Chapter Summaries

Leo failed to construct an external nuclear explosion during his ten days with the Level-Surpassing Amplification Magic Array, but he discovered a direction for reaching rank three. He joined the battle against the metal giant and used his newly boosted mental power to test nuclear-fission attacks, which reached far greater strength than before.

• Leo repeatedly failed to complete the framework for an external nuclear explosion while the metal giant continued attacking the wizard army.
• After ten days, the Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard told Leo to stop using the Level-Surpassing Amplification Magic Array, and Leo accepted, having found his future direction at rank three.
• Leo transformed into a Thunderstorm Giant and fired a nuclear-fission beam at the metal giant, producing an attack power of 20,000 points without injuring it.
• Leo realized his nuclear-fission efficiency had reached about fifty percent and asked Yaoyao to record his test data.
• Leo fired repeated nuclear-fission beams using increasing amounts of nuclear material and recorded their fission efficiencies and attack powers.

Leo used the battlefield to finish collecting data on nuclear fission and found that two grams produced attacks with about 50,000 power. He assessed his amplified shadow abilities and Indestructible Body while the expedition army continued attacking the metal giant, and then joined the assault himself.

• Leo concluded that two grams of nuclear material consistently produced nuclear fission attacks exceeding 50,000 power.
• Leo assessed that his level-three mental power and the Godslaying Set had increased his shadows to 96, expanding their area and range.
• Leo considered the potential defenses of a level-three Indestructible Body and feared that its evolution could trigger uncontrollable hunger if his bloodline unlocked.
• Leo withdrew his shadows and joined the wizard army, using two grams of nuclear material for each fission beam against the metal giant.
• The expedition forces continued their coordinated assault on the metal giant for two years.

The Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard sacrificed millions of slaves to hold the metal giant in place while four million surviving wizards formed a supermassive Level-Surpassing Amplification Magic Array. The array activated as he began chanting a powerful spell, and the space around the distracted giant started to separate from normal space.

• After two years of relentless attacks, the wizard army saw the metal giant's regeneration weaken, though he had killed ten million slaves, five hundred thousand wizards, and destroyed thousands of warships.
• The Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard ordered the remaining slaves to hold the giant back while the wizards assembled a supermassive Level-Surpassing Amplification Magic Array.
• The slaves charged at close range and swarmed over the giant, dying in huge numbers but stopping him from advancing.
• Leo led ten thousand Elemental Wizards to the designated site, and Yaoyao briefly left before returning and signaling that the array was ready.
• Four million wizards activated the array with the Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard at its center, while Leo remained at his node and helped maintain the energy flow.
• The Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard chanted as space around the giant began to separate from normal space, but the giant failed to sense the danger.

The Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard used a spell amplified by four million wizards to trap and relentlessly sever the metal giant, reducing him to nearly powder. He then began a world-powered Matter Sealing Technique to contain the giant, a process Leo realized would take at least a month.

• The Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard completed a half-hour chant and cast Space Cage and Severing Great Witchcraft on the metal giant and the slave army.
• The spatial cage cut the fleeing slaves apart and inflicted rapidly healing wounds across the metal giant's body.
• The metal giant tried to smash the cage, but spatial cuts severed his arm and then tore his body into countless pieces.
• The Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard kept the spell active for three days, reducing the metal giant nearly to powder as Rota World's consciousness receded.
• The Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard drew energy from Rota World and began casting the Matter Sealing Technique on the metal giant.
• Leo recognized the sealing spell taught to him by Mountain Range Guardian Garijivich and estimated that sealing the metal giant would take at least a month.

After Rota World's metal giant was sealed, Leo prepared to return home with the surviving Gulu Beasts, despite being unable to pay them their promised battle merits. A year later, Leo collected the wizard notes owed to him and returned to the Wizard World, where Alice and the Gulu Beasts were protecting his Tree of Life and using nearby wild beasts as food.

• The Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard completed the Matter Sealing Technique after a month, trapping the metal giant's powder and ending the expedition.
• Leo found Benji and the surviving Gulu Beasts, told them to rest and gather souvenirs, and agreed to accompany Yaoyao to the two World Lords' metal fortresses.
• A year later, Leo returned to the reshaped Rota World, found the Gulu Beasts waiting, and said he would collect the wizard notes before going home.
• Back in the Wizard World, the Tree of Life attracted wild beasts, so Alice sent adult Gulu Beasts to hunt them and protect the territory.

After returning from a thirty-year expedition, Leo found that Alice was beginning her breakthrough to Level Two and waited outside the sealed ice palace. While surveying the territory, he read a wizard’s notes and realized that advancing his elemental and body-refinement sides separately could split his path and ruin his future progress.

• The Gulu Beasts welcomed Leo, Yaoyao, Benji, and the returning ancestors after their thirty-year absence.
• Leo sensed Alice pushing against her limits and recognized that she was advancing to become a Level-Two Elemental Wizard, so he avoided disturbing her.
• Leo surveyed the territory, finding fifty thousand Gulu Beasts at level one or above, including three thousand at level two, while the Tree of Life continued absorbing energy from the World Tree branch.
• Leo waited outside the sealed ice palace with his recliner and read the Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard’s notes on elemental body tempering.
• Leo learned that Elemental Body Refinement Wizards needed to advance their elemental and body-refinement sides together, and realized his separate advancement plan could have severed his path as a wizard.

Leo realized the Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard had warned him not to advance his elemental side before his body refinement side, and he reflected on the unresolved mysteries of the Rota World expedition. While waiting for an opportunity to unlock his next bloodline tier, Leo began studying Earth’s advanced science and planned to investigate spatial magic.

• Leo understood that the Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard had used their trade and notebook to steer him away from advancing separately, and he felt he owed the wizard a great favor.
• Leo learned from the command center that the Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard had completed both hidden missions and ordered the team to remain after the Rota World expedition, while the expedition’s mysteries remained unexplained.
• Leo considered the strange circumstances surrounding the cosmic-grade metal body and resolved to revisit the Rota World questions when he was stronger.
• After Benji and the others harvested their first batch of fire essence flowers, Leo finished reading the Undying Body Academy library and took out books on Earth’s advanced theories.
• Leo decided to study spatial magic while holding back his elemental advancement until he could unlock the third tier of bloodline power.

Leo studied spatial theory for four years, then watched Alice break through to level two and reunited with her. After spending a year together in the ice palace, Leo planned to ask the Purple Flame Stigmata Wizard for Alice’s hand, while Alice quietly suggested they live among ordinary people.

• Leo connected relativity and spacetime curvature to the longer lifespans and heightened perceptions of higher-level wizards, and studied spatial theory to prepare for future spatial spells.
• Benji and his descendants harvested four crops of Fire Essence Flowers while Leo studied, and he realized four years had passed.
• Alice broke through to level two after her aura rose within the ice palace, and Leo congratulated her when she came out.
• Leo pulled Yaoyao away from Alice and led her into the ice palace, where the doors stayed shut for a year.
• Leo told Alice he would ask the Purple Flame Stigmata Wizard for her hand after her mental power reached 200 points, and Alice suggested they visit a city of ordinary people.

Leo and Alice settled in Falling Sunset Village to experience ordinary life, building a home and earning the villagers’ trust. After preparing to fish with the village fleet, Leo cast his first net at sea.

• Leo and Alice chose a quiet seaside village where they could live apart from the wizard world.
• The couple settled in Falling Sunset Village, built a house, and received help and supplies from the villagers.
• Leo learned to handle his boat while Alice adapted to cooking and managing their home.
• Leo and Alice planned to repay the villagers’ kindness by fishing and selling their catch in a larger town.
• Leo joined Uncle Luoke and the other fishermen at dawn, followed their boats out to sea, and cast his net where they signaled.

Leo and Alice settled into village life as Leo caught and salted fish, then joined Alice in the mountains to gather wild fruit. The chapter left Leo planning to set traps and hunt game in the mountain range.

• Leo used ordinary fishing skills to catch fish with Uncle Luoke’s fleet, then shared most of his catch with the villagers.
• Alice told Leo she had gathered wild fruit in the mountains, and he asked her not to go there alone because of the wild beasts.
• After half a month of fishing filled their home with salted fish, Leo entrusted his family’s stock to Uncle Luoke and the other villagers to sell in town.
• Leo joined Alice in the mountains, where he climbed a fruit tree and gathered ripe fruit for them to take home and share with Auntie Luoke and the others.
• Seeing signs of abundant wildlife, Leo decided to set traps and catch game the next day.

Leo and Alice found most of his mountain traps raided by predators, but the final trap held a calf guarded by a large wild cow. Leo subdued the cow, rescued the calf, and brought both back to Falling Sunset Village, where they became new additions to the household.

• Leo set traps along a mountain game trail and returned with seven small animals, then took Alice to check the traps the next morning.
• Leo and Alice found that predators had eaten or destroyed the catches in nine traps, leaving only a severed leg in one snare.
• At the final trap, Leo found a calf stuck in a pit while its protective mother cow guarded it.
• Leo threw the charging cow to the ground and forced her to obey, then pulled the calf from the trap.
• Leo led the cow and calf back to Falling Sunset Village, where the villagers marveled at his catch.
• Alice worried about caring for the cattle, but Leo said he would build a cowshed and the cow indicated that they would not run away.

Leo and Alice built a prosperous, peaceful life in Falling Sunset Village through fishing and hunting, growing wealthy and earning the villagers’ respect. When the villagers considered Leo as their next chief, he declined and instead became Uncle Luoke’s second-in-command.

• Leo offered to teach the villagers trapping and hunting, but Uncle Luoke warned him to stay cautious and Leo promised to keep fishing as his main work.
• Leo and Alice saved enough salted fish to buy a thirdhand oxcart, then began traveling to town together to sell their goods.
• During their second year in Falling Sunset Village, a bull joined the cow and calf in Leo and Alice’s yard.
• Over two years, Leo increased his catches of fish and game, bought a second oxcart, and shared some of his game with the villagers.
• The villagers came to envy Leo and Alice’s success and considered Leo a candidate for village chief.
• Leo declined the position in favor of supporting Uncle Luoke and became the village’s second-in-command.

Leo persuaded Falling Sunset Village to pool its savings for a large fishing ship, then expanded the village’s work into hunting and cattle farming. The ship quickly repaid its cost, and after game grew scarce, Leo revealed that the village’s cattle farm could provide beef instead.

• Leo convinced the villagers to buy a large ship and use half the workforce for fishing while the rest hunted with him.
• The villagers pooled their savings, bought a ship, and welcomed Leo as their practical leader when he sailed it home.
• Leo and Alice discussed starting a cattle farm, and Alice agreed to take charge of it.
• The village’s fishing profits exceeded ten times their old income, and the ship paid for itself within half a year.
• After hunting reduced the amount of game in the hills, Leo told the villagers they could rely on the cattle farm for beef.

Leo postponed buying a second boat to expand Falling Sunset Village, using its growing livestock and trade to attract residents from a nearby village. After the population rose to seventeen hundred, Leo and Alice discussed whether his plans still matched their wish to live as ordinary people.

• Alice used a trick to bring more than two thousand cattle to Falling Sunset Village, then chickens, ducks, and sheep arrived the next day.
• Leo postponed buying a second boat while the villagers built livestock enclosures and struggled to collect more than forty thousand eggs a day.
• Leo persuaded Uncle Luoke that the village needed more people and could grow into a big city, and Uncle Luoke rallied the villagers behind merging with a neighboring village.
• Leo bought a second boat and used trade and Falling Sunset Village's prosperity to persuade families from nearby villages to move there.
• Half of the neighboring village moved to Falling Sunset Village, raising its population to seventeen hundred, and Uncle Luoke began clearing farmland.
• Alice asked Leo whether he wanted to become a city lord or simply improve the villagers' lives, reminding him of their original plan to live as ordinary people.

Leo expanded Falling Sunset Village and laid out three five-year plans to build a trade route to Bihan City and eventually turn the village into a large city. The first plan finished early, and the village’s growth brought the second plan into focus, though limited land transport threatened to slow trade.

• Leo outlined plans to expand the village, build a trade network through thirteen towns, and eventually open a route to Bihan City.
• Falling Sunset Village completed its first five-year plan in four years, absorbing ten villages and growing to twenty thousand people while greatly increasing its farms, ships, and output.
• Leo organized production through a collective system that distributed goods according to work points.
• In the fifth year of the plan, Leo and Alice met a wizard who came to test children; Alice identified him as an intermediate wizard apprentice, and none of the village’s children showed wizard aptitude.
• Leo put the second five-year plan, focused on opening trade routes, on the agenda, but overland transport’s limited capacity posed a major obstacle.

Leo used Camel Dragon Beasts to expand Falling Sunset Village’s trade and helped it grow into Falling Sunset Town, then began building a city wall. A wizard from the Heart of the Forest Wizard Academy arrived to claim the town, but found Leo and Alice’s hidden wizard identities waiting inside his home.

• Alice advised Leo to use powerful beasts instead of trying to develop train technology, and Leo acquired a Camel Dragon Beast to haul goods.
• Leo expanded the caravan with more Camel Dragon Beasts and established trading offices as Falling Sunset’s commerce grew.
• Leo annexed a nearby town, renamed the settlement Falling Sunset Town, and cultivated its clean streets and white flowers as its population passed eighty thousand.
• Leo assigned half the workforce to build a defensive wall, intending to make Falling Sunset Town a city once it was complete.
• A resident wizard from the Heart of the Forest Wizard Academy declared himself the town’s lord and flew to meet its leader.
• Leo concealed the room’s magical aura, and the wizard entered to find Alice and Leo, whose three wizard medals made his visit a surprise.

After spending fifty years living as ordinary people in Falling Sunset City, Leo and Alice left their old lives behind and returned to the Tower of Elements. They reunited with Yaoyao and saw how their Gulu Beast army had grown, leaving Leo confident they could conquer a miniature world.

• With Tuotuoyasi's help, Leo and Alice completed Falling Sunset City's massive walls, then told the academy they wanted no faction ties or disturbances.
• Leo and Alice lived quietly in the city for fifty years, becoming beloved elders while successive stationed wizards left them alone.
• When the old couple decided their ordinary lives had ended, Leo and Alice left the city by ox cart and buried their old ox after it died.
• Leo and Alice resumed their wizard forms, and Yaoyao appeared, complaining that they had ignored him for fifty years.
• Back at the Tower of Elements, Leo and Alice reunited with Benji and their grown Gulu Beast army, which had reached five hundred thousand adult level-one beasts and ten thousand level-two beasts.
• Leo said the army could conquer a miniature world without a World Lord, and Alice agreed.

After fifty years away, Leo and Alice returned to the Purple Flame Academy following a summons from Alice’s teacher and found tens of thousands of wizards gathering there. Headmaster Alexander could not explain the mobilization or reach the Purple Flame Stigmata Wizard, who had promised to reveal his plans later.

• Leo reflected that he had completed his available studies and could advance on the elemental path, but his Bloodline Power still blocked his body-refining progress.
• Alice worked to improve the Gulu Beasts’ advancement chances, while Leo gave her access to his resources and supported her efforts to cultivate slaves.
• Alice received a message ordering her back to the Purple Flame Academy and worried that something was wrong with her teacher; Leo insisted on accompanying her, along with Benji and Yaoyao.
• Leo and Alice arrived at the academy and found more than twenty thousand Official Wizards gathered, including graduates, local family wizards, and hired wizards.
• Headmaster Alexander told Leo and Alice that the Purple Flame Stigmata Wizard had ordered the gathering a year earlier, remained unreachable, and had promised to explain matters at the appropriate time.
• Alexander offered Leo and Alice temporary lodging in the academy, and they agreed to wait for the Purple Flame Stigmata Wizard’s explanation.

Leo and Alice learned from Nigel that the Purple Flame Academy had recalled its border garrison wizards after previously restricting ordinary people’s travel. They suspected the orders were connected to the unresolved events in Tiger World and the disappearance of the Purple Flame Stigmata Wizard, but they still did not know what was happening.

• Yaoyao got Alice to laugh by asking her to recount how she had protected Leo when they first met.
• Nigel arrived at the Purple Flame Academy as a Level One Elemental Wizard and thanked Leo for the guidance that had helped him advance.
• Nigel told Leo and Alice that the academy had recalled all remaining city garrison wizards, and that an earlier order had restricted ordinary people from leaving their towns and cities.
• Leo and Alice questioned why the academy would leave ordinary people without garrison protection and suspected the orders had come from the Purple Flame Stigmata Wizard.
• Leo recalled the strange sequence of the Purple Flame Stigmata Wizard’s disappearance, the Tiger World rebellion, Black Skull Academy’s invasion, and the otherworldly attack, and concluded that the events might still be unfolding.

Leo and Alice tried to leave Purple Flame Academy after sensing an unknown danger, but the teleportation array had been shut down. The Purple Flame Stigmata Wizard began forcing his way through a spatial rift, while his Fire Elemental Spirit army blocked the academy’s exits and threatened anyone who tried to escape.

• Leo persuaded Alice to leave Purple Flame Academy by claiming they had received a compulsory summons from a Level-Six Stigmata Great Wizard, and Dean Alexander let them go.
• Leo discovered that the teleportation array had been shut down, and a thunderclap interrupted Benji as he tried to transform.
• The Purple Flame Stigmata Wizard appeared in a spatial rift and began crossing into the Wizard World with alarming speed, leading Leo to suspect that he was not really the Purple Flame Stigmata Wizard.
• Leo led Alice, Benji, and Yaoyao toward the academy’s edge, but an army of Fire Elemental Spirit slaves blocked their way.
• Alice invoked her identity as the Purple Flame Stigmata Wizard’s only student and the Level-Six summons, but the Fire Elemental Spirits refused to let them pass.