Recaps

Su Li returned to Wading Village with Saina, and Elena and Elonore also remembered their previous lives. After rebuilding their lives and growing stronger, Su Li, Saina, and Elena left for Silver Crown City to reunite with Elonore, while signs of the war and interest in Wading Village followed them.

• Su Li chose Wading Village as his rebirth anchor, and he awoke there with Saina while Elena and Elonore returned to the past with their memories intact.
• Saina brought Su Li to meet Martha and Old Buck, and Su Li proved his blacksmithing skill by forging a sword that outlasted Old Buck’s blade.
• Elena rode to Wading Village, joined Su Li and Saina, and arranged money and supplies while Su Li planned to reunite the group before traveling farther.
• Su Li rebuilt Old Buck’s furnace and forged quality ironware, while Elena learned to cook with Saina and Elonore advanced rapidly in circuit-making.
• Elena used her Iris Family authority to drive tax collectors from Wading Village, and Su Li later reached the second tier without potions, bringing Saina and Elena up with him through the Family Group.
• Su Li, Saina, and Elena prepared to leave for Silver Crown City, received Old Buck and Martha’s farewells, and rode south with provisions and a master-recognizing dagger.
• Su Li killed three deserters who tried to rob the travelers, then sold their Baris Empire crossbow components to a goblin merchant for six Gold Coins.
• The goblin steward told Su Li that the Elven Merchant Association was investigating Wading Village and that Elonore had passed her first-tier assessment, while Talia questioned how quickly Elonore had mastered circuit control.

Su Li established a home and a lucrative forging business in Silver Crown City while helping Elonore master magic circuits and formalizing their marriage. As his skills and cultivation advanced, he delayed traveling to the Royal Capital and prepared to break through to the fourth tier.

• Elonore perfected her second-tier circuit with Su Li’s help, and he moved with Saina and Elena into a courtyard in Ginkgo Alley.
• Su Li forged aether-powered weapons for Talia, earned access to the merchant association’s archives, and repaired Talia’s bracer to secure further privileges.
• Su Li developed household magic-forging goods that Elena marketed through the merchant association and Silver Claw Merchant Guild, bringing the household growing income and supplies.
• Su Li, Saina, Elena, and Elonore broke through to the third tier, and Su Li expanded his business with custom products and a larger contract.
• Elvin formalized Elonore’s place in the household, and Su Li and Elonore celebrated their marriage with a family dinner.
• Su Li advanced his forging and cultivation over the summer, then told his companions he would wait until reaching the fifth rank before going to the Royal Capital.
• Su Li asked Elena to request fourth-rank materials from Old Ford while delaying his return, and Elonore impressed Violet by correcting Talia’s composite-circuit blueprint.
• Su Li announced a three-day seclusion to pursue the fourth tier, and Elena turned Talia away while he was in seclusion.

Su Li and his household prepared carefully for the fifth tier, discovered a safer route through everyday control, and all four reached the rank together. They then traveled to the Royal Capital to investigate the palace formation and negotiate with Old Ford, where Su Li found the formation more damaged and pressurized than expected.

• Su Li broke through to the fourth rank, and Saina, Elena, and Elonore followed as the household prepared for the next tier.
• Su Li spent years stabilizing his aether and developing a breakthrough plan with Elonore’s support circuits, while Elena managed supplies and Saina kept his routine in order.
• Talia warned that a fifth-tier breakthrough could shatter Su Li’s soul without an anchor, but Su Li refused to use the women as test subjects and pursued another method.
• Su Li found a backup energy-release circuit on the palace-array diagram and identified three vents that could have prevented the disaster in his previous life.
• Elonore developed a stabilizing ring, and Su Li discovered that precise control of ordinary energy helped him cultivate a solidification crystal in his greatsword.
• Su Li reached the fifth tier naturally, and Saina, Elena, and Elonore awakened to fifth-tier power at the same time.
• Old Ford abandoned his coup plans and invited Su Li and Elena to the Royal Capital to discuss the palace formation and First Generation armor.
• Su Li negotiated a contract with Old Ford, then inspected the palace formation and found missing nodes, hidden damage, and unusually high pressure behind the first release vent.

Su Li and his companions built the Ginkgo as a family home for a voyage, but delayed sailing for Saina’s parents and later for the pregnancies. The stretch ends with Saina and Elena safely giving birth to a boy and a girl while Su Li returns to the forge.

• Su Li stabilized the royal array, negotiated royal and Imperial compensation, and helped Old Ford take control of the capital while Elena established the Royal Wilderness as an independent settlement.
• Su Li, Saina, Elena, Elonore, and Talia designed and built the Ginkgo, a seafaring home equipped with gardens, chickens, and a custom propulsion core.
• After the Ginkgo’s successful launch and coastal trials, Saina postponed the long voyage to care for her mother, and Su Li chose to return home rather than investigate promising deep-sea aether readings.
• Twenty years later, Old Buck and Martha died, and Saina agreed to sail after grieving with Su Li, and just before departure, Elonore discovered that Saina was pregnant, so Su Li suspended the voyage.
• Elonore then discovered that Elena was also pregnant, and Su Li kept the Ginkgo docked while the household prepared for both children and planned their protection and education.
• Saina gave birth to a boy, and seven months later Elena safely delivered a girl, and Elena arranged legal protections for her daughter, and Su Li went to the blacksmith’s workshop that night.