Chapter Summaries

Li Si entered the sealed Elf Court with Ricardo and saw its vast defenses and ancient trees, while suspecting the danger facing the city was far from over. Ricardo brought him to meet Pompeii Illicel, whose presence made Li Si’s heart race.

• Li Si saw the guarded gates and the many Ancient Elf Trees surrounding Zhuonuo City, then watched Bella, Mil, and the other elves leave for their forest camp.
• Li Si felt briefly dizzy as he entered the Elf Court, but found no sign of an obvious detection effect.
• Ricardo told Li Si that the attacks on Sun Elf family members had stopped after he returned, though both he and Pompeii suspected a larger conspiracy.
• Ricardo led Li Si through the Illicel Family’s golden spire to meet Pompeii Illicel.
• Pompeii welcomed Li Si, whose heart began beating several times faster in the patriarch’s presence.

Li Si met Pompeii Illicel, who revealed that the Elf Court suspected an elven traitor after attacks on Sun Elves abruptly stopped and the investigation found no clues. Pompeii gave Li Si a Divination Ring to help locate the conspirators, leaving Li Si uneasy as he agreed to search.

• Pompeii recognized Li Si’s Extraordinary Domain and reassured him that he trusted him as a friend of the Illicel Family.
• Pompeii explained that the attacks had stopped without a trace and suspected a traitor within the Elf Court, possibly within his own family.
• Pompeii said he trusted Li Si because he was human and had received the goddess Fenriria’s protection and baptism.
• Pompeii gave Li Si the Divination Ring, which could point toward people Li Si had encountered, and asked Ricardo to arrange for Li Si to explore the Elf Court.
• Li Si agreed to help search for the conspirators but felt uneasy and thought he had forgotten something important.

Li Si arrived at the Elf Court, where the calm demeanor of its residents and strange lapses in his thoughts made him suspect something was wrong. The next day, Ricardo showed him the World Tree Altar, where Li Si saw a phantom of the World Tree and felt drawn to it, unaware that his cognition had been distorted again.

• Ricardo introduced Li Si to Xifu, a powerful young Sun Elf whose lack of concern about the attacks heightened Li Si’s suspicions.
• A watcher in the darkness recognized Li Si, noted Stephens’s aura on him, and decided not to act yet.
• Ricardo escorted Li Si to his guest quarters, where Li Si reviewed the odd events and experienced another unsettling blank in his thoughts.
• Li Si chose to remain in the Elf Court, hoping to uncover the truth and save Cecile, then went outside to practice his martial skills.
• The next morning, Ricardo guided Li Si to the World Tree Altar, where Li Si saw a vision of Yggdrasil and felt an urge to approach it.
• Li Si anticipated finding the World Tree Sapling at the altar, unaware that his cognition had been distorted again.

Li Si spent months searching the peaceful Elf Court for signs of danger before settling into a leisurely routine with Cecile. After Ricardo asked whether he would become Cecile’s partner, Li Si agreed, and the chapter ended with Cecile inviting him to meet her mother.

• Li Si searched the Elf Court for clues for over a month, but Ricardo and the Illicel Family concluded the threat had passed and the city relaxed.
• Li Si recorded his leisurely days, spent more time with Cecile, and repeatedly noticed strange phrases and feelings he could not explain.
• Ricardo told Li Si that Cecile had agreed to become his partner and asked whether he felt the same; Li Si accepted and Ricardo offered to arrange a grand wedding.
• Cecile learned Li Si had accepted and joyfully went to see him the next morning.
• Li Si agreed to accompany Cecile to meet her mother, feeling an inexplicable urgency to go.

Li Si visited Cecile’s mother, Ariana, in the Elf Court and promised to care for Cecile, but Ariana’s memories broke through an illusion of a peaceful city. Li Si remembered that the Elf Court had been destroyed by an Abyssal Evil God and woke amid the ruined city, with a quest to escape alongside Cecile.

• Li Si followed Cecile to Ariana’s treehouse and met her mother.
• Ariana approved of Li Si and asked him to take responsibility for Cecile, and Li Si promised to care for her.
• Ariana became distressed, remembered the Elf Court’s destruction, and warned Li Si to take Cecile and flee.
• Li Si accepted the Legendary quest Escape from the Crimson Elf Court and recovered his memories as a Legendary Arcanist.
• Li Si lost consciousness as the peaceful scene shattered, then woke in the blood-soaked ruins of the Elf Court.

Li Si emerged from the shared illusion to find the Elf Court transformed into a blood-soaked ruin and searched for Cecile rather than leaving to claim the World Tree Sapling. He found her near death and realized the Elf Court’s patriarch, Pompeii Illicel, had helped Demogorgon destroy the city and gather Sun Elf bloodlines.

• Li Si regained his senses in the ruined Elf Court and concluded that the peaceful city he remembered had been an illusion.
• Li Si used the Source Blood Crystal to locate Cecile and sensed an immense concentration of Sun Elf blood near the World Tree Altar.
• Li Si inferred that Pompeii Illicel had orchestrated the Elf Court’s destruction and Demogorgon’s bloodline ritual, and feared Demogorgon had already recognized him.
• Li Si followed Cecile’s faint signal and found her trapped in blood-red tumors, with only her bloodied golden hair and pale face exposed.

Li Si’s Mirror Image escaped Demogorgon’s illusion with Cecile, while his true body awoke outside the Elf Court after three days. Realizing Pompeii Illicel had likely engineered the trap, Li Si faced a choice between warning the Elf Gods to save Cecile or preserving his chance to claim the World Tree Sapling.

• Li Si carried the unconscious Cecile through the ruined Elf Court and found that the surrounding Ancient Elf Trees had become Abyss Blood Trees, blocking his escape.
• Li Si’s Mirror Image vanished, returning its memories to his true body, while Pompeii Illicel observed the departure and continued the ritual at the World Tree Altar.
• Li Si awoke beside Angela, learned he had been asleep for three days, and realized the illusion had lasted months from his perspective.
• Li Si suspected Pompeii was Demogorgon’s incarnation and had used the illusion to keep him from exposing the destruction of the Elf Court.
• Li Si weighed warning the Elf Gods to save Cecile against waiting to seize the World Tree Sapling, then prayed to Corellon.

Li Si prayed to Fenriria for help with the crisis at the Elf Court, and the Elf Gods mobilized after she alerted Corellon. As Li Si and Angela rushed back, he suspected the Elf Court was protected by an altered Mythallar, but a golden sword suddenly struck from above as a furious voice cried Demogorgon's name.

• Li Si received no response from Corellon, but Fenriria answered his prayer with moonlight and learned what he knew about the Elf Court.
• Li Si informed Teacher Stephens about the Elf Court and suspected Demogorgon had either controlled or removed its Legendary elves.
• Li Si and Angela headed back to rescue Cecile while the Elf Gods, including Corellon and Fenriria, turned their attention toward the Elf Court.
• Li Si realized an altered Mythallar might conceal and protect the Elf Court, making entry difficult.
• A ten-thousand-meter golden sword descended toward the Elf Court as a voice shouted Demogorgon's name.

Corellon attacked Demogorgon over the destruction of the Elf Court, but Demogorgon countered and revealed a vast Demon Gate inside the court. Their battle escalated into a divine war beyond Gaia World as Li Si hurried toward the court to rescue Cecile.

• Corellon struck the Elf Court with a giant flaming sword, and Demogorgon blocked it with an enormous arm of Abyss Power.
• Demogorgon’s arm consumed Corellon’s sword, shattering the mythal and exposing the blood-soaked Elf Court and a huge Demon Gate.
• Corellon moved to destroy Demogorgon and the gate, but Demogorgon’s true body appeared outside Gaia World and attacked him.
• Corellon and the gathered Elf Gods fought Demogorgon in a battle that left its outcome undecided.
• Li Si rushed toward the Elf Court to rescue Cecile as the mythal began to recover and the Demon Gate changed.

Demogorgon corrupted the World Tree Altar in the Elf Court and opened a passage to the World Tree Yggdrasil inside Gaia World’s World Heart. After sending Sun Elf Bloodline through the passage, he prepared to use Anguduk to taint the World Tree with abyssal aura.

• Demogorgon waited as the blood and abyssal aura consumed the World Tree Altar, then the altar collapsed and revealed a vast Space Channel.
• Demogorgon extracted the Sun Elf Bloodline from the Illicel Family’s golden tower and sent it into the Space Channel.
• Demogorgon poured divine power into the channel, revealing World Tree Yggdrasil in the World Heart of Gaia World.
• Demogorgon expanded the Demon Gate to Saltwater Marsh and told Anguduk he wanted the Abyss Lord to taint the World Tree with abyssal aura.

Demogorgon sacrificed Anguduk to create tainted divine blood and sent it toward the World Tree while Li Si used the opening to enter the ruined Elf Court and search for Cecile. He rescued Bella and Mil from a corrupted Abyss Blood Tree, leaving them alive beside its stripped trunk.

• Demogorgon bound Anguduk in the Saltwater Marsh, devoured its body and divine power, and sent the remaining tainted blood through the Space Channel toward the World Tree.
• After the clash between Demogorgon and the Elf Gods fell silent, Li Si and Angela hurried to the Elf Court while its Mythallar barrier slowly recovered.
• Angela used Cain's Dark Blood Scythe to shatter the weakened barrier, and Li Si entered the ruined Elf Court, crossing foul bloodwater and destroyed Abyss Blood Trees.
• Li Si found Bella and Mil wounded and unconscious on a corrupted Abyss Blood Tree, then fought the tree as Angela dealt with the others.
• Li Si unleashed Blade Storm, cutting away the tree's branches while sparing Bella and Mil, and left them beside its bare trunk.

Li Si rescued Bella, Mil, and Cecile from the ruined Elf Court as Demogorgon began concentrating the blood sea at the World Tree Altar. Shaken by the destruction and the threat of the coming Abyss Blood Battle, Li Si resolved to seek greater power and sent a Mirror Image toward the altar before fleeing with Angela, while Demogorgon began sacrificing his Divine Avatar to corrupt the World Tree.

• Li Si and Angela defeated the nearby Abyss Blood Trees and carried the unconscious Bella and Mil toward the Elf Court walls, where Li Si found and rescued Cecile.
• The blood sea withdrew toward the World Tree Altar, the remaining Abyss Blood Trees crumbled, and Li Si sensed Demogorgon at the center of the change.
• Li Si reflected on the Elf Court's destruction and the future Abyss Blood Battle, resolving to gain enough power to change the world's fate.
• Li Si sent a concealed Mirror Image toward the World Tree Altar, then left the Elf Court with Angela and the rescued elves.
• Demogorgon guided abyssal divine blood toward the World Tree and began melting his Divine Avatar as a sacrifice to contaminate it.

Demogorgon used Abyss Destruction Power to corrupt World Tree Yggdrasil, while Li Si’s Mirror Image intervened despite the danger. Li Si managed to seize one of the droplets before his avatar became a black statue floating within the World Heart.

• Demogorgon guided Abyss Destruction Power into the World Heart, where it began dispersing the radiance protecting World Tree Yggdrasil.
• Li Si appeared above the Space Channel and tried to catch the falling droplets, but Demogorgon attacked him with spatial strangulation.
• Li Si shattered Stephens' Teleportation Ring, unleashing spatial turbulence that broke Demogorgon’s attack but left his Mirror Image severely injured.
• Li Si caught a droplet of Abyss Destruction Power, and its destructive intent began overwhelming his avatar.
• Li Si relinquished control and returned to his true body as the avatar became a black statue that floated within the World Heart.

Li Si’s intervention stopped Demogorgon from fully contaminating the World Tree, but Demogorgon withdrew after marking Yggdrasil with Abyss power. A multicolored radiance then transported Li Si to the World Heart, where he found the World Tree partly withered and blackened.

• Demogorgon watched two drops of Abyss Destruction Power corrupt a third of World Tree Yggdrasil, then let his Divine Avatar dissipate as the Demon Gate closed.
• Li Si led Angela and the three elves away from the Elf Court, believing Demogorgon had been using the black droplet to prepare for a future Abyss invasion.
• A multicolored radiance enveloped Li Si and whisked him away, leaving Angela to tie Cecile and Mil together and carry them onward.
• Corellon Larethian appeared as a crimson sun above the ruined Elf Court, and the gods of Gaia World ordered their followers to watch for Demogorgon and attack Abyss demons.
• Li Si awoke in the World Heart and recognized the enormous, partly withered tree before him as World Tree Yggdrasil.

Li Si arrived at the World Tree Yggdrasil in the Gaia World’s World Heart and discovered that Demogorgon’s Abyssal power had corrupted half of it. After receiving the World Tree’s Primordial Baptism and making a request, Li Si was struck by a white radiance and shown visions of the Gaia World’s birth.

• Li Si saw his dismissed Mirror Image still trapped in the World Tree’s space, being consumed by multicolored radiance, and realized Demogorgon’s power had corrupted half of the tree.
• The World Tree showered Li Si with life essence, completing his Primordial Baptism and granting him major attribute and soul-strength increases, special traits, a milestone, and the Life and Nature domains.
• The World Tree communicated with Li Si, and he conveyed the power he most wanted to obtain.
• A white radiance struck Li Si after the World Tree sent a final message that he had only one chance to try.
• Li Si witnessed the Gaia World at its birth and watched it grow as countless years passed.

Li Si broke free from the World Tree’s trial after comprehending Extraordinary Domain Wisdom, then returned to the ruins of the Elf Court, where Hadad Alorotti and Adela Gladys investigated its destruction. Adela revealed that divine oracles linked the devastation to Demogorgon and instructed them to find Li Si.

• Li Si watched Gaia World's history unfold and realized that wisdom meant understanding the principles behind things, not retaining all knowledge.
• Li Si comprehended Extraordinary Domain Wisdom, escaped the trial, and thanked World Tree Yggdrasil for the opportunity.
• The World Tree sent Li Si away and returned to its calm state, though its light dimmed as it resisted Abyssal power.
• Hadad Alorotti and Adela Gladys appeared above the Elf Court ruins and wondered what had happened.
• Adela told Hadad that Corellon’s oracle blamed Demogorgon for the Elf Court’s destruction, despite Corellon wounding him beyond Gaia World.
• Adela added that Goddess Fenriria had ordered them to find a human named Li Si, who might be connected to the destruction.

After escaping Demogorgon's illusion and the Elf Court's destruction, Li Si reviewed the powerful rewards he had gained from the World Tree and Gaia World. He prepared to teleport to Angela and the others, but a new system notification appeared before he could leave.

• Li Si appeared in the Elf Forest, checked that he was safe, and confirmed he could use Spatial Teleportation to return to Angela's rendezvous point.
• Li Si reviewed the system notifications, which confirmed Cecile was alive, his quest was complete, and he had received one billion experience points and the Sun Elf Bloodline talent.
• Li Si examined his new rewards, including World Tree Primordial Baptism, World Tree's Blessing, Gaia Guardian, and the World Tree Favored One milestone.
• Li Si considered his unusually high Luck and the advantages of his new status, then decided to save the World Tree's strength for the future Abyss invasion.
• Li Si stood to teleport to Angela and the others, but a new system notification appeared.

Li Si obtained the monk class specialty Proof of Nature, doubling his Endurance and granting him a forest blessing, then considered what specialties to pursue for Charisma and Mysticism. He returned to Angela and the three elves, who were still waiting in the forest clearing, and warned that an abyssal evil god stronger than the progenitor had occupied the city.

• Li Si passed the hidden evaluation for Proof of Nature and gained the Dense Forest Blessing, which improved his recovery and nature-related abilities while he remained in the forest.
• Proof of Nature doubled Li Si's Endurance, greatly increasing his health and strengthening his body, senses, and control of his movements.
• Li Si considered priest specialties linked to Charisma and prophet specialties linked to Mysticism, but decided not to choose either in a hurry.
• Angela kept Bella, Mil, and Cecile in the forest clearing while they waited for Li Si to return.
• Li Si appeared beside Angela, and Cecile stood up to greet him.
• Li Si told the elves that a powerful abyssal evil god in the city was stronger than the progenitor and that returning would be useless.

Li Si told Cecile, Bella, and Mil that Demogorgon had destroyed the Elf Court and killed Lady Ariana, then led them to Emerald City to await the Elf Kingdom’s response. After arriving, they headed toward the city center but were stopped before reaching it.

• Cecile asked Li Si to take her back to the Elf Court, but he told her and the Elf Guards to rest while he explained what had happened.
• Li Si revealed that Demogorgon had destroyed the Elf Court and that Lady Ariana and its people were already dead, leaving Cecile, Bella, and Mil grieving.
• Li Si proposed going to Emerald City instead of returning to the ruins, and Bella and Mil agreed.
• Li Si stayed beside the tearful Cecile before using Spatial Teleportation to bring the group to Emerald City’s outskirts.
• Li Si and the others headed toward the Emerald City Council and Elf Sanctuary, but someone stopped them on the way.

Li Si reunited with Daphne in Emerald City and followed her to meet the Elf Great Sage Adela, who revealed that Goddess Fenriria wanted to question him about the destruction of the Elf Court. The goddess then descended through Adela, leaving Li Si astonished as he faced her directly.

• Daphne Gladys recognized Li Si and brought him and Cecile to the Elf Sanctuary to meet Adela.
• Li Si and the others entered the sanctuary and found the Elf Great Sage Adela before Corellon's Divine Statue.
• Adela recognized the power of Mother Tree Yggdrasil within Li Si and said the Elf Gods still had questions about the destruction of the Elf Court.
• Li Si agreed to help, and Adela closed her eyes and became a vessel for Goddess Fenriria's descent.
• Fenriria addressed Li Si Kane directly, and Li Si bowed while marveling at Adela's ability to host the goddess.