Chapter Summaries

The Calamity Shaman defended his choice of Lin Tianhang to lead the grasslands’ Heaven-Encompassing Grand Sacrifice, which aimed to awaken Longevity Heaven before the coming Great Tribulation. Lin Chen arrived as the sacrifice began, considered returning to Lingnan to advance Cultivation Industrialization, and witnessed heaven and earth respond to the Nine Chapters of Heavenly Inquiry.

• The Calamity Shaman rejected a Grassland Royal Court cultivator’s objections and explained that only Lin Tianhang’s command of life, death, and reincarnation could awaken Longevity Heaven.
• The Calamity Shaman noticed Lin Chen’s Ghost Ship but restrained himself because disrupting the sacrifice would bring heaven and earth’s backlash.
• Lin Chen connected the grasslands’ plan to the other factions’ schemes and concluded that he would need Cultivation Industrialization to build a new cultivation society and contend for the position of Heaven and Earth Orthodox.
• Lin Chen recalled the Great Peace Way in Lingnan and considered returning there while choosing to observe the sacrifice.
• The Nine Chapters of Heavenly Inquiry echoed through the world, and heaven and earth changed as a voice asked, “In the Beginning of Ancient Times, who passed down the Dao?”

Lin Chen witnessed the Grassland Cultivators’ grand sacrifice activate a vast Heavenly Brain, then realized they intended to create Longevity Heaven by giving it life through Lin Tianhang’s power over life and death. The Reincarnation Disk appeared and Creation vitality entered the Heavenly Brain, bringing Longevity Heaven to life while Lin Chen could do nothing to stop it.

• Millions of Sentient Life forms were sacrificed as Grassland Shamans performed a Sacrificial Dance, summoning a golden thunder brain that Lin Chen recognized as the manifestation of Heaven.
• Lin Chen deduced that the Grassland Cultivators were using the sacrifices to build a Heavenly Brain and planned to awaken it as Longevity Heaven.
• Lin Tianhang opened his eyes, unleashing the deathly blood lake as Creation Immortal Thunder struck him and the opposing forces of life and death collided.
• A spiritual light formed between the blood lake and the thunder, and Lin Tianhang summoned the Reincarnation Disk to unite their powers.
• Creation vitality flowed into the Heavenly Brain, awakening thought and spirit and bringing Longevity Heaven into existence.
• Lin Chen realized he could not interfere and bitterly resented how Lin Tianhang kept receiving the benefits.

Lin Chen watched Lin Tianhang transform into a Celestial Being Asura and condense the authority of Life and Death Reincarnation, then confronted him as Longevity Heaven turned its power against the Ghost Ship. Lin Chen vanished with the ship in a sea of lightning after refusing Lin Tianhang’s offer to join him, while the two cousins promised to meet again at the summit of heaven and earth.

• Lin Chen recognized Lin Tianhang’s transformation and accumulated powers as a threat, but resolved to meet them with his own strength rather than rely on schemes.
• Longevity Heaven unleashed Heavenly Might and a vast sea of lightning against Lin Chen as the Reincarnation Disk remained incomplete without the Reincarnation Law.
• Lin Tianhang completed his transformation into a Celestial Being Asura and condensed the authority of Life and Death Reincarnation before addressing Lin Chen from the altar.
• Lin Tianhang offered Lin Chen a place in his ranks, but Lin Chen refused and accused him of secretly intervening during the Lingnan War.
• Lin Tianhang warned that Lin Chen would face trouble, and Lin Chen dismissed Longevity Heaven as a fake and challenged Lin Tianhang to meet him again.
• A blazing Ball Lightning engulfed the Ghost Ship, but the ship vanished from within the light.

Lin Tianhang watched Lin Chen escape the Longevity Heaven’s lightning strike, then claimed the grassland forces must stay hidden while their larger plan unfolded. He left to seek the Asura Main Body in the sealed space beyond heaven and earth, while the Ancient Cultivators’ purpose for the Five-Colored Stone remained an unsettling mystery.

• Lin Chen vanished from the lightning strike, and Lin Tianhang concluded that his cousin had escaped by an unknown means.
• Lin Tianhang examined the Reincarnation Disk phantom as the Calamity Shaman celebrated the Longevity Heaven’s birth and vowed to destroy the Taiyi Immortal Sword Sect.
• Lin Tianhang warned the Calamity Shaman that the Heaven-Covering Heaven and Earth Great Formation was the Immortal Alliance’s greatest defense, recalling how it had crushed the demon coalition 300,000 years earlier.
• Lin Tianhang suggested the Five-Colored Stone might have been left by the Ancient Cultivators to mend the heavens, leaving the Calamity Shaman horrified and uncertain.
• Lin Tianhang ordered the Calamity Shaman to keep Spirit Transformation forces out of the conflict for a hundred years, and the Calamity Shaman agreed.
• Lin Tianhang departed for the sealed space beyond heaven and earth where the Asura Main Body was located, seeking a Boundless Blood Sea to nurture reincarnation.

Lin Chen discovered that the Ghost Ship’s Particle Return could turn powerful attacks into rare treasures, and he began planning to use the ship to harvest resources and lure cultivators. Looking out the window, he realized the ship had entered Return to Ruins, the perilous region beyond the Four Seas.

• Lin Chen found that attacks on the Ghost Ship were repeatedly returned and transformed into treasures, while the ship and his body could recover from destruction.
• He identified the resulting Fortune Thunder Crystals and Silver Moon frost as valuable materials with uses ranging from pill-making to Primordial Spirit cultivation.
• Lin Chen concluded that the ship could intercept returning spiritual energy and evolve attacks into spirit items, effectively borrowing treasures from cultivators.
• He planned to attract powerful cultivators to the ship, harvest their attacks and possessions, and potentially trigger a great calamity.
• Lin Chen looked outside and realized the Ghost Ship was traveling through Return to Ruins.

Lin Chen discovered that the Ghost Ship had entered the Return to Ruins and chose to investigate despite the danger. As the ship sank into a dreamlike expanse that refined World Fragments, he saw disasters and Origin Demonic Qi form, leaving him wondering whether the Return to Ruins had caused the Ancient Times’ great calamity.

• Lin Chen realized the Ghost Ship had brought him to the Return to Ruins and decided to explore rather than leave immediately.
• Lin Chen used the power of the Dream Realm to observe the surrounding void, finding that the Return to Ruins affected his ability to project power.
• Lin Chen saw the Heavenly River guiding World Fragments into a phantom expanse that broke down their laws and origins.
• The Ghost Ship sank into the flowing-light expanse, which Lin Chen discovered was formed from the world's spiritual energy.
• Lin Chen watched demonic disasters and Origin Demonic Qi emerge among the mirages and suspected the Return to Ruins was the source of demonic qi.

Lin Chen discovered that the deeper layer of the Return to Ruins Illusory Sea reflected reality and could copy people while stealing their memories. Countless versions of Lin Chen attacked aboard the Ghost Ship as it continued sinking into the depths.

• Lin Chen watched the first Illusory Sea layer’s Decay Tribulation Demonic Qi absorb World Remains and wondered whether ancient cultivators had created or repurposed the sea.
• The Ghost Ship descended into a second layer, where shifting scenes recorded the Cultivation World’s history and Lin Chen’s own past.
• A copy of Lin Chen emerged from an illusion, attacked him with a Sorcery from Azure Cloud Sect, and began stealing his memories.
• Lin Chen dragged the copy aboard and used Soul Searching Art, discovering that it held his memories up to his death at Azure Cloud Sect.
• Countless copies of Lin Chen boarded the ship, combined identical Mirror-Shadow Dao Domains, and killed the original with Great Five Elements Annihilation Divine Light.
• The copies began slaughtering one another, unaware that the Ghost Ship was still sinking through the Illusory Sea.

Lin Chen survived the Illusory Sea’s reflection of his memories, then watched the Ghost Ship descend into Chaos Space, where cursed fragments fused with the ship. As it passed into a deeper void resembling a cosmic universe, Lin Chen sensed an unprecedented danger and tried to escape.

• The real Lin Chen emerged aboard the Ghost Ship and crushed the counterfeit who had survived a battle against more than a thousand copies.
• Lin Chen resisted the Illusory Sea as it altered his memories and reflected the Lingnan War, using the power of the Dream Realm to break through into the next layer of the Return to Ruins.
• In Chaos Space, Lin Chen saw cursed fragments of fallen grotto-heavens, battlefields, and other strange places, and considered purifying them for resources.
• The fragments began crashing into and merging with the Ghost Ship, transforming its interior as Lin Chen realized the sealed horrors might be trying to escape through it.
• Lin Chen looked below Chaos Space and saw a cosmic starry sky, then the Ghost Ship crossed a threshold into an empty void that threatened to erase his senses and consciousness.
• Lin Chen felt that continuing to sink would bring unimaginable danger and shouted for the Ghost Ship to go.

Lin Chen decided to use the Ghost Ship and its cursed grotto-heaven fragments to purify resources, refine magic artifacts, and build the foundation of a grotto-heaven. He created seven Split Spirits and assigned them major projects, while reserving a trip to the East Sea to handle the Dream Realm reception for himself.

• Lin Chen returned to the East Sea aboard the Ghost Ship and decided to remain with it to exploit the resources in its chaotic space.
• Lin Chen used the Soul Returning Incense and his Golden Core to create seven divine-soul figures: Taiyin Girl, Sun Boy, Sword Venerable Gengjin, Daoist Yimu, Immeasurable Sea Emperor, Great Sun Fire Master, and True Lord Xuanhuang.
• Lin Chen explained that the Split Spirits would refine Natal Magic Treasures and carry out projects aimed at developing Primordial Spirit and Void Refinement magic artifacts.
• Sun Boy described the plan to create a Spiritual Energy Particle Accelerator, while Great Sun Fire Master, True Lord Xuanhuang, Sword Venerable Gengjin, and Daoist Yimu listed their assigned projects.
• Immeasurable Sea Emperor protested that Lin Chen had tasked him with challenging Celestial Venerable Canghai for control of the Heavenly River.
• Lin Chen said he would go to the East Sea to handle the Dream Realm reception, prompting all seven Split Spirits to shout that they quit.

Lin Chen and his Split Spirits discovered that the Soul Returning Tree’s ancient contamination was far more dangerous than expected, and Lin Chen proposed using the Taiyin Body Refining method to purify the area. The Split Spirits began the perilous process, while Lin Chen planned to turn the ghost ship into a secret realm where greedy cultivators would bear some of the curse and heavenly backlash.

• Lin Chen explained that his Split Spirits could anchor his memories if hostile powers altered them, then admitted he wondered whether he had truly come to this world for the first time.
• Great Sun Fire Master touched the black earth and was rapidly corrupted; the others destroyed the resulting evil creature, and Great Sun Fire Master used the Soul Returning Tree to form a new body.
• Lin Chen revealed that purifying the land required the Taiyin Body Refining method, with the Split Spirits serving as the vitality that would reverse yin and yang.
• Lin Chen proposed using the Soul Returning Tree and his body to sustain and protect the Split Spirits during repeated Corpse Release cycles, while carrying the strongest curses out of the ghost ship.
• Lin Chen planned to turn the ship into a secret realm and draw cultivators into bearing its curses and the backlash of heaven and earth, leaving a chance for those who resisted greed to gain an opportunity.
• The Split Spirits began chanting the Taiyin Corpse Release method and started the transformation.

Lin Chen began the Taiyin Body Refining Method in a cursed Place of Great Omen, but the ancient pollution nearly overwhelmed him. He separated and preserved his memories, merged with the lingering thoughts, then reached the corpse release stage and prepared to use the pollution as he descended beyond the seas.

• Lin Chen summoned his seven Split Spirits and used their combined spiritual energy to begin the Taiyin Body Refining Method.
• As Lin Chen's body died and the corpse release began, curses and remnant thoughts threatened to demonize him and his Split Spirits.
• Lin Chen decided to merge his consciousness with the pollution while preserving his memories in the Dream Realm, and he witnessed memories of the Ancient Times and a world invasion.
• Lin Chen eventually recalled his memories and used Particle Return to extract the worst pollution, clearing a small area and beginning to transform the cursed land.
• Lin Chen reached the corpse release stage, gathered his soul back onto the corpse, and sent a rotten black shadow from the Ghost Ship into the real world beyond the seas.

Xuan Yin True Lord and other Nascent Soul leaders discovered that the Year Warden Statue entrusted to his sect had vanished, and they planned to track down anyone who might be connected to it. Their meeting was interrupted by a terrifying natural anomaly: blood rain and ghostly cries appeared over the sea as a vast lightning sea struck a twisted black shadow.

• A Dark Division scout reported to Xuan Yin True Lord that a month-long search had found no wreckage or battle traces in the sea region where the ship carrying the statue disappeared.
• Xuan Yin True Lord met with other Golden Core cultivators and summoned their Patriarchs, including Spirit Puppet Venerable, Hundred Herbs Master, and Origin Array Spirit Lord.
• The Nascent Soul leaders revealed that the missing Year Warden Statue threatened their plan to assemble the Twelve Evil God statues and deploy the Twelve Heavens Divine Fiend Great Formation.
• Xuan Yin True Lord and the others resolved to trace everyone who had passed through the sea region and ordered their factions to kill anyone who might know about the statue.
• Blood rain and ghostly cries swept over the ship, and the leaders recognized them as a naturally born heavenly anomaly.
• A vast sea of lightning appeared overhead and poured down upon a twisted black shadow beneath it.

Lin Chen descended into This World carrying a curse born from the deaths of hundreds of millions, and the Heavenly Tribulation’s lightning helped him escape its demonic body. He discovered the body remained linked to him and approached a Spirit Boat to borrow its cultivators’ lives, while the Nascent Soul experts aboard were overwhelmed by the curse.

• Lin Chen recognized the Shadows of Curse as a remnant of the ancient demonic calamity and struggled to keep them from infecting his true spirit.
• The sea of lightning weakened the curse enough for Lin Chen to escape the demonic body, but he found that illusory threads still connected them.
• Lin Chen decided he needed more power to sever or destroy the demonic body and headed toward a Spirit Boat carrying Nascent Soul cultivators.
• Spirit Puppet Venerable turned the Spirit Boat’s cultivators into puppets to investigate the lightning, but the puppets exploded and his incarnation suffered the Five Decays of Heaven and Man.
• Xuan Yin True Lord identified the phenomenon as a Spirit Transformation-level curse, and Lin Chen’s voice promised to borrow everyone’s lives and repay them later.

The Nascent Soul Cultivators fought Lin Chen after their spirit boat was destroyed and they were trapped in a sea of lightning. They unleashed their Destiny Divine Abilities and charged at him, while Spirit Puppet Venerable protected and empowered them.

• A twisted figure in the sea of lightning destroyed the Spirit Boat, annihilating everyone aboard except the Nascent Soul Cultivators' incarnations.
• The figure attacked with Blood Grudge Cursed Sand, while the sea of lightning blocked the cultivators' escape and urged them to kill the demonic beast.
• Spirit Puppet Venerable summoned his Box City of Artificers and used Death Substitution Derivative to absorb curses, protect his allies, and boost their strength.
• Origin Array Spirit Lord layered formations, Danxia True Lord created lightning spirits from pills, and Xuan Yin True Lord played All Sounds Return to One.
• Hundred Herbs Master formed a Plant Dao Domain, and the Nascent Soul Cultivators unleashed their Destiny Divine Abilities and charged toward Lin Chen.

Lin Chen survived a devastating attack by five Nascent Soul incarnations, but his demonic nature emerged and infected the remaining beings with corruptive knowledge. He fled through the Dream Realm, leaving the source and implications of the Decay Tribulation Demonic Qi unresolved.

• Lin Chen considered how exceptional Nascent Soul Cultivators surpassed their peers through stacking or quantitative change.
• Five Nascent Soul incarnations combined the lightning sea’s powers into a Heavenly Eye that struck and shattered Lin Chen’s shadow.
• Danxia True Lord thought the attack had succeeded, but Hundred Herbs Master saw a strange, enormous shadow emerge from the remains.
• The shadow’s demonic nature filled the survivors with corruptive wisdom and drove the Nascent Soul incarnations present into the demonic path.
• Lin Chen realized his demonic qi curses had produced the manifestation and wondered why a thriving world contained Decay Tribulation Demonic Qi.
• Lin Chen escaped by shifting through the void with the power of the Dream Realm.

Lin Chen reincarnated in the East Sea as a soul and discovered that five Demonic Beasts were spreading a reality-altering demonic nature, which led him to suspect the ancient demonic calamity had begun as a failed experiment. He headed for the seabed to forge a new body, while Drought Demon found the beasts and decided to take them to Lingnan for his Reincarnation Plan.

• Lin Chen examined the demonic nature corrupting the East Sea and reasoned that it could alter the world's laws and may have caused the ancient demonic calamity.
• Lin Chen recalled Taiyi's clues about answers hidden on the moon and in spiritual qi, and decided to travel to the moon after obtaining a body.
• Lin Chen chose to forge a body with Blood Demon Dao and Taiyin Body Refining rather than seize one, then fled toward the seabed to find a Place of Great Omen.
• Drought Demon arrived at the polluted sea and discovered that the five Demonic Beasts possessed unusually potent demonic nature.
• Drought Demon decided to take the beasts to Lingnan, where he could nurture them and refine their demonic nature into Drought Demon Corpse Poison for his Reincarnation Plan.

Over more than a decade of prosperity, hidden forces and strange organizations reshaped the East Sea while the Immortal Alliance failed to uncover their origins. After obtaining an official identity, Lin Chen traveled toward the East Sea and planned to spread his influence through cultural innovations so he could gather dream anchors and return his true body to reality.

• Su Liyue established a vast trade route linking the Central Lands and East Sea, while the Immortal Alliance investigated the mysterious Yellow Millet Meeting and rumors spread about a dangerous Upper Realm Immortal Boat.
• The Cultivation World prospered through trade and cultivation advances, unaware that its final Golden Ten Years preceded the Great Tribulation; a mysterious existence then arrived in the East Sea.
• Lin Chen recalled how he had used the Dream Realm to replace a Golden Core Cultivator and secure an official identity after more than a hundred years in the East Sea.
• Lin Chen concluded that he needed to expand his influence to gather enough dream anchors to guide his true body back into reality and advance to the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Lin Chen rejected becoming famous by challenging Golden Core Cultivators himself and decided instead to introduce cultural ideas from his previous life to the cultivation world.

Lin Chen planned to return to the Changqing Sect and take control after replacing its former sect-master’s son, while the sect’s Golden Core elders plotted to manipulate him for their own gain. The elders prepared to use Lin Chen against the Jin Family and exploit the secret behind his sudden rise, unaware that he intended to eliminate the people who created his problems.

• Lin Chen reflected on replacing the original owner and planned to return to the Changqing Sect to begin his Cultural Invasion plan.
• The boy, the female puppet, and the octopus who served Lin Chen reported that their flying boat would reach Disheng Island the next day.
• After reviewing the original owner’s memories, Lin Chen concluded that the Changqing Sect’s Golden Core elders had likely arranged his father’s death and his expulsion, and resolved to deal with them himself.
• Elder Liu and the other Golden Core elders discussed controlling Lin Chen by letting him kill selected opponents and then binding him with favors, fame, and temptation.
• Elder Liu proposed that the elders use Lin Chen to attack the Jin Family, while Elder Yan ordered them to investigate Lin Chen’s sudden advancement and extract the opportunity behind it.

As Lin Chen studied the spirit boat’s Origin Magnetic Spiritual Power, he realized how monopolies across the Immortal Alliance had hardened social classes and stalled cultivation civilization. He considered building a different kind of faction and disrupting the East Sea’s emerging monopolized market, but the chapter ended as someone entered the room.

• Lin Chen deduced how spirit boats used Origin Magnetic Spiritual Power to levitate and reduce energy consumption.
• Lin Chen connected the Divine Firmament True Law Dao’s control of spirit boat transport to the Immortal Alliance’s broader monopolies.
• Lin Chen concluded that entrenched interests blocked lower-level cultivators from rising and helped stagnate the Immortal Alliance.
• Lin Chen suspected that the Alliance’s reluctance to confront the East Sea Dragon Palace stemmed from vested interests that benefited from external conflict.
• Lin Chen resolved to create a different system if he established a faction and considered using methods from his previous life to disrupt the East Sea market.
• A figure entered Lin Chen’s room as the door creaked open.

Lin Chen brought the Mirror Female Cultivator into reality and tasked her with infiltrating the Heavenly Demon Cult's Intelligence Network to learn the Demon Side's movements. He also dismissed her concerns about Immortal Alliance rules, saying he could kill the people on Disheng Island and leave no evidence.

• The Mirror Female Cultivator explained that she had taken over the puppet body without erasing its original spirituality, and Lin Chen warned her not to confront Demon Venerable Xuanjian.
• Lin Chen described how Demon Venerables and Demon Kings had vanished across the East Sea and said he wanted to uncover their schemes and locations.
• Lin Chen ordered the Mirror Female Cultivator to infiltrate the Heavenly Demon Cult's Intelligence Network by targeting its mobile bases in reality.
• The Mirror Female Cultivator warned that the cult's bases moved aboard cloud whales, floating rafts, and Flying Boats, and their locations were revealed only shortly before they departed.
• The Mirror Female Cultivator questioned how Lin Chen would handle Immortal Alliance rules on Disheng Island, and Lin Chen said he could kill its residents and destroy the evidence.