Chapter Summaries

Benjamin began constructing the Dao Soldier System on the Purgatory Sulfur Plane while studying guardian Dao soldier techniques in the Great Dao Library. By nightfall, he had begun connecting that knowledge with Longevity Elixir refining, biology, and Soul Studies.

• Benjamin received the gathered materials and announced the construction of the Dao Soldier System to the Black Giant Priests and Black Giants.
• Benjamin explained the first phase, and the Black Giant Priests led teams in building the system’s core hub across the plain.
• Benjamin returned to his laboratory and consulted the Great Dao Library for knowledge about the Dao Soldier System.
• Benjamin studied the General Treatise on Guardian Dao Soldiers and Beast Refinement Chapter, comparing their techniques with Longevity Elixir refining and his biological and soul research.
• Benjamin continued studying after dark as new connections formed among the different fields of knowledge.

After fifty years of study, Benjamin successfully refined a defective Longevity Elixir, though the breakthrough also transformed his Alchemy into Life Transmutation Art. He left the laboratory with the pill, eager to keep developing his new ability and improve his work.

• Benjamin used the Entropy Brain to organize his knowledge, then began refining the Longevity Elixir in a sealed laboratory.
• Benjamin combined the Longevity Flower, Soul-Gathering Grass, and seventeen biological functions, stabilizing a conflict between two functions with the Fate System and his spiritual power.
• Benjamin completed a defective Longevity Elixir that could extend its user's effects for three hundred years.
• The Alchemy model in Benjamin's Spirit Sea reorganized, advancing his Alchemy into Life Transmutation Art.
• Benjamin transformed an iron ingot into unstable flesh, realized his new ability could create living matter, and left the laboratory with the elixir stored in a container.

Benjamin discovered that Lunar Nectar could improve the aptitude of Dao Soldiers, but the Purgatory Sulfur Plane had no moon to provide Moonlight Essence. He hired a construction team to modify the Level 7 Large Elemental Pool into a moonlike light source and went to back up its core data before work began.

• Benjamin learned that the first phase of the Dao Soldier System was ninety-three percent complete and ordered the Black Giant Priests to continue.
• Benjamin found instructions for creating Lunar Nectar in the Great Dao Library and realized it required the concept of Moonlight Essence.
• Benjamin decided to make the projection of the Level 7 Large Elemental Pool appear only at night and simulate moonlight.
• Benjamin hired Alfred's formation team for eight million low-grade Military Merit and paid a three-million advance for the modification.
• Benjamin flew to the Elemental Pool's control formation to back up its core data before construction began.

Benjamin discovered that the Incense Divinity Path had gradually improved the Black Giant population by copying beneficial mutations, then inspected Alfred’s completed moon modification and collected a small amount of Moonlight Essence. He left with plans to use the insufficient harvest for other experiments.

• Benjamin compared Black Giants with an older template and found that their bodies had naturally evolved while their cores remained stable.
• Benjamin examined the Incubation Pool and concluded that the Incense Divinity Path had captured beneficial mutations and spread them through the population.
• Alfred told Benjamin that the moon modification was complete, and Benjamin approved the array after seeing the simulated moon appear at night.
• Benjamin activated the Moonlight Essence Collection Array and gathered a small, impure amount of Moonlight Essence.
• Benjamin paid Alfred five million low-grade Military Merit and returned to his laboratory to prepare other tests with the collected essence.

Benjamin tested Moonlight Essence on a Black Giant embryo and on himself, finding that it mildly cleansed the soul and accelerated hatching without obvious abnormalities. He ordered collection arrays built across the Purgatory Sulfur Plane and planned further experiments.

• Benjamin ordered a Black Giant Priest to bring him an unhatched level-three Black Giant embryo.
• He injected half the Moonlight Essence into the embryo’s incubation container and put it in a hatching simulation array.
• Benjamin consumed the remaining essence and found that it gently cleansed his soul but did not increase his cultivation.
• He ordered Black Giant Priests to build Moonlight Essence Collection Arrays around settlements and incorporate moon-gazing into their rituals.
• The embryo hatched about 30% faster than usual, and Benjamin’s examination found no obvious abnormalities beyond slightly enhanced spirituality.
• Benjamin recorded the preliminary results, sent the newborn Black Giant to find its tribe’s priest, and noted that more tests were needed.

Benjamin strengthened his body through daily tempering and reviewed experiments showing that Moonlight Essence improved the growth and quality of living plants. He left the medicinal bath to see another experiment that was ready.

• Benjamin endured intensified furnace hazards, adapted to them, and confirmed that his physical strength had reached Peak Level 6 while his resistances had improved.
• A Black Giant Priest gave Benjamin reports showing that Moonlight Essence modestly strengthened souls and substantially promoted the growth of animals, plants, and plant materials.
• Benjamin learned that Moonlight Essence could upgrade living low-grade materials, including Coldglow Grass, and realized it could reduce his research expenses.
• Another Black Giant Priest announced that an experiment was ready, and Benjamin dressed with Alchemy and went to see it.

Benjamin studied Mount Magma with a vast detection array and discovered that hidden structures in his energy circuits stabilized his soul, offering clues to how Black Giants might reach Level Seven. After Benjamin agreed to Avery Knight’s request to temporarily teach Alchemy Studies, he resumed the experiment.

• Benjamin brought Mount Magma to a rune-covered plain and had him sit within the detection array.
• Benjamin scanned Mount Magma, but his enormous body and powerful energy absorption limited the array’s penetration to the surface.
• Benjamin found that Mount Magma’s energy circuits included hidden structures that nourished and stabilized his soul.
• Benjamin deduced that soul stability was essential for Black Giants to reach Level Seven and recorded Mount Magma’s structures as a possible model.
• Avery Knight asked Benjamin to temporarily teach Alchemy Studies, and Benjamin agreed to begin in five days.
• Benjamin closed the terminal and told Mount Magma to continue the experiment.

Benjamin completed the Longevity Elixir and began teaching at Noren Academy No. 147, where he noticed an unusual concentration of Level 5 Wizards. Months later, an emergency meeting tasked him with reviewing recordings of a student whose runic discovery had marked him as a genius, while the reason for the Academy’s strange staffing remained unclear.

• Benjamin completed the Longevity Elixir, consumed it, and confirmed that it worked before remembering his appointment at Noren Academy No. 147.
• Benjamin observed that the Academy had many unusually weak Level 5 Wizards and met Seraphina, who said a specially appointed instructor had provided the graduates’ plane for their upcoming Plane War.
• Benjamin taught occasional Alchemy Studies classes for several months, while Dean Avery Knight did not answer his messages about the Academy’s unusual staffing.
• A Level 6 Wizard summoned the instructors to review a Runology student whose discovered runic structure could benefit Level 4 Wizards.
• The Level 6 Wizard assigned Benjamin to analyze the Academy’s recordings of the student’s behavior, and Benjamin told Seraphina that his mentor had heard of no recent trouble at the Workshop.

Benjamin’s proposal to activate a Level Two Training Agreement for the genius apprentice Arlin passed after Benjamin interrupted the secretive meeting to demand that the lights be turned on. Back on the Purgatory Sulfur Plane, Benjamin successfully refined Moonlight Essence into Lunar Nectar.

• The wizards completed their checks on Arlin and prepared to approve his Level Two Training Agreement, but Benjamin objected to holding the meeting in darkness until the lights were switched on.
• The Level 6 Wizard secured agreement to apply for Arlin’s training agreement and adjourned the meeting; Benjamin returned to the Purgatory Sulfur Plane.
• Benjamin entered the laboratory and began refining the accumulated Moonlight Essence with a special magic array.
• Benjamin purified and compressed the essence, then used prepared soul energy and the Lunar Nectar Forming Art to condense it.
• Benjamin confirmed that the refinement had succeeded and sealed the Lunar Nectar in a crystal vial.

Benjamin used Lunar Nectar to purify his soul and sharpen his perception of the Fate System. Viola told him to go to the Noren First Plane in five years, while Avery Knight confirmed that a major surprise was planned.

• Benjamin swallowed a drop of Lunar Nectar, spent a day in a brief-seeming trance, and emerged with a temporarily purer soul and keener perception of the Fate System.
• Benjamin stored the remaining two drops of Lunar Nectar for future testing.
• Viola contacted Benjamin and told him to travel to the Noren First Plane in five years, saying she and Mentor Clark would go too.
• Benjamin asked Avery Knight to arrange cover for his teaching duties, and Avery agreed that the Academy's other mentors would be back by then.
• Avery Knight confirmed he knew what would happen in five years but refused to explain, calling it a surprise.

Five years after completing the Dao Soldier System’s magic array, Benjamin traveled to Noren First Plane and found a vast gathering of high-level wizards at Noren Academy 1. Viola and Dean Avery Knight told Benjamin and David that the gathering was because of them, leaving both wizards shocked and confused.

• Benjamin finished calibrating the Dao Soldier System’s giant magic array but postponed refining a Dao Soldier to meet Viola.
• Benjamin arrived at Noren First Plane and sensed that countless powerful wizards had gathered there.
• Benjamin reached Noren Academy 1’s main square and found it filled with Level 6 and Level 7 wizards, with only him and David below Level 6.
• David joined Benjamin, and the two admitted they did not know why they had been summoned.
• Viola told Benjamin and David that the gathering was because of them, and Dean Avery Knight confirmed her claim.

Benjamin and David learned that a crisis involving an Illegal Wizard had led Wizard Civilization to discover a parallel Wizard Civilization and obtain its spatial coordinates. They learned that the other world likely lacked Level 9 Wizards and lagged behind their own, leaving the implications of the discovery unresolved.

• Avery Knight reminded Benjamin and David of the Sage who became an Illegal Wizard and opened a passage to summon a Destruction Demon God.
• Avery Knight explained that the summoned creature feared Wizards because its civilization had encountered another civilization that called itself Wizards, not because it had met their Wizard Civilization.
• Avery Knight revealed that his investigation confirmed contact with another Wizard Civilization and uncovered its spatial coordinates.
• Viola said this was the third parallel world Wizard Civilization had discovered, including one belonging to another civilization.
• Benjamin asked whether the parallel Wizard Civilization had Level 9 Wizards, and Avery Knight and Viola explained that Level 9 Wizards could converge their own probabilities, preventing counterparts from appearing.
• Avery Knight said their deductions suggested parallel Wizard worlds were generally more backward, and Benjamin concluded that the other civilization likely had no Level 9 Wizards.

Benjamin and David learned that Wizard Civilization was gathering to meet a parallel wizard civilization, mainly so wizards could seek their counterparts. Mentor Clark arrived looking unexpectedly young and handsome, and Wizard Noren began teleporting the assembled wizards to their destination.

• Avery Knight told Benjamin and David that the Star Ring Federation had organized a gathering involving all Four Great Factions, where the wizards would seek counterparts in the parallel civilization.
• Viola explained that a counterpart could become a highly compatible research partner, though finding one depended on the parallel world's scope and was unlikely for most wizards.
• Avery Knight said Benjamin and David would receive rewards for helping discover the parallel civilization, then David left after his mentor summoned him.
• Benjamin and Viola saw Clark arrive looking like a handsome young wizard, recognized him when he lifted Viola by the head, and noticed a plain bracelet on his wrist.
• Clark caught Benjamin and Viola gossiping about his reason for attending, but Wizard Noren and Grand Mentor Anton Buchanan appeared before he could respond.
• Wizard Noren declared that the group would set off, and his teleportation array transported everyone from the plaza.

Benjamin arrived with Clark and Viola at a massive gathering of Star Ring Federation wizards, where the combined spiritual pressure of high-level wizards nearly overwhelmed him. He discovered that he could use the pressure to strengthen his body and spiritual power as they prepared to travel to a parallel Wizard Civilization.

• Benjamin nearly collapsed under the gathered wizards’ spiritual pressure, and Clark and Viola helped him stand.
• Clark explained that the wizards had assembled before heading to a parallel Wizard Civilization and led Benjamin and Viola through the crowd.
• Several Level 7 Wizards greeted Clark and praised Benjamin, while Viola explained why some young wizards from Origin Plane lineages had come along.
• Benjamin learned that his body’s origins in Noren Plane 13 made finding a counterpart unlikely.
• Benjamin sent his spiritual power beyond Clark’s protection and used the pressure to train with the Body Tempering Method.

The four Great Factions connected their Ship Planes and transformed the merged space into a banquet for their wizards. Benjamin and Viola searched for Clark and discovered him sharing a warm, intimate moment with a Crimson Court wizard who wore a bracelet matching his.

• Felix announced that the Star Ring Federation's Ship Plane would connect with those of the other three Great Factions, and the four planes merged.
• The four factions' artificial intelligences transformed the joined Ship Planes into a lavish banquet and welcomed the wizards.
• Benjamin sampled food that restored his energy and healed injuries from his training.
• Benjamin and Viola slipped away to search for Clark, who had disappeared from the banquet.
• Benjamin and Viola found Clark speaking gently with a powerful Crimson Court Flesh Broodmother wizard.
• Benjamin identified the matching bracelets worn by Clark and the woman, and he and Viola watched them from behind a table.

Benjamin and Viola spied on Clark and Castillo, earning a painful beating before Castillo introduced herself and explained that she and Clark had once studied together. Castillo pulled Clark aside to talk, while Benjamin and Viola returned to the banquet, unsure whether their meddling had helped.

• Benjamin and Viola watched Clark speaking with Castillo and guessed that the two had a romantic history.
• Clark caught Benjamin and Viola spying and punished them until Castillo intervened.
• Castillo introduced herself to Benjamin and Viola and explained that she had left Noren Workshop to pursue the Crimson Court's path of transformation, while Clark had understood her choice.
• Castillo put an arm around Clark and led him to a private room, and Clark went with her despite his initial reluctance.
• Benjamin and Viola discussed their bruises and their attempt to help Clark and Castillo reconnect, then returned to the banquet.

After three days of feasting, Felix and the other artificial intelligences announced that the opposing side was ready, and the wizards prepared for battle. Benjamin, Viola, and Clark boarded the Star Ring Federation’s transformed flagship and faced the opposing wizard forces, whose numbers and strength appeared far weaker than their own.

• Felix and the other three artificial intelligences ended the banquet and announced that the battlefield was ready.
• Castillo told Benjamin and Viola to stay close to Clark before rejoining the Crimson Court’s combat formation.
• Clark led Benjamin and Viola into their formation, and the four factions’ Ship Planes transformed into colossal war machines.
• The Star Ring Federation’s Quantum Entanglement Flagship opened a rift into the Endless Chaotic Void, revealing the opposing fleet of ships assembled from planar fragments.
• Benjamin assessed the opposing wizards and found their Level 6 and Level 7 forces weaker and their Level 8 numbers extremely small.

Wizard Civilization confronted a vastly more powerful force from another parallel world after an enormous spatial rift opened beside its core plane. The two sides avoided an immediate battle and entered a palace to begin discussions about parallel worlds and exchange.

• Wizard Civilization recalled its high-ranking wizards and activated its final combat module as the sealed rift began to open.
• The rift revealed four war machines and overwhelming forces from the Four Great Factions, prompting many parallel-world wizards to flee or lose hope.
• Felix explained parallel worlds, counterparts, and exchange, and the factions invited the parallel-world Level 8 Wizards into a palace for talks.
• A parallel-world wizard tried to infect the Crimson Court representative with parasitic spores, but she reversed the attack and severed its arm.
• The parallel-world wizards entered the palace, and Benjamin and Viola were relieved that the encounter had not yet become a battle.

Benjamin received an analysis of the parallel Wizard Civilization, which had no Level 9 Wizards and had been worn down by constant war. Negotiations produced a plan to fuse the civilizations and pair counterparts in duels, leaving the wizards to prepare for the search beginning the next day.

• Benjamin reviewed intelligence showing that the parallel Wizard Civilization had no Level 9 Wizards and had endured generations of war against allied enemies.
• Felix announced that the Four Great Factions would not wage a war of extermination and would instead fully accept the parallel civilization through a Civilization Fusion Plan.
• Felix said that counterparts would fight one-on-one before the fusion, with each loser signing a soul contract to become the winner's research assistant.
• The Four Great Factions built a Duel Arena with equalized levels and abilities, while Benjamin watched and planned to learn from the battles.
• Felix announced that the search for counterparts would begin the next day, and the parallel world's wizards showed weariness and relief at the prospect of avoiding death in battle.

Over several months, parallel-world wizards embraced the Civilization Fusion Plan as Benjamin studied the duels between the two civilizations. A Level 8 battle ended with a parallel-world wizard accepting a cooperation contract, while his opponent discovered a new direction for his own Fate School research.

• Parallel-world wizards flocked to the Duel Arena after learning that the contracts offered food, resources, training, and eventual freedom, prompting Felix to grant temporary residency to those accepting the Civilization Fusion Plan.
• Benjamin watched months of battles and observed that parallel-world wizards had fiercer combat instincts but were outmatched by the present-world wizards’ superior knowledge and techniques.
• A parallel-world Level 8 wizard formed a black-hole shuttle and used Fate School knowledge to make it hit the Level 8 wizard from the Void Architecture Institute.
• The Void Architecture Institute wizard endured the attack and the parallel-world wizard’s further assaults, then said the encounter had shown him a possible path into Fate School knowledge.
• The parallel-world wizard admitted defeat, signed the prepared cooperation contract, and shook hands with the Void Architecture Institute wizard.