Chapter Summaries

Li Si and Tiya entered Ihaileisi City, where they investigated its unusual entry tax, residents, and approaching Gul Festival while searching for clues about the Legendary-level secret realm. They reached the Golden Coconut Inn, where a blond-haired girl welcomed them.

• Li Si paid the guards two Gold Coins to enter Ihaileisi City with Tiya after observing a caravan protest the steep entry tax.
• Li Si reasoned that the entry fee might deter outsiders and began investigating the city and the person named Ihaileisi.
• Li Si observed the city's ordinary-looking buildings, residents, and marketplace, then questioned a vendor about the city and its traditions.
• The vendor told Li Si that the Gul Festival would take place in two days, when the city lord would lead a bonfire celebration and residents would pray to the god Gul.
• Li Si questioned other residents, heard similar accounts, and followed directions to the Golden Coconut Inn with Tiya.
• A blond-haired girl welcomed Li Si and Tiya as they entered the inn.

Li Si and Tiya settled into the Golden Coconut Inn in Ihaileisi, where Li Si questioned the maid Zhu Ou and innkeeper Old Milo about the city’s Guer Festival. The chapter ended when Old Milo’s arm snapped off without blood, revealing that he was undead.

• Li Si rented a room for himself and Tiya, tipped the maid Zhu Ou, and asked her to keep his wife company while he was away.
• Li Si found no sign that Zhu Ou was secretly important, but her beauty and calloused hands left him suspicious.
• Li Si left Tiya in the room and went downstairs to speak with the innkeeper, Old Milo.
• Old Milo recommended Golden Coconut Wine and described the Guer Festival’s closing ritual, where the deity blessed everyone present.
• A servant bumped into Old Milo, whose right arm broke off at the shoulder without bleeding, and Li Si realized the innkeeper was undead.

Li Si discovered that Ihaileisi’s residents might be undead concealed by a Legendary illusion, then investigated the city’s ruler and suspected Zhu Ou was under Ihaileisi’s protection. The chapter ended with Li Si escaping a sudden Legendary pressure and wondering whether Ihaileisi had been guarding Zhu Ou.

• Li Si saw Old Milo’s arm fall off and watched him calmly reattach it, revealing that the tavern owner was undead.
• Li Si questioned Old Milo about Lord Ihaileisi, learning that the Legendary Mage stayed in a Mage Tower at the city’s center and would appear for the Guer Festival.
• Li Si returned to his room and reasoned that the illusion might conceal an entire city of undead residents, while the mission clues suggested a deeper connection to Love Beyond Life and Death.
• Li Si left Tiya behind and went downstairs to test whether Zhu Ou was undead.
• A sudden Legendary pressure struck Li Si as he approached Zhu Ou, forcing him to escape with Shadow Jump.
• Li Si waited outside the inn without seeing anyone appear and wondered whether Ihaileisi had been watching over Zhu Ou.

Li Si investigated the undead residents of Ihaileisi and concluded that the city itself sustained their souls, while he continued to suspect that the Guer Festival concealed a deeper purpose. He then sent a Mirror Image to scout the city lord Ihaileisi’s silent residence.

• After a Legendary presence warned him away from Zhu Ou, Li Si left her alone and abducted an ordinary resident to examine him.
• Li Si severed the resident’s arm and discovered that it turned to ash outside Ihaileisi, while the resident’s body was restored inside the city.
• Li Si reasoned that Ihaileisi’s residents were souls bound to the city, and questioned whether Ihaileisi and Deity Guer were connected to an attempt at godhood.
• Li Si watched the city lord’s residence from nearby and sent a Mirror Image inside to scout it.

Li Si explored the City Lord's Manor and found it eerily empty, with no defenses or signs of Ihaileisi. After discovering a skeleton enthroned in an armory, he searched the grounds and found an invisible barrier at the rear of the manor.

• Li Si entered the City Lord's Manor with his mental avatar and found no residents, undead, defensive arrays, or reaction to his spells.
• Li Si discovered a hall filled with ordinary weapons and armor, where a large white skeleton sat on a throne with a longsword embedded in its chest.
• Li Si searched the rest of the manor but found no further clues, then used a wind spell to scan the estate from above.
• Li Si noticed the wind spell vanish over an open area behind the manor and flew there to find an illusory transparent wall.

Li Si discovered a powerful Concealment magic array hiding a structure at the City Lord's Manor but could not break through it. Back at the inn, Tiya befriended Zhu Ou over drinks and pastries while Li Si watched them from outside.

• Li Si investigated the Concealment magic array and estimated that it hid a structure about fifty meters wide and one hundred meters tall, possibly Ihaileisi's Mage Tower.
• Li Si left the City Lord's Manor, intending to warn Tiya about a possible Legendary powerhouse at the inn.
• Tiya, feeling that she could not keep up with Li Si, wondered when she would break through to Legendary.
• Zhu Ou brought Emerald Dream drinks to thank Li Si and Tiya, and Tiya pulled her into the room to share pastries.
• Tiya and Zhu Ou talked about their romantic interests, and Zhu Ou admitted that she had a small crush on Kazeli.
• Li Si returned and silently watched the two girls bond through the window.

Li Si told Tiya that the town’s residents, including Zhu Ou, were undead souls trapped in an illusion by the Legendary Mage Ihaileisi. Tiya chose to stay and help free them, and her account of Zhu Ou’s lost love, Kazeli, gave Li Si a possible clue to Ihaileisi’s true identity.

• Tiya and Zhu Ou parted after agreeing to meet again, and Tiya told Li Si that Zhu Ou had offered to show her around town.
• Li Si explained that a Legendary expert was watching the inn and revealed his discoveries about the undead townspeople, Ihaileisi, and Zhu Ou’s unusual nature.
• Tiya was saddened to learn that Zhu Ou was dead and chose to remain in the town to help lift its curse.
• Li Si asked Tiya to keep spending time with Zhu Ou without alerting Ihaileisi, and Tiya agreed.
• Tiya told Li Si that Zhu Ou had loved a young man named Kazeli, who had left with a caravan, leading Li Si to suspect Kazeli was Ihaileisi’s true name.

Li Si learned that Zhu Ou had grown up with Kazeli Ihaileisi, then investigated the City Lord's Manor and spent the day analyzing its Legendary concealment array. Suspecting trouble during the next day's Guer Festival, he returned to the Golden Coconut Inn and fell asleep beside Tiya.

• Li Si spoke with Old Milo over breakfast and learned that Zhu Ou's childhood friend was Kazeli Ihaileisi, who had left Ihaileisi with a merchant caravan.
• Li Si wondered whether Kazeli Ihaileisi was connected to the City Lord, then left the Golden Coconut Inn for the City Lord's Manor.
• Li Si spotted White Spider Lilies in the town square and suspected they might foreshadow disaster during the Guer Festival.
• Li Si used his Wisdom Domain to analyze Ihaileisi's Legendary concealment array, but estimated he would need at least three days to understand it.
• Li Si returned to the Golden Coconut Inn at night and fell asleep while Tiya told him about her day with Zhu Ou.

Li Si and Tiya woke from an illusion that had fabricated memories making them believe they were newlyweds settling in Ihaileisi, and Li Si realized the city was trapped in a repeating seven-day cycle before the Guer Festival. After investigating the residents dismantling the festival preparations, Li Si returned to the inn wondering how to break the loop and discover what happened at the festival.

• Tiya sensed that the illusion had changed and woke Li Si, helping him recover his real memories.
• Li Si realized the illusion altered outsiders’ memories and deduced that its cycle reset the city to a week before the Guer Festival.
• Li Si took Tiya to the city square, where the residents silently dismantled the festival preparations under the illusion’s control.
• Li Si checked the City Lord’s Manor with the Concealment Magic Array, but nothing changed, so he returned to the inn with Tiya.
• As dawn approached, Li Si worried that the repeating cycle would prevent the Guer Festival from arriving and leave him unable to uncover its truth.

Li Si and Tiya began a new seven-day cycle in Ihaileisi, where Li Si continued searching for a way to break the illusion and uncover Ihaileisi’s secret. Zhu Ou unexpectedly remembered Tiya from the previous cycle, making her a potential clue, while Li Si headed to investigate the hidden array at the City Lord’s Manor.

• Li Si suspected Ihaileisi had created the illusion to fulfill a regret involving Zhu Ou, but he still did not know why Ihaileisi had left the city.
• At the Golden Coconut Inn, Li Si learned that the residents’ fabricated memories included his and Tiya’s new identities as traveling merchants planning to settle in Ihaileisi.
• Li Si arranged for Zhu Ou to show Tiya around the city, then noticed Zhu Ou wink at Tiya and suspected she retained some memories from the previous cycle.
• Zhu Ou told Tiya they could visit places they had missed last time, confirming that she remembered Tiya even though her memories seemed incomplete.
• Li Si told Tiya to interact with Zhu Ou normally and left for the City Lord’s Manor to continue analyzing its hidden array.

Li Si broke through Ihaileisi’s Legendary concealment array and discovered a blood-soaked tower carrying a faint trace of divine power. After sealing its aura, he flew to the tower’s summit and found a figure submerged in scarlet liquid, who noticed him.

• Li Si spent days studying Ihaileisi’s concealment array and gained insights into using its memory-altering rune arrays through dream spaces.
• Li Si finished analyzing the array, broke it, and gained the Array Breaker specialty as the barrier shattered.
• Li Si discovered a towering black structure covered in flowing blood and sensed a faint trace of divine power within it.
• Li Si sealed the tower’s aura with another array and suspected it had been left by an existence other than Ihaileisi.
• Li Si found no entrance around the tower, flew to its summit, and saw a figure submerged in scarlet liquid at the bottom of an opening.
• The figure raised his head and fixed his cold eyes on Li Si.

Li Si discovered a Blood-colored Tower hidden beneath the City Lord's Manor, where a gaunt figure he suspected was Ihaileisi guarded an Illusion Core. After narrowly escaping the tower's blood-red arrows, Li Si told Tiya what he had found, and they were left needing another way to end the city's seven-day cycle.

• Li Si entered the Blood-colored Tower and was attacked by blood-red arrows released by the gaunt figure on its throne, so he escaped with Spatial Teleportation.
• Li Si suspected the figure was Ihaileisi and reasoned that the tower had been formed through sacrifices, while Ihaileisi used its power to sustain the illusion covering the city.
• Li Si recognized the orb above the throne as the Illusion Core and realized it held Ihaileisi's research into illusion magic.
• Li Si noticed an unsheathed longsword pattern on the tower's throne, then went to the City Lord's Manor's main hall and examined the skeleton seated there.
• At the Golden Coconut Inn, Li Si told Tiya about the Blood-colored Tower and Ihaileisi; Tiya asked what they would do next, since they could not yet destroy the Illusion Core.

Li Si and Tiya prepared to attend Ihaileisi’s Guer Festival with Zhu Ou, while Li Si planned for the possibility that the town’s illusion would collapse. The next morning, Li Si found that his memories had not been reset, suggesting they had broken through the seven-day loop, just as a figure appeared at the inn entrance.

• Li Si told Old Milo that he and Tiya had chosen a shop and asked Zhu Ou to show them around the Guer Festival.
• Li Si noticed that Zhu Ou could not remember what the City Lord looked like and kept the detail in mind.
• Tiya worried that breaking the illusion would kill Zhu Ou and the other undead residents, but Li Si said their souls deserved peaceful rest.
• Li Si checked the Blood-colored Tower, reinforced its barrier, and set up emergency Teleportation Arrays around the square.
• Li Si woke to find his memories intact, then went downstairs with Tiya and met Zhu Ou, who said they should head to the festival.
• A figure suddenly appeared at the entrance of the Golden Coconut Inn.

Li Si, Tiya, and Zhu Ou celebrated the Guer Festival with Kazeli, the Legendary Undead Mage, who had returned to Zhu Ou. As the festival reached its peak, time froze and gray mist enveloped the square, and Kazeli declared that it was time to end everything.

• Kazeli appeared at the Golden Coconut Inn, and Zhu Ou joyfully welcomed him back while Li Si recognized him as the younger Ihaileisi.
• Kazeli joined Li Si, Tiya, and Zhu Ou at the Guer Festival, where Zhu Ou won prizes and Kazeli carried them for her.
• As the sacrificial ceremony approached, Kazeli promised Zhu Ou that he would stay with her, and she agreed to be with him forever.
• The festival crowd froze as gray mist covered the square, leaving Li Si, Tiya, and Kazeli unaffected while Zhu Ou was caught in the mist.
• Kazeli thanked Li Si and Tiya for caring for Zhu Ou and said it was time to end everything.

Kazeli explained how Gul sacrificed Guer City in a failed Ascension Ceremony, leaving its residents’ souls trapped, and why he had preserved them in an illusion. After deciding to end the illusion and join Zhu Ou in death, Kazeli reconsidered when Li Si reminded him of his promise to marry her, and he proposed to Zhu Ou instead.

• Kazeli told Li Si and Tiya that he would end the illusion because Zhu Ou and the other residents’ souls could no longer endure, and he planned to die alongside Zhu Ou.
• Kazeli explained that Gul had sacrificed everyone in Guer City during a failed attempt at ascension, trapping their souls and making Zhu Ou impossible to resurrect.
• Kazeli admitted that he had created the illusion to keep seeing Zhu Ou but had stayed away because he feared facing her questions and reliving their missed Guer Festival.
• Li Si reminded Kazeli that he had promised to marry Zhu Ou, prompting Kazeli to abandon his immediate plan to end the illusion.
• Kazeli restored the frozen city and asked Zhu Ou to become his wife, and Zhu Ou gladly accepted.

Li Si and Tiya attended Kazeli and Zhu Ou’s wedding as the city’s residents passed on through a channel to the Underworld. After Kazeli destroyed the Blood-colored Tower and gave Li Si and Tiya his Domain insights, Death God Yeg arrived to guide the couple to the Veiled Domain; Tiya then told Li Si she felt close to a breakthrough.

• Li Si presided over Kazeli and Zhu Ou’s wedding, and the couple shared a kiss beneath a fireworks display.
• The city’s residents vanished into a Space Channel leading to the Underworld, and Kazeli gave Li Si and Tiya insights into the Death, Undead, and Illusion Domains.
• Kazeli destroyed the Blood-colored Tower, freeing the city from its abnormal space, and gave Li Si the Illusion Core.
• Death God Yeg appeared and led Kazeli and Zhu Ou to the Veiled Domain before the Underworld entrance disappeared.
• Tiya told Li Si that she felt she was about to break through.

After Kazeli and Zhu Ou departed for the Underworld, Tiya told Li Si that Kazeli’s Death Domain seed had given her a chance to break through to Legendary, so they found a hidden refuge to cultivate. Li Si reviewed the generous rewards he had gained in Ihaileisi, including mastery of the Undead and Illusion Domains and a powerful Legendary undead spell.

• Kazeli’s destruction of the Blood-colored Tower left Ihaileisi empty, and Li Si reflected on his and Zhu Ou’s departure.
• Tiya told Li Si that the Death Extraordinary Domain seed had resonated with her and could help her break through to Legendary.
• Li Si and Tiya left Ihaileisi and settled in a concealed refuge in the Western Desert so they could digest their Extraordinary Domain seeds.
• Li Si reviewed his quest rewards, including the Power of the Undead King specialty, Master of Memory Manipulation, Legendary Undead Scourge, and mastery of the Undead and Illusion Domains.
• Li Si resolved to grow stronger and considered how well his abilities suited him to becoming an Undead Mage.

Li Si continued researching Kazeli’s Illusion Core while Tiya absorbed the Death Domain Seed and prepared to advance. Tiya successfully reached Legendary-level, then kissed Li Si.

• Li Si analyzed the Illusion Core and worked to digest the Undead and Fantasy Seeds while Tiya continued her seclusion.
• Li Si and Tiya used Love Beyond Life and Death, binding their lifespans and granting them a shared safeguard against death.
• Li Si sensed Tiya’s breakthrough beginning, activated the sanctuary’s protective arrays, and searched for threats as her power surged.
• Tiya completed her transformation and reached Legendary-level in the Western Desert.
• Tiya reunited with Li Si, teased him about reacting to her speed, and kissed him.

Li Si celebrated Tiya's breakthrough to Legendary, and Tiya prepared a private evening for the two of them. After sharing food and wine, they confessed their love and went into a room together, leaving their relationship newly affirmed.

• Tiya demonstrated her new Legendary strength by striking a ravine into the desert, then told Li Si she could beat him now.
• Li Si and Tiya entered the Copper Ring of Samekhahar after her breakthrough destroyed their concealed training site.
• Tiya arranged a meal and wine she had obtained from Old Milo, while Li Si prepared a feast.
• Tiya and Li Si toasted her breakthrough and his support as they shared food and drank the wine.
• Li Si told Tiya he loved her, and Tiya asked if they would always be together; Li Si promised they would.
• Li Si carried Tiya into another room, and the two went inside together.

After Tiya became a Legend, she and Li Si spent several days together in the Copper Ring of Samekhahar before emerging in the desert, where Aiven found them. Aiven urged Tiya to return to the Fies Kingdom to accept its royal inheritance and support King Morton, but agreed to let her stay with Li Si for two or three more days.

• Li Si woke in the Copper Ring of Samekhahar, found Tiya nearby, and joined her for a bath and a meal.
• Li Si and Tiya spent several days together in the ring before returning to the desert.
• Aiven Deen arrived, learned that Tiya had become a Legend, and disapproved of her closeness with Li Si without intervening.
• Aiven told Tiya to return to the Fies Kingdom to settle her foundation, receive the royal ancestor's inheritance, and answer King Morton's needs.
• Li Si told Tiya to meet him at Dan'erluo Port, and Aiven allowed her to stay with him for two or three more days.