Chapter Summaries

Latour and his family underwent a bloodline leap after Ian reached a rule-level realm, gaining the Solar Bloodline and powerful new abilities. Latour prepared the imperial family for its new status and ordered Vincent to seek news of Ian at Shadowmoon Tower as powerful wizards converged on the Latu Empire.

• Latour's bloodline transformed when a rule-level power from Ian manifested within it, granting him five new talents and greatly extending his lifespan.
• Vincent, Ainoa, and Lillian also gained the Solar Bloodline, and Latour explained that their family had risen to Morningstar-level status.
• Latour ordered Vincent to visit Shadowmoon Tower for information about Ian and changed succession rules to prioritize bloodline concentration and the Stellar Core Mark.
• Extraordinary beings across the capital sensed the palace's power, while reclusive Third-Level Wizards throughout Annoria awoke and prepared to investigate.
• Days later, Latour sensed powerful wizards converging on the capital and welcomed the new era for the Marcus Family.

Ian emerged as a Morningstar, made a deal with Xuanhuang Star’s World Will to purify its Abyssal Rifts in exchange for World Origin and future cross-world passages, and accepted the role of Great Yan’s guardian. The world’s powers prepared to negotiate under the new balance of power, while Ian looked ahead to the work awaiting him.

• Ian learned that Xuanhuang Star’s World Will wanted him to clear the remaining Abyssal Rifts and gather World Origin from contaminated worlds, offering him a share of its origin and stable cross-world passages after its advancement.
• Ian explained his Morningstar powers to Wei Song, shared insights that strengthened Wei Song, and gave Gaga a thousand golden Source Crystals.
• Great Yan’s leaders named Ian its Eternal Guardian, formed an Abyssal Purification Coordination Committee, and announced a global summit and Rift Purification Plan.
• Ian promised citizens he would clear the Abyssal Rifts and demonstrated his power with a harmless miniature sun, while asking Wei Song to handle international affairs.
• The White Eagle Federation, Europa Alliance, and Polar Bear agreed to attend the summit, with Polar Bear pledging support for Ian’s plan on the condition that its own rifts were handled first.
• Ian watched the changing world order from the bureau rooftop and considered the World Will’s deal, the Celestial Path, and his future Wizard Tower.

Wei Song purified the remaining Level Five Rifts on Xuanhuang Star, allowing Ian to complete the Purification Rule and prepare for the journey beyond a Rift. Ian crossed into a heavily corrupted world with Gaga and began exploring its ruins while enormous presences stirred in the distance.

• Wei Song purified the East Sea, Red Sands, and southern rainforest Level Five Rifts, collecting their World Origin fragments.
• Ian absorbed the World Origin and completed the Purification Rule, strengthening his Stellar Core and advancing the Time and Earth Starpaths.
• Ian tested a purification barrier against simulated extreme pollution, then arranged for materials and equipment to enter the corrupted world.
• Ian crafted a Void Stabilization Anchor, Rule-Isolation Scrolls, protective armor, and Rule Bombs, then entered the Kunlun Rift with Gaga.
• Ian arrived in the corrupted world, discovered humanoid Aberrants and distant powerful life signs, and headed toward city ruins with Gaga concealed by its Shadow Domain.

Ian discovered Astral Fine Gold among the ruins and found a human settlement beneath a corrupted mountain. He purified the settlement’s people, including Aya, and left them experiencing clean air and freedom from contamination for the first time.

• Ian found a piece of Astral Fine Gold and sensed several powerful sources of contamination across the region.
• Ian and Gaga killed more than thirty Aberrants guarding a mountain, then Ian sensed humans living underground.
• Ian followed the underground passage to a settlement and opened its heavy metal gate with the Gravity Rule.
• Aya gathered mushrooms and heard that someone had come down from the surface.
• Ian purified the settlement with golden light, removing the people’s contamination as Aya breathed clean air for the first time.

Ian purified an underground settlement on Estelle, learned of the fallen Starshine Empire, and exchanged protection for its records, Adamantine, and information. He set out for Deep Rock City while the survivors began trying to cultivate Starshine Power again.

• Ian read the settlement’s ancient records and learned that the Starshine Empire had fallen a thousand years earlier when a black tide destroyed its capital and defensive network.
• Ian offered to purify and protect the settlement in exchange for its books, knowledge of Astral Fine Gold and Adamantine, and intelligence about the world.
• The old leader told Ian about Deep Rock City and handed over three pieces of Astral Fine Gold, books, metal plates, and a map of the dangerous route west.
• Ian purified the settlement and established a barrier, then told the survivors they could try cultivating Starshine Power again.
• Ian left on Gaga for Deep Rock City, while the old leader opened an ancient meditation manual and sensed a faint strand of Starshine through the rock.

Ian explored Deep Rock City, learned that the knowledge he needed was held in the dangerous former imperial capital of Eternal Star Dome, and helped reconnect nearby human settlements. After defeating an intelligent Fourth Order beast with his Eternal Blazing Sun technique, he obtained a pure Level-Four Soul Gem and turned his attention to gathering resources before pursuing the capital’s secrets.

• Ian surveyed Deep Rock City and met its guardian, Lumina, who offered him access to the city’s surviving records and pointed him toward Eternal Star Dome.
• Ian studied Deep Rock City’s archives, found that key floating-city blueprints were missing, and learned the knowledge he needed might be in Eternal Star Dome.
• Ian cleared and reinforced underground passages across a ten-thousand-kilometer region, reconnecting Deep Rock City with nearby settlements.
• An intelligent Fourth Order beast roared from deep underground, and Ian lured it into an isolated cavern to fight.
• Ian destroyed the beast with Eternal Blazing Sun, purified its escaping soul with the Status Panel, and obtained a pure Level-Four Soul Gem.

After defeating a level-four aberrant beast, Ian studied Deep Rock City’s treasury and devised his own path to the Radiant Moon level by growing his Blazing Stellar Core into a miniature star. He left Lumina a purification rune and instructions for gathering resources and knowledge, then departed to explore nearby settlements and deepen his understanding of the world.

• Ian concealed the traces of his battle and returned to Deep Rock City, where Lumina led him to the treasury.
• After two days of research, Ian concluded that the treasury lacked the knowledge he needed to complete his floating-city deductions and that Eternal Star Dome might hold the key.
• Ian examined his Blazing Stellar Core and realized he needed to develop a new meditation technique suited to growing it into a miniature star.
• Ian determined that advancing to Radiant Moon required completing his Time and Land Rules and gathering more origin, and he chose the corrupted world as his training ground.
• Ian gave Lumina a purification rune and instructed Deep Rock City to contact other settlements and safeguard Astral Fine Gold, vein ore, and ancient technology knowledge.
• Ian vanished from Deep Rock City as Lumina and its residents watched him depart with renewed hope.

Ian gathered Starshine Empire records and Astral Fine Gold from underground outposts, purifying and protecting them in return. At Rockheart Fort, he learned the location of the Astral Vein Mine and confronted the Earth-Eating Demon Lizard guarding it.

• Ian purified the people in an underground outpost, traded a ten-year barrier for Starshine Empire knowledge, and acquired a piece of Astral Fine Gold.
• Over seven days, Ian protected isolated human outposts and gathered relics, records, and Astral Fine Gold as legends of the Eternal Blazing Sun spread.
• Ian and Gaga annihilated the beast tide besieging Rockheart Fort, restored its protective array, and purified the surrounding area.
• The leader of Rockheart Fort gave Ian technical records and revealed that the Astral Vein Mine lay near a lava zone, where an Earth-Eating Demon Lizard had settled.
• Ian reached the mine entrance, assessed the demon lizard and its nest, and ordered Gaga to destroy the eggs before preparing to attack.
• The Earth-Eating Demon Lizard sensed Ian, awakened, and drew leyline energy into itself as Ian told it to wait.

Ian killed the Level 4 Earth-Eating Demon Lizard, purified its contaminated lair, and discovered that defeating Level 4 aberrant beasts weakened the Abyss's hold on Estelle World. At the Worldheart, Estelle World's dying World Will asked him to kill all the Level 4 pollution sources anchoring the Abyss, leaving Ian to weigh that request against his own interests and the conflicting commission from Xuanhuang World's will.

• Ian imprisoned the Earth-Eating Demon Lizard with the Gravity Rule, destroyed it with the Eternal Blazing Sun and a concentrated Heat Rule ray, and obtained a Pure Level 4 Soul Gem.
• Ian compressed the Astral Fine Gold vein into a massive ingot and purified the contaminated main vein tunnel.
• Ian sensed that killing Level 4 aberrant beasts had slightly weakened the world's contamination and reached Estelle World's Worldheart.
• Estelle World's dying World Will asked Ian to kill the Level 4 pollution sources, which served as Abyssal anchors, so it could briefly gather strength.
• Ian considered helping Estelle World in exchange for a reward, while weighing his search for knowledge against the conflicting commission from Xuanhuang World's will.

Ian returned to the Xuanhuang World, discovered that rare Spacetime Sand could help him forge a spacetime Wizard Tool, and perfected the Time and Earth Rules. He then crossed directly into the Estelle World to resume his mission, leaving Wei Song to oversee the alliance and resource collection.

• Ian returned to Jiangzhou Administration Headquarters and learned from Wei Song about the Global Defense Alliance and the resources gathered by its member countries.
• Wei Song showed Ian three stones recovered by an ability user, and Ian identified them as Spacetime Sand that flickered through time to evade touch.
• Ian ordered a survey of the discovery site and announced a worldwide exchange offer for more Spacetime Sand.
• Ian absorbed a Level Four soul gem and thousands of Source Crystals, causing time to behave chaotically around the chamber as he advanced his rules.
• After fifteen days, Ian completed the Time Rule and Earth Rule, then tore open space and entered the Estelle World.
• Wei Song told Li Hao that Ian had left on a new mission and assigned him responsibility for resource collection and the alliance's operations.

Ian returned to Estelle World and used his five-rule domain to cleanse most of its pollution and destroy the aberrant beasts. He summoned the surviving humans to Deep Rock City and prepared to confront the enraged peak Level Four presence on the Central Continent.

• Ian unleashed his aura across Estelle World, expanded his domain to a fifteen-thousand-kilometer radius, and killed the Shadow Demon in the northern tundra.
• Ian annihilated the Darkwing Dragonbat and its swarm, provoking the remaining Level Four aberrant beasts and the enormous presence on the Central Continent.
• Ian spread his domain across the planet, crushing aberrant beasts below Level Four and purifying the Fungal Carpet, polluted rivers, and spore clouds.
• Ian hunted down the surviving Level Four aberrant beasts, reducing the world's pollution level to 71% and raising World Will recovery to 29%.
• Ian ordered all survivors to gather at Deep Rock City within half a month, and Lumina relayed the command to human strongholds across the Underground World.
• Ian watched more than six hundred thousand survivors begin traveling to Deep Rock City, then prepared to face the peak Level Four shadow on the Central Continent.

Ian entered the Eternal Star Dome, cleared its polluted ruins, and confronted Astra, the final emperor of the Starshine Empire. As their battle shook the spatial fragment, Gaga found a sealed sphere containing a corrupted eyeball and recording crystals, while Ian sensed another hidden peak Tier Four enemy waiting to ambush him.

• Ian used Red Edge Rain to destroy the aberrant beasts and clear a thousand-mile hollow in the pollution mist.
• Ian entered the spatial fragment, killed two Level Four petrified lizards, and found the ruined city of the Eternal Star Dome.
• Ian confronted Astra, whose starlight and Abyssal Energy formed a dangerous balance, and their attacks tore through the grand hall.
• Ian tried to weaken Astra with purification, while Astra replenished his power with starlight and the hall began to collapse.
• Gaga slipped into the hall's depths and found a sealed sphere containing a dark-gold eyeball and recording crystals.
• Astra unleashed Stellar Abyss World-Ending Light as Ian sensed another concealed peak Tier Four enemy and decided to let it attempt an ambush.

Ian defeated Astra and the Soul Dominator, whose attempted self-destructions were stopped by his Status Panel, and learned how the Star-Devouring Eye had corrupted the Starshine Empire. He recovered Astra’s treasures and began analyzing the incomplete artifact while slowing the collapsing space.

• Ian compressed his rule domain, overwhelmed Astra with three Eternal Blazing Suns, and watched Astra’s starlight and Abyssal Energy fall out of balance.
• Astra warned Ian that the forbidden magic artifact had come from the Abyss and would backfire, then began to self-destruct; Ian’s Status Panel purified his soul and left behind a Pure Level Four Soul Gem.
• The Soul Dominator trapped Ian and Gaga in illusions, but Ian broke free, bound the phantom with golden chains, and used the Status Panel to stop its self-destruction and purify its Level Five Abyssal Will.
• Ian obtained information about the Soul Dominator and the Star-Devouring Eye, then comforted Gaga and counted his remaining Soul Gems.
• Ian learned that Astra had drawn Abyssal Aura into the Star-Devouring Eye, causing the Starshine Empire’s collapse, and concluded that he could safely craft the artifact using his own opposing powers.
• Ian collected Astra’s spatial bracelet and recording crystal, began analyzing the Star-Devouring Eye with his Status Panel, and slowed the collapse of the space while his Wizard Tower resumed its deduction.

Ian completed a Wizard Tower blueprint using Starshine Empire technology and wizard theories, then left the collapsing Estelle World with its survivors. After the World Will gave its final blessing and transferred the Civilization Spark, Ian carried 620,000 people to Xuanhuang World as the world began to be lifted by Xuanhuang Will.

• Ian used the Star-Devouring Eye’s data to design a Wizard Tower with a Void Energy Pool, folded interior space, tower spirit, training chamber, and Void Annihilation Cannon, though he still lacked a void-energy core.
• Ian completed his analysis of the Star-Devouring Eye and returned to Estelle World as the planet’s damaged foundation began to collapse.
• The World Will appeared to the survivors, revealed that it had protected them for a thousand years, and gave Ian World Origin while blessing the survivors and enhancing their bodies and souls.
• Lumina ordered the survivors to pack their supplies and preserve Starshine Empire books and relics before leaving with Ian.
• Ian enveloped 620,000 survivors from thirty-seven strongholds in his domain and led them through a spatial rift to Xuanhuang World as Estelle World perished.
• Xuanhuang Will emerged and began lifting the entire Estelle World with enormous hands.

Xuanhuang World devoured the collapsing Estelle World, ascended to Level Six, and transformed its land, energy, and supernatural systems. Ian absorbed the agreed World Origin and left Wei Song to oversee the Estelle survivors’ resettlement while he prepared for his return to the Wizarding World.

• Xuanhuang World's will tore apart Estelle World and absorbed its fragments as its dying landscapes and history appeared in Xuanhuang's skies.
• Li Hao recognized the devouring as the world's ascension, while Alex and the Estelle survivors watched the destruction of their home.
• After two months, Xuanhuang World's will paid Ian with World Origin, which strengthened his Blazing Stellar Core and advanced his Path of the Radiant Moon to five percent.
• Xuanhuang World consumed Estelle World's final core, ascended from the Level Five limit to Level Six, expanded, and replaced Source Crystals with Starshine Power.
• Ian gained greater authority and a cross-world coordinate passage, then asked Wei Song to arrange the Estelle survivors' settlement in Great Yan.
• Ian left the settlement to refine his Wizard Tower blueprint, pursue the Star-Devouring Eye, gather resources, and prepare to return to the Wizarding World.

After the Xuanhuang World ascended, Ian spent five years gathering pure abyssal demonic energy and refining the Star-Devouring Eye with his purification power and spacetime materials. He completed the artifact, tested its ability to erase matter and its traces, and decided to leave Wei Song in the Xuanhuang World while preparing for his return to the Wizarding World.

• The Estelle survivors settled in the Starlight District, where Lumina organized their new community and Aya began cultivating with the Starlight Perception Method.
• Ian used his Abyssal Soul Pact and Purification Rule to draw in Abyssal Will, purify its consciousness, and collect the resulting demonic energy.
• Ian analyzed how to combine the Two-Realm Phase Instrument and time-space sand with the Star-Devouring Eye while continuing to gather equal amounts of purification power and demonic energy.
• After five years, Ian used the balanced energies to reforge the Star-Devouring Eye, then merged it with the upgraded Two-Realm Phase Instrument.
• Ian soul-refined the resulting dark-gold bead and tested it by erasing an Astral Fine Gold ingot and all traces of its existence.
• Ian decided to leave Wei Song in the Xuanhuang World and wait to see whether his projection would break through to Morningstar.

Ian returned from Xuanhuang World to the Wizarding World as a Rank Four Morningstar Wizard and settled old matters with the Juste Family. After healing Tito and purifying the family’s Abyssal contamination, he left the family in Adele’s hands, while the mystery of Alistair Juste remained unresolved.

• Ian crossed the stable starlight passage from Xuanhuang World and returned to the Eastern Frontier, where other powerful wills sensed his arrival.
• Ian traced the sealed contamination in the Juste Family vault to Alistair Juste and Burning Canyon, but found no clue to Alistair’s whereabouts.
• Ian appeared before Tito, Adele, Darcy, and Soren, dissolved his old contract with the Juste Family, and restored much of Tito’s damaged foundation.
• Ian left the Hawkwood family dispute to Adele and accepted the Juste Family’s Level Four records in exchange for a friendly relationship.
• Ian purified the sealed Abyssal contamination in the family vault, then departed as the elders urged Adele to become family head and Adele silently wept.

Ian returned to the Latu Empire as a fourth-level Morningstar, revealed his power to the factions threatening his family, and reunited with his relatives. After visiting Shadowmoon Tower and learning that Undying Heart might reopen its investigation into Ganna’s death, he prepared to confront old enemies in the Silver Circle.

• Ian’s Morningstar presence froze the imperial capital and valley, and he destroyed Poison Spider, Bone Hand, and three other third-level wizards who had targeted the Marcus Family.
• Ian reunited with Latour, Vincent, Ainoa, Lillian, and Gaga, gave his family resources and a defensive array, and learned how the family had fared since its bloodline ascension.
• Ian traveled to Shadowmoon Tower, rewarded Morton with a crystal of spell and star-law insights, and learned that Undying Heart might renew its investigation into Ganna’s death.
• Malena visited Ian, told him she had become vice dean of the Potion Department, and received potions and brewing knowledge from him.
• Ian told Gaga he was heading to the Silver Circle to visit old friends and settle old debts, then vanished from the room.

Ian met with three Morningstar Wizards to settle a past grudge, establish noninterference and protection for his family and Shadowmoon Tower, and arrange exchanges. After learning about opportunities in the Central Continent, he planned to return to Shadowmoon Tower before setting out.

• Ian met Endors Holley, Louis Crow, and Tessa Cameron on an isolated island, where their combined wills cleared the surrounding fog.
• Ian confronted Louis over killing Wizard Ganna, then used his powerful Rule Domain to deter Louis, who agreed to let the matter end.
• Endors, Tessa, and Louis explained their distant garrison duties and agreed not to interfere with Ian's family or Shadowmoon Tower.
• The three Morningstars shared leads on the Knowledge High Tower, Silvermoon Council auctions, and a northern Void Rift, while Ian offered Soul Gems and Astral Fine Gold in exchange for knowledge and intelligence.
• Ian secured Louis's promise to provide abyssal frontline information and creature samples, and gained the three Morningstars' promise to publicly support his family and Shadowmoon Tower.
• After the meeting, Ian planned to return to Shadowmoon Tower with Gaga, improve Gaga's strength, and travel to the Central Continent once the trade goods arrived.

Ian entered the Shadow World with Gaga, forced a bull-headed Shadow Demon King to trade resources and information, and learned of an Evernight Mother Tree guarded by a Level Five Lord of Shadows. After gathering spell research and extracting demonic energy from Abyssal corpses, he returned to Silver Sail Harbor as a Morningstar Wizard and accepted an invitation to a gathering.

• Ian spread his rule domain through the Shadow World, defeated the bull-headed Shadow Demon King's domain, and demanded Shadow resources and information.
• The Shadow Demon King traded its resources for a Level Four soul gemstone and revealed that an Evernight Mother Tree grew in the Shadow Swamp under the protection of the Lord of Shadows.
• Ian marked the Shadow Demon King to keep it silent, then returned to Shadowmoon Tower with Gaga and explained why he had not killed it.
• Ian traded soul crystals with Endors, Louis, and Tessa for spell models, incomplete meditation methods, and Level Four Abyssal monster corpses, then extracted demonic energy from the corpses.
• Ian arrived above Silver Sail Harbor, revealed his Morningstar presence, and accepted an invitation to a gathering for Morningstar Wizards.