Chapter Summaries

Chen Lin tested the Soul-Destroying Finger in the Light and Dark Sea, defeated a bizarre creature, and attempted to undergo a tribulation on a remote island, but his true solar fire refined itself instead of drawing down heavenly lightning. After three years of cultivation, he returned to Chaos Chess Island and discovered he could separate a powerful soul clone from his body.

• Chen Lin left Black Stone Town by sea to evade the Zhou Family’s surveillance and test his Soul-Destroying Finger and resistance to eerie aura.
• Inside a dark patch, Chen Lin killed a bizarre woman with the Soul-Destroying Finger and collected high-grade soul ash, then spent a month crossing the dangerous waters.
• Chen Lin reached a secluded island and tried to undergo a tribulation, but his true solar fire refined itself for half a month without summoning one, so he returned to Black Stone Town.
• The Zhou Family scolded Chen Lin and arranged two more concubines for him, while he focused on strengthening his soul and mastering Treading Snow and Plucking Plum.
• Three years later, Chen Lin had reached the initial realm fourth layer and formed a solid true soul body, which he split off as a soul clone on Chaos Chess Island.

Chen Lin fought off Zhou Changfeng’s attempt to capture him, then lied about a treasure to secure a chance to leave Black Stone Town. As he prepared to flee across the sea, Dream Gu contacted him from Ningxuan Prefecture and said she was trapped there before the Black Bead shattered.

• Chen Lin realized Liu Ergou’s consciousness had fused with his and that Life Coins could grant permission, while Zhou Changfeng demanded he leave a descendant or join the Zhou Family’s escape.
• Zhou Changfeng attacked Chen Lin with a binding net, but Chen Lin’s soul body escaped and countered with the Soul-Destroying Finger until Zhou Changfeng called off the fight.
• Zhou Changfeng offered to take Chen Lin out of Black Stone Town in exchange for the True Yang Treasure’s location, and Chen Lin invented a story about finding it in a cave beneath Small Hill.
• Chen Lin decided to leave alone across the sea rather than risk returning to the Zhou Family or crossing the Black Stone Mountain Range.
• The Black Bead connected Chen Lin to Dream Gu, who said she was trapped in Ningxuan Prefecture and asked him to come find her before the bead shattered.

Chen Lin joined the Zhou Family’s evacuation to Ningxuan Prefecture, where Zhou Changfeng revealed a treasure site containing sun stones tied to Chen Lin’s True Yang inheritance. After Chen Lin entered the city to search for Dream Gu, a Black Crow Sect cultivator attacked him, and the chapter ended as Chen Lin countered with his Soul-Destroying Finger.

• Zhou Qingshuang told Chen Lin the Zhou Family would abandon him unless he produced an heir, and Chen Lin gave her cultivation resources before accepting their separation.
• Zhou Changfeng showed Chen Lin two sun stones and asked him to help explore the treasure site after they reached Ningxuan Prefecture.
• The Five Major Families escaped Black Stone Town through a tunnel and, after learning that Jingan City had fallen, decided to enter Ningxuan Prefecture’s capital.
• Chen Lin entered the city alone, investigated the Black Crow Sect’s headquarters, and searched for Dream Gu.
• A black-clad Black Crow Sect cultivator attacked Chen Lin, who defended himself with a bellyband before striking back with his Soul-Destroying Finger.

Chen Lin traded a copy of his Seven-Star Shining Sun inheritance to Fu Honglian for two bottles of ten-thousand-year ice marrow and a promise of a Residence Token, but Fu Honglian and his sister betrayed him. The sister took Chen Lin’s body and led his soul to her courtyard, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Chen Lin used Sunfire to drive back Fu Honglian’s three-legged crows, prompting Fu Honglian to ask about his true-yang inheritance and offer him permission to live in the city.
• Chen Lin bargained with Fu Honglian for a high-grade tribulation aid, received two bottles of ten-thousand-year ice marrow, and handed over a copied inheritance in a conch.
• Fu Honglian summoned his sister to guard Chen Lin while he examined the inheritance, and she captured Chen Lin’s body with a black rope as he separated his soul.
• Fu Honglian and Chen Lin’s soul attacked each other unsuccessfully, while Fu Honglian tried to claim Chen Lin’s Mountain and Sea Pearl.
• Fu Honglian’s sister claimed Chen Lin’s body and led his soul to her courtyard, where servants greeted her as “the beauty.”

Chen Lin escaped Beauty Fu’s attempt to capture him and struck a bargain with her, trading promises of soul cultivation and Solar Fire Condensation for her help and protection. While refining a Sun Stone, he experienced a strange ascent of consciousness and saw the sun.

• Beauty Fu tried to force Chen Lin to reveal where he got his Sun Stones, but Chen Lin used Soul Confrontation to injure her and escape his restraints.
• Chen Lin reclaimed his belongings, returned Beauty Fu’s God-Trapping Rope, and secured her oath to protect him in the city before giving back her other possessions.
• Beauty Fu asked Chen Lin about the True Yang Treasure and soul cultivation, and he revealed its entrance and offered to teach her Solar Fire Condensation in exchange for her help and Sun Stones.
• Beauty Fu arranged lodging for Chen Lin and left to find the Zhou Family Patriarch, while Chen Lin began refining a Sun Stone on the roof.
• The Sun Stone sent Chen Lin’s consciousness rising above the Northern Domain until he saw an immense fireball and recognized it as the sun.

Chen Lin explored the sun through the Golden Ray and suspected he needed to absorb energy from all three suns to transform the True Solar Fire. He learned that Xing Henshui had imprisoned Dream Gu and planned to marry her at his accession ceremony in three months, leaving Chen Lin to seek a way to contact Beauty Fu.

• Chen Lin entered a sun through the Golden Ray, survived its heat, and woke exhausted with the True Solar Fire altered.
• Chen Lin learned from Yaoning that Xing Henshui had imprisoned Nansheng Meng, also known as Dream Gu, after she refused to become his companion.
• Chen Lin used a second Sun Stone to visit another sun and realized the Sun Stone's energy helped the True Solar Fire protect his consciousness.
• Chen Lin concluded he might need to absorb energy from the western sun to transform the True Solar Fire.
• Yaoning returned and told Chen Lin that Xing Henshui would become sect leader in three months and planned to marry Dream Gu and perform dual cultivation with her at the ceremony.
• Chen Lin asked Yaoning to find someone secretly while he considered how to get the news to Beauty Fu.

Chen Lin tried to strengthen his True Solar Fire with a Sun Stone, triggering a crisis that drew attention from powerful factions across the world. A flower bud absorbed the raging flames and transformed into Xiaohua, a beautiful girl who retained her memories and agreed to remain by Chen Lin’s side.

• Yaoning told Chen Lin that Xing Henshui had captured Beauty Fu’s older brother and extracted his Natal Crow, then gave Chen Lin five Sun Stones after threatening the Zhou Family into handing them over.
• Chen Lin delayed going to rescue Beauty Fu, asked Yaoning to watch the city gates, and began preparing to use a Sun Stone to strengthen his True Solar Fire.
• The suns flickered when Chen Lin absorbed energy, prompting powerful figures and factions across the world to search for whoever had obtained North Sun’s fire source.
• The mutated flame overwhelmed Chen Lin’s inner stars until he brought the flower bud from Wanhuagu Valley into his body, where it absorbed the flame’s energy and calmed it.
• The flower opened and became a girl; Chen Lin gave her a robe and mask, named her Chen Xiaohua, and asked how strong she had become.

Chen Lin learned that Xiaohua was a powerful higher-dimensional lifeform and discovered that his Soul-Destroying Finger was a punishment technique linked to the Bizarre Kingdom. After Xiaohua taught him the Fire Control Technique, Chen Lin began using the three suns’ power to refine his body and clear the karmic marks entangling him.

• Xiaohua explained that the Nightmare Realm was an extension of the Bizarre Kingdom and warned Chen Lin that his Soul-Destroying Finger identified him as a potential Punishment Monarch.
• Xiaohua said she could fight late Upper Realm opponents but warned that helping Chen Lin might lower his Life Ferry task rating; she also explained the Star Ruins and Three Rooms.
• Xiaohua advised Chen Lin to use the powerful solar energy to clear the marks entangling him and passed him the Fire Control Technique.
• Chen Lin spent three days absorbing Xiaohua’s inheritance, then sensed and controlled the transformed origin essence within his true solar fire.
• Chen Lin drew energy from the three suns, contained the resulting flames with the Fire Control Technique, and began refining his body.

Xiaohua used the true solar fire and Chen Lin’s Great Fusion Technique to purge his mixed energies and fuse his Death Gaze with other powers, leaving him with only four core energies. After Xiaohua withdrew to avoid drawing the Life Ferry’s attention, Chen Lin consulted Yaoning and set out for the Black Stone Mountain Range.

• Xiaohua strengthened Chen Lin’s flames, removed several treasures and abnormalities from his body, and transferred the Heaven-Opening Eye into his innate talent.
• With Xiaohua’s help, Chen Lin fused the Death Gaze with the black sword ray and the diamond-shaped eyeball, then implanted the resulting eye into his destiny fish.
• Xiaohua ended the fusion, warned Chen Lin that she could no longer assist without harming his rating, and retreated into the Grotto-Heaven Jade Pendant.
• After three days, Chen Lin stabilized his body and learned from Xiaohua that she did not recognize the Spirit Infusion Realm and suspected it was an unusual path based on childlike innocence.
• Chen Lin left his room, found that Beauty Fu had not returned, planned with Yaoning, and departed the prefectural city for the Black Stone Mountain Range.

Chen Lin and Yaoning traveled to the Black Stone Mountain Range, where Fang Wenji of the Extreme Sword Sect attacked after sensing solar power on Chen Lin. Nana’s bizarre illusion briefly ensnared them, but Chen Lin broke free and overwhelmed Fang Wenji, leaving Nana alive and the mission unresolved.

• Yaoning warned Chen Lin that powerful factions were searching for North Sun’s fire source and offered to protect his family.
• Chen Lin and Yaoning reached the Black Stone Mountain Range and followed Chen Lin’s warning of danger to a peak near the True Yang Treasure.
• Fang Wenji confronted Chen Lin, sensed his solar power, and attacked him with a flying sword; Yaoning fled while Chen Lin used the boulder to draw the attack toward a shadow.
• Nana’s voice trapped Chen Lin and Fang Wenji in an illusion of a wedding procession and a sinister river, but Chen Lin broke free with the Soul-Destroying Finger.
• Chen Lin unleashed Death Gaze, True Solar Fire, and other techniques against Fang Wenji, incapacitating him while sparing Nana so he could complete his mission.

Chen Lin recruited Nana after killing Fang Wenji, then returned to Black Stone Town to find Xing Henshui and rescue Yaoning. He uncovered Xing’s trap and faced Xing Henshui and Lv Qingxiang as Zhenyang Palace began to emerge.

• Chen Lin confirmed Fang Wenji was dead, learned Nana would follow him, and left with her after destroying Fang’s body and burying the Remnant.
• A radiant orb rose above the True Yang Treasure, and Chen Lin sheltered Nana in the Grotto-Heaven Jade Pendant before returning to Black Stone Town.
• Chen Lin entered the Prefecture Office, killed its disciples, and used Nana’s ability to learn that Xing Henshui was in an underground secret room.
• A Three-Legged Crow ambushed Chen Lin, but he drove it off with True Solar Fire, revealing Xing Henshui, who had captured Yaoning.
• Lv Qingxiang appeared and ordered Xing Henshui to kill Chen Lin quickly so they could seize his fire source and pursue Zhenyangzi’s inheritance.

Chen Lin killed Xing Henshui, the Great Elder, and Sect Leader Huang, then waited in Black Stone Town as Zhenyang Palace drew powerful figures away. After completing Nana’s task without receiving permission to leave, he and Dream Gu discussed their remaining tasks and began considering a plan to deal with Du Xiaolian.

• Chen Lin used Nana to distract the Great Elder and Xing Henshui, then killed Xing Henshui with Soul-Destroying Finger and burned the Great Elder’s crow form with True Solar Fire.
• Yaoning revealed that Xing Henshui’s Crow Cage had vanished, allowing Dream Gu to escape, and Chen Lin chose not to explore Zhenyang Palace.
• Chen Lin, Dream Gu, Yaoning, and Nana ambushed and killed Sect Leader Huang, after which Yaoning announced Beauty Fu would succeed him as sect leader.
• Chen Lin discovered that washing his feet with Nana’s help had completed her task, but he received no notice that he could leave the plane.
• Dream Gu proposed staying in the plane to cultivate, but Chen Lin argued that they needed to complete their remaining tasks and outlined a possible plan for Du Xiaolian.

Chen Lin learned that Zhou Qingshuang had borne his son, Zhou Jing, and agreed to protect the Zhou Family while keeping the child’s parentage quiet. Sixty years later, Chen Lin reached the middle realm but faced a limited lifespan and no clear path to the Upper Realm, leaving him to seek another way to complete his mission.

• Beauty Fu stayed in Ningxuan Prefecture and agreed to let Chen Lin use her name to establish a newspaper business.
• Chen Lin and Dream Gu built the newspaper office, collected sun stones, and expanded their business across multiple regions.
• Zhou Xingyun told Chen Lin that Zhou Qingshuang had borne his son, Zhou Jing, and described the patriarch’s strange divination in the True Yang Treasure.
• Chen Lin examined the child, left his name unchanged, promised to destroy the Green-Clothed Gang, and told the Zhou Family to keep his parentage secret.
• After leaving Ningxuan City, Chen Lin traveled for decades and advanced to the middle realm using a technique derived from Black Tiger Steals Heart.
• Chen Lin and Dream Gu worried that their lifespans were running out and concluded they needed to complete the mission as soon as possible.

Chen Lin and Dream Gu investigated He Chengfeng’s possible connection to the Bizarre King while seeking a way to complete their task. After learning of an upcoming auction in Wuyi City, Chen Lin traveled there to search for soul-related treasures and prepared to strengthen his soul before deciding whether to enter the Dark Domain.

• Dream Gu told Chen Lin that a reincarnated woman who had been He Chengfeng’s concubine in a previous life claimed he obtained something linked to the Bizarre King and killed her after she discovered his secret.
• Chen Lin and Dream Gu considered going north to find the Bizarre King, but Nana warned that going there would be dangerous and they would die; the two decided to gather more information first.
• Two years later, Chen Lin learned from the newspaper office’s manager that an auction in Wuyi City would feature a soul secret art, other soul treasures, and lifespan-extension treasures.
• Chen Lin traveled to Wuyi City by boat with Old Man Gu and a young man, then entered the auction’s Inner Hall and found an inn where he could wait and cultivate.
• Chen Lin practiced the Five-Grain Soul-Nourishing Art with soul ash and other spiritual entities to prepare for the Dark Domain and the possibility of entering samsara with Dream Gu.

Chen Lin bought the Soul-Unlocking Key at an auction, then learned from a masked bidder that it might be used with a Soul-Unlocking Method. As they began negotiating an exchange on the way to the Northern Domain, Chen Lin proposed sealing the deal with Oath Feathers.

• Chen Lin outbid a masked bidder and bought the Soul-Unlocking Key for five thousand crystal coins, but could discover little about it before the masked figure left the auction.
• Chen Lin failed to win the Longevity Jade Nectar and departed by Spirit Boat toward the Northern Domain.
• The masked bidder caught up with Chen Lin and proposed discussing soul cultivation, claiming Chen Lin likely knew the Soul-Unlocking Method.
• Chen Lin consulted Xiaohua, who said a Soul-Unlocking Key worked with a Soul-Unlocking Method and warned him not to attempt soul dissolution lightly.
• The masked man shared the name of his Eight-Gate Lock-Summoning Technique and offered Chen Lin its first half in exchange for information about spiritual entities that aided soul dissolution.
• Chen Lin accepted the conch containing the first half of the technique, then proposed that they swear an oath using Oath Feathers and sent a black feather toward the masked man.

Chen Lin exchanged information with a masked figure, learned more about the Life Ferry, and joined Dream Gu in searching the Darkness Zone for clues about the Bizarre King. When a strange Red Monkey repeatedly ambushed them, Chen Lin tried to alter its fate and found it waiting at the end of its destiny line.

• Chen Lin and the masked figure swore oaths, exchanged information about spiritual entities, and parted after the masked figure gave him the Eight-Gate Lock-Summoning Technique.
• Xiaohua explained the Life Ferry’s seven mission ratings and warned Chen Lin that a perfect rating could earn a Ship Ticket to board the dangerous true ferry.
• Chen Lin reached Great King City and met Dream Gu, but neither she nor Nana had found reliable information about the Bizarre King.
• Chen Lin, Dream Gu, and Nana entered the Darkness Zone, where a crimson monkey repeatedly evaded their attacks and resisted their abilities.
• Chen Lin used his Fate Arts and Heaven Opening Eye to follow the Red Monkey’s destiny line, then saw the monkey waiting beside its destiny node with a mocking grin.

Chen Lin captured the Red Tassel General, a bizarre being from the Bizarre Kingdom, after trapping him with the Ring of Destiny and weakening him with Soul-Destroying Finger. The captive revealed the terrifying name of his king before passing out, and Chen Lin asked Dream Gu to try entering his dreams as they continued seeking a way to pressure He Chengfeng.

• Little Monkey appeared in Chen Lin's Destiny Domain and proved immune to Chen Lin's attacks, but Chen Lin trapped him with the Ring of Destiny and captured him in reality.
• Little Monkey identified himself as the Red Tassel General serving the Great King and declared Chen Lin his enemy as a Punishment Monarch.
• Chen Lin struck Little Monkey with Soul-Destroying Finger, while Little Monkey threatened him and named his king the Divine King Manifesting All-Saints of Duotian.
• The king's name triggered a terrifying presence that affected Dream Gu and Nana, but Chen Lin dispelled it and pressed Little Monkey for information.
• Little Monkey fainted without answering Chen Lin's questions, and Chen Lin told Dream Gu they needed to find the Bizarre King to put pressure on He Chengfeng.
• Dream Gu swallowed a Strangely Shaped Stone and began preparing to draw Little Monkey into a dream.

Chen Lin and Dream Gu learned that He Chengfeng served the Bizarre King through a ritual altar in the Dark Domain, and they set out to investigate it. After Chen Lin defeated a bee-controlling monster and claimed its Soul Hive, he and Nana reached the altar, where its white light struck Nana and caused her aura to surge.

• Dream Gu told Chen Lin that He Chengfeng had obtained a Slave Seal through an offering ritual at an altar deep in the Dark Domain.
• Chen Lin decided to investigate the altar, brought the captive Little Monkey along, and entered the dangerous region after Dream Gu retreated.
• Chen Lin and Nana fought waves of bees and defeated the Honeycomb Monster with the second-stage Soul-Destroying Finger.
• Chen Lin recovered the monster's Soul Hive and learned from Nana that his Punishment Technique had marked it, allowing him to use it.
• Chen Lin and Nana reached the enormous white altar, which shone brightly and sent beams of light onto Nana, making her aura surge.

Chen Lin received a thousand-year contract from Nana to find Huqiu’s sixteenth wind chime in the Star Ruins, along with a beast to break He Chengfeng’s Slave Seals. After more than a hundred years of cultivation, he and Dream Gu prepared to act against He Chengfeng and Du Xiaolian, while Chen Lin sought a way into the Extreme Sword Sect.

• Nana revealed she was not the Bizarre King and bound Chen Lin with the Daxuandu Seal, requiring him to remove Huqiu’s sixteenth wind chime within a thousand years.
• Nana gave Chen Lin a purifying beast that could break Slave Seals and took the Red Little Monkey before disappearing.
• Chen Lin returned to Dream Gu, then cultivated for more than a hundred years; his attempt to explore the River of Destiny triggered a violent disturbance, so he abandoned the effort.
• Chen Lin and Dream Gu agreed to pursue their plans at once: Dream Gu would expose Du Xiaolian through the newspaper, while Chen Lin would target He Chengfeng.
• Chen Lin visited the Ruyi Pavilion and bargained with its old shopkeeper for a place as an inner sect disciple of the Extreme Sword Sect.
• The old shopkeeper accepted five thousand crystals, gave Chen Lin a token for Elder Liu, and required him to accept a future request from someone carrying matching red jade.

Chen Lin waited years for He Chengfeng to travel north, then used the Purifying Beast and Soul Confrontation Secret Art to remove his Slave Seal and force him to beg for mercy. He Chengfeng revealed that he had prepared a hidden escape, restored his Sage Realm cultivation, and seized Chen Lin’s True Soul Body, but Chen Lin vanished before He Chengfeng could destroy it.

• Chen Lin spent years posing as an inner disciple while waiting for He Chengfeng and worrying that Dream Gu’s newspaper would change hands.
• Chen Lin left the Extreme Sword Sect and waited on the Tianyun River as rumors spread that a towering goddess had appeared in the Dark Domain.
• He Chengfeng investigated the rumors, then left for the Northern Domain without concealing his aura, as Chen Lin had predicted.
• Chen Lin used the Daxuandu Seal to make the Purifying Beast swallow the inscription from He Chengfeng’s sword, then ambushed him with the Soul Confrontation Secret Art.
• After a day-long struggle, Chen Lin forced He Chengfeng to beg for mercy, completing his task and lifting a shackle from himself.
• He Chengfeng exploited Chen Lin’s momentary daze to attack, restored his Sage Realm cultivation by merging with a hidden body, and seized Chen Lin’s failing True Soul Body; Chen Lin then vanished on his own.