Chapter Summaries

Sunan learned how Lize survived the Starfall Society’s destruction and why she needed rare materials to reshape her body. Lize agreed to serve as Sunan’s assistant for a thousand years in exchange for his help, and their oath contract gave her hope of eventually leaving Fallen Star City.

• Lize explained that the Starfall Society had been destroyed by internal conflict, and she had hidden Fallen Star City before preserving her soul in a codex.
• Lize revealed that she had guided Sunan into the city and wanted to reshape her body using several extremely rare materials.
• Sunan told Lize he had destroyed the Starry Sky Tower and rejected her offer of the Fallen Star Talent Crystal Model as insufficient compensation.
• Sunan showed Lize his Liquid Metal Talent Crystal Model and negotiated for her knowledge and a thousand years of service as his assistant.
• Lize accepted Sunan’s terms, and they signed an Oath Contract requiring her to protect the interests and secrets of Sunan and the Star Alliance.

Sunan took the Star Core and stored Fallen Star City in the Magic Cube, then returned to Dragon Forest and appointed Lize as his assistant to oversee the Star Alliance and Dragon Forest. He left the organization’s affairs in her hands while he focused on cultivation and completing his Wizard Tower, prompting jealousy from Carlo Lena and Red Widow.

• Lize explained the Star Core’s energy, monitoring, and communication functions, and Sunan took it before storing Fallen Star City in the Magic Cube.
• Sunan returned to Dragon Forest with Lize and showed her his Small Wizard Tower, astonishing her with the resources he had gathered by unifying the Starlight Continent.
• Sunan granted Lize authority in the Wizard Tower and Dragon Forest, then appointed her to manage the Star Alliance and review matters in his absence.
• Sunan assigned Secret Puppet Number 1 to carry Lize’s Codex, and Lize ordered Carlo Lena and Red Widow to gather the Star Alliance’s documents for her.
• Red Widow questioned whether they should accept Lize’s authority, but Carlo Lena reminded her that Lize was still a wizard and that the appointment was Sunan’s order.

Sunan advanced Star Alliance development while cultivating, building his Wizard Tower, and developing a stronger Construction Potion. Lize’s knowledge supplied solutions for puppets, Soul Crystals, and teleportation, leaving Sunan optimistic about the Star Alliance’s continued growth.

• After the Deep Sea Naga surrendered, the Star Alliance expanded rapidly across the Rainbow Sea, while Sunan focused on cultivation and his Wizard Tower.
• In 1304, Kei fused a Tyrant Dragon bloodline and became a Bloodline Knight, gaining greater strength but learning he could not pass the ability directly to his descendants.
• Sunan successfully developed a Tier 3 High-Grade Construction Potion, giving the Star Alliance a way to help cultivate wizards.
• Lize helped Sunan plan a Golem Legion, restore the Soul Crystal supply by luring wraiths, and begin constructing a continent-wide Teleportation Network.

Sunan broke through to Level 1 Crystallization and created a second Talent Crystal Model, but filling it with Spirit Power was projected to take nearly 140 years. He asked Lize how to speed up Spirit Power recovery, leaving her astonished by how quickly he had advanced.

• Sunan condensed his Spirit Power into crystals and broke through to Level 1 Crystallization after nearly fifty years.
• Sunan named his second Talent Crystal Model Absolute Restricted Area and spent eleven months synthesizing it from thirty-two Lower Talent Crystal Models.
• Sunan began filling the new Talent Crystal with Spirit Power and calculated that the process could take nearly 140 years at its current pace.
• Lize reviewed the Star Alliance's growth, including its widespread Magic Engines, large golem and knight forces, and expanding fleet.
• Sunan asked Lize for feasible ways to accelerate Spirit Power recovery, and she was stunned to learn he had reached Level 1 Crystallization in about sixty years.

Sunan synthesized a high-purity Magic Stone Essence Mother from Lesser Magic Stones, making it possible to cultivate Lesser Magic Stone Mines. He and Lize planned the Star Alliance’s Mine Cultivation Project to establish several mines and eventually ease the continent’s shortage.

• Lize explained that artificially cultivating Lesser Magic Stone Mines required Earth Vein Nodes and Magic Stone Essence Mothers, which Starlight Continent lacked.
• Sunan synthesized a Magic Stone Essence Mother from Magic Stones and spent more than 2.8 million Lesser Magic Stones raising its purity to 25.37%.
• Lize examined the Magic Stone Essence Mother and confirmed it was pure enough to cultivate a large-scale Lesser Magic Stone Mine.
• Sunan and Lize planned several mines of different sizes, estimated that small mines could form within 150 to 200 years, and named the effort the Mine Cultivation Project.

Sunan continued planning his Wizard Tower and supported several Level Three Wizard Apprentices preparing to make their final attempts at Wizard Advancement. More than three years later, Lize had established a Lesser Magic Stone Mine and advanced the Star Alliance’s infrastructure plans, while Sunan and Lize discussed the work ahead.

• Sunan planned to equip his Wizard Tower with upgraded defenses and a luxurious Small Golem Legion, while estimating that construction would take another fifty or sixty years.
• At Basike’s memorial, Scepter, Rose, and Traveler announced that they would enter seclusion for a final attempt at Wizard Advancement, and Sunan promised that a Large Elemental Pool would improve their chances.
• Sunan gave Ke Lei books on Biological Modification and encouraged Xie Man and Atier to apply to become Starfall’s assistants.
• Sunan decided to strengthen one Elemental Pool every two years, while Lize continued expanding Lesser Magic Stone production and the Teleportation Network.
• More than three years later, Lize reported that the first Lesser Magic Stone Mine had been established and that a second mine was being prepared; she and Sunan also discussed network progress and operating costs.

Fei Laming returned to Starlight Academy and learned about the Star Eye, a magical device developed by Starfall-sama to monitor lifeforms and detect spell use across the grounds. As Innocent showed Fei Laming and Duo Nuo Han how it worked, the Star Eye sounded an alarm and displayed a red halo over the Starlight Wizard Tower.

• Fei Laming met Duo Nuo Han at the Teleportation Plaza, and they discussed Fei Laming's work on a Lesser Magic Stone Mine and rumors about Starfall-sama and Atier.
• Duo Nuo Han told Fei Laming about the Star Eye and persuaded him to visit the monitoring room with him.
• Innocent explained that the Star Eye tracked lifeforms and Energy Particle fluctuations, and Fei Laming inspected his own recorded information.
• Innocent expanded the Star Eye's view to show Area 3, including the Dragon Bone Tower and Starlight Wizard Tower.
• The Star Eye sounded an alarm and showed a red halo over the Starlight Wizard Tower.

Scepter broke through to Wizard, learned that Starlight Continent’s magical environment would eventually recover, and accepted Sunan’s offer to become dean of Starlight Academy. Sunan continued developing the Wizard Tower and estimated it would be complete before Starlight Calendar 1400, preparing for the future struggle against the Gloomy Throne.

• An energy outburst from Cultivation Room 803 revealed that Scepter had advanced to Wizard, and Sunan welcomed him after he emerged from cultivation.
• Sunan explained the Wizard Expedition and the Plane Barrier’s future recovery, giving Scepter hope of eventually reaching Level 2 Wizard despite Starlight Continent’s poor conditions.
• Scepter agreed to become dean of Starlight Academy, and Sunan appointed him to oversee the academy and assist with producing Crystal Soul Potions and Adamantine Golems.
• In Starlight Calendar 1362, Sunan synthesized a Large Elemental Pool, accelerating the Talent Crystal Model’s progress to 22.31%.
• Sunan reviewed the Wizard Tower’s construction and weapons, including the powerful but energy-intensive Disintegration Cannon Type II, and decided to forge a tower spirit to assist with experiments.
• Sunan estimated that the Wizard Tower would be complete before Starlight Calendar 1400 and looked ahead to using it in the coming struggle against the Gloomy Throne.

Sunan learned that the continent had reached its limit of fifty-two Lesser Magic Stone Mines and that completing the Teleportation Network would take decades. After Lize introduced the Star Eye monitoring system, Sunan improved its Lesser Star Cores to extend its range across the Southeast Region, then began research to give them energy-sensing abilities and pursue continent-wide coverage.

• Lize reported that fifty-two Lesser Magic Stone Mines had been established and that the Teleportation Network still needed sixty to seventy years to cover the Underground World.
• Lize showed Sunan the Star Eye, a device made from a Star Core that detected and recorded Energy Particle fluctuations, and explained how Lesser Star Cores could amplify its range.
• Sunan obtained the Lesser Star Core blueprint and used Tower Spirit Number 2 and the Magic Cube to develop stronger cores.
• Sunan and Lize tested successive improvements until the Star Eye could monitor an area with a radius of over seven thousand kilometers, enough to cover the Southeast Region.
• Sunan decided to research giving Lesser Star Cores weak energy-sensing abilities, and Lize agreed to help with the experiments.

Sunan completed the Star Eye monitoring network plan and oversaw the construction of the Starlight Wizard Tower while the Star Alliance’s wizards and apprentices faced breakthroughs and deaths. The tower was officially completed in 1387, leaving Sunan with a powerful base equipped for defense, long-range attacks, and combat.

• Sunan synthesized a more powerful Star Core and named the continent-wide monitoring network the Star Eye Project, which Lize agreed to build gradually as funding allowed.
• Sunan discovered that Traveler had died before completing his breakthrough, then learned that Rose was still alive in seclusion.
• Rose advanced to wizard three months later and accepted Sunan’s appointment as Starlight Academy’s vice principal.
• Sunan completed the Wizard Tower’s energy supply and long-range strike systems, while Fa Ka Duo advanced to wizard and became the second vice principal.
• Sunan finished the tower’s Golem Legion and created Tower Spirit Number 3 to manage combat command and Dragon Forest.
• The Starlight Wizard Tower was officially completed in 1387 with three Tower Spirits, a large Elemental Pool, 300 Spell Turret Type IIs, a Disintegration Cannon Type II, and its Golem Legion.

Fa Nuo Er robbed the Star Alliance and was quickly captured after learning that its reach extended across the continent. Haylen returned to Shining City, visited his grandfather Kei Arnester, and discussed his progress and whether he would attempt the Morning Star Assessment.

• Fa Nuo Er rode through the snow with stolen Silver Moon Flowers until Haylen and another Star Alliance youth attacked and mortally wounded his wolf.
• Fa Nuo Er tried to fight back, but Haylen and his companion overwhelmed him, subdued him, and placed a magic-sealing collar around his neck.
• The youths explained that the Star Eye had tracked Fa Nuo Er and that it covered the Starlight Continent, the Underground World, and the Rainbow Sea.
• Haylen used the Teleportation Array to travel from Sunset Glow City to Shining City, where people learned he was Emperor Kei Arnester's grandson.
• Haylen met Kei, reported that he had constructed his Fifth Star Ring and planned to apply for a Level Two assessment, and heard Kei ask about the Morning Star Assessment.

Kei discussed Haylen’s future at Starlight Academy, while Ta Jiana and Atier handled Star Alliance affairs. Lize discovered that Energy Particle concentration across Starlight Continent had risen by about 10% and ordered a new resource survey to confirm whether the Plane Barrier was restoring faster.

• Haylen told Kei he would wait before applying for the Morning Star Assessment, then asked whether Sunan could become his mentor; Kei warned that Sunan might decline.
• Ta Jiana delivered records of twelve captured Wizard Apprentice criminals to Atier, who ordered them sent to Base 2 to work in the workshops.
• Atier gave Ta Jiana a bottle of Hidden Dragon-sama’s blood to strengthen her Storm Dragon Beast.
• Atier brought important documents to Lize, who ordered Carlo Lena and Red Widow to review resource records and explore the continent for resource sites.
• Lize explained that Star Eye readings showed Energy Particle concentration had increased by about 10%, suggesting the Plane Barrier was recovering, and decided to inform Sunan.

Sunan and Lize discussed the Plane Barrier’s recovery and the threats the Star Alliance might face when the Starlight Continent was unsealed. As the Star Alliance prepared for the future by spreading Lesser Magic Energy Technology, Sunan completed his second Talent Crystal after years of cultivation.

• Sunan told Lize that the Plane Barrier would likely be fully restored after Starlight Calendar Year 1900 and explained that the Star Alliance mainly needed to prepare for the Gloomy Throne and Deadwood Council.
• Sunan reassured Lize that the Star Alliance could withstand the factions’ initial offensives and later seek protection from order-aligned wizard factions.
• Lize reported that the first small Lesser Magic Stone Mine was nearly ready, and Sunan assigned her to begin promoting Lesser Magic Energy Technology in Golden Rock Province before entering seclusion.
• In Starlight Calendar Year 1412, the mine began extraction, and Lesser Magic Stones and related technologies spread across the Starlight Continent, driving a major productivity revolution.
• In Starlight Calendar Year 1422, Sunan filled the final gap in his Talent Crystal Model and successfully constructed his second Talent Crystal.

Sunan advanced to a Level 2 Wizard, strengthened his Spirit Power, and tested the defensive and crushing abilities of his new Talent Crystal, Absolute Restricted Area. He began planning his next research and crafting goals, then told Lize about his breakthrough.

• Sunan completed his second Talent Crystal, Absolute Restricted Area, and advanced to a Level 2 Wizard.
• Sunan synthesized and drank a fifth-tier Crystal Soul Potion, absorbed Divine Energy from Elemental Crystal Cores, and raised his Spirit Power refinement to 14.23%.
• Sunan tested Absolute Restricted Area against Tentacle Lord Puppets and an Adamantine Golem, confirming its powerful defense and crushing pressure.
• Sunan synthesized fifty-four Engraved Gems and found that a single Lightning Explosion Engraved Gem could destroy a Level 1 gasification Tentacle Lord Puppet.
• Sunan decided to pursue Fourth Circle Spells, Tier 2 Wizard Artifacts, and Alchemy Engravings, and planned to visit the Lightning Elemental Plane for Lightning Stones.
• Sunan met Lize and told her he had advanced to Level 2; Lize congratulated him and was pleased by his progress.

Sunan visited the dying Kei Arnester, who asked him to protect the Arnester Family and help it become a wizard family; Sunan promised, but Kei soon passed away. After Kei’s funeral, Abbott Arnester became the second emperor, while Xie Man and Ke Lei resolved to pursue wizard advancement and Atier worried that she had no path to follow.

• Lize told Sunan that Kei the Great had been bedridden with a grave illness for two months, and Sunan went to the palace to see him.
• Sunan treated Kei’s symptoms, but recognized that Kei was nearing the end of his lifespan; alone with Sunan, Kei asked him to protect the Imperial Family and help it produce more Wizard Apprentices.
• Sunan promised that the Arnester Family would remain the Imperial Family and become a powerful wizard family, and Kei died after falling asleep.
• Kei’s funeral lasted two months, and Abbott Arnester ascended the throne in January 1423.
• At the coronation celebration, Xie Man and Ke Lei resolved to enter seclusion and pursue wizard advancement, while Atier worried that she had little chance of advancing.

Sunan continued crafting wizard artifacts and studying the Alchemic Body while the Star Alliance expanded Lesser Magic Energy Technology and Starlight Academy. After learning that Atier was willing to risk becoming a ghost to pursue wizardhood, Sunan agreed to let Lize help her and secured Lize’s promise to join the Star Alliance after her body was reconstructed.

• Sunan crafted his third Black Lightning, bringing his total to six Tier 2 Wizard Artifacts, and decided to research a substitute for the unobtainable Orichalcum needed for an Alchemic Body.
• Sunan spent more than a decade studying Fourth Circle Spells as Lesser Magic Energy Technology spread, mine output grew, and Starlight Academy’s enrollment surpassed twenty-three thousand students.
• Lize told Sunan that Xie Man and Ke Lei had advanced to wizardhood, while Atier lacked the aptitude to advance by normal means.
• Lize revealed that Atier was willing to become a ghost for a chance to advance, and Sunan agreed to let Lize use Alliance resources to help her.
• Sunan asked Lize to join the Star Alliance after her body was reconstructed, and Lize accepted.

Sunan rewarded Xie Man and Ke Lei after they advanced to Wizards, then spent decades transforming his Alchemic Body and inscribing and enhancing two Alchemy Engravings. With Talent Specialization and Mental Accumulation near his body's carrying limit, he gained enough power and Spirit Power to believe he could fight a Level 3 Vaporization Wizard.

• Sunan gave Xie Man and Ke Lei the first-rank Wizard Artifacts Forbidden Zone and Black Lightning as rewards for advancing to Wizards.
• Sunan continued cultivating and supplying the Arnester Family with resources for Wizard Apprentices while the Starry Sky Empire remained under Lize's management.
• Sunan developed Soul Gold and other substitute materials, then spent nearly forty years transforming his Alchemic Body, completing it in Starlight Calendar Year 1509.
• Sunan inscribed Mental Accumulation and Talent Specialization, then used Divine Energy Crystals and the Magic Cube to synthesize and strengthen both engravings.
• Sunan stopped strengthening Talent Specialization after its power threatened to exceed his control, and enhanced Mental Accumulation until it could store roughly all his Spirit Power.
• Sunan concluded that his two enhanced Alchemy Engravings, alongside his other trump cards, gave him confidence to fight a Level 3 Vaporization Wizard.

Lize managed preparations for expanding Lesser Magic Stone mining and building a powerful new puppet legion while addressing an evolving Tyrant Dragon and Atier’s discovery of Frost Nether Stone. The stone’s possible connection to the Nether Shadow Realm led Lize to order an investigation, leaving open whether it signaled an early invasion.

• Lize instructed Atier to prepare mining equipment and Clay Golems for the Lesser Magic Stone mine and began planning a puppet legion of three hundred Tentacle Lord Puppets and fifty Mystic Puppets.
• Atier reported an evolving Tyrant Dragon in Dragon Forest Area 2, and Lize ordered it isolated and given Dragon Blood so wizards could accelerate its evolution.
• Lize said she would discuss how to control the Tyrant Dragon with Sunan after he left seclusion, as he neared another breakthrough.
• Ta Jiana gave Atier a Frost Nether Stone she had found near Bank City, a material needed to reconstruct Atier’s body.
• Lize ordered a search of the area around Bank City and considered whether the stone came from the Nether Shadow Realm, which could mean creatures had entered the Starlight Continent.

A Gray-robed Person investigated Sunset Glow City and discovered that the Star Alliance controlled the plane, then escaped its Enforcement Team after defeating two Level Three Wizard Apprentices. As he entered a secluded forest to hide, two members of the Star Alliance Witch Hunter Legion confronted him and demanded his surrender.

• The Gray-robed Person questioned Yuese at Bu Yi Tavern about Wizard Apprentices, the Star Alliance, the Fire Fox Merchant Guild, and Magic Engines.
• The Gray-robed Person used a spell to make several Fire Fox Merchant Guild guards leave, then departed the tavern after eating.
• Two Star Alliance Enforcement Team members identified the Gray-robed Person as an unregistered Wizard Apprentice and attacked him with Second Circle Spells.
• The Gray-robed Person nullified their spells, defeated them with Energy Particle manipulation, and escaped after they contacted their captain for reinforcements.
• The Gray-robed Person left Sunset Glow City and entered a mountain forest, where two women from the Star Alliance Witch Hunter Legion ordered him to surrender.

The Star Alliance captured a Traveler Wizard who had entered the Starlight Continent, while Sunan advanced to Level 2 Liquefaction and strengthened his combat equipment. The Traveler Wizard’s arrival suggested that the plane blockade was gradually lifting, with fewer than three hundred years remaining before the Gloomy Throne invasion.

• Two Wizard-level puppet girls attacked the Gray-robed Person, and he used his darkness ability to stall them before finding himself surrounded by identical puppets.
• The Gray-robed Person realized the girls were Wizard-level puppets, surrendered, and was taken into Star Alliance custody.
• Sunan absorbed Divine Energy and broke through to Level 2 Liquefaction after more than two hundred years of cultivation.
• Sunan strengthened his Engraved Gems, Wizard Artifacts, and Alchemy Engravings, and considered equipping puppets with gems they could detonate against powerful enemies.
• Lize told Sunan that the Witch Hunter Legion had captured a Traveler Wizard in Sunset Glow City after the monitoring network detected unregistered Energy Particle fluctuations.
• The Traveler Wizard said he had been displaced from the Nether Shadow Realm while fleeing a Night Shadow Giant Worm, leading Sunan to conclude that the Starlight Continent’s blockade was gradually lifting.