Chapter Summaries

Chapter Summary

Key plot points and events

• After 91 years in the Maze Realm, Chen Jichuan has refined eleven Myriad Demons Atlases and enslaved 110 Spirit Transformation demon servants. They have gathered resources and discovered isolated regions, but none can find a way out.
• Having reached the Third Realm of Spirit Transformation, Chen creates a third separated spirit. He intends to send it into the Maze Realm to seek the Hanging Mirror Sea, the Maze Realm’s source and a place where he may advance his cultivation.
• In Brightwing Realm, Chen checks on the scattered members of the Eight Extremes Sacred Hall. He gives his disciple Sima Hanchuang precious Origin-Initiation and Sage-Seeing Pills to distribute among their fellow disciples.
• More than a century after seizing the Nine-Treasure Glazed Pagoda, Chen finishes recovering from his injuries and studies the Pagoda-Bearing Celestial Venerable’s records. He learns of the Immortal Gate World, a realm beyond the Immortal Gate, and decides to enter it in search of a rare treasure.
• A favorable divination finally gives Chen his chance. Protected by the pagoda, he secretly ascends to Ninth Heaven and approaches the Immortal Gate.
• As he rushes along the ancient road into the gate, a powerful swordsman attacks. The pagoda’s defenses are badly damaged and Chen is gravely wounded, but he manages to pass through and escape into the starry heavens.

Character developments

• Chen Jichuan shows his long-term planning and ambition: he prepares a separated spirit for Maze Realm exploration while also pursuing opportunities in the Immortal Gate World. He remains generous toward his sect, but his humiliation and hatred of the swordsman deepen after the ambush.
• Sima Hanchuang is portrayed as a loyal, trusted disciple. Though stunned by the value of Chen’s gifts, he accepts the responsibility of protecting and delivering them.
• The unnamed swordsman emerges as a formidable and stylish antagonist, capable of striking Chen even at the Immortal Gate.

Significant themes

• Persistence and strategic preparation: Chen pursues several paths forward, relying on cultivation, divination, hidden routes, and the pagoda’s knowledge.
• Loyalty and responsibility: Despite the dangers caused by his actions, Chen supports the scattered sect and seeks to protect its members.
• Risk and ambition: Chen willingly faces overwhelming forces for the chance to reach new realms and find greater opportunities.
• Humiliation turning into resolve: The swordsman’s attack leaves Chen wounded, but also fuels his vow to settle the score.

Character interactions

• Chen reassures Sima Hanchuang that the sect’s members are safe, then entrusts him with valuable pills for the disciples and their senior martial brothers.
• Chen’s final encounter with the swordsman is brief but decisive: he prioritizes survival and reaching the Immortal Gate over fighting back, then escapes while swearing revenge.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Jichuan enters the Immortal Gate World after being ambushed by a sword-wielding foe guarding its entrance. The strike badly damages his Nine-Treasure Glazed Pagoda and disrupts his Threefold Immortal Radiance, though he survives.
• He recalls what he learned from Pagoda-Bearing Celestial Venerable: the Divine Throne Continent has its own systems of magic and combat, and it severely suppresses Immortal Dao cultivators. Their spiritual sense and spells are restricted, and their magical energy is difficult to use.
• Chen recognizes that learning the native systems will take time, but his Dao Fruit ability, Dominion of All Arts, lets him learn magic without the arduous energy-conversion process that hinders other Immortal Dao cultivators.
• After a century in a mountain ravine, he has restored control of his protective Immortal Light and learned several healing spells, as well as the third-level Elemental Hand. His injuries remain serious, but he can continue recovering as he travels.
• He learns that he is on the Waglion Continent, near the Eastern Continent. He decides to establish himself there rather than rush to the main continents.
• His long-term aims include obtaining Sacred or Divine Artifacts and trading them for resources to advance his Immortal Dao cultivation. For now, he plans to build a Mage Tower and recruit native talent.

Character development

• Chen is furious at being wounded in the same manner as a century earlier, but he controls his anger and thinks strategically rather than acting recklessly.
• He adapts quickly to his unfamiliar surroundings, using Dominion of All Arts to turn the world’s severe restrictions into a manageable obstacle.
• His confidence grows as he realizes his immense reserves of magical energy let him use spells far more freely than native mages can. Still, he remains cautious about pursuing the continent’s greatest opportunities before he is ready.

Significant themes

• Adaptation and perseverance: Chen must learn a new system while recovering from a grave wound.
• Power and limitation: Immortal Dao cultivators have exceptional lifespans and energy reserves, but the foreign world’s rules constrain their abilities; native practitioners grow faster but live much shorter lives.
• Preparation over haste: Chen favors establishing a secure base and building resources before seeking greater power.
• Knowledge as an advantage: His prior research and Dominion of All Arts allow him to progress where other outsiders struggle.

Character interactions

• Chen’s most consequential interaction is the off-page clash with the swordsman who ambushes him at the Immortal Gate entrance.
• He relies on Pagoda-Bearing Celestial Venerable’s legacy and stored spells to understand the world and begin learning magic.
• While traveling, he questions a Second-Level Mage for directions, learning his location and choosing the Waglion Continent as his initial base.

Plot and events

• While traveling through the Waglion Continent to gather materials and find a site for his future Mage Tower, Chen Jichuan reflects on the difficulty of building one and the importance of choosing a location rich in magic and resources.
• Near the Valen Kingdom, he finds a rare six-leaf clover, a key ingredient for the Summoning Spell. Rather than continue traveling, he uses it with other prepared materials to construct the tier-one spell.
• Chen’s long-term plan is to follow the Summoning School: raise powerful Contract Creatures and, eventually, connect his Mage Tower’s mages with the creatures and communities under their command.
• He summons a Jungle Fairy named Jijibu using a four-leaf clover and two gold coins. Unable to understand Jijibu at first, he has it accompany him while secretly analyzing it.
• Six days later, Chen constructs Mental Link and discovers that Jijibu has been cheerfully narrating and singing to itself while pretending to keep watch.
• Amused, Chen contracts with Jijibu, teaches it a basic meditation method, and uses Enlightenment to help it develop. Jijibu quickly becomes exhausted and falls asleep, so Chen sends it back to the Elemental Realm, where he can summon it again later.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Jichuan shows patience and strategic thinking in his search for a Mage Tower site, but also has a clear plan for building a community based on summoned creatures. His immense magical reserves let him maintain a summoned creature far longer than ordinary mages could.
• Jijibu is revealed to be spirited, curious, and eager to please. Though inexperienced and from a weak people, it is delighted to be chosen as Chen’s first contracted creature and quickly forms an enthusiastic bond with him.
• Their relationship shifts from mage and temporary summon to contracted partners. Chen’s humor and kindness—he does not reprimand Jijibu for secretly sightseeing—help establish trust.

Significant themes

• Preparation and gradual achievement: Building a Mage Tower requires resources, planning, and patience rather than a single grand effort.
• Strength through cooperation: Mages and summoned creatures can become stronger together, reflecting the wider idea that the many can overcome the powerful.
• Potential beyond apparent weakness: Jijibu is physically unimpressive, but Chen sees value in cultivating even a low-ranked creature.
• Knowledge and cultivation: Chen’s spells, analysis, and Enlightenment technique let him learn about the world while helping others grow.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Jichuan establishes the Summoning Cottage as the foundation of his planned Mage Tower, recruiting instructors and Contract Creatures while traveling across the Vaglion Continent.
• Ten years later, instructors Morris and Grant return from recruiting in the east with only twelve students. Competition from established academies and local powers has made it difficult to attract talented youths; the Cottage’s first intake totals just thirty-seven.
• The new academy begins building its reputation and resources. Four years later, its first class is ready to graduate, and students are given a night in the powerful Advanced Meditation Room as a graduation benefit.
• Green, one of the original students, returns to his hometown after graduation. Though his magical affinity is low-grade, the Cottage gave him the chance other institutions denied him. He now carries useful magical equipment and commands a high-level Professional Rank Bat Monster, which he rides home.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Jichuan shifts from seeking a location and recruiting staff to overseeing a functioning academy. He expects its early enrollment to be weak but trusts that successful graduates will attract future students.
• Morris and Grant, two Second-Level Mages and the Cottage’s earliest senior instructors, remain respectful toward Chen. They report the disappointing recruitment results, then guide the first class through its graduation preparations.
• The students move from uncertain newcomers to trained Professionals. Their excitement over the Advanced Meditation Room reflects how much they value the opportunities the Cottage provides.
• Green embodies the academy’s impact: once repeatedly rejected because of his poor talent, he becomes a capable mage-in-training, equipped with a robe, staff, storage-and-healing ring, and Contract Creature. His return home is both a personal homecoming and a display of how far he has come.

Significant themes

• Opportunity and merit: The Cottage accepts students overlooked by prestigious institutions, giving people like Green a chance to develop.
• Patience and institution-building: Chen understands that a new academy must endure weak recruitment and build credibility through results.
• Education as transformation: Four years of teaching and access to resources turn modestly gifted youths into capable Professionals.
• Rewards and belonging: Graduation benefits demonstrate the academy’s investment in its students and help connect their achievements to their future lives.

Key plot points and events

• The Summoning Cottage’s first class graduates successfully. Though they fall short of Chen Jichuan’s hoped-for standard, their training, graduation benefits, and powerful summoned companions make them unusually strong for Vaglion.
• Chen sees the graduates as the foundation of a long-term network: they can improve the Academy’s reputation, aid future recruitment and employment, and gather intelligence—especially on Sacred and Divine Artifacts.
• Over forty years, the Academy grows steadily. Its graduates spread across the continent, strengthening its influence and information-gathering reach.
• Green and Livia, both first-class graduates, build successful lives together. After traveling and advancing to Second-Level Mages, they help expand a family business into the Black Bat Chamber of Commerce, a powerful maritime enterprise. Green’s original Bat Monster grows into a Bat Overlord.
• During a voyage, the couple learn that a Third-Level Mage from the Eastern Continent has fled to Vaglion with a Sacred Artifact. Reports from several sources soon corroborate the news.
• Chen orders the Academy’s contacts to pursue the artifact. He authorizes Green and his allies to summon all six of his monarchs if they locate it, and puts the Academy’s senior figures on standby.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Jichuan shifts from building the Academy to pursuing a major opportunity. He regards the artifact as a potential source of resources for his cultivation and future advancement.
• Green and Livia develop from classmates with mutual affection into a married, capable partnership. Their travels, commerce, and intelligence work help them advance and strengthen their ties to the Academy.
• Vigo, an Eastern Continent mage and Green’s colleague, brings news from his homeland, linking the chamber’s maritime network to the wider political turmoil.
• Grant is surprised by Chen’s willingness to mobilize all six monarchs, but quickly acts on the order. The Academy’s members prepare for a possible operation.

Significant themes

• Long-term institution-building: The Academy’s graduates create a virtuous cycle of reputation, recruitment, employment, and influence.
• Networks and information: Alumni relationships and commercial routes make intelligence gathering more effective than acting alone.
• Patience and ambition: Chen’s long lifespan allows him to build foundations over decades, then pursue major gains when opportunity arises.
• Opportunity and risk: The Sacred Artifact could greatly advance Chen’s plans, but obtaining it will likely require a coordinated and dangerous effort.

Chapter Summary

• The Sacred Artifact investigation intensifies. The Summoning Cottage tells Green and Livia to keep searching for a Third-Level Mage from the Eastern Continent who is reportedly carrying a Sacred Artifact. For their earlier information, the Academy has awarded them three free summons of the Bat Monarch. Green and Livia suspend the Black Bat Chamber of Commerce’s usual business and redirect its people toward the search.
• A search uncovers a suspicious mage. Rumors spread across the continent, prompting powerful organizations to investigate. In Wanke City, Archmages Golan and Atuman of Atuman’s Mage Tower lead a census and use a magical crystal to detect mages. Golan identifies a concealed Third-Level Mage calling himself Hesso. Hesso claims to be a newly advanced independent mage from the distant Haier Duchy, but Golan suspects he is hiding his identity. When Hesso tries to escape using a Mirror Image, Golan exposes the deception and attacks. Atuman teleports to his brother’s side, and the two pursue Hesso.
• Hesso proves exceptionally powerful. Hesso escapes south and is confronted by four archmages: Atuman, Grand Dukes Tur and Modi, and the independent mage Erika. Despite being outnumbered, he holds his own with astonishingly rapid spellcasting. The archmages suspect the staff he wields is responsible for his strength, and their desire to seize it drives them to attack more fiercely.
• Green commits to the confrontation. After learning that archmages are fighting near Wanke City, Green rides the Griffin Monarch south. He concludes Hesso is probably the mage carrying the Sacred Artifact—and that it would be harder for the Academy to recover if it fell into the hands of established rulers and archmages. Rather than let the battle continue, Green summons five more powerful beings: the Demon, Bat, and Bone Dragon Monarchs, the Air Elemental Lord, and the Water Elemental Monarch. Their arrival shocks Hesso and all four archmages, abruptly halting the fight.
• Chen Jichuan prepares to intervene. At the Summoning Cottage, Chen senses Green’s summons of the Griffin Monarch. He initially waits and monitors events, but when Green calls forth the other five Monarch-rank beings, Chen decides the situation has become serious. He opens a dark portal and steps through.

Character Developments and Interactions

• Green moves from an eager investigator to a decisive strategist. Though personally weak and unable to judge the battle’s balance, he weighs the risks and acts to keep the Sacred Artifact from becoming harder to reclaim.
• Livia shares Green’s excitement over the reward: the three Bat Monarch summons offer a powerful means of protection.
• Golan and Atuman work in coordination as brothers. Golan detects and challenges Hesso; Atuman uses their linked Phase Entanglement spell to arrive quickly and support him.
• Hesso initially presents himself as friendly and harmless, then reveals himself to be an extremely capable fighter who can injure Golan and withstand four archmages.
• The rival archmages cooperate against Hesso but are also motivated by suspicion and greed, particularly after noticing his staff.
• Chen has authorized Green’s use of the Monarchs but monitors the situation cautiously, intervening only when the scale of the crisis becomes clear.

Significant Themes

• Power attracts danger: A Sacred Artifact—and even the possibility of one—draws the attention of major powers across the continent.
• Information and strategy matter: Green cannot win through personal strength, so he relies on intelligence, timing, and powerful summoned allies.
• Trust and deception: Hesso’s invented identity and Mirror Image illustrate the difficulty of distinguishing truth from concealment in a high-stakes investigation.
• Greed fuels conflict: The archmages’ interest in Hesso’s staff turns a search into a violent struggle over potentially valuable power.

Key plot points and events

• At the border of Manlu Duchy, Archmage Hesso is surrounded by archmages Atuman, Tur, Modi, and Erika, while Green arrives riding a Griffin Monarch with six Monarch Rank creatures.
• The staff Hesso carries is identified as the legendary Staff of Isus, a Sacred Artifact. The four archmages consider joining forces with Green’s dean, Benag, to secure and share it.
• Hesso tries to deter them by claiming he intends to give the staff to the powerful Legendary Mage Anos. Atuman dismisses the threat and asks Green to help subdue Hesso.
• Green, only a Second-Level Mage, avoids committing himself and stalls until his dean arrives. Chen Jichuan appears through Dimensional Journey, revealing himself as a Legendary Mage.
• Hesso immediately offers Chen the Staff of Isus in exchange for favor and protection. Chen accepts, then takes Hesso and Green back to Summoning Cottage, leaving the other archmages’ alliance plans in ruins.
• At the academy, Chen tells Morris, Grant, and Mina that the Sacred Artifact has already been secured, astonishing them after their intense efforts to track it down.

Character developments and interactions

• Green stays loyal to Summoning Cottage and handles a dangerous confrontation by remaining composed and waiting for his dean rather than provoking a fight. He reunites warmly with his former instructors afterward.
• Atuman adapts quickly, shifting from confrontation to proposing an alliance once he recognizes the scale of Green’s forces. He and the others are forced to abandon the plan when Chen arrives.
• Erika initially gives up hope of competing for the artifact, then regains it when Atuman suggests cooperation.
• Hesso, realizing he cannot defend the staff, tries to secure protection by offering it to a Legendary Mage. He ends up handing it to Chen and accepting an invitation to visit Summoning Cottage.
• Chen calmly asserts control through his demonstrated Legendary power, rewards Green’s success, and secures the artifact with little resistance.
• Morris, Grant, and Mina are surprised and relieved that the pursuit is over so quickly.

Significant themes

• Power determines the balance of negotiation: the archmages’ plans change with every new revelation about the strength of Green’s forces and Chen’s true rank.
• Pragmatism and survival: Hesso, Atuman, and the others repeatedly revise their strategies to protect their interests when circumstances shift.
• Loyalty and institutional ties: Green’s continued connection to his former school helps him act in its interest, even under pressure.
• The gap between appearances and reality: Green seems far less powerful than the forces he commands, while Chen’s arrival reveals that the presumed “archmage” behind the operation is actually Legendary.

Chapter Summary: “On Rewarding Merit”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Chen Jichuan publicly credits Green for first reporting the sacred artifact and accurately locating it.
• To reward Green, Chen offers him two choices:
  1. Lifelong command of one of the six Monarchs, granting him powerful protection equivalent to a Third-Level Mage.
  2. A future opportunity to break through into the Legendary Realm, provided Green eventually reaches the peak of the third level.
• The offer shocks everyone, especially Hesso, who considers a Monarch far more practical for a Second-Level Mage.
• Green recalls how powerful Archmages such as Hesso and Atuman became submissive after Chen’s arrival. He realizes this implies Chen possesses strength beyond that of an ordinary Archmage and correctly infers that Chen is already a Legendary Mage.
• Chen confirms that he has reached the Legendary Realm, making him the fifth known Legendary Mage on the continent and potentially altering its balance of power.
• Chen rewards mentors Morris, Grant, and Mina by bringing them to the Advanced Meditation Room. Using his Enlightenment method, he helps all three break through from the Second Level to become Third-Rank Archmages in roughly an hour.
• Hesso is deeply disturbed by the seemingly effortless breakthroughs, since his own advancement required years of preparation, hardship, and danger.
• Green chooses the opportunity to become Legendary rather than the immediately useful Monarch. Hesso privately considers him foolish and believes Chen is merely avoiding giving away a Monarch.
• Chen defends Green’s decision, interpreting it as evidence of ambition, courage, and deep trust in his dean.
• The chapter ends by describing the recovered Staff of Isus, a mid-grade sacred artifact and one of five legendary items in the Set of Isus.

Character Developments

• Chen Jichuan: Reveals his true status as a Legendary Mage. He demonstrates overwhelming power by casually guiding three mentors into the Archmage Realm and shows his philosophy of rewarding loyalty, ambition, and long-term potential.
• Green: Grows from a grateful former student into someone capable of making a major strategic choice based on faith in Chen. His decision to pursue the Legendary Realm reflects increased ambition and confidence.
• Morris, Grant, and Mina: Their years of service are rewarded with an extraordinary breakthrough, elevating them to Third-Rank Archmages and strengthening their positions within Summoning Cottage.
• Hesso: His worldview is shaken by Chen’s concealed power and effortless methods. He remains skeptical of Green’s choice and represents a more conservative, experience-based view of advancement.
• Chen and Green’s relationship: Their bond is emphasized as one of gratitude, mentorship, and mutual trust. Green credits Chen with transforming his life, while Chen recognizes and values Green’s loyalty.

Significant Themes

• Merit and reward: Summoning Cottage rewards concrete contributions, reinforcing a system in which loyalty and service lead to extraordinary opportunities.
• Immediate security versus long-term ambition: Green must choose between a guaranteed Monarch companion and the uncertain possibility of becoming Legendary.
• Trust and faith: Green’s decision shows his confidence in Chen, while Chen views that confidence as admirable rather than naive.
• Different perspectives on choice: Hesso sees Green’s decision as reckless and unrealistic; Chen sees it as ambitious and courageous. The chapter stresses that choices cannot always be judged as simply right or wrong.
• Hidden strength and revelation: Chen’s Legendary status has been concealed until circumstances make revealing it useful, dramatically changing how others perceive him.
• The limits of conventional understanding: Hesso’s disbelief at the effortless breakthroughs highlights the vast gap between Chen’s abilities and ordinary magical practice.

Important Character Interactions

• Chen publicly praises and rewards Green, while Green expresses heartfelt gratitude for the opportunities Chen gave him.
• Chen’s revelation that he is Legendary leaves Morris, Grant, and Mina stunned before they enthusiastically congratulate him.
• Chen leads Morris, Grant, and Mina to the meditation rooms and personally assists their breakthroughs.
• Hesso reacts with disbelief and criticism, contrasting his cautious experience with Chen’s confidence and Green’s faith.
• Chen and Hesso debate the meaning of Green’s choice: Hesso sees it as foolish overreach, while Chen interprets it as admirable trust and ambition.

Chen Jichuan learned how Hesso had found the Staff of Isus, then faced Hesso when he returned to the Summoning Cottage with allies to demand it back. As Monado challenged him, Chen Jichuan summoned twelve Monarchs to encircle the visitors.

• Hesso recounted finding the Staff of Isus in ruins on the Eastern Continent and revealed that Joey had taken an earring from the same ruins.
• Hesso agreed to follow Chen Jichuan, who proposed a deal, and rumors spread that Hesso had received a Griffin Monarch in exchange for the sacred artifact.
• Hesso returned to the Summoning Cottage with seven companions and claimed Chen Jichuan had seized the Staff of Isus by force.
• Monado, a Legendary Mage from the Eastern Continent, demanded that Chen Jichuan return the staff, but Chen Jichuan refused and challenged him.
• Chen Jichuan summoned twelve Monarchs, who surrounded Monado, Hesso, and their six companions.

Chapter Summary: “Legion”

Key Plot Points and Events

• The teachers and students of the Summoning Cottage celebrate when Chen Jichuan reveals that he can summon twelve Monarch Ranks.
• Monado, a Legendary Mage who had come to pressure Chen Jichuan into surrendering a Sacred Artifact, realizes that the situation is far more dangerous than expected. His allies—Hesso, Kary, Shavin, and other Archmages—lose confidence and consider retreating.
• Chen Jichuan escalates the confrontation by casting Undead Catastrophe, summoning a vast army of skeletons, zombies, and ghosts. He then doubles the army through Mirror Legion, covering the mountains with undead.
• Completely overwhelmed, Monado abandons his pride and begs Chen Jichuan for mercy, claiming that he was deceived by others.
• Chen Jichuan refuses to forgive him, arguing that anyone bold enough to provoke him should also be prepared to die. His twelve Monarch Ranks and undead army attack, killing Monado and the accompanying Archmages, leaving nothing behind.
• Chen Jichuan collects the dead mages’ magical possessions and discovers that Monado possessed another Sacred Artifact.
• In the dean’s office, Chen Jichuan reveals that Hesso was spared deliberately. He rewards Hesso with Monado’s remaining wealth, keeping only the Sacred Artifact for himself.
• Chen explains that the confrontation was a carefully arranged trap. He had used Hesso as bait to attract Legendary Mages who might attempt to seize the Sacred Artifact.
• Chen decides not to continue fishing for additional enemies, believing that other Legendary Mages would become cautious after hearing of Monado’s death.
• He plans to travel to the Eastern Continent, investigate another Sacred Artifact associated with Joey, and sell or trade the two Sacred Artifacts he now possesses. He intends to use the gains to advance his Immortal Dao cultivation and develop the Summoning Cottage.
• The chapter then shifts to the Moyinduo River, where Anos is experimenting with spells using the valuable Hymn Sand. He receives a message from Hillman, one of the senior elders of the Dawn Era, also known as the “Tyrant Dragon.”

Character Developments

• Chen Jichuan demonstrates overwhelming magical power, strategic intelligence, and ruthless decisiveness. He combines brute force—twelve Monarch Ranks and a massive undead army—with careful planning.
• He is shown to be confident but not reckless. After obtaining the second Sacred Artifact, he chooses to stop baiting enemies rather than risk waiting indefinitely for another Legendary Mage.
• Chen also remains focused on his larger goals: advancing his Immortal Dao cultivation, acquiring resources, expanding the Summoning Cottage, and eventually establishing influence across all three continents.
• Monado undergoes a dramatic reversal. He begins as a proud Legendary Mage intending to intimidate Chen, but becomes terrified when confronted with Chen’s forces. He begs for his life, yet his surrender is rejected and he is killed.
• Hesso changes from a schemer and potential collaborator into a frightened but loyal subordinate. After witnessing Chen’s power and manipulative planning, he becomes deeply convinced of Chen’s strength and accepts the great wealth Chen gives him.
• Anos is portrayed as a dedicated and respected mage who values the rare Hymn Sand for magical research. His connection to the Dawn Era and Hillman introduces a broader power structure on the Eastern Continent.

Significant Themes

• Overwhelming power and deterrence: Chen’s display of twelve Monarch Ranks and two massive undead formations establishes the Summoning Cottage as a force that few will dare challenge.
• Consequences of provocation: Monado’s death reinforces Chen’s principle that those who initiate conflict must be prepared to accept its consequences.
• Strategy over brute force: Chen wins not only because of his strength but because he manipulates opponents into attacking him under false assumptions.
• Wealth and resource accumulation: Sacred Artifacts, magical treasures, and Hymn Sand are essential to cultivation and magical advancement. Power is closely tied to the ability to gather and control rare resources.
• Long-term ambition: Chen views magic as a useful tool for acquiring resources, but keeps Immortal Dao cultivation as his true foundation.
• Fear and loyalty: Hesso’s obedience is strengthened by both terror and reward, showing how Chen builds authority through a combination of overwhelming power and calculated generosity.

Character Interactions

• Chen and Monado’s confrontation moves from formal hostility to total domination, ending with Chen refusing Monado’s plea for mercy.
• Chen and Hesso share a private conversation that reveals their earlier cooperation. Chen confirms that Hesso was part of the trap and rewards him for his role.
• Hesso’s fearful reaction contrasts with Chen’s calm composure, emphasizing the vast difference between their positions.
• The final scene introduces Anos’s connection to Hillman and the Dawn Era, setting up a new storyline involving the Moyinduo River, Hymn Sand, and the organization’s powerful elders.

Key plot points and events

• Anos learns that Benag (Chen Jichuan) killed Legendary Mage Monado and commands twelve Monarchs and an Undead Legion. Hillman orders Anos to return to Vaglion and recruit him into the Dawn Era.
• Anos reaches Summoning Cottage first and presents the Dawn Era’s resources, powerful members, and guidance for advancing as a Legendary Mage. Chen listens but is primarily interested in Sacred Artifacts, not the organization’s usual benefits.
• Other Legendary Mages also attempt to recruit Chen. He neither accepts nor refuses, instead using their visits to learn about the Divine Throne Continent.
• After a month of preparation, Chen travels to the Eastern Continent, where the search for the pieces of a powerful Divine Artifact has stirred conflict across the continents. With several components already found, he aims to take advantage of the turmoil.
• The chapter then introduces Joey, who found the Sacred Artifact Asha’s Tears three years earlier. It preserves youth and contains a defensive fourth-level spell. Joey later discovered that his former expedition companion, Hesso, had taken a golden battle-ax concealing another Sacred Artifact, the Staff of Isus. Hesso and an appraiser connected to the discovery have disappeared. Fearing exposure, Joey has gone into seclusion—until someone arrives at his door.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Jichuan remains strategically independent: he welcomes Anos and the other recruiters but prioritizes acquiring Sacred Artifacts over joining an organization. He recognizes the value of their intelligence and prepares carefully before leaving for the Eastern Continent.
• Anos is polished and persuasive, yet pragmatic and eager to recruit Chen before rival groups do. He explains the Dawn Era’s strengths, but his pitch does not match Chen’s needs.
• Hillman treats Chen as a valuable potential ally and uses Anos as an intermediary, reflecting the Dawn Era’s willingness to overlook a recruit’s origins.
• Joey has grown more cautious and anxious since discovering the value of both artifacts. His connection to Hesso’s disappearance leaves him vulnerable, setting up a new encounter.

Significant themes

• Power and recruitment: Legendary figures attract competing organizations, which offer resources, protection, and advancement in exchange for allegiance.
• Pragmatism and hidden motives: Chen and Joey each act according to their own priorities, while valuable artifacts draw danger and secrecy.
• Opportunity amid upheaval: The Divine Artifact crisis destabilizes the continent, but Chen sees the disorder as a chance to pursue his goals.

Plot points and events

• Chen Jichuan visits Joey, a Third-Level Mage who once found the earring Asha’s Tears. Joey falsely claims he gave it to his teacher, but Chen sees through the lie, restrains him, and takes the Sacred Artifact. He leaves Joey a ring in compensation.
• Joey is furious but decides not to report the theft: he fears Chen may return, and admitting he hid the artifact could anger his teacher. After inspecting the ring, he concludes that losing the earring may be for the best.
• Chen travels to Emerald City and approaches the Moon Creek Merchant Association, seeking to sell Sacred Artifacts directly to its Immortal leaders, the Furnace Sovereign and the Shattered-Star Goddess. He insists on meeting one of them rather than a Legendary Mage.
• The Shattered-Star Goddess travels to meet him. She is revealed to be Celestial Venerable Shan Hua, a long-lived figure from Chen’s homeland who serves the Yu Ming Immortal Court.
• Shan Hua recognizes Chen as the Wind-Thunder Immortal who claimed the Nine-Treasure Glazed Pagoda. After learning about his remarkable strength in the Immortal Gate World, she invites him to join the Yu Ming Immortal Court, offering resources and cultivation opportunities.
• Chen declines, preferring independence and fearing that a close alliance could hinder his Immortal Dao progress or expose his secrets. The two turn to the business that brought them together.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Jichuan grows more confident in pursuing powerful contacts: he openly identifies himself to Shan Hua and negotiates on his own terms. He remains pragmatic, valuing freedom over institutional support.
• Joey shifts from fear and anger to cautious relief. Although robbed, he chooses silence and accepts the ring as compensation.
• Celestial Venerable Shan Hua shows genuine interest in Chen’s abilities and potential, treating him as a valuable recruit rather than merely a trader. She accepts his refusal without pressure.
• Chen and Joey have a brief, coercive encounter in which Chen takes the earring but spares Joey and leaves him something in return.
• Chen and Shan Hua interact as wary but respectful peers: she offers opportunity, while he politely refuses and keeps the relationship focused on business.

Significant themes

• Power and vulnerability: Even a Legendary Mage can dominate a weaker mage; Joey’s fear shapes his decision not to seek justice.
• Independence versus security: Chen rejects the substantial resources and status offered by an organization because he values autonomy and continued cultivation.
• Trust and self-interest: Chen is cautious about the motives of powerful, long-lived figures, while Shan Hua’s recruitment reflects both sincere respect and the Yu Ming Immortal Court’s strategic needs.
• The value of artifacts and talent: Sacred Artifacts attract powerful buyers, while Chen’s combat strength makes him valuable enough to receive an exceptional invitation.

Plot and events

• Chen Jichuan offers the Yu Ming Immortal Court the Dragon Eye Ring, a lower-tier Sacred Artifact taken from Monado. Celestial Venerable Shan Hua verifies its identity and attributes: three Saint Marks, the permanent spell Spatial Imprisonment, and the Dragon Might trait.
• Shan Hua explains that Immortal Dao cultivators usually value Sacred Artifacts by their Saint Marks, at forty measures of Essence Crystals per mark. Chen negotiates the ring’s price up from 120 to 150 measures, arguing that he can supply more artifacts over time. Shan Hua agrees, provided the price remains confidential.
• Chen spends 130 measures on a prepared list of cultivation materials, with further items to be collected for future trades. The list is worth far more than he can currently afford and includes resources for advancing his Qi-Source Method and cultivating the Great Expansion Divination Method.
• He keeps ten measures of Essence Crystals for ordinary needs and asks to use the final ten to buy Forbidden Curses. Shan Hua explains that the Silver Alliance’s four Forbidden Curses are closely guarded, priceless secrets. Chen instead agrees to consider fourth-level spell scrolls, which can be sold to him for personal use at a reduced price.
• Chen reveals that he has two more Sacred Artifacts, securing Shan Hua’s interest in future business.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Jichuan shows growing commercial savvy, negotiating firmly while presenting himself as a long-term supplier. He is also reassessing his priorities: his many pursuits—cultivation, spellwork, pill-making, and artifact-refining—have left him stretched thin, so he plans to focus his efforts and use the trade’s resources to strengthen his cultivation.
• Celestial Venerable Shan Hua moves from surprise at Chen’s second Sacred Artifact to active cooperation. She values the prospect of a steady supply and accepts a higher-than-standard price to secure the relationship.
• Their interaction is courteous but strategic: Chen seeks resources and access to magic, while Shan Hua aims to keep his future artifact sales within the Yu Ming Immortal Court.

Significant themes

• Scarcity and value: Sacred Artifacts command enormous prices, while Forbidden Curses are so rare that even powerful institutions possess only a few.
• Knowledge as power: High-level spells and Forbidden Curses are tightly controlled because they offer a path toward Immortality and consume scarce magical materials.
• Long-term alliances and negotiation: Both sides accept a less conventional deal because future cooperation may be more valuable than maximizing a single transaction.
• The limits of time and resources: Chen’s progress across many disciplines has slowed, prompting him to prioritize and organize his cultivation.

Chapter Summary: “Wings”

Key plot points and events

• Celestial Venerable Shan Hua explains that the Silver Alliance has sixty-two fourth-level spells, though only four complete magical systems remain. Chen Jichuan has devised most of his own fourth-level spells and wants to expand his repertoire.
• Chen selects all six spells in the life system and all seven in the earth system, trading Essence Crystals for the spells and their required materials. Shan Hua agrees because he can study the spells personally but cannot pass them on to others.
• After mastering two life spells, Greater Healing and Life Guard, Chen travels to the Starry Graveyard to seek a treasure recorded by Pagoda-Bearing Celestial Venerable. The region’s chaotic elemental forces drive local Mages mad, but Chen’s Immortal Light and protective magic allow him to cross it.
• Chen finds a pair of seemingly powerful Alchemical Wings, guarded by a vast, turbulent formation of wind eyes. Rather than risk triggering the winds before he is ready, he retreats and resolves to return after strengthening himself with the spells he has yet to learn.
• Over the following years, Chen completes his trade with Shan Hua, gathers materials for Holy Light Protection and Spatial Imprisonment, and cultivates in seclusion.
• Fifteen years after the initial trade, Chen summons O’Brien, an Air Elemental Progenitor he once helped advance to Legendary. O’Brien arrives readily and eagerly praises Chen, contrasting him with the other Mages who summon him.

Character developments

• Chen Jichuan shows a methodical, cautious approach to power: he takes advantage of the Silver Alliance’s spell inheritance but refuses to rush the dangerous treasure, choosing preparation over immediate gain.
• Celestial Venerable Shan Hua acts as a cooperative intermediary, arranging the spell transaction and agreeing to Chen’s terms because the spells cannot be distributed to others.
• O’Brien has risen from an ordinary Air Elemental Monarch to a Legendary Progenitor through Chen’s past assistance. He is now devoted to Chen, whom he sees as the key to further advancement and greater influence.

Significant themes

• Preparation over recklessness: Chen delays claiming the Wings until he has increased his strength.
• Power through knowledge: Access to new spells broadens Chen’s abilities, while his own Deduction has already let him create formidable magic.
• Different paths to strength: Immortal Dao cultivators can explore places that overwhelm native Mages because their Immortal Light and cultivation are not bound by the same laws.
• Loyalty and patronage: O’Brien’s rise creates a lasting bond, and he sees service to Chen as an opportunity for continued advancement.

Character interactions

• Shan Hua advises Chen about the Silver Alliance’s magical systems, negotiates the spell exchange, and later completes the broader transaction.
• Chen chooses to learn the spells for himself, respecting the restriction that they cannot be passed on to his subordinates.
• O’Brien’s enthusiastic reunion with Chen reveals their long-standing relationship and the contrast between his loyalty to Chen and his strained experiences with other summoners.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Chen Jichuan gives O’Brien two Sacred Artifacts—Asha’s Tears and the Staff of Isus—to strengthen the Air Elemental Progenitor while he retrieves a treasure from the Starry Graveyard.
• At the Ten-Li Eye of the Storm, Chen orders O’Brien to wait outside because the storm’s destructive power could seriously injure it. Chen enters alone, protected by Life Guard and Holy Light Protection.
• He reaches the center of the storm and identifies the supposedly alchemical wings as the Holy Angel Wings, a Demi-Divine Artifact and one of seven components of the Divine Artifact set Holy Angel. The wings possess the fourth-level spell Domain of Speed, ten Saint Marks, and the trait Profound Meaning of Speed.
• The wings resist capture, striking Chen away and fleeing toward the Starry Graveyard’s exit. Chen pursues them while ordering O’Brien to intercept them.
• Once outside, Chen uses Spatial Imprisonment, Gravity Space, and Earth Cage, while O’Brien employs Wind Binding and Atmospheric Barrier. Together they gradually restrict the wings’ movement and trap them.
• Knowing that the battle will attract powerful Legendary Mages, Chen summons six Ancestors—his Bone Dragon, Demon, Mantis, Thunderbird, Fairy Dragon, and Three-Headed Hellhound.
• He then releases Undead Catastrophe and Mirror Legion, creating an enormous, potentially endless undead army to defend the treasure and overwhelm approaching enemies.
• Numerous Legendary Mages rush toward the battlefield. Muba, the Windwalker Law King of the Silver Alliance, arrives first and recognizes the Holy Angel Wings. He believes possessing them will allow him to comprehend the Profound Meaning of Speed, create powerful Forbidden Curse magic, forge an Immortal throne, and ascend to the Immortal Realm.
• Muba immediately requests reinforcements from the Silver Alliance, unwilling to risk losing the opportunity.
• The chapter ends with the Magic Martial Sanctuary arriving in force: a three-hundred-person contingent appears ten thousand miles from the Starry Graveyard, signaling the beginning of a major conflict over the artifact.

Character Developments

• Chen Jichuan demonstrates increasing confidence, preparation, and overwhelming magical strength. He remains calm when the wings escape and rapidly adapts through layered defensive spells, battlefield control, summons, and army-level magic.
• O’Brien proves loyal and useful despite its scheming nature. It obeys Chen’s orders, guards the perimeter, and contributes crucial wind-based restraints against the Holy Angel Wings.
• Muba is portrayed as desperate but ambitious. Facing the limits of his lifespan and unable to enter the Immortal Realm, he views the wings as a life-changing final opportunity and is willing to place himself under the Silver Alliance’s control to obtain them.
• Chen’s summoned Ancestors and undead forces reveal the vast scale of his resources and his ability to fight prolonged battles without concern for attrition.

Significant Themes

• Power through preparation: Chen’s repeated investigations of the Starry Graveyard allow him to act decisively and survive dangers that would kill ordinary Legendary Mages.
• The struggle for immortality: Muba and the aged Legendary Mages risk everything in pursuit of treasures that might help them transcend mortality.
• Treasure as a catalyst for conflict: The Holy Angel Wings’ appearance immediately attracts powerful individuals and organizations, making possession nearly impossible without overwhelming force.
• Control versus resistance: The wings possess their own will and immense power, turning artifact retrieval into a battle rather than a simple act of collection.
• Overwhelming resources and attrition: Chen’s vast magic reserves, multiple Ancestors, and endlessly replicable Mirror Legion suggest that sheer endurance may allow him to overcome even large alliances.

Character Interactions

• Chen entrusts O’Brien with sacred equipment and directs it to support his operation, reinforcing their master-servant relationship.
• Chen and O’Brien coordinate their spells to trap the Holy Angel Wings, combining Chen’s spatial, gravitational, and earth magic with O’Brien’s wind-based abilities.
• Chen’s summoned forces form a defensive ring around him and the trapped artifact as rival Legendary Mages begin arriving.
• Muba observes Chen and the seven Ancestors from a distance, recognizes the artifact, and chooses to summon the Silver Alliance rather than attack immediately.
• The arrival of the Magic Martial Sanctuary and the spreading news of the treasure establish an impending confrontation between Chen’s forces and multiple powerful organizations.

Chapter Summary: “Holding Back”

Key Plot Points and Events

• The three Immortals of the Magic Martial Sanctuary—Sun King Seze, Talosha, and Phantom Knight Gaisen—arrive at the Starry Graveyard after detecting a ten-thousand-mile Spatial Imprisonment field.
• They initially plan to seal the area, block communications, and seize the Holy Angel Wings before its owner can escape.
• Their plans collapse when they discover Chen Jichuan surrounded by an enormous undead army: 400,000 undead doubled to 800,000 through Mirror Magic.
• The army occupies the surrounding mountains and strategically controls every approach to the Holy Angel Wings. Its sheer numbers and defensive formation force the Magic Martial Sanctuary and other arriving organizations to remain outside the battlefield.
• More than a hundred Legendary Realm experts and eight Immortals eventually gather, but they arrive too late to catch the undead legion unprepared. Coordinated volleys of arrows and fireballs make any direct assault extremely dangerous.
• After several hours, the Holy Angel Wings begin to weaken from Chen Jichuan’s suppression. The surrounding organizations grow restless and prepare to compete for the semi-artifact.
• Chen Jichuan openly threatens the major organizations, declaring that independent mages may attempt to seize the artifact, but any named organization that attacks will face repeated raids by his undead army.
• He further reveals that he possesses Dimensional Journey, making it impossible for the organizations to contain or retaliate against him effectively. His threat successfully deters everyone from attacking.

Character Developments

• Chen Jichuan demonstrates overwhelming control, endurance, and confidence. He maintains the Holy Angel Wings’ suppression for hours while sustaining an 800,000-strong undead army.
• His reputation changes from that of a mysterious powerful mage to a force capable of intimidating entire top-tier organizations and possibly standing against a nation alone.
• Chen becomes more politically astute, recognizing that the Silver Alliance is offering goodwill because it doubts its ability to obtain the semi-artifact directly.
• Seze, Talosha, and Gaisen shift from aggressive confidence to caution and frustration after realizing that their combined forces cannot safely break through Chen’s defenses.
• Shan Hua Celestial Venerable and Yu Ming Immortal Venerable view Chen as a valuable future ally rather than merely a competitor. They consider strengthening their relationship with him if the Silver Alliance cannot claim the Holy Angel Wings.
• The various arriving organizations, including Dawn Era, abandon immediate confrontation after witnessing Chen’s strength and hearing his threat.

Significant Themes

• Overwhelming strength through numbers: On the Divine Throne Continent, even Immortals must respect massive armies because the plane’s rules limit individual power.
• Strategic deterrence: Chen wins not only through combat power but by making the consequences of attacking him appear unbearable.
• Reputation and intimidation: The undead legion transforms Chen’s presence into a political and military deterrent, forcing stronger organizations to hold back.
• Pragmatism over greed: The Silver Alliance recognizes that cooperation may yield greater long-term benefits than risking a battle for the semi-artifact.
• The contrast between worlds: Chen notes that such human-wave tactics would be ineffective in the Brightwing Realm, but on the Divine Throne Continent they allow weaker beings to threaten Immortals.
• Fortune and opportunity: Chen’s ability to suppress the Holy Angel Wings and possibly possess a magic-power-storing artifact marks him as extraordinarily fortunate and increasingly influential.

Character Interactions

• The Magic Martial Sanctuary’s three Immortals coordinate with their forces but are forced into a defensive posture by Chen’s undead army.
• Shan Hua greets Chen and provides information about arriving organizations, subtly signaling the Silver Alliance’s willingness to build goodwill.
• Chen correctly interprets Shan Hua’s friendliness as pragmatic diplomacy rather than unconditional support.
• Yu Ming advises that the Silver Alliance should not attack unless victory is likely and suggests helping Chen if necessary, while Shan Hua agrees that Chen could become a valuable combat ally.
• Chen directly confronts all surrounding organizations with a public warning. His threat to blockade their headquarters and exploit Dimensional Journey ends their attempts to act.

Chapter Summary: “Slaughter”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Chen Jichuan declares that he will block the gates of the five major organizations, effectively threatening anyone who attempts to interfere with his claim to the demi-divine artifact, the Holy Angel Wings. His control over the Undead Catastrophe and possibly Dimensional Journey makes the major factions hesitate to challenge him.
• The Magic Martial Sanctuary secretly launches a coordinated attack. Its Immortal known as the Cursed Eye casts a curse on Chen Jichuan while the Sanctuary’s forces charge toward the artifact, hoping to exploit a momentary loss of control over the Undead Legion.
• Chen quickly breaks the curse using Holy Light Protection, Mind Cleansing, and Greater Healing. His ability to use numerous level-four spells across different magical systems shocks the Immortals, who begin questioning whether he may already be immortal.
• Chen responds by transforming the battlefield with Growth of All Things, creating fortified positions for the undead army. The Undead Legion, supported by battle formations, magic arrays, and specialized mage units, launches a devastating counterattack.
• The Mirror Legion repeatedly charges the enemy. Although the Magic Martial Sanctuary’s Immortals destroy the first 400,000 reflections, Chen casts the spell again, producing another enormous legion and crushing their hopes of victory.
• All forces that entered the Undead Legion’s territory are trapped in a disastrous battlefield. Ordinary knights and mages die rapidly, while even Legendary experts struggle to escape.
• Chen personally strengthens the seven summoned Ancestors with spells such as Power Control, Earth Guard, Greater Healing, Holy Light Protection, and Mind Cleansing. This greatly increases their durability and combat strength.
• Twenty-four Legendaries die, including all twenty brought by the Magic Martial Sanctuary. The Sanctuary’s powerful Extreme and Apex Legendaries are killed first, leaving only its three Immortals.
• The battle continues until the Sun King, leader of the Sanctuary’s Immortals, is overwhelmed by the Undead Legion and the Ancestors. He becomes the first Immortal to fall in the battle, though his soul can potentially revive in the void.

Character Developments

• Chen Jichuan demonstrates overwhelming battlefield control, versatility, and composure. His defensive preparations allow him to resist the Cursed Eye’s surprise attack, and his seemingly limitless magic power enables him to cast Mirror Legion twice.
• Chen shifts from merely defending the artifact to actively annihilating anyone who challenges him. His control over large-scale warfare and support magic proves more important than direct single-target offense.
• The Cursed Eye is exposed as an underhanded strategist. His curse fails almost immediately, leaving the Magic Martial Sanctuary trapped inside the Undead Legion’s territory.
• The Sun King recognizes that the Magic Martial Sanctuary cannot win, but Immortal pride prevents him from surrendering. He continues fighting despite knowing that his faction’s elite forces are being destroyed.
• The Phantom Knight and the other Immortals are forced into desperate resistance, attempting to create a path for their surviving subordinates rather than achieve victory.
• The seven Ancestors become increasingly effective under Chen’s support, functioning as powerful frontline killers alongside the undead army. The Mantis Progenitor, in particular, grows more aggressive after Chen’s enhancements make it nearly impervious to the Sun King’s attacks.

Significant Themes

• Overwhelming power and deterrence: Chen’s strength is so great that even major factions hesitate to oppose him over a demi-divine artifact.
• Preparation versus deception: The Magic Martial Sanctuary’s carefully planned curse and ambush fail because Chen had already maintained defensive protections.
• The value of versatility: Chen’s mastery of spells from multiple magical systems allows him to heal, defend, cleanse curses, strengthen allies, manipulate terrain, and command vast armies.
• Individual strength versus organized warfare: The chapter emphasizes that the Undead Legion’s true power comes from coordination, formations, support magic, and advantageous terrain rather than simply the number of undead.
• Pride and consequences: The Magic Martial Sanctuary initiated the attack despite recognizing the risks. Its Immortals refuse to surrender, resulting in the destruction of their elite forces.
• Immortality is not invulnerability: Although Immortals can revive through soul imprints in the void, they can still suffer defeat, loss of prestige, and the destruction of their organizations’ most valuable forces.

Character Interactions

• The major factions debate Chen’s threat but ultimately remain unwilling to provoke him directly.
• The Cursed Eye attempts to disable Chen, but Chen immediately purges the curse and turns the ambush against the Sanctuary.
• Chen uses the Ancestors as extensions of his strategy, continuously reinforcing them while directing the Undead and Mirror Legions.
• The Mantis Progenitor directly clashes with the Sun King, breaking through his Ring of Fire Repulsion after receiving Chen’s enhancements.
• The Sun King, Cursed Eye, and Phantom Knight fight together against the overwhelming undead forces, but their cooperation cannot compensate for the disparity in resources and magic power.
• Chen’s conflict with the Magic Martial Sanctuary escalates from a struggle over the Holy Angel Wings into a near-total massacre of its elite forces.

Chapter Summary: “Tyrant”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Chen Jichuan annihilates the physical bodies of three Immortal Realm enemies from the Magic Martial Sanctuary: the Sun King, the Cursed Eye, and the Phantom Knight. Although they can resurrect through marks left in the void, their defeat demonstrates that Chen can overpower even Immortal beings.
• Chen refuses to spare the surviving enemies, arguing that they had deliberately come to seize his Demi-Divine Artifact and were therefore not innocent. He collects the Sacred Artifacts and other treasures dropped by the dead Legendaries, gaining an enormous fortune—possibly more than fifty Sacred Artifacts.
• The Silver Alliance escapes the battlefield unharmed. Its leaders, Immortal Venerable Yu Ming and Celestial Venerable Shan Hua, realize that Chen deliberately allowed them to leave, unlike the Dawn Era, which suffers near-total destruction.
• The battle ends with sixty-seven Legendaries dead, including members of several major organizations, and six Immortal Realm beings defeated. Chen’s four-hundred-thousand-strong Undead Legion also loses roughly two hundred thousand undead.
• Before leaving, Chen orders the surviving Legendaries to deliver an ultimatum: the Magic Martial Sanctuary, Silver Alliance, Dawn Era, Oath of Knights, and War Academy must each bring ten Sacred Artifacts to the Summoning Cottage within two years and apologize. Otherwise, he will attack their headquarters and hunt down their Legendaries.
• At the Magic Martial Sanctuary, the resurrected Sun King, Cursed Eye, and Phantom Knight debate how to respond. Despite their anger and humiliation, they decide to endure the insult and pay the ten Sacred Artifacts rather than risk Chen destroying their organization.
• The Cursed Eye accepts responsibility and volunteers to personally deliver the compensation.
• News of Chen’s victory spreads throughout the three continents. His use of the Undead Catastrophe, Mirror Legion, and Dimensional Journey establishes him as a terrifying power, and he becomes known as the “Tyrant.”
• All five organizations eventually submit and present Chen with ten Sacred Artifacts each. This further enhances his reputation and frightens the continent’s major powers.
• Although the Silver Alliance had not actively attacked Chen, it still pays the compensation. Public opinion is divided over whether this was unfair or an extraordinarily fortunate outcome. Privately, its two Immortal leaders are on friendly terms with Chen.

Character Developments

• Chen Jichuan: Fully embraces a domineering and uncompromising image. He proves that his power is sufficient to challenge entire organizations and Immortal Realm beings, while also showing strategic restraint by sparing the Silver Alliance. His wealth and reputation increase dramatically.
• Sun King: Becomes enraged and humiliated after losing both his subordinates’ lives and numerous Sacred Artifacts. Despite his anger, he recognizes that the Magic Martial Sanctuary cannot currently oppose Chen and agrees to submit temporarily.
• Cursed Eye: Shown as the most rational of the three leaders. Rather than risk destroying the organization through continued resistance, he accepts blame and offers to deliver the compensation personally.
• Phantom Knight: Reacts most emotionally, suggesting that the Magic Martial Sanctuary dissolve so it can escape Chen’s threats. His pride makes the humiliation especially difficult for him to accept, though he ultimately has to endure it.
• Immortal Venerable Yu Ming and Celestial Venerable Shan Hua: Develop greater respect and caution toward Chen. They recognize that he spared the Silver Alliance deliberately and begin considering how their organization should maintain relations with him.

Significant Themes

• Power and deterrence: Chen’s victory shows that overwhelming strength can force even ancient organizations and Immortal beings to submit.
• Pride versus survival: The defeated Immortals initially refuse to beg for mercy because of their pride, but after resurrection they choose humiliation and payment over risking total destruction.
• Reputation and political influence: The title “Tyrant” transforms Chen’s battlefield victory into a continent-wide political force. His reputation alone begins to influence how factions behave.
• The cost of power: Chen wins decisively, but the battle consumes half of his Undead Legion and places a heavy burden on his future ability to summon it.
• Strategic mercy: Chen’s decision to spare the Silver Alliance suggests that his violence is calculated rather than indiscriminate. Those who did not directly attack him are treated differently, even though he still demands compensation.
• Wealth as a consequence of conflict: The battle is not only a victory but also a massive material gain, as Chen acquires the treasures of dozens of powerful Legendaries and receives further Sacred Artifacts from the defeated organizations.

Character Interactions

• Chen dismisses the surviving Legendaries’ pleas for mercy and explains that their malicious intentions justify his retaliation.
• The Silver Alliance’s two Immortal leaders observe Chen’s battle from a distance and discuss whether his decision to let them escape reflects goodwill.
• The Sun King, Cursed Eye, and Phantom Knight argue over whether to dissolve the Magic Martial Sanctuary, resist Chen, or submit temporarily. The Cursed Eye’s pragmatism ultimately prevails.
• Public debate over the Silver Alliance’s punishment highlights the contrast between Chen’s private relationship with its leaders and his public demand for submission.
• By the end of the chapter, Chen has shifted from a powerful but relatively unknown figure to the feared and celebrated Tyrant Benag, while the major organizations are forced to treat him as a dominant political power.

Chapter Summary: “Dongning”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Summoning Cottage is overwhelmed by visits from powerful figures. After several Legendary Realm experts arrive, Anos brings the renowned Immortal Realm expert known as the Dawn Scholar. Three more Immortal Realm experts, including the Cursed Eye, subsequently visit, causing the academy’s teachers and students to speculate about the dean’s extraordinary achievements.
• Two years after the battle outside the Starry Graveyard, Immortal Venerable Yu Ming and Celestial Venerable Shan Hua arrive as representatives of the Silver Alliance. They bring ten Sacred Artifacts as an apology for the organizations that had previously offended Chen Jichuan.
• Chen refuses to accept the artifacts as compensation. Instead, he offers to sell the Silver Alliance ten Sacred Artifacts of his own, containing twenty-one Saint Marks, for 1,050 Essence Crystals.
• Chen uses the transaction to purchase enormous quantities of Purple-Clear Numinous Essence and Scarlet-Turbid Profound Mystery, along with formation materials. His goal is to advance the Great Expansion Divination Method to its third stage, locate Little Yan, and establish a powerful cultivation base in the Ninth Heaven.
• Yu Ming and Shan Hua ask to buy Chen’s Holy Angel Wings, a Demi-Divine Artifact containing the Profound Meaning of Speed. They hope the Windwalker Law King can use it to break through from the Legendary Realm to the Immortal Realm.
• Chen refuses to sell the wings but proposes an alternative: if the Yu Ming Immortal Court can suppress or severely injure his enemy, the Dongning Heavenly Venerable, Chen will allow the Windwalker Law King to study the artifact.
• The Immortal Court recognizes Dongning as an extremely dangerous Heavenly Venerable who rose rapidly, broke through realm restrictions, killed several Transcendent Immortals, and fought four Heavenly Venerables. Yu Ming therefore considers the proposed exchange too risky and not worthwhile.

Character Developments

• Chen Jichuan has become vastly more powerful and wealthy after the battle at the Starry Graveyard. He now possesses at least eighty Sacred Artifacts and enough resources to cultivate toward the Heavenly Venerable Realm.
• Chen demonstrates increasing caution and political sophistication. He refuses to reveal or sell all his Sacred Artifacts, recognizing that excessive wealth could provoke greed or hostility from the Silver Alliance.
• He also reveals that he is deliberate about cultivating his reputation. By asking the Yu Ming Immortal Court to deal with Dongning, he both seeks revenge and warns the Silver Alliance that he remembers grudges.
• Immortal Venerable Yu Ming and Celestial Venerable Shan Hua show themselves to be pragmatic and resource-conscious. They are eager to obtain the Holy Angel Wings because producing another Immortal Realm expert would greatly strengthen the Silver Alliance, but they are unwilling to risk confrontation with Dongning without sufficient reward.
• The Windwalker Law King becomes important as a potential beneficiary of the Holy Angel Wings. His approaching lifespan and chance of breaking through to the Immortal Realm provide the motivation behind the Silver Alliance’s request.
• Dongning Heavenly Venerable is established as Chen’s powerful and hated enemy, whose strength and violent rise make him difficult even for the Yu Ming Immortal Court to confront.

Significant Themes

• Power attracts power: The arrival of multiple Immortal Realm experts at Summoning Cottage shows how Chen’s influence has expanded beyond the academy.
• Wealth and resources as strategic power: Sacred Artifacts and cultivation materials are not merely treasures; they can determine the rise of entire factions and the advancement of Immortal Realm experts.
• Caution beneath generosity: Chen presents his transactions as friendly exchanges, but he carefully limits what he reveals and retains valuable assets as insurance.
• Reputation and deterrence: Chen uses negotiations not only to acquire resources but also to signal that betrayal or offense will have lasting consequences.
• The rarity of advancement: The difficulty of reaching the Immortal Realm emphasizes the enormous value of the Holy Angel Wings and explains why the Silver Alliance is willing to negotiate aggressively.
• Revenge versus risk: Chen wants revenge against Dongning, while Yu Ming must weigh that desire against the danger of provoking a formidable Heavenly Venerable.

Important Character Interactions

• Chen and the Summoning Cottage community: The teachers and students admire Chen, though they do not understand the true scale of his influence or the events that earned him the respect of Immortal Realm experts.
• Chen, Yu Ming, and Shan Hua: Their meeting is outwardly cordial but filled with careful bargaining. Chen refuses their compensation, sells them artifacts on favorable terms, and conceals his deeper motives.
• Chen and the Silver Alliance: Chen offers cooperation while subtly warning the Alliance not to underestimate or antagonize him.
• Chen and Dongning: Although Dongning does not appear directly, Chen’s lingering resentment toward him drives the final negotiation. Chen hopes to use the Silver Alliance as a proxy to settle an old injury.
• The Silver Alliance and the Windwalker Law King: Yu Ming and Shan Hua seek the Holy Angel Wings primarily because the Law King’s breakthrough could preserve and greatly strengthen the Alliance.

Chapter Summary: “Return”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Chen Jichuan learns the swordsman’s identity: Dongning Heavenly Venerable, an enemy from the resource-rich Eastern Tranquility Realm.
• Seeking revenge, Chen negotiates with Immortal Venerable Yu Ming and Celestial Venerable Shan Hua. He offers:
  • A bottle of Divine Potion, capable of helping an Extreme Legendary Realm expert comprehend the laws and advance to the Immortal Realm.
  • Access to the Holy Angel Wings, a Demi-Divine Artifact.
• In exchange, Yu Ming Immortal Court must suppress or seriously injure Dongning Heavenly Venerable and keep him occupied for twenty thousand years.
• Windwalker Law King consumes the Divine Potion and comprehends the laws within three days, successfully advancing to the Immortal Realm. Yu Ming Immortal Court therefore accepts the agreement.
• Chen reviews his immense gains from the Divine Throne Continent:
  • Sixty-seven Legendary Realm experts and six Immortal Realm experts killed.
  • Ninety-eight Sacred Artifacts accumulated, including sixty-eight Lower, twenty-four Middle, and six Upper Sacred Artifacts, as well as the Holy Angel Wings.
• Over the next five years, the Summoning Cottage expands rapidly. Attracted by Windwalker’s breakthrough, many experts join. Chen selects six Extreme Legendary Realm experts and fourteen Apex Legendary Realm experts, making the organization comparable to the Magic Martial Sanctuary and Dawn Era.
• With the Summoning Cottage established and operating under strict rules, Chen returns to the Brightwing Realm after 174 years away.
• He arrives in the remote Brightwing Ninth Heaven, using a quota obtained from Immortal Venerable Yu Ming to legally remain there despite not yet being a Heavenly Venerable.
• Chen studies the history and structure of the Ninth Heaven:
  • It is jointly controlled by the Eight Immortal Courts.
  • Most of its territory is desolate, dangerous, and rich in treasures.
  • Ordinary Transcendent Immortals are forbidden from entering because the realm contains precious immortal qi.
• Following information left by the Pagoda-Bearing Celestial Venerable, Chen chooses Fierce Bird Mountain as his new cultivation site.
• He discovers that the mountain contains thirty-seven thousand great mountains and forty-five Five-Element Source Lands, inhabited by exceptionally dangerous but low-intelligence fierce birds.
• Rather than being deterred by the birds’ attacks, Chen recognizes that their natural power makes the area an ideal cultivation environment and decides to settle in the nearest Fire-Element Source Land.

Character Developments

• Chen Jichuan becomes vastly wealthier and more influential after his time in the Divine Throne Continent. He shifts from personal survival and revenge toward long-term organization-building and cultivation.
• He demonstrates greater strategic maturity by trading a supposedly valuable Divine Potion for political protection and the suppression of Dongning Heavenly Venerable.
• Chen also begins preparing for the future, understanding that his stored wealth will eventually run out and that the Summoning Cottage must become self-sustaining.
• Windwalker Law King undergoes a major advancement, becoming an Immortal Realm expert and serving as proof of Chen’s bargaining power.
• The Summoning Cottage transforms from a small organization into a major force comparable to the continent’s strongest institutions.
• Dongning Heavenly Venerable remains an important threat, but his position is weakened by Chen’s arrangement with Yu Ming Immortal Court.

Significant Themes

• Strategic exchange and political calculation: Chen uses rare treasures not merely for wealth but to obtain protection and weaken an enemy.
• The value of potential: A future Immortal Realm expert is worth more than a single artifact or a brief opportunity for enlightenment.
• Long-term preparation: Chen recognizes that temporary gains are insufficient and builds an organization capable of producing future resources and allies.
• Return and restoration: Returning to the Brightwing Realm restores Chen’s comfort and cultivational abilities after the restrictive environment of the Divine Throne Continent.
• Danger as an opportunity: Fierce Bird Mountain is both a natural death trap and an excellent cultivation ground, reflecting how Chen turns hazards into advantages.
• The hierarchy of power: The Ninth Heaven’s laws, immortal qi, and Immortal-Slaying Platforms emphasize the overwhelming authority of the Eight Immortal Courts.

Character Interactions

• Chen respectfully acknowledges Dongning Heavenly Venerable’s achievements but firmly treats him as an enemy.
• Chen negotiates directly with Immortal Venerable Yu Ming and Celestial Venerable Shan Hua, persuading them through a conditional offer centered on Windwalker Law King’s breakthrough.
• Yu Ming and Shan Hua initially evaluate the risks but ultimately accept once Windwalker’s advancement proves the Divine Potion genuine.
• Windwalker’s breakthrough strengthens the connection between the Silver Alliance, the Summoning Cottage, and Yu Ming Immortal Court.
• Chen establishes rules for the new recruits of the Summoning Cottage, allowing sincere and hardworking experts opportunities while remaining cautious about their motives.
• At Fierce Bird Mountain, Chen deliberately reveals his Immortal Light to draw the Five-Element Fierce Birds toward him, testing their strength before selecting the region as his sanctuary.