Chapter Summaries

Lin Yi and Irelia celebrated the Blue Star Civilization’s survival before its leaders discussed the dangers and opportunities of entering the Star Sea. Lin Yi announced plans for the East Blade Mercenary Corps, an alliance with the Shina Family, Blue Star’s relocation, and the civilization’s new name, Blue of the Silver Moon.

• Lin Yi addressed the celebration, and Irelia gave everyone Star Language Glazed Orchids to aid their understanding of universal laws.
• At the next day’s meeting, Li Zhenguo, Zhou Donglai, and other leaders discussed the risks of the Star Sea and agreed that Blue Star needed to build its own military strength.
• Lin Yi announced that the Shina Family would ally with Blue Star, that Irelia would serve as vice commander, and that they would establish the East Blade Mercenary Corps.
• Lin Yi outlined East Blade’s recruitment, training, and cautious expansion plans, with Irelia overseeing its day-to-day management.
• Lin Yi announced that the Purple Gold Star Alliance would relocate Blue Star and build a Star Gate in its orbit.
• Lin Yi proposed that the civilization enter the Star Sea as Blue of the Silver Moon and urged everyone to prepare.

Liyue Shina met Lin Yi through the Virtual Network and transferred one hundred billion Lanyue Crystals to fund the East Blade Mercenary Corps and Blue Star’s defenses. With the money converted and secured, Lin Yi, Liyue, and Irelia went to the Human Race Interstellar Chamber of Commerce to begin choosing equipment.

• Irelia told Lin Yi that Liyue Shina wanted to meet online and deliver funding quickly, and Lin Yi agreed to the virtual visit.
• Liyue met Lin Yi in the private space, endorsed the East Blade Mercenary Corps plan, and offered one hundred billion Lanyue Crystals.
• Lin Yi and Liyue completed a cross-species bank transfer, converting the funds into 112 million Star Crystals and granting Lin Yi four-star client status.
• Lin Yi, Liyue, and Irelia went to the Human Race Interstellar Chamber of Commerce to procure gear and a fleet for five thousand mercenaries, along with a planetary defense system.
• Consultant Old Chen led them into the Holographic Realistic Experience Zone to review equipment options.

Lin Yi and Irelia finalized more than eighty million Star Crystals’ worth of equipment for Blue Star and chose expedited delivery, which would arrive within three years. Lin Yi then announced the Dongfeng Mercenary Corps’ recruitment, and a veteran’s defiant post inspired many Blue Star Source Warriors to apply.

• Lin Yi and Irelia selected warships, combat gear, a planetary defense system, supplies, and a personal spacecraft for Blue Star.
• Lin Yi accepted Old Chen’s offer of expedited delivery for the equipment, with delivery guaranteed within three standard years.
• After returning to reality, Lin Yi ordered Xuanji to publish a worldwide recruitment notice for the Dongfeng Mercenary Corps, warning applicants that they might never return.
• Will of the Falling Star posted that he had applied as a reserve member and urged others to risk the journey into the Star Sea.
• Blue Star Source Warriors responded to the post by expressing support and submitting applications to the corps.

Nightingale joined the East Blade Mercenary Corps as a reserve member after Wildcat Squad encouraged her to pursue the Star Sea, sparking a wave of applications across Blue Star. A cup of Irelia’s Clear Radiance Dew advanced Lin Yi’s cultivation and Life Rule insight, while helping Irelia break through to Star Domain Rank; Lin Yi was left stunned by how casually she described the tea’s value.

• Old Cat recognized that Nightingale wanted to join the East Blade Mercenary Corps, and Thin Monkey, Big Bear, Bamboo Pole, and Old Cat encouraged her to go.
• Nightingale submitted her reserve-member application and posted that she would be East Blade’s blade in the Star Sea, inspiring more warriors to sign up.
• Chen Yu, Andre, Elizabeth, and Liu Yuan joined the recruitment chain as full members, and the response spread across Blue Star.
• Lin Yi asked Irelia to handle screening and assignments, then accepted her invitation to visit the Emerald Whisper Starship and receive cultivation resources.
• Irelia gave Lin Yi Star Frost Water, Star Shatterer Sand, and Cyan Gold Crystal, then served him Clear Radiance Dew, which raised his cultivation to the Sixth Rank of the Star Core Level and his Life Rule insight to about six percent.
• Irelia’s own insight deepened as she drank the tea, and she broke through to the peak of the first tier of Star Domain Rank; Lin Yi was surprised when she called the World-Deriving Grade tea’s effect nothing compared to his talent.

Lin Yi and Irelia received the East Blade Mercenary Corps' supplies after two and a half years of preparation and ordered the members to settle their affairs before departure. As Blue Star's pioneers said goodbye to loved ones and comrades, the corps prepared to board its ships in seven days.

• Lin Yi and Irelia planned to screen Shina Family recruits and train the East Blade Mercenary Corps through the Pan-Spirit Alliance Virtual Network.
• Xuanji completed the corps' first recruitment and began intensive virtual training for its two hundred Star Core Level members and more than eighteen hundred Stardust Rank reserves.
• After two and a half years, the Human Race Interstellar Chamber of Commerce delivered five transport ships carrying the corps' supplies, which Lin Yi and Irelia inspected and accepted.
• Lin Yi ordered all first-batch members to settle their affairs within a week and assemble to board the ships in near-orbit airspace LB-7392113-C.
• Chen Yu said goodbye to Su Xiao, Andre visited Marina and her family, and Nightingale received parting gifts from the Wildcat Squad.
• The seven-day deadline arrived as Blue Star's people offered farewells and support to the pioneers preparing to depart for the Star Sea.

The East Blade Fleet departed Blue Star under Irelia’s command while Lin Yi stayed behind to receive visitors from the wider Star Sea. More than half a year later, a World-Deriving Rank visitor arrived at Blue Star’s defense perimeter, and Lin Yi went to meet her cautiously.

• Lin Yi gave the East Blade Fleet a farewell speech, and Irelia led the fleet out of Blue Star orbit toward the Star Sea.
• Lin Yi remained on Blue Star to welcome visiting powers, while Irelia took the fleet to begin its early mercenary missions.
• Xingyi, a World-Deriving Rank leader of the Pan-Spirit Alliance Virtual Network Company’s Purple Gold Star Alliance branch, approached Blue Star in a customized ship and stopped outside its defense perimeter.
• Blue Star’s defense system detected a threat beyond its rating limit, and Lin Yi identified the visitor’s ship as a customized World-Deriving Rank vessel.
• Lin Yi placed the token from Xu Chen within reach, ordered Blue Star forces to stay alert without attacking, and flew out aboard the Shanming to meet Xingyi.

Lin Yi received Xingyi’s invitation to join the Pan-Spirit Alliance Virtual Network Company but chose to consider it while weighing the interests of himself and the Blue of the Silver Moon Civilization. Seventeen years later, as the East Blade Mercenary Corps began operating, a powerful fleet entered the civilization’s airspace.

• Lin Yi welcomed Xingyi to Blue Star, where she congratulated him and asked about his relationship with Xu Chen; Lin Yi revealed he was Xu Chen’s sixteenth disciple.
• Xingyi offered Lin Yi Spirit Brilliance Rank resources and promised to seek Spirit Radiance Rank treatment, including access to the Annihilation Divine Kingdom and Xiwu Essence Liquid; Lin Yi asked about the terms and requested time to decide.
• Xingyi left Lin Yi a starlight gift that granted him the ability to raise designated individuals’ Virtual Network authority to Green level, which he saw as valuable for Blue Star’s development.
• Seventeen years passed as Lin Yi cultivated and handled civilization affairs, while Irelia registered the East Blade Mercenary Corps and accepted its first escort mission.
• Xuanji detected a fleet of more than two hundred vessels, including at least ten with Star Domain Rank energy readings, approaching Blue of the Silver Moon Civilization, and Lin Yi realized they had arrived.

Lin Yi welcomed the interstellar powers, secured Silver Blue Civilization’s Level Five recognition and the Moon’s inclusion in its relocation, then negotiated partnerships while protecting the civilization’s interests. After the fleet departed, he ordered Civilization Leap Level One Readiness and urged Silver Blue to build its own strength.

• Lin Yi met envoy Lansi and heard the Purple Gold Star Alliance formally register Silver Moon Blue as the Level Five Silver Blue Civilization and Silver Blue Planet.
• Lansi declared the Moon an inseparable asset, named it Silver Moon, and included it in the planet’s relocation plan.
• Lin Yi joined the Universal Mercenary Alliance and negotiated framework agreements with the Chamber of Commerce, Star Sea Bank, and Star Realm Legion.
• Lin Yi revealed that Xingyi had visited seventeen years earlier, prompting the representatives to soften their negotiating positions and offer valuable gifts and support.
• After the visiting fleet departed, Lin Yi ordered Civilization Leap Level One Readiness and told the leadership to develop the skills needed to determine their own future.

Lin Yi left Silver Blue Planet and reunited with the East Blade Mercenary Corps on Zichen Star, where he chose a border supply mission that he knew would lead to an alien attack. When the outpost came under heavy assault, Lin Yi accepted the emergency support mission and ordered the fleet to intervene.

• Lin Yi entrusted Silver Blue Planet's internal affairs to Li Zhenguo and its military and diplomacy to Zhou Donglai, then departed aboard the Flashing Star for the Star Sea.
• Twenty years later, Irelia and the East Blade Mercenary Corps welcomed Lin Yi to Zichen Star and reported their progress.
• Lin Yi selected a Level 2 supply mission to outpost K-77-JHD-93432, intending to reach the region before a nearby outpost was attacked.
• The East Blade Fleet arrived near the K-77 star system as outpost K-77-JHD-93441 came under a heavy assault from alien combatants.
• After the Star Realm Army issued a Level 4 emergency support mission, Lin Yi accepted it and ordered the fleet to rush to the outpost.

Lin Yi led the East Blade Fleet to relieve outpost K-77-JHD-93441 and ordered the Star Core Level mercenaries to battle the Kunmo while Irelia guarded them from fatal blows. After the fleet devastated the enemy ships, the ground fight intensified, and Lin Yi drew the Kunmo warriors toward himself before a middle Star Vortex Rank commander confronted him.

• Lin Yi assigned the Stardust Rank members to operate the fleet and ordered the Star Core Level teams to fight, while Irelia oversaw the battle and prevented needless deaths.
• The East Blade Fleet arrived at K-77-JHD-93441, where Kalan recognized the North Wind Class warship and rallied the battered garrison.
• Under Irelia's command, the fleet destroyed most of the Kunmo Bio-Warships, driving the surviving Kunmo into a frenzied assault.
• Lin Yi sent the combat teams to the outpost, where Chen Yu, Andre, Liu Yuan, and Elizabeth fought the charging Kunmo while Irelia covertly protected the mercenaries from fatal attacks.
• Lin Yi used his nine Thunder Orbs to kill dozens of Star Core Level Kunmo warriors, then drew the fury of a middle Star Vortex Rank Kunmo wielding a Bone Saw Warblade.

Lin Yi killed a Star Nebula Rank Kunmo with a secret technique, then Irelia erased the remaining Star Nebula Rank attackers with her Life Rule Domain. After the Kunmo assault was defeated, Lin Yi accepted General Luger's invitation to visit the legion's base once his fleet had recovered.

• Frost Ember and the arriving mercenary groups were awed by the East Blade Fleet's North Wind Class battleship, while the 93778th Frontier Legion welcomed its reinforcements.
• A third-tier Star Nebula Rank Kunmo attacked Lin Yi, but Lin Yi used the Azure Brilliance World-Breaking Flash to kill it in one strike.
• The remaining Star Nebula Rank Kunmo launched a desperate barrage at Lin Yi, and Irelia stopped their attacks and drained the attackers of life with her Life Rule Domain.
• With their commanders gone, the surviving Kunmo troops lost morale and were hunted down or captured by the East Blade members, mercenaries, and outpost defenders.
• Bark, other mercenary commanders, and Kalan thanked Lin Yi, and Kalan relayed General Luger's invitation to visit the legion's base.
• Lin Yi agreed to visit General Luger after the battle was settled and the fleet had time to recover.

After East Blade helped defend the outpost, the corps earned a promotion and traveled to the 93778th Frontier Legion base. General Luger invited Lin Yi and eligible East Blade members to join the forthcoming K-77 Star Domain tiered battlefield, where Level 2 combat would be restricted to Star Core Rank fighters.

• Lin Yi ordered East Blade to finish clearing the battlefield and depart for the 93778th Frontier Legion base, while the allied mercenaries and Shina Family members discussed the battle and East Blade’s fighting strength.
• The Mercenary Alliance promoted East Blade from Level 1 to Level 2 after the corps completed the emergency outpost support mission with no fatalities.
• Lin Yi cultivated and analyzed his final attack during the fleet’s journey, and the Blue Star-born warriors and Spirit Race members began learning about one another.
• The fleet passed security checks and arrived at the 93778th Frontier Legion base, where General Luger personally received Lin Yi and Irelia.
• Luger invited Lin Yi and eligible East Blade members to take Level 2 mercenary missions in the K-77 Star Domain tiered battlefield as tensions with the Kunmo Race increased.

Lin Yi accepted General Luger’s offer for East Blade to join the Level 2 battlefields through the Star Realm Army’s military merit system, while warning Blue Star’s leaders that larger wars might be approaching. They established a merit-based title system and planned to expand recruitment, leaving East Blade’s soldiers and Silver Blue Civilization eager for the coming battles.

• Lin Yi agreed to cooperate with Luger after confirming that East Blade would receive military merit records, redemption access, and a designated mission through the Star Realm Army.
• Lin Yi briefed Blue Star’s leaders on the battlefields and proposed a system tying military service to titles, honor, resources, and future planetary tax revenues.
• Li Zhenguo and the other leaders approved drafting the Silver Blue Pioneering Decree and Twenty-Rank Military Merit System, while also agreeing to buy transport ships and build a personnel rotation and training pipeline.
• The Star Realm Army’s 93778th Legion finalized its cooperation agreement with East Blade, and Blue Star’s leadership announced the new title system.
• East Blade soldiers, families, and young people across Silver Blue Civilization responded with excitement, while an elder of the Shina Family considered the opportunities the expansion might bring.

Lin Yi entered the Universal Mercenary Alliance’s fifty-year Star Core Elite Training Camp, where he assessed its resources and met fellow trainees. After rejecting invitations from two established squads, he considered building his own team while keeping his focus on the coming tiered battlefield.

• Lin Yi received a Level 4 admission permit to the training camp and placed Irelia in charge of the East Blade Mercenary Corps during his absence.
• Lin Yi arrived at the Starry Sky Plaza, met Kenkes, and learned about several notable trainees, including Lan Shuang and Shi Man.
• Yanhuang, a Lord of Source Law, opened the camp and explained its competition; Lin Yi examined the points system and booked courses and training facilities.
• Xing Yu invited Lin Yi to join the Starlight Squad, while Qing Feng offered him a place in the White Fang Squad, but Lin Yi declined both because he might leave for border missions.
• Lin Yi decided that building his own team could give him more freedom to prepare for the tiered battlefield and compete in the camp’s team rankings.

Lin Yi recruited Kenkes as the first member of his new team by promising he could fuse two Rule Domains before the training camp ended. Kenkes then brought in five promising newcomers, leaving Lin Yi with a seven-person founding team ready to build experience together.

• Lin Yi invited Kenkes to join his team and said he was confident he could fuse two Rule Domains before the camp ended.
• Kenkes consulted his older brother Kelsen, decided the risky founding-member role offered better prospects than joining an established team, and obtained confidential team-mission strategy materials.
• Kenkes returned to the plaza, formally joined Lin Yi's team, and volunteered to lead recruitment and screening.
• Lin Yi directed Kenkes to focus on promising newcomers, especially members of the Human Race, rather than veteran members who had not joined teams.
• Kenkes introduced Mo Yuan, Star Firefly, Lei Hao, Awen Whisper, and Amber to Lin Yi, who responded to each recruit's strengths and welcomed them.
• Lin Yi agreed the seven members formed a suitable core team and planned to gain experience together before recruiting more members.

Lin Yi used Spirit Enlightenment Qi to raise his Life Rule comprehension to 82%, then began training to make the unstable gains his own. At the Endless Tower, his team displayed its strengths, and Lin Yi stunned observers by clearing seventeen floors before exiting.

• Kenkes explained the Endless Tower's rewards and difficulty levels, and Lin Yi's team agreed to share spectating permissions and test themselves together.
• Lin Yi absorbed Spirit Enlightenment Qi, raising his Life Rule comprehension from 53% to 82%, then practiced the Star-Deriving Essence Tempering Art to stabilize his new strength.
• The next day, Kenkes, Awen Whisper, and Lei Hao each reached floor nine, while Mo Yuan reached floor ten, Star Firefly floor thirteen, and Amber floor twelve.
• Lin Yi climbed steadily through the tower, cleared floor seventeen, and drew the attention of veteran teams and their scouts.
• Lin Yi's marker disappeared before he could be seen clearing floor eighteen, and he emerged from the tower.

After Lin Yi’s seventeenth-floor achievement, he gathered his team to review their battles and agreed they would spend a month strengthening themselves before taking on a team challenge. As Lin Yi continued refining his Life Rule, Xuanji reported that a contact mark labeled “Ninth Senior Brother” had accepted his response, suggesting he had finally reached someone from his sect.

• Lin Yi exchanged contact marks with representatives of other squads, including Xing Yu and Qing Feng, who offered support to his team.
• Lin Yi explained that he had stopped at the seventeenth floor because his recently improved rule comprehension was still difficult to control, and his teammates shared combat advice with one another.
• Lin Yi proposed that the team spend a month improving individually before attempting the team challenge, and everyone agreed.
• Lin Yi trained in the Tree of Life simulation and refined his comprehension of the Life Rule while discussion of his achievement spread among higher-ranked talents.
• Xuanji told Lin Yi that a contact mark labeled “Ninth Senior Brother” had accepted his response, and Lin Yi realized he might have contacted someone from his sect after more than forty years.

Lin Yi met his Ninth Senior Brother, Cang Ming, who offered to seek a battlefield supervisor assignment near Lin Yi’s planned campaign in Star Domain K-77. Cang Ming warned him that the border conflicts were proxy wars engineered by the three pinnacle races, leaving Lin Yi with a new understanding of the forces shaping the universe.

• Lin Yi accepted Cang Ming’s invitation and learned that only eight of Master Xu Chen’s sixteen disciples were still alive, including two who had attained eternity.
• Cang Ming offered to request assignment as a supervisor for the graded battlefields near Lin Yi in Star Domain K-77 and warned him that pinnacle-race geniuses might arrive in six or seven thousand years at the earliest.
• Lin Yi asked why the Spirit Race would send geniuses to help in border conflicts, and Cang Ming revealed that the three pinnacle races had created buffer zones by relocating and manipulating other races.
• Cang Ming explained that the pinnacle races used wars among buffer-zone races as proxy conflicts and training grounds for their own geniuses, and Lin Yi realized his civilization was being treated as a piece on their chessboard.

Lin Yi confirmed with Cang Ming that he could challenge top-race prodigies within the battlefield rules, then received Life Source Fruit as a welcome gift and focused on combat training. After half a month, he led his improved team into their first Team Endless Tower challenge under the scrutiny of other squads.

• Lin Yi asked whether a Human Race prodigy could compete with top-race prodigies without facing retaliation outside the rules, and Cang Ming assured him the rules would protect anyone below the threshold of a Lord of Source Law.
• Cang Ming promised Lin Yi Life Source Fruit for comprehending Life Rule, and Lin Yi returned to reality, asked Xuanji to watch for the delivery, and intensified his combat-technique training.
• After half a month, Lin Yi met Kenkes, Awen Whisper, Lei Hao, Mo Yuan, Star Firefly, and Amber, who reported their progress and prepared for the team's first tower challenge.
• Lin Yi submitted the team's challenge application, drawing the attention of Qing Feng, Xing Yu, and representatives from other squads who gathered to assess them.
• Lin Yi reviewed the Team Endless Tower's escalating team-based trials, reminded his teammates to follow their practiced formation, and led them through the entrance as the first-floor light ring illuminated.

Lin Yi's team advanced through the tower, using coordinated Rule domains and Source Sea bursts to clear six levels. They appeared on the seventh floor, where seven powerful mirror images began to form.

• Amber destroyed the first-floor mirror image with one punch, and the team cleared the level instantly.
• The team coordinated their attacks to clear the second and third levels, then used overlapping Rule domains and Lin Yi's Thunder Orbs to defeat the fourth-level opponents in ten seconds.
• Lin Yi's team picked off five mirror images on the fifth level, clearing it in under a minute despite Lei Hao suffering severe injuries and the team nearly exhausting their Source Energy.
• On the sixth level, Lin Yi's team shattered their Source Seas and unleashed their strongest attacks to defeat all six mirror images in fifteen seconds.
• The team arrived on the seventh floor, where seven mirror images began forming in a chaotic void of pure energy.