Chapter Summaries

Hunter asked the Dark Forest Lodge members to help him fight the Eternal Life Society, which was pursuing him for his Starry Sky Tower Key. After negotiating rewards and a plan, the group agreed to ambush the Society, while Sunan revealed an Adamantine Golem that showed how powerful he was.

• Hunter appeared at the gathering and asked everyone to help eliminate the Eternal Life Society, offering each participant a Starry Sky Tower Key.
• Corpse, Night Owl, Red Heart, Traveler, Hei Lin, and Rose agreed to join after Hunter offered the keys and Dawn Potions; Scepter negotiated for gems, while Sunan demanded two Dawn Potions and a Starry Sky Tower Key.
• Hunter accepted Sunan's demand, and Sunan summoned an Adamantine Golem, convincing the others that he was stronger than they were.
• The group rejected Hunter's request to wipe out the Society and instead agreed to kill any three of Sauluo, Embers, Yi Luo, and Stone Scorpion.
• Hunter revealed that Holy Fist had been helping him and said it would assist with the operation despite its heavy losses; he promised to choose an ambush site and notify everyone.

Sunan prepared for Dark Forest Lodge’s ambush against the Eternal Life Society, while agreeing to support Rose’s efforts to resist the Azure Gold Empire. The ambush began when the Eternal Life Society entered the cavern, and Stone Scorpion’s scream brought the cavern down around both sides.

• Sunan prepared his trump cards and forces before joining Dark Forest Lodge at the sealed cavern ambush site.
• Hunter arrived with six Holy Fist knights, and the group took positions to trap the Eternal Life Society inside the cavern.
• Rose asked Sunan to support the Starry Sky Principality against the Azure Gold Empire, and Sunan agreed to convey her intentions.
• Sauluo, Yi Luo, Embers, and Stone Scorpion entered the cavern and found Dark Forest Lodge waiting to attack them.
• Embers launched the first attack, and Stone Scorpion unleashed a soundwave that collapsed the cavern.

Sunan survived Stone Scorpion’s cavern-collapse attack and killed him with a barrage of Calamity Rings. Elsewhere, Embers fought Scepter, Traveler, Pu Weiduo, and Mo Si, while Yi Luo’s illusions repeatedly thwarted their attempts to gain the upper hand.

• Sunan stabilized himself in the cavern below, recognized Stone Scorpion’s Stone Singer bloodline, and faced him alone.
• Sunan overwhelmed Stone Scorpion with repeated Calamity Claws and finished him with a lightning strike.
• Sunan searched for the others with Spirit Power, found no trace of them, and flew off in a chosen direction.
• Embers battled Scepter, Traveler, Pu Weiduo, and Mo Si, while his flames killed several Holy Fist knights.
• Scepter summoned a Mastiff-Headed Spirit Envoy, which wounded Embers, but Yi Luo’s illusion made Traveler see a torrent and helped Embers kill the envoy.
• Scepter blamed Yi Luo’s powerful illusions for repeatedly disrupting the group’s efforts to defeat Embers.

Sunan arrived in the cave battle and used powerful spells and repeated Glimmer Grade Magical Items to turn the fight against Embers and Yi Luo, killing Embers as the others moved to intercept the fleeing Yi Luo. Elsewhere, Rose and Red Heart fled after Sauluo scattered their group, then encountered Night Owl, Hei Lin, and Hunter, who urged them to run.

• Embers and Yi Luo trapped Scepter and Traveler, killed Pu Weiduo and Mo Si, and prepared to finish the survivors before Sunan broke through the curtain of fire.
• Sunan used the Doom Knocker Imprint to dispel Yi Luo's illusion and injure her and Embers, then attacked Yi Luo with spells while freezing Embers's flames with several Ice Seal Necklaces.
• Embers and Yi Luo tried to flee, but Traveler and Scepter intercepted them; Sunan killed Embers with a Silver Metal Storm and then flew toward Yi Luo.
• Rose and Red Heart fled after Sauluo defeated their group and forced them to scatter.
• Rose and Red Heart encountered Night Owl, Hei Lin, and Hunter, and Night Owl told them to run.

Night Owl, Rose, and the others were pursued by the Multi-Winged Monster, which killed Red Heart before they escaped into Sunan’s cavern. Sunan recognized the creature as a Divine Being, overwhelmed it with his trump cards, and began drawing a sealing array, but a black shadow suddenly lunged at him from behind.

• The Multi-Winged Monster chased Rose, Red Heart, Night Owl, Hei Lin, and Hunter through the tunnel, killing Red Heart with its air blades after its howl disrupted the group.
• Night Owl and the others broke through a dead-end wall and entered a cavern where Sunan, Traveler, and Scepter had been confronting Yi Luo, who escaped amid the confusion.
• Sunan recognized the Multi-Winged Monster as the Divine Being worshipped by the eye demons and agreed to capture it alive by himself if he could.
• Sunan used Metal Storm, Doom Knocker Imprints, High-Level Rune Gems, and Calamity Claws to defeat the monster and leave it barely alive.
• Sunan began drawing a sealing array beside the fallen monster, but a black shadow burst from the opening and lunged at his back.

Sunan identified Sauluo’s Carlos Giant Python Bloodline and explained how its Seeds of Killing Intent absorbed attacks and fed on hostility, then sent the others away to face Sauluo alone. He summoned a secret doll as his apparent trump card, leaving its abilities unrevealed.

• Sauluo and Yi Luo ambushed Dark Forest Lodge with giant pythons, and the translucent snake heads planted Seeds of Killing Intent in their targets.
• Sauluo and Yi Luo used the snake heads and an illusion to kill Hei Lin while the others struggled to damage the creatures.
• Sunan shattered all seven snake heads with the Magic Rune Core, then recognized Sauluo’s Carlos Giant Python Bloodline and explained its abilities.
• Sunan admitted he had killed Stone Scorpion, ordered Night Owl and the others to retreat, and prepared to face Sauluo himself.
• Sunan summoned a human-looking secret doll and ordered it to show Sauluo what it could do.

Sunan and his secret puppet fought Sauluo and Yi Luo in the cavern, where Sunan’s hidden strength and stockpile of High-Level Rune Gems overwhelmed them. After both opponents died, Sunan began sealing the recovering Multi-Winged Monster as Night Owl and the others watched in awe.

• Sunan’s secret puppet revealed an extraordinary array of spells and Energy Particle abilities, while Sunan demonstrated multiple metamagic techniques in battle against Sauluo.
• The secret puppet weakened Sauluo’s Seven Snake Heads, and Sunan drove Yi Luo from hiding with a Doom Knocker Imprint before two Adamantine Golems attacked her.
• Sauluo tried to exhaust Sunan by creating waves of giant pythons, but Sunan used High-Level Rune Gems to destroy them and then killed Sauluo with a combined lightning strike.
• The secret puppet defeated and beheaded Yi Luo after Sunan turned his attention to her.
• Sunan had the puppet confirm Sauluo’s death, collected the Space Rings, and began drawing a sealing array for the Multi-Winged Monster while Night Owl and the others watched in awe.

After completing his bargain with the Dark Forest Lodge, Sunan returned to Dragon Forest and searched the spoils from the battle. Sauluo’s collection revealed a Talent Crystal model, and Sunan decided to build his own model around his Magic Rune Core.

• Sunan sealed the Multi-Winged Monster, received Dawn Potions and Starry Sky Tower Keys from Hunter, and left the Dark Forest Lodge survivors to prepare for the Tower’s return in six years.
• Sunan imprisoned the Multi-Winged Monster in Dragon Bone Tower and searched seven Space Rings taken from the fallen and defeated fighters.
• Sunan found over a hundred Micro Soul Crystals and a Soul Crystal creation codex in Corpse’s ring, learning that only a Level Three Wizard Apprentice could extract souls and condense them.
• Sunan found a Talent Crystal model called Killing Intent among Sauluo’s Wizard Codices and learned how Talent Crystals shaped a wizard’s combat power and potential.
• Sunan rejected the low-grade Killing Intent model and chose his Magic Rune Core as the original model for the Talent Crystal he planned to create.

Sunan planned to build a Talent Crystal Model from a Magic Rune Core and hoped the Magic Cube could synthesize it into an unprecedented model. While expanding his golem forces and studying the Multi-Winged Monster, he gave Kei the Starry Sky Tower Key and Dawn Potion and learned the principality might ally with other nations against the Azure Gold Empire.

• Sunan decided to construct a Lower Talent Crystal Model first and test whether the Magic Cube could synthesize it into a superior model.
• Sunan told Carlo Lena and Red Widow to withdraw the Magic Rune Knight Order from Giant Eye City and report other tribes and city-states so he could obtain souls for Soul Crystals.
• Sunan gave Kei the Starry Sky Tower Key and Dawn Potion, confirmed the Eternal Life Society had been destroyed, and agreed to lend a Golem Legion if war broke out with the Azure Gold Empire.
• Sunan gathered Soul Crystals and replaced the Small Golem Legion's Elite Stone Golems and High-Level Stone Golems with cheaper Steel Golems, while choosing to keep refining Adamantine Golems for Third-Circle puppets.
• Sunan created an Air Blade Bloodline Imprint from the Multi-Winged Monster's blood and extracted its contaminated Divine Energy, which he planned to purify through synthesis.

Sunan advanced his cultivation, developed the Star Alliance, and prepared for Wizard Advancement while the alliance’s territory expanded underground. In 1265, Xie Man’s team encountered a Dark Sound Blind Monster during an expedition, and the chapter ended as they prepared to face it.

• Sunan formed his seventeenth star ring, continued researching a Talent Crystal Model, and completed a third Small Golem Legion.
• Kei began secret negotiations with the Thorn Flower Principality, and nine nations declared war on the Azure Gold Empire.
• Sunan focused on cultivation and research as Dragon Forest was restored, planted with magical plants, and put on a stable path of development.
• Four years later, Xie Man, Ke Lei, Atier, and twenty Magic Pattern Knights searched for Dark Elves near Nolan City as the Star Alliance expanded to fifteen city-states.
• The team heard heavy footsteps and spotted a Dark Sound Blind Monster, which Xie Man recognized from the Underground World Bestiary.

Xie Man's team captured three Dark Elves gathering intelligence for the Philier Family, while Sunan expanded the Star Alliance's military plans and advanced his Talent Crystal construction. In Shining City, Abbott failed the Aptitude Test, leaving his parents to accept that he would pursue the knight's path instead of becoming a Wizard Apprentice.

• Xie Man, Atier, and Ke Lei killed a Dark Sound Blind Monster, then survived and captured three Dark Elf assassins with their Calamity Rings and Magic Pattern Knights.
• Carlo Lena told Sunan that the Dark Elves belonged to the Philier Family and had come to gather intelligence, and Sunan ordered exploration teams to stay alert as the fourth Small Golem Legion arrived.
• Sunan approved plans for elite Grand Knights to form the Dragon Antelope Knights and reviewed the Starry Sky Alliance's gains against the Azure Gold Empire.
• Sunan reflected on his five Adamantine Golems, Secret Puppets, and progress constructing the Lower Talent Crystal Model after reaching 60 Spirit Power.
• Abbott returned from his Aptitude Test, and Kei and Sha Ya comforted him after learning he had failed.
• Kei told Sha Ya that Abbott should focus on becoming a knight, since his aptitude would limit him to a Level 1 Wizard Apprentice.

Evans helped a cautious group hunt Hunter for his Starry Sky Tower Keys, while Sunan discovered that crystallized Divine Energy could carry a Talent Crystal Model into the Magic Cube for synthesis. As the Starry Sky Tower’s appearance drew near, Rose arrived at Sunan’s home seeking shelter and proposing to travel with him.

• Evans lured Hunter into an ambush, and the group killed him and took his four Starry Sky Tower Keys.
• Fabio learned from Hunter’s memories that Dark Forest Lodge had destroyed the Eternal Life Society and that Sunan possessed keys, but the group chose not to target Sunan because of his strength.
• Sunan fused his Talent Crystal Model with a Divine Energy Crystal and successfully placed it in the Magic Cube, opening a path to synthesize a model beyond the upper grade.
• Sunan reflected on his spell mastery, metamagic techniques, and level 5 Magic Rune Core as he waited for the Starry Sky Tower to appear.
• Rose visited Sunan and asked to stay with him until the Starry Sky Tower appeared, then travel there with him.

Sunan prepared Star Alliance for the Starry Sky Tower’s arrival while Rose considered joining the organization. When the Starry Sky Tower Key activated, Sunan, Rose, and Kei set out toward the tower’s location.

• Rose warned Sunan that Night Owl might have been targeted for his Starry Sky Tower Key, and Sunan offered her refuge in Secluded Lake City.
• Carlo Lena proposed that Rose join Star Alliance; Rose said she would consider it after the Starry Sky Tower matter was settled.
• Sunan ordered Star Alliance to halt its expansion and gather two Golem Legions in Dragon Forest before he entered the Starry Sky Tower.
• In mid-November, Sunan’s Rune Stone glowed and showed him an image of the Starry Sky Tower, confirming that it had appeared.
• Sunan led Rose through the Ecopark to Number 1 Base, where Kei was waiting, and the three flew in the direction indicated by their keys.

Sunan, Kei, and Rose reached the Starry Sky Tower and joined Scepter and Traveler, where they learned the Council of Truth had arrived from the Northwest Region with Evans. As the tower opened, Sunan and the others suspected the Council might have taken keys from Night Owl and Hunter, while the Council considered attacking the weakened Southeast Region after their expedition.

• Kei determined the Starry Sky Tower was in the Southeast Region, and Sunan's group traveled there while conserving their strength.
• Sunan's group encountered Scepter and Traveler, who shared their concerns that Night Owl and Hunter were missing.
• The Council of Truth arrived with thirteen Level Three Wizard Apprentices, and Scepter identified their leader, Meijisen, and several of their members.
• The group recognized Evans among the Council, and Sunan suspected he had given them information about the tower and might have taken keys from Night Owl and Hunter.
• Meijisen postponed plans to attack the weakened Southeast Region until after the tower expedition, while Maiweiqi eyed the gathered Wizard Apprentices as potential targets.
• The Starry Sky Tower descended to the ground, and Sunan's Rune Stone grew hot, signaling that the tower had opened.

Sunan and his companions entered the Starry Sky Tower after defeating a crowd of attackers, and Sunan began its inheritance trials. He easily passed the knowledge assessment and learned the unfamiliar Zero-Circle Spell Bone Arrow, clearing the first stage.

• Several Wizard Apprentices failed to breach the Starry Sky Tower’s defenses, while Meijisen and the Council of Truth entered using Rune Stones.
• Sunan and his companions fought off and killed the people who attacked them for their Rune Stones, then entered the tower.
• The tower spirit announced that Sunan qualified for the inheritance trials and set his challenge difficulty to the highest level.
• Sunan identified the requested materials and creatures, passing the first two parts of the knowledge assessment.
• Sunan learned and successfully cast Bone Arrow after two days, clearing the first stage of the trial.

Sunan passed the Starry Sky Tower’s puppet-crafting and combat trials, earning an A+ evaluation and three inheritance rewards. When the tower demanded he join Gloomy Throne under a binding Oath Contract or pay an impossible fee, he refused and attacked the force field protecting the rewards.

• Sunan chose Puppet Crafting for the second trial, built two Steel Golems, and used them to destroy the Bone Golem.
• Sunan killed the Goliath with his Metal Storm and received an A+ evaluation, earning a Construction Potion, the Intermediate Talent Crystal Model "Bone," and a Spirit Pearl.
• Sunan learned that claiming the rewards required signing an Oath Contract that would bind him to Gloomy Throne, a necromancy faction that exploited its members.
• Sunan refused the contract and the demand to pay thirty Superior Magic Stones, then attacked the invisible force field with his Metal Storm.

Sunan attacked the Starry Sky Tower after it tried to trap him, overcoming its defenses as the tower escalated to its final combat sequence. Outside, the tower expelled everyone except Sunan, and the gathered groups began attacking its defensive array to force their way back in.

• Sunan stole the Construction Potion, books, and Spirit Crystals, destroyed the tower’s first turret, and led his golems against its Stone and Steel Golems.
• The Starry Sky Tower raised its defenses and deployed eighteen Spell Turrets, but Sunan destroyed them with High-Level Rune Gems at the cost of seven Extreme Protection Rings and more than sixty gems.
• The tower activated Level Three Defense and released four Deep Dark Golems, whose agonized cries dazed Sunan as they charged into his Golem Legion.
• Outside the tower, the Council of Truth group and Scepter, Rose, Traveler, and Kei were expelled, while Sunan remained inside and their keys stopped responding.
• Meijisen forced a Middle-aged Knight to test the tower’s defenses, then the Council of Truth group began attacking its defensive magic array; Scepter’s group and the other onlookers joined them.

Sunan defeated Starry Sky Tower’s golems, explored its floors, and looted its library and warehouses while the Council of Truth and Scepter attacked the tower from outside. He killed Meatball in the control center and decided to use the tower as a safe place to construct a Talent Crystal Model.

• Sunan and his forces destroyed all four Deep Dark Golems as Starry Sky Tower’s defenses failed under an external attack.
• Sunan resisted Meatball’s attempt to expel him and searched the tower, finding empty trial halls before locating magical plant seeds and a library full of foundational wizard knowledge and Talent Crystal Models.
• Sunan reached the Warehouse Area and collected its potions, materials, gems, and Spirit Pearls, including eighty-six Construction Potions.
• Sunan learned that Starry Sky Tower would list him as wanted and that its personnel would arrive after the Plane Barrier recovered, then killed Meatball when it refused to explain further.
• Sunan decided to remain in Starry Sky Tower and construct a Talent Crystal Model, relying on its defensive magic array to keep intruders away.

Sunan completed an unprecedented Super Talent Crystal Model and filled it, advancing to wizardhood after years of preparation. Newly awakened to his wizard abilities, he considered the resources and projects he could pursue next and wondered what had changed outside the Starry Sky Tower.

• Sunan used Construction Potions to build and synthesize thirty-two Lower Talent Crystal Models into a Super Talent Crystal Model, reaching the maximum burden he could bear.
• Sunan absorbed the Divine Energy Crystal and filled the Talent Crystal Model with Spirit Power, using a Golden Apple and Spirit Pearls to speed the process.
• Sunan completed the Talent Crystal and officially advanced to wizardhood, undergoing a transformation as rare metals fused into his body.
• Sunan tested his heightened perception and Energy Particle control, then considered making wizard artifacts and synthesizing Tier 4 Potions.
• Sunan examined his new Gasification progress and reflected that more than two years had passed in the Starry Sky Tower as he wondered about the world outside.

After more than two years trapped outside the Starry Sky Tower, Sunan emerged and revealed his overwhelming power. He killed the Council of Truth’s leaders and forces, leaving Kei and the other witnesses stunned.

• Kei and his companions continued waiting outside the Starry Sky Tower while the Council of Truth and Wizard Apprentices failed to break its defenses.
• The Starry Sky Tower’s top burst apart, and Sunan emerged; he reunited with Kei and asked what had happened outside.
• Maiweiqi attacked Sunan, but Sunan killed him instantly with a streak of silver light.
• Meijisen and the Council of Truth attacked Sunan and Kei’s group, but a silver barrier protected them as Sunan transformed into a giant.
• Sunan’s Silver Giant killed Meijisen and more than a dozen Council of Truth members, then returned to Sunan as the surviving witnesses stared in shock.