Chapter Summaries

Chen Lin entered the Third Trial with Gray Donkey, while the others were separated despite being inside the Devouring Heaven Pagoda. After receiving a vague task to find someone and retrieve what belonged to him within three days, he began investigating the courtyard where he had arrived.

• Chen Qingying told Chen Lin that a strange man had predicted he would become a mighty reincarnated being and had given him an unknown item at birth; Chen Lin used his question paper to learn it was a small wooden carving.
• The Heavenly Dao announced that the Third Trial would issue tasks after entry and warned that some rewards could not be used there, so Chen Lin handed out Transmission Talismans and put his companions inside the Devouring Heaven Pagoda.
• Xiao He said the Third Trial's space was connected to Dandian Paradise and advised Chen Lin to collect Wanderers, then stayed behind to pursue an important matter of her own.
• Chen Lin entered the Third Trial riding Gray Donkey, but found that Gu Youlan, Qin Lingyu, Fairy Yaochi, and the others had been separated from him; Gray Donkey remained by his side and explained that Floating Life City had passed dream fragments to it.
• Chen Lin received the task to find an unspecified person and retrieve what belonged to him within three days, then searched the empty courtyard with Gray Donkey and prepared to open the gate.

Chen Lin received a task to participate in the Flag-Seizing Operation and seize a black flag, then gathered allies to search for information while investigating a strange town. He entered the shop named Sun Xiaowan to look for clues, leaving Gray Donkey outside to keep watch.

• Chen Lin found a plaque naming the courtyard Kaiyuan Chen Residence and received the task to seize one black flag in the Flag-Seizing Operation.
• Fu Tianzhou and his group approached Chen Lin seeking cooperation, but a seductive woman robbed them with silver threads; Gray Donkey drove her off after she tried to geld him.
• Chen Lin gave Fu Tianzhou's group supplies and tasked them with gathering information about the Flag-Seizing Operation, while he ordered Gray Donkey to speak only with his approval.
• Chen Lin and Gray Donkey explored the crowded streets, where unusual shops were protected by rule-based force fields, as Chen Lin searched for something that belonged to him.
• Chen Lin stopped at the shop named Sun Xiaowan, told Gray Donkey to watch the street, and entered to investigate.

Chen Lin discovered that his achievement points let him enter the town’s shops and buy certain goods, which appeared connected to Dandian Paradise and used Wanderers as currency. After searching the shops and surveying the town, he stayed inside the gate while Gray Donkey briefly scouted outside; then a dark cloud arrived and began raining over the town.

• Chen Lin entered a shop that others could not access, then learned from Ye Li that the trial takers wanted to know how he had gotten inside.
• Chen Lin entered Thousand-Silk Softness and found that his purchase permission let him inspect some goods, which were priced in wanderer coins.
• Chen Lin concluded that his access and limited purchase permission likely came from his achievement points, then visited every shop without finding a clue to Task One.
• Chen Lin told Ye Li to wait at the Chen Residence while he searched the town and examined the Wilderness beyond its sole gate.
• Chen Lin sent Gray Donkey outside to scout, and the donkey returned claiming a great terror lurked beyond the gate before asking for a reward.
• Chen Lin gave Gray Donkey a spirit herb, then noticed a dark cloud overhead that began shedding rain on the town.

Chen Lin survived an attack by a dark-cloud creature and joined forces with Guan Shanyue and Nan Nuo as they investigated their trial tasks and the town’s shops. Their alliance was interrupted when a golden streak struck the town gate, shaking the entire town.

• A dark cloud sent raindrops that sprouted life-draining mushrooms on the trial takers, but Chen Lin used his rainbow energy to destroy the growth on his hand, and another swordsman’s attack drove the cloud away.
• Chen Lin left Gray Donkey to eat the mushrooms and search for his task item while he headed back toward town and met Guan Shanyue, who had a task to kill a Wanderer.
• Chen Lin and Guan Shanyue agreed to travel together, and Chen Lin suggested they meet other experts before leaving town to hunt a Wanderer.
• At the Carefree Tavern, Nan Nuo warned Guan Shanyue against Chen Lin, but Guan Shanyue declared that he and Chen Lin had formed an alliance and sided with him.
• Chen Lin agreed to let Nan Nuo join their alliance, but a golden streak then struck the town gate and made the town shake.