Chapter Summaries

Xilos confronted a supervisor and Randall over the broken Void Cage and the demand that she pay a price. After Shen Yi suggested she had paid far more than they knew, Xilos challenged whether they were worthy of speaking to the Elf race about an agreement.

• Fei Mi worried that Xilos might have planned her encounter with Biers and risked the Twilight Abyss by confronting its supervisors.
• Shen Yi told Fei Mi to watch as Xilos faced the supervisor and Randall, while other creatures debated who was responsible for the broken Void Cage.
• A hooded supervisor accused Xilos of violating an agreement, attacking below the third level, and refusing to pay for opening the Void Cage.
• Shen Yi recognized the supervisor's words as an attempt to pressure Xilos through her responsibility to the Elf race and said she had already paid more than they understood.
• Xilos fixed her gaze on Randall and asked whether they were worthy of discussing a price or an agreement with the Elf race.

Xilos confronted the supervisor and the Succubus Clan Leader over Biers's survival and their demand for payment, then exposed the Clan Leader's secret rise to power. As Xilos angrily accused the other races of withholding what they owed the Elf race, Fei Mi feared she was about to reveal the secrets of the Bottom of the Rock Prison.

• Xilos questioned the supervisor and the Succubus Clan Leader about Biers surviving the Void Cage, while both denied knowing she was alive.
• Xilos accused the Succubus Clan Leader of having faked her own death for profit, shocking the creatures watching nearby.
• Fei Mi explained to Shen Yi that Randall had deceived the former Succubus Clan Leader into thinking she was dead, then seized power and suppressed her predecessor.
• The supervisor demanded that Xilos pay the agreed price for activating the Void Cage, but Xilos refused and accused the other races of failing to deliver what they owed the Elf race.
• Fei Mi realized Xilos might reveal everything about the Bottom of the Rock Prison.

Xilos confronted Randall and the cloaked Overseer over their attempt to pressure her, revealing that the seal on the Bottom of the Rock Prison would fail in one day. She left the Overseer asking what she wanted and accused those who upheld the rules of disregarding the sacrifices others had made.

• Fei Mi watched as Xilos's revelation about the Elf race's responsibility unsettled the Shadow World beings and made Randall grow serious.
• Randall warned Xilos that exposing their secret could have grave consequences, but Xilos said they had come to pressure her rather than negotiate.
• Xilos revealed that the seal on the Bottom of the Rock Prison had only one day left and challenged the Overseer and Randall to keep fighting her if they wished.
• Randall urged Xilos to reconsider, but Xilos rejected her appeal and recalled how the other races had ignored the Elf race's sacrifices and promises.
• The Overseer asked Xilos what she wanted, and Xilos replied that her demands had always been simple before accusing the rule-keepers of failing to value others' efforts.

Xilos refused to pay the overseer because the Void Cage had failed, while Randall intervened to keep the conflict from escalating. The overseer left after warning Xilos and Randall that she and her allies would repay the humiliation double.

• Xilos told the overseer she would not pay for the failed scheme or honor the agreement with Biers.
• Fei Mi worried that the angry overseer might retaliate, while Shen Yi said strength determined whether anyone could demand respect.
• Randall asked the overseer to let Xilos go and offered to repay Xilos's price double.
• The overseer threatened to repay Xilos and Randall for humiliating her and her siblings, then vanished into the void.

Xilos announced that the Shadow World would face upheaval in three days and said she would no longer maintain the seal or deal with the Source of Black Mist. After Randall confronted her, Fei Mi and Shen Yi met Xilos at Twilight Abyss and revealed Kolun from an azure crystal.

• Randall accused Xilos of manipulating events around Biers and the Void Cage, but fell silent when the Source of Black Mist came up.
• Xilos warned that the Shadow World would undergo upheaval in three days, alarming Randall, who warned that the spread of the black mist could infect creatures and erode powerful beings.
• Xilos said she would stop maintaining the seal at the Bottom of the Rock Prison and leave the Source of Black Mist alone, then prepared to depart Twilight Abyss.
• Fei Mi and Shen Yi approached Xilos and told her that the Elf race's situation was unchanged and that they had received no news before her return.
• Shen Yi drew an azure crystal from Xilos's neck and activated it, revealing Kolun, who anxiously asked whether Xilos was all right.

Xilos asked Shen Yi whether he could relocate the entire Elf race to his world, then demonstrated his power to Kolun by taking them through a spatial portal back to the elves’ settlement. She revealed that Shen Yi and Fei Mi were not from this world and said she intended to rely on Shen Yi to preserve the Elf race.

• Xilos asked Shen Yi if he could move the Elf race to his world, while Kolun struggled to understand why she treated him with such respect.
• Shen Yi opened a spatial portal, and Xilos, Fei Mi, and Kolun followed him through it to the elves’ secluded settlement.
• Kolun recognized the extraordinary speed and range of Shen Yi’s teleportation and asked what Xilos meant by relocating the elves.
• Xilos told Kolun that Shen Yi and Fei Mi were not from this world, and Kolun reluctantly accepted her explanation.
• Xilos said the Elf race faced ruin and that she planned to rely on Shen Yi’s strength to help them survive.

Xilos sought Shen Yi’s help in moving the Elf Tree and the Elf race from the Shadow World to Blue Star, offering the Nether Moon Wheel, the Pure Spirit, and her own power in return. Shen Yi then revealed Nila Shun to Xilos and Kolun, leaving Xilos stunned.

• Xilos explained that her declining lifespan and worsening Black Fog erosion made it impossible for her to lead the Elf race to recovery in the Shadow World.
• Kolun accepted Xilos’s decision and asked whether the juvenile Elf Tree could be moved with the clansmen.
• Shen Yi asked what solution the Elf Tree needed, and Xilos requested a safe place with pure aura where the Wood Elves could improve the soil.
• Shen Yi and Fei Mi discussed whether Mountain City could support the Elf Tree, and Fei Mi said it was a suitable environment.
• Xilos offered the Nether Moon Wheel, the Pure Spirit, and her own power if Shen Yi helped the Elf race.
• Shen Yi summoned Nila Shun, and Xilos stared at her in shock and touched her face.

Shen Yi introduced Nila Shun, a newly created elf, to Xilos and Kolun, who debated whether she could be accepted as a member of their dwindling race. After Nila Shun agreed to Kolun examining her, he approached her with an ice crystal to assess her affinity.

• Nila Shun recoiled at the sight of Xilos, and Shen Yi explained that she was also one of the elves.
• Xilos and Kolun were astonished that Nila Shun had a pure elven aura despite her age and unusual origins, and Kolun noticed her ice affinity matched his.
• Shen Yi explained that Nila Shun's elven aura had developed independently and would eventually become indistinguishable from an elf's.
• Xilos and Kolun accepted Nila Shun as an elf, and Kolun asked Shen Yi for permission to examine her aura.
• Shen Yi relayed Kolun's request to Nila Shun, who agreed, and Kolun approached her with a deep-blue ice crystal.

Shen Yi revealed that Nila Shun could be one of many elves created through the Shaping Foundation, but Xilos suspected he had manipulated events and demanded an explanation. As Kolun and the elves rallied behind Xilos, Shen Yi covered them with his Shadow Domain and forced them under its pressure.

• Kolun discovered that Nila Shun possessed Primordial Psionic Energy, and Xilos revealed a powerful fire aura that unsettled Fei Mi.
• Xilos asked Shen Yi if Nila Shun could remain with the Elf race, and he suggested that the Shaping Foundation could produce many elves like her.
• Xilos accused Shen Yi of arranging events to make her accept his conditions, while Fei Mi defended him and Kolun rallied the elves against the Succubi.
• Xilos asked Shen Yi for a reasonable explanation, and he spread his Shadow Domain over the assembled elves, pressing them down with its power.

Shen Yi crushed the elves with his Shadow Domain and demanded their submission or death after they questioned him. Xilos agreed to submit and offered to become his woman if he spared her people.

• Shen Yi confronted the elves for blaming him and intensified his Shadow Domain until many of them, including Kolun, fell to their knees.
• Fei Mi rebuked the elves for questioning Shen Yi and warned that he could destroy their race.
• Xilos recognized the overwhelming power restraining her and knelt, asking Shen Yi to lift the restrictions on her people.
• Shen Yi gave the elves the choice to submit or die, and Fei Mi drove the demand home by striking several lower-ranking elves.
• Xilos offered to become Shen Yi's woman in exchange for sparing her people, and Shen Yi asked whether she had thought it through.

Xilos agreed to leave with Shen Yi, who offered to relocate the Elf clan and Elf Tree after testing whether Black Fog could harm them. As Shen Yi took Xilos away, Kolun and Mei Fu worried that leaving would let the seal at the Bottom of the Rock Prison fail and unleash the Source of Black Mist.

• Xilos asked Shen Yi to save her and her clansmen, and he agreed to relocate them along with the Elf Tree after confirming that their Elves could withstand the Black Fog.
• Xilos asked Kolun how long the clan needed to pack, and he estimated it would take about one day.
• Shen Yi took Xilos through a gray doorway after she said the seal at the Bottom of the Rock Prison would hold for a little over two days.
• Kolun spoke with Mei Fu, who supported Xilos's decision, while he warned that the seal might fail and unleash the Source of Black Mist if the Elves left.
• Mei Fu fell silent, and Kolun admitted he feared leaving the land where the Elves had lived for so long.

After bringing Xilos from the Shadow World to Blue Star, Shen Yi showed her around and discussed the worlds’ strangely different Black Fog erosion. Xilos questioned Wen Ke’er’s survival and challenged Shen Yi about the many women around him, leaving their conversation unresolved.

• Mei Fu reassured Kolun that the other races were not greatly concerned about the seal, and Kolun began taking inventory of the Elf race’s remaining possessions.
• Shen Yi returned to Mountain City Shelter with Fei Mi and Xilos, and Xilos observed Blue Star and adjusted to its weaker power level.
• Xilos asked Shen Yi to accompany her outside, but Wen Ke’er arrived and mocked her for seeking his attention.
• Shen Yi took Xilos above Mountain City, where he noticed that Black Fog erosion had diminished since his last visit.
• Xilos pointed out that Black Fog was far less harmful on Blue Star than in the Shadow World, and Shen Yi asked whether she had suspected Wen Ke’er was connected to it.
• Xilos admitted she had wondered how Wen Ke’er survived total Black Fog erosion, then asked Shen Yi whether she had to serve him alongside the many women around him.

Shen Yi brought Xilos to Blue Star so she could see that the world was safe for the Elf race to revive in, and she questioned how his power could exist there. The conversation ended with Xilos marveling at red wine while Fei Mi wondered if she was serious.

• Shen Yi told Xilos she could refuse to serve him and return to the Elf race, while explaining that seeing Blue Star firsthand would help her trust what he said.
• Xilos considered abandoning the Shadow World and moving the Elf race, since Shen Yi could take them wherever they wanted to go.
• Xilos questioned how Shen Yi possessed such immense power on Blue Star, where most people were weak, and Shen Yi invited her to ask anything else.
• Fei Mi asked Shen Yi to chill her wine, and he formed ice around her glass before maids served Xilos.
• Xilos tasted the red wine and praised its fragrance as miraculous, prompting Fei Mi to ask whether she was serious.

Xilos visited Shen Yi to ask about the source of his power, but she became intoxicated by wine before he explained it. Shen Yi showed her an Ability Fruit formed after a Black Fog crisis, and Xilos began examining its power.

• Xilos enjoyed Shen Yi's wine so much that she drank a bottle and a half while Fei Mi tried to redirect her to the question of Shen Yi's power.
• Shen Yi froze Xilos's bottle and used ice spirit energy to clear her drunkenness after she mistook the effects for poison.
• Xilos asked whether Shen Yi's other women could serve as comparisons for his power, and Shen Yi gave her a Frost Condensation Ability Fruit.
• Shen Yi explained that Ability Fruits appeared after a Black Fog crisis and could grant ordinary people the power they contained.
• Xilos analyzed the fruit, noted that its power acted like a weak catalyst with potent side effects, and asked whether the fruits had formed after the Black Fog erupted.

Shen Yi offered Xilos and the Elf race refuge in his world, and Xilos agreed to relocate her clansmen despite her doubts about abandoning the Shadow World. After Shen Yi connected her to his Mental Link and introduced Long Aoshuang as someone who would also be his woman, Wen Ke'er arrived, prompting Xilos to recognize and condemn her corrupted aura.

• Xilos questioned Shen Yi about the strange fruit and whether he meant to use the Elves and the Shadow World for experiments.
• Shen Yi acknowledged his interest in the Twilight Abyss, while Fei Mi challenged Xilos's concern for the Shadow World.
• Xilos agreed to bring the Elf race to Shen Yi's world rather than wait for their deaths.
• Shen Yi summoned Long Aoshuang, declared that Xilos would be his woman too, and connected her to the Mental Link so she could coordinate the Elves' settlement.
• Wen Ke'er arrived with Shimada Yukimi, and Xilos recognized Wen Ke'er's corrupted aura and called her filthy.

Wen Ke'er confronted Xilos over accusing her of corruption, and Shen Yi ended their argument before Wen Ke'er abruptly disappeared. At the Rock Prison, Mei Fu and Kolun discussed the Elf race's retreat and realized Xilos might have left Kolun in charge as its new king, just as someone approached.

• Wen Ke'er accused Xilos of being corrupted by the Black Fog and mocked her as a weak Elf Clan Leader.
• Shen Yi ordered Xilos to find the Elf race a place to live and stopped the argument, but Wen Ke'er vanished before he could speak to her.
• Kolun and Mei Fu discussed Xilos's decision to abandon the Rock Prison and the difficult choices facing the Elf race.
• An elf reported that the clan had finished packing, leaving only the unmoved Elf Tree behind.
• Mei Fu told Kolun that Xilos had effectively made him the Elf race's new king, and Kolun noticed someone approaching.

Several leaders of the Shadow World’s races confronted Kolun, demanding to know where Xilos was and what had happened to the seal. Kolun insisted Xilos had left the Elf race and defended its territory, leaving the visitors divided and the Succubus checked by Evan.

• Evan, Liss, a Succubus, and other powerful figures arrived at the Elves’ hidden territory and demanded that Kolun summon Xilos.
• Kolun said Xilos had abandoned the Elf race and that he did not know where she had gone, shocking the visitors.
• The leaders disputed whether the other races’ past aid to the Elves had been fair compensation for sealing the Source of Black Mist.
• Kolun declared himself the Elf race’s Clan Leader and warned that crossing him meant declaring war, while a frost flower blocked the entrance and froze the Succubus.
• The Succubus broke free of the frost and prepared to attack, but Evan ordered her to stop and disrupted her aura with his authority.

Evan and the others confronted Kolun about the Elf race’s decline and the seal on the Source of Black Mist, which would fail in just over two days. When Ris threatened the Elves to force Xilos to appear, Kolun killed him instantly with overwhelming ice power, then warned the rest not to threaten his people.

• Evan told Kolun that no one had intended to cause the Elf race’s decline, but Kolun rejected the explanation.
• Ris asked how long Xilos’s seal on the Source of Black Mist would last, and Kolun said it would fail in two days and three shichen.
• Ris tried to rush into the Elves’ hidden territory, but Evan and the Succubus stopped him from attacking Kolun.
• Ris threatened to kill the Elves until Xilos appeared, and Kolun froze him solid with Frost Condensation.
• Kolun warned that the others could leave if they came for the seal, but anyone who threatened his people would not leave unscathed.

Kolun faced the other races after freezing Liss, insisting that the Elf race would not be blamed for the seal’s collapse. He gave them a day and a half to find a solution and warned that Xilos had left power to widen the breach, while Xilos revealed she had never instructed him to say so.

• Kolun froze Liss, shattered him in midair, and stood against the other races’ accusations.
• Kolun said the Elf race could not repair the seal and would not be responsible for what the other races chose to do.
• Evan asked Kolun for time to seek a solution, and Kolun granted a day and a half without interference against the elves.
• Kolun warned that the seal would collapse in two days and that Xilos had left power to enlarge the breach into the Shadow World.
• Fei Mi praised Xilos’s hidden preparations, but Xilos said she had never told Kolun to make that threat.

Kolun returned to the elves’ sanctuary after using power lent by Shen Yi to protect the Elf race during a confrontation. There, Wen Ke'er revealed that Mei Fu’s incomplete soul was deteriorating and asked whether she truly wanted to remain with Xilos and her kin.

• Kolun thanked Shen Yi for his help and reported that the Elf clan’s preparations were mostly complete, though Mei Fu’s recovery was not going well.
• Wen Ke'er criticized Xilos’s assumption that gathering and cleansing Mei Fu’s soul had restored it fully.
• Mei Fu appeared and insisted her recovery was merely slow, but Wen Ke'er warned that her power was fading and her soul could eventually collapse.
• Xilos asked Wen Ke'er whether Mei Fu’s condition could be improved, and Wen Ke'er explained that self-destruction had shattered Mei Fu’s soul more completely.
• Wen Ke'er asked Mei Fu whether she wanted to stay with Xilos and her kin or leave completely, warning that harboring a death wish would prevent her recovery.