Chapter Summaries

Chen Lin brought Cheng Lingdie to Oddity Island, studied a soul-nourishing art decoded from an abyss crystal, and decided to seek a culinary Oddity Identity by finding a stronger recipe. He entered the upgraded Gourmet Island and discovered a familiar teahouse sign.

• Chen Ling'er entered her target Nightmare Realm with Chen Lin's supplies to search for her projection.
• Cheng Lingdie finished decoding the abyss crystal, and Chen Lin read the Five-Grain Soul-Nourishing Art but found that learning it required absorbing the inheritance directly.
• Chen Lin brought Cheng Lingdie to Oddity Island for five years of cultivation, then resolved to obtain an Oddity Identity by preparing a Seven-Star delicacy.
• Chen Lin entered Gourmet Island, found it greatly expanded and upgraded, and paid a local cultivator for information.
• Chen Lin followed the cultivator to a teahouse and recognized its sign as Fearless Teahouse.

Chen Lin returned to Gourmet Island, learned about its new Guardian and the island’s updated rules from Miao Yunsheng, and discovered that the Guardian, Big Mouth Marquis, was a Seven-Star Gastronomist. After sampling the Fearless Teahouse’s spirit teas, Chen Lin sought to meet its owner, while Miao Yunsheng realized Chen Lin was a powerful senior.

• Chen Lin entered the Fearless Teahouse with Miao Yunsheng, learned that Zhao Lingyi was no longer its proprietor, and paid Miao Yunsheng to answer his questions.
• Miao Yunsheng told Chen Lin that Big Mouth Marquis, also called Yi Yi, was the new Guardian, a kind Seven-Star Gastronomist who had come from another region.
• Chen Lin sampled the tea maidens’ spirit teas and found that Divine Maiden’s Caress strengthened his body, Divine Soul Gathering had little effect on him, and the final tea resembled fearlessness tea.
• Chen Lin learned that returning residents kept their identities but had their ranks reset and their old points and property reclaimed, and he decided he needed to contact Big Mouth Marquis to obtain a Seven-Star Delicacy Recipe.
• Chen Lin asked to meet the teahouse owner, but the tea maiden said the owner was away at the Spirit Tea Garden; after absorbing his tea, Miao Yunsheng bowed and apologized for offending Chen Lin.

Chen Lin returned to Gourmet Island, earned the Food Cauldron’s recognition as a Seven-Star Gastronomist by making transcendental Mother Steamed Buns, and met Guardian Yi Yi. After Yi Yi’s Karma-Dispersing tea eased some of the karma binding Chen Lin’s soul and body, she asked how he had reached the Spirit Infusion Realm.

• Chen Lin received a new jade token with ten points, then visited the Gastronomist Evaluation Office to seek a higher rank.
• Chen Lin’s Soul Steamed Buns earned a Five-Star rating, but the judges warned that his use of Fate Arts left traces that could affect destiny.
• Chen Lin prepared Mother Steamed Buns without Fate Arts, using his internal energy to suppress transcendental ingredients before entering the spirit infusion state.
• The Guardian’s Food Cauldron rang out and appeared above Gourmet Island, recognizing Chen Lin’s dish as Seven-Star quality and granting him Seven-Star Gastronomist status.
• Guardian Yi Yi gave Chen Lin Karma-Dispersing tea, explained its limited effect on his karmic entanglements, and asked how he had reached the Spirit Infusion Realm.

Chen Lin consulted the Gourmet Guardian about cultivation and learned that Fishing Old Man Taihu had raised Starry Sky Stowaways as gu, making Chen Lin one of his targets. The Gourmet Guardian outlined three possible ways to escape Taihu’s perception and urged Chen Lin to seek answers in the Life Ferry before sending him away.

• Chen Lin told the Gourmet Guardian about mastering the Spirit Infusion Realm, and she explained the culinary dao’s path to a dao seal and examined his condition.
• The Gourmet Guardian said Chen Lin’s soul and other abilities carried abnormal karma, then revealed that Fishing Old Man Taihu had turned the Seven-Star Realm into a vessel for raising gu and selected Starry Sky Stowaways as prey.
• The Gourmet Guardian advised Chen Lin to seek the Rainbow Sword, cultivate his destiny talent, or return to the Life Ferry to sever Taihu’s ability to sense him.
• The Gourmet Guardian explained that Guluoqi referred to three ancient beings and said she could not determine whether the Spirit Infusion Realm involved karma.
• The Gourmet Guardian warned Chen Lin not to speak of Fishing Old Man Taihu again, removed the barrier, and sent him away.

After learning more about the Lake-Fishing Old Man’s possible interest in his destiny talent, Chen Lin kept his suspicions hidden and applied to found a new Oddity category. He passed the initial assessment with Mother Steamed Buns and, as challengers failed to defeat him, received Thousand-Flavor Soup from Ninth Miss, whose effects seemed to change him in an unclear way.

• Chen Lin reasoned that the Lake-Fishing Old Man had likely fished him into the Seven-Star Realm to cultivate and claim the Star Emperor’s destiny talent, so he decided to conceal his suspicions and grow stronger.
• Chen Lin asked Old Servant Qi about founding a new Oddity category and learned that the absent envoy was named Wang Sanwu, the master’s thirty-fifth formal disciple.
• Chen Lin paid ten merits, passed Old Servant Qi and his wife’s assessment with Mother Steamed Buns, and received a Reserve Oddity Halo that would activate if he survived challenges for a year.
• The Blue Dwarf and a burly man challenged Chen Lin with their dishes, but the Reserve Oddity Halo did not react to either attempt.
• Ninth Miss challenged Chen Lin with Thousand-Flavor Soup made from a thousand ingredients, but her challenge also failed; Chen Lin drank the soup and asked her to explain its effects after sensing an unfamiliar change within himself.

Chen Lin brought his family and companions to Oddity Island and used seven-star Mother Steamed Buns to remove their Inner World Brands. There, he discovered that Chen Siyang and Wen Siyue could see and draw energy from Yin-Yang Valley, and Old Servant Qi said their innate yin-yang bodies might make them eligible to become the Master’s disciples.

• Ninth Miss explained the Thousand Flavors Pavilion and its Thousand-Flavor Soup, then left after Chen Lin promised her a portion of his delicacy.
• After a year, Chen Lin’s Round Token formed an identity halo, and he confirmed that Cheng Lingdie’s cultivation had advanced toward the True Realm.
• Chen Lin arranged temporary residence on Oddity Island for his companions and family, then gave seven-star Mother Steamed Buns to remove their Inner World Brands.
• Chen Ling'er told Chen Lin she had located a high-level scenario connected to her search, and he gave her more steamed buns before she departed.
• Chen Lin brought Chen Siyang and Wen Siyue to Yin-Yang Valley, where they saw its fields and drew energy from the valley through Wen Siyue’s Yin-Yang Lotus.
• Old Servant Qi recognized the siblings’ innate yin-yang bodies and said they might be recommended to the Master as disciples.

Chen Lin arranged for his children to learn Yin-Yang Sect techniques, then spent six months cultivating before attending the restored Oddity Convention. There, Huo Qing proposed that Chen Lin take Ninth Miss as his official companion, then offered him Chess Pieces of Destiny in exchange for a Rainbow Flower.

• Old Servant Qi gave Chen Lin yin and yang cultivation techniques for his children, and Chen Lin and Wen Xinzhao agreed to let them learn them.
• Chen Siyang and Wen Siyue absorbed the techniques and began cultivating together, while Chen Lin warned Wen Xinzhao not to inquire into their methods.
• Chen Lin spent half a year cultivating at Oddity Island, prioritizing Seven-Star Shining Sun and other abilities while setting aside cultivation related to destiny.
• Chen Lin attended the Oddity Convention with Wen Xinzhao and his companions, where Guo Tiezui welcomed them with his laughter and Chen Lin served food and wine.
• Huo Qing approached Chen Lin, disparaged his companions, and asked him to take Ninth Miss as his official companion; Chen Lin refused.
• Huo Qing showed Chen Lin Chess Pieces of Destiny and offered them in exchange for Chen Lin helping him obtain a Rainbow Flower.

At the Oddity Convention, Chen Lin traded for valuable supplies but found no information about the Five-Grain Soul-Nourishing Art or a safe way to absorb abyss inheritances. A mysterious woman gave him tools for extracting and refining an inheritance in exchange for a promise to take her beyond the Seven-Star Realm, and Chen Lin began testing one of them.

• Chen Lin refused Huo Qing's request for Rainbow Flowers but traded his chess pieces for spirit rice, then learned he still needed three more pieces to complete a set.
• Chen Lin met Fire Wa and the Mist Lord, declined their Rainbow Flower and Abyss proposals, and traded with the convention's Oddities for Merit Coins, a five-color Road Guide, and other treasures.
• Chen Lin failed to find information about the Five-Grain Soul-Nourishing Art before Guo Tiezui ended the convention, but a mysterious woman offered him a Prison-Spirit Bottle and a scroll in exchange for a promise to take her beyond the Seven-Star Realm.
• Chen Lin lent Chen Ling'er the five-color Road Guide, and she entered the target scenario to attempt projection fusion.
• Chen Lin examined the woman's items, discovered they bore the same mysterious figure, and used the Prison-Spirit Bottle to extract an intact glyph from an abyss crystal.
• Chen Lin studied the changing glyph and activated the bottle again, preparing to absorb and refine the inheritance.

Chen Lin mastered the Five-Grain Soul-Nourishing Art and spent a century strengthening his soul, while his companions advanced on Oddity Island. After Feng Wanding asked about the Life Ferry and mentioned a suspected high-dimensional treasure, Dream Gu’s messenger invited Chen Lin to appraise it at the Dream Tower.

• Chen Lin refined the inheritance in the Prison-Spirit Bottle, then spent several years comprehending and mastering the Five-Grain Soul-Nourishing Art.
• Chen Lin tested different energy sources and found that Five-Color Nightmare Coins, internal energy, yin-yang spirit rice, soul ash, and other options could sustain the art.
• Over a hundred years, Chen Lin strengthened his soul root, while Chen Siyang and his sister advanced to the True Realm and became formidable through their combined technique.
• Chen Lin met Feng Wanding, traded information about the Life Ferry for a Golden Saint Pill, and explained that entry required becoming a Sishi in a dangerous scenario.
• Feng Wanding told Chen Lin that Dream Gu had found a suspected high-dimensional treasure in the Abyss, and Dream Gu’s messenger arrived with an invitation for Chen Lin to appraise it at the Dream Tower.

Chen Lin joined the Oddities at Dream Tower to inspect a treasure Dream Gu had found in the Abyss and recognized it as the Glazed Cup, the vessel of the Glazed Secret Realm. He could make it respond but could not overcome its spiritual will, and after everyone else failed to activate it, he returned home expecting Dream Gu to approach him again.

• Chen Lin accepted Dream Gu's invitation and traveled to Dream Tower with Feng Wanding, Huo Qing, and Ninth Miss, while asking Ninth Miss to keep seeking a Thousand Flavors Pavilion invitation for him.
• Dream Gu showed the gathered Oddities a crystalline cup she had seized from the evil god Qiliao in the Abyss, and Chen Lin recognized it as the Glazed Cup.
• Chen Lin warned that the cup was a dangerous Grotto-Heaven Treasure and agreed to try activating it in exchange for half of anything inside, but its spiritual will resisted him.
• Dream Gu offered three Illusion Dream Beads as an added reward, and Feng Wanding and the other Oddities tried unsuccessfully to activate the cup.
• The Musician and Ninth Miss managed to make the cup glow faintly, but no one activated it, so Dream Gu dismissed the gathering and Chen Lin returned to his residence.

Chen Lin cultivated the Seven-Star Shining Sun and negotiated with Dream Gu to activate the Glazed Cup in exchange for rare spiritual entities. While discussing the transaction, Dream Gu revealed the rules governing Other Selves and Dominator advancement, leaving Chen Lin with a clearer understanding of the Star Emperor’s plan and its uncertain prospects.

• Chen Lin chose to cultivate the Seven-Star Shining Sun while he waited for Dream Gu to seek his help again.
• Dream Gu contacted Chen Lin in a dream, and he agreed to help activate the Glazed Cup in exchange for her divine source and the promised payment.
• Dream Gu delivered the Glazed Cup, three Illusion Dream Beads, and another patterned bottle, then told Chen Lin she had founded the Dameng Sect.
• Dream Gu explained the Purple Emperor’s history and said he had likely revived in the Rainbow Realm by merging with an evil god that was one of his Other Selves.
• Dream Gu explained that becoming a Dominator required merging with every Other Self under the same system of rules, and that the Star Emperor created the Nightmare Realm to replicate Other Selves and evade those restrictions.
• Dream Gu said Nightmare Realm Projections only advanced someone toward becoming a Dominator if they merged with them after becoming unique, and she wondered why the Star Emperor had not completed his plan.

Chen Lin traded his share of the Glazed Cup’s Seven-Color Colored Glaze Fluid for Dream Gu’s mysterious Gray Sapling, then cultivated for centuries as the stars and Rainbow Bridge stirred. The Rainbow Halo appeared ahead of schedule, and Hong Tingzhen suspected Chen Lin’s Seven-Star Shining Sun cultivation had caused it.

• Chen Lin activated the Glazed Cup, and Dream Gu returned with four bottles of Seven-Color Colored Glaze Fluid and two Storage Rings from inside.
• Dream Gu traded Chen Lin the Gray Sapling for the liquid, explaining that she had found it in a miraculous orchard reached by following a Void Flying Horse.
• Chen Lin used the Heaven Opening Eye Divine Ability to see three hidden fruits on the Gray Sapling, planted it in his Grotto-Heaven Jade Pendant, and inspected the growing flower bud and Muddled Fruit Tree.
• Chen Lin refined two Illusion Dream Beads, merged his sword wills into the Death Sword Will, and then focused on cultivating Seven-Star Shining Sun for five hundred years.
• The stars throughout the Void Realm churned, and the Rainbow Halo appeared early above Rainbow City.
• Hong Tingzhen asked Jin Ruhua whether Chen Lin’s cultivation had caused the sudden celestial disturbance as the Deliberating Elders gathered around them.

Chen Lin completed the Seven-Star Shining Sun Cultivation Technique on Oddity Island and formed Sunfire, but Huiye’s attempt to claim it failed when she discovered he was not her intended target. Huiye vanished after telling Chen Lin to visit their offspring and preserve the bloodline.

• Radiance from the island’s sun, moon, and stars streamed into Chen Lin’s residence as Chen Lin chose to merge the seven Star Rings despite suspecting the breakthrough had been arranged.
• Chen Lin struck a match to ignite the fire seed, and it began draining energy from his body and soul until the Mandarin Duck Straw Weaving disintegrated and replenished him.
• Chen Lin turned the process around and poured his own essence into the fire seed, forming Sunfire as the seven Inner Stars and Star Rings recovered around it.
• Huiye appeared as a Mermaid Phantom and attacked the Sunfire, absorbing power from the sun, moon, and seven Inner Stars to wield dominator power.
• Huiye failed to merge with the flames and realized Chen Lin was not her intended target, then vanished after calling the Sunfire a gift and urging him to visit their offspring.

Chen Lin completed the Seven-Star Shining Sun and ascended to eternity, but learned that he still needed to undergo a dangerous heavenly tribulation. Warned that ascending within the Seven-Star Realm would expose him to the Lake-Fishing Old Man, he considered traveling to the Life Ferry instead.

• Chen Lin completed the Fire Seed’s transformation, ascended to eternity, and reined in his Sunfire after Old Servant Qi warned him about disrupting Yin-Yang Island.
• Old Servant Qi explained that Chen Lin had to undergo his tribulation outside the Rainbow Realm and suggested the Abyss, while Chen Lin weighed its dangers against other possible destinations.
• Feng Wanding, Guo Tiezui, and Ninth Miss discussed ways to help Chen Lin leave the island; Ninth Miss offered protection in the Abyss in exchange for a Rainbow Flower and revealed that the Rainbow Bridge had manifested early.
• Dream Gu privately warned Chen Lin not to undergo his tribulation in the Seven-Star Realm, since merging with its Heaven and Earth Dao would put him under the Lake-Fishing Old Man’s scrutiny.
• Chen Lin declined to decide on hiring protection, explained the danger to Chen Siyang and Wen Siyue, and settled on the Life Ferry as a possible destination for his tribulation.
• Chen Lin considered whether to reach the Life Ferry with a Ship Ticket or through the Feather Pen scenario and the Life Letter’s space.

Chen Lin persuaded Dream Gu, whose real name was Nansheng Meng, to accompany him into the Life Letter's space after her Daydream compelled her to accept. He entered the Nightmare Realm to prepare for his tribulation, found Deluo City swallowed by the Light Calamity, and ended the chapter defeating a powerful bizarre creature.

• Chen Lin asked Dream Gu to join him in the Life Letter's space, but she initially refused because she was refining seven-color colored glaze fluid.
• After preparing and consulting the island's oddities, Chen Lin learned that Dream Gu's Daydream had compelled her to accept his invitation; she revealed her real name was Nansheng Meng and described her Dream Realm lineage.
• Chen Lin entered the Nightmare Realm with the Feather Pen and discovered that darkness from the Light Calamity had left Deluo City abandoned.
• As Chen Lin headed toward the Top Hat Building, an invisible attacker covered him in writhing frost, and he identified it as a powerful higher-dimensional bizarre creature.
• Chen Lin counterattacked with Soul-Destroying Finger and other abilities, exposed the creature's form, and destroyed it with a barrage of strikes.

Chen Lin reached the Top Hat Building after killing a King Tier bizarre creature and learned that its remains could help Yan Li extend his life. He gave Yan Li half the creature’s skin in exchange for valuable items and claimed Deluo City for the Yan Lineage, then prepared to enter the Life Ferry.

• Chen Lin arrived at the Top Hat Building with the Jade-Eyed King’s eyeball and remains, and Yan Li’s people verified that he had killed a King Tier bizarre creature.
• Yan Li told Chen Lin that the King Tier creature had devastated Deluo City and that the Life Ferry had sheltered the surviving Sishi.
• Chen Lin used the Soul-Destroying Finger to stabilize Yan Li’s abnormalities, and Yan Li urged him to take control of Deluo City.
• Yan Li asked to trade for some of the Jade Shadow King’s Remnant because refining it could extend his lifespan, and Chen Lin agreed to sell him half for Spiritual Entities, Divination Art inheritances, and Divine Weapons.
• Chen Lin claimed Deluo City for the Yan Lineage, gave Yan Li half the Remnant, and stopped him from leaving while injured as Chen Lin prepared to enter the Life Ferry.

Chen Lin entered a new Life Letter task after studying the Life Ferry, only to discover that the mission required him to expose Du Xiaolian, humiliate He Chengfeng, and marry Nana. He found himself in a higher-level plane with his abilities disrupted and learned that the first two targets were powerful leaders, leaving him to seek strength and find Dream Gu.

• Chen Lin entered the envelope Light Gate, examined the flowing rivers of light, and received a Life Letter after choosing a direction for the Letter Pigeon.
• Chen Lin read the sender's three wishes: expose Du Xiaolian, make He Chengfeng submit, and marry Nana; he chose Dream Gu as his helper but could not add Yun Feiyan without spending ten Life Coins.
• Chen Lin arrived in a dim, prison-like room and found that abnormal energy clashed with his own, preventing him from using his Divine Abilities while leaving some Internal Energy and Soul Force available.
• Chen Lin read a collection of tales and learned that He Chengfeng led the Extreme Sword Sect and Du Xiaolian was the Ice Clear Pavilion's Saintess, making the task extremely dangerous.
• Chen Lin decided to seek strength, pursue Nana's objective while looking for Dream Gu, and carefully stepped outside the room.

Chen Lin took over Lin Ergou’s body in Black Stone Town, killed Qin Dasheng with the Soul-Destroying Finger, and concealed his involvement while avoiding a search. After learning that Nana haunted the town and that the world’s cultivation laws suppressed much of his power and equipment, he began planning to leave and search for Dream Gu.

• Chen Lin found himself in Wild Dog Alley and killed Qin Dasheng with the Soul-Destroying Finger when Qin Dasheng ordered him to empty a chamber pot.
• Chen Lin denied knowing how Qin Dasheng died as the alley’s residents gathered, and Old Man Liu warned that Nana might have caused the soul’s disappearance.
• Chen Lin took Qin Dasheng’s Red String storage device, then hid in his room with the Grotto-Heaven Jade Pendant as men searched the alley and destroyed the corpse.
• Chen Lin tested his abilities and cultivation items, discovered that spells and technology failed in the plane, and learned that opening spatial storage could damage lower-grade devices.
• After several days in Black Stone Town, Chen Lin learned that evil specters trapped the town and Nana was the strongest among them.
• Chen Lin overheard tavern patrons discussing another death like Qin Dasheng’s and considered leaving town to search for Dream Gu.

Chen Lin returned to Wild Dog Alley, used his new strength to kill Yao Chengyi after the man tried to extort him, and let the residents spread word of his abilities. The Zhou Family recruited him into its Outer Branch, where he gained a residence, regular income, and access to cultivation texts as he planned his next move.

• Chen Lin returned to Wild Dog Alley and decided he needed an excuse for his sudden increase in strength while living as Lin Ergou.
• Yao Chengyi demanded a portion of Qin Dasheng’s Divine King Liquid and threatened to take Chen Lin to the Zhou Family’s Enforcement Team over the Mountain and Sea Pearl.
• Chen Lin accused Yao Chengyi of stealing, revealed his second-layer cultivation, and killed him with Black Tiger Steals Heart when Yao Chengyi tried to turn the neighbors against him.
• Chen Lin presented Yao Chengyi’s death as self-defense, took his money pouch, and let the residents believe Qin Dasheng’s treasures had helped him master a heterogeneous art.
• Zhou Xingwu invited Chen Lin to join the Zhou Family’s Outer Branch, and Chen Lin accepted and left Wild Dog Alley with him.
• Several days later, Chen Lin settled into a separate Zhou Family residence, received money and access to books, and began planning his next move.

Chen Lin learned about the dangers and cultivation system of this world, joined the Zhou Family by marrying Zhou Qingshuang, and developed his strength while preparing to cross the Black Stone Mountain Range. He confirmed that his Soul-Destroying Finger could counter the local bizarre entities, but his attempt to summon a heavenly tribulation instead connected his sunfire to the three suns.

• Chen Lin studied the Zhou Family's texts, learned how powerful the world's cultivators and bizarre creatures were, and decided to strengthen his soul and internal energy before taking risks.
• Zhou Xingyun offered Chen Lin three ways to join the Zhou Family, and Chen Lin chose to marry into the family in exchange for a high-grade guiding technique.
• Chen Lin obtained the Three Suns Qi Gathering technique, merged Lin Ergou's energy with his own, and married Zhou Qingshuang.
• After a year of cultivation, Chen Lin left Black Stone Town and tested the Soul-Destroying Finger in a cave, confirming it could counter the local bizarre entities.
• Chen Lin tried to summon a heavenly tribulation by guiding his sunfire, but no tribulation appeared; instead, his sunfire connected mysteriously with the three suns.