Chapter Summaries

Richard explored the Supreme Sect’s Scripture Pavilion and treasure vault, learning how the catastrophe had damaged Dao artifacts and discovering Old Yunhead’s research and vast reserves. He restored a spirit treasure temporarily and found a Kunpeng Boat in the Heaven Vault.

• Richard toured the Scripture Pavilion with Old Yunhead and found extensive records on artifact refining, including data Old Yunhead had secretly gathered about the barbarians’ attempts to refine artifacts.
• Richard praised Old Yunhead’s research and asked him to organize the data for later study.
• Richard saw billions of Magic Essence in the Human Vault and learned the Spirit Stone Vault had been lost in the catastrophe.
• Richard examined damaged treasures in the Earth Vault and used Miracle Fire to restore a bell-like spirit treasure, though he found that its corruption would return.
• Richard entered the Heaven Vault and learned that the shuttle-like vessel he noticed was the Kunpeng Boat, once used by the old Sect Master to conquer barbarian worlds.

Richard claimed Supreme Sect, recovered its treasures and a damaged Kunpeng Boat, then returned to the Immortal Village World as the goblins crushed the Seven Families’ forces. He sealed several powerful Vengeful Spirits and left to find the Young Master and establish a Teleportation Gate.

• Richard expanded the Kunpeng Boat, found its power furnace intact, and inspected the Heaven Vault’s treasures.
• With Old Yunhead’s endorsement, Richard took over Supreme Sect and ordered him to watch the wolfman Daoists until Richard’s subordinates arrived.
• Richard returned to the Immortal Village World as the goblins launched their final assault and destroyed the Seven Families’ mountain cities.
• A Vengeful Spirit emerged beneath a burning city, but Richard dissolved and sealed it before it could attack the goblin soldiers.
• More Vengeful Spirits appeared across Wolf Plain, and Richard suspected the world concealed a rule governing their formation, though he could not find it.
• Richard set out to find the Young Master so he could stabilize the Immortal Village’s position and establish a Teleportation Gate.

After conquering the Immortal Village World, Richard oversaw its development while refining his combat body and expanding his forces. Sixty years after Ulysses fell asleep, the raven unexpectedly woke, much earlier than expected.

• The Goblin Legion crushed the last werewolf resistance, and the Immortal Village World’s war officially ended in the sixth month.
• Reinhardt showed Richard a modified Black Crystal Bug that could use werewolf qi and regenerate by converting starlight into qi, crediting Lan’s guidance.
• Richard asked Lan why she had helped Reinhardt but not him, then accepted her advice to prioritize defense and self-healing in his Life Editing.
• Richard gave Lan a blood sample for analysis and began adjusting his combat body using suitable life-core fragments.
• Three years after the war, the Goblin Legion entered Immortal Village and forced the noble-family werewolves to surrender or die; factories and social reforms followed.
• Ten years after the war, the Goblin World’s Teleportation Gate opened, and Richard’s growing fanatical following worried him until Ulysses woke after only about sixty years.

After Ulysses woke from nearly six centuries of sleep, Richard explained how quickly he had grown, conquered a world, and gained immense faith—and revealed that both civilizations’ leaders had noticed him. Richard and Ulysses decided to connect the Wizard and Gods civilizations to make themselves useful, then prepared matching accounts for their leaders.

• Ulysses woke and learned that Richard had conquered a world and reached the limit of a Fourth-level creature in about sixty years.
• Richard explained that the God Kings had summoned him, and Ulysses realized they had both attracted the attention of powerful leaders.
• Richard proposed linking the Wizard and Gods civilizations so their leaders might spare them and use them to help end the war.
• Ulysses agreed that the plan could work, and they coordinated accounts that emphasized each civilization’s strengths while downplaying its weaknesses.

Richard told Physique Crown that the Pantheon Civilization had fought a Civilization War for over four thousand years and possessed more than ten thousand World Lord-level combatants, prompting Physique Crown to consider the possibility of an alliance. Meanwhile, Ulysses returned to the Gods' Dimension and prepared to tell the God Kings that Richard had achieved godhood using their ritual.

• Richard learned from the Keeper of Secrets that Dimensional Power could drive spells, though enhancement spells used it more efficiently than offensive ones.
• Richard told Physique Crown that the Pantheon Civilization had taught him the Promotion Ceremony and had fought a long Civilization War; Physique Crown recognized that its forces could help address the wizards' shortage of rank-and-file troops.
• Ulysses returned to the Pantheon and found his statue dim and most of his friends' statues empty, then encountered Myriad Transformation God King and Eternal God King arguing over his followers.
• Ulysses told the God Kings that he had befriended someone from another civilization and asked whether they remembered the god who had achieved Miraculous Achievement of Godhood decades earlier.

Ulysses persuaded the God Kings to pursue friendship with the Wizards, and both civilizations arranged a meeting. The Shaping Crown and Eternal God King exchanged gifts and signed a Fate Contract, ensuring the two civilizations would not go to war for the next era.

• Ulysses told the God Kings that the Wizards bordered the Abyss, had at least six rulers, and were fighting a difficult war of their own.
• The Myriad Transformation God King and Eternal God King agreed to arrange a meeting with the Wizards.
• Richard and Ulysses reported that both the Wizard Crown and the God Kings supported arranging a meeting.
• One month later, the Shaping Crown and Eternal God King met outside the Immortal Village World and exchanged information about their civilizations.
• The Eternal God King presented a Heroic Spirit Legion, while the Shaping Crown offered a standard Floating City Fleet.
• The Shaping Crown and Eternal God King signed a Fate Contract that prevented their civilizations from going to war for the next era.

After receiving their rewards, Richard used the Eye of Truth for the first time and discovered that it revealed hidden rules and paths into Illusory Dimensions. He showed Ulysses the developed Immortal Village World, then used the eye on ancient ruins and found the rule he had been searching for.

• Shaping Crown rewarded Richard with two ten-ring spell models and a composite Rule Body model, while Eternal God King gave Ulysses a soul-nourishing artifact and appointed him ambassador to Wizard Civilization.
• Richard demonstrated his growing control of Miracle Fire, then retrieved the Eye of Truth he had stored since the Academy War.
• Richard replaced his eye with the Eye of Truth, which transformed into flesh and let him perceive hidden rules and rifts leading to Illusory Dimensions, though the strain exhausted his soul.
• Richard and Ulysses surveyed the developed Immortal Village World, where werewolves worked in factories and worshipped them as creations of the White Wolf God.
• Richard used the Eye of Truth on the ruins of an Immortal Village Walker mountain city and found a dark, gloomy rule within them.

Richard discovered a hidden death-energy world beneath Immortal Village World and considered moving its rule into his Divine Realm to collect believers’ souls. Ulysses shared Heroic Spirit Legion technology and advised Richard on building a Divine Realm, leaving him with a plan for a Heroic Spirit Hall, Colosseum, Rebirth Pool, and tavern.

• Richard and Ulysses descended into an underground world where a hidden rule gathered the lingering souls of every creature that had died in Immortal Village World.
• Richard considered whether the rule could also draw in the bugs’ souls, and Ulysses recommended moving it into Richard’s Divine Realm to gather dead believers.
• Richard sealed the fissure, warned the World Development Department about drilling hazards, and introduced Ulysses to the White Wolf God.
• Ulysses gave Richard the Heroic Spirit Legion ritual, but Richard set aside the idea of cracking its technology and asked how to construct a Divine Realm.
• Ulysses advised Richard to build a Heroic Spirit Hall, Colosseum, Rebirth Pool, and tavern so Heroic Spirits could be created, train, be resurrected, and relax inside the Divine Realm.

Richard completed his Divine Kingdom and gathered the remaining Immortal Village Fragments to expand his Mystic Realm, then prepared to return to research. Ulysses informed him that the Wizard Artifact Refining Technique project had made progress.

• Richard signed a Fate Contract with Ulysses, learned the Divine Kingdom Architecture techniques, built his Divine Kingdom over half a year, and erased his memories of the techniques.
• Richard used the White Wolf God to locate and extract the remaining Immortal Village Fragments, while his Perfect Wizard body endured powerful Aether undercurrents.
• The World Mushroom collected the fragments for splicing, and Richard learned that joining them would take decades as it continued to grow.
• Richard asked to be left alone for ten years to research, but Ulysses reported new progress from the Floating City Research Institute's Wizard Artifact Refining Technique project.

Richard visited the Floating City Research Institute to review its progress on Wizard Artifact Refining Technique and learned that Tyler’s team had discovered ways to counter its distortion using divine arts. Priest Martin had also invented an amulet that could store low-level divine arts, and Richard promoted him to cardinal and named the invention the Prayer Amulet.

• Richard brought Ulysses to the Floating City Research Institute, where Tyler showed them the researchers’ work on Wizard Artifact Refining Technique.
• Tyler explained that Dao artifacts became increasingly distorted as their number of Dao Scripts rose, with the system collapsing beyond 117,649 scripts.
• Tyler revealed that his team was using divine arts to dispel the Curse affecting Dao Scripts, and introduced Priest Martin, who had invented an amulet for low-level divine arts.
• Richard praised Martin’s invention and announced that he would consecrate him as a cardinal and assign researchers to help him.
• Richard named Martin’s invention the Prayer Amulet, and Martin accepted the name.

Richard left Church affairs to Ulysses and devoted himself to research while Ulysses reformed the Miracle Order. A hundred years later, Richard completed a rune model that would let him advance to a Five-Ring Great Wizard.

• Richard praised Tyler's progress on the Goblin Artifact Refining Guide and learned that the researchers had developed a prototype machine.
• Ulysses questioned Richard's close ties with ordinary believers and his refusal to preserve suffering, while Richard explained his approach to faith and society.
• Richard entered seclusion to research Abyss Power, Daoist Arts, and other subjects, leaving the Church and its Prayer Amulets to Ulysses.
• Ulysses reorganized the Miracle Order's priesthood, standardized rituals, and established a Divine Arts Hermitage and an Ecclesiastical Tribunal.
• A hundred years later, Richard celebrated completing a rune model that would let him advance to a Five-Ring Great Wizard.

After completing preparations to advance through his composite Rule Body, Richard returned with Ulysses to the Nightmare Wizard World after several hundred years away. He discovered that North Extreme City had been transformed and that Bone had become a Lord, then asked to hear how far the city’s cooperation with the Wizards had progressed.

• Richard explained that he would complete his Life Rule and use the Nightmare World to address the spiritual-power problems of his advancement.
• Richard and Ulysses entered the Gate of Nightmares and returned to the Nightmare Wizard World, where Richard’s Soul Seed had grown strong enough to support his rise to a Nightmare Lord.
• Richard and Ulysses left Richard’s Nightmare Body’s room and found North Extreme City filled with skyscrapers and bustling Nightmare Creatures.
• Ero recognized Richard, confirmed that Bone had become a Lord six hundred years earlier, and escorted him to the City Lord’s Manor.
• Bone welcomed Richard back, and Richard asked him to explain the city’s changes and its cooperation with the Wizards.

Richard confronted the wizards managing his territory and discovered their neglect and disrespect, then reunited with his former student Munin, now a great wizard. Munin confirmed that wizarding standards had fallen, leaving Richard to face the state of the civilization he once knew.

• Richard learned that wizards controlled the territory’s administration and that the knight could not wake Bone without risking a reduction in their Nightmare Power quota.
• Richard ordered the knight to take him to the wizards and entered a Wizard Tower after its occupant mocked him and activated its defenses.
• Richard bypassed the tower’s defenses, revealed himself as a great wizard, and questioned the wizard’s lack of discipline and curiosity.
• Munin received word of Richard’s return, opened a gateway to the Nightmare Dimension, and embraced his former teacher.
• Munin asked whether the kneeling wizards had offended Richard, and Richard explained that they had challenged his authority and cited legal statutes.
• Munin admitted that the standards for becoming a wizard had fallen so low that even fools could qualify.

After returning to the Wizard World more than six hundred years later, Richard learned how the war had changed wizard training and discovered that nearly all his old companions had died. He reunited with Ellie and offered to help her advance, but she warned him that Master Gerald was nearing the end of his lifespan.

• Munin told Richard that the war against the Star River Mayflies had forced the council to train three-year cannon-fodder wizards, while elite Wizard Academies still prepared offensive legions.
• Richard learned that the Nightmare Territory near North Extreme City belonged to him and that Bone was his Nightmare Knight, then learned that only Grand-Teacher and Ellie remained of his old companions.
• Ellie received Richard's message and reunited with him in person after more than six hundred years apart.
• Ellie explained that her Cellular Garment used Richard's Transcendent Cells to create a body nearing the level of a Fourth-level creature.
• Richard offered to help Ellie break through her limits, but Ellie said Master Gerald was nearing the end of his lifespan.

Richard returned through the Nightmare World to visit his dying teacher, Gerald, and struggled with whether his actions mattered if fate was fixed. Gerald challenged him to reject that fatalism and asked whether he believed he had Free Will.

• Ellie told Richard that Gerald’s lifespan had been depleted by years of Chimera production and grief over fallen students and friends.
• Richard went to the Chimera Factory, where Gerald greeted him warmly after confirming he was not hallucinating.
• Richard learned that the war was going badly because the factories lacked trained Alchemist Wizards, while the front could not be shortened.
• Richard admitted he feared death and wondered whether effort mattered if fate’s endpoint could not change.
• Gerald argued that different choices led to different outcomes, reminded Richard that his work had helped keep Gerald alive, and asked whether Richard believed he had Free Will.

Richard overcame his doubts about destiny, refined Nightmare Power into Soul Origin, and strengthened his mental power. After waking from a three-year sleep, he began preparing to advance to the Fifth Ring.

• Gerald helped Richard realize that free will mattered and that his actions had changed the fates of others, easing his despair about the war.
• Richard met Bone and Munin in the Nightmare World, and Munin agreed to provide fifty million strands of Nightmare Power.
• Richard refined the Nightmare Power into Soul Origin, gave some to Ulysses, then consumed the rest and fell asleep for three years.
• After waking, Richard visited Ulysses and the White Wolf God, who was learning to use his divine authority.
• Richard gave Ulysses a list of supplies and asked him to find a suitable place for his Fifth-Ring advancement, while the White Wolf God admitted he could not recognize the listed items.

Richard visited the werewolf Dao Academy after learning that its researchers disagreed with the goblins over how to equip a Werewolf Legion. He examined their proposed armor and weapons, finding that the armor used a clever arrangement of Dao Scripts to bypass the Artifact Refining Technique’s distortion.

• Ulysses admitted that the werewolves had not formed a legion because their researchers disagreed with the goblins’ equipment designs, and Richard decided to inspect their work before choosing a plan.
• White Wolf God took Richard to the Dao Academy in the Sacred Meteor Mountain Range, where Richard learned about the werewolves’ devotion and their growing population and resources.
• Miss Zhen welcomed Richard and led him to the testing ground, where werewolf researchers presented their equipment and materials.
• Richard inspected the black full-body armor and discovered that its separate components used more than three hundred and forty-three Dao Scripts without triggering the Curse of Mysterious Power.

Richard advanced the werewolves’ Dao-Script armor research, set equipment and training plans for their future legion, and then studied a century of goblin research. After absorbing the Goblin World’s accumulated knowledge, he filled over a hundred notebooks with new ideas.

• Richard rewarded four werewolves with promotion to Level Three and ordered their institute to focus on testing the Dao-Script machine system, with goblins brought in to help.
• Richard chose Dao-Script Armor, Annihilation Guns, and Chainsaw Swords as the werewolf legion’s standard equipment, and asked the goblins to design a close-combat weapon suited to werewolves.
• Richard told Bai to adapt the legion’s training to its equipment and prepare for hybrid-blood surgery, then instructed him to share any remarkable results with the goblins.
• Richard ordered the construction of a second Floating City in the Goblin World and attended a celebration before visiting the Miracle Church’s underground Library.
• Richard spent a month absorbing the Goblin World’s research achievements and recorded his resulting inspirations in more than a hundred notebooks.

Richard gave Anson research materials to guide the Floating City Research Institute’s work for the next hundred years, then consulted Lan about modifying werewolves and gaining World Origin recognition for migrated races. He decided to create human-werewolf hybrids as scholars for a Demi-human Wizard Institute.

• Richard gave Anson his research notes and designated the final books as the Floating City Research Institute’s research subjects for the next hundred years.
• Richard learned that Ulysses had asked Lan to develop werewolf modifications, and Lan presented the Mad Wolf design, which could advance to Level 4 with few physical obstacles but caused infertility and weak resistance to mental attacks.
• Richard approved several modification plans and asked Lan how an otherworldly race could have its offspring recognized by a local World Origin while retaining its dominant bloodline.
• Lan explained that Life Editing could temporarily suppress the dominant bloodline through a congenital defect, allowing a locally born hybrid to gain recognition before the defect was cured upon reaching Level 1.
• Richard asked Lan to use his bloodline to create human-werewolf hybrids and said he would establish a Demi-human Wizard Institute for them to become scholars.

Richard and Ulysses traveled through other dimensions to collect materials for Richard’s advancement, beginning with the Plant Dimension and the Spirit Spring Dimension. After gathering World Tree fruit and trading for magical spring water, they entered the Star Dimension.

• Richard learned that several materials on his list could only be obtained in other dimensions, and Ulysses offered to guide him there.
• Richard and Ulysses entered the Plant Dimension and secretly took three fruits from a World Tree before escaping its fury.
• In the Spirit Spring Dimension, Richard traded the technique for making Recording Crystal Balls for Spring of Souls and Spring of Life, then spent nearly half a year trading for other springs.
• Ulysses bid farewell to Bug Spring, and Richard and Ulysses entered a rift to the Star Dimension, where Richard saw a distant star moving through the darkness.