Chapter Summaries

Mo Yun and the others explored Kane Floating City’s exchange shop, earned Guard status, and received class-appropriate weapons. After seeing how hard Contribution Points were to obtain, the two groups planned competing ways to recruit players and gather them.

• Mo Yun and her companions admired the Legendary Kane Sky Staff and other expensive items in Kane Floating City’s exchange shop, while Li Si explained that he had designed the equipment to appeal to players.
• Li Si granted Zhua Zhua and the others Bronze Kane Floating City Guard status, unlocked their permissions, and gave them titles and the right to choose a piece of the Kane Guardian Set.
• Charles escorted the players to their temporary rooms, where they chose weapons and discussed the difficult missions needed to earn Contribution Points.
• Han Xing and Chuan Shuo Yi Shi planned to recruit professional players and pool their Contribution Points, while Ma Ta Jiao Yang asked the guild analysts to assess the exchange shop.
• Si Lu proposed that Kindling Embers contact other players directly and split the Contribution Points with them, and Zhua Zhua assigned Mo Yun and herself to carry out the plan.
• Players in Dan'erluo Port saw the White Dove Merchant Guild’s new event announcement.

Players joined the White Dove Merchant Guild’s Celebration Wheel, spending experience for prizes while Li Si profited and expanded his Self-Charging Magic Runes business. He then studied Sphinx’s Apotheosis Art and resolved to master it before eventually creating his own path to godhood.

• The White Dove Merchant Guild launched a Celebration Wheel offering equipment, consumables, and a rare one-day Kane Floating City landing permit, prompting players to spend experience on draws.
• Players discovered that purple equipment was class-random and bound to them, leading many to recycle unwanted pieces for more draws and to call Li Si a Black-Hearted Merchant.
• Li Si collected over a hundred million experience points from the event and had Mora begin expanding sales of Self-Charging Magic Runes.
• Li Si returned to his laboratory, where Black Dragon Miraboreas tried to sneak away without disturbing his treasure but spilled Gold Coins and then fled.
• Li Si studied Sphinx’s Apotheosis Art, recognized that Sphinx’s original path had failed, and decided he needed to master the art before creating his own version.

Li Si upgraded the Sphinx Ascension to Godhood Art and discovered that it let him condense Elemental Divine Power, giving him a shortcut to understanding the four elemental domains despite being unable to store or control the power safely yet. As players flocked to Kane Floating City, Black Cat detected an approaching Legendary aura with no warning, leaving the city on alert.

• Li Si spent 1.4 billion experience points to raise the Sphinx Ascension to Godhood Art to Level 4 and found that it greatly improved his perception of the World Rules.
• Li Si used the art to condense Elemental Divine Power and a prototype Elemental Divinity, but the unstable power exploded and damaged the laboratory and Mirabolleas's Dragon Nest.
• Li Si realized that the art let him experience the four elemental domains at the third level of the Legendary Realm, smoothing his future path toward godhood, and continued experimenting with the power.
• Players surged toward Dan'erluo Port to visit Kane Floating City, while Li Si spent most of his time researching Elemental Divine Power and receiving supplies from the Church of the Gods and the Elf Kingdom.
• Black Cat detected an unannounced Legendary-level aura approaching Kane Floating City from eleven kilometers west and suspected it was an enemy.

Machina Mentor Stephen Kruger approached Kane Floating City and tried to negotiate for control and access to its resources, claiming he would protect it. When Li Si rejected his terms and revealed the Floating City’s defenses and his own formidable magic, Stephen reconsidered, but Li Si attacked him and triggered a challenge quest.

• Black Cat detected Stephen Kruger approaching Kane Floating City and questioned him about his intentions.
• Stephen asked to make a deal with Li Si, and Li Si recognized him as the Machina Mentor from his previous life.
• Stephen demanded high authority over the Floating City and access to its resources in exchange for protection and magical equipment.
• Stephen prepared to demonstrate the gap between Legendary Mages, but the Floating City’s defenses activated and Li Si showed that his magic surpassed Stephen’s.
• Stephen tried to retreat from the deal and lower his staff, but Li Si attacked him with blue-flamed fireballs and triggered a quest to defeat him.

Li Si fought Steven outside Kane Floating City, first testing his strength in a spell duel before overwhelming him with Mirabolleas's Destruction Power and close-quarters attacks. After Steven replaced his spent magical items, Li Si planted a four-colored power on his hand and retreated as it detonated in a mushroom cloud.

• Steven failed to detect Li Si's presence until Li Si appeared behind him and attacked with wind blades.
• Li Si and Steven exchanged high-level spells while Li Si used the battle to assess Steven's abilities; Joyce and Rossde approached the battlefield.
• Steven unleashed the power of his ten Magic Gem rings, but Li Si vanished and then pierced Steven's Magic Shields with Mirabolleas's Destruction Power.
• Steven escaped Li Si's sword strike with a Ruby Brooch, but Li Si pursued him and forced him to spend multiple life-saving Magical Items.
• Steven replaced his exhausted Extraordinary Items, but Li Si grabbed his right hand, attached a four-colored power, and retreated before it exploded.

Li Si defeated Steven with Elemental Divine Power and captured him, gaining a damaged Demigod Artifact and rewards for the battle. After Steven woke in chains aboard the Floating City, he eagerly admitted defeat when Li Si suggested he might have been allowed to live there.

• Li Si used the Kane Floating City to shield Dan'erluo Port from the battle's destructive aftermath.
• Li Si found Steven alive but gravely injured in the crater and took him back to the Floating City.
• Li Si found Steven's ring, Niccolo's Hope, and received rewards for defeating him, including Feat [Legendary Equipment Master].
• Steven woke bound and unable to use magic, then stubbornly said he was not convinced he had lost.
• Li Si suggested he might have let Steven live in the Floating City if he had behaved, and Steven immediately admitted defeat.

Li Si recruited Steven to work in Kane Floating City, where Steven recovered and crafted magical equipment for the city. Months later, Lisa began her Legendary breakthrough on a secluded island, and Li Si watched as she successfully became a Legend.

• Steven agreed to live in Kane Floating City and craft magical equipment in exchange for a workshop and research materials.
• Black Cat collected Steven's finished goods and received a custom cat-eared girl golem to control.
• Half a year after Li Si became a Legend, Lisa prepared to break through on an uninhabited island in the Pearl Sea.
• Li Si concealed the island and stayed nearby while Lisa gathered strength for a day.
• Lisa absorbed the powers of the four elements as the Four Elemental Planes opened behind her, and she became a Legend.

Lisa broke through to Legendary and confessed her feelings to Li Si, who accepted her affection and brought her back to Kane Floating City. After several days together, Li Si learned that another Legendary Mage, Aurelian Starshine, had arrived nearby, leaving him wondering why the Star Ring School leader had come.

• Lisa completed her smooth breakthrough to Legendary, gaining control over all four elemental domains and destroying the island beneath her with the elemental tide.
• Lisa confessed that she had long liked Li Si and kissed him, and Li Si embraced her and returned with her to Kane Floating City.
• Li Si and Lisa spent the next several days together as he helped her become familiar with her new Legendary power through battles.
• Black Cat showed Li Si an exquisitely lifelike golem made by Steven and reported that a Legendary Mage and an accompanying Gold-level visitor were approaching Kane Floating City.
• Li Si identified the distant Legendary Mage as Aurelian Starshine, leader of the Pan-continental Mage Association's Star Ring School, and wondered why he had come.

Li Si welcomed Starry Sky Observer Aurelian Starshine, who invited him to join the Pan-continental Mage Association and offered the association’s full support in exchange for joining with Kane Floating City. The offer ended with Li Si learning he would be made the association’s fourth chairman, leaving him stunned.

• Li Si agreed to receive Aurelian Starshine and anticipated that the Pan-continental Mage Association wanted to discuss Kane Floating City.
• Aurelian arrived, met Li Si, and invited him to join the Pan-continental Mage Association; Li Si accepted the invitation in principle.
• Li Si teleported Aurelian and his Gold Mage attendant into Kane Floating City and invited Aurelian to discuss the association’s interest in the city.
• Aurelian admitted the association valued both Kane Floating City and Li Si, and presented a ring containing Osiris Chronos’s time-based Arcane, Last Hour Elegy.
• Aurelian offered the association’s full support and the position of fourth chairman if Li Si joined with the Floating City, leaving Li Si astonished.

Li Si rejected the Pan-continental Mage Association’s offer to make him its Fourth Speaker in exchange for shared authority over Kane Floating City. Instead, he agreed to cooperate with Aurelian and the Star Ring, securing support to help Kane Floating City develop while retaining control of it.

• Aurelian offered Li Si the Fourth Speaker position if Kane Floating City joined the Pan-continental Mage Association under shared management.
• Li Si weighed the title and the Association’s benefits against the loss of authority over Kane Floating City, then refused to place the city under its management.
• Li Si told Aurelian that he would still join the Association and was open to cooperation, prompting Aurelian to propose the Star Ring as his partner.
• Li Si and Aurelian negotiated an agreement that would bring Star Ring high-ring mages and other support to Kane Floating City.
• Aurelian complained that Li Si had driven a hard bargain, while Li Si said the arrangement benefited both sides.

Li Si showed Aurelian Kane Floating City and revealed that Lisa Kane and Steven Kruger were also among its Legendary residents. Aurelian realized Li Si’s power exceeded his expectations and wondered whether the Star Ring could become a major school alongside him.

• Li Si and Aurelian concluded their negotiations, with Li Si gaining Star Ring resources and support from high-circle mages.
• Li Si led Aurelian through Kane Floating City, whose Elemental Towers greatly enhanced elemental magic and could benefit the Star Ring’s Evocation spells.
• Aurelian discovered Lisa Kane meditating in the Wind Element Tower and learned she was Li Si’s fellow disciple and a newly advanced Legendary Mage.
• Li Si told Aurelian that Steven Kruger had joined Kane Floating City after their friendly discussion, leaving Aurelian to reckon with the city’s three Legendaries and Li Si’s wider alliances.
• Aurelian sensed that Li Si’s influence could eventually produce another top-tier school, though he was unsure whether the Star Ring would be part of it.
• A merman surfaced from the Pearl Sea gripping a gleaming harpoon.

Captain Smith’s crew rescued the wounded Gold-level Sora Fishman Beilun Pearl from a battlefield and carried him to Dan'erluo Port to sell as a slave, while fishmen searched the surrounding waters for him. Zhua Zhua recognized Beilun as a fishman prince and realized the capture was connected to a commission investigating the restless nearshore fishmen.

• The Mayflower’s sailors found a blood-red sea littered with Sora Fishman corpses, and Captain Smith brought the ship closer to search for spoils.
• Smith ordered his crew to take a badly wounded Gold-level fishman aboard and leave the battlefield, then kept him unconscious as fishmen searched nearby waters.
• The Mayflower reached Dan'erluo Port, where Smith prepared to sell the fishman as a slave.
• Zhua Zhua noticed the sailors carrying the fishman and inspected him, identifying him as Beilun Pearl, a level 110 Sora Fishman of the Royal Family.
• Zhua Zhua realized the fishman’s capture was suspicious and decided to report it to his boss.

After Zhua Zhua reported that the captured fishman was the Pearl Sea’s royal leader, Belian Pearl, Li Si saw an opportunity to test a concealed faith-gathering system among the fishmen. Li Si took Belian from the docks, while Zhua Zhua received a valuable title and rewards for his report.

• Zhua Zhua recognized the captured Gold-level fishman as royalty and reported the discovery to Kane Floating City instead of pursuing the dangerous lead himself.
• Miraboreas willingly supplied Li Si with dragon blood while Li Si considered a new report from the Magic Intelligent Life, Black Cat.
• Li Si identified the fishman as Belian Pearl, ruler of Sora Fishman tribes in the Pearl Sea, and decided to use the fishmen as a low-risk way to experiment with gathering faith under a separate identity.
• Li Si teleported Belian and the sailors holding him from the docks, leaving the onlookers to suspect the Floating City had intervened.
• Zhua Zhua received 3,000 Kane Floating City contribution points and the Gold-level title Kane Floating City · Gale Scout, and the reward announcement made other players envious.

Li Si used the disguised identity of the legendary fishman warrior Klaus to rescue Belian Pearl and gain an opening into the Pearl Clan amid the fishmen’s succession conflict. Belian brought Klaus to the embattled clan, while Li Si planned to build his reputation by challenging O’Neill the Gluttonous Shark.

• Li Si questioned the Mayflower’s crew, confirmed that Belian had been captured amid fishman infighting, and entered Belian’s unguarded memories through the Dream World.
• Li Si appeared to Belian as Klaus, a powerful legendary fishman, and learned that Belian was a prince of the Pearl Clan whose clan elder Mateo had recently died.
• Belian explained that O’Neill of the Coral Clan had reported Mateo’s death, and Klaus said he had been Mateo’s friend and demanded to be taken to the Pearl Clan.
• Belian led Klaus through the sea, while Li Si planned to use his new identity to intervene in the fishmen’s faith and establish prestige by defeating O’Neill.
• Belian and Klaus arrived at the Pearl Clan’s village, where armed warriors patrolled and injured fishmen filled the settlement.

Li Si, disguised as the legendary fishman Klaus, met Beilun and offered to protect the Pearl Clan in exchange for their worship and faith. After Beilun explained Ma Tai'ao's suspicious death and the Coral Clan's attacks, Li Si demanded that O'Neill send Zuo Zhi Ya as a sacrifice, then sensed that their enemies had arrived.

• Beilun welcomed Klaus back to the Pearl Clan and led him to Ma Tai'ao's residence, where Li Si mourned the deceased fishman.
• Beilun told Li Si that Ma Tai'ao had disappeared during secret travels before the Coral Clan announced his death and began attacking the Pearl Clan.
• Li Si offered to help Beilun if the Pearl Clan worshipped Klaus, and Beilun eagerly accepted the condition.
• Li Si ordered Beilun to demand that O'Neill send Zuo Zhi Ya as a sacrifice for the Sea God Festival.
• Li Si noticed enemies approaching the village and said they had come to his doorstep.

Li Si revealed his Legendary power to save the Pearl Clan from Zuo Zhi Ya’s attack and left Beilun to deal with the defeated rival. He then confronted O'Neill, the Gluttonous Shark, on a nearby reef.

• Zuo Zhi Ya led his army to surround the Pearl Clan and demanded that Beilun surrender.
• Li Si appeared before the village, and his presence terrified Zuo Zhi Ya and sent the army’s sea beasts fleeing.
• Li Si killed the fishman soldiers with one slash, sparing Zuo Zhi Ya and ordering Beilun to take him away.
• Beilun seized Zuo Zhi Ya, while Li Si sensed the Pearl Clan’s growing reverence for him.
• Li Si went to a nearby reef and challenged O'Neill, who had watched the attack without intervening.

Li Si, disguised as the legendary fishman Klaus, challenged O'Neill Coral to test his strength and whether his disguise could withstand a fight. O'Neill transformed with Totem Spirit power and gained the upper hand, but Li Si counterattacked by severing one of his crab pincers.

• Li Si confronted O'Neill Coral and demanded to know about Ma Tai'ao's death, but O'Neill refused to reveal the fishman tribes' secret.
• Li Si attacked O'Neill, triggering a limited challenge quest to defeat the legendary priest.
• O'Neill used water barriers, tentacles, and enchanted shells against Li Si, who endured the attacks and assessed the priest's Totem Spirit power.
• O'Neill invoked the ocean's blessing and transformed into a monstrous fusion of sea-beast traits, forcing Li Si to dodge his attacks.
• Li Si closed in on O'Neill and cut off his left crab pincer.

Li Si defeated O'Neill in their Legendary battle and learned that O'Neill and Ma Tai'ao had tried to replace the Pearl Sea Fishman Tribe’s Totem Spirit to gain eternal life. The attempt gave Li Si a new idea for his Sphinx Ascension to Godhood Art, and he demanded O'Neill hand over the twelve Coral Pillars.

• Li Si used his newly created Raging Wave Sword Technique to overwhelm O'Neill until O'Neill surrendered and dismissed the Totem Spirit possessing him.
• Li Si pressed O'Neill for an explanation of Ma Tai'ao's death, and O'Neill said Ma Tai'ao had died after failing to replace the Totem Spirit's consciousness.
• O'Neill explained that he and Ma Tai'ao had turned to the Totem Spirit after making little progress toward godhood, hoping to survive as Totem Spirits sustained by the tribe's Faith Power.
• O'Neill said he had come to protect Beilun and the Pearl Clan, while Li Si suspected he had withheld parts of the truth.
• Li Si considered using Totem Spirits and Faith Power as a new route for his Sphinx Ascension to Godhood Art, then demanded O'Neill give him the twelve Coral Pillars.

Li Si defeated O'Neill, took control of the Totem Spirit, and claimed half the tribe’s Faith Power, then used his new authority to install Beilun as leader of the Fishman United Tribe. At Dan’erluo Port, Zhua Zhua prepared the Kindling Embers Guild for the Divine Revelation Professional League qualifiers.

• Li Si demanded control of O'Neill’s Totem Spirit and half the tribe’s Faith Power, and O'Neill yielded after his defeat.
• Li Si received quest rewards including Undying Body and Legendary Totem Possession, which he planned to use to study totem power.
• Li Si ordered Beilun to become leader of the Fishman United Tribe and gather believers for him.
• Zhua Zhua told the Kindling Embers Guild that the Professional League qualifiers would begin the following week and urged everyone to compete for a slot.

Zhua Zhua led the Kindling Embers Team through the Divine Revelation Game Professional League qualifiers and into the Knockout Stage, where they faced Mad Song Team. Their match became a chance for Zhua Zhua to confront Mad Blade Smile, the former teammate who had sabotaged and pushed him out of Long Song Team.

• Zhua Zhua warned the Kindling Embers Team to save their copying trump card for the official matches as the Professional League approached.
• Over a million teams entered the qualifiers, where teams competed in ten battle royale matches across dungeon maps, including the deadly White Dove Merchant Guild secret realms.
• Kindling Embers barely made the top three hundred after drawing White Dove Merchant Guild maps twice, then advanced through the Knockout Stage with easy three-to-zero wins.
• At the top 128, Kindling Embers drew Mad Song Team, the second team of Long Song Team, and Zhua Zhua recognized Mad Blade Smile as the man who had helped force him out of Long Song Team.
• Zhua Zhua sent Mo Yun to win the opening match, then faced Mad Blade Smile in the second match and charged him with two puppets.