Chapter Summaries

Lin Chen realized that Grandmaster Taixuan’s origin might be the multiverse hidden behind Death River, but he erased the dangerous conversation from his memory after a mysterious gaze threatened to erase him from existence. He analyzed the Divine Firmament Secret Record and harvested the Immortal Alliance’s methods to advance toward Spirit Transformation, then turned his attention to a battlefield transformed into a world of the dead.

• Lin Chen and Divine Firmament Dao Master discussed Grandmaster Taixuan’s connection to Death River, and Lin Chen inferred that Taixuan had attained the Dao through the multiverse hidden behind it.
• A pair of eyes spanning countless worlds opened, and Lin Chen erased his memory of the conversation to escape their attention; afterward, he left himself a warning not to think deeply about the subject.
• Divine Firmament Dao Master gave Lin Chen the Divine Firmament Thunder Seal and entrusted his future disciples to him, while Lin Chen analyzed the Divine Firmament Secret Record.
• Lin Chen used the trapped Immortal Alliance Army’s battles to collect their methods and knowledge, advancing his cultivation until his Primordial Spirit had fully grown and he faced the Spiritualization Tribulation.
• The Spirit Medium Bride questioned Lin Chen about his easy breakthrough, and Lin Chen said the tribulation posed no obstacle before looking toward the Kingdom of Night, which had become a world of the dead.

Lin Chen faced Fang Wangming, the Death River Cult’s Dao Child, in an Undead Calamity and learned that Fang Wangming recognized the spirit embryo he had sunk into the Death River but could not identify him. Fang Wangming’s lethal curses failed against Lin Chen’s Order Dao Domain, leaving him baffled as he demanded to know who Lin Chen was.

• Lin Chen crossed a landscape transformed into Nine Nether Scenery, where Fang Wangming appeared above the ghost tide and questioned how Lin Chen had returned from the Death River.
• Fang Wangming identified Lin Chen’s essence as the Sixth-Order Spirit Embryo he had sunk into the Death River, while Lin Chen wondered why the Death River Cult did not recognize him.
• Fang Wangming unleashed Ghost Blows Out the Lamp, but Lin Chen used his Order Dao Domain to restore his status from dead and reignite his Life Lamp.
• Fang Wangming attacked with Blood Grudge Cursed Sand, sending ghosts and zombies to curse Lin Chen, but Lin Chen’s memories and personality remained intact.
• Fang Wangming was stunned that his methods could not kill Lin Chen and demanded to know who he was.

Lin Chen defeated Fang Wangming by using his Order Dao Domain to erase him, then prepared to overwhelm the East Sea Immortal Alliance. A powerful figure arrived outside the Kingdom of Night, leaving Lin Chen shaken as the chapter ended.

• Fang Wangming invoked the Death River to try to destroy Lin Chen, but the Death River Priestess appeared and reached toward him.
• Lin Chen revealed that Fang Wangming was already dead, his true spirit silenced and his identity transformed by the Order Dao Domain.
• Lin Chen gathered his avatars and prepared to defeat the divided Immortal Alliance cultivators across the battlefields.
• A majestic voice challenged Lin Chen, and he saw a legendary figure approaching on a Leaf Boat across an illusory Yangtze River.

Celestial Venerable Canghai trapped Lin Chen with Primordial Heavy Water that distorted spacetime, repeatedly killing and reviving him while preparing to extract his abilities. Just as Canghai moved to take Lin Chen away, he noticed a boat.

• Celestial Venerable Canghai arrived and shattered Lin Chen’s Order Dao Domain, rescuing the surviving cultivators.
• Canghai called the Heavenly River Old Monster and Shen Qingyang trash, while True Lord Xingmu realized she could no longer remember Lin Chen.
• Lin Chen used Forgetfulness Affects Reality to escape, but Canghai slowed time around him with Primordial Heavy Water and saw through the technique.
• Canghai’s spacetime distortion repeatedly crushed Lin Chen’s body and soul as Creation of Heaven and Earth rebuilt him, and Canghai began analyzing his abilities.
• Canghai said he would take Lin Chen back and wear down his consciousness over millions of years, then halted when he noticed a boat.

Lin Chen survived the Spiritualization Tribulation, reached Spirit Transformation, and escaped Celestial Venerable Canghai aboard the Ghost Ship. Canghai shattered spacetime across the East Sea while trying to stop him, but Lin Chen prepared to counter Canghai’s attack from within the Chaos Tide.

• The ancient Ghost Ship rammed Lin Chen, and his seven avatars returned to his body as he completed the Spiritualization Tribulation and attained Spirit Transformation.
• Lin Chen formed a connection with the Ghost Ship and began escaping, while Celestial Venerable Canghai used Primordial Heavy Water to try to hold the ship in place.
• Celestial Venerable Canghai reversed day and night across the East Sea and summoned a starry sea whose countless Small Worlds distorted and shattered spacetime.
• The collapse opened a breach to the Chaos Sea, and a storm of chaos poured into the world, but the Ghost Ship carried Lin Chen through it.
• Canghai reached into the Chaos Tide to strike Lin Chen again, and Lin Chen unfolded his Dao domain and invoked the Spirit Net.

Lin Chen used the Spirit Net to destroy Celestial Venerable Canghai’s giant hand, but their clash triggered a catastrophic explosion that threatened to erase the East Sea. Celestial Maiden Yue Ling sealed the collapsing breach with the Moon Palace, then blocked Canghai as he pursued Lin Chen.

• Celestial Venerable Canghai reached for Lin Chen and the Ghost Ship with the Great Innate One Qi Grasp, but Lin Chen invoked the Spirit Net and scattered the giant hand with Word is Law.
• Celestial Venerable Canghai turned the stars and Small Worlds into a destructive vortex, while Lin Chen reversed the five elements and set off a Great Explosion.
• The explosion began erasing the East Sea, and Celestial Maiden Yue Ling covered the annihilating black hole with the Moon Palace and froze the Chaos Sea to seal the breach.
• Celestial Venerable Canghai reappeared above the Moon Palace, injured from shielding True Lord Xingmu, and set out after Lin Chen.
• Yue Ling blocked Canghai’s path as he pursued Lin Chen.

Celestial Maiden Yue Ling stopped Celestial Venerable Canghai from pursuing Lin Chen, insisting that he repair the shattered East Sea and contain the Chaos Storm. As the two Heavenly Lords prepared to fight, Grandmaster Taixuan and the Hunyuan Dao Master intervened, and the other great powers gathered as the Heavenly Demon greeted them like old friends.

• Celestial Venerable Canghai demanded that Celestial Maiden Yue Ling let him pursue Lin Chen, but she ordered him to remain and repair the devastation threatening the East Sea.
• Old Woman Han Yue urged Yue Ling to let Canghai capture Lin Chen and seize the Ghost Ship and its Soul Returning Tree, but Yue Ling refused.
• Canghai and Yue Ling unleashed the starry sea and Taiyin Ice Soul Frozen Ancient Netherworld Cold, threatening to turn the conflict into a world-level disaster.
• Grandmaster Taixuan and the Hunyuan Dao Master appeared and stopped the powers from colliding, then Mountain Lord and Dragon Emperor arrived.
• The Drought Demon and the Heavenly Demon appeared behind Canghai, and the Heavenly Demon greeted the gathered rulers as old friends.

The Heavenly Lords gathered under the moonlight and traded secret alliances and threats as they prepared for the coming great calamity. After the meeting dispersed, Canghai was forced to repair the damaged world and ordered Xingmu to guard Penglai Island, unaware that someone had already arrived there.

• Hunyuan Dao Master accused Heavenly Demon of causing Taiyin and Elder Jian’s deaths, while Heavenly Demon pointed toward Taixuan’s knowledge of Taiyin’s fall into demonhood.
• Taixuan recognized that Drought Demon had transformed his bloodline into that of a Celestial Human and advanced close to the Creator realm, alarming the other Heavenly Lords.
• Canghai pressured Dragon Emperor to obtain the Ancestral Dragon Treasure by offering the Dragon Source, and Dragon Emperor agreed before secretly seeking an alliance with Mountain Lord.
• Mountain Lord secretly accepted Drought Demon’s request, while Yue Ling reached separate agreements with Heavenly Demon and Taixuan as the leaders formed competing secret pacts.
• Heavenly Demon, Drought Demon, Dragon Emperor, and Mountain Lord departed, and Taixuan ordered Canghai to repair the damaged space before Canghai sent Xingmu to guard Penglai Island.
• Three days later, an unknown figure quietly landed on Penglai Island.

Three years after the Hell Ten Paths war began, the East Sea Immortal Alliance prepared for further threats while searching for the mysterious Lin Chen. As the victorious Flying Boat Fleet returned to Penglai Island amid celebrations, a black-gowned woman warned Lin Chen that the apparent golden age was about to bring disaster.

• True Lord Xingmu and Celestial Maiden Gu Yue discussed the Alliance's severe losses and identified Drought Demon and the mysterious Lin Chen as major forces behind the war.
• True Lord Xingmu said the Alliance had searched for Lin Chen for three years and planned to rely on Celestial Venerable Canghai and its reserves against future threats.
• Celestial Maiden Gu Yue warned that other powers were occupied by threats in the north and west, leaving the East Sea Alliance to confront Lin Chen itself.
• The Flying Boat Fleet returned to Penglai Island, and the crowds cheered over the war's victory and expected spoils.
• A black-gowned female cultivator spoke to Lin Chen from a tavern window, calling the celebrations the beginning of disaster, and Lin Chen agreed that brilliant fireworks were closest to extinction.

Lin Chen negotiated with Spider Web Spirit Queen over helping the monsters infiltrate key positions on Penglai Island, but rejected her proposed payment and accepted information about the Dragon Source instead. After he left, Spider Web Spirit Queen reported the failed deal to a hidden gathering, where the others acknowledged that they had little Lin Chen wanted.

• Spider Web Spirit Queen met Lin Chen through a Spider Silk Puppet and asked him to help replace cultivators in key positions on Penglai Island.
• Lin Chen stopped her attempt to charm him, drained three hundred years of cultivation from her true body, and demanded a better price for his help.
• Spider Web Spirit Queen offered Spirit Pills, Enlightenment Stones, Spirit Crystals, and a future intervention by powerful allies, but Lin Chen rejected them.
• Spider Web Spirit Queen revealed the Dragon Source's origin and importance, including its potential to help Lin Chen reach the Heavenly Lord level.
• Lin Chen accepted the information as payment, declared the trade complete, and left after agreeing to meet Spider Web Spirit Queen again.
• Spider Web Spirit Queen told a hidden gathering that the trade had failed, and one figure said Lin Chen did not consider them qualified to meet his needs.

The Demon and Monster Paths assessed their planned war against the East Sea Immortal Alliance and decided they needed Lin Chen to block a powerful opponent. After learning they might offer him ancient treasures, Lin Chen considered the bargain while privately intending to kill them all.

• The six Spirit Transformation figures acknowledged that their attempt to recruit Lin Chen had failed, and Great Sui Demonic Dao proposed exploiting his injuries and lack of resources.
• Forget Demon Venerable explained that the Immortal Alliance’s forces and treasures made the coming battle difficult, so the coalition needed additional combat power and someone to stop reinforcements.
• Forget Demon Venerable assigned the Spider Web Spirit Queen to negotiate with Lin Chen, suggesting the Ten Thousand Monster Royal Court could offer an Undying Phoenix Feather and a Candle Dragon Scale.
• The Spider Web Spirit Queen agreed to report the offer to Lord Mountain Lord, while the group decided to wait for an unexpected upheaval before attacking.
• Lin Chen secretly listened to the meeting through a surveillance method and considered taking the treasures in exchange for helping, though he planned to kill the conspirators eventually.

Lin Chen visited Penglai Island’s Twelvefold Towers and bought a detailed map of the East Sea’s spirit veins. He discovered the Immortal Alliance’s Spirit Puppet Method had become the pitch for a booming war-bond scheme, and the chapter left him watching the bubble grow toward a looming Spirit Stone Crisis.

• Lin Chen entered the Twelvefold Towers and asked a shopkeeper for a detailed map of the East Sea’s spirit veins.
• The shopkeeper sold Lin Chen a jade slip mapping the Sleeping Dragon Spirit Vein, then invited him to hear about East Sea war bonds.
• The shopkeeper urged Lin Chen to invest in the Spirit Puppet Method, promising ten percent monthly interest and commissions for recruiting others.
• Lin Chen questioned how the Immortal Alliance could repay investors, but the shopkeeper insisted he had invested everything and advised him to withdraw after making a profit.
• Lin Chen escaped the shopkeeper’s pitch and saw cultivators across Penglai Island discussing the Spirit Puppet Method and investing their savings.
• Lin Chen recognized that individuals and factions were pouring wealth into the scheme and anticipated the Cultivation World’s first Spirit Stone Crisis.

Lin Chen discovered that Immortal Alliance leaders were diverting the enormous Spirit Stone harvest into advance payments for themselves and their disciples, worsening the growing crisis. He obtained vast resources under the pretense of preparing for a Nascent Soul breakthrough and began readying his plans for the Righteous-Demonic Great War.

• Lin Chen traveled to Penglai Island to investigate how the Immortal Alliance's Spirit Puppet scheme was distributing its immense Spirit Stone harvest.
• True Lord Yunhe boasted that the Heavenly River Shen Family was profiting from the scheme and offered Lin Chen Spirit Stones and mortgaged assets.
• Lin Chen warned that hoarding the wealth could provoke unrest, but True Lord Yunhe explained that Immortal Alliance disciples were advancing hundreds of years of wages and Nascent Soul True Lords were advancing six thousand years.
• Lin Chen requested vast quantities of Spirit Stones and rare materials, claiming he needed them to practice for his Nascent Soul breakthrough, and True Lord Yunhe agreed.
• Disciples from the Three Great Immortal Gates arrived to collect their advance payments while Lin Chen used his resources to prepare for the Righteous-Demonic Great War.

The East Sea Immortal Alliance’s ancient, life-extending elders met to celebrate their gains from the Spirit Puppet Method and plot to seize the Immortal Ship carrying the Soul Returning Wood. After learning that Lin Chen possessed the ship, they made him their target, unaware that he had sensed them speaking his name.

• Hundred Herbs Master reported that the Hell Ten Paths campaign had weakened the Reformist Faction, while Conservative leaders Yuan Hai and Withered Wood revealed they had sabotaged it by joining forces with the Western Desert Demon Den.
• Yuan Hai and Withered Wood told the assembled elders that the Spirit Puppet Method had harvested vast amounts of wealth from small and medium East Sea factions, prompting the elders to demand that its creator be recruited or killed.
• Withered Wood announced that they had located the Immortal Ship, and Venerable Ku Mu confirmed it carried Soul Returning Wood that could greatly extend their lives.
• The elders learned that Lin Chen held the ship and vowed to seize it, even if they had to exhaust him with the East Sea’s prodigies and resources.
• As the elders spoke Lin Chen’s name, he opened his eyes in a Penglai Island cave mansion and sensed that he had been mentioned.

Lin Chen entered the dreams of the Immortal Alliance elders and learned they planned to use the Twelve Heavens Divine Fiend Great Formation to lure and kill him while changing the world’s laws to revive themselves. He recognized their scheme and set out to confront one of the figures in the dream.

• Lin Chen sensed a powerful being calling his name and followed the connection into the shallow layer of dreams.
• Lin Chen overheard Withered Wood Old Monster, Old Monster Meng Die, and the other elders discuss killing him to obtain the Ancient Times Soul Returning Wood.
• Old Monster Meng Die explained that the elders planned to use the Twelve Heavens Divine Fiend Great Formation to cast Lin Chen into another world and kill him there.
• Withered Wood Old Monster revealed that the formation would also help the elders distort life-and-death laws and revive themselves, even if Penglai Island and Wolong Pass fell.
• Lin Chen realized the elders had been behind the Si Sui Nether Lord statue and walked toward one of the figures in the dream.

Lin Chen overheard the East Sea Immortal Alliance’s old monsters plotting to trap and kill him, and used his dream-based abilities to secretly observe Old Monster Meng Die. Two years later, as the Twelve Heavens Divine Fiend Great Formation blood-sacrificed Penglai, Meng Die hunted down a young Spirit Transformation cultivator and devoured him.

• Old Monster Yuan Hai and Withered Wood Old Monster ordered the old monsters to hide their hostility toward Lin Chen until the Twelve Heavens Divine Fiend Great Formation was activated, then planned to kill him and seize the Soul Returning Wood.
• Lin Chen watched the meeting from a dream and resolved to strike first; Old Monster Meng Die sensed danger but found no intruder after searching the hall and destroying a nearby mountain.
• Old Monster Meng Die joined the other Spirit Transmutation Old Monsters in the Immortal Alliance Treasury, where they planned to use the Twelve Golden Figures and the Year Wardens to achieve eternal life and blood-sacrifice the East Sea and Central Lands.
• Two years later, the Twelve Heavens Divine Fiend Great Formation activated and the Twelve Si Sui blood-sacrificed Penglai; Old Monster Meng Die confronted a young Spirit Transformation cultivator who had tried to conceal himself with a secret art.
• Old Monster Meng Die enveloped the young cultivator in pink dream mist, killed him, and emerged carrying his severed head.

Old Monster Meng Die’s apparent rise from the destruction of Penglai Island to becoming a Great Luo was revealed as a dream watched by an immense pair of Seven-Colored Eyes. He awakened as Lin Chen beside the Withered Wood Old Monster and said the dream had ended.

• Old Monster Meng Die devoured a young Spirit Transformation cultivator but suspected something was wrong despite confirming the cultivator was dead.
• Old Monster Meng Die and the noble-family old monsters used the Twelve Golden Figures to exploit the Twelve Si Sui’s blood sacrifice and seize their power.
• Old Monster Meng Die let the Golden Figures endure heaven’s lightning tribulation, which purified their corruption and united them with the old monsters’ Primordial Spirits.
• Old Monster Meng Die became a Heavenly Lord, conquered the East Sea, devoured powerful rivals, and eventually rose to Great Luo.
• Old Monster Meng Die attacked the Seven-Colored Eyes but was erased when the eyes engulfed the universe and swallowed him.
• Lin Chen awakened beside the Withered Wood Old Monster and said that the dream had ended.

Lin Chen, disguised as Old Monster Meng Die, joined Withered Wood Old Monster and Old Monster Yuan Hai as they discussed their plan to use the Twelve Golden Figures to gain Heavenly Lord power. They traveled to the Penglai Treasury, where Lin Chen was pulled into the Void Turbulence within the treasury gate.

• Withered Wood Old Monster sensed something strange about Meng Die, but Lin Chen deflected his suspicion by invoking the Dream Devouring Method.
• Withered Wood Old Monster and Old Monster Yuan Hai discussed recruiting Han Yue and others to the scheme to animate the Twelve Golden Figures and seize their bodies.
• Lin Chen agreed to approach Han Yue first, and the three Spirit Transformation cultivators set out to meet at the Penglai Treasury.
• The three descended through Penglai Mountain City and the deadly underground region to reach the treasury gate amid a sea of magma.
• Old Monster Yuan Hai entered the gate by pressing his hand to it, and Lin Chen and Withered Wood Old Monster followed.
• Lin Chen found himself alone in a space bubble being carried through Void Turbulence and realized the Penglai Treasury was stored there.

Lin Chen traveled through the East Sea Immortal Alliance’s hidden void treasury and reached the Twelve Golden Figures, where several Spirit Transmutation elders debated seizing them to gain immortal life. While the elders negotiated, Lin Chen secretly began infiltrating the Golden Figures’ defenses.

• Lin Chen realized the treasury used magma, a void gate, and Space Bubbles to keep intruders away from its hidden stores.
• Lin Chen passed through the treasury’s many resource spaces and arrived at a barren land where a vast formation maintained the Twelve Golden Figures.
• Withered Wood Old Monster and Old Monster Yuan Hai discussed using the Golden Figures to attain Heavenly Lord rank and endless lifespans.
• Old Monster Yuan Hai pressured Palace Mistress Han Yue by warning that her family could lose control of the Sun Moon Immortal Palace if she died.
• Lin Chen exploited a flaw in the Golden Figures’ old Defense Restriction and began infiltrating it while the elders negotiated.

Lin Chen’s Split Spirit joined Withered Wood Old Monster, Old Monster Yuan Hai, Old Woman Han Yue, and Meng Die in planning to use the Twelve Golden Figures to profit from a war between the Immortal Alliance and the Demon and Monster Paths. Meanwhile, Lin Chen’s main True Spirit remained trapped in Nanhua’s Dream, where the chapter revealed a sleeping Daoist named Nanhua inside a cocoon in the Doomsday World.

• Withered Wood Old Monster and Old Monster Yuan Hai persuaded Old Woman Han Yue to join their plan to use the Golden Figures for their own advancement.
• Old Monster Meng Die proposed that the East Sea Rogue Immortal and Nether Prison Daoist had likely sided with the Demon and Monster Paths, and the group planned to eliminate them in a dream before turning on the weakened factions.
• Lin Chen’s Split Spirit acted as Old Monster Meng Die while the other Split Spirits worried that they could not contact Lin Chen’s main body.
• The chapter revealed that a hidden imprint in the Nanhua Dream Sect’s Golden Figure had drawn Lin Chen’s True Spirit into Nanhua’s Dream.
• A vision crossed the Doomsday World and revealed a handsome Daoist named Nanhua sleeping inside a dark-purple cocoon in a mountain hall.