Chapter Summaries

Benjamin modified his Elemental Storage Rune Artifact with technology derived from the Divine Power Faith Network, giving it the ability to plunder energy from nearby wizardry. He discovered that this effect came from combining Wizard Civilization conversion methods with Cultivation Civilization talisman Seals, and recognized the combination as his true advantage.

• Benjamin used David's research notes to advance his study of energy conversion in the Divine Power Faith Network.
• Benjamin tested a modified Elemental Storage Rune Artifact and found that its self-charging mode could forcibly drain energy from a Protective Array.
• Benjamin modified a standard Elemental Pool and confirmed that it charged more efficiently but could not plunder energy from wizardry.
• Benjamin traced the difference to the talisman Seals in his Rune Artifact, which combined with Divine Power Faith Network technology to resonate with and convert external energy more aggressively.
• Benjamin concluded that combining the strengths of Wizard Civilization and Cultivation Civilization let his Rune Artifacts draw on far more external power while greatly amplifying its effects.

Benjamin completed the Golden Garden and organized its residents to collect Hundred Flower Dew and maintain the flowers, creating work and trade that would generate Mortal Aura. He discovered that the garden’s flowers produced collectible Gang Sha and began gathering it as material for future equipment.

• Benjamin inspected the newly built Golden Garden and ordered its residents to collect Hundred Flower Dew and care for the flowers in exchange for coins.
• Benjamin returned to the mansion to make preparations, then visited the garden at dawn as residents gathered dew before it evaporated.
• Benjamin used his True Essence to perceive the flower-and-plant Gang Sha rising from the blossoms and leaves.
• Benjamin activated a newly refined Qi-Gathering Gourd and collected the Gang Sha from a patch of flowers, pleased with the amount it held.

After Amy and Victor returned to the Wizard Camp, they told Benjamin that Noren Workshop planned to establish Noren Academy No. 147 in the Eloria Plane Cluster, where they might serve as instructors and rulers. Mentor Clark then offered Benjamin his reward for the trial: ownership of any plane in the cluster except its main plane, and Benjamin considered choosing a Demon Plane for its resources and harsh environment.

• Amy and Victor visited Benjamin's Golden Garden after months away and said Noren Workshop had completed the initial integration of the Eloria Plane Cluster.
• Amy and Victor explained that Noren Workshop planned to establish Noren Academy No. 147 as an outpost and training base, with the two of them likely among its first instructors and rulers.
• After Amy and Victor left, Mentor Clark told Benjamin he could claim any entire plane in the cluster except the main plane and retain Golden port as private territory.
• Mentor Clark described affiliated elemental planes, Fairy Planes, and Demon Planes as possible choices, highlighting the Demon Planes' abundant minerals and unusual materials.
• Benjamin became interested in a Demon Plane because its resources suited his skills and its dangerous conditions could help give rise to Killing Intent.

Benjamin chose a Demon Plane and learned he could delay frontline service while the Workshop prepared its new Academy. He then tempered the Five-Skandha Rainbow Mirror and his soul with Mortal Aura, gaining stronger spiritual clarity and control but discovering that both needed time to recover.

• Benjamin chose a Demon Plane, and Clark said he would contact the person in charge of the Eloria Plane to arrange the procedures.
• Clark told Benjamin that the Workshop planned to establish a new Noren Academy on the Eloria Plane and that participating in planar war could count toward military service and allow further recuperation.
• Benjamin used a wisp of Mortal Aura to temper the Five-Skandha Rainbow Mirror, awakening its spirituality, then sensed that it needed time to recover.
• Benjamin guided a tiny trace of Mortal Aura into his soul and experienced the joys, griefs, desires, and fears of countless mortals.
• Benjamin emerged exhausted but with purer mental power, improved spell control, and faster Alchemy work, then realized his soul needed time to digest the Mortal Aura.

Benjamin experimented with transmuting Mortal Aura and developed a promising potion using it in its original form, but postponed testing it when his graduation ceremony arrived. At Noren Academy No. 13, the celebrated Benjamin stood before Mentor Clark as the ceremony began.

• Benjamin transformed Mortal Aura into soul-nourishing energy and combined it with Hundred Flower Dew to make a low-cost potion, but judged its benefits limited.
• Benjamin developed a second potion using untransmuted Mortal Aura, then stored it until his soul recovered and he could test it safely.
• Amy and Victor summoned Benjamin to the graduation ceremony, and he returned with them to Noren Academy No. 13.
• The apprentices at the Academy fell silent and watched Benjamin with awe because of his achievements in the Eloria Plane trial.
• Mentor Clark called Benjamin forward, and Benjamin stepped before him as the ceremony began.

Benjamin graduated as a Level 1 Formal Wizard and learned that Horn had died during a trial on the Eloria Plane. Mentor Clark then gave Benjamin the documents and gateway coordinates for Purgatory Sulfur, the vast Demon Plane awarded to him, leaving Benjamin ready to begin exploring and developing it.

• Mentor Clark gave Benjamin his Formal Wizard badge and robe as he graduated.
• Benjamin watched graduates depart for plane wars and learned from Amy and Victor that Horn had died on the Eloria Plane after neglecting his studies.
• Mentor Clark summoned Benjamin and gave him the survey materials and coordinates for Purgatory Sulfur, a vast, dangerous Demon Plane awarded through his trial contributions.
• Mentor Clark explained that Noren Workshop had installed a permanent spatial gateway and offered Benjamin access to a logistics construction team.
• Benjamin thanked Mentor Clark and hurried from the office, eager to begin exploring his plane.

Benjamin entered the Purgatory Sulfur Plane through a portal and surveyed its harsh, energy-rich environment and formidable ecosystem. After finding valuable creatures and ruined demon settlements, he began testing the plane’s mineral resources.

• Benjamin used Mentor Clark’s rune core to travel from his underground laboratory to the Purgatory Sulfur Plane.
• Benjamin surveyed the volcanic landscape and discovered that its fire elements and free energy particles were exceptionally abundant.
• Benjamin found abandoned demon caves and stone palaces, left empty after the wizards removed the plane’s intelligent demons.
• Benjamin observed red maggots feeding on lava, a lizard creature devouring them, and a Winged Demon killing and eating the lizard.
• Benjamin recognized the plane’s powerful creatures as valuable research subjects and began testing its mineral resources.

Benjamin discovered that the Purgatory Sulfur Plane was rich in metal and decided to consult Mentor Clark about obtaining a Level 7 Large Elemental Pool to transform it. Clark agreed to contact his own mentor if Benjamin could find a way to afford the enormous cost, and Benjamin said he would have an answer within two months.

• Benjamin examined the Purgatory Sulfur Plane’s rocks and magma and found metal content ranging from sixty to ninety percent.
• Benjamin returned to Golden Garden and contacted Mentor Clark to ask about a Level 7 Large Elemental Pool.
• Clark explained that even a Level 6 Large Elemental Pool cost more points than Benjamin currently had, and a Level 7 version would cost even more.
• Benjamin recognized the cost as a major obstacle but told Clark he expected to resolve the point issue within two months.
• Clark agreed to contact his mentor about manufacturing the pool if Benjamin could secure the necessary points.

Benjamin ran short of points while preparing to develop the Purgatory Sulfur Plane, so he hired a wizard construction team with his remaining balance and spent a month producing Adamantine to pay them. Afterward, he drank the potion he had made from Mortal Aura and Hundred Flower Dew and sensed that its effects differed from his previous experiences with Mortal Aura.

• Benjamin hired a team of low-level wizards through Noren Workshop to survey and begin developing the Purgatory Sulfur Plane, but discovered he had only enough points for their deposit.
• Benjamin considered ways to earn points, dismissed an Aptitude-Enhancing Potion made with Purple Qi of the East as too limited to produce in quantity, and chose to test a colorful potion refined from Mortal Aura and Hundred Flower Dew.
• Benjamin spent the following month producing and selling Adamantine through the Workshop to raise points for the construction team.
• When his alarm sounded, Benjamin found his exhaustion from his previous immersion in Mortal Aura had lifted and decided it was time to test his potion.
• Benjamin drank the potion and still experienced the many emotions and lives flowing through his spiritual world, but immediately sensed a difference.

Benjamin confirmed that his Mortal Dust Potion purified the soul and spiritual power while greatly reducing the mental strain caused by Mortal Aura, and decided to sell it primarily to Level 6 Wizards. He gave a bottle to Mentor Clark, whose successful test left him impressed and asking how Benjamin planned to price it.

• Benjamin tested the Mortal Dust Potion and found that it preserved Mortal Aura’s purifying effects while shortening the mental recovery period.
• Benjamin decided to target Level 6 Wizards and contacted Mentor Clark as a potential first buyer.
• Benjamin brought the finished potion to Clark’s Wizard Tower and asked him to test it.
• Clark drank the potion and experienced a profound emotional flood that purified his soul and improved his control and understanding.
• Clark recognized the potion’s value and asked Benjamin how he planned to price it.

Benjamin sold his Mortal Dust Potion through Mentor Clark and continued researching while Amy and Victor prepared for another plane war. After realizing his Rune Artifact could leave him vulnerable under anti-magic conditions, he decided to strengthen his body and searched the Noren Workshop’s knowledge base for suitable techniques.

• Benjamin told Mentor Clark he could produce only two bottles of Mortal Dust Potion per month, and Clark offered to handle their sale.
• Benjamin handed Clark three bottles, received a large payment for two, and let him take the third to help secure approval for a Level 7 Large Elemental Pool.
• Benjamin spent the following months researching the Divine Power Faith Network and occasionally checking construction progress on the Purgatory Sulfur Plane.
• Amy and Victor told Benjamin they were entering another plane war after nearly a year of preparation, prompting him to reflect on how his uninterrupted research reflected his talent.
• Benjamin assessed his combat weaknesses and concluded that he needed to improve his body to fight under anti-magic conditions.
• Benjamin opened the Magic Network Terminal and searched the Noren Workshop’s knowledge base for body-strengthening techniques.

Benjamin studied Charles's Body Elemental Tempering Art and basic cultivation methods to figure out how to adapt body-cultivation techniques to Wizard Civilization. He recognized the Qi Refining Method as a remarkable but incomprehensible exception, then resumed overseeing the Golden Garden, the Purgatory Sulfur Plane construction, and his research.

• Benjamin selected Charles's Body Elemental Tempering Art and spent several days searching the Magic Network for research papers about its principles.
• Benjamin concluded that body-tempering methods from the Immortal Cultivation World failed in Wizard Civilization because they depended on Spiritual Power, while elemental techniques relied on elements.
• Benjamin began studying the two basic methods with the aim of combining their techniques and eventually applying the results to transform his plane.
• The Great Dao Library presented Benjamin with the Qi Refining Method, whose ability to unite essence, qi, and spirit across the worlds' structural differences fascinated him, though he could not understand its principles.
• Benjamin inspected the Golden Garden, absorbed its Mortal Aura, checked the Purgatory Sulfur Plane's preliminary construction, and returned to his laboratory to continue researching.

Benjamin developed a Body Tempering Method that used elemental energy to strengthen his body, then fought Magic Beasts and a Flame Lord to regain control of his growing strength and awaken his body's potential. He fled before the Flame Lord could cause irreversible damage, resolving to build resistance to fire first and eventually to all kinds of damage.

• Benjamin adapted Charles's Body Elemental Tempering Art and the Body Tempering Method into his own method, using elemental energy to temper his body.
• After rapid physical growth made him clumsy and disrupted his control, Benjamin traveled to the Purgatory Sulfur Plane and fought a pack of Magic Beasts until he regained command of his strength.
• Benjamin challenged the Level 2 Being Flame Lord and endured its attacks, causing his body to adapt to fire damage as he fought.
• When the Flame Lord's attacks exceeded what his body could safely withstand, Benjamin escaped using his Flight-Type Rune Artifact.
• Benjamin felt that the fight had awakened some of his body's potential and set goals to gain resistance to fire and, eventually, all types of damage.

After more than a year of tempering his body against the Flame Lord, Benjamin became immune to its flames and searched the Purgatory Sulfur Plane for new challenges and useful materials. His exploration led him to a silent, black volcano whose earth veins had been severed and drained of energy.

• Benjamin fought the Flame Lord, whose attacks could no longer seriously harm him, and realized that continuing the battles offered too little challenge.
• Benjamin left the Flame Lord and searched deeper into the Purgatory Sulfur Plane for stronger creatures and elemental pressure.
• Benjamin found Crystal Fish in a lava river and collected them as potential Alchemy materials after recognizing their fire essence.
• Benjamin gathered Earthcore Sulfur Flowers and samples of unusual metal ores for study and cultivation.
• Benjamin discovered a lifeless black volcano surrounded by battle-torn corpses and found that its earth veins had been forcibly severed and drained.

Benjamin gathered and refined Killing Intent from a dead volcano, then established formations to make it a concealed, recurring source. He inspected the completed first stage of his plane transformation, a vast metal foundation built to amplify future formations across the Purgatory Sulfur Plane.

• Benjamin used the Baleful Intent Gathering Art and Baleful Intent Refinement Art to collect Killing Intent from the volcano over several days.
• Benjamin installed concealment, gathering, and stabilizing formations so the volcano could keep producing Killing Intent for him.
• Benjamin received a call from the construction crew and flew to inspect their completed project.
• Benjamin examined the expansive metal foundation and sensed the network of embedded formations and energy conduits beneath it.
• Benjamin learned that the foundation could amplify future plane-wide formations, while advanced formations for influencing the Plane Origin would have to wait until he reached the sixth level.

Benjamin built a Gravity Training Room to improve his body and refined a Mystic Gang Mortal Dust Barrier using Killing Intent and Mortal Aura. By adapting its energy circulation to elemental power, he confirmed he could convert elemental power into Spirit Energy by imitating a cultivation method’s circulation, opening the way for more experiments.

• Benjamin commissioned a Gravity Training Room and used its gravity and elemental attack arrays to temper his body.
• Benjamin established a regular routine of body refinement, laboratory research, and collecting Killing Intent from the Dead Volcano and other regions.
• After accumulating Killing Intent and Mortal Aura, Benjamin chose to refine the Mystic Gang Mortal Dust Barrier for protection against curses and divination.
• Benjamin used Adamantine armor to safely refine the Killing Intent into Gang Sha and combine it with Mortal Aura.
• Benjamin adapted the barrier’s restrictions to absorb elemental power and imitate the Qi Refining Method’s circulation, successfully creating the invisible protective treasure.
• Benjamin realized the process could let him convert elemental power into Spirit Energy without understanding a cultivation method’s underlying principles.

Benjamin reforged the Five-Skandha Rainbow Mirror for its First Refinement, gaining a longer Light Transformation and the ability to preserve shields through it. He then used the mirror’s new intelligence to create six autonomous floating platforms armed with Rune Artifacts, which followed him and attacked targets on command.

• Benjamin captured Creation Light while refining the Mystic Gang Mortal Dust Barrier and used it with other light concepts to complete the Five-Skandha Rainbow Mirror’s First Refinement.
• Benjamin tested the mirror in the Purgatory Sulfur Plane and found that Light Transformation lasted twice as long, though a Level 4 Shield destabilized and weakened during the transformation.
• Benjamin discovered that his body cultivation let him survive the end of Light Transformation and defend himself even after exhausting his True Essence and spiritual power.
• Benjamin connected the intelligent Five-Skandha Rainbow Mirror to an Attack-Type Rune Artifact and confirmed that it could independently use his authorized spiritual power to fire.
• Benjamin built six floating metal platforms fitted with Rune Artifacts, linked them to the mirror and Eye of Investigation, and watched them follow him and destroy moving targets.

Benjamin’s research into the Divine Power Faith Network had hit a bottleneck, so Mentor Clark brought him to his personal plane for a meal and offered him research manuscripts from another plane. The chapter left Benjamin with new material that might help advance his investigation.

• Benjamin realized that analyzing the Divine Power Faith Network of the Eloria Plane could take thousands of years with his current resources and methods.
• Benjamin told Mentor Clark about his research bottleneck while delivering the monthly Mortal Dust Potion.
• Mentor Clark brought Benjamin to his personal plane and explained how his servant races provided protection and formed a Servant Army.
• Benjamin ate delicacies from other planes that nourished his mental power and strengthened his body.
• Mentor Clark gave Benjamin a bag of his past research manuscripts on another plane’s Divine Power Faith Network, hoping they would inspire him.

Benjamin received Mentor Clark’s research on the Divine Power Faith Network, chose to focus on strengthening himself rather than pursue god samples, and spent a year studying. When his Ring of Truth began resonating with his Wizardry Models, Clark identified it as a sign that Benjamin’s own new wizardry was about to be born.

• Mentor Clark gave Benjamin a Space Expansion Bag filled with research manuscripts in exchange for the price of two Mortal Dust Potions and offered to help him seek god samples.
• Benjamin declined deeper research into divine materials, saying he needed to improve his strength, and Clark revealed that a Level 7 Large Energy Pool had been arranged but would take over a hundred years to complete.
• Benjamin returned to the Golden Garden and spent the next year studying Clark’s manuscripts while exchanging research with his mentor.
• A tremor spread from Benjamin’s Ring of Truth through his Spirit Sea, causing his Wizardry Models to resonate, so he went to ask Clark for help.
• Clark told Benjamin that a new wizardry was about to be born from his own accumulated knowledge and began explaining how to construct it.

Benjamin formed a specialized core rune from knowledge he had accumulated across different fields, then used it to create the All-Purpose Eye spell. He discovered that it offered extraordinarily detailed vision but overwhelmed him with information at close range, making it useful for research rather than combat.

• Clark showed Benjamin how to build a Wizardry Model by connecting mastered runes to a core rune, though he warned that constructing the full spell was more complicated.
• After weeks of concentration, Benjamin’s Ring of Truth produced a specialized core rune built from Resonance, Connection, Transformation, and Fusion.
• Benjamin realized the rune combined knowledge he had studied, and he quickly assembled a Wizardry Model around it.
• Benjamin found the rune and spell recorded in the Noren Workshop Magic Network under the name All-Purpose Eye.
• Benjamin activated All-Purpose Eye and discovered it could reveal many kinds of physical and magical details, but even a detection range under a meter flooded his mind with information.
• Benjamin concluded that All-Purpose Eye was unsuitable for broad battlefield detection but could replace many instruments in his research.