Chapter Summaries

Chen Lin reunited with Qin Lingyu, then spent ten years preparing Silver Immortal City and himself for the approaching Great Tribulation. As monsters poured into the world and the Xuanwu Shield still failed to develop a spirit, he resolved to force its birth even at the risk of death.

• Chen Lin returned to his cave residence, comforted Qin Lingyu, and spent a tender evening with her before sharing a lavish meal the next day.
• Chen Lin took charge of Silver Immortal City's administration, delegated its affairs, cultivated the Divine Art of Nine Transformations of Heavenly Thunder, completed his flying sword Thunderbolt, and worked on animating the Xuanwu Shield.
• Enormous hives appeared across the Immortal Cultivation World, the Hundred Clans Alliance formed to resist the Great Tribulation, and Tianyuan Island sank with its inhabitants and monsters gone.
• Silver Fairy raised her cultivation to the Nascent Soul middle stage and fortified Silver Immortal City, while He Huahai died and Chen Lin completed his cultivation breakthroughs.
• Chen Lin discussed the Great Tribulation with Yun Xiumian and considered securing secret realms as refuges from danger.
• Chen Lin found that the Xuanwu Shield had not developed a spirit after ten years and decided to use a dangerous brute-force method to accelerate its birth.

Chen Lin used the Fortunate Art and the origin soul liquid to awaken the Xuanwu Shield into a spirit treasure, which then faced an unexpectedly long heavenly tribulation. As a seventh bolt fell, two distant cultivators recognized the event as a spirit treasure’s birth and considered the person responsible.

• Chen Lin prepared a secluded formation in the Barrens and used the Fortunate Art to unleash the origin soul liquid into the Xuanwu Shield.
• The shield transformed into a spirit treasure, formed a Xuanwu phantom, and began enduring heavenly tribulation lightning.
• The Xuanwu Shield blocked the first six bolts, while Chen Lin prepared to use the Realm-Breaking Talisman if the lightning turned golden.
• A seventh bolt descended, and two distant cultivators, including Old Tong, identified the event as a spirit treasure tribulation.

Chen Lin was caught in the three-colored tribulation lightning while trying to protect the Xuanwu Shield, but his puppet dragged him into the Nightmare Realm before powerful cultivators could seize him. There, he survived the lightning’s effects and discovered that it had strengthened his Thunder God Mark.

• A Withered Monk sensed the Spirit Treasure’s tribulation but chose to remain in meditation rather than get involved.
• The ninth tribulation bolt split into two three-colored Thunder Balls, battering the Xuanwu Shield and striking Chen Lin as powerful cultivators approached.
• Chen Lin grabbed the badly damaged shield and was knocked unconscious by the tribulation energy, but his puppet pulled him through the fading space ripple into the Nightmare Realm.
• Nascent Soul cultivators arrived too late to find the treasure, and City Lord Han and Daoist Hu speculated that the unfamiliar cultivators belonged to the Holy Temple.
• Chen Lin ordered Fat Tiger to scout the desolate Nightmare Realm, then endured the thunder power ravaging his body as his Thunder God Mark absorbed some of it and grew stronger.

Chen Lin recovered in the Nightmare Realm, scouted the area, and tried to send an assimilated puppet through a space node as a distraction. A green frog escaped through the node instead, and Chen Lin headed toward a nearby well after the passage vanished.

• Chen Lin recovered enough to move, tested the Xuanwu Shield, and used a Crow Puppet to scout around the space node.
• Chen Lin discovered a well but chose not to investigate it, then waited nearly four hours while restoring his body.
• Chen Lin decided to let nightmare qi assimilate Fat Tiger and push him through the node to surprise any cultivators waiting outside.
• A green frog froze Chen Lin, hopped through the space ripple, and disappeared into the Reality Realm.
• Chen Lin checked his Xianji Stones, dug pits beneath the node, marked the area, and headed toward the well.

Fat Tiger and the Frog attacked four Nascent Soul cultivators at the node, killing the Golden-Robed Man and driving the others away. In the Nightmare Realm, Chen Lin investigated the well he suspected the Frog had escaped from, but found no way to control it.

• The black-robed elder and the Golden-Robed Man returned to the node and joined the Young Man surnamed Han and the young woman of the Demon Race in waiting for the Spirit Treasure’s refiner.
• Fat Tiger emerged from the spatial ripples and attacked the Golden-Robed Man, repeatedly turning into black smoke to evade counterattacks.
• The Frog croaked and immobilized all four Nascent Soul cultivators, allowing Fat Tiger to kill the Golden-Robed Man; the Frog then caught and swallowed his nascent soul.
• The black-robed elder, the Young Man surnamed Han, and the young woman of the Demon Race broke free and fled, while the Frog took control of Fat Tiger.
• Chen Lin examined the well in the Nightmare Realm, drew water with a puppet, and found a frog-shaped mark on the willow bucket.
• Chen Lin had the puppet dismantle the well’s equipment and draw more water, but none of the well’s parts or water showed any unusual effect.

Chen Lin returned from the Nightmare Realm with a willow jar and a Pseudo Spirit Treasure, then suspected the Fortunate Art’s lingering effects would bring backlash. After a month in seclusion, an enormous claw destroyed his immortal cave, and a violent energy surge appeared in the sky.

• Chen Lin used the Road Guide to explore beyond the well, found only barren land, and carried the well’s contents back through the space node.
• Chen Lin found a headless cultivator’s corpse, took its Storage Bag, magical robe, and Giant Axe, and escaped to Silver Immortal City.
• Chen Lin discovered that the willow jar had come out of the Nightmare Realm and confirmed that the Giant Axe was a Pseudo Spirit Treasure; the Storage Bag belonged to a Nascent Soul True Lord.
• Chen Lin feared the Fortunate Art’s backlash and secluded himself for a month, but an enormous claw struck from the sky and obliterated his immortal cave.
• Chen Lin fled toward the City Lord Manor with his weapons ready, and Silver Fairy arrived as violent energy fluctuations appeared in the sky.

The Silver Fairy fought a gigantic monster forcing its way through a sky rift while its Blood Arrows devastated Silver Immortal City. Chen Lin used the Xuanwu Shield to save himself and other cultivators, drawing the monster's attention as it launched a direct attack at him.

• The Silver Fairy charged the monster at the rift and traded powerful spear strikes with its claws, preventing it from fully emerging.
• The monster fired Blood Arrows into Silver Immortal City, killing many cultivators as Chen Lin blocked the arrow pursuing him with the Xuanwu Shield.
• Chen Lin used the shield to draw in and devour Blood Arrows targeting other cultivators, helping the Golden Core cultivators end the attack.
• The monster fired nine stronger Blood Arrows at Chen Lin, and the Xuanwu Shield swallowed them, seemingly strengthening its artifact spirit.
• The monster attacked the Silver Fairy with one swollen foreclaw and sent another enormous claw down toward Chen Lin.

Chen Lin and Silver Fairy drove the monster back after he used the Xuanwu Shield to injure its claw. Silver Fairy discovered that the shield was a Spirit Treasure and warned Chen Lin that its Animating Technique inheritance could bring ruin if others learned he possessed it.

• Chen Lin used the Xuanwu Shield to block the monster's attack, and its phantom bit off part of the creature's claw.
• Silver Fairy struck the wounded monster with her Silver Spear, forcing it to retreat through the closing spatial rift.
• Silver Fairy ordered the city locked down and summoned Chen Lin to the City Lord Manor.
• Chen Lin showed Silver Fairy the Xuanwu Shield and its refining method, and she recognized it as a Spirit Treasure.
• Silver Fairy saw the Myriad Souls Animating Technique in the inheritance and warned Chen Lin to keep it secret because powerful experts would fight to seize it.

After a monster’s attack, Chen Lin protected Qin Lingyu and his family, then returned to the City Lord Manor to learn that the catastrophe had spread across the Starry Continent. The chapter ended with refugees from the destroyed Sea of Clouds Immortal City seeking shelter, and Chen Lin facing the decision of whether to admit them.

• The Silver Fairy warned Chen Lin that the monster had used less than a tenth of its power, gave him a lightning spell, and left him in charge of the city while she recovered.
• Chen Lin reunited with Qin Lingyu outside their ruined immortal cave, learned that she and Chen Qiaoyun’s family were safe, and encouraged Qin Lingyu to keep pursuing core formation.
• Chen Lin gave Qin Lingyu spiritual tools, talismans, pills, the Golden Silk Net, and the Treasure Control Art before they recovered their belongings and returned to the trading firm.
• Chen Lin met Chen Qiaoyun and her family, gave them treasures, warned them to stay in the immortal city, and returned to the City Lord Manor.
• Qin Yueting reported that monsters had destroyed more than ten immortal cities and that insect hives were spreading, while the Hundred Clans Alliance Elder Council debated gathering cultivators to fight back.
• Qin Yueting told Chen Lin that refugees from the destroyed Sea of Clouds Immortal City had gathered outside and asked whether they should be admitted.

Chen Lin refused to admit most newcomers to Silver Immortal City and studied Silver Fairy’s lightning technique as the realm faced growing monster attacks. When Sun Yushi begged for help against a Nascent Soul-level monster threatening Houtu City, Chen Lin rejected his offer to trade Sun Caiyi for a pseudo spirit treasure, and Silver Fairy emerged from seclusion in response to his words.

• Chen Lin ordered Qin Yueting to keep most newcomers outside Silver Immortal City while allowing limited privileges and began studying the Galloping Thunder Technique.
• The Hundred Clans Alliance divided the immortal cities into smaller alliances, naming Silver Immortal City the main city of the Silver Alliance.
• Sun Yushi and Sun Caiyi asked Chen Lin to save Houtu City, whose City-Protecting Formation could hold out for only three more days.
• Sun Yushi offered Sun Caiyi as a concubine in exchange for a treasure capable of killing the monster, but Chen Lin refused and rebuked him.
• Chen Lin urged the Sun Lineage to defend its people rather than sacrifice Sun Caiyi, and Silver Fairy appeared and praised him.

After the Silver Fairy emerged from seclusion, she agreed to protect Silver Immortal City from the monster and ordered Chen Lin to take Sun Caiyi as his concubine. Chen Lin settled Sun Caiyi in an immortal cave, then used newly acquired Thunder-Swallowing Beast inner cores to unlock a powerful lightning spell from the Thunder God Mark.

• The Silver Fairy agreed to deal with the monster threatening the city and ordered Sun Caiyi to remain as Chen Lin's concubine, despite Chen Lin's objections.
• Chen Lin told Sun Caiyi she could reconsider, but she explained that her family would send her back, so he settled her in an immortal cave.
• Chen Lin received two Thunder-Swallowing Beast inner cores, pill formulas, Greater Realm-Breaking Pills, and other goods from Tian Haifu's shipment.
• Chen Lin instructed Lu Youcai to care for Tian Haifu's family and help the families of the trading firm's employees and any struggling mortals.
• Chen Lin absorbed the inner cores' thunder power over a month, awakening the Five Thunders Smite the Crown lightning spell in the Thunder God Mark.

Chen Lin learned the Five Elements Spirit-Nurturing Technique from the Silver Fairy and discovered Sun Caiyi’s earth spiritual body could help him nurture his Golden Core. As monster attacks eased but resources dwindled, he remained unable to find the herbs for Baili Pills or an earth treasure, and he encountered an unexpected visitor at his immortal cave.

• Chen Lin studied Five Thunders Smite the Crown but realized he lacked an earth spiritual root, so he asked Lu Youcai and Tian Haifu to find high-grade earth-attribute treasures.
• The Silver Fairy told Chen Lin to keep Sun Caiyi as his concubine and gave him the Five Elements Spirit-Nurturing Technique, explaining that her earth spiritual body could supply the earth elemental qi he needed.
• Chen Lin agonized over his promise to let Sun Caiyi leave, while several months passed and Qin Lingyu encouraged him to grow closer to her.
• As the immortal cities organized monster exterminations and stockpiled supplies, Silver Immortal City imposed contribution points, but Chen Lin found no rare herbs or earth-attribute treasures.
• Chen Lin used his remaining herbs to refine Baili Pills, which greatly accelerated his cultivation, but his ingredients ran low and no one accepted his herb-gathering missions.
• Chen Lin walked back toward his immortal cave and found an unexpected figure waiting there.

Sun Yushi brought Chen Lin a dowry from the Sun Lineage, including an Earth Spirit Bead and methods for creating and strengthening an earth spiritual root. Yun Xiumian discovered that the bead had been deliberately made defective, and Chen Lin learned that using it for nascent soul formation would doom him to failure.

• Sun Yushi gave Chen Lin the Sun Lineage's dowry and asked him to treat Sun Caiyi well.
• Chen Lin examined the Four Spirits Earth Transformation Formula and the Earth Origin Pill formula, then summoned Yun Xiumian to inspect the gifts.
• Yun Xiumian identified the Earth Spirit Bead as artificially made with its yin attribute stripped away.
• Chen Lin suspected the Sun Lineage had deliberately given him the defective bead, and Yun Xiumian warned that using it for nascent soul formation would doom him to fail.

Chen Lin learned that defective five-elements energy could hinder his Nascent Soul formation, but discovered Sun Caiyi’s innate yin earth qi could make up for the flaw, so he accepted her help and formed a pseudo earth spiritual root. After a year of cultivation, he mastered the basics of Five Thunders Smite the Crown and found that the spell held a tremendous surprise.

• Yun Xiumian warned Chen Lin that defective earth-element energy could prevent Nascent Soul formation unless he found innate yin earth qi.
• Chen Lin learned that Sun Caiyi’s innate earth qi had a yin attribute and realized the Sun Lineage had sent her as an open scheme to bind him to her.
• Chen Lin explained the situation to Sun Caiyi, and she agreed to become his companion and help him use the Earth Spirit Bead.
• After a month in seclusion with Sun Caiyi’s assistance, Chen Lin merged with the Earth Spirit Bead and formed a pseudo earth spiritual root.
• Chen Lin cultivated for a year, reached the introductory level of Five Thunders Smite the Crown, and discovered that the spell had a tremendous surprise.

Chen Lin led a team to destroy a Hive, then rushed to answer a distress signal and encountered the frog monster that had eaten Old Ancestor Red Mountain's nascent soul. The frog fled when Chen Lin exposed the willow jar, and Chen Lin set out to recover the dead cultivators' valuables.

• Chen Lin and his team destroyed the Hive's exposed portion, then used an azure strike to destroy its hidden portion and retrieve a miniature Hive.
• Chen Lin's team responded to a distress signal and met cultivators fleeing after a monster ate Old Ancestor Red Mountain.
• The frog's croak immobilized the cultivators, while Fat Tiger appeared with the frog perched on his head and severed Chen Lin's spiritual connection to him.
• Chen Lin opened the box containing the willow jar and raised the Xuanwu Shield, prompting the frog to flee; Fat Tiger then vanished in black smoke.
• Chen Lin learned that the frog had eaten Old Ancestor Red Mountain's nascent soul and that several other cultivators had died, then ordered the survivors to lead him to the bodies so he could retrieve their Storage Bags.

After Chen Lin reported the Nightmare Realm frog to the Silver Fairy, she took the willow jar to investigate while he examined the treasures recovered from Old Ancestor Red Mountain and his companions. A Treasure Compendium revealed information about time sand and a spiritual herb Chen Lin had found in the Hanhai Immortal Palace Secret Realm.

• Chen Lin collected the fallen cultivators' Storage Bags and bodies, then returned to Silver Immortal City with his squad.
• Chen Lin told the Silver Fairy about the frog and his transformed puppet Fat Tiger, and she recognized the willow jar as a possible means of restraining the frog.
• The Silver Fairy took the willow jar to study and said she would investigate the well in the Nightmare Realm, while Chen Lin kept the recovered Storage Bags.
• Chen Lin found spiritual herbs, pills, tools, and other treasures in Old Ancestor Red Mountain's Storage Bag, along with a Treasure Compendium.
• Chen Lin learned from the Treasure Compendium that time sand could alter the flow of time, but found no information about eight-arm circumambulation.
• Chen Lin discovered that the Treasure Compendium also described the taiji-shaped flower he had obtained in the Hanhai Immortal Palace Secret Realm.

Chen Lin learned that the willow jar’s Nightmare Realm scenario had disappeared, then returned to find that a long-dormant Spirit Beast Egg had hatched into a little chick. The chapter ended with news that Red Mountain Immortal City had disbanded and merged into Silver Immortal City.

• Silver Fairy told Chen Lin that the willow jar’s Nightmare Realm scenario had disappeared, though the jar itself had retained its power, and said True Lord Wanmeng would not leave his city to confront the frog.
• Chen Lin distributed the team’s spoils and returned to his immortal cave, where Chen Qingying told him the Spirit Beast Egg was hatching.
• Chen Lin visited Chen Qiaoyun’s immortal cave and watched the egg hatch into a pale yellow chick, which bonded with him through the Blood Refining allegiance method.
• Chen Lin handed the chick to Chen Qiaoyun to raise, then returned to his cave to study the willow jar and practice his lightning techniques.
• Chen Lin received word that Red Mountain Immortal City had disbanded and merged into Silver Immortal City.

Chen Lin helped integrate Red Mountain Immortal City into Silver Immortal City, oversaw the recovery and resumed production, and gradually returned to cultivation as the crisis appeared to recede. The chapter ended with the Nightmare Realm Frog commanding Fat Tiger in a dark red space and plotting to capture Chen Lin.

• Chen Lin welcomed Gu Qingfeng and the other Red Mountain cultivators, arranged housing, and promised to refine Gu Qingfeng a Three-Stripe Seven-Star Pill.
• Chen Lin sent Foundation Establishment Pills to the bereaved descendants and ordered the city to watch for the missing frog.
• Over the next year, the cultivators destroyed the Hives, cleared the monsters, and began restoring farming, animal raising, herb cultivation, and mining.
• Chen Lin arranged for Qin Yueting to take over city affairs as supplies returned and he resumed his cultivation routine.
• The Nightmare Realm Frog had Fat Tiger defeat a group of insect monsters and vowed to capture Chen Lin and make him its mount.

Chen Lin reunited with his long-lost disciple He Yuqing after she crossed the Barrens and reached the Northern Immortal Cultivation World. After verifying her identity and hearing how Liu Zhengqian rescued her, Chen Lin rewarded him and welcomed He Yuqing back into his care.

• Chen Lin named his newly raised rooster Chen Bao after rejecting names the chicken disliked.
• Chen Qiaoyun told Chen Lin that He Yuqing had arrived claiming to be his disciple, and Chen Lin ordered her brought in.
• He Yuqing proved her identity with the Snake Puppet Chen Lin had given her and explained that High Person Yunhai had revealed Chen Lin's whereabouts.
• He Yuqing recounted how a monster attack scattered her hunting party and how Liu Zhengqian rescued her in the Barrens.
• He Yuqing revealed she had promised Liu Zhengqian a Spiritual Tool for bringing her to Chen Lin, and Chen Lin rewarded him with a middle-grade Spiritual Tool and cultivation pills.

Chen Lin gave He Yuqing resources to attempt Foundation Establishment, then learned that Tianyuan Island had appeared in the sky and was ordered to investigate it. Silver Fairy also warned that a new calamity might be approaching and assigned the Immortal City to guard nearby spatial disturbances.

• Chen Lin promised He Yuqing a Foundation Establishment Pill and a Marrow-Cleansing Pill, then let her prepare for Foundation Establishment after her injuries healed.
• Chen Lin considered High Person Yunhai's possible motives and reflected on his cultivation while inspecting the flourishing city.
• Lu Youcai and several Transmission Talismans informed Chen Lin that Tianyuan Island had suddenly appeared in the sky.
• Silver Fairy ordered Chen Lin to investigate Tianyuan Island with Lian Chenggang and Wu Xin, while the other elders received assignments to guard spatial disturbances.
• Silver Fairy warned that the Asking Star Sect Great Elder had foreseen another calamity and told Qin Yueting to manage the Immortal City during Chen Lin's absence.
• Silver Fairy explained that Nascent Soul True Lords had already investigated Tianyuan Island and instructed Chen Lin to observe its changes and demonic qi before he left to prepare.