Recaps

After decades of research, Benjamin reached the limits of his Golden Core Realm and prepared to advance. He successfully formed a Nascent Soul, expanded his Internal Space, and entered the Nascent Soul Realm.

• Benjamin continued analyzing the mysterious white mist and Mutated Snake-Spiders, but both lines of research remained beyond his current abilities.
• Benjamin recognized that he had reached the knowledge barrier of his level and began preparing for advancement while studying the Level 7 Large Elemental Pool.
• After ten more years of cultivation, Benjamin realized he was ready to advance and entered a prepared chamber in the Purgatory Sulfur Plane.
• Benjamin converted elemental energy into Spirit Energy and smoothly formed a Nascent Soul that fused with his Golden Core, creating a more efficient dual cultivation path.
• The breakthrough greatly expanded Benjamin's Internal Space, whose new natural light suggested it was becoming an embryonic plane.
• Benjamin confirmed that his Spiritual Power had increased more than tenfold and that he had officially entered the Nascent Soul Realm.

After reaching the Nascent Soul Realm, Benjamin chose the Spirit Energy Law as the foundation for advancing to Level 3 Wizard and planned to turn the Purgatory Sulfur Plane into a world-scale laboratory by building an Incense Divinity Path. More than a decade later, he had completed the preliminary blueprint and hired a construction team, while beginning the difficult work of mastering the Level 7 Large Elemental Pool installation technology.

• Benjamin decided to study the Spirit Energy Law and use it as the foundation of his Ring of Truth.
• He planned to convert the Purgatory Sulfur Plane's fire elements into Spirit Energy by establishing an Incense Divinity Path, with a Level 7 Large Elemental Pool supplying its initial power.
• Benjamin spent more than a decade designing the plane-wide network of nodes, energy channels, conversion pools, and faith anchors.
• He hired a Noren Workshop plane construction team to begin the non-core renovations and monitored the project's progress.
• Benjamin returned to studying the Level 7 Large Elemental Pool manual and considered how the completed divine path could provide Power of Incense and transmit plane-scale energy across space.

Benjamin completed an experiment that raised a Wizard Apprentice’s elemental affinity by ten levels, though he considered the technology impractical for most Wizards because it relied on rare spirits of nature. He planned to use his research to make the Black Giants a self-sustaining society on the Purgatory Sulfur Plane, the foundation for his Incense Divinity Path.

• Benjamin told Viola that the aptitude enhancement experiment had succeeded and could increase elemental affinity by ten levels.
• Benjamin explained that the technology was of limited practical value because advanced Wizards gained aptitude through advancement and its key materials were scarce spirits of nature.
• Benjamin completed the enhancement, and Viola paid him two hundred million Military Merit before taking the delighted apprentice away.
• Benjamin reflected that Viola’s apprentice might owe her for centuries and could die before repaying the debt on the Plane Battlefield.
• Benjamin planned to settle the Black Giants on the Purgatory Sulfur Plane as believers and residents for his Incense Divinity Path.
• Benjamin turned to the Incubation Pool’s reproductive technology, intending to create a new system that would let the Black Giants reproduce naturally.

Benjamin completed the transformed Incubation Pool and inspected the construction work needed for the Incense Divinity Path, though he still lacked the funds for the full project. His old classmate William Blake contacted him and asked him to take a commission to manufacture a Wizard Artifact.

• Benjamin finished modifying the Incubation Pool so it could produce stronger Black Giants and replicate subsidiary pools.
• Benjamin inspected the newly built facilities across the Purgatory Sulfur Plane and paid the construction team.
• Benjamin estimated that completing the Incense Divinity Path would cost tens of billions of Military Merit and considered how to raise more funds.
• Benjamin recognized William Blake after his Body Tempering Method overcame the memory interference Blake had placed on himself.
• William Blake, impressed by Benjamin's ability to identify him, asked whether Benjamin would accept a commission to manufacture a Wizard Artifact.

Blake commissioned Benjamin to make a Wizard Artifact that could protect against hallucinations and mental interference during a dangerous plane mission. Benjamin chose an isolation-based design and began planning the artifact, while Blake considered seeking a second version as insurance.

• Blake told Benjamin that his unit was going to a strange plane where illusion and reality blurred, and asked him to make a protective Wizard Artifact.
• Benjamin agreed to the commission in exchange for a discount and detailed performance data from the plane war; Blake accepted and set a deadline of one year.
• After the call, Blake recalled that Oswaldo had suggested Benjamin and decided to consider commissioning another artifact as backup.
• Benjamin compared reinforcement, awakening, and isolation approaches, then judged isolation the safest option for the plane’s unpredictable interference.
• Benjamin decided to build an isolation-type artifact and began designing it in his laboratory.

Benjamin created a Mind Barrier Bracer that resisted mental attacks by consuming Liquid Adamantine, then sold one to Blake at a discount. A year later, Blake wore the bracer as he boarded the Ship Plane after failing to commission another custom artifact in time.

• Benjamin completed the Mind Barrier Bracer, whose defenses used Liquid Adamantine to resist mental interference and warn its wearer of powerful attacks.
• Benjamin offered Blake the bracer for five hundred thousand Military Merit, and Blake accepted despite doubts about its unusually fast production.
• Blake received the bracer and decided to wait for the results of consultations with other Alchemy masters before relying on it.
• One year later, Blake failed to commission a custom Wizard Artifact because the available Alchemy masters were booked or unable to meet his deadline.
• Blake hastily bought several finished mind-protection Wizard Artifacts and boarded the Ship Plane wearing Benjamin's bracer.

Blake joined the expedition through a spatial rift, only to discover that he and the other wizards had been swallowed by a giant beast. His Mind Barrier Bracer kept a powerful mass hallucination and thought interference from reaching his mind, revealing the beast’s horrifying interior as the likely reality of the plane.

• Blake prepared his defensive Wizard Artifacts and activated the Gazer's Emblem and Presence Fading before entering the spatial rift with the expedition.
• The rift passage violently disoriented Blake, and he heard what seemed to be his mental barrier cracking.
• Blake found himself inside a giant creature, where tentacles carried other wizards away as they smiled in an enchanted stupor.
• Blake realized the creature was assaulting the expedition with mass hallucinations and thought interference.
• Blake saw the Mind Barrier Bracer glowing as its Liquid Adamantine rapidly depleted, confirming that it was shielding him from the creature’s influence.

Blake survived the colossal beast’s Soul Roar and discovered that its Illusion field could make imagined injuries real. He traced the beast’s energy veins to the purple creature controlling the illusions, then realized his bracer had silently absorbed attacks powerful enough to overwhelm Level 6 wizards.

• Blake used a bone pendant to form a second mental barrier, but the beast’s Soul Roar shattered it and threw the conscious wizards into chaos.
• The wizards’ defenses failed or their perceptions warped, causing tentacles to seize some while others attacked companions or injured themselves through illusions.
• Blake confirmed his awareness with Soul School techniques and calculated that his bracer’s Liquid Adamantine would last no more than five days.
• Blake concealed his presence and followed the beast’s energy veins to a chamber containing a purple, tentacled creature that generated the Illusion field.
• Blake seized the Level 4 creature’s soul and learned that it had layered deadly illusions and thought-guidance along the route, including a near-Level 7 attack it had just unleashed.
• Blake saw that the bracer had consumed more than half its Liquid Adamantine to absorb the attack, leaving him stunned by its defensive power.

Blake used intelligence extracted from a purple symbiote to help the wizards defeat the plane's beasts and end the war in less than ten years. After verifying that he was not still trapped in an illusion, he realized the value of Benjamin's Mind Barrier Bracer and rushed to buy more Liquid Adamantine.

• Blake learned the beasts' weaknesses and the locations of powerful beasts and symbiotes, then sent the Level 8 beast's coordinates to the Level 8 Wizard commander.
• The commander captured the Level 8 beast and its symbiote, allowing the Wizard Legion to destroy the remaining beasts and subdue the plane in less than ten years.
• At the victory ceremony, Blake wondered whether he was still inside an illusion, and the commander taught him a dangerous test involving secret information about Level 9 Wizards.
• Blake recited a Level 9 Wizard's law codename in a secret chamber and felt no ill effects, confirming to himself that the world was real.
• Blake recognized that Benjamin's Mind Barrier Bracer had helped save him and turn the war, then rushed to find Benjamin and buy all the Liquid Adamantine he could.

Benjamin installed a Level 7 Large Elemental Pool on the Purgatory Sulfur Plane, triggering a massive surge in the plane’s energy. The Black Giant Incubation Pool began producing Level 3 Black Giants in minutes, and Benjamin prepared to continue his long-planned project.

• Benjamin received Blake’s combat data and a giant beast tissue sample, then added both to his research projects.
• Blake built a successful business selling Mind Barrier Bracers and Liquid Adamantine, providing Benjamin with more than ten billion Military Merit for his plans.
• Benjamin began constructing the Incense Divinity Path on the Purgatory Sulfur Plane by installing the Level 7 Large Elemental Pool.
• After ten years of work, Benjamin activated the Elemental Pool, causing the plane’s Fire Element activity to rise dramatically and dormant volcanoes to erupt.
• The Black Giant Incubation Pool produced a Level 3 Black Giant in one minute, and the creature prostrated itself before Benjamin.

Benjamin continued transforming the Purgatory Sulfur Plane into a foundation for his Black Giant legion, completing the Level 7 Large Elemental Pool’s integration and beginning construction of a customized Incense Divinity Path. After fifty years, he upgraded the Mystic Gang Mortal Dust Barrier to defend against mental attacks, but considered it unfinished until he could incorporate Power of Incense.

• Benjamin estimated that his ten Incubation Pools could produce one Level 3 Black Giant per minute and set a future population goal of ten billion for the Purgatory Sulfur Plane.
• Benjamin began replacing the plane’s Divine Power Faith Network with a customized Incense Divinity Path system that would produce Power of Incense, support Mortal Aura, transmit energy across space, and convert elemental power.
• Benjamin struggled with conflicts and instability while building the system, using research and the Great Dao Library to refine his understanding of Spirit Energy.
• After fifty years, the Level 7 Large Elemental Pool had merged with the plane’s core, and construction of the Incense Divinity Path was about one-third complete.
• Benjamin reforged the Mystic Gang Mortal Dust Barrier with Liquid Adamantine and other rare materials, greatly improving its resistance to curses, prophecies, illusions, and mental interference.
• Benjamin judged the barrier to be a semi-finished product and planned to complete it with Power of Incense after the Incense Divinity Path was finished.

Benjamin surveyed the thriving Black Giant civilization on his Purgatory Sulfur Plane and prepared to embed the Incense Divinity Path’s core runes. Viola visited him with her junior Angelo and revealed that she had joined the Elite Combat Unit and would soon return to the battlefield.

• Benjamin observed the Black Giants’ growing population and ecosystem, then confirmed that incense collection and the plane’s facilities were functioning properly.
• Viola arrived at Golden Garden with Angelo, and Benjamin recognized his former junior, who had become an official wizard.
• Benjamin and Viola exchanged familiar teasing before she introduced Angelo and suggested he seek Benjamin’s help if he encountered trouble.
• Viola explained that she would report to the secondary battlefield in a little over ten years because her Elite Combat Unit status and military merits let her shorten her rest period.

Benjamin completed the Incense Divinity Path’s main framework on the Purgatory Sulfur Plane and advanced to Level 3 Wizard. With the framework running, he turned his attention to preparing for his next military service by planning new rune artifacts and beginning spatial studies.

• Benjamin finished inscribing the final composite rune array, completing the Incense Divinity Path’s initial framework across the Purgatory Sulfur Plane.
• The completed path triggered a surge of insight, and Benjamin advanced to Level 3 Wizard with Spirit Energy Law mastery exceeding 5%.
• Benjamin found that the framework consumed one-tenth of the Level 7 Large Elemental Pool’s output and estimated that the completed path would use over eighty percent.
• With a little over a decade left before his next mandatory military service, Benjamin decided to focus on creating Level 3 Rune Artifacts and studying spatial knowledge.
• Benjamin began retrieving research materials on elemental structures, energy compression, and introductory spatial theory.

Benjamin tested a devastating Level 3 Rune Artifact, upgraded his Internal Space’s power supply, and developed short-distance matter teleportation to recover Black Giants’ cores. After volunteering for the Plane Battlefield, he learned that more than a million Wizards had vanished there without sending any intelligence, though nearly all remained alive, and prepared to face the unexplained phenomenon himself.

• Benjamin tested a Level 3 Rune Artifact whose blast devastated a vast area, then decided to focus future designs on concentrated ray-type attacks.
• Benjamin installed a Level 5 Large Elemental Pool in his Internal Space and improved its energy supply.
• Benjamin researched spatial techniques and successfully teleported a metal ball across his laboratory, then considered using the method to recover Black Giants’ Life Crystal Cores.
• Benjamin applied early to join the Plane Battlefield and received an encrypted report that the Expeditionary Force and its first reinforcements had disappeared without sending information.
• Benjamin learned that more than a million Wizards in the plane were still alive and apparently uninjured, and resolved to prepare carefully before investigating the mystery.

Benjamin prepared his forces and joined nearly a million elite wizards assembling aboard the ship plane for a second expedition into the mysterious target plane. After hearing that command would intervene in ten years if no useful information emerged, he remained while more than thirty percent of the wizards departed.

• Benjamin strengthened the Mystic Gang Mortal Dust Barrier, inscribed spatial teleportation techniques into more Black Giants, and selected a little over fifty thousand elite Black Giants for the expedition.
• Benjamin arranged for the Purgatory Sulfur Plane and his laboratory to keep operating, then teleported from Noren Academy No. 147 to the assembly point aboard the ship plane.
• Benjamin saw that nearly a million wizards, all at least Level 3, had assembled, including more than a hundred Level 7 Wizards and over ten Level 8 Wizards.
• A Level 8 Wizard told the assembled wizards that command would wait ten years for useful information before intervening by force, and warned that intervention could cause the target plane to resist or collapse.
• More than thirty percent of the wizards chose to leave, while Benjamin and the others who remained watched them depart without protest.

After a spatial rift opened for the departing wizards, Benjamin awoke in what seemed to be his ordinary family home, where his deceased companions Amy and Victor appeared as classmates. He recovered his memories of being a wizard caught in a trap, but his powers were suppressed, and he left with Amy and Victor to investigate the strange world.

• A Level 8 Wizard opened a spatial rift and ordered the wizards to set off.
• Benjamin woke as a teenager on his first day reporting to university, with his parents urging him to eat and hurry.
• Amy and Victor arrived to walk Benjamin to school, and he greeted them as if they were familiar classmates.
• Benjamin's memories returned, revealing that he was a Level 3 Wizard from Noren Academy and that Amy and Victor had died.
• Benjamin found his Nascent Soul and treasures still present but his Spiritual Power nearly stagnant, then left with Amy and Victor to investigate.

Benjamin tried to understand the strange world where his extraordinary powers were suppressed, but a lecture introduced valid scientific knowledge he had never encountered, leaving him uncertain whether the world was truly false. After noticing the university’s unusually small classes, he was confronted in the cafeteria by a furious man who recognized him.

• Benjamin walked to university with Amy and Victor while concealing that his powers and connection to his Internal Space were suppressed.
• Benjamin discovered that his body had adapted to life in this world and heard a physics lecture containing unfamiliar theories that he later verified as valid.
• Benjamin learned that Amy and Victor's classes also had fewer than ten students, deepening his doubts about the world.
• A tall, gloomy-faced man and several young people surrounded Benjamin in the cafeteria, and the man demanded to know if he was Benjamin.

Benjamin faced a school bully who challenged him to a mathematics duel, not a fight, and won the axe wager by finishing the test first with a perfect score. The students declared him the new freshman school bully, leaving Benjamin baffled by the plane’s strange customs.

• A green-haired school bully confronted Benjamin over taking first place and challenged him to a duel, placing his hand axe on the line.
• Benjamin accepted the challenge and competed against the bully in an advanced mathematics test while Amy refereed and Victor reviewed the questions.
• Benjamin used knowledge from his false memories to solve the difficult final problem and finished the test before the bully.
• Amy and Victor confirmed that both contestants earned full marks, making Benjamin the winner because he finished first.
• The bully gave Benjamin the axe and declared him the new freshman school bully, while Benjamin wondered what kind of plane he had entered.

Benjamin discovered that the axe he had won was ordinary, despite everyone around him treating it as a powerful symbol, and he resolved to restore his strength and learn this world's missing common sense. After class, Amy left with her aunt, who urged her to make friends and admitted she had hoped Amy would fail so she could grow through hardship.

• Benjamin confirmed that the axe had no supernatural properties, though Amy and Victor considered it a powerful weapon and symbol of strength.
• A lecturer praised Benjamin's axe as a fine example of craftsmanship and called it “the weight of knowledge,” deepening Benjamin's sense that he lacked this world's common sense.
• Benjamin noticed the university's unusually high number of staff and the mismatch between wartime news and society's peaceful atmosphere, then prioritized reconnecting with his Internal Space and filling his memory gaps.
• Benjamin attended class, absorbed an unfamiliar theoretical model, and put the axe in his backpack after dismissal, disappointing Amy and Victor.
• Amy told Benjamin and Victor that her aunt was taking her to an amusement park, then met the woman, who encouraged her to make friends and confessed she had hoped Amy would fail.

Benjamin continued trying to mobilize his suppressed Spiritual Power and began suspecting that the world around him might not be entirely false. He arranged to visit the commercial district with Amy and Victor, giving him a chance to investigate further.

• Benjamin recognized Kevin, a wizard he had once seen during the planar expedition, and learned from Victor that Kevin had been his hostile high school classmate.
• Benjamin practiced mobilizing Spiritual Power and found that his progress was improving, estimating that he could connect to the Internal Space within five days.
• Benjamin questioned why the world had recreated Kevin and contained knowledge beyond his own, then considered finding people to test whether the world was real.
• Benjamin searched the network for advanced physics and energy concepts, immersing himself in the unfamiliar material.
• Amy asked Benjamin and Victor for advice on a birthday gift for her aunt, who enjoyed watching villains be defeated in movies.
• Benjamin suggested that the three of them visit the commercial district on their day off, and Amy and Victor agreed.

Benjamin searched his unnaturally immaculate home and tested his parents’ memories, finding evidence that they and the world around him might be fabricated. The clues left him unsure whether the flaws were careless mistakes or bait, so he planned to investigate outside when he went shopping the day after tomorrow.

• Benjamin searched his parents’ bedroom and computer, finding no personal belongings or records and noticing that the family portraits appeared to reuse identical templates.
• Benjamin returned home and acted as though he had just arrived when his parents came back from shopping.
• At dinner, Benjamin asked about a broken astronaut model, and his father immediately recalled exactly where he had stored it.
• Benjamin spilled his water, and his mother reacted with an almost perfectly gentle and forgiving response.
• Benjamin found the repaired astronaut model where his father had said it would be and concluded that his parents might be fake, though he wondered if the obvious clues were deliberate.
• Benjamin decided to inspect the outside environment during a shopping trip the day after tomorrow, then focused on his dantian.

Benjamin investigated the strange calm and familiar faces in the Fantasy world, then connected his Internal Space and learned that more than six years had passed. He decided to test whether Viola was a fallen wizard and learned she would attend a Clean Beach volunteer event, while his plans grew more urgent with less than four years remaining.

• Benjamin went shopping with Amy and Victor, spotted a familiar wizard posing as a chief scientist, and later recognized Senior Viola as Amy’s aunt.
• After witnessing a Level 5 Wizard working as a beloved physical education teacher, Benjamin theorized that the Fantasy world housed fallen wizards under false identities and chose Viola as his next person to investigate.
• Benjamin connected a thread of Spiritual Power to his Internal Space, discovered that over six years had passed, and found that the plane blocked his artifacts and information signals.
• Benjamin studied the world more deliberately and asked Amy about Viola, who revealed that her aunt would attend a Clean Beach volunteer event in the South District in a little over ten days.

Benjamin spent more than ten days studying before using a beach cleanup event to probe Viola. His sudden feint revealed that she had trained combat instincts, and Viola left shaken while Benjamin concluded that his probe had succeeded.

• Benjamin devoted nearly all his time to studying other wizards’ knowledge until the Clean Ocean charity event brought him to the beach.
• Benjamin approached Viola during the break and learned that she enjoyed watching volunteers and her romantic partners suffer.
• Benjamin noticed Viola’s current boyfriend glaring at them and drew out her story about tormenting a former boyfriend.
• Benjamin feinted a punch at Viola, then removed a leaf from her hair, prompting her to dodge with a precise trained movement.
• Viola retreated in alarm, and Benjamin walked away, satisfied that his probe had produced a result.

Benjamin confirmed that Viola was a True Person and spent another year searching for signs of other fallen wizards. After finding far more True Persons than he expected, he wondered whether the world was a vast living society that was absorbing the wizards trapped inside it.

• Benjamin concluded that Viola was a True Person after her distinctive behavior and combat reflexes confirmed his suspicions.
• Benjamin decided to search for flaws in the world and uncover the purpose of whoever had trapped them there.
• A year later, Benjamin recognized Blood Butcher Baal, a former Level Seven combat wizard, working as a famous head chef.
• Benjamin realized that the number of True Persons in the city far exceeded what the fallen wizards and their contract creatures could explain.
• Benjamin left the restaurant fearing that the world might be a living society whose inhabitants were gradually digesting or assimilating the trapped wizards.

After graduating at the top of his class, Benjamin left his home planet on an interstellar voyage to explore the wider human territory and test whether the world was real. His travels confirmed that he was in a vast, genuine cosmic plane, and he resolved to uncover the rules behind the force controlling it.

• Benjamin completed his physics studies ahead of schedule with the school's best grades, while his parents' perfect celebration only deepened his suspicion that they were false.
• After visiting the planet's major regions and confirming it was real, Benjamin proposed a graduation trip to Frontier Star, and his parents quickly arranged his journey.
• Benjamin boarded the interstellar passenger ship Voyager and studied its facilities, recognizing a coherent technological system based on gravity, spatial folding, and matter-energy conversion.
• During the months-long voyage, Benjamin explored colony worlds, ocean planets, deserts, and asteroid belts, confirming that the planets and galaxies were not backdrops or a small-scale illusion.
• On an unfamiliar planet, Benjamin considered the vast force suppressing the wizards and embedded in society, then resolved to observe, understand, and control its rules.