Chapter Summaries

Chen Lin traveled with a Golden Core investigation team to the Wuding Sea, where Tianyuan Island had risen into the sky. As the team approached the island and learned more about the ancient demon that might be connected to it, Chen Lin recognized someone among the cultivators gathered below.

• Chen Lin accepted He Yuqing as his disciple again, gave her a jade slip charting a Wuding Sea secret realm, and helped her successfully reach Foundation Establishment.
• Chen Lin left with Lian Chenggang and Wu Xin, joined a Golden Core investigation team led by Fang Zhenping, and traveled to the Southern Immortal Cultivation World's Wuding Sea.
• Chen Lin confirmed that the enormous floating island was Tianyuan Island and warned Fang Zhenping that the Prayer Cult had controlled it.
• Fang Zhenping explained that an Ancient Demon had nearly destroyed the realm during the ancient Gods-and-Devils War and could demonize ordinary people as well as cultivators.
• Chen Lin and the investigation team approached the island and saw more than a hundred cultivators gathered beneath it; Chen Lin suddenly recognized one of them.

Chen Lin and Luo Qinglan reunited after a hundred years and confessed their feelings, but their new relationship was interrupted when He Jiuxiao confronted them. Chen Lin rose to fight the powerful Myriad Swords Gate Young Master and unleashed Five Thunders Smite the Crown.

• Chen Lin and Luo Qinglan recognized each other at the gathering and left the crowd together.
• Chen Lin and Luo Qinglan teased each other about their past, then held hands and pledged to stay together.
• He Jiuxiao appeared, insulted them, and threatened to destroy Luo Qinglan and the Qingyang Sect unless she returned to him.
• Luo Qinglan warned Chen Lin that He Jiuxiao was powerful, but Chen Lin stood between them and prepared to fight.
• Chen Lin rose into the air and unleashed Five Thunders Smite the Crown at He Jiuxiao.

Chen Lin defeated He Jiuxiao with powerful lightning and a Pseudo Spirit Treasure, then reunited with Luo Qinglan and openly affirmed their relationship. As they reached the Floating Island, a terrifying aura suddenly spread across the sky.

• Chen Lin used Five Thunders Smite the Crown and the Soul-Destroying Finger to leave He Jiuxiao vulnerable, then struck him with the Azure Flood Dragon Halberd.
• Luo Qinglan stopped Chen Lin from killing He Jiuxiao, and Chen Lin spared him while crippling his arm and damaging his soul.
• He Jiuxiao ordered his attendant to leave, and Chen Lin took Luo Qinglan toward the Floating Island as onlookers discussed his victory.
• Chen Lin and Luo Qinglan spoke about becoming companions, and he gave her the Azure Flood Dragon Halberd as a token of love.
• Cultivators reported Chen Lin's victory to their factions, while Chen Lin and Luo Qinglan continued toward the Floating Island.
• As they arrived beneath the Floating Island, the sky shuddered and a terrifying aura spread out.

After the floating island vanished, Chen Lin and Luo Qinglan parted ways, with Luo staying to lead the Qingyang Sect and Chen returning north with Fang Zhenping’s group. Before leaving Sihai Immortal City, Chen secretly arranged for He Jiuxiao to receive tampered pills that could prevent him from recovering his soul and advancing to Nascent Soul.

• The floating island shrank, released an aura resembling the Evil God’s, and vanished into the void, leaving Chen Lin and Luo Qinglan worried about what it implied.
• Luo Qinglan declined Chen Lin’s offer to go north, gave him warnings about the Myriad Swords Gate, and accepted his Transmission Talismans before departing with her subordinates.
• Fang Zhenping praised Chen Lin for defeating He Jiuxiao but warned him that the Myriad Swords True Lord doted on his son and might seek revenge.
• Chen Lin and Fang Zhenping’s group reached Sihai Immortal City, where three Nascent Soul Cultivators guarded the teleportation route north.
• Chen Lin ordered Zhao Ziping to secretly get tampered Soul-Repairing Pills to He Jiuxiao, hoping they would permanently damage his chances of forming a Nascent Soul.
• Chen Lin gave another covert agent tampered pills that dispelled spiritual-charm aura, activated several Transmission Talismans, and entered the Teleportation Hall with his group.

After securing time snails, Chen Lin refused Liu Ruolan’s invitation to explore the Demon-Suppressing Temple and learned why the realm’s Nascent Soul experts feared ascending. He then prepared to enter seclusion and break through to the Golden Core mid stage.

• Chen Lin learned that Zhao Ziping and the other undercover agent had delivered the items to He Jiuxiao and confirmed they had been used.
• Liu Ruolan brought Chen Lin the time snails and invited him to join True Lord Wanmeng’s next exploration of the Demon-Suppressing Temple, but Chen Lin refused.
• Liu Ruolan explained that Nascent Soul cultivators feared ascending to the Spirit Transformation Stage because they would lose the world’s protection from the different spirits and face a deadly tribulation.
• Chen Lin received the time snails, found that they produced only faint illusions, and continued searching for a substitute for eight-arm circumambulation.
• After reaching the early Golden Core peak with Baili Pills, Chen Lin entered seclusion to attempt a breakthrough to the Golden Core mid stage.

After reaching the Golden Core mid stage, Chen Lin learned that Mu Linglong had entered the dangerous fifth layer beneath Myriad Souls Ridge and went there to search for her. Madam White Bone and Li Xuanming also entered the ridge in pursuit of a treasure, while Madam White Bone ordered him to capture Chen Lin.

• Chen Lin advanced to the Golden Core mid stage after more than a month of secluded cultivation.
• Silver Fairy told Chen Lin that Mu Linglong had been seen entering the fifth underground layer of Myriad Souls Ridge, then gave him an Array Disk so she could teleport there.
• Chen Lin disguised himself, traveled across the Barrens, and reached Myriad Souls Ridge, where he prepared a Teleportation Formation and entered through a cliff opening.
• Madam White Bone recognized Chen Lin entering the ridge and revealed that Li Xuanming had become her submissive servant, his cultivation stabilized by a Jet-Black Bracelet.
• Madam White Bone entered the same opening and ordered Li Xuanming to capture Chen Lin, threatening to engage in dual cultivation with Chen Lin before him.

Chen Lin was attacked by Madam White Bone and Li Xuanming, who tried to seize his Xuanwu Shield after it revealed itself as a Spirit Treasure. Silver Fairy arrived in time to kill Li Xuanming, but Madam White Bone’s Jade Talisman summoned Xuanyin True Lord, leaving Silver Fairy facing a powerful new threat.

• Chen Lin encountered Madam White Bone and Li Xuanming while waiting for Silver Fairy, and Madam White Bone ordered Li Xuanming to capture him.
• Li Xuanming attacked Chen Lin with ghostly techniques, but Chen Lin used the Xuanwu Shield to withstand his blows and escape.
• Li Xuanming tried to take the shield, and Madam White Bone realized it was a Spirit Treasure and demanded Chen Lin hand it over.
• Silver Fairy appeared, stopped Li Xuanming from fleeing, and killed him before turning on Madam White Bone.
• Madam White Bone’s Jade Talisman blocked Silver Fairy’s Soul-Destroying Finger and revealed the phantom of Xuanyin True Lord.

Chen Lin and Silver Fairy battled Xuanyin True Lord, who had possessed Madam White Bone and revealed his connection to the Yellow Springs Scroll. Xuanyin trapped them inside the scroll, but Silver Fairy revealed that she had made herself the spirit of her natal treasure and prepared to strike.

• Xuanyin True Lord emerged through Madam White Bone, attacked Silver Fairy, and then targeted Chen Lin for his Xuanwu Shield.
• Silver Fairy accused Xuanyin of persecuting the Yun Family and serving divine beings; Xuanyin claimed he had acted to contain the forbidden Soul-Destroying Finger technique.
• Xuanyin trapped Chen Lin and Silver Fairy inside the Yellow Springs Scroll and demanded Silver Fairy become one of its split souls.
• Silver Fairy summoned a gigantic form of herself from her Silver Spear, revealing it was her natal spirit treasure, and thrust at Xuanyin.

Silver Fairy escaped Madam White Bone’s Yellow Springs Scroll and revealed that she had lured Xuanyin True Lord into a trap set with the other four Nascent Soul Late-Stage cultivators. After Silver Fairy exhausted her strength, Xuanyin True Lord escaped into an Ink Wash Painting, leaving the five cultivators facing an uncertain battle.

• Silver Fairy merged with her artifact spirit and opened a passage out of the Yellow Springs Scroll, bringing Chen Lin back to the fourth level of Myriad Souls Ridge.
• Silver Fairy pierced Madam White Bone, whose body became a blood gate that Xuanyin True Lord stepped through.
• True Lord Wanmeng, True Lord Xuanguan, Hundred Flowers Fairy, and True Lord Anying appeared and surrounded Xuanyin True Lord as Silver Fairy’s allies.
• Silver Fairy told Chen Lin she had overdrawn her strength, and he carried her to an opening leading to the fifth level.
• Xuanyin True Lord accused True Lord Xuanguan of turning against him, then entered his Ink Wash Painting and vanished.

Hundred Flowers Fairy and the other powerhouses killed Xuanyin True Lord, seized the Yellow Springs Scroll, and began preparing the cultivators for an approaching catastrophe. Three months later, Chen Lin managed Silver Immortal City while Mu Linglong recovered her mind but not her memories, then received a sudden response from the Nightmare Realm Road Guide.

• Hundred Flowers Fairy trapped Xuanyin True Lord in her petal domain, and True Lord Anying’s token destroyed his main body after his black-mist clones failed to escape.
• True Lord Wanmeng took the Yellow Springs Scroll, and Hundred Flowers Fairy assigned Silver Fairy Xuanyin True Lord’s seat on the Elder Council and ordered cultivators to gather at new headquarters.
• Silver Fairy asked the powerhouses to rescue Mu Linglong from the fifth spatial layer of Myriad Souls Ridge, where a Netherworld monster had clouded her mind.
• Three months later, Silver Fairy told Chen Lin that Mu Linglong had improved but could not remember him, and she left him in charge of preparing Silver Immortal City for relocation.
• Chen Lin visited Mu Linglong, confirmed that she remembered cultivation, and then returned to managing the city’s relocation and resource disputes.
• After resolving a dispute between two lineages, Chen Lin took out the Nightmare Realm Road Guide that High Person Yunhai had given him.

Chen Lin was pulled into the Nightmare Realm, where Niuniu confronted the Traveling Merchant over the qi luck he had taken from Chen Lin. Niuniu secured Chen Lin a discounted chance to trade, but after the merchant refused his offerings for a Nascent Soul pill, Chen Lin asked whether he had any eight-arm circumambulation.

• The Scarecrow Girl pulled Chen Lin into the Nightmare Realm, where he found Niuniu and other children holding the Traveling Merchant captive.
• Chen Lin explained that he had traded his qi luck to the Traveling Merchant, and Niuniu demanded its return.
• The Traveling Merchant said he could not cancel the trade but offered Chen Lin his greatest discount, which Chen Lin accepted.
• Chen Lin asked about legendary treasures and then sought an offensive Spirit Treasure or a pill that could advance him directly to the nascent soul realm.
• The Traveling Merchant said the pill cost one hundred Nightmare Coins or an equivalent-value treasure, but rejected Chen Lin's Xianji Stone, Top-Grade Spirit Stones, Golden Axe, and Blood Refined Xuanwu Shield.
• After Niuniu explained that the merchant could not break his rules, Chen Lin asked whether he had any eight-arm circumambulation.

Chen Lin traded the Fortunate Art for a large portion of One-Arm Circumambulation, a living Rule-type Treasure that could substitute for Eight-Arm Circumambulation in refining Soul Refining Pills. The Traveling Merchant warned him about its dangers before leaving Guardian Hut Village after Niuniu threatened him.

• Chen Lin learned that the Traveling Merchant knew of Eight-Arm Circumambulation, but the merchant offered only information or a large portion of the lower-grade One-Arm Circumambulation.
• The Traveling Merchant explained that One-Arm Circumambulation was a Rule-type Treasure and warned that creatures could only safely handle varieties suited to their number of arms.
• Chen Lin negotiated over the price and offered a list of inheritances instead of his Pseudo Spirit Treasure.
• The Traveling Merchant chose the Fortunate Art, and Chen Lin exchanged its contents for the One-Arm Circumambulation.
• Chen Lin learned the treasure was alive, could not be stored in an ordinary Storage Bag, and would produce toxins if it was killed and left unused.
• Niuniu warned the Traveling Merchant not to deceive anyone again, and he hurriedly left.

Chen Lin visited Niuniu, who restored the qi luck the Traveling Merchant had stolen and gave him a Talisman to use as a medium. After Chen Lin’s talent ability improved, Niuniu helped him investigate the willow jar before sending him away.

• Chen Lin thanked Niuniu for defending him against the Traveling Merchant, and Niuniu explained that her seal had loosened enough for her to find him through his Road Guide.
• Niuniu returned the Fortune Orb, restoring the qi luck the Traveling Merchant had taken and improving Chen Lin’s talent ability from one success in five attempts to one in three.
• Chen Lin asked why Niuniu helped him, and she said she would explain later and would eventually need his help with tasks within his power.
• Niuniu gave Chen Lin a straw Talisman that could serve as a medium for projecting into the Nightmare Realm, then happily accepted the straw grasshopper he made.
• Chen Lin asked Niuniu about the willow jar, and she sensed that its activation phrase consisted of four characters before suddenly sending him away.

After returning from the Nightmare Realm, Chen Lin recovered his Qi Luck, tested Soul Refining Pills, and helped evacuate Silver Immortal City’s residents. As a dark aura spread and hidden powers stirred across several regions, the Frog prepared a Zerg army to invade another realm.

• Chen Lin returned to Silver Immortal City, gave spiritual food to a starving child named Chouwa, and asked the Patrol Team to help the shantytown residents.
• Chen Lin refined Soul Refining Pills, tested them for two months, and began taking the remaining supply himself.
• Chen Lin oversaw the evacuation to the main base and activated the willow jar with the phrase “Sitting in a Well to View the Sky.”
• Chen Lin sensed a dark aura in the sky and flew toward the City Lord Manor.
• In the Nightmare Realm, the Frog commanded its Zerg army to build a Space Passage and prepare to conquer another realm.
• An island tore through the void, High Person Yunhai declared that the time was near, and the old man in the Underground Palace and other hidden powers stirred.

As the heaven and earth will weakened, the Hundred Flowers Fairy and Master Zhuge learned that threats were gathering across the realm and prepared for an approaching upheaval. Master Zhuge sent Liusha north, while wondering why his divination showed a sliver of survival despite predicting certain destruction.

• Master Zhuge divined that the realm's heaven and earth will had weakened by at least thirty percent, possibly half.
• The Hundred Flowers Fairy reported that the Zerg's Hive had appeared in the Barrens, Tianyuan Island had emerged in the far north, and netherworld creatures were rising at Ten Thousand Souls Ridge without being struck by lightning.
• The Hundred Flowers Fairy said she had sent gifted cultivators into hidden secret realms and would gather the rest to fight the coming upheaval.
• Master Zhuge told Liusha that his fate star had shifted and that his chance of survival lay in the Northern Immortal Cultivation World.
• Liusha reluctantly agreed to go north, and Master Zhuge wondered why he had divined a sliver of life instead of certain destruction.

Chen Lin received an invitation from the Holy Temple and learned that the heaven and earth will had weakened, while Silver Fairy warned that a Great Tribulation was approaching. He led a squad into the Barrens to fight the insect monsters, but after he ordered a retreat, Zhuge Liusha took command and led more than half the squad into battle.

• A paper figure delivered Chen Lin a Holy Temple invitation, which he showed to Silver Fairy after reading it.
• Silver Fairy told Chen Lin that Zhuge Hengyun had divined the weakening of the heaven and earth will, and that the Elder Council planned to send qualified cultivators into secret realms to preserve the future.
• Chen Lin gave the secret-realm place to Luo Qinglan, volunteered to lead troops against the insect monsters in the Barrens, and reassured Qin Lingyu and Sun Caiyi before leaving.
• Chen Lin and his squad encountered more than a thousand insect monsters in battle formation, including two with auras at Golden Core Perfection, so he ordered the squad to take cover.
• Zhuge Liusha mocked Chen Lin and demanded a fight, so Chen Lin offered him the captaincy; Zhuge accepted and led more than half the squad toward the monsters.

Chen Lin established authority over his unit by killing two Blade Monsters and disciplining the cultivators who had disobeyed orders. After receiving a distress signal, he led them toward another unit, only to find a vast swarm of powerful monsters that spotted them and forced him to order a retreat.

• Chen Lin held his unit back as Zhuge Liusha led an attack, but a Blade Monster appeared and trapped the advancing cultivators with its swarm.
• Zhuge Liusha used a Divination Lot to kill one Blade Monster, but two more appeared, prompting him to call for Chen Lin's help.
• Chen Lin killed both Blade Monsters with his Golden Axe and ordered his unit to counterattack and destroy the remaining insects.
• Chen Lin reprimanded Zhuge Liusha and warned the unit against disobeying orders, then led them toward a distress signal from their battalion.
• Chen Lin's unit encountered a huge swarm containing more than a hundred Blade Beasts and stronger monsters; when the swarm spotted them, Chen Lin ordered everyone to run.

Chen Lin escaped a Zerg horde with He Yuqing and delivered the activated willow jar to the Silver Fairy, who planned to use it against the Frog after learning that it had killed three Nascent Soul Cultivators. He returned to his wives and urged them to cultivate, then faced two simultaneous messages from Transmission Talismans.

• Chen Lin ordered his team to scatter, then escaped the pursuing monsters with He Yuqing using his Lightning Escape Technique.
• Chen Lin gave the willow jar to the Silver Fairy, who activated it with the spoken command and confirmed that its Frog Mark responded.
• The Silver Fairy told Chen Lin that the Frog had killed three Nascent Soul Cultivators and set out to test the jar against it.
• Chen Lin returned home, reassured Qin Lingyu and Sun Caiyi, and gave them pills to help them advance their cultivation.
• Two Transmission Talismans began emitting fluctuations almost simultaneously, leaving Chen Lin torn between responding and checking on the two women.

Chen Lin learned that the Frog had vanished inside the willow jar, then spent a peaceful year cultivating as the cultivators defeated the Zerg. When Mu Linglong’s memories began returning, a sinister presence revealed itself and attacked Chen Lin, who countered with his Thunder Sword.

• The Silver Fairy told Chen Lin that the Frog had vanished inside the willow jar, and the Elder Council returned the jar to her rather than keep it in their custody.
• The Silver Fairy assured Chen Lin that she had not blamed him for the Frog’s appearance, then questioned him about the well without learning anything useful.
• Over the following year, the cultivators routed the Zerg, while Tianyuan Island and the threats in the south continued to endanger their forces; Luo Qinglan also formed her nascent soul.
• The Silver Fairy confined Mu Linglong in a formation and left Chen Lin to monitor her as her cultivation advanced strangely and her behavior changed.
• Mu Linglong claimed some memories had returned, then spat sinister vapor into Chen Lin and revealed a man’s voice as she tried to make him her servant.
• Chen Lin pretended to obey, then launched his Thunder Sword at Mu Linglong’s head.

Chen Lin defeated the split soul of Xuanyin True Lord that had possessed Mu Linglong, then discovered his own soul had mutated after prolonged use of Soul Refining Pills. He questioned Yun Xiumian about the Soul-Pulling Guide and learned it could create clones by placing a Soul Seal in another person’s soul, but its limitations remained unknown.

• Chen Lin used the Soul-Destroying Finger to destroy Xuanyin True Lord’s split soul inside Mu Linglong, then had True Lord Anmu seal and take her away for examination.
• Chen Lin realized the silver-specked mutation in his soul had strengthened his defenses against soul attacks and boosted his Soul-Destroying Finger.
• Chen Lin released Yun Xiumian from the Wooden Hairpin and asked whether she knew about the Soul-Pulling Guide.
• Yun Xiumian explained that the Soul-Pulling Guide was a painful evil art that raised divine-soul strength and formed a Soul Seal capable of possessing another’s soul and turning them into a clone.
• Chen Lin asked what limitations prevented Xuanyin True Lord from making everyone into a clone, and Yun Xiumian had not yet answered.