Chapter Summaries

Yang Yi returned from the Abundant Sea with nineteen Fruits of Abundance, shared most of them with Su Na, and used them to grow stronger. He began reforging the Abyssal One Armor, whose living flesh revealed itself and tried to escape before Yang Yi caught it.

• Su Na, Cui Xiya, and Cui Bisi brought crystal containers, and Yang Yi spat out his Fruits of Abundance for them to collect.
• Su Na gave Yang Yi a Slimming Potion, and he vomited away his excess fat, gaining four Constitution points and a taller, more muscular body.
• Yang Yi gave most of the collected Fruits of Abundance to Su Na for research and took four containers for himself before returning to the forge.
• Yang Yi used a Fruit of Abundance and the Burning Giant's Heart to heat the Abyssal One Armor until its cocoon cracked, revealing a mass of living flesh with an emerald-green core.
• Yang Yi fed the flesh another Fruit of Abundance, and when it transformed into a large, chitin-covered monster and tried to flee, he seized its tail and began reforging it.

Yang Yi continued forging on Burning Island while Su Na trained her Perception and ascended to Mythic as the Witch of Truth. Su Na prepared for a journey to the Abyss and Miskatonic University, while Bell and Shi Lei recognized each other’s formidable power.

• Yang Yi gradually gained the upper hand against the monster as players watched and trained nearby.
• Miss Hu Hu challenged Augustus to practice, then fought Qin Ming when he offered to spar.
• Su Na trained with a bow and reached Mythic after hitting a moving target a thousand meters away, gaining the title Witch of Truth.
• Su Na read that low Sanity could draw her into the Abyss and bring it closer to the present world, then decided to prepare equipment and potions.
• Bell noticed Shi Lei watching her, and Shi Lei realized Bell had combat power near the Mythic level.

Yang Yi forged the Abyssal One Armor into the Great One's Miracle Belt, a powerful relic that recorded his past and could reproduce and upgrade his former equipment. After testing it, he visited Su Na aboard the Nightmare Star and asked for his share of the money she had earned selling refreshments.

• Yang Yi reshaped the Abyssal One Armor and engraved scenes from his past onto it, causing dangerous apparitions to appear around Burning Island.
• Su Na warned weaker players to leave the island after the apparitions created hazardous conditions, including fierce winds and opposing heat and cold.
• Yang Yi completed the Great One's Miracle Belt, which could reproduce his former weapons and protective gear at Master-level quality and unleash powerful abilities.
• Yang Yi tested the belt by reproducing weapons, then traveled to the Nightmare Star and asked Su Na how much she had earned selling beer, drinks, and snacks.

Yang Yi and Su Na prepared for their return to Miskatonic University while the collapse of Reason worsened across the world. Yang Yi planned a trip to the Abundant Sea, then discovered Ma Hou had painted Lionheart Knight Reinhardt in a scene connected to Galahad.

• Su Na reached Mythic-level and prepared equipment and potions to protect herself and others from her unique Madness State.
• Players faced worsening signs of collapse as production faltered, plants and robots began breaking down, and players intensified their training.
• Yang Yi planned to leave for the Abundant Sea with Su Na in three days and discussed future plans with Shen Guanquan and the others.
• Yang Yi chose one of Ma Hou's paintings as payment for modeling and noticed a separate painting depicting Reinhardt in a room resembling the Twin Observation Station.
• Yang Yi recognized the armor in the painting as Galahad's and held it up to question Ma Hou.

Yang Yi learned from Ma Hou’s painting that Galahad was Reinhardt, a figure tied to the Radiant Holy Church, and confirmed that the system had made a deal with the Church. He chose to keep Galahad’s identity secret for now and postpone confronting the danger until after the Salt Island campaign.

• Yang Yi recognized that Ma Hou’s painting of Galahad was nearly identical to Reinhardt and took it along with another painting.
• Yang Yi and Su Na considered whether Galahad was a copy and concluded that the system might have allied with the Radiant Holy Church.
• Yang Yi contacted the system, which said it was using the Church’s strength to help conquer Special Class Player Islands and demanded Dream Island.
• Yang Yi refused to give up Dream Island and told Su Na that the system had confirmed a deal with the Radiant Holy Church.
• Yang Yi decided not to expose Galahad before the attack on Salt Island, preserving the players’ strength while he planned his next moves.

Yang Yi prepared for the coming trip to the Abyss, discussed Bell’s possible identity, and visited the Lost Ones Fleet’s base before returning to the Abundant Sea to investigate the continuing disturbances. He left Xu Da and the others on alert and entered the turbulent waters alone.

• Su Na showed Yang Yi a compass-like device made from Stones of Truth that pointed toward Miskatonic University, and Yang Yi asked her to make spare copies.
• Yang Yi asked Zhang Zhi to secretly investigate Bell and warn him if she was eating people.
• At the Lost Ones Fleet’s base, Yang Yi returned Balie’s Inspiration Hammer and showed him his newly made Legendary belt, which Balie examined and acknowledged.
• Yang Yi contacted Xu Da, traveled through a Portal to the Sea of Abundance, and learned that tsunamis had stirred up the Rotting Whales again.
• Yang Yi warned Xu Da that his investigation might cause a commotion, then charged alone into the Abundant Sea.

Yang Yi ventured above the Abundant Sea’s clouds and discovered a vast Feast Master whose surface produced endless delicacies. As his Sanity steadily declined, he heard a mournful sound that overwhelmed him with sorrow and gave Big Mouth a chance to feast.

• Yang Yi resisted the Rain of Gourmet Food and flew through the clouds, discovering that the air itself was Gourmet Matter.
• Yang Yi saw enormous woodborers devouring pale pink blocks and wore the Unseeing hood to protect himself from the Great Being.
• Yang Yi reached the Feast Master, fought off two woodborers, and found that cuts in its surface seeped honey-like liquid that became food.
• Yang Yi searched the Feast Master for the source of the prolonged food rain but found no clues as his Sanity fell and he struggled to restrain Big Mouth.
• Yang Yi heard a faint, sorrowful sound, collapsed to one knee, and let Big Mouth break free and gorge itself.

Yang Yi resisted the Feast Master's illusion and discovered that the Sea of Abundance's diners were devouring one another in response to Mother's grief over the King of Bloating's death. He escaped the banquet and fell back through the clouds toward the Rotting Whales, relieved to be alive and already planning to gather more Fruit of Abundance.

• Yang Yi recognized the banquet as an illusion, struck himself to recover his memories, and refused to eat the White Bread.
• Yang Yi saw diners consume one another and traced faint sobbing to an immense woman crouched beyond the banquet hall.
• Yang Yi realized the King of Bloating had eaten himself to death and that the diners were gorging themselves to produce his successor and ease Mother's grief.
• Yang Yi repeatedly punched himself to break free of the illusion, then tore off and knotted the Maw of Gluttony's tongue when it kept eating.
• Yang Yi ran to the edge and fell through the clouds, escaping the sobbing and returning above the sea of Rotting Whales.

Yang Yi and Su Na learned that the Feast Master’s crying could influence people crossing the Abundant Sea, so they arranged precautions and entrusted Steam Island’s operations to others. They then departed aboard Xiao Luo for Miskatonic University, leaving the Nightmare Star under First Mate Istil’s command.

• Yang Yi returned from the Sea of Abundance with fifty crates of Fruit of Abundance and told Su Na about the Feast Master, her children, and the crying he could still hear.
• Yang Yi and Su Na decided to keep the Feast Master’s existence secret and recommended filtering helmets, precautions for Haozi, and minimizing exposure during the crossing.
• At a meeting on Steam Island, Yang Yi briefed the principal administrators on the risks and delegated further preparations to them.
• Two days later, Yang Yi entrusted the Nightmare Star to First Mate Istil and appointed Cui Xiya as vanguard captain, privately warning Istil about Bell and Galahad.
• Yang Yi and Su Na boarded Xiao Luo, and the Abyss Nautilus carried them beneath the sea toward Miskatonic University.

Yang Yi and Su Na descended toward the Abyss aboard Nautilus while Su Na explained her preparations and used an instrument to monitor Xiao Luo and their surroundings. Su Na caught Yang Yi admitting he could not stop looking at her, leaving them laughing together during the descent.

• Su Na's experiments showed that Xiao Luo could travel through the Abyss, though it and ordinary objects were vulnerable to distortion and danger.
• Yang Yi and Su Na began a descent expected to take three days, with Nautilus's buffer fluid creating a steady, nearly weightless cabin.
• Su Na connected an instrument to Xiao Luo that displayed its vital signs and a radar-like view of nearby obstacles and threats.
• Su Na listed the supplies and equipment she had prepared, while Yang Yi agreed distractedly to each item.
• Su Na asked whether Yang Yi had been staring because she was beautiful, and Yang Yi answered yes before realizing she had tricked him.

Yang Yi and Su Na discovered that a vast school of fish lived among the remains of a Fang Leviathan, whose flesh had become a habitat after the collapse of Reason. They decided to travel through the Leviathan’s remaining flesh, with Little Bone leading the way downward.

• The Nautilus continued descending while Yang Yi trained in Meditation and stayed in contact with the Player Islands.
• Su Na spotted an enormous school of fish and an immense ecological zone on the instrument, so Yang Yi went outside to investigate.
• Yang Yi identified the zone as the damaged remains of a Fang Leviathan whose living flesh had become a breeding ground for marine life.
• Su Na agreed to try crossing through the Leviathan’s flesh, and Xiao Luo assembled a large Skeleton Dog from Insoluble Bone.
• Yang Yi named the Skeleton Dog Little Bone and ordered it to clear a path downward as the Nautilus followed.

Yang Yi and Su Na reached the Abyss inside Fang Leviathan's remains and began exploring it aboard Xiao Luo. As collapse intensified and Xiao Luo encountered bizarre Unknown Aberrations, they continued following the Truth Pointer toward Miskatonic University.

• Yang Yi and Su Na found the Abyss beneath Fang Leviathan's remains and prepared to enter after the system stopped working near its membrane.
• Yang Yi and Su Na sent Xiao Luo into the Abyss, following the Truth Pointer while keeping within Xiao Luo's known survival limit.
• Su Na reported that collapse was intensifying as Xiao Luo shed mutated tissue, and Yang Yi fed Xiao Luo to replace some of the lost flesh.
• Xiao Luo narrowly avoided a large obstacle whose shape and measured properties changed randomly, and Su Na named such entities Unknown Aberrations.

Yang Yi and Su Na struggled to find Miskatonic University as the Abyss destabilized matter and weakened Xiao Luo. When the Truth pointers began pointing in different directions, Su Na realized they were all still pointing to the same university, but the pointers themselves were changing direction.

• During thirteen hours of travel, Xiao Luo encountered and avoided several strange masses while the Abyss Nautilus's detection range remained limited.
• Su Na observed objects entering a Collapse Random State, while Yang Yi's brief exposure to the Abyss caused half his face to disintegrate before he regrew it.
• Worried they would be trapped in the Abyss, Yang Yi considered withdrawing, but noticed the Truth pointer had suddenly changed direction.
• Yang Yi and Su Na checked five Truth pointers and found each pointed in a different direction, though none appeared broken.
• After watching a pointer swing sharply, Su Na concluded that all the pointers were aimed at the one Miskatonic University, but their directions were changing.

Su Na explained that observing Miskatonic University could collapse its shifting coordinates, and Yang Yi volunteered to travel there while Su Na waited with Xiao Luo. Yang Yi arrived inside a malfunctioning enrollment compartment, escaped with his equipment intact, and found a ruined area filled with mutated occupants and destroyed guards.

• Su Na told Yang Yi that an observer could anchor Miskatonic University's location, and Yang Yi agreed to go while Su Na prepared to use a Stone of Truth if needed.
• Yang Yi swallowed a Stone of Truth and teleported away; the Truth Pointers aboard the Abyss Nautilus immediately aligned toward one location.
• Yang Yi woke inside a cramped compartment as a warning system reported that it could not create a compatible body or freeze him.
• Yang Yi broke out of the compartment with all his equipment and realized the university's enrollment mechanism had malfunctioned because of his changes.
• Yang Yi surveyed the dilapidated cylindrical space and found destroyed Armed Task Force robots, sleeping people with mutations, and signs that monsters had escaped.

Yang Yi escaped the underground facility and found it overrun with anomalous creatures, including one that repeatedly reassembled after he burned it. At the exit, he encountered Sun Jin disguised as the King of the Long-Legged Sardine, then plunged into the Abyss to search for Su Na.

• Yang Yi mapped the facility and discovered vast chambers filled with hibernating students in Stasis Pods.
• Yang Yi fought a black-line creature that survived being scattered and burned, then spotted other bizarre beings throughout the damaged base.
• Yang Yi found a giant Long-Legged Sardine disposing of Stasis Pods near the facility's Abyss-facing exit.
• Yang Yi recognized the sardine as Sun Jin, but Sun Jin introduced himself as Wang Caesar, King of the Long-Legged Sardine.
• Yang Yi hurried into the Abyss to find Su Na, while Wang Caesar stayed behind to dispose of the dangerous pods and other creatures.

Yang Yi endured the Abyss’s distortions while continuously observing Miskatonic University so its shifting coordinates could stabilize for Su Na. Wang Caesar tried to pull him back inside, but Yang Yi stayed outside, relying on his Abyssal One Armor as he waited for Xiao Luo and Su Na.

• Yang Yi entered the Abyss, used the Immovable Shield to resist its distortions, and watched Miskatonic University while waiting for Xiao Luo and Su Na.
• Yang Yi examined the lighthouse-like university and saw ordered strings of characters in its light, which eased the Abyss’s burden on him.
• Wang Caesar contacted Yang Yi from inside the lighthouse and told him to come in, but Yang Yi explained that he had to keep observing the building to stabilize its coordinates.
• After the Immovable Shield became badly distorted, Yang Yi tossed it into the lighthouse and continued enduring the Abyss as his body began to lose its human form.
• Wang Caesar rushed out in blue Abyssal One Armor and tried to drag Yang Yi inside, but Yang Yi activated his own armor and refused to leave.
• Wang Caesar gave up and returned to the lighthouse while Yang Yi continued observing until Xiao Luo arrived with Su Na or he could no longer hold out.

Yang Yi waited outside the Lighthouse in the Abyss until his body and mind began to collapse, but he survived by shedding most of his flesh. Su Na arrived just before his countdown ended, and they reunited near Miskatonic University.

• Yang Yi endured the Abyss while waiting for Wang Caesar to return to the Lighthouse, setting himself a 100-second limit before he would go inside.
• As the Abyss eroded his body and thoughts, Yang Yi lost track of his countdown and came close to becoming a Random Aberration.
• A Many-Eyed Monster appeared, took Yang Yi for dead, and began transforming into his likeness before Yang Yi’s countdown showed he was still resisting.
• The Many-Eyed Monster vanished after sensing something, while Yang Yi sensed Su Na approaching and used the Abyss Nautilus’s strategy to abandon most of his flesh.
• Su Na arrived as Yang Yi reached the final seconds, and he reunited with her inside his shell as Miskatonic University came into view.

Yang Yi and Su Na returned to Miskatonic University, where Sun Jin explained that the collapse of reason had first appeared there and led to his fish-like body. He gave them glasses containing a recording from the university’s founder, and Su Na began watching it after Yang Yi and Sun Jin secretly altered the device.

• Yang Yi and Su Na arrived at Miskatonic University aboard an Abyss Nautilus, and Sun Jin revealed that he was the sardine Yang Yi had called Wang Caesar.
• Yang Yi and Su Na helped Sun Jin dispose of the Stasis Pods and mutated tissue, then Su Na explained the situation above and why she had come.
• Sun Jin explained that the collapse of reason had begun at the university and that a failed reprinting process had left him in a fish body.
• Sun Jin brought the group to a weapons room and offered Yang Yi and Su Na glasses containing a recording by Miskatonic University’s founder.
• Yang Yi secretly told Sun Jin that the glasses showed a seductive Siren, and they pretended to repair the device before Yang Yi handed it to Su Na.

Su Na activated the holographic glasses and met Liu, a program who revealed the hidden truth behind the Abyss and Miskatonic University. He explained how the researchers split into three factions, leaving the Academy Faction, the Truth Society, and the Keepers' Society bound by a shared agreement to prolong human civilization.

• Su Na entered the glasses' immersive interface and met Liu, who said he was an interactive program rather than a virtual life-form.
• Liu described how his research group suspected that a changing parameter in Unified Field Theory was linked to consciousness.
• Liu explained that the group discovered the Abyss, where physical laws failed, and concluded that a living God determined the world's rules.
• Liu said earlier civilizations had tried to kill God and that the Great Beings might have emerged from pieces of truth stripped away from it.
• Liu explained that the researchers split into the Truth Society, the Keepers' Society, and the Academy Faction, which created Miskatonic University as a prison that forced scholars to sacrifice themselves.

Yang Yi and Su Na learned that the Light of Civilization would fail soon, triggering a third Seaquake that would consume the world. With the university base badly damaged and nearly abandoned, Yang Yi volunteered to retrieve the building’s original blueprints or its creator’s notes from the library.

• Su Na and Yang Yi watched Liu’s recording and learned that the Light of Civilization used scholars’ beliefs to slow the Abyss’s master, though it could not prevent an eventual collapse.
• After replaying the recording until he understood it, Yang Yi asked Sun Jin how he and Su Na could return.
• Sun Jin showed them that the Light of Civilization would stop working in about a day and seventeen hours, triggering the third Seaquake and ending civilization.
• Yang Yi asked whether he could fight the being called God, while Su Na examined the building’s structure and asked if the device could be repaired.
• Sun Jin explained that the base lacked engineers, supplies, and functioning systems, and that its endless tower-like structure was connected to Him through the university library.
• When Sun Jin said the library was inaccessible amid the university’s disorder, Yang Yi volunteered to retrieve the original blueprints or the creator’s notes himself.