Chapter Summaries

Locke and Witch Macedon were trapped inside Raptor's Claw's Ancient Dream, where Holnos used the Ancient Raptor King's One Proof, Eternal Proof to threaten them over the Super Magic Bloodline Potion. Locke and Macedon broke the Black Wizards' advantage and escaped, leaving the potion and the secrets of their fight unresolved.

• The Death God Elder Ring erased Witch Macedon's tracking spell, but Raptor's Claw ambushed Locke and Macedon and pulled them into the Raptor Eye's Ancient Dream.
• Belinda used Super-Efficient Summoning Restriction to prevent the Raptor Eye from escaping, while Holnos demanded Locke hand over the Super Magic Bloodline Potion and revealed his One Proof, Eternal Proof.
• Macedon offered Locke a chance to leave, but he refused to surrender the potion and transformed into an Abyssal Demon Dragon when Holnos attacked.
• Locke used Reduction into Emptiness to evade the Ancient Dream's Pseudo Forging and kill Holnos, while Macedon used her Sword of White Emperor to cut the Black Wizards off from the world.
• Locke and Macedon destroyed the Raptor Eye and escaped with the three Black Wizards dead, then agreed to keep each other's secrets.

Locke clashed with Witch Macedon over using Black Wizard corpses for potions, the role of ancestry and reincarnation in magical advancement, and their competing systems, then turned to developing a new World in a Bottle and managing his alliances. After learning about Hell’s invasion of the High Elf Greater World and a White Wizard Association investigation tied to the Heaven River Coast conflict, Locke encountered the Rose Witch at Wizard Town, where she hinted that she was not who he thought.

• Locke refined the corpses of three Star-Ring Wizards into Zero Potion, prompting Witch Macedon to criticize his public example; they argued over honesty, morality, and their opposing views of magic.
• Witch Macedon challenged Locke to a contest, boasting of her ancestral blessings, past-life accumulation, and near-complete Pseudo Forging, while Locke rejected her claims and said he would defeat her through competition.
• A week later, Locke completed a Shadow Bottle Garden Grotto-Heaven that strengthened Magic Plants’ Spiritual Breath, then asked Queen Ayla to have Arthas produce plants using its High Elf Crystallization Wizards.
• Queen Ayla told Locke that Hell had invaded the High Elf Greater World and was trying to bring down its Sun Plane, but assured him Arthas’s production lines remained active.
• Academy Dean Elliott told Locke that the White Ice Tower conflict had ended in a truce and that the Tidal Grand Wizard Tower was under investigation, while Rose Building faced fewer problems after purging Black Wizards.
• At Wizard Town, Locke met the bloodstained Rose Witch, who claimed the blood came from a Star-Ring Mammoth and challenged him to recognize who she really was.

Locke investigated Rose Witch’s strange divine power while opening his competition to contestants, and Witch Macedon and Edgar received mysterious blank invitations from the Age of Edicts. A black-and-red gate appeared over Despair Valley as Locke discussed his research and plans with Grandet Wizard, who recognized the arrival as war-grade Planar Summoning.

• Locke let Rose Witch enter the competition if she solved his question, while Belinda sensed that Rose Witch carried an unusually evil divine aura.
• Witch Macedon solved Locke’s question, qualified for the finals, and received a blank invitation from five white-robed wizards who identified themselves with the Age of Edicts and the World of Impartiality.
• Witch Macedon found that Patrick had accepted a competition invitation and urged him to face Locke, while Edgar also received a blank invitation; the white-robed wizards burned the invitation they had considered giving Locke.
• Locke designed a fragile Dual-Body Bottle and discussed obtaining hadron materials, contacting distant researchers, and recruiting Grandet Wizard to help rebuild Golden Crown Mountain’s Key Laboratory.
• A black-and-red gate appeared above Despair Valley, and Grandet Wizard identified it as war-grade Planar Summoning.

Locke concealed the Gate of Doom and escalated the Probus Truth Revelation Competition by inviting representatives from three hundred academies, provoking the Death God Elective Society. In Wizard Probus’s Memory World, Locke learned about Probus’s unfinished Fusion Grotto-Heaven theory and resolved to seek information from the Seven Mountains Region to reach Probus’s deepest memories.

• Wizard Gelang hid the Gate of Doom with the Heavenly Illusion Orb, and Locke decided to continue the competition and invite representatives from three hundred top academies.
• Locke’s invitations drew interest from academy leaders across Rain-Marsh, while the Death God Elective Society debated how to stop his investigation and sent observers to monitor the situation.
• Locke entered Wizard Probus’s Memory World and was swept into a memory of Probus trying to unify his three Great Magics.
• Locke watched Probus teach wizard apprentices about Fusion Grotto-Heavens and realized that combining Probus’s theory with his Dual-Body Bottle might let him fuse different Worlds in a Bottle.
• After Probus’s memory pushed him out, Locke contacted Wizard Gelang and asked to meet his friend from the Seven Mountains Region for information about Probus.

Witch Macedon destroyed a Frost Scale experiment site while Locke completed his Dual Bottle and realized the Probus Truth Revelation Competition might be a ritual linking him to Wizard Probus. Locke used a scarecrow puppet to investigate the White Frost Witch’s selection sixty years earlier, but the archive inquiry ended when Director Link arrived and asked whether Locke represented Teacher Probus.

• Witch Macedon killed the Black Wizards guarding Frost Scale’s illegal experiment, and Bella Witch sealed the valley with Chaos-Star Grass Vine.
• Locke discussed the Ten-King Bottle with Wizard Probus and concluded that the competition was a ritual centered on him and the Evolution Garden.
• Wizard Gelang helped Locke contact Scarecrow Wizard Li Wei, whose puppet let Locke enter the Seven Mountains Region’s White Wizard Association.
• Locke questioned an archive wizard about the White Frost Witch’s New Era Guide title and learned that the former director had become a Star-Ring squadron leader in Rain-Marsh.
• Director Link entered the archive and asked Locke whether he had come on behalf of Teacher Probus.

Locke learned from Director Link how Probus Wizard’s former students had struggled to restore their mentor’s reputation and heard Link’s account of the New Era Guide contest and the forces that may have led to Probus’s downfall. Link gave Locke the Nine-Plum Heart-Piercing Spell Model to take to the Despair Valley Laboratory as they sought evidence that could clear Probus’s name.

• Director Link told Locke that Probus Wizard’s former students had begun acting together after Locke’s investigation gave them hope.
• Link explained how the New Era Guide title had become a lucrative scheme and how White Frost Witch had beaten Probus Wizard under the contest rules.
• Link said the Seven Mountains Region’s Academy had not benefited lastingly from White Frost Witch’s funding, while Probus’s students later thrived through their own work.
• Link revealed that White Frost Witch had brought ill-intentioned people into Probus’s circle, though he lacked evidence to prove how they had led Probus astray.
• Locke showed Link the Elder Demon Ring and said the Death God Elective Society had been involved in the case.
• Link gave Locke the Nine-Plum Heart-Piercing Spell Model, which might help draw out evidence from Probus Wizard’s deepest memories.

Locke received Director Link’s Nine-Plum Heart-Piercing spell model and Glazed Bottle Garden Grotto-Heaven, then entered the Sea King World to raise his Magic Pressure as a Natural Guardian. After extracting the world’s Spirit Macro with Mountain-River Wanderer’s help, Locke swallowed it for his own purposes, leaving Mountain-River Wanderer stunned as Gang Dingdi returned.

• A young wizard left the Heaven River Coast for Rain-Marsh to help Wizard Link pursue the truth, while Wizard Karl also decided to go there and Master Jikongyue considered repaying Locke.
• Director Link gave Locke the Nine-Plum Heart-Piercing spell model, the Glazed Bottle Garden Grotto-Heaven, and information to support his investigation.
• Locke advised Scarecrow Wizard Li Wei about his condition, then studied Glazed Bottle in Serenity Garden and traveled to the Sea King World.
• Mountain-River Wanderer begged Locke for help as Gang Dingdi invaded their refuge, and Locke transformed into a Three-Eyed Tiger-Eyed Cat to gather the world's Magic Pressure and drive Gang Dingdi away.
• Locke worked with Mountain-River Wanderer to extract the Sea King World's World Spirit Macro, then swallowed the mark instead of using it to make Mountain-River Wanderer's potion.

Gang Dingdi discovered Locke’s Air Pineapple Plane Principle and learned that his incomplete godhood kept him from removing it, while Locke reconsidered his approach to Pseudo Forging. Locke then entered Wizard Probus’s Memory World, successfully created the Heavenly Origin Lord Transformation Potion, and earned Probus’s help in opening the memory Locke sought.

• Gang Dingdi tried and failed to erase Locke’s Air Pineapple Plane Principle, and the Steel King and other kings explained that he lacked a godhead and divine power.
• Locke sensed that his idea for Pseudo Forging was inadequate, interrupted his progress, and went to the laboratory to test Wizard Link’s Nine-Plum Heart-Piercing Spell Model.
• Wallace declined Hassan’s competition and discussed his plan to study plant climatology, while Edgar saw through Rose Witch’s attempt to use him and Macedon warned Rose to give up.
• Locke confronted Probus in the Memory World, and Probus revealed that the real Probus was the Echo Body outside the laboratory and resisted showing Locke his deepest memory.
• Locke used the Heavenly Origin Lord Transformation Potion to become a ginseng spirit, but a blue Destruction Tribulation struck him while his Magic Pressure fluctuated.
• Probus shielded Locke from the tribulation, advised him to stabilize the potion with additional ingredients, and agreed to open the memory Locke wanted to see.

Locke entered Wizard Probus’s memories and witnessed how harassment, setbacks, and the Abyss Queen led Probus to merge his three Great Magics. Locke identified the challenge as the Genesis Blue Lotus: Problem, but the merging’s magic pressure and the Water God Palace drove him out before he could reach Probus’s deepest memories.

• Locke transformed into the Heavenly Origin Lord to withstand the space-time currents, but the Water God Palace’s elemental giant interfered with his passage through the bitter wood’s memories.
• Locke witnessed a black wizard offer Wizard Probus the Abyss Queen Statue and Binding Demon Chain, while Probus refused to leave the White Wizard Association.
• Probus’s laboratory struggled with staff losses and resource shortages as he focused on a Genesis Problem and prepared to compete against the White Frost Witch.
• After apprentices neglected the Binding Demon Chain and it broke, Probus punished the chief culprit and began questioning whether kindness could change foolish people.
• The Abyss Queen encouraged Probus to unify his three Great Magics, and he merged them into a single theoretical framework.
• Locke recognized the Genesis Blue Lotus: Problem, but the magic pressure and the Water God Palace blasted him out of Probus’s memories.

Locke used Bitter Wood and the Genesis Blue Lotus to reach Wizard Probus, uncovering his plan to become the Infinite Evil Path and take revenge on the White Wizard Association. As Probus resisted both Locke and the Abyss Queen, Locke expanded the Probus Truth Revelation Competition into a public lecture, while officials recognized that the event was already taking on the qualities of Pseudo Forging.

• Locke returned to Bitter Wood repeatedly and connected with the Genesis Blue Lotus, using their shared vitality to resist the Water God Palace and reach Wizard Probus.
• A High-Ring Witch in the Starfield Sea learned Locke was investigating Probus's death and ordered her allies in Rain-Marsh to obstruct the competition and discredit Locke and Red Dragon Witch.
• Wizard Probus revealed that he planned to complete the Infinite Evil Path, sacrifice a Wizard Land, and use the Abyss to exact revenge on the White Wizard Association.
• Locke used a ritual to hold Probus back from the Abyss Queen and argued that he would oppose Probus's path as well as the people who had wronged him.
• Locke announced a free public lecture on five new Spiritual Breath Cultivation Methods, the Spiritual Breath Fusion Cultivation Method, and the Five Kings Vials, drawing wizards to the competition.
• Two Moon-Ring Wizards discussed the competition's growing influence and concluded that it already showed the traits of Pseudo Forging.

Locke faced growing political attacks over the Gate of Doom while preparing to demonstrate whether the Five Kings Vials could cultivate a Jungle. He rejected calls to abandon the competition, resolved to pursue the truth about Probus, and began his demonstration before an audience joined by several Third-Ring Wizards.

• Locke ordered Grandet Wizard, Wizard Thomas, and others to crack down on fraudulent vendors whose scams threatened the competition's credibility.
• Grandet Wizard warned Locke that Wizard Land's assembly and newspapers were condemning him, spreading rumors, and considering a vote to stop the competition; Locke welcomed substantive criticism and paid for a useful article.
• Locke argued with Probus about responsibility for his past choices and rejected Probus's Infinite Evil Path, while Probus insisted that the Abyss had already claimed him.
• Locke decided to continue the competition and chose a resource-providing paulownia-type plant to support the Great Demon Sword Tiger Orchid Dragon Sparrow in his first Jungle.
• Locke announced that the competition would begin the next day and started demonstrating the Five Kings Vials before the assembled wizards.
• Vice Dean Jacques Jean of Crawler Garden and Wizard Grey of Winged Dragon Garden arrived with other high-ranking visitors to watch Locke attempt to cultivate a Jungle.

Locke demonstrated the Five Kings Bottle and used it to cultivate a Jungle of Heavenly Painting Paulownia and Great Demon Sword Tiger Orchid Sparrow, completing Wizard Probus’s Spiritual Breath Fusion Cultivation Method. After the crowd praised his achievement, Locke opened the Probus Truth Revelation Competition finals, while the Red Dragon Witch urged him to compete without holding back.

• Wizard Faust, the deans of Rain-Marsh’s leading academies, Wizard John, and the Red Dragon Witch arrived as the competition drew prominent guests and judges.
• Locke explained the Five Kings Bottle, fused five Worlds in a Bottle into it, and used it to grow a Jungle from two Magic Plants.
• Locke tested the Jungle’s combined abilities and showed that it strengthened the Great Demon Sword Tiger Orchid Sparrow’s attacks while reducing Magic Pressure consumption.
• Wizard Faust and other spectators praised Locke’s first Jungle, and Locke credited Probus with conceiving the method while claiming responsibility for completing it.
• Locke announced the start of the competition finals, and the Red Dragon Witch told him to win without favoring her Rain-Marsh friends.

Locke began the finals by revealing the Genesis Blue Lotus Problem, a dying world that contestants had to save by helping its native life develop a super-civilization while resisting the Void Swarm. He brought 110,000 Wood Elves into the world, and the eleven contestants began teaching them their Great Magic systems as a Void Swarm creature prepared to attack.

• Locke announced that the final challenge was to solve the Genesis Blue Lotus Problem and explained how its damaged lotus, failing world, and Void Swarm threatened its future.
• Locke and the ten other contestants entered the Memory World, where the Genesis Blue Lotus bloomed and formed a world without intelligent life.
• Witch Macedon proposed that the contestants descend with their Great Magic systems, but the wizards disagreed over the risks of binding their systems to the declining world.
• Locke sent 110,000 Wood Elves into the world, and the contestants waited until the Elves had become fully native before descending as Saint Incarnations.
• Locke offered an Elven chieftain a Forest Ranger system, while the other contestants began teaching their own systems to separate Elven tribes.
• A Void Swarm insect egg hatched on a lotus leaf, and Talasha recognized the Wizard Civilization as its old enemy and vowed to consume the world's life and wisdom.

Locke, Edgar, Witch Macedon, and the other contestants established their power systems among the elves of the Genesis Blue Lotus World, while Hassan secretly embedded vampirism in Edgar’s empire. When the Void Swarm’s red spiders attacked, they wiped out several tribes and eliminated four Rain-Marsh contestants, leaving the surviving wizards facing a growing insect threat.

• Locke taught an elf chieftain the Forest Ranger System and told him it could eventually let elves live beyond thirty, while Edgar and Witch Macedon began spreading their own systems in the east and west.
• Hassan chose Edgar’s expanding Elven Empire as the safest place to spread his power system and turned a dying elf general into a vampire with cursed blood.
• The Mother of Insects unleashed red spiders that destroyed elf tribes without a power system and began attacking the tribes that had received magic.
• A Spider King devoured part of a Rain-Marsh wizard’s Great Magic: Purple Gourd Ancestor Vine, forcing him to withdraw and lose his tribe.
• The Swarm wiped out three more Rain-Marsh tribes, eliminating their wizards; the remaining contestants and judges watched as the insect tide continued to grow.

Master Qin En’s Forest Rangers defended their jungle from the intelligent Red Spider Swarm while the contestants and judges assessed their competing power systems. As the Swarm devastated Edgar’s Elven Empire and consumed Goddess Rose, Edgar transformed his Great Magic and invited other contestants to merge their systems into his empire.

• Master Qin En rescued an Elf boy from Red Spiders and explained that Forest Rangers drew their power from the jungles they planted and protected.
• The judges compared Locke’s Forest Ranger System and Macedon’s Rain Prayer System with Edgar’s rapidly expanding Elven Empire, while the Swarm focused most of its assault on Edgar’s forces.
• An Elf army collapsed after the Red Spiders adapted to its tactics, and the Mother of Insects devoured the Elf general and used his death to establish a Swarm base.
• Rose Witch descended to ally with the Mother of Insects, but the Mother trapped and swallowed her, gaining energy that allowed it to reconstruct particles.
• The Swarm invaded the Elven Imperial Capital, where Edgar’s incarnation merged with the Emperor and reshaped the Tree of All Things to Pseudo-Forge an Emperor of Void.
• Edgar offered Patrick, Rameses, and other contestants the chance to merge their power systems into his empire.

Twenty years earlier, Trajan challenged the interview panel at Golden Crown Mountain after hearing that the Plant Hunter position had been promised to someone through connections. Witch Catherine chose to recruit him despite the other Throne Wizards doubting his potential, while the Blue Dragon Throne openly disliked him.

• Trajan and Argos discussed their exhausting interviews for the Plant Hunter position as a wizard claimed the role had been arranged for a Blue Dragon School Lineage student.
• Trajan confronted the interview panel and accused Golden Crown Mountain of wasting hundreds of applicants’ time with a sham competition.
• The Blue Dragon Throne denied reserving the position and ordered Vara to blacklist the wizard who had spread the rumor.
• Witch Catherine sent a student to offer Trajan an invitation, saying his courage gave him potential despite his poor judgment.
• The Green Dragon Throne accepted Catherine’s reasoning, while the Blue Dragon Throne said he disliked Trajan.

Edgar used Tree of All Things to crush the Red Spider Swarm, absorb rival Great Magics, and expand his Elven Empire as he prepared to pseudo-forge Emperor of Void. After Edgar demanded that Locke and Witch Macedon join his system, Macedon rejected him and Edgar chose to attack her first.

• Edgar transformed Ancient Trees into Treants, whose War Spears and roots trapped and drained the Red Spider Swarm, strengthening the Tree of Perfection.
• Edgar explained that Tree of All Things gathered Spiritual Breaths and used Treants and contracted mortals to store and increase vitality, while Locke and the judges discussed his Emperor of Void plan.
• Edgar conquered Patrick’s Elven Kingdom and Rameses’s Elven tribe, then used their kings’ agreements to pull their Great Magics into his system.
• Over ten years, Edgar’s Tree of All Things absorbed the remaining Swarm, while Locke inferred that Spiritual Breath Studies had enabled Edgar to draw in rival Great Magics and the insects.
• Edgar asked Locke and Witch Macedon to enter his empire; Macedon refused and warned that his expansion would prevent the Genesis Problem from being solved, so Edgar decided to attack her first.

Edgar tried to control the Genesis Blue Lotus World’s vitality and resources, besieging Macedon’s Rain Realm and Locke’s Jungle to force them to submit. Macedon expanded the world’s water cycle and created new resources, undermining Edgar’s monopoly, while Locke prepared to perform Pseudo Forging on his Moon of Evolution.

• Edgar ordered his Elven army to cut down the forests around Macedon’s Rain Realm and demanded that she join his empire.
• Locke’s avatar challenged the Forest Rangers’ ideas of evolution and prosperity by presenting a Pseudo-Forging Leaf that their masters dismissed as ordinary.
• Edgar sent six million Elven warriors to attack Locke’s Jungle, while the Swarm offered its Void Forging sequence and joined Edgar’s empire.
• Macedon used Heavenly Works, Rainfall and cabbage-type Magic Plants to establish an inland water cycle, sharply increasing the world’s Magic Pressure and weakening Edgar’s control.
• Macedon connected the Rain Realm to the Elemental Mist and began preparing to forge the Heavenly River, while Locke declared that his Forest Rangers would attempt Pseudo Forging on the Moon of Evolution.
• Rameses and Patrick regretted surrendering to Edgar after Macedon and Locke demonstrated ways to create resources beyond his control.

The Void Swarm attacked the Elven Empire while Witch Macedon struck at Edgar’s Tree of Perfection, forcing Edgar to reveal more of his power and fight back. After both threats temporarily withdrew, Edgar discovered his Great Magic was draining his form and reverting Void Forging toward Null Forging, leaving him trapped beneath the Tree of Perfection and calling for Locke to save him.

• The Mother of Insects unleashed the Void Swarm on the Elven Empire, and Edgar returned to defend the capital as Black-Armored Spiders devastated the city.
• Witch Macedon used Life-Force Lightning to attack the Tree of Perfection, while Edgar drained Rameses and Patrick’s magic and revealed two more Void-Forging sequences.
• Edgar drew Rameses’s and Patrick’s Dragonbone Master power path into his Great Magic, gathered seven Void-Forging sequences, and fought Macedon with Void Spear.
• Locke questioned the Forest Rangers about evolution, prosperity, and closeness to nature, then kept them from joining the confused three-sided conflict.
• Macedon withdrew after Edgar’s army drove back the Swarm, and Edgar failed to find its hidden creature or achieve Pseudo Forging.
• Edgar discovered his Great Magic was stealing his form and reverting Void Forging toward Null Forging, became trapped beneath the Tree of Perfection, and called for Locke to save him.

Edgar entered the Tree of Perfection to investigate the failing Null-Forging Empire, while Witch Macedon renewed her assault and Locke’s approach to the Genesis Problem drew Wizard Probus’s essence back into the competition. Locke’s ritual then brought Probus’s essence into the body of a newborn elf named Probus, shocking the watching White Wizards.

• Edgar refused Locke’s offer to damage his Great Magic, accepted responsibility for its flaws, and descended into the Tree of Perfection to search for the beings stealing his forms.
• Sea Queen Throne told Death Witch Doctor Tumlas that the Death God Elective Society was withdrawing from the affair, and a Third-Ring Black Wizard arrived to watch the competition and support Edgar’s attempt to Pseudo Forge an emperor.
• Witch Macedon chose to attack the Elven Empire again, and Wizard Probus’s essence stopped retreating and began approaching the Genesis Blue Lotus as the contestants’ conflict became a Dao Strife.
• Edgar merged with the Elven Emperor’s body, strengthened his control of the Great Magic, and began investigating the system while enduring the suffering of the world.
• Locke challenged the Forest Ranger masters to question their understanding of nature, then let his incarnation die at age thirty-three and transferred his form into a newborn elf named Probus.
• Locke used the ritual force of the Dao Strife to bring Wizard Probus’s essence into the newborn’s body, leaving the Star-Ring Demon-Hunting Squadron witch and White Frost Witch shocked.