Chapter Summaries

Chen Lin tested his new Road Guide ability, expanded his plans for exploring the Nightmare Realm, and demonstrated his rapid breakthrough to the Dao Hearing Realm. After Yang Qianxing advised him to focus on an artistic conception suited to his Dao, Chen Lin entered seclusion to consolidate his cultivation and reconsider his path.

• Chen Lin tested travel between scenarios with the Spirit Planter Token, confirmed he could pass through the Gold District Road Guide Barrier, and learned the ability only let him visit scenarios whose departure missions he had completed.
• Chen Lin planted a Gold-Spotted Fruit Core and seeds in his fiefdom, then ordered Han Shenliu to collect Medium Objects and intensify exploration of the Nightmare Realm.
• Chen Lin demonstrated his Cleft Sky Sword and revealed to Yang Qianxing that eating a Divine Fruit had advanced him one minor realm.
• Yang Qianxing explained that Chen Lin should prioritize a spiritual artistic conception that fit his Dao rather than relying on mismatched Sword Will and scattered methods.
• Chen Lin returned to Nameless Island and entered seclusion to stabilize his realm and plan his future cultivation.

After ten years of stabilizing his cultivation, Chen Lin chose to pursue destiny meaning and Thunderbolt Meaning, then explored his fiefdom and the Bluestone Street Scenario. He escaped a Road Guide Barrier with the ring, only to emerge before three Dao Integration cultivators who recognized him as Chen of Nameless Island.

• Chen Lin decided to cultivate destiny meaning and Thunderbolt Meaning, continue the Nine Transformations of Heavenly Thunder, and wait until Grass recovered before merging the Nirvana Soul Seal with the Thunder God Sword.
• Chen Lin visited his fiefdom, where Gu Jinliang reported everything was normal, and inspected the slow-growing Gold-Spotted Fruit tree and the barren grounds.
• Chen Lin failed to find the hidden node or summon the Blind Girl and Fat Tiger, then entered the Road Guide Barrier and retrieved a ring.
• Chen Lin found he could not leave through the barrier normally, so he cut his way out and triggered the Gold War General, then returned through the fading node to the ordinary district.
• Three Dao Integration cultivators appeared as Chen Lin emerged, and their old man recognized him as Fellow Daoist Chen of Nameless Island.

Chen Lin fought Wan Jiutian and his two companions at the underwater node, killing both middle-aged cultivators but suffering grievous injuries from Wan Jiutian’s attack. After unleashing his strongest techniques and exhausting his reserves, Chen Lin opened the node and prepared to retreat if Wan Jiutian attacked again.

• Wan Jiutian and two middle-aged cultivators blocked Chen Lin and demanded that he use a secret art to prove what lay beyond the node.
• Chen Lin recognized Wan Jiutian and attacked first, then killed the Short-Haired Man with the Purple Thunder Saber and Void-Breaking Spear.
• Wan Jiutian struck Chen Lin with his Nine Heavens Profound Sound, leaving him near death before Chen Lin used his innate power to survive.
• Yang Qianxing, Hundred Flowers Fairy, Fairy Ice Snow, Zheng Xuanqing, and other cultivators headed toward the disturbance near the underwater abode.
• Chen Lin unleashed Innate Five Thunders Smite the Crown, killing the other Dao Integration cultivator and forcing arriving experts to retreat, while Wan Jiutian remained protected by his hexagram.
• Chen Lin spent the Seven-Color Disc’s remaining energy and exhausted his soul power on repeated Soul-Destroying Fingers, then opened the node with the Void-Breaking Spear and watched Wan Jiutian, ready to flee inside.

Chen Lin killed Wan Jiutian with the Sword of Light and returned to his Nightmare Realm fiefdom to recover while rumors spread about his identity and the Heaven-Connecting Secret Realm. He examined the spoils of battle and discovered that the hexagonal treasure responded to primordial spirit power, drawing his consciousness into a warm space.

• Chen Lin used the Sword of Light to kill Wan Jiutian, while distant cultivators sensed the Mahayana-level sword will and speculated about its source.
• Chen Lin returned to his fiefdom, recovered from his injuries, and learned from Gu Jinliang that rumors linked him to Wan Jiutian’s death and the Heaven-Connecting Secret Realm.
• Chen Lin postponed meeting Yang Qianxing and Hundred Flowers Fairy about the final fragment, choosing to recover and wait for more information.
• Chen Lin examined his spoils, identified Wan Jiutian’s Jade Pendant as a soul-powered defensive treasure, and put it on.
• Chen Lin tried several kinds of power on the hexagonal object, then used primordial spirit power and entered a warm space.

Chen Lin discovered that the Blue Hexagram contained a Goddess Phantom who wanted him to become her Divine Envoy, but he refused and planned to trade the sealed treasure away. While sorting his spoils, he found strange, indestructible human head ore and an unreadable stone slab in the Vertical-Eyed Man’s ring, then sent Gu Jinliang to test the ore in the Silver Fruit Core scenario.

• Chen Lin questioned the Goddess Phantom inside the Blue Hexagram, rejected her offer to make him a Divine Envoy, and decided to seal the treasure for a future trade.
• Chen Lin searched Wan Jiutian’s storage items, found valuable herbs and the Nine Heavens Profound Sound inheritance, and concluded that he could not cultivate the sound-based art.
• Chen Lin examined the Vertical-Eyed Man’s ring, found mountains of human head ore, and discovered that neither his innate thunder power nor his other methods could damage it.
• Chen Lin found a cracked stone slab covered in characters that the Nightmare Realm’s rules could not translate.
• Chen Lin summoned Gu Jinliang and ordered him to test whether a chunk of the human head ore could manifest in the Silver Fruit Core scenario.

Chen Lin investigated whether the strange ring could store living beings, then spent years cultivating in his Fiefdom while the Spirit Demon Realm prepared for the Heaven-Connecting Secret Realm. After hearing that an underwater altar might be the nexus of a grand formation, he decided to leave and investigate.

• Chen Lin discovered that the human head ore could be stored only in the strange ring, while the stone slab also resisted other storage items.
• Chen Lin tested whether the ring could sustain living creatures and found that they gradually died inside, so he reserved it for the ore and stone slab.
• Chen Lin cultivated and healed in his Fiefdom as rumors spread about the secret realm, the Upper Primal Domain, and the missing Triangular Bone Shard.
• Ten years later, Gu Jinliang reported that Yuan Tiancheng believed an underwater Immortal Abode altar was the nexus of a grand formation, and Yang Qianxing urged Chen Lin to be ready to leave.
• Chen Lin decided to leave his Fiefdom to investigate and summoned the Blind Girl and Fat Tiger.

The Blind Girl returned after years away with a Treasure Chest from the Celestial Demon Tower and information about Mo Qingtong’s lineage. Chen Lin learned his key could not open her chest, kept both chests, and returned to Nameless Island with her.

• The Blind Girl reunited with Chen Lin and explained that she had spent years waiting for and challenging the Celestial Demon Tower.
• The Blind Girl showed Chen Lin a drawing of a statue in Mo Qingtong’s lineage’s Secret Realm, which resembled Xiao Luo’s true form.
• The Blind Girl told Chen Lin that members of Mo Qingtong’s lineage were tasked with exploring the Celestial Demon Tower and had died during their attempts.
• Chen Lin tried the key from the Holy Pagoda on the Blind Girl’s Treasure Chest, but the keyhole repelled it.
• Chen Lin marked both Treasure Chests, stored them, spoke with the Blind Girl about the Celestial Demon Realm, and returned with her to Nameless Island.

Chen Lin reunited with Yang Qianxing and Hundred Flowers Fairy, then met Daoist Bu, Zhao Chongshan, and Yuan Tiancheng, who had come seeking Connecting Heaven Token Fragments to test the Altar Formation. The meeting left Chen Lin aware that the bone shards in his possession might be the formation’s actual array cores, while the visitors’ motives and the formation’s purpose remained uncertain.

• Chen Lin told Blind Girl to stay hidden, then apologized to Yang Qianxing and Hundred Flowers Fairy for disappearing after killing Wan Jiutian.
• Hundred Flowers Fairy said she had obtained a True Soul Fruit and expected to approach Rank Seven after refining it.
• Yang Qianxing reported unusual celestial changes and suspected the Heaven-Connecting Secret Realm would soon appear.
• Shang Xuelian announced that Daoist Bu, Zhao Chongshan, and Yuan Tiancheng had arrived to seek the Connecting Heaven Token Fragments.
• Chen Lin and his companions met the visitors, and Daoist Bu recognized Chen Lin’s connection to qi luck force.
• Yuan Tiancheng explained that seven fragments might not suffice for the nine-altared formation, prompting Hundred Flowers Fairy to suspect Chen Lin’s bone shards were its array cores.

Yang Qianxing, Chen Lin, and Hundred Flowers Fairy negotiated compensation for lending their Connecting Heaven Token Fragments, then joined the others at the underwater Immortal Abode to prepare a formation to summon the Secret Realm. Chen Lin kept his fragment out of the plan after learning that Zheng Xuanqing and Fairy Ice Snow had already agreed to provide theirs, and the group prepared to begin the summoning.

• Yang Qianxing demanded one pseudo-true spirit tier Spirit Treasure for each fragment, while Chen Lin agreed to trade his fragment’s use for Daoist Bu’s Qi Luck Pill formula.
• Yuan Tiancheng offered Hundred Flowers Fairy an Ancient Monster Core from a Xu Spirit Beast, and she accepted it in exchange for using her fragment.
• Daoist Bu explained that Zheng Xuanqing and Fairy Ice Snow had already agreed to provide the fragments needed for the Four Symbols Spirit-Connecting Formation, leaving Yang Qianxing’s fragment unnecessary.
• Blind Girl appeared and called Chen Lin her master, prompting the others to grow wary of him.
• The group arrived at the underwater Immortal Abode, where Zheng Xuanqing and Fairy Ice Snow joined them, and Daoist Bu asked everyone to hand their items to Yuan Tiancheng for the formation.

Chen Lin visited Big Black Dog in the Silver Fruit Core Scenario to ask about entering the Upper Primal Domain and the rules there. He learned that the Sixth Highness’s help was needed to reach the Imperial Palace, and that his Silver Road Guide would let him traverse only ordinary scenarios; Big Black Dog fell asleep before answering his other questions.

• Daoist Bu asked Chen Lin about the Daoist Sect and the Upper Primal Domain, and Chen Lin invited him to visit Nameless Island.
• Yuan Tiancheng’s Four Symbols Great Formation failed because the fragments were not the array cores, so Chen Lin returned to Nameless Island with his allies.
• Fairy Ice Snow asked whether Chen Lin resented her and Zheng Xuanqing for lending their Connecting Heaven Token Fragments to Daoist Bu, and Chen Lin warned her not to reveal that the fragments might resist the Upper Primal Domain’s aura.
• Chen Lin visited Big Black Dog with Soul Steamed Buns and learned that the Sixth Highness could help him enter the Upper Primal Domain through the Imperial Palace.
• Big Black Dog told Chen Lin that his fiefdom would remain accessible in the Upper Primal Domain, but it could not serve as a route back to Lower Primal Domain scenarios unless they were connected.
• After drinking Chen Lin’s Drunken God Brew, Big Black Dog explained that Chen Lin’s Silver Tier 3 Road Guide allowed traversal only of ordinary scenarios, then fell asleep before answering more questions.

Chen Lin prepared to leave for the Upper Primal Domain after waiting twenty years for the Carefree Assembly and finding no other route. Daoist Bu arrived with a treasure map pointing to a Destiny Treasure and offered it in exchange for Chen Lin’s help opening the Secret Realm.

• Chen Lin reflected on what Big Black Dog had taught him about Nightmare Realm travel and concluded that entering the Upper Primal Domain through the Nightmare Realm would be a dangerous last resort.
• Chen Lin spent twenty years cultivating, monitoring the Heaven-Connecting Secret Realm, and having Blind Girl seek items useful in the Upper Primal Domain while he waited for the Carefree Assembly.
• Chen Lin decided to bring out the Bone Shard and summon the Heaven-Connecting Secret Realm after no assembly or other route appeared; Gu Jinliang reported that Daoist Bu had come to see him.
• Daoist Bu blamed Chen Lin for the toll his secret divination had taken on his body, explaining that it had pointed to Chen Lin as the person who could open the Secret Realm.
• Daoist Bu gave Chen Lin a Bamboo Scroll bearing a map to a treasure site containing a Destiny Treasure, offering it as an opportunity in exchange for Chen Lin’s help.

Chen Lin rejected Daoist Bu's offer to trade a treasure map for the formation eye and a Connecting Heaven Token Fragment. While Daoist Bu sought other fragments, the Hundred Flowers Fairy survived her tribulation and advanced to Rank Seven on Nameless Island.

• Chen Lin refused to hand over either Connecting Heaven Token Fragment and demanded that Daoist Bu add a pseudo-true spirit tier spirit treasure to the trade.
• After Daoist Bu left, Yang Qianxing told Chen Lin that the Hundred Flowers Fairy was preparing to break through to Rank Seven, and her heavenly tribulation began.
• Chen Lin activated Nameless Island's Tribulation Transcending Great Formation, helped guard the Hundred Flowers Fairy, and warned approaching cultivators to stay away.
• Daoist Bu watched the tribulation and decided to seek out Fairy Ice Snow, while Zhao Chongshan and Yuan Tiancheng discussed the fragments in their possession.
• The Hundred Flowers Fairy survived the lightning and inner demon tribulations and advanced to Rank Seven, then thanked Chen Lin and Yang Qianxing.
• Chen Lin teased Yang Qianxing about taking twin sister flowers as concubines and joked that he would otherwise have been qualified to become the Hundred Flowers Fairy's partner.

Chen Lin entered the Carefree Assembly with the Blind Girl after the Carefree Token activated, unaware that Hua Ruyu, the true Hundred Flowers Fairy, and Luo Qinglan had arrived at his hiding place. Hua Ruyu destroyed his Divine Snail Shell, took his Celestial Ring, and left with the two women, while Luo Qinglan hoped to see Chen Lin again.

• The Hundred Flowers Fairy left Chen Lin and Yang Qianxing to watch for news of the Secret Realm, and Chen Lin postponed the Demonic Path trading convention after Gu Jinliang reported that the token was reacting.
• Chen Lin found that the Carefree Token stopped resonating in the Nightmare Realm, then traveled with the Blind Girl to a concealed spot beneath the sea and entered the Carefree Assembly through its Light Curtain.
• After Chen Lin vanished, Hua Ruyu, the flesh-and-blood Hundred Flowers Fairy, and Luo Qinglan appeared above the sea and pulled his Divine Snail Shell from the seabed.
• Hua Ruyu shattered the shell and took Chen Lin's band and Celestial Ring, while Luo Qinglan pleaded with her not to harm her husband.
• Hua Ruyu refused Luo Qinglan's request to wait and see Chen Lin, then left with her and the Hundred Flowers Fairy, saying they could meet again in the Upper Primal Domain.

Chen Lin attended the Carefree Assembly with Blind Girl to gather high-purity Carefree Coins, useful materials, and information about entering the Upper Primal Domain. He learned that a previous expedition had ended in disaster, received Rule Transformation Beads from Mo Lin, and continued searching the Market, where someone unexpectedly called out to him.

• Chen Lin exchanged treasures for high-purity Carefree Coins and auctioned several items, while Blind Girl warned him that Hongming Ancestor might seek revenge and advised him to obtain a defensive Origin Treasure.
• Chen Lin met Mo Lin, who told him that every Explorer from the previous Primal Domain Rift expedition had vanished and warned him that the other two rifts were even more dangerous.
• Mo Lin said the assembly organizers had distributed Carefree Tokens in the voidification-threatened Tianxuan Realm to attract desperate Explorers.
• Chen Lin gave Mo Lin a pot of Drunken God Brew, and Mo Lin gave him ten Rule Transformation Beads in return.
• After three days of finding no suitable treasures, Chen Lin heard an unfamiliar voice call out to him in the Market.

Chen Lin reunited with Princess Qinghua and Luo Xiaoyu at the Inheritance Hall, where he learned that powerful figures were drawing Tianxuan cultivators into dangerous missions. He warned the women to avoid those missions, gave Princess Qinghua a token to meet him, and shared treasures with them before they left the teahouse.

• Chen Lin encountered Bao Tianci, who told him that Princess Qinghua and Luo Xiaoyu were at the Inheritance Hall.
• Chen Lin found Princess Qinghua and Luo Xiaoyu among the Tianxuan cultivators gathered there, and the three reunited outside.
• Chen Lin learned that the women had searched for him for hundreds of years and that both had reached Void Refinement, with Luo Xiaoyu advancing to Dao Rhyme.
• Chen Lin warned Princess Qinghua and Luo Xiaoyu that Carefree Tokens were meant to draw Tianxuan cultivators into Primal Domain Rift missions and told them to refuse and keep the information secret.
• Chen Lin made Princess Qinghua a Fiefdom Token, promised to make Luo Xiaoyu one later, and gave both women a collection of treasures.
• Chen Lin ended their private conversation and left the teahouse with the women.

At the Carefree Assembly, Chen Lin reunited with old acquaintances, learned about their troubles, and shared warnings about the Upper Primal Domain and the Primal Domain Rift. After freeing Dong Yunqiu from her Soul Pact and hearing that his wife and daughter remained missing, he headed to the auction, where Ximen Wuxue asked to speak with him.

• Chen Lin gave Ye Qianxuan soul medicines and secret arts for Ye Luo, then warned him not to accept the mission to explore the Primal Domain Rift or spread the information.
• Chen Lin learned that Lan Ruxue had been forcibly drawn into the Blood Handkerchief Scenario by the Xuanyin Great King and had not returned for more than two hundred years.
• Chen Lin told his companions about the Exterminating Sword, the Upper Primal Domain, and the dangers of the Primal Domain Rift, warning them to keep the information secret.
• Dong Yunqiu reported that Xue Honglan was recovering from a damaged foundation, Wu Wanshan had died in battle, and Liu Shengyuan was unlikely to reach Spirit Transformation; Chen Lin gave her treasures and released her from the Soul Pact.
• Bao Tianci told Chen Lin that Nan Mochu had questioned him about Chen Lin's whereabouts, and Chen Lin gave Bao Tianci cultivation supplies before sending the group away.
• The next day, Chen Lin went to the auction with Princess Qinghua and Luo Xiaoyu, where Ximen Wuxue asked to speak with him.

Chen Lin traded with Ximen Wuxue for her time talent origin and learned that their unusual talents could cause trouble in the Upper Primal Domain. After the auction, he left with Blind Girl and returned beneath the sea, where they discovered that Hua Ruyu had broken the Divine Snail Shell.

• Chen Lin gave Ximen Wuxue a secret art for False Dao Integration Advancement in exchange for her time talent origin, and she invited him to explore a mysterious place in the Upper Primal Domain.
• Ximen Wuxue warned Chen Lin that their unusual talents could cause trouble in the Upper Primal Domain and gave him a communication treasure for contacting her there.
• After the auction yielded no treasures with law properties, Chen Lin and his companions departed through their Carefree Tokens.
• Chen Lin and Blind Girl emerged buried beneath the seabed and discovered that the Divine Snail Shell had been reduced to a fragment.
• Blind Girl identified Hua Ruyu, the Hongming Ancestor, as the one who had broken the shell, and said her aura showed she had not intended to kill Chen Lin.

Chen Lin returned to Nameless Island as the altar at the underwater abode neared collapse, and Daoist Bu offered him a dragon scale in exchange for the Formation Eye Object. When another cultivator tried to pressure him, Chen Lin killed him and claimed his pseudo-True Spirit tier spirit treasure, then agreed to follow the others to the Immortal Abode.

• Yang Qianxing told Chen Lin that powerful cultivators had gathered because the underwater abode had changed and that Daoist Bu had been searching for him.
• Daoist Bu offered Chen Lin a Treasure Map and a refined dragon scale with pseudo-True Spirit-tier power, but Chen Lin questioned whether the scale met his demands.
• A middle-aged Dao Realization Realm cultivator urged Chen Lin to hand over the Formation Eye Object, and Chen Lin answered by attacking him with a Purple Ray.
• The middle-aged cultivator's bronze mirror and artifact spirit briefly restrained the Purple Ray, but flames erupted from his body and Chen Lin's attack killed him.
• Chen Lin claimed the bronze mirror as compensation, and Daoist Bu led the other cultivators toward the Immortal Abode while Chen Lin prepared to follow.

Chen Lin and the other representatives activated the altars, sending the Nine Bone Shards to the Spirit-Demon Border, where nine enormous spheres appeared. The spheres seemed to contain entrances to the Heaven-Connecting Secret Realm, but Chen Lin did not know which one to enter.

• Chen Lin gave Daoist Bu the Nine Bone Shards and discussed the possibility that Hua Ruyu was inside the secret realm with Blind Girl.
• Blind Girl explained that Hua Ruyu avoided the Heaven-Connecting Secret Realm because the Annihilation Sword Body could sense and attack her, and warned Chen Lin that he was too weak to obtain it.
• Yuan Tiancheng restored the altar formation, and nine cultivators channeled mana into the Array-Setting Equipment to activate it.
• The bone shards formed an arrow and flew from the hall, so Chen Lin and the others followed it toward the Spirit-Demon Border.
• Nine islands across the Spirit Demon Realm broke apart, revealing round beads that appeared around the arrow and grew into colossal spheres.
• Blind Girl said the spheres likely contained entrances to the Heaven-Connecting Secret Realm, leaving Chen Lin unsure which entrance to choose.

Chen Lin investigated the nine spheres that appeared above the sea, prepared to enter the secret realm, and discovered that the realm’s rules were weakening as the annihilation sword body disintegrated. The Blind Girl revealed that Bei Wumeng had manipulated events, then left Chen Lin and flew into the sky.

• Daoist Bu caught a Triangular Bone Shard, and Chen Lin told the gathered cultivators to test whether the nine spheres were entrances.
• Chen Lin freed the Holy Horn Great King and explained the choice of whether to enter the spheres to Shang Xuelian and the others.
• Chen Lin took the Blind Girl aside to refine Qi Luck Pills, but returned when she warned him that the spheres were dimming.
• Daoist Bu said the spheres led to the secret realm but could not identify the gate of life, while Yuan Tiancheng warned that the realm’s rules were weakening and annihilation was spreading.
• Chen Lin found that the annihilation meaning was destroying the Nirvana Branding, and the Blind Girl said the annihilation sword body had disintegrated and the Primal Thunder Annihilation Sword no longer existed.
• The Blind Girl said Bei Wumeng had manipulated them all, then flew into the sky and left Chen Lin.