Recaps

General Deli and his wife discussed Wayne’s feelings for Aurora and considered whether their three sons should follow him. After a month of cultivation, Wayne attended a compulsory class and learned the names of the knight ranks.

• General Deli praised Wayne’s sincere feelings for Aurora and said he hoped Aurora’s three talented brothers would eventually follow Wayne.
• Wayne studied the Hundred-Blade Formation and, after a month, had imprinted its hundredth rune, reaching one-twelfth progress.
• Wayne restocked his food and went to Teaching Building No. 201 to attend the compulsory course on knight ranks.
• Wayne met the course’s instructor, who began explaining the knight ranks, from trainee through Holy Domain Knight.

An instructor explained knight ranks, cultivation, costs, and their combat strength compared with wizards to Wayne. Wayne’s questions led the instructor to describe how a knight’s resources and fundamentals could make them stronger than an ordinary Elemental Wizard.

• The instructor explained that apprentice knights built strength before condensing a Black Iron Seed of Life, while higher ranks absorbed materials matching their rank.
• The instructor described seventh-rank Holy Dragon Knights, the importance of contracted Devil Beasts for reaching the eighth rank, and the daily expenses of maintaining knights.
• Wayne asked five questions about knights and wizards, recruitment, regional differences, dragon contracts, and powerful non-dragon seventh-rank knights.
• The instructor said knights generally lagged behind Lord Wizards in combat before the seventh rank, when both systems underwent major transformations.
• Wayne asked what the instructor meant by a knight’s fundamentals, and the instructor compared ordinary cultivation materials with refined steel or affinity-matched elemental metal.

Wayne attended a lesson on wizard ranks after reviewing what he had learned about knights, and continued making steady progress in his rune cultivation. The instructor outlined the nine wizard levels and began explaining their qualitative transformations.

• Wayne recalled the lesson on knights, thanked the instructor, and planned to attend compulsory courses while considering how openly to train future followers.
• A month later, Wayne had imprinted two hundred heaven-and-earth runes, adding one hundred during the month through sustained cultivation.
• Wayne went to Teaching Building No. 702 and entered Classroom 401 to attend an introduction to wizard ranks.
• The instructor listed the nine wizard realms, from apprentice to Omniscient Wizard, and said qualitative transformations occurred at levels four, seven, and eight, with every advancement from level seven onward bringing one.

Wayne learned how wizard advancement, cultivation, and identifying marks worked, along with the transformations that came at higher levels. He clarified his goal of becoming a seventh-level True Spirit Wizard and attaining eternal life.

• The instructor explained that wizards needed three arrays of their realm to complete its cultivation, and that seventh-level True Spirit Wizards gained eternal life and mastery of elemental laws.
• Wayne asked whether wizard advancement had rune-count standards and how each level could be identified.
• The instructor said first-level formal wizards needed between one thousand and five thousand runes, and that academy emblems and wizard-array coverage could indicate a wizard’s realm.
• Wayne reviewed the lesson and concluded that he needed three arrays for each realm and that a seventh-level wizard could attain eternal life.
• Wayne reaffirmed his goal of becoming a seventh-level powerhouse and achieving eternal life.

Wayne met Aurora in the Imperial Capital and traveled to the Deli residence to contract a little sprite. In the manor’s northern garden, Aurora showed him a glowing Dragonblood Ginseng whose little sprite was due to be born that day.

• Wayne met Aurora at the teleportation plaza, and she explained why she had left the uncontracted little sprite at home.
• Aurora used a Bloodline Teleportation Badge to take Wayne to the Imperial Capital, where they rode a floating car to the Deli residence.
• Aurora led Wayne into the northern garden and showed him a Level Six Dragonblood Ginseng that was glowing as it prepared to give birth to a little sprite.
• Wayne learned that magic plants glow only during the final hundred years before a little sprite is born, and worried that the plants in his villa might eventually draw attention.

Wayne learned about the Dragonblood Ginseng and the different types of contracts as the plant gave birth to a little sprite. He offered her a magic crystal, and she agreed to become his contracted servant.

• Aurora gave Wayne a master-servant contract array disc and explained how master-servant, companion, and symbiotic contracts differed.
• The Dragonblood Ginseng transformed into a red-haired little sprite as life energy poured into her.
• General Deli and his family watched the sprite's birth from the castle, and General Deli blew his three protesting sons away with battle aura.
• Aurora urged Wayne to contract the sprite, and he tempted her with a top-grade magic crystal, which she eagerly bit into.
• The sprite agreed to contract with Wayne in exchange for more tasty magic crystals, and their blood completed the master-servant contract array.

Wayne accepted Aurora as his maid and joined her family to draft a Sanctuary Contract governing her future. The chapter ended with Deli reading Wayne’s generous terms aloud, prompting his family to wonder whether Aurora had used dark witchcraft on him.

• Wayne agreed to let Aurora become his maid and asked her to call him Young Master.
• Aurora introduced Wayne to her parents, Deli and Mulora, and her brothers Andrew, Wiggins, and Naruto.
• Wayne proposed completing a Sanctuary Contract for Aurora, and Deli handed him a blank Sacred Domain Scroll to write.
• Wayne drafted terms promising to nurture Aurora, provide her the highest standard allocation of cultivation resources, and prevent her from harming him or those around him unless they were in conflict.
• Deli read the contract aloud, and Aurora’s family reacted with astonishment and joked that she might have used dark witchcraft on Wayne.

Wayne and Aurora completed their Sacred Domain contract after General Deli added protections for both Wayne’s privacy and the contract’s secrecy. As Wayne, Aurora, and the sprite Nia left the Deli residence, Wayne asked about their cultivation needs and learned that Aurora had a rare Light affinity.

• Aurora defended Wayne’s character, and Wayne explained that he was a descendant of Xun Lie.
• General Deli added a rule forbidding Aurora from revealing Wayne’s privacy, then had his family sign a separate secrecy contract before Wayne and Aurora completed their own contract.
• After Wayne and Aurora left, General Deli and Mulora decided to increase their investment in Wayne and send their three sons to follow him if he passed the minor assessment in three years.
• In the hovercar, Wayne learned that the sprite’s name was Nia, and Aurora introduced herself to her.
• Aurora told Wayne that little sprites lived in miniature alchemical houses, that her affinity was Light, and that the resources she and Nia needed were available at a commercial center in the southern district.

Wayne and Aurora visited the southern commercial district, where Wayne bought clothes for himself, Aurora, and Nia. He also had a shop use a Replica Witch Array to make custom short-sleeved shirts and shorts, then began choosing patterns.

• Wayne and Aurora took a hovercar to the bustling center of the southern commercial district because people were staring at Nia.
• Wayne ordered formal wear, everyday clothes, and sleepwear for himself and Aurora, and Nia chose outfits and shoes from the fairy section.
• Wayne asked the clothing shop to make breathable short-sleeved shirts and shorts with an elastic or drawstring waistband.
• Wayne selected cotton and cool fabrics, and the salesclerk used a Replica Witch Array to create the custom clothes.
• Wayne approved a dragon pattern and asked the salesclerk to add roses, tulips, tigers, and fine horses as other designs.

Wayne and his companions visited the transcendent trade district and learned about the three great guilds. At the Elf Trade Guild, Wayne examined premium homes for Nia and discovered that a single manor house could provide vast land and resources for many little elves.

• Wayne, Nia, and Aurora bought colorful short-sleeved clothes, and Aurora teased Wayne about his taste.
• Aurora showed Wayne the Elf, Dragon, and Alchemy Trade Guilds and explained what each specialized in.
• Wayne chose to visit the Elf Trade Guild first to find resources for knights and a home for Nia.
• An elf attendant presented three premium little-elf houses, and Wayne questioned whether they were truly the best options.
• The attendant explained that the manor house contained space for thirty separate little-elf homes, cultivation land, and useful arrays.
• Wayne asked about recharging the house, and the attendant explained that one high-grade magic crystal merely activated its arrays, which then gathered energy from the surroundings.

Wayne bought a customized castle Elf Hut for Nia and arranged for it to be delivered to his academy villa. At a tavern, he and Aurora met an elderly Diamond Knight who revealed his plan to travel to Dragon Continent and seek a partner.

• Wayne let Nia choose the Elf Hut’s design, paid one supreme-grade magic crystal, and gave the elf his address at Wizard Academy, District Seven, Villa No. 66.
• Wayne and Aurora ate and talked at a tavern, where Aurora praised Wayne for supporting her despite her intermediate talent.
• An enormous elderly man joined their table and introduced himself as a level-six Diamond Knight who was 645 years old.
• The old man told Wayne and Aurora that he had saved for six centuries to travel to Dragon Continent and pursue a partner.
• Wayne and Aurora toasted the old man’s dream, and he left the tavern grateful for their encouragement.

Wayne and Aurora registered Aurora as Wayne’s follower at Lord Wizard Academy and learned where to find a light-element breathing technique for her. Wayne planned to visit Linus the next day to trade for it.

• Aurora praised the old knight’s perseverance, and Wayne learned that a round-trip teleportation pass to Dragon Continent cost three thousand high-grade magic crystals.
• Wayne returned to Lord Wizard Academy with Aurora and Nia, deciding to stay inside the academy until he became a level-one official wizard.
• Wayne and Aurora passed the follower-contract inspection, and the middle-aged staff member registered Aurora under Wayne’s name and gave her a Follower Badge.
• The staff member told Wayne that Linus had a light-element breathing technique on the library’s ninth floor, and Wayne promised to take Aurora to trade for it the next day.

Wayne returned to Villa No. 66 with Aurora, refused to let his teacher inside to protect his secret, and revealed that his courtyard held one hundred magical plants nurturing little elves. After setting up the Elf Hut, he inspected its map and discovered it linked to one hundred castles across a vast area of land.

• Aurora celebrated becoming Wayne's maid and trusted him to honor his promise about the Breathing Technique.
• Wayne accepted the Elf Hut from his teacher outside Villa No. 66, then hurried inside without inviting her in.
• Wayne explained to Aurora that his courtyard's one hundred magical plants were nurturing little elves, and she realized how wealthy he was.
• Aurora prayed to the Sanctuary Will and felt glad she had chosen Wayne as her master.
• Wayne activated the Elf Hut's map projection and saw that its one hundred castles each had a teleportation array connected to a corresponding area.

Wayne watched Nia demonstrate her abilities in the Elf Hut and learned how her magic helped cultivate Dragonblood Ginseng and gather information for improving seeds. After discussing the value of little elves, Wayne ended the evening and sent everyone to rest before formal training the next day.

• Wayne explained that the Elf Hut contained one hundred castles, each linked by teleportation array to 1.5 million mu of land.
• Nia entered the Elf Hut and used her red glow to sow seeds and make Dragonblood Ginseng sprout across a ten-li area.
• Nia activated her Information Domain, gathered information from the seedlings, and absorbed it to support cultivation and improve future seeds.
• Nia explained her rapid-growth ability and Information Domain, while Aurora described how little elves overcame the difficulty of getting magical plants to sprout.
• Wayne praised Nia's role in breeding better seeds, then told Nia and Aurora to rest before training the next day.

Wayne attended a compulsory Sanctuary History lecture and learned how the Great Expansion Era transformed the Sacred Domain and gave rise to the Great Development Era. The lecture left him reflecting on the peaceful age and the origins of Lord Wizards.

• Wayne saw Aurora training with a huge greatsword and sent Nia a chunk of top-grade magic crystal.
• Wayne went to Classroom 203 for a Sanctuary History lecture taught by an old scholar.
• The teacher explained that the Sacred Domain grew through thirty thousand years of conquest, then absorbed subsidiary planes to stabilize its expanded origins.
• The teacher described how seven Rank Eight beings helped stabilize the Sacred Domain and how the Great Development Era began after the races needed to recover from war.
• The teacher listed the era’s three blessings: little elves born from elves and the Life Sacred Tree, resources accompanying the dragon race, and Lord Wizards born among humans.

Wayne finished Sacred Domain History class and visited Linus in the library to obtain a light-attribute knight breathing method for his follower. Linus offered him a cheap copy of the incomplete Light Elemental Breathing Method, explaining that it could reach Rank Seven but required a contract with a proud Light Dragon, which knights had never managed to secure.

• The teacher explained that the Myriad Clans Continent held clans from three origins: the Sacred Domain Plane Cluster, the Sanctuary World, and friendly planes brought in during the thirty thousand years of war.
• Wayne left class and went to the library’s ninth-floor special area to ask Linus for a light-attribute breathing method for his knight follower.
• Linus teased Wayne about having a girlfriend and tried to sell him a potion before Wayne redirected the conversation to the breathing method.
• Linus offered Wayne a copy of the Light Elemental Breathing Method for three supreme-grade magic crystals, prompting Wayne to question the unusually low price.
• Linus explained that the method was complete through Rank Seven but required a contract with a Light Dragon, a legendary dragon that no knight had ever contracted.

Wayne bought Linus’s untested Light Elemental Breathing Method and a potion, then spent ten months cultivating in seclusion before advancing to a Rank One formal wizard. Afterward, he learned Aurora was already an advanced knight and was training to catch up with him.

• Wayne learned that Linus had compiled the untested Light Elemental Breathing Method himself and bought it along with a blood-red potion.
• Wayne shut himself away for ten months, prioritizing cultivation while Aurora handled trivial matters.
• Wayne completed the Rank One Hundred-Blade Formation and advanced to a Rank One formal wizard as magic power flooded his body and sea of consciousness.
• Aurora and Nia watched Wayne’s breakthrough, and Aurora went to train so she would not fall behind him.
• Wayne learned that Aurora had reached the advanced knight level in ten months while practicing the Light Elemental Breathing Method.

Wayne celebrated becoming a first-level formal Lord Wizard, learned how to use the Sanctuary Emblem, and spoke with Rose Marquis, who expected to meet him at the next academy enrollment. The next day, he attended class, where Riley singled out the newly advanced wizard in the room, drawing his classmates’ attention.

• Wayne imprinted his spiritual mark on the Sanctuary Emblem and explored its tools, personal information, and chat features.
• Wayne accepted Rose Marquis’s video call, thanked her for helping him advance, and agreed to meet her in the Imperial Capital at the next enrollment.
• Rose Marquis asked about Nia, then ended her spiritual projection to return to her territorial affairs.
• Wayne celebrated his advancement with Aurora and Nia, then reminded himself to remain patient on the path to immortality.
• Wayne attended Riley’s class on the relations among the three major races, where Riley explained that he had introduced himself out of respect for a first-level wizard in the room.

Riley taught Wayne and the freshmen how the relationship between humans, dragons, and elves developed and why it had to be protected. After class, Riley introduced himself as a sixth-year student, and Wayne asked why he was so interested in him.

• Riley silenced the classroom and explained that the three great races had moved from hostility to wartime comradeship and then to mutual dependence.
• Riley described how Sanctuary's blessings and the races' complementary resources created a stable alliance, and warned the students against hostility toward elves or dragons.
• Wayne asked how elves formed relationships with humans, and Riley explained that elves contracted sprites, who returned to the Elf Continent after their master's death and could never choose another master.
• Riley ended the lesson, then explained to Wayne how the academy counted years and clarified that he was a sixth-year student.
• Wayne asked Riley why he was so enthusiastic toward him.

Wayne exchanged contacts with Riley, then visited the library to learn about the Elf Continent and choose two First-Rank Array Diagrams for his cultivation. He left with the Golden Nurturing and Teleportation Array Diagrams and a Dragon Continent travelogue.

• Riley told Wayne that his rank and talent earned him respect, revealed that he was Wright's elder brother from the main direct line, and exchanged contact information with him.
• Wayne read a travelogue about the Elf Continent and considered whether seeds from its Life Sacred Tree could be used to cultivate more trees and little elves.
• Wayne compared the Golden Nurturing, Teleportation, and Golden Shield Array Diagrams, then chose the first two because they would support his future cultivation and territory.
• Wayne asked the library senior student to exchange the two diagrams and a Dragon Continent travelogue, paying with two high-grade magic crystals and the Rose Marquis's gold card.
• The senior student registered the exchange and warned Wayne not to share the formation diagrams before he left the library.

Wayne heard that Aurora’s three older brothers wanted to follow him, learned about their talents and training, and agreed to take them in after understanding their circumstances. Aurora explained the academies’ twenty-five-year program and how the Knight Academy’s graduates could time their departure to accompany their chosen lord.

• Aurora told Wayne that her three older brothers wanted to follow him and described how her light-element talent had affected her overall talent.
• Aurora explained that parental elemental talents could influence a child’s development but could not guarantee or artificially create a particular talent.
• Aurora introduced her brothers—Andrew, Wiggins, and Naruto—and Wayne agreed they could follow him, though they would remain at the Knight Academy or at home until they graduated.
• Aurora explained the twenty-five-year academic system, including twelve years at the academy, six years on each of the Giant Dragon and Elf Continents, and a final year for graduation.
• Aurora told Wayne that Knight Academy graduates could wait to join their chosen lord, while Lord Wizard Academy graduates had to depart for frontier territories upon graduation.

Wayne arranged for Aurora’s family to bring him a Sanctuary Contract and the best resources, then explained his plan to seek dragon eggs for himself and her brothers. Aurora revealed that Anne Hathaway, the Rose Marquis, was one of the legendary Southern Twin Stars, and Wayne arranged for Aurora to meet her in September; the chapter ended with Wayne planning to study dragons and exchange options before returning to his cultivation.

• Wayne asked Aurora about hostile forces in Sanctuary World, and she said there were no large-scale threats because the Temple and Tower of Truth maintained order.
• Wayne told Aurora to have her brothers bring him the Sanctuary Contract scroll and her father write out its terms, and he said they should use the best resources available.
• Wayne explained that he wanted dragon eggs to help Aurora’s brothers save time and strengthen his own territory, as he also hoped to have a dragon mount.
• Aurora identified Anne Hathaway as the Rose Marquis and explained that she and the Highland Flower, Golden Dragon Princess, were known as the Southern Twin Stars.
• Wayne promised to take Aurora to meet the Rose Marquis in September, and Aurora eagerly accepted.
• Wayne read about Dragon Continent, planned to attend a dragon course and check the academy exchange hall for dragon eggs, then began studying two array diagrams.

Wayne attended a five-hour course on dragons, learning about their classifications, realms, and resources. He asked the instructor about superior dragon types, dragons’ need for magic crystals, and the Dragon Mother, and received answers before the lesson ended.

• Wayne arrived at Classroom 303 to attend the Basic Information on Dragons course, where an old wizard began teaching after acknowledging him respectfully.
• The instructor explained the three dragon ranks, how mutations could increase a dragon’s standing and resources, and the nine levels of dragon realms.
• The instructor described the minerals, magic crystals, and magical plants produced by dragons and explained that dragons were mana entities blessed by the world.
• Wayne asked whether dragons could surpass Upper Dragons, whether they needed magic crystals to cultivate, and whether the Dragon Mother possessed all elements.
• The instructor said Upper Dragons could not be surpassed, dragons did not need magic crystals for their own cultivation, and the Dragon Mother was a five-element dragon.

Wayne welcomed Aurora’s three brothers, the Deli family, but rejected their father’s overly restrictive Sanctuary Contracts and told them to sign contracts like Aurora’s instead. While Andrew went to buy more scrolls, Wayne bathed as the brothers joked about Aurora’s food.

• Nia told Wayne she had advanced to level two and could now tend three million mu of Dragonblood Ginseng.
• Aurora said her father had agreed to let her brothers follow Wayne and would send them with Sanctuary Contract scrolls.
• Aurora brought her three brothers to meet Wayne, and they presented the contracts their father had prepared.
• Wayne rejected the dense contracts and asked the brothers to sign the same kind of Sanctuary Contract as Aurora.
• Wayne gave Aurora a high-grade magic crystal and told the brothers to decide who would buy extra scrolls; Andrew left to purchase them.
• As Wayne bathed, Aurora’s brothers joked about her daily food and argued over whether they had come from the same factory.

Wayne registered Aurora’s three brothers as followers and learned how the academy’s contribution-point exchange worked. He discovered that dragon eggs cost one million points each, leaving him confident that he could afford them with his top-grade magic crystals.

• Aurora explained the brothers’ cultivation resources and warned them to keep Wayne’s secrets; Andrew and his brothers pledged loyalty to Wayne.
• Wayne told Aurora to ask General Deli to review her Breathing Method, and she agreed.
• After completing follower registration, Wayne and his group visited the Contribution Points Exchange Office, where an old man explained that points came from academy missions or top-grade magic crystals.
• The old man showed Wayne a vast collection of dragon eggs and said each egg cost one million contribution points, with each top-grade magic crystal worth ten thousand points.
• Wayne calculated that an egg required only one hundred top-grade magic crystals and concluded that the cost was manageable.