Chapter Summaries

After Grass reverted to a dying blade of grass and Chen Lin lost much of his cultivation, he spent five years nursing her and rebuilding his strength. Once he regained his Golden Core, he abandoned his Demon-Suppressing Temple possessions and flew toward the mainland, resolved to begin anew.

• Chen Lin planted Grass in spirit soil, tended her with spirit milk and nightmare qi, and watched her vitality gradually recover while he cultivated.
• Chen Lin discovered that Gambling Fortune Lake had closed, then spent years cultivating and trying unsuccessfully to open the Celestial Ring.
• After his soul origin essence recovered, Chen Lin endured the Golden Core tribulation and condensed his Golden Core anew.
• Chen Lin slew a Third-Rank Peak giant crab, celebrated with food and Hundred Flowers Brew, and thought of Luo Qinglan and his daughter.
• Chen Lin packed Grass away, discarded Nian Kong's kashaya and every item tied to the Demon-Suppressing Temple, changed his appearance, and flew toward the mainland.

Chen Lin learned that the ruby from the White Bone Holy Ship was a Dao-Inquiring Stone and searched the Dao Domain for a way to recharge his Boundary-Breaking Disc. After three years of fruitless searching, he joined an expedition to the Four-Ring Island Ruins.

• Chen Lin entered a coastal city and discovered that the ruby he had received aboard the White Bone Holy Ship was a Dao-Inquiring Stone.
• Chen Lin concealed the stone and considered whether his talent ability had allowed him to activate it and resonate with its Dao Rhyme.
• Chen Lin learned that the Bone Bird had destroyed his Nascent Soul and demonic seed, while Gu Xuan and the other passengers had received no treasures.
• Chen Lin found a damaged text explaining that the Boundary-Breaking Disc required pure spatial energy, such as space spirit crystals or the talent origin of a powerful spatial creature.
• Chen Lin searched settlements for three years but found no source of spatial energy before boarding a Flying Boat bound for the Four-Ring Island Ruins.

Chen Lin entered the Four Ring Island Ruins with a White Shark Gang expedition, seeking spatial treasures, and uncovered a trap tied to the White Bone Sage Lord. After killing Sun Yuliang and pursuing Xu Sulan into the White Bone Wasteland, he left the story as Gu Xuan, High Person Yunhai, and an old cultivator prepared to explore a passage beneath the Holy Mountain.

• Chen Lin signed the White Shark Gang’s spirit pact, paid to waive treasure sharing, and joined the expedition to Four Ring Island.
• Chen Lin met Sun Yuliang and Xu Sulan aboard the spirit boat, then secretly branded Xu Sulan with his second primordial spirit after entering the ruins.
• Sun Yuliang lured Chen Lin toward a supposed treasure site, but Chen Lin seized him, searched his soul, and burned him to ashes after discovering fragments about the Holy Mountain and White Bone Sage Lord.
• Chen Lin entered the White Bone Wasteland on foot and pursued Xu Sulan, while Gu Xuan, High Person Yunhai, and an old cultivator gathered at its edge to seek a passage beneath the Holy Mountain.
• High Person Yunhai said he had seen an independent space and a passage leading outside, and the old cultivator proposed that the three sign a spirit pact before proceeding.

Chen Lin followed Xu Sulan to a hidden altar beneath the Holy Mountain and learned that her lineage had spatial talent capable of purifying spatial energy. He suspected the altar’s Jade Boxes held spatial-attribute spirit stones and began testing one, while retreating with Xu Sulan to keep her safe.

• Chen Lin followed Xu Sulan to the Holy Mountain, where High Person Yunhai and Gu Xuan also hurried toward the mountain.
• Chen Lin found a concealed passage beneath disturbed bones and followed Xu Sulan’s Primordial Spirit Mark to an underground altar bearing a skull-shaped fruit.
• Chen Lin confronted Xu Sulan, revealed his Golden Core cultivation, and demanded to know what she knew about the altar.
• Xu Sulan explained that her father had found the entrance and taken an attribute spirit stone from a Jade Box, but suffered a strange injury in the process.
• Chen Lin learned that the Xu Lineage could purify spatial-attribute energy and suspected the altar’s Jade Boxes contained Space Spirit Stones.
• Chen Lin sent a Foundation Establishment Puppet toward a Jade Box and pulled Xu Sulan back into the passage.

Chen Lin braved the altar’s soul attacks and collected seventy-two peak-grade space spirit stones before a giant skeleton emerged and trapped everyone in the chamber. As High Person Yunhai sacrificed his Plump Green Bug to distract it, Chen Lin sent a talisman through the widening rift toward Ye Luo.

• Chen Lin used puppets and an Image Retention Stone to test the altar, discovering that its attack followed the puppet’s mental connection but could be resisted by his golden soul power.
• Xu Sulan revealed that her damaged jade pendant could shield its user from the altar’s attacks, and Chen Lin used it to collect seventy-one spatial spirit stones from the jade boxes.
• The Little Skeleton transformed into a giant, suppressed Chen Lin and Xu Sulan, and tore open a space rift while Chen Lin struggled toward the passage.
• High Person Yunhai and his companions arrived, but the skeleton crushed Elder He and seized Gu Xuan, whose sacrifice strengthened the little tree and widened the rift.
• Chen Lin recognized Ye Luo beyond the rift and asked High Person Yunhai to distract the skeleton; Yunhai released a Plump Green Bug, which exploded and briefly weakened the chamber’s restraints.
• Chen Lin sent blood-powered talismans toward the rift, and one streak passed through before the skeleton scattered the rest.

Chen Lin escaped the White Bone Sage Lord's Dao Domain, reached the Southern Star Realm, and spent fifty years cultivating in seclusion. He successfully returned to the Nascent Soul Realm, then left Yuexuan Mountain before its Golden Core cultivators could meet him.

• The skeletal monster released Chen Lin, High Person Yunhai, and Xu Sulan after Ye Luo ended her summoning, and Chen Lin escaped with Xu Sulan.
• Chen Lin hid for a year while Xu Sulan purified the Space Spirit Stones, then gave her healing pills and a Four-Pattern Seven-Star Pill before offering to take her beyond the realm; she declined to answer, and he left her behind.
• Chen Lin sold the White Bone Holy Ship fragments, destroyed the One-Eyed Ghost Hag's fingernail, and used the Boundary-Breaking Disc to reach the Southern Star Realm.
• Chen Lin settled at Yuexuan Mountain and cultivated in seclusion for fifty years, searching no further for a way back to the Northern Star Realm during that time.
• Chen Lin emerged from his immortal cave and easily passed the Nascent Soul Tribulation, astonishing the cultivators who watched.
• The Golden Core cultivators later found Chen Lin's cave empty after deciding to visit him.

Chen Lin settled in Tianfeng City after reaching the Nascent Soul middle stage, and Grass returned to life. He decided to stop searching blindly for Luo Qinglan until he reached Spirit Transformation, and Yuan Chengfang’s family began cultivating a connection with him.

• Chen Lin reached Tianfeng City with a caravan, then rented an immortal cave after learning the city was under the Moon Reflection Palace’s jurisdiction.
• Chen Lin broke through to the Nascent Soul middle stage and planned to find materials in Tianfeng City to reforge the Thunder Sword and repair the Immortal Refining Gourd.
• Grass resurrected, and Chen Lin celebrated with her at a Spirit Food Pavilion, where they encountered Yuan Hongying and Yuan Chengfang.
• Chen Lin settled in Tianfeng City, deciding to focus on cultivation and suspend his search for Luo Qinglan until he reached Spirit Transformation.
• Yuan Chengfang visited Chen Lin with congratulatory gifts on behalf of his lineage head, and Chen Lin accepted them and promised to visit.

Chen Lin repaired the Immortal Refining Gourd and learned that a text from the Good Fortune Sect ruins described how talent holders might use the Dao-Inquiring Stone. After mastering the method, he began preparing to draw on the stone’s energy to strengthen his talent, though he remained far from comprehending a dao art.

• Chen Lin repaired the Immortal Refining Gourd and learned its artifact spirit might regain sentience within ten years.
• Chen Lin learned that ruins tied to the Good Fortune Sect had been discovered near Tianfeng City, then kept out of the ensuing treasure-hunting frenzy.
• Yuan Hongying told Fatty Han that Chen Lin was a Nascent Soul Cultivator, so Fatty Han visited Chen Lin with ancient texts and received a Four-Pattern Seven-Star Pill.
• Chen Lin found that one of Fatty Han’s bamboo slips described a method for talent holders to use the Dao-Inquiring Stone.
• Chen Lin spent three months mastering the method and hoped to use the stone’s energy to strengthen his talent ability.

Chen Lin used a Dao-Inquiring Stone to develop a divine ability that let him view and alter other people’s destinies, though its power was limited by his cultivation. When he tested it on Fatty Han, he discovered that the man’s main destiny line was broken, suggesting a fatal crisis ahead, and asked him to return the next day.

• Chen Lin immersed himself in the Dao-Inquiring Stone’s energy and, after half a year of repeated attempts, manifested a grayish-white river that could project another person’s destiny.
• Chen Lin tested the new ability on monster beasts and cultivators, learning that he could easily kill Qi Condensation targets, while higher-level targets were increasingly difficult to affect.
• Fatty Han visited Chen Lin after reaching the Golden Core Realm and said he planned to settle down and establish a lineage rather than pursue a nascent soul.
• Chen Lin projected Fatty Han’s destiny and saw that his main line was broken, indicating a possible fatal crisis in the near future.
• Chen Lin kept his findings to himself and told Fatty Han to return the next day so he could examine the situation again.

Chen Lin suffered a severe backlash while trying to mend Fatty Han’s broken destiny line, and Murong Qing brought him to the Blue Queen for help. After restoring his talent origin and learning about his Dao-Inquiring Stone and White Bone Sage Lord’s Dao Domain, the Blue Queen appointed him to help manage Tianfeng City and warned him to stay there.

• Chen Lin confirmed Fatty Han’s destiny line still showed a life-threatening tribulation approaching and planned to take him out of Tianfeng City to test whether the danger changed.
• Chen Lin used a Fate Tentacle to touch a faint thread beside the break in Fatty Han’s destiny line, triggering a violent backlash that left him bleeding and injured his talent origin.
• Murong Qing recognized Chen Lin’s use of Dao Rhyme energy and took him to the Blue Queen, while Fatty Han remained behind, uncertain whether to flee the city.
• Chen Lin told the Blue Queen how he obtained his Dao-Inquiring Stone and described the ruins of White Bone Sage Lord’s Dao Domain; she used blue energy to stabilize his talent origin and asked him to record the locations.
• The Blue Queen invited Chen Lin to help manage Tianfeng City and told him to avoid leaving unless necessary and to seek Murong Qing if he faced trouble.

Chen Lin avoided the Good Fortune Sect ruins while trading for Lamp-Lighting Fruits and refining Golden Bodhi Pills to complete his Golden Body. As he prepared to make the final push, an unexpected visitor arrived.

• Chen Lin examined his recovered talent ability and discovered it could now reveal part of his own hazy main destiny line, though he decided not to probe it further.
• News spread that a vast secret realm and Spiritual Herb Garden had been discovered in the Good Fortune Sect ruins, and Chen Lin chose to patrol Tianfeng City and trade with returning cultivators instead of exploring.
• Chen Lin bought more than a hundred Lamp-Lighting Fruits and resumed refining Golden Bodhi Pills to advance his Golden Body.
• Yuan Hongying begged Chen Lin to help her Second Uncle and cousin, whom the Feng Lineage had seized in the ruins, but he refused to intervene in a conflict outside the City Lord Manor's jurisdiction.
• Chen Lin refined his Golden Body until only the area around his heart remained, then prepared to use his remaining pills before an unexpected visitor arrived.

Feng Jidao apologized to Chen Lin after Yuan Hongying claimed to be Chen Lin’s woman before Murong Qing, forcing Chen Lin to accept the relationship to protect the Yuan Lineage. Murong Qing then recruited Chen Lin to help subdue an evil demonic creature in the Creation Secret Realm, and the chapter ended with him discovering that her jade-slip pill formula was extraordinary.

• Feng Jidao brought Chen Lin gifts and apologized for the Feng Lineage’s treatment of Yuan Hongying.
• Chen Lin learned that Yuan Hongying had posed as his concubine to appeal to Murong Qing, provoking the Feng Lineage’s fear of her power.
• Murong Qing told Chen Lin that he had to publicly accept Yuan Hongying as his woman or the Yuan Lineage would be destroyed.
• Murong Qing asked Chen Lin to use the Soul-Destroying Finger against an evil demonic creature guarding a treasure in the Creation Secret Realm, and Chen Lin agreed.
• Murong Qing gave Chen Lin a special pill formula and ordered him to stay at the City Lord Manor while preparations were made.
• Chen Lin examined the jade slip and realized its pill formula was anything but ordinary.

Chen Lin helped Murong Qing destroy four stone guardians in the Good Fortune Sect ruins and discovered a portrait resembling the Hundred Flowers Fairy among portraits of the sect’s ascended cultivators. After returning to Tianfeng City, he cut ties with Yuan Hongying and the Yuan Lineage while leaving her alive under a harsh condition.

• Chen Lin studied the Good Fortune Shengxuan Pill formula Murong Qing had given him, then joined her and three Formation Masters at a hidden entrance to the ruins.
• In the ruins’ Place of Offerings, Chen Lin recognized a portrait resembling the Hundred Flowers Fairy and wondered whether she was connected to the Good Fortune Sect.
• Master Qin and the two middle-aged men set up the Nine Origins Soul-Locking Great Array, and Chen Lin used his Soul-Destroying Finger to weaken the four stone guardians so Murong Qing could destroy them with her bow.
• After the Golden Coffin descended onto the altar, Murong Qing sent Chen Lin and the Formation Masters away; Chen Lin returned to Tianfeng City and learned that Fatty Han had stayed safe in Small Origin City.
• Yuan Chengfang brought Yuan Hongying to apologize, and Chen Lin spared her but forbade her from marrying anyone else and ended his ties with the Yuan Lineage.

After a year of rapid cultivation through Good Fortune Shengxuan Pills, Chen Lin attended a trading convention in Tianfeng City to gather rare materials. He traded with a cultivator preparing to attempt Spirit Transformation for Acacia Grass, then offered pills and listed the materials he sought.

• Chen Lin spent a year refining and taking Good Fortune Shengxuan Pills, greatly increasing his cultivation and collecting ingredients for higher-realm pills.
• Chen Lin attended a Nascent Soul trading convention at the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion and traded for spiritual herbs, completing his ingredient list for the Authentic Nascent Soul Pill and obtaining more Lamp-Lighting Fruits.
• A white-robed cultivator named Yu offered Acacia Grass in exchange for a treasure that could help him ascend to Spirit Transformation, but the other guests declined.
• Chen Lin gave Yu a pill and jade slip, and Yu accepted the exchange and promised to repay him if he successfully ascended.
• Chen Lin presented pills for Nascent Soul cultivators and sought spatial-attribute spirit crystals, old Yin-Yang-attribute herbs, origin soul liquid, and items related to the Nightmare Realm.

Chen Lin used acacia grass to activate the Mandarin Duck Sound-Transmitting Conch and briefly learned that Luo Qinglan was in the western Hongshan Continent, though her message was too garbled to reveal her exact location. He obtained books about the continent and agreed to refine Ending Hostility Pills for Zhang Tianyue, but learned that reaching Luo Qinglan from his current location would be extremely difficult.

• Chen Lin drank refined acacia grass and activated the Mandarin Duck Sound-Transmitting Conch, allowing him to hear Luo Qinglan briefly.
• Luo Qinglan told Chen Lin she was in the western part of the Hongshan Continent and warned him to be careful, but the connection failed before she could give clearer directions.
• Chen Lin searched Tianfeng City for information about the Hongshan Continent, and Manager Fu arranged for the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion to copy books for him.
• Zhang Tianyue confirmed that Chen Lin could refine Ending Hostility Pills and asked him to supply several for a major auction; Chen Lin agreed and asked Zhang to help him find space spirit crystal.
• Chen Lin read the copied books and learned that the Hongshan Continent lay extremely far from his location, with no convenient teleportation route to Luo Qinglan.

After learning Luo Qinglan was in Hongshan Continent, Chen Lin searched for a way to reach her despite the dangers of crossing continents. He acquired a powerful Nightmare Realm Jade Talisman and summoned Fatty Han, asking whether he wanted to form a nascent soul.

• Chen Lin learned that reaching Hongshan Continent would require a dangerous ocean crossing or unstable intercontinental teleportation, and he considered using the Nightmare Realm as a transit route.
• Chen Lin completed the Ending Hostility Pills for Zhang Tianyue and asked him to look for space spirit crystals.
• Zhang Tianyue gave Chen Lin a sealed Jade Talisman Nightmare Realm item whose aura reached fifteen zhang, and Chen Lin memorized its surface patterns without activating it.
• Chen Lin revisited the closed Gambling Fortune Lake scenario and thought about Luo Qinglan, Qin Lingyu, his daughter, and the others he had left behind.
• Chen Lin summoned Han Jinshan and asked whether he wanted to form a nascent soul; Han Jinshan eagerly said that he did.

Chen Lin arranged for Fatty Han to recruit elderly cultivators to explore the Jade Talisman scenario, but the explorers died and transformed into pig-headed corpses, so Chen Lin halted the effort and waited for a new Road Guide. After five years of cultivation, he reached a bottleneck and learned the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion had acquired a Damaged Spirit Treasure for him.

• Chen Lin gave Fatty Han Xianji Stones, spirit pacts, and Foundation Establishment Pills to recruit elderly cultivators for the Nightmare Realm scenario, and assigned Grass to oversee the work.
• A space spirit crystal recharged Chen Lin's Boundary-Breaking Disc, but dozens of Qi Condensation explorers died and returned as mutated corpses, drawing rumors and questions from the City Lord Manor.
• Chen Lin suspended the exploration, ordered the base abandoned, and told Grass to dispose of the pig-headed corpses after she noted their vitality remained.
• Chen Lin declined Murong Qing's invitation to travel to Moon Reflection City and continued cultivating in Tianfeng City while keeping Fatty Han in his service.
• Five years later, Chen Lin reached the peak of the Nascent Soul middle stage, failed to break through, and learned from Manager Fu that the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion had obtained a Damaged Spirit Treasure.

Chen Lin bought and tested a damaged spirit-transforming flight treasure called the Void-Breaking Shuttle, then considered seeking out the Crystal Clan for information about the Nightmare Realm and spatial resources. After completing his Golden Body, he escaped to a distant mountain and prepared to face a powerful heavenly tribulation.

• Manager Fu showed Chen Lin a damaged spirit-transforming flight treasure that retained Void Traversal, and Chen Lin bought it for fifty spirit crystals.
• Manager Fu told Chen Lin that members of the Crystal Clan from Deer Horn Mountain had ventured out and might know about the Nightmare Realm.
• Chen Lin tested the Void-Breaking Shuttle and found it could travel over a hundred li in fewer than ten breaths, though Void Traversal lasted only a breath.
• Chen Lin decided to consider approaching the Crystal Clan later, then swallowed a Golden Bodhi Pill and continued completing his Golden Body.
• When a powerful heavenly tribulation began, Chen Lin used a Short-Range Teleportation Jade Talisman to reach a distant mountain and prepared his defenses.

Chen Lin survived a Buddhist body-tempering tribulation and used Grass’s sword light to expel Nian Kong’s hidden influence, severing his last tie to the Demon-Suppressing Temple. After returning to his residence, he learned that a visitor had come and went out to welcome them.

• The Little Daoist Boy sent Chen Lin a warning that the Buddhist body-tempering tribulation’s inner demon trial was dangerous.
• Chen Lin endured the Three-Color Tribulation Lightning, which tempered his Golden Body and awakened Nian Kong’s consciousness within him.
• Grass’s sword light disrupted Nian Kong’s attempt to make Chen Lin bear his sins, and Chen Lin forced the remaining Buddhist power from his body.
• The Little Daoist Boy and the Old Taoist departed after arguing about the boy’s decision to help Chen Lin.
• Chen Lin recovered, accepted the loss of his Lotus-Burning True Fire Divine Ability, and returned to his residence with Grass.
• Manager He told Chen Lin that someone was requesting an audience, and Chen Lin went out to welcome the visitor.

Chen Lin met Yuguang Yan of the Crystal Clan, learned that her people sought a route back to their home plane, and obtained information about three Nightmare Realm nodes. After reviewing the nearest node’s details, he decided to investigate it himself.

• Yuguang Yan told Chen Lin that the Crystal Clan came from the Crystal Realm and hoped to find a way home through other planes.
• Chen Lin said he had met beings from other planes but had never encountered any with crystallized skin, and promised to watch for signs of the Crystal Realm.
• Yuguang Yan shared the locations of three Nightmare Realm nodes in exchange for Chen Lin keeping an eye out for information about her clan’s home plane.
• After Yuguang Yan left, Chen Lin learned that Crystal Clan members had approached many powerful cultivators in Tianfeng City, not just him.
• Chen Lin examined the jade slip describing the nodes and found that the nearby one led to a fully explored, empty village where even a level two road guide had failed to pass the barrier.
• Chen Lin put away the jade slip and decided to visit the nearby node.