Chapter Summaries

Polina believed she had turned Quentin to the Creation Society, but Quentin used his initiation to uncover its plans and secretly reported them to Lynn. With an attack on the Emerald Orchid Principality set for three days later, Lynn told Evelyn about the plot, the Feathered Serpent Society traitor, and Karen’s collusion.

• Polina prepared to use Quentin to infiltrate Viscount Rayton’s circle, unaware that Quentin reported her every move to Lynn.
• Lynn continued placing wizards throughout the Emerald Orchid Principality while Quentin entered the Creation Society’s soul-binding ritual and pretended to pledge himself to its cause.
• After Quentin gained the Society’s trust, its members revealed their rebellion plans, named a Feathered Serpent Society insider, and ordered him and Polina to help kill Viscount Rayton.
• Quentin sent Lynn the Society’s plan to unleash chaos across the principality in three days and reported that one of Karen’s subordinates was involved.
• Lynn told Evelyn about the planned attack and the traitors, and Evelyn resolved to gather evidence against Karen and report him to the Alliance.

After the Creation Society launched a nationwide uprising in the Emerald Orchid Principality, Lynn and Evelyn reassured Leina City's leaders that their forces had already suppressed the revolt. Quentin then infiltrated the Society's plot to poison Leina City's water supply, and Lynn and Evelyn arrived as he turned against the conspirators.

• The Creation Society staged coordinated uprisings across the Emerald Orchid Principality, causing nobles and officials to flee or surrender.
• Count Vail and other leaders gathered at Evelyn's residence, where Evelyn exposed and killed several Creation Society collaborators.
• Lynn told the crowd that his dispatched forces had already cleared the uprisings throughout the country.
• Polina revealed to Quentin that the Creation Society's headquarters rested atop the moving World Tree and that successful sacrifices earned Guidance to reach it.
• The Society's core operatives prepared to poison Leina City's water system with a corrupted tree and Feathered Serpent blood, hoping to kill Lynn and Evelyn and gain the World Tree's Guidance.
• After receiving a signal, Quentin seized the fused divine tree and revealed that he was a good person, just as Lynn and Evelyn descended into the underground passage.

After crushing the Creation Society’s rebellion, Evelyn took Lynn and the captured leaders and evidence to the Alchemist Alliance headquarters in the Crystal Rock Empire to expose Karen’s collusion and force the Alliance to act. The Golden Thrones reviewed the evidence, but when they reached a decision, they turned their auras on Evelyn and Lynn.

• Quentin visited the imprisoned Polina, but she spat in his face and rejected him.
• Evelyn’s Feathered Serpent God totem appeared stronger, and she departed with Lynn and the captured Creation Society leaders for the Crystal Rock Empire.
• Lynn and Evelyn arrived at the Crystal Rock Empire’s capital, built atop the horn of the Crystal Rock Beast God, and were escorted to the Golden Hall.
• The Golden Thrones reviewed Evelyn’s evidence and questioned the Creation Society captives before deciding how to respond to Karen’s alleged collusion.
• After the resolution passed, the Golden Thrones simultaneously focused their auras on Lynn and Evelyn.

Evelyn presented evidence of Karen’s collusion with the Creation Society to the Golden Thrones, who killed Karen and promised compensation for the Emerald Orchid Principality. They then pressured Evelyn to give up her Feathered Serpent God bloodline to nourish a divine tree and guide the Alliance to the World Tree, and she agreed, teasing Lynn about their future child inheriting the Feathered Serpent Society.

• Evelyn presented her evidence against Karen to the Golden Thrones, who suppressed her with their Golden Totem power while leaving Lynn untouched.
• The Skyborne Throne declared Karen guilty and killed him, while Kaelvan promised double compensation to the Emerald Orchid Principality.
• The Crystal Rock Throne revealed that the divine tree needed a great amount of Feathered Serpent God bloodline to open a path of guidance to the World Tree.
• The Golden Thrones pressured Evelyn to surrender her bloodline, promising protection, compensation, and that her child with Lynn could inherit the Feathered Serpent Society.
• Evelyn agreed, then teased Lynn by pointing out that the Thrones had promised their child the Society’s leadership.

Evelyn began sacrificing her Feathered Serpent God bloodline to awaken the divine tree, while Lynn prepared for his true body’s eventual arrival in the Crystal Rock Empire. After the Creation Society’s disastrous defeat in the Emerald Orchid Principality, the Creator personally went to the World Tree and faced an unsolvable problem.

• Evelyn told Lynn she had agreed to surrender her bloodline to preserve the Feathered Serpent Society, then teased him about having a child with her; Lynn fled, and Evelyn privately resolved to keep him from escaping her.
• The Alchemist Alliance’s victory over the Creation Society became public, while Karen entered seclusion, Evelyn remained in the Crystal Rock Empire, and the Flame Demon King went to protect the Emerald Orchid Principality.
• Lynn sent his Wizard Apprentices to survey the Crystal Rock Empire as the Alchemist Alliance established a guarded site around the divine tree’s sapling.
• Evelyn nourished the divine tree with her blood, weakening herself as Lynn supported her and Extreme Cold Ice Phoenix watched; another ritual was scheduled for three days later.
• After the Creation Society’s operation in the Emerald Orchid Principality failed and its core members were captured, the Creator personally went to the World Tree.
• In a dreamlike void beside the World Tree, the Creator furrowed his brows over an unsolvable problem.

The Creator discovered that Quentin’s soul trace had reappeared near the Alchemist Alliance and concluded that its countermeasures threatened the World Tree, so he ordered the Creation Society to accelerate the tree’s growth through slaughter. As the Society launched suicidal attacks across the continent, Evelyn learned that the war had worsened and that the three supreme Thrones were counting on finding the Creator.

• The Creator briefly sensed Quentin’s soul near the Alchemist Alliance headquarters, but the trace vanished before he could mark it.
• The Creator decided the Alchemist Alliance had found a way to evade the World Tree’s soul tracking and ordered the World Tree awakened early through mass bloodshed.
• The Creator summoned believers across the continent and urged them to sacrifice their lives to nourish the World Tree.
• After Evelyn’s bloodline nourishment, Extreme Cold Phoenix told her the Creation Society had launched life-for-life offensives and seized more than half the borderlands.
• Extreme Cold Phoenix reassured Evelyn that the Feathered Serpent Society and her trusted subordinates had been moved to safety, while the three supreme Thrones sought the Creator as a way to end the conflict.

The Alchemist Alliance sacrificed territory to gather its forces and open a passage to the World Tree, preparing its “Certain Kill” counterattack against the Creation Society. As the final battle began, Lynn revealed that he had reached the Golden Throne realm and took Evelyn toward the vortex gate, while he prepared to travel from the Wizard World through the Gate of Stars.

• The Creation Society’s reckless assault overwhelmed the Alchemist Alliance, which retreated from most territories to concentrate its forces in the Crystal Rock Empire.
• The three supreme Thrones infused the Bloodthirsty Tree with their totemic power, opening a vortex passage to the World Tree.
• The Flame Demon King ordered the Alchemist Alliance’s entire army to prepare for battle, and its alchemists began entering the passage.
• Lynn appeared beside Evelyn, revealed a golden totem, and took her toward the vortex gate despite her protests.
• In the Wizard World, Lynn stood before the Gate of Stars with the Spirit Eye Wizard, the unresponsive Quentin, Bevny, and Ais Cui, noting that the three supreme Thrones had missed the World Tree’s flaw.

Lynn and Evelyn entered the Gate of the Vortex and discovered that the World Tree stood on the moon, where the Alchemist Alliance’s forces were already fighting the Creator. As the Creator faced the gathered Golden Thrones and alchemists, the World Tree stirred with an unfamiliar power.

• Lynn and Evelyn entered the Gate of the Vortex and arrived on the moon, where Lynn realized the World Tree was there.
• Lynn saw two moons and suspected they represented the old world and the new world shaped by the World Tree.
• Lynn and Evelyn approached the World Tree and found the Alchemist Alliance’s formations battling its forces.
• Lynn recognized the gathered Golden Thrones, including the Crystal Rock Beast God, Skyborne Wings, and Fish Dragon Emperor, facing the Creator alone.
• The Creator dismissed the alchemists’ numerical advantage, and the World Tree began to release a new power beyond the third level.

The Creator unleashed the World Tree’s rule-based power, slaughtering nearly all the low-ranking Alchemists and sacrificing the Creation Society’s followers to hasten the old world’s collapse. As the Golden Thrones rallied around their three supreme fighters, a strange soul aura appeared and the sky cracked open, prompting Lynn to prepare to enter the battle.

• The Creator unsealed the World Tree’s suppressive rules, destroying the formations and killing most of the Bronze and Silver Alchemists.
• The World Tree drew the dead Alchemists’ life and blood aura toward itself, while the Creator sacrificed the Creation Society’s followers and declared that their deaths would bring the new world closer.
• Lynn protected Evelyn and observed that the catastrophe had nearly wiped out the low-ranking Alchemists on both sides, leaving the Golden Thrones to decide the battle.
• The Golden Thrones formed a battle array and poured their totem power into the Crystal Rock Beast God, Skyborne Wings, and the Fish Dragon Emperor.
• A strange soul aura disturbed the Creator and the three supreme Thrones, while Lynn recognized its familiar scent and prepared to take the stage.
• The Creator and the three supreme Thrones looked up as cracks appeared in the sky.

Lynn and the Spirit Eye Wizard entered the planar world to claim its World Tree and fourth-level opportunity, interrupting the Creator’s battle against the three supreme Thrones. Lynn’s true body emerged from the rift after using an avatar to draw away the plane’s lightning, and he named the world World 001.

• Lynn opened the Gate of Stars and ordered his wizards to prepare for the aftermath before entering the planar world with the Spirit Eye Wizard.
• The Creator and the three supreme Thrones sensed an invading fourth-level presence and considered joining forces, but the Thrones resented the world’s origin and refused to trust the Creator.
• Lynn and the Spirit Eye Wizard appeared at a rift in the sky, and the plane’s lightning targeted the intruders.
• Lynn’s avatar drew the lightning away from his true body, giving him time to emerge safely from the rift.
• Lynn declared the planar world his first conquered plane and named it World 001.

Lynn arrived with Spirit Eye Wizard and used the true Level Four wizard’s power to defeat the plane’s defenders and take control of Plane World 001. Inside Spirit Eye Wizard’s Pale Domain, Lynn confronted Kaelvan and the Golden Thrones over their past crimes, while the Creator and World Tree faced Spirit Eye Wizard.

• Lynn revealed Spirit Eye Wizard’s overwhelming Level Four aura, freezing the battlefield and forcing the Creator and the three supreme powerhouses to hesitate.
• Lynn ordered Spirit Eye Wizard to act, and Spirit Eye Wizard used Level Four Witchcraft, Pale Eye, to draw the Creator, the three supreme powerhouses, the Golden Thrones, and Evelyn into his Pale Domain.
• Lynn relived Kaelvan’s attempt to kill him and crushed Kaelvan in the recreated scene.
• Lynn revisited the Golden Hall, killed the Golden Thrones who had pressured Evelyn, then repeatedly restored them so they would suffer the memories of their deaths.
• Spirit Eye Wizard confronted the Creator and World Tree, allowing Lynn to take over Plane World 001.

Lynn and the Spirit Eye Wizard defeated Plane World 001, and Lynn obtained the World Tree while the Creator’s memories were extracted. As wizard armies began developing the conquered plane, Lynn stayed on the second moon to refine the World Tree and pursue advancement.

• The Spirit Eye Wizard trapped the Golden Thrones and the Creator in the Pale Domain, where the Golden Thrones suffered repeated torment and the Creator’s memories were extracted for Lynn.
• Evelyn ended the punishment and demanded that Lynn explain the truth about Lord Rayton, so he moved their conversation to a garden in the Pale Domain.
• Lynn teased Evelyn, drew her into his arms, and left the Pale Domain with her.
• Wizard armies entered Plane World 001 to survey its resources and gradually transform it according to Wizard World knowledge and customs.
• Lynn, the Spirit Eye Wizard, Bevny, and Evelyn gathered on the second moon, where Lynn began refining the World Tree and working toward advancement.

Lynn studied the requirements for advancing to Morning Star and concluded that his best path was to help Ivgried reach Level 4, then fuse with her during his breakthrough. Comparing Ivgried with the World Tree, he confirmed that the two plants were likely closely related, strengthening his belief that his unusual resources could overcome the risks of the Nature Wizard path.

• Lynn reviewed how different wizard paths reached Level 4 and determined that Nature Wizards relied on their contracted plants’ potential to comprehend rules.
• Lynn decided to remain a Nature Wizard and identified Ivgried’s advancement as the main condition for his own breakthrough.
• Lynn concluded that he had resources to handle the mental-power potion requirement and that his permanent spell mark would form during his breakthrough.
• Lynn explained that a Nature Wizard entering Morning Star had to absorb their contracted plant, making the plant’s potential crucial to success.
• Lynn used his connection to the World Tree and Ivgried to exchange their auras, then concluded that the two plants were nearly the same kind and invoked Chauntea, the Goddess of Nature and Life.

Lynn discovered that Ivgried shared an origin with the Level 4 World Tree and planned to let it mature before using Nature Wizard techniques to fuse with and devour the World Tree. After the successful expedition to Plane World 001, he was interrupted in seclusion by an official message announcing a campaign to destroy the Meteorite Council.

• Lynn realized he could use the World Tree to accelerate Ivgried’s evolution and chose to wait until both trees reached their fullest potential before attempting fusion and devouring.
• Lynn’s forces developed Plane World 001, and the expedition’s spoils increased the Hall of Life’s Treasury of Temptation by more than a third.
• Lynn returned to secluded cultivation while Bevny handled the expedition’s aftermath.
• The Night Shadow Wizard contacted Lynn on behalf of the Wizard Council and said the operation involved the Nightmare Rift, the Meteorite Council, and other factions.
• The Night Shadow Wizard revealed that the Wizard Council planned to wipe out the Meteorite Council in a coordinated strike.

Lynn learned that the Wizard Council was preparing to purge the Meteorite Council’s extremists and decided to cooperate while withdrawing to Plane World 001 to pursue his Morning Star breakthrough. There, he discovered a tiny illusory tree forming between Ivgried and the World Tree, marked with six distinctive growth rings.

• The Night Shadow Wizard briefed Lynn on the Wizard Council’s purge plans, and Lynn realized the Spirit Eye Wizard could help the council control the Meteorite Council’s remaining Star-Shattering members.
• Lynn assessed the threats posed by Furnace Stone, Nightmare Rift, Aquila, and Master Warhammer, and concluded that he needed to become a Morning Star Wizard to protect himself.
• The Spirit Eye Wizard delivered a request from the Meteorite Council for intelligence, and Lynn ordered him to assist while recording the contact and sending a copy to the Wizard Council.
• Lynn chose to have the Hall of Life cooperate with the Wizard Council while he disappeared to Plane World 001 to prepare for his breakthrough.
• Lynn found Ivgried and the World Tree withered and pale, and saw a small illusory tree forming between them with six distinctive growth rings.

Lynn waited for the fused World Tree to mature, then bound it to himself and began refining it as his second-stage extraordinary plant. With the refinement complete, he prepared to use two treasures to attempt his breakthrough to Morning Star Wizard.

• Lynn watched the sapling form over seven days, while the World Tree and Ivgried gave up their lives and origins to it.
• After waiting fourteen days for the right moment, Lynn named the fused plant the World Tree and renewed its contract with him.
• Lynn drew the World Tree into his spiritual domain, stabilized his cracking spiritual power, and chose to refine its spiritual form.
• The World Tree merged throughout Lynn’s spiritual domain, completing the refinement and linking its power with his soul.
• Lynn took out the invitation from the Soul-Casting Tower and the Water of Belphegor, preparing to begin his Morning Star Wizard breakthrough.

Lynn used the Soul-Casting Tower invitation during his attempt to become a Morning Star Wizard, and the tower’s soul-tempering journey helped him break through. With the World Tree’s power, he rebuilt his shattered mental realm and prepared to form his Morning Star Seal.

• Lynn opened the Soul-Casting Tower invitation and projected his consciousness into the tower, where ancient wills observed him and wagered on his chances of success.
• Lynn broke through inside the Soul-Casting Tower and received a soul mark that would secure the next round of invitations.
• Lynn returned to the Wizard World with his mental realm shattered, protected by the tower’s fading blessing and the World Tree’s projection.
• Lynn awakened the World Tree’s Law of Creation and merged his three Permanent Spell Marks with its growing power.
• Lynn used the World Tree to reshape his mental realm into the vastness of a Morning Star Wizard and began seeking the origin of law needed for his Level 4 Permanent Spell Mark.

Lynn comprehended the World Tree’s fundamental rule of creation and formed his fourth Permanent Spell Mark, Song of Creation, bringing him halfway into the Morning Star realm. As he drew the four elements from his Energy Pools to stabilize the mark, the energy also awakened his abandoned Hercules Body and began rapidly strengthening him.

• Lynn used his accumulated understanding of the World Tree to comprehend creation and condense the Level 4 Permanent Spell, Song of Creation.
• Lynn realized that his reshaped spiritual domain and fourth Permanent Spell Mark had brought him halfway to becoming a Morning Star Wizard, but he still needed energy particles.
• Lynn summoned his Energy Pools and drew earth, water, fire, and wind elements into his body to stabilize Song of Creation.
• Lynn endured the energy’s painful effects as it strengthened his body and raised his resistance to elemental laws.
• Lynn discovered that the energy had activated his Hercules Body, rapidly bringing his physical strength close to that of a Level Two Body-Refining Wizard.

Lynn completed his breakthrough to Morning Star Wizard in Plane World 001, gaining a vast spiritual domain and a body strengthened to Level 3 Great Wizard tier. He returned to the Wizard World and, with the operation against the Meteorite Council already underway, rode out to find Spirit Eye Wizard.

• Lynn finished his breakthrough and discovered that his spiritual domain had become a boundless world-like realm while his Hercules Body had advanced to Level 3 Great Wizard tier.
• Lynn planned to report his advancement to the Wizard Council, claim Spirit Eye Wizard's inheritance, and take command of the Hall of Life's role in the Source Tracing Plan against the Meteorite Council.
• The chapter described the Radiant Moon Scar, a boundary separating the Dark Wizard Domain and White Wizard Territory, and the gray zone where the Meteorite Council had established its headquarters.
• Lynn returned to the Wizard World through the Gate of Stars and left Hall of Life matters to Helen and other trusted Great Wizards.
• Lynn rode away from the Hall of Life to find Spirit Eye Wizard because the Wizard Council's operation against the Meteorite Council had begun.

Lynn traveled to the Meteorite Council’s concealed stronghold in the Cold Peak Snow Region, where he posed as Spirit Eye Wizard’s aloof student to maintain his cover as a double agent. Dite welcomed him and led him deeper into the base, whose true nature and defenses the Meteorite Council had revealed to him.

• Spirit Eye Wizard’s reports confirmed that he and the Hall of Life remained safe while he secretly maintained friendly relations with the Meteorite Council for the Wizard Council.
• Lynn flew through the dangerous Cold Peak Snow Region on the Black Dragon and reached the Meteorite Council’s hidden stronghold.
• The stronghold’s concealment formations revealed the platform to Lynn, and a wizard welcomed him on Spirit Eye Wizard’s behalf.
• Dite introduced himself, recognized Lynn as Spirit Eye Wizard’s student, and led him inside the stronghold.
• Lynn concealed his identity behind a silver-gray mask, called himself Qing Lin, and followed Dite through the base as its guards watched.