Chapter Summaries

Lynn woke beside Evelyn and met with Hedrey and Tina, who were eager to begin their deal and the planar expedition. After ordering the Gate of Stars prepared, Lynn led them to the tower’s summit, where the gate locked onto the world he intended to conquer.

• Lynn dressed and left Evelyn in bed after she complained that he had exhausted her the previous night.
• Hedrey asked Tina to assess Wizard Qing Lin, and Tina judged Lynn unusually powerful and well-resourced but believed their agreement made them allies.
• Hedrey and Tina watched the tower’s wizards prepare for war and agreed that conquering the plane would help heal Tina’s injuries.
• Tina urged Lynn to begin the expedition immediately, and Lynn ordered Bevny to charge the Gate of Stars, recalibrate its coordinates, and ready everyone for battle.
• Lynn led Hedrey and Tina to the tower’s summit as the Gate of Stars focused on the plane previously surveyed and partly conquered by Spirit Eye Wizard.

Lynn prepared to invade the weakened Spirit Eye Plane, but discovered that an unknown advanced civilization was already consuming part of it. After extracting a wisp of its energy, he learned from Tina that it belonged to the Ancient God Civilization.

• Lynn reviewed the Spirit Eye Plane's cultivation system and its weakened state after the Saintess's death, expecting the expedition to be straightforward.
• A high-level plane's energy fluctuations disrupted the Star Gate, and Lynn's team located a vast black shadow devouring a region of the Spirit Eye Plane.
• Lynn ordered the wizards to extract a small amount of the shadow's energy despite the risk of alerting its source.
• The extracted energy provoked a reaction from the heavens, which Lynn suppressed with his world-origin blessing.
• Lynn examined the corrosive black mist, and Tina identified its source as the Ancient God Civilization.

Lynn learned that Ancient God Civilization’s influence on the Spirit Eye Plane came from sleeping Ancient Gods, whose contamination could be contained rather than fought as an active invasion. He sent a ten-wizard squad led by Great Wizard Helen’s team to recover the strategic items he had left behind, while preparing the Hall of Life for a larger expedition.

• Tina explained that the Spirit Eye Plane was being corrupted by unconscious seepage from sleeping Ancient Gods, and that sealing the source could stop further contamination.
• Lynn decided to enter the plane at once, retrieve his Otherworld Purification Device and Sky Mothership, and let the ancient god energy weaken the plane’s native forces before intervening.
• Lynn ordered Great Wizard Helen to assemble five Level 2 Wizards and five Level 1 Wizards, including the veteran Quentin, to recover the strategic items.
• Lynn amplified his mental power through the Wizard Tower’s formations and sent the ten-wizard squad through the Gate of Stars.
• Lynn ordered Great Wizard Helen to prepare everyone for battle as the star gate began revealing the squad’s arrival in the Spirit Eye Plane.

Quentin’s advance squad entered the Spirit Eye Plane and found an intact wizard camp occupied by natives who were adapting Wizard World energy particles to their own cultivation. Watching through the Gate of Stars, Lynn recognized the risks in their method and sent a thread of spiritual power toward the squad as they awaited his orders.

• Quentin’s ten wizards entered the Spirit Eye Plane, detected no rejection from its world origin, and confirmed that Wizard World energy particles were present.
• Quentin led the squad through the wild grass toward the Otherworld Purification Device, and they discovered a guarded basin containing the device, Magic Stone Cannons, and a Sky Mothership.
• The squad observed that the camp’s patrolmen were natives using their bodies to absorb and release energy particles, and held back to avoid triggering the camp’s defenses.
• Lynn watched the basin through the Gate of Stars and identified the natives’ method as a dangerous attempt to replace divine power with Wizard World energy particles.
• Lynn considered that the natives’ original cultivation path might be failing because of the ancient god energy, then sent spiritual power through the Gate of Stars toward the advance squad.

Quentin and the advance squad entered the Spirit Eye Plane camp after Lynn’s contingencies reclaimed control of its wizard devices. Lynn’s avatar confronted the blonde Saintess, exposed her attempt to bargain, and began punishing the camp’s inhabitants while she watched helplessly.

• Quentin led the ten wizards toward the camp, where their auras triggered its defenses.
• Quentin’s hidden fluctuation activated the devices’ core protocols, turning the Magic Stone cannons and Sky Mothership against the camp’s inhabitants and identifying the wizards as friendly.
• The blonde Saintess addressed Quentin and the others in fluent wizard speech, revealing a powerful aura that marked her as a Level 3 Great Wizard.
• Lynn’s mental avatar emerged and ordered the Sky Mothership and other weapons to target the Saintess, forcing her to descend and bow before him.
• Lynn accused the Saintess of trying to bargain with him and ordered lightning to strike the camp’s inhabitants while she watched helplessly.

Lynn learned from Messiah that the Spirit Eye Plane’s god had been corrupted by Ancient God energy, spreading contamination through the temples and much of the plane. He decided to invade and destroy the corrupted god, then ordered Archwizard Helen to prepare the wizard forces for deployment.

• Lynn ordered a purge of the camp, then demanded that the frightened Saintess identify herself, and she introduced herself as Messiah.
• Messiah explained that the Spirit Eye Plane’s god had grown unstable and that infected clergy were secretly devouring people and speaking terrifying words.
• Messiah revealed that the world’s guidance had led her to Lynn and that she could control pure light energy particles, though they had eroded much of her lifespan.
• Lynn concluded that Ancient God energy had corrupted the god and infected much of the Spirit Eye Plane, while the world will struggled to resist.
• Lynn decided to defeat the corrupted god and take the plane, then ordered his true body to have Archwizard Helen marshal the three armies and prepare for war.

Lynn’s wizard forces and alchemist army assembled for the expedition to the Spirit Eye Plane, with Evelyn commanding the alchemists and Helen, Mona, and Bodo leading the wizards. Astrid joined the expedition and reunited with Little Black as the Gate of Stars opened and the armies departed.

• Helen, Bodo, and Mona organized the wizard forces into squads while Lynn’s alchemist army gathered under Evelyn’s command.
• Helen reported that the wizard legion was ready, and Evelyn arrived with Astrid, who said she had chosen to join the expedition.
• Lynn gave Astrid permission to take part and summoned Little Black, whose reunion with Astrid stirred her long-buried memories.
• Tina commented on Little Black’s strength and recalled that she had once raised a dragon from the Flame Dragon Clan to death.
• The Gate of Stars activated, and the wizard forces and alchemist army marched toward the Spirit Eye Plane.

Lynn negotiated the Spirit Eye Plane’s submission with its world will while wizard reinforcements poured through the Gate of Stars. As Ancient God-corrupted forces arrived, a Level 3 Great Wizard and a golden alchemist met them in the first clash.

• Lynn rejected an equal alliance and demanded control of the plane and most of its world origin, while allowing its world will and civilization to survive.
• Quentin and the wizards activated the Gate of Stars, and more than a thousand reinforcements arrived and deployed through the camp.
• The world will accepted Lynn’s conditions but asked for a guarantee, then warned him that the corrupted native god had detected the camp and sent forces.
• Lynn revealed that the enemy forces had already arrived as their oppressive Ancient God energy approached the wizard camp.
• A Level 3 Great Wizard and a golden alchemist rose from the camp and struck the incoming Ancient God energy head-on.

Lynn watched his subordinates battle an infected Holy Knight and identified the warped law fragments behind the corruption. He guided Nolan to activate the Otherworld Purification Device, which began suppressing the Ancient God energy across the wasteland.

• Messiah recognized the infected knight as a Holy Knight ranked third in sequence before the God's throne, while Nolan and the Crimson Abyss Serpent Throne fought him and his corrupted followers.
• Nolan and the Crimson Abyss Serpent Throne launched their Tier Three attacks, but the corrupted knights distorted and erased them before turning their gazes toward Lynn.
• Lynn explained that the infected creatures wielded warped fragments of laws and suggested resetting their broken laws to a normal state.
• Nolan understood Lynn's hint and ordered the Otherworld Purification Device expanded and activated with Magic Stones.
• The purification formation spread across the wasteland, drawing back the grayish-purple mist and slowing the corrupted knights' movements.

Lynn’s forces used the Otherworld Purification Devices to suppress ancient god corruption and defeat more than a hundred infected knights, revealing that purification weakened their power. Lynn and Tina concluded that overcoming the infected deity would require gradually correcting the Spirit Eye Plane’s laws, while news of a Level Seven presence in the Nightmare Rift shifted the South Region into crisis and temporarily shielded Tina and Hedrey from the Rogers Family’s hunters.

• Great Wizard Nolan, backed by the Crimson Abyss Serpent Throne, attacked the infected knights after Lynn’s Otherworld Purification Devices made them tangible and vulnerable.
• Lynn observed that purification stripped away the corrupted knights’ power, and Tina explained that ancient god energy strengthened its hosts while eroding their sense of self.
• Lynn and Tina determined that they would need to correct the Spirit Eye Plane’s laws over time before they could safely confront its infected deity.
• Lynn warned Tina and Hedrey that the Rogers Family’s hunters might follow them to the Hall of Life, but said they were unlikely to come soon.
• Lynn told Tina and Hedrey that more than thirty Morning Star Wizard councilors had died in the Nightmare Rift and that Level Seven power from another civilization had erupted there.

The South Region’s nine Radiant Moon powers gathered to address the Meteorite Council’s emergence of foreign level-seven power, while Alice feared punishment for her failed mission. Lynn, Hedrey, and Tina used the turmoil to expand their campaign in the Spirit Eye Plane, where Lynn’s new faith had become a duchy’s state religion under the title Lord of Life.

• The South Region branch of the Wizard Council summoned the other eight Radiant Moon powers to the City of Mountains after the Meteorite Council displayed level-seven power and killed more than thirty Morning Star Wizards.
• Hercules worried that Radiant Moon Crowns might descend and considered how the Nightmare Rift’s destruction followed the departure of its Radiant Moon master.
• Alice sought Hercules’s protection through Wizard Green, but Green remained prepared to abandon her if his teacher decided she was no longer worth shielding.
• Lynn, Hedrey, and Tina watched more than ten thousand transcendents establish footholds in the Spirit Eye Plane while Lynn’s new faith spread with Saintess Messiah and the world will’s support.
• The Lord of Life replaced the old gods as the state religion of a duchy, gaining converts across its territory and nearby regions.

The Buma Duchy officially converted to the Lord of Life, and Messiah led a ceremony in which the Lord of Life manifested and renewed the vitality of the gathered believers. As the empire ordered the duchies and kingdoms to destroy the heretics, Lynn’s forces held off the invading armies on every front.

• The Buma Duchy replaced its old temples with a temple to the Lord of Life, and King, Queen, and the nobles gathered for the conversion ceremony led by Archbishop Messiah.
• As the people prayed, the statue of the Lord of Life came alive, and its azure radiance restored the health and youth of believers across the capital.
• The empire issued an extermination order after learning of the Buma Duchy’s conversion, and allied armies surrounded the duchy.
• Lynn’s alchemists and wizards used totems, Magic Stone cannons, and a Sky Mothership to repel the invading forces.
• Totem beasts overwhelmed the Temple Knights on the southern battlefield, while the Sky Mothership devastated enemy formations in the west.

After seven days of siege, Buma Duchy remained unbroken, while wounded soldiers in the invading army secretly turned to the Lord of Life for help. Lynn revealed Jess as the Lord of Life and had him manifest above the battlefield; as the temples’ greatest champions arrived to attack, Lynn prepared to draw in the net.

• The invading armies suffered losses exceeding half their forces, while wounded soldiers secretly prayed to the Lord of Life and received enough life force to survive.
• Lynn’s plan was revealed: Jess sat on the Throne of Life, using the Spirit of the Blue Sky to absorb believers’ faith and send life force to them.
• After receiving Lynn’s command, Jess rose and manifested as a cyan Great Sun, healing the wounded and drawing a surge of faith from Buma Duchy’s believers.
• The temples’ Saintess, bishops, Holy Knights, and other powerful figures arrived and attacked the Lord of Life, while the battlefield’s onlookers watched.
• From the Wizard World, Lynn observed the scene through the Gate of Stars and said it was time to draw in the net.

Lynn and Tina struck through the Gate of Stars, with Tina killing two Holy Knights and Lynn erasing the Saintess, an old bishop, and the temple phantom with the World Tree’s creation rules. Their display routed the temple’s forces and gave Lynn’s wizard and alchemist armies the chance to launch a counterattack, while the Morning Star Wizards returned to the Wizard World.

• The two Holy Knights attacked the Lord of Life as the Saintess and two old bishops summoned a divine temple phantom, but Lynn and Tina watched through Jess’s body.
• Lynn tore open the sky through the Gate of Stars, freezing the incoming attacks and revealing the Morning Star Wizards’ arrival.
• Tina used Falling Blossom Celestial Splendor, Azure Sky Radiance, and Starwind Rite in combination to destroy the two Holy Knights.
• Lynn summoned the World Tree and used its creation rules to erase the Saintess, an old bishop, and the temple phantom.
• Lynn and Tina returned to the Wizard World as the rift closed, and Lynn’s wizard and alchemist armies launched a counterattack that routed the besieging army.

After Lynn and Tina crushed the Temple army in the Buma Duchy, the Life God Church spread rapidly across the Spirit Eye Plane, bringing the final battle closer. Lynn then focused on cultivating toward the mid-stage of the Fourth-Level Morning Star Wizard realm while keeping watch on the growing danger in the Nightmare Rift.

• Tina and Lynn destroyed the Temple's top leaders, and the wizard and alchemist armies routed the Temple forces while deliberately sparing most ordinary soldiers.
• More than ten duchies and kingdoms adopted the Life God Church within three days, as fleeing soldiers carried news of the Lord of Life to their homelands.
• Lynn and Tina left Astrid and Evelyn to oversee the Spirit Eye Plane while they attended to other duties and monitored the Nightmare Rift.
• Lynn meditated in his Wizard Tower and saw that he needed four thousand more progress points to reach the mid-stage of the Fourth-Level Morning Star Wizard realm.
• Lynn considered strengthening his spiritual power through the Spirit of the Blue Sky and anticipated gaining active command of rules and a rudimentary rule domain after his breakthrough.

Lynn waited for the nine Radiant Moon factions to act against the Nightmare Rift while the Life God Church spread rapidly across the Spirit Eye Plane. As faith poured in, Jess received the believers’ power and the Spirit of the Blue Sky recovered faster.

• Lynn failed to learn the nine Radiant Moon factions’ plans, but decided to keep his contacts in the Nightmare Rift hidden until the right opportunity to attack the Iro Tree.
• Lynn expected the Life God Church to draw the infected native god into battle, where the Otherworld Purification Device could weaken its ancient god infection.
• A returning soldier’s account of the Lord of Life saving him and defeating the temple army spread across the Spirit Eye Plane, turning people away from the temples’ claims that the church was evil.
• The Buma Duchy’s rulers and nobles welcomed the Lord of Life’s presence and hoped his favor would help their lands rise in power.
• Jess sat concealed above the Buma Duchy on the Throne of Life, absorbing faith from believers across the Spirit Eye Plane as the Spirit of the Blue Sky recovered.

Evelyn helped Astrid understand that Lynn no longer held a grudge against her and urged her to ask him for a child. The chapter then revealed how Afteberg and the Spirit Eye Plane were corrupted by residual Ancient God energy before an uninvited visitor arrived at the Hall of Life seeking the energy that had recently erupted there.

• Evelyn told Astrid that Lynn's resentment had likely faded and that he treated her well, then suggested she ask him for a genuine child.
• The chapter explained that Afteberg fused with the Spirit Eye Plane's World Origin after trying to claim the plane, leaving him bound to strengthen it.
• Afteberg later encountered residual Ancient God energy left along the route that Shar had taken while carrying it toward Saier.
• The Ancient God energy eroded Afteberg and weakened the Spirit Eye Plane until neither Afteberg nor the World Origin could meaningfully respond.
• An uninvited guest arrived at the Hall of Life and alerted Lynn and Tina by seeking the Ancient God energy that had erupted there.

Ald informed Lynn that the Wizard Council planned to capture the Ancient God-energy-infected native in the Spirit Eye Plane and compensate him for the interference. Ophiuchus arrived as the council’s envoy, treated Lynn favorably as the Spirit Eye Wizard’s disciple, and told him to accompany him to inspect the native.

• Ald explained that the Nightmare Rift’s seventh-level power was linked to the Ancient God Civilization and that the council suspected Lynn’s infected native might be connected to it.
• Ald told Lynn that the Wizard Council would send a Morning Star Wizard to capture the native, and promised compensation; Lynn accepted the arrangement.
• Ald revealed that the envoy was a Furnace Stone Morning Star Wizard with prior ties to Lynn, and Ophiuchus arrived on a star-scaled black serpent.
• Ophiuchus tested Lynn with his spiritual pressure, praised his strength, and privately told him that the Spirit Eye Wizard had died in the Nightmare Rift.
• Ophiuchus asked Lynn to accompany him to inspect the infected Level Four native so they could bring it back quickly.

Ophiuchus led Lynn, Tina, and Wizard Ald into the Spirit Eye Plane to hunt the ancient-god-corrupted native god, whose church had gone silent as the Life God Church spread. The wizards entered a folded subspace called the Wind Realm, where Ophiuchus suspected the corruption came from the King in Yellow.

• Ophiuchus ordered Lynn, Tina, and Ald to accompany him through the Gate of Stars and capture the native god directly.
• The Life God Church expanded into more than thirty kingdoms while the Primal Temple's leaders could neither reach their infected elders nor receive an oracle from their god.
• Ophiuchus, Lynn, Tina, and Wizard Ald arrived in the Spirit Eye Plane, concealed from its inhabitants by the world's will, and Ophiuchus sensed that the native god had noticed them.
• Ophiuchus rode a giant black stellar serpent toward the native god, but the group found themselves cut off from the world's will inside a folded subspace called the Wind Realm.
• Ophiuchus identified the Wind Realm as an incomplete projection shaped by Ancient God energy, and Tina asked whether the source was the King in Yellow.

Tina explained that the Spirit Eye Plane’s native god had been corrupted by residual power from the King in Yellow, an Old One whose wind authority rivaled the mightiest powers of the Wizard Civilization. Ophiuchus revealed a Cthulhu sculpture to counter the corruption with water, exposing the infected being and leaving Ophiuchus alone to face it as Lynn, Wizard Ald, and Tina were sent away from the clash.

• Tina explained the Ancient God Civilization’s ongoing war between the Ancient Gods and the Old Ones, identifying the King in Yellow’s energy as the force corrupting the native god.
• Ophiuchus confirmed that the energy came from Hastur, then led Lynn, Wizard Ald, and Tina into a chaotic wind domain where they sealed their thoughts against its corrupting structure.
• Ophiuchus located the hidden being and summoned an ancient Cthulhu sculpture, unleashing water power that clashed with the King in Yellow’s wind authority.
• The clash tore apart the gale and revealed a masked, yellow-robed humanoid with a damaged seal behind it.
• Ophiuchus sent Lynn, Wizard Ald, and Tina away from the battlefield as Cthulhu’s power and the King in Yellow’s authority collided, leaving him to face the creature alone.