Arc 19The Witch and the World Reborn

Lu Ling challenged the Holy City over Fusion Magic and fought its archangels to rescue his master, whose return helped him restore the city and revive the dead. He married Aurora, reunited with his companions, and began rebuilding Spirit City while pursuing new ways to bring back the lost.

  • Lu Ling demonstrated Fusion Magic at Oros Holy Academy, challenged Mr. Glen’s condemnation, and inscribed the method on a stone pillar for others to study.
  • After Shan Xia sought his protection, Lu Ling killed her disguised kidnappers, then traveled with her to Spirit City as the Americas grew dangerous.
  • Lu Ling recognized his wounded master on a broadcast and rushed to the Holy City, where Michael, Sariel, and the other archangels had prepared to stop him.
  • Lu Ling and his allies fought the archangels, and he became a Middle Emperor before Sariel’s Dimensional Rift killed the blond girl held on a cross.
  • Netherworld and Shen Xi unleashed disasters after Lu Ling collapsed, but his master’s voice awakened him and he stopped them before reversing time to restore the Holy City and resurrect its dead.
  • Lu Ling learned that his master, Aurora, had created Blood Magic and was slowly dying, then stayed with her until she recovered and accepted his marriage proposal.
  • Lu Ling brought Aurora to Spirit City, reunited with Mu Ningxue and Ye Chang, and helped Ye Chang reconcile with Ye Xin Xia while strengthening the coast and expanding the city’s independence.
  • Lu Ling resurrected Yulai and reunited Qin Zhan with Ling Ling, then stayed in Spirit City as the Sea Monster invasion approached and persuaded Apas to absorb the Vast Divine Eye’s remaining soul power.
Chapters 454–478 Vol. 5 Read

Ch. 454In progress

Lu Ling faced opposition while teaching his second class at Oros Holy Academy, then demonstrated Fusion Magic’s power and defended its potential to help humanity fight Demon Beasts. He left the Fusion Magic method inscribed on a magically preserved stone pillar for everyone to learn.

  • Lu Ling’s second class drew a huge crowd after word of Fusion Magic spread throughout Oros Holy Academy.
  • Mr. Glen denounced Fusion Magic as sorcery, and Lu Ling challenged him to explain his accusations.
  • Lu Ling prepared five fused Intermediate Magic spells, frightening Mr. Glen and prompting another teacher to shield him.
  • Lu Ling tossed the completed Fusion Magic into the sky, where it exploded like a five-colored firework and displayed power beyond the Super Level.
  • Lu Ling argued that Fusion Magic could help humanity confront Demon Beast calamities and said a Forbidden Curse Mage could use it to fight Emperor-level Demon Beasts.
  • Lu Ling carved the Fusion Magic method onto a stone pillar and froze it in time, prompting the crowd, including Mr. Glen, to study it eagerly.

Ch. 455Things Went Sideways

After recovering from an exhausting encounter with the Nine-Tailed Snow Fox, Lu Ling met with Shaja to answer her questions about Fusion Magic. Shaja told him the theory had already sparked a revolution and promised she would not let him die.

  • Lu Ling returned to his apartment, worried that his absent master might not know whether he had made her proud.
  • The Nine-Tailed Snow Fox crossed the Spirit Realm’s barriers and found Lu Ling, then drained him with an exhausting encounter.
  • Blanche noticed Lu Ling’s pallor, made him rest, and told him that Shaja had been looking for him.
  • Lu Ling met Shaja at a café and spent the day answering her questions about the difficulties ordinary people faced with Fusion Magic.
  • Shaja explained that Lu Ling’s demonstrated Fusion Magic had inspired a movement that would not stop, and she promised she would not let him die.

Ch. 456Given Away for Free

Lu Ling waited for the idea of Fusion Magic to spread after placing its method at Oros Holy Academy. He rescued Shan Xia from kidnappers and warned her that he could tell if she had lied to him.

  • Lu Ling reflected that the stone pillar would spread knowledge of Fusion Magic and believed its seeds would eventually lead to practical results.
  • Shan Xia approached Lu Ling and asked him to protect her from people seeking to kidnap her.
  • Lu Ling recognized Shan Xia as Zhao Youqian’s fiancée and learned she was the daughter of the World Bank’s president.
  • Lu Ling took Shan Xia’s hand and led her toward the disguised kidnappers in the street.
  • Lu Ling used Soul Capture to kill the kidnappers, then warned Shan Xia that he would have treated her differently if she had not told the truth.

Ch. 457News of His Master

Lu Ling awakened Shan Xia's Light magic and brought her to Spirit City, while the Holy City archangels identified him as a threat and began planning against him. The chapter ended with Lu Ling learning that his missing master had been captured by Archangel Michael and would be executed in three days.

  • Shan Xia offered Lu Ling compensation, then seduced him and received Light Element Stardust after helping him.
  • In the Holy City, Remiel, Raphael, and Uriel discussed Lu Ling, the witch, and Fusion Magic, then tasked Michael and Sariel with dealing with him.
  • A month later, Lu Ling brought Shan Xia from the Americas to Spirit City as a coup in the Andes Mountains made the region dangerous.
  • News spread that Michael had captured the witch who vanished twenty years earlier and that she would be beheaded in three days.
  • Lu Ling recognized his wounded master on the broadcast, and Ye Xin Xia called him with concern.

Ch. 458Judgment

Lu Ling attacked the Holy City to rescue his master, the witch bound to the sacred cross, but Sariel and Michael confronted him. The chapter ended with the two archangels prepared to fight him.

  • Lu Ling and Xue Lian watched the Holy City from the Alps as crowds gathered for the witch's judgment.
  • Lu Ling sensed his master's aura in the witch and told Xue Lian to remain hidden before tearing through space into the city.
  • Lu Ling opened the Gate of the Spirit Realm, but Sariel appeared and used the Dragon Tooth Staff to reinforce the barrier around the witch.
  • The Demon-Sealing Vankui magic formation expanded around the tower and weakened Lu Ling's dark power.
  • Michael revealed himself beside Sariel, and the people of the Holy City realized two archangels had been waiting for Lu Ling.

Ch. 459Descent

Lu Ling attacked the Holy City with Heaven’s Blade and unleashed a deadly storm while the angels tried to protect the city and its people. Qingluo emerged from the Gate of Space to aid him, and her arrival alarmed Michael, Sariel, and the other archangels.

  • Raphael created a reflected Holy City and began transferring the mages there, but Lu Ling’s Heaven’s Blade split the reflected city and devastated the adjudication formation.
  • Lu Ling’s death energy and Sha Yuan threatened the Holy City, so Remiel ordered Raphael to transfer the ordinary citizens into the reflected city.
  • Michael attacked Lu Ling with his azure scepter while Sariel shielded him, but Lu Ling froze Michael and the scepter and unleashed Bloodthirsty Evil Wind that killed Forbidden Curse Mages.
  • Michael broke free and struck at Lu Ling, but an unknown voice used Reversal to redirect his scepter, destroying buildings in the Holy City.
  • Qingluo stepped out of the Gate of Space after completing her transformation, prompting Michael, Sariel, and the other archangels to react with alarm.

Ch. 460Qingluo Makes Her Move

Lu Ling and Qingluo attacked the angels in the Holy City, where Qingluo overwhelmed Michael and Lu Ling revealed that he held the Parthenon Divine Soul. As the battle escalated, Lu Ling confronted Remiel over the Holy City’s claim to protect humanity.

  • Lu Ling told Qingluo to kill the angels, and Qingluo’s sonic attack destroyed the vankui around Michael and left him wounded after he countered with Angel’s Fist.
  • Lu Ling used Divine Soul Praise to strengthen Qingluo, while the hidden Remiel realized Lu Ling possessed the Divine Soul and ordered Reynolds to act.
  • Qingluo attacked Sariel, who absorbed her sound waves with Dimensional Prison, and Lu Ling struck at Remiel with Sky Rift.
  • Remiel revealed himself as a twelve-winged seraph and joined the confrontation, while Lu Ling threatened to kill angels and Holy Shadows.
  • Lu Ling challenged Remiel’s claim that the Holy City protected humanity, arguing that its countries and organizations could govern themselves.

Ch. 461Michael's Fall

Lu Ling exposed Michael’s hypocrisy and challenged the Holy City’s rule as the angels fought to stop him. With help from the Black Dragon Emperor and a girl wielding the Dragon Sovereign’s edict, Lu Ling killed Michael, leaving the other angels stunned.

  • Lu Ling listed the threats he had defeated and declared that his revolution against the Holy City began that day.
  • Asharuiya joined Ye Xin Xia, Yi Zhisha, and Pamish as they set out to support Lu Ling.
  • Remiel ordered the surviving adjudicators to attack, but Lu Ling’s Death Domain burst their hearts and killed them.
  • Remiel summoned a golden dragon, while Lu Ling prepared Austin and called on the Black Dragon Emperor.
  • Lu Ling stopped time as the Black Dragon Emperor attacked Michael, and a girl immobilized the golden dragon with the Dragon Sovereign’s edict.
  • Michael was burned to a dried corpse beneath his surviving angelic armor, leaving Sariel, Remiel, Uriel, Raphael, and the onlookers in shock.

Ch. 462All-out eruption

Long Zhanye entered the Holy City in her true form, freed the golden dragon from Remiel’s control, and joined Lu Ling’s side as the angels rallied to defend the city. Lu Ling faced Uriel while Qingluo took control of the rain, and both sides prepared for a decisive battle.

  • Long Zhanye crossed the Gate of Space, invoked her authority as Dragon Sovereign, and freed the golden dragon, which stopped obeying Remiel.
  • The Black Dragon Emperor attacked the Holy City, while Qingluo shattered Remiel’s Mind Element spell with her Mermaid’s Song.
  • Raphael and the Sixteen-Winged Seraph Uriel joined Remiel, and Uriel confronted Lu Ling over the calamity he believed Lu Ling represented.
  • Lu Ling unleashed the Water of Calamity and challenged Uriel, while Qingluo transformed into her complete mermaid form and flooded the Holy City with water dragons.
  • Remiel, Raphael, and Sariel prepared to fight Lu Ling’s allies before the being in the Sahara could take advantage of their weakness.

Ch. 463Advancing to Middle Emperor

Lu Ling fought Uriel inside the Colosseum while his deathly aura grew toward Middle Emperor. He trapped Uriel in the Chaotic Death Domain and overwhelmed his Radiant Sun, reaching Middle Emperor as the king of the undead.

  • Xue Lian watched the battle in the Holy City and noticed the unconscious blonde girl remained sealed on the cross.
  • Lu Ling enclosed himself and Uriel in the Colosseum and attacked with Evil Aura Dragon Transformation and Space-Rending Blades, but neither could land a hit.
  • As the battle continued, Lu Ling’s deathly aura surged and his power rose from Lesser Emperor toward Middle Emperor.
  • Uriel unleashed Radiant Sun, filling the Colosseum with sacred light and burning away Lu Ling’s deathly aura.
  • Lu Ling activated Chaotic Death Domain and combined his powers into a destructive attack that swallowed Uriel’s Radiant Sun.
  • Lu Ling’s aura reached its peak, and he became a Middle Emperor and the king of the undead.

Ch. 464Heaven's Wrath

Lu Ling defeated Uriel, but Sariel used Dimensional Prison to consume himself, the tower, and the blond girl, cutting her in half. Lu Ling’s grief unleashed a catastrophe across the plane, while Shen Xi lost consciousness after sending Qingluo and the others into the Spirit Realm, where Lu Ling could no longer be reached.

  • Lu Ling dispelled the Colosseum and revealed Qingluo and the others victorious over the archangels, with Remiel, Raphael, and Sariel badly wounded.
  • Sariel opened Dimensional Prison and made it devour himself and the tower holding the blond girl, while Lu Ling failed to stop it with Time Stop.
  • The Dimensional Rift cut the blond girl in half, and Lu Ling erupted in fury, unleashing a deadly storm across the reflected Holy City.
  • Shen Xi emerged from the Spirit Realm, warned Lu Ling that something was wrong, then lost consciousness after sending Qingluo and the others back inside.
  • The residents gathered in Shen Xi’s ice palace as it shook, and Long Zhanye found that her Life and Death Soul Pact with Lu Ling had gone silent.

Ch. 465World War

Lu Ling’s consciousness drove Shen Xi and Netherworld to attack the Holy City and threaten the plane with a meteor, forcing the Mysterious Dragon Emperor and Xue Lian to fight them. The battle continued as the Dragon Emperor sought help from her older sister to wake Lu Ling.

  • Lina sensed that the world was angry as Lu Ling knelt outside the Spirit Realm.
  • Netherworld appeared beside Shen Xi, declared the world reset to zero, and killed Remiel, Raphael, and the surviving creatures in the Holy City.
  • Shen Xi redirected a giant meteor toward the Holy City, while Netherworld’s sea of flowers spread to destroy the remaining life.
  • The Mysterious Dragon Emperor confronted Shen Xi and Netherworld, and Xue Lian joined her to battle them; Xue Lian’s Red Lotus Karmic Fire checked Netherworld’s domain.
  • Shen Xi and Netherworld declared themselves Children of Heaven and Earth, intensified their attacks, and caused natural disasters to worsen.
  • Xue Lian asked how to wake Lu Ling, and the Mysterious Dragon Emperor said she was asking her older sister for help.

Ch. 466The One Who Returned

After Long Zhanye, Ye Chang, and the others failed to wake Lu Ling in the Spirit Realm, he relived a life as an ordinary eighteen-year-old boy and heard voices calling him back. He remembered his master and awoke in the ruined Holy City, where he reunited with her.

  • Ye Xin Xia told Asharuiya, Yi Zhisha, and Pamish that Lu Ling's master meant more to him than a mother, and they hurried toward the Holy City.
  • Long Zhanye and the others called to Lu Ling as the Spirit Realm shook, but he did not respond.
  • Lu Ling awoke as an eighteen-year-old boy with no memory of his past and prepared to attend a high school reunion.
  • Voices calling Lu Ling and his master reached him, and he remembered the golden-haired girl who had named him.
  • Lu Ling opened his eyes amid the Holy City's ruins and recognized his master holding him.
  • Lu Ling embraced his master and told her he had been unable to find her.

Ch. 467The Rulemaker

Lu Ling stopped Shen Xi and Netherworld, then learned that his master had helped found the Holy City and chose to restore it. After resurrecting the dead and stripping Michael and Sariel of their powers, he became the new authority over the angels and the world’s rules.

  • Xue Lian urged Lu Ling to stop Shen Xi and Netherworld, and he used the Mysterious Dragon Emperor’s memories to understand what had happened.
  • Lu Ling stopped Shen Xi and Netherworld, apologized to Shen Xi, and promised his master he would stay and explain his absence later.
  • Lu Ling’s master revealed she had helped found the Holy City and asked him to preserve its role in the human world.
  • Lu Ling reversed time across the Holy City and the Alps, restoring the city and resurrecting everyone who had died, including the five archangels.
  • Lu Ling extracted Michael and Sariel’s magic souls, leaving them ordinary mortals, while Remiel, Raphael, and Uriel bowed to him.
  • The Holy Judgment Mages and citizens bowed to Lu Ling, recognizing him as the one who had brought them back to life.

Ch. 468Change

Lu Ling instructed Remiel and Raphael to support Fusion Magic, while the Holy City’s endorsement and the news of his identity spread across the world. He returned to Bo City to care for his frail, unconscious master, who woke and told him she had been in a grave.

  • Lu Ling told Remiel to focus on humanity and urged the Holy City to promote Fusion Magic; Remiel agreed to find people to develop it.
  • The blonde girl collapsed against Lu Ling, and Uriel advised that she rest because she was very weak.
  • News spread that Lu Ling was the Son of Heaven and Earth, and the Holy City publicly encouraged research into Fusion Magic.
  • People flocked to Oros Holy Academy to study Lu Ling’s inscription, while Shaja praised her teacher.
  • Lu Ling brought his master’s house back to Bo City and watched over her as she remained unconscious for a month.
  • Lu Ling’s master woke and, when he asked where she had been all these years, answered that she had been in a grave.

Ch. 469The past

Lu Ling learned that his master was the Witch of Calamity, whose life was fading as the berserk power within her ran dry. When Lu Ling sensed that his power could stabilize her condition, he took her out for a walk, hopeful that they would have more time together.

  • Lu Ling's master told him that she was slowly dying and might eventually fall into eternal slumber.
  • She revealed that she had created Blood Magic as a girl, causing a citywide disaster, and became known as the Witch of Calamity.
  • Lu Ling learned that his master had sealed herself away because suppressing the berserk power sustaining her also drained her life.
  • Lu Ling held his master and sensed the blood power within her; their contact strengthened him and made her power more stable.
  • Lu Ling invited his master out for a walk, and she agreed to spend time with him as his master.

Ch. 470A gentle flow

Lu Ling spent a peaceful month in Bo City with his master, finding small ways to make her long life feel less dull while supporting her with physical contact. The chapter ended with his master asking him to wash her hair.

  • Lu Ling strolled through Bo City with his master floating beside him and promised to keep her life from becoming dull.
  • Over the next month, Lu Ling and his master visited local spots and grew more physically affectionate as they shared ordinary routines.
  • Lu Ling carved his master a bamboo dragonfly, which she kept despite its crooked flight.
  • After dinner, Lu Ling smoothed his master's tangled hair, and she asked him to wash it for her.

Ch. 471Want to do something intimate?

Lu Ling washed his master's long golden hair and stayed beside her as she invited him to share her bed. After revealing that Shen Xi had passed her some of Lu Ling's memories, his master asked whether he wanted to do something more intimate, leaving him to respond.

  • Lu Ling heated water, combed and washed his master's hair, and secretly used magic to help dry it.
  • His master teased Lu Ling after noticing that he had accidentally touched her breast while washing her hair.
  • His master invited Lu Ling to lie beside her, and he reflected on how he had stayed by her side for the past month while the others were absent.
  • His master said Shen Xi had passed some of Lu Ling's memories to her and told him she was moved that he had opposed the Holy City for her sake.
  • His master asked Lu Ling to hold her, and he pulled her into his arms before loosening his grip when she struggled to breathe.
  • His master asked Lu Ling whether he wanted to do something more intimate.

Ch. 472Entrusted to You

Lu Ling and Aurora acknowledged their love and exchanged marriage proposals after Aurora recovered fully. They ended the chapter as husband and wife, preparing to go to Spirit City and meet Lu Ling’s other women.

  • Aurora revealed that she knew about Lu Ling’s romantic past and accepted his feelings, while Lu Ling learned her name was Aurora.
  • Several months later, Aurora had recovered to her peak condition, and she and Lu Ling shared an affectionate moment at their home.
  • Lu Ling asked Aurora to come with him to Spirit City and proposed to her with a silver ring set with a rainbow elemental diamond.
  • Aurora accepted Lu Ling’s proposal and placed a matching ring containing her blood on his finger, declaring them husband and wife.

Ch. 473Meeting

Lu Ling returned to Spirit City with Aurora and found it crowded with powerful newcomers and the women in his life, who had been living together peacefully. He began introducing Aurora to them one by one, starting with Mu Ningxue, who welcomed his return and accepted their relationship.

  • Lu Ling and Aurora arrived in Spirit City, where Netherworld greeted him and Shen Xi thanked Aurora for freeing them from their former imprisonment.
  • Lu Ling sensed that the women in his life had gathered in Spirit City and that their allies had organized the influx of powerful mages into its forces.
  • Lu Ling noticed that the golden dragon in Spirit City deterred troublemakers, while the city's leaders managed the newcomers and their limited resources.
  • Lu Ling took Aurora to meet the women individually rather than risk disrupting their peaceful coexistence.
  • Lu Ling reunited with Mu Ningxue and introduced Aurora as his master and wife, and Mu Ningxue welcomed him back.

Ch. 474An interesting woman

Lu Ling introduced Aurora to the women in the castle, then reunited with Ye Chang in Spirit City. Afterward, he asked Ye Chang whether she had seen Xin Xia, who remembered her after Lu Ling removed the Forget Worm.

  • Lu Ling brought Aurora around the castle to meet the women, who accepted her quickly.
  • Lu Ling found Ye Chang on a balcony in Spirit City and embraced and kissed her.
  • Two hours later, Lu Ling asked Ye Chang whether she had seen Xin Xia, who also lived in the castle.
  • Ye Chang said she had not seen Xin Xia, and Lu Ling told her that Xin Xia remembered her after he removed the Forget Worm.

Ch. 475Silent Family

Lu Ling brought Ye Chang and Ye Xin Xia together in Spirit City, where they began to reconcile. He then strengthened coastal defenses against a future invasion and established Spirit City's independence.

  • Lu Ling brought Ye Chang to Ye Xin Xia's room and revealed that Ye Chang had been living freely in Spirit City for half a year.
  • Lu Ling and Ye Xin Xia spent time together, and she acknowledged that Ye Chang was avoiding her.
  • Lu Ling released Ye Chang into the room, and the two women confronted their awkward reunion.
  • A week later, Ye Xin Xia and Ye Chang had buried the hatchet.
  • Lu Ling raised the coastal walls along twenty thousand kilometers of shoreline and strengthened them with runes.
  • Lu Ling rejected requests to meet from former powerful figures, while China granted Spirit City greater independence.

Ch. 476Possibility

After three months of studying Space-Time Reversal, Lu Ling used it as a resurrection secret art to bring Yulai back to life, twelve years after her death. Yulai opened her eyes, and Lu Ling’s experiment succeeded.

  • Lu Ling spent three months studying secret arts in seclusion while Jiang Feng, the Liu Ru sisters, Chen Ying, Ding Yumian, Qin Yuer, and Mu Ningxue visited him.
  • Lu Ling concluded that Space-Time Reversal could drag the dead back from upstream in time and chose Yulai as his test subject.
  • Lu Ling used the secret art to recreate Yulai’s body and return her soul to it.
  • After several minutes, Yulai opened her eyes and looked at Lu Ling.

Ch. 477Resurrecting Qin Zhan

Lu Ling resurrected Yulai and reunited her with Blanche and Heidi, then used his successful experiment to bring Qin Zhan back to life. Qin Zhan appeared before Leng Qing and Ling Ling, leaving the sisters to reunite with their father.

  • Lu Ling took the newly resurrected Yulai to meet Blanche and Heidi at Spirit City's orphanage.
  • Blanche recognized Yulai and embraced her, while Lu Ling explained that he had found her soul and resurrected her.
  • Blanche thanked Lu Ling and agreed to stay in Spirit City and share the news with Dean Perry and Teacher Jialan.
  • Lu Ling visited Leng Qing and Ling Ling and turned into light, revealing Qin Zhan in his place.
  • Qin Zhan apologized to Ling Ling, who hugged him, and Leng Qing asked how he had returned.

Ch. 478Treating You to a Drink

Lu Ling used the soul power from the Vast Divine Eye to coax Apas into absorbing it with him, then encountered the Snow Woman repeating things Shen Xi had taught her. After taking control of the Spirit Realm, he went to Shen Xi’s bedchamber, intent on settling scores with her.

  • Lu Ling ignored Remiel’s invitation to discuss the Sea Monster invasion and stayed in Spirit City, confident the Holy Shadows and his own strength could handle the coming threats.
  • Apas woke after sleeping for over half a year and agreed to obey Lu Ling in most cases because he had given her benefits.
  • Lu Ling showed Apas the remaining soul power from the Vast Divine Eye and persuaded her to absorb it with him, and they spent a week together.
  • The Snow Woman appeared by Lu Ling’s bed and asked to drink milk, prompting him to suspect Shen Xi had taught her strange things.
  • Lu Ling entered Shen Xi’s bedchamber in the Spirit Realm and resolved to confront her for manipulating him.
Arc 19 of 20
Arc 19 of 20