Chapter Summaries

Li Ziran compiled his embryo research into a treatise on the Twenty-Four-Organ Chain, which drew the attention of association members including the Golden Lion Grand Duke and Anthony. As merchants rushed to collect fire-element creatures for the newly revealed organ chain, Hippo Ancient City's supply of Fire Savage Bulls ran out.

• Li Ziran organized his embryo techniques and had the Void Spirit World compile his research into an organ-chain treatise for the seven Human Race Archmages.
• The Golden Lion Grand Duke disguised himself as a kitten and read Li Ziran's explanation of how elemental organs could be linked into a chain.
• Anthony studied the treatise and realized that Fire Elves lacked elemental glands, prompting him to decide he had to act quickly.
• A mysterious buyer bought up fire-associated slaves across Gao Da's shop and other merchants in Hippo Ancient City, paying above market prices.
• Gao Da ordered more Fire Savage Bulls, but after a buyer took the fresh delivery, the Slave-Catching Group told him they had none left.

Chapter Summary: Calamity of Extinction on the Red Soil Continent

Key Plot Points and Events

• The discovery and spread of Li Ziran’s Twenty-Four Organ Chain triggers an unprecedented demand for Fire Savage Bulls, whose organs—especially their kidneys and Elemental Glands—are essential for magical organ transplantation.
• The Fire Savage Bulls, once numbering over one hundred thousand, are hunted by humans, Demons, Elves, Beastfolk, and slave-catching groups. Their race is rapidly exterminated, followed by other fire-element species such as Fire Red-Crowned Cranes and Fire Ducks.
• The Wolf chieftain successfully experiments with transplantation, creating a wolf pup capable of casting fireballs. He hopes to produce Beast Race warriors who can use both magic and Battle Qi.
• News of organ transplantation spreads throughout the continent. Ordinary creatures, nobles, merchants, and private researchers begin seeking organs, constructing laboratories, and attempting to reproduce the process.
• Pirated versions of the Twenty-Four Organ Chain circulate widely. The theory is soon hailed as Embryology’s first Golden Law, transforming the public perception of magic from a divine talent into something potentially obtainable through surgery.
• The Li Ziran Association’s membership doubles within a week, but seventeen races become extinct during the same period.
• Violence spreads beyond the original hunting grounds. Elves begin attacking humans, Mages are targeted for their valuable Elemental Glands, and human nobles prey on common-born Mages.
• The Purple Sun Magic Tower is mysteriously destroyed, and all its Mages—including its master—disappear. The Triangle Council blames Demons, though the incident strongly suggests an internal human attack.
• Li Ziran continues extracting Luo Element from captured Human Archmages using the Devouring Stomach, though the yield is disappointing.
• Meanwhile, gifts and letters pour into the Li Ziran Association, demonstrating Li Ziran’s rapidly growing fame and influence.

Character Developments

• The Wolf chieftain becomes an ambitious experimental researcher. His successful transplantation on a wolf pup convinces him that the Beast Race can overcome its weak magical aptitude and create powerful battle-mages.
• Li Ziran remains detached and amused by the chaos caused by his research. He continues his own experiments while benefiting from the association’s growing prestige and carefully maintained mystery.
• Anfuni proves effective at managing Li Ziran’s public image. By routing gifts through the association and preserving his anonymity, she increases his perceived value and mystique.
• Baron becomes increasingly overwhelmed by Li Ziran’s expanding popularity, sorting mountains of gifts and letters while teasing Li Ziran about admirers and marriage prospects.
• Ordinary Mages, particularly those from common backgrounds, shift from respected practitioners to hunted resources, highlighting their vulnerability in the new social order.

Significant Themes

• Scientific progress versus ethical responsibility: A revolutionary discovery brings magical advancement but causes mass slaughter and ecological collapse.
• The commodification of life: Bodies, organs, races, and even Mages become valuable resources to be harvested and traded.
• Social upheaval and the loss of privilege: Magic is no longer restricted to naturally gifted elites, threatening established institutions and empowering wealthy nobles.
• Greed and exploitation: Nearly every faction—including humans, Elves, Demons, Beastfolk, and slave traders—abandons morality when faced with the promise of magical power.
• The danger of uncontrolled knowledge: The rapid spread of incomplete and pirated information creates experimentation, violence, and misunderstanding on a continental scale.
• Public image and power: Li Ziran’s mystery, rather than direct involvement, helps turn him into an almost legendary figure.

Important Character Interactions

• The Wolf chieftain’s work demonstrates the practical value of Li Ziran’s theory and indirectly fuels demand for Fire Savage Bull organs.
• Slave traders and hunting groups compete for the same prey, unaware that their collective actions have caused the extinction they now struggle to profit from.
• Humans, Elves, Demons, and Beastfolk become both collaborators and enemies, cooperating in organ acquisition while fighting over access to Mages and rare species.
• The Triangle Council confronts the destruction of the Purple Sun Magic Tower, but its official explanation is met with widespread suspicion.
• Baron reads Li Ziran’s many letters aloud, contrasting sincere admiration, requests for instruction, and romantic devotion with Li Ziran’s casual amusement.
• Anfuni’s indirect management of Li Ziran’s reputation strengthens the association while keeping him distant from the public.

Chapter Summary: “Light Spell Organs Can Be Exchanged”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Ziran receives admiration letters and food parcels from believers. He returns receipts and seals the parcels, reflecting his habit of reciprocating even trivial gifts.
• Anfuni gives him the latest issue of Elemental Forecast, which celebrates his creation of the First Golden Law of embryos. The law is beginning to influence embryology, though Li Ziran dismisses the achievement as merely identifying discarded embryonic material.
• The magazine features Jenny’s article, “The Cruelty Behind the First Golden Law,” documenting the slaughter of Fire Savage Bulls and criticizing embryo transplantation. Li Ziran recognizes the article’s sincerity but views survival as a process of elimination: species that cannot adapt disappear.
• Li Ziran reads a theory from the Ivory Tower about Light-Element Bodies and the possibility that organisms may eventually evolve into pure elemental lifeforms. This inspires him to reconsider the relationship between the scattered spells descended from the Judgment Spell.
• He theorizes that the twelve Light Spells may function like twelve organs. If gathered and implanted into an embryo or puppet vessel, they might combine into a primordial Light Spell or create a new body with a connected Light-Element Vessel Chain.
• Anfuni realizes Li Ziran is planning another dangerous experiment. She offers the Association’s help, explaining that many groups are desperate to acquire elemental embryos and are willing to trade for them.
• Li Ziran requests Light Spell Splitting Curses capable of carrying organs, offering elemental-organ formulas in exchange. He refuses to give the Association his full list again, insisting that such information remain confidential.
• Anfuni accepts that the Association must search for the rare Light Spell organs, while privately worrying about the broader consequences of Li Ziran’s discoveries.
• The chapter ends with Anfuni recognizing that embryo technology is likely to trigger worldwide upheaval. Ancient races, including the Dark Elves and the Black Dragon’s allied species, may use organ transplantation to escape their declining elemental conditions and re-enter the world.

Character Developments

• Li Ziran remains detached, pragmatic, and morally unconcerned with the social consequences of his work. He sees biological survival primarily through adaptation and usefulness.
• His scientific ambition expands from creating elemental embryos to reconstructing the original Light Spell through organ-like spell components. He is increasingly willing to experiment with vessels, puppets, embryos, and multiple organ systems.
• Anfuni becomes more politically perceptive and commercially shrewd. She understands that Li Ziran’s discoveries have enormous value and attempts to secure further exchanges for the Association.
• At the same time, Anfuni grows increasingly uneasy about helping him. She realizes that the technology may benefit desperate ancient races but could also cause catastrophic conflict and turn every living creature into a commodity.

Significant Themes

• Scientific progress versus moral responsibility: Li Ziran treats revolutionary discoveries as technical curiosities, while others suffer or fear their consequences.
• Adaptation and survival: The chapter presents extinction as the result of failing to adapt, while embryo modification offers weakened or hidden races a way to survive.
• Commodification of life: Elemental organs give living beings measurable economic value; individuals may be “priced” from birth according to the organs inside them.
• Knowledge as a destabilizing force: The Golden Organ Theory spreads rapidly and threatens to overturn the existing balance among races and powers.
• The body as a constructed system: Spells, organs, embryos, and vessels are treated as interchangeable components, blurring the boundary between biology, magic, and artificial creation.
• Impending global upheaval: The discovery may not simply advance civilization; it could awaken ancient races and ignite a conflict far larger than a conventional demon invasion.

Important Character Interactions

• Li Ziran and Anfuni: Their relationship is based on mutual exploitation and negotiation. Anfuni supplies access and political connections, while Li Ziran provides valuable embryological knowledge. Both recognize the other’s scheming but continue cooperating because the arrangement benefits them.
• Li Ziran and Jenny: Though they do not interact directly, Li Ziran reads and evaluates Jenny’s article. He acknowledges her sympathy and firsthand reporting but dismisses her moral concerns in favor of his survivalist worldview.
• Anfuni and the wider factions: Anfuni acts as an intermediary between Li Ziran, the Association, the Elves, and other interested powers. She understands that everyone wants access to organ formulas and that competing races may weaponize them.
• Ancient races and Li Ziran’s technology: The hidden races are not directly present, but their potential response drives the chapter’s tension. His embryos may provide them with a means to survive outside Derivative Space, making Li Ziran an unwitting catalyst for a new age of conflict.

The search for Light Spell Organs spread across the continent after Li Ziran offered exchanges, while the Golden Lion Grand Duke and others moved to pursue the organs and Anfuni. Li Ziran met the old man from Six Flavors House, accepted his Courage Organ, and was asked to lecture on the difficult Twenty-Four Organ Chain.

• Li Ziran's Association announced that he would exchange organs from other domains of the Golden Organ Law for Light Spell Organs, prompting factions across the continent to begin searching.
• The Association reported that someone had exchanged a blessing organ for the Dark Twenty-Four Organ Chain, and the Golden Lion Grand Duke ordered scouts to follow Anfuni.
• The Golden Lion Grand Duke's actions helped spur slave-catching groups to target Fire Elves, while a gray Shadowfolk scout tracked Anfuni through the rainforest.
• The old man from Six Flavors House brought Li Ziran a genuine Courage Organ evolved from the Light Spell, and Li Ziran temporarily transplanted it.
• The old man asked Li Ziran to explain the organ chain's difficult concepts and give the Association members a lecture.

Li Ziran accepted an invitation to lecture at the Six Flavors House in exchange for two Black Dragon Eyes, while considering how to create a Primordial Elf body. Meanwhile, Anfuni traveled to meet him, unknowingly followed by a Shadowfolk, and asked about the Light Organ.

• An old man from the Dungeon offered Li Ziran Black Dragon Eyes to persuade him to lecture at the Six Flavors House, and described the deadly gaze of the Evil Eyes.
• Li Ziran agreed to give a four-hour lecture at noon the next day and requested corpses for dissection in exchange for two Black Dragon Eyes.
• Slave catchers captured purebred Fire Elves in the rainforest as elven guards rushed to stop them.
• Anfuni traveled through several teleportation arrays toward Crocodile Bay, while a Shadowfolk followed her through her shadow.
• Anfuni reached Li Ziran and asked what was troubling him, as their conversation spread through her shadow.

Chapter Summary: “News of the Lecture Had Been Eavesdropped On”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Ziran is preparing to give his first public lecture, focused on the Twenty-Four Organ Chain and Embryology.
• Although he is famous across the Red Soil Continent, Li Ziran feels nervous and uncertain because he has extensive experience learning and researching but almost none teaching.
• Anfuni, an experienced lecturer and vice president of the Li Ziran Association, offers to coach him.
• She teaches him how to introduce himself by emphasizing his titles and achievements. Li Ziran’s first attempt—“Hello, everyone. I’m Li Ziran!”—is comically inadequate.
• Anfuni suggests a grander introduction naming him the founder of Embryology, creator of Golden Theory, and a peak Witch Doctor. Li Ziran accepts the advice but still has no idea what exactly he plans to teach.
• News of the lecture is secretly overheard by spies connected to the Golden Griffin Legion, the Justice Alliance, and the Elemental Tower, headquarters of Elemental Forecast.
• These factions immediately recognize the lecture’s value, particularly because Li Ziran may reveal solutions to difficult surgical problems involving the Twenty-Four Organ Chain.
• Multiple powers begin planning how to infiltrate or obtain information about the lecture.
• The eavesdropping transmission is suddenly cut off because Li Ziran discovers and captures the Shadowfolk spy.
• Li Ziran seals the spy and begins examining its flesh and elemental structure, intrigued because the species is unfamiliar.
• Anfuni is left unaware that she had been followed until Li Ziran exposes the stalker.

Character Developments

• Li Ziran is shown as brilliant but socially awkward and inexperienced as a teacher. His humility prevents him from claiming titles or openly presenting his achievements, even though he is already treated as a legendary authority.
• His practical, understated approach contrasts with his enormous reputation. He considers many Embryological discoveries too simple to teach, revealing how far ahead he is of ordinary researchers.
• Li Ziran also demonstrates his continued vigilance and growing power by detecting and subduing a hidden Shadowfolk spy.
• Anfuni acts as Li Ziran’s mentor in public speaking and teaching. She is confident, theatrical, and knowledgeable, but becomes increasingly exasperated by his literal-minded humility.
• Her attitude toward Li Ziran has changed: she now sees him as a powerful, almost revered figure rather than the more casual and admiring young Witch Doctor she once knew.
• Duke Golden Lion, the Justice Alliance’s leaders, and the Elemental Tower’s editor-in-chief are revealed as highly interested in exploiting Li Ziran’s lecture for military, medical, and commercial advantage.

Significant Themes

• Knowledge as power: Li Ziran’s discoveries have become valuable enough that major organizations spy on one another to obtain them.
• Practical knowledge versus empty theory: Anfuni criticizes scholars who produce elegant magical theories without helping the Elves survive, while Li Ziran’s practical inventions are already transforming the world.
• Humility versus reputation: Li Ziran does not recognize or claim the authority others associate with him, creating a humorous contrast between his self-image and his global importance.
• The spread and commercialization of knowledge: The Twenty-Four Organ Chain has increased Elemental Forecast’s sales across multiple races, showing how scientific breakthroughs quickly become political and economic assets.
• Surveillance and secrecy: The lecture becomes an intelligence target almost immediately, illustrating the tense competition among the world’s major factions.

Important Character Interactions

• Li Ziran and Anfuni share a humorous but increasingly distant exchange shaped by his rising status. She tries to teach him confidence and presentation, while he responds with blunt sincerity.
• Anfuni’s admiration for Li Ziran is evident, but she is also frustrated by his inability to appreciate the prestige of his own achievements.
• The hidden factions do not interact directly with Li Ziran, but their attempts to monitor Anfuni’s conversation reveal how closely he is being watched.
• The chapter ends with Li Ziran reversing the power dynamic: the spies believe they are eavesdropping successfully, but he has already detected them and is studying one of them.

Chapter Summary: The Dark Council’s Sky-High Price

Key Plot Points and Events

• Anfuni discovers that a Shadowfolk has secretly followed her to Li Ziran. Li captures the creature, cuts into it, and tastes part of its body to analyze its elemental composition.
• Li discovers that the Shadowfolk is an unusually single-attribute creature, composed almost entirely of Dark Element. When he injects Light Element into it, the creature reacts violently, demonstrating the advantages and vulnerabilities of its nature.
• Anfuni apologizes for failing to notice the follower, but Li deliberately avoids blaming her and instead keeps his method of detection secret. He had identified the Shadowfolk through its mold-like scent, which contrasted with Anfuni’s normally pure Elven aura.
• The two begin discussing the structure of Li’s upcoming lesson on the Twenty-Four Organ Chain. Although their conversation reveals that the lesson will occur at noon the following day, it gives no location or details.
• The Dark Council intercepts the fragmentary conversation and launches an enormous effort to locate Li and uncover the lesson’s arrangements. Because Li’s teachings could revolutionize organ transplantation, seventeen factions offer increasingly large rewards.
• The task, called the “Golden Lecture,” rapidly rises through the Dark Council’s trading board, surpassing assassinations and other high-value missions. Funding eventually reaches 570,000 gold coins, including 270,000 from the Outer Sea, where Demonic factions also show interest.
• The Dark Council chairman calls an emergency meeting as the organization’s reputation becomes tied to solving the task. Members suggest tracking Anfuni and pressuring the Elves, but they have no concrete lead.
• Meanwhile, Li returns to Hippo Ancient City after a two-month absence. The former Red Fan District has transformed into an organ-trading district filled with shops using his name and reputation.
• He examines the shops, purchases a fox’s eye containing rare elements, and then heads to Seventh Street and Six Flavors House to begin teaching.

Character Developments

• Li Ziran continues to display calm confidence, scientific curiosity, and unusual sensory abilities. He studies the Shadowfolk rather than simply destroying it, treating its body as a source of elemental knowledge.
• Li becomes increasingly aware of the influence of his reputation. His name has created an entire organ market and attracted attention from powerful factions across the continent.
• Anfuni shows concern that her failure to detect the Shadowfolk may damage her relationship with Li. Her cooperation with him is becoming more significant, though she remains uncertain how much he understands about her situation.
• The Dark Council shifts from detached information brokers to desperate participants. The massive financial stakes and outside pressure threaten their prestige if they fail to locate the lecture.

Significant Themes

• Knowledge as power and commodity: Li’s medical and elemental discoveries are valuable enough to generate a continent-wide bidding war.
• The danger of reputation: Li’s name alone drives organ sales, attracts apprentices, and causes factions to spend fortunes seeking his teachings.
• Scientific curiosity versus exploitation: Li studies the Shadowfolk carefully, while the wider world treats bodies, organs, and even people as commercial resources.
• Secrecy and surveillance: Li hides his abilities, while the Dark Council attempts to reconstruct his movements from intercepted conversations and intelligence networks.
• Elemental individuality and vulnerability: The Shadowfolk’s single-element composition grants specialization but leaves it highly susceptible to opposing elements.

Character Interactions

• Li and Anfuni share a cautious but increasingly trusting exchange after the Shadowfolk incident. Anfuni apologizes, while Li chooses not to expose how he detected the creature.
• Li’s calm response contrasts with Anfuni’s unease, suggesting that he understands more about her circumstances than he reveals.
• Dark Council members debate how to locate Li, focusing on Anfuni and the Elves as their most promising connection.
• The chapter ends with Li arriving to teach, while powerful factions across the continent race to discover where the “Golden Lecture” will occur.

Chapter Summary: “Hello, Everyone, My Name Is Li Ziran”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Ziran returns to Six Flavors House, finding it unchanged, deserted, and steeped in age. The old establishment’s mysterious longevity reinforces his belief that it possesses extraordinary power.
• The old man behaves very differently from the crafty merchant Li Ziran encountered previously. He is solemn, cautious, and intensely concerned with etiquette and security.
• Before taking Li Ziran upstairs, the old man carefully checks Seventh Street and struggles to close the previously open doors. He then informs Li Ziran that the students are ready.
• The unusual gravity that once made movement inside Six Flavors House difficult has disappeared. The old man gives Li Ziran one of the promised Black Dragon Eyes as payment, with the second to come after the lesson.
• Li Ziran is led to a hidden, tiered classroom filled with intelligent beasts, including lions, tigers, frogs, deer, quails, a raccoon, a zebra, and an enormous elephant.
• The classroom has been fully prepared for his lecture, including a surgical table, scalpels, a fluorescent board, and a Teleportation Array for obtaining organs and creatures.
• Forgetting the elaborate introduction Anfuni had prepared, Li Ziran simply introduces himself: “My name is Li Ziran.” The animals respond with overwhelming applause, suggesting that his reputation alone commands respect.
• He begins teaching organ transplantation using the book Golden Organ Chain. He explains transplantation as the seizure and consolidation of superior organs to create stronger individuals and races.
• The lesson progresses smoothly into elemental compatibility and organ combinations. Li Ziran dissects a Shadowfolk, explaining that its Dark Element-rich skin is its most valuable feature, while its internal organs are relatively ordinary.
• Using the Teleportation Array, he summons a Dark Pichu and transplants its heart into the Shadowfolk. The procedure greatly strengthens the Shadowfolk’s Dark Element, astonishing the students.
• The elephant, who has struggled to understand the lecture, becomes intensely interested and asks whether the modified creature is “purebred.”

Character Developments

• Li Ziran: Displays confidence, professionalism, and adaptability. Although initially nervous and forgetful, he quickly discovers that his reputation and expertise are enough to impress the class. He also demonstrates advanced surgical skill and a pragmatic willingness to teach as long as he is properly compensated.
• The old man: Reveals a more guarded and ceremonial side. His caution suggests that the lesson and the students are connected to a sensitive or powerful organization. His behavior contrasts sharply with his earlier mercenary and businesslike manner.
• The students: Their enthusiastic applause and active participation show that they already respect Li Ziran and have prepared seriously for the lesson.
• The elephant: Emerges as the most confused but also most curious student. Its fascination with the Shadowfolk’s transformation hints that it may have special knowledge of bloodlines, purity, or organ compatibility.

Significant Themes

• Reputation and identity: Li Ziran’s name alone inspires awe, showing that his past accomplishments carry more influence than formal titles or introductions.
• The passage of time and enduring power: Six Flavors House is presented as an ancient institution that has survived because of deep foundations and careful restraint.
• Knowledge as transformation: The lecture treats biological knowledge and organ transplantation as tools for creating stronger beings and advancing entire races.
• Pragmatism and calculated exchange: Li Ziran approaches the lesson primarily as paid work, while the old man’s payment and preparations establish a clear transactional relationship.
• Purity versus hybridization: The transplantation of a Dark Pichu heart into a Shadowfolk raises questions about bloodlines, elemental unity, and whether strength gained through combination can still be considered “pure.”
• Hidden power beneath ordinary appearances: The shabby restaurant, animal students, and seemingly simple surgical lesson conceal unusual forces, rare creatures, and potentially significant experiments.

Character Interactions

• The old man cautiously receives Li Ziran, prevents him from helping close the doors, and guides him through the ancient building while maintaining strict formality.
• Li Ziran questions the old man about the changed gravity and classroom arrangements, while the old man responds briefly and gives him his promised payment.
• Li Ziran interacts effectively with the animal students, whose nods, questions, and applause create a surprisingly engaged classroom atmosphere.
• His surgery captivates the students, particularly the elephant, whose final question indicates that the lesson may have uncovered an important issue concerning the Shadowfolk’s altered nature.

Li Ziran demonstrated how organ transplants could transform a Shadowfolk and taught the Dungeon’s guests the principles of the Twenty-Four Organ Chain. After Elephant rebuked the other students and asked Li Ziran about neurons, Li Ziran struggled to explain how they worked.

• Li Ziran continued the lecture after Elephant agreed to wait outside, replacing a Shadowfolk’s organs and transforming it into a mist shadow.
• Li Ziran explained elemental glands, organ connections, and the core principles of the Twenty-Four Organ Chain.
• During the question period, Li Ziran answered questions about elemental glands, branching nerves, brain transplants, and the limits of organ-chain theory.
• Elephant returned, silenced the students for asking advanced questions before mastering the basics, and then respectfully asked Li Ziran what neurons were.
• Li Ziran compared nerves to pipes, but Elephant questioned how anything could flow through a thin strand of flesh, leaving Li Ziran unable to explain.

Li Ziran finished teaching the Dungeon’s leaders and learned that the Black Dragon Lord wanted his help changing the Black Dragon bloodline. After the Lord left to prepare for an in-person meeting, Li Ziran discovered Six Flavors House seemed to shut out the elements, while Hellfires arrived in the rainforest to prepare for the Lord’s visit.

• Li Ziran finished explaining embryology and received two Black Dragon Eyes as payment for his lesson.
• The Black Dragon Lord revealed that he wanted to change his mixed bloodline and asked Li Ziran for help.
• Li Ziran said he needed the Lord’s flesh and blood to examine before offering advice, and the Lord promised to meet him in three days.
• The Black Dragon Lord vanished, and the old man explained that Dungeon creatures were heavily suppressed on the surface.
• Li Ziran left Six Flavors House and realized its courtyard had seemed to freeze the elements inside.
• Burning stones destroyed an Elven village near the rainforest, and a Hellfire announced that the Black Dragon Lord was coming to meet Li Ziran.

An ancient Dungeon Legion invaded the Red Soil Continent, driving back its defenders with Hellfires and deadly insects while conducting organ surgeries linked to Li Ziran’s lecture. The Golden Lion Grand Duke recognized that the Dungeon had learned surgery from Li Ziran and, as his health failed, ordered contact with them to obtain information about the “Light Organ.”

• Hellfires and Backstab Beetles routed Beast Race troops, forcing the Red Soil Continent’s inhabitants to abandon the rainforest’s edge and the Grasslands.
• Elves identified the invaders as ancient races, and the arrival of Harpies revealed that the legion came from the Dungeon.
• Scouts captured images of Dungeon creatures dissecting beasts and transplanting organs, including Elven Organs and Shadow Crescent Moon organs.
• The inhabitants realized the Dungeon had attended Li Ziran’s lecture and redeemed the Dark-Attribute Twenty-Four Organ Chain.
• The Golden Lion Grand Duke, weakened by illness, ordered his people to contact the Dungeon and offer whatever it wanted for information about the “Light Organ.”

The Golden Lion Grand Duke arranged for the Dark Tower’s mages and thirteen Justice Alliance paladins to be taken so he could trade for a new body. After obtaining a Light Organ, he finally met Li Ziran, who praised his Great Blessed Liver and invited him to talk.

• The Golden Lion Grand Duke secretly cooperated with demons to attack the Dark Tower, then used the ensuing battle to conceal the loss of its mages.
• He worked with the Dungeon to remove Trial Canyon and abduct thirteen Justice Alliance paladins, hoping they would possess Light Organs.
• The Golden Lion Grand Duke gathered people with Light Organs as the Justice Alliance and Dark Council erupted into bloody conflict.
• After the Li Ziran Association announced that someone could trade a second Light Organ, Anfuni brought the Golden Lion Grand Duke to Li Ziran’s laboratory.
• Li Ziran greeted Carter Golden Lion, praised his Great Blessed Liver, and invited him to the reception room for a proper chat.

The Golden Lion Grand Duke asked Li Ziran to create him a new body, and chose a fully human body so he could secure a new life before his time ran out. While the Golden Griffins gathered the required materials, the Triangle Council seized control of the legion and began investigating its connection to Li Ziran.

• Anfuni withdrew, and the Golden Lion Grand Duke told Li Ziran he wanted a newly created body that could last for decades.
• Li Ziran explained the three body options: fully human, a mix of human and other races, or an ancient-race configuration without an elemental gland.
• The Golden Lion Grand Duke chose a fully human body and asked Li Ziran to replace everything except his face.
• The Golden Lion Grand Duke sent Anfuni a letter and set the Golden Griffins to gather the required materials across human territory.
• The Triangle Council investigated the Golden Griffins, seized its command center, and found the apprentices had been sent to Oak Village and the legion was linked to Li Ziran.
• The Triangle Council discovered Li Ziran's operating room and surgical notebooks as Li Ziran began severing blood vessels attached to a fresh liver.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Ziran performs a body-renewal operation on the Golden Lion Grand Duke, Carter, transferring his soul into a new, youthful body.
• Carter insists on keeping his old face, so Li Ziran preserves the original facial skin while replacing the underlying tissues and organs with newly grown material.
• The new body is assembled from organs obtained from young Human Race members of different regions. Although the organs are generally low quality, Li Ziran enhances them with refined Light Element and installs a powerful Light Organ.
• While Carter undergoes the transformation, the Triangle Council launches an investigation into him for allegedly trafficking young Human Race members, dissecting his own people, and recklessly commanding the Golden Griffin Legion.
• Using the scandal as an excuse, the Council removes much of Carter’s leadership structure: deputy commanders are dismissed, dozens of regiment leaders are replaced, and Council members’ descendants begin taking control of the Golden Griffins.
• Carter retaliates by entering the Council’s assembly hall and killing the newly appointed Golden Griffin leaders. Their severed heads roll into the chamber, terrifying the Council members responsible for the takeover.
• Carter confronts the two officials overseeing the reorganization, physically humiliating and nearly strangling them before Super Council Member Rooney and other powerful figures arrive.
• Rooney attempts to justify the Council’s actions by claiming they were investigating crimes against the Human Race. Carter dismisses the accusations, arguing that the young people involved were part of a secret Golden Griffin operation and that their families will be compensated.
• Carter reveals that he has regained his youth and vitality. His rejuvenated appearance shocks everyone, who initially cannot believe that the youthful man is the same aging Grand Duke they have known for decades.
• The chapter ends with the Council realizing that Carter’s transformation is likely the result of Li Ziran’s organ-modification methods, and that his renewed life may make him nearly impossible to challenge.

Character Developments

• Carter/Golden Lion Grand Duke: Transforms from a frail, aging ruler into a vigorous young man. His renewed strength restores his confidence and reinforces his determination to retain control of the Golden Griffin Legion. He becomes more openly arrogant and threatening toward his political enemies.
• Li Ziran: Demonstrates extraordinary surgical and biological expertise. His meticulous work reveals both his perfectionism and his dissatisfaction with the limitations of Human Race organs, even though the operation is successful.
• Rooney: Reveals himself as one of the political forces behind the attempted takeover of the Golden Griffins. Although powerful, he is visibly intimidated by Carter’s return and shocked by the rejuvenation.
• Triangle Council members: Their confidence collapses when Carter appears. They shift from political aggression to fear and astonishment after witnessing his power and youth.

Significant Themes

• Youth, mortality, and rebirth: Carter’s transformation presents youth as a form of power and political survival, allowing him to escape the natural decline that should have ended his rule.
• Power and political opportunism: The Council uses accusations of crime to dismantle Carter’s influence and distribute the Golden Griffin Legion among its own factions.
• The dangers of unchecked authority: Carter responds to political interference with mass slaughter, showing how military power outside civilian control can make accountability nearly impossible.
• Science and bodily transformation: Li Ziran’s organ technology blurs the boundary between medicine, experimentation, and exploitation.
• Identity and recognition: Carter’s altered appearance creates a striking contrast between physical identity and personal memory. Although his face is young, his voice, manner, and history identify him to those who know him.
• Exploitation of the vulnerable: The rejuvenation depends on organs taken from young Human Race members, raising moral concerns about the hidden cost of elite power.

Character Interactions

• Li Ziran and Carter interact as surgeon and client, with Carter stubbornly preserving his old face while Li Ziran prioritizes the quality of the new body.
• Carter confronts the Council officials responsible for replacing his commanders, mocking their attempt to seize his legion and attacking them when they invoke the Council’s authority.
• Rooney attempts to restrain Carter and defend the Council’s actions, but Carter turns the exchange into a display of dominance.
• Carter calls on decades of shared history with Rooney and other Council members, demanding that they recognize him despite his transformed appearance.
• The Council members’ fear and amazement intensify when they understand that Carter has not merely survived but has regained the physical strength to dominate the Human Race’s political and military landscape.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• The Human Race’s elites witness the Golden Lion Grand Duke Carter’s successful rebirth through organ transplantation, realizing that organ studies can restore youth and strength rather than merely serve as a cultivation theory.
• Carter’s return radically changes the political situation. The Golden Griffins purge all leaders and commanders who supported the takeover during his absence, killing anyone considered disloyal.
• Carter reasserts control over the Golden Griffins and openly warns other factions not to scheme against him. His renewed power and status make the ruling elites intensely interested in learning the secret of rebirth.
• The Triangle Council, especially Rooney, recognizes the value of the Twenty-Four Organ Chain and begins considering how to obtain the technique for themselves.
• Carter privately plans to study Li Ziran’s operating methods, reproduce his operating room, acquire Light Organs, and help his aging subordinates achieve rebirth.
• Feng, the editor-in-chief of Elemental Forecast, visits Carter and proposes cooperation. He reveals that he knows about Carter’s dealings with the Dungeon and his attack on the northeastern Human Race territory.
• Feng agrees not to expose Carter’s treasonous activities, but only if Carter cooperates in obtaining the secrets of rebirth.
• Feng suggests capturing Li Ziran, the creator of organ transplantation, and manipulating Carter’s friendship with him to discover his whereabouts or exploit his interest in Light Organs.

Character Developments

• Carter Golden Lion: Reborn, he regains his physical strength, authority, prestige, and confidence. His ruthlessness becomes more pronounced as he eliminates disloyal Golden Griffin leaders. At the same time, he becomes ambitious about extending rebirth to his trusted followers and mastering organ transplantation himself.
• Rooney: Shifts from political opposition to cautious accommodation. He apologizes to Carter and recognizes that opposing the rejuvenated Grand Duke is no longer practical. His personal desire for rebirth becomes increasingly urgent.
• Feng: Revealed as an influential, calculating information broker. He possesses extensive knowledge of Carter’s secret dealings and uses that information as leverage. Though outwardly genial, he is manipulative and willing to exploit Li Ziran for his own ends.
• Li Ziran: Although absent from the chapter, his importance grows dramatically. He is established as the only person who understands the practical details behind the Twenty-Four Organ Chain and is now at risk of being targeted by powerful Human Race elites.
• Carter’s personal guard commander: His loyalty during Carter’s downfall earns him promotion, demonstrating how Carter rewards unwavering allegiance while punishing neutrality or betrayal.

Significant Themes

• The fear of aging and death: Rebirth awakens the elites’ suppressed desire to extend their lives and retain their power.
• Power and political control: Carter’s rejuvenation allows him to reclaim authority, while the ruling class immediately begins competing to obtain the same advantage.
• Knowledge versus practical expertise: Although the Twenty-Four Organ Chain is publicly available, few can use it successfully because Li Ziran alone possesses the crucial procedural details.
• Loyalty and betrayal: Carter’s purge shows that he views hesitation and compromise as disloyalty. Political alliances are based on usefulness and survival rather than morality.
• Exploitation of genius: Feng argues that Li Ziran’s youth makes him vulnerable to manipulation, reflecting the chapter’s concern with how established elites suppress or exploit talented newcomers.
• Information as power: Feng’s knowledge of Carter’s secrets gives him leverage greater than military strength, forcing Carter to consider cooperation.

Character Interactions

• Carter confronts the Human Race’s elites by dismissing their schemes and warning them to challenge him openly.
• Rooney apologizes to Carter in an attempt to repair relations, while other councilors protest that Carter’s purge is unfairly selective.
• Carter’s guard demonstrates fear and reverence toward him after the Golden Griffins’ purge.
• Feng and Carter exchange polite greetings before entering a private negotiation. Feng first asks about rebirth, then reveals his knowledge of Carter’s Dungeon alliance and uses it to pressure him.
• Feng proposes making Li Ziran their target, while Carter initially rejects the idea, acknowledging Li Ziran’s extraordinary abilities. Feng counters by emphasizing Li Ziran’s youth and Carter’s existing relationship with him, setting the stage for a possible betrayal.

Chapter Summary: “Another ‘Light Organ’ Arrives”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Feng pressures the Golden Lion Grand Duke to help capture or control Li Ziran. Feng offers him a special Light Organ as bait and threatens to expose his past crimes and remove Rooney from the Triangle Council as a warning.
• The Grand Duke realizes he is trapped: refusing Feng could destroy his reputation and position, while cooperating could betray Li Ziran and jeopardize his hopes of using organ technology to create an immortal super army.
• Rather than betray Li Ziran, the Grand Duke decides to reveal Feng’s conspiracy. He secretly brings the Light Organ to the Ice Plains and requests a meeting through Anfuni.
• Li Ziran listens calmly to the warning and accepts the Light Organ, recognizing that Feng is dangerous and that the organ is probably part of a larger scheme. He does not panic, believing danger is inevitable now that his reputation and power have grown.
• Li Ziran continues studying a transformed shell created from six fused organs: Resurrection, Sealing, Redemption, Courage, Blessing, and Dispel. Their combination has formed a Hexagram Chain and begun turning the shell into a pure being of light.
• He theorizes that this transformation represents an early stage of elementalization and may lead toward the ancient Transcendent Title Realm. He also wonders what would happen if all twelve Light Elemental Organs were collected or refined through the Devouring Serpent.
• Anfuni warns Li Ziran that Feng is highly influential, secretly supported by members of both the Triangle Council and the Dark Council, and has a record of achieving his goals.
• When Li Ziran offers to help Anfuni deliver a message in exchange for payment, she reveals that the message comes from the Elven Queen. Because Li Ziran is formally the Queen’s first husband and the Elven Race’s Prince Consort, she claims he has duties to fulfill.

Character Developments

• Golden Lion Grand Duke: Becomes increasingly aware of his vulnerability and political dependence. He chooses to risk Feng’s retaliation by warning Li Ziran, hoping to secure Li Ziran’s trust and escape the control of human factions.
• Feng: Is established as a powerful, manipulative figure with influence over major political bodies. He uses threats, blackmail, and rare Light Organs to recruit or control others.
• Li Ziran: Shows growing confidence and emotional detachment. He no longer sees himself as someone who can hide or survive quietly; he accepts that powerful enemies will pursue him and resolves to develop greater strength rather than retreat.
• Anfuni: Acts as a cautious adviser, emphasizing Feng’s danger. She also reminds Li Ziran of his neglected political and marital connection to the Elven Queen.
• The Elven Queen: Does not appear directly, but her authority becomes newly relevant as Li Ziran is reminded that his title as Prince Consort may carry real responsibilities.

Significant Themes

• Power attracts danger: Li Ziran’s rise ensures that ambitious factions will try to exploit or control him.
• Political coercion and betrayal: The Grand Duke is forced to choose between Feng’s threats and Li Ziran’s protection, showing how power structures manipulate individuals through blackmail and dependency.
• Survival through strength: Li Ziran embraces the idea that survival requires sharper “claws and fangs,” not retreat.
• Evolution and transcendence: The elementalization of the shell introduces the possibility of life forms beyond flesh and blood, perhaps connected to ancient or divine beings.
• Transactions versus loyalty: Although the Grand Duke risks himself to warn Li Ziran, Li Ziran treats the exchange largely as a transaction, leaving the Grand Duke uncertain whether he has earned genuine trust.
• Unrecognized obligations: Li Ziran’s forgotten role as Prince Consort suggests that past arrangements and titles may impose responsibilities he can no longer ignore.

Important Character Interactions

• Feng and the Golden Lion Grand Duke: Feng attempts to intimidate and recruit the Grand Duke, offering a Light Organ while threatening political removal and exposure of his crimes.
• The Golden Lion Grand Duke and Li Ziran: The Grand Duke reveals Feng’s plan and delivers the Light Organ, hoping to gain Li Ziran’s favor. Li Ziran appreciates the organ but responds with calm practicality rather than emotional loyalty.
• Anfuni and Li Ziran: Anfuni warns Li Ziran about Feng and challenges his relaxed attitude. Their conversation shifts from payment for assistance to Li Ziran’s obligations as the Queen’s husband.
• Li Ziran and the transformed shell: Li Ziran’s examination of the shell reflects his scientific curiosity and growing understanding of elemental evolution, setting up future research into the twelve Light Organs and higher forms of life.

Chapter Summary: “The Elven Queen, Unseen”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Ziran learns that the Elven Queen wants to meet him and that the Elves intend to formally recognize him as the Elven Race’s true prince.
• Anfuni reveals the real reason: the Elves are a declining race with an aging population, weak younger generations, and insufficient high-level mages. They hope Li’s youth, power, and possible descendants can help preserve the race.
• The Elven elders and priests believe Li must marry the Queen and integrate into Elven society before they will trust his offers of assistance.
• Li proposes helping through research into Primordial Elves, body transplantation, and elemental organs instead of marrying the Queen.
• Anfuni attempts to persuade him by emphasizing the Queen’s beauty and, more importantly, her unique Natural Element Body—a pure elemental fusion body that could be valuable to Li’s research.
• Before the matter is settled, the Black Dragon Lord arrives near Hippo Ancient City and emits a terrifying roar that shakes the surrounding space.
• A massive procession of dungeon creatures emerges from a dark, sulfur-filled hole: Dark Giant Bears, Magma Monsters, Skeletons, Mud Horses, Minotaurs, and other races. They cross the allied forces’ barrier without attacking and continue toward the northwest, apparently heading toward the shallow sea near the Ice Plains.
• The chapter ends with the characters bewildered by this strange, seemingly purposeful migration.

Character Developments

• Li Ziran remains focused on his elemental research, body reconstruction, Light Spell breakthroughs, and the collection of Elemental Organs. He resists becoming involved in political or romantic obligations.
• He demonstrates compassion toward the Elves’ plight and recognizes that their decline is genuine, but he prefers practical cooperation over marriage or dynastic ties.
• His interest briefly shifts when he learns of the Queen’s Natural Element Body, revealing how strongly his scientific curiosity influences his decisions.
• Anfuni acts as a reluctant messenger. Though she has selfish motives and wants access to Li’s immortality-related abilities, she sincerely fears the Elves’ extinction and seeks a way to preserve them.
• The Elven Queen remains unseen, but her importance grows through reports of her beauty, political status, and unique elemental body.
• The Black Dragon Lord is established as a powerful and threatening presence whose arrival dramatically changes the chapter’s direction.

Significant Themes

• Decline and extinction: The Elves’ lack of young, powerful mages and new elemental discoveries symbolizes a civilization being overtaken by historical change.
• Survival versus pride: The proud Elves are forced to seek help through marriage, reproduction, and political integration, sacrificing some dignity to survive.
• Science versus tradition: Li offers technological and biological assistance, while the Elven elders insist on traditional bonds of marriage and bloodline.
• Immortality and the fear of death: Carter’s return, Li’s ability to create bodies, and the aging Elves all highlight the desperate lengths powerful beings will pursue to avoid extinction.
• Individual freedom versus collective responsibility: Li wants a peaceful life devoted to his research, while the Elves view him as a potential savior whose personal choices could determine their future.
• The unknown threat: The Black Dragon’s arrival and the mysterious march of dungeon creatures introduce an unpredictable force that may be more significant than the political dispute with the Elves.

Character Interactions

• Li Ziran and Anfuni: They argue over the Elven Queen’s proposal. Li demands honesty, while Anfuni explains the Elves’ desperate circumstances and tries several arguments to persuade him.
• Li and the Elven leadership: Though they do not meet directly, the elders and priests attempt to bind him to the Elves through royal marriage and descendants. Li rejects this approach in favor of practical cooperation.
• Li and the Black Dragon Lord: They do not yet meet, but the Dragon’s arrival directly targets Li’s attention and creates a sense of imminent confrontation.
• The allied forces and dungeon creatures: The creatures cross the defensive barrier but do not attack, leaving the soldiers confused and fearful about their destination and purpose.

A vast procession of Dungeon creatures crossed the Wasteland to meet Li Ziran at Crocodile Bay, where he learned they were his students from Six Flavors House. He agreed to visit the trapped Black Dragon Lord in exchange for a pet Evil Eye, while the surrounding onlookers recognized him as the pioneer of organ transplantation.

• Dungeon creatures marched across the Grasslands and Wasteland toward Crocodile Bay, drawing curious and wary observers.
• A Dark Fire Crane entered the bay and awakened a towering machine, from which Li Ziran appeared.
• The Fire Crane greeted Li Ziran as her mentor and revealed that she was the Little Quail who had attended his lecture at Six Flavors House.
• The Fire Crane explained that the Black Dragon Lord was stuck in adamantite rock underground and had sent the procession to invite Li Ziran to meet him.
• The Fire Crane offered Li Ziran a pet Evil Eye, and he agreed to visit the Black Dragon Lord.
• Dungeon creatures who had attended Li Ziran's lectures reunited with him as the onlookers realized who he was.

Li Ziran entered the Dungeon as knowledge of organ transplantation spread among ordinary people, alarming Feng Jingjing, who tried to undermine Li Ziran by using the Elemental Forecast to ruin the Golden Lion Grand Duke. Li Ziran descended toward the Black Dragon Lord, where he encountered the Dungeon’s ranked inhabitants and a chained Three-Headed Hellhound.

• The Dungeon Legion escorted Li Ziran to the deep shaft, while images of organ-transplant procedures spread among the Orcs and other peoples.
• Feng Jingjing feared Li Ziran’s growing influence and wrote reports attacking the Golden Lion Grand Duke while planning to discredit Li Ziran later.
• The Elemental Forecast’s report prompted protests, and the Triangle Council stripped the Golden Lion Grand Duke of his authority, but he escaped with his elite troops.
• Feng Jingjing asked the adjudicator Jenny to send him reports about organ plundering, while Li Ziran continued attracting eager followers.
• Li Ziran descended into the shaft, passing creatures who were barred from approaching the Black Dragon Lord and meeting Black Witch Doctors and workers preparing magma.
• At the entrance to an excavated tunnel, Li Ziran saw a chained Three-Headed Hellhound and wondered if it was a source of supplies.

Li Ziran reached the Black Dragon Lord, who was trapped with his head wedged in an adamantite shaft, and was welcomed with an unusual feast. The chapter ended with Li Ziran reluctantly preparing to taste a bowl of thick stone slurry.

• Li Ziran traveled through the magma and scarlet crystal layers, where he saw Fire Cranes nesting in the intense heat.
• Li Ziran discovered the Black Dragon Lord's enormous head and neck trapped in a shaft of adamantite rock.
• The Black Dragon Lord greeted Li Ziran and explained that he had prepared a sumptuous dinner for him.
• Magma Monsters, Fire Cranes, and Dark Mages assembled several strange dishes for Li Ziran.
• Li Ziran decided to show respect by using his robot to draw up some stone slurry, then stared at the bowl uncertainly.