Chapter Summaries

Chen Lin killed He Qianshan with the Soul Confrontation Technique and helped turn the battle against Yue Qianqiu’s forces, but Yue Qianqiu’s mysterious broom-wielding form remained locked in combat with Hongchen and Lan Menghan. After Lan Menghan collapsed and her attack faded, Chen Lin and his companions launched a desperate assault on the old man.

• Chen Lin sent Hongchen’s Destiny Character and Lan Menghan to hold Yue Qianqiu while he attacked He Qianshan, whose Eye of Death began draining Chen Lin’s true lifespan.
• Chen Lin destroyed the Eye of Death and struck He Qianshan with the Seven-Star Ladle, but He Qianshan survived and offered to enslave him.
• Chen Lin used the Soul Confrontation Technique to kill He Qianshan, who questioned why the Art of Righteousness at the Cost of Life had worked on him before dying.
• Chen Lin joined Luo Qinglan and White Moonlight in killing Ji Qianhai, then swept the battlefield with blue light and caused the enemy’s ordinary troops to flee.
• Lan Menghan passed out as her Rule Line and Hongchen’s Destiny Character faded, but Hongchen summoned another Destiny Character and Chen Lin’s group attacked Yue Qianqiu.

Chen Lin survived Yue Qianqiu’s old man’s reality-erasing attacks when his soul’s unusual characteristic made the Dominator-level enemy vanish. After the battle, he secured temporary protection and help finding materials to break his seal, but the nine-tentacle divine conch remained elusive.

• The old man’s broom erased Chen Lin, Luo Qinglan, and Grand Duke White Moonlight’s attacks and began erasing their existence, but Chen Lin’s weakened soul entered the old man and caused him to vanish.
• Chen Lin recovered the treasures, helped Jinsheng and the others kill the remaining enemies, and watched Wen Tingyu retreat without attacking him.
• Chen Lin thanked Beitang Zhu, Peach Blossom Fairy, Yue Shanye, and Lady Ming, then said Langdang Mountain had arranged protection from Four Seasons Villa.
• Peach Blossom Fairy agreed to seek a thousand-step vine for Chen Lin’s formation, while Lady Ming explained that the other needed material, a nine-tentacle divine conch, was found only in the inaccessible Rule Forest.
• Chen Lin announced that he planned to purge the Lake-Fishing Old Man’s remaining followers, and the others listed people they wanted spared before departing.

After the Heaven-Defying Alliance defeated its enemies, Chen Lin organized the survivors, secured support from the Seven Passions Sect, and spent more than a decade preparing to escape the Seven-Star Realm. The chapter leaves Chen Lin waiting for Grass and the Ant Society President while studying runic inscriptions.

• Chen Lin assigned the survivors to search for nine-tentacle divine conch, hunt down the escaped remnants, and plan a mobile base while he and Lan Menghan guarded the node with Chen Ling'er.
• Chen Lin spent half a year reflecting on his soul's mysterious power and learning that the rare ability called erasure could eliminate Runic Practitioners and their traces.
• Over the next decade, Luo Qinglan and Grand Duke White Moonlight's teams killed many remnants, and the Seven Passions Sect agreed to help protect the Seven-Star Realm in exchange for control of the Outer Star Domain and joint development of the Abyss.
• Chen Lin accepted the Seven Passions Sect's terms, judging that its protection would help those who could not accompany him to the Star Ruins.
• Chen Ling'er told Chen Lin that Grass had not returned from the Life Ferry and that the Ant Society President remained missing, while reports from the Boundary River indicated that all was normal.

Chen Lin learned that the Seven Passions Sect possessed a secret art for separating an Other Self, though using it would require negotiation. Grass returned from her task with a powerful, costly sword technique, and Chen Lin trusted her despite sensing that she had changed.

• Beitang Zhu explained the Dominator Realm, Merit Marks, and the irreversible path of separating Other Selves, then agreed to negotiate access to the Seven Passions Sect's secret art for Chen Lin.
• Grass returned after earning a perfect evaluation and told Chen Lin that High Person Yunhai had tried to trap her, but Pearl had warned her as the Ferry's new Second Mate.
• Grass revealed that she had received a powerful sword technique with a tremendous cost and had greatly improved her Sword Will through a thousand years of fighting.
• Chen Lin learned Grass believed she had no Other Self and was approaching the Dominator Realm by honing her Sword Will.
• Grass left to help Luo Qinglan hunt the remaining Supremes, while Chen Lin told Lan Menghan that he trusted Grass completely.

Chen Lin accepted the sect’s offer to obtain a separation method and materials in exchange for retrieving a relic from the Bizarre Kingdom, then studied the dangerous Thousand-Cut Dao-Breaking Art. With the Nine-Tentacle Divine Conch still missing and the Lake-Fishing Old Man’s situation uncertain, Chen Lin gathered his returning allies to discuss their next steps.

• Beitang Zhu offered Chen Lin the separation method and array materials in exchange for retrieving the sect’s former Sect Master’s relic from the Bizarre Kingdom within three thousand years, and gave him a Star-Driving Bead as a gift.
• Chen Lin opened the scroll and learned that the Thousand-Cut Dao-Breaking Art required enduring continuous attacks on his Dao foundation, though his independent soul could limit the danger to his body.
• Chen Lin studied the array materials, judged that separating his Other Self would weaken him, and decided to wait for a safer opportunity while asking Grand Duke White Moonlight and Luo Qinglan to prepare a Mobile Base.
• After more than ten years passed without news of the Nine-Tentacle Divine Conch, most of Grand Duke White Moonlight’s group returned from the purge, and Jinsheng asked about the missing Ant Society President.
• Chen Lin reassured Jinsheng that the president might still be alive, then called everyone together to discuss what they should do next.

Chen Lin explored the Abyss and found a hidden passage beneath the statue Ji Yueqing had described. After activating it, he sent his true soul inside while leaving Chen Ling'er and Hongchen to guard his body, with instructions to leave if he did not return within ten days.

• Chen Lin gave up on the factions' help, left White Moonlight and the others guarding the node, and searched the Boundary River and Nightmare Realm before heading into the Abyss.
• Chen Lin reached the Abyssal Depths, found the statue linked to Luo, and discovered the lake and altar Ji Yueqing had marked on her map.
• Chen Lin destroyed the statue, took its nearly depleted crystal eye, and used it to activate the altar, which formed a passage entrance.
• Chen Lin summoned Chen Ling'er, left Hongchen with her to protect his body, and told her to seek help from the Peach Blossom Fairy if he failed to return within ten days.
• Chen Lin separated his true soul from his physical body and entered the passage, which vanished behind him.

Chen Lin explored a sealed space, destroyed a hostile presence in a Giant Tripod, and found a mysterious box containing a map-like scroll. The scroll led him and Chen Ling'er to an Immortal Realm Fragment, where they planned to search for an item and clues about her mother.

• Chen Lin entered a crimson-mist-filled space, cut the chains suspending a Giant Tripod, and destroyed the weakened entity inside it.
• Chen Lin found Ji Yueqing's corroded communication treasure, then discovered a durable box containing a black key-like object, a dark red sphere, and a shifting paper scroll.
• Chen Lin reunited with Chen Ling'er and, months later, used the scroll to identify a shattered plane as an Immortal Realm Fragment.
• Chen Lin told Chen Ling'er they would first seek the item marked on the scroll, then search the fragments for traces of her mother.

Chen Lin and Chen Ling'er searched the shattered Immortal Realm for clues about her mother, Sun Caiyi, and discovered that she had lived there as a cultivator five thousand years earlier. They set out to find more answers, but the Qianlin Sect had no record of where she went after she disappeared.

• Chen Lin found a diary in the ruins that mentioned the Star Ruins, then gave Chen Ling'er the journal to use for her boundary-realm map.
• Chen Lin sent out runic clones to investigate the Immortal Realm while discussing soul dissolution and Other Selves with Chen Ling'er, who accepted two secret arts from him.
• A runic clone reported that a woman matching Sun Caiyi had appeared in a distant fragment five thousand years earlier, and Chen Lin and Chen Ling'er hurried there.
• Chen Lin summoned the Qianlin Sect's Sect Leader, who confirmed that Sun Caiyi had joined the sect as a Void Refinement Realm Outer Sect Deacon before suddenly disappearing.
• The Sect Leader said Sun Caiyi had left no Soul Lamp, and Chen Lin and Chen Ling'er vanished without learning where she had gone.

Chen Lin found a sliver of Sun Caiyi’s soul in an innate spirit crystal, giving Chen Ling'er hope that her mother could be resurrected. After returning to the Outer Star Domain, he left his companions behind and entered the River of Destiny alone to test a route through the Star Ruins.

• Chen Lin and Chen Ling'er searched for Sun Caiyi, and Chen Lin discovered that an innate spirit crystal at the Myriad Treasures Pavilion carried her aura.
• Chen Lin extracted a sliver of Sun Caiyi’s soul from the crystal and explained that resurrecting her would require a suitable body and finding the rest of her soul.
• Chen Lin returned with Chen Ling'er to the Outer Star Domain and, after the Ant Society President failed to return, decided to travel alone through the River of Destiny.
• Chen Lin reassured Luo Qinglan about protecting his family and discussed the uncertain possibility of resurrecting Sun Caiyi.
• Chen Lin gave the fruit-core Jade Pendant and the people inside it to Chen Ling'er, then entered the River of Destiny alone.

Chen Lin entered the River of Destiny in his true body, tested his possessions and abilities, and traveled upstream. After discovering that the light-filled void outside the river nearly destroyed him, he returned to the water and encountered Zuo Xiwen.

• Chen Lin confirmed that Hongchen and Little White Snake could withstand the Destiny Rule, while his two other test subjects needed his protection.
• Chen Lin found that he could use the Grotto-Heaven Jade Pendant and Silver Ingot Bracelet, and that his abilities were strengthened inside the river.
• Chen Lin used Daidaidong's Fate Pointer to travel upstream and learned that leaving and reentering his Talent Domain did not change his position in the river.
• Chen Lin surfaced from the River of Destiny and was wrapped in countless strands of light that his methods could not fend off.
• Chen Lin plunged back into the river, where the strands vanished, and saw Zuo Xiwen waiting at a fork.

Chen Lin crossed the Dimensional Barrier and followed Zuo Xiwen’s directions to a node, but it unexpectedly brought him to a cave where a strange woman gave him a ring before sending him into the Star Ruins. He was left wondering how the node had led him there and why the woman had mistaken him for someone sent to visit her.

• Zuo Xiwen told Chen Lin how to find a node near Ten-Surname Village and gave him a Revival Fruit to help him strip away his Other Selves.
• Chen Lin collected destiny flowers and a small fruit-bearing tree while following the Round Disc through the River of Destiny.
• Chen Lin prepared his abilities and crossed the Dimensional Barrier, using the Crystal Needle to break through its shifting lights and shadows.
• Chen Lin followed Zuo Xiwen’s directions to a node, but emerged in a damp cave where a tethered woman questioned him and called him a soul smuggler.
• The woman gave Chen Lin a silvery-white ring and sent him into the Void, leaving him to suspect he had reached the Star Ruins and puzzle over the cave’s connection to the node.

Chen Lin reached Lu Island, met cultivators attending the Hibiscus Convention, and learned that a breached plane had flooded nearby markets with mysterious goods. He accompanied Ning Yu to a stall selling gambling Lamp Pots, where Ning Yu opened one and obtained a bright red fruit.

• Chen Lin followed a Location Bead to Lu Island, where Mu Chengzhou, Qu Fengchun, and Mo Yi invited him to attend the Hibiscus Convention with them.
• Chen Lin learned that Lu Island was a shared commercial market and that the Hibiscus Convention was a gathering for pairing cultivators with companions.
• Chen Lin left the others to browse the market, searched for Nine-Tentacle Divine Conch, and learned that it might be sold at the Azure-Crested Heavenly Palace or in the sealed Rule Forest.
• Chen Lin befriended Ning Yu, who explained that goods from a breached plane had recently flooded the markets around the Thousand-Tower Ruin.
• Ning Yu bought a gambling Lamp Pot with a variegated crystal, opened it, and received a bright red fruit.

Chen Lin opened a Lamp Pot and acquired Sprout, a rule-born Divine Maiden who became his subordinate and agreed to gather resources for him on Lu Island. After establishing a shop and learning more about the Market, he followed Ning Yu to the Hibiscus Pavilion to see its White Sprites.

• Ning Yu drew an Inaction Fruit and three pieces of variegated crystal from Lamp Pots, while Chen Lin's pot produced a cloud-robed Divine Maiden who called him Master.
• Chen Lin named the Divine Maiden Sprout and assigned her to collect nine-tentacle divine conch and variegated crystal marrow on Lu Island.
• Chen Lin learned that Sprout could communicate with him through a rule contract, then tasked her with running Sprout Grocery Store after buying land on the Market's outskirts.
• Ning Yu declined to join Chen Lin's shop, and the two discussed Chen Lin's refusal to treat Sprout as a cultivation cauldron.
• After Ning Yu explained the Hibiscus Pavilion's matchmaking service and its connection to Yin-Yang Island, Chen Lin agreed to accompany him there to see the White Sprites.

Chen Lin visited Yin-Yang Island’s Hibiscus Pavilion with Ning Yu and learned that its marriage convention offered rule-blessed matches for a fee. After looking through the third-floor album without choosing anyone, he discovered that someone had paid to view his detailed information, obligating him to disclose it under threat of a tenfold penalty.

• Ning Yu gave Chen Lin a detailed map of the Star Ruins factions and explained that his lineage kept Ascension Trial information secret.
• Ning Yu and Chen Lin qualified for the Hibiscus Pavilion, with Ning Yu receiving intermediate status and Chen Lin receiving advanced status from the Matchmaker’s Eye.
• Chen Lin asked about Wen Siyue, and a Yin-Yang Sect cultivator told him she was on Yin-Yang Island preparing for the Flag-Seizing Tournament before Senior Sister Wu intervened.
• Chen Lin followed He Wuzhao to the third floor and learned that the album charged variegated crystals or Silver Hibiscus Coins for fuller match information.
• Chen Lin finished browsing the album without choosing a match, but it announced that someone had paid to view his detailed information and that he had to disclose it or pay ten times the cost.

Chen Lin was forced into a recognized companion status with Yue Bingling by the Hibiscus Pavilion’s rules, then left Lu Island to search for nine-tentacle divine conch. After failing to find any near the Thousand-Tower Ruin, he continued toward Wudaopo and chose to cross the Sand Sea directly.

• Chen Lin used his soul body and a mysterious characteristic to enter false information into the Hibiscus Pavilion’s Marriage Document, but Yue Bingling used a Yin-Yang Token to establish companion status with him.
• Chen Lin confronted the Hibiscus Pavilion over the forced status, then accepted the tower master’s apology and variegated crystal marrow and left after learning Wen Siyue was cultivating on Yin-Yang Island.
• Sprout told Chen Lin that Ning had left for the Hanchuan Boundary Realm and given him an invitation to the Ning Family during the upcoming Boundary Realm Exchange Convention.
• Chen Lin departed Lu Island and searched the markets near the Thousand-Tower Ruin for nine-tentacle divine conch, but found none and continued toward Wudaopo to contact Dugu Batian.
• After traveling for two years, Chen Lin and Little White Snake reached the Sand Sea, and Chen Lin decided to cross it rather than take a longer route around.

Chen Lin survived the Sand Sea’s corrosive energy and a monster’s tentacle, then rescued Su Wanyi and her infant son from a giant Flying Boat. After using the Seven-Star Ladle to escape the Sand Sea, he agreed to travel with Su Wanyi toward Wudaopo, where he noticed a bent blade of grass.

• Chen Lin used his Soul Wings and Nine-Layered Armor to cross the Sand Sea, then fought off a massive tentacle with the Seven-Star Ladle and the Soul Confrontation Secret Art.
• Chen Lin found a giant beast-shaped Flying Boat containing Su Wanyi, her infant son, and two unconscious men, and he gave the survivors medicinal pills and spirit liquid.
• Su Wanyi asked Chen Lin to take her son to the Wang Lineage of Little Xuan Island, but Chen Lin instead used the Seven-Star Ladle to tear open space and bring the Flying Boat out of the Sand Sea.
• Su Wanyi introduced herself as the wife of Wang Qingchuan and offered her lineage’s service; Chen Lin gave the name Lin Feiyu and agreed to travel with her toward Wudaopo.
• Su Wanyi began treating the two injured men from her lineage, while Chen Lin pointed out a bent blade of grass.

Chen Lin brought Su Wanyi and the surviving members of the Wang Lineage back to Little Xuan Island, then searched for the source of a Soul-Condensing Herb that had stirred a faint reaction in his soul. After their inquiries at every shop came up empty, Su Wanyi suggested the herb might have absorbed its peculiar aura from something stored beside it.

• Chen Lin noticed that one Soul-Condensing Herb faintly affected a hidden trait in his soul and decided to investigate its origin in the Shattered Star Ring.
• Chen Lin and Su Wanyi reached Little Xuan Island, where Su Wanyi arranged for the purple cloud soil to be unloaded and took charge of the weakened Wang Lineage.
• Chen Lin studied the art of separating his other selves while a Runic Puppet investigated the Shattered Star Ring, and Su Wanyi later gave him a box of promised payment.
• Su Wanyi asked Chen Lin to become an attendant of the Wang Lineage, but he declined and offered to help with threats if her lineage traced the herb's origins.
• Chen Lin and Su Wanyi visited every shop where she had bought Soul-Condensing Herbs but found no clues, so Su Wanyi proposed that the herb might have absorbed its aura from another stored item.

Chen Lin traced the unusual aura in the soul-condensing herbs to supplies bought at the Li Family Market, but his attempt to divine its source nearly destroyed his Talent Domain. After surviving through the Reverse Scale, he found that his talent had changed and become connected to the Main Destiny River, then paused his investigation when Su Wanyi called to him.

• Chen Lin failed to use his talent to locate the source of the aura, confirmed Su Wanyi had not lied, and concluded that the mysterious trait was interfering with divination.
• Su Wanyi recalled that the Wang Lineage had bought the first soul-condensing herbs at the Li Family Market, and Chen Lin found a soul-nourishing grass from the same purchase that carried a similar aura.
• Chen Lin erased the manager's memories, then depleted his soul origin essence so that only the part bearing the trait remained and used his talent to find a clue at the Li Family Market.
• When Chen Lin tried to reach the clue's node in destiny fish form, the node drew him in and made his body and domain turn transparent, but his Reverse Scale restored him long enough to escape.
• Chen Lin recovered with Hongchen's aid and discovered that his Talent Domain now contained branching lines connected to the Main Destiny River, though it had no nodes to correct.
• Su Wanyi called to Chen Lin, and he put Hongchen and Little White Snake away before going outside.

Chen Lin confronted the Li Family after learning that its spirit herbs came from the Totem Secret Realm, then used his Soul Master Deterrence Power to escape their ambush. He later bluffed Li Huaxuan into believing he was connected to the clan’s hidden past, and the Li patriarch admitted the family had activated a treasure but could not enter the true secret realm.

• Chen Lin questioned the Li Family Market shopkeeper about the spirit herbs and learned they likely came from the Totem Secret Realm.
• Li Qianming and five Li Family elders surrounded Chen Lin and Su Wanyi, but Chen Lin stunned them and left the shop with her.
• Su Wanyi returned to Little Xuan Island and worried that the Li Family would retaliate, while Chen Lin declined to flee or hide the Wang Lineage.
• Li Huaxuan arrived at the Wang Lineage with rebirth ginseng for Su Wanyi’s son and asked to meet Chen Lin.
• Chen Lin used his Soul Master Deterrence Power to control the conversation, and Li Huaxuan claimed the Li Family had activated the treasure but could not reach the true secret realm.

Chen Lin inspected the Li Family’s Rooster Totem Statue, discovered it was connected to the Zodiac Beasts, and tested its power before leaving without entering its secret realm. The Li Family secretly planned to lure him into the realm and use a Life-Slaying Lock to seize his gains, while Chen Lin returned to Little Xuan Island and began examining his Fierce Tiger Pendant.

• Chen Lin pressured Li Huaxuan into taking him to the Li Family headquarters to inspect the Primordial Totem, where Li Qianming apologized for attacking him.
• Chen Lin recognized the statue as a Zodiac Beast, accepted a vial of variegated essence, and considered how several beings and objects he had encountered might be among the Twelve Zodiacs.
• Li Huaxuan explained that his family had obtained a Black Feather from the Rooster Statue, and Chen Lin used the Silence Technique to test the statue before retreating when it resisted.
• Chen Lin declined Li Huaxuan’s offer to enter the secret realm and left; Li Huaxuan revealed to Li Qianming that he planned to trap Chen Lin with a Life-Slaying Lock inside the realm.
• Chen Lin reassured Su Wanyi that the Li Family would not attack the Wang Lineage for now, refused to take Zhe'er as his disciple, and then examined the Fierce Tiger Pendant.