Chapters 501-600¶
The Noren Workshop and the Chaos Secret Cult plus the Tower of Annihilation are at the mid-point of their wizard war, and Jie Ming has just killed the sixth-level Annihilation Hand with his Substitute Death Doll at the cost of more than 60% of his soul.
Arc map¶
| # | Arc | Chapters |
|---|---|---|
| A | Flight, Recovery and the Holy Son | 501-510 |
| B | The Hunt and the Duel with Illusion | 511-527 |
| C | The Trump Cards and the Decisive Battle | 528-536 |
| D | War Epilogue | 537-538 |
| E | Els Plane Occupation and the Study Interlude | 539-548 |
| F | The Information Plane War | 549-577 |
| G | Information Plane Aftermath | 578-579 |
| H | Research Interlude | 580-590 |
| I | The Gathering | 591-600 |
Arcs¶
A. Flight, Recovery and the Holy Son (Ch501-510)¶
- Jie Ming, with his soul shattered, flees for ten days toward the Noren Workshop line.1
- Cornered by the Chaos Secret Cult's elite Holy Son and his four witches, he annihilates them with fifty Black Giant priests.2
- He collapses and is rescued by Viola and Clark.3
- In the treatment room he learns that the Holy Son he swatted was a famous elite.4
- He also learns that Annihilation Hand was a top sixth-level wizard.5
- His soul rebuilds stronger than before through the Body Forging Method, and two payment techniques give him the final piece of his combat system.6
- He takes a new reconnaissance mission with Bill, and the war is still on.7
B. The Hunt and the Duel with Illusion (Ch511-527)¶
- Jie Ming and Bill conduct reconnaissance behind enemy lines, and Jie Ming kills a hidden soul-wizard watcher and an ambush squad.8
- The kills draw out Illusion, a sixth-level Tower of Annihilation wizard who wields the [Fictional] Law that defines results.9
- In a long attrition duel, Jie Ming loses and regrows arms until his body adapts.10
- Augusta, the War God, arrives and buys time with matter manipulation.11
- Jie Ming completes the Light God Transformation and beats Illusion back.12
- Jie Ming rendezvouses with Bill, and Augusta departs.13
- Illusion and Dark Raven, in a nutrient pod, concede that Jie Ming qualifies for a True Name.14
C. The Trump Cards and the Decisive Battle (Ch528-536)¶
- Intelligence reveals that the Tower of Annihilation's trump card is a two-trillion-ton antimatter sphere.15
- The Chaos Secret Cult's trump card is a torrent of plane death.18
- Both sides recall everyone and launch the final battle.16
- The antimatter tide nearly breaks Noren's camp.17
- A flashback two days earlier reveals Clark's plan to awaken the dead battlefield plane and merge with it, projecting near-eighth-level power.19
- Clark freezes both trump cards and feeds Noren and Anton Buchanan the advantage.20
- Annihilation and the Cult Leader concede, Felix confirms the contract, and the Noren Workshop is declared victorious.21
- Clark, still sixth-level, says his path to the seventh and eighth levels is open all the way through, and Jie Ming and Viola think "Monster!"21
D. War Epilogue (Ch537-538)¶
- The battlefield plane collapses, and back on the Infernal Sulfur Plane Jie Ming counts the dead: one million Black Giants are down to about 10,000 and Rock Hammer is dead.22
- Molten Mountain is now seventh-level, and Jie Ming's body and mental energy are at sixth-level standard.22
- Jie Ming concludes his knowledge is too poor to improve the Light God Transformation and writes "Study."22
- In enemy point of view, the Tower of Annihilation and the Chaos Secret Cult strip-mine their planes before the one-year eviction deadline.23
- Illusion is sent to attempt the seventh level.23
- The Cult Leader orders scorched earth as revenge.23
E. Els Plane Occupation and the Study Interlude (Ch539-548)¶
- One year later, Jie Ming and David take over the Chaos Secret Cult's former Els plane and its kneeling, temple-bound population.24
- They decide to let the natives rebuild their own cities.25
- Twenty-seven years on, David thanks Jie Ming for staying.26
- After fifty years in all, Jie Ming is home on the Infernal Sulfur Plane and picks biological modification as his study path.27
- He modifies the Nest on the sickle-skull-clan model, learns time magic, buys Fate Law crystals and starts the Fate Subsystem.28
- Forty years later, Clark tips him off about a special plane war in five years.29
- After preparations, the Fate Subsystem closes its loop, and Jie Ming departs with 500 priests and Molten Mountain for the Information Plane.30
F. The Information Plane War (Ch549-577)¶
- Under the eighth-level Martin, called Ashheart, the expeditionary force faces information beings that silence wizards.31
- The force builds a shared computing altar, and Jie Ming learns to move by matching information structure and kills a native.32
- He discovers that Imaginary-type materials such as Mortal Dust Qi, Incense Fire Poison and pain data hurt the information beings.33
- He designs two spells and scores the first true kill, which yields a blue core and triggers all-out war.34
- The conflict brings silenced-state wizards, a lockdown, the Entropy Brains and the Information Plague network virus.35
- The enemy's counter-weapon Silent Abyss follows, along with Martin's gray flames and the absolute-zero wall.36
- Jie Ming rebuilds the Light God Transformation with Martin's entropy flame into the Annihilation Form and breaks the wall.37
- He is nearly erased by the highest consensus algorithm and comprehends the Dao under duress.38
- He exposes the beings' plan to trigger the wizards' own contract backlash, and they surrender and become a subordinate race.39
G. Information Plane Aftermath (Ch578-579)¶
- Ten-odd years later, Jie Ming has run the silence awakening project and decides to leave.40
- Back home, he takes inventory of his gains, including more than 500 Entropy Brains.41
- The Annihilation Form is an absolute trump card with a ten-second wind-up and a three-to-five-second duration.41
H. Research Interlude (Ch580-590)¶
- The Alchemy Technique nears a breakthrough.42
- Jie Ming studies the Dao Soldier System and the Longevity Pill together.43
- Fifty years later, the Longevity Pill is refined and the Alchemy Technique creates unstable flesh.44
- A moon is bought for the Infernal Sulfur Plane to harvest moonlight essence.45
- He studies Molten Mountain and receives Avery Knight's teaching request.46
- At Noren Academy No. 147, a prodigy apprentice, Yarlin, is vetted and approved for a Level-Two Cultivation Protocol.47
- Imperial Flow Paste is refined.48
- Viola, Avery Knight and Clark all refuse to say what the event in five years on Noren Plane No. 1 is.49
I. The Gathering (Ch591-600)¶
- Five years later, all four major powers assemble because Avery Knight's spoils from the Demon God of Destruction affair revealed a parallel wizard civilization.50
- The group travels to the rift and undergoes mental-pressure training.51
- At the banquet, Jie Ming and Viola discover Clark's secret romance with Kastilla of the Crimson Court and get thrashed for staging a matchmaking stunt.52
- They make contact with the deformed, war-ravaged parallel wizards.53
- Negotiation yields a civilization fusion plan in which counterparts duel and the losers sign as research assistants.54
- Months of duels follow, and an eighth-level duel ends with a handshake.55
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Chapters 501-504 ↩
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Chapter 504: Aggravated Injuries ↩
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Chapters 505-506 ↩
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Chapter 507: The Gap Between People ↩
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Chapter 508: Records and Battle Results ↩
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Chapter 509: The Final Piece of the Puzzle ↩
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Chapter 510: True Name and Cooperation ↩
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Chapters 511-513 ↩
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Chapters 514-516 ↩
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Chapters 517-519 ↩
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Chapters 520-522 ↩
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Chapters 523-525 ↩
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Chapter 526: Rendezvous ↩
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Chapter 527: The Qualification for a True Name ↩
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Chapter 529: A Simple and Brutal Trump Card ↩
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Chapters 530-531 ↩
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Chapters 531-532 ↩
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Chapter 532: A New Eighth-Level? ↩
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Chapters 533-534 ↩
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Chapters 534-535 ↩
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Chapter 539: A Mission and Differences in Ways of Ruling ↩
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Chapter 540: News of the Fallen and a Plan ↩
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Chapter 541: Follow-up ↩
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Chapter 542: Route Decision ↩
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Chapters 543-545 ↩
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Chapter 546: News of a New Plane War ↩
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Chapters 547-548 ↩
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Chapters 549-553 ↩
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Chapters 554-558 ↩
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Chapters 559-560 ↩
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Chapters 561-564 ↩
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Chapters 565-569 ↩
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Chapters 570-573 ↩
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Chapter 574: Annihilation Form and Breakthrough ↩
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Chapters 575-576 ↩
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Chapter 577: A Rational Race ↩
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Chapter 578: Aftermath ↩
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Chapter 580: Longevity Pill ↩
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Chapter 581: Dao Soldier System ↩
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Chapter 582: Refining the Longevity Pill ↩
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Chapters 583-586 ↩
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Chapter 587: Researching Molten Mountain and a Sudden Request ↩
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Chapters 588-589 ↩
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Chapters 589-590 ↩
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Chapter 590: Imperial Flow Paste and Five Years ↩
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Chapters 591-593 ↩
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Chapter 594: Oppressive Pressure ↩
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Chapters 595-597 ↩
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Chapter 598: Contact ↩
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Chapter 599: Negotiation ↩
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Chapter 600: Duels and Release ↩