Chapter Summaries

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Li Wen found a lead on the Shattered Crescent Moon through Take and discovered its hidden entrance beneath a burned-out house. She opened the passage with a spell and descended into the darkness with 31 magic power remaining.

• Li Wen gave Take directions to Bard's White Blade Society in the Askant Mountains as her reward for helping fight the Fire Mage.
• Take used her influence to find a carriage marked with a symbol resembling the Shattered Crescent Moon outside a ruined house in Ake Town's slums.
• Li Wen gave Take the Fire Mage's staff and sent Take and her companion away before approaching the carriage alone.
• Li Wen found footprints and a hollow section of floor in the burned house, then opened a hidden door with the Bone-Gnawing Short Sword.
• Li Wen checked that she had 31 magic power left and leaped into the secret passage.

Li Wen met an Elder Priest of the Sublime Rite and learned that the Moon Worshippers had lost the Moonlight Potion they were transporting. She requested twelve materials for Dark Dawn’s ritual, and the priest agreed to deliver them after midnight.

• Li Wen survived a sneak attack in the ruined house’s basement and persuaded the bald tattooed man to lead her to his superior.
• Li Wen recognized the blindfolded elder’s followers as members of the Order of the Exalted Gift, who had been transporting Moonlight Potion from Roland into Arthur.
• The elder told Li Wen that the potion had been lost and that the Forgotten Spirit Casket would be handed over later.
• Li Wen asked the elder to obtain twelve materials for a ritual, including Brilliant Darkness, Fallen True Spirit, and Shattered Amber.
• The Elder Priest of the Sublime Rite agreed to have his people deliver the materials during the first quarter-hour after midnight.

Li Wen and Pastor Mog prepared the Ritual of Dawn Dusk Birth in the church, an advancement rite requiring twelve sacrifices from the Great Rite Cult. After the sacrifices arrived, Li Wen and Mog prepared to begin.

• Pastor Mog led the Worship Day service and distributed food and drink to the believers.
• After the congregation left, Li Wen drew the ritual arrays and arranged the Four Sacred Objects and twelve auxiliary arrays.
• Li Wen spoke with Luna, who told her that Mog had saved her after wild beasts killed her parents.
• Mog told Li Wen that the Great Rite Cult had arrived with the sacrifices, and they prepared to begin the ritual.

Li Wen performed an advancement ritual using twelve sacrifices and The Final Codex, then became encased in amber as a transformation began. Priest Mog tried to stop her, setting Candle Sun Church ablaze.

• Li Wen arranged the twelve sacrifices around Radiance church and placed The Final Codex in the central magic circle.
• Li Wen completed the ritual’s symbolic steps, drank from a silver goblet, and saw a vision of a future banquet where a noble had been assassinated.
• Li Wen lit the mistletoe and chanted Grelion's First Admonition from The Final Codex.
• A crack opened in the church ceiling, and a red-and-yellow liquid fell onto Li Wen, solidifying around her like amber as her consciousness froze.
• The sacrifices shattered, and Priest Mog saw the sky turn amber with dusk before projecting scarlet flames that engulfed Candle Sun Church.

Li Wen confronted the demon Tilroggzak, who attacked her with flames and a curse while trying to stop her from disrupting Siswell’s plan. Tilroggzak’s ritual caused Li Wen’s heart to burst, leaving her fate uncertain.

• Mog’s flames failed to reveal Li Wen, who emerged from the fire and struck at him with Spell-less Arc Light.
• Mog revealed himself as the demon Tilroggzak and accused Li Wen of threatening Siswell’s undertaking, then summoned a three-headed fire serpent.
• Li Wen dodged the serpent’s fireballs and cut off two of its heads with the Bone-Gnawing Short Sword.
• Tilroggzak stabbed Li Wen’s shadow with a goat horn, inflicting a painful curse that cost her 25% of her health.
• Tilroggzak sacrificed his Demonic Beasts in a ritual that formed crimson, vein-like lines, then caused Li Wen’s heart to burst.

Li Wen fought Tilroggzak, surviving his curses and nearly killing him before he struck her with a devastating attack. As he engulfed her in Hellfire, the Emerald Star Cloak awakened the witch’s power, and Li Wen rose transformed.

• Li Wen deduced that Tilroggzak had used Dark Corrosion and Painful Lament, then prepared to test him in close combat.
• Li Wen used Divine Prayer to daze Tilroggzak and severed his head with the Bone-Gnawing Short Sword.
• Tilroggzak revived himself, pierced Li Wen’s chest with a curse, and left her near death.
• Tilroggzak tried to burn Li Wen to ashes, but the Emerald Star Cloak’s power weakened his Hellfire and healed her wounds.
• Li Wen floated into the air with ash-white hair and amber-red eyes as the witch’s power awakened within her.

Li Wen tested her newly acquired Witch Disciple ability and Witch Stance against Tilroggzak, using a curse and Divine Art to push the demon toward the flames. She left the fight in Witch State with a ten-minute countdown on the seed of faith planted in Tilroggzak, while her Twilight Erosion stood at about 5%.

• Li Wen completed her advancement to Witch Disciple and gained Poem of Paradise and Witch Stance.
• Li Wen used Poem of Paradise, and Tilroggzak felt an irresistible urge to run.
• Tilroggzak cursed Li Wen with his short sword while she cast Craving Light.
• Li Wen's Divine Art planted a seed of faith in Tilroggzak and made him take a step toward the flames, leaving him with an unhealing wound.
• Li Wen entered Witch State and saw that Tilroggzak had ten minutes before the seed of faith's effect ended, while her Twilight Erosion was about 5%.

Li Wen fought Tilroggzak as his curses and Shadow Beast drove up her Twilight Erosion, but she dispelled the curses and wounded him with the Bone-Gnawing Short Sword. Tilroggzak then summoned the Spear of Death Curse, whose chains bound Li Wen as he prepared to strike her.

• Tilroggzak cursed Li Wen with Pain Curse and summoned Azbollo, which tore at her shadow and rapidly increased her erosion.
• Li Wen used Levitation to evade the Shadow Beast and flew toward Tilroggzak, then dispelled her curses with the Passionate Blaze Ring's Flame Heal.
• Li Wen retrieved the Bone-Gnawing Short Sword and pierced Tilroggzak through his Magic Shield, but the Shadow Beast made him intangible before she could press the attack.
• Tilroggzak summoned the Spear of Death Curse from a Blood Contract and hurled it at Li Wen.
• The spear's chains bound Li Wen, causing her Twilight Erosion to surge as Tilroggzak aimed the weapon at her.

Li Wen used Gift of Temperance to escape Tilroggzak’s restraints, but his curses and Death Curse Spear drove her Twilight Erosion to 99%. She activated Twilight’s End to reset the erosion, recovered from her wounds, and prepared to finish the demon as his condition worsened.

• Li Wen used Gift of Temperance to break the chains and remove Tilroggzak’s Magic Shield, then attacked him with her short sword.
• Tilroggzak struck Li Wen with curses, knocked her back, and used a crushed goat horn to prevent her from casting spells.
• Tilroggzak pierced Li Wen with the Death Curse Spear and invoked its curse again, growing a Blood Thorn Tree through her body as her Twilight Erosion climbed to 99%.
• Li Wen activated Twilight’s End, reset her Twilight Erosion to 0%, pulled out the spear, and recovered under Twilight’s Eternal Power.
• Tilroggzak realized Li Wen could become a threat to Dark Dawn and Siswell, while his worsening condition made him fixate on the firelight.

Li Wen defeated Tilroggzak by using Afterglow to strengthen her Arc Light and teleporting away from his deadly attack. Tilroggzak was destroyed in the human world, while the ruined Candle Sun Cathedral continued to burn and Li Wen worried that the Kingdom Investigation Bureau would arrive.

• Tilroggzak sacrificed his body and summoned a terrifying darkness, while Li Wen's attacks failed to interrupt his spell.
• Li Wen used her Afterglow trait to empower her Arc Light as Tilroggzak summoned Hellfire that threatened to kill her.
• Li Wen used the Shattered Eye of the Transcendent to teleport away from the Hellfire, then burned Tilroggzak with brilliant light.
• Li Wen crushed Tilroggzak's remaining head, then surveyed the burning cathedral ruins and worried that the Kingdom Investigation Bureau had noticed the battle.