Chapter Summaries

Leo and the Stigmata Wizards ambushed the Lords of Souls as they emerged from the black vortices, while the World Tree captured their level-six leaders. The assault stalled when a Supreme Lord of the Returning Breath World appeared and shattered the vortices, as another phantom descended before the Stigmata Wizards.

• Leo introduced the World Tree and arranged for him to handle the level-six Lords of Souls while the Stigmata Wizards fought the rest.
• The World Tree captured two level-six Lords of Souls, and Leo drained their mana as waves of returning enemies emerged from the vortices.
• More than three hundred Lords of Souls were killed before one survivor spotted the ambush and fled, causing the rest to stop entering the vortices.
• Black Soluo watched as the Lords of Souls debated what to do, then a Supreme Lord of the Returning Breath World appeared and shattered the black vortices.
• A second phantom descended before the Stigmata Wizards, and its sword qi burst all forty black vortices.

The Returning Breath World surrendered to the Lord of Fate, prompting Supreme Lord Sword of Winter to silence the furious Body Refinement Wizards and secure their claim to its territory. Leo declined Sword of Winter’s offer to choose a teacher and obtained confirmation that the World Tree would receive three worlds, then joined the occupation while wondering what would happen to the captured Lords of Souls.

• Supreme Lord Sword of Winter arrived as the Returning Breath World’s surrender to the Lord of Fate was announced, and the World Tree presented him with two captured level-six Lords of Souls.
• A level-five Body Refinement Stigmata Wizard protested the surrender, but Sword of Winter silenced him and thanked Leo for his efforts.
• Sword of Winter offered Leo the chance to choose any of the seven Supreme Lords as his teacher, but Leo declined.
• Leo asked Sword of Winter to honor the World Tree’s promised payment of three worlds, and Sword of Winter confirmed that wizard civilization would deliver them.
• Sword of Winter ordered the Stigmata Wizards to occupy the Returning Breath World’s homeland and hold their positions, drawing Leo into the coming contest with the Elemental Wizard School.

After Returning Breath World surrendered, Leo claimed a remote territory and learned that its Lords of Souls had been told they were surrendering to preserve what remained of their world. As negotiations continued, Leo discovered the Fate Wizard Book was under the Wizard Will’s control and concealed Black Skull’s whereabouts while more Stigmata Wizards arrived to claim land.

• Leo declined the Body Refinement Wizards’ invitation to join territories and chose a remote region once controlled by Black Soluo.
• Yaoyao sent three thousand shadows to gather resources while Leo marked the valuable mineral veins in his territory.
• Leo observed Black Soluo’s faction learn that Returning Breath World had surrendered to preserve its remaining strength.
• Leo removed the seal from the Fate Wizard Book and found a message stating that its main body was under the Wizard Will’s control.
• Leo told wizards asking about Black Skull that he did not know where he had gone, keeping his presence in the Shadow Plane secret.
• More Stigmata Wizards arrived to claim territory, and the Interstellar Wanderer and Indestructible Body settled beside Leo.

After the war, Leo learned why Undying Body wielded the Sword of Winter and watched the Stigmata Wizards divide the Returning Breath World amid escalating clashes between the schools. Yaoyao then revealed that Little Bookworm No. 007’s body fragment had found another Little Bookworm, forcing Leo to consider whether to investigate despite being unable to leave.

• Leo met with Undying Body and Interstellar Wanderer, and the three agreed that neutral wizards needed to cooperate as conflict between the schools continued.
• Leo realized that Undying Body was chosen to wield the Sword of Winter because his defenses let him endure its power, and he considered that he might wield it himself after reaching level six.
• Over the next five years, the Stigmata Wizards occupied the Returning Breath World, while Body Refinement Wizards provoked frequent fights with the Elemental Wizard School over territory and the betrayal during the war.
• Yaoyao told Leo that the body fragment from Little Bookworm No. 007 had found another Little Bookworm, and Leo entered the Shadow World to assess the situation.
• Yaoyao showed Leo that the shadow tether connected to the fragment was being pulled from the other side, warning that they could lose the location if they delayed.

A newborn in the Bear Hunting Tribe received blessings from a thousand Barbarian Gods, who named him Baturu and declared him destined to change the fate of the Barbarian World. The tribe’s chief and people were left overwhelmed by the child’s divine status and the command to follow him.

• The chief waited anxiously as his wife gave birth to a son, while tribesmen urged him to choose the newborn’s name.
• A pillar of divine light descended into the tent, and the Bear Hunting Tribe knelt to welcome the Barbarian God’s blessing.
• More pillars of light appeared, leaving the tribe to imagine that the child might found an empire and even become a god.
• A thousand pillars of light descended, and a divine voice declared that the newborn was destined to change the Barbarian World’s fate.
• The Barbarian Gods commanded all barbarians to believe in, support, and heed the child, and they named him Baturu.

After receiving the blessings of a thousand gods and command over all barbarians, newborn Batu Lu reassured his father and ordered the Bear Hunting Tribe to protect the tent. Batu Lu then revealed to himself that he was Leo’s avatar, sent into the Barbarian World to find the other Little Bookworm, whose fragment had fused with his soul.

• The barbarians treated Batu Lu’s tent as sacred, and Batu Lu ordered them to guard the tribe and keep order as pilgrims arrived.
• Batu Lu’s father entered the tent, saw that his son was a glowing newborn, and listened as Batu Lu explained his destiny and the dangers ahead.
• Batu Lu’s father left the tent shaken, while Batu Lu reflected on his new body and identity as Leo’s avatar.
• Leo explained that he had split his soul to pursue the other Little Bookworm, and that fragment had unexpectedly merged with his soul during the crossing.
• Leo concluded that the Barbarian World was at least a large world, possibly a World Cluster, and suspected the fragment’s influence had caused the gods to name Batu Lu their fated leader.

Baturu’s supernatural authority drew more than a hundred level-three barbarians to the Bear Hunting Tribe, where they swore loyalty and accepted his orders. He began organizing protection and gathering knowledge about the Barbarian World, while his new followers competed to send him teachers and maidservants.

• More than a hundred level-three barbarians arrived at the Bear Hunting Tribe and swore blood oaths of loyalty to Baturu.
• Baturu trusted the newcomers and ordered them to form a guard unit, gather books and knowledgeable people, and build him a larger space for handling affairs.
• Half the barbarians flew away to fetch scholars and books, while the rest stayed to protect Baturu.
• Heroy urged the young chief to build Baturu a palace and provide maidservants, then offered his granddaughters for the role.
• Other level-three barbarians argued that their own granddaughters were better candidates, and the young chief realized they were trying to arrange future marriages for his newborn son.

Baturu learned about the Barbarian World while the tribes gathered around him and built up the Bear Hunting Tribe. Ten years later, he understood the world’s failed attempts to create a Supreme Lord and suspected the Book of Revelation was a universe-level treasure like Little Bookworm.

• Heroy kept late-arriving level-three barbarians far from Baturu’s tent, while Baturu studied the barbarians’ writing and the tribe built him a lavish palace.
• Baturu ordered the barbarians to stop making pilgrimages, develop their own tribes, and prepare to meet him when he came of age.
• Over ten years, the Bear Hunting Tribe grew to include more than ten thousand level-three barbarians and a hundred thousand level-two barbarians, while Baturu grew to two meters tall and studied the world’s history.
• Baturu learned that the Barbarian World was nearing advancement into a World Cluster but had failed for six thousand years to produce a Supreme Lord.
• Baturu discovered that the Book of Revelation had repeatedly shaped the barbarians’ destiny and concluded it was probably a universe-level treasure like Little Bookworm.

Baturu advanced to level one to escape the pressure from his maids and met Little Bookworm No. 001 during the breakthrough. He learned that Little Bookworm No. 001 could not leave the Barbarian World and pressed for an explanation, admitting he wanted the treasure and expected the right to use it as payment for helping.

• Baturu decided to advance to level one because he feared his maids would force themselves on him.
• Baturu broke through to level one as Heroy and the barbarians secured the palace and supplied energy crystals.
• Baturu encountered Little Bookworm No. 001 in a void and learned that it recognized the auras of Little Bookworm No. 002 and Little Bookworm No. 007.
• Little Bookworm No. 001 said it could not leave the Barbarian World, so its brothers would have to come to it to reunite.
• Baturu admitted he wanted to obtain Little Bookworm No. 001 and said Little Bookworm No. 007 had promised him the right to use it in exchange for helping.

Baturu learned that Little Bookworm No. 001 needed an outsider to advance to Supreme Lord so the Barbarian World could survive and become a World Cluster, and he accepted the offer in exchange for its vast resources. After receiving Supreme Lord advancement knowledge, Baturu shared the arrangement with Leo and Black Soluo.

• Little Bookworm No. 001 explained that his guidance had made the barbarians too powerful for the Barbarian World to sustain, and that his bond with the world's origin prevented him from leaving.
• Little Bookworm No. 001 said only an outsider could advance to Supreme Lord, then offered Baturu control of the Barbarian World, its three trillion barbarians, a thousand high-level barbarians, and 107 surrounding worlds.
• Baturu accepted the deal, and Little Bookworm No. 001 sent him instructions for contacting the Little Bookworms and information about advancing to Supreme Lord.
• Baturu entered his sea of consciousness and told Leo and Black Soluo about the offer and the Barbarian World's resources.
• Leo and Black Soluo examined Little Bookworm No. 001's detailed Supreme Lord advancement information.

Leo and Black Soluo agreed that Baturu must raise the Barbarian World into a World Cluster if he was to advance to Supreme Lord, and they planned expeditions to make that possible. Leo then contacted Little Bookworm No. 007, learned that the Fate Wizard Book was Little Bookworm No. 002, and suspected it had revealed his secrets.

• Leo decided Baturu would develop in the Barbarian World, with Leo and Black Soluo supporting him as he pursued advancement to Supreme Lord.
• Leo explained that the Barbarian World had to devour other World Wills to become a World Cluster, and Baturu agreed to prepare the barbarians for expeditions.
• Leo told Baturu to learn the Wizard World's spatial passages and the Returning Breath World's black vortex, while Yaoyao went to redeploy a thousand shadows.
• Leo contacted Little Bookworm No. 007 and demanded to know who Little Bookworm No. 002 was.
• Little Bookworm No. 007 revealed that the Fate Wizard Book was his second brother, and Leo asked whether it had told him all of Leo's secrets.

Leo learned that Little Bookworm No. 002 monitored Fate Wizard Book copies, then agreed to help Little Bookworm No. 007 find their missing brothers. In Barbarian World, Baturu advanced to level one and began preparing the barbarians for a world war by ordering them to study.

• Little Bookworm No. 007 admitted that his second brother, Little Bookworm No. 002, monitored Wizard World through the Fate Wizard Book copies, and confessed he had bluffed about knowing Yaoyao's secret.
• Leo told Little Bookworm No. 007 that their eldest brother, Red Little Bookworm No. 001, was bound to Barbarian World and wanted them to visit, but Little Bookworm No. 007 said they could not leave yet.
• Little Bookworm No. 007 warned Leo not to stop Little Bookworm No. 002's surveillance because the Wizard Will was watching him, then agreed to provide another piece of himself so Leo could search for their remaining brothers.
• Baturu advanced to the limit of level one and realized he needed to train the barbarians in knowledge, combat, and expedition tactics before they could fight in another world.
• Baturu summoned over a hundred thousand barbarians, announced that they must prepare for a world war, and ordered them to memorize the contents of hundreds of crystal balls within a year.

Baturu struggled to educate the barbarians for the Supreme Lord plan, so Leo proposed strengthening them and equipping them with intelligent command systems instead. While the Wizard World’s major schools continued their restrained battles, Leo began reprogramming a metallized soul to create an artificial intelligence system for the barbarians.

• Baturu complained that the barbarians learned academic subjects too slowly, and Leo advised him to focus on training their strength.
• Black Soluo suggested absorbing the barbarians’ souls, but Leo insisted they were valuable assets and Baturu agreed to use Body Refinement Wizard training methods.
• Leo watched a Stigmata Elemental Wizard defeat a Stigmata Body Refinement Wizard before another Body Refinement Wizard arrived and restarted the battle.
• Leo returned to seclusion and planned an intelligent command system that would guide the barbarians while limiting its energy use and storing its knowledge in metallized souls.
• Leo drew a fine thread from a blank metallized soul and began inscribing runes on it, prompting Yaoyao to recognize that he was reprogramming the soul.

After Leo’s attempt to create programmed metallized souls failed, he received war rewards and requested the Returning Breath World’s complete knowledge inheritance. He discovered that Alice’s soul essence was inside the world’s Will, but retrieving it might require destroying the Will and turning the entire Wizard World against him.

• Leo’s ten-year experiment to program metallized souls failed and blasted apart his wizard tower.
• The Fate Wizard Book announced the war’s end and awarded Leo forty million war merits, ten medium-sized worlds, territory in the Returning Breath World, and one request of a Supreme Lord.
• Leo asked Sword of Winter for the Returning Breath World’s complete knowledge inheritance, hoping to find a way to resurrect Alice.
• After two months of study, Leo found that the Returning Breath World Will had absorbed Alice’s soul essence along with the essence of other Lords of Souls’ victims.
• Yaoyao warned Leo to consider the consequences, while Leo resolved to resurrect Alice even if he had to destroy the Returning Breath World Will and make an enemy of the Wizard World.

Leo returned to his Stigmata Wizard demiplane and arranged the academy’s expansion across the worlds he had won, while learning that Meng Jie had died and Shi Xiang had become vice dean. He also reviewed the Wizard World’s surrender agreement with the Lords of Souls, which placed them under strict control and stationed one beside Leo’s territory.

• Leo ordered the academy to retrieve its wizards and slave army, auction eight of his eleven medium-sized worlds, and keep three for migration and Gulu Beast expansion.
• Shi Xiang told Leo that Meng Jie had died thirty years earlier and that Meng Mengmeng had become the academy’s first Level Three Great Wizard.
• Leo ordered a statue and lasting honors for Meng Jie, granted fivefold bonuses to those developing the new worlds, and asked Shi Xiang to find assistants and advance to level three.
• Leo directed Black Soluo to learn the Returning Breath World’s knowledge and master the Endless Pot before returning there.
• Leo reviewed the surrender agreement, which restricted the Lords of Souls’ expeditions and puppet armies, required them to cooperate with the Wizard World, and placed their territories beside Stigmata Wizards.
• Leo discovered that a Level-Five Lord of Souls had been assigned the territory beside his own and that the Returning Breath World’s Supreme Lords were forbidden to return home.

After Beast Blood Boiling invited Leo to his advancement reception, Leo monitored his connected worlds and rewarded Tortai for tracking Atiya’s rise. The chapter ended with Leo angrily confronting Purple-Gold Vine over the Tower of Elements Supreme Lord’s demand for information about Black Skull, then revealing that his fury had been a bluff.

• Beast Blood Boiling told Leo that he had advanced to level six by mastering the Metal Module and invited him to a reception with neutral Stigmata Wizards.
• Leo collected blood through a newly connected shadow, intending to pass the world’s coordinates to his clone Baturu, then checked on Atiya in Snowfield World.
• Tortai reported that Atiya had become Snow Elf chieftain, recovered the lost territory, and was preparing to attack Black Domain World; Leo rewarded Tortai with a dragon blood fruit tree.
• Purple-Gold Vine told Leo that the Tower of Elements Supreme Lord wanted him questioned about Black Skull’s whereabouts.
• Leo denied hiding Black Skull, suggested the traitor might have escaped, and threatened to escalate the matter; after Purple-Gold Vine ended the call, Leo calmly dismissed the questioning as a test.

Leo attended Beast Blood Boiling’s level-six reception, where he rejected repeated efforts to recruit him into a new alliance and watched nearly every other guest join the Mutual Aid Society. Beast Blood Boiling then directly asked Leo what he thought of the society, while Leo remained focused on feeding Yaoyao.

• Leo arrived at Beast Blood Boiling’s demiplane and observed the Water Elves escorting him, while considering their inherited water affinity and possible genetic experiments.
• Beast Blood Boiling welcomed Leo and introduced him to the gathered Stigmata Wizards, including Undying Body, Falling Stars, and Interstellar Wanderer.
• Undying Body tried to recruit Leo to cooperate against the two major schools or join the Body Refinement Wizard School, but Leo firmly refused.
• Beast Blood Boiling announced the Mutual Aid Society and promised to help Ice-Blue Cold Pupils advance; nearly all the gathered wizards, including Undying Body, Falling Stars, and Interstellar Wanderer, joined.
• Beast Blood Boiling asked Leo for his opinion of the Mutual Aid Society, while Leo continued feeding Yaoyao and gave no answer.

Leo refused Beast Blood Boiling's Mutual Aid Society and challenged him to a fight, so the two met in space with Beast Blood Boiling limiting himself to level five. Their giant forms clashed, and as Leo's Vajra Giant pressed forward, Beast Blood Boiling answered with Great Space Severing Witchcraft.

• Beast Blood Boiling asked Leo to join his Mutual Aid Society, but Leo refused despite the wizard's overwhelming aura.
• Leo challenged Beast Blood Boiling to a fight, and Beast Blood Boiling agreed to suppress his strength to level five and leave the metal module unused.
• Undying Body led the Stigmata Wizards into space to watch as Leo's lightning failed to harm Beast Blood Boiling.
• Beast Blood Boiling activated his Space Giant bloodline, while Leo transformed into a Vajra Giant, and the two began exchanging devastating blows.
• Leo's exceptional defenses let him withstand Beast Blood Boiling's stronger attacks and gain the advantage in their close combat.
• Beast Blood Boiling cast Great Space Severing Witchcraft, filling the space before Leo with countless spatial rifts as Leo charged into them.

Leo’s Vajra Giant battled the Space Giant, using his extraordinary defense and Atomic Control to withstand and wound his opponent. The two then unleashed their strongest witchcraft in a carefully controlled duel that reached a stalemate, leaving the watching Stigmata Wizards shaken by the fighters’ power.

• The Vajra Giant broke through the Space Giant’s spatial attacks and forced him to use Space Confinement Great Witchcraft, then tore free and pressed the attack.
• The Space Giant redirected the Vajra Giant’s lightning whip and sliced away part of his finger with spatial witchcraft, but burned the transferred flesh to ash to prevent it being used against Leo.
• Leo used Tritium-Deuterium Fusion Great Witchcraft to trigger more than a hundred internal explosions in the Space Giant, whose level-six body healed the wounds.
• The Space Giant and Leo agreed to continue, having demonstrated their strongest attacks so they could judge what each could withstand without fighting to the death.
• The giants unleashed their witchcraft in a high-speed clash that tore apart and restored space, but neither gained the advantage.
• The watching Level-Five Stigmata Wizards realized that attacks exceeding four million points could kill them instantly and marveled at the power of Elemental Body Tempering Stigmata Wizards.

Leo used spatial witchcraft to defeat Beast Blood Boiling in a duel, forcing him to rely on the Metal Module, a cosmic-grade treasure. After returning to the reception, Leo asked Beast Blood Boiling to sell him tens of thousands of Water Elves, then left for his demiplane with Yaoyao.

• The Space Giant used spatial folding and cloning to multiply his attacks, but Leo endured them with his defenses and inexhaustible energy.
• Leo used spatial witchcraft to deflect the Space Giant’s attacks, then trapped him in a fusion fireball and pulled him out of hiding in space.
• The Space Giant tried to escape, but Leo interrupted his witchcraft until he activated the Metal Module and blasted Leo away, conceding the duel under the agreed terms.
• Leo returned to the reception, explained that Beast Blood Boiling had been unable to bear hurting him, and asked him to sell tens of thousands of Water Elves.
• Leo left for his demiplane with Yaoyao and said he expected Beast Blood Boiling’s effort to build a faction to end in tragedy.