Chapter Summaries

Yang Yi and Su Na excavated a three-masted ship buried in the Rotting Whale’s salt while the creature’s breathing grew stronger. They uncovered a room and its water-damaged records, then found a locked cabinet that might still hold something useful.

• Yang Yi kept the Penitent Armor near the buried mast and used the Rotting Whale’s powerful air currents to expose the ship instead of exploring farther.
• Su Na observed that the Rotting Whale’s breathing was becoming stronger and warned that White Seawater might revive it and free the Salt Men.
• Yang Yi subdued three Salt Men with fresh water, leaving him injured and with less than five hundred liters of water remaining.
• The Penitent Armor uncovered the ship’s deck and entered a salt-filled room, where Yang Yi dug out a desk, a fallen bookshelf, and several books and letters.
• Yang Yi found that the ship’s records, including a sea chart and whaling log, were too water-damaged to read and set them aside to examine later.
• Yang Yi discovered an exquisite, unrusted metal lock on a cabinet in the room.

Yang Yi and Su Na discovered that the Salt Spike could turn the Rotting Whale into salt, but the whale’s body kept regenerating it. Yang Yi used the salt’s growth to locate the weapon and prepared to descend into the whale to kill it.

• Yang Yi broke open a locked desk and found instructions explaining the Salt Spike’s power, dangers, and intended use against the Rotting Whale.
• Yang Yi cleared salt from the ship, but the vessel toppled as a sandstorm scattered the salt and Salt Folk.
• Su Na noticed that the Rotting Whale’s body was continually turning into new sea salt, spawning more Salt Folk.
• Yang Yi used the salt’s growth patterns to determine the Salt Spike’s direction and decided to kill the Rotting Whale for its regenerating flesh.
• Su Na took control of the armor to search the ship while Yang Yi replenished his water and transformed into a Werewolf to descend along the whale’s flesh wall.

Su Na searched the toppled ship and concluded that a mutiny and an intrusion by dangerous creatures had led to the crew’s deaths. Yang Yi reached the ship and pressed deeper into the Rotting Whale, where he found a sealed opening near its possible core and fired his Roaring Flintlock at it.

• Su Na searched the ship, found a shattered crystal construct and dried corpses, and concluded that a mutiny and a dangerous intrusion had killed the crew.
• Yang Yi descended into the Rotting Whale and reached the ship, where he reunited with the armor and replenished his water.
• Yang Yi followed a path crowded with Salt Men, then climbed along the cave ceiling to avoid the salt-covered ground.
• Yang Yi spotted an opening that might lead to the Rotting Whale’s core, waited for it to close, and fired his Roaring Flintlock in Roaring Mode.

Yang Yi escaped the Rotting Whale’s salt-filled chamber and climbed toward the white fleshy sphere he believed was its core, the Fruit of Abundance. He found a dried giant embedded in the sphere and a mummified man with the Salt Spike in his chest, leaving the mystery of their confrontation unresolved.

• Yang Yi was blasted out of the salt chamber by the Roaring Flintlock’s shot and clung to the Rotting Whale’s inner wall.
• Yang Yi observed the whale’s air chamber contracting and expelling salt, then drank fresh water and began climbing toward the central fleshy sphere.
• Yang Yi climbed for about forty minutes, reached the chamber’s ceiling, and descended along the hanging flesh toward the sphere.
• Yang Yi saw a dried giant embedded in the sphere and a desiccated man with a salt spear through his chest and one hand thrust into the giant’s neck.
• Yang Yi recognized the spear as the Salt Spike and inferred that the two men had fought over the Fruit of Abundance.

Yang Yi seized the Salt Spike despite its life-draining effect, triggering Refuse Death as he tried to kill the Rotting Whale. The Fruit of Abundance recovered, and an unseen attacker struck him into the salt below.

• Yang Yi discovered that the Salt Spike drained moisture from anyone who approached it and prepared to retrieve it quickly.
• He drank the Spirit Potion, enhanced both legs, and tested whether the giant guarding the Salt Spike would attack him.
• When the air venting stopped, Yang Yi rushed to the Fruit of Abundance and grabbed the Salt Spike, suffering fatal damage and triggering Refuse Death.
• The corpse holding the Salt Spike crumbled into salt, and the Fruit of Abundance returned to its healthy state.
• An unfamiliar voice thanked Yang Yi before a powerful blow knocked him into the salt pile.

Yang Yi survived the Rotting Whale’s attack by activating the Fake Salt Spike and gaining authority over salt. As Su Na watched the whale revive outside, Yang Yi transformed into the Salt King and summoned an intelligent army of Salt Folk, shocking the giant.

• The Rotting Whale recovered and began swallowing seawater, creating powerful currents that Su Na had to steer the Nightmare Star around.
• Yang Yi lay badly injured in the air chamber as the giant withdrew its arm into the restored white ball of flesh.
• Yang Yi deciphered the Fake Salt Spike and realized that surviving its initial cost would grant him authority over salt until death.
• Yang Yi drove the Fake Salt Spike into his chest, survived with 1 Qi and Blood, and gained the Salt King path as his limbs regrew.
• Yang Yi dried the seawater into salt and summoned armed Salt Folk, who knelt and called him their king.
• The giant saw Yang Yi’s transformation and cried out in terror.

Yang Yi used his Salt King powers to lead the Star-Chasing Knights against the Child of Abundance inside the Rotting Whale. The battle reached a stalemate as the whale produced waves of flesh soldiers, but their bodies grew increasingly distorted and the giant shrank into a tumor on the Fruit of Abundance.

• Yang Yi sent 120 immortal Salt Knights charging toward the Fruit of Abundance and ordered them to pierce it.
• The Child of Abundance shrank the Fruit of Abundance and revived the Rotting Whale's flesh, producing armies of naked copies of the giant to overwhelm the knights.
• Yang Yi retrieved his Penitent Armor, checked his powerful Salt King attributes, and noted that three minutes and twenty-seven seconds remained on Refuse Death.
• The flesh soldiers became increasingly deformed as the Rotting Whale produced more of them, while the giant's head melted into a small tumor attached to the Fruit of Abundance.

Yang Yi severed the Child of Abundance from the Rotting Whale’s core, but his strike failed to kill the core and awakened its full power. Trapped in the expanding flesh and unable to remove the Salt Spike himself, he sent Su Na instructions to use the Penitent Armor and drive it into the core as his Refuse Death timer ran out.

• Yang Yi realized the Child of Abundance was being assimilated by the Rotting Whale and used King's Sword to cut into the core, severing the giant’s head but failing to destroy it.
• The Fruit of Abundance swelled as the Rotting Whale’s core awakened, engulfing nearby Fleshmen, Salt Knights, and Yang Yi in its regenerating flesh.
• Yang Yi concluded that the Salt Spike was the only way to kill the Rotting Whale, but a notification prevented him from removing it himself.
• The Rotting Whale’s body split apart as its enormous core burst free, and Yang Yi’s signal with Su Na reconnected.
• Yang Yi told Su Na to control the Penitent Armor, pull out the Salt Spike, and drive it into the core, then summoned the Star-Chasing Knights and threw the armor to her.

Yang Yi removed the Salt Spike from himself and used a Gluttony Potion to survive by eating the Rotting Whale’s Fruit of Abundance. He recovered fully but awoke floating at sea with extreme obesity and severely reduced Agility.

• Yang Yi let the Penitent Armor pull out the Salt Spike, losing the Salt King’s memories and loyal Salt Knights as the crown and robes vanished.
• With his Qi and Blood falling to 1, Yang Yi drank the Gluttony Potion and gained a Glutton’s digestive ability, along with overwhelming hunger and thirst.
• Yang Yi ate the Fruit of Abundance until the Penitent Armor drove the Salt Spike into the Rotting Whale’s core, turning its flesh to sea salt.
• Still ravenous, Yang Yi fell into the sea and gulped seawater until he finally regained awareness with his Qi and Blood and Stamina fully restored.
• Yang Yi checked his status and discovered he had become 311.5 centimeters tall and weighed 675.6 kilograms, leaving him severely obese as Su Na watched from the Nightmare Star.

Yang Yi recovered from his loss of control inside the Rotting Whale, remained extremely obese, and told Su Na what he had discovered there. After they examined the few surviving treasures and dealt with their Penitent Armor, Yang Yi went to sleep to recover from his weakened state.

• Yang Yi returned to normal form but remained 240 kilograms, and Su Na questioned him about his loss of control and appetite.
• Yang Yi told Su Na about the Child of Abundance, the Salt King, and the Fruit of Abundance inside the Rotting Whale.
• Su Na showed Yang Yi a Withered Fruit of Abundance Shard and a sea-silver lock, while Yang Yi wondered whether ship-upgrade materials could be obtained another way.
• Yang Yi planned to melt down the Penitent Armor, causing its spikes to retract; he and Su Na secretly decided to remove and study it.
• Su Na treated the punctures in her hand, and Yang Yi went to sleep so he could recover from his weakened state.

Yang Yi recovered, learned what Su Na had deciphered from the water-damaged whaling books, and began exercising to lose weight. He ended the chapter determined to lose 50 kilograms by restricting himself to water and Refreshing Coconut Juice.

• Yang Yi slept for twenty-two hours while Su Na salvaged and deciphered the soaked books from the ship.
• Yang Yi woke, saw sugar water and fish spreading across the sea, and found that the Rotting Whale island had vanished.
• Yang Yi read Su Na's findings: the whaling fleet came from Kambal, Rotting Whales varied in size, and the Salt Spike could kill only medium ones or smaller.
• Yang Yi learned from a hidden note that the fleet had a traitor and that the Keepers' Society advised stabbing the Salt Spike into one's own chest if unable to defeat him.
• Yang Yi exercised despite his weakened condition, then vowed to consume only water and Refreshing Coconut Juice until he lost 50 kilograms.

Yang Yi exchanged information about the Rotting Whale and learned that Vampires also possessed endlessly regenerating flesh, which could serve as an alternative upgrade material. He ended the chapter preparing to test whether Fruit of Abundance fragments could produce a useful result in the Gacha Machine.

• Yang Yi discovered the Whale Hunter title and reviewed rising prices as the safe sea region neared the Abundant Sea.
• Yang Yi sold Song Yingwen information about giant creatures in the Abundant Sea for twenty thousand Conch Coins and heard that Eden's leader was seeking information about Dream Demons.
• Yang Yi posted an offer for information about endlessly regenerating flesh, and the Knight of Justice identified himself and shared information about Vampires.
• The Knight of Justice said he had killed a Vampire who captained a special ship and obtained a Treasured Two-Handed Sword from its corpse.
• After his weakened state ended, Yang Yi considered alternatives to retrieving the Fruit of Abundance from the Rotting Whale and put saved fragments into the Gacha Machine.

Yang Yi tested the Salt Bow, confirmed that its Salt Arrows withered targets but drained water from the user, and gave it to Su Na. After exercising through the day, he found his stamina recovering unusually fast and his attribute experience rising sharply; the chapter ended with Su Na taking him to the Laboratory to examine his condition.

• Yang Yi tested the Salt Bow, fired a Salt Arrow into a ray, and watched it turn much of the creature into salt before a Salt Folk dissolved in the sea.
• Yang Yi sent the bow's information to Su Na, stored it for her, and replenished the water he had lost.
• Yang Yi used fat fish as fuel for the Life Fireplace and exercised until evening, losing nearly thirty jin.
• Yang Yi noticed that his stamina recovered almost twice as fast as before and that his Strength, Constitution, and Agility experience had risen substantially.
• Su Na emerged, accepted the Salt Bow, warned Yang Yi to watch his eating, and led him to the Laboratory to check his physical condition.

Yang Yi learned that his abundant fat was speeding his recovery and experience gains while his body transitioned toward assimilation, and he kept training despite relentless hunger and sleeplessness. Two days later, after losing weight, he posted a bounty for a Vampire’s coordinates.

• Su Na examined Yang Yi and found his blood turning pale pink as he entered the third stage of transformation.
• Yang Yi realized his stored nutrients were improving his training gains and decided not to cut away his fat.
• Su Na sought White-Blooded Delicious Fish to test whether the Glutton’s digestive fluids could neutralize the harmful substance.
• Yang Yi trained through the night, read the Weekly Magazine’s report about the Abundant Sea and a treatment for Gourmet Desire, and stayed awake until dawn.
• Two days later, Yang Yi had reduced his weight to 160 kilograms and offered a bounty for a Vampire’s coordinates.

Yang Yi improved his attributes through exercise and continued monitoring his pollution while Su Na tested how sea salt affected the extraction of nutrients from digested delicious substance. Meanwhile, the New World Fleet expanded its food production, and Zhao Tie Tou challenged Shen Guanquan over a doctor whose experiments had killed two hundred volunteers.

• Yang Yi checked his improved attributes and noted that his weight loss and experience gains were slowing as the Fruit of Abundance was absorbed.
• Yang Yi replenished his provisions and transferred most of his remaining funds to Su Na for her research.
• Su Na drew Yang Yi’s blood and began testing whether adding sea salt could make extracting nutrients from delicious substance safer.
• Shen Guanquan inspected the level-four Farmer and adjusted its staffing to increase production.
• Zhao Tie Tou confronted Shen Guanquan about giving the doctor too much freedom after the doctor’s experiments killed two hundred volunteers.

Shen Guanquan defended the deaths caused by his efforts to strengthen his soldiers, while Yu Dawei’s fleet destroyed an island without finding the beast they had targeted. Yang Yi fished aboard the Nightmare Star, found a rare crystal diamond, and ended the day considering how to upgrade his ship and pursue a Rotting Whale.

• Shen Guanquan told Zhao Tie Tou that the deaths of soldiers were necessary sacrifices to prepare for future dangers, though Zhao Tie Tou still felt his methods were inhumane.
• Yu Dawei ordered the Iron Brotherhood’s fleet to bombard an island to flush out a giant beast, but the island was destroyed without the beast appearing; Zhang Zhi then reported finding a mutilated leopard corpse behind them.
• Yang Yi used the Pale Worm Fishing Rod to catch several fish and a Black Iron Resource Chest containing one unit of crystal diamond.
• Yang Yi caught both ordinary and fat Long-Legged Sardines, then stopped fishing and exercised.
• Yang Yi checked the Chat Channel, failed to find information about vampires, and concluded that he would have to tackle a Rotting Whale to advance his ship upgrade.

Yang Yi and Su Na discovered that sticky, concentrated sugar rain was falling across the Abundant Sea, then received a warning that a tsunami was approaching and prepared the Nightmare Star for possible submersion. They began moving and securing supplies, with Su Na heading to reinforce the hold while Yang Yi cleared the deck.

• Yang Yi and Su Na took shelter from the sticky drizzle and washed the syrup from their skin and eyes.
• Su Na identified the hardened droplets as sweet sugar frosting, while Yang Yi confirmed that the rain was spreading across the safe sea area.
• A system announcement warned that a tsunami was approaching and could rapidly expand the Abundant Sea's boundary.
• Yang Yi and Su Na decided to secure supplies and reinforce the ship against flooding, including packing canned food into sealed barrels.
• Yang Yi kicked open a rain-stuck door after transforming into a wolf, then split up with Su Na to prepare the ship.

Yang Yi and Su Na prepared the Nightmare Star for the coming tsunami by salvaging supplies and sealing and reinforcing the hold. The Abundant Sea’s boundary then began advancing rapidly, leaving less than eight hours before the wave reached the ship.

• Yang Yi and the Bone Arms moved supplies and equipment from the deck into the hold, while Yang Yi stored sea salt in his pouch and ring.
• Yang Yi, Su Na, and the Bone Arms sealed the Nightmare Star’s hold, reinforced it with iron plates, and secured loose cargo and specimens.
• Yang Yi finished sealing the hatch, leaving only the ventilation opening unsealed as the rain intensified.
• Shen Guanquan ordered the New World Fleet to disconnect its ships and secure supplies, then learned that crops aboard the Farmer had come alive and attacked people.
• Yang Yi saw reports that the Abundant Sea’s boundary was moving and calculated that the tsunami was approaching at three hundred nautical miles per hour, with less than eight hours remaining.

Yang Yi developed an infestation in his right eye after exposure to rain containing Delicious Cells, and Su Na removed the parasitic nematodes and treated the wound. With Su Na unconscious and the great tsunami still about five hours away, Yang Yi stayed on watch and learned that other players had suffered similar infections.

• Yang Yi woke after two hours of sleep with an unbearably itchy right eye, and Su Na examined it and found signs of an infestation.
• Su Na took Yang Yi to the Witch Laboratory, removed thirty-two Gourmet Nematodes from his eye, and salted the wound to destroy any remaining Delicious Cells.
• Su Na fainted after her Stamina fell below thirty, while Yang Yi's Right Eye Erosion status disappeared and his eye began to heal.
• Yang Yi carried Su Na to rest, estimated that the tsunami would arrive in about five hours, and watched the cabin's ventilation window.
• Yang Yi read the Chat Channel and learned that other players had suffered severe eye infections from the rain, prompting players to avoid exposure and use masks.

Yang Yi prepared the Nightmare Star for the tsunami while dealing with mutated fish attracted by the sugar coating on the hull. When the wave finally reached the ship, its immense force swept the Nightmare Star into the sea.

• Yang Yi killed an intruding Delicious Mutant Fish with sea salt and spread salt around the basin to trap more of them.
• Yang Yi confirmed the tsunami was approaching and fitted a crystal diamond into the cabin’s ventilation window for observation.
• Yang Yi and Su Na secured themselves in a corner of the cabin, with the Penitent Armor positioned in front of them.
• Yang Yi watched the Nightmare Star cross the boundary on the World Sea Chart, but the expected impact did not come immediately.
• Yang Yi transformed into a wolf as a towering wave blocked the sun and swept the Nightmare Star into the sea.