Recaps

Lincon developed Longwind Fortress into a refuge, protecting it from dark creatures and welcoming hundreds of survivors. After the Sunlight Sunflowers sacrificed themselves to repel a Pale Wraith, he began restoring food and shelter and received the Seed of Life when his class marks fused.

• Lincon returned to Longwind Fortress, unlocked his Lord and Plant Cultivator careers, and began cultivating advanced plants to defend and develop his territory.
• Lincon killed the Rot Rat King with the Ghostshadow Sword Orchid, then defeated a D-Rank Weird Corpse by using a Purification Rune on his Shadow Sword.
• Zhang Rui arrived with Xu Wan and Zhang Han, and Lincon welcomed them before awakening the Ancient Maple Guardian to protect the ruined gate.
• After Viper of Flint City's Snake Guard attacked and died to the Ancient Maple Guardian, Lincon prepared for further threats and spotted refugees approaching in the dark.
• Lincon rescued Li Zhouhai's group with the Ancient Maple Guardian and Purifying Fire, then burned the Sunlight Sunflower Sea to drive back the Pale Wraith and Black Tide.
• Lincon welcomed 832 refugees into Longwind Fortress, appointed Zhang Rui and Li Zhouhai to help manage them, and grew Sunlight Potatoes from Liu Ying's half potato.
• Lincon evolved Giant Mushrooms into shelters, distributed candles and rune-strengthened Shrines, and cleared the remaining dark creatures from his territory.
• Lincon received the Seed of Life as his two class marks fused together.

Lincon expanded Longwind Fortress, developed rune technology, and prepared for a looming Black Tide as residents began to leave. After completing the Ecological Trial, he returned to find Black Iron City seeking trade and Flint City threatening an attack.

• Lincon purified Li Zhouhai, investigated the polluted lake with him, and discovered that the Demon Ancient Tree's resin had fouled the water before arranging for it to discharge the resin in one place.
• Lincon stopped the Raging Bull, established water-purification shrines, and returned to Longwind Fortress, where Zhou Qing arrived from Black Iron City and Lincon agreed to trade Sunlight Potatoes for rare materials.
• Lincon created reinforced runes, candles, and rune stones, organized a Rune Workshop with Shen Congzhi and Su Yunqing, and assigned Zhao Mu and Zhang Yaoyang to lead the Letter Bureau.
• Lincon strengthened Longwind Fortress with defensive plants as his professions advanced, then chose the Ecological Architect path and learned that a Black Tide would arrive in fifteen days.
• Lincon warned the residents about the approaching Black Tide, but more than four hundred people left, and he then entered the Ecological Trial and spent decades restoring a wasteland before dying beneath a tree as the trial reached 100%.
• Lincon returned from the completed trial to learn that Black Iron City had brought trade goods and Flint City had arrived with plans to attack Longwind Fortress.
• Lincon summoned both delegations to the conference hall, where Zhou Qing presented Black Iron City's goods and Lincon turned his attention to Flint City's delegation.

Lincon advanced to Longwind Lord, defended Longwind Fortress from the Black Tide, and unlocked Ecological Architect. After helping Guan Teng awaken and forming symbiotic contracts between people and spirit plants, Lincon led the fortress to defeat a Carrion Rat swarm and considered raising the rats as livestock.

• Lincon admitted killing Viper to Wang Hu’s Flint City delegation, then used Shadow Sword to pin down a shadow ability user and drive the delegation away.
• Lincon hunted the Pale Wraith alone, escaped its illusions, and burned it with a Purifying Firestorm, completing his mission and advancing to Longwind Lord.
• Lincon upgraded a Shrine and created a Solar Sunflower, then prepared Longwind Fortress’s residents and spirit plants for the approaching Black Tide.
• Lincon and the fortress’s plants fought the Black Tide, defeating its anomalies and Demon Armor, while Guan Teng awakened after killing the Shadow Fiend that had controlled him.
• Lincon discovered Guan Teng’s life was being overwhelmed by Dark Creature energy, used his qi to save him at the cost of twenty years of his lifespan, and learned Guan Teng had gained the Shadow Fiend ability.
• Lincon chose Symbiotic Evolution and formed bonds with Sunlight Elves and the Solar Sunflower, then gave Li Zhouhai a Reed Assassin contract before Li Zhouhai left to seek survivors.
• Lincon established contribution-based Ecological Contracts and led more than a hundred men against the Carrion Rats after they damaged the potato fields.
• Guan Teng killed the Rot Rat King, and Lincon returned with dozens of Carrion Rats and asked Zhang Rui to find people who could try raising them as livestock.

Lincon developed Longwind Fortress, welcomed Li Zhouhai and his refugees, and faced escalating pressure from Black Iron City and Flint City. As the Rune Warriors gained symbiotic Spirit Plants, Lincon discovered a Fire God Tree remnant with the potential to become a Fusang Divine Tree Sapling.

• Lincon and Lin Rui shaped the Lord’s Manor from giant banyan roots and Starlight Crystal Orchid Giant Trees, while Li Zhouhai found Jiang Li and Jiang Wei at Twin Camp.
• Jiang Li and Li Zhouhai rescued Twin Camp’s captured members, killed Lei Wanshan, and led 763 people toward Longwind Fortress.
• Zhou Qing visited Longwind Fortress to negotiate for food, but Hong Xiao’s attempt to seize Sunlight Elves ended with the Solar Sunflower and Fallen Sun Thorncrown killing him.
• Lincon oversaw the dangerous Rune Awakening of twenty-seven Defense Corps members, and fourteen survived to become Rune Warriors in the new Longwind Town Guard.
• Lincon learned that Flint City planned to attack Longwind Fortress, while Wang Bo’s returning refugees camped outside the walls under close watch.
• Lincon paired Luo Qian with a Ghostshadow Sword Orchid, allowing him to control his Wraith Hand and draw a black longsword from its mist.
• Lincon entered the Nightglow Life Circle and identified a charred branch as a remnant of the Fire God Tree, whose hidden advancement path could awaken it as a Fusang Divine Tree Sapling.