Chapter Summaries

Hong Yuan revealed overwhelming power while helping Harold and Amelia repel an attack by the True God Church, then rescued injured passengers and traveled with the group to Iron Oak City. He settled into an inn and sent tiny green motes spreading through the darkened city.

• Hong Yuan killed three bronze-masked Spellcasters and used a giant vine bow to drive back the silver-masked attacker fighting Harold.
• Lynn watched Hong Yuan's strength from hiding, while Fane suspected he might be a cultivator and urged Lynn to leave and keep training.
• The silver-masked men escaped, and Harold thanked Hong Yuan before Amelia and Raymond joined them; Raymond proposed traveling together for Amelia's safety.
• Hong Yuan used vines to retrieve and stabilize injured passengers from the wrecked train, then left with Harold, Amelia, and Raymond's party.
• The group reached Iron Oak City during a power outage and settled into an inn, where Hong Yuan sent glittering green flecks into the city.

Hong Yuan traveled with Amelia and Harold to Serinburg and entered the High Tower Institute through special admission. After the institute tested him for signs of possession, Professor Vera examined his unusual wood string sorcery and found its structure more complex than ordinary wood string.

• Raymond found that the airship to the north was fully booked, so Amelia chose to travel by river and sea with Hong Yuan and the others.
• During the journey, Amelia learned that Hong Yuan had awakened only recently and had already killed three Advanced Awakened, while Harold and Raymond watched him closely.
• Harold and Raymond flew the party from White Bay Harbor to Serinburg, where Amelia and Raymond parted ways with Hong Yuan and Harold.
• Harold brought Hong Yuan to the High Tower Institute, where the admissions office registered him as a first-year student through special admission.
• Professor Morick used a magical eye to test Hong Yuan for foreign influence, and it found no signs of contamination or possession.
• Professor Vera examined the sapling Hong Yuan produced with wood string sorcery and observed that its structure was more complex than ordinary wood string.

Key plot points and events

• Vera questions Rosha’s extraordinary growth. After Rosha leaves, Vera notes that in just over a month he has become powerful enough to kill three advanced Awakened and intervene against a Resonance Master. She confirms his wood string is genuine, but unusually powerful, and remains suspicious despite his passing the True Vision Eye’s examination.
• Olivia sets limits and confirms Rosha’s place. Weaver Olivia Fane stops Vera and Morick from considering extracting Rosha’s mental power, telling Vera to watch him secretly instead. She declares Rosha an official High Tower Institute student and authorizes Harold to notify others in her name.
• Lolin receives an unexpected opportunity. At the Top Hundred Academies Championship, Lolin worries that her level-five strength may not be enough to protect Rosha from conscription. When she is scheduled to face the formidable level-six Adeline, she is told she need not fight: the High Tower Institute has offered her special admission, recommended by Olivia, Harold, and—astonishingly—Rosha.
• Morick secretly investigates Rosha. That night, Morick enters the dormitory and appears to use liquefied mental power to inspect Rosha’s memories. Vera confronts him, warning that he has crossed Olivia’s boundary. Morick claims the investigation is part of his duty to protect the institute.
• Hong Yuan reveals the deception. Morick never entered Rosha’s room or accessed his memories; Hong Yuan made him believe he had. Hong Yuan did show him Rosha’s genuine but ordinary memories, which may only deepen suspicion because they seem at odds with Rosha’s remarkable talent.

Character developments and interactions

• Vera remains wary of Rosha, but accepts Olivia’s instruction to monitor rather than forcibly investigate him. She directly challenges Morick when he acts covertly.
• Morick presents himself as a protector of the institute, but his secret visit shows he is willing to violate boundaries to investigate possible threats.
• Olivia acts as a firm authority figure, protecting Rosha’s rights while ensuring he is formally accepted as a student.
• Lolin is shown as devoted to Rosha and driven by a desire to protect him. Her surprise admission creates a path toward that goal—and reveals Rosha’s influence beyond his own advancement.
• Hong Yuan stays ahead of the professors, manipulating Morick’s perceptions while concealing the truth about Rosha.

Significant themes

• Talent and suspicion: Rosha’s rapid rise is so extraordinary that it provokes distrust even when formal tests find nothing wrong.
• Protection versus intrusion: The professors’ desire to safeguard the institute conflicts with the ethical limits Olivia sets.
• Family devotion and opportunity: Lolin’s ambition is rooted in protecting her brother, and Rosha’s recommendation unexpectedly helps her pursue that aim.
• Appearance and deception: Morick believes he has uncovered Rosha’s memories, while Hong Yuan has carefully controlled what he thinks he saw.

Key events

• The High Tower Institute reviews its special admissions. Rosha and his sister Lolin are approved after Harold reveals Rosha killed three high-level Awakened during an attack by the True God Church and helped him fight a Silver-Masked Emissary—despite Rosha having awakened only recently.
• Lynn Buck is also admitted. Though only a level-four Awakened at age twenty-five, his exam answers reveal a startlingly deep grasp of string sorcery theory. Dean Griffin praises them at Resonance Master level and sees Lynn as a promising researcher.
• On enrollment day, students question the special admissions. They respect Lynn’s scholarship but mock Rosha’s ability to awaken apprentices and resent Lolin’s admission as his sister.
• Lolin finds Rosha—whose body is now inhabited by Hong Yuan—and greets him warmly. Hong Yuan remains emotionally detached, while Lolin senses a painful distance between them.
• Amelia approaches Rosha and notes that he seems to be in trouble. Rex, a highly ranked regular entrant, challenges him to prove his worth in the arena, drawing an eager crowd.
• From a nearby building, Professor Olivia watches and explains that Rosha’s combat record was deliberately omitted so he can teach the overconfident students a lesson.

Character developments and interactions

• Griffin shows open-mindedness, valuing original theoretical insight over conventional strength or status.
• Harold publicly vouches for Rosha, revealing the danger he faced and the decisive help Rosha provided.
• Matthew initially dismisses Lolin and questions Rosha’s admission, but drops his objections once Rosha’s feats are disclosed.
• Hong Yuan/Rosha stays calm and distant. He helped Lolin enter to fulfill Rosha’s lingering wish, not from personal attachment.
• Lolin is delighted to reunite with her brother, but his changed demeanor unsettles her and makes her fear their closeness is gone.
• Rex voices the students’ contempt and provokes Rosha into a potential fight; Amelia recognizes the brewing tension.
• Olivia deliberately engineers the confrontation, confident Rosha can demonstrate the gap between ordinary “geniuses” and exceptional talent.

Significant themes

• The chapter contrasts practical strength with intellectual achievement, especially through the very different cases of Rosha and Lynn.
• It questions merit and fairness: special admissions provoke resentment, while the institute’s leaders judge applicants by potential that students may not understand.
• Appearance can mislead: Rosha’s public description hides his combat ability, and Lynn’s modest rank belies his theoretical brilliance.
• The reunion highlights identity and emotional distance—Lolin recognizes her brother, but Hong Yuan’s presence makes their bond feel changed.

Key events

• At the High Tower Institute, students and professors gather to watch special-admission freshman Rosha (Hong Yuan) face the regular-admission freshmen. Senior students expect to use the match to teach the newcomers humility.
• The regular-admission students argue over who should fight first. Hong Yuan mocks their indecision, then challenges all of them at once.
• He casts “Birth of the Sea of Trees,” transforming the arena into a vast forest. Its roots, vines, and branches overwhelm the freshmen, bind them in the air, and drain their mental power.
• The spell also catches the Lorne royal freshman, who briefly fights back with a massive Thunder Blade before being captured. Harold calls for Hong Yuan to stop; Hong Yuan releases everyone and makes the forest vanish, leaving the arena badly damaged.
• No one accepts his invitation to challenge him afterward. His display astonishes the faculty and students, silences the senior students’ plans to haze the freshmen, and makes “Rosha” the talk of the institute.
• That night, a woman sneaks into Hong Yuan’s room and cuddles him from behind, calling him “Little brother.” He wakes, puzzled, and wonders whether she has a brother complex.

Character developments and interactions

• Hong Yuan/Rosha reveals overwhelming combat power and confidence, establishing himself as far beyond an ordinary freshman. He uses humor and provocation to force the others into accepting a group fight.
• Rex and the other freshmen, initially eager to prove themselves, are quickly defeated and left shaken. The royal student’s resistance shows skill, but not enough to escape Hong Yuan’s spell.
• Harold confirms that Hong Yuan’s strength justifies his special admission, while Matthew and Helena are left astonished.
• Amelia Winster reassures Lolin that Rosha is powerful. Lolin watches anxiously, then hurries after her brother when the fight ends.
• Lynn Buck privately compares himself to Hong Yuan and despairs of catching up. His teacher Fane admits that Hong Yuan’s sudden transformation after awakening is difficult to explain.
• The senior students’ confidence gives way to shock, and they abandon their talk of teaching Hong Yuan a lesson.

Significant themes

• Humility and strength: The seniors’ tradition of humbling freshmen is turned on its head when Hong Yuan proves stronger than everyone present.
• Power and reputation: One spectacular display makes Hong Yuan a figure of awe throughout the institute.
• Uncertainty about identity and change: Lynn and Fane question how dramatically Hong Yuan has changed, while the chapter ends with a surprising glimpse of his family relationship.

Key plot points and events

• Hong Yuan wakes after sharing a bed with Lolin. Her tears from the night before have dampened his clothes, prompting him to reflect on how human emotions can defeat even carefully crafted String Sorcery.
• After his arena victory, Hong Yuan becomes a familiar and admired figure at the institute. Amelia warns him that factions may try to recruit or pressure him, though she says the Winston Lineage wants only his friendship.
• For roughly half a month, Hong Yuan explores the institute, studies its research, and refuses repeated requests from factions seeking his help with awakenings. He recognizes that powerful groups are also trying to assess his rapidly growing abilities.
• Hong Yuan concludes that String Sorcery may derive from a source governed by an immature or impaired “ruler.” He hopes to exploit this weakness and eventually claim control of the system.
• He applies for an independent laboratory and demonstrates an evolved form of his ability, the Tree of Myriad Phenomena, which produces a life-rich radiance and appears to increase even a Resonance Master’s mental power. Olivia Fane approves the laboratory and appoints Morick as his adviser.
• After leaving the tower, Hong Yuan again rejects a request from Clermont, steward of the Edmond Lineage. Clermont’s polite smile turns hostile as Hong Yuan ignores him.

Character developments and interactions

• Hong Yuan remains socially courteous but guarded and deliberate. He rejects recruitment efforts while selectively revealing enough of his power to secure resources and advance his research.
• Lolin returns to Hong Yuan’s room for a second night. Though emotionally troubled, she seeks his comfort; he welcomes her and gently reassures her.
• Amelia shows concern for Hong Yuan and openly cultivates their friendship, while also representing the Winston Lineage’s interests at the institute.
• Olivia Fane recognizes the significance of Hong Yuan’s new ability and grants his laboratory request. Morick, who has been secretly monitoring him, becomes his assigned adviser.
• Lynn, now working as Olivia’s handyman, reunites with Hong Yuan and asks him to stop calling him “Captain.” His quiet position surprises Harold, who had heard Lynn was a promising student.

Significant themes

• The complexity of human emotion: Lolin’s tears reveal feelings that String Sorcery cannot fully explain or control.
• Power, ambition, and institutional politics: Hong Yuan’s strength attracts factions seeking influence, while he maneuvers within the institute to pursue his own goals.
• Knowledge as opportunity: Hong Yuan’s study of String Sorcery leads him to suspect he can seize control of its underlying source.
• Appearance versus reality: Friendly overtures, accidental meetings, and polite requests often conceal calculation, surveillance, or coercion.

Hong Yuan accepted Leon’s invitation, knowing it concealed the Edmond Lineage’s intentions, and was taken to meet Lumino Edmond. After Hong Yuan helped two young relatives awaken with Green Sprout string sorcery, Lumino asked whether it was the secret behind Hong Yuan’s rapid growth.

• Hong Yuan learned from Amelia that Leon was tied to the Edmond Lineage and that the lineage belonged to the Stoke Lineage’s faction.
• Leon invited Hong Yuan to dinner, and Hong Yuan agreed despite sensing Leon’s malice.
• Loken Edmond revealed himself as Hong Yuan’s chauffeur and took him to the Edmond estate, where Leon apologized for the deception.
• Lumino Edmond asked Hong Yuan to help two young relatives awaken, and Hong Yuan used Green Sprout string sorcery to strengthen their mental power.
• Lumino praised the sorcery and asked Hong Yuan whether it explained his rapid growth.

Hong Yuan confronted Lumino and Loken at the Edmond estate, then unleashed Wood String sorcery that destroyed the estate and killed its Spellcasters. The chapter ended with Minister of Defense Logan Stock learning that the Edmond Lineage had been wiped out and asking who had attacked and whether Lumino survived.

• Lumino accused Hong Yuan of hiding the secret behind his rapid progress and demanded he hand it over, while Loken blocked the way out.
• An Edmond woman awakened as a water-string user, and Loken and Lumino attacked Hong Yuan with Tidal Wave and Gravity Field.
• Hong Yuan emerged above the ruined reception hall and summoned a vast sea of trees that razed the Edmond estate, crushed Leon, and overwhelmed Lumino and Loken.
• Hong Yuan had the trees hunt down the Edmond Spellcasters, then left the surviving ordinary people amid the ruins.
• A Spellcaster reported the Edmond Lineage's destruction to Logan Stock, who asked who had done it and whether Lumino was alive.

Logan Stock decided to pressure the High Tower Institute to hand over Rosha for destroying the Edmond Lineage, while Hong Yuan showed Olivia and Morick the results of his Tree of Myriad Phenomena research. Lynn ate one of Hong Yuan’s String Sorcery Fruits and unleashed a devastating wind attack, leaving the institute’s researchers astonished.

• Logan concluded that Rosha was the prime suspect in the Edmond Lineage’s destruction and organized other powers to pressure the High Tower Institute into handing him over.
• Morick confronted Hong Yuan, warned him that destroying the Edmond Lineage would provoke the Federation’s nobles, and reassured him that the institute stood behind its students.
• Hong Yuan told Morick he had made progress with the Tree of Myriad Phenomena and followed him to show Olivia his results.
• Hong Yuan grew a tree bearing String Sorcery Fruits, and Olivia and Morick examined the fruits before Olivia gave one to Lynn.
• Lynn ate the fruit, released a powerful wind attack that tore through the arena, and collapsed as Olivia caught him.
• Morick marveled that a single fruit had let Lynn unleash String Sorcery powerful enough to challenge an ordinary Lower Resonance Master.

After Rosha revealed that the Tree of Myriad Phenomena had produced the String Sorcery Fruit, Olivia and Fane considered its power and its possible connection to the Strings of Force. Morick reported the fruit to a golden-masked Church leader, who ordered him to capture Rosha and prepare the Wizard Tower as a vessel for God's descent.

• Olivia questioned Rosha after he admitted destroying the Edmond Lineage to obtain the String Sorcery Fruit, then warned him to stay inside the High Tower Institute.
• Fane revealed that eating part of Lynn's fruit had clarified his soul and suggested the Tree might be a gift from the Strings of Force to prepare for the Cultivation World's threat.
• Fane told Olivia that cultivators might eventually break the stalemate between the worlds, and advised her to seek counsel about Rosha.
• Morick secretly contacted a golden-masked Church leader and gave him the String Sorcery Fruit to taste.
• The golden-masked man ordered Morick to bring Rosha to the Church and watch the Wizard Tower, which he intended to use as a vessel for God's descent.

The High Tower Institute and powerful Federation factions agreed to keep Rosha under surveillance rather than hand him over. At his relocated laboratory, Hong Yuan demonstrated his ability by killing an icy Spellcaster and producing a Frost Fruit, which Augustus sent to the Federation Research Institute for examination.

• Maguire demanded that Charles hand Rosha over, but Charles forbade him from acting without permission and Olivia warned that they needed to prepare for the Federation's response.
• Augustus proposed that Federation factions place representatives in Rosha's laboratory to assist his research and monitor him, and Charles agreed.
• Hong Yuan arrived at his new laboratory, where hundreds of Spellcasters watched him and an icy man asked him to demonstrate his ability on a prisoner.
• Hong Yuan used his power on the icy man, whose body was bound by roots and vines before a branch produced a Frost Fruit; a black-robed elder shielded Hong Yuan from a sonic attack.
• Augustus took the Frost Fruit from the gray-haired Hawthorne elder and ordered him to bring it to the Federation Research Institute for examination.

The Federation’s leaders verified that the Frost Fruit was safe, and Augustus used it to strengthen Rhine while preparing a larger plan involving Rosha’s Tree of Myriad Phenomena. At the High Tower Institute, Morick revealed himself as a Church operative and used a strange artifact to make Hong Yuan vanish into another dimension.

• The Hawthorne elder delivered the Frost Fruit to Severin, whose research later confirmed that it was safe to consume.
• Augustus gave the remaining Frost Fruit to Rhine, who endured its freezing energy and unleashed a powerful frost spell.
• Augustus ordered a meeting of the major Lineages and secret-art factions and considered using the Tree of Myriad Phenomena to lure powerful Spellcasters.
• Morick was dismissed as an instructor but secured permission to speak with Rosha, while Hong Yuan sensed spatial fluctuations around him.
• Morick revealed a crimson gemstone and declared his devotion to the birth of God, then used its strings to make Hong Yuan disappear despite the Weavers’ attack.
• Augustus and another Weaver shattered Morick’s barrier and set him ablaze, but Morick died smiling and proclaiming his devotion to God.

Morick sacrificed himself to transport Hong Yuan to a meeting between the True God Church and the Five Elements Sect, who both intended to seize him and the tree of myriad phenomena. Hong Yuan repelled their first attacks by summoning a vast sea of trees and a nine-headed wooden dragon, leaving the battle underway.

• Morick used Rift Leap and a magic necklace to get Hong Yuan past Augustus and Edwin, who hurried after them when Olivia warned that Rosha could still be caught.
• The True God Church's golden-masked leader met Gray-Robed Elder Yang of the Five Elements Sect, and both groups planned to capture Hong Yuan and claim the tree of myriad phenomena.
• Hong Yuan arrived near the meeting site, where the golden-masked man failed to control him with Spirit Link after the tree blocked the mental attack.
• Gray-Robed Elder Yang attacked with a Spirit-Binding Net as the golden-masked man used Personality Overwrite, and members of both groups joined the assault.
• Hong Yuan summoned a vast sea of trees that broke apart the attackers' strikes, then combined the trees into a mountain-sized Nine-Headed Wood Dragon that charged both groups.

Hong Yuan fought off attacks from the gold-masked man and the Five Elements Sect's elderly man surnamed Yang until Augustus, Olivia, Edwin, Maguire, and High Tower Institute director Charles arrived. Charles revealed that Hong Yuan had survived, and the surrounded enemies prepared to fight.

• The gold-masked man cast Darkness Cage as the Nine-Headed Wood Dragon unleashed nine powerful String Sorcery attacks, tearing through the surrounding battlefield.
• The elderly man surnamed Yang tried to capture Hong Yuan with the Spirit-Binding Net, then attacked to kill him when Augustus and Olivia arrived and fired their Prismatic Cannon and Electromagnetic Cannon.
• The Spirit-Binding Net immobilized Hong Yuan and the dragon, while the cannon blasts cracked the Black Tortoise Shield and forced the elderly man surnamed Yang to retreat with his disciples.
• The elderly man surnamed Yang and the gold-masked man were caught in Charles's Mirror World, where Charles had defeated the fleeing True God Church Spellcasters.
• Charles and the four other Weavers surrounded the enemies, and Hong Yuan reappeared from a sapling, alive; the gold-masked man then shouted for the others to attack.

Charles and four other Weavers captured the golden-masked Weaver, but the old man surnamed Yang escaped after sacrificing his arm. Hong Yuan fed the captive to the Tree of Myriad Phenomena, which produced a single fruit embodying the many string systems.

• Maguire, Olivia, Edwin, and Augustus overwhelmed the golden-masked man's World-Purifying Flame while Charles trapped the Violet Lightning Blade in his Mirror Corridor.
• The old man surnamed Yang detonated the Violet Lightning Blade to escape Charles, then blasted through the Tidal Barrier with a bloody escape technique and fled.
• Olivia, Maguire, Edwin, and Augustus sealed the golden-masked man, while Hong Yuan watched and decided not to intervene in the fight over Yang.
• Charles returned without catching Yang, and Edwin challenged the High Tower Institute over losing the chance to study a Golden Core True Person.
• The Weavers agreed to let Hong Yuan handle the captive, and he fed the golden-masked man to the Tree of Myriad Phenomena.
• After a quarter of an hour, the tree grew into a great tree and its many varied fruits merged into one.

Hong Yuan secured the fruit grown by the Tree of Myriad Phenomena and captured the wounded Golden Core cultivator Yang Zhan. While the Weavers kept Hong Yuan under guard in Serinburg, his clone secretly explored Yang Zhan’s memories and discovered that the Golden Core defenses would be difficult to breach.

• Hong Yuan picked a fruit containing fused powers from the True God Church’s Weaver, and Charles agreed to keep it until the group decided how to distribute it.
• Yang Zhan escaped the battle badly wounded, but Hong Yuan tracked him with a Spatial Mark, exploited his troubled state of mind, and captured him with his wooden clone.
• Ilda visited the glass room where the spellcasters believed Hong Yuan was confined, unaware that an illusion concealed the real Hong Yuan beside her.
• Hong Yuan entered a hidden chamber beneath the base and found Yang Zhan’s body bound by roots, with his cracked Golden Core trapped in vines.
• Hong Yuan learned from Yang Zhan’s memories about the Nine Kingdoms Cultivation World and the Five Elements Sect, but could not yet penetrate Yang Zhan’s deepest mental defenses.

Hong Yuan studied Yang Zhan’s memories and accelerated the growth of an embryo intended to become his Cultivation World avatar. Meanwhile, Augustus delivered a Weaver fruit to the secret Ninth Research Laboratory, where Solomon revealed plans to test the ultimate weapon Hibernator One.

• Hong Yuan compared the cultivation systems of the three worlds and considered how the Strings of Force might be exploited.
• Hong Yuan continued nurturing his embryo avatar with his mental power and the [Six Voids Calamity], having opened its Nine Spirit Apertures.
• Augustus took the Weaver fruit from the High Tower Institute to the Ninth Research Laboratory and handed it to Solomon.
• Solomon led Augustus underground and showed him Huxley’s work on the weapon Hibernator One.
• Huxley told Augustus that Hibernator One could destroy a large city and had the force of more than ten Weavers detonating at once.

After the Federation passed the Anti-Evil Act targeting the True God Church and Arcane Society, Noah prepared to visit his senior at the High Tower Institute. He revealed himself as the Heart-Devouring Old Devil, a Golden Core cultivator possessing Noah’s body, and set his sights on the Tree of Myriad Phenomena as a way to grow stronger.

• The Council passed the Anti-Evil Act with 258 votes in favor, 18 abstentions, and none against.
• Noah learned of the act and planned to visit his senior at the High Tower Institute, inviting his senior’s mother to accompany him.
• A black-robed Spellcaster tried to stop Noah from leaving, but Noah forced him to his knees until Lord Adrian intervened and allowed the carriage to proceed.
• Noah recalled how he had fled a mysterious attacker, possessed Noah, and regained his clarity with help from the Weavers, who wanted to study the relationship between cultivation and String Sorcery.
• Noah considered using the Tree of Myriad Phenomena to accelerate his recovery and increase his power, and the carriage arrived at the High Tower Institute.

Noah visited the High Tower Institute with Mrs. Buck, provoking Lynn by revealing that his father and five sisters had died and that Mrs. Buck had lost her mind. As Noah’s Heart-Devouring Worms invaded the institute, Hong Yuan destroyed them and fired a lightning attack that blasted Noah across the square.

• Noah entered the High Tower Institute with Mrs. Buck and secretly marked female students with his aura while searching for the Tree of Myriad Phenomena.
• Noah told Lynn that his father was dead, Mrs. Buck had lost her mind, and his five sisters were gone, driving Lynn to attack him with Wind String Sorcery.
• Aldrick Fane warned Lynn about Noah, and a thought from Lynn’s mithril ring shattered the wind blade before it struck Mrs. Buck.
• Noah sent swarms of Heart-Devouring Worms through the institute, but Hong Yuan crushed the worms in the base and gathered the rest with lightning.
• Hong Yuan launched a lightning-wreathed projectile at Noah, blasted through Noah’s blood-thread defense, and confronted him in the square.

Hong Yuan confronted Noah in the square and revealed Weaver-level power, while Vysseran’s Weavers watched without intervening. Hong Yuan defeated Noah, destroyed his heart-devouring worms, and left the arriving Weavers too late to stop him.

• Hong Yuan arrived above the square, and the professors realized he had become a Weaver.
• Hong Yuan recognized that Noah had been possessed by an old cultivator and that the Weavers were observing their fight.
• Hong Yuan attacked Noah with a wooden dragon and mirror-based sorcery, while Noah countered with blood magic and broke free of the mirrors.
• The six Weavers debated whether to intervene, but Augustus chose to let the fight continue until one man was near death.
• Noah sent a soul-devouring insect into his blood prison, but Hong Yuan killed it with Endless Moonlight Blade and severed Noah’s head.
• Hong Yuan destroyed the heart-devouring worms fleeing Noah’s body, then faced the Weavers as they arrived too late to stop him.