Chapter Summaries

The western Guard Tower faced a Beast Tide led by Soul Guduoyin, whose ability could revive slain creatures, while Ryan watched through the Black and White Eye of Truth and ordered Wizard Umbraly Light to preserve the King Beast for research. The chapter left Ryan investigating several other unusual Supernatural Lifeforms and considering how their bloodlines could support his experiments.

• Kaze Antun, Zack, and Hades discussed Mona's appointment as an examiner and agreed that Kaze should enter the Barren World in her place.
• Kaze accepted the assignment and promised to earn Calamity Points toward Legendary Blood Potions for his sons and Mona.
• Wizard Umbraly Light's test blast devastated the Primeval Forest, but Soul Guduoyin restored the dead creatures and rallied the Beast Tide around the western tower.
• Ryan explained that Soul Guduoyin's six pairs of wings formed the basis of its unusual life-form and ordered Wizard Umbraly Light to capture it intact for research, offering her three Legendary Blood Potions.
• Ryan sent more Black and White Eyes of Truth to observe the forest and identified three other Supernatural Lifeforms with unusual abilities.

Ryan watched the battle through the Black and White Eye of Truth and ordered the Wizard guardians to counterattack. The wizards overwhelmed the Supernatural Lifeforms, and Polaris captured the fleeing Lord Beasts for the Nightmare Wizard as the eastern battlefield began.

• Ryan used the Black and White Eye of Truth to observe Soul Guduoyin's forces and told Wizard Umbraly Light to end the battle within an hour.
• Ryan signaled the Wizard guardians in the other directions to counterattack.
• Divine Blood Wizard attacked the flying Supernatural Lifeforms with meteoric lava and dragged the Twin-headed Chimera out of the sky with his True Spirit Power.
• Polaris killed the Black Tiger King with a single sword strike that unleashed Nether Fire.
• Polaris trapped the fleeing Lord Beasts in a cage of purple flames, killed a Xenomorphic Pangolin that tried to escape, and told the survivors to submit to the Nightmare Wizard.

The Heart of War faced a desperate Beast Tide as Lord Nightmare Wizard Ryan entered the battle and overwhelmed the Lord Beasts. With King of Mountains sealed in the Foam World, Ryan ordered the Wizards to counterattack.

• King of Mountains and the Nether Puppet continued their clash in the deeper reaches of the void while Lord Beasts joined the assault on the Wizard Array.
• Harak spread Harak Bacteriophage among the Supernatural Lifeforms, disrupting them and easing the pressure on the Wizards.
• Ryan manifested enormous hands that crushed swathes of enemies, then seized King of Mountains and sealed it inside the Foam World.
• Ryan ordered a counterattack, and the Wizards charged as Withered Wood Wizard realized the Lord Beasts had vanished from the battlefield.

Wizard Umbraly Light defeated Soul Guduoyin and routed the supernatural forces, but an unseen enemy began threatening her through a voice inside her mind. Terrified, she fled through the Void Layer toward Lord Nightmare Wizard, unaware that the Black Tiger’s reflection had infiltrated her pupils.

• Wizard Umbraly Light destroyed Guduoyin’s shadow army, then used her True Spirit Domain to sever its connection to the battlefield and freeze it with Annihilation Ice.
• The Lord Beasts and supernatural lifeforms fled, while the Wizards counterattacked and celebrated victory; Wizard Umbraly Light also trapped the escaping Lord Beasts.
• An unknown voice demanded the secrets of the White Mist and threatened to eat Wizard Umbraly Light, leaving her sensing imminent death.
• Wizard Umbraly Light escaped into the Void Layer and headed toward Lord Nightmare Wizard for help as Wizard Ethan failed to locate her.
• The Black Tiger’s mirror reflection appeared faintly in Wizard Umbraly Light’s pupils, revealing that the three supernatural lifeforms had reached her.

Nightmare Wizard Ryan rescued Wizard Umbraly Light from the Three Weird Supernatural Creatures and confronted their overwhelming powers in the Space Layer. After resisting their attacks and studying the mirror light, he realized the beasts were not their real bodies, though they were somehow still themselves.

• Wizard Umbraly Light was trapped and immobilized as the Three Weird Supernatural Creatures attacked her.
• Nightmare Wizard Ryan arrived and held the Lizard-Scaled Creature back, preventing it from devouring Wizard Umbraly Light.
• Ryan resisted the White Snake's attack with his Force Path power and pulled Wizard Umbraly Light to safety.
• The Three Weird Supernatural Creatures filled the Space Layer with mirror light and exerted pressure that Ryan recognized as exceptionally high-tier Rank 3 power.
• Ryan studied the creatures and concluded that they were not their real bodies, yet were still somehow themselves.

Ryan confronted three unstable Level 3 supernatural lifeforms and deduced that they were fragments of the ancient being Dilipo, still seeking the secret of the White Mist. A prompt revealed their shattered three-part supernatural path could help Ryan deduce a Level 4 Rule and shape the Three Wizard Bodies, leaving him eager to study them.

• Ryan explained how his Nightmare Body and Nightmare Seeds could swap places with targets across worlds, and planned to offer the seeds through the Calamity Treasury.
• Three supernatural lifeforms approached Ryan inside the mirror light, demanding to devour him and learn what he knew about the White Mist.
• Ryan deduced that the creatures were separate portions of Dilipo's consciousness, each wielding incomplete Level 3 power while instinctively following self-imposed rules.
• Ryan sensed True Spirit Domain power in the mirror light and prepared to capture the three creatures despite their strength and numbers.
• A prompt identified the creatures' collapsed paths of illusion, reality, and balance as potential data for Ryan's Level 4 Rule and Three Wizard Bodies, and Ryan saw a Future Path in them.

Ryan unleashed the full power of his Nightmare True Spirit and replaced the Three Lord Beasts’ triple-layered domain with the Foam World. Though the transformation cost him most of his energy and Mental Power, he weakened the beasts and prepared to finish them.

• The Three Lord Beasts combined their True Spirit Domains, surrounding Ryan with mirror light and reality-distorting mountains.
• Ryan closed his eyes to block the White Snake’s influence and drew on Harak, the Infinite Black Core, and the Dream World to break through the seal.
• Ryan used his Nightmare True Spirit’s third-level power to replace the enemy’s domain with the Foam World, causing the beasts’ True Spirit Power to collapse.
• The transformation drained roughly sixty percent of Ryan’s Particle Energy and Life Energy, leaving him with only about a tenth of his Mental Power.
• Ryan clenched his hand toward the weakened Three Lord Beasts, preparing to end the fight.

Ryan used the True Spirit Domain, the Nightmare Extinguishing Mirror, and the War Fortress to suppress the Three Lord Beasts and their powerful Consciousness Souls. After the beasts were subdued, he prepared to examine their souls for secrets about the White Mist Area.

• Ryan rebuilt the Foam World across the Space Layer and trapped Black Tiger and the White Snake with Nightmare Annihilation Chains and the Nightmare Extinguishing Mirror's Heart Locking Realm.
• The Nightmare Extinguishing Mirror struggled to restrain the White Snake's Level 3 Consciousness Soul, while Dilipo used mountains and gravity to resist Ryan's expanding domain.
• Dilipo offered Ryan a truce and access to his territory, but Ryan continued expanding the Foam World.
• Dilipo attacked with his Force True Spirit, but Ryan used the Primal Force Path Wizard Body to suppress it.
• Ryan summoned the War Fortress's Real Chains, which pierced the Space Layer and restrained the Three Lord Beasts and their souls.
• The beasts cried that the secrets of the White Mist Area belonged to Dilipo before Ryan subdued them and prepared to examine their Consciousness Souls.

After the Heart of War won Battle Canyon, Ryan learned from Dilipo’s memories how the White Mist Area’s Annihilation Rule had killed the Rank 3 Supernatural Lifeform. Dilipo’s remnant soul had an affinity for that power, leading Ryan to consider whether he could use it to seize a Rank 3 Soul Body.

• The Heart of War’s surviving Wizard Apprentices celebrated their victory as Battle Canyon came under their control.
• Polaris told Wizard Ethan that surviving the war would help the Wizard Apprentices forge true Wizard Hearts and drive the Heart of War’s growth.
• Ryan examined Dilipo’s memories and learned that it had entered the White Mist Area seeking a path beyond Battle Canyon.
• Dilipo touched a Bone Mountain, where the Annihilation Rule destroyed its body and forced its Consciousness Soul to fuse with a Rank 3 Wizard Soul Body.
• Dilipo’s memories revealed that the White Mist Soul Bodies had belonged to Wizards destroyed by a Bloody Banner, and that Dilipo ultimately perished.
• Ryan recognized Dilipo’s affinity for the Annihilation Rule and considered using it to seize a Rank 3 Soul Body.

Ryan began the Calamity Plan, using the Beast Tide spoils and his research to strengthen the War Fortress and prepare to seize the Pale Hand’s territory. At Heart Dream Lake, Lusen noticed that Sol had begun recovering her awareness, though Sol said her memories were still incomplete.

• Ryan analyzed Dilipo’s remnant soul as a possible way to safely use Rank 3 Souls in the White Mist Area and advance his breakthrough research.
• Ryan directed King of Hanging to establish laboratories and organized the Beast Tide spoils for research, rewards, and the War Treasury.
• Ryan planned to turn the Sword Nurturing Great Array against the Pale Hand, using the Dream Sword to strengthen his Nightmare Core and replace reality with illusion.
• Ryan ordered the Calamity Plan to begin and set a goal for the World Altar’s New World to become a second War Fortress world layer within a hundred years.
• At Heart Dream Lake, Lusen saw Sol fall behind the cloaked figures and recognized her as the Chief of the Rhine Lineage.
• Sol told Lusen that she had not fully awakened or recovered her memories, and Lusen called out to her brother.

Ryan welcomed the resurrected Sol Vivian back and appointed her a Calamity Member and examiner for the coming Calamity Plan. He then focused on strengthening the Heart of War and himself, determined to find Andersen and confront the dangers of the unknown New World.

• Ryan confronted Lusen about cheating through the Black and White Cycle, then reminded her of her role as an examiner in the Calamity Plan.
• Ryan helped the confused red-haired woman recover her identity as Sol Vivian, Chief of the Rhine Lineage, after she spent two days and nights recalling herself.
• Sol declared her resolve to restore the Rhine Lineage and bring back those lost in the war, and Ryan welcomed her back as Wizard Sol.
• Ryan appointed Sol a Calamity Member and tasked her with entering the New World as an examiner for the Calamity Plan.
• Ryan considered how to revive the other cloaked figures, resolved to grow strong enough to surpass Andersen, and contemplated using the White Mist Area to advance his Dream Wizard Path.
• At Conquest Headquarters, Ryan monitored the War Fortress laboratories and reflected on the uncertain power of the New World and the experiments being conducted on Deep Blue subjects.

Ryan inspected his laboratories and explained how his experiments could advance his Dream Core and help him reach the Dream God Level. He left focused on creating an Illusory Wizard Body and escaping the cycle of life and death, while recognizing that even the Dream God Level would only be the beginning.

• Ryan inspected the War Fortress laboratories and the Night Moon Elves held in Incubation Chambers for his research.
• Ryan promised the captive Deep Blue Natives resurrection and immortality if they helped him complete the experiment.
• Ryan examined Harak's Heart and the Rule Fragment Recombination Lab, where its tentacles connected to the Deep Blue Natives' lives and souls.
• Ryan reviewed his plan to anchor the Nightmare Core and Foam World to his soul through the Second Illusory Wizard Body.
• Ryan considered how reaching the Dream God Level could let him resurrect through others' memories, then reflected that the pursuit of Wizard truth was long and arduous.

Ryan sent his Consciousness Soul into a newly stabilized Phase Space-Time Channel to investigate an apocalypse world whose uniform mutations seemed suspicious. At Wizard Autumn Winter Mansion, he met Solomon the Divine Child and discovered that the young wizard's Brow Mark concealed an extraordinary secret.

• Ryan entered the stable Phase Space-Time Channel and prepared to investigate a world where a Virus had caused beasts to mutate in unusually uniform ways.
• Ryan suspected that a hidden, world-altering source—not an ordinary Virus—had caused the mutations and decided to examine the world himself.
• Galio Solomon brought Solomon the Divine Child to meet Lord Nightmare Wizard, hoping Ryan would consider the young wizard as his disciple.
• Ryan arrived at Wizard Autumn Winter Mansion, sensed that Solomon was unusual, and began examining him with his Eye of Truth.
• Ryan's initial analysis revealed that Solomon's Brow Mark was connected to something unexpected.

Ryan agreed that Solomon the Divine Child was qualified to become his disciple after hearing his ambitions, including his desire to surpass Ryan. He then ordered an experiment in the Night Moon Elf laboratory, while the story shifted to Andersen in the Primordial Land.

• Solomon the Divine Child asked Ryan to take him as a disciple, and Ryan praised his ability and composure.
• Solomon the Divine Child promised to follow the Nightmare Path, forge his own way, become the youngest official wizard in the Land of Conquest, and eventually surpass Ryan.
• King of Hanging warned Ryan that Solomon the Divine Child possessed an unusual trace of Rule Power that seemed impossible to inherit from Galio Solomon.
• Ryan ordered King of Hanging to begin the experiment with the Night Moon Elf laboratory and vanished into the Void Layer.
• The laboratory doors sealed, and energy flooded the Nutrient Pods holding the Night Moon Elves as crystalline tears fell from their eyes.

Andersen moved up his plan to provoke the Primordial Land into pursuing a path to Radiant Moon Wizardhood, while Dianna prepared to use her connections to reach one of its Star Wizards. Elsewhere, Ryan explored a ruined city overrun by Virus-mutated lifeforms and spotted a Beast King-level creature he intended to study.

• Andersen told Dianna that he would accelerate the Primordial Invasion Plan and use the prospect of a Radiant Moon breakthrough to trigger the Primordial Land's expansion.
• Dianna left the underground space, intending to use the Mammoth Wizard's connections to approach his teacher, one of the Primordial Land's five Star Wizards.
• Andersen reflected on his confinement and suspected Ryan had fired the World-Destroying Meteor Cannon, vowing to destroy Ryan's future.
• Ryan sent Black and White Eyes of Truth across a ruined city and found a diverse ecosystem of mostly weak Virus-mutated Supernatural Lifeforms.
• Ryan spotted a colossal Beast King-level creature and decided to capture it as a specimen to investigate why the world's supernatural mutations followed a consistent pattern.

Ryan subdued Grame and began using the city as an experimental field while investigating its supernatural creatures. Solomon the Divine Child prepared for the Black and White Cycle assessment, and Ryan resumed research on the Night Moon Elves’ bloodlines.

• Grame unleashed a hurricane and tornadoes against Ryan, but Ryan stopped the storm and immobilized him with the Force Path.
• Ryan declared the city an Experiment Field, ignored attacks from its supernatural creatures through his Mirror Flower Water Moon Body, and sent his Consciousness Mental Main Body into a Dream Corner.
• Galio Solomon celebrated his son’s acceptance as a possible true disciple of Nightmare Wizard, while Solomon the Divine Child resolved to face the Black and White Cycle assessment.
• Ryan examined four Night Moon Elves and studied their bloodlines, seeking the Moon God Bloodline and the key he had found in the Moon Elf princess.
• Asuna asked whether she could return to the Night Moon Forest, and Ryan promised that she could.

Ryan discussed studying the Night Moon Elf bloodline and offered Asuna and four other Night Moon Elves a chance at resurrection and a choice of bodies. Asuna agreed to join his Moon God Elf Ancestral Return Plan, hoping to gain the power to revive her people and restore their homeland.

• Ryan planned to study the Night Moon Elf bloodline and named the experiment the Moon God Bloodline Reproduction Plan.
• Asuna asked Ryan how she could bring back her dead family and people, and he told her that only power could make it possible.
• Ryan explained the conditions and costs of resurrection, and Asuna insisted that she wanted to be reborn as a Night Moon Elf.
• Asuna offered Ryan the Royalty's Star Tear pendant to help his research and asked him to give her four companions the right to choose their futures.
• Ryan offered to pursue an ancestral return to the Moon God Elf bloodline, and Asuna agreed to join the plan to save her loved ones.

Ryan extracted inherited memories from the Supernatural Lifeforms’ bloodlines and learned how the True Dragon’s heart had reached this world and caused its supernatural transformation. He concluded that the injured dragon had deliberately destroyed humanity and spread itself through mutated life to parasitize the world and be reborn.

• Ryan gathered the Supernatural Lifeforms in Grame’s flattened city and used Annihilation Fire to burn away their bodies until only their bloodlines remained.
• Grame broke free of the Force Path’s control, died with a final wail, and left behind a concentrated vessel of Supernatural Bloodline.
• Ryan examined the vessel’s inherited memories and witnessed the Lightning Spear slay an ancient Eastern True Dragon, which escaped as a Dragon Heart.
• The Dragon Heart crashed into a life-filled Low World, merged with its World Core, and triggered Spiritual Energy Revival and Supernatural Manifestation.
• Ryan inferred that the True Dragon had caused humanity’s extinction and divided itself among mutated life-forms to parasitize the world and revive.

Ryan confirmed that an Eastern True Dragon had spread its inherited power through the Dragon Fall Realm and planned to trap its weakened spiritual soul with the Nightmare Extinguishing Mirror. In the Foam World, Black Soul Ryan updated the main body on the Black Tower and asked for a plan concerning Qiūqiūdōng Laura, who might have suspected his identity.

• Ryan concluded that the Eastern True Dragon was using supernatural creatures to rebuild its strength and that killing too many could awaken it.
• Ryan decided to use the Nightmare Extinguishing Mirror to draw the True Dragon's spiritual soul into the Heart Locking Realm.
• Black Soul Ryan met Ryan beneath the Nightmare Ancient Tree and reported on events in the Black Tower, including his new position as Capricorn Star and his training assignment from Ancient Dragon Grand Wizard.
• Black Soul Ryan told Ryan that Qiūqiūdōng Laura was nearing her final stage and might have noticed something strange about his identity.
• Black Soul Ryan asked the main body to devise a plan for dealing with Qiūqiūdōng Laura.

Black Soul Ryan shared his memories and gathered information with Ryan, who used them to develop new ideas about Supernatural Bloodlines and the nature of Rules. Ryan concluded that he could counter the True Dragon by redefining its source and making the source an individual under his control.

• Black Soul Ryan told Ryan about Qiu Qiudong's situation and his plan to defeat the Newly Promoted Formal Wizard who had challenged him.
• Ryan and Black Soul Ryan linked their memories, and the Eye of Truth absorbed and organized Black Soul Ryan's information.
• Ryan realized the information could help him research the Flesh and Blood Level and Supernatural Bloodlines.
• At the Conquest Tower, Ryan theorized that scattered Moon God Elf bloodline fragments could be recombined to restore the original bloodline.
• Ryan connected the restoration of damaged Rule Power to the world's adaptability and considered how a Supernatural Lifeform's source related to its bloodlines.
• Ryan decided he could replace the True Dragon's source with an individual under his control and named his plan the Dragon Fall Realm Supernatural Source Replacement Control Plan.