Recaps

Su Hao used Divine Intent to study Source Pearls and discovered that Source was continuous and gapless, unlike ordinary matter. He observed Source splitting into smaller portions and releasing energy during an explosive spell, leaving him with a new understanding of what Source was.

• Su Hao entered a low-quality Source Pearl with Divine Intent and found its Source was pure white and had no gaps.
• Su Hao compared low- and high-quality Source Pearls and perceived that the higher-quality pearl contained more Source in the same space.
• Su Hao used Divine Intent to observe Source changing as he prepared an explosive spell above the waters near the Islet.
• Su Hao saw the Source divide repeatedly through fission, releasing energy until it erupted in an explosion.
• Su Hao reflected on the nature of Source and said he seemed to understand what it was.

Su Hao investigated Source as a stable boundary between matter and energy and prepared to begin systematic research after reaching the Spirit Transformation Realm. He discovered that Blood Qi exposed to a Source Artifact lost its recordable information without visibly changing, then brought Ashan and Feng Cheng to President Guyin to awaken as Source Mages.

• Su Hao concluded that Source might exist at the critical boundary between matter and energy and committed himself to uncovering its secrets.
• Ashan and Feng Cheng described their cultivation progress, and Feng Cheng demonstrated Teleport with an awkward fall; Su Hao said he had reached the Spirit Transformation Realm and planned to have them awaken as Source Mages.
• Su Hao used the Processing Blade to test whether Blood Qi transformed into Source, but found that the small portion that slipped from his control remained in place and could no longer be recorded by Marble Space.
• Su Hao decided that finding existing Source in disasters would be faster than producing enough by converting his Blood Qi.
• Su Hao took Ashan and Feng Cheng to President Guyin and asked her to awaken them, presenting Source Pearls as gifts and having them cut steel bars with kitchen knives.

Su Hao arranged for Ashan and Feng Cheng to awaken as Source Mages, then helped them join A Xing and A Wang's squad. The newly expanded team celebrated under its new name, the Wind Mountain Sun Gazing Squad.

• Guyin awakened Ashan as a Quality Strange Source Mage and Feng Cheng as a Fantasy System Divine Source Mage.
• Feng Cheng described how his thoughts could affect matter within his Perception range, and Ashan compared the ability to a Superpower.
• Su Hao asked Guyin to let Ashan and Feng Cheng join the Yang Star Gazing Squad, and she reluctantly agreed.
• A Xing and A Wang accepted the two new teammates after Su Hao persuaded them that a five-man squad could become famous.
• A Xing renamed Ashan and Feng Cheng A Shan and A Feng, and the squad registered as the Wind Mountain Sun Gazing Squad.
• A Wang asked A Shan and A Feng about their fair complexions, and A Shan offered him secret whitening formulas.

Su Hao investigated source and searched for disasters to learn how destroying their cores produced Source Pearls. After experimenting with a corrosive Acid Mist disaster, he watched its deadwood core transform into Source Pearls and began to understand the process.

• Su Hao summarized several properties of source and set out to find disasters whose cores could reveal how Source Pearls formed.
• Su Hao discovered a mountain hollow filled with corrosive Acid Mist and tested it with a Yellow Rat, which died within minutes.
• Su Hao entered the Mist under Crispy Defense and found a Hollow Broken Wood emitting Acid Mist from three rotten bird eggs.
• Su Hao concluded that the deadwood was source and the bird eggs acted as guides that emitted a Source Field.
• Su Hao experimented with the disaster core until it was ruined, then watched the Hollow Broken Wood turn into a small pile of Source Pearls.

Su Hao spent a year studying and clearing disasters, gathering data and Source Artifacts before returning to his Experiment Base. Meanwhile, Source Squads struggled to find missions, unaware that Su Hao had been resolving the disasters himself.

• Su Hao studied how Hollow Broken Wood became Source Pearls, collected the pearls, and flew off to search for more disasters.
• Captain Nalin and her squad searched the Acid Mist Disaster but found no Core before the mist dispersed, then mistakenly credited themselves with solving it.
• Nalin’s squad failed to find the Core of a Wildfire Disaster before it died out, and Big Lan again praised the captain for supposedly solving it.
• Su Hao used Little Light and his Disaster Identification function to locate and clear disasters efficiently, gathering data over the course of a year.
• As the Mage Association issued fewer missions, Source Mages struggled for work and dismissed rumors that one squad was clearing disasters across multiple regions.
• Su Hao returned to the Experiment Base and arranged his collected Source Artifacts on the Test Bench, including one with the ability 'I Hit You.'

Su Hao reflected on Source and resolved to study its secrets through further experiments, then returned to Huai Shui Town to reunite with Big Dog and the Wind Mountain Sun Gazing Squad. At the squad’s celebratory meal, A Xing and A Wang lamented how Ashan and Feng Cheng’s abilities had left them feeling useless, and Feng Cheng’s apology only made things worse.

• Su Hao reasoned that Source could transform matter into energy and other forms of matter, and decided to investigate Source Artifacts and recruit Feng Cheng for experiments.
• Su Hao returned to Huai Shui Town, where Big Dog eagerly greeted him, and waited for the Wind Mountain Sun Gazing Squad to come back from its mission.
• Su Hao joined the squad at Huai En Tavern and heard A Xing complain that Ashan and Feng Cheng had overshadowed him and A Wang during missions.
• Su Hao chastised Ashan and Feng Cheng in their group chat for discouraging A Xing and A Wang.
• Feng Cheng apologized for being a genius, leaving A Xing and A Wang feeling even more hurt.

A Xing split the squad so he and A Wang could pursue their own trials, while Su Hao studied Feng Cheng’s Fantasy System ability and developed a defense against anomalous effects. The new Anomaly Barrier protected its wearer’s body and mind, though Su Hao’s explanation for how it worked remained simply “Projection.”

• A Xing decided that he and A Wang would take missions separately from Su Hao, Ashan, and Feng Cheng, and Su Hao gave him a Location Stone for emergencies.
• Feng Cheng demonstrated his Mind Wish ability at the Island Experiment Base while Su Hao used Divine Intent to study how it worked.
• Su Hao concluded that Fantasy System Source Abilities arose when Spiritual Power affected Source, and speculated that humanity’s spiritual world might be connected to Anomaly Disasters.
• Su Hao, Ashan, and Feng Cheng spent three months testing defenses against Fantasy System abilities, with Feng Cheng acting as a humanoid Source Artifact.
• Su Hao developed the Anomaly Barrier, which isolated anomalous effects from the wearer’s body and mind, and settled on Projection as the means of defense.

Su Hao developed Second-Level Space, a spatial state that made him visible but impossible to locate or attack, while Ashan and Feng Cheng remained unable to master it. Later, A Xing gathered Su Hao, Ashan, and Feng Cheng to discuss an important matter as Prince Luo’s convoy approached Huai Shui Town to recruit their squad.

• Su Hao tested Second-Level Space against Ashan, Feng Cheng, and several Source Artifacts, which could not hit him.
• Su Hao concluded that Ashan and Feng Cheng would need more time to master advanced spatial techniques because their understanding of space differed from his.
• Prince Luo and his servant Little Hezi traveled toward Huai Shui Town in a lavish compact car, with Prince Luo boasting that the Lucky Star Squad would join him.
• Little Hezi warned that Prince Luo mistreated people who displeased him and hoped the Lucky Star Squad would avoid provoking him.
• Su Hao found A Xing’s invitation to meet, and the next morning he, Ashan, and Feng Cheng joined A Xing, A Wang, and Yi Zhu at their usual meeting place.
• A Xing led Su Hao, Ashan, and Feng Cheng away to discuss the important matter.

A Xing told Su Hao and the others that Prince Luo had invited their squad to join his mansion, but the squad declined the offer and discussed whether the Royal Family possessed secret Source materials. A Wang pointed Su Hao toward the Hengxuan Imperial Palace in Yixuan City, leaving Su Hao eager to uncover the world's secrets.

• A Xing explained that the Lucky Star Squad had earned a reputation across Hengxuan District and that Prince Luo had personally invited them to join his mansion.
• A Xing and A Wang said they had decided to refuse the invitation because they wanted to become powerful Source Mages and resolve Anomaly Disasters.
• Su Hao said he had no interest in joining the Royal Family, though he was open to cooperating with them and wanted access to secret Source materials.
• A Wang said the Imperial Palace in Yixuan City likely held top-secret materials, while Prince Luo's mansion probably did not.
• A Wang described his past curiosity about the Imperial Clan and the Source Mage Association, and Su Hao said he intended to pursue the world's secrets.

Su Hao rejected Prince Luo’s invitation and defied his threats, ending the meeting in hostility. As A Xing and A Wang feared the consequences for Huai Shui Town, Ashan suggested striking first.

• A Xing and A Wang agreed with Su Hao that the squad should decline Prince Luo’s offer, but they attended the meeting to show courtesy.
• At the auditorium, Little Hezi demanded that Su Hao and his companions pay their respects to Prince Luo, but Su Hao refused and asked him to speak properly.
• Prince Luo invited the squad to join his manor, and Su Hao bluntly rejected the offer.
• Prince Luo threatened Su Hao, who left the meeting with Ashan and Feng Cheng after declaring the gathering over.
• A Xing and A Wang followed Su Hao out and worried that Prince Luo would retaliate against Huai Shui Town.
• Ashan told A Xing and A Wang that they should strike first if they had angered the nobles, then denied that he had suggested anything.

After Prince Luo left Huai Shui Town, he planned to return with a stronger force to punish the Lucky Star Squad. Ashan and Feng Cheng ambushed his convoy on the road, killed everyone with him, and buried all traces of the attack.

• Prince Luo ordered his group to return to Mingchuan and planned to send stronger squads to capture the Lucky Star Squad.
• Ashan and Feng Cheng blocked Prince Luo's convoy on the road and prepared to attack.
• The Thunder Source Mage guard charged Ashan while the Gold Source Mage raised metal spikes from the ground.
• Ashan sent a barrage of golden Flying Swords that destroyed the convoy and killed Prince Luo and his companions.
• Ashan buried the wreckage and bodies deep underground and restored the road, prompting Feng Cheng to realize he had learned another way to bury people.

Su Hao traveled through cities to collect knowledge and investigate the darkness hidden in Prince's Manors, then witnessed Zhi Peng's group kill Prince Chao in revenge. After Zhi Peng thanked his companions, Su Hao sensed that something about the scene was wrong.

• A Xing and A Wang learned Prince Luo had disappeared, and Ashan and Feng Cheng buried the Investigation Squad sent to question them.
• After developing the Second-Level Space, Su Hao flew to Mingchuan City, found imprisoned women in Prince Luo Manor, and collected research reports from the Mage Association.
• Su Hao searched another city and detected a battle at Prince Chao's Mansion, where Zhi Peng's group was killing Prince Chao and his guards.
• Zhi Peng and his companions escaped Chaonan City, evaded the pursuing Association Mages, and stopped at an abandoned attic outside the city.
• Zhi Peng thanked the group for helping avenge his wife, and Su Hao watched in confusion, sensing that something was off.

Zhi Peng formed the Radiance Society with his friends and vowed to kill the Royal Families to stop others from suffering as he had. The Land Scraping Armor appeared and offered to help, but the group attacked him, and Xiao Hui and A Ming activated their abilities against him.

• Zhi Peng recounted his painful past and told his friends he wanted to kill every member of the Royal Family to protect the persecuted.
• Ponytail girl and the others agreed to join Zhi Peng, and they founded the Radiance Society with the vow to let light shine upon the earth.
• The Land Scraping Armor appeared and offered the Radiance Society help, prompting the group to attack him with coordinated abilities.
• The Land Scraping Armor walked unharmed out of the Iron Coffin and explained that ordinary attacks could not affect him because he was a spatial Trick Source Mage.
• Xiao Hui used Choking with Tears, and A Ming used Seeing Stars against the Land Scraping Armor.

Su Hao, disguised as Jia Wei, sought out the Radiance Society and subdued its members with his Mind Confusion Array after they attacked him. Once Zhi Peng apologized and asked why Jia Wei had come, Su Hao was ready to discuss his purpose.

• Su Hao decided to help the Radiance Society target the Royal Families and appeared before its members as Life Child, but they attacked him without hearing him out.
• Xiao Hui and A Ming found that their anomaly abilities had no effect on Su Hao, so Sister Hejiao ordered the group to flee with Zhi Peng.
• Su Hao intercepted them and repeatedly struck them with his Mind Confusion Array until they lost the will to resist.
• Su Hao noticed that the group had tried to protect Zhi Peng and suspected that Zhi Peng had the anomaly ability “Let’s Be Friends.”
• Zhi Peng apologized to Jia Wei and asked why he had come looking for the Radiance Society.

Su Hao recruited Zhi Peng to help purge the Royal Family, offering him power and guidance in exchange for information and research resources. The next night, Su Hao began discussing Zhi Peng’s ability, and Zhi Peng revealed its name and how it worked.

• Su Hao told Zhi Peng that he could help him bring down the Royal Family, while warning that he would replace him if he proved useless.
• Zhi Peng agreed to cooperate, and Su Hao gave him a parrot named Number Seven to serve as a communication link and keep watch.
• Su Hao left to gather information across the cities, then returned the following night using the parrot as a Locate point.
• Zhi Peng sent Xiao Hui and A Ming outside so Su Hao could speak with him privately.
• Su Hao asked whether Zhi Peng’s anomalous ability was called “Let’s Be Friends,” and Zhi Peng explained that he preferred the name “Listen to My Story” because only people he genuinely moved became his friends.

Su Hao learned how Zhi Peng’s “Let’s Be Friends” ability worked and helped him develop it into a way to recruit allies for the Radiance Society. After six months of experiments and research, Su Hao received Ashan’s report that he had found a Spiritual Power frequency band closely related to Source.

• Su Hao learned that Zhi Peng could make people regard him as their most important friend by telling stories that moved them, and he proposed recruiting thousands of useful allies before attempting to replace the Royal Family.
• Su Hao brought Zhi Peng and his friends to an island for experiments, where he and the other researchers helped improve their abilities and renamed Zhi Peng Wulai.
• After six months, Su Hao gave Wulai a proposal and sent him and his companions out to spread stories and make friends.
• Su Hao researched the history of Source use and suspected that a special Spiritual Power trait enabled living creatures to use Source, so he assigned Ashan and Feng Cheng to investigate it.
• Ashan told Su Hao that he had found a frequency band linking Spiritual Power traits to Source.

Su Hao and Ashan advanced their research into Spiritual Power traits, identifying a Source-related Spiritual Frequency Band and estimating that a thousand Source Mages would let them isolate it within three years. Su Hao arranged for Ashan to recruit subjects through Zhi Peng while turning his attention to converting matter into pure Source, a project that remained stalled by a difficult bottleneck.

• Su Hao gave Ashan and Feng Cheng the Mental Motion Simulation function, and Ashan used it to identify a Spiritual Frequency Band associated with Source.
• Ashan estimated that he needed at least a thousand Source Mages to isolate the crucial frequency band within three years, and Su Hao agreed to find subjects.
• Su Hao enabled Ashan to contact Zhi Peng and recruit his friends for training and research at Gourd Island.
• Ashan had already captured troublesome Source Mage teams investigating Prince Luo's incident for experiments, while other recruits were to be presented as future members of the Radiance Society.
• Su Hao left the Spiritual Power research to Ashan and focused on converting matter into pure Source, but he had hit a bottleneck.

Su Hao’s attempt to reproduce a Source Artifact failed, leaving his research into matter turning into Source stalled. After noticing a fish transform into a Source Beast, he realized he could study its changes through Marble Space and began researching in a sea full of marine life.

• Su Hao concluded that his Source Artifact simulation was missing essential information and decided to seek more knowledge.
• Zhi Peng sent more Good Friends to Ashan for modifications, while Feng Cheng advanced his studies and assisted Ashan.
• After two months without progress, Su Hao detected a Lucky Fish transforming into a Source Beast and realized he could observe living creatures’ changes through recorded Consciousness Information.
• Su Hao restrained the newly transformed fish, recorded its Consciousness Information, and released it before studying its body in Marble Space.
• After an hour of observation confirmed his approach, Su Hao claimed the marine-rich waters as his research ground.

Su Hao recorded countless fish in hopes of observing their transformation into Source Beasts, but Big Dog transformed first. Studying Big Dog’s recorded changes revealed that Source Beasts and Source Artifacts were small ports in a larger system, giving Su Hao a new direction for his research.

• Su Hao set up ocean Formations and a Blood Qi barrier to record the Consciousness Information of passing fish.
• After half a year of recording fish without finding a transformation, Su Hao learned that Big Dog had become a Source Beast.
• Su Hao tested Big Dog’s growing size and strange ability to make a target press the sole of their foot against its forehead.
• Su Hao studied Big Dog’s recorded transformation for ten days and realized Source Beasts and Source Artifacts were components of a larger system.
• Su Hao concluded that he needed to find the system’s interface by comparing more Source Beast samples, then returned to the ocean to record fish.

Over two years, Su Hao’s allies gained influence while the Source Mage Association continued maintaining the Imperial Families’ rule. Su Hao made a breakthrough in researching the system that turned creatures into Source Beasts and prepared to test whether an Octopus could lose its connection to it without being killed.

• A Xing and A Wang became Advanced Source Mages and made the Lucky Star Squad famous, while Su Hao repeatedly rescued them from dangerous Anomaly Disasters.
• Huai Shui Town became a feared forbidden zone after Source Squads vanished nearby, and Zhi Peng built a network of influential Good Friends while hiding his identity.
• Su Hao reviewed how Harmony became the Source Mage Association and retained its authority to preserve the Imperial Families’ legitimacy.
• After studying twenty fish that had transformed into Source Beasts, Su Hao discovered how to locate and manipulate their connection to the system that turned matter into Source.
• Su Hao placed a newly transformed Octopus Source Beast on the Test Bench and planned to sever its system connection by putting it into suspended animation.

Su Hao’s team discovered how to manipulate Source through the Source Vector, while Su Hao continued investigating how matter could be converted into Source. When A Xing summoned him to a spatial Anomaly Disaster, Su Hao found that its warped space consisted of independent, overlapping worlds and began exploring how to use spatial modules himself.

• Su Hao tested how an Octopus changed after its bodily functions were suspended and its connection to the system severed, but it died two days later.
• Ashan reported that he had identified the Source Vector and found that changing its Source Variable could produce different abilities; Su Hao praised him and assigned him further research with Feng Cheng and Zhi Peng’s Experiment Subjects.
• Su Hao noticed that A Xing had activated the Location Stone, then projected beside him and learned that A Xing and A Wang had been trapped in a maze-like spatial Anomaly Disaster for four days.
• Su Hao perceived that the disaster had divided space into irregular, overlapping blocks, told A Xing to stay put, and went searching for A Wang.
• Su Hao tested the spatial channels and concluded that each cluster of spatial modules acted like an independent world, inspiring him to investigate creating a Palm World.

Su Hao resolved the Anomaly Disaster by studying its spatial effects and developing Small World, an ability that could hold vast spaces inside a sphere. Back at the Experimental Base, he used it to conceal Gourd Island inside a two-meter sphere and invited Ashan and Feng Cheng to inspect it.

• Su Hao found the Glass Ball Toy that served as the disaster's Core and studied its spatial principles.
• Su Hao developed a Space Sphere that could contain objects at a vastly reduced scale, then crushed the Doll and collected the Source Artifact.
• Su Hao returned to A Xing and A Wang, told them the disaster was resolved, and kept the Source Artifact for himself.
• A Xing and A Wang decided to report the resolution and claim their reward without the Source Artifact.
• Su Hao named his new ability Small World and put Gourd Island inside a two-meter sphere.
• Ashan and Feng Cheng viewed the island inside the sphere, downloaded Su Hao's explanation, and followed him into the Small World.

Su Hao hid his base inside a Small World, but a Source Squad traced its former location and began investigating people connected to Sage Wulai. He followed them to Yixuan City, stole the Mage Association’s collection of Source Artifacts, and prepared a separate Small World for Ashan’s experiments.

• Su Hao concealed the base inside a Small World and returned to the Laboratory to study how matter became Source.
• Feiyuan’s Source Squad found that the island marked on their map had vanished, concluded it had been removed, and planned to revisit their investigation of people connected to Sage Wulai.
• Su Hao followed the squad to Yixuan City and took roughly two thousand Source Artifacts from the Mage Association headquarters.
• Su Hao stored the Source Artifacts in his base and told Ashan that the Association could track their former location through Experiment Subjects, so Ashan should move his experiments elsewhere.
• Su Hao contacted Zhi Peng through the Little Parrot and learned that Zhi Peng had more than two hundred thousand friends, including about four thousand Source Mages.

Su Hao warned Zhi Peng that the Mage Association had discovered his network and gave him a Transfer Sphere to gather his friends quickly. Elsewhere, President Rada learned that every Source Artifact in the Artifact Vault had been stolen and ordered a thorough investigation.

• Zhi Peng told Su Hao about his thousands of Source Mage friends and his plan to wait before moving against the Royal Families.
• Su Hao warned Zhi Peng that the Imperial Family and Mage Association had investigated him and his friends, so Zhi Peng decided to begin the next phase immediately.
• Su Hao gave Zhi Peng a Transfer Sphere and showed him how to use it to reach the gathering point.
• Zhi Peng entered the sphere, saw its interior, and learned that he could use it to secretly gather his friends across Hengxuan District.
• Three mages told President Rada that the Artifact Vault had been robbed, and Rada ordered them to investigate the theft thoroughly.

Feiyuan linked the Artifact Vault theft to the organization behind earlier disappearances and suspected the thieves had used his squad to reach the association, while Su Hao focused on studying the stolen Source Artifacts. Su Hao then ordered Zhi Peng to begin seizing Pingkong City as the Radiance Society’s first territory and reassured him that the group could win over the Mage Association’s Reformist Faction.

• Feiyuan connected the Artifact Vault theft to the Evergreen Factory and island disappearances, suspecting that Land Scraping Armor’s organization was behind all three.
• Feiyuan concluded that the thief might have followed his squad to the association and declared that they should formally answer the provocation.
• Su Hao began testing the stolen Source Artifacts and planned to study their movements to uncover the system behind them.
• Zhi Peng reported that he had gathered more than two thousand Source Mages in Pingkong City, while the association had taken control of the rest.
• Su Hao ordered Zhi Peng to seize Pingkong City and explained that the Radiance Society could win over the Mage Association’s Reformist Faction by building greater strength.