Chapter Summaries

After learning that a Large Nest was expanding toward the Jinling Settlement, Lin Yi decided to fly there that night and deal with its immediate threat. He left East Blade Military Academy for Jinling, where the settlement's leaders received word of his arrival and began preparing for it.

• Lin Yi judged that the Jinling Settlement could not halt a Large Nest's expansion through conventional force, but decided to help it while longer-term countermeasures were prepared.
• Lin Yi told Nie Chang he would leave immediately, and Nie Chang contacted Jinling Command Headquarters to provide his arrival details.
• Lin Yi boarded the Little Flying Ball and flew southwest from East Blade Military Academy toward Jinling City.
• A communications operator confirmed Lin Yi's expected arrival at Backup Landing Pad No. 3, prompting the duty officer to alert the General Command Room.
• News of Lin Yi's impending arrival spread through the Jinling Settlement's senior leadership.

Lin Yi arrived at the Jinling City Settlement and immediately flew toward the Nest to deal with the threat. In the Combat Monitoring Room, Wang Weiguo and Li Changming realized he was methodically targeting the powerful Abyss Beasts while leaving the weaker ones alone.

• Wang Weiguo and Li Changming received word that Lin Yi was coming and went to Landing Pad No. 3 to meet him.
• Lin Yi landed at the settlement, greeted the officials, and said he would clear out the Nest before flying off in Little Flying Ball.
• Wang Weiguo led the officials to the Combat Monitoring Room to track Lin Yi's movements.
• Li Changming asked the technician to hide targets with Source Energy readings below 1,000, revealing Lin Yi's attack pattern.
• The officials watched Lin Yi spend 30 Source Energy to eliminate each nearby powerful Abyss Beast one by one.

Lin Yi used fused rules to eliminate 189 powerful Abyss Beasts near the Large Nest, giving the Jinling City Settlement temporary relief. After Wang Weiguo and Li Changming welcomed him, they asked how to address the Nest’s continued growth.

• Lin Yi used Little Steel Beads empowered by fused rules to silently kill elite Abyss Beasts one at a time.
• The Combat Monitoring Room counted 189 high-energy targets eliminated, and Wang Weiguo lamented that Lin Yi had cleared more than eight days’ worth of Abyss Beasts in under two hours.
• Li Changming reassured Wang Weiguo and urged him to look ahead as Lin Yi returned to the settlement.
• Wang Weiguo and Li Changming greeted Lin Yi and thanked him for easing the settlement’s crisis.
• Li Changming asked Lin Yi for a long-term plan to deal with the still-active Large Nest and its multiplying Abyss Beasts.

Lin Yi proposed using a “Cage” strategy to seize territory around Micro Nests and create safer settlements, and Li Changming and Wang Weiguo agreed to test it. Lin Yi left Jinling for Helu City, while the two leaders began planning the operation.

• Lin Yi suggested that Jinling shift from defending against high-level Nests to clearing Micro Nests and expanding into their territories.
• Lin Yi outlined the “Cage” plan: build circular fortifications around a Micro Nest, kill emerging Abyss Beasts, clear the surrounding area, and establish outposts or settlements.
• Lin Yi said the team should withdraw if a nearby Large Nest interfered, then try another site; he privately believed high-level Nests would ignore the enclosed Micro Nest.
• Li Changming and Wang Weiguo decided Jinling would test the plan and began discussing personnel, equipment, and site selection.
• Lin Yi declined their offer to stay because he had to teach East Blade Military Academy’s incoming students, then flew toward Helu City.

East Blade Military Academy’s first graduating class departed for their home settlements, carrying new skills, equipment, and ideas. On the journey home, Zhang Zhen and another cadet used their East Blade gear to defeat an Abyss Wolf pack, showing how their training had changed them.

• Elizabeth told Sir Howard that her country should learn from the strongest and build its own training system, and he agreed to pursue further cooperation with East Blade.
• Andre reunited with Williams and vowed to bring East Blade’s combat training and teamwork back home.
• Zhang Zhen’s convoy encountered about twenty Abyss Wolves near an abandoned industrial district, and he suggested that he and another cadet lead the fight.
• Zhang Zhen used his East Blade equipment to attack the wolves while the other cadet charged into the pack and the armed police covered the vehicles.
• The cadets and armed police killed all twenty wolves in under five minutes, then resumed their journey as other graduates carried East Blade’s influence back to their settlements.

With three days until the first Abyss Tide, Lin Yi reflected on the academy’s growth and on Xia Kingdom’s progress in expanding safe zones, training Star Dust Rank fighters, and restoring industry and communications. The chapter left humanity preparing for the coming test, while Large Nest territory continued to encroach on a supposedly safe zone.

• Xia Kingdom established a Source Energy blueprint exchange program that awarded student slots and Contribution Points, prompting coalition members to contribute blueprints and increasing foreign enrollment at East Blade Military Academy.
• The Supreme Command Center’s Equipment Department gave Lin Yi an Agile Portable Photography Sphere for recording footage on missions.
• Lin Yi reached 6,100 Source Energy and the second tier of Star Dust Rank as East Blade’s fourth class of 4,800 students graduated.
• The Jinling City Settlement expanded several Cage Safe Zones, but the territory of a nearby Large Nest began swallowing part of the first zone.
• Liu Yuan and nearly ten other East Blade graduates, including Elizabeth, Andre, and Zhang Zhen, broke through to Star Dust Rank.
• Lin Yi helped destroy three Micro Nests and recover industrial equipment, enabling ammunition production to resume partially and settlements to restore wireless communications and internet access.

Lin Yi prepared for the first Abyss Tide, confident in Xia Kingdom’s defenses but worried about vulnerable regions elsewhere. When Micro Nests worldwide launched synchronized attacks, he ordered East Blade Military Academy’s command staff to identify the settlements under the greatest threat.

• Lin Yi reviewed Xia Kingdom’s Source Warrior forces and defense preparations as noon approached, while recalling how unchecked Abyss Nests had destroyed human civilization across Africa in his previous life.
• A few minutes after noon, Lin Yi received an urgent transmission and hurried to East Blade Military Academy’s operations command room.
• Nie Chang briefed Lin Yi that Micro Nests worldwide were sending organized waves of tens of thousands of Abyss Beasts toward settlements, with no Medium or Large Nests involved so far.
• Lin Yi ordered the staff to compare the threats facing Xia Kingdom’s major settlements with their defenses and highlight the ten locations under the greatest pressure.

Lin Yi organized support for ten Gathering Points threatened by an Abyss Tide and flew to the most endangered one. At Gathering Point No. 1, the defenders held their line while East Blade Military Academy cadets showed their growing combat strength.

• Nie Chang and Liu Qiying reported that the ten Gathering Points faced Abyss Tides made up of mostly low-level beasts, with armed forces and air support helping contain the threat.
• Lin Yi assigned rescue teams to Gathering Points No. 2 through No. 10, ordered the academy to defend Crane Deer Gathering Point, and sent himself to No. 1.
• Lin Yi left headquarters aboard Little Flying Ball and reached Gathering Point No. 1 two and a half hours later.
• Armed Police Force soldiers and local Source Energy Users fought to hold the perimeter against a seemingly endless horde of Abyss Beasts.
• Zhao Gang, Sun Miao, and Wang Lei coordinated with other cadets to kill three Swift Hunting Hounds that had broken through the fire line.

Lin Yi arrived at the defensive line and used his Little Steel Beads to annihilate nearly sixty thousand Abyss Beasts, saving the exhausted defenders before swiftly departing. At the Dragon Abyss Underground Command Center, Xia Kingdom’s leaders faced distress signals flooding the Blue Star Crisis Response Coalition from across the world.

• Li Yue recognized Lin Yi’s arrival and rallied the East Blade students and nearby fighters.
• Lin Yi stepped out of the Little Flying Ball and sent more than ten Little Steel Beads through the beast tide, erasing Abyss Beasts and opening a vast clearing.
• Zhao Gang, Sun Miao, and Li Yue watched Lin Yi’s power turn the battle and felt renewed relief and awe.
• Lin Yi cleared nearly sixty thousand Abyss Beasts, confirmed the defensive line was safe, and left in the Little Flying Ball.
• At the Dragon Abyss Underground Command Center, Xia Kingdom’s leaders saw distress signals spreading across Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas.

Zhou Donglai reported that Xia Kingdom’s settlements were holding and Lin Yi had broken the Abyss Tide threatening the worst-hit settlement. As the leaders debated answering foreign Coalition members’ distress calls, Zhou proposed using East Wind missiles for limited strategic strikes abroad.

• Zhou Donglai reported that Source Martial Army units and East Blade Military Academy teams had strengthened domestic defenses, while Lin Yi had destroyed more than sixty thousand Abyss Beasts and broken the main force of an Abyss Tide.
• Li Zhenguo asked whether Xia Kingdom should aid the Coalition countries whose settlements were in crisis.
• Zhou Donglai argued that Xia Kingdom should help its allies if it could secure its own territory, but Elder Wang warned that cross-border rescues were dangerous and opposed risking Lin Yi or the Source Martial Army.
• Zhou Donglai revealed that restored satellite links and command systems could support limited strikes with East Wind missiles against fixed areas anywhere on Blue Star.

Zhou Donglai persuaded Xia Kingdom’s leaders to consult Lin Yi before deciding whether to support the isolated island nation with strategic weapons. Lin Yi received the General Staff’s proposal to use East Wind missiles for long-range aid and realized restored satellite links could make the missiles effective again.

• The head of the Academy of Sciences and Zhou Donglai concluded that Xia Kingdom had enough long-range and intercontinental missiles for strategic support, though Zhou stressed they would not defeat the Abyss Tide for allied nations.
• The head of foreign affairs recommended helping the island nation, citing its Coalition membership and its new Xia-descended leadership’s Communist Society ties.
• Zhou Donglai urged Li Zhenguo to ask Lin Yi’s opinion before deciding whether to support the island nation, and Li ordered an encrypted briefing to Lin Yi.
• Lin Yi rested in the Little Flying Ball while absorbing Source Energy, then answered Zhou Donglai’s high-priority communication.
• Zhou Donglai briefed Lin Yi on the Coalition’s requests for help and the proposal to use East Wind missiles for long-range support, and Lin Yi recognized that restored military satellite links could make the missiles useful.

Lin Yi agreed that Xia Kingdom should support the island nation only if it first addressed its past wrongs, and Xia Kingdom launched strategic missiles to aid countries under attack by Abyss Beasts. The support reached settlements in Southeast Asia, England, and the island nation, where the final strike destroyed an abandoned site identified by the island nation’s leadership.

• Lin Yi told Zhou Donglai that Xia Kingdom could support the island nation if it first answered for its past actions.
• Zhou Donglai relayed Lin Yi’s condition to the conference, and Li Zhenguo ordered missile support for member states that submitted coordinates of their most threatened areas.
• Xia Kingdom launched hundreds of missiles toward targets across the world.
• Missiles struck the Abyss Beast tide threatening a Southeast Asian settlement, giving the surviving soldiers a chance to hold their defensive line.
• Elizabeth and Adams saw missiles hit the Abyss Beasts attacking the London Tower Settlement, easing pressure on its defenders.
• Missiles struck the Abyss Beasts near Jingdong Bay Settlement, then destroyed an abandoned site at coordinates supplied by the island nation’s leadership.

After East Wind’s missile support failed to stabilize every front, Lin Yi selected six Coalition regions still in danger and decided to help them himself. He used his soul power to reach toward one distant battlefield, beginning his intervention.

• Lin Yi returned to East Blade Military Academy after learning that the home settlements were stable and asked for a global situation update.
• Lin Yi identified the ten regions in greatest danger despite missile support, removed non-Coalition regions, and ordered the remaining six ranked by how many students their countries had sent to East Blade Military Academy.
• Lin Yi told Nie Chang and Liu Qiying that he would help the six regions himself, then left the command room.
• Lin Yi focused his soul power and extended his perception toward a distant battlefield, where scenes and information began to enter his mind.

Lin Yi demonstrated a long-range soul-linked attack and explained how fusing rule implications amplified its power. His Little Steel Bead annihilated a Leader Rank Abyss Beast and the surrounding Abyss Tide, saving the East Blade defenders.

• Lin Yi spotted a retreating group of East Blade soldiers threatened by a Leader Rank Abyss Beast and launched a Little Steel Bead at it using focused soul power.
• Lin Yi told Nie Chang and Liu Qiying that his soul link could send attacks anywhere in the world, though the journey consumed most of the attack’s Source Energy.
• Lin Yi explained that he had fused the Sharp Edge and Ferocity rule implications and raised his rule comprehension to around 16%, astonishing Liu Qiying with the resulting attack power.
• The black-lightning-wreathed bead struck the Leader Rank Abyss Beast across thousands of miles, killing it instantly and triggering an explosion that erased the main force of the local Abyss Tide.
• The surviving East Blade defenders witnessed the devastation, and one cadet recognized Lin Yi as the one who had saved them.

Lin Yi launched six long-range rule-based attacks to eliminate the most critical Abyss Beast threat zones and give six countries time to respond. Liu Qiying then informed him that Supreme Command had invited him to a high-level meeting about deeper international cooperation and deploying Xia Kingdom forces abroad, and Lin Yi agreed to attend.

• Lin Yi recovered between attacks and sent six Little Steel Beads toward the six most critical threat zones.
• Liu Qiying told Lin Yi that Supreme Command had invited him to a meeting at the Dragon Abyss Command Center.
• Liu Qiying explained that the meeting would consider strengthening the Blue Star Crisis Response Coalition and deploying Xia Kingdom forces in other countries.
• Lin Yi realized that Xia Kingdom's growing military power and his own global strike capability had made him a strategic decision-maker.
• Lin Yi told Liu Qiying that he would attend the meeting on time.

Lin Yi finished teaching his morning class at East Blade Military Academy and flew to the Dragon Abyss Command Center to attend a meeting. His arrival astonished Liu Qiying and the senior officials gathered there, and he entered the underground base with Dong Wang and Wang Lu.

• Liu Qiying reminded Lin Yi that his 10:30 meeting in the capital was more than 900 kilometers from the academy, but Lin Yi said he would travel after class.
• Lin Yi taught Fundamentals of Source Energy Theory in military uniform and finished the lecture at 9:50.
• Lin Yi told Liu Qiying to leave routine matters to Vice Principal Nie, then flew away in a golden streak as students watched.
• Lin Yi landed beside Dong Wang and Wang Lu at the Dragon Abyss Command Center, surprising them with his flight and introducing himself.
• Dong Wang introduced Wang Lu to Lin Yi, and the three followed staff into Dragon Abyss Base as the officials inside watched Lin Yi.

At a senior meeting, Zhou Donglai reported that the Abyss Tide was under control at home and in most allied countries, while more than a dozen isolated nations were near collapse. The officials approved forming the Blue Star Community and began discussing requests from over thirty countries for Chinese forces to help defend them.

• Li Zhenguo opened the meeting and invited Lin Yi to provide a younger perspective.
• Zhou Donglai reported plans to eliminate or contain domestic Micro Nests and described how Lin Yi’s global precision strikes had helped allied countries.
• Zhou Donglai revealed that roughly a dozen countries had lost contact and were close to collapse after failing to join the Blue Star Crisis Response Coalition.
• The Foreign Affairs Department and Zhou Donglai supported upgrading the coalition into the Blue Star Community, and the proposal won approval in principle.
• Li Zhenguo introduced requests from more than thirty countries for Chinese forces, especially the Source Martial Army, to deploy and assist with their defense.

Lin Yi argued against permanently stationing troops abroad and proposed establishing East Blade Military Academy branch campuses to train other countries’ Source Energy forces and strengthen their ties to Xia Kingdom. His proposal won Li Zhenguo’s approval, but Wang Lu questioned whether its goal was cultural assimilation.

• Zhou Donglai presented the General Staff’s concerns about the political, logistical, and domestic costs of stationing troops abroad.
• Li Zhenguo asked Lin Yi for his view on the troop deployment request.
• Lin Yi warned that allies might later see stationed troops as an unwelcome presence and proposed opening East Blade Source Energy Training Centers instead.
• Lin Yi described how the centers could train local defenders, support regional security, and promote Xia Kingdom’s language and culture.
• Li Zhenguo approved of Lin Yi’s alternative, while Wang Lu asked whether the cultural program amounted to assimilation.

Lin Yi secured approval for East Blade Military Academy branch campuses and cultural education, then arranged to equip the academy with virtual training helmets. The first batch of fifty helmets was approved, with Zhao Bin promising to prioritize production.

• Lin Yi argued that voluntary cultural integration could unite humanity against the Abyss Nest without erasing ethnic identities, and Li Zhenguo approved his proposal for branch campuses and cultural education.
• Lin Yi listened to reports on Xia Kingdom's recovery before the meeting ended.
• Zhao Bin introduced Lin Yi to the Illusion Type I Virtual Helmet, which let users fight preset opponents, copies of themselves, and remotely shared virtual opponents.
• Lin Yi recognized the helmets as Realm helmets and explained how they could improve students' combat skills and reveal weaknesses.
• Lin Yi ordered fifty helmets for East Blade Military Academy, and Zhao Bin agreed to prioritize their production.

Lin Yi proposed a network-based Merit System to track contributions and let people exchange points for resources, while Zhao Bin and Dong Wang devised a way to build it using Source Wisdom Type I Intelligent Life. The chapter ended with Lin Yi entrusting the project to them and offering East Blade Military Academy and the Source Martial Army as pilot participants.

• Lin Yi proposed a nationwide contribution-points platform that could reward military service, reconstruction, research, and training with access to resources and guidance.
• Zhao Bin supported the Merit System but worried that existing computing centers could not handle its scale and complexity.
• Dong Wang revealed that the Academy of Sciences had been using Source Wisdom Type I Intelligent Life, whose computing power could support the platform.
• Dong Wang and Zhao Bin outlined a system using Source Wisdom to assess contributions and settlement and unit servers to manage records and exchanges.
• Lin Yi suggested adding task postings with point rewards, and Dong Wang agreed that the feature could encourage civilian participation.
• Lin Yi left the platform design to Zhao Bin and Dong Wang and offered East Blade Military Academy and the Source Martial Army for the pilot program.