Chapter Summaries

Xilos confronted Wen Ke'er with a Flame Longsword, then condemned her for being a fallen Elf. Shen Yi blocked their conversation from the others, while he and Fei Mi realized Wen Ke'er was deliberately handling the encounter herself.

• Xilos appeared beside Wen Ke'er, and Shimada Yukimi sensed her overwhelming power through Winnie's warning.
• Xilos held her Flame Longsword to Wen Ke'er's throat, but Wen Ke'er calmly questioned whether she could really kill her.
• Xilos lowered her weapon and accused Wen Ke'er of being an outsider who had become a corrupted, fallen Wood Elf.
• Shen Yi silently raised a barrier to keep Xilos and Wen Ke'er's conversation from reaching the onlookers.
• Fei Mi suspected Wen Ke'er had her own reasons for speaking with Xilos, and Shen Yi told her to let Wen Ke'er continue.

Xilos revealed the hidden location of the Elf race and warned Wen Ke'er and her companions about the dangers of the Shadow World. As the group considered whether to go there, Shen Yi and Fei Mi noticed signs that the Succubus race and other fallen elves might also be involved.

• Xilos condemned Wen Ke'er, revealed the Elf race's location to her, warned Shimada Yukimi not to harm the Elf race's reputation, and departed deeper into Twilight Abyss.
• Wen Ke'er asked Shen Yi to go with her to the Elf territory, while Fei Mi and Shimada Yukimi warned that the trip could be a trap.
• Xilos sent a warning through the Mental Link about the hidden Succubus race and cautioned the group against trusting others or touching unfamiliar things.
• Fei Mi noted that the Succubus race had remained inactive during the upheaval, and Shen Yi pointed out that no True Demons had appeared and that Xilos knew about Wen Ke'er's fallen-elf origins.
• Wen Ke'er wondered whether she was not the only fallen elf.

Shen Yi and the others discussed the strange aura around Xilos and identified traces of Black Fog corrosion on her. Shen Yi prioritized retrieving what they had seen earlier, then drew a fine wisp of dust from Wen Ke'er, causing someone far away to react.

• Wen Ke'er reflected on Shen Yi's confidence and told him Xilos's aura felt like that of a man she had encountered in Neon Country.
• Fei Mi and Wen Ke'er recognized something familiar and ominous in Xilos's aura, while Shimada Yukimi suggested it was the feeling of Black Fog.
• Shen Yi confirmed that Xilos showed traces of Black Fog corrosion, leaving Fei Mi and Wen Ke'er awkwardly silent.
• Wen Ke'er said she would follow Shen Yi's lead, and Shen Yi said they should first retrieve what they had seen earlier.
• Shen Yi tapped Wen Ke'er and drew a fine wisp of dust from her; far away, someone abruptly reacted.

Xilos searched for a way to restore her people and found that the Nether Moon Wheel could only restore sixty percent of a soul’s breath. She revealed that the Elf clan was struggling to contain dangers beneath the prison and demanded to know when the other races would join the wardens, leaving the old man facing her threat to let the imprisoned beings emerge.

• Xilos examined the Nether Moon Wheel and a shattered crystal, concluding that the wheel could restore only sixty percent of her people’s soul breath.
• An old man told Xilos that he had dealt with someone as she requested, then worried about how the Orc race would react.
• Xilos explained that clan turmoil and the prison’s demands had consumed nearly seventy percent of her strength, and that Kolun could suppress the powers for only three days with her help.
• The old man panicked when Xilos disclosed that the powers could escape in half a day without her influence, but she said she had reinforced the prison seals before leaving.
• Xilos demanded to know when the other races would take over as prison wardens and challenged their arrogance over Kolun’s request for the Spirit of Purity.
• When the old man asked if she was threatening him, Xilos said she was only finding a way out for herself.

Xilos received the last Pure Spirit from the old man, used it to weaken the Black Fog corruption in her body, and sent supplies and a warning to Kolun before leaving on urgent business. Meanwhile, Shen Yi and his companions searched the lowest level of Twilight Abyss for the Seven-Petaled Polo Sha as Fei Mi spotted something ahead.

• The old man gave Xilos the last Pure Spirit and agreed to urge the other races to fulfill their obligations.
• Xilos used the Pure Spirit to drive out some foreign aura but found that it barely affected the deeper Black Fog corruption.
• Xilos sealed treasures into a Void-Breaking Stone and sent Kolun the Pure Spirit, telling him to evacuate the clansmen if she did not return before the prison seal failed.
• Fei Mi continued searching for the Seven-Petaled Polo Sha while Wen Ke'er and Shimada Yukimi questioned the search and the danger surrounding it.
• Shen Yi said he already knew a powerful aura had appeared near the Seven-Petaled Polo Sha, and Fei Mi told the others to be quiet after spotting strange objects ahead.

Fei Mi found Star Conceal Grass in the Twilight Abyss, whose root dust could hide their auras and help them steal the Seven-Petaled Polo Sha. Winnie explained that the treasure might restore her soul while strengthening Shimada Yukimi, giving her a seventy percent chance of returning to a normal soul level within fifteen years.

• Fei Mi showed Wen Ke'er and the others Star Conceal Grass and explained that its root dust concealed nearby auras.
• Fei Mi tested the dust, and Shen Yi measured that her aura vanished from perception after seventeen seconds.
• Wen Ke'er used the dust to conceal her presence within five breaths.
• Winnie, speaking through Shimada Yukimi, asked the group to obtain part of the Seven-Petaled Polo Sha so she could recover without separating their fused souls.
• Winnie said she had a seventy percent chance of reaching a normal soul level within fifteen years and was confident Shimada Yukimi could use more of her power.

Winnie offered Shen Yi a bargain involving the Seven-Petaled Polo Sha in exchange for his help recovering her soul, but Shen Yi rejected her attempt to negotiate while she still occupied Shimada Yukimi's body. Winnie agreed to leave Yukimi before discussing any arrangement, though she remained wary of Yukimi's feelings for Shen Yi.

• Winnie explained that the Seven-Petaled Polo Sha could help restore her remnant soul and offered to serve Shen Yi for fifty years if she received its main body, or one hundred years if she received only some petals.
• Fei Mi questioned whether Winnie could be controlled after recovering, while Wen Ke'er reacted with insecurity and growing hostility toward Shimada Yukimi.
• Shen Yi rejected Winnie's offer, saying that saving her had been incidental and that her choice to fuse with Yukimi did not concern him.
• Winnie realized Shen Yi was warning her that she had no standing to negotiate while relying on Yukimi's body.
• Winnie agreed that Shen Yi and Yukimi could discuss her offer after she had completely left Yukimi's body.

Shimada Yukimi briefly regained control of her body and asked to persuade Winnie, while Shen Yi and Fei Mi dismissed Winnie’s importance. Xilos arrived with a rare fire treasure and asked to travel with the group, but Shen Yi asked her to explain how the Black Fog had eroded her, making her expression change sharply.

• Fei Mi told Winnie that saving her had been incidental and that Neon Country’s submission mattered more, while Shen Yi considered sealing her consciousness.
• Shimada Yukimi surfaced and asked Shen Yi and Fei Mi for permission to try persuading Winnie.
• Wen Ke'er spotted Xilos approaching, and Xilos offered the Primal Flame Heart and its magma in exchange for traveling with the group.
• Xilos explained that she wanted to learn about the outsiders and could follow them for one day, while Wen Ke'er remained wary of her.
• Shen Yi agreed that Xilos could come along if she first explained how the Black Fog erosion had affected her, and Xilos reacted with alarm.

Shen Yi questioned Xilos about Biers, then teleported her and the women to the underground metropolis. Xilos discovered Shen Yi’s rare spatial power and human identity, leaving her astonished by how completely he concealed his strength.

• Shen Yi asked Xilos whether Biers was dead, and Xilos hinted that she was hiding a secret from those watching her.
• Shen Yi teleported Xilos and the women to the underground metropolis, prompting Fei Mi to question whether they could trust her.
• Xilos reacted with shock when Fei Mi explained that Shen Yi could teleport people over immense distances without the usual restrictions.
• Shimada Yukimi and Shen Yi dropped their disguises, and Xilos realized they were both humans with extraordinary power.
• Xilos sensed that Shen Yi had erased every trace of their aura before leaving the lowest level of the Twilight Abyss, though she could not detect his power.

Xilos revealed that she had deceived Fei Mi and Wen Ke'er to learn whether they were outsiders, then admitted she needed a pure spirit to cleanse the Black Fog corroding her fire. After Shen Yi showed her a corrupted bead, Xilos exposed the corruption in her own flames but kept her clan’s true purpose for entering the Twilight Abyss secret.

• Xilos realized Fei Mi and Wen Ke'er came from another world and asked whether they had arrived to cause trouble.
• Xilos explained that Biers was alive because she had made a deal with her, and admitted she had deceived the overseer to obtain a pure spirit.
• Fei Mi questioned whether Xilos would risk angering the overseers for a pure spirit, and Xilos confirmed that she needed one to purge the forces corroding her body.
• Shen Yi showed Xilos a bead threaded with Black Fog, prompting her to reveal that the same corruption had spread through the core of her flames.
• Xilos said she was seeking a pure spirit, while Wen Ke'er recognized that Xilos’s earlier anger had come from disgust at the Black Fog corrupting her own power.

Xilos demonstrated that her flames could burn away the Black Fog, and Shen Yi suspected she had been made responsible for suppressing its source. Xilos revealed that the other races had broken their promises to help her, while Fei Mi and Wen Ke'er struggled not to laugh at how easily she had been deceived.

• Xilos took Shen Yi's bead and burned away the Black Fog inside it with her flames.
• Xilos explained that her power could destroy the Black Fog without being corrupted by it.
• Shen Yi asked whether Xilos had been tasked with containing the Source of Black Mist.
• Xilos said the other races had promised to help her gather Spirits of Purity and inspect the seal, but later broke their promises and barred Kolun from retrieving Spirits of Purity.
• Winnie mocked Xilos's naivety, and Fei Mi and Wen Ke'er tried to hide their amusement.
• Xilos sensed the group's reaction and asked whether they were laughing at her.

Xilos explained that she accepted the other races’ conditions to secure a safe home and resources for the fragile, newly born Elf Tree while she suppressed the Source of Black Mist. The promised support never came, and the Black Fog’s corrosion had grown beyond her control, leaving the Elf race trapped and Xilos herself slowly affected.

• Xilos showed Shen Yi, Wen Ke'er, and Fei Mi the Elf Tree and explained that it was the foundation of the Elf race.
• Xilos said the Elf Tree was too fragile to survive in the Twilight Abyss and needed a stable place and abundant natural power.
• Xilos revealed that she had agreed to suppress the Source of Black Mist in exchange for territory and long-term resource support for the elves.
• Xilos explained that the other races had withheld their promised aid, while the Black Fog had grown harder to suppress.
• Xilos admitted that the Black Fog had begun seeping through her flames and slowly changing her personality, temper, and power.

Shen Yi questioned Xilos about the Black Fog’s corrosion and demanded a reason to let her join them. When he opened a spatial rift back to the Twilight Abyss, Xilos stopped him.

• Wen Ke'er explained that the Black Fog’s effects varied by what it corroded and that it could change a victim’s temperament while making them stronger.
• Shimada Yukimi asked whether Xilos’s personality had changed or whether the Black Fog only made her hesitate when using her flames, and Xilos answered that both had happened.
• Shen Yi introduced himself and his companions to Xilos, who questioned Fei Mi’s unfamiliar name and whether she came from another world.
• Shen Yi asked what benefit Xilos offered by following them, and said they would part ways if she had nothing to offer.
• Shen Yi opened a spatial rift to the depths of the Twilight Abyss, and Xilos called out, “Wait!”

Shen Yi brought Xilos and the others to the Elf race’s fiery refuge, where Xilos offered the entire Elf race’s service for fifty years in exchange for resolving its predicament. Shen Yi rejected the offer and demanded that Xilos become his woman instead.

• Shen Yi teleported Xilos and the others to a magma-filled location whose coordinates Xilos had previously given Wen Ke'er.
• Fei Mi suspected the place could have been an ambush, but Xilos explained that she had not intended to attack them and asked if Shen Yi could resolve the Elf race’s predicament.
• Xilos offered to have the Elf race serve Shen Yi for fifty years, provided he did not make them violate their principles.
• Winnie judged the offer substantial, but Shen Yi dismissed it and questioned why he would need the Elf race’s power.
• When Xilos asked what he wanted, Shen Yi said he would resolve the Elf race’s troubles if Xilos became his woman.

Shen Yi demanded that Xilos become his woman in exchange for helping the Elf race, then left to give her time to consider. After consoling Wen Ke'er, he sent a dozen powerful shadows to seize the Seven-Petaled Polo Sha and prepared to leave the Twilight Abyss.

• Shen Yi demanded that Xilos become his possession, then took Fei Mi, Wen Ke'er, and Shimada Yukimi back to the underground city when she rejected the condition.
• Fei Mi questioned Shen Yi's decision to leave, while Wen Ke'er said her Elf race had been destroyed and Fei Mi's attempt to comfort her worsened her mood.
• Shen Yi comforted Wen Ke'er and said they could visit her world if the chance arose, then decided to obtain Polo Sha.
• Shen Yi summoned more than a dozen shadows with portions of his strength, gathered the blue-skinned humans into his domain, and told the others to prepare to leave.
• The shadows charged into the underground maze and one seized the Seven-Petaled Polo Sha, triggering a furious force.

Shen Yi returned with the Seven-Petaled Polo Sha and prepared to use it to remake Wen Ke’er’s body. As Wen Ke’er’s soul approached the flower, Shen Yi separated two layers of petals and promised to set some aside for Shimada Yukimi.

• A hunched figure emerged from the void, gathered auras on its finger, then disappeared after becoming furious.
• Shen Yi returned to the Mountain City Shelter with the Seven-Petaled Polo Sha, astonishing Shimada Yukimi, Winnie, Fei Mi, and Wen Ke’er.
• Shen Yi asked whether Wen Ke’er could preserve her soul and leave her body, then offered to use the flower to remake her body.
• Wen Ke’er separated from her body and drifted toward the flower until Fei Mi pulled her back.
• Shimada Yukimi added a protective Restriction, and Shen Yi promised to save some petals for her.
• Shen Yi drew out two layers of petals, which turned transparent as Wen Ke’er regained her senses.

Shen Yi used two layers of Polo Sha to help Wen Ke'er reforge her body while discussing the risks of using it on Shimada Yukimi. He gave Winnie the remaining plant residue and a layer of petals, leaving her astonished by his generosity.

• Shen Yi told Wen Ke'er to absorb the pure energy before shaping her body, and she rushed into it gratefully.
• Fei Mi worried that restoring Shimada Yukimi might let Winnie become dangerous, but Shen Yi said he could keep her from making a move.
• Fei Mi declined Polo Sha for herself and suggested leaving Shimada Yukimi one layer of petals to limit her growth.
• Shimada Yukimi asked for the plant residue to stabilize her soul source, and Shen Yi stripped away the calyxes and stalks while preserving the inner petals and pistil.
• Shen Yi gave Winnie a layer of petals and the plant residue, leaving her to ask whether all of it was for her.

Shen Yi gave Winnie most of the Polo Sha petals while reserving some to help Shimada Yukimi survive their unstable fusion. As Shimada Yukimi absorbed the petals, Wen Ke'er finished reconstructing her body and waited for Shen Yi’s judgment.

• Shen Yi told Winnie she could take seventy percent of the Polo Sha petals and warned that Shimada Yukimi might not live past twenty-seven or twenty-eight if she kept using power beyond her limits.
• Shimada Yukimi let Winnie control her body and began absorbing the petals before they lost their effectiveness.
• Fei Mi questioned Shen Yi about his way of dealing with women, and he rejected her suggestion that he was tricking them.
• Wen Ke'er emerged from the energy sphere, leaving moss and greenery wherever she stepped.
• Wen Ke'er asked Shen Yi how her recreated appearance looked, and he noticed that her presence felt unusually pure and calming.

Shen Yi returned to the Shelter with Fei Mi and Wen Ke'er, whose restored body had greatly increased her strength, and reunited with Long Aoshuang. He learned that two weeks had passed on Blue Star despite spending only a little over a day in the Shadow World, then used the Mental Link to announce his return and triggered a powerful change in the women connected to him.

• Wen Ke'er celebrated the strengthened aura she gained after restoring her original body, and Shen Yi said Winnie's restoration could wait for an opportunity.
• Shen Yi, Fei Mi, and Wen Ke'er returned to the Shelter, where Long Aoshuang tearfully welcomed him back.
• Long Aoshuang revealed that fourteen days and six hours had passed on Blue Star, although Shen Yi had spent only one day and four hours in the Shadow World.
• Long Aoshuang asked Shen Yi to announce his return through the Mental Link, and he sent his presence to the women connected to him.
• Long Aoshuang and the other women suddenly felt their strength and senses surge, leaving Long Aoshuang astonished by the transformation.

Long Aoshuang told Shen Yi, Wen Ke’er, and Fei Mi that the Black Fog had grown stronger and was producing increasingly dangerous monsters, including one that repeatedly returned after attacks. Wen Ke’er asked where Murong Xue was, and Long Aoshuang’s reaction suggested that Murong Xue was in trouble.

• Long Aoshuang discovered that being near Shen Yi had enhanced her physical qualities, and Wen Ke’er explained that the change was not caused by an Ability Fruit.
• Long Aoshuang reported that the Black Fog had strengthened since Shen Yi’s last return, causing powerful mutations and signs of infection in humans.
• Long Aoshuang showed Shen Yi and Wen Ke’er an image of a grotesquely mutated creature that had survived six attempts to eliminate it and kept growing stronger.
• Fei Mi argued that the creature was not powerful if heavy artillery could still hurt it, while Wen Ke’er asked why Murong Xue had not dealt with it.
• Wen Ke’er sensed the surroundings and noticed Long Aoshuang’s tense expression, then demanded to know whether Murong Xue was in trouble.