Chapter Summaries

Lin Yi became Deputy Captain of the Fifth Squad, trained with its members, and traveled with the fleet to Mist Sea City. After arriving at the giant city’s military port, he faced a new beginning in the Chaos Cosmic Sea.

• Mantaji appointed Lin Yi Deputy Captain and assigned him to lead Zhaoyue, Frost Rainbow, Sagahe, and Ruida when the squad split up.
• Lin Yi spent nine Epochs cultivating and training with the Fifth Squad, learning his teammates’ fighting styles and improving their coordination.
• Zero Three notified the squad that the Bloodrage-class Assault Ship would rendezvous with the main fleet for resupply and a mission handover.
• At the fleet junction, a black-armored woman mocked Li, who responded with an apologetic smile before her group moved on.
• Li led the squad through the fleet’s logistics procedures, where they turned in spoils, replenished supplies, and verified military merit.
• After nearly sixty Epochs, Lin Yi reached about 6.2% comprehension of the Chaos Rules, then watched the fleet enter Mist Sea Giant City and disembarked at its military port.

Lin Yi arrived at the Seventy-First Garrison Fleet base, left his Main Body to cultivate, and sent a clone sightseeing with Ruida, Zhaoyue, and Frost Rainbow. Meanwhile, Lainiadun and Li reported Lin Yi’s talent to their superior, and the chapter ended as the group met an unfamiliar, powerful-looking man beside Ruida’s hovercraft.

• Lin Yi parted from Chu Yu, Heng Shi, and the other reservists, then traveled with the Fifth Squad to the Seventy-First Garrison Fleet base.
• Mantaji gave Lin Yi, Zhaoyue, and Frost Rainbow neighboring residences and dismissed the squad for 127 Epochs of leave.
• Lin Yi left his Main Body cultivating and sent a clone with Ruida, Zhaoyue, and Frost Rainbow to explore Mist Sea City.
• Lainiadun and Li told their superior that Lin Yi had formed the Gold Chaos Universe Seal in less than an Epoch, and she ordered them to monitor his growth.
• Lainiadun suggested Li might one day let Lin Yi take command if Lin Yi reached the Eternal Source Realm first, and Li agreed he would not object.
• Ruida led Lin Yi and the others out of the base to his hovercraft, where Lin Yi noticed a middle-aged man whose strength he could not discern.

Lin Yi toured Myriad Crystal Hub with Ruida and Ruixiao, discovered that Cosmic Clams cost far beyond his means, and learned how difficult it would be to provide a new home for his people. Meanwhile, the Rui Family council debated whether to gift him one, and Ruizhan decided to offer a mid-range Cosmic Clam despite Ruituan’s objections.

• Ruixiao welcomed Lin Yi, Zhaoyue, and Frost Rainbow, then arranged to show them Mist Sea City after learning of Lin Yi’s military achievements and talent.
• Ruida took the group to Myriad Crystal Hub, where Lin Yi saw that Cosmic Clams cost from 1,100 to 90,000 Eternal Cosmos Crystals and realized he could not afford one.
• Ruizhan told the Rui Family council that Lin Yi’s potential and need for a Cosmic Clam made him worth investing in.
• Ruituan argued that the family’s strained finances made a Cosmic Clam too risky a gift, while several elders supported his caution.
• Ruizhan rejected Ruituan’s objections and decided to give Lin Yi a mid-range Cosmic Clam; Ruituan angrily challenged him, and Ruizhan asserted his authority as clan chief.

Lin Yi toured Mist Sea City with Ruida, learned how costly life there was, and visited the Rui Family, where Ruizhan gave him a sealed gift. Back in his courtyard, Lin Yi opened the box and discovered it contained a Cosmic Clam mark.

• Lin Yi and his companions explored Mist Sea City, found cultivation aids unaffordable, and learned about the City Guard from Ruida.
• Ruixiao invited Lin Yi's group to the Rui Family, where Ruizhan and Ruituan welcomed them and Ruizhan gave Lin Yi and the two women sealed boxes.
• Ruida took the group to the south district market, where Lin Yi, Zhaoyue, and Frost Rainbow bought large quantities of Source Essence Crystals for their clanspeople.
• After returning to his courtyard, Lin Yi placed his Source Essence Crystals beside the gift box and opened it.
• Lin Yi recognized the pale-gold mark and miniature image inside the box as a Cosmic Clam.

Lin Yi discovered that the Rui Family had given him a Cosmic Clam worth nearly twenty thousand Eternal Cosmos Crystals, and learned that the gift was an advance investment in his potential. He and his companions collected the clam, activated it, and prepared to settle their people in a new home.

• Lin Yi showed Zhaoyue and Frost Rainbow the Cosmic Clam voucher, and they wondered why the Rui Family had given him such a valuable gift.
• Lin Yi contacted Ruida, who relayed Patriarch Rui’s explanation that the family wanted to build a friendly connection because they believed in Lin Yi’s future.
• Lin Yi and Frost Rainbow went to the reserve training camp, gathered their companions, and told them they could move into a Cosmic Clam.
• Lin Yi, Zhaoyue, and their companions traveled to the High-Energy Void Zone, where Lin Yi bound the control core and activated the pale golden Cosmic Clam.
• Lin Yi entered the forming world first, watched land and a stream of source energy take shape, and invited everyone to join him in their new home.

Lin Yi established the new Cosmic Clam as a home for the races and moved the Human Race out of his Divine Kingdom, then advanced to the second tier of the True Source Realm and began condensing a Time Primal Cosmos Seal. His deep cultivation was interrupted when his soldier's badge ordered all personnel to return to base for an emergency assembly.

• Lin Yi showed the gathered powerhouses the Cosmic Clam's single-layer layout and assigned regions for the races, then sent Heng Shi and Kuiya to help settle the Human Race.
• Lin Yi informed Aurelia and Xuanji that the Divine Kingdom's people would move to a new home, and the residents began preparing to leave.
• Lin Yi spent a thousand standard years transferring the Human Race into the Cosmic Clam, then brought the reserve powerhouses out and returned to Mist Sea City.
• Lin Yi cultivated for sixty-seven Epochs, raised his Chaos Rule comprehension to ten percent, and reached the second tier of the True Source Realm.
• Lin Yi began condensing a Time Primal Cosmos Seal, but his soldier's badge summoned all personnel back to base for an emergency assembly.

Lin Yi and the Seventy-First Garrison Fleet were urgently dispatched after a secondary eruption of the Black Mist Sea devastated the defensive line. During the ten-Epoch voyage to the frontline, Lin Yi completed his Time Primal Cosmos Seal and created a powerful Time Seal Clone, while Ruizhan worried that the Rui Family’s investment in him would be lost.

• Lin Yi, Zhaoyue, and Frost Rainbow rushed to the drill ground, where Lainiadun announced that a secondary Black Mist Sea eruption had caused thirty percent of the defensive line to collapse.
• Lainiadun ordered the Seventy-First Garrison Fleet to reinforce the frontline, and Lin Yi boarded a Bloodrage-class Assault Ship carried inside a Blackrock-class Mothership.
• Ruizhan feared the Rui Family’s investment in Lin Yi would go down the drain, but Ruituan urged him to wait and trust Lin Yi’s talent.
• During the ten-Epoch journey, Lin Yi completed his Time Primal Cosmos Seal and used it to create a Time Seal Clone that could fight for him.

Lin Yi’s mastery of the Time Primal Cosmos Seal earned him equipment and a life-saving treasure before his fleet reached a Black Silence Beast battlefield. The chapter ends with his squad entering the Black Mist Sea to support two fleets locked in combat.

• Li reported Lin Yi’s second seal to Lainiadun, who approved a Fierce Blood Set for Lin Yi’s clone and gave him a crystal that could block one attack at the early stage of the Eternal Source Realm.
• Li explained that Lin Yi’s presence could help keep the Seventy-First Fleet from receiving suicidal missions, and Mantaji asked Lin Yi to protect the squad during battle.
• Lin Yi collected the Fierce Blood Sets, cultivated his Chaos rules comprehension, and spent more than two thousand standard years refining his Dual Seal Chain Suppression technique.
• Zero Three alerted the crew that combat was imminent, and Li ordered the squad to support the Fifty-Ninth and Sixty-Third Fleets against the Black Silence Beast horde.
• The Blackrock-class Mothership launched into the Black Mist Sea as Lin Yi and his squad prepared to enter the battlefield.

Lin Yi and his squad defended a Bloodrage-class Assault Ship through repeated Black Silence Beast attacks, and he suspected their sector was receiving special protection. After nearly an epoch of fighting without casualties, the squad returned to the Blackrock-class Mothership for a long rest.

• Lin Yi and his squad deployed to protect their assault ship, where its cannons and the warriors repelled an initial wave of Darkflame Beasts.
• Lin Yi used his Time Seal Clone alongside his original body to kill beasts and support the defensive line, while noticing that second-order threats were kept away from their sector.
• Lainiadun intervened to kill a second-order python-like beast, and Frost Rainbow suggested he had acted because Lin Yi was present.
• After five days of rest, Lin Yi's squad returned to battle and continued fighting in rotations for nearly an epoch without losing anyone.
• Li ordered the squad to withdraw, then announced they had been granted an epoch to rest as their warship returned to the Blackrock-class Mothership.

During a long stretch of combat and downtime, Lin Yi used military merits and Star Surge Marrow to advance his chaos rule comprehension to 20% and reach the third stage of the True Source Realm. Li learned of Lin Yi’s breakthrough and wondered whether Lin Yi might reach the Eternal Source Realm before him.

• After docking with the mothership, Lin Yi, Zhaoyue, and Frost Rainbow used an internal map to find the military merit exchange, where Lin Yi spent merits on Star Surge Marrow and recovery crystal cores.
• Lin Yi visited the observation platform, then returned to his cultivation chamber and used Star Surge Marrow to improve his chaos rule comprehension until downtime ended.
• Over 324 epochs of repeated combat, downtime, and cultivation, Lin Yi advanced steadily, watched the observation platform’s veterans come and go, and learned that Chu Yu and Heng Shi had not arrived with the reinforcements.
• During a later downtime, Lin Yi reached 20% chaos rule comprehension and broke through to the third stage of the True Source Realm.
• Zero Three informed Li of Lin Yi’s breakthrough, and Li calculated that Lin Yi’s progress had taken less than 300 epochs and wondered if Lin Yi could reach the Eternal Source Realm before him.

Li weighed whether Lin Yi’s publicly raised background could affect his prospects with Fleet Commander Wen Qianfei, then set aside his concerns while Lin Yi expanded his Chaos Source Sea and began forming a Space Cosmic Universe Seal. Meanwhile, Mo Lin reached the Frontline and was assigned to protect a squad’s heavy hitter before surprising his squad leader by asking about Lin Yi.

• Li considered the tension between the publicly raised and family factions and wondered whether Wen Qianfei might disadvantage Lin Yi, but concluded Commander Lainiadun had already accounted for the issue.
• Lin Yi finished expanding his Chaos Source Sea and began forming his Space Cosmic Universe Seal, reaching a little less than half of its phantom imprint before his rest period ended.
• Mo Lin said farewell to Chu Yu, Dark Annihilation, and the others, then left Mist Sea City with newly enlisted soldiers bound for the Frontline.
• At the resupply point, Mo Lin was assigned to a squad that ordered him and Riley to cover a tall, lean warrior’s flanks and defend him.
• Mo Lin asked his squad leader whether the Sixteenth Squad was aboard the mothership and mentioned his close connection to its Deputy Captain, Lin Yi; the squad leader reacted with surprise and asked if he knew Lin Yi.

Mo Lin reunited with Lin Yi after joining the Twenty-Seventh Squad and watched Lin Yi’s reputation and military merit grow across the fleet. After more than five hundred epochs of fighting, Lin Yi advanced his Chaos Rules comprehension past thirty percent and broke through to the middle stage of the True Source Realm.

• Mo Lin learned from the captain and other soldiers that Lin Yi was famous for his strength, combat record, and generosity toward nearby defense zones.
• Mo Lin and Riley joined Old Ke’s squad, and Mo Lin quickly earned Old Ke’s trust through his performance on the battlefield.
• When the Twenty-Seventh and Sixteenth Squads’ rest periods finally overlapped, Mo Lin reunited with Lin Yi and Zhaoyue aboard the Black Rock Mothership.
• Mo Lin learned that Lin Yi had helped Zhaoyue earn many of her kills, then returned to the front as the squads’ rotations diverged again.
• After more than five hundred epochs, Lin Yi used a Sinking Glaze Source Crystal to raise his Chaos Rules comprehension from 29.9 percent past thirty percent.
• Lin Yi’s Chaos Source Sea began to stabilize as he broke through to the middle stage of the True Source Realm, and Zero Three informed Li of his advancement.

After forming his fourth Cosmic Universe Seal, the Life Seal, Lin Yi was summoned by Army Commander Wen Qianfei, who offered to recommend him for the perilous Constant Island entrance test. Lin Yi thanked her but declined, leaving the commander and his superiors with his decision.

• Lin Yi completed the Life Seal after refining his understanding of life, then used its power to heal an old wound.
• Li told Lainiadun that Lin Yi had formed his fourth seal, and Lainiadun contacted Army Commander Wen Qianfei about him.
• Wen Qianfei summoned Lin Yi and explained that his achievements qualified him for a recommendation to take Constant Island’s entrance test.
• Lainiadun described Constant Island as a training ground for future Constant Source Realm experts, where dangerous trials offered great rewards but had claimed many lives.
• After weighing the risks and benefits, Lin Yi respectfully declined Wen Qianfei’s offer.

Lin Yi refused Wen Qianfei’s offer to go to Constant Island because he still had three debts of gratitude to repay. He remained with the Sixteenth Squad, was promoted to centurion, and became known throughout the fleet as “Lin Three Favors.”

• Lin Yi explained to Wen Qianfei that he owed debts to the people of Mist Sea City, Li and the Sixteenth Squad, and the Rui Family, so he could not leave for Constant Island.
• Wen Qianfei accepted Lin Yi’s decision, promoted him to centurion without command authority, and temporarily granted him Eternal Source Realm merit exchange clearance.
• Lainiadun arranged for Lin Yi to receive two sets of centurion armor and equipment, and Li took him to the supply area.
• Li and the Sixteenth Squad celebrated Lin Yi’s promotion, and Li told the soldiers that Lin Yi had refused a chance to reach the Constant Source Realm to repay his debts.
• Ruida resolved to report Lin Yi’s words and promotion to the Rui Family, while the story spread across the Seventy-First Fleet and earned Lin Yi the nickname “Lin Three Favors.”

Lin Yi mastered his new centurion-grade equipment and spent two epochs fighting Black Silence Beasts, earning merit and rescuing allied squads. When a supply fleet arrived at the Black Rock Mothership, Ruida eagerly met his clansman Ruiya and immediately asked when he would be returning.

• Lin Yi perfected his coordination of the four seals and planned to exchange merit for Eternal Cosmos Crystals so he could secretly buy a Cosmic Source Soul Crystal.
• Lin Yi fought independently on the advanced battlefront, killed Black Silence Beasts with Li, and sent his clone to aid the Seventeenth Squad and other allied squads.
• Lainiadun watched Lin Yi's clone protect allied soldiers and wondered whether Lin Yi had trained at the place the army lord had mentioned.
• After two epochs of continuous battles, Lin Yi and the Sixteenth Squad returned to the Black Rock Mothership for a rest period.
• Ruida learned that his older clansman Ruiya would arrive with a supply fleet and waited eagerly to meet him.
• Ruida greeted Ruiya at the docking area and asked when he would be heading back.

Ruida told Ruiya that Lin Yi had become a celebrated centurion, prompting the Rui Family to rush a larger gift to him before other families could act. Ruituan delivered Lin Yi one hundred thousand Eternal Cosmos Crystals aboard the Black Rock Mothership, and Lin Yi accepted them as a favor he intended to repay.

• Ruida told Ruiya that Lin Yi had mastered four Cosmic Universe Seals, been promoted to centurion by the army commander, and gained the nickname Lin Three Favors.
• Ruiya returned to Mist Sea City and reported Lin Yi's achievements to Ruizhan and the Rui Family elders, who decided to send another gift quickly.
• Ruiling offered up the treasure Lin Yi had given her, and Ruizhan approved selling it to fund a gift of one hundred thousand Eternal Cosmos Crystals.
• Ruituan traveled to the Black Rock Mothership and gave Lin Yi the Rui Family's gift, which Lin Yi accepted and promised himself to repay.
• Lin Yi opened the storage space in the box and saw the neatly stacked Eternal Cosmos Crystals inside.

Lin Yi returned to Mist Sea City with a clone and used a disguise to secretly shop for a Cosmic Source Soul Crystal. At the Heaven Inscription Pavilion, he bargained for a defective True Source Soul Crystal and bought it for fifty thousand Eternal Cosmos Crystals.

• Lin Yi discovered that the Rui Family’s gift contained one hundred thousand Eternal Cosmos Crystals and asked Ruituan to take a clone back to Mist Sea City.
• Ruituan agreed, and Lin Yi sent his clone aboard the Rui Family spacecraft while his main body stayed on the mothership to cultivate.
• After ten epochs, Ruituan dropped the clone at the Myriad Crystal Hub and gave Lin Yi a new Rui Family hover shuttle for his errands.
• Lin Yi bought a single-use concealment treasure, changed his appearance and aura, and went to the Heaven Inscription Pavilion to seek a Cosmic Source Soul Crystal.
• A salesman offered Lin Yi a defective True Source Soul Crystal for seventy thousand Eternal Cosmos Crystals, but Lin Yi challenged its value and negotiated the price down to fifty thousand.
• Lin Yi bought the defective crystal and left the pavilion, concealing his excitement as he checked that no one was following him.

Lin Yi returned to the Cosmic Clam, distributed cultivation resources, and spent three hundred epochs with his family before traveling back to the Black Rock Mothership. There he used the defective True Source Soul Crystal, raising his comprehension to the perfected Cosmic Source Realm and discovering that spiritual enlightenment qi now made understanding the chaos rules far easier.

• Lin Yi bought large quantities of cosmic source realm cultivation resources and low-grade Source Essence Crystals in the Heaven Inscription Pavilion.
• Lin Yi returned to Star Abyss Hall, opened the universe's contribution treasury to the Venerable Lords, and gave special resources to Xuchen, Thousand Illusions, and others.
• Lin Yi met Aurelia, reassured her that her care for the Cosmic Clam and his family supported him, and stayed with her and his family for three hundred epochs.
• Lin Yi left the Cosmic Clam, boarded a supply ship, and returned to the Black Rock Mothership, where he reunited with his main body and collected the purchased crystals and defective True Source Soul Crystal.
• Lin Yi dissolved his old avatars and crushed the defective True Source Soul Crystal, transforming his soul's comprehension to the perfected Cosmic Source Realm.
• Lin Yi ignited spiritual enlightenment qi and found that he could now perceive and stabilize the chaos rules with exceptional clarity.

Lin Yi saved his military merit and Eternal Cosmos Crystals for a complete true source soul crystal, then advanced rapidly through the fifth and sixth tiers of the True Source Realm. After Li learned Lin Yi had reached the sixth tier only forty-two epochs after his last breakthrough, he wondered why Lin Yi’s cultivation was getting faster instead of slower.

• Lin Yi decided to save his resources for a complete true source soul crystal and used Spiritual Enlightenment Qi to cultivate, reaching 40% comprehension of chaos rules after five epochs.
• Lin Yi expanded his chaos source sea, then condensed and completed the Death Cosmic Universe Seal in less than one epoch.
• Li learned Lin Yi had completed the Death Cosmic Universe Seal and attributed his speed to an epiphany.
• Lin Yi reviewed how Li had faced a second-order Black Silence Beast for him, then resolved to surpass Li by advancing to the sixth tier and forming a sixth Cosmic Universe Seal.
• After more than forty epochs of combat and cultivation, Lin Yi reached 50% comprehension and began expanding his source sea for the sixth tier.
• Zero Three informed Li that Lin Yi had reached the sixth tier just forty-two epochs after his previous breakthrough, leaving Li astonished at how his progress was accelerating.

Li told Lainiadun that Lin Yi had reached the sixth tier of the True Source Realm less than fifty epochs after reaching the fifth, prompting them to suspect he was a rare late-blooming genius. As the Black Mist Sea front grew more dangerous, Lin Yi began forming his sixth Cosmic Universe Seal, and the Sixteenth Squad headed toward a newly assigned defensive position.

• Li reported Lin Yi’s rapid breakthrough to the sixth tier, and Lainiadun found that Lin Yi had spent little of his military merit on cultivation treasures.
• Lainiadun explained that late-blooming geniuses built unusually thorough foundations early and could accelerate as they advanced; Li recalled that Lin Yi’s cultivation had once seemed ordinary before he surged ahead in his home Cosmic Clam.
• Li and Lainiadun exchanged barbs about whether Lin Yi might surpass them, then agreed they needed to observe him further before confirming their suspicions.
• Lainiadun showed Li that Black Silence Beast incursions and defensive-line pressure were increasing, and assigned the Sixteenth Squad to shoulder more of the burden.
• Lin Yi finished stabilizing his Chaos Source Sea, began cultivating the Earth Cosmic Universe Seal, and condensed its ethereal form before his rest period ended.
• Thirty years later, the Fierce Blood Assault Ship carrying the Sixteenth Squad launched from the mothership toward the defensive line’s latest coordinates.