Recaps

Lin Yuan and Lilia entered the Artisan Academy, where they uncovered a Crawler-backed Diving Club and destroyed one of Retainer 9527’s ritual projections. As Lin Yuan investigated the academy’s mysterious ark, Lilia became entangled in a fight between rival player groups and found a corpse, equipment, and a Blueprint beneath the deck.

• Lin Yuan found Lilia in the hidden realm, learned she had grown stronger by consuming relics and Dragon’s Blood, and copied the Legacy records before a failed teleport sent them to the Artisan Academy.
• Lilia challenged and defeated Stubble Captain’s crew, while Lin Yuan met Research Institute 3154 and learned the Instance’s assessment objective and deadline.
• Lin Yuan followed Stubble Captain’s gang to the Diving Club, where he and Lilia uncovered the divers’ Crawler allegiance and faced Retainer 9527’s double.
• Lin Yuan destroyed the double using the glum-faced diver’s bones, learned the Diving Club recruited human spies and saboteurs, and decided to investigate its ritual sites alone.
• Lilia joined Yang Pangzi’s group in the Factory Area, found a concealed ritual, and destroyed it at Lin Yuan’s direction, revealing a projection that Lin Yuan also destroyed.
• Lin Yuan and Lilia investigated an unfinished ark that appeared at dusk, while Yang Pangzi’s group admitted they had hoped Lilia would provoke it for their benefit.
• Lilia intervened as Yang Pangzi’s and Zhang Shan’s groups fought aboard the ark, cutting down a summoned phantom before finding a corpse, equipment, and a Blueprint beneath the deck.

Lin Yuan recruited Little Black, whose Artisan abilities helped him pursue the Ark’s hull plans and navigate the Library. After defeating the Librarian and claiming the Curator’s treasure, Lin Yuan obtained the level four Bedrock hull Blueprint.

• Lilia subdued the shadow on the Ark, and Lin Yuan recruited it as Little Black through a Metal Contract.
• Little Black’s memories revealed that it had been born from the Artisans’ and ships’ combined will, and Lin Yuan gave it the Land-Walking Modification Technical Manual.
• Little Black learned to open Blueprint boxes, so Lin Yuan sent Lilia to search the Library for gold boxes and keys.
• Lilia trapped Scarface’s team, then joined the Rats and reached the Library’s top floor, where she fought Shi Lei’s Hunters and survived their traps and attacks.
• Shi Lei awakened the Library Curator and tried to lure it toward Lilia, but the Curator attacked Shi Lei and pursued the Hunters through the Library.
• Lin Yuan fought the Librarian, and the Death Seed shattered its Life Hourglass and absorbed its life-and-death sand.
• Lilia collected the Librarian’s keys and entered the Curator’s Office with Scarface’s help, where she opened a huge chest containing the New World Hull Blueprint Collection.
• Lin Yuan used the collection to obtain the level four Bedrock hull Blueprint and noted that the Lin Yuan already had the special compartments Bedrock lacked.

Lilia explored the shifting Artisan Academy maze, defeated its puppets, and survived battles with Rose and Poisonous Snake while Lin Yuan completed his land-travel modifications. After Lin Yuan killed Poisonous Snake and joined the two halves of the Dean's Token, they followed a scream to a hidden clearing and found an enormous furnace-like machine.

• Lin Yuan sent Lilia into the academy’s shifting mausoleum, where she defeated Professor Fangta’s puppet and discovered that cleared rooms reset with their loot restored.
• Lilia found the mechanism core and installed an Energy Gear, powering the labyrinth and strengthening its puppets as teams of players searched for the Core Area.
• Lilia defeated the Gold Pika Puppet despite its repeated attempts to kill and restrain her, triggering an explosion that scattered its stored special items.
• Rose tried to take the loot, but Lilia resisted her Charm and defeated her, then held off Poisonous Snake’s team until the maze’s movement separated them.
• Lilia accidentally activated Unlimited Overclocking, causing the labyrinth to shake, rotate, and throw its occupants and their belongings through the rooms.
• Rose returned an item she had protected, while Lilia stayed behind and Lin Yuan woke to find that Little Black had completed his land-travel modifications.
• Lin Yuan and Lilia followed the Dean’s Token to Poisonous Snake, and Lin Yuan cut through the maze walls before killing him and taking the other half of the token.
• Lin Yuan joined the token’s halves and learned that it controlled the academy’s machinery, then followed a scream with Lilia to a hidden clearing containing a huge spherical furnace-like machine.

Lin Yuan claimed the Artisan Academy Legacy, then joined forces with Bai Ling and the other players to expose Retainer 9527’s hidden island. After the Sea Route Compass countered the Crawler’s spatial distortion, Lin Yuan led the group across a bridge to confront him.

• Lin Yuan defeated Moge, crafted Explore the Sea, and received the Academy Legacy before Moge faded away.
• Lin Yuan defeated the Dean Puppet, used the Academy Controller to pass every player, and ended the Instance early.
• Lin Yuan and his companions discovered a lighthouse surrounded by spatial distortions and learned it connected the four final Instances.
• Bai Ling led Lin Yuan and Lilia through a hidden passage, where they subdued the light monster and used its beam to expose the Observation Deck.
• Bai Ling located Retainer 9527’s hidden island, but he distorted space to prevent the players from reaching it.
• Lin Yuan learned that Retainer 9527 had secretly let the major organizations escape and received Wind-Ear’s box from Lilia.
• Lin Yuan gave the Sea Route Compass to Bai Ling, whose guidance revealed the escaped players’ ships and helped counter the spatial distortion.
• Lin Yuan ordered the puppets to build a straight bridge to Retainer 9527’s island and led the players across to confront him.