Chapter Summaries

Chen Lin exchanged information with Fairy Ice Snow and Gu Xuanqing about the Upper Primal Domain, the Exterminating Sword, and the coming voidification tribulation. After revealing his Nightmare Realm experience, he learned that Fairy Ice Snow wanted Nightmare Coins and offered to lend her some.

• Chen Lin told Fairy Ice Snow and Gu Xuanqing that he wanted to enter the Upper Primal Domain, and Gu Xuanqing suggested the Connecting Heaven Token fragment might resist law erosion, though Fairy Ice Snow said this was only their conjecture.
• Fairy Ice Snow explained that beings in the Upper Primal Domain absorbed origin essence force before birth, and Chen Lin revealed he had met a powerful man from the Wangyue Realm who had killed hundreds of Dao Integration Practitioners.
• Chen Lin described the Exterminating Sword's destruction of the Hongming Immortal Domain and warned that another voidification great tribulation would arrive within five hundred years.
• Fairy Ice Snow grew interested in Chen Lin's Nightmare Realm experience and asked to borrow Nightmare Coins, and Chen Lin agreed to help.

Chen Lin arranged for Han Shenliu to investigate Gambling Fortune Lake after learning the Nightmare Realm scenario had changed. She returned almost immediately, having lost 1,100 Nightmare Coins after a black toad made her roll a die, leaving Chen Lin to wonder why it had asked her to manifest the Fishing Rod.

• Fairy Ice Snow asked Chen Lin for three thousand Nightmare Coins to buy a treasure, but he declined and learned she had earned her savings in the vanished Money Tree Scenario.
• Chen Lin agreed with Fairy Ice Snow and Gu Xuanqing to keep searching for Connecting Heaven Token Fragments, then urged Yang Qianxing and Hundred Flowers Fairy to find the remaining Triangular Bone Shards and sent Shang Xuelian to recheck the underwater Immortal Abode.
• Chen Lin considered entering Gambling Fortune Lake and White Cloud Pasture to investigate their changes, find out whether the Qi Luck Guardian was truly dead, and seek help for Grass from the Gorgeous Lady.
• Chen Lin asked Han Shenliu to investigate Gambling Fortune Lake, promising to help her reach the Spirit Transformation Realm; she entered with the Fishing Rod and Nightmare Coins.
• Han Shenliu returned quickly and told Chen Lin that a black toad had made her roll a die, and she had rolled one, losing 1,100 Nightmare Coins as punishment.
• Han Shenliu explained that the toad had first ordered her to manifest the Fishing Rod; Chen Lin recognized its resemblance to the Golden Toad but learned it had shown no reaction to the rod.

Chen Lin welcomed Blind Girl back to life, learned that she still wanted to stay with him, and discovered she came from the Upper Primal Domain and remembered Hongming Ancestor. Her memories suggested Hongming Ancestor was a woman resembling Hua Ruyu, leaving Chen Lin determined to escape the Lower Primal Domain but uncertain whether Hongming Ancestor’s enemy still threatened the Upper Primal Domain.

• Chen Lin reassured Han Shenliu after she lost eleven hundred Nightmare Coins and continued studying his Transformation Technique and Dao Arts.
• Blind Girl revived, told Chen Lin that her memories had returned in part, and chose to remain by his side.
• Blind Girl said she knew of the Upper Primal Domain and had come from its Void Realm, though most of her memories had faded.
• Blind Girl revealed that Hongming Ancestor was a woman who resembled Hua Ruyu and practiced Spirit-Demon Dual Cultivation, leading Chen Lin to suspect Hua Ruyu was Hongming Ancestor.
• Chen Lin concluded he had to leave the Lower Primal Domain and asked Blind Girl whether Hongming Ancestor’s enemy was still in the Upper Primal Domain.

Chen Lin learned more about the Upper Primal Domain, Blind Girl’s strength, and the Nightmare Realm rules that still connected them. As he entered the Bluestone Street Scenario with her, he discovered that most of his treasures and abilities could be suppressed in the Upper Primal Domain unless they possessed origin essence.

• Blind Girl told Chen Lin that Innate Treasures could grow in power and warned him to conceal the Thunder God Sword in the Upper Primal Domain.
• Chen Lin questioned Blind Girl about Hongming Ancestor and the Upper Primal Domain, then learned the Thunder God Sword could protect him from the Voidification Great Tribulation.
• Chen Lin tested Blind Girl and found she could fight at the Dao Inquiry Stage, while their Nightmare Realm connection remained in place but gave her some freedom to refuse his summons.
• Chen Lin entered the Bluestone Street Scenario with Blind Girl after their three-year agreement ended.
• Blind Girl warned Chen Lin that high-level law power would suppress treasures and abilities from the Lower Primal Domain unless they possessed origin essence.
• Blind Girl explained that only origin essence items and high-grade Spirit Treasures would remain effective, leaving Chen Lin concerned that nearly all his possessions would be weakened.

The Blind Girl warned Chen Lin that law power in the Upper Primal Domain would erode his abilities, cultivation, body, and soul unless each gained protection, though innate power might shield him. After Zuo Yunliang rushed through a Hidden Node pursued by a Vertical-Eyed Man, Chen Lin and the Blind Girl fought to save him, but the enemy unleashed a terrifying aura.

• The Blind Girl explained that only aspects with true origin traits or sufficient rule force could resist the Upper Primal Domain's law erosion, and she said innate power could withstand it.
• Chen Lin questioned the Blind Girl about her lost memories and origins, then opened a Hidden Node while searching for a path to the Upper Primal Domain.
• Zuo Yunliang rushed through the node pursued by a Vertical-Eyed Man, who seized him with a massive black claw.
• Chen Lin evaded the Vertical-Eyed Man's lethal attack while the Blind Girl's heart fire forced the enemy to defend himself.
• The Vertical-Eyed Man's flying sword threatened Zuo Yunliang, but Chen Lin and the Blind Girl disrupted it and struck the enemy with their attacks.
• The enraged Vertical-Eyed Man doubled in size and flooded the space with a terrifying aura.

Chen Lin and Blind Girl faced the Vertical-Eyed Man, whose pursuit of Zuo Yunliang ended when the Gold-Armored War General killed him. Back in the Spirit Demon Realm, Chen Lin learned how Zuo Yunliang survived and asked him about the Celestial Demon Realm.

• The Vertical-Eyed Man attacked Chen Lin with a powerful Dark Gold Ray, but Chen Lin countered with the Seven-Color Disc.
• The Vertical-Eyed Man teleported to Zuo Yunliang and smashed his head, then tried to escape when Chen Lin trapped him behind a barrier.
• The Gold-Armored War General appeared and killed the Vertical-Eyed Man with a single thrust, while Zuo Yunliang's head regenerated.
• Chen Lin took Blind Girl and Zuo Yunliang back to the Spirit Demon Realm, where he learned Zuo Yunliang had used the Flesh Rejuvenation Technique to revive himself.
• Zuo Yunliang explained that the technique required eighty-one cultivators' essence blood, and Chen Lin asked him about the Celestial Demon Realm.

Zuo Yunliang explained how he survived in the Celestial Demon Realm and obtained an inheritance from the Celestial Demon Tower. After learning that the tower matched the Holy Pagoda and might be connected to the Exterminating Sword, Chen Lin agreed to send the Blind Girl to investigate.

• Zuo Yunliang told Chen Lin that he had been captured at sea, enslaved by the One-Eyed Demon Lineage, and taken to the Celestial Demon Continent.
• Zuo Yunliang explained that his Demonic Saber activated a statue in the Celestial Demon Tower, where he and Mo Qingtong were trapped in illusory trials until Zuo Yunliang passed and received an inheritance.
• Zuo Yunliang said he escaped the city, found the hidden node, and hid nearby from Mo Qingtong's search while waiting for Chen Lin to open it.
• Chen Lin showed Zuo Yunliang an image of the Holy Pagoda, and Zuo Yunliang confirmed that it was identical to the Celestial Demon Tower.
• The Blind Girl offered to investigate the tower, and Chen Lin agreed after learning that the realm had one Great Vehicle Demonic Sage and many Dao Integration Devil Lords.

Chen Lin studied how the great heavens projection had made the Nightmare Realm more restrictive and planned to intensify exploration before starlight grass lost its usefulness. The chapter ended when Shang Xuelian returned with a new discovery in the Silver Fruit Core Scenario.

• Chen Lin confirmed the Blind Girl could still be summoned through the Hidden Node, then watched the node weaken and abandoned the idea of risking a fight for the Gold War General's storage bracelet.
• Chen Lin returned to Nameless Island with Zuo Yunliang, had him copy the demonic inheritance, and arranged treasures to help him pursue core formation.
• Zuo Yunliang reached core formation during the following year, while Chen Lin studied the Nightmare Realm's increasingly severe restrictions on items, cultivators, and projected abilities.
• Chen Lin concluded that true origin traits explained why his soul secret arts and innate power remained effective, and he decided to explore personally as scouting became harder.
• Chen Lin ordered Shang Xuelian to hire more elderly cultivators and intensify exploration, and she returned soon afterward with news of a discovery in the Silver Fruit Core Scenario.

Yang Zhengmao brought Chen Lin a Silver Fruit Core Scenario reward whose flesh carried a fluctuation resembling the White Tiger True Spirit, prompting Chen Lin to order further exploration. Yang Zhengmao later remained trapped inside the still-closed scenario, while Chen Lin's searches for the other Triangular Bone Shards and information about the Heaven-Connecting Secret Realm came up empty.

• Yang Zhengmao told Chen Lin that after clearing the orchard weeds ten times, the talking dog rewarded him with a silver fruit he could bring out.
• Chen Lin examined the fruit, and Shang Xuelian identified its unusual fluctuation as resembling the White Tiger True Spirit.
• Chen Lin ordered another cultivator to repeat Yang Zhengmao's method, but the cultivator received no reward after ten rounds of weeding.
• Han Shenliu reported that Yang Zhengmao had been inside the scenario for over half a month and had likely run out of starlight grass, though the scenario remained closed.
• Chen Lin activated Transmission Talismans to contact his associates, but none had found the other Triangular Bone Shards or information about the Heaven-Connecting Secret Realm.

Chen Lin activated a blank scroll in a Nightmare Realm hall, summoning Consort Yu and triggering a dangerous change in the scenario’s rules. After the Strength Scroll saved him from the resulting force, he decided to abandon the route for now and seek another way to reach the Upper Primal Domain.

• Chen Lin tested the hall’s blank scrolls with his abilities and discovered that his innate power made one glow and reveal a woman’s portrait.
• Consort Yu appeared, called Chen Lin the Great King, and warned him that the Grand General had grown too powerful for the Three Grandmasters to defeat.
• Chen Lin left the scenario, but a surge of rule force attacked him and consumed his Strength Scroll as it protected him.
• Chen Lin had Han Shenliu send an elderly cultivator into the scenario and learned that the changes affected only the person who triggered them.
• Chen Lin chose not to re-enter the scenario and began considering other routes to the Upper Primal Domain.

Chen Lin watched Yang Zhengmao return from the Silver Fruit Core Scenario with his cultivation raised to Nascent Soul, then learned that the scenario’s dog had taken the Silver Fruit from his Storage Ring and given it to Yang Zhengmao. After advising Yang Zhengmao to investigate possible dangers and keep the fruit core, Chen Lin entered the Nightmare Realm as a projection to explore the scenario himself.

• Yang Zhengmao underwent and easily passed a Nascent Soul tribulation, astonishing Chen Lin, Shang Xuelian, and Han Shenliu.
• Chen Lin discovered that the Silver Fruit had vanished from his Storage Ring and took Han Shenliu’s Silver Fruit Core to keep in a Storage Bracelet.
• Yang Zhengmao told Chen Lin that the dog in the scenario had given him a fruit after learning he had offered the first one to Chen Lin, and that eating it had raised his cultivation.
• Yang Zhengmao gave Chen Lin the core of the fruit he had eaten, and Chen Lin recognized it as the fruit that had disappeared from his Storage Ring.
• Chen Lin returned Yang Zhengmao’s core, warned him to check for hidden dangers from his breakthrough, and dismissed him, Shang Xuelian, and Han Shenliu.
• Chen Lin released the Scholar, examined the Silver Fruit Core, and entered the Nightmare Realm as a projection.

Chen Lin tried to unlock a Hidden Mission in the orchard by weeding, but clearing weeds a hundred times earned no reward. After discovering insects were killing a fruit tree, he removed them and received permission to pick a Premium Fruit, whose vital Fruit Core could be planted.

• Chen Lin inspected the orchard, avoided the powerful black dog, and spent time clearing weeds in hopes of triggering a Hidden Mission.
• A year later, Yang Qianxing and the others decided to open the Heaven-Connecting Secret Realm to more cultivators so they could search for the missing Triangular Bone Shards.
• After bringing his weeding count to a hundred, Chen Lin found that he had not completed a Hidden Mission and learned he could not pass the black dog.
• Chen Lin used his innate power to locate insects inside a diseased fruit tree and carefully killed them with innate thunder power.
• A voice awarded Chen Lin one Premium Fruit for completing the pest-removal Hidden Mission, and the black dog explained that its Fruit Core could be grown.

Chen Lin chose and retrieved an unusual golden-spotted fruit, then investigated its effects while worrying that he could no longer reach the Blind Girl through their Nightmare Realm connection. The chapter ended with Yang Qianxing arriving with a new Triangular Bone Shard and two concubines, whom Chen Lin took aside to introduce him to privately.

• Chen Lin used his Innate Thunderbolt to cut the stem of a golden-spotted fruit that he could not pluck by hand, then discovered it carried an unknown, overbearing emperor-like energy.
• Chen Lin examined Yang Zhengmao after he ate a fruit and found no abnormalities, but continued monitoring him before deciding whether to eat his own fruit.
• Chen Lin repeatedly failed to summon the Blind Girl and could no longer find her hidden node in the Bluestone Street Scenario.
• Shang Xuelian and the Hundred Flowers Fairy worried that Chen Lin's distress over the Blind Girl might cause an inner demon, but Chen Lin assured them his state of mind was sound.
• The Hundred Flowers Fairy told Chen Lin that Yang Qianxing had found another Triangular Bone Shard, and Yang Qianxing arrived with his new concubines, Qingling and Qinghuo.
• Chen Lin and Yang Qianxing went into a private chamber after Chen Lin and the Hundred Flowers Fairy welcomed the two women.

Yang Qianxing told Chen Lin that the Glazed Cup scenario might contain a passage to the Upper Primal Domain, while warning that its giver could be Thousand-Faced Fox. After Zuo Yunliang obtained a Divine Fruit by pruning orchard trees with Chen Lin’s Scissors, Chen Lin suspected that successful tending required genuine skill and summoned Yang Zhengmao to investigate.

• Yang Qianxing explained that the Demon God Sect’s sect master had sent his twin granddaughters with him in exchange for taking them to the Upper Primal Domain, and he no longer needed Chen Lin’s Bone Shard.
• Yang Qianxing reported that a courier in the Glazed Cup scenario had found a multicolored rift inside a well, and Chen Lin kept the painting so he could ask about it at the Carefree Assembly.
• Chen Lin warned Yang Qianxing that High Person Yunhai might be an incarnation of Thousand-Faced Fox, so Yang Qianxing agreed not to enter the scenario himself.
• Chen Lin and Yang Qianxing confirmed that their Triangular Bone Shards matched, then agreed with their allies not to reveal that the shards could resist the erosion of laws.
• Han Shenliu brought Zuo Yunliang to Chen Lin after he obtained a Divine Fruit by pruning every fruit tree with Chen Lin’s Scissors, which he strengthened using his talent ability.
• Chen Lin concluded that the orchard’s tending missions required skill, returned the fruit to Zuo Yunliang, and ordered Han Shenliu to fetch Yang Zhengmao.

Chen Lin watched Zuo Yunliang consume a powerful fruit that raised his cultivation and examined the secret art Yang Zhengmao had used to weed. He accepted the Divine Light of Annihilation, compensated Yang Zhengmao, and sent him away while Zuo Yunliang continued refining the fruit.

• Chen Lin persuaded Zuo Yunliang to eat the fruit, and Zuo Yunliang's cultivation, soul, and spiritual sense rapidly strengthened.
• Chen Lin questioned Yang Zhengmao about the soul secret art he had used while weeding, and Yang Zhengmao presented a Bamboo Scroll recording the Divine Light of Annihilation.
• Chen Lin learned the secret art required destructive soul origin essence and confirmed Yang Zhengmao had used it to clear the weeds.
• Yang Zhengmao offered Chen Lin the secret art, and Chen Lin accepted the Bamboo Scroll and gave him an Ending Hostility Pill and a Flying Spirit Treasure.
• Chen Lin ordered Yang Zhengmao to leave the island, and Yang Zhengmao bowed before departing.

Chen Lin studied how to create a nirvana mark from the Sword Scabbard’s innate annihilation aura while monitoring Zuo Yunliang’s breakthrough. Zuo Yunliang successfully formed a nascent soul, and Chen Lin sent Yang Qianxing to investigate the Pipe Scenario before the Hundred Flowers Fairy questioned his focus on the Nightmare Realm.

• Chen Lin concluded that he could use a strand of his split soul to fuse with the Sword Scabbard’s annihilation aura and form a nirvana mark, though the process would be extremely difficult.
• A month later, Zuo Yunliang’s cultivation surged to Golden Core Great Perfection, and Chen Lin took him to the Tribulation Platform to face his tribulation and inner demon.
• Yang Qianxing told Chen Lin that he had plucked a fruit in the orchard scenario but fled when the Big Black Dog attacked, and he could not bring the fruit out.
• Chen Lin persuaded Yang Qianxing to try the Pipe Scenario, handed him the Pipe, and arranged for someone to watch over him in case he needed rescuing.
• Zuo Yunliang overcame his inner demon and formed a nascent soul, then thanked Chen Lin and pledged to serve him.
• After Yang Qianxing left, the Hundred Flowers Fairy asked Chen Lin whether his interest in the Nightmare Realm meant he lacked confidence in the Heaven-Connecting Secret Realm.

Chen Lin used a gold-spotted fruit to advance into the Dao Hearing Realm, where innate power helped him survive the tribulation and he gained the Tyrant Emperor Sword Will. He failed to summon the Blind Girl in the Orchard and headed toward the Big Black Dog.

• Chen Lin told the Hundred Flowers Fairy that he wanted to find a passage into the Upper Primal Domain, and Zuo Yunliang later reported gaining the Demon Flame Slash divine ability.
• After observing Zuo Yunliang for a month and confirming he had no abnormalities, Chen Lin ate the gold-spotted fruit in seclusion.
• The fruit raised Chen Lin’s cultivation into the Dao Hearing Realm, but its energy triggered a perilous Dao Tribulation.
• Chen Lin used his innate power to weaken the Great Dao’s aura and survived the tribulation, stabilizing his cultivation and gaining the Tyrant Emperor Sword Will.
• Chen Lin entered the Orchard using the fruit’s core, failed to summon the Blind Girl, and walked toward the Big Black Dog.

Chen Lin was summoned by the Sixth Highness to cure a Dream Spirit Flower infected with a Gold-Headed Gu. The gu burst apart when Chen Lin found it, causing the flower to wither, and the Sixth Highness revived it with a bottle of crystalline liquid.

• A maid led Chen Lin from the Sin Fruit Grove to the Sixth Highness after he was unable to leave.
• The maid explained that each person could receive an inherited divine ability from only one compatible Sin Fruit, leaving Chen Lin to regret forcibly taking the Gold-Spotted Fruit.
• The Sixth Highness asked Chen Lin to cure the Dream Spirit Flower, which had a Gold-Headed Gu hidden among its roots.
• Chen Lin found the gu with his innate power, but it burst into golden specks and the flower began to wither.
• The Sixth Highness poured crystalline liquid over the flower, stopping its decline and restoring some of its vitality.

Chen Lin killed the gold-headed gu inside the flowering tree, earning a Three-Star Spirit Planter token from the young man in white. The young man also submitted Chen Lin’s peerage merit before sending him back to the Orchard, where Chen Lin prepared to return to the Reality Realm.

• Chen Lin used his Innate Thunderbolt to kill the gold-headed gu, destroying a branch and scorching the flowering tree but leaving its vitality intact.
• The young man in white gave Chen Lin an Emerald-Green Three-Star Spirit Planter token after confirming the gu was gone.
• Chen Lin presented his peerage mission token, and the young man in white accepted his merit for killing Luo monsters.
• The maid told Chen Lin that his Spirit Planter status granted Silver Tier 3 road guide permission and that peerage ranks came with fiefdoms.
• The young man in white submitted Chen Lin’s merit, returned his token, and sent him back to the Orchard.
• Chen Lin found nothing changed in the Orchard, then withdrew his divine soul and returned to the Reality Realm.

After securing a True Baron Peerage, Chen Lin bound a tiny fiefdom to his token and tested its entry rules. He confirmed that he could enter in his physical body, but the fiefdom was nearly empty and offered little beyond a secure route into the Nightmare Realm.

• Chen Lin read the Peerage Token’s information and learned that his True Peerage was independent of superiors and valid throughout the Nightmare Realm, though a Rally Order could still compel him to respond.
• Chen Lin bound the Fiefdom Document to his token and discovered that visitors needed his approval to enter; Gu Jinliang entered successfully and found only a hill and a spring.
• Chen Lin worried about the inaccessible White Cloud Pasture and Gege Yun, then rewarded Gu Jinliang with two Foundation Establishment Pills.
• Chen Lin entered the fiefdom in his physical body and found it was less than a li across, with only a mound, a clear spring, and a small pool.
• Chen Lin tested the fiefdom’s rules and found that his treasures worked under heavy suppression, while items made from Reality Realm materials did not become Nightmare Realm items.