Chapter Summaries

Chen Lin declined Bai Xuanming and Yang Yunchuan's invitation and searched the Chaos Pool for information, but found the marked sites already looted. After speaking with Wu Ya, he learned that the pool would remain open for nine days and chose to hide until it was time to leave.

• Chen Lin left Bai Xuanming and Yang Yunchuan, then traveled to a marked location where he found freshly dug pits and no practitioners.
• Wu Ya arrived looking for Hunyuan Grass, and Chen Lin introduced himself as Ye Fan, a rogue cultivator.
• Wu Ya explained that entry to the Chaos Pool was limited and asked Chen Lin to exchange information; Chen Lin told him the Chaos Fruit had ripened and listed several kinds of Light of Law it released.
• Wu Ya learned he had missed a Light of Law he could use, then advised Chen Lin to leave along the outer edges and explained the pool would stay open for nine days.
• After Wu Ya departed, Chen Lin decided not to seek more treasures or enter the Central Area and concealed himself to wait for others to leave.

Chen Lin examined his cultivation, mastered the wind, lightning, and power laws, and flew upward to leave the Upper Primal Domain. He encountered a woman fleeing the Dragon-Devouring Eye and, instead of escaping with her, charged toward the golden eyeball.

• Chen Lin confirmed that he needed to refine innate power to improve his cultivation and discovered that crystal sand could provide some innate origin.
• Chen Lin demonstrated his wind, lightning, and power laws, then decided to focus on a few laws rather than pursue them all.
• Chen Lin flew upward through the viscous energy, relying on his wind law and the restored danger-sensing ability of his talent.
• A woman in fiery-red clothing called to Chen Lin for help as the Dragon-Devouring Eye pursued her, and she explained that it relentlessly chased anyone who saw it.
• The Dragon-Devouring Eye enveloped Chen Lin and the woman in golden light; while she charged upward under her scepter's protection, Chen Lin resisted the light with lightning and then transformed into a Lightning Ray to attack the eyeball.

Chen Lin subdued and captured the Dragon-Devouring Eye with the Dragon Controlling Art and Red-Haired Fine Needle, then escaped the Chaos Pool with Zhu Qingyan. Zhu Qingyan offered him a chance at Divine Fire Body Tempering and left through one of the remaining exits in the dark clouds.

• Chen Lin used Ancestral Dragon Qi and the Dragon Controlling Art to suppress the Golden Eyeball, but a Dragon-Devouring Spirit Body emerged and attacked him.
• Chen Lin dodged the Spirit Body, endured its Dragon Breath behind the Ancestral Dragon Scale, and struck the eyeball with the Red-Haired Fine Needle.
• Chen Lin captured the weakened Dragon-Devouring Eye and flew upward as Zhu Qingyan followed him out of the Golden Light Domain.
• Zhu Qingyan introduced herself, offered Chen Lin Divine Fire Body Tempering at Flame Mountain, and assured him she had no use for the Dragon-Devouring Eye.
• Chen Lin and Zhu Qingyan escaped the viscous energy into the cloud-covered space above the Chaos Pool, where Zhu Qingyan gave him a Transmission Bead and departed through a luminous exit.

Chen Lin left the Chaos Pool and reached his fiefdom, where he discovered he could no longer contact Gu Jinliang, Princess Qinghua, or any planes in the Lower Primal Domain. After accepting the loss of those connections, he considered whether innate power could fuel Nightmare Realm spells.

• Chen Lin watched others leave through the Chaos Pool’s exits, then used one himself and emerged in the world outside.
• Chen Lin flew to the Chaos Pool’s edge, entered his fiefdom with the Peerage Token, and inspected its pond and fruit tree.
• Chen Lin tried to summon Gu Jinliang but found their connection had vanished, leaving him unable to reach the Lower Primal Domain or its scenarios.
• Chen Lin also failed to contact Princess Qinghua and reflected that he might need Upper Primal Domain ingredients to make Drunken God Brew again.
• Chen Lin wondered whether he could use innate power to practice Nightmare Realm spells, though he thought he would first need to comprehend the realm’s rules.

Chen Lin studied the treasures he had obtained from the Chaos Pool, then spent ten years in seclusion cultivating spells and weighing the risks of tempering his body, soul, and intent with different laws. After emerging into the Reality Realm, he traveled toward a distant city and killed a Silver-Winged Eagle, drawing the attention of a group of hunters.

• Chen Lin failed to activate the Gray Gourd but extracted dragon qi from the Dragon-Devouring Eyeball and used it to temper his body.
• Chen Lin decided to seal away the eyeball while he considered whether cultivating different laws across his three paths could hinder his advancement.
• Chen Lin spent ten years in his fiefdom learning available spells and strengthening his Lightning Escape Technique with law power.
• Chen Lin returned to the Reality Realm and traveled for a month toward a human city, avoiding the people of the Seven Major Sects.
• Chen Lin killed a Silver-Winged Eagle with the help of his destiny talent and a Black-Armored Insect, then a middle-aged hunter asked to buy the eagle's corpse.

Chen Lin explored Flying Sky City, gathering texts, materials, and information about the Upper Primal Domain’s major powers. After a year of study and trading, he left the city through a long-distance teleportation formation.

• Chen Lin traded a Silver-Winged Eagle to four cultivators for information about the region and learned that Flying Sky City was controlled by the Flying Sky Sect, a vassal of Three Immortals Mountain.
• Chen Lin entered Flying Sky City and spent several days buying texts, pill formulas, talisman methods, treasures, and materials.
• Chen Lin studied in a rented cultivation cave and learned about the Seven Major Sects, their territories, and their relative strengths.
• Chen Lin spent the following months gathering information and seeking cultivation techniques and spells at trading conventions.
• A year later, Chen Lin left his rented cave and departed Flying Sky City through a long-distance teleportation formation.

Chen Lin reached Myriad Forms City and explored its renowned White Tower Market while searching for resources and information. He found no cultivation technique suited to his innate power and, still seeking an answer, headed for the market’s upper three levels.

• Chen Lin traveled through several cities and arrived at Myriad Forms City, where he obtained an Identity Token and entered.
• Chen Lin admired the city, learned about its fees and rules, and toured its public areas before visiting White Tower Market.
• Chen Lin explored the market’s lower six floors, gathering resources and searching for information about Primal Thunder Mountain, the Annihilation Immortal King, and Hongming Ancestor.
• Chen Lin found records identifying the Wangyue Realm as a plane ruled by Immortal Lord Xiyue, but learned that reaching it would be difficult.
• Chen Lin found no cultivation technique for innate power and headed toward the entrance to the market’s upper three floors.

Chen Lin sold a True Treasure Fragment to secure access to the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion and entered the seventh level of the market. There, he sought to buy information and was surprised when the woman who had escorted Fairy Yaochi appeared to receive him.

• Chen Lin presented a True Treasure Fragment for appraisal and agreed to consign it to the market's auction in exchange for Invitation Letters to the seventh and eighth levels.
• Chen Lin entered the seventh level and found its shops stocked with costly treasures and guarded by powerful cultivators.
• Chen Lin located the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion and agreed to sign a Soul Contract before purchasing information.
• Chen Lin saw Fairy Yaochi leave the Pavilion and recognized her as a disciple of a True Realm expert from the Myriad Forms Palace.
• A veiled woman who had just seen Fairy Yaochi off entered Chen Lin's side room to receive him.

Chen Lin paid the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion for information about techniques that could cultivate multiple laws and learned that the Innate Cultivation Technique might be held by Illusion God Island. He then asked about reaching the River of Forgetfulness and discovered that the route required pavilion points, which he might earn through Nightmare Realm information.

• Chen Lin signed a confidentiality contract and paid the Veiled Woman for information on techniques compatible with multiple laws.
• The Veiled Woman explained that the Chaos Cultivation Technique and the Innate Cultivation Technique had no law barriers, and said Illusion God Island definitely possessed the latter.
• Chen Lin asked how to resolve incompatibility between the body and divine soul, and the Veiled Woman said River of Forgetfulness water worked best and could only be used at its source in the Netherworld.
• The Veiled Woman said information on a passage to the River of Forgetfulness required ten Heavenly Secrets Pavilion points, which Chen Lin could earn by completing tasks in its catalog.
• Chen Lin inspected the task catalog and found a section devoted to the Nightmare Realm, which he thought might contain tasks he could complete.

Chen Lin traded information about Nightmare Realm peerage ranks and Guardians to the Veiled Woman, Zhiming, for points and a route to the River of Forgetfulness. After settling in Myriad Forms City, he entered the Myriad Clans City scenario to look for Silver Fairy and Liu Rumian.

• Chen Lin explained the five peerage ranks, the distinction between true and false peerage, and what he knew about Princes, the Imperial Throne, and Guardians.
• Zhiming awarded Chen Lin thirty points, including twenty on an anonymous Round Token, and told him the Soulless Sect controlled a relatively safe passage to the River of Forgetfulness.
• Chen Lin paid one hundred crystal sand to learn that the mysterious Soulless Sect cultivated the soul path and had a True Realm expert presiding over it.
• Chen Lin toured Myriad Forms City, completed two tasks, and rented an Immortal Cave.
• Chen Lin decided to seek Silver Fairy and Liu Rumian, then activated his Immortal Cave formation and entered the Myriad Clans City scenario.

Chen Lin visited Yuanyuan Grocery Store in the Myriad Clans City scenario and learned about a costly Nightmare Spell inheritance statue called Silence. As he hesitated over whether to buy it, a young man in white arrived with the required payment, leaving the statue’s sale in doubt.

• Chen Lin left Liu Rumian a message on the stone stele arranging to meet a month later, then went to Yuanyuan Grocery Store.
• Chen Lin asked Shopkeeper Yuanyuan about Nightmare Spells and learned that Outsiders could not gain Nightmare Realm rules through comprehension alone.
• Shopkeeper Yuanyuan showed Chen Lin the Silence inheritance statue, which cost a hundred thousand Nightmare Coins and required another hundred thousand to activate ten times.
• Chen Lin decided the statue was too expensive and was about to return it when a young man in white entered and asked to buy it.
• The young man in white placed an Arena Ticket and a chest filled with Nightmare Coins on the counter, claiming he had met the purchase requirements.

Chen Lin bought an Arena Ticket from Shopkeeper Yuanyuan, only to watch the grocery store vanish and suspect he had been swindled. He then met Liu Rumian, explained his absence, denied killing Bai Xuanze, and left their debt unresolved as she noticed the newly appeared Horizon Water Pavilion.

• Chen Lin paid one hundred thousand Nightmare Coins for the Arena Ticket, and Shopkeeper Yuanyuan completed the sale before flying away as the Yuanyuan Grocery Store disappeared.
• Chen Lin suspected the young man in white had been Shopkeeper Yuanyuan's accomplice, then encountered Liu Rumian before he could leave the Nightmare Realm.
• Chen Lin told Liu Rumian he had been trapped in the Earth Abyss and Void Turbulence, and identified himself as a Prison-Suppressing Envoy from the Soul Suppressing Hall of the Crape Myrtle Palace.
• Liu Rumian asked whether Chen Lin and his companions had killed Bai Xuanze, but Chen Lin denied it and said he could not confirm Bai Xuanze's death.
• Chen Lin asked Liu Rumian where to find Golden Nightmare Coins, but she refused to reveal the sect-controlled scenario and demanded repayment; then she noticed the Horizon Water Pavilion.

Chen Lin learned that Xu Daoling had become trapped as the shopkeeper of Horizon Water Pavilion, then gathered information and settled on a plan to strengthen himself and explore the Nightmare Realm. He moved into a fortified hilltop courtyard in Myriad Forms City and assembled a small household, leaving one residency spot open.

• Liu Rumian recognized the young man Chen Lin had seen as Xu Daoling, the chief disciple of Horizon Water Pavilion, and confirmed he was trapped in the shop with his memories sealed.
• Chen Lin asked Liu Rumian about the Light Gates outside the city, learned three theories about where they led, and refused her request to borrow his Silver Tier 3 Road Guide Authority in exchange for canceling his Golden Nightmare Coin debt.
• After returning to the Reality Realm, Chen Lin researched Horizon Water Pavilion, Illusion God Island, the Upper Seven Realms, and the Netherworld, then decided to remain in Myriad Forms City and prepare for the White Tower Market auction.
• Chen Lin rented a large courtyard on a hill, reinforced its defenses with an array disk, Formation Flags, and a Pseudo-True Treasure, then recruited four Accepted Disciples, two maidservants, and two elderly cultivators.
• After the group moved into the courtyard, Chen Lin immediately sent one of the elderly cultivators to explore the Nightmare Realm.

Chen Lin tried using elderly cultivators to explore the Jade Pendant and Black and White Chess Piece Nightmare Realm scenarios, but each died soon after entering, forcing him to abandon the searches. He then prepared a collection of comprehension-enhancing items and nearly ten thousand Nightmare Coins to activate the Little Rabbit Statue and attempt to learn Nightmare Spells.

• Chen Lin sent Yu Zhenkai into the Jade Pendant scenario, but the elderly cultivator died with rocklike cracks appearing on his skin.
• Lu Danian volunteered to enter the same scenario, but he died within ten breaths, and Chen Lin later lost more than twenty other elderly cultivators and a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator in further attempts.
• Chen Lin sent two elderly cultivators into the golden scenario linked to the Black and White Chess Piece; they died almost immediately, their heads transformed into chess pieces.
• Chen Lin abandoned his scenario explorations and traded Drunken God Brew for demon brain fluid while searching for items he needed.
• Chen Lin prepared comprehension aids, fed 9,990 Nightmare Coins into the Little Rabbit Statue, used the aids and a small amount of demon brain fluid, then fed in the final ten coins.

Chen Lin used a statue to comprehend the Silence Nightmare Spell, discovering its extraordinary power but failing to grasp how it worked. After exhausting one use and testing his chances with his fate screen and Fortune Orbs, he prepared to stake everything on another attempt by absorbing all his remaining Demon Brain Fluid.

• Chen Lin activated the statue with ten thousand Nightmare Coins and experienced the spell’s ability to overwhelm him with sound before silencing all sound and perception.
• The statue’s first use ended after ten breaths, and Chen Lin found that one of its ten markings had disappeared; he could not recall the Mystic Sensation needed to understand the spell.
• Chen Lin used pills and Demon Brain Fluid to enhance his comprehension, but another ten-breath attempt yielded no progress, so he checked the fate screen and found he could not master the spell with his current abilities.
• Chen Lin absorbed more than a dozen Fortune Orbs and used a Fate Tentacle to join a broken destiny line, but it split apart again once the tentacle dispersed.
• Chen Lin decided to stake everything on one final attempt and absorbed every remaining drop of Demon Brain Fluid.

Chen Lin survived the dangerous inheritance and mastered the Silence Technique, later discovering its broad reach and power after months of testing. He remained eager to improve it, especially to suppress perception beyond sound.

• Chen Lin used the statue’s final inheritance to comprehend the nightmare spell, and the Thunder God Sword’s innate thunder power jolted him free before he collapsed.
• After three days, Chen Lin awoke badly injured but realized he had reached the introductory stage; he suspected Grass had activated the sword, but she did not answer him.
• Chen Lin discovered the statue had disintegrated after he learned its spell, ending his hopes of selling it.
• Several months later, Chen Lin tested the Silence Technique on a Qingling Bird and found it could suppress sound perception across a hundred-zhang radius and overwhelm targets who could not resist its effects.
• Chen Lin concluded that the technique had reached minor mastery and could unsettle enemies, though it still could not erase sight.

Chen Lin followed a Qingling Bird into a strange realm after overhearing two siblings discuss a hidden place, then discovered a market that matched one his disciple Qiaoniang had described. He entered the Myriad Phenomena Porridge Shop hoping its proprietress could show him a way out, and found the woman from Qiaoniang’s portrait.

• Chen Lin tested his stillness spell on a Qingling Bird, then overheard two siblings say it could lead them to a hidden place.
• Chen Lin followed the siblings and the fleeing bird, but the valley transformed and left him in a vast, unfamiliar realm.
• Chen Lin searched for an exit and tried his Peerage Token, but its weak connection could not return him to his fiefdom.
• Chen Lin found an empty market and recognized the Myriad Phenomena Porridge Shop from Qiaoniang’s account.
• Chen Lin entered the shop seeking a bowl of porridge and confirmed that its proprietress was the woman in Qiaoniang’s portrait.

Chen Lin learned that the Mysterious Place used Mysterious Stones as currency and discovered that his stock of human head ore was worth a fortune there. After a deadly attack by a lollipop from the Candy House nearly killed him, he paid the Boss Lady ten Mysterious Stones for porridge and a chance to leave.

• The Boss Lady told Chen Lin that porridge cost two Mysterious Stones and offered to send him out if he bought a bowl.
• Chen Lin showed the Boss Lady several treasures, but she rejected them and revealed that a Mysterious Stone was a black stone the size of a human head.
• The Boss Lady warned Chen Lin that the Mysterious Place was dangerous outside market day and said the market's timing depended on celestial phenomena.
• After the Boss Lady expelled him from the shop, a lollipop from the Candy House struck Chen Lin and nearly killed him.
• Chen Lin rushed back into the shop, used a Reincarnation Flower to recover, and realized the weapon was an ordinary lollipop.
• Chen Lin paid the Boss Lady ten Mysterious Stones, and she prepared to let him drink the porridge and send him out.

Chen Lin drank the Boss Lady’s Myriad Phenomena Porridge and discovered its energy could strengthen his soul, though he suspected she had an ulterior motive. After learning that low-grade heaven and earth energy—not his cultivation technique—was slowing his progress, he returned to Myriad Forms City and resumed cultivating; a month later, he learned the missing siblings he had sought were Zhao Hongyun and Zhao Hongling, then set out for White Tower Market.

• Chen Lin asked the Boss Lady about an Innate Cultivation Technique, and she explained that scarce, low-grade heaven and earth energy was slowing his cultivation rather than his technique.
• Chen Lin drank the Myriad Phenomena Porridge, and the Boss Lady sent him back to the valley; he discovered the porridge’s energy had become part of him and gave him the ability to make it.
• Chen Lin found that his soul could slowly absorb the porridge’s energy, healing and strengthening his soul seed, and wondered whether his soul level exceeded that of innate power.
• Chen Lin returned to Myriad Forms City, gave Leng Yue and Zhu Changfeng portraits and supplies, and ordered them to discreetly search for the missing brother and sister.
• A month later, Leng Yue reported that the siblings were Zhao Hongyun and Zhao Hongling, but both had disappeared; Chen Lin told her to keep an eye on the matter and left for White Tower Market.

Chen Lin visited the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion to ask about the Mysterious Domain, paying for information with points and crystal sand after sharing what he knew about nightmare spells. Zhiming described two competing theories about the Domain, and Chen Lin asked which one she believed was closer to the truth.

• Chen Lin met Zhiming at the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion and asked about the Mysterious Domain where Illusion God Island obtained its Innate Cultivation Technique.
• When Zhiming quoted a price of one hundred points, Chen Lin offered information about nightmare spells in exchange for points.
• Chen Lin told Zhiming that beings outside the nightmare realm could learn nightmare spells, that a silver-tier scenario sold one for a hundred thousand Nightmare Coins, and that its power weakened in the Reality Realm.
• Zhiming awarded Chen Lin fifty points for his answers and allowed him to pay the remaining cost in crystal sand.
• Zhiming said the Mysterious Domain was rumored to be where the Inner World and Outer World met, then outlined theories that it guarded a sealed world or sheltered ancient experts from tribulations.
• Chen Lin asked Zhiming which theory she believed was closer to the truth.