Chapter Summaries

Xie En offered Lin Yuan recruitment into the Human Alliance, but Lin Yuan refused to leave Blue Star while ferocious beasts still threatened it. Xie En granted him three years to protect the planet before a reception ship arrived, along with a Transcendent Realm cultivation technique that Lin Yuan planned to master using his system.

• Xie En explained that Su Qingxue’s past-life memories had been fabricated as part of a screening process, and he revealed the Human Alliance’s classifications and rules for supporting planets.
• Xie En invoked the genius special recruitment clause and invited Lin Yuan to the Alliance headquarters, but Lin Yuan initially refused to abandon Blue Star.
• Lin Yuan agreed to go to headquarters eventually but insisted on staying until Blue Star’s hidden threats were dealt with.
• Xie En gave Lin Yuan three years to remain on Blue Star before an Alliance reception ship arrived, and he presented Lin Yuan with a Transcendent Realm cultivation technique.
• Lin Yuan resolved to use his system to master the technique and eliminate Blue Star’s threats within three years, then flew toward the Imperial Capital.

After Xie En revealed Blue Star’s place in the Human Alliance and the universe’s cultivation hierarchy, Lin Yuan returned to the Imperial Capital and attended a strategy meeting. The chapter ended with Dragon Country planning to manage the ferocious beasts while Lin Yuan prepared for his future training, as global leaders reacted to the revelation.

• Lin Yuan flew Old Li and the researchers from Lop Nur to the Martial Arts Research Institute, where the exhausted group joined the meeting.
• Elder Zhan and the other leaders discussed Lin Yuan’s three-year deadline to reach the transcendent realm and help Blue Star advance, while Lin Yuan promised to clear the planet’s land and seas of third-tier and stronger beasts within a month.
• Old Li opposed exterminating the beasts because martial artists needed combat pressure and beast materials; Elder Ye proposed containment zones, and the leaders agreed to establish reserves for training and resources.
• Elder Zhan told Lin Yuan to rest at home and study the transcendent-tier technique Xie En had given him before the cleanup plan was finalized.
• The livestream revelations crashed social media as people discussed the Human Alliance, life levels, and Lin Yuan’s prospects, while Dragon Country’s official media urged calm.
• The leaders of the Western, European, and Far North Alliances decided to seek subordination under Dragon Country rather than risk being left behind.

After reassuring his family that he would remain on Blue Star for three more years, Lin Yuan studied the Astral Qi Absorption Formula and patiently tried to cultivate it. Elder Zhan then summoned him to a top-secret meeting, where Lin Yuan agreed to hunt Blue Star’s ferocious beasts alone.

• Lin Yuan comforted Zhang Hui by promising to stay on Blue Star for three more years and told his family he would help make it a mid-level planet.
• Lin Yuan absorbed the Astral Qi Absorption Formula from Xie En’s jade slip, learned that transcendent advancement required mastering a domain, and recognized that his three artistic conceptions were perfected.
• Lin Yuan failed to sense astral energy during his first attempt, but continued practicing the formula while spending time with his family.
• Lin Xiaoxiao told Lin Yuan that students were pushing themselves to prepare for humanity’s future beyond Blue Star.
• Elder Zhan summoned Lin Yuan to a top-secret meeting and showed him figures listing twenty-six fifth-tier and thousands of fourth-tier ferocious beasts.
• Lin Yuan accepted the mission to kill every fifth-tier ferocious beast and most of the fourth-tier ones, requesting satellite access and unmanned transport aircraft.

Lin Yuan spent a month eliminating every fifth-tier ferocious beast on Blue Star and most of the fourth-tier beasts, then returned to the Imperial Capital to rest and study the Astral Qi Absorption Formula. With the resulting bounty of beast meat, Dragon Country planned to strengthen its military and train martial arts students before Lin Yuan left for the cosmos in three years.

• Lin Yuan killed a deep-sea demon whale in the East Sea and slaughtered most of a fourth-tier beast gathering in the South Sea, while soldiers recovered the carcasses.
• Lin Yuan killed a fifth-tier giant ape in the former western continent, and Western Alliance officials concluded that they should rely on Dragon Country after he left Blue Star.
• Over the following month, Lin Yuan traveled across Blue Star and killed twenty-six fifth-tier ferocious beasts and more than six thousand fourth-tier beasts, leaving no fifth-tier beasts alive.
• Lin Yuan returned to the Martial Arts Research Institute and reported his mission complete; Elder Zhan convened a meeting to decide how to handle the enormous stockpile of beast meat.
• Elder Yu proposed allocating most of the fourth-tier meat to elite military units and the remainder to schools through competitive assessments, and Elder Zhan approved the plan.
• Lin Yuan studied the Astral Qi Absorption Formula and attempted to fuse his three perfected intents, while Lin Xiaoxiao oversaw student combat assessments at Kyoto Martial Arts University.

Lin Yuan comprehended the Astral Qi Absorption Formula, triggering a massive aura vortex that drained energy across Kyoto and forced martial artists to stop cultivating. After months of seclusion, he emerged at the middle eighth-tier stage, having advanced from the early seventh tier.

• Ye Qingshan, Chu Tiankuo, and Su Qingxue failed to understand the Astral Qi Absorption Formula and left its study to Lin Yuan.
• Lin Yuan comprehended the formula and devoured the aura in his cultivation room, shattering all ten Spirit-Gathering Primordial Stones.
• The aura drain spread across the Martial Arts Research Institute and Kyoto, so Elder Zhan ordered fifty tons of Spirit-Gathering Primordial Stones delivered to Lin Yuan.
• As the phenomenon caused public alarm, Elder Zhan issued an official notice explaining that Lin Yuan was breaking through, and citizens responded with celebration and support.
• After several months, the aura vortex contracted and Lin Yuan emerged at the middle eighth-tier stage, with the Astral Qi Absorption Formula at 27% entry realm.