Chapter Summaries

Leo and Yaoyao spotted ten pursuers: four Lords of Souls and six mysterious World Lords working with Returning Breath World. Leo escaped aboard the mothership with a Stellar Leap, but the enemy quickly located him again and continued the chase toward War World.

• Yaoyao warned Leo that ten pursuers were closing in, including a Level-Six Lord of Souls, three Level-Five Lords of Souls, and six Level-Five World Lords.
• Leo ordered the mothership to make a random Stellar Leap toward War World, avoiding stars, and escaped the pursuers.
• The Level-Six Lord of Souls told Yemohua that six World Lords were the only reinforcements available because the others were needed to intercept fleeing Stigmata Wizards.
• The pursuers learned that no stellar observation posts had detected the mothership, then received word that command had pinpointed Leo's location and ordered them to pursue him.
• Leo's mothership emerged far from its previous position and fled at top speed, while Leo wondered how Returning Breath World had tracked him despite his isolation.

Leo discovered that the Returning Breath World’s pursuers were tracking him personally rather than following the mothership, and the mothership was destroyed after he left it behind. Surrounded on a dead planet, he prepared to fight and noticed signs that six enemy World Lords might be controlled.

• Leo suspected that the mothership carried a tracking device and used Black Soluo’s memories to investigate the pursuers’ orders.
• When the pursuers caught up again, Leo sent the mothership toward the War World and hid on a dead planet.
• The ten pursuers destroyed the mothership, then headed directly toward Leo’s hiding place, confirming that they had tracked him rather than the vessel.
• Leo prepared for battle as the Level-Six Lord of Souls invited him to join the Returning Breath World.
• Leo noticed that the six Level-Five World Lords sometimes looked numb and wondered whether someone had put them under control.

Leo confronted a group of Lords of Souls and controlled World Lords on a dead star, killing three Level-Five Lords of Souls before the Level-Six Lord of Souls battered him. As the enemy barrage continued against his metallic defenses, Leo activated his Stigmata True Body and Vajra Giant bloodline.

• Leo realized Returning Breath World intended to control Stigmata Wizards and watched the Lords of Souls search for him on the dead star.
• After they discovered his location, Leo evaded their attacks, appeared behind them, and killed three Level-Five Lords of Souls with Tritium-Deuterium Fusion Great Witchcraft.
• The Level-Six Lord of Souls struck Leo twice and, with six World Lords, trapped him in a crater and bombarded him for ten minutes.
• Leo's black metallic defensive layer endured the barrage as the attacks shattered a fifth of the dead star.
• Metallic rivers erupted from the dead star and shielded Leo as he activated his Stigmata True Body and Vajra Giant bloodline, becoming a six-hundred-meter black metallic giant.

Leo used the Black Metal Module and fusion witchcraft to fight a Level-Six Lord of Souls and six World Lords. He killed the Lord of Souls and most of the World Lords, leaving two captives for questioning.

• Leo turned metal from a dead star into lightning-wreathed javelins, but the Lord of Souls and six World Lords blocked his attacks.
• Leo used Tritium-Deuterium Fusion Great Witchcraft to kill one World Lord from within his body.
• The Level-Six Lord of Souls overwhelmed Leo's metal defenses and trapped him in crushing tentacles while the five remaining World Lords waited nearby.
• Leo used thirty negative statuses to delay the Lord of Souls, then triggered Metal Fusion with metal surrounding the enemy and caught in his tentacles.
• The fusion killed three World Lords and severely injured the other two and the Lord of Souls; Leo restrained the two survivors to investigate whether someone had controlled them.
• Leo killed the severely injured Level-Six Lord of Souls with another internal energy explosion.

Leo defeated a Level-Six Lord of Souls and discovered that Returning Breath World controlled captured World Lords through threads embedded in their souls. After the captives died before revealing much, Leo concluded he was being tracked and weighed ways to escape, but remained trapped under threat of further ambushes.

• Leo used Metal Fusion to kill the Level-Six Lord of Souls, then questioned two captured World Lords.
• Leo extracted one World Lord's soul and saw dense threads woven through it, but the soul exploded before he could study them.
• The second World Lord died after trying to speak, leading Leo to suspect that a soul restriction prevented him from revealing secrets about wizards.
• Leo concluded that Returning Breath World could control World Lords and was capturing Stigmata Wizards alive, but refused to send the information to War Command because of a suspected mole.
• Yaoyao warned Leo that more powerful pursuers could arrive and that a long-distance jump through Shadow World without a destination could kill them; Leo remained unsure how to escape Returning Breath World's tracking.

Leo planned to escape the Returning Breath World's territory by using his avatar Black Soluo as a route through the Shadow Plane, while he waited for an opportunity. As the Returning Breath World massed its forces to ambush 432 fleeing Stigmata Wizards, Leo watched the impending battle, which would determine when he could make his own escape.

• Leo chose to flee toward the War World and planned to use Black Soluo to escape the Returning Breath World's sphere of influence through the Shadow Plane.
• Black Soluo told Leo that the Returning Breath World had no forces available to pursue him because it had concentrated its troops against the fleeing Stigmata Wizards.
• War Command asked Leo to join the Stigmata Wizard army, but Leo said his mothership had been destroyed and he could not reach them.
• The 432 surviving Stigmata Wizards advanced along the route given by War Command while the Returning Breath World prepared an ambush and sent Supreme Lords to block their allies.
• Leo watched the approaching battle through Black Soluo as more than six thousand Lords of Souls and two hundred controlled World Lords gathered to intercept the Stigmata Wizards.

The Wizard World fleet arrived to rescue the surviving Stigmata Wizards, and its concentrated fire opened a gap in the Lords of Souls’ defensive line. The battle escalated as the Lords of Souls counterattacked, leaving Leo observing the fierce fighting through Black Soluo’s clone.

• After two years, Black Soluo spotted the Wizard World fleet approaching, and thousands of Lords of Souls prepared to meet it.
• More than four hundred motherships bombarded the Lords of Souls, forcing their Level-Four defenders to dodge while higher-level Lords of Souls endured the attacks.
• Over three hundred Body Refinement Stigmata Wizards used the opening in the defense to tear apart more than fifty Level-Four Lords of Souls and widen a path for the fleet.
• A Level-Six Lord of Souls ordered one squad to attack the Stigmata Wizards, another to intercept the motherships, and a third, including Black Soluo, to remain in reserve.
• The three hundred Stigmata Wizards held off two thousand Lords of Souls, while the battle’s energy shattered a nearby dead star and swept other Level-Four Lords of Souls away.
• Leo watched the fighting through Black Soluo as charging Level-Four Lords of Souls were torn apart before reaching attack range.

Three hundred Stigmata Wizards tried to break through two thousand Lords of Souls, but the enemy adapted and overwhelmed both the wizards and their mothership fleet. Leo realized captured Stigmata Wizards might be imprisoned somewhere, but chose not to risk approaching a location that could be guarded by a Supreme Lord.

• Qi and Blood Frenzy Stigmata Great Wizard, Purple-Gold Vine Stigmata Great Wizard, and Indestructible Body Stigmata Great Wizard tore into the Lords of Souls, killing many and opening a breach for the Stigmata Wizards.
• The Lords of Souls coordinated their numbers to restrain the three strongest Stigmata Great Wizards, then swarmed the remaining wizards, killing some and capturing others alive.
• Leo considered whether past Stigmata Wizard losses might include prisoners taken through black vortices, but dismissed the idea of searching for them or reporting it to War Command.
• The Lords of Souls stopped the three hundred Stigmata Wizards' breakout and began destroying the motherships, killing the wizards and slaves aboard them.

The Lords of Souls tried to stop the Stigmata Wizards’ desperate breakout, as both sides suffered catastrophic losses. With the remaining wizards launching self-destructive attacks and Black Soluo avoiding the most dangerous fighters, the chapter ended as he chose Sword Bearer as his target.

• The Lords of Souls destroyed or captured most of the motherships while the surviving Stigmata Wizards pressed toward the Supreme Lord’s battlefield.
• The Stigmata Wizard breakout force fell from 432 members to 214, while the Lords of Souls also lost more than half their forces.
• The level-six Lord of Souls commander sent reinforcements to intercept the wounded Stigmata Wizards and the dwindling mothership fleet.
• The Stigmata Wizards refused to surrender and used secret spells to sacrifice their remaining strength for a burst of power.
• Black Soluo avoided the strongest Stigmata Wizards and selected Sword Bearer as a target.

Black Soluo fought the severely injured Sword Bearer Stigmata Wizard and defeated him without suffering a scratch, then swallowed his unconscious body. Leo watched as the Lords of Souls continued to overwhelm the Stigmata Wizards and motherships, leaving the remaining forces in worsening peril.

• Ten level-four Lords of Souls attacked Sword Bearer, but he transformed into a sword and killed three of them with one strike.
• Black Soluo charged Sword Bearer alone and blocked his attacks, while the other Lords of Souls and their Level-Six commander let him fight one-on-one.
• Sword Bearer unleashed a final attack at 120 percent of his peak strength, but his longsword broke against Black Soluo's shell.
• Black Soluo knocked Sword Bearer unconscious and swallowed him to protect him from the vacuum of space.
• Leo observed that the Stigmata Wizards had fallen from more than two hundred to fewer than a hundred and fifty, while fewer than a hundred motherships remained and the Lords of Souls forced them backward.

The Sword of Winter arrived on the battlefield, allowing the Indestructible Body Stigmata Great Wizard to turn the tide against the Lords of Souls. As the battle raged on, Leo used Black Soluo to escape with the captured Sword Bearer Stigmata Wizard.

• Leo watched as the Lords of Souls closed in on the remaining Stigmata Wizards and motherships, leaving both forces with little hope of escape.
• The Sword of Winter swept into the battlefield, and the Indestructible Body Stigmata Great Wizard seized it despite his grave injuries.
• The Indestructible Body Stigmata Great Wizard killed the Level-Six Lord of Souls commander with one slash, then cut down other Lords of Souls with the Sword of Winter.
• Leo recognized that Black Soluo could not withstand the Sword of Winter and ordered his avatar to flee.
• Black Soluo spat out the captured Sword Bearer Stigmata Wizard, hooked him with his claws, and ran toward the black vortex to escape by teleporting away.

Black Soluo carried the wounded Sword Bearer through a black vortex into a world under the Returning Breath World's will, where slaves served an unknown master who had captured Stigmata Wizards. Leo used Yaoyao to investigate the hidden prison and its magic formation, but a wooden-looking figure appeared and shocked them both.

• Lords of Souls let Black Soluo pass through the black vortex because he carried a captured Stigmata Wizard, and he escaped the Sword of Winter's reach.
• Black Soluo found level-three slaves in the world and pressured them for information about their master, but they said the master had left and forbade him from seeing the prisoners.
• Black Soluo handed Sword Bearer to the slaves and returned through the vortex while Yaoyao secretly followed them through the Shadow Plane.
• Yaoyao watched the slaves seal Sword Bearer and take him to a cavern where 658 captured Stigmata Wizards were held on a magic formation.
• As Leo examined the formation through Yaoyao's vision, a wooden-looking figure appeared, startling Leo and making Yaoyao fall out of the shadows.

Leo discovered that Big Ben Stigmata Wizard was alive and realized the Elemental Wizard School had secretly allied with Returning Breath World to cripple the Body Refinement Wizard School. After sealing his Fate Wizard Book to prevent it from revealing his location, Leo faced the choice of what to do about Big Ben and the hundreds of controlled Stigmata Wizards.

• Leo and Yaoyao recognized Big Ben Stigmata Wizard, whose survival convinced Leo that Black Skull Stigmata Great Wizard was alive too.
• Leo realized the Elemental Wizard School had protected Black Skull and colluded with Returning Breath World to set a trap that nearly destroyed the Body Refinement Wizard School.
• Leo understood that the Elemental Wizard School’s Supreme Lords had used the Fate Wizard Book to reveal the Stigmata Wizards’ locations.
• Leo sealed his copy of the Fate Wizard Book and hid it in the Shadow Plane so no one could trace him.
• Yaoyao asked Leo what they should do about Big Ben and the more than six hundred controlled Stigmata Wizards.

Leo freed more than six hundred Stigmata Wizards from Black Skull’s seals and revealed the Elemental Wizard School’s collusion with the Returning Breath World. He urged the rescued wizards to strike the lightly defended Returning Breath homeland, and they considered summoning a Supreme Lord to lead the attack.

• Leo decided to rescue the sealed Stigmata Wizards and use them to attack the Returning Breath World’s homeland, hoping to thwart Black Skull’s plan and avenge Alice.
• Leo knocked out the controlled Big Ben Stigmata Wizard and dispelled the seals, freeing more than six hundred Stigmata Wizards.
• Leo explained Black Skull’s betrayal, the controlled World Lords, and the Elemental Wizard School’s role; the rescued wizards recognized Big Ben as evidence of the plot.
• Leo told the Stigmata Wizards that the Returning Breath World’s homeland was nearby and weakly defended, and urged them to attack while its Lords of Souls were away.
• A level-five Stigmata Body Refinement Wizard proposed summoning a Supreme Lord to lead the assault and capture the Returning Breath homeland.

Leo sent the Body Refinement Wizards to conquer the Returning Breath World while he stayed behind to confront Black Skull, the Lord of Souls who had come to reclaim his escaped test subjects. After destroying Black Skull’s six World Lord puppets, Leo fought him with his Vajra Giant form and nuclear-fusion witchcraft, but Black Skull remained composed within the explosions.

• Leo detected Black Skull approaching and told the Body Refinement Wizards to conquer the Returning Breath World while he held off their pursuer.
• Black Skull recognized Leo as the one who had freed his captives and sent six level-five World Lords to capture him.
• Leo obliterated all six puppets with an attack exceeding three million points, then refused Black Skull’s offer to work together.
• Leo activated his Stigmata True Body and Vajra Giant bloodline, and the two exchanged attacks as Black Skull identified him as the Atomic Control Stigmata Wizard.
• Leo trapped Black Skull in continuous Tritium-Deuterium Fusion explosions, but Black Skull praised the attack from within the blast.

Leo fought Black Skull with the Vajra Giant, countering his skull-based spells with lightning, black metal, and a massive nuclear blast. After the blast destroyed the skull giants, Leo struck Black Skull from behind, then unleashed two beams from runes in the Vajra Giant’s eyes.

• Black Skull summoned skulls that absorbed energy and combined into thousands of giants, including three with Level-Six auras.
• Leo coated the Vajra Giant in black metal, endured the skull giants’ attacks, and destroyed one with fusion energy.
• Leo drew ordinary metal from the plane and used Metal Fusion Great Witchcraft to annihilate the skull giants in a nuclear explosion.
• The Vajra Giant emerged behind Black Skull and shattered three protective shields with the Godslaying Staff, but skulls blocked the weapon from reaching him.
• Leo revealed complex runes in the Vajra Giant’s eyes and fired two beams at Black Skull.

The Black Skull Stigmata Great Wizard overwhelmed the Vajra Giant with skulls and sustained spells, but none of his attacks harmed Leo. When Black Skull tried to pull Leo’s soul from the Vajra Giant, an unknown force severed the soul of Black Skull’s hand, leaving him stunned.

• The Vajra Giant’s Soul Splitting Technique failed against Black Skull, who redirected its damage to countless souls.
• The Vajra Giant attacked Black Skull with duplicates and lightning, but Black Skull’s skull barrier blocked the blows and his skulls surrounded the Giant.
• Black Skull trapped the Vajra Giant with Space Lock and bombarded him with lightning, wind blades, corrosive rain, and skull attacks, but the Giant remained unharmed.
• The Vajra Giant mocked Black Skull and revealed that soul attacks could not defeat him because his soul was anchored in the Shadow World.
• Black Skull reached into the Vajra Giant’s head to seize Leo’s soul, but an unknown force severed the soul of Black Skull’s hand.

Leo brought Black Skull into the Shadow Plane and used its laws to strip away his mana and souls, leaving the Level-Six wizard powerless. He sealed Black Skull’s own soul in a crystal and took his wizardry ring.

• After Black Skull’s witchcraft backlash weakened him, Leo’s Vajra Giant endured the nuclear explosions and subjected him to more than forty negative conditions.
• Leo opened a rift and pulled Black Skull into the Shadow Plane, where the plane replenished Leo’s mana and suppressed Black Skull and his skull minions.
• Leo used the Shadow Plane’s Power of Laws to drain Black Skull’s mana, lowering his aura from level six to level three.
• Leo extracted Black Skull’s billions of souls, filled the Soul Towers, and settled the remaining souls in the Shadow Plane’s upper skies.
• Leo removed Black Skull’s own soul, buried his physical body, took his wizardry ring, and sealed the soul in a crystal.

Leo killed the Black Skull Stigmata Great Wizard with the Shadow Plane’s help, then discovered that two Wizard World Supreme Lords were fighting the Returning Breath World’s Supreme Lord. After learning that the surviving Stigmata Wizards had escaped the encirclement, Leo prepared to stop the returning Lords of Souls from reaching the world.

• Leo explained that he could not yet erase Black Skull’s soul and that extracting its knowledge could let him control World Lords.
• Leo returned to the Returning Breath World and sensed three Supreme Lords fighting, with the world’s Supreme Lord suppressed by the two from the Wizard World.
• Leo entered Black Soluo’s body and learned that Undying Body had used the Sword of Winter to lead 123 Stigmata Wizards out of the encirclement, while more than seven hundred Stigmata Wizards had survived overall.
• The Level-Six Lord of Souls ordered the Lords of Souls to stop pursuing and prepare to teleport back to the Returning Breath World.
• Leo told the Body Refinement Stigmata Wizards to block the Lords of Souls at the black vortex and falsely claimed that Black Skull had escaped after nearly killing him.

Leo learned that four thousand Lords of Souls were returning to reinforce Returning Breath World, while the outnumbered Body Refinement Stigmata Wizards prepared to face them. He persuaded World Tree to personally help restrain the enemy’s Level-Six Lords of Souls in exchange for three worlds, and World Tree began arriving through a spatial rift.

• Leo learned that the Elemental Wizard School knew the Body Refinement Wizards had attacked Returning Breath World, and he warned that the returning Lords of Souls presented a rare opportunity.
• Forty black vortices began opening, but they could transport only eighty Lords of Souls at a time, leaving the more than six hundred Stigmata Wizards ready to surround them.
• Leo realized the Body Refinement Wizards could not get Level-Six reinforcements from other schools and decided to seek help from World Tree.
• World Tree refused to send troops but agreed to come personally and restrain the Level-Six Lords of Souls in return for three worlds.
• A spatial rift opened beside the Godslaying Staff, and World Tree's green branch began extending through it.