Lin Yi, a Star Vortex Level expert, was killed like an ant by a Star Domain elder of the Zilies family for merely witnessing their hunt. His consciousness, on the verge of annihilation, was forcibly seized by an overwhelming force and crammed back into his younger body on Blue Star seven thousand years in the past. He awoke to a cramped room with a worn ceiling and the shrill summer chorus of cicadas, momentarily disoriented. Recognizing the familiar surroundings and a family photo on the desk, he understood he had been reborn on the very day he received his admission letter from Qingteng University. The ancient jade pendant, a Lin family heirloom his mother had just given him and which he had worn for over six thousand years in his previous life without discovering its full purpose, crumbled into dust in his palm the instant his fingers touched it, confirming that it had somehow been responsible for his miraculous return. With the soul origin of a Star Vortex Level expert now housed in a teenage body, Lin Yi immediately focused on the imminent event that would shape Blue Star’s destiny: the Civilization Advancement Assessment, scheduled to begin in just seven days. In his former life, this assessment had been a catastrophe. An Eternal God’s avatar would descend, covering the entire planet with a Divine Kingdom Projection and unleashing reality-illusion hybrid monsters called Abyss Beasts. Humanity’s chaotic response, internal strife over the Spirit Radiance Crystals produced by the beasts, and failure to maintain unified resistance led to a mere grade‑2 Civilization Evaluation. Blue Star was demoted to the lowest tier of Resource Star, its population subjected to oppressive labor, while Lin Yi himself, after over seven hundred years of struggle, barely achieved a grade‑4 Personal Rating, leaving the planet only to spend millennia as a low‑level mercenary before being casually erased. Now reborn, Lin Yi understood the stakes with absolute clarity. The assessment was not just a disaster but also an opportunity: high grades meant substantial resource allocation and a chance to migrate Blue Star to a fertile region, while low grades condemned it to permanent exploitation. He had once been a member of the War Faction, fighting on the front line, but the upper echelons had squandered the chance to eliminate the Abyss Beasts because they valued the renewable resources the creatures provided. This time, Lin Yi was determined to change everything. However, he was acutely aware of the danger of appearing too anomalous. The assessing god’s Divine Kingdom Projection could trace every event during the assessment, and if a native with no prior exposure to extraordinary power suddenly displayed prophetic knowledge of the Abyss Beasts and devastating combat efficiency, it would attract unwanted scrutiny. The god could benefit from discovering a talent evaluated at grade‑7 or higher, but such attention could also lead to investigation or control. Lin Yi therefore resolved to carefully disguise his rebirth. He would mold himself into a Blue Star genius whose potential erupted under the pressure of the apocalypse, leveraging his Star Vortex‑level foundation in combat instinct, cultivation speed, and rule comprehension without revealing his foreknowledge. His ultimate goal became twofold: to earn a high Civilization Evaluation for Blue Star and a high Personal Evaluation for himself, ensuring the planet’s prosperity and his own freedom to advance in the interstellar society, and eventually to take revenge on the Zilies family for his past death. With only seven days remaining, Lin Yi began to plan every step, suppressing the flood of past-life memories and steeling himself to navigate the coming trial with both ambition and caution.
