Chapter Summaries

Qian Huan recommended a Time-Source Core to strengthen Lin Yi’s cultivation and taught him to summon a Time-Tracing Clone. She then revealed that the Pan-Spirit Alliance Genius Tournament might be tied to selecting candidates for an important Secret Realm, and that the Yuan Race and Shi Race held similar competitions on the same cycle.

• Qian Huan assessed Lin Yi’s plan to comprehend Death Rule and recommended the Time-Source Core, agreeing to cover its cost of twenty-three Clan Merit.
• Qian Huan taught Lin Yi the Time-Tracing Clone Technique, and Lin Yi successfully summoned a clone from one second earlier in the River of Time.
• Qian Huan urged Lin Yi to explore Star Core-level Secret Realms after mastering the technique, hinting that his Space-Time Rule gave him access to secrets about the future and the fate of races.
• Lin Yi inferred that the Genius Tournament might select candidates for an exceptionally important Secret Realm, and Qian Huan said his guess was close but not entirely correct.
• Qian Huan revealed that the Yuan Race and Shi Race held similar elite genius competitions on nearly the same cycle as the Pan-Spirit Alliance tournament.

Qian Huan revealed that the three races’ Genius Tournaments selected entrants for the Myriad Secret Realm, where Source Essence could strengthen Eternal Deities and shape the races’ power. Five years later, Lin Yi prepared to challenge the Endless Tower, aiming to claim first place before the tournament began.

• Lin Yi connected the simultaneous Genius Tournaments to the secret technique used by the Kunmo Race prodigies, and Qian Huan confirmed they were preliminaries for the Myriad Secret Realm.
• Qian Huan explained that only Star Core Level contestants could enter the ever-changing realm, which produced Source Essence vital to Eternal Deities and the three races’ power.
• Qian Huan told Lin Yi that newly discovered Secret Realms could also yield Source Essence, making territory and exploration rights fundamental stakes in conflicts among the races.
• Qian Huan urged Lin Yi to master the Time-Tracing Clone Technique and said she would arrange delivery of the Time-Source Core; Lin Yi resolved to gain resources and improve his battle suit.
• Five years later, Lin Yi told his teammates he was challenging the Endless Tower, while privately aiming to surpass the current record of floor fifty-four and take first place.

Lin Yi challenged the Endless Tower and cleared the 60th floor, taking first place and earning the purple halo of a second-tier talent. He left the 61st floor unchallenged, having tested his clone-and-Time-Stasis tactic and deciding to keep his remaining trump cards secret.

• Lin Yi began climbing the Endless Tower, cleared the 40th floor in under three breaths, and revealed his progress toward a fourfold domain through Space-Time fusion.
• Lin Yi cleared the 50th floor and then surpassed the records of Youlan Yingge and Longge Xingtong to claim first place on the 55th floor.
• Lin Yi defeated the 60th-floor mirror image by using a clone's self-destruction and Time Stasis to open a path for his Space Splitter spear.
• Lin Yi decided not to continue beyond the 60th floor, judging that the higher floors would test the limits of his tactic and choosing to keep his trump cards hidden.
• Lin Yi emerged with a purple halo, and his team and the Human Race prodigies congratulated him as Xuanzhong acknowledged his strength, Youlan Yingge requested a future spar, and Longge Xingtong accepted the change in rank.

After reaching the top of the Star Core Level Training Camp, Lin Yi equipped his clones, began cautiously studying the Death Rule, and prepared for Secret Realm exploration. Six years later, Xuanji found a suitable mission near the Ash Star Domain, and Lin Yi learned that his long-awaited expedition might finally begin.

• Lin Yi left the Endless Tower after receiving congratulations, while Longge Xingtong, Youlan Yingge, and Xuanzhong agreed that he was a powerful potential ally.
• Lin Yi celebrated with his team, reminded them that the Genius Tournament and Secret Realm were the real trials, and assigned them to prepare for a team-mode challenge.
• Lin Yi spent points on weapons and armor for his clones and on several cautious aids for comprehending the Death Rule before entering meditation.
• Representatives congratulated Li Zhenguo on Lin Yi's achievement, and Li Zhenguo announced the news to the Silver Blue Civilization and began planning for its new opportunities.
• Lin Yi studied Secret Realm exploration, continued cultivating, and instructed Xuanji to search for suitable missions near the Ash Star Domain.
• Six years later, Xuanji told Lin Yi she had found a Secret Realm exploration mission that met his criteria.

Lin Yi accepted an unknown Secret Realm exploration mission, assembled an expedition with the East Blade Mercenary Corps and a Star Realm Army engineering team, and led them through the unstable entrance. His pod emerged from the passage after a violent crossing, but what lay beyond remained unknown.

• Lin Yi accepted mission TQ-73419-X and invited qualified East Blade members to volunteer for the Secret Realm expedition.
• Lin Yi and Irelia selected five hundred Star Core members and a thousand Stardust members, with Zhou Yuxuan, Chen Yu, Andre, and Elizabeth forming the core command team.
• Lin Yi reassured Irelia that he would protect the expedition and had anchored the moment before departure in case he needed to resurrect fallen members.
• At the Leiyao Space Station, Lin Yi met Reke and agreed that the East Blade Mercenary Corps would secure the landing zone while the engineers installed the passage equipment.
• Lin Yi led the expedition’s launch through the Gate of the Secret Realm, and his pod endured violent spatial forces before being spat out and striking something hard.

Lin Yi and the East Blade Mercenary Corps fought off a swarm of Strange Monsters after arriving in the Secret Realm, then began securing the spatial passage. Far away, Red Iron City's leaders learned the monsters across the region had vanished and heard reports of a massive migration near the Pale Forbidden Land.

• Lin Yi emerged from the spatial passage into a basin swarming with monsters and swiftly killed three Star Vortex Rank attackers.
• Zhou Yuxuan, Andre, Elizabeth, Chen Yu, and the East Blade Mercenary Corps formed a defense while Lin Yi secretly supported them and helped defeat the horde without casualties.
• Zhou Yuxuan reported twenty-seven minor injuries and more than ten percent of their energy and ammunition spent, while Captain Reke's engineering team began installing Hermes Space Anchor Generators.
• Lin Yi sensed that the Secret Realm's Rules were distorted, and Elizabeth and Chen Yu described their unease at its creatures and cold, pale sun.
• In Red Iron City, Batu told the City Lord that Strange Monsters had disappeared across the surrounding region and that a caravan had witnessed a huge migration near the Pale Forbidden Land.

Red Iron City sent Zagong and ten scouts to investigate the Strange Monsters' migration toward the Pale Forbidden Land, while Lin Yi's mercenary corps built a camp and discovered a nearby human city. Lin Yi prepared Zhou Yuxuan's team to make cautious first contact, and the chapter ended as they absorbed Xuanji's basic language model before setting out.

• The City Lord approved Zagong's mission to scout the edge of the Pale Forbidden Land and ordered nearby cities and the Royal City to be notified.
• Lin Yi directed the East Blade Mercenary Corps to build a fortified camp around the spatial passage and send reconnaissance teams into the basin.
• Elizabeth reported that a heavily defended human city lay more than a thousand kilometers west, and Lin Yi ordered Xuanji to analyze its language and energy system.
• Xuanji found that the Secret Realm had unusually durable spatial and material properties, low-to-moderate energy density, and a power system linked to negative rules.
• Lin Yi assigned Zhou Yuxuan to lead a small team to make initial contact with the city while concealing the camp's location and their origins.
• Zhou Yuxuan and his two companions absorbed the basic language model prepared by Xuanji so they could understand simple speech and writing.

Zhou Yuxuan and his team disguised themselves, entered Red Iron City, and discovered that its quiet daytime streets transformed into a bustling night market. Zhou Yuxuan sold a Wailing Snake scale for thirty thousand Blood Crystal Coins, leaving the team with money and a foothold in the city.

• Zhou Yuxuan and his two teammates fashioned local-style disguises, then traded a monster scale with a group outside Red Iron City for Blood Crystal Coins, supplies, and a map.
• The three paid the entry tax and entered Red Iron City, where they found the daytime streets nearly deserted and rented a room in an outer-city lodging house.
• When darkness fell, Zhou Yuxuan watched the city fill with lights, crowds, and noisy night businesses, then sent his teammates to gather information while he sought a place to sell monster materials.
• The lodging-house attendant directed Zhou Yuxuan to the Hard Bone Shop, where Old Sack identified his scale as belonging to a Wailing Snake.
• Old Sack bought the scale for thirty thousand Blood Crystal Coins, and Zhou Yuxuan accepted the payment without counting it.

Zhou Yuxuan’s team learned about the White Sun, the Blood Sun, and the Pale Forbidden Land while gathering maps and local knowledge in Red Iron City. After Lin Yi received their report, he prepared the East Blade camp to deal cautiously with scouts as the Blood Sun approached.

• Zhou Yuxuan heard that the Strange Monsters had disappeared and learned that locals feared daylight and called it the White Sun.
• Zhou Yuxuan bought books and maps, then learned that the Blood Sun arrived every thirty night cycles and intensified madness and monster aggression.
• Zhou Yuxuan discovered that the East Blade camp stood inside the dangerous Pale Forbidden Land, where King Rank creatures and even Emperors had been sighted.
• Zhou Yuxuan’s team scanned their findings and sent an encrypted report to Lin Yi, warning that Red Iron City had sent scouts toward the Forbidden Land.
• Lin Yi ordered Xuanji to prepare local disguises and told patrols to reveal their Star Core Level auras to deter native scouts without attacking first.

When the Blood Sun rose over the Pale Forbidden Land, Lin Yi discovered that its light accelerated the Spirit Enlightenment Qi produced by his Purple Mist Space, while Captain Reke's detector confirmed a faint Source Essence reaction throughout the area. After testing the light and studying Blood Crystal Coins, Lin Yi found that their inner energy shared the same origin as Spirit Enlightenment Qi, suggesting a link among the Blood Sun, Source Essence, and his Purple Mist Space.

• The Blood Sun appeared, making the Purple Mist Space generate Spirit Enlightenment Qi twice as fast and causing Reke's detector to confirm a faint Source Essence reaction.
• Lin Yi briefly exposed his fingertip to the Blood Sun's light and found that the Purple Mist Space devoured its corrupting energy, further boosting Spirit Enlightenment Qi production.
• Lin Yi ordered Zhou Yuxuan to send both charged and spent Blood Crystal Coins to camp, and Li Wei delivered them safely the next day.
• Lin Yi examined a charged Blood Crystal Coin and detected a trace of energy at its core that shared the same origin as Spirit Enlightenment Qi.
• Lin Yi tested a spent coin and found that it contained neither chaotic energy nor the faint energy trace, confirming the connection between Blood Crystal Coins and Spirit Enlightenment Qi.

Lin Yi discovered that Blood Crystal Coins contained contaminated energy related to Spirit Enlightenment Qi and devised a plan to collect the coins and cultivation manuals before the passage stabilized. He formed the Silver Blue Association to expand operations across the region, while he remained at camp coordinating its growing network.

• Lin Yi connected the Blood Sun to the special energy in Blood Crystal Coins and considered how it might help him and his clones accumulate Spirit Enlightenment Qi.
• Lin Yi decided not to pursue the dangerous Blood Sun and instead planned to collect Blood Crystal Coins, raw ore, and cultivation manuals before the two-way passage stabilized.
• Lin Yi gathered the core members and ordered most of his forces to leave the Pale Forbidden Land as the neutral Silver Blue Association, while fifty Star Core Level members and two hundred Stardust Rank members stayed at camp.
• The Silver Blue Association began taking missions against Strange Monsters and establishing trade channels, with Zhou Yuxuan's squad expanding its work in Red Iron City.
• The Silver Blue Association gained a reputation across nearby countries, and Blood Crystal Coins, cultivation manuals, and information began flowing back to Lin Yi at camp.

Over seventy years, the Silver Blue Association rose to power across the continent while Lin Yi and his team maintained a passage between the Secret Realm and the Main Universe. The Star Realm Army arrived in force and unleashed a thousand Star Core powerhouses, making the continent realize that a new era had begun.

• The Silver Blue Association earned trust, slew the Lava Mountain Beast to save Black Rock City, and expanded its pavilions across the continent.
• In the seventy-first year, Hermes stabilized the two-way passage to the Main Universe, and Captain Reke returned to report the discovery of Source Essence.
• Lan He arrived with an advance team, confirmed the Source Essence was connected to the White Sun, and received Lin Yi's edited data package.
• Three days later, a one-hundred-thousand-strong Star Realm Army corps entered the Secret Realm and established a fortified camp.
• A thousand peak Star Core powerhouses spread across the plain and used Source Energy Crystals to awaken Star Vortex Rank auras, creating a vast energy pillar visible across the continent.
• The king of Heng Kingdom and Lord Helian Tu witnessed the display, as people across the continent recognized the Pale Forbidden Land as the start of a new era.

Lan He explained how the Star Realm Army would take control of the Secret Realm and allowed the Silver Blue Association to keep its existing Blood Crystal Coins for now. As the army began taking over the kingdoms, Zhou Yuxuan persuaded Heng Kingdom’s leaders to submit and relocate to the Main Universe.

• The Star Realm Army dispatched a hundred mixed squads to the nations’ royal cities, and Lan He told Lin Yi that the local human population would be resettled if it submitted and cooperated.
• Lan He warned Lin Yi that Blood Crystal Coins could count as strategic resources, then clarified that the contaminated coins would not be confiscated for now and advised him to seek purification help from Tree of Life Company.
• Lin Yi ordered Silver Blue Association branches to stop collecting Blood Crystal Coins, cooperate with the takeover squads, recruit local experts where possible, and return their personnel and assets to headquarters.
• A Star Realm Army squad surrounded Heng Kingdom’s Royal Golden Palace and demanded the dissolution of its government and unconditional submission, prompting the king’s forces to prepare to resist.
• Zhou Yuxuan intervened, explained that the Main Universe had no Blood Sun, described the Star Realm Army’s overwhelming strength, and invited Heng Kingdom’s leaders to join the East Blade Mercenary Corps.
• The king and the two royal Emperor Rank experts abandoned their plans to fight, and the king agreed to cooperate with the migration and reorganization.

Lin Yi’s mercenary corps returned from the Secret Realm with seven hundred billion Blood Crystal Coins and earned a major military merit reward. After purifying the contaminated crystals and distributing them as Enlightenment Crystals, Lin Yi’s clone devised a way to extract Spirit Enlightenment Qi, and Cang Ming contacted Lin Yi with news to discuss.

• Lin Yi’s East Blade Mercenary Corps completed its Secret Realm mission, returned with seven hundred billion coins’ worth of supplies, and received fifty-five million military merit points.
• Lin Yi commissioned Tree of Life Company to purify the crystals, then named the purified supply Enlightenment Crystals and opened a limited-time exchange for the mercenary corps.
• Irelia, Chen Yu, Andre, Zhou Yuxuan, Elizabeth, and other members used Enlightenment Crystals to improve their understanding of their respective rules, while Lin Yi sent some to Blue Star and his family.
• Lin Yi’s clone spent fifty years of Spirit Enlightenment Qi developing a method to extract and seal a wisp of it in a Space-Time Bubble, then taught the method to Lin Yi.
• Lin Yi decided to keep Spirit Enlightenment Qi secret until he had greater strength and a plausible explanation for it, then learned that Cang Ming wanted to discuss something with him.

Lin Yi agreed to attend Hong Hanran’s thousandth-birthday banquet with his clone in exchange for Water of the Eternal Abyss, then traveled to Wanhua Star. He arrived at Firefly Manor just as Hong Hanran feared Ling Xuan would humiliate her, leaving her relieved when she recognized him.

• Cang Ming told Lin Yi that World Lord Hong Yan wanted him to attend Hong Hanran’s birthday banquet in person and help counter a rival faction’s Star Core prodigy.
• Lin Yi agreed to send his clone to Wanhua Star in exchange for Water of the Eternal Abyss, and Cang Ming sent him the banquet details.
• Three days later, Lin Yi’s clone departed the Frontier Legion Fortress Base and reached Wanhua Star five years into the journey.
• Hong Hanran and Ruojin worried that Ling Xuan and his group from Mo Yu Star would disrupt the banquet, but Hong Hanran welcomed them when they arrived.
• Lin Yi walked up to Firefly Manor, and Hong Hanran recognized him after Ruojin pointed him out.

Lin Yi attended Hong Hanran’s thousandth birthday banquet, where World Lord Hong Yan welcomed him and Ling Xuan abandoned his family’s plan to provoke the Hong Family. Lin Yi left for the main hall with Hong Yan, while Ling Xuan and his companions stayed at the banquet as ordinary guests.

• Hong Yan personally welcomed Lin Yi at the manor entrance, and Lin Yi gave Hong Hanran a birthday gift from his home civilization.
• Ruojin recognized Lin Yi and hurried inside with Hong Hanran, eager to see how Ling Xuan and his companions would react to his arrival.
• Ling Xuan recognized Lin Yi, greeted him deferentially, and accepted Lin Yi’s suggestion that they were all friends attending Hong Hanran’s banquet.
• Ling Xuan sent Mo Lin to retrieve a Flame Heart Coral gift for Hong Hanran, easing the tension and turning his group into guests in good standing.
• Hong Yan escorted Lin Yi toward the main hall, while Ling Xuan and his companions settled in to enjoy the banquet.

Lin Yi attended Hong Hanran’s birthday banquet on Wanhua Star, where he noticed signs that powerful factions were preparing for worsening frontier conflicts, then returned to his base with the Water of the Eternal Abyss. In seclusion, he perfected the Death Rule and fused life, death, time, space, and metal into a fivefold Rule Domain, leaving him wondering whether he could now challenge a Star Domain Rank cultivator.

• Lin Yi mingled with the banquet guests, heard reports of increased military production and medical stockpiling, and suspected the gathering was meant to strengthen alliances amid an approaching crisis.
• World Lord Hong Yan gave Lin Yi the promised Water of the Eternal Abyss after the banquet, and Lin Yi returned to his base without learning the gathering’s deeper purpose.
• Lin Yi used the Water of the Eternal Abyss, rare auxiliary treasures, and Spirit Enlightenment Qi to perfect the Death Rule.
• Lin Yi fused the Life and Death rules, connected them with Space-Time, and finally incorporated the Metal Rule into the fivefold Rule Domain.
• Lin Yi completed the fivefold Rule Domain, exhausted nearly all his Spirit Enlightenment Qi, and wondered whether he could stand against an early-stage Star Domain Rank cultivator.

Lin Yi tested his strength against a simulated Star Domain-level opponent and defeated it with a rule-infused strike, then took Qian Huan’s advice to study the Water Rule next. Qian Huan gave him manuals and revealed a secret genius-training list with access to rare resources, leaving Lin Yi waiting to learn how he could qualify.

• Lin Yi visited Qian Huan and confirmed that he had perfected the Death Rule and fused five Rule Domains.
• Qian Huan simulated a newly advanced Star Domain-level opponent, and Lin Yi survived its Flame Domain before defeating it with a Space Splitter blade infused with his rules.
• Qian Huan advised Lin Yi to study the Water Rule next and gave him manuals on Death Rule techniques and Water Rule cultivation.
• Qian Huan explained that Lin Yi might qualify for the secret Special Genius Training List, which gave its members access to rare Human Race resources.
• Lin Yi asked how he could join the list, and Qian Huan told him to wait while she prepared to show him.

Qian Huan asked her father, Lord Xuanyan, to admit Lin Yi to the Human Race’s Special Talent Training Registry as an exception, and argued that he deserved early support. Lord Xuanyan agreed to handle the application, then went to Lord Tiange to seek a second nomination.

• Qian Huan left Lin Yi waiting and traveled to Evergreen Palace to speak with Lord Xuanyan.
• Qian Huan cited Lin Yi’s Star Core Level achievements and the special-exception rules to argue for his admission to the Registry.
• Lord Xuanyan warned that Lin Yi would face intense scrutiny and explained that the Spirit Race could send prodigies with seven fused rules and an Eight-Fold Domain to the next Genius Tournament.
• Qian Huan accepted that the tournament would be difficult but maintained that Lin Yi deserved a fair chance and confidence in his future.
• Lord Xuanyan agreed to take care of Lin Yi’s Registry matter, then traveled to Lord Tiange’s Hidden Edge Hall to request a second nomination.

Lord Xuanyan and Lord Tiange agreed to jointly nominate Lin Yi for the Registry, while also backing a review of its rules to require greater service to the Human Race. Qian Huan warned Lin Yi to conceal his strongest abilities before the Genius Tournament, and Lin Yi resolved to master the laws so he could win even if the Spirit Race used its hidden advantages.

• Lord Xuanyan asked Lord Tiange to jointly nominate Lin Yi for the Registry, and Tiange agreed after praising Lin Yi’s service with the Frontier Legion.
• Lord Tiange argued that Registry members should face stronger obligations to the Human Race, and Xuanyan promised to support his proposed rule changes at the Supreme Council.
• Qian Huan told Lin Yi that two Lords would submit his nomination and advised him to hide his perfected Death Rule and fivefold fusion from the Spirit Race.
• Qian Huan explained that the Spirit Race could deploy stronger contestants and extraordinary resources if it recognized Lin Yi as a serious threat, so Lin Yi agreed to reveal only fourfold fusion before the tournament.
• Lin Yi resolved to prepare for the Spirit Race’s strongest contestant by finding a way to master the laws.