Chapter Summaries

Die Wu arrived at Ye Fei’s home and was treated by the Elf Queen, then tried to embrace Ye Fei and upset him by asking whether he liked men. After he reassured her and she turned into a butterfly in his hand, Li Yue called her a caterpillar, leaving her furious.

• The Elf Queen treated the half-dead Die Wu by growing branches and leaves that Die Wu absorbed until she recovered.
• Die Wu woke and flew toward Ye Fei, but a golden barrier stopped her from getting too close to him.
• Die Wu accused Ye Fei of having no luck with women and asked whether he liked men, prompting him to explain that he was not interested in finding a partner.
• Die Wu thought Ye Fei was angry and apologized, then turned into a butterfly and settled in his hand while crying.
• The Elf Queen revealed that Die Wu had existed for only half a year and was still a cub.
• Li Yue asked whether Die Wu had been a caterpillar, making her challenge him to a fight.

Die Wu explained that she had reclaimed her external incarnation and remained the Wood Demon Pavilion’s master, then looked for a replacement member among Ye Fei’s group. She offered Li Yue treatment for his blindness and a place at the Wood Demon Pavilion, leaving him to decide whether to go with her.

• Die Wu confirmed that she had transferred the Wood Demon Pavilion’s master position to her external incarnation, then taken that incarnation back into herself.
• Die Wu told Ye Fei that the Wood Demon Pavilion was far away and that she had been intercepted before asking the Elf Queen to bring her there.
• The Elf Queen introduced Huang Yu as a genuinely frail Human Race practitioner with 2 combat power, and Die Wu avoided questioning the group’s powerful seniors.
• Ye Fei told Die Wu that Li Yue was not a member of his group and suggested she ask him about replacing a Wood Demon Pavilion member.
• Die Wu took Li Yue aside and offered to bring him to the Wood Demon Pavilion, where her sister could treat his blindness and he could visit or stay freely.

Ye Fei explained the rumors about his reluctance to kill and his enemies disappearing, while Die Wu confirmed that Li Yue had agreed to join the Wood Demon Pavilion. Li Yue then learned he would be the pavilion’s first human player and struggled with the thought of living among nonhumans.

• Feng An and the Elf Queen discussed whether the Wood Demon Pavilion should add a tenth player, and Ye Fei said any newcomer would need to fit in with the group.
• The Queen asked Ye Fei about rumors that he never held grudges or killed people, and he explained that he settled grudges promptly and let his household handle most enemies.
• Ye Fei said the stories about him had grown more exaggerated because Yang Cheng’s warnings spread and his enemies did not survive to tell their side.
• Die Wu returned with Li Yue and confirmed he had joined the Wood Demon Pavilion, then told him he was their first human player.
• Li Yue froze as he realized his future home would be shared with nonhumans, whose forms and laughter matched the frightening stories he remembered.

Ye Fei and the others waited for Blue Feather while Lingyan took the children outside, and Ye Fei and Die Wu helped the anxious Li Yue adjust to his new situation in the Wood Demon Pavilion. Blue Feather arrived as the group finished explaining the pavilion’s members to Li Yue.

• Die Wu asked the Elf Queen not to beat Blue Feather to death when she came, and the queen agreed to beat her only half to death.
• Long Heng arrived looking for Feng An, but leaped into Ye Fei’s arms instead of greeting his father.
• Lingyan took Long Heng, Fire Dance, Feimeng, Qingxue, and the other children outside while the adults waited for Blue Feather.
• Ye Fei reassured Li Yue about the demon race, and Die Wu explained that he could settle into the Wood Demon Pavilion and learn at his own pace.
• Die Wu told Li Yue about the pavilion members’ habits and embarrassing stories before Blue Feather arrived, looking like an adult version of Die Wu.

The Elf Queen beat Blue Feather for coveting her Life Tree, then gave Ye Fei the butterfly’s enormous wings as equipment materials. After Blue Feather recovered and apologized, she joined Die Wu, leaving Ye Fei uneasy about forming an alliance with the Wood Demon Pavilion.

• The Elf Queen took Blue Feather away for a private three-minute discussion while Die Wu explained that her sister could revive as long as her essence survived.
• Feng An described Blue Feather’s Butterfly Metamorphosis ability, and Die Wu added that dying weakened her for about a month.
• The Elf Queen returned with Blue Feather’s wings and gave them to Ye Fei, who used his Golden Light Shield to block them as they expanded.
• The Elf Queen released Blue Feather and warned her not to covet the Life Tree again, threatening to use her as fertilizer beneath its roots.
• Blue Feather healed, apologized to the Elf Queen, and sat beside Die Wu after the Queen rejected her attempts to act cute.
• Ye Fei worried that the Wood Demon Pavilion’s members seemed unreliable as he considered their future alliance.

Blue Feather negotiated with the Elf Queen over Wood Demon Pavilion’s access to Free and Unrestrained Mountain’s benefits, while Ye Fei watched and explained his preference for Die Wu as a butterfly. The Queen demanded 30% of Wood Demon Pavilion’s core energy, and Blue Feather began to reconsider the value of the mountain’s fortuitous encounters.

• Blue Feather questioned Ye Fei about whether he liked watching Die Wu act cute, and he said he preferred her butterfly form.
• Blue Feather revealed her true demon appearance and introduced herself as Wood Demon Pavilion’s representative for discussing cooperation.
• The Elf Queen demanded that Wood Demon Pavilion cover maintenance costs and transfer 30% of its core energy to Free and Unrestrained Mountain.
• Blue Feather protested that the Queen’s terms would leave Wood Demon Pavilion with too little energy after expenses.
• The Elf Queen explained that Wood Demon Pavilion would still profit as its core developed and highlighted the value of fortuitous encounters.
• Blue Feather asked whether fortuitous encounters could include anything, realizing they might be more valuable than the cultivation bonus.

Blue Feather healed Li Yue’s eyes, allowing him to see the Demon Race and realize they were not frightening as he had imagined. Before he could settle in at Free and Unrestrained Mountain, Lin Mu lost control while trying to use the Dark Phoenix Soul, and Ye Fei pinned him down as Jun Mo and Lin Xian arrived.

• Blue Feather agreed that Wood Demon Pavilion would not bear the cost of any new allies and promised to adjust the sharing ratios when Special Effect Sharing became available.
• Blue Feather healed Li Yue’s eyes and guided him through the pain until he could see again.
• Li Yue saw Ye Fei, the Queen, Feng An, Blue Feather, and Die Wu, and said they were beautiful rather than terrifying.
• Lin Mu flew toward Ye Fei’s courtyard after losing control while trying to give form to Demonic Qi through the Dark Phoenix Soul.
• Ye Fei trapped Lin Mu under a Golden Light Shield and bound him with Lightning Nets.
• Jun Mo arrived and complained that Lin Mu had destroyed his Formations, while Lin Xian carried the bloodied Lu Heng behind him.

Ye Fei subdued Lin Mu’s heart demon with Lightning Nets and restored him to his senses, then sent Lin Xian to take his exhausted brother home. Afterward, Blue Feather healed Lu Heng as payment for watching the spectacle.

• Lu Heng asked Ye Fei whether Lin Mu could recover, and Ye Fei explained that Lin Mu would be fine after resting.
• Ye Fei removed the demonic qi with Lightning Nets, then teased and patted Lin Mu while Lin Mu complained that he could not fight back.
• Lin Xian carried Lin Mu home and suggested that Lin Mu might simply be afraid of Ye Fei, while Lin Mu cursed Ye Fei and accidentally revealed Lin Xian’s nickname, Little Treasure.
• Blue Feather teased Lin Mu about the nickname, and Ye Fei asked the onlookers to pay admission for watching.
• Blue Feather healed Lu Heng’s old and new injuries as payment for the show.

After the battle, Lu Heng’s old injuries were healed, and the others returned to their tasks. Ye Fei checked on the Artifact Refining Furnace, then cultivated beneath the Phoenix Tree until Lingyan brought the little ones home that evening.

• Blue Feather said goodbye to Die Wu and Li Yue and left after healing Lu Heng, while the Elf Queen advised Ye Fei to ask her for something useful next time.
• Lu Heng celebrated the return of his healthy body, and the Elf Queen went home to rest.
• Jun Mo went to check on the Martial Arts Hall construction, and Lu Heng accompanied him.
• Ye Fei returned home to check on the Artifact Refining Furnace, but Phoenix Perch blocked him so the artifact spirit could keep working.
• Ye Fei chatted with Phoenix Perch, then began cultivating the Five Elements Generation Art and entered an accelerated cycle.
• Lingyan brought Fire Dance, Qingxue, and the other little ones home while Ye Fei cultivated.

Ye Fei passed his second heart-questioning illusion by refusing to change his past choices, then returned home before the next disaster phase. He reunited with his worried companions and prepared to make dinner.

• Ye Fei relived his high school years and repeatedly faced pressure to improve his Gaokao results, but refused to alter them because he would not deny his past.
• Lingyan entered the illusion and urged Ye Fei to return, warning that his companions had gone two days without eating.
• Ye Fei destroyed the illusion with golden tribulation lightning and returned to his courtyard with Lingyan.
• Ye Fei received 100,000 survival points and 2,000 Spiritual Energy Orbs for passing the trial, then gathered his companions and said he would prepare dinner.
• Qingxue blamed herself for Ye Fei's tribulation, while Feimeng joined her cries rather than explain what had happened.

Ye Fei comforted Phoenix Perch and Fire Dance after learning they had fought because they blamed themselves for his tribulation. Later, Lu Heng and the others arrived, and Ye Fei warned Long Heng not to tug Feimeng’s fur.

• Ye Fei took out four identical flying swords and asked Phoenix Perch whether he should let the others choose or draw lots.
• Feimeng told Ye Fei that Fire Dance and Phoenix Perch had fought after Fire Dance blamed Phoenix Perch for not protecting him during his tribulation.
• Ye Fei reassured Phoenix Perch and Fire Dance, and they made peace as he used a new ability to communicate emotions.
• Qingxue, Feng Bai, and Phantom Spirit returned, while Ye Fei prepared materials from Blue Feather’s butterfly wings in the Artifact Refining Furnace.
• Lu Heng arrived with Long Heng, Jun Mo, Big Cat, Lin Mu, and Lin Xian, then teased Ye Fei about his uneventful heart demon tribulation.
• Long Heng rushed over to Ye Fei and tried to roll on Feimeng, so Ye Fei told him not to pull the fox’s fur.

After Ye Fei’s heart-questioning illusion, he gave Lingyan, Jun Mo, Lu Heng, and Lin Mu four boxed flying swords. The group discovered the swords looked alike but had different attributes, and Jun Mo recognized his as the one from his visions, Lingkong.

• The Elf Queen congratulated Ye Fei on passing another heart-questioning illusion, while Lin Mu hid his misgivings after Lingyan joked about him no longer being human.
• After Feng An arrived and everyone shared a meal, Ye Fei set out four wooden boxes for those who needed them.
• Lingyan, Jun Mo, Lu Heng, and Lin Mu each took a box, and Lin Mu wondered why he had been included.
• Lu Heng opened his box and found a flying sword, prompting Lin Mu to open his and notice it looked the same.
• Jun Mo explained that the swords shared an outward appearance but would have different attributes after binding, then recognized his sword as Lingkong from his precognitive visions.

Lu Heng and Jun Mo received flying swords from Ye Fei and hurried home to refine them, while Ye Fei focused everyone on preparing for the next disaster. Lingyan showed the others how he could control his sword while maintaining his supposed 2 Combat Power, leaving the group to prepare for the disaster.

• Lingyan refined a flying sword, and Lu Heng struggled to complete his own refinement while Lin Mu admired his sword.
• Lu Heng asked Ye Fei what gifts might interest him, but Ye Fei urged everyone to focus on preparations for the disaster arriving the next day.
• Jun Mo named his flying sword Lingkong and hurried home with Big Cat to refine it; Lu Heng also left and reminded Ye Fei to arrange matters for the workers.
• After the others left, the Queen and Feng An watched Lingyan, expecting to see how a Human Race Cultivation Practitioner with 2 Combat Power controlled a sword.
• Lingyan used his thoughts to make his flying sword enlarge and hover, explaining that it could obey him without spiritual energy because he had left an operating template inside it.

Ye Fei completed the beginner Martial Arts Hall and configured its first technique and practice fees, while Long Heng questioned whether the generous system would encourage workers to stop striving. Ye Fei defended the setup and explained how effort, performance, and special events would affect their work-hour credits and rewards.

• Feng An lost interest in watching Lingyan's unfair race-changing game, while the Queen said she enjoyed it.
• Ye Fei left Feng An and the Queen to visit Jianmu with Long Heng and Fire Dance and configure the completed Martial Arts Hall.
• Ye Fei told Long Heng that the level 1 hall offered only the Basic Body-Strengthening Art and needed 1,000 Popularity Points to upgrade.
• Long Heng questioned why Ye Fei charged only one work-hour credit per hour of martial arts practice, and Ye Fei explained the hall's future tiers and credit rates.
• Long Heng accused Ye Fei of setting a trap for the workers, but Ye Fei said they could choose to work less and still live on free housing and inexpensive meals.

Ye Fei and Long Heng discussed how to motivate the workers without forcing them, then Ye Fei noticed that Free and Unrestrained Mountain's territory seemed much larger than before. Feng An explained that the Snow Mountain Region had not truly expanded but had gradually returned to its original size after being compressed when the players arrived.

• Ye Fei explained that workers should choose their own goals and that survival rewards and labor would keep Free and Unrestrained Mountain from losing energy.
• Long Heng recalled that a worker had once described living on a seemingly endless snowfield, prompting Ye Fei to reconsider the region's size.
• Ye Fei compared his travel memories with the current map and realized the Snow Mountain Region's territory seemed to have grown.
• Long Heng pointed Ye Fei toward Feng An, who explained that the region had been twice its original size in the second month, three times in the third, and five times now as it returned from its initial compression.

Lingyan explained that future development would take place inside faction territory, while Ye Fei learned that the territory could expand internally through space manipulation. As the sixth-month disaster approached, Ye Fei blessed everyone with good luck, and Long Heng suggested Feng An might have been able to skip the phase before that blessing.

• Lingyan told Ye Fei and the Wind God that faction territory would improve as factions leveled up, without changing the outside world.
• Ye Fei understood that faction territory could grow inward, and Lingyan said later upgrades would reveal how space and time were manipulated.
• Feng An compared the territory to the space inside his home, then dropped Long Heng into Ye Fei's shield as Ye Fei wished everyone good luck for the coming disaster phase.
• Long Heng speculated that Feng An had been able to skip the disaster phase, making Ye Fei wonder whether his blessing had forced Feng An to participate.
• Ye Fei jokingly wished to pass the disaster phase by eating, drinking, and playing, and Feimeng criticized him for wanting resources while slacking off.
• Ye Fei reminded Long Heng of his easy earlier disaster phases, leaving Long Heng sulking about the seafood feasts he missed.

After the six-month mark, players were forced to swap survival locations with friends for five days. Ye Fei was sent to Long Heng’s former sea home, while Long Heng arrived at Ye Fei’s home, where the pets worried over Ye Fei and wondered how the Wind God was faring in Lingyan’s Snake Nest.

• Ye Fei was teleported into the sea, killed an attacking shark, and complained to Long Heng that he had expected a deserted island.
• Long Heng laughed at Ye Fei’s predicament and asked him to catch seafood and check the fish-breeding area near the cliff.
• At Ye Fei’s home, Lingyan explained that he had swapped places with the Wind God and returned because he did not want to stay in the Snake Nest.
• Lingyan and Long Heng speculated that the Wind God might encounter divine birds near Lingyan’s former home.
• Feimeng pinned Long Heng down and asked him to check on Ye Fei, who reassured everyone through Long Heng that he was safe.

Ye Fei collected Supply Crates on Deserted Island while Long Heng stayed at Ye Fei’s home and helped store the items he sent over. At Mountain Peak, Ye Fei found Long Heng’s home overtaken by demonized kelp that had absorbed the Demon Refining Pearl.

• Ye Fei found Supply Crates scattered across Deserted Island and killed venomous creatures hiding among them.
• Ye Fei asked Long Heng to receive his collected items and store them in the Storage Cabinets at Ye Fei’s home.
• Long Heng asked Ye Fei to check what remained of his home on Mountain Peak as Ye Fei continued collecting crates.
• Ye Fei reached Mountain Peak at sunrise and found Golden-Edged Kelp with over a thousand Combat Power growing at Long Heng’s home.
• Long Heng warned Ye Fei to check whether the kelp had consumed his other plants and pointed out the Demon Refining Pearl.
• Ye Fei found the Demon Refining Pearl embedded in the kelp, which had made it into a mobile home.

Ye Fei destroyed the Golden-Edged Kelp and recovered Long Heng’s damaged Demon Refining Pearl, then found Long Heng’s former breeding area filled with sea creatures and Aquatic Tribe players. Long Heng’s conversation with the Little Jiaoren revealed more about its past and his tangled history with Feng An.

• Ye Fei used a lightning arrow to kill the Golden-Edged Kelp and recover its Ocean Plant Crystal and Long Heng’s damaged Demon Refining Pearl.
• Long Heng asked Ye Fei to check the cliffside Breeding Area and catch any surviving seafood so he could raise it in their seawater area.
• Ye Fei found the Breeding Area held many sea creatures, including Aquatic Tribe players, and Long Heng admitted he had hoped they would improve the seafood’s genes.
• The Little Jiaoren confronted Long Heng, who realized it was Lingxu and fled to Huang Yu for protection.
• Lingyan explained that the Little Jiaoren had become a baby pet after dying, and Long Heng recounted his past with Feng An and the human who had saved him.

Ye Fei caught live seafood for Long Heng to raise and discussed how the exchange trip could endanger players whose homes were left unguarded. The group remained scattered across unfamiliar locations, and Ye Fei concluded the trip was effectively a disaster for many players.

• Ye Fei stopped Long Heng from teasing the Little Jiaoren and asked how to send players back to their homes.
• Ye Fei bought a No. 20 Ingredients Trading Box and used a Lightning Net and Fishing Net to collect live seafood for Long Heng.
• Long Heng arranged for Huang Yu to mark out a seafood breeding area beside a safe zone for the Little Jiaoren.
• Ye Fei asked whether the others had reported in, and Long Heng said most of them had left to visit unfamiliar places.
• Ye Fei and Long Heng reflected that the exchange trip could be dangerous because players might return to find their unguarded homes under attack.