Chapter Summaries

Lin Yi and Aurelia celebrated Blue Star Civilization’s rebirth, then led its officials in planning the civilization’s entry into the starsea. The chapter ended with Lin Yi announcing the East Peak Mercenary Group and the name Silver Moon Blue, and urging everyone to prepare for the challenges ahead.

• Lin Yi declared that Blue Star Civilization had survived its trials and entered a new era, then invited Aurelia to speak at the celebration.
• Aurelia gave each attendee a Star Language Glazed Orchid and explained how it could aid Star Core practitioners’ rule comprehension.
• At the next day’s meeting, Li Zhenguo and other officials discussed the dangers of the starsea and agreed Blue Star needed its own military strength.
• Lin Yi announced that the Xina Family would ally with Blue Star Civilization, with Aurelia serving as deputy commander of its mercenary group; the revelation that the family had five Star Domain level experts astonished the meeting.
• Lin Yi named the force the East Peak Mercenary Group, outlined its recruitment and training plans, and announced Blue Star’s planned relocation and entry into the starsea as Silver Moon Blue.
• Lin Yi urged the officials to prepare to carve out a place for Silver Moon Blue in the starsea.

Lin Yi met Clan Head Liyue through the Virtual Network, where the Xina Family pledged major funding to support Blue Star and the East Peak Mercenary Group. After securing the transfer, Lin Yi and his companions began selecting equipment and planetary defenses, leaving off at the chamber's holographic product demonstration area.

• Aurelia told Lin Yi that Clan Head Liyue wanted to meet online and send funding before her fleet reached Blue Star, and Lin Yi agreed to the arrangement.
• Liyue met Lin Yi in the Virtual Network, approved the East Peak Mercenary Group, and offered one hundred billion Moonwave Crystals for initial purchases.
• Lin Yi and Liyue completed the transfer through the Human Universe Bank, converting the funds into one hundred twelve million Star Crystals and earning Lin Yi a four-star client credential.
• Lin Yi, Liyue, and Aurelia went to the Human Interstellar Chamber of Commerce to buy equipment for five thousand mercenaries and a planetary defense system.
• Consultant Old Chen led them into a holographic experience zone to inspect the recommended equipment and defenses.

Lin Yi finalized a massive equipment order for the East Peak Mercenary Group and chose express delivery, which would bring the supplies to Blue Star within three years. He then opened worldwide recruitment for the expedition, and a veteran’s defiant post inspired many Source Warriors to apply.

• Lin Yi and Aurelia selected warships, combat equipment, a planetary defense system, supplies, and a personal spacecraft, spending more than eighty million Star Crystals.
• After Liyue recommended express delivery, Lin Yi paid an additional ten million Star Crystals for the shipment to arrive within three years.
• Lin Yi ordered Xuanji to announce recruitment for the East Peak Mercenary Group, setting the expedition’s departure for three years later and warning applicants they might never return.
• A veteran known as Will of the Falling Star posted that he had applied for reserve membership and would risk his life to see the starsea.
• Source Warriors rallied behind the post, and many eligible people submitted applications.

Nightingale applied to join the East Peak Mercenary Group as a reserve member after the Wildcat Squad encouraged her to pursue the sea of stars. Lin Yi gained a major boost from Aurelia’s Clear Radiance Dew, and Aurelia broke through to the Star Domain level, leaving Lin Yi surprised by her description of the tea’s rank.

• Old Cat recognized that Nightingale wanted to leave for the sea of stars, and Nightingale admitted she had mastered Instant Shadow Thousand Kills and feared saying farewell to the Wildcat Squad.
• Monkey, Old Cat, Big Bear, and Bamboo Pole urged Nightingale to go, and she applied to become a reserve member and joined the recruitment post’s chain.
• Star Core-level figures including Chen Yu, Andre, Elizabeth, and Liu Yuan submitted applications as recruitment enthusiasm spread across Blue Star.
• Lin Yi reviewed the recruitment’s progress with Aurelia, then accepted her invitation to the Jade Whisper Starship to receive cultivation resources and taste Clear Radiance Dew.
• The tea advanced Lin Yi’s Source Energy Intensity to the sixth tier of the Star Core level and raised his Life Rule comprehension to roughly six percent.
• Aurelia broke through to the peak of the first tier of the Star Domain level, and Lin Yi was stunned when she called the tea World Derivation level.

Lin Yi and Aurelia received the East Peak Mercenary Group’s supplies after two and a half years of interstellar training, then ordered the first recruits to prepare for departure. As the group’s launch in seven days approached, its members said farewell to loved ones and comrades across Blue Star.

• Lin Yi and Aurelia finalized the East Peak Mercenary Group’s recruitment and sent its members into three years of virtual interstellar training, which continued for two and a half years.
• Xuanji informed Lin Yi that the Human Interstellar Chamber of Commerce’s supply fleet had arrived, and Lin Yi and Aurelia inspected and accepted the delivery.
• Lin Yi ordered the group’s first-batch members to settle their affairs within a week and assemble in orbit to depart for the sea of stars.
• Chen Yu said goodbye to Su Xiao, who gave him emergency gels and Source Energy supplements for the journey.
• Andre visited Marina and her children to bid farewell, while Nightingale exchanged parting gifts and promises of reunion with the Wildcat Squad.
• Farewells and preparations continued across Blue Star until the seven-day deadline arrived.

The East Peak Fleet departed Blue Star under Aurelia's command while Lin Yi stayed behind to receive interstellar visitors. More than half a year later, a World Derivation-level visitor arrived at Blue Star's defensive perimeter, and Lin Yi went to meet them cautiously.

• Lin Yi gave the East Peak Fleet a farewell speech, and Aurelia ordered the fleet to set sail into the sea of stars.
• Lin Yi remained on Blue Star to receive the Purple Gold Star Union and other powers, while Aurelia led the fleet through its early mercenary missions.
• More than half a year later, Xing Yi arrived near Blue Star aboard a Phantom Star Lightchaser and stopped outside the planetary defense perimeter as a sign of goodwill.
• Blue Star's defense system detected an unclassifiable threat, and Lin Yi identified the visitor's ship as a World Derivation-level custom vessel.
• Lin Yi warned Blue Star's leaders to remain on alert, kept Xuchen's talisman ready, and flew toward Xing Yi's ship aboard Shanming.

Xing Yi visited Blue Star to recruit Lin Yi for the Pan-Spirit Alliance Virtual Network Company, but he asked for time to consider her Tier 3 offer. Seventeen years later, as Blue Star and the East Peak Mercenary Group advanced, Xuanji detected a massive fleet approaching.

• Lin Yi welcomed Xing Yi to Blue Star, where she asked about his connection to Xuchen and learned he was Xuchen’s sixteenth disciple.
• Xing Yi offered Lin Yi Spirit Radiance Level resources and promised to seek Spirit Glory Level resources, including access to the Annihilation Divine Kingdom and Xi Enlightenment Essence.
• Lin Yi weighed the offer against his plans for the Mercenary Alliance and Silver Moon Blue civilization, then asked Xing Yi for time to decide.
• Before leaving, Xing Yi gave Lin Yi a card that granted him the ability to assign green permissions on the Pan-Spirit Alliance Virtual Network.
• Seventeen years passed as Aurelia registered the East Peak Mercenary Group and began its first escort mission, while Lin Yi cultivated and managed Blue Star.
• Xuanji alerted Lin Yi that more than two hundred ships, including at least ten with Star Domain-level energy, had appeared in LB-7392113-F airspace.

Lin Yi welcomed the interstellar powers, formally established Silver Blue Civilization’s tier-five status, and negotiated its first agreements and benefits. After the fleets departed, he ordered a worldwide mobilization to prepare for the civilization’s relocation and future among the stars.

• Lin Yi received Special Envoy Lansi and the other powers’ representatives as they arrived at Blue Star Community headquarters.
• Lansi declared Silver Blue Civilization a tier-five civilization, registered Silver Blue Star as its homeworld, and included the Moon—renamed Silver Moon—in the relocation plan.
• Lin Yi accepted the Galactic Mercenary Alliance’s invitation and negotiated framework agreements with the Interstellar Chamber of Commerce, Star Sea Bank, and Star Realm Legion.
• Lin Yi revealed that Xing Yi had visited seventeen years earlier, prompting the representatives to reassess him and make concessions before the fleets departed with agreements and gifts in place.
• Lin Yi ordered Silver Moon Blue into level-one readiness for civilizational advancement, directing its leaders to train and develop their own capabilities before relocation.

Lin Yi left Silver Blue Star and reunited with the East Peak Mercenary Group on Zi Chen Star, then accepted a routine supply mission to reach a border region he knew would soon be attacked. When an outpost came under assault, he ordered the fleet to accept the emergency Level 4 mission and rescue its defenders.

• Lin Yi departed Silver Blue Star aboard the Shanming after entrusting domestic affairs to Li Zhenguo and Zhou Donglai and leaving resources for his family and Ye Qingyu.
• Twenty years later, Lin Yi reunited with Aurelia and the East Peak Mercenary Group on Zi Chen Star and learned how the group had grown through its missions.
• Lin Yi selected a Level 2 military supply mission to a border outpost, intending to reach the area before an alien attack he remembered from his previous life.
• The East Peak fleet prepared for the border journey and entered the K-77 star system after more than two months of travel.
• The Star Realm Army reported that Outpost K-77-JHD-93441 was under attack by alien forces and issued a Level 4 emergency support mission.
• Lin Yi confirmed the mission and ordered the East Peak fleet to change course at highest combat readiness and rescue the outpost.

Lin Yi sent the Eastern Edge Fleet to rescue Outpost K-77-JHD-93441 and ordered the Star Core-level mercenaries to use the battle against the Kunmo Race as combat training. After the fleet and ground teams devastated the enemy forces, Lin Yi began fighting the remaining warriors himself, drawing the attention of a mid Star Vortex-level Kunmo Race fighter.

• Lin Yi ordered Aurelia to command the fleet while the Star Core-level members fought under supervision, and Aurelia agreed to prevent needless deaths.
• Captain Kalan recognized the arriving Eastern Edge Fleet's North Wind-class ship and rallied the outpost's defenders as Aurelia directed the fleet's assault.
• The Eastern Edge Fleet destroyed most of the Kunmo Race ships, whose survivors turned berserk and launched suicidal attacks.
• Chen Yu, Andre, Liu Yuan, Elizabeth, and the other mercenaries landed to fight the Kunmo Race warriors, while Aurelia secretly protected them from fatal attacks.
• Lin Yi used his nine Thunder Pearls to kill dozens of Star Core-level Kunmo Race warriors, then attracted the charge of a mid Star Vortex-level enemy.

Lin Yi killed a Star Vortex-level Kunmo warrior with a secret technique, and Aurelia wiped out the remaining Star Vortex attackers when they targeted him. After the battle ended, the allied mercenaries and outpost commander thanked East Peak, and Lin Yi agreed to visit General Luger after a short rest.

• Commander Frost Ash and the other mercenary groups saw East Peak's powerful fleet and joined the fight with renewed confidence.
• Lin Yi used the Azure Radiance World-Breaking Flash to kill a near mid-stage Star Vortex-level Kunmo warrior in one strike.
• The remaining Kunmo Star Vortex warriors launched a concentrated attack on Lin Yi, and Aurelia stopped their attacks and drained the life from them.
• With their commanders dead, the surviving Kunmo forces lost morale and were defeated or captured by East Peak, the mercenary groups, and the outpost garrison.
• Buck and the other mercenary commanders thanked Lin Yi, while Kalan conveyed General Luger's invitation to visit the legion's base.
• Lin Yi accepted the invitation and said he would visit after the fleet had rested.

Lin Yi led the East Peak Mercenary Group through cleanup after defeating the Kunmo Race assault and received an invitation from General Luger to fight in the coming tiered battlefield in the Ash Star Domain. The fleet reached the 93778th Border Legion garrison, where Luger explained the escalating border conflict and asked East Peak to take Level 2 battlefield missions.

• Lin Yi ordered the allied groups to finish recovering the outpost and directed the East Peak fleet to the 93778th Border Legion garrison.
• East Peak members and the Xina Family discussed the battle, while Commander Buck ordered the Blood Wolf Mercenary Group to cultivate goodwill with East Peak.
• East Peak received an official promotion from Level 1 to Level 2 after earning a decisive contribution rating, then departed for the garrison.
• Lin Yi cultivated and reviewed his use of Azure Radiance World-Breaking Flash during the journey as Blue Star warriors and Spirit Race members grew closer.
• Lin Yi and Aurelia met General Luger at the garrison, where he invited qualified East Peak members to join the upcoming tiered battlefield in the Ash Star Domain.
• Luger explained that the Kunmo Race had intensified its activity ahead of the K77 Star Domain battlefield and asked East Peak to undertake Level 2 missions.

Lin Yi accepted General Luger’s invitation for the East Peak Mercenary Group to join Level 2 battlefields through the Star Realm Army’s military merit system, while warning Blue Star’s leaders that larger conflicts might be coming. He helped establish a military-merit nobility system and plans for sustained recruitment, and the announcements stirred excitement across Silver Blue Civilization.

• Lin Yi agreed to join the Level 2 battlefields through designated military missions that would grant East Peak military merit, and Luger briefed him on battlefield zones, threats, and supervision rules.
• Lin Yi informed Blue Star’s leaders about the battlefields and military merit system, and they agreed to create the Silver Blue Pioneer Decree and a twenty-rank system of titles, fiefs, and tax revenues for military achievements.
• Lin Yi proposed buying five Taurus-class transport ships and establishing a ten-year rotation and a recruitment and training framework, and Blue Star’s leadership approved the plans.
• The East Peak Mercenary Group and the Star Realm Army’s Border 93778th Legion finalized their agreement, while the Blue Star Community announced its twenty-rank military merit nobility plan.
• The announcements raised morale among East Peak members, inspired civilians and families to seek military service, and prompted an elder of the Xina Family to consider opportunities in Silver Blue Civilization’s expansion.

Lin Yi entered the Galactic Mercenary Alliance’s fifty-year Star Core elite training camp, where he met Kenkes and learned about the camp’s powerful trainees and points system. After declining invitations from two established squads, he planned to build a team of his own while keeping his focus on the Tiered Battlefield.

• Lin Yi received a Grade 4 admission permit to the elite training camp and gave Aurelia authority over the East Peak Mercenary Group during his fifty years away.
• Lin Yi entered the virtual camp, met Kenkes, and listened as Yan Huang, a wisp of the Lord of Source Laws, opened the training session.
• Lin Yi reviewed the camp’s leaderboard and spent 2,550 points on courses and a Source Energy Control Room reservation.
• Xing Yu invited Lin Yi to join Star Radiance Squad, and Qing Feng invited him to join White Fang Squad, but Lin Yi declined both because he had committed to the border battlefield.
• Lin Yi decided he could form his own team, choose suitable members, and pursue the camp’s team rankings without sacrificing his autonomy.

Lin Yi recruited Kenkes to help build an independent team and promised he could fuse two rule domains before the training camp ended. Kenkes brought in five promising newcomers, leaving Lin Yi with a seven-member founding lineup ready to begin training together.

• Lin Yi invited Kenkes to join his team and claimed he was confident he could fuse two rule domains before the session ended.
• Kenkes consulted his older brother Kelsen, decided to join Lin Yi, and obtained a strategy package about training-camp team missions and earning points.
• Kenkes accepted Lin Yi's invitation and offered to recruit and screen newcomers, focusing on promising entrants rather than veteran members.
• Kenkes introduced Mo Yuan, Star Firefly, Lei Hao, Aven Whisper, and Amber to Lin Yi, and Lin Yi responded to each recruit's abilities and concerns.
• Lin Yi agreed that the seven founding members formed a balanced core lineup and decided they should work together before recruiting more members.

Lin Yi used Spiritual Enlightenment Qi to raise his life-rule comprehension to 82%, then led his team into the Endless Tower to test and observe their abilities. His teammates posted strong results, and Lin Yi cleared floor seventeen on his first attempt, drawing urgent attention from veteran teams.

• Kenkes explained that the Endless Tower tested rule comprehension, awarded points, and allowed teammates to spectate, so Lin Yi arranged for the team to challenge it together the next day.
• Lin Yi absorbed his stored Spiritual Enlightenment Qi and raised his life-rule comprehension to 82%, but recognized that he needed practice to stabilize and apply his new understanding.
• The seven team members entered the tower in turn: Kenkes, Aven Whisper, and Lei Hao reached floor nine, Mo Yuan reached floor ten, Star Firefly reached floor thirteen, and Amber reached floor twelve.
• Lin Yi advanced through floor seventeen, exceeding the other newcomers and attracting intense scrutiny from veteran teams and their representatives.
• Lin Yi's marker vanished from the tower screen before he could clear floor eighteen, and he emerged from the tower.

After clearing floor seventeen, Lin Yi gathered with his teammates to exchange battle insights and planned a month of cultivation before they challenged team mode. As he continued refining his power, a new Contact Mark arrived bearing the note “Ninth Senior Brother,” suggesting he had finally reached someone from his lineage.

• Lin Yi exchanged Contact Marks with representatives of other squads, including Xing Yu and Qing Feng, then invited his teammates to review their battles at the Peak of the Star Dome Hotel.
• Lin Yi explained why he stopped at floor seventeen and discussed combat techniques with his teammates, who also offered him advice on improving his energy use and rule control.
• Lin Yi proposed that the team spend a month strengthening themselves with their points before attempting team mode, and everyone agreed.
• Other geniuses across the training camp discussed Lin Yi’s floor-seventeen result and began watching him as a potential force in the lower-tier hierarchy.
• Lin Yi refined his life-rule comprehension in the Tree of Life and received a Contact Mark whose note read “Ninth Senior Brother.”

Lin Yi met his Ninth Senior Brother, Cang Ming, who offered to supervise the battlefield in Lin Yi’s region and warned him that peak-race prodigies would eventually make it dangerous. Cang Ming revealed that the border conflicts were proxy wars engineered by the three peak races, leaving Lin Yi to confront how the buffer-zone civilizations were used as pieces on their cosmic chessboard.

• Lin Yi accepted Cang Ming’s invitation, and Cang Ming explained that only eight of Xuchen’s sixteen disciples remained alive, including two who had ascended to Eternity.
• Cang Ming advised Lin Yi to watch for a future gathering of the senior disciples and offered to seek an assignment as supervisor in Lin Yi’s K-77 Star Region near the Ash Star Domain.
• Cang Ming warned that peak-race prodigies would eventually enter the border battlefields, but Lin Yi learned this shift was expected thousands of years away and judged the region would remain manageable for now.
• Lin Yi asked why the peak races would involve themselves in border conflicts, and Cang Ming showed him a star map revealing that the Human Race and other civilizations occupied buffer zones between the peak races.
• Cang Ming explained that the peak races used these civilizations to wage controlled proxy wars and train their own prodigies, leaving Lin Yi stunned by the revelation that his people were pieces on a cosmic chessboard.

Lin Yi confirmed with Cang Ming that a human prodigy could compete on tiered battlefields without provoking the peak races to break the rules, then received Life Origin Fruits as a welcome gift. After half a month of training, he led his improved team into their first Endless Tower team challenge, drawing the attention of rival squads and other observers.

• Lin Yi asked Cang Ming whether a human prodigy who challenged peak-race fighters within battlefield rules would face retaliation, and Cang Ming assured him that the rules would be upheld.
• Cang Ming promised Lin Yi several Life Origin Fruits, which could aid his Life Rule comprehension when consumed at fifty-year intervals.
• Lin Yi returned to cultivation, trained advanced combat techniques for half a month, and refined his control of the Nine Luminaries Thunder Bead.
• Lin Yi met his six teammates beneath the Endless Tower and heard how each had strengthened their abilities during the training period.
• After Lin Yi registered the team challenge, Qing Feng, Xing Yu, and representatives from other squads gathered to watch and assess the team.
• Lin Yi led Kenkes, Aven Whisper, Lei Hao, Mo Yuan, Star Firefly, and Amber through the team entrance, beginning their first challenge as the first-floor light ring illuminated.

Lin Yi’s team cleared the first six floors of the tower, using layered domains and a Source Sea burst tactic to defeat the sixth floor’s six replicas. They arrived on the seventh floor, where seven late-stage Star Vortex replicas began to form.

• Amber instantly destroyed the first-floor replica, and Lin Yi’s team cleared the second floor in about five seconds.
• Lin Yi ordered Star Firefly to locate the third-floor replicas while Amber cleared the jungle; the team defeated all three in thirty seconds.
• Star Firefly, Amber, and Mo Yuan combined their domains with Kenkes’s illusions to slow the fourth-floor replicas, allowing Lin Yi’s Thunder Pearls to destroy them in ten seconds.
• Lin Yi’s team used domain suppression and illusions to defeat the fifth-floor replicas, though Lei Hao was severely injured and the others nearly depleted their source energy.
• Lin Yi’s team shattered their Source Seas to overcome the sixth-floor replicas, clearing the floor in fifteen seconds as tier-three fighters gathered outside the tower.
• Lin Yi and his companions arrived on the seventh floor, where seven late-stage Star Vortex replicas began to appear.