Chapter Summaries

Chapter Summary: “The Pursuers Arrive”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Fang Yi stores the three Sacred Eagle Stones in his Space Ring and leaves Sacred Eagle Hall after completing the initial fusion process.
• Outside, Imperial forces notice that the Space-Time Divine Weapon protecting the hall is weakening. They launch another coordinated attack, believing they may finally be able to break through.
• Fang Yi recalls the damaged weapon and creates numerous Illusion Technique clones to conceal his true location. The Imperial forces initially believe he may have completed his fusion, but some correctly suspect that he is still weakened.
• Dozens of identical Fang Yi figures scatter in different directions. The Imperial forces pursue them, motivated by the chance to recover the Sacred Eagle Stones and earn rewards from the king.
• As more Imperial teams converge on Sacred Eagle Hall, the Pursuer Squad—led by Doka—investigates. Unable to locate Fang Yi directly, they capture a group of local natives and extract one survivor’s memories.
• The Pursuer Squad learns that a powerful outsider using a Space-Time Divine Weapon recently appeared at Sacred Eagle Hall. Doka concludes that Fang Yi is likely nearby and orders the other squads to surround and intercept him.
• The Pursuer Squad demonstrates overwhelming power, annihilating several groups of local natives. Doka kills most of one group with a single attack combining the Laws of Thunder and Time.
• Fang Yi notices the pursuers chasing his clones. Rather than fight them directly, he uses enslaved individuals under his secret arts to disrupt the pursuit and create distance.
• Fang Yi tells Perfect that he is still recovering and should conserve his strength. He plans to gather the remaining Blood Eagle Stones, hide temporarily, and investigate Shadow Hall.
• Perfect then detects six unusual figures approaching Sacred Eagle Hall. She realizes they are not local natives but the long-awaited pursuers, confirming that the Pursuer Squad has arrived.

Character Developments

• Fang Yi: Reveals his caution and strategic thinking. Though powerful, he recognizes that his fusion is incomplete and his control over the laws has not returned to its former level. Instead of wasting energy fighting the Imperial forces, he relies on clones, deception, and controlled subordinates to escape.
• Perfect: Continues acting as Fang Yi’s loyal assistant and sensor. She is eager to eliminate their enemies but follows Fang Yi’s more cautious approach. Her detection abilities become crucial in identifying the approaching pursuers.
• Doka: Establishes himself as a highly capable and ruthless leader. He remains rational even after obtaining information about Fang Yi, immediately organizing a coordinated pursuit rather than acting impulsively.
• The Imperial forces: Their greed and ambition overcome their fear of Fang Yi. The possibility of obtaining the Sacred Eagle Stones and receiving the king’s favor drives them to attack despite knowing the danger.
• Local natives: They are shown to be severely outmatched by the Pursuer Squad. Their confidence in numbers and coordinated tactics collapses instantly against the squad’s superior strength.

Significant Themes

• Strategy over brute force: Fang Yi’s escape depends on illusion, misdirection, and resource management rather than direct combat.
• Greed and ambition: The Imperial forces risk their lives for the Sacred Eagle Stones, hoping for wealth, status, and rewards.
• The danger of incomplete power: Fang Yi is formidable but understands that his unfinished fusion makes reckless battles dangerous.
• Predator and prey: The chapter reverses expectations as both the Imperial forces and the Pursuer Squad hunt Fang Yi, while Fang Yi manipulates them into chasing false targets.
• Information as power: The Pursuer Squad’s memory extraction and Perfect’s detection abilities show how intelligence and identification are as important as combat strength.
• Hidden mysteries: Fang Yi’s desire to find Shadow Hall and the mysterious force seemingly guiding him suggest deeper secrets within the secret realm.

Character Interactions

• Fang Yi and Perfect discuss the pursuit, with Perfect urging him to eliminate the attackers and Fang Yi explaining why conserving energy is more important.
• Doka commands the Pursuer Squad to investigate Sacred Eagle Hall, extract memories, and coordinate a large-scale encirclement of Fang Yi.
• The local natives attempt to organize a group defense against Doka and his squad, but their tactics fail almost immediately.
• A captured native pleads for his life, but the Pursuer Squad extracts his memories and kills him afterward.
• The chapter ends with Perfect warning Fang Yi that the approaching figures are the true pursuers, setting up a potential confrontation.

Chapter Summary: “Breaking the Hand of Time”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Fang Yi uses his Heavy Pupil to detect six concealed members of the Giant Axe Coliseum’s Pursuer Squad approaching him. Their stealth devices are powerful enough to evade ordinary perception.
• The squad identifies Fang Yi despite his altered appearance and activates six fragments of the Twelve-Sided Zen Mirror. Together, the fragments create a thousand-meter domain designed to trap powerful experts.
• Perfect explains that the complete mirror array can imprison Immortal-level beings, while the six fragments currently available are sufficient to restrain peak World Lords. Fang Yi is further disadvantaged because his fusion with the Sacred Eagle Stone limits his ability to use laws.
• Rather than flee, Fang Yi decides to test his combat ability while weakened. The pursuers attack simultaneously with weapons, genetic energy, and laws.
• Fang Yi responds by creating a mysterious world through his Heavy Pupil. The world blocks their attacks, expands, and traps all six pursuers. It is far more dangerous than an ordinary World Lord’s world projection, gradually refining and weakening anyone inside it.
• Doka and the others resist using World Lord-grade armor, powerful weapons, and specialized techniques. Fang Yi engages them directly while shrinking and controlling the Heavy Pupil world.
• Fang Yi observes that the six are exceptionally skilled and possess combat power far beyond ordinary Domain Lords. He also recognizes that they are fellow Giant Axe Coliseum members, meaning he cannot casually kill them under the mission’s rules.
• During a clash with Doka, Fang Yi’s body suddenly loses control of one arm. The arm transforms into a silver-scaled eagle claw and effortlessly dismantles Doka’s devastating lightning-and-time attack.
• Fang Yi realizes that the Sacred Eagle Stone has reacted instinctively to the Law of Time, likely because of its connection to the mysterious Golden Bull/eagle beast. The fusion has granted him a power capable of breaking Laws of Time beneath its level, though Fang Yi remains uncertain whether the phenomenon is beneficial or dangerous.
• Fang Yi follows up by unleashing the sixth form of the Yan God Weapon, Self-Formed World, filling the Heavy Pupil world with thousands of golden swords and preparing an even stronger attack.

Character Developments

• Fang Yi: Demonstrates calmness, tactical awareness, and confidence despite being weakened. He uses the battle to evaluate his reduced strength and discovers an unpredictable new ability resulting from the Sacred Eagle Stone fusion. His control over his own body is becoming uncertain, increasing the danger surrounding the fusion.
• Perfect: Provides crucial information about the Twelve-Sided Zen Mirror and recognizes the seriousness of Fang Yi’s weakened condition. Her fear and concern emphasize the potential danger of the Sacred Eagle Stone.
• Doka: Revealed as the leader of the Pursuer Squad and an elite combatant with a powerful lightning-and-time technique. His confidence turns to disbelief and horror when Fang Yi’s transformed arm destroys his ultimate attack.
• The Pursuer Squad: Initially confident because of their superior equipment, training, and coordinated tactics, they become increasingly alarmed by the unusual nature of Fang Yi’s Heavy Pupil world and its refining power.

Significant Themes

• Strength under restriction: Fang Yi is forced to fight while unable to fully use his laws, highlighting the importance of adaptability, physical power, defensive treasures, and combat experience.
• The unpredictability of power: The Sacred Eagle Stone grants Fang Yi extraordinary abilities, but its influence can override his actions without warning. Its benefits are inseparable from the danger of losing control.
• Misunderstood identity and strength: The pursuers mistake Fang Yi’s Heavy Pupil world for a World Lord’s world projection, underestimating the distinct and unusual nature of his abilities.
• Elite conflict within shared allegiance: Although the pursuers are enemies in the current confrontation, they are all connected to the Giant Axe Coliseum. This shared affiliation imposes restrictions on killing and complicates the battle.
• Power beyond conventional laws: Fang Yi’s transformed arm can directly dismantle a powerful Law of Time attack, suggesting that the Sacred Eagle Stone operates on a level outside the pursuers’ normal understanding.

Character Interactions

• Perfect warns Fang Yi about the mirror array and his weakened condition, while Fang Yi reassures her that the situation is manageable.
• Doka taunts and challenges Fang Yi after finally locating him, while Fang Yi silently evaluates the squad’s strength rather than responding emotionally.
• Fang Yi and Doka engage in repeated close combat, with the other five pursuers coordinating attacks around them.
• The pursuers comment on Fang Yi’s strange world projection as they fight, expressing both admiration and concern.
• Doka’s ultimate attack is broken by Fang Yi’s uncontrolled Sacred Eagle Stone power, shocking both sides and dramatically shifting the battle’s momentum.
• The chapter ends with Fang Yi preparing Self-Formed World, signaling that the confrontation is about to escalate further.

Chapter Summary: “Forces Converge”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Fang Yi and his five pursuers are caught inside a powerful Sword World created from the Law of Gold and supported by the Law of Space. Doka’s team struggles to withstand the countless sword-energy attacks.
• Fang Yi combines the Sword World with his Heavy Pupil’s small world, trapping all six pursuers. Although he could seriously injure or kill them, he carefully controls his strength to avoid violating the mission’s restrictions.
• Fang Yi refuses to immediately collect the six broken mirror fragments surrounding the battlefield. He reasons that doing so would prevent the pursuers from using the remaining fragments later. Instead, he plans to gather all twelve fragments at once and obtain the complete Immortal-level treasure.
• While the six pursuers remain trapped, Fang Yi uses the Space-Time Divine Weapon and World Analysis to identify a weakness in the fragment domain. He successfully tears open a breach and escapes.
• Doka’s team sends coded messages to the other pursuers, warning them that Fang Yi is far stronger than expected—at least a Peak World Lord with exceptional skill in the Yan Shen Armament, a powerful World Projection, and the ability to unravel or counter Laws.
• The surrounding pursuers decide that they must regroup and attack Fang Yi with a much larger force.
• Fang Yi determines that the secret realm is no longer safe and plans to leave it, then enter the more dangerous World Lord-level secret realm. He suspects that a Shadow Hall and other important secrets may be hidden there.
• Fang Yi escapes toward the realm’s exit while local teams watch helplessly. The imperial forces become enraged over the outsiders’ theft of Blood Eagle and Sacred Eagle Stones and begin mobilizing to block his departure.
• Doka’s team eventually breaks free using World Break, but Fang Yi has already escaped. Doka orders them to retrieve the mirror fragments and regroup with at least half of their forces before confronting Fang Yi again.
• The local teams decide to pursue the outsiders and assist the Alliance, hoping to gain credit or recover treasures. Fang Yi learns of their movements through his hidden servants and realizes that many forces are converging at the exit.

Character Developments

• Fang Yi demonstrates overwhelming combat ability, precise control, and strategic patience. Rather than simply defeating his opponents, he carefully preserves the situation so he can later acquire the complete mirror treasure.
• He also shows growing interest in higher-level treasures, particularly major treasures and Supreme Treasures, while relying on his analytical abilities to overcome the current fragment domain.
• Perfect remains enthusiastic and treasure-focused, urging Fang Yi to collect the mirror fragments immediately. He accepts Fang Yi’s more strategic plan and continues to admire his master’s foresight.
• Doka shifts from confidence to caution. After experiencing Fang Yi’s techniques firsthand, he recognizes that the target is far more dangerous than anticipated and takes command of a broader regrouping effort.
• The imperial princess is revealed to be under severe pressure. She needs to obtain a Sacred Eagle Stone for her father in order to preserve the possibility of seeing her mother again, adding a personal and emotional motivation to the larger conflict.

Significant Themes

• Strategic restraint versus immediate gain: Fang Yi sacrifices a short-term opportunity to obtain six fragments because he believes the complete set will be far more valuable.
• Escalation of conflict: What began as a pursuit by one team develops into a large-scale confrontation involving Doka’s forces, Alliance reinforcements, and the secret realm’s local inhabitants.
• Power and adaptability: Fang Yi’s success comes not only from superior strength but also from his ability to analyze weaknesses, counter Laws, and adapt his techniques.
• Treasure and survival: The characters are motivated by different forms of wealth—Immortal treasures, Blood Eagle Stones, Sacred Eagle Stones, and mission rewards—while also trying to survive an increasingly dangerous pursuit.
• Hidden agendas and secrets: Fang Yi’s interest in the World Lord-level secret realm and Shadow Hall suggests that the current chase is connected to deeper secrets within the realm.

Character Interactions

• Fang Yi and Perfect discuss whether to take the mirror fragments, highlighting the contrast between Perfect’s immediate greed and Fang Yi’s long-term planning.
• Fang Yi’s battle with Doka’s team establishes his superiority while showing that the pursuers can endure his attacks through hidden treasures and defensive techniques.
• Doka’s coded communication spreads fear and uncertainty among the pursuers, prompting them to abandon individual action and regroup.
• Doka restrains his teammates from attacking local inhabitants for additional points, insisting that capturing Fang Yi is more important.
• The local teams, frustrated by their stolen treasures, unite in their desire to stop Fang Yi and cooperate with the Alliance.
• Fang Yi’s hidden servants keep him informed of the enemy’s movements, allowing him to anticipate the gathering forces at the exit.

Plot points and events

• Fang Yi’s fusion with the Kidney Yin Stone is restoring some of his ability to perceive and control laws. With Perfect’s help, he heads toward the secret realm’s shifting exit.
• Outside, pursuers learn that a large force from the Giant Star Sea Alliance is entering the realm. Their commander orders her troops to stop the outsiders, seize their treasures, and kill them.
• Near the exit, Fang Yi spots Princess Sophia Naren and her two servants, who are struggling to hunt beasts and have collected few Blood Eagle Stones. He considers using his mental techniques to learn what the imperial family knows about Sacred Eagle Stone fusion.
• A mysterious structure tears into the realm: Shadow Hall, a rare and valuable place of exploration. Sophia’s group wants to enter but lacks enough Blood Eagle Stones.
• Sophia invites Fang Yi to join them. He produces hundreds of stones and gives them to her, presenting himself as a loyal citizen. He joins her party under the assumed name Ryan.
• As they formalize the alliance, Perfect warns that a large force is approaching.

Character developments

• Fang Yi is regaining strength but remains calculating. He uses his imperial identity and generous act to gain access to Sophia’s group, while privately believing he can reclaim what he gives them.
• Sophia is eager to explore Shadow Hall but is conscious of her low status. Her lack of an official royal title embarrasses her, and Fang Yi’s unexpected generosity visibly affects her.
• Perfect continues to support Fang Yi with navigation and timely warnings.
• The Alliance commander is introduced as ambitious and ruthless, treating the outsiders’ treasures and lives as a means of advancing her rank.

Character interactions

• Fang Yi and Perfect coordinate their escape, then assess the threat posed by the arriving Alliance force.
• Fang Yi observes Sophia and her servants before they approach him; both sides see potential benefit in cooperating to explore Shadow Hall.
• Sophia offers terms for Fang Yi’s help, but he gives her the stones without asking for payment, gaining her gratitude and trust.
• Fang Yi adopts the role of Sophia’s protector, while keeping his real motives concealed.

Significant themes

• Trust and manipulation: Fang Yi’s apparent loyalty masks a strategic plan.
• Status and recognition: Sophia’s lack of a royal title shapes her insecurity and how she is perceived.
• Ambition and power: The Alliance commander’s pursuit of rank contrasts with Fang Yi’s opportunistic pragmatism.
• Risk and opportunity: Shadow Hall’s sudden arrival forces Fang Yi to reconsider leaving the realm.

Key plot points and events

• The sudden appearance of the Shadow Hall draws Fang Yi, his pursuers, the imperial forces, and the Alliance toward it. The hall is a rare phenomenon said to contain exotic beasts and a ritual for transforming collected crystals into a powerful sacred stone.
• Doka’s pursuers debate whether to continue hunting Fang Yi or investigate the hall. Believing Fang Yi may still be nearby, they choose to enter, while agreeing to leave if their target is spotted.
• The imperial forces and the Alliance also redirect their attention to the hall. The Alliance leader orders some troops to guard the secret realm’s outskirts while the rest explore.
• Fang Yi and Princess Sophia reach the hall first. Sophia uses a secret invocation to open a passage into it; Fang Yi’s Heavy Pupil Analysis deciphers her words as an appeal to a “Mighty Beast of Time” and the “Heavenly Golden Bull.”
• Inside, the group travels through an ancient corridor overlooking a lifeless star-filled realm. Sophia warns that the powerful beasts there can sense anyone observing them. Fang Yi glimpses a huge, distant creature but looks away.
• Sophia explains their plan: seek lower-level Holy Bull Beasts and gather blood bull crystals, which can be turned into a Sacred Te Crystal through a ritual. The realm’s uneven flow of time lets the group exit the hall quickly.
• They arrive in a sparse asteroid region and land in mountainous terrain. A horned, python-like beast erupts from underground. Time distortion impedes the group’s escape, and the creature—revealed to be World Lord Fourth Order—attacks Fang Yi with a barrage of stones.

Character developments and interactions

• Fang Yi remains alert and curious, using his analytical ability to decode Sophia’s invocation. Though he heeds her warning about the distant beast, he is eager to test himself against powerful creatures.
• Sophia takes charge, choosing a fast route into the hall and guiding the group. She shares crucial knowledge about the realm and its hazards, and warns Fang Yi not to stare at its beasts.
• Doka shows caution and decisiveness: despite the mission to capture Fang Yi, he prioritizes exploring the rare hall while keeping the option to abandon it if Fang Yi appears.
• Perfect records the invocation and Sophia’s explanations, supporting Fang Yi’s investigation.
• Sophia and Fang Yi cooperate closely, while her two servants follow and help protect the group. Their teamwork is immediately tested by the sudden beast attack.

Significant themes

• Competing goals and opportunism: Multiple factions set aside their original plans to pursue the rare opportunity offered by the Shadow Hall.
• Dangerous curiosity: Observation itself can alert the beasts, making knowledge-gathering a risk.
• Time and space as hazards: The realm’s shifting time rates shape travel and combat, leaving the group vulnerable.
• Discovery and hidden knowledge: Fang Yi’s analysis reveals meaning behind Sophia’s secret language and exposes the realm’s mysteries.

Key plot points and events

• Fang Yi blocks a World Lord-level Horned Giant Python’s time-affecting attack, though a mysterious power takes control of his arms and moves his body without his input.
• He fights the python using unfamiliar but highly effective combat instincts, weakening its defenses and exploiting its vulnerabilities. He ultimately disrupts its attempt to unleash a World Projection with a mental attack and kills it.
• Fang Yi collects crystals from the beast. They resemble Blood Eagle Stone but contain traces of time and space laws, prompting him and Perfect to suspect the crystals may be ingredients in a synthesis process—and that a statue on a ritual altar may be more important.
• Fang Yi learns that Alliance forces and other outsiders have entered the Shadow Hall. A black-clad commander sends soldiers inside to gather materials and hunt the outsiders, intending to use forces from rival empires as pursuit squads.
• Fang Yi takes charge of the group’s next steps: Sophia will use her beast-attracting incantation to locate monsters, while her two servants protect her. She agrees, and Fang Yi declares that they will finish the fights quickly.
• Sophia’s incantation draws out seven more horned serpentine beasts. Fang Yi prepares to fight, again finding his arms controlled by the mysterious power. He accepts that he may need to rely on its martial instincts rather than weapons.

Character developments and interactions

• Fang Yi demonstrates overwhelming combat ability and confidence, but is frustrated by his loss of bodily control. He remains wary of Sophia and her servants, considering mind control only if necessary; for now, he sees Sophia’s status and cooperation as useful.
• Sophia grows suspicious that Fang Yi may be an outsider, especially after witnessing his strength. Though frightened and unsure whether to confront him, she decides to cooperate, judging him less cruel than the outsiders her parents described.
• Sophia’s two servants are impressed by Fang Yi’s skill but remain protective of their princess. They initially tense up when he takes command, then relax after Sophia agrees to follow his plan.
• Perfect helps Fang Yi interpret the crystals and assess the approaching forces, while also noting Sophia’s nervousness.
• The black-clad commander reveals the Alliance’s organized, coercive plan: her troops will gather materials and hunt outsiders, while other empires’ forces will be compelled to help.

Significant themes

• Power and bodily autonomy: Fang Yi’s strength is amplified by a force that controls his arms, making victory possible while depriving him of control.
• Suspicion and trust: Sophia must choose whether to trust a powerful stranger she suspects may be an outsider; Fang Yi, in turn, keeps her close but remains cautious.
• Pragmatism and exploitation: Fang Yi treats cooperation as a means to achieve his objectives, while the Alliance commander openly plans to compel rival forces.
• Adaptation and discovery: Fang Yi studies unfamiliar powers, incantations, and crystals, treating each battle and clue as part of a larger puzzle.

Fang Yi hunted powerful beasts in the Shadow Hall while Sophia and her servants followed, and his Sacred Eagle Stone fusion and awakening progress advanced. After gathering enough crystals and blood eagle stones for the synthesis ritual, Fang Yi agreed to head to the hall with Sophia’s group.

• Doka’s team entered the Shadow Hall, planned to search for Fang Yi and hunt beasts, and coordinated with the Alliance’s movements.
• Fang Yi killed more than twenty beasts, collected their crystals, and led Sophia’s group toward areas with more prey.
• A second pursuit squad entered the secret realm and set out to join Doka’s team while seeking Fang Yi.
• Fang Yi attacked a herd of forty-three beasts, including three World Lord Fifth Order Bull-Horned Python Beasts, as Sophia and her servants watched nervously.
• Fang Yi’s control of his fists began returning, and he discovered that his awakening progress had reached 90%.
• Perfect told Fang Yi that the collected crystals and blood eagle stones met the synthesis ritual’s requirements, so Sophia urged the group to hurry to the hall.

Fang Yi accompanied Sophia to the Shadow Sacred Eagle Hall, claimed the Sacred Te Crystal, and proposed a pact that could help her rise in imperial standing. In the Primeval Secret Realm, he completed a mission, read a recommendation to attempt Tongtian Mountain, and decided to go there.

• Alliance guards searched Sophia’s party with disguise-detecting instruments but found nothing unusual about Fang Yi.
• Fang Yi performed the altar ritual and kept the resulting Sacred Te Crystal, telling Sophia he would allocate some of its value to the empire.
• Fang Yi reminded Sophia that she lacked a title and merit, then proposed that they sign a formal pact; Sophia sent her two servants away and raised a soundproof barrier to speak privately.
• Fang Yi submitted his completed Heavenly Radiance Star mission and cleared his messages in the Primeval Secret Realm.
• Fang Yi read an Immortal teacher’s suggestion that he attempt Tongtian Mountain and decided to go test his strength there.