Chapter Summaries

Leo began ascending to Stigmata after the Shadow Space absorbed the God of Gnoll and evolved, sending powerful energy back into his body. As the energy healed and remade him, Yaoyao prepared the nuclear fusion devices to keep his Indestructible Body under control.

• Leo told Yaoyao to prepare the twenty nuclear fusion devices and inform the academy that the God of Gnoll was dead and he was ascending.
• Leo began absorbing elemental energy across a widening area, creating a storm that swept him into the air.
• Yaoyao opened the Shadow Space and readied the nuclear fusion devices in case Leo's Indestructible Body went out of control.
• Leo realized that the Shadow Space had absorbed the God of Gnoll's world origin and fed back the energy that would catalyze his ascension.
• Leo's injuries healed and his mana refilled as the energy drove his power beyond the limits of Level Three.
• The Soul Splitting Technique appeared in Leo's eyes while the feedback energy continued strengthening and remaking his body.

Leo advanced his body refinement and elemental sides toward Stigmata simultaneously, using Shadow Space’s feedback and his mastery of nuclear fusion to transform his body and consciousness space. He then witnessed two planets merge in a vision, ending with the appearance of a new planet.

• Shadow Space’s feedback drove Leo’s bloodline toward its fourth stage, breaking the Level Three barrier as impurities poured from his body.
• Leo focused on advancing his elemental side, forming interlocking double helices of seawater and golden light throughout his consciousness space.
• The transformation spread to Leo’s body, linking his soul and physical power and granting him strength beyond Level Three.
• Leo’s consciousness entered a strange world of planets and orbiting spheres, where he watched two enormous planets collide and fuse into a new planet.

Leo advanced to Stigmata Wizard on both the elemental and body-refinement paths after perceiving the laws of the microscopic world and the Shadow Space. He unlocked his fourth-stage Earth Giant bloodline, grew to 250 meters, and discovered that the earth supplied him with seemingly endless strength.

• Leo entered the microscopic world, witnessed atoms colliding and fusing, and grasped the laws behind the birth of matter.
• Leo absorbed the Power of Laws and advanced to Stigmata Wizard on both the elemental and body-refinement paths as energy surged into him.
• Leo opened his fourth-stage Earth Giant bloodline and expanded beyond 200 meters until his true body reached 250 meters.
• Leo learned that the Earth Giant drew endless strength from the earth and inhaled elemental energy, air, and moisture.
• Leo's energy fluctuations warped space, and he realized he could now tear open space that he had previously been unable to affect.

Leo completed his advancement to a level-four Elemental Body Tempering Stigmata Wizard, gaining control over nuclear fusion as the Earth Giant. His Shadow Talent then began evolving the Shadow Space into a demiplane, but the process left his body desperately hungry and drained of energy.

• Leo used nuclear fusion inside his Earth Giant body to unleash a blast through the Godslaying Staff and tear open space.
• Leo completed his advancement to a level-four Elemental Body Tempering Stigmata Wizard and realized his shadows were evolving alongside the Shadow Space.
• Leo discovered the Shadow Space was absorbing air and expanding toward becoming a demiplane, while his shadows spread through it and began merging with it.
• Leo spoke an instinctive wish for the Shadow Space to expand its land rather than grow taller, and it changed direction in response.
• Leo's cells suddenly devoured his energy, forcing him to revert from the Earth Giant to human form, but his hunger continued to intensify.

Leo advanced to Stigmata while his Indestructible Body began a prolonged evolution that consumed energy faster than his immense reserves could supply it. Mountain Range Guardian Garijivich and River Guardian Bolivina arrived to enforce the rules requiring him to leave the Wizard World, but reconsidered after Leo explained that interrupting his evolution could make him lose control.

• Leo’s Indestructible Body drained his mana and physical energy, so Yaoyao directed him to twenty nuclear fusion devices to feed his hunger.
• Leo became a Level Four Stigmata Wizard and used the Earth Giant bloodline, energy from the earth, the Godslaying Staff, elemental energy, and nuclear fusion to sustain his Indestructible Body’s evolution.
• After half an hour of continuous energy supply, Leo’s Indestructible Body had evolved by only 0.1%, and he estimated that completing the process would take several days.
• Mountain Range Guardian Garijivich and River Guardian Bolivina arrived, congratulated Leo on advancing to Stigmata, and explained that Stigmata Wizards had to leave the Wizard World and remain in demiplanes.
• Leo said that interrupting his Indestructible Body’s evolution could make him lose control and that he needed to join the coming campaign against the Gnoll World; the Guardians considered the danger of forcing him to leave.

Leo received the Fate Wizard Book after advancing to Stigmata and completed his Indestructible Body evolution under the Mountain Range Guardian’s help. The Mountain Range Guardian then hurried him and the army to the Gnoll World spatial passage, where two figures arrived as they prepared to enter.

• The River Guardian left to establish Leo’s demiplane and teleportation array, while the Mountain Range Guardian agreed to remain and support Leo’s campaign.
• The Mountain Range Guardian recorded Leo as the Atomic Control Stigmata Wizard and introduced him to the Fate Wizard Book, which let Stigmata Wizards access information, communicate, and conduct transactions.
• Leo consulted the Fate Wizard Book, saw his affiliation listed under the Tower of Elements Supreme Lord, and learned that the Indestructible Body Stigmata Great Wizard was affiliated with the Sword of Winter Supreme Lord.
• The Mountain Range Guardian amplified the energy beneath Leo, allowing him to complete his Indestructible Body evolution in two hours and reach 21% evolution with 210,000 defensive power.
• The Mountain Range Guardian escorted Leo to the Gnoll World spatial passage, where Leo’s army arrived after a day’s march and two figures flew up just as the soldiers prepared to enter.

Leo brought the conquest army to the Gnoll World’s passage, where the Mountain Range Guardian’s warning led Roderick to suspect that Leo had advanced to Stigmata. When the Gnoll World’s Will blocked his entry, Leo transformed into a giant and tore the passage open, forcing his way inside despite its attacks.

• Leo introduced the Mountain Range Guardian Garijivich to the 2,500 wizards preparing to enter the Gnoll World.
• Garijivich urged Leo to enter quickly, and Roderick realized the warning implied Leo had become a Stigmata Wizard.
• The Gnoll World’s Will blocked Leo from entering the spatial passage, so he activated his Earth Giant bloodline.
• Leo’s Stigmata pressure made the weaker wizards suffer, and Roderick ordered the army to retreat.
• Leo tore the spatial passage open and forced half his body into the Gnoll World, enduring the World Will’s lightning without injury.

Leo advanced to Stigmata Wizard and forced his way into the Gnoll World, where the World Will could no longer harm him. With the invasion underway and his forces preparing to enter, Leo traveled toward the battlefield while anticipating the gift Yaoyao had promised him.

• Leo’s wizard army and the Undying Body Academy wizards witnessed his Stigmata transformation, and Roderick sent footage to Undying Body, who ordered his academy to follow Leo’s commands.
• The Earth Giant forced his way through the spatial rift into the Gnoll World, and the Mountain Range Guardian, Garijivich, agreed to restore the passage for the army.
• Leo ordered the wizard army to enter according to its battle plan, while the Gnoll World’s laws and void lightning failed to suppress or injure him.
• Leo used Shadow Walking to travel nearly two hundred kilometers per step and thought about the gift Yaoyao had promised after his advancement.

Leo enslaved the Gnoll World's level-three gnolls and set them to capturing level-two gnolls, allowing the wizard army to conquer territory with little resistance. One year into the campaign, the wizard army met an unexpectedly large gnoll force that blocked its advance.

• Leo enslaved a tribe's sole level-three gnoll and ordered him to injure and capture the tribe's level-two gnolls without killing them.
• Leo explained that he planned to enslave all level-three gnolls and use them to capture the valuable level-two gnolls, then traveled between tribes to recruit more slaves.
• After one day, Leo had enslaved 258 level-three gnolls, and he told Hu Jianxing that they were capturing level-two gnolls as the wizard army began its offensive.
• The wizard army advanced through the Gnoll World, occupying a tenth of its territory over the course of a year.
• Five hundred Official Wizards, five hundred thousand Gulu Beasts, and a hundred thousand High-Rank Wizard Apprentices encountered more than three million gnolls blocking their advance.

Roderick ordered the wizard army to attack the three-million-strong gnoll army, which the wizards believed was led by a Child of Destiny. Leo watched the battle unfold while Yaoyao explained that he could reveal his thousand-year-prepared gift only after Leo's Shadow Talent finished advancing and his Shadow Space became a demiplane.

• Hu Jianxing asked Roderick whether the gnolls had produced a Child of Destiny, and Roderick said it was possible and that capturing such a being would be valuable.
• Roderick reviewed the gnoll army's strength and ordered the wizards and Gulu Beasts to attack without leaving survivors.
• The wizard army advanced, and waves of close-in weapon systems cut down the unranked gnolls while Gulu Beasts intercepted the stronger gnolls.
• Leo's enslaved third-level gnolls surrounded the enemy's third-level fighters as the wizard army's weapons continued firing.
• Leo asked Yaoyao about his promised gift, and Yaoyao said he would show it after Leo's Shadow Talent evolved and his Shadow Space became a demiplane.

Leo watched his army slaughter nearly three million Gnolls, then used his power to replace the Gnoll World's rules with wizard rules, strengthening wizards and suppressing Gnolls. At the academy, Charlotte waited to discuss compensation while watching the Purple Gold Flower Merchant Group take over the business Green Cottage had lost.

• Leo observed his army defeat the Gnoll forces, killing nearly three million and capturing the Child of Destiny alive while deliberately allowing a few Gnolls to escape as messengers.
• Hu Jianxing told Leo that Charlotte had arrived to discuss compensation, but Leo said he would meet with him after finishing his work.
• Leo traveled to the place where the God of Gnoll had lived, invoked his Earth Giant bloodline, and endured the Gnoll World's attacks while casting a spell.
• Leo summoned Wizard Will, erased the Gnoll World's original will, and replaced its rules with wizard rules, causing an earthquake across the world.
• Charlotte waited ten days beside the academy's spatial passage as the Purple Gold Flower Merchant Group purchased Gnoll prisoners from Meng Mengmeng and took business that Charlotte believed Green Cottage had lost.

Charlotte delivered a gift of apology to Leo, who accepted it and handed its mechanical puppets to Hu Jianxing to support the campaign in the Gnoll World. Leo then left the Wizard World for his new demiplane, where he began planning its development.

• Charlotte offered Leo ten wizardry rings containing one million level-one and one hundred thousand level-two mechanical puppets, but could not say whether the gift came from the Element Controller Stigmata Great Wizard or the trading consortium.
• Leo accepted Charlotte's apology and sent him away, then gave the rings to Hu Jianxing to help speed the war while limiting casualties.
• Leo returned to the Atomic Control Wizard Academy, checked on Alice's ice palace, and left the Wizard World for his demiplane.
• Leo explored the grassland demiplane with Yaoyao and planned to build a wizard tower, laboratories, and underground facilities there.

After advancing to stigmata, Leo received warnings from Beast Blood Boiling about wizard civilization’s factional struggles and an approaching war with the Returning Breath World. He then checked his new stats and found that all three attributes were close to their level-four limits.

• Leo replied to greetings in the Fate Wizard Book and learned from Undying Body that he could hire him for expedition worlds he could not handle.
• Beast Blood Boiling invited Leo to consider joining his neutral group with Undying Body and warned him that conflicts between Body Refinement Wizards and Elemental Wizards were intensifying.
• Beast Blood Boiling told Leo that the Wizard World’s war with the Returning Breath World was expected to expand, and that Leo could be assigned to dangerous missions despite being newly advanced.
• Leo reflected on the dangers facing him, and Yaoyao encouraged him to focus on growing stronger.
• Leo checked his stats and found his mental power at 385, stamina at 375, and strength at 384, all near their level-four maximums.

After advancing to Level Four, Leo assessed his immense attack power and planned the expansion of his forces and research. Shadow Space then completed its evolution into a law-bearing realm that Leo could shape, while Yaoyao urged him to collect his Shadow Talent gift from Shadow World.

• Leo calculated that the Godslaying Set and his Elemental Body Tempering gave him more than 500,000 attack power, and he believed he could dominate Level Four opponents.
• Leo recorded plans to study advanced knowledge, develop his demiplane and academy, expand his Gulu Beast army, and train wizards across his territories.
• Shadow Space completed its evolution, expanding to 50 × 50 × 1.5 kilometers and gaining laws of gravity, temperature, energy, moisture, and space shaped by Leo's domains.
• Leo realized he would need to construct Shadow Space's laws himself and cautiously reconsidered how to use his 1,941 shadows.
• Yaoyao told Leo his Shadow Talent had finished advancing and said they could now go to Shadow World to retrieve his gift using Shadow Space.

In the Shadow World, Yaoyao helped Leo pull a long shadow rope connected to the Shadow Space, revealing a present made of three black pieces. The pieces fused into a shape-changing black cube, and Leo was thrilled with Yaoyao’s gift.

• Leo noticed that three shadow ropes were tied to his soul statue, including one connected to the Shadow Space.
• Yaoyao tied a new shadow rope around Leo and explained that his thousand-year present was at the other end.
• With the Shadow Space’s help, Leo strained to pull the impossibly heavy rope through the Shadow World.
• After pulling for a long time, Leo saw three small black pieces at the rope’s end and nearly lost them when his concentration faltered.
• Leo grabbed the pieces, which fused into a shape-changing black cube, and eagerly told Yaoyao he loved the present.

After advancing to Stigmata Wizard, Leo learned how Yaoyao had retrieved the Shadow World projection of the universe-level metal module from Rota World and discovered that Yaoyao had also tied up the Hundred-Page World. Leo could not pull the Hundred-Page World over until he reached level six, and he asked whether Yaoyao could capture a newer projection of the metal module.

• Yaoyao explained that the black cubic module was the Shadow World projection of the metal module left in Rota World, which he had caught using ropes made from Leo’s shadow.
• Yaoyao revealed that he had also tied the Hundred-Page World’s projection to a rope and wanted Leo to pull it over so he could punish it for sealing him.
• Leo tried to approach the rope, but Yaoyao warned that the hundred worlds would drag them into the Shadow World before Leo could pull them over.
• Yaoyao told Leo he would probably need to reach level six before he could retrieve the Hundred-Page World, so Leo turned back to the metal module.
• Yaoyao explained that Leo’s shadow could use the module’s projection with the same functions as the real treasure, and Leo asked whether Yaoyao could bind its projection from the present day.

Leo learned that Yaoyao’s power could bind only a limited number of treasures or retrieve shadowed lives, then returned to examine his evolved Shadow Space. Inside, he discovered he could freely alter its laws and wield near-total control over the plane.

• Yaoyao explained that Leo’s soul could anchor only a few treasures and warned that binding too many could destabilize them and pull them through time.
• Yaoyao revealed that Leo could also cast shadows into the Shadow World to retrieve the shadows of past lives as helpers or slaves.
• Leo decided to return to his demiplane, stored the black cubic module inside a shadow, and learned that ten days had passed while he was in the Shadow World.
• Leo entered Shadow Space and found it had air, could support life, and occupied an interstitial space between the real world and the Shadow World.
• Leo changed Shadow Space’s laws to create ice, alter gravity, and gather its energy, demonstrating that he could control the plane almost completely.

Leo discovered that Shadow Space’s evolved laws could absorb energy, manipulate opponents, and strengthen him, while his evolved Soul Splitting Techniques gave him a powerful soul attack. After decades of developing his strength and academy, he received simultaneous invitations to join two wizard research societies.

• Leo explained that Shadow Space could store energy from beings who died inside it and use accumulated power to manipulate laws over a vast area, including to weaken opponents and enhance himself.
• The Soul Splitting Techniques finished evolving and merging with Leo’s soul, giving him the ability to tear apart opponents’ souls, but he chose not to use the black cube module until he understood it better.
• Leo rebuilt his domain combat system and trained in his demiplane while the academy expanded; ten years later, Gnoll World was conquered, its proceeds filled the academy’s treasury, and the number of Official Wizards rose from one thousand to three thousand.
• Leo bought advanced level-four knowledge with academy wealth and devoted himself to experiments and improving his strength over the following decades.
• Fifty years later, the level-six Bitter Wind Stigmata Wizard invited Leo to join the Elemental Wizard Research Society, while the level-six Qi and Blood Frenzy Stigmata Wizard simultaneously invited him to join the Body Refinement Wizard Research Society.

Leo refused recruitment by the elemental and body-refinement factions after learning they had already claimed 607 potential expedition worlds, including worlds identified through the arena tournament. He began searching for untouched worlds by buying the Wizard civilization’s exploration methods and sending reconnaissance robots into the universe through the Gnoll World.

• Leo rejected the Bitter Wind Stigmata Great Wizard and the Qi and Blood Frenzy Stigmata Great Wizard, refusing to join either faction or their expeditions.
• The two Great Wizards revealed that their research associations had identified 307 and 300 worlds for expeditions, including worlds connected to the Sword of Winter's Death Arena tournament.
• Leo realized the factions had beaten him to the worlds he had planned to find, but declined their offers and maintained that he was neutral.
• Leo explained that his power had grown through completed combat systems and Shadow Space, which he had supplied with energy from thirty nuclear fusion devices.
• Leo paid five hundred thousand energy crystals for detailed knowledge of how wizard civilization searched for worlds.
• Leo ordered the academy to release reconnaissance robots through the Gnoll World and arranged for their reports to be monitored around the clock.

Leo set up a way to use shadows in the Shadow World to find and contact living beings from valuable worlds, then continued studying the black cube module. A hundred years after becoming a Stigmata Wizard, he received the Wizard World’s declaration of war against the Returning Breath World Cluster and orders for Stigmata Wizards to await instructions.

• Leo proposed using shadows to fish for living beings from other worlds, and Yaoyao agreed to test the idea.
• Yaoyao placed a hundred of Leo’s blank shadows throughout the Shadow World, and Leo turned their ropes into blood-powered contact devices in the Shadow Space.
• Leo assigned the Benji puppet to watch the ropes for movement and explained that blood from a hooked being could enable communication.
• Leo studied universe-grade treasures and learned from Beast Blood Boiling that mastering the metal module would take at least five thousand years, making him wary of the black cube module.
• After a hundred years as a Stigmata Wizard, Leo received an order declaring war on the Returning Breath World Cluster and requiring Stigmata Wizards without imminent expeditions to await orders.