Chapter Summaries

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.