Chapter Summaries

Ian explored the Subspace Network core and discovered Eternal Tidecall, the platform needed to summon the Nethercrystal Perpetual Motion Machine, along with Mortal World Awakening, a tower that could guide Magic Beasts toward intelligent life. He left with plans to use the discoveries to strengthen his rule over the New Continent and prepare for its upcoming intelligent life conference.

• Ian used his Star Gods and Heavenly Ladder authority to enter the protected core and uncover Eternal Tidecall, the platform connected to the Nethercrystal Perpetual Motion Machine.
• Ian learned that activating the machine required additional authorities, but only Eternal Tidecall could summon it and initiate the vote among intelligent life.
• Ian found Mortal World Awakening, a damaged tower that used energy from Eternal Tidecall to help Magic Beast offspring awaken as intelligent beings.
• Ian concealed Eternal Tidecall and collected the Subspace Network blueprint, intending to use its transmission system to optimize Terra's Heart.
• Ian planned to copy the Magic Beasts' inherited memories at the coming New Continent conference, then use the knowledge to develop cultivation methods and strengthen his future subjects.

Hilliard offered Ian a flexible first-stage Ascension path before he committed to a specific True Form inheritance, then prepared to teach him a Breath Guidance Technique. The chapter left Ian ready to begin refining Origin Matter and condensing his Origin Seed.

• Hilliard warned Ian that practicing Immovable Fortress could expose him as the heir of a wanted criminal, then suggested using a Reef-Eating Sea Otter’s spinal Crystal Bone for a mixed water-and-earth First Energy Level potion.
• Hilliard explained that Ian could choose between Immovable Fortress and Tidebringer at the Second Energy Level, but would need additional potions; Ian agreed to follow his teacher’s advice.
• Hilliard explained the stages of Ascension and how food, an Origin Seed, a Breath Guidance Technique, and an inheritance shaped a practitioner’s development.
• Hilliard told Ian that the Primordial Magic Fish he had eaten had supplied Origin Matter for his Virtual Origin Seed and began teaching him a Breath Guidance Technique to refine it faster.

Sha Sha attended the Glazed Imperial Dragon’s assembly on the New Continent, where the first Eight Royal Courts were established and a ban on intelligent Magic Beasts eating one another was announced. The Glazed Imperial Dragon offered to provide alternative food by extracting crops and livestock from the clans’ inheritance objects, leaving the assembled beasts alarmed.

• Sha Sha reached the Heavenly Ladder Tree after cultivating Ian’s Steel Pioneer method and claimed a seat among the gathered Magic Beast leaders.
• The Glazed Imperial Dragon opened the assembly and declared the first Eight Royal Courts, including courts for the major beast nations, Dawn Harbor, and two clans that had pledged allegiance early.
• The Glazed Imperial Dragon prohibited intelligent Magic Beasts from devouring one another, prompting carnivorous clan leaders to ask how their people would survive.
• The Glazed Imperial Dragon offered to extract suitable crops and livestock from each clan’s Spark or inheritance object, promising to return the objects after making backups.

Ian completed his advancement to the Second Energy Level and called Viscount Grant to ask about Baron Layan’s family and Mountain Folk connections. Grant revealed that Layan’s wife and child died in a landslide six years earlier, leaving Ian with new details about the Baron’s past.

• Ian reflected on his Fairy Bloodline’s new powers and realized he had already progressed halfway through the Second Energy Level’s middle stage.
• Ian stored the dormant Frost Butterfly with some excess essence, prepared his potions, and checked his equipment before setting out.
• Ian called Viscount Grant and asked why his information about Baron Layan had omitted the Baron’s family and ties to the Mountain Folk.
• Grant explained that Layan inherited the Rockwood White Deer bloodline and that his family had long been Imperialized, though they sometimes married Mountain Folk.
• Grant said Layan’s wife, Lady Lankou, and their child died in a landslide during the second Great Storm six years earlier, and Layan had never remarried.

Ian and Isengard returned to find Fairies celebrating Ian’s role in rescuing their friends from Avak Laboratory. After Fairy mentor Gan Song helped Ian confront the source of his lingering spiritual unrest, he resisted manifesting his Soul Light Body and explained that he wanted a future with many stars, not just one; he then decided to resume preparing armor blueprints and tools with Isengard.

• Ian and Isengard found a crowd of Fairies at home, where Hua An and Mo Feng explained that they had gathered to thank Ian for helping rescue the Fairy victims from Avak Laboratory.
• The Fairies held a banquet for Ian, and he and Isengard struggled through the earth-aspect Fairies’ intensely salty roasted rock salt.
• Hua An told Ian that her mentor, Gan Song Frozen Fish, was coming to see him and might help with the deathly aura lingering after the Awak Domain incident.
• Gan Song guided Ian through a psychic vision of his past and possible futures, then recognized that he possessed a Soul Light Body but was resisting its manifestation.
• Ian told Gan Song that he wanted a future in which everyone could have an Azure Star of their own, and she left after mentioning the Fairy settlement in the South Sea Grand Labyrinth to Hua An.
• Ian told Isengard he would stay awake to prepare armor blueprints and tools, and Isengard agreed to join him.

After the South Sea Anomaly swept Ian into the underground ruins and separated him from Sha Sha, Master Gose, and Isengard, he awakened alone in a vast network of flooded caves. He checked his supplies, mapped his route, and explored deeper, imagining that the caves housed the Pre-Epoch Civilization’s immense base and a tower reaching the sky.

• Ian awakened in an underwater karst cave and confirmed that the turbulent currents had separated him from Sha Sha, Master Gose, and Isengard.
• He recalled that Master Gose had fallen unconscious during the storm and Isengard had tried to control the wind before the group was scattered.
• Ian checked that the brain crystal, weapons, and essential potions had survived the journey, then ordered the Silver Chip to record a map.
• He explored the glowing, mist-filled caves and analyzed their formations and the airflow deep underground.
• Ian imagined that the Pre-Epoch Civilization had built a vast base in the natural caverns, with a tower and acceleration track leading toward the sky.

Ian explained that he planned to conquer the Blazing Flame Lands by winning its people’s support through the Pioneer Space and a widely accessible Void Realm Network. He intended to give ordinary people entertainment and useful online services, leaving his friends to consider whether the people would prefer life as mules or happy players under his rule.

• Ian argued that the Absalom and Nemarsas Bloodlines were divided after repeated defeats, making the Blazing Flame Lands vulnerable to conquest.
• Isengard warned Ian that defeating a Fifth Energy Level powerhouse alone would make other major powers fear him and potentially unite against him.
• Anfa pointed out that defeating one ruler might only push the Blazing Flame Lands’ people toward the other, so Ian needed to earn their votes.
• Ian revealed that he would connect the elite Pioneer Space to the widespread Void Realm Network and offer ordinary people libraries, battle platforms, communications, livestreams, and other services.
• Sheo eagerly supported the idea of watching close battles, while Ian described further plans for question-and-answer, social, art, and fiction platforms.
• Ian said that providing food, protection, and the right to play would make people choose his rule over being mules in the Blazing Flame Lands.

Ian asked Grandmaster Gose and Isengard about the origins of Terra’s racial traits and learned that the four great peoples’ abilities were tied to ancient modifications involving Origin Matter and other lifeforms. Isengard invited Ian to discuss the research further when he returned to the Imperial Capital.

• Ian agreed to let Grandmaster Gose study the little Crystal Dragon and asked for help registering his younger brother Elan with the Truth Institute before his psionic awakening.
• Grandmaster Gose directed Ian to Isengard, who was an expert on the biological origins of racial talents.
• Isengard explained that the Gold Folk’s adaptability came from dragon-like Origin Matter structures and that the White Folk’s psionic talent was linked to Fairy traits.
• Isengard said the Iron Folk descended from modified elemental lifeforms and that the Red Folk’s regeneration arose from unusually independent, regenerative tissues.
• Ian thanked Isengard for sharing the Ellen Family’s research, and Isengard invited him to exchange ideas and continue the discussion when Ian returned to the Imperial Capital.

Ian learned that Lamar had brought Elan along while searching for him, then heard that a newly discovered ascended plant would be brought to him for appraisal. Suspecting the request was connected to Sainan’s old employers, Ian agreed to examine it the next morning at Harrison Apothecary.

• Ian approached Lamar and found Elan, who explained that Lamar had taken him along because he knew Lamar liked growing flowers.
• Lamar told Ian that Kutag Lavent had arrived with a new mysterious ascended plant and wanted Ian to appraise it.
• Ian recalled how he had once identified a counterfeit Serene Tree Root for Kutag and suspected the new request might be connected to Sainan’s trouble.
• Lamar clarified that adventurers had recovered the previously unknown plant from a Magic Beast nest and arranged the appraisal for the next morning.
• Lamar relayed Viscount Grant’s message telling Ian to ignore the surrounding complications and show his true strength.

As Viscount Grant prepared to defeat Patrick, a massive anomaly shook the South Sea and opened a vast abyssal rift. Ian recognized the rift as the route to the Pre-Epoch Civilization ruins and led Master Gose into it.

• Elder Pude held back a Surging Tide Giant Eel while Viscount Grant prepared to attack Patrick, and Bishop White Mist headed toward Harrison Port.
• When the four keys overlapped, intense radiation and magnetic disturbances shook the South Sea and disrupted everyone’s senses.
• Master Gose identified the disturbance as a super-giant Labyrinth anomaly, while Ian realized that a gateway had opened.
• A deep canyon split the seafloor, and powerful winds began pulling people and creatures toward it.
• Ian told Master Gose to follow the wind into the rift, recognizing it as the emergency cooling route to the Equatorial Space Elevator and orbital accelerator’s energy core.

Ian seized control of Layan City, crushed the remaining resistance, and summoned the territory’s influential figures to Layan Castle. He planned to rule through unquestioned authority and force, while recognizing that winning residents’ trust could help him rebuild the territory; its leaders waited anxiously to hear his orders.

• Ian ordered Layan City’s residents to stay home and wait for food, while his soldiers eliminated Mountain Folk and other rebels who resisted or fled.
• Ian instructed Scott to kill the rebel Mountain Folk, avoid pursuing distant Xuanfeng Tribe members, and summon local knights, merchants, influential figures, and Baron Layan’s former collaborators.
• Ian told Scott that popular goodwill alone could not win battles, but practical support could help with supplies, intelligence, and rebuilding, and that the people only needed to accept him as their ruler.
• Local guild leaders and former officials discussed Ian’s powerful forces and feared his strict rule as they gathered at Layan Castle.
• The summoned leaders waited nervously in the castle hall as they heard footsteps on the stairs.

Ian consumed the Molten-Iron Stomach Sac Half-Potion and completed another stage of the Sand Armor Apprentice transformation, gaining powerful digestive abilities and a reinforced stomach. He considered how the Immovable Fortress and Fairy bloodlines might relate to the Extreme Domains and wondered whether they could be completed before the Fifth Energy Level.

• Ian used his alchemy knowledge and ingredients from the Steel-Patterned Starfish to make the Molten-Iron Stomach Sac Half-Potion.
• Ian drank the potion and endured intense nausea and pain as gray inscription circuits altered his body.
• The Marsh Crocodile Dragon Brain Marrow Crystal reacted to the transformation, reinforcing Ian's muscular stomach with self-repairing crystalline structures that could grind rock and metal.
• Ian experienced intense hunger as his body began requiring more nutrients and Origin Matter to maintain its new digestive system.
• Ian identified the transformed organ as the fourth sublimation organ of the Sand Armor Apprentice and reviewed how its Energy Levels corresponded to the Extreme Domains.
• Ian realized the Fairy bloodline might already represent an Extreme Domain at its First Energy Level and wondered whether all five domains could be gathered before the Fifth Energy Level.

After the exploration ship and pirate fleet were swept into the Ice Abyss, Ian learned that their survivors were trapped together and fighting mutated creatures. At the defensive line, Azure Tide and the others faced another assault as ape beasts hatched into white moths and the cannons began to fail.

• Blue Sail and Iron Hand told Ian that the exploration crew and pirates had joined forces against parasitic monsters in the Ice Abyss.
• Ian ordered Iron Hand to guide him to Ethan and Master Gose, then flew toward the fleet at great speed.
• Azure Tide guarded the defenses while pirates and crewmen used shipwrecks, ice walls, and cannons to hold off the creatures.
• Lookouts spotted ape beasts devouring corpses and hatching cocoons that would produce giant white moths.
• The moths summoned hail and ice while ape beasts charged, and damaged cannons left Azure Tide preparing to fight at close range.

The Fairy Queen warned Ian that Terra’s powerhouses would target him for the Star God's Gift, but Ian said he welcomed their challenges. She explained how the Fairies repeatedly died defending Terra, then revealed that they possessed a Photonic Furnace powered by the Light Realm and offered to teach Ian how to make one.

• The Fairy Queen warned Ian that powerful figures would try to seize the Star God's Gift, but Ian said he was ready to defeat them and take their resources.
• The Fairy Queen praised Ian’s resolve and promised to preserve his soul and reincarnate him as a Fairy if he died.
• Ian asked why the Fairy Queen had not restored civilization to its Pre-Epoch state, and she recounted how the Fairy race had been repeatedly exterminated while fighting alien threats.
• The Fairy Queen introduced the Final Defense, a damaged Void Realm Security Center proxy, and said the Fairies would support Ian’s effort to repair the Void Realm.
• The Fairy Queen revealed that the Fairies had the Heavenly Father's legacy and offered to teach Ian how to turn Light Realm power into a Photonic Furnace.

Ian, disguised as a prophet, learned why Mikael planned to rebel against Axel: Mikael feared that Artificial Souls would enslave future generations. Ian reflected on the danger of reshaping minds and resolved to prepare for confronting Axel, while the Dark Gold Dragon reached the Holy Mountain and received a summons.

• Mikael questioned the mysterious prophet, and Ian revealed that Mikael would rebel against Axel, fail, and be imprisoned as the Imperial Capital’s energy furnace core.
• Mikael explained that he opposed Axel because Artificial Souls could turn newborns into obedient slaves, and he suspected that even his own identity had been altered.
• Ian considered how Artificial Souls and the Meditation Method could reshape people’s minds, and he decided he would not make self-modification technology public.
• Ian hoped to develop enough to face Axel and help Mikael defeat him.
• The Dark Gold Dragon received a transmission from Mr. Mahdi Gloomvale ordering him to land and welcoming him to Light's Embrace Holy Land.

Ian returned to Harrison Port with the Foresight Twin Leaves and discovered that Elan could naturally resonate with the Tree Sea Spirit through them. Elan consumed the leaves, awakened as a psionics user, and formed a soul and the beginnings of a power of deduction.

• Ian reported a thief to a guard, preventing the thief from being killed by the merchant he had robbed.
• Ian returned home and showed Elan the Foresight Twin Leaves he had found.
• Elan sensed the Tree Sea Spirit’s vast information through the leaves, revealing his natural psionic talent.
• Ian urged Elan to consume a leaf, and Elan meditated while Ian observed the psionic energy transform within him.
• Elan formed a soul and an early deduction structure, then awoke with heightened perception as a psionics user.

Ian watched Elan awaken his psionics and discovered that his Thought Writing could reveal important scenes from people’s pasts and even destroy what it depicted. Elan’s ability could become a strategic intelligence tool through its connection to the Great Redwood Forest Sea, though he needed to rest and train before using it further.

• Ian checked Elan’s awakened psionics and found that the Foresight Twin Leaves had left a large reserve of dormant Origin Matter in his soul.
• Elan used Thought Writing to depict Ian’s confrontation with the Brood’s Brain-Eating Worm main brain, revealing a pivotal moment from Ian’s past.
• Elan depicted a brick and shattered it with his psionic ability, then exhausted himself and rested while Ian prepared honey water.
• Ian and Elan tested the ability further and found that Elan could uncover important past scenes and psychological states of people he knew.
• Ian realized Elan could potentially access the pasts of people recorded by the Great Redwood Forest Sea through its connection to the Tree Sea Spirit.

The expedition members faced the dark-gold True Dragon, the Final Echo, while Mahdi and the others formed a temporary alliance against it. After Mahdi transported them to the testing grounds, he surprised everyone by flying and continued battling the dragon as the others joined in.

• The Final Echo appeared with an army of aberrant beasts, and its threat forced Ga'er, Mahdi, Aina, Golan, and the other expedition members to stop fighting each other.
• Aina recognized the dragon as a Rust-Steel Dragon, while Mahdi and the others realized it was targeting them and began to form a temporary alliance.
• Campani, controlling Golan, attacked the dragon with the Aether Blade, but the strike had no effect and the dragon blasted Golan with its breath.
• Mahdi and the young powerhouses wounded the dragon through coordinated attacks, and Aina shattered one of its eyes with a golden arrow.
• Mahdi transferred everyone within a thousand meters to the Bio-Weapon Testing Layer, where the enraged dragon confronted them.
• Mahdi flew at several times the speed of sound and dodged the dragon's attacks, then shouted for the others to support him as they joined the battle.

Ian received a knighthood and a fief, becoming the youngest knight-lord in Southern Ridge, while the Second Prince urged him to revive the Chehalorvo Family. After the ceremony, Ian gave Deputy Commander Shuang Ji Marquis Barton's secret letter and joined Isengard at the Ellen Family luncheon, where he was astonished by the extravagant food and Isengard’s continued use of stamina potions.

• The Second Prince’s Soul Light Body formally invested Ian as a knight-lord and let him choose the name of his fief.
• The Second Prince urged Ian to restore the Chehalorvo Family, and Ian accepted the title while privately deciding to let others believe he cared about the family’s revival.
• Ian handed Marquis Barton's secret letter to Deputy Commander Shuang Ji, who praised Ian and encouraged him to keep serving in the Inspecting Knights Order.
• Isengard congratulated Ian on becoming a lord and led him to the Ellen Family luncheon after Ian explained Viscount Grant’s reasons for supporting him.
• Ian sampled the luncheon’s rare and lavish dishes, then noticed that Isengard was still drinking stamina potions.

Mikael revealed that he planned to use the Heavenly Law Dragon and Frost Prison Calamity Ash to stop Axel, while Ian sought a way to disrupt Axel’s worldwide brainwashing. As Isengard headed for the Imperial Capital, Ian tried to reach Inaga II’s immortality and the Pioneer Platform found a qualified Pioneer.

• Mikael told Ian that his final trump card was to use the Heavenly Law Dragon to send Frost Prison Calamity Ash into Axel at the cost of his life.
• Adalbert realized that Axel’s psychic brainwashing relied on the Black Emperor’s immortality and warned Ian that the Imperial Capital was likely the ritual’s center.
• Ian contacted Isengard, who recognized his connection to Inaga II’s immortality and agreed to go to the Imperial Capital to interrupt the brainwashing.
• Isengard advised Ian to connect with the immortality scattered through the world, so Ian decided to let himself be brainwashed and trace it through the Void Realm.
• Anfa carried Ian’s prosthetic body beyond the World Tree Capital’s protection, where Ian entered the mental world and searched for Inaga II’s immortality.
• The Guiding Star and Pioneer Platform resonated, and Ian saw a thin, blond figure identified as a qualified Pioneer.