Chapter Summaries

Ryan’s expedition meeting chose teams to explore two Unknown Worlds: one for invasion and one for trade. As the portals stabilized, the Wizards saw a gigantic hooded figure whose exposed skin was covered in dragon scales.

• Ryan explained the connections to the two Unknown Worlds and proposed sending Wizard Consciousness Bodies into the world with the weaker connection.
• Wizard Umbraly Light volunteered to lead the invasion, and Polaris offered to accompany her.
• Machine God Wizard and Withered Wood Wizard volunteered to explore the stable trading world, while Wizard Ethan remained silent.
• The Formal Wizards prepared Wizard World and Dream World resources to take through the portals.
• The Bone Pillars’ portal stabilized, revealing a huge hooded figure whose rugged skin bore dragon scales.

Ryan negotiated a World Gate trade with the Dragon King, exchanging supernatural resources for a Dragon Nest filled with dragons. He examined the acquired nest and asked the King of Hanging whether it could supply the Sea Dragon Secret Realm with dragon material safely.

• The Dragon King requested resources that could strengthen his Spiritual Power and body, while Ryan asked what the Dragon King could offer.
• Ryan agreed to trade for dragon-related flesh, marrow, spirituality, and souls, which he needed for the Sea Dragon Secret Realm and his own transformation.
• The Dragon King offered a Dragon Nest containing over a thousand dragons and explained that the Space-Time Balance Scale would determine the exchange.
• Ryan and the Dragon King placed their resources on the scale, and the World Gate exchanged the offerings once it balanced.
• Ryan inspected the Dragon Nest and asked the King of Hanging whether it could replenish the Sea Dragon Secret Realm's dragon material without harmful effects.

Ryan fused the Dragon Nest into the War Fortress, while Andersen escaped God Slayer Wizard’s trap in the Inner World and returned to the Wizard Continent with Dianna. After Wizard Lando divined Andersen’s weakened location and confirmed the World Stars Council threat had passed, Ryan prepared to strike.

• Ryan secretly planted fragments of his Wizard Consciousness in the traded items, then sent the Dragon Nest to be absorbed by the War Fortress.
• Andersen and Dianna reached a Wizard Array beneath the Death Black Sky, where Andersen lured God Slayer Wizard’s avatar into a trap that trapped it in a repeating darkness.
• Andersen and Dianna reappeared in the Wizard Continent’s Real World, and Andersen proposed joining an Inner Area Wizard Force while he rebuilt his strength.
• King of Hanging told Ryan that the Dragon Nest had fused with the Sea Dragon Secret Realm and could produce Ancestor Dragon Resources for about a month.
• Wizard Lando told Ryan that his divination had located a weakened Andersen in the Real World and that the danger from the World Stars Council had been resolved.
• Ryan and Wizard Lando agreed that they could use the Martial World as an anchor to reach Andersen and attack while he was vulnerable.

Ryan and the Wizards explored a gorge in Frost Snow Land, confirmed Andersen was somewhere in the region, and established a Wizard Camp at a Minor Earth Vein Node. As they began settling in and strengthening their forces, Ryan learned that the second batch of Wizard Consciousness Bodies had survived in the New World and considered his own advance to Star Wizard.

• Ryan and the Wizards surveyed the gorge, finding powerful Supernatural Lifeforms to the east, a Snow Mountain Layer to the west, and a dangerous mist blocking the route south.
• Wizard Lando divined that Andersen remained in Frost Snow Land but could narrow his location only to the region, the Line Area, or the central region.
• Ryan ordered the War Fortress to establish its Star Gate Anchor Point and Heart of War Wizard Camp at the gorge's Minor Earth Vein Node.
• The War Fortress emerged, expanded underground, connected to the Earth Vein, and began constructing the camp as Apprentices and formal Wizards helped.
• Wizard Umbraly Light told Ryan that the first batch of Wizard Consciousness Bodies in the New World had perished but the second batch had survived.
• Ryan received promising feedback from the Martial World and, having reached the limit of formal Wizard strength, looked forward to advancing to Star Wizard.

Ryan investigated the lethal White Mist and planned the Obscure Spore Advancement Metamorphosis Experiment, then returned to the War Fortress to organize the Heart of War. The chapter ended with Ryan preparing to kill three local martial leaders who had mistaken him for a Celestial.

• Ryan used the Eye of Truth to learn that the White Mist contained living microorganisms capable of killing formal Wizards and threatening Star Wizards.
• Ryan tested the White Mist with a Tiger Duck Beast, watched it erase the creature’s head, and decided to study the microorganisms using the Obscure Spores.
• A human-shaped figure resembling Ryan briefly formed inside the White Mist before breaking apart, while Ryan returned to the War Fortress and agreed to hold a banquet for the Wizards.
• Ryan reviewed the Wizard Camp’s construction, the War Fortress’s energy reserves, and the resources available from the Sea Dragon Secret Realm.
• In the Underground Ruins Space, Xu Tianzheng, the Iron Sword Gate Master, and Cold Moon Sword Sun Xing watched as Ryan dismissed their belief that he was a Celestial and raised his hand to kill them.

Ryan killed Xu Tianzheng, the Iron Sword Gate Master, and Cold Moon Sword Sun Xing, then used their Essence Qi, True Qi, and souls to strengthen himself. He made Sanhe City his hunting ground and used the Blood Demon Pearl as bait while martial artists gathered around Sanhe Mountain; the chapter ended with a mustached man at Youjian Inn worrying that the growing crowd would bring chaos to ordinary people.

• Xu Tianzheng attacked Ryan, but Ryan revealed his knowledge of the Blood Demon Art and killed him before the attack could reach him.
• Ryan used the Myriad Manifestations Formless Heaven Devouring True Art to absorb Xu Tianzheng, the Iron Sword Gate Master, and Cold Moon Sword Sun Xing, raising his Supernatural Spiritual Power to 25%.
• Ryan learned more about the Martial World from Xu Tianzheng's memories and decided to lure powerful martial artists to Sanhe City to harvest their strength and knowledge.
• Ryan carried the Blood Demon Pearl as bait while a strange storm gathered over Sanhe Mountain and martial artists flooded into Sanhe City.
• A mustached man at Youjian Inn watched the mountain and worried that the martial artists' gathering would cause chaos and harm ordinary people.

Ryan turned Sanhe Mountain into a battlefield by raising the dead as Blood Lords and spreading black mist that enslaved martial artists. As the mist advanced on Sanhe City, powerful figures across the city sensed the approaching threat.

• Xie Tianbao arrived at Sanhe Tavern and urged Xie Yan to leave Sanhe City, warning that Heaven Ranking experts had gathered and that the situation felt strange.
• Xie Tianbao sensed a terrifying presence and released his aura, while Ryan washed blood from his hands at a pool near Sanhe Mountain after slaughtering its martial artists.
• Ryan used Blood Lord to animate the dead and Lord of Shadows to spread black mist across Sanhe Mountain, turning patrols into his Servants of Black and Blood Ghosts.
• The black mist swept toward Sanhe City as Ryan watched, using the attack to test the martial world's experts and demonstrate the Blood Demon Pearl's power.
• Martial artists on Sanhe City's walls and several hidden figures in the city noticed the approaching mist and darkening sky.

Ryan used the Black Mist to attack Sanhe City and lure martial artists toward the Four Directions Ancient Tower, where he waited with the Blood Demon Pearl. After drawing several powerful fighters into range, he discovered that some had hidden their true strength and prepared to take them all.

• Ryan reflected on how Martial World techniques could help him fill gaps in his supernatural cells and genes.
• The Black Mist swept through Sanhe City as Blood Ghosts and Black Slaves slaughtered its defenders, and the Mad Dragon Blade King broke through to the Earth Realm Third Stage.
• The Ghost-faced Old Man, the Blade King, and other surviving martial artists sensed the Blood Demon Pearl and converged on the Four Directions Ancient Tower.
• Ryan recalled the Black Mist and absorbed the Essence Qi and True Qi of the dead, raising his Supernatural Spiritual Power to thirty percent.
• Ryan amplified the Blood Demon Pearl so it could attract Heaven Realm martial artists seeking to advance from the First Stage of True Qi to the Second Stage of Gang Qi.
• Ryan sensed several approaching Earth Realm martial artists moving far faster than their displayed strength allowed and realized they had hidden their auras.

The Ghost-faced Old Man entered the Four Directions Ancient Tower, where Ryan used the Blood Demon Pearl to recruit Heaven Realm martial artists into the Heaven Devouring Cult. With his Supernatural Spiritual Power at three hundred percent, Ryan uncovered the Martial World’s origins and connected it to the Foam World, beginning an invasion.

• The Ghost-faced Old Man saw Pei QinZhi, Hong Chang, and Qi Chunfeng race into the Four Directions Ancient Tower ahead of him, then followed them inside to seek the Blood Demon Pearl.
• A white-robed figure showed the Ghost-faced Old Man the pearl devouring three Heaven Realm martial artists and offered him power in exchange for his martial arts.
• The Ghost-faced Old Man emerged as a young-faced Heaven Realm martial artist, praised the Cult Master, and persuaded Master Without a Trace and other fighters to enter the tower and join the Heaven Devouring Cult.
• Ryan revealed that he had founded the Heaven Devouring Cult ten years earlier to collect martial arts manuals and absorb the strength and consciousness of Heaven Realm martial artists.
• Ryan established a Dream Anchor linking the Martial World’s Dream World to the Foam World, where the War Fortress appeared and the invasion began.

Ryan brought the War Fortress into the Martial World's Dream World and began a major campaign to plunder and absorb the world. Five years later, the Heart of War had established itself in the Frost Snow Land, while Ryan sought a way to find Andersen and strengthen his forces.

• Ryan used the Dream Seed to anchor the War Fortress in the Martial World's Dream World, spending much of the Foam World's Nightmare Extinguishing Dream Power to cross the distance.
• King of Hanging explained how the Real Chains could connect the two worlds, open an invasion passage, and eventually seize the Martial World's World Core.
• Ryan ordered the Heart of War to prepare for the expedition and began shaping the Nightmare Calamity organization around qualified Wizards.
• Over two years in the Wizard World, the Heart of War built more than five hundred Wizard Array Nodes in the Frost Snow Land and thoroughly explored the Canyon region.
• Ryan sent the Wizards through the Real Passage and chose to incorporate the Martial World into the War Fortress rather than destroy it or harvest it indirectly.
• Ryan absorbed the Martial World's Supernatural Knowledge, considered ways to locate Andersen through contact with local Wizards, and resolved to increase his strength.

Five years after the invasion of the Martial World, Ryan prepared to use the World Fetus Cloth to advance to a Rank 2 Star Wizard. As the Heart of War gathered outside the Conquest Tower, his breakthrough began with the world’s core still too weak to produce a World Embryo.

• Ryan reviewed the Heart of War’s settlement and resources in Battle Canyon while Wizard Autumn Winter reported on the mortals and resource areas under their control.
• King of Hanging told Ryan that the Real Chain had reached the World Core layer and that part of the Martial World’s World Core could be extracted without collapsing it.
• Ryan discovered World Fetus Cloth within the World Core Fragment and found that it could yield two or three World Heart Potions.
• Three days later, Ryan’s official wizards and Limit Wizard Apprentices gathered around the Conquest Tower as he began his breakthrough to Rank 2 Star Wizard.
• Wizard Freddy, Wizard Umbraly Light, Polaris, Wizard Ethan, and the others watched the tower with anticipation, while Wizard Kelan opened her eyes beneath the Dream Illusion Tree.

Ryan reached the Rank 2 Star Wizard level and faced the choice of where to condense his True Spirit. As his breakthrough continued inside the Conquest Tower, Lusen remained at Heart Dream Lake and the waiting Wizards sensed his aura rising again.

• Ryan realized that advancing from Formal Wizard to Daybreak Wizard involved strengthening his existence into unique Rule Power, but he could not explain the origins of the Anomalous Items’ Rules.
• Ryan considered whether to condense his True Spirit in Nightmare Particle Energy, spirit, or another aspect of his many Wizard paths, then closed his eyes and drew in energy from several sources.
• At Heart Dream Lake, Lusen told Wizard Kelan that she had failed to defeat Ryan in the Black and White Bubbles, while keeping secret that her bloodline and soul had awakened her.
• Lusen called to Sister Sol, one of the hooded figures wandering the lakeshore; the figures were resurrected Wizards who appeared to have lost their memories and were not fully alive.
• After ten days and nights, Wizard Umbraly Light noticed Ryan’s aura rapidly rising again inside the Conquest Tower.

Ryan advanced to Rank 2 Star Wizard by forming a Nightmare True Spirit within his Supernatural Spiritual Power, then celebrated the Heart of War’s growing strength and outlined plans to explore beyond the White Mist. He revealed to Wizard Umbraly Light that there were multiple ways to become a True Spirit Wizard and arrived in the Foam World with his new status and abilities.

• Ryan showed the Future Path to Wizards and mortals, while gifted young recruits emerged among the safe-zone population and Puni Stark pledged to carry out his orders.
• Ryan formed the Nightmare True Spirit from the joined black and white mirror surfaces and advanced to Rank 2 Star Wizard.
• The Heart of War celebrated Ryan’s breakthrough, and he announced plans to explore beyond the White Mist, seek unknown resources, and contact Frost Snow Land’s Wizard forces.
• Wizard Umbraly Light questioned Ryan about his unusual breakthrough, and he told her that more than one path could lead to becoming a True Spirit Wizard.
• Ryan appeared beneath the Black and White Giant Tree in the Foam World, where his status showed his new Rank 2 strength and Nightmare True Spirit Imprint.

Ryan prepared to integrate the Black King into the Nightmare Foam Network while Godslayer Wizard found a way to send a message out of his prison. A fragment of that message reached Frost Snow Land, where Galio welcomed a newborn with extraordinary Wizard Aptitude.

• Ryan reviewed his research plans and used his True Spirit Power to begin restoring the dead whose consciousnesses were stored in the Nightmare Core.
• Ryan explained that the revived would need to repay the Nightmare Foam Network with supernatural resources, then prepared to integrate the Black King and transform the Nightmare Ancient Tree and Dream Core.
• Godslayer Wizard found a brief transition in the formation and sent out a trace of his Rule Root Cause carrying a specific message.
• The blue fragment entered Frost Snow Land and landed in the Safe Zone of Battle Canyon.
• Galio Solomon welcomed a newborn bearing a Sea Blue Mark and powerful Spiritual Power, and believed the child had unprecedented Wizard Aptitude.

Galio named his newborn son Solomon the Divine Child and hoped to make him a Wizard, while Ryan completed the Black King’s fusion with the Foam World and merged the Roaming Immortal Mirror into the Nightmare Extinguishing Mirror. After reviewing the Foam World’s growth and the mirror’s new powers, Ryan visited Lusen and Wizard Kelan and asked his senior sister for a favor.

• Galio celebrated his newborn son’s Sea Blue Mark, named him Solomon the Divine Child, and resolved to find him a powerful Wizard teacher.
• The Black King told Ryan it had fused with the Foam World and could convert different kinds of Supernatural Power into Nightmare Extinguishing Dream Power.
• Ryan successfully fused the Roaming Immortal Mirror with the Nightmare Extinguishing Mirror, granting it abilities tied to the Immortal Realm Legendary Civilization.
• Ryan examined the Foam World’s increased range, power, and new Endless Energy Core, while noting the dangers posed by nearby habitats and Dream Creatures.
• Ryan met Lusen and Wizard Kelan in Dreamland, learned that Lusen had passed through the Black and White Cycle, and asked Wizard Kelan for a favor.

Ryan confronted the Dream Illusion Tree Spirit, which had been influencing Wizard Kelan and resisting its role in bringing their Teacher back. He froze Dreamland and began erasing the Tree Spirit’s consciousness so he could restore its power to Wizard Kelan and use its Tree Heart to create an Anchor Radiation Device.

• Ryan told Wizard Kelan that the Dream Illusion Tree was ready for its Growth Stage, then revealed that its Tree Spirit had been influencing her consciousness.
• The Dream Illusion Tree attacked Ryan and trapped Lusen on Heart Dream Island, but Ryan annihilated its surrounding trees and vines and froze Dreamland in time.
• Ryan explained to Lusen that he would erase the Tree Spirit’s self-awareness, return its power to Wizard Kelan, and take its Tree Heart to make the Anchor Radiation Device.
• Ryan used the Nightmare Extinguishing Mirror to strike the Dream Illusion Tree and envelop Wizard Kelan, preparing to make her a Formal Wizard.

Wang Ya identified the dual nature of White Mist Microscopic Matter and prepared to use it to transform the Obscure Spores. Meanwhile, Andersen and Dianna arrived at a Wizard Force to seize its Earth Vein Node, and Wang Ya’s experiment culminated in a gray eye appearing over the Foam World before he erased it and crushed a gray crystal.

• Wang Ya separated White Mist into its components and concluded that its microscopic creatures combined the properties of supernatural viruses and bacteria, which he planned to impart to the Obscure Spores.
• Andersen told Dianna that a Level 5 Wizard’s Space Rule Root Cause lay beneath Frost Snow Land and that they would take control of the Online Areas’ Wizard Forces and Earth Vein Nodes to unseal it.
• Wizard Autumn Winter reported the Nightmare Calamity candidates and Martial World resources to Wang Ya, who selected Da Vinci Kara and Karon Meoji as prospective disciples and requested to meet Galio’s unusually talented baby.
• Wang Ya’s true body conducted the critical Obscure Spore Metamorphosis Experiment, causing a gray opening and eye to appear in the Foam World.
• Wang Ya appeared from the Foam Tower, erased the gray eye’s traces with a wave, and crushed the resulting gray crystal.

Ryan transformed the Obscure Spores into White Obscure Spores, a controllable weapon capable of spreading invisibly and threatening entire Wizard Forces. He arrived at the White Mist with Wizard Umbraly Light, preparing to explore beyond Battle Canyon.

• Ryan crushed a crystal and left the Foam World as the Apprentice Wizards speculated that his identical double was a powerful clone.
• Ryan demonstrated that the double was made of invisible White Obscure Spores, which dispersed into Microscopic Matter.
• Ryan explained that the spores could consume energy, reproduce through a rune circuit in his soul, and take physical forms under his control.
• Ryan judged the spores a powerful, potentially world-destroying weapon, though their transformation had cost him an autonomous experimental assistant.
• Ryan met Wizard Umbraly Light at the White Mist, where she asked how he planned to cross the dangerous forbidden zone.

Ryan and Wizard Umbraly Light crossed the White Mist Area inside a shield of Ryan’s White Obscure Spores. They emerged above a vast field of bones and Corpse Mountains, where Ryan began to recognize a pattern in their arrangement.

• Ryan revealed that his White Obscure Spores could protect them from the White Mist and formed a shield around himself and Wizard Umbraly Light.
• Ryan and Wizard Umbraly Light flew through the White Mist Area, relying on Ryan’s particle energy to sustain the shield.
• After hours of worsening conditions, the White Mist began to thin, and they descended toward the ground.
• Wizard Umbraly Light saw countless human and Supernatural Lifeform remains piled into layers of earth and towering Corpse Mountains.
• Ryan noticed that the Corpse Mountains and the layers of remains followed a pattern, and he began to understand its arrangement.

Ryan and Wizard Umbraly Light escaped the White Mist Area and reached the thriving Frost Snow Land, where Ryan explored the Dream Space and discovered an unusual Ant-man civilization. He suspected the race existed independently in both reality and illusion, and the two prepared to investigate its secrets.

• Ryan noticed strange lines connecting the skeletal mountains in the White Mist Area and decided to leave before investigating them further.
• Ryan and Wizard Umbraly Light crossed the White Mist under the protection of the White Obscure Spore Shield and arrived in the Frost Snow Land.
• Ryan surveyed the surrounding Dream Space and brought Wizard Umbraly Light with him to a Dream Corner containing an Ant-man civilization.
• Ryan explained that the Ant-men existed in both reality and the Dream Space, and Wizard Umbraly Light recognized their unusual nature.
• Wizard Umbraly Light asked Ryan what he intended to do about the Ant-man Race.