Chapter Summaries

Chapter Summary: “Aimier, Be My Woman”

Key Plot Points and Events

• The Elven wedding ceremony reaches its climax with the arrival of the three Primordial Elves. Their blessing is necessary to formally recognize Queen Ke’er and Li Ziran as married and to confirm Ke’er’s authority.
• Li Ziran is emotionally troubled because Aimier is about to return to Oak Space after completing her mission. Their intimate relationship over the previous two days has created strong feelings between them, but he believes they may never meet again.
• During the ceremony, Ke’er publicly pledges her loyalty to the Elves and promises that Li Ziran will devote himself to the rainforest. When Aimier asks Li Ziran whether he accepts the marriage, he answers that he is willing, deeply hurting her.
• Aimier creates and places the Thorn Crown on Ke’er. The crown activates Oak’s blessing, transforming Ke’er and granting her powerful control over natural elements. Li Ziran also receives a blessing, but he uses his Devouring Curse to absorb and neutralize its potentially dangerous soul-eroding effects.
• Aimier announces that her mission is complete and prepares to return to Oak Space. Li Ziran, with Anjebel’s tacit approval, follows her after the ceremony.
• Pretending that there is a problem with his blessing, Li Ziran intercepts Aimier at the entrance to Oak Space. He forcibly prevents her departure and transports her to his private operating room.
• There, Li Ziran openly declares, “I want you to be my woman.” Aimier initially resists and fears the consequences of being discovered, but she is ultimately unable to oppose him. The chapter ends with her becoming his willing partner rather than merely being controlled as a puppet.

Character Developments

• Li Ziran: Although he maintains composure during the wedding and accepts Ke’er publicly, his attachment to Aimier proves stronger than his willingness to let her disappear. He abandons restraint, deceives the Primordial Elves, and takes Aimier for himself.
• Aimier: She shifts from controlled emotional restraint to visible heartbreak and desperation. Her longing for Li Ziran is revealed when she hopes he will reject the marriage. After being taken away, her resistance gradually gives way to happiness when she realizes he truly wants her.
• Ke’er: Ke’er is formally empowered as queen through the Thorn Crown and Oak’s blessing. Her body and soul are transformed, giving her enhanced authority over natural elements. She remains unaware of Li Ziran’s immediate pursuit of Aimier.
• Anjebel: Though largely silent, Anjebel understands Li Ziran’s intentions and silently permits him to act, signaling her acceptance or at least noninterference.
• The Primordial Elves: They serve as representatives of Oak and witnesses to the ceremony, but Li Ziran outmaneuvers them by sealing their awareness during teleportation.

Significant Themes

• Duty versus personal desire: Li Ziran fulfills his public duty by accepting Ke’er while privately choosing Aimier, revealing the conflict between political obligation and emotional attachment.
• Love, possession, and agency: The chapter portrays Li Ziran’s determination in possessive terms, while Aimier’s final happiness comes from recognizing that he chose her rather than merely controlling her.
• Transformation and power: Ke’er’s blessing changes her into a being closely linked with Oak and nature, while Li Ziran’s Devouring Curse demonstrates his ability to resist even divine or primordial power.
• Public ceremony versus private truth: The wedding symbolizes order, legitimacy, and political alliance, but Li Ziran’s actions afterward expose the hidden relationship and emotional reality beneath the formal event.
• Separation and refusal to let go: Aimier’s impending departure forces Li Ziran to confront his feelings and act decisively rather than accept their separation.

Important Character Interactions

• Li Ziran and Aimier: Their tense exchange during the ceremony reveals mutual but suppressed feelings. Aimier hopes he will reject the marriage, while Li Ziran hides his emotions until he later abducts her to prevent her return.
• Li Ziran and Ke’er: He publicly accepts Ke’er as his wife and kisses her forehead, preserving the appearance of a proper marriage even as he secretly leaves to pursue Aimier.
• Aimier and Ke’er: Aimier performs her duty by crowning Ke’er despite her jealousy and emotional pain, formally granting Oak’s support to the new queen.
• Li Ziran and Anjebel: Anjebel’s silent nod gives Li Ziran permission to pursue Aimier, making her an important, if indirect, supporter of his decision.
• Li Ziran and the Primordial Elves: He deceives and overpowers them during the teleportation, temporarily sealing their minds so he can take Aimier away unnoticed.

Chapter Summary: “A Blissful Time for Two”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Elf City celebrates the wedding with an unprecedented feast and festival. Bonfires, music, dancing, wine, and food fill Elf Square, while representatives of the Humans, Dwarves, Gnomes, Goblins, and Elves temporarily set aside their rivalries.
• The Dwarves lead everyone in singing the Hero’s Song, commemorating the Alliance Army’s victory over the Demons during World War II. The song becomes a symbol of unity among the races.
• The Black Dragon entertains the guests by transforming them into frogs or snakes with Dragon Flame. Many willingly participate to experience Li Ziran’s famous Transformation Spell, which is associated with his surgical and organ-related abilities.
• Ke’er retreats to a secret chamber to merge with the Thorn Crown, using primordial fluid and natural energy to strengthen her connection with it.
• Aimier remains with Li Ziran in the operating room after their earlier encounter. She reflects on their unexpected relationship and her changing feelings toward him.
• Li Ziran visits Ke’er, then returns to Aimier. Their intimacy continues, and Elven energy from Aimier appears to influence Li Ziran, creating a branch-like mark on his forehead similar to Ke’er’s.
• By midnight, the celebration collapses into drunken sleep. The elders, guests, Dwarves, and even the Black Dragon are unconscious or exhausted.
• Hungry after a day without food and the night’s exertions, Aimier sneaks through the hall to steal cakes, fruit, wine, and grilled shrimp. She returns to Li Ziran, and their playful, intimate interaction continues.

Character Developments

• Li Ziran gains greater social acceptance and prestige. His reputation as a healer, surgeon, and creator of the Transformation Spell makes even the other races curious and respectful toward him. His association with the Black Dragon also improves the dragon’s standing.
• Aimier undergoes a major emotional shift. Though initially uncertain and aware that her union with Li Ziran violates their former positions, she accepts her attachment to him and feels pride in being desired by him. Her jealousy toward Ke’er is notably absent, showing that she understands and accepts Li Ziran’s obligations.
• Ke’er demonstrates determination by attempting to fully claim the Thorn Crown and deepen her power through Elven and natural energy.
• The Black Dragon enjoys his newfound status as Li Ziran’s supposed mount. He prefers the lively, beautiful, and accepting Elf City to his former isolated existence in the Dungeon.
• The six elders and the various races temporarily abandon formality and political distance, revealing a rare atmosphere of trust, relief, and communal happiness.

Significant Themes

• Unity amid conflict: Formerly competitive races celebrate together, suggesting that shared joy and common threats can overcome longstanding divisions.
• Temporary freedom from survival pressures: The festival gives the Elves a rare chance to forget the dangers surrounding them and live without fear for one night.
• Transformation and identity: The Transformation Spell operates both literally and symbolically. Creatures change physical forms, while Aimier, Li Ziran, and the racial relationships around them undergo deeper personal and social transformations.
• Intimacy beyond status: Aimier and Li Ziran’s relationship ignores their previous identities and political positions, emphasizing personal desire and emotional connection over rank.
• Renewal and hope: The wedding, spring setting, restored alliances, and emerging powers suggest the possibility of a new beginning for Li Ziran, the Elves, and the wider continent.

Character Interactions

• Human representatives embrace and drink with the Elven elders, showing reconciliation between rival leadership groups.
• Dwarves, Gnomes, Humans, Elves, and Goblins join in the same heroic song, turning a historical war anthem into a shared celebration.
• Guests willingly submit to the Black Dragon’s transformations, treating his abilities as entertainment and an opportunity to experience Li Ziran’s magic.
• Aimier reflects on Li Ziran’s relationship with Ke’er without resentment, recognizing that he must divide his attention as the groom.
• Li Ziran moves between Ke’er and Aimier, while Aimier’s growing Elven energy leaves a visible mark on him.
• The chapter ends with Aimier and Li Ziran sharing a playful, intimate exchange after she steals food from the sleeping wedding guests.

Li Ziran operated on Aimier to create a faith world that could sustain her without natural essence, using two captured elves to supply faith. Aimier accepted the transformation and began replacing her Nature Shield with faith, trusting Li Ziran despite learning how he extracted it from living beings.

• Aimier chose to stay with Li Ziran rather than return to the Oak Space, and he promised to keep her alive by awakening a faith world.
• Li Ziran surgically built a small organ from Aimier's bone and connected it to her spine before opening her chest and injecting natural energy into her heart.
• A new faith world formed inside Aimier, resembling a complete nature world despite being newly created.
• Li Ziran brought in two restrained elves, converted their devotion into faith, and sent their souls into Aimier's derivative space.
• Aimier realized Li Ziran had made her devour the two elves, felt fear and affection, and began replacing her Nature Shield's power with faith.

Aimier survived exposure to the elemental tide after Li Ziran activated her faith world, which protected her by drawing natural elements from two captive Primordial Elves. Li Ziran examined her body and prepared to borrow her uterus, while a Last-Generation Elf watched from the operating room door.

• Aimier discovered that a faith-powered membrane protected her from the elemental tide and that her body drew natural elements from two Primordial Elves in the faith world.
• Li Ziran dissected Aimier and studied her organs, concluding that their structure could help him create a Primordial Elf body and open a nature world.
• Li Ziran examined Aimier's uterus and found its orderly patterns suited to maintaining an embryo's elemental balance.
• Li Ziran asked to borrow Aimier's uterus, and Aimier agreed despite a moment of hesitation.
• A Last-Generation Elf secretly rejoiced as Li Ziran prepared the operating room for Aimier.

Chapter Summary: “Embryo Gestation Period”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Aimier awakens after undergoing a mysterious operation performed by Corpse Witches under Li Ziran’s command. Her abdomen has been opened and stitched shut, while medicines and external elements are injected into her womb.
• She realizes that something inside her is consuming her Natural Essence, draining the power that sustains her as a Primordial Elf.
• Li Ziran appears mentally vacant and unresponsive. Aimier becomes terrified that the man beside her is no longer truly himself, leaving her feeling isolated and helpless.
• Her abdomen swells, revealing a developing embryo with Primordial Elf characteristics. The Corpse Witches continue operating directly on it, constructing brains, nerves, organs, and multiple biological systems.
• One system resembles Li Ziran’s Light Sheep transformation, while another resembles Aimier’s emerald Frog-like Primordial Elf body. A third brain and additional organs are added as backups or auxiliary systems.
• Aimier realizes that Li Ziran’s consciousness or essence has been transferred into the embryo. This reassures her that he still exists, even though his physical body is nearly lifeless.
• The embryo rapidly grows, eventually forcing Aimier into labor. After a painful childbirth, she gives birth to a strange child composed of intertwined golden and green light.
• The newborn constantly shifts between the forms of a Light Sheep, an emerald Frog, and a faint human shape, reflecting the combination of Li Ziran’s and Aimier’s powers.
• The baby’s golden energy forms a Faith World filled with prayers to the Witch Doctor—prayers that Aimier recognizes as belonging to Li Ziran.
• The remaining dark-green energy in the child’s chest condenses into an origin point, from which earth, water, wind, and fire erupt. A dark-green space forms inside the child, startling Aimier because it resembles Oak Space.

Character Developments

• Aimier: Moves from confusion and fear to acceptance and maternal attachment. Although horrified by the procedure and Li Ziran’s apparent death, she becomes cooperative once she understands that he survives within the embryo. Her instincts as a Primordial Elf conflict with her dependence on Li Ziran, but her love and trust ultimately overcome her fear.
• Li Ziran: His body is reduced to an almost lifeless shell as his organs, systems, and essence are transferred into the embryo. Despite his apparent absence, his identity remains present through the child’s Light Sheep form and Faith World.
• The Corpse Witches: They function as silent, precise surgical instruments. Their actions suggest an advanced plan to merge Li Ziran and Aimier’s biological and supernatural systems into a new being. They display no emotion or independent communication.
• The Child/Embryo: Develops as a hybrid of Li Ziran, Aimier, and additional constructed systems. It possesses three brains, multiple organ configurations, a Faith World, and a dark-green space connected to Oak Space.

Significant Themes

• Transformation and rebirth: Li Ziran is effectively reborn inside Aimier’s womb, while the child represents a fusion of multiple bodies, identities, and powers.
• Identity and consciousness: Aimier distinguishes the real Li Ziran from his unresponsive physical body, suggesting that identity resides in essence, memory, or spiritual presence rather than flesh alone.
• Creation through violation and suffering: The child’s creation involves surgery, bodily invasion, loss of control, and agonizing childbirth, blending scientific experimentation with biological and mystical reproduction.
• Faith and power: The embryo’s golden energy becomes a Faith World sustained by prayers, demonstrating how belief can form an actual realm and serve as part of Li Ziran’s continued existence.
• Love amid horror: Aimier’s fear and disgust gradually give way to maternal love and renewed faith in Li Ziran. Her emotional attachment helps her endure the disturbing transformation.
• Fusion of opposing systems: Human, Primordial Elf, Light Sheep, Frog, elemental, and divine systems are combined into a single unstable but potentially powerful entity.

Character Interactions

• Aimier repeatedly seeks reassurance from Li Ziran, but his silence and vacant expression intensify her fear.
• She resists the Corpse Witches when they touch or operate on her, yet becomes compliant after recognizing Li Ziran’s presence within the embryo.
• The Corpse Witches control Aimier’s movements, perform the operation, construct the embryo, and assist with the birth, acting without verbal communication.
• Aimier’s bond with Li Ziran is emphasized when she recognizes his aura inside the child and identifies the prayers in the Faith World as his.
• The chapter ends with Aimier recognizing Oak Space within the newborn, raising the possibility that the child has inherited or recreated the realm that once served as her refuge.

Li Ziran transformed into a frog and unleashed the Elven Forbidden Spell Doomsday Calamity, drawing Aimier into pursuit as it devastated the Gold Coast. The spell’s peak passed and Li Ziran seemed to regain control, leaving Aimier to survey a landscape reshaped by fire, lightning, and molten earth.

• Aimier recognized the world forming inside Li Ziran as an Oak Space, then watched it develop as he transformed into a frog and began absorbing elemental energy.
• Li Ziran cast Doomsday Calamity and leapt through the Teleportation Array, while Aimier followed and the Elves searched for the unknown caster beneath the burning sky.
• Li Ziran crossed the rainforest using ancient spells as fiery rain grew into a devastating storm, and Aimier realized he was heading for the coast.
• Doomsday Calamity unleashed blue lightning and molten rain, melting the Gold Coast as Aimier retreated from the spreading destruction.
• The spell’s peak passed and Li Ziran appeared to regain control, while Aimier watched steam rise over the transformed coastline.

Chapter Summary: “Undercurrents Stirred by Doomsday Calamity”

Key Plot Points and Events

• The Doomsday Calamity ends, leaving the sky scorched and rain falling over the devastated rainforest.
• The extreme heat transforms the land into a vast, translucent blue crystal-like expanse, creating a beautiful but horrifying reminder of the spell’s power.
• Li Ziran, who had taken the form of a Frog during the calamity, returns to his human form. Despite having unleashed the destructive forbidden spell, he shows little emotion and silently leaves the scene.
• Aimier accompanies him. Using the Wind Domain forbidden spell Wings of the Sky, Li Ziran flies through the storm while absorbing the Elemental Tide and converting it into magical power through his Nature World.
• The calamity attracts powerful observers from across the continent:
  • Human Archmages
  • Elf elders and the newlywed Elf Queen, Ke’er
  • Dwarves, Goblins, and Orcs
  • The Demon Monarch of the Abyss
• The various races speculate that an ancient Elf powerhouse—or possibly a survivor from the Oak Space or another hidden Derivative Space—caused the disaster.
• The Demon Monarch attacks Ke’er with countless Ghosts after demanding to know whether the calamity was caused by the Elves. A human Archmage intervenes with blue flames, destroying the Ghosts and forcing the Demon Monarch to retreat.
• After the leaders leave, the continent’s secret organizations begin hunting for the mysterious caster. The Dark Council places a seven-million-gold reward on information about the powerhouse.
• Spies and raiders flood the Elf Rainforest, not only searching for Li Ziran but also abducting Elves. Ke’er struggles to protect her people despite having recently consolidated political power.
• Ke’er decides to implement Li Ziran’s organ-modification system, training shamans to transplant organs and spreading knowledge of organ technology throughout the Elf tribes.
• Meanwhile, Li Ziran studies and gradually disperses his Nature World, suggesting he may be attempting to separate it from the Nature Chain.

Character Developments

• Li Ziran is established as an extraordinarily powerful mage capable of using the Doomsday Calamity without suffering backlash from the Elemental Tide. His Nature World appears more vibrant and advanced than Aimier’s Oak Space.
• His abilities are not limited to destruction: he can effortlessly use ancient forbidden magic, fly through the storm, absorb elemental energy, and convert it into usable power.
• Aimier becomes more emotionally and magically connected to Li Ziran. She recognizes him as a being comparable to the greatest ancient mages and senses that his Nature World could sustain her.
• Ke’er matures into a ruler burdened by responsibility. Although she has seized political control, she discovers that leadership brings problems the former elders shielded her from, especially border security, population loss, and foreign infiltration.
• Ke’er also develops an independent reformist vision. Though she trusts Li Ziran, she intends to master and institutionalize his organ technology rather than remain dependent on him.
• The human, Elf, and Demon leaders are portrayed as cautious but highly alert to shifts in power. The calamity forces them to reconsider the existence of hidden ancient powers.

Significant Themes

• Power and fear: Li Ziran’s spell reshapes the landscape and alarms every major faction, demonstrating how a single overwhelming force can destabilize an entire continent.
• Political consequences of strength: The calamity immediately triggers surveillance, espionage, bounty hunting, and military tension among the races.
• Reform versus tradition: Ke’er plans to transform Elven society through organ modification, education, and centralized knowledge, signaling a break from older customs.
• Independence and self-determination: Ke’er respects Li Ziran but insists that the Elves must develop their own system and control their own future.
• Hidden ancient powers: The existence of Derivative Spaces and surviving ancient races creates uncertainty about who truly controls the world’s greatest forces.
• Beauty born from destruction: The crystalline blue landscape is both visually magnificent and the product of catastrophic devastation, linking creation and destruction.
• The cost of leadership: Ke’er’s rise to power brings not triumph but new burdens, exposing the vulnerability of the Elf Rainforest.

Important Character Interactions

• Li Ziran and Aimier: Aimier clings to Li Ziran as he carries her through the sky. Her admiration deepens as she senses the natural energy within his body and recognizes the superiority of his Nature World.
• Ke’er and the Demon Monarch: The Demon Monarch openly challenges Ke’er, prompting her to attack rather than negotiate. Her attempted defense shows her determination to keep demons out of Elf territory, though her newly awakened power is still incomplete.
• Human Archmage and the Demon Monarch: A human Archmage protects Ke’er by destroying the Demon Monarch’s Ghosts, then threatens the Demon Monarch and asserts the continent’s collective resistance to Abyssal interference.
• Ke’er and the Elf elders: After the other factions depart, Ke’er consults the elders about the identity of the caster. Their uncertainty reinforces the mystery surrounding Li Ziran.
• Ke’er and Li Ziran’s legacy: Although Li Ziran is absent from the political discussions, his organ-modification ideas shape Ke’er’s future reforms and become central to the Elves’ strategy for survival.

Chapter Summary: “Aimier’s Mother”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Ziran examines the unexpected transformation of his newly awakened Nature World after casting the Primordial Forbidden Spell, Doomsday Calamity. Although the world initially seems unable to sustain the spell, it suddenly begins drawing in vast amounts of elemental energy and completes the magic with ease.
• He discovers that the sapling Ke’er once gave him has disappeared, while strange green markings have appeared on his body and within the Nature World.
• Suspicious of the world’s uncontrolled development, Li Ziran repeatedly tries to dismantle it. Each time, the world repairs itself, using the Elemental Tide and the mysterious green markings to restore its structure.
• When he damages the internal organs supporting the world, the sapling reappears within the Nature World and sends roots into his body. His blood vessels and legs begin turning into wood, and he realizes the sapling has been secretly integrated into his body and has altered the Nature World.
• Li Ziran concludes that someone has used him to cultivate this world. Aimier identifies its nature as resembling Oak Space, the domain associated with her people and their ruler.
• When Li Ziran prepares to abandon or destroy the body, Aimier suddenly receives a message from her mother, Dan Qiong, who has been watching their experiences through their connection.
• Dan Qiong manifests inside the operating room as a powerful energy projection. She humiliates and punishes Aimier, then declares that Aimier’s creation of the Nature World has benefited the Oak Lord and earned her a reward.
• The chapter ends with Dan Qiong dismissing Aimier and preparing to speak privately with Li Ziran.

Character Developments

• Li Ziran becomes far more powerful, gaining effortless control over elemental magic and access to the magical knowledge previously given to him by Anthony. However, he is disturbed by the loss of control over his Nature World and recognizes that its development was manipulated by an unknown force.
• His cautious, analytical nature is emphasized. As a surgeon, he distrusts any transformation he does not fully understand, even when it grants him tremendous power.
• Li Ziran also demonstrates confidence and composure when confronting Dan Qiong. Rather than being intimidated, he immediately recognizes that her projection is not her true body and challenges what he sees as her theatrical display of authority.
• Aimier is revealed to be deeply afraid of her mother. Her submissive reaction contrasts sharply with her previous intimacy and confidence around Li Ziran. She also begins questioning whether Dan Qiong secretly engineered or approved of her pregnancy and current situation.
• Dan Qiong is established as powerful, controlling, manipulative, and possibly involved in the creation of Li Ziran’s Nature World. Despite punishing Aimier, she acknowledges the value of what Aimier has accomplished.

Significant Themes

• Power versus control: Li Ziran gains extraordinary abilities but cannot control the world producing them, making the power potentially dangerous.
• Manipulation and hidden agendas: The sapling’s integration into the Nature World suggests that Li Ziran has been used as part of a larger plan connected to the Oak Lord.
• Parent-child authority: Dan Qiong’s treatment of Aimier reveals a relationship based on fear, domination, and conditional approval rather than affection.
• Identity and transformation: Li Ziran’s body becomes increasingly plantlike, while Aimier is judged for no longer resembling a Primordial Elf. Both characters face changes that threaten their sense of identity.
• Observation and privacy: Dan Qiong’s ability to witness Aimier and Li Ziran’s private moments introduces a strong theme of surveillance and the violation of personal boundaries.

Character Interactions

• Li Ziran and Aimier: Li Ziran questions Aimier about Oak Space and relies on her explanation to interpret the Nature World’s transformation. He also remains protective and attentive when she reacts fearfully to her mother.
• Li Ziran and Dan Qiong: Their first direct exchange is tense. Li Ziran sees through Dan Qiong’s public punishment of Aimier and accuses her of having watched or possibly encouraged their relationship. Dan Qiong neither confirms nor denies the accusation, instead shifting attention to Aimier’s usefulness and requesting a private conversation with him.
• Aimier and Dan Qiong: Aimier is terrified and completely overpowered by her mother, who restrains, strips, and strikes her through invisible energy threads. Dan Qiong condemns her behavior but simultaneously praises her contribution to the Oak Lord, revealing that her approval is tied to usefulness.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Aimier realizes her mother, Dan Qiong, knowingly allowed her relationship with Li Ziran and her subsequent “fall,” leaving Aimier confused and hurt.
• Dan forcibly teleports Aimier out of the robot, preventing her from hearing the private discussion.
• Outside, Oak’s natural energy heals Aimier’s body, purifies her bloodline, and begins transforming her toward the energy-based form of a First-Generation Elf.
• Dan confronts Li Ziran and reveals that she can fully control and expose his Nature World.
• She asks him to let Oak absorb and nurture his Nature World, promising that Oak will reward him once it matures.
• Li Ziran suspects the request is connected to a larger crisis. Dan admits that Oak Space is aging and collapsing under the Elemental Tide. It will be destroyed within three days, killing the Primordial Elves soon afterward.
• Dan proposes that Li Ziran become the foundation of a new Elven world. He would lose his freedom and physical mobility but become a godlike existence worshipped by the Elves.
• Li Ziran recognizes that Dan essentially wants to turn him into a replacement for Oak. He rejects the idea, unwilling to surrender his body and freedom.
• As he considers abandoning the Elves, Dan suddenly presses against him and channels emerald energy into his body. She provocatively declares that he can possess Aimier, Dan herself, and Ke’er—the daughter, mother, and queen.

Character Developments

• Aimier: Her faith in her mother is shaken. Although physically restored and spiritually strengthened by Oak’s energy, she remains emotionally distressed and more concerned about Li Ziran’s fate than her own.
• Dan Qiong: Her cold, ruthless nature becomes clear. She views Aimier’s suffering as a necessary sacrifice for the survival of the Primordial Elves and treats Li Ziran as a resource essential to creating a new world. Her final seductively manipulative move reveals how far she is willing to go.
• Li Ziran: He remains calm and pragmatic when negotiating, recognizing that Dan’s request gives him leverage. However, he becomes increasingly wary after learning the true scale of the crisis. He firmly rejects becoming a living vessel or substitute for Oak, valuing his autonomy and physical existence.
• Oak: The previously revered source of Elven protection is revealed to be dying, forcing the Primordial Elves to seek a replacement world and potentially a new sustaining entity.

Significant Themes

• Sacrifice versus consent: Dan justifies Aimier’s suffering and Li Ziran’s proposed transformation as sacrifices for the Elven race, raising questions about whether collective survival excuses violating individuals.
• Power and manipulation: Dan uses authority, emotional pressure, promises of reward, and finally seduction to control Li Ziran.
• Freedom versus transcendence: Becoming a godlike life-form may offer immense power and worship, but Li Ziran sees it as imprisonment and the loss of his humanity.
• Family and exploitation: The roles of mother, daughter, and queen are treated as tools in Dan’s political and personal manipulation.
• The decline of an old order: Oak Space’s impending collapse signals the end of the Primordial Elves’ established world and the desperate search for renewal.

Character Interactions

• Aimier confronts Dan about why she allowed her degradation, but Dan dismisses her and removes her from the scene.
• Dan and Li Ziran negotiate over his Nature World, with Li Ziran questioning whether Oak intends to consume or exploit it.
• Dan appeals to Li Ziran’s connection to Ke’er and the Elven race, while Li Ziran exposes the selfishness behind her proposal.
• Their tense negotiation ends with Dan physically overpowering and seductively provoking him, promising access to the most important women in Elven society in exchange for his cooperation.

Chapter Summary: “Driven by a Woman…”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Dan Qiong forcibly takes control of Li Ziran’s body, flooding him with highly purified Natural Elements and preventing him from resisting.
• She suppresses his Light Sheep—the organ and power most closely associated with his strength—by isolating it with overwhelming natural energy.
• Dan Qiong uses Li Ziran as a vessel to reshape and expand his Nature World. His body and bloodline are forcibly altered, becoming increasingly plantlike:
  • His skin turns gray-brown.
  • Branchlike structures grow from his blood vessels.
  • New organs and channels connect him to the rainforest and its underground energy.
  • His body begins assimilating the surrounding forest.
• The Nature World evolves repeatedly. Its outer “World Skin” cracks and sheds, creating additional spatial layers that filter the Elemental Tide into increasingly pure earth, water, wind, and fire elements.
• Dan Qiong repeatedly restores her strength and continues the transformation, while Li Ziran’s body becomes stiffer and more wooden. By the thirteenth cycle, the Nature World is saturated with concentrated natural power and nearing another major breakthrough.
• Li Ziran realizes that Dan Qiong is not merely powerful but an expert in reshaping worlds. He compares her mastery of world creation to his own mastery of surgery.
• Abandoning the useless Light Sheep, Li Ziran activates a less refined but more varied organ system—including the Devouring Stomach, Hellhound tongue, and Cavefolk Eye. Dan Qiong has overlooked this system, allowing him to regain limited control of his body.
• He pretends that Natural Elements can no longer affect him, concealing the fact that his body and Nature World are still suffering damage and undergoing transformation.
• Li Ziran demands his freedom in exchange for allowing Dan Qiong to keep and remodel the Nature World. Dan Qiong refuses, explaining that the world requires him as its vessel.
• She attempts to tempt him with hundreds of female Primordial Elves, but Li Ziran rejects the offer, recognizing that she fundamentally misunderstands his priorities.

Character Developments

• Li Ziran: Moves from furious helplessness to strategic resistance. Though physically overpowered, he uses his knowledge of his own organs to find an overlooked means of escape. His pride and determination remain intact, and he refuses to accept being used as a vessel or to be bought off with sexual rewards.
• Dan Qiong: Reveals herself as both ruthless and highly knowledgeable about Li Ziran’s abilities. She is capable of manipulating entire worlds through natural energy, but becomes unsettled when he unexpectedly breaks free of her control. Her confidence shifts into caution and negotiation.
• Aimier: Does not directly participate, but remains an important point of comparison. Dan Qiong invokes her to provoke Li Ziran, while Li Ziran’s altered body and bloodline are contrasted with the earlier transformation involving Aimier.
• Anjebel: Secretly observes the procedure through the operating-room door. Her disbelief emphasizes how extraordinary and disturbing Dan Qiong’s actions are.

Significant Themes

• Control versus autonomy: The chapter frames Dan Qiong’s forced transformation as torture rather than intimacy, emphasizing Li Ziran’s refusal to surrender bodily or personal control.
• Creation and transformation: Li Ziran’s surgical approach to creating organs is contrasted with Dan Qiong’s natural, world-scale method of shaping life and reality.
• Power through knowledge: Li Ziran survives not through superior force but by exploiting an aspect of his own body that Dan Qiong failed to understand.
• Identity and bodily change: As Li Ziran becomes increasingly plantlike, the chapter explores the threat of losing one’s original body, bloodline, and nature.
• Negotiation and misjudgment: Dan Qiong assumes Li Ziran can be bribed with women, while he views freedom and control over his own existence as far more valuable.

Character Interactions

• Dan Qiong repeatedly mocks and provokes Li Ziran by comparing herself with Aimier and asking which woman is superior.
• Li Ziran remains silent during the transformation, refusing to validate Dan Qiong’s manipulative framing.
• After regaining control, Li Ziran confronts Dan Qiong and demands freedom.
• Dan Qiong rejects his proposal and offers Primordial Elf women instead, revealing her inability to understand his actual motivations.
• Their relationship becomes an adversarial negotiation: Dan Qiong needs Li Ziran as a vessel, while Li Ziran seeks to escape and prevent her from taking control of his Nature World.

Chapter Summary: “Dan, I Want You to Offer Yourself”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Ziran realizes that his apparent negotiation with Dan Qiong is not a genuine trade. Dan Qiong is still using an energy incarnation while concealing her true body and the mysterious element controlling the mutated Nature World.
• His goal is to seize control of the body and Nature World, but he understands that this is impossible unless he can force Dan Qiong to reveal herself and feel genuinely threatened.
• To provoke her, Li Ziran proposes that Dan Qiong “give herself” to him—meaning her true body—not merely an energy projection. He also claims he is willing to enter Oak Space, despite knowing it is under Dan Qiong’s absolute control and could become his prison.
• Li Ziran reminds Dan Qiong that the Nature World will collapse within three days, creating pressure for her to act quickly. Dan Qiong hesitates because she cannot determine whether he has truly escaped her control or is planning another scheme.
• When Li Ziran prepares to leave, Dan Qiong agrees to consider the arrangement but demands that Aimier accompany him into Oak Space. Li Ziran accepts because his disguise is failing and he has little time left.
• Li Ziran reveals that Anjebel has been secretly observing the conversation and insists that she serve as his guide. He negotiates significant rewards for her: purification of her bloodline and eventual control over part of the new Nature World.
• Anjebel accepts immediately, effectively confirming her break from Derivative Space and her alliance with Li Ziran.
• Dan Qiong distrusts Anjebel and insists that Aimier also enter Oak Space to prevent interference. She promises Li Ziran a “special surprise.”
• After Dan Qiong’s energy withdraws, Li Ziran’s body rapidly deteriorates under the influence of the natural energy. He temporarily transforms into a tree, with bark-covered skin, branch-like arms, and vine-like feet.
• After recovering enough to move, Li Ziran meets Aimier. She believes Dan Qiong merely intends to punish them and may eventually grant their wishes, but Li Ziran recognizes that Dan Qiong’s intentions are far more dangerous.

Character Developments

• Li Ziran: Demonstrates strategic manipulation, using flirtation, calculated risk, and pressure to force Dan Qiong into a more concrete negotiation. He remains determined to uncover her true body and gain control of the Nature World, even while physically deteriorating from her energy. His negotiations also show that he values Anjebel as a genuine ally and is willing to secure her future power.
• Dan Qiong: Reveals extreme caution and distrust. Although she holds overwhelming power, Li Ziran’s unfamiliar techniques and partial resistance make him difficult to control. Her willingness to enter negotiations reflects the urgency created by the collapsing world, but she continues to set traps and retain control over the terms.
• Anjebel: Becomes more independent and defiant. Once intimidated by Dan Qiong’s status, she now openly resists her authority and accepts Li Ziran’s protection and promised position. Her immediate agreement marks a decisive commitment to his side.
• Aimier: Remains emotionally attached to Li Ziran and naïve about her mother’s motives. She interprets Dan Qiong’s actions as ordinary punishment and trusts that her mother may ultimately approve of their relationship, contrasting sharply with Li Ziran’s suspicion.
• Li Ziran and Anjebel’s alliance: Becomes formally strengthened. Li Ziran publicly identifies Anjebel as his guide and negotiates her advancement, while Anjebel accepts the risks of entering Oak Space with him.

Significant Themes

• Trade and mutual sacrifice: The chapter emphasizes that stable cooperation requires both parties to give something up. Li Ziran twists this principle into a demand that Dan Qiong personally expose herself.
• Manipulation and hidden intentions: Neither Li Ziran nor Dan Qiong trusts the other. Their dialogue is a contest of bluffing, testing, and concealed strategies rather than an honest bargain.
• Power and autonomy: Li Ziran seeks control over his body and the Nature World, while Anjebel seeks liberation from the hierarchical constraints of the Primordial Elves. Authority over the new world symbolizes freedom and status.
• Betrayal and allegiance: Anjebel’s rejection of Derivative Space and commitment to Li Ziran highlight the changing loyalties among the Elves.
• Naivety versus awareness: Aimier believes in her mother’s affection and good intentions, whereas Li Ziran understands that Dan Qiong’s apparent generosity is likely part of a larger trap.
• Physical transformation and loss of control: Li Ziran’s temporary conversion into a tree demonstrates the severe cost of resisting Dan Qiong’s natural energy and reinforces the danger of entering Oak Space.

Important Character Interactions

• Li Ziran and Dan Qiong: Engage in a tense psychological negotiation. Li Ziran uses provocative language and the threat of the world’s collapse to pressure her, while Dan Qiong counters with distrust, surveillance, and demands that Aimier accompany him.
• Li Ziran and Anjebel: Li Ziran openly protects Anjebel and secures her future authority. His trust gives her the confidence to confront Dan Qiong.
• Dan Qiong and Anjebel: Their meeting exposes Anjebel’s changed attitude. Dan Qiong treats her as a rebellious subordinate, while Anjebel responds with restrained defiance rather than submission.
• Li Ziran and Aimier: Aimier worries about his condition and assumes her mother’s actions are harmless. Li Ziran questions her about Dan Qiong’s instructions but does not reveal the full danger, recognizing that Aimier remains under her mother’s influence.
• Dan Qiong and Aimier: Though Aimier is absent from most of the negotiation, Dan Qiong uses her as both leverage and a safeguard, forcing her involvement in Li Ziran’s entry into Oak Space.

Chapter Summary: The Interlayer Zone of Oak Space

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Ziran realizes that Dan Qiong manipulated Aimier from the moment of her conception, inserting traits and influences into her embryo. Aimier is essentially a puppet created for Dan Qiong’s purposes, which explains why Li chose Anjebel instead.
• Li’s body continues deteriorating under the influence of Nature World’s natural energy. He fears he will become a tree within a week, so he increases the activity of his Light Organ and injects himself with “Luo” to preserve his intelligence and slow the transformation.
• Before entering Oak Space, Li spends time with Ke’er. She is focused on developing and spreading embryological and surgical knowledge among the Elves, even seeking cooperation from the Black Dragon.
• Oak Space operates on a seven-to-one time ratio: seven days inside equal one day outside. The Elves arrange a grand ceremony because they believe Li is entering to receive a blessing as the “prince” of Oak Space.
• Ke’er appears reluctant to let Li go, but secretly seals the spatial passage after he enters, revealing that she and the Elven leaders may have their own plans for his absence.
• Li enters Oak Space with Aimier and Anjebel. The teleportation is extremely painful, forcing him through a narrow, oppressive passage into the Mixed-Flow or Mixed-Skin Layer.
• Anjebel explains that Oak Space contains 7,820 membrane-like interlayers, each forming its own space and filtering the elements that pass through the oak. The outer layers expel useless elements, while the inner layers preserve the Natural Elements needed by the Elves.
• Aimier reveals that the Filtration Layer is also used to purge the bloodlines of some Last-Generation Elves before they are expelled into the outside world. This confirms the harsh social hierarchy and declining status of Primordial Elves such as Anjebel.
• Li and Anjebel travel through hundreds of layers, passing ancient treehouses, ruins, magic arrays, and signs of a once-great Elven civilization. After crossing 378 layers of the Tidal Layer, they reach the emerald Drifting Layer, the deep filtration belt closest to the heart of Oak Space.

Character Developments

• Li Ziran: Becomes increasingly suspicious of Dan Qiong and the true nature of Oak Space. His observations lead him to conclude that Oak Space is not a naturally evolved sanctuary but an artificially engineered system that exploits and drains Nature World. He also develops sympathy for Aimier and Anjebel, recognizing that both are ultimately controlled or discarded according to their usefulness.
• Aimier: Displays jealousy toward Ke’er and contempt for Anjebel, whom she considers inferior because of her weak bloodline. Her dependence on Li and her desire to keep him away from Anjebel reveal her insecurity and possessiveness.
• Anjebel: Acts as a capable and conscientious guide. Although she is socially degraded as a Last-Generation Elf, she remains knowledgeable and independent, following Li’s judgment rather than Aimier’s authority.
• Ke’er: Appears affectionate and reluctant when Li departs, but her sudden emotional withdrawal and secret message show a more calculating side. She is also becoming deeply involved in reforming Elven medical and reproductive knowledge.
• Dan Qiong: Though absent, his influence dominates the chapter. His manipulation of Aimier and likely involvement in Nature World’s transformation establish him as a major hidden threat.

Significant Themes

• Deception as protection and control: The chapter opens by suggesting that deception can be kindness, but it also shows how manipulation—especially Dan Qiong’s manipulation of Aimier—can turn a person into a tool.
• Exploitation disguised as divinity: Oak Space and the “Elven God” are presented as sacred, but Li realizes the system is actually parasitic, using artificial barriers and magic arrays to extract and control Nature World’s resources.
• Decline of civilizations: The abandoned ruins and ancient magic arrays reveal the former greatness of the Primordial Elves, while the empty settlements and weakened bloodlines show their gradual collapse.
• Bloodline hierarchy and disposability: Aimier’s treatment of Anjebel and the existence of the Filtration Layer expose a rigid society in which Elves are valued according to lineage and usefulness.
• Artificial evolution versus natural development: Li recognizes that Dan Qiong’s plans would reshape Nature World into something unrecognizable, suggesting that “evolution” may actually be forced alteration and exploitation.
• Identity and transformation: Li’s fear of becoming a tree parallels the broader transformation of Nature World and raises questions about whether survival is worth surrendering one’s original form.

Character Interactions

• Li and Ke’er share an affectionate farewell, but Ke’er’s secret sealing of the passage contrasts sharply with her tenderness.
• Aimier clings to Li and questions Anjebel’s presence, revealing jealousy and a desire to control his attention.
• Li rebukes Aimier for disrespecting Anjebel, briefly defending their supposed friendship and recognizing the cruelty behind Aimier’s superiority.
• Anjebel defers to Li rather than Aimier, demonstrating her growing loyalty to him and her rejection of traditional Primordial Elf authority.
• Li comforts Aimier with a kiss on the forehead but then leaves her to follow Anjebel, showing that his sympathy has not restored his former attachment.
• Through Anjebel’s explanations, Li gains a deeper understanding of Oak Space’s structure, history, and oppressive social order.

Li Ziran crossed the Oak Space’s corrosive Filtration Layer, salvaged the Primordial Elf corpses and turned them into Corpse Witches. He reached Dan’s castle with Aimier and Anjebel, considering the Filtration Layer as a possible refuge while preparing to confront Dan.

• Anjebel warned Li Ziran that the oil film would dissolve elves, then helped him form a natural-energy shield to cross it with her and Aimier.
• Li Ziran discovered hundreds of Primordial Elf corpses floating in the grease, and Anjebel explained that they had tried to sneak away.
• Li Ziran sealed and purified the corpses, inhabited them with Void Spirits, and created Corpse Witches capable of using nature magic.
• Li Ziran and his companions entered the Oak Space, where he sensed that its pure but scarce energy was draining Aimier and Anjebel.
• Aimier and Anjebel led Li Ziran to Dan’s castle, and Anjebel explained that Dan and two other First-Generation Elves lived in its upper rooms.

Li Ziran explored the Primordial Elves’ castle, learned about their Magic Fountain and austere lives, and then went with Aimier and Anjebel to meet Dan. Dan opened the door dressed like a bride, leaving Aimier stunned and Li Ziran captivated.

• Li Ziran examined the castle’s elemental runes and Magic Fountain as Aimier explained that it preserved generations of Elven magical knowledge.
• Li Ziran visited Anjebel’s plain room and saw how the Elves lived, then followed Aimier upstairs and glimpsed the activities of First-Generation Elf descendants.
• Li Ziran entered Aimier’s flower-filled room and agreed to meet Dan to discuss an important matter.
• Aimier took a Violet Thorn Blue flower for her mother as she, Li Ziran, and Anjebel climbed to Dan’s room.
• Dan opened the door in a bright-red bridal robe, astonishing Aimier and captivating Li Ziran.

Chapter Summary: “Clash”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Ziran meets Dan, who appears in the traditional red bridal dress associated with souls deeply connected to him. Her appearance implies that she has access to Ke’er’s memories or identity and may control both Ke’er and Aimier.
• Dan publicly declares Li Ziran to be her man and orders Aimier to accept him as well. When Aimier resists, Dan controls her body with invisible, puppet-like threads and forces her into Li Ziran’s arms.
• Inside a wedding-themed room, Li Ziran realizes Dan’s apparent affection is a calculated attempt to control him and gain access to his Nature World. She wants to use Soul Weaving to transfer her energy through him and reshape the world within him.
• Dan releases Aimier, who begs Li Ziran to escape. Li remains passive and refuses to reassure her, causing her to question whether his feelings for her were ever genuine.
• Dan tortures Aimier when she refuses to obey. Under immense physical and emotional pressure, Aimier eventually submits completely, obeying Dan’s commands and abandoning her resistance.
• Li Ziran tests Dan by biting and tasting her blood, hoping to discover a rare element or a way to reverse the petrification affecting him. He finds only highly pure Natural Elements, not the Ultimate Element or “Ke” element he needs.
• Dan tricks Li into accepting her Natural Energy through a kiss. The energy enters his Nature World and causes it to evolve further, confirming that she can transform it with ease.
• Realizing he cannot overpower Dan directly, Li Ziran decides to drug her with baijiu. He persuades Dan and Aimier to drink, and Dan eventually collapses from intoxication.
• Once Dan is unconscious, Li summons the Corpse Witch, removes the alcohol from Dan’s stomach, and prepares to dissect her in order to uncover the secret of her body and resolve his own hidden danger.

Character Developments

• Li Ziran: Becomes increasingly calculating and emotionally detached. Although he feels some pity for Aimier, he treats her emotions as something to exploit or preserve only if they prove valuable. He recognizes Dan as the true threat and shifts from resisting her seduction to planning her dissection.
• Dan: Reveals herself as a domineering controller rather than a loving partner. She treats Aimier as a puppet, sees Li as a resource for transforming the Nature World, and remains impatient to complete her objective. Her confidence falters only when Li uses alcohol to incapacitate her.
• Aimier: Moves from shock and defiance to desperate emotional pleading, then to complete submission under Dan’s torture. Her love for Li is shown to be genuine, but her inability to resist Dan leaves Li disappointed and emotionally distant.
• Anjebel: Briefly observes the situation from outside and feels excluded and sorrowful, believing she is not worthy of sharing Li’s attention.

Significant Themes

• Control versus free will: Dan’s puppet-like manipulation of Aimier demonstrates the destruction of personal agency, while Li attempts to regain control through deception.
• Love as vulnerability and leverage: Aimier’s sincere feelings make her easy to exploit, while Li views emotion cynically but acknowledges that genuine devotion is rare and potentially valuable.
• Seduction masking domination: The bridal setting, wedding imagery, and promises of intimacy conceal Dan’s plan to control Li and transform his Nature World.
• The body as a source of power and knowledge: Li treats Dan’s body as the key to understanding his condition, eventually deciding that dissection is more useful than intimacy.
• Emotional detachment and exploitation: Li’s refusal to answer Aimier and his willingness to use her suffering reveal his growing moral distance from ordinary relationships.
• Transformation and possession: Dan’s energy alters Li’s inner world, raising the threat that his own Nature World—and possibly his identity—could be reshaped or taken over.

Important Character Interactions

• Dan forcibly claims Li as her partner and orders Aimier to join them.
• Aimier begs Li to flee, but his silence deepens her despair.
• Dan tortures Aimier into obedience while Li watches, conflicted only briefly.
• Li tests Dan’s blood and receives Natural Energy from her, inadvertently allowing her to evolve his Nature World.
• Li manipulates Dan into drinking, then takes advantage of her unconsciousness to begin investigating her body.

Li Ziran failed to find a special element in Dan before she regenerated and attacked him with her control over the Oak Space. As Dan began draining energy and age from Aimier, Anjebel urged Li Ziran toward the castle attic, where the turning fan seemed to attract even the energy in his Nature World.

• Li Ziran dissected Dan and examined her tissues but found only the four natural elements, leaving him baffled.
• Dan reassembled her body, mocked Li Ziran, and attacked him, but his Devouring Curse absorbed her energy before reaching its limit.
• Li Ziran fought back as the Light Sheep and Devouring Serpent, while Dan resisted his spells and shattered the round bed with darkness.
• Li Ziran used the corpse witches to trap Dan in a collapsing-space formation, cracking her condensed shell, but she began to recover by drawing energy from Aimier.
• Anjebel called out as green energy drained from her and aged her, then told Li Ziran to hurry to the castle attic.
• Li Ziran carried Anjebel toward the attic and realized the fan there was attracting energy from his Nature World.

Chapter Summary: Aimier Dies

Key Plot Points and Events

• Anjebel reveals that the escape route lies above the castle, urging Li Ziran to climb toward the spinning fan and attic.
• The spiral staircase collapses, exposing a deep ravine filled with dense roots and foul-smelling grease identical to the Filtration Layers. Li Ziran realizes the ravine may connect directly to them.
• Dan’s influence causes Nature World to evolve uncontrollably. Li Ziran’s body begins turning into tree bark as he is assimilated into the world.
• Following Anjebel’s directions, Li Ziran climbs the castle’s central stone pillar, using the shallow pits along its surface as handholds. He transforms into the Devouring Serpent and swallows Anjebel to protect her while climbing.
• Aimier attacks him. Her body mutates into a spider-like form with six additional arms, and she gains the ability to weave light into sticky silk.
• Li Ziran uses the Devouring Curse to destroy Aimier’s light attack and nearly tear out her tongue. Feeling momentary pity for her, he loosens the curse, allowing Aimier to trap him with her tongue and web.
• Both fall into the foul oil below. Li Ziran transforms into a Frog, survives within the grease, and uses Aimier’s light web as a lifeline to propel himself back toward the pillar.
• Aimier loses her grip and falls into the Filtration Layer. The corrosive oil rapidly dissolves her mutated limbs, hair, and face. She eventually stops moving and drifts away, apparently dead.
• Li Ziran suppresses his emotions and continues climbing. Near the fan, he senses the smell of a forest and suspects he has found an exit.
• He transforms into the Light Sheep, jumps onto the skylight above the rotating axle, and enters the dark attic. He releases Anjebel, whose body recovers after entering the new space. The chapter ends with the discovery that the attic is likely another spatial layer.

Character Developments

• Li Ziran: Becomes increasingly ruthless and survival-focused. His hesitation toward Aimier nearly kills him, teaching him that compassion can be fatal in the present crisis. He demonstrates flexibility by repeatedly changing forms—Devouring Serpent, Frog, and Light Sheep—to overcome different obstacles.
• Anjebel: Though physically fading and close to death, she remains determined and continues guiding Li Ziran. Her knowledge of the castle and Oak Space proves essential to their escape. Once inside the attic, she begins recovering.
• Aimier: Fully loses her Elven appearance and identity, becoming a spider-like servant of Dan. Her transformation reveals the extent of Dan’s control over her. After her final confrontation with Li Ziran, she falls into the corrosive Filtration Layer and appears to die.
• Dan: Never appears directly, but his anger and strengthening aura dominate the chapter. His power corrupts both the environment and those under his control, including Aimier and Nature World itself.

Significant Themes

• Survival versus compassion: Li Ziran’s mercy toward Aimier directly leads to his fall, forcing him to recognize that emotional hesitation can be deadly.
• Corruption and loss of identity: Aimier’s transformation from Elf into spider-like monster symbolizes her complete subjugation to Dan.
• Transformation and adaptability: Li Ziran’s shifting forms reflect his ability to adapt, while the uncontrolled changes in Dan’s domain represent dangerous corruption.
• Entrapment and escape: The castle, ravine, fan, and Filtration Layer form a series of layered prisons. The attic offers the first possible route to freedom.
• Consequences of allegiance: Aimier’s fate emphasizes the danger of becoming a puppet of a greater power.

Important Character Interactions

• Li Ziran and Anjebel: Their relationship is based on urgent trust. Despite Anjebel’s weakening condition, Li Ziran follows her instructions and protects her by carrying her inside his body.
• Li Ziran and Aimier: Their confrontation shifts from pursuit and combat to a brief moment of pity, then betrayal and mutual struggle. Li Ziran’s emotional hesitation nearly costs him his life.
• Li Ziran and Dan: Though they do not meet directly, Dan exerts constant pressure through the evolving Nature World, the castle, and Aimier’s monstrous transformation.

Chapter Summary: “Window Lattice”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Ziran and Anjebel take refuge in a hidden attic within Oak Space after Dan releases an oily green mist that weakens the Elves.
• Anjebel reveals that Aimier once showed her the attic during a previous “spatial tremor.” Such tremors have occurred repeatedly over many years, suggesting the recent event was not unique to Dan’s injury.
• The attic appears isolated from Oak Space and protects Anjebel from Dan’s control, indicating that it contains a power or mechanism capable of resisting Dan.
• Li Ziran investigates the abandoned room, discovering:
  • An ancient loom
  • A ruined hammock and other signs that someone once lived there
  • A mysterious alchemical marking, “Mirror 1327”
  • A blackboard bearing an advanced heptagram and unreadable runes
  • An oval depression perfectly sized for a human palm
• When Li Ziran turns the loom, the surrounding light begins to unravel into threads. The attic’s space appears to have been woven together, revealing a quiet Spatial Rift unlike ordinary elemental fractures.
• The loom can only affect the attic. Through the window, Li Ziran sees that Oak Space remains intact outside, while the attic is fragmented and held together by invisible spatial threads.
• Suspecting a magical barrier separates the attic from Oak Space, Li Ziran tests the window with his tongue and detects a thin, foul-smelling membrane made from an Ultimate Element.
• His first two Ultimate Elements, Tidal Element and Luo, have no effect. However, Ke spreads across the window in a web-like lattice of lines and ancient runes.
• Li Ziran pulls one strand from the lattice. The entire Oak Space trembles slightly, implying that the lattice is connected to the structure or stability of the world.

Character Developments

• Li Ziran becomes increasingly suspicious of Oak Space and Dan’s control over it. He realizes that the apparent order of the castle hides an older and more complicated mystery.
• His curiosity and experimental nature are emphasized as he examines the attic, operates the loom, studies the spatial distortion, and even uses his tongue to identify the barrier’s elemental nature.
• Li Ziran demonstrates growing mastery of Ultimate Elements, particularly Ke, which can interact with the hidden lattice when other elements fail.
• Anjebel is shown to possess unusual knowledge and independence. Unlike the other Elves, she knows how to evade Dan’s control and has access to a secret location within Oak Space.
• Her connection with Aimier becomes important, suggesting that Aimier may understand more about the spatial tremors and the attic than she has revealed.

Significant Themes

• Hidden structure beneath apparent order: The peaceful castle and orderly Oak Space conceal spatial fractures, forgotten technology, and ancient magic.
• Control versus loopholes: Dan appears to dominate Oak Space completely, yet the attic provides a place beyond her control, demonstrating that even absolute power has limitations.
• Ancient knowledge and forgotten civilizations: The abandoned loom, magical heptagram, “Mirror 1327” marking, and unknown runes imply that the attic belonged to an advanced but forgotten Mage or civilization.
• Space as something woven: The loom presents space not as fixed or continuous, but as a fabric that can be unraveled, repaired, or manipulated.
• Discovery through experimentation: Li Ziran relies on observation, physical testing, and elemental experimentation to uncover truths that conventional senses cannot perceive.

Character Interactions

• Anjebel openly explains the attic’s history to Li Ziran, though her account raises more questions than it answers.
• Li Ziran questions her credibility and presses her about the recurring spatial tremors, revealing his distrust of Dan’s official—or accepted—understanding of Oak Space.
• Their interaction establishes Anjebel as both an ally and a source of hidden information.
• Li Ziran’s discoveries are made in Anjebel’s presence, but the chapter ends before they can fully understand the lattice or its connection to Oak Space.

Chapter Summary: “Disgustingly Stinky”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Ziran recognizes the foul substance in Oak Space as an Inert Element, the opposite of the highly inclusive Ke Element. When the two interact, they neutralize one another and create a tooth-white pattern.
• Using Anjebel’s loom, Li Ziran pulls threads from the attic and begins tearing apart Oak Space, which appears to be directly connected to the loom. The stone pillar cracks, the castle changes color, and the city gradually becomes distorted and fragmented.
• Dan repeatedly orders Li Ziran to stop, revealing that the destruction of Oak Space is threatening something she deeply values. Li Ziran deliberately continues, using the damage to pressure her into removing the control she has placed inside his body.
• Dan offers a compromise—allowing Li Ziran to leave through the attic with partial control over his own world—but he refuses, demanding complete freedom and promising to leave the Elves alone.
• Dan retaliates by triggering woodification in Li Ziran’s body. His skin becomes rigid, his feet turn into roots, and he loses most of his ability to move. Nevertheless, he continues drawing threads through the Ke Element.
• As Oak Space collapses, the filthy Filtration Layer pours into the castle as greasy, foul-smelling liquid. It destroys the castle and transforms its bricks into vines, moving toward Dan.
• Li Ziran gambles that the grease will erase Dan if it reaches her. However, Dan welcomes the transformation and reveals her true monstrous nature.
• The grease changes Dan into a grotesque, insect-like creature with claws, scales, pores, threads, and a pointed mouth. Threads connect her to the treehouses, where the Primordial Elves are immobilized and used as sources of energy.
• Li Ziran discovers that the many Aimier figures throughout Oak Space are not the real Aimier but derivatives or puppets created by Dan. Dan uses them to experience various lives and desires while drawing energy from them.
• After Li Ziran removes the final thread, Oak Space’s disguise disappears. The space is revealed as the interior of an enormous Oak covered in foul yellow grease, with the Primordial Elves trapped and exploited.
• Two aged Elf women near Dan are revealed to be the true Primordial Elves. The beautiful figure Li Ziran had confronted was not an Elf at all, but Dan’s monstrous parasitic form.

Character Developments

• Li Ziran becomes more strategic and determined. Rather than simply attacking Dan, he carefully pushes Oak Space toward collapse to identify her weakness and force a negotiation.
• He demonstrates considerable resolve when woodification immobilizes him, continuing to act despite being unable to move freely. His disgust and horror grow as he realizes the extent of Dan’s deception.
• Dan Qiong is exposed as manipulative and possessive. Her repeated threats against Ke’er show that she is willing to use hostages and emotional pressure to maintain control.
• Dan’s apparent beauty and authority collapse completely when her true nature is revealed. She is shown to be a parasite that uses the Primordial Elves and Aimier copies for energy and entertainment.
• Aimier is revealed to be alive, but the many versions of her are artificial derivatives rather than independent individuals, undermining Li Ziran’s earlier assumptions about her identity and fate.
• Anjebel remains involved through the loom, carefully operating it and helping Li Ziran damage Oak Space.

Significant Themes

• Appearance versus reality: Oak Space initially resembles a beautiful Elven city, but its destruction reveals a filthy biological interior and a system built on exploitation.
• Control and resistance: The confrontation centers on Dan’s attempt to control Li Ziran’s body and the Elves, contrasted with Li Ziran’s struggle to reclaim his autonomy.
• Deception and false identity: The Aimier figures, the Elven setting, and Dan’s attractive appearance are all revealed to be artificial masks.
• Exploitation beneath beauty: The supposedly noble Primordial Elves are actually immobilized and drained of energy, while the charming world around them functions as a façade.
• Mutual restraint and elemental opposition: The contrast between the inclusive Ke Element and the rejecting Inert Element reflects the broader conflict between combination and separation, creation and destruction.
• Monstrous transformation: Physical corruption—woodification, grease, vines, and insect-like mutations—externalizes the hidden corruption within Oak Space and Dan herself.

Character Interactions

• Li Ziran and Dan engage in a prolonged battle of threats and negotiation. Dan repeatedly commands him to stop, while Li Ziran uses the destruction of Oak Space to force her to compromise.
• Dan threatens Ke’er to control Li Ziran, but he refuses to yield because he believes submission would result in being completely tamed.
• Li Ziran and Anjebel cooperate through the loom, with Anjebel operating it while Li Ziran draws out the threads and manipulates the space.
• Li Ziran confronts Dan directly as the grease approaches her, relying on her attachment to Oak Space to make her surrender.
• The revelation of the Aimier derivatives changes Li Ziran’s understanding of his previous relationship with her, leaving him horrified that his apparent intimacy was with a constructed monster rather than a genuine Elf.

Chapter Summary: “Puppet Control”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Anjebel and Li Ziran discover that the sacred Oak Space has been destroyed and infested by a terrifying creature. The Lowest-Rank Elves are wrapped in energy-draining threads, while similar shoots grow from Anjebel and Li Ziran’s bodies.
• Li Ziran realizes that the threads control his body at a cellular level. They originate from Dan, pass through Aimier, and ultimately fuel the evolution of the Nature World.
• He identifies Aimier as Dan’s intermediary and decides to eliminate or seize control of her.
• Transforming into the Devouring Serpent, Li Ziran attacks Aimier, but Dan intervenes by spraying him with foul black Oil, forcing him to vomit and allowing Aimier to escape.
• Li Ziran then transforms into a radiant Goat and traps Dan inside the Faith World. Aimier interferes, weakening the attack and helping Dan escape.
• Using a Sealing Spell, Void Spirits, and Puppet Curse techniques, Li Ziran suppresses Aimier’s soul and converts her into his puppet. A moonlike power connected to the shattered mirror fragment on his forehead severs her control by Dan.
• Dan reacts furiously to losing Aimier. The surrounding space melts, releasing thousands—or potentially far more—of insect-like creatures.
• Li Ziran uses transformation, blessing, and memory magic on the insects, learning that they are Wood Ants. They parasitically consume the Origin Essence of trees and have evolved by feeding on the Oak and its Elves.
• He concludes that Dan is not an individual monster but the queen and controlling consciousness of the enormous Wood Ant colony.

Character Developments

• Li Ziran: Demonstrates increasing awareness of the control network inside his body and remains composed despite being physically invaded. He uses multiple forms and abilities—Devouring Serpent, radiant Goat, sealing magic, Void Spirits, and puppet manipulation—to turn Aimier against Dan. His control over puppetry and soul-based techniques becomes significantly stronger.
• Aimier: Is revealed to have been manipulated by Dan since her creation and functions as a relay or puppet. After resisting Li Ziran and briefly assisting Dan, she is forcibly converted into Li Ziran’s puppet.
• Dan: Initially appears to control the Oak Space through Aimier, but her loss exposes her dependence on the relay. Her rage reveals the enormous Wood Ant colony beneath the ruined Oak and confirms that she is its queen.
• Anjebel: Experiences terror and helplessness as the Oak Space collapses and invasive threads grow within her body. She recognizes the control structure but cannot meaningfully intervene.
• The Elves: Are reduced to sources of primordial Origin Essence, their energy being continuously extracted by the parasitic system.

Significant Themes

• Control and autonomy: The chapter centers on layered domination—Dan controls Aimier, Aimier relays that control to Li Ziran, and the Elves are physically enslaved by the threads.
• Transformation of the weak into the powerful: The Wood Ants, once insignificant creatures, have evolved into a catastrophic force by consuming the Oak’s essence over countless generations.
• Puppetry and identity: Aimier’s status as a constructed or manipulated being raises questions about free will, while Li Ziran’s victory comes through replacing one form of control with another.
• Corruption of nature: The sacred Oak Space, once a source of life, has been hollowed out by parasitic creatures and converted into a system of extraction.
• Knowledge as power: Li Ziran’s use of Memory Spell reveals the true nature of Dan and the Wood Ants, allowing him to understand the scale of the threat.

Important Character Interactions

• Anjebel looks to Li Ziran for protection, but he is too focused on uncovering and breaking his own control.
• Li Ziran repeatedly clashes with Aimier, first trying to devour her, then trapping and subduing her.
• Dan protects Aimier and disrupts Li Ziran’s attacks, demonstrating the strength of their connection.
• Li Ziran ultimately defeats Dan’s control over Aimier, turning the intermediary into his own puppet.
• The chapter ends with Li Ziran learning that Dan is the queen of a vast Wood Ant colony, redefining the conflict from a battle against one monster to a confrontation with an entire parasitic species.