Chapter Summaries

After the auction, David faced threats from people coveting his magic crystals, but Liana escorted him safely toward Savage Cave. On the way, she learned that Angel had taught David a modified Cleansing Spell and the design of his Tang saber, and she praised David’s alchemical ideas before inviting him to seek her guidance at Rose Garden.

• Xilun rejected a proposal to attack David because of his connection to Angel and Liana’s protection, then persuaded Shalong to pursue an alliance with Angel by featuring one of his alchemical products at the grand auction.
• Several people threatened David and eyed his magic crystals, but Liana appeared and offered to escort him back to Savage Cave.
• David followed Liana toward the teleportation array, and the people planning to rob him gave up when they saw an official wizard protecting him.
• Liana asked about David’s Water-Shield Cleansing Spell, and David explained that Angel had taught it to him.
• David told Liana how he had developed his Tang saber, and she praised his alchemical philosophy and invited him to visit her at Rose Garden.

Angel discovered that the Cloud Conch’s crew was suffering from a freshwater shortage and supplied them with water. He then chose the Winter Passage for the ship’s next route, while learning about the dangerous Sea of Ghosts and asking whether the current stretch had always been sunny.

• Angel noticed the sailors were pale and inactive, then learned from Helen that they had gone days without fresh water.
• Angel used the Water Delivery Spell to fill nearly two hundred buckets and told Helen to bring him future problems before they endangered the crew.
• Helen described the three routes through the Death Ring: the slow Windless Sea, the freezing Winter Passage, and Summer Dew Ridge, where Witch Shalu demanded prior permission.
• Angel chose the Winter Passage and promised to handle the cold, while Helen agreed to consult Captain Alwin and issue the orders.
• Angel asked Helen about the skull-marked Sea of Ghosts, then asked whether the route they had traveled had always been sunny.

Angel inspected the Cloud Conch as it approached the Winter Passage, then faced a massive hurricane that threatened the ship. He chose to ride the storm’s winds toward Summer Dew Ridge, despite the danger from the Shaluo Witch.

• Angel doubted the authenticity of Lucas’s sailing log and continued designing his first pair of flying boots.
• Angel and the sailors saw glowing Death Rings formed by poisonous Death Jellyfish, while Helen prepared the Cloud Conch to enter the Winter Passage.
• Angel began inscribing a constant-temperature magic pattern across the ship to protect it from the cold.
• Duru warned the crew of an approaching hurricane, which soon appeared and left the Cloud Conch less than two minutes to prepare.
• Alwin proposed using the hurricane’s wind to reach Summer Dew Ridge, and Angel ordered the crew to take that route despite the risk of encountering the Shaluo Witch.

Angel chose the route through Summer Dew Ridge and helped the Cloud Conch survive a hurricane, but a group of wandering apprentices attacked the ship. After Angel confronted them in the sky, he trapped them in an illusion and began fighting back.

• Angel watched Helen and Alwin steer the Cloud Conch through the hurricane, and the crew escaped the worst of the storm.
• Thirteen gray-robed apprentices attacked the Cloud Conch, but Toby blocked their strike while Angel marked the ship and flew after them.
• Helen ordered the crew to keep sailing while Angel faced the attackers, who demanded that he surrender.
• Angel identified the group as members of the Rat-and-Ant Underground Society and waited until the Cloud Conch was out of their attack range.
• Angel surrounded the apprentices with a thick white mist illusion, and screams rang out as they attacked amid the fog.

Angel used a Mist Illusion to defeat the Rat-and-Ant Thirteen Brothers, sparing their hunchbacked leader to question him about the Rat-and-Ant Underground Society. While heading toward the Cloud Conch, Angel discovered it had run aground on a dark island in an unfamiliar, deathly sea, where hostile eyes watched from the vines.

• Angel’s illusion confused the brothers’ senses and manipulated their voices, causing them to attack one another before Angel killed the hunchback’s remaining companions.
• Angel defeated the hunchback with Crescent Blade Barrage and left him alive but gravely injured so he could learn about the Rat-and-Ant Underground Society.
• Angel collected the group’s belongings, threw their corpses into the sea, and set off with Toby toward the Cloud Conch.
• Angel sensed that he had entered an unfamiliar sea region filled with a deathly aura and decided to find the Cloud Conch before choosing what to do next.
• Angel found the Cloud Conch run aground on a small island, entangled in black vines and surrounded by hostile eyes, including one presence he recognized.

Angel arrived in time to save Helen, Alwin, and the Cloud Conch from the vines, only to find the ship stranded in the Sea of Ghosts. When a horde of undead emerged, Angel attacked them with the Prelude of the Undead and charged into their ranks.

• Helen and Alwin rallied the crew to fight off the vines, but a giant vine snapped the Cloud Conch's mainmast and sent it crashing toward them.
• Angel arrived on Toby, transformed into the Wrathful Griffin, and burned the vines before they could destroy the ship.
• Alwin told Angel that the redirected hurricane had blown them into the Sea of Ghosts, where the storm had suddenly stopped.
• Undead poured out from the island, and Angel said he wanted them as resources before firing the Prelude of the Undead and erasing a group of them.
• Angel charged into the undead horde, killing them with his weapon while using flames to burn the surrounding vines.

Angel cleared the undead from the island, then questioned a captive about the Rat-and-Ant Underground Society and considered the threats facing him. After treating two wounded sailors, he learned from Helen that the Cloud Conch might not be able to sail again.

• Angel told Helen and Alwin the undead had been cleared and ordered the crew to report anything unusual in the Sea of Ghosts.
• Angel interrogated and killed the hunchbacked man, learning that Buffalo and Rubens had sent the thirteen brothers to capture him while they were occupied elsewhere.
• Angel worried that a prophecy wizard had revealed his location and that Deep Sea Song might have its own reason to want him dead.
• Angel used the Healing Spell to save two badly injured sailors, though they would be unable to work for some time.
• Helen told Angel that the Cloud Conch might not be able to set sail again.

Madam Pei dismissed the Cloud Conch’s plight in the Sea of Ghosts, while Angel repaired its broken masts and the ship set sail again. A growing whirlpool forced the Cloud Conch to change course, and Angel noticed an island rich in dark, chaotic energy.

• Si Man reported to Madam Pei that an illusion-type apprentice had fought Rat-and-Ant Underground Society members near the Death Ring, and Madam Pei identified the apprentice as the Cloud Conch’s guardian.
• Madam Pei refused to help the Cloud Conch, which was trapped in the Sea of Ghosts, despite Si Man’s concern.
• Helen and Alwin worried that the Cloud Conch’s broken masts could not withstand another storm, but Angel repaired them with the Thermal Fusion Method.
• Alwin ordered the Cloud Conch to sail through the Sea of Ghosts toward the Death Ring, but a huge whirlpool appeared and forced the ship to change course.
• The Cloud Conch encountered an island, and Angel noticed its abundant dark and chaotic energy.

Angel harvested undead from several islands in the Sea of Ghosts, but a recurring vortex blocked the Cloud Conch from returning to the Death Ring. He dived beneath the sea to investigate and spotted a glowing object below the vortex.

• Angel landed on an island and used Prelude of Reincarnation to clear its undead, then searched in vain for their source.
• Angel harvested undead from five islands, filling one and a half bullets in Prelude of Reincarnation's magazine.
• Alwin warned that the Cloud Conch could not continue through the Shallow Reef Zone, so the ship turned toward the Death Ring.
• A vortex repeatedly blocked the Cloud Conch's route back, leading Angel to suspect something was controlling it.
• Angel left Toby aboard the ship and dived beneath the sea, where he froze a giant fish and approached the vortex.
• Angel spotted a faint light beneath the vortex and descended toward it.

Angel investigated a strange force beneath the sea and discovered a colossal glowing jellyfish covered in undead. As the jellyfish surfaced and its frequency incapacitated the Cloud Conch’s crew, Angel sensed a familiar aura.

• Angel sent scouting puppets toward the glowing canopy, but a strange frequency repeatedly disrupted his spiritual force and severed his control.
• Angel saw the canopy rising toward the surface and cloaked the Cloud Conch in Nightmare Illusion as it retreated.
• Angel discovered that the giant jellyfish’s glowing body was covered in countless writhing undead.
• The jellyfish’s frequency made people aboard the Cloud Conch dizzy, sick, or unconscious, slowing the ship.
• The jellyfish emerged from the sea, and Angel sensed a familiar aura.

Angel and Toby attacked a gigantic jellyfish that seemed to command the undead and unleash mental waves, while Helen took charge of the Cloud Conch. Angel’s shots finally enveloped the jellyfish in ripples, leaving its fate unknown.

• Angel sensed that the enormous jellyfish carried the same aura as the undead and decided to test it with the Prelude of Reincarnation.
• Angel promised Toby a glowing jellyfish tutu if they survived, then left Helen in command of the Cloud Conch and rode Toby toward the jellyfish.
• Angel used his revolver to destroy undead charging at him, and the jellyfish sent out a wave that made the remaining undead retreat.
• The jellyfish attacked Angel and Toby with a mental wave, then dodged Angel’s shots while shaking undead from its body.
• Angel ordered Toby to use the Gravity Veins to approach the jellyfish, then fired a shot whose ripples enveloped it.

Angel annihilated the undead jellyfish with Overture of Annihilation, then discovered that marine undead across the Sea of Ghosts were gathering around enormous undead creatures emerging from the islands. He returned to the Cloud Conch in the Death Ring region, where the crew learned the threat had been eliminated, and went to his bedroom to record his findings.

• Angel used Overture of Annihilation to disperse the undead jellyfish, and Prelude of Reincarnation's magazine unexpectedly filled with six bullets.
• Angel followed a powerful energy fluctuation back to the island and saw an enormous undead crab absorb the surrounding undead before diving into the sea.
• Angel observed similar marine undead emerge and depart from islands across the Sea of Ghosts, then followed the Cloud Conch's energy beacon out of the region.
• Angel reunited with Helen, Captain Alwin, and the crew in the Death Ring region and confirmed that he had eliminated the jellyfish.
• Angel told Helen to follow the original route and went to his bedroom to write in his notebook.

Angel recorded the Sea of Ghosts encounter and made Toby a glowing jellyfish tutu, then found a possible connection between the undead and island spirits in Lucas's sailing log. The chapter ended with Angel sensing that someone might be watching him from the cloudy sky.

• Angel recorded the crab undead and his unanswered questions about the Sea of Ghosts in his notebook.
• Toby insisted that Angel make it a glowing jellyfish tutu, and Angel crafted the outfit for it.
• Angel reread Lucas's sailing log and found records of Jellyfish and Crab Island Spirits in the Giant Spirit Kingdom.
• Angel considered whether the island spirits and their people might have become the undead in the Sea of Ghosts, but could not verify the connection or Lucas's account.
• Angel looked toward the clouds after feeling as though someone was watching him.

Si Man watched the Cloud Conch escape the Sea of Ghosts and concealed what she knew from Madam Pei, who warned her about a new extreme threat there and ordered her to investigate Lucas. Meanwhile, Angel finished Nightflight, a pair of concealed, agile flying boots, and tested them in the air.

• Si Man escorted the Cloud Conch toward the Winter Passage and wondered how it had survived the Sea of Ghosts; she saw its new guardian return and later fled when he seemed to detect her.
• Madam Pei told Si Man that an anomaly had destroyed three half-step wizard-level golems in the Sea of Ghosts and raised its danger level to Extreme Threat; Si Man hid her encounter with the Cloud Conch to protect Helen.
• Madam Pei ordered Si Man to investigate Lucas, who was connected to the mysterious space, and warned her to keep information about the visiting lord from leaking.
• Angel spent half a day drawing constant-temperature magic patterns for the Cloud Conch before returning to his research on flying boots.
• Two days later, Angel completed Nightflight at the boundary between low-tier and mid-tier and tested its nimble, concealed flight in the night sky.

Angel tested Duru after noticing his resistance to a jellyfish’s mental influence and confirmed that he had Wizard talent. When Duru asked to study under Angel, Angel hesitated because Duru belonged to White Shell Shipping Company, but Helen revealed that Duru was not formally on its employee roster.

• Helen brought Duru to meet Angel, who explained that he wanted to test whether Duru had Wizard talent.
• Angel used the Eye of Abyras to test Duru, and its red light confirmed that he had talent.
• Duru celebrated his result and asked to study under Angel.
• Angel hesitated because White Shell Shipping Company was backed by Sky Mechanical City and Duru belonged to the company.
• Helen said Duru had never been formally entered into the company's employee roster.

Angel clarified Duru’s employment status and recruited him for Savage Cave after Duru considered his options. Helen discovered that her mental strength might still allow her to become gifted, while Duru prepared to keep his new path secret aboard the Cloud Conch.

• Helen explained that Duru was only a probationary employee of White Shell Shipping and that Captain Alwin had personally paid his wages and expenses.
• Angel refused to take Duru as a disciple, explained that the organization would assign him a mentor, and asked him to choose between Savage Cave and Sky Mechanical City.
• Angel tested Helen’s mental strength at 9.3 and told her she still had a chance to become gifted; Helen said she had once saved a witch and might seek her out.
• Duru chose to follow Angel to Savage Cave, and Angel measured his mental strength at 13.
• Alwin agreed to Duru’s decision and proposed concealing it by claiming Duru had returned to his fishing village to marry and have children.
• Helen warned Duru to hide that he was gifted and cautioned him that the Wizarding World could be dark and bloody.

Angel gave Duru Savage Cave’s Circular Cut Guidance Method and learned that Duru’s talent manifested as a change in the clouds, possibly indicating an affinity with the ocean branch. While the Cloud Conch sailed, Angel searched for an enchantment that could block prophecy wizards and began studying the difficult Poem of Blankness array.

• Angel explained the Wizarding World to Duru, gave him the Circular Cut Guidance Method, and promised to answer his cultivation questions every half month.
• Duru told Angel that rainclouds had appeared during his talent test, and Angel considered whether the phenomenon indicated a prophecy or ocean talent.
• Angel reassured Duru that the ocean branch was not inherently good or bad, then added Duru to the list of gifted ones in his guide-task notebook.
• During the following days, Duru secretly studied the Guidance Method and struggled to meditate aboard the Cloud Conch while Angel researched prophecy-blocking enchantments.
• Angel found the advanced magical energy array Poem of Blankness, but despite studying it intensively, he failed to get past its tenth magic pattern.

Angel and the Cloud Conch reached the Feran Continent after crossing the Devil Sea, and Angel accepted Alwin’s offer to stay at his residence while he investigated Lucas and sought talent possessors. The chapter ended as Alwin and Helen went to report Roman’s disappearance, and Angel asked Alwin to investigate something for him.

• Angel joined the Cloud Conch’s New Year banquet, where Helen thanked him and asked whether she could catch up to him in the Wizarding World.
• Angel advised Helen to pursue her own growth and gave her a marked parchment she could use to seek entry to Savage Cave through Boro.
• The Cloud Conch reached Morning Star Lighthouse, and the islanders cheered and threw gifts to welcome the ship as it passed Morning Star Long Island.
• The Cloud Conch arrived at Moon Zither Port in Greenvine Kingdom, where Angel accepted Alwin’s offer to stay at his residence.
• Alwin and Helen went to report Roman’s situation to a White Shell Shipping Company inspector, while Angel asked Alwin to investigate something for him.

Angel investigated a statue in Yuesè and returned to studying the Poem of Blankness, but White Shell Shipping’s Bismarck tried to keep him in the city. Their confrontation exposed a connection between Roman and Leviathan, and ended with a wizard-level phantom recognizing Angel’s illusion fluctuations.

• Angel told Duru that Marcel’s statue likely bore traces of a wizard’s faith-collecting research, then resumed studying the Poem of Blankness.
• Alwin told Angel that White Shell Shipping’s inspector wanted to meet him, and Angel agreed to visit the company’s branch office.
• Bismarck asked Angel to remain in Yuesè for about three months until a superior arrived, but Angel rejected the demand and prepared to leave.
• Bismarck attacked Angel with golden chains, and Angel trapped him in an illusion and questioned him about why he was being detained.
• Angel learned that Bismarck’s order likely involved Roman and Leviathan, then attacked Bismarck as a wizard-level spiritual imprint appeared and recognized Angel’s illusion fluctuations.

Angel confronted Bismarck over being held in Yuesè City, but learned Bismarck was Sabo’s disciple and settled the dispute through Sabo. As Angel left, Alwin revealed that Meriessa might secretly own White Shell Shipping Company.

• Sabo’s spiritual imprint appeared and recognized Angel, then asked him to spare Bismarck and contact him through the signal tower.
• Angel woke Bismarck and made him lead the way to the signal tower, where Sabo heard Angel’s account of the dispute and Roman’s death.
• Bismarck said Meriessa had ordered him to detain Angel because Roman might know secrets about Leviathan, which had drawn interest from groups in the Devil Sea.
• Sabo made Bismarck apologize and hand over more than two hundred magic crystals, and promised to speak with Meriessa.
• After Angel left, Alwin told him that Meriessa seemed to be the hidden owner behind White Shell Shipping Company.