Chapter Summaries

Witch Rose negotiated with Association President Fula over a public weapons tender as Heaven River prepared to fight Baator Hell. After Locke Augustine returned from the Abyss and defeated two Star-Ring enemies with Big Spring Cannon Corn, Rose and Fula discovered that he had become a Star-Ring Wizard.

• Witch Rose found Terence at the public bidding meeting with rival weapon alliances and six prominent Wizard Academies, then asked to speak with Witch Fula.
• Witch Fula explained that Heaven River needed weapons to drive Baator Hell from an invaded world and offered Rose preferential policies for her Magic Plant weapons.
• Witch Rose learned that Fula's alliance with the world’s resistance sought resource rights and talent recruitment, while the mortal king who had bargained for immortality could not legally trade away the world.
• Locke Augustine returned to Heaven River with Douglas and Lagma Mammon Witch King, where a Star-Ring Beholder and a chimera summoned by Dark Great Evil King attacked them.
• Locke resisted Dark Great Evil King's Dark Shadow Play, then used Big Spring Cannon Corn and thirty Great Greenleaf Longkangs to destroy the attacking forces and drive off Dark Great Evil King's projection.
• Witch Fula and Witch Rose witnessed Locke's victory, and Rose recognized him as a Star-Ring Wizard.

After killing the Star-Ring fiend, Locke traveled with Douglas to the Heaven River Coast, where Rose Witch mistook the attack for a move in their magic-plant business rivalry. Back at Golden Crown Mountain, Locke entered the agricultural Key Laboratory and discovered that its flower entrance led to a vast lower-dimensional research facility.

• Locke collected the dead Star-Ring Beholder's remains, and Douglas decided to return with him to Golden Crown Mountain rather than escape.
• Locke met Rose Witch and Fula Aura on the Heaven River Coast, explained that his Big Spring Cannon Corn was not for sale, and learned about the region's Cold Damp Rain and Wizard Association.
• Fula arranged a banquet for Locke and Rose Witch, while Rose accused Locke of staging the battle to impress Fula and promoted Olaye's Rose Dart Branch against the Silver-Clad Peach Garden.
• Locke and Douglas returned to Golden Crown Mountain, where Trajan showed Locke the unfinished Sky Garden and its flower-shaped Key Laboratory entrance.
• Locke and Trajan entered the agricultural Key Laboratory, where Trajan explained that the facility used dimensional reduction to make powerful magical plants easier to study.

Locke underwent the Fairy Dragon’s prophetic identity verification before entering Golden Crown Mountain’s Key Laboratory, and her attempt to probe his fate exposed her own secrets and nearly destroyed her. After Locke helped her become a Type Four Natural Guardian, she approved his entry and warned him of dangers tied to Archaeology and Potions.

• Wizard Trajan brought Locke to the Fairy Dragon, who used Spiritual Touch and Touch of Fate to examine his past, present, and future.
• The Fairy Dragon identified Locke as Nature’s Child, warned that his Potions inheritance could be taken from him, and foresaw a deadly Archaeology trap while questioning his identity and origins.
• The Fairy Dragon delved into Locke’s Fate Ocean, encountered the fate of his mother and powerful beings connected to him, and suffered dangerous backlash from her divination magic.
• As the Fairy Dragon was being pulled into a Fate Pit, Locke suggested that the World Tree could help her; a World Tree Leaf fused with her, making her a Type Four Natural Guardian.
• The Fairy Dragon returned, approved Locke’s identity, and promised not to reveal her reincarnations, while warning him to improve his Potions before someone seized his inheritance.

Locke entered White Cardamom Farm, Golden Crown Mountain’s vast Key Laboratory, and learned how its simulated worlds and magic plants worked. After settling into Starspace City, he accepted the required tea before his trial in the Golden Dragon Wizard’s World’s End Survival Game.

• Wizard Trajan led Locke into White Cardamom Farm and explained how wizards used the Secret of Creation to simulate worlds for breeding experiments.
• Locke met Ulysses, who had spent thirty-one years in the laboratory developing fertilizer, and learned that simulated life and plants produced real information but could not exist outside the facility.
• Wizard Guboding, an Alarite laboratory administrator, showed Locke around Starspace City, assigned him a villa and a rental vehicle, and explained how to earn virtual currency.
• Locke enabled the Entertainment Assistance System and learned about the Plane Survival Games and the trial left by the Golden Dragon Wizard.
• Wizard Guboding gave Locke the required cold tea, and Locke drank it before entering the World's End Survival Game.

Locke entered Golden Dragon Wizard’s memory in the Key Laboratory and joined his struggle to breed Emmer Wheat that could survive the Wizarding World’s famine-stricken winter. After Golden Dragon Wizard revealed the trial could end, Locke refused to leave before completing the work, and the founder challenged him to match his achievement.

• Wizard Guboding explained how the Sky-Filling Battle Peach and Starspace City created parallel worlds, then let Locke choose a founding wizard’s memory to enter.
• Locke chose Golden Dragon Wizard’s memory and found himself in a frozen, low-magic Wizarding World, where Golden Dragon Wizard and his companions were seeking Emmer Wheat that could grow in the permafrost.
• Golden Dragon Wizard’s teacher departed with wizards planning to escape the world, while Golden Dragon Wizard stayed behind to protect the people and continue searching for a hardy wheat variety.
• Golden Dragon Wizard shared his breeding records with Locke, who studied them and joined the wheat experiments, using his Moon of Evolution and other methods to develop new subspecies.
• After a month without finding the needed variety, Locke’s Magic Pressure became disordered and he felt hunger; Golden Dragon Wizard revealed that the memory’s trial had already been passed and offered to let him leave.
• Locke refused to stop before completing the breeding work, and Golden Dragon Wizard allowed him to continue, challenging him to accomplish what the founder once had.

Locke spent months breeding Emmer Wheat suited to the frozen, low-mana world while exchanging magical insights with the Golden Dragon Wizard. He finally produced wheat whose energy restored his Magic Pressure, and set out to tell the Golden Dragon Wizard that he had succeeded.

• Locke combined his Tree of Prosperity and Moon Cultivation Method to replicate and mutate Emmer Wheat, then spent half a year selecting cold-resistant plants that could grow with little mana.
• The Golden Dragon Wizard gave Locke advice about the divine-clan power in his Tree of Prosperity and the limiting vessel of his Moon of Evolution, prompting Locke to consider changes to both Great Magics.
• As food dwindled, Locke bred an Apprentice-Level Emmer Wheat with strong roots and another that concentrated its nutrients in its grains, then cross-pollinated them.
• Locke accelerated the seeds' growth and found a wheat plant that withered after scattering its grains; eating one grain restored his declining Magic Pressure.
• Locke told the two children that he had succeeded and went to find the Golden Dragon Wizard.

Locke completed the Golden Dragon Wizard’s memory trial, where he learned that his annual Emmer Wheat showed a rare form of Subtractive Breeding and earned one hundred Parallel Coins. Back in Starspace City, he planned to begin a formal breeding project, but a socially anxious Vaporization Stage witch approached him to ask for mentorship.

• The Golden Dragon Wizard explained how Locke’s help had accelerated the discovery of Silver Wheat and described the junior apprentice who had starved while secretly feeding others.
• Locke and the Golden Dragon Wizard compared their wheat varieties, and the Golden Dragon Wizard identified Locke’s Atavistic Evolution as a rare Subtractive Breeding talent.
• The Golden Dragon Wizard gave Locke one hundred Parallel Coins and ended the memory, after which the Sky-Filling Battle Tree dismantled the parallel world.
• Locke returned to Starspace City with a Holographic Magic Plant preserving his annual Emmer Wheat’s Plant Essence and decided to use the laboratory for a breeding project.
• A white-haired Vaporization Stage witch introduced herself as a native of the Key Laboratory and asked Locke to become her teacher on Lady Catherine’s recommendation.

Locke tested Planknia’s breeding skills, while Witch Rose faced an attack from a mysterious spatial wizard seeking to acquire Olaye and other Magic Plant businesses. In the Key Laboratory, Locke completed a Dark-Gold Golden Dragon Claw · Air Pineapple and began planning further Abyssal breeding experiments.

• Locke offered to accept Planknia as his apprentice if she could grow a Tyrant Sea Golden Sand seed within a week.
• Witch Rose demonstrated her Three-Colored Rose Dart Branch, then confronted a mysterious wizard who tried to acquire Olaye and the Silver-Clad Peach Garden.
• The mysterious wizard evaded Witch Rose and Wizard Joshua’s attacks with spatial magic and escaped, prompting Witch Rose to strengthen Olaye’s security and continue her campaign against the Silver-Clad Peach Garden.
• Locke used the Key Laboratory to simulate the Thousand-Eyed Abyss and bred a Dark-Gold Golden Dragon Claw · Air Pineapple that absorbed Abyssal Energy.
• Locke noticed Abyssal Air Pineapples growing in the simulated world and decided to continue improving his Abyss-adapted Wizard’s Shoe.

Locke used White Cardamom Farm to connect with the Thousand-Eyed Abyss, where he studied the Supreme Beholder and harvested Abyssal Magic Plants while developing a resistant pineapple hybrid. Back in Starspace City, he accepted Moromota into his team after discerning the Elder Council's interests, then finalized a weapons-platform partnership and enchanted-scroll deal with Windcatcher Academy.

• Locke connected White Cardamom Farm to the Thousand-Eyed Abyss, confronted the Supreme Beholder across phases, and harvested an Abyssal Air Pineapple while evading its attacks.
• Locke crossbred Abyssal and Dark-Gold Dragon Claw pineapples, and his Abyss Devourer began absorbing the resulting Abyssal flames.
• Locke left the parallel world after running out of Parallel Coins and returned to Starspace City, where he accepted Planknia as his student after she managed to sustain a damaged seedling.
• Wizard Guboding introduced Moromota to Locke, who recognized the Elder Council's motives and agreed to take Moromota onto his team to pursue research on parasitic Magic Plants.
• Locke completed negotiations with two Second-Ring Wizards, securing a deal for enchanted scrolls and a joint Great Green Leaf Dragon Sparrow weapons platform between Aladdin and the Silver-Clad Peach Garden.

Locke left Windcatcher Sacred Land after learning about Dragonfall Land’s Flying Palace Carpet, then continued his research in the 78th Abyssal Layer and developed a more efficient Abyss Devourer. A holy war erupted between Ouse Terra and the Supreme Beholder, and Locke’s hidden laboratory was caught in the attack as both sides prepared to escalate the conflict.

• Locke examined Dragonfall Land’s Flying Palace Carpet and discussed its uses and the Aladdin Shop Alliance’s business prospects with Raymond.
• Locke and Moromota Wizard created a new hybrid plant whose abyss eye body converted abyssal energy into life energy more efficiently, and Locke ordered Planknia to produce seeds for Arthas.
• Ouse Terra descended with dwarf holy knights to attack the Supreme Beholder, who resisted the assault and accused the Terra Pantheon of hypocrisy.
• Ouse Terra’s True Word: Slaughter struck Locke’s Chojyu defense field, but Locke crushed the divine-power chain and told Moromota Wizard to protect their magic garden.
• The Supreme Beholder assumed his Grand Abyss Form and rose to Sun-Ring Level, while Ouse Terra prepared to fight him and set aside his plan to attack the wizards.

Locke escaped the battle between Oser Terra and the Supreme Beholder after using Name Potions to prevent Oser Terra from striking the Beholders and Dwarf Holy Knights together. He then decided to investigate whether the 78th Abyssal Layer had become unclaimed, while a separate report from Terence revealed Locke was restructuring the Silver-Clad Peach Garden and cutting unprofitable shops.

• Locke watched Oser Terra’s Holy Knights battle the Beholders and recognized that their divine spells drew power from an entire civilization’s faith system.
• A stray Holy Slash threatened Planknia, but Moromota Wizard used his Jumeirah Ring Shield to protect her before Locke sent them away with the experimental materials.
• The Supreme Beholder used Causality Reversal Gaze against Oser Terra, while Locke shut down the laboratory and threw Name Potions that linked Beholders’ Spirit Macro to Dwarf Holy Knights, stopping Oser Terra’s attack.
• Oser Terra’s incarnation self-destructed after sealing the Supreme Beholder’s incarnation, and Locke closed the laboratory as holy fire swept across the 78th layer.
• Locke suspected the 78th Abyssal Layer was temporarily unclaimed and planned to send a clone to investigate it before deciding whether to use it as an experimental nursery.
• At the Silver-Clad Peach Garden, Locke told Terence his clone would stay there, confirmed plans for enchanted-scroll production lines, and ordered him to sell viable shops and close unprofitable ones.

Locke inspected the Silver-Clad Peach Garden’s enchanting production lines, then confronted a defiant shop manager and rejected a secret investment bank’s attempt to bind the alliance to new debts. After the bank backed off, Locke received Witch Rose’s invitation to the opening of her first Rose Building and considered visiting once his product was ready.

• Locke inspected two automated enchanting production lines with Wizard Terence and discussed their operating costs, staffing, and the Silver-Clad Peach Garden’s finances.
• Wizard Jinks protested the closure of his shop, but Locke rejected his demands and withered Jinks’s two prized Magic Plants when Jinks attacked.
• Wizard Abram presented Locke with contracts demanding repayment and proposed new loans secured by the Silver-Clad Peach Garden and Aladdin Shop Alliance, but Locke refused to honor the deals.
• Wizard Abram reported Locke’s refusal to an associate, who advised the investment bank to stop pressuring Silver-Clad Peach Garden for now.
• Locke showed Wizard Terence Witch Rose’s invitation to the opening of her first Rose Building and said they could attend while looking for buyers for his nearly completed product.

Locke reorganized the Silver-Clad Peach Garden around flying magic plant platforms, proposing Great Green Leaf Dragon Sparrow variants coordinated by Many-Eyed Air Pineapples for transport, reconnaissance, and combat. After securing the designers’ support and Aladdin’s cooperation, he grew wary of a hidden group on the Heaven River Coast, while his avatar traveled toward Cloud Marsh Wetland hoping to attend the Sea Queen Throne’s third potion class.

• Locke studied Bean Soldier Summoning, adapted its spell model, and used it to control a Great Green Leaf Dragon Sparrow and a Many-Eyed Air Pineapple.
• At a technical seminar, Locke announced that the Silver-Clad Peach Garden would invest the ninety million Magic Stones from shop sales in new magic plant projects and described bomber, fighter, and reconnaissance variants of the Great Green Leaf Dragon Sparrow.
• Locke explained how the Many-Eyed Air Pineapple could let wizards control a flying magic plant and its parasitic weapons, winning the designers’ support for developing an integrated platform with Aladdin’s alchemists.
• Locke approved the project, proposed displaying a prototype at the Rose Building in a month, and assigned the designers work on Bean Soldier Summoning, parasitic plants, and enchantment scrolls.
• Locke suspected an unseen investment group operated within the Heaven River Coast and asked Wizard Terence about the Cold Sky River Investment Bank, but Terence appeared frightened and denied knowing anything.
• Aboard an airship to Cloud Marsh Wetland, Locke’s avatar considered whether it would reach the Sea Queen Throne’s third potion class while his main body began atavistic evolution experiments.

Locke met Mountain-River Wanderer, a paranoid wild god whose repeated bouts of devouring and restoring the gods around him had caused his world and his own power to decay, and learned he would be a teaching tool in the Sea Queen Throne’s upcoming Potion class. He followed Helen’s warning to keep Mountain-River Wanderer from considering him a friend, then reported his findings about Douglas and Planknia to Witch Catherine.

• The Sea Queen Throne demonstrated how her Tattoo Transformation Grand Potion had turned the Shen Yuan Fish King into a tattoo, then warned Locke not to accept Mountain-River Wanderer’s claims of friendship.
• Locke met Mountain-River Wanderer aboard the wizard airship and heard how his suspicion had led him to devour the gods around him, restore them, and repeat the cycle until his power and world began to decay.
• Mountain-River Wanderer tried to call Locke his friend and offer him a Ginseng Magic Plant, but Locke refused both and directed him to ask the Sea Queen Throne about his illness.
• Witch Catherine told Locke to end surveillance of Douglas and Lagma Mammon Witch King after he reported the ancient soul within Douglas, then heard his findings about Planknia and Moromota Wizard.
• Witch Catherine told Locke to give Moromota Wizard and Planknia the Test Rings if Moromota’s confession succeeded, then asked Locke about his new Potion teacher.

Locke received Witch Catherine’s guidance, projects, and Peach Arc Thorn Arrow inheritance while weighing his future in Golden Crown Mountain against his ambition to reach the Starfield Sea. Later, he reunited with Witch Zoe aboard a Wizard Ship, took her newly stolen Power Gem, and offered to buy it under a secrecy contract.

• Witch Catherine warned Locke about Lady Sea Queen Throne’s gambling and other vices, then entrusted him with cultivating an Iron Tree and involving Witch Planknia and the Elder Council in the project.
• Locke decided to strengthen his standing and gather resources in Golden Crown Mountain before pursuing the Starfield Sea, while Witch Catherine offered him a Great Magic inheritance and taught him about Star-Ring Magic Pressure loss.
• Witch Catherine gave Locke the Heartseeker Volley Spell Models, explained that external resources could help stabilize his Magic Pressure, and asked him to investigate a hidden group along the Heaven River Coast.
• Locke recognized Witch Zoe in the free library as she traveled with Tiberon, and Witch Zoe used their supposed friendship to distract him while stealing Tiberon’s pendant gem.
• Locke took the Fire-Element Authority Gem from Witch Zoe, learned it could be worth millions of Magic Stones, and offered to buy it for three million if she signed a binding contract and concealed the buyer’s identity.

Locke bought the Fire-Element Authority Gem from Witch Zoe and reached the Heaven River Coast, where the Rose Witch opened a vast commercial building backed by the White Wizard Association. The Rose Witch announced Olaye’s plans to dominate the coast’s trade and unveil the Three-Colored Rose Dart Branch.

• Locke purchased the Fire-Element Authority Gem from Witch Zoe, who later fled with her Black Wizard associates after warning that five kinds of Power Gem might produce a special phenomenon when collected together.
• Half a month later, a wizard from the Arcane Tower Holy Land discovered that Witch Zoe had switched a gem on his Alrube’s Tear and blamed her for the theft.
• Locke took the Mountain-River Wanderer toward the Heaven River Coast and considered sending the Power Gem there for research, while the Wanderer followed him and fretted about betrayal.
• At the Rose Building’s opening, Locke checked the White Ice Tower wizard who insulted Witch Biqi, and the wizard apologized after the Rose Witch reminded him of Locke’s strength.
• The Rose Witch revealed that the Rose Building gathered Heaven River Coast shops and Wizard Secret Realms under one roof, with Olaye supported by the White Wizard Association and its commercial partners.
• The Rose Witch announced Olaye’s flagship Three-Colored Rose Dart Branch and declared that she would change the Heaven River Coast.

The Rose Witch unveiled Spider Paradise and demonstrated how her Three-Colored Rose Dart Branch surpassed the Peach Dart Branch, drawing interest from wizard academies and shop alliances. As the exhibition opened, Locke quietly purchased rival shops’ signature Magic Plants, leaving the Rose Witch wondering what he intended to do.

• The Rose Witch led Locke and the wizard representatives through Spider Paradise, where Locke recognized how her spider-silk cultivation method precisely nourished Magic Plants and formed protective exoskeletons.
• The Rose Witch explained her Three-Colored Rose Dart Branch and demonstrated its power by killing a Second-Ring Copper-Hammer-Tailed Dragon with three rapid strikes and a chain reaction of elemental imbalance and spider toxins.
• Wizard Abram urged Locke to oppose the Rose Witch in defense of Silver-Clad Peach Garden’s monopoly, but Locke dismissed tradition and empty prestige in favor of practical gains.
• The Rose Witch invited the region’s Magic Plant shop alliances to exhibit their products in the Rose Building, while Locke and his delegation prepared the Silver-Clad Peach Garden display.
• Locke bought Joseph Reed Hall’s Reed Cluster No. 3 and Dalton Woodland’s Premium Whomping Willow Grove System, prompting the Rose Witch to wonder what he was planning.

Locke invested in the Calamityfire Alliance’s Zero Ding Ocean System while the Rose Witch’s weapon tests exposed weaknesses in local defensive Magic Plant systems. Locke then unveiled the Silver-Clad Peach Garden’s Great Green Leaf Dragon Sparrow battle array, which rapidly defeated the airborne test subjects and announced the alliance’s return to the Heaven River.

• Locke bought a Zero Ding Ocean System from the three founders of the Calamityfire Alliance for one million Magic Stones and called it an investment in their future.
• The Rose Witch released Stonewing Vilebirds as test subjects, and the Reed Jungle and Whomping Willow displays struggled against their airborne attacks and the Stonewing Vilebird King.
• President Fula worried that the White Wizard Association could not afford imported defenses, while local Magic Plant systems failed to impress her.
• Locke told Terence to summon large numbers of Stonewing Vilebirds so the Great Green Leaf Dragon Sparrow battle array could undergo a full combat test.
• The Great Green Leaf Dragon Sparrows used Attila Lightning Chains, reconnaissance networks, and mounted Reed Jungle systems to bring down the Stonewing Vilebird King and the flock’s commanders.
• Locke controlled the Great Green Leaf Dragon Sparrows and declared that the Silver-Clad Peach Garden had returned and still considered the Heaven River its most important region.

Locke’s Great Green Leaf Dragon Sparrow Platforms overwhelmed the summoned Stonewing Vilebirds and Abyssal Spine-Sword Dragon, turning Silver-Clad Peach Garden’s abandoned exhibition into a magnet for potential partners and buyers. As Witch Rose’s opening ceremony collapsed and she dismissed Wizard Joshua, the Books of Summoning began an uncontrolled advanced summoning, leaving Locke and Witch Rose facing a new threat from an unknown saboteur.

• Locke used Great Green Leaf Dragon Sparrows carrying systems from Joseph Reed Hall, Dalton Woodland, and the Calamityfire Alliance to defeat the Stonewing Vilebird flock and its three kings.
• Association President Fula recognized the Great Green Leaf Dragon Sparrow as a platform for other Magic Plants and considered using it to strengthen the White Wizard Association and support local Academies.
• Witch Rose recognized Locke’s invention as a new industry, while Wizard Joshua’s predictions failed and she fired him and threatened him with legal consequences.
• Locke used Tree and Moon Heavenward to multiply the Great Radiant Dragon Sparrows and defeat the Abyssal Spine-Sword Dragon as Witch Rose’s summons continued.
• Wizards crowded Silver-Clad Peach Garden to pay for demonstrations with their Magic Plants mounted on Locke’s platforms, and Locke’s partners helped replenish the formation’s depleted weapons.
• The Books of Summoning continued an advanced summoning after Witch Rose ordered them shut down, and Locke and Witch Rose realized someone had planned to sabotage the opening ceremony.

A Three-Headed Dragon Lich and the Pale Pilgrimage Black Wizards attacked the Rose Building, trapping the gathered wizards and revealing that Black Wizards had secretly survived along the Heaven River Coast. As Locke and Witch Rose weighed joining the fight and negotiated a commercial partnership, the Dragon Lich unleashed his Great Magic, Yellow Springs Six Realms.

• A hidden Spirit Communication summoning array brought a Star-Ring Three-Headed Dragon Lich to the Rose Building, where it revived nearby corpses as undead and trapped the wizards on the hundredth floor.
• The Pale Pilgrimage Black Wizards emerged across the building, and the White Ice Tower wizards fought back with ice magic as their enemies countered techniques they already knew.
• The Dragon Lich overwhelmed Aquilien and attacked President Fula, who used her magic umbrella and Star-Ring spells to restrain it.
• The Dragon Lich challenged Fula's belief that Black Wizards had been eliminated, while Locke and Witch Rose concluded that the enemy understood the local wizards' weaknesses.
• Witch Rose asked Locke to join forces, and they negotiated a possible partnership involving Magic Plant repair and parts-supply stations.
• The Dragon Lich began using his Great Magic, Yellow Springs Six Realms, which appeared behind him as a Ferris wheel formed from six small worlds.