Chapter Summaries

Lin Yi secretly toured the Silver Blue Civilization and saw how interstellar change had affected its society, his family, and its military academy. At East Peak Interstellar Military Academy, he recognized a former mercenary cadet and reunited with Vice Principal Nie Chang.

• Lin Yi sampled street food and listened to residents discuss interstellar business pressures and local grievances.
• Lin Yi observed cultural insecurity at the mall and a mother misusing childcare subsidies, then reflected on the problems facing society and his family.
• Lin Yi saw residents complain about Lin Xuan’s reckless convoy and Lin Yao’s celebrity suitors.
• Lin Yi visited East Peak Interstellar Military Academy and recognized a former Mountain Cat squad mercenary training as a cadet.
• Lin Yi entered Vice Principal Nie Chang’s office, and Nie Chang finally looked up and recognized him.

Lin Yi returned to Blue Star and privately visited Nie Chang before reuniting with his parents and Ye Qingyu. His return reached Lin Yao, Lin Xuan, and their families, setting Blue Star’s upper society abuzz as the chapter ended.

• Lin Yi surprised Nie Chang at East Peak Military Academy, heard his assessment of the civilization’s progress and problems, and said he would accompany the third batch of provisional members back to the East Peak Mercenary Group.
• Lin Yi went to his residence and reunited with Lin Ruiming and Zhou Jinghua, greeted Ye Qingyu, and gave her a small gift.
• Lin Ruiming called Lin Yao and Lin Xuan home after telling them Lin Yi had returned; Lin Yao left her salon, and Lin Xuan abandoned his plans to celebrate and drove home carefully.
• Guests at Lin Yao’s salon and Lin Xuan’s racing venue spread news of Lin Yi’s return to their families, stirring the upper society of Blue Star.

Lin Yi returned to Silver Blue Star, disciplined Lin Xuan, and announced his powerful sect connections and a new law-enforcement force to outside powers. After tightening governance and strengthening cooperation, he departed aboard the Morning Star with 3,500 East Peak reserves, leaving Silver Blue Civilization transformed and ready to expand.

• Lin Yi gave Lin Yao a Moonlight Stone pendant and warned her against losing sight of her goals, then cut off Lin Xuan's extra cultivation resources until he met East Peak Mercenary Group reserve standards.
• Lin Yi summoned outside representatives and Silver Blue officials, revealed that his senior siblings had gifted him planets and moved the Solar System, and warned that Silver Blue laws would be enforced by the Crimson Gold Guardian.
• Lin Yi criticized problems within Silver Blue Civilization and upgraded Xuanji into a Star Domain-level Intelligent Life to assist with oversight, administration, and governance.
• Lin Yi spent more than ten days overseeing political affairs and cooperation plans, then boarded the Morning Star with 3,500 East Peak reserves bound for the East Peak Mercenary Group.
• Nie Chang watched the Morning Star depart and reflected on how Lin Yi's actions had changed Blue Star's governance and the conduct of foreign representatives.

Lin Yi met Thousand Illusions, who took over guiding his cultivation and warned him about the risks of choosing difficult rules as the foundation for his future path. Despite her concern that he might lack a safe fallback, Lin Yi remained confident in pursuing the supreme time rule and aiming for the summit.

• Xuanji told Lin Yi that Thousand Illusions had invited him to talk, and he accepted the virtual meeting.
• Thousand Illusions congratulated Lin Yi on perfecting the space rule and said she would guide his cultivation while Prison Suppressor guarded Sin Prison.
• Lin Yi chose the time rule as his next rule, and Thousand Illusions explained how rule choices shape advancement from the Star Domain level to World Derivation and Eternity.
• Thousand Illusions warned Lin Yi that supreme laws could be extremely difficult to perfect and urged him to keep an easier intermediate rule as a fallback.
• Lin Yi considered her warning but, trusting his unusual talent, told Thousand Illusions he was confident he could succeed.

Thousand Illusions tested Lin Yi’s resolve and knowledge before teaching him the time rule’s iron law: the past could be traced, but the future could not be touched without catastrophic backlash. Her explanation deepened Lin Yi’s suspicions about the Ancient Jade and his rebirth, then revealed that time’s true power emerged through its combination with space, including the ability of resurrection.

• Thousand Illusions praised Lin Yi’s determination to pursue the time rule without keeping a fallback path.
• Lin Yi admitted that he knew little about the time rule or its combination with space, and Thousand Illusions explained that the future was undefined and forbidden to influence.
• Lin Yi wondered whether the Ancient Jade had reversed time or projected six thousand years of simulated memories, and questioned how it could have done so despite the iron law.
• Lin Yi asked why the time rule counted as an upper-tier rule if cultivators could not touch the future, and Thousand Illusions said its strength came from combining with other rules.
• Thousand Illusions merged temporal sand with spatial runes and revealed that spacetime could enable miracles such as avatars and resurrection.

Thousand Illusions explained spacetime clones, the dangers of resurrection, and how Illusory Law deities could reconstruct the dead from soul imprints. After urging Lin Yi to master the Time Rule first, she left him with study materials, and he ordered Xuanji to reshape the East Peak Mercenary Group and prepare an assassination plan against the Kunmo Race’s Blade Prince.

• Thousand Illusions explained that spacetime clones were near-perfect copies maintained by temporal power, while true resurrection required perilous travel through the River of Time.
• Thousand Illusions revealed that Human Race assessment proctors used Illusory Law to reconstruct fallen participants from recorded soul imprints, and that Xuchen had used this method to revive the dead on Silver Blue Civilization.
• Thousand Illusions warned Lin Yi against attempting resurrection at his current level, described the potential of future spacetime avatars, and told him to master the Time Rule before pursuing those abilities.
• Thousand Illusions gave Lin Yi introductory Time Rule books and promised him a surprise once he mastered the rule, then vanished as Lin Yi returned to the Morning Star.
• Lin Yi ordered Xuanji to redesign East Peak Mercenary Group training and mission evaluations around strength and combat experience rather than minimizing casualties.
• Lin Yi ordered Xuanji to gather intelligence on the Kunmo Race’s Blade Prince and draft an assassination plan, saying it was time to settle old grudges.

After a year and a half of cultivation and training recruits, Lin Yi returned to the Border Legion fortress and challenged the Endless Tower in solo mode. He cleared floor thirty and advanced to the training camp’s third tier, earning recognition as the leading figure of his Human Race cohort.

• Lin Yi prepared to hunt a renowned alien prodigy and decided to earn the remaining points needed for the training camp’s tier-three ranks by challenging the Endless Tower.
• Lin Yi’s rapid growth had widened the gap between him and Kenkes, Star Firefly, Amber, and the rest of his team, but he declined suggestions that he join a stronger team.
• Lin Yi entered the tower’s solo mode and swept through floors twenty to thirty, drawing tier-two and tier-three geniuses from across the training camp to watch.
• Xing Yu told the gathered geniuses that Lin Yi came from the Silver Blue Civilization, was under three hundred standard years old, and had been accepted as a disciple by an Eternal Divinity.
• Lin Yi cleared floor thirty, exited the tower as a third-tier genius, and received congratulations from Longge Xing Tong, Youlan Shadowsong, Xuan Zhong, and other prominent geniuses.
• Hui Yao urged the Human Race geniuses to support Lin Yi, recognizing him as the undisputed leader of their intake.

After advancing to the third tier, Lin Yi attended a banquet hosted by Hui Yao to celebrate and meet the Human Race geniuses. Hui Yao learned that Lin Yi had condensed ninety-one Star Cores and offered him a Star Vortex Twin Lotus to help his cultivation.

• Hui Yao congratulated Lin Yi on his promotion and invited him and his team to a banquet at Star Sea Pavilion.
• Lin Yi spent 450,000 points on the Cosmos Ripper, Voidwalker Suit, and Heart of Stars Fragment.
• Hui Yao welcomed Lin Yi and his team at the banquet, where the Human Race geniuses celebrated Lin Yi’s advancement and exchanged greetings.
• Ling He praised Kenkes for choosing to join Lin Yi’s team and expressed interest in cooperating with them.
• Hui Yao told Lin Yi that he had condensed 299 Star Cores but remained unable to reach the Triple Domain, then offered Lin Yi his Star Vortex Twin Lotus.

Lin Yi accepted Hui Yao’s gift, returned to the border fortress, and led the East Peak Mercenary Group to reinforce Broken Blade Outpost. As Lin Yi turned the battle against the Kunmo Race, Talolanke learned he was there and headed for the battlefield to hunt him.

• Lin Yi thanked Hui Yao for his gift, then received the Star Vortex Twin Lotus at the border fortress after returning from the gathering.
• At the fortress, Lin Yi reunited with Aurelia and saw Nightingale exchange a silent greeting with Skinny Monkey; he then ordered Xuanji to find a mission that could draw out Talolanke.
• Lin Yi accepted the mission to reinforce Broken Blade Outpost, where Bert’s battered defenders were close to losing their position to the Kunmo Race.
• Lin Yi prepared the East Peak Mercenary Group for an orbital drop, created a spatial beacon aboard the Eastern Edge, and sent the fleet into battle.
• Lin Yi landed at the outpost and used his Gold Domain to devastate the Kunmo Race vanguard, restoring the defenders’ morale and halting the assault.
• After receiving reports of Lin Yi’s presence and strength, Talolanke changed Bloodfang’s course toward the battle, intending to hunt him.

Lin Yi waited at Broken Blade Outpost Base for Blade Prince Talolanke, then fought and killed him after Talolanke arrived. The chapter ended with Lin Yi victorious and Talolanke annihilated.

• Lin Yi held the defensive line at Broken Blade Outpost Base and set a four-day deadline for Talolanke to appear before he abandoned his plan to lure him out.
• Talolanke arrived on the battlefield and challenged the hidden enemy, but discovered that Lin Yi wielded the Triple Domain and tried to flee.
• Lin Yi used the Space Rule and his Voidwalker Suit to intercept Talolanke, then wounded him with a kick and summoned the Universe-Rending Spear.
• Talolanke unleashed successive attacks, including a destructive field of metal and fire, but Lin Yi countered them with his Rules and spear.
• Lin Yi impaled Talolanke with the Universe-Rending Spear, taunted him, and then destroyed his body with the power of the three Rules.

Lin Yi killed Blade Prince Talolanke, helped turn the battle at the Broken Blade Frontline into a decisive victory, and authorized the Star Realm Army to use the footage in a morale-boosting promotional film. After weeks in seclusion, he learned from Xuanji that the video had made him famous.

• General Luger ordered heavy bombardment to cover Lin Yi's retreat, but Lin Yi revealed his Triple Domain, killed Talolanke, and led the allied forces in routing the Kunmo Race troops.
• General Luger thanked Lin Yi, offered him 20 million special military merits, and obtained permission to use the battle footage in a promotional film.
• The Star Realm Army broadcast the film, contrasting the Kunmo Race's slaughter of Human soldiers with Lin Yi's revenge against Talolanke, and soldiers across the K-77 Starfield rallied to its message.
• Lin Yi spent three weeks consolidating what he had learned from Talolanke before finding a flood of messages from fellow geniuses about the promotional video.
• Lin Yi asked Xuanji what had happened, and she told him that he had become famous.

After killing Talolanke made Lin Yi a sensation across Human Race society, he assembled the Xina Family and Silver Blue Civilization leaders to manage the resulting attention and opportunities. With a plan in place, Lin Yi turned his focus to spending his military merits to improve his cultivation.

• Xuanji explained that the Sky Halberd Lord had ordered the promotional video about Lin Yi's revenge to be broadcast throughout the Kunmo Race border War Zone, and that it had spread across [Starsea News], making him viral.
• Lin Yi reviewed public reactions and learned that he had received many requests for endorsements, media projects, and social introductions.
• Lin Yi convened Liyue, Aurelia, Li Shan, Li Zhenguo, Zhou Donglai, and other advisers to discuss how to handle his new fame and invitations.
• The group formed a Lin Yi External Affairs Coordination Group led by Aurelia and agreed to prioritize reputable military, academic, and research partners while rejecting unsuitable offers.
• After the meeting, Lin Yi reassured Aurelia, then returned to the quiet room and asked Xuanji to show his military merit balance and available Star Realm Army exchanges.

Lin Yi spent his military merits on treasures to strengthen his Star Cores and improve his Time Rule comprehension, then negotiated reward clauses tied to his performance in the Pan-Spirit Alliance Genius Battle. After his new corporate partnerships publicized their confidence in him, he sent the East Peak Mercenary Group back to the battlefield to hunt Kunmo Race fighters.

• Lin Yi exchanged 7.4 million military merits for a complete Heart of Stars and three drops of Primal Origin Spiritual Liquid, then spent another 10 million on Sand of Time.
• Lin Yi used the Heart of Stars to rapidly condense Star Cores, reaching ninety-three within a month of cultivation.
• Lin Yi negotiated with Star Dome Dynamics, Tree of Life Pharmaceuticals, and Sourcecore Technology, adding substantial rewards if he placed in the top ten or won the Pan-Spirit Alliance Genius Battle.
• Aurelia told Lin Yi that the three companies had announced their partnerships publicly and that discussion of his chances of winning had surged on the Starsea Network.
• Aurelia reported that the Kunmo Race had reduced its offensives after Talolanke's death, so Lin Yi ordered Xuanji to find high-intensity battlefield missions and told the East Peak Mercenary Group to resume operations.
• Lin Yi and the East Peak Mercenary Group crushed Kunmo Race forces across secondary battlefields, boosting Human Race morale and alarming the Kunmo Race.

After forty years of devastating the Kunmo Race on Tier 2 battlefields, Lin Yi was ambushed by three of its strongest Dual Domain prodigies during a defense of Kans Space Station. They offered to let him leave, but Lin Yi refused and prepared to fight.

• Lin Yi’s repeated raids forced the Kunmo Race to seek help from Bloodblade Venerable, who sent Gelagu, Shalisi, and Balote to confront him.
• Lin Yi accepted an emergency mission to defend Kans Space Station from a large-scale Kunmo Race assault.
• Lin Yi arrived, used his Gold Domain to destroy enemy forces, and stabilized the station’s collapsing defensive line.
• Gelagu, Shalisi, and Balote appeared and tried to persuade Lin Yi to retreat rather than risk a fight.
• Lin Yi judged the three prodigies’ threat and refused their proposal to let him leave.

Lin Yi fought three Kunmo Race prodigies who used a blood-sacrifice secret art to temporarily reach the Triple Domain. He killed Gelagu, recovered from Balote’s counterattack, and chose to pursue Balote as Shalisi fled in another direction.

• Lin Yi launched a surprise attack on Shalisi, but she evaded the spear strike, and the three Kunmo Race prodigies activated their Blood Rule secret art to raise their power to the Triple Domain.
• Lin Yi fought Gelagu, Balote, and Shalisi while using the Space Rule to evade their coordinated attacks and waiting for their blood-sacrifice enhancement to weaken.
• Lin Yi exploited a gap in Shalisi’s control and stabbed Gelagu through the heart, killing him, while Balote struck Lin Yi’s left shoulder.
• Lin Yi healed his injured arm with the Life Rule, and Shalisi and Balote fled in opposite directions.
• Lin Yi decided to pursue Balote, judging that Shalisi’s Distortion Rule would make her harder to catch.

Lin Yi killed Balote, drove the Kunmo army from the level-two battlefield, and returned to the 93778th Border Legion with a major victory. The Kunmo leadership chose to avoid him for now, while General Luger reported that Lin Yi had been approved for 160 million military merit points.

• Lin Yi intercepted Balote as he fled, devoured his final attack with a spatial vortex, and killed him despite Balote’s self-detonation.
• Lin Yi pursued the retreating Kunmo army with his Gold Domain until its survivors escaped beyond the level-two battlefield, then returned to the fortress aboard the Shadow Shuttle.
• The Riftclaw King learned that the Abyssal Skeleton Sovereign had not responded and agreed with the Supreme Lord to avoid Lin Yi until the next Devouring Abyss Competition.
• Ten days later, Lin Yi returned to the 93778th Border Legion, where Aurelia greeted him and Xuanji announced General Luger’s visit.
• Luger told Lin Yi that the legion had approved 80 million military merit points for each of the two Kunmo prodigies he killed.

After the Kunmo Race countered Lin Yi by retreating from wherever he went and striking where he had left, his military merit gains stalled. He chose to pursue a safer source of income through the Veteran Platform and had Xuanji prepare an account and a strategy for sharing his Rule insights.

• Lin Yi learned that his military merits had reached 183 million and told Aurelia he would enter seclusion to digest what he had gained from battle.
• Lin Yi decided to save another 17 million military merits for Fleeting Splendor rather than exchange for a Time Fragment.
• The Kunmo Race repeatedly retreated from Lin Yi's location and counterattacked places he had left, making his battlefield missions inefficient.
• Lin Yi rejected Star Pirate hunts and secret realm exploration, and decided not to rely on research missions that might consume too much Spiritual Enlightenment Qi.
• Xuanji explained that the Veteran Platform rewarded cultivators for sharing knowledge, and Lin Yi chose to focus on Rule insights, especially the Space Rule.
• Lin Yi approved Xuanji's plan to offer free Metal Rule content and paid Space Rule and Life Rule courses, and ordered her to register the account 'Eastern Edge-Lin Yi'.

Lin Yi built a growing military-merit income stream by publishing combat and Rule courses, then brought Aurelia in as a specialist consultant to answer advanced Life Rule questions. About fifteen years later, Xuanji reported that they had accumulated enough military merit to exchange for Fleeting Splendor, and Lin Yi ordered the purchase.

• Lin Yi published free Metal Rule courses that officers such as Hogan shared with their troops, and soldiers reported practical improvements in combat techniques.
• After two years of building his reputation, Lin Yi released paid Space Rule and Life Rule courses; the Space Rule course attracted limited specialist interest, while the Life Rule course became popular among military and mercenary groups seeking to reduce casualties.
• Lin Yi reviewed requests for Aurelia’s expertise, then persuaded her to answer selected professional questions as a specially invited consultant without revealing her family’s secrets.
• Aurelia provided detailed guidance on deep Rule purification, soul trauma, and energy erosion, while Xuanji predicted that the new strategy would shorten the time needed to earn enough for Fleeting Splendor to fourteen or fifteen years.
• About fifteen years later, Xuanji told Lin Yi they had exceeded the required military merit, and Lin Yi ordered her to exchange it for Fleeting Splendor.

Lin Yi received Fleeting Splendor and used it alongside the Sand of Time and Spiritual Enlightenment Qi to master the Time Rule. He then fused the Time Rule with metal, life, and space to form the Fourfold Domain.

• Yan Tu personally delivered Fleeting Splendor to Lin Yi and praised him before the upcoming Genius Battle.
• Lin Yi entrusted Aurelia with authority over the corps and external communications while he entered seclusion.
• Lin Yi used the Sand of Time, Spiritual Enlightenment Qi, and Fleeting Splendor’s nine petals to advance his Time Rule comprehension.
• After the petals were exhausted, Lin Yi continued cultivating until he reached 100% mastery of the Time Rule.
• Lin Yi dismantled his Triple Domain and fused the metal, life, space, and Time Rule runes into the Fourfold Domain.

Lin Yi completed the fourfold domain and perfected the Time Rule, then contacted Thousand Illusions for guidance. She revealed she had prepared Fleeting Splendor and other resources for him, and offered to choose a treasure worth twenty clan merit points for him.

• Lin Yi demonstrated his new command over time and space, then confirmed that his fourfold domain had formed and the Time Rule had reached perfection.
• Lin Yi told Aurelia about his breakthrough and went to his quarters to request a virtual meeting with Thousand Illusions.
• Thousand Illusions was surprised by how quickly Lin Yi had mastered the Time Rule, and he confirmed that he had used Fleeting Splendor.
• Thousand Illusions revealed that she had obtained three Fleeting Splendor flowers, placed two in the military merit treasury, and reserved the third and other resources to help Lin Yi.
• Thousand Illusions offered to select a suitable treasure for Lin Yi worth twenty clan merit points, and Lin Yi asked her to recommend what best fit his needs.