Chapter Summaries

Lin Yi accepted ninety-three missions to kill the identified Star Core Level Abyss Beasts, while the Blue Star Allied Forces began Operation Dawn and rapidly took the Large Nest. The chapter left the allied forces in control of the territory, with most of its Abyss Beasts eliminated.

• Lin Yi accepted all ninety-three extermination missions, each tied to a Star Core Level Abyss Beast and a base reward of five million Merit Points.
• Seven days later, Nie Chang directed the launch of Operation Dawn as the Blue Star Allied Forces attacked the Large Nest with conventional and Source Energy weapons.
• Chen Yu, Elizabeth, Andre, the Wildcat squad, and Zhou Yuxuan supported the assault through frontline combat and command coordination.
• Lin Yi stayed above the battlefield and told the frontline powerhouses to handle the Leader Rank Lava Mountain Behemoth themselves.
• Chen Yu, Elizabeth, Andre, and Instructor Corps members defeated the Lava Mountain Behemoth in under a minute.
• The allied forces occupied the Large Nest in less than two days and eliminated more than ninety percent of its Abyss Beasts.

The Iron Wall defense line began neutralizing the Giant Nest Vortex, drawing a massive Abyss Beast tide into a fierce assault. As the defenders fought to hold the line, Lin Yi continued intercepting every Star Core Level Abyss Beast before it could reach them.

• Engineers transformed the Giant Nest ruin into the Iron Wall defense line with Source Energy weapons and fortifications.
• Fifty Source Martial Army officers began neutralizing the Giant Nest Vortex, provoking a roar from the capital's Giant Nest and summoning an enormous beast tide.
• Nie Chang ordered the forces to maximum alert as the Iron Wall's weapons and defenders attacked the charging Abyss Beasts.
• Chen Yu, Elizabeth, Andre's squad, and the Wildcat squad fought across the defense line while Zhou Yuxuan directed the battle using Xuanji's data.
• During a brief lull, the fighters and engineers looked up at Lin Yi, who had silently cut down every Star Core Level Abyss Beast before it could reach the defense line.

After the Giant Nest’s reinforcements retreated, Nie Chang ordered the Iron Wall forces to pursue and destroy them, turning the battle into a rout. Lin Yi watched the advance with satisfaction at Blue Star’s growing tactics, but worried that its warriors were unprepared for the more complex threats of the Star Sea.

• The Giant Nest’s Abyss Beasts fled after the high-tier enemies were eliminated, and Nie Chang ordered the army to pursue them toward their lair.
• Chen Yu rallied his assault team, while tanks, artillery, towers, and other defenses attacked the retreating beasts.
• Elizabeth led her squad in formation, and Andre charged into the horde with his armored vehicle and greatsword.
• Old Cat coordinated the Wildcat squad’s pursuit as Xuanji’s combat robots joined the attack.
• Lin Yi watched the humans crush the retreating enemy and reflected that Blue Star was still unprepared for the Star Sea’s more complicated dangers.

Lin Yi planned to cultivate promising warriors from every rank as the allied army advanced to the Capital Giant Nest and destroyed it. After the victory, selected soldiers gathered at the ruins for a live Q&A with Lin Yi, which was about to begin.

• Lin Yi asked Xuanji to select outstanding warriors for personal guidance, prioritizing courage, intelligence, willpower, and potential as well as strength.
• The allied army reached the Capital Giant Nest, established a defensive perimeter, and began neutralizing its Source Energy in rotating groups.
• The coordinated Source Energy assault collapsed the Nest, earning the forces mission rewards and the “Dawn of Xia” title.
• The Wildcat squad received a special commendation and an opportunity to receive Lin Yi’s personal guidance, prompting excited posts across the forums.
• Xuanji announced a live Q&A at the Nest’s core ruins, and Lin Yi appeared before the gathered crowd and said, “Let’s begin.”

Lin Yi held a Q&A, announced the Star Core Training Class, and oversaw its first three-month training session, which sent more than seventy promising fighters back to their posts with deeper insight into the Rules. He then focused on mastering a domain and fighting Star Core-level Abyss Beasts; forty years passed as Blue Star underwent major changes.

• Lin Yi answered questions from Elizabeth, Chen Yu, Nightingale, and other fighters about mastering special techniques, understanding Rules, and advancing in rank.
• Lin Yi announced the Star Core Training Class, open to qualified members of the Blue Star Community, and applicants from across the world signed up through the Merit System.
• After Xuanji screened applicants and Lin Yi approved the list, more than seventy students gathered at East Blade Military Academy for three months of intense training.
• The students completed demanding Rules, combat, Source Energy control, and teamwork exercises, then returned to their posts with deeper understanding and renewed resolve.
• Lin Yi delegated more daily responsibilities to the systems around Nie Chang, Zhou Yuxuan, and Xuanji while pursuing his goal of mastering a domain and regularly testing himself against Star Core-level Abyss Beasts.
• Lin Yi continued alternating combat practice with sudden enlightenment and Rules comprehension, and forty years passed as Blue Star changed dramatically.

Li Wei experienced a typical day as a student in the peaceful, Source Energy-powered Commonwealth, while his parents recalled the hardships of the apocalypse and hoped he would surpass their limited cultivation. The chapter ended with the family watching news that Commander Lin Yi had emerged from seclusion, as the Commonwealth prepared new military operations and Li Wei returned to studying.

• Li Wei woke, ate breakfast with his parents, and heard about the delayed Dawn spacecraft launch and their hopes for his cultivation.
• Li Wei went to school with Wang Hao and Sun Xiaoling, where he studied the Capital Recovery Battle, struggled with Source Energy microcontrol, and attended lessons in cultivation and immersive history.
• Li Wei's parents encouraged him over dinner, and Li Liming revealed that his team's pipeline optimization earned enough Merit Points to buy Li Wei a new learning aid.
• Li Wei watched the news with his parents and learned that Commander Lin Yi had emerged from deep seclusion.
• The news announced a coming sweep near the Mount Everest Main Nest, featuring Guardian Type III combat robots and increased rewards for qualified civilian squads.

After reaching 100 percent comprehension of the Metal Element Rule and attaining Star Domain Rank, Lin Yi headed to the Main Nest at Mount Everest to test his Rule Domain. Chen Yu detected Lin Yi’s arrival and raced there to watch.

• Lin Yi reviewed Blue Star Community’s progress with Xuanji, then gave Liu Qiying and Zhou Yuxuan guidance and greater authority over strategic matters.
• Lin Yi absorbed three years of Spirit Enlightenment Qi and completed his comprehension of the Metal Element Rule, reaching 100 percent and Star Domain Rank.
• Lin Yi decided to test his Rule Domain against the Main Nest at Mount Everest and flew there at extraordinary speed.
• The Source Martial Army Third Legion detected Lin Yi’s immense Source Energy reaction near the Main Nest, and Chen Yu hurried to the site to witness what he would do.

Lin Yi tested his newly formed Metal Rule Domain above Mount Everest and erased every Abyss Beast across the Main Nest, leaving Chen Yu and the world’s leaders stunned. As Chen Yu prepared to clear the vortex, Irelia learned of Lin Yi’s breakthrough and asked Xingyu for his latest Civilization Promotion Assessment score.

• Lin Yi let Chen Yu witness his Metal Rule Domain, then erased all Abyss Beasts across the Mount Everest Main Nest and its surrounding territory.
• Chen Yu was shocked by Lin Yi’s power, then obeyed his order to organize personnel and prepare to neutralize the Main Nest vortex.
• Monitoring organizations around the world detected the vanished life signals, and Lin Yi instructed Xuanji to keep the event secret and arrange a high-level meeting.
• Irelia learned that Lin Yi had manifested a complete Metal Rule Domain with a 278.5-kilometer range and asked Xingyu to show his latest assessment score.

Irelia reviewed Lin Yi’s personal milestones and Blue Star Civilization’s progress, discovering that both were close to their next evaluation thresholds. She ordered Xingyu to monitor them closely so she could witness their expected breakthroughs.

• Xingyu reported that Lin Yi had reached 97,821,221 personal points, less than two million short of a Level 7 evaluation.
• Irelia learned that her family had withdrawn to its ancestral home and was holding off its rival, leaving her more time to seek a lasting solution.
• Irelia examined Lin Yi’s milestones and saw that several major achievements had earned him nearly twenty million points.
• Xingyu revealed that Blue Star Civilization had reached 48,710,055 points, less than 1.3 million short of a Level 4 evaluation.
• Irelia reviewed Blue Star’s civilization milestones and recognized how its rebuilding, organization, and resilience had driven its rapid progress.
• Xingyu projected that Lin Yi and Blue Star Civilization would likely cross their respective thresholds within three months, and Irelia ordered the highest-priority monitoring.

Liyue Hina learned that Irelia had invested her fortune in Lin Yi and Blue Star Civilization, then decided to relocate the Shina Family to Human Race territory and stake everything on the opportunity. On Blue Star, Lin Yi revealed that his Rule Domain had erased the Mount Everest Main Nest and called the Star Core powerhouses to prepare for a decisive battle against the five remaining Main Nests.

• Liyue Hina had Oran access Xingyu’s information and discovered that Irelia had sold her planet and requested family funds to support Lin Yi and Blue Star Civilization.
• Liyue Hina decided to offer Selina seventy billion Lanyue Crystals for the Shina Family’s ancestral home and move the family to Human Race territory, despite likely resistance from the elders and clanspeople.
• Nearly three hundred Star Core Level powerhouses gathered at Blue Star Community headquarters and questioned Chen Yu about the Abyss Beasts’ sudden disappearance at Mount Everest.
• Lin Yi arrived and explained that his Star Domain Rank Metal Element Rule Domain had erased every Abyss Beast in the Mount Everest Main Nest.
• Lin Yi urged the assembled powerhouses to stop waiting, exterminate the five remaining Main Nests, and prepare for the decisive battle.

Lin Yi led Blue Star through a global mobilization, personally annihilating the Abyss Beast Main Nests while the planet prepared its defenses for the unknown force behind them. After Blue Star destroyed its final Main Nest, its forces remained on alert, waiting for the enemy and the next stage of the struggle.

• Lin Yi announced that Blue Star would take the initiative, prompting the Blue Star Community to enter its highest state of emergency combat readiness.
• Lin Yi used his Rule Domain to erase the Eternal Frost Main Nest's Abyss Beasts, then destroyed the South Pacific, Sahara, and Siberian Main Nests over the following days.
• The Blue Star Community activated the Sky Curtain, Deep Blue Spear, Titan, and Peregrine Falcon defenses as Li Liming joined the reserves and the Wildcat Squad prepared for deployment.
• Lin Yi appeared above the final Main Nest as nearly three hundred Star Core Level powerhouses and Blue Star's military forces stood ready.
• Lin Yi erased the Abyss Beasts within the final Main Nest, and Nie Chang sent the Source Energy Neutralization Brigade to destroy its Vortex.
• Blue Star's final Main Nest vanished, but Lin Yi and the planet's defenders stayed on alert for the unknown enemy.

After the assessment, Irelia reported Blue Star’s Level 5 result to Xu Chen, who recognized how Lin Yi had unified the civilization’s competitive spirit and decided to revise its potential rating. Blue Star learned that the devastation had been part of an assessment, and Xu Chen’s reward promised to resurrect everyone who had died because of it.

• Irelia reviewed Blue Star’s final scores, reflected on the Shina Family’s decision to follow Lin Yi, and reported the assessment’s conclusion to Xu Chen.
• Xu Chen replayed the assessment and examined Blue Star’s history, concluding that Lin Yi had directed its deeply rooted competitive nature toward unified action.
• Xu Chen decided to revise Blue Star’s potential rating and sent a message announcing that its Civilization Promotion Assessment had ended with a Level 5 rating.
• Lin Yi and the people of Blue Star learned the truth about the assessment, and anger spread as they considered the deaths and destruction it had caused.
• Xu Chen announced that all intelligent life forms who died directly or indirectly because of the assessment would be resurrected.

Blue Star’s dead were resurrected after the Civilization Promotion Assessment, and Lin Yi questioned the purpose behind the reward. After being transported from the Amazon Main Nest into space, he found himself facing a mysterious figure, a Black Shuttle Spaceship, and a woman beside an Emerald Spaceship.

• Chen Yu, Elizabeth, Andre, and other Blue Star survivors reacted with shock and joy when they learned that everyone who died in the assessment could be resurrected.
• A power spread across Blue Star and brought the dead back to life in safe locations, restoring their bodies and giving them information about the past forty years.
• The resurrected learned about the Civilization Promotion Assessment, Lin Yi, and Blue Star’s new society, then began to celebrate their return.
• A global warning prohibited Blue Star residents from disclosing the resurrection reward through the Pan-Spirit Alliance Virtual Network or other means.
• An incomprehensible power transported Lin Yi from the ruins of the Amazon Main Nest into space, where he saw Blue Star, a Black Shuttle Spaceship, and a figure made of light and runes.
• Lin Yi noticed a woman in a starlight robe standing before an Emerald Spaceship as she watched him with a complicated gaze.

Lin Yi became the sixteenth direct disciple of the Eternal Deity Xu Chen, who provided him with access to the Pan-Spirit Alliance Virtual Network and guidance about the universe. As Xu Chen departed, he told Lin Yi to choose among the Human Race’s six great factions, then warned him that joining the Blood Blade Legion would only be worth considering after reaching World-Deriving Rank and growing tired of life.

• Lin Yi greeted the Eternal Deity and was praised for earning a Level 7 personal rating and leading Blue Star Civilization to a Level 5 rating.
• Xu Chen asked Lin Yi to become his disciple, and Lin Yi accepted without hesitation.
• Xu Chen revealed his name, named Lin Yi his sixteenth direct disciple, and gave him a Pan-Spirit Alliance Virtual Network login device and information about the universe and his senior disciples.
• Xu Chen told Lin Yi that the Purple Gold Star Alliance reception fleet would take more than twenty years to arrive and instructed him to prepare for his civilization’s future.
• Lin Yi asked which faction Xu Chen belonged to, and Xu Chen said Lin Yi was not yet qualified to join the Blood Blade Legion, suggesting he consider it after reaching World-Deriving Rank and tiring of life.

Lin Yi became Xu Chen’s disciple, received cultivation resources and a life-saving talisman, and returned to Blue Star with its guardian, Irelia Hina. After announcing his new status and introducing Irelia to his people, Lin Yi headed with her to the Commonwealth headquarters to discuss the Pan-Spirit Alliance and her plans.

• Xu Chen explained the Blood Blade Legion, granted Lin Yi access to the Pan-Spirit Alliance Virtual Network, gave him a talisman, and left.
• Lin Yi thanked Irelia Hina for guarding Blue Star, then invited her to visit the planet instead of relaxing aboard her ship.
• Lin Yi and Irelia returned to the ruins, where Lin Yi reassured his worried companions and announced that Xu Chen had taken him as a disciple.
• Lin Yi introduced Irelia as Blue Star’s Civilization Guardian and revealed that she was a peak Star Vortex Rank expert, prompting the crowd to thank her.
• Lin Yi ordered everyone back to Commonwealth headquarters for a victory banquet, then agreed to speak privately with Irelia about the Pan-Spirit Alliance and her family’s plans.

Irelia asked Lin Yi to shelter the Shina Family in Blue Star territory in exchange for its resources and support, and asked him to help them reclaim their homeland in the Reliate Star Domain. Lin Yi recognized Irelia as Leilina, his mercenary commander from his previous life, accepted the proposal, and promised to help the family return home when he was strong enough.

• Irelia told Lin Yi that the Shina Family was fleeing a powerful enemy and offered its resources, knowledge, and connections in exchange for Blue Star's protection and future help reclaiming the Reliate Star Domain.
• Lin Yi connected the names Reliate, Irelia, and Shina to his former commander Leilina and recalled how she had recruited, trained, and supported him in his previous life.
• Lin Yi concluded that Leilina had cared for him partly because he came from Blue Star, and reflected that her support had helped him and Blue Star succeed.
• Lin Yi accepted the Shina Family's request on behalf of himself and Blue Star Civilization.
• Lin Yi promised Irelia that Blue Star would serve as the Shina Family's rear base and that he would help them reclaim the Reliate Star Domain when he was strong enough.
• Irelia thanked Lin Yi and felt relief at his promise.

After Lin Yi’s civilization received a Level 5 assessment and he earned a Level 7 individual rating, factions across the Purple Gold Star Alliance scrambled to recruit him and contact his civilization. As a vast delegation fleet set course for Blue Star, Irelia began guiding Lin Yi through the Pan-Spirit Alliance Virtual Network.

• A bureau official discovered Blue Star’s Level 5 civilization assessment and Lin Yi’s Level 7 individual rating, then sent an urgent report to Mo Heng.
• Mo Heng ordered the official Dawn III guidance fleet to Blue Star and secretly directed the Mo Family to send gifts and a patrol fleet ahead of it.
• Major factions and five powerful Human Race organizations dispatched envoys, recruitment offers, and resources for Lin Yi, while mistakenly dismissing the Spirit Race as a distant competitor.
• A huge mixed fleet departed Zichen Star for Blue Star, carrying official representatives and competing factions’ delegations.
• At the Community headquarters, Irelia offered to teach Lin Yi how to use the Virtual Network and exchange contact imprints, then began explaining how to activate his login device.

Lin Yi entered the Pan-Spirit Alliance Virtual Network, received the assets his master had granted him, and created the contact mark “Blue of the Silver Moon.” Irelia learned that he had purple authority and transformed his blank private space into a furnished virtual home, which Lin Yi thanked her for as its details reminded him of Blue Star.

• Lin Yi connected to the Pan-Spirit Alliance Virtual Network with Irelia's guidance and summoned Xuanji.
• Xuanji retrieved Lin Yi's gifted manuals and ten million Star Crystals, and Lin Yi discovered he had purple authority.
• Lin Yi created the contact mark “Blue of the Silver Moon” and added Irelia's contact mark.
• Irelia visited Lin Yi's private space, recognized his purple authority, and offered to furnish the blank room on behalf of the Shina Family.
• Lin Yi accepted Irelia's offer, and she built a spacious virtual home with cultivation, combat, and living areas decorated with details inspired by Blue Star.
• Lin Yi thanked Irelia for the home and said its details reminded him of his hometown.

Lin Yi, newly advanced to Star Nebula level, was intercepted by the Zilies Family after witnessing its Star Domain-level elder hunt a Caslo Horned Beast. When the family discovered his ship had recorded the secret operation, Lin Yi tried to secure Blue Star’s future before the elder killed him.

• Lin Yi celebrated his breakthrough and headed for Zichen Star to certify his rank and support Blue Star’s promotion.
• Lin Yi detected a wounded Caslo Horned Beast being hunted by a Star Domain-level attacker and ordered Star Ripple to flee.
• The Zilies Family disabled Star Ripple and five Star Nebula-level warriors forced Lin Yi to submit to an inspection.
• After the family found recordings of the hunt, Lin Yi asked to reach Zichen Star so Blue Star could gain protection before he took his own life.
• The Zilies Family elder rejected Lin Yi’s request and closed his hand to kill him.

Lin Yi and Irelia Hina planned how Blue Star would establish itself among the stars by forming an independent mercenary corps, and Irelia shared the Shina Family’s strength and resources. They arrived together at Blue Star’s celebration banquet, where the people welcomed them with applause.

• Irelia advised Lin Yi that Blue Star should preserve its autonomy by creating a mercenary corps, and Lin Yi invited her to serve as its second-in-command; she accepted and asked him to call her Aili.
• Irelia told Lin Yi that the Shina Family had five Star Domain Rank powerhouses, about 280 billion Lanyue Crystals, and a migration fleet headed toward Blue Star’s region.
• Lin Yi directed Xuanji to compile information about human territory and the Purple Gold Star Alliance, while he and Irelia planned the corps’ members, missions, organization, and funding.
• Irelia left briefly to prepare a congratulatory gift before accompanying Lin Yi to the celebration banquet.
• The banquet guests greeted Lin Yi and Irelia with thunderous applause as the Blue Star Civilization celebrated its rebirth and future.