Chapter Summaries

Shen Yi deflected the black-robed man's attack and rejected his offer to trade for Calling Star, a relic said to alter fate and transfer power. After the man deduced how Shen Yi had used the Seven-Petaled Polo Sha on Winnie, Shen Yi confronted him about the Elf race and Xilos being forced to guard the Source of Black Mist.

• The black-robed man unleashed blood-red lightning, and Shen Yi reflected it with an ice mirror.
• The old man showed Shen Yi Calling Star and explained its ability to transfer power, life, and even fortune without loss.
• Shen Yi dismissed Calling Star and refused to trade for it.
• The old man identified the Seven-Petaled Polo Sha's effect on Winnie and inferred that Shen Yi had used part of it on her.
• Shen Yi accused the old man and his allies of forcing the Elf race and Xilos to guard the Source of Black Mist and suffer its erosion.

Shen Yi completed his domain and used it to suppress the black-robed figure, who countered by drawing on the chaotic power of the collapsing world. Shen Yi crushed the figure’s defense, but the resulting storm of rules swallowed them both and injured Winnie and Wen Ke’er.

• The black-robed figure challenged Shen Yi to stop hiding what he knew about the elves and attacked him with darkness.
• Winnie realized Shen Yi had completed his domain, which could suppress most of an opponent’s strength, while Wen Ke’er questioned its power.
• Shen Yi’s domain gathered the shattered space and obstructed the black-robed figure, who used colored lightning and the world’s chaotic power to tear through it.
• Winnie explained that the figure was borrowing power while Shen Yi had to control the surrounding space as well as suppress him.
• Shen Yi’s domain crushed the figure’s lightning and defensive power, but a storm of rules engulfed both combatants and wounded Winnie and Wen Ke’er.

Shen Yi defeated the black-robed man with his domain and moved to seal the mysterious robe after its owner dispersed. Winnie and Wen Ke'er witnessed Shen Yi halt space, time, and the collapsing world rules around him.

• Wen Ke'er endured the clash's residual force and stopped Winnie from calling out to Shen Yi, insisting they seize the chance to eliminate their opponent.
• Shen Yi's power overwhelmed the black-robed man, leaving him severely injured while Shen Yi remained composed.
• The black-robed man admitted he was inferior to Shen Yi, then dispersed into light that gathered around his black robe.
• Shen Yi used his power and the domain's remaining rules to freeze space and time within a hundred meters, trapping the robe and halting the collapsing Disorder space.
• Winnie recognized Shen Yi's feat as rule restoration and wondered how he had improved so quickly.

Winnie explained rule augmentation to Wen Ke'er and demonstrated how rules could transform one power into another. After Shen Yi asked whether the suspended black robe was worth keeping, Winnie warned him to leave it alone and investigate its connection to the Shadow World later.

• Winnie explained that Authority Holders could use rules to complete and strengthen powers they already possessed.
• Winnie froze a fleeing Mutated Beast with an augmented form of her power, then demonstrated a faint power related to space and time.
• Winnie explained that Shen Yi's ability to combine several powers, including space and time, was extraordinary, but Wen Ke'er should not assume rule augmentation was easy.
• Shen Yi asked Winnie whether the suspended black robe was worth keeping.
• Winnie warned Shen Yi to leave the black robe alone and suggested he return to the Shadow World to investigate its connection.

Shen Yi returned from the collapsing world with Wen Ke'er and Winnie, leaving the sealed black robe behind for now. At the Shelter in Mountain City, he learned that Fei Mi was with the damaged Elf Tree and Shimada Yukimi had returned to Neon Country, while Winnie reacted resentfully to Yukimi’s name.

• Wen Ke'er lamented that Fei Mi had not accompanied them, but Shen Yi decided to leave the sealed black robe behind and postpone dealing with the Shadow World.
• Shen Yi further disrupted the dying world's laws, then took Wen Ke'er and Winnie through a teleportation gate back to the Shelter in Mountain City.
• Two lower-ranking elves told Shen Yi that they were guarding the Shelter under orders from Kolun and Xilos, following Fei Mi's warning to watch for powerful enemies.
• The elves said Xilos and Mei Fu were repairing the Elf Tree, Fei Mi was likely with them, and Shimada Yukimi had returned to Neon Country after speaking with Fei Mi.
• Wen Ke'er teased Shen Yi about whether he would fetch Fei Mi or call her back, while Winnie showed her resentment; Shen Yi told both women to leave and said he would handle it himself.

Shen Yi summoned Fei Mi and Xilos to show them his memory of a mysterious black-robed figure who took his Seven-Petaled Polo Sha. Xilos recalled a legend about Lilith’s seven children, the Dark Stars, and their connection to Authority, leaving Fei Mi and Shen Yi uncertain whether the legend was real.

• After leaving Shen Yi’s room, Wen Ke’er teased Winnie about sensing what had happened between Shimada Yukimi and Shen Yi, and Winnie blushed and vanished.
• Fei Mi and Xilos arrived at Shen Yi’s urgent summons, while Wen Ke’er wondered why they were being kept apart from everyone else.
• Shen Yi shared his memories with Fei Mi and Xilos, showing them the mysterious black-robed figure who had taken his Seven-Petaled Polo Sha.
• Fei Mi was shocked by the memory, while Xilos recalled a legend that Lilith created seven children called the Dark Stars and divided her Authority among them.
• Xilos explained that the Dark Stars had power but lacked the qualification to wield Authority, and Fei Mi began to doubt her belief that such beings no longer existed.

Fei Mi told Shen Yi about Lin Zhiwei’s breakthroughs and the changes underway in Xia Country while Xilos worried about threats from the Shadow World and the strange insect swarm. Shen Yi focused on assessing whether the Elf race could defend Blue Star from the insects.

• Xilos and Fei Mi debated whether to tell Shen Yi about another troubling matter, and Fei Mi chose to explain it.
• Fei Mi told Shen Yi that Lin Zhiwei had separated Black Fog-corrupted Mutated Beasts, improved the genes of invading monsters, and tested her methods on herself.
• Fei Mi described how the Shelter and Xia Country were expanding and recovering, and asked whether ordinary people should be given authority and collective enhancements.
• Shen Yi criticized Lin Zhiwei’s self-modification and worried that enhanced people might cause unrest, but focused on the danger posed by the strange insect swarm.
• Shen Yi asked Xilos how many strange insects a current Elf could handle.

Shen Yi considered how to protect Blue Star from insect monsters while he was away, and discussed the threat with Xilos and Fei Mi. He explained that a planet-wide barrier was possible but would require at least seventy-two nodes and immense energy, leaving the others unable to help build it at first.

• Fei Mi explained that Lin Zhiwei's invention could improve ordinary people's physiques and senses without Ability Fruits, while Shen Yi's weapons were too dangerous for ordinary people to use.
• Xilos estimated that one elf could fight about twenty-five insect monsters and said she and the strongest elves could handle them unless their numbers became overwhelming.
• Shen Yi said he feared the insect monsters might include powerful beings and that Blue Star's defenders could be helpless when he was away.
• Xilos proposed a barrier covering all of Blue Star, and Shen Yi said it would require at least seventy-two support nodes and large energy reserves.
• Fei Mi offered to help, but Xilos explained that Shen Yi would have to construct the barrier himself before others could guard its nodes and replenish its energy.

Shen Yi asked Xilos whether a one-way barrier could protect Blue Star from otherworldly invaders without blocking those who lived there. Xilos explained that the existing World Barrier already made travel between worlds extremely difficult, leaving Shen Yi to realize he had worried more than necessary.

• Fei Mi objected to Xilos's suggestion that Shen Yi create a costly protective barrier, and Xilos argued that his responsibility for all of Blue Star made protection necessary.
• Shen Yi asked Xilos about a one-way barrier that would let Blue Star's inhabitants pass while restricting outsiders and dangerous intentions.
• Xilos explained that cross-world teleportation required enormous energy and precise coordinates, making it dangerous and difficult to control.
• Xilos demonstrated that Blue Star was within a world protected by a bubble-like World Barrier and showed how many separate worlds were divided by their own barriers.
• Fei Mi realized that the existing World Barrier already made it very difficult for outsiders to reach Blue Star through spatial travel.

Shen Yi demonstrated his shadow-based power after Xilos suggested hiding Blue Star instead of building a costly planetary barrier. The display left Xilos and Fei Mi shaken, and Shen Yi asked what they thought of it.

• Xilos doubted a planetary barrier could stop spatial travel and warned Shen Yi that creating and maintaining one would be costly.
• Xilos proposed hiding Blue Star and suggested Shen Yi's power over shadows and darkness might make it possible.
• Shen Yi confirmed that his power could be classified as darkness and demonstrated it by creating three identical figures.
• Shen Yi's darkness overwhelmed Xilos and Fei Mi, concealing him and placing a black longsword at each woman's throat.
• Shen Yi ended the display and asked how it was; Xilos and Fei Mi breathed heavily, still terrified.

Xilos explained two ways Shen Yi could conceal Blue Star from the invading alien insects, but Fei Mi found both plans unreliable. Shen Yi rejected wiping out every threat for Blue Star’s people, and Fei Mi suggested combining or modifying the concealment methods.

• Fei Mi was startled by the precision and strength Shen Yi displayed, while Xilos saw his power as a possible substitute for a barrier.
• Xilos proposed hiding Blue Star by blending its aura with Shen Yi’s power to make it seem like a world already overrun by Black Mist Creatures.
• Xilos offered a second method: Shen Yi could spread the sensation of his power across the planet to erase it from perception, though its gravity and position would make this difficult and risky.
• Fei Mi doubted both methods would protect Blue Star from the alien insects, and Xilos suggested simply destroying them.
• Shen Yi said he could not eliminate every threat for everyone else, and Fei Mi proposed combining or changing the two concealment methods.

Fei Mi proposed using misleading auras to buy Blue Star time and asked Shen Yi to leave the women a powerful weapon against unexpected enemies. Shen Yi created a dark sphere that unleashed hundreds of tracking swords and could be used safely by anyone bearing his mark.

• Fei Mi suggested helping Blue Star’s people grow stronger and using misleading auras to delay threats from the Shadow World.
• Fei Mi asked Shen Yi to leave a powerful weapon that could turn a battle against dangerous enemies.
• Shen Yi formed a small dark sphere and told Xilos to activate it with her power.
• The sphere unleashed hundreds of black swords that devoured Xilos’s flames and stopped before harming her.
• Shen Yi explained that he had created the sphere himself and designed it to spare anyone bearing his mark while pursuing attackers.

Shen Yi discussed ways to protect the women around him and created a linked aura field that could warn them of danger. He demonstrated how the field expanded when Xilos and Fei Mi came together, while its full potential remained to be seen.

• Fei Mi judged Shen Yi's dark bead to be a nearly unavoidable deadly weapon, and Shen Yi said he could make many of them easily.
• Xilos described the Elf race's Water-escape Bead, which let its user escape to a previously touched body of water, and explained that using one disqualified an elf from becoming Clan Leader.
• Xilos suggested giving Shen Yi's women both life-saving items and a warning that could reach them through the barrier, and Shen Yi said he had a more powerful alternative to the Water-escape Bead.
• Shen Yi placed a faint mark on Xilos's and Fei Mi's foreheads and asked them to move closer together.
• Xilos and Fei Mi discovered that their similar auras linked into a nearly undetectable field spanning dozens of meters, which Shen Yi said would strengthen and expand as more people gathered.

Shen Yi showed Xilos and Fei Mi how his shared aura could expand and become a protective barrier when enough people joined it. After explaining that he planned to return to the Shadow World once Wen Ke'er and Winnie rested, he faced Fei Mi's doubts about whether Winnie could be trusted.

• Xilos asked about the aura's limits, and Shen Yi had her and Fei Mi test how far it could expand with their powers.
• Shen Yi explained that the aura needed more people to reach its full effect and gave each woman a stone that could teleport them to a remembered place without leaving a trace.
• Shen Yi transformed the aura into a powerful protective barrier and explained that its strength depended on the number of people sharing it.
• Xilos accepted Shen Yi's precautions against other people, and Fei Mi asked when he would return to the Shadow World.
• Shen Yi said he would go after Wen Ke'er and Winnie rested, and Fei Mi questioned whether Winnie could be trusted.

Shen Yi reassured Xilos that he could send her and her people back to the Shadow World if it offered them room to thrive, and comforted her as she cried in his arms. Fei Mi misread the scene and confronted them afterward, prompting Shen Yi to warn Xilos not to let Fei Mi corrupt her.

• Fei Mi asked whether Shen Yi planned to eliminate the alien insect threat, and he said he would find its source after returning from the Shadow World.
• Xilos asked Shen Yi to take her to the Shadow World, and he comforted her by promising he could send her back if there was a future for her people there.
• Xilos cried in Shen Yi's arms while Fei Mi tactfully gave them privacy.
• Outside Shen Yi's living room, Fei Mi angrily complained that Xilos had received affection she had never gotten.
• Xilos asked Fei Mi not to tell anyone what happened, and Fei Mi misunderstood the scene before Shen Yi told Xilos not to let her corrupt her.

Long Aoshuang rallied Mountain City Shelter around Shen Yi, praising its people’s endurance and announcing that he had decided to do something that would benefit Xia Country and the world. Shen Yi and his companions watched her command the crowd’s devotion, while Fei Mi recognized how effectively Long Aoshuang had positioned herself between Shen Yi and the Shelter.

• Fei Mi teased Xilos about offering herself to Shen Yi, then stormed off; Shen Yi told Xilos not to mind her, and Xilos asked what Fei Mi meant by saying he was fast.
• Long Aoshuang addressed Mountain City Shelter, recalling its hardships and praising the achievements of its people.
• Long Aoshuang asked whom the Shelter should revere, and the crowd loudly chanted Shen Yi’s name.
• Long Aoshuang told the crowd that Shen Yi had heard of their loyalty and had decided to do something greater for Xia Country and the world.
• Fei Mi watched the speech with Shen Yi’s group and remarked that Long Aoshuang was skilled at managing the Shelter.

Long Aoshuang tried to recruit Shelter residents to test Lin Zhiwei’s strength-enhancing serum, but most refused, so she injected it herself and announced the Shelters would be dissolved and serum access tied to social contributions. Shimada Yukimi revealed that Neon Country had erupted into an uproar, suggesting Long Aoshuang’s mobilization had sparked consequences beyond the Shelters.

• Long Aoshuang urged Shelter residents to help Shen Yi and Blue Star, then offered them Lin Zhiwei’s serum, but only one man volunteered.
• Long Aoshuang injected herself with the serum and shattered the podium with a single strike, demonstrating its power.
• Long Aoshuang announced that the Shelters would be dissolved, residents would return to society, and serum access would depend on assessed contributions.
• Wen Ke'er questioned whether Long Aoshuang’s earlier efforts had been wasted, while Winnie argued that she understood human nature.
• Shimada Yukimi said Neon Country had erupted into an uproar, leaving Fei Mi confused about what had happened.

Shen Yi used Long Aoshuang’s public demonstration of Lin Zhiwei’s medicine to spark demand for it beyond the Mountain City Shelter. While people in Neon Country quickly sought the injection, Fei Mi questioned why Xia Country’s residents remained hesitant.

• Shimada Yukimi showed Fei Mi a message from Shimada Kōmitsu asking whether the medicine was real and whether he could use it to become Shen Yi’s supporter.
• Winnie inferred that Shen Yi had instructed Long Aoshuang to demonstrate the medicine, and Shen Yi acknowledged that he had told her to show its effects and end the subject.
• Shen Yi explained that Long Aoshuang’s display would reassure outsiders, spread desire for the medicine, and make its price and value clear.
• Shimada Kōmitsu became one of the first people outside Xia Country to request the medicine after comparing Long Aoshuang’s strength with Murong Xue’s.
• Fei Mi asked whether Shen Yi should adjust his approach toward Xia Country’s doubtful residents, and Wen Ke'er challenged her to consider whether she would have taken a high-risk opportunity herself.

Shen Yi prepared to return to the Shadow World to confront the threat connected to the Seven-Petaled Polo Sha. He chose Winnie, Xilos, and Fei Mi to accompany him, gave them Void-breaking Stones for travel and emergencies, and warned them not to act recklessly.

• Shen Yi dismissed Fei Mi and Wen Ke'er's concerns about whether people in the Shelter would remain loyal to him.
• Shen Yi said they could leave for the Shadow World immediately and initially chose Xilos and Winnie, assigning Fei Mi and Wen Ke'er to help Long Aoshuang manage Blue Star.
• Fei Mi protested that her knowledge and influence over the Succubus race made her useful, and Xilos supported bringing her along.
• Shen Yi agreed to take Fei Mi and distributed four Void-breaking Stones each to Fei Mi, Xilos, and Winnie.
• Shen Yi explained that the stones could teleport them without leaving a spatial trace and told the women to use them to escape if they faced an enemy they could not resist.

Shen Yi left Blue Star with Fei Mi, Winnie, and Xilos, leaving Wen Ke'er to help Long Aoshuang manage affairs. In the Shadow World, they found the land strangely lifeless and discovered that the weakened Black Fog seal had not erupted, prompting them to wonder whether someone had broken and resealed it.

• Shen Yi gave Wen Ke'er Void-breaking Stones and instructions to assist Long Aoshuang before departing with Fei Mi, Winnie, and Xilos.
• Wen Ke'er returned to the Shelter and told Long Aoshuang to keep records of Lin Zhiwei's enhancement serum and its recipients.
• Wen Ke'er stayed alone in Shen Yi's room, while Long Aoshuang resumed overseeing the Shelter's affairs.
• Shen Yi and the others arrived in the Shadow World and found no trace of the Black Fog or life across the surrounding area.
• Xilos said she could not be certain she was the only one capable of dealing with the seal, and Fei Mi asked whether it might have broken and then been sealed again.