Chapter Summaries

Su Shijie explored the Eden System’s free trade network while the Earth Federation’s ship waited to pass through its next Stargate, revealing the vast scale of interstellar commerce. After more than a month of uneventful travel, the passengers were told to prepare for their first three-day warp flight.

• Nangong Ye explained that the group would wait four or five days for the next Stargate and could browse Eden System’s free trade network while they waited.
• Wang Lang reported that the ship was taking the tax-free green channel and would need time to travel to the Stargate on the other side of the star.
• Su Shijie browsed the network, discovered Eden IV’s immense trade facilities, and saw the vast selection of goods, resources, and contracts.
• Su Shijie and Nan Mingxi reflected on how little their two hundred thousand Feather Coins amounted to in the interstellar market.
• After more than a month of travel without incident, the crew announced that the spacecraft would enter warp travel for three days and ordered passengers back to their cabins.

Su Shijie and the international students traveled aboard the Hippo to Rainbow III, where Sky Feather Foreign Language Academy was located. After arriving, Nangong Ye introduced them to the planet’s conditions and its self-service drones, which could assemble into spacecraft and other tools.

• Su Shijie sensed the Warp Engine’s deep curvature indentation before the Hippo exited warp and continued toward its destination.
• Su Shijie and Nan Mingxi encountered space pirates, who recognized the Earth Federation ship and refused to rob it.
• After two months of travel and passing through several stargates, the Hippo reached Rainbow III in the Rainbow Star System.
• Nangong Ye appeared publicly, explained Rainbow III’s conditions, and told the international students their registrations and basic rights were ready.
• Nangong Ye opened the hatch and demonstrated how to summon a self-service drone, which assembled into a small spacecraft.

Su Shijie and the other new students arrived at Sky Feather Foreign Language Academy, where Li Chuandao and other senior humans explained the school’s rules, alliances, and resources. Their welcome ended with members of the Sand Tribe and Beast Tribe confronting them and mocking their unity.

• Su Shijie and the other five hundred students arrived at the academy and were greeted by eleven human seniors led by Li Chuandao.
• Li Chuandao warned the newcomers that credits governed access to resources and could even offset penalties for attacks, then described the human mutual aid association and its allies.
• Su Shijie arranged a family villa for himself, Nan Mingxi, and the two little ones, authorizing Bai Xinxin to customize their free building area.
• Li Chuandao encouraged the newcomers to grow stronger and support one another as the senior students guided them around the academy.
• Members of the Sand Tribe and Beast Tribe arrived, mocked the humans and their allies, and challenged their unity on the newcomers’ first day.

Su Shijie watched the Sand Tribe and Beast Tribe intimidate the new Federation students, then stepped in to support his fellow humans without provoking a fight. He introduced himself as the Lord of Ten Thousand Streams, leaving Sata too intimidated to respond.

• Sata demanded ten credits from each new student in exchange for leaving them alone for a year.
• Ma Panpan stepped forward to challenge the Sand Tribe and Beast Tribe, and Ma Youliang offered to fight their veteran opponent instead.
• Su Shijie explained that the students should keep the conflict controlled and introduced himself as the Lord of Ten Thousand Streams, champion of the Earth Federation's first Binhai Cup.
• Sata recoiled at Su Shijie's boast and fell silent, wary of provoking someone so formidable.

Su Shijie’s claim to be the Lord of Ten Thousand Streams drew the War Tribe’s attention and forced the Sand Tribe and Beast Tribe students to return. He arranged a same-level arena fight with them, and the opponents arrived ready to restore their pride.

• The Sand Tribe and Beast Tribe students fled from Su Shijie, while the nearby students backed away from him too.
• A War Tribe student forced the fleeing students to return after hearing Su Shijie claim the title of Lord of Ten Thousand Streams.
• Su Shijie explained that he wanted to establish himself as a harmless faction genius and agreed to settle the dispute in a fight.
• Su Shijie revealed that he was at Late Level 9 of Transformation Tier, surprising Wang Lang and the younger students.
• Sata arranged a same-level arena match, and Sand Tribe and Beast Tribe fighters arrived intending to reclaim their lost dignity.

Su Shijie challenged the Sand Tribe and Beast Tribe in Faction Combat Techniques and crushed every opponent, establishing himself as a genuine genius before the gathered students. The tribes’ students withdrew rather than accept his virtual challenge, leaving them to face a new obstacle in their efforts to suppress the Earth Federation.

• Ma Youliang warned Su Shijie to surrender if a fight went wrong, and Su Shijie assured him he would not kill anyone before entering the arena.
• A Sand Tribe contestant challenged Su Shijie, who beat him so severely that drones carried him away in a life-support pod.
• Su Shijie defeated the Sand Tribe and Beast Tribe contestants one after another, while absorbing and integrating their Faction Combat Techniques.
• Spectators gathered and cheered Su Shijie’s victories, and students from other civilizations recognized his skill despite his boastful title.
• Su Shijie offered the Sand Tribe and Beast Tribe a virtual challenge against him, but Sata ignored it and led his people away.

Su Shijie advertised paid challenges after his victory over the Sand Tribe and Beast Tribe, then logged into the Star Domain Network to explore its technology and access rules. He learned that the network spanned the Local Group and used Domain Field strength to regulate access, leaving him curious but cautious about testing his own abilities.

• Su Shijie posted that challengers would pay 10 credits, with double returned if he lost, and filled the ten available virtual duels for the next day.
• Bai Xinxin, Bai Congcong, Nan Mingxi, and Su Shijie prepared to explore the Star Domain Network, and Bai Xinxin entered it using her own equipment.
• Su Shijie logged into the Skyfeather Network and sensed that it simulated psionic operations through a semi-real information world with deeper layers for stronger users.
• Su Shijie asked the guide sprite about the network's range and learned that it connected civilizations across the Local Group under the Wisdom Goddess's rules.
• Su Shijie learned that access to higher network layers depended on authorization or Domain Field strength, but held back from testing his own Domain Field.

Su Shijie learned how the tiers beyond Calamity Tier worked and discovered the many free professions and combat techniques available through Sky Feather Foreign Language Academy’s network. He joined the Earth Federation students’ gathering, where his victories over the Sand Tribe and Beast Tribe were being celebrated and criticized.

• Su Shijie asked the guide spirit about higher tiers and learned that Demigod Tier involved merging with the surface subconscious sea, while True God Tier required merging with the deep subconscious sea and a True God Bloodline.
• Su Shijie checked his academy network permissions and found more than 170 free professions, along with free access to basic factions and combat techniques.
• Su Shijie explored the academy network’s public area and confirmed that he could use his Domain Field to cross into broader regions without network authorization.
• Bai Xinxin contacted Su Shijie and invited him to meet a senior at the Earth Federation international students’ mutual aid association.
• Su Shijie arrived at the association and found students cheering over projections of him defeating members of the Sand Tribe and Beast Tribe, while a few objected that he had hit too hard.

Su Shijie joined Bai Xinxin and the other human students, who welcomed him and explained the academy’s civilization hierarchy. As he planned how to make use of his exchange-student identity, he learned that academy cleanup operations involved fighting contaminated creatures and could carry hidden dangers.

• Bai Xinxin waved Su Shijie over, and the human students greeted him warmly for standing up to the Sand Tribe and Beast Tribe.
• Su Shijie responded politely and asked the students to explain the academy’s civilizations and factions.
• Ma Youliang and the others described the academy’s tiers, including the Sky Feather Race mixed-bloods, the Cloud, War, Succubus, and Spirit Tribes, and several lower-tier civilizations.
• Li Chuandao said the Prometheans had few exchange students and mostly followed the Spirit Tribe, then stopped short of explaining more.
• Su Shijie considered building ties with the War Tribe and learning more professions while preserving his academy identity.
• Su Shijie asked whether the academy could target him, and Li Chuandao explained that faction geniuses could opt out of some cleanup operations before describing their dangers.

Su Shijie began earning academy credits by accepting virtual duels, while taking care to avoid winning so much that he made enemies. His first opponent, a War Tribe fighter, proved formidable, but Su Shijie repeatedly outmaneuvered him and left the duel unresolved as he demonstrated the flaws in the fighter’s techniques.

• Su Shijie spent his first academy day studying common knowledge and planning his next steps, then began accepting matches for ten credits each.
• Su Shijie entered a virtual arena as spectators gathered to watch his first duel.
• A War Tribe senior challenged Su Shijie, and the spectators expected the experienced fighter to win.
• The War Tribe fighter charged with a coordinated force technique, but Su Shijie deflected his first strike and placed a finger at his throat.
• Su Shijie evaded and countered the fighter’s continued attacks without striking with force, showing him openings in his technique.

Su Shijie’s virtual battles against visiting students raised his standing at the academy, while drawing a wave of War Tribe challengers for the next day. After leaving the virtual world, he decided to attend a Potion Crafting course to explore ways to support his future cultivation.

• Su Shijie defeated Gervas Zhanhun after letting the War Tribe student adapt during their fight, then accepted his friend request and agreed to charge for a rematch.
• Su Shijie gave his Sea Tribe opponent several pointers, then overwhelmed the Sand Tribe and Beast Tribe students until they admitted defeat.
• Su Shijie’s reputation as the Lord of Ten Thousand Streams grew, and the next day’s challengers were all from the War Tribe.
• Bai Xinxin left to attend a professor’s open practical class, while Su Shijie chose a paid Potion Crafting course and Nan Mingxi went with him.
• Su Shijie told Nan Mingxi he hoped to use potion-making skills to support his cultivation and reduce his future reliance on earning resources.

Su Shijie and Nan Mingxi attended a crash course in potion-making, where he learned how the class used control devices to let students experience the instructor’s techniques. The instructor explained that the course trained potion craftsmen through practical recipes and methods rather than theory.

• Students discussed Su Shijie’s victories and his claim to the title Lord of Ten Thousand Streams as he entered campus with Nan Mingxi.
• Bai Xinxin left for a public class, while Su Shijie and Nan Mingxi headed to a potion-making crash course with the dwarf blacksmith Dali Huangxu.
• Su Shijie sensed the clock-tower building’s spatial extension and reinforcement techniques and quickly grasped much of how they worked.
• Dali Huangxu explained how students used control valves to experience the instructor’s potion-making demonstrations through psionic power.
• A Sky Feather Race instructor began the class and said it would teach students to make potions through practical techniques rather than train them as masters.

Su Shijie attended a Sky Feather Race lesson on brewing Vitality Potion, then chose Spirit Crystal Potion as a cheap, simple way to speed up his cultivation. He began studying its formula, which was free.

• Su Shijie and Nan Mingxi watched an instructor demonstrate how to brew a high-quality Vitality Potion during a long public class.
• After class, Nan Mingxi complained that potion brewing felt like tightening screws, while Su Shijie judged the lesson useful and believed he could brew a usable Vitality Potion.
• Su Shijie decided to search for a potion that could support his cultivation and planned to specialize in brewing one he needed.
• Back at the villa, Su Shijie browsed potion information while Nan Mingxi urged him to keep studying and noticed his choice of Spirit Crystal Potion.
• Su Shijie explained that Spirit Crystal Potion supplied spiritual energy, was cheap and quick to brew, and could help with the infusion time slowing his compilation; he found its formula was free.

Su Shijie faced the War Tribe’s strongest students in the virtual arena and defeated them all, including the War Tribe Prince, earning widespread acclaim as Lord of Ten Thousand Streams. He believed his performance had raised his standing in the Skyfeather Civilization without drawing excessive trouble.

• Su Shijie bought the Spirit Crystal Potion and Strong Spirit Potion formulas, then made Nan Mingxi study through the night.
• Su Shijie prepared cautiously for the third day’s challenge, which drew far more spectators than his earlier matches.
• Su Shijie sent his first War Tribe opponent flying in their opening collision, then used the match to study and absorb the man’s Faction Combat Techniques.
• Su Shijie defeated each War Tribe challenger, crushing them in Faction Combat Techniques and winning cheers from the audience.
• Su Shijie defeated the War Tribe Prince, and spectators across the arena hailed him as Lord of Ten Thousand Streams.
• Su Shijie judged that his victory had secured the fame he wanted while keeping his strength just short of going too far.

Su Shijie became a celebrated Faction Combat Techniques prodigy, gained the War Tribe’s favor, and used his new influence to curb the Sand Tribe and Beast Tribe. As he headed to the potion laboratory, Tarak approached him to ask for mediation on Sata’s behalf.

• Su Shijie defeated the War Tribe and earned a gift from Torres War Soul containing the War Tribe’s combat resources and the War God and Gladiator classes.
• Su Shijie mentioned the Sand Tribe and Beast Tribe’s harassment to Torres War Soul, who promised to deal with them, forcing the two groups to behave themselves.
• Su Shijie decided to test potion-making in the academy laboratory, while Nan Mingxi stayed behind to practice.
• Students treated Su Shijie with respect as he went to the Cloud Church laboratory, where Tarak introduced himself as Tara La’s younger brother.
• Tarak told Su Shijie that Sata of the Sand Tribe had asked him to mediate, then began making his request.

Su Shijie placated Tarak while secretly influencing him, then used his potion-making talent to refine Spirit Crystal Potions that rapidly advanced his Gene Imbuement. He planned to use a private dormitory setup to continue refining potions discreetly and complete the academy’s side professions far ahead of schedule.

• Su Shijie agreed to Tarak’s request to end conflicts with the Sand Tribe and Beast Tribe at the academy, while secretly planting suggestions to make Tarak a future ally.
• Su Shijie visited the Cloud Church, rented a private potion laboratory, and bought ingredients for Spirit Crystal Potions.
• Su Shijie refined an ordinary and a high-quality Spirit Crystal Potion in three hours, then drank the ordinary potion and completed one stage of Gene Imbuement.
• Su Shijie concluded that potions could greatly accelerate his progress through professions such as War God and Gladiator.
• Su Shijie bought more ingredients and installed a potion-refining platform in his dormitory so he could continue making potions in private.

Su Shijie’s professions and traits formed a powerful network around his War God profession, greatly increasing his strength as he reached fifty-two professions. He went with Nan Mingxi to a public lecture by a Calamity Tier expert, where Li Chuandao and Wang Lang joined him.

• Su Shijie completed another profession and realized the War God profession had connected his traits and Profession Genes, increasing his raw stats at least fourfold.
• Su Shijie estimated that he could now contend with Skyfeather Calamities using Sanctification and wondered whether his growing collection of professions might lead him toward the Evolutionary Tier.
• Su Shijie gave Nan Mingxi a Strong Spirit Potion and teased her about gaining only one level, then reconsidered after she explained the difficulty of advancing in the Evolutionary Tier.
• Su Shijie and Nan Mingxi headed to an outdoor public lecture by a Calamity Tier expert, where students gathered around a cloud-and-mist platform.
• Li Chuandao came to guide Su Shijie through the lecture, and Wang Lang arrived hoping to benefit from the meeting before admitting he was preparing to use a Strong Spirit Potion to break through.

Su Shijie attended Tian Martha’s Calamity Tier lecture and gained some insight, then tried to avoid being recognized as Ling Yin when she approached his group. Tian Martha asked Li Chuandao about Ling Yin and briefly suspected she had met Su Shijie before, leaving Su Shijie concerned that his Imperial Bloodline identity might soon be exposed.

• Li Chuandao explained that Calamity Tier lectures let students receive personalized insights through the imparting of the Way.
• Tian Martha arrived and gave a lecture that helped the students, though Su Shijie gained only limited benefit.
• After the lecture, Tian Martha asked Li Chuandao whether the exchange students included Ling Yin, and Li Chuandao said they did not.
• Tian Martha asked Su Shijie whether they had met before, then praised his talent and warned him not to refine potions because he was poor at it.
• Su Shijie realized that investigators could examine his potion records and worried that his Imperial Bloodline identity might not stay hidden much longer.

Three years into his studies, Su Shijie had expanded his Galaxy Cluster profession and become strong enough to consider leaving the Academy for new opportunities. He took Nan Mingxi, Bai Congcong, and Bai Xinxin to Inos Holy City, where he searched for safer ways to earn money and find more professions.

• Su Shijie completed 247 part-time jobs and gained the Arbiter, Adjudicator, and Saint professions, strengthening his Galaxy Cluster.
• Su Shijie invited Nan Mingxi to visit the city, while she remained frustrated by her inability to break through to Transcendence.
• Su Shijie brought Bai Congcong and Bai Xinxin along, and Bai Xinxin eagerly welcomed the chance to find food beyond Nutrient Paste.
• Su Shijie and the others traveled by drone to Inos Holy City and explored its streets and shops.
• Su Shijie searched the city network for work, considered Contamination Zone cleanup missions too dangerous, and weighed seeking opportunities in Dark Starfields.

After learning that the Radiant God Race had announced a temporary faction combat techniques tournament, Su Shijie sought a way to enter through his academy. He learned that one of its two slots was reserved for Torres War Soul and that Tian Huanye wanted the other, so Maka arranged for a fair competition.

• After an expensive meal, Nan Mingxi pointed out another advertisement recruiting faction combat experts, and Su Shijie contacted Nangong Ye to ask what was happening.
• Nangong Ye told Su Shijie that the Radiant God Race was holding a temporary tournament and urged him to seek an academy slot rather than register through a company.
• Su Shijie contacted Teacher Maka, who confirmed the academy had two tournament slots and said Torres War Soul would take one while Tian Huanye sought the other.
• Su Shijie challenged the idea of an internal appointment, and Maka agreed the remaining slot would be decided through fair competition.
• Su Shijie thanked Maka and resolved not to yield the tournament opportunity to Huanye.