Chapter Summaries

Wang Yang repaired the enormous rift he had accidentally torn in the sorcerers’ gathering place, impressing Haerte and the others. After settling in with the Ancient One, he answered the door and was mistaken by her old friend for the Ancient One reborn as a man.

• Haerte and the arriving sorcerers asked about the huge rift, and Wang Yang admitted that he had caused it with a Portal.
• Wang Yang used magic to seal and restore the rift, astonishing Haerte, Clemmens, and the Ancient One.
• Haerte explained that the gathering place had been made from a shattered dimension by powerful sorcerers and served as a place to trade and exchange magical knowledge.
• The Ancient One and Wang Yang settled into their quarters, and the Ancient One brewed tea while they discussed when the sorcerers’ exchange would begin.
• An old friend arrived to see the Ancient One, mistook Wang Yang for her, and asked whether she had been reborn or changed her sex.

Wang Yang met Qiao Yunshan and learned that Saisike, an old rival of the Ancient One, was coming to challenge her. The Ancient One accepted Saisike’s proposal to have their disciples compete, leaving Wang Yang poised to face the newcomer’s student.

• Wang Yang met Qiao Yunshan, who teased the Ancient One about her past entanglement with Saisike.
• Saisike arrived with a young scaled companion and challenged the Ancient One’s strength and teaching.
• Qiao Yunshan explained that the Ancient One had once defeated Saisike, who had returned to prove himself and his disciple superior.
• Wang Yang fused with Qiao Yunshan’s Telepathic Transmission Magic and immediately used it, surprising Qiao Yunshan.
• The Ancient One proposed that Wang Yang compete against Saisike’s disciple, and Saisike eagerly agreed.

Saisike challenged the Ancient One to a contest between their disciples, and she agreed to let Wang Yang spar with Fengruisi in the Mirror Dimension. As Fengruisi prepared to attack with his race’s powerful wand, Saisike boasted about the young prodigy and mocked the Ancient One for giving Wang Yang only a cloak.

• Saisike proposed that his disciple Fengruisi fight Wang Yang, but the Ancient One initially conceded to avoid an unfair match.
• After Saisike insisted, the Ancient One told Wang Yang to spar with Fengruisi and warned him not to use his full strength.
• The Ancient One opened a portal to the Mirror Dimension, and the group entered so the fight would not damage their surroundings.
• Wang Yang let Fengruisi make the first move, and Fengruisi summoned a wand and began chanting a spell.
• Saisike explained that the wand was a treasured artifact and praised Fengruisi as his race’s prodigy before teasing the Ancient One about Wang Yang’s lack of treasures.

Wang Yang faced Fengruisi’s powerful spell without dodging, caught it barehanded, and crushed it. He then showed Fengruisi how changing the spell’s rune arrangement could greatly increase its power, leaving the others amazed.

• Saisike and Qiao Yunshan criticized the Ancient One for not giving Wang Yang magical equipment, but she said he did not need it.
• Fengruisi unleashed a devastating spell at Wang Yang, and Saisike panicked when Wang Yang did not move.
• The Ancient One stopped Saisike from intervening and assured him that the attack could not kill Wang Yang.
• Wang Yang caught Fengruisi’s spell in his bare hand and squeezed it into scattered motes of magical light.
• Wang Yang suggested changing the spell’s rune structures, and Fengruisi rearranged them, making the spell several times more powerful.

Wang Yang easily defeated Fengruisi’s Crystal Cold Storm with the Winds of Watoomb, proving far stronger than Saisike expected. Saisike disputed the result and accused the Ancient One of setting him up, while Wang Yang studied the spell’s ice fragments.

• Fengruisi cast Crystal Cold Storm, and Saisike bet that Wang Yang could not block it.
• Wang Yang swept out the Winds of Watoomb, shattering the ice spikes before they reached him.
• Saisike accused the Ancient One of cheating and insisted Wang Yang could not really be her disciple.
• The Ancient One reminded Saisike that he had proposed the match and made the wager, while Qiao Yunshan backed her up.
• Wang Yang caught powdered ice to study Fengruisi’s spell as Saisike watched him in disbelief.

Wang Yang easily defeated Fengruisi, confirming the Ancient One's victory in her bet with Saisike. Saisike accepted his loss and agreed to serve Wang Yang as his master, while the group returned from the Mirror Dimension.

• Saisike questioned whether Wang Yang was truly the Ancient One's apprentice, and she explained that Kamar-Taj trained sorcerers while exposing the Goblin Race's divine ancestry.
• The Ancient One reminded Saisike that he had lost their bet and would have to become her grand-apprentice, but he asked them to wait until the fight ended.
• Fengruisi sought Wang Yang's guidance after realizing his spells could not harm him, then conceded the match.
• Fengruisi reminded Saisike that he had promised not to gamble again, but Saisike admitted he had lost and agreed to honor the bet.
• The Ancient One dismissed the Mirror Dimension and invited Wang Yang to sit while Saisike served him tea.

At the sorcerer gathering, Saisike became Wang Yang’s disciple after losing a wager with the Ancient One. When Haerte reported a suspected dark sorcerer’s forbidden experiment, Wang Yang inspected the bloody scene and concluded that no dark magic had been used.

• The Ancient One made Saisike kneel and formally accept Wang Yang as his master after Saisike lost their wager.
• Wang Yang explored the gathering and examined strange artifacts and curiosities from other dimensions.
• Haerte told Wang Yang that his subordinates had found signs of a dark sorcerer conducting forbidden experiments, despite no dark sorcerers being registered or sensed.
• Haerte led Wang Yang to a disordered room filled with blood, chunks of flesh, and tentacles.
• Wang Yang sensed the room and said the scene was not caused by a dark sorcerer because no trace of dark magic remained.

Wang Yang investigated a ruined building and discovered that someone had concealed their presence by interfering with time. After he found the Ancient One under attack and saved her, he marked the lingering dark presence to track its source, but the attacker remained unknown.

• Wang Yang told Haerte that the destruction was not caused by dark magic and stayed behind to investigate the building.
• Wang Yang used the Mirror Dimension to reverse time, but an unknown force blocked his attempt and left no detectable traces.
• Wang Yang sensed a presence in the Ancient One’s room and found her meditating under the influence of dark energy.
• Wang Yang expelled the invading power and used dark magic to strengthen its lingering connection so he could track the attacker.
• The Ancient One awoke and said she did not know what had attacked her, and Wang Yang wondered whether it was one of her enemies from another dimension.

Wang Yang protected the Ancient One from a second mental attack by the Eye God, a chaotic being who planned to invade Earth and make her his vessel. After strengthening the space's defenses, Wang Yang set out to find the hidden attacker.

• Wang Yang promised the Ancient One he would identify the mysterious attacker and shield the sorcerers from its next assault.
• The Eye God recalled his past invasion of Earth and decided to capture the Ancient One and use her as his vessel before devouring Earth.
• The Eye God sent an invisible force into the Ancient One's mind, but Wang Yang sensed the attack and destroyed its corrupting power.
• Wang Yang strengthened the space's defenses to their utmost limit and told the Ancient One he would search for the Eye God.
• The Ancient One agreed to let Wang Yang confront the attacker, recognizing that his power had grown beyond her expectations.

Wang Yang found the chaotic being that had tried to invade the Ancient One and confronted him in his dimension. After the being attacked him with corruptive mental power and tempting illusions, Wang Yang remained clear-eyed, leaving their confrontation unresolved.

• The chaotic being recovered and learned that an Elder God had interfered with his attempt to control the Ancient One.
• Wang Yang appeared in the dimension and challenged the being over his attack on the Sorcerer Supreme.
• Wang Yang fused the corruption divine power talent, gaining immunity to corruption.
• When the chaotic being tried to leave, Wang Yang attacked with a Dark Spear, but the being tore it apart with mental power.
• The chaotic being struck Wang Yang with overwhelming mental power and offered him power, wealth, and fulfilled desires if he submitted, but Wang Yang's eyes cleared.

Wang Yang broke through Shuma-Gorath’s illusions and faced the Eye-Monster in his true form. After resisting the monster’s corrupting power, Wang Yang drew his Vishanti Holy Sword fused with the Spatial Blade, but Shuma-Gorath’s dark aura began turning it black.

• Wang Yang shattered Shuma-Gorath’s illusion and recognized the enormous, tentacled being as the Eye-Monster.
• Wang Yang mocked Shuma-Gorath’s appearance and reminded him that the false gods had banished him.
• Shuma-Gorath attacked Wang Yang with corrupting power, but Wang Yang suppressed its effects with his divine power.
• Shuma-Gorath realized Wang Yang could make an unusually durable vessel and declared his intention to possess him.
• Wang Yang summoned his Vishanti Holy Sword fused with the Spatial Blade, but Shuma-Gorath’s dark aura began to blacken it.

Wang Yang fought the Eye-Monster, whose mental power could corrupt minds and imitate the Vishanti Holy Sword. After the system fused a mental power talent into Wang Yang, he shattered the Eye-Monster’s weapons and left the ancient creature wondering whether he had grown outdated.

• Wang Yang resisted the Eye-Monster’s corrupting mental power and cut a wound into his body with the Vishanti Holy Sword.
• The Eye-Monster conjured a giant purple sword from his mental power and swung it at Wang Yang.
• The system offered Wang Yang a mental power talent, and he chose to fuse with it as the Eye-Monster’s sword descended.
• Wang Yang blocked the blow, shattered the Eye-Monster’s sword, and severed the tentacle holding it.
• The Eye-Monster created another sword, but Wang Yang destroyed it with a strike and told him he could no longer keep up with the times.
• The Eye-Monster questioned whether he had grown old as Wang Yang slashed at him again.

The Ancient One told Haerte, Qiao Yunshan, Saisike, and Clemmens that the Dweller-in-Darkness had tried to control her, while her disciple Wang Yang confronted the entity. The sorcerers watched Wang Yang overpower the monster, but the Dweller-in-Darkness regenerated and claimed that any attack was beneath his notice.

• Haerte, Qiao Yunshan, Saisike, and Clemmens checked on the Ancient One after sensing a powerful force, and she revealed that it had invaded her body and tried to control her.
• The Ancient One said Wang Yang had gone to investigate, so Haerte used the gathering’s magical equipment to show them his fight in the cosmic dimensional space.
• The sorcerers watched Wang Yang cut through the Dweller-in-Darkness’s giant sword and repeatedly sever its tentacles, leaving them amazed by his power.
• The Ancient One identified the monster as the Dweller-in-Darkness, and Clemmens and Saisike wondered how he had returned after being banished and sealed away.
• The Dweller-in-Darkness regenerated his wounds and severed tentacles, then declared that Wang Yang’s attacks were mere tickles and beneath his notice.

Wang Yang defended against the Eye Demon’s mental attacks and discovered he could absorb them with Dark Devour. After growing stronger and weakening the Eye Demon, Wang Yang threatened to drain his mental power completely.

• The Eye Demon recovered and claimed his power made him nearly immortal, but Wang Yang explained that fusing with universal law only made gods difficult to kill.
• The Eye Demon attacked Wang Yang with powerful mental energy, which Wang Yang blocked with a mental barrier before throwing the Vishanti Holy Sword at him.
• The Eye Demon stopped the sword with a severed tentacle and summoned sharp mental-power crystals to bombard Wang Yang’s Seraphim Shield.
• Wang Yang integrated the Eye Demon’s materialized mental-power talent and used Dark Devour to absorb the crystals that passed through a gap in his shield.
• The Eye Demon realized Wang Yang was devouring his power, and Wang Yang said that draining his mental power might kill him.

Wang Yang resisted Eye-Monster’s lifelike mental universe and escaped its attack by recognizing that its impossible planetary destruction was an illusion. Eye-Monster was left weakened and bewildered as Wang Yang’s words made him doubt himself.

• Eye-Monster stopped Wang Yang from absorbing his Mental Power and reshaped the surrounding dimension into a universe under his control.
• Eye-Monster hurled planets at Wang Yang, who blocked their attacks with his Seraphim Shield and realized their power was not real.
• Wang Yang spread his Mental Power through the illusion, destroying the false universe and returning the battle to the dimensional ocean.
• Wang Yang explained that his experience creating and using planets had exposed the illusion, while Eye-Monster’s mental attack had failed to trap him.
• Wang Yang told Eye-Monster that his world was too perfect, leaving Eye-Monster weakened and bewildered.

Wang Yang fought the Eye-Monster in the Dimensional Ocean, resisting its reality-erasing mental power and damaging its vast, powerful body. After Wang Yang severed one of its tentacles, the enraged Eye-Monster unleashed his full strength and vowed to kill him.

• The Eye-Monster tried to erase Wang Yang with his mental power, but their forces collided and vanished, creating a black hole that tore off one of the Eye-Monster’s tentacles and erased some of his mental power.
• The Eye-Monster transformed into a larger, more physical true form and attacked Wang Yang with enormous tentacles.
• Wang Yang dodged the Eye-Monster’s strikes and used the Vishanti Holy Sword to pierce and split open a tentacle, contaminating part of the Dimensional Ocean with its dark fluid.
• Wang Yang thrust the Vishanti Holy Sword deeper into another tentacle and severed it, shocking the Eye-Monster.
• The Eye-Monster unleashed nearly all his power and vowed to kill Wang Yang.

The Vishanti sensed Eye-Monster’s renewed power, and Agamotto went to investigate the spreading disturbance. He found a Kamar-Taj sorcerer cutting through Eye-Monster with ease and wondered who could wield such immense power.

• Agamotto sensed Eye-Monster’s evil aura, and Oshtur and Hoggoth agreed that he should investigate.
• Agamotto entered the dimensional world and sensed Eye-Monster’s power spreading amid signs of battle.
• Agamotto detected magic resembling Kamar-Taj’s and questioned whether the Ancient One could be responsible.
• Agamotto reached the battlefield and saw a Kamar-Taj sorcerer wield the Vishanti Holy Sword to cut through Eye-Monster’s tentacle.
• Agamotto watched the sorcerer sever another tentacle and wondered who possessed such tremendous power.

Wang Yang overpowered the Eye-Monster, then resisted its soul-binding Mental Power Chains after fusing with the spell’s talent. As his power broke the chains, the Eye-Monster mistook him for a human possessed by an Elder God and demanded to know which one.

• Wang Yang severed the Eye-Monster’s tentacles and wounded its eye, forcing it to spend power regenerating and weakening it.
• The Eye-Monster raised a light barrier and healed its injuries, but Wang Yang told it that sorcerers had grown stronger since its time.
• The Eye-Monster attacked Wang Yang with Mental Power Chains that passed through his sword and Magic Shield, and the system offered him the talent to fuse.
• Wang Yang accepted the fusion and let the chains bind him while he integrated the spell’s information.
• Wang Yang gathered his power and began breaking the chains, prompting the Eye-Monster to conclude that an Elder God occupied his body.

Wang Yang broke the Eye-Monster’s mental restraints and fused with Mental Power Chains, greatly increasing his power. He overwhelmed the Eye-Monster, whose body and strength began to collapse, while Agamotto watched in disbelief.

• The Eye-Monster mistook Wang Yang for an Ancient God and accused him of hiding inside a mortal.
• Wang Yang shattered the Mental Power Chains imprisoning him, and the Eye-Monster attacked with more than ten thousand chains.
• Wang Yang fused with Mental Power Chains and stopped the Eye-Monster’s assault, overpowering him in a contest of mental power.
• Agamotto watched as Wang Yang’s strength increased, puzzled that he could not sense or restrict the Sorcerer’s use of his power.
• The Eye-Monster unleashed more of his power, but Wang Yang’s mental force crushed his chains and shattered more than half of his tentacles, leaving him near death.

Wang Yang wore down the Eye-Monster from a safe distance, then struck with a giant Vishanti Holy Sword that severed its tentacles and forced it to flee. Wang Yang tracked the Eye-Monster through the Dimensional Ocean and entered a Portal to pursue it.

• Wang Yang kept attacking the weakened Eye-Monster with Mental Power icicles and other manifestations while refusing to approach.
• The Eye-Monster tried to provoke Wang Yang into coming closer and then attempted to pull him into an illusion, but Wang Yang resisted and continued his assault.
• Wang Yang formed an enormous Vishanti Holy Sword from dispersed Mental Power and brought it down, severing the Eye-Monster’s tentacles.
• The Eye-Monster absorbed some of the sword’s scattered Mental Power and fled through the Dimensional Ocean.
• Wang Yang used the power attached to the Eye-Monster to track it, opened a Portal, and stepped through to pursue it.