Chapter Summaries

Richard defeated and destroyed the Civilization Devourer’s Asphalt Titan, but the encounter revealed how dangerous its master was. After returning to the Wizard World and connecting to the Abyss Consciousness to accelerate his evolution, Richard met Qi, the first Star-Herding Titan.

• The Asphalt Titan attacked Richard with a runic hammer and blade, but Richard’s Miracle Dimension and Titan’s Hammer let him break its weapon and burn away a third of its body.
• Richard pulled the fleeing Asphalt Titan into his Miracle Dimension, where it spread as corrosive slime, then contained it with Miracle Fire and a Thirteen Ring Self-Transforming Rune Model.
• The Asphalt Titan’s slime conveyed the Civilization Devourer’s gaze to Richard; he met it and vowed to await its death before burning the remaining slime away.
• Richard reflected on the battle’s enormous cost, then placed a sword stele honoring Seven Kill Daoist in his newly formed dimension and promised to fulfill his obligation.
• Richard returned to the Wizard World and connected to the Abyss Consciousness to study the Abyss Sovereigns’ records and accelerate his physique’s evolution.
• Richard encountered a Star-Herding Titan in the Abyss archive, who revealed that he was Qi, the first Star-Herding Titan and Titan King.

Richard learned from the Titan King that the Civilization Devourer could trap and erase the records of those who tracked it, and that the rulers investigating it were in grave danger. He warned the Truth Wizards and pushed them to end the wars feeding the creature, while Curse Crown remained missing and his fate uncertain.

• Richard spoke with the Titan King, who warned that the Civilization Devourer could overpower fate-users and was likely preparing a trap for the rulers tracking it.
• Richard contacted Great Wizard Curse Mark, who could no longer remember having Curse Crown as his teacher, though Curse Crown's mark remained inactive.
• Richard summoned the Crowns and explained that Curse Crown was missing and likely threatened by the Civilization Devourer.
• The Crowns agreed to change their strategy and end the war with the Star River Mayfly, mediate the wars between the Gods and the Abyss, and halt other conflicts in the World Cluster.
• Richard offered his growing Titan Legion as a replacement for the depleted Beastlands mercenary armies, and Shaping Crown assigned the wizards to coordinate a new plan.

Richard received the Titan's Body Cultivation Method from the Titan King and learned that its ultimate form could turn every cell into a small world, though its immense resource demands remained unsolved. After returning to his body, Richard planned his next tasks and was summoned by Great Wizard Curse Mark, who suspected his memories had been altered and said Richard should preside over the Curse School.

• The Titan King gave Richard the Titan's Body Cultivation Method and explained how he had fought within frozen time without ever reaching level nine.
• Richard absorbed the inheritance, grasped about sixty percent of it, and learned that its final stage would make every cell in his body a small world, but that the Titan King had not solved its resource problem.
• Richard thanked the Titan King for the inheritance, returned to his body after a week, and wrote down plans for cultivation, exploration, study, and training.
• Great Wizard Curse Mark contacted Richard and said the council was making major moves and that Richard should return to preside over the Curse School.
• Richard realized Curse Mark knew his memories had been altered, praised his insight, and told him to wait at headquarters.

Richard delegated the Curse School’s paperwork and explored the Endless Dimensions while the Curse Crown remained trapped in a maze. After a decade of travel, Richard found the Furnace Dimension and confirmed that all three Civilization Dimensions of the Civilization Alliance still existed.

• Richard created an avatar to process the Curse School’s documents, then gave Great Wizard Curse Mark authority to review them before stamping.
• The Curse Crown explored the maze and hoped his discovery would improve the wizards’ chances of victory.
• Richard followed a guiding thread through the Endless Dimensions and captured a sixth-level worm creature that world rulers had been trying to banish.
• Richard left a dimensional beacon in the worm creature’s world, whose rulers decided to enshrine it.
• After ten years of travel, Richard reached the Furnace Dimension and saw it entwined with two weaker dimensions.

Richard entered the Furnace People Dimension and learned that the Furnace People’s souls were bound to the Supreme Furnace as the price of sustaining its flame. To inherit the legacy, he passed the first trial and faced the Furnace Fire Spirit in the second, a fight he believed could spur his evolution.

• Richard followed the guiding thread into the Furnace People Dimension, where a falling furnace attacked him, but his Miracle Fire repelled its flames.
• The Furnace Fire Spirit explained that every Furnace Person had become bound to the Supreme Furnace, with a portion of each soul feeding its fire.
• The Furnace Fire Spirit trapped Richard in a Rune seal for the first trial, and Richard broke it by using his probability-altering ability and knowledge of Furnace People Runes.
• The Furnace Fire Spirit declared the second trial was to defeat him without using the Supreme Furnace, and Richard accepted the challenge with Titan's Hammer.
• The Furnace Fire Spirit warned Richard that he would die if he failed to admit defeat in time, then attacked with the furnace as a meteor hammer.

Richard endured the Titan trial by battling the Furnace Fire Spirit for nearly a month, evolving his body until he reached his limit and conceded. The Furnace Fire Spirit revealed that the trials offered the Star-Herding Titans’ inheritance and the Civilization Treasure called the Creation Hammer, which the Titan King had never used because he preferred his own hammer.

• Richard’s body evolved during the Furnace Fire Spirit’s attacks, with Abyss Power becoming part of his life core and greatly strengthening his constitution and life force field.
• Richard fought the Furnace Fire Spirit for nearly a month, growing stronger while remaining unable to overcome the spirit’s superior constitution and combat skill.
• After hearing a cracking sound, Richard conceded, and the Furnace Fire Spirit warned that further evolution would fragment his life core.
• The Furnace Fire Spirit explained that the Furnace Fire Trial would mature Richard’s Illusory Dimension and that the Titan Trial offered the Star-Herding Titans’ inheritance and the Creation Hammer.
• The Furnace Fire Spirit said the Creation Hammer had never been used because the Titan King considered it too light and preferred his own World Annihilation Stone hammer.

Richard learned that the Supreme Being's trial tested the will and granted a Calculation Chip that could amplify calculations without a known limit. After three years of training with the Furnace Fire Spirit, his dimension matured and he reached Level 8 Astral Ruler, then prepared to join the front lines as a Throne.

• Richard learned that the Supreme Being's trial was an enhanced Darkness of the Soul and that its inheritance was a Calculation Chip that doubled a Dominator's calculations without reaching its amplification limit.
• The Furnace Fire Spirit refused to let Richard devour its dimension and instead channeled Dimensional Power into Richard's Miracle Dimension, advising him to add rules.
• Richard used the Abyss Evolution Field to stabilize his life core while undergoing trials and studying Furnace People Runes alongside Wizard Runes.
• Over three years, Richard's constitution rose to seven thousand points, and his Miracle Dimension matured, making him an Eight-Ring Truth, or Level 8 Astral Ruler.
• The Furnace Fire Spirit stopped channeling Dimensional Power, and Richard left through a Rune gate to fulfill his duty as a Throne on the front lines.

Richard learned that the Star River Mayflies were advancing technologically through large-scale archaeological expeditions and prepared for a major offensive after returning to the Wizard World. In Ash Sun World, he strengthened Istaroth and used his Abyss Evolution Field to help the Blood-Granted Titans evolve.

• Old Abel told Richard that the Star River Mayflies were resisting more strongly, improving their technology through archaeological expeditions, and facing an aggressive Wizard encirclement plan.
• A female Logistics Wizard teased Gawain and Asu about stolen rations, while Gawain returned to his room and reviewed messages, including death notices from the war.
• An Old Wizard warned Gawain that the Miracle Crown had returned to the Ash Sun World and that a great offensive was likely imminent, so Gawain alerted Asu.
• Istaroth presented Richard with 572 Blood-Granted Titans, and Richard rewarded Istaroth with a drop of his blood.
• Richard used his Abyss Evolution Field to loosen the Titans' life cores and help them evolve, astonishing Istaroth.

Richard studied the Abyss Titans’ evolution, then ordered the trained Titans to begin ascending as World Lords, promising their ascensions would yield results within ten years. He traveled to a Demi-human Wizard world to gather Soul Origin from Nightmare Lords and began hunting them to restore his spiritual power.

• Richard observed the Abyss Titans evolve for three days, then ended the domain before their life cores collapsed and gave them Soul Origin to restore their spiritual power.
• Richard ordered Abyss Titans with more than three years of Illusionary System training to begin their World Lord ascensions, and he told Istaroth that all ascensions would yield results within ten years.
• Richard left Ash Sun World and used the Tower of Truth’s Teleportation Gate to reach a small Demi-human Wizard cultivation world.
• Richard entered its Nightmare World, crushed two Nightmare Lords with a Hand of Mana, and refined their Nightmare Power into Soul Origin, finding that it barely increased his spiritual power.
• Richard decided to hunt the world’s many Nightmare Lords and summoned a towering body of Thunder and flame, terrifying the creatures around him.

Richard completed the second stage of Titan's Body cultivation by integrating the Four Elements Rules into his cells, then left for the front lines to battle Dean again. The chapter ended as Richard entered the Endless Dimensions, eager to face Dean.

• Richard hunted Nightmare Lords for a year, gathered the last Soul Origin he needed, and raised his spiritual power to its limit.
• Richard used the Seven Kill Sword and the Disintegration Fusion Method to integrate the Four Elements Rules into every cell of his body.
• Richard realized that merging a dimension into his body might let him fill it with Rules and avoid conflicts between them.
• Richard dispersed the world-level storm created by his cultivation and gave the World Guardian Soul Origin to strengthen his spiritual power.
• Richard opened a runic gate, entered the Endless Dimensions, and called out that Dean looked miserable.

Richard joined the battle beyond the gate and confronted the Swarm Lord, whose cellular swarm had overwhelmed the Physique Crown. Richard revealed that his cells could trigger Four Elements Annihilation reactions, then struck the fleeing Swarm Lord with a colorless storm, leaving the Physique Crown unsure whether he had killed him.

• Richard arrived and found the Physique Crown badly injured while fighting the Swarm Lord.
• The Swarm Lord sensed Richard's danger, consulted the World Dominator, and decided to test him while keeping a way to retreat.
• The Swarm Lord engulfed Richard with his cellular swarm, but Richard's cells erupted with Four Elements Annihilation power and forced the swarm to withdraw.
• The Swarm Lord fled, and Richard transformed his energy before punching a colorless storm across the void.
• The Swarm Lord exploded inside the storm, and the Physique Crown wondered whether he had died.

Richard battled the Swarm Lord, whose evolved powers included viral attacks and the ability to turn his dimension into offspring. After the Swarm Lord escaped by abandoning the part of his dimension entangled with Richard’s, Richard and the Physique Crown headed to aid Soul and Undead.

• Richard warned the Physique Crown that the Swarm Lord was a poor match for him and told him to support Soul and Undead.
• The Swarm Lord disrupted the Physique Crown’s attempt to leave, so Richard used the Miracle Dimension to shield him from the Swarm Dimension’s erosion.
• The Swarm Lord revealed a virus-like power and attacked Richard, but Richard countered the infection and blocked the Swarm Lord’s strikes with Shaping.
• Richard repeatedly annihilated the Swarm Lord’s body, but the Swarm Lord regenerated as long as his offspring survived.
• The Swarm Lord severed the entangled portion of his dimension after turning the Illusory Dimension into his offspring, then vanished.
• Richard and the Physique Crown opened a Runic gate and went to support Soul and Undead.

The Wizards launched a full-scale assault on the Star River Mayflies, overwhelming their defenses with superior numbers and technology. Gawain broke a Mayfly legion barrier while Richard reported that Tianyan Dominator was running low on Dimensional Power and Swarm Lord might be wavering.

• Hundreds of thousands of Wizards and their troops attacked the Mayfly front, while battles erupted in the skies, underground, and across the surface.
• The Mayfly General pleaded for reinforcements, but General Headquarters sent supplies to higher-priority fronts, leaving the defensive line short of troops.
• Gawain ordered thousands of Barrier Tremor Bombs to strike a Mayfly legion barrier, and elite Wizards charged through after it shattered.
• Dona delivered replacement Floating Cannons to Gawain, who thanked her and promised to take her to the Library.
• Shaping Crown reported that the Wizard encirclement had closed, and Richard said Tianyan Dominator had spent more than half of his Dimensional Power.
• Soul Crown said Swarm Lord appeared to be wavering over the war's outcome, suggesting the Mayflies might be defeated sooner than expected.

Richard’s Titans entered the war against the Star River Mayflies, helping the Wizards crush the enemy’s encirclement. After the Mayflies’ defeat, the Wizard fleet arrived at Star River World, the last world of their homeland still to be reclaimed.

• Richard reported that more than three hundred Titans had completed advancement, including over a hundred World Lord-level Titans and Symbiotic Titans born from failed advancements.
• Shaping Crown ended the meeting as the Truth Wizards considered the strength and limits of Richard’s growing Titan force.
• Mayfly Generals La and Su discussed their dwindling numbers and heard that some Dominators might flee with younglings and eggs if the war went badly.
• The Wizards deployed Symbiotic Titans, Abyss Titans, and Eldridge on the front lines, and over ten years they annihilated the Mayfly encirclement.
• Great Wizard Bronze Spear led a Floating City Fleet to Star River World and announced that the Wizards had returned.

The wizards advanced slowly through poisoned worlds, and Ulysses used Miracle Sorcery to purify World 8546 so it could support the front lines. Meanwhile, the Four Crowns’ attacks finally pushed the Tianyan Dominator close to his limit.

• Ulysses ignited the poisonous rain over World 8546 and led the priesthood and Miracle Wizard Corps in expanding a purification array across the land.
• Grand Wizard Cheng Hai recognized the power of Miracle Sorcery and said he would consider Ulysses’s invitation to join the Miracle School.
• Ulysses and Grand Wizard Cheng Hai prepared to travel to more worlds so they could be cleansed and used as relocation sites for Alchemy Worlds.
• The Undead Crown and the Soul Crown struck the Tianyan Dominator with Thirteenth Ring Sorcery after the Swarm Lord’s body was annihilated.
• The Tianyan Dominator’s recovery was delayed by one microsecond, and the Four Crowns realized he was nearing his limit.

Aro defected to the Wizard Dimension to save the last thirty million of his people, prompting the Mayfly Quasi-Emperor to investigate how imperial-clan Kings had taken over vacant territories. After Mantuo suggested using deployment orders against them, the Quasi-Emperor prepared to begin a purge.

• Aro rejected Sabo’s appeal to uphold Great Mayfly Ideology and surrendered to the Twilight Great Wizard to preserve his people.
• The Twilight Great Wizard promised that Aro’s race would endure in exchange for his surrender.
• The Mayfly Quasi-Emperor learned that Aro’s defected world had been his final territory and that imperial-clan Kings had taken vacant worlds after trading away their own.
• The Quasi-Emperor appointed Mantuo as his secretary after Mantuo asked to serve alongside him.
• Mantuo proposed deploying the imperial-clan Kings to the front lines and denying their requests to retreat, and the Quasi-Emperor ordered him to prepare a list for a great purge.

Gawain connected the Mayflies’ improved combat skill to Aro’s defection, while Richard recruited Aro as a propaganda figure to persuade the Star River Mayflies to surrender. Richard offered safety and the possibility of settling in the Great Star River World, but left the Twilight Great Wizard wondering about the risks of accepting defectors.

• Gawain told Asu that the Mayflies’ improved fighting skills likely came from Aro’s defection rather than a technological breakthrough.
• Richard awakened Aro and asked him to serve as a propaganda figure against the Star River Mayflies still fighting.
• Richard argued that Aro’s surrender had been driven by the need to save his people and promised gentle treatment for Mayflies who surrendered.
• Aro understood that Richard wanted to present him as proof that surrendering Mayflies would not be harmed, and he wavered at the promise of access to the Great Star River World.
• Richard gave Aro three days to decide, then the Twilight Great Wizard questioned whether welcoming large numbers of Mayflies would create a destabilizing force.
• Richard acknowledged the risk but told the Twilight Great Wizard that some things were not yet ready to be revealed.

Charlie delivered the last airship to a new Alchemy World as the wizards advanced across X370 World and prepared to end the war. The chapter ended with the Tianyan Dominator dying in an attempted breakthrough while fighting the four Truth Wizards.

• Charlie arrived at the newly established Alchemy World and read a report announcing the wizards' great advance.
• Gawain led Formation Three to victory over the Mayflies and returned to the Floating Fortress to repair his War Airship.
• Gawain saw a headline announcing that another Dominator had been slain and that the war was entering its countdown.
• The Soul Dominator failed to persuade the Tianyan Dominator to sign a Fate Contract, so the four Truth Wizards attacked him.
• The Tianyan Dominator tried to break through using his remaining Dimensional Power, but his body exploded before he could finish.

After Tianyan Dominator's death, the Wizards' war against the Mayflies rapidly turned into a rout, and Richard began sweeping entire worlds into the Miracle Dimension. He encountered the Mayfly Dimension Avatar, which warned him about the coming Scourge and reacted with terror when Richard revealed that the Civilization Devourer had already interfered in the war.

• Swarm Lord fled into the Endless Dimensions, and Undead Crown and Soul Crown pursued him while Richard and Physique Crown gathered Tianyan Dominator's remnants.
• The Wizards encircled hundreds of worlds, and Richard began capturing Mayfly Kings and Star River Mayflies one world at a time.
• Richard encountered the First Star River Mayfly, discovered it was the Mayfly Dimension Avatar, and fought it after it took Tianyan Dominator's form.
• The Mayfly Dimension Avatar urged Richard to stop clearing out the Mayflies, arguing that they could become Wizards' vassals and future cannon fodder.
• Richard told the avatar that the Scourge had already appeared and guided the Mayflies' technological revolution, and the avatar reacted with fear.
• Richard recognized the gaze of the Civilization Devourer in the avatar's eyes.

A Predecessor Civilization relic became a rapidly spreading black sludge that infected the Star River Mayflies through their Mind Network. The Great Star River World was overwhelmed, and the Mayfly Quasi-Emperor and its inhabitants perished beneath the Black Tide.

• The Star River Mayfly Great Scholar activated a relic in his laboratory, and it transformed into sludge that devoured matter and energy while spreading.
• The sludge produced a creature and infected the Great Scholar, whose contradictory Mind Network messages warned the Mayfly Quasi-Emperor before claiming everything was under control.
• The Mayfly Quasi-Emperor killed the infected Great Scholar, but the research institute transformed into a Titan as World Guardians warned that the World Origin faced a spreading threat.
• The Mayfly Quasi-Emperor ordered the Star River Mayflies to evacuate, but the infection spread through the Mind Network and contaminated its countless foundational nodes.
• The infected Mayflies spread the sludge across the Star River World, and the Black Tide killed the Mayfly Quasi-Emperor and everyone else.