Chapter Summaries

Li fought the Gaia Giant Serpent with Susanoo and unleashed an attack powered by his ocular power, true essence, and karmic fortune. The beam pierced the serpent’s black flames and smashed its head into a wall, leaving the battle’s outcome uncertain.

• The Gaia Giant Serpent laughed and challenged Li, boasting that it could destroy the plane if it escaped.
• Li summoned Susanoo to protect himself from the serpent’s black flames and dragon breath.
• Li used his ocular power to draw Susanoo’s great bow, then added his true essence and power of causality to the attack.
• The Gaia Giant Serpent blasted the beam with black flames, but the beam pierced through them and struck its head, hurling it into the wall.

Li pushed his failing body and Susanoo beyond their limits to wound the Gaia Giant Serpent, then gathered the last of his power for another attack. The chapter ended as he prepared to use Dragon Slash while kneeling on the serpent’s spike-covered back.

• Li realized his earlier attack had not killed the Gaia Giant Serpent and decided to strike its heart instead.
• Li charged the serpent and drove Susanoo’s greatsword deep into its body, then carved a massive gash beside its head.
• The wounded Gaia Giant Serpent writhed until Susanoo shattered and collapsed.
• Li landed on the serpent’s spiked back, badly injuring his legs, but gathered violet light between his hands and declared, “Dragon Slash!!”

Li defeated the Gaia Giant Serpent with a final burst of power, then collapsed from the strain of using his Sharingan. While inspecting the serpent’s wound with Timaria, he and Timaria discovered a mysterious purple, sword-like object.

• Li blasted apart the Gaia Giant Serpent, leaving it mortally wounded and unable to rise.
• Timaria and Azshara crossed Li’s damaged stone bridge and helped him up as he struggled to recover.
• Li and Timaria examined the serpent’s devastating wound, and Li explained that its blood and body were valuable but dangerous to consume.
• Li and Timaria spotted a purple, sword-like object among the serpent’s bones, and Timaria asked when Li had brought a divine weapon.

Li encountered a mysterious crystal while trying to pull his purple blade from the Gaia Giant Serpent, and realized the will of the world may have chosen him as a savior. The blade began restoring Li’s strength and eye power while draining the serpent’s vitality, leaving its body cracked and deteriorating.

• Timaria and Li both failed to pull the purple blade from the Gaia Giant Serpent’s body.
• Li forcibly activated his exhausted Blood Wheel Eye and suffered severe pain as he gripped the blade.
• Li heard a voice say he had been chosen and saw a vast crystal, which he suspected was the will of the world.
• Li tugged the blade again, and his strength, eyesight, and eye power rapidly recovered.
• The Gaia Giant Serpent’s vitality drained away as its body turned lifeless and split with cracks.

After Li's ocular-power weapon pierced the Gaia Giant Serpent, he learned that they had formed a life-sharing bond that made the serpent restore his injuries and strength. Li pulled out the weapon, allowing the serpent to heal and regain its fury, leaving him facing the creature with a rusty, unimpressive sword.

• Li recovered completely from his injuries and felt thirty percent stronger after the Gaia Giant Serpent lost much of its life force.
• The system explained that Li's ocular-power weapon had formed a life-and-death contract with the serpent, making him the world's first Dragon Rider.
• Li pulled the purple weapon from the Gaia Giant Serpent despite the system's warning.
• The Gaia Giant Serpent healed its wounds, roared at Li for trying to share its body, and prepared to fight again.
• Li examined his rusty, blunt-looking sword and wondered how he had managed to stab the serpent with it.

Li learned that his connection with the Gaia Giant Serpent did not make it obedient, and its greater strength turned their bond against him. He struggled to protect Timaria and discovered he could not attack the serpent without hurting himself, leaving him with no clear way to stop it on the ground.

• The Gaia Giant Serpent attacked Li, so he threw Azshara safely across the canyon and shielded Timaria as the serpent swept them away.
• Li caught the cliff face with one hand while holding Timaria and asked the system why the serpent had turned on him.
• The system explained that Li and the serpent had a life-sharing contract, and whichever of them was stronger would dominate the other.
• Li climbed back up and charged the Gaia Giant Serpent, but his attack faltered because striking it would also harm him.
• The system warned that the serpent was exceptionally powerful on the ground and was nearly impossible to defeat there.

Li discovered that he and the Gaia Giant Serpent could not directly harm each other, but their attacks could still knock one another back. He exploited that loophole and repeatedly charged the serpent, leaving it dizzy and exasperated.

• Li charged the Gaia Giant Serpent and discovered its black flames could not hurt him.
• Li realized they could still harm each other indirectly through the force and momentum of their attacks.
• The Gaia Giant Serpent rammed Li, and their collision sent them flying in opposite directions.
• Li drew on the serpent’s life force to heal his minor injuries, then charged it again.
• Li and the Gaia Giant Serpent clashed repeatedly, leaving the serpent dizzy and frustrated by Li’s relentless attacks.

Li drove the Gaia Giant Serpent into the magma, then led Timaria and Azshara back through the damaged passage in search of a way out. The serpent survived and recovered in the lava, while Li stopped before a door.

• Li struck the passage entrance to threaten the Gaia Giant Serpent with a collapse, then carried Timaria across the gorge and described a way out through the rolling boulder trap’s mechanism.
• Li used Earth Release to crumble the cliff beneath the Gaia Giant Serpent, sending it into the magma, where the lava burned away much of its body.
• Li confirmed he felt no harm through his life link with the serpent, then led Timaria and Azshara back through the damaged passage.
• The Gaia Giant Serpent recovered faster than the lava could erode it and vowed to kill Li.
• Li stared blankly at a door as he and the others continued through the passage.

Li broke through the ceiling to expose a passage used to store rolling boulders, allowing the group to escape the Gaia Giant Serpent below. Li, Timaria, and Azshara climbed through the boulder-filled passage and stopped when they encountered something ahead.

• Li climbed the wall to search for the mechanism, but the Gaia Giant Serpent returned before he could finish.
• Li shoved Timaria and Azshara beside the door, punched through the ceiling, and dropped a rolling boulder into the passage.
• Li struck the boulder to increase its momentum, and it rolled toward the Gaia Giant Serpent, whose roar soon stopped after a distant crash.
• Li helped Timaria and Azshara climb through the hole into a passage packed with stored rolling boulders.
• Li, Timaria, and Azshara squeezed between the boulders as they climbed, then suddenly froze.

Li, Timaria, and Azshara escaped the boulder-filled shaft by breaking through its ceiling and crawling through a drainage channel. They emerged in a large room filled with boxes and pale golden metal ingots, which Li identified as a forging site.

• As a creature pursued them through the traps, Li hurried Timaria and Azshara up the boulders and climbed the shaft wall to inspect the ceiling.
• Li smashed through the ceiling and pulled Timaria and Azshara into the opening just before their boulder dropped away.
• Li led the three of them through a narrow drainage channel and opened a manhole into a room.
• Timaria lit a glow stick, revealing boxes and pale golden metal ingots scattered across the large room.
• Li picked up an ingot, weighed it in his hand, and said the room was a forging site.

Li discovered a cache of Refined Gold equipment and gathered it before searching for a way out with Timaria and Azshara. As they escaped through a weak stone door, Azshara betrayed him and triggered the ceiling to collapse.

• Li found Refined Gold ingots and protective-film-sealed armor and weapons in the room.
• Li tested the Refined Gold armor and longsword, then stored all the finished equipment in his spatial ring.
• Li asked Timaria and Azshara for ideas as they considered their dangerous situation and the silent Gaia Giant Serpent.
• Li broke through an ordinary stone door, and Timaria and Azshara hurried into the next room.
• Azshara smiled strangely and caused the ceiling to crash down on Li.

Li and Azshara became trapped in a sealed chamber after he pulled her away from a falling ceiling, and he confronted her about her identity and motives. Li revealed that he was not the prophesied king, leaving Azshara shocked as he prepared to explain why he had brought her inside.

• Li used his powers to pull Azshara into the intact half of the room as the ceiling collapsed and sealed the exits.
• Li told Azshara that he suspected she was from the present, but she said she had lived for over four hundred years and had once led the high elves.
• Azshara explained that Behemoth had demanded her people become Night Elves, and that she had stayed behind after failing to transform and being rejected by her race.
• Li accused Azshara of seeking revenge against Behemoth and said she had never been chosen to await the prophesied king.
• Li confessed that he was not the king destined to save the Behemoth Dynasty, and Azshara recoiled in shock.

Li learned how Azshara had been sealed in the underground complex and asked her to help him impersonate a king. Their conversation was interrupted when the Gaia Giant Serpent appeared in a human form.

• Azshara explained that she had entered the complex after Behemoth demanded the high elves become night elves, and that she had lured Li there intending to kill him.
• Li asked whether the alliance knew Azshara had left on her own, then offered to spare her if she helped him disguise himself as a king.
• Li explained that he had kept Timaria away because she might reveal his secret, and Azshara was still deciding whether to help him when footsteps approached.
• The Gaia Giant Serpent climbed through the sewer manhole in a human form and greeted Li and Azshara as his snacks.
• The Gaia Giant Serpent recognized Azshara as a former high elf and said he no longer wanted to eat her.

Li discovered that the life contract could not protect him from the Gaia Giant Serpent in human form, but his body healed the injury without help. He overpowered the serpent’s enhanced defenses with physical attacks, leaving the wounded mage shocked by his strength.

• The Gaia Giant Serpent used Finger of Death to wound Li, and Li realized their life contract did not apply in the serpent’s human form.
• Li healed his chest wound through his own physical resilience and declared that he could still fight back.
• The Gaia Giant Serpent cast three Triple Enhancement defensive spells, but Li shattered them with a punch and sent him flying.
• Li pinned the Gaia Giant Serpent and drove two fingers into his chest, prompting the wounded serpent to demand to know what kind of monster Li was.

Li battered the Gaia Giant Serpent, who transformed his magic enhancements into physical power and continued fighting with a sword made from his bones. The serpent unleashed a black pillar of light at Li, but Li had already moved out of its path.

• Li repeatedly attacked the Gaia Giant Serpent, who survived by healing and using Physical Rebound.
• Li pinned the injured serpent down, but the serpent changed his aura and forced Li off him.
• The Gaia Giant Serpent converted his magical boosts into physical enhancements, grew larger, and charged Li with increased strength and speed.
• The serpent formed an ancient-looking bone sword and attacked Li, but his unstructured strikes repeatedly missed.
• The Gaia Giant Serpent stabbed the sword into the floor and summoned a black pillar of light, while Li dodged several meters away.

Li seized the weakened Gaia Giant Serpent, revealed that he intended to refine him, and accessed Gulman’s inherited memories. Gulman’s memories recounted his race’s rebellion, downfall, and his father’s attempt to preserve him as its last hope, while Gulman still vowed to revive the race.

• Li grabbed the Gaia Giant Serpent in human form and overpowered him after his weapon fell away.
• Li said he would refine the Gaia Giant Serpent, and Azshara reacted with alarm as the serpent begged to negotiate.
• Li sent spiritual light into the captive and began refining him, gaining access to his consciousness.
• Gulman’s memories described how the Gaia Giant Serpents rebelled against their creators, the Supreme Gods, and were nearly exterminated.
• Gulman’s memories revealed that his father sealed him in an egg before a doomed battle, hoping he would become the race’s final hope.
• After being refined, Gulman could not resist Li but insisted that he would revive his race.

Li tried to persuade Gulman to become his companion, arguing that the Gaia Giant Serpent clan had been doomed because its shared consciousness made it an enemy of the world. Gulman rejected him and revealed his High Elf form, gathering power for an ancient spell as Azshara warned Li to be careful.

• Li explained that the Gaia Giant Serpent clan’s collective consciousness had made it hostile to every other existence, and said its defeat had been inevitable.
• Li offered to help Gulman restore his clan if Gulman submitted, then invited him to become a companion in his dream of ruling the multiverse.
• Gulman refused to become Li’s slave and challenged him to prove himself in battle.
• Gulman transformed into a High Elf and claimed he embodied the fortune of the entire High Elf race.
• Gulman gathered magical energy to cast Elf King's Wrath, and Azshara warned Li that it was ancient elven magic.

Li overpowered Gulman but spared him, and Gulman led Li and Azshara to reveal the hidden rooms beneath the ruins. The chapter left them at a door Gulman said had been reserved for his use.

• Gulman cast Elf King's Wrath, but Li suppressed the spell and strangled him.
• Li slammed Gulman to the ground and spared his life after realizing Gulman could not leave the place.
• Gulman agreed to show Li and Azshara something, while Azshara followed after Li promised to help her become queen of the elves again.
• Gulman led them back through the passage, which they had to clear after Li's punch had sealed it.
• Gulman turned the compass above one of twelve doors and explained that all but the room with the Death Soul Worms were for his use.

Gulman showed Li and Azshara the abandoned laboratory where humans had experimented on him and explained how they had altered his blood while trying to make him a godlike weapon. After escaping when the stronghold was abandoned, Gulman discovered that he could not control his body when he changed forms.

• Gulman led Li and Azshara through a warehouse filled with drained magic crystals to his cave-like home.
• Li and Azshara saw six Refined Gold Transparent Steel enclosures and the sticky green liquid covering the cave.
• Li asked whether Gulman had been created, and Gulman said humans had mixed other races’ bloodlines into his.
• Gulman explained that his father had sealed him in an egg after the Gaia Giant Serpents lost their war, but humans imprisoned and experimented on him.
• Gulman said Behemoth had offered to release him if he became the humans’ protector, but Gulman refused.
• Gulman explained that the stronghold was abandoned after a disaster, allowing him to escape, but he could not control his body in other forms.

Li discovered that the magic suppression system was failing as the facility shook, then used the Mark of Collapse to break through a Refined Gold mechanism and reach the route back to Timaria. Gulman was impressed by Li’s magic and offered to become his subordinate in exchange for being taught.

• Li asked Gulman about the escaped specimen, but Gulman said he had never left the facility.
• A sudden tremor made Li suspect the facility was collapsing, and he worried that Timaria was trapped beyond the door.
• Li sensed magical elements flooding the area as the magic suppression system began to fail.
• Li inscribed the Mark of Collapse on the fallen ceiling mechanism and slowly decomposed its Refined Gold.
• Gulman asked Li to teach him magic and offered to become his subordinate.
• Li explained how the Mark of Collapse worked while Gulman listened eagerly.