Linnae, then used Whirlwind Slash to freeze her copies before diving toward Gwen and the spider body.
• Yang Yi saw fire rising from below as he approached the Spider Mother Remnant.