Chapter Summaries

Xiao Xie served a suspicious group of beastmen at Anya Tavern and overheard them mention a trip to the elves. After they left, he wondered whether they were planning to go to the Elf Race.

• Xiao Xie noticed more than thirty armed-looking beastmen arrive at Anya Tavern and served them ale.
• Vivian offered the Tiger-headed Man her specialty dishes, but he declined and said the group had brought their own rations.
• Xiao Xie told Vivia that the guests seemed dangerous, but she said their business was only running the tavern and they should not get involved.
• Vivian teased Vivia and Xiao Xie, then sent Xiao Xie to collect payment from the guests.
• The scarred wolfman began discussing the group's trip to the elves, but the Tiger-headed Man stopped him, paid Xiao Xie, and led the beastmen away.
• Xiao Xie heard the mention of elves and wondered if the group planned to visit the Elf Race.

Vivian celebrated the tavern’s unexpected earnings, while Xiao Xie and Vivia stopped her from cooking. Meanwhile, the beastmen from Anya Tavern approached Elf territory, where guards patrolled the forest.

• Vivian admired the ten Gold Coins the tavern had earned and announced that she would cook, but Xiao Xie and Vivia objected.
• Xiao Xie challenged Vivian to taste her own cooking, so she assigned the cooking to him and went to clear the tables.
• A Tiger-headed Man led Black Robed Men toward Elf territory and ordered Carl and Kurt to sneak in after the guards were drawn away.
• Osa tossed Cocoa Fruits down to Luo Li, Chuck, and the other Elf Guards as they patrolled the forest outskirts.

An elf patrol discovered a group of beastmen approaching, while the Tiger-headed Man ordered his subordinates to draw the Elf Guards away without killing them. With the guards lured off, Carl used an Isolation Magic Scroll to hide from the elves’ plant-based surveillance and prepare to infiltrate their territory with Kurt.

• Chuck detected more than thirty approaching beastmen, including several advanced warriors, and alerted nearby Elf Warlocks while his patrol prepared to respond.
• The Tiger-headed Man told his beastmen to split into groups and lure the Elf Guards away, warning them not to kill any elves or disrupt the plan.
• A green-haired elf led his squad in pursuit after learning from the plants that intruders were three li ahead.
• After the elf squad left, Carl revealed herself from a tree and explained that a level-four Isolation Magic Scroll concealed her from the plants’ surveillance.
• Carl noted that she and Kurt had spent nearly seven thousand Gold Coins on two scrolls and needed to steal something valuable to make the infiltration worthwhile.

Carl and Kurt infiltrated the Elf Race to steal valuable jewelry, but an elf girl caught them as they tried to leave. They tried to convince her they were good people, but she pointed out that she had seen them stealing.

• Kurt urged Carl to begin the mission before their isolation magic expired, but Carl waited until the Elf Guards were lured away.
• Carl and Kurt slipped past the Treants at the Elf Race entrance and entered the hidden forest beneath the Tree of Life.
• The pair split up to steal jewelry from homes on the outskirts, then reunited with small bundles of loot.
• As Carl and Kurt prepared to leave, an elf girl caught them and rejected their claim that they were good people because she had seen them stealing.

Duo Duo captured Carl and Kurt after they tried to steal from the Elf Race, then forced them to help her escape and explore the outside world. She took their stolen accessories and prepared to leave with them.

• Carl and Kurt tried to attack Duo Duo, but she bound them with vines and threatened to hand them over to the elves.
• Duo Duo offered to release Carl and Kurt if they took her outside and called her Big Sister Head Duo Duo.
• Duo Duo forced Tree Seeds into Carl and Kurt and demonstrated that she could make them cause intense pain.
• Duo Duo calmed the Tree Seeds, freed Carl and Kurt, and ordered them to take her outside before the other elves noticed.
• Duo Duo confiscated Carl and Kurt's bundle of accessories and put it in her Storage Ring.

Duo Duo left the Elf Race with Carl and Kurt, taking elven jewelry and using a scroll to conceal her aura. The Elf Queen revealed she had allowed the escape so Duo Duo could gain experience as the Tree of Life’s chosen successor, while ordering the other beastmen invaders killed.

• Duo Duo took all the elven jewelry for herself, then accepted Carl’s Magic Scroll and concealed her aura before leading Carl and Kurt toward the exit.
• The Elf Queen watched Duo Duo through a crystal and sent Xiao You to protect her secretly.
• The Elf Queen explained to Xi Yue that the Tree of Life had chosen Duo Duo as the next Elf Queen, so she had allowed her to leave and gain experience.
• The Elf Queen ordered Xi Yue to kill the beastmen invaders, sparing only the two accompanying Duo Duo.
• Carl suggested meeting Tiger Boss and the other beastmen, but Duo Duo refused because she believed the Elf Guard would catch them and the others would not survive.

Duo Duo left the Elf Race with Carl and Kurt and visited Anya Tavern, where she demanded ale and surprised her companions by not punishing Xiao Xie for touching her head. She felt an unexplained closeness to him because the Nine Spirits Pearl had left a faint trace of Life Force in his body.

• Duo Duo urged Carl and Kurt to leave, and they followed her without returning to rescue their captured companions.
• Carl and Kurt brought Duo Duo to Anya Tavern, where Xiao Xie greeted them and Vivian hurried to prepare her signature dishes.
• Duo Duo protested when Xiao Xie served her fruit wine instead of ale, and he agreed to bring her ale after patting her head.
• Duo Duo slapped Xiao Xie's hand away but did not become angry, while Carl and Kurt and the hidden Xiao You were surprised by her reaction.
• Duo Duo felt a familiar aura from Xiao Xie because the Nine Spirits Pearl had left Life Force within him.

Duo Duo visited Vivia and Vivian's tavern with Carl and Kurt, where she sampled ale and met the sisters and Xiao Xie. Vivian served a feast of meat and fish dishes, and Duo Duo began tasting the food.

• Xiao Xie served Duo Duo ale, which she found awful, while Vivia and Xiao Xie joked about Vivian cooking for her.
• Duo Duo asked to hold Vivia's Ice Wolves, introduced Carl and Kurt as her underlings, and learned the names of Vivia, Vivian, and Xiao Xie.
• Vivian brought out several dishes, including Braised Horned Boar Meat, Sour and Spicy Armored Fish, and Hundred Fruit Soup.
• Carl offered Duo Duo a knife and fork and praised her cooking before she took the first bite of Braised Horned Boar Meat.

Duo Duo’s unusual constitution made Vivian’s Dark Cuisine taste delicious to her, so Vivian took her on as a cooking disciple. Xiao Xie sensed a powerful Dark Elf secretly watching Duo Duo from the tavern’s shadows.

• Duo Duo devoured Vivian’s Dark Cuisine and praised it, while Carl and Kurt vomited after tasting it and Vivian confirmed the food was still awful.
• Xiao Xiao told Xiao Xie that Duo Duo likely had a special constitution that made her enjoy Vivian’s cooking.
• Vivian invited Duo Duo to become her disciple, and Duo Duo accepted, planning to cook for the Empress Dowager and the others when she returned.
• Carl and Kurt realized they would probably be forced to taste-test Vivian’s dishes as Duo Duo learned to cook.
• Xiao Xie sensed a Dark Elf with at least Ninth-Level Warrior strength hiding in the tavern and suspected Duo Duo had an unusual background.

A powerful convoy from the Jackman Family arrived in Green Jade Town, while Duo Duo continued her disastrous Dark Cuisine training under Vivian. The chapter left Duo Duo eager to keep practicing and Xiao Xie questioning Vivia about Vivian’s influence on her.

• Xiao Xie suspected that Duo Duo was an Elf princess and that a hidden Dark Elf was protecting her, while Vivia worried that Vivian’s new apprentice would make the tavern chaotic.
• Oly Jackman led a heavily guarded convoy into Green Jade Town and planned to enter the Sunset Mountain Range the next day.
• Mercenaries speculated that Oly had come to find a gift for the Ninth Princess’s coming-of-age ceremony.
• Duo Duo forced Carl to drink her Hundred Fruit Soup, causing Carl to collapse and convulse.
• Vivian encouraged Duo Duo after another failed cooking attempt, and Xiao Xie asked Vivia whether Vivian was leading the child astray.

Xiao Xie entered the Sunset Mountain Range and used Suppressing Heaven and Earth's gravity field to kill magical beasts attracted by roasted meat. The chapter ended when a mysterious seven-colored-tailed bird bypassed the field and revealed a spatial ability as Xiao Xie tried to touch it.

• Xiao Xie fled the tavern to avoid becoming a taste-tester for Vivian and Duo Duo, then headed into the Sunset Mountain Range.
• Xiao Xie ignored the Three Great Rules for spending the night in the range and roasted bird wings to lure magical beasts.
• Suppressing Heaven and Earth crushed a Shadow Leopard with a five-hundredfold gravity field, and Xiao Xie explained that he had already killed over a hundred beasts this way.
• A strange white bird with seven-colored tail feathers flew out of the forest, passed through the gravity field unharmed, and ate Xiao Xie's roasted wing.
• Xiao Xie reached for the bird, but his hand passed through it, and he realized it had a spatial ability.

Xiao Xie captured and named a spatially gifted bird Xiao Qi, then returned to Anya Tavern and learned it was a rare, lucky Dreamlike Bird. He lent Xiao Qi to Vivian in exchange for not being made to taste-test her and Duo Duo’s cooking, and headed to the back courtyard.

• Xiao Xie used a talisman and his Soul Power to trap and tame the strange bird, naming it Xiao Qi.
• After killing nearly five hundred Magical Beasts overnight, including three seventh-level beasts, Xiao Xie returned to Anya Tavern with Xiao Qi.
• Xiao Xie found Carl and Kurt unconscious at the tavern entrance and learned Vivian and Duo Duo had been cooking all night.
• Vivia and Vivian recognized Xiao Qi as a rare Dreamlike Bird, also known as a Lucky Bird.
• Vivian asked to borrow Xiao Qi, and Xiao Xie agreed on the condition that she and Duo Duo stop asking him to taste-test their food.

Xiao Xie recycled Magic Cores and refined Blood Bone Pills to strengthen his physique, then forged Black Sword Night into a powerful new weapon. He named the sword Hidden Edge and prepared to use its heavy outer scabbard and lighter inner blade for different opponents.

• Xiao Xie recycled the Magical Beasts’ Magic Cores for over five million Points and refined their flesh and bones into Blood Bone Pills.
• Xiao Xie swallowed the pills and strengthened his physique until he could move under two hundred times gravity and manage movement under three hundred times gravity.
• Xiao Xie spent over three million Points forging the Magical Beasts’ teeth and claws together with Black Sword Night into a massive, edgeless greatsword.
• Xiao Xie drew a lighter purple-black greatsword from inside the massive weapon, revealing that the outer sword served as its scabbard.
• Xiao Xie named the weapon Hidden Edge, and Xiao Xiao praised the name.

Xiao Xie enhanced Suppressing Heaven and Earth with Adamantium, greatly increasing its strength. Meanwhile, Xiao Qi attracted a crowd to Anya Tavern, and Oli arrived intending to claim the Dreamlike Bird as a gift for the Ninth Princess.

• Xiao Xie spent 2.5 million Points to enhance Suppressing Heaven and Earth to Adamantium, allowing it to withstand three thousand times gravity and strike with three hundred thousand tons of force.
• Vivian displayed Xiao Qi outside Anya Tavern, drawing many customers, while she ordered Carl and Kurt to serve drinks.
• A cavalryman reported to Oli that a Dreamlike Bird had appeared at Anya Tavern, and Oli decided to take it as a gift for the Ninth Princess.
• Oli and his group arrived at Anya Tavern, where the Knight Captain recognized Carl as a Sixth-Level Thief and grew wary of the tavern.

Oli offered Vivian one million Gold Coins for Xiao Qi, but Vivian mocked the offer and refused to sell the Dreamlike Bird. After Oli left, mercenaries explained that Vivian’s strength had kept troublemakers away from Anya Tavern.

• Oli offered Vivian one million Gold Coins for Xiao Qi, and she pretended to consider before refusing.
• Vivian mocked Oli for thinking a million Gold Coins could buy a living Dreamlike Bird, and the tavern’s customers laughed.
• Oli asked what it would take to buy Xiao Qi, but Vivian dismissed him and told him to leave.
• The Knight Captain stopped Oli from attacking, and Oli left after warning Vivian he would remember her.
• A gnoll mercenary told a curious bearfolk that Vivian had defeated more than a hundred customers who tried to cause trouble at Anya Tavern.

After Oli vowed to retaliate against Vivian for losing the Dreamlike Bird, Vivian and her companions prepared for a nighttime attack at Anya Tavern. Four black-robed men broke into the courtyard, and Vivian began fighting their leader.

• Oli ordered Tylon to capture Vivian and bring back the Dreamlike Bird after returning to the manor.
• Vivian told Vivia that Oli's group would likely retaliate that night, while Duo Duo eagerly asked to join the action.
• Xiao Xie offered to help, but Vivian told him to stay in his room, and Duo Duo encouraged him.
• Four black-robed men entered Anya Tavern's rear courtyard after the tavern closed and demanded the Dreamlike Bird and the three women.
• Vivian attacked the leader with a silver whip and matched him in combat, while Xiao Xie recognized that she cultivated both magic and martial arts.

Vivian and Duo Duo fought Tylon and his three subordinates at the Anya Tavern, forcing them to flee after Vivian wounded Tylon with her Death Dou Qi. Vivia tracked their escape, and Vivian led her and Duo Duo in pursuit to eliminate the threat at its source.

• Duo Duo used thick vines to hold off Tylon’s three Level 7 subordinates, while Vivian continued fighting Tylon.
• Vivian recognized Tylon as the Knight Captain from that morning and wounded him with her Death Dou Qi.
• Tylon ordered a retreat, and his subordinates blasted Duo Duo’s vines with sword light to cover their escape.
• Vivia used a Tracking Light Orb to follow the fugitives’ auras, and Vivian took Duo Duo and Vivia after them.
• Vivian ordered Xiao Xie and the others to guard the tavern, but Xiao Xie soon sped off after them; Carl and Kurt realized he was far stronger than they had thought.

After Vivian and her companions killed Tylon and his men, the Jackman Family’s Third Elder intervened to protect Oli and offered compensation. Vivian accepted the Crystal Card for the tavern’s damage and warned that she would show no mercy if Oli provoked them again.

• Tylon returned to the manor badly injured and told Oli that Vivian and her companions were too powerful to defeat without help from the family elders.
• Vivian, Vivia, and Duo Duo stormed into the hall and Duo Duo’s vines killed Tylon and his four men.
• The Third Elder appeared, cut through Duo Duo’s vines, and apologized to Vivian and her companions on Oli’s behalf.
• When Oli insulted Vivian and the others, the Third Elder slapped him and forced him to apologize.
• Vivian accepted the Crystal Card as compensation for the tavern’s damage and warned Oli not to provoke them again.

After Vivian and her companions left, the Three Great Elders revealed that Duo Duo’s pendant held a Life Gem and explained its value to Oli. He admitted he had wanted to steal it to heal Will Jackman’s hidden injuries, but said he had been forced to let the girls go.

• Vivian took Vivia and Duo Duo back to the inn, while the Three Great Elders concealed his anger after they left.
• The Three Great Elders told Oli that Duo Duo’s pendant contained a Life Gem and that she was likely elven royalty.
• Oli learned that a Life Gem could heal Will Jackman’s lingering injuries and help him overcome the limits holding back his cultivation.
• The Three Great Elders said he had planned to seize the gem and silence the girls, but had no choice but to let them leave.

Xiao Xie overheard Three Great Elders and Oli plotting to have Will Jackman steal Duo Duo’s Life Gem, then killed Three Great Elders and had Suppressing Heaven and Earth destroy Oli’s estate. He recalled Suppressing Heaven and Earth and reappeared beside Xiao Qi.

• Three Great Elders told Oli he had held back because an Elf Royal Guard assassin was watching, and revealed that he planned to ask Will Jackman to steal the Life Gem.
• Xiao Xie entered Oli’s hall and admitted he had overheard their scheme.
• Three Great Elders attacked Xiao Xie, but Xiao Xie crushed him under two thousand times gravity and stomped his head apart.
• Xiao Xie knocked Oli unconscious and took his Storage Ring, then ordered Suppressing Heaven and Earth to collapse the estate with its Gravity Domain.
• Xiao Xie recalled Suppressing Heaven and Earth and used the Reverse Summoning Technique to appear beside Xiao Qi, who happily greeted him.