Chapter Summaries

Lin Chen and Zhang Hao discovered that Immortal Alliance cultivators had tracked them and fled, only to find themselves trapped in True Lord Xingmu’s Nascent Soul Rain Domain. As Lin Chen confronted her, Zhang Hao began to succumb to the rain’s drowsy influence, until a voice roared in his mind to wake him.

• Lin Chen sensed impending danger, restored his depleted condition, and learned from Zhang Hao that Immortal Alliance cultivators had tracked their location.
• Lin Chen and Zhang Hao fled the cave mansion, but Lin Chen noticed they were still within the rain cloud and found the cave beneath them, revealing that their directions had been obscured.
• Lin Chen identified the trap as a Nascent Soul Rain Domain and tried to destroy the cloud with a fireball, but it swallowed his attack.
• True Lord Xingmu appeared through a Dao Domain Projection and questioned Lin Chen and Zhang Hao about their origins.
• Zhang Hao grew drowsy as True Lord Xingmu spoke with Lin Chen, until an enraged voice in his mind told him to wake up and resist her influence.

Tree Elder recognized that Starlight Divine Water was erasing Zhang Hao and Lin Chen’s thoughts, and Lin Chen broke free of its influence. Lin Chen’s attack distracted True Lord Xingmu long enough for Zhang Hao to strike her from behind with seven spirit swords.

• Tree Elder warned Zhang Hao that the female cultivator was stalling while her true body approached, but Zhang Hao began losing consciousness to the rain.
• Tree Elder identified the rain as Starlight Divine Water and alerted Lin Chen, who cleared his mind and recognized its effects.
• Lin Chen formed spiritual umbrellas to block the rain, but the Starlight Divine Water passed through them.
• Lin Chen used Yin Yang Five Elements Dissolution Spiritual Light to erase the rain around him and attack True Lord Xingmu, who deflected it with her spirit umbrella.
• As Lin Chen’s attack tore open her defenses, Zhang Hao appeared behind True Lord Xingmu and stabbed her with seven spirit swords.

Lin Chen and Zhang Hao’s attacks failed to destroy True Lord Xingmu, who returned with a projected spirit umbrella and claimed it made her impervious to all laws. Lin Chen saw through the deception, located the real source of the Rain Domain, and destroyed the hidden Xingmu avatar, ending the apparent invulnerability as he took the umbrella.

• Zhang Hao and Lin Chen joined forces to unleash their strongest attacks, but the Starlight Rain grew heavier and True Lord Xingmu soon reappeared unharmed.
• True Lord Xingmu projected her Natal Magic Treasure, the [Star River Sky River Umbrella], and claimed it made her impervious to all laws; their attacks could no longer hurt her.
• Lin Chen rejected her claim and secretly had Tree Elder use a sorcery to locate the source of the Rain Domain while he and Zhang Hao kept Xingmu occupied.
• After Tree Elder found the hidden location, Lin Chen struck an empty patch of air and shattered a concealed Xingmu avatar holding an umbrella.
• The apparent Xingmu beside Zhang Hao dissipated, and Lin Chen took the spirit umbrella, realizing that the Rain Domain and its Starlight Divine Water originated within it.

Lin Chen uncovered how True Lord Xingmu’s layered Umbrella Rain Domain used rain to project countless avatars, but she completed the domain and attacked him and Zhang Hao. As the starlight rain surged to consume them, Lin Chen revealed that his own explanation had served another purpose.

• Lin Chen caught the Starlight Spirit Umbrella and used it to trace his consciousness through the layered cloud-and-rain domain while Zhang Hao waited under the intensifying poison rain.
• Lin Chen returned to Zhang Hao and explained how True Lord Xingmu’s Spirit Umbrella stacked rain domains and projected avatars through rainwater.
• Lin Chen demonstrated the mechanism by forming umbrella layers and rain-free space with his Yin Yang Five Elements Dissolution Spiritual Light.
• True Lord Xingmu praised Lin Chen’s insight, invited him to join the Tianhe Sect, and then revealed countless umbrella-bearing projections as the rain domain finished layering.
• True Lord Xingmu sent the projections and torrential starlight rain to attack, but Lin Chen asked what she thought he had been talking for.

Lin Chen turned True Lord Xingmu’s Umbrella Rain Domain against her by using the spirit umbrella as a conduit for a curse, causing the domain and the surrounding sea to become grotesquely contaminated. He and Zhang Hao escaped, but the spreading corruption seemed to be disrupting the world’s underlying laws.

• True Lord Xingmu unleashed layers of projections that filled the sky and trapped Lin Chen and Zhang Hao in her chilling Umbrella Rain Domain.
• The projections twisted and burst apart as Lin Chen’s decayed, pus-covered hand contaminated the spirit umbrella.
• Lin Chen explained that the umbrella connected the layered rain domain’s spirit umbrellas, making it the weakness through which he could cast a curse.
• The curse caused the black clouds, sea, and creatures within them to mutate, while black mist spread across the region.
• Lin Chen severed his contaminated arm and fled with Zhang Hao, and they escaped the domain to a clear stretch of sea.
• Lin Chen sensed that the corruption was disordering the world’s underlying laws as the sea and sky behind them turned black.

Lin Chen used Dream Snow to contaminate True Lord Xingmu’s Umbrella Rain Domain and activated the Instant Thousand Mile Talisman to escape with Zhang Hao. True Lord Xingmu arrived and attacked as Zhang Hao unleashed a dreamscape treasure to shield them, while she prepared the Heavenly River to stop their teleportation.

• Lin Chen revealed that he had secretly contaminated the umbrellas with Dream Snow, causing the Umbrella Rain Domain to spread horrific corruption across the surrounding sea.
• Lin Chen warned Zhang Hao that True Lord Xingmu’s true body was approaching and began activating the Instant Thousand Mile Talisman for their escape.
• True Lord Xingmu arrived, identified the pair as connected to the Great Tribulation of the End, and attacked them with starlit rain.
• Lin Chen ordered Zhang Hao to hold True Lord Xingmu back for three breaths, and Zhang Hao used a dreamscape treasure that drained his life essence, Golden Core dharma power, and soul power to shield them.
• True Lord Xingmu recognized the power of Void Refinement in the dreamscape and activated the Heavenly River to prevent their escape.

Celestial Venerable Canghai and Celestial Maiden Yue Ling discussed her Great Expedition plan and the Immortal Alliance’s inability to control Heavenly River. After Yue Ling left, Canghai sensed someone in Tianhe Sect drawing on the river’s power as a branch of it poured toward the world below.

• Celestial Venerable Canghai reflected on Heavenly River’s links to countless worlds and argued that the Immortal Alliance was not ready for a Great Expedition.
• Celestial Maiden Yue Ling urged Canghai to support her plan, saying the alliance’s real obstacle was its fear of leaving the world.
• Canghai offered to support the expedition if Tianhe Sect gained control of Heavenly River.
• Yue Ling recognized Heavenly River as a war treasure and a passage between worlds, then left after realizing Canghai had declined her proposal.
• Canghai sensed someone in Tianhe Sect summoning Heavenly River’s power, and a branch carrying divine waters poured toward the world below.

Spirit Yuan Venerable hurried toward Lin Chen and Zhang Hao, but a vast black fog and a descending Heavenly River transformed the sea around them. As the Heavenly River interfered with Lin Chen’s escape talisman, he gambled on using Zhang Hao’s Dream Cloud Glow to counter it.

• Spirit Yuan Venerable sensed trouble as he raced to reach Lin Chen and Zhang Hao.
• A strange black fog spread across Spirit Yuan Venerable’s sea territory, and the sky abruptly turned to night as the Heavenly River poured down.
• Lin Chen discovered that the Heavenly River was disrupting his Instant Thousand Mile Talisman and the spatial wormhole he was preparing.
• Zhang Hao asked Lin Chen what they should do, and Lin Chen realized he needed a power of comparable level to counter the Heavenly River.
• Lin Chen took Zhang Hao’s Dream Cloud Glow and slammed it onto the Instant Thousand Mile Talisman.

Lin Chen and his companion used a dream-realm power to break True Lord Xingmu’s Heavenly River lockdown and escape through a wormhole, but a Spirit Transmutation Celestial Venerable intervened and disrupted their passage. As the wormhole began to fail, Lin Chen detonated Zhang Hao’s dream-realm treasure and drew on the dream realm’s power.

• True Lord Xingmu used the Heavenly River to suppress the pollution and contain the dream-realm barrier, then urged Lin Chen and his companion to surrender and offered a Soul Contract.
• Lin Chen pretended to consider Xingmu’s offer while he used Enter Dream and the Void Refinement Talisman’s power to draw spatial-teleportation force from the dream realm.
• Lin Chen activated the Instant Thousand Mile Talisman, opening a wormhole and escaping with his companion as Xingmu watched helplessly.
• A Spirit Transmutation Celestial Venerable appeared in the sky and reinforced the Heavenly River’s power, disrupting the wormhole and threatening to trap the pair.
• Lin Chen detonated the dream-realm supreme treasure in Zhang Hao’s hands and used his Dream Realm Talent and Soul Lamp to draw down the dream realm’s power.

Celestial Venerable Canghai arrived after Lin Chen and his companion escaped, then ordered True Lord Xingmu to organize a search for them. He discovered that the dangerous black mist might be able to condense Enlightenment Stones.

• Spirit Yuan Venerable arrived and knelt when he recognized Celestial Venerable Canghai.
• True Lord Xingmu recounted how Lin Chen and his companion escaped after drawing on the dream realm’s power.
• Celestial Venerable Canghai ordered True Lord Xingmu to give their information to the Death River Cult and, when that proved impractical, to involve the Heavenly Mystery Gate and the Immortal Alliance Dark Department.
• Celestial Venerable Canghai examined the black mist and explained that Great Dao Laws concerned the changes of spiritual qi and that Enlightenment Stones helped cultivators comprehend them.
• True Lord Xingmu asked whether the black mist could condense Enlightenment Stones.

Celestial Venerable Canghai explained that the black mist could expose the Great Dao Laws hidden in spiritual qi, though humans could not yet use it to create Enlightenment Stones. He decided to test whether heaven and earth could produce something similar, and the chapter ended as the black mist was released onto the newly formed New Continent.

• True Lord Xingmu asked whether the black mist could condense Enlightenment Stones, and Celestial Venerable Canghai explained how its contamination exposed spiritual qi’s inner structure.
• Celestial Venerable Canghai proposed letting heaven and earth interact with the black mist and ordered the creation of a small continent for the experiment.
• Celestial Venerable Canghai raised land from the sea, and cultivators from Spirit Yuan Island began settling and cultivating it.
• After a Medium Order Spirit Vein was transplanted, the black mist was released onto the continent, beginning the experiment amid widespread bloodshed and mortal wails.

After a disastrous teleportation leaves Zhang Hao badly injured and separated from Lin Chen, Tree Elder identifies their destination as Return to Ruins, a resource-rich battleground beyond the Heaven-Covering Heaven and Earth Great Formation. Zhang Hao plans to recover and take advantage of the conflict, while Lin Chen remains asleep in an unknown dream as the Void Refinement Talisman merges with him.

• Zhang Hao wakes among slain monsters in a strange mountain range and sees a vast river of light crossing the sky.
• Zhang Hao discovers that he is alone, badly injured, and unable to find Lin Chen after their teleportation went wrong.
• Cultivators fall from the sky as native monsters and ghosts form a Blood Moon to attack them, but a giant hand destroys the Blood Moon with the Great Five Elements Annihilation Divine Light.
• Tree Elder identifies the place as Return to Ruins and explains its resources, factions, and dangers to Zhang Hao.
• Zhang Hao decides to recover in seclusion and does not search for Lin Chen.
• Lin Chen lies asleep in an unknown dream as the Instant Thousand Mile Talisman repeatedly dims and reappears on his forehead.

While Lin Chen remained asleep in a dream world for a century, events across the cultivation world reshaped the balance of power and brought a Great Contention Era closer. The chapter ends as his life-bound Heaven and Earth Ant Queen awakes before him.

• Zhang Hao avenged himself by destroying the White Bone Sect’s Golden Core White Bone Human Demon, and Tree Elder warned him to return to the main world before breaking through to Nascent Soul.
• True Lord Xingmu released polluted black mist over a sealed continent, turning it into a deadly experimental ground, and ordered Spirit Yuan Venerable to watch for the two people who had escaped years earlier.
• The Great Peace Way encountered cultivators recruiting spirit-rooted disciples in Lingnan, bringing its Inner Elixir Method into contact with Qi Refining Cultivation.
• The Drought Demon completed his transformation and agreed with the Heavenly Demon to move against the East Sea Immortal Alliance; afterward, corpse poison spread through Lingnan and triggered a zombie calamity.
• Over the next hundred years, the Immortal Alliance prospered through exploration and trade while signs of an approaching Great Contention Era gathered.
• After sleeping for a hundred years in the dream kingdom, Lin Chen remained motionless as his Heaven and Earth Ant Queen awoke.

Luo Xuan, a cultivator’s descendant who infiltrated the Black Mist Continent to gain power, chose and consumed the Dream Eating Tapir Secret Elixir. He escaped its deadly backlash into a mysterious star-filled dream realm, where a message spoke of a slumbering immortal awaiting him.

• The Old Town Chief introduced the Consumption Method to the youths and explained that contaminated monster elixirs could grant power at a cost.
• Luo Xuan recalled his plan to infiltrate the Black Mist Continent and obtain a Secret Elixir, hoping to gain transcendental power despite the dangers.
• Luo Xuan chose the Dream Eating Tapir Secret Elixir because its dream talent might let him join the Nanhua Dream Sect someday.
• Luo Xuan drank the elixir and collapsed as its remnant soul attacked him, but his expression unexpectedly became peaceful.
• Luo Xuan awoke in a quiet, starry kingdom of night and heard a message that a slumbering immortal awaited him in dreams.

After falling asleep beneath the Nether Candle, Luo Xuan returned to the Eternal Night Dream Realm and explored a silent, magnificent city built around a floating palace and a vast Spirit Net. The dream ended after a point of starlight entered his brow, and Luo Xuan awoke to an unexplained voice.

• Luo Xuan struggled to sleep as he wondered where the Eternal Night Dream Realm had come from and what its message meant.
• Luo Xuan was inexplicably drawn into a deep sleep and awoke alone in a grassy field beneath a star-filled sky.
• Luo Xuan walked to a grand city marked as the Virtual World Communication Platform and explored its empty districts.
• Luo Xuan found a floating palace above a vast Spirit Net and saw a figure seated among the stars, whom he thought might be an immortal.
• Luo Xuan watched a point of starlight fly from the palace into his brow before the dream vanished.
• Luo Xuan awoke gasping, and an unfamiliar voice spoke of waking from a dream and not knowing the year.

Luo Xuan accepted a risky deal with Lin Chen, the voice in his mind, after learning he possessed an Analysis Panel that could help him master sorcery and Dao formulas. Lin Chen began teaching him a path to immortality that did not require spiritual roots.

• Luo Xuan heard Lin Chen’s voice in his mind and agreed to take him through the current world in exchange for advice.
• Lin Chen revealed that Luo Xuan’s Analysis Panel could analyze things and grant him the knowledge to master or create sorcery and Dao formulas.
• Luo Xuan feared he could not cultivate without spiritual roots, but Lin Chen challenged that supposed iron law and offered him a way forward.
• Luo Xuan chose to risk death rather than live an ordinary life and asked Lin Chen to teach him the path to immortality.
• Lin Chen began imparting the Life-Nourishing Feathered Transformation True Scripture, a method for ordinary people to seek immortality.

Lin Chen explained a cultivation path for mortals without spiritual roots, revealing that his Life-Nourishing Feathered Transformation True Scripture was an untested method designed to bind its practitioners to his Dream Realm and Spirit Net. After learning that Lin Chen had created it from scratch and openly intended to use him as a test subject, Luo Xuan chose to accept the risk and asked to be taught.

• Lin Chen explained that spiritual roots were the foundation of conventional cultivation and that plundering another person's roots would cause rejection and limit advancement.
• Lin Chen proposed Spirit Refining through Life-Nourishing Consumption and the intent of Feathered Transformation as a possible path for mortals without spiritual roots.
• Lin Chen privately planned to direct practitioners toward his Dream Realm for shelter and make them rely on his Spirit Net for protective techniques.
• Luo Xuan asked what price the technique required, and Lin Chen admitted he had created it from scratch and did not know whether it could be followed to completion.
• Lin Chen openly told Luo Xuan he would be a test subject, and Luo Xuan decided to wager his life on the opportunity and begged the Immortal to impart the method.

Lin Chen explained the Life-Nourishing Feathered Transformation True Scripture to Luo Xuan, outlining a path from mortal cultivation through Yin Spirit and Yang Spirit realms to Feathered Ascension and Corpse Release. He left Luo Xuan with a way for mortals without spiritual roots to pursue longevity, while planning to use future ascendants and their resources to develop his Dream Realm.

• Lin Chen described the scripture’s realms and explained how its first stage cultivated essence, qi, and spirit before forming an inner core.
• Lin Chen explained that Life-Nourishing Consumption used demon beast bloodlines to strengthen the body and nourish the soul, and Luo Xuan accepted that he would have to abandon orthodox cultivation.
• Lin Chen clarified that he would be an Old Grandpa rather than Luo Xuan’s master, then described how Yin Spirit Emergence could let the soul survive outside the body and reincarnate.
• Lin Chen outlined how Yang Spirit Existing in the World would allow cultivators to discard their bodies, command spiritual qi, and refine heavenly gang and earthly sha.
• Lin Chen revealed that cultivators who reached Feathered Ascension and Corpse Release would ascend into his Dream Realm, bringing resources and knowledge and working to build it.

Luo Xuan learned more about the corpse release path and the mysterious world tied to his cultivation, while Lin Chen refused to explain its secrets. Lin Chen then asked how long the world had remained in its present state, having awakened without knowing how many years had passed.

• Luo Xuan wondered whether the corpse release path could lead to the Immortal Realm, and Lin Chen said no cultivator was known to have ascended by any path.
• Luo Xuan asked about the place he had entered and its ruler, and Lin Chen said the ruler was an existence nearing the end of a long slumber.
• Lin Chen told Luo Xuan that prayer rituals, the Spirit Net, and corpse release would matter to his future cultivation, but said he should learn about them only when he was strong enough.
• Luo Xuan asked how the new path’s realms compared with those of the Cultivation World, and Lin Chen said they could not be compared and their power and lifespan were unknown.
• Lin Chen asked how many years the world had remained in its current state, since he had slept for an unknown length of time and found the world changed.

Lin Chen learned from Luo Xuan that the Black Mist Continent was an experimental site created to contain contamination from a battle a hundred years earlier. Realizing the contamination came from his own Dream Snow, Lin Chen reflected on the passage of time and concluded that he had awakened from his dream and returned to the mortal world.

• Lin Chen sensed the Black Mist Continent’s ruined landscape and asked Luo Xuan how long it had been that way.
• Luo Xuan told Lin Chen the situation had lasted for over a hundred years and explained that the Immortal Alliance still ruled the world beyond the continent.
• Luo Xuan recounted how contamination from a battle near Spirit Yuan Island had created the Black Mist Continent.
• Lin Chen recognized the contamination as the Black Mist caused by his Dream Snow during his fight with an Immortal Alliance Nascent Soul cultivator and a female cultivator with an umbrella.
• Lin Chen reflected on how time separated cultivators from the mortal world and told Luo Xuan that he had awakened from a dream and returned to it.