Arc 2The Grotto and the Ghost Ship

Luo Yu expanded his institute’s research, trained Wang Ze’s students, and pursued a way to evolve July through the Ancient Evolution Stone. He joined Shui Wuyue’s voyage to Thousand Rock Island, where July’s fishing brought aboard an undercover investigator who warned that pirates planned to attack Mirror Moon Island.

  • Luo Yu defeated Bing Liang’s Cold Mist Lizard with July, then accepted Wang Ze’s request to train Bing Liang, Mi Xiaoyu, and Zhuang Feng for the Mirror Moon Celebration.
  • Luo Yu trained the students with special Honey Water Bee stings, and their strong results at the school assessment helped him secure funding and a bee farm.
  • Luo Yu hired Yu Wan, Lin Li, and Chen Bo at his institute, bred Ink Fish for useful talents, and investigated the Ancient Grotto’s evolution stone after July failed to evolve.
  • Luo Yu discovered that rock-type nutrients helped Waterfallen Chickens evolve, then sought to improve July’s rock affinity and requested wild Earth Penguins for research.
  • Luo Yu contacted An Yao about the Ancient Grotto and agreed to travel to Thousand Rock Island with Yu Wan and Chen Bo aboard Shui Wuyue’s ghost ship, the Raging Blue.
  • Shui Wuyue taught Luo Yu about Soul Contracts and ghost-ship piloting, while Luo Yu used soul liquid to leave his body and encountered the Raging Sea Ghost Shark.
  • July fished an injured man onto the Raging Blue, and Investigator Handsome revealed that the Wailing Pirate Crew planned to attack Mirror Moon Island during the Tidal Corpse Transformation.
  • Shui Wuyue promised to protect Handsome, and Luo Yu planned to test whether a monarch Water Devil Beast with Antivirus Master could destroy large numbers of zombies.
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Ch. 26Beast Battle!

Luo Yu visited the beast arena with Yu Wan and Chen Bo, where he observed a battle and assessed the pet beasts’ neglected talents. After Chen Bo challenged him to a match, Luo Yu agreed to battle Bing Liang first, leaving Chen Bo to wait his turn.

  • Luo Yu teased Chen Bo about working for him, and Yu Wan arrived to take them to the beast arena for a medical partnership discussion.
  • Director Zhang showed Luo Yu and Chen Bo around the arena and its training grounds before they went to watch two young Beast Tamers spar.
  • Luo Yu watched the Wave Dog lose to the Cold Mist Lizard and noticed that both beasts’ Beast Tamers had overlooked their individual talents.
  • Luo Yu recognized Bing Liang and Zhuang Feng from his earlier trip to catch Honey Water Bees, and Bing Liang challenged him to a beast battle.
  • Luo Yu accepted Bing Liang’s challenge and told Chen Bo that he would battle him next.

Ch. 27Your Pet Beast Isn't Legal, Is It?

Luo Yu and July defeated Bing Liang’s Cold Mist Lizard in a beast battle, revealing July’s extraordinary ability to reshape the arena floor. Chen Bo abandoned his own challenge, while Director Zhang worried about the damage and the trouble it would cause.

  • Director Zhang refereed as Luo Yu and Bing Liang summoned July and the Cold Mist Lizard, and the spectators were surprised to see Luo Yu’s Earth Penguin.
  • July calmly dodged the Cold Mist Lizard’s icy mist until it exhausted its stamina, then opened a pit beneath it and buried it in sand and soil.
  • Luo Yu claimed the victory, leaving Bing Liang, Chen Bo, Zhuang Feng, and Director Zhang stunned by July’s unusual use of Dig.
  • Director Zhang fretted over the extensive arena damage, and Chen Bo declined to fight, saying he would go home and discuss Luo Yu’s suggestion with his parents.
  • Chen Bo left, while Bing Liang and Zhuang Feng remained dazed by the battle.

Ch. 28Mirror Moon Island's Guardian Deity

After learning about the Mirror Moon Celebration and its guardian deity, Luo Yu agreed to help Teacher Wang train three orphaned students to compete as school representatives. He planned to devise a training program that could also support his Honey Water Bee research, and asked whether the students could endure pain and hardship.

  • Bing Liang and Zhuang Feng reported their strange defeat by Luo Yu's Earth Penguin to their teacher, Wang Ze.
  • Wang Ze approached Luo Yu and asked him to become an extracurricular teacher for three students he hoped to prepare for the Mirror Moon Celebration.
  • Luo Yu recalled that the celebration honored the Mirror Moon Giant Crocodile, the island's guardian deity, and offered students a chance to demonstrate their skills and attract fleet employers.
  • Wang Ze explained that his three students were orphans whose parents had been his crewmates, and asked Luo Yu to help them despite his limited ability to train them.
  • Luo Yu accepted in exchange for a year's salary and Wang Ze's labor, seeing the students as potential participants in his Honey Water Bee stinging-training research.
  • Luo Yu promised to create a new training plan and asked whether the students could handle minor injuries and hardship.

Ch. 29Breeding Paragon Paired with Breeding Paragon

Luo Yu arranged new Ink Fish breeding pairings, including a trial between two Breeding Paragons, then began designing unconventional training plans for Teacher Wang Ze’s three students and their pet beasts. He left them with a one-week challenge to follow his methods and show results.

  • Luo Yu established ten new Ink Fish breeding groups, pairing individuals with advanced talents and deciding to mate the two second-generation Breeding Paragons.
  • Luo Yu delayed breeding the malnourished Dominion individual so it could receive nutritional supplements for half a month.
  • Luo Yu met Teacher Wang Ze and his students Bing Liang, Mi Xiaoyu, and Zhuang Feng at the arena to assess their pet beasts.
  • Luo Yu instructed Zhuang Feng to train his Wave Dog’s claws under the artificial waterfall and told him healing beasts could treat any injuries.
  • Luo Yu assigned Bing Liang’s Cold Mist Lizard to agility training in the turbulent current maze and prescribed cold-resistance training for Mi Xiaoyu’s Wind-Entwining Worm.
  • Luo Yu told the students to follow his training plans for one week and demonstrate their results.

Ch. 30Beautiful Bodyguard

Luo Yu selected Yu Wan as the Luo Yu Research Institute’s new security guard after learning about her experience as a navigator and her psychic abilities. As Yu Wan visited the institute to see where she would work, Luo Yu noticed the Ink Fish laying eggs.

  • Luo Yu trained July in the Torrent Labyrinth and then met Yu Wan to review security candidates.
  • Yu Wan described the candidates and revealed that she herself wanted to leave her clerk job and become Luo Yu’s bodyguard.
  • Luo Yu agreed to hire Yu Wan if the bureau chief approved her resignation, and learned she hoped to contract a powerful mental-type pet beast.
  • Yu Wan accompanied Luo Yu to the institute, where he suddenly spotted the Ink Fish laying eggs.

Ch. 31I'll Take His Surname!

The Breeding Paragon laid a second clutch, and Luo Yu found a new Ink Fish with both Mercy and Breeding Paragon talents. As Yu Wan moved into the institute to work security, Luo Yu wondered why Chen Bo had not joined and asked Yu Wan to help feed the fish as well.

  • The Breeding Paragon laid eleven eggs, including six with Senior Level talents and one offspring with both Mercy and Breeding Paragon.
  • Yu Wan told Luo Yu she hoped he would use his Soul Talent to captain a Ghost Ship, and offered to serve as his navigator; Luo Yu said he needed a cook.
  • Chen Bo asked his parents to let him help at Luo Yu's institute, but they refused and insisted he focus on his studies.
  • Yu Wan resigned from her secretary job and persuaded Yu Lei to appoint her as security guard at Luo Yu's institute.
  • Yu Wan moved her belongings into the institute, and Luo Yu asked her to feed the fish part-time using her telekinesis.

Ch. 32A Cruel Hand Crushes Flowers!

Luo Yu began a second training phase for three students, using Honey Water Bee stings to strengthen them, while continuing July’s punishing exercises. July’s fishing trip ended with him pulling a mysterious wooden chest from a lake.

  • Luo Yu praised the three students’ progress and announced that their next training phase would last half a month.
  • He brought Bing Liang, Mi Xiaoyu, and Zhuang Feng to his institute and explained that special Honey Water Bee stings could strengthen their bodies.
  • Zhuang Feng and Wave Dog became the first to undergo sting training, and Yu Wan arrived after hearing their screams before deciding to keep watch from her room.
  • Luo Yu continued training July with heat and water resistance exercises, then took him fishing to relax.
  • July hooked a wooden chest instead of a fish, leaving Luo Yu startled and wondering what it contained.

Ch. 33The Magical Conch

Luo Yu discovered that July had fished up a valuable Communication Conch, then celebrated the arrival of promising Ink Fish offspring with a Senior Level Infant Care Expert talent. He ended the students’ training course and agreed to watch their upcoming school exam, where their results could help his research prospects.

  • July fished a Communication Conch from the lake, and Luo Yu recognized its value and decided to try dialing it each day.
  • Twelve days later, Luo Yu examined twenty Ink Fish eggs from the two-Breeding-Paragon group and found fourteen offspring with Senior Level talents, including six Breeding Paragons and one Infant Care Expert.
  • Luo Yu agreed to attend a meal at the Moon-Facing Pavilion with Wang Ze and Mi Xiaoyu, while deciding that Wang Ze’s pet beast’s Cleanliness Obsession talent offered little potential.
  • Luo Yu learned that the three students would take part in a monthly exam attended by the director and ended their training so they could rest and prepare.
  • Luo Yu promised to watch the exam and urged the students to do well, hoping their performance would help him secure more research funding.

Ch. 34Why Is Your Face So Swollen?

Luo Yu watched Mirror Moon High School’s monthly combat exam, where students faced zombie sea beasts, and Mi Xiaoyu stunned the school by defeating one with her Wind-Entwining Worm’s newly developed ice ability. Her success drew Director Yu Lei’s attention, but she credited her extracurricular tutor, Luo Yu, leaving the school leaders worried about their education funding.

  • Luo Yu arrived at Mirror Moon High School with Teacher Wang Ze and watched the students begin their combat assessment against zombie sea beasts.
  • The early examinees struggled against the fast, pain-ignoring zombie frogs, and only one top student managed to kill one.
  • Mi Xiaoyu entered the assessment with her Wind-Entwining Worm and froze a zombie frog with its powerful, ice-infused Wind Entwining ability.
  • Director Yu Lei asked Mi Xiaoyu about her training, and she said Teacher Luo Yu from her extracurricular tutoring class had taught her the ice ability.
  • Mi Xiaoyu followed her homeroom teacher to speak with Yu Lei, who noticed her swollen face as the school leaders reacted to her crediting Luo Yu.

Ch. 35Who's in Favor, Who's Against?

After three students trained by Luo Yu excelled in the new students’ assessment, Director Yu Lei investigated their unusual pet-beast abilities. At the September research briefing, Luo Yu presented his experimental Sting Training Method and requested funds to expand Honey Water Bee research and breeding.

  • Mi Xiaoyu told Yu Lei that Luo Yu had trained her, and the administrators learned that his tutoring class had three students.
  • Zhuang Feng’s Wave Dog swiftly beheaded a zombie frog, while Bing Liang’s Ice Mist Lizard skated around a licker and evaded it.
  • Yu Lei summoned Luo Yu, who explained that the students’ pet beasts had unusual talents and hinted that special Honey Water Bee training had strengthened them.
  • At the research briefing, Luo Yu described how mutated Honey Water Bee stings could strengthen attributes and said his three students had excelled after less than half a month of training.
  • Luo Yu explained the method’s pain, swelling, and limited supply of bees, then asked Yu Lei for more research funds and a Honey Water Bee breeding base.

Ch. 36The Walking Lighter

Luo Yu secured approval to establish a Honey Water Bee breeding project and gained offers of help from Chen Bo and the Moon-Facing Pavilion’s Lin Li. The next day, he learned the restaurant would sponsor bees and send Lin Li to assist, and Director Yu Lei took him to visit the farm.

  • Director Yu Lei approved Luo Yu’s Honey Water Bee farm and urged Chen Zhuo to send Chen Bo to work at the institute.
  • Yu Lei recommended Lin Li, the Moon-Facing Pavilion owner’s daughter, because she managed the restaurant’s Honey Water Bee farm and had contracted a Bee Queen.
  • Luo Yu agreed to invite Lin Li and considered researching whether a Bee Queen could also have the Strengthening talent.
  • Chen Zhuo told Chen Bo to report to the Luo Yu Research Institute the next day, surprising his son.
  • Yu Lei told Luo Yu that the Moon-Facing Pavilion would provide Honey Water Bees and Lin Li’s help for free.
  • Yu Lei took Luo Yu to visit the Honey Water Bee farm, and Luo Yu summoned July to light his cigarette.

Ch. 37More Children, More Blessings

Luo Yu demonstrated July’s powerful fire ability to Lin Li and then searched the Moon-Facing Pavilion’s Honey Water Bee farm for bees with useful talents. He found several enhancement talents and a Senior Level talent that improved offspring aptitude with each birth, leaving him with a promising foundation for breeding.

  • Yu Lei questioned why Luo Yu had trained July to use a fire-type ability, and July demonstrated Blazing Blade’s increased power and heat wave.
  • Luo Yu met Lin Li at the Honey Water Bee farm, showed her July’s enhanced physical toughness, and accepted her offer to select talented bees.
  • Yu Lei left Luo Yu and Lin Li at the farm, where Luo Yu spent the evening and night examining the bees and ate Lin Li’s honey-themed dishes.
  • Yu Wan divined Luo Yu’s future potential, but the pearl remained pitch-black.
  • Luo Yu finished assessing the farm’s sixteen thousand bees and found sixteen with ordinary enhancement talents and three with Senior Level enhancement talents.
  • Luo Yu discovered a Senior Level More Children, More Blessings talent that increased offspring aptitude with each birth.

Ch. 38Forming a Pirate Crew!

Luo Yu selected eight hundred Honey Water Bees with useful talents and discussed possible paths for queens to evolve further with Lin Li. After returning to the research institute with Lin Li, he found Chen Bo waiting and imagined turning the institute’s staff into a fleet.

  • Luo Yu identified Bee King, Power of the Void, More Children, More Blessings, and Flower-Picking Bandit as valuable talents for breeding Honey Water Bees.
  • Luo Yu selected roughly eight hundred bees and told Lin Li that his Soul Talent helped him find individuals with unique souls.
  • Luo Yu suggested that mental power or spatial abilities might help Honey Water Bee queens evolve, and invited Lin Li to conduct her own research at the institute.
  • Yu Wan welcomed Lin Li and assigned her to make dinner, while Luo Yu asked her to cook for Chen Bo, who had been waiting outside the institute.
  • Luo Yu imagined that Yu Wan, Lin Li, Chen Bo, and he could form an elite fleet, though he planned to make it a legitimate merchant fleet.

Ch. 39Ancient Evolution Stone

Luo Yu welcomed Chen Bo to the research institute and assigned duties to its four employees while they began their work with mutated beasts. The director then revealed that a Waterfallen Chicken had evolved after touching a strange rock in the Ancient Grotto and asked Luo Yu to test whether his Earth Penguin could do the same.

  • Luo Yu read Chen Bo's father’s research notes on extending human lifespans and learned that Chen Bo’s Thunderbolt Shrimp had rare light affinity and a Clean Freak talent.
  • Luo Yu hired Chen Bo as a research assistant, test subject, and cleaner, and the institute’s four employees shared their first meal together.
  • Luo Yu assigned Yu Wan to security and Ink Fish care, Lin Li to Honey Water Bee care and cooking, and Chen Bo to injection tests and research.
  • The director told Luo Yu that a Waterfallen Chicken had evolved from a low-rank to a mid-rank ordinary species after touching a special rock in the Ancient Grotto.
  • The director said Luo Yu and his Earth Penguin seemed strong enough to endure the grotto’s harsh conditions and asked Luo Yu to test whether the rock could evolve the penguin.

Ch. 40July's Key Attribute for Evolution!

Luo Yu visited an underground grotto where a special rock had evolved one Waterfallen Chicken into an Azure Terror Bird, hoping it might help July evolve too. July’s attempt failed, and Luo Yu left considering how he could strengthen July’s rock affinity.

  • Director Yu Lei took Luo Yu by Storm Sea Eagle to the underground grotto, then led him through its waterways on a White Crocodile.
  • Luo Yu learned that only one Waterfallen Chicken had evolved after touching the special rock, while researchers found no clear bloodline difference between it and its siblings.
  • Researcher Chen Zhuo showed Luo Yu the evolved Azure Terror Bird, whose talents included Rock Element Affinity, prompting Luo Yu to suspect that rock-element power had enabled its evolution.
  • Luo Yu summoned July and had him touch the special rock, but nothing happened.
  • Director Yu Lei offered Luo Yu a pass to keep studying in the grotto, and Luo Yu considered increasing July’s rock affinity, perhaps by contracting a rock-element dependent.

Ch. 41Dinosaur-Themed Nature Park

Luo Yu considered breeding rock-talented dependents to help July gain rock powers and exploit the Ancient Evolution Stone. Meanwhile, Director Yu Lei hoped the Ancient Grotto could revive Mirror Moon Island’s economy, and Luo Yu imagined how his research might strengthen the island and elevate his own influence.

  • Luo Yu considered breeding Ink Fish with Rock Element Affinity Talents and Honey Water Bees with Rock Element Enhancement Talents to improve July’s compatibility with the Ancient Evolution Stone.
  • After Luo Yu’s Earth Penguin failed to evolve, Director Yu Lei urged Chen Zhuo and Luo Yu to research the Ancient Grotto and help turn it into a popular attraction.
  • Yu Lei explained that he hoped to promote the grotto at Aocang Island’s academic exchange conference and revive Mirror Moon Island’s tourism industry.
  • Luo Yu compared Yu Lei’s plan with Golden Island’s Golden Waterfall tourism model and recognized that Mirror Moon Island could not yet reliably reproduce the Waterfallen Chicken’s evolution.
  • Luo Yu reasoned that his dependable Ink Fish evolution research could eventually give Mirror Moon Island reliable military gains and help him rise to leadership.

Ch. 42Luo Yu's Assassination of the Guardian Deity

Luo Yu continued using Honey Water Bees to strengthen himself and discussed the Mirror Moon Giant Crocodile’s blessing and possible Abyss-level strength with Lin Li. After learning that the upcoming Mirror Moon Celebration might let him make a wish, he revealed that he wanted the guardian deity’s blood, and Yu Wan encouraged his plan to assassinate it.

  • Luo Yu arranged for a Water Element Enhancement Honey Water Bee and a Rock Element Affinity Honey Water Bee to breed, hoping their offspring might inherit fused talents.
  • Luo Yu endured daily stings from enhancement Honey Water Bees while Yu Wan and Chen Bo watched, and Lin Li later stopped the training.
  • Lin Li described how the Mirror Moon Giant Crocodile had blessed her Honey Water Bee by mutating its venom into an ice-element toxin.
  • Luo Yu asked about the guardian deity’s species level and said he wanted a basin of its blood for condensing Commander Heterogeneity.
  • Yu Wan overheard Luo Yu and told him to share the blood if he succeeded in assassinating the guardian deity.

Ch. 43Flower-Picking Bandit

Luo Yu learned why Lin Li suspected the Mirror Moon Giant Crocodile was an Abyss Species and decided to compete in the Mirror Moon Celebration to meet it and earn its blessing. After experimenting with breeding and evolution, he found Coral Flower Squid that could let him test a Honey Water Bee’s Flower-Picking Bandit talent.

  • Lin Li guessed that Island Lord Bai Ling had bought an Abyss Core with money from Mirror Moon Island’s mineral vein so the guardian crocodile could absorb Abyss Power safely.
  • Luo Yu decided to enter the celebration’s rookie challenge, and Lin Li agreed to prepare food that would please the guardian deity.
  • Director Yu Lei warned Luo Yu that the challenge took place on water, but registered him after Luo Yu said July was learning to swim.
  • The Breeding Paragons’ eggs hatched, the Honey Water Bees began laying low-quality eggs, and Luo Yu confirmed that rock affinity alone could not make a bee evolve at the Ancient Grotto.
  • Luo Yu spotted Coral Flower Squid among Lin Li’s ingredients and took one to test whether his Honey Water Bee’s Flower-Picking Bandit talent could steal its nutrients.

Ch. 44Speedrun, Another Evolution!

Luo Yu discovered that Flower-Picking Bandit bees could turn nutrients from mutated beasts into enhancement honey, then used rock-type honey to help Waterfallen Chickens evolve. He concluded that rock-type talent and the Ancient Evolution Stone were key to their evolution, leaving July’s path to evolve open.

  • Luo Yu tested pink honey made from a Coral Flower Squid and found it was rich in water-type nutrients and enhancement factor.
  • Luo Yu had Lin Li bring a Rock Algae Turtle to the institute, where Flower-Picking Bandit produced crimson honey that contained rock-type nutrients and enhancement factor.
  • Luo Yu fed rock-type honey to Waterfallen Chickens while two Honey Water Bees produced an egg with the Hardness Enhancement Talent.
  • Yu Zhifeng suggested that hidden rock-type talent might explain the Waterfallen Chickens’ evolution, while researchers admitted they could not yet verify the theory.
  • Luo Yu rushed into the researchers’ meeting with an evolved Water Terror Chicken and announced that he had found the key factor in its evolution.

Ch. 45An Angler's Professional Dedication

Luo Yu explained that rock-type affinity determined how far birds could evolve with the Ancient Evolution Stone, and the researchers discussed ways to improve it. He decided to seek more methods to strengthen July’s talent before evolving him, while Director Yu Lei agreed to contact Thousand Rock Island and obtain more Earth Penguins for testing.

  • Luo Yu told Director Yu Lei that rock-type talent enabled the Waterfallen Chickens’ evolution, but the resulting Water Terror Chicken remained a Low-Rank Species because its acquired elemental affinity was limited.
  • Luo Yu explained that he wanted to improve July’s rock-type talent before using the Ancient Evolution Stone, and Hybridization Granny suggested seeking expertise from Thousand Rock Island.
  • Luo Yu proposed combining different methods to develop rock-type talent, and Director Yu Lei agreed to contact Thousand Rock Island.
  • Director Yu Lei offered Luo Yu a reward, but Luo Yu declined and asked for more wild Earth Penguins to study their possible evolution paths.
  • July put down Eighteen Fishing Techniques and practiced with his fishing rod, while Luo Yu called it part of his training.

Ch. 46New Crew Member, Archaeologist

After July dreamed of a colossal lava-armored dinosaur, Luo Yu bred Ink Fish toward creating a Water Devil Beast dependent suited to July’s needs. Yu Wan connected the dream to an archaeologist’s theory that supernatural dinosaurs once existed, leaving Luo Yu interested in finding the archaeologist.

  • July dreamed of an apocalyptic world where a giant lava-armored dinosaur roared at him, and Luo Yu woke and comforted him.
  • Luo Yu attributed July’s strange dream to the Ancient Grotto’s chaotic magnetic field and its ancient ley-line memories.
  • Luo Yu paired a third-generation Breeding Paragon with a Dominion Ink Fish and selected other mates to pursue useful talents for future Water Devil Beasts.
  • Luo Yu planned a dependent for July with Dominion, rock affinity, Eight-Sword Style, and possibly ice affinity.
  • Luo Yu asked Yu Wan whether July might evolve into a dinosaur, and she recalled an archaeologist’s theory that some dinosaurs had mutated into lava behemoths.
  • Luo Yu asked whether Yu Wan was still trying to contact the archaeologist, who might know more about Mirror Moon Island’s ancient supernatural history.

Ch. 47Thousand Rock Island

Luo Yu and Yu Wan reached the missing archaeologist An Yao, who agreed to investigate Mirror Moon Island’s Ancient Grotto. After breeding Ink Fish produced several promising talents, Director Yu Lei summoned Luo Yu to select Rock Goats on Thousand Rock Island for a rock-affinity project.

  • Luo Yu used a Communication Conch fished up by his penguin to contact An Yao, and Yu Wan invited her to investigate the Ancient Grotto on Mirror Moon Island.
  • An Yao said pirates had kidnapped her to explore an undersea ruin, but she escaped after the pirates died there, and she agreed to travel to Mirror Moon Island.
  • Yu Wan called Director Yu Lei to report that An Yao would arrive in about half a month, while Luo Yu continued waiting for an Earth Penguin test subject.
  • Luo Yu’s Ink Fish breeding produced seven high-level-talent offspring from one pairing, including an Antivirus Master, and an Infant Care Expert grew up.
  • Director Yu Lei explained that Thousand Rock Island’s Heart of Rock and Rock Goat milk could improve rock-type affinity, then asked Luo Yu to travel there and select Rock Goats.

Ch. 48Setting Sail!

Luo Yu agreed to accompany Shui Wuyue to Thousand Rock Island, where Shui Wuyue would teach him to pilot a ghost ship. Aboard the Raging Blue, Shui Wuyue explained how Soul Contracts with ghosts worked and warned Luo Yu about the deadly consequences of failing to fulfill a ghost’s obsession within five years.

  • Shui Wuyue offered Luo Yu Soul Liquid and lessons in ghost-ship piloting if he joined the voyage to Thousand Rock Island.
  • Yu Lei explained that Yu Wan was Shui Wuyue’s niece, and Luo Yu agreed to go; Chen Bo joined as a translator while Lin Li stayed to care for the institute’s beasts.
  • Luo Yu, Yu Wan, and Chen Bo boarded Shui Wuyue’s ghost warship, the Raging Blue, and it set sail with Shui Wuyue’s Ghost Type pet beast at the helm.
  • Shui Wuyue told Luo Yu that the Sea of Ghosts sought out Soul-type Beast Tamers and that ghosts could be contracted through Soul Contracts tied to their deathbed obsessions.
  • Shui Wuyue warned that a Soul Contract would devour a Beast Tamer’s soul if its ghost’s obsession remained unfulfilled after five years, revealing that his own failed contract had cost him an arm.

Ch. 49The Ghost Ship Sets Sail!

After drinking soul liquid, Luo Yu gained the ability to leave his body and discovered that the Raging Blue was a ghost ship riding on a giant Raging Sea Ghost Shark. As Shui Wuyue began teaching him to pilot the ship, July caught what appeared to be a human corpse.

  • Shui Wuyue explained that he had spent six years fulfilling a Raging Sea Berserk Shark ghost's Obsession to find a wife, and warned Luo Yu that ghost Obsessions could be difficult to satisfy.
  • Luo Yu drank the soul liquid, experienced his soul leaving his body, and saw the Raging Sea Ghost Shark beneath the Raging Blue.
  • Luo Yu discovered that the shark's Obsession came from its lustful nature and learned that fulfilling an Obsession could sometimes cause a ghost to evolve.
  • Luo Yu accidentally floated into Chen Bo's room, then returned to his body and confirmed to Shui Wuyue that he could leave it.
  • Shui Wuyue slowed the Raging Blue to begin Luo Yu's ghost-ship piloting lessons while July started fishing.
  • July hooked and hauled a human corpse onto the deck, leaving Luo Yu and Shui Wuyue bewildered.

Ch. 50Encountering Pirates

Luo Yu and Shui Wuyue rescued an undercover Alliance investigator who warned that the Wailing Pirate Crew planned to attack Mirror Moon Island during the Tidal Corpse Transformation. As the island faced a massive Zombie Tide and a pirate assault, Luo Yu planned to test whether a monarch Water Devil Beast with the Antivirus Master Talent could eliminate hordes of zombies.

  • July fished a badly injured man from the sea, and Shui Wuyue recognized the lamprey tattoo marking him as a member of the Wailing Pirate Crew.
  • The man claimed he was an undercover Alliance investigator, and Yu Wan used psychic perception to confirm he was probably telling the truth.
  • After learning Shui Wuyue was from Mirror Moon Island, Investigator Handsome revealed that the Wailing Pirate Crew planned to attack the island during the Tidal Corpse Transformation.
  • Handsome explained that the pirate leader believed a treasure on Mirror Moon Island had attracted zombie sea beasts and planned to use the resulting Zombie Tide to weaken the island.
  • Shui Wuyue promised to protect Handsome, while Luo Yu decided to test a monarch Water Devil Beast with the Antivirus Master Talent as a way to destroy large numbers of zombies.
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