Chapter Summaries

Leo accidentally gained Yaoyao as his soul companion when his new secret art tore apart part of his soul, then discovered that the crystal heart revealed coordinates to Diana’s hidden resting place. He planned to quietly return to Jeft World and began adapting to life as an Elemental Body Refinement Wizard.

• Leo’s soul-tearing secret art activated through his nuclear shadow, but a black creature in the Shadow World swallowed the torn soul and became his companion, Yaoyao.
• Yaoyao devoured one of Leo’s nuclear shadows, returned the torn portion of Leo’s soul through their connection, and appeared on his shoulder; Leo found Yaoyao’s memories blank.
• Leo took out the crystal heart and used his advanced mental power to draw energy from it, replenishing his mana and receiving coordinates linked to Diana, Goddess of Darkness.
• Leo decided to search for Diana’s resting place without telling Alice or the Purple Flame Stigmata Wizard, and considered Benji’s return to Jeft World a suitable excuse.
• Yaoyao refused to leave Leo’s shoulder, so Leo returned to the fourth floor and began testing how to fuse his elemental and body-refinement abilities.

After advancing as an Elemental Body Refinement Wizard, Leo tested how his improved body affected his nuclear fission witchcraft and discovered that Yaoyao could store nuclear material in his shadow. The experiments greatly increased Leo’s fission efficiency and accelerated his physical evolution, leaving him eager to study and control his new power.

• Leo prepared a new Gravity Shadow, but Yaoyao swallowed the nuclear material from his hand through its shadow.
• Yaoyao merged his own shadow into Leo, allowing Leo to sense nuclear radiation and control nuclear material inside it.
• Leo triggered a fission reaction in Yaoyao’s shadow, achieving 38.9% efficiency and raising his physical evolution rate to five times normal.
• Leo found that his mana capacity had doubled after advancing and calculated that he could control 0.2 grams of fission material.
• Leo triggered a second reaction, raising his evolution rate to seven times normal and recording 2,000 attack power with 30% fission efficiency.

After advancing, Leo explored his new strength, shared a decoded soul-tearing secret art with Alice, and considered ways to strengthen the Gulu Clan. He then prepared for his return to Jeft World, maintaining his ties at Purple Flame Academy before passing through the spatial passage without trouble.

• Leo spent a month mastering his new strength, then hosted Alice for a meal and gave her the decoded secret art for tearing apart souls.
• Leo considered using Tao Rhys's notes to strengthen the Gulu Clan, but Yaoyao ate the planetary core and then feasted on nuclear material in Leo's Shadow Space.
• Leo spent his 2,574 energy crystals on standard level-one spells to broaden his spell selection.
• After Benji reminded him that five years had passed, Leo traveled with Benji to Purple Flame Academy, where he visited Gru, Wizard Gavarci, Lilith, and Alexander.
• Leo presented the dean's written order at the spatial passage and entered Jeft World without being charged a teleportation fee.

Leo returned to Jeft World with Benji to visit the Gulu Clan and investigate the area near the Goddess of Darkness’s possible resting place. He reached the clan’s territory and found that its population had grown enormously.

• Leo entered Jeft World and showed Wizard Brute Alexander’s authorization, then asked about the world’s development.
• Leo told Brute he had come to see how Benji’s Gulu Clan had reproduced, and Brute allowed him to travel freely.
• Benji revealed that he had chosen the Gulu Clan’s new territory near the place Leo had identified as the likely location of the Goddess of Darkness’s fall.
• Leo and Benji flew for three days to reach the clan’s territory in the west of the continent.
• Benji announced his return, and more than ten thousand ranked Gulu Beasts gathered to greet him as Leo sensed that the clan had grown to over a million members.

Leo spent half a month visiting Benji and the Gulu Beasts while Yaoyao ran wild and caused trouble throughout the forest. After confirming that a covertly observing wizard had left, Leo used his bond with Yaoyao to retrieve him and set out with him on a secret operation.

• Benji introduced Leo and Yaoyao to the Gulu Beasts, who welcomed them with their finest food.
• Yaoyao spent his days leading juvenile Gulu Beasts around the forest and causing chaos, while Benji assigned guards to protect him.
• A wizard secretly watched Leo for half a month, then left after deciding Leo had made no other moves.
• Leo told Benji to wait another half month and keep up appearances while they ensured no wizard was still watching.
• Leo pulled Yaoyao back through their soul connection, silenced his boasting, and headed toward their destination with Yaoyao; Benji stayed behind to guard the forest.

Leo and Yaoyao found Diana, Goddess of Darkness, in the interlayer between the Main World and the Shadow World, but her corpse’s lingering energy repelled Leo. To exhaust it, Leo and Yaoyao began casting Nuclear Fission Grand Witchcraft.

• Leo searched the forest with his shadows but found no trace of the Goddess of Darkness’s corpse.
• Yaoyao led Leo through the Shadow World and into the interlayer, where they found Diana’s enormous corpse.
• Leo touched and struck the corpse, triggering powerful energy that knocked him back.
• Leo activated his Hunter Bloodline, and Yaoyao hid inside his ear as they prepared to attack together.
• Leo and Yaoyao cast Nuclear Fission Grand Witchcraft, and its energy surged into Leo’s body.

Leo depleted the Goddess of Darkness’s corpse energy with repeated Nuclear Fission Grand Witchcraft, then began dismembering and preserving the body before the gray mist could erode it. He discovered her heart had been shattered and the Crystal Heart was made from fragments of her, leaving him with the corpse and a new theory about the Dark Night Temple’s plans.

• Leo fired an initial Nuclear Fission Grand Witchcraft attack and calculated that three more blasts should exhaust the Goddess of Darkness’s defenses.
• Leo cast the spell three more times, draining the corpse’s energy and scorching its flesh while Yaoyao boasted about their victory.
• Leo followed Yaoyao’s warning and began dismembering the corpse, collecting its blood and sealing the severed parts for preservation.
• Leo found a palm-sized wound over the Goddess of Darkness’s heart and learned from Yaoyao that she may have tried to enter the Shadow World to reach level five.
• Leo brought out the Crystal Heart, which began beating toward the corpse, and concluded that it had been cultivated from fragments of the Goddess of Darkness’s heart.
• Leo and Yaoyao celebrated possessing the Level-Four World Lord’s corpse and the treasures connected to it.

Leo escaped with a hundred Gulu Beasts and the Goddess of Darkness’s corpse, then returned to his wizard tower and began studying the Level-Four World Lord’s remains. His experiments revealed that dark energy and the Crystal Heart could restore the shattered heart, which he expected to heal completely in ten years.

• Leo left Jeft World with a hundred first-level Gulu Beasts and reached the Tower of Elements without being pursued.
• Leo told Benji to settle the Gulu Beasts and keep Alice away from the wizard tower while he worked on the Goddess of Darkness’s corpse.
• Leo began a wide-ranging study of the corpse, finding that its blood remained active and could absorb energy even after more than a thousand years.
• Leo discovered that dark-attribute energy restored some of the Goddess of Darkness’s cells and could make her shattered heart fragments fuse.
• Leo placed the Crystal Heart among the fragments, accelerating the heart’s repair enough that he expected it to recover fully in ten years.
• Leo continued cataloguing the corpse’s properties, including skin that concealed auras and refracted light, and bones that resisted powerful lightning.

Leo transformed the Goddess of Darkness’s hide into a wizard robe and began refining her bones into a staff, while borrowing energy crystals to keep both projects running. After disciplining Yaoyao for damaging Benji’s fire spirit flowers, Leo turned to researching how to improve the Gulu Beasts’ essence of life using the Goddess’s remains.

• Leo tested the Goddess of Darkness’s bones, found them impervious to his strongest strike, and began refining them into a staff with a large formation.
• Leo inscribed his blood-infused runes onto the Goddess of Darkness’s hide for five years, then wore the finished robe, which adapted to his changing form.
• Leo caught Yaoyao directing Gulu Beasts to ravage Benji’s fire spirit flower field, and Yaoyao promised to repent by reading the library’s books.
• Leo borrowed Benji’s energy crystals and arranged to repay him from his Jeft World dividends.
• Leo concluded that the Goddess of Darkness’s influence had altered a few Gulu Beasts over generations and planned controlled experiments on her flesh and blood and the Gulu Beasts.

Leo developed a life-enhancement potion from the Goddess of Darkness’s cells, discovering that the cells were too active for most Gulu Beast organs. After adapting them through generations of cultivation, he successfully strengthened Benji and the other Gulu Beasts, then left the long-term inheritance of the change to their descendants.

• Leo found that the Goddess of Darkness’s cells devoured and transformed Gulu Beast tissue so aggressively that most organs collapsed, while Benji’s isolated organ survived for three days before failing.
• Leo reduced the cells’ activity through successive generations of cultivation, eventually producing an organ that lasted a month with increased energy intensity.
• Leo gave Benji the resulting potion, and Benji grew stronger without rejection before swearing allegiance with his clan.
• Leo realized Benji’s Gulu Beast branch had already inherited a compatibility with the Goddess of Darkness’s cells, then injected the remaining level-one Gulu Beasts and confirmed they had gained the potential to reach level two.
• Leo told Benji to produce offspring so later generations could test whether the enhanced nature would be inherited, and he set aside a protected area in the wizard tower for the clan.

Leo forged the Godslaying Staff from the Goddess of Darkness’s bones, heart, and other materials, then assessed its powerful abilities alongside the Godslaying Wizard Robe. Equipped with the set, he tested the robe’s concealment and discovered his combined defense could withstand attacks up to 2,150 points.

• Leo finished fusing the Goddess of Darkness’s heart with her refined bones and materials to create the Godslaying Staff.
• Leo examined the staff’s abilities, including increased elemental attacks, stronger shadow talents, and stored energy that replenished his mana.
• Leo named his robe the Godslaying Wizard Robe and found that it boosted his elemental attacks and shadow abilities while concealing his figure and aura.
• Leo tested the robe’s concealment outside the wizard tower, and neither the Gulu Beasts nor Benji detected him.
• Leo calculated that the robe and his other defenses gave him 2,150 points of defense.

Alice invited Leo to enter the First-Level Wizard Tournament, and he agreed, seeing a chance to compete rather than merely broaden his horizons. He recruited Yaoyao to help master nuclear fission calculations and planned to use his maximumed attributes and the year before the tournament to improve his abilities.

• Alice contacted Leo and explained that the First-Level Wizard Tournament would take place in a year, offering rewards and protection from death; Leo agreed to enter.
• Leo pulled Yaoyao from the library and challenged him to calculate a fission equation for the material in the shadow's core.
• Yaoyao completed the calculation with thirteen errors, and Leo set a goal for him to calculate without paper at over 97% accuracy within five minutes.
• Leo persuaded Yaoyao to study by promising that winning the tournament would make them both famous, and Yaoyao agreed.
• Leo noted that his mental power, stamina, and strength had all reached 100, 95, and 97 respectively, and considered developing more uses for nuclear fission energy.
• Leo reasoned that the tournament would leave him ample time before the next compulsory expedition, while Yaoyao's calculations could let him use fission in battle without pausing to work them out himself.

Leo entered the first-level championship in a lifeless world governed by the Wizard Will, where only one wizard in a hundred thousand would advance. He concealed himself after teleporting in and eliminated the first contestant who approached him.

• Yaoyao accompanied Leo to meet Alice before the competition, and Alice noticed the dangerous pressure coming from Leo’s equipment.
• Leo teleported to a lifeless competition world, sensed the Wizard Will, and learned that only a few thousand of the hundreds of millions of wizards there would qualify.
• Leo activated the Godslaying Wizard Robe to hide himself and waited near a mountain as the competition began.
• A cautious wizard teleported nearby and unknowingly approached Leo’s hiding place.
• Leo struck the wizard with lightning, shattered his two protective barriers, and eliminated him.

Leo dominated the first-level championship elimination round, eliminating wizards with effortless attacks while testing his strength and developing a longer-range Shadow Walking ability. Finding the early fights too easy, he decided to wait for the later team battles, while choosing not to seek out or protect Alice.

• Leo realized his casual strikes carried overwhelming power, and Yaoyao urged him to attack the other competitors.
• Leo stayed invisible and eliminated wizards as they arrived, then spent ten days roaming the world and eliminating fewer than twenty.
• Leo used the Godslaying Set to extend his Shadow Jump beyond a thousand meters and renamed the ability Shadow Walking.
• Leo discovered four wizards hiding together and eliminated them with Thunderfall Great Witchcraft.
• Leo explained that he and Alice had not teamed up because she needed to grow without his protection.
• Leo concluded that one-on-one fights could no longer test him and chose to wait for the later team battles.

Leo watched Amanda and Amy lure four pursuers into their fire arrays, then eliminated the three remaining wizards with Nuclear Fission Grand Witchcraft when the fleeing pair ran toward his hiding place. He disappeared afterward, but his cold voice sounded behind Amanda and Amy as they started to relax.

• Leo watched Amanda and Amy set three linked fire arrays and lure their seven pursuers into a trap.
• Amanda and Amy activated the arrays, eliminating four pursuers, while the remaining three attacked them from the sky.
• Amanda and Amy fled toward Leo, and Yaoyao secretly tapped Leo’s Godslaying Wizard Robe.
• Leo fired Nuclear Fission Grand Witchcraft and instantly eliminated the three attackers.
• Leo vanished from view, then spoke coldly from behind Amanda and Amy.

Leo recruited Amanda and Aimei as bait to lure wizards into his attacks during the elimination round, while he spent most of his attention reading. The pair’s increasingly reckless march attracted opponents, whom Leo eliminated with ease.

• Leo spared Amanda and Aimei from elimination in exchange for helping him lure out wizard teams, and promised to do his best to help them advance.
• Amanda and Aimei agreed to act as bait while making their own plans to survive and escape later.
• Leo concealed himself with Shadow Walking and followed the pair, while Yaoyao watched for approaching wizards.
• A body refinement wizard hesitated to attack Amanda and Aimei, but Leo struck from three directions with lightning and eliminated him.
• Amanda and Aimei began releasing their auras and marching openly, and Leo continued eliminating the wizards they attracted while wishing for a stronger opponent.

Leo continued eliminating wizards while Yaoyao trained his fission calculations and stored energy, as Amanda and Aimei reluctantly remained his bait. When a large flying wizard artifact carrying more than 150 wizards approached, Leo eagerly prepared to test his strength, and five wizards descended to attack Amanda and Aimei.

• Yaoyao remembered Leo's eliminations and kept a private record while Amanda and Aimei discussed how many wizards had been eliminated.
• Amanda and Aimei recalled how Leo had eliminated a group of thirteen wizards and many other attackers, convincing them that fleeing might bring his wrath.
• Leo made Yaoyao practice fission calculations and fed excess energy into the Godslaying Staff.
• Amanda recognized an approaching cloud as a large flying wizard artifact and feared the force of the wizard team aboard it.
• Leo sensed more than 150 wizards aboard the artifact and prepared nuclear material with Yaoyao as his Hunter Bloodline began to stir.
• The artifact's team sent five wizards down to attack Amanda and Aimei.

Leo eliminated a five-wizard team, then challenged the 157 wizards led by Charlotte of the Green Cottage Merchant Group. After Charlotte refused to answer his confidential question without higher clearance, Leo renewed his threat and prepared to fight.

• Leo destroyed the five-wizard team with his Great Witchcraft of Thunder from the Void and told Amanda and Amy to wait.
• Amanda and Amy chose to follow Leo and watch his challenge rather than flee.
• Leo confronted 157 wizards, and Charlotte recognized him as the recipient of the Third-Class Wizard Medal.
• Leo asked Charlotte for confidential information, but she said he needed to become a Level Three Great Wizard or earn a First-Class Wizard Medal to learn it.
• Charlotte offered to share some information if Leo defeated her group, and Yaoyao urged him to fight.
• Leo declared that Charlotte had made him angry and began gathering energy for battle.

Leo activated his Hunter bloodline and began attacking Charlotte’s 157-wizard team with powerful nuclear fission, shadow magic, and crushing melee strikes. After the team’s numbers fell to 96, Charlotte identified Leo as an elemental body refinement wizard, though the revelation came at a devastating cost.

• Leo transformed into a nearly four-meter-tall Hunter and used Nuclear Fission Grand Witchcraft to eliminate 32 wizards with his opening strike.
• Leo charged into the formation, using shadow magic and immense physical attacks to immobilize and eliminate more wizards.
• Charlotte’s team unleashed over a hundred spells at Leo, but he escaped with Shadow Walking, and their attacks eliminated 13 of their own teammates.
• Leo reappeared at the outer edge of the encirclement, endured a wizard’s powerful attack, and eliminated that wizard with a single blow.
• Charlotte identified Leo as an elemental body refinement wizard after his team had lost 61 members, leaving 96 wizards.

Charlotte revealed that Leo was an elemental body refinement wizard, and he used Shadow Walking to eliminate more opponents before the others trapped him with spatial spells. Fifteen body refinement wizards then cornered Leo in a coordinated assault, leaving him under pressure as elemental wizards prepared larger spells.

• Charlotte exposed Leo as an elemental body refinement wizard, shocking the gathered wizards and observers.
• Leo used Shadow Walking to appear among the outermost wizards and eliminate six more, reducing the opposing group to fewer than ninety.
• Three wizards cast wide-area spatial blockade, lock, and anchor spells, preventing Leo from teleporting away.
• Fifteen surviving body refinement wizards activated their bloodlines and surrounded Leo while the other wizards prepared sealing spells and large-scale attacks.
• The fifteen attackers used a disciplined formation to block Leo's staff strikes and hit him repeatedly, forcing him into a damaging stalemate.