Chapter Summaries

Chen Lin learned that Qin Lingyu and the others were safe, then discovered the Heavenly Dao Alliance was surrounded and its cultivators preparing to flee. As the breakout began, True Lord Huanling took Mu Linglong away in a flying shuttle that burrowed underground.

• Mu Linglong replied to Chen Lin, explained that Qin Lingyu and the others had survived and gone to the Far North, and told him to wait at their rendezvous point.
• Chen Lin confirmed Silver Fairy remained hidden and stable, then withdrew from the army surrounding the Heavenly Dao Alliance rather than risk confronting it.
• The Heavenly Dao Alliance's Nascent Soul Cultivators decided to scatter and flee, and Sheng Bingyun ordered the Golden Core Cultivators to prepare for a coordinated breakout.
• Sheng Zhenqing gave Mu Linglong a formation-passing token, but True Lord Huanling arrived and offered to take her with him to find her master.
• True Lord Huanling learned Chen Lin was nearby and warned Mu Linglong to tell him to leave, then took her aboard a flying shuttle that plunged underground.

Chen Lin used the power of his newly formed second primordial spirit to kill the Holy Temple’s Old Man Copper Duck and escaped the battlefield. Copper Duck’s death helped the Heavenly Dao Alliance break free of the encirclement, while the Xuanyin Patriarch learned of the loss and questioned what could have killed him.

• Chen Lin received Mu Linglong’s warning to leave the battlefield, then was confronted by a black-robed old man seeking his treasures.
• Chen Lin’s saber attack revealed law power, and he used his second primordial spirit to stop the old man’s Nascent Soul from escaping and destroy it with a Soul-Destroying Finger.
• Chen Lin gathered the old man’s belongings, fled, and decided to stay hidden rather than hunt Nascent Soul cultivators openly.
• The Heavenly Dao Alliance escaped with most of its Nascent Soul cultivators alive after Copper Duck failed to join the battle, and its forces killed two enemy Nascent Soul cultivators.
• The Xuanyin Patriarch learned that Copper Duck’s Soul Lamp had gone out and demanded to know how the powerful Holy Temple cultivator had died.

Chen Lin examined the grey-robed elder’s Storage Bag and gained valuable treasures, a Nascent Soul spell, and two pill formulas before setting out for Ten Thousand Caves Mountain. On the way, he encountered Sheng Zhenqing fleeing Zhuo Baiyu, who revealed herself as a clone of the Xuanyin Patriarch and threatened Chen Lin.

• Chen Lin searched the grey-robed elder’s Storage Bag, finding many spiritual herbs, treasures, a Nascent Soul-level Crimson Flame Hammer spell, and the Nascent Cultivation Pill and Yin-Yang Polarity Saint Pill formulas.
• Chen Lin examined the elder’s Moling ring, Xuanshan Seal Platform, and Jade Talisman, then received Mu Linglong’s message that she had escaped the battle safely.
• Chen Lin headed toward Ten Thousand Caves Mountain and intercepted Sheng Zhenqing, who was carrying the motionless Sheng Bingyun while fleeing Zhuo Baiyu.
• Sheng Zhenqing warned Chen Lin that Zhuo Baiyu was a clone of the Xuanyin Patriarch and had badly injured Sheng Bingyun in a sneak attack.
• Zhuo Baiyu spoke in the Xuanyin Patriarch’s voice, threatened Silver Fairy, and challenged Chen Lin with a taunt about dual cultivation.

Chen Lin defeated Xuanyin's consciousness in Zhuo Baiyu and helped Sheng Bingyun recover, then told her about the Southern Immortal Cultivation World and the threat that the Sealing Array could destroy their realm within ten years. He left after exchanging Transmission Talismans with her, while Sheng Zhenqing stayed with Zhuo Baiyu.

• Chen Lin tested the Xuanwu Shield against Zhuo Baiyu's Soul-Pulling Guide and found it could deflect the attack.
• Chen Lin used the Soul-Destroying Finger to eliminate Xuanyin's consciousness from Zhuo Baiyu and spared her.
• Chen Lin checked Sheng Bingyun for a Soul Seal, and she explained that Nascent Soul Cultivators could resist Xuanyin's method at great cost.
• Sheng Bingyun asked Chen Lin to take her to the Southern Immortal Cultivation World, but he refused and described the danger there and the survivors who had taken refuge in the Wuding Sea.
• Chen Lin warned Sheng Bingyun that the Asking Star Sect predicted the Sealing Array might destroy their realm within ten years, then gave her two Transmission Talismans.
• Chen Lin asked Sheng Bingyun to share any way out of the realm, promised to do the same, and vanished.

Chen Lin reunited with Mu Linglong and told True Lord Huanling and True Lord Anmu that the Sealing Array would destroy the world in about ten years. They agreed to search the Nightmare Realm for a way to reach another realm, and Chen Lin learned about several dangerous nodes as he prepared to explore.

• Chen Lin reunited with Mu Linglong, confirmed that Sheng Zhenqing and Ice Cloud Fairy were alive, and revealed that Zhuo Baiyu was a Xuanyin Clone.
• Chen Lin told True Lord Huanling, True Lord Anmu, and Mu Linglong about his journey to the Southern Immortal Cultivation World and the Asking Star Sect's prediction that the world would be destroyed in roughly ten years.
• Chen Lin and the others considered escaping through Myriad Souls Ridge but rejected the Netherworld as too dangerous, then agreed to search other Nightmare Realm nodes.
• True Lord Huanling and True Lord Anmu gave Chen Lin a Jade Slip describing three Nightmare Realm nodes, including a residential compound where two Nascent Soul Cultivators died and a node at Huanling Lake that led to an island in a vast sea.

Chen Lin and True Lord Huanling chose to relocate to Huanling Lake, where Chen Lin learned that the white jade palm could not reverse Silver Fairy’s Nightmare Transformation. After heading to the Far North, Chen Lin reunited with Chen Ling’er and learned that Huo Yuntao was pursuing her Big Aunt, so he set off to confront him.

• Chen Lin and True Lord Huanling decided to avoid the village node with Frog and explore the Island Scenario at Huanling Lake instead.
• Chen Lin showed Silver Fairy the white jade palm, but she said it could eliminate Nightmare Qi without restoring her transformed body.
• Chen Lin helped Silver Fairy relocate to Huanling Lake, then traveled to the Far North after settling her in.
• Chen Ling’er arrived with Chen Bao and told Chen Lin that Huo Yuntao, a Late Golden Core Cultivator with a Nascent Soul grandfather, was pursuing her Big Aunt despite her repeated refusals.
• Chen Lin agreed to go confront Huo Yuntao, and Chen Bao wondered whether Chen Lin had become a Nascent Soul True Lord.

Chen Lin reunited with his family in the Far North and learned that Qin Lingyu and Sun Caiyi had discovered a mysterious treasure inside their ice mountain, drawing the attention of Old Ancestor Huo. He revealed that he had reached Nascent Soul, leaving Sun Caiyi confident that they could face the danger and retrieve the treasure.

• Chen Lin admitted he had caused Qin Lingyu distress by hiding his advancement, then scolded Chen Ling'er for failing to notice his cultivation.
• Chen Lin, Chen Ling'er, and Chen Bao traveled to the ice-mountain cave, where Cheng Yulan welcomed Chen Lin as her grandmaster.
• Sun Caiyi reunited with Chen Lin and explained that Chen Qingying had been injured after failing to reach Golden Core and was secluded in her chamber.
• Sun Caiyi revealed that she and Qin Lingyu had found a strange treasure whose energy may have drawn Old Ancestor Huo's attention, and that Nascent Soul cultivator Xun Ji had helped protect them.
• Chen Lin learned that two other Nascent Soul cultivators lived in the Far North and revealed his own Nascent Soul cultivation to Sun Caiyi, who rejoiced that their troubles with Huo Yuntao might be over.

Chen Lin reunited with Qin Lingyu and Sun Caiyi, helped Chen Qingying prepare to condense a Yin Elixir, and examined a mysterious sphere they had found beneath their residence. He suspected it was an inheritance treasure, but its growing power and a fleeting human figure inside it left its nature uncertain.

• Chen Lin examined Chen Qingying and offered her a shortcut to condense a Yin Elixir, then gave her pills to restore her body and soul.
• Sun Caiyi told Chen Lin that Bai Chunyu had been devoured by a yin nether entity during the retreat.
• Sun Caiyi led Chen Lin and Chen Ling'er through a Small Teleportation Formation to the hidden chamber containing a glowing sphere.
• Qin Lingyu reunited joyfully with Chen Lin, learned he had reached the Nascent Soul stage, and told him that Huo Yuntao had been pestering her for ulterior reasons.
• Qin Lingyu explained that the sphere released mysterious patterns every three months and had grown brighter, while Chen Lin said he had glimpsed a human figure inside it.

Chen Lin told his family that the world might be destroyed in ten years and planned to explore the Nightmare Realm for a way out, while arranging for their safety and preparing to bring Chen Bao. As the strange sphere began to erupt, Chen Lin remained ready to face Old Ancestor Huo and settle his grievance with him.

• Chen Lin decided to leave the sphere untouched until it erupted, then told Qin Lingyu and the others about the predicted destruction of the world and his plan to seek an escape through the Nightmare Realm.
• Chen Lin planned to send the women to Huanling Lake, while Sun Caiyi suggested reversing the connection to the insect monsters’ realm; Chen Lin explained that the Hives linking the realms had vanished.
• Chen Ling'er asked to explore the Nightmare Realm, but Chen Lin refused for now and agreed to bring Chen Bao, whose spatial talent could sense nodes within ten kilometers.
• Chen Lin told Sun Caiyi about his Demonic Seed and Golden Ring, and reassured her that the ring kept the danger under control.
• After several days of watching the sphere, Chen Lin stayed beside it despite Qin Lingyu’s warning that its eruption could draw Old Ancestor Huo, whom Chen Lin intended to confront.
• The sphere trembled, hummed, and blazed with light as multicolored scenes formed around it.

Chen Lin discovered that Chen Ling'er's vision depicted the hand and ring of the mysterious White Jade Palm, but he postponed investigating the connection when Huo Yuntao's forces attacked the immortal cave. After Chen Lin killed the intruders and confronted Huo Tingfeng, a sudden assault and Huo Yuntao's apparent return as a Nascent Soul left Chen Lin facing danger to his family.

• Chen Lin and the others memorized and drew fragments shown by the sphere, and Chen Ling'er recognized the man in her clear image as the owner of the White Jade Palm.
• Chen Lin identified the palm as something he had found inside an Xianji Stone on the distant Xingyun Continent, then decided to collect the sphere and leave without further study.
• Cheng Yulan warned that Huo Yuntao and his men were forcing their way into the immortal cave, so Chen Lin went to confront them.
• Chen Lin killed Huo Yuntao and the Golden Core Cultivators who had entered, then called out Huo Tingfeng, who revealed himself and defended his grandson's death.
• Huo Tingfeng struck at Chen Lin, but the Xuanwu Shield blocked the attack, while a voice inside the cave threatened Chen Lin's wife and daughter and Huo Yuntao rose again with Nascent Soul cultivation.

Chen Lin was confronted by two possessed Prison Guards who mistook him for Qiu Daoli and demanded the beast bone and fulfillment of an old promise. When they realized he was not Qiu Daoli, Chen Lin attacked and had Chen Bao rescue his family, leaving him facing the guards alone.

• Chen Lin recognized the possessed Huo Yuntao as the Black Little Man and Huo Tingfeng as the Shadow Monster, both former Upper Realm Remnant Cultivators.
• The two Prison Guards threatened Qin Lingyu and the others, demanding Chen Lin's life and claiming he owed them for leaving them imprisoned for thousands of years.
• Chen Lin learned the guards believed he was Qiu Daoli, whose Samsara Secret Art had supposedly promised to remove their Divine Soul Imprints.
• The guards asked whether Chen Lin had stayed in the realm for the True Spirit Remains or the True Immortal Relic, and Chen Lin suspected the beast bone was part of the True Spirit Remains.
• Huo Yuntao realized Chen Lin was not Qiu Daoli, so Chen Lin attacked, shielded Qin Lingyu and the others, and ordered Chen Bao to carry them away through space.

Chen Lin tricked the two Prison Guards into leaving, took the mysterious sphere, and reunited with his family at Huanling Lake. There, he learned Silver Fairy was recovering and heard that Huanling had found a ship full of Nightmare Coins.

• Chen Lin bluffed Huo Yuntao and Huo Tingfeng into withholding their attack, and they left to investigate other suspects.
• Chen Lin used his primordial spirit power to retrieve the sphere, suspected it might contain a remnant thought, and carried it away.
• Chen Lin reunited with Qin Lingyu and the others, then led them to Huanling Lake while avoiding dangers along the way.
• True Lord Huanling welcomed the group and gave gifts to the women and Chen Bao.
• Chen Lin learned Silver Fairy was improving in secluded cultivation, and Huanling reported finding a wrecked ship filled with Nightmare Coins.

Chen Lin attempted to board a wrecked ship guarded by a Bone Bird to claim a chest of Nightmare Coins, but the creature’s pressure stopped him. After preparing his companions and giving his daughter protective treasures, he entered seclusion to explore the Nightmare Realm on his own.

• True Lord Huanling led Chen Lin to a wrecked ship whose deck held a chest full of Nightmare Coins, but a Bone Bird guarded it.
• Chen Lin used the Xuanwu Shield to withstand the Bone Bird’s aura and take two steps toward the ship, then retreated when he could not endure the pressure.
• Chen Lin and True Lord Huanling left the Nightmare Realm, while Huanling and Anmu began exploring discovered scenarios in shifts and Chen Lin made separate, guarded spaces for his own explorations.
• Chen Lin helped Chen Qingying refine the Seizing Yin Pill, allowing her to become a flawed yin elixir cultivator.
• Chen Lin gave his daughter the Moling Ring and a teleporting Jade Talisman, then asked Qin Lingyu and Sun Caiyi to stand guard as he entered seclusion to explore the Nightmare Realm.

Chen Lin received a Treasure Chest from the Golden Toad after it learned he was connected to Niuniu, then met Shirina, who sought to trade for it. He learned the Golden Toad had killed a powerful visitor for cheating, and the chapter ended with Shirina refusing his proposed trade for eight-arm circumambulation.

• Chen Lin visited Gambling Fortune Lake, where the Golden Toad gave his Fishing Rod a golden light after asking about his connection to Niuniu.
• Chen Lin caught a golden Treasure Chest and realized the Golden Toad could influence what people caught.
• Shirina appeared and asked to trade for the Treasure Chest; Chen Lin hesitated, wary of her strength.
• Shirina pointed out the dead Shanhai Realm man's head in the lake and explained that the Golden Toad had killed him for cheating and insulting it.
• Chen Lin suggested payment in Nightmare Coins or eight-arm circumambulation, but Shirina rejected the offer and warned that the creature's corpse would quickly deteriorate.

Chen Lin opened the Golden Toad’s treasure chest and absorbed a mysterious light orb that he suspected was an Origin Orb. Afterward, his crafting talent appeared to stop working, and the chapter ended as he mobilized his qi luck force and something suddenly changed.

• Chen Lin refused the Cat-headed Monster’s offer of One-Arm Circumambulation and learned that her realm might reject or kill him.
• After Chen Lin’s projection vanished, the Cat-headed Monster and a Shadow Demon revealed that the Golden Toad’s golden qi had helped him fish up the treasure chest.
• Chen Lin opened the chest in his secluded chamber and absorbed the light orb, which took a month to fully absorb.
• Chen Lin tested his crafting talent by refining pills, but his usual invisible hand failed to appear across repeated attempts.
• Chen Lin tested spells, cultivation, formations, and other activities without success, then mobilized his qi luck force and triggered a sudden change.

Chen Lin discovered that his talent origin let him perceive and manipulate the rule-like lines governing his actions, restoring a form of his former guaranteed-hit ability. After using it to successfully refine Luoling Pills, he began testing its limits and realized it could only alter minor matters for now.

• Chen Lin activated his talent origin by spending much of his qi luck, saw a hazy image of countless lines, and learned that Gambling Fortune Lake fish replenished his qi luck.
• Chen Lin visited Chen Ling'er and the others, then learned from Mu Linglong that the Silver Fairy's condition had improved while she remained in seclusion.
• Chen Lin used a rule tendril to reconnect a broken line during pill refining and successfully produced five Luoling Pills.
• Chen Lin repeatedly tested his new ability and confirmed that its lines reflected the likely outcome of any task, while the tendril could reconnect broken lines.
• Chen Lin found that his weak talent origin could only change minor outcomes, but it could guarantee success in properly performed tasks such as refining pills below the Nascent Soul grade.

After emerging from seclusion, Silver Fairy discussed the looming destruction of their realm with Chen Lin and considered ways to escape through the Nightmare Realm. She revealed a possible route into the insect monsters’ realm, ending by mentioning a Frog.

• Chen Lin spent half a year mastering the Crimson Flame Hammer spell and caught a Golden Crab with more qi luck than the fish and shrimp in Gambling Fortune Lake.
• Silver Fairy emerged from seclusion having suppressed her Nightmare Transformation and learned that True Lord Anmu and True Lord Huanling were away seeking ways to leave the realm.
• Silver Fairy gave Chen Ling'er a Pseudo Spirit Treasure called the Thousand-Zhang Silk and presented gifts to the other women.
• Chen Lin told Silver Fairy that his Scarecrow friend remained difficult to contact and that he needed better Road Guides to explore the Nightmare Realm for space nodes.
• Silver Fairy dismissed the Netherworld as too dangerous but said entering the insect monsters’ realm might still be possible, then mentioned a Frog.

Chen Lin and Silver Fairy examined a ledger from a dangerous Nightmare Realm inn and decided to explore it together in projection. They entered the inn’s courtyard during the day, where Silver Fairy explained how she had nearly died retrieving the ledger, and they prepared to investigate further after nightfall.

• Chen Lin warned Silver Fairy that Frog was dangerous, but she said they might have to seek his help if they had no other way out.
• Silver Fairy showed Chen Lin a ledger from an abandoned inn, which listed guests and revealed that a Two-Star Itinerant Merchant named Yuan Wu had stayed there.
• Chen Lin and Silver Fairy agreed to explore the inn by projection, and Silver Fairy said she would suppress the nightmare qi in her body with a treasure.
• Three days later, Chen Lin and Silver Fairy entered the inn together and found themselves in its courtyard, where they could move around only during the day.
• Silver Fairy told Chen Lin that she had entered a candlelit side room at night, survived attacks from invisible beings using the Soul-Destroying Finger, and taken the ledger from a cabinet.

Chen Lin and Silver Fairy explored the Nightmare Realm, then examined the orb from the Far North as it revealed clearer images before shattering. A crystal fragment merged into Silver Fairy and reversed some of her Nightmare Transformation, leaving her hoping to find more.

• Silver Fairy showed Chen Lin her soul-powered broken saber and confirmed that she could use it and suppress her Nightmare Transformation inside the Nightmare Realm.
• Chen Lin and Silver Fairy left the Nightmare Realm and found the orb trembling and glowing in its box.
• Silver Fairy told Chen Lin that their world might be one fragment of a plane shattered in an ancient battle, while the orb formed images for them to record.
• The orb displayed clearer, longer images than before, then cracked apart into countless particles.
• Silver Fairy picked up a crystal fragment that melted into her hand, and after an hour of recovery, she told Chen Lin it had restored some of her transformed body to normal.

Chen Lin and the Silver Fairy studied a beast bone and images depicting an immortal sword technique, then learned that the Different Spirits would offer cultivators a way out in exchange for their soul origin essence. As disasters intensified and the Great Rift at Myriad Souls Ridge became impassable, Chen Lin was left searching for another way to protect his family and escape the collapsing realm.

• The Silver Fairy used Xiaobai's demonic power to reveal bloodline runes on the beast bone, which she identified as an inheritance from a powerful Great Monster whose essence likely lay in its eyes.
• Chen Lin and the Silver Fairy arranged six images into a sequence showing the Slender Man attacking a Crimson Giant Eye with a sword technique before the eye destroyed him and his surroundings.
• The Silver Fairy urged Chen Lin to study the sword technique in the images, then went into seclusion to examine her condition while Chen Lin copied the images and studied them.
• True Lord Huanling reported that Xuanyin True Lord had announced a Realm-Leaving Passage would open in a year, but Golden Core cultivators and above could leave only by surrendering their soul origin essence; Chen Lin and his family refused.
• Ghostly Creatures poured from the Great Rift at Myriad Souls Ridge, devastating disasters spread, and Chen Lin found the intensified yin nether qi made the route to the Southern Immortal Cultivation World impassable.
• After retreating from the Great Rift, Chen Lin flew for about two hours, then stopped in surprise at something in the distance.