Chapter Summaries

Chen Lin questioned Zhiming about the Mysterious Domain and the disputed Upper Seven Realms, learning more about their links to the Outer World and the different cultivation systems. He returned to his immortal cave and began examining the two golden boxes he had brought out.

• Zhiming told Chen Lin that the Mysterious Domain connected to any plane, contained Outer World energy, and could be entered through unusual birds or beasts, while powerful figures helped visitors leave.
• Zhiming described the Mysterious Domain's markets, Mysterious Stones, and possible Outer World goods, and said envoys might be connected to market appearances.
• Chen Lin asked about the Upper Seven Realms, and Zhiming explained competing views about the Mortal Realm, the Celestial and Deity Realm, and the Origin Realm.
• Zhiming said the Luo, or Big-Eyed Monsters, claimed to come from the Origin Realm and that Buddhist cultivators mostly lived in the far west.
• Chen Lin left the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion, returned to his immortal cave, dismissed his disciples, and brought out two golden boxes in his secluded chamber.

Chen Lin opened the first treasure chest in his fiefdom and found a mysterious Golden Book Page whose changing script resembled the writing on his cracked tablet and was tied to the Outer World. After failing to use the Mysterious Stone’s energy, he chose to cultivate in Myriad Forms City before traveling north to the Soulless Sect, then headed to the White Tower Market auction, where someone called out to him.

• Chen Lin opened the chest in his fiefdom and found a blank Golden Book Page that revealed changing characters when he used the Soul-Destroying Finger.
• Chen Lin compared the page’s writing and energy with his cracked tablet and concluded that both were connected to the Outer World.
• Chen Lin tried to draw energy from a Mysterious Stone but found it too impure to use without a way to purify it.
• Chen Lin decided to cultivate in Myriad Forms City until his body, soul, and intent reached at least mid semi-void before traveling to the Soulless Sect to seek a passage into the Netherworld.
• Three days later, Chen Lin went to the White Tower Market auction, hoping to buy light of law and other needed items.
• As Chen Lin approached the White Tower Entrance, a voice from above called for him to stop.

Chen Lin encountered several acquaintances at the White Tower auction, exposing his aliases and drawing suspicion over his innate law origin and ties to the Prison-Suppressing Envoy. After leaving Leng Yue supplies and evading powerful pursuers, he returned to his Nightmare Realm fiefdom to lie low and cultivate.

• Chen Lin denied being Lin Feiyu, but the Divine Maiden, Bai Xuanming, Lan He, Fu Xiaoge, and Liu Rumian recognized or identified him through their past encounters.
• The Divine Maiden suspected Chen Lin had condensed an innate law origin, while Bai Xuanming accused him of involvement in Bai Xuanze's death; Liu Rumian defended Chen Lin and drove Bai Xuanming away.
• Lan He connected Chen Lin to a Prison-Suppressing Envoy of Crape Myrtle Palace, and the Divine Maiden departed while Liu Rumian and Lan He left to pursue their own inquiries.
• Chen Lin abandoned his plan to attend the auction, changed his appearance, left cultivation resources for Leng Yue, and fled the city.
• An indistinct figure and a veiled woman questioned Leng Yue about Chen Lin, inspected the Storage Bag, and discussed Ziwei Palace and collecting innate origin before departing.
• Chen Lin returned to his Nightmare Realm fiefdom and settled down to study nightmare spells in seclusion.

After ten years of cultivation, Chen Lin used a ripe Gold-Spotted Fruit to strengthen his Tyrant Sovereign Intent and left his fiefdom. A Prison-Suppressing Envoy mission then led him back to Myriad Forms City to investigate a rumored plane node, though he still did not know where it was or whether it led to the Primal Plane.

• Chen Lin mastered the Transformation Technique with innate power and regained the ability to cast spells from the Lower Primal Domain.
• Chen Lin ate the ripe fruit from his Gold-Spotted Fruit Tree and received another inheritance of the Tyrant Emperor Artistic Conception.
• After a month of comprehension, Chen Lin learned to wield Tyrant Sovereign Intent without relying on a weapon.
• Chen Lin disguised himself, checked that his disciples and immortal cave remained safe, and left Myriad Forms City without notifying them.
• The Prison-Suppressing Envoy Token gave Chen Lin a mission to investigate the Primal Plane and discover how it formed.
• Chen Lin returned to Myriad Forms City and learned that a node to a new plane had appeared nearby, but he could not find its location or confirm where it led.

Chen Lin met Duan Shengping, an outside explorer trapped in Myriad Clans City, and learned about the Spirit-Exterminating Beads that protected him from nightmare qi. After explaining how to escape, Chen Lin heard that a late semi-void cultivator had died defending the arena, and Duan Shengping begged him for help.

• Chen Lin left a message for Liu Rumian at the Grand Arena, then went to the shopping street to look for treasures.
• Duan Shengping approached Chen Lin and revealed that his Spirit-Exterminating Bead came from a rare fifth-rank Spirit-Exterminating Clam.
• Chen Lin asked Duan Shengping about his employer and learned that he had accepted a temporary mission under a one-time Soul Contract.
• Duan Shengping asked Chen Lin how to leave Myriad Clans City, and Chen Lin explained that he had to defend the Grand Arena three times.
• Duan Shengping revealed that he had seen a late semi-void Arena Defense killed by a single blow, then begged Chen Lin to save him.

Chen Lin bound Duan Shengping to him with a Nightmare Realm Contract and helped him leave the arena scenario, then recruited him to gather spirit-exterminating beads. Duan Shengping later returned with a Fifth-Rank Spirit-Exterminating Bead, and Chen Lin ordered him to keep searching despite local shortages.

• Duan Shengping pledged loyalty to Chen Lin and signed a Nightmare Realm Contract.
• Chen Lin gave Duan Shengping a Clone Token, an Arena Ticket, and nightmare coins so he could buy a City-Leaving Document and escape the scenario.
• Chen Lin waited for news of Liu Rumian, but the secret mark beneath the Giant Stele remained unchanged.
• Duan Shengping entered Chen Lin's fiefdom and reported that he had left his former employer and brought back scenario information.
• Duan Shengping gave Chen Lin a Fifth-Rank Spirit-Exterminating Bead, and Chen Lin supplied him with resources to acquire more.
• Duan Shengping warned that nearby spirit-exterminating beads were scarce, so Chen Lin ordered him to search other regions or hire people to hunt at sea.

Chen Lin learned that Duan Shengping’s mysterious employer was Blue Butterfly and arranged to meet her in his fiefdom. Blue Butterfly confirmed she had entered the Upper Primal Domain through Ximen Wuxue’s Primal Domain Rift, and Chen Lin asked what danger she had encountered, worried about Princess Qinghua.

• Chen Lin gave Duan Shengping a Hundred-Lifespan Pill and learned that his employer had reacted with surprise to Chen Lin’s name.
• Chen Lin deduced that the employer was Blue Butterfly and asked Duan Shengping to pass along questions about how she reached the Boundless Realm and where Ximen Wuxue and the others were.
• Blue Butterfly requested a meeting in Myriad Clans City, but Chen Lin refused to spend Arena Tickets and offered alternative ways for her to contact him.
• Blue Butterfly projected herself into Chen Lin’s fiefdom, where they discussed her failure to condense a law origin and the fearless tea he served her.
• Blue Butterfly confirmed she had entered the Upper Primal Domain through Ximen Wuxue’s Primal Domain Rift and said she had nearly died, prompting Chen Lin to ask what had happened.

Blue Butterfly told Chen Lin about a strange realm in the Primal Domain Rift and offered information about it in exchange for light of law suited to a demonic cultivator and help locating Wishing Flowers. Chen Lin agreed to try, then met Liu Rumian in Myriad Clans City, where she questioned how he had condensed his innate law origin.

• Blue Butterfly described a secret realm of invisible walls leading to small, wildly different spaces and suggested it might be a treasure's internal space drifting through the void.
• Blue Butterfly asked Chen Lin to obtain demonic light of law and offered to share everything she knew about the realm and how to escape it.
• Blue Butterfly offered to reveal a place in the Boundless Realm where Chen Lin could find Wishing Flowers, and Chen Lin agreed to try to obtain the light of law.
• Chen Lin returned to Myriad Forms City, made inquiries, and then went to Myriad Clans City to meet Liu Rumian beneath the Giant Stele.
• Liu Rumian questioned Chen Lin about his innate law origin and his survival in the Seven Realms Flower Space, and Chen Lin claimed the Flower Fairy favored him.

Chen Lin learned from Liu Rumian that mastering laws was irreversible and that fusing unrelated laws to reach the True Realm was exceptionally difficult. He set aside his worries and asked her about the Primal Plane near Myriad Forms City, where she revealed it contained innate origin.

• Liu Rumian asked Chen Lin to return the power-law light, but he told her he had already used it to comprehend the power law.
• Liu Rumian explained that reaching the True Realm required fusing every law he had mastered into a true principle, and that unrelated laws made fusion far harder.
• Chen Lin realized his thunder, power, wind, and destiny laws spanned three categories, including two supreme laws, and asked whether he could erase a law he had begun to comprehend.
• Liu Rumian told Chen Lin that laws could not be erased and warned that the power law was especially difficult to fuse.
• Chen Lin asked Liu Rumian about the Primal Plane near Myriad Forms City, and she told him it contained innate origin that he needed for his innate spiritual body.

Chen Lin learned about the dangers and factions in the Primal Plane, then traded the Dragon-Devouring Eye to Liu Rumian for demonic-law light. After declining her offer to help secure the Hundred Slaughters reward, he returned to his fiefdom and summoned Blue Butterfly.

• Liu Rumian explained that the Primal Plane was dangerous, heavily suppressed practitioners, and drew powerful figures, including Xiao Qingmo and Bai Xuanhu.
• Chen Lin asked Liu Rumian to obtain demonic-law light, and she agreed after he offered the Dragon-Devouring Eye.
• Liu Rumian offered to waive Chen Lin’s Golden Nightmare Coin debt and arrange a law body infusion if he won the Hundred Slaughters reward, but Chen Lin refused.
• Chen Lin returned to his fiefdom, summoned Duan Shengping, and ordered him to bring Blue Butterfly to meet him.
• Blue Butterfly arrived before Chen Lin.

Chen Lin searched for an aura-concealing treasure while preparing to explore the Black and White Chess Piece Scenario. After a year without finding the treasure, he gathered five chess experts and brought them to his Simple Immortal Cave to sign Soul Contracts before the exploration.

• Chen Lin traded the Light of Law to Blue Butterfly in exchange for the Wishing Flower and information about a strange place, while asking her to find an aura-concealing treasure.
• Chen Lin searched Myriad Forms City for a suitable aura-concealing treasure, but found only an Earth Tier tool that concealed his flesh-and-blood aura.
• Chen Lin left marks in the Myriad Clans City scenario to contact Si Qi, Lu Xiao, Nie Chenxian, and He Ji, then asked Blue Butterfly to help search for a concealing treasure.
• Chen Lin planted the Gold-Spotted Fruit Core in his fiefdom and waited, but neither he nor Blue Butterfly found an aura-concealing treasure over the following year.
• Blue Butterfly gave Chen Lin twelve Spirit-Exterminating Beads, and he decided to explore the Black and White Chess Piece Scenario with five hired chess experts.
• Chen Lin gathered the five experts in his Simple Immortal Cave and presented Soul Contracts, warning them that withdrawing would mean returning their payment and losing their memories.

Chen Lin sent Luo Xing into a golden Nightmare Realm scenario, then waited months for him to return. When Wang Yunzhi entered to investigate, his body transformed and Chen Lin destroyed it, but Luo Xing finally woke.

• Chen Lin drew lots among the four recruits, and Luo Xing was chosen to enter the Nightmare Realm first.
• Chen Lin gave Luo Xing Spirit-Exterminating Beads, Nightmare Coins, and a single-use Small Crossbow, then sent him into the scenario with a chess piece.
• Chen Lin waited three months while Luo Xing remained inside, then sent Wang Yunzhi in with more supplies to investigate.
• Wang Yunzhi's vitality faded and his head transformed into a chess piece, so Chen Lin destroyed his body with lightning and a Soul-Destroying Finger.
• Chen Lin checked that Luo Xing was unaffected, and Luo Xing opened his eyes.

Chen Lin learned that Luo Xing had survived the chess scenario and returned with a Golden Nightmare Coin, while three days inside had equaled three months outside. He brought Luo Xing and his family into the city, bought him a Seven Aperture Golden Core, and began preparing to explore the scenario himself.

• Luo Xing woke after spending three days playing a dangerous chess game, and Chen Lin discovered that he had brought back a Golden Nightmare Coin.
• Luo Xing described how he formed chess pieces from his essence, energy, and spirit, endured a battlefield illusion, and won the game to complete the departure mission.
• Chen Lin told Luo Xing that three months had passed outside, then promised to buy him a Seven Aperture Golden Core.
• Chen Lin brought his group and Luo Xing's family into the city, rented a residence with ten residency slots, and bought Luo Xing the pill.
• Chen Lin gave Luo Xing the Seven Aperture Golden Core and asked the other three to teach him chess so he could prepare to enter the scenario.

Chen Lin helped Luo Xing form a Golden Core so he could reenter the Black and White Chess Piece Scenario, while continuing to seek a way to conceal his aura in Myriad Clans City. There, he met Shang Yanjun and her companions from the Flowing Cloud Immortal Domain and offered to explain the departure mission in exchange for an aura-concealing Origin Treasure.

• Chen Lin helped Luo Xing endure the lightning and inner demon tribulations, allowing him to become a Golden Core Cultivator.
• Chen Lin sent Luo Xing to stabilize his cultivation for three months, then returned to Myriad Clans City to search for a treasure that could conceal his aura.
• Chen Lin found a group gathered near the Giant Stele and approached Shang Yanjun after she became trapped by a Road Guide Barrier.
• Shang Yanjun told Chen Lin that she came from the Hongshan Continent and had been cultivating in the Flowing Cloud Immortal Domain, a fragment of the collapsed Immortal Realm.
• A tall man asked Chen Lin about the departure mission, and Chen Lin said he would share what he knew in exchange for an Origin Treasure that could conceal his aura.

Chen Lin killed a cultivator who ambushed him, took his True Spirit-Tier treasure, and questioned Shang Yanjun about how her group entered the Nightmare Realm. Shang Yanjun described a Headless Female Corpse that escaped into the Reality Realm, and Chen Lin began asking about her Flowing Cloud Immortal Domain.

• A short cultivator attacked Chen Lin with an azure net, but Chen Lin used the Silence Technique and Heavenly Soul Bell to destroy his Projection Body and claim his True Spirit-Tier handkerchief treasure.
• Chen Lin let Shang Yanjun live and sent the tall man to gather information about treasures that could conceal an aura.
• Shang Yanjun explained that a mission through the Primal Domain Rift had left her group gravely injured, and a Headless Female Corpse emerging from a Bronze Coffin had pulled them into the Nightmare Realm.
• Shang Yanjun said the Headless Female Corpse flew away into the Reality Realm, and Chen Lin had her draw the corpse's appearance.
• Chen Lin asked Shang Yanjun about the Flowing Cloud Immortal Domain and whether it contained an Immortal named Zishu.

Chen Lin learned that Shang Yanjun was a Good Fortune Sect disciple and tried to obtain the Good Fortune Soul-Melting Art from her or a favored descendant of the Good Fortune Immortal Lord. He negotiated with the tall man for Origin Orbs and left Shang Yanjun to decide whether to pursue the secret art before his one-hour deadline.

• Shang Yanjun told Chen Lin she knew of the Good Fortune Immortal Lord, had a Carefree Token, and had heard of the Good Fortune Soul-Melting Art from the Immortal Lord's cursed descendant.
• Chen Lin promised to help Shang Yanjun leave safely if she obtained the secret art, but refused to send both her and the descendant out.
• Chen Lin gave Shang Yanjun one hour to secure the art before he sought out the descendant himself.
• The tall man reported that his group had no aura-concealing treasure, so Chen Lin suggested they trade Origin Orbs instead.
• The tall man returned to the Giant Stele to gather Origin Orbs, while Chen Lin challenged Shang Yanjun to either act or reveal the descendant's name.

Chen Lin traded with Wu Xuerong for the Good Fortune Soul-Melting Art and her dragonfly headwear, then agreed to help her and Shang Yanjun leave the Nightmare Realm scenario. He brought them to Wenxuan Pavilion to buy City-Leaving Documents, while the Yellow-Robed Old Man followed to investigate.

• Wu Xuerong gave Chen Lin the Good Fortune Soul-Melting Art and her dragonfly headwear in exchange for help getting herself and Shang Yanjun out, and she signed a Voluntary Transaction Certificate.
• Chen Lin recognized the headwear as a treasure from the Mysterious Domain, explained the domain to Wu Xuerong, and gave her three Mysterious Stones.
• Chen Lin received five bottles of Origin Orbs from the tall man and explained that leaving through the Grand Arena required surviving three rounds of Arena Defense.
• The tall man asked the Yellow-Robed Old Man for advice, and the old man flew after Chen Lin with his Silver Road Guide.
• Chen Lin brought Wu Xuerong and Shang Yanjun to Wenxuan Pavilion and gave each an Arena Ticket and Nightmare Coins to buy a City-Leaving Document one at a time.

Chen Lin studied the Good Fortune Soul-Melting Art and Dragonfly Headwear, then sent Luo Xing back into the golden Nightmare Realm to explore. As Luo Xing failed to return for months and consumed more Spirit-Exterminating Beads, Chen Lin decided to send another person in to check on him, but his three recruits remained silent.

• Wu Xuerong and Shang Yanjun used their City-Leaving Documents to leave, and Chen Lin returned to his Immortal Cave.
• Chen Lin studied the Good Fortune Soul-Melting Art and concluded that it could not fully resolve the difficulty of fusing his unusual soul with his body.
• Chen Lin sent Luo Xing into the Nightmare Realm with Spirit-Exterminating Beads and Nightmare Coins, then examined the Dragonfly Headwear.
• After four months without Luo Xing returning, Chen Lin noticed that a Spirit-Exterminating Bead was missing and realized Luo Xing was still using the supplies inside the scenario.
• Chen Lin waited six more months as Luo Xing consumed more beads, then summoned his three recruits and asked one to enter the Nightmare Realm to check on him.
• The three recruits stayed silent when Chen Lin warned that the volunteer faced a high risk of death.

Chen Lin learned that Luo Xing had won a second Golden Nightmare Coin but would need far greater strength to continue exploring the chess scenario. He equipped Luo Xing to protect the residence, then headed for the Primal Plane after hearing that major factions had recently discovered something there.

• Luo Xing awoke with a Golden Nightmare Coin, and Chen Lin dismissed the three observers and questioned him about the match.
• Luo Xing described defeating a One-Eyed Stone Statue and warned that the next match might require much greater mastery of the Chess Law and stronger essence, energy, and spirit.
• Chen Lin suspended exploration, prepared for his trip to the Primal Plane, and bought treasures, a defensive formation, and a powerful Monster Puppet to protect Luo Xing and his family.
• Chen Lin told Luo Xing to remain in the city and oversee the residence while he was away, then set out for the Primal Plane.
• After learning that major factions had recently sent people to the Primal Plane over a new discovery, Chen Lin flew toward its entrance.

Chen Lin entered the Primal Plane using Liu Rumian’s token and received her request to collect primal worms, along with tools to aid his search. After disguising himself and concealing his aura, he set off into the plane to begin looking for them.

• Chen Lin passed the formation guards and reached the altar, where a Purple-Robed Youth identified him with a glowing sphere and gave him Liu Rumian’s Storage Bag.
• Chen Lin activated the Ancestral Dragon Scale’s protection and entered the Primal Plane, where a powerful woman warned him to leave the node promptly.
• Chen Lin examined the Storage Bag and learned that Liu Rumian wanted him to collect ten primal worms for her sect, with any rewards going to him.
• Chen Lin discovered that the dark green leaf concealed his aura and that the white Sensing Bead could help locate primal worms.
• Chen Lin changed his appearance, put away the items, and set off to search the Primal Plane.