Chapter Summaries

After learning about the Blood Clan’s history, Li Si listened as Joyce explained the dangers of divine power and the path of Ascension to Godhood. Joyce warned him to avoid absorbing divine remnants before becoming a Legend and suspected that Cain’s circumstances were poor.

• Marion told Li Si that vampires had betrayed Cain and corrupted their blood, then left to buy sweets.
• Joyce told Li Si that mortals could pursue Ascension to Godhood after reaching Legend, though the path was dangerous and no one had succeeded in centuries.
• Joyce explained that divine remnants contained the wills of fallen Gods and could destroy anyone who tried to absorb them before reaching Legend.
• Li Si said that Fenriria had protected him and that he possessed a magical item containing divine power.
• Joyce suspected Cain was in trouble because he had arranged for a favored one to deliver his divine power, then warned that investigating Gods was beyond their reach.

On the launch of Divine Revelation, Liu Tai entered Can Guang City and explored the realistic game world, hoping to become a warrior. After the White Dove Merchant Guild rejected him for lacking potential, someone tapped him on the shoulder.

• Liu Tai entered Divine Revelation at launch and appeared in an alley in Can Guang City among other players.
• Players tested the game’s realistic world in bizarre ways, while Liu Tai decided to explore alone and search for the Mercenary Guild.
• Liu Tai asked natives for directions and reached Ge Duo Street, marveling at the city’s lifelike crowds and bustle.
• Liu Tai heard that the White Dove Merchant Guild was recruiting and applied, but the recruiter rejected him for lacking potential.
• As Liu Tai considered heading to the Mercenary Guild instead, someone lightly patted his shoulder.

On Divine Revelation’s launch day, Li Si watched players arrive in Ge Duo Street and used the White Dove Merchant Guild to recruit them, activating the game’s faction and mission systems. He spotted his former-life friend Liu Tai among the newcomers and decided to make him the first subject of his plans for winning players over.

• Li Si waited at the White Dove Merchant Guild and watched newly arrived players head toward the Mercenary Guild or stop to hear the guild’s recruitment calls.
• The White Dove Merchant Guild recruited its first player, activating the Faction Establishment and Mission Release modules on Li Si’s system panel.
• Li Si examined the new modules, reviewed the guild’s growing player roster, and allowed guild members to join other factions.
• Li Si recognized the player Liu Shi Tai Tan as his former-life friend Liu Tai and decided to use him as his first test subject.

Li Si Kane recruited Liu Shi Tai Tan into the White Dove Merchant Guild after giving him a simple fruit tea mission that raised him to Level 2. The other players recognized Li Si as a powerful NPC and crowded around him as he offered the guild members a troublesome task.

• Liu Shi Tai Tan used Character Detection on Li Si Kane and saw that he had a Legendary-level talent and an extremely dangerous rating.
• Li Si asked Liu Shi Tai Tan to buy him fruit tea, and the player completed the Bronze-level mission for experience and a Gold Coin.
• Liu Shi Tai Tan spent the experience to reach Level 2, then accepted Li Si's invitation to join the White Dove Merchant Guild as an Intermediate Member.
• The nearby players noticed Liu Shi Tai Tan's level-up, inspected Li Si, and swarmed him with offers of help.
• Li Si lowered his favorability toward a player who offered to warm his bed, then asked the guild members to help with a troublesome matter.

Li Si gave the newly arrived players a quest to investigate trouble in Can Guang City's Lower City District and offered them a way to learn class skills. After Huo Yan Yan learned Mage Hand and earned a guild promotion, Li Si opened his Mystical Shop to the players, who rushed off to pursue quests and rewards.

• Li Si gave the players a Silver-level quest to investigate the unrest in Can Guang City's Lower City District, offering up to 100,000 EXP and 1,000 Gold Coins.
• Li Si offered to teach the players skills across several classes, and Huo Yan Yan spent experience to learn Mage Hand and unlock mage advancement.
• Li Si recognized Huo Yan Yan, promoted him to intermediate membership, and privately welcomed the experience spent on the skill as income.
• Li Si opened his Mystical Shop, displaying rare equipment and supplies with membership and favorability requirements.
• The players reacted excitedly to the shop and hurried off to grind quests and guild contributions.

While waiting for her resurrection timer to end, Mo Yun browsed the player forum and saw Divine Revelation’s explosive popularity among professional players and streamers. A trending post revealed that Li Si Kane had appeared in Can Guang City and offered players a Silver-level quest, leaving Mo Yun curious about the mysterious NPC.

• Mo Yun read forum posts about players’ early deaths and saw top gaming clubs and professional players announce they were joining Divine Revelation.
• Mo Yun watched a promotional video featuring leading Huaxia professional players, including her favorite, Han Xing, and got excited about their upcoming competition.
• While livestreaming during her thirty-minute resurrection timer, Mo Yun continued browsing the forum and found a trending post about the server’s first Silver-level quest.
• The post’s author described meeting Li Si Kane at the White Dove Merchant Guild in Can Guang City, where he offered a Silver-level quest and could teach skills from four professions.
• Mo Yun read the lively comments as players debated whether Li Si Kane and his quest were part of a hidden storyline.

Mo Yun and Zhua Zhua arrived at the White Dove Merchant Guild, where they met Li Si and accepted Silver-level quests. Li Si invited the two notable players to accompany him on a stroll through the Lower City District.

• Mo Yun joined the White Dove Merchant Guild, took a poster-girl quest, and earned enough experience to become a professional while waiting for Li Si.
• Zhua Zhua registered with the guild and asked Mo Yun about the NPC offering Silver-level quests.
• Li Si came downstairs, recognized Mo Yun and Zhua Zhua as famous players from his previous life, and gave them Silver-level quests.
• Li Si invited players to accompany him to the Lower City District, then chose Mo Yun and Zhua Zhua to go with him.

Li Si visited Old Jack with Mo Yun and Zhua Zhua, and learned that the Church of All Beasts was preparing a blood sacrifice in Can Guang City's Lower City District. He recognized the locations of their hideouts and recalled how the future ritual would summon Malleore's avatar and kill thousands.

• Li Si led Mo Yun and Zhua Zhua to Old Jack's shop while other players followed him, hoping to find bargains.
• Mo Yun and Zhua Zhua appraised Old Jack's weapons and armor, and Li Si told them White Dove Merchant Guild members could buy equipment at a discount.
• Old Jack gave Li Si a list of places frequented by people who had recently gone quiet.
• Li Si recognized the locations as Pearl Street, Fa Sai Street, and Golden Lily Lane, where the Church of All Beasts planned to release magical beasts and conduct a blood sacrifice.
• Li Si recalled that the ritual would summon Malleore's avatar, whose appearance would cause thousands of residents to die, before three Legendary powerhouses drove it back.

Li Si went to Golden Lily Lane to investigate the Church of All Beasts’ blood sacrifice ritual and confront the Eagle Brotherhood, which controlled the area. When two gang members tried to stop him, Mo Yun and Zhua Zhua accepted a quest and stepped forward to fight them.

• Li Si decided to disrupt the Church of All Beasts’ ritual in Can Guang City’s Lower City District and brought Mo Yun and Zhua Zhua to document his actions and influence the players.
• Li Si identified Golden Lily Lane as one of the ritual’s key locations and learned from Old Jack that the Eagle Brotherhood, led by Death Eagle Tash, controlled it.
• Li Si went to the house where Marion and Kutner had fought, suspecting that the ritual’s hidden methods were nearby.
• Two Eagle Brotherhood members blocked Li Si and ordered him to leave, but he refused and concluded that the house still held something important.
• Mo Yun and Zhua Zhua accepted Li Si’s quest to defeat the gang members and stepped in front of him as the men attacked.

Li Si used powerful buffs to help Mo Yun and Zhua Zhua defeat two men in black, drawing attention from players watching Mo Yun’s livestream. He then exposed and trapped a Silver-level Assassin, leaving the assassin unable to escape as Li Si prepared to question him.

• Li Si cast several attribute-boosting spells and Stone Skin on Mo Yun and Zhua Zhua, who then beat the two men in black senseless.
• Mo Yun’s livestream attracted more viewers, spreading word of Li Si’s power among the players.
• Li Si spotted a hidden Silver-level Assassin and forced him to reveal himself with a Blue Ball Spell.
• The assassin tried to flee using Forced Escape, but Li Si trapped him inside a Mirage domain.
• Mo Yun and Zhua Zhua watched as Li Si confronted the trapped assassin and announced that he had questions for him.

Li Si captured and defeated a gray-clad assassin sent by Tash to watch Kutner's old house, then learned that Tash had been visiting it frequently. The assassin offered to serve Li Si, while Li Si grew wary of what might be hidden inside the house.

• Li Si trapped the gray-clad assassin in a Mirage and challenged him with a Web Spell, but the assassin dodged and charged at close range.
• Li Si drew a dagger, detected the assassin's Stealth, and overwhelmed him in a brief clash.
• Li Si questioned the subdued assassin, who said Tash had sent him to watch the house and that Tash had visited it more often over the past three months.
• Li Si dispelled the Mirage and suspected that a blood sacrifice ritual was set up inside Kutner's house, while wondering why it had so few guards.
• The gray-clad assassin asked Li Si to spare him and offered to serve him, claiming Tash had always looked down on him.

Li Si recruited the Silver-level assassin Rist and discovered that Kutner's basement concealed a Church of All Beasts hideout behind a Reversal Gate. He left without alerting the hidden powerhouse, then planned to gather people to raid the secret chamber, where Petar continued overseeing a blood ritual.

• Li Si used Bewilderment Crest to make Rist his loyal subordinate and assigned him to the White Dove Merchant Guild.
• Li Si searched Kutner's luxurious house with Rist, Zhua Zhua, and Mo Yun, then pretended to leave disappointed.
• Li Si revealed that he had detected a Seventh-Circle Reversal Gate on the basement door and sensed a Gold-level presence beyond it.
• Li Si decided to gather people to raid the Church of All Beasts' hideout.
• Petar remained hidden beyond the gate, chose not to report Li Si's visit to Kaiser, and watched over a ritual array surrounded by more than a hundred unconscious magical beasts.

Li Si went to the Golden Lion Legion to warn Commander Biweisi Milaner about the Church of All Beasts’ blood sacrifice ritual. Biweisi took the threat seriously as Li Si said the ritual might summon an incarnation of the Lord of All Beasts.

• Li Si left Rist to watch a house and traveled with Zhua Zhua and Mo Yun to the Golden Lion Legion’s garrison.
• Li Si met Herbert Bo, who escorted him to Commander Biweisi Milaner.
• Biweisi warned Li Si not to mistreat Ya Er before hearing why he had come.
• Li Si told Biweisi about the Church of All Beasts’ hidden Gold-level powerhouse and blood sacrifice ritual beneath Golden Lily Lane.
• Li Si said he was certain the ritual could summon an incarnation of the Lord of All Beasts and planned to inform Teacher Stephens.

Li Si warned Bi Weisi that the Church of All Beasts was preparing a blood sacrifice in Can Guang City and proposed drawing out its other hidden groups rather than alerting them with a search. Bi Weisi mobilized the kingdom and the Dawn Church, while Li Si informed his teacher Fran, who agreed to watch the threat and let Li Si take part.

• Li Si told Bi Weisi that a Gold-level expert guarded a secret chamber and that the Church of All Beasts might have other hidden sites in the Lower City District.
• Li Si proposed preparing for an attack and letting the cultists spread the news so their other arrangements would be exposed; he also warned that they might strike during the Sacred Festival.
• Bi Weisi agreed to report to the king, mobilize Can Guang City's elite forces, and notify the Dawn Church, while Li Si said he would speak with his teacher, Flame of Judgement.
• Bi Weisi rode to the royal palace, and Li Si took Zhua Zhua and Mo Yun to the Fiss Royal Magic Academy before entering the First Magic Workshop.
• Fran explained that a God’s avatar could reach only demigod rank in the Main World and agreed to keep watch, inviting Li Si to take part against the cultists.

Li Si told Zhua Zhua and Mo Yun that their investigation of the Lower City District had progressed, then learned that Joyce hoped to study the hunting divinity in the Lord of All Beasts’ incarnation. After Mo Yun posted about Li Si online, she discovered that his teacher might be the Legendary Mage Fran Stephens.

• Li Si told Zhua Zhua and Mo Yun to meet him at the White Dove Merchant Guild the next day, and they learned basic skills from him before parting.
• Li Si told Joyce about the Church of All Beasts, and Joyce explained that he wanted to comprehend the hunting divinity in the Lord of All Beasts’ incarnation.
• Li Si returned to his bedroom to prepare for the next day’s plan and consider the Church of All Beasts’ powerful members.
• Mo Yun returned to the player dormitory, logged out, and posted about Li Si and his teacher on the forums.
• A forum user connected Stephens to Fran Stephens, Can Guang City’s Legendary Mage, and Mo Yun decided to stay close to Li Si.

Li Si joined Bi Weisi’s operation to surround the Church of All Beasts in the Lower City District, where an evil god’s avatar might descend. As the forces gathered at Golden Lily Lane, Li Si recruited Mo Yun and the other players into the battle through a high-reward quest.

• Bi Weisi assembled the Golden Lion Knights and elite soldiers, assigned teams to enter the Lower City District, and arranged for Odis to prepare the Royal Mage Corps’ civilian-protection barrier.
• Bi Weisi told Li Si that the king had entrusted him with the operation and led him toward Golden Lily Lane for preliminary confirmation.
• Mo Yun, Zhua Zhua, Huo Yan Yan, and Liu Shi Tai Tan waited at Golden Lily Lane after becoming official professionals through the White Dove Merchant Guild.
• Li Si arrived with Bi Weisi and the armored soldiers, noticed the four players, and sent them a Silver-level quest to join the operation against the Church of All Beasts.

Li Si and the kingdom’s Gold-level warriors broke into Kutner’s hidden chamber and uncovered the Church of All Beasts’ Blood Sacrifice Ritual Array. Petar was defeated, but the awakening magical beasts threatened to unleash a greater danger on Can Guang City.

• Li Si questioned Rist, then led Bi Weisi, Odis, and the others to Kutner’s basement under invisibility and silence spells.
• Odis confirmed the basement door carried a Reversal Gate spell, and Bi Weisi shattered it with Golden Lion’s Claws.
• Petar spotted the breach and tried to contact Kaiser, but Odis had disrupted the communication item.
• Petar activated the Blood Sacrifice Ritual Array and released the spell that had kept the magical beasts asleep.
• Bi Weisi and the knight order’s Gold-level warriors overwhelmed Petar, leaving him gravely injured and captured.
• The magical beasts began to awaken, their savage auras spreading through the chamber.

Bi Weisi and the Golden Lion Knights fought the Church of All Beasts’ unleashed magical beasts in the Lower City District while Li Si joined the battle and received a Gold-level mission to thwart the blood sacrifice. Li Si slaughtered beasts with powerful spells as Mo Yun watched in awe.

• The awakened magical beasts broke through the basement ceiling and surged into the district, prompting Bi Weisi to order the Golden Lion Knights to stop them and evacuate bystanders.
• Bi Weisi and the other powerful fighters engaged the Gold-level beasts while Odis cast buffs and Li Si attacked the Bronze- and Silver-level beasts.
• Li Si received the Gold-level mission Bloodbath, which required him to thwart the Church of All Beasts’ scheme and promised experience points and the Crimson Slaughter specialty.
• Li Si used the Emerald Staff and powerful spells to kill magical beasts rapidly, while the Golden Lion Knights battled amid the bloody chaos.
• Mo Yun and the other low-level professionals watched Li Si’s elegant, devastating spellcasting with astonishment.

Li Si and Bi Weisi destroyed the Church of All Beasts’ Blood Sacrifice Ritual Array with the God of Dawn’s divine power. Although Bi Weisi offered Li Si the choice to withdraw, Li Si headed for Pearl Street, where the Lord of All Beasts’ avatar was expected to descend.

• Li Si and Bi Weisi’s forces defeated the magic beasts in Golden Lily Lane and prepared for the next battle.
• Li Si asked Bi Weisi to stop the basement ritual array, and Bi Weisi used a drop of the God of Dawn’s divine power to destroy it.
• Li Si’s system confirmed that one of the three Blood Sacrifice Ritual Arrays had been destroyed, while Bi Weisi took the unconscious Petar away for questioning.
• Li Si declined to leave the operation and went toward Pearl Street to witness the expected descent and attempt to withstand its divine pressure.

After learning that the Blood Sacrifice Ritual Array had been damaged and Petar had disappeared, Kaiser ordered the Church of All Beasts to begin its attack on Can Guang City. As beasts and cultists massacred civilians in the Lower City District, the Golden Lion Knights, Dawn Church, and mages arrived to fight them back.

• Kaiser learned that one-third of the Blood Sacrifice Ritual Array had been destroyed and that Petar was missing from the Golden Lily Lane safehouse.
• Kaiser ordered the Church of All Beasts to activate its plan, then used the seventh-tier divine art Mark of Fear and Death to kill civilians on Pearl Street.
• Tash and Anyelo released magical beasts into Pearl Street and Fa Sai Street as Church of All Beasts believers joined the slaughter.
• Bi Weisi's plainclothes soldiers charged the beasts while the Golden Lion Knights rushed toward the two streets, and Odis prepared to assist the Royal Mage Corps.
• The Golden Lion Knights, Dawn Church priests and paladins, and Odis's mages attacked the beasts, pushing them back as human forces gained the advantage.