Recaps

Su Ming fused Miao Xin with Little Spiky Head, enabling the skeleton to escape the police dragnet and travel to Pine Mountain Sanatorium Hospital. He sent Miao Xin to search for medicine while he prepared the materials for his next summoning aboard the Zhiyuan.

• Su Ming learned from the Undead Creatures Handbook that Little Spiky Head was a Reconnaissance Hunter designed to work with a separate spirit component.
• Su Ming fused Miao Xin with Little Spiky Head, greatly improving the skeleton’s agility, movement, and sensory clarity.
• Su Ming escaped the police encirclement by leaping onto an elevated train bridge and riding a train away from the city.
• Su Ming switched to a high-speed train and reached Pine Mountain Sanatorium Hospital, where he hoped to find medicine for White Bone.
• Su Ming separated Miao Xin from Little Spiky Head and sent her to search the hospital pharmacy while he prepared summoning materials aboard the Zhiyuan.

Su Ming used Summoning of All Things and the Boneless School’s synthesis method to transfer medical supplies and medicines from Earth, then tried to treat the unconscious White Bone. After an online doctor urged immediate hospitalization, Su Ming claimed he was stranded on an island in the Indian Ocean with an infected indigenous patient.

• Su Ming downloaded medical data and gathered supplies while Miao Xin marked needed items at the hospital.
• Su Ming used a Boneless School technique to combine Summoning of All Things with instant noodles as a source of missing chemical components, eventually transferring medicines after several failed attempts.
• Su Ming brought White Bone to a disinfected room in his workshop and connected her to monitoring equipment, though he could not interpret most of the readings.
• Su Ming swabbed White Bone for a rapid antigen test, waking her briefly, then asked an online medical consultant for advice through Little Spiky Head’s phone.
• The consultant urged Su Ming to take White Bone to a hospital immediately, so Su Ming invented a story about being on an island in the Indian Ocean with an infected indigenous person.

Su Ming treated White Bone with medicines prescribed through an online consultation and monitored her as her condition improved. After waking, White Bone revealed that her real name was Zijin and hinted that her age and past were not what she had claimed.

• Su Ming consulted an online doctor, who recommended medicines and tests for White Bone.
• Su Ming gave White Bone the prescribed treatment and used Body Detection Spell to confirm that the abnormalities in her body had diminished.
• Su Ming sent Little Spiky Head to ransack the sanatorium director's home, then had Miao Xin hide in the mountain woods.
• By dawn, White Bone's vital signs had improved, and she woke that afternoon hungry and more energetic.
• White Bone found that the viruses in her body had been suppressed, and she told Su Ming her real name was Zijin before admitting that many things had happened before she acquired the White Bone Fortress.

After recovering from her illness, Zijin woke to find Su Ming had caught and fried fish for breakfast aboard the Zhiyuan. Their quiet meal ended with Su Ming discovering that Zijin had watched him bathe through her Omniscient Vision.

• Zijin erased her previous final words after Su Ming helped her survive and wrote a new entry thanking him and the gods.
• Su Ming woke, gave Zijin the prescribed gamma globulin injection, and worried that they were running out of food.
• Unable to summon fishing equipment, Su Ming decided to sleep, but a fish leaping from the sea inspired him to try fishing.
• Su Ming caught fish and cooked breakfast, and Zijin woke feeling stronger and thanked him for helping her wash and change.
• Zijin admitted she had used Omniscient Vision to see inside the White Bone Fortress, and Su Ming angrily demanded to know why she had watched him bathe.

Su Ming treated Zijin and continued managing the Zhiyuan while she challenged him to solve the riddle of her identity. As they sailed east, Su Ming grew worried about his parents back on Earth and told Zijin about the family trip he had planned before being transported to another world.

• Su Ming followed the online doctor's instructions, gave Zijin medication through an IV, and recorded the Zhiyuan's needs, including fuel, repairs, navigation, and reconnaissance.
• Zijin said that Scholar Bay Owl, the White Bone Fortress, and Zijin were all parts of her identity, and urged Su Ming to solve the riddle for a reward.
• Su Ming salted the fish he had caught by circling the Zhiyuan and using its propeller to knock them out; Zijin sent zombies to help him process the catch.
• Zijin explained that magic-using creatures needed the intelligence and knowledge passed down by settlements, so wild beasts generally could not use magic.
• Su Ming maintained the engine and sailed the Zhiyuan east, then grew downcast as he wondered whether his parents knew he had become a murder suspect.
• Zijin joined Su Ming on deck in a wheelchair, and he gave her sunscreen before telling her about his parents and the seaside trip he had planned with them.

Su Ming used Little Spiky Head to contact his parents on Earth and promised to clear his name within a year. He then came down with several viruses from Zijin and, while she treated him, discovered that neither of them could navigate the Zhiyuan with the information available.

• Su Ming studied Galio's notes, entered a speech rune code into Little Spiky Head, and connected it to a camera in his home.
• Su Ming spoke with his parents, explained that he was suspected of an economic crime, and promised to resolve the matter within a year.
• After disconnecting from Little Spiky Head, Su Ming developed a fever, and Zijin examined him and found several viruses.
• Zijin identified the viruses as common diseases but admitted she had little practical experience with healing magic and expected treatment to take two days.
• Su Ming stopped the Zhiyuan in shallower water and learned that Zijin's crude sea chart lacked the information needed to determine their location.

Su Ming and Zijin realized they were lost at sea and had no reliable way to determine their position. Su Ming arranged to obtain equipment for a tethered sounding balloon while Zijin began making its cable, but the chapter ended with Su Ming heading to the supplier’s warehouse.

• Su Ming admitted that his navigation chart was useless, and Zijin said she had no oceanographic data or the equipment needed for celestial navigation.
• Su Ming proposed surveying the area from above and found a supplier of tethered sounding balloons through Little Spiky Head.
• Zijin revealed that she could not cook, so Su Ming made seaweed soup and fried fish before going to sleep.
• That evening, Su Ming sent Miao Xin by high-speed train to collect supplies while Zijin maintained her spell.
• Su Ming asked Zijin to make a three-thousand-meter cable, and she stopped her spell and went to the alchemy room to begin.
• Su Ming traveled to the supplier’s city as Little Spiky Head and rode a shared bicycle toward the warehouse.

Su Ming stole materials for a sounding balloon and used his summoning techniques to create and test the balloon’s radar and control equipment aboard the Zhiyuan. He finished preparing the system and learned how to operate Zijin’s unusual magical cable.

• Su Ming searched a company’s catalog, selected a balloon, S-band radar equipment, and helium, then took the goods from its warehouse.
• Su Ming summoned the balloon and remote sensing equipment using materials from the new-energy vehicles, and obtained their manuals by sacrificing one of Zijin’s books.
• Su Ming discussed adapting the Comprehend Languages spell with Zijin, then studied the radar manual.
• Su Ming installed the ground terminal and tested the balloon’s communications, control link, and data transmission aboard the Zhiyuan.
• Zijin showed Su Ming how to release, stop, reel in, and adjust the magical cable she had prepared.

Su Ming and Zijin used upgraded radar equipment to map the ships surrounding the Zhiyuan and identify the approaching enemy fleets. The chapter ended with Su Ming asking Zijin what she had done to make the College of Bishops and two main fleets pursue them.

• Su Ming and Zijin realized their remaining fuel would not take the Zhiyuan to Agate Main Island, so Su Ming planned to use sails and ordered a radar scan before dawn.
• Su Ming and Zijin identified three unfamiliar ships about 140 kilometers away, while Su Ming mapped their positions alongside nearby fishing boats.
• Su Ming used Little Spiky Head to obtain a faster data-processing unit and other equipment, then ran a clearer second radar scan.
• Zijin identified the approaching Temple Directly Affiliated Fleet's Jade Sea and Tang Valley carrier and two Songstress Class cruisers, while Su Ming spotted three more warships approaching from the northeast.
• Zijin recognized the first three unfamiliar ships as reconnaissance ships equipped with rune amplification towers, and Su Ming asked what she had done to attract their pursuit.

Zijin revealed that the Divine Favor Scepter had chosen her after she helped Su Ming prevent a world-ending plague, making the Temple of Light a greater threat. With the Zhiyuan surrounded and low on fuel, Su Ming sought a way to improve the ship’s sailing ability and waited for custom plans for rigid sails.

• Zijin explained that she had failed to steal the Divine Favor Scepter and that it had appeared in her hands during the recent sea battle.
• Su Ming realized Zijin’s actions had earned the Creator God’s recognition and that the Temple of Light might try to silence her.
• Zijin analyzed the surrounding fleets and proposed sailing north, but Su Ming warned that reinforcements and the Zhiyuan’s limited fuel made that route dangerous.
• Su Ming contacted a ship design studio to obtain plans for adding rigid sails and adjustable sideboards to the Zhiyuan.
• The design studio said its calculations would take longer, leaving Zijin baffled that Su Ming was waiting for plans to hang sails.

Su Ming calibrated the Zhiyuan’s radar and built an unusual six-mast rigid-sail configuration to help the ship evade the approaching fleets. The Zhiyuan began accelerating under steam and sail as Su Ming and Zijin prepared to intercept the reconnaissance ships.

• Su Ming ordered Zijin to gather fish and place calibration buoys so he could calibrate the Zhiyuan’s radar.
• Su Ming adjusted the radar after comparing its readings with a marine rangefinder, reducing the error to around one percent.
• After receiving the design plans, Su Ming built six masts and large curved bone sails by reshaping the Zhiyuan’s structures.
• Zijin reported that the enemy fleet was about forty kilometers away and said she could fight an arch, then agreed to target the reconnaissance ships.
• Su Ming started the steam engine, turned the Zhiyuan southwest across the wind, and accelerated it to twelve knots.

Su Ming used wing sails and precise navigation to drive the Zhiyuan at twenty knots while pursuing the “onlookers,” who tried to escape west and then south. With the gap closing and fuel limited, he calibrated a mast-mounted X-band radar to track them more accurately as Zijin prepared the ship for battle.

• Su Ming adjusted the Zhiyuan’s wing sails and keels, accelerating it to twenty knots in a crosswind.
• Su Ming calculated the “onlookers’” likely escape routes and steered southwest to block their path.
• Su Ming and Zijin launched a tethered balloon, whose radar confirmed the “onlookers” were fleeing west at full speed.
• Su Ming tracked the changing positions of the “onlookers,” the “carrier battle group,” and the “squirrel battle group,” while checking the Zhiyuan’s remaining fuel.
• Su Ming installed and calibrated an X-band radar, which located the “onlookers” 88.2 kilometers away.
• Zijin inscribed magic arrays on the Zhiyuan, and Su Ming shortened the X-band radar’s scanning interval to five minutes.

Su Ming and Zijin intercepted and destroyed the Four-Eyed Jenny, one of three reconnaissance ships, while Pearl Duchy frigates approached. After salvaging the wreck and questioning its captain, Zijin discovered that a book recovered from the ship belonged to Katharine Osha.

• Su Ming chose to pursue Onlooker Two while six Pearl Duchy frigates closed in from the south.
• The Four-Eyed Jenny surrendered, and Zijin ordered its crew to abandon ship.
• Zijin destroyed the reconnaissance ship with Light Cut, then salvaged its rune tower and hull for the Zhiyuan.
• Zijin captured and questioned the captain, who revealed that the Four-Eyed Jenny belonged to the Kalo Magic Guild and had helped operate a Far-Seeing Array for the Temple of Light.
• Russell brought Zijin a salvaged book, which she recognized as belonging to Katharine Osha, and she struck the captain for concealing its story.

Su Ming and Zijin learned that Katharine Osha commanded the enemy operation but avoided pursuing her, then used a wide-area radar scan to map the fleets surrounding the Zhiyuan. Su Ming planned a northeast-to-east breakout through a gap between two enemy groups, while Zijin warned that Archbishop Stanton would likely oppose them.

• The captured captain revealed that Katharine Osha commanded the operation from the Eye of Insight, and Zijin decided not to pursue her after learning Katharine was heavily pregnant.
• Su Ming and Zijin questioned the captain, then ordered him imprisoned while the crew salvaged the reconnaissance ship for fuel.
• Su Ming used the Zhiyuan’s S-band radar to locate more than a hundred vessels, including the Gomoku Battle Group and the Squirrel Battle Group, confirming that five fleets surrounded them.
• Zijin warned Su Ming that a dragon might ambush them if they followed the coast, so they agreed to break out toward the open sea.
• Su Ming charted a route northeast before turning east through a ninety-kilometer gap between the Squirrel Battle Group and the Aircraft Carrier Battle Group.
• Zijin said Archbishop Stanton would likely join the battle with the Squirrel Battle Group, leaving him unable to provide them information or assistance.

Su Ming and Zijin sailed the Zhiyuan into a blockade, using headwind propulsion to reach the interception line ahead of the enemy fleet. As the ship neared the blockade, Zijin sensed Temple Watchers and attacked a rider on a Sea Eagle Beast.

• Su Ming realized Stanton had secretly helped Zijin and him escape, while Zijin revealed that Katharine had exposed her human identity to the Temple of Light.
• Su Ming gave Zijin a crystal-decorated hair tie, and she removed her disguise and tied up her hair.
• Su Ming turned the Zhiyuan into the wind, explaining how the apparent wind increased its thrust as the ship accelerated to twenty-six knots.
• The enemy fleet detected the Zhiyuan at about seventy kilometers and began maneuvering to intercept it.
• The Zhiyuan reached within thirty kilometers of the interception line while the squirrel battle group lagged behind, and Zijin sensed Temple Watchers nearby.
• Zijin raised a shield and fired a barrage of magic orbs at a figure riding a Sea Eagle Beast in the southeastern sky.

Zijin fought off Yise and three pursuing spellcasters while Su Ming used the Zhiyuan’s radar and Nether Shield to help the ship escape. The Zhiyuan surged to a speed that left its pursuers struggling to keep up, though its masts and sails began to strain.

• A blonde Watcher named Yise attacked the Zhiyuan, but Zijin drew her out over the sea and defeated her with a feint and an underwater strike.
• Zijin took Yise’s greatsword and returned to the Zhiyuan as three mounted spellcasters attacked her.
• Su Ming used the mast radar to spot four hidden humanoid targets near the ship and warned Zijin.
• Zijin attacked the hidden targets while Su Ming activated Nether Shield across the Zhiyuan’s bone sails and adjusted their angles.
• The Zhiyuan accelerated past thirty knots, leaving its pursuers struggling to follow as its reinforced masts and sails began to creak.

Su Ming and Zijin survived a devastating guided attack on the Zhiyuan, then discovered the hidden UFO blocking their path. Rather than retreat, Su Ming exploited the battleship’s slow-turning turrets and maneuvered the Zhiyuan to close in under sail.

• Su Ming used the White Bone Mark to repair the Zhiyuan after a barrage of ice blades shattered its Nether Shield, aft masts, and bone sails.
• Zijin returned to the ship exhausted and explained that the White Bone Mark’s power had been badly depleted; Su Ming restored the remaining sails and stabilized the Zhiyuan’s speed.
• The captive captain warned Su Ming and Zijin that the UFO had joined the battle, and Zijin revealed the concealed warship with a blast of Solar Flame.
• Su Ming recognized the UFO’s broadside firing position and calculated that its heavy turrets turned too slowly to track the Zhiyuan at close range.
• Su Ming brought the Zhiyuan within three kilometers, then turned sharply and reversed the remaining mainsails to catch the wind and accelerate again.

Su Ming and Zijin used the Zhiyuan’s speed and magic to defeat the UFO and evade the Songstress Class pursuing them, breaking through the enemy’s interception line. As the battle seemed to end, the White Bone Mark tried to turn the Zhiyuan toward the ship Fusang, and Su Ming and Zijin realized something he had brought from Earth had stirred it.

• Su Ming maneuvered the Zhiyuan through the UFO’s barrage, and Zijin destroyed its guns with magic while sparing the ship from more serious damage.
• The Zhiyuan passed the UFO, and Zijin carved its name into the hull before Su Ming took a commemorative photo.
• Su Ming studied the enemy formation and realized Katharine had left a deliberate gap to lure the Zhiyuan through.
• Su Ming dodged two barrages from a pursuing Songstress Class, and the Zhiyuan escaped the enemy interception line as its pursuers fell behind.
• Su Ming identified the Songstress Class as Fusang, then suppressed the White Bone Mark when it tried to turn the Zhiyuan toward that ship.
• Zijin and Su Ming realized that something Su Ming had brought from Earth had caused the White Bone Mark’s reaction.

Su Ming and Zijin turned the Zhiyuan into a spell-amplifying fortress and destroyed the Fusang’s weapons with Zijin’s Divine Decree, forcing its crew to retreat without casualties. As Archbishop Stanton belatedly approached, Su Ming steered the Zhiyuan east while Zijin went to sleep.

• Su Ming reconfigured the Zhiyuan and synchronized the White Bone Mark with Zijin to amplify her magic.
• The Zhiyuan dodged the Fusang’s broadside, and Zijin intercepted the few shells that threatened the ship.
• Zijin cast Six Points · Deathrattle · Divine Decree, wrecking the Fusang’s superstructure and cannons without killing its crew.
• The Fusang’s captain ordered a withdrawal, and Zijin noticed the heroic spirits’ points of light departing.
• Su Ming told Zijin that his experience commanding teams in war games helped him stay calm during battle, and Zijin decided to schedule his training.
• Archbishop Stanton arrived too late to catch the Zhiyuan, and Su Ming steered it east as Zijin went to sleep.

Su Ming recovered from the naval battle, repaired the Zhiyuan, and reviewed the fight with Zijin while they sailed east. As Zijin recovered and began repairing the White Bone Fortress, Su Ming planned upgrades to the ship’s radar, propulsion, and hull, while Zijin warned him to keep its wing-sail technology secret.

• Su Ming woke at noon, checked the Zhiyuan’s position, and found it far out at sea with no nearby merchant ships on the central trade route.
• Su Ming checked on Zijin, prepared food for her, and repaired a worn bearing and a broken transmission screw before restarting the Zhiyuan’s power unit.
• Zijin joined Su Ming in the control room, where he explained that he was documenting and analyzing the previous night’s battle.
• By the third day, Zijin had recovered enough to begin repairing the White Bone Fortress’s core, while Su Ming planned improvements to the Zhiyuan’s radar, propulsion system, and hull.
• Zijin warned Su Ming that they needed to conceal the Zhiyuan’s wing-sail technology to prevent their enemies from copying it.

Su Ming and Zijin assessed the Zhiyuan’s strength and priorities while traveling through the Central Ocean, then Su Ming searched for used steamships through Little Spiky Head. When dragon-eagle scouts found the Zhiyuan, Zijin sent a warning signal as they approached.

• Zijin explained that merchant associations and scattered mercenary groups controlled the Central Ocean, and that few would challenge the Zhiyuan after its victories over major fleets.
• Su Ming identified gathering materials and shielding their undead fluctuations as their most important tasks, and Zijin produced fragments from the UFO that might conceal magical signals.
• The radar detected flying beasts searching the sea, so Su Ming adjusted its alert range and connected to Little Spiky Head.
• Su Ming searched a merchant’s warehouse for long-wave radar, left payment for goods he had taken, and contacted a dealer about an old steamship.
• When the Zhiyuan’s radar detected a target within fifty kilometers, Su Ming woke Zijin, who identified the approaching scouts as dragon-eagle riders and sent them a restricted-zone warning.

Su Ming and Zijin prepared to receive a liaison from the Four Directions Chamber of Commerce, expected to arrive in five hours, and arranged suitable clothes and a reception room. While shopping for Zijin, Su Ming recognized that Zijin had summoned Galio as a new skeleton servant, and he left Miao Xin to buy the rest of the clothing after realizing he had forgotten the other items.

• Zijin identified the signals as a meeting request from the Four Directions Chamber of Commerce, and she and Su Ming agreed to prepare for the visitors.
• Zijin estimated that the approaching ship was 110 kilometers away and would arrive in five hours, while Su Ming arranged a reception room and searched for clothes.
• Su Ming chose a beige-gray suit dress for Zijin and a black camouflage outfit for himself, then hired an errand runner to buy them.
• Su Ming measured Zijin and learned that the black skeleton servant was made from the corpse of a holy magus; he recognized it as Galio.
• The saleswoman said Zijin's dress needed alterations and would not be ready until the next day, so Su Ming took it as it was and sent Miao Xin with the runner to buy additional items.

Su Ming prepared clothes for Zijin, then waited with her for the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce, whose ship failed to catch up. He slowed the Zhiyuan the next morning and switched his vision to Earth after Miao Xin completed the trip to the dockyard with Little Spiky Head.

• Su Ming gathered measurements and materials, then summoned new clothes for himself and Zijin.
• Zijin tried on her suit dress and confronted Su Ming about the stockings and underwear; he insisted he had chosen them because she would look good.
• Su Ming and Zijin waited for the merchants, realized the Zhiyuan had outrun them, and decided to slow down the next morning so the visitors could catch up.
• Su Ming switched to Little Spiky Head, planned a trip to inspect a secondhand ship, and ordered a fast catamaran design powered by steam.
• Su Ming stopped the Zhiyuan the next morning, while Miao Xin reported that she had brought Little Spiky Head to the target dockyard.

Su Ming and Zijin met with Charles Kegan, who asked them to help stop a powerful sea creature that had devastated maritime trade. As Zijin studied the reports, Su Ming learned that the creature could withstand magic and conventional attacks and move quickly underwater.

• Su Ming inspected a derelict steamship at an abandoned dockyard and decided he could repair its faulty engine and propulsion system.
• Three Dragonhawks approached the Zhiyuan, and Zijin used signal flares to learn that a liaison from the Four Directions Chamber of Commerce had arrived.
• Charles Kegan introduced himself to Zijin and brought her a chart documenting more than thirty ships sunk in the past three months.
• Charles showed Zijin a survivor’s depiction of a tentacled sea creature and records of failed tracking and suppression operations.
• Charles asked Zijin to help the affected parties defeat the creature, while she continued reading the reports with Su Ming.

Su Ming and Zijin negotiated with Charles over joining a hunt for a powerful sea monster, weighing the risks against the supplies and resources on offer. Charles revealed that the Star Empire and Temple of Light were involved, then recognized Zijin’s Divine Favor Scepter and became their enthusiastic admirer.

• Charles asked to meet the wielder of the White Bone Mark, and Zijin introduced Su Ming as the person behind the nickname Bone King.
• Su Ming asked Charles to have his official nickname changed to Mechanic, while Zijin revealed that people called her Belladonna.
• Zijin and Su Ming reviewed reports that even the Saint Rank expert Yexiya had failed to kill the sea monster, and they agreed to investigate it while seeking resources to upgrade their ship.
• Charles offered supplies and said the participating factions, including the Star Empire and Temple of Light, would support the operation and suspend the pursuit of Zijin and Su Ming.
• Zijin showed Charles the Divine Favor Scepter, and he recognized it, lost his composure, and declared himself their fan.