Chapter Summaries

Locke used the Moon Cultivation Method to evolve plants across the Silent Plane and the battlefield, gaining an understanding of how it drew on planar power to force adaptation. He began permanently evolving ten Sea Golden Sand plants as Edgar watched in disbelief.

• Locke immersed the Moon of Evolution in Zero Potion, then used its light to rapidly evolve plants across the Present World, the Dharma Realm, and the Golden Crown Mountain battlefield.
• The enhanced Magic Plants and Wizard Shoes gave Golden Crown Mountain's Wizards an advantage, while Ellen Fox stole the Moon of Evolution but feared using it because Locke might turn the theft against him.
• Locke realized that his special spirituality let plants absorb Plane Power and planar information, causing them to evolve according to the traits of the surrounding realm.
• Plants in the Dharma Realm gained adaptations to Omega's Fallen Rain Realm, and an evolved Matte Treant defeated a Rain Mantis whose attack was blunted by its waterproof bark.
• Locke summoned ten Sea Golden Sand plants and began using the Moon Cultivation Method for permanent evolution, while Edgar questioned how Locke could evolve plants so rapidly.

Locke used the Moon of Evolution to force ten First-Ring Sea Golden Sand plants through rapid evolution, and after nine died, the last became a Second-Ring Magic Plant. Edgar and the watching wizards were astonished by Locke’s achievement, which revealed his potential as a Breeder.

• Locke activated the Surging Evolution Mode in ten Sea Golden Sand plants, directing planar information from the Fallen Rain Realm into their evolution.
• As conflicting Plant Essences killed several plants, Locke grafted Imaginary Roots onto the survivors and selectively guided the planar information they received.
• One by one, nine Sea Golden Sand plants died, while the last endured the conflicts and reached the threshold of evolution.
• Locke infused the final plant with more Zero Potion, and it evolved into a Second-Ring Magic Plant with an ice-crystal-crown shape.
• Edgar and the wizard spectators witnessed the breakthrough and reacted with disbelief at how quickly Locke had evolved the plant.

Locke evolved Sea Golden Sand into a second-ring magic plant using the Moon Cultivation Method and wielded its rain-adapted powers in the Silent Plane. As Omega attacked and Georgina prepared a Great Magic against him, Locke cast Generational Alternation, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Locke's Second-Ring Sea Golden Sand gained traits from the Fallen Rain Realm and unleashed a barrage of water bullets that cleared Rain Mantises and Torrent Golems from the Present World.
• Wizards watching the competition recognized the plant's borrowed traits as horizontal gene transfer, while representatives from Meraki and Solas feared Locke's success would damage their businesses.
• Witch Medea used wreckage from Wizard Smith's Extraterrestrial Meteor to flee the Silent Plane toward Omega's Fallen Rain Realm, seeking a route back to the Wizarding World.
• Omega attacked Locke with waterspouts, but Locke's rain-adapted Sea Golden Sand severed them; Locke named the plant Flow-Control Arrow · Sea Golden Sand and said he had discovered Omega's trick.
• Georgina surrounded Locke with woven cloth as she prepared a Great Magic, and Locke cast Generational Alternation, causing spores from the Fern Spear to form gametophytes.

Locke overcame Georgina the witch’s New Weaving spells by changing the lunar aspect of his Moon of Evolution, then defeated her and destroyed the Destiny Loom. With the Silent Plane beginning to collapse, the competition entered its final countdown.

• Georgina the witch disrupted Locke’s Magic Pressure with the Destiny Loom’s Abyssal Moon cloths and tried to trap him in a Prisoner’s Fate Cloak.
• Georgina used Mountains and Rivers Split Silk to cut Locke’s Magic Pressure in half, but Locke cast Generational Alternation and changed the Moon of Evolution from a full moon to a crescent, breaking her spell combination.
• Locke strengthened two Sea Golden Sand tree ferns into an Overlord Fern Spear, knocked away the cloak, and struck Georgina through her Myriad Lives Garment.
• Locke’s spear pierced Georgina and the failing Destiny Loom, which exploded as Georgina was eliminated.
• Omega brought about the end of the world in the Silent Plane, beginning the competition’s final countdown, while Wizard Chad praised Locke’s understanding of Botanical Magic.

Georgina fell to third place after Locke defeated her with [Generational Alternation], but the audience and Boniface University recognized her performance. As the apocalypse intensified and only Locke and Edgar remained, Locke sensed that the Three-Eyed Tiger-Eyed Cat bloodline in his body was advancing toward the Second Ring.

• Georgina lost her place on the Silent Throne, and the Moon-Ring Witch reassured her that she had represented New Weaving well.
• The audience applauded Georgina, while the Moon-Ring Witch considered building a relationship with Locke because of his unusual Breeding talent and cultivation method.
• As the Heaven River flooded the Silent Plane, Edgar used [Tree of All Things] and [Entwined Branches] to combine his spells and attack Omega, while he worried that his Perfect Treant would eventually collapse.
• Locke protected himself with Sea Golden Sand and Dharma Realm Treants, but realized the apocalypse threatened the Silent Plane even as he adapted to the Fallen Rain Realm.
• Locke sensed the Three-Eyed Tiger-Eyed Cat bloodline developing toward the Second Ring, and his Superior Meditation Method began connecting him to the Natural Force Plane.

Locke discovered the Natural Force Plane’s vast, layered World Tree and realized that the Second Ring represented infinite magical levels. After becoming a Second-Ring Three-Eyed Tiger-Eyed Cat and receiving the World Primordial Magic Plant Sea Golden Sand, he began to consider what it meant to merge with nature.

• Locke explored the World Tree and concluded that its seemingly endless forests reflected the Second Ring’s capacity for infinite levels, though he remained puzzled about why Wizard Civilization pursued the Third Ring.
• A voice told Locke that he had found his Companion Magic Plant, and he realized his evolved Second-Ring Magic Plant had fulfilled the Three-Eyed Tiger-Eyed Cat’s advancement requirements.
• Locke inspected his newly strengthened tiger bloodline and found that its increased power helped him merge with his Great Magic and reduce energy dissipation.
• The Natural Force Plane recognized Locke as a Second-Ring Type I Natural Guardian, granted him the complete Ferocious Beast Panel, and infused his Sea Golden Sand with Natural Force.
• The Natural Force Plane explained that a Type I Natural Guardian’s Companion Magic Plant became a World Primordial Magic Plant representing a force of nature, and Locke began reflecting on Nature Incarnation and merging with nature.

Locke received a World Tree Leaf that transformed his Sea Golden Sand and showed him a vision suggesting a possible origin of the Primordial Gods. Back in the Silent Plane, he used its new power against Omega during the inevitable World's End, while spectators expected him to win the Silent Grail and Witch Catherine uncovered a spy in her ranks.

• Locke attached the World Tree Leaf to his Sea Golden Sand, giving it an earth attribute and the ability to concentrate energy into a piercing attack.
• Locke saw a vision of thunderfire splitting a great tree and the birth of giants with Immortal Energy, then heard the World Will tell Three-Eye to find its fruit.
• Locke returned to the Silent Plane and destroyed Omega's descending river attack with his empowered Fern Spear before turning the scattered water against Omega.
• Omega warned that the collision of the two worlds could not be stopped, while Edgar struggled against the worsening World's End and Witch Medea searched the Fallen Rain Realm for land.
• Golden Crown Mountain's spectators expected Locke to win the Silent Grail, but he continued pursuing the mystery of Omega's access to his Dharma Realm, shocking the onlookers.
• Witch Catherine met with Wizard Jack, who revealed that a Second-Ring Sun-Ring Wizard under her command was a Rose Council spy.

Locke and Edgar agreed to cooperate, combining Locke’s Moon of Evolution with Edgar’s Fire Tree Silver Blossom Spell to transform the Tree of Perfection. The Tree gained water and fire attributes, and Edgar conceded that Locke’s Great Magic had surpassed his expectations.

• As the Silent Plane flooded, Edgar asked Locke to cooperate and revealed the Fire Tree Silver Blossom Spell, which could temporarily give his Life Ancient Tree a fire attribute.
• Locke realized the spell could work with his Moon of Evolution to alter a plant’s Plant Essence, and he traded Edgar First-Ring Archaeology knowledge for the spell.
• Locke and Edgar discussed their Great Magic, and Locke suggested Archaeology could help Edgar complete his idea for a reincarnation tree.
• Locke completed the Fire Tree Silver Blossom Spell with Antoine and the Silent Witch Preston, then used the Moon of Evolution to illuminate the Tree of Perfection.
• The Tree of Perfection absorbed information from the Fallen Rain Realm, gained water and fire attributes, and drew the Silent Plane’s water toward itself.
• Edgar conceded that Locke had won and praised the Moon of Evolution for giving the Tree of Perfection both water and fire attributes.

Locke uncovered that Omega’s apparent assimilation power came from controlling the Mind Network through a buried clone, and that merging the Mind Network with the Mind Darknet could halt the World's End. After Locke acted, Omega vanished and the Silent Plane returned to normal, leaving Edgar bewildered.

• Edgar and Locke joined their Great Magics into an ecological community, delaying the World's End while they searched for how Omega was invading the Silent Plane.
• Locke noticed Omega could no longer influence him, closed the Gate of the Dharma Realm, and realized Omega’s power was connected to the Mind Network.
• Locke found the Emperor dead and deduced that the Mind Network, rather than the Silent Plane itself, was the source of Omega’s invasion.
• The Tree of Perfection collapsed, the Moon of Evolution split, and the Silent Plane plunged into darkness, but Locke entered the Mind Network Permission Space by lowering his Magic Pressure.
• Locke revealed the Mind Darknet and used Historical Reenactment to show that Zuo Luo had built the Mind Network using Omega’s unconscious clone and a meteorite.
• Locke merged the Mind Network and Mind Darknet, causing Omega to disappear and the Silent Plane to return to normal; Edgar wondered where the World's End had gone.

The Silent Witch recalled her failed attempt to save the Zuo Luo Plane and recognized that Locke had fulfilled the wish she once left unfinished. After Locke won the Silent Grail Competition by stopping the apocalypse, he discovered that earlier wizards had hidden the same truth and chose to leave a question on the chessboard rather than reveal it publicly.

• The Silent Witch remembered sealing the Zuo Luo Plane and later saw that Locke and Edgar had succeeded where she had failed.
• The Silent Witch praised Locke and Edgar, and the judges declared Locke champion, Edgar second, Georgina third, and Smith fourth.
• Wizard Chad celebrated Golden Crown Mountain's victory while Wizard Rush acknowledged the result and worried about the outcome of the Three Kings Contest.
• Wizard Fischer and the judges worried that revealing the Silent Plane's truth could end the Silent Grail Competition and harm the interests tied to it.
• Locke read messages left by Hannibal Pericles and Emilia Carlisle, who had discovered the Silent Plane's truth but kept quiet.
• Locke carved a question onto the chessboard, joining the conversation about whether anyone else would discover the truth if the competition ended.

After Locke won the Silent Grail, he concealed the truth about the Silent Plane’s apocalypse and offered the judges a fabricated explanation in exchange for academic support. At the award ceremony, the Silent Witch gave Locke and Edgar gifts and welcomed them to the world of Second-Ring Wizards.

• Golden Crown Mountain celebrated victories in the Demon World War, the Three Kings Contest, and the Silent Grail, while Witch Catherine discussed the Academy politics behind the competitions with Wizard Jack.
• Locke emerged from the Silent Plane in a weakened state and told Wizard Tatar and the reporters that he had not discovered why the plane was doomed.
• Locke fabricated an explanation for stopping the apocalypse and suggested that his account could support two Second-Ring papers, but the judges offered only help publishing in Green-Grass Cloud Marsh.
• Locke, Edgar, and Witch Georgina received their Silent Grail medals, with Locke awarded the gold first-place badge.
• The Silent Witch presented Locke and Edgar with black Magic Boxes and welcomed them to the world of Second-Ring Wizards.

Locke and his companions left the Silent Throne, but the Crimson Court used a curse to divert his carriage into its hidden domain and ambush him. Locke revealed that he had already become a Second-Ring Wizard and prepared to fight back, leaving Witch Jessie and the Black Wizards stunned.

• Locke and his companions departed the Silent Throne in magic carriages, and their convoy passed through mortal lands on the way back to Golden Crown Mountain.
• The Crimson Court used the Advanced Homing Instinct Curse to lead Locke’s carriage into its crimson divine kingdom, where Witch Jessie and a group of Black Wizards surrounded him.
• Witch Jessie blamed Locke for her ruin and ordered the attackers to kill him, while the Second-Ring Black Wizard struck him with a Sacred Weapon and the First-Ring Wizards chanted the Hymn of Pain.
• Locke explained through his memories that he had knowingly left the convoy as bait and had already contacted Wizard Chad about the ambush.
• Locke’s Magic Pressure surged to sixteen thousand as he revealed that the World Tree Leaf had made him a Second-Ring Wizard, shocking Witch Jessie and the Black Wizards.
• Locke announced himself as the Beholder Wizard and summoned the Great Magic: Moon of Evolution.

Locke used Generational Alternation to unleash a devastating Fern Spear, then pursued the fleeing Black Wizards and killed Witch Jessie and several others. The last Second-Ring Black Wizard remained in his sights as Locke prepared to use him as fertilizer for his Moon Plant.

• Locke transformed his Sea Golden Sand through successive forms and attributes, building Generational Alternation’s strike to 2.5 times its normal Magic Pressure.
• Locke’s Fern Spear broke through Witch Jessie’s and the Second-Ring Black Wizard’s Great Magic and destroyed the Crimson Court’s Dharma Realm, severely wounding both Second-Ring Wizards.
• Locke pursued the fleeing Black Wizards on his Snow-Capped Pineapple Wizard Shoes, killing several as nearby Wizards watched and shop shareholders worried about the shoes’ impact on their businesses.
• Locke caught Witch Jessie after she pleaded for mercy, saw through her concealed attack, killed her, and stored her body in the Bronze Cauldron.
• Locke turned toward the last Second-Ring Black Wizard, intending to use him as fertilizer for his Moon Plant.

Locke pursued a Second-Ring Black Wizard into the Crimson Court’s Brutality River, where he adapted his Magic Plant to the river’s rules and killed the Black Wizard. He refined the wizard’s spirituality into a Zero Potion, evolved a new pair of Second-Ring Wizard Shoes, and returned across the river as onlookers recognized the shoes’ unusual ability.

• Locke consulted Golden Crown Mountain’s digital library and learned about the Crimson Court’s three rivers and the contaminating effects of the Brutality River.
• Locke’s Sea Golden Sand Fern Spear pierced the Black Wizard, then defeated the summoned Pain Angel while drawing on the Brutality River’s violent properties.
• Locke gave Sea Golden Sand the Abyss Devourer organelle and used a strengthened strike to destroy the Black Wizard’s soul structure, then captured his body and soul in a Bronze Cauldron.
• Locke extracted the Black Wizard’s polluted spirituality, refined the pure remainder into a Zero Potion, and used it to evolve Snow-Capped Pineapple into Second-Ring Great Bloodwave Pineapple Wizard Shoes.
• Locke crossed the Brutality River wearing the new shoes and returned with the Black Wizard’s robe as nearby wizards admired the shoes and placed orders for his products.

After defeating the Black Wizards and Jessie, Locke avoided taking her heavily mortgaged belongings and ignored investors seeking to profit from his wizard shoes. His new Second-Ring badge gave him access to wizard councils, where he discovered a vote that could end First-Ring Wizards’ membership-fee exemption and give them council voting rights.

• Locke examined Jessie’s Astral Ring, found records showing her crushing debts and a claim against her student, then left her corpse and ring behind with a note disclaiming responsibility for her debts.
• Locke received orders for his wizard shoes and messages urging him to open a Shop Alliance, but he refused to respond to Sherry Owen and congratulated himself on not needing investors yet.
• A Second-Ring badge arrived for Locke, and wearing it opened a new Water Gourd System interface that transported him to the Golden Crown Mountain District Council space.
• Locke explored the council interface and found that he could view district-level agendas but only limited information about the Cloud Marsh Council.
• Locke discovered that the Cloud Marsh Council was voting on whether to cancel the membership-fee exemption for First-Ring Wizards, a change that would also give them voting rights in the councils.

Locke studied Cloud Marsh Wetland’s weighted parliamentary system and economic policies, then encountered the echo of the dead Witch Jesse and returned to Golden Crown Mountain’s convoy. He revealed that he had become a Second-Ring Wizard, and Fischer Wizard identified the Black Wizard he had killed as the notorious War Butcher.

• Locke examined the Cloud Marsh Council interface, learned how weighted voting worked across the Eastern Sector, and inferred that different sectors and Wizard Lands adapted their systems in different ways.
• Locke studied Cloud Marsh Wetland’s focus axes and realized the Eastern Sector favored a tax-free free market and production, while Cloud Marsh Wetland prioritized logistics, transportation, and light industry.
• Locke encountered the youthful Echo of Witch Jesse, understood that she was only an afterimage of the dead witch, and gave the coachman five hundred Magic Stones before returning to the convoy.
• Locke confirmed to Wizard Chad and the Golden Crown Mountain wizards that he had become a Second-Ring Wizard with sixteen thousand Magic Pressure, while Antoine felt encouraged and Witch Preston was astonished by his rapid advancement.
• Fischer Wizard said the White Wizard Association would investigate and revealed that the Black Wizard Locke had killed was War Butcher, a Crimson Court bishop infamous for hunting low-ring wizards during the Five Great Wars.

After Locke became a Second-Ring Wizard, Witch Catherine recruited him for a secret mission to help Witch Esther escape Golden Crown Mountain District. Locke transformed into a Sun-Herding Dragon and appeared near Esther as her pursuers faced a sudden wyvern swarm.

• Locke accepted Witch Catherine's request to secretly help Witch Esther escape, despite her being a Sun-Ring Wizard pursued by several powerful wizards.
• Witch Catherine gave Locke a Dragon-Devouring Wonder Seed that transformed him into a Sun-Herding Dragon for one day and warned him to conceal his identity with the Angel's Tear Artifact.
• Locke swallowed the seed, left his magical carriage through a Magic Mirror, and appeared in the Giant Dragon Mountains near Golden Crown Mountain District.
• Locke's dragon magic pressure stirred the wyverns into a massive swarm as Esther fought her pursuers nearby.
• Esther saw the wyvern tide as a chance to escape, while Wizard Sith and Wizard Celt reacted in alarm to the dragon disaster.

Locke became a Second-Ring dragon and discovered that the Giant Dragon Mountains’ strange Plane Power formed a self-contained system linked to the wyverns. As Witch Esther’s escape was disrupted by Wizard Sith and Wizard Celt, Locke fought Celt and proved more capable than expected, though his awkward flying left him vulnerable.

• Locke’s soul power surged after the Dragon-Devouring Wonder Seed awakened it, and he witnessed Witch Esther use the Star-Drawing Rose to withstand the wyvern swarm.
• Locke saw alien dragon-shaped entities made of Plane Power and realized that the Giant Dragon Mountains’ power circulated with Wizard Land’s Plane Power.
• Wizard Celt attacked Locke with Stasis Seven-Section Grass Nails while Wizard Sith struck down Esther’s Star-Drawing Rose and ordered the other wizards to pursue her.
• Locke fought off Celt’s spell by targeting its weak points, and one of the two nails in his chest fell away.
• Locke flew backward clumsily into the wyvern swarm, and Celt resumed his attack, mistaking Locke’s awkward movements for weakness.

Locke used his Sun-Herding Dragon form to help Esther escape while fighting Squad leader Celt, whose Serene Grassland nearly trapped him. After breaking free with the Moon of Evolution, Locke chased Celt toward Esther and continued pretending to be a wild, hungry dragon under magical surveillance.

• Locke learned to use the Sun-Herding Dragon’s power instinctively, defeated Squad leader Celt’s first attack, and flew to Esther’s aid.
• Locke’s dragon roar scattered the wyverns attacking Esther, but she used a rose to exchange places with him, seized a wyvern king with dodder, and escaped.
• Wizard Sith pursued Esther as Squad leader Celt engaged Locke with Serene Grassland, using vetiver and other plants to bind him and suppress his dragon power.
• Locke noticed signs of magical surveillance and pretended to be an irritable wild dragon, then used the Moon of Evolution to make the grassland burn and break free.
• Locke struck Squad leader Celt and chased him toward Esther, threatening to eat the wizards while ignoring another suspicious fluctuation in Magic Pressure.

Locke used his Sun-Herding Dragon form and a newly created Bloodline School spell to interfere with the pursuit of Witch Esther as the Death God Dragon attacked. Esther reached a Rose Academy aircraft and defended her decision to leave Golden Crown Mountain, while the Death God Dragon turned its attention toward Wizard Sith.

• Sith and Celt pursued Esther through a Wyvern swarm, but the Death God Dragon appeared and smashed the Ancient Aerial Ruins apart.
• The Death God Dragon targeted Esther with its life-draining shadow, and Sith prepared to disable her and take her back to Golden Crown Mountain.
• Celt attacked Locke with Vanilla Spear Formation, giving Locke an opening to burn his True Blood and create the Second-Ring Spell Burning to Ashes.
• Locke's condensed dragon breath struck the Death God Dragon and was reflected, forcing Sith to defend himself and drawing the dragon's attention away from Esther.
• Esther released the weakened Wyvern King, spotted a Rose Academy aircraft, and flew toward it while arguing that she had been entitled to leave Golden Crown Mountain for another job.