Chapter Summaries

Wizard Alice revealed that Hercules had arranged for Green to marry her, while Lynn deduced that Alice may have helped cause the Nightmare Rift disaster and was seeking Green’s help. After leaving the Morning Star Conference, Lynn went to the Council Hall to take his place in Wizard Civilization as a councilor.

• Alice told Green that Hercules had arranged a marriage between them and that she had been waiting for news since reaching Morning Star.
• Lynn connected Alice’s role in planning the South Region operation to the destruction of the Nightmare Rift and suspected she wanted Green to ask Hercules for help.
• Green left to question Hercules, while Lynn and Ald went their separate ways.
• Lynn left the upper district and traveled through the Lower City to the Council Hall of the Wizard Council.
• Lynn reflected on becoming a true member of Wizard Civilization and walked toward the High Tower’s entrance.

Lynn completed his registration at the Wizard Council and received the Morning Star Gift through the Council Hall’s World-Origin Array. The gift revealed the Wizard World’s vast star river to him and left him witnessing the myriad worlds bound to it.

• Lynn met Bode at the Council Hall, learned that newly advanced Morning Star Wizards received a thirty-year exemption from Council duties, and completed his registration procedures.
• Bode gave Lynn his councilor’s token and led him to the High Tower’s summit to receive the Morning Star Gift through the World-Origin Array.
• Lynn was transported to an immense platform above a sea of stars and recognized its five sections as representing the Wizard World’s regions.
• The Great Sun’s radiance bathed Lynn, subtly elevating his spiritual domain and completing the origin-power infusion.
• The platform gathered the radiance Lynn could not absorb and sent it through the star river, allowing him to witness the worlds and lives within it before his consciousness returned to his body.

After receiving the Wizard World's origin gift, Lynn learned from Wizard Bode that the star-crossing radiance exposed Morning Star Wizards to the rules of countless worlds, leaving insights in their souls even when its experiences could not be recalled. Lynn hurried to the City of Mountains’ upper district to study the rules and test whether his talent could help him find them.

• Lynn awoke atop the Council Hall, and Wizard Bode explained that the origin gift’s radiance had brought him into contact with rules across countless worlds.
• Wizard Bode described how Morning Star cultivation focused on discovering new rules and directed Lynn to the upper district’s library for further study.
• Lynn entered the City of Mountains’ upper district as a council member and considered using the radiance alongside his talent, “Heaven Rewards Diligence,” to seek rules.
• Lynn reached the South Region Library of the Wizard Council and walked inside.

Lynn entered the Wizard Council Library and studied a guide to the Morning Star realm, learning how wizard civilization advanced by using spiritual power and the power of rules to reach beyond its material limits. He left with a clearer understanding of the path ahead and the vast gulf between his current power and a Morning Star Wizard’s ultimate potential.

• Lynn used his councilor authority to teleport to the library’s fifth floor, where books on Level 4 Morning Star Wizards were kept.
• Lynn used his Councilor Token to find Comprehensive Guide to Wizard Realms and read it in the library’s private illusion.
• Lynn learned that the name “Morning Star” reflected the ancient wizards’ ambition to evolve into beings comparable to stars.
• Lynn concluded that spiritual cultivation had helped wizard civilization overcome material limits, while the power of rules let Morning Star Wizards briefly unleash energy approaching a celestial star’s.
• Lynn recognized that reaching the peak of the Morning Star realm would require crossing a vast gulf beyond his current Level 4 power.

Lynn studied the stages and rule cultivation of Morning Star Wizards, then spent half a month reading about Nature Wizards. After Lynn contacted Wizard Bode, his former Council Hall guide left his vacation and flew to the library to meet him.

• Lynn reviewed the four stages of Level Four Morning Star cultivation, from Echo Anchor through the pinnacle and the threshold of a second rule.
• Lynn searched the South Region Library for books on Nature Wizards and extraordinary plants, then returned to his desk to study.
• Half a month later, Wizard Bode received a message from Lynn while relaxing at his villa in the City of Mountains.
• Wizard Bode recognized Lynn as the newly promoted councilor he had guided and headed toward Lynn's coordinates at the library.

Lynn asked Bode about building a Wizard Tower and learned that only Council Wizards with official duties could establish one near the City of Mountains. He settled on using his thirty-year protection period to cultivate safely at the Council headquarters while his avatar watched the Nightmare Rift, and planned to bring trusted associates to join him later.

• Lynn asked Bode whether a Morning Star council member could build a Wizard Tower near the City of Mountains, and Bode said only Council Wizards with official posts could do so.
• Lynn decided not to accept Council duties and their restrictions, choosing instead to make use of his thirty-year protection period and the Council’s resources.
• Bode showed Lynn an empty villa beside his own, and Lynn obtained residency and moved in later that day.
• Lynn resolved to keep his true body safe at the Council headquarters while his Spirit Eye Wizard avatar observed the Nightmare Rift from afar.
• Lynn planned to contact the Spirit Eye Wizard, Bevny, and the others outside the Council’s array coverage and teleport them to the City of Mountains.
• Lynn reviewed his plans, relaxed on the villa’s sofa, and fell asleep.

Lynn used the Golden Balance to contact Spirit Eye Wizard in the Nightmare Rift and found that the balance’s control had been disrupted, allowing Spirit Eye Wizard’s consciousness to stir. As Lynn suppressed it with his Morning Star power, he discovered signs of a sinister presence in the rift and concluded that the Meteorite Council must possess Radiant Moon-level combat power.

• Lynn held a gathering for Morning Star councilors in his villa and heard that the South Region’s forces were stalled at the Nightmare Rift.
• Lynn left the City of Mountains after shaking off any possible followers and used the Golden Balance to contact Spirit Eye Wizard.
• Lynn learned that the balance’s control had weakened because his old mental imprint was limited and an isolation formation in the Nightmare Rift interfered with it.
• Lynn reinforced his control over Spirit Eye Wizard with Morning Star-level mental imprints, suppressing his consciousness for at least a hundred years.
• Lynn examined Spirit Eye Wizard’s memories and found that the darkness and winds in the Nightmare Rift were abnormal and that the Meteorite Council had conquered it in under half an hour.
• Lynn concluded that the Meteorite Council must possess Radiant Moon-level combat power to have defeated the Nightmare Rift’s defenders so quickly.

Lynn used Spirit Eye Wizard’s standing in the Meteorite Council to inspect the City of Machinery’s prison, where prisoners’ spiritual power fueled the city. He began searching for old acquaintances while considering the Council’s hidden Radiant Moon-level power and the danger of its occupation of the Nightmare Rift.

• Lynn concluded that the Meteorite Council’s Radiant Moon-level trump card explained why it defended the Nightmare Rift but never attacked beyond it.
• Lynn considered why Saier had seized the rift and disappeared, deciding that the calculating leader must have prepared a hidden escape plan.
• Lynn controlled Spirit Eye Wizard through the City of Machinery, where Meteorite Council patrols enforced martial law and detained its Mechanical Wizards.
• Lynn descended to the city’s first level and saw the vast formation, golden energy core, and prisoners whose spiritual power was being drained to supply the city.
• Flame Edge Wizard allowed Spirit Eye Wizard to inspect the prison after Lynn promised to follow its rules, and Lynn flew along the cages to search for his old acquaintances.

Lynn sent Spirit Eye Wizard into the City of Machinery’s prison to find and rescue his old acquaintances. After Flame Edge Wizard allowed them to leave, Daven revealed that Lori had recently been taken away by a group of elves.

• Lynn judged that the City of Machinery’s imprisoned upper ranks were most likely held in the deepest prison district and sent Spirit Eye Wizard there.
• Spirit Eye Wizard found many weakened Morning Star Wizards, including Lynn’s old enemy Puppet Wizard, but could not identify Daven or Martha among them.
• Flame Edge Wizard confronted Spirit Eye Wizard, then agreed to let him rescue old acquaintances as long as he left the imprisoned Morning Star Wizards alone.
• With Flame Edge Wizard’s reluctant cooperation, Spirit Eye Wizard found and freed Daven, Martha, and Chris.
• Spirit Eye Wizard asked about Lori, and Daven said a group of elves had taken her away and pleaded for her rescue.

Lynn learned that elf wizards had taken Lori and set out to find her while rescuing Daven, Martha, and Chris from the City of Machinery prison. He contacted Lina for information about Lori, but her condition remained unknown.

• After learning that elves had taken Lori, Lynn controlled Spirit Eye Wizard to free Daven, Martha, and Chris from their prison restraints.
• Spirit Eye Wizard led the three former prisoners toward the teleportation array and told them he would seek a way to rescue Lori.
• Lynn weighed whether to bring his true body into the abnormal Nightmare Rift, then decided to contact his elf connections for information.
• Lina received Spirit Eye Wizard’s summons and feared it concerned Qing Lin’s disappearance.
• Lynn reassured Lina that Qing Lin was safe and asked her to investigate the human little witch Lori, who shared a name with the Wind Elf princess.

Princess Lori learned that Forest Shadow Berserker had visited the prison and likely taken the human wizard Lori, whom Qing Lin wanted to find. Unable to confront Forest Shadow Berserker herself, she sent Lina to tell Spirit Eye Wizard and urge him to act quickly.

• Lina told Princess Lori that Spirit Eye Wizard had sent her to ask about Qing Lin and a human wizard named Lori.
• Princess Lori ordered two elven witches to investigate which Morning Star Wizard had taken a human wizard from the first-floor prison.
• The witches reported that Forest Shadow Berserker was the only clan Morning Star who had visited the prison.
• Princess Lori recalled Forest Shadow Berserker's cruelty toward other races and realized she could not safely confront him or enlist the other elves.
• Princess Lori gave Lina information about Forest Shadow Berserker and sent her to report that the human wizard Lori was likely in his hands.

Lynn used the Spirit Eye Wizard’s identity to rally human Morning Star Wizards against the Elf Clan over Forest Shadow Berserker’s capture and mistreatment of human wizards, hoping to create an opening to rescue Lori. As the dispute threatened to become a direct clash, Iro left Flet’s guarded seclusion with Princess Lori to intervene.

• Lynn decided to pressure the Elf Clan through the Meteorite Council while relying on Princess Lori to find out whether Lori was alive and help free the captured human wizards.
• Acting on Lynn’s instructions, Spirit Eye Wizard and other human Morning Star Wizards demanded that the Elf Clan answer for Forest Shadow Berserker’s actions.
• Princess Lori went to Flet’s hall and told Iro that the dispute was escalating toward a Morning Star-level confrontation.
• Iro condemned Forest Shadow Berserker and, unwilling to disturb Flet’s crucial seclusion, carried Princess Lori toward the approaching confrontation.

Human Morning Star Wizards confronted the elves over Forest Shadow Berserker Wizard’s attack on human wizards, but the standoff shifted when Iro arrived and overwhelmed the culprit. Iro agreed to bring the surviving human wizards, then challenged the humans’ show of force, leaving both sides on the brink of war.

• Spirit Eye Wizard confronted the elven Morning Star Wizards and argued that the dispute centered on Forest Shadow Berserker Wizard.
• A distant tremor revealed Iro approaching with Princess Lori on his shoulder, alarming the elven wizards.
• Iro hurled the battered Forest Shadow Berserker Wizard into a crater and told the humans that the elf wizard had been in the wrong.
• Spirit Eye Wizard asked Iro to return the surviving human wizards, and Iro ordered Princess Lori to bring them from Forest Shadow Berserker Wizard’s residence.
• Iro agreed that the humans would be brought but accused the human Morning Star Wizards of disrespecting the elves, prompting both sides to ready themselves for battle.

Iro forced the three human Morning Star Wizards to take one attack each while he suppressed his realm, and the first two faced his rules-based wizardry. As Iro’s spiritual body charged Iceheart Wizard, Lynn considered releasing the sealed Spirit Eye Wizard to protect the body he was controlling.

• Iro suppressed his realm to Level Four and challenged Spirit Eye Wizard, Iceheart Wizard, and Earthshaking Fist Wizard to each withstand one attack.
• Earthshaking Fist Wizard countered Iro’s vitality rule with earth rules, but Iro sent him flying and counted him as having passed.
• Iceheart Wizard stepped forward while Lynn observed the clash through Spirit Eye Wizard and recognized that he could not control Spirit Eye Wizard’s rules.
• Lynn considered releasing Spirit Eye Wizard’s sealed consciousness as Iro attacked Iceheart Wizard with a spiritual body empowered by the Law of Battle.
• Iro’s punch shattered one of Iceheart Wizard’s shields, and Iceheart Wizard reforged his defenses and launched ice spears and arrows at Iro.

Iro tested the three human Morning Star Wizards inside the Rule Prison, defeating the Earthshaking Fist Wizard and severely wounding Iceheart Wizard while both survived. With only Spirit Eye Wizard left inside, Iro prepared to face him as the observers outside considered the strength of the Meteorite Council.

• The Earthshaking Fist Wizard escaped Iro’s rule cage and told the human Morning Star Wizards that he survived partly because earth rules restrained Iro’s life rules.
• The Iceheart Wizard attacked Iro with ice constructs, but Iro’s Battle Rule burned them away and let him strike the Iceheart Wizard at close range.
• Iro pierced the Iceheart Wizard’s chest, but the Iceheart Wizard re-formed from scattered ice, badly wounded, and Iro blasted him out of the Rule Prison.
• The elven Morning Star Wizards were surprised that two humans had survived Iro’s attacks, while the narration explained the Meteorite Council’s Star-Shattering Wizards were selected, ambitious former geniuses.
• With the Earthshaking Fist Wizard and Iceheart Wizard outside, Spirit Eye Wizard remained alone in the Rule Prison as Iro prepared his move against him.

Iro launched a Level Five-strength Rule of Vitality attack at Spirit Eye Wizard, whom Lynn had been controlling, forcing Lynn to release him. Spirit Eye Wizard awakened his Spirit Eye Rule and called on the origin of humanity for protection, leaving Iro shocked and furious.

• Iro unleashed a deadly Rule of Vitality attack against Spirit Eye Wizard, intending to kill him.
• Lynn freed Spirit Eye Wizard from the Golden Balance’s seals and withdrew to observe from his spiritual domain.
• Spirit Eye Wizard regained control of his body and focused his resentment on Lynn, while recognizing that he had to survive Iro’s attack first.
• Spirit Eye Wizard awakened the Spirit Eye Rule, summoning the Eye of Humanity and explaining its difficult origins and potential protection from the human rule origin.
• Spirit Eye Wizard called on humanity’s origin, which empowered him and pressed down on Iro; Iro recognized the connection and demanded to know why the Rule of Man’s origin had intervened.

Iro Wizard unleashed his full power and killed Spirit Eye Wizard, whose soul and spiritual domain were destroyed. Watching through the Golden Balance, Lynn mourned the loss of his controlled pawn, vowed revenge on Iro, and resolved to prepare for the Wizard Council’s coming move against the Nightmare Rift.

• Iro Wizard rooted himself into the earth as the Iro Tree and combined his Life and battle rules to overwhelm Spirit Eye Wizard’s protection from the Rule of Man.
• Iro’s power shattered the Eye of Man’s rule barrier, swallowed Spirit Eye Wizard, and flooded his spiritual domain, where the clashing laws tore apart his soul and memories.
• Lynn watched through the Golden Balance and recognized that Spirit Eye Wizard was nearing true death, reflecting on the danger of Morning Star battles and the loss of his valuable pawn.
• Lynn resolved to avenge Spirit Eye Wizard by eventually killing Iro, whose true form as the Iro Tree could also help Ivgried pursue the Combat Rule.
• Spirit Eye Wizard’s imprint vanished from the Golden Balance, and Lynn returned to the outside world, deciding to stay near the City of Mountains and prepare for the Wizard Council’s move against the Nightmare Rift.

After more than twenty years in the City of Mountains, Lynn examined his cultivation and concluded that advancing to the middle stage of Level 4 required deepening his resonance with the Rule of Creation. He decided he would eventually need to travel to the Nature Divine Dynasty to resolve the Spirit of the Blue Sky, but for now he went to meet Wizard Bode at a small gathering.

• Lynn brought Bevny to the City of Mountains, while Astrid took over the Hall of Life and struggled with mixed feelings after learning that Spirit Eye Wizard had died.
• More than twenty years passed, and Lynn used an Origin Mirror to examine his spiritual domain, Hercules Body, and World Tree.
• Lynn decided that spiritual cultivation and the Azure Sky Meditation Method mattered more than further body refinement, and resolved to seek the Nature Divine Dynasty to learn how to advance the World Tree and save Rosalind.
• Lynn determined that his immediate goal was to progress from the Echo Anchor to the Resonance Anchor by increasing his mental power and resonance with the Rule of Creation.
• Bevny told Lynn that Wizard Bode's small gathering was about to begin, and Lynn left to attend.

Lynn learned of a clandestine Black Wizard gathering scheduled near the Abyss Furnace and Shadow Furnace, then weighed the risks of attending alone. With less than five years until the gathering, he sealed himself in his basement to study survival and escape magic.

• Bode Wizard gave Lynn the location and details of a secret Black Wizard gathering after Lynn offered valuable treasures in exchange.
• Lynn studied his map of the South Region and recalled the strange phenomena he had witnessed at the Furnace Stone, now recognizing them as signs of Radiant Moon power.
• Lynn considered asking other Morning Star Wizards to accompany him, but ruled them out because they were unavailable, untrustworthy, or hostile.
• Lynn decided to attend the gathering alone and use his remaining protection period to prepare for its dangers.
• Lynn sealed his basement with witchcraft arrays and spent five years in seclusion.

After five years of secluded cultivation, Lynn emerged as an early-stage Level Four Morning Star Wizard with A Span from Heaven mastered to major attainment, then prepared to attend a Dark Wizard exchange meeting. He sent Bevny back to the Hall of Life and kept an appointment with Ald in the Deep Sea Civilization, ending as he arrived at Ald’s building.

• Lynn reviewed his cultivation progress, including his World Tree’s growth and his mastery of A Span from Heaven, which gave him a powerful means of escape.
• Lynn read the letters accumulated during his five years of seclusion and reacted with a knowing smile to the final message.
• Lynn left the City of Mountains with Bevny and used the Golden Balance to send her back to the Hall of Life.
• Lynn returned to the City of Mountains, entered the lower city, and traveled through a rainbow bridge to the Deep Sea Civilization.
• Lynn met a pink fishman disguised as a human outside a skyscraper, then used A Span from Heaven to reach the top and announce himself to Ald.