Chapter Summaries

Li Si and the Dawn Church worked to destroy the blood and corpses fueling the Blood Sacrifice Ritual while the Church of All Beasts tried to stop them. Tash sacrificed himself to interrupt Ni Keer’s divine spell as the remaining blood rushed toward the ritual’s destination.

• Li Si used Flame Domain to burn the corpses and the river of blood flowing along Pearl Street.
• Ni Keer cast Dust to Dust to destroy the magical beast corpses, while Bi Weisi guarded him from an ambush.
• Tash, Anyelo, Wu Sama, and other Gold-level fighters revealed themselves and attacked Bi Weisi’s group.
• Tash charged into Ni Keer’s divine spell, died beneath its light, and stopped it from spreading.
• Ni Keer began casting Dust to Dust again as Li Si noticed the remaining blood rushing toward a nearby destination.

Kaiser sacrificed himself to complete the Blood Sacrifice Ritual Array as the Church of All Beasts’ forces collapsed across Pearl Street. Bi Weisi and the others approached the array as the Lord of All Beasts’ avatar began to descend, while Li Si and Joyce watched nearby.

• Kaiser sent a final message to the divine envoy, then offered his body and life to the Blood Sacrifice Ritual Array.
• At Pearl Street, Ni Keer cleared most of the monster corpses while Bi Weisi drove back the Church of All Beasts’ Gold-level fighters.
• The Church of All Beasts’ Gold-level members collapsed into blood and were drawn toward the ritual array, prompting Bi Weisi to lead the kingdom and Dawn Church fighters after them.
• Li Si reflected on the Lord of All Beasts’ plan to bring down an avatar in Can Guang City and wondered whether the defenders could stop it.
• Joyce appeared beside Li Si and confirmed that the Lord of All Beasts was coming as a terrifying pressure rose from beneath the ground near the array.

The Lord of All Beasts’ divine consciousness completed its descent in Can Guang City, and Li Si experienced the god’s terrifying mental pressure firsthand. The Royal Mage Corps contained the avatar and its Fear Aura, while Li Si recovered after resisting its influence.

• Ni Keer told Bi Weisi that the Lord of All Beasts’ Divine Avatar was nearly formed and could no longer be stopped, so Bi Weisi ordered an evacuation and had Odis prepare a containment array.
• Joyce told Li Si the descent was happening, and a blood-red pillar erupted from the Blood Sacrifice Ritual Array, shaking Can Guang City and sending its civilians fleeing.
• The Lord of All Beasts emerged from the pit as a grotesque, thirty-meter-tall monster, overwhelming Li Si and driving nearby people into madness.
• Odis and the Royal Mage Corps raised a golden dome around Pearl Street, containing the avatar and its Fear Aura while the Dawn Church aided the soldiers.
• Li Si recovered from the divine pressure, and Joyce praised him for regaining his senses faster than expected.

After surviving the Lord of All Beasts’ divine mental assault, Li Si gained powerful new specialties and watched three Legendary figures confront the God’s avatar. Lu Maurice opened the battle by binding and weakening the avatar with divine edicts.

• Li Si and Joyce concluded that the Lord of All Beasts’ avatar embodied the Hunting divine portfolio, and Joyce said he would have preferred the Shadow portfolio for ascension to godhood.
• Li Si passed the avatar’s divine mental checks and gained increased Mental Resilience, the Divine ?? specialty, Ode to Courage, and 8% divine power analysis progress.
• Li Si watched Fran Stephens, Aiven Deen, and Lu Maurice face the Lord of All Beasts’ avatar amid Pearl Street’s destruction.
• Lu Maurice invoked Divine Edict: Seal, Divine Edict: Deprive, and Divine Edict: Suppress, binding the avatar in radiant chains and weakening it.

Lu Maurice’s Divine Word Edicts weakened the Lord of All Beasts’ avatar, and Fran unleashed a Legendary Arcane that battered it into a crater. The avatar survived but could not heal its wounds, leaving Fran unimpressed by its strength.

• Fran recognized Saint Hoyle’s Handbook as a Legendary relic that transformed priests’ Law Spells into powerful Divine Word Edicts.
• Lu Maurice used Lockdown, Deprivation, and Suppression to restrict the Lord of All Beasts’ avatar.
• Aiven Deen charged the avatar and was knocked into a crater, but remained unharmed.
• Fran summoned a vast magic array and struck the avatar with Fran’s Sunblaze Meteor Burst, carving a deep crater into Pearl Street.
• The Lord of All Beasts crawled out with severe wounds that could not heal, while Fran judged the weakened avatar unimpressive.

Fran, Ai Wen, and Lu Maurice fought the Lord of All Beasts’ avatar for hours, weakening it while Joyce waited for the right moment to act. As the battle reached its apparent end, the avatar began to expand, prompting Ai Wen to warn that it was about to self-destruct.

• Ai Wen intercepted the Lord of All Beasts as it charged Fran, who then drenched the avatar in a corrosive silver orb spell.
• Li Si stayed back while Joyce explained that the Lord of All Beasts’ vitality made it difficult to kill, even under the Legends’ combined assault.
• Fran, Ai Wen, and Lu Maurice continued attacking for hours until the avatar was covered in wounds and Pearl Street lay in ruins.
• Joyce told Li Si to keep his amulet on, then left the rooftop as the Lord of All Beasts weakened.
• The Lord of All Beasts rose as a grotesque mass of flesh and began expanding, and Ai Wen warned that it was going to self-destruct.

Joyce destroyed Lord of All Beasts’ avatar before it could self-destruct, saving Can Guang City, while Fran contained the remaining evil aura. Li Si learned the avatar was dead and returned to the Kane estate with Joyce, as a message to a noble’s Divine Envoy hinted that the Church of All Beasts’ plans had not ended.

• Lord of All Beasts began self-destructing, but an unknown Legendary assassin emerged from its body and destroyed the avatar, then gave Ai Wen, Fran, and Lu Maurice crystals containing its divine power.
• Ai Wen realized Can Guang City had been saved, while Lu Maurice left for Dawn Cathedral and Fran stayed to cleanse the evil god’s remains.
• Joyce took Li Si back to the Kane Family Estate and confirmed he had destroyed the avatar’s divine power core, though Lord of All Beasts itself had only lost divine power.
• A middle-aged man at a noble’s residence watched the now-quiet Lower City District and received a message addressed to the Lord Divine Envoy.

After the Blood Sacrifice Upheaval, Li Si reviewed his rewards and opened three Secret Realms to players through the White Dove Merchant Guild. In the Fies Royal Palace, King Morton learned the extent of the damage and began considering a reward for Li Si.

• Li Si saw that Joyce had changed after killing a Divine Avatar, then returned to his room exhausted from the battle.
• Li Si received 11,000,000 EXP, the Crimson Slaughter specialty, a special Secret Realm Crystal, the Wrath of the Lord of All Beasts status, and a milestone granting one Continental Legendary Point.
• Li Si added his three Secret Realm Crystals to the White Dove Merchant Guild’s selection, setting entry prices and offering guild members a monthly free entry to the Lord of All Beasts Extermination Battle.
• Minister Braford Gitte reported the casualties and two million Fes Gold Coins in losses to King Morton, who heard that Lord Flame of Judgement had helped deal with the aftermath.
• Morton considered the danger the kingdom had escaped and asked what reward should be given to Li Si.

After dying from seeing the Lord of All Beasts' avatar, Mo Yun pieced together the incident and posted a video that made Li Si famous among players. As players flocked to the White Dove Merchant Guild and Kunlun took interest in Li Si, the player-side storyline shifted toward gathering more information about him.

• Mo Yun and her three companions died when the Lord of All Beasts' avatar appeared, then learned from their system messages that the avatar had been destroyed and their quests had been completed.
• Mo Yun searched the player forum, assembled her account of the events, and uploaded a video describing Li Si Kane's role in stopping the Church of All Beasts' plot.
• Players made Mo Yun's video popular, and her follower count surpassed one hundred thousand as she resolved to seek Li Si out again.
• Players discovered the Lord of All Beasts Extermination Battle secret realm, shared videos of it, and rushed to join the White Dove Merchant Guild.
• Chuan Shuo Yi Shi told Han Xing that Li Si seemed important and that Kunlun should contact Mo Yun for more information.

Li Si gained experience from players joining the White Dove Merchant Guild and considered ways to improve his skills and automate teaching them. Arsen then rushed him to meet his father about the king’s intentions for the next day’s Sacred Festival, leaving Li Si wondering whether the king knew of Second Prince Ya Tean’s conspiracy.

• Li Si gained over a hundred thousand experience points as players completed quests and learned skills through the White Dove Merchant Guild.
• Li Si spent his experience raising skill levels and reflected on skill breakthroughs, Potential Points, and the value of minor skills in combat.
• Li Si considered asking Flame of Judgement for memory spheres so players could learn skills without needing him present as a dialogue point.
• Arsen arrived at the guild and hurried Li Si into a carriage, telling him that his father had come to discuss the Sacred Festival at the king’s request.
• Li Si realized the meeting concerned the next day’s Sacred Festival and wondered whether the king knew about Second Prince Ya Tean’s conspiracy.

Duke Hardt told Li Si that King Morton would elevate him to Marquis Kane at the Sacred Festival for his service to the kingdom. Li Si also asked to buy the ruined Pearl Street area for the merchant guild, and Fuchs agreed to look into it.

• Fuchs explained that King Morton had ordered a crackdown on Evil God Churches after the Church of All Beasts tried to summon an Evil God Avatar, and asked Li Si to report similar intelligence in the future.
• Fuchs told Li Si that King Morton had decided to confer the title of Marquis Kane upon him at the next day's Sacred Festival.
• Fuchs relayed the king's teasing remark that Li Si should become a duke if he wanted to marry Princess Tiya.
• Li Si asked whether he could purchase the ruined Pearl Street area for the merchant guild, and Fuchs agreed to look into it.

Li Si developed a new Exclusive Arcane by combining the Blue Ball Spell’s deep-blue flame with a magic sword enchantment. He named it Li Si's Blue Flame Magic Sword, a six-ring Arcane that inflicted a powerful, hard-to-remove burning effect.

• After Duke Hardt told him he would soon become a marquis, Li Si returned to the First Magic Workshop to continue his Arcane Research.
• Li Si studied the Magic Sword skill and sought to combine its weapon enchantment with the deep-blue flames from his Blue Ball Spell.
• Through repeated experiments, Li Si enchanted a longsword with deep-blue flames, then condensed them into a thin layer on its blade.
• Li Si stabilized the new spell and named it Li Si's Blue Flame Magic Sword, a six-ring Arcane that inflicted Undying Blue Flame and reduced its targets’ defenses.

Can Guang City celebrated the Fies Kingdom’s Sacred Festival, and Li Si attended the ceremony after preparing for a possible attack. As King Morton Fies made his entrance, the celebration began with Ya Tean still uneasy about Li Si.

• Mo Yun and Zhua Zhua discussed the festival and wondered whether Li Si would attend Triumphant Square.
• Rosie woke Li Si, who dressed for the ceremony and used a Clarity Spell after a late night at the First Magic Workshop.
• Li Si arrived at Triumphant Square, assessed its security, and watched Ya Tean while thinking about the gift he had prepared for the prince.
• Ya Tean noticed Li Si’s smile and worried that his plan could be jeopardized.
• Duke Hardt called for silence and announced King Morton Fies, whose arrival began the Sacred Festival celebration.

During the Fies Kingdom’s Sacred Festival, Li Si witnessed worshippers’ Faith Power gathering in the gods’ statues and learned how important it was to the gods. After the rites, the investiture ceremony began, with Li Si summoned first to receive his title.

• Morton Fies arrived at the festival and took his place on the throne.
• The king, nobles, officials, and citizens offered harvest gifts and prayed to the God of Dawn and the Earth Goddess.
• Li Si sensed Faith Power rising from the praying citizens and flowing into the Divine Statues, where it passed through illusory doors.
• The priests ended the worship rites, and the citizens stayed for the investiture ceremony.
• Duke Hardt announced the ceremony and called Court Viscount Li Si Kane first.

Li Si Kane was made a Court Marquis for his achievements, but an assassin emerged from a shadow during the Sacred Festival and killed four nobles. The attack began just as the ceremony was ending, leaving the king and gathered nobles in danger.

• King Morton granted Li Si Kane the title of Court Marquis, and Li Si swore his loyalty to the king.
• Li Si received the Court Marquis milestone and its reward of thirty National Legendary Points.
• Li Si watched Ya Tean and wondered whether the prince’s planned assassination would still target him, trusting his own trump card to stop the Gold-level assassin.
• After Morton returned to his throne, an attendant’s shadow spread toward the nobles and a small assassin emerged from it.
• The assassin killed four nobles before Bi Weisi shouted for it to stop.

A Gold-level assassin killed four minor nobles at the Sacred Festival before escaping with Shadow Leap, while the protective arrays failed to stop him. Li Si Kane brought the assassin back through a rift from the Shadow Plane and captured him, then told King Morton Fies that they needed to talk privately.

• Bi Weisi tried to shield King Morton as the assassin killed four minor nobles and vanished with Shadow Leap.
• Bi Weisi summoned priests and demanded that Odis explain why the protective arrays had failed to stop the assassin.
• A vast rift opened into the Shadow Plane, and Bi Weisi and the Golden Lion Knights guarded Morton against the Legendary aura coming from it.
• The assassin fell from the rift and crashed to the ground before Li Si Kane, who pinned him underfoot and declared the danger over.
• Li Si looked toward Morton and the panicked Second Prince, Ya Tean, and said they needed to talk privately.

After the Sacred Festival assassination failed, Li Si confronted King Morton and Second Prince Ya Tean in the Fies Royal Palace. Ya Tean confessed that he had orchestrated the attack, leaving Morton to decide how to punish his son.

• Li Si told Morton that the Legendary assassin was an elder of his family, and Morton chose not to press him for details.
• Morton asked whether Li Si had anticipated the assassination, and Li Si urged Ya Tean to explain what had happened.
• Ya Tean admitted that Blood Blade was his agent inside the Bertich Kingdom and that he had secretly planned the Sacred Festival assassination.
• Li Si revealed that he had been among Ya Tean's original targets, and Ya Tean confirmed he had later changed the target.
• Morton recognized that Ya Tean's plot against the nobles and the kingdom had become his responsibility to judge.

Morton Fies explained why he had allowed Ya Tean’s scheme to proceed and asked Li Si to accept a delayed punishment so the kingdom could conceal the prince’s role in the coming war. Li Si agreed to Morton’s plan, which left Ya Tean under house arrest and a lethal restriction until the war ended.

• Morton told Ya Tean that he had recognized his ambitions and regretted not stopping him sooner, while affirming that Tiya was the kingdom’s future.
• Morton and Li Si discussed how the kingdom’s internal tensions and the Church of the Gods’ withdrawal had made war unavoidable.
• Morton insisted that Ya Tean could not be exposed as the murderer of the nobles while the kingdom was preparing for war.
• Morton asked Li Si to let Ya Tean remain a prince under house arrest until the war ended, with Lord Flame of Judgement placing a lethal restriction on him.
• Li Si accepted Morton’s arrangement, leaving Ya Tean to face the loss of his claim to the throne and punishment after the war.

After Ya Tean was taken away for his crimes, Fuchs offered Li Si a reward for his service during the Sacred Festival. Li Si accepted ten percent of the Can Guang United Merchant Guild’s shares.

• A Shadow Guard took Ya Tean away after he quietly apologized to Li Si.
• Morton Fies left to rest, and Fuchs praised Li Si for his role in the Sacred Festival.
• Fuchs explained that Joyce’s Legendary Shadow Avatar had allowed him to keep growing stronger than Aiven Deen.
• Fuchs offered Li Si a reward and proposed shares in the Can Guang United Merchant Guild.
• After negotiating with Fuchs, Li Si received ten percent of the guild’s shares.

Li Si watched the first episode of Divine Revelation Weekly, which reviewed major events across the game’s continents and focused on Can Guang City. The segment ended after Han Xing discussed Li Si’s importance and hinted that the Kunlun Team would try to contact him.

• Divine Revelation Weekly introduced the major conflicts unfolding across the game’s six continents as Version 1.0 entered its smoke-of-war phase.
• Xiao Ying highlighted the Blood Sacrifice Upheaval and the Sacred Festival assassination attempt in Can Guang City, then described Li Si Kane as a mysterious figure with ties to both events.
• Han Xing said the Kunlun Team had missed the Silver-level quest at the White Dove Merchant Guild and had left the Sacred Festival before the assassination.
• Han Xing predicted that Li Si would play an important role in the game’s story and might be a Story Protagonist.
• Han Xing hinted that the Kunlun Team would try to make contact with Li Si, then explained how he had met team president Chuan Shuo Yi Shi.