Chapter Summaries

As Probus’s reincarnated doppelgänger endured the injustice of the Elven Empire, Locke’s competition drew worldwide rain that hinted at a highest-level Pseudo Forging. Edgar sacrificed himself to absorb a parasitic plague spreading through the empire, leaving the crisis—and the unfinished forging—to Locke.

• The wizard spectators debated the Two Souls in One Body Phenomenon as Probus and Locke shared control of one growing incarnation, while the Star-Ring Witch ordered an attack on Locke’s reputation.
• Over ten years, Probus lost his mother, was expelled from the Imperial Capital after a parasite outbreak, and was sold into theft before Awen took him in and helped him open a flatbread shop.
• Inspectors arrested Awen after a landlord exposed his past, leaving Probus alone again as the Swarm’s parasites infected people across the empire.
• Heaven-wide rain fell in Rain-Marsh and the Genesis Blue Lotus World, and the judges suspected that Probus or Edgar was beginning a highest-level Pseudo Forging.
• Macedon attacked Edgar while Little Probus struggled through poverty and injustice, and a new parasite outbreak spread through the Elven Empire.
• Edgar used Ten Thousand Sins Into One to draw the parasites, diseases, and pain into himself, fell toward slumber, and warned Locke to beware of Macedon.

Witch Macedon’s Rain Wizard Chief could not strike Edgar after he gathered the empire’s sins into himself, and the Elven Empire soon fell into years of regencies, revolt, and ruin. After Awen died, Probus entered the Jungle seeking to become a Forest Ranger, where he faced his first question about nature.

• Witch Macedon prepared to destroy the Elven Empire, but Edgar’s Ten Thousand Sins Into One gathered the empire’s sins onto himself, stopping her lightning and prompting her to withdraw.
• Edgar announced that half of the World-Destroying Original Sin had vanished, while Little Probus reconsidered his life and helped Awen begin again.
• Over the next decade, the Elven Empire cycled through thirty-one regents, lost territory to the Swarm, and fractured under competing rulers as Awen’s businesses failed.
• Awen died after telling Probus to seek a world where he could be a good person, and Probus buried him before leaving for the Jungle.
• Probus asked to join the Forest Rangers and refused to kneel before their founder’s statue, after which a master posed the first of Nature’s Four Questions.

Witch Macedon invaded the Elven Empire to destroy the Tree of Perfection, while Patrick and Rameses tried to stop her without letting Edgar’s Great Magic collapse. In the Jungle, Probus answered Locke’s questions with Truth-Seeking and began Pseudo Forging it, provoking the Wizarding World’s Plane Principle and a growing rejection of Locke.

• Witch Macedon led the Rain Prayers into the Elven Empire, defeated its defenders, and fought Rameses and his dragon host as she pressed toward the Tree of Perfection.
• Hassan let Witch Macedon pass, but Patrick displaced her from the Imperial Capital and refused to let her reach the tree; meanwhile, the Swarm invaded the empire.
• Probus argued that life, nature, evolution, and prosperity all revolved around Truth-Seeking, reshaping the Moon of Evolution and Tree of Prosperity and sending their power across the world.
• Probus identified the Forest Rangers’ Leaf of Power as the Path of Equals and declared that he would complete Pseudo Forging: Truth-Seeking.
• Locke’s attempt to pseudo-forge the Universal Truth drew a reaction from the Plane Principle, and an unnatural hatred of Locke spread among unstable wizards.

Locke tried to draw Probus out of the Abyss and persuade him to reveal a buried truth, while Witch Macedon attacked the Tree of Perfection. Locke entered the battle through Bellobus and drove Macedon away, leaving the Tree of Perfection standing and the spectators stunned.

• Locke summoned Probus and used Truth-Seeking to pull him toward the surface, prompting Probus to agree to perform a ritual and reveal the identity of the person hidden in his memories.
• Witch Macedon restrained Patrick, reached the Tree of Perfection, and began destroying it despite its attempts to revive.
• Locke intervened through Bellobus, using Jungle-enhanced Magic Plants and fast attacks to wound Witch Macedon and withstand her spells.
• Witch Macedon trapped Bellobus in her Ice Age spell, but he survived and used the Path of the Enemy to raise his Magic Pressure to match hers.
• Locke used the Moon of Evolution to transform Macedon's Cabbage Sword into seeds, allowing Bellobus to stab her and force her retreat.
• Bellobus resolved to destroy the seven great evils and the Swarm within the Elven Empire, while the Rain-Marsh audience reacted with shock and admiration.

Little Probus discovered that the Void Swarm had infected the Elven Empire’s ruling class and confronted its seven regents, only to uncover a much larger threat when the Swarm combined seven sun ancient trees with the Evolution Garden to create ten suns. As the Ten-Sun Insect emerged, Locke prepared to strengthen himself, declaring that Four Sacred Beasts' Protection was complete.

• Witch Macedon retreated to the Rain Realm, formed the Three-Thousand Rain-Witch Formation, and began treating the Jungle power lodged in her wound.
• Little Probus found Red Spider Disease spreading through the empire’s trees and learned that the Imperial Capital’s officials and regent were fleeing rather than resisting the Swarm.
• Little Probus sought help from the seven elf regents, but each dismissed him; after witnessing the suffering of commoners, he unleashed his power against the regents and their sun ancient trees.
• The Swarm emerged from its parasitic hosts and blocked Probus’s attack, revealing that it had infected all seven regents and invaded the Evolution Garden, which rose alongside the seven ancient trees to form ten suns.
• Locke identified the danger of the Ten-Sun Insect and resolved to improve his strength; he announced that Four Sacred Beasts' Protection was complete.

As the Void Swarm’s Ten-Sun Insect ravaged the Genesis Blue Lotus World, Locke deciphered a warning from the extinct Other civilization and completed the Four Sacred Beasts’ Protection. Little Probus used the newly evolved White-Tiger Sea Golden Sand to shield the world from the suns, leaving Sea Golden Sand recognized as a powerful Star-Ring Magic Plant.

• Locke deciphered the Other civilization’s stele, learning that the Void Swarm’s calamities could spread through fleeing hosts and that the Ten-Sun Insect threatened the world with destruction.
• Little Probus and an Elf gladiator shot down several Sun Insects, but the insects revived and their heavenly fire devastated the land; Edgar revealed himself and lent Little Probus the power of his Empire and Great Magic.
• Locke completed the Moon of Evolution’s forging, allowing Sea Golden Sand to gain White Tiger Spiritual Breath and become White-Tiger Sea Golden Sand; Little Probus combined it with the other three Sacred Beasts’ Magic Plants.
• Little Probus spread the Four Symbols Cyclic Guarding Qi throughout the world, halting the Ten-Sun Insect’s destruction and restoring the world’s vitality and water cycle.
• Wizard spectators recognized the unusual strength of Sea Golden Sand, and Little Probus declared that White-Tiger Sea Golden Sand would become a renowned Star-Ring Magic Plant.

Little Probus and Edgar helped Locke expose the mistake behind the Ten-Sun Insects and destroy them, while Locke revealed the Mother of Insects’ role in creating the calamity. After shooting down two suns, Locke announced that he would complete the Ten-King Bottle and attempt the Holy Dragon Wizard’s Pseudo Forging.

• Locke used the Four Symbols Guarding Qi to protect the Genesis Blue Lotus World, then linked his Spiritual Breath to the Ten-Sun Insects as their flames burned him.
• Edgar lent his strength to Little Probus, who advanced toward the insects and confronted the Abyss-bound Probus in a vision of his past mistakes.
• Locke recognized that Probus’s theory of evolution had become a false, all-encompassing system that had helped create the Void-Forging Calamity.
• Little Probus shot a Sun Insect with the Peach Arc Thorn Arrow, and it died without reviving; Locke then revealed the hidden Mother of Insects and explained how she had weakened the insects by mixing Void-Forging and Null-Forging powers.
• Edgar and Probus joined Locke in shooting down another Sun Insect, while the Mother of Insects tried to bargain with them.
• Locke said he would complete the Ten-King Bottle to gain the academic foundation needed to attempt the Holy Dragon Wizard’s Pseudo Forging.

Locke completed the Ten-King Bottle, a World in a Bottle whose Garden Grotto-Heaven formed a complete small world, and used it to defeat the Mother of Insects and the Ten-Sun Insects. After the old suns fell and the world began to change, Locke set out to prove Minor Reform and forge his own Great Magic.

• Locke completed ten Garden Grotto-Heavens and fused them into the Ten-King Bottle while fighting the Ten-Sun Insects with Edgar and Probus's Great Magics.
• With Witch Macedon's rain slowing the Sun Insects, Locke finished the Ten-King Bottle and captured the Mother of Insects, then killed her with his Magic Plants and reset the bottle's world to purge her eggs.
• Locke cultivated the Advanced Mystical Significance Year of Xinwei in the White-Tiger Sea Golden Sand and used it to destroy the Sun Insects despite the Mother of Insects' threats that their deaths would collapse the world.
• Locke and Edgar began replacing the failing Tree of All Things as the world changed, and Locke declared that the old sun could be replaced and that even dead wood could bloom again.
• Locke turned the Tree of Prosperity back into a seed and began forging Minor Reform, aiming to achieve a Pseudo Forging of Universal Truth.

Locke forged Pseudo Forging: Minor Reform into his Tree of Prosperity, then used Restoration Replication to stabilize Edgar’s Tree of All Things. As Probus began correcting his own Great Magic and revealing the truth about the Genesis Blue Lotus competition, the Water God Palace’s blockade was broken, exposing how a Third-Ring deputy head of the Starfield Sea Tribunal had persecuted Probus.

• The spectators praised Locke for defeating the Ten-Sun Insect, while White Frost Witch realized she had fallen behind Probus and Locke and her Great Magic collapsed as she wandered away.
• Mormodis found White Frost Witch, explained that her Pseudo Forging had collapsed, and urged her to return for treatment, but White Frost Witch continued walking away.
• Locke forged Pseudo Forging: Minor Reform into his Tree of Prosperity and developed Restoration Replication, which could return Great Magic and magical plants to earlier states.
• Locke used Restoration Replication to halt the decline of Edgar’s Tree of All Things, and Edgar thanked him before insisting they compete fairly to solve the Genesis Problem.
• Probus divided his Great Magic into three and relinquished the Magic Pressure he had gained by attacking wizards, while Witch Macedon shattered the Water God Palace’s illusion and exposed the past competition.
• The illusion revealed that a Third-Ring Holy Wizard had forced Probus to compete with White Frost Witch and threatened his funding; the Rain-Marsh wizards recognized her as the deputy head of the Starfield Sea Tribunal.

The Illusion Screen exposed Witch Ava’s role in persecuting Probus, prompting public outrage and a former student to testify against her. The competition was nearly stopped when Starfield Sea’s Jinx invoked a White Wizard Association honor token, but Chaos countered with another token and demanded that it continue.

• Rain-Marsh’s wizard spectators accepted the bitter wood footage as authentic and condemned the Third-Ring Witch’s treatment of Probus.
• Captain Ava claimed the vision might be an illusion, but Master Brute challenged her, and the Rain-Suppressing Throne and Blood Dragon Throne arrived to contain the controversy.
• A former student of Probus testified that Ava had threatened and repeatedly mistreated Probus, while Ava tried to intimidate him.
• Jinx invoked the Holy Angel Wizard’s Association Major Honor Token and demanded that the competition be halted.
• Chaos presented the Seven Mountains Region’s honor token and demanded that the competition continue, leaving the two claims in conflict.

Locke used the competition to demonstrate Pseudo Forging: Reformation, showing that his Great Magic: Tree of Prosperity could change a cultivated Magic Plant’s Occult Property. He taught the method to the gathered Elves and wizards and announced that it would extend the Genesis Blue Lotus World’s prosperity, while the competition’s wider factional struggle remained unresolved.

• Chaos rejected Witch Jinx’s appeal to the Holy Angel Wizard’s legacy and defended the Seven Mountains Region’s support of the White Wizard Association, while Jinx failed to stop the competition.
• Locke planned a Jungle Gathering to spread Pseudo Forging: Minor Reform, arguing that even those who opposed the Forest Ranger System might eventually learn from it.
• Ten days later, Locke summoned Goddess Rose to the gathering and used the Tree of Prosperity to demonstrate how Pseudo Forging: Reformation could alter the Variegated Star Bellflower’s Occult Property from [Serenity] to [Sound of Wild Geese].
• Witch Macedon explained that Locke had reversed the Tri-Unity Hybridization Cultivation Method to reform the plant, and the gathered wizards recognized his unprecedented achievement.
• Locke described Reformation as continual renewal, passed the spell to the audience, and announced that the Genesis Blue Lotus World would prosper for at least four thousand years by using discarded form as energy for the Tree of Prosperity.

After Locke’s Great Magic: Tree of Prosperity spread across the Genesis Blue Lotus World, Witch Macedon, Wizard Edgar David, and Locke each completed Pseudo Forging and became Moon-Ring Wizards. As the Elves’ golden age continued, Locke warned Edgar that the world’s apocalypse was approaching and agreed to meet him again in a thousand years.

• Witch Macedon used Locke’s spell to refine her Great Magic and accelerate her recovery, while Edgar David and other practitioners also harnessed its Heart Thunder to improve themselves.
• Locke completed the framework for Pseudo Forging: Minor Reform, and Probus admitted he still lacked evidence of the alleged wrongdoing in the competition.
• Over two thousand years, the Elven population and civilizations flourished, new power sequences arose, and the Rain Realm and the Tree of All Things repeatedly fought for control.
• Witch Macedon became a Moon-Ring Wizard and prepared to attack the Tree of All Things, but Edgar David also ascended to Moon Ring and the two nearly clashed.
• Locke became the third Moon-Ring Wizard when his Tree of Prosperity completed Pseudo Forging, and he persuaded Macedon and Edgar to postpone their conflict.
• Locke and Edgar agreed to meet again in a thousand years, while the three wizards turned their attention to the approaching decline and apocalypse of the Genesis Blue Lotus World.

The Genesis Blue Lotus World prospered for millennia as Edgar and Witch Macedon argued over how to survive its approaching end, while Locke developed the Forest Ranger power system. After false imitations spread and the last righteous Forest Ranger was killed, the world entered the Age of Dharma Decline.

• Rain Emperor Poluo unified the Rain Realms and later the earth, devoted his reign to the Tree of Prosperity, and died after spending his life seeking wisdom from Locke’s Forest Rangers.
• Edgar proposed building an Ark of Salvation, but Witch Macedon rejected his plan, refused to surrender her own plans, and warned him that the World's End was approaching.
• Rain Emperor Poluo’s accomplishments produced the Poluo Rain Leaf, while Locke organized three thousand Leaves of Power into three Branches of Power.
• Witch Macedon sensed a terrifying calamity approaching through the Heavenly River and demanded that Edgar hand over Tree of All Things, but Edgar refused to trust her warning.
• Quinn Ross and other elves created imitation Great Magics that spread across the world, drawing elves away from Locke’s original teachings.
• Master Domitian killed Master Ewan, and Locke declared that the Golden Age had ended and the Genesis Blue Lotus World had entered the Age of Dharma Decline.

The Genesis Blue Lotus World entered the Age of Dharma Decline as powerful essences departed, and its rulers’ attempts to preserve civilization led to tyranny and ruin. After Locke confronted Domitian and Domitian died, Locke entered the Rain Realm as Edgar and Witch Macedon prepared for their decisive battle.

• Locke, Edgar, and Witch Macedon witnessed generations of heroes and Forest Rangers depart the Genesis Blue Lotus World, while the world’s Plane Principles began to decay.
• Edgar claimed his updated Tree of All Things system and Imperial Law could preserve order, but the Age of Dharma Decline weakened the world’s rivers, trees, and magic.
• Domitian conquered the land, executed more than two hundred captured kings, and used his True Tree of Prosperity to force the empire into rigid conformity.
• Two hundred and fifty years later, Domitian found his empire reduced to ruins and its inhabitants reduced to obedient subjects, then died after Locke told him he had misunderstood Minor Reform.
• Macedon pursued Edgar with her Moon-Ring Heavenly Garment Jade Cabbage while he tried to protect the Ark of Salvation, and their battle threatened to hasten the world’s end.
• Locke entered the Rain Realm disguised as an ordinary Elf, intending to end Macedon and Edgar’s conflict and unravel the Genesis Problem.

The apocalypse corrupted the elves and disrupted both Edgar’s Tree of All Things and Witch Macedon’s Rain Wizard Chief as the two fought. Macedon gained the advantage with her representative species cabbage, but Locke intervened with his Jungle and then entered the core of her Great Magic by asking the Rain Prayers to teach him, leaving Macedon wary of his intentions.

• Mad Tree of Prosperity Treants drove elves to slaughter one another, while disasters and dwindling resources plunged the world into chaos.
• Edgar and Witch Macedon adapted their Great Magics to the apocalypse by redistributing spiritual breath, but their methods put ordinary elves and powerful elves in conflict.
• Witch Macedon attacked Edgar with her moon-ring Heavenly Imperial Cabbage, while Edgar used successive ancient tree magic plants to defend himself.
• Locke’s Jungle blocked Macedon’s cabbage, but she began using stored spiritual breath to cultivate advanced mystical significance in the Heavenly Imperial Cabbage.
• Macedon abandoned her ambush when she learned Locke had reached the core of Rain Wizard Chief, where he asked sixteen Rain Prayers to teach him their Great Magic.

Locke seized control of Witch Macedon’s Rain Realm and used the Tree of Prosperity to strengthen the world’s water cycle, helping Edgar complete the Ark of Salvation and Rameses restore his power. As the contestants’ plans faltered and the apocalypse worsened, the Void Swarm’s surviving Mother of Insects struck Edgar’s Ark, and Witch Macedon admitted her own plan could not succeed.

• Locke entered the Rain Realm’s core, broke Witch Macedon’s trap, and used the Tree of Prosperity to take control of the Heavenly River and multiply its Cabbage Magic Plants.
• Locke’s rain supplied Spiritual Breath to Edgar’s Ark of Salvation, completing its keel, and helped Rameses grow Mugwort, bind the Red Spider, and break through to the Moon Ring.
• Edgar assembled the Ark and broadcast an invitation to the Elves, while Patrick and Rameses struggled against Doomsday Aura and Edgar’s Tree of All Things drained their Spiritual Breath.
• Witch Macedon failed to grant her Moon-Ring Representative Species Advanced Mystical Significance, then chose to continue attempting to restore the Genesis Blue Lotus’s ability to reproduce.
• Edgar launched the Ark toward the Genesis Blue Lotus’s leaves, but the Red Spider struck it and drove it back into the mountains.
• Rameses learned that another Mother of Insects still existed, and Witch Macedon conceded that the Swarm made her plan impossible and warned Locke that doing nothing meant waiting for the world to end.

Patrick died while trying to reach the last remnant of life, and the three Moon-Ring Wizards admitted that their separate plans to solve the Genesis Problem had failed. Locke persuaded Witch Macedon, Edgar, and Rameses to follow his new plan: use a revised Pseudo Forging: Minor Reform to restore the world by improving its people, though the method remained unrevealed.

• Patrick's Great Magic collapsed under the Doomsday Aura, and his dying body continued toward Edgar's fallen Ark while he vowed to solve the Genesis Problem.
• Edgar killed the Mother of Insects with his Treants, and Locke summoned Witch Macedon, Edgar, and Rameses to Rain Wizard Chief.
• Witch Macedon, Edgar, and Rameses described how their plans had failed, and Locke admitted that his original Minor Reform plan had failed as well.
• Locke proposed that the four Moon-Ring Wizards cooperate, then explained that he would use a revised Pseudo Forging: Minor Reform to restore prosperity and revive the world's ability to sustain life.
• Witch Macedon challenged Locke's faith in the world's people, but she and Edgar agreed to help after he argued that anyone could improve through Minor Reform.
• Locke ordered Edgar to stop the ancient trees from draining Spiritual Breath from high-level professionals and told Macedon and Edgar to follow his instructions as he prepared to restore the world.

Locke and his allies restored Genesis Blue Lotus World’s apparent vitality by transforming its ecology and disguising Name Potion as Spiritual Breath, then created Tribulation Thunder to force Elves to improve themselves. Locke’s feared Great Villain persona spread across the world as the thunder began striking Level 5 and Level 6 Professionals.

• Locke proposed planting drought-resistant magic plants and using counterfeit Spiritual Breath to slow the world’s decline, and Witch Macedon and Edgar agreed to help.
• Locke refined Name Potion and mixed it into the Heavenly River, allowing Rain Wizard Chief and Tree of All Things to make the world appear restored while its apocalyptic aura stayed unchanged.
• Locke, Witch Macedon, Edgar, and Rameses spent three years transforming the ecology; the insect swarms mistook the world’s apparent recovery for genuine strength and went dormant.
• The four wizards combined their Great Magics into Tribulation Thunder, and Locke announced that it would strike Professionals who reached Level 5, calling himself the Great Villain—Lord of Beholders.
• Tribulation Thunder killed many Level 5 Elves, while those who survived were healed and strengthened; the trials later struck Level 6 Professionals as well.
• Locke’s escalating trials and threats made Elves across Genesis Blue Lotus World curse him as the greatest villain under heaven.

Locke and his companions endured generations of Lightning Tribulations while the Genesis Blue Lotus World seemed to decline, until the elves’ struggle proved the world’s substance was rising and Locke’s plan had worked. As souls from the Infinite Void began arriving to be reborn, the fifteen-hundred-year Genesis Blue Lotus Problem was solved.

• Locke, Witch Macedon, Edgar, and Rameses maintained the Lightning Tribulation as the elves suffered and learned to strengthen themselves, while Edgar sacrificed himself to replenish the world’s spiritual breath.
• The elves continued struggling for generations, and Rameses and the others succumbed to the five declines of heaven and man as Locke and Witch Macedon considered abandoning the plan.
• A young elf survived the Level 20 Lightning Tribulation, and Witch Macedon’s calculations revealed that the world’s total substantial mass had greatly increased.
• Locke explained that the elves’ efforts had strengthened their substance despite declining spiritual breath and form, and Witch Macedon acknowledged that his plan had succeeded.
• Witch Macedon called souls from the Infinite Void to the recovering world, and countless souls arrived to be reborn.

Locke solved the Genesis Problem, drove the Swarm from the Genesis Blue Lotus World, and drew the attention of powerful factions across the Infinite Void. After the Truth Wizard met him, she warned him not to trust an Archaeology Grandmaster who had hidden his name, then vanished, leaving Locke before the Bitter Wood.

• Locke used Lightning Tribulation to make the Swarm’s future survival in the Genesis Blue Lotus World untenable, then gave Mother of Insects Sugrila Smaug 1,000 points of Star-Ring Magic Pressure in exchange for her eggs and Swarm leaving.
• Sugrila Smaug led the Swarm into the Infinite Void, where the Overlord directed it toward the Persepolis God Clan’s Ancestor God Star, while the Genesis Blue Lotus World separated from the Genesis Problem and entered the void.
• Wizard spectators celebrated Locke’s victory, while Witch Jinx and Witch Ava feared the consequences; the Overlord of the Swarm, the God Kings, the Lord of Hell, and survivors of destroyed civilizations also noticed Locke’s Pseudo-Forging.
• Patrick and Edgar revived, Edgar considered pursuing a Universal Truth, Witch Macedon regained her youth, and Locke received invitations from Wizard Academies.
• The Truth Wizard explained her role as the Problem-Setting Envoy and showed Locke the Wizard Overlords’ Age of Autocracy before warning him not to trust an unnamed Archaeology Grandmaster or follow his instructions.
• The Truth Wizard vanished, leaving Locke facing the Bitter Wood hanging upside down in the sky.