Chapter Summaries

Chen Lin and Yang Qianxing tried to subdue the raging Thousand-Faced Giant, and Yang Qianxing unleashed his one-use Moonlight Saber treasure. As the saber clashed with the giant’s counterattack, Yang Qianxing discovered that the Thousand-Faced Fox was inhabiting the giant.

• Chen Lin offered to remove the giant’s Soul Talisman if the giant helped him obtain the Primal Thunder Annihilation Sword, but the giant flew into a frenzy and attacked him.
• Chen Lin struck the giant with his Soul-Destroying Finger, but Yang Qianxing explained that the giant could divide the damage among the independent lives in his many faces.
• Yang Qianxing activated his one-use starry sphere and shaped the stars and moon into the Moonlight Saber.
• The Thousand-Faced Giant countered the Moonlight Saber with a taiji diagram formed from beams emitted by the faces on his horns.
• Yang Qianxing sensed that the Thousand-Faced Fox was inhabiting the giant, and Chen Lin realized the fox intended to use his Prison-Suppressing Power to destroy the Soul Talisman.

Chen Lin and Yang Qianxing’s strongest attacks failed to harm the Thousand-Faced Fox, who had taken control of the chained Thousand-Faced Giant and demanded that they destroy the Soul Talisman on the God-Sealing Pillar. With only three days before the Holy Pagoda went dormant and no safe way to escape, Chen Lin considered risking the Thunder God Sword and asked Yang Qianxing for something that could temporarily boost his essence, energy, and spirit.

• Chen Lin and Yang Qianxing attacked the Thousand-Faced Giant, but the Thousand-Faced Fox used the giant’s powers to deflect or evade their strongest strikes.
• The Thousand-Faced Fox offered to swear an Inner Demon Great Oath if Chen Lin destroyed the Soul Talisman, but Chen Lin refused to trust him and proposed opening the exit passage first.
• The Thousand-Faced Fox explained that the Soul Talisman on the God-Sealing Pillar was the only way out and warned that the Holy Pagoda would go dormant after one hundred and eight days.
• Chen Lin realized that only three days remained and concluded that refining his Silver-Patterned Soul-Refining Pill would take too long to help.
• Chen Lin considered using the Thunder God Sword despite the risk that activating it could drain him to death, then asked Yang Qianxing for an item that could temporarily enhance his essence, energy, and spirit.

Chen Lin and Yang Qianxing joined forces to destroy the Thousand-Faced Giant and escape through a Light Gate. Chen Lin reached the top of the tower, secured the seven-colored Round Disc, and began searching the hall without yet opening its small golden chest.

• Chen Lin tested how innate thunder power traveled through a Divine Pillar, injuring Yang Qianxing in the process.
• Chen Lin struck the pillar with lightning while Yang Qianxing fired a Starlight Arrow, weakening the Thousand-Faced Giant as the Soul Talisman dimmed.
• Chen Lin used the Soul-Destroying Finger and a Pseudo-Source Treasure Dagger to destroy the giant's body, while several faces fled.
• A Light Gate appeared, and Chen Lin collected the seven-colored Round Disc before entering with Yang Qianxing; a lightning bolt destroyed one fleeing face, but a spiral-shaped shadow escaped.
• Chen Lin arrived at the tower's top, purified the Round Disc, checked that Yang Qianxing was alive, and began inspecting the hall's walls.

Chen Lin activated the White Pillar with his Prison-Suppressing Power and was transported from the Holy Pagoda to the underwater Immortal Abode in the Spirit Demon Realm. He settled on a nearby island, chose not to open the Golden Yellow Box until he learned more about it, and began refining Xiyue’s Large Origin Orb to strengthen his talent before using a Fortune Orb.

• Chen Lin found that innate power and the Soul-Destroying Finger activated the White Pillar, then poured in his innate power until its light transported him with the box.
• Chen Lin arrived at a ruined building among ancient altars and found that his triangular bone shards were giving off faint fluctuations.
• Chen Lin exited into the sea, confirmed he had reached the underwater Immortal Abode in the Spirit Demon Realm, and found no trace of the space node to the Bluestone Street Scenario.
• Chen Lin returned to his old island, repaired his immortal cave, and considered whether the Hundred Flowers Fairy, Shang Xuelian, or Hua Ruyu might be in the realm.
• Chen Lin failed to use his Destiny Talent to predict what would happen if he opened the Golden Yellow Box, so he decided to keep it sealed while seeking information about it.
• Chen Lin found that his fate screen reacted to the prospect of making Wish Noodles, then chose to refine Xiyue’s Large Origin Orb before using a Fortune Orb.

Chen Lin used the Fortunate Art to overcome repeated failures and make two servings of Wish Noodles. The noodles awakened Grass, but his other wishes failed, and he tried to use the last serving’s fading effect to remove the Fortunate Art’s bad luck backlash.

• After refining the Origin Orb, Chen Lin corrected the gaps in his destiny line and tried to make Wish Noodles, but the dough exploded during the final fusion.
• Chen Lin tested his talent by refining Soul Refining Pills successfully and concluded that the Wish Noodles exceeded his ability or resisted destiny manipulation.
• To help Grass before she was fully assimilated by the Thunder God Sword, Chen Lin used a Fortune Orb and activated the Fortunate Art, but the dough exploded again before an invisible force repaired it and completed the noodle.
• Chen Lin made a second serving, ate the first, and wished to restore Grass to her original state, but the wish failed; he then wished for her to awaken, and she spoke to him through the Thunder God Sword.
• After eating the second serving, Chen Lin’s wishes to enter a safe plane in the Upper Primal Domain and advance his cultivation failed, so he wished for the bad luck backlash from using the Fortunate Art to be eliminated.

Chen Lin used Wish Noodles to remove his bad-luck backlash, then studied the Origin Treasure he had taken from the Holy Pagoda. After awakening Grass and reaching the Dao Hearing Stage in the Spirit Demon Realm, he learned from Yang Qianxing that the realm might have been shaped by the Gods-and-Devils War.

• Chen Lin wished away the bad-luck backlash and sorted through the Holy Pagoda’s treasures, recognizing the Thousand-Faced Fox’s seven-colored disc as a genuine Origin Treasure.
• Chen Lin concluded that the disc required matching rule forces to unleash its law-like power, while his own mastery remained incomplete and his path to true origin was still distant.
• A month later, Chen Lin arrived on the island, confirmed that Grass had awakened and his backlash was gone, and fused his true self Dao with the Heaven and Earth Dao.
• Chen Lin survived the Great Dao Tribulation and entered the Dao Integration Realm as a Dao Hearing Stage powerhouse.
• Chen Lin revealed the Spirit Demon Realm’s circumstances to Yang Qianxing, who recalled a legend that spirit-demon coexistence began when the leaders of the gods and devils perished there during their war over the Exterminating Sword.

Chen Lin and Yang Qianxing searched a new realm for a route home and clues about the Immortal Abode, the Spirit Demon Ancestor, and several missing women. After months without answers, they agreed to split up and continue investigating separately.

• Chen Lin told Yang Qianxing they might use the Gourmet Island Scenario to travel between realms, then they flew off to search the islands for resources and a route to a higher realm.
• At Xuanyuan Island, Chen Lin questioned Sect Leader Lu Yundao, who said the Immortal Abode had been emptied long ago and the Spirit Demon Ancestor had been a powerful elder of the Phantom Demon Sect who was now missing.
• Lu Yundao had never seen Hua Ruyu, Hundred Flowers Fairy, or Shang Xuelian, so Chen Lin and Yang Qianxing left the island without further leads.
• After three months of searching the sea, Yang Qianxing proposed that they investigate separately, with him going to the Demon Realm and both using Transmission Beads to stay in contact.
• Chen Lin agreed and urged Yang Qianxing to continue exploring the Nightmare Realm as a possible way out before they flew off in different directions.

After a year searching, Chen Lin found Shang Xuelian in Lingtian City, where Baihua Peak was trapped in a feud with the powerful Long Family. He reached Shang Xuelian and offered to help, while the Hundred Flowers Fairy remained sealed in seclusion.

• Chen Lin found a disciple of the Hundred Flowers Fairy who said she had gone to Lingtian Continent, then used a Transmission Talisman to contact Shang Xuelian.
• Shang Xuelian and the women of Baihua Peak discussed the Long Family's threat and considered fleeing while their master remained unreachable in seclusion.
• Shang Xuelian replied that she was on Baihua Peak and warned Chen Lin not to come unless he had reached Void Refinement.
• Chen Lin learned that the Long Family had confined Baihua Peak after Long Jianjiu fought its mysterious peak master, then went to the mountain despite the warning guards.
• Chen Lin broke through Baihua Peak's formations and met Shang Xuelian, who recognized him and thanked him for coming to help.

Chen Lin learned that the Hundred Flowers Fairy had vanished after being gravely injured by Long Jianjiu, who sought information about a secret realm. As Chen Lin prepared to take Shang Xuelian to find her master, he captured and killed Long Jiankong, who had been threatening the women of Baihua Peak.

• Shang Xuelian told Chen Lin that the Hundred Flowers Fairy had been missing at sea since Long Jianjiu nearly destroyed her soul three years earlier.
• Shang Xuelian explained that the Long Family suspected the Hundred Flowers Fairy of murdering fellow cultivators during a secret-realm expedition and wanted information about the realm.
• Chen Lin learned the Long Family suspected the Hundred Flowers Fairy was a reincarnated mighty figure and offered to take Shang Xuelian to her hiding place.
• A middle-aged Long Family cultivator appeared at Baihua Peak, and Shang Xuelian identified him as Long Jiankong, who had threatened the women and caused her third senior sister's death.
• Long Jiankong detonated his body and split his Nascent Soul into nine, but Chen Lin froze the fragments, destroyed eight, and captured the last.
• Chen Lin searched Long Jiankong's Nascent Soul, extinguishing it.

Chen Lin brought Shang Xuelian and her companions to the Long Family headquarters and confronted its leaders over their persecution of Baihua Peak. He killed two leaders, subdued the Sword-Eyed Man, discovered the source of his armor’s defense, and left with the men’s Storage Bags after a soul search triggered backlash.

• Chen Lin confirmed to Shang Xuelian that he had reached the Dao Monarch realm, then took her group to the Long Family headquarters and left Scholar to protect them.
• Chen Lin entered the Long Family’s hall as its leaders discussed the Gate of Reality, the Ancestral Dragon Token, and their secret sacrifices of bloodline holders.
• When the Sword-Eyed Man planned to capture Baihua Peak’s disciples, Chen Lin appeared and killed the purple-robed old man and the White-Robed Middle-Aged Man with lightning.
• The Sword-Eyed Man tried to bargain with Chen Lin and escape through black mist, but Chen Lin used the Snow-White Single Horn to stop and incapacitate him.
• Chen Lin removed the Sword-Eyed Man’s soft armor and found that a Dark Red Scale gave it its powerful defense.
• Chen Lin broke the Sword-Eyed Man’s soul seal to search his memories, but the remnant soul dissolved and caused soul backlash; he took the three men’s Storage Bags and vanished.

After destroying the Long Family, Chen Lin took Shang Xuelian and the other women into the Spirit Demon Sea Domain to find the Hundred Flowers Fairy. He learned that the Bluestone Street Scenario remained accessible but had lost its Southern Star Realm node, then examined the Ancestral Dragon Token and Long Jianjiu’s scale armor before reuniting with the Hundred Flowers Fairy.

• News spread that Chen Lin had slain Long Jianjiu and the Long Family’s other Void Refinement Cultivators, driving the family’s survivors and Baihua Peak’s former opponents from Lingtian City.
• Shang Xuelian told Chen Lin that the Bluestone Street Scenario’s node still worked, though its Southern Star Realm node had vanished and dense Nightmare Qi made the scenario dangerous.
• Chen Lin followed Shang Xuelian to her master’s secluded site beneath the Demon Sea and considered how the scenario might help him find new nodes with a Silver Road Guide.
• Chen Lin examined the Ancestral Dragon Token, which could sense ancestral dragon qi and potentially locate a Gate of Reality leading to the Upper Primal Domain.
• Chen Lin studied Long Jianjiu’s scale armor and suspected its scale was a true dragon’s life-bound object, but he could not use the armor without draconic bloodline power or reforging.
• The Hundred Flowers Fairy arrived with Shang Xuelian, reunited with her disciples, and thanked Chen Lin for rescuing them.

Chen Lin reunited with Hundred Flowers Fairy and learned that the Heaven-Connecting Secret Realm was connected to the Immortal Abode and likely contained the Gate of Reality. Their Bone Shards appeared to be keys to the realm, but Chen Lin warned that entering the Upper Primal Domain without true origin could mean certain death, leaving Hundred Flowers Fairy troubled.

• Chen Lin reunited with Hundred Flowers Fairy, discussed their separation from Luo Qinglan, and learned that Baihua still intended to reclaim her original body.
• Chen Lin brought Hundred Flowers Fairy and her disciples to a newly enlarged island, where they began preparing a cultivation ground.
• Hundred Flowers Fairy revealed maps of the secret realm and confirmed that the Heaven-Connecting Secret Realm was connected to the Immortal Abode, likely containing the Gate of Reality.
• Chen Lin and Hundred Flowers Fairy compared their Triangular Bone Shards and found that seven shards appeared necessary to complete the design on the map.
• Chen Lin told Hundred Flowers Fairy that Lower Realm cultivators needed true origin or a true origin trait to survive in the Upper Primal Domain, and she questioned whether they could enter at all.

Chen Lin and Hundred Flowers Fairy discovered that the bamboo scroll about the Heaven-Connecting Secret Realm also contained the Dragon Controlling Art, which Chen Lin believed he could use to absorb ancestral dragon qi and strengthen his body. While Hundred Flowers Fairy cultivated and awaited the secret realm, Chen Lin mastered the art and began preparing an expedition into the Nightmare Realm.

• Chen Lin read Hundred Flowers Fairy's bamboo scroll and learned that the Heaven-Connecting Secret Realm required a complete Connecting Heaven Token and held a treasure whose aura was dangerous to weaker cultivators.
• The Ancestral Dragon Token resonated with the scroll, revealing the Dragon Controlling Art; Chen Lin memorized it, while Hundred Flowers Fairy noted that they lacked the bloodline and ancestral dragon qi needed to cultivate it.
• Chen Lin gave Hundred Flowers Fairy soul-restoring pills and an artifact, then shared information about the Nightmare Realm Grand Projection and let her use the Heavenly Mechanism House.
• During the following months, Hundred Flowers Fairy entered secluded cultivation while Chen Lin studied the Dragon Controlling Art and realized his innate power could let him absorb ancestral dragon qi.
• Chen Lin ordered Shang Xuelian and the other disciples to recruit willing elderly cultivators to explore the Nightmare Realm, and urged Shang Xuelian to reach Spirit Transformation Perfection and advance to Void Refinement.

Chen Lin finished refining the ancestral dragon qi in the Dragon Controlling Art, strengthening his body but failing to condense a body mark, then reviewed his cultivation plans and the status of his companions. He learned that Yang Zhengmao had returned from the Silver Fruit Core scenario, though its orchard appeared to offer little useful information.

• Chen Lin spent three years refining all the ancestral dragon qi from the bamboo scroll, greatly increasing his physical strength but failing to form a body mark.
• Chen Lin considered his next steps, including searching for the Heaven-Connecting Secret Realm's bone shards and continuing to explore the Nightmare Realm; he also checked on Grass and the Blind Girl's flower.
• Han Shenliu told Chen Lin that Yang Zhengmao had returned after solving the Silver Fruit Core scenario.
• Yang Zhengmao reported that the scenario was an orchard surrounded by barriers, where he could leave only after clearing all the weeds and a Big Black Dog guarded the gate.
• Chen Lin frowned as Yang Zhengmao's account suggested the orchard had no one he could communicate with and little value for his investigations.

After ten years of cultivation, Chen Lin welcomed the recovered Hundred Flowers Fairy, who set out to seek Connecting Heaven Token Fragments and treasures that could withstand the Upper Primal Domain. Chen Lin entered the Bluestone Street Scenario to investigate its changing nightmare qi and vanished nodes, then tested the Road Guide Barrier with his innate thunder power.

• Chen Lin rewarded Yang Zhengmao, and an elderly cultivator advanced to the Golden Core Realm, inspiring other elderly cultivators to explore the Nightmare Realm.
• Chen Lin spent ten years practicing his Transformation Technique, Soul-Destroying Finger, soul arts, and Dao arts.
• The Hundred Flowers Fairy recovered from her soul damage and told Chen Lin she planned to search for Connecting Heaven Token Fragments and treasures resistant to the Upper Primal Domain's laws.
• Chen Lin entered the Bluestone Street Scenario through a seabed node and confirmed that its nightmare qi had grown denser while the Pass Token still allowed him to leave.
• Chen Lin found that the node to the Tianxuan Realm had vanished and that the plane barrier had strengthened, then searched the accessible area for spatial anomalies without finding any.
• Before leaving, Chen Lin returned to the Road Guide Barrier and pressed it with his innate thunder power.

Chen Lin broke through a Road Guide Barrier into the Silver District, where he killed a Silver-Armored General and discovered that his Seven-Color Disc could destroy powerful enemies. After exploring the district and opening a hidden space node with the Void-Breaking Spear, he returned to the Black Iron District and entered the Spirit Demon Realm.

• Chen Lin used his innate thunder power to pass through the Road Guide Barrier into the Silver District.
• Chen Lin killed the Silver-Armored General with the Seven-Color Disc and eliminated his soldiers with Soul-Destroying Finger strikes, then collected a Silver Token.
• Chen Lin explored Bluestone Street, decided not to cross another barrier after his fate screen showed no prediction, and suspected that forcing his way through had provoked the General's attack.
• Chen Lin searched the Silver District with the Snow-White Single Horn, found a hidden space node, and opened it with the Void-Breaking Spear after the Realm-Breaking Talisman failed.
• Chen Lin returned to the Black Iron District, opened the node leading to the Spirit Demon Realm, and darted inside.

Chen Lin evaluated Zuo Yunliang’s strength and investigated his ties to the Azure Demon Sect and the Six Desires Demon Skill. Worried about the island’s defenses while he was away, Chen Lin decided to make the powerful beast in his Spirit Beast Bracelet cooperate as his spirit pet.

• Chen Lin questioned Shang Xuelian about her cultivation and asked her to bring him an explorer with unusually high combat strength.
• Zuo Yunliang demonstrated his attack, and Chen Lin caught his Narrow Saber and asked where he had obtained it.
• Zuo Yunliang revealed that he had been expelled from the Azure Demon Sect and practiced the Six Desires Demon Skill, which he found alongside the saber in a sect secret realm.
• Chen Lin learned that Zuo Yunliang’s talent could enhance his own attacks and told Shang Xuelian to keep everyone within the Island-Protecting Great Array while he was away.
• Chen Lin released the strange beast from the Spirit Beast Bracelet, subdued it with lightning and vines, and offered it a choice between becoming his spirit pet or being killed for its materials.

Chen Lin subdued Holy Horn Great King and tested whether others could enter the Silver District through the passage, but two cultivators failed to return from the node. After more than half a year of stalled preparations for the Heaven-Connecting Secret Realm, Shang Xuelian reported that someone had emerged from the Salted Fish Scenario.

• Chen Lin planted a Beast Seal in Holy Horn Great King, brought him to Nameless Island, and assigned him to guard it under Shang Xuelian's direction.
• Chen Lin sent Zuo Yunliang into the Silver District, where Zuo Yunliang killed the Silver-Armored General and his soldiers with the help of a rule-level Soul Treasure.
• Chen Lin gave Zuo Yunliang a Silver Token, imposed a mark that would seal his divine soul if he failed to return within a year, and sent him through the hidden node to investigate.
• Zuo Yunliang and a second cultivator both failed to return, leading Chen Lin to suspect that the passage opened into extreme danger or void turbulence.
• Hundred Flowers Fairy and Yang Qianxing found no Connecting Heaven Token fragments or means of resisting the Upper Primal Domain's laws, while Chen Lin continued his secluded cultivation.
• Shang Xuelian reported that someone had come out of the Salted Fish Scenario.

Chen Lin learned that the Salted Fish Scenario had changed and that a Guardian's death could make its protected scenario disappear, raising fears that Niuniu was in danger. Suspecting Xiaoyuer had used Shen Jinyuan to send a hidden message, Chen Lin sent Shen back with offerings to learn more.

• Shen Jinyuan told Chen Lin that he had entered a dim space filled with ponds and dried fish, where a Fish-Headed Monster demanded he catch ten fish.
• Shen Jinyuan used the Soul Fishing art to complete the task, then reported that the Fish-Headed Monster had said a Guardian's death caused its scenario to disappear.
• Chen Lin gave Shen Jinyuan a Longevity Extending Pill and worried that Gourmet Island had vanished and Niuniu might have perished.
• Chen Lin suspected Xiaoyuer had deliberately revealed information because Niuniu needed help, and summoned Shen Jinyuan again.
• Chen Lin gave Shen Jinyuan the black object from the Gourmet Guardian and Origin Orbs to offer the Fish-Headed Monster, then watched him enter the Nightmare Realm by projection.

Chen Lin received a strand of straw from Niuniu through Shen Jinyuan and decided to stop exploring scenarios connected to her. After finding that the node leading to Zuo Yunliang was fading, he met Gu Xuanqing and Fairy Ice Snow to discuss the Heaven-Connecting Secret Realm and its token fragments.

• Shen Jinyuan reported that the Fish-Headed Monster had accepted the black object but refused the Origin Orb, and he gave Chen Lin a strand of straw that had transformed from a fish.
• Chen Lin wove the straw into a talisman, rewarded Shen Jinyuan with pills, and told Shang Xuelian to stop exploring the Salted Fish and Jade Talisman Scenarios.
• Chen Lin failed to find Zuo Yunliang at the Bluestone Street Scenario's weakening node and concluded that the Nightmare Realm was gradually sealing its spatial loopholes.
• Gu Xuanqing visited Chen Lin, explained that a Gu clan member had rescued Chen Lin's injured subordinate, and gave him a matching Triangular Bone Shard.
• Gu Xuanqing invited Fairy Ice Snow, who arrived having recently reached the Dao Hearing Realm, and Chen Lin welcomed both visitors to the island to discuss the Heaven-Connecting Secret Realm.