Chapter Summaries

Lin Chen planned to return his body from the Dream Realm, reach the Nascent Soul Realm, and investigate the East Sea. He conceived a plan to create Dream Spiritual Energy by spreading his name across the East Sea and building a faction, then resolved to act while the region's strongest cultivators were occupied.

• Lin Chen concluded that dreams and Spiritual Energy both arose from information, and considered creating a new attribute called Dream Spiritual Energy.
• Lin Chen outlined his path to Nascent Soul and Spirit Transformation by combining his Spiritual Energy System Model, the Order Dao, and the Corpse Release Dao with Spirit Root Cultivation.
• Lin Chen worried that relying on a small number of dream connections would take too long to bring him back to reality, while drawing in too many cultivators risked attracting powerful opponents.
• Lin Chen devised a plan to spread his name among hundreds of millions of beings and cultivate Golden Core dreamers as anchors, using their collective cognition to pull him into reality.
• Lin Chen decided to establish a faction and seize the opportunity presented by the East Sea's impending war and the absence of its top combat forces.

Lin Chen devised a low-risk avatar method to reincarnate in the East Sea while keeping his main body safe. As his True Spirit descended through the Shallow Dream Realm toward reality, it was unexpectedly pulled into the Death River and dragged toward Soul Returning Island.

• Lin Chen rejected soul-splitting and memory-copying avatar methods, then used his curse-based dream projection technique to create an avatar he could control remotely.
• Lin Chen sent his True Spirit into the East Sea through cultivators in the Dream Realm, intending to reincarnate, break through the Mystery of the Womb, and leave a trace of spirituality to develop.
• As Lin Chen crossed from the Shallow Dream Realm toward reality, he found himself before the Death River instead of the East Sea.
• The Death River churned and its strange shadows seized Lin Chen, flooding his Sea of Consciousness with visions and voices.
• Lin Chen’s True Spirit was pulled into the Death River, whose waters revealed Soul Returning Island beneath them.

The Death River Priestess sensed Lin Chen reincarnating into the East Sea and redirected his passage, deciding he had to die. At Luozhen Mountain, the East Sea Rogue Immortal’s Heavenly Book foretold that he would meet the killer of the Paper Figure Demon Venerable, then the prediction vanished and he feared the unknown cultivator had died.

• The Death River Priestess watched Lin Chen’s spirit descend toward the East Sea and judged him a threat to the Death River Cult.
• The Death River Priestess’s wavering command caused long-slumbering Death River Cult members to briefly regain life before fading back into gray-white relic-images.
• The Death River Priestess targeted Lin Chen and altered the passage carrying him into reality.
• At Luozhen Mountain, the East Sea Rogue Immortal failed to trace the person who had slain the Paper Figure Demon Venerable.
• The East Sea Rogue Immortal’s Chengfu Heavenly Book predicted he would encounter the killer, but the words faded, leading him to believe the unknown cultivator had died.

Eighteen years into the Age of Discovery, a merchant ship carrying a sealed Evil God statue sailed the East Sea as its captain feared an approaching war with the East Sea Dragon Palace. The crew fished a Foundation Establishment Cultivator from the sea, while the corpse sealed inside the statue subtly moved its head and disturbed the formation.

• Chen Hao looked forward to completing an escort mission so he could obtain the materials needed to begin cultivation, then argued and fought with his sister Chen Xi.
• The captain and first mate discussed the dangerous Evil God statue sealed in the ship's hold and the risks of transporting it.
• The captain warned that the Immortal Alliance's push to develop the outer domains suggested the East Sea Dragon Palace posed an escalating threat and that war could be near.
• The captain said he hoped to earn enough to take Chen Hao and Chen Xi to the Central Lands and keep them away from the coming conflict.
• A crew member reported that the ship had rescued a Foundation Establishment Cultivator from the sea, and the captain went to investigate.
• The corpse inside the sealed statue turned its head, causing the formation's spiritual light to flicker.

Lin Chen awoke aboard a ship in the East Sea with an unfamiliar eighteen-year-old body, a Dao Foundation, and no memories of how he had arrived there. After concealing his suspicions from the crew, he discovered the body had a wood-element Heavenly Spirit Root and wondered whether the Death River Cult had trapped him in a scheme.

• Lin Chen woke after three days unconscious and realized he had an unfamiliar body with a Dao Foundation and memories left by its former owner.
• Chen Xi visited Lin Chen, gave him a Yimu Rejuvenation Pill, and asked how he had ended up naked at sea; Lin Chen claimed his memories were damaged.
• After Chen Xi left, Lin Chen learned that she had been Chen Hao in disguise, sent by the captain to question him because the crew feared offending the immortal sect behind him.
• Lin Chen spat out the pill, used his blood and True Essence to refine it into a superior Non-toxic Qi Pill, and discovered the body had a wood-element Heavenly Spirit Root.
• Lin Chen connected the body's aptitude and lost memories to the words he had seen upon arriving in the East Sea and suspected a scheme by the Death River Cult.

After returning to the Dream Realm, Lin Chen learned that he had been absent for eighteen years and that the Virtual World platform had grown into a bustling underground trading network. The Mirror Female Cultivator reported three major developments, and Lin Chen ended by asking her about the Death River Cult.

• Lin Chen returned to the Dream Realm and discovered that its trading platform had flourished during his absence.
• Lin Chen learned that he had been cut off from the Dream Realm for eighteen years, while the Mirror Female Cultivator had maintained it.
• The Mirror Female Cultivator told Lin Chen that the Immortal Gate Academy had been established in the East Sea, the Outer Domain war had been disrupted by twelve Spirit Transformation evil gods, and Celestial Venerable Canghai had stopped appearing publicly.
• Lin Chen considered whether events in the East Sea were targeting him, then asked the Mirror Female Cultivator what she thought of the Death River Cult.

Lin Chen investigated the Death River Cult’s strange influence and advanced his Order Dao Domain, discovering a way to mass-produce Spirit Artifacts. He decided to build his power in the Outer Domain or Return to Ruins, then woke in Reality World to find the moon had turned blood-red.

• The Mirror Female Cultivator told Lin Chen that the Death River Cult’s leaders seemed to share bodies while displaying different consciousnesses, and Lin Chen resolved to counter any hidden influence by refining his true spirit anew.
• Lin Chen examined the Black Mist Abyss and his Taiji Bagua Diagram, finding that his analysis of spiritual energy and Dao Domains had advanced substantially.
• Lin Chen used his Dao Domain and the Paper Figure Dharma treasure to turn a mundane Bronze Mirror into a superior Spirit Artifact, demonstrating a method for industrial mass production.
• Lin Chen planned to establish a base in the Outer Domain or Return to Ruins and make trouble with his Reality World body to draw his main body back.
• Lin Chen considered shortcuts to strengthen his Reality World body, then noticed that the moon had turned blood-red.

Lin Chen discovered that a Blood Moon domain had turned his surroundings into a deathly world and realized it could interfere with dreams. After escaping its freezing wind, he heard desperate voices pleading for death, leaving the source of the domain and his next move unresolved.

• Lin Chen concluded that an Outer Realm Evil God, likely Twelve Si Sui, had trapped him in a domain that altered reality and changed his spells.
• Lin Chen opened the cabin door and found a vast black-and-white plain of bones, freezing wind, and strange trees beyond it.
• Lin Chen entered the plain and recognized Chen Hao among the black ice sculptures, then experienced memories that suggested the domain held dreamlike power.
• Lin Chen realized his soul had left his unconscious body in the cabin and was trapped on the plain.
• Lin Chen unleashed the power of his Dream Realm to repel the freezing wind and rushed back through the doorway as voices begged him to kill them.

Lin Chen confronted the Twelve Si Sui’s Spirit Realm and used the Death River to counter its attack, but the connection pulled him through the Spirit Realm and into an unknown land where he witnessed the universe’s endless cycle of creation and heat death. The chapter ended with the Bell Tower’s message that the past and future were fixed and the cycle began anew.

• Lin Chen escaped the pale plain by using Dream Power to restore the ship cabin, but the Twelve Si Sui’s Spirit Realm continued invading and distorted time around him.
• A Bone Tree bearing a nailed, dried corpse appeared as the Spirit Realm’s medium, and Lin Chen summoned the Death River from his sealed memories to counter it.
• The dried corpse seized Lin Chen and connected his consciousness to the Spirit Realm, where he saw the Twelve Si Sui and glimpsed the world’s ancient history.
• Lin Chen’s perspective rose into an unknown land where he sensed the complete form of a Spiritual Energy Creature, or Spirit Transformation (Primordial Spirit).
• A Bell Tower representing time showed Lin Chen the universe’s creation, heat death, and rebirth, followed by a message declaring that the past and future were fixed constants.

As Lin Chen relived his memories aboard the ship, a sealed White Bone Mummy broke free and unleashed the Outer Spirit Realm across the vessel. Just as the invasion nearly engulfed the ship, a hand emerging from a Bronze Mirror halted it and struck back.

• Lin Chen entered a dream in which his earlier memories aboard the ship replayed while night fell in reality.
• The White Bone Mummy transformed into darkness and shattered its formation, releasing deathly energy as Corpse Swamp Old Man confronted the invading Year Warden [Netherworld Lord].
• Corpse Swamp Old Man spread his domain over the ship and sea, concealing the invasion and blocking communication as the Spirit Realm's shadow consumed the vessel and killed its people.
• The invasion stalled just short of covering the ship when a Bronze Mirror appeared and an illusory silver-lit hand reached out.
• The hand gathered five colors into a mysterious thread of light and blasted open the Spirit Realm's shadow.

Lin Chen escaped the Spirit World's time loop and used Heaven's lightning to weaken an evil god before destroying its projection with a Coffin Nail. As he considered using the White Bone Mummy to advance his cultivation, a mysterious bell caused the world around him to flow backward.

• Lin Chen shattered the Spirit World's blockade with the Great Five Elements Annihilation Light Ray and summoned Heaven's thunder to attack the evil god's projection.
• Heaven's Will unleashed Chaos Yin Yang Five Elements Divine Thunder, leaving the evil god's projection and the lightning exhausted while the White Bone Mummy remained.
• Lin Chen stabbed the White Bone Mummy with the Coffin Nail, dispersing the twisted Spirit World shadow and winning the battle.
• Lin Chen found that Chen Hao, the others, and their ship had been destroyed, and he resolved to repay their families if they had descendants.
• Lin Chen considered using Corpse Release and Ascension to convert death and life, but a mysterious bell made his consciousness blur and the world flow backward.

Lin Chen learned that he and the Dream Realm had entered a third cycle of time reincarnation and reasoned that the Evil God was caught in the same phenomenon rather than causing it alone. He suspected the cycle was connected to the Ancient Cultivators’ sealed Spiritual Energy Experimentation Ground and concluded that they needed an opposing force of equal power to survive.

• The Mirror Female Cultivator restored Lin Chen’s memories and revealed that reality had repeated three cycles, with the rewind increasingly spreading into the Dream Realm.
• Lin Chen and the Mirror Female Cultivator realized that most clues from the previous cycles had vanished, leaving only the words “Evil God” in the Dream Realm’s records.
• Lin Chen deduced that [Twelve Si Sui] had likely been affected by the reincarnation too, and that suppressing the Evil God’s medium had not stopped the cycle.
• Lin Chen and the Mirror Female Cultivator connected the day-rewinding ability to Zhang Tianwen and the Spiritual Energy Experimentation Ground sealed beneath the Return to Ruins.
• Lin Chen feared that the Heaven-Covering Heaven and Earth Great Formation might have been compromised, then proposed drawing in an equal force to oppose the threat.

Lin Chen broke the seal to confront the evil god’s avatar, but Corpse Swamp Old Man ambushed him with a Dao Domain. Lin Chen revealed that the trapped figure was only an avatar, destroyed Corpse Swamp Old Man’s avatar with the power of his Dream Realm, and then turned to face the evil god’s curse while seeking a way to end the reincarnation.

• Lin Chen used the Yin Yang Two Principles Flowers to absorb the evil god avatar’s death qi and charge through the shattered seal.
• Corpse Swamp Old Man caught Lin Chen in his Corpse Swamp Domain and began corroding his body and sealing his Essence, Qi, and Spirit.
• Lin Chen’s avatar shattered the illusion and drove a Coffin Nail through Corpse Swamp Old Man, using his Dream Realm to destroy the old man’s avatar.
• Lin Chen used the Coffin Nail to suppress the White Bone Mummy as the evil god’s death curse crossed domains and reduced his body to a skeleton.
• Lin Chen concluded that he needed an Ancient Supreme Treasure from one of the Nine Great Immortal Sects to oppose the power behind the reincarnation.

Lin Chen used the Death River to break through the time loop and observe the microscopic world of spiritual energy, discovering that the Heaven-Covering Heaven and Earth Great Formation was embedded within it. As the cycle reset at noon, he realized that the world’s secrets and a path toward eternal life were hidden in spiritual energy.

• Lin Chen summoned the Death River, which invaded the looping world and turned its inhabitants and surroundings into uncertain states between life and death.
• Lin Chen reasoned that the Death River used microscopic uncertainty and observation to let beings escape death and possibly return from ancient ages.
• The Death River erased the macroscopic world, leaving Lin Chen able to perceive the microscopic particles of spiritual energy and formations inscribed within them.
• Lin Chen recognized the formations as the Heaven-Covering Heaven and Earth Great Formation, which existed as spiritual energy and had sustained itself while suppressing the world.
• Lin Chen understood that the Ancient Cultivators had hidden the world’s answers in spiritual energy, and the noon bell rang as the cycle began again.

Lin Chen discovered that the apparent time reincarnation was actually Spiritual Energy Particles returning to nearly their original positions, a process he named Particle Return. After the Death River’s influence disrupted the return, the resulting collision warped reality and forced Lin Chen to hide in the Dream Realm, while the affected region became an inexplicable blank.

• Lin Chen heard the bell and witnessed Spiritual Energy Particles move at unimaginable speeds, making a single instant seem to stretch across millions of years.
• Lin Chen glimpsed a Bell Tower bearing the words that the universe’s destiny was endless reincarnation and the past and future could not be changed, along with a faint reference to the Heavenly Mystery Gate and the name Pang.
• Lin Chen realized that the particles had not reversed time but had moved through countless positions before returning nearly to their original arrangement, which he called Particle Return.
• Lin Chen recognized that his thoughts were still moving forward, indicating that the Death River’s invasion had taken effect, as the Microscopic World began flickering between conflicting states.
• Lin Chen sensed that observing the collision between particle collapse and return could mutate his consciousness, so he hid in the Dream Realm.
• The affected waters of the East Sea turned into an indescribable blankness, as if the world’s operation had developed a flaw.

Heavenly Demon and Celestial Venerable Canghai secretly discussed their alliance and the East Sea calamity, revealing that Canghai helped arrange the blood-sacrifice formation. Their meeting ended when Canghai sensed that a region of the East Sea’s Heaven-Covering Heaven and Earth Great Formation had lost contact.

• Heavenly Demon told Celestial Venerable Canghai that his investigation of the Doomsday World only linked its calamity to the transmigrator.
• Celestial Venerable Canghai revealed that the Tianhe Sect planned to activate the Reverse Heaven and Earth Yin-Yang Feng Shui Formation within a hundred years and seize the Heavenly River.
• Heavenly Demon explained that he had planned to trigger an Earth-Moon Collision, but Celestial Maiden Yue Ling had stopped him.
• Heavenly Demon said Taixuan was likely a Heavenly Dao Incarnation and warned that the transmigrator’s actions and the Twelve Evil Gods threatened their plans.
• Celestial Venerable Canghai sensed that a region of the East Sea’s Heaven-Covering Heaven and Earth Great Formation had lost contact.

After witnessing Particle Return, Lin Chen realized it might help him survive the Spiritualization Tribulation by repeatedly restoring leaking spiritual energy, then returned to reality to investigate a strange, empty ship. As Lin Chen explored its cabin, the Ghost Ship vanished, and the Heavenly Demon and Celestial Venerable Canghai arrived to find the area’s formation power gone.

• Lin Chen reflected on the collision between Particle Return and spirit particle collapse, then connected Particle Return to a possible method for surviving the Spiritualization Tribulation.
• Lin Chen opened the Dream Realm’s seal and descended into reality after noticing a silent ship on the sea.
• Lin Chen found that his reincarnated body had returned to normal, but his senses had become severely limited.
• After a door opened by itself, Lin Chen suspected the ship’s former occupants had become Spirit Particle Ghosts and ventured into the cabin.
• The Ghost Ship turned incorporeal and vanished while Lin Chen explored inside.
• The Heavenly Demon and Celestial Venerable Canghai appeared above the water and discovered that the Heaven-Covering Heaven and Earth Great Formation’s power had disappeared.

Heavenly Demon and Celestial Venerable Canghai investigated a sea region where the Heaven-Covering Heaven and Earth Great Formation had vanished, and concluded that an unknown variable had disrupted their expectations. Canghai revealed his plan to sacrifice countless lives for transcendence, then spotted what appeared to be a ship at the center of the moon.

• Heavenly Demon and Celestial Venerable Canghai found that the formation's power and all life had disappeared from the sea region, leaving no traces to investigate.
• Celestial Venerable Canghai ruled out the Death River Cult and the Nine Great Immortal Sects as the cause, while Heavenly Demon suspected an unforeseen variable.
• Heavenly Demon reflected that unexpected warnings and anomalies had disrupted his plans, but believed variables could help them overturn the Immortal Alliance's arrangements.
• Celestial Venerable Canghai declared that he welcomed the Eternal Demon Tribulation and intended to sacrifice countless lives to create a chance for transcendence.
• Celestial Venerable Canghai revealed a map marking blood-sacrifice nodes and inhabited islands, then noticed what seemed to be a ship at the center of the moon.

Lin Chen discovered that the Ghost Ship had carried him from the East Sea to the Ninth Heaven, where a powerful figure on the moon attacked him before the ship vanished. He realized the ship could travel anywhere in the world through a change of thought, and it appeared over the Northern Frontier Grassland.

• Lin Chen searched the Ghost Ship but found no trace of the strange phenomenon he had expected.
• Lin Chen looked out a window and saw that the ship had reached the Ninth Heaven, where a woman in a palace on the moon noticed him and attacked with freezing light.
• The Ghost Ship disappeared, freeing Lin Chen from the moonlight’s grip, while the woman searched the area for him.
• Lin Chen saw frost on the floor and realized the encounter had been real, then found the ship looking out over the Western Desert Demon Den.
• Lin Chen noticed that the view changed to the Northern Frontier Grassland when he shifted his gaze, and concluded that the ship could travel anywhere with a thought.

Lin Chen found himself aboard the Ghost Ship in the Northern Frontier Grassland and witnessed a vast Heaven-Encompassing Grand Sacrifice. At its center, Lin Tianhang presided over the ritual and began chanting the Nine Chapters of Heavenly Inquiry.

• Lin Chen recognized the Northern Frontier Grassland and reflected on how its tribes had developed a sacrificial path of cultivation that could make their strongest practitioners Calamity Shamans.
• Lin Chen considered the Ghost Ship’s ability to move through the world in an uncertain, ghostlike state and resolved to claim it and learn to control it.
• Lin Chen saw a massive altar bearing nearly a million human, beast, and alien sacrifices, whose blood and spiritual energy gathered into a vast lake filled with sacred lotuses.
• Lin Chen recognized Lin Tianhang in the blood lake and realized he had advanced through the mysteries of demonic cultivation and life-and-death reincarnation.
• Lin Tianhang opened his eyes, announced the start of the Heaven-Encompassing Grand Sacrifice, and commanded the gathered beings to chant the Nine Chapters of Heavenly Inquiry.