Recaps

Xiao Yu bought the Boiling Sea skin and explored Hydra City before inspecting the murloc workshops. There, he discovered an epic sword made from a tooth shed by the hydra demigod Sgelari.

• Xiao Yu chose the exclusive Boiling Sea skin, giving himself a tall, humanlike appearance that drew stares from players.
• Xiao Yu messaged Liu Xiaoyu Hydra City's location and route, then returned to the game and wandered through the city.
• Wotkud asked Xiao Yu whether the murloc workshops should be dismantled, and Xiao Yu went to inspect them.
• Xiao Yu examined the workshops' weapons and armor, then found the epic Fang of Sgelari, a level-40 sword with a chance to poison its target.

Xiao Yu collected six elemental Fang of Sgelari swords and learned from Sgelari that the ancient Elemental King once commanded every elemental race. Sgelari agreed to reveal how Xiao Yu could become Elemental King if he retrieved the Water of Life from the naga vault on Lost Island.

• Xiao Yu inspected the elemental swords forged from Sgelari's teeth and told the murloc elder to keep forging and stockpiling equipment.
• Xiao Yu visited the injured Sgelari and asked what had captured him; Sgelari described a powerful monster from the abyss.
• Sgelari explained that the Elemental King once ruled all elemental races, but the four elemental lords broke the ancient covenant and claimed separate kingdoms.
• Sgelari refused to explain the ritual unless Xiao Yu brought him the Water of Life from the naga vault on Lost Island.
• The system triggered the Secrets of the Elemental King storyline, and Xiao Yu decided to pursue the quest.

Xiao Yu negotiated with Ariel of Song of the Ocean, proposing that they unite the merfolk by capturing the naga holy land of Lost Island. When Ariel questioned whether their forces could defeat the hundred thousand naga stationed there, Xiao Yu asked if she had seen The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit.

• Water elemental players spotted Song of the Ocean’s merfolk force approaching Hydra City and reported it.
• Wotkud welcomed Ariel and her mermaids, then escorted them to meet Xiao Yu at the water elemental temple.
• Xiao Yu showed Ariel Hydra City and argued that defeating the naga required a symbolic victory that could restore merfolk unity.
• Xiao Yu proposed capturing Lost Island to weaken the naga and help Ariel rebuild the Merfolk Empire.
• Ariel questioned whether their forces could face the hundred thousand naga on Lost Island, and Xiao Yu asked if she had seen The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit.

Xiao Yu explained his plan to use adventurers against the naga, then Qin Shiyue discovered his hydras and bought six hydra lairs for the mermaid kingdom. After signing the deal and receiving 120,000 points, Xiao Yu prepared to begin his plan the next day.

• Xiao Yu showed Qin Shiyue a nautical chart and explained how he would use adventurers to fight the naga army.
• Qin Shiyue saw the hydra demigod and learned that Xiao Yu commanded hydras.
• Qin Shiyue asked to buy hydra lairs because the mermaid kingdom needed stronger combat units.
• Xiao Yu agreed to build six hydra lairs in exchange for materials and 120,000 points from Qin Shiyue.
• Xiao Yu considered using his earnings to acquire rare materials and said they would start his plan the next day.

Xiao Yu used a costly wave of player-controlled elemental troops to spread the Battle of Lost Island story event across half the island, then established a remote camp on its eastern cape. He coordinated with Qin Shiyue, who built a matching camp in the west, and prepared to begin the next stage of his plan.

• Xiao Yu sent more than a thousand elemental players to infiltrate Lost Island, drawing naga patrols and triggering the Battle of Lost Island story event.
• The elemental troops suffered heavy losses, but their spread across the island expanded the story event’s area to roughly half of Lost Island.
• Xiao Yu told Qin Shiyue that the infiltration had succeeded and arranged to keep the event active by establishing camps.
• Agnes guided Xiao Yu to a secluded rocky beach on Lost Island’s eastern cape, where Wotkud’s workers built a camp with an inn and smithy.
• Qin Shiyue reported that her guild had built a remote camp on the island’s western side, and Xiao Yu told her to bring her people to a designated place at one in the afternoon.

Great Sage Who Pacifies Heaven and the Horde adventurers aboard the Iron Blood encountered a swarm of Nine-Headed Sea Serpents on their voyage. After the players killed several, the remaining serpents submerged, and the ship began to sink from attacks below the waterline.

• Great Sage Who Pacifies Heaven complained to Silent Howl at the Moon about the boring voyage across the Endless Sea.
• The Iron Blood abruptly stopped, and a Nine-Headed Sea Serpent surfaced nearby.
• More hydras emerged until seventeen or eighteen surrounded the ship and attacked its hull with elemental breath.
• Great Sage Who Pacifies Heaven urged the healers to use group heals while the adventurers attacked the hydras.
• The adventurers killed three hydras, but the others submerged and the Iron Blood began to sink.

A hydra attack sank the Horde and Alliance ships, but mermaids and sirens rescued the drowning players. The survivors were taken toward a camp on an island patrolled by naga.

• Great Sage Who Pacifies Heaven nearly drowned in his heavy armor until a mermaid kissed him and gave him the ability to breathe underwater.
• Mermaids carried Great Sage Who Pacifies Heaven and other Horde players away from the wreck.
• Hydras attacked the Alliance ship, and Jing Wuming watched Moe Liu Xi and Liu Xi's Mengmeng continue their Titanic roleplay as the wreck sank.
• A hydra destroyed the remaining wreckage, sinking Jing Wuming and the elf couple, and sirens rescued them.
• Moe Liu Xi and Jing Wuming saw an island with naga patrolling the waters as the sirens brought them toward a small camp.

Azathoth welcomed the shipwrecked adventurers to the Cape of Tides but withheld further help until they proved their friendship. The adventurers accepted a quest to kill naga and bring back their scales, and quickly began attacking patrols outside the camp.

• A siren led the rescued adventurers through the monster-filled camp to meet Azathoth, whose name appeared green because of his friendly relations with the Alliance.
• Azathoth explained that his sirens had rescued them after naga sank their warship, but his subordinates would not assist them until they earned The Immortals’ friendship.
• Jing Wuming asked how the adventurers could serve Azathoth, who assigned them a quest to kill naga patrolmen, scouts, and a captain and return with the scales between their brows.
• Jing Wuming and the other adventurers accepted the quest, then most of them formed small parties and left Tide Camp.
• Jing Wuming went alone while the grouped adventurers attacked naga patrol squads on the beach and wiped them out with ease.

Jing Wuming completed The Immortals’ pledge quest and gained neutral standing with the faction, then discovered valuable rewards at their quartermaster. He accepted several more quests and set out to build his reputation.

• Jing Wuming killed enough naga patrolmen, captains, and scouts to complete the Pledge of Allegiance quest.
• Jing Wuming turned in the naga scales, gained 100 reputation with The Immortals, and received 50 Immortal Emblems.
• Jing Wuming used his emblems on camp services and examined Wotkud’s quartermaster inventory, where he spotted several epic weapons.
• Jing Wuming accepted Sairen’s quest to rescue five captured water elementals, sea elementals, or sirens.
• Jing Wuming collected three more faction quests before reaching the quest limit.

Jing Wuming ground reputation with The Immortals by completing quests, while Xiao Yu used the adventurers’ efforts to gather resources and wear down the naga. After nightfall, Jing Wuming encountered Big Water Cunt, a player posing as a quest NPC, and recognized him.

• Jing Wuming completed quests to gather materials, scout the island, and kill naga, spending heavily on auction-house materials to save time.
• Jing Wuming and other adventurers kept grinding quests, killing thousands of naga and gathering resources for Xiao Yu’s plans.
• Xiao Yu learned that the adventurers had collected enough materials to build a Primal Pool and a Frost Hall, though he wanted far more.
• Jing Wuming reached friendly reputation with The Immortals and earned nearly 2,000 Immortal Emblems, but still lacked enough for his epic weapon.
• Jing Wuming found Big Water Cunt asking him to find a beauty to sing and dance, then identified the corrupted water elemental elder as a player.

Jing Wuming coaxed Big Water Cunt into explaining why Azathoth had become a water elemental lord at level 35. He learned that Azathoth was destined to unite the elemental planes and become the Elemental King, with the system protecting him as he pursued that prophecy.

• Big Water Cunt told Jing Wuming that Azathoth had led the water elementals against the naga and driven them to Lost Island.
• Big Water Cunt offered to reveal a secret if Jing Wuming found someone to dance for him.
• Jing Wuming brought Moe Liu Xi and Liu Xi's Mengmeng to Big Water Cunt, and Moe Liu Xi danced in exchange for Immortal Emblems.
• Big Water Cunt explained that Azathoth was a descendant of the water elemental god and was destined to unite the Elemental Plane as its king.
• Jing Wuming concluded that the system's protection explained Azathoth's rapid rise to power.

Jing Wuming learned from Big Water Cunt that Immortals reputation might carry over and become much harder to earn after Azathoth united the Elemental Plane. He told War Soul King about Azathoth, prompting the guild leader to abandon a dungeon and head for the story character.

• Big Water Cunt told Jing Wuming that Immortals could become the future rulers of the Elemental Plane and that current reputation might later be worth much more.
• Jing Wuming agreed to keep the information secret and left, while Big Water Cunt approached a passing priest with another offer to reveal a secret.
• Jing Wuming messaged War Soul King and sent him a picture of Azathoth, whom they identified as a level 35 elemental lord and possible key story character.
• War Soul King decided to bring his guild members to Azathoth, and Jing Wuming told him how to reach the area by ship from Menethil Harbor.

Xiao Yu prepared Hydra City for a larger campaign after adventurers weakened the naga forces on Lost Island. The next morning, he offered Jing Wuming and the other players an elite quest to help Agnes assassinate the commander of Wavetreader Camp.

• War Soul King withdrew the Glory War Soul Guild from the death knight dungeon and led its players toward Menethil Harbor, while rival guilds sent scouts after them.
• Jing Wuming learned that War Soul King was heading toward Lost Island, but logged out after Xiao Yu stopped issuing quests for the night.
• Xiao Yu reviewed the day’s gains with his subordinates, ordered construction and troop training to begin, and prepared to bring more adventurers onto the island.
• The next morning, Xiao Yu explained that the adventurers had nearly cleared Wavetreader Camp’s mobile forces and that its commander, Sidnis the Wavewalker, remained with his elite troops.
• Xiao Yu offered players a group quest to follow Agnes and assassinate the commander; Jing Wuming accepted eagerly.

Xiao Yu sent more than a hundred adventurers with Agnes to kill Sidney the Wavewalker at Wavetreader Camp. Agnes received the credit and upgraded her boss template, confirming Xiao Yu’s plan to gain reputation through plot characters.

• Xiao Yu gave the elite quest to more than a hundred players, and Agnes led them toward Wavetreader Camp.
• The players abandoned stealth and stormed the camp, wiping out its naga guards and minor bosses as they advanced.
• Sidney the Wavewalker summoned elite guards and began fighting Agnes, who struggled against his greater strength.
• The players split their forces, fought the guards, healed Agnes, and drew Sidney’s attention before killing him.
• The system credited Agnes with killing Sidney, upgraded her to an intermediate boss template, and awarded Xiao Yu reputation.

Xiao Yu settled into Wavetreader Camp after the adventurers turned in Sidnis’s head and began preparing to conquer the remaining naga camps. Meanwhile, Qiu Fengleng secretly followed War Soul King at sea, where a hydra suddenly appeared behind him.

• Azathoth declared the naga defeated, and Jing Wuming turned in Sidnis’s head to complete the Decapitation Operation quest.
• More than a hundred adventurers exchanged naga heads for rewards, and Xiao Yu chose Wavetreader Camp as his new base.
• Xiao Yu resumed issuing quests to clear the three remaining naga camps on Lost Island.
• War Soul King searched the sea aboard the Alliance warship Swift while Qiu Fengleng reported on him to Weizun Lingxiao.
• A hydra surfaced behind Qiu Fengleng, who hurled a fireball and jumped off the upper deck.

War Soul King led Glory War Soul to the Cape of Tides, where Azathoth gave the guild a quest to kill naga. News of the camp spread, bringing rival guilds and more adventurers until Xiao Yu began running short of naga for them to fight.

• Hydras sank the Swift, and sirens rescued War Soul King, Qiu Fengleng, and the other adventurers by carrying them to the Cape of Tides.
• Xiao Yu recognized Jing Wuming among Glory War Soul’s arrivals, while Qiu Fengleng realized the camp offered a chance to grind reputation and informed Weizun Lingxiao.
• Weizun Lingxiao joined forces with Iron Masked Man’s Heavenly Kingdom Dynasty guild and sailed toward the camp with their groups.
• Azathoth gave War Soul King’s 120 players a shareable quest to kill 20 naga each and bring back their scales.
• Glory War Soul completed the quest in under half an hour, and two more ships later brought nearly 200 adventurers to the camp.
• Xiao Yu found that the growing number of adventurers was leaving him with almost too few naga for them to kill.

Xiao Yu managed dwindling quest supplies and growing numbers of adventurers while preparing a rapid assault on the naga camps. After the three rival guilds arrived, he launched a coordinated attack, leaving the guilds and his armies ready to strike three camps.

• Xiao Yu worried that naga and quartermaster supplies were running low and that adventurers might turn against him if rewards ran out.
• Xiao Yu stopped the sirens from bringing more adventurers after the final batch arrived, including the rival guild leaders War Soul King, Iron Masked Man, and I Alone Am Supreme.
• Xiao Yu replaced scouting quests with quests to kill naga, gather resources, and assassinate commanders, and sent for more reputation rewards from Hydra City.
• The adventurers sold most of the murloc babies and many water elemental babies while clearing nearly all the island's scattered bosses.
• Azathoth announced a strike against the Tidecaller Camp, the Shark Rider Camp, and the Turtle Trainer Camp, naming Lady Salivaqisi the Tidecaller, Shark Rider Lord Keli, and Dragon Turtle Keeper Dewa'lian as targets.
• War Soul King, Iron Masked Man, and I Alone Am Supreme assigned one camp to each guild and prepared their teams as Xiao Yu's three armies assembled.

With adventurers’ help, Agnes, Big Water Cunt, and Sairen captured three naga camps, and Xiao Yu prepared to lead a larger force against Yarvis City. He marched with several thousand elemental troops and more than a thousand adventurers to face the city’s 20,000 naga defenders, then activated the strategic command system.

• Agnes, Big Water Cunt, and Sairen killed the leaders of three naga camps, earning reputation and advancing Big Water Cunt and Sairen to intermediate bosses.
• Xiao Yu decided to lead an attack on Yarvis City himself and ordered Sairen to bring the troops from Hydra City, leaving the Volunteer Legion behind to defend it.
• Xiao Yu assembled several thousand elemental troops at Wavetreader Camp and rallied adventurers with a unique quest to kill Agutanis, the naga grand lord.
• Xiao Yu led the army and adventurers to Yarvis City, where 20,000 naga formed battle lines outside the unwalled city.
• Xiao Yu opened the lord interface and activated the strategic command system.

Xiao Yu used the Strategic Command System to arrange the Water Elemental Legion and adventurers into a formation that devastated the Naga army. After heavy Naga losses and the loss of the legion’s first line, Agutanis charged forward with several hundred royal guards.

• Xiao Yu activated the Strategic Command System and arranged the water elementals in six firing lines, with adventurers protecting both flanks.
• Agutanis challenged Azathoth, then ordered the Naga army to advance under magical buffs.
• Xiao Yu ordered the water elementals to unleash volleys of Frostbolt, followed by Frost Nova and area attacks that devastated the charging Naga.
• Adventurers on both flanks used spells and ranged attacks to stop the Naga from surrounding the elemental legion.
• After half an hour, nearly ten thousand Naga had died and seven or eight hundred water elementals had fallen, while the first line was almost wiped out.
• Agutanis charged toward Xiao Yu’s forces with several hundred Naga royal guards.

Azathoth faced Agutanis as the Naga High Lord broke through the Water Elemental Legion, then used the adventurers’ attention to draw them into the fight. With the adventurers’ help, Agutanis’s health fell to half, while Azathoth kept taunting him from a safer distance.

• Agutanis cast Tsunami, disrupting the water elementals’ formation and letting the naga break through three lines.
• Azathoth led the Immortal Legion into the fight and struck Agutanis with a Fission Orb, then used Deep Sea Maelstrom and summoned boiling water elementals to slow him.
• Agutanis executed one of the boiling water elementals and pressed his attack, so Azathoth called out to the adventurers and traded blows while receiving their buffs and healing.
• Azathoth warned the adventurers about Agutanis’s execute ability, prompting them to surround the Naga High Lord and draw his aggro.
• Azathoth retreated to attack from range and taunted Agutanis as several hundred adventurers battered the boss, reducing his health to half.

Xiao Yu helped the adventurers defeat Agutanis and earned enough reputation to advance to a one-skull boss, then led his forces to occupy Yarvis City. He declined to claim the story-event reward early and faced a choice over the city's fate, uncertain whether holding the isolated territory was worthwhile.

• Agutanis poisoned and attacked the adventurers, but they overwhelmed his summons and drove his health below 20%.
• Xiao Yu stopped Naga reinforcements from healing Agutanis, then used Fission Orbs to kill him while his shields were active.
• Xiao Yu gained 1,785 reputation, advanced to a one-skull boss, and let the adventurers divide Agutanis's equipment.
• The Naga forces fled, and Xiao Yu led the Water Elemental Legion into Yarvis City and occupied it.
• Xiao Yu rejected the option to calculate the Lost Island story-event reward early, then considered whether to destroy, plunder, or occupy Yarvis City.

Xiao Yu occupied Yarvis City and prepared to seize the Lost Temple before the Horde, while Queen Azshara received a mysterious command to take back Lost Island. The Alliance army marched toward the temple, unaware that a crisis was approaching.

• Xiao Yu took control of Yarvis City, inspected its buildings and resources, and planned to claim the Lost Temple’s treasures.
• Xiao Yu asked Qin Shiyue about her progress, agreed they would attack the Lost Temple the next morning, and learned that Yarlat City had fallen that afternoon.
• Queen Azshara saw a beam of moonlight and heard a voice order her to take back Lost Island immediately.
• Xiao Yu gathered his forces in Yarvis City and urged the Alliance adventurers to reach the Lost Temple before the Horde.
• The Alliance adventurers rallied at Xiao Yu’s speech, and his army set out for the Lost Temple.

Xiao Yu coordinated the Alliance and Horde attacks on the Lost Temple gates so both sides entered together, while secretly keeping his own forces back. The Alliance and Horde adventurers met in the plaza, disrupting the Alliance guild leaders’ plan to claim the treasure, and Behemoth King proposed talks.

• Xiao Yu worried that Glory War Soul, Heavenly Kingdom Dynasty, and High Heaven Pavilion had united and might threaten his plan to obtain the Seed of Elements and Divine Water of Life.
• Xiao Yu checked Qin Shiyue’s progress at the west gate and adjusted his Water Elemental Legion’s attack so both gates would fall at the same time.
• The Alliance adventurers rushed through the east gate, while Xiao Yu kept his elementals behind them to avoid blocking their path.
• The Horde adventurers entered through the west gate, and the two forces confronted each other in the Lost Temple plaza.
• War Soul King, Weizun Lingxiao, and Iron Masked Man discussed avoiding a fight, and Behemoth King stepped forward to propose talks.

Alliance and Horde adventurers began fighting after an independent player attacked the Behemoth King, allowing Xiao Yu’s forces to reach the Lost Temple vault. At the entrance, a naga revealed herself as a shadow of Elune and demanded to know why Azathoth had come.

• An independent Alliance player struck the Behemoth King with a Greater Fireball, igniting a battle between the Alliance and Horde despite War Soul King and Iron Masked Man’s efforts to prevent it.
• Weizun Lingxiao abandoned attempts to calm the fighting and entered stealth as the two factions plunged into a chaotic brawl.
• Azathoth led the Immortals toward the great hall, while a merfolk and lobster-man army joined them without fighting.
• Ariel and Azathoth agreed to split the vault’s treasure equally and approached its doors.
• A neutral Naga Supplicant appeared before the vault and revealed herself as a shadow of Elune, explaining that some naga had returned to worship her and asking Azathoth why he had come.

Xiao Yu accepted Lady Xiwadelin's offer to join him, and she opened the Lost Temple vault. Inside, he and Qin Shiyue found tens of thousands of Naga Treasure Chests, but their first attempts yielded mostly common items and little gold.

• The Naga Spirit Supplicant refused to let Xiao Yu open the vault, but Lady Xiwadelin struck her down with purple lightning.
• Lady Xiwadelin explained that she belonged to a different naga faith and offered to open the vault if Xiao Yu accepted her loyalty.
• Xiao Yu accepted Sivadrin's oath of loyalty to Azathoth, the Water Elemental Lord.
• Lady Xiwadelin activated the crystal sphere, and Xiao Yu and Qin Shiyue entered the opened Lost Temple with their forces.
• Xiao Yu and Qin Shiyue opened Naga Treasure Chests, but their early finds were mostly common gear and small amounts of gold.