Recaps

Lu Cang used an insect nest to rapidly kill monsters, collect rare treasures, and build his score, while Ghul opened multiple lairs through a ritual to farm monsters. The chapter left Ghul stunned as Lu Cang's score surged past 2.7 million.

• Lu Cang entered an insect nest, where the Pure Whitening Tree killed swarms of monsters and earned him more than 1.8 million points.
• Lu Cang collected a Longevity Flower, Molten Solidifying Holy Flame, Body-Penetrating Thorn Water, and Unrestrained Heart Lightning, then left the insect nest's guardian alive so he could upgrade the dungeon through further sacrifices.
• Ghul used a Lair Descent Ritual at the Turbid Sea—Isle of Myriad Spirits to open several lairs and summon monsters, quickly earning thousands of points.
• Ghul saw Lu Cang reach 826,732 points and opened more spatial tears to summon additional monsters, hoping to catch up.
• After Ghul gained another two thousand points, he checked the rankings and saw Lu Cang's score had climbed to 2,723,415.

Lu Cang became a Level 1 Alchemist and gained the God-Tier Ultimate Perfection talent, which transformed Ascending Realm into a potion that permanently lowered advancement requirements. After farming more rewards, he entered another insect-hive dungeon and encountered a spear-wielding man who attacked him from the shadows.

• Lu Cang farmed the insect-nest dungeon until he obtained Ascending Realm, an Elixir of Immortality recipe, and other valuable rewards.
• Lu Cang decided to become an Alchemist and used Origin Magic—Beginning while performing the class-change ritual.
• Lu Cang gained the Alchemist profession and the God-Tier Ultimate Perfection talent, then perfected Ascending Realm into a potion that permanently lowered advancement requirements for all professions.
• Lu Cang stored the perfected potion and offered two million souls to open another insect-hive dungeon.
• Lu Cang entered the dungeon, found a man with a black battle spear instead of monsters, and dodged the man's shadow attack before striking with Skyward Flow—Second Form: End Law Vertical Cleave.

Lu Cang fought Eci, a shadow vanguard who mistook him for a monster, then learned that the Dark Church planned to destroy the Insect Nest. After hearing Eci’s lengthy account, Lu Cang left him alive, checked the leaderboard, and entered another dungeon to resume farming.

• Lu Cang used a holy spear and holy flames to defeat Eci, then pinned a fragment of his shadow and demanded an explanation for the attack.
• Eci explained that he had been sent to sweep the sixth-level nest ahead of a Dark Church war against the Insect Nest, and Lu Cang claimed to be Zhuya’s successor.
• Eci described the nest’s expansion into the Abyss and the Dark Church’s plans, along with extensive background and other intelligence; Lu Cang eventually told him to stop and left him alive.
• Lu Cang checked the leaderboard and saw Yelia in third place with 150,000 points, while Kumiloni still had none.
• Lu Cang entered another Insect Nest dungeon after sacrificing a hundred thousand souls, summoned the Pure Whitening Tree, and cleared the map instantly.

Lu Cang spent the carnival farming Insect Nest Dungeons, raising his score to 320 million and collecting thirty bottles of Ultimate Perfect Ascending Realm. After drinking ten bottles and greatly lowering his class advancement requirements, he decided to save the rest and keep farming while the event lasted.

• Lu Cang used the Pure Whitening Tree to clear Insect Nest Dungeon waves in seconds and gathered more than a million points per cycle.
• Yelia saw Lu Cang take first place with nearly 286 million points, while Rhine guessed he had discovered a special scoring method.
• Lu Cang stopped after reaching 320 million points and counted thirty bottles of Ascending Realm among his rewards.
• Lu Cang drank ten bottles and found that the potion brought his existence closer to class origins and reduced his advancement requirements.
• Lu Cang saved the remaining twenty bottles as samples and returned to farming before the carnival ended.

Lu Cang attempted to promote his Death Priest class after gathering an enormous number of souls, but the ritual triggered a strange descent of Death and Destruction instead of the expected advancement. He prepared for the unknown threat as the surrounding dungeons shattered and the land turned white.

• Lu Cang assigned Moon Star Intent: Chaos to his Movement form and used the final hours to strengthen himself while holding a vast lead in points.
• Lu Cang opened a seventh-tier dungeon with Source of Calamity and began the Death Priest Promotion Ritual, offering up fifty billion souls.
• Lu Cang reflected on Sheng Yi's teachings and concluded that he should understand all classes and forge a path of his own.
• When the final soul entered the origin of death, Lu Cang gained no expected class transformation, and the surrounding dungeon entrances froze and shattered.
• The land turned pure white beneath the dense aura of Death and Destruction, so Lu Cang surrounded himself with shields, protective items, potions, and magic arrays.

Lu Cang confronted Ansu, an ancient soul who offered to become his master or grant wishes in exchange for Pure Souls. After Ansu threatened him, Lu Cang captured and subdued him, then prepared to question him about his identity.

• Ansu appeared in the sky and questioned Lu Cang about the Pure Souls he had sacrificed to the source of death.
• Lu Cang recognized Ansu as the creator of Ancient Ansou Secret Language, but declined his offer of discipleship and a soul-for-wishes deal.
• Ansu began to act against Lu Cang, so Lu Cang used God-tier Soul Master to take control of his soul.
• When Ansu resisted Lu Cang's control, Lu Cang used a Soul-Binding Ritual and a hundred bottles of potions to weaken and restrain him.
• Lu Cang asked Ansu to reveal his true identity while wondering why his promotion from Death Priest level 4 to 5 had stopped.

Lu Cang captured Ansu, a Level 9 Death Controller known as the Death Priest, and learned that Ansu was undergoing his ninth cycle of life and death. Unsure how to deal with Ansu without risking his escape or triggering something dangerous, Lu Cang pondered his options and then began setting up his Death Priest promotion ritual again.

• Lu Cang forced Ansu to reveal that he was a Level 9 Death Controller called the Death Priest and verified his identity as a remnant soul through the Void core.
• Lu Cang learned that Ansu was completing an Ascension through Life and Death ritual, having died eight times and now living his ninth life.
• Ansu explained that he sought souls to restore his peak condition and admitted he had intended to control Lu Cang and make him work for him.
• Lu Cang decided against killing or sealing Ansu immediately, concerned that Ansu might escape through reincarnation or that killing him could cause unforeseen harm.
• After an hour of considering how to handle Ansu and what abilities might help, Lu Cang stood up and began setting up his Death Priest promotion ritual again.

Lu Cang completed his advancement to level 5 Death Priest while Ansu tried to entice him with the path of reincarnation and hinted that he knew something about Lu Cang’s origins. After the advancement, Ansu sensed a new threat in Lu Cang and realized he would have to treat him cautiously.

• Lu Cang restarted the Death Priest advancement ritual, offering souls in small batches so Ansu could not intercept many of them.
• Ansu described how life, death, and reincarnation connected, then offered to teach Lu Cang the path to immortality.
• Lu Cang rejected reincarnation, saying he only cared about being invincible in this life, and completed the principles of death.
• The Source of Death baptized Lu Cang with spiritual power, completing his advancement to level 5 Death Priest and strengthening his control over Ansu.
• Ansu hinted that Lu Cang's origins were unusual and tried to use his knowledge as leverage, but Lu Cang claimed he already knew his origins.
• As Lu Cang faced Ansu after his advancement, Ansu felt uneasy and recognized that he now had to deal with Lu Cang cautiously.

Lu Cang used his God-Tier talent, Eternal Annihilation, to force Ansu to negotiate a master-servant contract. After the contract was formed, Lu Cang gained access to Ansu’s thoughts and secured its service until he became a Level 9 Class-changer or ten thousand years passed.

• Lu Cang revealed Eternal Annihilation to show Ansu that he could erase it permanently.
• Ansu agreed to serve Lu Cang but sought a way to be freed, and Lu Cang set the term at ten thousand years or until he reached Level 9.
• Lu Cang showed Ansu several other God-Tier Talents, leaving Ansu unable to remember their symbols but convinced of Lu Cang’s power.
• Ansu drew a master-servant ritual that would let Lu Cang sense its thoughts and require it to protect and assist him.
• Lu Cang and Ansu formed the contract, and Lu Cang immediately heard Ansu wonder whether contaminated knowledge could kill him.

Lu Cang emerged from the three-day event with 3.2 billion points and brought Ansu’s soul into his mindscape. At the awards ceremony, Aegimiss recognized Lu Cang as a mysterious participant and promised him an unusual reward.

• Lu Cang befriended Ansu and moved his soul into his mindscape using the Death Priest’s Soul Shrine ability.
• The event ended with Lu Cang in first place at 3.2 billion points and Ghul in second place.
• Lu Cang returned to the awards plaza with Rhine and Yelia, then learned from Ansu that Rona was an ancient Level 9 Merchant who traded in lifespans.
• Aegimiss began the awards ceremony, gave Xie Chen the thirteenth-place prize, and skipped ahead to Lu Cang.
• Aegimiss praised Lu Cang’s unexplained score and said his reward would have to be something unique.

Lu Cang received the rare Creator class scroll from Aegimiss, then reunited with Kumiloni after the awards. The first stage ended, and Aegimiss announced a challenge round where victors could take their opponents’ points.

• Aegimiss offered Lu Cang a reward, and he asked for unique classes instead of accepting the offer to become her disciple.
• Aegimiss gave Lu Cang the Creator class scroll, whose hidden advancement method required rare materials, studies, crafting classes, and a perfect artifact.
• Lu Cang worried that others might covet the scroll, but trusted Unsolvable Mystery to prevent them from tracking him.
• Kumiloni received a small tree seed for her 1,022 points, and Lu Cang teleported to her and learned how she and her companions had reached the ruin.
• Aegimiss declared the first stage over and announced that participants could challenge opponents to win their points.

Aegimiss explained that challenges would cost the loser their points, then opened the field for successors to challenge one another. Rhine lost his points to Xie Chen after surrendering, and Yelia began a challenge against Xie Chen with a sudden, devastating sword strike.

• Aegimiss said that losing a challenge meant losing points, allowed each person one chance to challenge, and then disappeared.
• Lu Cang realized that everyone had forgotten his name, while Rhine stepped forward to introduce himself.
• Xie Chen challenged Rhine, struck him across the battlefield, and won all 200,025,000 of Rhine’s points after Rhine surrendered.
• Yelia challenged Xie Chen and immediately engulfed him in Holy Flame before cutting through him with her sword.

Yelia demonstrated her overwhelming speed and power by defeating Xie Chen and Pei Dong, while Lu Cang became the crowd’s next target after his identity was revealed. He faced the successor of Bani of War and Fire, whose sudden attack engulfed the arena and set Lu Cang ablaze.

• Yelia defeated Xie Chen with her Divine Artifact, Sword of Netfire Judgment, and Xie Chen praised her strength after being resurrected.
• Yelia challenged the crowd, and Pei Dong stepped forward before she swiftly cut him into pieces as well.
• Lu Cang learned from Ansu that several other contenders were successors of different legacies, including Aegimiss.
• The crowd discovered Lu Cang’s name and challenged him over his 3.2 billion points, prompting him to appear in the arena.
• A successor of Bani of War and Fire rode up to challenge Lu Cang, then unleashed flames that engulfed the arena and Lu Cang.

Lu Cang fought Adelare, a level 6 Magic Knight and Bani’s inheritor, in a clash of fire and ice. After fire magic failed to hurt Adelare, Lu Cang overwhelmed his flames with powerful ice spells and left him charging into a vast icy attack.

• Lu Cang transformed his body into fire magic and charged Adelare, but their fire attacks healed rather than harmed each other.
• Lu Cang disarmed Adelare’s halberd and battered him with close-range combat techniques, while Adelare’s flames restored his armor and injuries.
• Lu Cang revealed that he could use ice magic and cast White Ice Century, suppressing Adelare’s stronger-tier fire forbidden technique.
• Lu Cang summoned hundreds of thousands of persistent ice spells, astonishing Ansu with his multiple Origin Magics.
• Adelare rode his flaming warhorse toward Lu Cang, who sent all the ice in the sky surging at him.

Lu Cang defeated Adelare and challenged the other inheritors, then fought a scythe-wielding woman who bore the will of Klayya of Wind and Thunder. He copied her wind technique during their clash, leaving her wounded and wondering whether he was a fellow disciple or successor of Kleia.

• Lu Cang crushed Adelare's flames with layers of ice, then tore him apart with a barrage of elemental spells.
• Lu Cang taunted the silent inheritors and asked for a stronger opponent, while Kumiloni reflected on how much he had grown.
• A one-eyed woman carrying a scythe introduced herself as the bearer of Klayya of Wind and Thunder's will and attacked Lu Cang with wind and lightning.
• Lu Cang dodged her scythe but was badly wounded, studied how she used wind, and copied her Windless Wind Swarm technique.
• The woman was also left bloodied and retreated, astonished that Lu Cang could use Wind Cessation and wondering if he was a fellow disciple or Kleia's successor.

Lu Cang fought Lida, the inheritor of the God of Thunder, and learned to layer and transform thunder into Unrestrained Heart Lightning. After defeating her, he used his elemental insights to begin absorbing rare substances into his body, bringing his interpretation of the Myriad Transformations closer to completion.

• Lu Cang endured Lida’s storm and layered thunder, healing rapidly as he studied the elements and created Calamity Thunder.
• Lida transformed Lu Cang’s thunder with her Shock Domain Golden Thunder, but Lu Cang used his Tier 5 Origin Magic, Law Follows My Heart, to regain control and create Unrestrained Heart Lightning.
• Lu Cang turned his enormous thunder sphere into pure lightning, and Lida was overwhelmed by fear and torn apart by the strike.
• Lu Cang reflected that he could use the elemental fusion methods he had observed to make use of rare flames, water, and thunder, and he connected this insight to the Myriad Transformations.
• Lu Cang gathered water, fire, ice, lightning, earth, darkness, and light around himself, then began drawing the strange substances into his body.

Lu Cang awakened his Tier 5 Origin Magic, Myriad Forms Transformation, and discovered he could alter the structure and state of every element. After testing its power, he resolved to visit the White Tower in Atlantis City to check the official rankings of the special resources he had collected.

• Lu Cang realized assimilation meant understanding and rearranging an element’s inner structure, and that Origin Magic could let him do what the world’s rules normally forbade.
• Lu Cang used Myriad Forms Transformation to turn ordinary elements into special substances, including Body-Penetrating Thorn Water and Molten Solidifying Holy Flame.
• Lu Cang tested the properties of his collected special resources, including sticky rock, Ultra-Slow Light, Dream-Shattering Condensing Ice, Viscous Darkness, and Misleading Wind Current.
• Lu Cang transformed elements into unusual states, creating solid fire, flowing ice, solid wind, and gaseous earth.
• Lu Cang sank into transformed earth, struck solidified air, and removed a patch of light before acknowledging Myriad Forms Transformation as his Origin Magic.
• Lu Cang noticed that everyone had witnessed his breakthrough and considered visiting the White Tower in Atlantis City for official resource rankings.

Lu Cang faced a Skin Stealer who wore the skin of a Demon Eater, a class that devoured magic and turned it into power. After testing the Demon Eater with Origin Magic and overwhelming it with a vast barrage of spells, Lu Cang left its absorption limit in question.

• Lu Cang emerged from his comprehension and accepted the Skin Stealer's challenge after Aegimiss allowed the challenger to claim his skin if he won.
• The Skin Stealer revealed his Demon Eater abilities, devoured Lu Cang's spells, and grew stronger as Yelia explained that Demon Eaters were natural enemies of mages.
• Lu Cang used Void Peril Loss, but the Demon Eater devoured the Origin Magic as well, so Lu Cang continued attacking while keeping his distance.
• The Demon Eater swallowed Lu Cang's core and suffered as the combat techniques and other contents inside it ran rampant.
• Lu Cang dispelled the core and unleashed Magic Burst, filling the area with ten thousand spells to test how much magic the Demon Eater could absorb.

Lu Cang tested the limits of a Skin Stealer who could devour and cut through magic, then watched the other challengers battle while learning from Ansu about the differences between level 9 Class-changers and gods. After the challenges ended, Aegimiss began the event’s second act as Lu Cang faded from view.

• Lu Cang overwhelmed the Skin Stealer with magic, exploiting memories of his past to distract him until flames consumed him; the Skin Stealer was summoned away when his Death Date reached zero.
• Other participants challenged one another, and Lu Cang watched Luoyan fight Yelia, a summoner defeat Lida, and a Blacksmith wielding an ancient forging technique defeat Adelare.
• Lu Cang asked Ansu how level 9 Class-changers differed from gods and learned that their strength could be comparable, but gods faced greater restrictions while level 9 Class-changers had finite lifespans.
• The challenges concluded with points changing hands, and Lu Cang, Rhein, and Kumiloni did not challenge anyone.
• Aegimiss announced the second act, and Lu Cang gradually faded from view as she began describing the world’s chaos.

Aegimiss set the trial participants a heroic task based on historical disasters, assigning the strength of their abilities according to their points. Lu Cang realized they would have to alter a simulated historical event, while a man in the present day died after his body dissolved in the ruins.

• In the present day, a gaunt man tried to leave the ruins to tell Lady Aertemi about a perfect vessel, but his legs became immobile as his organs rotted away.
• The man drank medicine from his spatial pouch, but it failed to help, and he died, leaving only his skin on the sand.
• Aegimiss asked the trial participants if they wanted to become heroes and explained that passing required saving people in a desperate situation.
• Aegimiss said points determined the strength of each participant’s ability, while those with zero points would have to leave their abilities to chance.
• Aegimiss covered the area in black mist and showed the participants visions of historical disasters, including the Arian Holy Church Incident, Emperor's Slumber, and the Great Migration.
• Ansu explained that the visions depicted past events, and Lu Cang realized the trial required them to change the course of simulated history.

Lu Cang arrived in a simulated city in the year 3272 and learned that an impending event there would bring sorrow to the world. Before investigating, he raised his Warrior class to level 5 by demonstrating his combat skills and strength.

• Ansu told Lu Cang about historical disasters, including the Great Migration that let monsters overrun a fifth of the world once belonging to Sentient Life.
• Lu Cang found himself in a city in the year 3272 during the month of Chaos and Madness, where Aegimiss warned that an event would soon bring sorrow to the world and urged him to stop it.
• Lu Cang decided to prepare by raising his Warrior and Mage classes, then flew into the wilderness outside the city to complete his Warrior advancement ritual.
• Lu Cang demonstrated his fighting techniques, lifted a mountain, and shattered it before presenting trophies from his battles, including remains from a level 7 monster.
• The principles affirmed Lu Cang’s actions, and he became a level 5 Warrior.

Lu Cang reached Warrior Level 5, gaining new combat abilities and a talent that grew stronger the longer he fought. He then tried to affect the Source with Origin Magic, suffered backlash, and realized his new talent treated the Source as his opponent.

• Lu Cang reached Warrior Level 5 and gained the Enemy Heart Arena and Know Enemy masteries.
• Lu Cang gained the transcendent talent The More the Merrier, which increased his strength and resilience as combat continued.
• Lu Cang turned to advancing as a Mage and called upon the Source to test his Origin Magic.
• Lu Cang used Myriad Forms Transformation on the Source, suffered a backlash, and wondered whether Ansu had influenced his impulsive decision.
• Lu Cang healed as The More the Merrier activated, treating the Source as his opponent.

Lu Cang reached level 5 as a Mage, gaining powers that revealed spells across the world and unified his knowledge of Origin Magic. After discovering that Moon Star’s influence had made him impatient, he accepted Ansu’s advice to destroy the city in the simulation.

• Lu Cang’s battle with the Source strengthened his body, and his wish raised his Mage level to 5.
• Ansu marveled at Lu Cang’s many classes, Origin Magic techniques, and hidden potential.
• Lu Cang gained the Face of the Source and Accumulated Experience Mage Masteries, along with the God-Tier talent Lighthouse of Myriad Laws.
• Lu Cang returned to the city, began learning fifth-tier spells, and asked Ansu whether he had affected his mind.
• Ansu explained that Moon Star’s influence during the month of chaos and madness affected everyone, and advised Lu Cang to destroy the city to stop the crisis.
• Lu Cang decided to learn several unusual spells in the city before destroying it in the simulation.

Lu Cang used God-Tier Lighthouse of Myriad Laws to steal spells from other mages, then followed a divination to a Blood Race alchemist whose nearly finished potion was interrupted by a powerful golden-eyed man. Lu Cang confronted the attacker and began fighting him, leaving the reason for the attack and the potion’s importance unresolved.

• Lu Cang stole Fourth-Tier Flesh Magic—Blood Cocoon from a mage, who realized he had lost the spell and hurried away.
• Lu Cang stole more spells while searching for the event that would bring the world regret and sorrow, and considered destroying the city if he found no clues.
• Lu Cang used Divination: Revelation Card of Destiny and followed its clues to a dark castle inhabited by a young Blood Race alchemist.
• As the alchemist neared completion of a high-tier potion, a golden-eyed man appeared in the sky and tried to kill him.
• Lu Cang trapped the golden-eyed man in thousands of sealing layers, but the man shattered them, so Lu Cang rose to face him and asked why he was attacking the alchemist.

Lu Cang defended a researcher whose potion could give monsters sentience, arguing that possessing power alone did not justify killing someone. When a Tier 7 Golden Dragon attacked the castle, Lu Cang protected the researcher and countered the dragon with powerful magic, then prepared to test his strength against it.

• Lu Cang argued that the city and its innocent residents should be spared, while his opponent revealed that the researcher was developing a potion to give monsters humanlike intelligence.
• Lu Cang decided to protect the researcher, and his body grew stronger as he stalled for time.
• A Golden Dragon attacked, and Lu Cang blocked its blow while directing the city's defensive wards to protect the castle.
• Lu Cang trapped the Golden Dragon in layers of Flawless Transmission barriers, which reflected the dragon's punch and quickly repaired themselves.
• The Golden Dragon spread its wings and threatened to smash through the defenses, while Lu Cang summoned the Void Ring Star Battle Spear and prepared to test his strength.