Chapter Summaries

As Paradise collapsed, Lin Yuan and Lilia took shelter in the Coffin, but an indescribable torrent of information overwhelmed the sky and began breaking it apart. After a mysterious being kicked the Coffin out of the torrent, its lid shattered underwater, and Lilia struggled to carry the incapacitated Lin Yuan toward the surface.

• Lin Yuan watched Paradise’s sky shatter and was pulled into the Coffin by Lilia before the torrent behind it could consume him.
• Lilia trembled in fear of the descending “seawater,” while Lin Yuan tried to reassure her as the Coffin came under pressure.
• A mysterious voice confronted someone outside the Coffin and kicked it out of the indescribable seawater.
• The Coffin’s cracked lid shattered, and Lin Yuan grabbed Lilia and swam upward as his durability rapidly drained.
• A drop of the strange seawater from a Coffin fragment put Lin Yuan into a dazed state, and Lilia dragged him toward the surface.

After Lilia brought the unresponsive Lin Yuan to a small island, she fell asleep beside him. Meanwhile, the players who escaped Paradise mourned those left behind, and Rose and Rock Bear formed a team to seek revenge on Oathbreaker as Research Institute 3154 learned that Lin Yuan would have been considered a Supernova.

• Lilia surfaced with Lin Yuan, found a small island, and settled beside him while he remained unresponsive; exhausted, she fell asleep leaning against him.
• Rose watched the Gate of Departure close, and Rock Bear told her that Lin Yuan and Lilia would not return.
• Rock Bear proposed that he, Rose, Tiger, and Old Wolf band together, and Rose agreed, vowing to avenge Lin Yuan and Lilia; they named their group the Avengers Fleet.
• An old man told Research Institute 3154 that newcomers surpassing Seed level were being called Supernovas and lamented that Lin Yuan had fallen despite being the brightest among them.

Research Institute 3154 and an old man discussed Zero’s slim chance of surviving Paradise’s collapse and the threat posed by a newborn Angel. Lin Yuan woke on an unnamed island beside sleeping Lilia, assessed their damaged equipment, and turned his attention to the Time-Void Prism fragment he had secured.

• The old man told Research Institute 3154 that Zero might survive because he had been a Sanctum Knight and possibly a Lost Sanctum, though his chances depended on fate.
• The old man explained that the Oathbreaker’s power had been destroyed and worried that a newborn Angel would add pressure to “that side.”
• Lin Yuan finished watching the information in the drop of “seawater” and woke beside the sleeping Lilia on an unnamed island.
• Lin Yuan found that Lilia’s Coffin had shattered and that his health, equipment, and ship were badly damaged, while Little Black and the Shell Pump remained unconscious.
• Lin Yuan considered how to restore his energy and realized he had obtained a valuable fragment of the Time-Void Prism.
• Lin Yuan entered the Treasure Collection Room and looked toward the fragment.

Lin Yuan used the Time-Void Prism Fragment to create a phantom Lin Yuan that he could board, giving him a ship at last. After the fragment trapped him in a Time-Still Barrier, he broke free with the Little Box and planned to use the phantom ship once the real Lin Yuan was repaired.

• Lin Yuan read that the Time-Void Prism Fragment could project an imprinted version of its holder and could eventually grow into a complete prism.
• Lin Yuan imprinted himself in the fragment and discovered that it projected a phantom Lin Yuan, which he boarded without difficulty.
• Lin Yuan inspected the phantom ship and found that most of its rooms and equipment were replicated, while key items and materials were missing or unusable.
• The fragment trapped Lin Yuan in a Time-Still Barrier, but he used the Little Box to shatter it.
• Lin Yuan withdrew the damaged, immobile phantom Lin Yuan and celebrated the prospect of sailing after repairs, while Lilia woke and questioned his laughter.

Lin Yuan learned that Lilia’s coffin was not her true body and helped her rebuild one, discovering that coffins she made gained unusual properties. After Lilia tested the new coffin, she spotted people swimming in the sea without a ship.

• Lin Yuan told Lilia that he was a ship, and she joked about becoming captain before he reaffirmed his role.
• Lin Yuan worried that the shattered coffin had harmed Lilia, but she explained that losing it only made her resurrection point random within ten meters.
• Lilia made a coffin from an ordinary palm tree, but Lin Yuan broke it with a punch.
• Lilia explained that coffins grew harder and better at shutting out the outside world the longer she lay in them, and Lin Yuan realized she was the core of their connection.
• Lilia made a sturdier, self-repairing coffin from Dragon’s Blood-infused wood and tested its functions.
• Lilia spotted people swimming in the sea without a ship and asked whether they were ships like Lin Yuan.

Lin Yuan rescued four fishermen near Shattered Island and learned that the islanders were cut off from the wider sea by a Time Maze. He left the chapter puzzled by how a merchant caravan could reach the island despite that barrier.

• Lin Yuan and Doll Girl found four fishermen sinking beneath the sea and rescued them, bringing them to a nearby island.
• The fishermen told Lin Yuan that the archipelago was called Shattered Island and that they had lost their boat to a storm and a Transcendent Creature.
• Lin Yuan learned that the islanders knew almost nothing about players or the game, and that a Time Maze surrounded Shattered Island.
• The fishermen confirmed that the Time Maze still existed, leaving Lin Yuan wondering whether he had ended up in an unopened area of the game.
• Zhang Da told Lin Yuan that a caravan would arrive soon, and said it came from the sea beyond the island.

Lin Yuan learned that Sunken Folk merchants traded with the fishermen of Shattered Island, then discovered a Sea Beast Tide was approaching after a seaquake. The villagers feared thousands of Magical Creatures and at least one D-rank sea beast, but Lin Yuan found their idea of a major crisis surprisingly unimpressive.

• Lin Yuan questioned Zhang Da and the fishermen about human-turned Sunken Folk merchants and decided to wait and meet them himself.
• Lin Yuan carried Zhang Da and the other fishermen to their island aboard the Coffin, where their families welcomed them and mourned those who had not returned.
• Zhang Da learned that a seaquake had breached the barrier between the Shallow Sea and the Main Sea, putting the island in the path of a Sea Beast Tide.
• Zhang Da explained that the villagers' shared boat was damaged and warned that the tide could bring thousands of Magical Creatures, at least ten E-rank Transcendent Creatures, and possibly two D-rank sea beasts.
• Lin Yuan asked about the threat and wondered why the fishermen considered it a major crisis.

Lin Yuan single-handedly wiped out the sea beast tide threatening Shattered Island, including a D-rank creature, and asked Zhang Da about the southeast seaquakes and the Crawlers. After the fight, his Holy Hall Light Blade’s Sanctum Token reacted faintly, suggesting the sea beasts were connected to the Crawlers.

• Lin Yuan reassured Zhang Da and the islanders that he would handle the approaching beast tide, then waited at the island’s southeastern edge as the others watched from behind.
• Hundreds of Fishmen, Tooth Shells, Poison Octopuses, and other sea beasts reached the island, and Lin Yuan cut them down with his Holy Hall Light Blade.
• Lin Yuan killed an Overlord Crab and a D-rank Transcendent Creature with single slashes, leaving nearly every attacking beast dead and astonishing Zhang Da and the islanders.
• Lin Yuan told Zhang Da to do whatever he wanted with the sea beast corpses, then asked whether the seaquakes had always come from the southeast and whether he knew about Crawlers.
• After Zhang Da left, Lin Yuan noticed the Sanctum Token in his Holy Hall Light Blade had reacted during the battle and suspected a connection between the sea beasts and the Crawlers.

Lin Yuan investigated signs that a Crawler might be behind the Sea Beasts targeting Shattered Island, then learned that the islanders’ cured meat had unusual properties. The chapter ended with him questioning how meat made from D-rank Sea Beasts could be a C-rank ingredient.

• Lin Yuan suspected a Crawler was directing the Sea Beasts and decided to investigate the southeastern waters after his repairs.
• Lin Yuan left Lilia’s Coffin the next morning and dragged it into the village as more residents returned and greeted him respectfully.
• Zhang Da showed Lin Yuan Gem-Cured Meat made from the previous day’s Sea Beasts and offered him the courtyard’s supply in thanks for saving the island.
• Lin Yuan learned the cured meat could restore health, remove negative statuses, boost strength, and possibly grant abilities to biologically active Transcendent Equipment.
• Lin Yuan confirmed that the system still worked for Shattered Island’s residents, then asked Zhang Da why the cured meat was C-rank when the strongest Sea Beasts had been D-rank.

Lin Yuan learned that Shattered Island's secret curing methods could upgrade Sea Beast meat, then watched the Sunken Ones' caravan arrive and sought information about traveling to other islands. The chapter ended with a Sunken One vendor asking whether Lin Yuan was a Shattered Island resident.

• Zhang Da explained how Shattered Island cured different Sea Beast meats into Gem-Cured Meat, and Lin Yuan discovered that only three pieces were C-rank.
• Lin Yuan offered Zhang Da his Horned King Whale meat, and Zhang Da said he would consult ancestral manuals to find the best way to process it.
• The Sunken Ones' enormous caravan ship rose from the sea and docked at Shattered Island, where its crews set up orderly trading stalls.
• Lin Yuan noticed the Sunken Ones' military-like discipline and approached a special requests stall to ask about leaving Shattered Island for other islands.
• The Sunken One vendor asked Lin Yuan whether he was a resident of Shattered Island.

Lin Yuan met the Sunken One Merchant Group and learned that Shattered Island lay within the sealed-off East Pole Sea, which only Players could enter or leave. Wuwei said the injured Island Lord, a former Player now in a deep sleep, might know how Lin Yuan could escape the region.

• A stallholder recognized Lin Yuan as a Player and directed him to the Sunken One Merchant Group's leader, Wuwei.
• Wuwei asked Lin Yuan to punch him to gauge his strength, and Lin Yuan sent him flying into the sea.
• Wuwei praised Lin Yuan's power and revealed that the human Island Lord had once been a Player.
• Wuwei explained that Shattered Island belonged to the sealed-off East Pole Sea and that the Island Lord had fallen into a deep sleep after suffering grievous injuries.
• Wuwei said waking the Island Lord might give Lin Yuan a chance to leave the East Pole Sea.

Lin Yuan learned that the islands in the East Pole Sea Region were connected through the Deep Sea, where the Time Maze weakened, and arranged to obtain blueprints for modifying the Lin Yuan. As the Sunken One merchant group departed, a family’s encounter with a newly drowned relative raised more questions about the Sunken Ones and East Pole Island.

• Lin Yuan asked Wuwei how to reach East Pole Island, and Wuwei explained that ships could travel between the islands through the Deep Sea Passage.
• Wuwei said deep-sea travel required a hull modification whose blueprints were held by a supplies official on East Pole Island, and Lin Yuan arranged for Wuwei to bring them on his next visit.
• Lin Yuan asked to buy repair materials, but Wuwei gave him timber, steel, and other supplies for free because Lin Yuan might wake the island lord.
• After trading ended, several Shattered Island residents clung to a newly drowned Sunken One who coldly pulled away and returned to the ship.
• Wuwei began to reveal something about the Sunken Ones, but his subordinates stopped him, and he left without explaining further.

After learning that he had only a little over two months in the special region before he had to return to the Endless Sea, Lin Yuan realized Shattered Island could help him industrialize and accelerate his ship repairs. He planned to use his equipment and blueprints to organize local residents into production, leaving him better prepared for East Pole Island.

• The system announced a one-year Free Development Period, then warned Lin Yuan that time flowed five times faster in the Endless Sea and he had to return before the period ended.
• Lin Yuan calculated that his remaining time in the special region was tight because he still needed to visit East Pole Island, awaken its island lord, and repair and upgrade his ships.
• Zhang Da told Lin Yuan that his community could not afford a medium fishing boat after their shared boat sank and the small boats sold out.
• Lin Yuan realized Shattered Island had people, land, raw materials, and technology, so he could start small-scale industrial production to support ship repairs.
• Lin Yuan decided to use the Production Workshop and his blueprints to have island residents mass-produce useful magical items that were in demand on East Pole Island.

Lin Yuan revealed that he was an Artisan and offered Zhang Da’s people a way to earn a living by producing ship materials on Shattered Island. With Little Black’s machines, he began the operation while keeping control of its power supply.

• Lin Yuan proposed making production machines so Zhang Da and the others could produce materials instead of joining another fleet.
• Zhang Da and the villagers learned Lin Yuan was an Artisan and pledged to work for him.
• Lin Yuan realized Artisans were scarce in the East Pole Sea and decided to hide Little Black’s identity and potential.
• Little Black recovered, then made four basic wood- and metal-processing machines using 20 units of rubber.
• Lin Yuan installed power spheres in the machines and kept the Steam Core-powered charging machine in his Production Workshop, retaining control of the operation.

Lin Yuan used simple production machines and Shattered Island villagers to gather enough materials to fully repair the Phantom Lin Yuan. With the ship restored, he checked its equipment and reflected on his remaining lack of a reliable recovery method.

• Lin Yuan powered the production machines, and Zhang Da and the others began producing planks and metal parts from logs and metal materials.
• Shattered Island villagers saw the machines work and rushed to volunteer after Zhang Da explained they could keep surplus supplies by operating a machine and paying Lin Yuan a fixed daily amount.
• Over three days, Little Black built forty machines, and the villagers produced the materials needed to repair the Phantom Lin Yuan.
• Little Black repaired the Phantom Lin Yuan, restoring its durability to five hundred thousand, while Lin Yuan noted that his recovery abilities remained inadequate.
• The Production Workshop announced that all the ship equipment had been repaired, and Lin Yuan checked the results.

Lin Yuan repaired the Phantom Lin Yuan’s equipment and fed the Shell Pump a large quantity of C-rank Gem-Cured Meat. The Shell Pump recovered, evolved, and produced a blood-red pearl whose effects remained unknown.

• Little Black repaired Explore the Sea and the other damaged equipment, though Explore the Sea’s primary metal material remained ordinary grade.
• Lin Yuan reflected on the mysterious compatibility between his Transcendent Energy and Explore the Sea, then considered upgrading the Shapeshifter Harpoon and replacing the Sea Serpent Ram and ordinary cannon.
• Lin Yuan noted that the Shell Pump was still barely alive and could not be repaired with production machinery.
• Zhang Da delivered carts full of C-rank Gem-Cured Meat made from Horned King Whale ingredients.
• Lin Yuan fed all the cured meat to the Shell Pump, which recovered and changed into an evolving C-rank item that could form a special pearl when it advanced in rank.
• The Shell Pump spat out a blood-red pearl the size of a baseball.

Lin Yuan used the Shell Pump’s C-rank Blood Pearl to strengthen its abilities and arranged for villagers to pay for machine use with cured meat. When Shattered Island’s food shortage limited repairs, he decided to hunt in the dangerous Main Sea, where he believed the Crawlers were operating.

• Lin Yuan rejected using the Blood Pearl to modify his weapons and let the Shell Pump absorb it, granting it unlimited jets for a short time and a corrosive blood mist.
• Lin Yuan told Zhang Da that E-rank and B-rank Gem-Cured Meat would serve as payment for using the machines.
• Zhang Da explained that repair demand from Shattered Island’s roughly one hundred ships had reduced fishing, leaving too little food to make cured meat for about a week.
• Lin Yuan decided not to build more machines because rubber was limited and demand would fall once the ships were repaired.
• After Zhang Da warned him against entering the Main Sea, Lin Yuan said he would hunt there and attack the Crawlers responsible for the sea beast tides.

Lin Yuan sailed southeast from Shattered Island to find Crawlers, with Lilia sensing their presence before his Templar Badge did. After tracing the source deep beneath the sea, he found a strange vessel whose deck held a Magic Array and bizarre sculptures.

• Lin Yuan set out alone aboard the Phantom Lin Yuan and reflected on the people he had lost track of, including Never Skunked, Bai Ling, and Old Three.
• After searching for half a day without finding Crawlers, Lin Yuan wondered whether they were too deep for his bronze-grade Templar Badge to detect.
• Lilia sensed a disgusting smell several kilometers away and recognized it as resembling the power of the Oathbreaker.
• Lin Yuan reached the area, where his badge detected Crawlers below the surface, and used the Deep-Diving Bubble Shield to take the Phantom Lin Yuan underwater.
• Lin Yuan discovered a peculiar vessel with a flat deck, a Magic Array, and bizarre sculptures, and wondered if it was an altar.

Lin Yuan found a Crawler Elder on a weakened altar and attacked after the Elder tried to intimidate him. Though the Elder seemed unable to fight back, Lin Yuan remained convinced he was biding his time.

• Lin Yuan examined the altar and found the Elder lying motionless beneath a bone cross, with lifeless black mud covering the ship.
• Lin Yuan brought Lilia onto the altar, but she sensed nothing unusual before the Elder spoke and unleashed pressure that had no effect on either of them.
• The Elder warned Lin Yuan that he could briefly recover his peak strength, but Lin Yuan demanded a fight and struck him with the Holy Hall Light Blade.
• The Elder spat a tentacle at Lin Yuan, but the strike burst it into blood mist; Lin Yuan then knocked the Elder down with repeated blows.
• Lin Yuan kept attacking while waiting for the Elder to use a hidden power, certain that the Crawler was still biding his time.

Lin Yuan defeated the Crawlers Elder’s animated statues and ignored his attempt to take Lilia hostage. He killed the Elder, and Lilia revived from the scattered parts of her body.

• The Crawlers Elder collapsed into the black mud, and the cross on his back brought the altar’s statues to life.
• Lin Yuan beat the Black Knight and destroyed the other statues, while his Dragon Armor blocked the Slime Monster’s maggots.
• After Lin Yuan challenged him to reveal another backup plan, the Crawlers Elder emerged beside Lilia and bound her with tentacles.
• The Crawlers Elder threatened to kill Lilia, but Lin Yuan used the Shell Pump to rush him and smashed him into pulp, crushing Lilia as well.
• Lilia climbed out of her coffin again and revealed that she could revive.