Chapter Summaries

Lin Yi’s influence protected the Human Race contestants through the Ranking Tournament, and he and Edith built mutual respect before the finals. His opponents all forfeited, crowning him the Pan-Spirit Alliance Genius Tournament champion; he then looked toward the Myriad Secret Realm and the challenges ahead.

• Lin Yi observed that contestants from the Spirit Race and other races avoided challenging Human Race contestants, while the Nightmare Race contestants suffered repeated defeats.
• The Ranking Tournament ended with Lin Yi in first place, and Hui Yao, Xing Yu, and Bai Feng among the four Human Race contestants advancing to the finals.
• At the banquet, Edith thanked Lin Yi for sparing her, and Xuanji reported the final rankings and the Human Race’s increased representation.
• Lord Radiance began the finals, but Lin Yi’s opponents forfeited each round, including Edith in the championship match.
• Lord Radiance declared Lin Yi the champion, and Lin Yi resolved to protect what he cherished and continue toward the Myriad Secret Realm.

After winning the Genius Tournament, Lin Yi completed interviews, gained greater authority as leader of the Pan-Spirit Alliance team entering the Myriad Secret Realm, and built ties with influential Lords and smaller races. The chapter ended with him preparing to sort through his messages and assess the rest of his winnings before the expedition began in three days.

• Lin Yi accepted a designated Clan Merit task, answered questions from five Star Sea media outlets, and earned 500 Clan Merit.
• Lord Xuanyan told Lin Yi that the Spirit Race had agreed he would lead the Myriad Secret Realm team and consult with Edith on major decisions, in exchange for the Human Race receiving priority support on Level 4 battlefields.
• Lord Xuanyan introduced Lin Yi to Lords Giant Rock, Phantom Light, and Star Gazer, who gave him valuable gifts and contact marks; representatives of smaller races also offered gifts and congratulations.
• At the banquet, Lord Radiance announced the expedition would leave in three days, laid out the realm's rules, and formally confirmed Lin Yi as the team's leader whenever cooperation was possible.
• After returning to his room, Lin Yi reflected on his gains and prepared to have Xuanji help sort through the messages waiting on his Virtual Contact Mark.

After winning the Genius Tournament, Lin Yi handled congratulations and rewards, then traveled with the Pan-Spirit Alliance’s geniuses to the Myriad Secret Realm. The three peak species sent their champions inside, but Lord Radiance sensed that something was wrong as the entrance remained open.

• Lin Yi approved the Silver Blue Civilization’s celebration, memorial day, and film plans, asking that the film portray historical events accurately.
• Xuanji reported Lin Yi’s new rewards, including 20,000 Clan Merit, 500,000 Registry points, 100,000 Universal Mercenary Alliance contribution points, and gifts worth about 23,000 Clan Merit.
• Lin Yi and the other 999 Pan-Spirit Alliance geniuses traveled for six months to the Myriad Secret Realm, where Dominator Qingyan and the Lords awaited them.
• The Yuan Race and Shi Race arrived with their own Dominators, Lords, and a thousand Star Core Level geniuses each, and the three factions faced off in silence.
• When the Myriad Secret Realm opened, Lin Yi and Edith led the Pan-Spirit Alliance geniuses inside as the Yuan Race and Shi Race forces followed.
• After all three factions entered, Lord Radiance said something was wrong, and Lord Xuanyan and other Lords also looked grave.

Lin Yi entered the Myriad Secret Realm, established a scouting outpost with his Time-Tracing Clone and equipment, and explored the mist-covered terrain. After his clone swiftly killed a creature that mimicked Lin Yi, the chapter ended with Lin Yi examining the Crystal Core it left behind.

• Lord Xuanyan noticed that the Yuan Race and Shi Race had not brought their reported ninth-tier geniuses and suspected they had no need to compete for the Secret Realm.
• Lin Yi entered the Myriad Secret Realm and found himself in dense Gray Mist that suppressed perception and weakened the use of Rules.
• Lin Yi summoned his Time-Tracing Clone, equipped both of them, and used Xuanji's Tactical Network and detection devices to survey the area and search for teammates.
• Lin Yi and his clone explored the mist for about fifteen minutes before Xuanji detected an approaching creature with early Star Vortex Rank energy.
• A Mist Mimic resembling Lin Yi attacked the clone, which slowed it with Space-Time and killed it with a blade strike.
• The Mist Mimic left behind a dark gray Crystal Core, and Lin Yi focused his attention on it.

Lin Yi rescued Xiguang Liuyun from a Yuan Race prodigy who had forced his way to the Star Vortex Rank, then continued exploring the Gray Mist Realm with him. After a giant Gray Mist Beast’s crystal core fused with the others and opened a black passage, Lin Yi marked the site for surveillance and chose to find his teammates before investigating it.

• Lin Yi collected Gray Mist Beast crystal cores, discovered that they fused together, and had Xuanji record their changes.
• Lin Yi answered Relay-7’s distress signal, killed a Star Vortex Rank Yuan Race prodigy and the pursuing Gray Mist Beasts, and rescued Xiguang Liuyun.
• Xiguang Liuyun explained that the Yuan Race prodigy had forced a breakthrough and taken a pill that stabilized his power at the third stage of the Star Vortex Rank, and Lin Yi brought Liuyun along to recover.
• Lin Yi and his companions encountered a peak Star Vortex Rank Gray Mist Beast, and Lin Yi and his clone killed it with Time Stop and Space Stripping.
• The giant beast’s crystal core absorbed the other cores and opened a black mist passage, but Lin Yi’s three reconnaissance units lost contact after entering it.
• Lin Yi declined to enter the unknown passage, ordered Xuanji to monitor it, and set off with Xiguang Liuyun to find their teammates.

Lin Yi rescued two groups of Pan-Spirit Alliance prodigies from Star Vortex Rank Shi Race and Yuan Race attackers, then concluded the enemy races might be ordering their members to advance in the Secret Realm to prevent anyone from taking Source Essence out and to target him. After organizing a wider search for allies, he saved Edith and her battered squad from thirteen Yuan Race pursuers.

• Lin Yi and Liuyun expanded their Relay Network as Lin Yi gathered Gray Crystal Cores and investigated their connection to the Black Passage.
• Lin Yi received Qingye, Xinghen, and Muxi’s distress signal, killed the three pursuing Shi Race prodigies, and learned that they had abruptly advanced to Star Vortex Rank; Liuyun reported a similar encounter with a Yuan Race prodigy.
• Lin Yi suspected the Shi Race and Yuan Race were ordering their prodigies to advance and coordinate an attack, then assigned Qingye, Xinghen, Muxi, and Liuyun to find allies and expand the Relay Network.
• Edith led ten injured Pan-Spirit Alliance prodigies in retreat from thirteen Star Vortex Rank Yuan Race pursuers while her strength dwindled and she prepared to use a forbidden technique.
• Liuyun relayed Edith’s distress signal to Lin Yi, who arrived in time to freeze and destroy all thirteen Yuan Race prodigies before telling Edith and her squad to tend their injuries and leave.

Lin Yi rescued Pan-Spirit Alliance survivors while learning from Edith that the Yuan and Shi Races were using a forbidden tactic of forcing mass breakthroughs, suggesting a greater crisis beyond the Secret Realm. With their forces badly outnumbered and Hui Yao gravely wounded, Lin Yi led the group to open a mysterious passage using a Black Crystal Core, hoping it would offer refuge and a chance to survive.

• Lin Yi gathered Edith and the injured prodigies, escaped the battle site, and connected their Silver Bracelets to his Relay Network so they could coordinate rescue efforts.
• Edith explained that the Yuan and Shi Races' mass breakthroughs echoed a lethal legion system abandoned after it helped spark an interstellar war, prompting Lin Yi to suspect that abnormal events outside the Secret Realm were driving the attack.
• Over six days, Lin Yi and his clone rescued scattered Pan-Spirit Alliance teams, while their forces suffered heavy losses and the Yuan and Shi forces grew to more than nine hundred members each.
• Lin Yi found Hui Yao mortally wounded after he had broken through to Star Vortex Rank to save others; Hui Yao asked Lin Yi to tell his family that he had not brought shame on them or the Human Race.
• Lin Yi rejected the idea of demanding that more prodigies sacrifice themselves through breakthroughs, then explained that a Black Crystal Core could open a passage to an unknown area.
• Edith, Liuyun, Qingye, and the others agreed to Lin Yi's plan, and the Black Crystal Core formed a massive black vortex before them.

Lin Yi’s group explored the second Black Mist Layer, where his clone discovered that Purple Mist Space could directly absorb Source Essence from Black Crystal Cores. When the Yuan Race and Shi Race arrived with overwhelming forces, Lin Yi decided to use a Blood Mist Crystal Core to lead his group toward the next layer, where he hoped to turn the tables by hunting stronger Mist Beasts.

• Lin Yi organized the young talents into exploration teams, and they encountered stronger Black Mist Beasts throughout the second layer.
• Lin Yi killed an early-Star-Domain-Rank Giant Black Mist Beast and learned that its crystal core contained impure Source Essence.
• Lin Yi’s clone found that Purple Mist Space could extract Source Essence directly from a Black Crystal Core, yielding about a year’s worth of Spirit Enlightenment Qi in one minute.
• Lin Yi’s group gathered ordinary black crystal cores, which fused into a dangerous Blood Mist Crystal Core.
• Xuanji warned Lin Yi that more than eighteen hundred Yuan Race and Shi Race fighters were searching the layer, so Lin Yi proposed descending to the next layer using the Blood Mist Crystal Core.
• Edith, Hui Yao, Qingye, Liuyun, and the other leaders agreed to Lin Yi’s plan, and he began preparing the group to move.

Lin Yi led more than seven hundred prodigies into the Blood Mist Layer, where powerful Mist Beasts and the Yuan Race and Shi Race’s pursuit threatened their survival. After discovering the enemy had sealed the passage back to the Black Mist Layer, Lin Yi decided to find a stable base, grow stronger, and eventually break through the blockade.

• Lin Yi sent a clone into the Blood Mist Layer to scout, then led the group through after it reported the entrance was clear and the environment was heavily suppressed.
• The group advanced cautiously, avoiding powerful Blood Mist Beasts, including a near-late-Star-Domain-Rank Giant and a peak-Star-Domain-Rank King-rank beast.
• Xuanji detected the Yuan Race and Shi Race entering the Blood Mist Layer, but later reported that their energy signatures had vanished near the passage.
• Lin Yi’s clone returned to the passage and escaped an ambush by the enemy forces, who had sealed space around the exit and blocked the way back to the Black Mist Layer.
• Lin Yi told the group the enemy’s blockade could leave them trapped until the Secret Realm closed, but argued that the Blood Mist Layer could serve as a temporary safe zone and a chance to gather strength.

Lin Yi calculated that his own hunting could not provide enough Source Essence to strengthen him and help the camp escape, so he revealed his ability to extract it quickly and left the decision to the other prodigies. They pooled their Crystal Cores in trust, and Lin Yi accepted their wager as he prepared to lead everyone in a desperate gamble.

• Lin Yi estimated that his hunting would yield only about six hundred Source Essence Crystal Cores in a year, leaving him unable to gain enough strength alone without abandoning the camp.
• Lin Yi told the gathered prodigies about his ability to draw Source Essence from Crystal Cores quickly and explained the threat they faced.
• Hui Yao and more than forty Star Vortex Rank prodigies offered Lin Yi their Crystal Cores and future shares.
• Edith gave Lin Yi seven of her eight Crystal Cores and argued that pooling resources offered the camp its best chance to survive.
• More prodigies agreed to contribute their Crystal Cores after weighing the danger of keeping them, and Lin Yi began collecting them with his clone.

Lin Yi used the Sprout of the Tree of Time to raise his Time Law comprehension to 5.7 percent, then led the trapped prodigies toward the exit. The Yuan and Shi Races ambushed them with a blood-fueled battle formation, forcing Lin Yi and the survivors back into the Blood Mist Layer, where they waited with no clear way out.

• Edith gave Lin Yi a Sprout of the Tree of Time, which would mature after three hundred days and temporarily double his Time Law comprehension.
• After three hundred days of cultivation, Lin Yi consumed the matured sprout and raised his Time Law comprehension from 1.3 percent to 5.7 percent.
• Lin Yi gathered the 693 survivors and led them toward the passage, but the Yuan and Shi Races trapped its entrance in a combined blood-essence battle formation.
• Lin Yi's clone used the Time Law to hold back the attack and destroyed itself, allowing Lin Yi, Edith, and some others to retreat, while many survivors remained on the other side.
• Back at camp, Lin Yi proposed breaking through to Star Vortex Rank to help the others escape, but Edith explained that the formation could not be bypassed without overwhelming power.
• Lin Yi told the survivors to rest as they awaited the Secret Realm's closing, then continued studying the Time Law and reflected on the Yuan and Shi Races' long-planned scheme.

After the Myriad Secret Realm closed without the Pan-Spirit Alliance’s thousand geniuses, the outside world believed they had died, while Lin Yi and the survivors resolved to keep fighting and growing stronger inside. The Yuan Race and Shi Race launched an all-out war against the Pan-Spirit Alliance, turning the missing geniuses’ presumed deaths into only one part of a far greater crisis.

• The Myriad Secret Realm exit opened, but only a Yuan Race genius and a Shi Race genius emerged before the passage closed, leaving the Pan-Spirit Alliance’s thousand geniuses presumed dead.
• Dominator Qingyan challenged the Yuan Race and Shi Race Dominators over their seizure of Source Essence, and the Yuan Race Dominator accused the Spirit Race of hiding a second Supreme Being before ordering an attack.
• Trapped in the Blood Mist Layer, Lin Yi, Edith, and the other survivors agreed to keep hunting Mist Beasts, collecting Source Essence Crystal Cores, and strengthening their camp instead of giving in to despair.
• A Star Spirit Race genius reminded the group that the outside world would consider them dead, prompting Lin Yi to think of Irelia, Qian Huan, Xuanyan, and his family before Edith urged him to focus on surviving.
• As the outside world learned of the geniuses’ presumed deaths, the Yuan Race and Shi Race launched a coordinated full-scale assault on the Pan-Spirit Alliance, and reports of the spreading war overwhelmed the news.

After the Myriad Secret Realm trapped Lin Yi and the other prodigies, Yong Yan arranged to protect Silver Blue Planet while Irelia prepared to return to the East Blade Mercenary Corps. Two years later, Lin Yi detected signs that the Yuan Race was chasing the Shi Race inside the realm.

• Yong Yan learned that the Ultimate Arena would enter combat mode and invited Irelia and Lin Yao to discuss Lin Yi's confirmed entrapment in the Myriad Secret Realm.
• Yong Yan decided to escort Irelia and Lin Yao to Silver Blue Planet and continue his protection mission while Lin Yi's fate remained unknown.
• Irelia chose to return to the East Blade Mercenary Corps, and Chen Yu, Zhou Yuxuan, and Kanlia agreed to go with her while Lin Yao stayed on Silver Blue Planet.
• Yong Yan assigned Yong Feng and Musto to oversee the family's affairs as he went to Silver Blue Planet, and they discussed the political and strategic reasons for his decision.
• Two years later, Lin Yi killed a Blood Mist Beast in the Myriad Secret Realm, and Xuanji detected a Yuan Race attack and a Shi Race signature near the Blood Mist Passage.
• Lin Yi questioned Xuanji's report that the Yuan Race was chasing the Shi Race.

Lin Yi discovered that the Yuan Race and Shi Race had turned on each other over a Source Essence Crystal Core, killed the thirty-three pursuers, and warned the camp to stay alert. Five years later, as he prepared to advance his Time Law comprehension toward 10%, Xuanji reported an anomaly in the Blood Mist Layer.

• Lin Yi secretly observed the Yuan Race pursuing the Shi Race and learned their conflict began after a failed ambush over a Giant Black Mist Beast's Source Essence Crystal Core.
• Lin Yi froze and annihilated all thirty-three Star Vortex Rank combatants to protect the Relay Network, then returned to camp with their storage containers.
• Lin Yi told the camp what had happened, and Edith suggested the two races' leaders had treated their trapped prodigies as expendable pawns.
• Lin Yi ordered the camp to avoid the five Blood Mist Beast Kings' territories and to kill any Yuan Race or Shi Race members who entered their area.
• Lin Yi reviewed his Source Essence Crystal Core reserves and continued studying the Time Law, abandoning his core-fusion experiment when it showed no results.
• Five years later, Lin Yi began absorbing his accumulated cores to approach 10% Time Law comprehension, but Xuanji alerted him to an anomaly in the Blood Mist Layer.

As the Myriad Secret Realm continued shrinking and the Human Race war against the Kunmo Race worsened, Lin Yi advanced his Time Law while the Silver Blue Civilization sent its forces to the front. The chapter ended with Nie Chang and Chen Yu detonating Fortress 83227 as the enemy broke in, hoping Lin Yi would return.

• Xuanji reported that the Secret Realm was shrinking, and Lin Yi warned the camp to grow stronger as they prepared for rising Beast King threats.
• Lin Yi absorbed his Source Essence Crystal Cores and raised his Time Law Comprehension to 10.2%.
• After the Human Race issued a full wartime conscription order, Irelia organized three Silver Blue battle groups, and Nie Chang and Chen Yu led the First Battle Group to the Source Energy Barren Zone.
• As the war dragged on and the Secret Realm contracted, Lin Yi reached 20.5% Time Law Comprehension and learned that the Gray Mist layer could collapse within two years.
• During the defense of Fortress 83227, Nie Chang and Chen Yu authorized its self-destruct as the Kunmo forces broke through, and Chen Yu said he believed Lin Yi would return.

Lin Yi broke through the 30% threshold in his Time Law comprehension, hunted Blood Mist Beast Kings, and discovered their crystal cores could absorb ordinary cores. Years later, with the other races’ survivors eliminated and the Secret Realm reduced to the Blood Mist Layer, Edith told Lin Yi she could no longer absorb Source Essence Crystal Cores.

• Lin Yi sensed a vague unease, ordered Xuanji to intensify monitoring, and learned the Gray Mist Layer had collapsed while the Black Mist Layer was nearing collapse.
• Lin Yi crossed 30% Time Law comprehension, then used his clone and Chronology Slash to kill a Blood Mist Beast King and claim its crystal core.
• Lin Yi found that the Beast King Crystal Core devoured ordinary Blood Mist Beast cores, so he and the camp gathered their stockpile and fed it to the core without triggering a qualitative change.
• Lin Yi hunted more Beast Kings, raised his Time Law comprehension to 42.1%, and killed the remaining Yuan Race and Shi Race survivors as the Secret Realm contracted.
• Edith told Lin Yi that for three days she had been unable to absorb Source Essence from any crystal core because her soul would not take it in.

Edith told Lin Yi that absorbing Source Essence had left her and other powerful prodigies with an increasing sense of spiritual fullness, threatening the camp’s ability to grow stronger against the Blood Mist Beasts. Lin Yi agreed to help while protecting the Purple Mist Space with a Soul Origin Covenant, and by the chapter’s end he had mastered the technique and was preparing its terms.

• Edith explained that she had reached her limit absorbing Source Essence and that several other top prodigies had begun experiencing the same soul fullness.
• Lin Yi suspected his Purple Mist Space let him avoid the problem, recognized the danger to the team, and decided he had to find a way to help without revealing his secret.
• Edith offered to teach Lin Yi the Soul Origin Covenant Technique in exchange for his advice, and Lin Yi agreed to share his method only after they established a covenant.
• Edith transmitted the technique to Lin Yi, who spent seven days constructing his first complete covenant structure.
• Lin Yi practiced the technique for twenty-five days while continuing to manage the camp and fight Mist Beasts, eventually creating a complex simulated covenant and considering the terms he would offer Edith.

Lin Yi bound the camp's prodigies to Soul Origin Covenants and supplied them with Purified Source Essence, accelerating their growth while increasing his own mastery of the Time Law. As teammates nearing the end of their natural lifespans advanced to Star Vortex Rank in hopes that Lin Yi could someday resurrect them, he resolved to master Time and elevate Space to a Law.

• Lin Yi made Edith sign a Soul Origin Covenant, explained how he converted Source Essence into Purified Source Essence, and accepted her stockpile of crystal cores.
• Edith kept the agreement secret from Qingye, while Zhou Donglai refused to list Marshal Lin Yi among the dead without proof of his death.
• Kenkes signed the final covenant, completing the network among all 693 prodigies and giving Lin Yi access to their Source Essence Crystal Cores.
• Over two hundred years, Lin Yi's Time Law comprehension rose to 51.1%, and the camp's prodigies used Purified Source Essence to strengthen themselves and clear Mist Beast territory.
• Edith told Lin Yi that 142 teammates, including Qing Man, Chen Hui, and Xuan Yu, faced death unless they advanced within three months.
• Lin Yi told the endangered teammates to keep submitting crystal cores and recorded their shares, while they advanced and hunted fiercely to help him reach the mastery needed to attempt resurrection.

Lin Yi’s team discovered the Star Source Space, a sanctuary that accelerated Law comprehension, just as the Blood Mist Layer began collapsing. After escaping into the stable space and learning they could move on to a new White Mist Layer, Lin Yi spent the year cultivating and achieved 100% mastery of the Time Law.

• Lin Yi’s Beast King Crystal Core transformed into a Golden Passage, and his team entered the Star Source Space, where Law comprehension was at least three times faster and their Source Energy faced no suppression.
• As the Blood Mist Layer’s collapse accelerated, Lin Yi ordered the team to move supplies and hunt Mist Beasts for Crystal Cores before retreating into the Star Source Space.
• After the Blood Mist Layer collapsed, Lin Yi’s clone explored the still-open passage and found an expanding White Mist Layer with unstable Laws and newly forming Mist Beasts.
• Lin Yi concluded that the team could cultivate safely for a year before entering the White Mist Layer, and the group settled into the Star Source Space to train.
• After more than half a year of cultivation, Lin Yi used Spirit Enlightenment Qi to reach 100% mastery of the Time Law, sending a ripple through the space that stirred the other prodigies’ comprehension.

Lin Yi mastered Time Law and advanced Space Law with Ai Lan’s Void Splitter Butterfly, then began using his Space-Time abilities to revive prodigies who had died in the Myriad Secret Realm. He successfully brought back Bi Ling, the first of the fallen, after tracing her death to an ambush 2,500 years earlier.

• Lin Yi reached perfection in Time Law and asked the camp’s prodigies for a treasure to aid his Space Law breakthrough.
• Ai Lan gave Lin Yi a young Void Splitter Butterfly, which helped him advance Space Rule to entry-level Space Law.
• Lin Yi announced conditions for reviving the prodigies who had died in the Secret Realm, and the crowd agreed to them.
• Edith suggested reviving prodigies from past epochs, and Lin Yi explained the limits and risks before deciding to attempt it in the White Mist Layer.
• Lin Yi traced time back to the Myriad Secret Realm’s opening 2,500 years earlier and found Bi Ling dying in a Shi Race ambush.
• Lin Yi brought Bi Ling to the present and told her that two thousand five hundred years had passed since her death.