Chapter Summaries

Lin Yi and Lumba entered the Far West Black Mist to find Starfall Academy, relying on their Academy imprints while avoiding the dangerous Evil Creatures. After days of wandering without finding the entrance, Lin Yi suspected the imprint’s reaction to Evil Creatures might reveal the way forward.

• Lin Yi and Lumba entered the Far West Black Mist and concealed their auras as they searched for Starfall Academy.
• Lumba warned Lin Yi that Evil Creatures became more active at night, so they sheltered in a stone chamber until dawn.
• Lin Yi sensed that the Black Mist grew denser and space more stable as they traveled deeper, and he concluded they had likely left the Ancient Domain.
• On their third day, Lin Yi asked Lumba about hidden Trial guidance, but Lumba had no further information and Lu Bagui’s divinations yielded nothing useful.
• Lin Yi examined the glowing Academy Mental Imprint and wondered whether nearby Evil Creatures could make it react.

Lin Yi and Lumba realized they needed to hunt Evil Creatures to find the Academy entrance, but Lumba’s attempt to lure a weaker target attracted a massive Many-eyed Bug Evil Army. Lin Yi discovered the insects were vulnerable to his Heaven and Earth Great Mill and destroyed the swarm, leaving Lumba astonished.

• Lin Yi concluded that the trial required them to hunt Evil Creatures and told Lumba they could not retreat to the outer area.
• Lumba removed the Void Dragon Scale to lure nearby Evil Creatures, drawing a huge swarm of Insect Evil toward them.
• The swarm trapped Lin Yi and Lumba in terrifying illusions, but Lin Yi broke free and woke Lumba before defending them with his Qiankun Yin Yang Domain.
• Lin Yi found that his conventional attacks could not harm the insects, while Pure Divinity and the Heaven and Earth Great Mill could destroy individual ones.
• Lin Yi expanded his Domain over the swarm and used the Heaven and Earth Great Mill to grind the Many-eyed Bug Evil Army to nothing.

Lin Yi used his incomplete Emperor Law to destroy the Multi-eyed Evil Insects and bargained with Lumba over the possibility of teaching it. Starfall Academy’s recorders observed Lin Yi and other candidates as Lumba’s attempt to test his Academy imprint drew a Forbidden-grade Ghost Spirit toward them.

• Lin Yi erased the vacuum zone left by his Emperor Law, then told Lumba he might teach the law in the future in exchange for resources.
• Recorders at Starfall Academy watched Lin Yi and Lumba defeat the Multi-eyed Evil Insects and debated whether Lin Yi deserved a Seed Quota.
• A recorder praised a saber wielder from the Martial Realm for driving off two Forbidden Ghost Spirits, while the chief recorder warned against favoritism.
• Lin Yi found that his Academy imprint had formed an arrow after the insect battle, and Lumba released his aura to see if killing another Evil Creature would trigger his own imprint.
• A Forbidden-grade Ghost Spirit rushed toward them, and Lin Yi plunged into its Black Mist Thunderstorm.

Lin Yi killed the Forbidden Eerie Spirit Rotting Demon Tree and helped Lumba trigger his Academy imprint, then they followed their arrows to a safe rest area in the Dark Mist Realm. There, Starfall Academy students explained that the area was a waypoint before the true Academy entrance and advised them to hunt more Evil Creatures to improve their rankings.

• Lin Yi defeated and killed the Withered Wood Forbidden Eerie Spirit, then obtained its Red Evil Seed.
• Lumba pledged himself to Lin Yi, and Lin Yi warned him that their battle might attract Emperor-level Evil Creatures.
• Lin Yi helped Lumba hunt Evil Creatures until his Academy imprint changed into an arrow, which pointed in the same direction as Lin Yi’s imprint.
• Lin Yi and Lumba followed the arrows to a Light Shield area and entered a safe settlement reached through shifting space.
• Lumba paid four Void Crystal Coins for information, and a silver-white-robed Starfall Academy student explained that they could use a Teleportation Array to reach the Academy but could improve their rankings by hunting more Evil Creatures first.

Lin Yi and Lumba learned about Outpost No. 703 and stayed at its Merchant Inn, where Lin Yi discovered a Formation that doubled the rate his Small World generated Source Qi. After meeting a Spirit Race woman, Lin Yi examined the inn’s recycling price list for Dark Mist Realm materials.

• Lumba gathered information about Outpost No. 703, its Teleportation Array, and its limited services.
• Lumba paid for a resting room for himself and a cultivation room for Lin Yi, and the innkeeper led them to their rooms.
• Lin Yi found that his cultivation room doubled his Source Qi generation, while Uncle Tong offered to buy Dark Mist Realm materials and pointed out a price list.
• Lin Yi saw a Spirit Race woman emerge from a neighboring room, but she ignored him and walked away.
• Lin Yi read the recycling price list, which listed Purple Grade and higher materials such as Ghost Spirit drops and Evil Qi Stones.

Lin Yi learned about Starfall Academy’s Thirty-Six Supernatural Legacy Systems from Uncle Tong and discovered the costs and risks of pursuing World Law. Uncle Tong began explaining how World Laws were ranked, leaving Lin Yi to learn what his own Small World’s Source Qi generation revealed about its quality.

• Lin Yi judged the material buyback prices too low and decided to focus on gaining admission rather than selling resources.
• Lin Yi studied the grotto-heaven’s Basic Source Augmentation Array Formation, then asked Uncle Tong about Source World formations.
• Uncle Tong explained that Starfall Academy had thirty-six Supernatural Legacy Systems with paths to Emperor Rank, and described Array Masters as a popular auxiliary system.
• Uncle Tong revealed that he had failed to reach Emperor Rank before the hundred-year graduation deadline and now guarded the outpost, while failed students were sent to gather resources for the Academy.
• Uncle Tong warned Lin Yi that World Law advancement required vast resources, then explained that the Academy measured a World Law’s quality by the daily Source Qi generated within a Small World.

Lin Yi learned about Starfall Academy’s Seed Quota and the imperfect World Law secret techniques, while Uncle Tong asked him to deliver a letter if he enrolled. After hearing that two Preparatory Students might be competing for the quota, Lin Yi planned to stay at the stronghold for a few days and asked Lumba what he would do.

• Lin Yi used Uncle Tong’s Primal Qi Measuring Instrument, which recorded his daily Source Qi production as 3.33, and Uncle Tong assumed he had condensed a World Fetal Membrane.
• Lin Yi gave Uncle Tong an Evil Seed: Red, and Uncle Tong explained the Seed Quota, the Academy’s first-round rewards, and the risks of the later tests.
• Uncle Tong told Lin Yi that World Law secret techniques had perfect versions and asked him to deliver a letter to the Array Court if he enrolled in Starfall Academy.
• Lin Yi went to find Lumba and found a message saying Lumba was gathering information from two Preparatory Students nearby.
• Lumba returned after paying Ming Yu and Ming Yao five Void Crystal Coins for information about the first test, then discovered they had left after Lin Yi revealed that Uncle Tong had already explained the Seed Quota.
• Lin Yi suspected Ming Yu and Ming Yao were competing for the Seed Quota and told Lumba he planned to stay at the stronghold for a few days.

Lin Yi hunted Evil Creatures in the Dark Mist Realm to attract Starfall Academy's attention and earn a Seed student spot. After two days of hunting, he returned to Stronghold 703 and found Ming Yu dead from Black Qi corrosion and a Forbidden Evil Creature's curse.

• Lin Yi entered the Dark Mist Realm alone and learned how the stronghold's Light Shield used spatial changes to protect those inside.
• Lin Yi passed Ming Yu and Ming Yao, then hunted Evil Creatures and killed a five-star Evil Spirit with Sun Fire and a Body Cultivation Divine Ability.
• Observers watching through the Observing Star praised Lin Yi's performance and said it was enough to earn him a Seed student spot.
• Lin Yi collected Evil Qi Stones, reduced his room costs, and spent the next two days hunting while Forbidden Eerie Spirits fled the area.
• Lin Yi returned to Stronghold 703 and saw Ming Yu dead; Uncle Tong said neither an Emperor level expert could save him from the Black Qi and curse.

Lin Yi pursued a Forbidden Evil Creature that had killed Ming Yao’s younger brother, competing with two other Preparatory Students for the Supreme Moon Essence reward. After his tracking talisman led him underground, he discovered someone was already battling the creature and saw an Earth-boring Shuttle chasing it through the earth.

• Uncle Tong told Lin Yi that Ming Yao was offering Supreme Moon Essence to whoever avenged his younger brother within three days.
• Lin Yi joined a Spirit Race girl and a saber-carrying young man to accept the commission, and Ming Yao described the underground-dwelling Forbidden Evil Creature that had killed Ming Yu.
• Lin Yi extracted cursed energy from Ming Yu’s body and used it to guide a fifth-tier Tracking Talisman toward the creature.
• The tracking talisman led Lin Yi to the creature’s underground hiding place, where a battle shook the ground and made him realize one of his rivals had found it first.
• Deep underground, the rat-like Forbidden Evil Spirit fled while a special Earth-boring Shuttle pursued it.

Lin Yi killed the Mole Forbidden Grade Eerie Spirit and claimed its Drops, including Earth's Breath Soil, after the Spirit Race girl and the saber-backed swordsman fought over it. The swordsman identified the creature as an Earth-seeking Treasure-chasing Rat, and the Spirit Race girl joined them to search for its nest.

• The Spirit Race girl pursued the Mole Forbidden Grade Eerie Spirit to the surface, where the saber-backed swordsman attacked it and fought her when she intervened.
• The Mole Ghost Spirit escaped underground, but Lin Yi caught and killed it, obtaining Earth's Breath Soil and an Eerie Spirit Core.
• The Spirit Race girl attacked Lin Yi over the Drops, but he repelled her and disappeared.
• The saber-backed swordsman told Lin Yi the Mole Evil Spirit had been an Earth-seeking Treasure-chasing Rat and asked to search its nest with him in exchange for a favor.
• The Spirit Race girl arrived and offered to take them underground with her Earth-boring Shuttle, demanding a share of the Earth's Breath Soil.

Lin Yi, Fu Dao, and Ling Shanshan joined forces to find a Mole Evil Spirit’s nest containing Earth’s Breath Soil. They discovered an enormous underground rat palace made from the valuable soil, leaving them poised to claim its riches.

• Lin Yi negotiated a split with Ling Shanshan and Fu Dao, agreeing that he would receive forty percent of the Earth’s Breath Soil and the other two thirty percent each.
• Lin Yi crafted a Tracking Talisman, which revealed two possible nests; Fu Dao chose the eastern one where the Ming Family brothers had died.
• Ling Shanshan introduced herself and identified Fu Dao as Martial Venerable’s disciple, while Lin Yi stayed quiet about his own background.
• The trio followed the talisman into an underground cave, where Fu Dao sensed the Earth’s Breath Soil and broke the formation concealing it.
• They found a vast rat nest built from Earth’s Breath Soil, resembling a sprawling complex of mansions.

Lin Yi, Ling Shanshan, and Fu Dao confronted Ming Yao after discovering he had secretly sought the Earth's Breath Soil. Ming Yao offered a rare Innate Array Formation Secret Technique to bargain for an equal share, and the chapter ended with him offering to swear an oath that it was genuine.

• Ling Shanshan revealed Ming Yao from hiding, and he denied causing his younger brother's death.
• Ming Yao confirmed Lin Yi had killed the Forbidden Evil Creature and promised to hand over the Essence of Moon Radiance later.
• Lin Yi, Ling Shanshan, and Fu Dao rejected Ming Yao's demand for an equal share of the Earth's Breath Soil and considered how to keep him from exposing them.
• Ming Yao offered a World Law Secret Technique in exchange for an equal share, then identified it as the top-tier 'Zhou Tian Star Array Formation.'
• Ming Yao offered to swear an alliance oath in the 'Star God' world to prove the secret technique was genuine.

Lin Yi, Ling Shanshan, and Fu Dao agreed to give Ming Yao twenty percent of the Earth's Breath Soil in exchange for his Zhou Tian Star Array Formation secret art. After Ming Yao described the formation's powerful effects and offered to help build it in return for more Earth's Breath Soil, the others refused to sell their shares.

• Lin Yi limited Ming Yao's share of the Earth's Breath Soil to twenty percent, and Ming Yao accepted the division.
• The four divided the Earth's Breath Soil, and Ming Yao offered to buy more at ten thousand Void Crystal Coins per portion.
• Ming Yao revealed the Zhou Tian Star Array Formation and explained its offensive, defensive, and spirit-evolving functions.
• Fu Dao questioned the cost and expertise needed to construct the formation, and Ming Yao admitted that it required a skilled Array Master and three hundred and sixty flags made mainly from Heavenly Star Spirit Iron.
• Ming Yao offered to set up the formation for free if Lin Yi, Ling Shanshan, and Fu Dao sold him their Earth's Breath Soil, but all three refused.

Lin Yi and Fu Dao searched for the Mole Evil Spirit's second nest after leaving Ming Yao, and Fu Dao explained why Earth's Breath Soil had become valuable. They found the nest and divided its small stock of Earth's Breath Soil, while Lin Yi kept the other spirit materials.

• Lin Yi and the others memorized the Zhou Tian Star Array Formation diagram, swore not to share it, and Lin Yi accepted the Essence of Moon Radiance from Ming Yao.
• Lin Yi and Fu Dao hurried toward the Mole Evil Spirit's second nest, while Ling Shanshan realized they had gone after it and followed.
• Fu Dao told Lin Yi that Starfall Academy's Innate Spirit Root Secret Art required Earth's Breath Soil, explaining why people were secretly buying it up.
• Lin Yi agreed to let Fu Dao join the search, and the two traveled together as Fu Dao sensed Lin Yi's Domain Martial Path.
• Lin Yi and Fu Dao found the second nest, split its ten standard portions of Earth's Breath Soil, and Lin Yi collected the remaining spirit materials.

After returning to Stronghold 703, Lin Yi and Fu Dao shared drinks and tested their saber skills, but their gathering was interrupted when several Emperor Rank evil creatures attacked. The stronghold’s Light Shield and teleportation formation were destroyed, leaving the residents facing the attackers without a clear escape.

• Ling Shanshan confronted Lin Yi and Fu Dao over being left behind, but both men ignored her and entered the Merchant Inn.
• Lin Yi and Fu Dao drank Lightning Liquid Spirit Brew and sparred, with Lin Yi proving far more skilled in saber techniques.
• A boom shook Stronghold 703, and an Emperor Rank evil creature’s attack cracked the Light Shield as Black Mist seeped through.
• The green-robed elder explained that spatially sensitive Emperor Rank evil creatures could find the stronghold and said rescue was on its way.
• Three Emperor Rank evil creatures appeared and shattered the Light Shield, while the attack also disabled the teleportation formation.
• Lin Yi recognized the red-patterned Giant Hand Evil, and the green-robed elder prepared to draw the attackers away so the others could flee into the Dark Mist Realm.

After the Light Shield Formation shattered, Lin Yi and Fu Dao stayed behind to face the pursuing Red-patterned Giant Hand Evil while Ling Shanshan took the other Preparatory Students to safety. Steward Lan left the base to search for them, drawing the attention of another lurking evil creature.

• Blood Hand and the other Emperor level evil creatures hesitated to enter the base, while a mysterious figure in the darkness watched the students and reflected on the broken agreement.
• Ling Shanshan offered the Preparatory Students passage on her Snow-white Spirit Boat, charging Ming Yao Earth's Breath Soil but offering the others free passage.
• Lin Yi and Fu Dao refused to board, choosing to stay behind and confront the Emperor level evil creatures; Ling Shanshan then escaped with the other students.
• An eagle-faced Emperor level evil creature chased Ling Shanshan's Spirit Boat, while Blood Hand pursued Lin Yi and Fu Dao as they fled underground.
• Steward Lan left the base to look for the students, and a lurking evil creature noticed his vigorous Qi-Blood.

Lin Yi and Fu Dao lured the Red-patterned Giant Hand Evil into a fight, but their attacks could not overcome its regenerative power in the Black Mist. After borrowing Fu Dao’s divine artifact saber, Lin Yi prepared to test his Heaven and Earth Great Mill against it.

• A hidden figure seized the final Emperor level evil creature before it could attack the blue-robed, bearded elder, who recognized the figure as Lord Time Master.
• Lin Yi and Fu Dao lured the Red-patterned Giant Hand Evil away, hoping to kill it and prove themselves in the Academy’s testing.
• Fu Dao struck the Giant Hand Evil with his master’s technique, but it regenerated by devouring Black Mist and growing new hands.
• Lin Yi and Fu Dao’s attacks failed to injure the Giant Hand Evil, which continued to pursue them with overwhelming force.
• Lin Yi borrowed Fu Dao’s divine artifact saber and announced that he would demonstrate his own Emperor Law prototype.

Lin Yi used the Heaven and Earth Great Mill to cut down the Giant Hand Evil, though the creature began to regenerate and his borrowed saber shattered. Lord Time Master arrived at Outpost No. 703 and praised Lin Yi’s strike, asking for his name and origin.

• Lin Yi unleashed the Heaven and Earth Great Mill with Fu Dao’s saber, slicing the Giant Hand Evil apart and carving a vast ravine through the Dark Mist Realm.
• Fu Dao was stunned by Lin Yi’s power, and Lin Yi found that the borrowed saber had cracked under the force of the strike.
• Lin Yi found the Giant Hand Evil’s remains regenerating in the ravine and used Kun Earth to stop its half-restored head from escaping.
• Fu Dao warned Lin Yi that the Giant Hand Evil could regain Emperor level strength if it touched the surrounding black mist, while Lin Yi asked how it could be killed for good.
• Steward Lan and the glowing Lord Time Master arrived, and Lord Time Master praised Lin Yi’s strike before asking his name and where he was from.

Time Master captured the Giant Hand Evil and left Lin Yi and Fu Dao to return to Stronghold 703. The Preparatory Students later returned safely, but Steward Lan’s remark that Time Master did not meet mediocrities angered Ling Shanshan and Ming Yao.

• Time Master took the Giant Hand Evil, promised Lin Yi and Fu Dao academic credits, and departed to hunt another Emperor-level Evil Creature.
• Steward Lan revealed that Time Master was one of Starfall Academy’s Three Great Vice Deans and praised Lin Yi’s slash as comparable to an Emperor-level expert’s power.
• Steward Lan brought Lin Yi and Fu Dao back to Stronghold 703, where the damaged Light Shield formation awaited repairs from an Emperor-level Array Master.
• Uncle Tong and the others speculated that Time Master might have deliberately caused the Stronghold’s formation to break, and Steward Lan warned them to watch their words.
• Ling Shanshan, Ming Yao, and the other Preparatory Students returned safely after the pursuing Eagle Monster disappeared, and Steward Lan called them mediocrities for not meeting Time Master.

After surviving the attack on Stronghold 703, Lin Yi and the other Preparatory Students learned that recruitment had begun early because the Heavenly Palace Realm might soon open. When Elder Zhou reviewed a record of the attack, he noticed Lin Yi’s enormous saber mark and stared at him.

• Ling Shanshan asked Lin Yi and Fu Dao about the Emperor Rank evil creature, and they told her Lord Time Master had captured it.
• A Shadow Realm Preparatory Student called Shadow Three explained that the Heavenly Palace Realm was a destroyed True Realm that opened in the Tidal Spirit Realm every hundred thousand years.
• The Preparatory Students speculated that the Academy had begun recruitment early to prepare exceptional geniuses for the Heavenly Palace, while Lin Yi said he wanted to pass the Academy’s tests.
• Elder Zhou and four other white-robed figures arrived after the Teleportation Array was repaired, and Steward Lan reported the attack and presented an Image Stone.
• Elder Zhou watched the recording and froze when he saw Lin Yi’s ten-thousand-meter saber mark and the vast vacuum zone it had created.