Chapter Summaries

Nie Chang recognized that the Source Sea Type I fabricators could become vital when paired with Lin Yi’s Vortex Type I, and Lin Yi agreed to follow military rules for distributing battle spoils. After the victorious troops returned to Helu City Settlement, Nie Chang and the special operations squads flew north to report the discovery and deliver the battle footage.

• Nie Chang realized that the Source Sea Type I fabricators produced little because Blue Star lacked Source Energy, and that Lin Yi’s Vortex Type I could supply the environment they needed.
• Nie Chang explained that the authorities possessed multiple Source Sea Type I fabricators and said the Vortex and Source Sea devices were likely designed to work together.
• Lin Yi agreed to hand over the Black Flame Abyssal Tiger’s crystal and the seven-colored crystal for centralized military handling.
• Nie Chang took personal responsibility for securing the seven-colored crystal and left to report Lin Yi’s findings to Supreme Command.
• The troops returned to an enthusiastic welcome in Helu City Settlement while the three special operations squads departed by helicopter with Nie Chang and the battle footage.

Li Zhenguo’s meeting celebrated Operation Dawn’s success and discussed the Vortex Type I Deep-Space Source Energy Condenser as a way to improve cultivation and establish an advanced Training Camp. The meeting ended with Li Zhenguo seeking Lin Yi’s advice and asking how the General Staff planned to reward him.

• Li Zhenguo announced that Operation Dawn had destroyed Helu City’s Nightmare Eye nest and that the troops had returned safely.
• The leaders agreed to broadcast the victory and share news of their Stardust-level powerhouse and the battle footage worldwide.
• The General Staff reported that Nie Chang was bringing back a crystal containing information about the Vortex Type I Deep-Space Source Energy Condenser.
• The Scientific Research Institute argued that the Vortex could help soldiers learn Source Energy cultivation, and the General Staff proposed a special advanced talent Training Camp.
• Li Zhenguo ordered a call to Lin Yi for his advice and asked the General Staff how it planned to reward him.

Li Zhenguo approved a promotion and major awards for Lin Yi, including an individual First-Class Merit Citation, and discussed making him chief instructor at a proposed Training Camp. At a victory banquet in Helu City Settlement, Lin Yi learned that Li Zhenguo wanted to speak with him directly and went to the communications room.

• The General Staff proposed promoting Lin Yi to lieutenant colonel and granting him priority access to the Imprint manufacturing device’s blueprints and production.
• Li Zhenguo overruled concerns about the commendation standards and approved an individual First-Class Merit Citation for Lin Yi.
• Li Zhenguo agreed that Lin Yi could be invited to serve as chief instructor if the proposed Training Camp was established.
• The Supreme Command contacted Helu City Settlement and asked to speak directly with Lin Yi.
• Zhang Weidong received the message during a welcome banquet and led Lin Yi to the communications room.

Lin Yi discussed the proposed Source Energy training camp with Commander Li Zhenguo and agreed to become its chief instructor. He named it the East Peak Training Camp, which Li Zhenguo approved as preparations began.

• Lin Yi spoke with Li Zhenguo, assured him that he was recovering well, and praised the settlement's logistical support.
• Li Zhenguo asked Lin Yi to assess the plan to build a talent training camp around the Vortex Source Energy Condenser, and Lin Yi strongly endorsed it.
• Li Zhenguo invited Lin Yi to serve as the camp's chief instructor, and Lin Yi accepted.
• Li Zhenguo asked Lin Yi to name the camp, and Lin Yi proposed East Peak Training Camp.
• Li Zhenguo approved the name and looked forward to Lin Yi's arrival.

After Xia Country announced Lin Yi’s victory over the Nightmare Eye nest, the settlement celebrated and other nations reassessed their stance toward Xia Country and its proposed Blue Star Crisis Response Union. The announcement left global cooperation gaining momentum as the world reacted to Xia Country’s newfound strength.

• Li Zhenguo announced that Lin Yi supported the training camp, agreed to be its chief instructor, and had named it the East Peak Training Camp.
• Zhang Weidong thanked Lin Yi for praising the settlement’s logistical support to the Commander, and Lin Yi said he had only told the truth.
• The settlement broadcast announced Operation Dawn’s success, the destruction of the Nightmare Eye nest, the recapture of Deer Call District, and Lin Yi’s role in defeating the nest leader.
• Survivors celebrated as the broadcast presented Lin Yi as a Stardust-level hero and showed that humanity could attack and defeat Abyss Beast nests.
• North American, European, Island Country, and northern-power leaders congratulated Xia Country, sought information and exchanges, and reconsidered participation in its proposed Blue Star Crisis Response Union.
• Other surviving powers also responded to Xia Country’s victory, and interest in the Union grew as the global order began to shift.

After recovering from the banquet, Lin Yi hunted Abyssal Beasts overnight to gather materials and study their weaknesses for East Peak Training Camp. The General Staff awarded him a First-Class Merit Citation and promoted him to lieutenant colonel, and he requested six pieces of Source Energy Equipment after spotting promising blueprints that could reshape the camp’s training program.

• Lin Yi recovered his Source Energy, then left Helu City Settlement to hunt Abyssal Beasts and study how beginners might fight them.
• After returning at daybreak, Lin Yi met Ren Yinuo, who told him that Nie Chang and the East Peak Training Camp working group had arrived and summoned him to the meeting room.
• Nie Chang presented Lin Yi with a First-Class Merit Citation and lieutenant colonel epaulets on behalf of the General Staff and Supreme Command.
• Nie Chang gave Lin Yi a catalog of Source Energy Equipment blueprints that could be produced with the Shadow Copy Device.
• Lin Yi noticed several unusual blueprints that inspired a new training approach and asked Nie Chang to send him items 3, 18, 24, 56, 77, and 112 for testing.

Lin Yi discovered that the General Staff had placed him in charge of the East Peak Training Camp Preparatory Working Group and that its draft plan was submitted for his final review. He recognized the appointment and the deliberately simplified plan as a test of his judgment and administrative ability, then praised the document without revealing his thoughts.

• Nie Chang announced that Lin Yi would lead the East Peak Training Camp Preparatory Working Group and serve as chief instructor, with Liu Qiying directing the Preparatory Office.
• Liu Qiying handed Lin Yi a draft plan that Nie Chang had already marked for approval and submitted to Lin Yi for review.
• Lin Yi recognized that the document format gave him substantial decision-making authority and reconsidered his assumption that others would handle the project.
• Lin Yi read the preliminary plan and concluded that its brevity was likely intended to test his administrative judgment and leadership preferences.
• Lin Yi closed the document and told Liu Qiying that the plan was comprehensive and carefully considered.

Lin Yi questioned the East Peak Training Camp proposal, approved its overall direction, and formally signed off on it as the final decision-maker. Afterward, Nie Chang told Liu Qiying that the camp’s success could lay the foundation for a proposed new strategic-level force.

• Lin Yi asked Liu Qiying about the proposed camp location, trainee numbers, recruitment, training stages, instructors, and initial subjects, and judged the proposal’s overall approach workable.
• Lin Yi wrote “Approved,” signed and dated the proposal, giving formal authorization for the camp to proceed.
• Nie Chang said Ren Yinuo would serve as Lin Yi’s liaison while the preparatory group developed a detailed implementation plan.
• In the corridor, Liu Qiying asked Nie Chang about a rumored new branch, and Nie Chang said its creation would depend on the East Peak Training Camp’s results.
• Nie Chang urged Liu Qiying to support Lin Yi and help make the camp successful, warning that some ministry officials still resisted change.

Chen Yu and Zhou Yuxuan were selected from the Helu City Settlement for the East Peak Source Energy Training Camp. After congratulating them, Lin Yi warned that the training would be grueling and told them to make the most of the opportunity.

• Wang Wenhai announced that Helu City would host the East Peak Training Camp and receive two nomination slots, with Lin Yi as chief instructor.
• Chen Yu and Zhou Yuxuan answered questions about the Basic Source Energy Guidance Technique during the settlement's selection.
• That evening, Chen Yu and Zhou Yuxuan told Lin Yi they had both been selected for the camp.
• Lin Yi suspected Chen Yu's selection partly reflected his connection to him, but accepted the decision and congratulated both candidates.
• Lin Yi warned Chen Yu and Zhou Yuxuan that the training would be difficult, and both vowed to work hard.

Xia Country’s leaders moved to establish the Blue Star Crisis Response Union and reviewed preparations for the East Peak Training Camp. They also planned to clear the three remaining Miniature Nests around Helu City in a month, with selected trainees joining the operation as their graduation assessment.

• Qian Yongming reported that over fifty-three countries supported joining the union, more than forty wanted Xia Country to lead it, and twenty-seven sought to send delegations for study.
• Li Zhenguo ordered the Foreign Affairs Department to finalize the union’s charter with the core members and approve visiting delegations under specific regulations.
• Zhou Donglai reported that the East Peak Training Camp was being prepared near the former Hongfu Tower and was expected to open in fifteen days.
• Li Zhenguo ordered a formal camp-opening ceremony and directed the Propaganda Department to distribute an Operation Dawn battle highlight reel to settlements nationwide.
• Zhou Donglai explained that Lin Yi expected to be able to neutralize a nest and defeat reinforcements without rare recovery fluid after a month of cultivation, so the military would replenish heavy munitions before attacking the remaining three nests.
• Zhou Donglai reported that Lin Yi proposed using the nest-clearing operation as a graduation assessment by having outstanding trainees join the battles.

Li Zhenguo approved a plan to clear the Miniature Nests around Helu City and use the East Peak Training Camp opening ceremony to rally Xia Country and engage foreign delegations. Meanwhile, Aurelia learned that Blue Star Civilization had surpassed one million assessment points and officially reached the Tier 1 standard.

• Li Zhenguo ordered the General Staff to prepare an operation to clear the three Miniature Nests around Helu City within a month and announced he would attend the opening ceremony.
• Li Zhenguo invited foreign delegations to the ceremony and offered each two observer slots at the East Peak Training Camp, winning support from Zhou Donglai, Qian Yongming, and other leaders.
• Li Zhenguo established a joint coordination team led by Qian Yongming and Zhou Donglai to organize the ceremony and foreign cooperation.
• Xia Country announced the Blue Star Crisis Response Union, and more than fifty countries and forces pledged to participate.
• Xingyu told Aurelia that Blue Star Civilization had reached 1,262,560 assessment points, officially meeting the Tier 1 standard.
• Aurelia reviewed the breakdown and learned that Blue Star's Fighting Back and United Against the Outside milestones had contributed most of its points.

Aurelia learned that Blue Star Civilization had earned two milestones through its rapid counterattack and international alliance, greatly increasing its assessment rewards. Impressed by the civilization’s potential and the assessment’s brutal milestones, she ordered its monitoring priority raised to match Lin Yi’s.

• Aurelia asked Xingyu to explain the Rising Counterattack and United Against the Outside milestones, which Blue Star had triggered through Operation Dawn and the creation of the Blue Star Crisis Response Union.
• Aurelia reviewed other possible milestones and recognized that they rewarded fierce resistance, sacrifice, and persistence against the Abyss Beasts.
• Aurelia realized that a civilization could earn a high rating even if it failed to defeat the Abyss Beasts, and reflected on the Human Race’s underestimated potential.
• Aurelia ordered Xingyu to raise Blue Star Civilization’s monitoring priority and provide more comprehensive reports.

Lin Yi welcomed the Blue Star Crisis Response Union’s formation and briefly sensed an elusive insight while practicing with his spear. He then supervised Liu Yuan’s first cultivation, recruited him as an assistant instructor, and reflected that the coming wave of Source Energy Practitioners was near.

• Zhang Weidong told Lin Yi that the Blue Star Crisis Response Union had been officially established, and Lin Yi felt relieved that humanity was coordinating more effectively than in his previous life.
• While practicing spear techniques, Lin Yi sensed a fleeting insight but calmly let it go.
• Liu Yuan asked Lin Yi for help with his first cultivation, and Lin Yi warned him about the pain, focus, and resources the process required.
• Liu Yuan drew Source Energy into his body, endured the painful first circulation, and successfully opened his Source Sea while Lin Yi watched over him.
• Lin Yi told Liu Yuan to rest and invited him to become an assistant instructor at East Peak Training Camp; Liu Yuan accepted.
• Lin Yi noted that Liu Yuan was the second Source Energy Practitioner and believed a much larger wave was approaching.

As Helu City Settlement prepared to open the East Peak Training Camp, English and American delegations arrived and witnessed Xia’s orderly reconstruction and advanced capabilities. Their leaders recognized that Xia had become the center of the emerging future, leaving both delegations to prepare their young trainees for the opportunity ahead.

• Helu City completed preparations for the East Peak Training Camp and housed its first eight hundred trainees ahead of the opening.
• Sir Howard’s English delegation arrived in Helu City, where Adams and Elizabeth saw Lin Yi’s Flowing Shadow aircraft and learned that he patrolled the settlement’s perimeter daily.
• A Xia staff member showed the English delegation the settlement’s reconstruction, and Sir Howard rebuked an attendant for questioning the requisition of private property.
• Sir Howard’s delegation unexpectedly met Mr. Williams’s larger American delegation at their hotel, and the diplomats exchanged polite greetings despite their countries’ earlier disagreement over Xia’s proposal.
• After the delegations parted, Sir Howard remarked that countries were seeking a new place for themselves, while Williams told his deputy to have the young Americans seize every opportunity in Xia.

Li Zhenguo arrived at Helu City Settlement to open the East Peak Training Camp, where he and Lin Yi exchanged words that affirmed their mutual trust and respect. At the ceremony, footage of Operation Dawn showed the trainees and foreign delegations how Lin Yi had destroyed the Black Flame Abyssal Tiger, leaving them awed by his power.

• Li Zhenguo arrived at Helu City Settlement and greeted Lin Yi, praising his service to Xia Country.
• Lin Yi told Li Zhenguo that the country needed experienced commanders to guide the young people fighting on the front lines, and Li Zhenguo laughed in approval.
• Li Zhenguo, Lin Yi, Nie Chang, and the others traveled to the training camp, where eight hundred trainees and foreign delegations gathered for the opening ceremony.
• Nie Chang opened the ceremony and explained that the camp stood in Helu City because humanity had won a major victory there during Operation Dawn.
• The ceremony screened footage of Lin Yi destroying the Black Flame Abyssal Tiger with a Small Steel Ball, stunning the trainees and foreign delegates.

At the East Peak Training Camp opening ceremony, Li Zhenguo praised Lin Yi and urged the trainees and nations to unite against the Abyssal Tide. As Lin Yi prepared to speak, his emotions sparked a sudden enlightenment that unleashed a powerful aura of purple lightning, leaving everyone in the plaza stunned.

• Li Zhenguo recalled Operation Dawn, praised international cooperation, and urged the eight hundred trainees to become defenders of civilization.
• Li Zhenguo honored Lin Yi for sharing source energy cultivation and helping secure victory in Operation Dawn, then returned to his seat.
• Nie Chang invited chief instructor Lin Yi to announce the camp's rules and instructions.
• Lin Yi recognized Elizabeth, Andre, and other people he had known in his previous life, and reflected on how much stronger and more united humanity was in this life.
• Lin Yi's confidence in humanity's future clarified an inspiration he had missed during spear practice, and he entered a sudden moment of enlightenment.
• Purple lightning emerged around Lin Yi as his immense pressure filled the plaza, terrifying Nie Chang, the trainees, and the foreign delegations.

At East Peak Training Camp’s opening ceremony, Lin Yi explained how comprehending universal rules could raise a cultivator beyond the Stardust level and demonstrated his refined command of lightning. He left the trainees with a carved trace of his rule comprehension and a call to protect humanity before announcing that the camp had officially begun.

• Lin Yi apologized for losing control of his aura and promised to demonstrate what he had comprehended.
• Lin Yi instructed the trainees to obey orders, train diligently, and survive, then explained how grasping a rule could enable advancement to the Star Core level.
• Lin Yi formed a lightning dragon and carved the characters “East Sharpness” into the bluestone, imprinting his understanding of the Metal rule for future trainees to study.
• Lin Yi urged the trainees to use their strength to protect civilization and help forge humanity’s future.
• Lin Yi announced that East Peak Training Camp had officially begun.

Lin Yi activated East Peak Training Camp’s energy device, sending a golden pillar into the sky and transforming the camp into a high-concentration source energy environment. As Li Zhenguo prepared to leave, he asked when Lin Yi could face a medium-sized Abyss Beast Nest’s leader, and Lin Yi replied that he could kill it in one hit as soon as it appeared.

• Nie Chang ordered the technicians to activate the device, and a golden pillar of light rose above East Peak Training Camp, drawing attention across Xia Country and neighboring countries.
• The camp’s new source energy environment refreshed and nourished the trainees, who eagerly entered the camp to begin training.
• Li Zhenguo left the opening ceremony’s final announcement to Lin Yi, then entrusted the training camp to him and departed for the capital.
• Li Zhenguo asked Lin Yi how soon he could confront the leader of a medium-sized Abyss Beast Nest that had occupied an important strategic position.
• Lin Yi clarified that he meant he could kill the Nest leader in one hit as soon as it appeared.

Lin Yi demonstrated that he could kill an Intermediate Nest Leader with a single all-out attack, then reached Star Vortex-level Rule Comprehension during an epiphany, raising his personal evaluation to Level 3. Aurelia reviewed the evidence and realized Lin Yi had made extraordinary progress despite cultivating for only about thirty days.

• Lin Yi told Li Zhenguo that he could kill an Intermediate Nest Leader with one attack, though doing so would exhaust his Origin Energy.
• Li Zhenguo accepted Lin Yi's report as beyond expectations and left by helicopter to deliver the news.
• Xingyu told Aurelia that Lin Yi had publicly demonstrated Rule Manifestation and Rule Imprint, reached Star Vortex-level Rule Comprehension, and attained personal evaluation Level 3.
• Aurelia watched the recording and learned that Lin Yi's epiphany had raised his Rule Comprehension to 12%.
• Aurelia compared Lin Yi's brief cultivation history with her own and realized that his rapid progress surpassed her expectations.

Aurelia compared Lin Yi’s Star Vortex Rule Comprehension with human contestants in the Pan-Spirit Alliance Genius Battle and realized his potential could eventually help save her family. She still planned to seek His Eminence Xuchen’s Contact Mark while investigating the sudden surge in Lin Yi’s points and rating.

• Aurelia asked Xingyu to compare contestants who reached Star Vortex Rule Comprehension in roughly Lin Yi’s time, then narrowed the results to humans.
• Xingyu found nine comparable human geniuses, whose rankings ranged from 796th to 9,763rd in the Pan-Spirit Alliance Genius Battle.
• Aurelia realized Lin Yi’s potential might let him resolve her family’s crisis in the future and considered helping him as he grew.
• Aurelia decided to continue pursuing His Eminence Xuchen’s Contact Mark as a faster safeguard for her family.
• Aurelia asked Xingyu to display Lin Yi’s current points and activated milestones so she could investigate his rapid rise to a level 3 individual rating.