Chapter Summaries

Shi Lei fought the Hero King but failed to overcome his immense strength, escaping a killing blow by sacrificing his mechanical arm and revealing his sword-immortal power. Elsewhere, Balot’s squad was overwhelmed by the Salt army until a mysterious carriage arrived, and the chapter left them facing its approach.

• The Hero King caught Shi Lei’s fist, resisted his attacks, and demanded that he become his subject.
• Shi Lei refused and relayed Istil’s warning that the King of Bloating would kill the Hero King and his world.
• The Hero King crushed Shi Lei’s mechanical fist and struck at him, but Shi Lei cut off his own arm to escape and countered with an invisible slash.
• Shi Lei and the Hero King resumed their battle as Istil watched from the Gale.
• Balot’s squad fought through the surrounding army in Haken’s carriage until a thunderbolt destroyed their Bone Dragon.
• The Salt army opened a path for a lavish carriage drawn by eight horses, leaving Balot’s squad stunned.

Balot, Wang Chong, and Haken’s team attacked the Magic King but was wiped out after Wang Chong shouted the King of Bloating’s name. Qin Ming and Molly then encountered the Absolute King’s moving High Tower, and Qin Ming charged it.

• The Magic King used her magic to spy on Istil and summoned a storm of lightning that destroyed the Salt Soldiers and crippled Balot’s team.
• Wang Chong burst from the ground in his damaged robot, shouted for the King of Bloating, and hurled a spear that an Imperial Guard caught.
• Balot, Wang Chong, and Haken returned to the Gale injured, and Qin Ming emerged with Molly, carrying his severed arm.
• Qin Ming and Molly encountered the Absolute King’s High Tower as it rolled across the territory, dragged by chained slaves.
• Qin Ming told Molly to stay back, halted the tower with vines, and charged into it with his Tyrant Type Terminator.

Qin Ming delivered the King of Bloating’s challenge to the Absolute King, then attacked and was swiftly killed. Back aboard the Gale, the players discussed the Kings’ overwhelming power as Su Na’s team discovered a salt palace east of Salt Island.

• Qin Ming reached the Absolute King’s pavilion atop the High Tower and passed on the King of Bloating’s challenge.
• Qin Ming’s Lone Warrior+ talent raised his attributes, and he charged the Absolute King but failed to pierce his barrier.
• The Absolute King killed Qin Ming in two exchanges, first crippling his spear arm and then beheading him.
• Qin Ming recounted the fight aboard the Gale, and Molly warned that the Absolute King could also use space-rending magic.
• Wang Chong and the others discussed their slim chances against the Kings as Su Na’s team found a palace made entirely of salt east of Salt Island.

Su Na and Hu Hu infiltrated the Salt Palace and found the Bewilderment King, a blue-eyed Scholar wearing Abyssal One Armor, repeatedly guided back to his throne by his sole minister. Su Na suspected the palace held more secrets and withdrew to investigate, while the minister left the king alone briefly.

• The Bewilderment King repeatedly tried to leave his throne, and the minister reminded him that he was the Salt Monarch and had to protect the world.
• Su Na and Hu Hu sneaked into the palace and watched the king and minister from behind a pillar.
• Yang Yi identified the king's armor as Abyssal One Armor, and Su Na connected his blue eyes and armor to the Duchy's soldiers and the Scholars.
• Su Na held Hu Hu back and withdrew to search the palace for more clues.
• The minister noticed where Su Na and Hu Hu had been hiding, then left the Bewilderment King alone after telling him he had no need to use the bathroom.

Su Na and Hu Hu found a hidden elevator beneath the palace, where the old salt minister recognized Su Na’s connection to Miskatonic University. The minister took Su Na downstairs to discuss the island’s crisis and disguised Hu Hu as a salt maidservant to watch the Bewilderment King.

• Su Na and Hu Hu searched the palace, and Hu Hu used Penetrating Force to locate a passage underground.
• Hu Hu found an elevator hidden behind a bookcase, but its panel displayed “Insufficient clearance.”
• The old minister confronted them, and Su Na introduced herself as a player and a graduate of Miskatonic University who had studied under Amanda and Sun Jin.
• The minister accepted Su Na’s explanation, cleared the elevator alarm, and invited her to talk downstairs.
• The minister covered Hu Hu in salt to disguise her as a maidservant and assigned her to keep the Bewilderment King on his throne.
• Su Na reassured Hu Hu that Istil would assist her remotely, then descended with the minister in the elevator.

The War King defeated Daishi, while Hu Hu and Istil managed to coax the Bewilderment King back to his throne. Below the Salt Palace, Su Na and the Salt Minister discussed the Mortal World as their elevator arrived at an unknown destination.

• The War King crushed Daishi's mechanical body, and Molly and Shi Lei healed Shi Lei after he emerged from the wreckage.
• Istil told Hu Hu to call for the Bewilderment King, and Hu Hu found him wandering through the palace.
• Istil remotely coached Hu Hu into persuading the Bewilderment King that he was the Salt Monarch and that he should return to his throne for a dance.
• Su Na and the Salt Minister descended beneath the Salt Palace and discussed Miskatonic University and the Mortal World.
• The elevator opened, and Su Na saw a bright white light.

Su Na reached a salt graveyard and was stopped from approaching a throne made from the Salt Spike. The Salt Minister explained how the Throne had empowered the Salt King’s followers and how the Bewilderment King buried it to prevent the war from spreading.

• Su Na emerged from the elevator into a vast graveyard of Salt Statues and felt drawn toward the Throne at its center.
• The Salt Minister stopped Su Na near the Throne and revealed that he had taken an android form to survive in the salt-filled chamber.
• The Salt Minister explained that the Truth Society had summoned the Salt Pillar, an Outer God, and that attempts to communicate with it had led to the creation of the Throne.
• The Salt Minister recounted how the Throne gave humans immense power while consuming their bodies and wills, driving the survivors to fight over the title of Salt King.
• The Bewilderment King buried the Throne and confined himself in the Royal Palace so no victor could claim its power and spread the conflict beyond the region.

Su Na learned that claiming the Salt King Throne would require a player’s sacrifice and discussed the risks of her plan to provoke a war between Salt Island and Sweet Island. The minister judged the plan worth attempting but refused to join them, while the Bewilderment King kept Hu Hu performing tricks in the palace hall.

• Su Na inferred that a player who claimed the Salt King Throne would likely die, and realized Yang Yi might otherwise have taken the sacrifice upon himself.
• Su Na told the minister her plan to lure out the Salt King and provoke a battle, and he warned that the Bewilderment King might attack with the throne’s full power restored.
• Su Na described the Gale’s powerful fighters, and the minister revised their odds of victory to over thirty percent and endorsed the gamble.
• Su Na invited the minister to join the coming battle, but he refused, saying he had chosen to die when his task ended.
• Su Na and the minister returned to the central hall, where the Bewilderment King enthusiastically watched Hu Hu perform tricks and Hu Hu welcomed their return.

Su Na and Hu Hu escaped the palace as the Magic King, the Absolute King, and the War King assembled their forces on Salt Island’s coast to confront the players. Galahad provoked the Absolute King and survived his spatial attack, leaving the king enraged and the other kings laughing.

• Su Na learned Salt Body from the Salt Minister, and the minister reclaimed the Bewilderment King by reminding him of his promise to remain on the throne.
• Su Na and Hu Hu received Istil’s warning about trouble on the coast and returned to find the three kings’ armies facing the players’ fleet.
• The Magic King, the Absolute King, and the War King agreed to confront the players over the King of Bloating, while the players decided to provoke them rather than flee.
• Galahad told the Absolute King, “You aren't worthy!”, and the king attacked him with a spatial rending spell.
• Galahad’s body reassembled unharmed, and he mocked the damage to his armor, enraging the Absolute King and making the other kings laugh.

Galahad posed as an envoy of the King of Bloating and provoked the island’s three Kings with a challenge to fight for the world’s sole throne. After delivering an invitation to Sweet Island seven days later, Galahad and the players escaped aboard the Gale, leaving the Kings to consider the threat.

• The Absolute King questioned Galahad’s identity, and Galahad claimed to be a mere foot soldier serving the vastly stronger King of Bloating.
• The War King eagerly welcomed the prospect of a fight, while the Magic King considered using the confrontation to eliminate her rivals.
• Su Na told the players to reveal their base and lure the Kings there, and Galahad pretended that the King’s royal decree had been ruined.
• Galahad announced that the King of Bloating would meet the Four Kings at his Throne in seven days and offered his Throne, the Sea of Abundance, and the world to whoever defeated him.
• Galahad threw the Kings a map marking Sweet Island as the Bloating Kingdom, then returned to the Gale as the Absolute King vowed to kill the King of Bloating.
• The Gale vanished beyond the Kings’ ability to trace, leaving them more wary of the King of Bloating.

Su Na and the players successfully provoked the Salt Kings into considering war, while Yang Yi prepared for the coming battle and discussed how to defeat them. The Shelter had become a refuge within the Abyss, but the danger of the Salt King Throne remained unresolved.

• Istil reported that the Salt Kings had found the dropped map and were gathering to discuss the King of Bloating, and Su Na ordered the remaining ships to retreat without being discovered.
• Su Na declared the operation successful and warned the players that they could not afford a mistake as the battle between Salt Island and Sweet Island approached.
• Yang Yi watched Galahad’s provocation go viral, continued eating the Devouring Maw, and reviewed information about the four Salt Kings.
• Yang Yi told Su Na to have the players retreat while spreading the battlefield across Sweet Island, and planned to make a conspicuous stand in the Forest of Abundance.
• Yang Yi argued that his Refuse Death+ talent could help him survive the Salt King Throne, while Su Na warned that leaving the Throne would not remove its power and suggested seeking the Abyss’s Universal Solution.
• The Shelter completed its upgrade and became a refuge within the Abyss.

Yang Yi and the players prepared for the final battle, weighing how to survive the collapse of Reason and how to defeat the three Salt Kings. As the War King’s army approached, their forces finished preparing and waited for the fighting to begin.

• Yang Yi reviewed the level-nine Shelter’s disaster barrier and considered Su Na’s plan, while privately proposing an attack on Miracle Island as another option.
• Shen Guanquan offered to sit on Salt Island’s Throne and become the sole Salt King, but Yang Yi postponed the decision until after they defeated the three Kings.
• Yang Yi coordinated with Mars to prepare Corpse Island’s Limb Spiders and help make it resemble the Bloating Kingdom described in historical accounts.
• Hamof brought the repaired Immovable shield to the Nightmare Star, where Cui Xiya gave him a Salt Body scroll that could disguise him as one of the Salt Folk.
• Su Na began producing Salt Body scrolls for players, and the players completed their battle preparations after cameras spotted the War King leading a vast Salt Army toward them.

Su Na coordinated the defense of Sweet Island as the War King’s army approached, aiming to draw the battle inland rather than defeat him at the coast. The War King took the coastal barrage as an insult and swung his giant axe toward the defenders.

• Su Na rejected Daishi’s proposal to concentrate their forces and kill the War King, choosing instead to stretch the battle across the island and preserve their strength.
• Su Na ordered the coastal troops to build fortifications, fire a deterrent attack, and draw the War King inland without revealing Yang Yi’s location.
• The War King’s army arrived with fewer than eighty thousand soldiers, who dodged, deflected, or endured the coastal forces’ barrage.
• War King Khan Ragham grew furious at what he saw as contempt and called for his enormous axe.
• Su Na ordered the players along the coast to evacuate, but War King Khan Ragham raised his axe and swung it toward them.

The War King invaded Sweet Island, where Su Na and Istil directed their forces to draw his army inland while Daishi engaged him. The Magic King watched from a distant salt fleet but held back, waiting for an opportunity to strengthen her own position.

• The War King split the sea with his Giant Axe and led his salt host onto Sweet Island, where his soldiers began slaughtering its defenders and wildlife.
• The War King sensed danger beneath the island, spotted a surveillance robot, and then clashed with Daishi, who taunted him and drew him inland.
• Su Na instructed Daishi to keep the War King occupied until reinforcements arrived, while Istil began drawing fighters toward the expanding front to lure the Salt Soldiers deeper into the island.
• The Magic King observed the battle through remote viewing magic, but a broad interference spell shattered her view of the island.
• The Magic King's Imperial Guard urged her to join the battle, but she chose to wait, seeking a chance to challenge the War King and the Absolute King.

The War King’s army advanced across Sweet Island while the players suffered heavy casualties and prepared a counterattack. Yang Yi drew the War King into a confrontation with the King of Bloating, whose sudden appearance left the War King eager to fight.

• Hong Yanyan was struck by a Flying Axe Warrior, transformed into a Bloodthirst Beast, and fought three Barbarian Warriors.
• The War King’s troops ravaged Sweet Island, while the players’ casualties passed 3,000 and their forces continued to hold back stronger fighters.
• Daishi, Qin Ming, the Old Captain, Dara, Lada, He Qi, and A-Chong fought the War King as Istil coordinated reinforcements.
• Yang Yi told Istil to leave the War King to him, and a giant creature’s tooth erupted from underground, destroying half the lion beneath the War King.
• The King of Bloating threatened the intruders, and the War King introduced himself before plunging underground to challenge him.

Yang Yi led the War King and his soldiers into Sweet Island’s tunnels, where the island’s creatures could wear them down. Meanwhile, Su Na sent Yu Dawei’s fleet to intercept the approaching Magic King’s fleet, hoping to provoke the next Salt King into joining the battle.

• Yang Yi lured the War King underground, and Salt Soldiers followed as players rotated troops and treated the wounded.
• Seerte reported that a fleet was approaching Sweet Island, and Su Na ordered Yu Dawei and Zhang Zhi to intercept it to draw its King into the war.
• The War King’s soldiers suffered nearly ten thousand deaths, while projections showed they could not conquer Sweet Island alone.
• Yu Dawei assembled a fleet with Galahad, Bell, and the Old Captain, accompanied by the rebuilt Iron Giant God and its robot swarm, and set course for the Magic King’s fleet.

The players attacked the Magic King's fleet with the Iron Giant God and their warships, but her defenses stopped most of their opening barrage. Old Man Zhao then struck the King's Ship with the Spear of the Deep, and as the Magic King turned to retaliate, an armored Knight attacked her.

• Zhang Zhi reported that the Magic King's force consisted of about 5,000 warships and at least 700,000 soldiers.
• Yu Dawei ordered the Iron Giant God and the Twisted Warships to fire on the Magic King's fleet.
• The Magic King misread the players' actions and concluded that the King of Bloating was trying to steal a King's authority.
• The Magic King blocked most of the barrage with Wall of Sighs and prepared to cast Raging Thunder, but the black clouds above the players' fleet dispersed.
• Old Man Zhao piloted the Spear of the Deep through the King's Ship and King's Carriage, grazing the Magic King before escaping underwater.
• As the Magic King targeted the Spear of the Deep, a Heavy-Armored Knight appeared beside her and thrust his Longsword toward her head.

Galahad, Cui Bisi, and the reinforcements threw the Magic King’s fleet into chaos while Yu Dawei used Infinite Firepower+ to break through its defenses. As the battle intensified, the Absolute King arrived at Sweet Island and sent his army through portals to conquer it.

• Galahad nearly beheaded the Magic King with a surprise attack, then fought off the Imperial Guards as the reinforcements joined the battle.
• Cui Bisi gave Galahad enhancement spells, while the Nightmare Star, the Old Captain, and Cui Xiya attacked the Magic King’s fleet.
• The Magic King struck Yu Dawei’s forces with lightning and arrows, but Yu Dawei activated Infinite Firepower+ and used the Fear Descends Cannon to shatter the Walls of Sighs and destroy over a hundred warships.
• The Absolute King taunted the Magic King and appeared on Sweet Island, opening portals to Salt Island and ordering his soldiers to conquer the island.

Su Na’s forces fought the Absolute King’s invasion as his Portals poured Salt Soldiers onto Sweet Island, while the Absolute King personally cut down the island’s strongest defenders. The Magic King arrived in a towering rage after a lightning attack destroyed the Portals and devastated the coast.

• The Absolute King opened twelve Portals between Salt Island and Sweet Island, sending waves of Salt Soldiers through them, and Su Na ordered an assault team to destroy the Portals.
• Shen Guanquan brought the Song of Creation Gramophone into battle as Sweet Island’s creatures evolved and fought the Salt Soldiers, but the Absolute King sliced Shen Guanquan and several lord-level creatures in half.
• Bell led the assault against the Salt Soldiers, while Daishi, Qin Ming, and the others attacked the Portal guards; Daishi dodged the Absolute King’s unseen strike, and Qin Ming destroyed one Portal.
• The Magic King’s Wrath of Thunder incinerated the Salt Soldiers and destroyed the remaining Portals, leaving Sweet Island’s coast scorched.
• The Magic King arrived and glared at the Absolute King.

The players’ forces gained the advantage over the Magic King’s fleet, but the Magic King broke away to unleash a devastating spell that ravaged the battlefield. After the storm, Cui Bisi survived with help from a mysterious golden figure, and Cui Xiya urged her to retreat.

• Yu Dawei kept the Iron Giant God firing on the Salt Soldiers despite Zhang Zhi’s warning, while Bigji Robots repaired its damaged weapons.
• Galahad, the Old Captain, and Song Yingwen fought the Magic King and his Imperial Guard Corps, preventing the Magic King from reaching the island.
• The Magic King let Galahad pierce his chest, then used the Book of Dissolution’s power to dissolve Galahad’s arm before Galahad severed it and fell away.
• The Magic King raised waterspouts and summoned lightning that battered the fleets and struck the Iron Giant God indiscriminately.
• Cui Bisi survived the lightning unharmed after seeing an emerald glow and a golden figure, while Cui Xiya lost an arm and called for her to retreat.