Chapter Summaries

Leo fought off the Mecha World’s forces and tried to close the spatial rift, but a branch of the World Tree emerged from the ruined city and reached his forehead. The chapter ended with Leo facing an immediate threat from the World Tree.

• Leo dismantled a level-four mech, captured its pilot, and destroyed the control fiber in his spine without sensing the World Tree’s will.
• Leo crushed incoming mechs with his Gravity Domain and collected about twenty drops of water element essence before the spatial rift began to heal.
• A laser mech tore open the nearly healed rift, but Leo dragged it through, destroyed its control center, and killed its pilot.
• As the rift neared closure again, a branch of the World Tree erupted beneath the city across the rift and sent an afterimage toward Leo.
• The World Tree’s slender branch stopped just short of piercing the Earth Giant’s forehead.

The World Tree halted the battle in Marsh World and demanded that Leo’s forces leave, but Leo persuaded it to wait because the world was intended to become a battlefield in the war between Wizard World and the Returning Breath World Cluster. The World Tree agreed not to intervene and offered Leo help in future danger, leaving him to consider its terms.

• The World Tree appeared through a spatial rift and pressed a branch against Leo’s forehead, freezing the battle and terrifying both armies.
• Leo entered his mental space and heard the World Tree demand that the wizards leave Marsh World.
• Leo explained that Marsh World had been selected as a battlefield in the coming war between Wizard World and the Returning Breath World Cluster, and warned that the Supreme Lords might oppose the World Tree’s occupation.
• The World Tree accepted Leo’s account, agreed not to intervene in the war, and dismissed the destruction of its mechas as insignificant.
• The World Tree offered to teleport troops to Leo if he faced danger, using the branch fused into his staff to locate him, and Leo asked what conditions it wanted.

Leo drove the World Tree from Marsh World and returned with Yaoyao to God's Dwelling, where he explained that the World Tree might seek to use him to find more worlds. As the wizard army continued its conquest, Leo left to bring in the mothership while Interstellar Wanderer fought Heritos and Heliao.

• The World Tree withdrew from Marsh World after agreeing to a verbal cooperation arrangement with Leo, and the spatial rift closed.
• Leo escaped with Yaoyao as the remaining beings recovered from the World Tree's terrifying presence, and Interstellar Wanderer berated Heritos and Heliao before their battle resumed.
• Leo and Yaoyao noticed that a shadow had been removed from Shadow Space and that a new rope had appeared on the soul statue in Shadow World.
• Leo told Yaoyao he suspected the World Tree wanted him to locate valuable worlds and said he was willing to cooperate in exchange for protection.
• Leo watched Interstellar Wanderer hold off Heritos and Heliao, taunted the two World Lords, then left to bring the mothership and their forces to the battlefield.

Leo searched the Marsh World's God's Dwelling, collecting rare creatures for the Shadow Space, then used two motherships' main cannons to attack Heliao during the battle against the World Lords. As the cannon beam closed in, Leo transformed into an Earth Giant and unleashed thirteen domains to keep Heliao from escaping.

• Leo ordered both motherships to teleport to the battlefield while he and Yaoyao explored the God's Dwelling and found rare, endangered creatures.
• Leo and Yaoyao collected creatures, including Red Tai Fish, and moved them into the Shadow Space to breed.
• After Luoluojia reported the motherships' arrival, Leo ordered their main cannons to charge and taunted Heritos and Heliao during their fight with Interstellar Wanderer.
• Leo told Interstellar Wanderer to hold Heliao in place, then secretly ordered both fully charged cannons to target Heliao.
• Interstellar Wanderer used Starlight Lockdown Greater Witchcraft, but Heritos broke it and Heliao prepared to dodge the cannon beam.
• Leo transformed into an Earth Giant and activated thirteen domains beneath Heliao, consuming most of his mana as the attack approached.

Leo and Interstellar Wanderer killed Heliao by redirecting the motherships’ main cannon beams, then fought Heritos as he burned his life to invoke a curse using the Marsh World’s rules. Leo joined the battle to stop the curse, but Heritos continued chanting despite severe injuries as the two wizards battered him.

• Thirteen domains briefly hindered Heliao, and Leo redirected a mothership’s main cannon beam so it struck him from behind while Interstellar Wanderer trapped him in a starlight cage.
• Two mothership main cannon beams engulfed Heliao, killing him and leaving Leo to collect his remains.
• Heritos burned his life and drew on the Marsh World’s power to curse Interstellar Wanderer and Leo, driving Interstellar Wanderer back before he regained the advantage.
• Leo realized Heritos’s curse could kill him, rushed into the level-five battle, and fired Nuclear Fusion Grand Witchcraft at Heritos.
• Heritos shattered Leo’s attack with a headbutt and continued the curse despite losing half his face, so Leo unleashed thirteen domains and joined Interstellar Wanderer in beating him nearly to a skeleton.

Leo and the Interstellar Wanderer killed Heritos, ending the Marsh World's last World Lord threat, then agreed to slow the conquest by capturing survivors. Leo planned to use the return voyage to evolve his Shadow Space and sent Yaoyao to retrieve abandoned mechas for a wizard army.

• The Interstellar Wanderer erased Heritos with Starlight Fall Greater Witchcraft, stopping his curse just before it could kill them.
• Leo recovered from his injuries, and the Interstellar Wanderer raised his share of the expedition's net profits from twenty to thirty percent.
• Leo and the Interstellar Wanderer ordered their forces to capture Water Marsh People alive and prolong the conquest after the World Lords had been killed.
• Leo assessed the Marsh World and Mecha World corpses he had collected, then decided to evolve the Shadow Space during the twenty-five-year journey back to the Wizard World.
• Yaoyao urged Leo to seize the abandoned mecha armies, and Leo sent him with academy wizards and Gulu Beasts to bring back as many machines as possible.

Leo transformed Shadow Space into a thriving habitat for rare fish, then spent years studying Marsh World's mechs and developing wizard-improved designs. As the expedition wound down, the Interstellar Wanderer opened a spatial passage so Wizard World merchants could remove the enormous number of captives and pay with energy crystals.

• Leo poured Water Element Essence into Shadow Space's lake and adjusted its rules so the rare fish, including the fire-dependent Red Tai Fish, could thrive.
• Leo planted available rare varieties and planned to turn Shadow Space into a collection of precious materials and species.
• Leo spent a year mastering level 1-3 mechs and four more years studying level 4 mechs, then developed improved designs that could greatly increase their strength.
• Leo created miniature nuclear fusion generators for wizard-operated mechs but stopped after establishing the theoretical foundation for others to develop.
• Leo ordered the captives transferred because they were consuming the ocean's food, and the Interstellar Wanderer opened a spatial passage for Wizard World merchants to take them away.
• The merchants moved the captives in batches, easing pressure on the expeditionary army while bringing energy crystals aboard the mothership.

After a long expedition to the Marsh World, Leo returned to the Wizard World with wealth, captured mechas, and a battle-hardened Gulu Beast army. Back at his demiplane, he learned that a neighboring academy had appeared in the former territory of the Black Skull Stigmata Wizard, and its name astonished him.

• Leo and Interstellar Wanderer ended the expedition after capturing the Marsh World's remaining captives and returned through the spatial passage with fourteen million surviving Gulu Beasts.
• Leo kept the mechas Yaoyao had seized, compensated wizards whose battle merits had been taken, and received his share of the expedition's profits.
• During the return journey, Leo's Shadow Space began evolving with the corpses of four World Lords inside it.
• Twenty-five years later, Leo returned to his demiplane and asked Meng Jie about the academy's progress.
• Meng Jie reported that the academy had improved its Official Wizard promotion rate, begun saving money, and lost access to resources in the former Black Skull territory because a new academy had been established there.
• Meng Jie named the new institution the Blue Dragon Bloodline Stigmata Wizard Academy, and Leo reacted with disbelief.

After returning from his expedition, Leo learned about a powerful Body Refinement Wizard neighbor, reviewed the war against the Returning Breath World Cluster, and received orders to join the fighting in a century. He began studying the enemy and the battlefield intelligence while cautiously establishing contact with Blue Dragon Bloodline.

• Meng Jie told Leo that Blue Dragon Bloodline Stigmata Wizard had founded a neighboring academy, and Leo placed his mecha research and equipment in the academy library with steep exchange prices.
• Leo learned from the Fate Wizard Book that Blue Dragon Bloodline belonged to Bloodline Controller Supreme Lord, chose to stay neutral, and sent him a brief congratulatory message.
• Leo spoke with Beast Blood Boiling, who estimated that Leo had about a century before deployment and sent him intelligence on the war's casualties, forces, and rotation strategy.
• Blue Dragon Bloodline contacted Leo about coordinating their academies over their Wizard Apprentices, and Leo agreed in principle before ending the conversation.
• Three years after returning, Leo received orders to join the war in one hundred years with at least 30% of his forces and began studying detailed intelligence about the Returning Breath World Cluster.

After a century of recuperation and study, Leo ended his leave and led an army to Mothership No. 118 for the war against the Returning Breath World Cluster. There, he joined a team of powerful Stigmata Wizards who recognized his formidable strength.

• Leo memorized intelligence about the war, including the forces on both sides, and continued studying his Stigmata powers until his century of recuperation ended.
• Leo praised the academy’s progress, including Hu Jianxing’s advancement to a Level-Two Mecha Wizard, and agreed to let him join the war.
• Leo received orders to depart and took seven million Gulu Beasts and forty thousand academy wizards through teleportation to Mothership No. 118.
• Leo met the Purple-Gold Vine Stigmata Great Wizard, the Soul-Devouring Seal Stigmata Great Wizard, his former master Interstellar Wanderer, and the Boiling Blood Tyrant Body Stigmata Wizard.
• Interstellar Wanderer revealed Leo’s past victories, while the other Stigmata Wizards recognized that Leo was far stronger than an ordinary Level Four wizard.

Leo learned that his team of five Stigmata Wizards had been assigned a dangerous special mission, originally a decapitation strike, as they traveled toward the war against Returning Breath World. The mothership arrived at Gran World, one of the war’s deadliest battlefields, where the wizard armies prepared to fight.

• Purple-Gold Vine named herself captain and Soul-Devouring Seal vice-captain, then explained that their team would receive a battlefield mission that might change upon arrival.
• Purple-Gold Vine briefed Leo, Boiling Blood Tyrant Body, and Interstellar Wanderer on the war, explaining that Stigmata Wizards handled dangerous operations while World Lords led the main armies.
• Leo asked whether their team would infiltrate Returning Breath World, and Purple-Gold Vine said their energy signatures made such a mission too dangerous for them.
• During the ten-year journey, Purple-Gold Vine showed the team footage of the enemy’s controlled puppets and grotesque Lords of Souls, whose souls had to be targeted rather than their bodies.
• The mothership reached Gran World, a major battlefield with more than forty beings of level four or higher, and the wizard armies were ordered to prepare for battle.

Leo and the Stigmata Great Wizards arrived at Gran World to find a vast puppet army and ten Lords of Souls guarding the mothership’s landing site. After Purple-Gold Vine opened the world barrier and led the assault, Leo activated his Earth Giant bloodline and entered the battle.

• Purple-Gold Vine told Leo, Boiling Blood Tyrant Body, Interstellar Wanderer, and Soul-Devouring Seal that their mission had changed: they had to stabilize the wizard army’s position in Gran World before attempting their original decapitation mission.
• The group learned that ten Lords of Souls and a massive puppet army occupied the mothership’s landing site, while the wizard army inside Gran World was unable to help.
• Purple-Gold Vine ordered Soul-Devouring Seal to guard the mothership and led Leo, Boiling Blood Tyrant Body, and Interstellar Wanderer into the assault.
• The mothership’s main cannon tore open the world barrier, and Purple-Gold Vine widened the breach before killing puppets with his immense elemental true body.
• Interstellar Wanderer and Boiling Blood Tyrant Body entered Gran World and attacked the puppet army, with Boiling Blood Tyrant Body challenging Leo through a pointed glance.
• Leo activated his Earth Giant bloodline true body and charged into the puppet army.

Leo and the other Stigmata Wizards slaughtered the puppet army, but Leo’s effortless use of ten distant domains killed enemies far faster than anyone else. As the others witnessed the gap in their abilities, Leo continued searching for the ten Lords of Souls.

• The Purple-Gold Vine Stigmata Great Wizard and Interstellar Wanderer swept through the puppets with powerful attacks, while the Boiling Blood Giant cut them apart with storms of blade energy.
• Leo activated ten domains around the Earth Giant, killing hundreds of thousands of puppets through gravity, blood explosions, heat, lightning, wind, fire, and other effects.
• Leo projected the domains as far as 195 kilometers away using Shadow Walking, and the Energy Absorption Domain restored his mana as the slaughter continued.
• Leo searched the puppet army for the ten Lords of Souls but found no sign of them.
• The Boiling Blood Giant watched Leo kill puppets dozens of times faster than he could and gave up on competing with him.
• Interstellar Wanderer realized Leo’s slaughtering speed surpassed his own, and Leo sent balls of electric current toward puppets more than a dozen kilometers away.

Leo and the other Stigmata Wizards carved through the puppet army before eight Lords of Souls ambushed them. Leo shrugged off three attackers’ blows and killed two with Nuclear Fusion Grand Witchcraft, then unleashed a barrage of lightning witchcraft against the third as it tried to flee.

• Yaoyao hurled nuclear explosive balls of electricity into the puppet army while Leo and the other wizards slaughtered puppets, opening a path through the ranks.
• Three Lords of Souls suddenly surrounded Leo, while the others attacked the Boiling Blood Giant, the Interstellar Wanderer, and the Purple-Gold Vine Stigmata Great Wizard.
• Leo endured the three Lords of Souls’ attacks without serious harm and struck back with Nuclear Fusion Grand Witchcraft, destroying two of them as runes sealed their souls.
• The remaining Lord of Souls withdrew its tentacle and tried to escape, but Leo attacked it with Thunderbolt: Prison, Thunderbolt: Greatsword, and Thunderbolt: Endless.

Leo killed the three Lords of Souls who ambushed him with help from the Soul-Devouring Seal Stigmata Great Wizard, then returned to the mothership with the Boiling Blood Giant when they could not assist the other battles. After Soul-Devouring Seal went to aid the Interstellar Wanderer and Purple-Gold Vine, Leo and the Boiling Blood Giant stayed behind to guard the mothership against hidden attackers.

• Leo trapped and destroyed the octopus-tentacled Lord of Souls, then used Thunderbolt: Endless to annihilate the souls of the other two Lords of Souls sealed by Soul-Devouring Seal.
• Leo saw the Boiling Blood Giant kill his opponent and recognized that the giant's curved blade could attack souls as well as bodies.
• Leo and the Boiling Blood Giant approached the Interstellar Wanderer's battlefield but could not enter the fighting, so Leo ordered them back to the mothership.
• Leo reported to Soul-Devouring Seal, who activated the mothership's defensive shield and sent Leo and the Boiling Blood Giant to guard it.
• Soul-Devouring Seal departed to help the Interstellar Wanderer and Purple-Gold Vine, while Leo instructed the Boiling Blood Giant to watch for concealed Lords of Souls.

Leo and Interstellar Wanderer exposed and killed the last two level-four Lords of Souls, but the battle between the level-six Stigmata Great Wizards and the remaining level-six Lords of Souls continued in a stalemate. The mothership could not descend safely, so Interstellar Wanderer requested level-six support through the Fate Wizard Book.

• Soul-Devouring Seal restrained two level-five Lords of Souls, and Interstellar Wanderer pulverized them with starlight.
• Interstellar Wanderer asked Leo to sweep the mothership’s surroundings with a wide-area lightning spell, revealing two level-four Lords of Souls hiding nearby.
• Interstellar Wanderer and Leo attacked together and quickly killed the two revealed Lords of Souls.
• The four level-six combatants continued fighting for half a month, while their shock waves devastated the puppet army around them.
• Interstellar Wanderer concluded that the battle would not end without outside intervention and used the Fate Wizard Book to request level-six combat support.

The Interstellar Wanderer requested reinforcements, and the God of Giants Kampas arrived to help Purple-Gold Vine and Soul-Devouring Seal defeat two Lords of Souls. After the mothership descended into Gran World and teleported to another front, Leo saw the vast war there and the disciplined formations of his Gulu Beast army.

• The Interstellar Wanderer requested reinforcements, and the Fate Wizard Book confirmed that the God of Giants Kampas would arrive shortly.
• Kampas joined Purple-Gold Vine and Soul-Devouring Seal in battle, helping them seal one Lord of Souls while the other escaped through a spatial rift.
• The Interstellar Wanderer ordered the mothership to descend into Gran World after the energy tides stabilized.
• Purple-Gold Vine ordered the mothership to teleport to the battlefield, where it arrived two hours later.
• Leo surveyed the immense battle and saw wizard and slave armies fighting the puppet hordes, including his trained Gulu Beast army.

Leo was sent to hunt Level-Four Lords of Souls as Gran World’s forces split up to cope with the war’s heavy losses. After four days of searching, he received a report and attacked a Lord of Souls hidden among a puppet army, leaving the nearby reconnaissance wizards caught in his thunderstorm.

• Purple-Gold Vine ordered Leo to find and kill Level-Four Lords of Souls while Boiling Blood Tyrant Body joined the main battlefield.
• Leo searched the vast battlefield in the shadows, discussing the war’s mounting casualties with Yaoyao.
• After four days, the Fate Wizard Book reported a Level-Four Lord of Souls at coordinates 159:424:951.
• Reconnaissance wizards tracked a Lord of Souls disguised as a puppet and waited for a Stigmata Wizard to arrive.
• Leo emerged from the shadows and destroyed the disguised Lord of Souls, unleashing a thunderstorm that forced the reconnaissance wizards to flee.

Leo ambushed and killed two Level-Four Lords of Souls on Gran World, using his domains and lightning witchcraft to destroy them and help the wizard army reclaim ground. After command wizards recognized his speed and strength, Purple-Gold Vine raised the priority of locating more Lords of Souls for him.

• Leo ambushed a Level-Four Lord of Souls, killed him with lightning, and told Yaoyao that he would consider developing ambush witchcraft.
• After three days without finding another target, Leo received coordinates for a Level-Four Lord of Souls attacking the wizard army’s front line.
• Leo restrained the Lord of Souls with twelve domains and destroyed him with Thunder Destruction Grand Witchcraft.
• Leo used his domains to kill the puppets that had breached five kilometers of the wizard army’s defenses, then vanished into the shadows.
• Command wizards reported Leo’s second kill to Purple-Gold Vine, who ordered them to raise the search for Level-Four Lords of Souls to fifth priority and send him intelligence quickly.

Leo killed four level-four Lords of Souls, then discovered that the wizard command had been using his attacks to draw out stronger enemies. After the Purple-Gold Vine Stigmata Great Wizard confirmed the plan and raised Leo’s battle merits, a fifth location appeared in an obvious trap.

• Leo killed a third level-four Lord of Souls, and the Purple-Gold Vine Stigmata Great Wizard doubled the reward for finding more targets.
• Leo noticed that reports were arriving unusually quickly and suspected the enemy might be preparing an ambush.
• Leo carefully checked the area before killing a fourth Lord of Souls, then fled when he sensed danger as a level-five Lord of Souls arrived.
• The Interstellar Wanderer Level-Five Stigmata Wizard followed the enemy, while Leo reported what had happened to the Purple-Gold Vine Stigmata Great Wizard.
• The Purple-Gold Vine Stigmata Great Wizard revealed that Leo was drawing out stronger Lords of Souls and promised him 1.5 times the usual battle merits.
• A fifth Lord of Souls’ location appeared, and Leo recognized the coordinates as an obvious trap.