Chapter Summaries

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.

Benjamin inspected the restored Plant-folk Civilization and formally recognized it as a second-tier subsidiary civilization under his command. After returning to his laboratory, he received Avery Knight’s notice to attend an Academy meeting on Noren Plane 147 in ten years.

• Benjamin visited the Plant-folk life planet and learned that its thirty-seven consciousness nodes had rebuilt a stable, shared neural network.
• The Plant-folk told Benjamin that it liked its peaceful home and would need more land as its population grew, while the Black Giant Priest confirmed that a second ecological zone was planned.
• Benjamin declared the Plant-folk Civilization a second-tier subsidiary civilization, and the Plant-folk accepted his protection and agreed to share its research, labor, and knowledge.
• Benjamin received Avery Knight’s message summoning him to an Academy meeting at Noren Academy No. 147 in ten years and added it to his schedule.

After a century of cultivation in the void, Benjamin rose from meditation and condensed his colossal true form into a human-sized phantom body to attend a meeting at Noren Academy. His arrival overloaded the Academy’s teleportation array, and Avery Knight inspected the damage before Benjamin offered to pay for it.

• Benjamin ended his experiment, left his alchemy puppet behind, and awakened his five-hundred-kilometer-tall true form beyond the Purgatory Sulfur Continent.
• He checked that his shadow caused no disruption, contracted his true form into a human-sized phantom, and teleported to Noren Plane 147.
• Benjamin stepped onto the Academy’s central teleportation plaza, where the standard teleportation array cracked and began smoking under the strain of his arrival.
• The gathered wizards realized Benjamin had overloaded the Academy’s Level 6 teleportation array, and he awkwardly wondered whether he was responsible.
• Avery Knight’s vast consciousness inspected the plaza and fixed its attention on Benjamin, who offered to pay for the damage before the Dean’s presence withdrew.

Benjamin discovered that his thoughts now moved far faster than those of lower-level wizards, then attended an Academy meeting where Dean Avery announced his rest period was ending. Avery assigned Benjamin and Viola to alternate garrison duty while he was away on Federation missions.

• Benjamin inspected the teleportation array and found that its energy circuits had overloaded but its spatial anchor remained intact.
• Benjamin spoke with Blake and realized that his perception of time had accelerated far beyond that of lower-level wizards.
• Benjamin and Blake entered the crowded conference hall, where Benjamin noted how much the Academy's wizard ranks had grown over the centuries.
• Dean Avery announced that his mandatory rest period was ending and that he would leave the Academy for an extended period.
• Avery assigned Benjamin and Viola to alternate the Academy's garrison duty, adding that Bert Vera Augusta could join them if she advanced to Level 6.

Benjamin paid to repair and upgrade Noren Academy No. 147’s teleportation array, then settled into a laboratory while serving as its acting garrison. A year later, he reunited with Anya, who had become a Level 6 instructor, and learned the Academy’s next recruitment ceremony was approaching.

• Benjamin covered the teleportation array’s repair costs and supplied resources to upgrade it to engineering-grade specifications.
• Benjamin took over the Academy’s garrison duties while Viola remodeled her plane and moved into an Academy laboratory to focus on research.
• A year later, Benjamin met Anya at the instructors’ offices and learned she had reached Level 6 and planned to teach Soul Studies.
• Anya explained that her Lineage had funded her advancement and that she would focus on teaching rather than returning to the Plane Battlefield.
• Benjamin found the notice for recruitment in six standard months and decided to look for promising students in the new class.

Benjamin oversaw admissions at Noren Academy No. 147 and reunited with David, whose son Cohen demonstrated maximum Fire Element affinity and chose the Combat Department. As testing continued, Benjamin concluded that the cohort had no true genius, which he judged by wisdom rather than aptitude alone.

• Benjamin watched children from hundreds of affiliated planes undergo aptitude testing at Noren Academy No. 147.
• Cohen, David's eight-year-old son, registered maximum Fire Element affinity, and Benjamin recognized him as David and Irene's child.
• Benjamin met David, who credited Aptitude Enhancement Technology for Cohen's exceptional talent.
• Cohen chose the Combat Department, and David explained that the Lineage had selected it based on his explosive power and suitability.
• David returned to his Lineage, while Benjamin stayed to observe the admissions and found no child he considered a true genius.