Chapter Summaries

After destroying the White Bone Temple, Evan and Angie discovered a low-grade Spirit Origin and survived an encounter with the evil spirit Ashes. Angie absorbed the Spirit Origin, and the pair continued across Manitoulin Island toward the Lake in the Lake, hoping to find the secret realm’s greater prize and a way out.

• Evan and Angie witnessed the Alchemy Bombs’ explosion erase the White Bone Temple and reshape the valley.
• Evan spotted a wisp of Spirit Origin above the pond just as a blood-soaked Nimanster Person tried to kick its head toward it.
• Ashes killed the Nimanster Person by turning it to ash, but Evan identified the evil spirit’s lethal gaze and sent Heavy Armor Guards to cut it apart.
• Evan and Angie found that the Spirit Origin passed through containers, so Angie absorbed it and strengthened her Spirit Aura.
• Evan and Angie sent Flesh and Blood Puppets ahead and traveled toward the Lake in the Lake on Manitoulin Island.

Bello, Flanida, and Natapiye sealed off the island’s Spirit Origin and began clearing the secret realm of intruders. While Evan and Angie cautiously gathered resources, Natapiye killed a native shaman and detected their hidden presence, then attacked them.

• Bello proposed that he, Flanida, and Natapiye cooperate to keep other beings away from the Spirit Origin, and the three Totem Gods agreed.
• The three raised their Totem Poles and formed a barrier around the island’s center before splitting up to patrol.
• Evan and Angie watched a demonic leopard fall for the Wriggling Swamp’s false Spirit Origin, then continued through the secret realm while avoiding danger.
• A red streak crashed into the Wriggling Swamp, and Natapiye emerged from the mud after killing the Great Shaman of Uwakala and crushing his Soul Emblem.
• Natapiye sensed Evan and Angie nearby and launched an attack, declaring that he would kill them.

Evan fought the Sea Serpent God Natapiye in the secret realm while Angie helped disrupt his divine attack. After Natapiye survived their clash and began a Divine Name Incantation, Evan escaped with Angie as the god vowed to hunt them down.

• Evan rescued Angie from Natapiye's opening attack and sent her away on Minnie while he confronted the Sea Serpent God.
• Evan cut Natapiye in two with Thunder Fang, but Natapiye regenerated with his Water Elemental Body and counterattacked with ice javelins.
• Evan and Natapiye traded blows, and their powerful area attacks destroyed a Corpse Infant spreading parasitic offspring nearby.
• Natapiye began a Divine Name Incantation, while Evan summoned the Thunderbird and Angie fired tourmaline Thunderclap Bullets into the sky.
• Evan picked up Angie and fled in his Thunderbird form as Natapiye's halberd struck the ground and he threatened to sacrifice them to Mairo.

Evan and Angie drew the island’s evil spirits to the Source Overflow, hoping their assault would break the Totem Gods’ barrier. As the Spirit Origin formed, it passed through the barrier and flew straight to Evan, leaving him stunned.

• Evan and Angie found the Source Overflow on an island protected by a barrier maintained by Natapiye, Bello, and Flanida, and they decided to lure the island’s evil spirits there.
• Evan used the Flesh Altar and a Bronze Amulet to create a bizarre mutant whose immense life force attracted spirits from across the island.
• A crystal sphere attacked the barrier, drawing the three Totem Gods to the island, where they fought off the gathering evil spirits as the barrier came under pressure.
• The evil spirits grew more frenzied as the Spirit Origin began to form, and Evan prepared to detonate Puppet Bombs if the barrier held.
• The Spirit Origin formed as a pale-green gemstone, slipped through the barrier, and flew toward Evan after the Bronze Amulet flickered.

Evan absorbed part of the Itzana Continent’s Spirit Origin after the Bronze Amulet called it to him, greatly strengthening his Spirit Power and bringing him close to the High-Ranking Wizard threshold. As the secret realm began to collapse, he reached Angie and prepared to escape the furious Totem Gods.

• Mairo and Lady Crow Yeher traded Authority attacks as they prepared to fight over the Spirit Origin, until a deathly eagle-headed god arrived and completed a three-against-three standoff.
• Evan raced toward the descending Spirit Origin, but his Bronze Amulet intercepted it and absorbed more than half, leaving him with roughly one-third.
• Evan realized the amulet bore the aura of Feathered Serpent God Kukulkan, an ancient ruler of Itzana, which had drawn the Spirit Origin to it.
• The Spirit Origin healed Evan, pushed his Spirit Power to the absolute peak of the second tier, and lit the Fifth Prime Matter in his Tree of Life Meditation.
• The Totem Gods charged Evan, but the secret realm began fading after the Spirit Origin was absorbed, and Evan dashed to Angie, ready to flee.

Evan seized the Spirit Origin and fled the battle on Manitoulin Island, only to be pursued by Death God Uhao. The Ancient Sea Turtle’s blessing countered Uhao’s fatal attack, but Uhao’s black eagle then dragged Evan and Angie into a Black Hole connected to Mite.

• Uhao, Mairo, and Yeher fought over the Spirit Origin, with Uhao raising an army of undead and gaining the advantage.
• Evan took the Spirit Origin and escaped in Thunderbird form with Angie as the phantom realm collapsed.
• The Totem Gods attacked Evan, and he triggered the Alchemy Bombs planted across the island to cover their escape.
• Uhao hurled his Death Edict at Evan, but the Ancient Sea Turtle’s blessing blocked the fatal strike and counterattacked, eliminating Uhao from the contest for demigodhood.
• Mairo and Yeher fled, while Uhao’s black eagle opened a Black Hole and swallowed Evan and Angie.

Calvin led the new apprentices to the Animation School’s Wizard Tower, while Olivia worried about Evan’s disappearance. Evan regained consciousness alone on a strange sailing vessel approaching a lifeless white desert, with Angie missing.

• Calvin led twenty-three apprentices through the coniferous forest to the Wizard Tower and warned them about the Demonic Creatures.
• The apprentices saw the Wizard Tower, watched its stone knight statues open the doors, and entered the school’s common and living quarters.
• Olivia worried because Evan and Angie had been missing for three days after a battle near Lake Huron, though Evan’s Beacon Anchorage showed he was alive.
• Evan woke alone aboard a painted sailing vessel and discovered that Angie was not with him.
• Evan saw the vessel moving across a green sea toward a vast, lifeless white desert and wondered where he was.

After being separated from Angie and stranded in the barren realm of Mit, Evan confirmed that his powers remained intact and began searching for her. Following a ghost’s soul to a river that seemed to carry souls onward, he spotted an oasis downstream.

• Evan arrived on the silent desert shore, realized his boat had vanished, and identified the realm as Mit, the Atelian land of the dead.
• He assessed the hostile environment, protected himself with divine might, and decided to find Angie while keeping Leon and his apprentices in the Alchemy Workshop.
• Evan’s seagulls spotted a wandering Atelian ghost, and he used a Black Cavity to reach the wounded warrior.
• The ghost faded into sand and left behind a colored soul orb, which Evan followed across the dunes to a clear river.
• Evan watched the orb enter the river and deduced that it cleansed souls before carrying them toward the Netherworld.
• Evan noticed a patch of green and countless dark specks downstream and wondered if he had found an oasis.

Evan captured a Wuhao shaman and learned that Mit was a transit realm with dragonfolk administrators, while Angie remained captive in the Great Oasis and was chosen for sacrifice. The chapter left Evan investigating Mit’s divided authority and Angie searching for a way to escape.

• The shamans gathered at the Castillo Pyramid after losing contact with Death God Wuhao and planned a prayer ritual to learn his condition.
• Evan captured a shaman messenger, used a potion to question him, and learned that Mit was a transit station connected to the true Netherworld by the River of the Dead.
• The shaman told Evan that dragonfolk with greater administrative authority had likely intercepted the two humans who entered Mit together.
• In the Great Oasis, Angie healed Duoluo Ke, but the dragonfolk deputy leader said Angie had already been selected for sacrifice and would be guarded.
• Angie resisted the deputy leader’s threats and began searching for a way to escape.

Angie prepared a toxin from gentian seeds while imprisoned as the centerpiece of the dragonborn’s spring sacrifice. As the ritual began, she broke her shackles and unleashed the modified plants across the plaza, setting off a riot as she tried to escape.

• Angie cultivated and mutated gentian into a toxin targeting dragonbloodlines, then hid its seeds in a pouch formed from Venom.
• Female dragonborn guards ordered Angie to wash and change before the sacrifice, while Andreas and Lei'oni prepared the ceremony at the altar.
• The dragonborn carried Angie to the altar and gathered to worship, unaware that she had scattered gentian particles across the plaza.
• As everyone knelt during the prayer, Angie transformed her robe into Venom armor, broke her shackles, and cast Animated Plant.
• Modified gentian flowers erupted around the crowd, filling the Great Oasis with their scent and triggering a riot.

Angie escaped the sacrificial altar amid a toxin-induced riot, but a Dragon Bloodline Warlock pursued her until Evan arrived and killed him. After Nidhogg’s flaming eye appeared and marked Angie with a black crest, Evan flew toward the dragonborn, hoping to learn how to escape.

• Lei'oni and Andreas transformed and tried to contain the toxin-fueled chaos among the dragonborn.
• Angie fled the altar, but the Black-robed Dragon Bloodline Warlock tracked her with a spell and summoned dragon beasts to block her escape.
• The Dragon Bloodline Warlock cornered Angie, but Evan arrived, killed him, and destroyed the attacking dragon beasts.
• Evan comforted Angie and prepared to fly away with her, but a flaming vertical eye appeared over the altar and gathered the offerings.
• The eye turned toward Angie and left a black Rhombus Crest on her shoulder before disappearing.
• Evan flew toward the dragonborn, determined to force answers from them.

Evan defeated and captured the Third-Order Dragonborn Andreas and Lei'oni, then forced them to reveal the nature of the Dragon God Nidhogg’s mark and the threat gathering in the Netherworld. With stronger Dragonborn expected to reach Mit soon and no immediate way out, Evan prepared to make the captives atone for what they had done to Angie.

• Evan summoned fifty-two Flesh and Blood Puppets and defeated Andreas and Lei'oni, binding them in human form with Extraordinary Shackles.
• Evan interrogated the Dragonborn with Blood Reversal, and Lei'oni explained that Angie bore the Sacrifice Mark of Nidhogg, the demigod Jet-Black Dragon.
• Andreas and Lei'oni revealed that Nidhogg was the source of the Dragonborn and that powerful Dragonborn could follow the mark to Mit across the River Styx.
• Evan learned that the Dragonborn could not open a route out of the Netherworld and that warriors from across the river might arrive within days.
• Evan decided to become a Third-Order wizard as quickly as possible, then invoked Bloodline Stripping against the helpless Dragonborn.

Evan began his High-Ranking Wizard promotion ritual in Mith and entered the Tree of Life’s inner worlds. Facing the World Origin, he prepared to redefine the school’s Source of Mysticism with his discoveries about cell division and chromosomes.

• Evan and Angie completed the elaborate Tree of Life ritual, and Evan began it beneath the moon while standing in the circle for Severity.
• The ritual connected Evan to the World Consciousness and revealed the Tree of Life, the school’s Source of Mysticism.
• Evan entered the Formation World and learned that promotion required an innovative achievement capable of becoming a new branch of the Tree of Life.
• Evan reached a branch facing the Sea of World Consciousness, where he planned to use his research on artificial organs, cell division, and chromosomes to redefine the Tree of Life.

Evan tested his Gene Theory against World Consciousness and successfully completed his promotion ritual to become a High-Ranking Wizard. The Tree of Life absorbed his knowledge and transformed, while a golden key formed over his chest as his true name was bestowed.

• Evan planted a Red Iron Fir seed in the Sea of World Consciousness to test his Gene Theory.
• The Red Iron Fir withstood the chaotic currents, which strengthened it as Evan explained how genes connected individual life and species through a Tree of Life.
• World Consciousness accepted Evan's theory, and the Red Iron Fir became a stream of information that entered the Tree of Life.
• The Tree of Life grew and changed into a blend of Red Iron Fir, white ash, and banyan, completing Evan's promotion to High-Ranking Wizard.
• A beam of golden light bestowed a golden key-shaped true name on Evan.

Evan completed his promotion to a Third-Order High-Ranking Wizard, gained a true name and a second Quasi-Spell, and awakened as School Chief with the Red Iron Fir path dominant in the Tree of Life. With his strength greatly increased and Angie gaining insight from his transformation, Evan turned his attention to using the dragonfolk’s bloodline method to cross the God of Death’s territory and change the course of the hunt.

• Evan received his true name from the Origin and became a Third-Order High-Ranking Wizard, with Red Iron Fir dominant in the Tree of Life.
• Evan manifested his Wizard’s Path during his promotion, and Angie absorbed the displayed mystical knowledge, subtly adjusting her Extraordinary Aura.
• Evan completed his Soul Essence transformation, raised his Spirit Power from 4.99 to 6.1, and discovered that his power had caused moss to grow in the Forgotten Desert.
• Evan gained the full enhancement of Quasi-Spell: Animated Aura and acquired Quasi-Spell: Bloodline Plugin, which let him use up to two bloodline abilities at once.
• Evan embraced Angie and proposed using the dragonfolk’s bloodline-authority method to travel through the God of Death’s territory, confident he could take the initiative in the hunt.

Evan lured the dragonborn hunting force to his prepared ritual site after advancing to High-Ranking Wizard and creating a Storm Dragon form. He struck the nine third-order dragonborn with Dragon Might and a vast sand attack, leaving three leaders to face his sword-energy torrent.

• Chronos Dragonborn Chronipsus, Night Dragon Dragonborn Farazul, and War Dragon Dragonborn Karex led the hunting force from the Styx toward the Sacrifice Mark’s aura.
• Evan prepared an ambush with Angie, while Kaka advanced to the third order and Evan gained a Storm Dragon form through his Bloodline Plugin.
• The nine third-order dragonborn arrived and found Evan atop the adolescent Storm Dragon, Lei'oni, beside Kaka.
• Evan and Kaka unleashed Dragon Might, and Evan used True Name Release · Hundred-Armed Giant to engulf the dragonborn in a kilometer-wide sea of sand.
• Chronipsus used Spell-like Ability · Castling to rescue Karex and Farazul, while the other six third-order dragonborn vanished in the sand.
• Evan attacked the remaining three leaders with Lei'oni’s sword-energy torrent.

Aboard an extraordinary galley, Captain Jerros ordered an interception of the Bizeas Family’s ships near the Eternal White Land. After defeating the dragonmen in the Forgotten Desert and harvesting their bloodlines, Evan and Angie escaped the Netherworld by following a Golden Compass across the green sea.

• Captain Jerros ordered Ram to speed up the Rebirth Puppets and intercept the Bizeas Family’s ships before they reached the White Sea.
• Evan defeated Chronipsus and, with Angie and Kaka, collected the bloodlines from the dragonmen they had killed.
• Evan and Angie rowed to the mouth of the River Styx and lit their boat lamp with the blood of eleven third-tier dragonmen.
• Evan used his Golden Compass to choose a course across the sea, and he and Angie departed into the thickening mist.

Evan and Angie escaped the underworld near Cape Hope, where Evan discovered a stranded youth carrying Adventurer’s Blood and decided to recruit him as his fifth human disciple. Before he could approach the youth, a captain arrived and recognized Evan as a descendant of one of the Golden Compass families.

• Evan and Angie emerged from the underworld near Cape Hope, where the death god Mutu closed the Underworld Cave and departed.
• Evan confirmed that four days had passed for them in the underworld while seven days passed in the Material World, then reunited with Leon, Jacob, and Kyle on a nearby island.
• Evan discovered a dilapidated expedition ship and a young hunter riding a Gill Eel near an underwater brine pool.
• Evan identified Adventurer’s Blood in the youth and decided to make him his fifth human disciple.
• A middle-aged captain arrived by galley and told Evan he had encountered another descendant of a Golden Compass family.

Evan fought Jerros Fernand, a powerful wizard and Golden Compass collector, after Jerros attacked him on the Eternal White Land. Jerros explained the Theseus School’s belief in the whole and its parts, leaving Evan to consider which of nine nearly identical ships was the true Ship of Theseus.

• Jerros Fernand approached the island aboard his Galley Sailing Ship and sensed Evan and a mixed-blood youth, descendants of Golden Compass-holder families.
• Jerros attacked Evan with a third-order fire spell, and Evan sent the other four people away before meeting him in battle.
• Evan recognized Jerros as the adventurer who had first reached the Golden Kingdom and discovered that Jerros was a High-Ranking Wizard who could change combat traits.
• Evan struck Jerros with dragon breath and lightning, but Jerros recovered and retaliated with a powerful sun-like attack that knocked Evan through an iceberg.
• Jerros described the Theseus School’s philosophy, and Evan connected it to the Ship of Theseus and wondered which of the nine nearly identical ships was the original.

Evan met Jerros and First Princess Stephanie, learned that they were gathering the Golden Compasses to open the gate to the New Realm, and agreed to collaborate with them on an expedition into the Endless Ocean. He left Jerros with a new theory about the Ship of Theseus and advice to explore untouched lands.

• Evan prepared to fight Jerros, but Jerros explained his Theseus School and offered Evan a place on his ship in exchange for joining a future expedition.
• Jerros revealed that he had collected five Golden Compasses and said that Evan's family and another family could bring their total to seven.
• Stephanie invited Evan aboard the Theseus, and Evan identified himself as a Faletis naval major general and Guardian Knight to Second Princess Livina.
• Stephanie asked Evan about her family, and Jerros described the Endless Ocean and the dangers of the Storm Belt.
• Evan accepted Jerros and Stephanie's invitation as a collaborator and proposed that the Ship of Theseus's identity depended on the continuous relationships between its parts.
• Evan's theory gave Jerros a new direction for the Theseus School, and Rogers advised Evan to explore a land untouched by humans.