Chapter Summaries

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.

The Radiance Society launched its campaign against the Hengxuan District Royal Family, prompting President Rada and Emperor He to clash over how to respond. While the Royal Family prepared to recruit mages with high-reward missions, Su Hao left Zhi Peng in Feng Cheng’s care and returned to studying Source Artifacts.

• The Radiance Society captured royal residences in ten cities, announced its founding, and publicized the Royal Family’s crimes.
• President Rada berated Emperor He and the princes, demanded action, and threatened to revise the Royal Authority Preservation Accord.
• Emperor He chose to send the Royal Family’s recruited Source Mage forces to suppress the unrest in Pingkong City.
• Emperor He decided to issue high-reward missions through Mage Associations to attract more mages.
• Su Hao assigned Feng Cheng to protect Zhi Peng while Ashan researched disrupting Source Mage Spiritual Frequency Bands.
• Su Hao returned to the Source Artifact repository, expecting to soon discover how matter became Source.

Zhi Peng’s Radiance Society defeated the Imperial Family’s second expedition through flexible attacks and converting captured Source Mages into allies, while Su Hao devoted himself to researching Source Artifacts. After more than a year, Su Hao discovered that matter transformed into Source when a particle reached its extreme temperature.

• After the Imperial Family’s first army collapsed, it sent a prepared force of four thousand Source Mages toward Pingkong City.
• Zhi Peng chose the Guerrilla Divide plan, using Transfer Spheres to evade large forces, defeat smaller units, and recruit captives into the Radiance Society.
• Feng Cheng disapproved of the plan and teleported away to cook for Boss Wei and Boss Ashan.
• The Radiance Society repelled the second expedition after a month, and more than a thousand surviving Imperial Family troops became its friends.
• Over the following year, the Imperial Family shifted to negotiations while Su Hao continued researching Source Artifacts.
• Su Hao discovered that matter transformed into Source when a particle’s temperature reached its upper limit, about 142 million Kelvin.

Su Hao investigated how matter transformed into Source, then broadened his search by traveling the planet and questioning whether disasters followed a pattern. After returning to Base Small World, he learned that Ashan had developed software for simulating Source Mage abilities and tested it himself.

• Su Hao organized his theories about matter becoming Source and concluded that he still did not understand what heated tiny Particles into Source.
• Su Hao flew around the planet for half a year to gather observations, then suspected that disasters followed a pattern rather than occurring randomly.
• Su Hao returned to Base Small World and decided to seek help from Zhi Peng's Radiance Society in collecting more data.
• Su Hao summoned Feng Cheng and Ashan to his Laboratory, where Ashan demonstrated software that simulated Energy System and Matter System Source Mage abilities.
• Su Hao used Ashan's Fire Source Mage simulation to unleash a sea of flames, then praised Ashan's progress.

Su Hao planned to use the three of them to seize Hengxuan District and force the Source Mage Associations into a cooperative trade. Meanwhile, Feiyuan told General President Rada that the stolen Source Artifacts were on an island, though he admitted the claim was a guess.

• Ashan told Su Hao about his developing abilities and the Source Variable Suppressor, and Su Hao planned to improve it.
• Su Hao explained that they would demonstrate their strength by defeating the Royal Family before negotiating with the Source Mage Associations.
• Feng Cheng reported that the Radiance Society had spread through more than seventy cities but remained too slow to achieve its goals.
• Su Hao ordered Ashan and Feng Cheng to prepare one thousand Transfer Spheres while he gathered intelligence, with a plan to strike in two months.
• Feiyuan and Xiangli met General President Rada, and Feiyuan claimed the stolen Source Artifacts were hidden on an island where Land Scraping Armor was hiding.
• Feiyuan admitted he had not verified the island because Land Scraping Armor discovered them whenever they approached.

Feiyuan explained to General President Rada why Land Scraping Armor had stolen the Source Artifacts and why they were hidden on an island, prompting Rada to accept him as his godson. Rada then vowed to attack the Radiance Society and reclaim the artifacts himself.

• Feiyuan argued that Land Scraping Armor had moved the missing Artifact Vault and was likely a member of the Radiance Society, citing archived records about his spatial abilities and conflicts with the Royal Family.
• Feiyuan revealed that he had claimed to be Rada's illegitimate son to access secret records and the Disaster Balancer, which he used to locate the Source Artifacts on an island.
• Rada tore up Feiyuan's forged proof but declared that he would publicly acknowledge Feiyuan as his godson, leaving Feiyuan and his teammates stunned.
• Rada announced that he would personally attack the Radiance Society, slaughter its members, and reclaim the stolen Source Artifacts.