Chapter Summaries

Chen Lin refined pills that accelerated his cultivation, negotiated with Ling Qianshan and the Myriad Pill Pavilion for mission help and rare resources, then entered seclusion. After more than three years, he reached nascent soul completion and became ready to attempt Spirit Transformation.

• Chen Lin perfected a modified pill formula, confirmed its effects, and used the pills to rapidly advance his cultivation.
• Huang Liu told Chen Lin that Ling Qianshan would take his mission only if Chen Lin could fully heal Ling Qianxue; Chen Lin said a higher-grade pill was needed.
• Chen Lin agreed to trade the Nascent Soul Pill formula to the Myriad Pill Pavilion for a Spirit Transformation Advancement Pill and another cultivation pill formula, with restrictions on sharing the formula.
• Huang Liu confirmed that Ling Qianshan accepted the arrangement and the pavilion approved the trade, allowing Chen Lin to avoid undertaking the mission himself.
• Chen Lin entered seclusion and, after more than three years of cultivation with the Four Symbols Spirit-Swallowing Pill, reached nascent soul completion and became ready to attempt Spirit Transformation.

Chen Lin prepared to attempt Spirit Transformation before Tianxuan Day, renting a Tribulation Platform and arranging for Huang Liu to witness his breakthrough. Before seeking help to implant a spiritual root in Yang Zishi, he made contingency plans for the siblings in case his attempt failed.

• Chen Lin booked the city's Tribulation Platform for the morning ten days before Tianxuan Day and declined to hire a guardian because the capable ones were too expensive.
• Huang Liu told Chen Lin that Ling Qianshan had departed and would repair Ling Qianxue's origin essence before transferring his Liangyi Disk opportunity.
• Chen Lin gave Huang Liu an improved Four Symbols Spirit-Swallowing Pill, surprising her by successfully refining a version based on her improvement method.
• Chen Lin asked Huang Liu to stand guard nearby when he attempted his Spirit Transformation breakthrough, and she agreed to attend.
• Chen Lin told Yang Ziqing and Yang Zishi what to do if he failed, then rendered Yang Zishi unconscious and placed her in his Space Bag so someone else could implant a spiritual root in her.
• Chen Lin sent Yang Ziqing away and headed to the Market to find someone to perform the implantation.

Chen Lin began the Spirit Transformation tribulation on the Liangyi Sect’s Tribulation Platform and passed its lightning and inner demon trials. He sat down to recover, pleased that he had successfully advanced.

• Chen Lin left Yang Zishi at Dianling Hall after paying for a mid-grade implanted spiritual root.
• Chen Lin prepared at the Tribulation Platform, used pills to merge his energies, and formed a primordial spirit embryo that summoned the tribulation clouds.
• Chen Lin endured the five ordinary lightning strikes while pretending to struggle, then survived the Golden Tribulation Lightning with the Xuanwu Shield.
• Chen Lin used the Xuanwu Shield, Tribulation Avoidance Talismans, and Purple Spirit Ring against the Three-Color Tribulation Lightning, then guided its power to transform his primordial spirit embryo.
• Chen Lin passed the Inner Demon Tribulation with ease and sat down to take pills and assess his advancement.

After surviving his tribulation, Chen Lin ascended to Spirit Transformation and received invitations from several factions, then helped Yang Ziqing advance and Yang Zishi begin cultivating. To accelerate his comprehension of spell life-origin, he tested the Pig-Headed Monster Scenario and then entered it himself, seeking another Dao lecture.

• Chen Lin used Lightning Law to form a Thunderstorm Ocean after his Ascension, and Xiao Chengshang and representatives of several factions invited him to join them.
• Miss Alan invited Chen Lin to Wuzhen Tower and gave him a purple Immortal Point Token; Chen Lin accepted it and left the platform with Yang Ziqing.
• On Tianxuan Day, Yang Ziqing advanced to Foundation Establishment middle stage, while Chen Lin helped Yang Zishi stabilize her first layer of Qi Condensation and told her she might possess a talent ability.
• Chen Lin decided he needed to comprehend Five Thunders Smite the Crown to spell life-origin before forming his primordial spirit domain, so he sent an elderly cultivator into the Pig-Headed Monster Scenario to verify its safety.
• The elderly cultivator returned from the Dao lecture, and Chen Lin rewarded him with Foundation Establishment Pills for himself and his son.
• After the elderly cultivator established his foundation, Chen Lin had Grass stand guard and entered the Nightmare Realm with Senior Sister's Pink Flying Sword.

Chen Lin attended lectures in the Pig-Headed Monster Scenario to deepen his understanding of spells while waiting for Ling Qianshan to return from the mission. After Ling Qianshan completed the mission and Ling Qianxue recovered, Chen Lin obtained access to the Liangyi Disk and left Liangyi City for the Hongshan Continent to search for his companion.

• Chen Lin paid twenty Nightmare Coins for a lecture on spell origin essence, then spent five days studying what he had learned.
• Chen Lin attended a cheaper outdoor lecture on fire-attribute spells and concluded that lecture settings and fees varied in the Nightmare Realm.
• Huang Liu told Chen Lin that Ling Qianshan had been injured but had killed a King Tier evil beast and completed the mission.
• Chen Lin gave Huang Liu a pill for Ling Qianxue and asked her to look after his subordinates while he traveled to the Hongshan Continent to find his companion.
• Ling Qianxue recovered, Ling Qianshan transferred the right to use the Liangyi Disk, and Chen Lin teleported out of Liangyi City.

Chen Lin arrived in Disheng City on the Hongshan Continent and learned that returning to Liangyi City would require waiting for a rare ten-year transport. Unable to contact Luo Qinglan because of the continent’s unstable space, he began searching for her while taking comfort in news that Luo Xiaoyu and Princess Qinghua were safe.

• Chen Lin confirmed that he had reached Disheng City and learned that return trips through the Liangyi Sect’s formation were limited to specially arranged journeys every ten years.
• Chen Lin tried to meet the sect’s Enforcing Elder, but Elder Shangguan was in seclusion, so Chen Lin left Transmission Talismans and went to the city’s Market.
• Chen Lin learned that the Purple Emperor, one of the continent’s three Dao Monarchs, ruled Disheng City, and discovered that unstable space made long-distance Transmission Talismans useless.
• Chen Lin read Luo Xiaoyu’s reply and learned that she had reached Nascent Soul, while the Green-Scaled Tribe’s chief had brought Princess Qinghua out of the Land of Divine Beings.
• Chen Lin considered how to find Luo Qinglan and his other loved ones, then resumed gathering information about the western Hongshan Continent and Three Fish.

Chen Lin investigated where Luo Qinglan might have gone and concluded she was likely trapped in the dangerous Three-Jade Ancient Kingdom Ruins. After gathering information, pills, and protective treasures, he set out for White Jade City to seek answers near the ruins.

• Chen Lin paid an information shopkeeper to list possible places matching the unclear phrase he had heard, including the dangerous Three-Jade Ancient Kingdom Ruins.
• The shopkeeper gave three reasons Luo Qinglan might be trapped in the ruins: their ancient cross-realm teleportation formations, their reputation for trapping entrants, and reports of lower-realm cultivators stuck inside.
• Chen Lin asked for an escaped survivor, but the shopkeeper had no direct contact and advised him to seek information in nearby cities.
• After more than ten days of inquiries, Chen Lin accepted that the ruins were probably as dangerous as described and planned to find a survivor or recruit aging cultivators with generous rewards.
• Chen Lin and Grass gathered supplies while Chen Lin refined Seven-Star Pills and continued attending Nightmare Realm lessons.
• After preparing enough pills and life-saving treasures, Chen Lin headed for White Jade City, east of the Three-Jade Ancient Kingdom Ruins.

Chen Lin encountered the Seven Divine Children, bizarre monsters that could devour his attacks and treasures, and learned from a fleeing cultivator that they came from the Sea of Death and were vulnerable to attacks they could not counter. The Seven Divine Children still had not attacked Chen Lin, leaving him to wonder what was keeping them at bay.

• Seven Divine Children appeared around Chen Lin and debated how to eat him.
• Chen Lin attacked with lightning, soul power, and the Purple Spirit Ring, but the creatures devoured each attack and the spirit treasure.
• A white-robed young man fleeing a Golden Great Bird arrived, and the Seven Divine Children swallowed both the bird and his spirit boat.
• The young man identified the creatures as the Seven Divine Children and told Chen Lin that each could counter only one kind of attack, while their defenses were weak.
• Chen Lin questioned why the Seven Divine Children had not attacked him and wondered what they feared.

Chen Lin defeated the Seven Divine Children by using the Thunder God Sword to kill the figure that devoured lightning, then collected their Divine Beads. He learned that the Purple Spirit Ring could not be recovered and headed for White Jade City with Bao Tianci restrained in a Space Bag.

• Chen Lin used the Thunder God Sword, hidden in his lightning, to kill the striped Seven Divine Child and then destroyed the other six with thunder techniques.
• Chen Lin collected the Divine Beads and discovered that the Purple Spirit Ring swallowed by one of the figures was lost when it died.
• Bao Tianci identified the beads as valuable materials for refining Spirit Treasures and swore not to reveal what had happened.
• Bao Tianci told Chen Lin that he came from White Jade City and was returning there after visiting Disheng City.
• Chen Lin, suspicious of Bao Tianci despite their shared destination, restrained him in a Space Bag and flew toward White Jade City on the Void-Shattering Shuttle.

After reaching White Jade City, Chen Lin found little information about the Three-Jade Ancient Kingdom Ruins and decided to hire low-ranking cultivators to explore them. He sought another source of information at the Immortal Spirit Tavern, where a bird greeted him instead of the Boss Lady.

• Chen Lin and Bao Tianci arrived at White Jade City, and Chen Lin told Bao to investigate information for him before entering the city alone.
• Chen Lin gathered information and learned that the Three-Jade Ancient Kingdom Ruins were dangerous, distant, and had yielded no recent survivors with useful accounts.
• Chen Lin decided to hire elderly, low-ranking cultivators to explore the ruins and asked the proprietress of Ruyi Pavilion to find candidates.
• The proprietress agreed to recruit Qi Refining cultivators and carefully chosen Foundation Establishment cultivators, and Chen Lin posted the mission elsewhere as well.
• Chen Lin visited the Immortal Spirit Tavern to question its mysterious Boss Lady, but a bird inside called him a strong man as he entered.

Chen Lin visited the Immortal Spirit Tavern to seek help and sampled its alluring wine, which conjured visions of the people he loved. When the proprietress began a blind auction for three pots of spirit wine, Chen Lin joined the fierce bidding and offered fifty spirit crystals.

• Chen Lin entered the Immortal Spirit Tavern after the ugly bird at its entrance failed to affect him, and discovered that the tavern suppressed divine sense and served only when every table was occupied.
• Proprietress Xueniang welcomed the guests and served them Mutual Affection wine, whose visions revealed whom each drinker loved and whose cultivation benefit required a single beloved to appear.
• Chen Lin saw Luo Qinglan, then Qin Lingyu, Sun Caiyi, and Princess Qinghua in his illusion, while Xueniang explained the wine's special effect.
• Xueniang announced a blind auction of three pots of spirit wine, and the guests rapidly drove the bids upward.
• Chen Lin joined the auction and bid fifty spirit crystals.

Chen Lin won the first pick at the Immortal Spirit Tavern and revealed seven-color spiritual light, forcing the Boss Lady to honor her promise before closing the tavern. He asked about the Three-Jade Ancient Kingdom and left with a Dragon Fish Goblet and a lead to Gu Lianfeng, along with a warning about the kingdom’s mutated inhabitants.

• Chen Lin bid fifty spirit crystals and won the first right to choose a pot of spirit wine.
• Chen Lin used his qi luck force to correct his destiny line, then opened a pot that released seven-color spiritual light.
• The Boss Lady announced that the Immortal Spirit Tavern would close, and the gray-robed old man and the middle-aged man took their wine and left.
• The Boss Lady offered to grant Chen Lin any request, and he asked for information about the Three-Jade Ancient Kingdom.
• The Boss Lady gave Chen Lin the Dragon Fish Goblet and told him to seek Gu Lianfeng at the Imperial Palace.
• The Boss Lady warned Chen Lin that the former inhabitants of the Ancient Immortal Kingdom had mutated and were no longer truly human.

Chen Lin gathered elderly Blood Saber Sect cultivators to investigate the Ancient Kingdom Ruins and became interested in Zhou Shiwu’s seemingly worthless talent ability. As the group traveled toward the ruins, Chen Lin recruited Zhou Shiwu as a subordinate, then sensed someone outside the Spirit Boat’s protective barrier.

• Chen Lin learned from the Boss Lady that the Ancient Kingdom Ruins suppressed cultivators and could absorb them into their rules, so he hired cultivators to investigate whether Luo Qinglan was there.
• Manager Zheng brought Chen Lin twenty Qi Condensation cultivators and eight Foundation Establishment cultivators, including Zhou Rong, who had a yin-transforming constitution, and Zhou Shiwu, whose talent ability could erase the spirituality of low-grade magical tools.
• Chen Lin decided Zhou Shiwu’s ability might have potential, confirmed that the Blood Saber Sect would not object to recruiting him, and rewarded Manager Zheng with pills.
• Chen Lin offered the hired cultivators escalating rewards for exploring the ruins and led them there by Spirit Boat.
• Chen Lin asked Zhou Shiwu to become his subordinate, promised resources and the possibility of accepting him as a disciple if he achieved Core Formation, and Zhou Shiwu agreed.
• Chen Lin sensed someone beyond the Spirit Boat’s protective barrier and rushed outside.

Chen Lin and Grass killed Black Snake True Lord, a powerful cultivator who had ambushed them, and the Spirit Boat continued toward the Ancient Kingdom Ruins. After reflecting on the battle and considering possible retaliation, Chen Lin arrived at the Three-Jade Ancient Kingdom Ruins.

• Chen Lin attacked the grey-robed old man, and his Xuanwu Shield blocked the Black Snake Thin Sword after his talent ability warned him of the lethal strike.
• Grass joined the fight and cut the old man in two, but he survived by using a substitute treasure and reappeared to attack Chen Lin.
• Chen Lin's Thunder God Sword disrupted Black Snake True Lord's attempt to activate his Primordial Spirit Domain, and Chen Lin destroyed his body and soul with further attacks.
• Chen Lin's companions learned that the old man was Black Snake True Lord of White Jade City's Tan Family Trading Firm, while Zhou Shiwu was pleased by Chen Lin's strength.
• Chen Lin considered how the old man's mistakes had decided the battle and weighed the risk of accomplices, then continued traveling without further trouble.
• The Spirit Boat reached the Three-Jade Ancient Kingdom Ruins, where ruined buildings and twisted space came into view.

Chen Lin waited outside the Ancient Kingdom Ruins while the elderly cultivators entered, then examined the spoils from Black Snake True Lord and discovered a recipe for Drunken God Brew. After researching a qi-luck-bearing ball for more than ten days, he learned it could gather qi luck force and release it all at once.

• Chen Lin sent the elderly cultivators into the Ancient Kingdom Ruins and prepared to wait outside for three months while Zhou Shiwu guarded his cave dwelling.
• Chen Lin examined Black Snake True Lord’s treasures, identifying his Black Snake Thin Sword and a rare Lightning Avoidance Bead.
• Chen Lin found the Drunken God Brew recipe, which could improve the chance of ascending to Void Refinement, and realized his interference had changed Black Snake True Lord’s fate.
• Chen Lin discovered a fist-sized ball containing qi luck force and spent more than ten days studying it.
• Chen Lin mastered the ball’s function: it accumulated qi luck force and released it all at once.

Chen Lin tested the Fortune Accumulation Orb and continued studying the Five Thunders Smite the Crown Spell while waiting for the first group of cultivators to return from the ruins. After none emerged, he hired a second group, including He Chengfeng, whose reason for joining gave Chen Lin new information to consider.

• Chen Lin named the luck-storing object the Fortune Accumulation Orb and began filling it with his qi luck force.
• Chen Lin secluded himself to study the Five Thunders Smite the Crown Spell, using the Nightmare Realm's teachings to deepen his understanding.
• After three months passed without any of the first group returning from the ruins, Chen Lin agreed to wait another month and asked Manager Zheng to recruit more cultivators.
• Manager Zheng sent a second group, and Chen Lin questioned He Chengfeng, who said he had joined to search for his missing father, He Qingshan.
• Chen Lin accepted the recruits' spirit pacts and sent them into the ruins from different directions, then considered what He Chengfeng had told him.

Chen Lin learned that He Chengfeng had escaped the Ancient Kingdom Ruins with a wanted portrait of Luo Qinglan, confirming she was alive but in danger. As Chen Lin considered recruiting powerful cultivators to search for her, an enraged roar shook the forest.

• Chen Lin decided not to send Fat Tiger into the ruins and spent his time studying the Drunken God Brew Recipe and removing the Scholar's spirit restrictions.
• He Chengfeng's Transmission Talisman responded, and Chen Lin traveled to the Myriad Phenomena Mountain Range to rescue him from a tier 4 golden bear.
• Chen Lin killed the golden bear, then questioned He Chengfeng, who recounted entering a grove, reaching a town, and fleeing after approaching its wanted notices.
• He Chengfeng gave Chen Lin a damaged wanted portrait, and Chen Lin recognized Luo Qinglan as the person depicted.
• Chen Lin concluded that Luo Qinglan was alive but in danger and considered finding high-level cultivators to help search the ruins.
• An enraged roar suddenly shook the mountain forest as Chen Lin weighed his next move.

Chen Lin fled into the Ancient Kingdom Ruins after a rank-six golden bear nearly killed him, and he slowly recovered from the devastating attack. He realized the ruins suppressed cultivation more severely than he had expected and considered how to keep the bear’s life-bound hair and the other valuable remains without drawing its attention.

• A rank-six golden bear attacked Chen Lin, and he used two Sword Immortal Painting summons to escape with Grass and He Chengfeng into the Ancient Kingdom Ruins.
• The bear launched a white hair that destroyed Chen Lin’s Cyan Stone Slab and Silver Shield, pierced his Xuanwu Shield and golden body, and left him gravely wounded; it stopped short of entering the ruins.
• Grass carried Chen Lin far into the ruins, where he awoke and learned that her strength and He Chengfeng’s cultivation were suppressed.
• Chen Lin spent days healing, removed the bear’s life-bound hair from his heart, and discovered that Niuniu’s Talisman had failed to respond.
• Chen Lin found that his abilities were heavily suppressed inside the ruins, though his talent ability remained unaffected, and he began considering how to keep the bear’s hair and the golden-furred bear’s remains.

Chen Lin entered the ruins with He Chengfeng and Grass, then encountered bandits whose ordinary appearance contradicted what he had heard about the local inhabitants. After killing them, he discovered that the surrounding woods folded space and trapped the group, and the same bandits appeared again on a newly formed trail.

• Chen Lin hid a Nightmare Realm Storage Bag in the Nightmare Realm, woke He Chengfeng, and brought him along to search for Luo Qinglan and the Imperial Palace.
• Chen Lin followed a direction suggested by his destiny line, and after several days the group met four bandits demanding a toll.
• The bandits attacked, but Chen Lin killed all four with spells and found no trace of any supernatural transformation.
• He Chengfeng noticed that the woods’ space folded back on itself, and Chen Lin’s Crow Puppet could not fly above the treetops.
• Chen Lin marked the trees and led He Chengfeng and Grass in another direction, where a trail appeared and the same four bandits blocked their way again.

Chen Lin and his companions became trapped in a forest where four bandits revived stronger after each death and gained immunity to their killers' attacks. After finding that traveling with only two people kept the bandits away but did not reveal an exit, Chen Lin and He Chengfeng were returned to the path, where a carriage and coachman had appeared alongside the bandits.

• Chen Lin discovered that his spells could not harm the bandits after he had used them against them, while He Chengfeng's Fireball Spell killed one that Chen Lin's fire spells could not hurt.
• The bandits revived together as stronger heretical entities, and Chen Lin found that they gained immunity to attacks used against them before.
• Chen Lin and Grass killed all four bandits, escaped the boundary around the path, and then found they could not leave the woods.
• Chen Lin put Grass into his Space Bag and explored with He Chengfeng, avoiding the bandits while fewer than three people traveled together.
• He Chengfeng suggested that paying a toll or surrendering might satisfy the bandits' condition for leaving, and Chen Lin considered the idea.
• Chen Lin and He Chengfeng suddenly returned to the path, where the four bandits stood beside a carriage and its coachman.