Chapter Summaries

With disasters nearly gone and Source Pearls running scarce, Harmony Mage asked Ashan what had happened. Ashan revealed that he and two others had sealed the disasters and gave Harmony Mage the Forbidden Book of Magic to begin transforming the Mage Association into a center for teaching advanced knowledge.

• Worldwide disasters fell to fewer than a hundred per day, leaving Source Mages worried about dwindling Source Pearls and prompting rumors of a coming Greater Disaster.
• Harmony Mage, suspecting Jia Wei and the other two were behind the change, sought Ashan for an explanation.
• Ashan said the three of them had sealed the disasters and that they might return if the seal disappeared.
• Ashan explained that the plan was to cut off mages' access to Source and change their understanding, then handed Harmony Mage the Forbidden Book of Magic.
• Ashan told Harmony Mage to study the book and reshape the Mage Association into a hall that passed down advanced knowledge.
• After Harmony Mage left, Ashan went to the mechanical factory district to continue making Satellite propulsion devices.

Harmony Mage learned to sense mana from Ashan’s book, while Su Hao made a breakthrough in stably transforming Source into elemental substances. After the group celebrated, Feiyuan asked to study astronomy under Feng Cheng.

• Harmony Mage studied Ashan’s Forbidden Book of Magic, meditated, and eventually sensed the sparse mana in the air.
• Two years later, Su Hao demonstrated that he could use Source to synthesize stable water from hydrogen and oxygen.
• Su Hao explained his precise cooling method and said he had calculated the Energy Coefficients of elemental substances, while Ashan and Feng Cheng discussed the prospect of making Spirit Structure.
• Su Hao invited Ashan, Feng Cheng, and Feiyuan to a banquet to celebrate his breakthrough.
• After the banquet, Feiyuan asked Feng Cheng to take him on as an astronomy student, and Feng Cheng agreed.

Su Hao witnessed A Xing and A Wang marry, then shared his Source research with the Mage Association as the world transformed and he withdrew further from directing others. After reading Su Hao’s discoveries, Harmony Mage accepted a new purpose for the Mage Association: maintaining the Disaster Seal.

• Ashan told Su Hao that A Xing and A Wang were getting married, and Su Hao agreed to attend their gathering.
• A Xing and A Wang explained that they chose marriage and children because the disappearance of disasters had made life feel safe; Xiao Di failed to win over Su Hao’s group.
• A month later, Su Hao witnessed the two couples’ weddings and gave them his blessings.
• Over the next two years, the Mage Association promoted Ashan’s Meditation Method, established Mage Academies, and suppressed the Restoration Society as the world’s technology and society changed.
• Su Hao shared simplified Source research with the Mage Association and told Harmony Mage about the Disaster Seal System.
• After studying the materials, Harmony Mage accepted maintaining the Disaster Seal as the Mage Association’s purpose and resolved to ask Jia Wei how to keep the Satellite operating.

Su Hao successfully created a Source-Forged Calcium Carbonate compound and summarized the conditions needed to make other compounds. He visited Harmony Mage, shared Spirit Tea with him, and agreed to pass the Disaster Seal’s operating principles to the Mage Association.

• Su Hao formed Calcium Carbonate from Source and recorded the four conditions required to create Source-Forged Compounds.
• Su Hao assigned Ashan research into Source Artifact spiritual frequency bands and reflected on the technology needed to turn a planet into Source.
• Su Hao checked on Feng Cheng teaching in New Era City, then met Harmony Mage, who had sensed his arrival.
• Su Hao gave Harmony Mage six tins of Spirit Tea, and they spent half a day talking about their experiences and regrets.
• Harmony Mage asked Su Hao to preserve the Mage Association’s future by passing down the Disaster Seal’s operating principles, and Su Hao agreed to have Ashan deliver them.

Su Hao checked the star system for signs of the predicted calamity, then returned to his research, believing he still had decades to prepare. Ten years later, Big Dog and Harmony Mage had died, while the world had changed and Rada had succeeded Harmony Mage as leader of the Mage Association.

• Su Hao visited Feng Cheng in New Era City and reviewed the Astronomy Group’s progress monitoring the star system.
• Su Hao inspected the planets himself, found no abnormalities, and considered how to detect or redirect the Doom System’s focus of misfortune.
• Su Hao returned to his research, setting aside the asteroid threat while working on compounds and ways to destroy planets.
• Ten years passed, and Big Dog died after using its skill on Su Hao; Su Hao cremated it and scattered its ashes at sea.
• Feng Cheng attended Harmony Mage’s funeral on behalf of Su Hao and Ashan after Harmony Mage died.
• President Rada took the position of Harmony Mage, while the released Emperors returned to New Era City and settled into ordinary lives.

After Harmony Mage died, Rada led the Mage Association in destroying the Restoration Society with powerful cross-system spells, while Magicians became humanity’s defenders against Magic Beasts. Su Hao learned of the leadership change and asked Feng Cheng about unusual activity from asteroids or meteorites, but none had been observed.

• Zhi Peng agreed to support Rada’s plan to wipe out the Restoration Society, though he refused to give the Mage Association Transfer Spheres without first asking Jia Wei.
• The Mage Association launched a five-day operation in a single night, bombarding the Restoration Society with Meteor Shower, Thunder Realm, and other spells until its enemies were wiped out.
• After Harmony Mage’s death and the Restoration Society’s destruction, Magicians drove Magic Beasts away from cities and into an Uninhabited Mountain Range.
• Feng Cheng told Su Hao that Rada had taken over as Harmony Mage and that the old leader had likely hoped his connection to Feiyuan would secure the Mage Association’s future.
• Su Hao asked whether the Astronomy Group had noticed anything unusual about asteroids or meteorites, and Feng Cheng reported that everything appeared normal.

Su Hao continued researching Source and planned to turn the Small World into a spaceship while investigating how to transform Blood Qi. Meanwhile, Feiyuan learned cultivation, concluded that Su Hao and his companions were aliens, and confronted Su Hao with his suspicion.

• Su Hao told Ashan to keep decoding Source Artifacts and design the Small World as a spaceship for a future journey into space.
• Su Hao shifted his laboratory research toward measuring and transforming Blood Qi, beginning with its concentration under standard pressure.
• Su Hao’s group remained youthful while A Xing and A Wang aged, but they declined cultivation because they wanted to grow old alongside their wives.
• Feiyuan accepted Su Hao’s offer to cultivate, gained Cultivation Talent, and became a Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator after two years of training with Feng Cheng.
• Feiyuan decided Su Hao and the other two Mr. Jia Weis were aliens, then asked Su Hao directly whether he was one.

Feiyuan correctly guessed that Su Hao was an alien, and Su Hao invited him to join the trio’s journey into space in the future. After Feiyuan left, Su Hao considered the limits imposed by his ordinary human consciousness and his inability to strengthen his Spiritual Power.

• Feiyuan explained why he suspected that Su Hao came from another planet, and Su Hao confirmed the guess.
• Su Hao told Feiyuan that he and two companions had arrived on the planet by chance and planned to leave aboard a Spaceship within three hundred years.
• Su Hao invited Feiyuan to travel with them, and Feiyuan learned that cultivation could let him live long enough to go.
• After Feiyuan left the Laboratory, Su Hao decided he might bring him aboard the Spaceship but would not record his consciousness into Marble Space.
• Su Hao reflected that his ordinary human brain and Consciousness Information limited his Spiritual Power and kept him from accessing worlds where he might learn to improve it.

After twenty-four years of research, Su Hao successfully used Source to produce Blood Qi and spiritual energy compatible with himself, giving him a new means of securing energy and greater confidence in surviving the Doom System. He celebrated with Ashan, Feng Cheng, and Feiyuan, planning a banquet and a car race.

• Su Hao spent ten years developing Hybrid Converters that assembled compounds into Blood Qi and spiritual energy compatible with him.
• Su Hao tested the converted energies in his body and found they worked like energy he had converted himself.
• Su Hao reflected that consciousness, knowledge, and the body were the core of his power and believed he could survive by gathering matter in space.
• Ashan and Feng Cheng joined Su Hao outside the base, and he told them his research had succeeded.
• Su Hao agreed to Ashan's banquet and Feng Cheng's plan for the four of them to race Oil-Source Powered Sports Cars after it.

Su Hao considered how to destroy a planet and reviewed plans for traveling through space. After spotting a lack of flexibility in Ashan’s spaceship blueprint, he proposed a modular design and left Ashan to revise it.

• Su Hao added destroying a planet with one punch to his goals and considered using a Source Chain Reaction, but could not yet work out how to build one.
• Su Hao decided to visit lifeless planets to practice and explore, but Ashan sent him the spaceship framework blueprint before he set off.
• Su Hao studied the blueprint and judged its fixed structure too rigid for the spaceship he wanted.
• Su Hao showed Ashan a design that divided the spaceship into movable cubic modules, and Ashan agreed to develop it.

Su Hao listened as aging Radiance Society founder Zhi Peng questioned why the society had begun to decay despite his efforts, and explained that human ambition made such cycles difficult to prevent. Zhi Peng accepted that his work had mattered, and Su Hao regarded their meeting as a final farewell and the end of his involvement in the society’s founding story.

• Feng Cheng brought Zhi Peng to meet Su Hao, who welcomed the elderly founder to his reception room.
• Zhi Peng told Su Hao that the Radiance Society had begun to resemble the corrupt empires it replaced and asked who his true enemy was.
• Su Hao explained that societies could not escape cycles of decay before reaching sufficient productive capacity, and that people’s desire to be above others was difficult to eradicate.
• Su Hao told Zhi Peng that his society had given people a better life and that future generations could reshape their world, persuading Zhi Peng that his work had been meaningful.
• After Zhi Peng left, Su Hao reflected on the desire to surpass others and considered their meeting a final farewell and a complete ending for the Radiance Society he had supported.

Su Hao traveled to Key Star to test whether its matter could produce Source and whether he could destroy a planet with an explosion. He confirmed both that Key Star’s matter could be converted into Source and that his blast could only make a huge crater, leaving his planet-destruction goal far out of reach.

• Su Hao chose to visit Key Star when it would pass within seventy million kilometers of Source Star and teleported near it five days later.
• Su Hao used Flash Step to reach Key Star, examined its barren terrain and energy circulation, and left Location Stones across the planet.
• Su Hao confirmed that Key Star’s matter could be converted into Source through the Focus System.
• Su Hao detonated a Source-powered explosion above Key Star, creating a vast crater and a destructive shockwave.
• Su Hao judged that the explosion was still insignificant compared with the planet and admitted that he could not destroy it with that attack.

Su Hao traveled across the star system’s seven major planets in search of a way to trigger a chain reaction that could destroy a planet, but found no solution. He returned to the base, approved a new spaceship design, and began seeking inspiration in daily news briefs.

• After six months of experiments failed to reveal how to destroy Key Star, Su Hao decided to explore the other planets in the star system.
• Su Hao visited all seven major planets, tested his ideas on them, and left Location Stones before returning to the Experimental Base.
• Ashan showed Su Hao the spaceship plans, and Su Hao approved construction without skimping on materials.
• Feng Cheng gave Su Hao planetary monitoring data and agreed to provide daily external news briefs.
• Su Hao read the first news brief for possible inspiration, while Feng Cheng went to see the Most Beautiful Song Queen and later lost interest, returning to his books.

Su Hao studied a deadly epidemic in Huixin Town after realizing viruses might provide a model for a chain reaction capable of destroying a planet. He developed an effective treatment and began testing how a virus affected his own body as he pursued the idea of a planet-destroying “Planet Virus.”

• Ashan led an Engineering Team in hollowing out the Base Small World and building the framework for a spaceship under his detailed plan.
• After reading news of an epidemic in Huixin Town, Su Hao realized viral spread might inspire a chain reaction capable of destroying a planet and flew there to investigate.
• Su Hao found a middle-aged man locked inside a courtyard because of the epidemic, used Balance Art to stabilize him, and took him to the Base Small World for observation.
• After studying the man's illness, Su Hao cured him, returned him to Huixin Town, and sent Feng Cheng instructions for making an effective medicine to share with Zhi Peng.
• Su Hao weakened his own immune system, injected himself with the virus, and began observing its effects as part of his research into the Planet Virus.

Su Hao studied a Virus’s invasion of his body and used what he learned to design a self-replicating Planet Virus capable of converting a planet into energy. After years of failed tests and gradual improvements, he paused his work to consider what Zhi Peng’s death revealed about mental Anomaly Disasters and dimensions.

• Su Hao suppressed his immune system, observed a Virus infecting his cells, and recognized its replication process as the Source Chain Reaction he needed for his Planet Virus.
• Su Hao devised a Planet Virus built around Focus and Source Conversion systems, then studied Ashan’s Source Artifact research to design the conversion system.
• Su Hao tested successive Planet Virus versions on Key Star, found flaws in their location and energy systems, and spent years refining his design and manufacturing process.
• Feng Cheng told Su Hao that Zhi Peng had died, his Source Ability’s control had ended, and the people he had controlled had returned to their senses.
• Su Hao wondered whether mental Anomaly Disasters merely projected from another dimension and questioned what dimension was.

Su Hao continued researching the Planet Virus and successfully produced thousands of Replicas that multiplied rapidly across Key Star. The chain stopped at the seventh level when structural deviations caused the Focus System to fail, leaving Su Hao to investigate another failed experiment.

• Su Hao reflected on the short lives of ordinary people and chose not to reunite with A Xing and A Wang, then resumed his Planet Virus research.
• Su Hao built the version 3.2 Planet Virus and tested it on Key Star, where it produced more than five thousand First-Level Replicas.
• The Replicas spread through random teleportation and multiplied successfully through the seventh level.
• Su Hao discovered that structural deviations in the Seventh-Level Replicas had caused the Focus System to collapse and prevent further copying.
• Su Hao recorded a failed Mini Cube sample and left Key Star to study it.

Su Hao spent decades refining the Planet Virus, adding self-inspection and correction to prevent replication errors, while the people of Huai Shui Town aged and changed. After visiting A Xing’s family and checking the spaceship’s progress, Su Hao tested version 7.5.3 on Key Star, where the virus exploded upon activation.

• Su Hao traced the Planet Virus’s replication failures to accumulated deviations and designed a self-inspection and adjustment program for its next version.
• Over five years, Su Hao repeatedly updated the Planet Virus until it reached version 7.5.3, while his mechanical and Source skills advanced greatly.
• After Feng Cheng told Su Hao that A Xing had died, Su Hao, Ashan, and Feng Cheng visited A Xing’s family in Huai Shui Town, where A Wang mourned his old friend.
• Su Hao inspected the spaceship’s construction with Ashan, chose a sci-fi exterior design, and told Feng Cheng to continue monitoring the surrounding star system.
• Su Hao Teleported to Key Star and activated version 7.5.3 of the Planet Virus, which immediately exploded.

Su Hao’s seventh-generation Planet Virus replicated across Key Star, causing the planet to fracture, expand, and burn as the experiment accelerated. Observers on Source Star feared the planet might explode, but Su Hao told Feng Cheng and Ashan that he was still there conducting an experiment.

• Su Hao released the stable seventh-generation Planet Virus, which replicated across Key Star and spread deep into the planet.
• As Replicas converted matter and swelled in volume, Key Star shook, split apart, erupted with magma, and began expanding.
• Observers at the New Era City astronomical observation center noticed more white spots on Key Star and went to a Satellite to examine it with the Wind God Telescope.
• The observers saw Key Star boiling and glowing crimson, then warned Feng Cheng that the disturbance might threaten Source Star.
• Feng Cheng sent images of Key Star to Su Hao and Ashan, and Su Hao reassured them that he was on Key Star conducting an experiment.

Su Hao tested his Planet Virus on Key Star, turning the planet into a silver mass of Virus Replicants before igniting it to send matter into space. The particle stream stopped after two hours, revealing a flaw in the experiment, and Su Hao returned to the Base Small World to plan improvements as news of Key Star spread across Source Star.

• Feng Cheng told the Astronomy Center that Key Star's violent transformation was a normal experiment by his boss, leaving the observers stunned and speculating about who the boss was.
• Su Hao watched the Planet Virus consume Key Star and turn it into a gleaming silver world in less than five hours.
• Su Hao threw the Igniter into Key Star, triggering a vast Particle stream that erupted from the planet and began dispersing its matter into space.
• The Particle stream died out after two hours because the Virus Replicants collapsed, and Su Hao judged the experiment a failure before returning to the Base Small World.
• Su Hao began considering how to fix the Planet Virus's flaw, while news and footage of Key Star's anomaly spread across Source Star.

The Key Star incident spread fear and awe across the world, as Du Meng confirmed that Jia Wei had caused it and urged the Mage Association to revere him. Su Hao later explained to Ashan, Feng Cheng, and Feiyuan that he was testing an unfinished Planet Virus designed to destroy planets.

• People around the world discussed the photos of Key Star and debated whether a Magician or a god had caused the spectacle.
• Du Meng, now Harmony Mage, spread the Key Star news and told the Mage Association that Jia Wei had created the event and could destroy their planet.
• The Mage Association and other organizations became more cautious after learning of Jia Wei's power.
• Ashan and Feng Cheng asked Su Hao about the particle ray on Key Star, and Feiyuan joined them.
• Su Hao explained that the Planet Virus was designed to destroy planets and that the Key Star incident had only been a test of its unfinished functions.