Chapter Summaries

At a banquet, V6’s wealthy members celebrated receiving Evolution Items made from Witch blood, unaware the Master intended to use them as test subjects. After they drank, the guests suffered agonizing transformations, and the Master watched as the first victim’s body shrank and cracked.

• V6 members praised the Master for developing diluted Evolution Items and toasted their chance to become Evolutionists.
• The chapter revealed that V6 had organized a campaign against Lan Qingyou and supported the Master’s research and the war against the Witch Race.
• The guests drank the first batch of Evolution Items, then dropped their glasses and began choking in pain.
• The Master told the guests they were experimental subjects and said their suffering was a necessary sacrifice.
• The burly man confronted the Master, but his body shrank and his skin cracked before he could finish speaking.

After ten months in the Dark Forest Dungeon, Lan Qingyou's group reached Beast Emperor Hill, where Gu Xiaobei was weakened by a foul smell only she could sense. Lan Qingyou suspected the nearly empty cave concealed a powerful threat and stopped the group to investigate Gu Xiaobei's symptoms.

• Gu Xiaobei vomited from the stench inside Beast Emperor Hill, while Vivian supported her and teased her about being an Elf.
• The group reflected on ten months in the Dungeon, including its monster hazards, the deaths of thirteen Vampires and eight Witches, and how they had preserved the dead in Cards.
• Li Huai suggested Gu Xiaobei might hear the stench like sounds only children could hear, and Vivian joined in teasing her.
• Lan Qingyou said she could not make a potion without suitable ingredients, then considered whether the cave's lack of monsters meant a powerful creature lived there.
• After another ten minutes, Lan Qingyou warned that something was seriously wrong with the cave, stopped the group, and asked Gu Xiaobei what happened before she began vomiting.

Lan Qingyou deduced that a mental attack was causing Gu Xiaobei’s nausea and equipped her with Magic Items that boosted Mental Power. As the group prepared to guard against stronger attacks, Li Huai spotted a strange green light ahead, and Lan Qingyou flew around the bend to investigate.

• Lan Qingyou concluded that Gu Xiaobei’s dizziness and vomiting came from a mental attack targeting those with low Mental Power.
• Lan Qingyou explained that Magic Items could help Gu Xiaobei resist the attack, and Vivian agreed that the group could not proceed without their cook.
• Gu Xiaobei put on Mental Power-boosting Magic Items and immediately felt better, confirming Lan Qingyou’s guess.
• Lan Qingyou decided everyone should use Mental Power-boosting Magic Items as a precaution.
• Li Huai spotted a flickering green light beyond a cave bend, and Lan Qingyou flew ahead to investigate.
• Lan Qingyou rounded the bend on her Magic Broom and froze.

Lan Qingyou discovered a huge cluster of Beast Emperor Ore and investigated the surrounding cavern, concluding that the hill was the weathered body of a Beast Emperor. The ore was the Beast Emperor’s damaged, solidified heart, and Lan Qingyou suspected a sharp weapon had wounded it.

• Lan Qingyou found a massive cluster of Beast Emperor Ore, the material the group had originally entered the dungeon to seek.
• Lan Qingyou flew around the cavern with a desk lamp while the others rested and ate rice balls.
• Lan Qingyou told the group that they might be inside the weathered body of a Beast Emperor.
• Lan Qingyou explained that a hidden wound behind the ore suggested the Beast Emperor had been struck by a sharp weapon, and that the damaged ore was its solidified heart.

Lan Qingyou prepared to remove the Beast Emperor Ore, which was still connected to the Beast Emperor's body and drawing Magic Power from the air. After sending the others away, she carefully freed the ore and dug out the attached flesh as possible alchemical material.

• Lan Qingyou explained that the Beast Emperor Ore belonged to her under their original agreement, but warned that it had fused with the body beneath it.
• Lan Qingyou told the others to leave while she removed the ore, and they accepted that she could handle it alone.
• After waiting for the group to get clear, Lan Qingyou used her talent to lift the ore and found strands of red tissue still connecting it to the body.
• Lan Qingyou cut out the tender flesh beneath the strands along with them, intending to keep the material for alchemy.

Lan Qingyou harvested the Beast Emperor’s flesh while enduring increasingly powerful mental attacks, then fled as its body began to awaken. Outside the cave, she warned everyone to run, and the group saw the mountain reveal itself as the Beast Emperor’s monstrous body.

• Lan Qingyou collected the Beast Emperor’s flesh despite a mental attack that made her dizzy and caused her nose to bleed.
• After Lan Qingyou stored the last piece of flesh, the Beast Emperor’s body surged with Magic Power and began to awaken.
• Lan Qingyou escaped through the cave as unseen attacks tore her enchanted robe, then warned the people outside that the mountain was alive.
• The hill rose and shed its soil and vegetation, revealing the Beast Emperor’s gray-haired body and six legs formed from its hairs.
• Vivian carried Gu Xiaobei to Lan Qingyou, who identified the creature as the Beast Emperor’s mutated body.

Lan Qingyou and the others exhausted the Long-haired Worm by leading it on a three-day chase, then dismantled its body after it collapsed. A Portal appeared beside the corpse, and Lan Qingyou suspected they had cleared the Dungeon.

• Lan Qingyou warned Vivian and the others about the Long-haired Worm’s attacks, and the group fled while she explained that she had stolen the heart supplying its Magic Power.
• Lan Qingyou proposed tiring the creature out by leading it around, and the group spent three days flying to drain its Magic Power.
• The Long-haired Worm finally collapsed and died, and Vivian credited Gu Xiaobei for keeping everyone fed with food cooked on a Broom.
• The witches and vampires began dismantling the Long-haired Worm, while more than thirty people who had been knocked from the air were accounted for.
• A Portal appeared beside the Long-haired Worm’s corpse, and Lan Qingyou guessed that the creature had been the Dungeon’s Great Boss.

After clearing the Dark Forest Dungeon, Lan Qingyou and the others returned to the outside world, only to find themselves in the Bone-Chilling Snowfield instead of the Huanggu Basin. They set out to find an Adventurer Guild and a way home as their reappearance stirred debate on the World Channel.

• The World Will announced that Lan Qingyou, Vivian Nadasdy Bathory, Li Huai, Gu Xiaobei, and others had cleared the Dark Forest Dungeon, and the group divided up the Beast Emperor’s materials.
• Vivian led the Vampires through the Portal, and the witches followed after them.
• Lan Qingyou and the others emerged into a blizzard and realized they were in the Bone-Chilling Snowfield rather than the Huanggu Basin.
• Lan Qingyou and Vivian agreed to find a local Adventurer Guild so they could use its Teleportation Array to return home.
• The group’s sudden reappearance sparked debate on the World Channel.

After escaping the Snow Plains Dungeon, Lan Qingyou and the others discovered that many of their friends’ profile pictures had vanished, signaling deaths during their absence. Lan Qingyou gathered the manor members in their group chat to find out what had happened to the Witch Race.

• People on the World Channel argued over the Witch of the Tower clearing a Dungeon, while others warned against stirring up hostility toward the Witches.
• Gu Xiaobei suggested using their Cards’ map system, and the group checked their friends lists after leaving the Dungeon.
• The Witches noticed that many friends’ profile pictures had disappeared, and one Witch bluntly explained that it meant those people were dead.
• Catherine urged Lan Qingyou to learn what had happened during the ten months they were trapped, and Lan Qingyou asked the group to contact online friends for information.
• Lan Qingyou entered the manor group chat, where its members confirmed they were safe, then redirected the conversation from Gu Xiaobei’s promised dinner to the urgent situation with the Witch Race.

Chu Yuan told Lan Qingyou and Vivian that the Five Primordial Clans had been attacked after the Witch Race conflict, including a raid on Vivian’s Bathory Castle. Vivian left with the Vampires, and Lan Qingyou followed her across the Snow Plains, where she spotted something unusual.

• Chu Yuan recounted the Abandoned War, the Witch Race, and a Blood Red and Green-Winged Vampire raid that breached and looted Bathory Castle.
• Ruan Qingyi reported that the Jiaoren Race, the Titan Race, and the Forest Elves had also suffered attacks, which the group connected to someone seeking Witch blood for Evolution Items.
• Chu Yuan said the Witches had developed a resurrection spell that kept the death toll down during the war.
• Vivian left with the Vampires, and Lan Qingyou later told her companions about the Abandoned War.
• Lan Qingyou flew after Vivian with Gu Xiaobei and Li Huai and spotted something unusual across the Snow Plains.

Lan Qingyou and the witches traveled across the Snow Plains toward a human settlement, then used a Teleportation Array to return to Witch Habitat. Welcomed by a crowd of witches, Lan Qingyou asked them to make room because several more groups were on their way.

• Lan Qingyou led the witches across the Snow Plains toward signs of blood while keeping their flight speed low to protect the group from the cold.
• People in a nearby town recognized the passing witches and connected their arrival to the World Will’s announcement that the Witch of the Tower had emerged from a Dungeon.
• At the Adventurer Guild, a man told Lan Qingyou that the True Ancestor had already paid for their teleportation, while Gu Xiaobei went into the Teleportation Array ahead of the others.
• Lan Qingyou and the witches selected the restricted destination of Witch Habitat and teleported there.
• Witches welcomed Lan Qingyou as their Patriarch and boss, and she asked them to clear the area for the groups following behind.

Lan Qingyou learned about the Witches’ resurrection method and the aftermath of the war against the Land of Abandonment. Diana revealed that the reported deaths of more than ten billion people reflected a change in the Magic Desk’s population count, though they could not tell whether those people had evolved or devolved.

• Lan Qingyou read the Witches’ research on Resurrection Magic and arranged for her preserved corpses to be treated by the experienced researchers.
• Diana gave Lan Qingyou Adele’s top-secret report about the war’s aftermath and explained its findings.
• Lan Qingyou saw that the report listed more than ten billion deaths and reacted with shock.
• Diana explained that nearly a hundred thousand Witches had died, yielding enough blood for roughly ten billion Evolution Items.
• Diana confirmed that the missing population had changed in a way that made the World Will stop counting them, but said no one knew whether they had evolved or devolved.

Lan Qingyou learned how witch blood could turn Transmigrators into Degenerators and discovered that her Origin Witch title included the Witch’s Curse. After deciding to investigate curses, she traveled to Alisa’s Alchemy Workshop, where an alarm summoned its owner.

• Diana explained that people who used witch-blood Evolution Items lost their integrity and became Degenerators, a phenomenon some called the Witch’s Curse.
• Lan Qingyou found the Witch’s Curse listed under her Origin Witch title and discussed how curses could make witches more intimidating.
• Diana told Lan Qingyou that invaders were being pursued, then left her new Magic instructions before Lan Qingyou went to rest.
• The next day, Lan Qingyou decided to research curses and traveled through the Tree Hole Teleportation Array to Alisa’s Alchemy Workshop.
• An alarm blared after Lan Qingyou arrived, and the workshop’s owner confronted her.

Lan Qingyou offered Alisa von Aurelius the Emerald Tablet in exchange for Alisa’s research and any discoveries she made from it. After explaining that she wanted to punish people for what had changed while she was away, Lan Qingyou asked how Alisa had handled a similar situation.

• Lan Qingyou visited Alisa von Aurelius and joined her for breakfast on the second-floor balcony.
• Lan Qingyou placed the Emerald Tablet before Alisa, who recognized it as the treasure her family had long sought.
• Lan Qingyou offered Alisa the tablet in exchange for her research materials and papers and a promise to share any discoveries.
• Alisa agreed and asked why Lan Qingyou wanted the exchange, and Lan Qingyou said she wanted to punish people for changes made while she was away.
• Alisa said she had faced the same situation and already punished those responsible, prompting Lan Qingyou to ask how.

Lan Qingyou visited Alisa and learned that Alisa had transformed herself into a living alchemical vessel and turned her attackers into Synthetic Beasts. Alisa revealed the creatures she had created, leaving Lan Qingyou impressed by the cost and power of her methods.

• Alisa told Lan Qingyou she could erase living beings on a biological level, then blew a whistle to summon her creation.
• Nine bridle-wearing snake heads broke through the workshop wall, and Alisa explained that she had created the Hydra after attackers targeted her workshop.
• Lan Qingyou reflected that the people behind the attacks had trapped her in a Dungeon and stirred up a battle, while Diana had sent Adele and Nangong Lengyue to hunt down those still at large.
• Alisa listed her other creations, including Ladon, Cerberus, a Sphinx, Scylla, and a Plague Butcher, and revealed that she had turned her enemies into Synthetic Beasts.
• Lan Qingyou realized Alisa had remade her body into a living crucible, enabling her rapid potion-making, and considered how alchemy powered only by Magic Power might be closer to creation.

Lan Qingyou traded the Emerald Tablet to Alisa for more than thirty technologies, several spells, and the Philosopher’s Stone creation method. After leaving to explore the continent, Lan Qingyou heard about the Rose Principality and its conflict with the Supreme Council.

• Lan Qingyou warned Alisa about the risks of using the Philosopher’s Stone, and Alisa revealed she had one.
• Lan Qingyou and Alisa signed a contract exchanging the Emerald Tablet for research reports, technologies, spells, and the Philosopher’s Stone method.
• Lan Qingyou decided to travel around the continent instead of using a Teleportation Array so she could learn about its current state.
• Alisa warned Lan Qingyou to watch out for the Rose Principality, whose forces had defeated Supreme Council warriors with technology that interfered with Magic Power.

Lan Qingyou learned about Magic Power interference and the Demon Hunters before leaving Alisa’s workshop and exploring the coastline by Broom. As she flew across a strait, she reflected on the Witches who had died and tried to sort out her feelings.

• Alisa told Lan Qingyou that the Demon Hunters were human groups who fought Evolutionists and hunted every race except humans, seeking lives rather than blood.
• Lan Qingyou left Alisa’s workshop and discovered it stood in a coastal town bordered by a desert, where Witches and residents in white managed Synthetic Beasts and the city.
• Lan Qingyou flew along the coast, photographed materials for Diana, and considered why she had not upgraded her Level 7 Shelter despite having what she needed.
• Lan Qingyou thought about the hundred thousand Witches who had died after she distributed the Witch Potion and felt troubled by the way they had died.
• Lan Qingyou spotted land across the sea, realized the water was a strait, and flew across it at low altitude, encountering colorful poisonous flying fish and aggressive sea-dolphin monsters.

Lan Qingyou explored a deserted village marked by signs of a massacre and killed a bloodied man who attacked her. As she turned back toward the village, another armed figure leaped from the bushes and struck at her, leaving their connection to her uncertain.

• Lan Qingyou followed a river inland and discovered a large, eerily silent village with open shelters and signs of a bloody battle.
• Lan Qingyou heard a howl and headed toward the village outskirts, where a bloodied man rushed out of the bushes and attacked her.
• Lan Qingyou used an A-Rank Levitation Art and a Pink Infantry Magic Puppet to snap the man's neck, then returned to the village.
• Lan Qingyou abandoned her search for survivors and planned to camp by the river and have Gu Xiaobei cook fish.
• An armed figure burst from the bushes and swung a weapon at Lan Qingyou, and she realized the attacker had something to do with her.

Lan Qingyou encountered Adele and Snow White while investigating a ruined settlement whose residents had attacked the Land of Abandonment. After learning why Adele and Snow White were hunting them, Lan Qingyou joined them to see Adele’s research, and the three witches flew toward a grass-covered plain.

• Lan Qingyou sent Pink Infantry to fight Snow White, who wielded a War Scythe.
• Adele arrived carrying the corpse of a man, and she told Lan Qingyou that the settlement’s residents had attacked the Land of Abandonment ten months earlier.
• Adele explained that Snow White was eliminating people she considered dangerous after her friend had been ambushed and killed.
• Lan Qingyou teased Adele about atoning, then learned Adele was improving a control spell developed by Snow White’s deceased friend.
• Adele called Snow White off, Lan Qingyou recalled her Magic Puppet, and Snow White greeted Lan Qingyou.
• Lan Qingyou, Adele, and Snow White flew together toward a grass-covered plain so Adele could show Lan Qingyou her research.

Lan Qingyou and Adele examined the crystal-bound villagers and exchanged knowledge about Crystal Coffin and the White Witch Patriarch’s Portal Magic. Afterward, Lan Qingyou set up her tent while Adele inspected its runes and learned it was the prototype for the Jiaoren’s market tents.

• Lan Qingyou and Adele found human-shaped crystals containing the villagers, and Adele explained that she had developed the control spell Crystal Coffin from Snow White’s friend’s incomplete Crystal Slipper.
• Lan Qingyou proposed exchanging spell theories with Adele, then revealed she had traded the Emerald Tablet for the White Witch Patriarch’s Portal Magic and related knowledge.
• Lan Qingyou and Adele completed their mutual exchange of control and Space System magic.
• Lan Qingyou asked where Snow White was, and Adele said she had something to take care of and would join them later.
• Lan Qingyou set up her Magic Tent, and Adele examined its runes before Lan Qingyou explained that it was the prototype for the Jiaoren’s market tents.