Recaps

Lin Yu tested System-Assisted Casting, traded with Guan Canghai, and discovered that attempting a Breathing Technique in-game endangered his body. After cultivating and increasing his maximum mana, he investigated a pending breakthrough and learned that he had to advance from apprentice rank to continue leveling, choosing the Caster System as his only available path.

• Lin Yu tested System-Assisted Casting, found it made spells easy to cast off cooldown, then returned to Manual Casting to train his mana control.
• Guan Canghai arrived an hour late, and Lin Yu completed their transaction before flying to the library with 50,591 silver and 160 copper.
• Lin Yu read the Basic Breathing Technique and stopped practicing it in-game after a warning said his body was too weak and he lost three health points.
• Lin Yu returned to the inn, meditated, and increased his maximum mana by 665 points to 1,592.
• Lin Yu investigated [Breakthrough Pending] and learned that level 10 was the apprentice limit and that he needed to advance to the formal rank, with only the Caster System available as his cultivation path.

Lin Yu reviewed the five cultivation systems and the requirements for advancing from apprentice to official mage, weighing the benefits of system advancement against the possibility of gaining an Innate Spell. He postponed advancement and logged out to test a Breathing Technique, but it left him gasping for air.

• Lin Yu read about the five cultivation systems and concluded that only the Caster System suited him.
• Lin Yu compared the four system advancement methods, learning their material requirements and attribute rewards, and wondered whether system advancement would grant an Innate Spell.
• Lin Yu decided to postpone advancement because he still needed to strengthen his Magic Aperture and prepare for advancement on his own, while he had not seen any bosses.
• Lin Yu logged out and tried to practice a Breathing Technique.
• Lin Yu stopped the technique when he felt suffocated and recovered after resting.

After realizing he could not safely practice the Breathing Technique in reality, Lin Yu focused on studying and improving his mana control in the game. Four days later, he became qualified to cast magic and began practicing spells and learning to control his own flight.

• Lin Yu got a nosebleed while trying the Breathing Technique in reality, so he stopped rather than risk serious harm.
• Lin Yu read a forum post about players building a temporary mob farm, then entered the game and went to the library to study.
• Lin Yu practiced Mana Protection while reading, gradually learning to multitask and refining his mana control over four days.
• Lin Yu reached the control needed to cast magic and learned that Mage Hand could further improve his precision.
• Lin Yu went to the training ground, cast Glimmer Illumination in three seconds, and began practicing spells while considering how to control his own flight.

Lin Yu mastered flight and discovered that the runes near the heart controlled the ability to change gender, then began designing a versatile talent spell. After learning about compound ritual magic, Lin Yu decided it might be the right way to combine the many effects the spell needed.

• Lin Yu infused mana into the runes in the bones and learned to fly, then activated the heart runes and changed gender before switching back.
• Lin Yu reached the Magic Aperture's current mana limit and struggled to choose a talent spell that could handle combat, defense, research, and crafting.
• Lin Yu decided to create a custom spell and listed effects and abilities to incorporate, including elemental attacks, analysis, detection, alchemy, and disassembly.
• Lin Yu recognized that the pile of runes in the Mental Sea would not work as a spell and chose to build a compound ritual magic circle instead.
• Lin Yu recalled that ancient mages had abandoned compound ritual magic because it consumed enormous mana and was less effective than specialized spells.

Lin Yu postponed designing an all-purpose Compound Ritual Magic spell and spent time deepening his magical knowledge, then meditated through the night. Lin Yu’s spirit rose sharply, and after memorizing every book in the library, Lin Yu no longer needed to return there to study.

• Lin Yu planned a Large-Scale Compound Ritual Magic spell built from five spells, but chose to study more before designing it.
• Lin Yu bought fourteen hours of library time and read through the books while exchanging messages with Guan Canghai about Simple Blood-Activating Potions.
• Lin Yu meditated overnight and found that the flow state greatly improved soul training and mental power recovery.
• Lin Yu checked the character panel and saw that a night's meditation had increased the spirit attribute by 11 points.
• Lin Yu realized that all the knowledge in the library had been memorized, so there was no longer a need to go there to read.

Lin Yu created and repeatedly optimized a complex compound spell, naming it Omnipotent Magic. When he tried to construct it inside his magic aperture, he found the aperture could not withstand its pressure, so he turned to cultivating his Meditation Technique to strengthen it.

• Lin Yu checked the forum, where he read about players forming teams, homemade weapons, and Sovereign Arrival reaching level seven.
• Lin Yu entered a flow state and created the first version of a compound magic circle in one morning, then named it Omnipotent Magic.
• Lin Yu spent the afternoon refining the spell through repeated trials until it used nearly ninety percent less mana, activated instantly, and was almost ten times as effective as its first version.
• Lin Yu attempted to construct Omnipotent Magic inside his magic aperture, but stopped when the aperture neared its limit with fifteen runes still unfinished.
• Lin Yu dispersed the circle, replenished his hunger and water, and cultivated the Meditation Technique from shortly after seven that evening until ten the next morning.

After constructing Omnipotent Magic in his Magic Aperture, Lin Yu discovered that Perfect Advancement would guarantee the Innate Spell All-Purpose, but it required a King's Soul. Outside the game, he noticed his mental power had grown and his body had weakened, then found that enhanced thinking made ordinary games boring.

• Lin Yu constructed the magic circle for Omnipotent Magic and saw that his advancement options now offered chances to obtain the Innate Spell All-Purpose.
• Lin Yu concluded that Perfect Advancement was the best choice, but it required a King's Soul, and he found no useful boss information on the forum.
• Lin Yu logged out, tested his growing mental power, and noticed he had lost weight while his appearance and height remained unchanged.
• Lin Yu searched online for discussion of Era but found little, then played Honor of Kings and easily predicted his opponents' moves until the matches bored him.

Lin Yu left Newbie Village to search for a boss and tested his magic on wolves and magical beasts along the way. After discovering how easily he could kill them, he began collecting their Magic Cores and nearly forgot his original goal before continuing his search.

• Lin Yu left Newbie Village, used Life Sense to check for nearby creatures, and flew into the forest to test his damage.
• Lin Yu killed a wild wolf with Ignition Spell and another with Wind Blade Spell, then continued searching for a boss.
• Lin Yu killed a level-seven Shadow Wolf with empowered spells and used Disassembly to turn its corpse into a Magic Core.
• Lin Yu hunted more magical beasts, learned that his spells could kill them quickly, and started collecting their Magic Cores.
• After gathering a Magic Core, Lin Yu realized he had forgotten to look for a boss and resumed his search.

Lin Yu used an enhanced Life Sense ritual to locate a powerful creature and killed it, only to discover it was an elite Crimson Flame Tiger rather than a boss. He decided he would have to keep searching and considered how to make use of the valuable corpse.

• After finding no bosses during a morning of hunting, Lin Yu decided to use Life Sense amplified by Double Magic Enhancement to locate one.
• Lin Yu traced a Mithril ritual array, placed twenty-five magic cores around it, and sensed every living creature within two kilometers.
• Lin Yu followed an exceptionally powerful life aura and identified its source as a winged, mutated Crimson Flame Tiger.
• Lin Yu severed the tiger's wings with two enhanced Wind Blades, brought it down with Ice Cones, and killed it with repeated Lightning Strikes.
• Lin Yu received a notification that the Elite Crimson Flame Tiger (mutated) was dead and realized it was not a boss.
• Lin Yu decided to continue searching and considered keeping the tiger's useful Alchemy and ritual materials.

Lin Yu turned the Crimson Flame Tiger’s remains into ten short-lived Explosive Flame Bomb magic scrolls so he could carry the materials with him. After packing the scrolls, he set out again to search for the boss.

• Lin Yu decided to make simple magic scrolls from the Crimson Flame Tiger’s corpse because he could not carry it whole.
• Lin Yu stored the beast’s magic core in his bag and used its flesh, bones, and internal organs to make ten blank scrolls from its hide.
• Lin Yu carefully inscribed the first scroll with the Explosive Flame Bomb ritual using the Crimson Flame Tiger’s blood.
• After completing the first scroll, Lin Yu made the other nine in half an hour.
• Lin Yu packed the ten scrolls in his cloth bag and resumed his search for the boss.

Lin Yu found the boss Sykes in a ruined arena and discovered that his rune armor blocked ordinary magic. After Sykes escaped Lin Yu’s swamp trap and challenged him, Lin Yu searched for a way to land a magic scroll attack.

• Lin Yu found an abandoned arena and suspected it contained a boss after sensing no life nearby.
• Lin Yu entered the arena and attacked the armored figure, prompting Sykes to rise and reveal his boss status.
• Lin Yu used Earth Sink, Swamp, Grease, and Fireball spells against Sykes, but the rune armor absorbed the attacks.
• Sykes unleashed crimson qi to extinguish the flames and break free of the swamp.
• Lin Yu recognized Sykes’s armor as powerful Rune Armor and considered how to hit him with a magic scroll.

Lin Yu used flight, Repulsion, and explosive magic scrolls to badly injure Sykes, but Sykes dodged his follow-up attack and restored himself with a life potion. After Sykes drank strengthening potions and enhanced his greatsword, Lin Yu recovered his mana as Sykes launched himself toward him again.

• Sykes charged Lin Yu, who flew out of reach and attacked with Lightning Ball, then used Repulsion to send Sykes flying when he leapt at him.
• Lin Yu hit Sykes with three Explosive Flame Bombs, reducing his health to 2500, then tried to finish him with three more as Sykes fell.
• Sykes escaped the second blast, drank a life potion despite Lin Yu’s attempt to restrain him with Earth Cage, and recovered his health and injuries.
• Sykes drank four more potions to strengthen himself and applied the last potion to his greatsword while dodging Lin Yu’s spells.
• Lin Yu stopped attacking to recover mana, and Sykes finished enhancing his sword before launching himself at Lin Yu.

Lin Yu defeated Sykes by letting him cut them in half and detonating three Explosive Flame Bombs at point-blank range. After respawning in their inn room without clothes, Lin Yu fashioned a temporary silver dress, bought robes and a cloth bag, and prepared to return to the inn.

• Lin Yu stopped fleeing and grabbed Sykes after he cut Lin Yu's body in half, then activated three Explosive Flame Bomb scrolls at point-blank range.
• The explosions killed Sykes, and the system awarded Lin Yu the exclusive material king's soul.
• Lin Yu's Life Extension spell ended when their mana ran out, and they respawned naked in their inn room.
• Lin Yu used Alchemy to turn ten silver coins into a sleeveless silver dress and wore it to leave the inn.
• Lin Yu bought ten robes and a cloth bag at a general store and prepared to return to the inn to change.

After reaching the breakthrough state again, Lin Yu reviewed his defeat alongside Sykes and realized that ritual casting and combat equipment were essential against bosses. He studied magic accessories and their amplification and storage functions, leaving him focused on preparing more tools for future battles.

• Lin Yu changed into a new robe, left spare robes in his inn room, and went to the library to restore his experience to the breakthrough state.
• Lin Yu concluded that non-ritual spells could not overcome a boss’s armor or outpace potions, while ritual spells aimed at weak points could inflict fatal damage.
• Lin Yu recognized that magic scrolls and other equipment had been crucial to defeating Sykes, alongside his high spell power.
• Lin Yu reviewed the types of magic accessories, including items that amplified spells, mana, or physical attributes.
• Lin Yu learned that storage accessories could hold prepared rituals or inscribe rechargeable spells, including protective magic that activated automatically.

Lin Yu reviewed the equipment available to mages, then bought materials and began crafting gear in Newbie Village’s Alchemy Workshop. He planned a staff with one Crimson Flame Tiger magic-core core and five ruby cores to boost his spells and Ritual Magic.

• Lin Yu learned that magic accessories, staffs, robes, alchemical tools, and potions each aided mages, and reflected that he had fought Sykes with only ten magic scrolls.
• Lin Yu searched the Player Market and spent 172 silver coins on Cloud Iron Ore, Mana-Gathering Stone, and rubies.
• Lin Yu rented a room in the Alchemy Workshop and used Matter Transmutation to turn 500 silver coins into liquid Mithril.
• Lin Yu purified the Cloud Iron Ore and Mana-Gathering Stone with Alchemy.
• Lin Yu chose to make a staff with a Crimson Flame Tiger magic-core main core and five ruby secondary cores to strengthen his magic.

Lin Yu crafted a powerful staff and magic accessories, then decided to join Guan Canghai’s party to hunt a boss instead of gathering materials for scrolls. The chapter ended with Guan Canghai surprised to learn that Lin Yu had reached level ten and was ready to break through.

• Lin Yu crafted a staff that boosted his Fireball Spell by 150% and his other spells by 50%, then made a protective necklace and two magic-amplifying bracelets.
• Lin Yu rested at the inn and planned to hunt magical beasts for materials to make magic scrolls.
• Lin Yu saw Guan Canghai recruiting level-ten players ready to break through for a boss hunt and decided to join his party.
• Guan Canghai recognized Lin Yu and checked his level, then was surprised that Lin Yu had already reached level ten and was ready to break through.

Guan Canghai tested Lin Yu’s abilities and recruited him into his party after seeing how powerful his enhancement magic was. As the party left Newbie Village, Guan Canghai offered Lin Yu a generous deal to join his guild.

• Guan Canghai examined Lin Yu’s stats and asked him to demonstrate his abilities.
• Lin Yu showed Guan Canghai his defensive and elemental spells, then explained that he could also provide control, healing, and enhancement.
• Lin Yu cast several enhancement spells on Guan Canghai, raising his attributes by 108.8 points each.
• Guan Canghai sent Lin Yu a party invitation, and Lin Yu accepted before meeting the other party members.
• Guan Canghai led the party out of Newbie Village and offered Lin Yu a negotiable salary and benefits to join his guild.

Lin Yu agreed to join Guan Canghai's guild in exchange for freedom and a steady supply of crafting materials, and he offered to provide the guild with equipment and potions. After learning more about his companions, he led them toward the Beast Arena to find a boss.

• Lin Yu agreed to join Guan Canghai's guild after negotiating for freedom and materials in return for some of his crafted goods.
• Lin Yu listed the kinds of equipment he could craft, then directed Guan Canghai to books in the library for explanations.
• Lin Yu told I Am the Heavenly Emperor that his Mixed-Blood Fairy character had to be female because the race offered only genderless and female options.
• When Guan Canghai and the others admitted they did not know where to find a boss, Lin Yu offered to lead them to one at the Beast Arena.
• On the way, Lin Yu learned that Mo Wenjun was Chen Yun, a student and Qi Refiner, and that Mu Yu Yumu and I Am the Heavenly Emperor were his classmates.

Lin Yu brought the group to the colosseum and prepared a ritual array before they faced the boss. The others learned little about the boss or rituals as Lin Yu explained what he could.

• Lin Yu learned that Mu Yu Yumu was Lin Xiaotong, a Life Priest, and that I Am the Heavenly Emperor was Xia Lin, a Knight.
• Lin Yu asked the others about Guan Canghai, but they knew only that their guild leader was wealthy and sent red packets.
• Lin Yu led the group to the colosseum and falsely claimed the boss had defeated him instantly, while withholding that he and Sykes had killed each other.
• Lin Yu stopped the group from entering the arena and refined 300 silver coins into Mithril with Alchemy.
• Lin Yu used the Mithril to form a huge compound Ritual Array, then explained to Lin Xiaotong and Chen Yun that rituals enhanced magic.

Lin Yu buffed Guan Canghai and the others with a powerful ritual before they fought Sykes, whose armor withstood their weapons even as they overwhelmed him. Guan Canghai knocked off Sykes's helmet and urged the others to keep attacking his exposed head.

• Lin Yu spent 5,000 Mana to give Guan Canghai, Xia Lin, Chen Yun, and Lin Xiaotong a five-minute boost to their attributes.
• Guan Canghai led the group into the arena, where Xia Lin struck Sykes and sent him flying.
• Guan Canghai, Xia Lin, and Chen Yun pinned Sykes down, but their blades could not damage his plate armor while Lin Xiaotong tried to drain his life force.
• Sykes unleashed Qi to repel them, but the boosted fighters held their ground, and Guan Canghai kicked off Sykes's helmet.
• Guan Canghai kicked Sykes's unprotected head into the ground and called on the others to attack.

Guan Canghai and the others defeated Sykes with Lin Yu’s ritual buff, and Guan Canghai claimed the King’s Soul. After the group began sorting the boss’s loot, Lin Yu recognized Sykes’s Dimensional Bag and wondered about Guan Canghai’s hidden sources of information.

• Guan Canghai spotted the greatsword embedded in the arena, grabbed it, and used it to behead Sykes while the others restrained him.
• Guan Canghai finished off Sykes’s health by striking his severed head, and the group received a notice that the boss had been killed.
• Guan Canghai told the group that only the person who killed the boss received the King’s Soul and that Sykes would respawn after half an hour.
• Lin Yu wondered whether Guan Canghai’s knowledge came from official channels or an ultimate limited-edition game pod.
• Guan Canghai organized the loot, and Lin Yu recognized the small bag among Sykes’s possessions as a Dimensional Bag.

Lin Yu appraised the potions and equipment Guan Canghai’s group had taken from the boss, then helped divide the potions among them. The group had just begun examining the remaining loot, including a Dimensional Bag and two pieces of Radiant Silver armor.

• Lin Yu recognized the fifty potions Guan Canghai had emptied from the Dimensional Bag, including five Life Potions, while Guan Canghai and the others admitted they had not learned the potion compendium entries needed for Appraisal.
• Lin Yu used Appraisal to reveal the potions’ effects, durations, and drawbacks, including their healing, attribute boosts, and weapon enchantments.
• Guan Canghai proposed dividing the potions so each person received one bottle of each kind, and Chen Yun, the others, and Lin Yu agreed.
• After everyone put away their share, Guan Canghai asked Lin Yu to appraise the remaining equipment, and Lin Yu began with the Dimensional Bag.
• Lin Yu appraised the Dimensional Bag and revealed its one-cubic-meter storage space, then appraised a Radiant Silver Helmet and Breastplate with powerful defensive properties.

Lin Yu helped Guan Canghai’s party prepare to farm Sykes again, then discovered that a video of Lin Yu’s spellcasting had made the forums popular. After buffing the party when Sykes respawned, Lin Yu took to the air as the others attacked.

• Lin Yu appraised the Shining Silver equipment and agreed that Guan Canghai would get the first set while Lin Yu took the extra Dimensional Bags.
• Lin Yu refined 300 silver coins into Mithril and set up a ritual array to buff Guan Canghai and the others when Sykes respawned.
• Lin Yu found a popular forum post featuring a video of Lin Yu casting spells without hand seals or apparent cooldowns, and left a comment.
• Lin Yu returned to the game and activated the ritual array as Sykes appeared in the arena.
• Lin Yu flew into the air while Guan Canghai’s party charged Sykes, and Chen Yun and Xia Lin kicked the seated boss away.

After the group gathered King's Souls by repeatedly defeating Warrior Sykes, they returned to the Newbie Village, where Lin Yu began explaining advancement abilities to Guan Canghai and the others. A future version of Lin Yu briefly appeared during stopped time and altered his thoughts, leaving him with the urge to warn the group about special abilities.

• Guan Canghai, Chen Yun, and Xia Lin pinned Sykes down, and Guan Canghai decapitated him before Chen Yun destroyed his head and the group collected a King's Soul.
• Lin Yu and Lin Xiaotong took turns securing King's Souls while the others weakened Sykes, and the group divided the plentiful loot and gathered enough souls for advancement.
• On the walk back, Lin Yu accepted friend requests from the others, and a future Lin Yu appeared during stopped time, changed his thoughts, and slapped Guan Canghai before vanishing.
• Lin Yu asked Guan Canghai what Battle God Armor and Natal Divine Ability he planned to condense, then explained that the group had not heard of those advancement abilities.
• After reaching the Newbie Village, Lin Yu introduced Era's cultivation systems and began explaining the special abilities classes could condense when advancing to Official Rank.

Lin Yu explained how practitioners of the Qi and Battle Qi Systems advanced to Official Rank, then began describing Natal Divine Abilities. He left Guan Canghai waiting to ask questions as he continued explaining the remaining systems.

• Lin Yu explained how a Qi System practitioner formed a Life Source Core, which could repair injuries and develop abilities from the practitioner's beliefs.
• Lin Yu described examples of Life Source Core abilities growing to devour existence and explained how a king with the ability Undying ultimately chose to die.
• Lin Yu explained that Battle Qi practitioners formed Battle God Armor, whose destructive power and physical enhancement varied according to how their battle qi was tempered.
• Lin Yu paused to drink and rest, but interrupted Guan Canghai when he tried to ask a question and told him to wait until the explanation was finished.
• Lin Yu explained that Natal Divine Abilities depended on a practitioner's cultivation technique and had to match its attribute, unlike a mage's freely constructed Innate Spell.