Chapter Summaries

Feng met Lady Luo Lin to tell her that her inscription space at Star-Lake Castle had been touched, then contemplated a mysterious object on Old Earth Continent. Meanwhile, Angel brought Little Saim to the orphanage in Bolai Town and began making arrangements to test the boy’s talent.

• Feng escaped the feeling of being watched by flying to an island, then summoned Lady Luo Lin from her oil painting and told her that her inscription space at Star-Lake Castle had been touched.
• Luo Lin concluded that one of her descendants with a Spirit-Adjacent Body had entered the inscription space, but told Feng not to contact her again unless the descendant came looking for her.
• Feng considered retrieving a mysterious object hidden on Old Earth Continent, but decided to leave its discovery to the fate recorded by the Book of Kel.
• Angel left Star-Lake Castle with Little Saim, who asked to join Angel’s wizard organization, and Angel said he would ask about guiding him to Savage Cave after his mental power was tested.
• Angel took Little Saim to Bolai Town, fed him, and brought him to the orphanage, where Frod welcomed the boy.
• Angel entered Dream Wilderness, read Leon’s message asking whether Lady Liana’s article meant the realm was opening on a small scale, and told him it would open at the Tea Party.

Angel asked Nis about the Near-Spirit Body and learned that its awakened form could attract souls and undead, then revealed Little Saim carried a highly compatible latent bloodline. After returning to reality, Angel gave Frod the Soul Sleight scroll and ordered an investigation into the human sacrifices in the Silver Yun Duchy.

• Angel asked Nis about the Near-Spirit Body, and Nis explained its powers, dangers, and ability to attract undead.
• Angel told Nis that Little Saim had a latent Near-Spirit Body and that Angel had obtained bloodline matching the boy; Nis eagerly asked to assess him if his Spiritual Power exceeded 7.
• Angel returned to reality, where Frod reported settling Little Saim and received an illusory hide scroll containing Soul Sleight.
• Frod recalled a travelogue claiming that victims killed by someone with a Near-Spirit Body often became undead, but Angel judged Little Saim's latent talent unlikely to cause that.
• Angel ordered Frod to contact Neya of the Silver Heron Royal Family to investigate nobles conducting living human sacrifices in the Silver Yun Duchy.

Angel tested Little Saim’s spiritual power and talent, confirming that he had become a gifted one with a soul-lineage talent. Little Saim saw a revenant resembling his dead aunt Lady Xila, and Nis warned that she might seek him out with dangerous intent.

• Yada led Little Saim to Angel, who tested his spiritual power at 7 and told him to drink Witch’s Soup to reach the gifted threshold.
• After drinking the soup, Little Saim returned with spiritual power above 10, and Angel tested his talent with the Talent Sphere.
• Little Saim saw Lady Xila’s human head on a spider’s body and heard her call him toward Star-Lake Castle, though Angel said he had found no such spirit there.
• Angel told Nis about the vision, and Nis identified the figure as a special revenant that might target Little Saim because they were blood relatives.

Angel arranged an apprenticeship test for Little Saim at Star-Lake Castle, where he might have to face the spider-transformed undead Lady Xila. As Frod prepared to cultivate Soul Sleight nearby, Angel explained that Little Saim’s blood could give him a chance to defeat her, though the test might not happen if she did not appear.

• Angel told Frod that Nis had asked him to prepare an apprenticeship test for Little Saim, and Little Saim emerged from the soul-related library after studying there for two days.
• Angel took Frod, Little Saim, Yada, and Sunny to Star-Lake Castle, then left Little Saim to care for the girls while he and Frod searched for a cultivation site.
• Angel and Frod found dense deathly qi near the castle, but Frod could not sense the spider-transformed undead, and Angel said the test would proceed only if she appeared.
• Angel explained that Little Saim’s blood might let him harm Lady Xila, his undead relative, and that the books were meant to teach him how to face her.
• Angel warned Frod that Little Saim’s near-spirit body had begun influencing his feelings, then asked which type of Soul Sleight he would cultivate first.
• Frod reconsidered starting with Deathly Qi Materialization because the suspected presence of a special undead could affect his choice.

Frod and Angel waited for signs of Lady Xila, while Toby sensed changes in the mountain forest that suggested a dangerous predator was approaching. At Star-Lake Castle, Yada withdrew to his room under a false pretext, and Little Saim began to suspect that Lady Xila had arrived as black clouds gathered overhead.

• Frod considered absorbing Soul Sleight from the special undead Lady Xila, and Angel advised him to wait until they learned what ability she possessed.
• Toby returned from scouting and told Angel that animals in the mountain forest were behaving strangely, prompting Angel to predict that a more frenzied predator might arrive by the next day.
• Yada claimed his spirit body was unstable and went to his sealed room, where Frod reassured him that Little Saim would be safe and that suspicion had already arisen.
• Little Saim saw black clouds hanging low over Star-Lake Castle and recalled Mr. Pat’s warning to be careful.
• Little Saim remembered seeing Lady Xila’s face and spider legs during his talent test, then heard a strange laugh behind him in the corridor.

Little Saim escaped Madam Xila’s Soul-Death Blinding and glimpsed a giant spider-like shadow in the castle corridor, while Angel and Frod watched the undead’s deathly aura spread across the region. Neya arrived at Star-Lake Castle after disasters broke out in nearby towns, then followed Frod’s warning to the hill behind the lake and asked what he knew.

• Little Saim recognized that Soul-Death Blinding had trapped him in a looping corridor and suspected Madam Xila was responsible.
• Little Saim broke the blinding by recalling every detail of killing the farm owner, reached the stairwell, and saw a giant spider-like shadow behind him.
• Angel and Frod sensed Madam Xila inside Star-Lake Castle and saw her deathly aura spreading through the black clouds toward Saint Saim City and nearby towns.
• Neya investigated fires and other disturbances in Yalai Town, learned that deathly aura was stirring violent impulses, and flew toward Star-Lake Castle with an elderly apprentice.
• Neya sensed a powerful undead in the castle, followed Frod’s whisper to the hill behind the lake, and asked him why he was there and what he knew.

Angel made a brass bell that purified minds clouded by the undead aura, and Neya used it to stop the unrest spreading through Saint Saim City and nearby towns. Back at Star-Lake Castle, Frod learned that Angel had used an extracted calming effect rather than enchantment or harmonization to give the bell its power.

• Frod prompted Neya to recognize Angel as a formal wizard, then explained that he was cultivating Soul Sleight by facing the special undead in Star-Lake Castle as part of Little Saim's examination.
• Angel refined magic copper ore into a brass bell and infused it with a calming effect, then told Neya to place it atop the highest point in Saint Saim City and ring it.
• After reports showed that evil thoughts were driving unrest across the city and nearby towns, Neya ordered a guard knight to ring Angel's bell from the wizard tower.
• The bell's holy-light ripples cleared the violent thoughts of affected people, and reports confirmed that the disturbances in Saint Saim City and nearby towns had ended.
• Frod sensed the calming ripples reach the mountains and asked Angel how he had made the bell; Angel explained that he had used a Transcendent Extractor to draw a calming effect from the Soul-Soothing Stone.

Little Saim used his blood to exploit Madam Xila’s weakness and bring her close to defeat, but his injuries left him helpless when she rose again. Frod and Angel headed toward the castle to finish the fight.

• Angel showed Frod an illusion of Little Saim’s struggle inside Star-Lake Castle, where Little Saim counterattacked when the Holy Light Ripple distracted Madam Xila.
• Little Saim tested his theory that his blood could restrain Madam Xila and confirmed that she avoided his bloodstains.
• Little Saim lunged at Madam Xila, smeared blood on her face, and forced some into her mouth, severely corroding her soul body before she wounded him.
• Frod praised Little Saim’s courage and judgment, then set off with Angel toward the castle to handle the aftermath.
• As Little Saim struggled to bind his wounds, Madam Xila rose and staggered toward him, leaving him unable to move as she swung a foreleg.

Little Saim learned that Lady Xila’s attack had been a trial for entry into Savage Cave, while Angel and Frod investigated the place where she had appeared. They found a concealed pit beneath the mountain and descended into its dense death aura.

• Frod stopped Lady Xila’s attack by striking the mouth in her abdomen, then captured her in a bottle for his cultivation.
• Angel healed Little Saim, admitted they had expected Lady Xila to target him, and confirmed that surviving her attack counted as a trial for Savage Cave.
• Little Saim agreed to let Frod keep Lady Xila, and Angel and Frod left him to recover.
• Angel and Frod searched the mountain where Lady Xila had first appeared and opened a hidden route into a cavern.
• Angel identified a weakened aura-concealing magic array over a stone pit, and he and Frod descended into the pit, where the death aura was denser than at Star-Lake Castle.

Angel and Frod explored a vast cavern filled with skeletons and discovered signs of a rigid sacrificial ritual centered on an altar. Beneath the altar, they found an unfamiliar symbol linked to the deathly aura, and Frod suggested seeking outside help to identify it.

• Angel and Frod entered the cavern and used Radiant Light Spell to reveal its enormous altar, stone platforms, and rows of small caves.
• Angel found incomplete remains on the stone platforms and discovered that all 360 caves contained a human skeleton seated in the same posture.
• Angel and Frod concluded that the caves’ precise arrangement and the bones suggested a suspected sacrificial ritual, possibly conducted by a Kalabite wizard.
• Angel and Frod climbed the altar and found a bone altar whose bones had lost their transcendent properties, leading Angel to conclude that the ritual had already taken place.
• Angel shattered the bone altar and exposed an unfamiliar symbol connected to the deathly aura; Frod proposed asking for outside help to identify it.

Angel investigated the strange ritual symbol from Madam Xila’s altar, but found that it could not be remembered or recorded on ordinary paper. He used the Dream Conch to bring the stone slab into the Dream Wilderness and arrived at the Ocean Theater, where Iron Armor Granny had identified the ritual as a sacrifice probably directed at an alien race.

• Angel visited Nis at the Radiant Church and described Little Saim’s trial, then asked whether Nis recognized Madam Xila’s altar symbol.
• Angel discovered he could not recall the symbol, while Frod’s drawing of it either destroyed ordinary paper or vanished from Chaos Drum Beast Hide Paper.
• Angel used the Dream Conch to bring the stone slab into the Dream Wilderness, where the symbol remained visible.
• Angel found Nis and Iron Armor Granny at the Ocean Theater, where Yada had finished a piano lesson with Jon.
• Nis explained that Iron Armor Granny had judged the altar to be a sacrificial ritual probably directed at an alien race, and Angel revealed that he had brought the symbol.

Angel brought the symbol-bearing stone slab into the Dream Wilderness, allowing Nis and Iron Armor Granny to identify it as an emblem connected to a powerful faction in the Soul Plane. Iron Armor Granny realized its lingering soul-power fluctuation might reveal coordinates to Quest World, and Nis asked Angel to help study it with the Dream Conch.

• Angel explained that he had carried the stone slab into the Dream Wilderness with the Dream Conch rather than remembering its symbol.
• Iron Armor Granny identified the mark as an emblem associated with a faction or powerful existence in Quest World, also called the Soul Plane.
• Nis and Iron Armor Granny suspected the emblem came from a hostile faction in the Staven Soul Safe Zone and concluded that the abandoned altar's ritual was too difficult to investigate further.
• Nis explained that death energy from Quest World likely empowered Madam Xila, while Angel decided the altar no longer posed a concern and could help Frod practice Soul Sleight.
• Iron Armor Granny revealed that the emblem's persistent soul-power fluctuation might provide coordinates to Quest World and allow them to open a passage there.
• Nis realized Angel's Dream Conch could help them safely test ways to break the emblem's encryption, and he asked Angel to help him.

Angel learned more about the Quest World and considered opening a Dream Wilderness there, while Frod began cultivating Soul Sleight in the altar’s dense deathly aura. After absorbing Lady Xila to gain her Soul Sleight, Frod’s fallen transformation reached ninety-six percent, then began to recede.

• Angel explained his conversation with Nis and Iron Armor Granny to Frod, who described the Quest World as the eventual destination of wandering souls.
• Angel wondered whether souls dreamed and proposed opening a Dream Wilderness in the Quest World, though he and Frod agreed it could wait until they found a way there.
• Angel brought Frod to the altar to cultivate Soul Sleight, and Frod drew in deathly aura while the Soul-Soothing Stones and End-Soul Flowers helped keep him from falling.
• Frod spent two days digesting the deathly aura in his core, then absorbed Lady Xila to acquire her Soul Sleight.
• Frod’s fallen transformation spread to ninety-six percent, but it suddenly stopped and began to reverse as Angel prepared to use Prelude of Reincarnation.

Angel successfully guarded Frod through the cultivation of Madam Xila’s Soul-Death Blinding, which gave Frod soul-leaving and temporary possession abilities. After they returned to Star-Lake Castle, Frod learned that Neya was trying to reconcile Little Saim with the royal family and urged her to offer him meaningful compensation.

• Angel watched Frod’s corruption disappear, opened his soul so he could absorb outside death energy, and guarded him until he awakened.
• Frod revealed that his Soul-Death Blinding could draw victims’ souls from their bodies and let him possess their empty bodies temporarily.
• Angel and Frod left the underground cave, and Angel said Yada and Sunny could later cultivate Soul Sleights there under Frod’s guardianship.
• At Star-Lake Castle, Frod learned that Neya had brought the young king and future Queen to help with chores and repair the royal family’s relationship with Little Saim.
• Frod warned Neya that childhood ties and household labor would not resolve Little Saim’s family’s destruction, and suggested she provide him real benefits.

Angel prepared to leave Revelation Continent for Old Earth Continent, arranging for Tulas to relay news of Nis’s stone-slab experiments while Frod watched over the undead apprentices. After Angel removed a symbol-bearing slab from the altar, he left with it, while Mandhaila visited the library looking for him and then departed.

• Nis failed another attempt to decipher a Quest World symbol, and Angel supplied a new stone slab before telling him he planned to leave for Old Earth Continent.
• Frod reported that Yada and Sunny had begun studying Soul Sleight and that Tulas had absorbed death aura for three days; Angel agreed Tulas should wait a month or two before training.
• Frod suggested Tulas might benefit from absorbing special undead, and Angel said he would consider the idea.
• Angel assigned Tulas to report whenever Nis’s stone slab shattered, gave Frod Prelude of Reincarnation, and removed a symbol-bearing slab from the altar, causing its floor to crack.
• At the library, Mandhaila asked Nis where Angel had gone, then met Tulas, who stayed behind to carry out Angel’s task as she left.

Angel tested Ermi, the awakened demonman from the Panic Realm, while traveling by Gondola toward the Old Earth Continent. After designing a protective item for Ermi’s Twisted Seed, he encountered Island Whale Commerce Association ships and concluded that the Old Earth Continent was nearby.

• Angel searched for an island to correct the Gondola’s course while Toby fought Ermi in the stormy sea.
• Angel recalled Ermi’s origins and powers, including its ability to reshape the environment and stabilize space, and decided to design protection for its vulnerable Twisted Seed.
• Angel worked on a preliminary blueprint through the night as the Gondola continued across the sea.
• Toby spotted an island whale and four cargo ships, and Angel identified them as vessels of the Island Whale Commerce Association.
• Two third-level apprentices approached the Gondola, but Ermi’s threatening presence stopped them, and Angel flew away.
• Angel recognized that the Island Whale Commerce Association traveled between the Revelation Continent and the Old Earth Continent and concluded that his destination was near.

Angel reached the Golden Sparrow Empire and went to Sambia to investigate the secret behind the precious liquid and the Magic Painting Witch’s legacy in the Tidal Realm. With Princess Shannon’s help, he gained the king’s permission to enter the royal treasury, where he saw the scroll of hide left for the Shannon Royal Clan.

• Angel landed at Vichy Harbor, bought food and dresses for Toby, then spent the night cutting Ximos Hide into a covering for Ermi’s Twisted Seed.
• Angel traveled to Sambia and entered the Shannon Imperial Palace, where he located Princess Shannon.
• Shannon recognized Angel after he revealed his true appearance and learned that he had come to investigate the secret behind the precious liquid.
• Shannon summoned her father, King Rose, who took Angel to the royal treasury.
• Angel saw the scroll of hide that the Magic Painting Witch had left for the Shannon Royal Clan.

Angel entered the Paper Door hidden beneath the Shannon Royal House’s treasure vault and discovered the painted elemental creatures were harmless constructs. On the far side, he found a narrow passage and a message from the Magic Painting Witch claiming the treasure was already there.

• Angel returned the Tidal Realm map to Rose and asked to investigate the stalactites in the treasure vault.
• Rose led Shannon and the death warriors out after Angel asked that no one enter the underground palace while he stayed.
• Angel set up an illusion, put Toby in his bracelet, and transformed himself into a thread small enough to enter the stalactite hole.
• Angel and Ermi tested the Paper Door’s painted creatures, and Angel found they were energy-powered constructs rather than real creatures.
• Angel passed through the Paper Door and spotted a teasing message from the Magic Painting Witch saying the treasure had already been placed there.

Angel emerged into the Tidal Realm, where immense fire elemental power filled a scorched landscape, and suspected the realm explained the Old Earth Continent’s missing elements. He followed distant flame birds while searching for clues and possible elemental companions, unaware that a six-tailed fox had noticed him.

• Angel read the Magic Painting Witch’s taunting message about a hidden treasure and its unknown key, then left the Paper Door while marking his route with Nightmare Illusion nodes.
• Angel transformed into a thread to pass through a narrow passage and emerged from a tiny opening in an enormous image of a black-flame monkey.
• Angel found a scorched land filled with ground flames and extreme fire elemental power, and connected the Tidal Realm to the disappearance of elemental power from the Old Earth Continent.
• Angel identified the black-flame monkey image as a landmark on the Tidal Realm Map and flew above the smoke, spotting distant flame birds.
• Angel approached the birds on foot, passed lakes of magma and dangerous fire elemental creatures, and skirted a powerful six-tailed fox.
• The six-tailed fox watched Angel leave and sent tiny sparks drifting into the distance.

Angel encountered a fire butterfly elemental sprite that had been provoking earthflame eruptions and wondered whether the region’s fire creatures could see through his concealment. After releasing the mischievous sprite, he continued exploring the scorched terrain without collecting its abundant materials.

• Angel crossed a fissure while dodging repeated earthflame blasts, then tested whether they were targeting him by hovering over the lava river.
• Angel summoned Ermi, who entered the lava, subdued the source of the blasts, and returned with a fire butterfly.
• Angel identified the fire butterfly as a juvenile elemental sprite and considered whether to keep it, while suspecting fire creatures might be able to detect his concealed presence.
• When Angel touched the fire butterfly, it unleashed a fire tornado that triggered a massive eruption, so he flicked the sprite into the fissure and left it behind.
• Angel continued through the scorched region, passed numerous fire magic materials without collecting them, and kept his focus on exploration and reconnaissance.