Recaps

Benjamin emerged from an immersive study of Reflected Dimension knowledge and discovered that more than ten years had passed. After catching up on the changes during his seclusion, he learned that Mentor Clark had emerged from his own seclusion and set out with Viola to visit him.

• Viola told Benjamin that he had ignored the outside world for more than ten years while studying, and explained that Reflected Dimension knowledge caused wizards to overlook the Main World's responses.
• Benjamin read Dean Avery Nite's message saying he had left with the Level 7 Wizards after completing the fourth search of the Tentacle Tree Plane.
• Benjamin learned that the Purgatory Sulfur Plane and Tentacle Tree Plane were steadily fusing, though their first stage would take about another century to complete.
• Benjamin learned that the Dragon-kin were adapting to the Purgatory Sulfur Plane and that some had taken recruitment tests for the Black Giant Legion.
• Benjamin read that new-generation Tentacle Trees had joined the research team studying the Godly Armament.
• Viola told Benjamin that Mentor Clark had finished his seclusion, and Benjamin asked her to go with him to visit their Mentor.

Benjamin and Viola visited Clark’s plane, where Benjamin’s Dao-Integration state resonated with Clark’s newly revealed law structures. Benjamin passively absorbed knowledge of numerous laws and brought his Ring of Truth close to forming a Law Solidification Domain.

• Benjamin and Viola arrived on Clark’s plane and saw its many powerful races living together across the plaza.
• A shadow girl led Benjamin and Viola to Clark’s laboratory, where Clark’s Level Seven law structures remained visible.
• Benjamin’s Dao-Integration state revealed Clark’s law manifestations, and their resonance caused Benjamin to absorb knowledge of numerous laws.
• Benjamin’s Spirit Sea transformed as his laws converged around the Ring of Truth and began forming a Law Solidification Domain.
• Clark explained the resonance to Viola and said Benjamin had passively gained more than ten times what she had from her advancement in the Law of Pain.
• Viola grew furious and envious after hearing how much Benjamin had gained in only a few minutes.

Benjamin paid Clark seven billion low-grade Military Merit for the law knowledge he absorbed during Clark’s advancement to Level 7, leaving him with a debt of twenty-three billion. As Starfall revealed that Benjamin’s extraordinary resistances had sparked a mix-up involving his Grand Mentor, Benjamin learned his reputation had spread among powerful wizards and promised to consider her first if he could someday share the knowledge.

• Benjamin transferred seven billion low-grade Military Merit to Clark, leaving an outstanding debt of twenty-three billion.
• Benjamin and Viola formally congratulated Clark on reaching Level 7, and Clark praised Benjamin’s learning efficiency while Viola wondered about his unusual state.
• Starfall and Anya arrived, and Anya told Benjamin that David had used rewards and resources from selling a discovered plane to advance to Level 6.
• Anya admitted she doubted she could reach Level 6 through her own ability, while Benjamin kept the source of his own advantages to himself.
• Starfall explained that Broadleaf had asked Benjamin’s Grand Mentor, Anton Buchanan, about the knowledge behind Benjamin’s resistance to dimensional disparity and wish-like abilities, causing a mix-up that spread his name among Level 7 Wizards.
• Starfall offered to pay for Benjamin’s resistance techniques and special learning state, and Benjamin said he would give her priority if a suitable opportunity arose.

Viola borrowed a laboratory from Starfall, and Clark explained to Benjamin how she used pain to strengthen herself. After Viola made Benjamin her new emotional anchor, Clark predicted that jealousy and rivalry with him would push her to find and conquer a plane.

• Starfall lent Viola an unused laboratory after Viola complained that she had nowhere to conduct research.
• Benjamin asked Clark why Viola seemed poor despite her long career and success selling potions.
• Clark revealed that Viola had found two planes but sold their coordinates for resources instead of conquering them.
• Clark explained that Viola’s expanded Law of Pain turned negative emotions into pain that strengthened her abilities.
• Clark told Benjamin that Viola had made him her new anchor, so rivalry and jealousy toward him would drive her to grow stronger and seek a plane of her own.

Benjamin told Clark he planned to build on Clark’s all-laws path while combining it with the Immortal Cultivation System, and Clark warned him about the time and resources required. After Clark dealt with an unseen anomaly in his laboratory, Benjamin returned to his own lab and focused on preparing to advance to Level 6.

• Benjamin said he wanted to follow Clark’s path, and Clark explained that studying all laws had taken him nearly a hundred thousand years of earning resources and conducting research.
• Benjamin resolved to draw on Clark’s all-laws path for the Wizard System while developing the Immortal Cultivation System through the Great Dao Library.
• As Benjamin was leaving, Clark sensed something above him and waved at it, but Benjamin’s True-Delusion Breaking Pupil revealed no visible target.
• Clark called the anomaly a little bug and told Benjamin to focus on reaching Level 6, and Benjamin left without asking further.
• Benjamin returned to his laboratory, reviewed his pending research, and decided that advancing to Level 6 came before his other plans.

Benjamin sought a new Incense Divinity Path subsystem to advance his mastery of the Spirit Energy Law, and realized the Tentacle Tree Plane’s vast star systems could provide the basis for it. He summoned Lu Li to begin relocating the Tentacle Tree people to star systems he had created.

• Benjamin decided he needed a new subsystem in the Incense Divinity Path to raise his mastery of the Spirit Energy Law beyond eighty percent.
• Benjamin recognized the Tentacle Tree Plane’s fifty billion stars as the inspiration for his next subsystem and began preparing experiments.
• Benjamin sold Liquid Adamantine and purified spirit energy to raise the funds for his work.
• Lu Li traveled to a hostile lava planet and saw Black Giants building a spell-array ring around its star.
• Benjamin told Lu Li that the Tentacle Tree people would be relocated from their sealed colonial systems to new star systems he had created.

Benjamin told Lu Li that some planets from the former Tentacle Tree Plane would be left behind and placed in new star systems, then demonstrated how he refined a star into compact material for creating new stars. Lu Li agreed to inform his people about the coming orbital changes, while Benjamin began marking coordinates for more than fifty billion stars.

• Benjamin explained that he planned to leave some planets behind and place them in suitable orbits around newly created stars.
• Lu Li asked what would happen to the original stars, and Benjamin said they would be refined into raw materials for the new ones.
• A Black Giant Priest reported that the refining array was installed, and the ring around the star closed.
• Benjamin activated the array, which refined the star until it shrank to a tiny speck while the planet's stabilization arrays corrected its orbit.
• Benjamin explained that the refined star had far less mass and could serve as material for new stars, and Lu Li bowed before leaving to inform his people.
• Benjamin reopened the light screen and marked coordinates for more than fifty billion stars.

Benjamin oversaw the Black Giants’ evacuation while extracting Sun True Fire and starlight power from a refined star. He planned to use the starlight power to build a Celestial Star Array that would make the Purgatory Sulfur Plane a formidable defensive stronghold.

• Benjamin arranged for the Black Giants to evacuate the lava planet in batches through temporary teleportation arrays.
• Benjamin examined the refined star, now a mass of Sun True Fire, and considered its uses.
• The Black Giant Priests operated the refinement array and drew silver starlight power out of the Sun True Fire.
• Benjamin identified the starlight power as the core material for constructing a Celestial Star Array on the Purgatory Sulfur Plane.
• Benjamin planned to create three hundred and sixty-five artificial stars as the array’s core, hoping the completed array could repel powerful intruders.

Benjamin calculated that his fifty billion stars would barely provide enough star power for the Celestial Star Array’s primary nodes, then began designing the Creation System to automate refinement. He finished simulating the subsystem’s plans but discovered that the enormous quantities of auxiliary materials required left him short on money again.

• Benjamin calculated that refining the Celestial Star Array’s 365 primary nodes would consume nearly all fifty billion stars, leaving its auxiliary stars unfilled.
• Benjamin ordered the Black Giant Priest to recover the Refinement Rings and prepare personnel to construct a new Incense Divinity Path subsystem.
• The Black Giants collected the Sun True Fire and star power, dismantled the Refinement Rings, and transported them back to the Purgatory Sulfur Continent.
• Benjamin named the new subsystem the Creation System and designed it to accelerate the creation and refinement of spiritual materials, including stars.
• Benjamin simulated the Creation System’s modules and found that its design worked, but the large quantities of auxiliary materials for the array nodes would cost an enormous amount.

Fifty years later, Benjamin tempered his body with Sun True Fire and reviewed the progress of the civilizations and research under his control. As Dragon-kin bloodline research showed promising results, he considered extracting a purer true Dragon bloodline once their population grew.

• Benjamin completed another round of body tempering with Sun True Fire, strengthening his resistance and energy absorption.
• A Black Giant Priest presented the selected Tentacle Tree Civilization researchers, and Benjamin assigned them to the next Godly Armament research teams.
• Benjamin reviewed decades of Dragon-kin bloodline rune research in the main laboratory.
• A Black Giant Priest reported that the Dragon-kin population had exceeded one thousand and that the new generation showed improved bloodline concentration and physical traits.
• Benjamin concluded that a larger Dragon-kin population could provide enough samples to pursue research into extracting a purer true Dragon bloodline.

Benjamin inspected the Creation System construction site, where shortages of materials threatened to stretch the project across two centuries, and reviewed his growing financial burden. After studying anomalous samples, he received a visit from David, whose newly stabilized Law Solidification Domain showed he had advanced to Level 6.

• Benjamin learned that the Creation System was about forty percent complete but would take nearly two hundred years to finish without more raw materials.
• Benjamin reviewed his finances and considered plane war missions as a way to earn the military merit needed for his projects.
• Benjamin returned to the laboratory and studied samples from the anomalous plane in a sealed facility outside the Plane Barrier.
• Benjamin received a communication request, completed his sample observations, and returned to his main laboratory.
• David arrived at Benjamin's laboratory with a newly stabilized Law Solidification Domain and greeted him.

David visited Benjamin with Irene, introduced her as his future wife, and invited Benjamin to their wedding. After they left, Benjamin reflected on how David had changed and returned to researching the Celestial Star Array.

• Benjamin welcomed David to his laboratory and noticed that his old friend seemed gentler than he remembered.
• David introduced Irene as his future wife and gave Benjamin a wedding invitation.
• Benjamin recognized that David had set aside his former ambition and chosen a steadier family life, though he felt regret about the change.
• Benjamin congratulated David and Irene, accepted the invitation, and promised to attend the wedding.
• After David and Irene left, Benjamin added choosing a wedding gift to his to-do list and resumed his research on the Celestial Star Array.

After ten years of studying the Celestial Star Array, Benjamin raised his control over the Spirit Energy Law to ninety percent and revised the Creation System’s construction plan to help him reach the final threshold. Remembering David’s wedding was a month away, he prepared an improved aptitude-enhancement technology as a gift and hoped David would like it.

• Benjamin realized that his research into the Celestial Star Array had raised his control over the Spirit Energy Law to ninety percent.
• Benjamin told the Black Giant Priest to prioritize basic Creation System modules, which could help him reach the level needed to form a Law Solidification Domain.
• Benjamin remembered that David’s wedding was a month away and decided to prepare a gift.
• Benjamin revised his Embryonic Aptitude Enhancement Technology to use spiritual fluctuations and temporary intelligence activation to raise an embryo’s aptitude to Level 10.
• Benjamin sealed the technology and its instructions in a Recording Crystal, wrapped it as a gift, and hoped David would like it.

Benjamin arrived at the Colmar Family’s ancestral plane for David’s wedding, where the family head and two Level 6 Wizards welcomed him with elaborate courtesy. After Benjamin entered the banquet hall, the three Colmar Wizards watched him leave and quietly considered what they thought of him.

• Benjamin arrived at the Colmar Family’s crowded teleportation plaza, where he sensed that the plane was home to ordinary mortals rather than combat forces.
• The Colmar family head received an encrypted report that Benjamin had defeated the Level 6 titled Wizard Illusion, and he and two other Level 6 Wizards recognized the threat his strength posed.
• The three Colmar Wizards sensed Benjamin’s arrival and concealed their alarm before greeting him warmly.
• Benjamin and the family head exchanged compliments, then the family head invited him to the banquet hall for tea and refreshments.
• After Benjamin entered the banquet hall, the family head and the two Level 6 Wizards watched him go and the family head asked what they thought of him.

Benjamin attended a lavish banquet on the Colmar Family’s core plane, where he judged the family’s veteran Level 6 Wizards to be weak and stagnant. He reunited with Augusta, apologized for neglecting her, and learned she was determined to surpass him.

• The Colmar patriarch and two Level 6 Wizards discussed how terrifying Benjamin’s tightly restrained power felt and regretted inviting him for such a minor matter.
• Benjamin assessed the three Colmar Wizards as weak, believing they had relied on resources to reach Level 6 and later given up on research.
• Benjamin entered the Colmar Family’s extravagant banquet venue and noticed it lacked even basic protective barriers.
• Augusta tried to sneak up on Benjamin, but he dodged her before recognizing his former classmate and comrade.
• Benjamin apologized to Augusta for never contacting her and invited her to visit his plane.
• Augusta praised Benjamin’s achievements, declared she would surpass him, and revealed an aura stronger than that of ordinary Level 5 Wizards.

At David’s wedding, Benjamin reunited with Augusta and learned that the lavish banquet was a power struggle within the Colmar Family, with guests choosing sides after David’s rise to Level 6. Benjamin and Augusta judged the political maneuvering boring and watched the celebration together in silence.

• Benjamin asked Augusta why she had come to the banquet, and she explained that she was strolling with her grandfather, Wizard Augusta.
• Benjamin greeted his martial uncle, Wizard Augusta, who praised Benjamin for his achievements and told him to enjoy the wedding.
• Augusta explained that the Colmar Family’s older Level 6 Wizards were vying for influence and that guests had come to choose sides after David’s advancement.
• Benjamin realized the Embryonic Aptitude Enhancement Technology he had given David could become part of the family’s resource negotiations.
• Benjamin and Augusta called the power struggle boring, clinked glasses of fruit juice, and watched the banquet in silence.

Benjamin attended David and Irene’s wedding, where he examined the Colmar Family’s factions and saw that David’s advancement had shifted their balance of power. As the guests gathered, Benjamin concluded that he would crush the opposing branch when negotiations began.

• David found Benjamin standing with Augusta and said Benjamin’s presence alone was enough to help him.
• Benjamin counted eleven Level 6 Wizards wearing the Colmar Family emblem, including the family head’s allies and their powerful partners.
• David explained that the family head’s branch had once been outnumbered, but David and Irene’s advancement gave it a seven-to-six advantage.
• Benjamin judged the assembled Wizards too weak to interest him and decided to crush the opposing branch during the negotiations.

At David’s wedding, a rival Colmar Family branch brought three hired Level 6 Wizards to intimidate his guests. Benjamin overwhelmed them with his aura, delivered David a wedding gift, and left the hired wizards fleeing; the rival branch’s plans were left in disarray.

• Three Level 6 Wizards from the rival Colmar branch prepared to pressure David’s guests, hiring a slime-shaped wizard, a lightning-elementalized wizard, and a berserker-dressed wizard.
• The rival branch entered the banquet hall with its hired wizards, who unleashed their auras toward David’s side.
• Benjamin released his aura and immobilized the guests, crushing the three hired wizards’ resistance as he walked past them.
• Benjamin gave David a Recording Crystal as a wedding gift, then returned to Augusta and withdrew his aura.
• The three hired wizards returned their payment and left through a teleportation array, refusing to continue the job.

Benjamin’s victory at the wedding banquet secured his branch’s advantage, while a conversation with Augusta Wizard challenged Benjamin’s judgments about other Wizards’ paths. Augusta Wizard’s guidance broadened Benjamin’s perspective and deepened his Dao-Integration state, leaving him grateful to his Martial Uncle.

• Benjamin returned to Augusta’s side after forcing the opposing branch’s outside helpers to retreat, giving his branch a decisive advantage in the upcoming negotiations.
• Augusta Wizard approached Benjamin and asked what he thought of the Level 6 Wizards gathered in the banquet hall.
• Benjamin said he understood their choices but believed their path was wrong, and Augusta Wizard compared their situation with Clark’s unconventional all-laws path.
• Augusta Wizard explained that retired Level 6 Wizards supported Wizard Civilization by managing territories, training apprentices, and maintaining its daily operations.
• Benjamin recognized that he had judged others by his own standards, and his Dao-Integration state grew more stable as he gained a broader understanding of the world.
• Benjamin bowed and thanked Augusta Wizard for his guidance.

After Augusta helped Benjamin understand why battlefield sixth-level wizards were far stronger than the published average, Benjamin realized he had mistaken elite fighters for ordinary ones. At David and Irene’s wedding, his gift of technology that could reliably raise a descendant’s aptitude to level ten astonished the guests and earned the Colmar Family’s gratitude.

• Augusta left after witnessing Benjamin’s immediate improvement, and her explanation changed how he viewed the retired sixth-level wizards at the banquet.
• Benjamin recognized that public sixth-level benchmarks reflected the broad population, while the wizards he had fought were battlefield elites.
• David revealed Benjamin’s gift: a technology that could raise an embryo’s soul and elemental affinity aptitude to level ten.
• The guests reacted with shock and envy, and the Colmar patriarch urged David to put away the Recording Crystal.
• David thanked Benjamin and embraced him, while Irene and the Colmar patriarch expressed their gratitude.

After leaving the Colmar Family wedding, Benjamin returned to his laboratory and calculated how the aptitude enhancement technology he had gifted could fund the Creation System. Purchase inquiries soon arrived, and he offered to sell the complete version as negotiations began.

• Benjamin arranged another meeting with Augusta, said goodbye to David, and teleported back to the Purgatory Sulfur Plane.
• Benjamin reviewed the wedding and concluded that selling the gifted technology could provide the initial construction funds for the Creation System.
• Benjamin assessed the technology's market, targeting low- and mid-tier wizard families and estimating a lasting income comparable to his Liquid Adamantine sales.
• Purchase inquiries began appearing on Benjamin's Magic Network Terminal almost as soon as he returned to the laboratory.
• A wizard asked whether Benjamin would sell the technology, and Benjamin replied that the complete version was available at a negotiable price.

After the Creation System came online, Benjamin weighed whether to delay his Level 6 breakthrough so he could fight more planar wars and earn resources. Bert Vera Augusta told him she was setting out alone to conquer a plane as her final test before Level 6, and her challenge prompted Benjamin to decide to fight another war; Viola then called him.

• Benjamin watched the Creation System activate and confirmed that his control over the Spirit Energy Law had reached one hundred percent, leaving him ready to break through to Level 6.
• Benjamin weighed advancing immediately against taking more planar warfare missions first to earn Military Merit and cover his debts and construction costs.
• Bert Vera Augusta told Benjamin that Wizard Augusta had given her an independent plane to conquer alone, and she planned to use the challenge to prepare for Level 6.
• Benjamin wished Bert Vera success, and they agreed to meet again after she conquered the plane.
• Benjamin decided to fight another planar war and started to check for missions, but Viola's communication request arrived first.

Viola asked Benjamin to lead an army in conquering a plane she intended to make the foundation of her Wizard Tower. Benjamin accepted the contract and began mobilizing the Tentacle Tree Civilization, leaving the Dragon-kin out of the war.

• Viola told Benjamin she had found a plane without any detected Level Six life and needed an army to occupy it while preserving its ecosystem.
• Viola explained that she wanted the plane as a permanent base for her research, production, and resource cultivation.
• Benjamin agreed to provide an army for five billion low-level Military Merit and a copy of the plane’s knowledge; Viola set the departure for one month later.
• After the call ended, Benjamin ruled out the destructive Black Giant Legion and chose the Tentacle Tree Civilization for the occupation campaign.
• Benjamin ordered all active Tentacle Tree legions to assemble and prepare for the Plane Conquest War, while deciding to keep the small Dragon-kin population out of the fighting.

Viola and Benjamin opened a passage from the Purgatory Sulfur Plane to a quiet, undeveloped plane, preparing the Tentacle Tree Civilization’s fleet to begin an expedition. Viola confirmed the destination was suitable for establishing a Wizard Tower and told Benjamin that her barrier breach would let his forces enter.

• A fleet of more than ten thousand Tentacle Tree Civilization warships assembled at the edge of the Purgatory Sulfur Plane, accompanied by Black Giant Priests.
• Viola arrived in battle attire, joined Benjamin in the main control room, and prepared to shift the plane toward her calculated coordinates.
• Viola used her Law Solidification Domain to lock the navigation coordinates while Benjamin activated the plane-scale formation and raised the Elemental Pool’s output.
• Benjamin tore open a massive rift in the Plane Barrier, revealing a quiet, green plane with no visible defenses.
• Viola approved of the destination and told Benjamin that his forces could enter once she opened the Plane Barrier on the other side.

Benjamin and Viola approached the young Purgatory Sulfur Plane, where Viola sensed an unexpected discovery beneath its barrier. As Octopus-folk guards oversaw Plant-folk harvesting life energy, they spotted two unidentified creatures breaking through the Plane Barrier.

• Viola synchronized the Law of Pain with the Plane Barrier to enter the plane quietly while Benjamin analyzed its structure.
• Viola sensed something beneath the barrier and shared her view with Benjamin, revealing Plant-folk collecting life energy under Octopus-folk supervision.
• Two Octopus-folk guards complained about their assignment and the Plant-folk's slow work as they watched over the harvest.
• An alarmed Octopus-folk rushed from the outpost and warned the guards that two unidentified creatures were breaking through the Plane Barrier.