Recaps

Lilia chased a mischievous shadow across the Ark’s deck while Lin Yuan recognized its weapon-assembly ability and hoped to recruit it as an Artisan using his Metal Contract. Below deck, Zhang Shan’s group secretly secured the Old Captain’s soul as Yang Pangzi and the traitors withdrew.

• Lilia gathered the items into the Coffin and charged back upstairs, while Yang Pangzi used a hidden group recovery method and led his team away.
• The traitors moved toward Zhang Shan’s companions, then fled when Zhang Shan sat up; Zhang Shan revealed that he had obtained the Old Captain’s soul.
• On the Ark’s deck, Lilia chased a child-shaped shadow that dodged her and assembled parts into one-use weapons, repeatedly blasting her off the deck.
• Lin Yuan identified the shadow’s ability as Temporary Weapon Assembly and wondered whether it was an Artisan or a supernatural entity with Artisan abilities.
• Lin Yuan asked Lilia not to kill the shadow because he wanted to question it and considered recruiting it with the Metal Contract.

Lin Yuan reviewed his gains from the factory district and considered the Artisan authority and a level 4 hull Blueprint while Lilia fought the shadow. The shadow transformed the ark into a towering mechanical giant, leaving Lilia to call for Lin Yuan’s help.

• Lin Yuan reflected that clearing the Divers’ ritual site might not have disrupted the Crawlers’ plans, then stored five Steam Cores and examined a level 4 Gale-type hull Blueprint.
• Lin Yuan considered the Artisan, prophet, and war authorities and wondered whether their organizations had been destroyed by the Crawlers.
• Lilia exhausted the shadow’s supplies and cornered it on the ark’s deck.
• The shadow plunged into the deck and transformed the ark’s components into a hundred-meter mechanical giant.
• Lilia was stunned by the shadow’s ultimate move and called for Lin Yuan to help.

Lin Yuan stopped Ark Kong’s attack on Lilia and fought the mechanical giant, then discovered it had mistaken him for someone worthy of worship. Ark Kong disassembled itself, and its shadow asked to join Lin Yuan’s crew.

• Lin Yuan blocked Ark Kong’s fist from striking Lilia and traded blows with the giant, judging their strength to be roughly equal.
• Ark Kong stopped fighting, lowered its head, and repeatedly struck the ground in a gesture Lin Yuan recognized as kowtowing.
• Lin Yuan asked Ark Kong to reveal its true body so they could talk, and it immediately fell apart into components.
• The child-sized shadow emerged and asked to join Lin Yuan’s crew, with Lilia interpreting its gestures.
• Lin Yuan asked why the shadow admired him and wondered whether he had an unconscious commanding aura.

Lin Yuan recruited the shadow as the Lin Yuan’s second crewmate after it recognized that he was a ship, and named it Little Black. The Metal Contract then showed him memories of the Artisan Academy’s former ship-modification factory and the unseen figure that had watched it.

• The shadow told Lilia that it was a shipwright and wanted to follow Lin Yuan and make him into the finest ship.
• Lin Yuan worried that the shadow had discovered his secret, but offered it a Metal Contract, which it accepted after carefully reading the terms.
• Lin Yuan learned that the shadow had no name, and Lilia named it Little Black; he also wondered whether she might someday act as captain.
• Lin Yuan received a stream of information through the Metal Contract and saw memories of the Artisan Academy operating in the past.
• The memories showed the academy’s busy ship-modification factory and an illusory figure silently observing it.

Lin Yuan witnessed the history that gave birth to Little Black and learned that he was a Ship Spirit formed from the Artisans' and ships' shared will. He concluded Little Black meant no harm and had the potential to become a powerful Artisan, though his current abilities were weak.

• Lin Yuan watched the Artisan Academy fall to ruin, then saw its survivors rebuild it as a monument and begin constructing the Ark.
• The survivors' first three Arks sank shortly after launch, and their leader died before completing the fourth Ark's Blueprint.
• After the survivors died, the golems endlessly repeated their orders while Little Black grew solid enough to touch the world.
• Lin Yuan realized Little Black's memories showed his gestation and that he had been born from the Artisans' and ships' combined will.
• Lin Yuan decided Little Black would not betray him and recognized his potential to become the strongest Artisan.

Lin Yuan returned from the Factory with Little Black, valuable loot, and troubling questions about the strange information he had experienced. On Commercial Street, a man from the Press Club arrived with something for Zero on behalf of Research Institute 3154.

• Lin Yuan gave Little Black the Land-Walking Modification Technical Manual, which Little Black ate and then digested while sleeping in its own cabin aboard the Lin Yuan.
• Lilia failed to enter Lin Yuan’s shadow and complained when he climbed into her Coffin, while Lin Yuan wondered whether the strange information stream had revealed his own ability or something more mysterious.
• Lin Yuan decided to return to Commercial Street with Lilia, hoping to meet 3154 or members of other major organizations.
• A young man named Wind-Ear from the Press Club told Lilia that Research Institute 3154 had sent something for Zero and asked to see him.
• Wind-Ear then asked whether he could touch Lilia.

Lin Yuan received a sealed metal case from Wind-Ear and learned that the Research Institute and other organizations were secretly acting against the Crawlers. After returning to Commercial Street and finding the organizations gone, he remained uncertain about their plans and Wind-Ear’s cryptic observations about Lilia and Zero.

• Lilia confronted Wind-Ear, and Lin Yuan emerged from the Coffin to receive a metal case from 3154 through him.
• Wind-Ear refused to explain where the Research Institute and other organizations had gone, but hinted they were handling rituals connected to the Crawlers.
• Lin Yuan suspected the organizations were secretly helping humans despite claiming neutrality, and wondered why Old Three had openly joined their efforts.
• After Lin Yuan and Lilia left, Wind-Ear revealed that he had stayed behind to observe them and questioned whether Lilia matched what he expected about Zero’s ship.
• Lilia brought Lin Yuan back to Commercial Street, where he found no members of the organizations and had no Copper Cards available to try the gacha.

Lin Yuan decided to seek a balanced level 4 hull upgrade using the Ark’s unfinished design plans, which he hoped Little Black could turn into a blueprint. He sent Lilia to the Library, where she found players rapidly flipping through books and could read their words but not understand them.

• Lin Yuan reviewed his plans to strengthen himself, including Little Black’s land-travel modifications and a level 4 hull upgrade.
• Lin Yuan rejected the Gale hull path and recalled that he had liked the Ark’s sturdy, balanced design, but its plans were unfinished.
• Lin Yuan realized Little Black could use its Artisan ability to develop a level 4 hull plan from the Ark’s design, and decided to retrieve the plans from the Library.
• Lilia arrived at the Library with the Coffin and found teams of players quickly flipping through the metal books.
• At Lin Yuan’s prompting, Lilia examined a book and found that she recognized the words but could not understand their meaning.

Lilia found a metal box hidden inside an old manuscript in the Library and learned that it contained a fragile Blueprint protected by a self-destruct mechanism. After she tore the box open and destroyed the Blueprint, the nearby players fled after realizing how strong she was, leaving Lilia without answers about the keys.

• Lilia discovered a thick metal box concealed in a manuscript and found no key for it.
• A player explained that the box held a Blueprint and would destroy it if opened without its key.
• Lilia tore the box apart, causing the Blueprint inside to burn to ashes.
• The player and his teammates retreated after seeing Lilia's strength, before she could ask where to find keys.
• Lin Yuan stopped Lilia from chasing them, and they remained in the Library without a way to open the other boxes.

Lin Yuan and Lilia struggled to search the Library for valuable Blueprint boxes and keys, where players split between searching and hunting. As Lin Yuan considered giving up, Little Black woke after digesting the Land-Walking Modification Technical Manual.

• Lilia searched a small room of books and found several higher-grade Blueprint boxes but no keys.
• After hearing a fight, Lilia found a destroyed Administrator Golem with an empty key ring.
• Lin Yuan ordered Lilia to patrol for Administrator Golems and observed that searching players were often robbed by stronger wandering players.
• Lilia encountered attacks from wandering players but could not catch them through the maze of bookshelves, and she found no golems.
• Lin Yuan realized the Library suited neither him nor Lilia, while Little Black woke after finishing the manual.

Lin Yuan ordered Little Black to begin modifying the Lin Yuan for land travel, and Little Black inspected the ship while revealing new ways to improve its Production Workshop. After discovering the Treasure Collection Room was invisible to it, Little Black opened a locked Blueprint box by turning its shadow hand into a key.

• Lin Yuan told Little Black to begin the Land Travel Modification after it said it had mastered the required techniques and had enough materials.
• Little Black inspected the Lin Yuan and modified the Production Workshop so it could make custom components and items, then offered to upgrade the ship's equipment.
• Little Black reacted excitedly to the Transcendent Core Chamber but said it was beyond an Artisan's ability to modify.
• Little Black could not see the entrance to the Treasure Collection Room, so Lin Yuan stopped trying to lead it inside.
• Little Black turned its shadow hand into a key and opened a bronze Blueprint box, revealing a Blueprint for a Luxury Crew Cabin.

Lin Yuan switched to searching for high-quality Blueprint Boxes after learning Little Black could open the Library’s locks, and Lilia quickly found two gold boxes. When Wandering Faction players cornered a group of searchers, Lilia blocked the only doorway with the Coffin, trapping everyone inside.

• Little Black explained that it could open the Library’s boxes using its inherited knowledge, but its Artisan Power was limited and needed 24 hours to replenish.
• Lin Yuan ordered Lilia to join the Searching Faction and focus on finding gold Blueprint Boxes, hoping to recover the Ark designs.
• Lilia joined the searchers who had advised her earlier and found two gold Blueprint Boxes in quick succession.
• Wandering Faction players led by a scar-faced man entered the room and demanded that the searchers hand over their finds.
• Lilia dashed to the doorway but used the Coffin to block the passage, trapping the Wandering Faction and the searchers inside.

Lin Yuan had Lilia defeat Scarface Man’s Wandering Faction team and take their keys, then devised a plan to use the keys to strengthen Little Black while searching for the Ark’s design plans. Lilia joined forces with the Searching Faction players, the Rats, and they headed for the Library’s top floor, where the best Blueprint boxes and most Hunters were gathered.

• Lin Yuan had Lilia block the doorway and confront Scarface Man’s Wandering Faction team, and Lilia knocked two attackers into the bookshelves.
• Scarface Man surrendered and handed over his team’s keys, and Lilia let them leave.
• Lin Yuan decided to have Lilia disguise herself among the Searching Faction players and use the keys to nurture Little Black.
• Lilia asked the Searching Faction players to cooperate, and they agreed to form a team with her.
• The Rats led Lilia toward the Library’s top floor, where the highest-quality Blueprint boxes and the most Hunters were located.

Lin Yuan learned from Jerry how the Library’s Hunters and Rats operated, and why the Hunters’ upcoming Party might be dangerous. After reaching the top floor with Lilia and the Rats, the group began searching a room but was interrupted by Scarface.

• Jerry explained that Rats relied on recognizing search marks on lower floors, while stealth and escape skills mattered on the upper floors.
• Jerry told Lilia and Lin Yuan that Hunters called the golems’ periodic cleanup of the top floor a Party, during which Hunters killed golems for keys.
• Jerry warned that Hunters had finished preparing for the next Party and that several large teams planned to kill every Administrator Golem that appeared.
• Jerry worried that stopping the Library’s repair process could cause a serious incident, though the group continued onward.
• Lilia, Lin Yuan, and Jerry’s team reached the top floor and began searching an empty room.
• Scarface entered the room, and Lilia recognized him.

Lilia led the Rats players toward the Hunters’ largest room after Scarface pointed it out, where they were surrounded by Shi Lei’s team. Shi Lei attacked Lilia, but she regenerated her injured arm, and Lin Yuan told her to kill the Hunters.

• Lilia and Scarface ran into each other, and Scarface pointed her toward the room where the strongest Hunters were gathered.
• Lilia took the Rats players to the room, while Scarface decided not to follow them and risk becoming caught in a fight.
• Shi Lei recognized Lilia and taunted her, boasting that his thirty-person team was stronger than Hook’s group.
• Shi Lei struck Lilia with his saber, but her arm quickly regenerated after she pulled the blade free.
• Lin Yuan told Lilia through a mental transmission that she could fight, and Shi Lei ordered his team to attack her.

Lilia fought off Shi Lei’s Hunters until they exhausted their mines, equipment, and the Life Hourglass that sustained them. Shi Lei retreated, leaving his team too depleted to attend the Party, while Lin Yuan watched from the Coffin.

• Shi Lei ordered his Hunters to swarm Lilia, but she struck them back despite the room’s traps and illusions.
• Shi Lei relied on a Life Hourglass to restore his Hunters and ordered them to intensify their attacks when its sand began to run low.
• Shi Lei changed tactics and sent Hunters to draw Lilia across hidden mines, but she continued fighting as the team’s supplies dwindled.
• The Hunters ran out of mines and equipment, and the Life Hourglass emptied while Lilia kept recovering from their attacks.
• Shi Lei ordered his team to retreat, and Lilia called after them that they would miss the Party.

After defeating Shi Lei’s team, Lin Yuan began a twelve-hour Land Travel Modification while Lilia handled the Library’s Party. As the golems kept spawning, Shi Lei and his companions used Invisibility Potions to approach a corner where Scarface feared a dormant presence might awaken.

• Angered that Doll Girl did not pursue him, Shi Lei led his team away to use a secret they had discovered and disrupt the Party.
• Lin Yuan told Lilia to search for Blueprint Boxes and manage the Party while he underwent the Land Travel Modification with Little Black.
• The Party began, and Lilia easily fought off the Administrator Golems as they appeared more frequently.
• Scarface and the other Hunters teams suppressed their own golems, believing the feared presence on the top floor would not wake during this Party.
• Shi Lei and his companions approached the corner unnoticed while invisible.

Shi Lei opened a secret passage to the Curator’s Office and used the Life Hourglass to kill a teammate who tried to flee. The Library Curator burst onto the top floor, and every player received a warning that it had joined the hunt.

• Shi Lei led his team to a hidden door, intending to awaken the terrifying creature and direct it toward the woman who had ruined him.
• A teammate tried to escape, but Shi Lei flipped the Life Hourglass and killed him for betraying the team.
• Shi Lei forced his remaining teammates through the passage and entered the Curator’s Office, where a towering golem rested at a desk.
• Lilia slaughtered Administrator Golems and collected keys while Lin Yuan considered trading with Rats players for Blueprint Boxes.
• Jerry realized Lilia knew about the powerful creature and was not afraid of it, then hurried to search for Blueprint Boxes.
• The Library Curator charged through the secret door, sending Hunters flying, and a system notification announced that it had joined the hunt.

Lin Yuan sent Lilia to find the Library's Librarian while Little Black was halfway through modifying him, leaving him unable to fight for long. Scarface's team fled the Librarian on the sealed top floor, and the chase continued as Lilia followed the destruction in circles without catching up.

• Lin Yuan told Lilia to leave the golems and search for the Librarian, while Jerry and the other Rats players retreated and could not identify the boss's location.
• Scarface's team abandoned its traps and barriers and fled the Librarian, which had been led to them by surviving Hunters from Shi Lei's Team.
• Jerry and the Rats players found the stairway sealed, and Scarface knocked them down and ran past them to draw the Librarian away.
• The Librarian ignored Jerry and pursued Scarface, while other Hunter teams followed the chase from a distance.
• Lilia lost her way and then followed the destruction left by the Librarian, while she, Scarface, and the Librarian unknowingly circled the same route.

Scarface and his team escaped as the Librarian’s unpredictable attacks threw the Hunters into chaos. Hidden nearby, Shi Lei exploited the confusion to make Lilia kill more Administrator Golems, planning to draw the Librarian to her and take the resulting loot.

• Scarface ordered his team to drop their valuables so they could outrun the Librarian.
• The Librarian abandoned the box of loot and attacked Hunters who tried to take it, then switched targets repeatedly and scattered the crowd.
• Scarface led his team away while trying to understand the Librarian’s target pattern.
• Shi Lei hid under a Shadow Cloak and revealed that he had awakened the Librarian and learned how the Hunt List worked.
• Shi Lei secretly kicked Administrator Golems toward Lilia, hoping she would kill enough to attract the Librarian.
• Shi Lei planned to lure the Librarian to Lilia, then collect the loot after she was killed.

Shi Lei lured the Librarian toward Lilia, but the boss killed him with the stolen Life Hourglass. Lin Yuan stepped in to protect Lilia and began fighting the Librarian, giving himself one minute to finish the battle.

• Shi Lei approached the Librarian while it chased the Hunters, but its attack sent him flying toward Lilia and Lin Yuan.
• Shi Lei tried to hide in Lilia's shadow, but Little Black kicked him out, and the Librarian used the Life Hourglass to drain his life.
• The Librarian retrieved and reset the Life Hourglass, while Lin Yuan recognized Shi Lei and realized the artifact was unusual.
• The Librarian attacked Lilia, but Lin Yuan blocked its punch and told her to move back.
• Lin Yuan stood up from the Coffin and faced the Librarian, setting himself a one-minute limit to end the fight.

Lin Yuan fought the Librarian, repeatedly defeating it as the Life Hourglass restored its body, then used Reverse Scale to cut it in half. The hourglass continued flipping between white and black sand, restoring the Librarian and strengthening it again as the battle continued.

• Lin Yuan used the Sea Serpent Ram to freeze the Librarian briefly, then severed its forearm with the Holy Hall Light Blade.
• The Life Hourglass restored the Librarian, and Lin Yuan repeatedly beat it down while applying combat techniques he had learned from the Sanctum's Legacy.
• As the hourglass emptied, it flipped and released black sand, making the Librarian faster and stronger; its blows drained tens of thousands of Lin Yuan's health.
• Lin Yuan activated Reverse Scale and regained the advantage, then cleaved the Librarian in two with the Holy Hall Light Blade.
• The hourglass flipped again and restored the Librarian only partially before black sand began falling anew, causing its aura to surge once more.

Lin Yuan used the Death Seed to counter the Librarian’s Life Hourglass, discovering how its life and death sand worked before the relic absorbed it and gained a new ability. The Librarian was defeated, and Lin Yuan returned the evolved Death Seed to the Treasure Collection Room.

• Lin Yuan recognized that the Librarian’s life-draining attacks and Life Hourglass were connected to the same domain as the Death Seed.
• Lin Yuan brought out the Death Seed, which began absorbing his life energy and then locked its attention on the Life Hourglass.
• The Life Hourglass shattered, and the Death Seed absorbed its life and death sand while Lin Yuan learned how the relic healed its master and drained enemies.
• The Librarian lost the hourglass’s support, collapsed, and broke apart.
• Lin Yuan returned the Death Seed to the Treasure Collection Room and saw that its undead army had gained the passive skill Life and Death Unpredictable.

Lin Yuan studied the evolved Death Seed, learned that its ultimate ability's cooldown depended on the moons, and returned to the Coffin while Lilia searched for loot. Lilia found unusual keys and encountered Scarface's group, who learned that she had killed the Library Curator.

• Lin Yuan noticed that the evolved Death Seed had moved from the eighth ring to the seventh ring of crystal pedestals and wondered whether it would eventually recognize him as its master.
• Lin Yuan realized that Nether River Summoning's cooldown depended on the moons' cycles, which could vary across sea time zones, and considered how the moons might relate to the Nether River.
• Lin Yuan returned to the Coffin, had Little Black repair and modify the Lin Yuan, and sent Lilia to collect the Librarian's scattered remains.
• Lilia found a ring of gold Blueprint Box keys, a gemstone key, and a large black key, but could not find the enormous treasure chest it might open.
• Scarface and his group ran into Lilia while fleeing the Library Curator, and Lilia told them that she had killed him.

Lilia reached the Curator’s Office and opened the Librarian’s huge treasure chest, revealing the “New World” Hull Blueprint Collection. Lin Yuan obtained the level four Bedrock hull Blueprint and recognized that its lack of special compartments would not matter because his own ship already had them.

• Scarface realized Lilia had likely defeated the Librarian and offered to guide her to the secret passage.
• Scarface pushed the Hunters away from the entrance and told them the treasure chest inside belonged to Lilia.
• Lilia entered the Curator’s Office and opened the huge chest, releasing the “New World” Hull Blueprint Collection.
• Lin Yuan used the collection to obtain the level four Bedrock hull Blueprint.
• Lin Yuan learned that Bedrock had high base qualities but lacked special compartments, then noted that his ship already had them.