Recaps

Lin Chen and Zhang Hao survived a Nascent Soul cultivator’s Mirror Curse, uncovering a Dragon Palace plot involving sea beast eggs and blood sacrifices. They infiltrated Spirit Yuan Island with fabricated identities, but still needed legitimate Attribute Panels to avoid detection.

• Lin Chen learned from True Person Luo that the Immortal Alliance used Human Seed Deployment to exploit mortals and low-level cultivators, and that foreign auras could conceal contraband from the formation.
• Lin Chen and Zhang Hao discovered that their Spirit Boat had entered a Nascent Soul Dao Domain, where Bronze Mirrors created mirror images and trapped the passengers.
• Lin Chen found the cracked Bronze Spirit Mirror that served as the domain’s medium and destroyed it, but the Nascent Soul cultivator attacked Zhang Hao through the Mirror Curse.
• Lin Chen used curse methods and Substitute Puppets to transfer the decay curse away from himself and Zhang Hao, allowing them to escape while the Mirror Female Cultivator believed they might be dead.
• The Mirror Female Cultivator reported to Turtle Xuan that she had placed sea beast eggs and exposed herself to the Immortal Alliance, while Turtle Xuan offered her the Mirage Spirit Phantom Shell’s demon core after seven blood sacrifices.
• True Lords Xingmu and Lie Kong used Taiyi to reconstruct the destroyed ship’s final events, but could not see Lin Chen, Zhang Hao, or the Mirror Domain.
• After Lin Chen advanced to the second layer of Golden Core, he and Zhang Hao sent avatars to investigate Spirit Yuan Island and learned of its crowded, prosperous cultivation society.
• Lin Chen and Zhang Hao entered Spirit Yuan Island by using Soul-Seizing Nether-Piercing to alter an inspector’s memories and fabricate their identity talismans, then began searching for a place to stay and a way to obtain legitimate Attribute Panels.

Lin Chen uncovered the Heavenly Demon Cult’s dream realm and learned that Dream Snow was tied to the Doomsday World, while True Lord Xingmu hunted him and Zhang Hao across Spirit Yuan Island. They escaped her Rain Domain by unleashing Dream Realm power, leaving Celestial Venerable Canghai to investigate the spreading black mist.

• Lin Chen infiltrated Ideal Country through a Golden Core cultivator’s dream, where a Heavenly Demon Cult member probed his memories and was lost in the void after witnessing Lin Chen’s memories of transmigration.
• Lin Chen reconstructed the cultivator’s memories, learned that dreams could alter the Floating Life Traces used by the great formation, and began considering how to use dreams to deceive it.
• True Lord Xingmu traced Zhang Hao to Spirit Yuan Island and trapped him in a rain domain, then pursued Lin Chen and Zhang Hao with the Starlight Spirit Umbrella.
• Lin Chen and Zhang Hao fought Xingmu’s projections, and Lin Chen cursed the connected umbrellas with Dream Snow, corrupting the Rain Domain and blackening the surrounding sea and sky.
• As Xingmu called down the Heavenly River to stop their escape, Lin Chen used Zhang Hao’s Dream Cloud Glow with the Instant Thousand Mile Talisman to open a wormhole.
• A Spirit Transmutation Celestial Venerable disrupted the wormhole, so Lin Chen detonated Zhang Hao’s dream-realm treasure and drew on the dream realm’s power to escape.
• Celestial Venerable Canghai ordered Xingmu to seek help from the Death River Cult, Heavenly Mystery Gate, and Immortal Alliance Dark Department, then examined the black mist and discussed whether it could form Enlightenment Stones.

Lin Chen awakened in the Black Mist Continent’s dream realm and guided Luo Xuan toward a new cultivation path built on consumption and the Spirit Net. After the Eternal Night Forest nearly killed Luo Xuan’s group, Lin Chen answered his prayer as the Traveler, but the ritual drew darkness into its offering and began a perilous transformation.

• Celestial Venerable Canghai created a continent for an experiment with polluted black mist, while Zhang Hao survived in Return to Ruins and Lin Chen remained asleep in the dream kingdom.
• After consuming a Dream Eating Tapir Secret Elixir, Luo Xuan entered the Eternal Night Dream Realm and met Lin Chen, who offered to teach him the Life-Nourishing Feathered Transformation True Scripture despite its unknown risks.
• Lin Chen learned that more than a hundred years had passed and that the Black Mist Continent had formed from contamination caused by his earlier battle, then urged Luo Xuan to study the locals’ Consumption Method.
• During combat training in the expanding Eternal Night Forest, Luo Xuan’s group fell prey to shadow doubles and a Flesh and Blood Monster, and Lin Chen took control of Luo Xuan’s body to fight it.
• Lin Chen called on his main body through the Spirit Net and helped drive off the monster, but found that the continent’s altered spiritual energy weakened outside spells.
• Luo Xuan chose to consume the monster despite the danger, and Lin Chen taught him to invoke the Traveler through a ritual for protection and power.
• The ritual connected Lin Chen to the Sea of Consciousness and anchored his Dream Realm, but darkness mixed with his starlight and transformed the offering into an eerie heart.
• Luo Xuan agreed to continue, and Lin Chen replaced his heart with the eerie one and began the ritual that transformed his body.

Lin Chen expanded the Dream Realm, drew the attention of the Immortal Alliance, and uncovered a plan to destroy the East Sea. After investigating a City Lord’s Mansion through Luo Xuan, he confronted Void Mirror Demon Venerable and altered her memories, leaving her as an affectionate insider in the Heavenly Demon Cult.

• Luo Xuan completed his transformation into a Yin Spirit, then traveled east through the dangerous wilderness and reached a city while Lin Chen warned him about its unseen dangers.
• Lin Chen opened the Dream Realm to cultivators across the East Sea, where Shen Yiyao and others met him before the Hall of Immortals appeared in the sky and the Transmigrator Association welcomed him to Origin Star No. 872.
• The Immortal Alliance leaders investigated the East Sea formation, and Celestial Venerable Canghai proposed destroying the East Sea with an Earth-Moon Collision before Grandmaster Taixuan rejected the plan and ordered an investigation.
• The Heaven-Covering Heaven and Earth Great Formation reached Lin Chen through the Dream Realm, so Lin Chen summoned Taiyi, explored the Transmigrator Association’s limited resources, and resumed planning his return to the present world.
• After Luo Xuan reported strange scarlet moonlight, Lin Chen guided him into the City Lord’s Mansion and used the Method of Silhouette Cutting to uncover demonic practices and a secret room containing a Mirror Person.
• Lin Chen exposed Xue Wushen’s attack and confronted Void Mirror Demon Venerable, whose attempt to form a Mirror Domain failed when the dream realm shattered the Bronze Mirror.
• Lin Chen suppressed the Demon Venerable’s divine-sense wisp and refused her offer to join the Heavenly Demon Cult, instead demanding that she guide him into its Ideal Country.
• Void Mirror Demon Venerable tried to manipulate Lin Chen through anger and seduction, but he cut her reflection, severed You Jing, and altered her memories until she called him “A Chen.”