Chapter Summaries

After sixty years of searching for Rainbow Flowers and preparing to leave the Seven-Star Realm, Chen Lin focused on rescuing Niuniu and escaping the Lake-Fishing Old Man. He learned that Luo Qinglan would not return, while the Silver Fairy had left the Boundary River to explore the Outer Star Domain.

• Chen Lin gained control of Rainbow City as more Eternal Experts arrived, while the alliance’s original founders and members scattered or disappeared.
• Over sixty years, Chen Lin found fewer than ten Rainbow Flowers, shared them with allies, and kept five for himself and his family.
• Chen Lin completed his earl mission but remained concerned with rescuing Niuniu, leaving the Seven-Star Realm, and hiding from the Lake-Fishing Old Man.
• Leng Yue reported that Luo Qinglan refused to return, and Chen Lin instructed her to search for what he needed and watch for the Cage Array’s collapse.
• Chen Lin considered sending Leng Yue on a life task and reflected on Chen Ling’er’s success at the Life Ferry and the Silver Fairy’s powerful Silver Spear.
• Chen Lin learned that the Silver Fairy had left the Boundary River to venture into the Outer Star Domain.

Chen Lin returned to the Town Demon Realm with Qian Li and used his power to restore its sun. He then uncovered the ruins of Silver Immortal City beneath the sea.

• Qian Li told Chen Lin that the Town Demon Realm had recovered from an energy storm but was harsh and sparsely populated, and that his search for Guardian Hut Village relics had failed.
• Chen Lin traveled with Qian Li to the Town Demon Realm and found it plagued by spatial rifts, polluted energy, and only weak cultivators.
• Chen Lin infused the dim sun with origin essence, restoring its light and prompting people across the plane to celebrate.
• Chen Lin took out a Realm-Fixing Orb and flew with Qian Li to the sea above the former site of Silver Immortal City.
• Chen Lin lifted the ocean and raised the seabed, revealing the ruined Silver Immortal City atop a newly formed mountain.

Chen Lin stabilized Silver Immortal City’s ruined realm, arranged for its resettlement, and helped Teng Shanhai rise to Nascent Soul before discovering a remarkable flower among the Teng family’s heirlooms. After returning to Rainbow City, he received Lou Dengjie, who asked whether the Purple Emperor could open the Cage Array; Chen Lin confirmed it and estimated it would happen within ten years.

• Chen Lin activated the Realm-Fixing Orb in Silver Immortal City’s ruins, found a Stone Coffin Fragment that could connect to Guardian Hut Village, and told Qian Li to gather people willing to settle there.
• Chen Lin ordered the newcomers to rebuild Silver Immortal City and its four satellite cities, then recognized Teng Shanhai as a descendant of his disciple Teng Jiuliang and helped him advance from Foundation Establishment to Nascent Soul.
• After exploring the realm, Chen Lin accepted Teng Jiuliang’s seven-colored flower from Teng Shanhai and gave him treasures and Seven-Star Pills before leaving with Qian Li.
• Chen Lin returned to Rainbow City, recalled Leng Yue and the others from their search for objects connected to Niuniu, and received the visitor Lou Dengjie, whose cultivation had fallen to the early Void Realm.
• Lou Dengjie asked whether the Purple Emperor possessed a key to open the Cage Array, and Chen Lin confirmed it, estimating that the Purple Emperor would open the formation within ten years.

Chen Lin refused Lou Dengjie's invitation to seek the Dream Horse and continued investigating Niuniu's disappearance while cultivating. When the Cage Array began collapsing, he helped stabilize its cores with true solar fire, and after the formation vanished, a mysterious symbol appeared on his Buddha Star.

• Lou Dengjie invited Chen Lin to search the Outer Star Domain for the Dream Horse, but Chen Lin refused and asked whether he had news of Xu Wuye.
• Chen Lin sent elderly cultivators into the Nightmare Realm, where they found Guardian Hut Village empty and completed their missions at Scarecrow Cottage without seeing Niuniu.
• Chen Lin spent ten years cultivating, failed to find the Seven Realms Flower in the Earth Abyss, and then sensed the Cage Array becoming dangerously unstable.
• Chen Lin went to the Array and repeatedly used true solar fire to stabilize its cores as the purple giant wielded the command token.
• The Cage Array's patterns faded and its cores settled, while Chen Lin sensed an unknown energy and found a new symbol on his Buddha Star.

After the Cage Array broke, Chen Lin forbade outsiders from exploiting the Inner World and arranged limited oversight while its laws changed. He then learned from Suo Mi that the mark on his Buddha Star was a Merit Mark, though its exact origin remained uncertain.

• Chen Lin ordered outsiders not to seize property in the Inner World and threatened to kill anyone who disobeyed.
• The Inner World's laws changed for a month after the Cage Array dissolved, weakening many practitioners and causing some unrest.
• Chen Lin instructed Rainbow City to form an Enforcement Team, then visited Feng Wanding to ask about the mark on his Buddha Star.
• Feng Wanding summoned Suo Mi, who identified the mark as a Merit Mark formed after Chen Lin helped the Purple Emperor stabilize the Cage Array.
• Suo Mi said the Merit Mark might be related to karma law and suggested the Buddha Realm as a possible source of answers.

Chen Lin harvested rainbow flowers, traded for a wanxuan crystal, and began refining a Chain of Destiny on the Rainbow Bridge. A tentacled being from the River of Destiny appeared through his Talent Domain and seized the Rainbow Sword, leaving Chen Lin facing a desperate battle.

• Chen Lin found that his Merit Mark seemed to strengthen his resistance to the Rainbow Sword, letting him reach and harvest more than thirty rainbow flowers.
• Chen Lin traded nearly half the flowers for treasures and obtained a wanxuan crystal from Suo Mi.
• Chen Lin refined the wanxuan crystal into the components of a Chain of Destiny and began fusing them on the Rainbow Bridge.
• A giant octopus in the River of Destiny spotted the Rainbow Sword and sent a snow-white tentacle through Chen Lin’s Talent Domain to seize it.
• Chen Lin’s attacks failed to affect the tentacle, while the Rainbow Sword’s sword lights barely marked it, leaving Chen Lin fearing he could lose both the sword and his body.

Chen Lin faced the Tentacle Monster as it defeated a Supreme Expert and pulled the Rainbow Sword from the bridge. When the sword began destabilizing Chen Lin’s Inner Star Space, he activated the Ship Ticket, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Chen Lin stayed put and waited as other experts gathered, then Lord Undead Supreme arrived and attacked the tentacle holding the Rainbow Sword.
• The tentacle dissolved Lord Undead Supreme, froze everyone, devoured two cultivators, and joined its other tentacle in pulling the Rainbow Sword free.
• Chen Lin prepared to use the Life Ferry Ship Ticket, judging it his only chance to escape the Tentacle Monster’s restraints.
• The Rainbow Sword drew in the Rainbow Flowers and caused Chen Lin’s Seven Inner Stars to churn, while the Tentacle Monster revealed that the Seven-Star Shining Sun Cultivation Technique had made him nourishment for the sword.
• As Chen Lin’s Inner Star Space began to collapse, he activated the Ship Ticket.

Chen Lin escaped the Tentacle Monster aboard the Life Ferry, where Jin Sanyuan helped fuse the monster’s severed tentacles into the Chain of Destiny. After months of silence and cultivation, a storm struck the ferry, and the sword-bearing passenger attacked something at sea.

• Chen Lin activated his Ship Ticket and escaped the Tentacle Monster aboard the Fatal Hat Ship, while the monster severed its tentacles and fled.
• Jin Sanyuan fused the tentacles into Chen Lin’s Chain of Destiny in exchange for a Character Card and offered to explain the ferry’s rules for another payment.
• Chen Lin observed the ferry’s passengers, but the Black-Clothed Woman and the scarlet-robed young man kept their information private, and the other passengers rebuffed or frightened him.
• Chen Lin spent several months aboard the ferry cultivating Black Tiger Steals Heart while the passengers silently watched the sea.
• A violent storm struck the ferry, and the sword-bearing man unleashed his Broadsword toward a spot in the sea.

Chen Lin learned how the Life Ferry’s Treasure Chests and Guiding Ship worked, including the risks and limits of each way to gain another life. He left the chapter weighing whether he could safely pursue a Treasure Chest while Jin Sanyuan warned that Black Feather had abandoned his chance to board the Guiding Ship.

• A sword-bearing man and Black Feather tried to fish with supernatural weapons, but the Nihility Sea drained their power and each suffered ash gray fog that a Character Card dispelled.
• Chen Lin found that Xiaohua and Old Turtle were suppressed, then approached Jin Sanyuan, but Black Feather paid Jin Sanyuan five Life Coins to become Chen Lin’s Guide.
• Black Feather explained that Life Treasure Chests created alternate life lines that erased all traces of a person from their original life, while the Guiding Ship offered task rewards for Life Coins.
• The Cloth-Suit Girl said Treasure Chest lives could conceal someone from Dominators below the Fourth Rank, though higher ranks and switching limits remained uncertain.
• Black Feather described the dangers and restrictions of fishing for Treasure Chests, and Jin Sanyuan warned that Black Feather had given up his chance to board the Guiding Ship.

Chen Lin tried to secure enough Life Coins to board the Guiding Ship and traded a Character Card for coins and a Soul-Unlocking Key. He learned that Treasure Chests could dodge and that soul locks were real, while Jin Sanyuan hinted that he owned a treasure for catching them.

• Black Feather explained the boarding rules, including rising fares, fines for refusing to board, and the risk of being thrown into the sea.
• Chen Lin asked how much a Character Card was worth, but the other passengers either lacked spare Life Coins or refused to trade.
• Chen Lin traded a Character Card to the girl in the doll costume for twenty Life Coins and a Soul-Unlocking Key.
• The girl in the doll costume explained that soul locks existed and that the Old Dean of the Soul Interrogation Academy could unlock them.
• Jin Sanyuan offered to trade a treasure for Chen Lin's Sun-Swallowing Earthworm bracelet, but Chen Lin demanded eighty Life Coins in addition.

Chen Lin tested ways to retrieve Life Treasure Chests from the corrosive sea so he could earn enough Life Coins to board the Guiding Ship. After attaching a mysterious disc to the Rainbow Sword, he discovered that the disc's pointer moved when he infused it with internal energy.

• Chen Lin offered the crimson-robed young man Soul-Unlocking items in exchange for Life Coins, but the young man had none to spare and refused to trade other treasures.
• Chen Lin tested the Chain of Destiny and several objects in the seawater, finding that most were corroded or lost control as soon as they left the Hat Ship's range.
• Chen Lin refined the Rainbow Sword and tested its reach, learning that he could control it only within about thirty zhang and would need it to enter the water within twenty zhang to fish for a chest.
• Chen Lin retrieved a round disc from his Grotto-Heaven Jade Pendant and tied it to the Rainbow Sword with the Chain of Destiny.
• Chen Lin infused internal energy into the disc, and its pointer began to move.

Chen Lin discovered that the Round Disc revealed distant Treasure Chests and gave him a sense of their danger, but he could not control the ferry or claim chests beyond his reach. After months without a chance to act, the disc detected a Blue Treasure Chest approaching ahead, and Chen Lin chose to watch rather than risk it.

• Chen Lin activated the Round Disc and saw a Red Light Spot deep beneath the sea, then learned from Black Feather that Treasure Chests varied in danger and could attack those who tried to fish them up.
• Chen Lin activated the green needle and felt overwhelming dread, concluding that the needle colors likely indicated danger grades and that he should seek a red-grade chest.
• Over the next six months, the Round Disc detected five Red Treasure Chests and two Green Treasure Chests, but none came close enough for anyone aboard the ferry to retrieve.
• After another three months, the blue needle pointed ahead, and Chen Lin saw an approaching Blue Light Spot that gave him an even stronger sense of danger.
• Chen Lin decided not to compete for the Blue Treasure Chest and continued watching the sea.

Chen Lin warned the Cloth Doll Girl about a Ghost Chest, and she survived its attack after it killed the swordsman. Later, she told Chen Lin how to undo an Everlasting Bell, leaving him confused about why Nana had entrusted him with the task.

• The Cloth Doll Girl sent her Cloth Doll toward the Treasure Chest while the swordsman launched his Broadsword, and Chen Lin sensed danger and warned her.
• The Treasure Chest revealed itself as a Ghost Chest and swallowed the Cloth Doll, then its spreading mist devoured the swordsman while the girl's doll inscriptions protected her.
• After recovering, the Cloth Doll Girl asked Chen Lin how he had spotted the danger, and he claimed he could sense a Treasure Chest's threat.
• Chen Lin asked the Cloth Doll Girl about Huqiu and explained that he wanted to undo a Wind Chime on someone else's behalf.
• The Cloth Doll Girl said both people who bound an Everlasting Bell had to go to Huqiu and agree to undo it, leaving Chen Lin wondering why Nana had assigned him the task.

Chen Lin learned that the cloth doll girl needed a Life Treasure Chest to secure a secondary identity and promised to help her, while she offered to deal with the Lake-Fishing Old Man if she survived. As the Guiding Ship arrived during a storm, several chests appeared, but Black Feather and the crimson-robed young man targeted a dangerous Ghost Chest, and a ghostly face surged aboard.

• The cloth doll girl told Chen Lin that the Lake-Fishing Old Man might be a title and offered to kill him if Chen Lin helped her obtain a chest slightly less dangerous than a Ghost Chest.
• Chen Lin agreed to help, learned that the Life Ferry's course could not be changed, and spent six months watching for chests while concealing what the Round Disc revealed.
• The cloth doll girl warned that the Great Storm and Guiding Ship were approaching, and a Demon Race Youth arrived as several passengers competed to guide him.
• The Guiding Ship emerged during a violent storm, and Chen Lin's Round Disc revealed two red chests, one green chest, and one blue chest ahead.
• Chen Lin warned the cloth doll girl away from the dangerous chests at the front, while Black Feather and the crimson-robed young man sent out a feather net and Emerald Flute toward them.
• A ghostly face rose from the sea, swallowed Black Feather's net and the young man's flute, and lunged aboard along their tethers.

Chen Lin watched the Puppet Young Girl retrieve a Green Treasure Chest before trying to catch a Red Treasure Chest, but the Guiding Ship’s chains shifted it and triggered a body-snatching force that his Character Card absorbed. The Guiding Ship arrived, and the Black-Skirts Woman registered and began boarding.

• The Ghost Face devoured Black Feather and the crimson-robed young man, then vanished without attacking anyone else.
• The Puppet Young Girl gave Chen Lin a secret art in exchange for a Life Coin and sent her Snow-White Doll to retrieve the Green Chest.
• Chen Lin used the Chain of Destiny to fish for the Red Treasure Chest, but the Guiding Ship’s chains shifted it and caused his attempt to miss.
• An invading energy tried to possess Chen Lin, but his Character Card drew it out and contained it.
• A speaking pigeon registered the Black-Skirts Woman for boarding, and she crossed onto the Guiding Ship using a Light Bridge.

Chen Lin declined to trade away his bracelet and stayed on the Hat Ship after Jin Sanyuan boarded the Guiding Ship. He used the Cloth Doll Girl's secret art to form a symbiotic bond with the Sun-Swallowing Earthworm, which called him “Daddy” through telepathy.

• A Demon Race man tried to pay for passage with variegated crystals and too few Life Coins, but White Dove refused him.
• Jin Sanyuan offered to pay Chen Lin's boarding fee in exchange for his bracelet, but Chen Lin refused after sensing the trade would harm him.
• Jin Sanyuan paid eight hundred Life Coins and boarded the Guiding Ship, while Chen Lin and the Demon Race man each paid a ten-coin fine to remain on the Hat Ship.
• Chen Lin examined the Formless Symbiosis Dense Seal and learned that it could let one bonded creature resurrect the other, subject to strict requirements.
• Using the energy left by the Cloth Doll Girl, Chen Lin formed the dense seal with the nonresisting Sun-Swallowing Earthworm.
• The Sun-Swallowing Earthworm addressed Chen Lin as “Daddy” through telepathy.

Chen Lin guided Xiao Xian through the Life Ferry’s rules while discovering that his Sun-Swallowing Earthworm could communicate with him through their symbiotic bond. He realized a Life Treasure Chest had erased the identity of whoever taught him the Formless Symbiosis Dense Seal, and after a year without treasure chests, the Round Disc’s three pointers suddenly aligned toward one spot.

• Chen Lin accepted a Character Card from Xiao Xian in exchange for explaining the Life Ferry’s basic rules, then answered his questions about fishing for treasure chests.
• Chen Lin learned that the Sun-Swallowing Earthworm needed more solar power to reveal its Sun-Shooting Arrow talent, and he wondered how he had obtained the Formless Symbiosis Dense Seal.
• Chen Lin concluded that a person who had switched identities through a Life Treasure Chest had taught him the secret art, then resolved to fish up a treasure chest himself.
• After six months without treasure chests and another year that cost him ten Life Coins for the Guiding Ship, Chen Lin received a new passenger and charged her four Life Coins for guidance.
• Chen Lin invoked the Passenger Code to stop Xiao Xian from trading with the newcomer without permission, and Xiao Xian gave Chen Lin two variegated crystals instead.
• Chen Lin saw all three needles on his Round Disc tremble, spin, and overlap as they pointed toward the same spot.

Chen Lin fished up a White Treasure Chest after helping a woman in white locate a Green Treasure Chest, then found himself reincarnated as an injured fetus in a corpse-filled valley. A great bird dropped him into a river of blood during a fight with crows, and although its flock searched for him, Chen Lin remained missing.

• Chen Lin ignored a burly passenger who attacked him, and the Life Ferry hurled the man into the sea.
• A woman in white offered Chen Lin a Dominator Tier Three-Legged Golden Crow blood crystal in exchange for help finding a treasure chest; Chen Lin warned her about the danger and pointed out a Green Treasure Chest.
• Chen Lin used the Chain of Destiny to fish up a White Treasure Chest, while the woman in white retrieved the Green Treasure Chest, and both vanished from the ship.
• Chen Lin awoke as an injured golden-blooded fetus, unable to use his abilities or stop himself from bleeding.
• A great bird pulled Chen Lin from his dead mother's body and dropped him into a river of blood while fighting a flock of crows.
• The great bird and its followers searched the valley for Chen Lin but failed to find him before leaving with corpses.

After surviving the destruction of the Red Ape Clan, Chen Lin discovered that the Celestial God Palace had hunted his people nearly to extinction and received the clan’s inheritance from the statue in the underground hall. He learned that his mission was to defeat the Celestial God Palace, but the Heaven-Splitting Divine Skill required an indomitable heart he did not possess.

• Chen Lin healed and grew stronger by drinking the blood in the underground river, then emerged to find the valley and the Red Ape Clan’s bodies gone.
• Chen Lin searched the ruined Mountain Range, found no clues about the massacre, and realized he could not understand the local writing or language.
• Chen Lin used his golden blood to activate the statue, which showed him visions of Giant Apes fighting white-clad Celestial Gods.
• The statue recognized Chen Lin and gave him a token that revealed the Red Ape Clan’s history, the Celestial God Palace’s campaign against demons, and his mission to trample the Celestial God Palace.
• Chen Lin learned that the Heaven-Splitting Divine Skill advanced through dangerous battles and required a heart of indomitability, a trait he lacked.

Chen Lin discovered the Heart of Indomitability and gained a powerful berserk state from Red Eye, the Ape Ancestor, but learned that the Red Ape Clan’s short lifespan made slow cultivation impossible. He disguised himself as he entered Fulong City, determined to find a way to grow stronger quickly and complete his task.

• Chen Lin broke the token, found a hidden key inside, and used it to unlock a passage beneath the statue.
• Chen Lin followed the heart’s call into a hidden chamber and met Red Eye, who revealed that he had created the Red Ape Clan and left behind his Heart of Indomitability.
• Red Eye gave Chen Lin his final drop of heart blood, strengthening his body and granting him control over a powerful berserk state and an inheritance of cultivation insights.
• Chen Lin left the mountain range and traveled for several months before reaching Fulong City, hiding his Red Ape identity with a disguise.
• Chen Lin learned that the Red Ape Clan had been declared exterminated and that even its longest-lived chief survived only a little over eight hundred years, forcing him to abandon his plan to cultivate slowly.