Arc 2The Final Codex

Li Wen followed Giant Bell’s request through the fairy market and a dangerous underground ruin, then used the Shadowfall Potion to enter the Amber Temple and obtain The Final Codex from Perfect Amber. After binding with the codex and choosing the End Path, she returned to Ake Town and began arranging sacrifices for the Twelve Pillar Gods.

  • Li Wen found a letter and other items among the Fire Mage’s belongings, then met Giant Bell, who sent her to find someone in Amber City and altered her Eye of the Transcendent.
  • Li Wen entered the fairy market with a stolen Magic Leaf, met Granny Marsha and Moriah, and learned that a dangerous underground ruin might contain Shadowfall Potion.
  • Li Wen and Moriah followed Zotes into the dungeon, where Zotes revealed himself as a Blood Lust Cultist and unleashed a Flesh-and-Blood Dragon.
  • After Moriah defeated the dragon, Li Wen escaped his attempt to recruit her by teleporting to Amber City and showed Giant Bell the Shadowfall Potion.
  • Li Wen drank the potion, entered the Amber Temple in Shadow State, and met Perfect Amber, who gave her The Final Codex and the Eternal Star of Emerald cloak.
  • Li Wen used Giant Bell’s dial to reach a ruined world, bound herself to The Final Codex, and learned the Twilight Lineage’s twelve-stage End Path required eleven more Original Texts of Lineage.
  • Li Wen chose the End Path, died in the Blazing Flame Storm, and respawned in Ake Town with her belongings intact.
  • Li Wen spent experience to learn Divine Prayer and Craving Light, then told Pastor Mog that her first requirement was twelve sacrifices, one for each of the Twelve Pillar Gods.
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Ch. 26Eye of the Transcendent

Li Wen searched the dead Fire Mage and identified several magical items, including a Shattered Eye of the Transcendent, while finding a letter addressed to Miss Melina. After leaving the corpse behind, she crossed the stone bridge toward Amber City.

  • Li Wen found a staff, a magic ring, two spell scrolls, a key, a fractured gemstone, and other supplies among the Fire Mage's belongings.
  • Li Wen identified the ring as the Ring of Fiery Passion and decided to keep the useful spell scrolls while saving the staff and ring for someone else or for sale.
  • Li Wen recognized the fractured gemstone as a Shattered Eye of the Transcendent and wondered whether it was the secret treasure the Fire Mage had mentioned.
  • Li Wen found a letter addressed to Miss Melina at 21 Hackenlo Street and kept it as a possible clue.
  • Li Wen left the Fire Mage's body in Amber City and walked across the stone bridge toward the city.

Ch. 27Giant "Evening Bell"

Li Wen entered Amber City’s Inner City but was drawn into the forbidden bell tower, where Giant Evening Bell revealed that he had saved her and asked her to find someone in the Outer City. He promised help with reaching the temple as a reward, but warned that only Li Wen could complete his request.

  • Li Wen followed the road toward the Amber Temple and realized she had reached the forbidden bell tower instead.
  • Giant Evening Bell revealed that he had brought Li Wen to him and had let her survive, while admitting he had killed the Fire Mage.
  • Evening Bell explained that his oath to the Twilight Witch prevented him from coveting The Final Codex or the Twilight Lineage.
  • Evening Bell asked Li Wen to go through the spire’s other door into the Outer City and find someone who would come with her when told it was his request.
  • Li Wen demanded a reward, and Evening Bell offered help entering the temple while warning that the Daughter of Amber would kill her and that only she could find the person he sought.

Ch. 28Eternity and the End

Li Wen learned that Giant Bell had recognized her connection to Urd and agreed to help her obtain The Final Codex in exchange for rescuing someone. Giant Bell altered her Eye of the Transcendent to provide a stable route to Amber City, then revealed that the city was isolated from the Mortal World.

  • Li Wen realized that Giant Bell had sensed Urd's influence, but concluded that they had not uncovered the secret of Urd's Thorn.
  • Giant Bell explained that the Path of Fate had let them save Li Wen and bring forward the Fire Mage's death.
  • Li Wen asked for a promise in exchange for helping Giant Bell, who agreed only if she first brought someone out.
  • Giant Bell altered Li Wen's Eye of the Transcendent so she could teleport directly to Amber City by reciting City of Eternity.
  • Giant Bell warned Li Wen to avoid the temple and asked whether Twilight was the end of eternity or the eternity of the end.
  • Giant Bell told Li Wen that Amber City was a nation sealed off from the Mortal World, and directed her to the bell tower to return.

Ch. 29Spell-less Arc Light

Li Wen escaped the Fire Mage’s territory, learned Spell-less Arc Light, and planned to recover before returning to Ake Town. Meanwhile, Aiswell urgently arrived at High Prism Tower to speak with Heron.

  • Li Wen used the bell tower’s teleportation array to leave Amber City and reviewed her injuries, depleted Mana, and accumulated Experience.
  • Li Wen spent 200 Experience to learn Spell-less Arc Light, raising her class level to lv2 and her Mana total to 20.
  • Li Wen arrived in a karst cave outside Streamstone Rift, decided to return to Ake Town after daylight, and logged off.
  • Aiswell arrived at High Prism Tower and ordered a patrolling mage to inform Heron that he needed to speak with him urgently.

Ch. 30Keys and the Truth Society

Aiswell sought Heron’s help after learning that Osmund Burnell had died in a secluded independent world with the Upper Labyrinth key missing, but Heron refused to intervene. Heron introduced him to Li Lin, the Truth Society’s liaison, who said the Society had traced Osmund’s last spatial journey to the Black Dragon Territory.

  • Aiswell went to High Prism Tower and found Heron speaking with an ordinary young man.
  • Aiswell told Heron that Osmund Burnell had stolen the Upper Labyrinth key, died in an independent world, and might have been guided by a mastermind.
  • Aiswell suspected the Truth Society, but Heron refused to help him investigate.
  • Heron revealed that the young man was Li Lin, a liaison officer for the Truth Society.
  • Li Lin said the Society had tracked Osmund’s movements to the Black Dragon Territory, while Aiswell warned that he would not let the Society take the key.

Ch. 31The Fairy Market

Li Wen found that the forest was sealed around a fairy market and learned she needed an enchanted Magic Leaf to enter. After stealing one from Mr. Bird and using it to pass through a portal in an ancient oak, she reached the bustling fairy market and headed toward its center.

  • Li Wen restored her health, left the cave, and struggled through the dense forest in the wrong direction.
  • Mr. Bird told Li Wen that the forest was sealed and that she needed an enchanted Magic Leaf to attend the fairy market.
  • While Mr. Bird pondered a riddle, Li Wen stole a Magic Leaf and used it as proof of an invitation.
  • The Magic Leaf opened a passage in an ancient oak, and Li Wen followed several dwarf elves into a transformed fairy forest.
  • Li Wen arrived in the fairy market and walked toward the lively crowd at the heart of the woods.

Ch. 32Market Sights

Li Wen searched the market for someone who could brew Shadowfall Potion and learned that Granny Marsha might be able to help. Before she could pursue the lead, a young man in ornate armor exposed a Wild Mage’s sleight-of-hand scheme and offered to demonstrate magic himself.

  • Li Wen found a bottle of Lesser Ghost Solution at a gnome’s stall, but the gnome said he could not brew potions and suggested Granny Marsha might know how.
  • Li Wen learned that Granny Marsha was a Ghost Fairy who lived in a treehouse, then left the stall to look around the market.
  • Li Wen noticed a Wild Mage performing tricks while his companion secretly stole from spectators, but she chose not to intervene.
  • A young man in ornate armor accused the Wild Mage of casting Telekinetic Touch incorrectly and explained how the extra incantation and gestures changed it into Invisible Touch.
  • The Wild Mage denied the accusation as the crowd backed him, and the young man offered to perform a free magic trick of his own.

Ch. 33Firstborn of the Holy Temple and the Ghost Fairy

Li Wen recalled her past clash with Moriah Enoch, the Holy Temple’s Firstborn, and went to Ghost Fairy Marsha’s treehouse to request a Shadowfall Potion. Marsha agreed to brew it only if Li Wen killed the Paladin at her door, just as a blood-red blade cleaved through the doorway behind her.

  • Li Wen recognized Moriah Enoch and remembered how he had nearly killed her while pursuing her in a previous life.
  • Li Wen decided to avoid Moriah and went to the enormous oak treehouse where Ghost Fairy Marsha lived.
  • Li Wen entered the empty treehouse and spoke to Marsha through a mirror.
  • Marsha identified her cauldron’s contents as Soul Return Secret Medicine and said she could brew Shadowfall Potion.
  • Marsha demanded that Li Wen kill the Paladin at her door, and a blood-red sword cut through the doorway behind Li Wen.

Ch. 34Clues to the Potion

Li Wen learned that the Shadowfall Potion and its missing ingredient might be found in the underground ruins of an Alchemy Master's laboratory in the Black Forest. Moriah offered to accompany her there, leaving her unable to refuse without revealing her reasons.

  • Li Wen used a Prayer Incantation to convince Moriah she served Radiance, then explained that she needed the potion to save a cursed companion.
  • Granny Marsha said the potion was lost and its formula required the vanished Obscure Root, but Moriah threatened her with a Divine Art until she revealed a possible source.
  • Granny Marsha directed them to the underground ruins of the Black Forest, where an Alchemy Master's laboratory might hold the potion and its ingredients.
  • Li Wen connected the ruins to the Fey Market and decided to search there, but Moriah offered to accompany her because the ruins were dangerous.

Ch. 35Gnome Zotes

Li Wen agreed to explore an underground ruin in the Black Forest with Moria, who recruited two Wild Mages to guide them. After finding the gnome vendor Zotes, Moria paid him a Sun Crown to lead the group to the place where he had found his goods.

  • Li Wen accepted Moria's offer to accompany her to the dangerous ruin.
  • Moria found the two Wild Mages and insisted they join the journey before he took them to Leicester City.
  • Li Wen led the group back to the gnome vendor's stall and asked Zotes where he had found his goods, especially a potion.
  • Moria paid Zotes a Sun Crown, and Zotes agreed to guide them to the underground ruin.

Ch. 36Deep Within the Dungeon

Li Wen and her companions followed Zotes through a hidden entrance into a dungeon beneath the Black Forest ruins, where they encountered evidence of horrific torture. Zotes led them deeper toward the potion, leaving the group at a mysterious door.

  • Zotes uncovered a secret entrance that led directly to the lowest dungeon, and Moria lit their way with Divine Art.
  • Nasha and Halik whispered to Li Wen about escaping Moria, but Li Wen told them to stop following her and run if they wanted to escape.
  • The group emerged inside a dungeon filled with torture devices, bloodstains, and signs that prisoners of many sizes had been held there.
  • Zotes led them past dissection tables and sealed cells where screams sounded, warning them not to pay attention to whatever was inside.
  • Zotes reached a door in the darkness and pushed it open, leading the group toward the place where he had found the potion.

Ch. 37Living Quarters and Notes

Li Wen and the others entered a hidden room after Moria dispelled the effects of a magical trap, but its contents did not match Zotes’s description of an alchemy laboratory. Li Wen found a strange diary as Moria uncovered a secret passage, leaving the group poised to explore the mystery beneath the forest.

  • A flash trap incapacitated Zotes and blinded the others, but Moria’s Divine Art restored everyone and cleared their ailments.
  • Zotes blamed himself for opening the door, while Halik suggested a magic-triggered trap had gone off by accident.
  • Moria illuminated the room beyond the door, revealing a dusty bedroom and study instead of the laboratory Zotes remembered.
  • Li Wen found a black notebook marked with a claw gripping an eyeball and read its first sentence before Moria called her attention to a hidden passage.
  • Moria revealed that Zotes had knocked books from the shelf and uncovered the secret door, and Li Wen agreed to explore it.

Ch. 38Attack

Li Wen and her companions found the ruined alchemy laboratory and learned from an old journal that an Alchemy Master had come to the Black Dragon Territory seeking the legendary dragon. After a deranged, mutated attacker ambushed them, Li Wen killed it, while the cause of the laboratory’s destruction remained unknown.

  • Li Wen read the Alchemy Master's notes, which described finding the Black Dragon and conducting research after obtaining something from it.
  • The group emerged from the secret passage into a wrecked laboratory filled with corpses, shattered vessels, and signs of a recent attack.
  • Li Wen noticed that the claw marks resembled those in the dungeon prison cells, while Zotes insisted the place had not been like this before.
  • A scaled, tumor-covered attacker ambushed Li Wen, who dodged its strike and cut off one of its claws with her poisoned dagger.
  • Li Wen warned the others, then used Spell-less Arc Light to decapitate the attacker as Moria watched.

Ch. 39Tearing Off the Mask

Li Wen examined the monster and discovered a parasite controlling its body, then exposed Zotes's claim about finding the potion as a lie. Zotes tore off his own face, revealing that something was wrong with him.

  • Li Wen and Moria found no other monsters nearby, but Li Wen noted that the monster's clean claws meant it had not killed the adventurers.
  • Halik suggested leaving, but Zotes and Nasha refused, and Halik reluctantly decided to stay too.
  • Li Wen dissected the monster and found its organs replaced by black gelatinous matter and a worm lodged inside its skull.
  • Li Wen identified the worm as a parasite that had eaten the victim's brain and controlled its body, then confronted Zotes.
  • Li Wen explained that Ghost Solution could not survive for more than three months, disproving Zotes's claim that he had found it in the dungeon.
  • Zotes flew into a rage, tore at his skin, and ripped off his face.

Ch. 40Flesh-and-Blood Creation

Zotes transformed into a massive Blood Lust Cultist and attacked Li Wen and Moria, but Moria turned his Blood Curse back on him with the Path of Sacrifice Divine Art. Zotes survived by unleashing the Great Blood, revealing a monstrous creation beneath the dungeon as Li Wen and Moria faced a sea of blood and corpses.

  • Zotes tore away his skin, drank his blood, and transformed into a towering, scaled Blood Lust Cultist.
  • Zotes attacked Li Wen and Moria, then declared that the dead adventurers had come to the dungeon willingly.
  • Moria confronted Zotes and was pierced by his Blood Curse, which caused his wounds to bleed without end.
  • Moria used Shared Fate to inflict his wounds on Zotes, then healed himself with a candle flame and struck Zotes with its light.
  • Zotes escaped the attack by breaking open the ceiling, flooding the area with blood and corpses, and revealing the gigantic creation of the Great Blood.

Ch. 41Great Blood

Moria defeated the Flesh-and-Blood Dragon with a powerful holy flame attack, while Li Wen learned that the living crimson object Zotes called Great Blood was real. The dragon’s destruction left Zotes barely alive and the Great Blood in Nasha’s hands.

  • The monster devoured the blood and corpses, then transformed into a grotesque Flesh-and-Blood Dragon as Moria’s ordinary Divine Arts failed to harm it.
  • The dragon swallowed Zotes and attacked the others, but Moria leaped onto its back and burned it away with white and crimson flames.
  • Halik fell to his knees and declared that Radiance would be his only faith, while Moria waited as the flames faded.
  • Zotes survived the dragon’s destruction with severe injuries and tried to put the living crimson Great Blood into his body.
  • An invisible force took the Great Blood from Zotes and left it floating before Nasha, and Moria asked the defeated gnome if he had anything else to say.

Ch. 42Shadowfall Potion

Li Wen escaped Moria’s attempt to capture her for following the forbidden Path of Light Chasing and returned to Amber City, where she revealed she had secretly taken the Shadowfall Potion. She intended to use it to retrieve The Final Codex, despite the Giant Bell’s warning about its terrifying side effects.

  • Moria mourned Zotes, took custody of the Great Blood, and offered Li Wen a chance to serve Radiance at the Temple.
  • When Li Wen refused and drew her sword, Moria tried to subdue her with his flaming power.
  • Li Wen invoked the Eye of the Transcendent and was transported back to Amber City.
  • Li Wen told the Giant Bell she had come to retrieve The Final Codex and showed it the Shadowfall Potion she had taken from the laboratory.
  • The Giant Bell warned Li Wen that drinking the potion could plunge her into darkness and deny her reincarnation, but she needed its side effect.

Ch. 43Amber Temple

Li Wen drank the Shadowfall Potion and used Shadow Walker to slip through the Amber Temple’s sealed gate. She reached the inner hall, where a supposed statue of the Twilight Witch turned its head, revealing an awakened Daughter of Amber.

  • Li Wen drank the Shadowfall Potion and used Retrograde in Shadow to halt her fall into the realm of shadows.
  • Li Wen transformed into a shadow and passed through the Amber Temple’s bronze gate.
  • Li Wen moved past the sleeping Daughters of Amber in the corridor without waking them.
  • Li Wen reached the inner hall and felt uneasy at the unfamiliar statue of the Twilight Witch.
  • The statue turned its head toward Li Wen, revealing itself to be an awakened Daughter of Amber.

Ch. 44Perfect Amber

Li Wen reached the Amber Temple’s inner hall with the cloak of Livia, escaping the awakened Daughters of Amber. Inside, she met a mysterious resident who identified herself as Perfect Amber and learned that she was the Head of Witches and the last gravekeeper of Grelion.

  • Li Wen waited for the awakened Daughter of Amber to leave, then decided to risk abandoning Shadow State to take the cloak she had dropped.
  • As the Daughters of Amber began to awaken, Li Wen grabbed the cloak and rolled through the inner hall doors, leaving the Daughters unable to cross the threshold.
  • Li Wen shut the doors and heard an unfamiliar voice from behind a curtain ask who she was.
  • The unseen speaker recognized the cloak as Livia’s favorite and asked Li Wen what had happened outside the temple.
  • The stranger explained that Li Wen’s thoughts revealed her story like a reflection in a mirror, then introduced herself as Perfect Amber.

Ch. 45The Final Codex

Li Wen received The Final Codex from a mysterious being in the Amber Temple and reaffirmed her determination to seek the vacant Twilight Pillar despite the risks. The being asked her to return after she became a witch, preferably before it entered its Long Slumber.

  • Li Wen heard the being's titles and considered whether it could be an incarnation of the Twilight Witch.
  • The being explained the prophecy of the Twilight of the Apocalypse and questioned whether Li Wen could become a Pillar Deity by following an existing path.
  • Li Wen argued that time was too short to create her own path and that the Twilight Pillar's Original Text of Lineage was her only available hope.
  • The being handed Li Wen The Final Codex, which contained the Original Text of Lineage for the Twilight Pillar.
  • Li Wen thanked the being, which told her to visit after she became a witch and before its Long Slumber.

Ch. 46Eternal Star of Emerald

Li Wen obtained the Eternal Star of Emerald from Perfect Amber and left the Amber Temple safely. She followed Giant Bell’s instructions inside the Bell Tower and emerged into another world to bind The Final Codex.

  • Perfect Amber told Li Wen it was entering Long Slumber and let her keep the Eternal Star of Emerald cloak, which protected her from the Daughters of Amber and granted her powerful Magic Shields.
  • Li Wen wore the cloak and left the Amber Temple, passing the awakened Daughters of Amber without being attacked.
  • Li Wen returned to the Bell Tower, where Giant Bell dismissed a strange celestial event as vermin that had been cleared away.
  • Li Wen asked Giant Bell for a safe place to complete her binding with The Final Codex, and Giant Bell gave her instructions for adjusting the Bell Tower’s dial.
  • Li Wen moved the three hands to ix, xii, and iv, then walked out of the Bell Tower and found herself in another world.

Ch. 47The Road Ahead

Li Wen performed the Seven Deaths and Seven Commandments ritual in a dead world and successfully bound The Final Codex, gaining access to the complete Twilight Lineage. She discovered that advancing through the twelve stages of the End Path required an Original Text of Lineage from another pillar at every stage.

  • Li Wen examined the ruined world and prepared The Final Codex for binding.
  • Li Wen recited seven vows while inflicting seven wounds on herself, and her blood transformed the amber casing and awakened The Final Codex.
  • Li Wen read the codex’s complete Twilight Lineage and learned that the End Path had twelve stages.
  • Li Wen discovered that every advancement required an Original Text of Lineage from another pillar and realized she would need eleven more after her current stage.

Ch. 48Awakening

Li Wen questioned why she had been chosen to carry Urd's Thorn, but the Strategy Group leader said her resolve made her the right person for the uncertain task. Li Wen then chose to pursue the End Path, died in the Blazing Flame Storm, and woke at her respawn point with all her belongings intact.

  • The Strategy Group leader told Li Wen that Urd's Thorn was too uncertain to entrust to someone merely for their strength or skill, and that Li Wen's resolve made her suitable to safeguard it.
  • Li Wen decided that acquiring other Pillar Deities' Original Texts might be possible by searching their churches and temples.
  • Li Wen confirmed she would change to the End Path and use The Final Codex to advance into a Witch Disciple.
  • Li Wen put on the Emerald Star Cloak and entered the Blazing Flame Storm, where her 1% health quickly fell to zero.
  • Li Wen woke at her respawn point in Ake Town's Holy Candlemas Church and found that none of her belongings had been lost.

Ch. 49Li Xin

Li Wen spoke with her younger sister Li Xin and kept the truth about World Tree: Origins and her transmigration to herself. Back in the game, she reported the mage’s death to Pastor Mog and discovered she had enough experience to reach Lv. 4.

  • Li Wen called Li Xin, reassured her that things were mostly handled, and learned their mother had said Li Wen was missing school.
  • Li Wen asked whether Li Xin had been playing World Tree: Origins, warned her not to overdo it, and hid that she was already playing.
  • Li Wen ate a microwave meal and returned to the game after realizing her assistant M2 was still in standby mode.
  • Li Wen told Pastor Mog that the man had died after drinking the Moonlight Potion, and Mog said he would explain the matter to the Moon Worshippers.
  • Li Wen checked her experience and found 910 points, enough to reach Lv. 4, then weighed upgrading her skills against learning new abilities.

Ch. 50Divine Prayer and Craving Light

Li Wen unlocked Divine Prayer and Craving Light, then pressured Pastor Mog into helping with her mentor's mission. Pastor Mog yielded, and Li Wen began by demanding twelve sacrifices for the Twelve Pillar Gods.

  • Li Wen spent 700 experience to unlock Divine Prayer and Craving Light, raising her Path of Light Chasing to level 4 and her mana to 40.
  • Li Wen considered the new abilities situational, but planned to improve their proficiency later.
  • Pastor Mog asked Li Wen what she wanted, and she invoked his true name while claiming her mission came from their mentor, Siswell.
  • Pastor Mog doubted that Siswell had ordered anything, but yielded rather than risk his mentor's wrath.
  • Li Wen told Pastor Mog that her first requirement was twelve sacrifices, one for each of the Twelve Pillar Gods.
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