Chapter Summaries

Lin Yi awoke in his teenage body on Blue Star, seven thousand years in the past, and realized the Ancient Jade may have brought him back to life. He discovered that the Civilization Promotion Assessment was only seven days away.

• Lin Yi awoke in his old home with his memories and soul from his life as a Star Vortex Rank powerhouse intact, though he could no longer sense Source Energy.
• Lin Yi recognized that he had returned to Blue Star seven thousand years in the past and remembered the day he received his Qingteng University acceptance letter and his mother, Zhou Jinghua, gave him the Ancient Jade.
• Lin Yi recalled the Ancient Jade's unusual durability and small boost to his thinking, then wondered whether it had saved him from death and brought him back.
• The Ancient Jade cracked, crumbled into green powder in Lin Yi's palm, and vanished.
• Lin Yi checked the date, July 16, 2027, and realized only seven days remained before the Civilization Promotion Assessment.

Lin Yi recalled how the Civilization Promotion Assessment had devastated Blue Star in his previous life and realized it was also a rare chance to advance both himself and his civilization. With the assessment only seven days away, he considered the Spirit Radiance Crystals that had fueled Blue Star’s divisions and prepared to face the coming trial differently.

• Lin Yi organized what he knew about the Civilization Promotion Assessment, which would begin in seven days when an Eternal Deity’s clone enveloped Blue Star in a Divine Kingdom Projection.
• Lin Yi remembered that Blue Star had endured a thousand years of Abyss Beast attacks, earned only a Level 2 civilization rating, and become a resource planet after failing the assessment.
• Lin Yi recalled that the Humanity Supreme Council had protected fledgling human civilizations from disasters and outside threats before their promotion assessments.
• Lin Yi compared the assessment’s resources and ratings to university education, concluding that individuals had to seize the opportunity to improve their fate.
• Lin Yi remembered that Abyss Beasts produced Spirit Radiance Crystals containing valuable rewards, and that Blue Star’s leaders had split over whether to exterminate the Beasts or preserve them as a resource.

After recalling his previous life and Blue Star’s poor assessment results, Lin Yi decided to use his Star Vortex Realm foundation to pose as a local genius during the coming Civilization Promotion Assessment. He planned to show impressive potential without attracting dangerous scrutiny from the deity overseeing the assessment.

• Lin Yi remembered how Blue Star’s Grade 2 civilization rating had condemned its people to lives of forced labor, while his own Grade 4 personal rating had only earned him a limited path into the wider universe.
• He recalled surviving for over seven hundred years, reaching the Star Vortex Realm, and then being killed by an elder of the Zilies Family before he could return to change Blue Star’s fate.
• Lin Yi realized that the assessment would begin in one week and that he needed a high personal rating to improve his and Blue Star’s prospects.
• He remembered that uncovering people with the potential for a Grade 7 rating or higher earned the overseeing deity an additional reward, making exceptional performance likely to attract attention.
• Lin Yi decided to present himself as a naturally gifted Blue Star youth whose talent emerged during the disaster, while carefully concealing anything that could expose his unusual knowledge or background.

Lin Yi planned how to conceal his extraordinary abilities while preparing for the Divine Kingdom Projection and the coming Abyss Beast trial. He then persuaded his parents to hold his university admission banquet next Saturday at Hongfu Restaurant, the place and date he had chosen for the apocalypse’s arrival.

• Lin Yi decided to disguise his talents as natural genius and reveal his abilities gradually, using past Pan-Spirit Alliance Genius Tournament results as a benchmark.
• He recalled competing in the second tournament, where he placed seventy-ninth in his qualifying group but lost nine of ten preliminary matches.
• Lin Yi finished planning how to protect his loved ones while concealing his greatest secret, then contacted people from his past.
• Lin Yi helped his mother, Zhou Jinghua, prepare lunch and discussed an admission celebration with her and his father, Lin Ruiming.
• Lin Yi proposed holding the banquet next Saturday at Hongfu Restaurant, choosing the date and venue to coincide with the apocalypse.

Lin Yi chose Hongfu Restaurant for his graduation banquet because he knew it would be a safe place and an early official shelter after the apocalypse began. At a barbecue gathering, he steered his friends toward helping him acquire Dark Great Sage cosplay gear, leaving Chen Yu excited to arrange something proper.

• Lin Yi agreed with his parents to hold the graduation banquet at Hongfu Restaurant the following Saturday and began listing the people he hoped to invite.
• Lin Yi met his friends, including his loyal deskmate Chen Yu, for a barbecue after playing basketball.
• Lin Yi played a Dark Great Sage fan edit and praised the character’s armor and staff to spark his friends’ interest.
• Chen Yu showed Lin Yi a digital art book featuring the Heaven-Equaling Battle Armor.
• Lin Yi claimed he could not afford quality cosplay gear, and Chen Yu insisted that he should do the costume properly rather than use flimsy foam plastic.

Lin Yi accepted Chen Yu’s offer to commission him a set of Heaven-Equaling Battle Armor and a staff, which he planned to use to prepare for the coming apocalypse. He began practicing staff techniques at home while cultivating a cover story for his future combat skills.

• Chen Yu arranged with Master Wang to make Lin Yi titanium-alloy armor and two short staffs that could join into one.
• Lin Yi accepted Chen Yu’s gift and said he would practice a staff routine for his college admission banquet.
• After the meal, Lin Yi watched staff-fighting videos and practiced with a clothes-drying pole on the balcony.
• Zhou Jinghua found Lin Yi practicing, accepted his explanation, and told him to avoid making noise or hurting himself.
• Lin Yi continued practicing, intending to make his future skill seem like the result of role-playing and survival instincts.

Lin Yi discovered that the Ancient Jade had reappeared as a dimension within his soul and could grant brief periods of heightened comprehension. After testing it, he returned to bed with a new advantage that could help him become a genuine genius.

• Lin Yi used a self-created breathing method to condition his body before reviewing the day's gains.
• A force from deep within Lin Yi's soul drew him into a chaotic dimension, where the Ancient Jade appeared intact.
• Lin Yi learned that the jade produced Spirit Enlightenment Qi, which heightened comprehension while he absorbed it.
• Lin Yi tested a wisp of the Qi and found it granted exactly one second of enlightenment, revealing the solution to a problem from his previous life.
• Lin Yi determined that the jade regenerated one wisp of Qi per day and confirmed he could use the space through a trace of thought without affecting his body.
• Lin Yi returned to bed, realizing the jade might let him become more than a genius in appearance.

On New Era, January 1, Lin Yi celebrated his college entrance results with family and friends while remembering how many of them died after the apocalypse in his previous life. He welcomed everyone warmly at the banquet, leaving his loved ones gathered and alive around him.

• Lin Yi woke on July 24, 2027, the date he remembered as New Era, January 1, and concealed his enhanced physical condition behind a youthful smile.
• Lin Yi welcomed Zhou Jianjun's family and recalled how his uncle had protected him during the apocalypse.
• Lin Yi greeted Lin Ruiheng's family warmly despite his uncle's sarcasm, remembering that Lin Ruiheng later helped his family survive.
• Lin Yi welcomed Zhou Yuxuan, Chen Yu, Su Xiao, and Ye Qingyu, recalling their deaths after the apocalypse began.
• Lin Yi watched his parents and the gathered guests celebrate, then returned to greeting relatives and friends as the banquet continued.

At his college entrance celebration, Lin Yi thanked his family and friends before unveiling a Great Sage Equal to Heaven cosplay performance. He performed in the armor Chen Yu had prepared, and the banquet guests cheered.

• Lin Yi told his family that Chen Yu had brought him a special gift and that he would put on a show.
• Lin Yi and Chen Yu carried the titanium-alloy armor and Black Iron Staff to the lounge.
• Lin Yi toasted the guests, thanked his parents for their support, and introduced his planned performance.
• Lin Yi and Chen Yu hurriedly dressed him in the armor, and Lin Yi took the Black Iron Staff to the stage.
• Lin Yi imitated the Great Sage's opening pose and swung the staff as guests cheered.

Irelia Hina awaited the arrival of Xu Chen, the Eternal Deity overseeing Blue Star’s Civilization Promotion Assessment, hoping his favor would help her struggling family. Xu Chen delegated the formalities to her and began the standard Level 2 assessment, surrounding Blue Star with the Abyssal Realm projection.

• Irelia Hina waited in orbit above Blue Star, anxious that the assessment and her chance to aid her family depended on the arriving deity.
• Xu Chen emerged from a black spaceship, and Irelia greeted him with the Spirit Race’s formal salutation.
• Xu Chen allowed Irelia to handle the trivial matters but ignored her offer of hospitality and ordered the assessment to begin.
• The Smart Light Orb rated Blue Star’s development index at 0.73, projected its potential as Level 2, and recommended the standard low-energy procedure.
• Xu Chen approved the procedure, and the Abyssal Realm projection enveloped Blue Star, disrupting clocks and deep-space signals.

Irelia recovered from the strain of meeting Xu Chen and took charge of monitoring the Civilization Promotion Assessment, reflecting on her hopes for her family and Blue Star. On Blue Star, an overwhelming force briefly froze everyone except Lin Yi, who concealed that he remained conscious and looked toward a newsstand.

• Irelia steadied herself after leaving Xu Chen, then ordered Xingyu to analyze the assessment data in real time.
• Irelia reflected on her five-thousand-year watch over Blue Star and hoped both it and her family could find a way out of despair.
• Lin Yi watched the clock during a banquet as an immense will swept across Blue Star and froze everyone in place.
• Lin Yi kept his body still by suppressing his Star Vortex Rank soul core while his thoughts continued moving.
• When the force vanished, Zhou Jianjun sprang up to scan for danger, and Lin Yi waited before looking toward the newsstand across the street.

Abyssal Wolves poured from a Micro Nest and attacked people around Hongfu Restaurant, turning Lin Yi’s graduation banquet into chaos. When he learned his cousin Zhou Mengmeng was still outside, Lin Yi stopped Zhou Jianjun from rushing out and headed into the danger himself to rescue her.

• Corrosive Abyssal Wolves emerged from the vortex beside the newsstand and slaughtered passersby as panic spread through Hongfu Restaurant.
• Lin Yi recognized the beasts from his previous life and realized that his cousin Zhou Mengmeng had gone to the restroom and had not returned.
• Zhou Jianjun grabbed a chair and tried to rush outside, but Lin Yi stopped him and said he would go rescue Zhou Mengmeng.
• Lin Yi told Zhou Jianjun to secure the banquet hall doors and leave only the side entrance open, then rushed out of Fujin Hall.

Lin Yi fought through the panicked corridor to rescue Zhou Mengmeng from the women’s restroom and led her and several other survivors toward Fu Xiu Hall. With the Corrosive Abyssal Wolf approaching and no help expected, he left the restroom with the group to reach the banquet hall and join its defenses.

• Lin Yi directed fleeing people toward Fu Xiu Hall and other nearby rooms, then helped a fallen mother get back to her baby.
• Lin Yi reached the locked women’s restroom and reunited with Zhou Mengmeng.
• Zhou Mengmeng explained that two servers and an office worker had taken shelter with her, while the office worker could not reach emergency services.
• Lin Yi warned the group that the restroom’s flimsy door was unsafe and urged them to go to the banquet hall.
• Lin Yi led Zhou Mengmeng, the two servers, and the office worker through the corridor toward the banquet hall, warning them to stay quiet and keep back if they encountered a monster.

Lin Yi fought three Corrosive Abyssal Wolves in the hallway, killing two while the third retreated, and a gray Spirit Radiance Crystal appeared from the dead monsters. A mournful howl then sounded from downstairs.

• Three Corrosive Abyssal Wolves attacked Lin Yi and the others in the hallway.
• Lin Yi kicked a female office worker out of the path of corrosive fluid, then blocked a wolf's claws with his armor.
• Lin Yi killed the first wolf with a staff strike to its ribs and killed the second by thrusting the staff into its mouth.
• The two wolves disintegrated into ashes, leaving a gray Spirit Radiance Crystal hovering above the floor.
• The third wolf backed away into the stairwell darkness, and a mournful howl sounded from downstairs.

Lin Yi returned to Fujin Hall with Zhou Mengmeng and three other survivors after escaping a Corrosive Abyssal Wolf, bringing back two Spirit Radiance Crystals. He reunited with his family and found the hall overcome by despair as Chen Yu showed him alarming news on his phone.

• Lin Yi wrapped the two Spirit Radiance Crystals in the female office worker's scarf and led her, Zhou Mengmeng, and the two servers back toward Fujin Hall.
• Lin Yi got everyone inside the barricaded hall, where Zhou Jianjun and Lin Ruiheng secured the side door behind them.
• Lin Yi reassured Zhou Jinghua, Lin Ruiming, and Zhou Jianjun that his wounds were superficial, while Zhou Mengmeng described how he had fought the wolves.
• Lin Yi noticed the hall's fearful silence and Zhou Jianjun's concern before Chen Yu showed him something on his phone and asked if the apocalypse had begun.

Lin Yi and Chen Yu watched videos of Abyss Beasts overpowering military forces and attacking civilians, while Lin Yi recognized several monstrous creatures from his previous life. Seeing Chen Yu and the others lose hope, Lin Yi stopped him and revealed that he had killed two monsters and that they had left behind something special.

• Chen Yu showed Lin Yi footage of a giant serpent, a metallic-feathered eagle, and a colossal squid-like beast devastating military forces.
• Chen Yu showed footage of an Eastern dragon surviving a ballistic missile and destroying fighter jets with a single attack.
• Chen Yu continued showing videos of Abyss Beasts attacking civilians in streets, a subway station, and a park.
• Lin Yi noticed Chen Yu's distress, grabbed his hand to stop him scrolling, and urged everyone not to despair because the authorities still had nuclear weapons.
• Lin Yi told the group that he had killed two monsters outside and that they had left behind something special.

Lin Yi revealed that the monsters left behind crystals containing a cultivation technique and a source energy crystal, then organized the hall’s survivors to prepare for further attacks. With emergency services unreachable and one monster still missing, they began making weapons and gathering supplies.

• Lin Yi showed the group two crystals left by the monsters, and Zhou Jianjun touched one and learned it contained the Basic Source Energy Guidance Technique.
• Lin Yi touched both crystals and discovered that one held a cultivation manual and the other a Tier 1 Source Energy Crystal.
• Zhou Jianjun urged Lin Yi to learn the technique, and Lin Yi put away the Spirit Radiance Crystal after no one objected.
• Lin Yi warned the group that a monster had escaped and that emergency services could not be reached, then told everyone to alert their families and find shelter.
• Lin Yi asked Zhou Jianjun and Lin Ruiheng to organize the men to make weapons and the women to gather and sort food and water.
• Ye Qingyu gave Lin Yi water before joining Zhao Xiaowen to sort supplies, while Li Jie struggled to break a chair leg for a weapon.

Lin Yi and the people in the banquet hall received an official Abyss Tide alert and downloaded a survival guide whose revision date was 1967. While everyone copied instructions and made weapons, Lin Yi sat down to learn the Source Energy Guidance Technique, and the crystal broke in his fingers.

• Lin Yi saw his family and Chen Yu keeping busy, then retrieved his phone when a nationwide emergency alert arrived.
• Zhou Yuxuan opened the official link, and everyone downloaded the Abyss Tide Emergency Survival Guide.
• Ye Qingyu read the guide’s instruction to copy its contents onto paper, and the group gathered paper and pens.
• Li Jie noticed the guide’s 1967 revision date, and Zhou Yuxuan guessed it had been adapted from an old nuclear-war manual.
• Lin Ruiheng and Zhou Jianjun organized the group to copy the guide and make weapons while Lin Yi studied the technique.
• Lin Yi sat cross-legged and broke the Spirit Radiance Crystal between his fingers.

Lin Yi pretended to struggle with the Basic Source Energy Guidance Technique, then claimed he had learned it after three hours. When Chen Yu reported that more creatures had gathered outside, Lin Yi decided they needed to hurry and cultivate Source Energy.

• Lin Yi acted as if absorbing the Basic Source Energy Guidance Technique had overwhelmed him, while telling the others it would take time to understand.
• Lin Yi spent nearly three hours pretending to study the technique as the banquet hall worked quietly around him.
• Ye Qingyu brought Lin Yi water, and Zhou Jianjun urged him to rest rather than push himself.
• Lin Yi announced that he had more or less learned the technique and might soon try cultivating Source Energy, surprising Zhou Yuxuan and the others.
• Chen Yu spotted more creatures gathering outside, and Lin Yi suspected they had followed the beast that had fled earlier.
• Lin Yi said they could not wait any longer because cultivating Source Energy would strengthen their bodies.

Lin Yi endured the pain of absorbing a Level 1 Source Energy Crystal and revealed that Source Energy had strengthened his body. He demonstrated his new power by destroying a heavy wooden tabletop with a shot of azure light from his finger, leaving the banquet hall stunned.

• Lin Yi crushed the Spirit Radiance Crystal and formed a Source Energy Crystal, then absorbed its energy despite the intense pain.
• Lin Ruiming stopped Zhou Jinghua from rushing to Lin Yi, insisting they trust their son while he endured the process.
• Lin Yi recovered enough to create a faint blue glow at his fingertip, reassuring his worried parents that he was only exhausted.
• Lin Yi explained that Source Energy was strengthening his body and might help people resist the monsters.
• Lin Yi fired a strand of azure light at a heavy tabletop and reduced it to dust, sawdust, and splinters.