Chapter Summaries

Richard entered the Spirit Desert Civilization to investigate its condition and discovered that Sand Spirits were its main species. After learning about the civilization from Shi Dangdang, he realized the juvenile Sand Spirit had secretly alerted others as an enforcement squad approached.

• Richard emerged from the Endless Dimensions on his forty-second attempt and found a medium-sized world nearby.
• Richard sent a sealed avatar through the World Wall and discovered the world was dominated by earth-element imbalance and desert terrain.
• Richard encountered Shi Dangdang, a juvenile Sand Spirit, and introduced himself as the Miracle Wizard from the Wizard Civilization.
• Shi Dangdang told Richard that the world belonged to the Spirit Desert Civilization, which had five Sovereigns and a mysterious Prophet Desert.
• Richard noticed Shi Dangdang had sent an alert to Yu Dingdong, and a squad of dragon-like creatures approached.

Richard met the Spirit Desert Civilization’s Sand Spirits and learned that they lived in symbiosis with Dragons. After discovering that their war had paused, he traveled to the civilization’s central city to meet its World Lord, who noticed his arrival.

• Richard questioned Shi Dangdang and learned that Sand Spirits regarded Dragons as their friends, then raised a pillar to guide the enforcement squad toward them.
• The Dragon enforcement squad surrounded Richard, and he revealed that he was Miracle Wizard Richard, seeking cooperation with the Spirit Desert Civilization.
• Richard pressured the squad captain into admitting that the war had stalled because the enemy had stopped attacking, then ordered the squad to take him to its superior.
• During the week-long journey, Richard learned that Sand Spirits and Dragons shared a symbiotic bond, combining the Sand Spirits’ energy control and protection with the Dragons’ power and close combat.
• Richard arrived at a grand city of gold and silver towers and sensed its ruler conducting research; inside the central tower, an eight-headed white Dragon turned toward him and acknowledged the guest.

Richard arrived at the Dragon's Nest and met Dragon Emperor Horad, the Spirit Desert Civilization's expert in Magic Armor technology. Horad recognized Richard as a visitor from the Source World and tested his power, ending the chapter shocked by the strength of the Wizards.

• Dragon Emperor Horad sent Koto and Kor to escort Richard into the Dragon's Nest after sensing a Sovereign avatar had arrived.
• Richard entered Horad's tower and discussed Dragon Alchemy and its Tree Pattern Diagrams with the two Dragon envoys.
• Horad appeared and recognized the name Miracle Wizard from an old memory of the Source World.
• Horad challenged Richard with his Sovereign-level Dragon Might, and Richard countered with the Abyss Titan's Titan Might.
• Horad judged Richard's bloodline and strength exceptional and resented the Source World Dragon who had once dismissed Wizards as servants.

Richard proved his strength and knowledge to the Dragon Emperor, then proposed an alliance between the Wizard Alliance and the Spirit Desert Civilization against the Civilization Devourer. The chapter ended with Richard explaining that their immediate goal was to exchange technology, help the Spirit Desert Civilization endure, and keep enemy dominators and minions from overwhelming its battlefield.

• Richard's pressure overcame the Dragon Emperor's Dragon Might, and the Dragon Emperor invited him to sit.
• Richard repaired the tower's Tree Pattern Diagrams, greatly reducing their energy consumption and nearly doubling their effectiveness.
• The Dragon Emperor praised Richard's skill, and Richard explained that his understanding of rules and superior computing power had enabled the repair.
• Richard confirmed that the Wizard Alliance knew of the Spirit Desert Civilization and its danger from the Civilization Devourer.
• Richard said he had come to form an alliance but warned that defeating the Civilization Devourer was unlikely in the short term.
• Richard proposed technological exchanges and said the Wizard Alliance would help hold back enemy dominators and prevent more minions from entering the Spirit Desert battlefield.

Richard negotiated with the Dragon Emperor over the Spirit Desert Civilization joining the Wizard Alliance, revealing that the Alliance could provide a refuge in another World Cluster if their current home fell. The Dragon Emperor agreed on behalf of the Dragons, requiring unrestricted technical support and skilled workers.

• The Dragon Emperor demanded greater aid than a technology exchange, while Richard questioned whether he could speak for the Spirit Desert Civilization.
• The Dragon Emperor explained the Dragons’ central role in the civilization and revealed that one of his heads was Sand Spirit Emperor Sha Mantian.
• Richard warned that the Civilization Devourer had swallowed the Spirit Desert Civilization’s dimension, making rapid transport of aid impossible.
• Richard promised the civilization could endure by escaping to a native world in another World Cluster, whose coordinates he possessed.
• The Dragon Emperor agreed on behalf of the Dragons to join the Wizard Alliance in exchange for unrestricted technical support and skilled workers.

Richard exchanged knowledge about Dragon Alchemy and the rules with the Dragon Emperor, gaining insight into how to correct the flaws in his cultivation method. He began his second Rule Integration with the Gravity Rule, adjusting the process to protect his cells as the integration started.

• Richard discussed Dragon Alchemy and the Paths of Evolution with the Dragon Emperor, who described Richard’s knowledge-driven approach as Intellectual Evolution.
• Richard and the Dragon Emperor exchanged their understanding of rules and Dragon Alchemy while Kor and Koto listened.
• Richard realized the Dragon Emperor’s insights had revealed how to fix errors in the second Rule Integration method.
• Richard chose the Gravity Rule from the Dragon Emperor’s Magic Armor as the target for his second integration.
• Richard entered his Miracle Dimension and began integrating the Gravity Rule, modifying the fusion field so his cells would have time to recover.

After completing the fusion of the Gravity Rule with the Four Elements Rule, Richard gained powerful defenses and a foundation for developing his body into a world. The Sand Spirit Sages summoned him to the Prophet Desert, and Richard agreed after realizing their invitation likely involved the Wizard Dimension’s prophet.

• Richard completed the Gravity Rule fusion and discovered that force-field attacks and many ordinary strikes could no longer affect him.
• Richard considered how adding further Rules would make his body the rudiment of a world and advance his Titan’s Body cultivation.
• The Sand Spirit Emperors received revelations from the Prophet Desert and saw its sands form a vast Black Pyramid with its gates open.
• Sha Mantian told Richard that the Sand Spirit Sages wanted to meet him in the Prophet Desert.
• Richard inferred that the Sand Spirit Sages and the Wizard Dimension’s prophet might have reached an agreement, then accepted the invitation.

Richard traveled to the Sand Spirit Great World and met the Sand Spirit sages, who gave him the Robe of the Seeker, a treasure that could foil all divinations and Curses. The robe required him to survive a calamity as its trial, while the sages affirmed that he must unite the World Cluster against the Civilization Devourer.

• Richard crossed six worlds with Sha Mantian and saw Dragon's Nests and underground nature reserves before reaching the Sand Spirit Great World.
• Sha Mantian directed Richard to the Prophet Desert, where Richard entered the Black Pyramid alone.
• Richard used Holy Light from his Miracle Codex to destroy the Pyramid's cursed maw and repel the Cursed Creatures along the corridor.
• Richard met the Sand Spirit sages, who revealed that the balance was the true sage and that the Curse Crown had arranged for them to give him a gift.
• The sages presented Richard with the Robe of the Seeker, explaining that it blocked divinations and Curses and that its master had to undergo a calamity.

Richard accepted the Robe of the Seeker and learned that the surviving civilizations were counting on him to oppose the Civilization Devourer. After mastering the Dimensional Thread Weaving Method, he transformed Shanhai with a dimensional thread and prepared to return to the Wizard Alliance as misfortune began to stir.

• Richard took the Robe of the Seeker, and the Sand Spirit Prophet revealed that no other prophets had survived and that the remaining civilizations might not know about him or the Civilization Devourer.
• Richard extracted the Dimensional Thread Weaving Method and the robe’s blueprint, then integrated the technique into his soul and witnessed the history of dimensional weaving.
• Richard used the method to fuse a dimensional thread with Shanhai, bringing its Material World and Abyss rules under the Miracle rules and making Shanhai effectively indestructible without enchantments.
• Richard completed an alliance pact with the Spirit Desert Civilization and opened a dimensional rift to return to the Wizard Alliance and prepare supplies.
• Richard felt that misfortune had begun to turn its wheels as he faced the Void beyond the rift.

Richard flew through Endless Dimensions toward the Wizard Alliance, but the Civilization Devourer detected him and sent Kolon Peak to intercept him. Kolon Peak’s spear struck Richard’s Shanhai armor without penetrating, leaving the battle unresolved.

• The Civilization Devourer analyzed Richard’s approach and decided to pursue him after Misfortune altered its calculations.
• The Civilization Devourer created a Limit-Breaking Titan and three ordinary Dominators, then ordered them to intercept Richard.
• Richard sensed danger and dodged Kolon Peak’s spear by changing direction at the last moment.
• Kolon Peak attacked Richard with his killing intent and thrust his spear at Richard’s head.
• Richard revealed his True Body, and Kolon Peak’s spear stopped inside Shanhai’s keyhole without advancing further.

Richard used the Ghost God Mask to transform and faced Kolon Peak and three reinforcements from the Civilization Devourer. He trapped Kolon Peak in the gravity of a singularity, but a rift appeared beside him before the fight was resolved.

• Richard endured Kolon Peak's attacks, recognized his Slaughter Battle Method, and protected his mind as the Titan King had advised.
• Richard put on the Great Elder's Ghost God Mask and transformed as three ultimate-Dominator Titans arrived to support Kolon Peak.
• The three Titans formed a slowing field around Richard, but he raised a powerful barrier and began compressing energy into a singularity with the Gravity Rule.
• Richard unleashed the singularity's gravity and locked Kolon Peak in a tidal surge that tore at his body while the three Titans' attacks failed to penetrate Shanhai's defenses.
• A rift appeared beside Kolon Peak as the singularity's gravity continued to intensify.

The Civilization Devourer fired its Dimensional Annihilation Cannon at Richard, reducing him to a tiny fragment and nearly destroying his soul. Stranded in the Endless Dimensions and unable to return to the Material World, Richard stopped his runaway flight and encountered a strange tree-like creature.

• The Civilization Devourer coordinated the Furnace People and Titans to channel a Dimensional Fragment’s power through a tower and fire the Dimensional Annihilation Cannon at Richard.
• Richard used nearly all his abilities to resist the blast, but it engulfed him and destroyed his enormous True Body.
• A Dominator Puppet reported that the cannon’s effect was satisfactory, while Richard survived as a tiny fragment drifting through the Endless Dimensions.
• Richard realized his soul was too damaged to open a rift back to the Material World and used gravity to stop himself after three months of flight.
• A strange creature resembling a great tree approached Richard, complaining that the thing it had followed had disappeared.

Richard disguised his shattered body as a harmless specimen and was collected by Taral Redshirt, a Tree Spirit exploring the Endless Dimensions. After secretly consuming a soul-restoring World Tree Fruit from Taral’s storage space, Richard infected Taral in his laboratory and offered him a deal as Taral’s body and soul began to decay.

• Richard drew Taral’s attention and let him test his shattered body, convincing Taral to store it in a jar as basically harmless.
• Richard found and ate a sealed World Tree Fruit in Taral’s storage space, restoring his psychic power to the level of a Third-level creature.
• Taral returned to the Astral Realm and brought Richard’s jar to his laboratory beside the World Tree.
• When Taral removed Richard from the jar with a Flesh Tentacle, Richard infected him with viruses that spread through his body.
• Taral’s body and soul began to decay, and Richard told him that he needed to make a deal.

Richard forced Taral to sign a secrecy contract and learned that he had arrived in the Natural Federation, where Soul Origin was tightly controlled. To restore his damaged soul, Richard planned to seek help from the Tree Spirit Race's Spiritual Medicine Sage, while promising Taral rewards for his service.

• Richard revealed his Dominator pressure, threatened Taral, and made him sign a contract to gather restorative treasures and keep Richard's existence secret.
• Taral explained that the Natural Federation comprised five races and was far from the Civilization Devourer, but that Federation controls barred World Lords from obtaining Soul Origin without a valid reason.
• Richard learned that Taral could contact the Tree Spirit Race's Spiritual Medicine Sage, one of the few people able to make potions effective on him, and ordered Taral to arrange a meeting.
• Richard used evolutionary matter to raise Taral's constitution by twenty points, and Taral pledged to serve him faithfully.

Taral brought an ordinary-looking flesh ball to the Spiritual Medicine Sage in exchange for a soul-restoring Magic Potion. The Sage recognized its value and offered unlimited Spiritual Medicine, on the condition that he meet the person who supplied it.

• The Spiritual Medicine Sage rejected Lord Yuka’s Sixth-level World Tree branch and sent him away without agreeing to refine a potion.
• Taral arrived at the Sage’s residence, where Kuila introduced him to Yuka as a child of the King of Redshirts.
• Taral presented a flesh ball, and Yuka and Kuila doubted it was valuable enough to trade for medicine.
• The Sage erupted after seeing the flesh ball, then asked Taral what he wanted when Taral claimed it was his.
• Taral requested a Magic Potion to restore the soul, and the Sage offered as much Spiritual Medicine as he wanted if he could meet the person who had supplied the flesh ball.

The Spiritual Medicine Sage discovered that the object Taral brought contained a powerful Evolutionary Potion and sought to meet Richard, while Taral returned with a soul-recovery potion that helped Richard restore his power. Richard resumed contact with the Wizard Civilization, warned the alliance about the Civilization Devourer, and entered a Nightmare World to hunt.

• The Spiritual Medicine Sage sent Yuka away and gave Taral a Potent Soul-Recovery Potion after recognizing the Evolutionary Potion in Richard's offering.
• Taral told Richard that the Spiritual Medicine Sage wanted to meet him, and Richard instructed Taral to return with the potion rather than arrange a meeting yet.
• Several months later, Taral returned with the potion, and Richard drank it, restoring his soul enough to use the Dimensional Gate.
• Richard summoned Old Abel, learned the alliance had conquered five worlds but suspected the Civilization Devourer was combining worlds into an ultra-large body, and warned the council about its Dimensional Annihilation Cannon.
• Richard told Old Abel to arrange a replacement for his Spirit Desert Civilization duties, then entered the Nightmare World to hunt.

Spiritual Medicine Sage Karo brought Kuila to meet Richard, hoping to learn his alchemy. Richard agreed to trade knowledge for Karo’s help arranging a meeting with the Great World Tree, and Karo left to contact the Mother Tree.

• Karo gave Taral a branch from the Great World Tree before traveling with Kuila through the World Root System to Taral’s world.
• Karo entered Richard’s laboratory, where Richard was developing a Mutated Life Virus, and offered him three valuable gifts.
• Karo asked to learn Richard’s alchemy, but Richard said the gifts were insufficient to pay for knowledge.
• Richard asked Karo to introduce him to the Great World Tree, and Karo agreed.
• Richard gave Karo a dangerous viral solution as payment and told him to contact the Mother Tree promptly.

Richard studied Taral and extracted the Supreme Beings’ Construct Forging Method from a Dominator Puppet Core, then opened a rift to the Bewitching Dimension to gather Soul Origin. Meanwhile, Karo went to see the Great World Tree, hoping to share good news after it argued with Lord Netherworld over restarting the war.

• Richard explained that he wanted a private meeting with the Great World Tree so he could persuade it to support the peace faction in the Natural Federation.
• Richard used the Miracle Furnace to extract the Construct Forging Method from the Supreme Being Dominator Puppet Core and formed a Supreme Being Crystal with it.
• Richard opened a dimensional rift to the Bewitching Dimension and told Taral to notify him if there was news.
• Karo learned that the Great World Tree had argued with Lord Netherworld, who was likely urging it to resume the war against the Curse Demon Empire.
• Karo asked a Tree Sprite to take him to the Great World Tree, saying he had good news to share.

Karo arranged a private meeting between Richard and the Great World Tree, who had approved it despite worrying that Netherworld was pushing the Natural Federation toward another war. After Richard met the World Tree, he revealed that he wanted to mediate the conflict between the Natural Federation and the Curse Demon Empire.

• Karo told the Great World Tree that a foreign Dominator wanted a private meeting, and the World Tree agreed to receive him.
• Richard hunted Mist Spirits in the Bewitching Dimension, restored his spiritual power to three thousand points, and prepared the Dominator Puppet core to grow a puppet body.
• Three months later, Richard arrived at the Tree Spirit Mother World, where the tree elf steward escorted him into the palace without Karo.
• The Great World Tree recognized Richard as a Wizard and asked why he had sought a private meeting.
• Richard told the Great World Tree that he wanted to mediate the war between the Natural Federation and the Curse Demon Empire.

Richard revealed that the Civilization Devourer had returned and that he was a Titan chosen by the Previous Civilization Alliance, persuading World Fortress No. 145 to cooperate with the Wizard Alliance. They planned to bring the Natural Federation into an alliance and use a meeting to test for a possible traitor.

• The Great World Tree revealed that he had fought the Civilization Devourer a million years earlier as a World Fortress created by the Star-Herding Titan civilization.
• Richard showed the Great World Tree the Miracle Furnace and revealed his Titan identity, prompting World Fortress No. 145 to salute him and pledge to fight alongside him.
• The Great World Tree agreed to pursue an alliance but said he could represent only the Tree Spirits and warned that Netherworld and the Gloomhaven Tribe favored renewed war.
• Richard cautioned the Great World Tree against immediately treating the Gloomhaven Tribe as a threat and asked whether the Federation had found active relics from the Previous Civilization.
• Richard proposed that the Great World Tree call a Federation meeting after Richard returned publicly, using the alliance decision and Fate Contract to expose any traitor working for the Civilization Devourer.