Chapter Summaries

Lan Qingyou unlocked the information left by the Star Dragon King and learned why he hunted Star Beasts and protected Karim Planet. She began to suspect that Blue Star’s World Will had sent its people to Karim Planet partly to protect Blue Star from the same threat.

• Lan Qingyou focused on her sea of consciousness and opened the remaining orb of light, unleashing a painful torrent of the Star Dragon King’s memories.
• Lan Qingyou experienced the Star Dragon King roaming space around Karim Planet and killing Star Beasts to absorb their energy.
• Lan Qingyou learned that Star Beasts sought life force from living planets, while they ignored lifeless worlds such as The Moon.
• Lan Qingyou inferred that the Star Dragon King protected Karim Planet because of a deal with its World Will involving the Dragon Eggs.
• Lan Qingyou wondered whether Blue Star’s World Will had sent more than twenty billion people to Karim Planet partly because it feared Karim Planet’s fall would put Blue Star at risk.

After recovering from receiving the Star Dragon King's memories, Lan Qingyou reviewed her next steps and prepared to lead a mission to Karim Continent. She left Catherine and Diana to assemble the witches and researchers she wanted, while Catherine passed the difficult task of gathering everyone to Diana.

• Lan Qingyou woke with her Mental Power intact and considered what the Star Dragon King's memories had taught her about Star Beasts.
• Lan Qingyou rested, bathed with her Prosthetic Limbs, and considered using Jormungandr's body in potions and Magic Items.
• Lan Qingyou asked Catherine whether the Giant Slayer Squad had recovered, and Catherine reported that everyone was rested and well.
• Lan Qingyou ordered Catherine to gather the Giant Slayer Squad beneath the Perching Giant Tree for a mission to Karim Continent.
• Lan Qingyou also requested members of the 88 Witch Corps and the Magic Array Research Association, so Catherine contacted Diana to arrange their assembly.

Lan Qingyou summoned more than two thousand Black Witches from the Giant Slayer Squad, the Magic Array Research Association, and the Witch Corps. After surprising them by walking with her Silver Streamlight Prosthesis, she began explaining that she would open a Portal and lead them through.

• Black Witches gathered at the square beside the Perching Giant Tree after members of three groups assembled there.
• Lan Qingyou walked out of a Portal, astonishing the crowd, who believed she had lost her legs in battle.
• Lan Qingyou showed the crowd her Silver Streamlight Prosthesis and said it felt good to walk again, while many Black Witches secretly became emotional.
• Diana reported that 1,123 Giant Slayer Squad members, 1,000 association members, and 81 Witch Corps members had arrived.
• Lan Qingyou said she would open a Portal, warned that fighting might await them, and began addressing the crowd with a Magic Megaphone.

Lan Qingyou agreed to let Diana's witches enter Maple Leaf Territory ahead of her, and Diana organized a protected vanguard for the unknown destination. Lan Qingyou opened a Portal in midair, and Snow White prepared to lead the combat unit through.

• Diana stopped Lan Qingyou from entering Maple Leaf Territory first and persuaded her to let the witches go ahead.
• Diana ordered the Magic Array Research Association to protect the combat unit and assigned Snow White to lead the vanguard, followed by the Magic Troops and the researchers.
• The Magic Array Research Association covered the combat unit with defensive magic arrays.
• Lan Qingyou opened a Portal to a point in midair and warned Snow White's group to take off as soon as they emerged.
• Snow White sat sideways on her battle scythe as she prepared to enter the Portal.

Lan Qingyou sent Snow White and the Black Witches through the Portal to investigate the strange blue sky beyond it, ordering them to capture or incapacitate strangers rather than kill them. When Lan Qingyou followed, she found the Witches surrounded by Humanoid Mechanical Dolls that were actually Power Armor, and asked Catherine what had happened.

• Lan Qingyou told Snow White to capture strangers alive if possible and not to kill them, then Snow White led the Black Witches through the Portal.
• Diana assured Lan Qingyou that Eureka was safely approaching an explored area of the Karim Continent, and Lan Qingyou entered the Portal after the others.
• Lan Qingyou emerged to find more than two thousand Black Witches surrounded in the air by Humanoid Mechanical Dolls.
• Lan Qingyou recognized the dolls as Power Armor and asked Catherine what had happened, but Catherine said the scene was already like that when she arrived.
• Lan Qingyou asked whether Snow White, who had entered first, knew anything more.

Lan Qingyou confronted the Power Armors surrounding her group and challenged their commander, who claimed the area belonged to Duke Mabel. When Lan Qingyou released her Magic Power, the armors remained unaffected, and she sensed someone familiar approaching.

• Catherine told Lan Qingyou that the Power Armors had surrounded them without attacking, while Snow White kept the situation stable.
• An orange-red commander’s Power Armor flew up to Lan Qingyou and demanded to know who she was and why she had come.
• Lan Qingyou claimed the territory as her own, and the commander said it belonged to Duke Mabel, humanity’s last stronghold.
• Lan Qingyou suspected Duke Mabel might be Xiao Feng and unleashed her Magic Power, but the Power Armors did not react.
• Lan Qingyou sensed a familiar source of Magic Power approaching, while Catherine moved in front of her to protect her.

A mysterious Black Witch breached the Magic Array Research Association’s defenses and appeared before Lan Qingyou, prompting Catherine to recognize spells associated with her Patriarch. The newcomer called Lan Qingyou “Teacher,” leaving Catherine and the Giant Slayer Squad stunned by the revelation of the Patriarch’s apprentice.

• Catherine and the Giant Slayer Squad stayed alert because they feared Lan Qingyou might face the kind of danger that had befallen the Vampire Patriarch.
• An unfamiliar source of Magic Power slipped through the protective array and the group’s defensive ring, appearing beside Lan Qingyou.
• Catherine recognized the sparkling trail as Shining Starlight and the concealment spell as Black Witch Smoke, both linked to Lan Qingyou and the Black Witches.
• The newcomer emerged from the smoke as a powerful young Black Witch riding a magical Broom.
• The Black Witch greeted Lan Qingyou as her teacher, leaving Catherine and the Giant Slayer Squad stunned.

Catherine realized the group had found a lush Heavy Magic Zone, and Lan Qingyou reunited with Xiao Feng, her student who had guarded Maple Leaf Territory for a thousand years. As tensions lingered among the hovering groups, Lan Qingyou introduced Xiao Feng to Catherine and identified the Giant Slayer Squad as her personal guard.

• Catherine noticed the land below was a thriving Heavy Magic Zone with forests, cities, and a lake unlike anything on the Karim Continent or Storm Island.
• Lan Qingyou recognized Xiao Feng and learned that Maple Leaf Territory had remained as she remembered it while Xiao Feng protected it for a thousand years.
• Lan Qingyou apologized for leaving Xiao Feng the Witch Potion, but Xiao Feng said it and the study materials had helped him protect the territory and her people.
• Catherine urged Lan Qingyou to move the reunion somewhere safer while tens of thousands of people remained in the air.
• Lan Qingyou introduced her student Xiao Feng to Catherine and explained that the Giant Slayer Squad was part of her personal guard.

Lan Qingyou reunited with Xiao Feng and led the Black Witches to her thousand-year-old Hot Spring Castle. She ordered them to camp at the Drill Ground or the old Summoning Platform, while Xiao Feng offered to put them up in Lakeside City hotels.

• Lan Qingyou explained the situation to Xiao Feng, who dismissed the Power Armor encirclement and led the group toward Hot Spring Castle.
• Lan Qingyou and more than two thousand Black Witches arrived at the castle, where she examined its old buildings and the surrounding maple forest.
• Lan Qingyou asked Xiao Feng about the Drill Ground and Summoning Platform, and he said both remained unchanged but the platform had not been used in a long time.
• Lan Qingyou told Catherine to take the witches to camp at the Drill Ground or, if necessary, the Summoning Platform, warning that its magic array might no longer work.
• Xiao Feng offered to accommodate Lan Qingyou's people in the hotels in Lakeside City.

Lan Qingyou reunited with Xiao Feng and settled into the castle’s hot spring, where they reminisced and discussed his magic. Xiao Feng asked why she had disappeared, and Lan Qingyou began to explain, warning that he might not believe her, but he immediately said he did.

• Xiao Feng offered to arrange lodging for Lan Qingyou’s subordinates, but they declined and discussed finding an Alchemy Workshop instead.
• Lan Qingyou asked Xiao Feng whether the hot spring was still there, then entered the castle with him and found her way to the bathroom.
• Lan Qingyou and Xiao Feng soaked in the hot spring, and Xiao Feng noticed that her legs had been replaced with mineral prosthetics.
• Lan Qingyou asked about Xiao Feng’s silent communication magic, and he explained that he had developed it after a flash of inspiration a few hundred years earlier.
• Xiao Feng asked why Lan Qingyou had disappeared after Bayfront Town, and she said he might not believe her before he replied that he believed her.

Lan Qingyou told Xiao Feng the truth about her transmigration and time travel, then listened as he recounted how he had inherited her title and territory and grown into a powerful ruler. Xiao Feng left the conversation recalling the challenge he had enjoyed most: building the Protective Magic Array.

• Lan Qingyou explained to Xiao Feng how the World Will brought her to the world and how she traveled through time.
• Xiao Feng said he wished he had known Lan Qingyou was on Storm Island so he could have seen her sooner.
• Xiao Feng recounted how the Aurelius Family and Lan Qingyou’s forces helped him inherit her title and territory after she disappeared.
• Xiao Feng explained how he used the Emblem System and expanded the Protective Magic Array across his lands.
• Xiao Feng said building the Protective Magic Array had been his most challenging task, and Lan Qingyou smiled at his fond recollection.

Lan Qingyou and Xiao Feng discussed the protective magic array, the shortage of witches, and why Lan Qingyou had left him only one vial of witch potion. Xiao Feng explained the development of the Maple Leaf Territory’s power armor and class-changed population, leaving Lan Qingyou with a clearer picture of its military priorities.

• Xiao Feng told Lan Qingyou that he had eventually grafted his protective magic array onto hers, though the lack of Array Masters had limited improvements.
• Xiao Feng complained that Lan Qingyou had left him only one vial of witch potion, and she explained that more witches could have threatened his safety.
• Xiao Feng accepted that Lan Qingyou had made the safest choice for him, and Lan Qingyou asked why his power armor felt strange.
• Xiao Feng explained that the armor evolved from battle magic puppet technology into control-type magic puppets that people operated remotely to reduce battlefield deaths.
• Xiao Feng told Lan Qingyou that everyone in the Maple Leaf Territory had changed classes to provide enough power armor operators, though the territory was not currently short of people.

Xiao Feng explained to Lan Qingyou how experiments involving Agumon of Light and the Goddess Summoning Magic Array had begun the events behind the Karim Continent’s decline. He traced the chain from the recovered monster fragments to a secret study, leaving the explanation unfinished.

• Lan Qingyou asked Xiao Feng why the Power Armor bore signs of monster attacks, and he said the attacks had begun a thousand years earlier.
• Xiao Feng told Lan Qingyou that the Karim Continent’s decline was connected to her and the other transmigrators.
• After Lan Qingyou and Alisa killed Kesuya’s Clones, Imperial officials collected the fragments, but transport problems let nobles acquire them.
• Nobles used the fragments in Goddess Summoning Magic Arrays, but their attempts summoned nothing.
• Someone from the former Empire’s Alchemy Workshop stole Agumon of Light from the Aurelius Family and secretly studied him, without making progress after five or six years.

Xiao Feng told Lan Qingyou how a noble-funded researcher created unstable giant magic beasts and supplied their technology to the Northern Barbarians, whose reckless experiments triggered a worldwide surge in magic power. The investigation led to a surviving altar in the destroyed barbarian capital, where Lan Qingyou recognized her Goddess Summoning Magic Array, altered with a symbol from the Highland Barbarians’ shamanic traditions.

• A frustrated Aurelius Family researcher combined the Seaside Shard with Agumon of Light and spent two years creating unstable, gigantified magic beasts for a noble patron.
• The patron smuggled the researcher’s technology to the Northern Barbarians, whose reckless development caused a sudden, worldwide surge in magic power and cases of enhanced magic syndrome.
• Xiao Feng joined an Imperial investigation team and the Knights Order as they traveled north into the ruined, magic-saturated Highland.
• After a week of forced marches, the investigators found an altar in the destroyed barbarian capital of Hetuluo, with no survivors or other structures remaining.
• Xiao Feng showed Lan Qingyou the Goddess Summoning Magic Array that had protected the altar, and she recognized that the barbarians had altered it by adding a symbol for minerals from their shamanic traditions.

Lan Qingyou learned that a corrupted Shaman summoning array had caused a Magic Power explosion a thousand years ago, releasing enough power to shatter the summoned creature’s soul. Xiao Feng explained that fragments of the soul had spread across the continent and caused its contamination, while Lan Qingyou connected the surge of Magic Power to the World Will’s transformation of bodies and souls.

• Lan Qingyou examined the altered Shaman symbols and concluded that they had caused a Magic Power explosion.
• Xiao Feng explained that the summoned creature’s body had evaporated, releasing its Magic Power and causing a sudden rise in concentration.
• Xiao Feng revealed that the creature’s shattered soul had spread across the continent and caused widespread contamination.
• Lan Qingyou explained that she had added a filtration array to Maple Leaf Territory’s Protective Magic Array to keep the soul fragments out.
• Lan Qingyou realized that the World Will’s Magic Power had been strengthening both bodies and souls, possibly explaining her soul damage from using Time Magic.

Lan Qingyou learned how Xiao Feng survived the Magic Power eruption, cleared the northern Highland, and used the Class-Change Emblem to save and command ordinary people. She recognized that the shelter’s systems had roots in what she gave Xiao Feng a thousand years earlier, then asked how the soul contamination began as Xiao Feng described the eruption’s aftermath.

• Xiao Feng said investigators discovered the contamination about fifty years after the eruption, and he developed a Voice Transmission Spell that helped the investigation team and Knights Order clear the Highland of Barbarians.
• After the northern threat was eliminated, Xiao Feng expanded the Class-Change Emblem’s array to change a thousand people’s classes at once, saving most ordinary people and building a large force loyal to him.
• Lan Qingyou realized that features of the shelter, including the Magic Desk’s chat function and the Personal Information system, had developed from tools she had given Xiao Feng in the past.
• Lan Qingyou wondered how the Emblem had originated and reminded herself not to interfere too much with time before asking Xiao Feng about the soul contamination’s outbreak.
• Xiao Feng explained that magical beasts and plants died after the eruption, leaving Karim Continent gray, while the Aurelius Family and another family carried records, research tools, seeds, and magical beast cells from Maple Leaf Territory to Storm Island.

Xiao Feng explained how the unknown magical beast’s scattered soul fragments silently contaminated the world until they erupted fifty years later, causing widespread mutations. Lan Qingyou suspected the creature was a Star Beast or something related, but lamented that she had missed the chance to identify it.

• The two families and imperial alchemists preserved magical beasts and plants on Storm Island and began restoring the ecosystem.
• Fifty years after the Magic Power explosion, the soul fragments’ contamination erupted, mutating creatures, plants, and people across the continent.
• Xiao Feng explained that the fragments had attached themselves to objects and living things, while Storm Island and Maple Leaf Territory survived behind protections.
• Lan Qingyou concluded the soul had been influencing the world since the explosion and suspected the creature was a Star Beast or a related form.
• Lan Qingyou regretted that her teacher had never encountered the creature, since one appraisal could have identified its species.

Lan Qingyou examined the soul fragment of Kahamama that Xiao Feng had collected and considered how the Star Beast might have survived and spread across Karim Continent. She learned the fragment was too weak to be useful, and Xiao Feng explained that the group’s activities had helped create the opening for Kahamama’s arrival.

• Xiao Feng used telekinesis to give Lan Qingyou an Obsidian containing a soul fragment he had collected.
• Lan Qingyou recognized the fragment as belonging to Kahamama and reasoned that the creature she had killed might have been an incarnation or a developing body.
• Lan Qingyou considered using communications towers and allies to scan for Kahamama’s other bodies, which she believed powerful Transmigrators could defeat.
• Lan Qingyou tried to extract the soul fragment but found it too weak to yield a useful Soul Crystal.
• Xiao Feng explained that more than a thousand years of fusion with the Obsidian and the energy spent corrupting others had weakened the fragment.

The chapter explained how Xiao Feng’s Witch Potion and ageless appearance drove people to seek the secret of human evolution. The Aurelius Family’s research into Xiao Feng’s blood failed and produced monsters, ending with one of them tearing apart their research institute.

• Lan Qingyou guessed that the souls fused into the Obsidian had weakened, though the soul in the Dungeon might be stronger because its projection had been summoned a thousand years earlier.
• Xiao Feng recalled how people had pressed him for the secret of his ageless appearance, and how those who tried violence had lost their entire clans.
• Alchemists and practitioners of Magic believed Xiao Feng’s account that his teacher, the former Marquis of Maple Leaf, had given him the potion, and they pursued ways to reach the same peak.
• The Aurelius Family intensified its Biomagicology research, believing Xiao Feng and the failed evolution of the Britt Mouse proved that human evolution was possible.
• Xiao Feng gave the Aurelius Family a vial of his blood so they could research it, but their experiments failed and created Degenerate Species and other monsters.
• One of the monsters tore apart the Aurelius Family research institute.

Xiao Feng learned that witches belonged to several branches and that many long-lived races lived on Storm Island. After Lan Qingyou welcomed her as a member of the High Tower Clan, Xiao Feng eagerly decided she wanted to visit the island right away.

• Xiao Feng traced the Aurelius Family's failed experiments to the powerful energy in witch blood, which made it incompatible with other creatures.
• Lan Qingyou explained that the witches were her people and members of the High Tower Clan, and Xiao Feng asked whether she belonged too.
• Lan Qingyou confirmed Xiao Feng was part of the clan because she had drunk the Witch Potion.
• Lan Qingyou described the High Tower, Workshop, and Wilderness Witches, their specialties, and the other long-lived races.
• Xiao Feng learned that the races lived on Storm Island and said she wanted to open a Portal there immediately.