Chapter Summaries

An Kai upgraded [Beast Taming], enslaved nearly 200,000 Desert Orcs and learned that Dong Lin was the only person believed to know how to advance beyond Spirit Infusion. After three months of growth, An Kai waited for Will-Bukelin to wake so he could locate Dong Lin, and Will revealed that Dong Lin came from five hundred years ago.

• An Kai upgraded [Beast Taming] until its whip could enslave orcs and mark three generations of their descendants, then used it to control Gulair, the orc Twenty-Eighth Prince.
• Gulair told An Kai about the nearly 200,000 Desert Orcs, the isolation of the Barbarian Lands, and the restrictions preventing people from learning what lay beyond Spirit Infusion; he named Dong Lin as the person most likely to know.
• An Kai enslaved the Desert Orcs and brought them to Goodness Home, where Wayne assigned them to build cities and roads.
• Over the next three months, An Kai gained 144 attribute points while Dong Lin continued hiding and Malken failed to find his location.
• Will-Bukelin awoke from his coma and told An Kai that Dong Lin had come from five hundred years ago.

Will-Bukelin explained how Dong Lin had manipulated the Seven Kingdoms for centuries, and An Kai resolved to confront him at the Town of the Dead. The next day, An Kai sent Goodness Home’s assembled forces marching against Dong Lin while secretly following behind them.

• Will-Bukelin revealed that the king’s book contained the truth about Dong Lin’s control of the Bukelin Duchy and the mayor of Nameless Town.
• Will-Bukelin explained that Dong Lin had helped found all Seven Kingdoms and oversee their cities, leading An Kai to suspect he could use the cities to control the region and its resources.
• Will-Bukelin told An Kai that Dong Lin had been secluded in the deepest castle of the Town of the Dead for four years, and An Kai decided to leave the next day to kill him.
• Goodness Home’s warriors, mages, and other professionals gathered under their leaders, while orcs carried Gulair in a palace at the head of the expedition.
• An Kai followed behind the marching force on an ice chair carried by orcs, concealed by Malken, while Gulair worried that Dong Lin would target him.

An Kai led Goodness Home to destroy cities and hunt down Dong Lin’s Spirit Infusion Method fragments, while Dong Lin grew furious and moved the final fragment into Sally Bukelin. Three years later, after An Kai had killed eleven of his senior brothers and raised all four attributes to 2,000, his own path to Spirit Infusion began.

• An Kai attacked the supposed Town of the Dead, killed Dong Lin’s Spirit Infusion-level puppet No. 8, and obtained a Spirit Infusion Method fragment.
• Will-Bukelin guided An Kai to two more entrances, where An Kai killed puppets No. 1 and No. 4 and collected their fragments.
• An Kai returned to the Desert, deciding to postpone his search for Dong Lin after seeing the Seven Kingdoms’ turmoil and realizing Dong Lin was difficult to locate.
• Dong Lin responded to the loss of his puppets by placing fragment No. 12 inside Sally Bukelin, hoping to force Will-Bukelin to choose between him and An Kai.
• Over three years, Goodness Home became the Human Race’s last sanctuary, and An Kai destroyed empty cities while killing eleven of Dong Lin’s senior-brother puppets.
• An Kai raised all four attributes to 2,000, triggering the beginning of his own path to Spirit Infusion.

An Kai was forced into Spirit Awakening, which made heaven and earth strike him with daily natural disasters and set his progress at 0.01% per day. He discovered that the process could let him forge his spells beyond the God of Magic’s restrictions, but the next disaster struck Goodness Home’s Inner City while he tested whether the Mage Tower could protect him.

• An Kai’s system selected Spirit Awakening despite his decision to wait, and three bolts of purple lightning destroyed his Castle while leaving him unharmed.
• An Kai learned that Spirit Awakening required daily natural disasters and would take nearly twenty-eight years at its current rate, prompting him to ask Wayne to rebuild the Castle and test the process inside the Mage Tower.
• An Kai discovered that reaching 5% Spirit Awakening progress would let him imbue one spell with his own spirit, and he decided to upgrade Meditation first.
• An Kai reviewed his spells and checked that Dong Lin remained in seclusion, then resumed Meditation and allocated two attribute points to Endurance and Stamina.
• An Kai activated Lazell's Mage Tower and prepared for the next disaster, but the ground in Goodness Home’s Inner City began twisting and houses collapsed as residents feared their lord had offended another god.

An Kai used mid-grade magic stones to advance his Mage's Body and empower Meditation, gaining spell suppression and a way to influence people who learned from him. After leaving the ruined Inner City, he learned of trouble involving skeletons in the Bukelin Duchy, while Dong Lin prepared to collect magic stones and finish his cultivation.

• An Kai exchanged mid-grade magic stones for Spirit Awakening progress, raising his Mage's Body to Lv5 and causing a pressure that shook the Inner City of Goodness Home.
• An Kai infused Meditation with Spirit Infusion and upgraded it to Lv41, gaining the ability to teach it through scrolls and suppress spells cast by those with lower talent.
• An Kai spent his remaining mid-grade magic stones to raise his Spirit Awakening progress, then emerged from the Mage Tower and found Goodness Home's buildings in ruins.
• Wayne and Will-Bukelin asked An Kai about the earthquake and the residents' plight, and Wayne later hurried after him with news that skeletons from the Town of the Dead were mining a magic stone vein in the Bukelin Duchy.
• Dong Lin learned that the once-a-decade collection of mid-grade magic stones would begin in the Bukelin Duchy in five days and expected the stones to help him finish cultivating early.

An Kai visited the dying Hanks to ask about mid-grade magic stones, then reflected on the people he would outlive while Goodness Home expanded through brutal Orc labor. After Wayne reported that Undead were mining a hidden magic stone vein beneath the Bukelin Duchy capital, An Kai prepared to leave for it.

• An Kai visited Hanks, learned that magic stone veins contained mid-grade magic stones, and left after Hanks asked him to remember his promise.
• An Kai reflected on Hanks's approaching death and resolved to remain indifferent, while Goodness Home continued expanding with Orcs used as living pile drivers.
• An Kai encountered Malken, whose Assassin Association had failed to locate Dong Lin's secluded cultivation site, and Malken resolved to change how it operated.
• Wayne reported that a Tier Five Undead and two False Tier Five Undead were mining the hidden magic stone vein beneath the Bukelin Duchy capital.
• An Kai ordered Wayne to prepare Goodness Home to depart for the Bukelin Duchy capital the next day.

An Kai ambushed Dong Lin’s avatar beneath the Bukelin Duchy’s capital and destroyed it, then learned from the captured King of the Shak Kingdom where Dong Lin was cultivating. Dong Lin sensed his avatar’s death in the Town of the Dead and vowed to kill whoever had done it.

• Dong Lin possessed a prince and hurried to the Bukelin capital to oversee the magic stone vein, ordering the mining to begin early.
• An Kai’s group traveled toward the Bukelin Duchy, while An Kai and Wayne rushed ahead to locate the magic stone vein.
• An Kai reached the dwarves’ mausoleum and blasted open the underground mining site with enormous Fireballs.
• An Kai revealed himself to Dong Lin, used Spell Restriction to sever his avatar’s link to his main body, and crushed the avatar.
• The King of the Shak Kingdom surrendered and told An Kai where Dong Lin was cultivating, while Dong Lin learned his avatar had been killed and vowed revenge.

An Kai witnessed the King of the Shak Kingdom’s final reunion with Wayne, learned how to resist Dong Lin’s control, and discovered Dong Lin’s hiding place. After preparing for the assault, An Kai led his forces to Nameless Town, his former home.

• Wayne reunited with his father, the King of the Shak Kingdom, after Dong Lin’s bewitchment ended, and An Kai confirmed the king was dying.
• The king told Wayne that a heaven-granted class could enable Spirit Infusion and break Dong Lin’s control, then privately gave An Kai Dong Lin’s seclusion location and asked for a painless death.
• After the king died, An Kai ordered Malken to collect a magic stone vein, received Wayne’s completed [Flame Burst] analysis scroll, and supported Wayne’s plans to research lifespan manipulation.
• An Kai’s expeditionary force slaughtered the capital of the Bukelin Duchy, while Gulair was badly injured and left behind with the other Tier Four Professionals.
• After confirming Dong Lin remained in seclusion, An Kai traveled east with Goodness Home’s Tier Five members and arrived at Nameless Town, his former home.

An Kai survived a supernatural flood, used it as cover to find Dong Lin’s hidden Town of the Dead, and destroyed it with his enhanced [Flame Burst] before killing Dong Lin. Five days later, the Orc Emperor entered the Wasteland Region with a large force to retrieve Gulair and confront the newly emerged beyond-spirit-infusion professional.

• An Kai endured the great flood trial, which swept away Dong Lin’s Town of the Dead and left Milton and the other professionals battered.
• An Kai unleashed a massive [Flame Burst] on Nameless Town, obliterating the hidden Town of the Dead and badly injuring Dong Lin.
• An Kai confronted Dong Lin, resisted his Spell Bewitchment, and killed him after an unknown entity agreed to save him one final time.
• An Kai sensed the resources left in the ruined Town of the Dead and smiled at the haul.
• Five days later, the Orc Emperor crossed into the Wasteland Region with a large escort to retrieve Gulair and pursue the beyond-spirit-infusion professional.

An Kai returned to Goodness Home after defeating Dong Lin, gathered the resources from the Town of the Dead, and raised his Spirit Infusion progress to 15%, upgrading [Fireball] and [Mage Armor]. Meanwhile, Dong Lin was revived and made plans to take revenge on An Kai before the organization’s five-year deadline.

• An Kai’s party finished searching the Town of the Dead and collected 602 [mid-grade magic stones] from Dong Lin’s hoard.
• Gulair asked An Kai whether he needed help cooling off, but [Beast Taming] made An Kai’s insults sound like praise to him.
• Dong Lin was revived as a fetid skeleton, traded the secret Spirit Infusion method called Spirit Awakening for a chance to advance, and received resources from his former companion.
• Dong Lin resolved to kill An Kai or otherwise draw the organization’s attention to him, and vowed to force his former companion into the Barbarian Lands.
• At Goodness Home, An Kai endured the power of heaven and earth, used 461 [mid-grade magic stones] to reach 15% Spirit Infusion progress, and upgraded [Fireball] and [Mage Armor] to Lv41.

An Kai ensnared the Orc Emperor’s avatar and defeated his body-tempering guard, then spent five years building Goodness Home into the Desert Seven Kingdoms’ most prosperous center. The chapter ends with Dong Lin emerging from Deadwater Lake, newly transformed through Spirit Forging and set to begin his long-planned mission with only seven days left to live.

• The Orc Emperor sent repeated scouting parties to inspect the apparently deserted Buklin Capital before leading his forces inside, where An Kai sprang his trap and enslaved the Orcs accompanying him.
• The Orc Emperor’s body-tempering guard broke free of the attack and charged An Kai, but An Kai’s Mage Armor blocked his punch and concentrated Fireballs killed him.
• An Kai used his Beast Taming whip to enslave the Orc Emperor’s avatar, prompting the Orc Emperor’s true body to set off toward the Wasteland Region before turning back after a brief encounter with a powerful human.
• An Kai ordered the enslaved avatar to summon Orcs above Spirit Infusion, while the avatar and Gulair pledged themselves to their new god.
• Over five years, An Kai built a transportation network connecting the Seven Kingdoms and expanded Goodness Home, where his allies gathered after capturing Sally Bukelin.
• Dong Lin emerged from Deadwater Lake with a restored body, learned that his organization had severed its connection with him and left him seven days to live, then headed toward the Shak Kingdom to carry out his plan.

Five years after Sally Bukelin reunited with An Kai, her undead life was nearing its end, while An Kai’s spirit infusion and powers had advanced considerably. When Wayne reported an empty city in the Bukelin Duchy bearing signs of the Town of the Dead, An Kai hurried there with his forces, suspecting Dong Lin might still be alive.

• An Kai met Sally Bukelin, whose undead aura was fading, and told her his real name before leaving her with Will-Bukelin.
• An Kai endured another flood trial, raising his spirit infusion progress to 55.62%, and reviewed how his spells and attributes had grown over five years.
• Wayne told An Kai that an empty city had appeared in the Bukelin Duchy and that its methods resembled those of the Town of the Dead.
• An Kai gathered the Spirit-Infused class holders and enslaved orcs and set out for the Bukelin Duchy, wondering whether Dong Lin had survived.

An Kai learned that Dong Lin had returned to awaken the Divine Court, but his attacks could not stop the formation. Dong Lin sacrificed himself to awaken the Divine Court’s first layer, flooded the Desert Seven Kingdoms, and publicly named An Kai its heir, leaving Goodness Home isolated in an ocean.

• An Kai discovered that cities across the Desert Seven Kingdoms were vanishing and reappearing with residents arranged in formations, while the [side story] confirmed that Dong Lin had returned with a mission.
• Dong Lin revealed himself as a direct heir of the Divine Court Formation Dao and explained that he had spent centuries preparing to awaken the Divine Court.
• An Kai attacked Dong Lin with [Flame Burst], but the city and Dong Lin reappeared unharmed, so An Kai left instead of continuing the fight.
• Dong Lin met Gulair outside Goodness Home No. 2 City and told An Kai that the Divine Court’s people had attained eternal life and that An Kai’s Spirit Infusion was actually Spirit Awakening.
• Dong Lin activated the vast formation, sacrificed himself to awaken the Divine Court, and declared An Kai its heir before the Desert Seven Kingdoms became an ocean.
• Goodness Home remained on the only surviving island as the Divine Court’s first layer, the Sea God’s Heart, awakened.

After Will-Bukelin and Sally Bukelin sacrificed themselves to save Goodness Home from the flood, An Kai prepared to leave but gave Widow Wang the completed Dong Lin Spirit Infusion Method. While studying it in his Mage Tower, he was forcibly bound to the Sea God's Heart and trapped within the First Layer of the Divine Court.

• An Kai read reports about factions seeking the Divine Court, disguised himself as Hanks-Kai, and prepared to leave the Desert with Malken.
• Will-Bukelin and Sally Bukelin refused to flee, and Will used his Wanderer's Heart while Sally became its fuel to divert the flood around Goodness Home.
• Will-Bukelin vanished after protecting Goodness Home, and Hanks and Widow Wang decided to remain in the Desert rather than leave with An Kai.
• An Kai combined eleven fragments with the fragment from Sally Bukelin to complete the Dong Lin Spirit Infusion Method, then compared it with his own Spirit Awakening method.
• A streak of light broke through An Kai's defenses in the Mage Tower and bound him to the Sea God's Heart, restricting him to the First Layer of the Divine Court and granting him Spell Fusion.

After the [Sea God's Heart] bound An Kai to the First Layer of the Divine Court, he discovered it strengthened his cultivation and granted him [Spell Fusion], while its restrictions made the island safer. He chose to stay in Chaos City as the factions assembled to enter the Divine Court, and Widow Wang set out to reveal her identity to him.

• An Kai learned that the [Sea God's Heart] prevented him from leaving until he reached Tier Seven, but its restrictions barred Tier Six and stronger people from entering the First Layer and doubled his spirit infusion progress.
• An Kai used [Spell Fusion] to combine [Mage Armor], [Elemental Defense], and [Freezing Spell] into [Elemental Ice Armor Lv44], gaining their effects at the resource cost of one spell.
• An Kai gave the [Dong Lin Spirit Infusion Method] to Widow Wang, then declared he would stay in Goodness Home to protect the Desert Humans; the residents cheered, and he privately summoned Wayne.
• An Kai learned that the Other Races and Human factions were preparing to enter the Divine Court, that a faction had placed a bounty on him, and that the Orc Nation had refused to join the expedition.
• An Kai renamed Goodness Home to Chaos City, told Wayne to prepare for the arriving factions, and Widow Wang left Hanks's home to confess her identity to An Kai.

After the Divine Court transformed the Barbarian Lands into an ocean, An Kai managed Chaos City’s dwindling resources and accepted Hanks’s request to help Widow Wang’s Witch Clan. He dispatched an orc escort to retrieve them, then prepared to welcome visitors arriving to seek the Divine Court’s treasures.

• Wayne reported that Chaos City had lost much of its population and desert, faced food shortages, and was preparing its first fishing voyage.
• Widow Wang revealed that she was the Witch Clan’s nameless Queen, but An Kai already knew and agreed to help her people after realizing Hanks feared his death was near.
• An Kai passed the day’s extreme-heat trial, then ordered the Orc Emperor’s avatar and eighteen orcs to accompany Widow Wang and bring back the Witch Clan.
• An Kai kicked Nurnexius for failing to summon the Dragon Clan, then gave him an enhanced bone and learned that preparations for Chaos City’s guest-awakening ceremony were complete.
• A Ken, a powerful Mage Association prodigy aboard a ship entering the Divine Court, ordered a Wasteland Mage Association representative to explore alone and blasted him away with an instant-cast Fireball when he hesitated.

Aris discovered the island where Chaos City stood, signed An Kai’s altered contract, and learned how vast the gap between their powers was. As An Kai sent Aris back to A Ken, the Orc Emperor rescued 104 witches and Hall tracked the [Sea God's Heart] to Chaos City’s island.

• Aris found the island, mistook its ruins for the Divine Court, and signed a contract that An Kai altered to bind him as a subordinate.
• An Kai overwhelmed Aris with his [Fireballs] and froze Aris’s [Flame Dragon], then questioned him about his identity and ordered him back to A Ken.
• Aris returned to A Ken and privately concluded that A Ken’s magic was nothing compared with An Kai’s.
• The Orc Emperor rescued 104 witches from the dwarves in the ruins of the Nordo Duchy, and Widow Wang warned them to avoid the Castle.
• Hall searched the seabed for the vanished [Sea God's Heart], sensed its trail leading to Chaos City’s island, and set off toward it.

An Kai managed his subordinates in Chaos City, assigning An Daun to improve the Parent-Child Detector and Wayne to analyze two meditation methods while reporting worsening city problems. He summoned the Lord-rank Desert Crocodile Sol, whose talent impressed him and made Nurnexius look useless by comparison.

• An Kai ordered An Daun to improve the Parent-Child Detector within seven days and promised him access to his Forging notes as a reward.
• Wayne reported that 104 Witch Clan members had settled in the Inner City, presented two meditation methods, and received ten hours a day in the Mage Association's Forbidden Zone to analyze them.
• Wayne told An Kai that Chaos City faced worsening food shortages, declining resources and tax revenue, and almost no newborns.
• An Kai prepared to summon a Magical Beast for its Magic Core, but summoned the Lord-rank Desert Crocodile Sol instead.
• Sol lowered his head for An Kai to climb on, and An Kai learned that Sol's Managing Subordinates talent made Nurnexius's lack of a talent seem glaring.

An Kai used [Desert Crocodile Sol] and upgraded [Summoning] to gather thousands of [Desert Crocodiles], then sent Chaos City's forces into the Divine Court ocean. As he prepared to welcome Aris's companions, he killed Allie, an Elf leader who had landed on his island, and her staff threatened retaliation from the Elf Race and the Joint Council of Other Races.

• An Kai learned that [Desert Crocodile Sol] could control thousands of [Desert Crocodiles] and ordered Wayne to prepare an ocean expedition with Chaos City's class holders.
• An Kai upgraded [Summoning], gained part of Sol's control talent, and raised Nurnexius to Tier Five as a side effect.
• An Kai assembled 6,160 [Desert Crocodiles] and sent squads to search for Dong Lin's class inheritance and patrol the surrounding ocean for fees.
• Aris told An Kai that two wealthy companions from the Wasteland Region would arrive, while Allie secretly landed on Chaos City's island.
• An Kai attacked Allie with two [Flame Bursts] and killed her, but her staff revealed that she was tied to the Elf Race and the Joint Council of Other Races.

Allie’s failed attempt to secure the Orcs’ support in the Divine Court led the elven queen and Orc Emperor into a hostile exchange, while the Orc Emperor began preparing an expedition there. Meanwhile, An Kai welcomed Aris and two Wasteland representatives to his island under a disguise, and they signed his entry contracts.

• Allie told her teacher, the elven queen, that the Orcs had ruined her Divine Court plans, and the queen confronted the Orc Emperor.
• The Orc Emperor denied responsibility, threatened the elves’ influence in the Other Races United Conference, and ordered scouts and powerful Orcs prepared for the Divine Court.
• An Kai assigned two attribute points to Intelligence and Endurance, then traveled to the shore to meet Aris and his associates.
• Aris convinced the Nobility Management Association and Wasteland Development Management Association representatives that he was their loyal ally and led them to An Kai’s island.
• Disguised as Hanks-Kai, An Kai presented the visitors with entry contracts, and Weber and Ryan signed them.