Chapter Summaries

A Rule Authority Holder’s unstable combination of wind, earth, and water Authorities erupted into a catastrophic rule conflict after they touched the Myriad Hearts Stone. A Guardian suppressed the disaster with power from Hall Master Byron, but the holder was left near death as the Guardian warned the waiting Authority Holders about the risks of an unstable foundation.

• A Rule Authority Holder triggered a violent Rule Chain explosion by touching the Myriad Hearts Stone with unstable wind, earth, and water Authorities.
• The beetle-shaped Guardian condemned the holder for risking resonance with a fragile balance of Authorities.
• Another Guardian summoned Hall Master Byron’s unified power to suppress the chaos and restore order in the plaza.
• The Rule Authority Holder collapsed, badly damaged and barely alive, while the Myriad Hearts Stone grew calm again.
• The Guardian explained how the stone’s resonance revealed compatible Authorities and warned that an unstable system could be permanently damaged.

Shen Yi began the Myriad Hearts Stone test after the Guardian warned that unstable Authorities could trigger a dangerous Rule Chain. When the Stone enveloped him in its rule mist, the Flame of Continued Combustion reacted with sudden, extraordinary force.

• The Guardian explained the dangers of a Rule Chain and warned testers to bear responsibility for any damage they caused.
• The Guardian moved the injured Authority Holder aside, checked the Myriad Hearts Stone, and told Shen Yi to continue.
• Shen Yi paid the beetle Guardian with Rule Fragments, while the Guardians tightened their defenses around the testing area.
• The Myriad Hearts Stone reached toward Shen Yi's Authority power, and the Guardian told him to stay calm and allow the test to begin.
• Shen Yi entered the Stone's core area, where dense rule mist enveloped him and awakened the Flame of Continued Combustion.

Shen Yi’s Flame of Continued Combustion and Shadow Authority resonated with the Myriad Hearts Stone, revealing the Flame of Continued Combustion to the stunned Authority Holders. Watching from a hidden space, Byron connected Shen Yi’s potential to Feng Qingyao’s ten-thousand-year plan.

• The Myriad Hearts Stone’s fine mist stirred Shen Yi’s Flame of Continued Combustion and Shadow Authority into a harmonious state that purified and stabilized the surrounding rules.
• The radiance revealed the Flame of Continued Combustion, leaving the Authority Holders in the outer hall shocked and silent.
• Byron observed Shen Yi through a transparent dome and remarked that Feng Qingyao had found herself a fine prospect.
• Byron noted that Feng Qingyao had spent ten thousand years setting things up as she watched Shen Yi’s Authorities resonate with the Myriad Hearts Stone.

Shen Yi’s test of the Myriad Hearts Stone triggered an unprecedented awakening of its stored rules, leaving Byron and the Authority Holders in shock. He remained at the center of the boiling river of rule-light as the onlookers reacted with envy and jealousy.

• Byron considered interfering with Shen Yi’s test to see how he would fare under pressure.
• The Rule Star Mist around Shen Yi activated every rule power stored within the Myriad Hearts Stone.
• Wind, fire, time, space, and countless other rules converged around Shen Yi, with the Flame of Continued Combustion and Shadow Authority at their center.
• Byron froze in astonishment as she realized the spectacle exceeded any ordinary Authority test.
• The Authority Holders watching in the Hidden Light Hall and plaza fell silent, then grew envious and resentful of Shen Yi.

Shen Yi’s Myriad Hearts Stone test unleashed an unprecedented Rule Galaxy that drew envious attention and alarmed Xilos. Hall Master Byron ended the test, expelled the other Authority Holders, and arrived in person as the Guardians knelt before her.

• Shen Yi resonated with the Myriad Hearts Stone, drawing countless streams of rule-light into a Rule Galaxy as Xilos worried that the spectacle would expose him to danger.
• Hall Master Byron commanded that the test end before its allotted time had passed.
• A vast power expelled every visiting Authority Holder from Hidden Light Hall’s outer hall, leaving Shen Yi, Xilos, and the Guardians behind.
• Byron descended into the square and fixed her gaze on Shen Yi and the Rule Galaxy surrounding him.
• The Guardians went to Byron’s side and knelt respectfully.

Byron told Xilos that Shen Yi might possess the legendary Myriad Laws Affinity after witnessing his resonance with the Myriad Hearts Stone. Shen Yi remained unconscious as Byron invited Xilos to stay in Hidden Light Hall and speak with her.

• Byron contacted Xilos through thought and revealed that Shen Yi had the potential for Myriad Laws Affinity.
• Xilos connected Shen Yi’s ability to balance Shadow and the Flame of Continued Combustion, along with his unusual reactions to rules, to the legendary trait.
• Byron used her projection to calm the Rule Star River, and the gathered rules receded into the Myriad Hearts Stone.
• A brilliant point of light formed before Shen Yi’s chest as his Authorities returned to balance, while he remained immersed in the resonance.
• Byron told Xilos to remain in Hidden Light Hall for the next few days until Shen Yi awakened, and invited her to speak with her.

Xilos left Shen Yi in the Guardians’ care and accepted Hall Master Byron’s invitation to the inner hall of the Hidden Light Hall. Byron greeted her from her throne with a terse accusation, and the chapter ended as the hall’s stable rules trembled.

• The Guardians offered to take Xilos to meet Hall Master Byron while Shen Yi remained immersed in contemplation.
• Xilos chose to go, deciding not to interrupt Shen Yi’s rare insight and hoping to learn what awaited him.
• A Guardian transported Xilos from the outer hall plaza to the inner hall of the Hidden Light Hall.
• Xilos sensed Byron’s imposing presence as she sat on a throne deep within the hall.
• Byron told Xilos, “You’ve got some nerve,” and the rules throughout the inner hall began to tremble.

Xilos met Byron alone, and Byron asked whether she knew Enrosis, an Elf who was one of the Immortal Sacred Land’s seven Hall Masters. Xilos admitted she had heard Enrosis’s name but knew little about her.

• Byron warned Xilos that she could take the Flame of Continued Combustion and imprison her and Shen Yi, but Xilos said Byron would already have acted if that were her intention.
• Byron said she had no intention of targeting Xilos over her conflict with Feng Qingyao and explained that Xilos felt familiar because she was an Elf.
• Byron revealed that Enrosis was an Elf and the Hall Master of the Fifth Hall, who stayed out of the other halls’ disputes and had only one Authority.
• Xilos recalled Wen Ke'er’s account of Enrosis’s life- and nature-related Authority, then told Byron she had heard Enrosis’s name but knew little about her.

Byron told Xilos that Enrosis was an Elf from a destroyed world who possessed an extraordinary Authority, then offered to introduce Xilos to her and possibly help her receive part of her legacy. Xilos questioned Byron’s motives, and Byron said she could discuss the offer with Shen Yi after he woke before warning her about the witnesses to his use of the Myriad Hearts Stone.

• Byron revealed that Enrosis was an Elf whose people had died when her world was destroyed, and that her single Authority could counter powerful Authority Holders.
• Byron sensed that Xilos’s Flame of Continued Combustion came from Shen Yi’s power and described its potential.
• Byron offered to introduce Xilos to Enrosis and possibly help her gain part of Enrosis’s legacy, saying the offer could foster goodwill with Shen Yi.
• Xilos doubted that goodwill was Byron’s only motive and asked whether there was more to the offer.
• Byron told Xilos to discuss the matter with Shen Yi after he woke, then warned that other Authority Holders had witnessed the phenomenon caused by the Myriad Hearts Stone.

Byron warned Xilos to keep Shen Yi’s Myriad Laws Affinity secret and sent her back to the Myriad Hearts Stone Plaza. There, Byron granted Xilos an exceptional chance to use the stone, while Shen Yi remained immersed in enlightenment.

• Byron said she would blur the witnesses’ memories of the test while warning Xilos never to reveal Shen Yi’s Myriad Laws Affinity to anyone she did not absolutely trust.
• Byron used spatial rules to send Xilos from the inner hall back to the Myriad Hearts Stone Plaza.
• Xilos found Shen Yi still absorbed in deep enlightenment beside the stone.
• Byron announced that she would reopen the Myriad Hearts Stone and grant Xilos an opportunity to use it without the usual cost or queue.
• The Guardians moved Shen Yi away from the stone’s core area so Xilos could take her test.

After emerging from a profound insight into the rules, Shen Yi appeared to have completely concealed the auras of his Flame of Continued Combustion and Shadow Authority. He accepted Hall Master Byron’s gift of the Myriad Hearts Stone and promised to replace the Rule Fragments used, leaving Xilos reassured by his decision.

• A beetle-like Guardian praised Shen Yi and Xilos, then asked them to remember the Hidden Light Hall’s favor if they became powers Beyond the World.
• Shen Yi’s subdued glow and aura vanished, and he opened his eyes with a calm presence that made him seem like an ordinary person without Authority power.
• Xilos shared the details of her conversation with Byron through their secret Mental Link.
• Shen Yi accepted the Myriad Hearts Stone on Byron’s behalf and promised the Guardian he would replace the Rule Fragments spent.
• The Guardian agreed, and Xilos’s hesitation disappeared.

Xilos tested her resonance with the Myriad Hearts Stone and summoned a radiant Dawn Sun infused with the Flame of Continued Combustion. Shen Yi detected that she also resonated with a gentle life-giving Authority like Enrosis’s, and suspected Byron had arranged for them to meet.

• Xilos followed Shen Yi’s advice and approached the Myriad Hearts Stone, allowing her flame aura to reach it.
• The Myriad Hearts Stone surrounded Xilos with Rule Star Mist and a brilliant Dawn Sun, stunning the two Guardians.
• Byron watched Xilos’s test and remarked that Enrosis’s path might suit her, though she would need to seize the opportunity.
• Shen Yi sensed a gentle, life-giving rule within Xilos’s resonance that resembled Enrosis’s Authority.
• Shen Yi suspected Byron had recognized Xilos’s affinity in advance and had planned to bring her to Enrosis.

Xilos emerged from her resonance with the Myriad Hearts Stone’s gentle life rule, which had softened the nature of the Flame of Continued Combustion within her. After they left the Hidden Light Hall, she told Shen Yi she felt a powerful affinity for life-side Authority, while he wondered whether their discoveries were part of a trap.

• Xilos completed her resonance with the Rule Star Mist, and the gentle rule subtly tempered the Origin of the Flame of Continued Combustion within her.
• Shen Yi and Xilos left the Myriad Hearts Stone Plaza and flew out of the Hidden Light Hall.
• Once they reached a more public stretch of the void, Xilos created a flame field to block outside attempts to probe or spy on them.
• Xilos told Shen Yi that she had felt an immense, comforting power that drew her toward life-side Authority and eased the destructive restlessness in her flame.
• Shen Yi considered whether Byron had set a trap, given Xilos's possible path to inheriting Enrosis's power and Shen Yi's own extraordinary gains from the Myriad Hearts Stone.

Shen Yi suspected the generous gains and gifts at the Hidden Light Hall had been deliberately arranged, but decided to give one of Aoyue’s Azure-Sky Spirit Flowers to Kolun. He explained that faith could significantly amplify an Authority Holder’s strength, leaving Xilos to hear more about what he had discovered on their last return to Blue Star.

• Shen Yi questioned whether Byron, Aoyue, and Feng Qingyao had arranged his and Xilos's gains deliberately.
• Shen Yi showed Xilos the two Azure-Sky Spirit Flowers and explained that they held highly condensed ice-element Rule crystals close to the origin of Authority.
• Shen Yi said he would keep one flower and give the other to Kolun after they returned to Blue Star, potentially raising Kolun to a level no weaker than Winnie's.
• Xilos realized Shen Yi's gift showed his regard for the Elf race and became deeply moved.
• Shen Yi told Xilos that he had confirmed faith could significantly amplify an Authority Holder's strength, which had helped Alvin grow stronger after connecting with his clansmen.

Shen Yi showed Xilos how the Power of Faith strengthened his Flame of Continued Combustion, but three Guardians attacked their barrier with a corrosive dark-red power. The Guardians accused Shen Yi and Xilos of breaking the Hidden Light Hall’s rules and plotting in secret.

• Shen Yi estimated that the Power of Faith would increase his strength by about ten percent when he returned to Blue Star.
• Shen Yi demonstrated how the Power of Faith changed the behavior of the Flame of Continued Combustion and melted Xilos’s barrier.
• A dark-red beam tore through Xilos’s barrier and briefly corrupted her flame before she purified it.
• Shen Yi and Xilos saw the three Guardians hovering outside, their powers linked and tinged with dark-red energy.
• Shen Yi criticized the Immortal Sacred Land’s treatment of its guests, and the beetle-like Guardian accused them of breaking the rules and plotting in secret.

Shen Yi and Xilos were surrounded outside the Hidden Light Hall, where an old man from Cangwu Hall accused Shen Yi of being connected to Feng Qingyao and the Black Fog’s eruption. Shen Yi challenged the accusation and demanded answers, but the old man began questioning him in turn.

• Seven hidden figures emerged and encircled Shen Yi and Xilos while Byron remained absent from the Hidden Light Hall.
• Shen Yi argued that he and Xilos had acted with Byron’s approval and challenged the Guardians for breaking through their private barrier.
• An old man from Cangwu Hall accused Shen Yi of concealing information about Feng Qingyao and the Black Fog’s eruption.
• Shen Yi admitted he knew Feng Qingyao but questioned whether anyone had witnessed her causing the eruption and suggested her traces of Authority could have been forged.
• Shen Yi pointed out that Byron had not appeared and accused the old man of speaking for the Hidden Light Hall; the old man then demanded that Shen Yi answer his own question.

Byron intervened when the Cangwu Hall Master questioned Shen Yi about the Black Fog outbreak and his presence in the Hidden Light Hall. She privately gave Shen Yi five minutes to escape, intending to claim he had broken through the Restriction.

• The Cangwu Hall Master accused Shen Yi of breaking the Hidden Light Hall’s rules and demanded answers about Feng Qingyao and the Black Fog outbreak.
• Shen Yi challenged the Cangwu Hall Master’s motives, and Byron appeared and ordered him to leave the matter to her.
• Byron led Shen Yi and Xilos inside, then explained that the Cangwu Hall Master had used the incident to stir up trouble and that Shen Yi could not stay.
• Byron told Shen Yi she trusted Feng Qingyao’s judgment and gave him five minutes to escape with a three-colored crystal.

Shen Yi refused to listen to Byron’s sealed message and chose to escape with Xilos by staging a spectacular breach of the Restrictions. As they raced toward the boundary of the Immortal Sacred Land, Byron reported to the Cangwu Hall Master that Shen Yi had fled after wounding her three Guardians.

• Shen Yi stored Byron’s crystal without listening to its message, wary that it might be bait while the Cangwu Hall watched them.
• Shen Yi decided to make their escape convincing by breaking through the Restrictions before Byron announced their flight.
• Shen Yi unleashed the Flame of Continued Combustion, shielded Xilos from its heat, and pulled her into the flames as they surged skyward.
• Shen Yi and Xilos tore through the starfield, patrol formations, and the Hidden Light Hall’s ancient Restrictions at tremendous speed.
• Byron watched their escape and told the Cangwu Hall Master that Shen Yi and Xilos had fled after Shen Yi severely wounded her three Guardians.

Byron dismissed the Cangwu Hall Master after he sent pursuers after Shen Yi and Xilos. Near the edge of the Immortal Sacred Land, Shen Yi and Xilos met a blockade led by the Cangwu Hall Master, and Shen Yi unleashed a transformed Flame of Continued Combustion that engulfed the pursuers.

• The Cangwu Hall Master told Byron he had sent people after Shen Yi and Xilos, and Byron offered Hidden Light Hall's support.
• Shen Yi raced toward the edge of the Immortal Sacred Land with Xilos and impressed her with his refined control of the Flame of Continued Combustion.
• Shen Yi stopped when he found the Cangwu Hall Master and more than a dozen Authority Holders blocking their route out.
• Shen Yi transformed the Flame of Continued Combustion into an overwhelming force that drained heat from rules and engulfed the blockade.
• Three Authority Holders retreated behind a massive shield of multicolored rules as the flames swallowed the others.

Shen Yi crushed the hall elites’ layered defenses with the Flame of Continued Combustion after realizing they had been sent to wear him down. He let the surviving attackers flee with news of his strength, including the one Xilos stopped from reaching her.

• The Flame of Continued Combustion shattered the shield and killed several Authority Holders, forcing the gaunt old man to retreat behind defenses raised by experts from other halls.
• Shen Yi realized the elites were sacrificing their authority foundations to exhaust his flames while the true mastermind waited.
• Shen Yi compressed the flames into a hair-thin line that pierced the layered defenses, killing most of the remaining attackers and driving a few survivors away.
• Xilos blocked one fleeing attacker who was heading toward her, but Shen Yi signaled her to let him escape, and she removed the wall of fire.