Chapter Summaries

Locke met the past version of Witch Catherine in the Past Land, learned that his Constancy and Pseudo Forging: Minor Reform should continue developing, and returned with a Dao body and a lock of hair to bear his Moon-Ring Magic Pressure. Back at Golden Crown Mountain, he helped expose an infiltration by Dragonspawn while keeping Witch Catherine’s hidden plans secret, then reviewed his research group’s reports as Wizard Sera prepared to rob a Red Dragon School Lineage witch.

• Locke met a Dao Eleven Great Dao Lord in the Past Land, who explained the ancient Dao Strife and urged him to continue developing Pseudo Forging: Minor Reform without discarding his Constancy.
• The woman sent Locke back with a lock of hair that could bear his Moon-Ring Magic Pressure, and Witch Catherine explained the Battle of Academic Lineages and gave him a Minor Reform Dao body.
• Locke exposed Dragonspawn at the Truth Institute, helped kill a fleeing Dragonspawn, and reported the Dragonspawn King’s corpse to Wizard Robinson, who ordered Golden Crown Mountain sealed and searched.
• Locke reviewed his research group’s reports, invited Wizard Gordon to help write an article, and recognized promise in Wizard Wood’s proposal for mycelial fusion.
• Wizard Sera spotted a Red Dragon School Lineage witch collecting venom and decided to rob her.

Locke established Gungnir to sell potions and snake-venom serum, but faced strict licensing requirements from the White Wizard Association. When Locke contacted the Sea Queen Throne for help, she proposed that they open the Potions Shop Alliance together, with Locke holding 67% of the shares.

• Sera resurrected the Venomous Snake Clan and attacked Witch Susan with an undead serpent, but Locke arrived and destroyed the serpent and Sera’s undead forces with the White-Tiger Sea Golden Sand and Star-Moon Fern Spear.
• Locke gave Susan a Holy Spring Nectar Potion, collected the snake venom she left behind, and decided that serum made from it could become the basis of a Potions Shop Alliance.
• At Golden Crown Mountain, Wizard Wood ranked first in the research group’s evaluations and assigned the members preliminary mycelial fusion experiments.
• Locke registered Gungnir and expanded Augustus to serve the entire Cloud Marsh Wetland, then learned that Gungnir needed numerous licenses, including approval to produce restricted Archangel Potions.
• The Potion Administration Division’s director questioned Locke’s qualifications, but changed his attitude after Locke named the Sea Queen Throne as his Potions teacher.
• The Sea Queen Throne rejected a simple qualification guarantee and proposed that she and Locke establish Gungnir together, with Locke owning 67% and her owning 33%.

Locke partnered with the Sea Queen Throne to establish Gungnir, secured its Potions licenses, and discovered that the Gizzard Membrane Spirit Macro could counter toxins from the Venom Great World. After studying ninety-seven venoms, he received invitations from Solas Barefoot and Queen Ayla and chose to contact Queen Ayla.

• Locke negotiated a 100-million-Magic-Stone investment from the Sea Queen Throne for a 33% stake in Gungnir, with a ten-million annual dividend condition and a charter protecting both partners' rights.
• The Sun-Ring director fast-tracked Gungnir's certifications, and Locke collected licenses for potion sales, production, research, and the Archangel Potion.
• Locke transformed into a Heavenly Origin Lord, tested snake venoms on himself, and used his body's clear qi to study how the toxins altered their victims.
• Witch Camilla met Wizard Aura, who offered thirty million Magic Stones to reserve Gungnir's first products and asked her to arrange a meeting with Locke.
• After testing ninety-seven snake venoms, Locke identified the Gizzard Membrane Spirit Macro as a promising broad-spectrum antivenom ingredient.
• Locke received invitations from Argos of Solas Barefoot and Queen Ayla, rejected Solas Barefoot's offer, and chose to contact Queen Ayla.

Locke negotiated with Queen Ayla and Simpson Latch to produce Wizard’s Shoe, refusing to risk damaging Latch’s Pseudo Forging but agreeing to share profits and teach Breeding Science. Their deal was interrupted when the Persepolis God Clan’s God of Truth appeared over the Wizarding World, and Starfield Sea opened a vote on declaring war.

• Locke reviewed Wizard Celt’s mushroom-plant research and prepared Wizard Gordon’s articles for submission to Thunder Marsh Journal.
• Queen Ayla introduced Locke to Simpson Latch, who asked him to reverse the Pseudo Forging of his Replication Magic; Locke refused because the attempt could destroy Latch’s Great Magic or kill him.
• Locke examined Latch’s Replication Studies and suspected its foundations were flawed, while Latch’s Academic Lineage agreed to help produce Wizard’s Shoe for twenty percent of the net profit.
• Locke agreed to give Latch’s Academic Lineage an in-person lecture on Breeding Science, and Queen Ayla arranged for the order to be completed within a month.
• The Eastern Sector shook as a second sun appeared and the Persepolis God Clan’s God of Truth challenged the Wizarding World; the Void Battleships shifted their targets away from the God Kings.
• Starfield Sea initiated a vote asking whether the Eastern Sector should declare war on the Logos Divine System and Terra Pantheon.

Locke survived the God of Truth’s attack on the Root Realms, helped save Wizard Zeno with a potion made from Venom Great World ingredients, and saw the Wizarding World push back against the gods. After the crisis, he discovered that his research team’s talented members had been concealing their own troubles, including Wizard Wood’s theft of a sacred plant.

• Locke watched the Eastern Sector proposals form a seven-land Frontline Committee, while Third-Ring Wizards blocked a vote to investigate Dragonfall Land.
• The God of Truth attacked Wizards through their Root Realms, but Locke destroyed his apparition and used snake venoms to slow the transformation of Wizard Zeno into an apostle.
• Russell Throne activated the Corridor of Yesteryear’s Golden Magic to protect the Path of Truth, while the Crimson Court tried to remake the God of Truth into its own god.
• The gods’ forces withdrew toward the Kobold World as Wizards including Smith and Voidwind Truth fought them, and Locke’s Mana recovered after the Root Realms were protected.
• Locke brewed Golden Elixir Sand from ingredients associated with the Venom Great World and used it to restore Wizard Zeno’s mind and body.
• Wizard Wood revealed that he had taken the Aizela People’s sacred Aizela Five-Finger Grass and been cursed, and Locke told him to break the curse by standing in the sun.

Locke offered Green Exquisite the license for Golden Elixir Sand, a detoxifying potion suited to the war against Venom Great World, and demanded one hundred million Magic Stones. As Green Exquisite’s owner Gertrude weighed the deal and explained her underfunded research into a new Core-Function Spirit Macro, her creditor Fubangge unexpectedly agreed to Locke’s price.

• Locke tasked Gordon with submitting their research article and promised him further publication opportunities, then took the Magic Wolf Giant to seek an Advancement Potion and recruit him for Gungnir.
• Locke showed Gertrude the Golden Elixir Sand treatment footage, and she recognized that the potion could meet urgent demand for treating Venom Great World toxins.
• Gertrude offered to conduct Phase Three trials for payment and explained that Green Exquisite was short of funds because her research into a new Core-Function Spirit Macro had attracted little support.
• Locke proposed licensing Golden Elixir Sand to Green Exquisite, and Gertrude agreed to discuss a price while revealing her reluctance to claim credit for the research.
• Fubangge entered the negotiation, and Locke asked for one hundred million Magic Stones for the license; after watching the footage, Fubangge agreed.

Locke completed a deal with Green Exquisite for Golden Elixir Sand, then used his Moon-Ring Mana to strengthen his Soul Magic Plants and gathered Gang Dingdi's scattered Divinity to increase his Magic Pressure. A week later, he visited Cloud Garment House to study wizard-robe production and testing, where Winnie Fred welcomed his plans to develop a Pure Magic Plant Wizard Robe.

• Locke and Fubangge signed a Golden Elixir Sand agreement, and Fubangge paid Gungnir a hundred million Magic Stones while Gertrude promised to arrange the third-phase experiments.
• At Saffron Peach Orchard, Locke reviewed the research plans, while Wood kept the Aizela Five-Finger Grass he had grafted and insisted its unguarded sacred relic was his.
• Locke discovered that his Moon-Ring Mana could raise the Green Dragon Vine's Magic Pressure, then strengthened the Great Bright Flame Dragon Sparrow and found that sharing Mana also improved his own Spiritual Breath and physical foundation.
• Locke visited Sea King World, collected fragments of Gang Dingdi's Divinity from human settlements, and raised his Shadow Assassin Divine Pearl's Magic Pressure to the Star-Ring Limit.
• A week later, Winnie Fred showed Locke Cloud Garment House's wizard-robe workshop, explained its production and testing standards, and encouraged him to develop his Pure Magic Plant Wizard Robe.

Julian presented Locke with the Water-Hiding Loofah Vine he had bred, and Locke assigned him new research work while guiding Planknia toward a stronger academic focus. Locke then lectured in the Dwarf Giant World, as Golden Elixir Sand brought attention to Gungnir and Locke’s achievements, including news that ten of his journal articles would soon be published.

• Julian showed Locke, Planknia, and Wizard Celt his Water-Hiding Loofah Vine, and Locke praised the creation and invited Julian to help breed Apprentice Level mushroom magic plants.
• Locke assigned Planknia a research plan and reading list, then left to lecture Replication Studies wizards in the Dwarf Giant World.
• Locke gave a lecture on Breeding Science and ecology, and Wizard Latch invited him to the Krenos Chariot Race.
• Argos and Lady Rosamund learned that Golden Elixir Sand, developed by Locke’s Gungnir Shop Alliance, had become a major seller, undermining Rosamund’s plan to exploit Locke’s need for funds.
• Golden Copper Coin and Jinyingzi redirected their research after recognizing Golden Elixir Sand’s strong position, while Jinyingzi planned to develop remedies for its medicinal toxicity.
• Argos told Lady Rosamund that Locke had passed review for ten Q1 journal articles scheduled for publication next month, and she demanded to know whether the report was certain.

Madam Rosamund and Wizard Argos prepared to negotiate Solas Barefoot’s investment in Locke’s Augustine, but Locke’s successful wizard shoes and their growing reputation changed Argos’s view of the business. Argos abandoned the meeting and declared Augustus an enemy, leaving Locke and Solas Barefoot on a collision course in the Wizard’s Shoe market.

• Madam Rosamund doubted her ability to negotiate with Locke after learning he had published ten Q1 papers, while Argos urged her to overcome her awe and pursue Solas Barefoot’s business goals.
• Locke watched a chariot race with Wizard Latch, learned that Solas Barefoot might seek to invest in Augustine, and received warnings about Argos and Rosamund coming to meet him.
• Queen Ayla and Witch Catherine sent Locke footage of Wizard Mike surviving an encounter with the Purple-Spotted Eight-Headed Serpent using Locke’s Starlit Golden Dragon Claw · Air Pineapple shoes, which established the shoes’ power and attracted interest from wizards.
• After viewing the footage, Argos ordered his carriage to turn away from the arena and declared that Augustus had to be destroyed rather than treated as a potential investment.
• Locke and Argos saw each other across the plaza and recognized each other as enemies in the Wizard’s Shoe market.

Solas organized a school-wide robe-design competition while Argos rallied Solas Barefoot’s designers for Kunguding Academy’s wizard-shoe commission. Antoine asked Locke to focus on Hadron research for the Ancient Planet, but Locke instead offered a way to strengthen the outpost with Illusion-Breaking Potions; the chapter ended as Locke and Sea Queen Throne prepared to visit the Zodiac Society.

• Solas praised Mike’s recording, told Clotho to give Argos another chance, and announced a voluntary three-month robe-design competition for his students.
• Lana Alvarez praised Locke’s success, while Bill feared that Lana’s good mood would turn into an afternoon scolding.
• Antoine told Locke that the Ancient Planet’s kingdoms had united against the wizards, described his wife’s tribe and the losses at their outpost, and asked Locke to develop Hadron Magic Plants.
• Locke declined to devote all his attention to Hadron research and proposed using Illusion-Breaking Potions to let Second-Ring wizards wield their full power temporarily on the Ancient Planet.
• Argos offered Solas Barefoot’s designers promotions and prizes for the shoe commission, favored Oak with materials, and planned to rebuild the shop alliance by organizing a Core Circle.
• Locke collected his payment from Arthas, bringing his Magic Stone fortune to 330 million, and prepared with Sea Queen Throne to visit the Zodiac Society.

Locke and Sea Queen Throne entered the Zodiac Society, where a terrified newcomer called Dog revealed that he came from a world governed by Heavenly Law. Locke connected Dog’s world to the Myriad Worlds and the Bannaladga God Clan before Ox silenced him and began the society’s trading session.

• At Root Crown Court, Locke identified the decaying roots as Omega Disease and asked Sea Queen Throne how to adapt Illusion-Breaking Potion for a magic-absorbing region; she taught him to use Spiritual Touch Field principles and gave him a thick reference book to memorize.
• Locke and Sea Queen Throne entered the Zodiac Society wearing Dragon and Snake masks, where the members discussed three absent members and introduced themselves to the two newcomers.
• Dog panicked and claimed someone had forced a Dog Iron Ring onto him; he said he had never solved a Zodiac Challenge and came from Divine Dao Palace, a world where Heavenly Law punished violations of convention.
• Locke and Sea Queen Throne inferred that the Zodiac Society recruited members across the Infinite Void, and Sea Queen Throne described Dog’s world as governed by backward, Pseudo-Forged causality.
• Locke asked Dog whether he came from the Myriad Worlds and had heard of the Bannaladga God Clan; Dog named Probus before blood poured from his mouth, and Ox warned Locke against probing identities.
• Ox injected Dog with a Substitute Death potion and gave him a lingzhi mushroom to explain his recovery under Heavenly Law; after the members applauded Ox’s solution, the Zodiac thrones opened for trading and challenges.

Locke attended his first Zodiac Society gathering, bought a powerful Sacrificial Earth Witchstone, and demonstrated the Magic Potion Reverse-Refining Method by restoring a transformed wizard. As the gathering was interrupted by White Wizard Association scouts, Locke prepared to secure the promised auction opportunity for Yellow Springs Wine.

• The Zodiacs auctioned Black Thief Wudan, which Rabbit bought after no one else bid.
• Locke requested magical resources that would increase magic pressure, then negotiated to combine his auction privilege with Ox’s promise; he later bought the Sacrificial Earth Witchstone for one hundred million magic stones.
• Rabbit’s Golden Needle Potion worsened a cursed prince’s transformation, Sea Queen Throne stabilized him as a leopard, and Ox restored him to human form with silver needles and a magic potion waterfall.
• The Zodiacs examined a red-skinned wizard whose body had been remade by venom, and Locke recognized signs that the Venom Great World concealed dangerous secrets.
• Locke used the Magic Potion Reverse-Refining Method to heal the wizard’s body and soul, impressing the Zodiacs.
• Ox announced that White Wizard Association scouts were approaching and ended the gathering, while Locke realized he had to request Yellow Springs Wine before the opportunity passed.

Locke obtained a bottle sold as Yellow Springs Wine for Sea Queen Throne, but discovered the liquid was a protective potion rather than the real wine. After graduating from Sea Queen Throne’s class, he received a Starfield Sea Examination invitation, while the Lich God recruited Sera to target him through Solas Barefoot; Locke then learned Sophia had sent him a message.

• Locke healed the Hunter Wizard, whose First Ring and Permanent Defense Field had been destroyed, and explained that he should seek his surviving Great Magic.
• Locke named Yellow Springs Wine as his desired auction item, and Sea Queen Throne won the sealed bottle while a Wizard Investigator arrived and forced the Zodiac Society gathering to end.
• Sea Queen Throne drank the bottle and discovered it contained Indestructible Potion instead of Yellow Springs Wine; she gave it to Locke, graduated him from her class, and told him he could continue attending Zodiac Society gatherings.
• Witch Camilla invited Locke to meet at the Dragonblood Gathering, and a White Wizard Association staff member delivered his Starfield Sea Examination invitation.
• The Lich God urged Sera to join Solas Barefoot and use Spirit-Calling Art against Locke indirectly, then secured Sera’s signature on a soul contract.
• A Samsara Logistics courier stopped Locke before he signed the Starfield Sea invitation and offered to deliver a Happy Flower message from Sophia.

Locke reunited with Witch Sophia, who warned him against the Starfield Sea Examination and urged him to earn his way into the Starfield Sea through achievements and strength. After refusing the examination invitation, he also rejected Wizard Aura's offer to manage Augustus, leaving the committee's plans uncertain.

• Locke used the Happy Flower to speak with Witch Sophia, who gave him a supporting jungle and explained that the Starfield Sea Examination had been compromised by entrenched interests.
• Witch Sophia warned Locke not to join the Resource Management Integration Committee or take the examination, and told him about the Eastern Sector Wizard Shoe Achievement Award and the Pillar Wizard recruitment route.
• Locke refused to sign up for the Starfield Sea Examination and decided to build his credentials and fight his way into the Starfield Sea.
• Locke met Witch Camilla and Wizard Aura, who offered to manage Augustus through the Resource Management Integration Committee in exchange for fees and operational authority.
• Locke rejected Aura's contract, saying he wanted Augustus to expand across wizard shoe markets rather than accept a limited foothold, and left the private room.

Locke advanced his mushroom-mycelium wizard robe research and assigned Wizard Wood, West Mario, and Lix Mario new tasks. Meanwhile, Sera was captured by Solas Barefoot and the Lich God began taking over his body; Locke sensed their Spirit-Calling Art link disappear, then learned Sera had withdrawn from the competition.

• Locke tested Wizard Wood’s physically intertwined mycelium and showed that a First-Ring Transfiguration spell could unravel it, then gave the team research on parasitic mycelium as a solution.
• Locke assigned West Mario to cultivate parasitic mushroom varieties and Lix Mario to intertwine mycelium and record its properties, while Wizard Wood led the research.
• Wizard Argos confronted Sera at Solas Barefoot, where Sera lost a contest to Lex and was detained after a violent fight against the wizard guards and designers.
• In Solas Barefoot’s dungeon, the Lich God revealed that he had been sustaining Sera’s apparent power and began possessing him; Sera tried to summon Locke through the Spirit-Calling Art before his consciousness vanished.
• Locke sensed that his Spirit-Calling Art link with Sera had disappeared and learned that Sera and a female Enchanting wizard had withdrawn, advancing Locke directly to the third round.
• Celt told Locke that Breeders from the Red Dragon School Lineage had arrived to see him, and Locke asked Celt to speak with them unless the matter was urgent.

Locke examined fiona cloud duckweed and water king cabbage, then proposed using cellular-level Sword Mounds to transfer the cabbage’s traits into his air pineapples. When Red Dragon School Lineage Breeders asked him to lead their fight against Solas Barefoot, he blamed their unsafe, poorly made shoes, offered to share his research under quality inspections, and urged them to publish stronger studies in Q1 journals.

• Locke tested fiona cloud duckweed and water king cabbage, recognizing their unusual properties and their potential for wizard-shoe research.
• Locke proposed using purple duckweed and cellular-level Sword Mounds to transfer water king cabbage plant factors into his air pineapples, and asked Wizard Gordon and Wizard Celt to begin preparations.
• Locke asked Wizard Celt to handle the tribal elder’s dispute with Wizard Wood through the courts, then met thirteen Red Dragon School Lineage Breeders seeking help against Solas Barefoot.
• Locke rejected their request to lead a counterattack, explaining that their defective Air Pineapple Wizard Shoes had caused accidents and damaged the industry’s reputation.
• Locke offered to share his research and oversee product quality, while the Breeders agreed to improve their shoes.
• After Julius reported that Textiles and Materials had published a Q1 paper criticizing Air Pineapple Wizard Shoes, Locke warned that the attack was only beginning and urged the Breeders to improve their products and publish in Q1 journals.

Locke expanded Augustus by requiring potential affiliates to choose between his standards and the Resource Management Integration Committee, then accepted five wizards who committed to his alliance. Meanwhile, Argos sought help from a powerful senior to oppose Locke, and Locke asked Catherine for help finding a place to cultivate a Moon-Ring representative species magic plant.

• Locke read Argos’s article criticizing pure magic plant wizard shoes and suspected that the Rose School Lineage had a larger plan against him.
• Witch Black, Witch Stuart, and other junior schoolmates offered to join Augustus, but Locke required them to refuse all cooperation with the Resource Management Integration Committee; five wizards accepted and the financially strained others withdrew.
• Locke began shaping Augustus into a franchise system, promised to share his Dream Flower grafting method with compliant members, and judged that their commitment could help Augustus advance toward pseudo forging.
• Argos brought Wizard Lex to meet a hidden Sun-Ring Wizard who worked as a blacksmith and asked to borrow her talented subordinate to help oppose Locke.
• Locke told Witch Catherine he had finalized the wizard’s robe project and wanted to continue researching the Spiritual Breath Cultivation Method; Catherine directed him to ask Fiona about her new opportunity for a place like Despair Valley.

Wizard Chaos explored the Venom Great World and confirmed its connection to Mind School magic, while Locke managed his research group and visited Witch Fiona to use her Black-and-White World. After Locke spent a day inside, Fiona's bracelet alerted her that he had completed a powerful Moon-Ring Level Jungle.

• Wizard Chaos defeated the Purple-Spotted Eight-Headed Serpent, protected his companions, and found strands of Persepolis God Clan Divinity in its remains.
• Locke read research by Chaos and Karl, planned competition projects for his students, and declined to let Planknia oversee the Augustus Building construction.
• Locke visited Witch Fiona and learned that her Black-and-White World offered ninety years of high-quality time for each month in the Wizarding World.
• Locke entered the Black-and-White World to test it, and a day later Fiona's bracelet alerted her that he had completed a Moon-Ring Level Jungle powerful enough to trigger its warning.

Locke tested his newly cultivated Jungle, Year of Xinwei, All Under Heaven Auspicious, by rescuing a Golden Crown Mountain space station from pirates and overwhelming their Moon-Ring leader. The Jungle proved to multiply his Magic Pressure nearly threefold, leaving Ironhand Wizard’s fate uncertain after Locke’s devastating final attack.

• Locke explained that All Under Heaven Auspicious let the Great Bright Flame Dragon Sparrow spread its flames across a vast area, then agreed to test his Jungle by answering a distress call near the Near-Earth Void Orbit.
• Pirates attacked Golden Crown Mountain’s Space Trade Station, disabling its defenses and trapping Captain Robert and the crew while Bosi Ruda’s Holly Treant fought three Star-Ring pirates.
• Locke arrived, caught a Sun Plane on his fingertip, and used its gravity and heat to destroy the pirates’ flying craft and kill the three Star-Ring pirate wizards.
• Locke confronted Ironhand Wizard and demanded that he surrender the Rose School Lineage wizard aboard his ship, but Ironhand challenged him with a thirteen-artifact Black War God set.
• Locke combined the Great Bright Flame Dragon Sparrow and White-Tiger Sea Golden Sand into the Jungle Year of Xinwei, All Under Heaven Auspicious, then unleashed a spell that shattered Ironhand’s sword and destroyed his physical body and artifact set.
• Fiona, Henry, and Rien calculated that Locke’s Jungle multiplied his Magic Pressure by nearly threefold, revealing it as a top-tier Moon-Ring-level Jungle.

Locke defeated the pirates attacking the resource transport ship, secured Damon for trial, and accepted Rose Witch’s repayment and warning about the Solas Faction. After Rose Witch departed, an unknown wizard abducted Damon and sent him to the Abyss of death, threatening to intensify the conflict between the lineages.

• Locke destroyed the pirate ship’s array, while Bosi and Robert captured its crew and imprisoned Damon for conspiring with the pirates.
• The Old Carpenter examined the damaged Crystal Cores and ordered his pirates to stay out of the war between the Red Dragon School Lineage and the Rose School Lineage.
• Robert and Bosi thanked Locke, who let them claim credit for the capture and identified Damon as the wizard he wanted taken to the Holy Wizard Court.
• Rose Witch arrived to retrieve Damon, accepted Locke’s account of his crimes, gave him a Moon-Ring Magic Plant to repay her debt, and warned him about the Magic Poison Spring Lords and the Solas Faction.
• Rose Witch demonstrated her stronger magic, then left after Locke explained that her Great Magic had been forged further than Bosi’s.
• An unknown wizard entered the dungeon after Locke departed, teleported Damon to the Abyss of death, and escaped under an invisibility cloak.