Recaps

Lin Yuan led the players through the Crawler’s Instance, destroyed the Time-Void Prism, and survived the Oathbreaker’s attack and Paradise’s collapse with Lilia. Stranded on an island, he explored a fragment’s phantom ship and prepared to sail again as Lilia spotted people swimming nearby.

• Lin Yuan led the players across the bridge, then joined Rose, Rock Bear, Crazy Tiger, and Howling Wolf in the Instance, where he hunted Phantom Sea Beasts and strengthened himself by refining their Transcendent Cores.
• Lin Yuan repeatedly shattered the Crawler’s projections, and Bai Ling revealed that the supposed time powers were an illusion created by a spatial trap inside the Time-Void Prism.
• Lin Yuan used the upgraded Explore the Sea and his C-rank transcendent energy to destroy the Prism’s core, ending the Instance, but the Oathbreaker emerged and attacked the players.
• Lin Yuan and Lilia collected the Prism fragments, but the Oathbreaker trapped them in a Time Barrier, after Bai Ling’s soulfire reached the three moons, Lin Yuan used the Mysterious Little Box to break free.
• Lin Yuan and Lilia tried to reach the closing Gate of Departure, but Paradise collapsed around them and a mysterious voice cast their Coffin out of the strange seawater.
• Lilia brought the unresponsive Lin Yuan to an island, while Rose and Rock Bear formed the Avengers Fleet and Research Institute 3154 heard that Lin Yuan might still survive.
• Lin Yuan woke, inspected a Time-Void Prism Fragment, and discovered it could create a phantom version of him and his ship, and he broke its Time-Still Barrier with the Little Box.
• Lin Yuan and Lilia tested a new, self-repairing coffin, and Lilia spotted people swimming in the sea without a ship.

Lin Yuan rescued Shattered Island from sea beasts, built up its production and defenses, and killed a Crawler Elder in the southeastern waters. The island prospered as the residents prepared for further attacks, and Wuwei arrived to learn that Lin Yuan had already slain the Elder.

• Lin Yuan rescued fishermen from the sea, learned that Shattered Island lay inside a Time Maze, and discovered that a Sea Beast Tide threatened the island after a seaquake breached the barrier.
• Lin Yuan killed the invading sea beasts and a D-rank creature, then met Wuwei, who explained that Shattered Island belonged to the sealed-off East Pole Sea and that its sleeping island lord might help Lin Yuan leave.
• Lin Yuan organized the villagers to produce ship materials, repaired the Phantom Lin Yuan, and restored the Shell Pump with Gem-Cured Meat.
• Lin Yuan found a Crawler Elder on an underwater altar and defeated him despite his traps, while Lilia survived being crushed through her ability to revive.
• Lin Yuan's Templar Badge advanced to Silver-rank, and he discovered that the Elder's death had disrupted the sea's layers and triggered attacks across nearby islands.
• Lin Yuan gathered the island residents on Shattered Island, organized factories and defenses, and used Skeleton Sailors to help collect resources as the settlement rapidly developed.
• The Death Seed summoned the Nether River, where Lilia recovered Bai Ling, and Lin Yuan promised to help restore their companion's memories.
• Wuwei arrived with his merchant group after chaotic currents delayed them, and Lin Yuan admitted he had caused the disruption before confirming that he had killed the Crawler Elder.

Lin Yuan traveled to East Pole Island to build his strength and prepare to awaken its Island Lord, surviving a Deep Sea battle and obtaining a way to summon Bai Ling. After uncovering the Crawlers’ corruption and raiding a Treasure Pavilion, he followed a pirate’s signal toward a nearby hideout.

• Lin Yuan upgraded the Phantom Lin Yuan for deep diving, then sailed with Chi Yu toward East Pole Island and defeated a Sound-Dancing Conch before using the Nether River to rout the behemoths drawn to it.
• Lin Yuan and Chi Yu reached East Pole Island and entered its inner city, where Lin Yuan struck down a guard and a Liu Family heir before meeting Steward Liu.
• Steward Liu explained that the Four Great Families held the Island Lord’s scattered Transcendent Cores, so Lin Yuan chose to target the pirates they secretly backed for lower-rank cores.
• Lin Yuan strengthened the Death Seed, summoned Bai Ling from the Nether River, and learned from Steward Liu that the Island Lord’s soul was entangled with a Crawler Apostle deep in Crawler territory.
• Lin Yuan sent Lilia into the Treasure Pavilion to trade Miniature Turrets for Transcendent Cores, then followed the manager into the warehouse and killed him after learning he served the Crawlers.
• Lin Yuan and Lilia took the pavilion’s cores, and Lin Yuan refined them before capturing One-Eye, a pirate who had come to the robbed warehouse.
• Bai Ling traced One-Eye’s implanted connection to a pirate hideout, and Lin Yuan submerged the Phantom Lin Yuan to pursue it before killing One-Eye to prevent him from tracking the ship.

Lin Yuan disrupted the Crawlers’ plan in the Giant Beast Tomb, learned how to awaken the East Pole Island Lord, and joined Chi Yu and Wuwei in hunting a King of the Deep Sea. After destroying the Four Great Families and reclaiming East Pole Island, he began reorganizing the island and prepared to seek residents and supplies at Shattered Island.

• Lin Yuan killed Golden Hook, searched his lair, and found letters revealing that the Tidal General had gone with the Crawlers to the site where the Three Emperors met disaster.
• Lin Yuan followed the Tidal General’s chart to the Behemoth Graveyard, where he fought the Pirate Generals and Red Anglerfish, shattered the Crawlers’ formation crystal, and encountered the White Emperor.
• The East Pole Island Lord explained how Lin Yuan could help awaken him, and Lin Yuan returned to East Pole Island with Lilia and gave Steward Liu the three conditions.
• Chi Yu and Wuwei helped Lin Yuan hunt a King of the Deep Sea, and Lin Yuan summoned the Nether River to cleave the giant eel in two.
• Lin Yuan and Chi Yu returned to East Pole Island, where they found the Four Great Families preparing a Blood Refining Formation to drain the island’s residents.
• Lin Yuan killed the heads of all four families, seized their treasuries and twelve A-rank Transcendent Cores, and let Chi Yu lead the effort to reclaim the island.
• Steward Liu explained the strength of S-rank experts, while Lin Yuan ordered Chi Yu to handle resistance and proposed reorganizing East Pole Island’s districts.
• Lin Yuan told Chi Yu he would travel to Shattered Island for residents and supplies, and gave her Miniature Turrets to warn of threats from the sea.