Chapter Summaries

Minnie faced an attack by the Wilson and Wallace Families, but Aaron intervened and forced them to retreat before trading protection for Alexander’s diaries and research materials. After Minnie died, Aaron began reading the diaries and learned that Alexander had joined the Bloody Hand, a blood warlock organization.

• Minnie fought the Wilson and Wallace Families until Dharma betrayed her and helped them overwhelm her.
• Aaron arrived, defeated Dharma, and made the three opposing apprentices leave.
• Aaron asked Minnie for copies of Alexander’s diaries and materials, offering to protect the Meni Family for one hundred years in return.
• Minnie delivered the documents, signed Aaron’s binding contract, and died within days; Aaron attended her funeral.
• Aaron read Alexander’s diaries and learned that Alexander had joined the Bloody Hand, which proved to be a savage blood warlock organization.

Aaron learned that burning vitality could trigger a bloodline leap, then used his immortality to advance to an official Sorcerer and awaken the Hermes Bird bloodline. He investigated a great-serpent legend in Mori Village, but his attempt to draw out the creature ended with a forked tongue appearing above him.

• Aaron learned from Alexander's diary and Minnie's account that apprentices used the Water of Life to survive the vitality-burning technique required for advancement, and he tested the technique on captives.
• Aaron burned his vitality in a mountain forest, advanced to an official Sorcerer, and evolved his Bloodthirsty Madbird bloodline into the Hermes Bird, gaining the Wings of Hermes spell.
• Aaron decided to investigate dangerous locations marked on his map of Adersen Continent and traveled to Mori Village to examine its Dream Great Serpent legend.
• Aaron spread Dream-Repelling Incense throughout Mori Village, restrained the militia, and questioned the militia captain about the serpent's legend.
• Aaron suspected the serpent might exist within legends rather than dreams and turned to leave, but a purple-black forked tongue suddenly dangled down from the air.

Aaron survived the Legendary Serpent’s curse by sealing it with the Mother of Serpents’ illusion, then founded the Wings of Hermes to search for sorcerer talent and trade for bloodlines. Decades later, he went to Meni Castle after receiving a message about the Meni Family and demanded to see Count Meni.

• Aaron fled the Legendary Serpent, but its curse followed him, killed Shadow Spider members, and wrapped him in tiny black snakes.
• Aaron found that the Mother of Serpents’ illusion helped resist the curse, then sealed the two forces against each other on his hand.
• Aaron planned and established the Wings of Hermes, recruiting talented children and orphans to build a network for trading sorcerer bloodlines.
• Decades later, Aaron remained a Level 1 sorcerer and received a message mentioning the Meni Family.
• Aaron arrived at Meni Castle, knocked Robert into the dirt, and demanded a guide to Count Meni.

Aaron sent new apprentices to the Sorcerer Continent, learned from Cici’s diary about a dangerous ancient ruin, and spent decades waiting as his seal weakened. Charlemagne returned as a formal sorcerer to seize Wings of Hermes’ bloodlines, but Aaron confronted him and appeared to be struck by a corrosive spell.

• Count Meni asked Aaron to take two talented family members to the Sorcerer Continent, and Aaron told them to gather at Birch Grove in three days.
• Aaron sent enhanced demon hunters from Wings of Hermes aboard the airship, which accepted every apprentice who applied.
• Aaron read Cici’s diary, learned that she had died after her teacher fell in the Urobo Ruins, and decided to send future apprentices to investigate the ruins.
• Fifty years later, Aaron sensed someone using sorcery to locate him as his seal weakened, while Charlemagne returned to Aderson Island as a formal sorcerer.
• Charlemagne found Aaron’s castle and demanded the Hermes Bird bloodline, but Aaron revealed his greater strength, killed the duchess’s knights, and attacked him.
• Charlemagne fired an Arrow of Corrosion that followed Aaron and drenched him in acid, then smiled as if he had won.

Aaron defeated Charlemagne and obtained Alan's Book of Curses, which revealed that he might be under a curse from a high-ranking being. After decades of caution, he resumed activity as Wings of Hermes, just as three apprentices arrived seeking its help to purify their Bloodthirsty Madbird bloodline.

• Aaron broke through Charlemagne's Corrosive Arrow attack and gravely wounded him, but Charlemagne sacrificed his life to summon the Scorpion of Manning and curse Aaron.
• The Scorpion of Manning recoiled from the powerful presences surrounding Aaron, gave him Alan's Book of Curses, and exploded after Aaron pressed it to explain the origins of a woman and a snake.
• Aaron read the book and learned that curses left by beings above Level Seven could be impossible to lift without matching their rank; he suspected he had encountered such a curse.
• Aaron avoided Duling, a dying formal warlock of the Mithri Family, and waited ten years after her death before resuming activity as Wings of Hermes.
• Fifty years later, Linda, Louis, and another apprentice arrived on the Adersen Continent to find Wings of Hermes and seek a way to purify their Bloodthirsty Madbird bloodline.

Aaron traded bloodline purification to three Sorcerer Apprentices for their valuables, then discovered that the black manuscript pages were fragments of the cursed Book of Yibofeisi. After a frightening illusion linked to the curse, he began a ritual sacrifice to contact powerful hidden beings, leaving the offering unresolved.

• Linda and the two Apprentices met Aaron in the mist and offered valuables in exchange for bloodline purification.
• Aaron accepted several items, including the Book of Yibofeisi fragments, and gave the three Apprentices Bloodthirsty Banshee bloodlines that improved their chances of becoming formal Sorcerers.
• Aaron deciphered the manuscript fragments, which explored high-level meditation and the chaotic power of the void, and learned more about the Sorcerer Continent’s war and the Urobo Sorcerer Ruins.
• A blood-red woman’s statue and a giant snake appeared in Aaron’s study before vanishing, prompting him to conclude that a curse or malicious thought had created an illusion capable of affecting reality.
• Half a month later, Aaron performed a Four Symbols ritual, invoked the Hermes Bird, and prepared to offer part of his body as a sacrifice.

Aaron released the Legendary Serpent and other accumulated curses to make them battle the Hermes Bird and Mother of Serpents, then emerged with a new Legendary Serpent bloodline and a high-level meditation method. After spending more than a decade practicing, he finally formed the Mobius Serpent in his sea of consciousness and began steadily strengthening his willpower.

• Aaron destroyed his seal and unleashed the Legendary Serpent and his suppressed curses, then hid his consciousness while the curses fought through his body.
• The Legendary Serpent swallowed the crimson statue of a woman and battled the Hermes Bird until it swallowed Aaron.
• Aaron awoke after the clash, shed his damaged skin, and discovered that the Legendary Serpent had become his bloodline and granted him the Mobius Serpent Meditation Method.
• Aaron learned that the bloodline's will had been broken, freeing him from its source, and considered raising the bloodline without fear of rebellion.
• Aaron studied the Mobius Serpent Meditation Method for more than a decade before forming its rune-serpent loop and beginning to strengthen his willpower.

Tifflin arrived on Aderson Island and forced its sorcerer families and Apprentices to submit to Scarlet University, then used the Thousand Spirits Blood Sail to slaughter the island’s people. When the blood sail beast exposed Aaron’s castle, Aaron confronted Tifflin, who mistook him for a formal sorcerer fleeing the war and attacked.

• Tifflin announced that Aderson Island’s sorcerer families must relocate to the Sorcerer Continent and undergo the trial of war, then compelled them to sign blood-bound contracts.
• Tifflin used the Thousand Spirits Blood Sail to overwhelm a resisting apprentice, and a low-level apprentice revealed the Shadow Spider and Wings of Hermes.
• Aaron learned that the Shadow Spider had been wiped out and reinforced the Secrecy barrier around his castle.
• Tifflin failed to discover the Shadow Spider’s leader, then unleashed the blood sail beast on Aderson Island and killed countless people to feed it.
• The blood sail beast triggered Aaron’s defenses and exposed his castle, bringing Aaron face-to-face with Tifflin.
• Tifflin mistook Aaron for a formal warlock fleeing the continental war and hurled bloody magic at him.

Aaron defeated Tifflin, seized the Blood Sail Beast, and took control of Aderson Island before advancing to Rank 4 through a bloodline transition. As he traced his Legendary Serpent bloodline back through successive transformations, he reached Ouroboros, who noticed him.

• Aaron overwhelmed Tifflin, took control of the Blood Sail Beast, and killed Tifflin despite the warning from Professor Blood Witch.
• Aaron made Grand Duke Meni lead the surrendered Apprentices and ordered them to unite Aderson Island under the Hermes Empire.
• The Meni Family and other nobles unified Aderson Island, while the Apprentices learned Aaron led Wings of Hermes.
• Aaron advanced to Rank 4 and transformed into his Legendary Serpent bloodline form in a palace that collapsed under his growing body.
• Aaron spent thousands of years of lifespan to shed his skin nine times, tracing his bloodline through ancient serpents to Ouroboros, who noticed him.

Aaron met Uroboros, learned that the ancient Urobo sorcerers had ascended from its world, and gained the Infinite Serpent bloodline and Level 7 power. A year later, he destroyed an invading fleet, transformed Dorothy into an elf snake, and sent her to defeat the Red Robe Sorcerers’ Prince and unify the Sorcerer Continent.

• Aaron spoke with Uroboros, who warned him that gifted or contaminated beings like him would eventually join a war among eternal beings and asked him to keep the sorcerers from endangering the world.
• Aaron awoke at the palace ruins as a Level 7 sorcerer with the Infinite Serpent bloodline and decided to wait for Tifflin’s teacher before choosing whether to unify the continent.
• Blood Witch and Dorothy led a fleet to Aderson Island to attack the sorcerer they believed was hiding there.
• Aaron emerged before the fleet and destroyed it with a black hole, killing Blood Witch while Dorothy fled and begged for mercy.
• Aaron transformed Dorothy into a Level 4 elf snake by modifying her bloodline, then ordered her to defeat the Red Robe Sorcerers’ Prince and unify the Sorcerer Continent.

Aaron ruled the Sorcerer Continent as its Sorcerer Emperor while seeking a way to master concepts, then explored the Urobo Ruins and found a message from Sorcerers who had ascended dimensions. The coordinate in their message triggered the dimensional transformation he had been suppressing.

• Aaron accepted the black- and red-robed Sorcerers’ submission, ended their war, and ordered them to restore the previous balance.
• Over the following centuries, Aaron’s rule brought peace to the Sorcerer Continent, but his attempts to condense the Concepts of Blood and Snake failed.
• When a higher dimension summoned him, Aaron resisted and rode his white-scaled serpent to the Sorcerer Continent, where the serpent swallowed Arophis Bliss after his challenge.
• Aaron entered the Urobo Ruins, opened a stone door protected by conceptual power, and retrieved a stone box containing a message and coordinate from the ascended Urobo Sorcerers.
• After Aaron deciphered the message, the coordinate triggered the dimensional ascension transformation he had been suppressing.

Aaron became a cosmic lifeform and returned to Blue Star as Ning Chen underwent the same evolution. Ning Chen secured Blue Star’s lordship after agreeing to fulfill an unspecified future request from Aaron, who warned him that pirates and alien powers could still threaten the planet.

• Aaron emerged from Pluto as a cosmic lifeform and headed for Blue Star, expecting the planet to open to the universe soon.
• Ning Chen’s gene evolution appeared to be collapsing, but his body stabilized and he emerged as a cosmic lifeform.
• Ning Chen applied to become Blue Star’s lord, only to learn that Aaron had already filed an application.
• Aaron agreed to withdraw his application if Ning Chen promised to fulfill an unspecified condition whenever Aaron chose to name it, and Ning Chen accepted.
• The Galactic High Judge confirmed Ning Chen as Blue Star’s lord after Aaron withdrew his application.
• Aaron warned Ning Chen that interstellar pirates and civilizations could threaten Blue Star despite the Interstellar Convention.

Ning Chen trained at the Blood Battle Martial Arts School while Aaron demonstrated his strength and explained the dangers posed by interstellar pirates. As Blue Star debated its defenses, a Black Dragon transport ship near the Solar System chose to raid the planet for slaves.

• Aaron knocked Ning Chen out with one punch, then fought Coach Nick Filer and defeated him with Serpent Bind.
• Nick Filer explained that Aaron had the talent to seek admission to Laniakea University and described the major schools and martial organizations.
• Aaron told Ning Chen about the Black Dragon Pirate Group and other powerful pirate factions, while Nick Filer vowed revenge on the Black Dragon Slave-Hunting Squad.
• Blue Star's leaders debated how to defend their civilization, with Elder Li arguing that they needed weapons against interstellar pirates.
• A Black Dragon transport ship approached the Solar System, and its mantis commander ordered the crew to capture inhabitants of Blue Star for the slave market.

Ning Chen confessed to Blue Star’s leaders that his power came from wishes, while Aaron traded the Hometown Box’s coordinates to the Urobo sorcerers for access to a great sage’s inheritance. The sorcerers destroyed the Black Dragon Pirate Group, and Ning Chen learned of the news just after revealing his secret to the Alliance.

• Ning Chen watched footage of pirates abducting millions of people in the Americas, blamed himself for being too weak to protect humanity, and broke down as Shen Qingling comforted him.
• Aaron met Urovi and other Urobo sorcerers in a virtual space, agreed to trade the Hometown Box’s coordinates for a chance to study Great Sage Marius’s Book of Sorcery, and mentioned that the Black Dragon Pirate Group had offended him.
• Urovi and a female sorceress attacked Black Dragon Star, and Urovi used dimensional reduction to trap Mo and his warship as the Black Dragon Pirate Group was destroyed.
• Ning Chen came clean to Blue Star’s leaders about how he had obtained his golden finger, and the meeting was interrupted with news that the Black Dragon Pirate Group had been wiped out.
• Ning Chen checked his virtual universe mailbox and wondered if he could take back his confession.

Aaron enrolled in Laniakea University's Martial Artist Department, where Bogrosha Aili tried to assassinate him over the Sorcerer's Book inheritance. After Aaron cursed Bogrosha Aili's bloodline and its destruction became public news, he read the book and discovered that its eighth-rank sorcerer had mastered the concept of stars.

• Urovi enrolled Aaron in Laniakea University's Martial Artist Department and gave him a library pass to the Sorcerer's Book.
• Bogrosha Aili offered Aaron 100 Coins for his library pass, then decided to kill him after learning he came from the Milky Way.
• Aaron settled into a dormitory formed by the living mountain Arno and detected Bogrosha Aili's assassination attempt that night.
• Aaron exposed the attack as an illusion and cursed Bogrosha Aili and all bloodlines connected to him, after which news reported the Aili Family's destruction.
• Aaron asked Professor Di Lu to let him read the Sorcerer's Book, overcame its guardian snake, and discovered that the eighth-rank sorcerer's concept was stars.

Five hundred years after Blue Star entered the cosmic era, Ning Chen learned that Aaron was the Laniakea University admissions teacher and was accepted into the university. Aaron then assessed the worsening Cosmic God Race war and continued developing his Star Devourer power.

• Ning Chen reviewed Blue Star’s growth and worried about news of the Cosmic God Race’s attacks beyond the alliance.
• Nick Filer told Ning Chen that an admissions figure from Laniakea University had set him a test, and Ning Chen used Secret Source to master the Star-Burst technique.
• Ning Chen met Aaron at the admissions assessment, but Aaron granted him admission before Ning Chen could explain that he had passed the test.
• Aaron left the virtual universe and noted that the war against the Cosmic God Race was more costly than public reports suggested.
• Aaron merged with a white dwarf and explained that he had begun the Star Devourer path by consuming barren stars.

Ning Chen’s wish-powered mecha brought him into conflict with the Cosmic God Race and revealed Aaron’s role in shaping his fate. After sending Ning Chen to the Eleventh Dimension, Aaron returned to Invis and restored the Green Forest and the people he cherished.

• Ning Chen arrived at Laniakea University, where Aaron watched him from afar.
• A thousand years later, the Cosmic God Race attacked Laniakea University, and Ning Chen used the Miracle Mecha to destroy a God Emperor.
• Ning Chen’s wish drove him into madness, and Aaron revealed that he had given Ning Chen his cheat and intended him to take Aaron’s place on the Eleventh Dimension’s battlefield.
• Aaron defeated Ning Chen, altered history to remove the memory of the cheat, and sent him into the Eleventh Dimension.
• Aaron returned to Invis, restored the Green Forest and the Sothoth Family castle, and summoned Ginny Sothos, Lilliat Sothos, and others from his memories.