Chapter Summaries

Richard spent ten years studying Great Wizard Kanon's research and testing Mayfly Essence, eventually discovering that it could benignly guide cellular mutations and open a path beyond the physique limit of Third-level creatures. Afterward, he toured a transformed North Extreme City, praised Mayor Ivan’s work, and bought a Money-beckoning Mushroom Man.

• Richard studied Great Wizard Kanon’s research while improving his physique with Mayfly Essence, and Gerald and Elizabeth sent him updates about their wartime assignments.
• Richard tested Mayfly Essence diluted a thousandfold and found that it slowed the collapse of mutating flesh, confirming its benign-guidance properties.
• Richard concluded that Mayfly Essence could help him break through the Third-level physique limit and took a break after years of research.
• Richard visited North Extreme City, asked Mayor Ivan about its fashionable Wizard Mushroom Houses, and praised Ivan’s management.
• Richard toured the city, bought a Money-beckoning Mushroom Man with Magic Essence, and unknowingly inspired it to become a local symbol.

After learning that the wizards had abandoned the Star River World, Richard helped Ellie stabilize her developing bloodline and used his research to advance Ivan into wizard society. Thirty years later, Richard’s experiment succeeded, producing a cell that surpassed the limits of a Third-level creature.

• Richard learned that Great Wizard Bronze Spear had sacrificed himself to help evacuate the Star River World, and that the wizards had lost roughly half a million members.
• Richard summoned Ellie to test his bloodline-development research and found that her dragon and Abyssal Demon bloodline was affecting her personality.
• Richard gave Ellie a potion that controlled the bloodline’s influence and began helping her develop it further.
• Richard reviewed Ivan’s report on managing extraordinary societies, then used diluted Mayfly Essence to turn Ivan into a wizard.
• Ivan went to the Wizard World to guide the Great Wizarding Initiative and handed the mayor’s office of North Extreme City to his youngest son.
• Thirty years later, Richard successfully mutated a cell that surpassed the limits of a Third-level creature.

After cultivating a cell that surpassed the limits of a Third-level creature, Richard toured North Extreme City with Ellie and learned that the Wizard World was at war with the Star River Mayfly Civilization. At Kanon Wizard Academy, Jimmy informed Richard that he would join an expedition to a ruined Large World in twenty years.

• Richard successfully cultivated an extraordinary cell, stored it in his body, and took Ellie out to explore North Extreme City.
• Richard and Ellie saw the city’s transformation and discovered that the Truth Society published research papers written by Wizard Apprentices.
• Gawain told Richard that the Star River Mayfly Civilization had invaded five worlds and that the White Wizard side was mobilizing Wizards for war.
• Richard and Ellie went to Kanon Wizard Academy, where Richard observed that the academy had replaced Black Wizard training with White Wizard methods.
• Jimmy contacted Richard and told him to prepare The Lost Ones weapons for a Plane Expedition to a ruined Large World in twenty years.

Richard learned that a Wizard expedition would invade a shattered Large World once inhabited by the Lost Ones, where Berserk Orcs practiced a versatile Martial Dao. As he prepared to infiltrate their society in disguise, he discovered that Ellie’s bloodline had developed powerful traits and began to suspect Abyssal Demons were ancient biological weapons.

• Jimmy told Richard the expedition would target a shattered Large World believed to be the Lost Ones’ homeland, and explained that its natives could not control the Wizards’ systems.
• Richard reviewed intelligence identifying the world’s main inhabitants as Berserk Orcs, whose Martial Dao could let persistent practitioners overcome a lack of aptitude.
• Richard decided to disguise himself as a Berserk Orc and exchanged contribution points for Unity of Heaven and Man and the Faceless Mask technique.
• Richard took Ellie around Kanon Wizard Academy, where she resolved to grow strong enough to serve as an advisor in his Command Department.
• Richard and Ellie ate dragon meat, and Richard realized Ellie’s bloodline let her withstand its toxicity while her body had become exceptionally powerful.
• Richard recognized the Abyssal Demons’ branching Evolution Tree and suspected they were biological weapons left by a vanished civilization.

Richard completed a twenty-seven-year transformation that gave him a body beyond the limits of a Third-Ring Wizard, though he had not yet become a Grand Wizard. After adapting to his new strength, he asked Ulysses how to construct a Rule Body and balance the Life Rule with the Radiation Rule.

• Richard struggled to control his growing strength and focus on his experiments as the war drew closer.
• Richard's transformed body emerged from its shattered cultivation chamber, and he fused with it, causing a powerful mana surge across North Extreme City.
• Gawain sensed that Richard had surpassed the limits of a Third-Ring Wizard and predicted he would become a Grand Wizard.
• Ellie suppressed her bloodline instincts with a potion and asked Richard to help calm them.
• Richard entered the secret realm, where Ulysses marveled at his body and Richard asked about constructing a Rule Body.

Richard sought a way to balance his rules and learned he could smelt them together, but he lacked fuel. After the Mother Worm God’s revival was discovered, Ulysses defeated her and triggered a fusion with Reinhardt that left Richard with a potential source of rules.

• Ulysses explained that Richard could balance his rules through Rule Smelting, but Richard lacked enough rules to use as fuel.
• Ulysses recalled the Mother Worm God’s Chosen One, and Richard confirmed that Dean had killed her over four hundred years earlier, around the time the World Mushroom underwent a secret realm fusion.
• The Sacred Tree Elves found Reinhardt wrapped in mycelium inside the World Mushroom, and Richard and Ulysses exposed the Mother Worm God hiding within her.
• Ulysses fought the Mother Worm God through Reinhardt’s body and tore her soul apart, after which Reinhardt devoured the fragments and fused with them under the Mother Worm God’s contingency.
• Ulysses revealed that Reinhardt’s fused soul could become a Lord of the World and suggested stripping away her excess rules to fuel Richard’s Rule Smelting.

Richard adapted to his enhanced body, practiced combat techniques, and began smelting Rules with the Miracle Furnace. With the war approaching, he also trained in the painful Faceless Mask technique and implanted an anesthetic gland to manage the pain.

• Richard spent a year adapting to his vastly enhanced body and estimated that he had about 400 points of spiritual power.
• Richard tested his Unity of Heaven and Man technique against the Snake King, whose strike met his in a powerful explosion.
• Ulysses returned with the Mother Worm's dismantled Rules and warned Richard that raising it to a higher level would require a missing Basic Rule.
• Richard began smelting the Radiation Rule in the Miracle Furnace, which estimated the process would take about three years.
• Richard focused on body control and Faceless Mask training, then implanted an anesthetic gland to ease the technique's pain.

As Richard prepared to depart for war, Ellie gave him a protective charm after divining the Traveler three times as his omen. Richard arrived at Kanon Wizard Academy having surpassed the Third Ring's physical limit, and Great Wizard Kanon eagerly collected his blood to study the breakthrough.

• Ellie divined Richard's fate in the war three times and saw the Traveler each time, then gave him a handmade protective charm before he departed.
• Jimmy noticed Richard's overwhelming life radiation when he arrived at Kanon Wizard Academy and brought him to Great Wizard Kanon.
• Great Wizard Kanon realized Richard had surpassed the Third Ring's limit without becoming a Great Wizard.
• Great Wizard Kanon collected one liter of Richard's blood and sealed it for research, promising Richard a share if he uncovered the breakthrough's secret.

Richard traveled with the Wizards toward an expedition against the Berserk Orcs, reviewed intelligence about their culture and the mysterious Devil Master, and received his completed Hand of Equilibrium. The expedition’s preparations were still underway as he arrived at the Floating City and tested the Staff, which amplified Four Elements spells by thirty thousand Energy Level.

• Great Wizard Kanon promised Richard a share of the expedition’s gains and said Furnace had finished his Staff of Equilibrium.
• Richard learned that the Truth Council planned to establish a puppet faction among the Berserk Orcs, and he studied reports about their Demonic Martial Artists and the Devil Master.
• Richard asked Jimmy whether his anesthetic gland affected the Faceless Mask, and Jimmy explained that using one was standard practice.
• After traveling through the Tower of Truth to the Hub World, Richard noticed the expedition force seemed unusually small and received an order to report to Floating City Number One.
• Great Wizard Kanon gave Richard his completed Hand of Equilibrium, which amplified Four Elements spells by thirty thousand Energy Level.

Richard joined the wizard advance force’s expedition into the Barbaric World, where the Heavenly Mystery Sacred Sect received a final warning that the Heavenly Demon was descending. Outside the world, Great Wizard Kanon prepared to send Richard and Jimmy in, warning them they would be isolated for decades.

• Great Wizard Kanon gave Richard the Small Floating City blueprints and Astral Fortress research, then explained that the advance force would infiltrate behind enemy lines and could earn shares by supporting a Berserk Orc faction.
• Richard boarded a ship with the Black Wizard advance force, and their Floating City entered the Astral Realm while his smelting timer showed 251 days remaining.
• In Celestial Sun City, Storyteller Li recounted the history of the Sacred Sects until the Heavenly Mystery Sacred Sect’s alarm bell rang seven times, sending the diners fleeing.
• At the Heavenly Mystery Sacred Sect, the Peak Masters read the Sect Master’s Blood Letter, which contained the words, “Heavenly Demon Descends.”
• Outside the Barbaric World, Great Wizard Kanon prepared to enter with Richard and Jimmy and warned them that they would be isolated and without support for several decades.

Richard infiltrated the ruined Great World disguised as a Berserk Orc and found a merchant caravan under attack. After saving the caravan, he arranged to travel with it toward a great city, gaining a way to enter Berserk Orc society.

• Richard and the other Black Wizards landed separately in a radiated desert, established a code phrase, and split up to build an intelligence network.
• Richard disguised himself as a Berserk Orc and crossed the desert for three days before spotting a merchant caravan fighting wasteland bandits.
• Richard charged into the battle and killed more than half the bandits' Feral Beast mounts, allowing the caravan guards to turn the fight around.
• The bandit leader ordered a retreat, and the caravan's Old Orc guard stopped the guards from pursuing them.
• Richard declined the Old Orc's reward and said he wanted to visit a nearby great city, so the Old Orc invited him to travel with the caravan.

Richard traveled with Lu Dali’s caravan to Upholding Mountain City while learning about Berserk Orc society and choosing a sect to infiltrate as his base. He settled on the Mountain-Moving Sect, whose lost body-tempering method and vanished leader might offer an opportunity.

• Richard introduced himself as Gu Lie and joined Lu Dali’s caravan as a paid guard after bandits attacked it.
• Lu Dali ordered the wounded loaded onto carts, the dying given a final meal, and the dead buried before the caravan departed for Upholding Mountain City.
• Richard questioned Lu Dali about Berserk Orc society and learned about its cities, sects, clans, Sacred Sects, and Martial Arts Halls.
• Richard decided to take over a sect and asked Lu Dali about the Mountain-Moving Sect, whose martial arts centered on strength and a body-tempering method that could produce the Mountain-Moving Barbarian Bull Form.
• Lu Dali explained that the Mountain-Moving Sect had lost part of its body-tempering method after a past attack, and that its former leader had entered closed-door cultivation to restore it.

Richard impersonated the Mountain-Moving Sect’s old sect master to rescue the declining sect from being carved up by its rivals. After emerging from seclusion, he asked Kong Xiong to identify the sects that had bullied them, then demonstrated his strength and prepared to act.

• Kong Xiong received an invitation to the Upholding Mountain Martial Gathering, where the Grand Peak Sect planned to divide the city’s sects’ territories, and feared the Mountain-Moving Sect would be destroyed.
• Kong Xiong pleaded with his master to emerge from seclusion, and Richard, disguised as the Old Orc, shattered the cave’s boulder and agreed to help.
• Richard revealed to Ulysses that he had orchestrated the Mountain-Moving Sect’s troubles, impersonated its old master, and planned to bluff through any martial arts challenges with his strength.
• Kong Xiong took Richard to his room and was asked to list the sects that had bullied the Mountain-Moving Sect most.
• Richard shattered the core of a large tree without damaging its exterior, showing Kong Xiong that his martial prowess had improved.

Richard explored the Mountain-Moving Sect’s hidden martial arts collection and analyzed Berserk Orc martial arts as an evolutionary system. After a month of study, he recognized how its methods could address a major weakness in physique evolution, and Kong Xiong announced that it was time to attend the martial gathering.

• Richard discovered a secret chamber beneath the stone bed and extracted forging information from a martial stone lock.
• Richard read the chamber’s martial arts manuals and extracted the Mountain-Moving Barbarian Bull Strength inheritance from a painting, finding the technique ordinary but its integration of qi and essence useful.
• Kong Xiong asked Richard to calm the Mountain-Moving Sect’s panicked hall masters, but Richard said defectors could leave and sent Kong Xiong out of the courtyard with his power.
• Richard spent a month studying martial arts and concluded that its balanced methods could solve a major problem in physique evolution.
• Kong Xiong arrived at the courtyard gate and told Richard that the day of the martial gathering had arrived.

Richard attended the Upholding Mountain Martial Gathering as Chu Yuan, the Mountain-Moving Sect’s mysterious old master, and drew the attention of the city’s powerful sects. After the junior contests ended, Yun Jiuxiao challenged him to fight on the arena.

• Richard left without the Mountain-Moving Sect’s treasures, reassuring Kong Xiong that he needed no weapons or armor.
• Shopkeeper Qian welcomed the sects arriving at Chengshan Tower, including the Green Bird Sect, Wind Tiger Sect, and the great sects led by Martial Dao Masters.
• Shopkeeper Qian felt overwhelming fear when Richard arrived atop a savage bull and announced the Mountain-Moving Sect.
• Richard confronted Long Xiaotian, declared he would soon challenge the Flood Dragon Association’s master, and watched the junior sect contests begin.
• Richard sent Ulysses to steal cooking recipes while the contests continued, then Yun Jiuxiao invited him to battle on the arena.

Richard, disguised as the Mountain-Moving Sect's old sect master, defeated Yun Jiuxiao with ease and challenged the other sects at the Upholding Mountain Martial Gathering. He overwhelmed their combined assault, killed several sect masters, and prepared to strike the survivors gathered behind their defenses.

• Yun Jiuxiao challenged Richard, but Richard shattered his sword, seized him by the throat, and spared his life.
• Richard challenged the sect masters on Chengshan Tower's ninth floor and destroyed one private room with a single punch, killing its Martial Dao Master and disciples.
• Eleven sect masters attacked Richard together, but his Unity of Heaven and Man formed a Mountain-Moving Barbarian Bull phantom that withstood their combined techniques.
• Richard punched one sect master into a blood mist and broke through Long Xiaotian's Dragon Coercion, leaving Long Xiaotian alive but gravely weakened.
• The surviving sect masters joined their defenses into a glowing shell, and Richard dismissed it as flimsy before preparing to attack them.

Richard killed the sect leaders who had attacked the Mountain-Moving Sect and led its disciples in a counterattack against the Grand Peak Sect. While collecting the sect’s martial arts manuals, he uncovered a hidden formation in its main hall and found Yue Feng, who was hiding inside.

• Richard killed the sect leaders gathered at Chengshan Tower, then ordered Kong Xiong to prepare the Mountain-Moving Sect’s retaliation and promised Shopkeeper Qian to cover the tower’s losses.
• Richard led the assault on the Grand Peak Sect, killed its Old Orc sect leader, and watched Mountain-Moving Sect disciples break through during the battle.
• Richard secretly noted the Berserk Orc disciples who advanced in battle, then collected the Grand Peak Sect’s martial arts manuals and sealed books before the Scripture Depository burned.
• Kong Xiong told Richard that Yue Feng was hiding inside the main hall behind a Mystic Arts Formation, so Richard entered and used the Eye of Dimension to locate him.
• Richard offered to spare Yue Feng if he handed over the formation, then spoke from behind him when Yue Feng refused to believe he had been found.

Richard broke the Rain Mist Shadow Concealment Array and forced Yue Feng to reveal that a Mystic Arts practitioner had created it. After studying the formation’s Ancient Script, Richard ordered Kong Xiong to bring Yue Feng so they could visit the practitioner.

• Yue Feng’s Taiyue Fist Technique failed against Richard, so Yue Feng offered to lead him to the Mystic Arts practitioner who had set up the formation.
• Richard removed the formation flags, dismantled the array, and took its azure formation eye stone.
• Yue Feng told Richard that his father had sheltered the practitioner at an estate outside Upholding Mountain City, and Richard arranged for Yue Feng to stay the night.
• Richard copied the sixteen Ancient Script characters from the formation flags and recognized their value for improving Wizard Magic Arrays.
• Kong Xiong warned Richard that Yue Feng might be leading them into a trap, but Richard dismissed the concern and ordered Kong Xiong to bring Yue Feng.

Richard uncovered Mr. Wu as a Demonic Cult member and learned that the Devil Master remained sealed rather than dead. After taking Mr. Wu’s belongings, Richard discovered a mask whose patterns could affect even him.

• Richard followed Yue Feng to a hidden manor, where he realized Mr. Wu’s apparent presence was a phantom and the courtyard had been sealed off.
• Mr. Wu killed Yue Feng and questioned Richard about whether he came from another world.
• Richard broke through Mr. Wu’s Space Anchor, defeated him, and took him into a secret realm for interrogation.
• Richard learned that Mr. Wu had become a Demonic Martial Artist after contacting a vast will, and that the Devil Master was sealed beneath nodes controlled by major sects.
• Richard searched Mr. Wu’s belongings and found a strange mask whose patterns affected him, prompting him to call Ulysses over.

Richard discovered that the mysterious mask contained a God King's thought, had Ulysses seal it, then sent the wizards intelligence about a sealed Astral Dominator. After Great Wizard Kanon convened the Truth Conference, Richard returned to the chaotic Upholding Mountain City and questioned Kong Xiong about how he was treating its people.

• Ulysses identified the mask's occupant as a God King's thought, sealed it, and warned Richard that it could infect anyone who touched it.
• Richard had Ulysses remove the seal, intending to use the mask as evidence for a reward from Formless Valley and a chance to obtain Martial Path manuals.
• Richard spared the unconscious Berserk Orcs, assembled a communication device, and sent the Floating City a warning about the sealed Astral Dominator.
• Great Wizard Kanon received Richard's report, broke his seal, traveled to the Wizard Dimension, and called for a Truth Conference.
• Richard returned to Upholding Mountain City, saw Mountain-Moving Sect's rough takeover of the remaining factions causing disorder, and asked Kong Xiong how he was managing the people.