Chapter Summaries

Li Mu learned that Mountain City protected Tikal City while developing an ancient ruin that the Clairvoyance Spark could not perceive. He approached the ruin in an Armored Mole disguise and found a camp of several hundred Professionals guarding its entrance.

• At dawn, Sun priests purified the battlefield with their Holy Emblems, and Wizards repaired Mountain City's landscape.
• Li Mu read that residents visualized Holy Emblems to resist possession and expose disguised evil creatures, so he considered capturing an evil god's follower to learn how to bypass them.
• After studying Mountain City's books and observing the city, Li Mu discovered it was a satellite city protecting Tikal City and that its sewers guarded an ancient ruin underground.
• Li Mu decided to explore the ruin and study the Professionals and their Holy Emblems, then disguised himself as an Armored Mole and burrowed toward it.
• Li Mu surfaced near the ruin, saw a camp with several hundred Professionals and a huge torch, then resumed burrowing toward the entrance.

Li Mu followed a mercenary party into the ancient ruins, learned how they passed through the dangerous entrance, and discovered an enormous city beyond the forest. He ambushed a scouting thief near the city wall, using Nightmare Projection to strike at the thief’s soul.

• Li Mu watched thirteen mercenaries shrink themselves, coat their bodies in a defensive spell, and use blood-mist-emitting flying backpacks to pass through the narrow entrance without touching its walls.
• Li Mu used human blood mist to follow the mercenaries through the tunnel for two days, then trailed an invisible thief scouting the Ghost Hand Trees outside the ruins.
• Li Mu sent an alchemical eyeball over the dark-red wall and saw an intact city with a thirteen-story tower radiating hazy white light at its center.
• The thief reached the wall, looked toward the tower, and returned with a joyful expression before Li Mu trapped him inside a soul field and Mirror Void.
• The thief’s ring broke to cancel Li Mu’s Petrification Curses, and he attacked with poisoned daggers, but Li Mu countered with Nightmare Projection and Soul-Stinging Thorn.

Li Mu captured the Swiftwind Thief Liede and read his memories to learn about the dangers and resources of the ancient Vampire city. After evading Liede’s searching teammates, Li Mu entered the city to find a blood-pool treasure and encountered an illusion of its bustling past.

• Li Mu’s Void Ring broke through the Everlight Curse protecting Liede, and Li Mu took the surrendered thief into the Asylum of the Mirror World.
• Li Mu suppressed and hypnotized Liede, then used Legilimency and a Pensieve to sort and study his memories.
• Liede’s memories revealed the Vampire city’s deadly Ancient Bloodline Worm passage, Ghost Hand Trees, tomb dangers, and renewable treasures in its blood pools.
• As Malo and another thief searched for Liede, Li Mu used the Illusionary Body Curse to slip into the city ahead of them.
• Upon entering, Li Mu saw an illusion of the city as a crowded morning market, where a few hidden soul corpses threatened intruders.

Li Mu explored the seemingly pleasant city, discovered its hidden castle secret realm, and fought his way to the vampires’ blood pool. He began destroying the pool to study its concealed magic arrays.

• Li Mu saw that the city’s friendly, artistic human residents were being raised by vampires as premium sources of blood.
• When pedestrians began encircling him, Li Mu entered the offline Mirror World and found the city and its central tower absent.
• Li Mu used human blood to enter the castle secret realm and found that the Clairvoyance Spark could reveal the castle’s magic arrays, though not the blood pool.
• Li Mu crossed the castle’s dehydrating magic arrays and used demonic dragon minions to defeat Bloodshadow Bats on the lower floors.
• On the fifth floor, Li Mu protected himself and his servants from stronger Bloodshadow Bats with the Giant Turtle King’s dragon soul, then reached the blood pool.
• Li Mu began destroying the blood pool while examining its hidden magic arrays for a way to reproduce them.

Li Mu finished copying the castle secret realm’s magic arrays and encountered Vivienne, the Blood Clan progenitor, who tried to control his duplicate with the Blood Source Codex. He escaped with the Codex, while Vivienne remained sealed and began turning captives into Soul Corpses.

• Li Mu repeatedly restarted the disconnected Mirror World until he recorded every magic array in the castle secret realm.
• Li Mu discovered signs from Vivienne among the Soul Corpses and sent an Asylum-created duplicate to meet her.
• Vivienne offered Li Mu’s duplicate the Blood Source Codex in exchange for bringing her ten thousand living unbelievers, then used the Codex to control him.
• Li Mu’s duplicate revealed Mirror Void, and Vivienne ordered him to hide, have children, and cultivate unbelievers before sending him away with the Codex.
• The Spark Phone spark dragged the duplicate into the Asylum, and Li Mu revealed that he had fabricated the duplicate’s memories to deceive Vivienne.
• Vivienne ordered the Soul Corpses to convert a captured mercenary squad, and Li Mu kept the Blood Source Codex he had obtained.

Li Mu learned the five blood-related Transcendent professions recorded in the Blood Source Codex and decided to make his avatar a Blood Origin Wizard. After escaping the ruins, he avoided a mercenary camp and found a way to disguise himself so he could enter a human city.

• The young Demon God's avatar safely inspected the Blood Source Codex, copied its knowledge, and stored the book in the Asylum.
• Li Mu learned about the Blood Origin Wizard, vampire, Blood God Knight, Blood Origin Hunter, and Blood Source Praise professions, and planned to train his avatar as a Blood Origin Wizard and his twelve Demon Dragon retainers as Blood God Knights.
• The Demonic Dragon Staff avoided mercenary squads and carried Li Mu out of the ancient ruins.
• Li Mu learned that holy emblems exposed unbelievers to church professions, so he stayed away from the mercenary camp.
• Li Mu discovered that the Blood Origin Wizard's Blood Origin Polymorph Spell could let him assume a human identity and use the holy emblem in his outer soul as cover.

Li Mu prepared to become a Blood Origin Wizard, using copied Vast Sea Clam King essence blood to pursue a Candle Dragon bloodline. He controlled the thief Paul to buy the needed materials and left the city to set up a secluded place for the class transfer.

• Li Mu decided to use his Vast Sea Clam King essence blood instead of seeking descendants of legendary lifeforms, and copied it into more than ten thousand blood pearls with the Hyperthymesia Mirror.
• Li Mu lured Paul out of Mountain Camp with a fake Gleaming Gold Rat and trapped him in the Mirror Void, where Vast Sea Dragon Slumber incapacitated him.
• Li Mu used the Imperius Curse and Mental Contamination to control Paul while avoiding the part of his soul fused with a holy emblem, then disguised himself as Paul's hair ornament.
• Paul used replicated gold coins to buy the class-transfer materials in Mountain City and left the city the next morning.
• Li Mu chose an uninhabited barren mountain, removed his disguise, and excavated a space to conduct the class transfer.

Li Mu became a Blood Source Wizard, gained the Candle Dragon Eye talent and Blood Source Heart Core skill, and learned his first exclusive spell. As he headed toward Mountain Camp to lure a Wizard, Pope Cecilia sought help issuing a Death Wanted Notice for him.

• Li Mu purified the Vast Sea Clam King's blood essence into Candle Dragon blood essence and spent two months perfecting a Blood Source Fusion Agent in the offline Mirror World.
• Li Mu completed the ritual in a blood pool and became a Blood Source Wizard, gaining Candle Dragon Eye and Blood Source Heart Core.
• Li Mu chose Blood Source Strawman as his first exclusive spell and crafted one using Paul's blood vessels.
• Li Mu traveled underground toward Mountain Camp, planning to use bait to lure a Wizard.
• Pope Cecilia heard the Lord of the Purple Moon's oracle, contacted the Chief Inquisitor, and paid the Sun Church's Pope to help issue a Death Wanted Notice for Li Mu.

Li Mu discovered that the Death Wanted Notice was a red-quality Relic, seized it by merging his juvenile Demon God clone with his avatar, and fused it with Death Sketch to create a more powerful HuoZhong skill. After using the new skill to kill Barney and freeze Stream City, Li Mu prepared to travel to Tikal City and infiltrate the Pure White Tower.

• Li Mu used Belloc to inspect the Death Wanted Notice and learned that it could kill its targets, then merged with his juvenile Demon God clone to resist it and claim the Relic.
• Li Mu disguised himself as Belloc, entered Mountain City, and learned that Belloc was a young necromancer from the Pure White Tower in Tikal City.
• Li Mu fused Death Sketch with the Death Wanted Notice, creating a red Heaven Grade HuoZhong skill that could turn a drawn portrait into a death event and form a space within the painting.
• Li Mu drew Barney, a Purple Moon Church bishop, and the Death Sketch caused Barney to release an ancient ice corpse that killed him and froze Stream City.
• Li Mu stored the sketch of Stream City, planned to obtain more death power at the Pure White Tower, and set out for Tikal City on an undead skeletal horse.

Li Mu arrived in Tikal City as Belloc, explored the Pure White Tower, and copied the spellbooks he could access into the Mirror Void. After discovering that Belloc’s instructor and a noble-born student were watching him, Li Mu traced Belloc’s bloodline and uncovered his connection to a powerful noble family.

• Li Mu entered Tikal City, passed the Sun Church’s inspection, and reached the Pure White Tower, where he found a neighbor listening outside Belloc’s dormitory.
• Li Mu confirmed that the Mirror World could project parts of the academy, then copied the spellbooks from its first three libraries before returning to study.
• Instructor Joseph threatened to have Belloc expelled if he failed to advance, and Li Mu punched the neighbor after catching him eavesdropping again.
• Li Mu read the neighbor’s memories and learned that William, a talented necromancer from a noble family, had ordered him to report Belloc’s return.
• Li Mu used the Blood Source Tracking Spell and sensed two direct relatives in the Royal City and one collateral relative in the Pure White Tower, leading him to suspect that Belloc was a descendant of a great noble house.

Li Mu prepared to claim a place in the Brandon Family by using the Blood God Curse to disguise Belloc’s soul and create a Blood God Spawn. After learning that William was conspiring with the Twilight Church and that only Duke Brandon, Lucy, and William remained in the family, Li Mu headed for the duke’s residence while William fled the royal capital.

• Li Mu bought materials and a Vampire Marquis blood core in the Royal City’s underground black market, then used them to form a Soul Blood God Body and refine Belloc into a Blood God Spawn.
• William sent a lanky man to Twilight City with a church token and orders to have Belloc eliminated, but Li Mu took control of the messenger and learned about the plan.
• Li Mu bought information revealing that the Brandon Family had been devastated in a conflict with the Twilight Church, leaving Duke Brandon, his dying granddaughter Lucy, and William as its only survivors.
• Li Mu decided to pursue his claim to the Brandon Family rather than abandon the opportunity, and he set out for Duke Brandon’s residence.
• William saw Li Mu heading toward the noble district, fled the royal capital by steam locomotive, and hoped the Twilight Church would kill Belloc.

Li Mu passed Duke Brandon’s tests, was recognized as his grandson and named heir, then inherited the Brandon Family’s crystal skull and its hidden divine eye. When the Sun Church surrounded the estate to seize it, Li Mu evacuated the household and fled through the family’s ancient teleportation array, but the Pope detected the escape and pursued him.

• Li Mu used fabricated memories to convince Duke Brandon that he was Belloc, and the duke tested him with the Feast Goblet and Mirror of Truth before accepting him as his grandson.
• Duke Brandon named Li Mu first in line of succession and explained how Otto’s betrayal and the Twilight Church’s attack had devastated the family; he planned to transfer the title before confronting the church over Lucy’s condition.
• Li Mu discovered faint, growing vitality in Lucy and watched over her through the night before Duke Brandon led him to the treasury and gave him the family’s inherited crystal skull.
• Li Mu refined the crystal skull, learned that its forehead eye was the sealed eye of the Lord of Death, and sensed the Sun Church’s Holy Radiance Knights surrounding the estate.
• Li Mu sent the butler and Lucy into the Mirror Void, evacuated the estate’s people and valuables, and escaped through the ancient teleportation array.
• The Pope detected Li Mu’s escape despite the divine-art seal and prepared to pursue and capture the new Duke Brandon.

Li Mu escaped the Sun Church, settled on Quicksand Island, and inventoried the Brandon Family’s treasury while planning to secure the family’s remaining strength. After demonstrating that his Nirvana Flame could weaken Lucy’s curse, he gained the old butler’s support and began choosing users for two powerful [Relics].

• Li Mu used a duplicate to draw away the Sun Church’s pursuers, escaped to the Atlantis City-State, and bought Quicksand Island as a hidden base.
• The Sun Church failed to track Belloc, stripped the Brandon Family of its ducal title, placed a bounty on him, and announced old Duke Brandon’s execution one month later.
• Li Mu and the old steward secured Quicksand Island, and Li Mu spent several days cataloguing the Brandon Family’s wealth, inheritances, and five orange-grade [Relics].
• Li Mu showed the old butler that his Nirvana Flame could slightly weaken Lucy’s Twilight Ash Curse, giving the butler hope that she could eventually be cured.
• The old butler proposed candidates for the Blood Feast Goblet and Steam Heart, and Li Mu rejected the Firebearer Maid before meeting Mia, the loyal leader of the Brandon Family’s shadow assassins.

Li Mu purged the Brandon Family’s estate, then traveled to Hurricane City to buy professional slave warriors at Hurricane Arena. After winning bets across two days and costing the arena millions, he sensed the Hurricane Lord was about to confront him and considered taking control of the slave trade.

• Li Mu tested Mia’s loyalty with the Blood Feast Goblet, sealed her power, and sent her to the Asylum after sensing hostility toward him.
• Li Mu reviewed and purged the Brandon Family’s forces, capturing dozens of suspected traitors and accepting the old butler’s resignation.
• Li Mu went to Hurricane City and learned that professional slaves could only be bought at the Hurricane Lord’s Hurricane Arena.
• Li Mu bet on the Fire Dragon Knight, who transformed into a fire dragon and defeated the Trap Wizard; Li Mu then bought the victor.
• Li Mu bought twenty-four professional slave warriors and won all sixteen of his wagers, leaving Hurricane Arena millions of gold coins in losses.
• Li Mu sensed that the Hurricane Lord had run out of patience and considered taking control of the professional slave trade across the Hurricane Archipelago.

Li Mu seized control of Hurricane Arena, claimed the Mind Ring, and began rapidly advancing his Blood Origin Wizard clone through costly cultivation. Meanwhile, his true body reached a Matrix-controlled world and prepared to rescue its humans before destroying Blue Star and letting his shipboard main brain absorb the Matrix.

• Li Mu's LV70 steam machinist captured the Hurricane Lord, and Li Mu impersonated him after the old butler extracted his soul and memories.
• Li Mu took the Mind Ring, summoned Hurricane Archipelago managers, and ordered Hurricane Arena to end death matches and slave auctions while buying more high-level professional slaves.
• Li Mu used the Brandon Family's resources to create Blood God Scions, reached LV40 in ten days, and continued paying his way toward LV50.
• Li Mu's true body traveled to a world where robots imprisoned human bodies and kept their minds in the Matrix Virtual Network.
• Li Mu decided to move the Matrix's humans into the Soul Source Realm before destroying Blue Star and having his shipboard main brain devour the Matrix.
• Phoenix appeared beside a human hive base on Blue Star.

Li Mu infiltrated the Matrix Network, secretly replaced its ruler with Skynet, and used it to kill humanity on Blue Star so the Tree of Life could harvest their souls and consume the planet. After converting the otherworld gate into an Abyss Gate HuoZhong and advancing his profession to Blood Origin Wizard, Li Mu learned that the gods were searching for the relic and wondered why they wanted it.

• Li Mu discovered the Matrix Network’s self-destruct system would kill humanity and detonate more than fifty million nuclear bombs if an external intrusion was detected.
• Li Mu injected the Skynet HuoZhong into the Matrix Network, enhanced Smith into a powerful Skynet, and had Skynet and the Shipborne Optical Computer seize control while disabling the self-destruct program.
• Li Mu planted the Tree of Life on Blue Star, ordered Skynet to kill the humans in their cultivation pods, and transferred their souls into the Soul Source Realm before the Tree of Life drained and destroyed the planet.
• Li Mu used the Anchor of Fantasy to convert the otherworld gate into an Abyss Gate HuoZhong, traveled to the Abyss Giant Star, and reunited with his Blood Origin Wizard clone.
• Li Mu fused the Blood Source Heart Core and the Golden Crow Secondary Soul into his Mind Wizard Professional HuoZhong, advancing it into a Blood Origin Wizard.
• Li Mu learned that churches across the Western Continent were searching for the Abyss Gate, the lost masterpiece of the previous era’s wizard civilization, and wondered why the gods prized it.

Li Mu upgraded the Spark Phone to LV4, gaining a lifelike form for Song Xiaoyu, the ability to copy supernatural skills, and a powerful photo-editing program. After choosing skills and planning his cultivation, he deployed the Hurricane Battle Corps to hunt the Sea Clan and ordered the Hurricane warship modified for the coming expedition.

• Li Mu used an orange Life Seed to upgrade the Spark Phone, and Song Xiaoyu explained its new functions, including soul-linked skill copying and special-effects photo editing.
• Li Mu copied Hurricane Combo from a Hurricane Swordsman, learned the limits on copied skills, and loaded a Magic Tower skill and three auras.
• Li Mu used the photo-editing program to alter professional slaves and refine his maids’ appearances.
• Li Mu planned to earn HuoZhong Source Power by hunting the Sea Clan, then return to Golden Crow City to hunt Mist Beasts and later cultivate in Hurricane City.
• Li Mu summoned the thousand-member Hurricane Battle Corps, boarded their warship, and ordered steam mechanics to modify it for the expedition.

Li Mu tracked the sea folk to the Whirlpool Archipelago and bombarded their gathering places with the Hurricane Warship. He trapped the surviving high-level sea folk, captured the merfolk Wizard, and led the Hurricane Battle Corps and Steam Mechanic in killing the rest.

• Li Mu used Blood Guidance Curse to lure fish and inferred that the sea folk had retreated northeast toward the Whirlpool Archipelago.
• Li Mu located tens of millions of sea folk in the archipelago and fired the Void Realm Starshatter Cannon, killing most ordinary sea folk and classholders below LV40.
• Six LV60 sea folk members emerged near the Hurricane Warship, and Li Mu trapped them with the Phoenix's warship skill and Void Realm Starshatter Cannon.
• Li Mu released the Steam Mechanic, whose presence revealed the merfolk Wizard's danger-foresight crystal; Li Mu disrupted the Wizard's escape and trapped him inside the Death Wanted Notice's painting.
• The Hurricane Battle Corps and Steam Mechanic killed the five remaining sea folk members using hurricane attacks, Void Steam, and the Fire Dragon Sniper Cannon.

Li Mu returned from his victory over the sea folk with a huge haul of HuoZhong Source Power, upgraded the Anchor of Fantasy, and converted two powerful Relics into Spark Relics. After testing the Blood Feast Goblet and arranging travel between Mars and Blue Star, he prepared to develop the other Phoenix Empires and seek more Relics.

• Li Mu returned to the Hurricane Archipelago after destroying most of the sea folk in the Whirlpool Archipelago, while unseen whirlpools began absorbing the bloodied seawater.
• The mermaid Wizard killed himself when the Steam Mechanic’s equipment and steam left him with no hope of survival, and Li Mu identified his Hope Pendant as a danger-sensing Relic.
• Li Mu upgraded the Anchor of Fantasy to Level 7, converted the Hope Pendant into a Spark Relic without its side effects, and then converted the Blood Feast Goblet into another Spark Relic.
• Li Mu drank wine aged in the Blood Feast Goblet, rose from LV25 to LV26, then used nirvana to return to LV25 and decided to use the goblet to train subordinates.
• Li Mu created teleportation arrays between Mars and Blue Star, spread the Death Wanted Notice across the First Phoenix Empire, and prepared to open Dimensional Passages to the Second and Third Phoenix Empires.

Li Mu captured the Pure Sea Demon Lotuses and used them to raise his Transcendence Level to LV30, then transformed his bone marrow into a HuoZhong organ and awakened Spark Life Source. He restored the Nightmare Crown to orange quality and gave it to the demon god infant clone, which began building a nightmare asylum.

• Li Mu sent forces through two Dimensional Passages to develop the Pacific Rim world and Avatar World, then flew the Phoenix to investigate the Pure Sea Demon Lotuses.
• Li Mu discovered that the lotuses' light matched the Candle Dragon Eye's power and trapped them in the Void Within the Painting.
• Li Mu killed the lotuses with soul attacks, absorbed their Spark Energy, and raised his Transcendence Level to LV30.
• Li Mu transformed his bone marrow into a HuoZhong organ and awakened Spark Life Source, whose Growth trait let HuoZhong gain growth potential.
• Li Mu used his bone marrow and over a million HuoZhong Source Coins to restore the Nightmare Crown to orange quality, then explored its Nightmare Monarch skill.
• Li Mu gave the Nightmare Crown to the demon god infant clone, which gathered patients' dreams to create a nightmare layer within the Asylum Mirror.