Chapter Summaries

Cheng Xiao told Lin Yi that Guo Yinglong had died after losing to Mitsui Shigeru, then passed on Wan Chongshan’s warning about the approaching Nibelungen Plane and explained how laws governed the Myriad Worlds. The chapter left Lin Yi with the Grand Void Dragon Seal and the knowledge that laws, not ordinary powers or equipment, ruled battles at the War God level.

• Cheng Xiao told Lin Yi that Mitsui Shigeru had defeated Guo Yinglong, who had died without leaving a body.
• Cheng Xiao explained that Wan Chongshan was recovering in seclusion and warned that the Nibelungen Plane was nearing Blue Star, with a rift between them possibly opening at any time.
• Cheng Xiao gave Lin Yi the Grand Void Dragon Seal and told him to take it to Ao Xuan when it reacted to the opening of Nibelungen.
• Cheng Xiao described the Myriad Worlds as planes of different scales and explained that laws sustained their operation.
• Cheng Xiao warned Lin Yi that Forbidden Spells and other conventional powers mattered less in War God-level battles, where laws stood above everything.

Cheng Xiao explained to Lin Yi how Laws originated, branched out, and shaped conflict across the Myriad Worlds. She taught him that Laws could counter Laws and revealed that his Ice Element Forbidden Spell had been influenced by the Law of Eternal.

• Lin Yi asked Cheng Xiao how many Laws existed, and she said no one on Blue Star knew, then described the Primordial World splitting into two planes governed by the Primordial Laws of Origin and Finality.
• Cheng Xiao named the nine Supreme Laws and told Lin Yi that he possessed four of them, prompting him to complain that she was reading his mind.
• Lin Yi reasoned that Laws could branch into further Laws, and Cheng Xiao explained how Laws annexed one another or clashed, eventually causing the first War of Myriad Worlds.
• Cheng Xiao taught Lin Yi that only Laws could contend against Laws and explained that a Law’s conceptual breadth could suppress someone who lacked comparable protection.
• Cheng Xiao said she had achieved Dao Integration with the Law of Truth, while Lin Yi only borrowed the Immortal Law through an item, and she noted that his Ice Element Forbidden Spell showed the influence of the Law of Eternal.

Lin Yi learned that his mutated skills carried the aura of laws and that his Eternal Law powers made him a target for other law factions. He returned to the grieving Great Xia team and vowed to kill Mitsui Shigeru for Guo Yinglong.

• Cheng Xiao explained the stages of law fusion and said Xuanyuan Qingcang was the only person on Blue Star to reach Sainthood Transformation.
• Cheng Xiao warned Lin Yi to develop his Abyss Descent Layers and conceal his Eternal Law spells from Emperor Rank powerhouses, since Eternal had been targeted by other laws.
• Cheng Xiao left Lin Yi’s room, and Lin Yi went to the Great Xia team’s lounge, where the team mourned Guo Yinglong.
• Guan Xingwu said Mitsui Shigeru had ignored the surrender and delivered a final blow to the already dying Guo Yinglong.
• Lin Yi vowed to make Mitsui Shigeru repay Guo Yinglong’s death with blood.

After refusing the championship awarded to him by default, Lin Yi insisted that the final against Mitsui Shigeru proceed as planned. With the match set to begin before a packed stadium, Lin Yi faced Mitsui and declared that he was dead.

• Hu Yu told the Great Xia Team that Mitsui had been suspended, making Lin Yi champion and granting Great Xia all five Trial Tower slots, but Lin Yi refused the award and demanded the match proceed normally.
• Ji Yunli arrived with Cheng Xiao and Meng Yuanzhou, ordered Hu Yu to restore the match or Great Xia would reclaim the Trial Tower slots, and praised Lin Yi for standing up for his companions.
• The organizers announced that Lin Yi would still face Mitsui, drawing a packed crowd eager to see the showdown.
• Lin Yi spotted Zhang Shan, Jiang Ya, Jiang Xian, and former Jiangcheng leaders cheering for him from the stands.
• Before the final began, Lin Yi looked at Mitsui and told him, “You're dead.”

Lin Yi began his final against Mitsui Shigeru, who had been driven into a rage by his father’s focus on the Soul Beast Project. Mitsui Shigeru trapped Lin Yi in an illusion, but Lin Yi used Lin You’s Soul's Elegy and Six Paths of No Thought Slash: Human Path to break it and shield nearby allies from mental effects.

• Lin Yi and Mitsui Shigeru exchanged hostile words before the final began.
• Mitsui Koji and Cheng Xiao traded insults at the judges’ table, and Mitsui Koji threatened Lin Yi’s life.
• Mitsui Shigeru’s illusion made Lin Yi see his head explode, but Lin Yi recognized that he was being deceived.
• Lin Yi wielded Soul's Elegy with Lin You’s help and shattered the illusion with Six Paths of No Thought Slash: Human Path.
• The skill’s Wall of Thoughts protected allies within 50 meters from illusion, confusion, and mind control for ten minutes.

Lin Yi broke through Mitsui Shigeru’s soul-targeting illusion, destroyed Shoukaku, and exposed Mitsui Shigeru’s nine-eyed form. Mitsui Shigeru rose to continue the fight, while Lin Yi taunted him about his apparent nine lives.

• Mitsui Shigeru mistook Lin Yi’s stillness for a successful illusion and prepared to devour him.
• Lin Yi struck Mitsui Shigeru with the Human Path No Thought Slash, shattering souls and severely injuring one of his soul beasts.
• Lin Yi learned that Shoukaku’s Soul’s Phantom Smoke had caused the illusion, then destroyed Shoukaku with another sword strike.
• Mitsui Koji smashed the judges’ table in anger, and Cheng Xiao mocked him over Mitsui Shigeru’s defeat.
• Mitsui Shigeru revealed nine numbered eyes, with the eye marked One bleeding and closing, and vowed to make Lin Yi pay.
• Lin Yi said Mitsui Shigeru had nine lives and compared him unfavorably to Bae Jun-hee, stunning the Goryeo spectators.

Lin Yi faced Mitsui Shigeru after Shigeru sacrificed Shoukaku to create a domain that weakened soul attacks. Lin Yi gained control of Lin Qianqian’s Royal-tier test subjects and summoned a monstrous creature, leaving the spectators and Shigeru overwhelmed by its presence.

• Lin Yi’s insult angered the Goryeo spectators, while viewers and Cheng Xiao laughed at the remark.
• Lin Yi’s sword qi shattered the eye sealing Shoukaku, and Mitsui Shigeru sacrificed Shoukaku to gain a Soul Guard Domain.
• Lin Yi learned that Mitsui Shigeru was a Soul Shaper whose strength and survival depended on the souls sealed inside him.
• Lin Qianqian offered Lin Yi control of more than ten thousand powerful soul-stitched test subjects and asked him not to summon Lin You.
• Lin Yi summoned Experimental Subject 1-2B, whose roar incapacitated spectators and drove some of them mad.

Lin Yi used one of Lin Qianqian’s stitched monsters to weaken Mitsui Shigeru’s Soul Guard Domain, then revealed over a hundred powerful summons. Cheng Xiao claimed those summons made up less than one percent of Lin Yi’s total.

• Lin Yi ordered a stitched monster to charge into Mitsui Shigeru’s Soul Guard Domain, where Mitsui Shigeru summoned Matatabi and set the monster ablaze.
• The stitched monster self-destructed, sending out a soul shockwave that weakened Mitsui Shigeru’s domain but did not destroy it.
• Mitsui Shigeru accused Lin Yi of sacrificing his battle pet, while Lin Yi and Cheng Xiao clarified that the monster was only a summon.
• Lin Yi summoned more than a hundred nearly identical monsters, each at Royal Tier or higher, astonishing the spectators.
• Cheng Xiao told Mitsui Koji and the audience that the more than one hundred summons represented less than one percent of Lin Yi’s total summons.

Lin Yi continued to overwhelm Mitsui Shigeru with exploding Stitched Giants, leaving him brutally injured but alive through his Soul Shaper traits. Mitsui Shigeru refused to surrender, and Lin Yi stopped him from rising by trapping him in the Waters of Lethe.

• The audience learned that Lin Yi had thousands of Peak Royal Rank summons in reserve as more than a hundred Stitched Giants charged Mitsui Shigeru and self-destructed.
• The explosions tore Mitsui Shigeru apart, while Lin Yi remained unharmed and Mitsui Shigeru regenerated through his Soul Shaper ability.
• Mitsui Koji ordered his son to surrender through a secret technique, but Mitsui Shigeru swallowed the message and declared that he would not lose.
• Mitsui Shigeru sacrificed Matatabi to gain a new trait, while his giant shark soul beast Isoguchi survived the blasts severely wounded.
• As Mitsui Shigeru tried to stand, the ground liquefied into the freezing Waters of Lethe, and Lin Yi told him he had never given permission to get up.

Lin Yi unleashed the Forbidden Spell Styx Funeral, flooding Penglai Island with the River Styx and leaving Mitsui Shigeru helpless as his Soul Beasts were ripped from his body. Lin Qianqian collected several souls, while the massive Eight-headed Serpent Baqi began emerging as the extraction continued.

• Lin Yi’s River Styx water extinguished Mitsui Shigeru’s Soul Fire and revealed the Necromancer Kingdom beyond a shattered sky.
• Lin Yi opened Styx Funeral vertically and multiplied its force, sending a vast waterfall of Lethe water across Penglai Island.
• The Lethe water submerged the arena and trapped Mitsui Shigeru in a vortex that left him unable to move or think clearly.
• Lin Yi Qianqian used the Bronze Soul Bell to collect Ji Fu’s soul and five more Soul Beasts pulled from Mitsui Shigeru.
• Mitsui Shigeru’s eighth Soul Beast began to emerge as the Eight-headed Serpent Baqi.

Lin Yi and Lin Qianqian freed and captured the Eight-headed Serpent, but Mitsui Shigeru’s apparent death gave way to a strange black creature emerging from his body. Cheng Xiao warned Lin Yi that it could hide in shadows and urged him to use Light Element before it spread further.

• Lin Yi trapped the freed Eight-headed Serpent with Styx Funeral, and Lin Qianqian pulled it into her Soul-Snatching Bell.
• The River Styx receded, and Mitsui Shigeru lay motionless as the referees began counting down toward declaring Lin Yi the winner.
• Lin Yi noticed Mitsui Shigeru had a ninth eye, then watched his body turn pitch-black and explode into a mass of black substance.
• The black substance regrouped into a headless humanoid creature and spread across much of the arena.
• Cheng Xiao told Lin Yi the creature could dwell in shadows and urged him to erase them with Light Element before it could escape.

Lin Yi faced Mitsui Shigeru’s law-protected shadow monster after it infiltrated the arena and injured him. He gained the Light Element Law’s acceptance and unleashed Solar Flare, with its light bearing down on Blue Star.

• Lin Yi saw that Cheng Xiao and the Dongying War God had disappeared, then realized the ink-black shadows were spreading through the venue and threatening the audience.
• The shadow monster emerged from Lin Yi’s own shadow and pierced his back, but his Immortal Fruit-powered recovery healed the wound.
• Lin Yi cast Kingdom of Dead Silence to control the monster, but it still merged into his shadow because it was a law rather than a soul beast.
• Lin Yi recited all ten True Words for Solar Flare and witnessed a supernova in a vision, realizing the Light Element Law had accepted him.
• Lin Yi returned to the arena as the shadows spread beyond Penglai Island, while the sun emitted a massive flare toward Blue Star.

Lin Yi used Solar Flare to destroy the shadow monster and annihilate the artificial law of Darkness, then learned from Cheng Xiao that Mitsui Koji had created it through experiments in pursuit of Law Ascension. The battle ended with Penglai Island bathed in holy light for the next hundred years.

• Lin Yi’s Solar Flare burned away the shadow monster and all the black substance around and beneath Penglai Island, and he received an Epic Grade reward and the Heart of Darkness.
• Lin Yi received the Unique Title Never-ending Battle after annihilating the law of Darkness.
• Cheng Xiao told Lin Yi that Mitsui Koji had experimented on Mitsui Shigeru and the Shadow Law to pursue Law Ascension, while Ji Yunli fought Mitsui Koji in the Sumeru Realm.
• Cheng Xiao explained that the artificial law would eventually have consumed Mitsui Koji and that only someone protected by laws could withstand it.
• Lin Yi dispelled Dead Silence Domain, and the people on Penglai Island recovered under Solar Flare’s healing light, which would cover the island for a hundred years.

Lin Yi won the 3024 Pan-Asia Youth Professional Peak Tournament, and his Solar Flare left the crowd in awe. He also received the individual competition MVP award with doubled rewards, while the other nine national teams withdrew from the team competition.

• Lin Yi’s Solar Flare illuminated Penglai Island, and the tournament declared him champion after his overwhelming victory.
• Hu Yu presented Lin Yi with the championship trophy as spectators chanted his name, joined by Lin Yi’s childhood friend Zhang Shan.
• The organizing committee named Lin Yi the individual competition MVP and doubled his rewards, including 200 million Blue Star Coins, 50,000 points’ worth of tradable Skill Point Scrolls, and two equipment choices below Epic Grade.
• The committee announced that every team except the Great Xia Team had withdrawn from the team competition, citing Lin Yi’s presence.

The Great Xia Team received ten Inverted Sky Tower qualifications, while Lin Yi was awarded the team competition MVP after the event committee halted their participation. Before entering the Trial Tower, Cheng Xiao explained its floors, Buff Effects, Soul Cores, and the choice between claiming a Soul Armament or continuing deeper.

• A Liang announced that the Great Xia Team would receive ten entry qualifications and Lin Yi would receive the team competition MVP award, while the other nations competed for the remaining five slots.
• Lin Yi spent a relaxing afternoon touring Penglai Island with Zhang Shan, Jiang Ya, and the others, then saw them off at the docks.
• Lin Yi learned that the Great Xia Team members would enter the Trial Tower early the following day and joined the team briefing led by Zhao Enquan and Cheng Xiao.
• Cheng Xiao explained that players could team up from Floor 99 to Floor 50, but teams faced increased monster-clearing requirements, and players had to proceed alone below Floor 50.
• Cheng Xiao described the Trial Tower's floors, random Buff Effects, and Soul Cores, explaining that players could claim a Soul Core and leave or continue downward for more while risking their accumulated Buff Effects.

Lin Yi learned that he could claim a chosen Mythical Soul Core by reaching the 1st floor of the Inverted Sky Tower, and he collected his team competition rewards. While reviewing Epic Grade jewelry sets late into the night, he found the Astral Roaming set and was immediately captivated by its effect.

• Cheng Xiao explained the Inverted Sky Tower’s retry rules and told Lin Yi that reaching the 1st floor would let him choose a Mythical Soul Core.
• Lin Yi realized he could focus on descending through the tower instead of weighing each Soul Core against the risks of continuing.
• Zhao Enquan told Lin Yi that no one had objected to his MVP award and took him to collect his rewards.
• Lin Yi received 200 million World Currency, ten Star Diamond Skill Point Scrolls, and the chance to choose equipment and make two wishes.
• Lin Yi took the equipment list back to his room and reviewed jewelry sets late into the night.
• Lin Yi spotted the Astral Roaming Necklace and became excited by the set effect.

Lin Yi completed the Astral Roaming accessory set, distributed plans for his skill-point scrolls and requested two rare materials to advance his spells. He then traveled with the Great Xia Team toward a mysterious tower in the East Sea, which Lin You recognized as familiar.

• Lin Yi chose the Astral Roaming set for its cooldown-refresh effects and decided to give his ten Star Diamond Skill Point Scrolls to Nangong Ling, Sun Dachuan, Zhang Shan, and Jiang Ya.
• Lin Yi requested Flowing Electric Light and a Sky-Splitting Bedrock Fragment to advance his Lightning and Gravity spells.
• The staff approved Lin Yi's request for another Astral Roaming piece and gave it to him for free.
• Lin Yi equipped the completed three-piece set after reaching level 180, then boarded an airship with the Great Xia Team.
• The team arrived at a vast stone tower in the East Sea, and Lin You said the place felt familiar.

Lin Yi entered the Inverted Sky Tower with the other competitors and discovered that Guo Yinglong, whom he had believed dead, was alive inside. As Guo Yinglong led them toward his camp, he began explaining the tower’s many residents and the desperate circumstances that kept some of them from leaving.

• The allied forces verified Lin Yi and the others before the group flew to the tower’s entrance, where an officer warned them that the deeper floors held ancient monsters and required Buff States.
• Lin Yi and the others entered the tower’s hundredth floor, a vast rest floor where fighting was forbidden.
• Guan Xingwu recognized Guo Yinglong and tearfully embraced him, while Lin Yi realized Cheng Xiao had concealed Guo Yinglong’s survival.
• Guo Yinglong led the group toward his camp and explained that the tower held hundreds of people, including failed challengers who were waiting for another chance to qualify.
• Guo Yinglong told them that Old Man Liu had spent decades in the tower after failing to clear the fiftieth floor, and said he would explain why people stayed once they reached camp.

Lin Yi and the newcomers reached Great Xia’s cramped D-class camp, where Guo Yinglong explained the tower’s camp benefits and rankings. After two Goryeo men mocked them, the group learned that all ten of Great Xia’s newcomers had entered, giving the other countries reason to fear its growing strength.

• Guo Yinglong brought Lin Yi and the others to the overcrowded camp and introduced them to Wang Yizhong.
• Guo Yinglong explained that camps protected residents from hunger and the tower’s noon pull, healed injuries, and offered daily Buff States.
• Ding Yue asked how they could move to a higher-ranked camp, prompting two Goryeo men to mock Great Xia and boast about their S-Rank Camp.
• Wang Yizhong defended Great Xia, and Guo Yinglong pointed out that ten Great Xia newcomers had entered the tower.
• Guo Yinglong explained that camp ranks depended on countries’ collective floor-clear points, revealing why Great Xia had a D-class camp despite its new entrants.

Lin Yi learned about the Trial Tower’s supplies, blessings, and the veterans’ efforts to develop a guide before the noon trial began. After the Tower Guardians arrived and the camp rankings were announced, he set his sights on putting Great Xia in first place among the S-Rank camps.

• Guo Yinglong explained that Tower Guardians sold supplies, extra trial chances, and information using Abyssal Eye Stones.
• Guo Yinglong showed Lin Yi and the others Wang Yizhong’s blessing compendium and described the veterans’ long-term effort to build a guide for clearing the tower.
• Three bells rang at noon, and the central pillar’s opening sucked up the camp’s garbage as the trial began.
• Tower Guardians appeared in the Goryeo camp, while Lin Qianqian cryptically told Lin You that she would remember Zaina later.
• The tower announced that rankings and camp ranks were unchanged, and Lin Yi vowed to make Great Xia take first place among the S-Rank camps that day.