Chapters 801-900¶
At the start of this range, Mentor Clark is about to marry Teacher Kastilla of the Crimson Court, and Jie Ming has a rival, Azrael, to watch for.
Arc map¶
| # | Arc | Chapters |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | Clark and Kastilla's wedding and the Azrael through-line | 801-881 |
| 1 | The Invitation and the road through the public zone | 801-807 |
| 2 | Broken Bone Corridor and the Reflection Prism | 808-817 |
| 3 | The Academic Exchange Conference | 818-832 |
| 4 | Return journey and the Return | 833-836 |
| 5 | Interlude | 837-841 |
| 6 | The Mushroom-Man Plane War | 842-857 |
| 7 | The New Education Reform | 858-860 |
| 8 | Fetching the bride | 861-877 |
| 9 | Consolidation and the Wedding | 877-885 |
| 10 | The Wonder Investigation | 886-900 |
Arcs¶
0. Clark and Kastilla's wedding and the Azrael through-line (Ch801-881)¶
- Fifty years pass at the start of the range, and the wedding of Clark and Kastilla is still nowhere in sight.1
- The Azrael thread then goes dormant for about sixty chapters while other arcs run.3
- In the Crimson Court, Azrael's faction proposes a formal series of duels as face-saving theater.43
- Clark fights Azrael to a courteous draw until Azrael breaks the arena's spatial stabilizers.45
- After the expedition, the eighth-levels call the incident an accident and pay compensation, and Kastilla formally leaves her teacher.48
- Clark and Kastilla marry on a cloud-meadow plane, and Jie Ming ends the night alone under the stars, laughing.53
1. The Invitation and the road through the public zone (Ch801-807)¶
- Felix, Jie Ming's AI projection, delivers a dark-gold invitation to a joint academic exchange conference of the Void Architecture Academy and the Anti-Entropy Alliance.2
- Jie Ming is to present his 3,000-year-old Self-Stabilizing Field Regulation Protocol.2
- He travels alone through the lawless public Strife Star Region, where an innkeeper warns him of black wizards.4
- The innkeeper turns out to lead the band that tampered with his teleport coordinates, and ambushes him.5
- Jie Ming wipes out the stronghold and learns the ecological structure of black wizards.6
- In the Public Zone he is poisoned at dinner, and the second group proves to be a staged assassination built on the first group's intel.7
- He kills them and resolves to let the hidden mastermind expose himself.7
2. Broken Bone Corridor and the Reflection Prism (Ch808-817)¶
- Jie Ming deliberately routes through the Reflection-Dimension-contaminated Broken Bone Corridor to turn the hunter into the hunted.8
- He stumbles into a staged pirate-versus-chamber-of-commerce battle that is really Multiracial Alliance snail-folk baiting the tripe race with a ninth-level artifact, the Reflection Prism.9
- Both sides decide to kill him, and two eighth-levels fight him and each other.10
- The Prism annihilates one eighth-level but cannot touch Jie Ming's Dharma Form.11
- He kills the tripe eighth-level with the Annihilation Form.12
- He soul-searches the survivors, erases all fate and causal traces, and takes the Prism.13
- A coordinate reset via the Mustard Seed Dao-Holding True Body Art wrecks his inner world, and he lets the Body Forging Method adapt before using the Ash Return to Origin Hand.14
- Disguised, he flies to a junction point to fake a route-two alibi.15
3. The Academic Exchange Conference (Ch818-832)¶
- Jie Ming arrives at the Void Architecture Academy's purpose-built plane.16
- Savien, a spatial-studies legend and author of Jie Ming's textbooks, commandeers him for a month of discussion.17
- At the welcome reception Savien introduces him to the eighth-level masters Bastian and Morna, who cannot match his Mustard Seed overlap technique to any known theory.18
- At the formal opening, the Mobius family executes a member who moved against him and pays compensation.19
- Rades's practical-school session covers mental-energy frequency tuning.20
- Jie Ming presents the Life Homeostasis Field technique, hailed as something that could rewrite legion warfare and raise the fifth-to-sixth breakthrough rate.21
- Savien privately tells him he was never in the Broken Bone Corridor and to be careful.22
4. Return journey and the Return (Ch833-836)¶
- Hogg, a newly minted seventh-level, politely borrows from Jie Ming, and Jie Ming wins a brutal duel by attrition.23
- A hidden senior seventh-level blows apart his Dharma Form.24
- Grand-Mentors Noren and Anton, eighth-levels who had been shadowing him, erase both attackers and confirm they were not after the Prism.24
- Back at the Infernal Sulfur Plane, Jie Ming lends the Prism to Noren and Anton under contract.25
- Clark tells him, "You did well this time."25
- Jie Ming audits his gains and gaps and starts work on sixth-level spells.25
5. Interlude (Ch837-841)¶
- More than a decade passes, and Jie Ming completes a new Talisman-Rune Artifact.27
- Dean Avery Knight returns from a long mission.26
- Augusta, who covered Jie Ming's teaching duties, proposes a joint plane war on a newly found plane.26
- Jie Ming tests the new spells Terminus Ray, Echo Shell and Void String.28
- Avery briefs the sixth-levels on a Wonder in the Endless Chaotic Void that will intersect the Workshop's flight path in about 1,500 years.29
6. The Mushroom-Man Plane War (Ch842-857)¶
- Several years pass, and Jie Ming and Augusta lead a dozen Augusta-family youngsters against a plane of half-rock, half-fungus mushroom-men numbering over a billion elites.30
- Augusta gives her "go and conquer this world" speech, and the youngsters are deliberately allowed to take a loss.31
- A black-giant legion and a Tentacle Tree fleet are deployed.32
- Jie Ming discovers the mushroom-men are artificial constructs.33
- The youngsters are ambushed underground, and Jie Ming arrives to their rescue.34
- The massed mushroom-men themselves turn out to be the contradictory ore-vein spectrum, and the leader wakes.35
- The leader, having just reached eighth level by devouring its kin, surrenders and signs a master-servant contract with Augusta, ending the war.36
- The epilogue reveals the race's backstory: a technological civilization exiled them from another plane, which gives a new plane to hunt for.37
7. The New Education Reform (Ch858-860)¶
- In a packed all-mentor meeting, a Crimson Court low-level wizard's fetal soul-sampling and cloning technology is combined with Jie Ming's Blood Sacrifice Method to mass-produce top-talent apprentices.38
- Avery assigns Jie Ming to build the system.39
- Viola tells him to hurry because their departure time is nearly here: they are simply going to fetch their mentor's bride.40
8. Fetching the bride (Ch861-877)¶
- Several more years pass and the admissions system is automated, and Noren teleports Clark, Viola and Jie Ming into Crimson Court territory.41
- They reunite with Kastilla, who is revealed as a battle maniac.42
- Viola beats Jessie, and Jie Ming beats Rashid with time reversal, stunning the room.44
- Everyone is dumped into the chaotic interlayer with spatial fold beasts that mirror each wizard's limit.46
- Jie Ming and Viola rescue the Scarlet Hive wizards, who choose to help free Clark, and Clark crushes both remaining beasts.47
- In secret, Azrael's line extracts the Death Husk, a relic that can assist Law Fixation to the eighth level.48
- Jie Ming had left his beast's remains as a coordinate marker, so the Workshop will harvest Death Husks itself.49
9. Consolidation and the Wedding (Ch877-885)¶
- A Dragonman population policy is set.50
- Jie Ming goes on a Plane Origin buying spree, and several years later all his laws are at 12 or higher.51
- He plans to make Dragonmen command nodes for dragonblood mushroom-men.52
- Clark and Kastilla marry, and Augusta mentions preliminary results on the mushroom-men's home plane.53
- Augusta seeds System-style media into the chaotic region of the mushroom-men's origin cluster.54
- The Return to Ruins Armor is stripped down to pure defense.55
- The Great Annihilation Divine Light must be carried by a primitive talisman, which brings the epiphany that the Great Dao is simplicity itself.56
- The dragonblood mushroom-man legion has already produced seventh-levels, and Jie Ming orders it expanded to ten billion sixth-levels.57
10. The Wonder Investigation (Ch886-900)¶
- Several years later, Noren convenes every high-level wizard: the Wonder arrives in 120 years.58
- Jie Ming joins four elite seventh-levels, Chloe, Ed, Tori Merlin and Alma, and after a five-month flight they find a light-year-scale sphere whose core is a singularity with too-regular element flows, which shows the sphere is an artificial construct.59
- Tampering with a silver-gray mechanical altar triggers protection, the four teammates die and revive via Substitute Death Dolls, and the altar broadcasts a summons into the deep void.60
- A mechanical civilization's eighth-level fleet jumps in, and Jie Ming holds for 53 seconds with his full legions until Noren and Anton arrive and dismantle the fleet.61
- The Grand President, a ninth-level mechanical planet, arrives, and three more eighth-levels were lying in ambush because Noren has been fishing for a ninth-level.62
- The ninth-level is killed off-page and the spoils are divided.63
- Anton slips Jie Ming the altar, and he lends it to his teammates for a copy of all results.64
- Jie Ming hands the eighth-level robot to his Tentacle Tree and plant-people researchers and calls Viola about renting out his other ninth-level creation, and she volunteers herself.65
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Chapter 801: The Invitation ↩
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Chapters 801-859 ↩
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Chapter 803: The Journey, and a Warning ↩
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Chapter 804: The Ambush ↩
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Chapter 805: The Ecological Structure of Black Wizards ↩
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Chapter 808: Clues and Deduction ↩
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Chapters 809-811 ↩
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Chapters 812-813 ↩
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Chapter 813: The Sacred Relic ↩
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Chapter 814: The Hour of Annihilation ↩
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Chapter 815: A Scalding Haul ↩
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Chapters 816-817 ↩
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Chapter 817: Evolution ↩
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Chapter 818: Strategy and Arrival ↩
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Chapters 819-822 ↩
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Chapters 823-825 ↩
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Chapters 826-827 ↩
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Chapters 828-829 ↩
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Chapters 830-831 ↩
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Chapter 832: A Warning ↩
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Chapters 833-834 ↩
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Chapter 837: The Dean’s Return ↩
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Chapters 838-839 ↩
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Chapters 840-841 ↩
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Chapter 842: Setting Out ↩
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Chapters 844-845 ↩
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Chapter 846: The Legion ↩
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Chapter 848: Missions and Artificial Constructs ↩
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Chapters 849-850 ↩
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Chapters 853-854 ↩
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Chapter 856: Subjugation ↩
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Chapter 857: Harvest ↩
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Chapters 858-859 ↩
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Chapter 859: The New Education Reform, Part Two ↩
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Chapter 860: A Difference in Worldviews ↩
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Chapters 861-862 ↩
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Chapters 863-864 ↩
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Chapter 864: Battle Maniac ↩
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Chapters 865-867 ↩
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Chapters 867-868 ↩
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Chapters 868-870 ↩
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Chapters 871-874 ↩
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Chapter 876: Trump Card ↩
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Chapter 878: Shoring Up the Weak Points ↩
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Chapters 878-879 ↩
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Chapter 880: A New Line of Thought ↩
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Chapter 882: A Classic Villain Move ↩
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Chapter 883: Research and Improvement ↩
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Chapter 884: The Great Dao Is Simplicity Itself ↩
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Chapter 885: The Dragonblood Mushroom-Man Legion ↩
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Chapter 886: The Meeting ↩
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Chapters 887-891 ↩
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Chapter 893: Out of Control ↩
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Chapters 894-896 ↩
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Chapter 897: The Grand President ↩
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Chapter 898: Disengagement ↩
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Chapter 899: Gains and Ideas ↩
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Chapter 900: Arrangements ↩