Chapter Summaries

Yang Yi and Su Na survived the Ice Nest Worms’ attack, though the Nightmare Star froze into the glacier and Yang Yi suffered severe frostbite. Yang Yi restored his right hand with the Limb Restoration Spell, while Su Na studied the worms and discovered that they absorbed heat until they melted into seawater.

• The Life Fireplace burned through the Ice Nest Worms, but their cold froze the Nightmare Star into the sea and covered it in gray ash.
• Su Na gave Yang Yi a pair of Tinder Wool Gloves before they boarded the frozen ship and cleared the deck with the Bone Arms.
• As Yang Yi’s frostbite worsened, he used the Limb Restoration Spell and Long-Legged Sardines to restore his severed right hand, accidentally growing a sardine leg beside his pinky.
• Su Na removed the extra leg and bandaged Yang Yi’s hand, then began examining the Ice Nest Worms with insulated tools.
• Su Na found that the worms absorbed heat, melted into seawater, and left only sea salt after boiling away.

Yang Yi discovered that the Nightmare Star was trapped in a glacier and sold his detailed information about the Ice Nest Worms to the Great Newspaper. After checking on Su Na, he cooked a Corpse-Controlling Worm with her, and both of them enjoyed the meal.

• Yang Yi found that the Nightmare Star was frozen into a glacier and would need to break through three nautical miles of ice to reach the Ice Sea.
• Yang Yi contacted Song Yingwen and sold his photographs and information about the Ice Nest Worms for 20,000 Conch Coins.
• Yang Yi noticed that his vitality, energy, and Sanity were low, and he told Su Na to stop researching and rest.
• Yang Yi cooked a Corpse-Controlling Worm over a Campfire, and Su Na tried it after seeing him enjoy it.

After recovering aboard the Nightmare Star, Yang Yi planned ways to escape the Glacier and traveled to the Courage to salvage its supplies. He found and collected a large amount of Charred Liquor, a flammable drink that granted resistance to extreme cold.

• Yang Yi woke after four hours of rest, checked his recovered stats, and collected the new weekly from the Gacha Machine.
• Yang Yi found no ship equipment for breaking ice, posted a request in the chat channel, and considered escaping by melting or blasting through the Glacier.
• Yang Yi woke Su Na, explained his plan to visit the Courage, and traveled there after gathering his equipment.
• Yang Yi confirmed that no Ice Nest Worms were waiting aboard the Courage, reclaimed his throwing darts, and entered the ship's cabin.
• Yang Yi discovered that the Courage's hold was warm and blackened, then identified the unfrozen liquid in its barrels as Charred Liquor.
• Yang Yi tested whether the Greedy Stomach would drink the liquor and stored all 500 liters, along with the barrels, inside it.

Yang Yi found a mesmerizing painting and a relic spellbook aboard the burned ship. After reading the Book of Scorching, he learned a flame spell but nearly burned himself alive, and the painting caught fire.

• Yang Yi searched the burned ship’s hold and found a painting depicting a gigantic charred tree amid tiny, burning people.
• The painting’s information revealed it was Ma Hou’s final work, made with charred human tissue and other materials, and touching it blistered Yang Yi’s finger.
• Yang Yi found the Book of Scorching (Part One), a relic that taught flame magic, and decided to read it despite the danger.
• As Yang Yi read, the book released intense heat that set his clothes, his hair, the room, and the painting alight.
• Yang Yi finished the book, lost sanity, and learned Healing of the Flame before snapping out of his trance and putting out the flames on himself.
• Yang Yi looked up and saw the painting burning.

Yang Yi survived the burning painting’s illusion by firing his Flintlock, then extinguished the fire in the studio and learned he had gained the Extraordinary Path of The Charred One. After testing his new fire spell and using charred liquor to keep warm, he prepared to leave the Courage.

• Yang Yi was drawn into the burning painting, witnessed its followers worshipping the Charred Tree, and escaped the illusion by shooting it with his Flintlock in Cannon Mode.
• Yang Yi put out the studio fire, treated his burns, and synthesized a Padded Coat before the cabin’s warmth could fade.
• Yang Yi drank charred liquor, which made his body radiate heat, then checked his status and found his Sanity at 3 and Pollution at 9%.
• Yang Yi unlocked The Charred One path and learned Healing of the Flame and Burn with Me.
• Yang Yi tested Healing of the Flame, which seared his burns shut, then put his Padded Coat back on and prepared to leave the Courage.

Su Na created a new spell that summoned a stitching monster while Yang Yi returned to the Nightmare Star after dismantling the Courage. Yang Yi warned Su Na about the dangers of reading the charred magic book and told her to wait until her sanity recovered.

• Yang Yi dismantled the Courage and ran through the fog back toward the Nightmare Star.
• Su Na combined runes, spider corpses, and Pale Worm tentacles to create the spell Summon Stitching Monster, which produced a obedient but unintelligent creature.
• Yang Yi returned to the Nightmare Star, changed clothes, and learned from Song Yingwen that icebreaking ship equipment was scarce and the New World Fleet owned the Impact Power Hammer.
• Yang Yi brought Su Na on deck, where her stitching monster startled him and lowered his sanity.
• Yang Yi showed Su Na the charred magic book but warned that reading it cost 20 sanity and could cause a fire, so she had to wait until her sanity rose above 70.

Yang Yi and Su Na devised and carried out a plan to melt the ice around the Nightmare Star and free the ship. Just as Yang Yi aimed the cannon to escape, a vast swarm of Ice Nest Worms approached from the northeast.

• Yang Yi explained his plan to Su Na, and she suggested digging pits around the ship, heating water, and pouring it over the ice.
• Yang Yi assigned the Bone Arms to dig eighteen pits while Su Na prepared Campfires and divided 360 liters of Pale Worm fat among them.
• Yang Yi and Su Na heated the pits and repeatedly melted and poured water until the Nightmare Star broke free from the ice.
• Yang Yi aimed the cannon southwest to clear a path through the Glacier.
• Yang Yi spotted a vast swarm of Ice Nest Worms about two kilometers away and told Su Na to leave the deck while he went to retrieve the Life Fireplace.

Yang Yi and Su Na prepared to head northeast and confront the Ice Nest Worms at their source while the Bone Arms kept digging to free the Nightmare Star. Meanwhile, Shen Guanquan sought powerful recruits for the New World Fleet, and Su Na finished reading the Book of Scorching and learned a new spell.

• Yang Yi decided to travel northeast with Su Na to eliminate the Ice Nest Worms, while the Bone Arms continued digging around the Nightmare Star.
• Shen Guanquan learned that the Lost Ones Fleet had refused to join him and ordered Zhao Tie Tou to seek out and recruit One-Eye.
• Yang Yi bought sleeping bags and a tent as he and Su Na prepared supplies for their journey.
• Su Na read the complete Book of Scorching (Part One), lost 20 sanity, gained knowledge of combustion, and created the Heat Gathering Orb spell.

Yang Yi and Su Na set out northeast from the Nightmare Star to find the Ice Nest Worms' nest, enduring worsening cold along the way. After spotting over a hundred living, naked figures ahead, Yang Yi suspected they were Ice Nest Believers and chose to rest before approaching.

• Yang Yi and Su Na finished preparing supplies, and Yang Yi arranged for the Bone Arms to keep the Life Fireplace burning while they were away.
• They spotted an Ice Nest Worm swarm heading for the Nightmare Star and watched the Life Fireplace burn it to ash before continuing northeast.
• After traveling about forty kilometers, Yang Yi and Su Na faced temperatures below minus forty degrees and used Charred Liquor to ward off the cold.
• Yang Yi used Three Eyes to spot over a hundred naked, tattooed people crouched and shivering about seventeen kilometers ahead.
• Yang Yi suspected the figures were Ice Nest Believers and decided they would rest, eat, and find a campsite before proceeding without torches or a fire.

Yang Yi and Su Na set up camp near the mass of ice sculptures and prepared to watch for Ice Nest Worms. Yang Yi took the first rest, then woke to relieve Su Na, while the frozen figures remained still and the world chat reported more worm attacks.

• Yang Yi and Su Na traveled to a spot seven kilometers from the ice sculptures and set up their tent out of the Ice Nest Worms’ likely path.
• Yang Yi used Three Eyes to observe tens of thousands of trembling Ice Nest Believers arranged around a crystal-like giant, but he saw no Ice Nest Worms.
• Yang Yi and Su Na agreed that Yang Yi would sleep first and take the second watch, and he gave Su Na the Pale Worm Hand Cannon and Flintlock.
• After four hours, Yang Yi woke and found Su Na exhausted but alert; he took over the watch and let her sleep in his sleeping bag.
• Yang Yi checked the unchanged ice sculptures and read world chat reports of Ice Nest Worm attacks before noticing a sudden flood of new messages.

Yang Yi saw Shen Guanquan offer to guide players through the dangerous sea, while the Lost Ones Fleet lured two newcomers to a banquet and revealed its horrifying nature. The newcomers were trapped aboard the Feast Ship as the fleet prepared to eat them.

• Yang Yi read Shen Guanquan's world-chat message promising a safe passage through the sea and noticed a warning that the Lost Ones Fleet ate people.
• Wei'er welcomed a man and a woman to the Lost Ones Fleet and led them to the Feast Ship for a banquet.
• The newcomers bathed in scalding water after Wei'er insisted they wash before dining, and they noticed a fishy smell.
• The pair returned to find the fleet members waiting at the table, while Wei'er's nose and part of her face fell away to expose rotting tissue.
• The newcomers saw the Corpse-Eating Cult Introductory Manual on the remaining empty seat.

Yang Yi learned that the Ice Nest Believers became Ice Nest Worms through the Frost Giant, but narrowly resisted the extreme cold’s call after reading the words of the head trapped in an ice crystal. After planning a strike with Su Na, he approached the believers with her, where an icy voice demanded to know how they had found the place.

• Yang Yi observed the Frost Giant and read the words spoken by the living head inside its ice crystal, but resisted the extreme cold’s call after losing Sanity and briefly developing frost on his skin.
• The Frost Giant crushed over a hundred Ice Nest Believers and transformed their remains into Ice Nest Worms, which flew toward the Nightmare Star.
• Yang Yi concluded that killing the Frost Giant would solve the threat, then waited for Su Na to recover and told her his plan for a decapitation strike.
• Yang Yi and Su Na approached the believers, used the Fearful Wraith to drive Yang Yi into a frenzy, and built a bonfire as the believers began to rise.
• A wave of cold air lowered the temperature around Yang Yi and Su Na, and an authoritative voice asked how they had found the place.

Yang Yi and Su Na attacked the Crystal Giant on the Glacier, using fire to disrupt the Ice Nest creatures while Yang Yi tried to strike the giant. Yang Yi’s sword could barely harm it, but he fired the Glimmer Flintlock at close range, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Su Na lit the bonfire and spread fires across the Glacier with flaming arrows while the Crystal Giant charged at them.
• Yang Yi used Limb Enhancement to strengthen his right arm and smashed through Ice Nest Believers on his way toward the giant.
• Su Na used a Pale Worm Hand Cannon to suck up the Ice Nest Worms and Believers attacking the fires.
• Yang Yi struck the Crystal Giant’s knee with Broken Iron, but the giant caught the blow and lifted Yang Yi into the air by his sword.
• Yang Yi drew the Glimmer Flintlock with his left hand and fired it at the Crystal Giant in cannon mode.

Yang Yi failed to destroy the ice egg and, badly frozen and outmatched, swallowed Su Na’s Feral Wolf Potion and ignited himself with Charred Liquor. He completed his werewolf transformation, advanced to Extraordinary, and stood ready to confront the Crystal Giant as a burning, smoke-shrouded werewolf.

• Yang Yi blasted the ice egg from the Crystal Giant’s hand, but it survived with cracks while the head inside remained unharmed.
• Yang Yi warned Su Na to stay back, then revealed himself as a Fire Worship Cult follower to frighten the Crystal Giant.
• Yang Yi swallowed the Feral Wolf Potion without igniting it and began painfully transforming into a werewolf.
• Yang Yi doused himself in Charred Liquor and cast Healing of the Flame, setting his body alight and invoking the spell Burn with Me.
• Yang Yi completed his wolf transformation, gained enhanced attributes, and advanced to Extraordinary.

Yang Yi’s chaotic flames killed the Ice Nest Believers and weakened the Crystal Giant, while the heat cured his Feral Wolf Disease. He destroyed the giant and caught the old man’s fleeing head, leaving it crushed and burning beneath his blows.

• Yang Yi’s flames engulfed the Ice Nest Believers, while Su Na watched and the Pale Worm froze, broke apart, and spilled its load of corpses.
• Yang Yi recovered from his Feral Wolf Disease as he charged the Crystal Giant, whose body began melting and cracking in the heat.
• Yang Yi evaded the giant’s attacks, discovered that heat made its body brittle, and shattered its legs before smashing it into molten fragments.
• The old man’s head fled inside the Ice Egg, which had grown insect limbs, but Yang Yi pursued it across the scorched glacier.
• Yang Yi caught the burning head and repeatedly slammed it against the ground until it burst apart, shouting about his blessing.

Yang Yi killed the Ice Nest Elder but was left burning by a dangerous spell that threatened to carry him to The Charred Tree. Su Na used a stitched monster to douse him, and Yang Yi survived by reaching shore with only seconds of Refuse Death remaining.

• Yang Yi killed the Ice Nest Elder and found a Tiny White Fragment that formed a heat-draining Ice Egg.
• Yang Yi realized the fire was transporting him toward the scorched land associated with The Charred Tree, while his items began burning and his vision went dark.
• Yang Yi frantically dug into the ground to smother the flames, then sensed something approaching through the darkness.
• Su Na sent a stitched monster made from Ice Nest Believers and a Pale Worm to spray water over Yang Yi.
• The stitched monster helped extinguish the flames, and Yang Yi swam beneath the glacier and climbed ashore with only seconds of Refuse Death left.

After the battle, Yang Yi survived his devastating burns thanks to his new werewolf abilities and returned to camp with Su Na. The Ice Nest Believers were defeated, and Su Na began collecting bodies and the Crystal Giant’s remains for research.

• Yang Yi checked his new Extraordinary status, drank a Regeneration Potion, and discovered that his Charred Black Worm Ring had mutated into a living relic.
• When Refuse Death wore off and his injuries flared up, Yang Yi collapsed, but Su Na found him and learned he was still alive and healing.
• Yang Yi and Su Na exchanged attribute panels, building trust as they examined each other’s abilities and spells.
• Su Na told Yang Yi that the Ice Nest Believers had been killed by the fire and the White Worms, then prepared to take him back to camp.
• Su Na ordered the Stitched Monster to collect unburned corpses and drag the Crystal Giant’s remains toward the tent, carrying Yang Yi on a sleeping bag.

Yang Yi recovered from the severe burns he suffered in battle while Su Na studied the Ice Egg and kept watch at their campsite. After healing himself with magic, he slept and later changed back from Werewolf form, though he had to retract his scorched tail.

• Su Na returned to the campsite with Yang Yi and tested the Ice Egg, finding that it let its holder see through the white fog and resisted the fire.
• Su Na lit the tent’s stove and rested while the stitched monster guarded the camp and Yang Yi waited for his Mana to recover.
• Yang Yi’s health began falling, and Su Na said she had no leads on making a Mana-restoring potion.
• After his Mana recovered, Yang Yi used Healing of the Flame to stop his health from declining and began to heal.
• Yang Yi woke after resting, changed back into human form, and retracted his scorched tail after Su Na pointed it out.

Yang Yi and Su Na returned to the Nightmare Star after Yang Yi struggled with a predatory urge brought on by becoming a Werewolf. There, Yang Yi used a supreme Abyss Soulstone to upgrade his Flintlock, whose new attributes had yet to be revealed.

• Yang Yi nearly attacked Su Na after an Appetite Potion triggered a desire to tear into prey, but he regained control and discussed ways to manage his Werewolf instincts with her.
• Yang Yi and Su Na ate, then traveled back toward the Nightmare Star with the charred stitched monster carrying the Crystal Puppet Giant's remains.
• After about seven hours, they reached the ship, where Yang Yi brought aboard the monster and the giant's remains with the grappling hook.
• Yang Yi used the Ice Nest Elder's skullcap in the Monster Gacha Machine and received a supreme Mid-Tier Abyss Soulstone that could upgrade relics.
• Yang Yi chose to enhance his Flintlock, and the treasured-quality weapon grew larger, gained a longer barrel, and changed appearance as it advanced to supreme quality.

Yang Yi and Su Na freed the Nightmare Star from the glacier and sailed out of the Extreme Winter Sea while studying the Ice Egg and Crystal Giant remains. Yang Yi became the first player to leave the Extreme Winter Sea.

• Yang Yi examined the Roaring Flintlock, then told Su Na to stop heating the Ice Egg and prepare to leave the glacier.
• Yang Yi and Su Na used Su Na's Heat Gathering Orb and the Flintlock to free the Nightmare Star, then spent three days using the Waterlogged Cannon to blast a passage through the ice.
• Su Na investigated the Ice Egg and Crystal Giant remains, concluding that the white fragment behaved impossibly while the crystal could be useful as a lightweight material.
• Yang Yi suppressed his urge to eat people through a vegetarian diet, avoiding transformation, and meditation, while he and Su Na discussed whether the Origin Sea was assembled from separate seas.
• Yang Yi sailed through warming waters and a foggy buffer zone, then left the Extreme Winter Sea and received notice that he was the first player to do so.