Chapter Summaries

The Leopard Fang Adventurer Team fought off a campsite attack by Half-elf Hunters while Parr remained in his tent, learning that the Key had returned to its fourth form. The Seven-Colored Little Deer intervened and transported Parr and the Life Heretics into the Myriad Leaves Tree Space.

• Ken shielded the campsite from arrows as Captain Keith, Li Bo, and the Leopard Fang Adventurer Team defended themselves against the Magic Beasts and hidden archers.
• Yuzu illuminated the Half-elf Hunters with Forest Fireflies, and the hunters launched a concentrated attack on the team.
• The aged Half-elf fired a Magic Restriction Stone arrow that dispelled Ken's Hurricane Shield and left the team unable to use Battle Qi.
• The Key's fourth form returned, and Parr used the Jewel Staff to sense the battle and identify the attackers as heretics.
• The Seven-Colored Little Deer offered to deal with the Life Heretics, then used the Jewel Staff's green light to bring Parr and the hunters into the Myriad Leaves Tree Space.

Parr and the Seven-Colored Little Deer brought Half-elf Hunters into the Myriad Leaves Tree Space, where she destroyed their corrupted bodies and souls so their True Spirits could be reborn. She filled the space with plants and reunited with Felice, then hinted that the gods were largely responsible for the Great Calamity and told Felice to follow Parr to learn the truth.

• The Seven-Colored Little Deer teleported the Half-elf Hunters into the Myriad Leaves Tree Space, where they worshipped the Myriad Leaves Tree as the Divine Kingdom of the God of Life.
• The Seven-Colored Little Deer killed the Half-elf Hunters with falling leaves, explaining that their True Spirits would be reborn without their memories.
• The Seven-Colored Little Deer scattered Parr's plant seeds across the space and accelerated their growth, giving him abundant Magic Potion Ingredients.
• The Seven-Colored Little Deer revealed to Parr that she was the God of Life and asked to visit her old friend Felice.
• Felice and the Seven-Colored Little Deer reunited and bickered before settling down to discuss the Great Calamity.
• The Seven-Colored Little Deer told Felice that the gods were largely at fault for the Demon Calamity and advised her to follow Parr to uncover the truth.

After parting ways with their former traveling group, the Leopard Fang Adventurer Team continued toward Ronghua City while Parr studied with Yuzu. Princess Milly arrived at Muhua Castle with Sword Saint Shou Mo, whose unease about the castle’s sinister aura left him lamenting the lost Way of Thought.

• The other travelers paid Captain Keith a breach-of-contract fee and left the Leopard Fang Adventurer Team, which continued toward Ronghua City with Parr studying Magic Potion knowledge and the Elf language with Yuzu.
• Duke Muhua learned that Can Er and the others had failed, ordered their traces removed, and then arranged for his children to travel to the Elf Race for the Magic Potion Maker Competition.
• Princess Milly entered Duke Muhua’s territory with Half-elf Xiao Guo and Sword Saint Shou Mo, then reached Muhua Castle and introduced Shou Mo as her swordsmanship teacher.
• Duke Muhua discovered that Shou Mo was the Sword Saint and later ordered Greenforest Muhua to travel separately and avoid Princess Milly.
• Shou Mo sensed a vague, disturbing aura in Muhua Castle and told Princess Milly that the Way of Thought had been lost during the Great Calamity.

Parr and the Leopard Fang Adventurer Team reached Ronghua City, where they sampled the local Ronghua Flower fruits and encountered Princess Milly’s procession. After the escort mission ended, Parr checked into an inn while Yuzu and Li Bo went to restore Yuzu’s Elf identity and promised to bring Parr the Seven-Colored Rongrong Flower within a few days.

• Parr, Yuzu, and A Miao explored the flower-filled outskirts of Ronghua City, and Parr collected Ronghua Flower fruits for the Palm God Kingdom.
• Yuzu explained that Ronghua City would soon host its annual Magic Potion Maker Competition, which she described as a lively festival.
• The Leopard Fang Adventurer Team reached the crowded city gates and moved aside as Princess Milly’s heavily guarded procession arrived.
• Princess Milly waved to the crowds before her party entered Ronghua City, and Parr later entered through the small side gate with the adventurers.
• Yuzu and Li Bo paid Captain Keith and the Leopard Fang Adventurer Team for the completed escort mission, then headed to the city center to restore Yuzu’s identity.
• Parr checked into an inn near the Adventurers’ Association and waited for Yuzu to obtain the Seven-Colored Rongrong Flower.

Parr and A Miao explored Ronghua City, where Parr reunited with Karina and told her that John had died in battle. Karina kept John's sword and offered to help Parr find the Seven-Colored Rongrong Flower after the Magic Potion Maker Competition, but Parr revealed that Elf Yuzu had already gone to look for it, surprising Karina.

• Parr and A Miao sampled snacks on Ronghua City's Gourmet Street and followed the crowd to a popular grilled meat stall.
• Parr recognized the stall owner as Karina, who asked whether he had seen her brother-in-law, John.
• Parr showed Karina John's Dark Knight One-Handed Sword and told her that John had died in battle.
• Karina grieved, listened as Parr recounted John's death, and accepted the sword as a keepsake.
• Karina explained that she could help Parr search for the Seven-Colored Rongrong Flower after the Magic Potion Maker Competition, but Parr said Elf Yuzu had already gone to find it.

Yuzu regained her place among the Elf Race, and Li Bo set out to deliver the Seven-Colored Rongrong Flower to Parr. As Parr and A Miao waited in Ronghua City, A Miao reunited with her old friend A Wang, but their reunion was interrupted by Xin Ye Muhua confronting them over Parr’s boast about his potion-making skill.

• The Elf Queen freed Yuzu from her sinful shackles, recognized Li Bo as Yuzu’s husband, and kept Yuzu to help the Elf Race while sending Li Bo toward Ronghua City with one Seven-Colored Rongrong Flower.
• Parr left Karina’s residence with A Miao and encountered A Wang, A Miao’s childhood friend from the royal capital orphanage.
• A Wang said she had been adopted by Magic Potion Makers and learned about A Miao’s Night Sleep Disorder, then asked Parr how many stars he had as a Magic Potion Maker.
• A Miao praised Parr as the highest-star Magic Potion Maker, and Parr agreed while nearby pedestrians laughed at them.
• Xin Ye Muhua stepped forward with Princess Milly and Duke Muhua’s other children, rebuked the trio, and accused them of speaking recklessly about noble Magic Potion Makers.

Parr confronted A Wang about her hidden identity as the Princess of the Wind Wolf Kingdom and learned that she wanted him to become her guardian Knight. He recognized that her schemes to recruit him were childish and left their conversation unresolved.

• Xin Ye tried to slap Parr and A Miao, but Princess Milly stopped him and ordered him to compete with Parr at the Magic Potion Maker Preliminary Competition three days later.
• Parr returned to the inn with A Miao and A Wang, and A Wang rented a room there.
• A Wang sealed her room with a Spirit Tool Disc and contacted Xiao Guo through her Beast Tooth Necklace before Parr arrived.
• Parr revealed that he knew A Wang was the Princess, and she tried to intimidate him with her Early-stage Silver aura.
• A Wang urged Parr to become her guardian Knight, citing his talent and promising resources, but Parr refused and realized she had staged events to recruit him.

Parr rejected A Wang’s recruitment efforts and prepared to enter Ronghua City’s Magic Potion Maker Preliminary Competition with A Miao. Meanwhile, Life Heretics carried out a series of murders, and the Security Team postponed a full response until after the competition preliminaries.

• Parr left A Wang after refusing her offer, while Princess Milly became determined to uncover his secrets.
• Parr watched Nian Ling practice secret swordsmanship through A Miao, then returned to his cultivation.
• Greenwood arrived at Xin Ye’s room, and Xin Ye continued preparing for the Magic Potion Maker Preliminary Competition.
• The Security Team found victims killed by Life Heretics in Ronghua City’s North and East Districts, then discovered murdered patrol members in the West District and decided to delay further action until after the preliminaries.
• On the fourth day, Parr and A Miao headed to the Central Square for the competition, and A Wang followed, hoping to help Parr pass.

Parr entered the Magic Potion Maker Preliminary Competition in Ronghua City and advanced from the first round by making an Exploding Sound Magic Potion. That evening, the blood-covered beastman Li Bo arrived at the inn, leaving Captain Keith and the others alarmed.

• Parr registered for the competition with his One-Star Magic Potion Maker badge and entered the venue with A Miao and A Wang as his assistants.
• Parr followed the recipe to make an Exploding Sound Magic Potion and advanced to the next round after it detonated successfully.
• Parr toured Ronghua City with A Miao, while A Wang criticized his ingredient-processing technique and urged him to seek her help; Parr refused, and she stormed off.
• More than five hundred Magic Potion Makers advanced from the day's preliminary rounds, while Elf Magic Potion Makers stayed out of the competition and sent Half-elf competitors in their place.
• Li Bo arrived at the inn covered in blood, surprising Captain Keith and the others.

Parr used the Seven-Colored Rongrong Flower to make a potion for A Miao’s Night Sleep Disorder and gave it to her, though they would have to wait until night to confirm whether it worked. Meanwhile, Ronghua City’s Security Team uncovered a cultist hideout filled with more than a hundred half-elf corpses, but the City Lord ordered them to defer action until after the Magic Potion Maker Competition.

• Li Bo returned to Captain Keith’s residence badly wounded, drank Parr’s healing potion, and gave Parr the Seven-Colored Rongrong Flower and a recommendation letter from Yuzu.
• Parr brought the flower to the Myriad Leaves Tree Space, where the Seven-Colored Little Deer grew a flowerbed of Seven-Colored Rongrong Flowers for him.
• The Ronghua City Security Team found over a hundred dead half-elves in a suspected cultist hideout, but the City Lord ordered the team to suppress incidents until the competition ended.
• Parr made hundreds of potions for half-orc bloodline conflict overnight and gave his best one to A Miao, who drank it and said she felt relaxed.
• Li Bo told the Leopard Fang Adventurer Team that Magic Beasts attacked him during his journey and that he had killed an Intermediate-level Silver beast near Ronghua City.

Parr commissioned the Leopard Fang Adventurer Team to escort valuable potions to Gold Crystal Fortress while he stayed in Ronghua City. After A Miao's Night Sleep Disorder was cured, A Wang returned and asked Parr to help her secretly investigate the cultists behind a series of murders.

• Parr gave Captain Keith a ring of Spirit Stones as payment and commissioned the Leopard Fang Adventurer Team to escort a batch of potions once they were ready.
• Ken recognized the ring's extraordinary value because it contained a large mass of transparent liquid, and he persuaded Keith to accept the commission and use the payment to strengthen the team.
• Parr advanced in the Magic Potion Maker preliminaries, then began making potions to cure bloodline conflict in Half-Orcs for delivery to Gold Crystal Fortress.
• A Miao's Night Sleep Disorder was cured, and she joyfully thanked Parr for catching her and helping her recover.
• A Wang returned to the inn and asked Parr for help with the serial murders in Ronghua City, which she suspected were being committed by cultists.
• A Wang explained that she had stayed behind in secret after sending Xiao Guo onward in disguise, and Parr took her and A Miao out into the city to help.

Parr, A Wang, and A Miao investigated the Life Heretics’ killings in Ronghua City’s West District, where Parr and A Wang killed two attackers. After Parr passed the third potion-making preliminary round, he watched several companions leave the city and worried that Karina might be in danger.

• A Wang led Parr and A Miao to the West District after explaining that the recent killings traced the Life Heretics’ emblem and that she suspected the district would be targeted.
• A Wang tracked blood to a fresh victim, and Parr and A Wang killed two black-clad heretics who attacked them before they could learn where the other heretics were.
• The West District suffered no further attacks that night, and Parr passed the third round of the Magic Potion Maker Competition preliminaries by making a Three-Star Magic Potion.
• Xin Ye learned that Parr had passed the round and, after Princess Milly and his other siblings left, agreed to go sightseeing with his second brother, Greenwood.
• Parr gave Captain Keith a Storage-type Spirit Tool filled with Magic Potions for the Leopard Fang Adventurer Team’s journey, then sent Li Bo off with more potions as he headed to Evergreen City.
• Parr realized he had not seen Karina during the competition and worried that the recent heretic killings might have harmed her.

Parr tracked Greenwood through Ronghua City and discovered that the Life Heretics were hiding in five Magic Potion shops, with more than four hundred members in total. After learning Greenwood was Duke Muhua’s second son, Parr infiltrated one hideout, but the Seven-Colored Little Deer destroyed its occupants before they could reveal their plan.

• Parr visited Karina and reassured himself that she was safe, then left the sleepy A Miao in her care.
• A Miao dreamed of meeting a Sword Saint, who invited her to become the next Sword Saint of the Way of Thought.
• Parr used the Jewel Staff to track Greenwood and discovered Life Heretic hideouts beneath five Magic Potion shops across Ronghua City.
• Parr learned that Greenwood and Xin Ye were Duke Muhua’s second and third sons, then decided to eliminate the Life Heretics and uncover their plan.
• Parr entered a Magic Potion shop disguised as a potion maker and transported its Life Heretics to the Seven-Colored Little Deer’s divine kingdom.
• The Seven-Colored Little Deer tried to question the heretics, but their leader exposed its disguise, so it killed them all before they could reveal their plans.

Parr captured Life Heretics in Ronghua City and learned that their groups planned to create chaos to muddy the waters, while the Seven-Colored Little Deer explained why persuaded heretics eventually turned against it. That night, Greenwood took Xin Ye to a restaurant in the East District, where masked Life Heretics launched their planned attack.

• Parr captured Life Heretics at two magic potion shops, but the Seven-Colored Little Deer failed to keep them persuaded and repeatedly defeated them.
• Parr captured a smaller group, learned they planned to create chaos and withdraw after receiving a signal from the East District, and discovered their faith rejected the Seven-Colored Little Deer because it was not the twisted God of Life.
• Parr ambushed another group of Life Heretics and learned they did not know the East District's plan; he noticed that the Myriad Leaves Tree was nurturing hundreds of new beings.
• Greenwood took Xin Ye and their guards to a restaurant in the East District, where Greenwood watched the clock while Xin Ye enjoyed a female attendant's company.
• Masked Life Heretics burst into the restaurant, shouting about the God of Life and attacking the patrons, prompting the guards to urge Greenwood and Xin Ye to flee.

Greenwood arranged for the Life Heretics to kill him and Xin Ye, but the Security Team arrived before his plan could unfold as intended. Their deaths sparked Duke Muhua's demand for justice and march toward Ronghua City, while the Elf Queen kept his remaining children with Princess Milly.

• Greenwood led Xin Ye, the attendants, and the Muhua Family guards into a dead-end alley, where the Life Heretics surrounded them.
• As the Security Team arrived and began defeating the heretics, Greenwood triggered an attack from a guard that shattered the defenders' formation.
• The Life Heretics killed the guards and took Greenwood and Xin Ye; the surviving attendants later learned that both young masters were reported dead.
• Duke Muhua demanded that the Elf Race hand over the culprits and return his other children, then marched an army toward Ronghua City.
• The Elf Queen promised to send the culprits to Duke Muhua once found and ordered his remaining children to stay with Princess Milly until she finished visiting her family.

Parr recalled how Greenwood and the Life Heretics had murdered Xin Ye and how he stopped their escape, killed Greenwood, and gained the Feigned Death Talent. After Parr and Karina advanced to the Magic Potion Maker Competition finals, they left Ronghua City with A Miao and A Wang through a teleportation array.

• Greenwood betrayed Xin Ye, stabbed him to death, and arranged for the heretic mentor to make his own death look convincing.
• Parr captured the escaping heretics, overcame Greenwood’s feigned-death interference, killed him, and gained the Feigned Death Talent.
• Parr went to the final preliminary round with A Miao and A Wang, swiftly processed the ingredients, and advanced to the finals.
• Karina also advanced, and she and Parr agreed to leave Ronghua City with A Miao and A Wang.
• The Ronghua City Lord activated the teleportation array, sending Parr, A Miao, A Wang, and Karina out of the city.

Par, Karina, A Wang, and A Miao were sent off course into the Primeval Forest and headed south-southeast while fighting flying Magic Beasts. They camped for the night without finding a city, while the Elf Race began searching for the missing Par and Karina.

• Par discovered that the teleportation had left the group in the Primeval Forest, and a flight-restricting barrier prevented him from scouting far above the trees.
• A Wang used her Beast Tooth Necklace to determine a direction, and the group flew south-southeast beneath the barrier.
• The Elf Race staff found Par and Karina missing from the final group of Magic Potion Makers and posted a search commission through the Adventurers' Association.
• A blue-green bird attacked the group, and A Wang killed it with a single punch before Par told Karina that she was the Wind Wolf Princess in Disguise.
• After repeated attacks by flying Magic Beasts forced them to alternate between flying and walking, Par set up camp and grilled their meat while A Miao, A Wang, and Karina ate.

Parr and his companions were attacked by five assassins in the Primeval Forest, but Parr killed them before they could harm Karina, A Wang, or A Miao. They discovered a tracking disc had marked A Wang as its target, and Parr decided to protect her so A Miao would not grieve.

• Five assassins chased their target through the Primeval Forest and tracked the signal to Parr's camp.
• Karina dreamed about her family leaving her and clung to Parr as he returned from practicing potion brewing in his Palm God Kingdom.
• Parr's Danger Prediction warned him that assassins were cutting into the tent, and he killed all five with one sword strike.
• Parr, Karina, and A Wang searched the bodies and found a tracking disc that followed A Wang.
• Parr explained that the Assassin's Association would make three attempts and said he would protect A Wang because she was A Miao's friend.

After discovering the Beast Tooth Necklace had exposed A Wang to tracking, Parr learned that someone close to her had betrayed her, while the Assassin's Association prepared another attempt. Parr also identified the association as a target for revenge, then accidentally triggered A Wang's transformation and an embarrassing misunderstanding in the tent.

• Parr and Karina confirmed that the Beast Tooth Necklace was what the Tracking Spirit Tool had locked onto, and A Wang suspected someone close to her had tampered with it.
• The heads of the Elf Race Assassin's Associations agreed to continue the assassination mission and discussed how to carry out a second attempt.
• Parr killed a Demon Soul in the Palm God Kingdom and realized he might need to acquire the God of Death's godhood before Felice could reclaim it.
• Parr questioned the assassins' damaged souls, learned the Assassin's Association Headquarters had ordered the attack, and decided to visit its branch in the Elf Race Main City.
• Parr patted A Wang's shoulder, causing her to transform back into her half-elf form, and she knocked him down while trying to cover his eyes; Karina woke and teased her.

Parr’s group decided to use A Wang’s traceable necklace as bait for the next assassins while traveling through the Sea of Trees. Meanwhile, Duke Muhua’s army launched a surprise attack on Ronghua City, and the Elf Queen received an urgent war report as the city’s true defensive array blocked the opening barrage.

• Parr proposed using A Wang’s necklace to lure the Assassin’s Association’s next assassin and make them reveal the way out, and Karina and A Wang agreed to trust him to spot the attacker.
• Parr’s group left their forest clearing, flew to a Forest Pool, and camped there to wait for the assassins; Parr kept watch through the Jewel Staff while resting.
• Over the following days, Duke Muhua’s army gathered outside Ronghua City, while the Elf Queen’s officials debated whether to use force or first find the murderer of his sons.
• After an urgent war report arrived, the Elf Queen learned that Duke Muhua’s soldiers had fired Spirit Tool Cannons at Ronghua City in a sneak attack.
• Ronghua City’s emergency defensive array shattered under the barrage, but its stronger true defensive array rose in time to shield the city wall.