Chapter Summaries

Leo delayed mining so Yaoyao could secretly steal planetary core without triggering the warship’s scans. Yaoyao expanded Leo’s Shadow Space and confirmed he could keep stealing, while the wizards mined a head-sized, 1,200-ton core; the chapter left Leo’s crew eager to pursue more lucrative deposits.

• A wizard reported that the planetary fragment contained 1,200 tons of planetary core, and Leo stalled before ordering the excavation.
• Leo finally ordered the two hundred wizards to use mechanical slaves to dig toward the deposit.
• Yaoyao appeared on Leo’s shoulder and revealed that he had expanded the Shadow Space to 27,000,000 m³ while evading detection.
• Leo learned from Yaoyao’s gestures that he could continue stealing planetary core undetected, then set out a lounge chair, a novel, and a drink for him.
• Ten days later, the wizards excavated a head-sized piece of planetary core, and Leo teleported it back to the carrier.
• The wizards saw their battle merits and eagerly anticipated mining more planetary core with Yaoyao’s help.

Leo led two hundred wizards to excavate planetary core material while Yaoyao secretly stole thousands of tonnes, expanding the Shadow Space before reaching his limit. After returning to the mothership three years later, Leo asked Yaoyao about his ability and contacted Roderick to arrange a meeting with the Indestructible Body Stigmata Great Wizard about the Stone of Indestructibility.

• Leo directed the warship to planetary fragments, where Yaoyao secretly stole over three thousand tonnes of planetary core material at each of two locations without changing the monitor readings.
• Yaoyao indicated he had reached his limit after three chances, leaving the Shadow Space measuring 600 meters on each side.
• Leo spent three years leading the wizards in excavating half the planet's core, then returned to the mothership with enough war merits.
• Leo praised Benji, asked Yaoyao how he had acquired his ability, and received no answer.
• Leo called Roderick and demanded that he arrange a meeting with the Indestructible Body Stigmata Great Wizard to discuss the Stone of Indestructibility.
• Roderick agreed to contact the Stigmata Great Wizard, leaving Leo surprised that he had accepted so readily.

Leo confronted the Indestructible Body Stigmata Great Wizard over the omitted dangers of Stone of Indestructibility fusion and negotiated compensation. He left with a sealed World Tree branch and the wizard’s assurance that the World Tree posed no threat to Wizard World.

• Leo met the Indestructible Body Stigmata Great Wizard and demanded compensation for withholding information about the Stone of Indestructibility’s effects.
• The Indestructible Body Stigmata Great Wizard pressured Leo, but Leo invoked the Wizard Will and warned that the contract breach could bring punishment.
• After claiming he had no money or other possessions, the Indestructible Body Stigmata Great Wizard gave Leo a sealed World Tree branch more than two thousand meters long in its original form.
• Leo asked whether the World Tree could track him through the branch, and the Indestructible Body Stigmata Great Wizard assured him that it would not dare invade Wizard World.
• Leo took the branch into his Shadow Space, pretended he had only come to thank the Indestructible Body Stigmata Great Wizard, and departed satisfied.

After returning from the failed expedition to the Homo Sapiens World, Leo prepared to head home with a massive World Tree branch and renewed hopes of proposing to Alice, only to learn their schedules would keep them apart for decades. When Leo returned to the Wizard World, he discovered that most of his Gulu Beasts had disappeared and demanded to know what had happened.

• After Leo left, the Indestructible Body Stigmata Great Wizard ate a World Tree branch and revealed through his actions that he had plenty more from the trunk he had helped cut down.
• Back on his mothership, Leo celebrated receiving the branch and felt reassured that the World Tree would not enter territory protected by the Wizard Will.
• Yaoyao reminded Leo to prepare a marriage proposal for Alice, but Benji pointed out that their return would coincide with Alice's expedition and the failed mission meant they would have to leave again immediately.
• Leo exchanged his battle merits for Water of Life to nurture his Tree of Life, and the motherships spent twelve years returning to the Wizard World.
• Leo returned to his wizard tower with Yaoyao and Benji, where tens of thousands of Gulu Beasts welcomed them.
• Leo noticed that the population was far smaller than expected and that the younger Gulu Beasts from earlier generations were missing, so he demanded an explanation in anger.

Leo learned that Alice had controlled the Gulu Beast population and spent her own resources sustaining them during his sixty-year absence. He accepted her decisions, ordered the older generations to join his next expedition, and prepared to plant the Tree of Life with Yaoyao.

• A Gulu Beast told Leo that Alice had restricted breeding to generations after the tenth and left him a message in the wizard tower.
• Leo listened to Alice explain how she had controlled the population, expanded its hunting grounds, and used her savings to provide resources while he was away.
• Leo recognized Alice’s decisions as necessary and told Benji to continue following her orders because he could not afford to raise so many Gulu Beasts.
• Leo ordered the Gulu Beasts before the ninth generation to join his next expedition and keep twenty percent of the battle merits they earned.
• Leo asked Yaoyao to help plant the Tree of Life, and Yaoyao hurried off to choose a location.

Leo revived the Tree of Life with Water of Life, transforming it into a plant capable of absorbing elemental energy. Inspired by Yaoyao’s talk of energy fruit, Leo planned to graft fruit onto a level seven World Tree branch and searched the Knowledge Trading Platform for guidance, but it had no established theory or procedures for the idea.

• Leo planted the Tree of Life between his wizard tower and Alice’s ice palace, and Yaoyao poured the Water of Life over it.
• The Tree of Life rapidly regained its vitality, grew larger, and began absorbing elemental energy.
• Yaoyao suggested grafting fruit onto the Tree of Life, and Leo realized the World Tree branch might produce valuable energy fruit.
• Leo and Yaoyao traveled to the office tower, where Leo collected eighty years of wizard medal subsidies before querying the Knowledge Trading Platform.
• The platform found no theory or practical procedures for grafting level seven materials and recommended several books for Leo to consult.

Leo studied level-seven materials but found no practical way to use the World Tree branch, so he considered grafting it onto his Tree of Life. He prepared the Heart of the Mountain Range to guard against the World Tree’s influence, then discovered the branch’s severed end still radiated deadly sword intent.

• Leo bought and read On a Preliminary Understanding of Level Seven Materials after learning the other recommended books were beyond his means.
• Leo considered grafting the World Tree branch onto his Tree of Life, but worried the World Tree might use it to insert its consciousness.
• Leo retrieved the Heart of the Mountain Range, whose strong Wizard Will he hoped would deter the World Tree.
• Leo removed the spatial seal from the branch and restored it to its enormous form beside the Tree of Life.
• Leo approached the branch’s severed end but stopped fifty meters away, unable to withstand the lingering sword intent from the Sword of Winter.

Leo sealed a World Tree branch and set it beneath the Tree of Life so the tree could slowly drain its energy, then protected the area. When the Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard arrived to lead an expedition to the Rota World, Leo prepared to take thousands of Gulu Beasts with him and left Wizard Alice in charge at home.

• Leo suppressed the World Tree branch with the Heart of the Mountain Range and spent three years inscribing Matter and Energy Sealing Techniques on it.
• Leo buried one end of the sealed branch beneath the Tree of Life, whose roots began absorbing its essence, and declared the surrounding area restricted.
• Leo assigned Gulu Beasts to patrol and protect the Tree of Life from wild beasts.
• A starry sky mothership appeared overhead as the Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard opened a spatial rift and violently battered it from the other side.
• Leo ordered Gulu Beasts of the ninth generation and earlier to join the expedition, left Wizard Alice in command, and told the others to protect the Tree of Life.
• The Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard announced an expedition to the Rota World to punish a race that defied the Wizard Will.

Leo joined the wizard expedition to Rota World, a smoke-choked plane ruled by cyborgs, and learned that the campaign would face three World Lords. He focused on the hidden missions to investigate the cyborgs, suspecting the expedition leader’s true goal was to uncover their secrets rather than simply aid the Diro People.

• Leo marched with Benji and 32,458 Gulu Beasts as part of the expeditionary army bound for Rota World.
• Leo examined crystal-ball footage of Rota World, where short beings mined beneath a smoke-belching, constructed mountain in a devastated landscape.
• The command center offered Leo access to the second-level command area, but he requested detailed intelligence and hidden missions instead.
• Leo learned that cyborgs ruled Rota World, which had three World Lords, and that the oppressed Diro People had requested aid from the Wizard World.
• Leo read the campaign’s two hidden missions to investigate the cyborgs and their synthesis, and concluded that the Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard was chiefly pursuing their secrets.

Leo and his companions awoke after fourteen years of travel as the star mothership began forcing its way into Rota World. The Diro People continued their deadly labor beneath the fortress while the Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard killed Rota World's Level-Four World Lord, leaving the expedition poised to descend.

• Leo, Benji, and Yaoyao prepared for the mothership's departure, and Leo and Benji entered hibernation for the fourteen-year journey.
• The Diro People risked being burned alive as they fed soluble oil into a mechanical fortress's furnace, while one exhausted Diro man glimpsed a red speck in the sky before he died.
• The mothership reached Rota World and struggled against its world barrier as its energy output rose to eighty percent.
• The mothership detected Rota World's Level-Four World Lord, and Leo tried to watch the Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard fight through the static-filled surveillance feed.
• The Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard broke through the barrier, restrained the World Lord within three breaths, and killed him two breaths later.

Leo watched the Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard hunt Rota World’s World Lords, then joined the invasion with Benji and the Gulu Beasts. After landing, Leo examined the toxic environment and reached a battlefield where the metal fortresses beneath the artificial mountains had been exposed.

• Yaoyao praised the Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard for killing one World Lord and pursuing two others, while Leo estimated that the wizard retained devastating attack power despite Rota World’s suppression.
• The wizard forces breached Rota World’s barrier and deployed their slave army and wizards, using a beacon to guide attacks through the dense smoke and dust.
• Leo ordered Benji to bring the Gulu Beasts away from the main slave force so they could learn the expedition’s conditions without serving as cannon fodder.
• Leo flew down to the surface, assessed the toxic air, and found bodies and battle damage surrounding the metal fortresses hidden beneath the artificial mountains.

Leo assessed Rota World's metal fortresses and led the Gulu Beasts to capture one so they could gain combat experience. After the Gulu Beasts began attacking more fortresses, Leo examined dead Cyborgs and discovered that the metal fused to their bodies was made of solid iron.

• Leo and Yaoyao watched the metal fortresses unleash powerful cannon barrages against the wizard expedition's slave army.
• Leo observed the Cyborgs inside a torn-open fortress and explained the fortresses, their weapons, and their defenders to the Gulu Beasts.
• Leo claimed a nearby fortress for the Gulu Beasts' first independent combat mission and led them toward it.
• The Gulu Beasts charged through the cannon fire, tore open the fortress, and captured its Cyborg defenders.
• Leo praised the Gulu Beasts and sent them in teams to attack more fortresses while he examined the captured Cyborgs.
• Leo dismantled dead Cyborgs and discovered that the metal in their bodies consisted of solid iron.

Leo examined the Rota World cyborgs and discovered that their bodies were mostly solid metal, which became immobile when severed, and that he could not communicate with them through mental power. Recognizing that their ability to animate metal could benefit Body Refinement Wizards, he set out to investigate their fortresses while the wizard expedition began capturing cyborgs.

• Leo and Yaoyao examined a dead cyborg and found its metal body contained no biological structures that could explain how it lived or moved.
• Leo tried to communicate with the captured cyborgs through mental power, then severed a living cyborg's arm and saw it become inert, solid metal.
• Leo identified the cyborgs' metal as energy metal, stored several corpses in his Shadow Space, and recognized their metal-animation ability as a valuable cultivation secret.
• Leo decided to investigate a metal fortress as other wizards also recognized the cyborgs' value and began secretly collecting corpses.
• The wizard-led slave squads attacked the metal fortresses, while Leo focused on his Gulu Beasts, which were assigned to raid more than three hundred fortresses.

Leo infiltrated a metal fortress on Rota World to investigate how the Cyborgs produced energy, while the Gulu Beasts continued overwhelming the fortress defenses outside. After examining the furnace, he moved to an upper level and destroyed the Cyborgs who attacked him, blasting through the fortress wall.

• Benji watched the Gulu Beasts advance against the metal fortresses and celebrated their strength after their bloodline enhancement.
• Leo used Shadow Walking to reach an unengaged metal fortress, avoided its cannon fire, and entered behind its sealed metal gate.
• Leo dodged the fortress's electrified whips and used lightning to melt the gears controlling them.
• Leo inspected the furnace and discovered that the Cyborgs burned metal-rich soil to convert thermal energy directly into elemental energy.
• Leo moved to an upper passage, killed the attacking Cyborgs with Thunderclap, and accidentally blasted a hole through the opposite wall.

Leo escaped a metal fortress’s trap and watched its Cyborgs merge with it to form a Level Three metal giant. He reported the transformation to command and tested the giant, identifying its controllers and some weaknesses as their coordination improved.

• Leo entered the fortress, where its metal walls and floor animated to trap him, but he escaped using Shadow Walking.
• The fortress transformed into a seventy-meter metal giant, and Yaoyao recorded the transformation.
• Leo sent the recording and a warning about the Cyborgs’ Level Three transformation to the command wizards.
• The metal giant attacked Leo with its sword and cannons, but he dodged and examined its joints.
• Leo discovered five Cyborgs controlled the giant from its joints, that its chest furnace powered it, and that its defenses and self-repair made it difficult to damage.

Leo and Benji fought a seventy-meter metal giant, exploiting its hollow joints to sever its limbs and kill the Cyborgs controlling them. The damaged giant shrank and grew faster, but Leo’s nuclear beam failed to reach the Cyborg in its head.

• Leo transformed into a Thunderstorm Giant and tested the metal giant’s strength, but its blow shattered all six of his protective barriers and sent him flying.
• Benji attacked the giant’s shoulder joint, tearing open its metal and revealing the Cyborg inside.
• Leo fired Nuclear Fission Grand Witchcraft through Benji’s opening, killing the Cyborg and severing the giant’s arm.
• Leo and Benji coordinated attacks to cut off the giant’s other arm and both legs, forcing it to shrink and become faster.
• Leo struck the smaller giant’s head with a nuclear fission beam, but the beam ran out before it could reach the Cyborg inside.

Leo and Benji defeated a metal giant and reported its weaknesses, prompting the wizard command center to reorganize its campaign against the Cyborgs. Leo then refused a rescue assignment and continued investigating why the metal fortresses transformed only when attacked.

• Leo and Benji destroyed the metal giant by exploiting the wounds in its head, and Leo reported that attacks needed more than 11,000 points of power to pierce its defenses.
• Leo warned the Gulu Beasts to avoid transformed metal giants, then set out with Benji and Yaoyao to investigate the Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard’s hidden missions.
• The command center used Leo’s intelligence to prioritize killing Cyborgs inside fortresses before they transformed and organized emergency rescue teams.
• Leo declined a high-merit rescue assignment and continued surveying the fortresses with Benji and Yaoyao.
• Leo observed that undisturbed fortresses ignored nearby battles while attacked ones began transforming, leading the command center to restrict the war’s scale and advance cautiously.

Leo investigated a metal fortress and discovered that the Cyborgs’ flesh-and-blood limbs came from a few Diro People whose bodies had been divided among multiple Cyborgs. He began pursuing a theory about the arrangement, then returned to the battlefield as Hemali arrived to stop another fortress from transforming.

• Leo found food made from ancient buried matter, control chairs, and dried Diro corpse fragments inside the metal fortress.
• Leo compared a corpse fragment with a Cyborg’s flesh and confirmed they came from the same body.
• Leo captured Cyborgs and found that removing their flesh-and-blood limbs killed them; he pieced the preserved fragments together and confirmed they formed one Diro person.
• Leo inferred that each fortress held only three or four Diro People, divided into five bodies apiece, and said he needed help to test another theory.
• Leo returned to the battlefield, where a metal fortress was beginning to transform and Hemali arrived to counter it.

Leo arranged for a metal fortress to finish transforming into a metal giant so he could retrieve the Cyborgs inside intact. After ten level three great wizards and a hundred level three slaves captured it with ease, Leo extracted five Cyborgs and asked the wizards to help with more experiments.

• Hemali prepared to destroy a transforming metal fortress, but Leo stopped him and promised to compensate him for the battle merit.
• Hemali fled as the fortress completed its transformation, then watched in astonishment as ten level three great wizards and a hundred level three slaves arrived under Leo's command.
• Leo ordered the group to capture the metal giant without harming the Cyborgs inside.
• The slaves and great wizards restrained the giant, severed its weapons and limbs, and subdued it before it could escape or attack.
• The slaves brought five Cyborgs to Leo, who removed their flesh and asked the ten great wizards to assist with further experiments.

Leo tested how cyborgs controlled the metal giants and submitted his findings to the information exchange platform. Benji then brought him to thirty-five living Diro People found by the Gulu Beast army, and one of them addressed Leo as their leader.

• Leo tested two metal fortresses and concluded that five cyborgs made from the same Diro person were needed to control a metal giant.
• Leo tested the remaining cyborg groups and found that each group could control a metal giant; he submitted his findings to the information exchange platform for battle merits.
• Benji reported that the Gulu Beast army had breached three thousand fortresses and found living Diro People inside one of them.
• Leo followed Benji to the fortress, where thirty-five Diro People were guarded by the Gulu Beasts.
• One of the Diro People stood and asked Leo through mental power whether he was their leader.