Recaps

Li Si became Fran Stephens’s disciple, advanced his magical studies, and recruited Fran to teach Lisa while preparing to use the arriving players. As unrest spread through Can Guang City and evidence of Ya Tean’s preparations mounted, Ya Tean committed to carrying out his plan on the Sacred Festival.

• Yousef and Odis fought over Li Si until Fran arrived, claimed Li Si as his disciple, and ended their dispute.
• Fran offered Li Si apprenticeship, gave him a powerful teleportation ring, and taught him that Arcanists seek to understand and ultimately create laws.
• Li Si learned more about Joyce and the Kane family, suspected their connection to Azera Floating City, and arranged for Fran to take Lisa as a disciple.
• Li Si planned to attract and train arriving players, then defeated Lisa in a duel and gained rewards that included Advanced Water Element Affinity and Ice Cone.
• Marion hunted down the vampire Kutner, and Li Si helped stop Kutner’s escape before Marion killed him and fled as authorities arrived.
• Arsen told Li Si that grain and weapons were being stockpiled in several duchies, leading Li Si to suspect that Bertich Kingdom was the target of Ya Tean’s preparations.
• Lisa fell asleep waiting for Li Si and later revealed she had awakened while he carried her home.
• Robert reported that four nobles had been selected and tested for Ya Tean’s plan, and Ya Tean ordered everyone to proceed on the Sacred Festival.

Li Si took Ashley under Joyce’s guidance, discovered Angela’s connection to Cain, and established the White Dove Merchant Guild as players entered Divine Revelation. He began investigating the Church of All Beasts’ planned ritual in the Lower City District and trapped an assassin who might reveal its secrets.

• Marion defeated Old Jack and left him badly wounded, so Old Jack escaped with Ashley to Li Si’s estate and asked for protection.
• Joyce recognized Ashley’s Child of Shadow talent and took her as his disciple, while Li Si awakened the Shadow Crown specialty and began studying assassin skills.
• Divine Envoy Dalton learned that Kutner was dead and ordered the conspirators to prepare their plan’s final arrangement early.
• Li Si established the White Dove Merchant Guild, declined King Morton’s marriage proposal, and learned that Angela was the Blood Clan’s Divine Son chosen by Cain.
• Players entered Divine Revelation, and Li Si recruited Liu Tai and other players into the White Dove Merchant Guild, offering quests, skills, and access to his Mystical Shop.
• Li Si took Mo Yun and Zhua Zhua to Old Jack’s shop, learned that Pearl Street, Fa Sai Street, and Golden Lily Lane were tied to the Church of All Beasts’ ritual, and went to investigate Golden Lily Lane.
• Mo Yun and Zhua Zhua defeated two Eagle Brotherhood members while Li Si uncovered a hidden assassin and trapped him inside a Mirage domain to question him.

Li Si uncovered the Church of All Beasts’ plot, helped Can Guang City defeat the Lord of All Beasts’ avatar, and earned the title of Court Marquis. The arc ended as an assassin emerged from an attendant’s shadow and began killing nobles at the Sacred Festival.

• Li Si subdued Rist, learned that Tash had watched Kutner’s house, and found a hidden ritual chamber guarded by Petar and surrounded by unconscious magical beasts.
• Li Si alerted Bi Weisi and Fran Stephens to the Church of All Beasts’ ritual, and Bi Weisi organized an assault while Li Si recruited players to assist.
• Bi Weisi’s forces breached the chamber, where Petar activated the ritual and the magical beasts awakened and rampaged through Golden Lily Lane.
• Kaiser and the cultists unleashed attacks across Pearl Street and Fa Sai Street, but the kingdom’s soldiers and Dawn Church fighters fought back as the blood sacrifice summoned the Lord of All Beasts’ avatar.
• Fran Stephens, Aiven Deen, and Lu Maurice battled the avatar while Li Si resisted its divine pressure, and an unknown Legendary assassin destroyed it before it could self-destruct.
• Li Si received experience, the Crimson Slaughter specialty, and a Legendary Point, while players flocked to the White Dove Merchant Guild after Mo Yun publicized his role in the battle.
• King Morton decided to make Li Si a marquis, and Li Si developed Li Si's Blue Flame Magic Sword before attending the Sacred Festival.
• Morton invested Li Si as a Court Marquis, but an assassin emerged from an attendant’s shadow and killed four nobles as Bi Weisi ordered it to stop.

After surviving the Sacred Festival assassination, Li Si settled Ya Tean’s fate, secured a share in the White Dove Merchant Guild, and left Can Guang City to pursue strength. On the way to the Luo Xue Mountain Range, he reached Kuka City and intervened in Keleisi and Lizi’s escape.

• Li Si revealed Ya Tean’s role in the Sacred Festival assassination, and Morton arranged to keep him under house arrest until the war ended.
• Fuchs rewarded Li Si with ten percent of the Can Guang United Merchant Guild’s shares, and Li Si promoted the White Dove Merchant Guild’s products at his marquis ball.
• Li Si said goodbye to Lisa and his companions, prepared for a journey alone, and departed Can Guang City with a merchant caravan.
• Li Si befriended Fink on the road, tested his fighting ability, and noticed his unusual strength and crimson skin under pressure.
• As war spread between the Fies and Bertich Kingdoms, Li Si reached Kuka City and learned that Lizi’s engagement had been called off and the city was searching for her.
• Li Si joined Wu Tian Wu Sheng and Yi Yao Xiao Xing to the White Dove Merchant Guild, then set out to find Keleisi and Lizi before Lizi died during their escape.
• Li Si found Keleisi and Lizi hiding in Keleisi’s house and introduced himself as a helper, persuading Keleisi to open the door after conjuring a dark blue fireball.