Chapter Summaries

Chen Lin improved his fishing skills at Gambling Fortune Lake while seeking a way to reach an Otherworld, then used Golden Crabs to rapidly restore his qi luck and caught a golden Treasure Chest. The chapter ended with him holding the chest after deciding to act before the Golden Toad could threaten him.

• The Cat-headed Monster gave Chen Lin a Cat Whisker, warned him about Wanhuagu Valley, and left.
• Chen Lin practiced fishing at Gambling Fortune Lake, improved his technique and state of mind, and caught several Golden Crabs without finding a Qi Luck Treasure Chest.
• The Silver Fairy reported that an energy storm blocked the Far North node and that Anmu's exploration of Ten Thousand Caves Mountain was going poorly.
• The Silver Fairy warned Chen Lin that the Demon-Suppressing Temple might lead to the dangerous Upper Ancient Demon Realm, leaving his pool node as his best prospect.
• After seeing the Golden Toad's phantom on the lake, Chen Lin decided to make an attempt as soon as his qi luck recovered.
• Chen Lin ate Golden Crabs while channeling qi luck into his Fishing Rod, then hooked and lifted a gleaming golden Treasure Chest.

Chen Lin used his Line of Destiny to assess the Pool Node and discovered that entering it in his current condition would lead to certain death, so he postponed the attempt. He then waited with Grass until the fifteenth day of the eighth month and went to the Demon-Suppressing Temple to investigate the Buddha Statue.

• Chen Lin entrusted Sun Caiyi with the Cat Whisker and Treasure Chest, explaining what to do if he failed to return, then gave Chen Bao instructions before traveling to the Barrens with Grass.
• At the Nightmare Realm node, Chen Lin examined his Line of Causality and tested his Line of Destiny, using both Golden Crabs to reveal that exploring the Pool Node would end in certain failure and death.
• Chen Lin decided to make further preparations and visit the Demon-Suppressing Temple before attempting the node again, then left the Nightmare Realm with Grass.
• Chen Lin observed the many cultivators gathering in the Cangyun Secret Realm, concealed his identity, and waited with Grass in an abandoned house without contacting Nanmen Lingyue.
• On the evening of the fifteenth day of the eighth month, Chen Lin and Grass entered the main hall of the Demon-Suppressing Temple.

Chen Lin and Grass inserted matching Buddhist Prayer Beads into Buddha statues at the Demon-Suppressing Temple, and golden light transported them away. The Nascent Soul cultivators found Chen Lin’s puppet and learned the world-destroying great tribulation might arrive within a year and a half, prompting them to begin exploring the Demon-Suppressing Pagoda.

• At Rat Hour, Chen Lin and Grass discovered that nine Buddha statues had changed their gestures and revealed holes matching specific Buddhist Prayer Beads.
• Chen Lin sent a Spirit-Connecting Puppet to insert the first bead, and golden light enveloped him and made him vanish.
• Grass inserted the second bead into its matching statue and vanished in another burst of golden light.
• True Lord Wuying, True Lord Bizhen, and Xun Ji arrived, examined Chen Lin’s puppet, and learned from Sheng Bingyun that Chen Lin owned it.
• Sheng Bingyun reported that a message from the Southern Region warned the world-destroying great tribulation could arrive within two years, and the four cultivators hurried to begin exploring the Demon-Suppressing Pagoda.

Chen Lin found Nian Kong in a sealed chamber and learned that demonic forces had corrupted the monk and planted a demonic seed within him. As Nian Kong’s demonic thoughts took control again, he urged Chen Lin to strike him with his saber.

• Chen Lin entered a sealed room, recognized the seemingly dead Nian Kong, and searched for a way out while worrying about Grass.
• Nian Kong awakened, revealed Chen Lin’s Buddhist Prayer Bead, and demanded the kashaya to suppress the demonic qi.
• Chen Lin questioned Nian Kong’s identity and motives, and the monk explained that his nine clones were scattered across the realms and that Chen Lin needed to find an uncorrupted one.
• Nian Kong warned that a demonic seed had been planted in Chen Lin and offered to send him somewhere to help remove it.
• Nian Kong’s demonic thoughts resurfaced and claimed his clones were already destroyed, but the Prayer Bead briefly restored his clarity.
• Nian Kong told Chen Lin to strike him with the Cold Moon Saber.

Chen Lin escaped the collapsing Demon-Suppressing Pagoda through Nian Kong’s light gate, but the passage shattered around him and left him gravely injured in an unknown place. He was rescued from a tree by an old man and a boy who carried their heads in their hands.

• Chen Lin struck Nian Kong with the Cold Moon Saber, and Nian Kong’s reliquary burst into a benevolent phantom that opened a Golden Light Gate and sent him through it.
• The secret chambers in the Demon-Suppressing Pagoda collapsed, while the Old Monk in the Underground Palace hesitated to place a Pitch-Black Bead on a black Lotus Platform and swallowed it again.
• Violent energy and collapsing space tore Chen Lin’s body as he crossed the node, so he plunged into a larger rift while gripping the Xuanwu Shield.
• Chen Lin awoke severely injured, hanging from a tree as birds pecked at him, and learned that he could not move or use his powers.
• An old man and a boy with their heads carried in their hands drove off the birds, caught Chen Lin, and carried him out of the mountains.

More than ten days after arriving in an unfamiliar world, Chen Lin remained badly injured and unable to use most of his powers. After learning that officials might discover him at the upcoming Grand Bazaar, he summoned Grass and sent her to investigate the area while disguised with a counterfeit head.

• Chen Lin learned from Xiaowu that his master could shelter him for only three more days because officials would inspect the area before the Grand Bazaar.
• Xiaowu told Chen Lin that people might secretly sell heads at the Grand Bazaar, and Chen Lin entered the Nightmare Realm to summon Grass.
• Grass told Chen Lin that the Demon-Suppressing Temple had collapsed and that Ling'er, Madam, and his master were searching for him.
• Chen Lin returned to the room with Grass and discovered that her abilities were not suppressed in this world.
• Chen Lin disguised a severed Ape Monster Beast head as a carried head and sent Grass out in a cloak to investigate the area and search for his lost weapons.

Chen Lin learned about the strange village and left with Grass to hide in the mountains while he recovered and investigated the realm. He discovered that the people’s heads-in-hand appearance was not a rule of the world but something peculiar to its inhabitants.

• Grass returned without Chen Lin’s treasures and reported that the nearby village was large, its surroundings were fairly safe, and she had found no cities.
• The old man warned Chen Lin that government patrols would begin before the Grand Bazaar and urged him to leave, revealing that he had noticed Grass and warning that the new Chief Constable was powerful.
• Chen Lin gave the old man a Soul-Nourishing Pill formula and a bead containing a divine soul secret art for Xiaowu, then left the village with Grass.
• Chen Lin and Grass carved a cave in the mountains, set up defensive arrays, and continued recovering while Chen Lin tested his weakened abilities.
• Chen Lin hunted a bird and a rat, then examined them and concluded that the villagers’ heads-in-hand bodies were not caused by the world’s rules.

Chen Lin and Grass fought off the Silver Saber Demon King’s group, then discovered that other people in the mountains were disguised as headless beings. After learning more from a captive and examining a recovered Space Bag, Chen Lin remained in hiding while the injured woman and Aunt Lan planned to retrieve their belongings.

• The Silver Saber Demon King killed Goatee, exposed Chen Lin and Grass’s hidden cave, and was struck down when Grass counterattacked.
• Grass killed the Demon King’s followers, while Chen Lin captured one survivor and drove two concealed figures out of hiding.
• The smaller fugitive realized she had lost her pouch, and she and Aunt Lan decided to heal before trying to recover it from Chen Lin and Grass.
• Chen Lin and Grass moved to a new cave, where Chen Lin used the Soul-Searching Technique on their captive and learned that the locals were born with heads connected to their bodies by life cords.
• Chen Lin learned that the locals’ divine abilities drew on powerful energy between heaven and earth, then opened the recovered Space Bag and picked out a square object.

Chen Lin studied the cube-shaped treasure and learned how to disguise himself using a life cord, while discovering that the pouch could conceal Grass inside it. After cleaning the cave, he set out for the Grand Bazaar to gather information by joining a merchant caravan.

• Chen Lin found that the cube's patterned squares needed to be aligned, though he did not know what activating it would do.
• Chen Lin examined the bandits' life cords and learned they enabled body exchanges and could be used as powerful tools.
• Chen Lin used the living bandit's head and the chief's life cord to disguise himself, but Grass could not hide her head or sword aura.
• Chen Lin discovered the Leather Pouch could hold Grass and conceal her aura, then packed her inside it.
• Chen Lin burned the bodies, cleared the cave, and headed toward the Grand Bazaar to join a merchant caravan.

Chen Lin traveled to Gufang Village’s Grand Bazaar disguised as an herb gatherer and learned about the strange nations and customs of this world. After hearing that Soul Country’s Emissary Group was preparing a dangerous soul fusion to create a silver soul, he decided to investigate the group and the process to strengthen his own soul.

• Chen Lin joined travelers heading to the Grand Bazaar and learned from Lu Qing that Head Country bordered Heart Country and Hand Country, with barriers preventing ordinary people from traveling between nations.
• Chen Lin reached the crowded bazaar in Gufang Village and set up his herbs among the everyday goods while observing the market.
• Chen Lin overheard that Chief Constable Lü was selected for soul fusion with Soul Country’s Emissary Group, whose delegation needed spirit guides for a Commandery Princess seeking to advance to a silver soul.
• Chen Lin learned that soul fusion often killed its participants and that people who died could not pass on their divine abilities, while Head Country was pressured to provide spirit guides to Soul Country.
• Chen Lin concluded that he needed to strengthen his divine soul and packed up his stall to investigate the Soul Emissary Group and silver souls in the valuables section.

Chen Lin left the market and headed by river toward the capital, where he hoped to learn more about Soul Country and its silver souls. After a Thorn Fish Monster attacked his boat, he joined Zuo Bingning and her companion, who had come seeking the Four-Sided Treasure, and was startled when Zuo Bingning asked about Soul Search.

• Chen Lin sold his herbs, decided not to interrogate anyone, and left for the capital to investigate Soul Country.
• Chen Lin hired a small boat on the Cang River and killed a Thorn Fish Monster with Five Thunders Smite the Crown, realizing his power had weakened and his Xuanwu Shield was missing.
• Two disguised Treasure Thieves approached Chen Lin, and he recognized them as the women seeking the Four-Sided Treasure.
• Chen Lin boarded the women’s boat, gave his name as Lin Feiyu, and told Zuo Bingning he was headed to the capital.
• Zuo Bingning asked Chen Lin what kind of Divine Ability Soul Search was, shocking him.

Chen Lin subdued Zuo Bingning and Lan Ruo, learned they had come from Heart Country to claim the Divine Ability Treasure Box, and bound both women to him with Soul Seals. He left for Sanya County with the box, uncertain whether using it would expose him to the influence of a divine being.

• Zuo Bingning tried to read and influence Chen Lin's mind, so he knocked her and Lan Ruo unconscious, erased the boatman's memories, and took the women into the woods.
• After waking Zuo Bingning, Chen Lin forced her to reveal that she was from the Zuo Family of Heart Country and had come to obtain the Divine Ability Treasure Box, which could grant a greater divine ability.
• Chen Lin rejected Zuo Bingning's offer of payment and planted Soul Seals on her and Lan Ruo, learning that Lan Ruo was Zuo Bingning's maid.
• Zuo Bingning explained that her inherited Heart Sustenance ability let her sense and influence minds, and Chen Lin questioned her about Heart Country and Soul Country before leaving the woods.
• As he flew toward Sanya County, Chen Lin examined the Tetrahedron Cube and decided to investigate the risks of its divine ability before Spirit Welcoming Day.

Chen Lin traveled to the Capital City to investigate the world and search for a Divine Ability Treasure Box, where he discovered a fragment of the Cold Moon Saber and encountered the Soul Country Emissary Group. The chapter ended with a guard ordering him to pay respects to the princess.

• Chen Lin left Sanya County and flew with Grass to the Capital City, avoiding trouble along the way.
• Chen Lin entered the Capital City's ability-user market and learned about its goods, including beast-training tools and openly traded bodies.
• Chen Lin tested a divine-ability saber in a shop and found that his mana and other powers could not activate it.
• Chen Lin recognized a fragment of the Cold Moon Saber at Myriad Treasures Pavilion but left it behind, suspecting the shop might be using it to lure out its owner.
• Chen Lin failed to find a Divine Ability Treasure Box or more traces of his treasures, then encountered the Soul Country Emissary Group and was told to pay respects to the princess.

Chen Lin negotiated with Princess Qinghua for access to Soul Country’s Soul Refining Pond, offering a Divine Ability Treasure Box in exchange rather than risking his life as her Spirit Guide. After they sealed the trade with a Divine Oath, he revealed his unusual body and claimed to belong to the Zuo Family of Heart Country.

• Princess Qinghua invited Chen Lin to serve as her Spirit Guide during soul fusion, offering him a chance to use the Soul Refining Pond, but he refused.
• Chen Lin asked how Qinghua had sensed his unusual soul, and she explained that her Divine Soul Sense detected it and that the Soul Refining Pond could temper souls into silver.
• Chen Lin proposed trading for access to the pond and presented a Divine Ability Treasure Box, astonishing Qinghua.
• Qinghua refused a Blood Pact but swore a Divine Oath, and Chen Lin handed over the treasure in exchange for the pond’s use.
• Chen Lin agreed to stay with Qinghua, revealed his headless body, and claimed he belonged to the Zuo Family of Heart Country.

During Spirit Welcoming Day, Chen Lin secretly entered the Gambling Fortune Lake Scenario to fish for resources and seek clues about his allies. He caught a Storage Bag that might have belonged to the dead Shanhai Realm angler, leaving him more wary of the Golden Toad’s rules.

• Chen Lin joined Princess Qinghua's Envoy Team, searched the Ability Users' Market for fragments of the Cold Moon Saber and the Xuanwu Shield, and arranged for servants to search the Head Country.
• On Spirit Welcoming Day, Chen Lin hid in an underground chamber, set up Array Talismans, and entered the Nightmare Realm with Grass.
• Chen Lin found a brocade-robed angler at Gambling Fortune Lake, and the Golden Toad charged him two Nightmare Coins per cast with a twenty-Coin minimum penalty for failure.
• Chen Lin caught a Storage Bag and suspected it belonged to the dead old man from the Shanhai Realm, prompting him to fear that the Golden Toad had killed the man within the lake’s rules.
• The brocade-robed man left with his catch, and Chen Lin continued fishing without using qi luck force before returning safely to the Reality Realm with Grass.

Chen Lin examined the Shanhai Realm cultivator’s Storage Bag and found valuable treasures, including instructions for repairing an Immortal Refining Gourd he already owned. He tested the bag in the Nightmare Realm and discovered that only the bag itself manifested there, while its contents did not.

• Chen Lin inspected the Storage Bag and found spirit stones, refining materials, a Pseudo Spirit Treasure suit of soft armor, and three Jade Slips.
• Chen Lin learned that one Jade Slip contained the Six Desires Demon Skill and another held instructions for crafting the Immortal Refining Gourd, while the third contained an artifact refiner inheritance.
• Chen Lin compared the instructions with Dantai Yunjin’s gourd and realized he could repair it into the main body of a Spirit Treasure, though he still needed to learn artifact refining.
• Chen Lin had the Puppet open an ancient scroll, but it appeared blank, and he decided to wait before trying to activate it.
• Chen Lin entered the Nightmare Realm and found that the Storage Bag manifested there, but its contents could not be taken out; he confirmed that branches placed inside did not remain after he returned to reality.

After Princess Qinghua’s soul fusion failed to raise her to the silver soul level, Chen Lin learned that the craftsman Tan Shiyi had invited him to Hand Country to examine unusual blade fragments. Chen Lin set the invitation aside for now and departed with Princess Qinghua’s group aboard a Flying Boat, still considering whether Tan Shiyi might help him repair the Immortal Refining Gourd.

• Chen Lin arranged for his servants and controlled ability users to search for the Xuanwu Shield and send him reports.
• Chen Lin learned that Princess Qinghua’s soul fusion had not reached the silver soul level and that the Spirit Guides involved had died, though she had gained a rare great divine ability.
• Huang Yuanli, proprietor of the Myriad Treasures Pavilion, delivered Chen Lin an invitation from Tan Shiyi, who wanted him to examine unusual blade fragments in Hand Country.
• Chen Lin read Tan Shiyi’s letter, suspected he might possess other Cold Moon Saber fragments or the Xuanwu Shield, and postponed deciding whether to visit him.
• After Princess Qinghua’s farewell ceremony, Chen Lin joined the Envoy Team and learned that their Flying Boat had been crafted by Tan Shiyi.

Chen Lin arrived in Soul Country’s Capital City, Life City, and searched for materials related to the Soul Refining Pond and Soul Refining Pill. At the All Things Pavilion, he gained access to a box containing One-Arm Circumambulation, but the clerk warned that opening it could be dangerous.

• Princess Qinghua brought Chen Lin to her manor, assigned Lvliu to attend him, and went to the Imperial Palace to report and request access to the Soul Refining Pond.
• Lvliu accompanied Chen Lin to the Market, where he recognized a Little Circumambulation as a weaker version of the material he sought.
• Chen Lin found Little Circumambulation at the All Things Pavilion and asked whether it sold One-Arm Circumambulation or anything stronger.
• Lvliu presented Princess Qinghua’s token, and a manager escorted Chen Lin to a private room upstairs as an honored guest.
• A clerk brought Chen Lin a box and warned him that its One-Arm Circumambulation could seriously harm anyone without both arms, even at a distance of thirty feet.

Chen Lin bought One-Arm Circumambulation and considered using his pill-refining skills to earn resources, while Princess Qinghua told him the Soul Refining Pond had no available slot for at least half a year. After half a year passed without news, Chen Lin decided he could not rely on Qinghua to secure a place and needed another way.

• Chen Lin bought One-Arm Circumambulation from the All Things Pavilion for three hundred Gold Jiao Coins after the manager made an exception, then learned that higher grades required task points or barter.
• Chen Lin learned that the Soul Refining Pond had no available slot for at least half a year and examined the Pavilion's task list, considering offering Soul Refining Pills as a way to earn resources and attract Circumambulation Beasts.
• Chen Lin secretly refined One-Arm Circumambulation into Soul Refining Pills while exploring with Lvliu, correcting a small break in his line of destiny without using a Qi Luck Fish.
• Half a year passed without news from Princess Qinghua, and Chen Lin concluded that he could not rely on her to obtain a Soul Refining Pond slot.

Chen Lin sold his Soul Refining Pills to the All Things Pavilion, agreeing to supply them exclusively without joining the organization. Princess Qinghua accepted his decision and revealed that she planned to gather resources and attempt Soul Fusion again on the next Spirit Welcoming Day.

• After using nearly all his Soul Refining Pills, Chen Lin decided to sell the remaining pills and approached Manager Xu at the All Things Pavilion.
• Chen Lin presented a Soul Refining Pill to Manager Xu, who brought in the White-Bearded Old Man and the Prince of Town Spirit Heir to examine it.
• Chen Lin explained that prolonged use of the pill could make part of the soul turn silver, and he agreed to sell his pills exclusively to the All Things Pavilion without becoming its Potion Master.
• Lvliu questioned Chen Lin about the deal on their way back, and he promised to give her pills once he made more.
• Chen Lin told Princess Qinghua about the sale, and she approved while revealing her plan to sell her assets and attempt Soul Fusion again on the next Spirit Welcoming Day.