Chapter Summaries

Chapter Summary: “Ant Swarm”

Key Plot Points and Events

• A massive swarm of Wood Ants erupts from the Oak tree and attacks Li Ziran, driven by their instinct to eat and devour.
• Li Ziran uses the Light Spell’s Protection Spell to create a radiant barrier and the Transformation Spell to turn attacking ants into Goats, which are sent into his Faith World through the Blessing Spell and Faith Curse.
• The ants’ overwhelming numbers quickly make this strategy ineffective. They crawl over and gnaw at the barrier, using sulfurous yellow saliva to weaken it.
• Li Ziran’s energy consumption becomes extreme as he continuously transforms ants and reinforces his defenses with power generated from his Radiant Viscera and Faith World.
• Through the Memory Spell, Li Ziran discovers that the ants are searching for a new “habitat.” The Oak tree is exhausted, and the swarm needs a new breeding ground.
• He realizes that the ants have evolved into transcendent creatures through their long absorption of the Oak tree. Because they were not naturally shaped by the Elemental Tide, they would likely be destroyed if exposed to it.
• As Li Ziran struggles, his Nature World begins evolving uncontrollably. Green bark, roots, branches, and a new ancient natural element begin forming within his body, resembling the foundation of an Oak tree.
• This transformation attracts the ants even more strongly. Their bodies enlarge, their teeth become more powerful, and they become desperate to break through the barrier and consume Li Ziran’s newly formed natural energy.
• Li Ziran recognizes that he may be evolving into a transcendent Oak-like lifeform, but this would make him an irresistible food source for the Wood Ants. His greatest danger is no longer merely the swarm—it is the uncontrolled evolution taking place inside him.

Character Development

• Li Ziran demonstrates impressive adaptability and spell control under extreme pressure. His repeated use of the Light Spell causes the Light Chain within him to become increasingly harmonious, rapidly improving his mastery.
• However, his limitations are also exposed. He understands the principles of the Protection Spell but lacks the time and training to wield its full power, leaving his defense vulnerable.
• His analysis of the Wood Ants shows his growing understanding of instinct, evolution, and the Elemental Tide. He realizes that the ants’ apparent strength is also a weakness because they are not compatible with the natural world outside their habitat.
• Li Ziran is forced to confront the terrifying possibility that his own cultivation and evolution may destroy him. Though becoming an Oak-like transcendent being might seem like an achievement, he views it as a death sentence because the ants would devour him.

Significant Themes

• Survival and adaptation: Both Li Ziran and the Wood Ants continually evolve in response to danger. The battle becomes a contest between his spells and the ants’ instinctive adaptation.
• Uncontrolled evolution: Li Ziran’s Nature World develops beyond his control, showing that growth can be as dangerous as stagnation when it occurs too rapidly.
• Instinct versus intelligence: The ants possess almost no reasoning ability, yet their simple drives—eat, reproduce, and find a habitat—make them extremely difficult to defeat.
• Power and its cost: Li Ziran’s spells are powerful, but maintaining them drains him quickly. His growing strength also creates new dangers by making him more attractive to the ants.
• Nature’s indifference: The Wood Ants are neither malicious nor deliberate; they simply consume whatever allows them to survive. This makes them more frightening than a rational enemy.

Character Interactions

• Li Ziran and the Wood Ants: Their conflict is a direct struggle between conscious spellcraft and overwhelming biological instinct. Li Ziran repeatedly transforms and repels the ants, while the swarm adapts and intensifies its assault.
• Li Ziran and Dan: Dan does not appear directly, but his presence remains important. Li Ziran suspects that Dan may be responsible for the ants’ behavior or the changes within the Nature World, and he realizes Dan would not allow the swarm to be easily destroyed.
• Li Ziran and his inner powers: The Light Chain and Nature Chain develop simultaneously, almost like competing forces within him. Their interaction produces unprecedented growth but also threatens to transform his body completely.
• Li Ziran and the Oak tree: His transformation begins to resemble the Oak’s ancient foundation, suggesting a connection between his evolving Nature World and the tree’s original transcendent life force.

Chapter Summary: “A Stomach Full of Spoils”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Ziran is trapped in a dark space swarming with Wood Ants. Their hunger for Natural Essence causes them to pile onto his Light-based defenses, gradually crushing and shrinking his protective shield.
• His body begins transforming into an ancient Oak as roots and branches grow from him, while the Elemental Tide settles inside his body.
• Realizing that he cannot defeat the swarm through magic alone, Li Ziran returns to the one field he truly understands: surgery and anatomy.
• He decides to study the Wood Ants’ internal organs in order to discover their weaknesses—and perhaps eventually understand Dan’s own vital structure.
• To obtain specimens, he converts an abandoned body resembling himself into a puppet. He fills it with Natural Essence and constructs a heavily reinforced stomach:
  • Fourteen layers of protection are carved into the stomach lining.
  • Light’s Protection is used to turn the stomach into an inescapable cage.
  • A compressed Natural Element crystal is placed inside as bait.
• The puppet is exposed to the ant swarm. The Wood Ants rapidly invade through its pores and openings, using acidic secretions to enlarge entry points and stretching their bodies to burrow inside.
• Li Ziran observes their anatomy and discovers that the ants possess special feeler-like Elemental Organs capable of absorbing Natural Essence directly from organs and energy pathways.
• Once the puppet’s Natural Essence is depleted, the ants begin devouring its organs. However, the strongest and most sensitive ants detect the bait hidden in the stomach.
• A large white Wood Ant enters the stomach, drawing many others after it. Once enough ants are trapped inside, Li Ziran activates the layered defenses and extracts the stomach with Puppet Thread.
• He successfully captures a valuable collection of Wood Ant specimens, comparing the result to an exceptionally successful fishing haul.

Character Development

• Li Ziran shifts from panic and helplessness to calm, analytical problem-solving. He recognizes that relying solely on Light and Nature magic is foolish because he lacks the skill of a true Mage.
• He embraces his identity as a surgeon, using anatomical knowledge rather than magical force to turn the situation around.
• His outlook becomes colder and more scientific: the terrifying Wood Ants are reduced to “specimens” whose bodies can be studied and exploited.
• He also demonstrates patience and strategic discipline, deliberately allowing the puppet to be consumed so he can attract the most exceptional ants rather than merely capture ordinary ones.

Significant Themes

• Survival and adaptation: The chapter emphasizes the natural law that every creature struggles to live, often by consuming another.
• Knowledge as power: Li Ziran survives not through overwhelming strength but through observation, specialized knowledge, and understanding his enemy’s biology.
• Identity and self-reliance: In the absence of guidance, Li Ziran must depend entirely on himself and rediscover the value of his own expertise.
• Science versus brute force: Surgery and anatomy allow him to overcome a magical and physical threat that direct spellcasting cannot defeat.
• Predation and reversal: The Wood Ants believe they are devouring Li Ziran’s puppet, but he uses their instincts to trap and harvest them instead.

Character Interactions

• Li Ziran has no direct conversation with another character in this chapter, but he engages in a tense strategic confrontation with the Wood Ant swarm.
• His actions are also indirectly connected to Dan, whose abilities and internal structure Li Ziran hopes to understand through studying the ants.
• The Wood Ants interact collectively as a ravenous organism, competing with one another for Natural Essence while revealing distinct differences between ordinary ants and stronger, more sensitive individuals.

Chapter Summary: “Dissecting Wood Ants, a Major Discovery”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Ziran contains the Wood Ants inside a magically reinforced stomach while the swarm attacks his Light Chain and shield.
• Using the Purification Flame, he removes every hidden ant from the stomach lining and seals the stomach so none can escape.
• He surgically dissects several Wood Ants, discovering their internal energy-processing organs:
  • A coiling tongue that absorbs Natural Elements.
  • A seven-layered throat filter covered in Frog Script formations.
  • A triangular, heart-like organ that transforms mixed elemental energy into a dense black substance.
  • A small intestine that distributes and extracts energy throughout the body.
  • A pelvic cavity that stores waste and the black fluid secreted through their fangs.
• By feeding a living ant natural energy, Li Ziran observes the entire process: the energy is absorbed, filtered, converted, circulated, used for growth, and eventually expelled as waste.
• He confirms that even a newborn Wood Ant can rapidly evolve when exposed to natural energy.
• Testing their weaknesses, he injects energy mixed with Ke Elements and discovers that their antennae reject impure energy. When he removes the antennae, the ant dies shortly afterward.
• Li Ziran realizes that the antennae are both energy filters and sensory organs, making them the Wood Ants’ primary vulnerability.
• Faced with an enormous swarm, he considers whether the ants might reabsorb their own waste fluid and whether it could be used against them.

Character Development

• Li Ziran remains calm and methodical despite the danger, relying on his knowledge as an Organ Master to turn the crisis into an experiment.
• His surgical investigation reveals his increasing scientific curiosity and willingness to take risks for knowledge.
• He recognizes that his previous understanding of natural energy and the Nature World may be incomplete.
• The discovery of the Wood Ants’ energy-conversion organ leads him to question whether his own body requires a similar organ to control its uncontrolled transformation into wood.
• His confidence grows as he identifies a practical weakness in the ants, though the sheer size of the swarm makes exploiting it difficult.

Significant Themes

• Scientific discovery through danger: Li Ziran studies an enemy in the middle of a life-threatening battle, transforming combat into biological research.
• Energy conversion and adaptation: The Wood Ants’ organs demonstrate a sophisticated system for absorbing, filtering, converting, and utilizing natural energy.
• Evolution and potential: Even newborn ants can evolve rapidly, suggesting that the species may be an ancient and exceptionally powerful race.
• The limits of knowledge: Li Ziran’s discoveries force him to reconsider the nature of the Nature World and the true meaning of natural energy.
• Strength through vulnerability: Despite their power, the Wood Ants possess a critical weakness in their antennae.

Character Interactions

• Li Ziran has no direct human interactions in the chapter; his principal “interaction” is with the Wood Ant swarm and individual specimens.
• He alternates between containment, dissection, and controlled experimentation, treating the ants as both enemies and biological subjects.
• His interaction with the living specimens allows him to observe their organs functioning in real time, while his experiments gradually reveal how they absorb energy and how they can be killed.

Chapter Summary: “Urine Mixed with Ke”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Ziran studies the Wood Ants and discovers that their antennae contain incredibly refined filtration membranes. These membranes filter out foreign elements while allowing Natural Elements to enter the ants’ bodies.
• By damaging an antenna, he proves that even a tiny amount of Light Element is lethal to the Wood Ants, causing them to swell and explode. Their extreme weakness is that almost any non-natural element is poisonous to them—but their antennae normally prevent such elements from entering.
• Li Ziran experiments with Light, Luo, and Tidal Elements, but none can pass through the antennae’s filtration system. Meanwhile, the Wood Ants continue multiplying and growing larger, while his Light’s Protection steadily weakens.
• The Void Spirit World conducts tens of thousands of simulated experiments, attempting to recreate the Wood Ants’ organs and filtration structures. Every attempt fails because Void Spirits cannot perfectly reproduce physical reality.
• Under severe pressure, Li Ziran realizes that only Ke Element can fuse with Natural Elements. He then receives a crucial clue from the Void Spirits: Wood Ant urine cannot be absorbed by the ants, but its elements can pass through their antennae.
• He mixes the urine with Natural Energy and Light Element, creating an attractive bait that the Wood Ants absorb. However, the Light Element is still detected and expelled near the final filtration layer.
• Li Ziran understands that Ke Element’s exceptional inclusiveness can complete the fusion. After adding it, the mixture successfully passes through the antennae and reaches the Wood Ant’s internal heart.
• The heart’s energy-conversion mechanism seizes and explodes, proving that the method works. However, before Li Ziran can celebrate, a Wood Ant’s tooth penetrates a gap in his failing Light’s Protection.

Character Development

• Li Ziran demonstrates extraordinary biological knowledge, surgical skill, and analytical persistence. He carefully dissects the antennae and uses both physical experiments and the Void Spirit World to investigate the problem.
• His confidence is tested as his methods repeatedly fail and his protective shield deteriorates. He briefly becomes distracted by thoughts of developing a broader elemental cultivation system, recognizing that his understanding of elements lags behind his understanding of organs.
• Despite near despair, he regains focus and refuses to surrender. His breakthrough comes from combining observation, memory analysis, experimentation, and a sudden realization that Ke Element is the missing component.
• The chapter shows Li Ziran’s tendency to think creatively under pressure: he turns an apparently useless substance—Wood Ant urine—into a delivery medium for poison.

Significant Themes

• Adaptation and evolution: The Wood Ants’ organs represent the result of countless generations of refinement, making them exceptionally resistant to outside interference.
• Science through experimentation: Li Ziran advances by dissecting, testing, simulating, and learning from failure rather than relying on intuition alone.
• Limits of specialization: His mastery of organs gives him an advantage, but the crisis reveals that he must deepen his understanding of elemental principles as well.
• Persistence under pressure: The shrinking barrier and advancing ants create a crisis in which continued experimentation is the only path to survival.
• Fusion and compatibility: The solution succeeds only when Natural Energy, Wood Ant urine, Light Element, and the highly inclusive Ke Element are combined in the correct way.

Character Interactions

• Li Ziran’s primary interaction is with the Wood Ants, especially through dissection and experimentation on individual specimens.
• The ants function as both enemies and biological subjects: their bodies provide the information needed to defeat the colony, while their attacks constantly threaten Li Ziran’s life.
• The Void Spirits assist Li Ziran indirectly by running simulations, analyzing memories, and eventually discovering the importance of Wood Ant urine.
• The chapter ends on a cliffhanger: although Li Ziran has found a successful weapon, the Wood Ants break through his defenses before he can deploy it fully.

Chapter Summary: The Ant Swarm’s Doomsday

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Ziran develops a new weapon by combining Light energy, natural energy, Ke Element, and Wood Ant urine. The resulting emerald-green, oil-like substance smells strongly of wood and matsutake mushrooms.
• When Wood Ants attack, the substance enters their bodies through their antennae. It causes their hearts to seize and explode, killing them almost instantly.
• Li Ziran abandons his Light’s Protection and uses the Corpse Witches to harvest urine from dead ants and continue producing the deadly mixture.
• He transforms into a tree-like state, rooted to the Oak and connected to its natural energy. This makes him resemble a new habitat or food source, drawing the ants toward him while the emerald substance destroys them.
• The entire Wood Ant colony—including its elite warriors and larvae—is exterminated. Their corpses pile up throughout the hollow Oak, creating a snow-like white landscape.
• Dan, the evolved leader of the Wood Ants, watches helplessly. She realizes that Li Ziran’s method resembles a supernatural plague and mistakes him for a Necromancer, since she cannot understand the combination of magic and biological manipulation.
• Although Dan’s tribe is destroyed, she believes the sacrifice may still be worthwhile if she can eventually invade Li Ziran’s body and reproduce within him.
• Both Li Ziran and Dan enter a tense waiting game. Dan looks for an opportunity to occupy him, while Li Ziran attempts to escape his rigid wooden form and prepare a defense.
• Li Ziran orders the Corpse Witches to operate on his transformed body. They cut through his bark-like exterior to locate his throat and lungs, intending to implant biological filters modeled on the Wood Ants’ internal structures.
• The operation reveals that much of his throat and lungs have begun turning irreversibly into wood. Li Ziran realizes that if his lungs fail, his entire Nature Chain may be lost.
• He remembers the Wood Ants’ swollen pelvic sacs and suspects their urine may be capable of neutralizing or restraining the destructive expansion of natural energy.

Character Developments

• Li Ziran becomes calm, calculating, and inventive under extreme danger. Rather than merely defending himself, he exploits the Wood Ants’ biology to create a species-destroying weapon.
• His transformation into a tree forces him to confront the limitations and dangers of his evolving body. He begins treating himself as a biological experiment, modifying his organs to control the unnatural energy within him.
• Li Ziran also becomes increasingly willing to gamble with his own survival, relying on the Corpse Witches to perform dangerous surgery while he remains vulnerable to Dan.
• Dan shifts from an apparently dominant colony leader to a desperate survivor. The destruction of her entire race leaves her emotionally frozen, but she continues calculating how to preserve the colony through occupation and reproduction.
• Dan’s perception of Li Ziran changes completely. She no longer sees him as an ordinary human but as an incomprehensible, plague-bearing existence whose powers lie outside her race’s knowledge.

Significant Themes

• Adaptation and survival: Both Li Ziran and Dan attempt to evolve beyond their natural limitations, but adaptation demands extreme sacrifice.
• Biological experimentation: Li Ziran’s body becomes both laboratory and battlefield as he fuses energies, harvests ant organs, and attempts surgical modification.
• The danger of uncontrolled evolution: His natural-energy transformation is powerful but irreversible, threatening to destroy his organs and invalidate his entire power system.
• Knowledge versus ignorance: Dan’s inability to understand Li Ziran’s methods causes her to interpret them as necromancy or plague, emphasizing how limited inherited knowledge can be.
• Gambler’s sacrifice: Dan sacrifices her entire tribe for a possible future, while Li Ziran risks his body and abilities to gain mobility and survive.
• Nature as both life and destruction: Natural energy allows Li Ziran to create and evolve, but it also overwhelms his body and turns living tissue into wood.

Character Interactions

• Li Ziran uses the Corpse Witches as assistants, directing them to harvest Wood Ant urine, dissect corpses, and eventually perform surgery on his wooden body.
• The Wood Ant swarm instinctively follows the emerald mixture despite its danger, while some of the more intelligent ants attempt to resist and fail.
• Dan maintains control over portions of the swarm but gradually loses her elite soldiers as the plague destroys them. Her inability to intervene creates a silent confrontation between her and Li Ziran.
• Li Ziran senses Dan’s intention to invade and occupy his body, while Dan waits for his evolution to progress far enough for her to exploit his vulnerability.
• The chapter ends with Li Ziran still immobilized and undergoing emergency modification, searching for a way to use Wood Ant urine to stabilize the natural energy threatening his lungs.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Ziran uses Wood Ant urine to neutralize the Natural Elements spreading through his lungs. The Corpse Witches apply it around his lung entrance, forming crystals that halt the invasion.
• The Corpse Witches exterminate the remaining Wood Ant tribe and surgically remove the woodenized portions of Li Ziran’s body. They strip away damaged tissue and insert filtering membranes into his lungs.
• Dan approaches through the solution, but Li Ziran detonates captured Wood Ants to frighten and distract her. The tactic only delays her, as Dan’s antennae are protected from the harmful solution.
• The Corpse Witches map Li Ziran’s internal organs and reveal that his body has been severely transformed: his skin and flesh are mostly wood, his capillaries are failing, and two of his three Organ Chains are damaged. Only the Light Chain remains intact.
• Filtering membranes slow, but do not stop, the energy entering the Nature World. Li Ziran concludes that he needs a special heart to regulate or transform the natural energy.
• Wood Ant hearts cannot fuse with his body and melt upon implantation. Dan then absorbs the prepared solutions, recovering from her Wood Ant-like state and becoming even stronger.
• Li Ziran notices that Dan possesses a unique heart capable of transforming energy within a humanoid body. He realizes that her heart—and possibly other organs—could stabilize or enhance his Nature World.
• The Corpse Witches finish removing the wooden shell from Li Ziran. He emerges as a bizarre skeletal creature with three brains and three sets of organs, including golden Light Chain organs and emerald-green Nature Chain organs.
• Dan recognizes the Nature World inside him as the power she desperately needs to survive the Elemental Tide. She attacks him with sealing and light magic, while Li Ziran attempts to cut open her chest and seize her heart.
• Their battle escalates: Dan’s claws nearly pierce his Resurrection Gallbladder, while Li Ziran transforms his Nature Chain into a Frog and then a Devouring Serpent. He absorbs the black oil Dan vomits at him and redirects it into the Nature World.
• The corrupted energy briefly stalls the natural vortex, frightening Dan. Li Ziran realizes that every part of Dan’s body may be useful to him and becomes determined to capture her completely.

Character Developments

• Li Ziran evolves from a nearly immobilized, woodenized victim into a newly “reborn” monster with exposed organs, three brains, and multiple interconnected organ systems. The excruciating surgery restores his mobility and awareness.
• His desperation develops into calculated ruthlessness. Instead of merely trying to survive, he begins viewing Dan’s body as a collection of valuable organs and magical resources.
• Dan demonstrates considerable caution and intelligence by protecting her antennae, recognizing Li Ziran’s key organs, and exploiting his weaknesses. She also reveals a frightening ability to drain energy and revert from her Wood Ant form.
• Dan’s confidence is shaken when Li Ziran’s Devouring Serpent disrupts the Nature World, showing that he can threaten her despite her superior speed and power.
• The Corpse Witches function as a precise surgical force, mapping Li Ziran’s body, removing invaded tissue, and grafting membranes, though they cannot solve the fundamental problem of his missing or incompatible heart.

Significant Themes

• Transformation and rebirth: Li Ziran’s horrifying dissection leads to physical and psychological renewal rather than death.
• Adaptation and survival: Both characters improvise constantly, using their bodies, magic, and environments as weapons.
• The limits of specialized power: The Wood Ants are overwhelmingly effective in their own environment but fragile when exposed to the larger Elemental Tide.
• The body as a source of power: Organs, hearts, blood, and internal energy systems are treated as magical tools that can be removed, grafted, transformed, or consumed.
• Predation and reversal of power: Dan initially hunts Li Ziran, but he gradually begins hunting her, turning her unique physiology into a potential resource.
• Horror mixed with absurdity: The graphic surgical imagery and grotesque transformations are undercut by Dan’s elegant appearance, her foul-smelling flatulence, and Li Ziran’s amused reaction.

Character Interactions

• Li Ziran and the Corpse Witches cooperate through pain and surgery, with the witches acting as extensions of his will.
• Li Ziran and Dan engage in a contest of nerve, each trying to manipulate the other’s fear and vulnerability.
• Dan’s absorption of the solutions gives her the upper hand temporarily, but it also reveals her unique heart and exposes a possible weakness.
• Their direct confrontation becomes a battle between Dan’s sealing magic, claws, and energy manipulation and Li Ziran’s Light and Nature Chains, Frog transformation, and Devouring Curse.
• The chapter ends with Li Ziran gaining confidence after damaging the Nature World and viewing Dan not as an enemy to escape, but as a treasure to be harvested.

Chapter Summary: “Let the Elements Fight the Elements”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Ziran discovers that Dan’s strange bodily fluid greatly improves his damaged body. His greed intensifies, and he begins considering capturing Dan and transplanting her organs into himself.
• Dan realizes that her immense power could accidentally destroy the newly formed Nature World, so she restrains her use of acid. Li Ziran, however, attacks aggressively in his Devouring Serpent form.
• Unable to catch Dan directly, Li Ziran identifies the source of her strength: the Primordial Elves connected to her by energy threads. He attacks and devours several of them, absorbing their natural energy and faint souls.
• Dan tries to save herself by draining the remaining elves. More than thirty Primordial Elves are reduced to mummified corpses, effectively bringing the species to extinction. The elves’ fate causes Dan to regret what she has done and worry about Ke’er’s reaction.
• Dan’s enhanced elf form becomes even more beautiful and powerful, but Li Ziran remains focused on obtaining the organs hidden within her Wood Ant form.
• Dan reveals her mastery of natural magic. She cuts off Li Ziran’s tongue with Wind Blades, then bombards him with wind, earth, fire, and ice magic. Her attacks destroy his Light’s Protection and trap him in an Absolute Zero-like frozen domain.
• Li Ziran struggles because his natural energy is abundant but his magical technique is limited. Ordinary flames are repeatedly extinguished by the freezing wind.
• He changes tactics, using earth-element magic to summon an Earth Golem. Although Dan destroys it, Li Ziran realizes that his spells can force her to defend herself.
• He then summons wind-element creatures and launches another Forbidden Spell, deliberately testing whether Dan can counter magic with the same element. The chapter ends as the wind-element attack targets Dan.

Character Developments

• Li Ziran: His physical appetite and ambition become increasingly dangerous. He shifts from trying to overpower Dan directly to attacking the Primordial Elves that sustain her. Despite lacking magical technique, he shows adaptability and strategic thinking, recognizing that his vast Nature World gives him an advantage in prolonged combat.
• Dan: She displays exceptional speed, control, and knowledge of natural magic. Her willingness to sacrifice the remaining Primordial Elves shows her desperation, while her regret suggests she is not entirely indifferent to their suffering. Her transformation becomes stronger and more refined as she absorbs their energy.
• Primordial Elves: They are revealed to retain traces of consciousness after being devoured. Their destruction becomes a major consequence of the battle, with Dan’s actions effectively ending their species.

Significant Themes

• Greed and consumption: Li Ziran views living beings and even Dan’s organs as resources to be harvested, emphasizing his predatory nature.
• Power and sacrifice: Dan sacrifices the Primordial Elves to preserve her own strength, raising questions about survival, responsibility, and the cost of power.
• Technique versus raw energy: Li Ziran possesses enormous natural energy but lacks the skill to wield it effectively, while Dan’s refined magical control gives her a decisive advantage.
• Elements opposing elements: The battle develops into a contest of elemental mastery, with Li Ziran attempting to counter Dan’s Absolute Zero using earth and wind magic rather than relying on brute force.
• Extinction and consequence: The Primordial Elves’ destruction demonstrates that the battle’s effects extend beyond the two combatants and may have lasting consequences for the wider world.

Character Interactions

• Li Ziran pursues and tries to trap Dan, while Dan constantly evades him using light manipulation and superior speed.
• Li Ziran attacks the Primordial Elves supporting Dan, forcing her to choose between protecting them and preserving her own power.
• Dan responds to Li Ziran’s physical attacks with increasingly powerful natural magic, including Wind Blades, Earth Spikes, fire, ice, and Absolute Zero.
• After realizing that Dan must defend against magical threats, Li Ziran changes from predator to tactician, summoning elemental constructs and preparing to test her ability to counter matching elements.

Chapter Summary: “He Used This Trick Again”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Ziran witnesses Dan counter his massive Wind Element Forbidden Spell with a Water-based spell. Rather than meeting the Wind Blades with greater force, Dan uses water to absorb and dissolve them, demonstrating the importance of elemental interactions and restraint.
• Dan then turns the battle against Li Ziran, unleashing a terrifying Cold Wave. Li’s attempt to defend himself with ordinary flames fails when the flames are immediately frozen.
• Realizing direct defense is ineffective, Li Ziran uses the same principle he has repeatedly relied on: countering an opponent with their own method. He creates a Water Tornado by combining Wind and Water Elements.
• The tornado rapidly grows, absorbs the Cold Wave, and becomes increasingly destructive and unstable. Dan attempts to freeze it with Ice Elements, but the tornado tears the ice apart and continues expanding.
• Dan secretly introduces Earth Elements and generates powerful gravity. The gravity compresses the tornado, drags debris downward, and begins pulling Li Ziran toward the ground.
• Li Ziran recognizes the principle and copies Dan’s Gravity Spell, creating a second layer of gravity. The two opposing forces draw Li and Dan closer together while placing enormous pressure on the surrounding Oak.
• Dan counters Li’s Earth Elements with flames, using heat to destabilize the Earth Elements and cancel the gravity.
• Li responds by producing the Annihilation Fire Lotus, another powerful fire-based Forbidden Spell. Dan recognizes the technique and reacts with disbelief, noting that Li is once again using the same familiar trick.

Character Developments

• Li Ziran grows more perceptive during the battle. He begins to understand that Forbidden Spells are not merely about overwhelming power, but about exploiting elemental relationships and weaknesses.
• His confidence and adaptability increase as he successfully reproduces ancient elven magic using the Natural Essence supplied by the Nature World. Because his energy supply is effectively limitless, he can cast powerful spells repeatedly without worrying about exhaustion.
• Li remains reliant on imitation and countering his opponent’s techniques rather than developing entirely original strategies. However, his ability to quickly analyze and reproduce Dan’s magic makes him increasingly dangerous.
• Dan demonstrates far greater technical mastery of elemental magic. She dissolves Wind with Water, attempts to neutralize the tornado with Ice, suppresses it with Gravity, and then uses Fire to disrupt Li’s copied Earth magic.
• Despite her calmness, Dan becomes increasingly wary and confused by Li’s ability to reproduce ancient elven spells. She realizes that he is not simply using powerful magic—he is mirroring her methods almost exactly.

Significant Themes

• Elemental balance and mutual restraint: The battle emphasizes that magic is governed by relationships between elements. Strength alone is less important than choosing the correct counter-element.
• Adaptability versus mastery: Li’s ability to learn and imitate allows him to keep pace with Dan, but Dan’s deeper understanding lets her use subtle combinations and transformations that he does not initially anticipate.
• Knowledge as power: Ancient magical texts that the elves considered worthless have become Li’s most valuable weapons. His access to forgotten knowledge allows him to use spells far beyond normal human capability.
• Nature as an inexhaustible source: The Origin and Nature World provide Li with nearly unlimited Natural Essence, allowing him to cast Forbidden Spells freely and transform different elements almost effortlessly.
• Copying and innovation: Li repeatedly uses “his opponent’s own method” against them. Although this makes him seem predictable, his copied techniques are powerful enough to continually surprise Dan.

Character Interactions

• Li observes Dan’s handling of the Wind Blades and learns from her restrained, precise use of Water Elements.
• Dan’s Cold Wave forces Li to abandon conventional defense and imitate her elemental approach with a Water Tornado.
• Dan attempts to freeze and then crush Li’s tornado, while Li studies the changing spell and realizes she is using Ice and Earth Elements.
• Li copies Dan’s Gravity Spell, creating a direct magical contest that forces the two closer together.
• Dan neutralizes Li’s gravity with Fire, but Li immediately answers with the Annihilation Fire Lotus.
• The chapter ends with Dan recognizing Li’s repeated pattern of imitation and reacting with exasperation: “He used this trick again?”

Chapter Summary: “The Elven Race’s Panic”

Key Plot Points and Events

• The rainforest suddenly overheats, causing steam, smoke, flames, and widespread forest death. Tree roots wither, leaves fall, and the sacred Oak beneath Elven City begins sinking, shaking, and shedding its vitality.
• Ke’er evacuates the elves into the sky on Horned Eagles and a Chimera, accompanied by six elders. The elves watch helplessly as their homeland appears close to destruction.
• Violent magical activity erupts inside the Oak. Enormous creatures clash within it, producing transparent bulges, thunder, lightning, fire, ash, and increasingly powerful elemental phenomena.
• The elves identify the manifestations as ancient forbidden spells, including Thundercloud and Ashen City. Later, they witness numerous powerful Elemental Incarnations—such as Thunder Cranes, Flame Savage Bulls, Earth Dragons, Stone Giants, Black Water Bulls, and Flame Birds—fighting within the tree.
• The Oak tilts dramatically as the battle continues, suggesting that the entire Elven City may collapse.
• Inside the Oak, Li Ziran battles Dan through successive elemental summons and incarnations. Dan repeatedly counters and destroys his creations, but her attacks consume the energy drawn from the elves.
• Li Ziran relies on the inexhaustible Origin energy of the Nature World, gradually gaining experience and learning to control twenty-three Elemental Incarnations.
• After prolonged combat, Dan’s energy finally begins to run out. Li Ziran’s Blackfire Boar survives her Black Elephant’s attack and melts it with magma, forcing Dan back into her original form and revealing visible signs of exhaustion.
• Li Ziran realizes that Dan can no longer escape and gains the upper hand.

Character Developments

• Ke’er struggles with the burden of newly assuming authority over the elves. The disaster immediately tests her leadership, leaving her anxious and uncertain, especially because Li Ziran remains trapped inside the Oak.
• The elven elders shift from confusion to terror as they recognize the ancient forbidden spells and understand that the destruction inside the Oak exceeds anything seen in the modern era.
• Li Ziran demonstrates patience, adaptability, and strategic endurance. Though repeatedly overwhelmed, he uses the unlimited Origin energy of nature to continue summoning creatures, improve his control, and outlast Dan.
• Dan initially dominates through superior knowledge, experience, and a greater variety of elemental techniques. However, her dependence on the elves’ finite energy gradually weakens her, exposing the limits of her advantage.
• The ordinary elves become increasingly frightened and helpless as their sacred homeland dies around them, with some openly weeping at the unnatural fall of the Oak’s leaves.

Significant Themes

• The collapse of tradition and security: The Oak, foundation of elven civilization, is revealed to be vulnerable, undermining the elves’ faith in their ancient order.
• Nature’s immense and dangerous power: The battle demonstrates that natural elements can produce forces comparable to or greater than Forbidden Spells.
• Endurance versus expertise: Dan possesses greater experience and technical mastery, but Li Ziran’s access to limitless natural energy allows him to survive and eventually gain the advantage.
• Fear of the unknown: The elves cannot understand the phenomena occurring inside the Oak, and their uncertainty magnifies their panic.
• The cost of power: Dan’s powerful elemental techniques consume the elves’ energy, while Li Ziran’s methods exploit a seemingly inexhaustible source, making resource management decisive.

Important Character Interactions

• Ke’er consults the elders about the Oak’s condition, but their explanations only deepen the crisis as they identify the forbidden spells within it.
• The elves collectively react with fear and grief as the Oak sheds leaves, dies from within, and produces destructive elemental manifestations.
• Li Ziran and Dan engage in a prolonged contest of elemental counters, with each summoning creatures capable of destroying or restraining the other’s manifestations.
• Dan’s Black Elephant finally fails to destroy Li Ziran’s Blackfire Boar, marking the moment when Li Ziran recognizes that her strength is exhausted and that the battle may soon be decided.

Chapter Summary: “Her Heart Stalled”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Li Ziran unleashes the Fire Cloud Calamity, a powerful fire-type Forbidden Spell, against Dan within the Oak’s inner crown. His recent mastery of the Nature World allows him to cast and combine Forbidden Spells with increasing precision.
• Dan, weakened and struggling to maintain her Elven form, proposes peace. She offers to remove the restrictions she placed on Li Ziran in exchange for an Embryo and Aimier’s help creating a replacement Nature World.
• Li Ziran pretends to agree but secretly plans to seize the organs within Dan’s body, which function as the control mechanism—or “switch”—for the Nature World.
• Dan demonstrates her apparent sincerity by severing the links binding herself to Aimier and Li Ziran. Li Ziran then grabs Aimier by the throat, provoking Dan into revealing that she still cares about Aimier’s survival.
• Dan launches a sudden ambush, transforming parts of her body into Wood Ant claws and attacking Li Ziran. He counters with a water tornado, but Dan’s acidic spray destroys it.
• Li Ziran uses Cavefolk Blinding Eye to temporarily blind Dan, then traps her with the Gravity Spell. Dan barely escapes by using Fire Elements, but her Elven disguise deteriorates further, exposing her Wood Ant features.
• Li Ziran continues overwhelming her with a succession of Forbidden Spells, including Ashen City, Thundercloud, and elemental incarnations such as the Storm Eagle and a heavy black boar.
• Dan uses her knowledge of magic and natural neutralization techniques to counter some of the attacks, but her dwindling Natural Elements leave her unable to fight at full strength.
• While Dan is distracted by Li Ziran’s attacks, he secretly exposes her antennae to a deadly green solution—the same substance that destroyed the Wood Ant race.
• Dan desperately attempts to absorb and transform the poison, believing her Primordial Elf nature makes her different from ordinary Wood Ants. However, the solution reaches her heart, causing it to suddenly stall.

Character Developments

• Li Ziran grows increasingly confident and ruthless. He has progressed from barely being able to cast Forbidden Spells to combining them strategically and using them to control the entire battle.
• He demonstrates greater tactical intelligence, relying on deception, Aimier’s instincts, and carefully timed distractions rather than raw power alone.
• Li Ziran’s goal becomes clearer: he intends to obtain the organs inside Dan’s body so he can control the growth and energy of the Nature World.
• Dan shifts from arrogant domination to desperation. She recognizes that she is losing and attempts negotiation, but her old greed and manipulative behavior make Li Ziran unwilling to trust her.
• Her physical deterioration mirrors her loss of power: her Elven appearance collapses as her Wood Ant traits become increasingly visible.
• Despite her weakened state, Dan remains highly knowledgeable and resourceful, successfully neutralizing several spells. Her fatal mistake is underestimating Li Ziran’s adaptability and allowing herself to become distracted.

Significant Themes

• Trust and betrayal: Dan’s offer of peace cannot overcome Li Ziran’s knowledge of her previous manipulation. Both characters use deception, but Li Ziran’s deception proves more effective.
• Power through adaptation: Li Ziran’s rapid mastery of Forbidden Spells shows how quickly someone can grow when they combine knowledge, opportunity, and the instincts of the Nature World.
• The collapse of appearances: Dan’s beautiful Elven form represents her authority and superiority, but battle gradually strips it away, revealing her true Wood Ant nature.
• Greed and desperation: Dan’s desire to preserve the Nature World and survive the Elemental Tide drives her to bargain, attack, and finally risk absorbing a lethal substance.
• Knowledge versus strength: Dan possesses superior magical knowledge, but Li Ziran’s constant spell combinations and improvisation allow him to overcome her weakened state.

Character Interactions

• Li Ziran and Dan engage in a tense negotiation built on mutual distrust. Li Ziran lies about accepting her terms while preparing to eliminate her.
• Li Ziran uses Aimier as bait, choking her to test Dan’s reaction. Dan’s immediate attack reveals that Aimier remains important to her.
• Their battle becomes a contest between Li Ziran’s relentless, varied Forbidden Spells and Dan’s ability to neutralize magic with natural energy and acid.
• In the final exchange, Li Ziran outmaneuvers Dan by covertly poisoning her through her own antennae. Dan’s attempt to resist the poison ends with her heart stalling, leaving her fate uncertain.

Chapter Summary: “Master”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Dan is overwhelmed by Li Ziran’s newly developed control over numerous mixed Forbidden Spells. A strange oily green substance has lodged in her heart, disrupting her ability to convert elemental energy and causing unfamiliar sensations of fear, nausea, and weakness.
• Trapped between thunderclouds, flames, and freezing elemental forces, Dan realizes that her former “child’s play”—Natural Forbidden Spells—has become a serious threat. She acknowledges that Li Ziran’s mastery of Nature Space and elemental control has advanced dramatically, largely because of the abilities she helped him obtain.
• Seeking refuge, Dan escapes toward the remaining attic, which contains powerful Spatial Threads. The attic awakens ancient memories of her creator and former master, the alchemist who created the Oak, the Elves, and Dan herself.
• Dan recognizes similarities between Li Ziran and her master: both pursue the origins and fundamental nature of existence. This realization makes her view Li Ziran as a successor—or possible reincarnation in spirit—of the master she once admired.
• Anjebel, who has been observing the battle from the attic, is discovered by Dan. Despite Li Ziran’s warning, Dan attacks and kills her by crushing her throat and severing her head. Her soul is also destroyed, making resurrection impossible.
• Li Ziran is enraged by Anjebel’s death. Although he had not considered her especially important, he recognizes that she had supported and taught him sincerely, becoming someone he regarded as a potential friend.
• Dan activates the attic’s ancient mechanism, using a seven-pointed star, runes, and a loom to draw down Spatial Threads and weave new spaces. Li Ziran’s attempts to destroy the attic only lead him through successive layers of illusory, bubble-like attics.
• The chapter ends with Li Ziran becoming lost among countless phantom attics while Dan disappears within the layered spatial illusion.

Character Developments

• Dan: Her confidence is shaken for the first time in centuries. She experiences fear and recognizes that Li Ziran has surpassed her expectations. Her memories of her master resurface, revealing lingering admiration, dependence, and perhaps unresolved feelings. Despite her vulnerability, she remains ruthless, killing Anjebel as an act of revenge or emotional release.
• Li Ziran: His elemental mastery improves rapidly, allowing him to manipulate many Forbidden Spells without interference and manifest natural elemental stairs. Anjebel’s death awakens his suppressed emotional attachment to others; his grief and rage reveal that he still cares about friends and allies. However, his anger threatens to cloud his judgment.
• Anjebel: She is shown as loyal and courageous, having remained supportive of Li Ziran throughout the battle. Her death demonstrates the extreme danger of Dan and permanently removes the possibility of restoring her through physical reconstruction.
• Dan’s Master: Though absent, he becomes an important psychological presence. His scientific and metaphysical pursuit of the Elemental Tide establishes a parallel between him and Li Ziran.

Significant Themes

• Mastery and creation: Dan helped create the conditions that allowed Li Ziran to become powerful, effectively creating the force now defeating her.
• Reversal of power: The hunter and prey roles have switched. Dan once controlled and manipulated others, but now she is trapped and forced to flee.
• Memory and legacy: Dan’s ancient memories reconnect her with her master and make her question Li Ziran’s relationship to that legacy.
• Emotion breaking through detachment: Li Ziran’s grief and anger show that, despite his previous emotional distance, he remains capable of caring about others.
• Death and irreversibility: Anjebel’s destroyed soul emphasizes that some losses cannot be repaired, even by someone capable of reshaping bodies.
• Space and perception: The layered attics and woven Spatial Threads blur reality and illusion, turning the battle into a struggle not only of power but also of orientation and understanding.

Important Character Interactions

• Dan and Li Ziran: Their conflict is both physical and intellectual. Dan recognizes that Li Ziran has become a terrifyingly capable force, while Li Ziran pursues her with growing rage.
• Dan and Anjebel: Dan treats Anjebel as a weak remnant of the Elves and kills her partly out of fury that she survived while the others did not.
• Li Ziran and Anjebel: Though their relationship was complicated, Anjebel supported and instructed him. Her death forces Li Ziran to acknowledge his emotional dependence on companions.
• Dan and her master: Through memory, Dan compares Li Ziran to her creator, suggesting that both are driven by a desire to uncover the origin and essence of the world.

Li Ziran traced Dan through her maze of fragmented spaces and sealed her soul after she destroyed the loom that maintained the laboratory. As the space collapsed, he began dissecting Dan and extracting the organs he needed to control the Nature World.

• Li Ziran used Aimier’s controlling thread of light to navigate Dan’s spatial maze and locate her in the attic.
• Dan tried to escape with a concealment technique, but Li Ziran exposed her and sealed her soul with the Sealing Spell.
• Dan snapped the loom’s axle, destabilizing the laboratory and letting the elemental tide pour into the space.
• Li Ziran restrained Dan with Chains of Light and the Puppet Curse, then cut off her antennae and tongue for dissection.
• Li Ziran opened Dan’s chest, disconnected her heptagram-shaped heart, and removed it intact with help from the Corpse Witches.

Li Ziran used Dan’s heart and organs to control his Nature World, then absorbed her memories and mastered Spatial Shaping and the Elemental Tide. Dan’s body and soul disintegrated as the Oak Space collapsed, scattering the Elves’ ancient knowledge—and intimate memories involving Li Ziran—across the world.

• The Corpse Witches connected Dan’s heart and filtering organs to Li Ziran’s Nature Chain, allowing him to regulate the Nature World’s evolution.
• Dan realized her master had cultivated her as the key to balancing a Nature World, but Li Ziran ignored her pleas and extracted her memories.
• Li Ziran learned the ancient methods of Spatial Shaping and Nature World formation, while the Corpse Witches modified his organs using Dan’s knowledge.
• Li Ziran transformed into a Nature Frog that could move through the Elemental Tide and control its elemental forces.
• The freed Spatial Threads caused the Oak Space to collapse, and the Elemental Tide burned through the Oak as the Elves watched from outside.
• Dan disintegrated, scattering memories of elven history, ancient magic, and intimate moments involving Li Ziran that could not be destroyed.

Chapter Summary: “Scandal Explosion”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Dan’s memories erupt from the collapsing Oak and spread throughout the Elven Rainforest in the form of floating bubbles. These memories expose both intimate scandals involving Li Ziran and the secrets of his extraordinary cultivation.
• The Elves witness Li Ziran’s relationships with Queen Ke’er, a human woman who is the Human Deputy Speaker’s wife, and two Primordial Elves. Ke’er is especially humiliated when private scenes involving her are displayed publicly.
• The memories reveal Li Ziran’s process of creating a new body. Corpse Witches cultivate a Primordial Elf embryo through surgery and potion injections, eventually producing a body capable of containing immense natural energy.
• Li Ziran is shown wielding Forbidden Spells and Elemental Incarnations with ease. His power appears to have been “manufactured” rather than achieved through ordinary cultivation.
• Further memories expose Li Ziran’s internal structure: a body composed almost entirely of organs, with separate systems corresponding to a Faith World and a Nature World. Observers identify him as an Ultimate Lifeform—a super-organism beyond the Transcendent Title Realm.
• Humans, Elves, Dwarves, and other powerful beings rush into the rainforest to study and record the memories. Human scholars focus particularly on the Light Organs and the possibility of reproducing Li Ziran’s power through organ transplantation.
• The Corrupted Church is thrilled by the revelation, believing Li Ziran’s methods surpass the Human Race’s current cultivation techniques and provide them with invaluable knowledge.
• Li Ziran is unable to erase the memories because they have fused with the Spatial Thread. He realizes that his scandals and secrets may remain permanently visible.
• Meanwhile, the collapse of the Oak and destruction of the Primordial Elves leave the Elves politically and militarily vulnerable. The Human Race begins sealing the rainforest with an ancient formation.
• William VII arrives with four red-robed elders and numerous powerful Archmages, declaring that the rainforest now belongs to humanity. Ke’er hesitates, knowing the Elves cannot resist but also cannot abandon their last sanctuary.
• An Abyss Lord then appears through a purple vortex and challenges William’s claim. He calls the rainforest a “sacred land” because it contains the revealed secrets of Li Ziran’s organs, creating a new conflict over control of the region.

Character Developments and Interactions

• Li Ziran: Becomes exposed as both a scandalous figure and a revolutionary cultivator. His past relationships are revealed, but the greater revelation is his transformation into an Ultimate Lifeform with immense magical abilities. He is distressed by the public exposure and worried about the Elves’ fate.
• Ke’er: Suffers intense embarrassment and emotional shock as her private relationship with Li Ziran is displayed. Despite her humiliation, she remains focused on protecting the Elven Rainforest and preserving her people’s survival.
• Dan: Though not physically central in the scene, she is revealed to have deliberately or indirectly unleashed memories capable of exposing Li Ziran’s private life and deepest secrets.
• William VII: Acts decisively and confidently, attempting to seize the rainforest while the Elves are weakened. His claim that the land belongs to humanity places him in direct opposition to Ke’er.
• The Abyss Lord: Interrupts the Human takeover and challenges William’s authority. By calling the rainforest sacred, he demonstrates that the secrets within it are valuable enough to provoke a broader struggle.
• The Elves and Human Race: Their relationship shifts sharply from rivalry to open power imbalance. The Elves have lost their central foundation, while humanity arrives with overwhelming military strength and scientific interest.

Significant Themes

• Public exposure and loss of privacy: Private memories become a spectacle before countless beings, turning Li Ziran’s personal life into political and cultural scandal.
• The fusion of science, surgery, and magic: Li Ziran’s cultivation demonstrates that power can be engineered through biological manipulation, organ transplantation, embryonic cultivation, and precise magical procedures.
• Transcending natural limits: His recreated body allows him to bypass ordinary magical progression, suggesting that even legendary power can be manufactured.
• Knowledge as power: Every faction seeks to study the memories, showing that information about Li Ziran’s body may be more valuable than the rainforest itself.
• The collapse of an old order: With the Oak destroyed and the Primordial Elves dead, the Elves lose their position of strength and face possible extinction.
• Political opportunism: Humanity immediately attempts to claim the Elven sanctuary, while the Abyss Lord intervenes to pursue his own interests.
• Identity and transformation: Li Ziran’s reconstructed body raises questions about whether his power comes from the person himself, his organs, or the artificial systems that now constitute him.

Character Interactions

• Ke’er is publicly linked to Li Ziran through the exposed memories, causing personal humiliation and political vulnerability.
• Human observers and magical researchers analyze Li Ziran’s surgeries and body structure, treating his memories as a scientific and military resource.
• William VII confronts Ke’er and demands control of the rainforest, exploiting the Elves’ weakened position.
• The Abyss Lord directly challenges William, transforming the attempted Human occupation into a three-way struggle among humanity, the Elves, and the Abyss.

Chapter Summary: “Ancient Clans Appear”

Key Plot Points and Events

• The Demon Monarch’s arrival triggers an assault of berserk soul power, which destroys the Human Race’s newly completed sealing spell around the broken Oak.
• The Human Race realizes that Li Ziran’s memories—especially his organ-transplant techniques, embryonic rebirth methods, and the evolution of two worlds and three sets of chains—contain revolutionary cultivation secrets.
• The Human Race powerhouses form a crimson sealing array to restrain the Demon Monarch, but a second purple soul vortex appears. The two vortices devour nearby beings, killing dozens of Human Race Archmages and threatening to swallow the Oak and its memories.
• The Dwarf Clan intervenes. A Silver Dwarf, immune to the soul power, attacks the vortex and negotiates with William VII for a share of the treasure land in exchange for helping repel the demons.
• The Goblin Clan also appears in a massive steel puppet, claiming the memories contain the secrets needed to develop extraordinary bodies and prevent the Goblins from losing their place on the Red Soil Continent.
• The Dwarf Clan Chief arrives unexpectedly, revealing that even powerful, normally secluded ancient factions have been drawn to the Oak.
• A Firebird of the Winged Race and a Stone Dragon representing the Dragon Race enter the battle. The Stone Dragon claims the Oak on the grounds that a Black Dragon associated with Li Ziran must be protected by the Dragon Race.
• The Firebird and Stone Dragon clash violently, devastating the rainforest and forcing the Human Race and Demon Monarchs to retreat temporarily.
• A Brass Giant from the Ancient Clans emerges from the Void Expanse, overpowers the Stone Dragon, and uproots the Oak itself. Since the memories are fused with the Oak, taking the tree means taking the entire treasure land.
• A rare memory reveals Li Ziran’s precise use of silver needles and runes during surgery. Recognizing the value of this technique, every faction joins forces to attack the Brass Giant.
• The Brass Giant withstands the combined assault, but an even more terrifying entity appears: black tentacles covered in fleshy suckers wrap around the Oak and drain water and elemental power from everything nearby.
• The tentacles kill many Elves and destroy the defenses of the Human Race Archmages, eliminating roughly one-third of the Human Race’s Title Magisters.
• The Brass Giant identifies the ancient creature as the “Sea God.” The Firebird and Stone Dragon are shaken, realizing that Li Ziran’s memories have attracted an existence from the ancient era far beyond their expectations.

Character and Faction Developments

• William VII and the Human Race: Their greed for Li Ziran’s knowledge becomes increasingly obvious. Although they want exclusive control, they are forced into temporary alliances with the Dwarves and later with nearly every other faction.
• The Demon Monarchs: Initially dominant through soul power, they become cautious once the Ancient Clans and the Sea God-level entity appear.
• Silver Dwarf and Dwarf Clan Chief: The Silver Dwarf demonstrates unusual resistance to soul attacks and openly bargains for access to the Oak. The appearance of the Clan Chief shows the extraordinary importance of the memories to the Dwarves.
• Goblin Clan: The Goblins reveal that Li Ziran’s transplantation knowledge could determine the future of their race, explaining their willingness to confront the other factions.
• Firebird and Stone Dragon: Their rivalry and combat cause massive destruction, but both recognize the threat posed by the Sea God and become uncertain about continuing the struggle.
• Brass Giant: As a member of the Ancient Clans, it displays overwhelming physical power, easily uprooting the Oak and surviving a combined attack from multiple races. Its fear at the Sea God’s arrival reveals that an even greater power has entered the conflict.
• Li Ziran: Though absent, his discoveries drive the entire confrontation. His memories are portrayed as valuable enough to attract demons, ancient clans, dragons, winged beings, goblins, dwarves, and primordial entities.

Significant Themes

• Knowledge as power: Li Ziran’s medical and cultivation discoveries are treated as a treasure capable of transforming entire races and creating new paths of evolution.
• Greed and unstable alliances: Every faction wants exclusive ownership of the Oak, yet the growing danger repeatedly forces enemies to cooperate.
• Escalation of power: The conflict rises from Human and Demonic forces to ancient races, Giants, and finally the mysterious Sea God, emphasizing the enormous scale of the hidden world.
• The limits of established cultivation: Li Ziran’s transplant-based path challenges conventional ideas about life, rebirth, bodies, and advancement.
• Destruction caused by competition: The struggle for the memories devastates the rainforest and kills large numbers of combatants, showing that the pursuit of knowledge can be as destructive as war.
• Ancient forces resurfacing: The appearance of the Brass Giant and Sea God suggests that forgotten powers from the ancient era are beginning to return because of Li Ziran’s influence.

Important Character Interactions

• William VII and the Silver Dwarf: They negotiate a temporary alliance against the demons, despite William’s resentment and desire to keep the Oak for the Human Race.
• Silver Dwarf and Goblin Puppet: The Goblin attack interrupts the Dwarf’s assault, provoking accusations that the Goblins have allied with the demons. The Goblins reject this, insisting they are acting independently for their own survival.
• Dwarf Clan members: The Silver Dwarf’s respectful recognition of the Dwarf Clan Chief emphasizes the Chief’s exceptional status and unexpected intervention.
• Stone Dragon and the other factions: The Dragon claims the Oak as Dragon Race property, angering the others with its arbitrary justification.
• Firebird and Stone Dragon: Their direct battle destroys much of the rainforest and demonstrates the hostility between major ancient races.
• All factions versus the Brass Giant: Once the Giant uproots the Oak, former rivals unite to prevent it from escaping with the memories.
• Brass Giant and Sea God: The Giant’s startled recognition of the tentacled creature as the Sea God establishes the newcomer as a terrifying ancient power capable of frightening even a member of the Ancient Clans.

Ke'er was trapped by an ancient formation as the Sea God and Golden Ape gathered around the woman in white to study the memories erupting from the oak. When Li Ziran appeared inside a spatial vortex, the Golden Ape turned Ke'er into a puppet and forced her to call out to him, while the woman in white offered to protect the Elven race in exchange for her cooperation.

• Memories revealed Li Ziran's heart implantation and other surgical details, while Ke'er worried that he had disappeared into the Elemental Tide.
• Ke'er discovered that an ancient spatial formation had trapped her in the rainforest and brought her to a branch of the oak, where she met a beautiful woman in white.
• The Sea God and a reddish-gold Golden Ape appeared on the branch as a memory showed Li Ziran breaking free from the Treefolk body.
• Li Ziran appeared within a vortex as the Elemental Tide battered him, and the Sea God and Golden Ape discussed distracting him through Ke'er.
• The Golden Ape pierced Ke'er with a hair that controlled her body and forced her to call out to Li Ziran for help.
• The woman in white offered to protect the Elven race if Ke'er helped her.

Ke'er experienced the memories erupting from Oak and witnessed the Ancient Clans attacking the tree. Li Ziran appeared in the protected attic, and he took Ke'er by the hand to confront the golden-haired monkey.

• Ke'er fell through Oak's memory spaces and discovered that they contained Li Ziran's surgical legacies and personal memories.
• Ke'er found herself in a secluded attic, where she recognized the corpse of the Primordial Elf from the rainforest.
• The golden-haired monkey and other ancient beings attacked Oak, while creatures from across the Red Soil Continent entered the memories to study Li Ziran's techniques.
• Ke'er remained unharmed in the attic as the battles tore Oak apart and Li Ziran's memories continued erupting.
• Li Ziran appeared before Ke'er in a skeletal body covered by a skin sheath, and she embraced him before pulling away in alarm.
• Li Ziran destroyed a golden monkey hair by compressing and detonating the space around it, then took Ke'er's hand and promised to show her what he could do.

Chapter Summary

Plot and Key Events

• Ke’er watches the three Ancient Clans unleash an elemental storm that devastates the Void Expanse and threatens the Memory Space.
• Li Ziran calmly carries Ke’er through the chaos. When the Golden Monkey Clan attacks with a colossal golden pillar capable of destroying space itself, Li Ziran counters it with controlled storms.
• His storms shatter the golden pillar and overwhelm the Golden Monkey, forcing it to attack blindly within a dense, deadly mist.
• Inside the mist, Li Ziran defeats the Firebird, cutting its blazing form into pieces, while the Stone Dragon is trapped and slowly torn apart by hidden vines or chains.
• Li Ziran then confronts the Brass Giant, whose enormous body is supported by a massive Cross surrounded by chanting monks. This is revealed to be a powerful Sealing or Judgment Spell.
• The Cross binds the Brass Giant, pierces its body, and extracts its soul. The soulless body collapses into the rainforest, crushing several hectares of trees.
• Ke’er is left stunned by Li Ziran’s overwhelming power and ironically concludes that the supposedly terrifying Bronze Giant seemed “way too weak.”

Character Development

• Li Ziran is shown to be extraordinarily powerful, calm, and precise. He does not appear to rely on chants, gestures, or obvious spellcasting; instead, his internal energy and awakened Nature World produce devastating effects.
• His control over storms and the dense mist demonstrates that he can dominate the battlefield while effortlessly protecting Ke’er.
• Ke’er shifts from fear and uncertainty to awe and reluctant confidence in Li Ziran. She begins to suspect that his body possesses the perfected structure described in ancient memories—“two worlds and three chains.”
• Ke’er also realizes why the beautiful woman brought her into the conflict: she was intended to restrain or distract Li Ziran, whose awakened power had clearly been anticipated.
• The Ancient Clan beings—especially the Golden Monkey, Firebird, Stone Dragon, and Brass Giant—are revealed to be powerful in scale but helpless against Li Ziran’s superior techniques.

Significant Themes

• Overwhelming disparity in power: Ancient beings capable of destroying space are rendered nearly helpless before Li Ziran.
• Awakening and perfected bodily structure: Li Ziran’s power seems connected to the mysterious Nature World and an advanced internal configuration beyond ordinary magic.
• Control versus brute force: The Ancient Clans rely on spectacular elemental destruction, while Li Ziran wins through precision, containment, and manipulation of the battlefield.
• The limits of perception: Ke’er cannot fully understand what Li Ziran is doing, emphasizing how far beyond conventional magic his abilities have become.
• Reversal of expectations: Creatures presented as terrifying cosmic powers are defeated so completely that the Brass Giant appears fragile and unimpressive.

Character Interactions

• Li Ziran protects and carries Ke’er through the storm, while she warns him of the collapsing golden pillar.
• Ke’er observes Li Ziran’s calmness and gradually comes to trust that his storm barriers can shield them.
• The Golden Monkey directly accuses Li Ziran of betraying the Golden Monkey Clan’s hospitality, but Li Ziran responds through overwhelming force rather than words.
• Li Ziran’s mist traps and destroys the Firebird and Stone Dragon, then seals and extracts the Brass Giant’s soul.
• Ke’er remains a witness and emotional counterpoint, interpreting Li Ziran’s actions and reacting with growing astonishment at his true strength.

Li Ziran fought the Ancient Clans Sea God with successive Forbidden Spells, while the woman’s Osmanthus Blossom attack exposed his extraordinary inner organs. The exposed Goat and Frog organs began drawing the elemental tide toward the seven-pointed-star heart in the Frog-like chain.

• Li Ziran restrained the Sea God with earth golems, then trapped it in an elemental swamp as a Sealing Formation formed behind it.
• The woman’s falling Osmanthus Blossoms destroyed the swamp and revealed the devastated rainforest, where the Stone Dragon, Firebird, and Bronze Giant lay near death or were disintegrating.
• The woman enclosed Li Ziran in a murderous formation of Osmanthus Blossoms and pulverized his newly acquired skin, exposing his organs and three brains.
• Mages and Ke'er saw Li Ziran’s revealed body as the ultimate state of a living being on the Red Soil Continent.
• The Goat and Frog organs transformed into a Sealing Formation and natural energy, drawing the elemental tide toward the seven-pointed-star heart within the Frog-like chain.

Ke'er witnessed Li Ziran’s bizarre organ-built body as he fought an Ancient Clan woman with overwhelming elemental spells and the Faith World. The battle left the rainforest destroyed, and the Golden Monkey and Sea God joined the woman against Li Ziran, who remained unharmed while protecting Ke'er.

• Ke'er saw that Li Ziran’s body consisted of several linked organ systems, including a space-devouring stomach and a dangerous spotted tongue.
• The woman unleashed Spatial Annihilation, but Li Ziran melted the collapsing space with lightning and fire and fought her amid the ruined rainforest.
• The woman trapped Li Ziran inside a golden Osmanthus Blossom, while he unleashed multiple Forbidden Spells and drew in the surrounding elements.
• Li Ziran’s Light Spell blessings distracted many onlookers, and his Faith World broke the Osmanthus Blossom and pressed the woman back.
• The woman summoned an Osmanthus Tree to resist the Faith World, then the Golden Monkey and Sea God arrived to help her confront Li Ziran.
• The three newcomers saw that Li Ziran was unharmed and still holding Ke'er, who had also survived the battle without injury.