Chapter Summaries

Yang Yi and Su Na tested the complete Song of Creation, discovering that it rapidly transforms living creatures into ecosystems, while Su Na developed a spider repellent that helped make Corpse Island safer. After preparing the island for future residents, Yang Yi focused on training his attributes and crafted three statues of great beings to use with the Great Statue.

• Su Na observed the Long-Legged Sardine mutate under the complete Song of Creation until plants, fungi, and animals formed an ecosystem inside it, then concluded that prolonged exposure could kill weaker creatures.
• Yang Yi asked Su Na to develop a potion to suppress the song’s effects, while she dissected the transformed fish and studied its new species.
• Yang Yi tested Su Na’s Secret Spider Repellent Liquid on himself, then used it on Corpse Island, where it drove Tiny Spiders, Limb Spider Guards, and wild Limb Spiders away from treated areas.
• Yang Yi sent bottles of the repellent to Mars and Hu Bin and planned to mass-produce it, paving the way to open Corpse Island to residents and encourage merchants with tax exemptions.
• Yang Yi trained his perception and spirit, then spent three days in the Painful Wailing Cabin crafting statues of a black tree, a strange spider, and a pure white broken egg to improve his spirit through the Great Statue.

Yang Yi used his handmade god statue to expose the Nightmare Star’s crew to a convincing vision of a great being, causing dangerous environmental effects and inspiring Su Na and Istil. After more than a month of training and boosting his attributes, he sought a way to raise his perception and spirit further.

• Yang Yi activated the god statue, creating a scorching anomaly that followed the Nightmare Star and began burning the ship and its creatures.
• Cui Xiya and Cui Bisi fled below deck while Su Na and Istil endured the vision until Yang Yi removed the statue.
• Su Na and Istil entered the Laboratory, driven by a surge of inspiration to record new ideas and plans.
• For more than a month, the Nightmare Star followed near Steam Island as the surrounding sea shifted between extreme conditions and Anglers caught strange monster fish.
• Yang Yi raised most of his attributes near 90 by training, eating, and drinking potions, then enhanced his left eye to increase his perception to 86.
• Yang Yi considered grafting a Greater Evil Eye’s eyeball and had an idea about the four remaining attribute points.

Yang Yi failed to raise his attributes beyond 90, dealt with the runaway church, and learned that Moon Island had been conquered, triggering a 72-hour system maintenance. The chapter then revealed that a squad of players from the Mirror had been recruited by the system to help capture the remaining Player Islands.

• Yang Yi tested whether Refuse Death could push his attributes past 90, but the cap remained unchanged.
• Yang Yi returned to Steam Island, joined the operation to capture the Collector, and assigned the repaired, dangerous church to guard the Safe Zone.
• Yang Yi went fishing with the Old Captain and saw an announcement that Player Island No. 04 had been fully explored and occupied, prompting 72 hours of emergency maintenance.
• The story shifted back over half a month as Shi Lei led twelve armed players at sea and established his authority after defeating the others.
• Shi Lei explained that the group consisted of counterparts from the Mirror, recruited by the system to conceal their identities and help capture Player Islands.

Abu Singh and Shi Lei regrouped with other GMs in a different timeline and planned to blend in with its players. Two days later, they ambushed the Lost Ones Fleet in the Sea of No Light, killing Weissman and his crew.

• A white-haired woman healed Abu Singh, who learned that his counterpart had lost to One-Eye in this timeline.
• Shi Lei discussed the unfamiliar islands with the other GMs and said they needed identities to blend in with the local players.
• The Lost Ones Fleet sailed through the Sea of No Light with a vast population of captured indigenous people aboard its ships.
• The GMs tried to approach the fleet disguised as injured castaways, but the ghouls recognized the ruse and turned to flee.
• A Deep One player and the other GMs attacked the fleet, while Shi Lei approached with a torch.
• Weissman found that his portals and messages were disabled, and a woman with short blades beheaded him after a GM explained that the group had been chosen by the system.

The Lost Ones Fleet’s twelve GMs wiped out its members, and Shi Lei took command before the group discussed which island to target next. The Fleet later arrived on Steam Island and met Yang Yi, offering to explain how they occupied Moon Island while keeping its ruins off-limits for now.

• The twelve GMs slaughtered the Lost Ones Fleet, and Shi Lei became its leader after Weissman was killed.
• Dara the Undying Witch reported that indigenous humans remained imprisoned aboard the ships, while Dijie denied losing control after draining them.
• Shi Lei asked his teammates whether Moon Island or Garbage Island would make a better base, and Dijie and the Immortal Witch both claimed connections to Moon Island.
• Players on Steam Island speculated about who had occupied Moon Island, but Xu Da and the gathered representatives could not identify the culprit.
• The Lost Ones Fleet arrived through the Portal, and its leader Daishi met Yang Yi and offered to share how they occupied Moon Island.
• Daishi refused to let Yang Yi and Su Na visit Moon Island because it remained dangerous, then accompanied them toward the One-Eye Grand Church.

Daishi explained Moon Island’s deadly games, Madmen, and Experience Tickets to the Green Island representatives as they discussed occupying the island. The meeting then turned to Garbage Island, while Yang Yi privately grew suspicious of the newly emerged players and the system’s push to occupy every Player Island.

• Daishi described how Moon Island could be occupied by winning one hundred random games against the Madmen and warned everyone about the island’s dangers.
• Hong Yanyan posted a report about Moon Island on the Player Forum, while Daishi explained that Experience Tickets could offset the cost of losing games after the island was formatted.
• Yang Yi asked whether Madmen could be used for Gacha, and Daishi’s companion explained that they became loose clothing outside Moon Island because they had no physical bodies.
• Shi Lei moved the meeting on to the occupation of Garbage Island and called for players to occupy all the Player Islands quickly.
• Yang Yi kept his suspicion about the new players and the system’s urgency to himself because the system was monitoring everyone.

The Lost Ones Fleet shared information about Collectors, prompting Green Island to postpone its plan to capture one and instead prepare to explore Garbage Island. After system maintenance ended, Yang Yi inspected the updated Point Vending Machine and used Item Copy Cards to duplicate his weapons.

• Lada explained that Golden Merchants could become Collectors and warned that attacking one would provoke the Golden Commerce Guild, so the factions shelved their capture plan and chose to explore Garbage Island.
• The Lost Ones Fleet urged the players to prioritize taking Miracle Island, and Yang Yi added its members as friends because their names seemed familiar to him.
• Three days later, the system announced that maintenance had ended, Moon Island was open for minigames, and World Chat and trading were available around the clock.
• Yang Yi checked the Point Vending Machine and found new Talent Reset and Item Copy Cards.
• Yang Yi redeemed three Item Copy Cards and obtained three Exceptional weapons resembling his originals.

Yang Yi and his companions visited Moon Island, where they found a barren surface and a vast fissure leading down to an abandoned amusement park. A masked madman invited Yang Yi to try the Screaming Haunted House, but first challenged him to an arm-wrestling match.

• Yang Yi and his party used the Portal to arrive on Moon Island with the first group of visitors.
• Yang Yi examined the island's strange vertical ground and approached the enormous fissure with other players, including Hong Yanyan.
• Hong Yanyan questioned Yang Yi about the Lost Ones Fleet and Daishi, but Yang Yi ignored her and looked into the fissure.
• Yang Yi saw the abandoned amusement park below, where Daishi was resting beside a swimming pool.
• A monkey-like madman appeared beside Yang Yi, invited him to the Screaming Haunted House, and challenged him to arm-wrestle as proof of his courage.

Yang Yi won an arm-wrestling game against a Madman by forming an arm from tentacles, earning Player Points, a deformed strong arm, and a Haunted House Admission Ticket. He and the other Players descended into the canyon, where the seemingly abandoned amusement park suddenly filled with Madmen and began operating.

• Yang Yi agreed to arm wrestle a scrawny Madman, who inflated himself and made their arms the stakes before the match began.
• Yang Yi used tentacles to form an arm and defeated the Madman, winning 5,000 Player Points and a deformed strong arm.
• Hong Yanyan inspected the blood from the defeated Madman, and another nearly identical Madman appeared; Su Na messaged Yang Yi her theory that something on the island empowered the Madmen and controlled the games.
• Yang Yi and the other Players flew or climbed down into the canyon, while Wang Chong and Balot descended along the cliff.
• Yang Yi reached the canyon floor and saw the old amusement rides running as crowds of Madmen appeared, and the arriving Players entered the amusement park.

Yang Yi and his teammates explored Mad Laughter Valley, where its rides traded experience vouchers for prize points and seemed to train players’ Spirit. After learning the attractions’ value, Yang Yi discovered he could earn points by punching a madman at Dynamic Boxing.

• Yang Yi bought experience vouchers, maps, and a strange drink that temporarily increased his Agility and maximum Sanity and slowly restored Sanity.
• Yang Yi divided his teammates into groups, told them to contact him if anything unusual happened, and sent them off to explore the amusement park.
• Hong Yanyan bought the special drink after seeing Yang Yi praise it, spat it out, and grew angry when the ticket seller laughed and showed a secretly taken photo.
• Su Na told Yang Yi that rides converted spent vouchers into Laughing Valley Points, which could be exchanged for prizes, and observed that the attractions seemed to train players’ Spirit.
• Yang Yi tried Dynamic Boxing and punched a madman hard enough to send it flying, earning points vouchers without triggering any system restriction.

Shi Lei watched players trigger the amusement park’s traps while harvesting Mad Laughter Points, until Yang Yi defeated a powerful attraction and cost Moon Island 1,307 points. Worried that Yang Yi could keep overcoming the games, Shi Lei began considering countermeasures and contacted Dara the Undying Witch for advice.

• Shi Lei monitored the rising Mad Laughter Points as players struggled with the amusement park’s rigged attractions.
• Cui Xiya used her flaming toy gun to hit more than a dozen moving balloons at the Galaxy Shooting Range, costing Moon Island a small number of points.
• Yang Yi struck the Dynamic Boxing attraction so hard that the Madman posing as a punching-power tester was sent flying and dropped tens of thousands of vouchers.
• Shi Lei saw that Yang Yi’s victory had cost Moon Island 1,307 Mad Laughter Points and worried that he would keep beating the games.
• Shi Lei considered ways to stop Yang Yi, decided against provoking infighting, and contacted Dara the Undying Witch for ideas.

Yang Yi exploited the Amusement Park’s attractions for a huge haul of points before learning that the Lost Ones Fleet had imposed limits and that Sunday might be significant. As he met with Lada to discuss Moon Island, Wang Chong was challenged to a shooting contest for a High-level Artisan Inscription Stone.

• Yang Yi traded Experience Tickets for Mad Laughter Valley vouchers and won more points by forcing his way through attractions, including setting the Screaming Haunted House ablaze.
• The Madmen barred bald people from an attraction except on Sundays, prompting Yang Yi to check the map and notice that it was Thursday with three days of validity remaining.
• Yang Yi redeemed a High-level Abyss Soul Stone and entered the restricted area after Daishi granted permission.
• Lada explained that the Lost Ones Fleet had added limits because Yang Yi could otherwise claim too many prizes, then invited him inside to discuss Moon Island’s power.
• Yang Yi asked Lada to let Su Na and Istil join the discussion as they approached with Xiaoji.
• Wang Chong was challenged by a burly Madman to a marksmanship contest, with a High-level Artisan Inscription Stone offered as the prize.

Wang Chong challenged Shi Lei to a spear contest, but Shi Lei dodged his attacks and defeated him before pelting him and the spectators with paintballs. Meanwhile, Yang Yi and his companions visited the Lost Ones Fleet’s base, where Lada explained how the building protected its occupants from Moon Island’s effects.

• Wang Chong began the spear contest by thrusting at Shi Lei, who bent and twisted to evade him while the spectators laughed.
• Wang Chong attacked with two spears and a burst of golden qi, but Shi Lei knocked him off balance with a bump and sent him crashing to the ground.
• Shi Lei revealed an outfit packed with firearms and fired paintballs at Wang Chong and the crowd, hitting Hong Yanyan in the face.
• Yang Yi, Su Na, and their companions entered the Lost Ones Fleet’s building and met Augustus, Bufon, Di, and other members exercising inside.
• Lada removed her Smiley Mask and explained that the building’s Darkness Core dye protected its occupants from Moon Island’s effects.
• Lada told Su Na that the Fleet had found the old building upon entering the canyon and put it to use.

Yang Yi followed a familiar sweet scent into the ruined basement beneath the Lost Ones Fleet’s building, where he encountered a pig-headed giant named Haozi. After Haozi attacked him, Daishi arrived and stopped the fight, leaving Yang Yi to identify the giant as a Feast Reveler.

• Su Na, Istil, and Dara discussed the Lost Ones Fleet and the world’s anomalous phenomena while Yang Yi listened from the sidelines.
• Yang Yi followed a familiar scent downstairs, met Bufon, and found a hatch leading underground.
• Lu Lu warned Yang Yi about the dangerous giant below, but he rejected her friend request and opened the hatch.
• Yang Yi entered the ruined basement and found a pig-headed giant eating Madmen; the giant called him “Mommy” and attacked.
• Yang Yi dodged Haozi’s blows, but Daishi descended and severed the giant’s reaching hand.
• Yang Yi asked whether Haozi was a Feast Reveler.

Yang Yi uncovered Moon Island’s deception and returned to the Nightmare Star with an armor fragment suggesting the island had been conquered by the Radiant Holy Church before. Su Na warned him that Moon Island would be extremely dangerous on Sunday, but the danger only made Yang Yi more curious.

• Daishi explained that Haozi was a Feast Reveler who had overused his abilities, while Haozi ate Madmen in the pit to curb his cravings.
• Shi Lei admitted that Moon Island’s people had disguised themselves as Madmen to create amusement and restore the island’s power without causing casualties.
• Yang Yi rejoined the Lost Ones Fleet, declined Lu Lu’s friend request, and left Moon Island with his group after they agreed to meet Su Na’s side again on Steam Island.
• Cui Xiya complained that she had lost her Experience Tickets and borrowed points in a rigged shooting contest, though Cui Bisi reassured her that they could still afford a High-level Abyss Soul Stone.
• Yang Yi examined an Eagle Knight’s armor fragment and shared evidence of past battles on Moon Island with the fleet.
• Su Na relayed Lu Lu’s warning that Moon Island would be dangerous on Sunday and that Lada had wanted Yang Yi to act as a lab rat, but Yang Yi became more interested in visiting.

Yang Yi reviewed reports about Moon Island and sought a way to enhance Broken Iron, eventually deciding it should grow stronger by absorbing souls through killing. Meanwhile, Lu Lu continued secretly collecting victims’ heads on Moon Island and worried she was nearing a limit on how many people she could kill.

• Yang Yi read Hong Yanyan’s reports about Moon Island’s attractions, traps, and Players who had gone missing after encountering Madmen.
• Yang Yi pressed Banks for a way to enhance Broken Iron, but Banks could not offer a solution and tried to escape the task.
• Yang Yi concluded that Broken Iron should be strengthened by infusing it with souls and letting it grow through killing, then considered asking Istil about the Infinite Flintlock.
• Shi Lei passed Lu Lu’s room and frowned but said nothing.
• Lu Lu added a fourth victim’s head to her collection and noted that killing any more might force her to hold back for half a month or longer.

The Radiant Holy Church fleet tortured and killed Gordon while the Divine Eagle Knight identified Green Island as a source of potential believers. Meanwhile, Yang Yi checked the Player Forum and continued planning to visit Moon Island on Sunday, unaware of the danger approaching Green Island.

• An Archbishop burned Gordon for hours aboard the Radiant Holy Church fleet, but Gordon refused to submit to the Church.
• The Divine Eagle Knight killed Gordon, then learned the fleet carried many new worshippers and ordered it to return to the Sea of Miracles for more ships.
• The Divine Eagle Knight spotted Green Island from hundreds of nautical miles away and decided its inhabitants could become believers, while Green Island remained unaware of the threat.
• Yang Yi spent his idle days training and briefly asked Istil about the Spear That Pierces Everything, but she reported little progress.
• Yang Yi read forum reports about Moon Island’s crowded attractions, learned only one player had gone missing, and messaged Daishi about his planned Sunday visit.

Yang Yi traveled to Moon Island ahead of its Seven-Day Carnival, hoping the disaster would help him raise his Mental Attribute. After arriving, he stopped Lu Lu from attacking him and joined Shi Lei inside the base, where Shi Lei welcomed him to meet the crew.

• Daishi told Yang Yi about Moon Island and the Seven-Day Carnival, and Yang Yi arranged to arrive Saturday night before the island entered its uncontrolled state.
• Shi Lei granted Yang Yi permission to visit, despite warning him about the danger, and Yang Yi accepted the plan to arrive the night before the carnival.
• Su Na gave Yang Yi a small container made from Abyss Soul Stone shell so he could try to capture weakened Madmen.
• Yang Yi arrived at Moon Island and Lu Lu eagerly approached him, but he seized her by the throat and threw her into a pool after sensing her intent to eat him.
• Yang Yi warned Lu Lu not to prey on people and entered the base, while Shi Lei greeted him and invited him to meet the crew.

Yang Yi met the members of the Lost Ones Fleet over a lavish meal, then followed Lada to her laboratory to discuss Manic Laughter Syndrome. Lada asked him to document the effects after he contracted it, leaving Yang Yi shocked to learn that Su Na supported the plan.

• Daishi introduced Yang Yi to the twelve members of the Lost Ones Fleet, and Yang Yi introduced himself in turn.
• Yang Yi and Haozi ate most of the feast before Lada took Yang Yi upstairs to prepare for the next day's operation.
• Yang Yi examined Lada's blank research books and noticed her active study of Manic Laughter Syndrome.
• Lada changed into a much smaller form and asked Yang Yi to record the syndrome's effects after contracting it.
• Yang Yi was stunned when Lada said Su Na also wanted him to conduct the tests.

Yang Yi learned more about Manic Laughter Syndrome and accepted a mission to investigate a building that appeared during Moon Island’s peak activity. Before heading upstairs to meet Balie, he wrestled Augustus, won after transforming into a Werewolf, and left Augustus eager for a rematch.

• Yang Yi listened as Lada explained that light spread Manic Laughter Syndrome and that Moon Island’s activity peaked every seven days, when a damaged building appeared in the amusement park.
• Dara asked Yang Yi to capture Madmen, record the effects of infection, and retrieve research materials from the building; Yang Yi accepted the mission.
• Yang Yi found Augustus exercising and agreed to wrestle him after Augustus challenged his strength.
• Augustus’s strength surged during the match, and A-Chong trained his gun on him in case he lost control.
• Yang Yi transformed into a Werewolf, overpowered Augustus, and won; Augustus conceded and invited him to wrestle again.
• Yang Yi added Augustus as a friend and hurried upstairs to meet Balie in room 306.