Key Plot Points and Events

• Fang Yi uses all three opportunities to comprehend the Universe Chaos Tablet at once, gaining 21 days of comprehension time.
• After cultivating for half a year, Fang Yi leaves Chaos City to hunt chaos beasts for real combat experience and to absorb Chaos True Spirits to improve his soul's compatibility with the universe.
• Fang Yi encounters and defeats groups of Cosmic Level chaos beasts, absorbing their Chaos True Spirits.
• He encounters a group of eleven injured geniuses surrounded by high-level chaos beasts and saves them.

Character Developments

• Fang Yi's comprehension of the Laws of space and time improves significantly after absorbing many Chaos True Spirits.
• The eleven geniuses witness Fang Yi's formidable strength and are left in awe.

Significant Themes

• The importance of real combat experience for growth and improvement.
• The benefits of absorbing Chaos True Spirits for soul enhancement and Law comprehension.
• The dangers and challenges of hunting chaos beasts outside Chaos City.

Character Interactions

• Fang Yi saves the eleven injured geniuses from a group of high-level chaos beasts, showcasing his strength and confidence.
• The geniuses are awestruck by Fang Yi's abilities and do not need to warn him about the chaos beasts, as he handles them effortlessly.

Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Fang Yi single-handedly defeats hundreds of Chaos Beasts, saving eleven other geniuses.
• He lends his Spaceship to the injured geniuses and continues alone into the Chaos Wasteland's middle region.
• Fang Yi encounters and defeats thirteen Domain Lord-level Chaos Beasts, demonstrating his incredible growth.

Character Developments

• Fang Yi's strength and confidence grow significantly, allowing him to face and defeat powerful Chaos Beasts alone.
• Other geniuses, such as Luo Feng and Rong Jun, become more determined to surpass Fang Yi after learning of his achievements.

Significant Themes

• The dangers and rewards of cultivating in harsh environments.
• The importance of perseverance and determination in the face of adversity.
• The desire to surpass one's peers and become the strongest.

Character Interactions

• Fang Yi shows compassion by lending his Spaceship to the injured geniuses, revealing a warmer side to his reserved demeanor.
• Luo Feng and Rong Jun discuss Fang Yi's achievements, fueling their determination to surpass him.
• Immortal powerhouses discuss Fang Yi's progress, expressing their curiosity and admiration for his accomplishments.

Key Plot Points and Events

• The geniuses leave Chaos City to hunt Chaos Beasts, following Fang Yi's trail.
• They discover Fang Yi has entered the dangerous middle region, where Domain Lord monsters roam.
• The geniuses decide to hunt around the outskirts to avoid being surrounded by large Chaos Beast herds.
• Fang Yi continues to hunt Domain Lord-level Chaos Beasts, experimenting with the Heaven Mending Technique's healing capabilities.
• Luo Feng and Rong Jun hunt Chaos Beasts together, while Luo Lan also successfully kills seven Domain Lord-level Chaos Beasts.
• Some geniuses encounter a herd of fifty-seven Chaos Beasts, sustaining injuries but managing to defeat them.

Character Developments

• Fang Yi: He continues to improve his abilities and experiment with the Heaven Mending Technique's healing capabilities, showing his willingness to push his limits.
• Luo Feng: He demonstrates his improved strength by easily defeating a first-stage Domain Lord Chaos Beast.
• Rong Jun: He shows significant improvement, cleaving three Chaos Beasts in half with ease.
• Luo Lan: She displays her formidable swordsmanship by slicing seven Domain Lord-level Chaos Beasts into hundreds of pieces.

Significant Themes

• Competition and Rivalry: The geniuses are driven by the desire to compete with Fang Yi's record, showcasing their ambition and determination.
• Risk and Reward: Hunting Chaos Beasts offers great rewards but also carries significant risks, reflecting the theme of risk-taking for potential gains.
• Personal Growth: The geniuses seek to improve their skills and combat techniques through hunting and tempering themselves.

Character Interactions

• Luo Feng and Rong Jun: They hunt Chaos Beasts together, demonstrating their camaraderie and mutual respect for each other's abilities.
• Luo Lan and Other Geniuses: They hunt separately but support each other when necessary, showing their awareness of the importance of teamwork in facing powerful enemies.
• Fang Yi and Other Geniuses: Though not directly interacting, Fang Yi's record serves as a catalyst for the other geniuses to push their limits and compete with him.

Key Plot Points and Events

• Fang Yi, using his Space Secret Technique, attracts and eliminates a vast number of Chaos Beasts, absorbing their True Spirits to improve his comprehension of the Law of Time.
• Chaos Beasts suddenly gather in large numbers around the geniuses, causing them to return to their Spaceships for safety.
• Fang Yi encounters a peculiar bat-like Chaos Beast that summons other Chaos Beasts, leading to a massive horde surrounding the geniuses' Spaceships.
• Fang Yi eliminates the Chaos Beast horde, and the geniuses, witnessing his feat, update their rankings.

Character Developments

• Fang Yi: He continues to improve his understanding of the Law of Time by allowing himself to be injured and then healing with the Heaven Mending Technique. His strength and comprehension grow significantly.
• Luo Feng: He and the other geniuses encounter the sudden Chaos Beast horde and return to their Spaceships for safety. He witnesses Fang Yi's incredible feat.
• Rong Jun: He also encounters the Chaos Beast horde and returns to the Spaceship, displaying his strength and coordination with the other geniuses.

Significant Themes

• Strength and Growth: The chapter emphasizes the rapid growth and improvement of the characters, particularly Fang Yi, as they adapt to their new environment and face challenges.
• Cooperation and Competition: The geniuses, while competing with each other, also display a level of coordination and cooperation when facing the Chaos Beast horde.
• Adaptation and Survival: The characters must adapt to the harsh environment of the Chaos City and learn to survive against the powerful Chaos Beasts.

Character Interactions

• Fang Yi and the Geniuses: Fang Yi's incredible strength and feats leave the other geniuses in awe and inspire them to improve themselves. They interact with him, asking about his experiences and learning from him.
• The Geniuses Among Themselves: The geniuses coordinate and fight together against the Chaos Beast horde, displaying their strength and understanding of the Laws. They also share information and experiences, fostering a sense of camaraderie.

Key Plot Points and Events

• Fang Yi, in Chaos City, fuses Chaos True Spirits, improving his comprehension of Laws.
• After ten years, Fang Yi breaks through to the Domain Lord level in his other body.
• Fang Yi and Luo Feng challenge the Celestial Bridge at the same time after years of absence.
• Fang Yi easily passes the fourth level of the Celestial Bridge.

Character Developments

• Fang Yi: He improves his comprehension of Laws and breaks through to the Domain Lord level, demonstrating his power and confidence. He also shows a rare willingness to speak more when facing the fourth level's guardian.
• Luo Feng: He challenges the Celestial Bridge after years of absence, driven by the desire to catch up to Fang Yi.

Significant Themes

• Genius vs. Mediocrity: Fang Yi's rapid progress and easy passage of the fourth level highlight the vast gap between him and other geniuses, let alone ordinary cultivators.
• Pursuit of Excellence: Both Fang Yi and Luo Feng are driven by their desire to improve and surpass one another, showing their unyielding spirits.

Character Interactions

• Fang Yi vs. Celestial Bridge Guardians: Fang Yi's battles with the Celestial Bridge guardians showcase his power and growth, with the fourth level's guardian acknowledging his astonishing progress.
• Fang Yi vs. Luo Feng: Though not directly interacting, both are driven by their desire to outdo the other, creating a silent competition that fuels their growth.

Chapter Summary

Key plot points and events

• King Zhen Yan, King Tong Nan, and Long Yu King ask Guardian Bafen to show footage of Fang Yi’s and Luo Feng’s Celestial Bridge trials. Fang Yi is fighting on the fifth level, while Luo Feng is on the third.
• Fang Yi faces a mysterious opponent wielding the Space-Time Divine Weapon. The opponent breaks it into 1,008 nearly imperceptible units and uses its third form, Zhen Yu Hui Liu, to replay earlier attacks in unpredictable sequences.
• Fang Yi reveals even finer control, spreading 1,600 units through space. He understands his opponent’s techniques, counters the replayed attacks, and uses his own versions of them—controlling their timing and speed to overwhelm his foe.
• Fang Yi’s units suppress the surrounding space-time, preventing his opponent from using the weapon effectively. He defeats the mysterious figure and opens the path to the sixth level. The opponent warns that the next level is a major leap in difficulty.
• The watching kings praise Fang Yi’s mastery of the Laws of Space and Time. They also commend Luo Feng, whose movement technique has reached the third stage of Ten Thousand Threads Flow and who has begun to grasp the fundamentals of the Space Origin Law.
• News of Fang Yi’s success spreads among the geniuses. His fifth-level achievement widens the perceived gap between him and the other competitors, leaving many resigned to the likelihood that he will remain the strongest.

Character developments and interactions

• Fang Yi demonstrates that his ten years of progress have brought exceptional precision and strategic control. His victory is not just a display of strength: he had prepared earlier moves to enable his decisive use of the weapon’s third form.
• Luo Feng earns the observers’ approval for his movement and growing understanding of space, though the kings judge him to be behind Fang Yi.
• The three kings discuss the two fighters’ abilities. Long Yu is thrilled by Fang Yi’s performance; Zhen Yan is especially interested in Luo Feng and admires his clean, precise movement.
• Bolan watches Fang Yi’s battle and acknowledges the growing difficulty of catching him, despite learning from the footage.
• Rong Jun responds to the news by training harder, hoping to become strong enough to face Fang Yi someday, even if victory is unlikely.
• Long Yun is dismayed that Fang Yi has advanced so far while he himself has not yet caught up to Bolan. Other competitors, meanwhile, shift from hoping to surpass Fang Yi to wondering how far he can go.

Significant themes

• Talent and widening gaps: Fang Yi’s rapid progress makes the differences among the young geniuses feel increasingly unbridgeable.
• Mastery through precision and preparation: Fang Yi wins through detailed command of space-time, anticipation, and deliberate setup—not merely raw power.
• Ambition in the face of overwhelming odds: Rong Jun and others continue striving despite recognizing how far behind Fang Yi they are.
• Recognition and competition: The observers’ praise and the public discussion turn Fang Yi’s achievement into a new benchmark for everyone.

Key Plot Points and Events

• Fang Yi and Luo Feng begin their battles on the Celestial Bridge.
• Fang Yi faces the guardian of the sixth level, a mysterious black shadow that resembles him.
• The shadow uses the fourth form of the Space-Time Divine Weapon, Sui Jie Hua Wo, creating a space-time vortex to crush Fang Yi.
• Fang Yi counters with a barrage of spiritual secret techniques, freezing the shadow and breaking its control over the vortex.
• Fang Yi defeats the shadow and clears the sixth level, advancing to the seventh.

Character Developments

• Fang Yi's spiritual secret techniques have significantly improved after ten years of seclusion and exchanging techniques with points.
• The mysterious black shadow acknowledges Fang Yi's Spiritual Force advancement before its defeat.

Significant Themes

• The importance of continuous improvement and adaptation in battle.
• The role of Spiritual Force in combat and its potential as a weakness or strength.
• The challenges and potential rewards of dual cultivation in space and time.

Character Interactions

• Kings from various factions gather to watch Fang Yi and Luo Feng's battles, discussing their potential progress and comparing them to past geniuses.
• King Ju Fen shares his past experiences with dual cultivation in space and time, expressing his doubts about Bolan and Fang Yi's chances of success.
• Fang Yi and the mysterious black shadow engage in a fierce battle, showcasing their understanding and application of the Space-Time Divine Weapon's forms.

Chapter Summary: Thirty Years in the Blink of an Eye

1. Key Plot Points / Events

• The kings observe Fang Yi (the Heavy Pupil User) on the Celestial Bridge. They are astonished that he cleared the sixth level, using Spiritual Force and the fourth level of the Space-Time Divine Weapon.
• Luo Feng reaches the fourth level but falls; his performance is still considered impressive.
• Fang Yi reviews his points and comprehension opportunities, then receives news from his Supreme Bone clone: the Eagle-Slaying Festival will continue for fifty years, giving him time to hunt and plan a future breakthrough without raising suspicion.
• Fang Yi uses his Chaotic Tablet comprehension opportunities, aiming to master the fourth Chaotic Tablet within thirty years.
• Over the years, other geniuses progress: Luo Feng becomes Zhen Yan King’s disciple; Rong Jun clears the third level; all remaining geniuses clear at least the first level by year twenty.
• In year twenty, Luo Feng clears the fourth level, Bolan reaches the fifth, and Fang Yi returns to the Celestial Bridge, easily clearing the seventh and eighth levels.
• Fang Yi openly states that Bolan would need to become a Domain Lord to match his current results, affecting the other geniuses psychologically.
• In the thirtieth year, with ten days left before leaving Chaos City, Fang Yi appears once more for a final bridge attempt. Zhen Yan King tells Luo Feng about the legendary genius Kedi and compares Fang Yi to him.

2. Character Developments

• Fang Yi: Shows overwhelming talent, strategic thinking, and confidence. He plans his cultivation and breakthroughs carefully, using his time and resources efficiently. His public statement about Bolan reveals both arrogance and deep awareness of his own power.
• Luo Feng: Continues rapid improvement, earns a master in Zhen Yan King, and becomes increasingly motivated to surpass Bolan and eventually Fang Yi.
• Bolan: Feels pressure and complicated emotions after Fang Yi’s assessment, realizing the gap between them.
• Rong Jun: Determined to prove he is not inferior to Bolan, using Fang Yi’s words as motivation.
• Zhen Yan King: Acts as a mentor to Luo Feng, evaluating geniuses and providing historical context like the story of Kedi.

3. Significant Themes

• Genius and rivalry: The gap between exceptional geniuses is highlighted; only Fang Yi stands at the top while others struggle to catch up.
• Strategic patience: Fang Yi deliberately paces his breakthrough, using the fifty-year festival as a buffer to avoid suspicion.
• Mentorship and expectation: Kings and masters gauge young geniuses’ futures; Zhen Yan King’s praise and comparisons to legends like Kedi raise the stakes.
• The price of cultivation: Mention of death rates in the Giant Axe Coliseum reminds readers that talent does not guarantee survival.
• Relentless improvement: Every genius is driven to clear higher levels of the Celestial Bridge, with Fang Yi as the benchmark.

4. Character Interactions

• The kings discuss Fang Yi and Luo Feng’s performances, with Zhen Yan King praising Luo Feng’s growth and predicting he will surpass Bolan.
• Fang Yi’s public words on the bridge reach Bolan, Rong Jun, and Luo

Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Fang Yi, after ten years, challenges the Celestial Bridge's final levels.
• He clears the ninth level, demonstrating mastery of the Law of Space and Time.
• He faces the tenth level's guardian, a martial artist who competes in Law application.
• Fang Yi clears the tenth level, showcasing his profound understanding of Laws.

Character Developments

• Fang Yi's mastery of the Law of Space and Time has significantly improved.
• He demonstrates exceptional combat skill and understanding of Laws, nearing the threshold of an ordinary Immortal.

Significant Themes

• Genius and hard work: Fang Yi's achievements are a result of both his innate talent and relentless effort.
• The power of Laws: The battle emphasizes the importance and strength of understanding and applying Laws.
• The Celestial Bridge as a benchmark: It represents a standard for measuring one's comprehension of Laws and serves as a rite of passage for geniuses.

Character Interactions

• Fang Yi interacts with the ninth and tenth level guardians, showcasing his skills and understanding of Laws.
• The geniuses watching the battle react with shock and disbelief at Fang Yi's achievements.
• Immortal experts observe and discuss Fang Yi's progress, predicting his future potential.

Chapter Summary

Key plot points and events

• As the geniuses watch Fang Yi attempt the Celestial Bridge, Nine Swords Venerable arrives to summon them. Venerable Gui Yi stops him, explaining that Fang Yi is attempting the eleventh layer and must not be disturbed. He also reveals that the City Lord of Chaos is watching.
• Fang Yi had intended to stop at the tenth layer, but his previous battle has strengthened his resolve. He chooses the eleventh as his stopping point, believing it will be impressive without drawing excessive attention.
• On the eleventh layer, Fang Yi faces a guardian who controls Space-Time Divine Weapons. Fang Yi’s command of the laws of space and time disrupts the guardian’s control, allowing him to suppress the opponent and defeat him decisively. He clears the layer and opens the path to the twelfth, but chooses not to continue.
• The watching Immortals and geniuses are stunned. They judge Fang Yi’s Law Comprehension to be at an Immortal-level standard, exceptional even compared with celebrated past geniuses.
• After Fang Yi returns to Chaos City, the City Lord personally praises him. The geniuses and Immortals interpret this as a sign that the City Lord may eventually take Fang Yi as a disciple.
• Nine Swords Venerable reprimands the surviving group: even in the safety of Chaos City, nearly thirty percent of the geniuses have died. He reminds them to make good use of their final ten days before departing.
• Fang Yi retreats from the crowd of curious admirers. Luo Feng, Rong Jun, and Bolan take his achievement as a challenge and resolve to keep improving.

Character developments

• Fang Yi demonstrates extraordinary confidence and restraint: he defeats the eleventh-layer guardian but stops rather than pushing farther, intent on limiting the attention he attracts. The City Lord’s praise confirms that his talent has gained the highest level of notice.
• Nine Swords Venerable initially comes to address the group, but quickly recognizes Fang Yi’s achievement and the significance of the City Lord’s interest in him.
• Luo Feng, Rong Jun, and Bolan feel the pressure of Fang Yi’s lead, yet turn that pressure into motivation. Rong Jun especially frames surpassing Fang Yi as a worthwhile goal.
• The other geniuses react with a mix of awe, discouragement, and renewed perspective about how much more there is to learn.

Character interactions

• Gui Yi prevents Nine Swords Venerable from interrupting Fang Yi’s attempt and explains why Fang Yi’s progress has drawn the City Lord’s attention.
• Fang Yi’s overwhelming victory contrasts with the observers’ disbelief and admiration.
• The City Lord’s brief praise, conveyed through Nine Swords Venerable, establishes Fang Yi’s special standing among the gathered geniuses.
• After the gathering, the crowd tries to question and befriend Fang Yi, but he leaves quietly. Luo Feng and Rong Jun then discuss the challenge he represents, with Bolan privately sharing their resolve.

Significant themes

• Exceptional talent and recognition: Fang Yi’s achievement places him beyond the expectations of both his peers and experienced Immortals.
• Ambition transformed into motivation: Luo Feng, Rong Jun, and Bolan respond to comparison not only with envy or defeat, but with renewed determination.
• The cost of the cultivation path: Nine Swords Venerable’s reminder that nearly a third of the group died underscores the dangers behind their progress.
• Restraint amid power: Fang Yi’s decision to stop after clearing the eleventh layer shows that achievement and self-control can matter as much as pushing onward.

Chapter Summary

1. Key Plot Points and Events

• With nine days remaining before departure from Chaos City, Fang Yi continues hunting high-level Chaos Beasts instead of immediately using his three new Celestial Bridge attempts.
• His example motivates the other geniuses to challenge the bridge:
  • Rong Jun reaches the fourth level.
  • Luo Feng advances to the fifth.
  • Bolan reaches the sixth.
  • The remaining competitors make smaller advances to the second or third levels.
• Virtual Universe Company officials discuss Fang Yi’s unprecedented achievement of reaching the eleventh level. They note that his presence inspires other geniuses but may also discourage those who believe they can never surpass him. They also worry that his future greatness would be a major asset to humanity, while his possible death would be a devastating loss.
• After thirty years, the geniuses leave Chaos City. Nine Swords Venerable praises their cohort despite its unusually high mortality rate, especially Fang Yi, Bolan, Luo Feng, and Rong Jun.
• The group returns to the Original Universe and separates into teams bound for different Secret Realms. Fang Yi and Bolan prepare to travel to the Primeval Secret Realm.
• Meanwhile, Fang Yi’s second body, the Supreme Bone body, prepares to participate in the thirty-ninth Eagle-Slaying Festival.
• Fang Yi enters the festival under the false identity Uyst Lane, a Domain King from the fallen Lane Family of the Holy Ling Empire. He uses soul-control techniques and fabricated information to make the identity convincing.
• After registering, he receives a crystal mark identifying him as a participant and as a member of the Holy Ling Empire.
• Fang Yi enters the Domain King Secret Realm through a Divine Eagle altar. Using his Heavy Pupils and World Analysis, he immediately detects numerous target criminals, making the crowded Secret Realm highly advantageous for his mission.
• Perfect warns him that Martial Arena disciples pursuing him may also enter the Secret Realm. Fang Yi decides to prioritize killing mid-level targets before dealing with stronger criminals or his pursuers.

2. Character Developments

• Fang Yi: Continues to demonstrate overwhelming talent and relentless discipline. His constant hunting outside Chaos City reinforces his reputation as a terrifying combat genius. He also shows strategic caution by disguising himself, gathering intelligence, and planning around both his targets and potential pursuers.
• Bolan: Advances to the sixth Celestial Bridge level, refusing to be left behind by Fang Yi. His competitiveness and determination become more pronounced.
• Luo Feng and Rong Jun: Both make significant progress and remain among the strongest members of their cohort. Their shared background makes them especially close to Fang Yi.
• Nine Swords Venerable: Acts as a stern but approving mentor, recognizing the exceptional quality of the current generation while reminding them of the dangers and losses they have endured.
• Perfect: Remains Fang Yi’s energetic and efficient assistant. Despite her cute appearance and tone, she displays an intense enthusiasm for killing targets.
• Virtual Universe Company officials: Their discussion reveals both admiration for Fang Yi and anxiety about the consequences of relying on a single extraordinary genius.

3. Significant Themes

• Inspiration versus pressure: Fang Yi’s achievements motivate his peers to improve, but his towering lead also risks destroying their confidence.
• Genius and danger: Exceptional talent brings glory and strategic value, yet it also makes Fang Yi a potential target and creates the danger of catastrophic loss if he falls.
• Relentless cultivation: The chapter emphasizes constant advancement, with the characters using Fang Yi’s achievements as motivation to continue challenging themselves.
• Identity and deception: Fang Yi’s fabricated identity and altered appearance highlight the importance of secrecy, infiltration, and adaptability in the wider universe.
• Competition and survival: The Celestial Bridge rankings and Eagle-Slaying Festival both frame cultivation as a struggle where only the strongest survive and gain recognition.
• Transition: Leaving Chaos City marks the end of a formative training period and the beginning of more dangerous trials in the Original Universe and its Secret Realms.

4. Character Interactions

• Rong Jun and Luo Feng warmly greet Fang Yi after his return, commenting on how much stronger he seems compared with the others.
• The geniuses collectively react to Fang Yi’s position at the eleventh Celestial Bridge level, using it as both an inspiration and an intimidating benchmark.
• Nine Swords Venerable addresses the group and singles out Fang Yi, Bolan, Luo Feng, and Rong Jun as the cohort’s outstanding figures.
• Fang Yi and Bolan travel together toward the Primeval Secret Realm, though they wait separately for the final departure arrangements.
• Fang Yi’s Supreme Bone body communicates with Perfect about the Eagle-Slaying Festival. She reports the locations of targets and warns him about the Martial Arena pursuers.
• The festival registrar questions Fang Yi’s claim that the fallen Lane Family produced a Domain King, but Fang Yi smoothly explains his supposed collateral-lineage background and gains approval.
• After entering the Secret Realm, Perfect eagerly urges Fang Yi to begin hunting the large number of criminals he has detected, while Fang Yi reacts with mild concern at her increasingly enthusiastic bloodlust.

Key Plot Points and Events

• Fang Yi is in the sixth sector of the Divine Eagle Secret Realm, close to the core region.
• He encounters a group of four people from his empire being chased by Golden Mysterious Crows. He kills the crows and the two men who attacked him, sparing the woman, Youla, and her servant.
• Fang Yi learns about Blood Eagle Stones, which are formed from the bodies of exotic beasts and are needed to create Sacred Eagle Stones for the Eagle-Slaying Festival.
• He decides to use Youla and her servant to gather people from his empire and targets from other empires at the Sacred Eagle Hall.
• Fang Yi encounters a group of six Martial Artists from another empire and kills them, collecting their Blood Eagle Stones and equipment.
• He decides to use the beast tide to his advantage, killing the beasts and collecting their Blood Eagle Stones.

Character Developments

• Fang Yi demonstrates his powerful combat abilities, easily defeating the Golden Mysterious Crows and the Martial Artists from another empire.
• Youla, a woman from Fang Yi's empire, is introduced. She is noble and has connections within the empire, making her useful to Fang Yi's plans.
• The Martial Artists from the other empire show internal conflicts and differing opinions on how to approach the situation, leading to their eventual demise.

Significant Themes

• The power of the Law of Gold is emphasized, as it is used to defeat the Martial Artists from the other empire.
• The importance of resources and honor is discussed among the Martial Artists from the other empire, highlighting the motivations behind their actions.

Character Interactions

• Fang Yi interacts with Youla and her servant, deciding to use them to gather people from his empire.
• He encounters and defeats the Martial Artists from the other empire, showing no mercy despite their pleas for mercy.
• Fang Yi and Perfect discuss their plans, with Perfect expressing excitement about their strategy.

Chapter Summary

1. Key Plot Points and Events

• Fang Yi single-handedly battles a massive beast tide (mostly Black-Feathered Giant-Beak Beasts) in the Divine Eagle Secret Realm.
• Using the Yan God Weapon, spatial domain, and numerous offensive phantom bodies, he slaughters hundreds of beasts and collects Blood Eagle Stones.
• The Giant Axe Coliseum requests his battle data via Perfect; Venerable Wancang analyzes it, noting Fang Yi’s growth value of 39.6—far surpassing the previous record of 11.8.
• Venerable Wancang sends two King-level Immortals to deliver a mysterious jade box to the Giant Star Sea, instructing them to give his “genius junior brother” more difficulty—by his teacher’s will.
• Fang Yi uses his Heavy Pupil technique to instantly disintegrate the remaining beast tide, then controls some beasts to chase and harass nearby criminal targets.
• He systematically hunts down and kills those wounded/distracted targets, taking their treasures, while letting other onlookers flee.
• Some martial artists consider hunting Fang Yi for his thousands of Blood Eagle Stones, but one warns them against such suicidal greed.

2. Character Developments

• Fang Yi: Demonstrates vastly increased combat power after his breakthrough; his mastery of space law and phantom body techniques exceeds previous limits. Shows cold efficiency and tactical cruelty, using controlled beasts to weaken enemies before executing them.
• Perfect: Remains loyal and analytical, calculating gains and reporting to the Coliseum; she has authority to refuse data uploads but prioritizes her master above all.
• Venerable Wancang: Highly satisfied with Fang Yi’s growth; acts as an approving mentor figure, arranging further trials for Fang Yi’s benefit (per their teacher’s will).

3. Significant Themes

• Power and Progression: Fang Yi’s overwhelming strength is displayed through crushing entire beast tides and killing Domain Lords with ease.
• Survival of the Fittest / Predator vs. Prey: The secret realm is a brutal hunting ground; Fang Yi turns the tide against both beasts and criminal targets.
• Greed and Caution: Onlookers’ greed over Blood Eagle Stones is tempered by fear and the instinct for survival.
• Higher Powers and Hidden Tests: The Coliseum and Fang Yi’s prospective teacher subtly orchestrate challenges to push his growth.

4. Character Interactions

• Fang Yi & Perfect: Perfect reports battle stats, counts Blood Eagle Stones, and uploads data to the Coliseum; Fang Yi calmly gives commands and acknowledges her praise.
• Fang Yi & Beast Tide: He annihilates them with sword techniques, phantom bodies, and finally Heavy Pupils—showing overwhelming dominance.
• Fang Yi & Other Martial Artists: He kills marked criminal targets without mercy, spares fleeing onlookers, and inspires terror and awe.
• Venerable Wancang & King-level subordinates: He orders them to deliver a jade box and increase challenges for Fang Yi, indicating an overarching plan and mentorship.

Chapter Summary: Into Illusion Sea

1. Key Plot Points and Events

• Hunting Massacre: Fang Yi eliminates all marked targets from various empires in the mission world. Using his Yan God Weapon with Illusion Technique cover, he kills 37 targets, then sends his controlled strange beasts to slaughter 9 more, while the Yan God Weapon kills 4 others. Total: all 67 marked targets eliminated.
• Disposal of Beasts: After using the controlled strange beasts for pursuit, Fang Yi forces them to self-destruct and collects their Blood Eagle Stones — leaving no loose ends.
• Treasure Accumulation: Fang Yi collects over 5,400 Blood Eagle Stones (equivalent to 3 Sacred Eagle Stones). He plans to hunt more beasts before heading to Sacred Eagle Hall in the core region.
• Return to Original Universe: Fang Yi wakes from cultivation (with his Supreme Bone clone still hunting in the Giant Star Sea) and enters the Virtual Universe to challenge the Immortal Altar and Illusion Sea trials.
• Immortal Altar Trial: Fang Yi performs a perfect strength test — five consecutive strikes in one second using different body parts — scoring 100/100 on all hits. Awarded 50,000 points.
• Illusion Sea Trial: Fang Yi passes Islands 3, 4, 5, 8, 10, and 11 with near-effortless ease. Illusions of Earth's destruction, his orphanage, and scenes with Luo Feng all collapse on their own under his calm resolve.

2. Character Developments

• Fang Yi's Ruthlessness: He shows absolutely no mercy — ignoring pleas for mercy, executing all targets without hesitation, and discarding (killing) his own beasts once they've served their purpose.
• Fang Yi's State of Mind: His mental fortitude proves extraordinary. As a transmigrator, his detachment from this world's values grants him an unusually powerful and unshakable will, allowing him to clear the Illusion Sea islands far faster than others.
• Fang Yi's Strength Mastery: Perfect control over body strength (100/100 on all hits) demonstrates his near-Immortal-level physical refinement.

3. Significant Themes

• Utilitarian Cunning: Fang Yi treats both enemies and tools as expendable resources — beasts are controlled, used, destroyed, and harvested without sentimentality.
• Unstoppable Growth: The gap between Fang Yi and other geniuses (e.g., Bolan, who failed at Island 4) grows wider, showcasing his dominance.
• The Outsider's Advantage: His transmigrator nature gives him a fundamentally different worldview, making him nearly immune to emotional illusions that target attachments to this world.

4. Character Interactions

• Fang Yi & Perfect (AI companion): Perfect comments sarcastically that Fang Yi is "really bad" for disposing of his beasts — to which Fang Yi calmly rationalizes that low-level beasts aren't worth keeping. This shows their casual, bantering dynamic.
• Fang Yi & Fleeing Targets: His victims beg for mercy and offer treasures, but Fang Yi ignores them entirely, showing zero communication, only execution.
• Fang Yi & Black-Scaled Elder (observer): A guardian of the trial planes watches Fang Yi's Illusion Sea progress with growing shock, comparing his ease to Bolan's early failure. The elder reports Fang Yi's progress to other powerful beings watching him.

Chapter Summary: “Mastering the Mindset”

Key Plot Points and Events

• News spreads that Heavy Pupil User, revealed to be Fang Yi, has begun challenging the Illusion Sea after leaving Chaos City. Many geniuses, Universe Country Lords, and powerful human factions enter the Virtual Universe to observe him.
• Observers speculate that Fang Yi might surpass Bolan’s record of the seventh island, with some estimating that he could reach the ninth or thirteenth island.
• Fang Yi rapidly surpasses expectations. He clears the thirteenth island and continues through the fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth islands despite increasingly crushing pressure and powerful illusions.
• The Virtual Universe Company becomes alarmed by his progress and orders the public reports to stop. Access to Fang Yi’s Illusion Sea viewing plane is also restricted, allowing only the company’s upper echelons to investigate his results.
• On the eighteenth island, Fang Yi faces an illusion in which he is gravely wounded and surrounded by hundreds of thousands of enemies. Despite appearing near death, he refuses to surrender and destroys the illusion.
• Fang Yi reaches the nineteenth island, where he is confronted by visions of failure, abandonment, death, and giving up his martial path. Recognizing the illusion’s flaws, he rejects fear and surrender, shatters the illusion, and advances to the twentieth island.

Character Developments

• Fang Yi: Demonstrates extraordinary consciousness, willpower, and mental resilience. His progress reveals that his strength is not based solely on talent or law comprehension, but on a uniquely disciplined and fearless state of mind. Even when exhausted or confronted with certain death, he maintains his resolve to fight until the end.
• Luo Feng: Learns of Fang Yi’s astonishing progress and is increasingly shocked as Fang Yi surpasses his expectations. Luo Feng’s own Illusion Sea record ends at the tenth island, making Fang Yi’s achievement of the seventeenth—and potentially higher—especially overwhelming.
• Bolan: Closely monitors Fang Yi’s challenge because both the Illusion Sea and consciousness-based cultivation are relevant to his own development.
• Rong Jun: Discusses Fang Yi’s potential with his teacher and realizes that Fang Yi’s terrifying talent justifies expectations of reaching the thirteenth island or beyond.
• Babata: Provides Luo Feng with updates and recognizes that the Virtual Universe Company’s secrecy likely means Fang Yi has progressed beyond the publicly announced seventeenth island.
• Virtual Universe Company officials: Become highly interested in Fang Yi after witnessing results that appear unprecedented, treating him as a rare and potentially extraordinary genius.

Significant Themes

• The power of will and consciousness: The Illusion Sea emphasizes that talent and combat ability alone are insufficient; mental strength determines whether one can withstand overwhelming pressure and psychological attacks.
• Mastery of the mind: Fang Yi’s training in thought, consciousness, and state of mind allows him to recognize illusions and maintain control even when facing despair.
• Refusal to surrender: Fang Yi’s personal creed is central: he will not fear, yield, or accept defeat before death. His determination transforms seemingly certain defeat into victory.
• Individuality of the martial path: Fang Yi’s state of mind differs from Luo Feng’s and Hong’s. His mentality combines sharpness, tolerance, and an unyielding will, emphasizing that each powerful cultivator develops a unique path.
• The limits of human potential: Fang Yi’s rapid advancement shocks the observers and challenges their assumptions about what a human genius can achieve.

Character Interactions

• Luo Feng and Babata discuss Fang Yi’s challenge, with Babata dramatically revealing that Fang Yi has reached the seventeenth island and may have gone even farther.
• Bolan and Fang Yi’s fellow cultivator, Fang Yi, are associated with cultivation in the Primeval Secret Realm, while Bolan watches Fang Yi’s progress with particular interest.
• Rong Jun asks his Universe Country Lord teacher to estimate Fang Yi’s potential. The teacher predicts the thirteenth island, only for Fang Yi to far exceed that estimate.
• The old man in black scale armor oversees the Illusion Sea and becomes increasingly stunned as Fang Yi clears island after island, eventually losing his composure at Fang Yi’s achievements.
• Powerful figures and geniuses attempt to watch Fang Yi directly, but the Virtual Universe Company blocks them, heightening the mystery surrounding his ultimate result.

Chapter Summary: “Heavy Pupils See Through Falsehood”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Fang Yi’s rapid progress through the Illusion Sea attracts the attention of the Virtual Universe Company, which temporarily seals the news and sends several powerful experts to observe him.
• By reaching the twentieth island, Fang Yi has already achieved a result beyond the expectations of most observers. Gui Yi Venerable and Nine Swords Venerable discuss the need to protect him from hostile alien races.
• On the twentieth island, Fang Yi faces a lifelike illusion of battling a Golden Horned Behemoth. The illusion attempts to convince him that he cannot access the power of his Supreme Bone.
• Fang Yi’s Heavy Pupils see through and destroy the illusion, proving that ordinary illusions cannot affect him. He then advances to the final island.
• Meanwhile, Fang Yi’s other body continues fighting in the Giant Star Sea, slaughtering large numbers of fifth-level Domain Lord exotic beasts and collecting Blood Eagle Stones.
• Fang Yi reveals that he has been using disguises and soul control to lure numerous enemies toward the Sacred Eagle Hall, where he plans to eliminate them together and gather more Sacred Eagle Stones.
• On the twenty-first island, Fang Yi withstands pressure comparable to that of a Universe Venerable. Although another illusion attacks him, his Heavy Pupils immediately expose and shatter it.
• Fang Yi successfully clears all twenty-one islands of the Illusion Sea in one continuous run, shocking the observing Venerables and setting an unprecedented record.
• After returning to his residence, Fang Yi reflects on the impact of his achievement. He believes his reputation as an extraordinary genius will make the result appear plausible rather than suspicious.
• He checks his cultivation Interface and discovers that his Supreme Bone has reached 100% completion, while his genetic level remains at 100 times. Concerned that this is insufficient compared with powerful races and special lifeforms, he decides to explore other secret realms for opportunities to improve.

Character Developments

• Fang Yi: Demonstrates overwhelming willpower, consciousness, and resistance to mental illusions. His Heavy Pupils are revealed to possess a powerful ability to distinguish truth from falsehood. He also shows strategic thinking by manipulating enemy forces and planning future battles carefully.
• Gui Yi Venerable: Becomes openly proud of Fang Yi and regards him as potentially the greatest human genius of the current era.
• Nine Swords Venerable: Acknowledges Fang Yi’s extraordinary talent and implies that Fang Yi may soon need to return to Chaos City for further development or protection.
• Perfect: Shows concern for Fang Yi’s deteriorating condition while controlling his other body, but continues to trust his judgment and follow his orders.
• The observing Venerables: Shift from curiosity to astonishment, recognizing that Fang Yi’s achievements may indicate the emergence of a future Universe Master.

Significant Themes

• Truth versus illusion: The chapter centers on the Heavy Pupils’ ability to expose falsehood. Fang Yi’s calm perception allows him to reject even perfectly realistic illusions.
• Exceptional genius and destiny: Fang Yi’s achievements place him beyond the standards of ordinary geniuses and suggest that he may become a major figure of the Human Race.
• Pressure as an opportunity for growth: Rather than avoiding danger, Fang Yi deliberately uses difficult battles and secret realms to temper himself.
• Strategic concealment: Fang Yi understands the dangers of revealing too much and uses his established reputation to make his increasingly shocking accomplishments seem natural.
• The limits of current power: Although Fang Yi has completed his Supreme Bone and reached a powerful genetic level, he recognizes that he still falls behind stronger races and special lifeforms, motivating his continued search for advancement.

Important Character Interactions

• The Venerables discuss Fang Yi’s achievements and agree that he must be closely protected because alien races may target him.
• Gui Yi praises Fang Yi’s performance, while Nine Swords compares him favorably even with legendary geniuses such as Kedi.
• Perfect urges Fang Yi to rest because of his poor condition, but Fang Yi insists on continuing his mission and explains his plan to gather enemies at Sacred Eagle Hall.
• The observing Venerables react with disbelief when Fang Yi reaches the final island and later celebrate when he clears the entire Illusion Sea.
• After the Venerables leave, the scaled guardian privately marvels at Fang Yi’s unprecedented talent and wonders whether he may eventually become a Universe Master.

Chapter Summary: “Eve of the Hunt”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Numerous forces from more than twenty empires converge on the Sacred Eagle Hall in the Giant Star Sea, preparing to synthesize materials gathered during the Eagle-Slaying Festival.
• The Holy Ling Empire, led by Youla, waits near the hall. Youla reassures the worried Domain King expert Chuste that Fang Yi—whom she calls “Brother Ryan”—will soon join them and that there is no need to act prematurely.
• Fang Yi is hunting exotic beasts in a marsh lake while secretly using his soul-based secret art to read the thoughts and memories of people he has influenced, including Youla and members of other empires.
• Through these memories, Fang Yi learns that Sacred Eagle Halls, also known as Shadow Halls, appear in different locations and may contain rare synthesis opportunities involving special Sacred Eagle Stones.
• With hundreds of people gathering around the hall, Fang Yi decides the time is right to begin his operation. His intelligent companion Perfect maps the nearby forces and identifies forty-four mid-stage Domain Lords gathered around the hall.
• Perfect warns Fang Yi that the Giant Axe Coliseum’s pursuers have likely entered the region. These elite disciples possess peak Domain Lord strength and may even threaten low-stage World Lords.
• Outside the secret realm, the pursuers organize under Ke’erqin. After decades of failing to capture Fang Yi because of his exceptional concealment and escape abilities, they divide their forces among higher-level secret realms and establish perimeter support.
• Fang Yi approaches the Sacred Eagle Hall, killing attacking exotic beasts with ease and collecting their Blood Eagle Stones.
• The hall is revealed as a massive complex with multiple castles, ninety-six protected walkways, and a divine eagle statue surrounded by crimson-golden energy similar to the power of the Blood Eagle Stones.
• Using his Heavy Pupil’s World Analysis, Fang Yi surveys the area and detects 537 potential targets, most of them concentrated to the east and south. Their equipment is mostly standard Domain Lord-grade gear, disappointing his hopes of obtaining valuable items.
• Before entering the hall’s range, Fang Yi activates his soul-based art and begins influencing or controlling members of the various imperial teams. Several people briefly show unnatural, puppet-like reactions, but the disturbance passes unnoticed.

Character Developments

• Fang Yi demonstrates increasing confidence and strategic control. He carefully gathers information before acting, hunts beasts casually, evaluates the strength and equipment of nearby enemies, and begins manipulating the gathered forces on a large scale.
• Perfect acts as Fang Yi’s tactical assistant and shows concern for his safety, especially because of the approaching elite pursuers. Its detection and calculation abilities complement Fang Yi’s Heavy Pupil.
• Youla remains loyal and trusting toward Fang Yi, defending the decision to wait for him despite the dangers surrounding the Sacred Eagle Hall.
• Chuste emerges as a cautious and experienced Domain King who recognizes the danger posed by the huge number of forces gathering nearby.
• Ke’erqin is revealed as a determined and frustrated pursuer. Although he suppresses his anger, decades of failure have intensified his resolve to capture Fang Yi.

Significant Themes

• Preparation versus action: Both Fang Yi and his pursuers spend the chapter gathering information, positioning forces, and waiting for the right moment before committing to a confrontation.
• Concealment and deception: Fang Yi’s ability to disguise himself, evade detection, and secretly control others contrasts with the pursuers’ own disguises and coordinated infiltration.
• Information as power: Memories, surveillance, detection techniques, and Perfect’s calculations allow Fang Yi to understand the battlefield before making a move.
• Hunting and predation: The chapter frames Fang Yi as both hunter and hunted. He hunts exotic beasts and nearby targets while the Giant Axe Coliseum’s elites relentlessly track him.
• Hidden opportunities: The mysterious Sacred Eagle and Shadow Halls suggest that the secret realm contains discoveries and rewards beyond the known festival objectives.

Character Interactions

• Youla and Chuste discuss whether the Holy Ling Empire should wait near the Sacred Eagle Hall; Youla persuades him that Fang Yi will arrive and that they should remain patient.
• Fang Yi indirectly observes and absorbs Youla’s thoughts and memories, gaining information without her realizing it.
• Fang Yi and Perfect coordinate closely as they assess enemy positions, equipment, and the approaching pursuers. Perfect warns him, while Fang Yi calmly orders it to continue monitoring the enemy.
• Ke’erqin directs the scarred subordinate and the other elite disciples, assigning them to investigate different secret realms and maintain a perimeter around the region.
• Fang Yi’s unseen influence begins affecting the gathered imperial teams, setting the stage for a large-scale ambush or confrontation at the Sacred Eagle Hall.

Chapter Summary: Sacred Eagle’s Killing Field

Key Plot Points and Events

• Fang Yi arrives alone at the Sacred Eagle Hall, where more than 1,700 people from various empires have gathered.
• Rather than entering immediately, he circles the hall and deliberately allows others to believe he is carrying a large supply of Blood Eagle Stones.
• Using a secret bewitching technique, Fang Yi’s servants spread rumors that he is a wealthy “scavenger.” Greed and the promise of helping their empires obtain Sacred Eagle Stones cause numerous teams to pursue him.
• Fang Yi secretly deploys fragments of the Space-Time Divine Weapon around the area, concealing them with his Double Pupil Illusion. These fragments are prepared to form a massive spatial barrier.
• Herlan suddenly appears and seemingly kills Fang Yi with a devastating axe strike. Fang Yi’s armor shatters, his body is cleaved in half, and thousands of Blood Eagle Stones pour from his Space Ring.
• The apparent Blood Eagle Stones incite hundreds of people to attack Herlan and one another. Herlan is overwhelmed and apparently killed in the ensuing chaos.
• The conflict spreads throughout the area as additional factions rush toward the treasure.
• Fang Yi’s hidden Space-Time Divine Weapon units activate, forming a huge barrier that traps the combatants inside.
• The crowd eventually realizes that the Blood Eagle Stones are illusions: they can sense them but cannot touch them. The survivors understand that Fang Yi has deceived them and attempt to escape or call for help.
• Just as the trapped factions prepare to attack the barrier, a powerful treasure-technique aura and thunderous footsteps emerge from within the crowd, setting up the chapter’s cliffhanger.

Character Developments

• Fang Yi demonstrates exceptional strategic planning, using misinformation, psychological manipulation, illusion, and advanced space-time techniques to control the battlefield before launching his attack.
• His mastery of the Space-Time Divine Weapon reveals that his abilities far exceed what Perfect previously believed. His true law comprehension has reached the Immortal level, though this remains unknown to her.
• Perfect becomes increasingly impressed by Fang Yi’s strength and tactical skill, reassessing his chances of surviving against groups of ninth-stage Domain Lords.
• Herlan is presented as a seemingly greedy and aggressive attacker, apparently attempting to seize Fang Yi’s Blood Eagle Stones. His role appears to be part of Fang Yi’s larger trap, though the chapter leaves his exact fate uncertain.

Significant Themes

• Greed and temptation: The promise of thousands of Blood Eagle Stones causes powerful warriors to abandon caution and attack one another.
• Manipulation and deception: Fang Yi exploits rumors, emotional influence, illusions, and false treasure to turn the gathered factions against themselves.
• Strategy over brute force: Instead of confronting more than 1,700 opponents directly, Fang Yi engineers conditions in which they weaken and destroy one another.
• The danger of unchecked ambition: The desire to gain glory for one’s empire overwhelms judgment, making the factions easy targets.
• Hidden power and misdirection: Fang Yi conceals both his true abilities and his preparations, ensuring that his enemies recognize the trap only after it has closed.

Character Interactions

• Fang Yi and Perfect discuss the number of gathered forces and the progress of the trap. Perfect admires Fang Yi’s space-time control, while Fang Yi withholds the full extent of his abilities.
• The various teams influence one another through rumors and competitive pressure, repeatedly invoking imperial glory to justify pursuing Fang Yi.
• Herlan’s apparent attack on Fang Yi triggers the mass scramble for the Blood Eagle Stones.
• Once the false treasure is revealed, the trapped warriors plead with allies outside the barrier, but those outside are unable to rescue them.
• The chapter ends with all factions reacting to an unknown figure or force approaching within the sealed killing field.

Chapter Summary:

Golden Bull Silver Eagle Statue

Key Plot Points and Events

• Fang Yi unleashes Qilin Step within the Ning Yu of Time and Space, its suppressive force overwhelming the people gathered in Sacred Eagle Hall.
• He advances through the crowd, killing hundreds of marked targets with successive steps. The fourth step causes many victims to bleed from their orifices or explode outright.
• Fang Yi ignores those who beg for mercy because he has already determined whom he intends to kill. He collects their equipment and Blood Eagle Stones.
• Observers from various empires watch in terror from outside the domain. Although they are tempted by Fang Yi’s enormous haul of Blood Eagle Stones, they hesitate to confront him directly.
• The imperial forces decide to contact other empires and form an alliance to surround Fang Yi after he exits the hall. They speculate that he may be an outsider from beyond the heavens because of his concealed identity and strange weapons.
• Fang Yi enters the inner Sacred Eagle Hall, where relief carvings describe the history of Giant Star Sea and the formation of its continents.
• Perfect interprets the carvings, explaining that two ancient creatures—an eagle-like beast and a horned bull-like beast—were mortal enemies who fought for ages before dying together.
• At the hall’s center, Fang Yi discovers a massive statue depicting the golden bull and silver eagle locked in eternal combat.
• The statue contains terrifying remnants of the creatures’ powers and appears connected to the Laws of Time and Space.
• When Fang Yi analyzes the bull side, he experiences a dangerous vision involving distorted and disordered time. Examining the eagle side similarly reveals space collapsing, twisting, and reconnecting.
• Fang Yi realizes the statue functions like a special Killing Field, demonstrating how the Laws of Time and Space oppose and overcome one another.
• Perfect urges Fang Yi to take the statue away, but Fang Yi discovers that it cannot be moved, stored in a Space Ring, or transported even with divine weapons and law-based techniques.
• Concluding that a special method must exist, Fang Yi postpones the matter and prepares to conduct the fusion ritual.

Character Developments

• Fang Yi demonstrates overwhelming combat power, ruthless decisiveness, and careful control over his objectives. He is not indiscriminately violent; he kills only those he has already marked.
• His battle technique, Qilin Step, is shown to be powerful enough to crush hundreds of Domain Lord-level individuals. Fang Yi also considers enhancing it by incorporating laws.
• Fang Yi’s understanding of the Laws of Time and Space deepens after directly experiencing the statue’s influence. He recognizes both its danger and its immense value for cultivation.
• Perfect displays unusual excitement and greed toward the statue, identifying it as a rare substance that may be extremely valuable to Fang Yi’s future development.
• Fang Yi’s servants remain absolutely loyal due to the soul-rooted secret technique. They praise him, protect his identity, and even consider luring additional enemies toward him.

Significant Themes

• Overwhelming power and fear: Fang Yi’s slaughter transforms the elegant Sacred Eagle Hall into a scene of hell, causing even powerful imperial observers to panic.
• Greed versus caution: The empires covet Fang Yi’s Blood Eagle Stones but are restrained by fear after witnessing his strength.
• Eternal conflict: The golden bull and silver eagle remain enemies even in death, symbolizing an endless struggle between opposing forces.
• The dangers of knowledge: Studying the statue grants insights into the Laws of Time and Space but risks corrupting Fang Yi’s perception and damaging his comprehension.
• Hidden value and mystery: The statue’s origin, purpose, and method of transportation remain unknown, suggesting deeper secrets within the Sacred Eagle Halls and Giant Star Sea.
• Ruthless purpose: Fang Yi remains focused on his mission, refusing distractions such as mercy, intimidation, or the potential ambush awaiting him outside.

Character Interactions

• Fang Yi shows no mercy to the groups pleading to surrender their Blood Eagle Stones, while his victims desperately call for help from powerful leaders.
• The imperial factions debate whether to attack Fang Yi, with some identifying him as a possible outsider and others advocating a large-scale ambush.
• Fang Yi and Perfect cooperate closely: Perfect analyzes the relief carvings and statue, while Fang Yi verifies its nature through the Heavy Pupil.
• Perfect becomes worried when Fang Yi suffers the statue’s temporal distortion, then eagerly encourages him to find a way to claim it.
• Fang Yi ultimately accepts Perfect’s assessment of the statue’s importance but prioritizes completing the fusion ritual first.

Chapter Summary: “Fusion of Sacred Eagle Stone”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Fang Yi and Perfect begin synthesizing Sacred Eagle Stones in the pool beneath the Sacred Eagle Hall statue.
• Fang Yi places 1,600 Blood Eagle Stones into the ritual pool and uses the Law of Space to activate the synthesis. A crimson stone forms and is purified into a transparent, silvery-white Sacred Eagle Stone containing an abstract eagle imprint.
• Fang Yi chooses to fuse the stone directly into his body rather than offer it to the empire’s royal family in exchange for rewards.
• The fusion causes severe pain, soul fluctuations, and an attempted invasion of Fang Yi’s will by a sacred, beast-like consciousness. Although the stone poses a serious threat, Fang Yi’s powerful will prevents it from controlling him.
• During the fusion, Fang Yi experiences an apparently endless battle between a silver eagle and a golden bull. He eventually realizes that the golden bull may represent another form of his own soul.
• The fusion temporarily disrupts Fang Yi’s control over his body and his perception of the Laws of Space and Time. However, he begins receiving knowledge and combat techniques related to resisting time, suggesting that the Sacred Eagle Stone is gradually integrating into him.
• The Space-Time Divine Weapon protecting Fang Yi becomes unstable during the fusion. Fang Yi’s enslaved Domain Lords attempt to exploit this weakness, but they cannot break through because of Fang Yi’s advanced comprehension of laws and preparation.
• Six pursuers from Giant Axe Coliseum arrive in the secret realm. Led by Doka, they split up to search for Fang Yi, local natives, and valuable treasures such as Sacred Eagle Stones, Sacred Te Crystals, and Tears of Entanglement.
• Fang Yi regains consciousness but realizes the fusion is incomplete. Rather than remain exposed, he synthesizes three additional Sacred Eagle Stones from the remaining Blood Eagle Stones.
• In total, Fang Yi obtains four Sacred Eagle Stones, including the one fused into his body. He plans to eliminate remaining targets in the secret realm and leave once possible.

Character Developments

• Fang Yi: Demonstrates exceptional willpower by resisting the Sacred Eagle Stone’s attempt to invade and merge with his consciousness. He endures extreme physical and spiritual pain without losing control. His fusion appears to be granting him new knowledge, particularly techniques connected to resisting or manipulating time, though it temporarily weakens his bodily control and law perception.
• Perfect: Remains highly attentive and worried throughout the fusion, monitoring Fang Yi’s condition and recording information about the Sacred Eagle Stone. Perfect’s concern highlights its loyalty and dependence on Fang Yi.
• The pursuers: Reveal their experience and confidence as elite special-forces members. They regard the local inhabitants as manageable threats but recognize that the secret realm’s treasures and alliances may complicate their mission.

Significant Themes

• Power and danger of assimilation: The Sacred Eagle Stone offers immense potential but attempts to invade the user’s will, showing that gaining power requires risking one’s identity and autonomy.
• Strength of will: Fang Yi’s greatest defense is not merely physical strength or law comprehension, but his extraordinarily firm will.
• Transformation through conflict: The internal battle between the eagle and bull symbolizes the struggle and integration of different forces within Fang Yi’s soul.
• Preparation and strategic caution: Fang Yi refuses to wait passively for the fusion to finish. He prepares additional resources and plans an early departure because he understands his vulnerable condition.
• Competition over rare resources: Both Fang Yi and the pursuing forces seek Sacred Eagle Stones and related treasures, emphasizing the broader struggle among outsiders, empires, and local factions.

Character Interactions

• Fang Yi explains the synthesis process and his intentions to Perfect, who records and questions the nature of the Sacred Eagle Stone.
• Perfect remains beside Fang Yi during the dangerous fusion and anxiously asks whether he is unharmed when he awakens.
• Fang Yi reassures Perfect but immediately gives it instructions to help synthesize more stones.
• The pursuing team discusses their objectives, the value of the secret realm’s treasures, and the need to infiltrate the empire, before Doka organizes them into search groups.
• Fang Yi’s enslaved Domain Lords attempt to attack the weakened Space-Time Divine Weapon, but their efforts fail.