Recaps

Lin Yuan explored the dungeon island’s surrounding waters and discovered that the apparent island was actually a gigantic ship floating in the sea. He remained trapped inside the dungeon but uncovered the island’s hidden origin.

• Lin Yuan had Lilia carry him from Skeleton Giant Rock to the shore and realized the dungeon boundary enclosed the island and nearby waters.
• Lin Yuan used the Deep-Dive Shield Bubble Soap to descend through the unusually layerless ocean and found the island’s underwater edge at the dungeon boundary.
• Lin Yuan followed a widening gap beneath the island and discovered that a spatial barrier also enclosed the dungeon below.
• Lin Yuan saw the island’s curved underside, then recognized wooden planks and a keel that revealed the island was a ship.

Lin Yuan discovered that the island was a sunken ship and salvaged valuable Life Tree timber and a sprout from its hull. He returned to shore with his haul, while the island sank lower and Lilia struggled to remember what distinguished ships from islands.

• Lin Yuan realized the island was a huge, damaged ship that had sunk, and resolved to grow stronger than its former owner.
• Lin Yuan borrowed Lilia’s scythe and salvaged 1,800 units of Life-Deprived Life Wood from the hull.
• Lin Yuan found a Life Tree Sprout growing from the timber and cut it free, causing the island to sink noticeably.
• Lin Yuan returned to shore, where Lilia complained that the rising water had soaked her, and he returned her scythe.
• Lin Yuan asked Lilia whether she knew the island was a ship; she said she did but could not recall the difference between ships and islands.
• The Skeleton Pirates returned from searching the island, and Lin Yuan noticed they had brought back several good things.

Lin Yuan used the materials found by the skeletons to upgrade his hull to Level 2, gaining far greater durability, new compartments, and storage capacity. As the beginner instance neared its end, he reflected on the wider world before receiving the order to return to his ship and prepare for the next Main Quest.

• The skeletons brought Lin Yuan steel, glass, gemstones, a fishing rod, a quill, a damaged cannon, Shell Coins, and century-old hardwood from island treasure chests and trees.
• Lin Yuan upgraded his hull to Level 2 with deactivated life wood and steel, gaining increased durability, two unbuilt compartments, a crew quarters compartment, and an E-Rank Transcendent Core Compartment.
• Lilia sensed Lin Yuan's increased power and praised him, and he rapped her on the head for calling him Captain Turtle.
• Lin Yuan used ordinary timber to upgrade his storage and postponed upgrading his weapon and power compartments until he could build a Production Workshop.
• After the instance announced that it would close in five minutes, Lin Yuan was told to return to his ship and await the Main Quest after sunrise.

After the island-ship sank, Lin Yuan heard its final plea to save the world, then traded his jade fishing rod for Air Force Bro’s life-draining lightblade armguard. He equipped it and wondered how powerful it could become at maximum output.

• Lin Yuan heard the sinking island-ship call for someone to save the world before it vanished beneath the sea.
• Lilia praised Lin Yuan as a hero, but he denied any intention of saving the world.
• Lin Yuan read Air Force Bro’s account of the instance loot and learned that his armguard could summon a lightblade capable of striking a Water Elemental.
• Air Force Bro revealed that the lightblade drained at least eight health points per second and grew stronger as it drained more.
• Lin Yuan traded his jade fishing rod and 200 units of steel for the armguard, then equipped it and wondered about its maximum power.

Lin Yuan strengthened his light blade and traded for a Planting Room blueprint while considering what made his ship unique. The system then announced the main quest: reach the Gate of Departure by the end of Day 30.

• Lin Yuan powered up his light blade and confirmed it could slice through steel while remaining sustainable for him to use in combat.
• Lin Yuan offered the Mutant Treant Fruit and ornate Feather Pen in the regional channel, and Never Skunked revealed his fishing boat and many fishing rods.
• I Quit Farming offered Lin Yuan a Planting Room blueprint, and Lin Yuan agreed to trade for it after learning he would receive fertile soil as well.
• Lin Yuan saw that Air Force Bro specialized in fishing and I Quit Farming in farming, then wondered what made his own ship special.
• The system issued the main quest, directing all surviving players to choose a route and reach the Gate of Departure by the end of Day 30.

Lin Yuan studied the Paradise Sea Chart and learned that Research Institute 3154 was recruiting capable players, but he declined to join the organization. 3154 then inferred that Lin Yuan's health had likely reached 500 points, and Lin Yuan praised the accuracy of the guess.

• Lin Yuan examined the Paradise Sea Chart, saw the routes and islands leading to the Gate of Departure, and decided to choose a route with many instances.
• I Quit Farming admitted that he had skipped the beginner-instance boss and therefore lacked a chart, so Research Institute 3154 privately directed him to someone who could help.
• Research Institute 3154 asked Lin Yuan to hold the Feather Pen while he obtained a Steam Core, then explained that he was recruiting promising players for the Research Institute.
• Lin Yuan asked about the organization's rules and obligations, but declined its invitation because he wanted to keep his freedom and secrets.
• Research Institute 3154 cited Lin Yuan's five Magical Creatures' corpses and his trade for a Templar Apprentice Lightblade to conclude that his health was likely 500 points, and Lin Yuan said the estimate was more accurate than Air Force Bro's.

Lin Yuan traded an account of his beginner dungeon to 3154 for coordinates to rubber-producing islands, then set out north with Lilia’s coffin and the Shell Pump. As he paused to feed the hungry propeller, he sensed a familiar presence beneath the sea and prepared to face it.

• Lin Yuan described his beginner dungeon to 3154 in exchange for the locations of rubber-producing islands.
• 3154 recorded that Zero was a well-rounded talent and recommended maintaining relations with him and reporting him to headquarters as a seeded contender.
• Lin Yuan chose a route toward the nearest rubber-producing island and wondered whether Paradise contained multiple seas.
• After two days of travel, Lin Yuan stopped to catch Magical Creatures because the Shell Pump needed food and rest.
• Lin Yuan sensed a familiar pressure from the depths and grinned, ready to face the presence again.

Lin Yuan confronted the dark shadow again and used the Holy Hall Light Blade to sever its Invisible Chains. He cautiously approached it to learn more, but the shadow attacked with a freezing horn before retreating into the Main Sea.

• Lin Yuan cut through the dark shadow’s Invisible Chains with the Holy Hall Light Blade and shrugged off its repeated attempts to bind him.
• The dark shadow hurled an armored fish at Lin Yuan, who caught it and severed another Invisible Chain.
• Lin Yuan used the Deep-Dive Shield Bubble Soap and descended toward the boundary between the Shallow Sea and the Main Sea to inspect the dark shadow.
• As Lin Yuan prepared to summon the Undead Legion, the dark shadow struck him with a freezing horn and tried to drag him down with an Invisible Chain.
• Lin Yuan summoned skeletons to cut the chain, broke free of the ice, and escaped with the Shell Pump before the dark shadow vanished into the Main Sea.

After surviving the shadow’s attack, Lin Yuan discovered the Death Seed’s draining effect could leave him helpless, then repaired himself and turned the Frost Sea Serpent Horn into a powerful ship weapon. Back on the surface, he and Lilia questioned the shadow’s identity, and Lin Yuan considered asking Research Institute 3154 for answers.

• The Death Seed drained Lin Yuan’s health and immobilized him for thirty seconds, after which he killed the fish biting his hull and put the dangerous seed away.
• Lin Yuan removed the horn from his stomach, used Emergency Repair to heal himself and repair the warehouse, and learned it was a Frost Sea Serpent Horn.
• Lin Yuan consumed the horn to add the Frost Sea Serpent Ram to his ship, gaining a freezing attack and 400 Strength.
• Lin Yuan wondered whether the shadow was a Frost Sea Serpent, but Lilia argued that such serpents were weak and could not explain its power.
• Lin Yuan returned to the surface, told Lilia what had happened, and thought of asking Research Institute 3154 about the shadow.

Lin Yuan raced to the first island to enter its dungeon and obtain rubber for a Production Workshop, pushing the shell pump until it went dormant. He reached the island just before the dungeon opened and met a scholarly-looking player waiting offshore.

• Lin Yuan noticed that changing regions had cut off his contact with Research Institute 3154 and set aside his questions about the shadow to focus on the next island.
• Lin Yuan hunted a giant magical creature underwater and fed its flesh to the shell pump to boost its speed toward the island.
• Lin Yuan kept feeding the shell pump during a six-hour sprint, but it eventually entered a dormant state.
• Lin Yuan swam the remaining distance and reached the island half an hour before the dungeon opened, where more than a hundred players waited offshore.
• A scholarly-looking man with glasses greeted Lin Yuan and asked what he should call him.

Lin Yuan spoke with Manager, leader of the Consortium team, and learned that veteran players had founded organizations ahead of humanity’s latest entry into the game. He declined to join and left after warning Manager about the eerie doll girl, while Manager wrongly concluded that Lin Yuan had secretly scouted the island before arriving.

• Lin Yuan introduced himself as Zero, and Manager explained that he led a Consortium team and invited him to join.
• Manager described the Black Blood Society and Adventurer Group as dangerous to newcomers, then revealed that veteran players had established the organizations and that this was likely the game’s final intake of humanity.
• Manager said the Diving Club team was suspicious because he did not recognize the group, and Lin Yuan declined the Consortium’s invitation so he could explore alone.
• When Manager asked about the island, Lin Yuan warned him about the doll girl with a scythe and coffin who could revive endlessly, then departed.
• A teammate questioned Manager’s generosity, and Manager reasoned that Lin Yuan must have arrived early and secretly scouted the island, confidently praising his own observation.

Lin Yuan and Lilia slipped into the Mist Island dungeon after the other players, where Lilia frightened a high-Inspiration player named Bai Ling. Lin Yuan suspected Bai Ling’s sensitivity could lead them to treasure and decided to keep an eye on her.

• Lin Yuan watched the Consortium, Black Blood Society, Adventurer Group, and Diving Club enter the Mist Island dungeon, and noticed the Adventurer Group’s boat had a land-travel modification he wanted.
• After the other players entered, Lin Yuan climbed into Lilia’s coffin and told her to hide them inside the dungeon.
• Lilia ran into Bai Ling’s team at the entrance, and Bai Ling froze after seeing Lilia and the ominous coffin.
• Fog rolled out of the jungle, allowing Lilia to carry the coffin into the dungeon unseen by the rest of Bai Ling’s team.
• Lin Yuan realized Bai Ling likely had high Inspiration and decided to follow her in hopes of finding treasure.

Lin Yuan and Lilia explored the misty jungle, where they found a pool of fresh human blood and inferred that a player had died and been removed. They hurried toward a distant scream, as Bai Ling warned her team that the approaching Diving Club members were lying, but her teammates began to doubt her.

• Lin Yuan had Lilia search the jungle for rubber, but the heavy mist made her lose her way despite marking trees.
• Lilia examined a pool of blood and used her coffin to identify it as fifteen-minute-old human blood from a forty-four-year-old man without transcendent powers.
• Lin Yuan suspected the dead man was a player and wondered whether a teammate had killed him and taken his body.
• After hearing a muffled shout of “Stay back!”, Lin Yuan ordered Lilia to run toward the voice.
• Bai Ling warned her team against the gray-robed Diving Club members, who claimed they had encountered an eerie danger and proposed joining forces.
• The gray-robed figures suggested Bai Ling was mentally unstable, and her teammates hesitated over whether to trust her warning.

Bai Ling’s team was ambushed by a gray shadow controlled by the gray-robed people, but Lilia arrived and confronted their leader. After Lilia split the creature behind his attacks in two, the gray-robed man revealed that his followers were puppet bodies that let him revive.

• A gray shadow killed Bai Ling’s captain and dragged his corpse into the woods, while Bai Ling warned the team that the gray-robed people were connected to it.
• Bai Ling shot into the woods, wounding the gray-robed man and provoking the gray shadow to kill her teammates, while its shriek left her incapacitated.
• The gray-robed man seized Bai Ling as a sacrifice, but Lilia emerged from the bushes and questioned him about the Crawlers and why he hunted players.
• The gray-robed man sent the gray shadow at Lilia, but she pulled a gray caterpillar from her wooden body and snapped it in two, splitting him apart as well.
• One of the gray-robed man’s puppet bodies fused with him and restored him, and he claimed he could revive once for every body he had.

Lilia repeatedly killed the gray-robed man's puppet bodies, while Bai Ling stopped his escape with the Dead Line Gun. After the man sacrificed himself to create a giant beetle, a figure emerged from Lilia's coffin and killed it with ease, leaving Bai Ling unconscious and convinced he could not be a player from her batch.

• Lilia survived the gray caterpillar's repeated attacks and destroyed several of the gray-robed man's puppet bodies, while he wrongly guessed that her coffin held the secret to her revival.
• The gray-robed man fled with the caterpillar, but Bai Ling shot it with the Dead Line Gun and halted their escape.
• The gray-robed man sacrificed his flesh and blood to make the caterpillar evolve into a giant rhinoceros beetle, forming a cocoon around himself.
• Bai Ling warned Lilia to destroy the cocoon, but Lilia waited because she trusted her captain to handle the danger.
• The giant beetle emerged, overwhelmed Bai Ling with a sanity attack, and smashed Lilia into pieces.
• A man came out of the coffin, stopped the beetle's charge, and sliced it in half; Bai Ling passed out, thinking he could not be a player from her batch.

After Bai Ling woke, she told Lilia and Lin Yuan about the gray-robed attackers and explained how players use Sanity to sense transcendent power. Lin Yuan realized that he and Lilia lacked this warning system as they searched the island for rubber.

• Bai Ling woke beside Lilia, learned that Lin Yuan was the captain resting in a coffin, and cautiously thanked them for saving her.
• At Lin Yuan's instruction, Lilia asked Bai Ling to recount the gray-robed people's attack, and Bai Ling truthfully described the encounter, her high Inspiration, and her transcendent pistol.
• Lin Yuan concluded that the Diving Club and the Crawlers were organized enemies who hunted players as sacrifices, though their purpose remained unknown.
• Lin Yuan asked whether Bai Ling had seen rubber trees, and she said the island's ordinary climate and vegetation made them unlikely.
• Bai Ling explained that humans lose Sanity when they encounter stronger transcendent power and can follow that discomfort to detect its traces.
• Lin Yuan realized players were using Sanity as a guide through the jungle, while he and Lilia had been wandering without the ability to sense danger.

Lin Yuan and Lilia recruited Bai Ling to use her intuition to search the island for supernatural rubber. When Bai Ling led them to an ambush, they discovered that the rubber they sought came from a gorilla with a rubber-like ability.

• Bai Ling offered to help Lilia and Lin Yuan find supernatural rubber, and Lin Yuan thanked her before returning to his coffin.
• Lilia dragged the coffin through the jungle while Bai Ling guided them toward a place where supernatural power had erupted.
• Bai Ling sensed an ape nearby and foresaw that it was waiting to ambush them.
• The gorilla leapt at Bai Ling, but Lilia swung her scythe at it.
• The gorilla stretched its arm like rubber to grab a branch and evade Lilia's strike, and Lin Yuan realized the island's rubber came from Rubber Beasts.

Lin Yuan’s group killed a Rubber Gorilla, only to discover that its stretching ability came from a parasitic Rubber Seed rather than its body. He learned that each seed yielded only a fraction of a unit of rubber, leaving him to wonder whether the island held enough creatures to gather the 1,000 seeds he needed.

• Lilia cut down trees to pursue the Rubber Gorilla until Bai Ling warned that damaging the island might attract a terrifying presence, and Lin Yuan ordered her to stop.
• The Gorilla attacked Lilia and knocked off her limbs, but Lin Yuan harpooned it and Lilia finished it off.
• Lin Yuan found that the dead Gorilla’s body had become ordinary flesh, so Bai Ling sensed a discrepancy and directed him to its skull.
• Lin Yuan found a Rubber Seed inside the Gorilla’s head and learned that crushing ten seeds produced one unit of rubber.
• Lin Yuan realized he needed 1,000 Rubber Seeds and wondered whether the island had enough parasitized prey.

After Bai Ling touched a Rubber Seed, she saw a vision of a vast forest of giant trees that controlled rubber beasts across the island. Lin Yuan followed her to the nests, found an Adventurer Group observing them, and sent Bai Ling to make contact.

• Bai Ling touched the Rubber Seed and saw countless giant trees infesting animals and turning them into a Rubber Beast Herd.
• Bai Ling explained that she had sensed the nests’ location, and Lin Yuan asked her to lead him there.
• Lin Yuan, Bai Ling, and Lilia reached a clearing filled with giant trees and rubber beasts, including larger Assembled Beasts.
• Lin Yuan spotted an Adventurer Group watching the nests from a tracked ship and decided Bai Ling should approach them.
• Bai Ling introduced herself as an independent player, and the Adventurer Group’s captain recognized her companions as a sign of a terrifying powerhouse.

Bai Ling negotiated with Spotlight's Adventurer Group to lure away the Rubber Beasts in exchange for a land-travel apparatus. After the group concealed its ship, Lilia provoked the herd, setting the operation in motion.

• Spotlight was startled by Bai Ling and her intelligent doll-like follower, but introduced himself as the Adventurer Group's captain.
• Bai Ling learned that Spotlight's team wanted to reach the Tree King for the adventure, not to hunt it for materials.
• Spotlight agreed to help modify Bai Ling's ship with a land-travel apparatus if she lured the Rubber Beasts away.
• Spotlight's team concealed its ship beneath a special mist and waited for Bai Ling to draw the herd away.
• Lilia walked up to the Rubber Beasts and shouted, "Come hit me!"

Bai Ling helped Spotlight’s Adventurer Group enter the Giant Tree Forest by drawing the Rubber Beasts away, while Lin Yuan emerged from his coffin and joined her and Lilia in hunting them. After Bai Ling sensed a dangerous area where the trees were suppressing something, she asked Lin Yuan whether he wanted to investigate.

• Lilia drew the Rubber Beasts into a chaotic fight, clearing a path for Spotlight and the Adventurer Group to enter the Giant Tree Forest.
• Lin Yuan left his coffin and used his Frost Sea Serpent Ram to kill or freeze the Rubber Beasts before collecting their seeds.
• Lin Yuan, Lilia, and Bai Ling entered the forest and began clearing Rubber Beast nests, encountering increasingly powerful creatures.
• Bai Ling sensed that the giant trees were suppressing a being that wanted outsiders to release it, and decided the danger might bring great rewards.
• Bai Ling told Lin Yuan she had sensed an unusual area and asked whether he wanted to investigate it.
• Spotlight continued deeper into the forest aboard the adventure ship, believing the operation was proceeding smoothly and that Bai Ling was unlikely to encounter trouble.

Lin Yuan and Bai Ling found a dying giant turtle trapped by the Giant Tree Forest, where it entrusted Lin Yuan with the Captain's Quarters Key before disintegrating. The key's theft enraged the forest, and Lin Yuan prepared to clear the pursuing Rubber Beasts before the Tree King arrived.

• Lin Yuan followed Bai Ling's directions through increasingly hostile Rubber Beast nests to a clearing where giant trees had caged an enormous, dying turtle.
• The turtle gave Lin Yuan an antique bronze key, and he recognized it as the key to the captain's quarters aboard the island ship.
• The turtle died and crumbled into black powder, after holding on to keep the key from the rubber trees.
• Rubber Beasts surged from their nests and focused on Lin Yuan after he took the key.
• Bai Ling warned that the Tree King was approaching and had an aura comparable to Lin Yuan's when he emerged from the coffin.
• Lin Yuan decided to destroy the freely moving Rubber Beasts before retreating, so they could not lead the Tree King after them.

Lin Yuan and Lilia defeated two waves of Rubber Beasts while Bai Ling sheltered in Lilia’s coffin, then escaped the slow-moving Tree King. Bai Ling said the giant turtle’s knowledge had helped her and that the coffin restored her Sanity, though she kept its overwhelming presence to herself.

• Lin Yuan had Bai Ling hide in Lilia’s coffin, then used the key to lure the Rubber Beasts and killed them.
• Bai Ling sensed the Adventurer Group’s ship approaching with Rubber Beasts in pursuit and offered to cover its retreat; the group fled, believing she was a powerful ally.
• Lin Yuan repeated his tactic against the pursuing beasts, collected rubber seeds, and hurried away when he heard the Tree King approaching.
• Lin Yuan wondered why the Tree King had not been guarding the giant turtle, then asked Bai Ling about the pain she had felt when the turtle looked at her.
• Bai Ling said the turtle had imparted useful knowledge and that Lilia’s coffin restored her Sanity, but she did not reveal how vast and reassuring its presence felt.

Bai Ling and Lin Yuan learned that the Adventurer Group could modify Lin Yuan for land travel, but Lin Yuan's attempt to test their ship revealed that he could not board other ships without damaging them. Spotlight explained that hull modifications required a skilled craftsman, leaving Lin Yuan unsure how he could be modified without revealing his secret.

• Lin Yuan wondered whether Lilia's indestructible coffin was her real body as Bai Ling described the strange sensation it gave her.
• Bai Ling and Lilia met Spotlight and his teammates, who offered to transfer their land-travel-capable ship for a steep price.
• At Bai Ling's request, Lin Yuan stepped onto the ship, cracked its deck, and lost over a thousand durability points before retreating to his coffin.
• Bai Ling declined to buy the ship, and Spotlight agreed to arrange a land-travel modification after the instance ended.
• Spotlight explained that hull modifications required a craftsman to measure and manually modify the ship, and Lin Yuan worried that such a craftsman might not be able to modify him without exposing his secret.

Lin Yuan and Bai Ling agreed to trade for the ship-conversion diagrams after the dungeon, and Spotlight directed Bai Ling toward the lake ruins. Lin Yuan and Lilia reached the lake, where the Consortium and Black Blood Society were preparing separate expeditions in a tense standoff.

• Lin Yuan asked Spotlight to obtain diagrams for converting his ship to land travel, and Spotlight agreed to arrange the trade once the friends feature opened.
• Spotlight explained that the Adventurer Group had finished exploring most of the dungeon and told Bai Ling about underwater ruins beneath the lake, where the Consortium and Black Blood Society had established camps.
• Bai Ling asked how to send Lin Yuan the diagrams, and Lin Yuan told her to contact the account named “Zero” after the friends system opened.
• Lin Yuan decided against joining an organization because its control over members and their ships could expose his secret.
• Lilia spotted the lake, and Lin Yuan saw the Consortium and Black Blood Society occupying opposite shores as they prepared to investigate the water.