Recaps

Lin Chen spread his cultivation method across the Black Mist Continent, seized the Spirit Transmutation Opportunity, and became a Corpse Release Immortal. After a hundred years in the Dream Realm, he learned that the Immortal Alliance was preparing to attack the East Sea Dragon Palace and that its leaders had begun investigating him.

• The Mirror Female Cultivator told Lin Chen that Celestial Venerable Canghai had proposed using the Moon to destroy the East Sea, and Lin Chen resolved to investigate it.
• Lin Chen and the Mirror Female Cultivator discussed using his Life-Nourishing Feathered Transformation True Scripture to produce Enlightenment Stones and spread cultivation across the Black Mist Continent.
• Lin Chen trapped monsters and demons in the Mirror Domain, then gave the scripture to surviving cultivators whose Analysis Panels began spreading across the continent.
• Lin Chen took over Luo Xuan’s body and headed for the Human Race Competition at Emperor Fall Peak, where he confronted the Black Mist and met Paper Person.
• Paper Person revealed that refining the Black Mist Abyss could grant a Spirit Transmutation Opportunity, and Lin Chen gathered battlefield blood and flesh to attempt a Yang Spirit transformation.
• Lin Chen realized his Yang Spirit could exist as information in the Dream Realm, became a Corpse Release Immortal, and used Paper Person’s memories to manifest before it.
• Lin Chen unleashed Spirit Transformation-level light, destroyed the Black Mist Abyss, killed Paper Figure Demon Venerable, and taught the continent the Dao of the Three Souls and Seven Spirits.
• After a hundred years passed in the Dream Realm, the Immortal Alliance prepared to attack the East Sea Dragon Palace, and its leaders asked the East Sea Rogue Immortal to investigate Lin Chen.

Lin Chen built his Spiritual Energy System Model and used the Dream Realm to prepare for Nascent Soul, but the Death River Cult diverted his reincarnation into the East Sea. There, he became caught in the Twelve Si Sui’s Spirit Realm invasion, which ended when a mysterious hand broke through its shadow.

• Lin Chen designed a digitized Dao Domain and used the Dream Realm’s platforms to gather cultivators’ methods, spiritual qi, and power for his Spiritual Energy System Model.
• Yan Yuncheng and other cultivators entered the Virtual World Communication Platform, explored the fallen cultivator’s Dao Domain, and traded the treasures and knowledge they obtained.
• Lin Chen learned that Zhang Tianwen was a Golden Core Daoist Son trapped in a repeating day, then resolved to establish a faction and use dreamers as anchors to return to reality.
• Lin Chen sent his True Spirit toward the East Sea, but the Death River Priestess diverted him into the Death River and toward Soul Returning Island.
• Lin Chen awoke in the body of a Foundation Establishment cultivator aboard a ship, discovered its former owner had a wood-element Heavenly Spirit Root, and suspected the Death River Cult had arranged his arrival.
• After eighteen years away from the Dream Realm, Lin Chen returned and learned of the East Sea’s new academy, the war’s disruption by twelve Spirit Transformation evil gods, and Celestial Venerable Canghai’s disappearance.
• The Twelve Si Sui’s Spirit Realm trapped Lin Chen in a bone-covered domain, but he used Dream Power and the Death River to resist its invasion and witnessed visions of the universe’s fixed past and future.
• The Spirit Realm’s shadow consumed the ship as Corpse Swamp Old Man confronted the Year Warden [Netherworld Lord], until a Bronze Mirror appeared and a silver-lit hand gathered five colors into a thread that blasted the shadow open.

Lin Chen survived the repeating world, discovered the Ghost Ship, and watched Lin Tianhang awaken Longevity Heaven. He explored the Return to Ruins, began transforming the ship’s cursed land, and unleashed a demonic shadow that corrupted Nascent Soul cultivators before escaping through the Dream Realm.

• Lin Chen defeated the White Bone Mummy, but a mysterious bell blurred his consciousness and sent the world backward through another cycle.
• The Mirror Female Cultivator restored Lin Chen’s memories and helped him connect the recurring rewinds to Zhang Tianwen and the sealed Spiritual Energy Experimentation Ground.
• Lin Chen used the Death River to expose the Heaven-Covering Heaven and Earth Great Formation as spiritual-energy particles, then observed Particle Return and glimpsed a Bell Tower bearing a warning about reincarnation.
• Lin Chen boarded a Ghost Ship that traveled across the world, where he witnessed Lin Tianhang sacrifice millions of beings to awaken Longevity Heaven and then escaped Lin Tianhang’s attack.
• Lin Chen discovered that the Ghost Ship could turn attacks into treasures, explored the Return to Ruins, and survived copies of himself and cursed fragments that invaded the ship.
• Lin Chen created seven Split Spirits and used them to begin purifying the ship’s cursed land through Taiyin Body Refining, preserving his memories in the Dream Realm and extracting the worst pollution with Particle Return.
• Lin Chen sent a rotten black shadow into the real world, where it drew lightning and clashed with Nascent Soul cultivators investigating the missing Year Warden Statue.
• The Nascent Soul cultivators shattered Lin Chen’s shadow, but its remains corrupted them with demonic wisdom before Lin Chen escaped through the Dream Realm.

Lin Chen seized control of the Changqing Sect, destroyed its old leadership, and used the sect to pursue influence across the East Sea. As he planned schemes to disrupt the Immortal Alliance and spread new cultivation methods, the Mirror Female Cultivator uncovered the Heavenly Demon Cult’s dream network and an entity capable of erasing memories.

• Lin Chen returned to the Changqing Sect, exposed Hong Yuan’s plot against Jin Ling'er and Jin Tian, then killed Dan Yuanzi and the sect’s remaining elders and disciples who opposed him.
• Lin Chen destroyed Changqing Mountain Gate, killed Elder Liu, and faced Xu Yuanyang’s accusations before claiming a Cave Mansion and stripping resources from a spiritual mountain.
• Lin Chen overheard that East Sea Nascent Soul cultivators would be sent to the Outer Domain, then used a Three Corpses Demon to corrupt the Changqing Sect’s aristocratic factions and devour cultivators.
• Lin Chen cut through the demon’s scattered thoughts with his sword, helped Xu Yuanling and Xu Yuanyang survive, and became Changqing Sect’s new sect master.
• Lin Chen learned how the Immortal Alliance controlled spiritual energy and trade, then considered illicit businesses and proposed spreading a Dragon Yang cultivation method through the sect.
• Lin Chen’s split spirits warned that his coercive cultivation scheme could empower the Three Corpses Demon, so he chose an open challenge and later planned a Dream Realm investment scam to break into the Immortal Alliance’s market.
• Three years later, a Demonic Cultivator reached Golden Core through Lin Chen’s transformed Human Puppet method, and Lin Chen sealed the cultivator away as Xu Yuanyang prepared to promote the method.
• The Mirror Female Cultivator explained her investigation of the Heavenly Demon Cult’s dream intelligence network, then Lin Chen saw his Mirror Domain break and realized Changqing Sect members were forgetting the spirit mountain.