Chapter Summaries

Chen Lin discovered that the Chongxu Pill contained a hidden tracking mark, removed it, and used the pill to break through to the Nascent Soul late stage. As he prepared to leave for the Tianfang Continent with the Crystal Clan, he freed his attendants from their contracts and agreed to hear Yuan Hongying's situation.

• Zhang Tianyue identified a concealed tracking mark in Chen Lin's Chongxu Pill and warned that it could follow him through reincarnation.
• Chen Lin removed the tracking pill pattern and entered seclusion, where he broke through to the Nascent Soul late stage after more than a year.
• Yuguang Yan told Chen Lin that the Crystal Clan would depart for the Tianfang Continent in three days, and he agreed to join them.
• Chen Lin gave treasures to his attendants, released them from their contracts, and directed those seeking work to Elder Qin.
• Fatty Han told Chen Lin that Yuan Hongying was being ostracized despite her sincere feelings and asked him to give her a chance; Chen Lin asked for her to come over.

Chen Lin settled Yuan Hongying’s status and left Tianfeng City with the Crystal Clan, traveling toward the Red Moon Sea on his way to the Tianfang Continent. During a rest stop in Wangu City, he spotted Gu Shengjin and chose to avoid him.

• Chen Lin offered Yuan Hongying freedom or continued concubine status, and she chose to remain his concubine in exchange for the courtyard and cultivation resources.
• Chen Lin packed Fat Tiger and Grass, then went to the Crystal Clan headquarters to join its journey.
• The Great Elder led Chen Lin and the disguised Crystal Clan members through the Jiubian Mountains and onward by teleportation formations to Wangu City.
• The Great Elder ordered the group to rest for two days before crossing the Red Moon Sea, and Yuguang Yan went off to shop while Chen Lin explored the market.
• Chen Lin recognized Gu Shengjin outside a shop but chose not to approach him and returned to the Crystal Clan’s immortal cave.

Chen Lin traveled with the Crystal Clan toward the Tianfang Continent, unaware that Gu Shengjin and True Lord Yuming were arranging to kill him. As the group began crossing the dangerous White Mist Sea, a massive tentacle erupted from the water.

• Chen Lin considered his past with Gu Shengjin and put away Dantai Yunjin's Transmission Talisman rather than risk delaying his search for Luo Qinglan.
• Yuguang Yan explained that the Red Moon Sea was named for a dangerous red moon apparition, and the Crystal Clan resumed its journey after the Great Elder returned.
• Gu Shengjin told True Lord Yuming that Chen Lin's soul was needed for refining a Spirit Treasure, and revealed that the Gu Family had approved sending powerful cultivators after him.
• True Lord Yuming agreed to help Gu Shengjin ambush Chen Lin, provided Dantai Yunjin learned nothing about the plan.
• The Great Elder teleported Chen Lin and the Crystal Clan to an island, then led them aboard a Spirit Boat to cross the White Mist Sea.
• As the Spirit Boat traveled low over the water, an enormous tentacle suddenly burst from the sea.

A black-robed Void Refinement powerhouse and Gu Family allies trapped the Crystal Clan’s Spirit Boat, seeking the clan members’ talent origins. The Crystal Clan summoned Yu Gongqing through a Light Gate, but an old man appeared and destroyed the gate.

• A giant sea monster attacked the Spirit Boat, and the Great Elder used his Oddly-Shaped Curved Saber to fight it off.
• The black-robed man emerged from the sea, caught the Great Elder’s Spirit-Transforming Grade Spirit Treasure, and demanded the Crystal Clan members’ talent origins.
• Gu Family members bearing scarlet crescent marks appeared and blocked the Spirit Boat from escaping, while Chen Lin recognized Gu Shengjin among them and sensed danger.
• The Great Elder and the black-robed man ordered their sides to attack, and the Crystal Clan members formed a Light Gate that brought Yu Gongqing onto the scene.
• Yu Gongqing scattered the Gu Family’s red light, but a scarlet beam shattered the Spirit Boat’s barrier and collapsed the Light Gate; an old man then appeared and addressed Yu Gongqing.

Chen Lin was caught in a battle between the Crystal Clan and the Gu Family, then fought off Gu Shengjin and two companions who tried to block his escape. He killed two attackers, captured Gu Shengjin’s nascent soul with the Immortal Refining Gourd, and fled while another Spirit Transformation cultivator watched him greedily.

• Yu Gongqing confronted Gu Xuan after the Great Elder revealed that the Gu Family sought the Crystal Clan’s talent origins.
• The Great Elder ordered the Crystal Clan to split up and escape to the No. 5 Gathering Place, while he attacked the black-robed man riding the Octopus Monster.
• Gu Shengjin, a tightly wrapped man, and a Cyan-Robed Old Man intercepted Chen Lin, but Chen Lin killed the old man and Grass killed the tightly wrapped man.
• Gu Shengjin abandoned his body and fled as a nascent soul, but Chen Lin used the Immortal Refining Gourd to pull him back and capture him.
• Chen Lin fled the battlefield, while a Spirit Transformation cultivator who had witnessed the fight quietly retreated with greedy interest in his treasures.

Chen Lin escaped a Spirit Transformation cultivator’s primordial spirit domain by using Five Thunders Smite the Crown to weaken it, then struck with the Thunder God Sword. The cultivator’s body was destroyed, but his nascent soul escaped, and Chen Lin fled through space with the enemy’s Cyan Stone Slab and Storage Bag.

• Chen Lin entered a red-mist primordial spirit domain and fought off its endlessly regenerating red shadows with the Xuanwu Shield and Bone Saber.
• Chen Lin used Five Thunders Smite the Crown to thin the red mist, reveal the hidden Spirit Transformation cultivator, and make him defend against a powerful five-colored lightning strike.
• Chen Lin distracted the cultivator with another lightning attack and sent the Thunder God Sword through his Natal Bead barrier, fatally wounding his body.
• The cultivator escaped as a nascent soul, evading Chen Lin’s Soul-Destroying Finger before disappearing from sight.
• Chen Lin retrieved the Cyan Stone Slab and Storage Bag, then used the Void-Breaking Shuttle to escape.

Chen Lin struggled to escape the White Mist Sea Region after the battle, enduring spatial turbulence and monster beasts while losing contact with the Crystal Clan. After months of wandering without finding the region’s boundary, he spotted a large ship.

• Chen Lin escaped spatial turbulence with the Void-Breaking Shuttle, then used Grass and Fat Tiger to fend off a fish monster beast and hide in the mist.
• Lost on an island, Chen Lin chose not to use his Transmission Talismans at first, erased the Spirit Transformation Cultivator’s tracking brand from the Cyan Stone Slab, and checked the cultivator’s Storage Bag.
• A White-Robed Woman told the Nascent Soul that the Gu Family had to fear retaliation from the Moon Reflection Palace and might abandon Wangu City.
• Chen Lin traveled through the dangerous sea for weeks, then had Fat Tiger activate the Great Elder’s and Yuguang Yan’s Transmission Talismans, but neither responded.
• Chen Lin spent more than five months searching for a way out, realized he might be traveling in the wrong direction, and spotted a large ship.

Chen Lin escaped the White Mist Sea Region by following a Spirit Beast Sect ship to the Tianfang Continent, where he planned to travel to Tongtian City and search for a route to the Hongshan Continent. After learning more about the Spirit Beast Sect, he headed toward Xiaoyun City, keeping in mind that its member Lu Shenxing might be useful for finding safe sea routes.

• Chen Lin followed a massive ship through the White Mist Sea Region and escaped into the Red Moon Sea, where Lu Shenxing called him out.
• Chen Lin introduced himself as a rogue cultivator bound for Xiaoyun City and declined Lu Shenxing's offer to board the Spirit Beast Sect ship, choosing instead to follow in his own Spirit Boat.
• Lu Shenxing questioned Chen Lin about his companions, then watched over him as they traveled for several months toward land.
• After reaching Jvjing City, Chen Lin confirmed he was on the Tianfang Continent and decided to travel to Tongtian City to seek a way to the Hongshan Continent.
• Chen Lin learned that the Spirit Beast Sect frequently sailed to capture spirit beasts and set out for Xiaoyun City, remembering Lu Shenxing in case he needed help finding a safe sea route.

In Xiaoyun City, Chen Lin learned that no reliable teleportation formation could take him toward the continent’s center, then discovered Xu Zihan’s Myriad Realms Alliance, which exchanged information among Nightmare Realm explorers from different planes. Chen Lin considered joining to find a way to reach his wife and daughter, and the chapter ended with Xu Zihan asking for a fifty-spirit-crystal membership fee.

• Chen Lin found that Xiaoyun City had no reliable teleportation formations and decided to continue toward the central region by other means.
• At the Curio Pavilion, Chen Lin asked Xu Zihan about Nightmare Realm items, and Xu Zihan invited him to join the Myriad Realms Alliance.
• Xu Zihan explained that the alliance’s members met in Nightmare Realm scenarios and exchanged information across planes.
• Chen Lin learned that members entered a scenario through a bird egg, where projections could neither harm nor be harmed by others.
• After Xu Zihan described an easy rule-based task required to leave the scenario safely, Chen Lin asked about joining, and Xu Zihan quoted a fee of fifty spirit crystals plus one per year.

Chen Lin rejected Xu Zihan’s costly offer to join the Myriad Realms Alliance, then joined a Yuanguang Trading Firm escort heading through dangerous First Line Gorge. The party made it past most of the gorge before a huge object plunged toward their Spirit Boat.

• Chen Lin turned down Xu Zihan’s offer after becoming suspicious of the Myriad Realms Alliance’s claims and membership fees.
• Chen Lin joined the Yuanguang Trading Firm as a guard escorting the Zhang siblings to Shayu City.
• Daoist Hu told Chen Lin that a caravan led by an early-stage Nascent Soul cultivator had vanished in First Line Gorge, while powerful cultivators were occupied suppressing evil demons on Zhongting Mountain.
• The Yuanguang Trading Firm’s steward promised each guard two extra spirit crystals for safely protecting the Zhang siblings, and the party entered First Line Gorge aboard the Spirit Boat.
• As the Spirit Boat neared the gorge’s exit, Chen Lin shouted a warning when an enormous object fell from above and crashed onto the boat.

Chen Lin encountered a mysterious Seductress who used a cage-bound miniature man to capture and kill cultivators. After destroying the miniature man and attacking her with several powerful techniques, he watched her reassemble and vanish, leaving him with a dangerous new enemy.

• A black palm shattered Chen Lin's Spirit Boat, but his Xuanwu Shield protected him and Elder Hu.
• Elder Hu identified the attacker as Black Mountain Old Devil, a fallen spirit transformation cultivator and disciple of Spirit Demon Ancestor.
• Black Mountain Old Devil's Seductress appeared and used the miniature man in her cage to seize the fleeing Nascent Soul elder, then captured Elder Hu, the Trading Firm's steward, and the Zhang Family siblings.
• The Seductress tried to recruit Chen Lin as her demonic puppet, while the miniature man attacked him through the void.
• Chen Lin used the Thunder God Sword to destroy the miniature man, then attacked the Seductress with the Purple Spirit Ring, lightning, and the Bone Saber.
• The Seductress reassembled unharmed, told Chen Lin she would remember him, and vanished.

After escaping the Seductress’s attack, Chen Lin traveled to Liangyi City to find safety and learn about routes across the Silent Sea. He hired Xiao Chengyue as a guide and headed to the Xingnan Trading Firm, hoping it could help him reach the Hongshan Continent.

• Chen Lin collected the fallen cultivators’ belongings, rescued Elder Hu and the others, and accepted thirty spirit crystals before leaving for Liangyi City.
• After two months of uninterrupted travel, Chen Lin reached Liangyi City, passed its detection formation, and hired Xiao Chengyue as a top-tier guide.
• Xiao Chengyue explained Liangyi City’s rules and powers, then told Chen Lin where to find shops selling Silent Sea charts.
• Chen Lin learned that the Xingnan Trading Firm was a cross-border enterprise owned by Dao Monarch Shenmu and decided to visit it in hopes of finding passage to the Hongshan Continent.

Chen Lin learned three possible ways to reach the Hongshan Continent, though each had major obstacles. After failing to secure passage through the Xingnan Trading Firm or Tianhai Sect, he rented an immortal cave to plan his next move.

• Chen Lin asked Xiao Chengyue about the Hongshan Continent, and she described its dangers and named the Liangyi Disk, the Xingnan Trading Firm's intercontinental passage, and the Tianhai Sect's Sea-Crossing Ship as possible routes.
• Xiao Chengyue explained that using the Liangyi Disk required permission and at least five hundred spirit crystals, while the other routes were secret or dangerous and might not be available.
• Chen Lin bought sea charts from the Xingnan Trading Firm but found no detailed charts of the Sea of Death and could not learn how to use its intercontinental passage.
• Chen Lin visited the Tianhai Sect's shop, where he learned it had stopped accepting trips across the Sea of Death, then rented an immortal cave to study his options.
• Chen Lin paid Xiao Chengyue with a top-grade spirit stone and pills, then invited her to his immortal cave; she mistook his offer and directed him to Wuzhen Tower.

Chen Lin settled on pursuing a Liangyi Disk teleportation slot and searched his spoils for resources and useful inheritances. He ended with enough spirit crystals to meet the disk’s price, while postponing a choice between two possible foundations for his future primordial spirit domain.

• Chen Lin inspected Wuzhen Tower and recognized its connection to the mysterious organization he had encountered in the Lower Realm.
• Chen Lin chose to wait for Liangyi Sect missions that could award a Liangyi Disk teleportation slot, then examined the storage bags he had collected.
• Chen Lin found Gu Shengjin’s treasures and other spoils brought his spirit crystal total to roughly five hundred, enough to meet the Liangyi Disk’s price.
• Chen Lin identified tokens suggesting that Gu Shengjin’s concealed companion had been True Lord Yuming, and wondered whether Dantai Yunjin had also come to Wangu City.
• Chen Lin put away a Bird Egg linked to a nightmare realm scenario and decided to investigate the Myriad Realms Alliance before considering entry.
• Chen Lin studied the Jade Slip’s instructions for forming a primordial spirit domain, then set aside his choice between his innate divine ability and Five Thunders Smite the Crown.

Chen Lin studied Gu Shengjin’s unfinished soul-type treasure, Scholar, and decided to erase its existing spirit restrictions before completing it himself. After a year of cultivation and work on the treasure, he learned of a dangerous Liangyi Disk mission, declined it, and recruited Yang Ziqing as a contracted subordinate, then set out to help him establish his foundation.

• Chen Lin studied the bamboo slips and learned that Scholar could become a powerful True Spirit-Tier Spirit Treasure, but Gu Shengjin’s soul traces made it unsafe to use without removing and reinscribing its restrictions.
• Chen Lin spent a month comprehending the inheritance and then began slowly removing Scholar’s original restrictions while cultivating.
• After another year, Chen Lin learned of a Liangyi Sect mission requiring participants to kill a King Tier evil beast during the uprising at Zhongting Mountain, but he declined because the mission was too dangerous.
• Chen Lin offered Yang Ziqing a soul pact, Foundation Establishment Pills, and a chance to reach Core Formation in exchange for becoming his subordinate, and Yang Ziqing accepted.
• Chen Lin led Yang Ziqing to help him establish his foundation, while Yang Ziqing worried that his Qi Condensation 8th Layer cultivation and poor spiritual root made him unready.

Chen Lin helped Yang Ziqing reach Foundation Establishment, treated his father’s injuries, and discovered a faint talent in Yang Zishi. After Yang Ziqing swore loyalty and was given new duties, Father Yang wondered why Chen Lin had taken an interest in his daughter.

• Chen Lin gave Yang Ziqing a Marrow-Cleansing Pill and three Foundation Establishment Pills, then visited his family and offered Father Yang a Shuiyun Spirit Pill for his damaged meridians.
• Chen Lin sensed a faint talent in Yang Zishi and examined the Yang Family genealogy, which traced their ancestry to the Void Refinement cultivator Yang Qianxing.
• Yang Ziqing successfully reached Foundation Establishment, and Chen Lin told him to lead the group, keep a low profile, and visit his immortal cave for a cultivation technique.
• Yang Ziqing swore eternal loyalty to Chen Lin and told his father that he had willingly signed a soul pact with his master, whom he believed to be a Nascent Soul cultivator.
• Father Yang urged Yang Ziqing to preserve the relationship with Chen Lin, then asked whether Chen Lin’s attention to Yang Zishi meant he had plans for her.

Chen Lin discovered that the Listen-Wind Post could send a letter from Liangyi City to Qianyuan City in the Northern Star Realm for a steep fee, and he decided to investigate the service before committing. He continued pursuing cultivation and resources in Liangyi City, while relying on the Liangyi Disk as his best chance of reaching Luo Qinglan in time.

• Yang Ziqing told Father Yang not to give up cultivation and promised to help him obtain a Foundation Establishment Pill if he reached the late stage of Qi Condensation.
• Chen Lin gave Yang Ziqing a cultivation technique, pills, and treasures, then sent him and other subordinates to search for acacia grass.
• Chen Lin found a Listen-Wind Post in Liangyi City and learned it could send a letter to Qianyuan City for fifty spirit crystals, with a reply costing ten more and safe delivery not guaranteed.
• Chen Lin investigated the Listen-Wind Post's history and reputation, then decided he could wait until closer to Tianxuan Day to send a letter to Luo Xiaoyu and others.
• Chen Lin gathered materials and studied Primordial Spirit Spells while cultivating, concluding that the Liangyi Disk was his most realistic route to the Hongshan Continent.

Chen Lin discovered that he could eventually make Five Thunders Smite the Crown a primordial spirit spell, resolving one problem with forming his primordial spirit domain, but he still needed a way to reach the Hongshan Continent and advance his cultivation. After obtaining an ancient pill formula from Huang Liu, he learned she knew a powerful Spirit Transformation Cultivator who might take the Liangyi Sect mission in his place.

• Chen Lin concluded that Five Thunders Smite the Crown could complement his innate divine ability in a primordial spirit domain, though he would have to reach Spirit Transformation first to use it that way.
• Chen Lin remained unable to find acacia grass or any new Liangyi Disk mission, leaving him uncertain whether to risk the Zhongting Mountain mission himself.
• Chen Lin asked Huang Liu of the Myriad Pill Pavilion for pills or formulas that could quickly raise his cultivation, and she offered him the ancient Four Symbols Spirit-Swallowing Pill formula.
• Chen Lin declined Huang Liu's offer to join the pavilion but agreed to exchange an Ending Hostility Pill for the formula.
• Chen Lin told Huang Liu he planned to take the Zhongting Mountain mission, and she offered to introduce him to a formidable late Spirit Transformation Cultivator who might complete it for a large price.

Chen Lin negotiated with Ling Qianshan for help securing access to the Liangyi Disk by offering to treat his younger sister, Ling Qianxue, whose innate soul origin was damaged. After examining her, Chen Lin sensed an unusual hidden connection in her soul and left pills for her to try while he investigated further.

• Ling Qianshan rejected Chen Lin’s offer of an ordinary spirit treasure and demanded either a Void Refinement advancement pill or another valuable compensation.
• Huang Liu suggested that Chen Lin’s skill with soul-related pills might help Ling Qianshan’s younger sister, and Chen Lin offered treatment in exchange for help with the Liangyi Disk task.
• Ling Qianshan summoned Ling Qianxue, and Chen Lin examined her before leaving her improved Nascent Soul Pills to test.
• Chen Lin sensed a hidden connection in Ling Qianxue’s soul similar to Ye Luo’s and stopped the examination without promising a cure.
• Huang Liu told Chen Lin that Ling Qianxue was over five hundred years old, had remained young after eating a rumored spiritual fruit, and had been examined by the Liangyi Sect.

Chen Lin investigated Ling Qianxue’s unusual condition and began studying a modified formula for the Four Symbols Spirit-Swallowing Pill while waiting for Ling Qianshan to respond to the mission. After confirming the modified formula could work, he faced the challenge of refining it well enough without spending his last Golden Crab.

• Chen Lin sent Yang Ziqing to discreetly investigate Ling Qianxue and concluded that her damaged soul origin resembled Ye Luo’s, though he chose not to treat her personally.
• Yang Ziqing reported that the Ling siblings had lived in Liangyi City for two hundred years, and Chen Lin agreed to let Yang Ziqing and Yang Zishi stay in his courtyard.
• Chen Lin studied the Four Symbols Spirit-Swallowing Pill formula, selected a modified plan with more accessible ingredients, and began gathering materials.
• With no response from Ling Qianshan and no other Spirit Transformation cultivators accepting the mission, Chen Lin focused on refining the pill as a way to advance his cultivation.
• Chen Lin used his talent ability to confirm the modified formula could produce the pill, but its many gaps made him reluctant to spend his last Golden Crab, so he resolved to improve his mastery first.