Recaps

Benjamin tested the Five-Skandha Rainbow Mirror and decided to study how to reproduce its effects, then turned his attention to advancing to a Level 1 Formal Wizard and the Foundation Establishment Realm. He reviewed the requirements for Wizard advancement and compared the power of Wizard Apprentices with cultivators.

• Benjamin considered the Five-Skandha Rainbow Mirror’s escape ability powerful but risky, and resolved to research how to imitate it through Wizard methods.
• Benjamin returned to the Academy, recovered while nurturing the mirror, and realized he had time to plan his next steps.
• Benjamin focused on reaching Level 1 Formal Wizard and Foundation Establishment, noting that only five years remained before the new students went to the front lines.
• Benjamin reviewed how Wizard Apprentices needed sufficient mental power and an Advancement Potion to become Formal Wizards, and how lower-talent Apprentices relied on costly potions or rare treasures.
• Benjamin compared the systems and concluded that a seventh-level Qi Refining cultivator was roughly equal to a Level 3 Wizard Apprentice, while a Level 1 Formal Wizard matched or sometimes exceeded a Foundation Establishment cultivator.

Benjamin decided to study Potions Department and Alchemy to prepare for Foundation Establishment and reduce the risks of becoming an official wizard. As he combined wizarding potion studies with cultivation pill refinement, he deepened his understanding of materials and used it to improve his Rune Artifacts.

• Benjamin concluded that reaching Foundation Establishment before attempting to become an official wizard would help him withstand the advancement potion and improve his chances of success.
• Benjamin decided to study Potions Department and Alchemy, both to prepare for wizard advancement and to investigate ways to reduce the potion’s damage.
• Benjamin gathered Potions Department knowledge through the Academy’s Magic Network and practiced brewing basic potions, accepting the high cost of failed attempts.
• Benjamin studied pill refinement in the Great Dao Library, focusing on the properties of materials and the principles behind their interactions.
• Benjamin combined what he learned from potions and pill refinement to better understand materials and improve the stability, energy transmission, and efficiency of his Rune Artifacts.

Benjamin attempted to brew a Focus Potion in the Potions Department, but a flawed Moon Silver crystal triggered an explosion during the final fusion. He survived the blast and recorded the failure’s cause for further study.

• Benjamin prepared Glowgrass, Moon Silver, Nightglow Moss extract, and Flame Petals for the Focus Potion.
• Benjamin combined the ingredients in a heated crucible and used Analysis Art to monitor their unstable energy reaction.
• Benjamin added the Flame Petal powder, and an unground Moon Silver microcrystal triggered a violent purple explosion.
• Benjamin collected the potion residue and strange crystals, then documented the failed brew and the energy spike that caused it.

Benjamin spent five days absorbed in potion research before realizing his exhaustion and leaving the Potions Department. He encountered Amy, who was heading to an Alchemy Studies class, and watched her play a victim in a staged accident for the apprentices.

• Benjamin recorded lessons from his failed potion attempt and discovered that he had spent five days researching in the Potions Department.
• Benjamin gave his potion samples to the apprentices and left to rest, then met Amy carrying a box of gold.
• Amy invited Benjamin to help act as a plant in an Alchemy Studies class and showed him a silver-white piece of metal.
• Benjamin stayed to watch as two silver-white puppets dragged Amy past him, and Amy secretly winked before resuming her act.
• Benjamin called everyone an actor and staggered toward his laboratory.

After three years of studying potions and alchemy, Benjamin developed a Foundation Establishment potion and successfully advanced to Foundation Establishment. As he reached for a second dose, a mysterious force in his lower dantian stopped draining his power.

• Benjamin spent three years studying potions and alchemy while nurturing the Five-Skandha Rainbow Mirror.
• He refined a unique Foundation Establishment liquid using alchemy, potion-making, and Extraction Art.
• Benjamin swallowed the liquid and advanced to Foundation Establishment through his own cultivation, without using its medicinal power.
• After his breakthrough, the remaining potion energy and Benjamin's True Essence and mental power were pulled into a mysterious black hole in his lower dantian.
• Benjamin reached for a second Foundation Establishment potion, and the suction abruptly stopped when he touched its bottle.

After reaching the Foundation Establishment Realm, Benjamin discovered that his Inner Circulation Method had created a small internal space that could store objects and might eventually grow into a world. He then found that the space generated Spirit Energy on its own and began testing whether it created energy from nothing.

• Benjamin discovered a tiny, independent space in his lower dantian and realized his Inner Circulation Method had created it when he advanced to Foundation Establishment.
• Benjamin stored the Foundation Establishment Magic Potion in the space and tested storing and retrieving laboratory equipment.
• Benjamin noticed a wisp of Spirit Energy appear in the space, then confirmed another appeared after four hours of waiting.
• Benjamin sealed himself inside a formation that blocked energy exchange, stopped his cultivation and Inner Circulation, and waited for more Spirit Energy to appear.
• Benjamin pulled the newly formed Spirit Energy into his body and checked the detector, which showed a faint increase in the formation's total energy.

Benjamin investigated his Internal Space and confirmed that it generated Spirit Energy from nothing, then used his knowledge to explain how the foundations of the Wizard, technological, and Immortal Cultivation Worlds differed. He concluded that cultivation techniques should not work in the Wizard World, which left the source of his Spirit Energy unexplained.

• Benjamin used a Level Six wizard’s isolation system and repeated experiments to confirm that his Internal Space generated Spirit Energy from nothing.
• Benjamin recognized that the Cultivation World’s materialization of concepts and Spirit Energy itself were two other forms of creating something from nothing.
• Benjamin used the Great Dao Library to learn that Spirit Energy was the fundamental particle of the Immortal Cultivation World, while the Wizard World was built from elemental particles.
• Benjamin compared the particles of the three worlds and explained that cultivation techniques worked by decomposing matter and other forces into Spirit Energy.
• Benjamin concluded that refining essence into Spirit Energy should be impossible in the Wizard World because it contained no Spirit Energy.

Benjamin reflected on how Cultivation World’s cultivation methods created spirit energy from nothing and how that power had contributed to the world’s depletion. He then found that the Five-Skandha Rainbow Mirror had developed spirituality, completing his reconnaissance system and prompting him to advance his Rune Artifact production plans before the Noren Workshop test.

• Benjamin concluded that Great Dao Library’s Refining Essence into Qi method had built a converter that generated spirit energy within his body.
• Benjamin compared Cultivation World’s widespread creation of spirit energy with Wizard Civilization’s mastery of it by only nine Level 9 Wizards.
• Benjamin reasoned that immortal cultivators’ growing consumption of matter and energy had caused spirit energy depletion and likely led to Cultivation World’s destruction.
• Benjamin sensed that the Five-Skandha Rainbow Mirror had developed enough spirituality to function as an auxiliary intelligent brain.
• Benjamin decided to bring forward plans to mass-produce Rune Artifacts ahead of the Noren Workshop test.

Benjamin learned that Mentor Clark had assigned him to distribute aptitude-enhancement potion across a region, a straightforward mission intended to improve the population’s innate aptitude. The chapter explained how Wizard Civilization developed its planes and selected gifted people, leaving Benjamin preparing to carry out the task.

• Benjamin worried that Mentor Clark’s mission would again require him to serve as strategic reserves.
• Mentor Clark assigned Benjamin to distribute aptitude-enhancement potion across one region using equipment and a route provided by the Academy.
• The chapter explained that wizards spread diluted potion over their planes to gradually raise human aptitude and cultivate future talent.
• The chapter contrasted long-developed core planes with newer planes such as Noren Plane 13, where few people could yet cultivate the Meditation Method.
• The chapter described how Wizard Civilization prioritized High-Rank Wizards and kept the path to Transcendence closed to ordinary people with low aptitude.
• Benjamin accepted the system as one of its beneficiaries and had no objections to its treatment of the untalented.

Benjamin carried out an aptitude-modification potion dispersal task in his hometown and briefly visited his family before continuing his work. He left with little sorrow, recognizing that his life had moved far beyond theirs and that his path lay among the stars.

• Benjamin flew to the designated region and recognized its lord as the man who had sent him to Noren Academy.
• Benjamin realized Mentor Clark had arranged the task to give him a final chance to see his family before he might leave Noren Plane 13.
• After handling official business and exchanging academic knowledge with the lord, Benjamin traveled toward his hometown several days later.
• Benjamin found his parents surrounded by many younger siblings and learned that the family had grown prosperous through the subsidies tied to his Academy status.
• A local official informed Benjamin that one of his father's lovers had reported his return, and Benjamin understood how distant he had become from his family.
• Benjamin left his parents gold coins, returned to the airship, and continued dispersing the potion across the region.

After nine years of cultivation at Noren Academy No. 13, Benjamin joined the apprentices selected for Noren Workshop’s general assessment. He arrived at the Workshop’s vast headquarters alongside thousands of competitors, as Augusta and Horn also prepared to test themselves.

• Benjamin spent nine years consolidating his cultivation, tempering his Rune Artifact, refining the Five-Skandha Rainbow Mirror, and studying Magic Potions and pill refinement.
• Augusta arrived at Central Plaza, fixed her gaze on Benjamin, and resolved to face him again after years of developing her lightning sorcery.
• Horn appeared with a group of supporters and regarded Benjamin as a former opponent he had surpassed.
• Clark led the qualified apprentices and Academy mentors through the teleportation array to Noren Workshop’s headquarters.
• Benjamin arrived at the Workshop’s immense floating city, where elite apprentices from more than a hundred Academies gathered for the assessment.

Benjamin watched the apprentices gather for Noren Workshop’s general examination as the Level 10 geniuses from the top Noren Academies began arriving. David Colmar and Seraphina Nightshadow appeared from the First Noren Academy, followed by Kaelen Vania of the Second, while Benjamin assessed their abilities.

• The gathered apprentices displayed their Wizard Artifacts and sized up the competition before the arrival of the celebrated Level 10 geniuses drew everyone’s attention.
• David Colmar of the First Noren Academy entered with immense physical strength and openly showed disdain for the other apprentices.
• Seraphina Nightshadow appeared almost undetectably, and Benjamin noticed her concealment, mental infiltration, and apparent ability to sense danger.
• Three more figures arrived by teleportation, and Benjamin identified the refined, tome-carrying Kaelen Vania as a genius from the Second Noren Academy.

Benjamin watched the Level 10 geniuses arrive at the teleportation square and compared their talents with his own. As Victor voiced his confidence in Benjamin, a Level 7 Wizard governor stepped forward to address the crowd.

• Kaelen and Anya Starfall arrived, and Benjamin assessed their talents in runology, elemental arrays, summoning, and control over life and souls.
• Anya noticed Benjamin's unusual vitality, but Rex Magnus's arrival in alchemical powered armor drew her attention away.
• More Level 10 geniuses arrived, and Benjamin admired their abilities while Amy envied Anya's spirit entities and Victor felt the gap between himself and the elite.
• Victor turned to Benjamin, laughed, and called him the Alchemy Department's star, and Benjamin questioned how he had put it.
• A Level 7 Wizard governor stepped onto the platform and silenced the crowd.

The Archon announced that the apprentices would enter Eloria Plane to help break the stalemate between the Wizard vanguard and the native gods. He promised permanent ownership rights in the plane cluster according to each apprentice’s contribution, leaving Benjamin and the others stunned by the scale of the reward.

• The Archon introduced Eloria Plane and described its native peoples, faiths, and powerful gods.
• The Archon explained that the Wizard vanguard had reached a stalemate with Eloria’s gods, led by the seventh-rank God Above Gods.
• The Archon tasked the apprentices with aiding the invasion through any useful means and set a trial lasting no more than one year.
• The Archon announced that the apprentices would receive permanent ownership rights in Eloria Plane in proportion to their contributions.
• Amy and Victor reacted with disbelief and excitement, while Benjamin recognized the immense value of the plane cluster and considered the potential rewards.

Benjamin and the apprentices entered the Eloria Plane through a violent breach as Wizards clashed with the plane’s gods. Benjamin recognized that the Wizard phantom’s apparent defeat was staged to keep the gods from destroying the plane, and he landed safely in Eloria.

• The Archon ended the briefing and sent tens of thousands of apprentices through the teleportation array toward Eloria.
• Benjamin and the apprentices endured violent spatial turbulence as the Wizards forcibly tore open the plane’s sealed barriers.
• Benjamin saw more than a dozen divine phantoms battle a colossal Wizard phantom above the breach.
• The Wizard phantom appeared to fall, and the gods celebrated before their projections faded away.
• Benjamin slowed his fall with alchemy, landed safely, and realized the Wizard had faked its death to prevent the gods from destroying Eloria.

Benjamin adjusted his Rune Artifacts to Eloria Plane’s wild, active energy field and equipped himself with defenses adapted to the new world. As he prepared to scout the unfamiliar battlefield, a tremendous noise interrupted him.

• Benjamin surveyed Eloria Plane’s primeval forests and the wizard fortresses and divine kingdoms filling its war-torn sky.
• Benjamin used Alchemy and Analysis Art to study the plane’s energy and concluded that it made wizardry harder to cast but more powerful once released.
• Benjamin adjusted the rune structures in his Rune Artifacts to work with Eloria’s energy, using a modular design that let him adapt their core talisman Seals to each world.
• Benjamin recalled that he could also apply concepts from the technological world of his previous life to his Rune Artifacts.
• Benjamin armed himself with Rune Artifacts and switched his defensive wizardry to them, but a tremendous noise interrupted his attempt to scout.

Benjamin confronted a giant Magic Beast that pursued another Wizard Apprentice through the jungle and used his Rune Artifact bracer to overwhelm it with a sustained barrage of energy bullets. The beast staggered under the assault, but the fight was still underway.

• A fleeing Wizard Apprentice led a giant Magic Beast toward Benjamin, who chose to stand and fight.
• Benjamin activated the ten Rune Artifacts in his wrist bracer and unleashed a rapid stream of energy bullets.
• The energy bullets battered the beast's armor and drove it backward, leaving it struggling to attack or evade.

Benjamin tested the power of his Rune Artifacts in the Eloria Plane, then used a Glimmer Eye to survey the area and contacted Amy. He arranged to meet up with Amy and Victor before exploring the dangerous plane as a team.

• Benjamin blasted a giant beast with a Level 1 Wizard-grade energy bolt, killing it and causing a distant explosion when the bolt reached its range limit.
• Benjamin reflected that his Internal Space was too small to hold a Rune Artifact production line and the materials it required.
• Benjamin activated a Glimmer Eye and used the Eye of Investigation and Five-Skandha Rainbow Mirror to map the surrounding area and check for danger.
• Benjamin contacted Amy, who was relieved to hear he was safe.
• Benjamin prepared to find Amy and Victor, following their agreement to explore the Eloria Plane together.

Benjamin reunited with Amy and Victor in the dangerous Eloria Continent and led them to a hidden cave to plan their next steps. They decided to seek out the wizard main force and consider advancing to Level 1 Formal Wizards, but Amy had not brought her advancement potions.

• Benjamin learned that Amy and Victor had met up and hurried to their location after realizing his earlier projectile had caused the explosion that frightened them.
• Benjamin reunited with Amy and Victor in the forest, and they left the exposed area to find a safe place.
• The three found a hidden cave, dealt with its original owner, and discussed the dangers of the plane.
• Benjamin proposed finding the wizard main force and advancing to Level 1 Formal Wizards to improve their chances of survival.
• Amy said she had prepared advancement potions but had not brought them.

Benjamin, Amy, and Victor escaped the area near the plane breach and fought off a pack of Magic Beasts. After discovering an Orc-guarded shrine that served as an important node in the Eloria Plane’s native Power System, Benjamin proposed testing their skills there.

• Victor revealed that he had brought advancement potions in his Space Ring, though the group was still short one bottle.
• Benjamin urged Amy and Victor to leave the dangerous area near the breach before the Natives' army arrived, and they set out through the forest.
• The three detected a pack of clawed, six-legged Magic Beasts tracking them and chose to fight rather than take a detour.
• Victor killed several beasts with wind blades, Amy blasted others with fireballs, and Benjamin efficiently shot down the creatures attacking him with his Rune Artifact.
• Benjamin located an Orc-guarded shrine deep in the jungle and suggested that Amy and Victor test their skills there.

Benjamin, Amy, and Victor planned an assault on a small Orc shrine to gather intelligence, earn contribution points, and test their combat coordination. Using Benjamin’s reconnaissance, the trio infiltrated the shrine undetected and found ten Orc elites guarding it.

• Benjamin persuaded Victor and Amy that attacking the shrine was worth the risks because it could provide intelligence, contribution points, and combat experience.
• Amy revealed that she had a Level 5 Wizard Artifact capable of quickly searching a captured enemy’s soul, so Benjamin adjusted the plan to preserve an important target.
• Benjamin led the trio along a route that avoided every Orc patrol, using his Five-Skandha Rainbow Mirror to track their movements and energy.
• The trio reached the shrine’s core without being discovered and saw eight Orc warriors and two powerful Shamans patrolling it.

Benjamin, Amy, and Victor destroyed an Orc shrine and extracted intelligence from its Shaman before moving through the forest. They learned the region’s defenses and planned to head northeast to mislead the Orc pursuit and avoid the Wizard force’s southern landing site.

• Benjamin ambushed the Orc elites at the shrine, while Amy and Victor killed the survivors who tried to flee.
• Benjamin drained the shrine’s energy with special runes, causing its crystal to go dark and the shrine to collapse.
• Amy used a Wizard Artifact to extract the dying Shaman’s memories, then ended his suffering.
• Benjamin, Amy, and Victor practiced Orcish and the human common tongue as they traveled through the forest.
• The three learned that Orcs and elves divided control of the region and that the Wizard force was expected to land in the south.
• Benjamin and his companions chose to head northeast, leaving tracks to draw the Orc pursuit away from their route.

Benjamin, Amy, and Victor reached a remote wasteland after escaping the Orcs, where they learned how the Workshop tracked their achievements in the Eloria Plane. A seventh-level Fate Wizard scanned every Apprentice’s karma and fate to calculate contribution points, and the first leaderboard appeared in their minds.

• Benjamin and his companions misled the pursuing Orcs with false tracks, then flew toward a sparsely guarded wasteland and arrived five days later.
• Amy asked how the Workshop would record their deeds and calculate contribution points without equipment or access to the planar barrier.
• A rift opened in the sky, and a Wizard phantom fought the gods while a vast, silent fluctuation swept across the Eloria Plane.
• Benjamin, Amy, and Victor learned that a seventh-level Fate Wizard had scanned the Apprentices’ karma and actions to calculate their contribution points.
• The Workshop revealed a leaderboard of tens of thousands of Apprentices and announced that rankings would next be updated in one month.
• The Wizard phantom faked his death and vanished, prompting Benjamin, Amy, and Victor to remark on his convincing performance.

Benjamin’s rapid rise in the contribution rankings caught the attention of rival apprentices and Noren Workshop mentors. Meanwhile, he and his companions traveled toward the frontline, where Benjamin explained how Extraction Art let him brew potions from unfamiliar materials.

• Benjamin’s name surged into the rankings’ top ten, drawing competitive reactions from Augusta, David Stoneheart, Seraphina Nightshade, Kaelen Vania, Rex Magnus, and the mentors at Noren Workshop.
• Benjamin and his companions changed course toward the frontline, seeking richer resources, stronger Magic Beasts, and more Natives.
• Victor questioned whether unfamiliar materials and their lack of equipment would prevent the group from brewing Magic Potions.
• Amy said she and Benjamin had constructed the Wizardry Model for Extraction Art, making potion brewing straightforward once they knew a formula.
• Benjamin used Extraction Art to separate transparent mucus from a Magic Beast’s remains and explained how the art extracted needed elements from substances.

Benjamin, Amy, and Victor reached a remote wilderness hideout to advance to Level 1 Wizard, and Benjamin successfully formed his Ring of Truth. The resulting energy surge drew the attention of approaching Magic Beasts, leaving Amy and Victor preparing to defend the chamber.

• Benjamin explained how Extraction Art could obtain needed components from unfamiliar materials, and Amy described its use in preparing Magic Potions.
• Benjamin found a concealed underground fissure and transformed it into a secure chamber where the three could advance one at a time.
• Benjamin drank the advancement potion and used a Foundation Establishment potion to replenish himself, then began constructing his Ring of Truth.
• Benjamin linked his nine Truth Runes into a Ring of Truth and successfully advanced to Level 1 Wizard.
• The energy released by Benjamin’s advancement spread through the wilderness, attracting roaring creatures as Victor and Amy prepared for battle.