Chapter Summaries

After returning in triumph, Xuan Ye discussed the kingdom’s future with England, who asked whether a new king should be established. Xuan Ye left the decision to the recovering Aitiya, then stabilized his new Master Rank power and found that congratulatory gifts might provide the materials he needed.

• Yao Yao teased Xuan Ye about his body, and England arrived to welcome him back.
• England asked Xuan Ye whether they should establish a new king, and Xuan Ye said they should wait for Aitiya to recover and decide.
• Xuan Ye spent nearly a month recovering from igniting his core and stabilizing his breakthrough to Master Rank.
• Xuan Ye inscribed Gravity Runes, examined his Autonomous Nodes, and realized he still needed materials to improve them.
• Little Churchill showed Xuan Ye the chests of congratulatory gifts delivered during his seclusion, and Xuan Ye thought they might cover his missing materials.

Xuan Ye returned to Dream Island after destroying Northern Domain Marquisate and learned that Lady Vera, the Iron Priestess, had protected his allies from the Sea Lord King. Kip Vico welcomed him home and explained the support and dangers surrounding the continent, while Xuan Ye considered the threat posed by the Pope of Light.

• Moro Ein sealed himself in ice to protect the Ein Family’s younger generation, and Xuan Ye’s group departed Shouxin Marquisate with gifts.
• During the journey back, Xuan Ye avoided visiting factions and continued studying the Royal Protective Barrier aboard the Magic Airship.
• After more than half a month, Xuan Ye and Kusile returned to Dream Island, where Kip Vico welcomed them and noted Xuan Ye’s new title, the Starfall Emperor.
• Xuan Ye asked who had held off the Sea Lord King, and Kip Vico revealed that Lady Vera, the Iron Priestess, had intervened.
• Kip Vico warned Xuan Ye that those below Saint Rank remained vulnerable and said he would begin making his own attempts to address the danger.

Xuan Ye learned that Kip Vico intended to attempt a breakthrough to Saint Rank and resolved to find another way to help him despite being barred from the preparations. Meanwhile, Dream Island enjoyed a brief respite from the Sea Tribe and drove up the price of Void Essence by buying huge quantities.

• Kip Vico told Xuan Ye that he had sensed an opportunity to reach Saint Rank and would pursue it despite the danger.
• Kip Vico warned Xuan Ye not to interfere in the preparations and sent him out of the Magic Tower.
• Xuan Ye returned to the Library and resolved to improve himself so he would not have to watch another respected person face danger alone.
• The Sea Tribe temporarily retreated from Dream Island while tensions over the western seas continued beneath the surface.
• Dream Island announced that it would exchange valuable items for large quantities of Void Essence.
• Demand from Dream Island sent Void Essence prices soaring from three times their original value to ten times, while Void Ore and Void Crystals were also bought up.

Xuan Ye upgraded his Companion Soul Tool and continued analyzing the Nation-Protecting Barrier while preparing for the looming conflict. After a brief visit to the Mao Mao Tavern, he learned more about Deliana’s mysterious connection to Poseidon, and Dream Island was suddenly threatened by a Phenomenal Magical Beast.

• Xuan Ye refined his Void-based nodes, completed the resonance of his second and third Star Palaces, and raised his analysis of the Nation-Protecting Barrier to halfway.
• Xuan Ye returned to the Mao Mao Tavern, where Lia complained that he had wasted money instead of giving it to her to save.
• Deliana gave Xuan Ye a blue crystal that might persuade Poseidon to spare him when they met again, while admitting she knew little about her own identity.
• Sileta arrived with Sileta and asked Xuan Ye to repay her Credits and sell her practical potions.
• The Mage Tower warned that a Phenomenal Magical Beast was rapidly approaching Dream Island and ordered students and teachers to prepare for evacuation.

Xuan Ye rushed to Dream Island’s defenses as a Unicorn Cloud Whale approached through the clouds. He left the barrier to confront the beast, confident he could drive it away or kill it.

• Xuan Ye vanished from Mao Mao Tavern after receiving a warning, while Lia complained that he had left without saying goodbye.
• Xuan Ye arrived at the Sky Tower, where Afas, Kusile, and the other instructors watched a massive shadow approach Dream Island.
• Afas identified the approaching magical beast as a Unicorn Cloud Whale and said it had refused to communicate with his contracted spirit.
• Xuan Ye told Afas to control the island’s barrier and ordered the others to keep the whale from coming closer.
• Xuan Ye flew beyond Dream Island’s defensive barrier to confront the Unicorn Cloud Whale outside the gate.

Xuan Ye confronted the Cloud Whale outside Dream Island and entered its mist to fight it, exploiting his ability to see through illusions and strike its wounds. After the whale nearly swallowed him, Xuan Ye escaped with the Spatial Beacon and returned to attack from its back.

• Xuan Ye warned the Cloud Whale not to cross a line twelve nautical miles from Dream Island, then wounded its tail when it splashed seawater over the boundary.
• The Cloud Whale engulfed Xuan Ye in mist, but he saw through the illusion and reached the whale to stab it with the Sacred Spear.
• Xuan Ye widened the whale’s wound with Gravity Collapse and used Gravity Lock to force its body downward.
• The Cloud Whale unleashed more than a hundred tracking mist drills, but Xuan Ye evaded nearly all of them.
• The Cloud Whale opened its maw and pulled Xuan Ye toward it, but he vanished with the Spatial Beacon and returned to Dream Island.
• Xuan Ye used another beacon to return to the Cloud Whale’s back and resumed stabbing it.

Xuan Ye defeated the Unicorn Cloud Whale through his mobility and forced it into a pact to protect Dream Island three times. The Sea Tribe’s agents withdrew without attacking him, but resolved to keep investigating the Hand of Elements and pursue other ways to pressure Dream Island.

• Xuan Ye stabbed the Unicorn Cloud Whale repeatedly until it pleaded with him to stop and tried to flee.
• When the whale threatened to crash into Dream Island, Xuan Ye negotiated a pact forbidding it from harming humans and requiring it to protect Dream Island three times.
• Xuan Ye confirmed that the Sea Tribe had sent the whale after him and recorded its admission with a Recording Crystal.
• Xuan Ye took the Essence he needed from the whale and returned toward Dream Island as it retreated.
• Two Sea Tribe members surfaced but chose not to attack Xuan Ye, discussing their failed probe and the need to confirm the Hand of Elements’ condition.
• The two Sea Tribe members returned beneath the sea and planned to try other methods.

After Xuan Ye repelled the Sea Tribe’s Cloud Whale probe, he learned that three supply ships had also sunk, leaving Dream Island facing a growing threat while his teacher remained occupied with a secret experiment. Xuan Ye prepared to conserve supplies and considered the Sea Tribe’s strength, but worried about how to protect the teacher if he confronted them.

• Xuan Ye returned to Dream Island, warned the teachers that the Sea Tribe had probed the island, and urged them to limit student expeditions while his teacher conducted a large-scale experiment.
• A trainee teacher reported that three ships carrying daily supplies had sunk, and the teachers suspected the Sea Tribe was targeting Dream Island’s supply routes.
• The White-Browed Librarian warned Xuan Ye that the attacks might be designed to lure him out, and Xuan Ye concluded the Sea Tribe could be trying both to ambush him and to test his teacher’s condition.
• Xuan Ye ordered the island to conserve supplies and raise purchase prices, then asked how many Grandmaster-level experts the Ronald Sea Race possessed.
• Kusile estimated that the Ronald Sea Race had seven or eight Grandmasters on the surface, and the White-Browed Librarian cautioned Xuan Ye about the Sea Tribe King’s possible methods and Holy Blood.

After the Sea Tribe’s attack left Dream Island struggling to secure supplies, Xuan Ye and Vice Dean Jieli sought help from the Free Trade Alliance. The Angel Investment representative arrived sooner than expected, raising suspicions that the powerful merchant guild planned to impose harsh terms.

• Xuan Ye recognized that the Sea Tribe’s attacks had put Dream Island in a strategic bind, since sending him away could reveal his teacher’s weakness and leaving supplies unattended could expose their lack of available Grandmasters.
• Two days after the attack, Xuan Ye visited Vice Dean Jieli to discuss finding outside allies and met the butler who had once threatened him, as well as the fleeing Blue-haired Aide.
• Xuan Ye and Jieli discussed approaching the Free Trade Alliance, whose strength could deter the Sea Tribe from attacking supply shipments.
• Jieli explained that the Angel Investment representative was already on the way and warned that the guild would likely exploit Dream Island’s need for help.
• Five days later, the Angel Investment representative arrived at Dream Island earlier than expected.

Xuan Ye received Master Slin and Angel Investment’s delegation on Dream Island, where a clash over who would lead the negotiations exposed Xuan Ye’s formidable status. After learning that Xuan Ye had erased the Northern Domain Marquisate, Slin misjudged him as a Master relying on an inherited artifact.

• Xuan Ye and Jieli greeted Master Slin as Angel Investment’s airship docked at the City of Dreams.
• Slin dismissed Jieli’s greeting and questioned Xuan Ye’s authority, while Xuan Ye confirmed he was authorized to represent Dream Island.
• A young Professional Rank knight challenged Xuan Ye’s role, and Xuan Ye revealed his Master-level aura and rebuked him.
• The island representative told Slin that Xuan Ye had erased the Northern Domain Marquisate.
• Slin recognized Xuan Ye from the rumors but wrongly concluded that he was only a Master who had used an inherited artifact to achieve his feats.

Xuan Ye met with Slin and Angel Investment representatives to discuss an old trade agreement between the Free Trade Alliance and the Ronald Kingdom. He rejected their attempt to make the Ronald side repay the historic loan, leaving Slin struggling to continue the negotiations.

• Mano was shaken when he learned Xuan Ye was a Grandmaster, but Slin's Spiritual Power helped him regain his composure.
• Xuan Ye and the Angel Investment representatives sat down to negotiate at the campus administration building.
• Slin presented an agreement under which the Free Trade Alliance had lent the Ronald Kingdom 1.42 million Gold Coins in exchange for fifty years of five-percent tariffs.
• Xuan Ye agreed that Angel Investment could continue trading under the contract, but Slin clarified that they wanted repayment of the debt instead.
• Xuan Ye cited the contract's clauses to argue that the Ronald side had not violated its obligations, and dismissed Slin's claim that the cursed sea made trade unsafe.
• When Slin blamed the Royal Clan for offending the Sea Tribe, Xuan Ye said he could regard himself as the one who had teased the Saintess.

Xuan Ye rejected Slin’s demand to reclaim the loan and responded to Angel Investment’s pressure by trading High Quality Baptismal Potions for daily necessities. The resulting influx of ships challenged the Sea Tribe’s blockade, while Slin was left shaken by the potion’s existence.

• Xuan Ye refused Slin’s demand for 1.42 million Gold Coins, and Slin threatened that the Seven Nations Council might replace Kip as guardian of the Ronald Continent.
• Xuan Ye told Dream Island Academy to focus on the Sea Tribe crisis and distinguished Angel Investment from the Free Trade Alliance.
• Xuan Ye offered High Quality Baptismal Potions in exchange for daily necessities at several times their usual price.
• Merchants flocked to Ronald Continent with supplies, and the Sea Tribe grew uneasy as it sank more ships.
• Mano found Slin staring at a potion bottle and muttering in disbelief about how such a potion could exist.

Slin recognized that Dream Island’s Baptismal Potions came from an extraordinary refining method and warned Mano that their economic sanctions would probably fail. He left Mano considering whether the Angel Investment Conglomerate could recruit or cooperate with whoever possessed the rare talent behind the method.

• Mano used a calming magic scroll to stop Slin’s violent emotional outburst, and Slin thanked him.
• Slin realized Dream Island’s potion-making method was nearly perfect and could produce potions far superior to ordinary ones.
• Slin told Mano that the economic sanctions would probably fail because Dream Island’s potions could threaten the conglomerate’s influence.
• Mano feared that mass-produced high-quality potions could create large numbers of powerful experts, but Slin clarified that only a rare individual or a few people with a specific Bloodline could make them.
• Slin explained that he alone understood the potion’s true potential and urged Mano to use their advantage while they could.

Xuan Ye negotiated with Angel Investment to exchange future potion sales for Grandmaster-level support against the Sea Tribe. Both sides agreed to pursue a two-month arrangement while privately planning to use the other, leaving the deal’s true terms unresolved.

• Slin and Mano visited Xuan Ye to discuss Angel Investment purchasing potions after learning the Ronald Imperial Family had concocted them.
• Slin offered to buy all the potions at ten percent above market price and establish a long-term partnership, but Xuan Ye questioned the guild’s trustworthiness.
• Xuan Ye offered Angel Investment the chance to reserve future potions at a higher price if it sent two Grandmaster-level Experts to Dream Island under an advanced Rule Contract.
• Slin said he would ask the guild leaders to lend Experts for two months, and Xuan Ye offered High Quality Baptismal Potions and Transformation Potions in return.
• Slin and Xuan Ye each left believing Angel Investment could use its ties to the Sea Tribe to stall trouble, while privately planning to exploit the arrangement.

The Angel Investment chairmen Roselle and Rosde arrived at Dream Island to fulfill their contract, and Roselle sensed that Xuan Ye could kill him in a fight. After handing Dream Island’s affairs to Senior Afas, Xuan Ye prepared to leave and handle other matters.

• The Angel Investment approved Slin’s proposal, committed to selling the Free Trade Alliance’s potions, and sent cargo ships toward Dream Island.
• Seven days later, Roselle and Rosde arrived at Dream Island and met Xuan Ye, who challenged Roselle to spar but was declined.
• Slin presented the Rule Contract, and Roselle’s Imminent Danger bloodline revealed that Xuan Ye posed a fatal threat to him.
• After signing the contract, Roselle told Rosde and Slin that he would probably die if he fought Xuan Ye, and they agreed to complete their mission without provoking him.
• Xuan Ye entrusted Dream Island’s affairs to Senior Afas and prepared to leave to take care of other matters.

Xuan Ye intervened when four Sea Tribe Grandmasters ambushed a cargo ship, then faced them inside their Space Lock over the stormy sea. He chose to test his physical strength against them rather than reveal all his trump cards, and the battle was about to begin.

• A cargo ship struggled through the cursed, storm-darkened waters on its way to Dream Island.
• A Sea Tribe member attacked the ship, but Xuan Ye appeared and destroyed the water hand before it could crush the sailors.
• The Sea Tribe revealed three more Grandmasters and used four pillars of water to form a Space Lock around Xuan Ye.
• Xuan Ye questioned why only four Grandmasters had come, while the sailors fled toward Dream Island.
• Xuan Ye decided to test his physical strength against the four Sea Tribe Grandmasters as their auras suppressed the sea around them.

Xuan Ye fought four Sea Tribe members in a shrinking spatial blockade, using his strength and Wings of Void to counter their coordinated attacks. As the Sea Tribe pressed their assault, Xuan Ye prepared a powerful response with his wings.

• A Sea Tribe Giant charged Xuan Ye, but Xuan Ye dodged his explosive power and knocked him into the sea with a sweep of the Sacred Spear.
• Xuan Ye realized the Sea Tribe’s shifting formation was shrinking the blockade and suspected they knew about his Spatial Beacon ability.
• The Sea Emperor Race member revealed that a Saint had helped the Sea Tribe prepare to counter Xuan Ye’s Spatial Shift, and all four attackers launched a coordinated assault.
• Xuan Ye evaded the Giant’s attacks, restrained him and the liquefied Sea Emperor Race member with blue chains, and escaped the Priest’s vortex and water blades.
• Xuan Ye spread the Wings of Void, materializing the scattered feathers into array-like strongholds as silver ripples gathered behind him.

Xuan Ye overwhelmed four Sea Tribe powerhouses with his rune weapons and escaped after they lifted the Space Lock. After he left, a mysterious attacker seized the weakened Sea Tribe Thin Monkey through a Round Mirror Passage, leaving the three survivors horrified.

• Xuan Ye used his rune weapons to suppress the four Sea Tribe powerhouses until the Sea Tribe Giant unleashed his self-destructive ability and the blast lifted the Space Lock.
• Xuan Ye teased the defeated Sea Tribe members and flew away as the wings returned.
• The Sea Emperor Race member and the Sea Race Priest discussed why they had let Xuan Ye escape, while the Sea Tribe Thin Monkey tried to reassure the group.
• A Round Mirror Passage appeared, and a Crimson Spear pierced the exhausted Sea Tribe Thin Monkey before an unseen attacker dragged him inside.
• The Round Mirror Passage vanished, leaving the Sea Emperor Race member and the other two Sea Tribe survivors shaken by their companion's abduction.

Xuan Ye killed a Sea Tribe Grandmaster, absorbed his Essence, and withdrew rather than risk exposing his remaining abilities. He arrived at the Eastern Shepherd Marquis's Manor, where he recognized the rotund man who had turned him away as Marquis Mu.

• The Sea Tribe survivors calmed down after Bololo's death and concluded that Xuan Ye had revealed nearly all his trump cards during the ambush.
• Xuan Ye absorbed the dead Grandmaster's Essence, strengthening the Star Palace and Inner Palace, then stored the corpse and flew toward the Ronald Continent.
• Xuan Ye decided not to attack the remaining Sea Tribe members because they might possess unknown Saint-level items and exposing his abilities could put him at a disadvantage.
• The Sea Tribe accepted its failed ambush in silence after Angel Investment warned it against provoking another superpower.
• Xuan Ye reached the Eastern Shepherd Marquis's Manor and asked for the Eastern Shepherd Marquis, but a fat man dismissed him and told him to find the steward.
• Xuan Ye recognized the fat man as Marquis Mu and wondered what had happened to him after his departure.

Xuan Ye secured the Eastern Shepherd Marquis Seal and the Shouxin Marquis Seal, along with the support of both marquisates, to help Aitiya access the Ronald Imperial Family’s foundation. After more than half a month of travel, he and his companions reached the long-neglected Imperial Mausoleum, where he hoped to retrieve what he needed.

• Xuan Ye revealed to Allen Jin that he was a surviving bloodline of the Ronald Imperial Family, and the Eastern Shepherd Marquisate’s Master Rank experts gathered around him.
• Xuan Ye explained that he needed the Eastern Shepherd Marquis Seal to help Aitiya increase her authority over the Imperial Family’s foundation and obtain supplies.
• Allen Jin agreed to lend the seal and accepted dozens of High Quality Baptismal Potions from Xuan Ye as a gift.
• Allen Jin sent a Master Rank uncle with the seal, while Baron Newton brought the Shouxin Marquis Seal to join the party.
• Xuan Ye and the others traveled for more than half a month before reaching the overgrown Imperial Mausoleum.