Chapter Summaries

Aurelia recognized Lin Yi’s new milestones and decided to reserve the ship’s cultivation resources for him. Back at East Peak Training Camp, Lin Yi prepared to revise his plans after realizing his Gold Element Rule Comprehension had reached 31% and he had uncovered an overlooked piece of information.

• Xingyu showed Aurelia Lin Yi’s assessment data and his six milestones, including the newly activated Light of Civilization and Heart of Rules.
• Aurelia concluded Lin Yi’s influence justified Light of Civilization and that his rule mastery had earned Heart of Rules, raising his points and coefficient.
• Aurelia ordered Xingyu to seal the ship’s resources for improving Rule Comprehension and Source Energy cultivation, intending them for a more suitable recipient.
• Lin Yi returned to East Peak Training Camp with Nie Chang and Liu Qiying, and Liu Qiying reminded him that he would teach the first Source Energy lecture that afternoon.
• Lin Yi rested in his dormitory and reconsidered his development plan after his Gold Element Rule Comprehension rose from 12% to 31%, revealing an important overlooked piece of information.

Lin Yi realized that the security of Blue Star’s future let him loosen the cautious habits he had developed in his previous life and reveal more of his Star Vortex-level rule comprehension. He began his first class at East Peak Training Camp before the gathered trainees and foreign auditors.

• Lin Yi reflected on how responsibility for Blue Star had made him cautious and concluded that he could now be bolder while retaining the useful lessons of his past.
• Lin Yi decided to reveal his Star Vortex-level rule comprehension, reasoning that his actual cultivation had reached the third stage and his Spiritual Enlightenment Qi could enable further breakthroughs.
• Chen Yu heard other trainees speculate that his place at camp came from his connection to Lin Yi, and Zhou Yuxuan encouraged him to focus on the lesson.
• Elizabeth cautioned Adams to treat the visit as a chance to learn, while the foreign auditors watched the Xia Country trainees and prepared to study source energy.
• Lin Yi entered the packed lecture hall at two o’clock, took the podium, and announced that class was in session.

Lin Yi gave his students a painful simulation of taking Source Energy into their bodies as an entrance exam for the Training Camp. The students endured the purple lightning sparks, and Lin Yi watched to see who would remain conscious and keep holding on.

• Lin Yi warned the students that absorbing Source Energy would cause severe pain and explained that those unable to endure it would have to leave for now.
• Lin Yi created a purple lightning spark for each student and told them to touch it until it dissipated to test their pain tolerance.
• Chen Yu, Zhou Yuxuan, Elizabeth, Adams, Andre, and the other students touched their sparks and struggled through the pain without giving up.
• Lin Yi observed the students and considered how his improved Soul Power control made the demonstration precise, while noting that Soul Power could be an unconventional weapon in a crisis.

Lin Yi rewarded trainees for enduring their first Source Energy test, taught them cultivation basics, and left to hunt Abyssal Beasts. After a week of rapid progress, he persuaded Nie Chang to move the live-combat drills up to the next day.

• Lin Yi praised every trainee for passing the endurance test and announced Spirit Shine Crystal rewards for the fastest cultivators.
• Lin Yi taught the Source Energy Basic Theory and Guidance Technique, then flew off in his Flying Orb to hunt Abyssal Beasts.
• The trainees discussed Lin Yi’s hunts and trained intensively for a week, with most successfully guiding Source Energy into their bodies.
• Lin Yi told Nie Chang that the trainees were ready for live combat and proposed starting the drills the next day.
• Nie Chang agreed and said he would coordinate with the Security Department and Logistics Department to keep the drills safe.

Lin Yi prepared East Peak Training Camp’s trainees for the coming Abyssal Tide by awarding their cultivation results and leading them into their first live-combat lesson. As the trainees fought in a Small Nest, Lin Yi monitored the battlefield and stood ready to prevent needless deaths.

• Lin Yi planned to train successive cohorts of Source Energy Warriors before the first Abyssal Tide erupted.
• Lin Yi distributed Spirit Shine Crystal rewards to the trainees, including Zhang Zhen, Elizabeth Windsor, Zhou Yuxuan, Andre, and Chen Yu.
• Lin Yi led the trainees and military escort to a Small Nest, where the trainees formed combat teams and advanced through the territory.
• The trainees fought Abyssal Beasts under veteran soldiers’ commands and covering fire as Lin Yi watched from a rooftop and monitored the groups with his Soul Power.
• Lin Yi tracked four Stardust-level Abyssal Beasts and prepared to intervene if any threatened the trainees.

During the practical training, Lin Yi watched Elizabeth’s squad encounter a Stardust-level Purple Blade Leopard and killed it with a lightning-charged Small Steel Ball just as it attacked her. Elizabeth and the others recognized Lin Yi as their rescuer, leaving her awed by the power of the rules.

• Lin Yi sensed four Stardust-level Abyssal Beasts nearby as Elizabeth, Adams, three Xia Country trainees, and an infantry squad fought lesser Abyssal Beasts.
• A Stardust-level Purple Blade Leopard appeared, and the squad leader ordered everyone to retreat while the Xia Country trainees chose to stay and cover Elizabeth and Adams.
• Elizabeth refused to abandon her comrades and directed the squad to take shelter in a nearby shop while they waited for help.
• The Purple Blade Leopard lunged at Elizabeth, but Lin Yi struck it from a rooftop with a lightning-charged Small Steel Ball, annihilating the beast.
• Elizabeth and the others looked toward Lin Yi and realized the chief instructor had saved them; Elizabeth was left exhilarated and amazed by his power.

After the trainees returned from battle, Lin Yi agreed to join an air assault on Factory 738 to recover equipment that could restore communications. As the helicopter formation headed south, Lin Yi learned the General Staff had assembled overwhelming firepower chiefly to protect him, and resolved to show them more of his strength.

• The trainees discussed their encounters with Abyss Beasts, while Adams described Lin Yi's strike and Elizabeth summed up his strength as "Too strong."
• Nie Chang told Lin Yi that vital communications equipment lay in a Medium Abyss Beast Nest near Factory 738, and Lin Yi supported a raid to recover it and kill its Leader-level beast.
• Lin Yi recommended that the General Staff revise the plans for clearing nearby Miniature Nests using lessons from the trainees' coordinated combat exercise.
• Two mornings later, Lin Yi boarded a helicopter with Liu Qiying, Special Forces Members, and a technical team as fifteen Night Owl Armed Helicopters and six Kunpeng transport helicopters set out for Factory 738.
• Liu Qiying explained that the armed helicopters would provide fire support and protect Lin Yi's retreat, and Lin Yi realized the General Staff had deployed them because they feared he might be in danger.

Lin Yi explained to Liu Qiying how Rule Comprehension amplified combat power and revealed that his own comprehension had reached 12%, enough to overwhelm the target Abyssal Beast leader. He left Liu Qiying with a warning that surpassing 10% had opened a new level of power, so the estimate he had just given might no longer apply to him.

• Lin Yi learned that the General Staff had arranged a cautious operation against a heavily armored lizard-type Abyssal Beast leader with 54,900 Source Energy Units and four elite guards.
• Lin Yi agreed to explain Rule Comprehension to Liu Qiying and allowed him to record the explanation for the General Staff.
• Lin Yi compared Source Energy Units to physical strength and rules to weapons, explaining that even a basic understanding of rules could multiply attack power roughly tenfold.
• Lin Yi revealed that his Rule Comprehension was around 12%, giving him an estimated twenty-twofold amplification and an effective attack power of about 68,200.
• Lin Yi said that surpassing 10% Rule Comprehension had unlocked a new realm of power, so his previous estimate might no longer describe his strength.

Lin Yi used a newly forged black-lightning attack to erase the Abyssal Beast leader, its nest, and the stadium, leaving a vast crater. With the threat eliminated, he ordered the helicopter formation to begin the equipment transfer mission.

• Lin Yi ordered the helicopter formation to land on a ruined office building ten kilometers from the stadium, and its guns destroyed several attacking Screeching Bat Demons.
• Lin Yi stepped down onto the rooftop without a rope and prepared the Abyss Breaking Spear while Liu Qiying arranged aerial fire support.
• Lin Yi fused red and golden energy into black lightning on the spear and hurled it toward the stadium.
• The spear's strike erased the stadium, the Leader-level Abyssal Beast, its guards, and the surrounding area, leaving a massive crater.
• The aerial formation reported that the leader's life signal had vanished, and Lin Yi ordered the crew to begin the equipment transfer mission.

After returning to East Peak Training Camp, Lin Yi spent seven days teaching the trainees advanced source energy control, footwork, and squad tactics. On their final training day, he declared their graduation ceremony would take place at the Abyss Beast Nest they were about to conquer, then led them to depart for the battlefield.

• Liu Qiying saluted Lin Yi and flew back with the helicopter formation to report the operation and its footage to General Staff.
• Lin Yi intensified training for seven days, teaching source energy control and footwork while drilling the trainees in coordinated combat against Abyssal Beasts.
• More than eight hundred trainees assembled at East Peak Training Camp on the final morning, ready to leave for a real battlefield.
• Lin Yi told the trainees that their graduation ceremony would be held atop the ruins of the Abyss Beast Nest they conquered.
• The trainees answered Lin Yi's order with a unified roar, boarded their vehicles, and departed in convoy for the battlefield.

As the convoy carried the trainees toward the operation to destroy three miniature Abyss Nests, Lin Yi considered how to use the Source Energy Condensers and decided to propose expanding East Peak Training Camp. He recognized that Blue Star might eventually be drawn into interstellar war and that its future troops needed training for real combat.

• Lin Yi judged the coming nest extermination likely to succeed and decided to offer Supreme Command a plan to expand East Peak Training Camp after the battle.
• He recalled how the Human Race's border conflict with the Kunmo Race had expanded and how the Relyat Mercenary Group had served on that battlefield.
• Lin Yi reasoned that Blue Star might eventually have to send source energy warriors to support the Star Realm Army in low-energy regions.
• He concluded that Blue Star needed to train recruits into battle-tested troops skilled in small-unit coordination and interstellar combat equipment.

The convoy reached the Abyss Nest, where General Nie Chang deployed the forces and Lin Yi began neutralizing the nest while preparing new Small Steel Balls. As the beast tide attacked, Lin Yi monitored the battle and conserved energy to protect trainees only from lethal danger.

• General Nie Chang ordered the regiments, engineers, and trainee squads to establish the defensive line around the abandoned industrial park.
• Lin Yi left the command vehicle and used his left hand to emit azure-blue Source Energy that neutralized the Abyss Nest's force field.
• Lin Yi drew energy from a Source Energy Crystal and summoned more than ten lightning-charged Small Steel Balls from his waist.
• The beast tide surged in, and Lin Yi maintained the neutralization field while assessing the battlefield and reserving energy for emergencies.
• Lin Yi noticed a disturbance along the left-wing defensive line.

Zhou Yuxuan led Chen Yu and their squad in harassing a charging Scythe-Mantis Abyssal Beast to keep it from reaching the trenches and buy the anti-tank team time to target it. As the beast swung at Zhou Yuxuan, Lin Yi prepared to intervene.

• Lin Yi identified the wounded attacker as a Stardust-level Scythe-Mantis Abyssal Beast charging toward the trainee squad’s section of the defensive line.
• Zhou Yuxuan called on his squad to distract and contain the beast, then leaped from the trench, with Chen Yu and the other trainees following.
• Zhou Yuxuan and his squad attacked from the flanks with Source Energy blasts and shots, drawing the beast’s attention away from the trench.
• Lin Yi recognized that Zhou Yuxuan had chosen the necessary tactic and reflected that, without his protection, the squad might be among the battlefield dead he remembered from his past life.
• The Scythe-Mantis Abyssal Beast swung its scythe-blades at Zhou Yuxuan, and Lin Yi made the Small Steel Ball orbiting him vanish.

Lin Yi led the troops and trainees to destroy three Abyss Beast Nests in one day, securing three Vortex Type I Deep-Space Source Energy Condensers. After the victory, he proposed expanding East Peak Training Camp and accelerating Source Energy Practitioner training.

• Lin Yi secretly protected Zhou Yuxuan's and Zhang Zhen's squads from dangerous Abyss Beasts while neutralizing the first nest.
• Lin Yi destroyed Nest No. 1, and Nie Chang took custody of its Vortex Type I Deep-Space Source Energy Condenser.
• Lin Yi and Nie Chang led the troops toward the remaining nests, where the trainees fought Abyss Beasts and gained combat experience.
• The troops eliminated Nests No. 2 and No. 4, and the trainees celebrated their unprecedented victory.
• Lin Yi asked Nie Chang to recommend that the Supreme Command Center assign all three condensers to East Peak Training Camp and expand it to train more Source Energy Practitioners.

After Lin Yi proposed concentrating the three Source Energy Condensers at East Peak Training Camp and expanding recruitment, Zhou Donglai presented a bolder plan to transform the camp into a military academy and establish a new Source Martial Army. The Supreme Command was left stunned by the proposed changes to the nation’s military structure.

• Lin Yi asked Nie Chang to relay his proposal to the Supreme Command, and Nie Chang agreed.
• Li Zhenguo received the report that Nie Chang’s forces had destroyed all three Miniature Abyss Beast Nests in Helu City.
• Zhou Donglai reported that each nest had dropped a Vortex Type I Deep-Space Source Energy Condenser, which the General Staff suspected was a fixed drop.
• Lin Yi proposed placing all three condensers at East Peak Training Camp and expanding enrollment to cultivate more Source Energy Practitioners.
• Zhou Donglai proposed turning the camp into East Peak Military Academy and establishing the Source Martial Army as a new independent strategic force.

Zhou Donglai persuaded officials to establish East Peak Military Academy and the Source Martial Strategic Defense Army by showing Lin Yi’s devastating Star Core-level attack. The meeting approved the proposals and named Lin Yi the academy’s principal and acting commander of the new force.

• A conservative official questioned whether Xia Country had enough Source Energy Warriors and infrastructure to create a strategic-level military branch.
• Zhou Donglai screened footage of Lin Yi’s attack, showing it destroy a stadium and leave a vast crater.
• Zhou Donglai explained that Lin Yi could unleash another Star Core-level attack after recovering, and that the General Staff expected others might eventually reach the same level.
• Li Zhenguo endorsed East Peak Military Academy and the Source Martial Strategic Defense Army, proposing Lin Yi as principal and acting commander.
• The meeting approved the proposals, and Zhou Donglai pledged to implement them with the relevant departments.

After the trainees conquered Abyss Beast Nest No. 4, the Supreme Command expanded Lin Yi’s proposal, establishing East Peak Source Martial Military Academy and the Source Martial Army and appointing Lin Yi to lead both. Lin Yi then began the first batch’s graduation ceremony atop the nest’s ruins, reminding the trainees that graduation was only the start of their journey.

• Nie Chang told Lin Yi that the Supreme Command had established East Peak Source Martial Military Academy and the Source Martial Army, appointing Lin Yi as the academy’s first principal and the army’s first commander.
• Nie Chang said he would serve as deputy commander and executive vice principal, while Liu Qiying would become chief of staff and academy office director.
• Lin Yi urged Nie Chang to begin learning Source Energy, and Nie Chang agreed to focus on catching up with the cadets.
• Liu Qiying reported that the graduation ceremony site was ready and the trainees had assembled, so Lin Yi and Nie Chang went to the temporary stage.
• Lin Yi praised the first-batch Eastfront trainees for conquering the Abyss Nest and told them that graduation marked the beginning of a longer, more challenging path.

Lin Yi announced that East Peak Training Camp had become East Peak Source Martial Military Academy and that its trainees would form the first officers and core personnel of the Source Martial Strategic Defense Army. He presented them with the East Peak Emblem and a coordinated equipment set, leaving the first class equipped for its new responsibilities.

• Lin Yi announced that the Supreme Command had upgraded East Peak Training Camp into East Peak Source Martial Military Academy and established the Source Martial Strategic Defense Army.
• Lin Yi told the trainees that they would graduate as the academy’s first class and become the new army’s founding officers and core personnel.
• Lin Yi explained that the trainees’ graduation proof would be their power and resolve, then presented a box containing the East Peak Emblem and five equipment pieces.
• Lin Yi described how the East Peak Emblem’s enhancements offset the flaws of the wristband, knee guards, arm ring, and talisman, making them effective as a set.
• Lin Yi equipped every student with a portable Source Energy Detector that could detect energy signatures and provide encrypted long-range communication.

Lin Yi issued East Peak-emblem Source Energy Equipment to the trainees and recognized their efforts with personal words of advice and encouragement. After affirming that the foreign trainees also belonged among the East Peak People, he gave Elizabeth her equipment and called Andre forward.

• Lin Yi presented equipment to Zhou Yuxuan, Chen Yu, Zhang Zhen, and the other Xia Country trainees, offering each personal guidance or encouragement.
• The foreign auditing students, including Elizabeth and Andre, watched the ceremony and grew disappointed, believing it did not include them.
• Lin Yi asked whether the foreign trainees counted as East Peak People, and the Xia Country trainees answered that they did.
• Elizabeth accepted her equipment from Lin Yi and thanked him for her time at Eastfront.
• Lin Yi called Andre forward, and Andre charged onto the stage to receive his box.

Lin Yi completed the first cohort’s graduation ceremony and returned to East Peak as the camp began expanding into a military academy. He learned that Jinling Settlement was threatened by an expanding Abyss Beast Nest and considered how to help as its forces ran short on ammunition.

• Lin Yi gave the graduating trainees equipment, exchanged contact codes with them, and urged them to support one another after returning to their homes.
• Lin Yi brought more than a dozen selected trainees back to East Peak to serve as instructors while construction began and new cohorts prepared to arrive.
• Nie Chang told Lin Yi that Jinling Settlement had requested help because a large Abyss Beast Nest was spreading toward its defenses.
• Nie Chang explained that Jinling’s attempts to clear the nest had caused heavy losses and that its ammunition shortages left it considering abandoning an outer defense line and relocating residents.
• Lin Yi weighed the nest’s growing threat, Jinling’s limited forces and supplies, and the difficulties of relocating its population.