Chapter Summaries

Leo approached the fifth Level-Four Lord of Souls at the Returning Breath World's headquarters, suspecting an ambush but following the Purple-Gold Vine Stigmata Great Wizard's orders. His nuclear-bomb-assisted assassination nearly killed the target, but a Level-Five Lord of Souls intervened and trapped Leo before he could escape.

• The Purple-Gold Vine Stigmata Great Wizard ordered Leo to deal with the Level-Four Lord of Souls, and Yaoyao promised to pull him into the Shadow World if he faced danger.
• Leo found the Level-Four Lord of Souls waiting alone in a cleared area, but Yaoyao's shadows detected no hidden enemies.
• Leo threw an Improved Hydrogen Bomb at the Lord of Souls, who teleported away just before the nuclear explosion erupted.
• Leo emerged from the shadows and suppressed the Lord of Souls with fourteen domains before launching Thunder Destruction Grand Witchcraft.
• A Level-Five Lord of Souls appeared, dispersed Leo's lightning attack, and used spatial pressure to force Leo out of the shadows.

Leo and the wizards drew the Lords of Souls into a major battle, uncovering that the fighting was connected to a larger conflict at the soul passage. As powerful reinforcements joined the fray, Leo faced two Level-Four Lords of Souls and began attacking the one he had previously failed to kill.

• A Level-Five Lord of Souls confronted Leo, but Interstellar Wanderer appeared and challenged him in turn.
• Four more Lords of Souls arrived, revealing three Level-Five and three Level-Four enemies; Interstellar Wanderer’s words led Leo to realize the main battle was at the soul passage.
• Boiling Blood Tyrant Body and a powerful Level-Five World Lord joined the wizards, and the World Lord transformed into a blue pureblood dragon to fight a Level-Five Lord of Souls.
• Interstellar Wanderer and the World Lord engaged two Level-Five Lords of Souls, while Boiling Blood Tyrant Body attacked one Level-Four Lord and Leo took on the other two.
• Leo activated his Earth Giant form and resisted the Lords of Souls’ attacks on his soul, then enveloped the Lord he had previously failed to assassinate in fourteen domains.

Leo killed three Level-Four Lords of Souls, then was ambushed by a hidden fourth Level-Five Lord of Souls and fled into the Shadow World with Yaoyao. He returned to the battlefield concealed, while the pursuer demonstrated that he could detect Leo’s passage into the Shadow World.

• Leo used his domains and lightning to kill two Level-Four Lords of Souls, then helped Boiling Blood Tyrant Body kill the third.
• A fourth Level-Five Lord of Souls appeared behind Leo, forcing him to flee as the others remained occupied in battle.
• The Lord of Souls pursued Leo through the shadows, and Yaoyao took Leo into the Shadow World to escape.
• The Lord of Souls realized Leo had entered the Shadow World and waited for two hours before rushing off in pursuit.
• Leo returned to the battlefield and concealed himself with the Godslaying Wizard Robe, watching unseen as others passed nearby.

Leo and Yaoyao lured the Level-Five Lord of Souls into a strange space after discovering that he could track them because he wanted to consume Yaoyao and gain access to the Shadow World. With the rift sealed behind him, Leo invoked powers that would deprive the Lord of Souls of light, hearing, air, and energy.

• The Lord of Souls found Leo and Yaoyao again, recognized Yaoyao as a living being from the Shadow World, and declared that he wanted to consume him.
• Leo realized the Lord of Souls could track their return from the Shadow World and decided they had to kill him before he revealed their secret.
• Leo and Yaoyao returned to the battlefield and lured the pursuing Lord of Souls into a strange space, escaping his pursuit by sealing the spatial rift behind them.
• Leo stopped pretending to be afraid and invoked powers that would leave the Lord of Souls without light, hearing, air, or energy.

Leo used the Shadow Space’s laws to suppress and attack the Lord of Souls, confining him inside a miniature sun as the space’s energy rapidly dwindled. Though the Lord of Souls’ body was destroyed, Leo detected a hidden remnant of his soul, which was waiting for a chance to strike back.

• Leo spoke commands that imposed darkness, silence, vacuum, and energy loss on the Lord of Souls, who realized Leo was directly wielding multiple laws.
• The Lord of Souls unleashed enough power to shake the Shadow Space, but Leo contained the destruction within a thousand-meter radius and pinned him down with gravity.
• Leo raised the Lord of Souls’ temperature and separated his body into a confined space, then filled it with tritium and deuterium atoms that fused in repeated explosions.
• As the Shadow Space’s energy fell, the Lord of Souls’ body was destroyed, but he concealed a remnant of his soul while Leo sensed its presence.

Leo and Yaoyao defeated the Level-Five Lord of Souls by sustaining a nuclear fusion attack until his soul vanished. The Lord’s memories then revealed how Returning Breath World’s inhabitants grew through relentless killing and devouring, leaving Leo concerned about the threat they posed and eager to learn their soul techniques to revive Alice.

• Leo spent his and Yaoyao’s supplies to replenish Shadow Space as its nuclear fusion attack drained the Lord of Souls’ last remnant of consciousness.
• When Shadow Space’s energy fell to 30%, the Lord of Souls died, and Leo stopped enhancing the laws that powered the attack.
• An image appeared where the Lord had been confined, showing his life from hatching through years of killing, devouring, and transforming.
• Leo recognized the creature in the images as the Lord of Souls and identified the scenes as the original world of Returning Breath World.
• Leo estimated that the Lord had reached level four in 600 to 800 years and concluded that Returning Breath World could produce powerful beings far faster than the Wizard World.
• The memories showed the Lord leaving his world with others after reaching level four and beginning to learn how to control puppets.

After studying the Lords of Souls’ memories, Leo realized the war was feeding their strength by sending collected souls through the Soul Passage to the Returning Breath World. He emerged from Shadow Space to find the wizard army advancing, but understood that the prolonged fighting could produce a new generation of Lords of Souls within a few hundred years.

• Leo learned that the Lords of Souls grew stronger by absorbing the soul power of their puppets and sending collected dead souls through the Soul Passage to be transformed in the Returning Breath World.
• Leo considered using the Soul Passage to infiltrate the Returning Breath World, but judged the ongoing battles there too dangerous and contemplated sending a soul fragment instead.
• Yaoyao reported that the recent battle had damaged about 2% of Shadow Space, with a permanent loss of only 1% of its plants and animals.
• Leo wondered why the Level-Five Lord of Souls had left no world origin power behind when he died in Shadow Space, then left to check the war outside.
• Leo emerged in the Gran World and saw the wizard army pursuing and destroying the puppet forces, but recognized that the deaths were supplying souls to the Lords of Souls.
• Leo estimated that the war could enable the Lords of Souls to mass-produce Level-Four members, potentially confronting the wizard army with vast numbers in just over three hundred years.

Leo surveyed the Mecha Wizards fighting in Gran World, then returned to the mothership after two years out of contact and learned the war was under control. He checked his battle merits and decided to seek the Black Skull Stigmata Wizard’s system of knowledge, having recognized that its skeletal body was made of souls.

• Leo watched the Mecha Wizards and their Gulu Beast allies battle the puppet army, and judged that the war would end in about four years.
• Leo read the messages in his Fate Wizard Book and returned to the mothership, where Purple-Gold Vine praised his record and told him there were no new missions.
• Leo learned that the level-five pureblood blue dragon and Interstellar Wanderer had defeated their opponents while the last Level-Five Lord of Souls escaped.
• Leo concealed his own kill of a Level-Five Lord of Souls and reflected that Shadow Space would need centuries to recover enough energy for him to repeat it.
• Leo checked his 14.25 battle merits and asked how many were needed to obtain the Black Skull Stigmata Wizard’s system of knowledge.
• Leo realized that the Black Skull Stigmata Great Wizard’s skeletal body had been composed of souls.

Leo studied soul knowledge while the war in Gran World neared its end, then Purple-Gold Vine ordered him to reinforce the Soul Passage. Leo accompanied him into the shattered, perilous battlefield, where he sensed Soul-Devouring Seal’s runes but could not see the Soul Passage or its wielder.

• Leo exchanged all 14.25 of his battle merits for knowledge of Soul Traction, Soul Cognition, and Soul Modification, then studied it during the war.
• Boiling Blood Tyrant Body visited Leo and said the war in Gran World would likely end within two years, unaware of the top-secret threat posed by Returning Breath World.
• Leo finished studying the soul knowledge, and Purple-Gold Vine summoned him and Boiling Blood Tyrant Body as the war neared its end.
• Purple-Gold Vine assigned Boiling Blood Tyrant Body to remain aboard the mothership and ordered Leo to help reinforce the Soul Passage, protect World Lords, and disrupt the Lords of Souls' plan.
• Leo declared his willingness to take the dangerous mission, and Purple-Gold Vine promised to double the battle merits he earned within his authority.
• Purple-Gold Vine brought Leo to Gran World's shattered pole, where Leo sensed Soul-Devouring Seal's sealing runes amid the chaotic energy but could not locate the Soul Passage.

Leo joined the battle at the Interstellar Wanderer's position and killed two Lords of Souls to relieve pressure on the wounded World Lords. He then warned the survivors to move away while Yaoyao searched for the soul passage so he could pursue his own plan.

• Leo noticed that the Lords of Souls greatly outnumbered the earlier count and that only six of the original thirteen World Lords remained.
• Purple-Gold Vine ordered Leo to help the Interstellar Wanderer, while Leo sent Yaoyao to locate the soul passage and prepare to cast his soul into it.
• Leo used his domains to weaken one Level-Four Lord of Souls and killed him with Thunder Destruction Grand Witchcraft.
• Leo weakened and killed the second Lord of Souls attacking the World Lords, giving the Interstellar Wanderer relief from the battle.
• Leo told the four wounded World Lords to move farther away so they would not be caught in the fighting.

Leo was pursued by a Level-Five Lord of Souls after the Lords of Souls targeted him, while Yaoyao found the soul passage and confirmed the soul-splitting plan could proceed. The Interstellar Wanderer arrived just in time to protect Leo and turned his attack on the Lord of Souls.

• The Lords of Souls sent their Level-Five fighter after Leo while the three Level-Four Lords of Souls held off the Interstellar Wanderer, who quickly killed all three and pursued Leo.
• Yaoyao reached the soul passage and contacted Leo to say the area was safe for the soul-splitting plan.
• Leo fled the Level-Five Lord of Souls, using atomic bombs to slow his pursuer and guide the Interstellar Wanderer toward him.
• Leo taunted the Lord of Souls into using a soul attack, and the attack weakened Leo enough for the enemy to catch up.
• The Interstellar Wanderer shielded Leo from the Lord of Souls' attacks, then summoned starlight to strike back.

Leo faked a grave injury to conceal his soul-splitting plan, then hid aboard the mothership while his soul fragment entered the Returning Breath World. Three months later, the fragment awakened in a frail beetle body, and Leo seized an opportunity to enter a stronger beast.

• Leo and Yaoyao sent his torn-off soul fragment through the soul passage, while Leo planned to pretend he needed decades to recover.
• Leo returned to the mothership, convinced Boiling Blood Tyrant Body that he was gravely wounded, and hid in his room.
• Leo secretly monitored the battlefield and waited as the fragment passed the Returning Breath World's inspection and awakened.
• Leo found himself in a bleeding beetle body in the Returning Breath World, which was close to bursting from the power of his awakening soul.
• Leo leaped into a passing beast's mouth and burrowed down its throat into its stomach.

Leo's beetle clone devoured two energy-bearing beasts, evolved into an energy life-form, and used soul-control witchcraft to kill one of them. After gaining independent consciousness and naming himself Black Soluo, the clone remained in the Returning Breath World while Leo returned to the mothership, where the world-origin information he had received reached him through their shared consciousness.

• Leo's beetle clone ate a beast and rapidly evolved into an energy life-form with a powerful body.
• The clone used a beast's trapped soul to attack a larger beast, then killed and devoured it, absorbing both souls.
• Leo recognized that his stigmata-level soul let him control souls far beyond what the beetle's weak body could normally manage.
• The clone told Leo that he had developed independent consciousness and named himself Black Soluo.
• Leo returned his consciousness to the mothership, and Black Soluo sent the Returning Breath World's information to him through their shared sea of consciousness.

Leo absorbed Returning Breath World’s inherited knowledge through his Black Soluo clone and discovered that it indoctrinated newborn souls with fanatical loyalty. After the wizard army’s victory in Gran World, the returning commanders gathered to assess the war and authorize resource development.

• Black Soluo received Returning Breath World’s vast inherited knowledge, and Leo found that it included indoctrination designed to make its inhabitants fiercely loyal to the world.
• Leo concluded that Returning Breath World’s origin will seemed suspicious, while his clone safely integrated into the world and would need to reach level four before helping him.
• The wizard army defeated the puppet army, and Leo learned that many academy wizards and Gulu Beasts survived, though both groups suffered losses.
• Half a year later, Purple-Gold Vine and the other commanders returned to the mothership, where the Wizard Alliance’s thirteen members at level four or higher assembled.
• Purple-Gold Vine praised the victory and announced that 30% of their forces would develop Gran World, with half the resources kept by those who gathered them.

After the battle, Purple-Gold Vine judged the mission only a partial success because the Lords of Souls had escaped with many souls, and ordered Leo to heal quickly and remain ready for further missions. Leo then met the God of Giants, who offered him troops and gifts while seeking to build their relationship, before Leo returned to the mothership with increased assets and four battle merit points.

• Purple-Gold Vine told the Stigmata Wizards that they had failed to fully block the soul passage and ordered Leo to obtain healing potions and stay ready for orders.
• The God of Giants invited Leo to his encampment, described his business hiring out giants and selling resources, and offered Leo discounted troops.
• Leo declined the offer for now, but accepted the God of Giants' hospitality and several wizard-tool rings as advancement gifts.
• Leo returned to the mothership and checked his Fate Wizard Book, which recorded four battle merit points for killing two Level-Four Lords of Souls.

Leo received a new mission to reinforce Manluo World and prepared troops and giants for the deployment, while Purple-Gold Vine revealed that a level-five lord of souls who had pursued Leo was dead. The chapter left Leo ready to travel in three days, suspecting the mission was more dangerous than its intelligence suggested and viewing it as a chance to develop independently.

• Level-five blue dragon Heluoluo questioned Leo about Fanyaxis, Wings of Death, then gave him a valuable wizardry ring in exchange for information.
• Leo stored the soul restoration potion and let his aura return to normal, revealing that he had recovered long before.
• Purple-Gold Vine assigned Leo and Boiling Blood Tyrant Body to reinforce Manluo World and ordered Leo to lead the mission.
• Purple-Gold Vine told Soul-Devouring Seal that the level-five lord of souls who had pursued Leo was dead and that even Supreme Lords had heard of him.
• Leo reviewed intelligence showing Manluo World was outnumbered by Returning Breath World, then arranged to send fifteen thousand wizards, three million Gulu Beasts, and five million giants.
• Leo checked that his clone Black Soluo was nearing level one and decided the dangerous mission could help him develop independently.

The Dark Camel People fought to hold their defensive line against a devastating storm and endless puppets while their gods battled beside them. As the line neared collapse, Level Three Great Wizards monitored the battle from a formation hub and assessed the arriving reinforcements, including Leo.

• The Dark Camel People charged into the storm and fought the puppets, drawing strength from their gods fighting alongside them.
• The storm tore through the battered defensive line, killing many Dark Camel People as the puppet army pressed forward.
• At the formation hub, Level Three Great Wizards reported that one Dark Camel World Lord had died, another was gravely wounded, and fewer than ten million Dark Camel People remained.
• The Level Three Great Wizards learned that reinforcements had arrived and reviewed detailed records of Leo and the Boiling Blood Tyrant Body Stigmata Wizard, showing contempt for the latter's Body Refinement School affiliation.
• White pillars of light descended over the battlefield, and vast numbers of powerful troops emerged as reinforcements.

Leo and the Boiling Blood Tyrant Body Stigmata Wizard arrived in Manluo World with reinforcements and joined the battle against six Lords of Souls. Leo recognized Manluo World as a vital stepping-stone for Returning Breath World and prepared to fight while suspecting the Wizard Alliance had hidden plans for the battlefield.

• Wizard armies from Gran World teleported into Manluo World and rapidly overwhelmed the puppet troops.
• Leo realized Manluo World's aura resembled Returning Breath World's and identified it as a logistical foothold for its Lords of Souls.
• The Boiling Blood Tyrant Body Stigmata Wizard noted that six Lords of Souls were present, one more than the intelligence had reported.
• A wounded Dark Camel People's World Lord greeted the reinforcements, and Boiling Blood Tyrant Body sent him to help his surviving people below.
• Boiling Blood Tyrant Body transformed into a giant and engaged three Lords of Souls while Leo activated his Earth Giant bloodline and unleashed multiple domains against the other three.

Leo overwhelmed the Lords of Souls, captured and erased the wills of two of their souls, and drove the others to flee. He then returned to human form and entered the puppet army, using overlapping domains to collect souls while helping repel the attack.

• Leo’s Earth Giant endured the Lords of Souls’ attacks, destroyed Kakajia’s body, and used lightning and runes to erase Kakajia’s will and imprison his soul.
• The remaining Lords of Souls fled, but Leo caught another pursuer and subjected his soul to the same treatment while the Boiling Blood Giant mocked the fleeing enemies.
• After the second soul disappeared, Leo told the Boiling Blood Giant to stabilize the defensive line and went to aid the wizard army.
• Leo deactivated his Earth Giant bloodline, entered the puppet army, and activated six overlapping domains to kill puppets and collect their souls.

Leo harvested puppet souls during the battle in Manluo World, then investigated a secretive group of level three great wizards guarding hundreds of altars. After their golden barrier withstood his attack, they apologized and explained that their orders were part of his mission but could not be sent through the Fate Wizard Book.

• Leo used his soul witchcraft to collect the souls of slain puppets for his clone, Black Soluo, and stored them in soul towers.
• The puppet army withdrew after the Lords of Souls fled, and Leo pursued the retreating forces until Boiling Blood Tyrant Body told him to stop and assess the situation.
• Leo learned that a mysterious group of wizards in the rear refused to follow the alliance's orders, and Boiling Blood Tyrant Body took charge of the wounded Dark Camel People world lord.
• Leo found hundreds of altars guarded by more than a hundred thousand level three wizards who identified themselves as members of the Elemental Guild and said they obeyed the Supreme Lord.
• When the wizards ordered Leo to protect the altars and dismissed his questions, he struck their golden barrier with the Godslaying Staff, but it held firm.
• Leo threatened to refuse his mission in Manluo World, prompting the leading wizard to apologize and explain that the altar-related tasks could only be given to him after he arrived.