Chapter Summaries

Chen Lin discovered that paying the bandits’ toll could break their domain, but their third mutation made the bandit chief overwhelmingly powerful. After Chen Lin killed the chief with his Soul-Destroying Finger and the domain collapsed, he and He Chengfeng escaped, while the Blue-Robed Man followed them.

• The bandit chief demanded immortal crystals, then attacked the carriage party despite accepting six hundred crystals and naming Huang Sihu of Guqian County as the person who hired him.
• The Blue-Robed Man learned that Chen Lin had killed the bandits three times and warned him that paying their demanded toll was the way to break the domain.
• Chen Lin threw thirty spirit crystals to the bandits, but the bandit chief used Four Symbols Immortal-Slaying and reached golden core grade.
• Chen Lin struck the bandit chief with his Soul-Destroying Finger, killing him and causing the domain to collapse along with the remaining bandits.
• Chen Lin and He Chengfeng flew out of the forest, while the Blue-Robed Man decided to follow Chen Lin.

Chen Lin learned more about the Immortal Kingdom’s domains and discovered that an elderly cultivator he had recruited had been assimilated. He found Luo Qinglan’s greatly increased wanted notice in Guqian County and decided to seek information from Xu Qingyuan.

• Xu Qingyuan offered Chen Lin a guard job, explained that creatures reborn in their domains mutated, and returned thirty spirit crystals to him.
• Chen Lin learned that the Immortal Kingdom’s inhabitants could be reborn within fixed domains but risked permanent destruction, while outsiders could be assimilated and trapped there.
• Chen Lin and He Chengfeng found Wang Ziqiang, who had forgotten his mission and become an ordinary hunter; after confirming his assimilation, Chen Lin left for Guqian County’s seat.
• Chen Lin found Luo Qinglan’s wanted notice offering ten thousand immortal crystals for her capture alive and decided to enter the city to seek information from Xu Qingyuan.

Chen Lin searched Guqian County for a way to escape the ruins and learned that teams were organizing to capture Luo Qinglan. After using Xu Qingyuan’s token to deter a threatening Yin Underworld Sect cultivator, he agreed with He Chengfeng to seek help from the county magistrate.

• Chen Lin reflected on the suppressed cultivators of Guqian County and discussed possible escape routes with He Chengfeng.
• He Chengfeng told Chen Lin about people preparing for a bounty mission, and Chen Lin followed his directions to find them.
• Chen Lin learned that the mission was to suppress Luo Qinglan, then refused an offer to join the Yin Underworld Sect’s team.
• When a sinister sect member threatened him with Body-Suppression Soul-Lock, Chen Lin showed Xu Qingyuan’s County Office token and made the man back down.
• He Chengfeng suggested seeking official status from the county magistrate, and Chen Lin agreed to go with him.

Chen Lin met Xu Qingyuan at the County Office, where the magistrate warned him that the Immortal Kingdom assimilated outsiders and explained how heaven-favored ones could resist its rules. Chen Lin agreed to join the County Office and left to handle personal matters before reporting for duty the next morning.

• Xu Qingyuan welcomed Chen Lin and offered him an official position in the campaign against rebel bandits.
• Xu Qingyuan told Chen Lin that outsiders were assimilated by the Immortal Kingdom’s rules, and that heaven-favored ones could only delay the process unless they surpassed the rules’ limits.
• Chen Lin questioned Xu Qingyuan about escaping assimilation, and Xu Qingyuan listed three ways to break free of the local rules.
• Chen Lin agreed to serve under Xu Qingyuan, who welcomed his help in securing his position as magistrate.
• Chen Lin left the County Office to attend to personal matters and said he would report for duty the next morning.

Chen Lin joined Xu Qingyuan’s county office to gain information about Luo Qinglan and investigated whether his innate divine ability could overcome assimilation. After using it to manipulate Hu Dasheng’s fate and kill him, Chen Lin hid underground when Red Lotus Mother’s World-Extinguishing Fire was reported nearby.

• Chen Lin learned that He Chengfeng’s memories were blurring from assimilation, signed a Soul Pact with him, and placed him in the Space Bag; Grass reported that she felt no effects.
• Chen Lin accepted the chief constable post from Xu Qingyuan and was ordered to eliminate former chief constable Hu Dasheng.
• Chen Lin severed Hu Dasheng’s line of destiny with his Fate Tentacle, and a grain merchant attacked Hu Dasheng before killing himself when Hu threatened him.
• Hu Dasheng tried to seize the merchant’s wife, but a red flame struck him and burned him to ashes.
• People fled or burrowed underground after hearing that Red Lotus Mother’s World-Extinguishing Fire was nearby, but no further flames appeared.

After the Demon Suppression Army locked down Guqian County, Chen Lin was conscripted and assigned by a Silver-Armored Woman to find Qiu Mufan. She promised information about severing the connection between his talent ability and the mighty being behind it, leaving Chen Lin to pursue the dangerous search.

• The Demon Suppression Army sealed the streets after the Red Lotus Army attacked Guqian County, and Chen Lin learned the rebels had come to rescue a captured member.
• Chen Lin used the Fortune Accumulation Orb's stored qi luck and tried to leave, but Captain Zhao conscripted him into the army and made him a commandant.
• The Silver-Armored Woman ordered Chen Lin to accompany her, then revealed she had retained her original memories despite being assimilated and could not leave the prison.
• The Silver-Armored Woman abandoned her plan to select Chen Lin for a suicide squad and asked him to find Qiu Mufan, a woman who brewed wine.
• The Silver-Armored Woman gave Chen Lin Qiu Mufan's portrait and promised to explain how he could sever his talent ability's connection to the mighty being behind it.

Chen Lin made a contract with Nan Mochu to find the Boss Lady and ask about the ruins, then escaped the Ancient Kingdom Ruins and reunited with Grass, Fat Tiger, and Zhou Shiwu. He found the Immortal Spirit Tavern closed and turned to the Female Proprietress of Ruyi Pavilion to ask whether she knew its Boss Lady.

• Chen Lin signed Nan Mochu's contract, accepted her token, and was sent out of the ruins without telling her about Luo Qinglan.
• Chen Lin reached White Jade City, summoned Grass and Fat Tiger, and learned that monster beasts had rampaged and Zhou Shiwu had been injured while searching for him.
• Chen Lin met Zhou Shiwu, warned him about the Rank Six Golden Monster Bear, and left him pills while he recovered.
• Chen Lin found the Immortal Spirit Tavern closed and could not discover where its Boss Lady had gone.
• Chen Lin paid the Female Proprietress what he owed, gave her Baili Pills, and asked if she knew the Boss Lady of the Immortal Spirit Tavern.

Chen Lin searched for the missing Tavern Proprietress to learn about assimilation and arranged to enter the closed Immortal Spirit Tavern. Inside, he activated a hidden message from her, which gave instructions to tell Nan Mochu that the experiment was half successful.

• Chen Lin learned that He Quanyi, head of the He Lineage, had won one of the final wine pots, then contacted Bao Tianci to ask about the Tavern Proprietress.
• Bao Tianci said the Proprietress had vanished after the tavern closed and agreed to help Chen Lin enter the building with the Array-Breaking Bead.
• That night, Chen Lin and Bao Tianci broke through the tavern's formation and found its interior unchanged except for a new wine-cup design behind the counter.
• Chen Lin touched the design, which revealed the Tavern Proprietress's phantom image telling him to inform Nan Mochu that the experiment was half successful and to keep what she had given him safe.

Chen Lin encountered a powerful mutated fisherman at Blood Spirit Lake and used the Fishing Rod from Gambling Fortune Lake to catch ten blood spirits and earn his release. He learned the old man was Gu Lianfeng, who warned him not to harm the Princess Consort, leaving Chen Lin to continue searching for Luo Qinglan without Gu Lianfeng’s help.

• Chen Lin entered the ruin with Grass and traveled for weeks through a wasteland, avoiding domain lands and surviving attacks by mutated beasts.
• Chen Lin discovered a blood-red lake, but space twisted and brought him to its shore, where a powerful old fisherman named Gu Lianfeng told him to fish for blood spirits.
• Chen Lin cast the Fishing Rod from Gambling Fortune Lake and caught a blood spirit, then used his qi luck force and Fortune Accumulation Orb to catch ten within two hours.
• Gu Lianfeng recognized Chen Lin’s unusual luck, revealed that he was testing the man who had caught Princess Consort Qiu’s eye, and warned him not to hurt her.
• Gu Lianfeng vanished along with Blood Spirit Lake, and Chen Lin decided to keep searching for Luo Qinglan before turning to the Silver-Armored Woman for help.

Chen Lin learned that Luo Qinglan and her rebel forces were trapped in the Qingxuan Mountain Range, and he persuaded the Silver-Armored Woman to help him reach them. He flew toward the canyon where the Fourth Prince held them, while the Silver-Armored Woman revealed she planned to test him for Qiu Mufan.

• Chen Lin reached Yuangu City, learned that Luo Qinglan had fled into the Qingxuan Mountain Range, and discovered that Gu Lianfeng's pill could temporarily raise his cultivation by one major realm.
• Chen Lin met the Silver-Armored Woman and told her about Qiu Mufan, Gu Lianfeng, and his search for Luo Qinglan.
• Chen Lin asked the Silver-Armored Woman to help rescue Luo Qinglan instead of addressing the drawbacks of his talent ability, and she agreed.
• The Silver-Armored Woman told Chen Lin that the Fourth Prince had trapped Luo Qinglan and her subordinates in a canyon, then carried him near the Qingxuan Mountain Range.
• Chen Lin flew toward the canyon, while the Silver-Armored Woman vanished after saying she would test whether he could shoulder Qiu Mufan's hopes.

Chen Lin sought a Qi Luck Treasure Chest to help rescue Luo Qinglan, then used the Fortunate Art to obtain an Immobilization Talisman and hurried toward Black Mist Canyon with Fat Tiger. As enemy soldiers intercepted his puppets, a Red-Armored Man appeared before Chen Lin.

• Chen Lin found Black Mist Canyon, hid Grass nearby, and entered the Nightmare Realm to recruit Fat Tiger for the rescue.
• Hoping to find a treasure that could break the deadlock, Chen Lin crossed the light barrier to Gambling Fortune Lake and paid the Golden Toad ten Nightmare Coins to fish.
• When his qi luck force and Golden Crab failed to produce a catch, Chen Lin used the Fortunate Art and pulled up a golden Treasure Chest before escaping the Nightmare Realm.
• Chen Lin opened the chest and found an Immobilization Talisman, then took Fat Tiger and a group of puppets toward Black Mist Canyon while Grass rode in his Space Bag.
• Soldiers restrained or destroyed the puppets, but Fat Tiger repeatedly reassembled and charged onward; a Red-Armored Man then appeared before Chen Lin.

Chen Lin fought his way toward the canyon to rescue Luo Qinglan, but a Gold-Armored Commander and his guards overwhelmed him. As Grass unleashed the Immortal Sword Dance to protect him, a young man in a Purple-Gold Crown and Ochre Yellow Robe appeared and claimed he would handle her.

• Chen Lin killed a Red-Armored Man with Grass's Sword Will and continued toward the canyon while another Red-Armored Man attacked him with a spear.
• Chen Lin learned Luo Qinglan was inside the canyon, but a Gold-Armored Commander and a Red-Armored Man blocked his path and destroyed most of Fat Tiger's body.
• Chen Lin struck the Gold-Armored Commander with the Soul-Destroying Finger, but the commander's Jade Talisman and armor weakened the attack, and he ordered the Imperial Guards to kill Chen Lin.
• Chen Lin used improved Thunderbolt Beads as Grass began the Immortal Sword Dance, pushing her Sword Will to a terrifying level.
• A young man wearing a Purple-Gold Crown and Ochre Yellow Robe appeared and declared that he would handle Grass.

Chen Lin and Grass fought the Fourth Prince, whose Spirit Treasure and Sword of Rules overwhelmed their attacks. Luo Qinglan rescued Chen Lin, but the Fourth Prince trapped them both in a web of red lines as Chen Lin launched the Thunder God Sword.

• The Fourth Prince arrived with a golden Seal Platform, and Grass burned her life force to knock it aside and kill most of his armored soldiers.
• Grass collapsed into a withered blade, and Chen Lin stored her before summoning a white-robed Sword Immortal, whose attack the Fourth Prince easily destroyed.
• Chen Lin swallowed the Blood God Pill, reached the Golden Core Stage, and used the Xuanwu Shield and talismans to endure the Fourth Prince's golden sword.
• Luo Qinglan emerged from the canyon with Fat Tiger's head and pulled Chen Lin out of the golden sword's attack, but the Fourth Prince prepared a smaller, more dangerous sword.
• Chen Lin gave Luo Qinglan the Immobilization Talisman and urged her to approach the Fourth Prince, but red lines trapped them and blocked her spatial ability.
• Chen Lin cast the Fortunate Art and sent the Thunder God Sword flying toward the Fourth Prince.

Chen Lin killed the Fourth Prince as the Immortal Kingdom’s space began collapsing, then prepared to escape with Luo Qinglan, Mu Xingchen, and Zhuge Hengyun using the Boundary-Breaking Disc. The group entered its unstable passage just as the ruins’ destruction intensified.

• The Immortal Emperor and his allies chose to be consumed by the Nightmare Realm rather than surrender to the evil demon, while the Silver-Armored Woman fused an Imperial Seal fragment into herself and entered the spatial turbulence.
• The Thunder God Sword exposed and killed the Fourth Prince after his three decoys vanished, and Chen Lin and Luo Qinglan destroyed his corpse to ensure he was dead.
• Chen Lin reunited with Luo Qinglan, Zhuge Hengyun, and Mu Xingchen, collected the Fourth Prince’s surviving possessions, and learned that a golden fragment had helped the others preserve their sanity.
• Luo Qinglan sensed that two spaces were merging, and Chen Lin explained that the Boundary-Breaking Disc could open a dangerous passage out of the ruins.
• As space began to collapse, Luo Qinglan shielded the group with her colorful feather, and Chen Lin led everyone into the unstable passage formed by the Boundary-Breaking Disc.

After escaping the Ancient Immortal Kingdom Ruins, Chen Lin reached the Jingguang Realm and sent Luo Qinglan away to keep her safe from the backlash of his three uses of the Fortunate Art. He was struck unconscious and woke in a hall as an ordinary, immobile mortal, where a skeletal old man appeared beside a Pill Cauldron.

• The Ancient Immortal Kingdom Ruins vanished, and Chen Lin emerged from the Space Passage alone in an unfamiliar plane before releasing Luo Qinglan.
• Chen Lin learned that they had reached the Jingguang Realm's Xuanjing Continent, then entrusted Luo Qinglan with Fat Tiger's head, Grass, and several valuables before trying to leave her behind.
• Luo Qinglan followed Chen Lin at a distance but lost him, while he confirmed she was no longer nearby and continued traveling.
• Black streaks fell from the sky and struck Chen Lin, who woke in darkness unable to move or use his cultivation powers, though his talent ability remained.
• A hoarse voice judged Chen Lin's composure and willpower as he endured hunger, thirst, and cold, then moved him into a candlelit hall filled with stone beds and a huge Pill Cauldron.
• Chen Lin saw a skeletal old man standing beside the Pill Cauldron.

Chen Lin was captured and used as a medicine human in the skeletal old man's preparations for an Ascension Pill. The old man completely destroyed Chen Lin's talent origin, then left the captives on their beds as the pill refinement was set to begin the next day.

• The skeletal old man identified Chen Lin as a medicine human suited to provide a state of mind ingredient and began processing the captives for an Ascension Pill.
• Chen Lin briefly used his Innate Divine Ability on the zombie carrying him, causing it to stumble and drop him before the old man selected another captive.
• The old man refined captives with different traits, including a middle-aged man, a white woman, and a qi luck child, while Chen Lin watched from his bed.
• The old man placed Chen Lin in the Pill Cauldron, where mysterious energy made Chen Lin's destiny lines fade while his talent origin initially remained intact.
• The old man poured colorful liquid into the cauldron, destroying Chen Lin's destiny lines and talent origin before returning him to his bed.
• The skeletal old man ordered the zombie to clear the room and said they would begin refining the pill the next day.

Chen Lin discovered that his purged innate talent origin had regenerated and used his fate-screen ability while trapped among the medicine humans. As the skeletal old man began refining them, Chen Lin tried to absorb the Big-Mouthed Boy’s qi luck, but the old man immobilized him.

• Chen Lin sensed a faint, newly regenerated talent origin and saw a thin pale-gold line he believed was his own main destiny line.
• Chen Lin used his Innate Divine Ability on the white woman and saw that her destiny lines offered no path to survival.
• The skeletal old man moved the medicine humans into a hall, placed them in Pill Dings, poured in pill liquid, and began the refining process.
• Chen Lin examined the Big-Mouthed Boy’s destiny river and sensed that he could potentially absorb the boy’s abundant qi luck.
• Chen Lin tried to signal the Big-Mouthed Boy to stop resisting, but the skeletal old man noticed and immobilized Chen Lin.

Chen Lin restored his qi luck by absorbing the Big-Mouthed Boy’s, then watched the skeletal old man begin refining a replacement ingredient. When the meat ball revealed it could communicate through the destiny river, Chen Lin faced a possible new ally—or threat—as the refinement continued.

• A scorpion monster attacked Chen Lin, but the skeletal old man crushed it; after an enormous sword crashed through the roof, the old man went to investigate and Chen Lin absorbed the Big-Mouthed Boy’s qi luck.
• The skeletal old man discovered the Big-Mouthed Boy’s diminished light, tortured him to death, and ordered the zombie to bring a spare ingredient.
• The zombie brought in a many-eyed meat ball, and Chen Lin noticed the skeletal old man’s movements became sluggish after he spoke, suggesting another entity helped control or empower him.
• The skeletal old man refined the meat ball and placed it in a Pill Ding, where its eyes briefly turned toward Chen Lin and his talent origin sensed a signal.
• As the skeletal old man began another pill formation, Chen Lin used his innate divine ability on the meat ball, whose little fish spoke to him and identified his destiny talent.

Chen Lin and the Multi-Eyed Meat Ball disrupted the skeletal old man's pill-refining ritual and escaped the cauldron's blast. With his energy gone and the old man's fate uncertain, Chen Lin fled after the Meat Ball.

• Xiaoyu told Chen Lin to strike the skeletal old man's Destiny Line when she signaled, while she detonated the pill they were being made into.
• Chen Lin was drawn into the Pill Cauldron and endured the fiery refining, protected from losing consciousness by his Talent Origin.
• As the lights fused around a mysterious core ingredient, Chen Lin waited until the Multi-Eyed Meat Ball called for him to act.
• Chen Lin cut a notch in the small fish's Destiny Line, and the Multi-Eyed Meat Ball's detonation blasted the skeletal old man and sent Chen flying.
• Chen Lin and the Multi-Eyed Meat Ball returned to their bodies, then ran from the altar with Chen pursuing her.

After escaping the skeletal old man, Chen Lin joined the Four Seas Trading Firm and slowly regained his cultivation. He secured a transfer to the Jade Frog Kingdom's headquarters and agreed to take Yu Lianhai's daughter as a medicine apprentice, leaving Yu Lianhai facing punishment over missing goods.

• Chen Lin escaped the mountains, joined a merchant caravan, and accepted Yu Lianhai's offer to join the Four Seas Trading Firm in Yibugan City.
• Chen Lin passed a medicine-refining test, received his pharmacist credential, and spent half a year gathering information while recovering.
• Chen Lin regained his cultivation at the first layer of Qi Condensation and began using his innate thunder pattern again.
• Chen Lin persuaded Deacon Yu Tianming to arrange his transfer to headquarters by demonstrating that he could refine Crystal-Refining Liquid Medicine.
• Yu Tianming accused Yu Lianhai of responsibility for missing goods, and Chen Lin agreed to take Yu Lianhai's daughter to headquarters as a medicine apprentice.