Chapter Summaries

On Awakening Day, Chen Chuan unexpectedly received a system and the talent Light of Wisdom, causing him to glow blue with an unknown kind of awakening. As the Awakening Crystal neared exhaustion, the commotion around him drew the attention of the military observers.

• Principal Xu Lei opened the senior students’ Awakening Day ceremony, and a soldier activated the Awakening Crystal to scan the field.
• Students Wei Zheng and several others awakened in the Physique and Agility Branches, and Zhao Tie became a Physique Branch awakener.
• Chen Chuan received the Crimson System Panel and the talent Light of Wisdom, which boosted his Spirit and absorbed the crystal’s energy.
• Chen Chuan began glowing blue, and his panel showed a Spirit stat of 19.8 while he remained classless.
• With two minutes of the crystal’s effect remaining, the blue glow sparked a commotion that drew the attention of the soldiers on the platform.

Chen Chuan’s blue awakening revealed that he had awakened the extremely rare Spirit Branch, prompting General Chen Shaohua to evacuate him from the school and take him away by Silver-Winged Gryphon. Chen Shaohua explained that the Spirit Branch was a top-level Federation secret and that Chen Chuan was only the third person known to have awakened it.

• Chen Shaohua recognized the blue light around Chen Chuan as an unusual awakening and ordered an emergency evacuation of the students nearby.
• Chen Shaohua cleared space around Chen Chuan, while Zhao Tie tried to reach him and was restrained by soldiers.
• Chen Shaohua summoned a Silver-Winged Gryphon and carried Chen Chuan onto its back as students identified the magical beast and its knight order.
• Chen Chuan asked about the blue light, and Chen Shaohua told him that he had awakened the Spirit Branch, a secret unknown to most people.
• Chen Shaohua said that only three people in the Blue Star Federation had awakened the Spirit Branch and warned Chen Chuan to keep it confidential.
• Chen Shaohua and Chen Chuan flew toward the Southern Military Region, where Chen Chuan was headed into a world he had never known.

Chen Chuan learned that his rare spirit-branch awakening gave him extraordinary spiritual power, far beyond the base’s instrument measurements. After hearing that the Wizard World would soon test candidates for wizard apprentices—and erase those who failed—he chose to pursue the wizard class.

• Chen Shaohua brought Chen Chuan to Nanli Base, where General Gu Changgeng explained that only three people in over four hundred years had awakened the spirit branch.
• Xiao Ya tested Chen Chuan’s attributes, and his spirit value exceeded the instrument’s measurement range at more than ten times the ordinary level.
• Gu Changgeng described the mage and telekinetic classes available to spirit-branch candidates and recounted the fates of the two earlier awakenings.
• Gu Changgeng told Chen Chuan that the Wizard World would recruit apprentices in three months, but failed candidates would be erased and their spiritual power sacrificed.
• Chen Chuan chose to attempt the Wizard World’s test and become a wizard.

Chen Chuan chose to become a wizard and began three months of military training to prepare for the dangerous wizard academy test. After visiting his family and friend Zhao Tie at home, he returned to Nanli Base with information about the test and asked Gu Changgeng to care for his family if he did not survive.

• Chen Chuan rejected the option to become a psychokinetic, and Gu Changgeng explained Blue Star Federation’s vulnerable place in the Wizard World Alliance and the stakes of Chen Chuan passing the wizard exam.
• Chen Chuan began grueling military training under Instructor Zhou and discovered his panel could analyze the Silver-Winged Gryphon’s first-tier Windproof Barrier, though it would take 26,000 hours.
• Chen Chuan called his mother, then persuaded Gu Changgeng to let him visit home with an escort.
• Chen Chuan reunited with his parents and Zhao Tie, who told him he might qualify to become a knight and promised to take him flying on a magical beast.
• Chen Chuan left home after two days, recognizing Chen Shaohua in a car following him back to Nanli Base.
• Gu Changgeng gave Chen Chuan a booklet about the wizard academy test, and Chen Chuan asked him to look after his family if he failed to return.

Chen Chuan read the Wizard World test booklet and learned that its assessment could be deadly, while Gu Changgeng explained that Xia Country was concealing Chen Chuan’s mental-type talent from the Blue Star Federation to protect him. Chen Chuan resolved to use the time before the test to prepare to survive, though he still did not know when the notice would arrive.

• Chen Chuan read that candidates would face a raw mental power test, the Realm of Illusion, and an academy test, and that the Realm of Illusion had the highest death rate.
• Chen Shaohua told Chen Chuan how a fourth-tier wizard had commanded the respect of fifth-tier professionals during a plane war.
• Chen Shaohua learned that Xia Country had ordered Gu Changgeng not to inform the Blue Star Federation’s upper echelons about Chen Chuan, so Xia Country could protect him until he became strong enough.
• Gu Changgeng told Chen Shaohua that if Chen Chuan failed to enter a wizard academy, they would act as though nothing had happened.
• Chen Chuan decided to focus on staying alive through the coming test and hoped to live long enough to open the notice himself.

After a mysterious messenger delivered Chen Chuan a notice, he entered a cross-world examination for Wizard Seeds. He passed the mental power test and was swept into the second trial, the Realm of Illusion.

• A black-robed messenger appeared beside Chen Chuan's bed and left a notice naming him a Wizard Seed from Blue Star.
• Chen Chuan showed the notice to Gu Changgeng, who explained that a plane messenger could bypass the base's barrier and sentries.
• Chen Chuan activated the notice in the white hall, opened a rift, and stepped through while Gu Changgeng, Chen Shaohua, and Xiao Ya watched.
• At the examination venue, Chen Chuan learned that candidates who failed the mental power threshold would be sacrificed, and he watched several candidates vanish into the black stone floor.
• Chen Chuan touched the pillar, and its light surged to the top, marking him as having passed the first trial.
• The examination announced the second trial, the Realm of Illusion, and a bright light flashed before Chen Chuan's eyes.

Chen Chuan entered the second trial, where a serpent statue’s influence stirred painful emotions before monsters attacked the crowd. He saw through the creatures as illusions and passed the test, disappearing in a ring of white light while the others remained caught in the melee.

• Chen Chuan arrived in a square with about fifty other people and heard that the objective of the second trial was to survive.
• The serpent statue’s influence intensified the crowd’s emotional pain, but Chen Chuan’s Clear Mind made him immune to its negative mental effects.
• Black-scaled monsters burst through the walls and attacked, scattering the crowd; a young man in fine clothes rallied some people while a burly, bald man charged a monster alone.
• Chen Chuan recognized that the monsters were illusions, stood still as one passed through him, and noticed the serpent statue’s red eye light flicker.
• The old voice declared that Chen Chuan had passed the test, and a ring of white light made him vanish as the burly man and the young man in fine clothes witnessed his departure.

Chen Chuan joined six other candidates in a fog-shrouded gathering, where a guide named Kras introduced them as Black Wizard Seeds and announced the third trial. Kras told them they could choose their own academy and offered each one chance to ask a question, leaving the seven weighing what to ask.

• Chen Chuan arrived among Will, Elina, a dwarf, and a bandaged man, and resisted Elina's unsettling spiritual influence.
• Chen Chuan introduced himself to Will, withheld details about his home, and waited as two more candidates arrived: a blue-scaled girl and a cold-faced man.
• Kras appeared after three gong-like sounds and announced that the seven strongest Black Wizard Seeds from 246 testing grounds had gathered for the academy's two-way selection.
• Kras said the candidates could choose their own academy and each ask him one question, while Chen Chuan considered what to ask.

Kras explained the differences between Black Wizards and White Wizards and answered the seven candidates’ questions before sending them to choose an academy in the Black Tower. Chen Chuan learned he could return to Blue Star, or even merge it into the Wizard World if he became strong enough, and made his decision as the fog began to move.

• The blue-scaled girl asked why the seven had been selected, and Kras explained that Black Wizard Seeds were apprentices chosen for their spiritual power and that Black Wizards served as the Wizard World’s powerful fighters.
• The bandaged man asked what would happen if he chose no academy, and Kras said he would become a White Wizard and continue serving the Wizard World.
• The dwarf asked what becoming a wizard would bring, and Kras answered that it offered power, lifespan, knowledge, and a chance to change one’s fate.
• Elina asked which academy suited her, while Will asked about White Wizards; Kras left the academy choice to the candidates and described White Wizards as cooperative but less extreme than Black Wizards.
• Chen Chuan asked whether he could return home, and Kras said he could if he paid a price, adding that sufficient strength could let him merge his home plane into the Wizard World.
• Kras told the seven to enter the Black Tower and choose an academy, and Chen Chuan clenched his hands as the fog began to move.

Chen Chuan arrived at the wizard academies’ talent market, where Black Wizard Seeds could choose an academy for their studies. After inspecting several recruitment offers, he grew interested in the rare Life Academy, but had not yet made his choice.

• Bell welcomed Chen Chuan and the other six Black Wizard Seeds, explained how the academies worked, and gave each of them a badge and an apprentice card.
• Bell explained that a Black Wizard Seed badge could be exchanged for 100 low-grade magic crystals and three spellbook exchanges, then left the group.
• Chen Chuan examined his card, which showed his spiritual power had risen to 19.9, and browsed the recruitment offers at several academies.
• A dwarf advised Chen Chuan to consider the Academy of the Dead, describing its necromancy studies and armies of the dead.
• Chen Chuan noticed the Life Academy’s recruitment tent and learned from the dwarf that it accepted very few apprentices with exceptional spiritual power.
• The dwarf departed, while Chen Chuan considered his options and reflected that choosing an academy was irreversible.

Chen Chuan joined the Life Academy after demonstrating strong life affinity and learned that its wizards cultivate a Tree of Life using a Life Seed. He accepted Liya’s offer of an unusual Activated Seed of Life and implanted it, causing his body and senses to begin changing.

• Chen Chuan visited the Life Academy, where Liya explained its focus on life studies, botany, and potion-making and invited him to take an assessment.
• Chen Chuan touched the Vine of Life, which glowed gold, revealing his high life affinity, and Liya accepted him into the academy.
• Liya warned Chen Chuan to keep his Black Wizard Seed badge because he could exchange it for a Life Seed needed to cultivate the Tree of Life Meditation Method.
• Liya offered Chen Chuan an Activated Seed of Life from a miniature plant plane, explaining that it could nourish itself without spiritual power and that its nature was unknown.
• Chen Chuan chose to try the Activated Seed of Life, and Liya gave him the seed in a small box.
• Chen Chuan placed the seed on the back of his left hand, where it fused into his body and caused green patterns to appear as his senses sharpened.

After fusing with the Seed of Life, Chen Chuan traveled to the Life Academy, where he discovered an unusual connection to its Mother Tree of Life. Ailin welcomed him and explained that the academy’s Life Aura and his growing affinity would support his development as a Life Wizard.

• Liya told Chen Chuan that his body would adapt to the Seed of Life over the coming week and gave him Life Nourishing Liquid to drink daily.
• Liya warned Chen Chuan not to stop drinking the nourishing liquid, especially because of anything he might hear in his dreams, then directed him to the teleportation mirror.
• Chen Chuan passed through the mirror and arrived at the Life Academy, where Ailin introduced herself as the gatekeeper.
• Ailin explained that the Seed of Life would become a Tree of Life when Chen Chuan became a First-Rank Life Wizard, and showed him the academy’s Mother Tree of Life.
• Chen Chuan sensed a connection between his Life Seed and the Mother Tree, and Ailin said the connection was unusually early.
• As Ailin led Chen Chuan through the academy, he touched a blue flower that glowed in response, revealing his strong affinity.

Chen Chuan settled into his Life Academy dormitory, discovered the three effects of his Seed of Life, and planned to visit the library the next morning to obtain the Tree of Life Meditation Method. Meanwhile, Gu Changgeng learned that Chen Chuan had passed the test and become a wizard apprentice, giving the Blue Star Alliance time to prepare for Valot’s ambitions.

• Ailin showed Chen Chuan around the academy, explained its apprentice robes and courses, and directed him to his dormitory and the library.
• Chen Chuan entered villa 227, drank the life nourishing liquid, and found that his Seed of Life had three powerful effects but was still inactive.
• Chen Chuan examined the living moss in his villa and decided to rest before visiting the library in the morning.
• Gu Changgeng read about Valot’s proposal to form a military alliance with nearby low-level planes, then received a mysterious message confirming Chen Chuan had become a wizard apprentice.
• Gu Changgeng concluded that Chen Chuan’s advancement could strengthen the Blue Star Alliance and revealed that he was a third-tier powerhouse.

Chen Chuan settled into Life Academy, dreamed of the Mother Tree of Life calling him an inheritor, and collected the elementary Tree of Life Meditation Method. After Light of Wisdom began analyzing it, he studied animal communication and noticed several unsettling figures watching him.

• Chen Chuan felt the Seed of Life respond inside him, then dreamed that the Mother Tree of Life called him its inheritor before pain woke him.
• Chen Chuan collected the Tree of Life Meditation Method: Elementary Part from the library and found that mastering it unaided could take him around three months.
• Chen Chuan used Light of Wisdom to analyze the meditation method, which would take less than thirteen hours, then checked his course schedule and decided to study animal communication.
• Chen Chuan read books on animal communication in the library and saw a red-robed apprentice watching him before the figure disappeared.
• Chen Chuan later glimpsed a vague figure behind his reflection and thought he saw eyes in the Mother Tree's shadow, but both sights vanished when he looked again.

Chen Chuan borrowed basic textbooks, completed his Tree of Life Meditation Method analysis, and became a Third-Class Wizard Apprentice with a resonant Seed of Life. He tested its life-field effects before meeting his neighbor Lili, who shared his interest in botany and said the academy’s plants responded to her.

• Chen Chuan borrowed Basic Botany and Fundamentals of Potion-Making after learning he could not borrow an advanced animal communication book.
• Chen Chuan completed the Tree of Life Meditation Method analysis, generated magic power, and resonated with the Seed of Life, becoming a Third-Class Wizard Apprentice.
• Chen Chuan checked his status and discovered his Seed of Life boosted his physical abilities, recovery, and the growth of nearby plants.
• Chen Chuan tested his life magnetic field and found he could control its range and effects as plants grew around him.
• Lili introduced herself as Chen Chuan’s neighbor and said the vines outside his window had greeted her.

Chen Chuan learned that students had been dreaming about the Mother Tree of Life and that its Heart of Plants could make plants intelligent and help someone advance to Formal Wizard. After Lili tried to persuade him to stay behind at the tree after class, Chen Chuan realized she had been using mind-influencing spells and suspected a group at the academy was targeting something he possessed.

• Chen Chuan welcomed Lili into his villa, where they discussed his Life Magnetic Field and the unusual plants growing there.
• Lili told Chen Chuan about the Heart of Plants, which was said to appear when the Mother Tree of Life sensed a suitable successor.
• Lili said she and several roommates had dreamed of the Mother Tree calling them, and she suggested staying behind after class to meditate beneath it at dusk.
• Chen Chuan refused Lili's suggestion, and she returned to her neighboring villa, number 228.
• After Lili left, Chen Chuan revealed that he had detected her mind-influencing spells and concluded that unknown people at the academy were scheming against him.

Chen Chuan discovered that Elder Gu’s ring held valuable materials, including a Magic Power core, and absorbed several items to gain Source of Magic Power. He used the energy to improve his meditation method and attributes, then witnessed his Life Magnetic Field growing stronger.

• Chen Chuan inspected Elder Gu’s ring and found gold, rare materials, and a glowing purple crystal that he suspected was a Magic Power core.
• Chen Chuan absorbed the purple crystal, unlocking Source of Magic Power points, and learned he could spend them to raise his skills and attributes.
• Chen Chuan absorbed three more crystals and an ore, then used 1,000 Source of Magic Power to advance the Tree of Life Meditation Method to Lv2 and increase his physical and spiritual attributes.
• Chen Chuan meditated with his improved method and gained one point of progress in three hours, far faster than before.
• Chen Chuan found that his Life Magnetic Field now strengthened nearby plants even without deliberate activation, and a blade of grass began glowing beneath his touch.

Chen Chuan concealed how advanced his Tree of Life Meditation Method had become and attended Hailey Godwin’s class to learn the usual pace of progress. During a lesson on resonating with plants, he restrained his abilities while Lili showed signs of an unusual connection, and Emily successfully sensed a tree.

• Chen Chuan spent 2,000 Source of Magic Power to raise his Tree of Life Meditation Method to Elementary Part Lv3 and decided to hide his progress.
• Chen Chuan reviewed the academy’s course system and resolved to attend Hailey Godwin’s basic meditation class while pretending to be an ordinary student.
• Lili told Chen Chuan she had dreamed of the mother tree and invited him to visit a valley where plants grew quickly and seemed conscious, but he remained wary and did not commit.
• Hailey taught the students to practice plant resonance as preparation for resonating with the Seed of Life, warning that attempting it too early could be dangerous.
• Chen Chuan deliberately limited his response to the classroom vines, while Lili showed a faint green glow at her fingertips.
• Emily reported sensing the breathing of a tree outside the window, and Hailey praised her as having achieved the initial feeling of resonance.

Chen Chuan concealed the depth of his plant connection from Lili, then visited Alex's Potion Cottage to sell amethyst ore and learn about the academy's upcoming materials exchange. He left with twenty-five basic magic stones and planned to inspect Omomo's Magic Equipment Shop for a staff.

• After class, Lili told Chen Chuan she had noticed his precise control of the vines and asked whether he had dreamed of the Mother Tree of Life; he refused to get involved with her search for answers.
• Chen Chuan visited Alex's Potion Cottage and sold a piece of pure amethyst ore to the blue-robed apprentice for twenty-five basic magic stones.
• The blue-robed apprentice gave Chen Chuan a list of materials the shop urgently needed, and Professor Hailey invited him to the academy's materials exchange the day after tomorrow.
• Hailey said the academy's research department was buying amethyst ore and offered to buy any more Chen Chuan found.
• Chen Chuan decided to check Omomo's Magic Equipment Shop because he lacked a proper staff.

Chen Chuan explored the commercial street, learned that All-Spell Analysis could extract potion-making knowledge from an old book, and decided to seek a discreet way to earn money. He noticed Professor Hailey watching him and left for the academy, after spotting the old-book seller speaking with a mysterious person.

• Chen Chuan examined Thorn's Touch at Omomo's Magic Equipment Shop but left without buying it.
• Chen Chuan activated All-Spell Analysis on Harvitt's Basic Theory of Potions and walked away without purchasing the book.
• Chen Chuan bought a magic-wheat bread and Augu cow's milk set, and the stall owner warned him that many book stalls swindled newcomers.
• Chen Chuan saw Professor Hailey Godwin on the commercial street and decided to return to the dormitory and budget his remaining magic stones.
• Chen Chuan spotted the old-book seller talking to a gray-robed person with a peculiar emblem, then hurried away toward the academy.