Chapter Summaries

Chapter Summary: “Anjebel”

1. Key Plot Points and Events

• Anjebel, a powerful Primordial Elf, awakens on Li Ziran’s operating table after being transformed into a helpless frog by the Elf Queen, Ke’er. Her magic has now returned, and she immediately prepares to attack.
• She assumes Li Ziran is an ordinary human responsible for controlling Ke’er and conspiring against the Elves. After introducing themselves, she realizes he is Li Ziran—the man the Elves were ordered to drive from the rainforest and Ke’er’s future husband.
• Before Anjebel can act, Li Ziran uses an unknown force to suppress her magic and movements. He strips her, seals her body, and has Corpse Witches dissect her while he examines her organs.
• Her heart is removed and studied, then replaced or repositioned. Although Anjebel eventually regains movement, she remains trapped in Li Ziran’s laboratory.
• She attempts to escape but encounters a terrifying Black Dragon guarding the exit. When she launches a fireball at Li Ziran, her magic is neutralized and she is paralyzed again.
• Li Ziran continues examining her body, especially her uterus and developing embryo. He is researching whether her Primordial Elf body can support the creation of a superior Elemental Embryo infused with Ultimate Element.
• Anjebel is disturbed and humiliated by the process, but also becomes curious about Li Ziran’s true intentions and Ke’er’s connection to him. The chapter ends with Li Ziran preparing potions for another major operation.

2. Character Developments

• Anjebel: Initially proud, suspicious, and aggressive, Anjebel is reduced to helplessness by Li Ziran’s control. Her confidence in her own power collapses as her magic repeatedly fails. She experiences fear, shame, anger, and wounded vanity, particularly because Li Ziran treats her purely as a specimen rather than as a beautiful woman. Despite her humiliation, her curiosity about his plans begins to grow.
• Li Ziran: He is portrayed as calm, detached, and clinically focused. His ordinary appearance conceals overwhelming abilities capable of suppressing Anjebel’s magic and controlling her body. He shows little emotional reaction to her threats or beauty, concentrating instead on anatomical research and the creation of a perfect elemental body.
• Ke’er / the Elf Queen: Though absent, Ke’er’s actions dominate Anjebel’s thoughts. Anjebel believes the Queen may have been controlled by humans or compromised during negotiations because of her decision to send Anjebel to Li Ziran.
• The Black Dragon and Corpse Witches: They reinforce Li Ziran’s control over the laboratory. The Black Dragon serves as an intimidating guard, while the Corpse Witches assist in his invasive experiments.

3. Significant Themes

• Powerlessness and loss of identity: Anjebel’s transformation into a frog and subsequent restraint demonstrate how quickly status, magic, and self-confidence can be stripped away.
• Science versus dignity: Li Ziran views Anjebel’s body as valuable research material, while she sees his actions as unforgivable desecration. Their opposing perspectives create the chapter’s central conflict.
• The limits of appearances: Li Ziran looks completely ordinary, yet possesses terrifying power. Anjebel’s assumptions about humans and strength are repeatedly overturned.
• Control and mistrust: Anjebel suspects that the Elf Queen has been manipulated, while Li Ziran exercises absolute physical and magical control over her.
• Creation and experimentation: Li Ziran’s examination of Anjebel’s uterus and embryo reveals his ambition to produce a superior Elemental Embryo, raising questions about the ethics and consequences of his experiments.

4. Character Interactions

• Anjebel and Li Ziran: Their interaction is dominated by hostility and imbalance. Anjebel interrogates and threatens him, but Li Ziran responds with indifference, suppressing and examining her as though she were a laboratory specimen.
• Anjebel and Ke’er: Although they do not meet directly, Anjebel’s distrust of Ke’er intensifies. She interprets the Queen’s actions as evidence of betrayal or human control.
• Anjebel and the Black Dragon: Her attempted escape ends when the dragon’s presence frightens her into retreat, emphasizing that Li Ziran’s laboratory is heavily protected.
• Li Ziran and the Corpse Witches: They work together clinically, with the witches performing dissections while Li Ziran studies the organs and plans the embryo experiment.

Chapter Summary: “New Shell · Gestation”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Anjebel remains imprisoned in Li Ziran’s operating room, restrained by sealing magic, a puppet, and soul-related spells. Although she retains her powerful elemental abilities, she cannot use them to resist or escape.
• She watches Li Ziran modify organs and implant them into Common Elves, granting them abilities normally exclusive to Primordial Elves. This reveals that he is attempting to create or transform a new kind of organism.
• Li Ziran begins another elaborate procedure on Anjebel, assisted by six Corpse Witches. Protective barriers seal the operating room, and the procedure involves her abdomen, soul, and uterus.
• A soul passage briefly connects Li Ziran to Anjebel’s stomach, frightening her with the possibility of body possession. However, her soul remains intact.
• Afterward, Anjebel’s body begins behaving abnormally. Her elemental power is drawn toward her lower abdomen, she suffers intense vomiting, and the Corpse Witches repeatedly inject mysterious potions into her uterus.
• Her abdomen swells, and she realizes that she is pregnant. The developing being is not a normal Elf but a half-human, half-Elf embryo with unusual anatomy, two hearts, multiple blood vessels, powerful natural energy, and a strange golden-and-green structure connected to its umbilical cord.
• Anjebel desperately tries to destroy the embryo, but her magic is neutralized and her mind appears to have been manipulated. She is unable to control her body or prevent the pregnancy.
• The embryo rapidly develops by absorbing Anjebel’s elemental power. The Corpse Witches continue administering nature-based potions until the embryo reaches the point of birth.
• Anjebel recognizes that labor has begun and resists desperately, believing the child’s existence violates her destiny and the laws of the Elves. A Corpse Witch finally injects a labor-inducing potion, forcing the birth process to proceed.

Character Development

• Anjebel: Her initial curiosity and reluctant admiration for Li Ziran turn into horror, helplessness, and despair. She remains proud of her Primordial Elf identity and refuses to accept the embryo, viewing it as an abomination and a violation of her lineage. Her inability to control her own body becomes the chapter’s central source of psychological torment.
• Li Ziran: He is shown as meticulous, secretive, and extraordinarily skilled in magical surgery and biological experimentation. His indifference to Anjebel’s beauty contrasts with his intense scientific focus. He appears willing to violate natural laws and use Anjebel as part of an experiment to create a new species.
• The Corpse Witches: They function as precise, emotionless assistants. Their repeated monitoring, surgeries, and injections emphasize the procedure’s clinical and inhuman nature.
• The embryo: Though unborn, it is characterized as powerful and unnatural. Its rapid growth, unusual body structure, and ability to absorb elemental energy suggest that it may become a major new form of life.

Significant Themes

• Loss of bodily autonomy: Anjebel’s body, magic, mind, and reproductive system are all controlled by others, making the pregnancy a form of torture and imprisonment.
• Science and magic violating nature: Li Ziran combines surgery, potions, soul magic, elemental organs, and time manipulation to create life that should not naturally exist.
• Identity and bloodline: Anjebel’s horror reflects the Primordial Elves’ belief in pure lineage and the importance of reproduction within their species.
• Creation versus monstrosity: The embryo may represent a breakthrough or a new species, but Anjebel sees it as a grotesque abomination, raising questions about whether unnatural creation is innovation or corruption.
• Freedom and captivity: Anjebel’s view of the revived Elven City emphasizes the contrast between the freedom outside and her total imprisonment within the laboratory.
• Emotional detachment and cruelty: Li Ziran and the Corpse Witches treat Anjebel as a specimen rather than a person, intensifying the chapter’s disturbing atmosphere.

Character Interactions

• Anjebel and Li Ziran: Their relationship is defined by captivity, fear, and unwilling fascination. Anjebel admires his competence but cannot forgive or trust him, especially after he uses her body in the experiment.
• Anjebel and the Corpse Witches: The Witches repeatedly restrain, examine, cut, and inject her without acknowledging her suffering. Their clinical behavior reinforces her helplessness.
• Anjebel and Ke’er: Although Ke’er does not appear directly, Anjebel views the pregnancy as torture inflicted through her niece’s connection to Li Ziran, deepening her sense of betrayal.
• Anjebel and the embryo: She feels no maternal attachment and instead regards it as a dangerous intruder consuming her power and violating her identity. The embryo’s development becomes a direct physical and psychological threat to her.

Li Ziran was born from Anjebel and rapidly developed a powerful Light Chain, then failed to complete his Nature Frog transformation because his natural elements were unbalanced. Anjebel offered to help him awaken a natural origin by introducing him to a Primordial Elf with an exceptionally pure bloodline.

• Anjebel gave birth to Li Ziran, who grew quickly in a potion vat and transformed into a Golden Goat with a Light Chain.
• Li Ziran tested his natural elements and transformed into a frog, but his spark failed to open a nature space.
• Li Ziran added Ke element to the spark, but it still could not complete its transformation.
• Anjebel explained that Li Ziran's elements were impure and unbalanced, with fire too strong because he had inherited her constitution.
• Anjebel offered to find Li Ziran a Primordial Elf woman whose mother carried the ancient tree of nature's bloodline.

Chapter Summary: “I Want the Prince to Conduct an Inspection”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Anjebel proposes an alliance with Li Ziran, offering to become his “best friend” and help him reach more powerful Primordial Elves. In exchange, she wants him to help her acquire the abilities of the Natural Origin.
• Li Ziran agrees to help her but refuses to let her leave freely while the conflict involving the Primordial Elves and Queen Ke’er remains unresolved.
• Anjebel explains the history of the Elven race:
  • First-Generation Elves were created by the Life Ancient Tree and possessed extraordinary, Title-Class power.
  • Primordial Elves descended from them after the Elemental Tide changed and the tree could no longer create new Elves.
  • Their bloodlines weakened across generations.
  • Only three First-Generation Elves remain.
• Anjebel reveals a plan to reach Aimier, a powerful second-generation Primordial Elf and her close friend. Aimier’s mother is one of the surviving First-Generation Elves.
• The plan involves using Ke’er’s upcoming wedding and the blessing ceremony of the Primordial Elves as an opportunity for Li Ziran to attract and capture Aimier, potentially through a letter, sedatives, or a toast from the prince.
• Li Ziran sees enormous potential in obtaining Aimier’s bloodline, believing it could help him perfect his body, understand the Nature Frog Chain, and manipulate different Elemental Organs.
• Anjebel carefully helps draft the letter and plan. When Ke’er receives it, she realizes it bears the mark of her aunt, confirming Anjebel’s involvement.
• Li Ziran begins appearing more publicly beside Ke’er, acting sociable and approachable while secretly continuing his experiments and dissections on Elves.
• He and Anfuni successfully alter the Flower Elves, awakening their Flower Faith World. They gain the ability to communicate with flowers and use Flower Curses that cause sleep, paralysis, blindness, sluggishness, and other conditions.
• He also transforms the Silvermoon Elves, allowing them to absorb moonlight and starlight. They develop powerful bodies, sharp nails, and Silvermoon Magic, producing a new class of formidable warriors.
• Other Elven groups also benefit from his modifications, with some long-stagnant High Mages breaking through to become Magisters.
• Li Ziran’s reputation changes completely. The Elves now regard him as a priceless treasure whose influence can transform entire races.
• Neighboring races, including Dwarves and Sea Folk, send representatives to attend the wedding and seek his assistance.
• Ke’er is overwhelmed when tribal elders gather at her palace with a single demand: before the wedding, the prince must inspect their tribes.

Character Developments

• Li Ziran becomes more ambitious and proactive. He remains focused on experimentation and racial transformation but also begins using his political status as prince to pursue larger goals.
• Anjebel shifts from prisoner and adversary into an active schemer and potential ally. She demonstrates extensive knowledge of Primordial Elf society and willingly sacrifices Aimier’s safety to advance her own plans.
• Ke’er grows increasingly suspicious of Li Ziran. His public friendliness contrasts sharply with his private experiments, making her uneasy even as his achievements strengthen her kingdom.
• Aimier is positioned as a crucial future target because of her purer bloodline and connection to one of the last First-Generation Elves.
• The Flower Elves and Silvermoon Elves experience dramatic rises in status after receiving new racial abilities, transforming them from relatively weak or overlooked groups into powerful forces.

Significant Themes

• Scientific experimentation and racial evolution: Li Ziran’s modifications reshape entire races, raising questions about progress, control, and the cost of biological transformation.
• Power through bloodlines: The chapter emphasizes the importance of inherited ability, especially the declining Primordial Elf bloodline and the value of Aimier’s ancestry.
• Political manipulation: Anjebel’s wedding scheme shows how diplomacy, marriage, ritual, and personal relationships can be used as tools for conquest.
• Transformation of social hierarchy: Races once considered weak gain extraordinary abilities, forcing established powers to reconsider their position.
• Appearance versus reality: Li Ziran behaves like a charming prince in public while continuing disturbing experiments in private.
• Exploitation and trust: Anjebel presents cooperation as friendship but is willing to betray Aimier, showing how easily personal relationships become bargaining pieces.

Important Character Interactions

• Li Ziran and Anjebel: They negotiate a mutually beneficial alliance. He promises to help her gain Natural Origin abilities, while she offers information and access to stronger Primordial Elves.
• Li Ziran and Ke’er: He becomes more publicly affectionate and involved with her, but she senses that his sudden enthusiasm hides ulterior motives.
• Anjebel and Aimier: Anjebel claims to be Aimier’s closest friend while simultaneously planning to use her as bait, revealing the ruthless nature of their relationship.
• Li Ziran and Anfuni: They collaborate successfully on the Flower Elves’ transformation.
• Li Ziran and the Elven tribes: His modifications make him so valuable that tribal leaders demand he personally inspect their communities before the wedding.

Chapter Summary: “I Want to Follow You”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Ziran’s creation of the miraculous oil-green Tailbone spreads through the Li Ziran Association, attracting the attention of the Elves and numerous neighboring races.
• Representatives of the Tree Shepherds and Deer Race appeal to Ke’er for Li Ziran’s help. The Tree Shepherds want him to visit and guide their tribe, while the Deer Race seeks assistance restoring its declining poison-spear technology.
• Ke’er realizes that the visiting races are not primarily interested in the wedding. They want access to Li Ziran’s mysterious biological creations, and their demands could place the weakened Elven kingdom under immense political pressure.
• Dwarves, Orcs, Sea Folk, and other powerful races also send envoys, raising the danger that disputes over Li Ziran’s technology could escalate into a racial conflict.
• The gathering is part of Anjebel’s plan to attract the Primordial Elves. By turning the wedding into a major event capable of destabilizing the Elves, Li Ziran hopes to force Aimier to appear.
• Li Ziran explains that he created three special Tailbones using samples supplied by the association from Dwarves, the Tago Yellow-Striped Tiger Race, and the Shark Race. Their exceptional qualities unexpectedly caused a continent-wide reaction.
• Anjebel reveals the ancient origins of the Elves: the Ancient Clans altered the Life Ancient Tree to produce Elemental Elves, who were originally treated as a food source. The Elves only gained independence after the Ancient Clans left the continent and the Elves fought for their freedom.
• Anjebel declares that she wants to follow Li Ziran, submitting herself to him because she believes his creative abilities resemble the experiments of the ancient powers.
• Li Ziran rejects her offer, explaining that he does not need followers and distinguishing her from Anfuni, whom he regards as a genuine friend rather than a subordinate.
• A reply from Oak Space confirms that three Primordial Elves—Duo Lei, Aimier, and Awani—will attend the wedding. Aimier’s arrival fulfills the central objective of the plan.

Character Developments

• Ke’er: Becomes increasingly anxious as she struggles to manage the demands of powerful races while protecting the weakened Elves. She recognizes both the political opportunities and dangers created by Li Ziran’s inventions.
• Li Ziran: Demonstrates growing influence and confidence. His creations have begun affecting the balance among races, and he remains focused on acquiring a Primordial Elf and gaining access to Oak Space without exposing himself to unnecessary danger.
• Anjebel: Reveals more of her ambition, ruthlessness, and fascination with Li Ziran’s abilities. Her desire to follow him is presented as both emotional attraction and a calculated attempt to attach herself to overwhelming power.
• Anfuni: Though absent from most of the chapter, she is contrasted favorably with Anjebel. Li Ziran considers her a trusted friend, not a follower, implying a deeper bond based on loyalty and shared experience.
• Aimier: Becomes the immediate target of Li Ziran’s strategy. Her confirmed arrival suggests that the next stage of his plan can begin.

Significant Themes

• Power and political influence: A single invention allows Li Ziran to influence multiple races and threatens to upset the existing balance of power.
• Decline and dependence: The once-dominant Elves can no longer command the obedience of their former allies and must negotiate carefully with races that now possess their own strength.
• Creation and ancient knowledge: Li Ziran’s biological craftsmanship parallels the experimental practices of the Ancient Clans, suggesting that he may be approaching their level of power.
• Loyalty versus submission: Anjebel offers soul-level allegiance, but Li Ziran values genuine friendship, as represented by Anfuni, more than obedience or personal devotion.
• Manipulation and strategy: The wedding is transformed into a political trap designed to force the Primordial Elves to act.
• Ambition and survival: The various races seek Li Ziran’s help to overcome military and technological decline, while Anjebel seeks security and power by attaching herself to him.

Character Interactions

• Ke’er negotiates with the Tree Shepherds and Deer Race, giving cautious promises while avoiding commitments she cannot make on Li Ziran’s behalf.
• Li Ziran and Ke’er are indirectly connected by the political crisis his inventions have created; she must manage the consequences of his unpredictable decisions.
• Anjebel and Li Ziran discuss Elven history, the Ancient Clans, and the significance of his creations. She praises his power and urges him to leave the Elves once Aimier is obtained.
• Anjebel openly compares herself to Anfuni, claiming superiority in strength, beauty, and resources. Li Ziran rejects the comparison and insists that Anfuni has not “followed” him, subtly defending their friendship.
• The Corpse Witch interrupts their conversation with Oak Space’s letter, allowing Anjebel to triumphantly announce that Aimier has arrived.

Chapter Summary: “Waiting for the Prey, Aimier”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Ziran is relieved that Aimier will soon arrive and begins preparing to capture her. His plan is for Anjebel to persuade Aimier to observe his organ-modification experiments, while the Void Spirits create illusions and use the Puppet Curse if necessary.
• Li Ziran’s real objective is not merely Aimier, but her mother—a first-generation Elf. To impress the incoming Primordial Elves, he publicly presents himself as close to Ke’er and becomes increasingly involved with ordinary Elven clans.
• With Ke’er’s wedding only a week away, Li Ziran’s reputation spreads rapidly. The Human Race announces diplomatic and military negotiations with the Elves, using the Queen’s wedding as an excuse to establish contact with him.
• Dwarves, Gnomes, and Sea Folk arrive simultaneously and meet Anfuni rather than immediately paying respects to Ke’er. Many are members of the Li Ziran Association and begin researching the tailbone organ and its connection to Faith.
• Association members develop “void-soul” bodies that allow them to survive briefly in the Void Expanse without the Elemental Tide. Their initial survival time is thirty seconds, inspiring hopes that the duration can eventually be extended dramatically.
• The Li Ziran Association grows rapidly, doubling its membership in two days. Wealthy nobles seek entry, believing association with Anfuni will give them access to Li Ziran.
• Li Ziran receives new Faith through the Association and considers sharing the dangerous Organ Chain technique, but ultimately decides against it because he cannot yet control the elemental creatures it creates.
• During a public modification, Li Ziran transforms a beautiful Deer Race girl. His surgery causes a translucent Fawn-like entity to emerge from her Faith. This new lifeform resembles a Revenge Soul but is neither elemental energy nor an ordinary soul.
• Ke’er observes that Li Ziran’s influence has become so great that he may soon rival her authority. Although she feels some jealousy, she acknowledges that his popularity has strengthened her position and encouraged the elders to support an unprecedented wedding.
• As Ke’er prepares to assume full authority after the wedding, three Primordial Elves from Oak Space arrive. Ke’er warns Li Ziran to behave respectfully because their judgment will determine whether she can fully control the Elven race.
• Li Ziran and Ke’er wait at the Oak teleportation entrance to welcome them. The first arrival is a Primordial Wind Elf, disappointing Li Ziran because she is not Aimier. A second energy sphere then emerges, containing an Elf surrounded by dark green Natural Essence.

Character Developments

• Li Ziran: Becomes increasingly calculating, ambitious, and confident. He treats Aimier as a target while planning to exploit her emotionally or control her physically. At the same time, his public generosity and spectacular modifications make him a revered figure across multiple races.
• Ke’er: Grows more politically burdened as her wedding and succession approach. She becomes wary of Li Ziran’s overwhelming popularity but recognizes that his influence benefits her rule. She also shows increased caution and diplomacy regarding the Primordial Elves.
• Anjebel: Is positioned as the primary agent for winning Aimier’s trust and introducing her to Li Ziran’s experiments.
• Anfuni: Serves as the central contact for foreign visitors and the Li Ziran Association, helping spread Li Ziran’s influence.
• The Deer Race girl: Undergoes a profound spiritual and biological transformation, becoming the first public example of Li Ziran creating a mysterious Fawn-like soul entity.
• The Primordial Elves: Their arrival is presented as politically decisive, since their blessing validates Ke’er’s authority and their opinions may determine her future as Queen.

Significant Themes

• Influence through transformation: Li Ziran’s surgical techniques reshape bodies, souls, social structures, and political power.
• Faith and evolution: Faith is shown producing entirely new forms of life, including entities beyond conventional distinctions between soul and elemental energy.
• Political power and legitimacy: Ke’er’s authority depends partly on the Primordial Elves, while Li Ziran gains influence through popularity, wealth, and technological superiority.
• Control versus trust: Li Ziran intends to lure Aimier through apparent friendship while keeping coercive methods in reserve, revealing his distrust of affection and loyalty.
• Progress and danger: The Li Ziran Association’s discoveries promise freedom from the Elemental Tide, but techniques such as the Organ Chain could also create uncontrollable elemental beings.
• Public spectacle and reputation: Li Ziran’s demonstrations function as both scientific experiments and political performances, attracting followers and strengthening his prestige.

Important Character Interactions

• Li Ziran and Ke’er appear publicly together to strengthen his standing and reassure the Elves before the wedding.
• Foreign delegates meet Anfuni to study organ modification and seek indirect access to Li Ziran.
• Li Ziran interacts with the Deer Race visitors during the public transformation, astonishing the assembled audience.
• Ke’er privately cautions Li Ziran to remain respectful toward the Primordial Elves, while he confidently assures her that he will not cause trouble.
• Li Ziran eagerly watches the Oak Space portal, hoping to meet Aimier, but the first arriving Primordial Elves are not yet identified as her.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Aimier, a Second-Generation Elf, emerges from Oak Space alongside two Third-Generation Elves. Her body contains a perfectly balanced combination of the four basic elements, making her Elemental Body and inner Embryo exceptionally valuable.
• Li Ziran immediately identifies Aimier as his intended target, though he must conceal his interest in studying her.
• The other two Primordial Elves are revealed: one possesses a pure, sealed elemental shield, while the other appears muddy and earth-dominated despite containing powerful Earth Elemental Worlds.
• The Oak passage closes after releasing the three Elves.
• Aimier and the other Primordial Elves formally greet Queen Ke’er and offer blessings on behalf of their mother. Ke’er introduces Li Ziran as her Prince Consort.
• Aimier demonstrates that she is highly informed about Li Ziran’s activities. She questions him about:
  • His failed agreement with the Human Race over land north of the Ice Plains.
  • His role in destroying Triangle City.
  • How he and Ke’er escaped the Human Domain.
  • His previous dealings with Demons involving Embryos.
• Her questions create tension because they indirectly accuse Li Ziran of possible conspiracies and expose sensitive political matters.
• Ke’er attempts to interrupt and move the discussion to a private banquet, but Aimier insists on receiving Li Ziran’s answers.
• Li Ziran responds by revealing his Faith Space. He transforms into the sacred Light Sheep, an extremely rare and primordial incarnation of the Light Element.
• His divine pressure and sealing power overwhelm the surrounding Elves and threaten to penetrate Aimier’s protective shield.
• Aimier remains outwardly calm but is deeply shocked by Li Ziran’s power. Suspecting deception, she attacks him with pure natural energy to test whether his transformation is genuine.
• The chapter ends with Li Ziran surprised and amused that Aimier has directly attacked him.

Character Developments

• Li Ziran: Initially views Aimier primarily as a rare experimental subject, but quickly realizes she is politically intelligent, well-informed, and difficult to manipulate. He abandons his earlier plan to lure her into experimentation and instead confronts her with his Faith Space and Light Sheep form.
• Aimier: Appears pure, innocent, and almost divine, but proves to be composed, politically capable, perceptive, and aggressive when necessary. She uses carefully phrased questions to pressure Li Ziran and tests his authenticity rather than accepting his display at face value.
• Ke’er: Shows affection toward Aimier and pride in Li Ziran, but becomes embarrassed and anxious when Aimier exposes politically sensitive information. She tries to protect Li Ziran and keep the discussion private.
• Anjebel: Is indirectly contrasted with Aimier. Though she also possesses Primordial Elf traits, Li Ziran considers her less pure and less extraordinary. Aimier’s deliberate refusal to acknowledge Anjebel also hints at tension between them.
• The other Primordial Elves: Their elemental compositions establish that Primordial Elves can possess powerful sealed Elemental Worlds and highly specialized elemental bodies.

Significant Themes

• Purity versus complexity: Aimier’s absolute elemental balance and untainted nature are contrasted with Anjebel’s more mixed and worldly qualities.
• Power and political authority: Aimier uses questions and status as weapons, while Li Ziran responds by displaying overwhelming supernatural power.
• Appearance versus reality: Aimier looks sheltered and innocent but is actually highly informed and calculating. Li Ziran’s sacred transformation may appear divine, yet Aimier refuses to trust appearances.
• Knowledge as control: Both characters attempt to gain leverage by understanding the other’s secrets—Aimier through investigation and questioning, Li Ziran through his knowledge of her elemental body.
• Trust and deception: Aimier’s suspicion of humans and her belief that they are naturally deceptive motivate her final attack and her attempt to determine whether Li Ziran’s power is genuine.

Character Interactions

• Aimier and Ke’er: Their reunion is formally respectful but emotionally strained. Ke’er welcomes Aimier warmly, while Aimier focuses on political and personal interrogation rather than familial affection.
• Aimier and Li Ziran: Their first meeting becomes a confrontation. She probes his past and motives; he counters with a threatening display of divine power. Neither treats the other as harmless.
• Ke’er and Li Ziran: Ke’er tries to shield Li Ziran from Aimier’s questions, while Li Ziran ultimately takes control of the exchange himself.
• Li Ziran and the Elves: His Faith Space produces a powerful religious effect, refreshing the Elves and nearly causing them to worship him, demonstrating the influence of his Light Element and accumulated faith.
• Aimier and Li Ziran’s power: Aimier’s natural-energy attack marks the first direct physical challenge between them and sets up a likely confrontation in the following chapter.

Li Ziran used the Light Sheep to overwhelm Aimier and the other Primordial Elves, then tried to control Aimier but was thwarted by a protective imprint from her mother. Aimier survived the encounter and accepted the elven queen’s invitation to a feast, now wary of Li Ziran’s power.

• Aimier attacked Li Ziran with condensed natural elements, but he devoured them and drew her and the other elves into the Faith World.
• Li Ziran suppressed the three Primordial Elves, while Aimier struck off his head with an elemental arrow.
• Li Ziran’s Light Sheep attacked Aimier with flames, sealing spells, and beguiling light, forcing her to use a protective leaf from the Life Ancient Tree.
• A deep green eye in Aimier’s soul repelled Li Ziran’s void spirits and blessing, so he cut several pieces of flesh from her before the battle ended.
• Aimier recovered in the rainforest, saw the other Primordial Elves exhausted, and accepted the elven queen’s invitation to a feast.

Chapter Summary: “Tasting Aimier’s Flesh and Blood”

Key Plot Points and Events

• The arrival of three Primordial Elves causes enormous excitement throughout the rainforest. Tribal leaders and elders gather to honor them, forcing Li Ziran to endure an elaborate seven-hour ceremonial procession.
• Li Ziran observes that Aimier remains highly suspicious and afraid of him, avoiding direct contact and using Anjebel as a shield. He regrets frightening her but remains focused on determining whether she can serve as the source of his desired Primordial Elf body.
• After the ceremony, Li Ziran examines three tiny samples of Aimier’s flesh to identify her elemental composition. His Hellhound tongue detects the Ultimate Element Ke, along with the four pure Natural Elements: earth, water, wind, and fire.
• The results confirm that Aimier’s body is composed of exceptionally pure elemental materials, consistent with the nature of true Primordial Elves. However, Li Ziran cannot accurately determine whether the elements are perfectly balanced because his tongue and the small samples are insufficient for the task.
• He concludes that only a direct examination of Aimier’s internal organs—particularly her reproductive system—could determine whether her body is suitable for gestating his new body. He considers using force but recognizes that Aimier is heavily protected and could escape into Oak Space.
• Anjebel visits Li Ziran and proposes creating an opportunity for him to confront Aimier alone, using anesthetic to subdue her. Li Ziran rejects the idea after recalling that Aimier may possess a mysterious power within her soul.
• He asks Anjebel about a magic associated with oil-green eyes. Anjebel identifies it as Oak’s Guardian and reacts with shock, insisting that Aimier could not possibly possess it.

Character Developments

• Li Ziran: Becomes increasingly impatient and frustrated. Although he presents himself publicly as a powerful and important figure, his private goal is intensely practical and invasive: determining whether Aimier’s body can support the creation of his new body. His failed elemental analysis reveals the limits of his current abilities and resources. He also shows growing caution after realizing Aimier may possess protection far beyond what he expected.
• Aimier: Remains frightened, wary, and emotionally distant from Li Ziran. She hides behind Anjebel and stays within a protective barrier, suggesting both distrust of Li Ziran and a strong instinct for self-preservation. The possibility that she possesses Oak’s Guardian raises her importance and power significantly.
• Anjebel: Maintains a close relationship with Aimier and can enter her protective barrier. She displays traces of jealousy toward Aimier while still cooperating with Li Ziran. Her proposed solution is direct and ruthless, but her shock at the mention of Oak’s Guardian suggests she understands its significance and considers its presence impossible.
• Ke’er and the wider situation: Li Ziran’s upcoming wedding, only three days away, creates urgency. His dependence on the association and his inability to simply obtain a Primordial Elf as he once could in Hippo Ancient City emphasize his growing constraints.

Significant Themes

• Control versus resistance: Li Ziran attempts to control Aimier’s body and future, but her fear, barrier, and possible connection to Oak’s Guardian prevent him from easily achieving his objective.
• Scientific curiosity and ethical violation: His detailed tasting and analysis of Aimier’s flesh blends biological investigation with disturbing objectification. The chapter treats her body as both a person’s physical self and a resource to be measured and exploited.
• Purity and balance: The five elements—earth, water, wind, fire, and Ke—represent the purity of Primordial Elf biology. Their exact balance is crucial, since even a minor discrepancy could cause deformity or failure when forming a new Nature World.
• Limits of knowledge and perception: Li Ziran’s powerful tongue can identify elements but cannot reliably measure their proportions. His confidence is checked by the limitations of his tools, samples, and perception.
• Hidden power and mystery: The revelation that Aimier may possess Oak’s Guardian introduces a major unanswered mystery and suggests that her significance extends beyond her elemental makeup.

Important Character Interactions

• The tribal leaders and elders treat Li Ziran and the Primordial Elves with extreme reverence during the ceremonial procession.
• Aimier repeatedly avoids Li Ziran, relying on Anjebel’s presence and the protective barrier to keep him away.
• Anjebel and Aimier share a close connection within Oak Space, with Anjebel able to pass through Aimier’s barrier.
• Li Ziran confronts Anjebel about her inaccurate information and demands a solution before his wedding deadline.
• Anjebel suggests using force and anesthetic, but Li Ziran refuses after considering the unknown power in Aimier’s soul.
• The chapter ends with Anjebel’s stunned reaction to the possibility that Aimier possesses Oak’s Guardian, shifting the situation from a simple extraction mission to a potentially dangerous confrontation with a powerful ancient force.

Chapter Summary: “Anjebel’s Wonderful Proposal”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Anjebel reacts with shock and jealousy after learning that Aimier, a second-generation elf, possesses the Oak’s Guardian blessing. She explains that this protection draws on the Elves’ ancient foundation, which should only be used during an extinction-level crisis and is traditionally reserved for first-generation elves.
• Li Ziran realizes that Aimier’s protection may make her nearly impossible to capture or control, especially within Oak Space, where the Oak seems to possess its own will and exerts overwhelming pressure.
• Anjebel reveals that the blessing is attached not directly to Aimier’s soul, but to an object belonging to Aimier’s mother—likely something hidden within Aimier’s body. If Li Ziran can locate and remove it, Aimier’s protection can supposedly be stripped away.
• Since Aimier will not willingly allow Li Ziran into her barrier, Anjebel proposes that he seduce and emotionally “conquer” her within the three days before his wedding. She plans to exploit Aimier’s inexperience and personal preferences.
• Anjebel initially offers to use Tears of the Mandarin Bird, a potion that gradually stimulates desire. Li Ziran rejects the idea of relying on it alone and provides a more powerful, discreet potion made from dragon-derived materials and elven elements, which Anjebel will secretly introduce into Aimier’s barrier.
• Anjebel agrees to teach Li Ziran everything she knows about Aimier’s personality, preferences, weaknesses, and ideal romantic partner so that he can manipulate Aimier into lowering her defenses.
• To create opportunities for private contact, Li Ziran selects several elven and non-elven tribes—particularly the Chimeras and Horned Eagle Tribe—for inspection. These groups are connected to Aimier and her mother, making it likely that Aimier will accompany him.
• Li Ziran presents the inspection schedule as a way for the Primordial Elves to demonstrate their support for the queen and prince consort. Aimier is reluctant because she dislikes working closely with a human, but the tribes on the itinerary are personally meaningful to her.
• The chapter ends with Aimier consulting Anjebel about the plan, while Anjebel continues pretending to distrust Li Ziran and advises Aimier to keep her distance.

Character Developments

• Li Ziran becomes increasingly calculating. Rather than confronting Aimier’s protection directly, he agrees to exploit her emotions and inexperience. He also demonstrates his superior knowledge of potions by replacing Anjebel’s drug with a more effective formula.
• Anjebel reveals intense resentment toward Aimier because Aimier possesses a privilege Anjebel believes she does not deserve. Her jealousy drives her willingness to betray Aimier and devise an elaborate scheme against her.
• Aimier is shown to be powerful but inexperienced and socially sheltered. She maintains the dignity expected of a Primordial Elf yet remains uncertain about Li Ziran’s motives and vulnerable to manipulation through her personal attachments.
• Ke’er becomes suspicious of Li Ziran’s sudden interest in conducting inspections, especially because he chooses factions aligned with the elder elves and difficult for her to control.

Significant Themes

• Power and inheritance: The Oak’s blessing represents the Elves’ collective heritage, raising questions about who has the right to wield ancestral power.
• Jealousy and betrayal: Anjebel’s envy of Aimier transforms friendship into treachery.
• Manipulation versus genuine affection: Li Ziran’s proposed seduction is presented as a calculated strategy rather than sincere romance, blurring the line between emotional intimacy and coercion.
• Political legitimacy: The inspections are outwardly diplomatic duties but are actually being used to influence factions, strengthen Li Ziran and Ke’er’s authority, and isolate Aimier.
• Cultural conflict: Aimier’s distrust of Li Ziran reflects the Elves’ belief that Primordial Elves should not unite with outsiders, particularly humans.

Important Character Interactions

• Li Ziran and Anjebel: They form a secret alliance against Aimier. Anjebel supplies psychological knowledge, while Li Ziran contributes strategy and stronger potions.
• Li Ziran and Ke’er: He discusses the inspection plans with her but conceals his real motives, causing her to question his unusual behavior.
• Li Ziran and Aimier: Their relationship is outwardly tense and distrustful, but Li Ziran deliberately creates circumstances in which they will spend private time together.
• Aimier and Anjebel: Aimier considers Anjebel a trusted friend and seeks her advice, unaware that Anjebel is secretly plotting against her.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Anjebel enters Li Ziran’s operating room and reveals that Aimier has agreed to inspect the Elven territory with him before their wedding.
• Anjebel explains that she secretly added Li Ziran’s Black Dragon Potion to Aimier’s shield, ensuring it was absorbed without detection or side effects.
• With only half a day before the inspection trip, Anjebel gives Li Ziran an intensive lesson on how to appeal to Aimier.
• She teaches him Aimier’s preferences:
  • Lavender in the morning, roses at noon, and tuberose at night.
  • White clothing and the appearance of a pure Light Elf.
  • Unicorns, subtle radiance, and carefully styled details.
  • Possible fondness for truffles.
• Li initially fails to apply the floral pollen naturally, producing an overly strong and artificial scent.
• He uses Corpse Witches and the accelerated evolution of his Void Spirit World to refine his appearance and fragrance. After repeated experimentation, they produce a scent even Anjebel finds nearly flawless.
• Anjebel then explains how to interpret Aimier’s gestures and moods, including the meaning of her smiles, eye movements, sideways glances, and habit of touching her chest.
• The two spend the afternoon preparing. The Elven guards eventually arrive, and the inspection procession is ready to depart.
• Before leaving, Anjebel promises to remain near Aimier without directly contacting Li Ziran, both to support his potion plan and to avoid making Aimier suspicious.
• Li stops Anjebel’s increasingly lengthy advice with a playful touch to her lips, embraces her, and leaves for the Teleportation Array dressed in white and scented with tuberose.

Character Development

• Li Ziran demonstrates humility and adaptability. Though initially inept at matters of fragrance, clothing, and romantic presentation, he takes Anjebel’s instruction seriously and applies his extraordinary abilities to master the details.
• His willingness to sacrifice valuable organs and use centuries of internal experimentation shows both his determination to win Aimier and his talent for solving problems through unconventional means.
• Li begins to view Anjebel not merely as an accomplice but as a genuine mentor. Because of her sincere help, he considers giving her a greater reward and possibly sharing the benefits of Nature World fusion.
• Anjebel reveals extensive knowledge of Aimier’s personality and habits. Her detailed coaching shows loyalty, competence, and a strong personal investment in Li’s success.
• Her behavior also suggests that she may possess deeper feelings for Li. She has been “conquered” by his charm and appears reluctant to end their close collaboration, continuing to offer advice even after the preparations are complete.
• Aimier remains mostly offstage, but her personality becomes clearer: she is reserved, highly observant, emotionally subtle, particular about aesthetics, and inclined to communicate her feelings through small physical gestures.

Significant Themes

• Preparation and attention to detail: Li’s success depends not on grand gestures alone but on mastering scent, clothing, body language, and emotional cues.
• Appearance versus authenticity: Anjebel emphasizes that Li must appear naturally fragrant and elegant rather than visibly manufactured. The chapter explores how carefully constructed behavior can imitate sincerity.
• Adaptability and unconventional intelligence: Li transforms a weakness into competence by exploiting the accelerated evolution within his Void Spirit World and directing the Corpse Witches toward specialized research.
• Romantic manipulation and strategy: The courtship is treated almost like a military or surgical operation, with Anjebel providing intelligence and Li executing a carefully designed plan.
• Growing trust and mutual benefit: Although Anjebel and Li are connected by self-interest, her wholehearted assistance strengthens their bond, and Li begins considering a more generous reward for her.

Character Interactions

• Anjebel acts as Li Ziran’s demanding but invested instructor, correcting his fragrance techniques and scrutinizing every aspect of his appearance.
• Li listens respectfully despite finding the lessons unfamiliar, demonstrating that he values Anjebel’s knowledge.
• Their exchange becomes increasingly intimate and companionable, resembling that of a married couple preparing for a major event.
• Anjebel gives Li strategic advice about Aimier’s behavior while promising to maintain distance during the journey so Aimier will not misunderstand their relationship.
• Li responds to Anjebel’s endless concern with playful affection, touching her lips, embracing her, and departing with confidence.

Li Ziran inspected the Chimera Tribe and modified one Chimera’s tail, creating a Faith World that thrilled the tribe. Aimier witnessed the Chimeras’ overwhelming gratitude toward him as they prepared to part, while Benbo’er pledged the tribe’s support for her rule after Li Ziran married the queen.

• Li Ziran traveled with Aimier and Ke'er to the Chimera Tribe aboard the queen’s Chimera mount.
• Chief Benbo’er welcomed Aimier and Li Ziran, and Li Ziran agreed to examine the Chimeras despite their tight inspection schedule.
• Li Ziran cut away most of a Chimera’s tail and inscribed runic membranes inside it, causing a Faith World to appear.
• The Chimeras cheered as they experimented with their new energy, while Aimier grew curious about Li Ziran’s achievement.
• Aimier emerged to find the grove full of Chimeras gathered around Li Ziran, and Benbo’er pledged the tribe’s support for her rule after the marriage.

Chapter Summary: “Want to Try Your Hand at Surgery?”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Ziran and his companions leave the Chimera Tribe and travel to the Horned Eagle Tribe, a powerful race that serves as the Elven archers’ aerial legion.
• The Horned Eagles are portrayed as proud and highly competitive, training their young through dangerous cliff dives to produce elite fliers.
• During the journey, Li Ziran deliberately uses scent and physical intimacy with Ke’er to influence Aimier, hoping the Black Dragon Potion will weaken her defenses and awaken romantic feelings.
• Aimier begins asking Li Ziran about his work among the Chimeras, particularly how he altered a Chimera’s tail. However, her restrained reactions make it difficult for him to determine whether she is genuinely interested.
• After arriving at the Horned Eagle Tribe, Li Ziran and Ke’er share a room. Their intimate behavior keeps Aimier awake, and the next morning she appears exhausted and becomes more aware of Ke’er’s relationship with Li Ziran.
• Li Ziran performs surgery on the Horned Eagles, modifying them and helping Ke’er gain their loyalty. He realizes that his abilities could allow Ke’er to control the various Elven tribes and potentially unify the Elves.
• Their next destination is the Grey Bear Tribe, one of the Elves’ few warrior races. Aimier, whose interests lie more with the Elves than the other tribes, grows quieter but less suspicious of Li Ziran.
• After observing the Horned Eagle surgery, Aimier initiates a conversation and correctly guesses that Li Ziran embedded a Faith Curse into the creature’s tailbone.
• Li Ziran invites her to observe—or even attempt—future surgery, hoping to draw her out of her protective barrier and discover the location of her protective token. Aimier briefly appears intrigued but ultimately refuses, calling the procedure too bloody and useless to Oak Space.
• With only two days left before Aimier is due to return to Oak Space, Li Ziran becomes increasingly anxious. Anjebel reminds him that he has not failed but still needs to understand Aimier’s habits.
• Li Ziran concludes that he needs private time alone with Aimier. He notices a Deerfolk Tribe near the Grey Bear Tribe and considers taking Aimier there separately from Ke’er.

Character Developments

• Li Ziran: Remains calculating and manipulative, using scent, jealousy, intimacy, and his surgical abilities to influence Aimier. His confidence begins to crack as his initial plan fails to produce a clear breakthrough, but Anjebel’s reminder helps him regain composure and think strategically.
• Aimier: Her suspicion of Li Ziran gradually decreases, and she begins initiating conversations about his surgery. Though still emotionally inexperienced and guarded, she shows genuine curiosity and possible attraction, particularly when observing Li Ziran and Ke’er. Her refusal to participate in surgery reveals both her caution and her sensitivity to violence.
• Ke’er: Cooperates with Li Ziran’s attempts to provoke Aimier, playfully resisting his advances while supporting his plan. Her growing closeness with him also strengthens her political position, as Li Ziran’s modifications help win the loyalty of the Horned Eagles.
• Anjebel: Acts as Li Ziran’s psychological guide, interrupting his growing impatience and reminding him to study Aimier more carefully rather than forcing the situation.

Significant Themes

• Manipulation and seduction: Li Ziran treats romance as a gradual process of psychological influence, using proximity, scent, jealousy, and the Black Dragon Potion.
• Power through transformation: His ability to alter bodies and awaken Faith Worlds makes surgery a political tool capable of securing the allegiance of entire races.
• Patience versus impatience: Li Ziran’s greatest obstacle is not technical ability but his desire to force a result before understanding Aimier completely.
• Innocence and emotional awakening: Aimier’s limited experience with love makes her reactions subtle and difficult for Li Ziran to interpret, while her growing curiosity suggests the beginning of emotional change.
• Political consolidation: Ke’er’s rule depends on winning over the Elven tribes, and Li Ziran’s surgical talents become a means of extending her influence.
• Secrecy and vulnerability: Li Ziran must conceal his intentions regarding Oak Sanctuary and Aimier’s protective token, making private access to her essential.

Important Character Interactions

• Li Ziran and Aimier: Their conversations shift from guarded questioning to cautious intellectual engagement. Aimier’s interest in the Faith Curse gives Li Ziran a possible opening, though she ultimately rejects his invitation to study surgery.
• Li Ziran and Ke’er: Their physical intimacy is both genuine and strategically useful, serving to provoke Aimier while reinforcing their partnership.
• Aimier and Ke’er: Aimier silently observes Ke’er’s closeness with Li Ziran and appears affected by it, even though she hides her reactions.
• Li Ziran and Anjebel: Anjebel steadies Li Ziran when anxiety threatens to make him act recklessly, redirecting him toward patience and careful observation.

Chapter Summary: “This Bear Was No Ordinary One”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Ziran visits the Gray Bear Tribe with Queen Ke’er and Aimier to inspect the tribe and evaluate the effects of awakening their Faith World.
• The Gray Bear chief eagerly seeks Li Ziran’s favor, hoping his tribe will receive the same transformations as the Chimeras, Hippogriffs, and Fawns.
• While surveying the tribe’s territory, Li Ziran notices that the Fawn Race lives nearby in a distinctive red-leaf forest. Because Aimier’s mother once had ties to the Fawns, he decides to use the visit as an opportunity to bring Aimier closer to them.
• Li Ziran invents a reason to leave the Gray Bear Tribe, claiming that the recently modified Fawns require a follow-up examination. His real goal is to separate Ke’er from Aimier and create private time with Aimier.
• Ke’er chooses to remain behind and negotiate with the Gray Bear chief, prioritizing the tribe’s potential submission over accompanying Li Ziran.
• Li Ziran persuades Aimier to travel with him by emphasizing the Fawns’ connection to her mother. Anjebel subtly encourages Aimier to go, contrasting the Fawns’ history with the Gray Bears’ violent and filthy reputation.
• The Gray Bears provide a Giant Bear as transportation. Once alone, Li Ziran deliberately moves close to Aimier, studying the protective barrier surrounding her and trying to understand the oak-derived power protecting her.
• Their journey becomes increasingly intimate. Aimier grows flustered by Li Ziran’s proximity and by memories of his relationship with Ke’er.
• When the Giant Bear suddenly rears up, Aimier falls into Li Ziran’s arms. The barrier reacts to his touch, drawing him inside and surrounding him with Natural Essence. The chapter ends as he enters the protected space around Aimier.

Character Developments

• Li Ziran demonstrates careful manipulation and strategic planning. He uses the Gray Bear Tribe’s desire for advancement, Ke’er’s political priorities, and Aimier’s connection to the Fawns to engineer a private journey.
• Aimier begins showing clear signs of romantic or emotional attraction toward Li Ziran. She is shy, easily flustered, and increasingly affected by his closeness, despite her initial indifference toward the Gray Bear Tribe.
• Ke’er proves politically pragmatic. She willingly lets Li Ziran leave because securing the Gray Bears’ allegiance is more important than accompanying him.
• Anjebel continues covertly supporting Li Ziran’s efforts to influence Aimier. Her carefully worded advice pushes Aimier toward the Fawns and away from the Gray Bears.
• The Gray Bear chief becomes increasingly eager to please Li Ziran, believing that cooperation may lead to his tribe receiving powerful physical and spiritual enhancements.

Significant Themes

• Manipulation and strategy: Li Ziran disguises his personal objectives as political or scientific business, exploiting others’ motives to achieve his aims.
• Power and allegiance: The Gray Bear Tribe’s interest in Faith World reflects how supernatural advancement can determine political loyalty and tribal submission.
• Emotional awakening: Aimier’s growing attraction contrasts with her earlier emotional distance and suggests that Li Ziran’s influence is beginning to erode her defenses.
• Nature and transformation: The chapter repeatedly contrasts different races, their environments, and their abilities, while the Natural Essence and oak power represent deeper forces of biological and spiritual transformation.
• Intimacy versus protection: Aimier’s barrier symbolizes both her physical defenses and emotional isolation. Li Ziran’s entry into it marks a major breach of both.

Character Interactions

• Li Ziran flatters and pressures the Gray Bear chief while implying that the tribe may receive further experimentation.
• Ke’er and the chief negotiate indirectly, with Ke’er’s decision to stay signaling her political priorities.
• The chief appeals to Aimier through her mother’s connection to the Fawns, helping convince her to join the journey.
• Anjebel gives Aimier indirect advice while openly signaling approval to Li Ziran.
• During the ride, Li Ziran deliberately invades Aimier’s personal space. Their awkward conversation and accidental physical contact reveal Aimier’s growing emotional response.
• The Giant Bear’s sudden movement forces Aimier into Li Ziran’s arms, triggering the barrier’s reaction and ending the chapter on a moment of supernatural and romantic tension.

Chapter Summary: With Me Here, You Won’t Die

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Ziran and Aimier become trapped together inside Aimier’s protective barrier while traveling through the Red Soil Continent’s Elemental Tide.
• Because the space is cramped and the Natural Essence is buoyant, they repeatedly collide. Li Ziran deliberately takes advantage of the situation, touching Aimier and provoking her.
• Aimier is unusually affected by Li Ziran’s aura and the Black Dragon Potion circulating through her body. His presence interferes with her magic control and causes her to lose strength temporarily.
• Embarrassed and furious, Aimier forces Li Ziran out of the barrier, but their journey continues with repeated accidental—or partly intentional—contact as Giant Bear crosses the rough rainforest terrain.
• The protective barrier is opened several times, allowing impurities from the Elemental Tide to enter Aimier’s Natural Essence. Her body begins reacting badly: red marks and cracks appear across her skin, her breathing becomes labored, and she starts trembling.
• Aimier attacks Li Ziran when he tries to help, blaming him for her worsening condition. She explains that mixed elemental impurities are clashing with her Primordial Elf bloodline and that she has no backup plan.
• Li Ziran enters the barrier, restrains Aimier, examines the contaminated Natural Essence, and assures her that he can prevent her death.

Character Developments

• Li Ziran displays his usual shamelessness and confidence, intentionally teasing Aimier and exploiting her unfamiliarity with physical intimacy. At the same time, his actions reveal genuine curiosity about Primordial Elves and a willingness to help when she becomes ill.
• He recognizes that Aimier has a romantic, individualistic side because she wears rose pollen purely for personal preference, rather than survival or practical benefit.
• Aimier is shown to be powerful but inexperienced with close personal contact. She becomes flustered, angry, and embarrassed by Li Ziran’s advances, though his compliments secretly please her.
• Her attitude gradually shifts from rigid rejection to greater familiarity: she learns to handle Li Ziran’s repeated intrusions more efficiently, even while continuing to resent him.
• Aimier’s vulnerability becomes clear when her protective barrier fails and she admits she has no way to save herself.

Significant Themes

• Vulnerability beneath strength: Aimier is an immensely powerful Primordial Elf, yet the Red Soil Continent’s environment exposes serious weaknesses in her race.
• Adaptation versus purity: Primordial Elves depend on pure Natural Essence and cannot tolerate the mixed elements of the Elemental Tide, highlighting the danger of preserving purity in a hostile environment.
• Provocation and intimacy: Li Ziran’s teasing gradually breaks down Aimier’s emotional defenses, creating an uneasy mixture of hostility, attraction, and dependence.
• Protection and trust: Although Aimier distrusts Li Ziran, her survival increasingly depends on his unique abilities and knowledge.
• Power imbalance: Li Ziran’s Devouring Curse allows him to penetrate and dismantle Aimier’s barrier, emphasizing how difficult it is for her to maintain control around him.

Character Interactions

• Li Ziran repeatedly touches and embraces Aimier, using their cramped surroundings to provoke her. Aimier reacts with shock, anger, and embarrassment, but also shows signs that she enjoys his praise.
• Aimier repeatedly expels him from her barrier, though she eventually becomes accustomed to his intrusions.
• When Aimier falls ill, she initially rejects his help and attacks him, but Li Ziran neutralizes the attack and enters the barrier anyway.
• Their relationship shifts from antagonistic teasing toward reluctant dependence, culminating in Li Ziran’s confident reassurance: “With me here, you won’t die.”

Chapter Summary: “A Little Toy for You”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Aimier is near death because her supply of Natural Essence is almost exhausted. As a Nature Elf, she believes only oak roots in Oak Space can provide the essence needed to save her.
• Li Ziran ignores her doubts and uses a Light Shield to absorb the remaining essence from her Nature Shield. Aimier fears he is hastening her death, but he seals her in place so she cannot interfere.
• Li Ziran transforms into a Light Sheep and begins extracting and refining elemental substances from his own body. He produces liquefied Fire, Earth, Water, and other Natural Elements, initially keeping them separate within a Light Element container.
• Aimier becomes disappointed when the four elements fail to fuse, since separated elements are useless to a Primordial Elf.
• Li Ziran then adds a mysterious transparent liquid. It causes the elements to break down and combine, eventually forming a dense, ink-green substance: genuine Elven Essence, an extremely rare and powerful form of Natural Element normally refined drop by drop in the deepest parts of Oak Space.
• Aimier enters the solution and rapidly absorbs it. Her elemental comprehension and control improve dramatically, and she realizes the essence may allow her to evolve from a Second-Generation Elf toward the level of her First-Generation mother.
• To let Aimier explore the Red Soil Continent while her real body remains immersed in the nutrient solution, Li Ziran creates a lifelike puppet modeled after her. Her soul can move between her true body and the puppet through a Soul Channel.
• Aimier tests the puppet and eagerly explores the forest, becoming especially excited upon discovering truffles, a food she loves.
• Unknown to Aimier, Li Ziran has secretly placed a Sealing Spell along the Soul Channel. His real goal is to gain access to her Primordial Elf body, though the oak protection within her remains a problem.

Character Developments

• Aimier: Moves from suspicion and despair to astonishment, gratitude, and renewed hope. Her confidence in Li Ziran increases after witnessing his ability to create Elven Essence. Her normally guarded demeanor softens as she enjoys the puppet body and discovers truffles, revealing a more innocent and playful side.
• Li Ziran: Demonstrates extraordinary alchemical and elemental manipulation abilities, including the ability to refine Elven Essence from his own body. However, his apparent generosity is deceptive. He remains calculating and opportunistic, secretly preparing to control or exploit Aimier’s true body.
• Their relationship: Aimier’s trust and curiosity toward Li Ziran grow, while Li Ziran treats her recovery and comfort as part of a larger plan to obtain her body and possibly conquer her.

Significant Themes

• Miracle versus manipulation: Li Ziran appears to perform a lifesaving miracle, but his help conceals ulterior motives.
• Power and bodily control: The creation of the puppet and the Soul Channel raises questions about identity, possession, and ownership of the body.
• Trust and deception: Aimier’s gratitude makes her less wary just as Li Ziran secretly establishes control over her.
• Transformation and advancement: The Elven Essence symbolizes evolution, bloodline advancement, and the possibility of surpassing inherited limitations.
• Innocence amid danger: Aimier’s delight in truffles contrasts sharply with Li Ziran’s predatory intentions, creating dramatic irony.

Important Character Interactions

• Aimier initially protests Li Ziran’s extraction of her essence, but he restrains her and continues the process.
• She watches in disbelief as he creates the rare Elven Essence and then willingly enters the solution because it is her only chance to survive and grow stronger.
• Aimier thanks Li Ziran, and he responds casually while offering her the puppet as a “toy.”
• Their conversation about truffles lowers Aimier’s defenses and makes her more comfortable with him.
• Aimier repeatedly transfers her soul between her real body and the puppet, unaware that Li Ziran is using the process to place a seal on her.
• While Aimier excitedly gathers truffles, Li Ziran observes her puppet with possessive and exploitative intentions.

Li Ziran seduced Aimier through a puppet she controlled, and she grew attached to him while learning how to use it. After visiting the Little Deer Tribe and giving blessings to its Fawns, they returned to the Gray Bear Tribe, where Li Ziran reunited with Ke'er before setting out again with Aimier eager for their next stop.

• Li Ziran embraced and kissed Aimier through the puppet, and she hesitated before giving in to her feelings while refusing to let things go further.
• Aimier discovered she could store the puppet and switch her consciousness into it, while Li Ziran learned that her Oak Ward would transfer if she lost her virginity.
• Li Ziran took Aimier to the Little Deer Tribe, where he gave Blessing Organs to Fawns and modified three of them, including the chief.
• Li Ziran and Aimier spent another tryst at the truffle patch before returning to the Gray Bear Tribe late at night, where Ke'er was waiting.
• Li Ziran pulled Ke'er into a room, then left with his party after more than half a day; Aimier rode close to him and toyed with the puppet as they headed onward.

Li Ziran’s demonstrations of organ modification and faith worlds amazed the peoples of the Red Soil Continent, drawing human and demon delegations to his inspection tour. After he placed a Unicorn foal’s soul in a thunder faith world and transformed it into a source of faith, Aimier became convinced of his extraordinary power and began imagining how she might use similar worlds.

• The Tree Shepherds blocked Li Ziran’s inspection party, so Ke’er changed the itinerary and promised that Li Ziran would visit the Elven tribes after the wedding.
• Aimier secretly watched Li Ziran’s surgery on the Tree Shepherds and later joined him in a treehouse, where he appeared to teach her.
• Elves crowded Li Ziran’s later visits, and one observer developed a preliminary method for using faith power; Li Ziran then created an earth faith world that absorbed elements and produced Earth Spirits.
• The Corrupted Church’s World Faith Theory spread, and human and demon leaders treated it as credible, prompting delegations to seek Li Ziran despite Elven objections.
• Li Ziran modified a Unicorn’s faith world with thunder element and placed a foal’s soul inside it, creating a Thunder Unicorn that produced faith as it grew.
• Aimier recognized that Li Ziran’s method could turn living beings into sources of energy and wondered whether she could put Elves in a faith world.

Chapter Summary: “The Wedding Ceremony Began”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Ziran continues explaining advanced surgical principles to Aimier, including the magical patterns within organs, the difficulty of fusing the Faith World with elemental systems, and the importance of shaping living organs at the Embryo stage.
• Their intimate relationship deepens, but Li Ziran remains frustrated because Aimier’s true body is protected by an Elemental Barrier. He can only interact with her puppet body and cannot fully possess or control her.
• With the wedding approaching, Li Ziran worries that Aimier will return to Oak Space after the ceremony and escape his influence. He considers finding a decisive way to keep her by his side, particularly through the creation of Embryos.
• The inspection of the Elven tribes concludes with the Golden-Winged Elves. Li Ziran studies their Thunder Element organs and modifies them by adding Faith Organs and integrating elemental power into their bodies.
• The Elves’ wedding ceremony officially begins. A rainbow passage stretches from the Golden-Winged Elf Tribe to Elven City, where the queen and prince consort are expected to walk before the gathered races.
• Elaborate festivities surround the ceremony: Flower Elf dancers, ancient hymns, Chimeras, Horned Eagles, ceremonial music, and representatives of countless rainforest races.
• Rainbow Bridge displays magical illusions of the various races kneeling in submission, symbolizing the unified authority of the Elven queen.
• The queen appears in sacred ceremonial clothing, followed by Li Ziran in elegant white robes. He emerges with his arm around the queen, stunning Aimier and intensifying her emotional pain.

Character Developments

• Li Ziran becomes increasingly calculating. Although he enjoys Aimier’s affection, his primary concern is gaining control over her true body and ensuring she does not leave after the wedding. His surgical lessons are partly genuine instruction and partly preparation for manipulating her through Embryo creation.
• Aimier develops greater admiration and affection for Li Ziran. She is fascinated by surgery and enjoys listening to him after their intimate encounters. However, her growing attachment turns into jealousy and insecurity when he withdraws his attention and later appears with the queen.
• Aimier’s emotional state changes sharply from pleasure and curiosity to loneliness, bitterness, and helplessness. She feels the wedding and its rules are imprisoning her and senses that Li Ziran is slipping away.
• The queen remains largely silent and veiled, but her ceremonial entrance emphasizes her elevated status and Li Ziran’s public connection to her.
• The Golden-Winged Elves serve as both subjects of Li Ziran’s research and participants in the wedding’s opening ceremony.

Significant Themes

• Control versus genuine intimacy: Li Ziran’s affection for Aimier is mixed with manipulation and plans to control her body, while Aimier’s feelings appear increasingly sincere and vulnerable.
• Knowledge as power: Surgical knowledge allows Li Ziran to alter bodies and integrate magical systems, giving him influence far beyond ordinary magic.
• Public duty versus private desire: The grand wedding forces both Li Ziran and Aimier to suppress their personal relationship in favor of ritual, political authority, and social expectations.
• Jealousy and emotional possession: Aimier wants Li Ziran’s exclusive attention, but he is publicly bound to another woman. Her jealousy reveals how deeply attached she has become.
• Political and religious authority: The kneeling races, White Tiger Priests, sacred clothing, and ceremonial rituals portray the wedding as a public confirmation of Elven dominance and the queen’s sovereignty.
• Appearance versus reality: The wedding is magnificent and harmonious on the surface, but Aimier experiences it as a prison, while Li Ziran’s polished appearance conceals his ambitions.

Important Character Interactions

• Li Ziran lectures Aimier on surgery while they lie together, creating an intimate bond built partly on shared curiosity and partly on his manipulation.
• Aimier embraces Li Ziran and stores away his puppet, but refuses to let him enter her Elemental Barrier, reinforcing the boundary between her true self and the body he can access.
• Li Ziran performs surgery on the Golden-Winged Elves while Aimier watches admiringly. When he ignores her afterward and enters Ke’er’s room, Aimier experiences sudden jealousy and emotional pain.
• The wedding regulations prevent Aimier from visiting or speaking with Li Ziran before the ceremony, deepening her sense of isolation.
• At the ceremony, Aimier sees Li Ziran dressed like the ideal man of her dreams—only to find him publicly embracing the queen. She must remain among the queen’s companions and prepare to bless the woman she now resents.

Chapter Summary: “The Homage of a Hundred Races”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Ziran and Ke’er begin their wedding procession across the magnificent Rainbow Bridge, which stretches from the Golden-Winged Elves’ territory to Elven City.
• Elves from every race gather to celebrate, abandoning their usual racial divisions and loudly cheering for Li Ziran. His growing influence and the benefits he has brought them have made him highly popular.
• Aimier watches the procession with hidden disappointment and jealousy. She imagines herself beside Li Ziran instead of Ke’er but suppresses those feelings, accepting that their previous intimacy has ended.
• At the bridge’s end, six senior elders formally surrender their authority to Ke’er by presenting her with booklets that represent control over the Elven tribes. Their reluctance suggests they were pressured by the Primordial Elves.
• Ke’er accepts the authority, thanks the elders, and seals the transfer. She then kisses Li Ziran’s cheek, provoking another wave of celebration.
• The chieftains of the various Elven tribes successively pledge loyalty to Ke’er and present their own booklets. This ceremony represents the Queen’s reclamation and consolidation of power.
• After the oaths, the couple proceeds toward the wedding hall, accompanied by elaborate music, decorations, flowers, and a large crowd.
• A human envoy arrives on behalf of Human King William VII and announces several major gifts:
  • Li Ziran will retain his position as Deputy Councilor for life.
  • His wanted bounty is revoked.
  • Three hundred kilometers of land east of the Ice Plains is granted to Ke’er and the Elves.
• The gift greatly increases the Elves’ respect for Li Ziran, though Li Ziran suspects William VII has political motives behind the gesture.
• The chapter ends as three Primordial Elves teleport into the hall. The central figure is a holy Second-Generation Elf who embodies the absolute will of Oak Space, signaling the ceremony’s most important test: whether Oak Space will acknowledge Li Ziran and Ke’er.

Character Developments

• Li Ziran: His status rises dramatically among the Elves. He is increasingly treated as the power behind Ke’er’s rule and as a bridge between the Human and Elven races. Despite being overwhelmed by the ceremonial formalities, he remains politically perceptive and recognizes the strategic intent behind the Human King’s gifts.
• Ke’er: She completes the transition from symbolic bride to true Elven Queen by receiving authority from the elders and tribes. Though nervous about whether Oak Space will accept Li Ziran, she shows confidence and affection through her public kiss and vows to lead the Elves toward glory.
• Aimier: Her unresolved feelings for Li Ziran become clearer. She is hurt by the Elves’ enthusiasm for Ke’er and Li Ziran, but forces herself to maintain dignity and accept the end of their relationship.
• The six elders and tribal chieftains: They formally submit to Ke’er, though the elders’ reluctance reveals that the transfer of power is politically compelled rather than entirely voluntary.
• Human King William VII: Through the envoy, he publicly recognizes Li Ziran and strengthens ties with the Elves, while also ensuring that Li Ziran remains connected to human political interests.

Significant Themes

• Transfer and consolidation of power: The wedding functions as a political ceremony in which Ke’er reclaims authority over the Elven tribes.
• Political legitimacy: Ke’er’s rule is strengthened not merely by marriage but by formal oaths, seals, and recognition from the tribes and the Human Kingdom.
• Cross-racial unity: Formerly divided Elven races unite around Li Ziran and Ke’er, while the wedding symbolizes growing cooperation between humans and Elves.
• Personal influence versus institutional authority: Much of the Elves’ submission comes through Li Ziran’s influence rather than Ke’er’s independent prestige, raising questions about the true source of her power.
• Jealousy and sacrifice: Aimier’s hidden longing contrasts with the public celebration, showing the emotional costs behind political alliances.
• Divine or supernatural recognition: The arrival of the Primordial Elves and the will of Oak Space establish that the marriage’s final legitimacy depends on forces beyond ordinary politics.

Important Character Interactions

• Li Ziran and Ke’er walk together before the entire Elven population, displaying both political unity and genuine affection.
• Aimier and Anjebel interact privately, with Anjebel recognizing Aimier’s emotional pain and reminding her to fulfill her ceremonial duties.
• Ke’er formally thanks and embraces the elders before accepting their authority, combining royal courtesy with political triumph.
• Ke’er publicly kisses Li Ziran, reinforcing their bond and delighting the crowd.
• Li Ziran repeatedly responds to the tribal leaders’ speeches, becoming an object of admiration and a symbolic source of their hopes for the future.
• The human envoy offers Li Ziran William VII’s blessings and gifts, establishing a diplomatic connection between the Human Kingdom and the new Elven monarchy.
• The chapter concludes with the arrival of the Primordial Elves, whose judgment will determine whether the couple—and especially Li Ziran—are accepted by Oak Space.