Recaps

Saine successfully advanced to Level 6 after a long breakthrough, with the Guardian Organization helping stabilize the Land of Ashes’ rules. He thanked the four Guardians and promised a donation, then considered returning to the Zerg to obtain more Life Mucus.

• Saine’s successful advancement created a vast Element Torrent above Ash Holy Tower, while four Guardian Organization powerhouses drew on the Plane Nodes to support him.
• Saine spent three months immersed in the plane’s rules before emerging and experiencing the power of Level 6.
• The four Guardian Organization members congratulated Saine, who thanked them for assisting his breakthrough and the Land of Ashes.
• Saine gave the exhausted Guardians Life Potions and promised to donate twenty million Magic Coins to the Guardian Organization on the South Coast.
• Saine recalled that the Zerg had lifted restrictions on him and wondered whether he could return to the Blade Empress’s pool for more Life Mucus.

Saine learned that Guardian Organization members would soon be stationed in the Land of Ashes, potentially exposing its hidden affairs, but he still donated generously to support the organization. Meili then told him Serena and Irene were near death, prompting him to order their transfer to his Laboratory No. 7 for an urgent soul-transfer experiment.

• A Level-5 Magician explained that the Guardian Organization planned to station at least two Level-4 members in the rapidly expanding Land of Ashes.
• Saine worried the visitors might uncover the Land of Ashes' illicit industries, but he donated twenty million Magic Coins to the South Coast Guardian Organization and promised further support for the local branch.
• Meili told Saine that Serena and Irene's Soul Fires were extremely weak and that Serena's soul had nearly dispersed decades earlier.
• Saine ordered Serena and Irene sent to Laboratory No. 7 so the soul-transfer experiment could begin immediately.

After advancing to Level Six, Saine tried to save his dying companions Serena and Irene by transferring their souls into his Magic Cube for rebirth. He extracted Serena’s soul successfully, but an accident occurred as he moved it into the Cube.

• Saine brought Serena and Irene to his laboratory, where he reflected on their long lives and the limits of his ability to save them.
• Saine comforted Serena and promised to preserve her soul, and she asked him to care for her disciple Bunieka.
• Saine resolved to support Irene’s family, including Mark, whose chances of advancing to Level Four he considered promising.
• Saine began an experiment to transfer Serena and Irene’s souls into the Magic Cube and create new bodies for them.
• Saine extracted Serena’s soul without damaging it, but an accident occurred during its transfer into the Magic Cube.

Saine’s attempts to transfer Serena’s and Irene’s souls into the Magic Cube failed, leaving only a Soul Light Spot of each that might someday allow their resurrection. After Irene died, Saine resolved to seek answers in Sky City, while the grief in Ash Holy Tower unfolded against the increasingly desperate final stage of the war with the Galente Federation.

• Serena’s soul shattered during the transfer, and the Magic Cube preserved only a Soul Light Spot in its deepest core.
• Saine told Irene the experiment’s result, and she chose to die rather than prolong her final years with Life Potions.
• Saine failed to transfer Irene’s complete soul and preserved a Soul Light Spot, promising to resurrect her and Serena in the future.
• Saine decided to search Sky City for knowledge about resurrection and breaking the Star Realm’s balance.
• Meili, Xia Ya, and the others grew subdued after Serena and Irene’s deaths as the Galente Federation’s suicide attacks intensified.

After advancing to Level 6, Saine told his family that he had preserved Serena and Irene’s Soul Light Spots, leaving open the possibility of their resurrection. He agreed to preserve Lunna’s parents’ Soul Light Spots too and prepared to teach Catherine the Ashes of Fire Profound Truths.

• Saine asked Mel why everyone had been quiet, and Mel said grief and the growing gap between their strength had weighed on them.
• At dinner, Saine revealed that his experiment had preserved Serena and Irene’s Soul Light Spots and that they might someday be resurrected.
• Lunna asked Saine to preserve her parents’ Soul Light Spots if they died, and he agreed.
• Saine reflected that he would also preserve Kelman Grant’s Soul Light Spot, while noting that Soul Light Spots eventually dissipated.
• Saine told Catherine that he would begin teaching her the Ashes of Fire Profound Truths.

Saine taught Catherine the Ashes of Fire Profound Truths and continued helping her with body-tempering experiments, while she secretly developed romantic feelings for him. After Rose urged him to join a campaign against the powerful Corellon Star Region, Saine decided to seek approval from Klopp and began considering how to gather his forces for the war.

• Saine taught Catherine the Ashes of Fire Profound Truths and praised her progress, while she asked to begin their monthly body-tempering experiment.
• Saine spent nearly twenty more years in the Wizard World after advancing to Level 6 and completing the soul transfer experiments for Serena and Irene; Xiao Qi and Luluenman also advanced.
• Rose repeatedly urged Saine to send troops against the Corellon Star Region, a neutral Mid-Level World Civilization with five Level-6 Creatures.
• Saine decided to inform Klopp about Rose's proposed campaign before committing to it, both to seek approval and to avoid taking an unauthorized risk.
• Saine considered mobilizing his legions, allied forces, and Level 4 and above knights and magicians, and thought about asking the Ghost Crow King and Cybertron Planet's Intelligent Robots to join the war.

Saine received permission from Klopp to assemble troops for the Corellon Star Region, while Klopp assigned him a special mission to purge the Sky Track Star World. Saine agreed to confront its summoned Level-6 creature before leading his legions to the next war.

• Saine asked Klopp whether he could dispatch troops to the Corellon Star Region, and Klopp approved without elaborating on the war plan.
• Saine’s grandmaster Cuilisi and the Azure Blaze Sect remained in the conquered Apocalypse Great World, while Saine’s allied legions prepared to join his forces.
• Saine recruited the Huya, Kryptonian, and Wonderful Plane legions before Cuilisi’s forces or Wizard Civilization could send them to other frontlines.
• Saine learned that assembling troops and supplies would take at least thirty years, so he would first travel to carry out Klopp’s mission.
• Klopp ordered Saine to help purge the Sky Track Star World and repel its summoned Level-6 creature, preferably killing it, and Saine accepted.

Saine prepared the Ash Holy Tower forces for an expedition to the Corellon Star Region while two newly advanced Level-4 powerhouses arrived to establish institutions in the Land of Ashes. He then set out on Klopp Knight’s mission to Sky Track Star World, taking Tourmaline’s forces with him for the wider expedition and bringing Fumila and a vast Mechanical Legion to destroy the world’s inhabitants.

• Saine ordered the Holy Towers and Knights' Halls in the Land of Ashes to gather at the Corellon Star Region’s border, while Meili told him that Borrick and Jianulu wished to establish a Holy Tower and a Knights' Hall.
• Saine welcomed Borrick and Jianulu and asked Meili to invite them to join the coming expedition after he returned.
• Tourmaline asked to join the expedition, and Saine agreed as she went to gather her Sea Folk Legion and the Sea King Class creatures left by Bai Xing.
• Saine left the Combined Fortress Group behind and set out for Sky Track Star with Fumila and more than ten million mechanical units stored in his Magic Cube.
• Saine traveled toward Sky Track Star World, a remote Low-Level Plane whose stagnant development had been worsened by Wizard Civilization’s exploitation.

Saine arrived at Sky Track Star to help crush its rebellion and found a Level-6 metal sphere protecting the wounded Moro. When the sphere warned that the Evil Tide Crisis was approaching, Saine stopped his attack and demanded to hear more.

• A Skytrack Star Demigod blamed Wizard Civilization for exploiting their people and reusing the remains of fallen powerhouses, helping fuel the civilization’s defection.
• Saine reached Sky Track Star and saw its ruined planets and demiplanes as he flew toward the remaining battle.
• A Level-6 metal sphere asked the Wizard Civilization powerhouses to let it take Moro away, while Moro stood wounded with a dead female Level-4 creature in its arms.
• Saine arrived and ordered the sphere attacked, but halted his own spell when it warned that the Evil Tide Crisis was coming.
• Saine demanded that the sphere repeat its warning, while the other Wizard Civilization powerhouses continued attacking its metal barriers.

Saine learned that the Evil Tide Civilization might threaten the Star Realm and decided to capture the Level-6 creature from the Black Wall Star World so the Wizard Civilization could question it. As the creature tried to escape, Saine and Fumila attacked to stop it.

• The metallic sphere told Saine that the Evil Tide Civilization had destroyed many World Civilizations and that the Celestial Origin World was leading an alliance against it.
• Saine questioned the sphere about the Celestial Origin World and its Saint Ancestor, then considered whether reports that the Evil Tide Civilization had annexed eleven Top-Level Civilizations were true.
• Saine decided to report the threat to Klopp Knight after the mission and resolved not to let the sphere escape.
• Saine activated his Ash Demon Law Body and told the sphere to return with him to the Wizard World, while Fumila appeared behind it.
• The sphere tried to flee through a reverse spatial summoning passage, so Saine fired a forbidden spell and shouted for Fumila to fuse with him.

Saine fused with Fumila and unleashed his strongest abilities to stop a Level-6 Black Wall Star creature from escaping through a summoning passage. After more than half a year, they subdued it alive and left the remaining purge of the Sky Track Star World to the other Wizard World powerhouses as they escorted the captive toward Wizard World.

• Saine fused with Fumila and attacked the Level-6 sphere with their secret treasures, elemental bombardment, and close-quarters strikes.
• Saine and the Wizard World powerhouses dragged the sphere out of its summoning passage and defeated it after a fierce battle.
• After more than half a year, Saine, Fumila, and the other powerhouses restrained the sphere inside a cocoon of elemental light.
• Saine learned that Fumila had killed Moro and left Moro's corpse and other spoils to the Wizard World powerhouses.
• Saine told the powerhouses to continue the cleansing operation and departed with Fumila to escort the captive to Wizard World.

Saine reported to Klopp Knight that the Evil Tide Civilization had allegedly destroyed eleven Top-Level Civilizations, prompting Klopp to alert the Wizard Civilization’s upper echelons. Klopp also outlined the Wizard Civilization’s unofficial support for Saine and Rose’s coming campaign in the Corellon Star Region, while preparing to consult Befu about the threat.

• Saine told Klopp Knight that a captured Level-6 Creature and an earlier Meteorite Creature had both provided information about the powerful Evil Tide Civilization.
• Klopp Knight considered the report plausible, noted the Meteorite Creature had been headed toward the Immortal Domain, and decided to contact the Wizard Civilization’s other upper echelons.
• Klopp Knight explained that the Wizard Civilization would publicly deny responsibility for the Corellon Star Region campaign, punish Saine and Rose symbolically afterward, and provide no additional legions, though an Elf Great World legion was stationed nearby.
• Saine returned to Ash Holy Tower to prepare for the expedition, while Klopp Knight arranged to transfer the captured creature to Atlanta Interstellar Prison.
• Klopp Knight recalled Shen'ao Nuoding’s prediction of a future crisis and contacted Befu to report the Evil Tide information and ask what she knew about the Overseer.

Saine inspected the Yi Crystal Demiplane and renewed his support for Maya and the Centaur Clan before departing for the Wizard World. Maya was left grateful and flustered, wondering whether Saine was effectively keeping her.

• Saine visited the Yi Crystal Demiplane, where legions from allied worlds had gathered, and spoke with the Level-4 Centaur God Maya.
• Saine asked about Luna’s attempt to advance to Level 4, and Maya thanked him for the resources and Magic Coins he had provided.
• Saine offered Maya two divine sparks and promised another seven million Magic Coins for her divine kingdom.
• Maya blushed as she considered Saine’s generosity a kind of keeping, while Saine remained unaware of her thoughts.
• Saine said farewell to Maya and departed the demiplane for the Wizard World.

Saine inspected preparations for the Corellon Star Region war, then traveled to the Black Domain to check the Black Towers and their legions. He arrived at Zorro’s Moro Black Tower during an attack and ordered the fleeing Level-4 Black Magicians and their backers to meet him.

• Meili told Saine that Jianulu and Borrick wanted to join the Corellon Star Region war, and that Jianulu planned to bring his corps.
• Meili warned Saine that several Black Towers were unstable and advised him to verify the Black Domain’s forces before the expedition.
• Saine traveled to the Black Domain, where he saw frequent battles and used his Level-6 aura to deter the Black Magicians he encountered.
• Saine arrived at Zorro’s Moro Black Tower as two Level-4 Black Magicians fled from their attack.
• Saine ordered a Demigod-level Black Magician to summon the attackers and their backers to meet him, then flew toward Moro Black Tower.

Saine reunited with Zorro at Moro Black Tower and learned that rival factions were still attacking the Black Towers of Zorro and his allies. He punished one attacker through Fumila and set out with Zorro and Gelado to visit Fei'er's Deathly Black Tower.

• Saine arrived at Moro Black Tower, reunited warmly with Zorro, and gave gifts to Zorro's disciples.
• Zorro told Saine that Black Domain remained in chaos and that rival Black Magicians were targeting Moro Black Tower, Fei'er's Deathly Black Tower, and Mei Kaili's Pale Bone Black Tower.
• Saine questioned Gelado, who named Feimengsi of Sharp Bone Black Tower as the other Rank Four Magician who had attacked Moro Black Tower.
• Saine sent Fumila to cut off Feimengsi's arm and ordered him to meet Saine at Deathly Black Tower.
• Saine invited Zorro to visit Fei'er's Black Tower and ordered Gelado to accompany them.

Saine arrived at the Deathly Black Tower and moved to protect Fei'er and Zorro’s Black Towers from Black Domain rivals, while considering how to use his resource network to secure lasting influence. At a Wizard Civilization meeting, reports about the Evil Tide Civilization and the mention of Astral Realm Overseers alarmed Lisa, who silently warned Befu.

• Saine arrived at the Deathly Black Tower, where Fumila had brought a bloodied Level-4 Magician’s arm and Feimengsi and two other Black Magicians waited anxiously.
• Saine considered using his Land of Ashes resource trade to pressure Black Domain powers, then reunited warmly with Fei'er and heard that Xia Erba was leading attacks on their Black Towers.
• Saine contacted Meili about the situation as he inspected Black Towers ahead of the expedition to the Corellon Star Region.
• At a battlefield video conference, Klopp’s report on the Evil Tide Civilization prompted Chao Feng to share what the Aliba Merchant Alliance had heard about it.
• Lisa recognized the significance of the term Astral Realm Overseer and, unable to explain the secrets directly, gave Befu a meaningful look and nodded.

Befu investigated whether the Evil Tide Civilization was real, while Saine prepared to bring another Black Tower into the war in the Corellon Star Region. The Immortal Domain had no knowledge of the Evil Tide, and Saine learned that Dean Martin had fallen on the battlefield.

• Befu asked Lisa about the Evil Tide Crisis, then ordered Klopp Knight to question the Immortal Domain Civilization.
• The Intercept Sect, Buddhism Sect, and Demon Race denied knowing the Evil Tide Civilization, so Befu told Klopp to ask Nezha.
• Saine learned that Xia Erba had gone into hiding and could not be searched for while the Black Towers prepared to depart for the Corellon Star Region.
• Zorro introduced Lady Qiongni and asked Saine to let her Dark Source Black Tower join the expedition, and Saine agreed.
• Qiongni told Saine that Dean Martin had fallen on the Galente Federation Battlefield four thousand years earlier.

Saine reunited with his former classmate Lilianya, whose body had been partly mechanized, and proposed a future research collaboration. After Saine and Zorro left, Lilianya and Qiongni speculated about Saine’s interest in Qiongni, while Saine mistakenly teased Zorro about having feelings for her.

• Saine met Qiongni’s disciple Lilianya and examined her mechanical eye and other bodily modifications.
• Saine greeted Lilianya and suggested they might collaborate on experiments in the future.
• Qiongni asked Lilianya whether Saine might have special feelings for her, and Lilianya joked that he seemed more interested in Qiongni.
• As Saine and Zorro departed, Saine asked whether Zorro liked Qiongni, but Zorro denied it.
• Saine told Zorro that having a child and a bond of blood could be nice, and Zorro awkwardly revealed that he and his female disciples occasionally did that.

Saine arranged the Black Domain forces for the Corellon Star Region war and used his influence to settle conflicts within the Black Domain. After Saine departed for the frontline, the Guardian of Summer learned of his role and planned to support the Guardian Organization in his Land of Ashes.

• Saine inspected the Black Domain's army and resolved problems among its Black Towers before returning to the Ash Holy Tower, where he told Nasi Xiu to stay close to his mothers during the Plane War.
• Xia Erba came to the Ash Holy Tower under pressure from Boergen and other Black Domain elders and offered Saine one of his severed hands as an apology.
• Saine warned Xia Erba and used his connections with the Guardians and Black Domain powerhouses to pressure the region's leaders into addressing its disorder.
• Andy Dufresne and other Level-6 Black Magicians began a cleanup across the Black Domain, and its atmosphere started to settle.
• The Guardian of Summer learned that Saine had helped resolve the Black Domain's problems and, after he had departed for the frontline, decided to send support to his Guardian Organization.

Saine gathered the forces joining his campaign and led nearly twenty Space Fortresses toward the Corellon Star Region. As legions and allies prepared to arrive, the Ghost Crow King agreed to join later, bringing spoils from the Federation battlefield.

• Saine welcomed Borrick and Jianulu into the Land of Ashes, giving Borrick his Demon Bloodlines notebook and promising to refine Jianulu’s axe.
• After the armies and supplies assembled in the Yi Crystal Demiplane, Saine’s forces departed for the front lines in nearly twenty Space Fortresses.
• Meili reported that several allied legions had already headed to the battlefield and that Jin Tieshou would command the dispatched Intelligent Robot Legion.
• Saine learned that the Ghost Crow King was delayed by a mission in the Galente Federation but agreed to bring its Crow Legion to the Corellon Star Region later.
• The Ghost Crow King promised to deliver recently seized Federation spoils to Saine when they met.

Saine arrived at the Corellon Star Region with an enormous force, alarming Spider Queen Rose, who had expected him to contribute far less. He agreed to Rose’s campaign plan and met Green, Angle, and Green’s fiancée Sherry as the war preparations continued.

• Saine brought seven Combined Fortresses and numerous legions to the Corellon Star Region, making his strength exceed Rose and Iruike’s combined forces when Fumila was included.
• Rose confronted Saine over his unexpectedly large contribution, and Saine assured her that he sought wartime profits rather than the star region’s later development profits.
• Rose explained that she had already captured more than thirty planes and assigned Saine’s forces nearly twenty difficult plane assaults and more than ten new fronts.
• Saine accepted Rose’s assignments and met the arriving legion leaders Green and Angle.
• Green introduced Saine to his fiancée Sherry, a Level-5 Witch from the Northern Witches Organization whose Ice Crystal Phoenix Goni greeted Saine warmly.

Saine welcomed Green, Angle, and other Wizard Civilization forces to the Corellon Star Region and reviewed the difficult planes assigned to his group. Meanwhile, Corellon leaders remained divided over the invasion, and their attempts to contact Wizard Civilization had failed as the King of Corellon led the Pro-War Faction to the front.

• Saine teased Green and Sherry about their planned marriage, and Sherry said they would wed after the Civilization War ended.
• Angle told Saine that his wounded family head had entrusted him with the Silver Moon's Fang Magic Staff and that the Como Yin Giant Serpent Warlock Family was shifting toward his leadership.
• Angle introduced his sons Dennis and Xi Rui, and Saine brought Nasi Xiu over so the young magicians could meet.
• Rose assigned Saine and his allies more than thirty difficult alien planes to conquer in the Corellon Star Region.
• A Level-5 Corellon Creature told a Level-6 companion that Wizard Civilization had refused to receive their envoys, while Kakadora and the others sought contacts through the Alibaba Interstellar Merchant Association.
• The King of Corellon and two other Level-6 Creatures backed the Pro-War Faction, and the King had already led his legions to the front lines.

Corellon Star Region leaders debated whether to resist the Wizard Civilization or seek peace after years of neutrality left them facing invasion. A Level-6 Corellon creature learned that Kanalido was trying to enlist the Lord of Wuzhuo to help resolve the crisis.

• Some Corellon leaders favored joining the Wizard Alliance, while the King of Corellon and his supporters argued that peace required first repelling the Wizard Civilization’s forces.
• The chapter recounted how the Corellon Planet Council had repeatedly rejected offers from both the Wizard Civilization and the Galente Federation, including a proposal to join the Wizard Alliance twenty-five hundred years earlier.
• The Wizard Civilization’s leadership had permitted Saine and Rose to attack the Corellon Star Region to end its neutrality and compel the surrounding civilizations to choose sides.
• A Level-6 Corellon creature asked where Kanalido was and learned from a Level-5 creature that Kanalido was contacting the Lord of Wuzhuo for help.

Kanalido asked Lord of Wuzhuo for help against the crisis facing the Corellon Star Region, but Lord of Wuzhuo refused. Later, Lord of Wuzhuo told Klopp Knight that Wuzhuo World would join the Wizard Alliance, leaving the world group expected to contribute troops to the war against the Galente Federation.

• Kanalido pleaded with Lord of Wuzhuo to help the Corellon Star Region, but Lord of Wuzhuo refused on neutral grounds.
• After ending the call, Lord of Wuzhuo contacted Klopp Knight and declared its intention to bring Wuzhuo World into the Wizard Alliance.
• Lord of Wuzhuo offered to bring all 1,347 planes of the Wuzhuo World Group into the Alliance and persuade friendly unaligned civilizations to join.
• Klopp Knight welcomed Lord of Wuzhuo but said the Wuzhuo World Group would need to send a Combat Legion to the Federation battlefield to prove its sincerity.
• Lord of Wuzhuo agreed to contribute troops and to distance itself from civilizations that opposed the Wizard Civilization.

Saine joined the assault on the Corellon Star Region and saw that its forces were losing on all three Level-6 battlefields. He descended into Mirage Sea World to support Fumila, who had already pushed its Level-6 defender to the brink.

• Saine’s Combined Fortress Group bombarded Mirage Sea World while troops poured through the breached Plane Barrier, and Fumila charged in to fight its Level-6 defender.
• Saine observed that Iruike was fighting a Corellon powerhouse on Norad Planet alongside a Level-6 Undead Creature, then summoned a Level-6 Corpse Refinement Synthetic Beast to prevent the enemy’s escape.
• Saine assessed that Rose could handle the King of Corellon and descended into Mirage Sea World to hasten the battle.
• Saine arrived at the central battlefield and saw Fumila suppressing the Level-6 Corellon Creature in its combat pod, while Kram and the other allied forces held their ground.