Chapter Summaries

Ian passed his guest elder review after presenting an improved Second Order purification formula, but a staged accusation and an attempted assassination exposed the Hawkwood family's involvement and threatened to inflame tensions with the Juste Family. Ian returned home determined to dismantle the underground Abyssal Altar and advance to Level Three, while Collins headed back to report the failed attack.

• Ian arrived at the Juste Family's Affairs Hall, where Elder Soren, Adele, Edwin, and Adrian attended his guest elder review.
• Ian passed identity verification and presented three Second Order Purification Potions and an improved formula that raised purification efficiency by thirty percent; Adele offered to negotiate its purchase for the family.
• Seven apprentices accused Ian of moving suspicious materials near Wisteria Alley, but Adele challenged their claims and Edwin urged them to leave.
• A disguised guard revealed an [Explosive Core], but Elder Soren stopped the detonation and identified the guard's concealed soul mark as Hawkwood family secret art.
• Elder Soren ordered the evidence preserved and the news sealed, while Ian's retainer status was approved and the apprentices and attacker were taken away for investigation.
• Ian returned home and vowed to dismantle the underground Abyssal Altar before advancing to Level Three, while Collins learned the attack had failed and ordered Gray Vulture to take him home.

Ian dismantled the Abyssal Altar, then completed the design of his third-tier true body, which he named the Order Divine Body. He left East City with Gaga for Rift Valley to attempt his breakthrough in seclusion.

• Ian dismantled the Abyssal Altar and sealed away all Abyssal Aura before activating the laboratory's isolation wizard array.
• Ian resolved to become strong enough to deal with Collins and began deducing a true body built from Gravity, Purification, and Time Rules.
• Ian connected to Abyssal Will and used Order Starforce alongside the Status Panel to control and purify it.
• Ian fused his spells into the true body and named it the Order Divine Body, completing its design after three days.
• Ian chose Rift Valley as a secluded place to break through, packed his potions, and left Adele a message.
• Ian and Gaga departed Wisteria Alley and traveled toward Rift Valley.

Ian advanced to the Third-Level Wizard realm after the Status Panel purified an invading fragment of Abyssal Will, allowing him to draw in stellar origin and form the Order Divine Body. The Wizarding World solidified it as his innate wizardry, and the Status Panel revealed his progress toward the Fourth-Level Morningstar.

• Ian began drawing stellar origin while using the Water of Balance to stabilize his transformation, but a fragment of Abyssal Will invaded his Mental Sea through the [Abyssal Soul Pact] imprint.
• The Water of Balance anchored Ian's sense of self, and the Status Panel purified the Abyssal Will, granting him a fragment of Abyssal Civilization knowledge.
• Ian completed his physical elementalization and merged his three Starpaths and five major spells into the Order Divine Body.
• Ian's Mental Power and perception expanded, his lifespan rose to three thousand years, and he formally advanced to Early Third-Level Wizard.
• The Wizarding World's will examined Ian's Order Divine Body and solidified it as his Third-Level Innate Talent.
• Ian checked his rule progress and saw a clear path toward Fourth-Level Morningstar: Gravitational Rule at 32%, Purification Rule at 18%, and Time Rule at 5%.

Ian broke through to Third-Level Wizard, condensed [Order Divine Body], and met Lucian, Lord of Storm City, who exchanged Shadow Crystals for Ian’s Purification Potions and introduced him to the Eastern Frontier’s powers. Ian returned to East City and began planning his next steps, including treating Titu and considering a second projection, while keeping Collins in mind as a future target.

• Ian recovered Gaga from the World Will’s time suppression and explained that it had acknowledged his breakthrough.
• A Third-Level Wizard named Lucian arrived, introduced himself as Lord of Storm City, and learned that Ian was a guest elder of the Juste Family.
• Lucian traded Gaga several Shadow Crystals for five of Ian’s Second Order Purification Potions and explained the Eastern Frontier’s major powers.
• Lucian gave Ian his Arcane Mark, accepted a projection of Ian’s [Order Divine Body], and departed after discussing Ian’s plans.
• Ian dismantled his concealment array, traveled invisibly back to Bauhinia Lane in East City, and informed Adele of his breakthrough.
• Ian planned to treat Titu and choose a world for his second projection, while considering sending Collins a retaliatory gift.

Adele confronted the Hawkwood family over an assassination attempt and covert agents, securing compensation and establishing herself as the Juste Family’s leading heir. Edwin withdrew from the succession in exchange for lifelong management of a trade route, and Adele learned that Ian had returned.

• Adele punished those involved in tampering with Ian’s retainer review and set out to confront the Hawkwood family.
• Adele presented evidence linking the Hawkwood shadow guards and Collins to an assassination attempt and demanded compensation for the attack and covert agents.
• Adele and Patriarch Anton agreed that the Hawkwood family would halve Juste merchant caravan passage fees for twenty years and provide further compensation.
• Adele reported the agreement to the Juste elders, who praised her handling of the dispute and affirmed her position as first heir.
• Adele offered Edwin lifelong management of a trade route in exchange for withdrawing from the succession, and he signed the agreement.
• Adele received word through her Arcane Mark that Ian had returned and hurried to Bauhinia Lane.

Ian reassured Gaga that he would help it grow stronger, then revealed to Adele that he had become a Third-Level Wizard. At the Juste Family council, Ian was formally recognized as a Third-Level retainer and granted elevated privileges, while Adele’s position as first heir was strengthened.

• Ian promised to prepare special potions to help Gaga advance toward the Third Order.
• Adele told Ian that she had become the Juste Family’s first heir and promised that no one would be able to harm him.
• Ian revealed his Third-Level Wizard advancement to Adele and agreed to accompany her to the family council hall.
• Adele announced Ian’s advancement before the Juste Family elders, and Ian’s power impressed the gathered wizards, including Edwin, Adrian, and Aishia.
• Elder Darcy granted Ian elevated retainer privileges, including access to Third-Level resources, the secret vault, Elder Council meetings, and resources for Gaga.
• The elders formally entered Ian into the family archives as a Third-Level retainer, and Ian and Adele left the hall together.

Ian discovered a hidden Abyssal taint on the Juste Family vault’s forbidden fourth floor, advanced Gaga to the middle stage of Second Order, and gave Tito another dose of Purification Potion. He rebuilt a concealed altar deep underground and planned to find a suitable Projection World.

• Ian used his Third-Level guest badge to enter the Juste Family vault, chose materials and shadow-bloodline research for Gaga, and sensed a decaying Abyssal fluctuation on the forbidden fourth floor.
• Ian fed Gaga a potion made from Blood Essence and shadow ingredients, helping him reach the middle stage of Second Order and awaken a brief ability to enter the Shadow World.
• Ian treated Tito with a new Purification Potion and told Adele that the contamination would likely keep her father asleep for at least a year.
• Ian warned Adele that the vault’s fourth floor held a tainted aura like the one affecting Tito, and Adele admitted she had never entered that floor.
• Ian excavated a chamber two hundred meters underground, built layered isolation arrays, and reconstructed the altar with purified materials.
• Ian activated the arrays around the new altar and decided to find a suitable Projection World.

Adele alerted the Juste Family elders that Guest Elder Marcus had detected Abyssal Aura in the fourth level of their secret vault, and they uncovered and sealed a contaminated parchment. Ian confirmed the aura had vanished, then planned to gather resources for Gaga’s advancement and travel to Storm City to trade with Lucian.

• Adele told Elder Darcy that Marcus had sensed Abyssal Aura in the fourth level of the family secret vault, prompting Darcy to convene the elder council.
• The nine elders voted to investigate, and five elders opened the vault’s sealed fourth level.
• Elder Soren identified hidden Abyssal Aura on an old parchment, which Elder Darcy sealed in a crystal case for Titu to examine when he awoke.
• Ian sensed that the aura had disappeared and concluded the immediate crisis was over.
• Ian wrote a list of resources needed to advance Gaga and promised to gather them before opening another otherworldly projection.
• Ian decided to take Gaga to Storm City the next morning to visit Lucian and trade for resources.

Ian confronted Edgar Juste, who revealed that he had orchestrated the Abyssal contamination and turmoil in the Juste Family to take revenge on Titu. Ian defeated and purified Edgar, then headed back to East City with evidence for Adele before continuing toward Storm City.

• Ian detected an ambush at an abandoned relay station and met Edgar Juste, Titu Juste's older brother, who admitted he had turned to the Abyss and engineered the family's troubles.
• Edgar trapped Ian and Gaga in an Abyssal domain and attacked Gaga, but Ian's Order Divine Body shielded them and purged the domain.
• Ian revealed his complete Order Divine Body, overcame Edgar's attempted Abyssal summoning, and purified the contamination from him.
• Ian recorded Edgar and the remaining Abyssal Aura in a Memory Crystal to give Adele evidence supporting her position as family head.
• Ian and Gaga returned toward East City, planning to deliver the crystal before traveling to Storm City to find resources for Gaga's advancement.

Adele presented the elders with proof that Edgar Juste had survived as an Abyssal Contamination victim, while Ian traveled to Storm City to trade for Shadow resources and prepare for another journey to another world. After activating his altar, Ian found three possible worlds, avoided one watched by an incomprehensibly powerful being, and established a passage to a world whose rules and cities resembled those of Blue Star.

• Adele showed the council the crystal recording Edgar Juste's survival and corruption, and Elder Darcy ordered her to reward Marcus with Shadow Crystals when he returned.
• Ian met Lucian in Storm City and traded three Third Order Purification Potions for Shadow Crystals, Blood Essence, and potion ingredients.
• Lucian offered Ian a deputy city lord position, but Ian declined because he still had business with the Juste Family and wanted to consolidate his power.
• Ian told Gaga he would make journeys to other worlds and then activated the heavily warded altar beneath Three Layers.
• Ian rejected the first world as ordinary and withdrew from the second after sensing enormous eyes watching from beyond its barrier.
• Ian chose the third world, whose active supernatural rules and city layouts reminded him of Blue Star, and established a soul passage to it.

After awakening Thermal Energy Control during an End Church blood sacrifice, Wei Song destroyed the ritual altar and killed the nine cultists, saving the captives. He assessed his new ability and considered the opportunities the world offered his projection.

• Wei Song inherited the memories and final wish of the original Wei Song, then awakened in a chamber where the End Church was preparing to sacrifice him and thirty-six other captives.
• As the ritual began pulling at his soul, Wei Song activated a weak rule fragment through the Status Panel and awakened Thermal Energy Control.
• Wei Song compressed thermal energy into a Heat Core and destroyed the ritual's dark red crystal core, disrupting the sacrifice and injuring the cultists.
• Wei Song killed the lead black-robed cultist and the other eight cultists, then burned through the captives' ropes and freed them.
• Wei Song examined his stabilized thermal energy and reflected on the time flow and potential rule fragments in this world.

After awakening as an Awakened and saving thirty-seven people from cultists, Wei Song reviewed the former Wei Song’s painful family memories and resolved to live on for his family. He returned toward the underground entrance and waited to learn how the Great Flame government would respond to him.

• Wei Song left the rescued people and climbed out of the underground space into the wilderness near Jiangzhou City.
• He revisited memories of his joblessness, his parents’ hardship, and his older brother’s disability, and recalled the family’s hopes for him.
• Wei Song accepted his promise to live in the former Wei Song’s place and resolved to build a better life for his family.
• He decided that joining the Great Flame government could help him understand the world and strengthen his abilities.
• Wei Song returned toward the underground entrance and waited for the officials to arrive.

After Wei Song rescued thirty-seven captives and killed nine cultists, Zhou Zhen invited him to join the Superpower Management Administration and explained its duties, benefits, and power rankings. Wei Song accepted, received a furnished apartment in Jiangzhou City, and was told to report to headquarters at nine the next morning.

• Zhou Zhen arrived with the Jiangzhou City Superpower Management Administration, ordered his team to treat the rescued people and investigate the altar, and learned that Wei Song had destroyed it and killed nine cultists.
• Zhou Zhen confirmed that Wei Song had awakened his superpower during the attempted sacrifice and offered him a place in the Administration, which Wei Song accepted.
• Zhou Zhen explained the Administration's responsibilities, Wei Song's benefits and obligations, and the ranks of awakened individuals.
• Zhou Zhen arranged for Wei Song to stay in Room 702 of an apartment building and instructed him to report to Administration headquarters at nine the next morning.
• Wei Song entered his furnished apartment, looked out over Jiangzhou City, and thought about the people in Xiongshi County.

Wei Song registered with the Jiangzhou City Superpower Management Bureau, learned that his rare A-rank Thermal Energy Control ability and mission rewards could help him advance, and discovered that Source Crystals were World Origin fragments. After absorbing his reward and raising his ability to 30%, he began considering how the Xuanhuang World could help his main body reach Fourth-Level Morningstar.

• Lin Wei registered Wei Song and measured his newly awakened energy at 10% Early Awakening with high stability.
• Wei Song recorded his ability as Thermal Energy Control, and Lin Wei identified it as an extremely rare A-rank potential.
• Lin Wei awarded Wei Song a Source Crystal for rescuing civilians and killing cultists, and explained how the crystals came from purified Abyssal Rifts.
• Wei Song's Status Panel identified the Source Crystal as a trace World Origin fragment, which he absorbed to raise Thermal Energy Control from 10% to 30%.
• Wei Song decided that the Xuanhuang World could provide a path for his main body to reach Fourth-Level Morningstar, then began forming a difficult plan.

Wei Song reunited his family in a new apartment in Jiangzhou City and advanced rapidly while completing missions for the Superpower Management Bureau. In the Wizarding World, Ian learned that Source Crystals contained World Origin and reconsidered the rules he would use to pursue the Morningstar level.

• Wei Song reassured Zheng Jingfeng and Wei Tang that his new job was safe, then invited them and Wei Bai to move to Jiangzhou City.
• Wei Song met his family at the station and brought them to the furnished apartment in Anning Residential Community, where Wei Bai began to regain hope.
• A month later, Lin Wei gave Wei Song mission rewards and tested his progress, which had risen to 36% at Mid Awakening.
• Lin Wei explained that cults drew power from the world beyond and that advancement beyond grandmaster required understanding one's ability's underlying rules.
• Ian saw through Wei Song's memories that Source Crystals could provide World Origin and began reconsidering his planned rules for forging a seed of rules.

Ian devised the Blazing Stellar Core, a Rule Seed combining Gravity, Heat, Purification, and Time, and concluded that he needed many Source Crystals to advance. He planned to seek an interworld teleportation spell through Adele and eventually travel to Xuanhuang Star himself.

• Ian decided to fuse his four Rules into the Blazing Stellar Core, with Gravity as its skeleton, Heat as its heart, Purification as its barrier, and Time as its support.
• Ian realized that Xuanhuang World's Source Crystals could accelerate Rule comprehension and might raise the Rules' ranks, but Wei Song's missions yielded them too slowly.
• Ian resolved to find an interworld teleportation spell, considering the Juste Family's secret vault and deciding to ask Adele for help.
• Ian planned to have Wei Song keep gathering Source Crystals while he prepared for his true body's eventual journey to Xuanhuang Star.
• Ian told Gaga to watch the altar while he went to find Adele, and warned that traveling to Xuanhuang Star might keep him away for a long time.

Ian obtained the Juste Family’s records on cross-world teleportation and learned that a Third-Level Wizard needed stable coordinates, World Will recognition, and a specialized true body to survive the journey. He began preparing for a future descent into the Xuanhuang World, leaving with a plan to strengthen his projection, Gaga, and the Two-Realm Phase Instrument.

• Adele told Ian that Titu’s condition had stabilized and gave him Ancestor Kondra Juste’s manuscript on traveling between worlds.
• Ian read the manuscript and learned that World Will suppression could kill a Third-Level Wizard, while a World Mark could grant safe passage.
• At the Juste Family library, Ian studied cross-world teleportation texts and Kondra’s notes on the dangers and requirements of solo traversal below Morningstar.
• Ian concluded that he needed stronger rule comprehension, a Third-Order Two-Realm Phase Instrument, and the Xuanhuang World’s recognition before traveling.
• Ian wrote a preparation list that included advancing Gaga, trading for teleportation knowledge, and gathering materials for the phase instrument.
• Ian promised Gaga that he would take it with him, and he looked toward the Xuanhuang World while thinking that he and Wei Song would meet again.

Ian traded with Elder Darcy for interdimensional transportation knowledge under a contract requiring him to produce Third Order potions, and obtained five Second Order bloodline formulas and Shadow Department resources. After studying the formulas, Ian began refining more Earth Tyrant Elixirs while considering how to develop a Third Order Bloodline Potion.

• Ian visited Elder Darcy and agreed to provide fifty Third Order Purification Potions and ten Third Order Bloodline Potions within a century in exchange for staged access to interdimensional transportation knowledge.
• Ian traded ten Second Order Purification Potions for five Second Order Bloodline Potion formulas, then signed the family contract and received the first manuscript on phase nodes and coordinate positioning.
• Ian exchanged an Earth Tyrant Elixir for three Second Order Shadow Crystals, Shadow Springwater, and Tomb Moss for his Shadow Nightjar.
• Ian studied the five bloodline formulas and combined their principles with his experience improving the Earth Tyrant Elixir, but concluded he needed more samples and practice to create a Third Order potion.
• Ian used his remaining materials to begin refining three more Earth Tyrant Elixirs in his underground laboratory.

Ian helped Gaga advance to Third-Level Wizard and entered the Shadow World with him, discovering a new way to seek resources and escape danger. When Lucian invited him to explore a newly emerging demi-plane, Ian declined and agreed instead to supply potions for the expedition.

• Ian accumulated resources for Gaga, whose shadow abilities and strength grew steadily.
• Gaga broke through to Third-Level Wizard, gained the ability to enter the Shadow World with Ian, and took him there for a brief investigation.
• Three days later, Lucian told Ian that a demi-plane was emerging near the Land of Chaos and might contain the Void Condensation Cores and Phase Cores Ian needed.
• Ian refused to join Lucian's expedition but agreed to provide potions in exchange for Lucian gathering resources for him.
• Lucian departed for Storm City, while Ian returned to his laboratory to continue deducing the Third Order Bloodline Potion.

Ian investigated the principles of Third-Order bloodline potions, concluding that they graft rule fragments into the drinker, and purified Earth Monarch Blood Essence to prepare for developing one. Gaga then revealed a guarded Shadow Crystal Vein in the Shadow World, while Ian weighed preparations for claiming it and awaited developments elsewhere.

• Ian compared bloodline formulas and neutralizers, then used Primordial Blood Tracing on Third-Order Earth Monarch Blood Essence and glimpsed its embryonic Spirit of the Mountains rule.
• Ian deduced that Third-Order bloodline potions worked by grafting rule fragments and began outlining a formula and its required ingredients.
• Ian carefully purified the Earth Monarch Blood Essence, activating its dormant rule fragments.
• Gaga told Ian it had found a large Shadow Crystal Vein near the real world, guarded by a powerful shadow creature, and offered to guide him there.
• Ian decided to prepare concealment and other safeguards before visiting the vein, while considering his research, Gaga's advancement, and Lucian's demiplane expedition.