Chapter Summaries

Shen Yiyao woke in a strange grassland with her cultivation gone and entered a mysterious city called the Virtual World Communication Platform. There she met cultivators from distant regions who had also been brought there, and the group began to realize that an immense power had gathered them.

• Shen Yiyao woke as a powerless mortal in a star-lit grassland and found a city bearing the name Virtual World Communication Platform.
• Shen Yiyao entered the city and met Yan Yuncheng, Xiao Yu, Fang Ming, and Yang Wei near a hall beneath the stars.
• Shen Yiyao claimed to be Shen Qingyang's daughter, but Yan Yuncheng challenged her and urged the group to cooperate as fellow mortals.
• Yan Yuncheng, Xiao Yu, Fang Ming, and Yang Wei explained that they had been taken from widely separated places, leaving the group alarmed by the power behind their gathering.
• Lin Chen arrived and identified himself as being from the Nanhua Dream Sect.

Shen Yiyao and the others debated whether their predicament came from a Grotto-heaven Blessed Land, the Return to Ruins, or a dream, while Lin Chen denied that the Nanhua Dream Sect or Heavenly Demon Cult was responsible. Lin Chen argued that the Virtual World Exchange Platform made their mysterious dream an opportunity, leaving the group to consider its potential.

• Fang Ming questioned Yang Wei's identity, and Lin Chen and Shen Yiyao dismissed it as an unhelpful line of inquiry.
• Shen Yiyao proposed that a Void Refinement Cultivator's Grotto-heaven Blessed Land might explain their predicament, but judged that possibility unlikely.
• Xiao Yu mentioned the Return to Ruins, and Yan Yuncheng and Fang Ming explained its strange properties and connection to ancient experiments.
• Shen Yiyao suggested they were inside a dream and suspected it belonged to the Nanhua Dream Sect, but Lin Chen denied that the sect or the Heavenly Demon Cult was involved.
• Lin Chen pointed to the Virtual World Exchange Platform and urged the others to see their predicament as an opportunity to share information and connect across the world.

Lin Chen explained his plans to build a Spirit Net through the Dream Realm, then sent the East Sea cultivators back to reality while marking them for future entry. As he prepared to awaken his true body, Yan Yuncheng’s star resonated with the dream, and the Heaven-Covering Heaven and Earth Great Formation’s voice, identifying itself as Taiyi, reached Lin Chen’s Dream Realm.

• Shen Yiyao, Yan Yuncheng, and the other cultivators questioned how they could benefit from the Dream Realm while trapped there, and Lin Chen told them they could return by waking up.
• Yan Yuncheng and the others began to fade from the Dream Realm, while new points of light appeared on the East Sea region of Lin Chen’s Spiritual Light Screen.
• Lin Chen planned to use the East Sea cultivators for energy and information, recruit prodigies from the Nine Great Immortal Sects, and build a virtual Trading Platform.
• Lin Chen considered how to borrow Nascent Soul-level power safely, then noticed Yan Yuncheng’s star flare and resonate with his dream body.
• The Dream Realm shook as a vast power crossed from reality and targeted it, and a voice announced, "Taiyi, at your service."

Yan Yuncheng crossed into the outer domain with the Yan Clan fleet and nearly died when the worlds’ laws rejected him. The formation spirit’s emergency procedures stabilized the crossing, then revealed the star-filled cosmos and the Hall of the Immortals to everyone in the world.

• Yan Yuncheng asked the Yan Clan Ancestor to investigate his unsettled mind, but the Ancestor found no curse and warned him about the dangers of crossing between realms.
• The Yan Clan fleet reached the boundary between the realms and followed the Ancestor’s order to enter the outer domain.
• During the crossing, the formation spirit Taiyi’s dimensional conversion failed, and Yan Yuncheng felt the world’s laws threatening to erase him.
• Taiyi activated a backup plan with help from several sects and stabilized Yan Yuncheng and the fleet.
• Taiyi detected the Transmigrator Association and invoked secret protocols, while the heavens opened to reveal the Milky Way and the Hall of the Immortals to all living beings.

Shen Yiyao woke from a dream convinced that a mysterious being had marked her with an opportunity she intended to pursue. As the sky across worlds revealed the Hall of Immortals, Lin Chen discovered that the Transmigrator Association had identified his Dream Realm and welcomed him to Origin Star No. 872.

• Shen Yiyao woke in a volcano beneath Wolong Pass and concluded that the dream being had marked her, while a Nascent Soul True Lord might be needed to resolve her condition.
• Shen Yiyao decided to investigate the strange place from her dream, contact its people, and explore exchanging information and resources.
• An alarm interrupted Shen Yiyao, and she saw the sky transform into a star-filled river surrounding a vast hall that she recognized from her dream.
• Lin Chen saw the Dream Realm's sky become a universe of stars and realized that all beings who saw the mysterious hall perceived it as the Hall of Immortals.
• Lin Chen saw a message from the Transmigrator Association welcoming him to Origin Star No. 872.

The leaders of the Nine Great Immortal Sects gathered to discuss the Hall of Immortals, the Great Tribulation, and a possible failure in the Heaven-Covering Heaven and Earth Great Formation. Grandmaster Taixuan activated the Immortal Alliance Meeting’s safeguards, and the 871st meeting officially began.

• The Divine Firmament Dao Master, the Hunyuan Five Elements Sect leader, and Yue Ling questioned Tianjizi about the Heavenly Mystery Gate’s failure to foresee the upheaval.
• Tianjizi said the anomaly’s origin likely lay in the East Sea, while Celestial Venerable Canghai reported a disturbance in the Heavenly River linked to the Heaven-Covering Heaven and Earth Great Formation.
• The sect leaders feared the formation’s failure could release the terrors sealed beneath the Return to Ruins, but Grandmaster Taixuan assured them that control remained in their hands.
• Grandmaster Taixuan gathered the leaders of the Nine Great Immortal Sects and ordered Taiyi to activate the Immortal Alliance Meeting.
• Taiyi isolated the participants’ consciousnesses from outside contact and space-time, then announced the start of the 871st Immortal Alliance Meeting.

At the Immortal Alliance Meeting, the sect masters investigated the Heaven and Earth Warning and linked the suspected great calamity to a blood-sacrifice formation in the East Sea. Unable to locate or destroy the formation’s core, Celestial Venerable Canghai proposed destroying the East Sea itself to stop the danger.

• Tianjizi said the Hall of Immortals incident and the Heaven and Earth Warning were connected to the East Sea, though he could not identify the cause.
• Celestial Venerable Canghai revealed a vast East Sea formation made of blood-sacrifice nodes and said it was designed to invert yin and yang and reverse feng shui.
• The sect masters debated whether the formation could threaten the Immortal Alliance or trigger the great calamity, but Tianjizi said it could not affect the Heaven-Covering Heaven and Earth Great Formation.
• Celestial Venerable Canghai explained that the Alliance could not destroy the formation without finding its core and power source, which were difficult to locate or reach.
• Celestial Venerable Canghai proposed destroying the East Sea to prevent the monsters’ schemes and the great calamity from coming to pass.

Celestial Venerable Canghai argued that the Immortal Alliance should destroy the East Sea because its escalating dangers and enormous resource demands threatened the alliance. He revealed that his plan would spare the underground Sleeping Dragon Spirit Vein, then showed the assembled leaders the scene of Planetary Devastation in the Lingnan Cultivation World.

• Celestial Maiden Yue Ling, Tianjizi, and Gu Jiancheng objected as Celestial Venerable Canghai proposed destroying the East Sea and described the growing threats there.
• Celestial Venerable Canghai explained that the East Sea consumed over forty percent of the Immortal Alliance's spiritual energy while its endless war with the Dragon Palace drained resources and cultivators.
• Tianjizi fell silent as he recognized that the East Sea had become a burden on the alliance's spiritual-energy distribution system.
• Celestial Venerable Canghai assured Grandmaster Taixuan and the others that his plan would remove the East Sea Dragon Palace and its monsters while leaving the Sleeping Dragon Spirit Vein mostly unharmed.
• Celestial Venerable Canghai transformed the East Sea map into a vast sky and showed the leaders the crimson flash and whitening light of Planetary Devastation in the Lingnan Cultivation World.

Celestial Venerable Canghai proposed using the Moon to destroy the East Sea Dragon Palace and other threats, even at the cost of billions of lives, splitting the Nine Great Immortal Sects. Celestial Maiden Yue Ling rejected the plan and reminded the assembly that the Moon and other Ancient Cultivator treasures had to be handed over to the Transmigrator.

• Celestial Venerable Canghai proposed creating a catastrophic impact to destroy the East Sea Dragon Palace, arguing that cultivators of Golden Core and above would be evacuated while lower-level cultivators and mortals were abandoned.
• Celestial Maiden Yue Ling, Gu Jiancheng, and Tianjizi opposed sacrificing nearly a billion people, while the Divine Firmament Dao Master supported Canghai's plan.
• Canghai revealed that he intended to move the Moon and cause an Earth-Moon Collision, using the Heaven-Covering Heaven and Earth Great Formation to destroy the East Sea Dragon Palace and other enemies.
• Celestial Maiden Yue Ling refused to let Canghai use the Moon, saying the Sun Moon Immortal Palace was only its custodian and that the Ancient Cultivators' decree required the Moon, Heavenly River, and Spiritual Energy System Model to be handed to the Transmigrator.

The Immortal Alliance leaders debated the Ancient Cultivators’ decree to hand their treasures and knowledge to a future transmigrator, and Celestial Venerable Canghai proposed using the moon to destroy the East Sea Dragon Palace and other enemies. Grandmaster Taixuan rejected the plan, then suspected the Death River Cult was hiding something and wondered whether the recent upheavals were tied to the transmigrator.

• Celestial Venerable Canghai refused to surrender the Heavenly River and proposed using the moon to destroy the East Sea Dragon Palace, the Southern Wilderness Demon Court, and the Northern Grasslands.
• Celestial Maiden Yue Ling opposed the plan, warning that the moon guarded the world and demanding that anyone who wanted to touch it defeat her first.
• Grandmaster Taixuan stopped the dispute and rejected the Earth-Moon Collision, while Tianjizi proposed sending Spirit Transmutation Seeds and Nascent Soul True Lords to investigate the East Sea.
• After the meeting, Grandmaster Taixuan told Tianjizi he suspected the silent Death River Cult and proposed sending the girl Gu Jiancheng had brought back from Taiyin’s Land of Fallen to infiltrate it.
• Tianjizi asked whether the transmigrator had triggered the events of the past century, and Grandmaster Taixuan vowed to stand at the forefront as he hoped the transmigrator would be a friend.

After the Heaven-Covering Heaven and Earth Great Formation damaged Lin Chen’s Dream Realm, he considered how it had traced him and realized his transmigration was connected to the Transmigrator Association. He examined how spiritual energy might explain cultivation realms, then prepared to seek clues about why he had been chosen to transmigrate.

• The Heaven-Covering Heaven and Earth Great Formation briefly reached Lin Chen’s true body through the Dream Realm, damaging the realm before The Essence of Dreams repelled it and began repairing the damage.
• Lin Chen deduced that Yan Yuncheng’s aura had let the formation locate him, and decided he needed relays, firewalls, and a stronger Spirit Net before drawing people into his Dream Realm again.
• Lin Chen summoned Taiyi, who presented a Spiritual Light Screen labeled [Transmigrator Association].
• Lin Chen considered whether the Transmigrator Association’s power indicated that Great Luo stood above Dao Integration, and connected cultivation realms to how cultivators influenced spiritual energy.
• Lin Chen set aside his speculation about higher realms and focused on seeking clues about why he had been chosen from among the people of Blue Star to transmigrate.

Lin Chen wondered whether the ancient cultivators who created the Qi Refining path had been fellow transmigrators from the Transmigrator Association. He sought evidence by asking Taiyi to contact the formation’s highest authority, but the attempt failed because the target was out of range.

• Lin Chen noticed the terms Transmigrator Association and Origin Star in the formation’s information and wondered why he had been chosen.
• Lin Chen considered whether other transmigrators had arrived in this world and been assimilated into its cultivation society.
• Lin Chen reasoned that earlier transmigrators might have shaped the world by studying its essence and suspected the ancient cultivators who pioneered Qi Refining were fellow townsmen.
• Lin Chen reflected on the ancient cultivators’ achievements and questioned whether his fellow transmigrators could have been so extraordinary.
• Lin Chen asked Taiyi to contact the Ancient Cultivators or the highest authority holder, but the formation reported that the target was out of sensing range.

Lin Chen discovered that the Ancient Cultivators and several major factions could not be reached, then learned he lacked permission to use the formation’s powers. The Primordial Faction left him a dangerous gift among the Nine Great Immortal Sects and cryptic answers on the moon and in spiritual energy, and Lin Chen returned to his plans.

• Lin Chen tried to contact the Ancient Cultivators, the Transmigrator Association, the Hall of Immortals, and the Primordial Faction, but none answered.
• Lin Chen suspected that the Ancient Cultivators and the Grand Unity Immortals had lost contact, then set aside the mystery to investigate the formation’s purpose.
• Lin Chen attempted to access cultivation techniques, alter his currency, and locate Immortal Alliance resources, but the formation denied each request for insufficient permissions.
• The Primordial Faction informed Lin Chen that its gift was stored within the Nine Great Immortal Sects and that answers awaited on the moon and in spiritual energy.
• Lin Chen decided to investigate the clues later and returned to his plans to awaken, descend into the present world, reincarnate in the East Sea, establish a force, and achieve Nascent Soul.

Luo Xuan entered the City Lord’s Mansion at Lin Chen’s urging to seek intelligence about the Black Mist Continent. Lin Chen explained how Luo Xuan’s soul-based cultivation could lead to the Dao of Curse and began teaching him the Method of Silhouette Cutting.

• After the scarlet moonlight vanished and returned, Luo Xuan told Lin Chen about the strange event, and Lin Chen ordered him to investigate the City Lord’s Mansion.
• Luo Xuan used the Shadow Transformation Technique to slip past the mansion’s traps under Lin Chen’s guidance.
• Lin Chen explained that Luo Xuan’s Path of Corpse Release could eventually access the Spirit Net, though it could not reach the continent yet.
• Lin Chen said Luo Xuan’s Yin Spirit and shadow technique could form the basis of the Dao of Curse.
• Lin Chen began teaching Luo Xuan the Method of Silhouette Cutting, derived from his Shadow Transformation Technique and soul-based path.

Lin Chen demonstrated the Method of Silhouette Cutting to Luo Xuan, using it to modify his Corpse Dog spirit into a powerful detection technique. Their surveillance of the City Lord's Mansion revealed mortals practicing demonic arts and signs of powerful outsiders, until Lin Chen discovered a strange being in a mirror and recognized an old acquaintance.

• Lin Chen took control of Luo Xuan's body and used the Method of Silhouette Cutting to manifest his Three Souls and Seven Spirits, then cut away part of Corpse Dog and inscribed a detection technique on it.
• Lin Chen sent Corpse Dog spirit-shadows through the City Lord's Mansion, creating a map and uncovering human-skin figures and bloodied people practicing demonic arts.
• Lin Chen realized the demonic arts had likely been altered by a Nascent Soul True Lord and decided to keep investigating despite the risks posed by powerful Immortal and Demonic Path forces.
• Lin Chen's spirit-shadows found a secret room where a blood-covered sheet of human skin spoke with a bodiless being inside a mirror.
• Lin Chen recognized the mirrored being as an old acquaintance, and Luo Xuan sensed the killing intent beneath Lin Chen's smile.

Xue Wushen reported to a Mirror Person that demonic cultivation experiments on the Black Mist Continent produced weak, resource-intensive cores. As the Mirror Person considered a new cultivation path, an unknown figure emerged from the shadows and revealed a connection to an old acquaintance from the Heavenly Demon Cult.

• Xue Wushen told the Mirror Person that few mortals could cultivate the adapted demonic arts and that their Demonic Cores were poor substitutes for Enlightenment Stones.
• The Mirror Person examined a blood core and judged it too weak to aid Golden Core cultivators or Nascent Soul True Lords, while its cultivators consumed many resources.
• The Mirror Person reflected on how a new path combining the Dream Realm Cultivation System with Qi Refining Cultivation might produce better results.
• Xue Wushen described a possible convergence through the soul, combining spiritual energy and dreams to project consciousness beyond the body.
• The Mirror Person realized that the puppet Xue Wushen could not have offered those insights and demanded to know who was present.
• A shadow overwhelmed the secret room and the Bronze Mirror as an unknown figure appeared, greeting the Mirror Person as an old acquaintance after a hundred years.

Lin Chen used the Shadow Scissors to cripple Xue Wushen and trap the Mirror Person, drawing Void Mirror Demon Venerable into a prepared dream-realm trap. After the mirror world shattered, Lin Chen captured a strand of her divine sense and challenged her confidence in his strength.

• Lin Chen used the Dao of Curse to cut the Mirror Person’s link and exposed Xue Wushen’s attack, then targeted Xue Wushen’s Three Souls and Seven Spirits with the Shadow Scissors.
• Lin Chen cut Xue Wushen’s Corpse Dog and Shuang Ling, leaving him unable to sense the world and apparently insane.
• The Mirror Person abandoned Xue Wushen and begged Lin Chen for mercy, but Void Mirror Demon Venerable descended through him before Lin Chen could strike.
• Void Mirror Demon Venerable recognized Lin Chen and began forming a Mirror Domain, but the surrounding dream realm shattered and destroyed the Bronze Mirror.
• Lin Chen appeared in the dream realm holding a mirror fragment containing a strand of Void Mirror Demon Venerable’s divine sense and revealed that he had prepared a way to deal with her.

Void Mirror Demon Venerable recovered from the Starlight Divine Water that had been eroding her after Lin Chen hunted down her divine sense. The Heavenly Demon Cult’s Demon Venerables discussed the Nine Great Immortal Sects’ response to the Star Sea Incident and planned to infiltrate their new academy, while Void Mirror Demon Venerable privately worried about the lost divine sense.

• Void Mirror Demon Venerable suffered a surge of Starlight Divine Water after her Primordial Spirit was damaged, and Faceless Demon Venerable transformed into her likeness to draw the poison away.
• Void Mirror Demon Venerable revealed that someone had hunted down a strand of her divine sense, but she concealed that a Golden Core cultivator was responsible.
• The Demon Venerables learned that the Nine Great Immortal Sects had rejected the Earth-Moon Collision plan and intended to establish an academy in the East Sea to investigate the great tribulation.
• The Black Phantom ordered the cult to send reincarnated members into the academy, gather information about the Eternal Demon Tribulation, and prepare more Brain Servants for a Super Brain.
• After the others left, Void Mirror Demon Venerable worried that the lost divine sense could cause trouble and recalled that she had left a safeguard behind.

Lin Chen suppressed a wisp of the Heavenly Demon Cult's Demon Venerable in the Dream Realm and learned that its power could help him develop his own Dream Dao Domain. He rejected her offer to join the cult and demanded that she become his maid to help him infiltrate its core Ideal Country, ending by asking whether she believed in love.

• The Demon Venerable's wisp used a Bronze Mirror to resist, but Lin Chen drew on the Dream Realm and his Heavenly Manifestation to shatter and suppress it.
• Lin Chen realized the Dream Realm was still fragile and needed to analyze more real objects, while considering how to use the Demon Venerable's Nascent Soul Origin to simulate her Mirror Domain.
• The Demon Venerable claimed her memories were protected and warned that Lin Chen could not curse her true body, then offered to recruit him into the Heavenly Demon Cult.
• Lin Chen refused to trust her or sign a contract, and demanded that she become his maid and guide him into the cult's core Ideal Country.
• The Demon Venerable angrily refused, and Lin Chen asked whether she believed in love.

Lin Chen rejected the Mirror Female Cultivator’s attempt to win his trust and saw through her traps for anyone who tried to alter her memories. He used the Method of Silhouette Cutting to sever You Jing and reshape her feelings, leaving her devoted to him in the Dream Realm.

• The Mirror Female Cultivator offered to court Lin Chen, but he refused to believe her sudden affection and asked whether she believed in love.
• Void Mirror Demon Venerable realized Lin Chen intended to alter her memories and warned that her Nascent Soul and hidden countermeasures made it dangerous.
• Lin Chen deduced that her anger and seduction were meant to provoke him into tampering with her memories, where she could turn the attack against him.
• The Mirror Female Cultivator tried to destroy herself, but Lin Chen cut her reflection with the Method of Silhouette Cutting and severed You Jing, leaving her numb and indifferent.
• Lin Chen altered her You Jing, and when the Dream Realm returned to normal, the Mirror Female Cultivator appeared affectionate and called him “A Chen.”
• Lin Chen considered her a valuable insider in the Heavenly Demon Cult and credited his success to love.