Chapter Summaries

Lin Yi secured the top ranking and the Human Race contestants benefited from other races’ reluctance to challenge them, as many already viewed him as the future leader in the Myriad Secret Realm. In the finals, every opponent conceded, including Edith, and Lin Yi was crowned champion before turning his thoughts to the coming secret-realm journey.

• Lin Yi observed that Spirit Race and other contestants avoided challenging Human Race prodigies, while Nightmare Race contestants were repeatedly defeated; Hui Yao, Xing Yu, and White Phoenix all reached the finals.
• The ranking round ended with Lin Yi in first place, and he reunited with the Human Race finalists before receiving respectful greetings from contestants at the banquet.
• Edith thanked Lin Yi for sparing her dignity, and Xuanji reported that the Spirit Race had 78 finalists, the Human Race had 4, and the Nightmare Race had none.
• At the finals, Lin Yi’s opponents conceded in every round, and Edith conceded in the final without a fight.
• The Radiance Lord declared Lin Yi of the Human Race the Genius Battle champion, and Lin Yi accepted the coronation while looking ahead to the Myriad Secret Realm.

After winning the Genius Battle, Lin Yi completed media interviews and learned that the Spirit Race had agreed to let him lead the Pan-Spirit Alliance’s expedition into the Myriad Secret Realm. The chapter ended with him returning to his quarters, exhausted but preparing to review the messages and assess his remaining gains.

• Lin Yi accepted a racial merit mission to complete five media interviews and earned 500 racial merit points while carefully avoiding revealing details about his cultivation.
• Xuan Yan told Lin Yi that the Spirit Race would let him lead the Myriad Secret Realm expedition, with Edith to be consulted on major decisions, in exchange for Human Race priority intervention in level-four battlefields.
• Xuan Yan introduced Lin Yi to several Venerable Lords and representatives of smaller races, who offered him gifts and Contact Marks.
• At the banquet, the Radiance Lord announced that Lin Yi would lead the Pan-Spirit Alliance’s contestants in the Myriad Secret Realm and laid out the rules for the expedition.
• Lin Yi returned to his quarters and reflected on his new authority and rewards, then planned to sort through his Virtual Network messages and assess his remaining gains.

After Lin Yi handled congratulations, gifts, and rewards for winning the Genius Battle, he departed for the Myriad Secret Realm with the top thousand competitors. The Spirit, Abyss, and Devouring races’ geniuses entered the realm under the watch of their rulers, and the Radiance Lord sensed that something was wrong.

• Lin Yi approved Silver Blue Civilization’s celebration, Rise Day, and historically faithful promotional film, then asked Xuanji to manage his messages and Contact Mark requests.
• Xuanji reported Lin Yi’s rewards: 20,000 racial merit points, 500,000 roster points, 100,000 alliance contribution points, and gifts valued at about 23,000 racial merit points; Lin Yi ordered her to sort and sell the gifts he could not use.
• Three days later, Lin Yi and the other top thousand Genius Battle competitors boarded a starship for the Myriad Secret Realm, and Lin Yi spent the six-month voyage cultivating and preparing.
• At the realm’s entrance, Ruler Qing Yan and the rulers of the Abyss and Devouring races gathered with their Venerable Lords and geniuses as the three camps faced one another in silence.
• When the entrance opened, Lin Yi led the Pan-Spirit Alliance’s thousand geniuses inside, followed by the Abyss and Devouring race contingents.
• After the three thousand geniuses entered, the Radiance Lord warned the assembled Venerable Lords that something was wrong.

Lin Yi entered the Myriad Secret Realm, where the gray mist suppressed perception and power, and prepared to explore with his time-tracing clone and Spirit Race equipment. After Xuan Yan realized the Abyss and Devouring Races’ ninth-tier prodigies were missing, Lin Yi encountered and swiftly defeated a monster that mimicked his appearance, leaving a strange crystal core behind.

• Xuan Yan noticed that the Abyss and Devouring Races had not brought their known ninth-tier prodigies, suspected they had no need to participate, and realized he could do nothing but rely on Lin Yi and the others.
• Lin Yi entered the mist-filled secret realm, summoned his time-tracing clone, equipped it with Spirit Shadow Armor and Phantom Void Thousand Blades, and deployed scanning and communication devices.
• Lin Yi tested the realm’s suppression, learned that his domain and source energy were severely weakened, and set out with his clone to scout and contact teammates.
• Lin Yi and his clone detected a Star Vortex-level life-form forming in the mist and saw it take on a shape resembling Lin Yi.
• Lin Yi’s clone slowed the Mist Mimic Monster with spacetime manipulation and destroyed it with a spatial cut, leaving behind a dark gray crystal core that Lin Yi examined.

Lin Yi rescued Xiguang Liuyun from an Abyss Race prodigy who had forcibly reached Star Vortex level, then continued exploring the gray mist realm. After a giant beast’s crystal core fused with his collected cores and opened a mysterious passage, Lin Yi chose to monitor it and seek out his teammates before investigating further.

• Lin Yi collected gray mist beast crystal cores and discovered that they fused together, growing darker and denser as their numbers increased.
• Lin Yi answered Relay-7’s distress signal, killed the Star Vortex-level Abyss Race prodigy pursuing Xiguang Liuyun, and learned it had broken through and used a pill to boost its power.
• Lin Yi brought the injured Liuyun along, added his relay nodes to the team’s communication network, and continued hunting gray mist beasts.
• Lin Yi killed a peak Star Vortex-level giant gray mist beast, whose core absorbed the other crystal cores and formed a black mist passage when exposed to the gray mist.
• Lin Yi sent three reconnaissance units into the passage, but all lost contact; he decided to mark and monitor the passage while seeking out the other teammates before entering.

Lin Yi rescued allied prodigies from Devouring Race and Abyss Race attackers, then learned that enemy prodigies might be ordered to break through to Star Vortex level to trap and kill him. As the allied groups began gathering through the relay network, Lin Yi answered another distress signal and saved Edith’s team from thirteen Abyss Race prodigies.

• Lin Yi and Liu Yun expanded their relay network, and Lin Yi received a distress signal from Green Leaf, Xing Hen, and Mu Xi as three Devouring Race prodigies pursued them.
• Lin Yi stopped time and crushed the three pursuers with the space rule, then learned that they had broken through to Star Vortex level on sight and killed one of the allied prodigies.
• Liu Yun revealed that an Abyss Race prodigy had made a similar immediate breakthrough, prompting Lin Yi to suspect that the Devouring Race and Abyss Race had ordered their entrants to reach Star Vortex level and attack him.
• Lin Yi told Green Leaf, Xing Hen, and Mu Xi to join his tactical network, spread out to establish relay nodes, and call for help instead of fighting the enemy.
• Edith and ten Pan-Spirit Alliance prodigies fled thirteen Star Vortex-level Abyss Race enemies until Liu Yun received their warning and alerted Lin Yi.
• Lin Yi arrived as Edith prepared to use a forbidden technique, stopped time, and erased all thirteen Abyss Race attackers with the space rule.

After Lin Yi rescued Pan-Spirit Alliance survivors, Edith revealed that the Abyss Race and Devouring Race were using mass breakthroughs in an unprecedented effort to hunt them, raising Lin Yi’s suspicion that a larger crisis was driving the races to abandon old rules. With more than seven hundred allies outnumbered and unable to safely demand that they sacrifice themselves, Lin Yi led them to open a mysterious passage as their last chance to survive.

• Lin Yi led the injured survivors to shelter, where Edith recounted how the Abyss Race had hunted her group and explained that mass breakthroughs recalled a forbidden legion system abandoned after an ancient cosmic war.
• Lin Yi connected the unusual attacks to other signs of escalating conflict, then linked the survivors’ relay networks and organized a six-day search and rescue effort.
• Lin Yi found Hui Yao gravely wounded after he had broken through to Star Vortex level to protect his team, and learned that the Pan-Spirit Alliance had gathered over seven hundred survivors while suffering more than two hundred confirmed deaths or disappearances.
• Lin Yi rejected the idea of asking his allies to break through and sacrifice themselves, then summoned everyone to the rendezvous point and revealed that accumulated Mist Beast crystal cores could open a passage to an unknown area.
• Edith, Liu Yun, Green Leaf, Xing Hen, Mu Xi, and the other survivors agreed to take the risk, and Lin Yi opened the black vortex passage.

Lin Yi’s group explored the Black Mist Layer while his clone discovered that the Purple Mist Space could extract Source Essence from Black Mist Beast cores. As the Abyss Race and Devouring Race closed in, Lin Yi decided to lead everyone toward a suspected third layer using a fused blood-colored crystal core.

• Lin Yi organized the prodigies into teams to explore the Black Mist Layer and fight its stronger Mist Beasts.
• Lin Yi killed an early-stage Star Domain level Black Mist Beast and obtained a crystal core containing impure Source Essence.
• Lin Yi’s clone discovered that the Purple Mist Space could extract Source Essence from the cores, yielding Spiritual Enlightenment Qi without purifying them.
• Lin Yi’s group fused more than a thousand ordinary black mist crystal cores into a blood-colored crystal core, which Lin Yi suspected could open a passage to a lower layer.
• Xuanji detected more than eighteen hundred Abyss Race and Devouring Race fighters searching toward the group, so Lin Yi proposed descending farther into the secret realm.
• Edith, Hui Yao, Green Leaf, Liu Yun, and the other leaders agreed to Lin Yi’s plan, and the group began preparing to relocate.

After calculating that he could not gather enough Source Essence crystal cores alone to prepare for the blockade, Lin Yi revealed his rapid-absorption method and let the camp choose whether to entrust their reserves to him. More than seven hundred prodigies ultimately contributed their cores, and Lin Yi accepted their trust and resolved to go all in on leading them out.

• Lin Yi calculated that he could hunt about six hundred blood mist beasts in a year, but using the resulting cores alone would not give him enough strength to protect the camp.
• Lin Yi gathered the prodigies and explained the camp's predicament, then revealed that his secret art and Time Law let him absorb Source Essence far faster than ordinary cultivators.
• Hui Yao offered his cores and future shares, followed by more than forty Star Vortex-level prodigies who entrusted Lin Yi with their resources.
• Edith offered her reserve cores and argued that concentrating resources on Lin Yi gave everyone the best chance of survival, prompting more prodigies to contribute.
• Lin Yi and his avatar collected the offered cores, and Lin Yi resolved to stake everything on the trust the prodigies had placed in him.

Lin Yi used the Tree of Time Sprout to raise his grasp of the Law of Time to 5.7%, then led the survivors toward the exit, where a prepared Abyss Race and Devouring Race formation forced them back into the Blood Mist Layer. With escape seemingly impossible and the secret realm nearing its end, Lin Yi and the others prepared to spend their remaining days in the camp.

• Edith gave Lin Yi a Tree of Time Sprout, explaining that it would mature after three hundred days and boost his comprehension of the Law of Time.
• After three hundred days of cultivation, Lin Yi consumed the matured sprout and raised his grasp of the Law of Time from 1.3% to 5.7%.
• Lin Yi led the 693 survivors toward the exit, but the Abyss Race and Devouring Race trapped the passage in a blood-essence battle formation and collapsed the surrounding space.
• Lin Yi's clone sacrificed itself to hold back the attack while Lin Yi, Edith, and the others retreated into the Blood Mist Layer.
• Lin Yi admitted that the enemy had prepared a trap, then proposed breaking through to Star Vortex level to open a path; Edith said only the formation's expiration or overwhelming World Derivation-level power could defeat it.
• Lin Yi urged the survivors to rest while they waited for the secret realm's end, and he returned to studying the laws of time.

The Myriad Secret Realm’s exit closed without Lin Yi and the other Pan-Spirit Alliance prodigies, leaving those trapped inside to struggle on while the outside world presumed them dead. As Qing Yan confronted the Abyss Race and Devouring Race rulers, their forces launched an all-out war against the Pan-Spirit Alliance.

• The Myriad Secret Realm’s exit opened, but only an Abyss Race and a Devouring Race figure emerged before the passage closed, leaving a thousand Pan-Spirit Alliance prodigies presumed lost.
• Qing Yan accused the Abyss Race and Devouring Race rulers of seizing source essence and warned that their actions could start a war; the Abyss Race ruler revealed that the Spirit Race had produced a second Supreme and ordered an attack.
• Inside the realm, Lin Yi urged the trapped prodigies to keep hunting Mist Beasts, gathering source essence, and strengthening their camp, and the group agreed to continue their plan.
• A Star Spirit Race prodigy reminded the others that the outside world would consider them dead; Lin Yi thought of Aurelia, Thousand Illusions, Xuan Yan, and his family before Edith urged him to focus on staying alive.
• The Abyss Race and Devouring Race launched a coordinated all-out assault on the Pan-Spirit Alliance, and reports of the spreading war overshadowed news of the missing prodigies.

After the Myriad Secret Realm trapped Lin Yi and the other prodigies, Yong Yan arranged to protect Lin Yi’s family and home planet while Aurelia prepared to return to the East Peak Mercenary Group. Two years later, Lin Yi learned that the Abyss Race appeared to be hunting the Devouring Race, and he questioned the report.

• Eternal Rock received news that Lin Yi and the other prodigies were trapped in the Myriad Secret Realm as the Ultimate Arena prepared to transform into a war fortress and evacuate noncombat personnel.
• Yong Yan confirmed to Aurelia and Lin Yao that Lin Yi was lost but his fate remained unknown, then decided to escort them to Silver Blue Star and continue guarding Lin Yi’s home planet.
• Aurelia chose to return to the frontline to stabilize the East Peak Mercenary Group, and Chen Yu, Zhou Yuxuan, and Kaliya agreed to go with her while Lin Yao returned to Silver Blue Star.
• Yong Yan assigned Yong Feng to oversee the family while he went to Silver Blue Star; Yong Feng and Musto explained that the decision protected the family’s standing and honored the possibility that Lin Yi might survive.
• Two years after being trapped, Lin Yi killed the Bone Lord and learned that an energy burst near a passage matched an Abyss Race attack while a fleeing target’s signature matched the Devouring Race.
• Lin Yi questioned Xuanji’s conclusion that the Abyss Race was hunting the Devouring Race.

Lin Yi discovered that Abyss Race and Devouring Race prodigies had turned on each other over a Source Essence crystal core, killed all thirty-three when their battle threatened his surveillance relays, and briefed the camp on the conflict. Five years later, while preparing to raise his time-law comprehension to 10%, he learned from Xuanji that an anomaly had appeared in the Blood Mist Layer.

• Lin Yi used Xuanji's monitoring network to locate an Abyss Race pursuit of the Devouring Race and learned the sides were fighting over a giant Black Mist Beast's Source Essence crystal core.
• Lin Yi stopped time and crushed all nineteen Abyss Race and fourteen Devouring Race prodigies after noticing their battle could damage his relay network.
• Lin Yi told the camp what had happened, and Edith speculated that the races' leaders had abandoned the prodigies after the secret realm entrance closed.
• Lin Yi ordered the camp to avoid Blood Mist Beast King territories and said he would kill any Abyss Race or Devouring Race members detected entering the Blood Mist Layer.
• Over the following years, Lin Yi abandoned his crystal-core fusion experiment and accumulated enough Source Essence to aim for 10% time-law comprehension.
• As Lin Yi absorbed a large Source Essence crystal core in his meditation chamber, Xuanji reported a confirmed anomaly in the Blood Mist Layer.

As the Myriad Secret Realm continued contracting, Lin Yi strengthened his mastery of time while the Silver Blue Civilization mobilized for war against the Kunmo Race. In 1912, Nie Chang and Chen Yu made a last stand at Fortress 83227 and activated its self-destruct, with Chen Yu expressing hope that Lin Yi would return.

• Xuanji reported that the Myriad Secret Realm was contracting, and Lin Yi warned the camp that encounters with Blood Mist Beasts and Beast Kings could become more frequent.
• Lin Yi absorbed Source Essence Crystal cores and raised his comprehension of the laws of time, later learning that the Gray Mist Layer could collapse within two years.
• Aurelia organized the Silver Blue Civilization's response to the Human Race's conscription order, recalling veterans and forming three Star Realm Army battle groups under Nie Chang.
• The Silver Blue fleets departed for the Source Energy Barren Zone, and the civilization later expanded its wartime deployment as the conflict with the Kunmo Race worsened.
• At Fortress 83227, Nie Chang and Chen Yu led a desperate defense against a Kunmo assault before retreating to the command room and activating the fortress self-destruct.
• As the countdown ended, Chen Yu told Nie Chang he believed Lin Yi would return, and white light engulfed the command room.

Lin Yi advanced his Time Law and discovered that Beast King crystal cores could absorb ordinary Blood Mist Beast cores, then spent decades hunting Beast Kings and eliminating the remaining Abyss Race and Devouring Race survivors. As the Blood Mist Layer continued to contract, Edith told him that she could no longer absorb Source Essence from crystal cores.

• Lin Yi felt an unexplained unease, but Xuanji's monitoring found no abnormalities in the Blood Mist Layer or around the camp.
• Lin Yi raised his Time Law comprehension above 30%, then used his clone and temporal techniques to kill a Blood Mist Beast King and take its crystal core.
• Lin Yi found that a Beast King crystal core devoured ordinary Blood Mist Beast cores, and his group fed it their stockpile, increasing its energy without causing a qualitative transformation.
• Lin Yi and his group continued hunting Beast Kings as the Blood Mist Layer contracted, while Lin Yi eliminated the surviving Abyss Race and Devouring Race prodigies.
• Edith told Lin Yi that for three days she had been unable to absorb Source Essence from either ordinary or large crystal cores, despite successfully drawing the energy out.

Edith told Lin Yi that absorbing Source Essence had caused her and other powerful teammates to develop a growing sense of fullness in their souls, threatening the team’s ability to keep growing and survive the Blood Mist Layer. Lin Yi agreed to help while protecting the secret of the Purple Mist Space, learned the Soul Origin Seal Pact Technique from Edith, and finished preparing a complex pact, leaving him to finalize its terms.

• Edith explained that Source Essence had gradually begun to overwhelm her soul, and that several other powerful teammates had started experiencing the same symptoms.
• Lin Yi realized his different method of processing Source Essence might explain why he had avoided the problem, and he decided he needed to help the team without revealing the Purple Mist Space.
• Edith offered to teach Lin Yi the Soul Origin Seal Pact Technique in exchange for his guidance, and Lin Yi agreed to form a pact before sharing his method.
• Edith transmitted the technique to Lin Yi, who spent seven days learning to construct its basic seal-pact structure.
• Over the following days, Lin Yi practiced the technique while managing the camp, and on the twenty-fifth day he completed a complex simulated contract.
• Lin Yi began considering the final terms for his pact with Edith and possible future agreements with the other survivors.

Lin Yi bound Edith and the camp’s surviving prodigies to Soul Origin Imprint Pacts, using Purified Source Essence to solve their soul-saturation problem while concentrating resources and accelerating his growth. Years later, as 142 teammates faced death from old age and broke through to Star Vortex level, they placed their hope of future resurrection on Lin Yi mastering Time and Space.

• Lin Yi finalized a strict Soul Origin Imprint Pact with Edith, revealed that he could provide Purified Source Essence, and received most of her accumulated crystal cores for conversion.
• Edith kept the secret from Green Leaf, while Zhou Donglai refused to list the missing Marshal Lin Yi as dead or as a heroic spirit without conclusive evidence.
• Kenkes signed the pact, completing the agreements with all 693 surviving prodigies, and Lin Yi’s Time Law comprehension rose to 51.1 percent after two hundred years of pooled resources.
• By New Era 3102, the camp had cleared a wider area and grown much stronger, but Edith reported that 142 members were nearing the end of their Star Core lifespans.
• Lin Yi told the aging prodigies their Purified Source Essence shares would be reserved and warned that any future resurrection would have a cost; Qingman, Chenhui, Xuanyu, and others broke through to Star Vortex level and hunted in the blood mist.
• Lin Yi continued cultivating, driven to master the Time Law and elevate the Space Rule into a Law so he might one day revive those who entrusted their hope to him.

Lin Yi and the prodigies discovered the Star Source Space, a sanctuary that accelerated law comprehension, just as the Blood Mist Layer collapsed and gave way to an expanding White Mist Layer. During a year of cultivation in the sanctuary, Lin Yi perfected his mastery of the law of time, leaving the group poised to enter the new mist realm.

• Lin Yi's Beast King crystal core transformed into a golden passage, and his clone discovered that the passage led to a stable space where law comprehension was at least three times more efficient.
• Lin Yi moved the group and their supplies into the Star Source Space, then learned that the Blood Mist Layer would collapse in five days and ordered an urgent final hunt for crystal cores.
• The group withdrew as the Blood Mist Layer broke apart, but the golden passage remained; Lin Yi's clone found an expanding White Mist Layer beyond it, where new Mist Beasts and crystal cores had appeared.
• Lin Yi concluded that the Star Source Space would remain open for a year and the group could then enter the White Mist Layer, so he directed everyone to cultivate during their remaining time there.
• After more than half a year of cultivation, Lin Yi used spiritual enlightenment qi to reach 100% mastery of the law of time, sending a ripple through the space that deepened the other prodigies' understanding of their laws.

Lin Yi perfected the time law, advanced his space rule to the space law realm with Ai Lan’s Space-Rift Butterfly larva, and began resurrecting prodigies from the past. He traveled back roughly twenty-five hundred years and successfully brought the Spirit Race prodigy Bi Ling back to life.

• Lin Yi perfected his time law and asked the space cultivators for a treasure to aid his next breakthrough.
• Ai Lan gave Lin Yi a Space-Rift Butterfly larva, which helped him advance his space rule to the introductory space law realm.
• Lin Yi told the prodigies the conditions and costs of resurrection, then proposed reviving past victims and moved the group to the White Mist Layer.
• Lin Yi traced the river of time to the Myriad Secret Realm’s opening twenty-five hundred years earlier and found Bi Ling being killed by a Devouring Race attacker.
• Lin Yi used the time and space laws to bring Bi Ling into the present, where she awoke bewildered as Lin Yi explained that he had resurrected her.

Lin Yi resurrected more than six hundred prodigies, secured their loyalty through Soul Origin Imprint Pacts, and organized the survivors into the Star Source Society. After preparing for their eventual exit from the Myriad Secret Realm, the group awaited the next opening and Lin Yi urged them to face the incoming Abyss Race and Devouring Race.

• Bi Ling accepted Edith’s explanation of her resurrection and agreed to sign a Soul Origin Imprint Pact.
• Lin Yi resurrected more than six hundred prodigies, who all signed the pacts and received soul imprints in the Star Source Space.
• Lin Yi explained that Star Vortex-level prodigies had to die and be resurrected at Star Core level to qualify to leave the secret realm.
• Lin Yi received a private privilege allowing him to bring one willing life-form into the Star Source Space each epoch, then the space closed.
• Lin Yi resurrected the Star Vortex-level prodigies after they detonated themselves to gather crystal cores, restoring them at Star Core level.
• In New Era year 6720, Lin Yi established the Star Source Society’s rules, reminded everyone to keep its secrets, and rallied them to welcome the incoming Abyss Race and Devouring Race.