Chapter Summaries

Chen Lin learned that Void Rifts were spreading dangerous beasts and energy across the realms, then tested whether the Sun-Swallowing Earthworm could bypass the Life Ferry’s rules. He switched back to his original body, leaving his secondary identity sealed in the Treasure Chest, while the exhausted earthworm entered dormancy.

• Chen Lin questioned Zhou Xianli and learned that Void Rifts threatened cultivation across the Rainbow Realm, that the Immortal King was at Eternal Perfection, and that the Kaiyuan Sect was led by Chen Ling'er with Wen Xinzhao and Grass among its experts.
• Chen Lin discovered that he could condense the Formless Symbiosis Dense Seal in his secondary body and summon the Sun-Swallowing Earthworm from the Treasure Chest.
• The Sun-Swallowing Earthworm revealed that Chen Lin's original body lay alive but unconscious inside the Treasure Chest and said it could move the body at great cost to its energy.
• Chen Lin let the Sun-Swallowing Earthworm bring out his original body and found that his secondary identity had been sealed inside the Treasure Chest instead.
• Chen Lin confirmed that the two identities could not exist outside the Treasure Chest at the same time, and the exhausted Sun-Swallowing Earthworm fell into dormancy as he left the Void.

After returning to the Fiefdom, Chen Lin investigated how the Life Ferry erased memories, considered the dangers spreading from the Void Rift, and began exploring the Four-Direction Scale. The scale consumed his soul power and the Sun-Swallowing Earthworm before transforming into a woman, who returned the last remnant of Chen Lin’s soul to his body and disappeared.

• Chen Lin confirmed that Wushuang and the Immortal Realm cultivators had forgotten the events surrounding his disappearance and the tricky beast, then concluded that leaving traces could resist the Life Ferry’s erasure.
• Chen Lin decided to rescue Niuniu and considered possible routes out of the Seven-Star Realm while feeding a variegated crystal to the Sun-Swallowing Earthworm.
• Chen Lin sensed the Four-Direction Scale, summoned it, and used soul power and another variegated crystal to reveal the woman’s image and her hand seals.
• The Four-Direction Scale drained Chen Lin’s soul power and the Sun-Swallowing Earthworm, then pulled out Chen Lin’s last remnant of soul before transforming into a woman.
• The woman returned Chen Lin’s remnant soul to his body, nodded to him, and vanished.

Chen Lin received the Soul Master inheritance and discovered that his transformed soul could live and cultivate independently, though separating it from his body carried risks. After returning to the Kaiyuan Realm, he reunited with his family and allies and prepared to rescue Niuniu with Grass’s help.

• A Four-Direction Giant Stele bestowed the Soul Master inheritance on Chen Lin, and he began repairing his damaged soul with soul ash.
• After a month of recovery, Chen Lin found that his soul had become a living, independent entity that could cultivate, cross planes, and suppress tricky beasts.
• Chen Lin returned to the Kaiyuan Realm, learned that Chen Ling'er had safely gathered his family and trusted allies, and discussed the stalled Wuming Grand Formation.
• Chen Lin met with Grass, explained Niuniu's situation, and asked her to help with the rescue, though he planned to leave a clone to defend the realm.
• Chen Lin carried Grass into the bedroom.

Chen Lin prepared to leave the Kaiyuan Realm to rescue Niuniu, arranging for Tianshu and Wen Xinzhao to attempt ascension and gathering tricky-beast flesh for Tianshu. After meeting with White Dragon and Ninth Miss, he learned that his Merit Mark could grant fortune and help resist curses and tribulations, while a High Monk had warned of a growing shortage of males among living beings in the Mortal Realm.

• Chen Lin decided not to leave a clone behind and instead supported Tianshu and Wen Xinzhao in attempting to ascend to eternity so the Kaiyuan Realm could remain protected.
• Chen Lin hunted tricky beasts, gathered enough flesh and blood for Tianshu, and then entered seclusion before receiving visitors.
• Chen Lin declined White Dragon's offer to establish himself in the Outer Star Domain and offered to help him find a passage home if he wished to return.
• Ninth Miss reported that Master Wuyin believed Merit Marks required great virtue and could improve reincarnation fortune, dispel curses, and help overcome tribulations.
• Ninth Miss told Chen Lin that Master Wuyin had directed him toward the wandering monk Nian Kong, and Chen Lin privately recognized that he had already fused with Nian Kong's mirror image.
• Ninth Miss rejected the idea of becoming Chen Lin's Companion, then warned him that Master Wuyin had observed a severe and worsening shortage of males among Mortal Realm offspring, including animals.

Chen Lin learned that the Void Rift was disrupting the Boundary River’s laws, then received a mysterious sound whistle from Lou Dengjie in exchange for several treasures. After Little Black Cat warned that rescuing Niuniu from the Nightmare Realm was dangerous but not certain death, Chen Lin studied the Soul Master inheritance and left the Kaiyuan Realm.

• Ninth Miss told Chen Lin that births across the Boundary River were overwhelmingly female, and Chen Lin confirmed the imbalance in the mortal kingdoms and other planes.
• Chen Lin proposed gathering experts to investigate and seal the Void Rift, and he promised to discuss the matter with Alliance Leader Jin after her seclusion.
• Lou Dengjie presented Chen Lin with a sound whistle taken from the Dream Horse and asked for a rainbow flower to extend his life; Chen Lin instead gave him healing and cultivation treasures, spirit rice, and promised to search for Xu Wuye.
• Chen Lin asked Little Black Cat to divine the danger of rescuing Niuniu from the Nightmare Realm, and the cat warned him that the journey was dangerous but not certain to end in death.
• Chen Lin studied the Soul Master inheritance, considered whether to abandon physical cultivation, checked Tianshu’s condition, and left the Kaiyuan Realm.

Chen Lin learned from Sun Chuxue’s letter that soul dissolution could cause a soul to flee, so he postponed the technique while investigating a passage through the Soul-Severing Sea and managing the worsening crisis in the Void Realm. After Jin Ruhua reached Eternity, Chen Lin entrusted the Kaiyuan Realm to her as he prepared to rescue Niuniu.

• Chen Lin visited the Soulless Sect’s former grounds and learned from Yu Qianshan that the Soulless Patriarch had left three years earlier, leaving Sun Chuxue’s sealed letter for him.
• Chen Lin read Sun Chuxue’s warning that soul dissolution could make a soul escape, learned of a possible passage in the Soul-Severing Sea, and discovered that she belonged to a secretive primal race.
• Chen Lin searched the Soul-Severing Sea and found several possible passages in Primordial Era ruins, then traveled the Inner World and assigned Wen Jing'an to decipher the altars.
• Chen Lin searched for information about escaping souls but found nothing, postponed soul dissolution, and focused on other cultivation while the Void Realm’s Void Rifts worsened.
• Chen Lin dealt with dangerous tricky beasts but could not stop the Void Rifts, and he spent the following years gathering Merit Coins and exploring ways to obtain high-dimensional formation materials.
• Jin Ruhua arrived in the Kaiyuan Realm after reaching Eternity, and Chen Lin asked her to take charge while he went to rescue Niuniu.

Chen Lin helped Tianshu endure the Three-Kill Tribulation, using the Chain of Destiny and a Rainbow Flower to let him reach the Eternal Realm. As Tianshu completed his ascension, a Void Rift appeared over the Kaiyuan Realm, and a sword strike from within it pierced Grass as she shielded Chen Lin.

• Chen Lin told Jin Ruhua he intended to investigate the schemes behind the crisis and eventually leave for a higher space, while Jin Ruhua showed him Holy Sword Manor's God-Slaying sword.
• Chen Lin hunted Tricky Beasts across the Rainbow Realm, then returned to the Kaiyuan Realm and fed their corpses to Tianshu as Tianshu's breakthrough approached.
• A year later, Tianshu faced the Three-Kill Tribulation, and Chen Lin used Fate Transmission, the Chain of Destiny, treasures, and a Rainbow Flower to help him survive and ascend to the Eternal Realm.
• A black line appeared in the Kaiyuan Realm's sky and heralded a Void Rift, which disrupted the tribulation as Tianshu finished absorbing its energy.
• Chen Lin flew toward the rift while Chen Ling'er and Grass warned him; Grass intercepted a Sword Qi attack from inside the rift, but it pierced her between the brows.

Chen Lin saved Grass with divine fluid from Chunjiu of the Celestial God Palace, then prepared to enter the Nightmare Realm to rescue Niuniu. He arrived at Guardian Hut Village and found it abandoned, but he restored the Scarecrow Cottage yard before going inside.

• Chen Lin attacked the Void Rift after Grass was struck down, but Chunjiu defeated his attacks and gave him divine fluid to preserve Grass's life.
• Chen Lin used the divine fluid to halt Grass's voidification, and she eventually regained consciousness, though she needed decades to recover fully.
• Tianshu completed his transformation and gained the Blood Shadow Claw divine ability, while Chen Lin warned himself against directly altering destiny again.
• Chen Lin decided to enter the Nightmare Realm to rescue Niuniu, bringing Hua Yi and Little Black Cat with him.
• Chen Lin arrived at Guardian Hut Village and found its huts empty and decayed, then swept the Scarecrow Cottage yard, repaired the swing, and entered the cottage.

Chen Lin used the Rainbow Sword to enter a hidden space and found Niuniu bound and near death, but a gathering of powerful figures emerged as he approached her. The chapter ended with several more figures appearing, leaving the identity of the scheme’s main player unresolved.

• Chen Lin searched the deserted Guardian Hut Village for clues, then used the Rainbow Sword to activate the Cloth Doll and enter its connected space.
• Chen Lin found Niuniu bound to a Pitch-Black Colossal Pillar amid rows of scarecrows and began approaching her.
• Chen Lin discovered Gu Siming disguised as a scarecrow, and she revealed that Yesterday Manor had helped him for its own purposes.
• Huiye and High Person Yunhai appeared, and Gu Siming identified High Person Yunhai as the one who had taken Star Emperor’s body.
• Sword Woman appeared, called Chen Lin her husband, and warned that Lake-Fishing Old Man’s Rule Line might descend if the Seven-Star chains were broken.
• Several figures emerged from the Void, leaving Chen Lin stunned.

Chen Lin encountered Luo Qinglan, Star Emperor’s seven clones, and High Person Yunhai at the map’s end, then tried to rescue Niuniu while uncovering the factions’ pursuit of the Primordial Stele. The chapter ended with Huiye ordering Luo Qinglan to destroy the Star Emperor’s clones.

• Chen Lin recognized Luo Qinglan and Qing Emperor among the arrivals, while Qing Emperor and High Person Yunhai exchanged accusations about their old conflict.
• High Person Yunhai suggested that Luo Qinglan was Saintess Heqing’s reincarnation and asked whether Chen Lin was Star Lord’s reincarnation; Chen Lin instead asked Luo Qinglan whether she still acknowledged him as her husband, and she nodded.
• Chen Lin rushed toward the raised platform to rescue Niuniu, but High Person Yunhai restrained him with black runic inscriptions; Chen Lin resisted, attacked, and identified Yunhai as the soul that had escaped from Soulless Patriarch.
• Chen Lin urged the gathered figures to help rescue Niuniu and told them that Bizarre Creatures from the Bizarre Kingdom were invading through Space Rifts; Red Emperor warned that disturbing the Seven-Star Realm’s rules could alert Lake-Fishing Old Man.
• Sword Woman agreed to help on the conditions that Chen Lin give her the Rainbow Sword and help free her from being a Sword Spirit; Huiye then challenged Gu Siming over the Primordial Stele and ordered Luo Qinglan to destroy Star Emperor’s clones.

Chen Lin and his allies fought High Person Yunhai and Huiye over the Holy Temple's key, but their attacks struggled against Yunhai's higher-level power. After Luo Qinglan revealed her phoenix form and restrained Huiye's crescent moon, Chen Lin unleashed the Sun-Swallowing Earthworm against Yunhai; as the others prepared their decisive attacks, the Seven Sovereigns turned their arrow on Luo Qinglan.

• Luo Qinglan revealed that Ningbaixue had taken control of the Holy Temple, and High Person Yunhai exposed that he held its key.
• High Person Yunhai lifted his seal and used powerful runes to evade and repel Chen Lin and the others' attacks.
• Luo Qinglan manifested a phoenix form, while Chen Lin attacked Yunhai and the Seven Sovereigns and Sword Woman fought their opponents.
• Chen Lin's Soul Master aura slowed Yunhai's runes, allowing Chen Lin to send the Sun-Swallowing Earthworm to engulf him in flames.
• Luo Qinglan sealed Huiye's crescent moon as the Sword Woman attacked Huiye and the Seven Sovereigns launched a Seven-Colored Arrow at Luo Qinglan.

Chen Lin switched to his Chiyuan identity, rescued Niuniu, and drove off High Person Yunhai and Huiye, though both escaped. After defeating the Seven Sovereigns, he left the space as Yuan Shanyue, while Niuniu and Sword Woman set out to seek the Holy Temple.

• High Person Yunhai sent the Soulless Patriarch's soul after Chen Lin, but Chen Lin froze it with the Soul Confrontation Secret Art and severed one of Niuniu's chains with the Rainbow Sword.
• Huiye used Night and Firefly to darken the space and cut Chen Lin's connection to the Rainbow Sword, so Chen Lin switched to his secondary identity as Chiyuan.
• Chiyuan reclaimed the Rainbow Sword, freed Niuniu from her remaining chains, and attacked High Person Yunhai, who exploded his body and escaped with the Soulless Patriarch's soul.
• Huiye transformed into motes of light and fled while Niuniu sent the scarecrows after him; Chiyuan struck at Huiye but could not destroy every mote, and Gu Siming also disappeared.
• Chiyuan killed the Seven Sovereigns' clones after Niuniu identified the Red Emperor as a replica, then spoke with Luo Qinglan before she vanished.
• Niuniu gave the Rainbow Sword to Sword Woman and proposed that they seek the Holy Temple together; Chiyuan gave Niuniu the name Yuan Shanyue and left the space.

Chen Lin returned to the Town Demon Realm, learned about the Holy Temple plans, and revisited places tied to his past. After discovering that Tianyuan Island had reappeared and exploring its ruins, he headed to Qingyang Sect and spotted a woman bathing near his old cave dwelling.

• Chen Lin met the Sun-Swallowing Earthworm, approved the name Chen Tiezhu, and learned that Niuniu and the others planned to seek Luo Qinglan and explore the Holy Temple with the Rainbow Sword as a key.
• Chen Lin left Silver Immortal City, reflected on people from his past while flying over the Wuding Sea, and discovered that Tianyuan Island had returned.
• Chen Lin questioned an exploration team from Silver Immortal City, learned that Tianyuan Island had appeared three years earlier, and continued deeper into the continent.
• Chen Lin found Danding City in ruins and visited Qingyang Sect, where memories of his former life there resurfaced.
• Chen Lin flew toward his old cave dwelling and saw a woman emerging from a pool.

Chen Lin encountered Ye Jinxuan, the former Fairy Zixia, on the Demonic Island and destroyed the seven Demonic Beads while learning how she had survived. As he prepared to leave, Ye Jinxuan revealed a demonic fetus that looked exactly like Qian Li, leaving Chen Lin to face the possibility that it was his offspring.

• Chen Lin recognized Ye Jinxuan, subdued her, and discovered a Demonic Bead within her nascent soul; the bead attacked him before the Ghost King Saber devoured it.
• Chen Lin revived Ye Jinxuan with spirit liquid, and she explained that seven Demonic Beads had consumed an ancient demon and that their seal bound her to the island.
• Ye Jinxuan identified the other six beads as belonging to the island’s Seven Devil Lords and agreed to guide Chen Lin in exchange for his help.
• Chen Lin killed the six Devil Lords and destroyed their Demonic Beads, strengthening the Ghost King Saber, then warned Ye Jinxuan not to threaten the realm.
• Ye Jinxuan told Chen Lin she had borne a demonic fetus while under the Lust Demonic Bead’s influence and showed him the egg-shaped fetus, whose baby looked exactly like Qian Li.

Chen Lin left the Boundary River by accident and began exploring the Outer Star Domain, seeking high-grade energy sources to restore Chen Tiezhu. After reaching Black-Silver Divine City and visiting a gemstone shop, he encountered an innate life-form whose presence Chen Tiezhu found familiar.

• Chen Lin learned that Fairy Zixia’s Demonic Fetus had bonded with the island, promised to inform Qian Li, and left her to cultivate there.
• Chen Lin returned to the deserted Kaiyuan City, spent the night in his old home, then departed and accidentally crossed into the Outer Star Domain.
• Chen Lin arrived on Dahuang Star and hired Gelu to guide him through Black-Silver Divine City to the Tiandu Gem House.
• Chen Lin showed the shop’s proprietor an ancient hexagonal crystal, gained access to the third floor, and asked to buy better fire-attribute gemstones.
• Chen Lin saw a green-haired innate life-form leave a neighboring room, and Chen Tiezhu told him she seemed familiar.

Chen Lin bought rare energy treasures from Yue Yingxian’s Tiandu Gem House and settled in Black-Silver Divine City to investigate her knowledge of variegated crystal. He also decided to stay out of the conflict over the Primordial Stele while the Youlong Star Domain grew unstable.

• Chen Lin bought a secret pattern true fire stone, a Seven-Star Yuan-Nourishing Bracelet, and a dazzling liquid color crystal from Yue Yingxian in exchange for an ancient witch crystal stone.
• Yue Yingxian gave Chen Lin an honored-guest talisman, and she told Yue Yue'er that she wanted to befriend powerful experts amid the unrest following Youlong Supreme’s death.
• Chen Lin spent three days shopping and then traveled across Dahuang Star for a year, finding few useful goods and learning that Youlong Supreme’s failed tribulation had affected the Boundary River’s barrier.
• Chen Lin reflected on Gu Siming’s long-running schemes and told Chen Tiezhu to warn Xiao Xun and Niuniu to guard against her.
• Chen Lin chose not to join the others’ struggle for the Primordial Stele and bought a shop on the same street as Tiandu Gem House.

Chen Lin opened the Oddity Pavilion and traded dream special sand with Adaiah for a variegated crystal and her promise to deliver innate life spirit liquid. After Adaiah left, Tiezhu deduced that she likely possessed the same Formless Symbiosis Dense Seal as Chen Lin, suggesting she was the secondary identity of the person who had taught him the technique.

• Chen Lin opened the Oddity Pavilion with Gelu and Lin Xinyi as assistants, and Yue Yingxian visited to congratulate him and ask why he had opened the shop.
• Adaiah came looking for thousand-threaded red willow, dream special sand, or Firefly Jade, and offered a variegated crystal in exchange for one of them.
• Chen Lin traded Adaiah some dream special sand for the variegated crystal and accepted her IOU for innate life spirit liquid to be delivered within six months.
• After Adaiah left, Chen Lin asked Tiezhu about the familiar presence he had sensed, and Tiezhu concluded that Adaiah likely possessed the Formless Symbiosis Dense Seal.
• Chen Lin suspected Adaiah was the secondary identity of the person who had taught him the Formless Symbiosis Dense Seal.

Chen Lin learned that the Dark Year might bring rare treasures and began weighing his plans to find a passage from the Seven-Star Realm. After Lin Xinyi revealed a secret about the city’s Divine Stone, Adaiah returned with an offer she claimed could change his life.

• Chen Lin rejected the invitation to Grand Duke White Moonlight’s festival and continued investigating Yue Yue’er’s gemstone shop and the approaching Dark Year.
• Yinshu reported that Yue Yue’er collected unusual crystals for her Myriad Crystal Banner and that Firefly Jade might appear on Great Yellow Mountain during the Dark Year.
• Chen Lin considered gathering materials for soul dissolution and planned to attend the passengers’ gathering aboard the Life Ferry before deciding whether to accept a life task.
• Lin Xinyi revealed her truth-guiding innate talent and reported that the Six Great Powers expected the city’s Divine Stone to produce extraordinary spirit dew during the Dark Year.
• Chen Lin met Adaiah, who offered to discuss a potentially life-changing deal at her residence, and agreed to go with her.

Chen Lin visited Adaiah’s Grotto-Heaven Treasure, learned about high-dimensional spaces, rule runes, and Soul Dissolution, and agreed to help her collect Firefly Jade during the coming Dark Year. Adaiah then prepared to explain the dangers of Soul Dissolution, while Chen Lin remained committed to pursuing it.

• Adaiah brought Chen Lin into her high-grade Grotto-Heaven Treasure and explained how a grotto-heaven could evolve through Dao essence or rules.
• Adaiah questioned Chen Lin about the dream special sand and learned that he possessed the Eight-Gate Lock-Summoning Technique and intended to undergo Soul Dissolution.
• Adaiah explained Creators, high-dimensional beings, and rule runic inscriptions, then gave Chen Lin sprite-race spirit dew that let him experience the formation of those runes.
• Chen Lin and Adaiah discussed their Soul-Unlocking Methods, and Adaiah warned him that Soul Dissolution carried grave risks.
• Adaiah asked Chen Lin to help her gather Firefly Jade from the Thousand-Head Fireflies during the coming Dark Year, and they agreed that he would receive thirty percent.
• Adaiah began to explain Soul Dissolution after Chen Lin promised to cooperate.

Adaiah explained the stages, dangers, and preparations for Soul Dissolution to Chen Lin, including how it could force him to confront and fuse with all his other selves. After offering to find him Cui Xuandie specimens, she heard Chen Lin ask where the passage to the Star Ruins was.

• Adaiah explained that Soul Dissolution required Soul Rooting, Soul Fortification, a Soul-Unlocking Key, and the summoning and fusion of Chen Lin's other selves before unlocking the Soul Lock.
• Adaiah revealed that she had arranged for the Lake-Fishing Old Man to be trapped for a thousand years, and Tiezhu reminded Chen Lin that Adaiah had once taught him the Symbiotic Sealing Technique.
• Adaiah explained how a stronger other self could take over Chen Lin or escape the Soul Dissolution technique, and warned him about the unpredictable tribulation that followed unlocking the Soul Lock.
• Chen Lin told Adaiah about the six Soul-Unlocking Objects he knew, and Adaiah deduced that Cui Xuandie could help counter the Soul Dissolution tribulation.
• Adaiah offered to find Chen Lin several Cui Xuandie specimens, and Chen Lin asked her to share the location of the passage to the Star Ruins.