Chapter Summaries

Lin Chen and Zhang Hao observed Spirit Yuan Island to assess the East Sea Cultivation World's civilization and the risk of infiltration. Concluding that its surveillance was probably limited, Lin Chen decided to go ashore and test their disguises.

• Lin Chen kept Zhang Hao concealed beneath the sea near Spirit Yuan Island while they watched the island for a day.
• Zhang Hao questioned why they were waiting, and Lin Chen explained that he was assessing the East Sea Cultivation World's civilization level.
• Lin Chen studied the passing cultivators and judged that the East Sea Cultivation World was roughly comparable to an agrarian society.
• Lin Chen wondered whether the Attribute Panel mentioned by a Nascent Soul sword cultivator could threaten their concealment, but concluded they would not be discovered immediately.
• Lin Chen decided to go to Spirit Yuan Island and test their infiltration.

Lin Chen and Zhang Hao entered Spirit Yuan Island disguised as local cultivators, but the island’s identity registration revealed an unexpected obstacle. They were asked to present their Attribute Panels, which they might not have.

• Lin Chen and Zhang Hao blended in with the crowds arriving at Spirit Yuan Island and approached its guarded harbor entrance.
• Lin Chen inferred that the island controlled entry through formations and shared his observations with Zhang Hao.
• The city wall’s spiritual screen turned red when Lin Chen and Zhang Hao passed through, and guards directed them to register as foreign cultivators.
• Lin Chen and Zhang Hao followed guiding lights to a registration building, where an official asked them to present their Attribute Panels.
• The official noticed their hesitation and asked whether they lacked Attribute Panels.

Lin Chen and Zhang Hao faced exposure while trying to enter Spirit Yuan Island without valid Attribute Panels. Lin Chen used Soul-Seizing Nether-Piercing to alter the inspector’s memories, securing forged identity talismans and access to the island.

• The lead cultivator threatened Lin Chen and Zhang Hao when they failed to present their Attribute Panels, and the guards prepared to attack.
• Lin Chen decided to use his planned method to get past the inspection and secretly told Zhang Hao to follow his lead.
• As Lin Chen pretended to reveal his Attribute Panel, he used Soul-Seizing Nether-Piercing to invade the inspector’s consciousness and alter his memories.
• The inspector accepted Lin Chen and Zhang Hao’s excuse that they were concealing a valuable opportunity and recorded their information.
• Lin Chen and Zhang Hao fabricated their blood and auras for the identity talismans, then left the building and headed into Spirit Yuan Island.

Lin Chen and Zhang Hao entered Spirit Yuan Island, but Lin Chen warned that the Attribute Panel’s True Name lock and spiritual-energy accounting could expose them. They concluded they needed a legitimate Attribute Panel to settle in the East Sea, though obtaining one would put them under the Immortal Alliance’s influence.

• Zhang Hao thanked Lin Chen for helping them pass the island’s identity check, but Lin Chen warned that they were still at risk of exposure.
• Lin Chen explained that the Attribute Panel’s True Name lock detected cultivators who had lost their autonomy, and revealed that the cultivator he controlled had already lost his panel.
• Zhang Hao suggested killing the controlled cultivator, and Lin Chen said he had planted a suggestion that would lead the man to die fighting sea beasts.
• Lin Chen explained that the Attribute Panel recorded spiritual-energy transactions, which Tiangong Island could compare against its records to detect anyone without a panel.
• Lin Chen and Zhang Hao agreed they needed a legitimate Attribute Panel to integrate into the East Sea, but decided to play it by ear because their origins made seeking help risky.

Lin Chen and Zhang Hao surveyed Spirit Yuan Island, where crowded mortal and Qi Refining districts supported cultivators of higher realms. They reached a prosperous Foundation Establishment city, and Lin Chen decided they should find lodging and work out how to resolve their unregistered status.

• Lin Chen and Zhang Hao flew over Spirit Yuan Island’s crowded cities and saw how mortals and low-level cultivators supplied resources to those above them.
• Lin Chen reflected that the East Sea’s dense population made advancement more difficult, while Zhang Hao felt relieved that they had Foundation Establishment-level bodies.
• Lin Chen explained that Spirit Yuan Island separated residents by cultivation realm, with each outer layer supporting the cultivators farther within.
• Lin Chen and Zhang Hao entered a mountain city where Foundation Establishment and Golden Core Cultivators were common and shops sold resources for cultivation.
• After Zhang Hao asked what they should do next, Lin Chen said they would find a place to stay and consider how to solve their unregistered status.

Lin Chen investigated Spirit Yuan Island while Zhang Hao secretly visited Spirit Pavilion to buy cultivation resources, drawing Steward Luo’s suspicion. Lin Chen ended the night in a forest outside the city with the Blood-colored Egg of a Heaven and Earth Ant.

• Lin Chen told Zhang Hao to stay behind while he went out to investigate the city, but Zhang Hao later left to shop for resources.
• Zhang Hao visited Spirit Pavilion in disguise and gave Steward Luo a list of Pill Recipes, spirit medicines, and cultivation records to purchase.
• Steward Luo noticed the Spirit Stones did not register on his Attribute Panel immediately and ordered a cultivator to investigate Zhang Hao’s origins.
• Lin Chen appeared in a forest near the city and took out a block of Spirit Ice containing a fist-sized Blood-colored Egg.

Lin Chen bred Soul Spirit Insects and Stealth Spirit Insects, then used them to build a citywide surveillance network that tracked nearly every Foundation Establishment Cultivator. After discovering two Golden Core Cultivators in the city, he waited until nightfall and set out to take control of the city’s night.

• Lin Chen ordered the Queen Insect to breed Soul Spirit Insects and Stealth Spirit Insects, supplying it with spirit stones, demon beast flesh, and other resources.
• Lin Chen used a vibration-based detection method to locate the city’s Golden Core Cultivators, finding one in the City Lord’s Mansion and another in the northern district.
• Lin Chen sent swarms of Stealth Spirit Insects into the city to monitor Foundation Establishment Cultivators and key locations, with their information relayed to the Queen Insect.
• The Queen Insect produced a live map showing the movements of more than a thousand Foundation Establishment Cultivators and the city’s major hubs.
• As night deepened and clouds covered the moon, Lin Chen stood and vanished into the darkness, declaring that control of the city’s night would pass to him.

Lin Chen used his Insect Net to search the city at night for intelligence about concealing tracks and the Heaven-Covering Heaven and Earth Great Formation. After uncovering a hidden Black Market and learning that Joyful Dao had been warned about someone from Immortal Alliance Headquarters, he approached a concealed Golden Core Cultivator’s residence and sensed the power of dreams.

• Lin Chen sent his Swarm Clone into a hidden alley maze and discovered a Black Market, but found no useful information about the Immortal Alliance’s foundations.
• Lin Chen overheard Foundation Establishment Cultivators from Joyful Dao exchanging warnings about a recent arrival from Immortal Alliance Headquarters and suspending trade in goods from beyond the region.
• Lin Chen searched the city’s hidden gathering places but found no information about demons connected to the Heaven-Covering Heaven and Earth Great Formation.
• Lin Chen approached a residence concealing a Golden Core Cultivator and sensed the power of dreams.

Lin Chen entered the dream of a mysterious Golden Core Cultivator to uncover how the Heavenly Demon Dream Sect evaded the Heaven-Covering Heaven and Earth Great Formation. He reached the dream’s Ideal Country, was exposed by its inhabitants, and became trapped in a dark dream cage.

• Lin Chen decided to risk entering the mysterious cultivator’s dream and prepared a Soul Lamp, using his True Name to anchor himself to reality.
• Lin Chen followed the cultivator’s connection into a dark dream road, then passed through it into a magnificent city called Ideal Country.
• Lin Chen realized the city was likely the headquarters of the force behind the cultivator and prepared to escape with his Soul Lamp.
• Living people appeared throughout the city and recognized Lin Chen as an intruder because his dream-form looked unfinished.
• The dream’s owner discovered Lin Chen and trapped him in a dark, chaotic space.

Lin Chen was trapped in a dream by a faceless member of the Heavenly Demon Cult, who revealed that Lin Chen had an extraordinary talent for traversing dreams. When the cultist tried to invade Lin Chen’s memories, Lin Chen opened them willingly and unleashed the terror hidden within.

• Lin Chen remained calm in the dream prison, confident that the cultist could not keep him trapped indefinitely.
• A faceless figure appeared and questioned Lin Chen’s identity after realizing he had breached the Ideal Country’s dream defenses through sheer talent.
• Lin Chen learned that the figure belonged to the Heavenly Demon Cult and that the cult had destroyed the Nanhua Dream Sect by trapping its members in dream realms.
• The faceless figure used their conversation as a medium to probe Lin Chen’s memories and invade his consciousness.
• Lin Chen warned that his mental barriers had been holding back a greater terror, then opened his memories to the faceless figure.

Lin Chen let a member of the Heavenly Demon Cult read the memories of his transmigration, exposing him to the vastness of the universe and the terrifying void where Lin Chen’s consciousness had once collapsed and reassembled. The intruder’s sense of self perished, and Lin Chen left his memories, reflecting that only the Great Dao was eternal.

• Lin Chen allowed the Heavenly Demon Cult member to see his memories of transmigration.
• The faceless man witnessed countless worlds and the immense sea of stars, and began to doubt immortality and the meaning of his beliefs.
• The faceless man was dragged into the void at the origin point, where his consciousness and sense of self vanished.
• Lin Chen held the remaining point of memory-light and recalled how his own consciousness had collapsed and reassembled during transmigration.
• Lin Chen walked through memories of his past and reflected that his changed resolve came from recognizing life’s impermanence.
• Lin Chen declared that only the Great Dao was eternal, then vanished from the illusory memories.

Lin Chen awoke from a dream with new clues that his transmigration might be tied to a powerful figure and the realm of dreams. After examining the chaotic memories of a Heavenly Demon Cult Golden Core cultivator, he tried to contact his clone and learned that three days had passed.

• Lin Chen woke in the secret room and recalled learning the Heavenly Demon Cult's lair was [Ideal Country] and that the Nanhua Dream Sect had been defeated.
• Lin Chen concluded that his extraordinary dream talent and transmigration might be connected to a powerful figure, but resolved to keep pursuing the Dao regardless of any schemes.
• Lin Chen examined the Heavenly Demon Cult Golden Core cultivator's memories and found that the cultivator had wandered through others' dreams and memories, losing a stable sense of self.
• Lin Chen decided to sort through the cultivator's memories for useful intelligence and contact Zhang Hao before making further arrangements.
• Lin Chen received a message from his clone and discovered that exactly three days had passed.

Lin Chen returned to Spirit Yuan Island, delegated surveillance to Zhang Hao, and focused on studying a way to escape the Attribute Panel's identity lock. Meanwhile, Steward Luo grew suspicious of Zhang Hao's trades and decided to report him to the higher-ups, gambling on the chance that something was wrong.

• Lin Chen returned after spending three days in a dream confronting a Heavenly Demon Cult Golden Core cultivator, and Zhang Hao demanded to know where he had been.
• Lin Chen challenged Zhang Hao to explain what practical help he could offer, then decided Zhang Hao was more burden than benefit once his current task was finished.
• Lin Chen gave Zhang Hao control of a Queen Insect avatar and the Insect Net surveillance before destroying his own avatar and returning his consciousness to his main body.
• At the Spirit Pavilion, Steward Luo learned that Zhang Hao's Spirit Stones were beyond the Attribute Panel's control and that the cultivator who checked Zhang Hao's identity had died.
• Steward Luo chose to report Zhang Hao to the higher-ups, staking his position on the possibility that Zhang Hao was suspicious.

Lin Chen reconstructed a Heavenly Demon Cult Golden Core cultivator’s memories and discovered how the Heaven-Covering Heaven and Earth Great Formation identified people. He began considering how to use dreams to forge an identity, unaware that a change had occurred on Spirit Yuan Island.

• Lin Chen used the Same Breath Curse Soul Method and his soul lamp to preserve and reconstruct the cultivator’s scattered memories.
• Lin Chen examined memories showing the cultivator’s early life as an Immortal Alliance Dao child, then found diary entries describing fading memories and a growing sense that something was wrong.
• Lin Chen recognized similarities between the diary and the strange final writings he had seen in the East Sea, and wondered whether the Death River Cult and Heavenly Demon Cult were connected.
• Lin Chen immersed himself more deeply in the memories and saw a dream shadow gradually become the cultivator’s double, kill him repeatedly, and replace him.
• Lin Chen deduced that the formation’s True Name lock relied on Floating Life Traces, including memories, habits, and other people’s recognition, and that dreams could be used to alter those traces.
• Lin Chen began considering how to turn dreams into a virus that could implant false data into the formation, while a change occurred on Spirit Yuan Island without his knowledge.

Spirit Yuan Venerable negotiated with True Lord Xingmu for an Outer Domain Pioneer Order, hoping to secure Spirit Yuan Island’s future by venturing into the Outer Domain. The chapter ended when his Golden Core disciple reported that cultivators on the island had found the person Xingmu was seeking.

• Spirit Yuan Venerable and True Lord Xingmu discussed the strengths of their respective territories and the young disciple who had formed a High-grade Golden Core.
• Spirit Yuan Venerable asked his disciple to pay respects to Xingmu, who confirmed she would provide an Outer Domain Pioneer Order if he helped her complete her task.
• Spirit Yuan Venerable explained that his island needed the order to seek resources and a chance to comprehend Law Power before his death left the island vulnerable.
• Spirit Yuan Venerable offered Xingmu a generous gift, which she accepted.
• Spirit Yuan Venerable’s Golden Core disciple reported that cultivators on the island had found the person Xingmu was seeking.

True Lord Xingmu reviewed reports about a suspicious Golden Core cultivator and decided her intuition was enough to identify him, despite lacking evidence. She prepared to pursue him personally, while Lin Chen remained unaware that a crisis was approaching.

• A Golden Core disciple reported that island cultivators had found the person True Lord Xingmu was seeking, and Spirit Yuan Venerable demanded confirmation.
• True Lord Xingmu insisted on investigating personally, warning that sending Spirit Yuan Island’s people could alert the suspect.
• After examining the information jade slip, True Lord Xingmu connected the suspicious spirit-stone inspection and the inspector’s death to the person she sought.
• True Lord Xingmu explained that a Nascent Soul cultivator’s intuition could reveal the truth without evidence and instructed Fellow Daoist Shangyuan to withdraw the other cultivators.
• True Lord Xingmu took up her Star River Sky River Umbrella and set out to capture the unknown Golden Core cultivator, while Lin Chen studied dreams in his Cave Mansion, unaware of the danger.

Zhang Hao struggled to adapt his pill refining to overseas spirit herbs and worried that Lin Chen would not share a solution to the Attribute Panel problem. As Zhang Hao weighed what he could offer Lin Chen, True Lord Xingmu and Spirit Yuan Venerable appeared outside his cave mansion and began to surround the island with a strange rain.

• Zhang Hao failed another pill-refining attempt and considered sending spirit herbs to his true body, but Tree Elder warned him against it.
• Zhang Hao recalled that his spirit herb transactions had repeatedly attracted suspicious inspections, while Lin Chen avoided trouble by using the Soul-Seizing Method.
• Zhang Hao asked Tree Elder where he had been exposed and how to persuade Lin Chen to share his solution, but Tree Elder said he could not advise on human relationships.
• Zhang Hao considered offering Lin Chen a dream-realm magic treasure in exchange for help.
• True Lord Xingmu and Spirit Yuan Venerable appeared above Zhang Hao's cave mansion, and True Lord Xingmu spread a black, umbrella-shaped cloud over the island.
• Rain began to fall across the island as the two Nascent Soul True Lords prepared to capture Zhang Hao's puppet.

Lin Chen recovered from intensive Enter Dream cultivation and pieced together the principles and levels of Dream Realm Cultivation. While investigating the Doomsday World that trapped the Nanhua Dream Sect, he recognized its aura as identical to that of the Dream Snow he obtained when he broke through to Golden Core.

• Lin Chen ended his repeated Enter Dream experiments, wary that the strain was blurring his grasp of reality and dreams.
• Lin Chen concluded that The Essence of Dreams was unrelated to spiritual energy and learned that Dream Realm Cultivation centered on consciousness influencing reality.
• Lin Chen reviewed the Shallow Dream Realm, Deep Dream Realm, and Lost Layer, along with the paths of Dream Makers, Dream Wanderers, and Dream Dominators.
• Lin Chen searched the Heavenly Demon Cult cultivator’s memories for information about the Doomsday World and the End of Dharma Heaven and Earth of Return to Ruins.
• Lin Chen was shocked to discover that the Doomsday World’s aura matched the Dream Snow he had obtained at his Golden Core breakthrough.

Lin Chen uncovered the Heavenly Demon Cult’s account of the Doomsday World and learned it might represent the future of their reality. He wondered whether dreams, his transmigration, and the universe’s hidden powers were connected, then set aside speculation to focus on strengthening himself and deceiving the Heaven-Covering Heaven and Earth Great Formation.

• Lin Chen entered the memories of a Heavenly Demon Cult Golden Core cultivator and saw him speak with Faceless Demon Venerable in a room lined with faces.
• Faceless Demon Venerable revealed that the Heavenly Demon Lord had used the Doomsday World as bait to lure the Nanhua Dream Sect’s Dream Immortal before destroying the sect.
• Faceless Demon Venerable explained that the Doomsday World could be the future of their own world, shocking both Lin Chen and the Golden Core cultivator.
• Lin Chen considered whether dreams could reach the past and future and whether his transmigration made him part of an experiment by powerful beings.
• Lin Chen recorded his thoughts in the Transmigrator Diary, then decided to focus on using the dream cultivation information to strengthen himself and deceive the Heaven-Covering Heaven and Earth Great Formation.

Lin Chen devised a plan to use the Instant Thousand Mile Talisman as a vessel for merging dreams and Spiritual Energy into a Blessed Land Grotto-heaven, but he sensed an ominous change. A mysterious female cultivator captured Zhang Hao’s avatar, and a vast storm gathered over the sea where Lin Chen and his companion were hiding.

• Lin Chen reasoned that the Instant Thousand Mile Talisman could carry a dream transformed into a Spiritual Energy world, letting him create a Blessed Land Grotto-heaven and pursue a path toward immortality.
• As Lin Chen began to plan how to develop this new cultivation path, his connection to the dream realm warned him that something major was about to happen.
• A strange drizzle passed through the buildings and formations on Spirit Yuan Island, and Zhang Hao realized rain was falling inside his Cave Mansion.
• A beautiful female cultivator wielding a Starlight Spirit Umbrella appeared before Zhang Hao’s avatar, severed its connection to the main body, and captured a fragment of its soul.
• The female cultivator used Aura Lock, Trace to the Source, and Dao Domain Projection, causing clouds to gather and rain to accumulate over the sea where Lin Chen and his companion were hiding.