Recaps

Leo returned to the academy, discovered its depleted finances and excess of low-level apprentices, and proposed sending them to develop new territory. Charlotte then presented a separate problem arising from Black Skull’s rebellion, leaving Leo to review its consequences.

• Charlotte welcomed Leo back and hurried away to fetch the academy’s records, while Yaoyao made an excuse to visit the Gulu Beasts and vanished.
• Charlotte showed Leo the academy’s accounts and warned that it had 125,864 low-level apprentices and could only continue operating on loans for six months.
• After reading the academy’s documents for three days, Leo ordered the Gulu Beasts to clear territory for apprentice-led cities and proposed a fifty-year tax exemption alongside higher academy prices.
• Leo and Charlotte recognized that the territorial settlement plan would reduce the academy’s burden at the cost of many apprentices’ lives.
• Charlotte gave Leo a document about the sealed territory from Black Skull’s rebellion, and Leo recognized the matter from his past battle against the rebel forces.

Leo agreed to send surviving apprentices back from New Earth to help the Gulu Beasts harvest the rich resources of the former Black Skull territory, while growing suspicious of Charlotte's interest in the area. After the apprentices returned, Leo received a communication from the Indestructible Body Stigmata Great Wizard.

• Charlotte explained that the unclaimed former Black Skull territory held abundant resources but was too dangerous for apprentices or Gulu Beasts to harvest alone.
• Leo agreed to Charlotte's proposal to bring surviving apprentices back from New Earth to guide the Gulu Beasts, and Yaoyao questioned Charlotte's motives.
• Leo asked about the damaged Godslaying Wizard Robe, and Yaoyao said it would be repaired alongside the Godslaying Staff in about a dozen years.
• Charlotte returned from New Earth with thirty thousand intermediate-or-higher Wizard Apprentices and all the Official Wizards, after roughly seventy percent of those sent there had died.
• Leo watched Charlotte lead the apprentices and Gulu Beasts into the former Black Skull territory, then received a communication from the Indestructible Body Stigmata Great Wizard.

Leo agreed to guard the Falling Stars Stigmata Great Wizard’s son on an expedition, then persuaded the Indestructible Body Stigmata Great Wizard to cooperate in extracting valuable resources from Black Skull’s former territory. The Indestructible Body Stigmata Great Wizard accepted a sixty-forty profit split and promised to send people to Leo’s academy within five days.

• The Indestructible Body Stigmata Great Wizard contacted Leo and learned that Leo had mostly recovered from his injuries.
• The Indestructible Body Stigmata Great Wizard offered Leo a paid bodyguard job for the Falling Stars Stigmata Great Wizard’s son, but Leo agreed to do it without payment.
• Leo reminded the Indestructible Body Stigmata Great Wizard that he had promised to help if Leo faced difficulties and described the valuable resources in Black Skull’s former territory.
• Leo proposed that their academies share extraction work and split the profits, then offered the Indestructible Body Stigmata Great Wizard sixty percent.
• The Indestructible Body Stigmata Great Wizard accepted the deal, received Leo’s academy coordinates, and said his people would arrive within three to five days.

Leo arranged for Undying Body Academy to join his academy in developing Wizard Black Skull’s former territory, and two thousand Body Refinement Wizards arrived to begin the cooperation. The chapter ends with the academies celebrating together while Shi Xiang starts questioning Long Kaqi over drinks.

• Leo told Yaoyao that he had invited Undying Body Academy to help extract resources and repay the Indestructible Body Stigmata Great Wizard’s kindness.
• Charlotte prepared to welcome the visitors after Leo informed him that Undying Body Academy’s wizards were coming to the academy.
• Hansiba led two thousand Body Refinement Wizards through a spatial portal, and Tao Mia hurried ahead to meet her teacher Leo.
• Charlotte escorted the visitors to the floating island, where Leo welcomed them and Hansiba affirmed that they would carry out the mission.
• Shi Xiang offered Long Kaqi liquor and encouraged him to drink while seeking to draw information from him.

Long Kaqi told Shi Xiang, Hu Jianxing, Liu Xinqi, and Meng Jie about Leo’s legendary achievements, including his elemental body-tempering cultivation and his victory over the Purple Flame Stigmata Wizard. The four students were left awestruck by their headmaster, and Hu Jianxing resolved to become someone like him.

• Shi Xiang gave Long Kaqi five more barrels of liquor and asked why the other wizards had treated Leo with such solemn respect.
• Long Kaqi revealed that Leo was a Level Three Elemental Body Tempering Great Wizard, not merely a Level Three body-refining great wizard.
• Long Kaqi explained that Leo had killed the former academy’s Level Four Purple Flame Stigmata Wizard.
• Long Kaqi told the four that Leo had earned four Wizard Medals, including a First-Class medal and a Special-Class medal for killing the Purple Flame Stigmata Wizard.
• Long Kaqi said others regarded Leo as the strongest person beneath stigmata wizards, leaving the four students stunned and inspiring Hu Jianxing to aspire to become like him.

Leo waited as the Tree of Life grew and the Godslaying Staff underwent its transformation, while the two academies’ resource-extraction mission proceeded. The Tree of Life suddenly surged with energy and grew ten meters in a breath, signaling that the staff’s transformation was beginning ahead of schedule.

• Charlotte offered Leo Wizard Academy’s Official Wizards double pay and library access to join the extraction mission, but Hu Jianxing, Shi Xiang, and Liu Xinqi declined while Meng Jie went to protect his sister, Meng Mengmeng.
• The joint expedition departed with two thousand Official Wizards from the Undying Body Wizard Academy, thirteen from Leo Wizard Academy, thirty thousand apprentices, and five hundred thousand Gulu Beasts.
• Tao Mia stayed behind to see Leo, and he gave her notes on Elemental Body Refinement Wizardry before she left to study.
• Leo waited on the floating island as the academies extracted resources, with most of Leo Wizard Academy’s share going toward repaying Green Cottage.
• The Tree of Life’s heart beat with immense force, drawing up energy that made the tree glow and grow from fifteen hundred to 1,510 meters.
• Leo sensed the Tree of Life preparing for its transformation and declared that it was done.

The Tree of Life completed its transformation after absorbing the World Tree branch’s remaining energy, and Leo forged it into a new Godslaying Staff. The staff’s power astonished Leo, while Yaoyao went to finish repairing the Godslaying Wizard Robe.

• The Tree of Life absorbed the last energy of the World Tree branch and began transforming, drawing in energy as lightning formed around it.
• Leo sacrificed his blood to inscribe runes across the Tree of Life while Yaoyao left for Shadow Space to repair the Godslaying Wizard Robe.
• Lightning and fire destroyed most of the Tree of Life’s branches and leaves, but Leo sensed its energy growing stronger as it shed impurities.
• Leo transformed into his eighty-meter Vengeance Giant form, frightening the wizards outside the academy until the Tree of Life disappeared and he returned to human form.
• Leo held the Tree of Life in its shrunken sapling form, now fused with the Godslaying Staff, and sensed the immense power of his new staff.

Leo tested the New Godslaying Staff’s powerful abilities, used it to restore Benji’s corpse as a puppet, and learned that its growth would be extremely slow without a major energy source. Yaoyao then brought him a transformed, shadow-like Godslaying Wizard Robe.

• Leo examined the New Godslaying Staff’s eight abilities, including its greater elemental and shadow enhancements, puppet control, and limited growth.
• Leo used the staff to repair Benji’s corpse and raise him as a puppet who could follow and fight beside him but could not speak.
• Leo tested the staff’s energy absorption and concluded that its evolution would be negligible without another World Tree branch.
• Yaoyao arrived with Leo’s Godslaying Wizard Robe, which had become a dark, shadow-like object unlike its former appearance.

Leo examined the newly enhanced Godslaying Wizard Robe and discovered its defensive, teleportation, shadow, and resource-gathering abilities. With the robe and staff working together, his Shadow Talent grew powerful enough to support a seventh domain, and he left the academy on an expedition.

• Leo inspected the transformed Godslaying Wizard Robe and learned that it concealed him, strengthened his abilities, enabled Shadow World jumps, and could anchor three locations.
• Yaoyao explained the robe’s three thousand small shadows, which gathered objects into Leo’s Shadow Space, and its additional enhancement when used with the Godslaying Staff.
• Leo told Yaoyao that the Godslaying Staff could control puppets, and Yaoyao played with Benji, who had returned as a puppet.
• Leo combined the robe and staff’s enhancements, increasing his Shadow Talent’s number, area, range, and damage absorption, and declared that he could form a seventh great domain.
• A spatial portal opened at the academy, and the wizards gathered to see Master Leo off on his expedition.

Leo joined Mahad’s expedition aboard a starship mothership, where he met the powerful young wizard and the thousand-plus wizards hired to protect him. He recognized Troy, the wizard who had defeated Alice in a tournament, but chose not to confront him.

• Leo left Charlotte in charge of the academy and refused the Body Refinement Wizards’ request to join his expedition.
• Leo arrived aboard the starship mothership and met Mahad, the son of the Falling Stars Stigmata Great Wizard, along with the wizards hired to guard him.
• The assembled wizards saw Leo’s medals and greeted him with respect, while Leo surveyed the powerful guard force.
• Yaoyao pointed out Troy, and Leo asked the bewildered wizard his name before leaving for his room.
• Yaoyao asked Leo why he had not beaten Troy, and Leo remembered that Troy had defeated Alice in a previous tournament.

Leo reviewed the expedition’s mission to Ant God World, declined a command role, and joined the mothership’s journey while observing a star’s energy. After his first attempt to sense the stellar storm burned away part of his mental power, he recorded his findings and cautiously began studying the star again.

• Leo studied Ant God World’s barren landscape and concluded that the expedition could locate ant colonies by their patches of vegetation and capture their queens.
• Leo declined central command’s offer to participate in command and requested access to the information exchange platform and hidden missions.
• The mothership began its journey toward Ant God World, and Leo stayed awake to observe the stellar energy powering its jumps.
• Leo extended his mental power toward a nearby star, but the stellar storm burned away 5% of his mental power and made his body dangerously hot.
• After a month of recovery, Leo cautiously sensed the star again and observed the energy enveloping the mothership.

Leo spent sixteen years studying stellar energy and refining his spatial witchcraft aboard the mothership before it reached the Ant God World. The wizard forces breached the world barrier and began fighting the immense ant army, but the ants remained so numerous that the expedition had no place to land.

• Leo cautiously studied stellar energy at each star, recording its properties to prepare for advancement to the Stigmata Level.
• During the mothership’s spatial jumps, Leo used void runes to reduce the pressure on his body.
• After sixteen years, the mothership arrived above the Ant God World, and Yaoyao found Leo awake among hundreds of filled notebooks.
• Leo observed the mothership break through the world barrier and watched the Ant God World’s enormous army of ants gather below.
• The mothership released its slave army, which clashed with the ants, and deployed thirty thousand warships to attack them.
• Despite the slave army and warships killing countless ants, the ant horde still covered the world, leaving the wizards without a place to land.

Leo joined the expedition into the Ant God World, where the wizard invasion advanced while Mahad led his forces against the ant army. As the fighting continued, Leo studied the ants and Yaoyao secretly gathered battlefield spoils for Shadow Space.

• The mothership's main cannon blasted a corridor through the ant army and exposed the world's dense underground tunnels.
• Leo and Yaoyao considered sending the puppet Benji to investigate whether the tunnels reached the plane's center.
• Leo told Mahad to make his own plans while he focused on sensing the clash between the Wizard Will and the Ant God World's World Will.
• Mahad led his bodyguards and vast slave army to fight ants along the battlefield's edge while Leo and the other wizards watched.
• Leo dissected a level-one ant and recorded its anatomy, while Yaoyao's hidden shadows collected ant remains and valuable materials.
• Over more than a month of fighting, Leo grew acquainted with the Level Three Great Wizards, while the Level Two Wizards remained too intimidated to relax around him.

After the Ant God World’s World Lord enraged the ant armies, a hidden colony attacked Mahad’s forces, and Lokas went underground to capture its queen. Leo stayed to protect Mahad while Benji fought the ants and Leo began turning their male ants into puppets.

• The World Lord of the Ant God World appeared and enraged every ant, driving them into a desperate attack on the wizard forces.
• Mahad tightened his defenses when wizards sensed ants moving underground, but a vast colony erupted beneath his battlefield and targeted his army.
• Leo identified the colony’s ant queen, and Lokas asked permission to capture her; Leo agreed while remaining with Mahad.
• Lokas sank underground toward the queen as Leo sent Benji to fight the ants attacking them.
• Leo killed a level-two male ant with one slap, turned it into a puppet with the Godslaying Staff, and used it to help Benji kill and convert another ant.

Lokas reported that the Ant God World’s queens possessed rank-three combat strength, while Leo continued fighting with controlled ants and investigated his mutated mental power. He discovered that it could slowly evolve his bloodline, then resolved to return through space aboard the starry sky mothership to accelerate the process.

• Lokas returned from underground and told Leo that the queen he faced had standard rank-three strength, though Leo’s controlled male ants held their ground on the battlefield.
• Leo tested his mutated mental power on his body and discovered that stimulating his bloodline caused slight warmth and tingling, along with a tiny increase in its development.
• Leo handed command of his ants to Yaoyao and repeatedly stimulated his bloodline, eventually measuring a 0.1% increase over the 758 days of fighting.
• Leo reasoned that returning aboard the starry sky mothership would expose his mental power to stellar energy and speed up his bloodline’s evolution, and decided the sixteen-year journey was worthwhile.
• Mahad accepted a mission to clear ant swarms along a fixed route, while Leo continued resting and carefully stimulating his bloodline once a day.

Mahad led Leo and a massive slave army through an ant colony to capture its third-level queen, while Leo and Yaoyao secretly collected valuable spoils. After Mahad’s forces cornered the queen in her cavern, she unleashed a mental attack that disrupted some of the attackers, but Mahad’s equipment protected him.

• Mahad’s army advanced through the ant tunnels as Leo rode in the rear and Yaoyao’s shadows secretly collected corpses and severed limbs.
• A reconnaissance wizard detected that the queen was fleeing, so Mahad ordered the army to pursue her.
• Mahad’s third-level earth dragon swallowed a second-level male ant and widened the tunnel, clearing the way toward the queen.
• Mahad’s army cornered the queen and tens of thousands of ants in a vast cavern, then charged into a one-sided slaughter.
• The queen released an invisible mental attack that staggered some slaves and first-level wizards, while Mahad’s magical equipment shielded him.

Mahad’s expedition captured queen ants across Ant God World for five years while Leo practiced stimulating his bloodline with mental power. When the group entered a cavern containing millions of ants and dozens of queen ants, they found themselves surrounded by a massive ambush.

• Mahad ordered his slaves to capture a queen ant, and the battered queen was taken back to the mothership alive.
• Yaoyao sent a male ant puppet into the queen’s escape tunnel as the expedition cleared the remaining ants and departed.
• Over five years, Leo learned to stimulate his bloodline using only half his mental power, while Mahad captured fifty-seven queen ants alive.
• Lokas warned that a force had sealed off his perception ahead, but Mahad led the group onward toward the queen ant.
• Mahad’s army entered an immense underground cavern and discovered dozens of queen ants and millions of ants, with the tunnel behind them blocked.

Mahad’s force attacked the ant army, but a pseudo-level four male ant suddenly appeared and devastated the battlefield. Leo transformed into an eighty-meter Vengeance Giant to confront it, and the chapter ended as he threw his black bracelet toward the advancing ants.

• Mahad ordered his remaining slaves to attack the ant army while Yaoyao sent his puppets in from the flank to collect loot.
• Leo and Lokas searched the cavern, and Leo sensed a powerful creature hiding nearby.
• A gigantic pseudo-level four male ant appeared, crushing ants, slaves, and several wizards as it attacked Mahad’s force.
• Leo identified the male ant as a likely world lord’s guard and ordered a warning sent to the command center.
• Leo told Lokas and the other level three wizards to protect Mahad, then ordered Mahad to withdraw his forces.
• Leo activated his Third Layer Vengeance Giant Bloodline, grew to eighty meters tall, and threw his black bracelet as the ant army charged.

Leo used the Vengeance Giant's seven domains to wipe out most of the ant army and overwhelm the Pseudo-Level Four male ant. He weakened and restrained the male ant, but the creature refused to reveal the ant queen's location.

• Leo activated seven domains, killing nearly 20% of the ant army in an instant while drawing energy from the Godslaying Staff to sustain them.
• Leo attacked the Pseudo-Level Four male ant with Thunder Sweep and relentlessly battered him, leaving the watching wizards stunned by the gap in their strength.
• The Vengeance Giant's domains weakened the male ant, reducing his strength, and Leo demanded to know where the ant queen was.
• The male ant broke the Godslaying Staff's binding roots and attacked Leo, but Leo shattered one of his blades with a kick.

The Vengeance Giant overwhelmed the Pseudo-Level Four male ant, enduring and turning the ant’s own powerful flames against him before brutally dismantling him. As the wizards watched, Lokas explained the immense strength of the ant’s attacks, leaving them astonished by Great Wizard Leo’s defense.

• The Vengeance Giant let the male ant’s increasingly powerful flames engulf him, then emerged unharmed and hurled the fire back onto the ant.
• The flames burned the male ant badly, and the Vengeance Giant pursued him, tearing off his carapace while the ant’s attacks repeatedly missed.
• The male ant launched a desperate assault, but the Vengeance Giant used Shadow Walking to evade him and continued breaking his antennae and legs.
• Mahad asked Lokas to assess the battle, and Lokas said both fighters were strong but Great Wizard Leo was stronger.
• Lokas explained that the male ant’s flames exceeded 80,000 points of attack power, astonishing the wizards because they had not harmed the Vengeance Giant.

Leo defeated and killed a Pseudo-Level Four male ant, but it never contacted the World Lord, leaving Lokas unable to track one down. After the group sealed the unconscious ant queens, Leo sent puppets to explore deeper tunnels and shared details of the enemy on the information platform.

• Leo's seven domains and layered defenses let him withstand the male ant's attacks before the Vengeance Giant tore it apart and stored its corpse in Shadow Space.
• Leo learned from Lokas that the male ant had never contacted the World Lord, so they had gained no information about its whereabouts.
• Mahad led the wizards in sealing thirteen unconscious ant queens, while he invited Leo and the others to share rare ingredients after their return to the surface.
• Leo sent Level Two male ant puppets to search for tunnels toward the plane's center and checked the information platform for reports about the World Lords.
• Leo uploaded intelligence about the male ant and found a report of another squad that had killed one at the cost of many wizards and slaves.
• Leo found no news of the World Lords, whom Star Gravity and Invincible had been searching for since the arrival battle.

After Mahad hosted a lavish ten-day banquet, the Ant God World's army launched a surprise counterattack against the mothership. Leo learned the enemy was led by a level four World Lord, and Luolin asked him to help intercept it.

• Mahad delivered the captured ant queen to the mothership, earned battle merit, and hosted a banquet featuring rare foods and potent fire liquor.
• Leo drank the fire liquor without being affected by its attack power, while Mahad explained that Stigmata Wizards raised rare goods in their own worlds and sold them after they became extinct elsewhere.
• As the wizards prepared to resume their missions, alarms announced that an Ant God World army was approaching the mothership from all directions.
• Leo reached the command center and learned from commander Luolin that a level four World Lord had led more than a billion ants through underground caverns, with billions more following.
• Luolin explained that the mothership's forces planned to hold off the World Lord and ant army for ten days, then asked Leo to help intercept the World Lord.

Leo prepared to fight Ant God World's counterattacking army, planning to build up his Vengeance Giant's attack power by killing ants before confronting the World Lord. The ant army reached the wizard defenses, and its World Lord revealed that the Stigmata Wizards were trapped.

• Luolin offered Leo command, but Leo refused and told the expedition to follow its original plan.
• Leo placed his ant puppets and Benji with Mahad's forces, then agreed to spend the battle's first half hour killing ants while the wizards and slaves helped gather them.
• Leo concealed himself near the battlefield and prepared measured portions of nuclear material to boost his attacks.
• The ant army arrived and the World Lord declared that the Stigmata Wizards were trapped, while more than ten pseudo-level-four male ants guarded her.

Leo watched the wizard forces repel Ant God World’s opening assault, while the World Lord held back after the mothership destroyed three of her male guards. As the ant army overwhelmed the defensive line, Yaoyao told Leo there were enough ants for him to act, and he began a half-hour countdown.

• Ant God World’s World Lord sent three Pseudo-Level Four male ants to probe the mothership, but Elemental Confinement immobilized them and three hundred secondary cannons vaporized them.
• The World Lord avoided advancing herself and ordered the ant army to charge faster, forcing the slave army into close combat within ten minutes.
• Leo judged that the retreating World Lord gave the mothership a chance to hold out, but worried that Ant God World might have trapped the missing Stigmata Wizards using an unknown power.
• Yaoyao told Leo there were enough ants and urged him to get ready; Leo returned from the shadows to the battlefield and started a half-hour countdown before facing the surrounding ant army.

Leo transformed into the Vengeance Giant and used his domains to slaughter the ant army while blood from the dead ants increased his attack power. As the wizard line faltered, he fired twenty Hand-Rolled Nuclear Bombs into the swarm, drawing the ant queens’ stronger troops toward him.

• Leo activated the Vengeance Giant bloodline, grew to eighty meters tall, and crushed and electrocuted the soldier ants swarming over him.
• Leo unleashed seven domains that cleared thousands of meters around him, absorbed energy to sustain themselves, and gathered the ants’ blood to build his attack power.
• Leo directed the domains to keep harvesting the waves of soldier ants, but the wizard battle line began to falter under pressure elsewhere.
• Leo fired twenty Hand-Rolled Nuclear Bombs toward the front of the wizard line, killing about a million ants and easing the line’s pressure.
• The enraged ant queens ordered their level-two and level-three male ant troops to charge Leo beneath the blood mist.