Chapter Summaries

Wizard Broadleaf offered the awakened dragon Shuoyuan a research partnership, but Shuoyuan rejected the proposal and realized the group was made up of wizards. His fear and anger revealed that he recognized them as a threat, and Broadleaf ordered the wizards to prepare for battle.

• Wizard Broadleaf questioned Benjamin about his resistance to the Reflected Dimension, and Benjamin said he could withstand dimensional disparity and had a humanoid true body over a thousand meters tall.
• The ancient dragon awoke with its intelligence intact and told Broadleaf that its name was Shuoyuan, accusing the wizards of invading its territory and exploiting its people and body.
• Broadleaf offered Shuoyuan recovery resources, a research plane, and access to knowledge in exchange for cooperation with Wizard Civilization.
• Shuoyuan dismissed the offer and challenged the wizards, but then recognized their civilization’s insignia and reacted with fear and fury.
• Benjamin studied Shuoyuan’s laws and energy while Broadleaf concluded that the dragon came from the Multi-Race Alliance and ordered the wizards to prepare for battle.

Broadleaf Wizard and the other wizards restrained Shuoyuan, but the dragon opened a vast passage to the Reflected Dimension and broke free. Benjamin stood between its dimensional attack and the trapped wizards, while their efforts to close the passage failed.

• Shuoyuan attacked Broadleaf Wizard with dragon breath and a charge, but a Level 7 Wizard transformed into a giant beast and intercepted it while the wizards bound the dragon.
• Benjamin sensed a warning from Fate Law and was moved in front of a wizard opening a passage to the Reflected Dimension, where the dimensional pressure pierced his armor but only lightly wounded him.
• Shuoyuan opened a huge dimensional passage that erased the restraints, then broke free and directed its erasure force across the battlefield.
• Benjamin endured the dimensional attack and shielded the other wizards, who gathered behind him as they struggled to withstand the passage's pressure.
• Several Level 7 Wizards tried to interfere with Shuoyuan's dimensional passage, but it only swayed briefly before returning to normal.

Benjamin’s resistance to Shuoyuan’s wish-fulfillment attack let the wizards change tactics and use him to strike the dragon. They severed Shuoyuan’s connection to the Reflected Dimension and sealed it motionless in the Endless Chaotic Void.

• Shuoyuan tried to inflict injuries directly on Benjamin, but Benjamin’s resistance to the Fantasy Law let him heal and withstand the attacks.
• Benjamin warned Wizard Broadleaf that Shuoyuan could bypass conventional defenses by writing injuries onto its targets.
• Wizard Broadleaf lifted Benjamin and swung his thousand-meter true form into Shuoyuan’s dragon head.
• The wizards sealed the unstable passage and severed Shuoyuan’s connection to the Reflected Dimension.
• The wizards layered physical, energy, spiritual, and time seals onto Shuoyuan, freezing the dragon in the void.

Benjamin helped defeat and seal Shuoyuan, gaining fragmented Reflected Dimension knowledge through their dimensional contact. Wizard Broadleaf rewarded him with an immediate collection of foundational materials, and Benjamin returned to the Purgatory Sulfur Plane to study them.

• Benjamin discovered that striking Shuoyuan had caused fragments of the dragon’s Reflected Dimension knowledge to seep into his Spirit Sea.
• Wizard Broadleaf explained the dimensional information seepage and warned Benjamin that capturing true Reflected Dimension creatures was not feasible.
• Broadleaf offered additional compensation for Benjamin’s contribution, and Benjamin chose immediate foundational Reflected Dimension knowledge over broader research results that would take years.
• Benjamin received a Recording Crystal containing dimensional theory, passage techniques, sealing principles, and information from other specimens.
• Benjamin returned to the Purgatory Sulfur Plane, saw that the Tentacle Tree Plane’s fusion with it was nearing completion, and began studying the crystal in his laboratory.

Benjamin discovered that he had accidentally brought a group of Dragon-kin into his Internal Grotto-Heaven and arranged for their settlement and care. He then studied Shuoyuan’s bloodline knowledge and Broadleaf’s teachings on the Reflected Dimension, finishing all three knowledge modules.

• Benjamin found the Dragon-kin he had teleported into his Internal Grotto-Heaven and ordered Black Giant Priests to establish a settlement for them as a second-tier servant race.
• Benjamin learned that the Living Test Tube had become more intelligent and could operate a printer, then recorded its condition and sent the Black Giant Priest to continue monitoring it.
• Benjamin sorted Shuoyuan’s knowledge into categories and identified dragon bloodline runes that might improve Dragon-kin bloodline stability and fertility.
• Benjamin studied the Reflected Dimension’s connection to the Main World and learned how concentrated mental activity could create Reflected Dimension creatures.
• Benjamin learned standardized methods for constructing and closing dimensional passages, along with introductory dimensional sealing arts, and completed all three modules.

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.