Recaps

After buying Maya and Luna at the auction, Saine learned how Hephaestus had been betrayed by rival centaur gods and promised to seek Luluenman’s help with the Maya Tribe’s future. He left with the injured grandmother and granddaughter to return to the Azure Source Holy Tower.

• Saine traded rare blood essence from a Steel-Melting Demon Lord to Thomas and rescued Maya and Luna from the auction.
• Saine gave the injured centaurs Recovery Potions and listened as Maya recounted how three jealous centaur gods had conspired against Hephaestus.
• Maya explained that she and Luna had not contacted Luluenman in time because they had not anticipated the betrayal and later could not reach her.
• Saine told Maya and Luna to follow him and said he would ask Luluenman to decide how to handle the Maya Tribe’s affairs.

Saine returned to the Azure Source Holy Tower after years away and found the Green Source Land greatly expanded. After a delayed identity check, he met Academy Dean Jessica, who arranged a replacement badge and told him to wait before seeing Luluenman.

• Saine left Lina in the Western Islands and used Teleportation Arrays through the Flame Conclave to return to the Green Source Land.
• Saine discovered that the Azure Source Holy Tower had grown considerably and that his old badge and powerful life mass prevented him from teleporting directly to it.
• Two young magicians delayed Saine’s identity verification, so he asked them to contact Director Johnny, Magician Serena, or Magician Irene.
• Academy Dean Jessica arrived and completed Saine’s identity check, then brought him inside to get a replacement Holy Tower Badge.
• Jessica told Saine that Luluenman was conducting an experiment and advised him to wait before visiting her.

After returning to Azure Source Holy Tower, Saine reunited with his mentor Luluenman, who tried to inspect the mask concealing his demigod-level aura. Saine stopped her before its defenses could hurt her, explaining that the mask was stabilizing his body while he prepared for his Level-4 metamorphosis.

• Dean Jessica helped Saine replace his Holy Tower Badge, and Saine learned he could now travel to Azure Flame Holy Tower through a Teleportation Light Gate.
• Saine settled Maya and Luna in his residence and told them their return to Centaur World would wait until he had spoken with his mentor.
• Saine began reorganizing his laboratory with Yuli and the Little Fox Girl, but Luluenman summoned him to the top floor of the Holy Tower.
• Luluenman eagerly examined Saine and reached for his Faceless Mask, suspecting it concealed his true strength.
• Saine stopped Luluenman as the mask flashed with purple lightning and explained that removing it could destabilize his body and trigger his Level-4 metamorphosis prematurely.

Saine returned to Luluenman after reaching the peak of demigod rank and recounted his long journey, then offered her a divinity and other treasures. Luluenman accepted the Coral Staff but refused the Level-4 Biological Heart Core, and she remained curious about Saine’s powerful Faceless Mask.

• The Faceless Mask’s purple lightning struck Luluenman’s finger, and she realized Saine had reached the peak of demigod rank.
• Saine treated Luluenman’s wound with a potion and explained that he had advanced on the Knight Continent.
• Saine spent a day and night telling Luluenman about his experiences, including his travels to the Faelun Continent and an uncharted alien Large World.
• Saine offered Luluenman the God of Spring Water Divinity, but she refused the Heart Core and accepted the Coral Staff.
• Luluenman praised Saine’s accomplishments and asked where his Faceless Mask came from.

Saine returned to the Azure Source Holy Tower, told Luluenman about his World-Class Secret Treasure, and received new duties and guidance for his cultivation. He reunited with Serena and Irene, then an unexpected family gathering disrupted their welcome home.

• Saine told Luluenman that his Faceless Mask was a World-Class Secret Treasure, and she warned him to keep its details secret.
• Luluenman appointed Saine Vice Dean of the Holy Tower Academy and told him to return with her to the Azure Blaze Sect for Cuilisi's guidance.
• Saine went back to Serena and Irene, who welcomed him with a feast and arranged for Nataya and Lunna to visit.
• Nataya, Lunna, Xia Ya, and Red Scales arrived the next morning and accidentally intruded while Saine was with the women.
• Xia Ya cursed men and warned Red Scales against marrying, while Saine blocked the onlookers from seeing into the bedroom with a wall of fire.

Saine returned to the Ernst household and learned that Wilson’s new partner wanted to join the family, while Red Scales faced pressure to marry. He then arrived late to teach at Holy Tower Academy, where Dean Jessica reprimanded him and ordered him to make up the classes.

• Nataya told Saine that Wilson’s new partner had given him a son and wanted to join the Ernst Family, while Xia Ya chose not to interfere.
• Saine invited Lunna to his laboratory after dinner and noticed Red Scales, who had fled her family’s efforts to arrange a marriage alliance.
• Saine asked the women about their lives before heading to the laboratory, followed by Nataya.
• Saine arrived at Holy Tower Academy carrying teaching materials and learned that the Azure Source Holy Tower had nearly thirty thousand apprentices.
• Jessica reprimanded Saine for missing the previous day’s public classes, ordered him to make them up, and said his salary would be docked.
• Serena tugged Saine toward class as he watched Jessica walk away.

Saine taught fire-element principles at the Holy Tower Academy, where Dean Jessica asked about a subject connected to her hidden trouble. He later visited the Grant Family and saw how much it had developed since his last return.

• Saine taught foundational fire-element knowledge to apprentices and auditors, including Dean Jessica, and several advanced magicians pondered his theories.
• Goria recognized Saine after he revealed his aura and told him that her father was occupied with experiments.
• Jessica asked Saine to explain how fire-element power affected organs and emotions, and Saine invited her to visit him about her condition.
• Jessica never visited Saine, who concluded that her trouble was only an odd habit rather than a life-threatening danger.
• Saine returned to the Grant Family and found that Ulysses had advanced to Level 3, the family had seven Level 1 Knights and a registered Level-1 Magician, and Kelman remained its sole Level-2 Knight.
• Saine found the Reverse Feather Lion King lazing in the sun despite being in the process of advancing to Level 3.

Saine returned to the Grant Family, improved its Violet Flame Battle Qi and supported his relatives’ development before resuming his research at the Azure Source Holy Tower. Ten years later, his mentor Luluenman summoned him to a major sect gathering at the Azure Flame Holy Tower, where they would also address Saine’s physical condition.

• The Reverse Feather Lion King’s descendants multiplied near the Grant Family, and Saine returned to a family eager to welcome him.
• Saine assessed Ulysses’s Violet Flame Battle Qi and promised to improve it, then asked the family’s Level 1 knights to participate in experiments.
• Over two years, Saine revised Violet Flame Battle Qi three times, created training plans, and helped the Grant Family’s knights advance.
• Saine studied Nataya and Lunna’s development, offered Xia Ya demon potions after she rejected his experiment, and continued researching at the Holy Tower.
• Ten years after returning to the Azure Source Holy Tower, Saine received Luluenman’s summons to attend a major sect gathering at the Azure Flame Holy Tower.

At the Azure Flame Holy Tower’s Sect Gathering, Saine reunited with his mentor Luluenman and grandmaster Cuilisi, who praised his rapid progress. Cuilisi agreed to help resolve Saine’s difficult questions about Truth Arcana, the Law Body, and Ashes of Fire, and began preparing to teach him.

• Saine arrived at the Azure Flame Holy Tower’s Sect Gathering and found few familiar faces, while Sylph was absent.
• Luluenman summoned Saine to a private room where she and Cuilisi were talking.
• Cuilisi praised Saine’s progress and remarked on his possession of the Faceless Mask.
• Cuilisi invited Saine to ask about the Law Body and Flame Element Qualitative Transformation Arcana.
• Saine presented his accumulated questions, and Cuilisi agreed to explain them while Luluenman offered to bring her water.

While Cuilisi spent months guiding Saine through questions about Law Bodies, he clarified his plans for a future Holy Tower. The sect gathered to hear Flame Sword Airlid recount a Plane War, and Saine laughed at the exaggerations in his story.

• Gagaru and Pinas wondered whether Cuilisi had told them to gather three months earlier, while Cuilisi remained engrossed in teaching Saine.
• Cuilisi brought Saine and Luluenman to her luxurious private laboratory, where Saine learned more about constructing his Law Body and began planning his Holy Tower.
• Flame Sword Airlid told junior Azure Blaze Sect Magicians about advancing to Level 4 and fighting in a Plane War.
• Saine arrived as Airlid recounted his battle against a Level-4 lifeform, and Saine laughed at the exaggerated details.
• Cuilisi and Luluenman joined the gathering after Cuilisi realized that three months had passed.

Saine attended the Azure Blaze Sect gathering, where Airlid noticed his masked presence and pressed him to reveal his face. Just as Saine began to lift the Faceless Mask, Cuilisi rushed in and warned him not to remove it.

• Airlid noticed Saine's brief laugh and asked Sylph whether she knew him.
• Sylph introduced Saine as Luluenman's only disciple, and Saine declined to challenge Airlid's account of fighting a Level-4 lifeform.
• Airlid urged the younger magicians to flee if they encountered a Level-4 lifeform and invited Saine to share his experiences and cultivation difficulties.
• Airlid called Saine's mask impolite and asked him to remove it, drawing agreement from several magicians.
• Saine began lifting the Faceless Mask, but Cuilisi arrived and urgently told him not to take it off.

Saine’s elemental transformation erupted after he lifted one corner of the Faceless Mask, revealing that he was on the verge of advancing to Level 4. Cuilisi and the other senior magicians contained the resulting Ash Power as the Holy Tower evacuated its magicians and activated its protective network.

• Saine’s suppressed elementalization and Law Body condensation surged out of control when he lifted a corner of the Faceless Mask.
• Ailide shielded the nearby magicians, while Cuilisi tried to suppress Saine’s Element Power and Gagaru sealed off the hall with a Flame Wall.
• Saine transformed into a fiery Demon True Body and said he could not control the Ash Power spilling from him.
• Gagaru and the others recognized that Saine’s Demon True Body and Ash Law were approaching the power of a Level-4 lifeform.
• Cuilisi ordered the magicians to evacuate and the Holy Tower Magic Light Network to activate, as a sea of fire poured from the tower into the sky.
• The dean of the Azure Flame Holy Tower looked up at the flames and wondered whether someone else had advanced to Level 4.

Saine’s breakthrough to Level 4 disturbed the Wizard World and drew two Inspectors, who fined him for failing to register. They accepted two Divinities as collateral and escorted him to Cuilisi’s Azure Fire Mountain Range to finish advancing.

• Saine’s breakthrough unleashed immense elemental power, revealing his Laws and disrupting the region around the Azure Flame Holy Tower.
• Two Level-4 Inspectors confronted Saine for violating Holy Tower regulations by advancing without applying in advance.
• The male Inspector set Saine’s fine at 1.2 million Magic Coins, and Saine offered the Great Strength God Divinity and God of Spring Water Divinity as collateral.
• Cuilisi proposed that Saine complete his advancement at the Law Node in her Azure Fire Mountain Range, and the Inspectors agreed.
• Saine flew with the Inspectors, Cuilisi, and Gagaru toward a volcano crater, then told Ailide that low-level lifeforms should flee when Level-4 beings approach a battlefield.

Saine began advancing to Level 4 in the volcano, prompting Cuilisi to urge Luluenman to apply for Alliance subsidies and rewards on his behalf. While the Sect Gathering continued without him, Cuilisi warned that the coming Wizard Alliance Assembly would prepare the Wizard World for war with the Galente Federation.

• Saine submerged into the volcano's magma to absorb Fire Elements and comprehend Ash Law as he advanced to Level 4.
• Cuilisi reminded Luluenman that Saine could receive Wizard Alliance subsidies before advancing and rewards after reaching Level 4, and Luluenman agreed to handle the application.
• Sect members gathered around Sylph to ask about Saine, while Luluenman worried about supporting her disciple and his future Holy Tower expenses.
• After Saine's advancement crisis was resolved, the Sect Gathering proceeded and Cuilisi discussed the upcoming Wizard Alliance Assembly and the tense situation with the Galente Federation.

At the Sect Gathering, Cuilisi explained why Saine would miss the Wizard Alliance Assembly and warned her disciples about the approaching Civilization War. She then announced that the Off-Ground Light Flame Holy Tower would lead a Plane War, leaving the Azure Flame Holy Tower’s disciples to take part while Saine remained in seclusion.

• Cuilisi regretted that Saine’s recent advancement to Level 4 meant he could not attend the Wizard Alliance Assembly, but said his increased strength mattered more before the Civilization War.
• Cuilisi told Gagaru, Pinas, and the other disciples about the coming war with the Galente Federation and the matters expected at the Twenty-Fifth Wizard Alliance Assembly.
• Cuilisi announced that the Off-Ground Light Flame Holy Tower’s Plane War would invite other members of the Azure Blaze Sect to participate.
• Pinas introduced a water-element Low-Level Plane discovered by her friend, the master of the Green Grain Knights' Hall, and described its Strange Claw Swimming Fish inhabitants.
• Pinas explained that four Holy Towers and one Knights' Hall would join the conquest, while Cuilisi’s Azure Flame Holy Tower would leave the opportunity to her disciples.

After fifty years cultivating at the Azure Fire Mountain Range, Saine emerged as a Level-4 lifeform with stronger command of the Ash Law and Law of Light. Cuilisi sent him to Shui Mi Bo Liu World to join his mentor’s ongoing war and learn to fight at his new level.

• Saine emerged from the Azure Fire Mountain Range as its volcanoes erupted, having completed his transformation to Level 4.
• Saine reflected on his stronger mastery of the laws and his connection to the Wizard World Will, and resolved that he wanted to serve the Mother Plane.
• Cuilisi praised Saine’s strength and told him the war in Shui Mi Bo Liu World was still underway.
• Cuilisi explained that Saine’s mentor had gone to the Wizard Alliance to handle procedures and ordered Saine to help watch over her Holy Tower Legion.
• Saine retrieved the Faceless Mask and Brilliant Heart Magic Staff, then flew toward the Azure Flame Holy Tower’s Space Teleportation Array.
• Cuilisi watched Saine depart and wondered where he had obtained so many divinities.

Saine arrived in Shui Mi Bo Liu World as the Wizard World’s forces closed in on the native creatures’ last stronghold. As Jessica coordinated the attack from the Azure Source Holy Tower’s Space Fortress, a powerful allied lifeform approached.

• Saine arrived in Shui Mi Bo Liu World and saw five Space Fortresses overhead, including one he suspected belonged to Ailide.
• Saine sensed Tourmaline in the world and learned that she had joined the campaign with more than two million Sea Folk troops supplied by Bai Xing.
• The Wizard World’s forces confined the native resistance to Southeast Coral City and launched another assault as Saine reached the battlefield.
• Jessica ordered a Thousand-Man Magician Formation to support the front lines with ice-element and earth-element magic.
• A Second-Level Magician warned Jessica that a powerful allied lifeform was approaching, and she spotted a fiery figure streaking toward the Space Fortress.

Saine helped the Wizard World forces overwhelm Shui Mi Bo Liu World, revealing his Level-4 strength as he devastated its marine creatures. At the battlefield’s core, Gagaru and other powerful magicians prepared to capture the plane’s two Level-4 natives alive.

• Saine used the Faceless Mask to assess the battlefield and blasted a hidden Demigod-level sea monster with his Brilliant Heart Magic Staff.
• Saine advanced through the battlefield, killing marine creatures with elemental beams and sound-wave attacks.
• Jessica recognized Saine as a Level-4 lifeform and ordered the Azure Source Holy Tower Legion to advance while directing troops to salvage the sea monster’s corpse.
• Saine reached the battlefield’s core, where Wizard World powerhouses trapped Shui Mi Bo Liu World’s two Level-4 creatures and planned to capture them alive.

Saine joined the Wizard World forces besieging two wounded native Level-4 creatures beneath the Sea Eye and used the Faceless Mask to devise a faster way to capture them. He charged into the waterspout over the sea serpent and began forming a complex magic array, leaving Pinas intrigued by his technique.

• Saine arrived at the battlefield, where Beleka and Pinas noticed his powerful aura and the Faceless Mask assessed the native creatures' injuries and the odds of defeating or capturing them.
• Gagaru said the Large Water Tornado Extraction Magic Array could be maintained for 36,721 hourglasses, while the array continued draining Water Element power from the Sea Eye.
• Saine offered to raise the chance of capturing the creatures alive by another 17% and asked for help from a Level-4 powerhouse who commanded Plant Element power.
• Pinas agreed and patted Beleka, then Saine flew into the giant waterspout above the sea serpent and unleashed Light and Fire Elements with his Brilliant Star Magic Staff.
• Saine's elemental attacks formed an intricate pattern that Pinas recognized as a kind of magic array.

Saine used a magic array and Beleka’s arrow to cripple the Level-4 sea serpent and shatter the marine plant’s defenses. With Gagaru and the others closing in, Tourmaline arrived to help turn the battle further in their favor.

• Saine used the Faceless Mask to form a suppressive magic array that cut into the Level-4 sea serpent and forced it toward Gagaru’s waiting fists.
• Saine bombarded the Level-4 marine plant as it joined the sea serpent’s counterattack against him.
• Saine drew the enemy’s attacks toward the ocean and signaled Beleka, who fired a Plant Element arrow into his Six-pointed Star Array.
• The combined attack disrupted the seawater and shattered the marine plant’s light shield while Saine used a fragment of the Biranssen God’s divine spark to drain its nutrients.
• Gagaru attacked the trapped sea serpent as Pinas, Beleka, and Airlid moved against the marine plant.
• Tourmaline arrived from the western ocean and made the Level-4 battle even more one-sided.

Saïne spared the defeated Level-4 sea serpent and marine plant, then discussed establishing his own Holy Tower with Tourmaline. After Luluenman returned with the Wizard Alliance procedures and funds, Saïne decided to establish the tower in the Ebarute Empire.

• Tourmaline asked Saïne not to kill the defeated marine creatures, and Saïne promised they might earn a chance to join the Wizard Alliance.
• Tourmaline showed Saïne rare materials and unusual items, then agreed to bring them to his laboratory.
• Saïne invited Tourmaline to look for a site for his Holy Tower and suggested the Magic Empire Ebarute.
• Luluenman returned after completing Saïne's Wizard Alliance procedures and reported that 2.27 million Magic Coins had been secured, with about one million remaining after repaying the mortgaged divine sparks.
• Luluenman relayed an offer of a subsidy if Saïne joined the Gate of Elements and the Flame Conclave, and Saïne said he would join the Gate of Elements but establish his Holy Tower in the Ebarute Empire.

Saine chose to establish his Holy Tower in the Ebarute Empire despite the high costs, and Luluenman supported his ambition and gave him a Silver Constructed Magic Puppet as a graduation gift. The chapter ended with Luluenman confronting Saine about what he had hidden from her, while Saine considered asking Rose for advice and remembered her promise of a demigod-level Dark Elf Queen.

• Luluenman warned Saine that establishing a Holy Tower in the Ebarute Empire would cost four to six times as much as in the Green Source Land, but supported his decision to strive there.
• Luluenman promised Saine he could return to serve as her dean or establish a tower near the Green Source Land if his efforts failed.
• Saine asked Luluenman to sell him her Silver Constructed Magic Puppet for Yuli, and Luluenman gave it to him as a graduation gift.
• Saine briefly suggested establishing his Holy Tower near Luluenman, but she urged him to follow his true choice.
• Luluenman questioned Saine about concealing details of the war, including Rose, the Purgatory Demon Clan, and the two Level-4 Biological Heart Cores in his Magic Staff.
• Saine considered seeking Rose's advice and remembered that she had promised him a demigod-level Dark Elf Queen.

As the war in the Shui Mi Bo Liu World ended, Saine received substantial funds and returned to the Wizard World, where he reclaimed two godheads and learned he might miss the next Wizard Alliance Assembly. He began considering where to establish his Holy Tower and decided to inspect potential regions before choosing.

• Saine learned that his war profits would eventually bring him around two million Magic Coins, while Luluenman and Cuilisi gave him more than 2.7 million Magic Coins combined.
• Saine returned to the Wizard World, paying nearly twenty thousand Magic Coins for the teleportation trip.
• Saine spoke with Inspector Megasin and learned about Inspector coverage, then paid 1.2 million Magic Coins to redeem his two godheads.
• Megasin told Saine that invitations to the Twenty-Fifth Wizard Alliance Assembly had already gone out, so Saine might miss it if he established a Holy Tower now.
• Saine decided to inspect the Ebarute Empire and other regions before choosing where to establish his Holy Tower.

Saine returned to Sky City to meet Piton and commission powerful Constructed Magic Puppets for Yuli, then headed toward the district for lifeforms above Level 4. A White Skirt Woman noticed and examined him as she passed.

• Saine arrived in Sky City and visited old man Piton, who had advanced to Level 3 by incorporating Mechanic Arcana into his body.
• Saine asked Piton to make four top-tier demigod-level Constructed Magic Puppets for Yuli and paid him three hundred thousand Magic Coins.
• Saine told Piton he would later need him to inspect Luluenman's damaged Silver Magic Puppet, and Piton agreed.
• Saine left the Heavy Industry Laboratory and headed for Sky City's district for lifeforms above Level 4.
• A White Skirt Woman passed Saine and paused to inspect him and his Faceless Mask.

Saine uploaded knowledge from Faelun Continent and Mystra’s Spell Models to the Arcane Light, becoming a Level-4 Arcanist before leaving Sky City. He visited the Dark Flame Holy Tower, learned that Kester had departed and advanced to demigod, and agreed to meet Dark Flame Master.

• Saine uploaded his Faelun Continent knowledge and Mystra’s Spell Models, earning more than 107,000 Arcane Points and reaching Level-4 Arcanist rank.
• Saine left Sky City while the White Skirt Woman who had watched him returned toward the Mamet United Alliance.
• Saine changed course near the Ebarute Empire and visited the Dark Flame Holy Tower, hoping to recruit former acquaintances for his future academy.
• Saine learned from Bob that Kester had left the tower five hundred years earlier and had since become a demigod.
• Bob received a message from Dark Flame Master and invited Saine to meet him, which Saine accepted.