Chapter Summaries

Mu You explored the coast, learned that good deeds and evil deeds accumulated competing hidden values, and discovered a concealed chamber containing a warning about a horror beneath the water. He found a Fog-Breaking Mirror and began scanning the mist for the tsunami source, finally seeing something in the sector 50–60 degrees from due south.

• Mu You helped a Sea Snail escape sticky black substance and gained goodwill, then learned from the Forum that goodwill and malice were separate, competing paths to rewards.
• Mu You tested both kinds of deeds, chose to favor goodwill, and survived three increasingly powerful tsunamis with the help of Sliding-Shell Beetles.
• Mu You paused to repair disordered order on a smooth stone, uncovering a hidden underground chamber and the skeleton of a Fool Ancestor who warned others not to enter the water.
• Mu You found a Fog-Breaking Mirror beneath the bed and used the Pocket Watch to scan the sea through the mist.
• Mu You saw nothing in the first sectors, but the scan at 50–60 degrees from due south revealed something that made him curse about a faucet.

Mu You discovered that a forgotten irrigation system caused the tsunamis, but an octopus-like creature guarding the water killed him before he could reach it. Back in Dawn City, he learned that the Fairy Clan could forge God Statues and accepted a quest to find their lost homeland, the Bitter Garden, a legendary Sky City.

• Mu You used the Fog-Breaking Mirror to locate an overflowing irrigation tank and realized its hourly drainage caused the tsunamis.
• Mu You rowed toward the tank, but an octopus tentacle trapped him in ink and drew him into an illusion, killing him despite his Song of Peace halo.
• Mu You questioned the Octopus King about its origins, but it remembered nothing beyond living in the Star Spirit World's sea.
• Mu You returned to Dawn City, received his Divine Duty reward, and asked the Minstrel how to forge another God Statue.
• The Minstrel explained that the Fairy Clan made God Statues, so Mu You summoned Aurea and asked her about the process.
• Aurea said she could forge a God Statue if Mu You found the Fairy Clan's lost homeland, and he received the quest to find the Bitter Garden, a lost Sky City.

Mu You learned from the administrators that the Bitter Garden, the original Sky City, had once hovered above the Lan’er Imperial Capital, and he suspected the Bitter Forest might be connected to it. He entered the forest with Fuya and found that its bitter pollen was linked by legend to the Fairy of Love, but Fuya said no one had ever seen a fairy there.

• Mu You asked the administrators about the Bitter Garden and learned it was the model for the twelve Sky Cities, vanished after the previous Great Calamity, and was last seen above the Lan’er Imperial Capital.
• Mu You connected the Bitter Garden to the Bitter Forest and returned to Red Rose Academy, where Fuya told him the Wizards’ Association had released the Evolution Potion formula.
• Mu You asked Fuya to guide him into the Bitter Forest, where she explained that hallucinogenic fungi created illusions.
• Mu You killed a Fanged Squirrel and collected bitter pollen, which Fuya said was used to make magical chocolate and was rumored to come from the Fairy of Love’s tears.
• Mu You asked Fuya whether anyone had encountered a fairy in the forest, but she insisted that no one had ever seen one.

Mu You and Fuya found Geguwu, an ancient witch who had survived between eras and controlled the entrance to the Bitter Garden. Geguwu agreed to let them enter only if they passed her teacher’s test, which required brewing a Legendary Grade version of her teacher’s Sweet Potion.

• Fuya led Mu You through the Bitter Forest to Geguwu’s home, where they rang her bell and summoned the witch despite Fuya’s warnings.
• Geguwu threatened Mu You and Fuya, then revealed that she had survived the interval between eras and possessed a Shapeshifter item given to her by her teacher, the Lord of Calamity.
• Mu You asked Geguwu about the Bitter Garden, and she admitted that she controlled its entrance.
• Geguwu offered to let them enter the Bitter Garden if they passed her teacher’s test by reverse-engineering Sweet Potion and brewing a Legendary Grade version.
• Geguwu said she had spent nearly four thousand years trying to meet the test but had managed to brew only Epic Grade potions.

Mu You and Vivian analyzed Geguwu’s Sweet Potion and discovered that its supposed True Love Blood could be replaced by a Fool’s blood. Mu You brewed a Rare Grade potion on his first attempt, and Vivian explained that his blood had made the process unusually easy.

• Mu You learned that he could use the Synthesis Furnace to make Legendary Tier Sweet Potions and went to stay at Lin Xue’s Grandmother’s manor with Fuya, Xiao Ya, and Vivian.
• Bone Dragon flew through the clouds above K City, drawing attention from people below, while Mu You continued to the manor.
• Vivian confirmed that Geguwu had not been her student, then joined Mu You and Fuya to analyze the Sweet Potion’s ingredients.
• Mu You and Vivian identified Bitter Pollen and True Love Blood as the potion’s core ingredients, with True Love Blood requiring a person to be filled with love when their blood was drawn.
• Mu You used his own blood to brew the potion and produced a Rare Grade result on his first attempt.
• Vivian explained that the potion truly relied on Fool’s blood to suppress the Curse of Black Magic, so Mu You’s blood had served as a shortcut.

Mu You and Fuya exchanged the Shapeshifter for access to the Bitter Garden, which Geguwu opened despite refusing to use the Synthesis Furnace to pass her teacher’s test. After Mu You arrived unconscious and learned the Shapeshifter could create loyal, growing clones, he considered using it to divide his good and evil traits among them.

• Mu You brewed legendary-grade Sweet Potions and showed them to Geguwu, who demanded to know how he had made them before opening the Bitter Garden entrance.
• Mu You offered to trade an explanation and help making a legendary potion for Geguwu’s Shapeshifter, and she handed over the carving.
• Geguwu refused to use the Synthesis Furnace to fulfill her teacher’s test, but opened the Bitter Garden entrance by ringing the Ancient Bell eighty-one times.
• Mu You and Fuya entered the Bitter Garden, where Mu You’s character lost consciousness and Fuya landed in a storeroom.
• The Lamp Genie explained that the Shapeshifter could create three loyal, growing clones, and Mu You considered concentrating the Seven Deadly Sins in one clone to help digest the Divine Bone.

Mu You used the Shapeshifter to split three skins into independent clones, giving them distinct personalities, resources, and pets before sending them into the game. His character awakened in the Bitter Garden’s Sky City, where it encountered Eerie Caterpillars and heard a warning not to harm them.

• Mu You separated most of his negative traits from their opposing virtues, then used the Shapeshifter to create clones with the Night Watchman, Herbalist, and Diviner skins.
• Mu You explained the clones’ rules, but the Diviner named herself Mu Linglong and insisted on being called Her Majesty Queen Linglong.
• Mu You distributed equipment, experience books, lifespan, and pets among the clones, then assigned the Phoenix to Number One, the Two-Headed Dragon to Number Two, and the Gluttonous Demon Spider to Queen Linglong.
• Mu You’s game character awakened in a garbage dump on the Bitter Garden’s Sky City and saw human settlements far below, but spatial rules prevented it from leaving the city.
• Two Eerie Caterpillars attacked the character, and an unseen speaker warned it not to hurt them or all the Eerie Ones would hunt it down.

Mu You met a nameless fairy who used bitter pollen to disguise him from the aberrations and offered to guide him through Bitter Garden. After reaching her home and discovering her generous gifts, he remained suspicious of her motives and sent clones to explore and investigate her.

• Mu You accepted the fairy girl's bitter pollen, which cursed him with bad luck but made the aberrations leave him alone.
• The fairy girl explained that she had been stripped of her name and rank, described how bitter dust and Lucky Dust worked, and revealed that aberrations attacked outsiders.
• Mu You accepted the fairy girl's offer to guide and protect him, then endured a string of mishaps as they traveled to her Flower Bud House.
• At the house, Mu You identified the Gold and Silver Nuts and Fairy Nectar as valuable items, but left them untouched after the fairy girl departed to gather pollen.
• Mu You summoned Number One, Number Two, and Linglong, sending the first two to explore and assigning Linglong to follow the fairy girl and uncover her purpose.

Mu You monitored his clones while Fuya escaped the Rose Queen’s pursuit and gathered information about the Bitter Garden’s three kingdoms. After learning that Sky City’s true ruler remained unknown, Mu You planned to investigate Radiant City with Fuya and send his clones to the other kingdoms.

• Fuya learned that the Rose Duchy’s people mistook her for a prophesied Child of Salvation, and she escaped the queen’s forces when a blue-haired fairy and a dragon intervened.
• Mu You watched the Herbalist manipulate two adolescent fairies into fighting to the death, then collect their Lucky Dust and valuables.
• The Night Watchman rescued animals and fairies before falling asleep, while Linglong interrupted two fairies beating a Nameless Fairy and continued following her after revealing herself.
• Fuya abducted a passerby and learned that the Bitter Garden consisted of the Land of Calamity, the Rose Duchy, and the Radiant Holy Land, but she could not identify Sky City’s ruler.
• Mu You and Fuya chose to head for Radiant City, while Mu You planned to send the Herbalist to the Land of Calamity and Linglong to the Rose Duchy.

Mu You dispatched his clones on separate missions and accepted the nameless fairy girl as his guide toward Radiant City. When he and Fuya reached the same meeting place but could not see each other, he deduced that he was in the Bitter Garden of the Previous Era, four thousand years before her.

• Mu You recovered and found that his Star Spirit World backpack opened in the Bitter Garden, but his Teleportation Arrays could not connect.
• Mu You sent the Herbalist with Little Two-Headed Dragon to search for the Country of Calamity.
• Linglong revealed that divination had shown the fairy girl was harmless and would soon die, then borrowed Shadow Fluffball and departed with the Gluttonous Demon Spider to investigate the Rose Duchy.
• Mu You healed the fairy girl's injuries and repaired her wings, declined to stay with her, and finally accepted her offer to guide him.
• The fairy girl guided Mu You to Fallen Flower City after Fuya confirmed that it was Radiant City's ancient name.
• Mu You left a mark on a stele that appeared ancient to Fuya and deduced that they occupied the same location in different eras, with him four thousand years in the past.

Mu You suspected that the Lord of Calamity, the Radiant Saint, and the Rose Queen were his three clones, and asked Fuya to investigate them in the past. After Fuya was caught trying to enter Radiant City, she learned the Saint would give a sermon at sunrise and decided to target him directly.

• Mu You told Fuya he was four thousand years in the past and explained his suspicion that the Fairy Kingdom's three rulers were his clones.
• Fuya agreed to investigate the rulers and headed toward Radiant City, while Mu You turned back to find the lost Night Watchman.
• Mu You found the Night Watchman feeding kittens, sent him Cat Food, and then shared his memories of the past era with him.
• The Night Watchman insisted he could not be the Radiant Saint because he was lazy, opposed to war, and unwilling to manage a country, then lectured Mu You for hours.
• Fuya told Mu You that Radiant City's knights had surrounded her and that she had escaped by logging out after learning kidnapping carried a death sentence.
• Fuya revealed that the Radiant Saint would preach at sunrise and decided to go after him herself.

Mu You and the Night Watchman visited Fallen Flower City's Oath Court to seek Lucky Dust, but Saintess Tina's pursuit and a citywide attack by Eerie Ones forced them to form Contracts with fairies. The Contracts stopped the Eerie Ones, while Tina demanded that they take her to a living Royal Fairy.

• Mu You learned that fairies exchanged pollen through Contracts with human companions and that Nameless Fairies were barred from the Oath Court.
• At the Oath Court, Mu You sensed they were being watched, evaded their pursuers, and discovered Saintess Tina was searching for them.
• Black vapor drove Eerie Ones to attack Mu You and the Night Watchman, while a woman denounced them as Fools and rallied the city's troops against them.
• Tina helped them escape the army and revealed that Royal Fairy dust had drawn her attention and that a Contract could mask their Fool aura from the Eerie Ones.
• Mu You formed a Contract with the Fairy Girl, and the Night Watchman formed one with Tina, causing the Eerie Ones to calm down.
• Tina demanded to meet a living Royal Fairy, and the Night Watchman told her it might take over a hundred years or even four thousand years.

Fuya infiltrated Radiant City to capture its Saint, only to expose that he was an impostor and trigger the collapse of the city as fairies turned into Eerie Ones. As the Land of Calamity attacked under the pretext of eradicating them, Fuya escaped with the fake Saint and a possible clue to the real Saint’s disappearance: the Dark Grotto.

• Fuya evaded Radiant City’s guards with a Transfer Spell and Hermit Card, then infiltrated the square where the Saint was preaching.
• After a fairy exposed her invisibility, Fuya attacked the Saint and captured him, but he revealed he was a stand-in and claimed the real Saint had disappeared over a thousand years ago.
• The stand-in’s confession was broadcast across the square, shattering the crowd’s faith as fairies began transforming into Eerie Ones that multiplied and attacked nearby people.
• A blue-haired fairy arrived on a Two-Headed Dragon with the Land of Calamity’s forces, declaring they would eradicate the Eerie Ones and attacking the square despite Radiant City’s objections.
• Fuya learned that a mysterious fairy had mentioned a place called the Dark Grotto, then put the stand-in in her backpack and logged out as the fighting engulfed the city.

Mu You learned that the Dark Grotto existed beneath the Bitter Garden and that it corresponded to the Dungeon entrance in Dawn City, then had Tina and the Night Watchman abduct Olmedo to question her about the Fools. Olmedo revealed that the Bitter Mother Tree stopped producing fairies when the first Fool was born, and began withering when another Fool entered the Bitter Garden four hundred years later.

• Fuya told Mu You that future Eerie Ones had mutated and could infect fairies, and Mu You concluded that the fairies had likely exterminated them.
• Tina and the fairy girl identified the Dark Grotto as a forbidden cavern about a hundred and thirty li south of the Bitter Garden's Central Square, where the future Saint may have disappeared.
• Mu You realized the Dark Grotto's location matched Dawn City's Dungeon entrance and wondered what powered the Bitter Garden, but the Lamp Genie could not remember.
• Tina and the Night Watchman abducted Olmedo, the Fairy Clan's last Gardener, and Tina accused her of hiding newborn fairies and being involved in the disappearance of Fairy King Orens the Blessed.
• Olmedo revealed that the Bitter Mother Tree had stopped growing eight hundred years earlier, the same time the first Fool was born, and that it began withering when a Fool entered the Bitter Garden four hundred years ago.

Mu You convinced Olmedo that he and the Night Watchman came from the future, and she agreed to help them investigate the Dark Grotto. He accepted a quest to find the missing Fairy King Orenz in exchange for the Bitter Garden’s Structural Model Blueprint, then met Olmedo’s student and guide, Glatterix Gesaberbeli, also known as Geguwu.

• Olmedo revealed that Fairy King Orenz had disappeared in the Dark Grotto eight hundred years earlier and that she considered Fools a threat to the Fairy Clan.
• Mu You claimed that Fools and fairies coexisted in the future, and the Night Watchman described their world to Olmedo, Tina, and the Fairy Girl.
• Olmedo believed them after the Night Watchman mentioned Radiant City, a name Orenz had privately imagined for Fallen Flower City.
• Mu You explained that he had fewer than four days to investigate the Fairy Clan’s abnormal changes, and Olmedo gave him an incomplete Dark Grotto map and offered to divert sentries.
• Olmedo offered the Structural Model Blueprint of the Bitter Garden as a reward for finding Orenz alive, and Mu You accepted the quest.
• Mu You learned that Linglong and Spider Girl were trapped at a restaurant over a lifespan bill, then met Olmedo’s student Glatterix Gesaberbeli, who introduced herself as Geguwu.

Mu You led Geguwu, the Night Watchman, and Linglong into the Dark Grotto after reuniting with the gluttonous Linglong and learning he could not contact the Herbalist in a mysterious dark area. As the fairy girl plunged into the sinkhole after them, the party discovered that the grotto suppressed all light—until the Night Watchman’s Pumpkin Lantern unexpectedly shone.

• Mu You met the young Geguwu and kept his knowledge of the future from her, then found that messages to the Herbalist could not reach him inside a special area.
• Mu You led the party on a two-day journey to the Dark Grotto, where he found Linglong overweight from overeating and learned she had signed an indenture to pay off her food bill.
• Geguwu led Mu You, the Night Watchman, and Linglong down the rope ladder while Tina and the fairy girl stayed behind; after the others left, the fairy girl became enveloped in black mist and dove into the sinkhole, and Tina followed her.
• Mu You’s party entered the Utter Darkness Zone, where Geguwu explained that no light worked and that they would have to rely on their other senses.
• The Night Watchman’s Pumpkin Lantern suddenly began to glow, astonishing Geguwu and illuminating the party.

Mu You and his companions followed royal fairy pollen through the Dark Grotto, encountering strange plants and hostile creatures. After a slippery cliff nearly sent them into the Abyss, the Herbalist rescued Geguwu, and Mu You learned he had been exploring the grotto for two days.

• The Night Watchman used Fairy's pollen in his Pumpkin Lantern, whose light guided the group down the rope ladder and along a hidden passage.
• Geguwu explained the dangers of the Reverse-Life Flower and Light-Eating Flower as the group traveled deeper into the Dark Grotto.
• Mu You killed a Dark Grotto Beast with Arc Sword and found Dark Pollen and Divinity Powder among its drops.
• The group reached the edge of Geguwu's map, then slipped on oily slime and nearly fell into the Abyss; the Gluttonous Demon Spider and Little Phoenix helped save Linglong.
• The Herbalist appeared below the cliff and carried Geguwu back to safety, then Mu You synchronized memories and learned the Herbalist had found another entrance and spent two days exploring the Dark Grotto.

Mu You analyzed a hidden Order Space made by the God of Order and discovered that it contained the Wind Qilin’s arm, a tool used by Boundary Guardians to reinforce a seal. After learning of the mysterious Spear of Sealing, he checked on the others and found them examining what might be a root of the Bitter Mother Tree—or a creature’s tail.

• The Herbalist helped the group cross the dangerous stretch, while Geguwu grew shy around him and Mu You considered whether he was the Lord of Calamity.
• Mu You detected unusually orderly runes in the cliff and stayed behind to study them while the others continued ahead with Dawn City Map Fragments.
• After completing his analysis, Mu You learned the divine art Between Order and used his control of order to open the space.
• Mu You found the Wind Qilin’s arm and records instructing Boundary Guardians to use it to reseal the Spear of Sealing every twenty thousand years.
• Mu You switched to the Night Watchman’s viewpoint and saw the group examining a vast formation they thought might be a root of the Bitter Mother Tree or a creature’s tail.

Mu You fused with the Wind Qilin Arm and learned that its scales could protect him from the Spear of Sealing, which was being used to suppress a dangerous creature beneath the Bitter Garden. Following a scent trail, he caught up with the others and found the Fairy King guarding the Ju Snake, whose awakening threatened the Star Spirit World.

• Mu You fused with the Wind Qilin Arm, tested its strength, and learned about its abilities from the Lamp Genie.
• The Lamp Genie explained that the Spear of Sealing could suppress any creature and that the Qilin Arm's scales could shield its wearer from the artifact's effects.
• Mu You followed Houttuynia Cordata powder through the Dark Grotto while his companions reached a platform where the Fairy King was meditating inside a barrier.
• The Fairy King recognized Geguwu, Linglong, and the Herbalist as Fools, then warned them not to look into the eyes of the Ju Snake overhead.
• The Fairy King explained that the Ju Snake had awakened when the Fools were born and that he had spent eight hundred years suppressing it to prevent the destruction of the Star Spirit World.
• Mu You peppered the Fairy King with questions, causing the enormous Ju Snake to stir as the Fairy King warned him not to provoke him.

The Lamp Genie explained that the Ju Snake was a sealed calamity beast whose awakening was tied to the Fools and the Fairy Clan’s decline. Mu You reached the Dark Grotto and found the Ju Snake’s enormous body and the Spear of Sealing wobbling loose, leaving the seal on the brink of failure.

• The Lamp Genie told Mu You that the Ju Snake was one of four cyclical calamity beasts and warned that it could manipulate emotions, incite wars, and destroy the Star Spirit World if it escaped.
• The Lamp Genie suspected the God of Chaos had arranged for the Ju Snake to awaken when Fools appeared, while Mu You learned that the God of Order would not have supported such a plan.
• Fairy King Orenz explained that fairies drew power from the Ju Snake, so their deaths strengthened it, and that the Bitter Garden protected fairies through the Great Calamity Era while resetting their memories.
• Mu You arrived at the Dark Grotto and synchronized memories with his three Clones, then the Fairy King recognized his boundary keeper mark and the Ju Snake’s gaze overwhelmed the group.
• Mu You asked where the Spear of Sealing was, and the Fairy King revealed the enormous spear embedded in the Ju Snake’s body, wobbling precariously after years of movement.