Chapter Summaries

Yang Yi opened the Book of Dissolution at sea and endured a lethal transformation while reading it, but gained no knowledge. After learning how dangerous it was, Su Na proposed that they read it together.

• Yang Yi left the descending Shelter and traveled about twenty nautical miles away before opening the Book of Dissolution.
• The sea around Yang Yi transformed into a red, dissolving mire, and his boat and body began to melt as he read.
• Yang Yi emerged as a flaming skeleton after more than ten minutes, with his Qi and Blood reduced to 32 and his Sanity reduced by 37; the system said he had gained nothing.
• Yang Yi sent Su Na an account of the book’s effects, and she concluded that it was too dangerous for ordinary readers without special protection or resilience.
• Su Na proposed that she and Yang Yi read the Book of Dissolution together.

Yang Yi and Su Na prepared to read the Book of Dissolution with restorative potions and Dara on hand to heal them. Far from Steam Island, Su Na transformed and joined her body to Yang Yi’s as they began their attempt.

• Yang Yi learned that the Sea of Miracles had begun shrinking and heard Daishi warn island leaders that entering it could mean continuous fighting.
• Yang Yi questioned Istil about the bright red cocoon, but she had no way to open it or authorize him to pilot the Living Armor.
• Su Na prepared Proliferative Potions and a bottle of Fruit of Abundance juice before Yang Yi agreed to read the book with her.
• Yang Yi brought Su Na and a protesting Dara by boat to waters more than thirty nautical miles from Steam Island.
• Su Na activated her witch form and joined her palms and body with Yang Yi’s as tiny spiders stitched and burrowed into them.

Yang Yi and Su Na used fusion magic to read the Book of Dissolution while Dara supported them with healing spells. Su Na had read nearly half the book when dissolution began consuming her body, and Yang Yi learned the dangerous Touch of Dissolution spell through their connection.

• Yang Yi and Su Na fused, unlocked the Book of Dissolution, and began reading while Dara steered the boat away from the spreading danger.
• As Su Na slowly read, the book’s effects dissolved her hand and steadily drained her Qi and Blood, so Yang Yi used recovery potions to keep her going.
• Dara cast a series of ranged healing spells that restored Su Na’s wounds and Qi and Blood, allowing the reading to continue.
• After several more hours, Su Na’s condition worsened and Dara ran low on mana, while the Dissolution Sea expanded around them.
• Yang Yi used a Proliferative Potion to suppress his own symptoms and discovered that Su Na’s reading had taught him the Touch of Dissolution spell.

Su Na finished reading the Book of Dissolution after Yang Yi used the Fruit of Abundance extract to heal them both, and she learned how the Ultimate Formula had dissolved Player Island. Yang Yi and Su Na headed back toward Steam Island with Little Dara, leaving them with a possible way to stop the island’s dissolution.

• After more than ten hours of reading, Su Na went blind and asked Yang Yi to take over reading the remaining pages.
• Yang Yi used the Fruit of Abundance extract, healing his dissolving body and restoring Su Na, who gained the ability to replace missing limbs with flames.
• Su Na finished the Book of Dissolution and learned that an Ultimate Formula had dissolved Player Island, including its players, and that Insoluble Bone could be made into protective suits.
• Su Na shared her knowledge with Yang Yi, who learned one spell, and they ended their connected state and prepared to return.
• Yang Yi realized they had left Little Dara on the boat, returned to retrieve her, and hurried toward Steam Island as the boat continued to decay.

Moon Island’s Lost Ones Fleet fought the Blind Believers while Bufon secretly manipulated Molly and planned to rescue Dream Island. On Steam Island, Su Na prepared to test the Book of Dissolution as Yang Yi reviewed preparations for an approaching battle.

• Moon Island’s Madmen fought the Blind Believers in the Sea of Miracles, and its administrators used mad laughter points to revive them and power the island’s abilities.
• Bufon used his hidden Mental Manipulation Magic to make Molly believe she had implanted Witchcraft Gu in him, then questioned her about Daishi and Balie’s gun repairs.
• Bufon decided to rescue Dream Island so he could regain his former power and use his dreams against even a Mythic-level opponent.
• Su Na returned to the Nightmare Star with a changed appearance and went to the Laboratory with Istil and Dara to prepare controlled tests of the Book of Dissolution.
• Yang Yi reviewed messages about the upcoming Equipment Market, the Infinite Flintlock, and upgrades to the Super Great Blasphemer Mech as the Collapse Clock worsened.

Lionheart Knight Reinhardt escaped through a crack in the Gate of Glory and flew off after confirming something. On Steam Island, Cui Xiya tested the newly upgraded Twisted New Super Great Blasphemer against Yang Yi in a livestreamed spar, and the chapter ended as she struck at him with a powerful sword attack.

• The Gate of Glory briefly opened under assault, allowing Reinhardt to escape before it repaired itself.
• Reinhardt examined the Blind Believers, confirmed something, and flew away in a chosen direction.
• Cui Xiya advanced to Legendary and received the Fool Title, then prepared to spar with Yang Yi using the Master-quality New Super Great Blasphemer.
• Hong Yanyan hosted a livestream of the spar, while Qin Ming predicted it would last several minutes.
• Cui Xiya enlarged the Mech and swung its Greatsword at Yang Yi with her Supreme Holy Slash.

Yang Yi defeated Cui Xiya’s new Super Great Blasphemer Mech by breaking into its cockpit, then praised its strength and urged her to improve as its pilot. Back aboard the Nightmare Star, he learned that sea monsters were disappearing and sea levels were falling, then continued experimenting with the red cocoon.

• Cui Xiya used Supreme Holy Slash against Yang Yi, but he caught the mech’s enormous Greatsword with his bare hands and pushed the mech off balance.
• Yang Yi endured the mech’s Death Storm, broke through its cockpit with the Vibration Dagger, and knocked Cui Xiya on the head until she surrendered.
• Yang Yi praised the mech’s combat strength, pointed out its vulnerability to infiltration, and promised Cui Xiya the position of First Mate if she could defeat the Old Captain.
• After the sparring match, Yang Yi checked the World Sea Chart and heard that sea monsters were decreasing around Steam Island while sea levels had fallen several meters.
• Yang Yi visited the Nightmare Star’s Sub-Laboratory, picked up the red cocoon, and continued trying to discover how to activate it.

Yang Yi failed to activate the Abyssal One and discovered that Old Balie’s account had been deleted. On Moon Island, Bufon tricked Balie into handing over the repaired Infinite Flintlock, then shot him.

• Yang Yi tried commands, blood, and threats to activate the Abyssal One, but nothing worked.
• Yang Yi messaged Old Balie and saw that his account had been deleted, then sensed something happening near Steam Island.
• Bufon disguised himself as Yang and visited Balie, who mistook him for the customer collecting the repaired Infinite Flintlock.
• Balie handed Bufon the gun, and Bufon revealed his skeletal face and aimed it at him.
• Bufon shot Balie inside the Observatory.

Bufon attacked the Lost Ones Fleet on Moon Island, escaped through a portal, and then raided the Great Newspaper ship to reclaim it from Song Yingwen. He threatened Song Yingwen with Hong Yanyan’s life as he demanded the ship back.

• Bufon shot Balie with a weapon that unleashed a werewolf, while Shi Lei pursued him and lost his right hand in the attack.
• Lada and Molly restored Balie’s body, and Molly prepared to gather his soul and resurrect him as the Twin Observation Station shook from the attack.
• Bufon escaped through a Player Island Portal, leaving a crater behind, while the Eagle Knight searched for him without seeing the portal.
• Bufon boarded the Great Newspaper ship, disabled its security, and ate Wisdom Fruit from the Wisdom Tree.
• Song Yingwen confronted Bufon, who threatened him with the controlled Hong Yanyan and demanded a Ship Separation Card to reclaim his ship.

Yang Yi and the Newspaper's crew tried to stop Abu Singh's dream-entry spell as it caused Steam Island and its sleeping players to dissolve. The chapter left Song Yingwen transformed into a towering Bloodthirst Beast and lunging at Abu Singh while Yang Yi's Nightmare Domain spread over the island.

• Yang Yi recognized Abu Singh on the Eden, realized he had taken Yang Yi's gun, and raced toward Steam Island as the sea and island began dissolving.
• Steam Island activated its evacuation plan and began detaching modules while Su Na warned Yang Yi that the dream spell would dissolve sleeping players.
• Yang Yi activated Nightmare Domain, spreading a dark-purple field over part of Steam Island to counter Abu Singh's beautiful-dream spell.
• Song Yingwen and the Newspaper attacked the Eden while Song Yingwen protected the unconscious Hong Yanyan and ordered his crew to evacuate players into the ship.
• Song Yingwen transformed into a Bloodthirst Beast over thirty meters tall and lunged at Abu Singh.

Abu Singh used Dream Descent to dissolve the battlefield and fought off Song Yingwen and the arriving defenders, but the fusion of dark purple dream energy with the existing power strengthened him further. He ended the chapter as a towering giant reaching to seize Shi Lei.

• Abu Singh activated Dream Descent, causing the surroundings and many controlled players to dissolve while he regenerated through the effect.
• Transformed Song Yingwen shattered Abu Singh's barrier and attacked him, but Abu Singh's dream power dissolved Song Yingwen's limbs and allowed Abu Singh to recover from his injuries.
• Song Yingwen messaged Yang Yi as Steam Island sent in Black Special Operations Squads, whose weapons and capture devices pushed Abu Singh back.
• Yu Dawei, Zhang Zhi, Balot, Wang Chong, Qin Ming, Shi Lei, and the Lost Ones Fleet joined the fight, but Abu Singh summoned a werewolf that wounded Qin Ming.
• Dark purple dream energy merged with the pink energy, empowering Abu Singh until he caught a bullet and Shi Lei's Air Blade Slash, grew into a giant, and reached for Shi Lei.

Yang Yi realized the system had tricked him into summoning a dissolving Dream Island and tried to evacuate Steam Island’s players before it arrived. After the giant Dream Island fell into the sea, Yang Yi sensed that the Cocoon on his back was reacting to it.

• Yang Yi recognized that the system had impersonated Su Na to make him cast Nightmare Domain, summoning a dissolving Dream Island.
• Yang Yi told Su Na to evacuate players through Portals, then took control of the Iron Giant God and led the players to safety.
• Yang Yi used Whaletooth and Shatter Slash to suppress Abu Singh, then moved survivors and island modules away from the breach.
• A vast red mass resembling the former Dream Island fell into the sea, dissolving nearby debris and spreading the New Sea.
• Yang Yi felt the Cocoon on his back tremble in response to Dream Island.

Yang Yi headed for Dream Island to subdue it and stop its dissolution, while Su Na organized the survivors and warned him that his protective armor might not withstand the island’s final formula. Yang Yi reached Abu Singh aboard the Eden and pierced him with the Spear That Pierces Everything, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Steam Island’s crew cleared invading Insoluble Remains, while Su Na and Dara helped save unconscious players from dissolving.
• Su Na led an emergency meeting aboard the Shelter and coordinated with Yang Yi, who set out alone for Dream Island in armor made from dark red bones.
• Abu Singh, aboard the Eden near Dream Island, planned to capture other Player Islands and dismissively considered using the ship’s Beautiful Dream Domain against Steam Island.
• Yang Yi arrived at the Eden, tore Abu Singh apart, and demanded the return of his gun.
• Abu Singh raised his strength and refused to surrender the gun, but Yang Yi threw him into the air and pierced his heart with the Spear That Pierces Everything.

Yang Yi killed Abu Singh and recovered his Spatial Storage Item before discovering the Infinite Flintlock’s full power. He activated the Abyssal One Armor on Dream Island and began tearing through the giant’s defenses.

• Yang Yi froze Abu Singh with Su Na’s spear, searched him, and found his Spatial Storage Item in a collar.
• Yang Yi swallowed Abu Singh and the spear, stored the collar and its contents in his Molten Giant Worm Ring, and retrieved the True Infinite Flintlock.
• Yang Yi read the gun’s description and learned that its Infinite mode could fire a shot without any power limit, at the risk of consuming the wielder and destroying the gun.
• Yang Yi charged onto Dream Island and activated the Abyssal One Armor, which merged with him and filled his mind with an urge to destroy the giant.
• Yang Yi sprinted across Dream Island on all fours, severing its tentacles with a massive scythe-shaped blade and cutting away its surface and submerged weapons.

Yang Yi tested the Abyssal One Armor’s adaptive strength and destroyed Dream Island with a fiery greatsword attack. But contact with unusual dark-red bones triggered a powerful dissolution curse that spread through his armor and body as Dream Island began to regenerate.

• Yang Yi discovered that the Abyssal One Armor enhanced his strength and speed, resisted dissolution, and adapted to its surroundings, though it consumed his stamina rapidly.
• Yang Yi attacked Dream Island with the Infinite Flintlock and Reinhardt, then charged into a huge rift and unleashed Burning Great Whirling Slash.
• Yang Yi pulverized Dream Island, but his greatsword dissolved after touching dark-red bone fragments, and the dissolution began spreading through his armor and body.
• Yang Yi used the Spear That Pierces Everything to cool himself, slowing the dissolution without stopping it, while the bone fragments regrew flesh and began forming a new Dream Island.

Yang Yi used Three Eyes to locate the special Insoluble Bone fragments sustaining Dream Island’s Dissolution Formula. After firing the Spear That Pierces Everything at them in the order Su Na recommended, he began trying to weaken the formula.

• Yang Yi searched Dream Island for its hidden bone fragments while its dissolving force began melting his weapons and Abu Singh.
• Su Na advised Yang Yi to destroy the rune-marked fragments in sequence to weaken and dispel the formula.
• The Abyssal One warned Yang Yi that it would detonate a Zero-Degree Annihilation Bomb if his life became critical, but he declined to activate the release.
• Yang Yi took Abu Singh’s Phantasmagoric Eyes and Three Eyes absorbed them, gaining farsight and Dream Vision.
• After Refuse Death+ restored his body, Yang Yi used Dream Vision to find the moving fragments and fired seventeen spears at them in sequence.

Yang Yi destroyed the insoluble bone fragments in Dream Island, triggering the system to announce that the island had been occupied and would be formatted. Before the system could finish, he swallowed Dream Island, interrupting the formatting process.

• Yang Yi guided seventeen shots of the Spear That Pierces Everything to find and shatter every insoluble bone fragment inside Dream Island.
• On Steam Island, players repaired or replaced their damaged equipment while Hamof worked through repair orders and worried about Balie's condition.
• The system announced that Dream Island had been explored and occupied, stunning players who had believed Bufon remained in control.
• Yang Yi shattered the final bone fragment, causing the frozen island to collapse as the Sea of Dreams returned around him.
• The system began formatting Dream Island, but Yang Yi swallowed it with his Abyssal One armor, abruptly interrupting the process.

Yang Yi interrupted the Formatting Process and forced the system to explain its plan to gather power and lead humanity to transcend the world. He kept Dream Island as leverage and secured the system's agreement to two demands, while the truth about the world's crisis remained hidden.

• Yang Yi removed the Abyssal One Armor and discovered that he could still sense the armor and its surroundings after taking it off.
• The system told Yang Yi it was collecting power so it could lead humanity in ascension when the appointed moment arrived.
• Yang Yi refused to give up Dream Island and demanded that the system stop impersonating or influencing people and explain the world's crises.
• The system agreed to stop deceiving Yang Yi and steering other players, but refused to explain the Seaquakes, the collapse of Reason, or the mass in the Abyss.
• Yang Yi accepted the system's refusal to explain, keeping Dream Island in his custody for the time being.

Yang Yi returned to Steam Island after capturing Dream Island, which he had swallowed and was now gradually digesting to keep it under control. He brought a piece of the island to Su Na for study, while the damaged Spear That Pierces Everything still needed repairs and Lord Abu remained hanging from it.

• Yang Yi told Su Na that he had swallowed Dream Island, and she concluded the Radiant Goddess had been imprisoned because no one could control her will.
• Players on Steam Island celebrated Dream Island’s capture and gathered to see it approach, but Yang Yi arrived alone at its coordinates and left them wondering where the island was.
• Yang Yi went aboard the Nightmare Star and met Su Na, Istil, and Little Dara in the Witch Laboratory.
• Yang Yi gave Su Na a piece of Dream Island and explained that he had been digesting it to restrain its growth, gaining Spirit and Constitution experience in the process.
• Yang Yi noted that the Spear That Pierces Everything needed repairs and that Lord Abu was still hanging from it.

Yang Yi claimed Dream Island and Bufon's spoils, then arranged for Istil to upgrade a ship using the Eden blueprint. On Moon Island, Lada and Dara discussed Yang Yi’s growing power before Lionheart Knight Reinhardt’s presence seemed to threaten the island.

• Yang Yi confirmed that Abu Singh, identified by the item information as Bufon, was dead and kept him as a trophy with dream-sailing and soul-stealing cannon effects.
• Yang Yi claimed Dream Island, took Black Iron and Azure Star for Cui Xiya, and decided to use the Eden blueprint himself.
• Yang Yi sent Istil player points and arranged for Zhang Zhi to supply robots and materials for her ship upgrade.
• On Moon Island, Lada watched the revived Balie work at a forge while Dara discussed Yang Yi and the need to negotiate for Dream Island.
• Lada saw Moon Island seemingly split apart as Lionheart Knight Reinhardt appeared nearby with his sword drawn.