Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yu commanded the elemental forces and player legion against the naga army, using disciplined formations and healing to turn the battle in their favor. After the naga retreated, he ordered a pursuit and prepared his troops for more fighting.

• Azathoth ordered the three player groups to attack Slafar Redscale, and Typhon, Monari, and Kukuker led the charge against the sharkmaster lord.
• Xiao Yu kept the elemental army in formation, rotated troops, and ordered priests to support the fighters while they wore down the naga forces.
• Monari, Kukuker, and Typhon killed Slafa Redscale, earning Xiao Yu 163 reputation points and throwing the naga army into confusion.
• Xiao Yu sent the player legion into the disordered naga ranks and ordered elemental priests to heal their damaged troops with Light of the Elements.
• Xiao Yu advanced the restored elemental army as the naga fled, then ordered sea nymph scouts to pursue them and told Big Water Cunt to gather his forces for further fighting.

Xiao Yu confronted Lady Xiwadelin at the Maelstrom, but she escaped into its currents after ice fiends and his forces attacked. He rallied the elemental army with a speech and led it into the Maelstrom toward the Prime Material Plane.

• The elemental army reached the Maelstrom, where Lady Xiwadelin challenged Azathoth and struck him with a long-range lightning spell.
• Agnes and the ice fiends ambushed Lady Xiwadelin, but her Magic Shield blocked their attacks as the rest of Azathoth's forces advanced.
• Lady Xiwadelin knocked back the ice fiends, taunted Azathoth, and fled on her whale into the Maelstrom.
• Wotkud urged Azathoth to let the army recover, but Azathoth argued that stopping would give the naga time to prepare.
• Azathoth rallied the elemental army with a speech about reclaiming its former glory, and the troops and players chanted, “The Immortals-deathless and undying, everlasting for all ages!”
• Azathoth led the elemental army into the Maelstrom, while Boundless Sea's three boss players and their subordinates stayed behind to watch.

Xiao Yu led the Water Elemental Legion through the Maelstrom into Azeroth and advanced toward Hydra City. The naga were ready for battle, and their forces surged out to meet the elementals.

• Xiao Yu emerged from the Maelstrom into Azeroth as water elementals arrived and clashed with naga patrol guards.
• Xiao Yu stopped the elementals from pursuing the retreating naga and gathered more than two thousand troops around him.
• Xiao Yu ordered Sairen to gather scattered reinforcements while Wotkud led the formed units toward Hydra City.
• Xiao Yu led the army through a trench and discovered Hydra City defended by three or four thousand naga.
• Xiao Yu ordered his forces into a wall formation, but the naga poured out of their fortresses and charged.

Azathoth used Deep Sea Maelstrom and Wotkud’s Polar Storm to devastate the naga army before leading his reinforced water elemental forces into battle. After heavy losses forced the naga back toward Hydra City, Lady Xiwadelin ordered a sea witch to promise the imprisoned Sgelari freedom in exchange for its offspring’s full support.

• Lady Xiwadelin sent her naga royal guards and army to attack Azathoth, who unleashed Deep Sea Maelstrom and dragged hundreds of naga into its currents.
• Azathoth summoned boiling water elementals, then retreated as the royal guards pressed forward; Wotkud froze the trapped naga with Polar Storm, killing hundreds more.
• The water elementals held the trench against repeated naga assaults until Sairen, Big Water Cunt, Agnes, and more than two thousand reinforcements arrived.
• Azathoth led the enlarged elemental army out of the trench, and its massed Frostbolts inflicted over a thousand naga casualties, driving them toward Hydra City.
• Lady Xiwadelin told a naga sea witch to promise Sgelari freedom if its offspring fought for the naga, despite the witch’s warning that Queen Azshara would never permit it.

Lady Xiwadelin summoned a horde of Nine-Headed Sea Serpents that drove Xiao Yu’s forces back, but powerful elemental reinforcements turned the battle around. She abandoned the battlefield after her mysterious master revealed that the invasion had only been bait to draw out Xiao Yu and ordered her to bring him in.

• Lady Xiwadelin unleashed dozens of Nine-Headed Sea Serpents, which devoured water elementals and pushed Xiao Yu’s army into retreat.
• Xiao Yu ordered his troops to hold the line, but the hydras’ strength and resistance overwhelmed his forces.
• Three or four hundred elemental reinforcements arrived and froze the Nine-Headed Sea Serpents, forcing the naga warriors to rout.
• Lady Xiwadelin went to the naga temple to use a divine artifact, but a mysterious voice told her that the invasion had already served its purpose and ordered her to bring Xiao Yu to it.
• The conch artifact cracked as the voice vanished, and Lady Xiwadelin left with the naga sea witches while the Naga Royal Guard captain continued fighting.
• A naga warrior informed the captain that Lady Xiwadelin had fled.

Azathoth defeated the naga at Hydra City, recruited Boundless Sea's elemental players, and discovered the imprisoned hydra demigod Sgelari. After accepting Sgelari's weakened oath of loyalty, Azathoth learned the Seed of Elements was on Lost Island and freed him.

• Valak Leilin was killed by Azathoth and the elemental bosses, causing the naga to flee and ending their resistance.
• Boundless Sea's elemental players asked to join Azathoth's guild, The Immortals, and he welcomed them.
• Big Water Cunt found Sgelari, a nine-headed hydra demigod imprisoned in a cavern beneath Hydra City.
• Azathoth demanded Sgelari swear loyalty rather than offer an alliance, and Sgelari accepted despite the oath's weakened binding force.
• Sgelari revealed that the Seed of Elements was in the naga temple on Lost Island, which Azathoth declared their next target.
• Azathoth's forces broke Sgelari's cage and seals, freeing the badly injured demigod.

After defeating the naga and capturing Hydra City, Xiao Yu chose to occupy it and made it the capital of The Immortals. He inspected the city’s resources and available buildings, but found that rare materials stood in the way of expanding its facilities.

• Xiao Yu left the weakened Sgelari behind and entered Hydra City, where his forces had defeated or driven off the remaining naga.
• Xiao Yu received reputation, the Commander and Naga Bane titles, and loot that included a Shark Rider's Spear and Azshara's Royal Insignia.
• Xiao Yu chose to occupy Hydra City, making it his territory and raising The Immortals to a level-four city faction.
• Xiao Yu reviewed Hydra City's buildings, population, and resources, then found that many new buildings required rare materials he lacked.

After conquering Hydra City, Xiao Yu organized its murloc workforce, founded and expanded the Immortals, and began rebuilding the city and raising an army. He left Hydra City’s construction underway and reached level 35 while patrolling his territory.

• Xiao Yu ordered Luluqi to demolish the naga buildings and train murloc babies into slaves, then began recruiting members for the Immortals.
• After learning that Ximeng had died in battle, Xiao Yu delivered a speech and recruited more than two thousand players, assigning them ranks by template and strength.
• Over the next three days, Xiao Yu demolished naga structures, built a Water Elemental Temple, hydra nests, Water Elemental Halls, and coral caves, and issued a resource-donation quest.
• Xiao Yu spent the city’s resources training forty hydras, filling all four nests.
• Xiao Yu patrolled the territory with guards and scouts, killed monsters, and reached level 35.

Xiao Yu learned Fission Orb and tested its true damage before returning to Hydra City, where Neptulon's envoy Ashali arrived with a legendary gift. The Elemental Lord's Crown gave him the chance to become an elemental lord.

• Xiao Yu chose Bursting Orb and advanced it into Fission Orb, a skill that dealt mixed damage and area-of-effect true damage.
• Xiao Yu tested Fission Orb on a dragon turtle and killed it with three shots.
• Wotkud told Xiao Yu that Neptulon's special envoy had arrived in Hydra City.
• Xiao Yu recognized Ashali, who congratulated him on defeating the naga and ending the crisis in the Water Elemental Plane.
• Ashali gave Xiao Yu the Elemental Lord's Crown, whose special effect could crown him an elemental lord.

Xiao Yu accepted the Elemental Lord's Crown, gaining a new title, powers, and Hydra City as his proposed fief. He reviewed the Elemental Lord rankings and found himself in thirty-seventh place as he prepared to pursue his plans for the Lost Island.

• Xiao Yu put on Neptulon's crown and advanced to a Water Elemental Lord, gaining a health bonus, Leader Aura, and access to the skin and faction systems.
• When Ashali questioned why he had not destroyed Hydra City, Xiao Yu argued that the city should remain a defensive base against attacks on the Water Elemental Plane.
• Xiao Yu asked Ashali to tell Neptulon that he would hold Hydra City as his fief and requested Primal Water as compensation.
• After Ashali left, Xiao Yu planned to attack the Lost Island and contact the Mermaid Kingdom and Song of the Ocean before learning how his new lord functions worked.
• Xiao Yu checked the faction rankings, saw that Ragnaros led the Elemental Lords, and found himself thirty-seventh with Hydra City and a relatively weak faction rating.

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.