Recaps

Two End Apostles appeared outside the Plane Barrier, terrifying the Plant-folk and triggering the Octopus-folk’s full military response. As the fleet prepared to engage, one Apostle rapidly grew larger and raised its fist to strike the barrier.

• Two immense figures appeared beyond the Plane Barrier, causing the Plant-folk and Octopus-folk to freeze in fear.
• A technician reported that the two hostile units were End Apostles and ordered all personnel to prepare for battle.
• Three octopus-faced guards raced toward their transport ship as hundreds of warships and thousands of Octopus-folk warriors mobilized.
• The commander aboard the Iron Curtain received estimates that the targets were Level Six and Level Five.
• The second target rapidly increased in size, warped the surrounding space, and raised its fist as the commander ordered his forces to engage.

Benjamin and Viola discovered that a plane was occupied by the Multi-Race Alliance and decided to attack its outpost for valuable information. Benjamin forced open the Plane Barrier, but the fleet's massive synchronized barrage blasted him back out.

• Benjamin and Viola found octopus-folk warships enslaving the plane's Plant-folk and identified the fleet as part of the Multi-Race Alliance.
• Viola proposed attacking the outpost to capture its soldiers and obtain headquarters coordinates, with retreat as their fallback.
• Viola told Benjamin to open the Plane Barrier, and he used his Dual Dharma Manifestation to tear a continent-wide fissure through it.
• The octopus-folk commander ordered over ten thousand warships to fire on Benjamin as he entered the plane.
• The fleet's combined barrage struck Benjamin and blasted him bodily back out of the Plane Barrier.

Benjamin endured the Octopus-folk fleet’s attacks while forcing his way through the plane barrier, and his Body Tempering Method rapidly adapted to their weapons. The hidden level 7 and level 8 defenders remained concealed as he continued opening the rift.

• Viola laughed at Benjamin after a concentrated energy beam tore through his body, and Benjamin identified it as highly compressed energy from the fleet.
• Benjamin sensed tens of thousands of level 6 forces, over a hundred level 7 lifeforms, and eight level 8 lifeforms inside the plane; Viola chose to continue fighting.
• Benjamin rebuilt his Dual Dharma Manifestation and forced his way into the plane, while the Octopus-folk commander ordered the fleet to attack with space-annihilation missiles.
• The fleet struck Benjamin with a singularity oscillation cannon, dissociation force fields, and other weapons, but his defenses recovered and adapted to each attack.
• The Octopus-folk operators feared that Benjamin was an End Apostle as their weapons failed to stop him from widening the rift.
• Benjamin continued pressing through the barrier, planning to let the concealed defenders reveal themselves when the plane was opened.

Benjamin and Viola used his apparent assault on the Plane Barrier to distract the Octopus-folk while Viola infiltrated the Plane Origin and disrupted their control of it. With the threat of the plane's self-destruction checked, Benjamin entered the plane and revealed his true power inside the enemy fleet.

• Benjamin endured the Octopus-folk fleet's attacks while his Dharma Image appeared to force its way through the Plane Barrier.
• A hidden Level Eight Octopus-folk launched a nearly instantaneous transparent-thread attack, and Viola dissolved it with her Law of Pain Solidification Domain.
• Viola revealed that she had infiltrated part of the Plane Origin and seized enough authority to prevent the Octopus-folk from triggering the plane's self-destruction.
• Benjamin dispelled his enormous Dharma Image, entered the plane through the rift, and unfolded it again in the center of the Octopus-folk fleet.
• The fleet's detectors registered Benjamin's energy rising toward Level Seven as the commander aboard the flagship Iron Curtain stared at the golden giant in alarm.

Benjamin brought Nest and the Black Giant Legion into the battle against the Octopus-folk fleet, turning the fighting against their forces. The Octopus-folk commander and seven other Level Eight warriors moved to attack Benjamin, but Viola appeared to block them.

• The Octopus-folk commander ordered his troops to abandon long-range fire and charge Benjamin in close combat.
• Benjamin released Nest and deployed the Black Giant Legion from his Internal Grotto-Heaven.
• The Black Giants used Li-Fire Extinction Divine Light to break through the Octopus-folk formation and destroy warships.
• Nest absorbed the Octopus-folk attacks and held the front line, but could not damage the enemy itself.
• Eight Level Eight Octopus-folk, including the commander, lunged toward Benjamin, and Viola appeared before him with the Law of Pain.

Viola fought eight Level 8 Octopus-folk and grew stronger by absorbing their attacks and the commander’s fear, while the Nest and Black Giant Legion battled the Octopus-folk main force. Benjamin remained locked in a running fight against more than fifty Level 7 pursuers, unable to escape but still surviving their attacks.

• Eight Level 8 Octopus-folk coordinated their attacks against Viola, but her Law Solidification Domain absorbed and converted their energy into strength.
• Viola appeared behind one Octopus-folk and struck it with a spear of pain, then expanded her domain to overwhelm the group.
• The Octopus-folk commander recalled witnessing End Apostles capture his civilization’s Level 9 ancestor, and his fear and despair further empowered Viola.
• The Black Giant Legion used its Return to Void Armor and Li-Fire Extinction Divine Light to suppress the Octopus-folk Level 6 forces, while the Nest shielded Benjamin.
• Benjamin fled more than fifty Level 7 Octopus-folk, dodging attacks as his armor and Body Tempering Method helped him endure their fire.

Benjamin fought through the Octopus-folk fleet while studying its coordinated armor, weapons, and physiology for weaknesses. After days of evading more than fifty level-seven pursuers, he unveiled two new spells that disabled their armor and triggered an overwhelming response of physical disgust, leaving the battle at a turning point.

• Benjamin breached the Octopus-folk fleet’s perimeter, destroyed a frigate with a punch and Li-Fire Extinction Divine Light, and killed several warriors caught in the blast.
• Benjamin scanned the Octopus-folk’s armor, warships, and nervous systems, discovering their reliance on coordinated formations and the vulnerability of their ships’ energy accumulation.
• Benjamin evaded the fleet’s attacks and used data from a captured Octopus-folk corpse to develop two targeted spells with the Five-Skandha Rainbow Mirror and his Entropy Brain talent.
• After several days of pursuit, Benjamin turned to face more than fifty level-seven Octopus-folk and released a spell that stripped their armor coatings and disabled their shields and weapons.
• Benjamin cast a second spell that triggered intense physical disgust in the Octopus-folk, making some lose focus and curl up with their tentacles drooping.

Benjamin examined the devastated battlefield and discovered that the Plant-folk were intelligent colonies of tiny organisms whose bodies could imitate other lifeforms and produce life energy as basic metabolism. He preserved samples to help them recover, then learned that scouts had found an Octopus-folk factory that appeared to be their core facility on the plane.

• Viola took the eight unconscious Level Eight Octopus-folk for interrogation while Benjamin and the Black Giants began securing the plane.
• Benjamin surveyed the battlefield’s destruction and found that the fighting had killed many Plant-folk beneath the combat zone.
• Benjamin scanned a Plant-folk corpse and discovered its body was a collective of tiny, independently thinking organisms linked by neural connections.
• Benjamin determined that Plant-folk could adapt their forms by copying neural templates and that their valuable life energy was a byproduct of colony metabolism.
• Benjamin collected active neural ganglion samples to preserve the Plant-folk and considered relocating them to suitable planets.
• A Black Giant Priest reported that scouts had discovered what appeared to be the Octopus-folk’s core factory on the plane.

Benjamin led the Black Giant Priests into a captured factory and found an instrument that produced energy despite having no detectable energy source. He ordered the instrument and its supply chain dismantled and sent to the main laboratory’s highest-level sealed zone.

• Benjamin’s Level Six Black Giants destroyed the remaining self-regulating cannons and their silos around the factory.
• Benjamin reshaped the factory’s metal gate with Alchemy and entered after scanning the facility’s layout.
• Benjamin collected rare alloys and other finished materials from the production lines in his Internal Grotto-Heaven.
• Benjamin activated an unmarked instrument and watched it power an energy supply device without any detectable external input.
• Benjamin ordered Level Six priests to model and dismantle the instrument and its entire energy supply chain for secure transport to the main laboratory.

Benjamin discovered that an inconspicuous instrument carried by the Octopus-folk was a Level 9 creation, while Viola’s estimate of the vast Wizard Civilization forces on the main battlefield revealed the scale of the war. The chapter leaves Benjamin and Viola confronting the possibility that the Multi-Race Alliance has far more Level 9 beings and creations than they had believed.

• Viola reported that the Octopus-folk were a small unit and that interrogation had revealed the coordinates of a heavily defended Multi-Race Alliance stronghold.
• Benjamin showed Viola the dark-gray instrument, and she identified it as a Level 9 creation capable of creating something from nothing.
• Viola stopped mourning the instrument’s loss and considered Benjamin’s suggestion that the Multi-Race Alliance might possess many Level 9 lifeforms.
• Viola estimated that the Four Great Factions had over fifty million Level 8 Wizards and that more than twenty million could be deployed to the main battlefield.
• Viola explained that two Level 9 Wizard-led legions were fighting the Multi-Race Alliance, leading Benjamin to infer that the Alliance had many Level 9 beings and treated Level 9 creations as standard equipment.

After discovering that the plane’s plants were all part of a vast Native civilization, Benjamin and Viola finished clearing out Octopus-folk facilities and opened negotiations with the Plant-folk. The Plant-folk accepted Viola’s terms and became an affiliated race under her ownership.

• Benjamin told Viola that the plane’s Natives were Plant-folk, and Viola explained that their emotional auras filled the entire continent.
• Benjamin ordered the Black Giants and Tentacle Tree Civilization to search the plane for months, but they found no other Level 9 creation.
• After the cleanup, Benjamin and Viola traveled to a lush basin, where Viola announced that she owned the plane and called the Plant-folk to negotiate.
• A giant Plant-folk formed from the basin’s vegetation as Viola offered protection, resources, and technical support in exchange for taxes and service.
• The Plant-folk collectively weighed Viola’s terms and accepted them, while Benjamin lowered his hand from the Li-Fire Extinction Divine Light’s activation rune.

Benjamin returned from the plane war, cultivated Plant-folk neural tissue with the Creation System, and catalogued the knowledge and intelligence he had acquired. He learned that the Multi-Race Alliance called wizards “End Apostles,” but Viola withheld the explanation until he reached level six, leaving Benjamin determined to advance.

• Benjamin grew Plant-folk neural tissue in his laboratory and found that the Creation System greatly accelerated its cultivation.
• Benjamin organized the Plant-folk knowledge and reviewed the Octopus-folk techniques and the commander's limited intelligence about the Multi-Race Alliance.
• Benjamin discovered that the Multi-Race Alliance called wizards “End Apostles” and found that its terms for wizards, the Sapience Calamity, and the Reflected Dimension seemed related.
• Benjamin asked Viola about the term, but she said he would understand after reaching level six and fusing with Plane Origin.
• Benjamin concluded that the plane-war rewards could cover his debts and Creation System funding, and resolved to advance to level six.

Benjamin completed his advancement to Level 6 Wizard by forming a Law Solidification Domain, a miniature plane that projected his will into the material world. He tested its ability to impose his understanding of laws on nearby elements, transforming them into Spirit Energy.

• Benjamin began his advancement in the isolated chamber, focusing on the Spirit Energy Law thread and the embryonic Law Solidification Domain in his Spirit Sea.
• Benjamin realized that the domain imitated a plane, with his golden law thread acting as its Plane Origin and his Spirit Fire-tempered will driving its structure.
• Benjamin expanded the domain beyond his body, bringing the quiet chamber’s surroundings into his perception and smoothing elemental turbulence according to his rules.
• Benjamin stabilized the domain and completed his advancement to Level 6 Wizard.
• Benjamin drew an element into his palm and used the domain to transform it directly into Spirit Energy.

Benjamin stabilized his Law Solidification Domain, received his share of the payment for the Multi-Race Alliance stronghold intelligence, and used the Military Merit to repay Mentor Clark and purchase materials. He experimented with empowering Wizard Artifacts with his domain, discovered that the process did not weaken it, and reflected on how Level 6 wizards began to develop traits associated with Level 9.

• Benjamin stabilized his Law Solidification Domain by incorporating portions of his other laws as supporting structures around the Spirit Energy Law.
• Benjamin received fifty billion low-level Military Merit from Viola, repaid his remaining debt to Mentor Clark, and spent the rest on materials for the Creation System and Alchemy.
• Benjamin decided to test whether his Law Solidification Domain could empower Wizard Artifacts and purchased the necessary Alchemy materials.
• Benjamin refined a simple Wizard Artifact with his domain, creating an unstable miniature domain that would last about half a month.
• Benjamin found that empowering the Wizard Artifact had not reduced the range or strength of his own domain and reasoned that the domain's power, like thought, was not consumed through use.
• Benjamin concluded that Level 6 domains were early expressions of Level 9's traits of unlimited power and having one's wishes come true.

Benjamin resumed construction of the Creation System, then studied how his expanding Law Solidification Domain adapted and used that insight to develop permanently enhanced Wizard Artifacts. After several years of experiments, he succeeded and prepared to research new Rune Artifacts.

• Benjamin ordered construction of the Creation System's latter half to resume, prioritizing key zones and careful inspections over speed.
• After a month of overseeing construction, Benjamin examined his Law Solidification Domain and found it had grown to about a thousand meters in diameter while his mastery of the Spirit Energy Law increased by ten percent.
• Benjamin measured the domain's natural growth and discovered that its expanding boundaries and internal circulation optimized themselves, possibly because of the Body Tempering Method.
• Benjamin used the domain's adaptive circulation as a model for Alchemy experiments, gradually improving Wizard Artifacts until they operated stably for over a year.
• Benjamin isolated his latest Wizard Artifact and confirmed that its miniature Law Solidification Domain did not decay, allowing him to begin preparing research into new Rune Artifacts.

Benjamin completed his study of sixth-level knowledge, activated the Creation System, and began refining stars for the Celestial Star Array. The system's feedback strengthened his Spirit Energy Law and Law Solidification Domain, leaving him ready to attempt fusion with the Purgatory Sulfur Plane's Plane Origin.

• Benjamin bought sixth-level textbooks and research materials with Advanced Military Merit and spent more than a decade studying them.
• The Black Giant Priest told Benjamin that the Creation System was complete, and Benjamin watched its modules activate and connected it to the Level 7 Large Elemental Pool and the Incense Divinity Path.
• Benjamin uploaded his accumulated refinement data and used the Creation System to open a rift and refine a star, collecting Red Sun True Fire, Stellar Force, and artificial spirit materials.
• Benjamin ordered the Black Giant Priests and the Tentacle Tree Civilization to keep refining stars and collecting materials for the Celestial Star Array.
• After the first refinement cycle improved his Spirit Energy Law, Benjamin strengthened his Law Solidification Domain and concluded that he could attempt fusion with the Purgatory Sulfur Plane's Plane Origin using a plane-level array.

Benjamin studied how Wizards perceived planes after fusing with a Plane Origin, then asked Viola how to identify Wizard Civilization’s Origin Plane. Following her warning to keep his perception low, he prepared the Purgatory Sulfur Plane and began probing its Plane Origin.

• Benjamin searched Wizard Civilization’s public materials but found no explanation of how its Origin Plane could be distinguished from other planes.
• Benjamin asked Viola about the coordinate system’s initial point, and she told him the Origin Plane was conspicuous and needed no special marker.
• Viola warned Benjamin to lower his perception during his first Plane Origin fusion and said the Origin Plane would force its way into his perception.
• Benjamin activated the Purgatory Sulfur Plane’s magic array and deliberately suppressed his Law Solidification Domain.
• Benjamin used the plane magic array to slowly probe toward the Plane Origin.

Benjamin merged with the Purgatory Sulfur Plane’s origin and saw the expanding white light at the heart of Wizard Civilization, realizing that it was the true end that followed in the wizards’ wake. After asking Viola what it was, he learned it had been produced by an experiment conducted by a Level 9 Wizard.

• Benjamin suppressed his perception while merged with the Plane Origin and saw the vast white light surrounded by the moving planes of Wizard Civilization.
• Benjamin recognized that every plane, including the Purgatory Sulfur Plane, was moving away from the light, which expanded as it absorbed or annihilated everything in its path.
• Benjamin understood why other civilizations called wizards End Apostles: the wizards arrived before the light that would ultimately consume them.
• Benjamin ended his merged state, then messaged Viola to ask what the white light was.
• Viola told Benjamin that she did not know its precise nature but had heard from Grand Mentor Anton that a Level 9 Wizard’s experiment had produced it.

Benjamin searched the Endless Chaotic Void for unmarked planes within Noren Workshop’s permitted range and tried using fate-related knowledge to improve his chances. The attempt overloaded his mind, and his head exploded, though his body began rapidly regenerating.

• Benjamin suppressed his curiosity about the white light and fused with the Purgatory Sulfur Plane’s Plane Origin to search for unmarked planes.
• He calculated Noren Workshop’s search sector and spent several hours sweeping it without finding a plane.
• Benjamin activated the Fate System and the True-Delusion Breaking Pupil to seek clues about where an ownerless plane could be found.
• A torrent of information made Benjamin’s head explode and forced him to sever his fusion with the Plane Origin.
• Benjamin’s thousand-meter true form crashed into the meditation chamber, and its head began regenerating within moments.

Benjamin recovered from the severe soul and Spirit Sea injuries caused by using the Fate Law to search for planes, then told Clark and Viola what had happened. The chapter ended with Clark listening silently after Benjamin finished his account.

• Benjamin realized that using the Fate Law had flooded his consciousness with information from countless planes and damaged his Spirit Sea.
• Benjamin spent several years recovering, during which his cultivation and Law Solidification Domain nearly stalled.
• Ten years after the accident, Viola laughed at Benjamin’s exploding head during their routine communication.
• Clark asked Benjamin to explain how he had been injured, and Benjamin described the search for ownerless planes and his use of Fate knowledge.
• Clark listened without interruption, and the laboratory fell silent after Benjamin finished.

Clark rebuked Benjamin for recklessly using the Plane Origin to search a region, while Viola discovered that her changing emotions both weakened and restored her power. After the communication ended, Benjamin realized his near-fatal encounter had given him a faint grasp of the Fate Law, and he wondered whether he could repeat the process.

• Clark told Benjamin that he had underestimated the danger of the Fate Law and warned him to balance courage with reverence.
• Viola explained that her happiness had reduced her power, but the unhappiness caused by that loss restored it.
• Clark urged Viola to finish her Wizard Tower because her spiritual power was limiting her advancement after completing law deepening.
• After Clark ended the communication, Benjamin inspected his Spirit Sea and found a new, faint Fate Law golden thread on the Ring of Truth.
• Benjamin concluded that the information torrent, his Body Tempering Method, and the Dao-Integration Realm had turned part of his near-fatal experience into Fate Law knowledge, and he wondered what would happen if he endured it again.

After five hundred years of failed experiments, Benjamin perfected a new-generation Rune Artifact and broke through to a higher level of Alchemy capable of creating living tissue. He decided to focus his research on souls so he could eventually create life with a true soul.

• Benjamin found that minute energy blockages still spoiled his Rune Artifact and began refining it again.
• Benjamin trusted a subtle insight and made tiny rune adjustments that connected the artifact’s systems, completing it with improved energy efficiency and output.
• Benjamin realized that his Alchemy had reached a level capable of manipulating complex organic matter and creating life.
• Benjamin combined basic elements into living tissue, placed it in an Incubation Tank, and recorded its life parameters.
• Benjamin noted that the tissue still lacked a soul and decided to shift his research toward understanding souls.

After more than a thousand years of accumulation, Benjamin completed the Dual Dharma Manifestation and transformed into a five-hundred-kilometer true form. Back in the laboratory, he realized his immense presence threatened the places and materials he needed to work with, so he planned to consult the Great Dao Library for a solution.

• While researching the Temporary Animation Technique, Benjamin felt his Spirit Sea settle into a new breakthrough and went into cosmic space to unfold his Dual Dharma Manifestation.
• Benjamin’s accumulated knowledge and the Purgatory Sulfur Plane’s Plane Origin drew the plane’s elemental tides toward him as his Dharma Image solidified and absorbed his thousand-meter true form.
• Benjamin emerged as a five-hundred-kilometer entity with greatly increased power and a Law Solidification Domain spanning hundreds of thousands of kilometers.
• The Black Giant Priests and the Living Test Tube congratulated Benjamin when he returned to the main laboratory.
• Benjamin found that his presence made the continent and laboratory feel fragile and that his enlarged true form could no longer enter his world fragments without destroying their spatial structures.
• Benjamin decided to modify the laboratory and search the Great Dao Library for a method to manage his growing size.

Benjamin searched the Great Dao Library for a way to reduce his enormous true form enough to cross Plane Barriers, then found an Immortal-level art that could merge it with his Internal Grotto-Heaven and project a smaller body. He planned to begin cultivating the art’s first stage while continuing his experiments with advanced puppets as a temporary solution.

• Benjamin rejected clone and incarnation techniques because they would not compress the essence of his true form enough to solve his movement problems.
• Benjamin changed his search to rank condensation and existence projection, narrowing the Great Dao Library’s results to a single bookshelf.
• Benjamin found the Mustard Seed Dao-Containing True Body Art and learned that it used a Pocket Dimension to contain a Dharma Body and project a mortal-sized combat form.
• Benjamin discovered that the art could increase his combat power, enable extraordinary movement, and let parts of his body become intangible by sinking into the Pocket Dimension.
• Benjamin realized his Internal Grotto-Heaven could serve as the art’s required Pocket Dimension and decided to begin by merging his five-hundred-kilometer true form into it.

After a century of research and cultivation, Benjamin inspected the Dragon-kin civilization and found it thriving, then organized joint research to further optimize its bloodline. He continued his demanding studies and the first step of the Mustard Seed Dao-Containing True Body Art, which remained unfinished after a hundred years.

• Benjamin ended his soul-creation experiment and traveled to the Dragon-kin settlement planet after receiving a report.
• The Black Giant Priest told Benjamin that the Dragon-kin population and number of high-level individuals had grown, with no signs of dragon-blood degradation.
• Benjamin toured the city, saw the young Dragon-kin at their Academy, and confirmed that the civilization was developing steadily.
• Benjamin ordered the Dragon-kin and Tentacle Tree researchers to jointly test the next version of the bloodline optimization runes and share their data.
• Benjamin resumed his intensive daily studies and cultivation, having spent a hundred years on the difficult Dharma Image disintegration step of the Mustard Seed Dao-Containing True Body Art.