Chapter Summaries

Chen Lin received the endless water from Liu Rumian through Fairy Yaochi and decided to leave Myriad Forms City with Luo Xing. He arranged for Luo Xing’s family to remain under his disciple’s protection and prepared to depart the next day, though he had not chosen their destination.

• Chen Lin spent several months caring for Little Aisa, who ate Soul Steamed Buns and cultivated in the mid Qi Refinement realm, while Grass worked to form a body.
• Liu Rumian told Chen Lin she had obtained the item and sent it to Fairy Yaochi before leaving for another plane.
• Chen Lin collected the Storage Bag from Fairy Yaochi, who criticized his insincerity toward Liu Rumian and warned him not to go too far.
• Chen Lin summoned Luo Xing and ordered him to prepare to leave Myriad Forms City the next day, possibly for a journey lasting over a hundred years.
• Chen Lin gave Luo Xing a Command Token so his family could stay safely at Chen Lin’s cave residence, and told him to release the three Chess Dao experts.
• After Luo Xing left, Chen Lin examined the contents of the Storage Bag Liu Rumian had sent.

Chen Lin inspected Liu Rumian’s generous payment, then tried to leave Myriad Forms City for Guxi City after learning that the route to White Jade City would take months. Fairy Yaochi arranged for the Guxi City formation to activate and offered Chen Lin a free place, leaving Fu Xiaoge uncertain why she treated him specially.

• Chen Lin found ten Origin Orbs, power law light, and time origin essence among Liu Rumian’s payment, and decided to improve his talent before attempting to make Wish Noodles.
• Chen Lin put Little Aisa and Luo Xing in his Life Bag and went to the Teleportation Hall, where he learned that the White Jade City formation might not fill for six months.
• Chen Lin considered taking the more expensive route to Guxi City but decided against paying the cost for all three travelers.
• Fu Xiaoge arrived and learned from Elder Yu that the meta-magnetic spirits around Guxi City had already emerged, so he agreed to wait for more passengers.
• Fairy Yaochi entered, offered to pay for Fu Xiaoge’s trip, and then invited Chen Lin to join them for free as a friendly gesture, making Fu Xiaoge question her special attention.

Chen Lin arrived in Guxi City and hired Huang Suzhen to guide him while he learned about the city and its factions. He heard that the Qianyi Sect possessed a True Treasure that aided comprehension of artistic conception, and asked Huang Suzhen what it was.

• Fairy Yaochi waived Chen Lin's teleportation fee and saw him off as he departed for Guxi City.
• Chen Lin arrived in Guxi City and hired a guide after declining a temporary Immortal Cave.
• Huang Suzhen told Chen Lin that the Beiyan Clan, Giant Eye Tribe, and Qianyi Sect jointly governed Guxi City.
• Huang Suzhen described the Beiyan Clan's alien bloodline and the Giant Eye Tribe's Divine Dao practitioners, while warning that the factions guarded their secrets.
• Huang Suzhen said the Qianyi Sect's inheritance centered on artistic conception and that True Lord Qianyi was Guxi City's strongest expert.
• Chen Lin asked how the Qianyi Sect enhanced artistic conception comprehension, and Huang Suzhen revealed that it used a True Treasure.

Chen Lin learned about meta-magnetic spirits and searched Guxi City for rare treasures, then prepared for the trading convention after buying a pill for Luo Xing. At the crowded market, little Aisa unexpectedly spoke to him through Soul Transmission and pointed out a leaf that Chen Lin decided to buy.

• Huang Suzhen told Chen Lin that meta-magnetic spirits could repair damaged true treasures and might be auctioned at the trading convention, and he rewarded her with extra crystal sand.
• Chen Lin searched Guxi City's shops, found few rare resources, and bought a Xuanjin Nascent Infant Pill for Luo Xing.
• Chen Lin rented a Temporary Immortal Cave, refined the Origin Orb, studied the nightmare spell Silence, and let Luo Xing and little Aisa move around inside.
• When the trading convention approached, Chen Lin put little Aisa in a Space Bag and went to the Central Market, where she used Soul Transmission to point out a leaf.
• Chen Lin approached the stall selling the leaf and asked the stallholder its price.

Chen Lin activated the leaf Aisa’s aunt had arranged for him to buy and received a life law inheritance, then learned the aunt had sacrificed her life to pass it on. He was left angry at being bound to a difficult new law and stunned by Aisa’s grief and her family’s sacrifice.

• Chen Lin bought a withered leaf after Aisa revealed that it carried the aura of an innate inheritance mark.
• In a private room, Chen Lin activated the leaf with innate power and absorbed an inheritance that gave him the life law.
• Aisa confessed that her aunt had secretly arranged for Chen Lin to receive the leaf and had promised the inheritance would not harm him.
• Chen Lin realized the life law would make his future advancement to the True Realm more difficult and demanded to know where Aisa’s aunt was.
• Aisa revealed that her aunt had died and used her own life origin essence to pass on the inheritance, then broke down sobbing.

Chen Lin examined Aisa’s aunt’s inheritance and learned that her life-law insights had brought him close to greater mastery, while her memories offered extensive cultivation knowledge. At the Trading Convention, he spotted his old enemy Nanmen Wuji and learned that meta-magnetic spirits would be auctioned each day.

• Chen Lin stayed in Guxi City to seek meta-magnetic spirits and spent the night examining Aisa’s aunt’s inheritance.
• Chen Lin learned that Aisa’s aunt had reached the ninth rank of the Void Realm and had passed on profound life-law insights and cultivation knowledge.
• Chen Lin comforted Aisa, then entered the Trading Convention with Luo Xing and Aisa.
• Chen Lin recognized Nanmen Wuji among the attendees but chose not to approach him.
• A Blue-Robed Man began the convention and announced that ten meta-magnetic spirits would be auctioned each day.

Chen Lin attended the Trading Convention, where he bought a Nightmare Realm medium object containing a half-arrow after its owner withheld most details. He learned that its Silver Scenario held only a giant mushroom, then continued watching the auction.

• Lan Yingying opened the Trading Convention by auctioning a meta-magnetic spirit, which the Black Moon Sect Woman bought for one million taels after arguing with a Spirit Imperial Gate elder.
• The auction proceeded through several ordinary treasures, and Chen Lin failed to win the two items on which he bid.
• Lan Yingying offered a Nightmare Realm medium object containing half a Black Arrow, but gave only vague information about its explored Silver Scenario.
• Chen Lin bid two hundred Nightmare Coins and won the half-arrow after no one else raised the price.
• Chen Lin read the included scroll, learned that touching the scenario's sole giant mushroom completed the Departure Mission, and burned the single-use scroll.

Chen Lin failed to obtain a meta-magnetic spirit at the trading convention and chose to travel to Feathering Cave in search of lightning-attribute treasures. Before leaving Guxi City, he rescued Huang Suzhen and learned how the Lian Clan had ruined her life.

• Chen Lin failed to trade for a meta-magnetic spirit and declined to bid two million taels for the one offered at the next day's auction.
• Chen Lin bought several useful items, then chose Feathering Cave as his next destination and obtained a teleportation pass.
• Chen Lin saw Huang Suzhen lose her chance to work as a guide and followed her after she left the Teleportation Hall.
• Chen Lin subdued Huang Suzhen and took her outside the city, where she explained that a Lian Clan disciple had ambushed her and accused her of stealing a Healing Pill.
• Huang Suzhen told Chen Lin that the Lian Clan belonged to the Three Stone Sect and had powerful cultivators and influence within Guxi City.

Chen Lin helped Huang Suzhen hide and gave her crystal sand, hoping to study how his actions affected her destiny. He then used a golden Shadow Decree to post an assignment against Lian Chengyuan and learned that the token was a rare, uniquely activated tool reserved for distinguished Shadow Gate members.

• Chen Lin gave Huang Suzhen five hundred taels of crystal sand, promised to deal with Lian Chengyuan, and told her to hide for ten days.
• Chen Lin investigated the Lian Clan, then entered Guxi City to test his Shadow Decree by posting an assignment to kill Lian Chengyuan.
• A Shadow Gate contact quoted a minimum fee of ten thousand taels of crystal sand, and Chen Lin used the Decree's teleportation passage to send twenty thousand taels for the assignment and information.
• The contact explained that golden Shadow Decrees belonged to distinguished or greatly contributive members, were unique, and required a special Soul Secret Art to activate.
• Chen Lin realized the contact was puzzled because he had activated the golden Decree using only soul power.

After fleeing Guxi City, Chen Lin settled in his fiefdom, discovered that Aisa could enter it physically, and arranged for his companions to cultivate while he went into seclusion. The chapter ends with Chen Lin activating his chamber’s defensive formation and beginning cultivation.

• Chen Lin hid the traceable items in his fiefdom, left Guxi City, and traveled far away through the wilderness and a series of Teleportation Formations.
• A man in a bamboo hat visited several factions in Guxi City, where Huang Suzhen was seized and subjected to a Soul Search before leaving the city to start a new life.
• Chen Lin entered his fiefdom and discovered that Aisa had appeared there physically, while Luo Xing was only a projection.
• Chen Lin let Duan Shengping continue collecting Spirit-Exterminating Beads in exchange for cultivation resources, and learned that Blue Butterfly and Grass were in seclusion.
• Chen Lin set up a Spirit-Gathering Formation for Luo Xing and Aisa, gave Aisa food and a Storage Ring, and instructed both to cultivate while he secluded himself.

After two hundred years in seclusion, Chen Lin finished absorbing Aunt Aisa’s inheritance and reached the late Nascent Soul stage, while Luo Xing and Aisa also advanced. With his cultivation at a bottleneck and his journey to the Netherworld pressing, Chen Lin ended their seclusion and led Luo Xing and Aisa back to the Reality Realm.

• Chen Lin’s Tyrant Emperor Sword Will reached minor mastery, his body neared condensing a Body Mark, and his cultivation advanced to the late Nascent Soul stage.
• Luo Xing reached the Nascent Soul Realm and completed his Chess Law, while Aisa advanced to the late Golden Core Realm and continued eating and demanding wine from Chen Lin.
• Chen Lin decided to end his seclusion because his cultivation had reached a bottleneck and he needed to prepare for the Minor True Realm and obtain River of Forgetfulness Water.
• Chen Lin summoned Luo Xing, and the three prepared to leave the fiefdom, leaving most of their supplies behind.
• Chen Lin, Luo Xing, and Aisa returned to the Reality Realm and headed for a nearby large city.

Chen Lin made authentic Wish Noodles in Shuangfeng City, using the Fortunate Art and his destiny talent to overcome the recipe’s broken fate lines. After eating one and wishing away the Fortunate Art’s backlash, he confirmed the danger had been eliminated.

• Chen Lin entered Shuangfeng City and rented an immortal cave, then sent Aisa out with Luo Xing to explore while they stayed within the city.
• Chen Lin prepared materials for Wish Noodles and found that the fate line for making them was completely severed, while processing the time origin essence went smoothly.
• Chen Lin used the Fortunate Art and his Fate Tentacle to make two authentic noodles, then made a smaller, weaker noodle with incompatible time origin essence.
• Chen Lin ate an authentic noodle and wished for the Fortunate Art’s bad-luck backlash to be eliminated.
• Chen Lin felt the lingering danger disappear and celebrated that the wish had succeeded.

Chen Lin used the Authentic Wish Noodles to raise his cultivation to the late spirit transformation realm, then used an imitation serving to gain an initial grasp of chess intent. The chapter ended with Luo Xing sensing that something had been taken from him as Chen Lin crossed into the Reality Realm of the Chess Dao.

• Chen Lin failed to use his wish to obtain a flesh-and-blood body for Grass, resolve his soul-body incompatibility, or secure river of forgetfulness water, then wished to increase his cultivation as much as possible.
• The Authentic Wish Noodles raised Chen Lin from nascent soul late stage to the late spirit transformation realm, and he concluded that his former dao integration cultivation helped him advance without hidden dangers.
• A dignified woman in the Wind Imperial Sect sensed an unusual fluctuation and a slight loss of origin essence, but found no intruder after searching the city.
• Chen Lin entered his fiefdom in the Nightmare Realm and failed to improve his Silence Technique, Body Tempering level, laws, or advanced spells with the final serving.
• Chen Lin wished to gain an initial grasp of chess intent, and the noodles helped him cross into the Reality Realm.
• Luo Xing felt as though something had been stripped away from him while he was walking with Aisa, then dismissed the sensation and headed back to the immortal cave.

Chen Lin stabilized his cultivation and prepared to travel toward the Soulless Sect, while giving Aisa time to say goodbye to her friends. He entered the Broken Arrow Scenario and discovered that its enormous mushroom remained unharmed even after he attacked it with powerful techniques.

• Chen Lin summoned Luo Xing, learned that Luo Xing had felt something inexplicably stripped away, and told him to watch for the sensation returning.
• Over the next year, Chen Lin stabilized his cultivation, gathered wind-law spells, and learned that the Soulless Sect stood on the Soul-Severing Continent beyond the dangerous Soul-Severing Sea.
• Chen Lin told Luo Xing and Aisa to prepare to leave for Wangxiang City, then allowed Aisa ten days to say goodbye to her friends.
• Chen Lin entered the Broken Arrow Scenario, touched the Giant Mushroom to complete its mission, and confirmed that he could leave whenever he wished.
• Chen Lin tested the Giant Mushroom with a Pseudo-Source Treasure Flying Sword and then with Lightning Ray, but neither attack left a mark.

Chen Lin activated a light gate in the mushroom but found he could neither enter it nor leave the scenario. After days of searching, he discovered that a Nightmare Coin sent ripples across the gate, giving him a possible way forward.

• Chen Lin infused the mushroom with soul force, causing it to glow and form a colored light gate as strange images appeared on the surrounding walls.
• Chen Lin failed to eject himself and could not enter the gate, so he attacked the gate and the cage-like surroundings without effect.
• Chen Lin waited for the gate to fade, confirmed he still could not leave, and considered other ways to escape, including seeking help or finding a special treasure.
• Chen Lin searched the scenario for several days, then summoned the gate again and tried calling, bargaining, and making other guesses to open it.
• Chen Lin tossed a Nightmare Coin at the gate, and faint ripples appeared across it.

Chen Lin spent a Golden Nightmare Coin to enter Fairytale Town, a golden Nightmare Realm scenario, and found himself trapped on a small hill with no departure task or way past its Road Guide Barriers. After testing the scenario’s restrictions and his available treasures, he tried to summon the Black Pig Monster with the Piggy Bank, but it did not appear.

• Chen Lin discovered that the Light Gate accepted a Golden Nightmare Coin and entered Fairytale Town.
• Chen Lin explored the crystal path and learned that Road Guide Barriers confined him to the hill and prevented him from manifesting his Pseudo-Source Treasure flying sword.
• Chen Lin tried to find a departure task by speaking to the flowers, but they did not respond, and stepping off the crystal path triggered a sense of danger.
• Chen Lin tested his abilities against a Road Guide Barrier and found that most of his powers were suppressed, while his soul force remained unaffected.
• Chen Lin tested the Red-Haired Fine Needle against the barrier, then deposited ten thousand Nightmare Coins into the Piggy Bank, but the Black Pig Monster did not appear.

After a month trapped on a hill in the Golden Scenario, Chen Lin finally encountered an owl named Lord Xila, who revealed that Fairytale Town was preparing for its Story Contest. Chen Lin tried to join so he could leave the hill, but the little mushroom who had invited him stopped the owl from giving him an invitation.

• Chen Lin spent weeks searching for Nightmare Realm creatures and clues to the departure mission, then decided to wait another year before summoning Grass or entering his fiefdom.
• Chen Lin spotted an owl approaching from a distant mountain and watched it land on his hill.
• A colorful little mushroom emerged from beneath Chen Lin's feet and greeted the owl as Lord Xila.
• Lord Xila delivered a golden invitation to the mushroom and said every Fairytale Town resident had to join the upcoming Story Contest.
• Chen Lin asked to participate, but the mushroom called him its guest and prevented Lord Xila from giving him an invitation.

Chen Lin questioned Lilia about Fairytale Town’s compulsory story contest and learned that he could leave by winning it or clearing a fairy tale world. Lilia asked him to compete in her place, and she revealed that contestants who cannot pay their fines become Puppets.

• Chen Lin confronted Lilia about refusing his entry to the story contest, and she explained that participation was compulsory for residents who received Invitation Letters.
• Lilia told Chen Lin that children across the Heavens and Myriad Realms judged stories projected into their dreams, and that low rankings brought fines.
• Lilia explained that Chen Lin could leave Fairytale Town by winning the contest or completing a fairy tale world's main quest, but he lacked a Golden Road Guide and could not enter her Mushroom Hut.
• Chen Lin asked whether Lilia wanted him to compete in her place, and she admitted that repeated low rankings had nearly exhausted her Golden Nightmare Coins.
• Lilia told Chen Lin that contestants unable to pay their fines became Puppets and had to entertain visitors until they earned enough to regain their freedom.

Chen Lin accepted Lilia’s Invitation Letter and prepared to compete in the Story Contest, hoping to win a way out of Fairytale Town. On his way to the Fairy Tale Grand Theater, he recognized Shirina among the town’s puppets and suspected she had secretly told him his fine was only one Golden Nightmare Coin.

• Lilia gave Chen Lin her Invitation Letter, explained the contest’s rewards and penalties, and warned that he needed to win first place to obtain permission to leave.
• Chen Lin decided to enter the contest and spent ten days recalling and outlining fairy tales before choosing Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
• When the Invitation Letter’s barrier let him leave the hill, Chen Lin followed its directions through town toward the Fairy Tale Grand Theater.
• Chen Lin encountered Shirina transformed into a puppet performer, but she could only repeat a fixed invitation to watch her dance.
• Chen Lin saw Shirina pause beside a dancing blade of grass and inferred that she was signaling his fine would be one Golden Nightmare Coin before he flew toward the theater.

Chen Lin learned that Lilia would claim any reward from his substitute entry while leaving him responsible for the punishment, and that the contest required stories to have circulated across the planes. Unsure whether the Nightmare Realm could detect Earth’s stories, he chose to risk using one and followed a puppet to prepare for the contest.

• Chen Lin met Bluwa, who revealed that Lilia would receive his rewards while he bore the punishment if he failed, and that only the contestant could receive a special first-place reward.
• Bluwa explained that the Fairytale King had won ninety-nine consecutive contests and was pursuing his hundredth victory; Chen Lin gave her an incomplete version of The Ugly Duckling.
• Bluwa told Chen Lin that entries needed to have circulated and received favorable reviews, and that the theater could detect fairy tales across any plane.
• An owl named Lord Xila warned Chen Lin and Bluwa that the contest was about to begin, and Chen Lin followed Bluwa into the grand hall.
• Chen Lin decided to risk telling an Earth story, then learned from a maid puppet that contestants drew numbered tokens and their stories appeared onstage as plays.