Chapter Summaries

Thousand Illusions chose the Time Source Core for Lin Yi and taught him the Time Rewind Clone Technique, which he successfully used to summon a one-second-old version of himself. She then revealed that the Pan-Spirit Alliance Genius Battle was connected to selecting candidates for an important secret realm and hinted that rival peak races held similar competitions.

• Thousand Illusions assessed Lin Yi's plan to comprehend the Death Rule and recommended a cultivation treasure to improve his source energy accumulation.
• Thousand Illusions selected the Time Source Core for Lin Yi, and he thanked her for paying the extra race merits it cost.
• Thousand Illusions taught Lin Yi to use his Time Rule, life imprint, Space Rule, and source energy to summon a clone from one second earlier, and Lin Yi succeeded.
• Thousand Illusions advised Lin Yi to explore undeveloped secret realms restricted to Star Core-level participants after he mastered the clone technique.
• Lin Yi inferred that the Genius Battle selected candidates for a crucial secret realm, and Thousand Illusions said his guess was close.
• Thousand Illusions revealed that the Abyss Race and Devouring Race held similar top-tier genius competitions on nearly the same cycle as the Pan-Spirit Alliance Genius Battle.

Thousand Illusions revealed that the three races’ Genius Battles selected entrants for the Myriad Secret Realm, where they competed for Source Essence vital to the advancement of their divinities. After five years of cultivation, Lin Yi prepared to challenge the Endless Tower, aiming to claim its highest record and secure resources for his future growth.

• Lin Yi connected the Kunmo prodigies’ secret art to the three races’ simultaneous Genius Battles and inferred that the battles selected candidates for a shared secret realm.
• Thousand Illusions explained that the Myriad Secret Realm changed completely with each opening, admitted only Star Core-level beings, and produced Origin Essence that helped Eternal Divinities advance.
• Thousand Illusions told Lin Yi that unexplored secret realms offered every race a chance at Source Essence, making territory and exploration rights crucial to racial survival and power.
• Thousand Illusions urged Lin Yi to master the Time Rewind Clone Technique and adapt to unknown environments; she arranged for a Time Source Core to be delivered before ending their virtual communication.
• Lin Yi resolved to master the clone technique, upgrade his damaged combat suit, and earn resources by challenging the Endless Tower.
• Five years later, Lin Yi told Kenkes, Amber, Star Firefly, and Mo Yuan that he was challenging the tower, secretly aiming to surpass the training camp’s 54th-floor record and take first place.

Lin Yi challenged the Endless Tower, cleared floor 60, and took first place in the training camp. After testing his tactics against a sixfold Fusion Domain opponent, he stopped before revealing all his trump cards and was recognized by the former top-ranked geniuses.

• Lin Yi cleared floor 40 and continued climbing, revealing his space-time fusion and reaching the third-tier record on floor 47.
• Lin Yi cleared floor 50, then passed the records of Youlan Shadowsong and Longge Xing Tong to become the new number one on floor 55.
• On floor 60, Lin Yi used a clone’s self-detonation and temporal retardation to expose the mirror opponent’s core, then destroyed it with Cosmos Ripper.
• Lin Yi judged that stronger opponents might counter his tactic, stopped climbing, and emerged after clearing floor 60 with a purple second-tier halo.
• Kenkes and Lin Yi’s teammates celebrated, while Hui Yao and the Human Race geniuses congratulated him on reaching the top.
• Xuan Zhong acknowledged Lin Yi’s strength, Youlan Shadowsong invited him to spar, and Longge Xing Tong saluted him as the former number one stepped aside.

After reaching the top of the Star Core level training camp, Lin Yi equipped his clones, cautiously began studying the death rule, and prepared for a secret realm expedition. Six years later, Xuanji found a suitable exploration mission, and Lin Yi turned his attention to it.

• Lin Yi left the Endless Tower after congratulations from his peers, while Longge Xing Tong, Youlan Shadowsong, and Xuan Zhong judged him a leading contender and resolved to avoid making him an enemy.
• Lin Yi celebrated with his team, reminded them that the Genius Battle and secret realm were their real tests, and announced that he would lead them in team mode the next day.
• Lin Yi spent points on weapons and armor for himself and his clones, then acquired several safer treasures to support his initial study of the death rule.
• Li Zhenguo learned that Lin Yi had reached the pinnacle of the training camp, welcomed congratulations from interstellar representatives, and announced the achievement to the Silver Blue Civilization.
• Lin Yi enrolled in secret realm courses, trained his clones, cultivated his Fusion Domain, and instructed Xuanji to search for suitable exploration missions near the Ash Star Domain.
• Six years later, Xuanji informed Lin Yi that she had found a secret realm exploration mission matching his criteria.

Lin Yi accepted an unknown secret realm exploration mission and assembled an eager vanguard led by his avatar. After coordinating with Rex’s engineering team, the volunteers entered the unstable gate, and Lin Yi’s pod was abruptly ejected into the realm.

• Lin Yi accepted mission TQ-73419-X and invited East Peak Mercenary Group members to volunteer for the secret realm expedition.
• Lin Yi and Aurelia finalized a roster of five hundred Star Core-level members and one thousand Stardust-level members, with Zhou Yuxuan, Chen Yu, Andre, and Elizabeth as the core command team.
• Lin Yi promised Aurelia he would do everything he could to protect the expedition members and had anchored the moment before departure for possible resurrection.
• Lin Yi met Rex aboard the Thunder Radiance space station and agreed that the mercenary group would secure the landing zone while Rex’s team stabilized the passage.
• Lin Yi ordered the volunteers to launch their transit pods through the Secret Realm Gate, and his pod emerged after a violent passage with a heavy impact.

Lin Yi and the East Peak Mercenary Group fought off an overwhelming swarm of aberrations after emerging into a twisted secret realm, then began stabilizing the spatial passage. Elsewhere, the City Lord of Red Iron City learned that aberrations had migrated away from the surrounding lands toward the Pale Forbidden Land.

• Lin Yi destroyed the first monster to attack his shuttle and killed three powerful aberrations as the other shuttle pods landed.
• Zhou Yuxuan, Chen Yu, Elizabeth, Andre, and the mercenaries coordinated their defense while Lin Yi covertly protected them and struck down dangerous monsters.
• After the battle, Zhou Yuxuan reported twenty-seven lightly wounded and more than ten percent of their energy and ammunition spent.
• Captain Rex and his Star Realm Army engineers began installing Hermes spatial anchor generators in a cleared Safe Zone.
• Lin Yi and Elizabeth sensed that the secret realm’s laws and cold white sunlight were deeply unnatural.
• Batu told the City Lord of Red Iron City that aberrations had vanished from the area and that a caravan had witnessed their mass migration near the Pale Forbidden Land.

Red Iron City responded to reports of aberrant monsters migrating toward the Pale Forbidden Land, while Lin Yi’s group established a camp and discovered a nearby human city. Lin Yi prepared Zhou Yuxuan’s team to make first contact, and the chapter ended with the team absorbing a basic model of the local language.

• The city lord granted Zagon permission to lead ten stealth specialists on a close reconnaissance of the Pale Forbidden Land and ordered nearby cities and the Royal City to be warned.
• Lin Yi directed Chen Yu, Andre, and Elizabeth to build and secure a temporary camp, while reconnaissance teams surveyed the basin.
• Elizabeth reported finding a large human settlement with Star Core-level inhabitants, and Lin Yi ordered Xuanji to analyze recordings of its language and energy system.
• Lin Yi assigned Zhou Yuxuan to lead an initial-contact mission and instructed him to gather information while concealing the camp’s location and strength.
• Xuanji measured the secret realm’s energy and physical properties, and established a basic language model for Zhou Yuxuan’s team.
• Zhou Yuxuan selected two companions, and the three absorbed language data stored in Spirit Link Crystals before preparing to depart.

Zhou Yuxuan and his two companions disguised themselves, entered Red Iron City, and discovered that the city came alive only after dark. The chapter left Zhou Yuxuan with a large cache of currency after he sold a rare monster scale, while the team began gathering information in the city.

• Zhou Yuxuan and his companions fashioned local-looking clothes and monster trophies, then flew toward the nearest human settlement.
• The trio intimidated a four-person hunting squad and traded a rare scale for Blood Crystal Coins, supplies, and information about Red Iron City.
• Zhou Yuxuan and his companions paid the entrance tax and rented a room, finding the city nearly deserted during daylight.
• When darkness fell, the city suddenly filled with lights, crowds, shops, and noise, so Zhou Yuxuan sent his companions to explore while he sought a place to sell materials.
• Old Sack recognized Zhou Yuxuan's scale as belonging to a Crying Snake and bought it for thirty thousand blood crystal coins.

Zhou Yuxuan gathered information in Red Iron City about the White Sun, the Blood Sun, and the Pale Forbidden Land, then sent his findings to the East Peak camp. Lin Yi received the report, ordered disguises and a cover identity for the camp, and prepared to study the approaching Blood Sun.

• Zhou Yuxuan overheard Red Iron City residents and guards discuss the vanished aberrations, the Blood Sun warning line, and the danger of the White Sun.
• Zhou Yuxuan bought books, maps, and basic cultivation manuals at Ink Trace Book House, then learned from Li Wei and Nova that sunlight caused madness and the Blood Sun intensified it every thirty night cycles.
• Zhou Yuxuan discovered that the East Peak camp stood inside the Pale Forbidden Land, a dangerous region known for powerful aberrations, and organized the gathered intelligence for transmission.
• Zhou Yuxuan's team sent their scans and warnings to the camp, including news that Red Iron City had sent scouts toward the forbidden land.
• Lin Yi reviewed the report and ordered Xuanji to prepare local disguises, instructing patrols to present the camp as the East Peak Society and use their Star Core-level auras to deter native scouts.

When the Blood Sun appeared, Lin Yi discovered that its light accelerated the Purple Mist Space’s production of Spiritual Enlightenment Qi, while Captain Rex’s detector registered a faint Source Essence reaction throughout the environment. After testing the Blood Sun’s light and studying Blood Crystal Coins, Lin Yi confirmed that their energy contained a trace of an essence sharing Spiritual Enlightenment Qi’s origin.

• The Blood Sun rose over the Pale Forbidden Land, increasing environmental energy radiation and making Lin Yi’s Purple Mist Space generate Spiritual Enlightenment Qi twice as fast.
• Captain Rex reported that the Source Essence detection module had registered a faint, diffuse reaction after the Blood Sun appeared.
• Lin Yi exposed his fingertip to a trace of Blood Sun light and found that the Purple Mist Space devoured its corrosive energy, slightly accelerating Spiritual Enlightenment Qi production further.
• Lin Yi ordered Zhou Yuxuan to send both charged and spent Blood Crystal Coins to the camp, and Li Wei returned with them the next day.
• Lin Yi examined a charged Blood Crystal Coin and found a trace of energy sharing Spiritual Enlightenment Qi’s origin, then confirmed that the trace was absent from a spent coin.

After discovering that Blood Crystal Coins contained energy related to spiritual enlightenment qi and the Blood Sun, Lin Yi planned to gather the coins and local cultivation manuals before the two-way passage opened. He organized the Silver Blue Society to expand across nearby human settlements, while he remained at the camp overseeing its operations and intervening when needed.

• Lin Yi concluded that Blood Crystal Coins absorbed energy from the Blood Sun and might help him study how to extract and purify spiritual enlightenment qi.
• Lin Yi decided not to pursue the dangerous Blood Sun and instead planned to collect Blood Crystal Coins, raw ore, and local cultivation manuals before the passage stabilized.
• Lin Yi ordered most of the group to leave the Pale Forbidden Land in small units under the neutral identity of the Silver Blue Society, while he stayed at the camp with a defensive force.
• Silver Blue Society teams deployed to Red Iron City and other settlements, taking assignments against aberrations and buying coins and cultivation texts.
• The Silver Blue Society gained a reputation across neighboring nations, and its members funneled resources and information back to the Pale Forbidden Land.
• Lin Yi monitored the teams from camp and quietly intervened when they encountered serious threats.

Over seventy years, the Silver Blue Society rose to become a feared and trusted power across the continent. When the stable passage to the main universe opened, Lin Yi received Star Realm Army forces whose arrival revealed overwhelming power and announced a new era.

• The Silver Blue Society established its reputation through disciplined missions, slew the Molten Mountain Beast at Blackrock City, and expanded its pavilions across the continent.
• After seventy years, the Hermes spatial anchor generator opened a stable two-way passage, and Captain Rex returned to report the discovery of Origin Essence.
• Lanhe arrived with an advance team, examined the white sun, reviewed Lin Yi’s data, and returned through the passage with his assessment.
• Three days later, a hundred-thousand-strong Star Realm Army battle group entered the secret realm and began building a fortified camp.
• A thousand peak Star Core experts scattered across the plain and used Source Energy Crystals to unleash a vast energy vortex, with many rising to Star Vortex level.
• The Eternal Kingdom king, City Lord Helian Tu, and people across the continent witnessed the display and recognized that the Pale Forbidden Land marked the start of a new era.

Lin Yi received Advisor Lanhe’s guidance on Blood Crystal Coins and ordered the Silver Blue Society to stop collecting them and cooperate with the Star Realm Army. At the Eternal Kingdom’s royal city, Zhou Yuxuan persuaded the kingdom’s leaders to accept the takeover and relocation to the Main Universe.

• Advisor Lanhe told Lin Yi that the Silver Blue Society could keep its existing Blood Crystal Coins for now, suggested seeking Tree of Life Company’s help with their contamination, and gave him an encrypted contact code.
• Lin Yi ordered the Silver Blue Society’s branches to stop collecting Blood Crystal Coins and raw ore, assist the Star Realm Army, recruit powerful natives where possible, and return consolidated assets and personnel to camp.
• A Star Realm Army squad surrounded the Eternal Kingdom’s royal palace and ordered the kingdom’s rulers to accept restructuring and relocation to the Main Universe.
• Zhou Yuxuan intervened between the Star Realm Army and the royal family, explained that the Main Universe had no Blood Sun, and described the army’s overwhelming strength.
• The Eternal Kingdom’s king and two imperial-tier experts abandoned plans to resist, and the king agreed to cooperate with the relocation and reorganization.

After returning from the Pale Forbidden Land with a vast haul, Lin Yi arranged for the Blood Crystal Coins to be purified into dawn crystals, which greatly improved the East Peak Mercenary Group’s cultivation. His clone also devised a way to extract and seal spiritual enlightenment qi, and the chapter ended with Ninth Senior Brother Cang Ming asking to meet.

• Lin Yi’s group completed its secret-realm mission, brought back roughly seven hundred billion Blood Crystal Coins and ore, and earned 55 million military merit points.
• Lanhe explained that the Blood Sun was a living source essence still growing, and that its periodic discharges caused the realm’s contamination and madness.
• Lin Yi hired the Tree of Life Company to purify the crystals, then named the purified material dawn crystals and offered two-thirds of the stock through a limited-time merit exchange.
• Aurelia, Chen Yu, Andre, Zhou Yuxuan, Elizabeth, and other members used dawn crystals to deepen their rule comprehension, while Lin Yi also sent supplies to Blue Star and his family.
• Lin Yi’s clone spent fifty years’ worth of spiritual enlightenment qi to develop a method for extracting and sealing it in a spacetime bubble; Lin Yi mastered the method but kept it secret.
• Cang Ming contacted Lin Yi through the virtual universe network, saying he had something to discuss after hearing about Lin Yi’s secret-realm haul.

Lin Yi agreed to attend Hong Hanran’s thousandth-birthday banquet in person in exchange for Eternal Abyss Water, then traveled to Myriad Bloom Star to help her faction face a rival prodigy. The chapter ended with Hong Hanran recognizing Lin Yi just as her guests feared no one would stop Ling Xuan.

• Cang Ming told Lin Yi that World Lord Hong Yan wanted him to attend Hong Hanran’s birthday banquet and hold the fort against rival young talents.
• Cang Ming explained that Hong Yan offered Eternal Abyss Water because Ling Xuan, a Flame Domain prodigy from Ink Feather Star, was expected to challenge the host faction’s juniors.
• Lin Yi agreed to send his avatar to Myriad Bloom Star, and it departed three days later.
• Five years later, Ling Xuan arrived at Firefly Manor with his followers and pressured Hong Hanran, who welcomed them despite her anxiety.
• Lin Yi arrived at the manor on foot, and Hong Hanran recognized him and told Ruo Jin that he had come.

Lin Yi arrived at Hong Hanran’s birthday banquet, where Realm Lord Hong Yan personally welcomed him. When he encountered Ling Xuan, whose group had come to provoke the Hong Family, Lin Yi treated them as friends of the birthday girl, and Ling Xuan accepted the graceful way out by offering Hanran a gift.

• Hong Yan greeted Lin Yi at the manor entrance, and Lin Yi presented Hong Hanran with a jade-box gift for her thousandth birthday.
• Hong Hanran and Ruo Jin learned that the guest was Lin Yi and hurried inside to watch Ling Xuan’s reaction.
• Ling Xuan recognized Lin Yi, abandoned his group’s provocative mission, and respectfully greeted the Chief.
• Lin Yi called Ling Xuan a friend of Hong Hanran, easing the tension and giving him a chance to save face.
• Ling Xuan sent Mo Lin to fetch Flameheart Coral as a birthday gift for Hong Hanran, and Hong Yan invited Lin Yi into the main hall.

Lin Yi attended Hong Hanran’s birthday banquet on Myriad Bloom Star, where he gathered signs that the border situation was worsening, then returned to his base with the promised Eternal Abyss Water. In seclusion, he perfected the Death Rule and fused life, death, time, space, and metal into a fivefold Rule Domain, leaving him wondering whether he could defeat an early-stage Star Domain expert.

• Lin Yi attended World Lord Hong Yan’s banquet, exchanged Contact Marks with several guests, and heard reports of increased military production and medicine stockpiling amid concern about the Kunmo Race.
• World Lord Hong Yan spoke of strengthening cooperation among factions, then privately gave Lin Yi the promised Eternal Abyss Water before Lin Yi returned to his base.
• Lin Yi used the Eternal Abyss Water and auxiliary treasures to perfect the Death Rule, consuming about forty-two years of Spiritual Enlightenment Qi.
• Lin Yi spent his remaining Spiritual Enlightenment Qi fusing life and death, then spacetime, and finally the Metal Rule into a unified fivefold Rule Domain.
• Lin Yi completed the fivefold Rule Domain with only five years’ worth of Spiritual Enlightenment Qi remaining and wondered whether his new strength could defeat an early-stage Star Domain expert.

Lin Yi visited Thousand Illusions, revealed that he had mastered the death rule and fused five rule domains, then defeated a simulated newly advanced Star Domain opponent. After advising him to comprehend the water rule next, Thousand Illusions told him he might qualify for the secret Special Genius Training List, which offered access to rare Human Race resources.

• Lin Yi told Thousand Illusions he had fully comprehended the death rule and fused five rule domains, astonishing her.
• Thousand Illusions created a newly advanced Star Domain opponent, and Lin Yi used five-rule armor and a concentrated Cosmos Ripper strike to defeat it.
• Thousand Illusions recommended that Lin Yi comprehend the water rule before fire, earth, and wood to strengthen and balance his foundation.
• Thousand Illusions gave Lin Yi techniques involving the death rule and notes and basic arts for comprehending the water rule.
• Thousand Illusions explained that Lin Yi might qualify for the secret Special Genius Training List, which granted access to rare resources, and told him to wait while she checked.

Thousand Illusions asked her father, Sovereign Lord Xuan Yan, to exceptionally admit Lin Yi to the Human Race's Special Talent Cultivation Roster. Xuan Yan agreed to resolve the matter, but warned her that the Spirit Race could send geniuses with seventh- or eighth-layer domains to the next Genius Battle; he then went to ask Sky Halberd Lord to join him in nominating Lin Yi.

• Thousand Illusions went to Evergreen Palace and asked Xuan Yan to exceptionally admit Lin Yi to the Human Race's Special Talent Cultivation Roster.
• Thousand Illusions argued that Lin Yi's talent justified admission and that supporting him could strengthen the Human Race's influence before a possible great war.
• Xuan Yan agreed to resolve Lin Yi's admission but explained that the Spirit Race might send its strongest internal-selection geniuses, whose Star Core-level domains could reach the seventh or eighth layer.
• Thousand Illusions accepted that winning the Genius Battle would be difficult but said she trusted Lin Yi to surprise her.
• Xuan Yan left for Sky Halberd Lord's Hidden Edge Hall and said he was making an exception to nominate someone.

Xuan Yan and Sky Halberd Lord agreed to jointly nominate Lin Yi for the Special Genius Training List and support revising its rules to require greater responsibility from its beneficiaries. Thousand Illusions told Lin Yi to hide his fivefold fusion and Death Rule before the Genius Battle so the Spirit Race would not prepare an exceptional contender against him, and Lin Yi resolved to strengthen himself further.

• Xuan Yan asked Sky Halberd Lord to jointly nominate Lin Yi for the Special Genius Training List, and Sky Halberd Lord agreed, citing Lin Yi’s conduct on the border battlefield.
• Sky Halberd Lord proposed adding stronger obligations to the list’s rules, and Xuan Yan agreed to second the motion at the next Supreme Council meeting.
• Thousand Illusions told Lin Yi that two Exalted Ones would jointly submit his nomination and warned him to conceal his completed Death Rule and fivefold domain fusion.
• Thousand Illusions explained that revealing Lin Yi’s full strength could prompt the Spirit Race to use forbidden resources and secret arts to secure victory in the Genius Battle.
• Lin Yi agreed to display only fourfold rule fusion and decided he needed to grasp more laws to prepare for a possible confrontation with the Spirit Race’s strongest contender.