Lizard Bone Galleon
The Lizard Bone Galleon, also called the bone galleon, bone lizard battleship, or bone battleship, is Ghostmother's vessel from beyond the Heavenspan Realm. Its vast bone hull contains multiple decks, illusion-like inner spaces, sealing mechanisms, ghost flags, and powerful offensive and defensive formations. Later narration often places “Gongsun Wan'er” at its helm, but this denotes Ghostmother's severed-arm banesoul using the original Gongsun Wan'er's body and later controlling Ghostmother's primary form; the ship is not established as property of the original Gongsun Wan'er. (Chapters 857, 944–952, 1041–1059)
History
Ghost ship in the Deadmire
The galleon first appears through the Deadmire fog as a huge bone vessel accompanied by a woman's song. Bai Xiaochun, Song Que, and Master God-Diviner are drawn aboard, where later revelations show that their apparent departure and the long period following it were part of a false experience. Multiple decks can hold people in blank, unmoving states, while deeper chambers and an eight-trigrams mirror form part of the ship's control and sealing system. (Chapters 857 and 944–949)
Ghostmother explains that she sailed the galleon near the Heavenspan Realm after coming from the wider world. Gu Tianjun attacked her and severed her left arm, which became the banesoul occupying Gongsun Wan'er's body. On the ship, the primary Ghostmother and that separated arm contend with each other while Daoist Heavenspan attempts to exploit both. The arm can operate the galleon's sealing power, including the Devil-Conquering Mirror and Three Ghost Flags, because that authority was associated with Ghostmother's missing left arm. (Chapters 947 and 950–951)
The vessel is eventually revealed to extend far below the portion first visible. It rises in its larger lizard-like form and departs the Heavenspan Realm, carrying Ghostmother, the banesoul, and other cultivators. The ship therefore remains Ghostmother's treasure even while control of its functions is contested between her primary form and her severed-arm clone. (Chapters 952–953)
Battleship in the Eternal Immortal Domains
In the Eternal Immortal Domains, Ghostmother commands the galleon as a mobile celestial warship. Its ghost qi combines with two surviving ghost flags and the lizard-shaped hull, and its deck carries demigod subordinates. The battleship can emit blood mist, flame, black light, and defensive layers strong enough to make Bai conclude that Ghostmother's decisive advantage lies in the vessel. (Chapters 1041–1045)
Bai is unable to overpower it with a simple frontal assault. He instead seals the ship in his Live Forever Lamp, forces Ghostmother away from it, and only then creates the opening needed to sever her arm. The banesoul at the helm defeats and enters Ghostmother's primary body, taking control before piloting the galleon toward the Saint-Emperor Dynasty. This is a victory by one component of Ghostmother over another, not a transfer from Ghostmother to the original Gongsun Wan'er. (Chapters 1046–1048)
The Saint-Emperor can cut through the ship's defensive shield and board it, demonstrating that the protection is formidable rather than absolute. After a political exchange returns Ghostmother to the Vile-Emperor Dynasty, she again leads forces from its deck. The vessel can also shrink to the size of a hand, launch black smoke as an attack, and expand its shield to protect its custodian. Its last direct use is against the Murknine County creature: the shield briefly slows a destructive blast beyond celestial power before shattering, after which Ghostmother retrieves the spinning but undestroyed ship. (Chapters 1053–1059, 1074, and 1138–1140)
Abilities and properties
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Mobile battleship: The galleon travels through fog, air, the Deadmire, and the Eternal Domains. Its full lizard-shaped hull is much larger than the initially visible upper vessel and can carry numerous passengers and combatants. (Chapters 857, 944–953, and 1041–1059)
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Sealing and interior control: Its decks can hold occupants in unresponsive states, while the Devil-Conquering Mirror and Ghost Flags support major sealing and ghost techniques. The exact division between illusion, temporal distortion, and physical confinement inside the ship is not fully explained. (Chapters 944–951)
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Offensive formations: Black light, blood mist, flame, black smoke, and ghost-face attacks can be projected from the hull or its attached treasures. Some of these functions depend on Ghostmother's control and the surviving flags rather than the bones alone. (Chapters 950–951, 1041–1048, and 1138)
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Near-world-treasure defense: Flesh-and-blood layers and a defensive shield can stop or delay attacks from demigods and celestials. The Greatsword of the North can break through with enough preparation and energy, and superior attacks can shatter the shield or permit boarding. (Chapters 1043–1053 and 1140)
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Variable size: Ghostmother can summon the ship in a hand-sized form for an attack and recover it after it is knocked away. The source does not state whether its full interior capacity remains accessible while miniaturized. (Chapters 1138–1140)
Ownership and custody
| Holder or custodian | Period | Relationship to the item |
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| Ghostmother | Before Chapter 857–Chapter 947 | Owner and commander from beyond the heavens. She sails it near the Heavenspan Realm and is later confined with it in the Deadmire. (Chapters 857 and 947) |
| Ghostmother's severed-arm banesoul | Chapters 947–1048 | A separated component of Ghostmother, then inhabiting the original Gongsun Wan'er's body, contests the primary form and uses the left arm's authority over the ship's sealing systems. This is not ownership by the original host. (Chapters 947 and 950–951) |
| Ghostmother, under banesoul control | Chapters 1048–1140 | After the banesoul enters and controls Ghostmother's primary body, the combined continuity pilots, deploys, and retrieves the vessel. Narration often calls her Gongsun Wan'er, but the galleon remains Ghostmother's treasure. (Chapters 1048–1059, 1074, and 1138–1140) |
| Bai Xiaochun | Chapters 857–1059, intermittently | Passenger, infiltrator, opponent, and temporary guest aboard the galleon. He seals or boards it at points but is never described as its owner or custodian. (Chapters 857, 944–952, and 1043–1059) |
