Recaps

Lin Yuan sold surplus rubber to the Manager and revealed that he had encountered people working for the Crawlers. The Manager reacted with alarm and decided to warn the Black Blood Society.

• Bai Ling borrowed Lilia's coffin so she could recover her sanity and process what the giant turtle had transmitted to her.
• Lin Yuan approached the Manager and negotiated the sale of a hundred units of rubber for twenty thousand Shell Coins.
• The Manager realized Lin Yuan still had enough rubber to build a Production Workshop and learned he had gathered it from the Giant Tree Forest.
• Lin Yuan told the Manager he had encountered people working for the Crawlers.
• The Manager panicked at the news and decided to notify the Black Blood Society.

Lin Yuan learned the Crawlers’ reputation and met Great Axe, whose attempt to test Lin Yuan’s strength ended in embarrassment. When Lin Yuan revealed he had already killed every member of the Diving Club, the manager and Great Axe were stunned.

• The manager explained that the Crawlers were humanity’s common enemy, exceptionally hard to kill, and should either be killed immediately or fled from.
• The manager introduced Great Axe, captain of the Black Blood Society’s team, and Great Axe tried to crush Lin Yuan’s hand in a strength contest.
• Lin Yuan accidentally dragged Great Axe across the ground and then lifted and slammed him into the mud while trying to return his enthusiastic handshake.
• The manager told Great Axe that a Diving Club member served the Crawlers, and they decided to suspend exploration and find the group before it could conduct a ritual.
• Lin Yuan told the manager and Great Axe that he had encountered the Diving Club while it was hunting players and had killed every member of the group himself.

After the Diving Club was dealt with, Lin Yuan and the other teams explored the lake ruins until the Tree King returned. Suspecting the Tree King knew where the captain’s cabin was, Lin Yuan headed into the lake to confront it.

• Lin Yuan explained that the Diving Club had been one person using flesh puppets to revive, convincing the manager and Great Axe not to provoke him.
• Great Axe and the manager resumed exploring the lake ruins, with the Black Blood Society diving in person and the Consortium using scouting tools.
• The Tree King returned to the lake, carried by groups of Rubber Beasts, and reclaimed the center of the ruins.
• Great Axe proposed that their teams join forces to kill the Tree King, while the manager refused to risk his people.
• Lin Yuan realized the Tree King might know the captain’s cabin’s location and walked into the lake, declaring that the water was his home turf too.

Lin Yuan fought his way into the Tree King to find the place indicated by the Captain's Quarters Key. The Tree King recognized him as the thief and transformed its Rubber Beasts into a powerful Rubber Man that blocked his path.

• Great Axe decided to follow Lin Yuan into battle, while the Consortium manager ordered his people to withdraw.
• Lin Yuan swam toward the Tree King and used Frost Sea Serpent Ram to freeze its attacking Rubber Beasts.
• Lin Yuan used Sharp Harpoon to reach the Tree King, then fought through its Rubber Beasts and Rubber Seeds with his Wooden Armor and Light Blade.
• The Captain's Quarters Key glowed inside the Tree King's trunk and pointed Lin Yuan toward a spot deeper within.
• The Tree King recognized the key and transformed its Rubber Beasts into a giant fruit, which became a featureless Rubber Man that stopped Lin Yuan's advance.

Lin Yuan learned to read the Rubber Man’s combat rhythm, but the creature kept him from reaching the Tree King’s Captain’s Quarters. After Lin Yuan helped Dafu kill the dungeon boss and opened the dungeon exit, he heard the hungry Shell Pump awaken.

• Lin Yuan studied the Rubber Man’s movements during their fight and gradually improved enough to counterattack.
• The Rubber Man drove Lin Yuan from the Tree King, whose trunk had rotted, then repeatedly kicked him away whenever he tried to approach it.
• Lin Yuan realized the Rubber Man was guarding the Tree King’s main trunk and that the clue to the Captain’s Quarters was inside.
• Dafu and his team fought a heavily armored strange fish, and Dafu asked Lin Yuan to leave it to him while he continued fighting.
• Lin Yuan pinned the strange fish with the Sea Serpent Ram and killed it with his Light Blade.
• The system announced that the dungeon exit was open for 24 hours, and Lin Yuan heard the Shell Pump think that it was hungry.

Lin Yuan fed the strange fish’s flesh and blood to the Shell Pump, causing it to evolve into a D-rank Transcendent Item with a mirage-mist ability. He used that power to evade the rubber man’s attack and struck it down, though the chapter left the nature of the hard object inside its head unexplained.

• Lin Yuan asked Dafu to leave him alone with the strange fish’s corpse, and Dafu led his teammates away from the lakeside.
• Dafu encountered the Consortium’s team, learned they had seen a doll girl with a coffin, and turned away after hearing that Zero had warned them to be careful around her.
• Lin Yuan stored the strange fish’s corpse and fed its flesh and blood to the Shell Pump, which evolved into a D-rank Transcendent Item that could generate mirage mist.
• Lin Yuan tested the Shell Pump’s power by rushing toward the Tree King across the water as the mist created an illusion of his position.
• The rubber man’s kick passed through Lin Yuan’s illusion, and Lin Yuan cut it in half before a second strike hit something hard in its head and left it motionless.

Lin Yuan defeated the Rubber Man, discovered the Shell Pump’s new Mirage Mist ability, and found a Catalyzed Rubber Core. He destroyed a blood Magic Array in the Tree King’s trunk and entered the captain’s quarters, while an unknown voice aboard a ruined ship noted that a scheme had failed but claimed it had still managed to get in.

• Lin Yuan tested Mirage Mist, learned how the Shell Pump’s feeding affected its evolution, and recovered a Catalyzed Rubber Core from the Rubber Man.
• Lin Yuan followed the Captain’s Quarters Key to a hollow in the Tree King’s trunk and found player corpses, wooden crosses, and a blood-drawn Magic Array.
• Lin Yuan suspected the Diving Club or the Crawlers had used the corpses for a scheme, then destroyed the array and laid down the crosses and bodies.
• A glowing door appeared where the array had been, and Lin Yuan used the key to enter the captain’s quarters.
• A voice aboard a dilapidated giant wooden ship said a scheme involving the rubber tree had failed but claimed it had still managed to get in.

Lin Yuan explored the captain’s cabin and discovered that its former owner, Mister Drake, had been a Sanctum Knight who left behind a trial and a Templar Badge. The badge could help Lin Yuan find a Sanctum Hall, but he suspected his lack of Sanity would prevent him from entering the blank painting’s trial.

• Aboard a ghost ship, two voices discussed the Sir’s room, and the ship turned toward Lin Yuan’s island.
• Lin Yuan entered the captain’s cabin and examined paintings showing Mister Drake’s life and his battles against Crawlers.
• Lin Yuan found Mister Drake’s letter, which explained the Sanctum, the Templar Badge, and the traitor Wayne Drake, now known as the Oathbreaker.
• Lin Yuan decided to obtain the badge before choosing whether to join the Sanctum, but found no visible way to begin the trial in the blank final painting.
• Lin Yuan suspected the painting’s trial targeted Sanity and realized that his lack of Sanity might leave him unable to take it.

Lin Yuan bypassed the Jazz’s trial by using the treasure collection room’s power to uncover hidden rewards, including materials for Explore the Sea, a powerful strike scroll, and the Legacy Badge. When the badge opened a portal to the Sanctum Hall and summoned him to face its trial, Lin Yuan stored it away to stop the portal.

• Lin Yuan removed the illusion canvas and found a hidden compartment behind it.
• He used the mysterious box to retrieve Supreme Black Pearls, Advanced Metal Extract, bones, and a note from the first pedestal.
• Lin Yuan obtained a Grade A Sanctum Strike Scroll from the second pedestal and learned that the Jazz’s lineage would make him an enemy of the Oathbreaker.
• He retrieved the Legacy Badge from the final pedestal, which summoned him to face the Sanctum Hall’s trial and slay the Oathbreaker.
• Lin Yuan sent the badge to his treasure collection room, stopping its unusual activity and the forming portal.

Lin Yuan discovered that the Templar Badge was a relic tied to the Sanctum and chose to investigate the organization before accepting its legacy. After leaving the Captain's Quarters, he learned that time had passed very differently inside and declined Dafu's offer to join the Black Blood Society, while the Consortium manager gave him a VIP card.

• Lin Yuan examined the Templar Badge in his Treasure Collection Room and learned that it could grant a Sanctum legacy and help its holder fight Crawlers.
• Lin Yuan left the unstable Captain's Quarters, returned to the lake, and realized that its entrance had been in the spot where the Tree King stood.
• Dafu and the Consortium manager told Lin Yuan that more than twenty hours had passed and warned him that time was a dangerous concern at sea.
• Dafu invited Lin Yuan to join the Black Blood Society, but Lin Yuan politely declined and agreed to save Dafu a friend slot when the system unlocked.
• The Consortium manager gave Lin Yuan a VIP card that offered better negotiating privileges and discounts.

After the instance ended, Lin Yuan learned that Bai Ling had spent her time deciphering the giant turtle’s messages and gained useful knowledge about Inspiration. He parted ways with Bai Ling and left with Lilia, while Bai Ling secretly divined that she would become Lin Yuan’s crew member and was relieved when he let her go.

• Lin Yuan considered what the manager had said about the Crawlers, the Sanctum, and the difficulty of finding information about the inheritance badge.
• Lin Yuan found Lilia waiting and discovered Bai Ling had stayed in the coffin for more than twenty hours, deciphering the giant turtle’s messages.
• Bai Ling told Lin Yuan the turtle had urged them to find the Captain’s Quarters and had shared knowledge about transcendent advancement, including valuable uses of Inspiration.
• Lin Yuan apologized for dragging Bai Ling through the instance, then said they could part ways; Bai Ling happily left after seeing him wave goodbye.
• Lin Yuan and Lilia headed out, while Bai Ling recalled her divination that she would become Lin Yuan’s crew member and concluded she had probably misread the result.

Lin Yuan took stock of the resources and equipment he had gained from the dungeon while sailing toward the next island. When the friend feature became available, he received requests from several familiar players and was surprised to see one from Wind-Ear.

• Lin Yuan and Lilia left the dungeon at the last moment and sailed toward the next island dungeon they could reach in time.
• Lin Yuan reviewed his supplies, noting that he had 400 units of rubber and only needed a Steam Core to build the Production Workshop.
• Lin Yuan checked his equipment, consumables, and relics, then planned to build the workshop, repair his cannon, and improve his combat power.
• The system unlocked the friend feature, and Research Institute 3154, the Manager, Dafu, Never Skunked, I Quit Farming, and White Lady sent Lin Yuan friend requests.
• Lin Yuan was surprised when Wind-Ear sent him a friend request.

Lin Yuan learned that Wind-Ear belonged to the Press Club, an organization that gathered and sold news, and worried about how much it could discover about him. After reading a report about a deadly instance and suspected Crawler involvement, he received a message from Research Institute 3154 proposing their trade.

• Lin Yuan accepted Wind-Ear's friend request and learned that the Press Club collected news, sold player information, and could bypass ordinary friend-limit restrictions.
• Wind-Ear said the Research Institute knew more about the Sanctum and the Crawlers, so Lin Yuan decided to ask 3154 instead of buying that information.
• Aboard his flying ship, Wind-Ear searched photographs to identify the ship belonging to Zero, while the photograph of Lilia on the coffin went unnoticed in a pile of creature pictures.
• Lin Yuan considered the Press Club's reach and worried that it might uncover his secrets, then read Wind-Ear's report that every player in an instance had died and that the Diving Club was suspected.
• Research Institute 3154 messaged Lin Yuan to arrange the trade for the Feather Pen and the Steam Core.

Lin Yuan traded a Steam Core to 3154 for an ornate Feather Pen, then offered him Jazz’s unusual bones and learned they came from powerful sea creatures. Their conversation revealed how Transcendent Cores affect creature strength and clarified the nature of the Crawlers and the Sanctum, leaving Lin Yuan better informed about the world’s factions and dangers.

• Lin Yuan traded a Steam Core to 3154 for an ornate Feather Pen, then showed him the bones Jazz had given him.
• 3154 identified the bones as valuable remains of Main Sea Overlords or Deep Sea Behemoths and explained why most creature parts were not transcendent materials.
• Lin Yuan told 3154 about the Rubber Man, and 3154 explained that its likely Transcendent Core would have been E-rank and that cores amplified creatures’ combat strength.
• 3154 warned Lin Yuan that Transcendent Cores were exceptionally valuable and advised treating the Explore the Sea blueprint as an ordinary cannon.
• 3154 explained that the Crawlers worship great beings, possess varied abilities, and should be eliminated when possible, though new players could not safely fight them.
• 3154 described the Sanctum as a loose collection of lineages united in opposition to the Crawlers, rather than a single organized force.

Lin Yuan questioned Research Institute 3154 about Sanctum legacies, relics, and becoming an Artisan, then completed the Production Workshop aboard the Lin Yuan. He began repairing a cannon and examined a level 3 Hull Upgrade Blueprint.

• 3154 explained Sanctum legacies, warned Lin Yuan about relics, and described how someone could become an Artisan.
• 3154 mistakenly concluded that Lin Yuan’s many “friends” were an exceptional group called Zero and decided to report on them.
• Lin Yuan decided to focus on finishing the Production Workshop before pursuing Jazz’s legacy.
• Lin Yuan used wood, steel, rubber, and a Steam Core to complete the Production Workshop aboard the Lin Yuan.
• Lin Yuan fed a damaged cannon into the workshop’s machine for repair and reviewed how its production proficiency affected item quality.
• Lin Yuan turned to the level 3 Hull Upgrade Blueprint he had received in the trade.

Lin Yuan upgraded the Lin Yuan to level 3, equipped a repaired cannon, and prepared to confront the dark shadow before it could become a greater threat. After luring it with the strange-smelling barrel, he faced it in the water and declared his intent to kill it.

• Lin Yuan used wood, steel, and cloth to upgrade the Lin Yuan to level 3, gaining more durability, an extra compartment, and an upgrade option for the Transcendent Core Compartment.
• Lin Yuan equipped the repaired cannon, raised his strength to 1,000, and produced ten cannonballs.
• After consulting 3154, Lin Yuan decided to hunt the dark shadow before it grew more dangerous or interfered with his plans involving the Crawlers.
• Lin Yuan prepared for the battle, while Lilia insisted on watching and Lin Yuan allowed her to come along.
• Lin Yuan entered the water and released the barrel, whose smell drew out the dark shadow and made its form clearer.
• Lin Yuan confronted the dark shadow and vowed to kill it.

Lin Yuan fought the Frost Sea Serpent and other dead sea behemoths after the shadow broke through the weakened barrier into Paradise. He faced a giant octopus controlling the corpse puppets and prepared to destroy them before confronting it directly.

• The bait barrel disintegrated, and a Frost Sea Serpent charged through the weakened barrier as Invisible Chains bound Lin Yuan.
• Lin Yuan blocked the serpent's charge, tore free of the chains, and wounded its head with the Holy Hall Light Blade before blasting it apart with his cannon.
• A giant shark and an electric eel attacked Lin Yuan, but his immunity to lightning let him evade them and destroy the shark with his cannon.
• Five more corpse puppets surrounded Lin Yuan as he spotted a huge, injured octopus below, watching him with its many eyes.
• Lin Yuan said he would destroy the puppets and then confront the octopus face-to-face.

Lin Yuan fought the Great King Puppet Octopus after identifying it as a mature Transcendent Creature capable of controlling powerful corpses. After defeating its five puppets, he pursued the weakened octopus and planned to use the Death Seed and Sanctum Strike Scroll to kill it.

• 3154 identified the giant, many-eyed octopus as a Great King Puppet Octopus and explained its ability to control corpses and move between sea layers.
• Lin Yuan attacked the octopus’s five puppets, using mirage mist to evade them until the creature opened more eyes and exposed his real position.
• Lin Yuan fought the puppets head-on with his light blade, cannons, and ram, destroying them while losing durability.
• Lin Yuan dived after the recovering octopus, deciding it would keep hunting him because of his prey mark and its killing intent.
• Lin Yuan considered the Death Seed and Sanctum Strike Scroll as he prepared to kill the weakened octopus.

Lin Yuan fought the Great King Puppet Octopus, discovering that its barrier resisted energy attacks while its flesh could be damaged by physical blows. After punching the giant creature and bursting one of its eyes, he trapped it with the Illusion Canvas and prepared to use the Sanctum Strike Scroll.

• Lin Yuan attempted to lock the Sanctum Strike Scroll onto the octopus, but its barrier and Invisible Chains disrupted the lock.
• Lin Yuan used the Illusion Canvas to shield himself from the octopus's eyes, then tested the barrier with the Holy Hall Light Blade and Sea Serpent Ram.
• Lin Yuan fired a cannonball through the barrier and damaged the octopus, but its flesh rapidly regenerated.
• Lin Yuan realized his fists could overwhelm the octopus's regeneration and repeatedly punched it until it tried to flee.
• Lin Yuan caught up with Shell Pump and burst one of the octopus's eyes, causing its main eyes to open and bind him with powerful Invisible Chains.
• Lin Yuan presented the Illusion Canvas, trapping the octopus in an illusion, and brought out the Sanctum Strike Scroll to lock onto it.

Lin Yuan used Jazz's Sanctum Strike Scroll to summon a giant of light that killed the Great King Puppet Octopus and left behind its Transcendent Core. As Lin Yuan reunited with Lilia and prepared to inspect his loot, a dilapidated ship approached through spreading black sludge.

• Lin Yuan activated Jazz's Sanctum Strike Scroll after the Illusion Canvas trapped the Great King Puppet Octopus.
• Jazz's giant of light burned away the octopus's black ink, shattered its gray barrier with a mace of light, and roasted it until only its Transcendent Core remained.
• Lin Yuan collected the Transcendent Core and returned to Lilia, who praised him before insulting the octopus's weakness.
• Lin Yuan noticed dense black sludge spreading across the sea and saw a huge, dilapidated ship approaching on the horizon.

Lin Yuan fled the Crawler’s ship, but the Coffin could not escape the black seawater pulling it closer. As Paradise repaired the barrier damaged by the Great King Puppet Octopus, an Ocean Current Explosion erupted and swept Lin Yuan and Lilia into the sky.

• Lin Yuan recognized the black oil around the battered ship as a sign of the Crawlers and ordered Lilia to flee with him in the Coffin.
• The black seawater flowed toward the Crawler’s ship, drawing it closer to Lin Yuan despite the Shell Pump’s speed.
• Research Institute 3154 realized Paradise was repairing its barrier and suspected the damage could trigger an Ocean Current Explosion, but assumed Zero and his team had escaped.
• The sea began shaking and forming whirlpools, and the Crawler wrapped its ship in black sludge as it prepared for the disaster.
• Lin Yuan and Lilia sheltered inside the Coffin as the sea boiled and water pillars erupted, tossing the Coffin into the distant sky until it disappeared.

After the waterspout scattered the Crawlers’ pursuit, Servant 9527 learned that Lin Yuan had killed the Crawler elder’s rare pet and was ordered to hunt him with power from Lord Oathbreaker. Carried away with Lilia in the Coffin, Lin Yuan inspected the Great King Puppet Octopus’s Transcendent Core and decided to save it for crafting Explore the Sea once he found better materials.

• The Crawler elder learned that Lin Yuan had killed his rare growth-type Transcendent Creature and sought power from Lord Oathbreaker to help Servant 9527 pursue him.
• Servant 9527 decided to keep Lord Oathbreaker’s power for himself and sailed the battered ship toward where Lin Yuan had vanished.
• The waterspout carried Lin Yuan, Lilia, and the Coffin away from the Crawlers’ ship.
• Lin Yuan inspected the Great King Puppet Octopus’s D-grade Transcendent Core and discovered it could absorb other cores, advance in grade, and retain its abilities in crafted items.
• Lin Yuan planned to use the core to craft Explore the Sea, but chose to wait for higher-quality materials unless danger forced him to make it immediately.

After the Coffin landed, Lin Yuan discovered he had been thrown off-route into the dangerous waters beyond Paradise’s routes. He realized the Shallow Sea Barrier was rising and that Paradise might be an underwater world reverting to its original depths, so he continued toward the Gate of Departure rather than wasting time returning to a route.

• Lin Yuan checked the Paradise Sea Chart and found himself far from either of the two nearest routes, then decided to sail forward while edging toward one.
• The exhausted Shell Pump ran out of food and stopped, so Lin Yuan dove into the sea to catch Magical Creatures.
• Lin Yuan found Magical Creatures near the surface and discovered that the Shallow Sea Barrier had risen to ten meters below the surface.
• Lin Yuan concluded that the Main Sea was rising as Paradise’s barrier shrank, and that the waters beyond the routes were part of the Main Sea.
• Lin Yuan inferred that Paradise was an underwater world returning to its original state and resolved to keep sailing toward the Gate of Departure before the remaining three weeks ran out.

Lin Yuan hunted Magical Creatures and sailed north until the surrounding waters became part of the Main Sea. When several Main Sea Transcendent Creatures attacked, he killed the first one so quickly that the others fled, leaving him lamenting the loss of its materials.

• Lin Yuan froze and stored dozens of tonnes of Magical Creature flesh, upgraded his warehouse, and bought timber for Emergency Repair, leaving him with around 15,000 Shell Coins.
• Lin Yuan continued sailing north in the Coffin and thought about needing a ship, recruiting crew members, and the tasks he still needed to complete.
• Lin Yuan sensed the seawater had thickened and found that ordinary fish and Magical Creatures had vanished as the area became part of the Main Sea.
• Main Sea Transcendent Creatures approached Lin Yuan, and a wormlike creature attacked by spraying transparent slime at him.
• Lin Yuan cut the worm in half with the Holy Hall Light Blade and destroyed it with a cannon blast, ruining its materials; the other creatures fled underwater.

After the Main Sea creatures fled from Lin Yuan, he devised a way to use Lilia as bait to lure them back. He left the chapter fishing successfully for more materials, with Lilia reluctantly agreeing to keep helping.

• Lin Yuan killed a Sticky Worm and discovered its mucus was an E-rank transcendent material that could be used to make active wood.
• The nearby Main Sea creatures fled after learning how easily Lin Yuan had killed the Sticky Worm, leaving him frustrated that he could not gather more materials.
• Lilia explained that the weak creatures were avoiding Lin Yuan because they recognized the danger, inspiring him to use her as bait.
• Lin Yuan suspended Lilia over the sea with a makeshift fishing rod, and a Bird-Headed Fish Monster attacked her.
• Lin Yuan killed the monster and rescued Lilia, then used the baiting method to kill over a dozen creatures and collect materials.
• Lilia complained about the monsters but agreed to continue helping Lin Yuan fish.