Chapter Summaries

Shi Lei used his Victory and Defeat Exchange talent to turn the tables on the Divine Language Knight and kill her. Her last-second magic then spread across the battlefield, leaving the victory’s consequences uncertain.

• The Goddess Statues and Holy Church Knights increased pressure on the players as the Golden Collector lay incapacitated and many of the strongest players remained wounded.
• Shen Guanquan watched Shi Lei get bound and pierced by the Divine Language Knight, then saw the two exchange bodies.
• Shi Lei activated Victory and Defeat Exchange, gained the Divine Language Knight’s superior attributes, and unleashed a flurry of blade strikes.
• Shi Lei destroyed the Divine Language Knight’s armor and reduced her Qi and Blood to zero, prompting the players to celebrate their victory.
• Shi Lei sensed the Divine Language Knight cast magic before dying, and its effects spread across the battlefield.

The players halted the Radiant Goddess’s descent on Garbage Island, only to learn that a colossal Radiant Goddess Statue had appeared on Green Island. There, Yang Yi faced the Divine Eagle Knight as the Great Statue’s projection began breaking the blind believers’ faith.

• The Holy Church Knights and faith-corrupted Collectors dissolved into light, which assembled into a new god statue meant to let the Radiant Goddess descend.
• Shi Lei and the players attacked the forming statue, but their weapons only slowed its construction.
• The Golden Collector joined the fight, and Shen Guanquan forced the Song of Creation Gramophone to empower the players and send giant vines against the statue.
• The vines stopped the spell, and the unfinished statue collapsed; the players received notice that Garbage Island had been occupied.
• News of the victory drew little attention after a colossal Radiant Goddess Statue appeared on Green Island.
• Yang Yi fought the healed Divine Eagle Knight while the Great Statue projected a burning black tree that broke the blind believers’ faith and set them ablaze.

Su Na’s assault weakened the Light Barrier and helped restore system functions, allowing Green Island’s survivors to evacuate to Steam Island while players counterattacked the Radiant Holy Church. Yang Yi kept the Divine Eagle Knight occupied as the player forces gained the advantage, and the chapter ended with the knight firing another Supreme Holy Slash at Yang Yi.

• Su Na’s attack burned a large hole in the Light Barrier, while players wearing replicas of “Unseeing” resisted the Great Statue’s influence.
• Zhao Tie contacted survivors on Green Island, and Su Na urged them to open Portals to Steam Island.
• Huang Zhuang and Huang Shishi opened a Portal, held off nearby pursuers, and evacuated with reinforcements’ help.
• Cui Xiya, Cui Bisi, and Dara led attacks on Radiant Warships while Nurse Miss robots and Limb Spider Soldiers rescued players.
• Su Na and the players defended the damaged Nightmare Star as Goddess Statues and winged Holy Church Knight Captains attacked it.
• Yang Yi blocked a Supreme Holy Slash with a Great Shield, but the Divine Eagle Knight spotted him and fired another shot.

Yang Yi swallowed the Divine Eagle Knight to separate him from the Goddess Statues and trap him in his gluttonous hell. Though the Knight weakened as the Madmen devoured him, holy light began gathering around Yang Yi and shining from his belly, leaving the fight unresolved.

• The Divine Eagle Knight realized Yang Yi had no Madman beneath him to absorb the Supreme Holy Slash and attacked while Yang Yi closed in.
• Yang Yi transformed, swallowed the Divine Eagle Knight, and trapped him among the Madmen and antlike creatures inside his belly.
• The Madmen overwhelmed the Divine Eagle Knight, biting through his armor and taking his gun-wielding hand and hunting rifle.
• Yang Yi stored the rifle and checked on the Knight, who seemed nearly digested.
• Yang Yi felt severe abdominal pain as holy light shone through his belly and countless points of light converged on him and the Knight inside.

Yang Yi was trapped inside a colossal Goddess Statue forming from the light of Blind Believers and their statues, while Su Na and the others tried to free him. The Bow Cannon and Yang Yi’s Fool’s Greatsword could not break the structure, and Su Na ordered everyone on the island to evacuate as the Radiant Goddess prepared to descend.

• Light particles from the island’s Blind Believers swallowed Yang Yi, and the Divine Eagle Knight turned into an eyeball that Three Eyes inserted into Yang Yi’s left eye and absorbed as the Thousand-Mile Eye.
• Goddess Statues joined together around Yang Yi, trapping him inside the forming structure as his qi and blood and sanity declined.
• Su Na used the ship’s Bow Cannon, with Xiaoji replacing its damaged section, but the shot only dented the Goddess Statue.
• Yang Yi could not enlarge the Fool’s Greatsword enough to break free because the surrounding material was too strong.
• Su Na warned that something was about to descend and ordered Zhao Tie and the island’s Players to evacuate.

As the Radiant Goddess's projection took shape over Green Island, the surviving players and the Nightmare Star crew faced its overwhelming power. After Su Na's attack failed to harm it, Yang Yi emerged from a rift in the statue's abdomen, fused with the Penitent Armor.

• Shi Lei and the Garbage Island victors discovered reports that a nearly complete God Statue had appeared on Green Island, while the old Gramophone remained on Garbage Island.
• Players evacuated Green Island as the statue's light blinded them and turned many into Blind Believers; Dara and the others rescued only some survivors before the rest merged into the statue.
• The Nightmare Star crash-landed in the forest, and Mars tore apart Limb Spider Soldiers who were beginning to become Blind Believers.
• Cui Bisi learned that Yang Yi was still inside the God Statue, while the crew stayed aboard the ship as the statue came to life and opened its eyes.
• Su Na entered Witch Form and struck the Goddess Statue with a powerful attack, but its tendrils blocked the explosion and it reached toward the Nightmare Star.
• Yang Yi appeared inside a rift in the statue's abdomen, covered in darkness and seemingly fused with the Penitent Armor.

Yang Yi broke free of the Goddess Statue after a vision helped him awaken Mythic-level power. He warned his crew about the Statue’s faith-inducing light, and the battle continued with his companions readying themselves to strike back.

• Trapped inside the Goddess Statue, Yang Yi’s Sanity fell to 1 and he entered a boundless vision of worshippers ascending toward the Statue.
• Yang Yi recognized Zhou Dai and Reinhardt, remembered the fight, and countered Reinhardt’s Supreme Holy Slash with Ashen Light, striking Zhou Dai.
• Yang Yi’s attack cut open the Goddess Statue and freed him, triggering his ascension to Mythic and upgrading his Fool title and talent.
• Yang Yi warned his crew that the Statue’s light tried to plant faith in its targets, while Su Na covered her eyes to avoid its influence.
• Mars cried with relief, and Little Dara urged the crew to use the Greatsword to bring down the Goddess Statue.

Yang Yi unleashed his black, Oathbreaker-powered sword against the Goddess Statue and destroyed it along with half of Green Island. He collected a fragment for the Monster Gacha Machine, then discovered the Nightmare Star had been destroyed in the battle and prepared to return.

• Yang Yi told Dara and the others to leave while he fought the Goddess Statue alone.
• Yang Yi used a gigantic black sword to wound the Goddess Statue repeatedly and overwhelm its attempts to recover.
• Yang Yi unleashed Grand Oathbreaker Whirling Slash, shredding the Goddess Statue and half of Green Island until nothing remained but a small fragment.
• Yang Yi examined the fragment and confirmed it could be used in the Monster Gacha Machine for a capsule and player points.
• Yang Yi searched for the Nightmare Star, discovered it had been shredded during the battle, and took out his spare Portal to return.

After Garbage Island was occupied, the players debated whether to abandon Green Island until Yu Dawei revealed that Yang had returned and resolved the crisis there. Meanwhile, Zhou Dai learned that several important believers had died, forcing her and Reinhardt to change their plans for opening the Gate of Glory.

• Blue data streams occupied Garbage Island, imprisoned the Golden Collector, and began a maintenance process expected to take nearly 500 hours.
• Shi Lei urged the players to abandon Green Island because they could not defeat its God Statue, while Yu Dawei, Qin Ming, and others argued that they should keep fighting for it.
• Shen Guanquan considered abandoning Green Island because the players were too injured to fight again.
• Yu Dawei announced that Yang had messaged him to say the situation on Green Island had been dealt with, prompting the players to celebrate.
• At the Holy Capital, Reinhardt told Zhou Dai that he had repelled an intruder, and the Radiant Goddess healed Zhou Dai's wound.
• Zhou Dai learned that the Divine Eagle Knight and other believers had died, then agreed to Reinhardt's proposal despite the lack of time.

Yang Yi discussed the aftermath of the battles on Green Island and Garbage Island, then used the destroyed statue fragment to strengthen his ship. He reviewed his powerful new Mythic-level attributes and planned to share his advancement experience with other players.

• Shen Guanquan thanked Yang Yi for rescuing Green Island, and Yang Yi changed the subject to reaching the Mythic level.
• Yang Yi and Shen Guanquan discussed the Garbage Island battle, its contributors, and plans to make the island a usable rear base with help from Su Na's Abyss Potion.
• Yang Yi fed the Radiant Goddess statue fragment to the Execution Rack and gained a ship upgrade that granted the Light Theft skill.
• Yang Yi checked his Mythic-level attributes and resolved to post his advancement method on the forum, despite the difficulty of obtaining a unique talent.

After discovering that the Golden Merchant Extraordinary Path had vanished, Yang Yi examined the defunct Supreme Pact Artifact and shared what he knew about advancing to Mythic-level on the Forum. He then went to Steam Island Central Hospital, where the wounded from Green Island and Garbage Island overwhelmed the medical staff.

• Yang Yi learned that the Golden Commerce Guild had collapsed and that its pact artifact was now a broken hourglass that still granted a discount when trading with a Collector.
• Yang Yi posted detailed advice about advancing to Mythic-level, and Daishi, also known as Shi Shi Shi, described a luck-dependent way to advance with three talents.
• Yang Yi earned nearly a billion Conch Coins from the post and the influence of destroying the Goddess Statue, then headed toward the Shelter at Steam Island Central Hospital.
• Balie and Augustus met Yang Yi at the port, and Yang Yi returned the Flintlock to Balie before leaving for the hospital.
• Yang Yi arrived at the overcrowded hospital, where Nurse Miss, Haken, Seerte, Liu Chu, and Mars treated the wounded, including tens of thousands of unconscious Blind Believers.

Yang Yi arrived at the shelter and found Dara exhausted from healing the wounded before joining Su Na in the operating room, where A-Chong’s dangerous Soul Eye was being treated. The Soul Eye went dormant when it sensed Yang Yi, but Three Eyes then tried to make Yang Yi attack A-Chong, and Su Na took Yang Yi back to the ship for a full-body examination.

• Yang Yi stopped the Nurse Miss robot from forcing Dara to keep healing and warned that repeated Mana potions could harm her.
• Yang Yi and Dara went to the operating room, where Su Na and Istil were trying to save A-Chong by removing his life-draining Soul Eye.
• Yang Yi identified the Soul Eye and learned that it could destroy the connections between a living creature’s soul and body.
• The Soul Eye sensed Yang Yi, closed, and became nearly undetectable, halting Su Na’s planned incision.
• Three Eyes took control of Yang Yi’s hand and tried to make him attack A-Chong, but Yang Yi restrained it.
• Su Na handed A-Chong’s treatment to Istil and took Yang Yi back to the ship for a full-body examination, while Dara stayed to heal the wounded.

Yang Yi and Su Na returned from the hospital after Dara was detained, where Zhao Tie introduced his newborn son and asked Yang Yi to name him. Back aboard the Nightmare Star, Yang Yi and Su Na offered to help Cui Xiya and Cui Bisi prepare to advance their titles.

• Zhao Tie showed Yang Yi and Su Na his healthy newborn son and asked Yang Yi to become his godfather and choose the baby's name.
• Yang Yi's suggestion, Zhao Tie Tie, made the baby cry, so Su Na named him Zhao Yi instead.
• Su Na told Yang Yi that research on player descendants found they could inherit their parents' attributes or talents and might become Extraordinary by adulthood.
• Cui Xiya discussed advancing toward the Fighter title, while Cui Bisi chose the Archmage path and asked Cui Xiya for money to buy Magic Books.
• Yang Yi offered to help both Light Fairies advance, asked Su Na for Legendary Attribute Potions, and gave Cui Bisi two hundred million Conch Coins for Magic Books.

Su Na examined Yang Yi and gave him a potion that reduced pollution, then proposed developing a specialized potion to help players operate underwater. On Garbage Island, Shen Guanquan began planning its reconstruction and considered how its resources could support the players’ growing base.

• Su Na found that Yang Yi’s energy had increased greatly and suspected Three Eyes could assimilate abilities from other mutated eyeballs; she planned to make him a protective eyepatch.
• Su Na warned that Yang Yi’s pollution had risen and gave him three Light Supplement potions to lower it.
• Yang Yi asked Su Na to make more Abyss Potions for work on Garbage Island, but she proposed developing a specialized underwater potion using marine Otherworldly Demon corpses instead.
• Shen Guanquan organized repairs and reconstruction after Green Island was devastated, noting that its plants could be revived with the Song of Creation.
• Shen Guanquan received Yang Yi’s message and realized Garbage Island’s vast stores and collected materials could support the new potion research and the players’ expanding base.

Yang Yi, Su Na, and Istil explored Garbage Island, where they suspected a buried structure supported the vast garbage mountain. Yang Yi plunged into the island’s depths and discovered that it ended in a suspended island in the deep sea.

• Yang Yi, Su Na, and Istil visited Garbage Island with Shen Guanquan’s permission and saw the damaged Golden City and the Iron Will.
• Su Na and Istil studied the incomplete map and explored the garbage plain while Hong Yanyan livestreamed her finds.
• Yang Yi appeared on Hong Yanyan’s stream, rummaging through the garbage with his tongues and collecting valuables.
• Su Na told Yang Yi that she and Istil suspected a buried facility supported the island, and Yang Yi swallowed them and plunged downward.
• Shi Lei followed Yang Yi briefly but stopped after Yang Yi disappeared beneath the garbage.
• Yang Yi ran down the garbage mountain for nearly two hours and reached its end, finding that Garbage Island was suspended in the deep sea.

Yang Yi, Su Na, and Istil explored Garbage Island’s enormous metal underside and found a still-functioning entrance into its interior. Istil opened the hatch, and the three entered the water-filled passage, wary of whatever defenses might remain inside.

• Yang Yi brought Su Na and Istil to the island’s underside, where Istil uncovered a rust-free metal surface beneath the garbage.
• A disguised Lurking Garbage Armed Crab attacked Istil, but Yang Yi killed it and stored its body.
• Su Na found the identification number A43196 and used a scanning device to locate a nearby entrance beneath the island.
• Yang Yi exposed the circular hatch and left a deep footprint in its unusually strong metal surface.
• Istil activated the panel and opened the hatch, then warned Yang Yi and Su Na that the interior might contain active defenses.
• Istil and Su Na swam into the passage, and Yang Yi followed with his Broken Iron Greatsword.

Yang Yi, Su Na, and Istil entered the metal platform, but its security system identified them as abyss-contaminated Polluters and attacked them. They escaped into a work preparation room, where Yang Yi fought a mechanical soldier of the Armed Task Force.

• Yang Yi, Su Na, and Istil reached a sealed chamber, where a detector identified them as Polluters and triggered an emergency freezing protocol.
• Yang Yi broke through the chamber door, used Flame Healing to thaw Su Na and Istil, and led them through security gates as alarms warned of an intruder.
• Yang Yi found a Storm Three rifle in a work preparation room, while Istil sensed danger and warned that an Armed Task Force was stationed there.
• Soldiers threw grenades into the room, but Yang Yi caught and swallowed them before confronting a mechanical soldier.
• Yang Yi's Storm Three rifle locked up, so he threw it aside and battered the soldier until its head and chest collapsed into mechanical parts.

Yang Yi, Su Na, and Istil fought through the Kambal Duchy’s Armed Task Force and searched for a console that could prevent the base from triggering its self-destruct directive. They breached a heavily reinforced temporary sample warehouse, where Yang Yi killed a writhing flesh-like creature and discovered from its system information that it had once been a person.

• Istil and Su Na helped Yang Yi defeat the Armed Task Force Robots, and Istil warned that another wave would arrive soon.
• Istil guided Yang Yi and Su Na toward a temporary sample warehouse, where she hoped to find a console and gain access to the base systems.
• Yang Yi destroyed more Robots along the way and acquired ten High-Frequency Particle-Emission Daggers.
• Su Na stopped a Robot attacking from behind while Yang Yi repeatedly slashed through the warehouse door, which was nearly three meters thick.
• Yang Yi killed a flesh-colored mass inside the warehouse with the daggers, then shared its system information with Su Na and Istil after realizing it had been a person.

Yang Yi fought off the Armed Task Force while Istil and Su Na Na worked to stop the base alarm by changing the sample identification codes. The alarm stopped just as the warehouse door buckled, and Yang Yi stood outside holding a half-destroyed task force member.

• Su Na identified the flesh as belonging to Collapsed Persons while Istil recalled the base’s past and began hacking its console.
• Yang Yi went into the corridor and was trapped by Gel Electromagnetic Shackles, but transformed into a werewolf and ambushed the Armed Task Force.
• Yang Yi defeated seven task force units despite their use of corrosive weapons that burned and dissolved his body.
• Su Na Na suggested using lower-level privileges to assign sample identification codes, and Istil followed her advice.
• The base alarm stopped and its announcement identified Istil of Gold as responsible for transferring Abyss-polluted samples.
• Yang Yi’s damaged body rapidly recovered as he held a half-destroyed Armed Task Force member outside the door.

Yang Yi defeated the Armed Task Force robots and joined Su Na and Istil in viewing footage of a human transformed by the collapse of reason. Istil explained the anomaly and warned that a third Seaquake could make even basic laws and simple technologies unreliable, just as the floor began shaking violently.

• Yang Yi killed the Armed Task Force Tyrant Type, collected the destroyed robots, and entered the warehouse after Istil disabled the alarms.
• Yang Yi, Su Na, and Istil watched footage of a worker who transformed into a mass of flesh that destroyed storage chambers and consumed their contents.
• Istil explained that the collapse of reason randomly transformed intelligent beings and undermined scientific theories and complex creations.
• Istil said the phenomenon appeared after the second Seaquake and warned that a third could disrupt even basic mathematics and simple machines.
• Su Na resolved to return to Miskatonic University to uncover the secrets behind the anomaly.
• Yang Yi questioned Istil's warning, but the metal floor began to shake violently beneath them.