Chapter Summaries

After reassuring Chen Lin that his daughter was no problem, Luo Qinglan went into seclusion, leaving him uncertain about her feelings. Chen Lin delivered Ji Wuyu's perfect Nine-Turn Soul-Condensing Pill, then traveled with Mu Xingchen to Guangming City for the upcoming trading convention, where he encountered a dispute at a market stall.

• Luo Qinglan said she was going into seclusion and told Chen Lin to attend the trading convention with Master Mu, leaving him to wonder whether she was upset about his daughter.
• Chen Lin gave Ji Wuyu a perfect Nine-Turn Soul-Condensing Pill, refused Ji Wuyu's request to become his disciple, and sent him away with a list of requested payment items.
• Chen Lin visited Luo Qinglan's cultivation chamber, then arranged with Mu Xingchen to explore Guangming City before the trading convention began.
• Chen Lin wandered through Guangming City's crowded market and reflected on the dangers facing weak cultivators in the Wuding Sea.
• Chen Lin approached a crowd gathered around a stall after hearing someone protest that they would not be robbed in Guangming City.

Chen Lin acquired a Three-Tailed Azure-Eyed Beast’s severed tail, but learned the beast had only two tails and the material could not serve his purpose. He then learned that Divine Crystals might replace spirit-gathering stone for refining the Primordial Spirit Embryo and sought the Pill Master who had tested them.

• Chen Lin took the beast’s tail from a bald Demon Foundation Cultivator, pressured Xu Chengyu and Xu Ziling into explaining how they found it, and gave them two Foundation Establishment Pills for future information.
• Xu Chengyu told Chen Lin that he and Xu Ziling had seen a two-tailed Azure-Eyed Beast fighting a Golden Core cultivator, who severed one tail before leaving.
• Chen Lin dismissed the siblings after giving them the pills and a Transmission Talisman; they rented a Temporary Immortal Cave to attempt Foundation Establishment.
• Chen Lin returned to the Market, bought supplies, and met Mu Xingchen after receiving news about spirit-gathering stone.
• Mu Xingchen told Chen Lin that a Pill Refining Grandmaster had used Divine Crystals as a substitute for spirit-gathering stone, and Chen Lin decided to question the Grandmaster himself.

Chen Lin investigated Yuan Fuhai’s Divine Crystal-based Spirit-Restoring Pill and learned about surviving cultivators from Tianyuan. After arranging tests for the pill, he attended Guangming City’s Trading Convention, where the opening rules were announced and the city began presenting treasures.

• Chen Lin met Yuan Fuhai, learned how he made the Spirit-Restoring Pill, and traded three rare pill formulas for its formula and finished pills.
• Mu Xingchen told Chen Lin that Qingyang Sect had a stockpile of Divine Crystals and described several surviving Tianyuan cultivators, including He Jingzhe, Lan Tianji, and Blue Butterfly.
• Chen Lin hired two Qi Condensation cultivators to test the Spirit-Restoring Pill, observed no abnormalities, and instructed them to remain in Guangming City.
• Liu Ruolan brought Chen Lin to a private box at the Trading Convention and noted the items he hoped to obtain.
• Wang Tianlun explained that Guangming City would receive priority in trades and warned attendees against using force or killing to seize treasures before the city presented its own items.

Chen Lin traded for lightning-struck wood and bone-corroding fruit during the Guangming City treasure exchange, where Jin Xingyun also offered a damaged spirit treasure. The exchange continued with Dantai Yunjin presenting her damaged gourd and seeking Late Golden Core cultivation pills, qi-luck treasures, or related information.

• Chen Lin exchanged pills for ten-thousand-year lightning-struck wood to help with his lightning spell bottleneck.
• Jin Xingyun offered three treasures, including a damaged spirit treasure, but initially found no one willing to trade.
• Gu Shengjin mocked Jin Xingyun, who retorted about the Gu Family’s precarious situation and their rivalry.
• Chen Lin traded several-thousand-year-old bone-corroding fruit for Jin Xingyun’s unusable damaged spirit treasure.
• Dantai Yunjin took the stage and offered her damaged spirit treasure gourd in exchange for Late Golden Core cultivation pills, qi-luck treasures, or information about qi luck.

Chen Lin supplied Dantai Yunjin with pills, qi-luck-enhancing fish, and advice about the Fortunate Art as she prepared for Nascent Soul Formation. At the Trading Convention, he sought rare materials for his cultivation and second primordial spirit, offered pills and a Pseudo Spirit Treasure in trade, and ended by confronting a dangerous Nightmare Realm Item.

• Chen Lin gave Dantai Yunjin Baili Pills and fish from the Nightmare Realm, then told her about the Fortunate Art and its risks.
• Gu Shengjin asked the Trading Convention for lifespan-extending treasures or information, but no one responded, and he left without a trade.
• Chen Lin offered Luoling Pills, Zixuan Pills, and the Azure Flood Dragon Halberd in exchange for specified Nightmare Realm items and rare cultivation materials.
• An Early Golden Core cultivator traded Chen Lin two Nightmare Coins for Luoling Pills.
• A Late Golden Core cultivator presented a sealed Nightmare Realm Item, then warned Chen Lin that opening it would drag nearby living beings into the Nightmare Realm.

Chen Lin traded pills for a bloodstained handkerchief and thirty Nightmare Coins at Guangming City's convention, then met True Lord Chiguang to inspect rare time sand. Chiguang revealed the time sand came from a royal time snail and said he would trade it, but not for only one Pseudo Spirit Treasure.

• Chen Lin removed the seal from a box, found a bloodstained handkerchief inside, and traded it for Zixuan Pills after learning its owner had found it in ocean-floor ruins.
• Chen Lin offered pills for Nightmare Coins, collected thirty, and speculated that someone in Guangming City knew a Nightmare Realm scenario where they could be obtained.
• True Lord Chiguang privately offered to discuss trading time sand, and Chen Lin accepted the invitation after the convention ended.
• Chen Lin learned from Mu Xingchen that he had gone to meet Qingyang Sect disciples near an opening secret realm, then went with Liu Ruolan to see True Lord Chiguang.
• True Lord Chiguang showed Chen Lin six grains of time sand and explained they came from a royal time snail he had raised for more than two hundred years.
• True Lord Chiguang said the time sand was available for trade but that a single Pseudo Spirit Treasure would not be enough.

Chen Lin traded the Fortunate Art to True Lord Chiguang for time sand and a king-tier time snail, then discovered that Qian Li, whom he had believed dead, was alive in Guangming City. The chapter ended with Qian Li sending a Distress Signal after Chen Lin used a spell to question him.

• Chen Lin explained the Fortunate Art’s effects and backlash to True Lord Chiguang, who swore an Inner Demon Great Oath not to pass it on.
• True Lord Chiguang gave Chen Lin time sand and a king-tier time snail, then shared cultivation insights with him.
• Chen Lin left the City Lord Manor, learned that True Lord Wanmeng was in seclusion, and wandered around Guangming City.
• Chen Lin spotted Wuzhen Tower and saw a man who looked like Qian Li leaving with a fairy.
• Chen Lin used a spell to question the man and confirmed that he was Qian Li, then Qian Li angrily sent a Distress Signal.

Chen Lin reunited with Qian Li, an old Qingyang Sect acquaintance he had believed dead, and learned how Qian Li survived Madam White Bone and reached the Starry Continent. The chapter ended with Chen Lin showing Qian Li a sea chart and asking whether it marked the ruins where he had found a teleportation formation.

• Lü Duyuan recognized Chen Lin as a Nascent Soul True Lord and withdrew the City Guard, leaving Qian Li at Chen Lin’s mercy.
• Chen Lin revealed that he was Lin Feiyu, and Qian Li recognized his old friend and eagerly accepted his offer of protection.
• Qian Li explained that he survived Madam White Bone’s Soul Contract, escaped to the Wuding Sea, and reached the Starry Continent through a teleportation formation in underwater ruins.
• Qian Li told Chen Lin that he settled in Myriad Forms Immortal City because he lacked the resources to seek out the Qingyang Sect or other Tianyuan cultivators.
• Chen Lin handed Qian Li a sea chart and asked whether it showed the underwater ruins he had discovered.

Chen Lin reunited with Qian Li, exchanged treasures with him, and returned to guard Luo Qinglan while reviewing his recent gains. Mu Xingchen later reported that Sun Yun’er, the girl Chen Lin had once entrusted to the sect, had returned from the Secret Realm old and near death, and asked Chen Lin to give her a chance to achieve Core Formation.

• Chen Lin gave Qian Li a Sea Chart and received its Teleportation Formation location in return, then gifted him a Golden Body Transformation technique and a Purple Light Bottle.
• Qian Li told Chen Lin about Fairy Azhu and Yixian at Wuzhen Tower, then quickly urged him not to visit after remembering Chen Lin was Luo Qinglan’s companion.
• Chen Lin returned to the Qingyang Sect, sent Ling Ziyan away from Luo Qinglan’s secluded chamber, and reviewed his Divine Crystal, Nightmare Coins, time sand, and other gains.
• Chen Lin fed the King-Tier Time Snail spirit liquid and monster beast essence, then studied the thunder patterns in ten-thousand-year lightning-struck wood while Luo Qinglan remained in seclusion.
• Mu Xingchen returned and told Chen Lin that Sun Yun’er had failed to find an opportunity for Core Formation in the Secret Realm and was now old and failing, then asked Chen Lin to help her achieve Core Formation.

Chen Lin helped his dying disciple Sun Yun'er use a Seizing Yin Pill to achieve Core Formation, then publicized the method to attract valuable trades. After Sun Yun'er recovered, news arrived that the Asking Star Sect would soon consult the stars, and the Hundred Flowers Fairy summoned Chen Lin to the coastal island where it would take place.

• Chen Lin revealed his identity to Sun Yun'er and offered her a chance to condense a Yin Elixir with a Seizing Yin Pill despite her failing vitality.
• Chen Lin refined the pill, and Sun Yun'er underwent a tribulation on Qingyang Island, successfully condensing a Yin Elixir after Chen Lin blocked a lightning bolt with the Xuanwu Shield.
• The Qingyang Sect named Sun Yun'er an Enforcing Elder, and Chen Lin used her public success to attract offers of rare resources and favors for Seizing Yin Pills.
• Sun Yun'er thanked Chen Lin, received the Golden Body Transformation method, and agreed to help gather resources for him.
• Mu Xingchen told Chen Lin that the Asking Star Sect would activate its Star-Observing Array in three days, and the Hundred Flowers Fairy sent word that the divination would take place on a coastal island.

Chen Lin attended the Star-Observing Array gathering, where he learned that Gu Shengjin had the Tianyun Sect’s support and received a Transmission Talisman from Zhuge Hengyun. The gathering was upended when Bai Xuanying confronted Jin Xingyun about their past and revealed that she had been carrying his child when he left her.

• Chen Lin arrived at the island and learned from Jin Xingyun that Lord Qing had gone to the Xingyun Continent.
• True Lord Yuming arrived with Gu Shengjin, and Chen Lin suspected the Gu Family had allied with the Tianyun Sect.
• Zhuge Hengyun asked Chen Lin about the Wooden Chicken in the Nightmare Realm, then gave him a Transmission Talisman.
• Chen Lin watched Jin Xingyun eye Gu Shengjin and considered how to obtain the Gu Family's Soul-Washing Flower without provoking True Lord Yuming.
• Bai Xuanying confronted Jin Xingyun about his plan to marry Lord Qing's daughter and reminded him that he had promised to stay with her.
• Bai Xuanying revealed that she had been carrying Jin Xingyun's child when he left her, shocking him and Chen Lin.

Chen Lin witnessed Bai Xuanying reveal her Demon Race identity and confront Jin Xingyun over his marriage plans. The Hundred Flowers Fairy brokered a marriage between Bai Xuanying and Jin Xingyun, and Bai Xuanying gave Chen Lin a rare Three-Tailed Azure-Eyed Beast corpse before the couple departed.

• Bai Xuanying transformed into a giant white tiger and threatened to eat Jin Xingyun, but the Hundred Flowers Fairy stopped her.
• Bai Xuanying asked the Hundred Flowers Fairy to uphold justice, and she proposed that Jin Xingyun marry both Bai Xuanying and Lord Qing's granddaughter.
• Jin Xingyun reluctantly agreed to the proposal and asked the Hundred Flowers Fairy to help explain it to Lord Qing.
• Bai Xuanying approached Chen Lin with Jin Xingyun, then offered him a Three-Tailed Azure-Eyed Beast corpse as a gift.
• Chen Lin accepted the corpse for its potentially useful spatial materials, and Bai Xuanying left with Jin Xingyun.

Chen Lin learned Bai Xuanying’s identity and accepted soul-washing flowers from the Hundred Flowers Fairy, while growing suspicious of his sudden run of good fortune. He left to refine the Three-Tailed Azure-Eyed Beast’s azure eye as a vessel for his second primordial spirit, using the Qi Luck Gloves to improve his chances.

• Chen Lin learned that Bai Xuanying belonged to the Bai Family of Emerald Island and carried the White Tiger bloodline, and that the Three-Tailed Azure-Eyed Beast had been Qing Xiaolan’s mount.
• The Hundred Flowers Fairy told Chen Lin her soul origin essence had nearly recovered, accepted his pills, and gave him soul-washing flowers she had ripened with a secret method.
• Chen Lin suspected an unexplained surge in his qi luck after recalling several recent strokes of fortune, then asked the Hundred Flowers Fairy to notify him when the Star-Observing Array was complete.
• Chen Lin went to a nearby island, removed the azure eye from the Three-Tailed Azure-Eyed Beast, and sensed rule intent within it.
• Chen Lin prepared the azure eye as a potential vessel for his second primordial spirit, put on the Qi Luck Gloves, and began refining it beneath the Pill Cauldron with Nascent Fire.

Chen Lin fused the Three-Tailed Azure-Eyed Beast's Jade Eye, then joined the cultivators on Nameless Islet as they activated the Star-Observing Array. Seven stars aligned and unleashed attacks that drained his qi luck and pursued him, while Zhuge Hengyun concluded that the Sealing Array had turned against the world.

• Chen Lin refined and fused the Jade Eye between his brows, then returned to Nameless Islet after receiving a message from the Hundred Flowers Fairy.
• Zhuge Hengyun completed the Star-Observing Array, and Chen Lin felt an unexplained connection to the sun, moon, and stars while standing within it.
• After the array activated, seven stars aligned in the sky, and Zhuge Hengyun collapsed as Chen Lin felt his qi luck being drained.
• A starlight ray shattered Chen Lin's Xuanwu Phantom and damaged his shield, forcing him to flee; the Hundred Flowers Fairy weakened another attack aimed at him.
• Zhuge Hengyun rose with a disc-shaped treasure and declared that the Sealing Array had activated an offensive ability and might be trying to destroy the world.

The Seven Stars Aligning phenomenon triggered the Sealing Array’s Killing Formation, which sent deadly starlight attacks across the realm and repeatedly targeted Chen Lin. As another powerful strike pursued him, Chen Lin recognized the place he had reached, opened a spatial rift with a talisman, and leaped inside.

• Hundred Flowers Fairy explained that the Sealing Array had activated its Killing Formation, and cultivators sent warnings while resisting waves of starlight rays.
• The Killing Formation struck targets across the realm, knocking the Withered Monk unconscious, draining a bead’s black qi, and grievously injuring High Person Yunhai.
• A Phoenix Phantom blocked the attack on Luo Qinglan, who learned from Hundred Flowers Fairy that the Sealing Array was targeting powerful cultivators and hurried away from the sect.
• Chen Lin fled east after Hundred Flowers Fairy blocked an earlier strike for him, but he sensed another attack closing in.
• Chen Lin recognized his surroundings as the next powerful starlight ray descended, opened a spatial rift with a talisman, and jumped inside.

After escaping into the Nightmare Realm, Chen Lin met the Traveling Merchant again and learned that a Celestial Demon had planted a demonic seed in his soul. The merchant said the seed could be suppressed and removed, but demanded another trade and reminded Chen Lin to explain his declining qi luck first.

• Chen Lin escaped a starlight ray in the Nightmare Realm, then treated his injuries with a Healing Pill.
• The Traveling Merchant appeared and questioned Chen Lin about his falling qi luck and the condition of his body.
• Chen Lin refused to pay with qi luck or his treasures, so the two agreed to exchange information instead.
• The Traveling Merchant revealed a projection showing a demonic seed in Chen Lin's consciousness sea and said a Celestial Demon had planted it.
• The Traveling Merchant said the weak seed could be suppressed and removed, but asked Chen Lin to explain why his qi luck had been draining away before making another trade.

Chen Lin traded the Qi Luck Gloves to the Traveling Merchant for a Demon-Suppressing Ring that could suppress and conceal his demonic seed. After leaving the Nightmare Realm and reuniting with Luo Qinglan, he learned that the starlight rays and Seven Stars Aligning had stopped, though their next appearance remained uncertain.

• The Traveling Merchant warned Chen Lin that Gambling Fortune Lake consumed those who gave in to its allure, then offered to destroy Chen Lin’s demonic seed in exchange for all his qi luck.
• Chen Lin refused to give up his qi luck, citing Her Royal Highness’s need for it, so the Traveling Merchant traded him a Demon-Suppressing Ring for the Qi Luck Gloves.
• Chen Lin activated the ring with Buddhist power, put it on to suppress and conceal the demonic seed, and spent three days recovering and restoring the Xuanwu Shield.
• Chen Lin left the Nightmare Realm with a Realm-Breaking Talisman and found that no starlight rays appeared in the daytime.
• Luo Qinglan arrived after Chen Lin sent messages, and he told her what had happened in the Nightmare Realm.
• Luo Qinglan told Chen Lin that the starlight rays and Seven Stars Aligning had stopped, while Hundred Flowers Fairy and the others suspected the Sealing Array needed time to replenish its energy.

Chen Lin stayed with Luo Qinglan after surviving the Sealing Array’s starlight attack, while Hundred Flowers Fairy revealed that a Spirit Transformation Demonic Monk controlled the Soul-Devouring Buddha. He spent the following months refining a Primordial Spirit Embryo and remained in hiding as the starlight attacks ceased.

• Chen Lin decided to remain near the Nightmare Realm node, and Luo Qinglan insisted on staying with him despite the danger.
• Hundred Flowers Fairy and True Lord Wanmeng visited Chen Lin and questioned him about why the Sealing Array had targeted him; he blamed a possible demonic taint or his unusual qi luck.
• Hundred Flowers Fairy identified the starlight rays’ likely targets and revealed that a native Spirit Transformation Demonic Monk in the Barrens Region controlled the Soul-Devouring Buddha and was likely connected to the Demon-Suppressing Temple.
• Hundred Flowers Fairy and True Lord Wanmeng left to investigate elsewhere, while Chen Lin and Luo Qinglan settled aboard a spirit boat.
• Chen Lin spent three months and three attempts refining the Primordial Spirit Embryo, then began nurturing it with the Good Fortune Spirit-Condensing Art.
• Several months passed without another Seven Stars Aligning or starlight attack, and Chen Lin chose to remain with Luo Qinglan.

After three years of calm, Chen Lin prepared to leave for the Northern Immortal Cultivation World before the next catastrophe struck. A crack in the enormous Xianji Stone revealed that its power against nightmare realm aura had greatly increased, so Chen Lin decided to investigate it away from the sect.

• Chen Lin told Luo Qinglan he planned to leave and cross Myriad Souls Ridge to visit his family in the Northern Immortal Cultivation World, while she stayed behind to watch for a way out of the realm.
• Chen Lin gave Luo Qinglan a pair of Mandarin Duck Sound-Transmitting Conches so they could try to communicate across the two cultivation worlds.
• Before Chen Lin could depart, he discovered a top-to-bottom crack in the enormous Xianji Stone at the City Lord Manor.
• Chen Lin used the Fishing Rod from Gambling Fortune Lake and found that the cracked stone now suppressed nightmare realm aura from as far as thirty feet away.
• Chen Lin decided to open the Xianji Stone elsewhere to avoid endangering the Qingyang Sect, and Luo Qinglan followed him as he flew away with it.

Chen Lin recovered an indestructible jade hand bearing an inaccessible ring, then set out across Myriad Souls Ridge to return to the Northern Immortal Cultivation World. At the besieged Heavenly Dao Alliance, its leaders debated surrender or flight as Mu Linglong received a powerful Transmission Talisman that might be from Chen Lin.

• Chen Lin and Luo Qinglan found a jade hand inside a shattered Xianji Stone, but could not remove its ring or damage the hand, so Chen Lin kept it as a substitute Xianji Stone.
• Chen Lin left Luo Qinglan and crossed into the raging yin nether qi at Myriad Souls Ridge after killing and roasting a Nether Crow.
• The Xuanyin Patriarch's forces besieged the Heavenly Dao Alliance, and Sheng Bingyun's Nascent Soul allies argued over surrendering, fighting, or fleeing.
• True Lord Wuying warned that Xuanyin Patriarch had many clones and a Spirit Treasure, and suspected an Alliance member had sabotaged their Teleportation Formation.
• Sheng Zhenqing urged Zhuo Baiyu and Mu Linglong to escape by a hidden route, and Mu Linglong received a high-grade Transmission Talisman that might have come from Chen Lin.