Chapter Summaries

Yang Yi found delicious seaweed in his fishing net and learned that Su Na’s Long-Legged Sardines had reached the final stage of transforming into delicious creatures. Suspecting the Abundant Sea was connected to the phenomenon, he prepared to investigate and stocked up on supplies, leaving with 1,597,500 Conch Coins.

• Yang Yi found no nearby islands, exercised, and decided to shop as food prices fell in the Extreme Winter Sea.
• Yang Yi hauled in Delicious, Juicy Seaweed and delivered it to Su Na at the Witch Laboratory.
• Su Na explained that the Long-Legged Sardines had progressed through addiction and fattening into assimilation, and began dissecting one.
• Yang Yi decided to investigate the Abundant Sea for signs of abnormalities linked to the delicious creatures.
• Yang Yi bought level 4 ship-upgrade materials, 200 Vitality Coconuts, and five kilograms of salt, leaving 1,597,500 Conch Coins.

Yang Yi bought two face coverings before investigating Su Na’s fourth-stage Long-Legged Sardine, which had grown into a monstrous, eating mass. After Yang Yi destroyed it, a scrap of flesh showed it could still consume and regenerate, and Su Na discovered the creature had become pure meat without organs or a stomach.

• Yang Yi bought a bloodstained scarf that disrupted smell and a Silver Beak Mask for Su Na, then saw a system warning that the Black Fog had sped up to 20 knots.
• Su Na explained that one Long-Legged Sardine had eaten the other and grown into a deformed fourth-stage monster that consumed the tank’s water and tried to eat its glass.
• Yang Yi insisted they kill the creature, and he shot the tank, then crushed a wriggling piece of flesh that tried to consume scraps and regenerate.
• Yang Yi examined a surviving chunk of flesh and shared its description with Su Na, who found that the creature had become pure meat without internal organs or a stomach.

Yang Yi sailed toward the Abundant Sea while investigating strange sea creatures and worsening dangers in the Extreme Winter Sea. He then tested the Lost Penitent Armor and discovered it understood his commands but deliberately disobeyed them.

• Yang Yi increased the Nightmare Star's speed and caught several grotesque sea creatures, which he burned in the Life Fireplace.
• Yang Yi read reports that falling temperatures had made Ice Nest Worms attack players stranded in the Extreme Winter Sea.
• Yang Yi took the Lost Penitent Armor into the Atrium and tried to communicate with it while keeping his distance.
• The armor indicated that it could not understand Yang Yi's speech, then obeyed his commands incorrectly by closing its breastplate when told to open it.

Yang Yi discovered that the self-aware armor deliberately did the opposite of his commands and put it away after it nearly punched him. He then helped Su Na test Craft Beer and underwent a spinal puncture so she could use his cerebrospinal fluid to develop a Mana-restoring potion.

• Yang Yi tested the armor, learned it obeyed commands by doing the opposite, and stored it after it attacked him and damaged Su Na's wall.
• Yang Yi sampled Su Na's Craft Beer, found it stronger than Charred Liquor, and decided it could serve as fuel aboard the Nightmare Star.
• Su Na asked Yang Yi for cerebrospinal fluid to help identify and make the Supermagic Potion, and he reluctantly agreed to a spinal puncture.
• Su Na extracted ten milliliters of Yang Yi's cerebrospinal fluid and said she also needed wolf fur as a catalyst.
• Yang Yi took a Regeneration Potion, rested for half an hour, and left the Laboratory wary of Su Na but hopeful that her potion could restore Mana.

Yang Yi tested the Lost Penitent Armor and discovered that wearing its gauntlet let him control the whole suit as an extension of himself. After he struggled to remove it, Su Na found that someone else had to order the armor to release its wearer.

• Yang Yi tested the armor’s strength and hardness, while he and Su Na observed its unpredictable responses to commands.
• Su Na suggested melting and recasting part of the armor, but Yang Yi refused to risk damaging the top-grade equipment.
• Yang Yi put on the armor’s right gauntlet, whose spikes pierced his hand, and discovered he could control the suit through another field of vision.
• Su Na watched Yang Yi test the armor, then later ordered its spikes to retract when he could not remove the gauntlet.
• Yang Yi removed the bloodied gauntlet and treated his wounds, while Su Na concluded that another person had to command the armor to release its wearer.

Yang Yi stocked the Nightmare Star with food and water while continuing toward the Abundant Sea, then discovered a sweet-smelling layer of liquid attracting sea creatures. He anchored at a safe distance and planned to investigate it with Su Na after daylight.

• Yang Yi tested his armor, stored it, and ate Bread Cans with Su Na after buying food for the ship.
• Yang Yi found an island about 1,400 nautical miles away and decided to record its coordinates and explore it on the return voyage.
• Yang Yi monitored the dwindling players in the Extreme Winter Sea, bought 500 liters of fresh water, and went to rest.
• Two days later, Yang Yi smelled a sweet fragrance, used Three Eyes to spot a strange liquid layer surrounded by feeding sea creatures, and retreated until morning.
• Yang Yi told Su Na about the discovery, anchored ten nautical miles away, and went to sleep after arranging to take the second watch.

Yang Yi and Su Na investigated a growing layer of delicious white liquid that had spread from the Abundant Sea, where sea creatures gathered to feed. As Yang Yi approached the Abundant Sea, Su Na discovered that evaporated seawater produced Delicious Honey and called him to the Laboratory.

• Su Na boiled seawater during her night watch and produced a Delicious Sea Salt Block, then Yang Yi took over and waited for dawn.
• Yang Yi and Su Na observed a vast layer of white liquid covered with fish and other sea creatures, and Yang Yi fired cannon shots before sailing closer.
• Su Na collected a sample of the liquid while Yang Yi photographed the conditions and continued toward the Abundant Sea.
• Yang Yi and Su Na encountered giant, well-fed whales and increasingly deep white liquid as they approached the Abundant Sea.
• Su Na concentrated and evaporated seawater from the Abundant Sea, produced Delicious Honey, and summoned Yang Yi to the Laboratory.

Su Na discovered that salt dehydrated the meat-like organisms of the Abundant Sea and that its milky water could sustain life without oxygen. Yang Yi made a brief expedition into the sea, withdrew after the organisms attacked the ship, and obtained coordinates for an island within it.

• Su Na showed Yang Yi her experiments, explaining that salt damaged the meat and that a pufferfish survived for hours without oxygen in combustion exhaust.
• Yang Yi steered the Nightmare Star into the Abundant Sea, where he found floating meat-like organisms that healed from gunfire and multiplied when cut apart.
• The meat organisms attacked the Nightmare Star and swallowed several Bone Arms, but salt made them shrivel and retreat.
• Yang Yi withdrew from the sea, proposed coating the hull with crystallized salt, and later used the Lookout to find an island about a thousand nautical miles inside the Abundant Sea.

Yang Yi discovered that the Abundant Sea’s sweet-smelling air could spread beyond its waters and inflict a craving called Gourmet Desire. He warned Su Na, found that their drinking water had been contaminated, and began preparing to protect the crew and supplies.

• Yang Yi decided to postpone exploring the island in the Abundant Sea, sailed toward an earlier island, and planned to sell information about the Abundant Sea after buying salt and other supplies.
• The last players left the Extreme Winter Sea, and the system announced that the Abundant Sea was expanding, its barrier restrictions were lifted, and titles had been unlocked.
• Yang Yi saw sweet-smelling air reach the surrounding waters and form delicious oily froth, then discovered that his status panel showed Gourmet Desire.
• Yang Yi warned Su Na that the Abundant Sea’s air was addictive, and Su Na confirmed that she had not developed Gourmet Desire.
• Yang Yi and Su Na found that uncovered drinking water had turned pale white, while their stored food remained unchanged, and Yang Yi went to buy smell-blocking masks and sea salt.

Yang Yi prepared supplies and shared intelligence about the Abundant Sea’s addictive sweet air and gourmet desire with Song Yingwen, prompting players to flee the affected area and stock up on salt and odor-blocking masks. As players learned that Yang Yi had acquired gourmet desire, they speculated that he was doomed to become a fat pig, while he felt no unusual symptoms beyond wanting something sweet.

• Yang Yi bought five Iron Beak Masks, 32 tonnes of sea salt, and 500 liters of fresh water, then prepared to preserve the crew’s food.
• Su Na found nothing abnormal in Yang Yi’s body, took blood for analysis, and confirmed that salt did not affect creatures below the fourth stage after their pufferfish died from being buried in salt.
• Yang Yi chopped up the food for canning, updated his intelligence about the Abundant Sea, and sent it to Song Yingwen, who rushed to print it in Sea Weekly.
• Players in the Chat Channel reported sweet air, unusual fish, and gourmet desire as Sea Weekly’s warning drove up demand for sea salt and odor-blocking masks.
• Players guessed that Yang Yi had gourmet disease and might turn into a fat pig, but Yang Yi checked his weight and felt only a desire for something sweet.

After discovering his hunger and weight gain were worsening, Yang Yi asked Su Na to treat him with sea salt. The chapter ended with him buried in salt in the Witch Laboratory, awaiting the results.

• Yang Yi equipped the Otherworldly Demon Hunter title and received 100,000 Conch Coins from Song Yingwen.
• Yang Yi found himself eating canned bread unconsciously, and his weight rose from 91.5 to 95 kilograms overnight.
• Yang Yi asked Su Na to tie him up, but she suggested treating his condition with a Salt Bath and sea salt.
• Su Na examined Yang Yi and found his stamina had increased, while his attributes showed no other changes besides a stronger appetite and tendency to gain weight.
• Su Na covered Yang Yi with sea salt and fed him a mouthful, leaving him buried on the metal table with only his nose exposed.

Yang Yi endured Su Na’s salt treatment to cure his gourmet desire, but the experiment nearly killed him and brought on a vivid vision of a salt creature. He recovered after vomiting the salt, and the abnormal appetite disappeared, though he wondered whether the vision had been more than a hallucination.

• Su Na submerged Yang Yi in increasingly concentrated saltwater, but his skin shriveled and his Qi and Blood steadily fell.
• When Su Na asked whether his gourmet desire was gone, Yang Yi began swallowing sea salt uncontrollably, and his condition worsened.
• Yang Yi wandered through a salt desert in a vivid vision and was pierced by a humanoid creature made of salt.
• Su Na revived Yang Yi with water and saline, then made him vomit repeatedly until he was no longer in immediate danger.
• Yang Yi found that his gourmet desire had disappeared and reassured the apologetic Su Na, but he remained wary that the salt creature might be real.

Yang Yi told Su Na about his hallucinations, underwent examinations, and remained troubled by his appetite for her even after she confirmed he was healthy. Later, he discovered that a flashy title helped him trade more effectively, though it also attracted unwanted attention.

• Su Na recorded her findings about using large doses of salt to treat Gourmet Desire while Yang Yi still found her appetizing and suppressed the urge to transform.
• Yang Yi went to the deck, checked the weather, and found that the sea breeze eased his desires as his Qi and Blood recovered.
• Yang Yi browsed the Chat Channel and learned that players could gain unique titles through widespread recognition, positions, or particular actions.
• Yang Yi posted offers to buy enhancement stones and equipment under his title Otherworldly Demon Hunter, drawing attention from players who recognized him as One-Eye.
• Yang Yi bought a Low-Tier Abyss Soulstone for 87,500 Conch Coins, confirming that prominent titles made trading faster, then ignored or blocked unwanted messages and critics.

Yang Yi and Su Na approached a strange, circular island covered in salt, where the surrounding sea appeared so saline that fish were scarce. After circling the island, they were left with an unexplained landscape of white ground and branchlike growths.

• Yang Yi upgraded his Bloodstained Pirate Captain's Outfit to superior quality, raising his Agility by two while retaining its Sanity-draining effect.
• After nearly an hour without a bite, Yang Yi caught a Big Salted Fish and spotted a large, unusually circular island on the Crystal Ball's Sea Chart.
• Yang Yi told Su Na to prepare, checked their supplies, and steered the Nightmare Star toward the island; no other players' ships appeared.
• As they approached, Yang Yi saw that the island's ground and sparse growths were white with what appeared to be salt, resembling the landscape from his Salt Bath illusion.
• Su Na explained how salt can precipitate around highly saline water, and Yang Yi suspected the island's salt had reduced the surrounding fish and made the ship ride shallower.
• Yang Yi circled the island before landing and observed its smooth, even perimeter, salt-covered surface, and scattered white branches, finding no large rocks or other sizable objects.

Yang Yi used the Lost Penitent Armor to investigate Salt Island after discovering that its surface and shrubs were made of salt. The island proved to be dangerous: it rapidly dehydrated a Long-Legged Sardine and killed it with a salt spike.

• Yang Yi fired cannonballs at Salt Island and found salt frost covering dark soil beneath the surface, while the island's white shrubs shattered into salt dust.
• Yang Yi noticed that the Human-Head Octopus he had fired onto shore had dried out unusually fast and decided to explore with the Lost Penitent Armor.
• Su Na gave Yang Yi two Long-Legged Sardines to test for dehydration, and he controlled the armor from a raft toward the island.
• Su Na found that the nearby seawater was supersaturated with salt, as crystals formed soon after she hauled it aboard.
• Yang Yi collected salt and soil with the armor, then released one Long-Legged Sardine onto the island while keeping the other in a jar for comparison.
• A salt spike impaled the Sardine as its moisture was sucked out, leaving it dead and dried into salted fish.

Yang Yi discovered that Salt Men on the island could drain moisture from living creatures and corrode metal, while the apparent island was actually the dried body of a Rotting Whale. After expanding his control range to three kilometers by wearing part of the armor, he sent it toward the island’s interior to investigate.

• A Salt Man re-formed after the armor struck it, drained the Long-Legged Sardine into a salted fish, and then vanished into scattered salt.
• Yang Yi collected salt and dried Rotting Whale tissue, and the activity log revealed that the apparent island was the remains of a giant creature.
• Yang Yi found that the armor’s shovel had rusted after striking the Salt Man, while the armor itself remained unharmed.
• Yang Yi tested the armor’s control range, discovered it was one kilometer, and extended it to three kilometers by wearing its right arm and shoulder armor.
• Yang Yi equipped the armor with Fake Broken Iron and began exploring Salt Island’s central region while Su Na stayed aboard the Nightmare Star.

Yang Yi found no treasure while exploring the salt island, but Su Na discovered that the island was a dormant Rotting Whale whose tissue revived when exposed to White Seawater. Yang Yi avoided landing himself and turned the island’s salt into a profitable harvest, ending the chapter with 550,000 Conch Coins earned.

• Yang Yi explored the island with the Penitent Armor but found only loose salt and salt bushes.
• Su Na and Yang Yi subdued a lump of revived Rotting Whale tissue by pouring sea salt over it.
• Su Na concluded that the island was a dormant Rotting Whale and that its tissue revived upon contact with White Seawater.
• Yang Yi decided not to go ashore and instead used the Penitent Armor and floating barrels to harvest and sell salt.
• Yang Yi dug up eleven tonnes of salt in one afternoon and earned 550,000 Conch Coins.

Yang Yi and Su Na investigated the salt-covered Rotting Whale and prepared for the spreading Abundant Sea, while Yang Yi bought a treasure-finding telescope. The Rotting Whale began moving and erupted, swallowing and blasting out sea salt as the Abundant Sea’s influence reached it.

• Yang Yi removed his right arm armor with Su Na’s help, then bought the Eye of Greed for 155,000 Conch Coins and stored it for later use.
• Yang Yi checked the World Sea Chart and saw the Black Fog advancing while the Abundant Sea spread, deciding he needed to keep harvesting salt before conditions changed.
• Yang Yi used the Eye of Greed to locate a treasure or valuable object inside the island, but he and Su Na could not find a way into the Rotting Whale’s body.
• Yang Yi tested whether the Salt Men attacked water inside the Penitent Armor, and Su Na concluded they targeted water within a limited range rather than living things.
• Yang Yi dug up and sold fifteen tons of salt, earning 750,000 Conch Coins, before the island trembled and the Rotting Whale swallowed and erupted with huge quantities of salt.

The Rotting Whale awoke and shook most of the Salt Men from its surface, revealing that the island was a giant, salt-spewing jellyfish. Yang Yi reached the island to explore the Rotting Whale's interior while Su Na controlled the Penitent Armor from the Nightmare Star.

• The Rotting Whale erupted with sea salt as Salt Men attacked it, and its movements shook the Salt Men and the Penitent Armor from its surface.
• Yang Yi refused to let Su Na go ashore but gave her his right gauntlet so she could control the Penitent Armor and explore through it.
• The salt cleared to reveal the island's true form: a giant jellyfish with holes that sprayed salt and a large central opening.
• Yang Yi prepared fresh water to distract the Salt Men, transformed into a Werewolf, and ran across the sea to the island.
• Yang Yi landed safely and headed toward an opening that had stopped spraying salt, intending to enter the Rotting Whale.

Yang Yi sent the Penitent Armor into the Rotting Whale to scout its salt-filled interior while Salt Men battled the creature. After the armor descended into a vast cavern, Yang Yi and Su Na spotted a ship’s mast protruding from the salt and prepared to investigate.

• Yang Yi and the Penitent Armor entered the cave, avoiding the Salt Men and using water to protect Yang Yi from the salt.
• Yang Yi canceled his Wolf Transformation and sent the armor down a huge shaft that spewed sea salt.
• The armor reached a cavern where Salt Men repeatedly attacked the Rotting Whale’s living walls and were swept away by powerful air currents.
• Yang Yi and Su Na noticed a mast and ropes sticking out of the salt, suggesting a ship lay buried beneath it.
• Su Na urged Yang Yi to dig, but Yang Yi took back control and walked toward the mast.