Chapter Summaries

Leo escaped Bloodline Controller and Cosmic Wanderer after Black Soluo and Baturu detonated their soul avatars to give him time, leaving Leo severely injured and reduced to level five. Bloodline Controller failed to capture him, took the remaining soul origins from the Returning Breath World, and ordered a search for Atomic Control.

• Black Soluo detonated his soul avatar toward Bloodline Controller, giving the weakened Leo a chance to flee, but Cosmic Wanderer attacked him before he could escape.
• Baturu transferred Leo his universe-grade treasures, blocked Cosmic Wanderer's spell, and detonated his soul avatar to destroy the pursuing attacks.
• Leo used the Hundred-Page World to endure the blast and entered the shattered space, while three universe-grade treasures followed him into the chaos.
• Bloodline Controller searched the chaos space but could not find Leo, then returned to the Returning Breath World and took the remaining soul origins.
• Bloodline Controller ordered a wanted notice for Atomic Control and the highest reward for anyone who found him, while the Returning Breath World shattered completely.

After Yaoyao rescued Leo from the chaotic space, Little Bookworms resurrected Baturu and Black Soluo, who merged with Leo and healed his severe soul injuries. The group began restoring souls from the recovered essence in hopes of finding Alice's, while acknowledging that it might still be in the Bloodline Controller's hands.

• Yaoyao found Leo unconscious at his Soul Anchor and carried him to the demiplane, where Little Bookworm No. 001 summoned the others to resurrect Baturu and Black Soluo.
• Little Bookworm No. 003 and No. 004 restored Baturu and Black Soluo inside the Hundred-Page World, and both Supreme Lords emerged less than a month later.
• Baturu and Black Soluo merged into Leo, restoring his soul and returning him to his complete three-headed, six-armed form and Supreme Lord strength.
• Black Soluo produced the Endless Pot, the Black Endless Pot, and Little Bookworm No. 003's Book of Souls, which held most of the Returning Breath World's soul essence.
• Leo concluded that Alice's soul essence was either among their recovered stores or in the Bloodline Controller's possession, and the group began restoring souls one by one.

Leo learned that his available energy could restore only one hundred-millionth of Returning Breath World's soul origins, forcing him to delay Alice's resurrection while he prioritized rebuilding his forces. After assigning the resurrection and control of fallen World Lords, he checked the Fate Wizard Book and learned what had happened in Wizard World during his month unconscious.

• Little Bookworm No. 003 told Leo that restoring every soul origin would require a hundred million times their current energy, enough for only one hundred-millionth of the souls.
• Little Bookworms No. 006 and No. 007 suggested Crystal Giant World as a vast energy source, but Leo refused to pursue it until he had recovered.
• Leo ordered Xiao San and Xiao Si to resurrect the two thousand World Lords, the four thousand-plus native Lords of Souls, and eighty Stigmata Wizards, and tasked Black Soluo with controlling the World Lords.
• Leo decided not to resurrect Returning Breath World's ten Supreme Lords because they had no way to control them, then sent everyone away and began recovering from his soul wounds.
• Leo opened the Fate Wizard Book and learned that five of Returning Breath World's ten Supreme Lords had died and five had been captured alive.

The Wizard World publicized Leo’s crimes and declared him its top-priority target, offering a Supreme Lord position for his live capture. Seeing that the investigation into controlled wizards would expose Purple-Gold Vine, Leo realized he could no longer keep him.

• Cosmic Wanderer, Bloodline Controller, and World Breaker issued a wanted notice revealing Leo’s strength, treasures, avatars, and alleged crimes.
• The Supreme Lords claimed Leo had been reduced to level five and permanently weakened, then ordered the Wizard World to capture him alive for a huge reward.
• Stigmata Wizards began searching for Leo while the Supreme Lords secretly investigated whether wizards and World Lords were under his control.
• Leo learned that the investigation would eventually expose Purple-Gold Vine and realized he could no longer keep him.

Leo used Purple-Gold Vine to learn that Dragon Enslaver had hidden the news of Leo’s wanted status to keep Wizard World’s invasion of Myriad Beasts World on course. Leo arranged for Purple-Gold Vine to trade two pureblood dragons for Dragon Enslaver’s support, while preparing to resurrect Hanubi, and learned that Dragon Enslaver had agreed to the deal.

• Leo questioned Purple-Gold Vine about the war, learning that Wizard World’s armies had conquered one-tenth of Myriad Beasts World’s home territory and expected to reach its center within three hundred years.
• Purple-Gold Vine confirmed that the wizards fighting abroad knew nothing about Wizard World’s events because Dragon Enslaver had suppressed news of Leo’s wanted status and the two vacant Supreme Lord positions.
• Leo ordered Purple-Gold Vine to offer Dragon Enslaver two pureblood level-three dragons in exchange for support, and Purple-Gold Vine realized Leo was plotting against Dragon Enslaver.
• Leo told Xiao San and Xiao Si to resurrect Hanubi, and instructed Baturu to subdue Hanubi as soon as he returned.
• Purple-Gold Vine reported that Dragon Enslaver had agreed to provide limited, discreet assistance in exchange for the dragons, and Leo asked him to recount every detail of their meeting.

Leo realized Dragon Enslaver had suspected Purple-Gold Vine was his pawn, but proceeded with the planned meeting to expose the trap. Purple-Gold Vine detonated himself when confronted, prompting Dragon Enslaver and Wisdom Halo to order a search for Leo and an examination of every Stigmata Wizard in the Myriad Beasts World.

• Leo concluded that Dragon Enslaver had recognized Purple-Gold Vine as a likely pawn and sent two sealed level-three golden dragons to the agreed meeting place.
• Dragon Enslaver ignored the dragons and confronted Purple-Gold Vine, while Wisdom Halo arrived to witness the questioning.
• Dragon Enslaver revealed that Wizard World intelligence had exposed Leo's identity and abilities, and Purple-Gold Vine understood that Leo had withheld this information from him.
• Purple-Gold Vine admitted that Leo was his master and detonated himself, destroying the demiplane as Dragon Enslaver and Wisdom Halo shielded themselves.
• Dragon Enslaver and Wisdom Halo searched the surrounding space but found no trace of Leo.
• Wisdom Halo insisted the intelligence be shared with all Stigmata Wizards, and Dragon Enslaver agreed to examine their souls.

Undying Body and Beast Blood Boiling were summoned for soul inspections after Leo, the traitor Atomic Control, was exposed. Their souls were clean, but their truthful account of Leo’s secrets left the Supreme Lords questioning why they had not reported him sooner.

• Dragon Enslaver and Wisdom Halo summoned Undying Body and Beast Blood Boiling to inspect their souls.
• Dragon Enslaver repeatedly examined both wizards and confirmed that neither had been controlled.
• Undying Body and Beast Blood Boiling described their dealings with Leo, including his soul avatars, the World Tree, and the enhanced power of fused cosmic treasures.
• Dragon Enslaver realized Leo had concealed more strength than the Wizard World knew and recalled his own role in plotting against him.
• Wisdom Radiance angrily asked Undying Body and Beast Blood Boiling why they had not reported what they knew earlier.

Wisdom Halo tried to remove Beast Blood Boiling and Undying Body from the Myriad Beasts World war, but Dragon Enslaver intervened and they returned to the battlefield. Leo explained the war to resurrected Supreme Lord Hanubi and urged him to negotiate a surrender that would protect the Myriad Beasts World while helping Leo.

• Wisdom Halo ordered Beast Blood Boiling and Undying Body to return to the Wizard World, but Dragon Enslaver persuaded him to let them remain in the war.
• Beast Blood Boiling and Undying Body returned to the Myriad Beasts World and intensified their attacks to win the war quickly.
• Leo and Baturu told resurrected Supreme Lord Hanubi about the Wizard World’s invasion and the Myriad Beasts World’s worsening position.
• Hanubi questioned why Leo had resurrected him, and Leo explained that he wanted Hanubi to help save his world and assist him as a Wizard World traitor.
• Leo urged Hanubi to offer a nominal surrender, demand that Supreme Lords and World Lords stay away, and hand over the Horn of the Dragon; Hanubi considered whether the proposal was credible.

Leo negotiated with Hanubi for the Myriad Beasts World to surrender to a wizard he would designate, offering protection and a universe-level treasure in exchange for their help with his plan. Hanubi’s surrender contract reached Undying Body on the battlefield, making him the apparent candidate for advancing to Supreme Lord as the Myriad Beasts World halted its armies and awaited the wizards’ response.

• Leo offered Hanubi a deal: the Myriad Beasts World would surrender to his chosen person and later assist his plan in exchange for a world treasure and other benefits.
• Hanubi agreed to return and persuade the other Supreme Lords, while Leo told Baturu that the Myriad Beasts World would have more leverage cooperating with them than with the Wizard World.
• Leo and Baturu visited the outskirts of the Myriad Beasts World, then returned to the dead star.
• A projection of a Myriad Beasts World Supreme Lord appeared between Beast Blood Boiling and Undying Body and announced his surrender to the wizard who accepted the world’s demands.
• The Supreme Lord sent Undying Body a surrender contract that made its recipient the next candidate to advance to Supreme Lord, and Undying Body realized he held the chance Beast Blood Boiling had expected to pursue.
• The Myriad Beasts World ordered its armies to cease fighting and withdraw while Undying Body clutched the contract and awaited the wizards’ decision.

After the Myriad Beasts World surrendered to the Wizard World and named Undying Body as the recipient of a Supreme Lord advancement slot, the Supreme Lords suspected his ties to Atomic Control and delayed their decision. Three years later, they accepted the surrender terms and awarded Undying Body the slot, and he celebrated his coming advancement.

• The Myriad Beasts World's Supreme Lord appeared, surrendered to the Wizard World, and singled out Undying Body, who was summoned to meet the Supreme Lords.
• Beast Blood Boiling suspected Atomic Control had influenced the surrender, and the Supreme Lords withheld Undying Body's advancement slot while investigating his possible secret ties to the traitor.
• Undying Body returned furious, complained that the Supreme Lords had accused him of conspiring with Atomic Control, and said the surrender was accepted in principle while his slot remained undecided.
• The war halted as the Wizard World deliberated, and three years later it accepted all the Myriad Beasts World's conditions and awarded the slot to Undying Body.
• Undying Body celebrated, while Beast Blood Boiling credited Dragon Enslaver with persuading the Supreme Lords to honor the decision.

After learning that Undying Body had become a Supreme Lord, Leo discussed his own advancement options with Yaoyao and settled on seeking recognition from the Shadow World. Yaoyao proposed creating shadow life from souls, but Leo remained uncertain and decided to prepare alternatives.

• Undying Body advanced to Supreme Lord after defeating the Myriad Beasts World and reclaiming the Horn of the Dragon, while Leo considered how to advance himself.
• Leo rejected the Wizard World and other ordinary World Clusters as routes, and Yaoyao suggested using the Shadow World instead of waiting to develop the Shadow Plane.
• Yaoyao explained that the Shadow World required Leo to help it bring its shadows to life by nurturing a life-form that could survive there.
• Yaoyao proposed sending souls resurrected by Xiao San into the Shadow World to find a suitable life-form, and Leo entrusted the effort to him.
• After Yaoyao left to transfer souls, Leo decided to prepare other advancement methods because finding a creature that could survive in the Shadow World might be extremely difficult.

Leo expanded his forces by organizing the advancement of more World Lords, developing a joint university, and overseeing efforts to reproduce wizard motherships. When Yaoyao told him Benji had been resurrected, Leo retrieved Benji’s soul and prepared to restore his body.

• Leo ordered Little Bookworm No. 001 and Baturu to select loyal candidates and raise the number of World Lords in his worlds to their quotas.
• Leo visited the joint university in the Barbarian World, where Shi Xiang, Hu Jianxing, and other wizards debated teaching methods and trained students of many races.
• Leo observed Stigmata Wizards and World Lords studying motherships to reproduce them and build the industry needed to construct new ones.
• Yaoyao told Leo that Xiao San had resurrected Benji, whose soul had been found among the revived souls.
• Leo went to Little Bookworm No. 003 and took Benji’s soul, while Yaoyao fetched Xiao Si to copy Benji’s body from the Shadow Plane.

Leo resurrected Benji after more than three thousand years and helped him catch up on the changes in the world. He chose the Tuhun Great World for Benji, who ascended to World Lord with Little Bookworm No. 001’s help.

• Xiao Si provided Benji’s intact body, and Leo restored Benji by placing his soul inside it.
• Yaoyao told Benji that the Gulu Beast Clan had grown to hundreds of billions and showed him Leo’s forces across hundreds of worlds.
• Benji spent over half a year learning about the events of the past three thousand years, including Leo’s advancement to level six and his defection from the Wizard World.
• Leo chose the Tuhun Great World for Benji so he could gain the foundation to reach level six.
• Little Bookworm No. 001 extracted the Tuhun Great World’s Power of World Origin and poured it into Benji, transforming him into a level-four World Lord.

Benji advanced to World Lord and joined Leo’s forces as they set out to test their army in its first expedition. At the Floating Life Great World, Leo rejected its rulers’ surrender and tore open the world barrier.

• Benji reached level four, and Leo told him to master his new power before joining a coming battle.
• Leo waited ten years for Xiao San to find Alice’s soul origin, but it found nothing; the completed motherships were then ready to depart.
• Leo led three motherships, fifty World Lords, and a multiracial army of three billion toward the Floating Life Great World.
• After thirty years, the force arrived outside the world, where its ten World Lords confronted them and Mierhan asked their purpose.
• Leo declared that he had come to kill them all, ignored Mierhan’s surrender, and tore apart the world barrier.

Leo’s forces invaded the Floating Life Great World, capturing its World Lords and overwhelming its army with disciplined formations and Intelligent Souls. As the conquest continued, Sword Bearer realized Leo’s growing power was preparing for a future war against the Wizard World, but his control prevented him from warning it.

• Benji charged into the Floating Life Great World, then turned to slaughter its lower-level defenders when he could not join the World Lords’ battle.
• Leo ordered Yaoyao to send down the motherships, and five billion expeditionary troops poured out and used coordinated formations to crush the resisting army.
• The expeditionary army captured all ten of the Floating Life Great World’s World Lords alive and sealed them in the Shadow Plane.
• After two days, the army had wiped out the sky’s defenders, and all five billion troops deployed across the world while Leo’s World Lords observed and assessed their tactics.
• Sword Bearer watched the expeditionary army fight and concluded Leo was preparing to attack the Wizard World, but his control left him unable to warn it.

Leo drove the conquest of the Floating Life Great World to test his army and retrieve Little Bookworm No. 005, whose power could hatch World Wills. After the Barbarian World assimilated the conquered world, Leo reunited with Xiao Wu and considered how his ability could support his path to becoming a Supreme Lord.

• Leo criticized the army's 1,000:1 casualty ratio and ordered it to reach 2,000:1 while conquering three-fifths of the Floating Life Great World within ten years.
• Leo's forces met his demands in nine years and ten months, after which he told the Barbarian World's World Lords to summon their World Will.
• The Barbarian World assimilated the Floating Life Great World's World Will, and Yaoyao brought Little Bookworm No. 005 to Leo.
• Leo assimilated Xiao Wu and learned that he could hatch World Wills, though the process was slow.
• Leo recognized that Xiao Wu's ability could support his World Cluster ambitions and work with the other Little Bookworms' powers.

Leo gathered six Little Bookworm projections, which fused into an enigmatic black slab with an illusory space inside. He began testing it in the Shadow Plane laboratory, hoping to learn what power the seven Little Bookworms would have when combined.

• Leo brought Xiao Wu to the Shadow Plane and assigned him to raise its level while the conquest of the Floating Life Great World continued.
• Yaoyao pulled Xiao Wu's projection from the Shadow World, and the six collected book projections fused into a black slab.
• Leo and Yaoyao discovered the slab contained a vast illusory space that could not hold physical objects.
• Leo took the black slab to the Shadow Plane laboratory for testing, while reports from the Floating Life Great World arrived over the next ten years.
• Baturu and Black Soluo examined the slab but could not determine its abilities.

Leo spent a thousand years expanding his forces by rewarding military merit with advancement, then prepared to launch a major operation against the Wizard World. He remained unable to advance to Supreme Lord or find a way to resurrect Alice as he began the plan with Black Soluo and Baturu.

• Yaoyao took the unresponsive black slab from Leo after neither he nor the Little Bookworms could discover its abilities.
• Leo changed the expedition rewards so that exceptional service could earn advancement from level three to four and, eventually, from higher levels as well.
• Leo's forces began a wave of expeditions, discovered a new life-bearing world about every thirty years, and grew to more than ten thousand World Lords.
• After a thousand years, Leo summoned Black Soluo and Baturu and said it was time to begin their operation, since the Wizard World had stopped searching for him three hundred years earlier.
• Baturu questioned Leo's decision to delay the operation because Leo had made no progress toward becoming a Supreme Lord and had found no hope of resurrecting Alice.

Leo rejected the Barbarian World route to becoming a Supreme Lord and prepared his forces for war against the Crystal Giant World Cluster. As mobilization began, he considered the timing ideal because the Wizard World was consumed by a struggle over its remaining Supreme Lord slots.

• Leo told Baturu and Black Soluo he would follow his own advancement plans and ordered them to prepare for an expedition against the Crystal Giant World Cluster.
• Leo gave Black Soluo and Baturu a detailed battle plan that also accounted for the Wizard World and the Purgatory Demon World.
• Leo explained to Yaoyao that the war would supply Xiao San with energy, help the Shadow Plane grow, and strengthen his forces and their shared civilization.
• Leo urged Yaoyao to put away the mysterious black slab during the war, but Yaoyao agreed only to resume researching it afterward.
• Leo reviewed information showing that the Wizard World remained in turmoil as Stigmata Wizards fought for a path to Supreme Lord advancement, leaving the Myriad Beasts World relatively free.

Leo’s forces launched an all-out attack on the Crystal Giant World, destroying its defending squads and gathering thousands of World Lords outside its barrier. The assault was meant to begin a campaign against the Crystal Giant World Cluster and announce Leo’s challenge to the Wizard World.

• Leo decided to alarm the Wizard World after its wizards stopped searching for him and turned their attention inward.
• More than a thousand World Lords emerged through a vast spatial rift outside the Crystal Giant World and annihilated the first defending squads they encountered.
• Over five thousand more World Lords joined them, bringing the attacking force to more than six thousand and surrounding the world barrier with killing intent.
• The Level-Five commander requested reinforcements, but dozens of Level-Six World Lords arrived and killed him and the other Crystal Giants at his position.
• Mierhan admired the Crystal Giants’ energy-crystal bodies while the level-five Sword Bearer reminded him to follow the plan and lure away the Crystal Giant World’s Supreme Lords.
• Sword Bearer recognized the invasion as a campaign to destroy the Crystal Giant World Cluster and a public declaration of war against the Wizard World.