Chapter Summaries

The Internet Divine Art spread rapidly across the Kevil Empire, while Felix Magic Academy gathered its Wood Spirit Apprentices for a magical experiment led by Yu Sheng'an. Dorothy recognized the mysterious young man who had frightened her, and the apprentices learned they would be cultivating improved crops.

• The Internet Divine Art spread throughout the Empire, fueling widespread interest in Magic, Battle Qi, and literacy.
• Felix Magic Academy ordered all 374 Wood Spirit Apprentices to attend a magical experiment organized by Magic God Dendall.
• Dorothy recalled how her grandfather Doman had questioned her about the mysterious young man she had attacked, and she feared she had caused trouble.
• Dorothy saw the mysterious young man standing behind Grand Archmage Lucian when the apprentices assembled in the Magic Forest.
• Lucian introduced Mr. Asheff as the experiment's leader, and Yu Sheng'an told the apprentices to develop high-yield, drought-resistant, salt- and alkali-resistant crops suited to sandy soil.

Yu Sheng'an organized Wood Spirit Magic Apprentices to research crop cultivation and built an underground laboratory for experiments in Felix. Plantation owners and mages mocked the project and spread rumors about Asheff, until Dorothy anxiously arrived at Magic Forest.

• Yu Sheng'an formed a group for Magic Apprentices and assigned them to develop crop cultivation methods using Wood Spirit magic.
• Yu Sheng'an inspected his newly built underground laboratory, equipped with glass cases designed to simulate microgravity for crop mutation experiments.
• Marchie and other plantation owners complained that Lord Dendall had taken Wood Spirit Magic Apprentices away from their plantations and agreed to pressure him.
• Mages throughout Felix mocked the crop experiment and spread rumors about Asheff's identity and relationship to Lord Dendall.
• Dorothy anxiously knocked on the doors of Magic Forest as the rumors about Asheff reached their peak.

Dorothy brought Yu Sheng'an a nearly dead Dragon Egg as an apology, and he accepted it. Hoping to save the egg, Yu Sheng'an sent it a Life-Sharing Contract and left its survival to its choice.

• Dorothy entered Asheff’s basement and apologized for her earlier behavior.
• Dorothy gave Yu Sheng'an a Dragon Egg, which he recognized as nearly dead but still faintly alive.
• Yu Sheng'an accepted the gift and told Dorothy to assure her Grandpa, Doman, that he forgave her.
• After Dorothy left, Yu Sheng'an realized the egg lacked Vitality and decided he needed to save it quickly.
• Yu Sheng'an sent the Dragon Egg a Life-Sharing Contract, which could keep it alive if it still wanted to live.

Dillon Adam, a dying dragon egg, accepted Yu Sheng'an’s Dragon Script contract and received enough Vitality to recover and begin preparing to hatch. Yu Sheng'an stored the egg in a Fire Cloud Flower and carried it close to his heart, while Dillon Adam fell asleep to the familiar sound of his heartbeat.

• Dillon Adam recalled its lonely life inside the barrier and recognized the Dragon Script that appeared around it as it neared death.
• Dillon Adam accepted the Dragon Script, forming a contract with Yu Sheng'an and receiving a torrent of Vitality that restored its life.
• Yu Sheng'an nearly died as the Dragon Egg drained his Vitality, but he sustained the contract by drawing on the Vitality of his Devils.
• Yu Sheng'an placed the Dragon Egg inside a Fire Cloud Flower, shrank it, and hung it around his Divine Palace body’s neck for safekeeping.
• Dillon Adam felt Yu Sheng'an’s heartbeat again and sank into a peaceful sleep.

Yu Sheng'an updated the Internet forums after its user base surged, then discovered that many rural users relied on the Internet Phantom Scroll for light. A proposal from Felix about crop cultivation caught his attention, and its depth left him increasingly impressed.

• Yu Sheng'an divided the forums into specialized and regional sections, prompting users across the Kevil Empire to celebrate the update.
• Yu Sheng'an used Divine Perspective to watch an elderly couple weaving baskets by the light of an Internet Phantom Scroll.
• Yu Sheng'an realized that many users might be illiterate and using Internet Divine Art for illumination, so he decided to develop a flashlight function.
• Felix sent Yu Sheng'an a 36,263-word proposal on crop cultivation, and he began reading it with growing astonishment.

Erin, a Magic Apprentice driven by her mother’s death from hunger, sent Asheff her ideas for cultivating crops and was rewarded with a wand and an offer to become his assistant. Asheff then began a crop-growth experiment with the Magic Apprentices, whose simple task produced a shocking result.

• Erin wrote down her crop-cultivation insights and sent them to Asheff, then spent a sleepless night worrying that he would ignore them.
• Asheff named Erin before the Magic Apprentices, praised her work, gave her a Purple Snow Wood High-Grade Wand, and asked her to be his assistant.
• Erin accepted Asheff’s offer and listened as he assigned the Magic Apprentices to experimental groups.
• Asheff led the Magic Apprentices into the basement laboratory and told them to grow crop seeds in Microgravity Glass Boxes, record the results, and share them in the group chat.
• The Magic Apprentices began rapidly cultivating their assigned plants, and a shocking event occurred.

Yu Sheng'an’s rapid-growth experiment caused ordinary crops to mutate into bizarre forms, leaving the Wood Spirit Magic Apprentices astonished and convinced that Asheff was challenging divine authority. After the experiment, Dorothy urged her grandfather to join it, though her confidentiality Contract prevented her from explaining why.

• Rogier and other Magic Apprentices complained about being made to use basic growth magic on crops, while Erin eagerly asked Yu Sheng'an whether he was selecting the best plants.
• Yu Sheng'an explained Directed Breeding and told Erin that dominant and recessive genes caused selected traits to disappear when plants reproduced freely.
• The rapidly grown crops developed startling mutations, including conjoined Ghost Hand Melons, exceptionally long Long Horn Beans, and Black Grain that produced white liquid.
• Yu Sheng'an ordered the shocked Magic Apprentices to record their observations, while Erin and Dorothy realized his experiment could challenge divine authority.
• After the experiment, Dorothy rushed to her grandfather's study and urged him to participate, but her confidentiality Contract stopped her from explaining the details.

Doman considered whether Asheff’s Wood Spirit magic experiment could offer him a chance to break through, and ordered an investigation before deciding how to proceed. Meanwhile, Willis City’s magical community speculated about the experiment, while plantation owners began to realize that Dendall’s support for Asheff could threaten their interests.

• Dorothy told Doman about Asheff’s experiment, and Doman suspected Asheff’s Wood Spirit knowledge might surpass his own.
• Doman sent his steward to investigate how the other Magic Apprentices felt about the experiment before making a decision.
• Rumors that Asheff’s experiment involved Divine Authority spread through Willis City, though plantation federation members dismissed them as apprentice exaggerations.
• The plantation owners recalled how Dendall had confronted them with complaints about land seizures and realized he was using those complaints to warn them away from Asheff.
• After learning that Anthony had distanced himself from the federation, the members debated approaching Asheff to claim half the Magic Apprentices and agreed they might have to surrender some profits.

Doman joined Asheff’s crop experiments and learned the basics of dominant-recessive inheritance, then eagerly tested the theory in his own laboratory. Erin bred Winter Mallow varieties and discovered that White Wrinkled Winter Mallow had lost its bitterness, leaving Asheff a message as dawn approached.

• Doman arrived at Asheff’s underground laboratory with Dorothy and asked to join his experiments.
• Doman signed confidentiality and non-compete agreements, then received instructions to classify plant traits and cultivate stable second-generation seeds.
• Erin explained the Dominant-Recessive Gene Theory to Doman, who was astonished by the new approach and began working eagerly.
• After leaving the laboratory, Doman and Erin each tested the theory; Erin cultivated Winter Mallow and produced white- and red-flowered, wrinkled- and round-seeded varieties.
• Erin discovered that White Wrinkled Winter Mallow was no longer bitter and messaged Asheff, who replied as dawn began to break.

Erin’s winter mallow research earned praise from Asheff, but Marchie destroyed the plant and humiliated her on his way out. Erin brought the saved seeds to Asheff, who assigned her an important task; Doman then asked whether Asheff wanted help dealing with Marchie, revealing that Asheff had not known about the incident.

• Erin celebrated Asheff’s praise, carried her winter mallow to show him, and encountered Marchie on the way.
• Marchie insulted Erin, seized her winter mallow, and crushed it despite her attempt to save it.
• Erin cleared away the wreckage and told Asheff about the plant’s cultivation, giving him the purebred seeds she had saved.
• Asheff praised Erin’s work, assigned Doman to test and improve the winter mallow, and told Erin she had an important task.
• Doman asked Asheff whether he wanted help because Marchie had troubled Erin, and Asheff reacted with surprise that he had not known.

After Marchie humiliated Erin and destroyed her flowerpot, Yu Sheng'an led her and a growing crowd out of Felix Magic Academy to Marchie's Magic Plantation. He rallied the crowd against Marchie by claiming Erin had developed a winter vegetable that could save lives, and the chapter ended as everyone stared in terror at something behind Yu Sheng'an.

• Yu Sheng'an learned from the Felix Forum that Marchie had humiliated Erin, questioned her, and heard her recount what happened.
• Yu Sheng'an left the Underground Laboratory without explaining his plans, and Doman and hundreds of Magic Apprentices followed him out of the academy.
• Citizens of Willis joined the procession until it swelled into a huge crowd, which followed Yu Sheng'an beyond the city gates.
• Yu Sheng'an asked the crowd about Winter Mallow, introduced Erin as the creator of a safe, non-bitter variety, and claimed Marchie had destroyed its only sample.
• Yu Sheng'an urged the crowd to condemn Marchie, and the gathering began chanting that he deserved to die before abruptly falling silent and staring behind Yu Sheng'an in terror.

Yu Sheng'an retaliated against Marchie by summoning a Lava Giant to destroy his Magic Plantation, then faced Marchie's lightning attack and a sixth-tier Heavenly Judgment spell. The chapter ended as two pillars of lightning struck the Lava Giant and Yu Sheng'an, leaving the witnesses stunned by what they saw.

• Yu Sheng'an summoned a Lava Giant and ordered it to destroy Marchie's Magic Plantation because Marchie had destroyed his people's food.
• The Lava Giant shattered the plantation's magical barrier and burned the plants as Willis citizens watched in terror, while Erin thrilled at Yu Sheng'an's defense of her.
• At the Federation headquarters, Marchie dismissed warnings about Asheff, but he and the other members heard Yu Sheng'an's declaration and rushed to the plantation.
• Marchie attacked Yu Sheng'an with Ball Lightning, but Flesh-Winged Demons intercepted the spheres as dark storm clouds gathered overhead.
• Erin recognized the approaching spell as sixth-tier Heavenly Judgment, and two pillars of lightning struck the Lava Giant and Yu Sheng'an.
• The witnesses looked toward Yu Sheng'an's position after the lightning faded and were left speechless by the sight.

Yu Sheng'an defeated Marchie with the help of his summoned giants and Shadow Demon, then spared him at Dendall's request. Back at Magic Forest, Yu Sheng'an returned his consciousness to his true body and discovered that Church had been revived and now wanted to expand the God of the Internet's influence in the Abyss.

• Yu Sheng'an's Mountain Giant shielded him, Erin, and Doman from Heavenly Punishment, while the Lava Giant reassembled after being blasted apart.
• A Shadow Demon severed Marchie's legs, and the Mountain Giant smashed him into the ground, leaving him unconscious and gravely injured.
• Magic God Dendall asked Yu Sheng'an to spare Marchie, and Yu Sheng'an dismissed his summons before leaving for Willis City.
• Willis City's citizens and the Magic Forest apprentices watched Yu Sheng'an with awe as he returned to Magic Forest.
• Yu Sheng'an told Erin not to disturb him, then used Divine Perspective to watch Church pray in an Abyssal volcanic crater.
• Church recalled being revived through the Contract after Heavenly Punishment destroyed it and pledged to expand the God of the Internet's territory in the Abyss.

Yu Sheng'an decided to share the Vitality of his contracted creatures, giving them a reason to grow stronger and protect him. Church received a changed Contract and left the magma, while Balo was saved from a Demon-Hunting Spider and offered its head to the God of the Internet.

• Yu Sheng'an read Church's prayer and decided to use his true body as a Transfer Station to share Vitality among his contracted creatures.
• Church received changes to his Contract, praised the God of the Internet, and left the magma to pursue his ambition.
• Balo, fatally wounded and trapped by a Demon-Hunting Spider, received a surge of Vitality that healed him and weakened the venom.
• Balo tore free of the spider's slime, killed it, and sent its head away as an offering to the God of the Internet.

Yu Sheng'an realized he could use Life-Sharing Contracts to cultivate powerful Devils and decided to observe the results before changing the system. He negotiated with Dendall for a Time Rain Farm in exchange for releasing half the Wood Spirit Magic Apprentices, while Winter Mallow made Erin famous among commoners.

• Yu Sheng'an concluded that shared Vitality could help Devils grow stronger by letting them survive riskier fights, and chose to observe the system before trying other models.
• Dendall confronted Yu Sheng'an over Marchie, but Yu Sheng'an accused him of scheming and insisted that his Spring of Source Essence must not be harmed.
• Dendall asked whether Winter Mallow was real and requested half the Wood Spirit Magic Apprentices back; Yu Sheng'an agreed to release them after Dendall built a Time Rain Farm.
• Dendall inferred that Yu Sheng'an had created a new species and assumed Erin could not have developed Winter Mallow herself.
• Winter Mallow made Erin's name famous among commoners on the Internet as winter approached.

After the Kevil Empire announced Erin had cultivated Non-Toxic Winter Mallow, grateful citizens celebrated her as a hero. Erin basked in the acclaim but privately felt she did not deserve the credit, since Asheff had developed the varieties and could have cultivated the plant himself.

• Erin’s fame spread through Felix and the Kevil Empire, bringing her new friends, suitors, and a flood of attention online.
• A week after Asheff destroyed the botanical garden, the Kevil Empire announced that Non-Toxic Winter Mallow had been successfully cultivated.
• In a village, teacher Black read the announcement to excited villagers, who learned that the two Winter Mallow varieties would be distributed across the Empire.
• The Empire announced plans to scatter cold-resistant Spiral Leaf Winter Mallow and sell Broad Leaf seeds at a fixed price, while warning magistrates against price gouging.
• Commoners flooded Erin’s page with praise and thanks, while Erin felt proud but believed Asheff deserved the credit for cultivating the plants.

Erin credited Asheff for the Winter Mallow breakthroughs and praised his work improving staple crops in a message to the Empire’s Internet. Her post sparked an uproar, and Asheff’s name spread as people hailed him as a hero and the God of Agriculture.

• Erin thanked readers, credited Asheff with cultivating the two Winter Mallow varieties, and described his progress on improving staple-crop yields.
• After posting her message, Erin resolved to remain Asheff’s diligent apprentice and fell asleep peacefully.
• Mercenaries in Buck Town’s tavern toasted Erin, then rushed to read her new message when Gar told them about it.
• The tavern’s readers concluded Asheff was the real hero and speculated that his work could double crop yields.
• People across the world learned about Asheff, and his name spread widely.

Dorothy struggled with Erin receiving recognition for Non-Toxic Winter Mallow until Doman explained Asheff’s ideals and urged her to prove herself through research. After reading Erin’s announcement, Yu Sheng'an considered putting her in charge of crop research so he could focus on magic and preparations against the Five Great Gods.

• Dorothy confronted Doman about Erin receiving credit for Non-Toxic Winter Mallow, but Doman explained that Erin had cultivated it and praised Asheff for advancing Wood Spirit magic.
• Doman showed Dorothy his Seedless Red Rose Fruit and said ordinary people would soon be able to create such new species through Asheff’s methods.
• Doman urged Dorothy to study Asheff’s theories, cultivate new plants, and earn Asheff’s attention, declaring that Asheff would lead Wood Spirit magic in the Kevil Empire.
• Dorothy read Erin’s announcement on the Internet Phantom Scroll and realized Erin would become her greatest rival.
• Yu Sheng'an appreciated Erin’s conduct and considered handing her leadership of the crop research team so he could pursue magic and alliances against the Five Great Gods.

Asheff announced that only twenty Magic Apprentices would be chosen as his paid assistants, setting off fierce competition. Yu Sheng'an attended the Felix Magic Research Council to seek help with adding magic beyond his Godhead’s authority to the Internet, where a mage raised a question about combining Thunder and Light magic.

• Kevin arrived at the Magic Forest hall and joined the Magic Apprentices waiting for Asheff.
• Asheff announced that twenty apprentices would become his assistants, receive salaries, and gain priority for retention after graduation; interested candidates were told to ask Erin for details.
• Yu Sheng'an decided to attend the Felix Magic Research Council to discuss the Internet’s Flashlight Function and his difficulty integrating Inch Light magic.
• Yu Sheng'an entered the Council Chamber, greeted Dendall, and listened as mages discussed their research problems.
• Stanford asked the Research Council for suggestions on incorporating Light Burst magic into Thunder Element magic.

Stanford sought a way to illuminate Twit Town without weakening the Lightning Magic Tower planned there. Yu Sheng'an offered to solve the problem by converting lightning into light energy, leaving the Research Council stunned.

• Stanford explained that he needed long-term illumination for the Magic Tower he would build in Twit Town, but combining Light Magic with Lightning Magic would waste mana and reduce the tower’s power.
• The mages discussed several approaches, including the Olcott Combination Method, a fixed Light Burst spell, and St. Elmo’s Fire, but none provided a satisfactory solution.
• Dendall prepared to end the discussion, and Stanford grew discouraged because the residents of Twit faced frequent nighttime beast attacks.
• Yu Sheng'an interrupted and told Stanford he had a way to solve the illumination problem.
• Yu Sheng'an proposed converting lightning into light energy, and the Research Council fell silent.