Recaps

Linsey helped Anrui unite Border Town against the magical beasts, then joined the campaign that drove the Corrupted Poison Spiders and other beasts from the town’s surroundings. Afterward, he investigated Suo Mu Jin’s uncertain intentions and advanced his work on cold-resistant crops while considering how to overcome the Dragon Beast blockade.

• Linsey rescued Dan’s surviving hunters from the Corrupted Poison Spiders, and Anrui later announced a campaign against the beasts as the town’s factions remained divided.
• Linsey scouted the southern horde and found that its beasts were organized into distinct groups, prompting Anrui to proceed with the offensive while keeping the Awakened united.
• Linsey fought alongside Anrui’s forces as they cleared beasts to the east, then spotted Corrupted Poison Spiders approaching their camp and warned Anrui.
• Linsey helped defeat the spider attack, saved Alan with an antidote and a summoned snow wolf, and learned that Mis had died from poison.
• Anrui’s forces cleared the beasts from the town’s surroundings, and Anrui questioned Suo Mu Jin about whether he had informed the spiders of the campaign, but the Jade Balance confirmed Suo Mu Jin was telling the truth.
• Suo Mu Jin gave Linsey wild plants for cold-resistant crops, while Linsey asked Red Moon whether Suo Mu Jin might have leaked information and decided to watch him more closely.
• Linsey learned that Anrui and Finn had been assigned to manage the outpost near the World’s Edge, then harvested cold-resistant potatoes and wheat and planted samples to test their growth in untreated soil.

Linsey mined the meteor crater, defeated its elemental guardians, and befriended Sura Mo, the Spirit of the Mountains, who agreed to protect humanity if Linsey killed the Dragon Beast. After returning to Border Town and stopping Suo Mu Jin’s attack on Anrui, Linsey set out to cross the spider-filled mountains.

• Linsey raised his Survival Construction Level, discovered the lighthouse’s Ancestor Spirit Core, and crafted a Glorious Bullet as a possible weapon against the Dragon Beast.
• Linsey obtained Advanced Gem powder from Agnes, learned about the danger of Ancestral Spirits from Red Moon, and traveled beyond the mountains to find a meteor crater.
• Linsey mined Meteorites and made a Glorious Bullet, then learned to defeat Meteor Fire Sprites with water and gained fire-related equipment.
• Linsey fought a Magma Fire Monster using Infinite Water Pools and a Frozen Stibnite Arrow, survived its exploding core, and discovered a gigantic eye beneath the mountains.
• Linsey met Sura Mo, the Spirit of the Mountains, learned about the Elemental Realm’s history, and secured its protection for humanity in exchange for killing the Dragon Beast.
• Ju left Border Town to cross Black Mountain, and Dan joined Suo Mu Jin’s group as Anrui tried to stop them from leaving.
• Anrui fought Suo Mu Jin’s followers until Linsey returned and stopped Suo Mu Jin from killing him, then Linsey found the antidote to Anrui’s poison.
• Linsey claimed rewards from The World's True Face, said farewell to Red Moon, and entered the spider-filled mountains to hunt the Corrupted Poison Spider leader.

Linsey crossed the Mountainous Forest and Frozen Swamp, killing the Black Scale Lizard Dragon and freeing Kaldr before rescuing a girl from Source Isolation Ice Jade. The girl named herself Red and joined Linsey on the journey toward the Dragon Beast, where her lost abilities began to return.

• Linsey killed Corrupted Poison Spiders, learned that their Dragon Beast master was advancing, and found an Aetal Iron Dagger in their treasure cave.
• Linsey entered a frozen swamp, fought the Black Scale Lizard Dragon, and joined forces with Kaldr, a Glacier Elemental seeking freedom from the dragon’s control.
• Linsey and Kaldr lured the Black Scale Lizard Dragon into a pit, and Linsey killed it with an arrow through its eye.
• Linsey survived the swamp’s upheaval, completed his task, and found Source Isolation Ice Jade containing a sleeping girl while searching for treasure.
• Linsey rescued the girl from the jade before an underground volcano erupted, and she woke with little strength and no clear memory of who she was.
• Linsey agreed to travel with the girl toward the Dragon Beast, and she chose the name Red after learning Common Language.
• Linsey taught Red about Awakened abilities and combat, and Red showed signs of remembered spear skills and control over Source Material.
• After thirty-two days, Red hunted a Third Stage Spotted Leopard Cat and sparred with Linsey, who confirmed she had reached the Third Stage Awakened.

Linsey and Red crossed Starshine Forest, uncovered the Dragon Beast’s threat, and killed the Tree Mother after defeating her envoy. They continued toward Thousand Mountains Stone Forest, where they fought black eagles and captured one alive.

• Linsey and Red followed the Root Elder to the Mountain Stone Elemental, learned the Tree Mother had gone mad under the Dragon Beast’s influence, and received Stone’s Breath plaques.
• Linsey and Red entered Starshine Forest, rescued treants from a giant bear, and learned that the Dragon Beast’s envoy lived near the Tree Mother’s domain.
• Linsey and Red lured the Tree Mother away from her forest, but the Fairy Girl poisoned Linsey and trapped him in a memory-reading illusion until Red returned to help defeat her.
• Linsey and Red used the Banyan Forest Broken Branch to weaken the Tree Mother, then pierced her chest with an Aetal Iron Dagger and killed her.
• Linsey declined the Root Elder’s invitation to resist the Dragon Beast, gathered materials in Thorn Valley, and crafted an Ancient Tree Crest that let him transform into a treant.
• After traveling through Starshine Forest for more than a hundred days, Linsey and Red reached the route to Thousand Mountains Stone Forest, where the Black Eagle King ordered his flock to capture them.
• Linsey and Red fought off the black eagles, captured one alive, and Linsey crafted gear and a potion from the eagles while saving their eggs for dinner.