Chapter Summaries

Nether Slaughter and Yinglong framed the Heavenly Demon as a threat when Golden Lamp Buddha Ancestor and Sword Immortal Venerable arrived, drawing them into battle. Sells Everything had taken Shen Lin to safety, and Shen Lin survived while learning he could buy back his cultivation realm and inheritance within a hundred years.

• Nether Slaughter stopped Nether Soul Venerable from describing what he had witnessed and confronted Yinglong about attracting attention.
• Golden Lamp Buddha Ancestor and Sword Immortal Venerable arrived, and Nether Slaughter claimed the group had gathered to eliminate the Heavenly Demon.
• Yinglong accepted Nether Slaughter's explanation and attacked the Heavenly Demon alongside him before the Heavenly Demon could reveal the truth.
• Golden Lamp Buddha Ancestor and Sword Immortal Venerable joined the fight, leaving the Heavenly Demon struggling to defend himself and Sky Lizard Demon Venerable.
• Sells Everything brought Shen Lin far from the battle, warned him to use the Heaven-Intercepting Marvelous Skill sparingly, and offered to let him buy back his cultivation realm and inheritance within a hundred years.
• Sells Everything departed, and Shen Lin looked toward the distant battle, relieved that he had survived.

After losing his Great Paths and most of his lifespan, Shen Lin weighed his options for rebuilding his strength while stranded in the Chaos Sea. He chose to derive the Heaven Cutting Heart Sutra, which he finally initiated after thousands of years of study and cultivation.

• Shen Lin reflected on being stranded far from Great Wei and decided to focus on surviving in the Chaos Sea.
• Shen Lin reviewed his reduced attributes and considered the dangers of deriving a cultivation art without enough experience.
• Shen Lin rejected the Grand Xuan Dao Scripture as potentially dangerous and chose to cultivate the Heaven Cutting Heart Sutra instead.
• Shen Lin studied the Heaven Cutting Heart Sutra for thousands of years before beginning to cultivate it.
• Shen Lin made a breakthrough as the eyes of his All-Self Aspect changed, and the Heaven Cutting Heart Sutra was initiated.

Shen Lin spent an immense amount of time cultivating the Heaven Cutting Heart Sutra, finally reaching the Enlightenment Realm and learning that he would need to study others’ fates to advance further. He used his new grasp of the Heaven-Intercepting Dao to choose a direction toward a distant golden light.

• Shen Lin cultivated the Heaven Cutting Heart Sutra for thousands of years, nurtured his divine soul, and began trying to comprehend the Heaven-Intercepting Dao.
• After repeated observation, Shen Lin learned to predict where the fleeting Heaven-Intercepting Dao Principles would appear and broke through to the Enlightenment Realm.
• Shen Lin studied the sutra’s guidance for the Integration Realm and realized he would need to calculate others’ fortunes and observe their fates to deepen his comprehension.
• Shen Lin returned to the present, judged his Enlightenment Realm cultivation sufficient for now, and decided to conserve his Demon Lifespan.
• Shen Lin used the Heaven Cutting Heart Sutra to survey his surroundings, spotted a flicker of golden light in one direction, and headed toward it.

Shen Lin followed a fortune-sign toward a leaf-shaped landmass while fleeing a growing school of dangerous sea monsters. He discovered that the landmass was actually a giant sailboat, and two figures emerged from it, mistaking his pursuers for a catch for their restaurants.

• Shen Lin followed the golden light across the Chaos Sea and narrowly escaped an Enlightenment Realm strange fish after the Heaven Cutting Heart Sutra warned him of danger beneath the water.
• The strange fish pursued Shen Lin and summoned thousands of its kind, so he fled rather than fight them.
• After three days, hundreds of thousands of strange fish still chased Shen Lin as the golden light led him toward a massive leaf-shaped landmass.
• Shen Lin realized the landmass was moving toward him and saw that its raised edges and giant sails belonged to a ship, not a continent.
• Two figures flew out from the ship and recognized the pursuing fish as Ru Fish, celebrating that the ship's restaurants would have new dishes.

Shen Lin boarded Myriad Treasures Pavilion's Floating Leaf Sailboat No. 283, where its Human Race crew mistook him for a secret inspector from headquarters. After the stationed Saint heard about Shen Lin, he decided to go see him.

• Shen Lin paid a ten-thousand-Spirit-Crystal boarding fee and received a Jade Token and an introduction Jade Slip from two Human Race crewmen.
• The crewmen wondered if Shen Lin was a secret inspector and discussed their long posting aboard the sailboat.
• The Floating Leaf Sailboat caught and processed a school of more than a hundred thousand Ru Fish using an efficient assembly line.
• A crewman reported Shen Lin to the stationed Saint, who questioned whether the visitor was truly Human Race.
• The stationed Saint decided to go take a look at Shen Lin.

Shen Lin explored the Floating Leaf Sailboat, sampling its expensive food and reflecting on the fortune Sha Guowang had spent there. After Shen Lin left, Stationed Saint concluded that his unusual behavior might mean headquarters had sent him to conduct a covert inspection.

• Shen Lin bought a vendor’s entire stock of coconut drinks and wandered through the sailboat’s food district, sampling costly delicacies.
• Shen Lin recalled that Sha Guowang had spent all his savings during a hundred years aboard the Floating Leaf Sailboat.
• After Shen Lin departed, Wan Qi asked Stationed Saint whether he had noticed anything unusual about him.
• Stationed Saint judged Shen Lin’s youth and Enlightenment Realm cultivation suspicious, then speculated that headquarters had sent him to inspect the ship covertly.

Stationed Saint suspected Shen Lin was an undercover inspector from Myriad Treasures Pavilion headquarters and followed him to a branch, where Shen Lin’s questions exposed poor service. The chapter ended with Wan Qi ushering Shen Lin upstairs while Stationed Saint ordered his concubine to go home.

• Stationed Saint suspected Shen Lin was an undercover inspector because he focused on the ship’s food and drink rather than its main attractions.
• Wan Qi told Stationed Saint that Shen Lin had entered a local Myriad Treasures Pavilion branch, and Stationed Saint hurried after him.
• Shen Lin inspected the branch’s goods and found its cultivation techniques and weapons too low-grade for his needs.
• Stationed Saint watched his concubine dismiss Shen Lin and realized she was treating a possible inspector rudely.
• When Shen Lin asked about higher-grade merchandise, Wan Qi rushed over, apologized for the concubine, and led Shen Lin upstairs.
• Stationed Saint told his concubine to go home after she stood stunned by Wan Qi’s intervention.

Shen Lin browsed the Myriad Treasures Pavilion’s catalog and discovered that its most valuable cultivation arts included secret techniques tied to powerful clans and Great Daos. Wan Qi explained that the Pavilion was confident enough to bear the consequences of selling them, leaving Shen Lin to realize it was no ordinary merchant association.

• Wan Qi escorted Shen Lin to a private room and gave him a jade tablet catalog, worrying that Shen Lin might be inspecting the branch’s rule-breaking practice of restricting access.
• Shen Lin explored the catalog and compared its cultivation arts and prices with the techniques he already possessed.
• Shen Lin sorted the listings by price and found an unnamed cultivation art priced at one hundred billion Spirit Nurturing Pearls.
• Shen Lin read descriptions of expensive clan techniques, including the Bodhi Bright Heart Scripture, the Geng Metal Spirit Slaying Art, and the Mystic Maiden Bewitching Immortal Art.
• Shen Lin asked Wan Qi whether selling great clans’ cultivation arts would bring trouble, and Wan Qi replied that the Myriad Treasures Pavilion could bear the karma.

Shen Lin offered the Wraith Clan’s Venerable Realm inheritances to the Myriad Treasures Pavilion, which agreed to auction them at its headquarters. He also offered the remaining Demon Dragon materials, and Stationed Saint accepted those as well.

• Shen Lin asked Wan Qi whether the Myriad Treasures Pavilion bought items and named the Wraith Clan’s Dark Soul Secret Canon and Scattering Soul Palm.
• Wan Qi recognized the inheritances’ value but hesitated, fearing the Wraith Clan’s retaliation against the Floating Leaf Sailboat.
• Shen Lin showed Wan Qi the two bone plates, and Stationed Saint arrived to handle the sale.
• Shen Lin chose to consign the inheritances to the Myriad Treasures Pavilion’s once-in-a-century auction in three days.
• Shen Lin offered the leftover Demon Dragon materials, and Stationed Saint agreed to take them.

Shen Lin sold Dragon Race materials to the Myriad Treasures Pavilion and left a Wraith Clan cultivation technique and martial art for auction, leading Stationed Saint to believe he was a covert inspector from headquarters. Meanwhile, Golden Thunder Dragon Saint searched the ruins of Six-pointed Star Demon Saint’s orchard and followed a trace toward his son’s killer.

• Shen Lin sold the Dragon Race materials to the Myriad Treasures Pavilion for one hundred and seventy thousand Spirit Nurturing Pearls.
• Stationed Saint and Wan Qi concluded that Shen Lin was likely a covert inspector after Stationed Saint accepted the Wraith Clan techniques and sent them to headquarters for auction.
• Stationed Saint arranged for the Dragon Race materials to be included in that night’s auction.
• Golden Thunder Dragon Saint found Six-pointed Star Demon Saint’s orchard destroyed and questioned the surviving Demon Race members without learning who had caused it.
• Golden Thunder Dragon Saint sensed the Spirit Nurturing Pearls he had marked and flew across the Chaos Sea toward the suspected enemy.

A Myriad Treasures Pavilion clerk discovered that a branch had submitted the Wraith Clan patriarch’s Venerable Realm technique, the Dark Soul Secret Canon, and the headquarters made it the auction’s new finale. The announcement sent clans across the Chaos Sea scrambling to gather resources, while Nether Soul Venerable learned of the sale and flew into a rage.

• A clerk at the Myriad Treasures Pavilion headquarters registered the Dark Soul Secret Canon and realized it was a Venerable Realm cultivation technique and martial art.
• The headquarters alerted Third Manager and Fifth Master, who replaced the planned finale item with the Dark Soul Secret Canon.
• The Myriad Treasures Pavilion announced the new finale through its Spirit Talk Communicator, shocking cultivators throughout the Chaos Sea.
• The Immortal Clan, the Sacred Feather Clan, the Golden Body Clan, and other clans gathered resources to bid for the technique and study Nether Soul Venerable’s weaknesses.
• Nether Soul Venerable read the auction announcement, hurled his Spirit Talk Communicator away, and cursed the person responsible.

After resting, Shen Lin set up a fortune-telling stall outside the Myriad Treasures Pavilion to study the Heaven-Intercepting Dao and improve his cultivation. He waited all morning without a customer until someone finally asked his price.

• Shen Lin booked an expensive courtyard on the Floating Leaf Sailboat and rested after planning to buy cultivation techniques with the proceeds from his sold books.
• Shen Lin decided to avoid Wraith Clan techniques for now and planned to cultivate more Great Daos before advancing to the Saint Realm.
• Shen Lin set up a fortune-telling stall outside the largest Myriad Treasures Pavilion branch, hoping to observe others' Dao Principles and advance his understanding of the Heaven-Intercepting Dao.
• Passersby mistook Shen Lin for an immortal, but none asked for a reading during the morning.
• A timid customer approached Shen Lin at noon and asked how much he charged.

Shen Lin gave a jelly-like life-form a free divination and directed it to a shop, where it found a Spirit Returning Pill made with Spirit Condensing Grass. After swallowing the pill, the life-form transformed into a blue-skinned woman of the Azure Spirit Clan.

• Shen Lin told the jelly-like life-form to walk down an alley and look in the third cabinet on the right at a shop.
• The jelly-like life-form realized Shen Lin had identified where to find the item it had been seeking aboard the Floating Leaf Sailboat.
• The jelly-like life-form found a Spirit Returning Pill in the shop and asked the shopkeeper where he had found the Spirit Condensing Grass used to make it.
• The jelly-like life-form bought and swallowed the pill, which released spiritual energy and transformed it into a blue-skinned woman.
• The shopkeeper recognized the transformed woman as belonging to the Azure Spirit Clan and collapsed in disbelief.

An Azure Spirit Clan girl learned that Shen Lin’s advice had resolved the spiritual-power crisis threatening her life. Unable to find him at his stall, she left a battered Kitchen Knife as thanks and departed to handle other matters.

• The shopkeeper recognized the girl as a member of the Azure Spirit Clan and offered to introduce her to elders of the Alchemist Alliance, but she hurried away without responding.
• The girl returned to Shen Lin’s stall and found it empty because he had gone back for his midday nap.
• She recalled that members of the Azure Spirit Clan needed Spirit Condensing Grass to survive the dangerous buildup of spiritual power, and that no other solution was known.
• The shopkeeper caught up with the girl, then abandoned his attempt to recruit her after seeing tokens of goodwill from several great clans in her Summoning Ring.
• The girl placed a battered Kitchen Knife on Shen Lin’s stall as a gift of thanks, then left before he returned.

After a thief was maimed for touching the Saint Slayer Saber left at Shen Lin’s stall, onlookers assumed his fortune-telling must be extraordinary and formed a queue. Shen Lin gave mostly nonsensical readings, though he spotted a life-threatening crisis around a bull-headed customer and sent him on a mysterious errand.

• A man tried to steal the Kitchen Knife from Shen Lin’s stall and lost his arm when the blade struck him.
• Onlookers identified the knife as the Saint Slayer Saber and guessed its owner had left it with Shen Lin because his divinations were accurate.
• Shen Lin returned to find a queue at his stall, put away the knife, and began taking customers.
• Shen Lin sent a customer asking about romance east toward Gentle Valley, then noticed a bull-headed customer faced imminent danger and directed him to knock on a broken tree using a specific rhythm.
• Shen Lin gave later customers the same direction to Gentle Valley, leaving them doubtful of his reliability.

Shen Lin warned a Golden Fang Clan strongman to go to Gentle Valley that night, but the man attacked him instead. Shen Lin repelled him with a finger flick, and the strongman backed down and left.

• A Golden Fang Clan Integration Realm cultivator confronted Shen Lin after he advised the man to go to Gentle Valley to find the woman he sought.
• Shen Lin called the strongman “SpongeBob” and repeated that he should go to Gentle Valley if he wanted to survive.
• The enraged strongman attacked Shen Lin aboard the Floating Leaf Sailboat despite its strict rules against fighting.
• Shen Lin flicked a finger, disrupting the strongman’s Dao Principles and forcing him to stumble back.
• The strongman realized Shen Lin was dangerous and left rather than risk further trouble with the Myriad Treasures Pavilion.

Shen Lin’s precise intervention against a Golden Fang Clan cultivator drew attention, but Wan Qi mistook Shen Lin for a headquarters inspector and quietly withdrew. Meanwhile, the injured cultivator returned to his lodgings, where the enemy he had been hunting appeared and killed him; his last thought was that he should have gone to Gentle Valley.

• Shen Lin sent the Golden Fang Clan cultivator flying by disrupting the surrounding laws, and an Immortal Clan youth recognized his advanced divination skill.
• Wan Qi saw Shen Lin at his stall, assumed he was conducting a secret inspection for headquarters, and returned to the Myriad Treasures Pavilion without confronting him.
• Wan Qi warned the receptionist to lower her skirt, though she remembered that he had previously told her to raise it to please customers.
• The Golden Fang Clan cultivator returned to his lodgings and decided to search for the woman he had long pursued.
• The woman appeared and revealed that she had brought the wealth stolen from his clan to lure him in; she killed him, and he regretted not going to Gentle Valley.

A crowd gathered at Shen Lin’s stall after several cultivators said his advice to visit Gentle Valley had helped them avoid disasters. A Minotaur credited Shen Lin with exposing his wife’s plot, though the pair died on the Floating Leaf Sailboat and his fortune went to compensation.

• People gathered at Shen Lin’s empty stall and discussed how his warning had failed to save a Golden Fang Clan cultivator from a planned murder on the Floating Leaf Sailboat.
• A gambler told the crowd that following Shen Lin’s advice to go to Gentle Valley had kept him from visiting a gambling house where a Demon Race member attacked.
• The gambler gave further examples of cultivators who avoided a Spirit Vein disturbance and a dangerous blind date after taking Shen Lin’s advice.
• A rat-headed man accused the gambler of conspiring with Shen Lin, and a Minotaur forced him to apologize for slandering the divine calculator.
• The Minotaur revealed that Shen Lin’s guidance had led him to discover his wife and her accomplice were drugging him and plotting to kill him.
• The narrator revealed that the adulterous pair died on the Floating Leaf Sailboat and the Minotaur spent his fortune paying compensation.

Shen Lin resumed fortune-telling as a crowd gathered around his stall, while Niu Ben left to cultivate before repaying his debt. Four cultivators who could not afford a formation-breaking treasure sought Shen Lin’s help with a Saint Realm cave dwelling they had been unable to enter for nearly a hundred years.

• Niu Ben thanked Shen Lin for saving his life and vowed to return after improving his cultivation, but Shen Lin told him he did not need to repay him.
• Shen Lin explained that the Minotaur survived because he had followed advice, then continued fortune-telling for the waiting cultivators.
• Shen Lin gave rapid readings, telling some customers they were safe from calamities and warning another that he was beyond saving.
• Liao Cheng, his wife, Li Daoyuan, and Huai Ling left the Myriad Treasures Pavilion after finding that they could not afford its formation-breaking treasures.
• The four turned to Shen Lin for help with a Saint Realm expert’s cave dwelling, whose formation they had failed to break for nearly a hundred years.

Shen Lin continued reading cultivators’ fates and discovered that Liao Cheng and his companions were facing a deadly challenge involving a Saint Realm cave abode. He told them he could help them survive, but only if they chose to go their separate ways.

• Liao Cheng and his companions waited to approach Shen Lin because they needed help breaking the formation guarding a Saint Realm expert’s cave abode.
• After divining for hundreds of cultivators, Shen Lin ended his readings for the day and told the remaining people to return tomorrow.
• Liao Cheng approached Shen Lin, who noticed his own aura in Liao Cheng’s Heaven-Intercepting Dao Principles and realized the group wanted him to join them on a trip.
• Shen Lin said their venture was a nine-death-one-life endeavor and that he could accompany them as one way to avoid disaster.
• When Liao Cheng asked Shen Lin to help, Shen Lin refused and told the group to each go home to their own mothers.