Recaps

Leo and Yaoyao entered the Tiger Beastmen’s main city so Leo could observe its peak level-three inhabitants, but the Tiger Beastmen attacked him immediately. Badly wounded by a single punch, Leo ordered Yaoyao to release every atomic bomb as the pursuing giants closed in.

• Leo persuaded Yaoyao to take him out of the Shadow World for one brief look at the Tiger Beastmen.
• Leo emerged in the center of the Tiger Beastmen’s main city and was nearly overwhelmed by their roars and pressure before he could memorize what he saw.
• A Tiger Beastman charged Leo, who activated his Thunderstorm Giant bloodline and Weight Domain to defend himself.
• The giant’s punch shattered Leo’s protective barriers, broke many of his bones, and sent him flying while the Tiger Beastmen pursued.
• Leo ordered Yaoyao to throw out every atomic bomb, and the bombs began to detonate before reaching the ground.

Leo barely escaped the Tiger Beastmen’s main city after his nuclear attack failed to kill the level-three Tiger Beastmen, leaving him gravely injured. While recovering in the cave with Alice and Benji, he began reviewing the secrets he had seen in the city and the strange danger that had nearly pulled his soul from his body.

• The Thunderstorm Giant detonated twenty-five atomic bombs, halting the level-three Tiger Beastmen but failing to kill them, and Leo fled after suffering severe injuries.
• The enormous Tiger Beastmen emerged unharmed, argued with themselves, and returned to guard the divine descent altar instead of pursuing Leo.
• Leo collapsed onto Benji, and Alice had Benji carry them away while she treated Leo and checked that the Tiger Beastmen were not following.
• After several days, Leo woke from his injuries, ate enough to restore his wasted body, and told Alice he would explain what he had discovered once he had sorted out his thoughts.
• Leo reviewed his memories and recalled that his soul had nearly been pulled from his body when Yaoyao brought him back from the Shadow World.

After surviving the Tiger Beastmen’s attack, Leo learned that their power came from altered, fragmented souls and that an otherworldly being was harvesting souls in the Tiger World. He weighed a cautious retreat against destroying the main city, but Yaoyao claimed to have found a way to anchor Leo’s soul and brought him to see it in the Shadow World.

• Leo recalled that twenty-four Level Three Tiger Beastmen had struck with more than 60,000 points of attack power, while their souls were fragmented and they wielded no elemental energy.
• Leo concluded that an otherworldly being had turned the Tiger World into a soul farm and descended every three years to harvest souls.
• Leo considered returning to the Wizard World with Alice or attacking the main city during the next descent, and he favored testing his devastating weapon against the otherworldly being and the Tiger Beastmen.
• Leo called Yaoyao back, and Yaoyao said it had found an anchor in the Shadow World to keep the altar from sucking away Leo’s soul again.
• Yaoyao pulled Leo into the Shadow World to show him the anchor, and Leo looked at it uncertainly and asked whether it would really work.

Yaoyao anchored Leo’s soul in the Shadow World, and Leo shared what he had learned about the Tiger Beastmen and the being harvesting their souls. Suspecting the same being had killed Teacher Gru, Leo began dissecting living Tiger Beastmen to investigate their alterations.

• Yaoyao made a shadow statue of Leo and tied it to the depths of the Shadow World with Leo’s shadow, creating a Soul Anchor.
• Leo told Alice that a two-hundred-meter white bone altar collected Tiger Beastmen’s souls and was guarded by twenty-four peak level-three beastmen whose souls had been fused from multiple sources.
• Leo explained that a powerful otherworldly being likely controlled Tiger World and arranged its connection to the Wizard World to harvest souls every three years.
• Leo asked Benji to capture living level-one Tiger Beastmen so he could compare their bodies with earlier data and investigate whether the same being had caused Teacher Gru’s death.
• Leo dissected the captured Tiger Beastmen but found no answers, so he ordered Benji to bring more living level-one or level-two captives.

Leo and Alice discovered that the Tiger Beastmen’s mutations came from an unknown soul substance, confirming the existence of a previously undiscovered world that might be tied to Gru’s murder. They spent two years harvesting the substance from level-one and level-two Tiger Beastmen, then found that only the main city still held targets as Leo prepared to confront the powerful life-form behind the mutations.

• Leo found a tiny black speck in the Tiger Beastmen’s brains that altered their souls, boosted their strength, and limited their lifespans; removing it killed them.
• Leo and Alice compared the collected substance against known records and confirmed it came from an undiscovered world, though they needed ten times more to calculate its coordinates.
• Leo, Alice, Benji, and Yaoyao hunted level-one and level-two Tiger Beastmen, with Benji drawing them out, Leo capturing them, and Alice extracting the black specks.
• After a year of hunting, Benji told Leo that he could sense Abigail’s Altar Summoning Technique and open a small spatial rift, but Leo told him to wait another year.
• Leo inspected the fist imprint left on the Godslaying Staff by a powerful Tiger Beastman and said he wanted to see how strong the otherworldly life-form was.
• Another year passed, and Leo and Alice had nearly searched all of Tiger World without finding any level-one or level-two Tiger Beastmen outside the main city.

Leo used a hydrogen bomb to attack the Tiger Beastmen’s main city as the otherworldly creature’s consciousness descended. He escaped the blast with Yaoyao and watched the explosion, which left him eager to master its power.

• Vice Dean Yanis asked Leo whether the wizards should attack the otherworldly creature, and Leo told them to wait at the spatial passage.
• Leo told Alice and Benji to wait for his return, then left with Yaoyao to await the creature’s arrival near the Tiger Beastmen’s main city.
• Leo and Yaoyao entered the city as the white-bone altar absorbed souls and the twenty-four peak level-three Tiger Beastmen turned against Leo.
• Leo threw a hydrogen bomb into the sky and escaped with Yaoyao as the altar and Tiger Beastmen attacked.
• The hydrogen bomb destroyed the city and sent a massive shock wave across the landscape, while Leo watched the explosion and called its power his future path as a wizard.

Leo used a hydrogen bomb to destroy the rebel stronghold and the otherworldly creature’s will, ending the rebellion in the Tiger World. After the spatial passage reopened, he returned to Purple Flame Wizard Academy, received the promised Planetary Core, and prepared to return to the Tower of Elements.

• Leo searched the crater left by the hydrogen bomb and found no trace of the twenty-four peak level-three powerhouses, the bone altar, or the otherworldly creature’s consciousness.
• Alice told Leo the spatial passage had reopened and that Vice Dean Yanis and the others had returned to the Wizard World; Leo asked her to witness that he had resolved the rebellion.
• Leo gave Alice the collected otherworldly matter in exchange for twenty meals, and Benji carried them through the passage to Purple Flame Wizard Academy.
• Dean Alexander thanked Leo for rescuing the wizards and ending the rebellion, then gave him a thousand kilograms of Planetary Core.
• Leo thanked Abigail, who had earned Alexander’s attention for his Altar Summoning Technique, then asked Alice to join him on his return to the Tower of Elements; she stayed to wait for her teacher.

Three months after returning to the Tower of Elements, Leo focused on studying and strengthening his body so he could advance to Level Two as an Elemental Wizard. He planned to contain nuclear fission within his flesh using an electromagnetic field, while his body endured the strain of accelerated evolution.

• Leo returned to the Tower of Elements, inspected the Gulu Beasts, and planned to enhance their younger generations with the Goddess of Darkness's blood.
• Leo reviewed his plans, learned that Charlotte could not arrange a visit to Earth's relocated humans, and added making a hydrogen bomb to his wizard's notebook.
• Leo activated his enhancement arrays at maximum power, enduring intense pain as his cells evolved and his physical strength increased faster.
• Leo concluded that he would need to master lightning-element energy to create an electromagnetic field that could control nuclear fission inside his body.

Leo moved into Alice's ice palace and studied lightning witchcraft with her help after learning that the war at Purple Flame Academy had ended. As Alice's next compulsory expedition approached, Leo completed his basic lightning witchcraft framework and gave her ten improved atomic bombs for protection.

• Leo spent fifteen years studying lightning witchcraft before Yaoyao brought him to a meal with Alice.
• Alice told Leo that her teacher had returned and ended the war with Black Skull Academy, and confirmed that Leo could join a future expedition to investigate Teacher Gru's possible killers.
• Alice chose to stay rather than return to Purple Flame Academy because she remained uneasy about changes in her teacher.
• Leo moved into Alice's ice palace, gained access to her library, and studied lightning witchcraft with her guidance.
• Leo completed the basic framework of his lightning witchcraft and prepared to enter seclusion for an elemental breakthrough.
• Leo gave Alice ten improved atomic bombs for her upcoming compulsory expedition and held her hand while offering further protection.

Leo reluctantly left Alice after she refused his offer to accompany her expedition, then returned to his tower to check on the Gulu Beasts and prepare for his advancement. Having completed his lightning spell improvements and met the requirements for Level Two, he activated the Thunderstorm Giant bloodline to begin testing his strength.

• Leo offered Alice Level Two Gulu Beasts as combat partners and said he would join her expedition if he advanced first, but Alice insisted on going without his protection and sent him away.
• Yaoyao teased Leo about his feelings for Alice, and Leo said his mother would have been happy with the woman he had chosen.
• At his wizard tower, Leo praised the Gulu Beasts' growing population but pressed Benji to produce offspring; Benji suggested bringing more advanced Gulu Beasts from Jeft World, and Leo rejected the idea because it could jeopardize his experiments.
• Leo went to his laboratory and confirmed that his lightning spells and Thunderstorm Giant had reached the improved attack power he had sought.
• Leo concluded that he had met every requirement for Level Two advancement and activated his Second Layer Thunderstorm Giant bloodline, revealing that the giant had grown two meters taller after forty years of passive evolution.

Leo worked to control the magnetic field produced by electric currents circulating with his blood, repeatedly injuring himself as he refined his technique. After finally succeeding, he prepared to test whether the field could contain nuclear fission by swallowing uranium-235.

• Leo trained the Thunderstorm Giant to circulate mana in resonance with his blood, then used Thunder Conversion Great Sorcery to turn the mana into electric currents.
• The currents generated a magnetic field that violently crushed Leo’s organs, causing his Thunderstorm Giant form to explode; he studied the failure and revised his plan as his body healed.
• Leo repeated the experiment and exploded several more times while adjusting the currents, as Yaoyao withheld news that Alice had left on an expedition mission.
• Leo’s revised technique succeeded, and Yaoyao sensed the powerful magnetic field sealed within the Thunderstorm Giant’s body.
• Leo swallowed a small amount of uranium-235 to test whether his magnetic field could contain nuclear fission.

Leo used nuclear fission witchcraft to release and control energy inside his body, then began advancing to the second-rank elemental path. As elemental energy flooded into him, his power increased and his hidden injuries healed, while Benji realized Leo might soon be strong enough to kill him.

• Leo contained nuclear material in his stomach with a magnetic field and successfully activated Nuclear Fission Grand Witchcraft.
• Leo compressed the fission energy into a controlled mass, then unleashed it through the wizard tower's roof and into the sky.
• The Gulu Beasts submitted as an elemental tornado gathered energy around Leo, and Benji recognized that Leo was advancing to the second-rank elemental path.
• Leo absorbed the elemental energy, raising his attack power from 40 times his strength to 43 times while his hidden injuries healed.

Leo successfully advanced to a Level Two Elemental Body Refinement Wizard, gaining a major increase in mental power, physical strength, and attack power. He suspected that strong magnetic fields improved nuclear fission efficiency and recorded experiments to investigate the effect.

• Leo’s mental power surged to 175 as his sea of consciousness expanded and his body grew stronger during advancement.
• Yaoyao counted ten new shadows beneath Leo, and Leo completed his advancement as a Level Two Elemental Body Refinement Wizard.
• Leo checked his stats and calculated that his lightning witchcraft could reach 9,878 attack power with his bonuses.
• Leo estimated that improved nuclear fission efficiency could let him kill ordinary level three natives with a 0.6-gram reaction.
• Leo suspected strong magnetic fields enhanced fission efficiency and wrote exploratory experiments in his wizard’s notebook.

After advancing to Level Two as an Elemental Wizard, Leo gained enough shadows to establish an Ice Domain but remained concerned about his mana and the nuclear radiation building up inside him. He bought a larger wizard tower and planned to expand his land, while Alice remained away on an expedition.

• Leo calculated that his stronger Shadow Talent gave him enough shadows to establish an Ice Domain, though he could not afford to supply two domains with mana at once.
• Yaoyao told Leo that Alice had joined an expedition five years earlier and had ten atomic bombs to protect her.
• Leo discovered that nuclear radiation from fission in his body could harm nearby life, so he expelled it into the sky and resolved to continue using shadow-mediated fission.
• Leo visited the administrative office, confirmed his Level-Two Elemental Wizard status, and bought a five-story wizard tower with a high-grade laboratory.
• Leo used his accumulated stipends to pay for the tower and told Benji to reclaim the land within his expanded hundred-kilometer territory and plant Fire Essence Flowers.

Leo contacted the Indestructible Body Stigmata Great Wizard to learn about the Stone of Indestructibility, but refused to sell it and agreed to visit him in person. After deciding to travel once he had stabilized his advancement, Leo moved into his newly completed wizard tower and arranged new housing for the Gulu Beasts.

• Leo used the Knowledge Trading Platform to contact the Indestructible Body Stigmata Great Wizard, who recognized him and noticed his advancement to a Level Two Elemental Body Refinement Wizard.
• The Indestructible Body Stigmata Great Wizard identified the statue as a Stone of Indestructibility, offered to buy it, and explained that it was tied to his wizarding path.
• Leo declined to sell the stone and accepted the Great Wizard's invitation to visit his distant address within ten years to learn its uses.
• Leo decided to travel after stabilizing his strength, with Yaoyao eager to accompany him on the journey.
• Leo returned to find his new wizard tower completed, ordered Benji to move lower-level Gulu Beasts into the old tower, and settled into the new tower before heading to his laboratory.

While traveling across a strange snowy mountain range, Leo met the powerful Mountain Range Guardian Garijivich, who revealed that he had approached because he was curious about Leo’s young age and rank. The chapter ended with Leo respectfully asking why the guardian had sought him out.

• Benji roasted two snow bears for Yaoyao and Leo while Leo examined the mountain range’s starkly different conditions on either side.
• A mysterious wizard appeared behind Leo, Benji, and Yaoyao without being detected, alarming them with his immense strength.
• Leo invited the wizard to eat, and Garijivich devoured both snow bears while declining Leo’s better-prepared food.
• Garijivich introduced himself as the Mountain Range Guardian, and Leo recognized him as one of the Wizard World’s highest-ranking guardians.
• Garijivich acknowledged the Wizard Will Leo carried and told him that guardians would not blame him unless he made grave mistakes.
• Leo asked Garijivich what had brought him there, suspecting the guardian’s visit was not merely for a meal.

Leo met the Mountain Range Guardian Garijivich, who warned him that his nuclear radiation was harming the Wizard World and gave him tools to contain it. Leo and his companions continued toward the Sword of Winter, planning to use its teleportation array to reach the Undying Body Wizard Academy.

• Garijivich explained that he melted snow on the mountain range’s shaded side to provide rivers for the lives below.
• Garijivich detected the nuclear radiation Leo was releasing, and Leo admitted that he had carelessly polluted the environment.
• Garijivich gave Leo a wizard book on the Matter Sealing Technique and the Heart of the Mountain Range to contain the radiation.
• Leo explained to Yaoyao that Garijivich had spared him and offered a solution as a warning, while Benji worried about whether he could still hunt.
• Leo set off with his companions toward the Sword of Winter, expecting to reach it in about a year and teleport to the Undying Body Wizard Academy.

Leo traveled to the Sword of Winter, where he encountered the extreme training and fighting culture of its Body Refinement Wizards. At the arena-like office, a hostile Tom Clan cat confronted him over his ties to the Jerry Clan, and Luo Jialun arrived eager to test Leo in battle.

• Leo studied the Matter Sealing Technique and considered reusing the nuclear radiation sealed in the Heart of the Mountain Range as a curse-like attack.
• After a year of travel, Leo reached the Sword of Winter and saw Body Refinement Wizards training in deadly environments and fighting without restraint.
• Leo asked a level two Body Refinement Wizard for directions and was shown respect because of his three wizard medals.
• At the Sword of Winter's office, a fat Tom Clan cat accused Leo of befriending the Jerry Clan, and Yaoyao rebuked him before the cat was struck into a mist of blood.
• Luo Jialun introduced himself as a level three Body Refinement Wizard and pressed Leo with a probing aura, clearly eager to fight.

Leo arrived at the Undying Body Wizard Academy after being invited by the Indestructible Body Stigmata Great Wizard, and Dean Roderick showed him the academy while they waited for a response. The dean asked Leo to teach the apprentices elemental knowledge, but Leo suspected the request was a trap and postponed answering until after meeting the Stigmata Great Wizard.

• Luo Jialun escorted Leo to the Sword of Winter teleportation array, waived his fee, and sent a cat to investigate Leo's identity after he departed.
• Leo reached the Undying Body Wizard Academy and asked a guard to announce his arrival to the Indestructible Body Stigmata Great Wizard.
• Dean Roderick welcomed Leo and explained that he had seen him at the Giant World treaty ceremony.
• Roderick toured Leo around the academy and described its focus on physical training, sparse classes, and apprentices sent out on trials.
• Roderick asked Leo to give the apprentices several lectures on elemental knowledge, and Leo deferred until after meeting the Indestructible Body Stigmata Great Wizard.

Leo visited the Indestructible Body Stigmata Great Wizard to learn about the Stone of Indestructibility, but discovered the offered knowledge was bait to recruit him as an instructor. He rejected the proposed deal after realizing the academy wanted his strength for a concealed danger.

• Roderick led Leo and Yaoyao to the Indestructible Body Stigmata Great Wizard's barren demiplane, where Leo realized the Great Wizard had drained its energy.
• The Indestructible Body Stigmata Great Wizard gave Leo a crystal ball containing only a brief introduction to the Stone of Indestructibility, which heightened Leo's interest in learning more.
• The Indestructible Body Stigmata Great Wizard offered Leo all the knowledge in exchange for teaching at the academy for a hundred years, or until his next expedition mission, and added an offer of fifty energy crystals per year.
• Leo refused the terms and told the Indestructible Body Stigmata Great Wizard and Roderick that he suspected they wanted his strength to face a dangerous opponent.
• The Indestructible Body Stigmata Great Wizard admitted Leo had noticed their concealed purpose, while Roderick apologized awkwardly.

Leo learned that Undying Body Wizard Academy would face two rival academies in a war expected to begin within ten years, and agreed to defend it as an externally hired teacher in exchange for library access, energy crystals, and knowledge of the Stone of Indestructibility. After signing the contract, he returned to the academy disguised as an ordinary Elemental Wizard and was assigned a residence and teaching duties.

• Roderick explained the coming war and asked Leo to remain at the academy to help protect its apprentices.
• Leo reviewed intelligence on the three academies and accepted the mission after learning that Undying Body Academy had a strong advantage in level-three combatants.
• Leo negotiated unrestricted library access, an annual salary of fifty energy crystals, and information about the Stone of Indestructibility, then signed the contract with the Indestructible Body Stigmata Great Wizard.
• Roderick told Leo to hide his three medals and present himself as an ordinary Elemental Wizard within the academy.
• Roderick arranged Leo's residence and explained that he would need to teach three classes each week.

Leo immersed himself in the academy library, then reluctantly went to teach his first class, where his intimidating presence and indifferent manner left the apprentices too afraid to move. He resumed reading while Yaoyao led most of the class away for a practical lesson, and Leo left after finishing his books.

• Leo told Yaoyao he sought the Stone of Indestructibility because it could forge the strongest defense, then returned to studying in the library.
• After seven days of reading, Leo took five books to his first class and laid down strict rules for the apprentices.
• Leo lectured on elemental runes for only half the scheduled lessons, then sat down to read while the apprentices remained silent under his intimidating gaze.
• Yaoyao invited the apprentices to a practical lesson, and nearly all of them followed him out of the classroom.
• Leo dismissed the few apprentices still copying the board and left after finishing the five books.

Leo continued his detached teaching at the Undying Body Academy and made Tao Mia his class representative after she sought his help with her research. He left her with a book to consult, while Yaoyao reported that the academy was preparing for a war expected in nine years.

• Tao Mia paid Leo fifty Wizard Coins and asked for help with her attempt to use water spells to accelerate bodily fluid circulation and raise her internal temperature.
• Leo refused to answer the complex question for the fee, but offered Tao Mia one free question each week if she became his class representative, and she eagerly accepted.
• Leo directed Tao Mia to Conjectures on Bodily Fluid Enhancement in the library and told her to continue the research herself.
• Yaoyao reported that thirteen teachers' accounts supported Headmaster Roderick's prediction of war in nine years and that the academy was withdrawing forces and resources toward the mountain region.
• Yaoyao said Benji had gone to verify his assessment, and Leo told Yaoyao to keep monitoring the academy.

Leo spent seven years at the Undying Body Wizard Academy building his knowledge and defenses while preparing for the coming conflict. After the academy declared all-out war on the Raging Blood Tide Wizard Academy and the Outstretched Wings Wizard Academy, the story left Leo facing the start of the war.

• Leo created his Ice Domain and later added a runic array that converted some elemental damage into energy.
• Leo continued teaching while transcribing the academy's books and gathering intelligence through Yaoyao and Benji.
• As the expected war drew nearer, missions surged and covert clashes with the other academies increased.
• The headmaster announced that the Raging Blood Tide Wizard Academy and the Outstretched Wings Wizard Academy had invaded Undying Body territory and declared all-out war.

Leo continued teaching at Undying Body Academy despite the war, until a wizard abducted his class representative, Tao Mia, and another apprentice. Leo rescued them and killed the Level Two Body Refinement Wizard with a newly developed use of his Gravity Domain.

• Leo kept his lessons going as Yaoyao gathered daily reports of the war and Benji stayed close to protect him.
• Leo sensed a returning intruder and left Benji behind as he went to intercept him outside the academy.
• Leo discovered that the intruder had taken Tao Mia and another Wizard Apprentice, and the abducting wizard set them down while pretending to retreat.
• The wizard tried to unleash his second-stage bloodline power and ambush Leo, but Leo compressed him into a ball of flesh with his Gravity Domain.
• Leo examined the small black sphere formed by his Gravity Domain and recognized it as a new way to kill enemies.