Chapter Summaries

At the Hell Society’s judgment assembly, Makarov felt repeated signs of danger but continued sentencing the Star Wizards. Meanwhile, Ryan crossed the Blazing Fire Sea by swimming through its flames and reached a wall that awakened a new incantation array.

• Makarov arrived at the judgment assembly and prepared to announce the revised Hell Pillar laws and judge the Star Wizards.
• The Guinea Pig Wizard defied Makarov, who sentenced him to permanent exile from the Hell Pillar.
• Makarov felt repeated throbs of unease but completed the judgment while deciding the disturbance was probably not a serious threat.
• Ryan abandoned his wooden boat and entered the Blazing Fire Sea, using his spiritual consciousness to swim and walk through the flames.
• Ryan reached a strange space beyond the sea, where red light flowed from a wall into him and formed a new incantation array and a mural bearing his likeness.

Ryan passed through Sighing Hell and Worldly Desire Hell, gaining control of their powers and arrays as he continued toward Hungry Ghost Hell. Makarov discovered Ryan’s Unknown Wizard Statue in Blade Mountain Hell and rushed after him, while the Crimson Wizard Array Spirit feared Ryan had already passed through the final trial.

• Ryan climbed the Black Chains through Sighing Hell, endured its trial, and gained the Murky Sigh Incantation Array.
• Makarov announced the Hell Society’s new rules, explained the danger zones to the assembled Wizards, and then left to investigate the disturbance he had sensed in Blade Mountain Hell.
• Ryan passed through Worldly Desire Hell by maintaining his sense of self amid its illusions, then emerged with the Drowsy Desire Incantation Array.
• Makarov entered Jungle Blade Mountain, found the Unknown Wizard Statue, and rushed toward Blazing Fire Hell in anger and disbelief.
• The Crimson Wizard Array Spirit sensed a fresh jolt and wondered whether Ryan had already passed through Hungry Ghost Hell.

Earthheart Wizard Makarov lost control as he realized an unknown Wizard was passing through the Five Great Danger Zones and gaining their Authorities. Ryan emerged from Hungry Ghost Hell, revealed that he had all five Authorities, and left Makarov with no grounds to challenge his claim to mastery of the Hell Pillar.

• Makarov rushed to Worldly Desire Hell, unleashed the Eighty-One Suns, and then searched Hungry Ghost Hell for the Wizard he believed threatened his position.
• Makarov and the assembled Wizards waited outside the Gate of Hungry Ghosts, convinced someone was attempting the final trial.
• Ryan emerged from the Gate after three minutes, and Wizard Saki recognized him as the Wizard who had attended the Judgment Assembly.
• Ryan asserted that he had passed through all five Danger Zones and that his Authority therefore exceeded Makarov's.
• Makarov acknowledged that Ryan could become Lord of Hell Society under its rules, then challenged him to a Hell Arena duel; Ryan refused, pointing out that the rules already recognized his superior Authority.
• The assembled Wizards realized Ryan held all five Authorities, and Makarov accepted that Ryan had already become the true master of the Hell Pillar.

Ryan became the Lord of the Hell Pillar, reorganized the Hell Society, and prepared to enter the Inner World for a transformation. Seven days later, he reached the sealed land of the Hell Inheritance and learned that entering it would take time.

• The Earthheart Wizard recognized Ryan as the Nightmare Wizard, surrendered leadership of the Hell Society, and agreed to serve under him.
• Ryan returned to the Venerable Emperor Grand Wizard, agreed to enter the Inner World within seven days, and planned to leave his Split Body behind.
• Ryan announced himself as Lord of Hell, reshaped the Hell Pillar, and reorganized the Hell Society with the Earthheart Wizard as a Vice President.
• Word of Ryan's appointment spread through the Crimson Academy, and Pillar Lords sent representatives with congratulatory gifts.
• Seven days later, Ryan and the Venerable Emperor Grand Wizard examined the sealed land of the Hell Inheritance, where Ryan learned that entering would require time and leaving his Soul Imprint.

Ryan entered the Azure Sky Secret Realm after Azure Sky Wizard admitted she had deliberately delayed him and warned that the realm could transform visitors into entirely different lifeforms. He arrived beneath a Biological Constant Sun, while Venerable Emperor Grand Wizard watched from concealment and hoped Ryan would discover the legacy of the Path of Change.

• Azure Sky Wizard led Ryan through the forest for three days before revealing that she had been making him walk in circles because she disliked him.
• Azure Sky Wizard opened the Space Gate and warned Ryan that the secret realm could change his sex, age, race, and life essence.
• Ryan asked whether Azure Sky Wizard's childlike appearance was her original form, provoking her anger and prompting Venerable Emperor Grand Wizard to reveal his thoughts from hiding.
• Azure Sky Wizard warned Ryan to avoid the realm's most powerful beings, then disappeared into the void.
• Ryan entered the Azure Sky Secret Realm and saw a giant firefly-like creature whose light served as a sun.

Ryan spent decades studying the Azure Sky Secret Realm and its countless transformed lifeforms, combining what he learned about the Azure Sky Wizard’s Path of Change with his Aberrant Power. He finally identified evolution as the path’s essence and named its underlying principle the Change Equation.

• Ryan entered the Azure Sky Secret Realm and found that its bizarre creatures and living celestial phenomena offered a vast record of the Azure Sky Wizard’s Path of Change.
• Ryan studied transformed creatures across the secret realm, comparing their traits with the fusion abilities of Evil God Gendas and seeking the essence of the Azure Sky Wizard’s methods.
• After ten years of research, Ryan used his Aberrant Power and knowledge of change to grow an eye in his palm, beginning to develop a controlled form of his own transformation.
• Ryan continued researching for another ten years, made further progress, and returned to his laboratory to study the secret realm’s highest-level lifeforms.
• After twenty more years of study, Ryan concluded that the essence of the Path of Change was evolution and called its underlying principle the Change Equation.

Ryan continued researching the Change Equation in the Azure Sky Secret Realm while his clone managed the Hell Society and discussed Lando’s progress and search for Andersen. Elsewhere, Silver Sea Grand Wizard brought Saint Sin Wizard into being and prepared him to challenge Sky Crystal and Nightmare.

• Ryan devoted himself to studying the patterns behind Azure Sky Wizard’s transformations, hoping to master the Change Equation before the Starry Wars Assembly.
• Ryan Clone oversaw the Hell Society’s control of the Hell Pillar and spoke with Lando about exploring the Immortal Realm Legendary Civilization.
• Ryan Clone gave Lando the Roaming Immortal Inheritance and urged him to reach Earth Immortal level before the Starry Wars Assembly.
• Lando revealed that his investigations had narrowed Andersen’s possible location to the Eastern Region and named Greedy Wolf Ancient Tower, Bone-Chilling Black Forest, and the Primordial Land as suspects.
• Silver Sea Grand Wizard created Saint Sin Wizard from the Blood Sea and the life force of nine realms, then declared that he should defeat Sky Crystal and fight Nightmare.

Gray met Andersen, who revealed a plan to use the Legendary Series Potion to raise Gray to the Star Wizard Level and ordered him to join the Starry Wars Assembly. Elsewhere, Tianjing Wizard confronted Saintly Sin Wizard, and Silver Sea Grand Wizard accepted her defeat and prepared to honor her bet with Nightmare Wizard.

• Gray killed Winter Wizard and discovered that Andersen had been possessing her corpse to visit him.
• Andersen offered Gray a Legendary Series Potion made with a World Core and required him to join the Starry Wars Assembly; Gray agreed.
• Andersen left Winter Wizard's corpse to retrieve a key that would lead him to a sealed place containing the Daylight Rule.
• Tianjing Wizard faced Saintly Sin Wizard and gathered six Anomalies to attack him with Tianjing Piercing Kill.
• Silver Sea Grand Wizard asked Grand Wizard Zeyuan to arrange a meeting with Nightmare Wizard after learning Saintly Sin Wizard had died and she had lost to Grand Wizard Aix.
• Venerable Emperor Grand Wizard agreed to bring Nightmare Wizard to meet Silver Sea Grand Wizard and planned to pressure Nightmare Wizard to leave the Azure Sky Secret Realm.

Ryan inhabited the frail boy Reya Harak in the Kingdom of Leyden and explored the unfamiliar world with his Wizard powers. After learning that the Kasha Chamber of Commerce was secretly searching for a powerful mage’s tomb, he recognized the danger and opportunity before him, while his main body emerged from its laboratory in the Wizard World.

• Ryan examined Reya’s memories, restored the boy’s body by drawing vitality from nearby plants, and learned about the Kingdom of Leyden and its supernatural powers.
• Soke led Ryan to the Kasha Chamber of Commerce’s mining camp, where Hundred Victories Knight ordered him brought to his father, Hanks.
• Ryan secretly searched the memories of Soke, the guards, and people at the camp, learning that the Kasha Chamber of Commerce was mining Mage Silver while concealing its search for the Dragon Vein Archmage’s tomb.
• Ryan realized the tomb belonged to a Saint Domain mage with the potential to become a god and concluded that the world’s power made reckless action dangerous.
• Ryan’s main body walked out of his laboratory in the Wizard World.

After seventy years of research in the Azure Sky Secret Realm, Ryan mastered the Aberration Equation and returned to the Real World, where he learned that Disaster Wizard had reemerged and was challenging the Crimson Academy’s strongest Wizards. He planned to handle matters at the Hell Pillar before meeting Silver Sea Grand Wizard to receive her Radiant Moon Inheritance and prepare for a meeting with Karina a century later.

• Ryan used his Aberration Equation to control Aberrant Power and shape it into a sword, confirming he could direct mutations and reverse them.
• Ryan thanked Azure Sky Wizard, left the Azure Sky Secret Realm, and reunited his memories with his Split Body at the Hell Pillar.
• Venerable Emperor Grand Wizard told Ryan that Saint King Wizard had died fighting Tianjing Wizard and that Disaster Wizard had returned, defeated several thousand-year Wizards, and was preparing to challenge Earth Wizard.
• Ryan learned that Ancestor Blood Wizard had rejected Disaster Wizard’s challenge while Tianjing Wizard and Ryan were absent from the Crimson Academy.
• Venerable Emperor Grand Wizard said Ryan would meet Karina at Grand Wizard Hei Yu’s place in a hundred years and could receive Silver Sea Grand Wizard’s Radiant Moon Inheritance; Ryan chose to visit the Hell Pillar first.

At the third Hell Conference, Ryan announced the Star Cluster plan to cultivate promising Wizards and expand the Hell Pillar’s reach. He then defeated Lei Ling Wizard in the Simulated Battlefield and prepared for his final test: a simulated Bright Moon Grand Wizard modeled on Venerable Emperor Grand Wizard.

• Ryan appeared at the Hell Conference, where the Wizards recognized him as Lord of Hell and learned that he was addressing them in person.
• Ryan announced the Star Cluster plan, which would cultivate promising Wizards and strengthen the Hell Pillar’s foundations.
• Ryan defeated the badly wounded Lei Ling Wizard with the power of Hell after Lei Ling Wizard recalled how his force of fifty Veteran Star Wizards had been overwhelmed.
• Ryan entered the Simulated Battlefield and sensed a Bright Moon Grand Wizard-level opponent waiting by the ocean.
• Ryan revealed his Dream Wizard and Elemental Wizard powers, summoned his True Spirit body and weapons, and prepared to fight the simulated opponent modeled on Venerable Emperor Grand Wizard.

Ryan fought Radiant Moon, using his curses and Nightmare powers to damage and seemingly burn him to ashes. Radiant Moon survived through Andersen’s shadow power and struck Ryan through the heart, leaving the battle’s outcome uncertain.

• Radiant Moon suppressed Ryan by manipulating the environment, and Ryan bound his opponent’s power source with the Black Heart Red Line Sword.
• Ryan severed the cursed threads after they damaged Radiant Moon’s heart, then attacked with the Eye of Heavenly Evil and Void Endless Fire.
• Radiant Moon appeared to burn to ashes, but his remains vanished and Andersen’s shadow power trapped Ryan in a sealed domain.
• Andersen, revealed as Radiant Moon, ambushed Ryan with an Umbral sword and pierced his heart, destroying his True Spirit and body.
• Radiant Moon remained wary, used doppelgängers to guard against Ryan’s possible survival, and declared that he had killed him.

Ryan defeated Bright Moon in the simulated battlefield by combining his Nightmare powers with the Hell Pillar’s inheritance, then woke and prepared to visit Grand Wizard Hei Yu to claim the Black Feather Wings. With the Starry Wars Assembly approaching sooner than expected, Ryan began considering the inheritances, allies, and resources he needed to pursue.

• Ryan regenerated after Bright Moon destroyed his body, entered the Nightmare Fire Core Rune resonance state, and fought back with his enhanced powers.
• Ryan pierced Bright Moon’s layered spatial defenses with the Great Annihilation Death Spear and tore apart his body, while Bright Moon repeatedly recovered.
• Ryan used the Five Gloomy Ghosts Incantation Array to seal Bright Moon’s powers and win the simulated battle.
• Ryan returned to his bedroom, reflected on the approaching Starry Wars Assembly and possible rewards from Grand Wizards, and resolved to rest before making further plans.
• The next day, Ryan set out to visit Grand Wizard Hei Yu and see the Black Feather Wings.

Ryan visited Black Feather Wizard to receive the Black Feather Inheritance and accepted a speed trial to the Nine Heavens. After grafting the Black Feather Wings, Ryan discovered he could use them to travel through space and appeared in the Silver Sea Realm, where Grand Wizard Zeyuan sensed his True Blood.

• Ryan traveled to the Black Feather Pillar and met Black Feather Wizard, who gave him the Black Feather Wings promised by Venerable Emperor.
• Black Feather Wizard challenged Ryan to master the wings and race him to the Nine Heavens, offering to recommend him for the Nine Heavens Grand Wizard's inheritance if he could catch up.
• Ryan returned to the Hell Pillar and spent six days scanning the wings before grafting them onto his body, soul, and consciousness.
• Ryan mastered the wings, which formed a protective shell around his Sea of Consciousness and could shift through space.
• Ryan transformed the wings into a feathered half-cloak and used it to travel to the seabed of the Silver Sea Realm, where Grand Wizard Zeyuan sensed his True Blood.

Ryan questioned Grand Wizard Zeyuan about the secret behind Death's Deep Abyss Poison Dragon's Ancient Blood, but Zeyuan expelled him without answering. With the Starry Wars Assembly approaching and a final battle against Tianjing Wizard planned in a century, Ryan decided to challenge Grand Wizard Hei Yu for his inheritance and arrived at the Black Feather Secret Realm.

• Ryan visited Grand Wizard Zeyuan and suggested that Death's Deep Abyss Poison Dragon's Ancient Blood drew energy through a connection to special worlds.
• Zeyuan refused to reveal the secret, drove Ryan out of his seabed kingdom, and blasted him back to the Hell Pillar with a spatial passage and a powerful gust.
• Ryan considered his need for Legendary Heart Potions, the coming Starry Wars Assembly, and his planned battle with Tianjing Wizard in a century.
• Ryan decided to meet Grand Wizard Hei Yu and challenge him to a contest of speed for his inheritance.
• Hei Yu was surprised that Ryan had already gained an initial grasp of the Black Feather Wings, but warned that mastering them differed from using them skillfully.

Wang Ya followed Grand Wizard Blackfeather into the dangerous spaces of the Nine Heavens to compete in a speed challenge, using the Eye of Truth to assess a perilous route. Meanwhile, Solomon experienced a strange vision that made him rage at Andersen.

• Grand Wizard Blackfeather explained that the Nine Heavens were nine stacked layers of space and led Wang Ya into them for their challenge.
• Wang Ya endured the crushing passage between spaces and followed Blackfeather's fading aura through dangerous anomalies.
• Wang Ya found a blue spiral wind filled with the remains of a destroyed nation and hesitated when his projection vanished inside it.
• Blackfeather assumed Wang Ya had stopped, but Wang Ya used the Eye of Truth to glimpse what lay ahead and entered the spiral with his real body.
• Solomon felt an ominous disturbance at the Pillar of Hell, experienced a blue-lit vision, and cried out Andersen's name in fury.

Solomon the Divine Child awakened strange memories and manifested a powerful blue blade, while Ryan traveled with Grand Wizard Hei Yu through the starry sky toward the Nine Heavens inheritance. Ryan survived a dangerous glimpse through the Gray Gate and was left weakened but protected from deeper harm.

• Solomon the Divine Child experienced a surge of memories and supernatural knowledge, including an intense urge to kill someone named Andersen.
• Solomon the Divine Child reassured concerned Wizards, sought help contacting Nightmare Wizard, and discovered that his Slaughter Mark had changed.
• Solomon the Divine Child summoned and tested a nearly indestructible blue blade, while unseen watchers transmitted information about him.
• Ryan followed Grand Wizard Hei Yu across the Gray Steps and received the Black Feather Inheritance as they approached the Gray Gate.
• Ryan gazed into the Gray Gate, saw the lethal darkness corrupting his body and Sea of Consciousness, and stopped when a voice warned him.
• Ryan survived with protection from his Black Feather Wings and Fire Core Rune chains, though his body and Sea of Consciousness were badly weakened.

After Ryan survived contact with Dark Tide Space, Nine Heavens Grand Wizard and Grand Wizard Hei Yu examined him and found no lasting damage. While Ryan secretly investigated how Dark Tide Energy had affected his body, Nine Heavens proposed a contract for an experiment she claimed could greatly increase his strength.

• Grand Wizard Hei Yu shielded Ryan from Dark Tide Space's influence, and Nine Heavens Grand Wizard arrived and explained how rare it was for him to survive exposure.
• Ryan recovered by drinking nutritional potions, expelled contaminated black blood, and privately suspected Dark Tide Energy had changed through contact with his Primal Force Path Wizard Body.
• Grand Wizard Hei Yu took Ryan to the Nine Heavens High Tower, where Wizard instruments examined him and confirmed he needed only ten days or half a month to recuperate.
• Nine Heavens Grand Wizard criticized her World Shaping Method for drawing Dark Tide Space into the Nine Heavens Great World, while Ryan began scanning the unknown effects of Dark Tide Energy.
• During a private examination, Nine Heavens Grand Wizard offered Ryan a Wizard Contract for an experiment she said could transform his strength and help him win the Starry Wars Assembly.

Ryan secured Nine Heavens Grand Wizard’s inheritance and the World Shaping Method, along with ten Spacetime Origin Beads from Grand Wizard Hei Yu. He then went to Grand Wizard Li Ri’s Pillar to pursue another inheritance, where Li Ri appeared behind him and asked him to test a newly completed wizardry technique.

• Venerable Emperor Grand Wizard stopped Nine Heavens Grand Wizard from experimenting on Ryan and demanded her highest-grade World Shaping Method and inheritance.
• Grand Wizard Hei Yu explained that Nine Heavens Great World fused nine projected spatial worlds and described Nine Heavens Grand Wizard’s research into their powers.
• Ryan returned to Black Feather Secret Realm with the two inheritances and ten Spacetime Origin Beads, which could raise his Black Feather Wings to Bright Moon Grand Wizard level.
• Ryan decided to seek the remaining Rank 3 Bright Moon inheritances and traveled to Grand Wizard Li Ri’s Pillar despite its lethal heat and defenses.
• After Ryan activated the Crimson Wizard Array with his Hell Token, Grand Wizard Li Ri appeared behind him unseen and asked him to evaluate a wizardry technique.

Ryan received Grand Wizard Li Ri’s inheritance and accompanied him through a portal to an ancient Japanese world, where Li Ri planned to test his World Collapse Chain Wizardry. Ryan began collecting specimens in the city and encountered Tanjiro, who sensed that something terrible was coming.

• Grand Wizard Li Ri gave Ryan the Li Ri Inheritance and invited him to help research the World Destruction Origin Wizardry.
• Grand Wizard Li Ri opened a portal to a Planet World and brought Ryan’s consciousness through its spacetime passage.
• Ryan created a temporary Split Body and, with Grand Wizard Li Ri, arrived near a city in the unfamiliar world.
• Ryan asked to collect specimens while Grand Wizard Li Ri prepared to cast his Domain Collapse Chain Wizardry.
• Ryan explored the city and saw Tanjiro pass by with a girl, while Tanjiro sensed an impending danger.