Chapter Summaries

Linsey escaped the rampaging plant by tricking Kuit into delaying it, then relied on Ka Ji to scout a route through the Garden Enclosure. His Hunting Notes identified the pursuer as Yulaman Suo Er, a failed Seventh Stage advancement that detested the cold, but hunting it was not recommended.

• Kuit tried to bargain with Linsey and revealed that the plant had attacked him in a garden after he followed someone who entered the secret realm about a day earlier.
• Linsey kicked Kuit to the ground and fled with Ka Ji, leaving Kuit to slow the pursuing plant with Double Serpent Coins.
• Kuit continued fleeing and planned to use his appraisal skill to discover the plant's weakness once he had stalled for enough time.
• After Ka Ji's bewitchment wore off, Linsey told him to scout the surroundings so they could adjust their route.
• Linsey checked his Hunting Notes and learned that Yulaman Suo Er was a greedy carnivorous plant with fixed roots that detested the cold.

Linsey and Ka Ji tried to reach the Garden Enclosure’s core while avoiding Yulaman Suo Er, a vast plant blocking the passages. After Linsey tested its reaction to cold and fled its attack, Hunting Notes began revealing more details about the creature.

• Linsey used Ka Ji’s reports of vibrations to conclude that Kuit was fleeing Yulaman Suo Er, then chose a different route toward the core.
• Ka Ji detected the plant blocking two upward passages, so Linsey gave him Gray Fur Rabbit Shoes and led him toward a corridor without making noise.
• Linsey saw Yulaman Suo Er’s vines moving slowly, then shot them with a Frost Poison Arrow to test whether cold could clear a path.
• Yulaman Suo Er lunged toward Linsey and Ka Ji, and Linsey retreated while firing the Spraying Fish at the vines.
• Linsey’s repeated attacks met the conditions for hunting, and Hunting Notes gradually revealed more about Yulaman Suo Er.

Kuit and Linsey separately fled Yulaman Suo Er through the Garden Enclosure and learned that its only weakness was a core buried amongst its roots. Linsey escaped by feeding it a mountain goat corpse, and his status panel announced that the Horror Game Module had been unlocked and logged in.

• Kuit reasoned that the Garden Enclosure and its Forest Veins were artificial creations from a history older than the Age of Stars, then learned that Yulaman Suo Er's weakness was its core amongst the roots.
• Kuit decided he would need to kill Yulaman Suo Er to reach the upper levels and fled into an Open-Air Theater to exploit its terrain.
• Linsey learned from his Hunting Notes that Yulaman Suo Er's core was surrounded by dangerous roots and stems, making a direct attack difficult.
• Linsey distracted Yulaman Suo Er with a mountain goat corpse and escaped its pursuit.
• Linsey's status panel announced that the task was completed, the module was unlocked, Source Essence was successfully inserted, and the Horror Game Module had logged in.

Linsey tested the newly unlocked Crouching Stealth skill and then led Ka Ji toward the waterways to locate Yulaman Suo Er’s roots. They reached a grand, damaged hall where Linsey found a wooden plaque and a badge that radiated source essence.

• Linsey discovered that the Horror Game module had unlocked Crouching Stealth, a skill that made him difficult to detect while crouching.
• Linsey tested the skill in a lounge, vanishing from Ka Ji’s senses until he emerged from behind a pillar.
• Linsey explained that they needed to find Yulaman Suo Er’s roots in the waterways and led Ka Ji toward a waterway entrance.
• Linsey and Ka Ji entered a spacious, lavishly built hall marked by damaged reliefs of armored men.
• Linsey approached the central platform and found a wooden plaque beside a Heptagram-shaped badge radiating source essence.

Linsey discovered a plaque describing the Organizer Alliance’s war against the Revivalists and equipped the weakened Peace Seven Stars Medal. He and Ka Ji entered the underground waterway, where Ka Ji sensed approaching footsteps near their route.

• Linsey read the plaque’s speech about resisting the Revivalists and learned that the Garden Enclosure had served as an Organizer Alliance base during the war against the Extinction Crown.
• Linsey recognized the name Organizer Alliance as the faction associated with Mu Le Na Hu En, then equipped the Peace Seven Stars Medal and gained one point to all attributes.
• Linsey memorized the six murals, opened a hidden entrance to the underground waterway, and warned Ka Ji to stay quiet because Yulaman Suo Er tracked prey by sound.
• Linsey and Ka Ji navigated the winding waterway toward its center, and Ka Ji sensed plant-like rustling above them and footsteps approaching from ahead.

Linsey ambushed Kuit in the Garden Enclosure, and the two fought quietly near Yulaman Suo Er to avoid alerting the dangerous plant. When Kuit tried to escape, Linsey reminded him that they both needed to overcome Yulaman Suo Er, leaving Kuit willing to consider an alliance.

• Ka Ji detected someone approaching through the waterways, and Linsey tracked the footsteps, suspecting Kuit was nearby.
• Linsey ambushed Kuit with a Black Feather Arrow, and Kuit recognized him as Di Ya Bo Luo.
• Linsey and Kuit fought at close range while keeping their voices and attacks quiet to avoid drawing Yulaman Suo Er's attention.
• Kuit used a Double Serpent Coin to make the waterway's wooden branches pursue Linsey, but Linsey kept firing arrows and weakened Kuit's defenses.
• Kuit began retreating into the waterway wall, but Linsey reminded him that Yulaman Suo Er stood between them and the Garden Enclosure's wealth.
• Kuit stopped fleeing and proposed that he and Linsey form a partnership against their shared obstacle.

Linsey, Kuit, and Ka Ji agreed to test separate plans for defeating Yulaman Suo Er and followed Ka Ji through the waterways toward the plant. Kuit used the Tears of the Ice Queen to drive its roots back, but the plant went berserk and engulfed him.

• Linsey and Kuit exchanged what they knew about Yulaman Suo Er and argued over using fire or low temperatures against it.
• Ka Ji proposed that Linsey and Kuit each try their own method, and they agreed before setting off through the waterways.
• The three approached Yulaman Suo Er’s vast root system, stopping where its heat perception might detect them.
• Kuit used the Tears of the Ice Queen to freeze the ground, causing the plant’s roots to retreat.
• Yulaman Suo Er’s roots went into a frenzy, shook the Garden Enclosure, and engulfed Kuit.

Linsey prepared Ice Erosion Toxin to exploit Yulaman Suo Er’s thirst and biological weaknesses after its roots attacked Kuit. He returned with barrels of the toxin mixture, ready to feed it to the plant.

• Mu Le Na Hu En felt tremors beneath the Garden Enclosure but stayed near the wooden door, guarding the life energy behind it.
• Yulaman Suo Er knocked Kuit down, and Linsey distracted the plant with flaming arrows so Kuit and Ka Ji could retreat.
• Linsey used the Decryption Game module to identify Yulaman Suo Er’s main vein and reasoned that its thirst for water could be exploited.
• Linsey synthesized Ice Erosion Toxin using acidic corrosive agents, Illusion Ice Mushrooms, and Life Lake Water, then diluted it in an Infinite Water Pool.
• Kuit tried to learn Linsey’s abilities from Ka Ji, but Ka Ji refused to reveal anything before Linsey called them over to carry barrels of the toxin mixture.

Linsey used Ice Erosion Toxin to weaken Yulaman Suo Er and entered the gaps between its roots to search for its core. With the plant beginning to recover and half an hour at most to act, Linsey announced that he thought he had found the core.

• Linsey, Ka Ji, and Kuit poured toxin-laced water onto Yulaman Suo Er's roots, which absorbed it.
• The toxin made Yulaman Suo Er convulse and wilt, leaving it unable to attack for more than half an hour.
• Linsey entered the gaps between the roots to find the core, and Kuit followed; Ka Ji eventually gathered the courage to join them.
• As the toxin began to wear off and they searched through the darkness, Linsey told the others to stop because he thought he had found the core.

Linsey found and killed Yulaman Suo Er, collecting its Bloodthirsty Wood Core and Authority Wood. Its death triggered the Garden Enclosure to unfold, revealing its true form and central tower.

• Linsey located Yulaman Suo Er's core, cut it free, and collected the Bloodthirsty Wood Core and Authority Wood after killing the plant.
• As Yulaman Suo Er's remains collapsed, Linsey braced himself for danger while Kuit chose not to fight him.
• The Garden Enclosure shook violently after Yulaman Suo Er's death severed its connection to the central core.
• Linsey caught the falling Ka Ji with his Vine Wood Whip and reassured him that the surging source material was the Garden Enclosure's power.
• The Garden Enclosure unfolded into enormous branches like flower petals, exposing a towering central structure and its entrance platform.

The Garden Enclosure began manifesting across the forest, transforming Echo Valley Town and frightening its residents. Explorer Reze calmed the townspeople, then led the Awakened toward the central tower to end the crisis.

• Green Fir returned to the city with news for Volcano City, while Ke Saiwei Lait and Han Si Ke worked to restore order elsewhere.
• The Garden Enclosure's power spread through the Courtyard, and the Law Knight, Green Fir, and other powerful figures sensed the world-changing force.
• A massive tree vein descended into Echo Valley Town, sealing the echo-producing caves and crushing some houses into ruins.
• Reze gathered panicked townspeople and tried to calm them, but residents blamed the Awakened for the town's hardships and surrounded a woman who had fainted.
• Reze urged the Awakened to follow him toward the central tower, claiming the source essence offered a chance to obtain the forest treasure, and they set out after him.

After the Garden Enclosure transformed, Kuit reached the tower’s central platform and found Mu Le Na Hu En waiting by the sealed door. Mu Le Na Hu En seized control of Kuit and used his wealth to recover, then planned to break through the door and claim the core of the veins.

• Kuit survived his fall, realized he was near the tower’s center, and rode a carriage up the Spiral Path.
• Kuit arrived at the central platform, where Mu Le Na Hu En ordered him to provide clothes.
• Mu Le Na Hu En used his Organizer’s Skill to control Kuit and force him to surrender his valuables as power.
• Mu Le Na Hu En tried to command the wooden door open, but it resisted his power.
• Mu Le Na Hu En resolved to wait half a day while recovering and told Kuit to explain what had happened below.

Mu Le Na Hu En drained Kuit and the Awakened gathered in the Garden Enclosure, then seized the forest's core in an attempt to ascend. The core instead consumed him and unleashed a Source Material Tide across the world.

• Mu Le Na Hu En learned that Kuit's clues about Linsey were useless and dismissed the old wizard Ke Saiwei Lait's warning as he felt his power growing.
• Mu Le Na Hu En used his dominion to drain the source material from Reze, Mira, Shi Ke, and the other Awakened in the forest.
• Mu Le Na Hu En broke open the gate to the Garden Enclosure's core and grabbed its green, double-helix light, healing his injuries and beginning to ascend.
• The Garden Enclosure's core drained Mu Le Na Hu En's source material and life force, leaving Kuit unconscious and Mu Le Na Hu En unable to escape.
• The core erupted in green light that spread life-filled source material across the world, and the Awakened recognized it as a Source Material Tide.

Linsey ended the crisis in the Garden Enclosure by using its power to restore the forest and awaken the exhausted adventurers. After confirming the danger had passed, he prepared to leave Courtyard in the Forest, while Ka Ji asked where he would go next.

• Linsey used Garden Nursery Management Seed to spread the Garden Enclosure's power through the world, ending the Organizer's Craft effects and completing Jungle Adventure IV.
• Linsey claimed the quest rewards and told Ka Ji that the Source Material Tide came from the Garden Enclosure's released power before heading for the central tower.
• Linsey, Ka Ji, and Reze found Kuit unconscious and penniless, while Mu Le Na Hu En was nowhere to be found.
• Ka Ji could not detect Mu Le Na Hu En because the Source Material eruption had torn him apart and scattered his scent.
• Linsey told Ka Ji their paths would part, then said he planned to find a fruit and perhaps do some fishing.

Linsey traveled toward Remote Yue City after spending months in the forest, reflecting on the equipment and materials he had gained. He arrived near the city with a father and son, hearing how Han Si Ke had restored Nine Bends City and that a child regarded Linsey as a hero.

• Linsey tested his Lumberjack Boomerang and reviewed the Jungle Weapon Master set, the Garden Nursery Fruit, and his remaining crafting options.
• Linsey chose to save his Advanced Metal Ingots instead of crafting new equipment immediately.
• Linsey caught up with a father and son traveling by wagon and paid the middle-aged man for a ride to Remote Yue City.
• The middle-aged man told Linsey that Han Si Ke had brought peace and prosperity to Nine Bends City and explained that he was taking his Awakened son to learn a trade.
• The child praised Linsey for saving the forest and enabling the Source Material Tide to awaken him, while Linsey jokingly called himself a coward.
• The wagon joined a growing procession, and the middle-aged man pointed out Remote Yue City's walls as they arrived.

Ailini managed Remote Yue City's commercial district, handling trade and teleportation problems as the city rebuilt. She recognized Linsey applying to travel to White City but chose not to interrupt him, and that night she received a packet of golden grilled fish as a gift.

• Ailini directed Mei Wei Er to contact the Rust Gold Merchant Guild about spice imports and a silk deal, then negotiated with a merchant over stone and iron supplies for Nine Bends City.
• Ailini instructed Marco to expand a trade station at Holmes Town and monitor trade figures, then met Shu Er to resolve delays in transporting furs through the Teleportation Array.
• Ailini overheard Linsey applying to travel to White City and recognized him by the mole on his left ear.
• Ailini ordered Marco to expedite Linsey's application but chose not to approach her old friend.
• Ailini received a packet of golden grilled fish while working in her office that night.

Linsey found an Eternal Magnet Stone in Remote Yue City and made the Permanent Magnet Compass, leaving only a Wind Vane to complete the Sky Compass. After handling his remaining errands, he learned he could teleport to White City that evening.

• Linsey bought a bracelet containing an Eternal Magnet Stone and synthesized it into a Permanent Magnet Compass.
• Linsey translated the ancient scroll, completed his studies, and planned his remaining errands before leaving Remote Yue City.
• Linsey commissioned messengers to deliver plants, pass on information and an adventurer’s ring, and search for Red, but there was still no news of Red.
• Linsey delivered Ethan and Nan Ya’s bodies to the Warriors’ Guild.
• A messenger told Linsey that the Teleportation Array to White City would open that night and his review documents had been expedited.

Linsey traveled from Remote Yue City to White City, where he completed registration and waited for his next teleportation. On the third day, he arrived on Cato Island in the Seven Seas Alliance, greeted by sand, sea air, and harsh sunlight.

• Linsey gave two travelers Meat Biscuits while they waited for the Teleportation Array, then received his review documents from a station staff member.
• Shu Er activated the array, and Linsey traveled with the group from Remote Yue City to White City.
• A young woman registered Linsey in White City and explained the fee and arrangements for his onward trip to Cato Island.
• Linsey checked into a White City inn and followed the city's rules while waiting for his teleportation.
• On the third day, Linsey used the array and arrived on Cato Island in the Seven Seas Alliance.

Linsey arrived in the Seven Seas Alliance and struggled to find help arranging his onward teleportation. A strangely dressed woman finally told him to travel by ship to the City of a Thousand Sails and ask the staff on Oriole Street about reaching the City of Law.

• Linsey arrived at the Seven Seas Alliance and noticed its Teleportation Array was drawn in a special liquid on the sand.
• Linsey registered with a distracted girl who told him the Alliance was celebrating an artist entering the Seventh Stage.
• The girl refused to help Linsey arrange his next teleportation and sent him away while playing her violin.
• Linsey found the beach staff member beneath the Palm Trees had disappeared, then looked for someone else to ask.
• A masked, paint-covered young woman learned Linsey was headed to the City of Law and directed him to take a ship to the City of a Thousand Sails and ask on Oriole Street.

Linsey learned that Cato Island only received travelers and that he would need to reach the City of a Thousand Sails to access the central teleportation network and find a route to the City of Law. As he prepared to leave by ship, he discovered that the Seven Seas Alliance’s vessels were pulled by Sea People created by powerful artists.

• An artist on Cato Island summoned a breeze with a song and surfed away, while Linsey learned there were no inns, banks, or restaurants on the island.
• Linsey discovered that Cato Island’s Teleportation Array only handled arrivals and that he had to travel to the City of a Thousand Sails to seek a route to the City of Law.
• Linsey followed other travelers to the port and saw ships with towing troughs instead of sails, oars, or mechanical propulsion.
• A local explained that Sea People created by Master Mengfei pulled the ships and that great artists of the Seventh Stage or higher could make their works and even life real.
• A distant melodic call announced a Fishing Boat’s return, and the ships’ towing ropes tightened as passengers prepared to board.