Chapter Summaries

Ian entered the Void Realm through Hua An’s Fairy meditation and considered whether the Pre-Epoch Civilization’s knowledge, including the Silver Chip, had shaped Inaga II. Hua An then took Ian to meet Mo Feng, another Fairy whose soul appeared as a violet sphere surrounded by books.

• Ian speculated that Inaga II might have encountered the Pre-Epoch Civilization’s knowledge or found clues to the Silver Chip in the Void Realm.
• Ian realized that the Fairy meditation had made his soul tougher, and Hua An explained that even Fairies needed training to enter the Void Realm.
• Hua An led Ian across the Imperial Capital’s reflection in the Void Realm to visit her Fairy friend.
• Ian and Hua An found Mo Feng, whose violet-sphere form was surrounded by books.
• Ian learned that Mo Feng had been born from the spirit of wind stirred by a book’s pages in a sunlit courtyard.

Ian and Teres entered the Avak Region with the Inspecting Knights Order while Mikael secretly watched over their mission. They learned about dangerous modified beasts and phantoms in the region, and the footage ended with the appearance of a dragon woman.

• Ian spoke Mikael Setar’s name, allowing the second prince’s Soul Light Body to appear as a bird of light in the vehicle.
• Mikael told Ian to proceed deeper into the Avak Region, promising to protect the group and give further instructions later.
• Teres concealed his surprise at seeing Mikael and briefed Ian on the route, combat plans, and intelligence gathered from other teams.
• Teres showed Ian footage of the region’s threats, including the Magnetic Storm Taipan, Burstflame Dragon Horse, Mountain-Bearing Giant Turtle, and Lake God.
• The footage ended when a humanoid phantom appeared: a woman with a dragon’s features.

Ian disguised himself and Frost Butterfly after killing the Spirit Cognition Institute team, then learned that more factions were converging on the laboratory and could feed the Undead Monarch. The Spirit Cognition Institute director, Moze Harnak, contacted Ian, who taunted him without revealing his identity.

• Ian reasoned that killing the Spirit Cognition Institute researchers had weakened the Undead Monarch by preventing it from absorbing their souls, though the Monarch could still grow by consuming more intruders.
• Ian changed his appearance to resemble his previous-life self, altered his armor, and covered Frost Butterfly in Shadow Potion to disguise her.
• Ian watched covert teams approach the central laboratory and worried that their deaths would strengthen the Undead Monarch.
• Moze Harnak contacted Ian through the surveillance system, saw the dead researchers, and accused him of holding a grudge against the Spirit Cognition Institute.
• Ian mocked Moze and refused to identify himself, calling himself the Institute's nightmare and warning that its people would need a larger tombstone.

Ian’s plans for the Blazing Flame Lands remained a future goal while he focused on expanding the Southern Ridge through tax abolition, mass immigration, rapid development, and Terra’s Heart. The chapter ended with Andor Linye’s popular novels drawing readers in by depicting Ian and other powerful figures in their youth.

• Ian planned to use Ace Nemasus to stir rebellion in the Radiant Land while preparing to conquer the Absalom Bloodline and avenge the grain and demon disasters.
• Ian abolished agricultural taxes on designated staple crops, prompting nobles to yield land and people across Terra to flock to the Southern Ridge.
• Terra’s Heart helped more than a million immigrants establish settlements, while trainees cleared Magic Beast nests and intelligent Magic Beasts joined the development effort.
• Ian provided residents with terminals linked to Terra’s Heart and the medical system, making them useful tools while also monitoring their users.
• Andor Linye published bestselling novels featuring Ian and other powerful figures as young people, attracting readers with sensational titles about their pasts.

Ian examined the captured phantom woman with his psionic power and saw the memories behind her projection, revealing how an ordinary man tried to escape Azure City with his sick mother and a little girl. The vision ended with his mother choosing for him as he failed to save everyone.

• Ian returned to the laboratory with Hua An and Frost Butterfly and asked them to guard him while he examined the phantom woman.
• Ian focused his observation ability on the phantom sealed in the Spirit-Sealing Restraint and saw memories of Azure City’s fall.
• The memories showed Miles carrying his sick mother and a little girl through the city while fighting his way past attackers and corpses.
• Miles’s mother chose for him, leaving him unable to save everyone himself.

Ian learned that the Photonic Furnace summoned Fairies from parallel spacetime through their imprints, and he realized Terra’s Heart could become a human Heroic Spirit Furnace. He concluded that uniting civilization through Terra’s Heart could help humanity approach the Sixth Energy Level.

• Ian touched the Photonic Furnace’s Silver Sea and learned how the Pre-Epoch Civilization developed Photonic technology and how the furnace resurrected or summoned Fairies.
• Ian saw the origins and chosen deaths of countless Fairies and endured the flood of memories without losing consciousness.
• Ian realized that the furnace called Fairies from parallel spacetime and considered how humans could use a similar process to summon heroic souls.
• Ian connected the slaughter-line version of himself to an unsuccessful attempt to build a furnace by accumulating souls, and concluded that such a construct needed a ring sustained by belief and will.
• Ian recognized his Artificial Underworld, Terra’s Heart, as a prototype Heroic Spirit Furnace that could preserve naturally deceased lives and support humanity’s advancement.

Ian used the Silver Radiance Book and Silver Chip at Layan Lake’s holy land to uncover memories of the Calamity of Falling Skies and identify a damaged Nethercrystal Engine beneath the lake. The inheritance ended with Ian gaining knowledge of the Rust-Steel Dragon and mountain people rituals, while he began to suspect the ancient dragons had fought over spaceship technology.

• Ian activated the Silver Radiance Book at the bottom of Layan Lake, causing silver sand to form models of Terra and its two moons and unlocking ancient memories.
• Ian witnessed a damaged spaceship strike Watching Moon, shatter, and send fragments raining down on Terra, triggering the Calamity of Falling Skies.
• Ian realized the Silver Chip, working alongside the Silver Radiance Book, gave him access to deeper memories than the mountain people’s priests had received.
• Ian used the Silver Chip to identify the wreckage beneath the altar as a damaged Nethercrystal Engine that gathered natural Origin Matter and affected the surrounding ecosystem.
• Ian suspected the Rust-Steel Dragon and Ice-Mist Dragon might have fought over the ancient spaceship’s technology, then received knowledge of the Rust-Steel Dragon and mountain people rituals as the inheritance ended.

Ian endured the silver chip’s examination as it scanned his nerves, memories, physical limits, and sublimation organs. The test ended with his vision transformed, and he saw Elan resting in his room through the walls.

• Ian regained control of his limbs, sent Elan back to rest, and examined his trembling hands as the silver chip’s effects spread through his body.
• Ian recognized that the chip was using his brain to scan his memories and test his neural sensitivity, bodily coordination, and physical limits.
• Ian felt a brief surge of heat and strength as the chip examined his body, then sensed ripples pass through his sublimation organs.
• Ian’s vision changed, allowing him to see ultraviolet and infrared light, heat, and traces left by decay and movement.
• Ian saw Elan curled up in bed through the walls, closed his eyes, and then activated Precognitive Vision.

Ian realized his uncle had involved himself in native blood sacrifices and feared his little brother was in danger, while his escape money had been discovered. After seeing ominous mist above his brother, Ian’s mind and soul awakened, revealing his own psionic power.

• Ian deduced that his uncle was working with natives who sought children as blood sacrifices and worried that his silent younger brother had already been taken.
• Ian found that his hidden silver coins were gone and concluded his uncle had discovered his escape plan, leaving flight and ordinary reporting too dangerous.
• Ian considered killing his uncle and opened the door to check on his brother, whom he found peacefully asleep.
• Ian saw black-red mist above his brother that resembled an obsidian dagger, then suffered intense pain as his past and present selves merged and ignited a Spark.
• Ian perceived colored auras around his brother, a bowl of porridge, and himself, and recognized the awakening as his own psionic power.

Ian returned to Harrison Port and discussed the White Folk family's future and his plans for the Temporary Underworld with Elder Pude. After Elan promised to stand by him, Ian reflected on the people and hopes that now tied him to the world and vowed to change it.

• Ian told Elder Pude to train promising children in the Silverpeak Envoy inheritance and urged him to advance to the Second Energy Level.
• Ian explained the Temporary Underworld and his suspicions about the Nethertrace Order, and Elder Pude agreed to advance so he could serve Ian even after death.
• Ian said the family would search normally for the Foresight Twin Leaves and use the Spirit-Veneration Church's legal standing and court connections if the Nethertrace Order intervened.
• Ian and Elder Pude planned to refine a Second Energy Level Magic Potion for Elder Pude using materials Ian had already gathered.
• Elan told Ian he wanted to help him and would support him as his younger brother, and Ian admitted that his words made him happy.
• Ian watched the moonlit harbor and resolved to change the world into what he hoped it could become.

Viscount Grant explained that the Ellen Family’s expedition to Harrison Port likely concealed a mission connected to the labyrinth and the South Sea Grand Ruins, and urged Ian and Elder Pude to use the opportunity to advance their interests. Ian then considered his ascendant progress and the possibility of an Extreme Domain beyond the Fifth Energy Level.

• Viscount Grant told Ian and Elder Pude that the Ellen Family was probably pursuing a hidden objective beyond retrieving Element Crystal Clams.
• Grant urged Ian to build a close relationship with Gose Abid and encouraged Elder Pude to seek a chance to restore his family’s standing.
• Ian inferred that Grant wanted them to monitor the expedition because its real mission might concern the labyrinth or the South Sea Grand Ruins.
• Ian left Grant’s residence while Elder Pude stayed to discuss administrative and military matters, and Ian greeted Yam and Lamar in the hall.
• On his way home, Ian reviewed how his three ascendant organs had matured and recalled Hilliard’s conjecture about the Extreme Domain above the Fifth Energy Level.

Ian concluded that the Silent True Demon held part of the Star God and the End Fragment, and that bringing it to Dragon Island could awaken both beings and destroy Terra. At the Light Realm’s core, Ian approached the embryonic Pearl of the Light Realm, and the protective lattice opened for him as though welcoming its master.

• Ian theorized that the Sky-Fall Starship had pierced Terra, leaving the Tranquil Sea as a vast impact crater and fragments of the Star God scattered across the planet.
• Ian used Savaga Nemassas as a target for Precognitive Vision and saw a future in which the Silent True Demon and the End Fragment’s interaction destroyed Terra and the surrounding realms.
• Ian reasoned that the Star God had sealed part of the End Fragment within itself, and that reuniting them could awaken both beings and lead to a battle that erased Terra.
• Ian and Savaga reached the Light Realm’s core, where they found the embryonic Pearl of the Light Realm protected by a powerful light lattice.
• Ian leapt toward the pearl, and the light lattice opened a gap for him before he touched it.

Elder Pude met with Viscount Grant to discuss a Redwood Native attack tied to a Pure Sacrifice and requested leniency for Osena and medicine for affected children. He warned that the sacrifice and the rising numbers of Magic Beasts and sublimation plants could signal the Labyrinth’s return.

• Elder Pude visited Viscount Grant’s lavish residence while Grant hosted a drunken banquet.
• Grant said Lamar and Yam had briefed him on the Redwood Natives’ attack and that Harrison Port lacked the funds to retaliate before year-end aid arrived.
• Elder Pude explained that the attack stemmed from the natives seeking two children as sacrifices and asked Grant to overlook Osena’s wrongdoing and provide medicine for the children.
• Grant agreed to spare Osena and provide medicine, but grew alarmed when Elder Pude said the attack involved a Pure Sacrifice.
• Elder Pude recalled that the natives had performed a Pure Sacrifice before the Great Storm eight years earlier and warned that recent increases in Magic Beasts and sublimation plants might be connected to the Labyrinth.

Ian brought the Mountain King to the Holy Mountain, where she discovered that he had inherited the Dragon God's Ritual Flame and could use it to heal Sheo. Sheo began purification, and Ian learned that the poison afflicting her came from a dangerous Subspace Demon.

• The Mountain King examined Ian's healing secret arts and followed him to the Holy Mountain, where she discovered its Dragon God's Ritual Flame and a hidden treasure protected by a Dragonblessed Maze Lock.
• The Mountain King explained that dragon inheritance laws had kept her from claiming Thorstner's legacy, while Ian realized that the Silver Chip might have silently granted him access to the Holy Mountain.
• The Mountain King brought Sheo and Anfa to the altar, and Anfa told Ian that explorers had narrowed down the Rust-Steel Dragon's location near Half-Moon Lake.
• Ian reassured Sheo, and the Mountain King insisted that she enter the ritual flame despite her fear; the flames began purifying her body and expelling its toxins.
• The Glimmer Cradle identified Sheo's affliction as contagious Subspace Demon's poison that could mutate flesh and soul, leaving Ian shocked that demons existed in this world.

Ian and the survey vessel fought their way out of an encirclement by sea beasts that the natives had driven toward them. As the vessel broke through, Ian used his High-Pressure Water Gun to frighten the beasts into retreat.

• Ian learned that natives were raising Gleamlight Crystal Clams and using trained Magic Beasts to guard the waters and watch the survey vessel.
• The first mate reported that sea beasts and native skiffs were surrounding the ship, and Gose ordered a southwest breakthrough.
• Isengard organized the crew for battle while Ian went above deck to observe the natives' plans and join the fight.
• Gose killed the Whirlpool Squid, Sound-Binding Dolphin, and Scaleless Iron Serpent with invisible lances of compressed air.
• Ian shot a Reef-Eating Sea Otter with his High-Pressure Water Gun, and its scream caused nearby sea beasts to turn away.

After Adalbert awakened his Collective Heart psychic power, Ian examined how it could become a new Light inheritance and had him analyze the captured fusion demon Heartbane. They uncovered the likely basis of the Blazing Flame Lands’ artificial demon technology, and Ian ended the chapter with a plan to exploit its weaknesses.

• Ian examined Adalbert after he awoke and learned that his Collective Heart psychic power grew stronger when other souls resonated with his convictions, eventually allowing him to become the Giant of Light.
• Ian encouraged Adalbert to develop a distinct Arcane Path and suggested that he collaborate with Loren because their powers might work well together.
• Ian brought Adalbert into the Void Realm to study Heartbane, and Adalbert explained how human souls and ordered etheric gems could control demonic power in fusion demons.
• Adalbert theorized that the Blazing Flame Lands might use separated soul cores to create an immortal Demon Legion, and he identified resentment and hatred as tools that concealed the artificial demons from Void Realm Mech-Gods.
• Ian realized that Void Realm Mech-Gods might restrict the demons’ movement near the Cursed Black Soil and hinted that he had prepared unusual artillery; he then decided to wake Heartbane for a future part of his plan.

Count Albia tried to use the South Sea Labyrinth crisis to gain influence, ordering privateer ships to seize White Mist and Ian’s vessel. Sha Sha crippled one ship with a ram, and Ian prepared for a boarding battle as another warship closed in.

• Count Albia learned that White Mist had stopped his armored unit from pursuing Ian’s vessel and ordered privateer ships to seize White Mist and the others.
• Sha Sha rammed the White Pheasant, crippling it, then escaped into the deep sea on Ian’s orders.
• The White Oriole accelerated toward Ian’s vessel and cut off Sainan’s room to evade.
• Ian told White Mist to protect the ship, then readied the Wind-Shifting Longsword as the enemy approached for a boarding battle.

Ian worked with Frozen Fish Mentor, Mentor Gan Song, and Master Gravi to build his Fairy Body, then transferred his soul into it and became a Fairy. As he experienced his new body, a distant will from Falling Star City welcomed him to a world where he could refuse.

• Frozen Fish Mentor and Mentor Gan Song praised Ian’s Great Fairy Body design, which used an outer shell, subspace storage, and a second energy source.
• Frozen Fish Mentor, Mentor Gan Song, and Master Gravi began constructing Ian’s Fairy Body, embedding a Heavenly Ladder Tree of Life Fragment into his heart.
• Ian effortlessly suppressed the tree fragment’s will and seized its authority, allowing the Fairies to shape his heart into a Life-Breath Crystal.
• Frozen Fish Mentor and Mentor Gan Song built Ian a Fairy Body resembling his own, while Ian learned that Fairies had copied his appearance and body details from those who knew him.
• After the Fairy Body was completed, Ian thanked the three helpers and prepared to begin work on his Great Fairy Body.
• Ian’s soul entered his Fairy Body, and a distant will in Falling Star City welcomed Ian Silverpeak to becoming a Fairy.

Reflected Light learned that Light's Embrace sought a new cooperative society and that her own potential meant she would not become a cleric. At the Holy Mountain, the twin popes discussed Ian’s exceptional importance, while Ian continued negotiating with Viscount Grant to dismantle Tidebreaker.

• Reflected Light explained that the Holy Mountain’s small, leaderless communities could not develop complex crafts without population growth and management, and she concluded that Light’s Embrace hoped people would build a larger society voluntarily.
• Radiant Sword told Reflected Light that her abilities had earned her a place on Light’s Embrace’s observation list, but meant she could not become a cleric; he revealed that the group was going to observe Ian’s work in Xiahui Territory.
• The twin popes, Embrace and Light, awakened on Dawn Zenith and discussed Ian’s extraordinary potential, his discoveries, and their decision to let him develop without interference.
• Ian felt an inexplicable sensation while speaking with Viscount Grant, then asked for permission to dismantle Tidebreaker so he could study and perfect its core Aether Furnace.

Ian demonstrated a technique that let him make ten Damage-Resistance Potions from the usual materials, then openly shared it with the alchemists around him in exchange for reputation. His perfect score and full bonus points made him the undisputed first-place examinee.

• Ian's ten freshly made Damage-Resistance Potions astonished the other examinees and the assembled alchemy masters and instructors.
• Ian explained his potion-making technique in detail and said he would make it public because reputation mattered more to him than money.
• Alexei warned Ian that releasing the technique for free could cost him substantial profits, while Isengard agreed that sharing it would build useful connections and avoid patent disputes.
• Ian contacted Madam Ellen, Hua An, and Frost Butterfly to explain why he could not return to their Imperial Capital residence, while Isengard checked on the renovations for Ian's laboratory at Poyin Workshop.
• The instructors compiled the assessment scores, the two masters reviewed them, and Ian took undisputed first place with a perfect score and full bonus points.