Recaps

As the two Wizard Civilizations began merging, Wald and other Supreme Council members secretly contacted the All-World Alliance to avoid being forced into contracts. Wald gave the Alliance intelligence about the Four Great Factions and provoked an invasion, caring only about escaping his counterpart.

• Wald gathered more than a dozen Supreme Council members in secret and told them he had found another way to resist the contracts.
• Wald revealed the coordinates of the All-World Alliance and opened a portal using a dark-red crystal.
• Wald told the Alliance that a stronger Wizard Civilization was merging with his civilization and that its defenses were vulnerable.
• The All-World Alliance leader ordered an expedition against the Four Great Factions and rallied its army in the name of justice.
• Wald watched the Alliance prepare to invade, knowing its talk of justice concealed its appetite for conquest.

Benjamin and the parallel-world wizards witnessed the All-World Alliance invade in overwhelming numbers, but the Four Great Factions treated the attackers as prey and calmly prepared their defenses. As the vanguard was held at the rift, Clark arrived, eager to fight.

• Benjamin received an alert that the spatial defense line had been breached and saw the All-World Alliance pour through a vast rift.
• The parallel-world wizards panicked at the millions of Level 8 Lifeforms and the immense tide of lower-level creatures.
• Level 8 Wizards from the Four Great Factions argued over who would attack first, viewing the invaders as resources rather than a threat.
• Felix and the other artificial intelligences ordered all units to follow the plan, and the Four Great Factions deployed their ships, defenses, and cannon fodder.
• Benjamin watched the vanguard get pinned at the rift, then Clark joined him and said the attackers would let him stretch his hands.

The All-World Alliance’s vanguard was overwhelmed by the Four Great Factions’ powerful cannon fodder, so its commanders committed their high-rank forces to an all-out attack. A black-robed infiltrator reported the plan to the wizards, who prepared to ambush the advancing enemy as Felix ordered them to fire.

• The All-World Alliance’s vanguard charged the Four Great Factions’ defensive line and was crushed by its stronger cannon fodder units.
• The Alliance’s commanders argued over how to respond until the black-robed man urged them to deploy all their high-rank combatants at once.
• The black-robed man revealed his Magic Network Terminal and reported that the enemy was launching an all-out attack with its high-rank forces.
• The Star Ring Federation’s Level 8 Wizards prepared to capture the approaching enemy, while the Four Great Factions’ weapons of war surged forward.
• The All-World Alliance assembled tens of millions of Level 8 combatants and advanced toward the wizards’ positions.
• Felix appeared aboard the Quantum Entanglement Flagship and ordered all units to fire when the enemy entered range.

Benjamin unleashed his Great Light Manifestation against the All-World Alliance’s advancing army, killing Level 6 and Level 7 creatures while using Fate School techniques to draw their remains into his Pocket Dimension. The Black Giant Legion consumed the spoils and began growing stronger, leaving Benjamin eager to collect more.

• Benjamin activated his Great Light Manifestation behind the flagship’s protective barrier and sent thousands of Li-Fire Extinction Divine Lights into the enemy army.
• Benjamin focused his attacks on Level 6 and Level 7 creatures, avoiding Level 8 targets that could withstand his beams.
• Benjamin used karmic threads to pull the remains of creatures he had killed into his Internal Grotto-Heaven and Pocket Dimension.
• The Black Giants devoured the incoming flesh, and several Level 5 Black Giants advanced to Level 6 while the Level 6 Black Giants grew stronger.
• A Level 6 Wizard questioned Benjamin’s collection of battle spoils, and the surrounding Wizards shifted their attack ranges to leave his targets to him.

The Four Great Factions overwhelmed the All-World Alliance’s armies, while Benjamin watched Mentor Clark erase enemies with an incomprehensible power. The Alliance’s commanders discovered their retreat and stronghold had been compromised, leaving them trapped as the wizards closed in.

• The Four Great Factions’ Level 8 Wizards tore through the enemy’s forces while lower-level wizards harvested the remaining creatures.
• Benjamin observed Mentor Clark silently erase approaching enemies, including a powerful Level 8 commander, but could not understand his method.
• The Black Giants devoured the fallen and grew stronger as Benjamin focused on the battle before him.
• The All-World Alliance’s command center learned its forces had suffered devastating losses and ordered a retreat, only to discover the rift and stronghold had been seized.
• The Orc commander recognized the Black-Robed Cultist as a wizard who had infiltrated their command and gathered their military plans.
• The disguised wizard restrained the Orc commander as the Four Great Factions’ Level 8 Wizards arrived, trapping the Alliance’s commanders and defectors.

Benjamin and the Wizards faced the arrival of Chi, the All-World Alliance’s Level 9 Chief, whose presence overwhelmed the battlefield. As the Alliance celebrated and the parallel-world Wizards despaired, Chi regarded the Four Great Factions’ Level 8 Wizards and remarked that they had caused quite a stir.

• An immense pressure crushed Benjamin, the Alliance creatures, and many Wizards until Clark and the other Level 8 Wizards shielded them.
• A silhouette appeared in the spatial rift, and Benjamin recognized it as a Level 9.
• The All-World Alliance rejoiced at its Chief’s arrival while the parallel-world Wizards fell into despair.
• Chi’s presence nearly pulled Benjamin’s consciousness toward it, so Clark warned him not to look at Chi’s true form.
• Chi surveyed the battlefield, focused on the Four Great Factions’ Level 8 Wizards, and said they had been causing quite a stir.

The All-World Alliance leader offered to absorb the Four Great Factions, but their Level 8 Wizards revealed they had come to claim him as spoils. The Crimson Court took the lead in attacking the Level 9 being, while the other factions fought over who would get a share.

• The All-World Alliance leader offered the parallel-world wizards a place in the alliance, silenced Wald, and drew objections from commanders worried about the newcomers’ strength.
• The Four Great Factions’ Level 8 Wizards abruptly fought among themselves, leaving the parallel-world wizards to believe their civilization was doomed.
• A Star Ring Federation wizard explained that the factions were fighting over the Level 9 leader as spoils, and a Crimson Court wizard won the first approach.
• The leader used [World Modification] to erase the region around the approaching wizards, but the spell had no effect on them.
• The Crimson Court wizard judged the leader a low-grade Level 9, sent three wizards to suppress him, and ordered the rest to block rival factions, starting another melee.

The Crimson Court’s four Level 8 Wizards overwhelmed Chi, the All-World Alliance’s Level 9 leader, by resisting Chi’s World Modification and outmatching Chi’s short-term power. As Chi’s form began to collapse, Benjamin asked Clark how long Chi could hold on, and Clark said, “Not long.”

• Chi’s World Modification failed to affect the four Level 8 Wizards, who attacked with blood dragons that consumed Chi’s energy barrier.
• The four wizards coordinated their attacks and exploited the limit on how much power Chi could unleash at once, gaining the advantage.
• The stunned Alliance commanders rallied to aid Chi, while the Crimson Court’s forces intercepted them and the other faction wizards fought over a chance to join the battle.
• The four Level 8 Wizards fused their blood dragons into a powerful strike that destabilized Chi’s form and left Chi visibly afraid.
• Benjamin asked Clark how much longer Chi could hold on, and Clark answered that it would not be long.

The leader sacrificed the All-World Alliance to summon the God of Chaos, a second Level 9 being, hoping to turn the battle around. The Four Great Factions instead attacked the newly awakened creature and surrounded the weakened leader, while Benjamin judged their gathering a success.

• The leader activated a blood rune that sacrificed the All-World Alliance’s creatures and planes to fuel a summoning ritual.
• The ritual summoned the God of Chaos, and Wizards from the Four Great Factions reacted with greed while arguing over who would claim it.
• The Four Great Factions’ Wizards revealed they had been holding back and unleashed a full-power assault on the God of Chaos.
• The leader realized the Wizards had used his sacrifice to summon their target and tried to flee, but Wizards from the other three factions surrounded him.
• Benjamin watched the God of Chaos being battered and the leader being attacked by more than a hundred Level 8 Wizards, then concluded the gathering had succeeded.

After the Wizard Alliance captured the God of Chaos and the All-World Alliance leader, the parallel-world Wizard Civilization joined the alliance, and Benjamin and David received major rewards for their contributions. Benjamin returned to the Purgatory Sulfur Plane, saw how much his Black Giant Legion had advanced, and began preparing the plane for fusion with the ten planes he had chosen.

• The Crimson Court's Level 8 Wizards captured the God of Chaos, while Wizards from the remaining great factions bound the All-World Alliance leader and took him away for research.
• The parallel-world Wizard Civilization joined the Wizard Alliance, and its Wizards eagerly signed contracts and sought knowledge and resources from their counterparts.
• The Four Great Factions awarded David 12 billion Advanced Military Merit and ten planes, and awarded Benjamin 15 billion Advanced Military Merit, ten planes, and unrestricted access to the parallel world's Core Database.
• Benjamin signed the ownership documents for his ten planes and returned to the Purgatory Sulfur Plane, where he found that many of his Black Giants had advanced to Level 6.
• Felix told Benjamin that the residents of his selected planes had been relocated and that plane fusion would begin within half a year, after preliminary preparations.
• Benjamin ordered the Black Giant Priests to gather materials and begin constructing the required arrays and energy circuits across the Purgatory Sulfur Plane.

Ten years after Benjamin brought back ten planes, they had been fused with the Purgatory Sulfur Plane, expanding it enough to qualify as a medium plane. With pollution and depleted resources still requiring attention, Benjamin began preparing to enlarge the Black Giant population by upgrading the Incubation Pool.

• Benjamin inspected the fused planes and learned that the Purgatory Sulfur Plane had expanded more than twentyfold and could advance to a medium plane.
• A Black Giant Priest reported that the ten planes had been stripped of resources and heavily polluted, though their Plane Origins remained intact and their habitable regions had greatly increased.
• Benjamin ordered preparations to expand the Black Giant population and gave the Black Giant Priest research that could improve newborns' innate foundations by thirty percent.
• The Black Giant Priest hurried off to gather materials while Benjamin went to the Incubation Pool, where workers were dismantling old tanks and preparing new ones.

Benjamin completed an Incubation Pool that used Moonlight Essence to create a stronger, more intelligent generation of Black Giants. He then used the Incense Divinity Path to evolve more than ten billion older Black Giants and ordered Incubation Pools distributed among the eleven tribes.

• Benjamin activated the modified Incubation Pool, and a new-generation Black Giant emerged with stronger abilities, improved energy absorption, and doubled soul strength.
• Benjamin connected to every Black Giant through the Incense Divinity Path and used accumulated Incense Divine Power to bestow the new generation's racial traits on them.
• After a day and night, more than ten billion Black Giants had evolved, leaving Benjamin exhausted and the Incense Divine Power reserves nearly depleted.
• Benjamin marked the eleven tribes' territories on a map and ordered another Incubation Pool built, with pools installed across the tribes.
• Benjamin told the tribal leaders to concentrate new-generation hatching after each full-moon night.

Benjamin refined his first dao soldier from Adamantine, a damaged Level Six Black Giant core, and Incense Divine Power, then used Lunar Nectar to grant it spirituality. Testing showed it could inherit Black Giant abilities, resurrect through the Incense Divinity Path, and cultivate independently, leaving Benjamin with a powerful soldier capable of growing stronger on its own.

• Benjamin chose Adamantine for the dao soldier’s body and inscribed it with arrays modeled on Mount Magma’s structure and Black Giant talents.
• Benjamin used the Dao Soldier System and accumulated Incense Divine Power to fuse the Adamantine body with a damaged Level Six Black Giant core and its remnant soul.
• Benjamin infused the completed dao soldier with Lunar Nectar, awakening its spirituality; it called him Master and knelt before him.
• Benjamin tested the dao soldier’s strength, attacks, defenses, inherited talents, and ability to regenerate a severed arm.
• Benjamin had the dao soldier destroy its own core, and it reformed through the Incense Divinity Path network after consuming Incense Divine Power.
• Benjamin gave the dao soldier access to parts of his authority and taught it the Body Tempering Method, which it began practicing consciously.

After a century of research, Benjamin completed a Dao Soldier and learned that a Space Teleportation Array could let enhanced Black Giants return from battle, creating an army that could continually rejoin the fight. He realized his cultivation had reached a Spirit Transformation bottleneck caused by limited comprehension, but trusted that the Immortal Cultivation World’s predecessors had found another path for him.

• Benjamin inspected a newly completed Dao Soldier and reflected that he had only produced ten in a century because Lunar Nectar was scarce.
• A Black Giant Priest reported that the Space Teleportation Array linking Benjamin’s Pocket Dimension to the Purgatory Sulfur Plane had been installed and tested.
• Benjamin recognized that the Dao Soldier System and near-death teleportation could let Black Giants repeatedly return to battle and restore his army’s strength.
• Benjamin examined his laws and concluded that his inability to advance in Dao research came from a limit in his comprehension, not a lack of knowledge or resources.
• Benjamin identified this as the true bottleneck of the Spirit Transformation Stage and accepted that he was not a peerless genius.
• Benjamin looked toward the grayish-red sky and said the predecessors of the Immortal Cultivation World had already found a new path for him.

Benjamin studied the Void Refinement Realm and learned how it prepared cultivators to survive Dao-Integration without losing themselves to Dao Assimilation. He realized his Five-Skandha Rainbow Mirror and God of Light Transformation had already laid the groundwork for his own advancement.

• Benjamin reviewed a text explaining that comprehension shaped personality and that permanently altering it could change a person.
• Benjamin learned that Dao-Integration let cultivators follow the Great Dao by instinct but risked Dao Assimilation, which could erase their consciousness.
• Benjamin read that sages had created the Void Refinement Realm to transform cultivators in advance and improve their chances of surviving Dao-Integration.
• Benjamin recognized that Dao Assimilation resembled the Fungus Lord's assimilation with the rules in the Triangle Plane Cluster.
• Benjamin examined his Five-Skandha Rainbow Mirror and realized its Light Transformation ability had repeatedly trained him to enter an information state.
• Benjamin concluded that God of Light Transformation was already a preliminary rehearsal for the Void Refinement Realm.

Benjamin completed the Five-Skandha Rainbow Mirror’s third refinement, increasing its spirituality and improving his transformation abilities. He confirmed the mirror could once again grow through Mortal Aura, leaving him with a path to further strengthen it before his planned breakthrough.

• Benjamin reviewed his records and gathered substitutes for the rare materials needed to refine the Five-Skandha Rainbow Mirror.
• Benjamin used Spiritual Divine Light, Energy Crystals, Purple Qi of the East, and Lunar Nectar to complete the mirror’s third refinement.
• Benjamin tested the upgraded mirror and found that God of Light Transformation activated instantly, while Silence Form activated faster and lasted longer.
• Benjamin fed Mortal Aura to the mirror and confirmed that its spirituality could grow further.

After completing the Five-Skandha Rainbow Mirror’s third refinement, Benjamin prepared to advance to the Void Refinement Realm and chose the Self-Aspect Freedom True Form Scripture as his cultivation technique. He left the refining chamber resolved to enter seclusion.

• Benjamin studied the Void Refinement Realm and concluded that his Incense Divinity Path and Five-Skandha Rainbow Mirror would help protect him from the inner demon tribulation.
• Benjamin ordered soul-purifying Magic Potions from the Star Ring Federation and planned to develop Wizard-made potions to support his transformation.
• Benjamin weighed natal Dharma Images against fixed ones and chose a natal Dharma Image for its compatibility and lower risk.
• Benjamin selected the Self-Aspect Freedom True Form Scripture because it required fewer pills and let him focus on cultivation.
• Benjamin left the refining chamber, saw construction of the new Incubation Pool nearing completion, and prepared to enter seclusion.

After more than a decade of preparation, Benjamin completed his breakthrough and formed his Life-Bound Dharma Body, the Self-Aspect Freedom True Form. He left seclusion as a Void Refinement Realm cultivator, greeted by the kneeling Black Giant Priests.

• Benjamin spent years studying the Self-Aspect Freedom True Form Scripture, adapting its pills into Magic Potions, and preparing for his breakthrough.
• Benjamin activated the technique, dispersed his essence, qi, and spirit, and endured heart demons that the Incense Divinity Path and Five-Skandha Rainbow Mirror repelled.
• Benjamin guided his dispersed essence, qi, and spirit into a new Dharma Body that took the form of a hundred-meter-tall, two-faced figure holding a book and a mirror.
• Benjamin recognized his new Dharma Body as the Self-Aspect Freedom True Form and understood that, as it solidified, it would become his true form.
• Benjamin rose from seclusion as a Void Refinement Realm cultivator, and the Black Giant Priests knelt to congratulate him.

More than a decade after Benjamin began modifying the Nest, Viola visited his laboratory and discovered that he had entered the Fate School. Their reunion ended in a playful fight, and Benjamin reflected on Viola’s remarkable talent for the Law of Pain.

• Benjamin completed a seven-day surgery that modified the Nest with new energy circuits.
• Viola told Benjamin she had come to visit while her Mentor accompanied Starfall, an awakened Living Plane newly participating in a planar war.
• Viola sensed that someone had touched her Fate Line and learned that Benjamin had entered the Fate School while still Level 5.
• Viola bit Benjamin on the head in anger over his achievement, and he dragged her around the laboratory before pulling free.
• Benjamin considered how Viola had mastered the Law of Pain through her own insight and recognized her as a true genius.

Benjamin asked Viola to help improve the Nest so it could use Information Being abilities. Viola redesigned the plan, and Benjamin prepared to carry out the modification under her guidance.

• Viola warned Benjamin not to tell Instructor Clark that he had learned the Fate School basics, then agreed to help modify the Nest.
• Benjamin explained that he wanted the Nest to use information-state conversion so it could revive as long as one node remained.
• Benjamin offered Viola an Entropy Brain as payment, and she accepted the deal.
• Viola moved the conversion nodes into the Nest's core and revised its energy circuits, creating a plan she said would increase its combat power by at least forty percent.
• Benjamin declined Viola's offer to do the modification herself, and Viola sat down to guide him as he began.

Benjamin and Viola completed and tested the nest’s redesign, turning it into a rapidly growing, self-replicating battlefield shield before Benjamin stored it in his Pocket Dimension. Decades later, Benjamin emerged from secluded cultivation having completed Void Refinement, with only the fusion of his true form and dharma body left before he could reach Dao-Integration.

• Benjamin and Viola repeatedly revised the nest’s design over several months, then confirmed that the finished modifications matched their plans.
• Benjamin and Viola tested the nest in a desert, where it devoured sand and energy, grew to about one and a half kilometers across, and reached Level 3 combat power.
• Benjamin drew the nest into his Internal Grotto-Heaven, and he and Viola rested; before leaving, Viola demanded payment and Benjamin gave her an Entropy Brain.
• Decades later, Benjamin emerged from secluded cultivation and assessed that his dharma body had nearly solidified into physical form, completing Void Refinement.
• Benjamin reflected that fusing his true form with his dharma body remained the final step before perfecting Void Refinement and becoming able to break through to Dao-Integration.

Benjamin’s soul developed an ability to automatically organize new knowledge, freeing his remaining Entropy Brains for trade and bringing his assets to roughly thirty billion Advanced Military Merits. He used potions and the Self-Aspect Freedom True Form Scripture to advance to Perfected Void Refinement, making his thousand-meter-tall Dharma body his true body and discovering his transformed senses and power.

• Benjamin’s Body Tempering Method evolved his soul so it continuously organized newly learned knowledge without an Entropy Brain.
• Benjamin valued his remaining Entropy Brains and other assets at roughly thirty billion Advanced Military Merits, then searched the Great Dao Library for materials to advance his cultivation.
• Benjamin spent ten months preparing magic potions from Wizard World techniques and Cultivation World pill theory, then drank the final potion in his specially built chamber.
• Benjamin circulated the final transformation formula as essence, qi, and spirit flowed into his Dharma body, while his original body became insubstantial.
• Benjamin’s original body vanished as his Dharma body became his true body, and he gained 360-degree vision and heightened perception of energy and waves.
• Benjamin absorbed much of the chamber’s elemental energy in a single breath and found his thousand-meter body cramped in the chamber.

Benjamin completed his transformation from a Dharma Body into a true form, expanding his Internal Grotto-Heaven and gaining new innate abilities. After testing his power and adopting a normal-sized body, he left the sealed chamber and prepared to pursue the Dao-Integration Realm.

• Benjamin's Inner Circulation accelerated, causing his Internal Grotto-Heaven to expand as the Incense Divinity Path supplied the Spiritual Power it consumed.
• After fifteen days, Benjamin's Internal Grotto-Heaven stabilized at more than ten times its former area and began generating enough Spirit Energy to refill his Spiritual Power in a quarter of an hour.
• Benjamin discovered that Inner Circulation and the Body Tempering Method had become innate, mutually reinforcing abilities, and that his body had begun generating a small amount of Spirit Energy.
• Benjamin tested his true form and found that he could compress and manipulate space with precise control.
• Benjamin shifted from his kilometer-tall Dark Gold form into a normal-sized body, confirmed it worked well, and left the sealed chamber to plan his advance toward the Dao-Integration Realm.

Benjamin studied the danger of Dao Assimilation and sought rule-fused creatures for research into safer Dao-Integration in the Wizard World. He ended his rest early and secured a place in a Level 8 Wizard’s mission to handle a planar rule anomaly.

• Benjamin reviewed Dao Assimilation’s risks and concluded that methods developed in the Cultivation World might not work unchanged in the Wizard World.
• Benjamin ended his rest period and searched the Elite Combat Unit Recruitment System for missions involving rule-fused creatures.
• Benjamin learned how the recruitment system developed and why the Spirit Awakening Technique’s Level One Training Agreement brought many high-ranking wizards out of seclusion.
• After hours of refreshing the system, Benjamin found a private bounty from Level 8 Wizard Alston involving rule-bound creatures in a plane and a damaged Miniature Glass Garden.
• Benjamin applied immediately and won one of the mission’s 1,000 slots, then left his laboratory to prepare.

Benjamin arrived at the Miniature Glass Garden to join Alston’s mission to find and resolve the Eeries that had infected the plane. Alston imposed strict limits on destruction, civilian casualties, and spell output, then opened the mission to teams and individuals.

• Benjamin teleported to the Miniature Glass Garden and saw that most of the other arriving wizards were Level 6 or higher.
• Alston appeared on the platform and warned the wizards to protect his carefully cultivated plane.
• Alston explained that Eeries, strange living diseased rules from another plane, had entered the garden through a breach and needed to be resolved.
• Alston offered the Eeries as spoils and access to their plane for further research, but forbade large-scale damage and civilian deaths.
• Alston restricted every spell’s output to no more than Level 3, sent the wizards maps with suspected Eerie locations, and began the mission.
• The wizards dispersed to form teams, travel alone, or study their maps.