Chapter Summaries

Chen Lin settled into Baishuang City as an Elder of the Ye Lineage, refining pills and cultivating while Ye Luo’s damaged soul remained only partly healed. Three years later, he accompanied Ye Luo to a Dao lecture and unexpectedly reunited with Zhao Jiuzhou, whose cultivation had advanced to late-stage perfection.

• Ye Zhengming introduced Chen Lin to the Ye Lineage patriarch, gave him an Elder Token, and escorted him to his new residence in Baishuang City.
• Chen Lin assigned Ye Qin to manage the servants, warned them to keep outsiders out of his main cave, and installed his own formations.
• The Ye Lineage supplied Chen Lin with pill materials and Nascent Soul formulas, while he refined pills, cultivated, and gathered yin souls in preparation for future plans.
• Over three years, Ye Luo visited Chen Lin often, but her soul defect remained unresolved and Nascent Soul Pills became less effective.
• Ye Luo urged Chen Lin to attend a Dao lecture by a Void Refinement expert, and the two headed to the crowded venue before Baishuang City's Trading Convention.
• Chen Lin met Zhao Jiuzhou at the lecture and was astonished to learn that Zhao had reached perfection in the late stage.

Chen Lin attended Baishuang City’s trading convention with Ye Luo while considering how to sever his line of causality and investigate the demonic seed. Ye Luo confided in him about her failing health and despair, and the chapter ended as Ye Qianxuan began his cultivation lecture.

• Zhao Jiuzhou praised Chen Lin’s combat strength but decided not to invite him on an operation because his movements were restricted and he was tied to the Ye Lineage.
• Chen Lin considered using the convention to find treasures, prepare for the backlash from severing his line of causality, and detect the Celestial Demon’s aura.
• Ye Luo explained that her connection to the Otherworld and defective soul prevented her from reaching foundation establishment, and she feared severing the connection would destroy her soul.
• Ye Luo asked whether Chen Lin hated her and offered to ask Ye Qianxuan to lift his house arrest, but Chen Lin urged her not to give up on herself.
• Ye Luo said Chen Lin’s friendship had already changed her destiny, and the Mind-Awakening Drum sounded to announce Ye Qianxuan’s lecture.
• Ye Qianxuan welcomed the gathered cultivators and began sharing his cultivation insights.

After attending Ye Qianxuan’s lecture, Chen Lin went to Baishuang City’s Trading Convention to search for useful goods and ancient texts. He bought earth-attribute material and several books, including an original text about demons and monsters that might help him learn about celestial demons.

• Ye Qianxuan lectured for four hours on cultivation, and Chen Lin gained insights that could help him advance to the peak of the Nascent Soul Early Stage.
• Chen Lin returned to his immortal cave to absorb the lecture’s lessons, then went to the Central Market after Ye Luo did not answer his Transmission Talisman.
• Chen Lin bought a piece of Luomen stone for three Top-Grade Spirit Stones after bargaining with a stallholder.
• Chen Lin found a stall selling ancient texts and selected several works on pill formulas, talismancrafting, and demons and monsters.
• Chen Lin paid for unrestricted usage rights and obtained an original copy of Detailed Analysis of Demons and Monsters.

Chen Lin met Zhao Jiuzhou for a meal, received an ancient Ending Hostility Pill formula, and learned that a strange crystal had rapidly increased Zhao Jiuzhou’s cultivation. The chapter ended with Chen Lin asking where the crystal came from.

• Chen Lin invited Zhao Jiuzhou to a restaurant and learned that Zhao was seeking a pill master to refine a rare pill that could assist with Ascension to Spirit Transformation.
• Zhao Jiuzhou gave Chen Lin the ancient Ending Hostility Pill formula, and Chen copied it onto a jade slip.
• Chen Lin asked Zhao Jiuzhou about his rapid cultivation progress, and Zhao explained that a strange crystal had released profound energy into his body and raised his cultivation.
• Chen Lin expressed surprise at Zhao Jiuzhou’s luck and asked whether he had tracked down the cultivator who traded him the crystal.

Chen Lin learned that Zhao Jiuzhou planned to search for strange crystals in the Evil Land, then investigated ways to help Ye Luo and understand his demonic seed. After reading a book on demons and monsters, Chen Lin spotted an inscription on its back that left him frozen.

• Zhao Jiuzhou told Chen Lin that crystals found near the Thousand-Eye Centipede had greatly increased cultivators’ cultivation, but they could only be detected at night.
• Zhao Jiuzhou revealed that he and several cultivators planned to search for the crystals, while Chen Lin warned him to be cautious and could not join because he was confined to Baishuang City.
• Chen Lin considered using his soul-related abilities to repair Ye Luo’s defect, but concluded that only a Nascent Soul Pill or a rare natural treasure could restore her soul origin essence.
• Chen Lin returned to his immortal cave, found that Ye Luo had not replied to his Transmission Talisman, and began studying Detailed Analysis of Demons and Monsters.
• Chen Lin found little information about demonic seeds in the book, but noticed an inscription on its back and froze after reading it.

Chen Lin discovered that Nian Qing’s ancient text tied him to the Demon-Suppressing Temple and resolved to sever that connection after the trading convention. He studied ancient crafting inheritances, became determined to refine a growing Shadow Puppet, and ended the chapter investigating a stall selling purported otherworld objects.

• Chen Lin inferred that Nian Qing and the monks of the Seven Buddha Painting had come from the Upper Realm, then resolved to sever his causal connection to the Demon-Suppressing Temple and discard the Kashaya.
• Chen Lin studied the ancient pill, talisman, and puppetry inheritances, finding that their materials were largely extinct or unfamiliar.
• Chen Lin learned that a Shadow Puppet could grow like a cultivator and decided he could meet the Three-Mysteries Puppet-Refining Art’s demands by using his second primordial spirit and replenishing his other origin essences.
• Chen Lin learned from Ye Zhengming that a soul specialist was examining Ye Luo, then bought all the materials for an Ending Hostility Pill and most of the materials for a Shadow Puppet.
• Chen Lin visited another market and approached a crowded stall after hearing a cultivator ask whether its wares were otherworld objects.

Chen Lin investigated the Tianyun Sect’s treasure-gambling stalls and used his destiny ability to improve his odds of winning a rare Solidifying Infant Pill. The chapter ended as he opened his second large Jade Box and found a pill inside.

• Chen Lin discovered that the Tianyun Sect sold sealed blind boxes containing Otherworld Items, treasures, or pills, and learned that the sect came from the Golden Spirit Mountain Range.
• After watching cultivators lose money at the stalls, Chen Lin bought several boxes himself but found only ordinary and impure spirit stones.
• Chen Lin manifested a destiny line for the most valuable box, then decided to spend two qi luck fish to correct its break.
• Chen Lin returned to the stall, bought two large Jade Boxes, and found an ordinary spirit stone in the first.
• Chen Lin opened the second Jade Box and revealed a perfectly round pill.

Chen Lin used his destiny ability to obtain a Solidifying Infant Pill and a Nightmare Realm carving, then refined the pill to strengthen his nascent soul. Ye Luo brought him to meet Yu Qianyue, the Medicine God Valley Sect Leader, who wanted to discuss Chen Lin with him.

• Chen Lin bought a Jade Box containing a Solidifying Infant Pill, and the stallholders reacted with shock because it had been drawn earlier than expected.
• Chen Lin used Qi Luck Fish to obtain a Nightmare Realm carving from another stall, then suspected the Tianyun Sect could manipulate luck and waited for its people to approach him.
• Chen Lin returned to his immortal cave, refined the Solidifying Infant Pill overnight, and found that his nascent soul had become about twice as condensed.
• Ye Luo told Chen Lin that Yu Qianyue’s attempts to resolve her soul problem had failed and that the Medicine God Valley Sect Leader wanted to meet him.
• Ye Luo brought Chen Lin to the Main Peak, where he met Lineage Patriarch Ye and Yu Qianyue; the Patriarch left them to talk.

Chen Lin gave his modified Nascent Soul Pill formula to the Medicine God Valley sect master, who identified the five missing ingredients from the original formula. Chen Lin and Ye Luo then attended the Baishuang City auction, which opened with a Heavenly Fragrance Qingxuan Flower.

• The Medicine God Valley sect master invited Chen Lin to join his sect, but Chen Lin declined because his agreement with the Ye Lineage was still in effect.
• Chen Lin gave the sect master his Improved Nascent Soul Pill Formula, and the sect master explained that he had been commissioned to restore the ancient formula to treat Ye Luo.
• Chen Lin showed the sect master the altered portions of the Original Pill Formula, and the sect master identified five replaced spiritual herbs and recorded their names for him.
• Chen Lin reassured Ye Luo that he would refine the Authentic Nascent Soul Pill if they found the ingredients, and they flew together to the auction.
• Lineage Patriarch Ye welcomed the attendees, and Ye Qianlun explained the auction rules before opening the bidding on a Heavenly Fragrance Qingxuan Flower.

Chen Lin attended the Ye Lineage auction, bought origin soul liquid and a damaged jade pendant, and learned that the Tianyun Sect made Qi Luck Pills. He resolved to seek the pill formula or buy pills from the sect after the auction.

• Chen Lin declined to bid on the Qingxuan flower, and Ye Luo offered to give him one grown by the Ye Lineage.
• Chen Lin won a large bottle of origin soul liquid for six hundred Top-Grade Spirit Stones and later bought materials for Ending Hostility Pills and Shadow Puppets.
• Chen Lin bid two Spirit Crystals for a damaged Ancient Cultivator Jade Pendant that could conceal soul fluctuations and provide weak soul defense.
• The blue-robed elder introduced a Qi Luck Pill made by the Tianyun Sect, prompting angry complaints from cultivators who had lost money at its treasure-gambling stall.
• Chen Lin recognized the pill as a possible way to increase qi luck and resolved to seek its formula or buy a batch from the Tianyun Sect after the auction.

Chen Lin attended the Baishuang City auction, bought a Qi Luck Pill, and watched its increasingly extraordinary highlight treasures exceed his means. The auction ended with the Heavenly Fire Purgatory Saber on offer, as an Emaciated Old Man opened bidding with a massive offer for his daughter.

• Chen Lin won the Qi Luck Pill for three hundred top-grade spirit stones after a bidding war.
• The auction sold a 150-Year Longevity Pill for two hundred spirit crystals and a One-time Sword Talisman for twenty-eight spirit crystals.
• A defensive Spirit Treasure sold for ninety-one spirit crystals, and the Great Desolation Holy Body Art drew bids from major sects and factions.
• Ye Qingcheng demonstrated the spirit-transforming grade Heavenly Fire Purgatory Saber, whose power left Chen Lin awed but did not affect Ye Luo.
• An Emaciated Old Man bid two thousand spirit crystals for the saber, saying it was meant for his daughter.

Chen Lin tested the Qi Luck Pill, refined Ending Hostility Pills, and examined the auctioned Jade Pendant and a Buddhist pill formula. He learned the formula described a Golden Bodhi Pill that could help him condense a Golden Body, a realm he had not known how to reach.

• Wang Tiangu secured the auction treasure without further bids, and the auction ended before the high-level cultivators dispersed for the Exchange Meeting.
• Chen Lin returned to his immortal cave, swallowed the Qi Luck Pill, and found its qi luck force too weak to support refining without an additional qi luck fish.
• Chen Lin successfully refined two perfect Ending Hostility Pills and calculated that they could sell for about three hundred Top-Grade Spirit Stones each.
• Chen Lin refined the Circular Jade Pendant and found that it concealed his silver soul and warned him of probing, though its cracked body offered little defense against Soul Secret Arts.
• Chen Lin read the Buddhist pill formula from the Medicine God Valley Sect Leader and discovered it described a Golden Bodhi Pill that could help him condense a Golden Body.

Chen Lin decided he would use the Golden Bodhi Pill only after severing the Line of Causality, then attended the Ye Lineage’s Exchange Meeting. The gathering opened amid tensions between powerful human and nonhuman cultivators, as Lineage Patriarch Ye urged them to trade before investigating signs of evil demons in the north.

• Chen Lin weighed the Golden Bodhi Pill’s promise of a Golden Body and greater strength, but resolved not to use it until he had severed the Line of Causality.
• Chen Lin entered the Ye Lineage’s masked Exchange Meeting, where he saw Wang Tiangu and three one-eyed cultivators from the Tuoba Lineage.
• A skeletal old man and a cloaked companion arrived, followed by Bai Yunsheng, whose confrontation with Wang Tiangu nearly triggered a fight.
• Lineage Patriarch Ye and Ye Qingcheng arrived with a gray-robed old man and persuaded Wang Tiangu and Bai Yunsheng to withdraw their auras.
• Lineage Patriarch Ye announced signs of evil demons in the north and asked the attendees to trade needed items before investigating.
• Lineage Patriarch Ye sought rare ingredients for an Authentic Nascent Soul Pill and asked Bai Yunsheng, the skeletal old man, and the One-Eyed Giant for three specific spiritual herbs.

At the Exchange Meeting, Chen Lin traded the damaged Xuanshan Seal for golden tear liquid, while powerful cultivators completed other trades before departing for the Black Pagoda. After the meeting, Chen Lin learned that the Tianyun Sect people had already left the city, then returned to his immortal cave and found Ye Qingcheng waiting.

• Lineage Patriarch Ye and other Void Refinement experts traded for rare treasures, and the one-eyed giant exchanged golden tear liquid for items related to giant bloodlines and spirit treasures.
• Chen Lin learned that golden tear liquid could help awaken eye-related divine abilities and traded his damaged Xuanshan Seal for ten drops.
• Nie Wuchang displayed ghost slaves and a White-Haired Flying Corpse, traded them to interested cultivators, and left with the other powerful figures for the Black Pagoda.
• Ye Qingcheng presided over the rest of the Exchange Meeting, where Chen Lin made several trades before the gathering ended at dawn.
• Chen Lin searched for the Tianyun Sect people but learned they had left the city after the auction, so he returned to his immortal cave and found Ye Qingcheng waiting there.

Chen Lin refined a spiritually awakened Nascent Soul Pill for Ye Luo, then used the Fortunate Art and Karmic Ring Blade to sever the causality connecting him to the demonized Nian Kong. He left Ye Qingcheng with the pill and went into seclusion to endure the art’s backlash.

• Ye Qingcheng brought Chen Lin the rare ingredients for the Nascent Soul Pill, and Chen Lin agreed to refine it for Ye Luo.
• Chen Lin used qi luck fish and the Fortunate Art to correct the pill’s destiny line, then refined a spiritually awakened pill.
• Chen Lin used the Karmic Ring Blade, a Giant Lobster, and the Fortunate Art to sever his line of causality, causing the blade to shatter and the Old Monk to suffer a transformation.
• Chen Lin used the lingering effect of the Fortunate Art on the golden tear liquid before leaving the Pill Refining Chamber.
• Chen Lin gave Ye Qingcheng the pill and asked her to tell Ye Luo he would spend six months in seclusion recovering from a secret art’s severe drawbacks.

Chen Lin waited anxiously for the Fortunate Art’s backlash, which still had not appeared after more than three months. On Tianxuan Day, Ye Luo began Foundation Establishment with the Ye Lineage’s ancestor and Wang Tiangu trying to stop the mysterious force draining her energy.

• Chen Lin prepared for the Fortunate Art’s backlash, sent Grass outside Baishuang City to wait, and secluded himself while the backlash failed to arrive.
• After learning that Baishuang City was quiet but an Evil Land had changed, Chen Lin declined Ye Luo’s invitation to watch her Foundation Establishment on Tianxuan Day.
• Ye Luo’s Soul Origin Essence recovered, and the Ye Lineage’s ancestor, Fish Sect Master, and Wang Tiangu gathered to help her establish her foundation and investigate her connection to another plane.
• Ye Luo took a Foundation Establishment Pill, but an invisible force began siphoning away her energy despite the Forbidden Interdiction Formation.
• The Ye Lineage’s ancestor released a talisman and Wang Tiangu summoned a Vermilion Bird phantom to block the force draining Ye Luo.

Ye Luo’s Foundation Establishment triggered her talent ability and summoned a White Bone Entity from the Otherworld, forcing Lineage Patriarch Ye and the others to fight for their lives. The entity retreated when the heaven and earth will sent down multicolored tribulation lightning, which then struck Chen Lin’s immortal cave.

• With Lineage Patriarch Ye and Wang Tiangu helping stabilize her, Ye Luo liquefied her spiritual power, tempered her physique, and began condensing her divine sense after the planes connected.
• Ye Luo’s talent ability activated as her divine sense formed, and the White Bone Entity began forcing its way into the Northern Star Realm despite the group’s efforts to stop it.
• Lineage Patriarch Ye tried to destroy Ye Luo’s talent origin, but the entity shielded her; Wang Tiangu fled, while Yu Qianyue prepared to escape.
• The White Bone Entity caught Lineage Patriarch Ye’s Natal Flying Sword and nearly struck him, but Ye Luo’s plea made it pause as her body rapidly withered.
• A multicolored tribulation descended, causing the White Bone Entity to retreat into the void before the lightning redirected toward Chen Lin’s immortal cave.

Chen Lin was caught in an overwhelming heavenly tribulation, but the demonic seed inside him forced the White Jade Palm to reveal the immortal soul within and save him. The immortal soul confronted the Crimson Eyeball with a sword dance, leaving Chen Lin and the realm’s cultivators watching the clash.

• Chen Lin tried to escape his cave abode, but the heavenly tribulation locked down space and struck him despite his Lightning-Attracting Stones, talismans, and Xuanwu Shield.
• As Chen Lin faced death, the demonic seed seized his body and threw the White Jade Palm into the tribulation; the palm caught and dispersed the lightning.
• The Crimson Eyeball appeared in the sky, and the White Jade Palm revealed a sword that dispelled the demonic qi surrounding Chen Lin.
• The immortal soul within the palm attacked the Giant Eye, whose crimson beam caused widespread bodily mutations across the Northern Star Realm.
• The immortal soul used a sword dance to bind the crimson beam, then vanished into a brilliant sword strike aimed at the Giant Eye.

Chen Lin escaped the Giant Eye’s attack by entering the Nightmare Realm with the Blood Handkerchief, while Lineage Patriarch Ye and Ye Qingcheng secured his body. After investigating the room and worrying about the demonic seed, Chen Lin discovered that he could not return to the Reality Realm, leaving him trapped in the scenario.

• The Giant Eye wounded by the Celestial Projection turned its power on Chen Lin, whose body mutated as he tried to escape.
• Chen Lin used the Blood Handkerchief to enter the Nightmare Realm, and the Giant Eye withdrew as the plane’s rules and spiritual energy returned to normal.
• Lineage Patriarch Ye and Ye Qingcheng found Chen Lin’s body, recognized that he had entered the Nightmare Realm, and took him away.
• Chen Lin materialized in a woman’s bedchamber, checked his body and belongings, and found no sign of the demonic seed.
• Chen Lin decided to wait in the room, but when he tried to return to the Reality Realm, no repelling force appeared and he realized the scenario was trapping him.

Chen Lin was trapped in a wedding scenario where a Phoenix Crown transformed his appearance and began changing his body, while nightmare qi threatened to consume him. Disguised as a bride, he boarded a strange flying palanquin with another silent bride, and the Flower Fairy who joined them was dragged away after trying to lift his veil.

• Chen Lin realized the scenario would not let him leave until he fulfilled an unknown condition, and Cuiniang and her maids dressed him as a bride.
• The Phoenix Crown changed Chen Lin's face and began altering his body, but he used his silver soul power to resist its energy as nightmare qi seeped into him.
• Chen Lin used his Spirit Eye Divine Ability to see the transformed servants, the Emperor Emeritus, and the bizarre black palanquin waiting outside.
• Chen Lin was placed in the palanquin opposite a silent bride, and it flew away before landing to collect a Petite Bride with a flower for a head.
• The Flower Fairy tried to lift Chen Lin's veil, but the Faceless Man declared her disqualified as a bride and dragged her out as she screamed.