Chapter Summaries

As the rainforest fire threatened the elves, Ke'er Bao ordered an evacuation and secretly left with Anfuni to find Li Ziran. They met Black Dragon, who led them to Li Ziran’s hideout, where Ke'er saw him transform into a frog.

• Ke'er Bao learned that the elves could not extinguish the flames and ordered the elders to help evacuate everyone from the Flame Zone.
• Ke'er Bao decided to find Li Ziran and used a double to conceal her departure from the field headquarters.
• Ke'er Bao and Anfuni disguised themselves as human slave hunters and traveled through the burning forest toward the Earth Elf Tribe.
• Black Dragon met Anfuni and led her and Ke'er Bao to a cave near Li Ziran’s location.
• Black Dragon shrank into a Bone Frog and hopped into the cave, leaving Ke'er Bao stunned by Li Ziran’s transformation.

Chapter Summary: “The Queen Meets the Prince”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Anfuni and Ke’er enter a scorched underground cave to meet Li Ziran, who is hiding after being hunted across the Red Soil Continent.
• Ke’er asks Anfuni not to reveal her identity as the Elf Queen, apparently wanting to meet Li Ziran without political expectations or influence.
• They discover Li Ziran in an enormous cavern, where he has been transformed into an elderly white mountain goat by the Red-robed High Priest’s Transcendent Sheep Transformation Spell.
• Anfuni is startled by his appearance, but Ke’er remains composed and immediately identifies the spell and its connection to the Light Element.
• Ke’er explains that the Sheep Transformation Spell is linked to one of the world’s eight ancient Transcendent Elements. The sheep represented the original Light Element, and the spell results from the aggregation of the twelve great Light Spells.
• She reveals that the spell is forcing Li Ziran’s body to reject and compress all other elements, causing his organs and physical form to regress.
• Ke’er explains the “law of decay”: elemental power naturally deteriorates under the influence of the Elemental Tide, making it nearly impossible to recombine ordinary elements into their original transcendent forms.
• Li Ziran realizes that his own Light Organs may have triggered traces of transcendent power. He begins considering whether the Frog Transformation Spell and other transformation spells might correspond to different Ultimate or Transcendent Elements.
• Impressed by his insight, Ke’er agrees to explain the connection between natural-domain elements and frogs in greater detail.

Character Developments

• Li Ziran is shown to be resourceful, intellectually sharp, and highly analytical despite his grotesque transformation. He quickly understands Ke’er’s explanation and connects it to his research into Light Organs and transformation spells.
• Ke’er demonstrates extensive secret knowledge about Transcendent Spells and the origins of the world’s elemental systems. She presents herself as calm, graceful, and deliberately respectful toward Li Ziran, while concealing her identity as Queen of the Elves.
• Anfuni becomes increasingly aware that she is being overshadowed during the meeting. Her pride in Li Ziran’s abilities turns into confusion and a hint of jealousy when Ke’er establishes a stronger intellectual connection with him.
• Ke’er’s reaction to Li Ziran’s transformed state shows that she values knowledge and potential over appearances. Her interest in his Organ Embryos also suggests that she recognizes their possible importance to the Human Race’s pursuit of transcendence.

Significant Themes

• Transcendence versus decay: The chapter explores the tension between the ancient purity of Transcendent Elements and the natural decline caused by the Elemental Tide.
• Knowledge as power: Ke’er’s secret royal knowledge gives her immediate influence over Li Ziran, while Li Ziran’s ability to interpret and apply that knowledge makes him equally formidable.
• Appearance versus identity: Li Ziran’s goat form is ridiculous and physically limiting, but his intelligence and determination remain intact.
• The limits of nature: Reconstructing transcendent power may be theoretically possible, but the world’s natural laws make it extraordinarily difficult.
• Hidden identities and trust: Ke’er conceals her royal status, while Anfuni must balance loyalty to her queen with her personal relationship with Li Ziran.

Character Interactions

• Anfuni warns Ke’er that Li Ziran is difficult and impatient, then tries to manage the meeting.
• Li Ziran initially reproaches Anfuni for bringing a stranger, but becomes interested when Ke’er accurately identifies his condition.
• Ke’er introduces herself as Anfuni’s friend and Li Ziran’s admirer, withholding her true identity while openly offering valuable information.
• Li Ziran questions Ke’er extensively about the Sheep Transformation Spell, and she responds with unusually candid explanations.
• Their conversation quickly becomes intellectually balanced: Ke’er provides ancient knowledge, while Li Ziran draws new conclusions from it.
• Anfuni watches their exchange and feels unnecessary and jealous, realizing that Ke’er and Li Ziran have formed an immediate mutual respect.

Li Ziran explained how he planned to recreate Primordial Elves by modifying embryos with high-tier elemental organs, then altered the Black Dragon so he could swallow and digest the purple flames ravaging the Elf Rainforest. The flames were no longer a threat, while Li Ziran turned his attention to gathering organs for the four natural elements to advance Frog Transformation.

• Ke'er explained how the elements had degraded over time, and Li Ziran used her account to develop a new system centered on the Transformation Spell and layered organs.
• Li Ziran asked Ke'er how to cultivate Primordial Elves and described blending high-tier wind elements into developing Elf embryos using Human Race elemental glands.
• Ke'er realized Li Ziran's method could potentially create a legion of powerful Primordial Elves, but she concealed her identity and asked how to handle the unusual flames in the Elf Rainforest.
• Li Ziran modified the Black Dragon's taste-bud nerves and throat so he could consume high-tier fire, then sent him outside to test the change.
• The Black Dragon swallowed the purple flames while Ke'er and the distant Elves watched in astonishment, and Li Ziran considered gathering earth, water, wind, and fire organs to advance Frog Transformation.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• A massive, grotesque beast emerges from the flaming forest and begins swallowing the Elves’ uncontrollable Purple Flame. The Elves initially mistake it for an unknown divine or ancient beast.
• The Elven elder and High Priest cannot identify the creature, speculating that it may have emerged from a hidden Derivative Space belonging to an Ancient Clan.
• Rooney and Feng are shocked because the Purple Flame was considered an artificial, near-unstoppable creation of the Red-Robed Priests. The beast’s ability to consume it disrupts their plans to burn the rainforest and search for Li Ziran.
• Anfuni and Ke’er realize that the beast is actually Li Ziran’s Black Dragon. Its intervention saves the Elves from possible extinction, and the fire is expected to disappear within two days.
• Ke’er visits Li Ziran in his cave and begins reconsidering the Elves’ future. She concludes that they may need to reform themselves by studying Organology, despite its reputation as an evil and dangerous art.
• Li Ziran reveals that he intends to return to Hippo Ancient City to obtain living creatures and organs for his experiments, including organs that may help him escape his current condition.
• Ke’er offers to help acquire the organs through a secret Elven slave shop in Hippo Ancient City. Li Ziran gives her a list, emphasizing his need for Natural Element and Light Element organs compatible with the Sheep Transformation Spell.
• The Black Dragon returns after swallowing too much Purple Flame and is unable to digest it. Li Ziran injects its heart membrane in twenty-seven places, causing the excess energy to be absorbed and transformed.
• The Black Dragon recovers, and Ke’er realizes that Li Ziran’s treatment may have awakened the Dragon Mark.

Character Developments

• Li Ziran remains calm and detached despite saving the Elves. He immediately focuses on further research, seeking Primordial Elf organs and materials for his experiments.
• Ke’er undergoes the most significant emotional and ideological change. She begins to see Li Ziran not merely as a dangerous outsider but as a possible source of hope for the Elven race. She becomes attracted to him and starts viewing Goat’s strange appearance as handsome.
• Ke’er moves from resisting her role as the Elves’ sacrificial queen to considering radical reform through Organology. Her willingness to assist Li Ziran demonstrates growing trust and personal investment.
• Anfuni continues to admire and trust Li Ziran, recognizing that his mysterious abilities repeatedly resolve crises.
• The Black Dragon proves capable of consuming the Purple Flame but struggles with the resulting heat and energy. Its recovery suggests that it is evolving or awakening new powers.
• Rooney and Feng become increasingly frustrated because the fire, which was central to their strategy, is being neutralized far sooner than expected.

Significant Themes

• Hope through forbidden knowledge: Organology, condemned as evil, may be the Elves’ only means of survival and renewal.
• Reform versus extinction: Ke’er recognizes that preserving Elven traditions may no longer be enough; the race must adapt to survive the changing world.
• The limits of established knowledge: Even powerful Elven authorities and the Red-Robed Priests cannot explain the Black Dragon or its ability to consume artificial Purple Flame.
• Power and dependence: The Elves’ survival increasingly depends on Li Ziran, forcing Ke’er to balance political responsibility, moral concerns, and personal feelings.
• Transformation and awakening: The Black Dragon’s altered body and possible Dragon Mark awakening mirror the broader transformations taking place among the Elves and their world.

Character Interactions

• The Elven elder and High Priest discuss the unknown beast and its possible Ancient Clan origins.
• Rooney contacts Feng because the beast undermines their coordinated plan to burn the forest and locate Li Ziran.
• Anfuni and Ke’er share their astonishment at Li Ziran’s ability to solve the fire crisis.
• Ke’er approaches Li Ziran with growing shyness and admiration, proposing cooperation rather than merely seeking his aid.
• Li Ziran and Ke’er negotiate the acquisition of organs, establishing a practical partnership between his experiments and Elven resources.
• Anfuni’s arrival interrupts their conversation, while the Black Dragon’s return allows Ke’er to witness Li Ziran’s extraordinary medical and experimental skill firsthand.

The White Tiger High Priestess and the Elf elders suspected the queen had allied with Li Ziran and began searching for Light Organs to gain leverage. Meanwhile, Li Ziran experimented on Elf soldiers with transplanted organs, discovered that human elemental glands could refine Elven organs, and asked Ke'er for stronger human Mages.

• The White Tiger High Priestess and six Elf elders learned that the queen had activated human spies to locate Light Organs and decided to search for organs and Li Ziran themselves.
• Li Ziran examined captured Elf soldiers and began turning the dead into Corpse Witches while preparing large-scale organ experiments.
• Li Ziran transplanted earth, water, wind, and fire organs into Elves, but his first experiments failed to make the ordinary elements fuse.
• Ke'er explained that only pure, primitive elements could fuse, so Li Ziran asked her to find human elemental Mages.
• Li Ziran transplanted organs from seven Magisters and six Advanced Mages into Elves, and one Elf's organ developed a crystal-like quality resembling a Primordial Elf's.
• Li Ziran asked Ke'er to obtain Archmages because the Mages' elemental glands did not produce elements pure enough for his next experiment.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Ke’er Bao observes Li Ziran’s underground experiments, where thirty-six interconnected lifeform modules surround a central Elemental Gland. The glands refine and fuse the four Natural Elements, rapidly raising them to higher tiers.
• Li Ziran develops a method of combining purified elemental energy with his Frog Transformation spell. Human Mages and corpses are repeatedly used as experimental materials, while Corpse Witches handle the dissections and procedures.
• A Minotaur is transformed into a Frog and dissected. Li Ziran studies the membranes of its organs, discovering that Frog-like magical patterns appear only in the outer layers before disappearing deeper inside.
• After transforming and examining 782 Frogs, Li Ziran determines that the experiment has reached its limit. The Elemental Glands can produce only Tier Five elements, and their influence alters merely a few membrane layers. He estimates that roughly 100,000 glands would be needed to achieve his ideal result.
• Despite the failure to create a complete transformation, the experiments prove that Natural Elements can be integrated into Frog Transformation and make it far more powerful.
• Li Ziran undergoes surgery himself. The Corpse Witches implant the experimental Elemental Glands and Magic Organs into his Goat body, reorganizing his organs, nerves, blood vessels, and internal space.
• After awakening, Li Ziran releases an enhanced transformation wave that turns nearly every creature and corpse in the cave into a Frog.
• Ke’er Bao partially resists because of her exceptional magical resistance, but even she begins transforming. Anfuni is completely turned into a Frog before Li Ziran restores her.
• Li Ziran concludes that his ability has improved only slightly and expresses a desire to study under the being who originally transformed him into a Goat.
• He considers infiltrating the Human Race’s Magic Tower to learn more about elemental fusion. Anfuni suggests seeking help from the Golden Lion Grand Duke, a former leader of the Golden Griffins who is now being hunted by the Humans.

Character Developments

• Li Ziran: Demonstrates extreme scientific curiosity, ruthlessness, and self-sacrifice. He treats living bodies as experimental materials and willingly undergoes dangerous surgery on himself. Although he achieves a major improvement in Frog Transformation, he remains dissatisfied and considers himself weak. His respect for Human magical research grows, even though Humans are his enemies.
• Ke’er Bao: Moves from fascination to horror as she witnesses the experiments. Her status as Elven Queen and powerful magical resistance cannot completely protect her from Li Ziran’s enhanced transformation, leaving her deeply frightened and impressed.
• Anfuni: Remains loyal and unusually unfazed by Li Ziran’s grotesque procedures. She accepts being transformed and quickly celebrates his progress afterward. She also provides the practical lead concerning the Golden Lion Grand Duke.
• The Corpse Witches: Function as a highly organized surgical team, displaying technical precision in dissecting subjects, modifying organs, and implanting the Elemental Glands.

Significant Themes

• The limits of power and knowledge: Li Ziran makes substantial progress but discovers that true mastery requires resources far beyond what he possesses.
• Science versus magic: The experiments blur the distinction between magical transformation and biological engineering. Li Ziran suggests that a perfect version of the process would resemble divine art rather than ordinary magic.
• The cost of experimentation: Hundreds of Mages and Frogs are sacrificed for only a partial breakthrough, emphasizing the moral brutality and enormous cost of advancement.
• Curiosity and obsession: Li Ziran’s hunger for understanding outweighs fear, ethics, and personal safety. Even his enemies’ accomplishments inspire admiration rather than hatred.
• Transformation and identity: Frog Transformation begins to alter not just appearance but organs, membranes, magical abilities, and species-level characteristics, raising questions about what defines a living creature.
• Powerlessness despite achievement: Even after gaining a terrifying new ability, Li Ziran sees himself as inadequate because he remains far from his ideal goal.

Character Interactions

• Ke’er Bao watches Li Ziran’s experiments and struggles to comprehend the elemental fusion technique.
• Anfuni repeatedly reassures Ke’er Bao about the surgery and later helps restore normalcy by suggesting a potential Human ally.
• Li Ziran transforms both Anfuni and Ke’er Bao unintentionally or as part of the experimental aftermath, then uses his blood to reverse most of the changes.
• Ke’er Bao’s fear contrasts with Anfuni’s enthusiasm, highlighting their different attitudes toward Li Ziran’s methods.
• The chapter ends with Anfuni offering Li Ziran a possible connection to the Golden Lion Grand Duke, giving him a new avenue for pursuing Human magical knowledge.

Chapter Summary: “You’re Now a Wanted Ringleader”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Anfuni informs Li Ziran that he has become the most wanted figure on the Red Soil Continent. The Human Race and several other races have labeled his Organology an evil doctrine called the Corruption Cult, while his followers are branded Corrupted Acolytes.
• Li Ziran’s bounty has surpassed 500,000 gold coins among humans alone, with additional warrants issued by the dwarves, orcs, Sea Folk, and other races. Military forces are surrounding the rainforest and pressuring the Elves to surrender him.
• The authorities’ fear is driven largely by Li Ziran’s organ-transplant techniques, especially after the Golden Lion Grand Duke gained the possibility of extending his life. The rulers of the world see Li’s knowledge as a threat to their power and longevity.
• Anfuni reveals that she is also wanted, with a bounty of 170,000 gold coins, for being one of Li Ziran’s supposed fanatical followers.
• Despite persecution, Li’s organization has survived. Important allies have gathered:
  • The Golden Lion Grand Duke and his elite griffins are stationed on Banyan Island.
  • The assassin group Among Men is prepared to act for him.
  • The Red Agate Slave House offers financial support of at least one million gold coins.
  • The Elven Queen’s faction is willing to shelter Li, provide Magic Towers, and publicly defend his Organology.
  • The Demon race has also expressed interest in accepting him.
• Li decides to travel south to meet the Golden Lion Grand Duke. After cleaning up the Frog, he departs with the Black Dragon, Anfuni, and eventually Ke’er.
• The group crosses a devastated rainforest disguised as a human hunting party. They pass through areas being looted by orcs and encounter the burned remains of Elven settlements.
• Near the coast, they see Human warships and the ruins of the former Flower Elf territory. A griffin warrior approaches them, disguised in ragged clothing and marked with the words “Corruption!”, signaling that he is secretly aligned with Li’s movement.

Character Developments

• Li Ziran remains detached and amused by the political panic surrounding him. He is less concerned with his reputation than with acquiring rare organs and continuing his research. However, he recognizes that his notoriety will make normal dealings increasingly difficult.
• He begins to acknowledge the usefulness of the organization built around him, despite previously dismissing the Li Ziran Association as insignificant. The survival of his followers and the resources they offer may now allow him to act more openly.
• Anfuni demonstrates loyalty, intelligence, and strategic awareness. She gives Li a complete account of the political situation and is ready to accompany him without hesitation. Her own status as a wanted follower reinforces her commitment.
• Ke’er, initially cautious because of her duties as Elven Queen, becomes increasingly fascinated by Li and his ability to alter the fate of an entire race. She ultimately chooses to leave with him, prioritizing continued contact and the possibility of helping him with Natural Elements.
• Ke’er’s decision reveals both personal admiration and a growing willingness to challenge traditional Elven responsibilities.
• The Golden Lion Grand Duke and other allies are portrayed as committed supporters willing to risk their status, wealth, and military power for Li’s cause.

Significant Themes

• Fear of transformative knowledge: The ruling powers oppose Organology not simply because it is dangerous, but because it can undermine established authority, especially by altering the limits of aging and death.
• Reputation versus reality: Li is portrayed as a notorious “ringleader,” although he does not fully understand or even care about the image others have created around him.
• Political persecution and propaganda: The term “Corruption Cult” turns scientific followers into religious extremists in the eyes of the authorities, demonstrating how governments use labels to justify suppression.
• Unexpected loyalty: Although Li initially treats his organization casually, his followers remain committed even after capture, betrayal, and widespread persecution.
• Survival and extinction: The burned rainforest and disappearing Elven habitats emphasize the fragility of the Elves and other species. Anfuni reflects on whether survival itself can become more frightening than death.
• Changing racial power structures: Li’s influence increasingly crosses species boundaries, drawing support from humans, Elves, demons, assassins, and slave armies. His movement has the potential to reshape the continent’s political order.

Important Character Interactions

• Anfuni explains Li’s wanted status and the political forces opposing him, while Li responds with disbelief and mockery rather than fear.
• Li angrily rejects the idea that Anfuni is a “fanatical follower,” insisting that they are simply friends.
• Anfuni and Ke’er discuss the Elves’ possible support for Li. Ke’er’s subtle prompting causes Anfuni to emphasize the Queen’s willingness to protect him.
• Ke’er hesitates between returning to the Elven tribe and following Li, but ultimately chooses to accompany him, claiming that he still needs her help with Natural Elements.
• Anfuni is surprised and somewhat concerned by Ke’er’s decision, recognizing the risks of the Elven Queen abandoning the heartland during a crisis.
• Li, Anfuni, and Ke’er disguise themselves as a human hunting party to avoid detection while traveling through the devastated rainforest.
• The chapter ends with their encounter with a griffin warrior secretly marked as part of the Corruption movement, suggesting that Li’s underground network is larger and more organized than he realized.

Chapter Summary: “Rooney Is a Pretty Good Target”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Ziran arrives at Banyan Island, the heavily fortified headquarters of the Golden Lion Grand Duke. The island contains Griffin roosts, knight quarters, underground halls, weapon stores, breeding grounds, and a hidden Derivative Space, showing that the Grand Duke prepared the location long in advance.
• The Golden Lion Grand Duke, now noticeably younger, welcomes Li Ziran and provides intelligence about the Human Race.
• The Grand Duke identifies the green-robed mage as the master of the Poison Tower, wielder of the ancient Corrosion Orb. The mage was involved in the interception of the Dungeon Black Dragon and is currently accompanying Rooney in the southern rainforest.
• Rooney, vice speaker of the Human Race’s Triangle Council, is revealed to be responsible for the arrest warrants and bounty against Li Ziran. He has signed 182 warrants against Evilized disciples and raised Li Ziran’s bounty to 500,000 gold coins.
• Rooney’s forces caused the rainforest fires and are now occupying the burned region while preparing a large-scale search for Li Ziran.
• Because Rooney is heavily guarded—by three Title Magisters and the Poison Tower’s Deadly Poison Domain—Li Ziran decides that exploiting Rooney’s weakness is the best approach.
• The Grand Duke explains that Rooney has a particular appetite for beautiful women, especially Elf women, and once paid heavily for a Primordial Elf.
• Li Ziran proposes using Ke’er’s beauty to lure Rooney out while he secretly approaches Rooney’s ship and captures him. He also plans to capture the Poison Tower mage for information.
• Ke’er initially interprets the plan as Li Ziran handing her over to another man and angrily refuses.
• The misunderstanding is resolved when Li Ziran explains that he wants to create a magical image-based replica or “model” of her, not actually send her to Rooney. He praises her temperament, leaving Ke’er suddenly interested in his opinion of her.

Character Developments

• Li Ziran: Demonstrates his strategic thinking and willingness to exploit an enemy’s personal weakness. He is confident, pragmatic, and largely unaware of the emotional impact his proposal has on Ke’er. His interest in Ke’er is initially technical and artistic rather than romantic, though he is visibly stunned by her beauty.
• Golden Lion Grand Duke: Appears rejuvenated and proves to be a valuable intelligence source and ally. His extensive preparations and knowledge of Human Race movements establish him as a powerful, organized figure rather than a desperate fugitive.
• Rooney: Emerges as the main target and an important antagonist. He is politically influential, ruthless toward Evilized beings and Elves, cautious to the point of paranoia, yet vulnerable because of his obsession with beautiful women.
• Ke’er: Reveals her identity and extraordinary beauty by removing her mask. She becomes emotionally upset when she believes Li Ziran intends to sacrifice or give her to Rooney, suggesting she has developed possessive or romantic feelings toward him. Her anger softens when she learns that Li Ziran admires her temperament.
• Anfuni: Understands Li Ziran’s intentions immediately and objects to using Ke’er as bait. She also finds amusement in Li Ziran’s stunned reaction to Ke’er’s appearance.
• Poison Tower Master: Is introduced as a dangerous but potentially capturable Human Race mage whose Corrosion Orb and involvement in the Black Dragon incident make him a valuable source of information.

Significant Themes

• Strategy and exploitation of weakness: Li Ziran plans to overcome Rooney’s defenses by targeting his desires rather than confronting his military protection directly.
• Appearance versus true identity: Ke’er’s beauty is powerful, but her royal bearing and natural aura are portrayed as impossible to reproduce perfectly. Her appearance also conceals her identity as the Elf Queen.
• Miscommunication and emotional subtext: Ke’er and Li Ziran interpret the proposed plan very differently. Her emotional reaction exposes feelings that Li Ziran does not recognize.
• Power and objectification: The discussion of Elves as possessions or “merchandise” highlights the Human Race’s exploitation of them, while Li Ziran’s language about using Ke’er as a “model” unintentionally echoes that same objectifying attitude.
• Preparedness and hidden power: Banyan Island’s complex underground structure and the Grand Duke’s rejuvenation demonstrate the extent of long-term planning and concealed resources.

Character Interactions

• Li Ziran and the Golden Lion Grand Duke interact as master and subordinate, with the Grand Duke showing deep respect and promptly sharing intelligence.
• The Grand Duke helps Li Ziran assess both the Poison Tower master and Rooney, emphasizing Rooney’s guarded nature and personal weakness.
• Li Ziran studies Ke’er as a potential lure, while Anfuni immediately recognizes the danger and tries to stop him.
• Ke’er confronts Li Ziran emotionally, accusing him of disrespecting her by offering her to another man.
• Their confrontation ends humorously when Li Ziran reveals that he meant to reproduce her image rather than use her physically, and Ke’er eagerly focuses on his unexpected compliment about her temperament.

Chapter Summary: “What Service Do You Want, Sir?”

Key Plot Points and Events

• The Golden Lion Grand Duke has converted Banyan Island’s sixth underground level into a surgical facility for organ modification and puppet construction. The facility includes operating tables, potions, organ-storage bottles, material cages, and prison cells for holding useful biological materials.
• Li Ziran works with Corpse Witches to create an Elven puppet modeled after Queen Ke’er. He modifies its eyes with Puppet Runes and a Puppet Bug, replaces and adjusts various organs, and uses Ke’er’s skin—especially from her face—to create a nearly perfect physical replica.
• Ke’er provides behavioral and vocal samples so Li Ziran can reproduce not only her appearance but also her mannerisms. He instructs her to act cute and seductive by saying, “What service do you want, sir?”
• The puppet gradually learns to imitate Ke’er through repeated practice and the efforts of thousands of Void Spirits observing her movements. Li Ziran refines its eyes, voice, tongue, lips, teeth, and expressions until it possesses a dangerously alluring presence distinct from the real Queen.
• The Black Dragon and Anfuni are stunned by the puppet’s charm. The Black Dragon jokingly—or perhaps seriously—declares that it wants the puppet as its future queen.
• Once the replica is complete, the group begins planning how to place it near Rooney, the leader of the Human forces. The Golden Lion Grand Duke suggests letting Human soldiers capture it, but Ke’er proposes a more controlled plan: using the puppet to stage an assassination attempt against Rooney.
• Li Ziran agrees that Ke’er’s plan offers greater initiative and realism. He decides that additional puppets or supporting characters will be needed to make the operation convincing.

Character Developments

• Li Ziran demonstrates exceptional skill in surgery, organ modification, puppetry, and psychological manipulation. He is dissatisfied with merely copying Ke’er’s appearance and focuses on recreating her expressions, voice, and emotional impact.
• Queen Ke’er is forced outside her usual dignified and restrained persona when she imitates a cute maid. Though embarrassed and uncomfortable, she cooperates and later contributes strategically by proposing the assassination plot.
• The Golden Lion Grand Duke is shown to be actively building Banyan Island into a base for Corrupted Acolytes. He provides the surgical infrastructure and offers a practical but less controlled strategy for deploying the puppet.
• Anfuni becomes visibly affected by the puppet’s beauty and charm. She compares herself unfavorably with the artificial copy and even considers having her own body enhanced.
• The Black Dragon reacts humorously but intensely to the puppet, revealing how powerful its seductive appearance is even to those who know it is artificial.

Significant Themes

• Appearance versus identity: The puppet can reproduce Ke’er’s face, voice, and gestures, but it lacks her natural innocence and true temperament. The chapter explores whether identity can be manufactured through physical details and performance.
• Artifice and manipulation: Li Ziran creates the puppet as a political weapon, intending to exploit the Humans’ assumptions and provoke a reaction against Rooney.
• The power of performance: Ke’er’s expression and mannerisms prove more influential than the puppet’s physical construction. Li Ziran discovers that convincing behavior requires repeated observation and imitation.
• Beauty as power: The puppet’s attractiveness becomes a weapon capable of influencing allies, intimidating observers, and potentially shaping the course of the Elven-Human conflict.
• Warfare and retaliation: The Elves are being destroyed by the Human forces, and Ke’er’s proposed assassination attempt represents a shift from passive suffering toward deliberate counterattack.

Character Interactions

• Li Ziran directs Ke’er’s performance and repeatedly asks her to reproduce her expressions and voice.
• Ke’er is embarrassed by Li Ziran’s suggestive instructions but ultimately cooperates, while also challenging the Golden Lion Grand Duke’s deployment plan.
• The Black Dragon and Anfuni witness the completed puppet and react with shock, admiration, and unease.
• The Golden Lion Grand Duke and Li Ziran discuss how to deliver the puppet to Rooney, with Ke’er steering the plan toward a staged assassination.
• The chapter ends with Li Ziran, Ke’er, and the Grand Duke preparing to create additional supporting puppets for the operation.

Chapter Summary: “Rooney’s Perverse Delight”

Key Plot Points and Events

• A violent storm covers the rainforest while a squad of Elven assassins infiltrates a heavily armed Human military warship.
• The assassins enter through the ship’s chimney and ventilation system, exploiting their knowledge of Goblin alchemical technology. Their official mission is to investigate the Humans’ purpose in the rainforest and gather information about Rooney.
• From a remote control point, Li Ziran and his companions observe the infiltration through a puppet and magical screen. The Golden Lion Grand Duke explains the warship’s capabilities and the Human Race’s plans to acquire more advanced vessels.
• The assassins reach the command center, where they discover a highly accurate map showing the locations of Elven cities, barracks, and hidden tribes. This reveals that the Humans possess detailed intelligence on Elven defenses.
• The assassins easily overpower the officers and enter Rooney’s Derivative Space, but the transmission suddenly cuts out. Li Ziran realizes that the suspiciously weak defenses were deliberate and that the Elves have walked into a trap.
• The puppet’s connection resumes and reveals a horrifying arena filled with enslaved women from many races. Rooney is using them as objects of entertainment, whipping them and throwing potions among them to provoke a desperate scramble.
• Among the captives are familiar Elven warriors, including one of Ke’er’s personal guards. The discovery exposes the extent of Rooney’s depravity and suggests that many missing Human women and captured Elves have been taken by him.

Character Developments

• Li Ziran demonstrates his strategic insight by recognizing that the infiltration is intentionally easy and that Rooney has likely detected the assassins from the beginning. He also shows his talent for manipulating alliances through calculated promises.
• The Golden Lion Grand Duke is revealed to be motivated largely by self-interest. He eagerly seeks Li Ziran’s help in restoring his power, replacing his aging subordinates, and upgrading his Griffins.
• Ke’er shifts from cautious observation to intense emotional distress when she sees the Elven deployment map and later recognizes her guards among Rooney’s captives. Her anger reflects both her personal responsibility as Elven Queen and her outrage at the humiliation of her people.
• Anfuni remains a morally sincere contrast to the Grand Duke, whose trust in Li Ziran is portrayed as genuine rather than politically calculated.
• Rooney is revealed as an extreme sadist and collector of women, treating captives of multiple races as disposable playthings rather than people.

Significant Themes

• Dehumanization and abuse of power: Rooney’s wealth, authority, and access to military resources allow him to enslave and torment women without consequence.
• Espionage and counterintelligence: The Elven mission uncovers both the Humans’ extensive intelligence network and Rooney’s ability to manipulate infiltrators through a staged vulnerability.
• Political self-interest: The Golden Lion Grand Duke’s cooperation with Li Ziran is driven by his desire to regain authority, contrasting with Anfuni’s sincere loyalty.
• The horror beneath military power: The impressive warship represents technological advancement, but its true purpose is connected to conquest, surveillance, and oppression.
• Humiliation and loss of dignity: The captive women, especially the Elven guards, are forced into degrading conditions, intensifying the chapter’s emotional impact.

Character Interactions

• The Golden Lion Grand Duke briefs Li Ziran on the warship and its strategic importance, while Li Ziran promises to restore the Duke’s forces and modify his Griffins in exchange for continued cooperation.
• Ke’er silently evaluates Li Ziran’s willingness to exchange power and services for loyalty, recognizing his sharp understanding of interests.
• Li Ziran’s calm analysis contrasts with the Grand Duke’s panic when the screen goes dark and Ke’er’s growing alarm over the fate of the assassins.
• Ke’er and Anfuni react with disgust and distress to Rooney’s treatment of the captives, while the Grand Duke connects Rooney’s actions to the unexplained disappearances of Human women.
• The chapter ends with the observers united in horror as Rooney’s cruelty is fully exposed.

Chapter Summary: The Art of Taming Women

Key Plot Points and Events

• The observers watch Rooney’s brutal control of the women imprisoned in Derivative Space. The Elf Queen and her attendants have been enslaved, while other women fight desperately for Rooney’s potions.
• Li Ziran realizes that Rooney is unlikely to notice Rooney’s puppet merely because of her beauty or gentle temperament. He decides to guide the puppet personally through their faint Void Spirit connection.
• Rooney tortures the Elf Queen with a potion that causes painful, spike-like rashes. He uses the Awakening Leaf to prevent her from fainting, forcing her to remain conscious throughout the ordeal.
• Through pain, rewards, restraint, and carefully controlled relief, Rooney gradually conditions the Elf Queen into obedience. When she is released, she instinctively scratches against the other women to ease her suffering, horrifying Ke’er and the observers.
• Rooney then turns his attention to the Elf guard captain. Her stubborn resistance fascinates him, and he subjects her to prolonged torture. When she finally scratches her own rashes after being given a momentary freedom, Li Ziran recognizes that Rooney manipulates desire and habit with deliberate precision.
• Li Ziran concludes that Rooney is likely a collector who categorizes women according to their value. The most exceptional captives are probably kept in a hidden area rather than mixed with the ordinary “scraps.”
• Rooney approaches Li Ziran’s puppet, who immediately spits at him and bites his finger nearly to the bone. Rather than discouraging him, her resistance excites him.
• Rooney applies the same rash-inducing potion and expects her to break, but the puppet remains completely motionless and expressionless. Her apparent immunity to suffering makes her far more intriguing to him.
• When Rooney moves to torture her with a knife, she bites his ear. His anger gives way to even stronger fascination as his desire to conquer her intensifies.
• Li Ziran smiles, confident that he understands enough about manipulation and psychological struggle to exploit Rooney’s obsession.

Character Developments

• Li Ziran: Becomes more actively involved by taking control of the puppet’s behavior. He demonstrates sharp psychological insight, recognizing Rooney’s preference for stubborn, difficult women and planning to use that trait against him.
• Rooney: Revealed as intelligent, methodical, and highly skilled at psychological domination. He does not rely solely on physical cruelty; he uses pain, reward, deprivation, and habit to condition his captives. His interest grows strongest when faced with defiance.
• The Elf Queen: Her fierce resistance is gradually broken through torture and conditioning. Her eventual submission and instinctive search for relief show the destructive effect of Rooney’s methods.
• Ke’er: Moves from shock and helplessness to open rage. Seeing the Elf Queen degraded convinces her that Rooney’s cruelty surpasses anything she has previously witnessed.
• Elf Guard Captain: Represents extraordinary endurance and stubbornness, resisting Rooney for hours. However, even she begins to respond to the relief Rooney manipulates, revealing how difficult it is to resist conditioned desire.
• The Puppet: Displays exceptional determination and apparent resistance to pain. Her spitting, biting, and refusal to react make her stand out from the other women and transform her into Rooney’s most compelling challenge.

Significant Themes

• Psychological conditioning and control: Rooney breaks resistance not only through pain but by controlling access to relief, turning natural reactions into tools of obedience.
• Desire and habit: The chapter emphasizes how quickly relief can become dependence. Once the women experience even brief comfort, they begin prioritizing it over resistance.
• Resistance versus conquest: Defiance does not repel Rooney; it intensifies his desire to dominate. The puppet’s resistance therefore becomes both a danger and a strategy.
• Dehumanization and objectification: Rooney treats the women as livestock, collectibles, or specimens, sorting them according to usefulness and rarity.
• The morality of retaliation: Although the observers are horrified by Rooney’s cruelty, Li Ziran begins thinking in similarly strategic terms, preparing to manipulate Rooney through his own appetites.
• Appearance versus individuality: In a space where beauty and ordinary charm have become meaningless, distinct behavior—especially exceptional stubbornness—becomes the only way to stand out.

Character Interactions

• Rooney’s interactions with the Elf Queen demonstrate his use of pain, commands, and small rewards to establish control.
• Ke’er’s desperate pleas contrast with her inability to intervene, deepening her hatred of Rooney.
• Rooney’s treatment of the guard captain reveals his ability to exploit a captive’s instinct for relief while maintaining an appearance of control.
• Li Ziran observes Rooney closely and mentally analyzes his expressions, methods, and preferences.
• The puppet directly challenges Rooney through spitting and biting, creating a confrontation in which her resistance unexpectedly strengthens his fascination.
• By the end, Li Ziran and Rooney are engaged in an indirect psychological contest: Rooney seeks to tame the puppet, while Li Ziran intends to use her defiance to lure Rooney into a trap.

Chapter Summary

Key plot points and events

Rooney subjects the captured girl-puppet to brutal punishment, attempting to break her resistance and “tame” her. Although the puppet’s body appears to suffer, Li Ziran has already sealed the Void Spirit, preventing genuine pain. Through carefully controlled cries, whimpers, and resistance, Li Ziran manipulates Rooney’s emotions, making him increasingly impatient and desperate to achieve submission. When the puppet finally lets out a loud wail, Rooney believes he has conquered her and takes her away as his prized possession.
Rooney leads the puppet to a private room, where the connection to Li Ziran becomes temporarily disrupted by spatial transportation. While there, Rooney receives a transmission from a frog-like figure associated with the mysterious transformation experiments. Li Ziran notices the glowing pipe-like formations behind the frog and realizes they contain secrets related to increasing elemental ranks. Rooney saves the conversation inside a rare Spatial Casket, making it a potentially valuable target. The chapter ends when Rooney returns to the puppet, only for her to kneel obediently and call him “Master,” revealing that she has apparently reverted to her programmed nature.

Character developments

• Li Ziran demonstrates exceptional psychological control and patience. Rather than resisting openly, he uses the puppet to exploit Rooney’s vanity, lust, impatience, and desire for domination. He views Rooney as potential prey and carefully lets him believe he is winning.
• Rooney is revealed to be cruel, arrogant, sexually exploitative, and emotionally unstable. His confidence grows after the puppet cries, but his earlier impatience shows that his apparent dominance depends on maintaining control over weaker victims. He is also connected to important hidden powers and possesses advanced spatial technology.
• The puppet/girl appears outwardly defiant while secretly functioning as Li Ziran’s instrument. Her final obedient behavior creates uncertainty over whether she has truly returned to her original programming or is continuing the deception.

Significant themes

• Domination and manipulation: The chapter contrasts Rooney’s crude physical coercion with Li Ziran’s subtler psychological manipulation.
• Patience versus impatience: Li Ziran repeatedly emphasizes that “taming” requires careful timing, while Rooney’s impatience nearly exposes his weakness.
• Appearance versus reality: Rooney believes he has conquered the puppet, but the apparent victory may be part of Li Ziran’s larger trap.
• Predation and role reversal: Although Rooney sees the girl as prey, Li Ziran sees Rooney himself as the true target.
• Hidden knowledge and power: The frog’s transformation-related technology and Rooney’s Spatial Casket hint at a larger conspiracy involving elemental advancement and spatial magic.

Character interactions

Li Ziran psychologically manipulates Rooney through the puppet’s controlled resistance and carefully timed cries. Rooney treats the captive girls as possessions and intimidates them into submission. His communication with the frog-like figure shows that he answers to or fears a more powerful associate. The spectators on Banyan Island observe the confrontation and gradually recognize Rooney’s desperation. The puppet’s final question—“Master, what service do you want?”—appears to confirm Rooney’s victory, though the closing line strongly suggests this obedience may be deceptive or strategically significant.

Chapter Summary: “Kidnapping Rooney”

Key Plot Points and Events

• The puppet unexpectedly shifts from violent resistance to obedient submission, making Rooney suspicious. Li Ziran realizes he has lost direct control over her, but trusts the plan he previously gave the terminal: capture Rooney.
• Rooney, angry after being reprimanded by the Red-robed High Priest, considers retaliating by launching a purge of the rainforest. If Li Ziran cannot be found, he plans to destroy large portions of the forest and force the Elves into submission.
• Believing the puppet has been tamed, Rooney relaxes and allows her to massage him. She secretly tears out the tendons and veins from her own legs and uses them as nearly invisible restraints.
• The puppet traps Rooney by binding his neck, legs, and vulnerable joints. She manipulates his nerves and Elemental Gland so precisely that even minor movement causes unbearable pain.
• Rooney discovers that the “girl” is using her own body as a weapon. His fear intensifies when she prevents him from losing consciousness by using an Awakening Leaf.
• The puppet kisses Rooney, allowing him to see Li Ziran inside a strange, bubble-like world reflected in her pupils. Li Ziran communicates with him directly through spiritual power.
• Rooney recognizes Li Ziran but refuses to believe the man’s appearance, since Feng had told him that Li Ziran was currently disguised as a goat.
• Li Ziran begins taking control of Rooney’s body. Although Rooney’s Soul Guardian Spell prevents a complete invasion of his soul, Li Ziran can still manipulate Rooney’s empty body like a puppet.
• Under this control, Rooney opens a Teleportation Gate and his body retrieves confidential documents: the legion’s deployment and attack plans for the rainforest.
• Li Ziran reveals that obtaining the documents was the true objective. He orders Ke’er and Anfuni to receive their “distinguished guest,” implying that Rooney is being brought to them as a captive.

Character Developments

• Li Ziran: Demonstrates increasingly sophisticated control over space, puppets, spiritual powers, and psychological manipulation. He admits that his control over the puppet is imperfect but successfully turns the unexpected situation to his advantage.
• Rooney: His arrogance and confidence collapse. He begins as a powerful councilor convinced of his own defenses, but becomes helpless, terrified, and unable to control either his body or the mission’s secrets.
• The Puppet: Reveals her frightening nature as a “Corrupted Witch Doctor”-like figure. She uses self-mutilation, pain manipulation, and deception with complete calm, proving that her apparent submission was a trap.
• Ke’er: Watches the operation and recognizes how closely the puppet resembles her in appearance and mannerisms. She is disturbed and impressed by the puppet’s grotesque tactics.
• Feng and the Red-robed High Priest: Though absent, their influence shapes Rooney’s behavior. Rooney depends on Feng for his political position and resents the High Priest’s criticism, while their larger plan depends on capturing Li Ziran.

Significant Themes

• Deception and reversed power: Rooney believes he has subdued the puppet, but his apparent victory is merely the first stage of his capture.
• The body as a weapon: The puppet turns her own veins and tendons into restraints, emphasizing the chapter’s grotesque fusion of physical sacrifice and tactical intelligence.
• Control versus resistance: Rooney’s magical defenses protect his soul but cannot prevent Li Ziran from manipulating his body, showing that control can be achieved indirectly.
• Arrogance and vulnerability: Rooney’s political status, magical strength, and confidence prove useless once he is caught off guard.
• Information as power: Li Ziran’s primary goal is not simply kidnapping Rooney but obtaining the enemy’s military plans, potentially allowing the Elves to destroy or counter the attacking legion.

Character Interactions

• Rooney treats the puppet as a possession he has successfully tamed, while she deceives him through submissive gestures and gentle massage.
• The puppet inflicts pain on Rooney and silently overpowers him, reversing their earlier captor-prisoner relationship.
• Li Ziran communicates with Rooney through the puppet’s eyes, revealing that the puppet is linked to him in a deeper spiritual and spatial way.
• Rooney mentally challenges Li Ziran, relying on his Soul Guardian Spell, but Li Ziran bypasses the defense by controlling Rooney’s body rather than fully conquering his soul.
• Li Ziran then addresses Ke’er and sends her and Anfuni to receive Rooney, marking the transition from the kidnapping to the next stage of the plan.

Chapter Summary: “Torture and Coercion”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Rooney, the Human Race’s supreme commander, arrives at Banyan Island in a canoe while carrying detailed military maps of the rainforest. He is conscious but unable to control his body, suggesting he has been magically controlled or incapacitated.
• Ke’er and several allies capture him immediately upon landing, beat him, confiscate the maps, and transport him through the banyan tree’s underground passages to a hidden chamber.
• Rooney discovers that his captors include Li Ziran, the Organ Witch Doctor he was sent to find, and the Golden Lion Grand Duke, whom he denounces as a traitor to the Human Race.
• Confident in his soul protection and the possibility of resurrection, Rooney refuses to cooperate and boasts that torture will not break him.
• A Corpse Witch applies a mysterious potion to Rooney. Instead of causing pain, it heightens his senses and intelligence while forcing the elemental energy from his body. As a mage, Rooney recognizes that the potion is destroying the foundation of his power.
• Terrified of losing his cultivation, Rooney quickly confesses that Andelie, one of the Justice Alliance’s four Red-robed High Priests, transformed Li Ziran into a goat.
• He also reveals that Feng sent him to the rainforest because of Li Ziran’s value, though Rooney claims he himself was only a messenger and that Feng—the editor-in-chief of Elemental Forecast—makes the real decisions.
• Li Ziran asks Rooney for footage of Andelie’s cultivation. Rooney insists he cannot obtain it because the Justice Alliance is too influential, but Li Ziran does not believe him and reapplies the potion.
• Li Ziran explains that he distrusts verbal confessions and intends to use stronger methods, potentially including Memory Spell. He also believes Luo Element may be capable of weakening Rooney’s soul protection.
• Rather than killing Rooney, Li Ziran hands him over to Ke’er, permitting her to interrogate him about the Elves’ current war situation.

Character Developments

• Rooney: His arrogance and confidence collapse rapidly when his magical cultivation is threatened. Though he initially claims indomitable willpower and reliance on resurrection, he proves highly vulnerable to the loss of his power and begins confessing almost immediately.
• Li Ziran: He is revealed as calm, calculating, and scientifically minded. He treats torture as an experiment, testing the limits of Rooney’s soul protection and the effects of the potion rather than relying on brute force.
• Ke’er: She is shown to harbor intense hatred toward Rooney, but she is also pleased by the opportunity to obtain military intelligence. Her new role as interrogator suggests growing confidence and agency.
• Golden Lion Grand Duke: He openly embraces his alliance with Li Ziran and rejects Rooney’s accusations. His former position within the Human Race gives him useful knowledge about soul protection and the Justice Alliance.
• Andelie and Feng: Though absent, both are established as important figures behind the plot. Andelie transformed Li Ziran, while Feng appears to be the true strategist directing Rooney’s mission.

Significant Themes

• Power as the foundation of identity: Rooney’s status, confidence, and political authority depend on his cultivation. The threat of becoming magically powerless breaks his resistance more effectively than physical pain.
• The limits of loyalty and courage: Rooney presents himself as fearless and protected by resurrection magic, but his principles falter when his personal power is endangered.
• Knowledge versus deception: Li Ziran assumes that spoken testimony is unreliable and prefers magical verification, reflecting the broader conflict between interrogation, memory, and truth.
• Science and experimentation in magic: Li Ziran approaches torture analytically, using the potion to study Rooney’s elemental system and soul protection.
• Political corruption and factional conflict: Rooney’s accusations against the Golden Lion Grand Duke, the Justice Alliance’s influence, and Feng’s hidden authority reveal divisions within the Human Race.

Character Interactions

• Ke’er and Rooney: Ke’er captures and physically humiliates Rooney, motivated by both hatred and the desire to obtain military information.
• Rooney and the Golden Lion Grand Duke: Rooney condemns the Grand Duke as a traitor, while the Grand Duke dismisses his insults and urges him to reveal secrets.
• Rooney and Li Ziran: Rooney attempts to threaten Li Ziran with Human Race reinforcements and resurrection, but Li Ziran remains unmoved. Their exchange establishes Li Ziran’s psychological dominance.
• Li Ziran and the Golden Lion Grand Duke: The Grand Duke provides political context and confirms the Justice Alliance’s power, while Li Ziran decides how far to push the interrogation.
• Li Ziran and Ke’er: Li Ziran entrusts Rooney to Ke’er, recognizing her interest in the Elves’ war and allowing her to continue the interrogation under the condition that Rooney not be killed.

Chapter Summary: “Ke'er, Take This Memory”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Ke’er interrogates Rooney to learn the Human Race’s military plans in the rainforest, but he initially avoids revealing anything important and claims he is only an insignificant errand runner.
• Under torture by Anfuni, Rooney finally reveals that the Human Race has buried Magic Stones throughout the rainforest. When activated, they can unleash the Earth-Covering Spell, collapsing a third of the rainforest, followed by a Great Rainfall Spell that would turn the ruins into wasteland.
• Rooney does not know the locations of the Magic Stones, claiming they were planted by Holy Knights who report directly to the cardinal. Their activation could occur if the Human Race realizes he has been captured.
• Li Ziran forcibly accesses Rooney’s memories using the Luo Element and the Memory Eye, bypassing his soul defenses. He discovers details about Rooney’s rise to power, his manipulative survival tactics, and his extensive political connections.
• Li Ziran identifies over a hundred secret Human Race gathering points on the rainforest map. Though he does not directly see the Earth-Covering Spell, he suspects these locations contain Magic Stones for another devastating attack.
• He also discovers that Anpani, the high priest of the White Tiger Temple and a trusted Elven official, has been in contact with Rooney and may be an Elven traitor.
• Li Ziran cannot penetrate the deepest protected part of Rooney’s soul, where his most valuable secrets are hidden—likely information concerning Feng, Andelie, and their political and magical alliance.
• Ke’er suggests exploiting Rooney’s greatest weakness: his attachment to power and reputation. She proposes using compromising footage involving women to damage Feng’s influence and force Rooney to reveal what he knows.

Character Developments

• Ke’er demonstrates political intelligence and ruthlessness. She quickly recognizes Rooney’s importance but becomes frustrated by his evasiveness. Despite her distrust of Li Ziran’s methods, she relies on him and feels grateful after he uncovers information that may save the Elves.
• Rooney is exposed as a cunning opportunist rather than a major military achiever. His rise from handyman to deputy speaker came through manipulation, cooperation, and political alliances rather than merit. Even while tortured, he continues trying to mislead his captors.
• Li Ziran reveals the terrifying extent of his abilities by invading Rooney’s memories. He remains emotionally detached from Rooney’s suffering and is more interested in uncovering secrets useful to his own research, particularly Andelie’s cultivation and the Transformation Spell.
• Anfuni acts as an aggressive interrogator, using violence and magical torture when Rooney refuses to cooperate.
• Feng emerges as a powerful behind-the-scenes political operator. As editor-in-chief of Elemental Forecast, he helped Rooney rise and appears to be connected to both Andelie and the Red-robed High Priest.
• Anpani’s possible betrayal drastically changes Ke’er’s perception of the Elven leadership and suggests that corruption may exist within the highest levels of the Elven hierarchy.

Significant Themes

• Power through information: The chapter emphasizes that knowledge of troop movements, magical weapons, and political alliances can determine the survival of an entire race.
• Political manipulation and opportunism: Rooney’s success comes not from achievement but from networking, cooperation, and exploiting powerful allies.
• The vulnerability beneath power: Even influential figures like Rooney remain vulnerable when their memories, reputation, or political authority are threatened.
• Trust and betrayal: The possible involvement of Anpani reveals that enemies may exist within supposedly loyal institutions.
• The limits of force: Li Ziran can break Rooney’s ordinary defenses but cannot access the deepest secrets protected by a powerful soul spell. Ke’er therefore proposes psychological pressure instead of greater physical coercion.
• Race survival and moral compromise: The Elves face possible extinction, forcing their leaders to consider torture, memory extraction, purges, and other morally troubling methods.

Important Character Interactions

• Ke’er questions and pressures Rooney while Anfuni tortures him, creating a conflict between interrogation and resistance.
• Li Ziran initially appears passive, but he later intervenes decisively by extracting Rooney’s memories.
• Li Ziran and Ke’er develop a practical partnership: he supplies intelligence, while she interprets its political significance and organizes the Elves’ response.
• Ke’er asks Li Ziran to investigate possible Elven traitors, showing both her dependence on him and her growing trust in his abilities.
• Ke’er advises Li Ziran to attack Rooney psychologically by threatening his power and reputation, setting up the next stage of the interrogation.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Ziran considers extracting Rooney’s memories through technology but recognizes that Rooney would never voluntarily reveal his most valuable secrets.
• Ke’er persuades Li to exploit his fame and social connections rather than remaining isolated. She proposes targeting the powerful organization behind Rooney instead of Rooney himself.
• Ke’er reveals that Elven reports and the influence of Oak Weekly could make Rooney’s recordings credible and provoke a much greater reaction from the Human Race.
• Li becomes suspicious of Ke’er’s knowledge and motives. She finally reveals that she is not merely Anfuni’s friend, but the Elven Queen.
• Ke’er explains that she needs Li’s organ-transformation technology to strengthen her authority over the Elven Race. She also reveals that becoming his prince consort was part of the Elven elders’ political needs, not her personal choice.
• The two discuss Li’s fame, its benefits, and the disasters associated with it. Ke’er argues that his reputation has already attracted powerful allies and caused major political consequences, including the conflict that led to the Elves’ destruction by fire.
• Ke’er proposes a formal deal: Li will publicly support her, modify ten elderly magicians, and enter a fake marriage with her. In return, she will help him approach the Human Race’s bishops and teach him advanced Elven Natural Element Theory.
• Li accepts the possibility of cooperation because the opportunity may help him understand transformation and eventually build a new body.
• Ke’er and Li begin their plan by publishing Rooney’s recordings through Oak Weekly. They intend to provoke the Human Race into denial, then seize Rooney’s giant ship and access its Derivative Space.
• At the Oak Association, Li is mistaken for the queen’s pet, while the elders are alarmed by the recordings. Ke’er overrides their cautious approach and orders the material published.
• The resulting report becomes a massive scandal that eclipses the ongoing fear surrounding the Corrupted Witch Doctor and the possible Third Continental War.

Character Developments

• Li Ziran: Remains wary, independent, and emotionally detached, but acknowledges the practical value of fame, alliances, and mutually beneficial transactions. He becomes willing to cooperate with Ke’er despite fearing deeper involvement with the Elves.
• Ke’er: Reveals herself as politically intelligent, persuasive, and strategically ambitious. As queen, she is seeking control over the Elven Race and sees Li’s technology and fame as essential tools. She also shows personal vulnerability regarding her forced role as a future wife to multiple prince consorts.
• Rooney: Though mostly absent, he becomes the focus of a political attack. His recordings are transformed into a weapon against the Human Race and the interests supporting him.
• The Elven elders: Their cautious, conservative strategy is challenged when Ke’er chooses immediate public exposure over quietly manipulating Rooney.

Significant Themes

• Fame as power: Ke’er argues that reputation can open doors, attract followers, and provide leverage more effectively than talent alone.
• Politics and strategic alliances: Personal relationships are treated as political resources, especially through Li’s proposed marriage to Ke’er.
• Equivalent exchange: Li evaluates every relationship as a transaction, accepting cooperation only when the benefits justify the risks.
• Identity and hidden power: Ke’er’s revelation that she is the Elven Queen dramatically changes the nature of her relationship with Li.
• Individual freedom versus duty: Ke’er struggles between her personal wishes and the expectations imposed on her by Elven tradition and political necessity.
• Information as a weapon: The publication of Rooney’s recordings demonstrates how truth, evidence, and media influence can destabilize entire political powers.
• Technology and transformation: Li’s organ surgery is presented as revolutionary, while his desire to understand transformation suggests that his scientific ambitions extend beyond medicine.

Character Interactions

• Ke’er and Li engage in a tense but intellectually matched negotiation. She challenges his isolation and encourages him to use his fame, while he questions her motives and refuses to be controlled by her royal status.
• After Ke’er’s identity is revealed, their interaction becomes more awkward and politically charged because of the implications of Li becoming her prince consort.
• Ke’er attempts to separate their political relationship from their personal one by asking Li to treat her as an ordinary businesswoman.
• Their eventual agreement establishes them as temporary collaborators: Ke’er provides political access and magical knowledge, while Li offers his technology, public support, and assistance with the Elven leadership.
• Their joint publication of Rooney’s recordings marks the first major action carried out under their new alliance.

Chapter Summary: Human Race’s Great Scandal

Key Plot Points and Events

• The Oak Daily publishes scandalous photographs of Rooney surrounded by enslaved and captive women from multiple races. Sensational captions turn the images into a continent-wide scandal.
• The newspaper’s sales explode, reaching 5.27 million copies. Public outrage spreads as nobles and other races identify missing daughters, wives, princesses, heirs, and other prominent women among the captives.
• Nobles and ordinary citizens surround the Triangle Council, demanding Rooney’s punishment and accusing the Human Race government of corruption and slavery.
• The Council claims Rooney has fled and promises an investigation, but further reports allege that he is continuing to wage war against the Elves to obtain more female slaves. This intensifies the public fury.
• Behind the scenes, Andre and Feng reveal that they were also involved in exploiting Rooney’s captives. Rather than risk exposure, Feng decides to sacrifice Rooney as a scapegoat.
• Feng prepares a false newspaper report announcing Rooney’s execution before it has even occurred. The Council creates a fake Rooney using a replacement body and displays him publicly beneath a gallows.
• The fake Rooney is made to kneel in the plaza for twelve hours, allowing the Council to claim that justice has been served while concealing its own involvement.
• Li Ziran immediately recognizes the condemned figure as an imitation, explaining that a person’s true identity lies in the soul, not the body.
• Ke’er proposes exploiting Rooney’s continued notoriety by sending the real Rooney back to the fleet and having him appear at the head of a military attack against the Elves.
• She plans to turn the inevitable local conflict into a political opportunity: a Human-Elf battle could expose the Council’s weakness, strengthen the Elves’ position, and create the opening Li Ziran needs.

Character Developments

• Li Ziran witnesses the immense power of journalism and public opinion. Although he understands the scandal’s significance, he remains uncertain about how to manipulate distant political events without Ke’er’s guidance.
• Ke’er demonstrates strategic brilliance and confidence. She uses the scandal not merely to damage Rooney but to create a larger political and military opportunity for the Elves and Li Ziran.
• Rooney becomes a disposable scapegoat. His reputation is destroyed, and the Council uses a fabricated version of him to satisfy public demands while protecting the true conspirators.
• Feng is revealed as calculating, ruthless, and highly skilled at manipulating public perception. He views the population as easily controlled and treats Rooney and the women as expendable resources.
• Andre is anxious about the scandal because his own involvement could be exposed, but he quickly accepts Feng’s plan. He also becomes increasingly interested in obtaining Li Ziran, whose ability to create beautiful women could benefit their exploitation.
• Li Ziran and Ke’er’s partnership grows stronger. Li Ziran recognizes the false execution, while Ke’er supplies the broader strategic vision and challenges him to use Rooney as a political weapon.

Significant Themes

• Power of media and language: The Oak Daily transforms private crimes into a continent-wide crisis through photographs, labels, and sensational descriptions. The chapter presents words and images as forces capable of shaping public desire and political action.
• Manipulation of public opinion: The Council does not seek justice; it constructs a convincing spectacle. By displaying a fake Rooney, it gives the public the punishment they demand while concealing the larger conspiracy.
• Corruption and scapegoating: Rooney’s punishment protects Andre, Feng, and the councilmen who benefited from his crimes. Institutions preserve themselves by sacrificing one of their own members.
• Appearance versus reality: The false Rooney demonstrates that bodies and public appearances can be manufactured. Li Ziran emphasizes that identity depends on the soul rather than physical form.
• Exploitation of women and racial power: Women from different races are treated as commodities by powerful men, while the scandal exposes the Human Race’s abuse of conquered peoples, especially the Elves.
• War as political opportunity: Ke’er views conflict not only as a danger but also as a means of reshaping public opinion, settling old grievances, and forcing the Council into a vulnerable position.

Character Interactions

• Li Ziran and Ke’er: They discuss how to respond to the fake execution. Li Ziran identifies the deception but lacks a clear countermeasure; Ke’er proposes using Rooney’s fame to launch a military maneuver.
• Andre and Feng: Andre panics over the scandal’s potential to expose their shared crimes, while Feng remains calm and proposes sacrificing Rooney. Their conversation reveals their partnership and their plans to acquire Li Ziran’s knowledge.
• The Triangle Council and the public: The Council attempts to appease the protesters with a staged execution, while the public demands accountability for slavery and corruption.
• Ke’er and Li Ziran regarding the Elves: Ke’er argues that a limited battle is unavoidable because of the Elves’ past losses and the destruction of their rainforest. She asks Li Ziran to return Rooney to the fleet so the Elves can exploit his symbolic value.

Chapter Summary: Elves and Humans’ Local War

Key Plot Points and Events

• Rooney, the notorious human councilman accused of corruption and imprisoning women, is publicly executed in Triangle Council Square. The execution satisfies the angry public, and the Triangle Council promises to investigate his associates and compensate his victims.
• At the same time, a large-scale war unexpectedly erupts between the Human Race and the Elves near the rainforest.
• Elven forces launch a coordinated assault using Hippogriffs, Treefolk, Chimeras, Giant Bears, and powerful elemental magic. Human Ironframe Ships and magic cannons retaliate, but the Elves quickly overwhelm the human positions.
• Ke’er commands the Elven offensive with impressive strategic skill, using magical weather and elemental forces to clash with the human fleet. The resulting destruction tears open canyons, disrupts the Elemental Tide, devastates the Grasslands, and causes magical disasters across surrounding regions.
• The Elves destroy human fortifications, kill the troops that entered the rainforest, capture two advanced steel warships, and scatter the surviving human slaves along the coast.
• The battle exposes a major contradiction: newspapers show Rooney commanding human military operations even though he was supposedly executed half a day earlier. Reports reveal that the “dead” Rooney had entered the military, directed strategies, and met with Elven traitors.
• The Human Race suffers a humiliating defeat and demands an explanation from the Triangle Council. Public opinion blames Rooney for the military disaster, while the council is pressured to explain how an executed man could have commanded the campaign.
• Ke’er and Li Ziran later observe the aftermath from the rainforest. Ke’er celebrates the Elven victory and the intelligence gained from Rooney’s Derivative Space, while Li Ziran remains detached.

Character Developments

• Rooney: His public image shifts from disgraced criminal to possible military saboteur or scapegoat. Although officially dead, evidence suggests that someone identical to him commanded the invasion, deepening the mystery around his identity and actions.
• Ke’er: Demonstrates strong military leadership and strategic talent. She directs a devastating, nearly one-sided victory and gains valuable enemy weapons and intelligence. Her confidence and authority have clearly grown.
• Li Ziran: Continues to act calmly and emotionally distantly. Despite providing Ke’er with accurate intelligence, he shows little personal excitement about the battle or its outcome.
• The Human Race and Triangle Council: The council successfully wins public approval through Rooney’s execution and its promises of reform, but the military defeat undermines its credibility and raises suspicions about institutional corruption or deception.

Significant Themes

• Public justice versus hidden truth: Rooney’s execution appears to resolve a scandal, but the war reveals that the official story is incomplete.
• Propaganda and scapegoating: The Human Race quickly blames Rooney for the defeat, using him as a convenient explanation for a broader military failure.
• The horror and cost of war: The battle causes mass death, environmental devastation, shattered terrain, and magical disturbances that affect distant regions.
• The fragility of peace: Although both races may justify the conflict through political interests and rhetoric, the destruction demonstrates the value of peace.
• Power and information: Ke’er’s victory depends not only on magical strength but also on intelligence supplied by Li Ziran and information recovered from Rooney’s hidden operations.
• Identity and deception: The apparent contradiction between Rooney’s execution and his presence in the war suggests impersonation, duplication, or another concealed plot.

Important Character Interactions

• The Triangle Council and the public unite in condemning Rooney, treating his execution as the conclusion of the scandal.
• Ke’er and Li Ziran work together indirectly: his intelligence enables her to exploit human weaknesses, while she turns that information into a decisive military victory.
• After the battle, Ke’er teases Li Ziran about his indifferent attitude and asks for his opinion of the Human Race—particularly the editor-in-chief he cares about—hinting at a more personal conflict to come.

Summary: “The Human Race in Turmoil”

Key Plot Points and Events

• After the Human Race’s disastrous defeat by the Elves, roughly fifty thousand humans are presumed dead, creating widespread panic and outrage.
• Ke’er predicts that the Human Race may attempt an assassination, though peace negotiations are more likely because neither side wants to weaken itself while the Demons watch for an opportunity.
• The defeat is traced largely to Rooney’s unauthorized decision to invade the rainforest and burn a third of it. He acted without the Triangle Council’s approval, making him a traitor and war criminal.
• The Human King and the Triangle Council meet for three days to determine how to explain the defeat. Public anger is directed at the council, since few believe Rooney acted entirely alone.
• The council ultimately decides to seek peace, accept responsibility for its negligence, demand Rooney’s extradition, and negotiate compensation. At the same time, it secretly mobilizes troops in case negotiations fail.
• The Elves’ investigations and Oak Weekly reports expose Rooney’s crimes, including the abuse of women imprisoned in a Derivative Space and the infamous potion scandal.
• Feng realizes that Rooney knows too many of his secrets and orders Andelie to kill Rooney, intending to eliminate all evidence connecting them.
• Li Ziran receives the invitation to the peace talks and recognizes it as a chance to enter Human territory, contact Andelie, and obtain the complete Sheep Transformation Spell.
• Planning to infiltrate the delegation, Li Ziran intends to assume Rooney’s identity. He visits the unconscious Rooney, revives him with cold water, and begins pressuring him about his usefulness and chances of survival.

Character Developments

• Li Ziran becomes increasingly strategic and ruthless. Rather than focusing only on escaping his sheep form, he sees the diplomatic crisis as an opportunity to infiltrate the Human delegation and gain the Transformation Spell.
• He also shows growing emotional detachment, dismissing Rooney’s fear of death and admitting that strength matters more to him than reputation.
• Ke’er acts as a calm strategist and recognizes the political value of the war and peace talks. She encourages Li Ziran to exploit the situation.
• The Human King demonstrates pragmatic leadership by choosing negotiation while preparing secretly for renewed conflict.
• The Triangle Council is revealed as divided and compromised. Many councilors had connections to Rooney and fear that his extradition will expose their own corruption.
• Feng shifts from confidence to anxiety when he realizes the war may uncover his involvement. He becomes determined to silence Rooney before the Human Race can interrogate him.
• Rooney is reduced from a powerful official to a terrified, desperate prisoner. His panic and pleas reveal his cowardice and dependence on others for survival.

Significant Themes

• Political power and accountability: The Human Race struggles to assign blame, while leaders attempt to protect themselves from the consequences of Rooney’s actions.
• Pragmatism over pride: Despite public anger and racial hostility, both sides recognize that immediate total war would benefit the Demons.
• Corruption and conspiracy: Rooney’s crimes are tied to a wider network of councilors and powerful figures who fear exposure.
• Manipulation and survival: Li Ziran, Feng, and the Human leadership all attempt to use the crisis to advance their own interests.
• Identity and transformation: Li Ziran’s plan to impersonate Rooney connects the political intrigue to his personal goal of escaping the sheep form and mastering transformation magic.
• Reputation versus strength: Li Ziran reflects that public disgrace is less important than possessing enough power to control one’s fate.

Character Interactions

• Li Ziran and Ke’er discuss the Human Race’s likely response. Ke’er identifies peace talks as Li Ziran’s best opportunity, while he explains that the real prize is the Sheep Transformation Spell.
• The Human King and the councilors debate whether to negotiate, compensate the Elves, or prepare for another war. Their discussion exposes their fear of public judgment and their reluctance to surrender territory or Rooney.
• Feng and Andelie have a brief but decisive exchange in which Feng orders Rooney’s assassination to protect their secrets.
• Li Ziran and Rooney confront each other directly. Rooney accuses Li Ziran of framing him and begs for his life, while Li Ziran coldly confirms his guilt and challenges Rooney to prove that he is useful.

Summary: “Rooney’s Deepest Memories”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Rooney, a disgraced Human Race councilman, is imprisoned after his atrocities in the Derivative Space and his suspected role in the recent war’s defeat. Believing execution is inevitable, he bargains with Li Ziran for survival.
• Rooney demands anonymity, wealth, and women in exchange for revealing his deepest secrets. Li Ziran offers him a new body: a powerful Horned Tribe youth equipped with twenty-four Magnetic Elemental Organs, a rare Magnetic Elemental Gland, and a disguised soul.
• After transferring Rooney’s soul into the new body, Li Ziran begins searching his memories. Rooney must willingly expose them to avoid triggering defensive spells.
• Li Ziran discovers the formula for Goddess’s Kiss, a potion Rooney used to control and subdue women.
• He then witnesses a depraved banquet involving Rooney, the green-robed mage, Feng, and other influential figures. The scene reveals the corruption and indulgence of powerful members of the Human Race.
• The most important memory is Rooney’s glimpse of Andelie’s Derivative Space: a vast Light Sheep constructed from countless layered three-dimensional formations, Goat Script, and rune-like organs. Li Ziran realizes this may reveal the fundamental origin of the Transformation Spell.
• Although the memory provides no explanation of how the formation was created, it confirms that Rooney once entered Andelie’s cultivation ground.
• Li Ziran decides to infiltrate the Human Race by taking Rooney’s place. Using Luo Element to weaken the Transformation Spell, he begins transferring his soul into Rooney’s original body.

Character Developments

• Rooney shifts from an arrogant councilman to a desperate survivor. He remains selfish and depraved, but his fear of death forces him to cooperate and surrender his most guarded secrets.
• Li Ziran proves himself calculating and opportunistic. He uses Rooney’s desperation to obtain valuable information, especially regarding Andelie and the Transformation Spell, while securing a disguise for his own infiltration.
• Feng and the other Human Race elites are exposed as hypocritical and decadent. Their public dignity contrasts sharply with their private indulgence.
• Li Ziran’s magical understanding expands as he recognizes that runes may be transformed into organs and that the Transformation Spell may involve reproducing primordial elemental creatures.

Significant Themes

• Survival through betrayal: Rooney sacrifices his secrets and identity to escape execution, while Li Ziran exploits him without sentiment.
• Corruption beneath authority: Respected political and magical leaders are revealed to indulge in cruelty, lust, and excess.
• Identity and transformation: Rooney receives a new body and hidden soul, while Li Ziran prepares to assume Rooney’s former identity.
• Knowledge as power: The deepest memories—especially the vision of Andelie’s Derivative Space—are more valuable than Rooney’s political status.
• The mystery of magical creation: The Light Sheep represents an extraordinarily advanced, layered form of three-dimensional formation, suggesting a deeper relationship between runes, organs, elemental beings, and transformation magic.

Character Interactions

• Rooney and Li Ziran negotiate like criminals in a transaction: Rooney demands favorable conditions, while Li Ziran sets strict limits on what he will provide.
• Li Ziran intimidates Rooney into accepting the offered body and cooperating with the memory search.
• Rooney’s memories connect him to Feng, the green-robed mage, and other high-ranking figures, exposing their shared participation in an extravagant and immoral gathering.
• By the chapter’s end, Li Ziran has effectively turned Rooney’s downfall into an opportunity, preparing to impersonate him and enter Human Race territory.