Chapter Summaries

Lu Cang learned Hun Mu’s and Jie Zhu’s Origin Magic, then mastered Xuzhou’s Void Collapse after defeating him in the Battle Arena. Xuzhou lost faith in his own pursuit of the Origin and left Lu Cang with a farewell.

• Lu Cang took Hun Mu to his office, heard his confession of embezzlement, and asked him to demonstrate and explain his Space Origin Magic.
• After two days of discussion, Lu Cang mastered and ascended Spatial Transfer to Tier 5, then met Jie Zhu and arranged to speak with him after the Inspection Office’s arrest.
• Lu Cang spent three days learning Jie Zhu’s Origin Magic while Loren sent troops to conquer the Ruin Continent and Fizer went to war.
• At the Battle Arena, Lu Cang defeated Xuzhou by turning his Void Magic against him and revealed that he had mastered several Origin Magics himself.
• Xuzhou explained his Origin Magic to Lu Cang, who mastered and surpassed it as Tier 5 Void Collapse.
• Xuzhou told Lu Cang that he no longer believed he could reach the Origin, then said goodbye and left.

Lu Cang restored Xuzhou’s resolve to pursue the Source, continued studying Origin Magic, and reunited with Yuna and Loth. He took Loth into a fourth-tier dungeon, where she faced a horde of Nation-Destroying Tier monsters while Lu Cang remained confident.

• Lu Cang encouraged Xuzhou to keep pursuing the Source, and Xuzhou regained his resolve and asked Lu Cang to explain his understanding of it.
• Lu Cang discussed the Source with Xuzhou for four more days and learned ancient spells from books recovered from the void.
• Lu Cang reunited with Yuna, who had advanced to a level-three polymath, and helped her solve a problem about the multiple theories of time.
• Lu Cang read reports about Loren’s expansion, Hun Mu’s arrest, and the Life Church expedition before Loth arrived seeking a place to stay and an adventuring party.
• Lu Cang booked Loth a hotel room, then took her to clear a dungeon together; after entering the fourth-tier dungeon, Loth saw more than a dozen Nation-Destroying Tier monsters as Lu Cang rose into the air.

Lu Cang helped Loth earn money by hunting Tier 4 monsters, then met the dying Level 8 Mage An Zheng and learned about his beliefs on the Origin and the path to Level 9. After mastering An Zheng’s Origin Magic, Lu Cang received his legacy and was asked to stop Izpalut from pursuing an extreme method of advancement.

• Lu Cang slaughtered Tier 4 monsters and split their corpses with Loth, then helped her settle in Knoroya.
• Lu Cang visited An Zheng at Izpalut’s request and learned An Zheng had only 43 days left to live.
• An Zheng explained that he believed a mage had to sever part of an incomplete Origin to reach Level 9, while Izpalut insisted the Origin should be completed instead.
• An Zheng taught Lu Cang about his Origin, and Lu Cang mastered the Tier 5 Origin Magic Unchanging Eternal Art during March’s Leap Year Blessing.
• An Zheng gave Lu Cang his legacy and revealed that his disciple Meisai had been Lu Cang’s master; he urged Lu Cang to stop Izpalut from seeking Level 9 by An Zheng’s method.
• Lu Cang saw that An Zheng would die in 31 days and that Izpalut would live another 951 years, suggesting Izpalut would reach Level 9.

On Iz's birthday, Lu Cang learned several of Iz's Origin Magics under the Moon Star's influence and strengthened his body with a new Moon Phase Realm. At the White Tower, he confronted Pali about her secrets, and she ended by asking whether he wanted to marry her.

• Lu Cang gave Iz ancient spell books for his birthday and learned that Iz knew nine Origin Magics, including Elemental Void, Fifth State Magic, and Duality of Void and Reality.
• Lu Cang left Iz and An Zheng to talk alone, then used the Moon Star's influence to add Moon Phase Realm: Unravel to his Law Body Origin Quench.
• Lu Cang traveled to the White Tower and found Pali, whose Death Date was nearly five thousand years away.
• Lu Cang teleported Pali to his home, but she warned him that her armor would kill her if anyone else tried to remove it.
• Pali removed her helmet and asked Lu Cang whether he wanted to marry her.

Lu Cang completed his studies in Time Studies and met the requirements to advance to the Prophet class. He deciphered the Prophet Class Scroll’s runes, recited its vow, and became a level 1 Prophet.

• Lu Cang asked Pali about An Zheng, but she demanded an impossibly high fee to divine what would happen.
• Lu Cang joined Yuna in studying Time Studies, and together they completed a collection of its theories before the Month of Knowledge and Wisdom ended.
• Lu Cang told Kumiloni that he had met the requirements for the Prophet class, and she agreed to help him advance.
• In the Promotion Hall, Lu Cang deciphered the Prophet Class Scroll’s shifting runes and discovered that its final revelation was his own name.
• Lu Cang recited the scroll’s vow, accepted its golden runes, and became a level 1 Prophet.

After becoming a Prophet, Lu Cang tested his God-Tier: Future Simulation by observing the coming month and tracing its past events. In the simulation, he uncovered a sealed set of Loren prophecies, including one predicting the destruction of nearby continents on April 1, 5026.

• Lu Cang advanced to Level 1 Prophet, gained new prophetic abilities, and received the God-Tier talent Future Simulation.
• After recovering his spirituality, Lu Cang simulated March 31 and used Information Tracing to read records of the past month, learning about Loren's plans and a fifth-rank dungeon near Knoroya.
• Lu Cang observed the quiet final hours of An Zheng's life without interfering, then traveled to Loren's hidden underground vault.
• Lu Cang broke the golden sealing brick and read Loren's ten prophecies, many of which foretold the country's past prosperity.
• Lu Cang found a Doomsday Prophecy predicting that all nearby continents would be destroyed on April 1, 5026, and connected it to the Doomsday Prophet profession.

Lu Cang studied forbidden books and space magic while preparing for An Zheng’s impending confrontation, then watched two Level 8 allies arrive and move the Ruin Continent away. An Zheng confronted Izpalut alongside Samo and Roa, and Izpalut began the battle with Essence Stripping.

• Lu Cang read The First Ten Forbidden Spells and learned several ancient and modern space spells in a future simulation.
• Sensing danger from the imperial palace, Lu Cang layered himself and the surrounding sky with defenses as a magic storm gathered.
• Roa and Samo appeared in the sky, and Roa moved the Ruin Continent away with a gesture before choosing to leave Lu Cang alone.
• Izpalut and An Zheng faced Roa and Samo, while Samo restored An Zheng’s body withered by age.
• An Zheng challenged Izpalut, who raised his hand and cast Tier 6 Origin Magic: Essence Stripping.

During the Future Simulation, Lu Cang witnessed a devastating battle, was randomly teleported to the Moon Sea, and explored an unknown continent before the simulation ended. He returned to March 2 with new spells and a sealed divination art called Fate Foreknowledge.

• Lu Cang watched Roa reach toward Izpalut before Roa exploded, and Izpalut sent Lu Cang away with random teleportation.
• Lu Cang arrived safely above an island in the Moon Sea, assembled a Pure White Descent Ritual, then abandoned the ritual after learning its activation would kill him.
• Lu Cang flew toward a distant continent for ten hours and learned and upgraded all four hundred Tier 4 spells in his storage space.
• Lu Cang reached a city in the Kingdom of Latoro, killed two level-four Warriors guarding a palace, and took the sealed Fate Foreknowledge divination art.
• Lu Cang's Future Simulation ended, and he returned to March 2, 5026, at 9:08 a.m.

After bringing knowledge and magic back from a future simulation, Lu Cang tried to warn Kumiloni and Iz about An Zheng’s possible allies and prepared to travel to Tengge. He ended the chapter beginning a new Future Rehearsal in Tengge.

• Lu Cang tested his simulated Tier 5 spell in a dungeon and destroyed its monsters, then tried to divine An Zheng’s future but failed when An Zheng sensed the attempt.
• Lu Cang warned Kumiloni that An Zheng might seek help from the Death Church and described visions of a bandaged man and a brown-haired man confronting Iz.
• Lu Cang passed the warning to Iz through the palace’s perception barrier, and Iz said the two possible opponents should not pose too much of a problem.
• Lu Cang found that his Secret Origin knowledge pointed toward Tengge and arranged to travel aboard Flying Light with the mechanics.
• Lu Cang farmed souls and powerful monsters, then began a God-Tier Future Rehearsal and appeared on a busy street in Tengge.

Lu Cang traveled to Teng Ge, uncovered how Mokry’s doomsday prophecy had been arranged, and infiltrated the kingdom’s heavily secured palace. He reached Teng Gai’s room and demanded to know about the prophecy concerning Loren’s doom.

• Lu Cang confronted Mokry, who admitted that Teng Gai had ordered him to become a Doomsday Prophet and foretell the Ruin Continent’s destruction.
• After interrogating Mokry, Lu Cang killed him and took his storage items, concluding that Teng Gai was the real force behind the prophecy.
• Lu Cang infiltrated Teng Ge’s palace, inspected its robots, server, and mechanical equipment, and briefly replaced his heart with a Mechanical Heart before discarding it.
• Lu Cang destroyed the giant mechs and their pilots in an experimental area on the 666th floor.
• Lu Cang bypassed the palace’s defenses, appeared before Teng Gai on the 999th floor, and demanded answers about the prophecy of Loren’s doom.

In a Future Simulation, Lu Cang forced Teng Gai to reveal that Doom’s prophecy foretold the destruction of the entire Secret Sea, then killed him after he unlocked the Teng Ge Kingdom’s server. Back in reality, Lu Cang considered the coming catastrophe and began weighing how to protect his friends and claim scattered legacies.

• Lu Cang defeated Teng Gai, King of Tengge, and made a life-and-death pact in exchange for information about the doomsday.
• Teng Gai explained that Lord Rien had warned him the Secret Sea was fated to be destroyed by Doom, whose past prophecies had brought down four other regions.
• Teng Gai said he planned to flee and spread the warning, but Lu Cang brought him to the server room and demanded that he unlock it.
• After Teng Gai unlocked the server, Lu Cang tore out his Mechanical Heart and accessed the kingdom’s stored data.
• Lu Cang spent the rest of the simulation using several evil rituals, then returned to reality with knowledge of the catastrophe and twenty-eight days remaining.
• Lu Cang considered preparing for the Secret Sea’s destruction, saving his friends, and claiming legacies across the Secret Sand Archipelago.

Lu Cang warned Kumiloni that Doomsday would destroy the entire Secret Sea and urged her to stop An Zheng before he could become a level 9 mage. After protecting Rune and scouting Zhuoyu through Future Rehearsal, Lu Cang set off in person to plunder the archipelago’s other continents before the predicted catastrophe.

• Lu Cang abandoned his planned trip to Tengge, deciding that killing Mokry could cause the deaths of everyone on the continent, and chose to visit the other continents instead.
• Lu Cang told Kumiloni that Doomsday would destroy the Secret Sea, and she decided to report the prophecy and discuss stopping An Zheng with the others.
• Lu Cang argued that killing An Zheng in advance was justified because An Zheng knowingly posed a threat, helping Kumiloni overcome her doubts about acting on the prophecy.
• Lu Cang sent Rune a warning to teleport away before March 31 if he heard nothing, along with gold, equipment, and supplies.
• Lu Cang used Future Rehearsal to scout Zhuoyu, where he looted Church sites in the Land of Light and Day and the Land of Darkness and Night.
• On March 3, Lu Cang finished his rehearsal and flew toward another destination in person.

Lu Cang crossed the Secret Sea, tested whether souls could be offered to it, and reached Zhuoyu Continent, where he raided several sites while disguising the evidence. He freed a white-haired Origin Mage from a dungeon in the City of Peace and sent him to Loren, leaving the old man puzzled about his escape.

• Lu Cang killed and examined sea monsters, then offered hundreds of thousands of souls to the Secret Sea and glimpsed a gigantic whirlpool through divination.
• Lu Cang cooked and ate a mana-rich fish, stored the remaining meat, and continued north until he landed on Zhuoyu Continent.
• Lu Cang destroyed a Death Church outpost, collected its souls and storage containers, and summoned a Demonic Tide to obscure the evidence.
• Lu Cang killed three people in a secret chamber, raised them as undead to leave signs of the Death Church, and concealed himself with a Dark Church spell.
• Lu Cang entered the City of Peace, opened a heavily warded dungeon cell, and transported its white-haired Origin Mage prisoner outside the city.
• Lu Cang gave the old man a storage bag and told him to go to Loren, then watched from a nearby mountaintop.

Lu Cang entered the Inner World’s City of Peace to seize the Death Church’s treasures and coveted magic, then ambushed Qiong Ye after he won the Death Inheritance. He killed Qiong Ye repeatedly, took his inheritance and identity token, and left himself poised to use the Death Saint’s identity.

• Lu Cang used the Key to the Inner World to enter the cult-filled City of Peace and learned that the Death Church’s inheritance trial was nearing its end.
• Lu Cang used Future Simulation to learn Qiong Ye’s abilities and the likely timing of his return from the trial.
• Lu Cang killed the Death Church elders who had gathered near the trial passage, then prepared layers of permanent magic arrays and gathered Qiong Ye’s hidden substitute corpses.
• Qiong Ye emerged as the Death Saint, but Lu Cang’s magic arrays destroyed him and forced him to spend souls to revive; Lu Cang also seized Qiong Ye’s spatial items.
• Lu Cang killed Qiong Ye again, collected his soul and the Death Inheritance, and took his Death Saint identity token to use for himself.

Lu Cang and Qiong Ye trapped the city and wiped out its Level 6 powerhouses, then Lu Cang looted the evil cults’ holdings and took the Death Inheritance. After leaving, Lu Cang raided the Church of Light’s Hall of Restrictions and disappeared into the Dark Realm with even more treasures.

• Lu Cang activated the city’s wards while Qiong Ye announced that he had obtained the Death Inheritance and become a Death Saint, then unleashed Blood Evil Devour on the city.
• Level 6 Class-changers attacked Qiong Ye, but Lu Cang settled their Death Dates before they could strike effectively.
• Lu Cang searched the warded area, gathered the city’s treasures and secrets, and left its ruins with Qiong Ye.
• Lu Cang took Qiong Ye’s storage bag, the Death Secret Prohibition, and five thousand supreme, pure souls before they escaped through the teleportation passage.
• At midnight, Lu Cang entered the Church of Light’s Hall of Restrictions, took its treasures, reinforced the entrance restriction, and revoked the other three people’s access.
• Lu Cang emerged from the Supreme Temple in the Dark Realm and reflected that his many storage items still were not enough.

Lu Cang explored the Secret Sea in a future simulation, encountered a vast sea creature that killed him and reincarnated him, then gathered treasures and combat arts from several continents. Back at the Life Church, he used precise prophecies and private knowledge to convince its leaders to investigate the Secret Sea’s impending destruction.

• Lu Cang safeguarded the churches’ treasures, then descended into the Secret Sea, where he discovered powerful monsters and an Oceanic Nest before an enormous pupil killed him and he reincarnated as a newborn in the simulation.
• After ending the simulation, Lu Cang visited Xiyang and Tarabella, copying their combat arts and taking their nations’ treasures before returning to Loren.
• Lu Cang met Kumiloni and told Life Church leaders, including Laimis, that the Secret Sea would soon be destroyed, but Laimis challenged the credibility of his prophecy.
• Lu Cang exposed Laimis’s private affairs and predicted specific future events, convincing the church leaders that his prophecies were credible.
• Gonzalez said the church would verify Lu Cang’s claims about Tengge and make arrangements if they proved true.

Lu Cang returned to Izpalut as the Secret Sea faced destruction, then helped Iz improve a spell that could teleport entire continents. He reproduced the spell’s complete fifteen-thousand-diagram design from a future simulation, leaving Iz and the other mages stunned.

• Lu Cang reunited with Izpalut and Kumiloni, and Iz revealed his plan to teleport the Secret Sea, though he refused to advance to level eight because he wanted to reach level nine.
• Iz comforted Lu Cang about the limits of saving people, then took him to Loins Magic Academy to work on a group teleportation spell with Hun Mu, Jie Zhu, and Fizer.
• Lu Cang proposed replacing the spell’s core rune with an Apochel Rune, and Iz recognized the change as a major improvement.
• Lu Cang rapidly revised the draft arrays, and Iz said his changes could double the spell’s range.
• Lu Cang created the remaining twelve thousand diagrams for the spell in one go, astonishing the mages.

Lu Cang brought Izpalut a finished random-teleportation spell, which the Mage Association planned to distribute so more people could escape the approaching destruction of the Secret Sea. During a future simulation, Lu Cang memorized and copied Iz's expanded designs, then returned to present the twenty-five thousand diagrams to the stunned researchers.

• Lu Cang gave Izpalut fifteen thousand diagrams for a random-teleportation spell, and Izpalut sent copies to the Mage Association through Fizer for emergency use before the Secret Sea's destruction.
• Fizer thanked Lu Cang for giving survivors hope, while Izpalut began refining the spell and reflected on following instinct rather than relying only on logic.
• Lu Cang met Tang Rui at the Bishi Tavern to discuss her Origin Magic, and they continued their conversation in a quiet room until late at night.
• In a March 24 future simulation, Lu Cang reviewed his notes, memorized Iz's revised set of twenty-five thousand diagrams, and copied them onto magic-writing paper.
• Lu Cang returned to the research lab, where Izpalut described his new spell variations and Hun Mu had advanced to a level-five mage.
• Lu Cang presented twenty-five thousand original drafts, leaving Hun Mu and Jie Zhu shocked by the size of his contribution.

Lu Cang helped Iz develop a random teleportation array, then asked Luluwei to help investigate the Secret Sea. After learning the array favored the dangerous Moon Sea, Lu Cang began a rehearsal in which he used Soul Infusion to draw powerful sea monsters toward the surface.

• Iz admired Lu Cang’s blueprints and realized the teleportation array could narrow its destinations to the Turbid Sea, Boundless Mountain, the Moon Sea, and the Land of Original White.
• Lu Cang learned from Iz that reducing the array’s randomness made it more likely to send him to the Moon Sea, where Aertemi awaited him.
• Lu Cang visited Luluwei and gave her light- and dark-element bows, archery techniques, and perception skills in exchange for her help.
• Lu Cang and Luluwei went to the Secret Sea, where Luluwei extended her perception deep enough to locate groups of powerful sea monsters.
• Lu Cang used Soul Infusion on 500,000 souls, causing fifth-tier and sixth-tier sea monsters to rise toward the surface.

Lu Cang and Luluwei explored the Secret Sea after Lu Cang offered it five million souls, discovering its underwater civilization and a Gate of Enlightenment. Inside, Lu Cang interrupted an Enlightenment ritual, turning its practitioner into a mindless monster, and left Luluwei to face the sixth-tier creature.

• Lu Cang sacrificed five million souls to the Secret Sea, and he and Luluwei descended into its dark waters as demonic beasts gathered.
• Lu Cang killed a Rank 6 crab and found a Pearl of Enlightenment, which revealed the location of the Gate of Enlightenment and the pearl’s creator.
• Lu Cang gathered information from demonic beasts and learned that the Secret Sea contained factions and a civilization.
• Lu Cang reached the Gate of Enlightenment, where two seventh-tier monsters killed each other, then opened the stone door with his Decipherer ability.
• Lu Cang entered the chamber with Luluwei and interrupted a humanoid creature’s ritual as it devoured monster flesh, causing it to become a mindless sixth-tier monster.
• Lu Cang vanished as the monster charged and told Luluwei he would let her fight it.