Chapter Summaries

White woke in an old werewolf doctor's clinic after seven days unconscious and learned that the Chengshan Dog Family had been wiped out, though its young master survived. He rejoined his metal prosthetic arm and met Richard in his mind, agreeing to receive a new eye and a pendant before Richard returned to his study in the Astral Realm.

• White woke from a battlefield dream in the Old Werewolf's clinic and learned that he had been unconscious for seven days.
• White recalled that the Chengshan Dog Family had been attacked and discovered that his left arm had been replaced by a metal prosthetic limb tied to a deal with Richard.
• The Old Werewolf told White that the Dog Family's main branch had been wiped out and that the Immortal Waters Luo Family had rescued its only surviving young master.
• White attached the prosthetic limb to his stump, awakening its flesh joint and releasing a formidable surge of energy.
• Richard summoned White into a mental space and asked him to install an eye that would let Richard observe the world, along with a pendant that protected against soul attacks.
• White accepted the modifications as part of their transaction, and Richard returned to his study overlooking the Astral Realm.

Richard tested his Rule Body fusion and used Life Editing to strengthen his body before training with powerful spells. Meanwhile, Bai received a transplanted eye and the saber Asura, then returned to the burned Chengshan Dog Family manor, where someone confronted him.

• Richard found that his Rule Body was fifty percent fused and estimated that the process would finish in six years.
• Richard used Life Editing to raise his physique by 0.1, replenished his energy with Magic Essence, and trained with spells in the Test Area.
• The Old Werewolf helped Bai receive a new eye and gave him the saber Asura, asking him to spare anyone who wielded its sister blade, Karmic Fire.
• Bai killed a group of werewolves while Richard watched through the transplanted eye and said he had figured out Bai's Path of Evolution.
• Bai entered the burned Chengshan Dog Family manor and found the remains of its Vajra Method warriors before a voice confronted him.

Bai captured a wandering Daoist and learned that his Form Gathering Qi Dispersion technique came from Immortal Village, which had descended ten thousand years earlier and overturned the White Wolf King’s rule. Richard became intrigued by the world’s hidden history, while Bai revealed that his journey would make enemies of the immortals to protect the Young Master of Dog Family.

• Bai resisted the Daoist’s eye-based illusion, then used his prosthetic capture net to catch him after Richard detected where he had fled.
• Richard used a flesh worm and a whistle to break the Daoist’s resistance, and the Daoist identified his technique as Form Gathering Qi Dispersion.
• Bai told Richard that Immortal Village had descended from beyond the heavens ten thousand years ago, overthrown the White Wolf King, and taught Daoist arts to aristocratic families.
• Richard inferred that Immortal Village came from a highly advanced civilization and suspected that its limited rule concealed a major secret.
• Bai explained that Immortal Village Walkers controlled access to Daoist arts and that families sought rare Pill Materials and immortal fates to gain influence.
• Bai revealed that the Young Master of Dog Family had awakened a noble bloodline a month earlier, explaining why rival families had gathered forces to seize him.

Richard studied the Daoist technique Form Gathering Qi Dispersion and discovered that it could disperse and reconstruct a body, possibly converting energy into valuable materials. Bai buried his fallen companions and traveled toward the Immortal Waters Luo Family, but stopped to confront warriors massacring another village.

• Richard dismissed Bai’s ability to threaten the Immortal who killed the White Wolf King, then copied Form Gathering Qi Dispersion and began investigating it.
• Richard tested the technique in the Astral Realm, dispersed a finger into mist, and reassembled it with the talisman’s recorded information.
• Bai interrogated the Daoist, learned he knew nothing useful, burned his corpse, and buried the remains of his companions, teacher, and Dog Family elders.
• Richard asked Bai to catch Daoists for research, and Bai continued toward the Immortal Waters Luo Family to find the Young Master.
• Bai and Richard encountered masked warriors burning a village, and Bai dismounted and drew his blade to attack them.

Bai defeated the Wang Family’s young master and a Daoist, then sent the Daoist’s corpse and red gourd through the rift to Richard. As Richard examined the gourd and began dissecting the corpse, he found something unexpected.

• Bai used the Vajra Method and his prosthetic limb to kill the black-armored warriors and the Wang Family’s young master.
• Bai captured the old Daoist, killed him with Soul Rend, and sent his body and red gourd through the Spatial Rift to Richard.
• The remaining black-armored warriors asked Bai to kill them, and he cut them down before riding onward.
• Richard examined the gourd and praised the sophistication of its materials and design.
• Richard dissected the Daoist’s corpse, then frowned when he opened its abdominal cavity.

Richard halted his Daoist arts research after discovering that a dead Daoist’s organs had decayed and fused while he was alive, and turned back to studying Precursor Relics and Life Editing. Meanwhile, Bai reached the Immortal Waters Luo Family’s city, advanced to a Third-level creature, and used a Spatial Rift to disappear after a gate guard lied about the Young Master of Dog Family’s whereabouts.

• Richard dissected the Old Daoist and found that his organs had fused into a decaying mass, leaving him like a living corpse before death.
• Richard paused his Daoist arts research and planned to focus on Precursor Relics and Life Editing to create a form he called the Perfect Human.
• Bai rode toward the Immortal Waters Luo Family while Richard noted its alliance with the Dog Family and suspected the family’s role in the Young Master’s disappearance.
• Richard gave Bai a Magic Potion, array flags, and a sealed box, and Bai endured twenty-nine hours of painful evolution to become a Third-level creature.
• Bai reached Luojia Mountain City, where a gate warrior claimed the Peng Family had taken the Young Master of Dog Family; Bai smelled that the warrior was lying.
• Bai left the city and vanished using his prosthetic left arm.

Bai infiltrated Mountain City and found the Young Master of Dog Family in a guarded Tower. Richard revealed that Bai’s contract promised to protect the Young Master during a future invasion, then discovered that the Young Master had awakened the White Wolf King’s bloodline.

• Bai used Advanced Invisibility Spell to evade Mountain City’s defenses and followed the Young Master’s flute melody to a nine-story Tower.
• Richard reminded Bai that their contract included protecting the Young Master from an invasion planned for five years later, and Bai reaffirmed that protecting him was his mission.
• Bai used a capture net and stones to silently subdue the Tower’s two Ironclad Guards, then climbed to the top floor.
• Bai revealed himself to the Young Master, who recognized him as alive, while a female werewolf reacted with surprise to the surviving Shadow Guard.
• Richard identified the Young Master’s awakened bloodline as that of the White Wolf King.

Bai reunited with the Young Master of Dog Family and revealed that he had awakened the White Wolf King's bloodline. Richard offered to support the Young Master as a successor in the war five years later, but the Young Master refused to become his puppet and challenged him to drive out the immortals instead.

• Bai thanked Miss Zhen for treating the Young Master and explained that he had trapped her Ironclad Guards rather than killing them.
• The Young Master grieved over Bai's lost arm, while Bai asked whether he knew the origin of his bloodline.
• Bai told the Young Master that he possessed the White Wolf King's bloodline itself, and the Young Master confronted the evil ghost within Bai.
• Richard displayed his power and offered to support the Young Master as the new White Wolf King in the war five years later, warning that refusal would limit his freedom for his safety.
• After Bai relayed Richard's plan to use him to help conquer the world, the Young Master refused to become a puppet and argued that Richard should drive out the immortals instead.

Miss Zhen warned the Young Master of Dog Family that powerful families were plotting against the Luo Family and might seek to use his bloodline as Pill Material. As the Luo Family prepared to act against the conspirators, dark figures and robed immortals appeared over the city.

• Miss Zhen told the Luo Family patriarch that Bai was a powerful Shadow Guard connected to her Martial Uncle, and the patriarch agreed to let Bai stay with the Young Master of Dog Family.
• Miss Zhen visited her deformed master and reported that her Martial Uncle had entered the mortal world carrying Asura; her master ordered her to retrieve the Heavenly Mirror before a burst of chaotic energy forced her to suppress him with golden needles.
• Bai learned about the world’s physical Path of Evolution while Miss Zhen warned the Young Master that ancient high-grade families were behind the Dog Family’s destruction and that some Luo elders wanted to use him as Pill Material.
• The Luo Family patriarch identified the Jiu Family, Yun Family, Shui Family, and Mu Family as conspirators, with the Yun Family leading them.
• As the Luo Family prepared to move beneath a clouded sky, a bell rang and dark figures and robed immortals emerged from the clouds and mist.

Bai defended the Luo Family's Moon Gazing Tower against a masked team and discovered that its brocade-robed leader was a rare Energy-Form Creature. After Richard urged him to use the array flag, Bai vanished into a ghostlike state, drawing the creature's greedy attention.

• The Young Master overcame his fear as Bai spotted a group of skilled attackers approaching the Moon Gazing Tower.
• Bai confronted the four masked assailants and killed the black-armored warrior and the broad-robed Daoist, while the short-clad warrior survived his first strike.
• The brocade-robed man broke free of Bai's capture net and attacked him with wind blades and fire, revealing his illusory, energy-like form.
• Richard recognized the man as an Energy-Form Creature and urged Bai to use his array flag while he prepared materials to make a cage.
• Bai plunged the array flag into his heart and entered a ghostlike state, prompting the brocade-robed man to covet his Daoist art.

Bai overwhelmed the brocade-clad man with energy techniques while Richard captured and studied the man's flying sword. Richard learned the Immortal Village Artifact Refining Method and weighed the risks of confronting Immortal Village as Bai trapped the brocade-clad man in a cage.

• Bai used cloud and mist, heavenly lightning, and his energy vortex to withstand the brocade-clad man's attacks, but the man's silver flying sword wounded him.
• Richard opened a Spatial Rift to seize the flying sword, then used the Miracle Furnace to extract its blueprint and the incomplete Immortal Village Artifact Refining Method.
• Richard learned how Dao artifacts were made and considered calling the Alchemy Crown for backup, though he preferred to keep Immortal Village's treasures for himself.
• After Richard took the flying sword, Bai advanced through the brocade-clad man's ineffective attacks and prepared the cage.
• Bai immobilized the brocade-clad man with a net of light and placed him inside the cage.

Bai captured a disciple of an immortal family during the attack on the Luo Family, while Richard worked on a way to transport the prisoner across the World Wall. Daoist Xuanqing revealed that he led the Anti-Immortal Alliance and proposed a deal to kill a Mad Immortal, leaving Richard wary of his motives.

• Bai brought the captured thief to the Young Master, while Richard began researching a sealing method to send the living prisoner through his Spatial Rift.
• Miss Zhen reported that the Luo Family had repelled the attackers and confronted Bai after hearing a roar from the prisoner’s room.
• Bai recognized Miss Zhen’s Karmic Fire as the sister blade of Asura and explained that Asura’s former owner had told him to spare its wielder.
• Daoist Xuanqing appeared, identified himself as Miss Zhen’s Martial Uncle, and asked to speak with Richard about Bai’s condition.
• Daoist Xuanqing proposed a deal to kill a Mad Immortal, and Richard told Bai to ask his price and learn about the Anti-Immortal Alliance.
• The Young Master and Miss Zhen explained that the Anti-Immortal Alliance sought to kill the true immortal in Immortal Village and that Xuanqing was its president.

Daoist Xuanqing offered Richard information about an Immortal Village Fragment in exchange for his help against the Mad Immortal. Richard built an Alchemy Puppet to protect the Young Master, and its strength convinced Daoist Xuanqing that Richard could defeat their enemy, though a mysterious bell disrupted his doubts.

• Daoist Xuanqing told Bai that the Anti-Immortal Alliance had found an Immortal Village Fragment before the Seven Families attacked it, and Miss Zhen confirmed that it existed.
• Richard constructed an Alchemy Puppet and sent it through the Spatial Rift to Bai, who placed his array flag in its chest and had the Young Master bind it with his blood.
• The Young Master connected to the puppet through spiritual messages, and the puppet used a shifting technique to appear beside him on the ground.
• Bai tested the puppet with the Asura, but its composite magic power barrier easily blocked his attack.
• Daoist Xuanqing struck the puppet with a Water-Fire Annihilation ice spear, but the puppet and the Young Master remained unharmed.
• Daoist Xuanqing worried that Richard might become another Immortal Village, but a bell rang in his ears and erased his concern, leaving him convinced Richard could kill the Mad Immortal.

Bai traveled with Daoist Xuanqing to an Immortal Village Fragment after Richard demanded safeguards before they entered. Inside, they found a magnificent hall called Firework Hall, leaving Richard to assess whether the fragment was genuine.

• Bai left the Young Master in Miss Zhen’s care and gave her the captured disciple of the Immortal Family for her experiments.
• Bai met Daoist Xuanqing outside the city, and they traveled together toward the Immortal Village Fragment.
• Daoist Xuanqing opened a Spatial Rift, and Richard ordered Bai to require a soul-imprinted contract before entering.
• Bai and Daoist Xuanqing entered the fragment, where they found a hall bearing the plaque Firework Hall.

Richard discovered that the cauldron in Firework Hall contained the Fire Spirit God, a survivor of the Supreme Sect who had endured for fifty thousand years. The Fire Spirit God joined Richard in exchange for help preserving its sect’s artifact-forging legacy, and Bai took away the transformed cauldron.

• Richard sensed that the Immortal Village Fragment had a weak World Wall and sent Bai into Firework Hall to explore it.
• Richard detected a faint consciousness and dense Faith Power inside the bronze cauldron, then spoke with the being calling itself the Fire Spirit God of the Supreme Sect.
• Richard told the Fire Spirit God that its sect and world had likely perished, and explained that the fragment had drifted into the Barbaric World.
• The Fire Spirit God offered to serve Richard and teach the Supreme Sect’s artifact-forging methods if he helped preserve its legacy.
• Richard sent a Fate Contract through a Spatial Rift, and the Fire Spirit God signed it before shrinking into a palm-sized cauldron.
• Richard told Bai to keep the cauldron and explained that the deity inside would help him if he encountered trouble.

Richard received the Supreme Art of Artifact Refining Compendium and considered keeping its valuable knowledge from the Truth Council. As Bai and Daoist Xuanqing explored the Firework Hall, an immortal monster appeared, and the Fire Spirit God revealed that Dao laws had become distorted fifty thousand years earlier.

• The Fire Spirit God passed the Supreme Art of Artifact Refining Compendium to Richard, who learned how artifact refining could produce powerful Dao Artifacts.
• Richard decided not to reveal the compendium to the Truth Council until he understood Wizard Civilization's politics and his own position.
• Richard opened a Spatial Rift to guide Bai through the Firework Hall, where Daoist Xuanqing led him along a corridor.
• An immortal monster attacked Bai and Daoist Xuanqing, and Richard restrained and examined it, finding its living soul grotesquely twisted.
• Richard asked the Fire Spirit God about the great terror, and the god explained that Dao laws had been distorted fifty thousand years earlier and nearly destroyed his soul.
• Richard asked whether there had been rumors about the distortion, and the Fire Spirit God said he had waited in misery for fifty thousand years without hearing any.

Richard explored the Immortal Village Fragment with Bai and Daoist Xuanqing, learning about the civilization and discovering that Fire Spirit God had once served as the Supreme Sect’s spirit fire. In the Spirit Fusion Hall, Richard burned an immortal monster, which thanked him for helping it find release before dissolving and leaving behind a bell.

• Richard asked Fire Spirit God whether the twisted Dao arts had affected the Supreme Art of Artifact Refining Compendium, and Fire Spirit God said it was uncertain.
• Richard learned that the Immortal Village Civilization had united a World Cluster through conquest and enlightenment, and he doubted its claim that universal harmony had prevailed.
• Bai and Daoist Xuanqing entered the Spirit Fusion Hall, where Fire Spirit God revealed that it was the Supreme Sect’s spirit fire, later shaped into an Incense God.
• Richard awakened the hall’s immortal monster and sent Bai and Daoist Xuanqing away before igniting it with a spark from the Miracle Furnace.
• The monster extinguished the golden flames, appeared as a stag-beetle-like insect, thanked Richard for helping it find release, and dissolved, leaving a small bell behind.

Richard explored the Spirit Fusion Hall and Dao Script Hall, then negotiated with Daoist Xuanqing over the Immortal Village Fragment in exchange for killing the Mad Immortal. When Richard used the Disintegration Bell to expose Daoist Xuanqing’s strange behavior, he demanded to know who Daoist Xuanqing really was.

• Richard examined the Disintegration Bell left by the Spirit Fusion Hall steward and suspected the Miracle Furnace’s flames could restore twisted souls.
• Richard and the others explored the Dao Script Hall, where Richard found usable Dao artifact blanks and a huge creature made from thousands of fused immortal monsters.
• The Fire Spirit God asked Richard to free the fused disciples, but Richard chose to keep the creature for research in case he could restore it.
• Daoist Xuanqing offered the Immortal Village Fragment in exchange for Richard killing the Mad Immortal, and Richard agreed to review a Fate Contract.
• Richard questioned Daoist Xuanqing’s motives and rang the Disintegration Bell, prompting him to ask who Daoist Xuanqing really was.

Richard agreed to help Daoist Xuanqing deal with the Mad Immortal, while planning to use a puppet to ease his conquest of the world. At Miss Zhen’s request, he investigated her master’s grotesquely transformed body and concluded that Dao arts themselves had been cursed.

• Richard revised and signed a contract with Daoist Xuanqing to deal with the Mad Immortal, then left the world fragment with Bai and demonized plants.
• Bai questioned Richard’s deal and heard why he intended to support a puppet ruler and gain another World Lord subordinate.
• After Bai returned to the Luo Family and briefed the Young Master, Miss Zhen asked him to bring Richard to examine her master.
• Miss Zhen showed Bai and Richard her master, whose body had become a mass of flesh after she cultivated the Life-Locking Art.
• The Fire Spirit God examined Miss Zhen’s master and identified a curse, but Richard said the Path of Evolution known as Dao arts had been cursed.

Richard discovered that the Immortal Village Civilization’s evolution path had been corrupted, rescued Miss Zhen’s master by placing her soul in a nail, and received Miss Zhen’s research and Dao arts. After nearly five years, Richard completed a usable Sealing Technique, and his Floating City neared the Immortal Village World as he ordered the goblin warriors awakened.

• Richard and the Fire Spirit God confirmed that the Immortal Village disciple’s soul had been twisted, and Richard warned that continued cultivation would turn her into a monster.
• Miss Zhen agreed to give Richard everything she owned in exchange for saving her master, signed a Soul Contract, and used Richard’s Rune-covered nail to transfer her master’s soul into it.
• Miss Zhen sent her research records and Dao arts to Richard, who recognized the potential of the civilization’s energization technology but concluded that its corruption made it unsafe to use.
• Over the following four years, Bai guarded the Young Master of Dog Family while Miss Zhen treated him and learned alchemy; Richard continued developing a Sealing Technique.
• Richard completed a Sealing Technique that could let him seal himself and deceive the World Wall, then saw that the Floating City would reach the Immortal Village World in less than half a year.
• Richard ordered a goblin to awaken the sleeping warriors aboard the Floating City as it approached the Immortal Village World.