Chapter Summaries

Lin Chen reached the moon after navigating the Chaos Void with the aid of the Heavenly River and Moon Soil. There, he discovered a lifeless lunar world facing This World and recognized that its continents matched the continents of his homeland, leaving him quietly shaken.

• Lin Chen observed the Chaos Void and realized the Heavenly River connected This World to countless other worlds and could enable travel through the stars.
• Lin Chen followed the chaos currents toward the moon, but his Spirit Transformation began to fade before he could reach it.
• The Moon Soil sensed the moon, allowing Lin Chen to lock onto it, burn his origin, and enter the lunar world.
• Lin Chen explored the moon's barren surface and saw its craters, mountains, plains, and fissures.
• Lin Chen looked up from the moon and saw that This World's joined continents matched the continents he remembered from his homeland.
• Lin Chen stood motionless, then murmured, "The moon is... brightest over home."

Lin Chen recognized the Moon as the celestial body from his previous life and flew toward its aurora, seeking answers about his origins. After the Moon disintegrated an invading lifeform from beyond the domain, Celestial Maiden Yue Ling brought Lin Chen to Moon Palace and greeted him as a long-awaited traveler through worlds.

• Lin Chen recognized the Moon and wondered whether he had remained in his homeland or traveled between worlds, then decided to seek answers beyond the aurora.
• Sun Boy and Taiyin Girl warned Lin Chen about the aurora as he flew toward it.
• A colossal object from beyond the domain crashed onto the Moon and transformed into a fifth-order land giant.
• The Moon disintegrated the land giant into increasingly smaller particles, and Lin Chen realized its surface could destroy invaders from beyond the domain.
• Celestial Maiden Yue Ling appeared, brought Lin Chen to Moon Palace, and said the Sun Moon Immortal Palace had awaited his arrival for a million years.

Lin Chen learned that the Ancient Cultivators had bequeathed him the moon, but neither he nor Celestial Maiden Yue Ling knew how it would reveal the answers to everything. By reconsidering their clues and the moon’s ability to break matter into tiny particles, Lin Chen concluded that it could help him probe Spiritual Energy’s deepest secrets, and he realized he might need to build a Spiritual Energy Particle Accelerator.

• Lin Chen asked Celestial Maiden Yue Ling why the Ancient Cultivators had left the moon for him, and she explained that the Sun Moon Immortal Palace had guarded it for a million years until a transmigrator arrived.
• Celestial Maiden Yue Ling admitted she did not know how the moon was meant to be used, but repeated the Ancient Cultivators’ words that the path of Dao Integration, the journey home, and the answers to everything lay there.
• Lin Chen considered whether he had misunderstood the Ancient Cultivators’ message about one answer being on the moon and another hidden in Spiritual Energy.
• Lin Chen recalled that the moon could separate invading beings into particles and restrain those particles, while moon soil could restrain Spiritual Energy itself.
• Lin Chen concluded that the moon could help him explore Spiritual Energy’s microscopic essence and realized the Ancient Cultivators might have intended him to construct a Spiritual Energy Particle Accelerator.

Lin Chen realized that the moon could serve as the foundation for a Spiritual Energy Particle Accelerator, and Celestial Maiden Yue Ling agreed to return it to him. As Yue Ling explained the moon’s origins and discussed other Ancient Supreme Treasures, Lin Chen recognized the name of the Death River Cult’s founding Patriarch and reacted in shock.

• Lin Chen concluded that the Ancient Cultivators had left Moon Soil on the moon so he could build a Spiritual Energy Particle Accelerator and investigate Spiritual Energy’s deepest secrets.
• Lin Chen explained his theory to Celestial Maiden Yue Ling, who connected his scientific way of thinking to the moon’s hidden purpose and the seal meant for transmigrators.
• Yue Ling promised to return the moon to Lin Chen and revealed that it appeared only after the Ancient Cultivators ascended to the Immortal Realm and returned.
• Lin Chen asked about the other Ancient Supreme Treasures, and Yue Ling said Alliance Leader Taixuan was unknowable, Canghai would not give up the Heavenly River, and the Death River Cult’s secrets remained beyond her reach.
• Lin Chen froze when Yue Ling named Schrödinger as the Death River Cult’s founding Patriarch and demanded that she repeat the name.

Lin Chen learned that the Ancient Cultivators bore the names of great figures from his homeland and witnessed the Primordial Era, when humans were hunted as food and even sought to abandon their humanity to survive. He realized that the Ancient Cultivators were the sages of his home civilization, who had led humanity to civilization in both worlds.

• Lin Chen pressed Celestial Maiden Yue Ling for the name of the Death River Cult's founding patriarch, and she told him it was Schrödinger.
• Celestial Maiden Yue Ling named other Ancient Cultivators, including Poincaré, Zhou Yi, Faraday, Nanhua, and Duke of Zhou, and Lin Chen connected them to figures from his homeland.
• Celestial Maiden Yue Ling showed Lin Chen the Primordial Era, when the myriad races treated humans as food and humans tried to survive by transforming their descendants into something other than human.
• Lin Chen saw the Ancient Cultivators gathered beneath the blood rain and understood that they had led humanity out of ignorance in this world just as they had in his homeland.
• Lin Chen realized that the Ancient Cultivators were the civilization's ancient sages and human stars, though he did not know why they had come to this Chaos Universe.

Lin Chen learned that the Ancient Cultivators were sages from his previous life and that they, along with the immortals, had vanished from the universe. Celestial Maiden Yue Ling revealed that the sealed yin and yang sides were the world's past and future, then told Lin Chen the moon would come to him when it fell from the heavens.

• Lin Chen learned that the Ancient Cultivators were deceased human sages and Civilization Stars from his previous life who had begun a new civilization in this world.
• Celestial Maiden Yue Ling showed Lin Chen that the Hall of Immortals held only projections, explaining that the great powers had disappeared from the universe for unknown reasons.
• Celestial Maiden Yue Ling revealed that the yin and yang sides sealed beneath the Heaven-Covering Heaven and Earth Great Formation corresponded to the world's past and future.
• Lin Chen concluded that he needed greater strength to uncover history's secrets and asked Celestial Maiden Yue Ling when she would entrust the moon to him.
• Celestial Maiden Yue Ling told Lin Chen that fate would guide him to everything he desired when the bright moon fell from the heavenly vault.

Celestial Maiden Yue Ling explained how the Demon Side’s formation would make the moon fall and expose the world to ancient dangers, while revealing that the Immortal Alliance’s Heavenly Lords lacked the strength to stop it. Lin Chen recognized that the Heavenly Demon’s scheme depended on the balance of power and began to suspect that the Moon Soil’s delivery concealed another move.

• Lin Chen asked Celestial Maiden Yue Ling whether the moon would fall to restart Celestial Venerable Canghai’s Earth-Moon Collision plan, and she said the Reverse Heaven and Earth Yin-Yang Feng Shui Formation would bring it down and undo the Heaven-Covering Heaven and Earth Great Formation.
• Celestial Maiden Yue Ling reconstructed the Demon Side’s plan, linking Canghai, the Heavenly Demon, the Sleeping Dragon Spirit Vein, its dragon lairs, and the Ten Thousand Dao Spirit Islands to a World Destruction Tidal Wave and the moon’s fall.
• Celestial Maiden Yue Ling explained that the Immortal Alliance could not safely act because Canghai and the Heavenly Demon had shifted the balance of Heavenly Lord combat power, leaving the Alliance vulnerable to a wider assault.
• Lin Chen realized that the Heavenly Demon’s plan relied on choosing a moment when the Alliance could not counter him, rather than on an unfathomably complex conspiracy.
• Lin Chen reconsidered why Su Liyue and the others had transported Fifth Order Moon Soil by Flying Boat Sea Market instead of sending it directly from the moon, and wondered who was setting the game and who was entering it.

Lin Chen questioned Celestial Maiden Yue Ling’s motives before she asked whether the civilization of his past life could escape extinction and attain eternity. She showed him civilizations that had risen and perished in the stars, then asked whether any civilization could transcend the universe’s cycle of decline.

• Lin Chen suspected Celestial Maiden Yue Ling had placed a wager on him and wondered why she cared so much about his identity as a transmigrator.
• Celestial Maiden Yue Ling asked Lin Chen about the civilization and society of his past life, then asked whether it had escaped the cycle of recurrence.
• Celestial Maiden Yue Ling revealed the stars and showed Lin Chen tiny civilizations evolving in Moon Water, only for their attempts at transcendence to end in annihilation.
• Celestial Maiden Yue Ling said that all the civilizations she had observed among 129,681 stars had vanished, and asked Lin Chen whether any civilization could transcend space-time and achieve eternity.

Lin Chen discussed civilization and individual transcendence with Celestial Maiden Yue Ling before his temporary Primordial Spirit collapsed. A Heavenly Demon persuaded Yue Ling that fairness was the impossible reverse side of existence, and she agreed to send the moon into This World when the Reverse Heaven and Earth Yin-Yang Feng Shui Formation activated, despite fearing the calamity it would cause.

• Celestial Maiden Yue Ling argued that individual transcendence depended on the civilizations that built knowledge and Cultivation Systems, leaving Lin Chen unable to say whether his former civilization could transcend.
• Lin Chen's Primordial Spirit faded away, and Yue Ling found the Fifth Order Spirit Soil, Moon Soil, in her hand as a mysterious voice addressed her.
• The Heavenly Demon showed Yue Ling scenes of exploitation and mass suffering under the Immortal Alliance Civilization, then described fairness as the impossible reverse side of the world and the true demonic Dao.
• Yue Ling asked how she could know the Heavenly Demon's path was right, and it urged her to test it by restoring the Ancient Myriad Races and letting blood and fire temper civilization.
• Yue Ling agreed to send the moon into This World when the Reverse Heaven and Earth Yin-Yang Feng Shui Formation activated, while worrying that her choice could kill hundreds of millions and hoping her civilization would endure.

Lin Chen returned to the Dream Realm and found the Kunpeng Cub had ravaged everything outside the city. He suppressed it and threatened to kill it, leaving the Cub begging him to spare its life.

• Lin Chen blamed the Split Spirits for letting the Kunpeng Cub run wild, then rejected their pleas to handle it gently.
• Lin Chen restored his control over the Dream Realm and crushed the Kunpeng Cub’s apparent body with the Immortal Hall.
• Lin Chen used Heavenly Manifestation and Great Innate One Qi Grasp to stop the Cub from escaping and seize its true form.
• The Kunpeng Cub transformed into a boy, protested Lin Chen’s treatment, and refused to sign a Bloodline Contract.
• Lin Chen grabbed the Cub and burned it with flames that erased its life force, prompting it to beg him to spare its life.

Lin Chen forced the Kunpeng Cub to submit without signing a contract, then discovered that the dreamscape’s Sea of Consciousness was showing signs of corruption from the Old Gods and Ancient Myriad Races. He concluded that the great formation suppressing them was weakening and that time was running out, so he returned to the city determined to act faster.

• Lin Chen exposed the Kunpeng Cub’s scheme to use a Bloodline Contract and made it offer a Master-Servant Contract instead.
• Lin Chen refused to sign any contract and warned the Kunpeng Cub that it could flee, but would die if he caught it again.
• Lin Chen sent the Kunpeng Cub back to the city and had his Split Spirits settle it.
• Lin Chen observed that the dreamscape’s Sea of Consciousness had become corrupted, with evil creatures and visions of the Old Gods and Ancient Myriad Races appearing within it.
• Lin Chen realized that the Heaven-Covering Heaven and Earth Great Formation was weakening and that the Immortal Alliance’s internal conflicts left it vulnerable to the coming calamity.
• Lin Chen decided to speed up his plans and returned to the city within the dreamscape.

Lin Chen discussed the Ancient Cultivators’ inheritance and the threat posed by the Heavenly Lords with his Split Spirits after returning from the moon. He suspected that Heavenly Demon, Taixuan, and Celestial Maiden Yue Ling had already found paths to Dao Integration, then began planning his next steps.

• Lin Chen returned to the empty Virtual World Communication Platform city, where his Split Spirits told him they had healed the badly injured child he had fought.
• Lin Chen explained that he did not fear the child escaping or taking revenge, and said the Heavenly Lords had likely noticed him because of the Primordial Spirit Experiment.
• Lin Chen reasoned that Heavenly Demon probably had not parasitized him, since doing so would prevent him from opening the Ancient Cultivators’ inheritance at Spirit Transformation.
• Lin Chen said the inheritance’s challenges were trials meant to prove an inheritor’s worth, and warned that Heavenly Demon and Taixuan might already have their own Dao Integration paths.
• Lin Chen identified Celestial Maiden Yue Ling’s concern for civilization as evidence that she was an unusually formidable figure who might also have touched Dao Integration.
• Lin Chen began walking through the city to plan his future arrangements.

Lin Chen explained that the Virtual World Communication Platform had become a powerful trading and intelligence network, drawing the attention of the Immortal Alliance and Heavenly Demon Cult. He planned to exploit the platform in a major reform campaign to keep East Sea powers from hastening the great calamity, and left his companions awaiting the details.

• The Mirror Female Cultivator told Lin Chen that the Immortal Alliance Dark Department and Heavenly Demon Cult were investigating the platform, and the latter might breach the Dream Realm within three years.
• Lin Chen said he had prepared for the threat and planned to advance his true body to Nascent Soul before the Heavenly Demon Cult could lock onto him.
• True Lord Xuanhuang questioned whether Lin Chen would abandon the platform's spiritual-energy income and intelligence network, and Lin Chen said he would sacrifice it for a larger plan.
• Lin Chen revealed that he wanted East Sea high-level combat forces to remain there and delay the great calamity until he had reached Spirit Transformation.
• Daoist Yimu and the Great Sun Fire Master challenged Lin Chen's ability to oppose the factions' shared plans, and Lin Chen answered that he would use reform.

Lin Chen explained his plan to plunge the East Sea into chaos by empowering lower-level cultivators and igniting a financial crisis among the upper ranks, so he could build power in the Outer Domain before the Old Gods and Ancient Myriad Races returned. He rejected the idea of personally reforming the Cultivation World and ended by calling himself a scientist studying how civilizations destroy themselves.

• Lin Chen argued that unequal distribution had brought the East Sea’s social classes to the brink of conflict and that a loss of control could overturn the region’s existing order.
• Lin Chen said his virtual platform had cultivated more than a hundred Golden Core candidates and that his External Nascent Soul method could arm lower-level cultivators with power to challenge the upper ranks.
• Lin Chen outlined a scheme to unite lower cultivators and use a Cultivation World financial scam to provoke greed and infighting among powerful factions.
• Sun Boy understood that Lin Chen meant to divert the attention of the East Sea’s powers while preparing for the Old Gods and Ancient Myriad Races to return to the Outer Domain.
• The Immeasurable Sea Emperor questioned where Lin Chen’s reform was, and Lin Chen replied that the Cultivation System itself trapped civilization and that he would not personally lead a revolution.
• Lin Chen called himself a scientist conducting a civilization experiment and wondered whether the demon that ruined civilizations existed in the Nine Hells or in every person’s heart.

Lin Chen outlined a plan to trigger an East Sea financial crisis and a wider war, while preparing the Ghost Ship and his Split Spirits as safeguards. He also demanded more True Spirits for the Dream Realm and set out to remake the Cultivation World into a civilization capable of pursuing ultimate truths, beginning with the East Sea.

• Lin Chen explained that exploitation and mounting contradictions would lead to crisis and war, and said he would use a massive scam to bring on that calamity.
• The Immeasurable Sea Emperor warned Lin Chen that his plan would make him a target, and Lin Chen urged the Split Spirits to accelerate their transformation into powerful Second Primordial Spirits.
• The Mirror Female Cultivator revealed that she had collected 13,732 True Spirits, and Lin Chen said he needed at least a million and considered provoking a massacre to gather more.
• Lin Chen rejected the idea of building a force from ordinary cultivators, arguing that corruption would make it useless for his goals.
• Lin Chen told the Mirror Female Cultivator that he sought to build a prosperous civilization and advanced cultivation industry to uncover the universe's truths, then returned from the Dream Realm toward the East Sea.

Lin Chen’s return to Penglai drew him into the Death River, where branching histories threatened to erase his world. A figure made of countless versions of himself freed him, and a voice revealed that the Energy Level Death Line held the key to destroying the Death River.

• As Lin Chen descended from the dream toward Penglai, his memory of the Death River Cult’s ambush became real and pulled him into the Death River.
• The Death River showed Lin Chen countless possible futures and swept him toward one where he died as a Wandering Soul, threatening to erase the world’s history.
• Lin Chen ordered his Split Spirits aboard the Ghost Ship to undergo corpse dissolution and feathered ascension so the ship could collide with the Death River.
• A figure composed of countless versions of Lin Chen pushed him free, allowing him to return to his body on Penglai.
• As Lin Chen departed, overlapping voices warned him to stop the collapse and said the Energy Level Death Line was the key to destroying the Death River.

After escaping the Death River, Lin Chen awakened in a prison on Penglai Island, where his reincarnated body had been sealed and tortured. A black-clad cultivator from the Immortal Alliance Dark Department questioned him about his past, but Lin Chen recognized the department as a tool of the Nine Great Immortal Sects and openly insulted it.

• Lin Chen endured visions of countless dead versions of himself before his senses returned and he vowed revenge on the Death River Cult.
• Lin Chen discovered he was imprisoned in a secret room with his golden core sealed, his soul suppressed, and his limbs shackled.
• A black-clad female cultivator appeared and warned Lin Chen to obey the rules of Penglai Island.
• The female cultivator recited Lin Chen’s history and accused his rise and the Flying Boat Sea Market disaster of being suspicious.
• The female cultivator identified herself as a member of the Immortal Alliance Dark Department, and Lin Chen called it a pack of dogs raised by the Nine Great Immortal Sects.

Lin Chen uncovered that outside forces had engineered his imprisonment and that the black-clad female cultivator had been killed after revealing he was in Nether Prison. When his attack shattered the prison room, Nether Prison Venerable’s Dao Domain dragged him and the other prisoners onto a road leading toward Nether Prison.

• The black-clad female cultivator revealed that Lin Chen had been targeted for his ties to the Sun Moon Immortal Palace and the Divine Firmament True Law Dao, then died as Lin Chen seized a fragment of her soul.
• Lin Chen learned he had been brought before Nether Prison Daoist as part of a scheme by forces outside the Nine Great Immortal Sects to kill him or recruit him and steal his secrets.
• Lin Chen activated his Blue Lotus Thousand Water Layer defenses and struck the blood filth with his Yin Yang Five Elements Dissolution Spiritual Light.
• The attack dissolved the secret room, but Nether Prison Venerable’s overwhelming Dao Domain pulled Lin Chen into an unknown world.
• Lin Chen found demons, evil cultivators, and Immortal Alliance prisoners on a dark road covered in blood-red flowers, while a Dark Department cultivator muttered that Lord Nether Prison had gone mad.
• The road tilted toward a vast hell, which Lin Chen recognized as the embryonic grotto-heaven of Nether Prison.

Lin Chen found himself in Nether Prison Daoist’s Spirit Transformation Dao Domain, where ordinary spiritual techniques were nearly useless, and met a strange being called Xi. Xi questioned whether Lin Chen had entered the prison willingly before a Five-tailed Fox Demon appeared, disguised as a fleeing female cultivator.

• Nether Prison Daoist’s Dao Domain transformed the survivors’ surroundings into a desolate realm beneath a crimson Blood Moon, and Lin Chen recognized it as a real place altered by Spirit Transformation power.
• A ghostly voice approached Lin Chen from behind and explained that the Dao Domain suppressed nearly all spiritual techniques; Lin Chen recognized the flat, silent being as Xi.
• Lin Chen grew wary when Xi appeared connected to the Death River Cult, but Xi denied belonging to it and questioned whether Lin Chen had been captured willingly.
• A disheveled woman ran toward Lin Chen, pleading for help as a black-robed cultivator pursued her, but Lin Chen sensed that she was a Five-tailed Fox Demon from the Ten Thousand Monster Royal Court.

Lin Chen uncovered a demon plot inside Nether Prison Dao Domain and disguised himself as Faceless Demon Venerable to conceal his presence. As he prepared to confront the demons, ghostly cries and Spirit Paper appeared in the forest, leaving him facing another threat.

• A Five-tailed Fox Demon tried to lure the cultivators into rescuing her while Coffin Carrier killed those who approached.
• Lin Chen trapped the fox in a Corpse Swamp, where buried corpses dragged her beneath the mud and freed the other cultivators from her seduction.
• Coffin Carrier recognized that the apparent Corpse Swamp Old Man was an impostor, and Lin Chen revealed himself as Faceless Demon Venerable.
• Coffin Carrier questioned why Lin Chen was not carrying out the plan to unseal the Outer Domain, while Lin Chen concealed his uncertainty and projected confidence.
• The Five-tailed Fox Demon escaped the swamp through a five-colored Dao Domain, but ghostly cries interrupted Lin Chen before he could attack.
• Lin Chen caught an apparition and realized the pale figures drifting through the forest were Spirit Paper.