Chapter Summaries

Li Si killed Rolando with a Space Rift, forcing the Bertich Old Nobles to accept his terms and cooperate with Dan’erluo Port. He took Lisa into the wilderness to train her against Rolando’s Gold-level guard, then watched her overwhelm the warrior before two figures arrived and addressed him as their duke.

• Li Si killed Rolando with a Space Rift, and the frightened Bertich Old Nobles fled or submitted to Beinar’s leadership.
• Grace knocked Rolando’s Gold-level guard through the manor walls, while Beinar stopped his assassin from intervening.
• Beinar agreed that the Old Nobles would follow Li Si’s rules, and Li Si promised not to discriminate against them because of their former identities.
• Li Si sent the guard flying out of Dan’erluo Port, then used Spatial Teleportation to bring Lisa to the wilderness for a sparring match.
• Lisa unleashed a powerful barrage of Evocation spells that forced the Gold-level guard to dodge desperately.
• Two figures arrived beside Li Si and called him their duke.

Beinar pledged loyalty to Li Si, who appointed him to help manage the Luo’ou Peninsula and outlined plans to stabilize and restore the territory. The chapter ended with Li Si using a Puppet Emblem on Rolando’s unconscious Gold-level warrior, intending to see whether he could control him.

• Ivor escorted Beinar to Li Si, and Beinar inferred that Li Si had secured Dan'erluo Port as his fief and decided his family should not oppose him.
• Beinar watched Lisa overpower Rolando’s Gold-level guard and, after Li Si asked him to serve, swore the Bain Family’s loyalty.
• Li Si asked Beinar to help govern the Luo’ou Peninsula, explaining that he wanted to restore the territory, preserve its ports, and waive farmers’ taxes for the year.
• Beinar accepted responsibility for the territory’s affairs while Li Si planned to leave Dan'erluo Port and player-related matters largely to Mora and the White Dove Merchant Guild.
• Lisa confirmed that Rolando’s guard had passed out, and Li Si merged a Puppet Emblem into the injured warrior to test whether he could control him.

Li Si settled into his new role in Dan'erluo Port while the Ocean Church and Storm Church sought his support. Their bishops offered promises but no concrete help, so Li Si left them without an agreement and planned to make the churches reconsider.

• Dockworkers exaggerated Li Si's strength and praised him for killing Blood Shark Patrick as they discussed the new lord.
• Di Sen found Li Si at the docks and told him that the bishops of the Ocean Church and Storm Church were waiting at his manor.
• Bishops Candice and Jeffrey asked Li Si to support their churches and invited him to worship the Ocean Goddess or Storm Lord.
• Li Si declined to commit to either church, and Candice and Jeffrey left without securing his support.
• Li Si noted that the churches had offered no practical assistance and decided they would eventually become anxious for his favor.

Li Si surveyed and stabilized the war-ravaged Luo'ou Peninsula while the churches competed for influence and his territory grew. After two months of work, he returned to his manor, where Joyce invited him to inspect a Floating City.

• Candice and Jeffrey left Li Si's residence without securing his support and discussed the Dawn Church's arrival and their churches' limited ability to counter it.
• Li Si toured the Luo'ou Peninsula with Beinar, delivered supplies, helped stabilize its settlements, and accepted an apology and provisions from a Fies army commander.
• During Li Si's two-month inspection, the players' game updated to Version 2.0, his territory's player population exceeded fifty thousand, and he placed spatial markers across the peninsula.
• Li Si sent Helen, Lisa, Bazel, and Welf aboard the Hurricane to hunt pirates in the Pearl Sea while the port, merchant guild, and player operations expanded.
• Li Si returned to his manor, where Joyce told him to prepare to visit a Floating City.

Li Si and Joyce entered the hidden Lost Underground Floating City, where Li Si accepted a legendary quest to explore Azera Floating City and become its inheritor. After revealing the city’s scale and damaged outer structures, Joyce began briefing Li Si on the dangers, and a black shadow suddenly jumped onto Li Si’s shoulder.

• Li Si and Joyce reached the island above Azera Floating City, and Li Si found no trace of the city with his Mental Power.
• Li Si followed Joyce through an underground cave and entered the concealed secret realm, triggering the Azera's Inheritor quest series.
• Li Si beheld the enormous underground Floating City and suspected its concealment came from a mythal.
• Joyce transported Li Si to an Air Port and warned him that his great-grandfather had died from injuries sustained while exploring the city.
• Li Si and Joyce walked along the damaged outer district as Joyce explained their earlier discoveries, and a black shadow leaped onto Li Si’s shoulder.

Li Si and Joyce explored the operational Azera Floating City, where Li Si sent Black Cat Xiao Mi to try to connect with its magic circuits. They discovered the city held hundreds of Gold-level Elemental Golems and seven Legendary-level golems, leaving Li Si to suspect its Golem Factory could produce golems that functioned independently of the city.

• Li Si introduced Black Cat Xiao Mi to Joyce and set it to investigate the Floating City's magic runes in hopes of controlling the city.
• Li Si examined the Floating City's towers and buildings, noticing four rings of pure elemental magic above its Elemental Towers.
• Li Si spotted active golems patrolling the city, and Joyce explained that they served as its guardians and strongest defense.
• Joyce revealed that the city contained hundreds of Gold-level golems and seven Legendary-level golems, though they lost their power outside the Floating City.
• Li Si recalled that Azera Floating City had sold Gold-level golems and suspected its Golem Factory could make golems independent of the city's magic supply.

Li Si and Joyce explored the Floating City, where the Black Cat discovered that its magic circuits were badly damaged and could not be controlled from the bottom up. Li Si then tested the city’s Elemental Golems and captured a Water Elemental Golem, hoping the Black Cat could control it.

• Joyce explained that Legendary Elemental Golems and the city’s connected traps, warning arrays, and shields had thwarted his attempts to enter the core buildings.
• The Black Cat briefly controlled one building’s magic circuit, then reported that the circuits were partitioned and the floating island’s connection to the city was nearly severed.
• Li Si concluded that the core buildings might hold the city’s secrets and proposed using the Black Cat to try opening them; Joyce agreed to accompany him.
• Li Si fought a Water Elemental Golem, but nearby golems quickly rallied to support it, forcing him to retreat before he later devised a faster approach.
• After several attempts, Li Si captured a blue Water Elemental Golem, encased it in ice, and asked the Black Cat to try piloting it.

Li Si and Joyce explored the Floating City while Black Cat took control of a Water Elemental Golem and tried to use it to access the city's defenses. Joyce led Li Si to the Dream Library, where they arrived at a vast collection of magical knowledge.

• Black Cat took control of the frozen Water Elemental Golem, transformed its body into a girl resembling Helen, and confirmed she could use its combat techniques and draw magic power from the Floating City.
• Black Cat could not control other golems or locate the golem's magic rune circuits, but she could make her own golem stop.
• Black Cat challenged a group of patrolling golems, was chased and nearly dismantled, and Li Si rescued her and scolded her.
• Li Si learned that Black Cat could not access the magic rune circuits protecting the Floating City's core tower or four Elemental Mage Towers, and considered using similar protections for Self-Charging Magic Runes.
• Joyce led Li Si and Black Cat to the Floating City's library, where Li Si saw its floating shelves, magical books, and other knowledge-bearing artifacts.
• Joyce said Brandon had named the library the Dream Library.

Li Si and Black Cat infiltrated the Azera Grand Library’s control center, allowing Black Cat to raise his access to the highest Gold level and reveal its Legendary-level book catalog. Their intrusion awakened the damaged core of the Floating City, which detected the breach and began an emergency response.

• Li Si used the library’s central crystal to learn that his Bronze-level access allowed him to borrow books up to the sixth circle, but he wanted access to higher-level knowledge.
• Li Si had Black Cat enter the library’s control center, and she successfully took control through the Water Elemental Golem.
• Black Cat told Li Si she could not override the rules to grant Legendary access, but she raised his access to the highest Gold level.
• Li Si began browsing the Legendary-level magic book catalog as the Floating City’s Core Tower awakened and announced that the library had suffered an unidentified intrusion.
• The core reported that the Kanas Defense Module had been destroyed and initiated Emergency Plan Number Three to detach the Azera Grand Library module.

Li Si browsed the Azera Grand Library’s Legendary-level spellbooks and chose the Secret Volume on Wish Spell, learning about its immense power and dangerous, unpredictable outcomes. He left with knowledge he could not yet master, but learned that Seventh-Circle Limited Wish Spell offered a safer, more limited alternative.

• Li Si learned that Black Cat’s Gold-level authority let him borrow one Legendary-level spellbook each month, but library restrictions prevented her from lending or reciting one for him.
• Li Si chose the Secret Volume: Legendary Spell Wish Spell and received its knowledge through a crystal ball’s Mental Imprint.
• Li Si learned that Wish Spell could fulfill extraordinary wishes, but its results could fail or twist a wish into harmful consequences, especially when the request exceeded the caster’s abilities.
• Li Si learned that Wish Spell could safely simulate spells of the eighth circle or below in most cases, while the Seventh-Circle Limited Wish Spell could simulate lower-level spells with fewer risks.
• Li Si accepted that he could not yet master the Legendary-level knowledge and thought Lisa would enjoy visiting the library.

Li Si completed the first ring of the Legendary-level chain mission and received a map of Azera Floating City, then began the much harder inner-city cleanup mission. He noticed a marked point near the ruins of the Floating City Entry Affairs Office and returned to investigate it.

• Joyce warned Li Si to be careful in the Floating City, then returned to Dan'erluo Port while Li Si stayed to study in the library.
• Li Si spent many days reading magic books and fighting patrolling Elemental Golems, avoiding the Legendary-level golem guarding the Golem Factory.
• Li Si completed the outer-area exploration mission and triggered the second ring, which required 60% inner-city exploration and defeating 1,000 Elemental Golems.
• Li Si received the Azera Floating City Map and noticed that it marked many points of interest, including a place he had recently passed.
• Li Si returned to the ruined Floating City Entry Affairs Office and spread out his Mental Power to investigate.

Li Si breached a hidden barrier beneath the Floating City and discovered a mana-rich chamber containing a dangerous branch circuit core of the Mythallar Core. There he met Azera, the city’s Magic Intelligent Life, who revealed that Black Cat was a Gladys-level intelligence and began explaining what happened to the city’s inhabitants.

• Li Si found a pale barrier beneath a ruined pavilion and used his dark blue flame to break through it before it could heal.
• Inside the chamber, Li Si saw a magic rune core that consumed more than half of his Mental Power before he tore his gaze away.
• Azera appeared and identified the core as a branch circuit core of the Mythallar Core.
• Li Si questioned Azera about the Floating City, and she explained that Black Cat was a Gladys-level Magic Intelligent Life.
• Azera told Li Si that everyone in the city had collapsed, showing a trace of sorrow.

Li Si learned that Azera’s damaged core was keeping the Floating City running and that she considered him a potential successor, though he could not take control until he became a Legendary Mage. Azera raised his access to several powerful facilities, while Li Si chose to study a Mythallar circuit core without its concealment safeguards.

• Li Si questioned Azera about the vanished residents, but she refused to reveal details because the Floating City’s rules restricted her.
• Azera explained that the city was nearing a critical state and that its rules allowed a qualified new controller when no Legendary authority holders remained; she had judged Li Si a promising candidate.
• Azera told Li Si her core was damaged and that she could maintain the city for roughly a thousand years in dormancy; she estimated his chance of reaching Legendary rank at eighty percent, partly because Joyce could protect him.
• Azera said Li Si would need to reach Legendary rank and break through the core tower’s defenses to control the city, but she could raise his authority and open facilities to help him progress.
• Li Si asked to study the Mythallar circuit core without its concealment setting, and Azera agreed to let him experiment with it.
• Azera granted Li Si access to the Elemental Pools, Rolando’s Magic Workshop, the Modest Blast Test Site, and the Azera Arcane Garden.

Li Si entered Azera Floating City's Earth Element tower and underwent its Elemental Tempering, enduring the elemental torrent as it tested his mind and will. The assessment ended after he reached his rank limit, greatly increasing his Earth Element affinity and granting him the Elemental Body Earth specialty.

• Li Si avoided patrolling Elemental Golems and approached the Earth Element tower, where a Legendary-level Earth Element Golem examined him and allowed him to pass.
• Li Si entered the tower and saw its vast interior, the Earth Element waterfall, and the pool at its center.
• The tower formed a golden staircase that carried Li Si into the Elemental Waterfall for Earth Element tempering.
• Li Si endured 100 successful assessments, activating several specialties before failing the next assessment at his current rank limit.
• The assessment greatly increased Li Si's Earth Element affinity and granted him the Elemental Body Earth specialty.

After half a year on Azera Floating City, Li Si helped Lisa learn Teleportation and gained powerful specialties by sparring with her. Lisa succeeded in casting the spell, and the two remained on the Floating City, where Li Si continued studying its magical resources.

• Li Si explained that he had spent the past six months exploring Azera Floating City and studying in its library, workshops, testing grounds, and Arcane Garden.
• Li Si brought Lisa to the Floating City and shared its secret with her, and she spent most of her time reading and training there.
• Li Si sparred with Lisa over the past half year, watching her Evocation spells grow powerful enough to overwhelm his defenses.
• Li Si gained several of Lisa's specialties through limited-time challenge quests, including Mana Backflow, Legendary-level Spell Barrage, and affinities for the four elements.
• Lisa appeared before Li Si after casting Teleportation and excitedly told him that she had finally succeeded.

Li Si left Azera Floating City to travel south toward the Navia Great Forest, hoping to reach Zhuonuo City and obtain a World Tree Sapling for its powerful blessing. As Li Si departed, Fink arrived at Dan’erluo Port looking for his teacher.

• Li Si decided to leave the Floating City after failing to complete the Inner City exploration needed for Arcane Favored One.
• Li Si planned to travel to Zhuonuo City in the Navia Great Forest to seek the World Tree Sapling and pursue other goals, including earning Proof of Nature and checking on Angela.
• Li Si taught Lisa the Teleportation Spell, promised to visit her, and left the Black Cat with her before departing the Floating City.
• Fink arrived outside Dan’erluo Port and excitedly announced that he had come to find Li Si.

Li Si arrived in Ne Lin City on his journey toward the Elf Forest and visited the Mercenary Guild to sell the magical beast materials he had collected. After impressing the mercenaries with his haul, he asked the guild to process it and summon someone who could sell him information.

• Li Si explored Ne Lin City, a bustling trade hub near the Navia Great Forest, and sampled a Bo Mi Fruit.
• Charles failed to persuade Li Si to return with his caravan to Ke Ma City and gave him an elven bracelet as thanks for saving the caravan from Gale Wolves.
• Li Si left Charles and went to Ne Lin City's Mercenary Guild to sell his gathered magical beast materials and add the points to his account.
• Li Si's large pile of Silver-level and other magical beast materials shocked the tavern's mercenaries, and he asked the half-elven attendant to summon someone in charge so he could buy information.

Li Si visited the Mercenary Guild in Ne Lin City to gather intelligence about the elves and prepare for his journey to Zhuonuo City, where he planned to seize the World Tree Sapling. The guild’s records offered little about the Elf Court, but Zhuoge said he knew someone who might have useful information.

• Li Si considered the coming destruction of Zhuonuo City and decided to gather intelligence on the Navia Great Forest before acting.
• Manager Zhuoge welcomed Li Si, arranged to purchase his magical beast materials, and escorted him to a private room.
• Li Si asked for all intelligence about the elves and Navia Great Forest, and Zhuoge provided a Memory Crystal and the guild’s most complete map.
• Li Si quickly reviewed the information and found almost nothing about Zhuonuo City beyond a month-old report that the Illicel Family had sent a delegation to the Bolin Kingdom.
• Zhuoge told Li Si that he knew someone who might have information about Zhuonuo City.

Li Si accepted Cecile's Gold-level commission to escort her from Ne Lin City to the Bolin Kingdom, where she hoped to meet an envoy from the Elf Court. After Cecile sensed Goddess Fenriria's aura on him, Li Si explained his past encounter with a Moon Spirit Leopard and gained her trust.

• Zhuoge told Li Si that Cecile, a Gem Inlayer with possible Illicel family blood, had posted a Gold-level commission to travel to the Bolin Kingdom.
• Li Si accepted the commission and went to Cecile's home in Ne Lin City.
• Cecile invited Li Si inside, served him refreshments, and warned that someone might attack her on the journey.
• Li Si assured Cecile of his strength and said he was a warrior.
• Cecile asked why she sensed Goddess Fenriria's aura on Li Si, and he explained how he had found a Moon Spirit Leopard cub while with the Ya Er Mercenary Group.
• Cecile trusted Li Si more after hearing his explanation and said she had one more thing to ask of him.

Li Si agreed to escort Cecile to Akote City after learning that her Sun Elf heritage had made her a target of the Illicel Family. He recognized her father Igli Alser as the future Gale Sword God and set out with Cecile, suspecting her urgent summons might connect to the Elf Court’s destruction.

• Cecile gave Li Si a letter for her father, Igli Alser, in case she encountered danger on her journey to Akote City.
• Li Si recognized Igli as the future Gale Sword God and agreed to deliver the letter if needed.
• Cecile explained that her Sun Elf heritage had angered the Illicel Family, which wanted to control or eliminate her, while her father had struggled to protect her.
• Cecile said Elder Estiel had urgently summoned her to Akote City, and Li Si wondered why the elder was in such a hurry.
• Li Si agreed to escort Cecile, and they left her residence together as he considered whether the summons was tied to the Elf Court’s destruction.