Recaps

Chen Chuan prepared for the Potions Association examination, where a mysterious silver message warned him that the real test was not potion-making. At the examination gathering, he repelled Feierte’s attempt to provoke him and saw Alex arrive with two other wizards.

• Chen Chuan reviewed Alex’s potion formulas and discovered a silver message in his booklet stating that the true test was not making potions.
• Chen Chuan sensed that the Seed of Life had improved his perception of plants and potions, then meditated before the examination.
• Chen Chuan arrived at the Potions Association and encountered Lili, who noticed his new black robe and discussed the presence of three formal wizards overseeing the examination.
• Feierte tried to grab Chen Chuan’s robe, but Chen Chuan’s Ring of Repulsion knocked him into the line, and Chen Chuan refused his forced offer of friendship.
• Alex arrived with two other dark-green-robed wizards and nodded to Chen Chuan, who realized the true test was beginning.

Chen Chuan began the Potions Association examination, calmly preparing the Elementary Life Potion while other examinees struggled and the three Formal Wizards supervised. As he moved on to the Elementary Purification Potion, another examinee’s cauldron exploded.

• Chen Chuan registered for the examination, received workstation 55, and inspected the materials for his three elementary potions.
• After the five-hour examination began, Chen Chuan smoothly started making the Elementary Life Potion while a black-robed apprentice’s workstation filled with smoke.
• Feierte became jealous of Chen Chuan’s skill, lost focus, and ruined his own potion before starting again.
• Chen Chuan used the lunar-phase advice in Alex’s formula to adjust the heat while making the Elementary Purification Potion, and Alex briefly watched him.
• Chen Chuan ground the iron thorn for his next potion as another examinee’s cauldron burst and splashed pale green liquid.

Chen Chuan passed the elementary potionist examination with excellent marks on all three potions and accepted a researcher position in Alex's project group. He left the Potions Association with his badge and encountered Lili on his way back to the dormitory.

• Chen Chuan finished his three potions before time ran out, while Feierte failed his Elementary Protection Potion and Lili passed all three of hers.
• Alex judged Chen Chuan's potions excellent and announced that Chen Chuan had passed the elementary potionist examination.
• Acitake offered Chen Chuan a researcher position, but Chen Chuan declined because he had already promised another Lord Wizard.
• Alex confirmed Chen Chuan as a researcher in his project group, gave him an elementary potionist badge, and told him to meet at the library's third floor the next day.
• Chen Chuan left the Potions Association and met Lili, who congratulated him and warned that Alex's project group was strict.

Chen Chuan joined Alex and Arwen’s research team studying the Heart of Light Potion, which could grant the rare Body of Light physique. After identifying possible links between the Flower of Light’s extraction instability and lunar phases, Chen Chuan was tasked with testing the plant during the coming full moon.

• Chen Chuan found Arwen in the laboratory and learned that Alex wanted him to study the Heart of Light Potion and train until he became a Second-Class Wizard Apprentice.
• Arwen explained that the potion could grant the Body of Light, a prerequisite for becoming a paladin, but the formula remained unstable and the team was nearly out of Cores of Light.
• Chen Chuan suggested that the Flower of Light’s extraction might depend on the full moon, and Arwen showed him data revealing unstable extraction results.
• Arwen asked Chen Chuan to extract a cultivated Flower of Light on the coming full moon, warning that it would be especially active and unstable.
• Arwen showed Chen Chuan the academy’s three remaining Core of Light samples and explained their properties, then handed him one to examine.

Chen Chuan discussed the Heart of Light Potion with Alex and learned that extracting the Flower of Light on a full-moon night could attract dangerous creatures. Alex gave him project resources and urged him to advance to Second-Class Wizard Apprentice before the extraction, while Arwen provided equipment and emergency instructions.

• Chen Chuan suggested tracking how the moon’s phases affected extraction efficiency, and Alex warned him that the academy’s barrier weakened on full-moon nights.
• Alex revealed that the Flower of Light could awaken dark creatures and told Chen Chuan to improve his combat strength before the extraction.
• Alex granted Chen Chuan a monthly allowance, access to low-tier magic, and a potion formula as a reward for passing the elementary potion-maker assessment.
• Arwen gave Chen Chuan a potion sample and formula, protective robes, an emergency communication rune, and instructions for activating a teleportation array.
• Chen Chuan vowed to reach Second-Class Wizard Apprentice before the full moon and received his first month’s magic stone allowance.

Chen Chuan studied wizard combat paths and considered using the Mother Tree of Life’s bloodline to advance his power and extend his life. That night, he entered the dream again and heard the Tree of Life welcome him back.

• Chen Chuan went to the magic book exchange, where Arwen gave him a combat textbook at Lord Alex’s instruction and granted him access to books reserved for researchers.
• Chen Chuan read about elemental wizards, bloodline wizards, and spellblade wizards as possible advancement paths for Formal Wizards.
• Chen Chuan wondered whether the Tree of Life Meditation Method could lead to a bloodline wizard path and considered obtaining the Mother Tree of Life’s Heart of Plants.
• Chen Chuan decided to seek clues in his dream, returned to his dormitory, and fell asleep.
• Chen Chuan found himself beneath the Tree of Life in the dream, where a gentle voice welcomed him back.

Chen Chuan learned that the Heart of Plants could empower several wizard paths but carried a potentially fatal test, leaving him to weigh its risks against safer alternatives. Back in his dormitory, he decided to pursue a Concentration Potion and used his resources to strengthen his meditation before preparing to gather ingredients.

• Chen Chuan spoke with the dream’s guardian, who warned that the Heart of Plants could draw the Tree of Myriad Worlds’ attention and that no one had survived its test for more than a few seconds.
• The guardian explained that the Heart of Plants could support an elemental wizard’s life element or enhance a spellblade wizard’s bonded weapon, and Chen Chuan left the dream undecided.
• Chen Chuan returned to his dormitory, considered the warning and his wizarding options, and resolved to try making a Concentration Potion to aid his cultivation and full-moon extraction.
• Chen Chuan used All-Things Analysis on the potion formula and studied while it processed, noting that his meditation gains had become less predictable.
• Chen Chuan converted beginner magic stones into Source of Magic Power, raised the Tree of Life Meditation Method to Lv4, and decided to use his remaining stones as potion materials.

Chen Chuan learned to make the difficult Concentration Potion, successfully brewed a bottle, and used it to raise his mental power. With his senses sharpened, he prepared to keep advancing toward the Second-Class Wizard Apprentice level while the full-moon extraction approached.

• Chen Chuan studied the Concentration Potion’s techniques and bought ten sets of ingredients from Alex's Potion Cottage.
• Chen Chuan repeatedly failed before using precise Magic Power control and resonance to successfully brew one bottle of Concentration Potion.
• Chen Chuan gained potionology experience from the successful brew and stored the potion in his ring.
• Chen Chuan drank the potion and raised his mental power from 35.9 to 36.8, though the growth caused considerable pain.
• Chen Chuan noted the limit of one bottle per day, then recalled Alex's warning about surviving the extraction on the night of the full moon.

Chen Chuan raised his spiritual force and mastered the Intermediate Tree of Life Meditation Method, advancing to Second-Class Wizard Apprentice by nurturing his Seed of Life. He tested his new life magic by reviving wilted herbs and prepared to explore his greater abilities.

• Chen Chuan spent a week making Concentration Potions, selling them to earn about 5,000 elementary magic stones and raising his Elementary Potionology level.
• Chen Chuan exchanged 4,000 elementary magic stones for Source of Magic Power and mastered the Elementary Tree of Life Meditation Method, bringing his spiritual force to 41.5.
• Chen Chuan used the Intermediate Tree of Life Meditation Method and his remaining Source of Magic Power to advance his Seed of Life to the Nurturing Stage.
• Chen Chuan sensed a closer connection to the Mother Tree and confirmed his advancement to Second-Class Wizard Apprentice.
• Chen Chuan used his new life magic to revive wilted herbs, making them bloom with a tiny white flower.

Chen Chuan bound his Seed of Life as a Plant Summoning anchor and discovered it could connect him to the Vitality Magic Mushroom Plane. The plane’s guardian upgraded his summoning ability, allowing him to call mushrooms one level above his own, and invited him to visit once he became a Formal Wizard.

• Chen Chuan studied Plant Summoning and bound the Seed of Life as his summoning anchor.
• Chen Chuan activated the Seed of Life’s fourth effect and opened a connection to the Vitality Magic Mushroom Plane.
• Chen Chuan encountered the magic mushroom king, who explained that the plane’s former guardian had sent the seed away before dying in battle.
• The magic mushroom king enhanced the Seed of Life, upgrading its summoning effect to call Vitality Magic Mushrooms one level above Chen Chuan.
• The magic mushroom king offered its plane’s inhabitants for Chen Chuan to summon and invited him to visit after becoming a Formal Wizard.

Chen Chuan summoned and tested recovery-, attack-, and defense-type Magic Mushrooms, discovering that they could work together as a coordinated combat unit. After spotting a possible figure in the garden’s shadows, he grew wary, while the chapter ended with Lili listening to a plump black bird.

• Chen Chuan summoned a small recovery-type Magic Mushroom and found its spores restored his stamina and energy.
• Chen Chuan summoned a red attack-type Magic Mushroom and tested its explosive spores and toxin field in the garden.
• Chen Chuan summoned a large, dark-gold defense-type Magic Mushroom and found it could withstand his dagger and create a protective force field.
• Chen Chuan ordered all three Magic Mushrooms to fight together, combining healing, attacks, and defense.
• Chen Chuan noticed a possible figure moving in the distant shadows, but could not find anyone when he searched.
• At Lili's home, Lili listened to a plump black bird chirp and said, “Mushrooms?”

Lili wondered whether Chen Chuan had obtained a plant-type summoning anchor, while Chen Chuan went to the academic affairs center to take the Second-Class Wizard Apprentice assessment. He began the spiritual power test before Aketi, but the result had not yet appeared.

• Lili listened to the plump bird’s chirps, consulted a summoning reference, and wondered whether Chen Chuan had a plant-type summoning anchor.
• Chen Chuan went to the third floor of the academic affairs center to register for the Second-Class Wizard Apprentice assessment, passing Carter without stopping.
• Aketi checked Chen Chuan’s badge, noticed that he was under twenty, and gave him a crystal ball for the first test.
• Chen Chuan focused his spiritual power on the crystal ball, making its numbers jump as the test began.

Chen Chuan passed the Second-Class Wizard Apprentice assessment, and the resonance test revealed that his Seed of Life was a rare Mutated Seed of Life. After Aketi issued his new badge and robe and explained the mandatory missions, Chen Chuan left planning to develop his combat magic and consult Alex about Aketi’s reaction.

• Chen Chuan scored 41 spiritual power and showed an unusually strong resonance with the green crystal during the Seed of Life test.
• Aketi recognized the mushroom pattern and life fluctuations as a Mutated Seed of Life, then showed greed and jealousy.
• Chen Chuan mentioned Alex, his junior pharmacist badge, and his role on Alex’s project team, prompting Aketi to conceal his reaction and provide the new badge and blue robe without charging him.
• Aketi warned Chen Chuan that Second-Class Apprentices had to complete one risky mission each year, though junior pharmacists could take potion-making missions instead.
• Chen Chuan headed toward the east gate, considering how to develop his summoned mushroom squad’s combat magic and deciding to ask Alex what to do about Aketi.

After advancing to Second-Class Wizard Apprentice, Chen Chuan was assigned by Alex to join an expedition to planar ruins and study their rare herbs. He prepared to leave with the academy team the next morning, carrying an Advanced Life Potion and a warning about the dangers of the broken passage.

• Chen Chuan analyzed several magic books and added Customs of the Wizard World Continent to his analysis queue.
• Chen Chuan found Arwen sorting fragments of Moon Phases and Changes in Herbal Properties, but Alex arrived with a different task for him.
• Alex told Chen Chuan that the academy had discovered an herb plantation in planar ruins and suspected a rare sunflower of holy light grew there.
• Alex assigned Chen Chuan to join the expedition as an herbal consultant, collecting samples and recording their environments and properties.
• Alex gave Chen Chuan an Advanced Life Potion and set the departure for six the next morning from the academy's west gate.
• Arwen warned that planar ruins were dangerous and offered to go instead, but Alex explained that Chen Chuan could count the mission toward his requirements and would have limited combat duties.

Chen Chuan told Alex about his growth-type Mutated Seed of Life and learned why Black Domain Wizards sought such seeds. Alex assigned him to the herb plantation planar-ruins mission, where Chen Chuan received equipment and information to prepare for the expedition.

• Alex gave Chen Chuan an Advanced Life Potion and told him to collect a toolkit from the Potions Association before leaving for the ruins.
• Chen Chuan told Alex about his mushroom-summoning ability, his Mutated Seed of Life, and Aketi.
• Alex explained that Black Domain Wizards pursued Mutated Seeds of Life and warned Chen Chuan to avoid them, while noting his seed might help him survive the planar ruins.
• Alex promised to handle Aketi and introduced Chen Chuan to his assistant Lina, who would join the mission as herb consultant.
• Lina gave Chen Chuan a preservation device for Sunflowers of Holy Light, advised him to prepare protective potions, and handed him a parchment about the ruins.

Chen Chuan traveled with the Life Academy group toward the Osteka Plain, where they would compete in planar ruins. During the journey, Vera Madison confronted him over his lack of deference, but her older sister rebuked her and defended Lord Alex’s choice.

• Chen Chuan reviewed his strengthened combat abilities while aboard the airship bound for the Duchy of Wus.
• Vera Madison approached Chen Chuan and expected him to recognize her family, but he said he had never heard of it.
• Vera and the apprentices with her mocked Chen Chuan for being a country bumpkin recruited by Lord Alex.
• Vera insulted Chen Chuan’s manners and criticized Lord Alex for choosing him as a herbal adviser.
• Vera’s sister arrived, ordered her not to cause trouble, and said Lord Alex’s choice was not hers to criticize.

Chen Chuan traveled with the wizard apprentices to the Osteka Plain for a mission in planar ruins, where he met the Madison sisters and received an amulet from Alia. After arriving in the Duchy of Wus, the group set out under Formal Wizards Camila and Randy, and reached the ruins’ vicinity by Griffin.

• Alia Madison introduced herself as Vera’s older sister and gave Chen Chuan an Interference-Resistance Amulet to make up for Vera’s rudeness.
• Chen Chuan checked his three First-Class Vitality Magic Mushrooms while the airship carried the team toward the Duchy of Wus.
• Camila assigned Chen Chuan a place in the group, and Randy warned him to handle unknown plants carefully during the mission.
• Randy led the eighteen apprentices out into the Osteka Plain, where they mounted seven Griffins and flew toward the ruins.
• Chen Chuan sensed life in the wilderness as the Griffins approached the crumbling walls and glowing moss of the ruins.

Five days earlier, Alsat Wus rejected Feitler’s plan to claim the plane ruins on the Osteka Plain and tasked him with securing the area for the wizards. Chen Chuan arrived at the ruins with Randy’s group and learned which Wizard Academies had sent representatives, leaving him asking Alia about two of them.

• Alsat Wus warned Feitler not to interfere with the wizards’ claim to the plane ruin fragment core and told him about a future war against a medium-sized plane.
• Feitler proposed sending the Duchy of Wus’s army to maintain order, and Alsat put him in charge.
• Chen Chuan and Randy’s group arrived at the ruins, where the Mad Lion Legion let the wizards through its cordon.
• Randy went to meet the leaders of the other parties while Chen Chuan studied the gathered wizards and apprentices.
• Alia identified the Curse of the Dead Wizard Academy, the Spark Wizard Academy, and the Weapon Wizard Academy, and Chen Chuan asked about the two he did not know.

Chen Chuan entered the planar ruins and was separated from the others during transit. Alone on a remote mountain ridge, he summoned his Magic Mushrooms and set off toward the nearest fellow student.

• Randy, Grom, Sophia, and Avil opened the vortex passage and warned the apprentices that it would remain open for only twenty-four hours.
• Chen Chuan entered the passage and emerged alone on a mountain ridge, unable to sense anyone nearby.
• Chen Chuan used his sensing amulet to locate the nearest fellow student fifteen kilometers to the southeast.
• Chen Chuan summoned three Magic Mushrooms and cast Magic Power Sensing, Deflection Protection, and Wind of Swiftness on himself.
• Chen Chuan headed southeast toward the nearest point on the amulet's map.

Chen Chuan investigated strange magic fluctuations and was ambushed by a swarm of Winged Demon Bats near a cliff. He escaped north, but his detection amulet showed someone approaching from the northwest.

• Chen Chuan found unusually fertile black soil and sensed a heartbeat deep underground before changing course toward a moving point on his detection amulet.
• Chen Chuan discovered a dead Weapon Wizard Academy apprentice near a cliff and sensed powerful magic fluctuations below the abyss.
• Dozens of Winged Demon Bats attacked Chen Chuan, and his Magic Mushrooms helped him fight them off.
• Chen Chuan used Shield of Earth, Illumination Spell, and Life Magnetic Field to escape north from the swarm.
• Chen Chuan checked his injured Magic Mushrooms and saw that the detection amulet's point had moved northwest, three kilometers away.

Chen Chuan encountered a nearly ranked Soul-Devouring Flower and joined forces with Alia, Vera, and an unfamiliar apprentice to fight it. The flower’s attacks killed the unfamiliar apprentice, while the others survived behind weakening defenses.

• Chen Chuan healed Little Green Magic Mushroom and continued northwest until he found corpses around a giant black flower.
• The Soul-Devouring Flower attacked Little Yellow Magic Mushroom, and Alia, Vera, and an unfamiliar second-class apprentice emerged and joined Chen Chuan.
• Alia identified the plant as a dangerous Soul-Devouring Flower, and Chen Chuan warned the others when its pollen began affecting Vera.
• Chen Chuan and the others attacked the flower, while Alia used advanced scrolls and Little Green Magic Mushroom’s life aura to help Vera recover.
• The Soul-Devouring Flower released a powerful purple wave that shattered the unfamiliar apprentice’s shield and killed him, while Alia and Chen Chuan’s defenses barely held.

Chen Chuan watched Alia use the first-rank Gale Bomb to break the Soul-Devouring Flower’s shield, then helped her treat the injured Vera. The flower seemed defeated, and Alia turned her attention to what they could gain from it.

• Chen Chuan analyzed and recorded Alia’s Gale Bomb as the spell struck the Soul-Devouring Flower and pierced its shield.
• Alia said the unranked creature was dead, then explained that casting the spell had destroyed the first-rank core in her staff.
• Chen Chuan found Vera poisoned by the flower’s pollen and injured by its purple shockwave.
• Chen Chuan gave Alia an Advanced Life Potion from Lord Alex, and Vera’s bleeding stopped and her breathing steadied.
• Alia drank a spiritual power recovery potion, praised Chen Chuan’s Magic Mushrooms, and turned the conversation to the Soul-Devouring Flower.

Chen Chuan harvested and sealed the Soul-Devouring Flower’s blossom, then converted its remains into Source of Magic Power. The flower’s collapse revealed a passage with traces of sacred-element energy, and Chen Chuan, Alia, and Vera prepared to explore it in search of the sunflower of holy light.

• Chen Chuan carefully cut the Soul-Devouring Flower’s blossom free and stored it in a sealed crystal box.
• Chen Chuan converted the damaged plant remains into 6,657 points of Source of Magic Power.
• The ground where the flower had stood collapsed, revealing stone steps descending into a dark passage.
• Chen Chuan sensed sacred-element energy below, and Alia suggested the passage might lead to a sunflower plantation or the remains of someone who used a holy-light class.
• Chen Chuan checked that three hours had passed and urged Alia and Vera to hurry onward toward the sunflower of holy light.

Chen Chuan, Alia, and Vera followed a tunnel to a cracked sealing barrier, where Alia identified the sacred aura beyond as likely coming from Sunflower of Holy Light. They agreed to enter one at a time, and Alia went through first while Vera stayed behind to provide support.

• Alia found that the tunnel’s unusual walls and purple runes suppressed her spiritual power.
• Chen Chuan sensed the sacred aura growing stronger as the group approached a towering runic barrier.
• Alia identified the barrier as a cracked seal, and Chen Chuan determined that its opening widened enough for one person every three minutes and sixteen seconds.
• Vera chose to remain outside because she had not fully recovered, while Alia volunteered to scout ahead.
• Alia activated Blessing of the Wind and passed through the crack in the barrier.

Chen Chuan entered the cavern and began collecting Sunflowers of Holy Light, while Alia recognized the Ruin Plane Core floating above the flower sea. When the flowers absorbed energy from the crystal, she realized they formed part of a sealing formation.

• Chen Chuan passed through the rift and found a vast cavern filled with Flowers of Light and at least twenty Sunflowers of Holy Light.
• Chen Chuan and Alia discovered a floating eight-sided crystal that Alia identified as the Ruin Plane Core, a key material for advancing to the fourth tier and becoming a god.
• Alia warned Chen Chuan that the crystal was dangerous, and he focused on collecting Sunflowers of Holy Light instead.
• Chen Chuan stored fifteen Sunflowers of Holy Light in a collection bag, then prepared to gather more from deeper in the flower sea.
• Alia noticed the flowers were arranged too orderly and suspected they were formation nodes suppressing something.
• The Ruin Plane Core trembled and sent purple beams into the flowers, which absorbed its power; Alia realized the flowers were part of a sealing formation.