Chapter Summaries

Chen Lin traveled toward the Sunset Sea, killed a Divine Envoy who mistook him for Long Xingzhou, and concealed his Red Ape Clan identity by claiming to be a Mountain Giant Ape. Long Xingzhou revealed that Celestial Gods and their Divine Envoys each had a hidden vital weakness, giving Chen Lin a possible way to fight them as he continued toward the resistance forces.

• Chen Lin trapped a horse-headed eagle, but arrows from a giant hedgehog monster forced him to fight after the creature’s cry drew them back toward him.
• The hedgehog monster demanded to use the Spirit Questioning Technique, and Chen Lin resisted the Celestial God Drum’s pressure before killing it with his Ape Ancestor bloodline power.
• A strange energy from the hedgehog monster’s blood mist entered Chen Lin’s body and caused an hour of painful changes.
• Long Xingzhou appeared and asked Chen Lin to protect him on the journey to the Sunset Sea, but Chen Lin initially refused and claimed to be a Mountain Giant Ape.
• Long Xingzhou told Chen Lin that Celestial Gods and Divine Envoys had concealed vital weaknesses, and that careful observation could reveal them.

Chen Lin learned about the Celestial God Palace’s ranks and went to a city with Long Xingzhou, where he discovered a Divine Banquet would soon be held. He obtained an invitation with a relic from Long Xingzhou, then followed and killed a Little Rat Demon who tried to ambush him, finding a rune-engraved cylinder and another strange object in the demon’s pouch.

• Long Xingzhou explained the three ranks of celestial gods and named the few powers still resisting the Celestial God Palace.
• In the city, Chen Lin learned of a Divine Banquet where monsters could offer treasures for rewards and decided to attend despite Long Xingzhou’s warning.
• Long Xingzhou lent Chen Lin a crystal ball from a Primeval Relic, which a Divine Envoy approved as an offering and exchanged for an invitation.
• Chen Lin learned that the city’s Ancient Era items had been confiscated, reinforcing his suspicion that the Celestial God Palace was searching for an ancient treasure.
• Chen Lin tracked the Little Rat Demon out of the city with a pink butterfly, killed him when he attempted an ambush, and found a runic cylinder and a strange object in his pouch.

Chen Lin uncovered a petrified Golden Eyeball inside the jade stolen by the Little Rat Demon, suspected it was an ancient witch tool, and hid it rather than risk becoming a Divine Envoy. At the Divine Banquet, he studied the Celestial God and deduced that the god’s left wrist bracer might cover his vital weakness, while the god’s rejection of nearly every offering suggested he was searching for one specific treasure.

• Chen Lin killed the Little Rat Demon, buried the bodies and evidence, and examined the stolen golden jade in a sealed cave.
• Chen Lin melted the jade with high-grade fire crystals, discovered a Golden Eyeball, and recognized fluctuations similar to those of the Sword of Adjudication Scroll.
• Chen Lin hid the Golden Eyeball in a rock-wall crack because carrying it to the Divine Banquet might expose him or draw unwanted attention.
• Chen Lin attended the Divine Banquet, recognized the Celestial God as a Divine Dao cultivator, and watched him reject the submitted offerings.
• The Celestial God accepted an ancient witch’s Sacrificial Refining Method from a White-Haired Female Monster, and Chen Lin suspected the god’s left wrist bracer covered his vital weakness.
• Chen Lin observed that the Celestial God rejected nearly every other treasure and concluded that the Celestial Gods were searching for a particular item.

After the banquet, Chen Lin followed Hu Sanniang to learn about an Ancient Wizard ritual technique, but became caught in a fight over her Divine Pill and was targeted by the Youthful Celestial God as a suspected Red Ape Clan remnant. Snake Two nearly killed Chen Lin before an unseen attacker finished the envoy, and Hu Sanniang offered to spare Chen Lin if he became her male consort.

• Chen Lin followed Hu Sanniang out of the city as other yaoguai demanded that she surrender the Divine Pill.
• The Youthful Celestial God ordered Snake Two to kill Chen Lin and told Tree One to continue searching for Ci San.
• Hu Sanniang baited the yaoguai with the Divine Pill, revealed her eight tails, and killed the hook-nosed man while the others fought over the box.
• Snake Two ambushed Chen Lin with a Divine Artifact folding fan, but Chen Lin broke free of its suppression and revealed his Red Ape Clan power.
• Chen Lin fought Snake Two with the Ape Ancestor's Bloodline Essence, shattered his Ice and Fire Vortex, and forced him to flee before an unseen attacker killed him.
• Chen Lin absorbed Snake Two's divinity, and Hu Sanniang offered to spare him if he became her male consort; Chen Lin agreed, surprising her.

Chen Lin agreed to join Hu Sanniang in killing a Celestial God after learning about its Vital Weakness and her reasons for seeking a way out of the world. Hu Sanniang revealed that the Celestial God Palace was searching for the Primordial Stele, whose location they would have to recognize if they encountered it.

• Chen Lin recovered enough to speak with Hu Sanniang, who asked him to help kill a Celestial God by breaking through its divine defenses.
• Chen Lin told Hu Sanniang about Celestial Gods' Vital Weakness, raising their estimated chance of success from twenty percent to sixty percent or more.
• Hu Sanniang said she wanted to leave the world because Ancient Wizards had refined its living beings, imposing limits on their lives and cultivation.
• Chen Lin agreed to help kill the Celestial God, and he and Hu Sanniang swore an oath on a black crystal.
• Hu Sanniang revealed that the Celestial God Palace sought the Primordial Stele, which her notes described as the foundation of cultivation systems across the Heavens and Myriad Realms.
• Hu Sanniang said the stele could not be depicted and could only be recognized upon encountering it.

Chen Lin learned that the Primordial Stele might be connected to the Celestial God Palace and obtained a ritual method to refine his Golden Eyeball. As the eyeball awakened during the ritual, Chen Lin struggled to suppress it, but it opened fully and engulfed him in eerie light.

• Chen Lin asked Hu Sanniang about the Primordial Stele, and she suggested the Celestial God Palace might know where it was.
• Hu Sanniang gave Chen Lin a copy of the Ancient Wizard Sacrificial Refining Method and warned him that refining his Golden Eyeball could be deadly.
• Chen Lin insisted on proceeding, and Hu Sanniang arranged the ritual in his cave using a monster core and a Black Feather.
• Following Hu Sanniang's instructions, Chen Lin embedded the Golden Eyeball in his left palm as the ritual magic array activated.
• The eyeball began to open, and Chen Lin used his Heart of Indomitability and the Ape Ancestor's bloodline to try to suppress it.
• The eyeball opened completely and enveloped Chen Lin in a beam of eerie light.

Chen Lin survived the eyeball’s attempt to possess him when his symbiotic Sun-Swallowing Earthworm broke through the Life Ferry’s restrictions and released sunfire. After he and Hu Sanniang killed Divine Envoy Tree One, Chen Lin refined his divinity and agreed to help Hu Sanniang kill the Celestial God in exchange for her taking first pick of the spoils.

• The eyeball’s eerie light drained Chen Lin’s life force, but the Sun-Swallowing Earthworm released sunfire and destroyed the Ritual Formation, saving him.
• Chen Lin discovered that the eyeball had fused with his palm and could unleash deterrence and soul erosion, though he could not use the Sun-Swallowing Earthworm at will.
• Chen Lin and Hu Sanniang attacked Divine Envoy Tree One when he appeared, and Tree One countered them with his bell and devouring branches.
• Chen Lin used the palm eyeball to halt Tree One’s escape, allowing Hu Sanniang to kill him with her Black Feather.
• Chen Lin refined Tree One’s divinity, reached cultivation level four, and accepted Hu Sanniang’s demand for first pick of the Celestial God’s belongings in return for helping kill him.

Chen Lin and Hu Sanniang prepared to ambush the Youthful Celestial God, but his newly revealed Divine Envoy complicated their plan. After the Emaciated Old Man failed to uncover the tree spirit’s killers, Chen Lin and Hu Sanniang launched their attack, leaving Chen Lin to clash head-on with the Celestial God.

• Chen Lin and Hu Sanniang agreed to hunt the Youthful Celestial God, and Hu Sanniang revealed her Celestial Fox treasure could let her unleash one strike with the power of a Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox.
• Chen Lin and Hu Sanniang returned to the ruined mountain in disguise, where Hu Sanniang killed Ying Liuhuan after he rallied the demons against her.
• The Youthful Celestial God arrived with the Emaciated Old Man, Gu Si, who discovered the Ancient Witch Ritual Formation and summoned the tree spirit’s remnant soul but learned nothing useful.
• As the Youthful Celestial God began tracing the killer, Hu Sanniang signaled Chen Lin to attack, and Chen Lin used a blue-green crystal and the Pitch-Black Eyeball to restrain the two enemies.
• Chen Lin crushed his heart and unleashed the Ape Ancestor’s bloodline power while Hu Sanniang’s Black Feather interrupted the Youthful Celestial God’s teleportation.
• Chen Lin brought his enormous foot down against the divine saber the Youthful Celestial God formed, as both committed to the decisive clash.

Chen Lin survived the Youthful Celestial God's attack after Hu Sanniang killed the god and helped him recover. Once they recovered, they agreed to avoid the Sunset Sea and head toward the Celestial God Palace to hunt more celestial gods.

• Chen Lin was badly wounded by Divinity's Radiance, but Hu Sanniang killed the Youthful Celestial God with her arrow and drove off the monsters before collapsing from exhaustion.
• Hu Sanniang placed Chen Lin's hand against the god's wound, allowing him to absorb divinity, and took the White Gourd, White Chain, and Storage Ring from the corpse.
• Chen Lin broke free from the darkness trapping his consciousness by unleashing his indomitable will, then spent three days refining the god's divinity and stabilizing his injuries.
• Hu Sanniang gave Chen Lin three pills and explained that the White Gourd let her access the Storage Ring through the celestial god's soul; Chen Lin declined the god's Short Sword.
• After learning that word of the god's death would bring other celestial gods, Chen Lin agreed with Hu Sanniang to head toward the Celestial God Palace and keep hunting them.
• Hu Sanniang took the corpse to try to make a Yin Soldier using Ancient Witch methods, then set off with Chen Lin.

Chen Lin and Hu Sanniang learned that the Celestial God Palace was hunting them and headed toward Damol Mountain after the Sunset Sea resistance was crushed. They ambushed Black Seven at Moon Dragon Lake, and Chen Lin’s strike opened a gap in his defenses just as a streak of black light hit him between the brows.

• Chen Lin and Hu Sanniang discussed escaping the Seven-Star Realm by taking the Celestial God Palace’s passage, but agreed they could trust no allies besides each other.
• At Golden Elephant City, Chen Lin and Hu Sanniang learned that the Old Dragon King had been killed and the Sunset Sea resistance had been destroyed, so they decided to seek refuge at Damol Mountain.
• After hearing that Black Seven and Black Eleven were nearby, Chen Lin chose to fight; Hu Sanniang lured Black Eleven away while they went to Moon Dragon Lake to ambush Black Seven.
• Chen Lin charged Black Seven, let the Celestial God’s flying sword pierce his heart, then struck his shield and used the Ancient Witch Eyeball’s Deterrence Power to stun him.
• Chen Lin broke through Black Seven’s divine radiance, and a streak of black light struck Black Seven between the brows.

After recovering from his wounds and reaching rank five, Chen Lin and Hu Sanniang hunted for Black Eleven but encountered another Celestial God and her two Divine Envoys. Forced to guide them to the Ancient Witch Ruin beneath Moon Dragon Lake, Chen Lin entered behind the others while concealing his identity and searching for a chance to survive.

• Chen Lin refined Black Seven's divinity, restored his heart, and advanced to rank five while Hu Sanniang stood guard.
• Hu Sanniang gave Chen Lin a Dark Red Scale for protection and a Golden Bell Flower Leaf to conceal traces of divinity, and they set out to find Black Eleven.
• Chen Lin and Hu Sanniang met a female Celestial God and two Divine Envoys, claimed to be wood monsters named Shi Yu and Bailing, and were ordered to guide the group to Moon Dragon Lake.
• Hu Sanniang warned Chen Lin that the plump Divine Envoy was Sea Demon Saina, a peak level-nine being, so he abandoned plans to attack them.
• Hu Sanniang led the group through an opening in the rocks into the Ancient Witch Ruin, and the female Celestial God ordered Chen Lin to enter last.

Chen Lin and Hu Sanniang explored an Ancient Witch ruin under the control of a female celestial god, who ordered Chen Lin to kill Hong Liu and retrieve his red jade. After escaping the ruin, Chen Lin prepared to rescue Long Xingzhou before pursuing Hong Liu.

• The female celestial god split up Chen Lin and Hu Sanniang, revealed she knew their disguises, and marked Chen Lin with her innate talent.
• She tasked Chen Lin with killing Hong Liu, gave him a Soul-Tracking Bee to find him near Black Mist Gorge, and warned him about Hong Liu's Space-Locking Flute.
• Chen Lin discovered the mark resisted the Ape Ancestor's bloodline power but weakened under the eyeball's eerie light, then agreed with Hu Sanniang to head toward Damol Mountain.
• Chen Lin told Hu Sanniang to wait outside the city while he went to rescue Long Xingzhou, whom City Lord Niu had captured.
• Before entering the city, Chen Lin used the mark's divine power to open Hei Wu's Storage Ring and acquired a humming Black Saber whose effects his Heart of Indomitability could suppress.

Chen Lin killed City Lord Niu, rescued Long Xingzhou, and took a massive golden spear from the manor before joining Long Xingzhou and Hu Sanniang on the road to Damol Mountain. At Black Mist Gorge, the Soul-Tracking Bee led them to a buried ruin, where the ground suddenly collapsed and a figure burst into the sky pursued by white light.

• Chen Lin forced his way into the City Lord Manor, killed City Lord Niu and the demons guarding him, and took a heavy golden spear from the carriage.
• Chen Lin rescued Long Xingzhou, who told him that Red Ten backed City Lord Niu and that the Dragon Race resistance had been crushed after a traitor helped bring down the Old Dragon King.
• Chen Lin brought Long Xingzhou to Hu Sanniang, and Long Xingzhou concealed his draconic aura with a Silver Dragon Tribe treasure before agreeing to travel with them toward Damol Mountain.
• Chen Lin, Hu Sanniang, and Long Xingzhou reached Black Mist Gorge, where Chen Lin released the Soul-Tracking Bee and followed it toward an ancient ruin.
• The Soul-Tracking Bee led the group to an opening beneath a boulder, and the ground collapsed as a figure shot into the sky pursued by a streak of white light.

Chen Lin and his companions killed Hong Liu, and Chen Lin took his red jade pendant and absorbed his divinity, reaching level six. After learning that Damol Mountain was sealed and their pursuers were closing in, they decided to travel through the dangerous Underground Ruin toward it.

• Chen Lin, Ying Tian, Hu Sanniang, and Long Xingzhou attacked Hong Liu before he could play the Space-Locking Flute, and Chen Lin killed him and took his red jade pendant.
• Ying Tian claimed the Primordial Slate was a replica, gave Chen Lin his Transmission Horn, and parted ways with the group after Chen Lin introduced himself as Yuan Shanyue.
• Chen Lin absorbed Hong Liu's divinity, reached level six, and reassured Hu Sanniang that he would not betray the fight against the Celestial God Palace.
• At Lu Immortal City, Chen Lin met the disguised female celestial god, gave her the requested item, and learned that Damol Mountain was sealed and the Sunset Sea forces would pursue them.
• Long Xingzhou revealed an underground passage through the Ancient Wizards' ruin, and Hu Sanniang urged the group to brave it in hopes of reaching Damol Mountain and finding the Wizards' inheritance.

Chen Lin, Long Xingzhou, and Hu Sanniang explored the Silver Dragon Tribe’s passage of Ancient Witch ruins, where several Ancient Witch Corpses mysteriously shattered. As the passage began collapsing, Long Xingzhou warned that Celestial Gods had found them and urged them to flee toward Damol Mountain.

• Long Xingzhou led Chen Lin and Hu Sanniang through the seabed entrance, explaining that the ruins’ humanoid objects were cursed and that the Silver Dragon Tribe had lost members to them.
• Chen Lin used the Ancient Witch Eyeball to glimpse something inside a mechanical corpse’s head, and the corpse weathered away after the three moved on.
• Chen Lin examined a second corpse’s remains and wondered whether the Four-Direction Scale had absorbed something, then continued with his companions to another site.
• An old woman’s Ancient Witch Corpse shattered as the group approached, but Chen Lin felt no cool current and could not identify the cause.
• Hu Sanniang tested the remains with her phantom arrow and found no energy in them, then the passage shook and Long Xingzhou warned that Celestial Gods had found them and told them to run toward Damol Mountain.

Chen Lin, Hu Sanniang, and Long Xingzhou survived Hong Yi’s attack and were transported to the Underground Ruin beneath Damol Mountain. The Old Mountain God refused Chen Lin’s request for an audience, and the three began exploring the dangerous ruins.

• Chen Lin shielded Hu Sanniang and Long Xingzhou from Hong Yi’s attacks, while Hu Sanniang and Long Xingzhou used their powers to help them escape with the Old Patriarch’s Natal Bead.
• After recovering, Chen Lin learned that Long Xingzhou had brought them to the ruin’s center, where an enormous stele stood, and that the Old Mountain God controlled the sealed passages.
• Hu Sanniang and Chen Lin each requested an audience with the Old Mountain God, but he refused Chen Lin and gave no response to Hu Sanniang.
• Chen Lin led the others toward the stele, where a flock of mechanical black crows attacked him; he disrupted them with the Ancient Witch Eyeball’s power and cut them down with the Ghost King Saber.

Chen Lin discovered that the Primordial Stele concealed the Ancient Witches’ warning about its curse and their request for help, then claimed the Armor of Hope. Newly empowered, he set out to join the battle against the Celestial God.

• Chen Lin, Hu Sanniang, and Long Xingzhou examined the blank Primordial Stele as tremors from a battle outside shook the Underground Ruin.
• Chen Lin used the Eye of the Wizard to read the stele, learning that the Primordial Stele cursed those who touched primordial energy and that the Dawn Society had sealed it and themselves.
• The stele’s message identified the Eye of the Wizard, warned Chen Lin to seek help from the Wizard Council, and revealed the Armor of Hope as a means to resist the world’s rules.
• Chen Lin followed the instructions to summon the Armor of Hope, which bonded with him and greatly enhanced his strength and combat abilities.
• Chen Lin shattered the stone stele with a single punch and headed out to help the Old Mountain God fight the Celestial God.

Chen Lin destroyed the Celestial God Palace’s forces on Damol Mountain and learned from the Old Mountain God that the Primordial Stele was not there. After finding the exit passage in the palace and completing his Life Task, he prepared to leave, warning Hu Sanniang about the danger beyond.

• Chen Lin killed Hong Yi and the Celestial God Palace’s Gold-Striped leaders and forces on Damol Mountain.
• The Old Mountain God said the Primordial Stele was not on the mountain, warned Chen Lin against seeking it, and vanished with the Mountain God Temple.
• Chen Lin went to the Celestial God Palace and killed the Red-Patterned Celestial Gods attacking Ying Tian and the other native creatures.
• Entering the palace triggered Chen Lin’s Life Task completion, and he gathered treasures while searching for the passage out.
• Chen Lin warned Hu Sanniang that the passage might lead to the Celestial God Palace headquarters, then disappeared as his time in the task world ended.

After completing a Life Treasure Chest task, Chen Lin learned that its rewards were bound to his Yuan Shanyue identity and that switching identities would seal away the other identity’s possessions. He returned to reality as Yuan Shanyue and found Rainbow City deserted, with its gate open and walls damaged.

• Chen Lin appeared aboard the Life Ferry, where Pearl explained his One-Star Ship Guest privileges, points, tasks, and identity-switching rules.
• Chen Lin learned that changing his disembarkation location cost one thousand points and that he had only one hundred points and one free identity change.
• Pearl told Chen Lin that his original identity could not board the Ferry because he had assigned the Treasure Chest rewards to Yuan Shanyue.
• Chen Lin chose to return to reality as Yuan Shanyue, knowing that time had continued to pass while he was aboard the Ferry.
• Yuan Shanyue flew to Rainbow City and found its gate open, its walls damaged, and the city empty.

Chen Lin inspected his belongings in the deserted Rainbow City, discovering the Four-Direction Scale had changed and learning that the Celestial God Palace was a formidable force. While traveling toward the Kaiyuan Realm as Yuan Shanyue, he rescued a group of cultivators and learned that the Rainbow Bridge had collapsed and Rainbow City had relocated after dangerous void collapse sites appeared.

• Chen Lin found Rainbow City abandoned and weighed his plans to reach his family in the Kaiyuan Realm and rescue Niuniu without exhausting his chances to switch identities.
• He examined his treasures and learned the Ancient Witch Eyeball still posed a danger, while a booklet revealed that the Celestial God Palace was an ancient organization whose Gold-Striped Celestial Gods were only Huang Tier.
• Chen Lin activated the altered Four-Direction Scale with different powers and saw it demonstrate an incomplete cultivation technique.
• Traveling toward the Kaiyuan Realm, Chen Lin killed a Tricky Beast that had nearly overwhelmed five Immortal Realm cultivators.
• The cultivators told Chen Lin that the Rainbow Bridge collapsed after a mysterious expert took the Rainbow Sword, and that Rainbow City relocated after void collapse sites began producing Tricky Beasts.