Recaps

Lincon visited Soul Resting Slope, where he advanced several spirit plants and met the lingering souls of Longwind City's fallen soldiers. After reassuring them that the city was thriving, he watched them return to rest beneath the Undead Soul Trees.

• Lincon gave the rule fragment to the Space Worm and set out with Ying, Violet, and Luo Chiyou for Soul Resting Slope.
• Lincon passed through Soul Resting Village, reassured its chief Ma Huai, and continued up the slope without him.
• Lincon evolved worryfree grass and Soul Pacifying Grass into four kinds of C-rank spirit plants.
• Ying played among the Undead Soul Trees, while Lincon freed Violet after the trees caught him in their branches.
• The souls of fallen Longwind soldiers greeted Lincon, asked about the city, and returned beneath the Undead Soul Trees after he told them Longwind City was thriving.

Lincon used Potential Unleashing on the Undead Soul Tree at Soul Resting Slope, transforming it into a Soulwood Necropolis that could shelter and protect souls. After entrusting it with managing the slope’s spirit plants, he left with Ying and Luo Chiyou for the Misty Forest.

• Lincon chose the original Undead Soul Tree at the summit and used Potential Unleashing to evolve it into a B-Plus Rank Soulwood Necropolis with abilities to collect, shelter, and protect souls.
• The transformation lit up Soul Resting Slope and stirred the surrounding soul silhouettes, alarming the people of Soul Resting Village.
• Ma Huai stopped the villagers from investigating and sent them home, concluding that the phenomenon was connected to Lincon.
• The Soulwood Necropolis finished transforming, and Lincon asked it to manage the spirit plants on Soul Resting Slope.
• After its aura stabilized, Lincon left the slope with Ying and Luo Chiyou and headed for the Misty Forest.

Chen Siwei and Wei Xing traveled toward Hezhou, discussing Chen Siwei’s past encounter with the Star Pavilion and Longwind City’s plans. They resumed their journey and swiftly killed a Rift Worm that attacked them from beneath the ruined ground.

• Chen Siwei and Wei Xing rested in the ruins while traveling from Jiangzhou toward Hezhou, and Wei Xing warned her about unstable ground ahead.
• Wei Xing recalled how Longwind City’s A-Rank veterans had defeated the newcomers from the Great Wall Defense Line in a friendly spar.
• Chen Siwei told Wei Xing that a Star Pavilion member had ambushed her in Cangzhou, and Wei Xing urged her to seek Longwind City’s help for revenge.
• Chen Siwei and Wei Xing set out again, with Chen Siwei compacting the ash snow into a road using her magnetic field.
• A Rift Worm erupted from fissures beneath them, but Chen Siwei crushed its carapace and Wei Xing shot it apart in seconds.

The Hive Legion faced human interference and growing pressure from the Azure Nether Abyss, whose allies included two other A-Rank Abysses serving an Epic Lord. After coordinating with Chen Siwei and Wei Xing, Isaiah prepared the Legion to attack, while Chen Siwei planned to confront Red Leaf City.

• Alashu fought the Rot Swamp Lord on the snowy ridge and forced it to withdraw when Isaiah ordered him back.
• Isaiah told Chen Siwei and Wei Xing that Red Leaf City was obstructing the Legion while the Azure Nether Abyss sought help from two allied A-Rank Abysses.
• Isaiah revealed that the Azure Nether Abyss had seven High-Rank Lords, including one who might be nearing Epic strength, and confirmed that all three Hezhou Abysses served the same Epic Lord.
• Chen Siwei and Wei Xing agreed with Isaiah on the attack plans, and Chen Siwei said Lincon would help the Legion deal with the final A-Rank Abyss afterward.
• Wei Xing asked how Chen Siwei would stop Red Leaf City from interfering, and she said she would negotiate first and fight if talks failed.

Wei Xing and Chen Siwei met Zhong Yan in Hezhou and learned that Red Leaf City planned to attack the weakened Abyssal forces on Qixia Mountain using preserved Old Era missiles. They left after hearing his plan, and Zhong Yan concluded they had come for their own purposes and would not join the operation.

• Wei Xing and Chen Siwei found Zhong Yan at a Fungus Hut near Qixia Mountain and explained that they had come to investigate unusual activity.
• Wei Xing told Zhong Yan that the Great Wall Defense Line had fallen and that he had joined Longwind City.
• Zhong Yan revealed that Red Leaf City planned to wait for the Azure Nether Abyss and the opposing Abyssal Creatures to weaken each other before attacking.
• Zhong Yan disclosed that Red Leaf City had maintained and modified an Old Era missile system to strike the Abyssal forces.
• Wei Xing and Chen Siwei left without agreeing to help, and Zhong Yan told his subordinate that they had no intention of getting involved.

Wei Xing and Chen Siwei arranged a staged Blood Demon attack on Red Leaf City to force Zhong Yan’s forces to return from the Azure Nether Abyss. The assault overwhelmed the city’s defenses, and a messenger brought Zhong Yan news of the crisis.

• Wei Xing rejected Chen Siwei’s suggestion to attack Zhong Yan directly and decided to draw Red Leaf City’s forces away from the Azure Nether Abyss.
• Wei Xing persuaded Isaiah to lend him a Blood Demon Squad, which Bane sent under a B-Rank Blood Demon’s command.
• Wei Xing led the squad to Red Leaf City and had the Blood Demons attack the human camps outside its walls.
• Wei Xing and Chen Siwei incapacitated the few B-Class Ability Users defending Red Leaf City as the attacks spread panic and casualties.
• Red Leaf City’s Governor sent a messenger to Qixia Mountain, where the messenger warned Zhong Yan that Abyssal Creatures had entered the city.

Zhong Yan rushed back to defend Red Leaf City after the Blood Abyss attacked, unaware that Wei Xing and Chen Siwei had staged the assault to draw him away. Meanwhile, Isaiah’s Hive Legion defeated the Azure Nether Abyss’s High-Rank Lords at great cost, celebrated its victory, and Lincon nearly finished his own task in Longwind City.

• Zhong Yan received word that the Blood Abyss had attacked Red Leaf City, abandoned his plan at Qixia Mountain, and ordered his forces to return.
• Chen Siwei reached Red Leaf City ahead of Zhong Yan, joined Wei Xing, and helped lead the Blood Demon Squad away after staging an attack that left no confirmed deaths.
• Zhong Yan found Red Leaf City damaged but largely intact, ordered its defenses strengthened, and Shang Wu activated the city’s defensive measures under Li Zhao’s supervision.
• Isaiah and the Hive Legion defeated the Azure Nether Abyss’s High-Rank Lords, including the Nether Phoenix Lord, though the legion suffered severe injuries.
• Isaiah divided the Nether Phoenix Lord’s remains among the battle’s contributors, then led the Hive Legion in a victory cheer.
• Lincon checked the notifications on his Career Panel and said that he was nearly finished with his work.

Lincon began the Eternal Gardener trial as a bodiless observer and guided a struggling seed through its first choices. After choosing to make the seed sprout and later directing its growth toward the sun, he watched it become a weeping willow and received new talents.

• Lincon entered the Ecological Trial, where he was tasked with observing a realm's evolution and guiding life, with three chances to reload life.
• He chose to make a fading seed sprout, earning Rise to the Challenge as it fought through drought and rooted in the sand.
• The seed emerged as a shoot in a desert, and torrential rain arrived half a month later to help it grow into a weeping willow.
• When Lincon had to choose between developing roots or reaching upward, he selected Heart of the Sun to favor rapid growth and greater evolutionary potential.

Lincon guided the Weeping Willow seedling through threats in the desert, using a life-reload after his choice to make it hunt Sandworms led to its near destruction. The seedling survived the swarm through symbiosis, grew stronger, and sheltered a new Sandwood Cactus sprout after its former protector died.

• Lincon chose Concealment to hide the Weeping Willow seedling from a Long-Eared Desert Rabbit, and it grew rapidly under Heart of the Sun.
• A Sandworm swarm swept through the desert, and Lincon chose to make the seedling a Sandworm Slayer, but the swarm overwhelmed it.
• Lincon reloaded and chose symbiosis, causing the Sandworms to treat the seedling as one of their own and leave it unharmed.
• The Sandworms died after nearly half a month, leaving their eggs around the growing Weeping Willow and their corpses as nutrients.
• The Sandwood Cactus died during the following dry season, and Lincon later found a young Sandwood Cactus growing in the Weeping Willow's shade.

Lincon chose life resonance for the Weeping Willow, helping it grow into a Spirit Willow and create an oasis, but a Savage Tribe eventually burned it down. After reloading time, he reconsidered how to respond to the tribe and faced a new choice between driving them out and manifesting.

• Lincon chose life resonance, allowing the Weeping Willow to shelter nearby creatures and absorb their vitality.
• A torrential rain helped the Weeping Willow grow into a towering Spirit Willow and form a life-sustaining oasis.
• Lincon chose to make the newly hatched Sandworms the Spirit Willow’s Kin, and they later drove away a Savage Tribe that disturbed the oasis.
• The Savage Tribe returned with reinforcements and burned the oasis, killing the Spirit Willow and its sheltered creatures.
• Lincon used a life reload chance and, upon reaching the Savage Tribe encounter again, faced the choice between driving them out and manifesting as the Willow God's Phantom.

Lincon accepted the Stone Tribe into his territory, becoming their Willow Deity and evolving into a Heavenly Azure Willow over a century of worship. When the tribe brought him a dying infant, he chose to save him, named the child Shi Hao, and became entangled in the world’s unfolding destiny.

• Lincon manifested the Spirit Willow’s divinity before the starving Stone Tribe, and Chief Shi Tian led his people in reverence.
• After hearing how the Stone Tribe had fled a territorial war, Lincon accepted their plea to settle near the Oasis and gained the name Willow Deity and the talent faith power.
• A hundred years passed as the Stone Tribe prospered under Lincon’s protection, and he evolved into a Heavenly Azure Willow with the talent heart of enlightenment.
• Ling Xi chose a successor before dying peacefully beneath the willow, and the Stone Tribe’s faith passed to a new priestess.
• When the Stone Tribe chief brought Lincon a dying infant, Lincon chose Heaven’s mandate, gave the child life essence and willow leaves, and the chief adopted him as Shi Hao.
• Lincon gained Primordial True Interpretation and realized that the world’s main story had begun.

Lincon completed the Eternal Gardener advancement trial by choosing to observe rather than take control, allowing the Heavenly Azure Willow and the world's inhabitants to defeat the darkness themselves. He returned to the Sacred Court with his new class abilities and greatly increased mental power, then experimented with his control over spirit plants.

• Lincon chose to impart the Dao to Shi Hao, gained the void divine seed, and watched him leave Stone Village to explore the wider world.
• As darkness invaded Shi Hao's world, Lincon chose to withdraw as an observer and let the Heavenly Azure Willow act independently.
• The awakened Heavenly Azure Willow rallied the world's creatures, and Shi Hao led the allied forces in sealing the darkness while the willow fought its source.
• Lincon completed the trial with an S rating, advanced to Eternal Gardener, and gained the eternal garden trait and Time Vines ability.
• Lincon returned to the Sacred Court and discovered his Spirit had increased dramatically, giving him powerful, undetected mental perception.
• Lincon examined lantern mushrooms and fluorescent moss, then connected their colored structural threads together.

After advancing to Eternal Gardener, Lincon discovered that he could weave compatible spirit-plant essences together and strengthen both plants without changing their ranks. Back in Longwind City, Ying challenged him to a mental-power contest, and Lincon’s life-based energy began overwhelming her destructive darkness.

• Lincon connected the matching threads of the Lantern Mushroom and Fluorescent Moss, blending their essences and changing their forms while preserving their ranks.
• Lincon considered whether his new class had granted abilities resembling Return of All Things to Source and Nature Edict, and recognized Eternal Garden’s potential for trading one plant’s regression for another’s evolution.
• Lincon left the study and reunited with Ying and Luo Chiyou in the courtyard, where Violet escaped Ying’s Energy Hand after Lincon blocked it with his mental energy.
• Ying praised Lincon’s increased strength and proposed a contest; Lincon agreed to test their mental power without harming each other or the buildings.
• Ying unleashed a dark, destructive mental force that shook the Crystal Ring Mother Tree and pressured Longwind City’s ability users.
• Lincon released his own mental shock wave, which pierced Ying’s barrier, burned away her darkness, and transformed the remaining energy into plants that nourished his power.

Lincon and Ying’s Epic-level mental energy contest ended in a draw, then Lincon rested for two days before meeting Longwind City’s A-Rank Ability Users. He revealed a Rule Fragment that could help with breakthroughs, but its plant-and-life attributes were a poor match for their abilities, leaving them to consider who should receive the sole fragment.

• Xue Ningning and Golden Dragon watched Lincon and Ying’s mental energy clash, while Li Xingzhou, Fang Qingyang, and the others identified the opposing force as coming from the Nightglow Forest.
• Fang Qingyang proposed expanding the Garrison Guard and eventually bringing Lin Province under Longwind City’s control.
• Lincon and Ying’s contest ended in a draw, and Lincon returned to his room to recover while Ying and Luo Chiyou stayed in the Sacred Court.
• After two days of rest, Lincon met Golden Dragon, Fang Qingyang, Li Xingzhou, Zhao Jingyi, Chen Qi, and the other A-Rank Ability Users in the Origin Hall.
• Lincon produced a Rule Fragment from Longwind City and explained that it could aid breakthroughs to S-Rank, but its plant-and-life attributes were a poor fit and he had only one.

Lincon awarded Golden Dragon the All-Wood Indestructible Rule Fragment and offered the A-Rank Ability Users access to the Divine Tree Grotto-Heaven for accelerated training. After they left to prepare, Lincon went to the Fire Spirit Garden to use his Eternal Garden ability on a Kindling Sunflower.

• Chen Qi and Fang Qingyang declined the Rule Fragment, and Lincon gave it to Golden Dragon for his contributions to Longwind City.
• Lincon explained the Divine Tree Grotto-Heaven's thirty-to-one time flow and set limits on visits to protect minds and souls and conserve sunlight.
• Golden Dragon, Li Xingzhou, Zhao Jingyi, Fang Qingyang, and Chen Qi chose to enter the grotto-heaven after handing over their work and making preparations.
• Lincon inspected the grotto-heaven's sunlight costs and decided to test whether Eternal Garden could advance Kindling Sunflowers.
• Lincon left Ying in Luo Chiyou's care and visited the Fire Spirit Garden, where he began using Eternal Garden on the Kindling Sunflower that had survived Dugu Zhui's attack.

Lincon used the Eternal Garden to evolve a Kindling Sunflower into a powerful A+ Blazing Sunflower and discovered that the ability could reveal and potentially alter a Spirit Plant’s timeline. The Fire God Tree asked him to use the same power to awaken its hidden ancient bloodline, and Lincon agreed to investigate further before risking its evolution.

• Lincon asked the six other Kindling Sunflowers to choose whether to regress, and they all agreed so one could help the Kindling Sunflower beside him evolve.
• Lincon explored the Kindling Sunflower’s past, present, and possible future, but stopped himself from changing its future because the effort threatened to drain his mind and soul.
• Lincon used the Eternal Garden to evolve the Kindling Sunflower into an A+ Blazing Sunflower with powerful combat abilities, a domain, and the ability to produce Blazing Sun Crystals and Sunlight.
• The Spirit Plants in the Fire Spirit Garden submitted to the Blazing Sunflower, while the Fire God Tree congratulated and guided it.
• The Fire God Tree told Lincon that the Blazing Sunflower’s evolution had stirred its ancient bloodline and asked him to use the Eternal Garden to awaken it; Lincon said he would verify the method before proceeding.
• Lincon left using the Void Dandelion’s ability, and Jiang Li watched him go, disappointed that they had barely spoken.

While Lincon studied Eternal Garden, Ying and Luo Chiyou visited the newly opened Longwind Auction House, where Ying agreed to consign a Fish-Fish Fruit that could grant abilities to ordinary people. The auction house accepted the fruit for auction, setting up its first major sale.

• Lincon investigated the time-related properties of Eternal Garden while Ying and Luo Chiyou explored Longwind City's streets.
• Ying and Luo Chiyou entered the Longwind Auction House, where Hong Yun explained how auctions worked and revealed the shop's connection to Peerless City.
• Ying chose a camera from the display and learned that she could receive it as a gift by consigning an item.
• Ying produced a strange fruit and told Hong Yun that eating it could give abilities to ordinary people.
• Luo Chiyou confirmed Ying's claim, and Hong Yun accepted the fruit for auction.
• Ying named the fruit the Fish-Fish Fruit.

Ying consigned a Fish-Fish Fruit at an auction house and received a camera and printer, then went out to take photographs with Luo Chiyou. Meanwhile, Lincon evolved the Crystal Ring Mother Tree into the A-Rank Celestial Pivot Mother Tree, giving Longwind City a vast information network and new defenses, and left Ying and Luo Chiyou reacting to its advance.

• Hong Yun agreed to auction Ying's Fish-Fish Fruit and gave her a camera, printer, and photo paper after teaching her how to use them.
• Ying took photographs of the snowy street, including a Shattercrystal Lamp, Fluorescent Moss, a sanitation worker, and Luo Chiyou.
• Lincon used Eternal Garden to evolve the Crystal Ring Mother Tree, transforming it into the A-Rank Celestial Pivot Mother Tree with a territory-wide network, memory retrieval, future deduction, and defensive abilities.
• Lincon set permission tiers for the Celestial Pivot Mother Tree and planned to leave its practical implementation to Zhang Rui and other administrators.
• Ying asked Lincon about the newly changed tree, and Luo Chiyou complained that it had advanced before her.

Lincon began using the power of the eternal garden to awaken the Fire God Tree’s ancient Fusang bloodline, despite the risk that its original consciousness would disappear. The process dragged his mind into a bloodline memory where ten suns filled the sky and a golden streak brought one crashing toward him.

• Lincon explained the risks of awakening the Fire God Tree’s bloodline, and its two consciousnesses agreed to proceed rather than keep waiting.
• Lincon used the eternal garden and a B-Rank Spirit Plant’s light of evolution to pierce the Fire God Tree’s bloodline barrier.
• A terrifying force pulled Lincon’s mind into a desolate world beneath ten different-colored suns.
• Golden streaks struck the suns, and nine of them fell from the sky.
• One falling sun revealed itself as a three-legged divine bird with a giant arrow embedded in its chest, and it stared directly at Lincon.

Lincon awakened the Fire God Tree’s Fusang bloodline and bonded it with the Golden Crow Day Feather, which inherited the tree’s original consciousness. Day Feather shattered the Dark Veil above Longwind City and brought daylight to the land.

• Lincon witnessed Yi shoot down the Golden Crows in the Fire God Tree’s bloodline memories, and one dying bird’s light carried him into the tree’s origin core.
• The Fire God Tree awakened its Fusang bloodline, merged with Day Feather’s remnant soul, and transformed into an S-rank tree as the Dark Veil vanished above Longwind City.
• Jiang Li caught Lincon after he was expelled from the origin space, and he discovered that the Fire God Tree’s original consciousness had become Day Feather.
• Lincon asked Day Feather to change the sky, and the Golden Crow grew immense as it flew above Longwind City.
• Day Feather used Daylight for All Living Beings to shatter the Dark Veil and spread daylight across the land.

The Dayfeather Golden Crow shattered the Dark Veil over Longwind City and brought daylight back, but stopped at Jiangzhou's border when it sensed a powerful dark will. Lincon ordered it to recover and disperse any returning darkness, then prepared to advance his spirit plants as Longwind City's officials awaited word about the recent upheavals.

• The Dayfeather Golden Crow dispersed the Dark Veil over Longwind City, and sunlight spread across the city and surrounding lands, awakening plants and restoring life.
• The Dayfeather Golden Crow halted at Jiangzhou's border after sensing a dangerous will within distant darkness, then returned to the Fire God Tree and told Lincon what it had encountered.
• Lincon reassured the Dayfeather Golden Crow, told it to regain its strength, and instructed it to restore Longwind City's daylight if the Dark Veil returned.
• Jiang Li asked Lincon about the divine bird after its power stirred her fire ability, and Lincon explained its connection to the Fire God Tree and advised her to cultivate nearby.
• Lincon replenished his energy and headed to the Sacred Court to work on advancing his spirit plants while Ying and Luo Chiyou waited to ask about the Fire God Tree.
• Zhang Rui and Han Qu discussed the reports and questions flooding the Governing Hall, then Lincon used a Void-Nesting Bird to summon everyone to a meeting in two hours.

Lincon convened the Longwind Council to explain the changes in Longwind City after his advancement and the Celestial Pivot Mother Tree’s evolution. He announced that daylight and resources would increase, introduced new citywide systems and rules, and placed Longwind City on a war footing against the Abyss Sea.

• Zhang Rui received Lincon’s summons, went home to wash and change, then joined officials and guards heading to the Origin Hall.
• The officials examined Celestial Pivot Crystal Leaves that displayed personal records and live departmental data before Lincon arrived.
• Lincon explained that his advancement and the Fire God Tree’s new ability had dispersed the Dark Veil across Jiangzhou, restoring more than eight hours of daylight.
• Lincon announced that the Celestial Pivot Mother Tree’s network would synchronize records and tasks, while resource output would double and travel restrictions would ease.
• Lincon ordered stricter discipline for newly awakened ability users and assigned serious cases to Xue Ningning and Chen Qi.
• Lincon warned that the Abyss Sea could soon threaten Longwind City and declared the city was entering a state of war readiness.

Lincon ordered Longwind City to prepare for war against the Abyss Sea, while Zhang Rui and Zhou Qing organized civilian protections and public announcements. As the city enjoyed the return of daylight, the Longwind Auction House drew crowds with exaggerated claims about the Fish-Fish Fruit, leaving Xu Lili doubtful about Hong Yun’s sales pitch.

• Guan Teng questioned whether Longwind City should enter war readiness, but Lincon insisted that it prepare early to protect humanity beyond Jiangzhou and promised increased resources through more frequent Trial Temple openings.
• Lincon assigned Zhang Rui and Zhou Qing to implement wartime civilian Protection Regulations, including unchanged food, housing, and medical coverage, higher pay for war work, emergency lessons, and new Adventurers’ Guild missions.
• Zhang Rui told Han Qu to publish the council minutes, war preparations, and civilian regulations in a special edition, forcing the latest fiction updates to be postponed.
• Li Yunfan gave Han Qu the original manuscripts for the upcoming installments of Thunder Lord and other novels to borrow while the special edition was prepared.
• The Longwind Auction House advertised the Fish-Fish Fruit as granting azure-dragon transformation and weather powers, drawing a large crowd to the auction.
• Xu Lili challenged Hong Yun’s claims about the fruit, but Hong Yun defended her marketing by insisting its appearance proved its abilities and that any failure to transform would mean the buyer had not trained enough.

Hong Yun opened the Longwind Auction House’s first auction by presenting the Fish-Fish Fruit, while Shen Xi’s attempt to foresee its future revealed an ancient tree and left her unable to use her precognition for a while. The bidding drew in Longwind City’s major adventuring groups and its biggest Wandering Merchant, and the Gray Feather Squad joined the contest as the price climbed.

• Hong Yun introduced the Fish-Fish Fruit and warned that ability users risked dangerous conflicts between its power and their existing abilities.
• At Bai Ge’s request, Shen Xi used her precognition on the fruit, suffered a backlash, and glimpsed an enormous ancient tree; she urged Night Owl to secure the fruit.
• Hong Yun opened bidding at one thousand Longwind Gold Coins, and the Huntwind Squad immediately raised the price to ten thousand.
• A Wandering Merchant bid twelve thousand, Night Owl raised the price to fifteen thousand, and the Rose Exploration Society joined the bidding.

Night Owl’s Gray Feather Squad won the Fish-Fish Fruit at auction for thirty-five thousand Longwind Coins, despite the Huntwind Squad’s efforts to buy it. After Ying sensed the fruit had been claimed, Lincon brought out the Devil Fruits in the Sacred Court Courtyard and began planning how to distribute them as rewards to his people.

• Night Owl raised the Gray Feather Squad’s bid to thirty-five thousand Longwind Coins, beating He Tianying and the Huntwind Squad to the Fish-Fish Fruit.
• Qu Linxiao confirmed that the Fish-Fish Fruit could let someone transform into an Avatar of an Azure Dragon, and the Huntwind Squad left hoping the Gray Feather Squad would not find a user for it.
• Night Owl’s team paid for the Fish-Fish Fruit with a Stored-Value Crystal Card, collected it from Xu Lili, and wondered who on their team should eat it.
• Ying sensed that someone had taken the Fish-Fish Fruit, and Lincon brought out the Burn-Burn Fruit and Freeze-Freeze Fruit as he considered revealing Devil Fruits to Longwind City.
• Ying summoned Lincon’s Devil Fruits, revealing a pile of ninety-eight, and Lincon decided to select powerful ones to reward Zhang Rui, Shen Congzhi, and the others.