Chapter Summaries

Xilos offered Mei Fu the choice to leave the Bottom of the Rock Prison and recover in a new world, while Wen Ke'er’s words helped her understand Mei Fu’s despair. Mei Fu chose to live and asked Xilos to save her.

• Wen Ke'er spoke to Mei Fu with deep sorrow, prompting Shen Yi to suspect her own past resembled the elf’s.
• Xilos offered Mei Fu the chance to follow Kolun and the others to a new world where she could recover without persecution.
• Kolun reacted with surprise and hope at the possibility of moving the Elf race to a stable new world.
• Mei Fu realized she had experienced fragments of Xilos’s memories and felt guilty for the pain Xilos had borne for the Elf race.
• Mei Fu asked Xilos whether she deserved to live, then solemnly pleaded, “Please save me, Your Majesty.”

Wen Ke'er questioned Xilos’s motives and warned Shen Yi to be wary of her, then explained how Mei Fu could recover her shattered soul. Xilos offered to help restore Mei Fu’s memories, while Wen Ke'er criticized the Elf Tree’s slow growth.

• Wen Ke'er told Shen Yi through their Mental Link that Xilos’s strength and long commitment to guarding the Bottom of the Rock Prison seemed suspicious.
• Fei Mi argued that Xilos was not necessarily the strongest being in the Shadow World and that Shen Yi should focus on healing Mei Fu.
• Wen Ke'er recognized that she and Xilos shared the same ruthless nature, which made her instinctively distrust Xilos.
• Wen Ke'er explained that Mei Fu should separate her memories while her soul fragments were reassembled, then slowly recover her past through instinct and others’ memories.
• Xilos offered to help Mei Fu because part of Mei Fu’s memories had come from her, and Wen Ke'er criticized Xilos for cultivating the Elf Tree so poorly.

Wen Ke'er began restoring Mei Fu's scattered soul with Shen Yi's support, revealing memories of Mei Fu's sacrifices for the elves. Xilos questioned her decision to bring the elves to the sanctuary, while Shen Yi insisted that a good final result justified the choices made.

• Shen Yi stopped Xilos and Wen Ke'er from arguing, and Wen Ke'er agreed to help restore Mei Fu's soul with his support.
• Shen Yi spread his Shadow Domain around them, empowering Wen Ke'er as she prepared to work on Mei Fu.
• Wen Ke'er split Mei Fu into countless memory fragments and began piecing them together, showing Xilos and Kolun the hidden sacrifices and worries in Mei Fu's past.
• Xilos wondered aloud whether she had been wrong to bring the elves to the sanctuary and seal the Source of Black Mist.
• Shen Yi told Xilos that the final result was what mattered, even if the choices along the way were wrong.

Wen Ke'er restored Mei Fu’s scattered memories and soul fragments, while Shen Yi and the Elves prepared to relocate through a teleportation gate. The Elves crossed over safely, leaving Shen Yi to handle the Elf Tree.

• Wen Ke'er used the Elves’ memories and Shen Yi’s domain to restore Mei Fu, who needed three to five days to recover and understand her memories.
• Xilos confirmed that the Elf race had packed everything except the Elf Tree and prepared to leave before the seal expired.
• Shen Yi asked where the Elf Tree was and learned that it needed its surrounding soil and the old tree’s remains for nourishment.
• Shen Yi opened a teleportation gate and directed the Elves to enter first, while the Elf Tree would be transferred separately.
• After the Elves crossed through, Fei Mi jokingly suggested telling them the Elf Tree had been destroyed and keeping it for themselves.

Shen Yi, Wen Ke'er, and Fei Mi discussed the costs and effects of cultivating an Elf Tree, and Wen Ke'er revealed why a mature tree could help Xia Country and Shen Yi's people. She admitted she also had a personal reason for wanting one.

• Fei Mi teased Wen Ke'er about wanting to keep the Elf Tree and warned that transplanting it would be difficult and costly.
• Shen Yi asked whether anyone had noticed them, and Fei Mi said her concealment had kept them hidden.
• Wen Ke'er explained that a mature Elf Tree could purify its surroundings, while Fei Mi pointed out the heavy resources and long growth period it required.
• Wen Ke'er showed Shen Yi and Fei Mi a memory of a colossal Elf Tree and said it could absorb pollution throughout Xia Country and extend the lifespans of nearby beings.
• Wen Ke'er admitted that, beyond the benefits to others, she had a little selfishness of her own.

Shen Yi agreed to help the Elves restore their Elf Tree and moved the sapling and his companions away. When Logan and the other Shadow World leaders entered the Elf territory, they found it deserted.

• Wen Ke'er asked Shen Yi to give the Elves time to recover and help their Elf Tree sapling grow, and Shen Yi agreed.
• Wen Ke'er said she knew of no limit to the Elf Tree’s power and suggested Shen Yi ask Xilos about it.
• Shen Yi stopped time and transported himself, Wen Ke'er, Fei Mi, and the Elf Tree sapling away.
• Logan questioned Evan about Kolun killing Ris and demanded to know where Xilos was.
• Logan entered the Elf territory with the other leaders and found that everyone had vanished.

Evan and Logan discovered that the Elf race had vanished from its hidden sanctuary, apparently taking the Elf Tree with them. Logan blamed the gathered races for the crisis, attacked Hengqi, and then rushed down toward the rock prison, with Evan following.

• Evan and Logan found the Elf race's hidden sanctuary empty, and a Dragonman said the Elves had vanished more than four hours earlier.
• Logan confirmed that the Elves had disappeared without leaving traces and questioned how they could have taken the Elf Tree.
• Logan accused the gathered representatives of failing to secure an explanation from the Elf race, and his anger caused caverns above the rock prison to collapse.
• Hengqi told Logan that Kolun had hidden his strength and attacked without warning, but Logan crushed Hengqi with pressure until Evan intervened.
• Logan released Hengqi and Evan, then shot toward the rock prison below, and Evan followed him.

Logan saw that the seal beneath the Bottom of the Rock Prison was close to failing and ordered the races to gather, while the Ten Thousand Sound Stone offered them more time. On Blue Star, Xilos chose an abandoned research base for the Elf race and burned it down after Murong Xue gave her permission.

• Logan and Evan inspected the weakening seal and learned it would hold for only one day and two hours.
• Evan admitted the races had not taken the Elf race’s warning seriously, and Logan ordered him to summon the other races’ representatives.
• Evan took out the Ten Thousand Sound Stone, giving them a little more time to deal with the seal.
• Murong Xue showed Xilos the abandoned research base she had chosen, and Xilos happily accepted it as the Elf race’s new territory.
• Xilos asked Murong Xue whether she could clear away the remaining items, then unleashed flames that burned the abandoned research base to the ground.

Xilos sealed the road to the research institute and asked Murong Xue to take her to a Black Mist Rift; Shen Yi approved the visit. Back at the Mountain City Shelter, Lin Zhiwei demonstrated a reagent that rapidly healed her wound.

• Xilos turned the ruins beneath the research institute into lava and sealed the road out, then left elves to restore the surroundings.
• Xilos asked Murong Xue to show her a nearby Black Mist Rift, and Murong Xue sought Shen Yi's permission.
• Shen Yi told Murong Xue that Xilos could observe the rift, and Murong Xue led her toward one marked by the Shelter.
• Shen Yi returned to the Mountain City Shelter, where the System unlocked high-efficiency energy storage devices after he took in a goddess.
• Lin Zhiwei cut her arm and drank her pink research reagent, which quickly healed the wound and erased its scar.

Lin Zhiwei showed Shen Yi and Fei Mi reagents extracted from Black Fog-corrupted monsters that could temporarily enhance human abilities and might help restore transformed creatures. She explained that the reagents could be mass-produced but consumed the user’s bodily energy, and she began describing the greater risks of combining them.

• Lin Zhiwei demonstrated that her recovery reagent healed a deep cut on her arm within seconds.
• Lin Zhiwei explained that suppressing a Black Fog monster’s power could briefly restore its consciousness, though her test subjects later died.
• Lin Zhiwei revealed that she had isolated substances with different effects and could produce nearly three hundred diluted reagent bottles a day.
• Fei Mi asked whether the reagents’ effects could be combined, and Lin Zhiwei said combining them caused pronounced side effects.
• Lin Zhiwei explained that the reagents rapidly activated cells and could drain nearly ten kilograms from an injured adult man, while frail users risked dying.
• Shen Yi pressed Lin Zhiwei to explain what happened when multiple reagents were used together.

Lin Zhiwei explained the costs of combining potions, and Shen Yi urged her to rest and seek help with her research. Meanwhile, Fei Mi visited the Elves’ new settlement, where Kolun revealed Xilos’s offer of support and her plans for the Elf race to aid Shen Yi.

• Lin Zhiwei told Fei Mi that using three potions together consumed about fourteen times the stamina and energy of a single potion, and Shen Yi encouraged her to rest and recruit assistants.
• Fei Mi flew to the Elf settlement and asked Kolun where Xilos and Murong Xue had gone.
• Kolun showed Fei Mi the settlement’s three-ring layout, with nearly a thousand square meters reserved for the Elf Tree and its growth.
• Kolun relayed Xilos’s offer to support Fei Mi if she chose to lead the Succubus race, and Fei Mi told him to keep her plans secret from Shen Yi and everyone else.
• Kolun explained that the Elves planned to select ten members to enter Shen Yi’s Shelter and help him once the settlement was established.

Xilos and Murong Xue investigated a Black Mist Rift after Xilos sensed it might interact with the Black Fog remaining in her body. Fei Mi arrived to find the rift absorbing that aura, and realized Xilos was deliberately using its power to remove the remnants.

• Xilos reflected that the other races had maneuvered her and the elves into suppressing the Black Fog, and that Shen Yi might have fought them instead.
• Fei Mi contacted Murong Xue and Xilos through the Mental Link, then hurried to the Black Mist Rift after Murong Xue sent her coordinates.
• Fei Mi found Xilos with her hand near the rift as strands of Black Fog aura drifted out of her body and into it.
• Xilos explained that the rift's power reminded her of what she had suppressed in Rock Prison and was devouring the remnants inside her.
• Fei Mi cautiously approached and saw the rift's power tear apart the Black Fog aura before absorbing its purest power.
• Fei Mi recognized that Xilos was using the rift's powerful but non-homologous energy to absorb the Black Fog in her body.

Xilos explained that the Black Fog on Blue Star was weaker but higher in level than the Shadow World's Black Fog, allowing it to draw out the contamination within her. After Fei Mi removed it, Xilos wondered whether Wen Ke'er could also be helped and asked whether Fei Mi could contact her.

• Xilos explained to Fei Mi that the Shadow World's Source of Black Mist was far stronger than the Black Fog on Blue Star, comparing the difference to Fei Mi and Nila Shun.
• Fei Mi reasoned that Blue Star's Black Fog was weaker in power but higher in level, letting it draw out the Black Fog aura within Xilos.
• Fei Mi completely stripped the final trace of Black Fog from Xilos, and Xilos felt lighter and summoned a stronger crimson flame.
• Xilos reflected on Wen Ke'er's suffering and resolved to make amends for how she had treated her.
• Fei Mi told Murong Xue that Shen Yi would explain the complicated events later, while Xilos said she felt little change after the contamination was removed.
• Fei Mi asked Xilos whether she wanted help contacting Wen Ke'er.

Fei Mi confronted Xilos over bringing the elves to Blue Star without a plan to help the Elf Tree survive there. Xilos said she cared only that her people remained alive, leaving Fei Mi furious and Murong Xue alarmed.

• Xilos dismissed the idea of contacting Wen Ke'er and Fei Mi raised concerns about the Elf Tree adapting to Blue Star.
• Fei Mi accused Xilos of risking the Elf race through repeated decisions, including relocating without a plan for the Elf Tree.
• Xilos stayed calm as Fei Mi seized her collar and demanded that she repeat her answer.
• Xilos said she did not care what happened to the Elf Tree as long as the rest of her people were alive, leaving Fei Mi stunned.

Fei Mi confronted Xilos over risking the Elf Tree and Shen Yi, then learned that Xilos hoped to save Mei Fu’s soul and leave the Elves something to hold on to. Xilos destroyed the Black Mist Rift with a devastating attack, and Murong Xue realized Shen Yi had apparently not told her what it was.

• Fei Mi accused Xilos of recklessly risking her people, herself, and Shen Yi to move the Elf Tree.
• Xilos admitted she felt responsible for Mei Fu’s death and explained that Mei Fu’s soul was recovering inside the Elf Tree.
• Xilos revealed that many Elves had abandoned the clan and died in the Twilight Abyss after doubting her decisions.
• Fei Mi left, and Xilos sent Murong Xue away before unleashing her power on the Black Mist Rift.
• Xilos’s attack destroyed the Rift and melted part of the mountainside, shaking Mountain City until Shen Yi steadied the Shelter.
• Murong Xue asked where the Rift had gone, and Fei Mi asked whether Lord Shen Yi had not told her.

Murong Xue questioned Xilos about her power over the Black Mist Rift and learned how the Elf race had been made to guard the Source of Black Mist in the Shadow World. The conversation left Murong Xue convinced that Xilos had been tricked into exhausting herself, and she warned Xilos to be more careful around Shen Yi’s other women.

• Xilos told Murong Xue that Shen Yi had asked her to help Murong Xue settle in and explore Blue Star.
• Murong Xue pressed Xilos to explain how she had destroyed the Black Mist Rift.
• Xilos explained that her power had suppressed Black Fog, leading others in the Shadow World to scheme to make her and the Elf race guard its sealed sources.
• Murong Xue pointed out that Xilos’s supposed suppressive ability was likely just brute force and that she had been exploited.
• Murong Xue warned Xilos to be more careful around Shen Yi’s other women.

Murong Xue advised Xilos about her place among Shen Yi’s women and showed her around the abandoned Shelter, while Shen Yi explained why he was delaying a return to the Shadow World. Shimada Yukimi reported that Neon Country had peacefully transferred its shelters and resources, prompting Shen Yi to contrast its survival with the Elf race’s decline.

• Xilos asked Murong Xue to teach her how to get closer to Shen Yi, and Murong Xue told her to be herself and focus on Shen Yi.
• Murong Xue explained that she had reported Xilos’s ability to Shen Yi, then continued showing her around the abandoned Shelter and its dangerous water sources.
• Fei Mi asked Shen Yi whether they would return to the Shadow World, and Shen Yi said they should wait because the Black Fog invasion and Xilos’s suppressed Source of Black Mist needed time.
• Fei Mi asked why Shen Yi did not eliminate every Mutated Beast on Blue Star, and Shen Yi challenged her to consider why the Elf race had declined.
• Shimada Yukimi reported that her brother had transferred control of Neon Country’s Shelters to a trusted person and that people from Neon Country were providing labor support.
• Shen Yi told Fei Mi that Neon Country’s continued existence, unlike the Elf race’s decline, showed why its people had survived.

Shimada Yukimi explained to Fei Mi that the Elf race’s decline resulted from other races exploiting Xilos’s confidence and treating her people as expendable. She also revealed how Shen Yi maintained control of the Shelter by leaving the Black Fog and Mutated Beasts in place, while Xilos’s choices had trapped her in the role of sealing the Source of Black Mist until Shen Yi appeared.

• Shimada Yukimi told Shen Yi that his bloodline no longer connected him to the people of Neon Country and explained that the other races had targeted Xilos and the Elf race.
• Shimada Yukimi said Xilos’s confidence that she controlled the situation had been encouraged by other races, who feared the Elf race’s strength and unity.
• Shimada Yukimi revealed that powerful force could compress the Black Fog’s erosion, and suggested Shen Yi might be strong enough to stop it from being a problem.
• Shimada Yukimi explained that Shen Yi left the Mutated Beasts alive to preserve his authority and keep pressure on the Shelter’s people.
• Shimada Yukimi said Xilos had been trapped into sealing the Source of Black Mist, and that Shen Yi’s arrival had changed the situation.

Fei Mi and Shimada Yukimi discussed Shen Yi's foresight about Xilos and Wen Ke'er, while Wen Ke'er studied the Black Fog within the Elf Tree. Outside Mountain City, Long Aoshuang investigated a massacre caused by fast, armored monsters and ordered a sample sent to the headquarters laboratory.

• Fei Mi asked Shen Yi whether he had anticipated Xilos's visit, and he confirmed that Xilos's Black Fog corrosion had been completely removed.
• Fei Mi reasoned that Shen Yi had predicted Xilos would confront them because of Wen Ke'er, while Shimada Yukimi noted that controlling a Shelter differed from controlling a family.
• Shimada Yukimi said Wen Ke'er was studying the Black Fog, and Shen Yi agreed as light flowed through the Elf Tree.
• Long Aoshuang arrived outside Mountain City and reprimanded two surviving squad leaders after finding their team members torn apart by unfamiliar monsters.
• The leaders described monsters with hard shells and extreme speed, and Long Aoshuang ordered the recon team to inspect the scene.
• Long Aoshuang found a piece of black armor and ordered it sent to the headquarters laboratory for Lin Zhiwei to examine.

Long Aoshuang discovered that seven people had been killed almost simultaneously by unknown flying monsters whose attacks the Intelligent Pistol could not stop. Murong Xue and Xilos arrived in time to protect her, and Xilos destroyed the attackers while leaving one alive if possible.

• Long Aoshuang examined the massacre and realized the victims had been killed in less than two seconds by something other than Black Mist Mutated Beasts.
• Black shadows swooped down, and Long Aoshuang's Intelligent Pistol failed to stop them, so she called Shen Yi for help and ordered the scouting team to run.
• Murong Xue and Xilos arrived and shielded Long Aoshuang and the others behind an ice barrier.
• Murong Xue asked Xilos to leave one monster alive if possible, and Xilos struck the attackers with three sparks of fire that exploded across the sky.