Chapter Summaries

Chen Lin and Yun Xiumian identified the Rainbow Bridge as an effect of a high-grade spirit treasure and discovered a Soul-Sealing Pillar that might hold the way out. Chen Lin weakened the sealed soul with repeated Soul-Destroying Finger strikes, then approached the silent pillar to see whether it had survived.

• Yun Xiumian explained the grades of spirit treasures and suggested that the Rainbow Bridge came from the Rainbow Fan, a powerful spirit-condensing treasure.
• After Chen Lin told her about the Celestial Demon Bead, Yun Xiumian speculated that a supreme expert had once descended to the realm, but she could not explain how to escape the space.
• Chen Lin and Yun Xiumian found a black pillar, which Yun Xiumian identified as a Soul-Sealing Pillar containing a living soul.
• Chen Lin tested the space for a way out but found none, so he and Yun Xiumian considered weakening the pillar's seal.
• Chen Lin used repeated Soul-Destroying Finger strikes to suppress the furious soul inside the pillar, stopping only after it no longer reacted.
• Chen Lin approached the pillar to check whether the soul had died, hoping instead to question it about escaping.

Chen Lin and Yun Xiumian tried to communicate with the soul sealed in a pillar, which claimed to be the Rainbow Fan’s artifact spirit and offered a secret art in exchange for release. Chen Lin refused to trust it, and he and Yun Xiumian left their negotiation unresolved while considering what the pillar and spirit might be.

• Yun Xiumian used her Wooden Hairpin on the Soul-Sealing Pillar, and Chen Lin confirmed that the soul inside was still alive.
• Chen Lin threatened to destroy the pillar, prompting the sealed soul to speak and reveal that his Soul-Destroying Finger could weaken it but not destroy its soul’s origin essence.
• The soul identified Qiu Daoli as the one who had imprisoned it and celebrated the cultivator’s apparent death before offering Chen Lin a secret art in exchange for its release.
• Chen Lin rejected the soul’s proposed bargain and learned that the Soul-Sealing Pillar was the key to leaving the space, leaving both sides at a stalemate.
• Chen Lin privately asked Yun Xiumian whether they were inside the Rainbow Fan, and she suggested the sealed being might be one of seven entities that supplied the treasure with energy.

Chen Lin rejected the Soul-Sealing Pillar spirit’s suspicious offer and tried several ways to escape, including entering the Nightmare Realm and testing Nightmare Artifacts on the pillar. Unable to find a solution, he decided to stay and cultivate for three months while waiting for his bad luck to pass.

• Chen Lin realized the Soul-Sealing Pillar spirit was trying to trick him into absorbing a dangerous orb, then failed to harm the spirit with his attacks.
• Chen Lin told Yun Xiumian to watch over him while he entered the Nightmare Realm, but found no one at Gambling Fortune Lake and returned empty-handed.
• Chen Lin discovered the Black Eagle King’s beast bone resisted nightmare transformation but could not be manifested in the Nightmare Realm while he was in projection.
• Chen Lin tested whether lightning-struck wood and Buddhist Prayer Beads could drag the pillar spirit into the Nightmare Realm, but neither worked.
• Chen Lin entered Gambling Fortune Lake daily, found no one there, and studied the Thunder Dragon Technique while waiting three months for the Fortunate Art’s backlash to end.

Chen Lin used five petals from the seven-colored flower to improve his soul, physique, luck, and spiritual sense while he waited inside the Rainbow Fan's space. The space then began shaking violently, leaving Chen Lin and the soul in the Soul-Sealing Pillar wondering what was happening to the fan outside.

• An enormous crab found a damaged seven-ribbed fan on the seabed and tucked it into a gap in its shell.
• Luo Qinglan and Dantai Yunjin witnessed a blue shrimp undergo a terrifying tribulation, and Luo Qinglan flew closer to investigate.
• Chen Lin crushed five colored petals, gaining modest improvements, and kept the Yellow Petal in reserve.
• Chen Lin noticed the Rainbow Fan's space shaking and sent Yun Xiumian into the Wooden Hairpin for safety.
• Chen Lin questioned the soul inside the Soul-Sealing Pillar, who denied causing the shaking and asked what was happening outside.

Chen Lin refused to free the soul trapped in the Soul-Sealing Pillar, even after it taught him the Good Fortune Spirit-Condensing Art, and searched for a way out as the Rainbow Fan space began to collapse. The chapter ended when heavenly tribulation lightning struck the pillar, revealing that someone was using the Spirit Treasure to undergo a tribulation.

• Chen Lin realized the backlash from the Fortunate Art had ended and decided to escape without the soul's help.
• The soul recited the Good Fortune Spirit-Condensing Art, and Chen Lin secretly recorded it while memorizing its words.
• Yun Xiumian identified the art as genuine but warned that it required the Good Fortune Sect's Primordial Spirit Embryo method, which she knew.
• Chen Lin refused to release the soul after learning it had deliberately omitted the method and began searching the space for a weak point.
• A fissure opened overhead, and heavenly tribulation lightning struck the Soul-Sealing Pillar, burning the trapped soul and revealing that someone was undergoing a tribulation with the Rainbow Fan.

Chen Lin escaped the Rainbow Fan during the Giant Prawn’s tribulation, but the final strike shattered the treasure and left him badly injured. A month later, he recovered at Qingyang Sect headquarters, where he and Luo Qinglan discussed two recovered fan ribs as powerful factions sought to meet him.

• Chen Lin emerged from the Rainbow Fan inside the Giant Prawn, found the damaged treasure, and tried to take it as the final tribulation strike descended.
• The three-colored lightning shattered the Rainbow Fan, severely wounded Chen Lin, and sent him falling toward the sea before Luo Qinglan caught him.
• A month later, Chen Lin pretended to be more injured than he was while Luo Qinglan brought him medicinal soup at Qingyang Sect headquarters.
• Luo Qinglan showed Chen Lin a fan rib she had found, and Chen Lin compared it with the yellow rib he had caught during the tribulation.
• Chen Lin concluded that the missing orange and purple ribs likely held the Rainbow Fan’s main artifact spirit and asked Luo Qinglan to study the recovered ribs cautiously.
• Luo Qinglan told Chen Lin that major factions had been asking to see him and that she could no longer keep postponing their visits.

Chen Lin and Luo Qinglan agreed to make their relationship official with a simple Dual Cultivation Ceremony, which the Qingyang Sect began preparing. Yun Xiumian left to seek soul-strengthening opportunities, and Chen Lin helped finalize the ceremony's guest list.

• Chen Lin agreed with Luo Qinglan to formally become companions and announce their union while meeting representatives of the major factions.
• Chen Lin explored Qingyang Island, where Yun Xiumian appeared and said she planned to seek materials near Myriad Souls Ridge to reconstruct her own body.
• Yun Xiumian gave Chen Lin the inheritance method for refining a Primordial Spirit Embryo and warned him not to let the difficult process delay his cultivation before departing across the sea.
• Chen Lin met Mu Xingchen and learned that He Yunhuan and Su Chenyu had died, while Ling Ziyan had successfully reached Core Formation.
• Mu Xingchen discussed the Dual Cultivation Ceremony's invitation list with Chen Lin, who added Jin Xingyun and Liu Ruolan as friends he wished to invite.

Chen Lin and Luo Qinglan held a grand dual cultivation ceremony on Qingyang Island, where He Yunfei appeared to avenge his son by challenging Chen Lin. Chen Lin survived He Yunfei’s sword strike and crippled him with a counterattack, but let him leave to avoid a larger fight.

• Chen Lin and Luo Qinglan completed their ceremony before a crowd of guests, while a cloaked, aged woman watched Chen Lin from outside the gathering and then left with an old woman.
• Jin Xingyun congratulated Chen Lin and delivered gifts from Lord Qing and True Lord Wanmeng.
• He Yunfei, sect master of the Myriad Swords Gate and father of He Jiuxiao, arrived and declared that he would avenge his son by striking Chen Lin once.
• Shang Xuelian tried to dissuade He Yunfei, but he unleashed a powerful sword attack at Chen Lin.
• Chen Lin used the Xuanwu Shield to withstand He Yunfei’s sword strike, then struck him with silver light that rapidly drained his vitality.
• Chen Lin ordered He Yunfei to leave, choosing not to kill him because several Nascent Soul cultivators had gathered to support him.

After learning about the worsening crisis in the Northern Immortal Cultivation World, Chen Lin and Luo Qinglan killed the Myriad Swords Ancestor, whose true cultivation was exposed as god-communion. A month later, Chen Lin returned to cultivation and learned that Luo Qinglan had found leads on materials for refining the Primordial Spirit Embryo.

• Chen Lin told the gathered faction leaders that Yin Domains were spreading across the Northern Immortal Cultivation World and described the Holy Temple, the Yin God Sect, and his accidental arrival on the Xingyun Continent.
• Xuelian True Lord warned that the rise of yin elixir cultivators might be linked to Xuanyin True Lord, whose death could have been faked.
• Luo Qinglan changed out of her wedding clothes and persuaded Chen Lin to kill the Myriad Swords Ancestor that night, accusing him of repeated attacks and suspecting he was a god-communion cultivator.
• The Myriad Swords Ancestor was found slain inside Wanjian Island, and True Lord Wanmeng revealed that he had been a god-communion cultivator; the Myriad Swords Gate's Great Elder seized control after killing the Ancestor's nephew and clansmen.
• A month later, Chen Lin resumed cultivation after confirming there would be no retaliation, and Luo Qinglan reported that two fan ribs contained empty internal spaces and that leads had emerged on treasures needed for the Primordial Spirit Embryo.

Chen Lin learned that the Gu Family held a soul-washing flower and that the black umbrella-carrying figure was one of the prison guards, then warned himself to avoid the Celestial Demon Bead. After High Person Yunhai retrieved the purple fan bone, the Orange Fan Bone broke open to reveal a black bead, and Chen Lin waited at the Artifact Sect while his Cold Moon Saber was repaired.

• Luo Qinglan told Chen Lin that the Gu Family on Red Moon Island possessed a soul-washing flower, but Chen Lin decided to have someone else negotiate because of his grudge with Gu Shengjin and the Gu Patriarch's power.
• Luo Qinglan reported that the black umbrella-carrying man was a prison guard and that the golden flood dragon was a Demon Race cultivator once controlled by him; she also warned Chen Lin that the prison guards kept the truth about celestial demons secret.
• Chen Lin agreed with Luo Qinglan that they needed to improve their cultivation and leave the realm before the Celestial Demon Bead awakened, then proposed they study a dual-cultivation art together.
• High Person Yunhai found and retrieved the purple fan bone from the Wuding Sea; elsewhere, the Orange Fan Bone shattered and released a black bead, prompting figures in several locations to open their eyes.
• Chen Lin visited the Artifact Sect to wait for the sect master to repair his Cold Moon Saber, studied the gray-robed attendant, and asked her name; she introduced herself as Huang Yiyi.

Chen Lin reunited with Huang Yiyi, compensated her with a chance to receive his help with core formation, and retrieved his repaired Cold Moon Saber from the Artifact Sect. Back at the Qingyang Sect, he agreed to visit True Lord Wanmeng about exploring the Demon-Suppressing Temple in the Nightmare Realm.

• Chen Lin recognized Huang Yiyi as the Tianyuan Continent cultivator who had sold him the Ink-Hidden Spirit Boat blueprints and reminded her that he had spared her in the past.
• Chen Lin offered Huang Yiyi compensation and promised to help her with core formation once she reached foundation establishment perfection, giving her two Transmission Talismans.
• Yang Qianzhong returned Chen Lin's repaired Cold Moon Saber, and Chen Lin left the Artifact Sect without asking him to work on the Rainbow Fan ribs.
• Liu Ruolan told Chen Lin that True Lord Wanmeng had emerged from seclusion and invited him to discuss the Demon-Suppressing Temple scenario, where Wanmeng had reached the pagoda's third floor.
• Chen Lin agreed to visit True Lord Wanmeng the next morning, explaining to Luo Qinglan that the Nightmare Realm might contain a passage out of their realm.

Chen Lin met True Lord Wanmeng in Guangming City, tested his Buddhist power with a reliquary, and asked whether the Silver Fairy could recover from nightmare transformation. True Lord Wanmeng offered little hope but revealed that he suspected the Demon-Suppressing Temple held a passage between worlds, then brought Chen Lin to a secured secret realm to enter the scenario as a projection.

• Chen Lin visited True Lord Wanmeng, activated the Buddhist power in a reliquary, and learned it might help unlock the third floor of the Demon-Suppressing Pagoda.
• Chen Lin told True Lord Wanmeng that the Silver Fairy had undergone nightmare transformation after encountering a frog and a willow jar, and True Lord Wanmeng said recovery would be difficult but not impossible.
• True Lord Wanmeng revealed that he suspected the Demon-Suppressing Temple contained a passage to other worlds and that he had found a space node for entering it in their true bodies.
• True Lord Wanmeng warned Chen Lin that another upheaval might soon strike the world and took him to a hidden secret realm to explore the scenario as a projection.
• True Lord Wanmeng summoned two Nascent Soul-level ancient corpses he had refined as guards and prepared to strike the Wooden Fish and Gavel.

Chen Lin returned to the Demon-Suppressing Temple, where the Wooden Chicken remembered him and used Niuniu’s Talisman to divine a cryptic warning. He entered the main hall and found that his familiar words no longer affected the Old Monk.

• Chen Lin appeased the Old Monk with a Buddhist saying, then discovered the Wooden Chicken remembered him and still could not leave without a Road Guide.
• The Wooden Chicken warned Chen Lin that death qi surrounded him, but refused to share details unless Chen Lin handed over his Road Guide.
• Chen Lin showed the Wooden Chicken Niuniu’s Talisman, and the chicken recognized it as the Princess’s and performed a divination.
• The Wooden Chicken told Chen Lin, “When faced with three, choose the first. When faced with four, choose the last. Seven Stars Aligning, head east all the way,” then asked him to tell Her Royal Highness that Qingtou was alive.
• Chen Lin noticed the birdcage had disappeared and entered the hall, where the Old Monk repeated his demand that Chen Lin kneel before the Buddha Ancestor.
• Chen Lin used his familiar reply, but it did not affect the Old Monk this time.

Chen Lin answered the Old Monk with another Buddhist saying and obtained a second patterned prayer bead before following True Lord Wanmeng into the underground Demon-Suppressing Pagoda. After passing its first two dangerous levels, they reached a third hall whose seven monks and white lotus matched the scene from the Seven Buddha Painting in Guyuan City.

• Chen Lin used a Buddhist saying to make the Old Monk disappear and found a second prayer bead whose pattern joined with the first.
• Chen Lin joined True Lord Wanmeng in using the Abbot's Kashaya to pass through the small door into the Demon-Suppressing Pagoda.
• Chen Lin followed True Lord Wanmeng through the first level, ignoring the illusory monks and stepping only on odd-numbered stairs.
• Chen Lin followed True Lord Wanmeng around the Buddha statues in the second level's Killing Formation and descended the even-numbered stairs.
• Chen Lin saw seven monks seated around a white lotus on the third level and recognized the scene from the Seven Buddha Painting in Guyuan City.

Chen Lin and True Lord Wanmeng returned to the Demon-Suppressing Pagoda’s third floor to activate a reliquary beneath the Buddha statue. The seven monks awakened and formed their wooden fish into a floating row, leaving the pair facing an unknown danger.

• Chen Lin recognized Nian Kong, Nian Qing, and the other monks from the Ancient Temple secret realm, while True Lord Wanmeng warned him not to touch them.
• True Lord Wanmeng explained that the pagoda had seven floors and suspected the passage onward lay beneath the white lotus; he showed Chen Lin the reliquary he had found.
• True Lord Wanmeng led Chen Lin through the space node near the Hanhai Immortal Palace and gave him a Realm-Breaking Talisman for emergencies.
• The two returned to the pagoda’s third floor, and Chen Lin channeled Buddhist power into the reliquary while they prepared to retreat.
• Nian Qing and the other six monks struck their wooden fish, opened their eyes, and arranged the instruments in a floating row before Chen Lin and True Lord Wanmeng.

Chen Lin and True Lord Wanmeng had to choose which wooden fish would receive the Reliquary, and Chen Lin chose Nian Qing’s despite pressure to choose Nian Kong’s. The choice opened a Light Gate, but left Chen Lin questioning Nian Kong’s identity and the truth of his Inheritance as the gate began to flicker.

• Chen Lin and True Lord Wanmeng discovered that the hall was sealed and debated which of the seven wooden fish should receive the Reliquary.
• Nian Kong spoke to Chen Lin, urging him to place the Reliquary in his wooden fish and leave, while True Lord Wanmeng also expressed a mysterious sense of closeness to it.
• Chen Lin recognized that the pull toward Nian Kong’s wooden fish was likely an influence and placed the Reliquary in Nian Qing’s wooden fish instead.
• The White Lotus subdued Nian Kong, and Nian Qing struck his wooden fish, freeing himself and causing the monks and White Lotus to vanish as a Light Gate appeared.
• Chen Lin wondered whether Nian Kong was a Buddha or a demon and whether his Inheritance was dangerous, while True Lord Wanmeng demanded an explanation.
• When the Light Gate began flickering, True Lord Wanmeng rushed toward it and told Chen Lin to follow.

Chen Lin received a one-use karmic-severing ring blade from Nian Qing in the Demon-Suppressing Temple and escaped with True Lord Wanmeng. After discussing the Wooden Chicken’s divination, Chen Lin returned to the Qingyang Sect to study the blade while True Lord Wanmeng went to investigate the predicted celestial omen.

• Nian Qing offered Chen Lin four rewards, and Chen Lin chose the ring blade according to the Wooden Chicken’s divination.
• Nian Qing explained that the ring blade could sever karma once and that stronger activating power would make it more effective, then sent Chen Lin out of the tower.
• Chen Lin and True Lord Wanmeng escaped the Hanhai Immortal Palace Secret Realm, and Chen Lin recounted the Wooden Chicken’s fortune-telling and his encounter with Nian Qing.
• True Lord Wanmeng suspected the Seven Stars Alignment might occur in the realm and hurried to the Asking Star Sect to consult Zhuge Hengyun and the Star-Observing Array.
• Chen Lin returned to the Qingyang Sect and shut himself in his Cultivation Chamber to study how to activate the ring blade and identify the karmic tie it could sever.

Chen Lin offered Hundred Flowers Fairy his Nascent Soul Pills to help repair her soul origin essence, and she accepted them before hurrying to press the Asking Star Sect to activate the Star-Observing Array. Chen Lin began consolidating his cultivation, but his seclusion was interrupted by a visitor from the Ji Family.

• Chen Lin confirmed that the Karmic Ring Blade responded only to qi luck force, then sealed away the Demon-Suppressing Temple items.
• Luo Qinglan told Chen Lin that Hundred Flowers Fairy had emerged from seclusion and gone to urge Zhuge Hengyun to act.
• Chen Lin offered Hundred Flowers Fairy Nascent Soul Pills, and she recognized them as effective for repairing soul origin essence.
• Hundred Flowers Fairy accepted Chen Lin's pills and warned him and Luo Qinglan to prepare because the situation might change soon.
• Chen Lin entered seclusion to consolidate his Nascent Soul cultivation, but Luo Qinglan soon told him that a man from the Ji Family had come to see him.

Ji Wuyu visited Chen Lin on behalf of the Ji Family, seeking to learn how Chen Lin refined Nascent Soul Pills and asking him to make a rare pill for the injured Ji Yuanqing. Chen Lin rejected the request to become Ji Wuyu’s master but agreed to examine the Nine-Turn Soul-Condensing Pill formula and attempt its refinement, which might help Yun Xiumian.

• Ji Wuyu asked Chen Lin whether he had used the Ji Family’s modified Nascent Soul Pill formula, then explained that the family’s original formula was difficult to supply.
• Ji Wuyu asked to become Chen Lin’s disciple and then requested the secret of his pill-refining method, but Chen Lin refused and offered to refine pills for a fair price.
• Ji Wuyu asked Chen Lin to refine the Nine-Turn Soul-Condensing Pill for Ji Yuanqing, who had suffered severe injuries, and handed over its formula.
• Chen Lin discovered that the pill condensed yin souls for ghost cultivators and learned that Ji Yuanqing was the Ji Family’s Great Elder, not its patriarch.
• Chen Lin agreed to attempt the refinement if the ingredients were provided, and Ji Wuyu gave him a Storage Belt containing ample ingredients.

Chen Lin accepted Ji Wuyu’s ingredients, refined a Nine-Turn Soul-Condensing Pill, and learned that True Lord Wanmeng was holding a trading convention where he might obtain the Gu Family’s soul-washing flower. Before leaving for the convention, Chen Lin came clean to Luo Qinglan about Qin Lingyu, Sun Caiyi, and his daughter.

• Ji Wuyu gave Chen Lin the formula and ingredients for the Nine-Turn Soul-Condensing Pill, including three-mystery god-refining grass, and waited while Chen Lin studied the recipe.
• Luo Qinglan told Chen Lin about True Lord Wanmeng’s trading convention in Guangming City, where someone from the Gu Family might bring the soul-washing flower.
• Chen Lin mastered the formula, successfully refined one pill, and kept the remaining ingredients in his storage bag.
• Luo Qinglan told Chen Lin she was close to breaking through to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage, and Chen Lin joked about forming a second Nascent Soul for her.
• Luo Qinglan asked Chen Lin about his other wives, and Chen Lin explained his relationships with Qin Lingyu and Sun Caiyi before revealing that he had a daughter in the Foundation Establishment Realm.