Chapter Summaries

Ace led fifty million humans in the Dream Rite, forcing the Pocket World’s origin to create the Dream and Manifestation Divine Positions. After fifteen years, he finally deconstructed the Level 2 Dream and Manifestation Rune Sets, preparing to create a true Mindscape.

• Natasha III and the heartfire warriors led the Dream Rite as Ace spread dream divinity among the praying humans and drew the continent’s living creatures into the Great Dream.
• Ace discovered that the Pocket World lacked the rules needed for the Level 2 Dream Rune Set and used humanity’s Tribal Essence Origin to force the World Origin to derive the Dream Divine Position.
• Ace pressed on to derive the Manifestation Divine Position, imposing limits that barred manifestations above Level 3, permanent manifestations, things users could not understand, and living beings.
• The World Origin depleted nearly a tenth of itself to create the Manifestation Divine Position, which merged with the Dream Divine Position into the Dreamscape Manifestation Divine Position.
• After fifteen years of study, Ace deconstructed the Level 2 Dream Rune Set and Level 2 Manifestation Rune Set, ready to create a true Mindscape.

Ace transformed the True Illusion Dreamscape into the Manifested Dreamscape by integrating Level 2 dream and manifestation runes and the Eye of Delusion Breaking (Pseudo), then took his place on its Divine Seat. Over the next ten years, he added several divine authorities, ending with War, which unleashed conflict throughout the dream world.

• Ace stabilized five Level 2 derivative Dream Rune Sets and combined the dream and manifestation runes to replace the True Illusion Dreamscape's original core.
• Ace added the Eye of Delusion Breaking (Pseudo) to the dream world, where its origin devoured and reconstructed the giant eye before Ace's true spirit took the Divine Seat.
• Ace renamed the world the Manifested Dreamscape and spent ten years integrating the Human, Supreme, Formless, and Fear divine authorities.
• Ace integrated the War Series Runes, causing creatures across the Manifested Dreamscape to fight and concentrating weapons, death, and war's power in the west.

Ace planned to enter the Pocket World's source and use its origin to create Level 2 runes, while Sulu discovered that Caro's shadow had become a sinister Shadow Crow. Sulu suspected a connection to the Suffering Believers or devils and saw a chance to expose a threat and earn Ace's favor.

• Ace decided to spend the Pocket World's origin to deduce Level 2 runes and resolved to enter its source and coerce its origin.
• Nearly a hundred years passed for Ace inside the Pocket World, while only four days passed on the main material plane.
• At an academic gathering, Sulu encouraged Valen, who left to meet Lord Caroso about a Second-Ring Perfect Transformation Technique.
• Sulu followed Caro and saw his shadow transform into a hollow Shadow Crow with strange flames in its eyes.
• Sulu connected the crow's painful gaze to Ace's research on Suffering Believers and the past Devil Worshippers' invasion, and decided the discovery could win Ace's appreciation.

Sulu and Valen captured Caro, whose interrogation revealed a Devil Worshipper threat, and the Council of Councillors began preparing the territory for attacks. Meanwhile, a witch visited Alex at the Abyssal Projection Lair and warned him of a strange mortal force, but he dismissed the danger.

• Sulu transformed into a Shadow Wolf to attack Caro, then fled and summoned Valen, who helped Caroso capture and seal Caro.
• Sulu and Valen signed a confidentiality contract, and Daina told them the Council had awarded them preliminary academic points for discovering the incident.
• The seven councillors interrogated Caro and confirmed he had become a Devil Worshipper, then discussed sealing the city, expanding surveillance, and preparing an evacuation route.
• The witch visited Alex at the Abyssal Projection Lair and told him about a strange mortal force.
• Alex dismissed the threat and claimed he could defeat any Divine Nobles who came to the Abyss, while the witch teased him about being afraid.

Alex gained pseudo-rank High Demon strength through his Abyssal Projection status, but the Lust Witch secretly planned to use him as a pawn. Leon discovered that he could absorb and wield Misfortune Aura, while Ace confronted the Pocket World's resistance as he tried to observe its Level 2 runes, leaving him on the verge of becoming an Outer God.

• Alex used the Abyssal Projection territory's power to become a pseudo-rank High Demon and warned the Lust Witch not to deceive him again.
• The next day, the Lust Witch left with Soron and revealed that she intended to use Alex before eventually killing him.
• Leon studied the strange aura around his soul, developed a way to absorb it as foreign Magic power, and used it to inflict escalating misfortune on a Low-level Demonic Beast.
• Leon named the aura Misfortune Aura and confirmed that meditation could harness it, while its absorption temporarily improved the luck of other living beings.
• Ace struggled against the Pocket World's World Consciousness as he studied Level 2 runes, and the world gathered its power to expel him.
• Ace saw that the Pocket World could only create a new Level 2 life by spending vast amounts of World Origin, and declared that he would become an Outer God beyond its reach.

Ace seized a third of the world's Origin and studied its elemental runes while the depleted World Consciousness created an undetectable Chosen One. Back in the territory, Ace's allies prepared for danger and recovered the Living Map, while Turien learned that the Punishers were gathering for an expedition against the blasphemers.

• Overgod Ai declared humanity's campaign against the Origin, and the human divine kingdom merged with the Human Tribal Essence Origin to claim a third of the world.
• Ace studied the six foundational elements as World Origin was depleted, then developed Creation and Disintegration spells and used Disintegration to split a continent in the Pocket World.
• World Consciousness fell asleep after creating a Chosen One from its remaining Origin, but Ace chose to focus on strengthening himself and studying the Origin.
• Betty assigned the territory's leaders emergency duties, and Daina used a Runic Key to retrieve Ace's Living Map from the West Tower.
• Turien, an apprentice embedded in the Punishers, discovered that Karim's organization planned an expedition against the blasphemers' nest and remembered the girl who had taught him magic before the Punishers burned her alive.

Turien secretly sent a warning to the High Tower Territory as its leaders prepared for an approaching demonic threat and the Punisher Organization. Meanwhile, Ace transformed the Pocket World's accumulated negative energy and gained a Reflected Mindscape, leaving the High Tower forces bracing for danger while he continued his research.

• Karim urged Turien to reject forbidden knowledge, but Turien remembered the girl's vision of an enlightened age and secretly sent a magic signal.
• Daina told Auli and Arno that demons had likely discovered the High Tower Territory and might move north while the Punisher Organization advanced south.
• The remaining leaders ordered preparations for defense and evacuation, including building magic ships, laying traps, and sending magical people toward the enemy-occupied territories and New Continent.
• Donna led sixty-eight advanced knight attendants south to reinforce the front near Mount Baal, while Daina, Auli, and Betty prepared magical defenses.
• Ace used Source Power to create rules for shadows and undead, transforming the Pocket World's negative energy and gaining their support.
• A composite model of shadows, undead, and the negative energy realm formed a Reflected Mindscape within Ace's Mindscape.

Trapped within the Pocket World’s Source, Ace used his divine authority to observe its divided continent and recognized its many cultivation geniuses as Pseudo Chosen Ones. He decided to promote their development and sent one of his thoughts into the Western Continent, where an elderly bard began teaching young Talon and the other children about warriors.

• Ace manifested the Eye of Delusion Breaking over the Pocket World and examined the changes that had unfolded during nearly fifty years of separation between East and West.
• Ace observed that cultivation had flourished across the continent and resolved to help the Pseudo Chosen Ones develop Blood Energy and Heartfire rather than kill them.
• Ace sent one of his thoughts into a remote Western fishing village to participate in the struggle over the Chosen One.
• The eastern Church developed Faith Heartfire Saints who resonated with the divine kingdom, while western Heartfire Warriors sought power through their own desires and will.
• In Sea Turtle Village, the bard Joyce agreed to explain warrior stages to five children after Talon returned with a jug of ale.

Joyce taught Talon about the realms beyond Heartfire, the Western Continent’s cultivation schools, and the Blood-Food Transport Method. After Talon began cultivating and his family gained the means to support him, he reached the threshold of igniting Heartfire and faced a choice of path.

• Joyce explained the Heart Illumination, Visualization, and Spirit Illumination realms, then described the Ascetic, Natural, and Faith schools.
• Talon asked Joyce to guide him in warrior cultivation, and Joyce agreed to teach him the Blood-Food Transport Method.
• Kang Te moved the family to Tui City and secured a lucrative post from Baroness Elaine Tui so Talon could have meat and cultivation resources.
• Over three years, Talon’s blood energy reached completion, leaving him one step from igniting Heartfire.
• Joyce advised Talon to choose the cultivation school that followed his heart, then departed in a vision of flames.

Talon traveled to Nataiye City to join the Andorf Natural Flow while Ace’s Eye of Surveillance provoked a battle between the Eastern and Western Continent’s powerhouses. After the First Canyon War, Talon arrived in the city and began preparing for the entrance examination, but he lacked the money to learn the skills he needed.

• Talon left Tui City for Nataiye City, and Kang Te took Talon’s mother, brother, and sister back to their fishing village.
• The Eastern and Western Continent’s powerhouses fought at the Elemental Storm Gorge, where more than a dozen saints and demigods fell without harming the Eye of Surveillance.
• As Talon traveled, the Eye’s influence helped ignite his unobstructed Heart Flame and strengthen him with a share of World Origin.
• Ace studied the cultivation system revealed by the battle and planned to use it to support mortals opposing divine descendants.
• Talon reached Nataiye City, bought the Heart Connection Method, and learned the Andorf Natural Flow’s admission requirements.
• With six months until the entry examination and little money, Talon decided he needed to win martial sparring matches to afford training.

Ace created the Law Divine Position and established Divine Tribulation as a rule of the Pocket World, with the heavenly eye punishing practitioners who advanced through the Heartfire path. The first Divine Punishment devastated warriors across the world, while Talon watched the demigods flee and die.

• Ace used World Origin and Human Dao tribal essence to develop a Level 2 Law Spell, triggering disasters across the Pocket World as he incorporated it into his Mindscape.
• Ace absorbed the Law Divine Position and transformed the Surveillance vertical eye into the Eye of Divine Punishment, then declared that advancement beyond Heartfire would require surviving tribulation.
• Ace set specific tribulation rules for Heartfire cultivation, Heart Illumination, visualization, Enlightened Divinity, and those who advanced through faith in a true god.
• The Eye of Divine Punishment appeared above Nataiye City, and six Spirit Illumination demigods fled as it split apart to pursue them.
• Lightning struck warriors at the Heart Illumination realm and above across the world, killing eleven Western Continent Spirit Illuminations, three Eastern Continent Saints, and hundreds of other powerhouses.

After surviving the thunder that killed thousands, Talon scavenged a bronze treasure artifact and joined Andorf Natural Flow, where he reunited with Joyce. Joyce’s new understanding of Heaven and the warrior’s path carried him into the Meditation Realm, drawing another heavenly tribulation.

• Talon felt the thunder’s effects strengthen his connection to the world, then searched the scorched wilderness and found a damaged bronze shield that could create a sturdy protective barrier.
• A week later, Talon reached Nataiye City and bought a Heart Flame cultivation method and three techniques from the Andov Technique Institute.
• Talon learned that Nataiye City’s six demigods had died in the thunder and that Andov had left the words, “Do good and follow Heaven; regret comes too late.”
• Talon passed Andorf Natural Flow’s grand examination and reunited with Joyce, who explained the school’s teachings and his belief that warriors must follow Heaven’s heart.
• Joyce’s insight dissolved his long-standing block, advancing him from the Heart Illumination Realm to the Meditation Realm.
• Ace sensed Joyce’s breakthrough through the Eye of Divine Punishment as tribulation clouds gathered and thunder threatened to fall.

Talon rose from a disciple who absorbed heavenly tribulation lightning into a powerful cultivator, while Ace secretly protected him and used the world’s resistance to advance his research. After Toby repeatedly survived Talon’s attacks and grew stronger, he broke through a final tribulation with the World Consciousness’s favor and merged his godlike phantom with his body.

• Joyce survived his Meditation Realm tribulation, and Talon discovered that he could absorb its lightning to strengthen his Heartfire.
• Joyce became an elder, Talon became an official disciple, and Talon’s lightning training inspired the Thunder Body Tempering Flow.
• Talon passed his minor Heart Illumination Tribulation, gained lightning in his Heartfire, and traveled the Western Continent with the Thunder Four Generals.
• Ace developed the Three-Ring Spell Thunder Prison and secretly favored Talon, but Talon’s tribulation killed Toby’s family and began their feud.
• Toby defeated Joyce and Talon, killing Joyce and leaving Talon gravely wounded, before both rivals later advanced to the Through the Profound Realm.
• Toby broke through the besieging cultivators and the heavenly tribulation, received the World Consciousness’s favor, and merged his rule-clad god with his body.

Ace defeated Toby after Toby fused with the Pocket World's consciousness and became its native true god, then absorbed the world’s Heartfire and gradually covered the Pocket World with his Mindscape. He used its Source Power to create a Three-Ring Meditation Method based on the main material plane’s stars and began developing Stellar Divination, leaving the world’s starry sky emptied as a giant rune-covered die formed.

• Toby expanded into a gigantic true god fused with the World Consciousness and crushed the forces besieging him.
• Ace was freed from the Source and descended through Talon, taking control of his body and confronting Toby.
• Ace used an Edict to turn Toby into Heartfire, then devoured him and absorbed the Pocket World’s Heartfire and Source Power.
• Over several decades, Ace’s Mindscape covered the Pocket World, allowing him to access its mysteries and deduce a Three-Ring Meditation Method from the stars.
• Ace used more Source Power to create Stellar Divination, gathering the replicated stars into a gigantic rune-covered die before beginning to restore their runes to the sky.

Ace used the Astrology Divination dice and saw a possible future in which the Punishers attacked the High Tower Territory, Daina died protecting him, and he was forced to flee toward Mount Baal. After escaping the vision, he learned from the Book Spirit that fate was changeable and resolved to investigate how it worked.

• Ace followed the Astrology Divination dice into a Celestial River of starlight and shadow and witnessed a possible future in the High Tower Territory.
• In that future, Ace helped Daina prepare defenses against the Punishers while Betty upgraded magic ships, but the enemy broke through their plans.
• Karim attacked Ace with a deadly arrow, and Daina blocked it, dying in Ace's arms; Ace killed Alesha and fought Karim before fleeing south.
• At the foot of Mount Baal, Ace sensed a terrifying black presence, then emerged from the Celestial River and questioned whether the vision foretold his fate.
• The Book Spirit told Ace that he had seen only one possible fate and urged him to explore another, while Ace asked how fate could be changed and the vision replicated.

Ace relived his fight against the Punishers but failed to prevent Alex from destroying the High Tower Territory, leaving him unsure what caused the mysterious shadow at Mount Baal. After dying and returning to the Pocket World, he entered the Celestial River again to begin a third playthrough.

• Ace returned to the starting point and prepared for the Punishers by setting an ambush, strengthening the city defenses, and gathering information about their movements.
• Ace destroyed the Artificer Woman’s equipment, killed her and several perception-type heroes, then wiped out the Punishers and killed the wounded Karim near Milne City.
• Ace returned to find Alex’s demon army had turned the High Tower Territory into an Abyssal Projection and killed Ancesta, Arno, Daina, and Auli, while Betty, Polina, and Caroso escaped by magic ship.
• Ace investigated Mount Baal, attacked Alex, and was killed, then concluded that Alex was not the terrifying black shadow he sought.
• Ace used the Eye of Delusion Breaking (Pseudo) to examine the Celestial River but could not perceive it, then entered it and awoke at the beginning of a third playthrough.

Ace destroyed the Pocket World and absorbed its Source Power, greatly increasing his strength before returning to the main material plane. He organized the evacuation of Magic users, then ambushed the Punishers and captured Alesha to obtain intelligence.

• Ace used the Six Elemental Rings and Glazed Heart Flame to destroy the Pocket World and refine its Source Power, raising his spiritual strength to 800 degrees and physical strength to 700 degrees.
• Ace returned to the main material plane and ordered Daina, Caroso, Arno, and Betty to prepare defenses and evacuate Magic users across Salia and the continents.
• Ace flew to the northern Lar Mountains to strike the invading Punishers and watched Alesha before making his move.
• Ace used several Spells and his cowlick's Obscuring Ability to approach Alesha, strip away her armament, and abduct her with her strange bow.
• Karim hesitated to pursue Ace, while Ace planned to keep Alesha alive and use her to gather intelligence.

Ace tortured Alesha for information, then learned that seven Great Heroes were approaching and fled south to investigate a possible threat at Mount Baal. He awoke from the River of Destiny’s phantom, then sacrificed the Pocket World’s inhabitants and resources to create two Three-Ring spells.

• Ace trapped Alesha in his Mindscape and tortured her until she revealed that she had helped the Punishers and explained the deadly Fate-Hunting Arrow’s limits and sacrifice requirement.
• The world shook, and Ace realized the Power of Fate might be weakening; after Karim used the City of Guardians to shelter from his attacks, Ace learned that seven Great Heroes were coming from the Northern Five States.
• Ace decided to prepare an evacuation and investigate the possible threat beneath Mount Baal, but the world twisted and he awoke in the Pocket World after the River of Destiny vanished.
• Fuwa told Ace that the phantom of fate was only a fallible prediction, and Ace resolved to create a Three-Ring spatial leap spell before leaving the Pocket World.
• Ace refined the Pocket World’s inhabitants and World Origin to create the Three-Ring Subspace Technique and Three-Ring Teleportation Gate.

Ace destroyed the Pocket World and absorbed the origin of its alternate space, discovering Level 2.5 runes and acquiring a degraded Time-Fix Manipulation Rune Set. Back in West Tower, he used the Magic Network to develop a spell that delayed time for others within a limited area, while Daina and the other Magic Council members waited to see him.

• Ace named the combined Teleportation Gate and Unstable Subspace spell Spatial Banishment and destroyed the Pocket World, absorbing its origin to strengthen his Mindscape and spiritual power.
• After surpassing eight hundred spiritual units, Ace discovered Level 2.5 runes and inscribed the alternate space's degraded Time-Fix Manipulation Rune Set into his Mindscape.
• Ace left the collapsing alternate space and recorded its destruction, retaining only a few Level 2.5 spatial runes before returning to West Tower.
• Ace summoned the High Tower Territory's wizards through the Magic Network to deduce a spell model from the Time-Fix Manipulation Rune Set.
• Four days later, the network produced a complex spell that caused others in a certain range to experience temporal delay, while Daina and the other Magic Council members waited outside West Tower.

Ace gathered the High Tower leaders after they uncovered a Suffering Believer’s infiltration and warned of threats from the northern Punishers and southern demons. He revealed that he had advanced to Level 2 life and developed a fourth-ring spell, leaving the territory better prepared to resist its enemies.

• Ace welcomed the five formal wizards and Arno, then heard Betty report Caro’s conversion to a Suffering Believer and the security measures underway.
• Ace approved Betty’s continued work on the Magic ship, assigned Daina to arrange Magic traps, and ordered everyone else to remain in the city.
• Polina suggested evacuating the Magic population, but Ace revealed that he had reached Level 2 life and developed Three-Ring Spells and a fourth-ring spell.
• Ace explained how Level 2 life, runes, and Mindscapes worked, and said that Three-ring Wizards were stronger than Great Heroes but weaker than Golden Heroes.
• Ace affirmed that wizards learned from all supernatural beings and would ultimately surpass them.