Chapter Summaries

Chen Lin survived the tower trial, outwitted the Everlasting Vine, and took a Wordless Celestial Book before escaping with Yue Yingxian and Zhou Anshi. After hearing their accounts, he learned the formless tribulation might have been suppressed rather than truly eliminated.

• The Everlasting Vine attacked Chen Lin after suspecting his connection to its red-string contract, and Chen Lin wounded it with Tiezhu’s flames and his sword.
• The vine offered to guide Chen Lin to a book if he promised Tiezhu would burn down the tower, and Chen Lin questioned it about Everlasting Vine contracts and his companions.
• Chen Lin ignored the vine’s chosen book and took another, triggering the tower’s rules to transport him safely out as the vine raged.
• Chen Lin reunited with Yue Yingxian and Zhou Anshi, who thanked him and offered favors before Zhou Anshi moved them into the void.
• Chen Lin and his companions compared their trials, and Yue Yingxian said the formless tribulation had recurred in her past lives and might only have been suppressed.

Chen Lin learned more about the Wordless Celestial Book and received the Shadow Scholar’s inheritance, including a secret method for entering childlike innocence and detailed guidance on the spirit infusion realm. He began studying the inheritance in Black-Silver Divine City, while the threat of the ghost face and his uncertain path out of the Seven-Star Realm remained unresolved.

• Yue Yingxian and Zhou Anshi speculated that the Wordless Celestial Book had suppressed Chen Lin’s formless tribulation and admitted they could not remember something connected to the ghost face.
• Yue Yingxian and Zhou Anshi agreed to search for treasures that could help Chen Lin withstand the River of Rules, and Yue Yingxian promised to obtain him a variegated crystal within three years.
• Chen Lin returned to Dahuang Star, searched Great Yellow Mountain for Adaiah, then changed his appearance and went to Black-Silver Divine City to examine his gains.
• Chen Lin opened the Wordless Celestial Book, absorbed its contents, and learned that it carried the Shadow Scholar’s inheritance and could use spirit script to create objects or living beings.
• Chen Lin discovered that the inheritance included a secret method for entering childlike innocence and guidance on the intent, spirit infusion, and Creator stages.
• Chen Lin began comprehending the inheritance’s detailed material on the spirit infusion and Creator stages.

Chen Lin learned the truth about Lin Xinyi’s past-life contract, then spent three years preparing to leave the Boundary River and pursue soul dissolution. After acquiring the promised variegated crystal, he departed Dahuang Star and headed for the Red Cloud Star Domain.

• Chen Lin learned that Lin Xinyi had once been Nie Ziqing of the White Light Star Domain and remained bound by an Everlasting Vine contract connected to Bai Wujing.
• Chen Lin and Lin Xinyi discovered that the White Light Star Domain had vanished a hundred thousand years earlier, and Chen Lin concluded Bai Wujing was probably dead; Lin Xinyi chose to leave her past behind and remain his maidservant.
• Chen Lin received five Cui Xuandie, a Three-Eyed Fortune Shell, and a True Bat Ear from Adaiah, leaving him one soul-unlocking object short of attempting soul dissolution.
• Three years later, Chen Lin found the Boundary River manageable, saw the Kaiyuan Realm developing safely, and prepared to leave with Tianshu and Hua Yi.
• Cheng Lingdie deciphered the Secret Realm notes, allowing Chen Lin to learn the Spatial Leap secret method, though his current ability limited its range and power.
• Lin Xinyi brought Chen Lin the variegated crystal promised by Yue Yingxian, and Chen Lin left Dahuang Star for the Red Cloud Star Domain.

Chen Lin waited in Peach Sea for the Peach Banquet auction while mastering the Childlike Innocence secret method. Xiaohua awakened and explained the Wordless Celestial Book’s significance, then offered a dangerous alternative route out of the Seven-Star Realm as Chen Lin weighed his options.

• Chen Lin learned that Peach Sea would not activate its long-range formation to Red Umbrella Star, so he decided to wait ten years for the Peach Banquet auction and its Teleportation Tokens.
• After seven years of studying the Wordless Celestial Book, Chen Lin mastered the Childlike Innocence secret method and searched the market for thousand-threaded red willow and variegated crystal without success.
• Xiaohua awakened in Chen Lin’s cave, heard about his plans and difficulties, and gave him an artifact-refining method for the Myriad Image Shield to help withstand the River of Rules.
• Xiaohua examined the Wordless Celestial Book and urged Chen Lin to make it his main focus, explaining that the Shadow Scholar was the only clearly documented Creator and warning him against relying on the Primordial Stele to ascend.
• Xiaohua offered to use two Void Passages to force Chen Lin out of the Seven-Star Realm, but warned that space storms made the route extremely dangerous and that the Lake-Fishing Old Man’s seal would still interfere.
• Chen Lin judged the River of Destiny route safer and asked Xiaohua how much of her cultivation had recovered.

Chen Lin learned that soul dissolution was far more dangerous than he had thought, while Xiaohua left for the Life Ferry to escape pursuit by her family. He then entered the Fate River using the Sprite Queen's Tear and began testing how much of his power remained usable there.

• Xiaohua warned Chen Lin that soul dissolution had caused two of her friends to fail, and advised him to seek a Rank Seven Dominator to guard him.
• Xiaohua explained that her father, a Fifth Rank Dominator, and her intended fiancé's clan might kill Chen Lin because she had fled her engagement and formed a contract with him.
• Chen Lin gave Xiaohua his Life Coins, Character Card, and black Round Disc, and she vanished to pursue a Life Ferry ticket.
• Chen Lin weighed the risks of soul dissolution and decided his unusual soul, Soul Master Inheritance, and other aids might give him a chance.
• Chen Lin activated the Sprite Queen's Tear with Soul Force and entered the Fate River in his own body.
• Chen Lin found that several abilities still worked in the Fate River, but most of his powers were suppressed to less than a tenth of their strength.

Chen Lin rescued a badly injured high-dimensional alien from the River of Destiny and used rare fruits to restore his body. He then returned to the market with Hua Yi, where Shopkeeper Luan offered him an ancient tome about rare Spirit Plants for a steep price.

• Chen Lin found a wounded blue humanoid drifting in the River of Destiny, brought him back in the Grotto-Heaven Jade Pendant, and decided to try to save him.
• Chen Lin treated the alien with Spirit Liquid, Black-Gold Dew, and several fruits, discovering that coconut-like fruits healed the alien's body.
• After half a year, the ripe coconut fruits had restored most of the alien's body, and Chen Lin left Tianshu to care for him while he visited the market with Hua Yi.
• Chen Lin gave Hua Yi his Seven-Color Bracelet for protection as they searched for supplies and information about the fruits in his Fruit Core Grotto-Heaven.
• Shopkeeper Luan showed Chen Lin an Elder Ancient Text by Ning Tianyue and asked for ten thousand high-grade Star Crystals, or one thousand for a copy under a nondisclosure contract.

Chen Lin studied Ning Tianyue’s tome, learning about rare spirit plants and recognizing the Realm-Leaping Fruit he had taken from the white-robed young man. As the Peach Banquet auction began, he watched the first item appear and saw a little girl standing on its jade disk.

• Chen Lin read about rank-four and rank-five spirit plants, confirmed his apple was a Realm-Leaping Fruit, and stored it in his Grotto-Heaven Jade Pendant for safekeeping.
• Chen Lin learned more about thousand-threaded red willow and rank-six everlasting vine, then discussed the tome’s mysterious, possibly rank-seven spirit plant with Tiezhu.
• Chen Lin checked on the still-unconscious Blue Alien and studied the Fruit Core Grotto-Heaven’s spiritual fruits to plan his cultivation.
• Chen Lin attended the Peach Banquet with Hua Yi, searched the crowds for familiar figures, and found none before the auction began.
• Mo Yuanshan opened the auction and presented the first item, revealing a little girl standing on a jade disk.

Chen Lin attended an auction in the Peach Sea, where he won the allegiance of a peak-grade Peach Spirit and named her Hongchen. He befriended Young Master Jing and agreed to become his sworn brother, gaining a possible connection to the Jingyun Trading Firm’s resources.

• Chen Lin watched Young Master Jing bid one hundred thousand high-grade star crystals for the peak-grade Peach Spirit, but she rejected his pledge of allegiance.
• Young Master Jing offered the Peach Spirit to anyone who could form a bond with her, and Chen Lin succeeded when he gave his blood.
• Chen Lin named the Peach Spirit Hongchen, and she pledged herself to him as their bond strengthened.
• Chen Lin thanked Young Master Jing and exchanged Transmission Talismans with him, introducing himself as Zhao Zhengyuan.
• Young Master Jing proposed that they become sworn brothers, and Chen Lin accepted and drank wine with him.

Chen Lin learned about Jing Yuanzhou’s past and the dangers and history of the Star Ruins while discussing the Everlasting Bell contract and the Riddle Mask with him. Jing Yuanzhou agreed to obtain a section of thousand-threaded red willow for Chen Lin, then asked whether Chen Lin intended to dissolve his soul.

• Chen Lin learned that Jing Yuanzhou was a holy-bone prodigy whose bone had been stolen in childhood, leaving him crippled and exiled from the Jing Lineage.
• Jing Yuanzhou explained the Star Ruins’ four known regions, the Bizarre Kingdom’s near-destruction of its factions, and the dangers of exploring unknown planes.
• Chen Lin told Jing Yuanzhou and the Yellow-Clothed Maid that his other self had formed an Everlasting Bell contract with a bizarre creature, and revealed that the Riddle Mask had helped create it.
• Jing Yuanzhou and the Yellow-Clothed Maid reacted strongly to the Riddle Mask and learned Chen Lin had encountered it in a Life Ferry mission plane.
• Chen Lin asked about thousand-threaded red willow, and Jing Yuanzhou offered to have a section sent from headquarters, then asked if Chen Lin planned to dissolve his soul.

Chen Lin learned about the powers of the Star Ruins, questioned Hongchen about her origins and desire for freedom, and watched the auction. He secured Mo Yuanshan’s Pill Dao inheritance by offering an Eternal Treasure with a high-dimensional trait, leaving himself committed to an expensive exchange.

• Young Master Jing explained the Ten Great Powers of the Central Area and how a power’s strength depended on its dominators, supreme treasures, and influence over rules.
• Chen Lin questioned Hongchen about her memories and transformation, while Tiezhu detected that she secretly resisted serving as a maid; Chen Lin decided he would offer her freedom if she wanted it.
• Chen Lin watched the auction and considered the value of spiritual fruits and the need to improve his crafting skills, but he did not bid on the lots before the Pill Dao inheritance.
• Chen Lin joined the bidding for Mo Yuanshan’s Pill Dao inheritance as its price rose, then offered an Eternal Treasure with a high-dimensional trait.
• Mo Yuanshan waived the assessment and sent Chen Lin the Inheritance Bead, and Chen Lin accepted that he would have to complete the costly exchange.

Chen Lin studied Mo Yuanshan’s pill inheritance before discovering that the auctioned Bell-Gathering Beast was Xu Wuye, captured and held for sale. He resolved to save her as bidders offered treasures, while the cloaked seller rejected the offers and demanded complete bids.

• Chen Lin bought materials for the Spirit Beast Egg and Myriad Image Shield, then read Mo Yuanshan’s inheritance and considered using the Nascent Soul Pill formula to improve his Qi Luck Pill Refining Technique.
• Mo Yuanshan revealed that a Supreme Expert called the Black Demon King was attending the auction, and Chen Lin learned that ten Teleportation Tokens would be auctioned the next day.
• The auction presented a female Bell-Gathering Beast, and Mo Yuanshan explained her potential and invited bidders to view her human form.
• The Bell-Gathering Beast transformed into Xu Wuye, whom Chen Lin recognized through her appearance and the Round Bead’s reaction.
• Chen Lin decided he had to save Xu Wuye, but Jing Yuanzhou declined to bid and the cloaked seller rejected several offers of treasures.
• The cloaked seller told interested bidders to list everything they would offer, promising to respond to the bids together.

Chen Lin exchanged five rainbow flowers to save Xu Wuye from the Heaven Realm Slave-Catching Team, but their powerful backing left him isolated and in danger. After the auction, the Peach Blossom Fairy sent Hongchen a rare Immortal Peach, and Chen Lin suspected his identity as a stowaway had been exposed and the Slave-Catching Squad would come for him.

• Chen Lin offered rainbow flowers for Xu Wuye, and the cloaked man tortured her and repeatedly raised the price before Mo Yuanshan forced him to honor the deal.
• Chen Lin took Xu Wuye and her cage into his Grotto-Heaven Treasure, but Jing Yuanzhou had already left after learning that a powerful enemy was present.
• Chen Lin had Tiezhu return to their lodging to warn Tianshu and conceal the Blue Alien, then stayed to bid on useful items and obtained a Teleportation Token.
• After the auction, the Peach Blossom Fairy held a simplified Peach Banquet and gave Chen Lin a peak-grade Immortal Peach that Hongchen identified as her own true form.
• Chen Lin gave the peach to Hongchen and concluded that the Peach Blossom Fairy expected him to be captured because the Slave-Catching Squad had uncovered his identity.

After the Peach Sea closed its Teleportation Formations, Chen Lin stayed in Peach Blossom City and joined a small trading convention while searching for useful treasures. He traded Cracked Tree Bark for another Bone Sparrow Feather, and the old man asked whether Chen Lin had obtained the bark himself.

• Chen Lin discovered that the Blue Alien's Gem Bracelet resisted his soul-mind probing, so he sealed it away and asked Lin Xinyi to treat the alien with Black-Gold Dew.
• Chen Lin found the Teleportation Hall closed and chose to remain in Peach Blossom City rather than risk being inspected while leaving the Peach Sea.
• Chen Lin attended a trading convention organized by Qian Wanjin, Shopkeeper Shi, and Liang Hu, where Qian Wanjin exchanged a transformed blood ginseng for a Bone Sparrow Feather.
• Chen Lin offered the old man in black half a piece of Cracked Tree Bark, and the old man traded him another Bone Sparrow Feather.
• The old man recognized the bark's Nightmare Realm aura and asked Chen Lin whether he had obtained it himself.

Chen Lin attended an exchange meeting, traded for Bone Sparrow Feathers that could strengthen his Death Gaze, and found none of the treasures he sought. The meeting grew lively when Shopkeeper Qian offered a Star Toad core linked to a dangerous Nightmare Realm scenario, and Fairy Shangguan bid a planet for it.

• Chen Lin traded information about a scenario to the black-robed elder for two Bone Sparrow Feathers and discovered that his Death Gaze could absorb their origin essence.
• Chen Lin requested treasures to heal soul origin essence or Dominator Tier light of space law, but no one offered anything.
• Fairy Shangguan sought variegated crystal and explained that a partner of the Thousand-Face Clan gained a talent blessing and access to Thousand-Face Mountain; Chen Lin declined to trade his crystal.
• Shopkeeper Shi bought a thousand hundred valley orchid grass from Qiya for three hundred and sixty Eternal Pills.
• Shopkeeper Qian presented a Star Toad core that could lead to a Nightmare Realm scenario requiring three Merit Coins and a five-color Road Guide, and said he would sell it to the highest bidder.
• Fairy Shangguan offered Shopkeeper Qian a Gold-Attribute Planet made entirely of red cloud gold ore for the Star Toad core.

At an exchange meeting in the Peach Sea, Chen Lin learned that Fu Tianduo had sealed the region while searching for a powerful cultivator, with Fenghua Supreme assisting him. Chen Lin suspected he was the target, traded information about the Feather Pen scenario and a medium to the black-robed old man, then left after declining an offer involving the Star Toad Fragment scenario.

• Chen Lin stayed out of the bidding for the red cloud gold planet to keep his identity hidden, then asked Shopkeeper Shi why the Peach Sea teleportation formation had closed.
• Shopkeeper Shi revealed that Fu Tianduo, a disciple of Lake-Fishing Old Man, had sealed the Peach Sea to capture a cultivator and had enlisted Black Demon King and Fenghua Supreme.
• Chen Lin recognized Fenghua Supreme as the man behind the World-Extinguishing Talisman that had suppressed the Rainbow Realm, and considered his chances of surviving the search.
• After the exchange meeting ended, the black-robed old man took Chen Lin to the Drunkenness-Free Tower and asked about the Feather Pen scenario.
• Chen Lin agreed to provide a medium and scenario information under a contract barring the old man from entering for a hundred years, then traded a Healing Spiritual Fruit for three Merit Coins.
• The black-robed old man asked whether Chen Lin wanted to enter the scenario tied to the Star Toad Fragment, but Chen Lin refused and left the tower.

Chen Lin traded Dazzling Liquid Color Crystal to Shangguan Lingxi for her Talent Origin and a Star Toad Fragment, then prepared to enter the Nightmare Realm with Lin Xinyi. He questioned Xu Wuye about her past and how she became a Bell-Gathering Beast.

• Shangguan Lingxi offered to trade her Talent Origin and a Star Toad Fragment for Chen Lin's Dazzling Liquid Color Crystal, and Chen Lin accepted under a contract.
• Shangguan Lingxi gave Chen Lin her Talent Origin, improving the activity of his Talent Origin, then departed with the Star Toad Fragment.
• Chen Lin found the inn crowded with cultivators and learned that Tanduo and the others were guarding the exits without conducting inspections.
• Chen Lin asked Lin Xinyi whether she would enter the Nightmare Realm with him, and she eagerly agreed because of her Samsara Body and the chance to improve.
• Chen Lin examined his improved Talent Origin, then entered the Grotto-Heaven and asked Xu Wuye about her master, her arrival in the Outer Star Domain, and how she became a Bell-Gathering Beast.

Chen Lin learned how Xu Wuye awakened her Bell-Gathering Beast bloodline and brought her into his group, then prepared to enter the Nightmare Realm with her and Lin Xinyi to evade Fu Tianduo’s coming search. The Feather Pen activated, but the Peach Sea’s Realm-Protecting Array blocked its connection to the Nightmare Realm.

• Xu Wuye told Chen Lin how she escaped the Cage Array, awakened her Bell-Gathering Beast bloodline, and was captured by a Slave Hunter Group.
• Chen Lin tested Xu Wuye’s bell ability with the Silence Technique and recognized its resemblance to bells on an alien cultivator he had seen at an Exchange Meeting.
• Chen Lin let Xu Wuye leave her cage, gave her healing fruits, and checked on the Blue Alien before deciding to bring Xu Wuye and Lin Xinyi into the Nightmare Realm.
• Mo Ziqi told Chen Lin that Lord Tianduo was waiting for a detection treasure that would let him locate his target, so Chen Lin hurried away to prepare.
• Chen Lin took Xu Wuye and Lin Xinyi to a secluded place and activated the Feather Pen with a Merit Coin, but the Realm-Protecting Array blocked its connection to the Nightmare Realm.

Chen Lin reentered the Nightmare Realm with Lin Xinyi and Xu Wuye, then reunited with Yan Li in Deluo City. Yan Li revealed that the Light Calamity had worsened and that his own Lineage had left him without support, leaving the chapter with Chen Lin preparing to learn more about the world.

• Chen Lin used Tiezhu and Merit Coins to open a Light Gate through the Peach Blossom Grand Array and brought Lin Xinyi and Xu Wuye into the Nightmare Realm.
• The Peach Blossom Fairy discussed Chen Lin with Mo Ziqi and learned that Fu Tianduo's group seemed to be pursuing someone who had escaped from the Star Ruins.
• Chen Lin found that the city remained accessible, checked his treasures, and discovered that Tianshu and Hongchen could see the high-dimensional beings there.
• Sishi guards questioned Chen Lin, but Yan Li arrived, recognized him, and escorted him to the City Lord Manor.
• Yan Li explained that the Light Calamity had worsened, resources were scarce, and his Lineage had provided no support while others coveted his position.

Chen Lin weighed Yan Li’s offerings and reaffirmed him as Deluo City’s ruler despite Yan Yuzhen’s challenge to take the city. Chen Lin defeated Yan Yuzhen with his Soul Master Inheritance and demanded the wagered rewards and a century of service.

• Yan Li gave Chen Lin sixteen Life Coins, two Character Cards, a Seven-Color Nightmare Coin, and a gourd of restorative spirit liquid, then explained the Holy Land’s power and the scarcity of Holy Coins.
• Yan Yuzhen entered and argued that her strength, connections, and long lifespan made her a better choice to govern Deluo City than Yan Li.
• Yan Li declared that he would leave the Yan Lineage and insisted Chen Lin alone could choose his successor; Chen Lin kept Yan Li as city lord and promised to seek a way to extend his lifespan.
• Yan Yuzhen challenged Chen Lin to a duel, wagering one Life Invitation Letter, ten Life Coins, and a hundred years of service if she lost.
• Chen Lin stopped Yan Yuzhen’s axe attack with his Soul Master Inheritance, struck her between the brows, and bound her with the Chain of Destiny.

Chen Lin tested his Soul Master's intimidation ability, reconciled with Yan Li, and brought his companions to the Life Ferry to undertake life tasks. Lin Xinyi failed to return, but Xu Wuye, Old Turtle, Tianshu, and Hongchen each entered in turn, leaving Chen Lin waiting outside.

• Yan Yuzhen accepted her defeat, handed Chen Lin the Life Invitation Letter and ten Life Coins, and left after he refused her offer to control Deluo City.
• Chen Lin tested his intimidation ability on a Goat Monster, confirmed it mainly countered Sishi, and returned to tell Yan Li that Yan Yuzhen was alive and give him three items to test for extending his lifespan.
• Chen Lin brought Lin Xinyi to the Top Hat Building and gave her two Life Coins, but she did not emerge after nearly an hour.
• Xu Wuye chose to enter the Life Ferry, and Chen Lin gave her Life Coins and non-transcendent equipment before she went inside.
• Old Turtle chose to enter after Chen Lin offered him the choice between staying in the grotto-heaven and risking a life task; Chen Lin gave him Life Coins and supplies.
• Chen Lin gave Tianshu a Character Card and supplies before he entered, then gave Hongchen Life Coins and supplies and watched her enter as well.