Chapter Summaries

Chen Lin learned about Anna’s origins and arranged for her to seek out Yang Zishi in the Lower Primal Domain in exchange for regular purification. Anna transferred her Four-Star Fairytale Cottage and other valuables to him before leaving, and Chen Lin considered how to manage his new Rainbow Castle.

• Anna told Chen Lin she came from the Celestial Book Realm, explained how nightmare erosion had damaged her, and said she wanted to leave Fairytale Town.
• Chen Lin told Anna about Yang Zishi’s purifying talent and the Primal Domain Rift, and Anna agreed to go to the Lower Primal Domain and find her.
• Chen Lin gave Anna portraits of Yang Zishi and his disciples, along with a token; Anna gave him her documents, medals, coins, and Four-Star Fairytale Cottage.
• Anna transferred the cottage to Chen Lin, renamed it Rainbow Castle, and had herself expelled from Fairytale Town.
• Xu Wuye asked to manage Rainbow Castle for the White Jade Terrace, and Chen Lin said he would decide after the Story Contest.
• Chen Lin inspected the castle and its story scenario, then returned to examine Anna’s gifts while waiting for customers.

Chen Lin attended the Story Contest and discovered the Golden Hook Casino, where tourists wagered years of their lives on the winner. His fate screen showed that the arrogant Heavenly Fire Evil God would definitely take first place, so Chen Lin decided to bet on him.

• Chen Lin rejected White Jade Terrace’s offer and kept the Four-Star Cottage because Rainbow Castle might be connected to Niuniu’s past.
• At the Grand Theater, Chen Lin failed to find Lord Xila and entered a tourists’ rest room, where the Heavenly Fire Evil God challenged him to the Story Contest.
• Chen Lin found the Golden Hook Casino taking bets on the contest, with each wager costing a year of the bettor’s life.
• Chen Lin used his fate screen and saw an intact thread indicating that the Heavenly Fire Evil God would win first place.
• Chen Lin decided to place bets on the Heavenly Fire Evil God, but stopped after a sudden thought occurred to him.

Chen Lin failed to directly alter the Heavenly Fire Evil God's fate, but his attempt was followed by the Evil God's destiny line breaking, giving Chen Lin a chance to bet on himself in the Golden Hook Casino. He placed a thousand stakes and waited for the contest to begin, though the Evil God showed no sign of trouble.

• Chen Lin's Blade of Destiny struck the Heavenly Fire Evil God's fate line, but shattered under a powerful backlash without changing it.
• A Seven-Color Dragonfly appeared on the Outer Realm Battlefield and disintegrated the fiery-red grand marshal after he killed a Black Giant Scorpion.
• The Heavenly Fire Evil God's fate line split where Chen Lin had struck it, and Chen Lin saw a hazy, apparently unbroken line for himself.
• Chen Lin learned that one year of his life was worth one point, then wagered a thousand stakes on himself taking first place.
• A ball-headed tourist mocked Chen Lin's chances, and Chen Lin left the Gambling Wheel to check on the Heavenly Fire Evil God before waiting for the contest.

Chen Lin used his Silence Technique during the Story Contest and watched the Heavenly Fire Evil God and many other contestants perform. He won first place again and received the contest’s richer rewards.

• Chen Lin decided to use the Silence Technique, spent a Refined Pure Origin Orb to confirm his prediction, and failed to manifest destiny lines for the Heavenly Fire Evil God, Lilia, or Bluwa.
• Lord Xila began the contest, and Chen Lin discreetly used the Silence Technique while the Heavenly Fire Evil God performed without drawing any reaction.
• Chen Lin listened as the contestants’ stories grew increasingly impressive and worried that his contest victories would become unreliable as Fairytale Town opened to more tourists.
• After more than ten days, Chen Lin told Journey to the West as the final contestant and detected no interference.
• Lord Xila announced Chen Lin as the first-place winner again, without inviting the Fairytale Sprite to present the rankings.

Chen Lin learned that Grand Marshal Jihuo had died in battle, upending the Story Contest and leaving the Heavenly Fire Evil God in last place. After claiming a Gold Level 3 Road Guide, Chen Lin watched the desperate Evil God try to pay his penalty and decide to sell his Celestial Fire Seed.

• Golden Dice objected to the results and invoked Grand Marshal Jihuo, but Lord Xila announced that Jihuo had died on the Outer Realm Battlefield.
• The White-Bearded Old Man and the Fair Kingdom Emissary Group prepared to leave, but the Fairytale Sprite appeared and ordered everyone to remain for the contest results.
• Chen Lin selected a Gold Level 3 Road Guide and handed his original guide to Grass.
• The Heavenly Fire Evil God came in last and could not pay his one-hundred-Golden-Nightmare-Coin penalty; Golden Dice denied their agreement and refused to lend him money.
• Lock Woman taunted the Heavenly Fire Evil God and suggested selling his Celestial Fire Seed, so he decided to offer it for sale.

Chen Lin bought the Heavenly Fire Evil God's Fire Seed after saving him from failing to pay his fine, then discovered that the mysterious bettor was not Xu Wuye. He traded documents with Xu Wuye for several valuable items and ended the chapter still wondering who had wagered on him.

• The Heavenly Fire Evil God lost control of his flames, but the Fairytale Sprite extinguished them and gave him seven and a half more minutes to pay his fine.
• Chen Lin spent fifty Golden Nightmare Coins to buy the Heavenly Fire Evil God's Fire Seed, allowing him to pay the fine and avoid punishment.
• Chen Lin asked Xu Wuye whether she had bet on him, but she said neither she nor anyone from the White Jade Terrace had attended the Story Contest.
• Xu Wuye asked Chen Lin to sell her a Construction Document after he refused to give up Fairytale Cottage, and they agreed to trade it and two Evolution Documents for several items, including an Elder Ancient lightning-attribute True Spirit Inner Core.
• Xu Wuye warned Chen Lin that she would keep her elder brother from clashing with him, then left after exchanging compliments.

Chen Lin investigated how to use his Golden Hook Casino chip and the Heavenly Fire Evil God's fire seed, gathering information from Barbara and paying Big Head Four for a detailed explanation. After a brief Story Scenario adventure, he returned to the Reality Realm because his unguarded physical body in Sanding City was at risk.

• Chen Lin examined his ten-thousand-point chip and tried activating the fire seed, but neither item responded as he expected.
• Chen Lin visited Barbara, sold her an Evolution Document, and learned that a fully gold chip could enter the Golden Hook Casino while points could be used by activating it.
• Barbara suggested that Big Head Four knew about fire, and Chen Lin learned that Lilia had told her about his bet and that the identity of the hundred-thousand-bet gambler remained unknown.
• Chen Lin paid Big Head Four five Gold Coins for a detailed explanation and method concerning the fire seed.
• Chen Lin completed a Gluttonous Xiaoqi Story Scenario adventure, left Grass to monitor Rainbow Castle, and returned to the Reality Realm to protect his unguarded body in Sanding City.

Chen Lin returned from the Nightmare Realm unharmed, checked on Scholar’s improved memory, and activated the Golden Hook Casino chip to inspect its treasures. He exchanged all 10,000 of his points for a Level 4 Gold Road Guide before it could become unavailable.

• Chen Lin decided he needed to leave the Soul-Severing Continent for the safer Wangxiang City after realizing his body was vulnerable while he projected into the Nightmare Realm.
• Scholar told Chen Lin that refining the Original Heart Fruit juice had restored some memories, but he could not read, so Chen Lin assigned Yang Wentai to teach him and Chen Tao.
• Chen Tao happily learned that Chen Lin planned to reunite her with her mother in Fairytale Town, while Yang Wentai reported that Zhou Jing wished to see Chen Lin.
• Chen Lin activated his bound Golden Hook Casino chip and discovered that its treasure catalog offered powerful items in exchange for points.
• Chen Lin found that a Level 4 Gold Road Guide cost 10,000 points and that peerage invitation letters could disappear from the catalog, so he exchanged all his points for the guide.

Chen Lin exchanged his points for a Level 4 Gold Road Guide and decided to use the Heavenly Fire Evil God's fire seed to improve his cultivation, while waiting for news and resolving matters before entering Fairytale Town. After a year, he demonstrated the power of his Golden-Winged Roc feather and summoned Zhou Jing, whose declining health left Chen Lin unable to help.

• Chen Lin exchanged his points for a Level 4 Gold Road Guide, then considered how to use the Heavenly Fire Evil God's fire seed without wasting the match reserved for his future Eternal Fire Seed.
• Chen Lin chose to seek a place of extreme fire to release the fire seed's origin essence and thought of Zhu Qingyan's offer to help him at Flame Mountain.
• Chen Lin stayed in his fief for a year, cultivated, watched the Female Bandit Chief's movements, and finished refining Jin Zhentian's Golden-Winged Roc Natal Feather.
• Chen Lin tested the feather near Sanding City, using its wind power to flatten a mountain summit, then went to the Kaiyuan Sect Branch and summoned Zhou Jing.
• Chen Lin learned that Zhou Jing had suffered a serious illness and that his vitality was rapidly fading, but told him he could do nothing to help.

Zhou Jing revealed that he had reincarnated from Primal Star, but Chen Lin could not help him overcome his spiritless constitution, and Zhou Jing died soon afterward. After visiting the Nanmen Lineage and returning to his fiefdom, Chen Lin learned from Xu Wuye that his companion was mutating inside the Nightmare Realm.

• Zhou Jing told Chen Lin about his past life on Primal Star and offered him books describing advanced mechanical technology.
• Chen Lin accepted Zhou Jing's books and offered to grant him one request, but Zhou Jing declined and left without hope.
• A maid reported that Zhou Jing had died, and Chen Lin buried him behind the mountain gate.
• Chen Lin visited the Nanmen Lineage, asked Nanmen Lingyue to watch for a chest among the Ocean Floor Ruins treasures, and then returned to his fiefdom.
• Xu Wuye warned Chen Lin that his companion's body was mutating in the Nightmare Realm's Immortal Kingdom Scenario, and that her head had become that of a black great bird.

Chen Lin learned that Luo Qinglan had vanished during a Nightmare Transformation and entered the Immortal Kingdom Scenario with Xu Wuye to investigate. He found her transformed into a flaming great bird that destroyed Changqing Prefecture, but a feather she deliberately left behind suggested her consciousness remained and she was trying to communicate.

• Xu Wuye told Chen Lin that Luo Qinglan had vanished halfway through her Nightmare Transformation and warned that the Female Bandit Chief might have devoured her in reverse.
• Chen Lin asked Xu Wuye to bring Luo Qinglan’s transformed body to his fiefdom, but she returned empty-handed and reported that Luo Qinglan had disappeared.
• Chen Lin and Xu Wuye entered the Immortal Kingdom Scenario and found Changqing Prefecture breached and engulfed in battle.
• A flaming great bird that Chen Lin recognized as Luo Qinglan’s true form swept across the city, and Xu Wuye pulled him to safety as the flames destroyed Changqing Prefecture.
• Back in his fiefdom, Chen Lin found a fiery-red feather and concluded that Luo Qinglan had left it to signal that her consciousness remained.

After Luo Qinglan’s feather left Chen Lin uncertain about her message, he found that the Immortal Kingdom Scenario had become unreachable and resolved to focus on cultivation. He returned to Wangxiang City, settled affairs in his sect, and entered his fiefdom for secluded cultivation.

• Chen Lin discovered that the Immortal Kingdom Scenario could no longer be reached through any Medium Object and spent three days reflecting before deciding that only greater strength could free him and protect his family.
• Chen Lin appointed a sect leader, gave Yang Wentai an elder’s position, distributed resources, and left the headquarters to seek a safer place to cultivate.
• Chen Lin returned to Wangxiang City, warned Long Han not to mistake authority for strength, and learned that the sect’s communications channel with Myriad Forms City was operational.
• Chen Lin sent Leng Yue a Gold-Spotted Fruit tree branch and a message, transferred Luo Qinglan’s Sub-Token binding to Long Han, and told Long Han to let Xue Yinping decide whether to stay.
• Chen Lin asked Xu Wuye to investigate Princess Qinghua’s disappearance, left the search for Yang Zishi and Chen Ling’er to Anna, and entered his fiefdom.

After two centuries of cultivation in his fiefdom, Chen Lin advanced his cultivation, strengthened several abilities, and condensed his Second Star. As he prepared to leave seclusion to seek the resources needed for further progress, he discovered the key to the Demon-Refining Chapter’s Treasure Chest and began studying the newly revealed technique.

• Chen Lin emerged from a century of seclusion at the Kaiyuan Sect, underwent his Dao Integration tribulation, and instructed Long Han to continue searching for Anna, Yang Zishi and the others, and Huangfu Qingrou.
• Long Han told Chen Lin that Xue Ding'e had disappeared in the Soul-Severing Sea and that his Soul Lamp had gone out, so Chen Lin allowed Xue Yinping to travel to Myriad Forms City and asked Leng Yue to look after her.
• Chen Lin spent two centuries cultivating in his fiefdom, condensed his Second Star, reached Dao Integration Realm perfection, refined the Light of the Time Law, and improved his Silence Technique.
• Chen Lin decided to leave seclusion because he needed outside resources to condense the Second Star’s Star Core and advance his cultivation, then found an overlooked box beneath his Mysterious Stones.
• Chen Lin discovered that the box held the key to Treasure Chest Number Two, opened it, and revealed the Demon-Refining Chapter of Seven-Star Shining Sun.

Chen Lin examined the chest’s strange statue, inheritance, map, broken saber, and black orb, discovering links between Mo Qingtong’s Family and Luo Monsters and gaining a powerful weapon. After mastering the Demon-Refining Chapter, he left seclusion, prepared Long Han and Aisa for his absence, and departed to travel as his first millennial tribulation approached.

• Chen Lin found that the statue’s single eye resembled both the portrait from Mo Qingtong’s Family’s Secret Realm and Xiao Luo, while the Bamboo Slip contained a Pupil Technique he could not use.
• Chen Lin recognized the broken saber as being made from Luo Weapon material and discovered it could unleash a powerful Flaming Giant Tiger by consuming his inner star force.
• Chen Lin failed to activate the black orb, then spent more than half a year mastering the Demon-Refining Chapter before leaving his Fiefdom.
• Chen Lin rebuked Long Han for neglecting cultivation and promised to ask Senior Qing Zhe for a treasure to help him break through.
• Chen Lin refused Aisa’s request to travel with him, and she chose to stay in his Fiefdom.
• Chen Lin learned about events in the sect, then departed quietly to travel and prepare for his approaching millennial tribulation.

Chen Lin successfully endured the Great Vehicle Heavenly Tribulation, but a golden Devouring Heaven Beast interrupted his Inner Demon Tribulation. After driving it back, he vanished through a void rift before a mysterious woman could approach him.

• Chen Lin used the Tribulation Platform and his inner star force to survive all nine lightning strikes, temper his body, and comprehend the Thunder Law.
• As Chen Lin prepared to face the Inner Demon Tribulation, his talent ability warned him of danger, and a golden Devouring Heaven Beast emerged from a rift.
• Chen Lin used Death Gaze and the Silence Technique to disrupt the beast, then struck it with his broken saber and sent it retreating into the rift.
• A Golden-Robed Man and a mysterious woman watched Chen Lin's fight, and the man left the woman to learn about him.
• Chen Lin tore open the void and disappeared before the woman could speak with him.

Chen Lin escaped Yeguang City by retreating into his fiefdom, then spent ten years stabilizing his cultivation before asking Qing Zhe to investigate whether the city was waiting to capture him. Qing Zhe warned that Marquis Jinguān could detect her and suggested either sending an unsuspecting cultivator to investigate or using the Light Gate scenario to leave without returning through Yeguang City.

• The woman failed to catch Chen Lin after he fled into the Nightmare Realm, and the Golden-Robed Man decided to identify his faction at a future True Realm exchange meeting.
• Chen Lin hid in his fiefdom, feared Yeguang City might be watching the Tribulation Platform, and secluded himself for ten years to stabilize his Mahayana cultivation.
• Chen Lin asked Long Han to invite Qing Zhe to his fiefdom, then requested that she investigate Yeguang City.
• Qing Zhe refused to investigate because Marquis Jinguān, Yeguang City's peak True-Realm lord, could discover her and expose Chen Lin's whereabouts.
• Qing Zhe proposed sending a semi-void cultivator to check the Tribulation Platform and revealed that a Soul Lamp belonging to one of her Light Gate explorers had remained lit for a century.
• Qing Zhe told Chen Lin to have Long Han contact her if he chose to enter the Light Gate scenario, leaving him to weigh that uncertain route against the suspected danger in Yeguang City.

Chen Lin entered the Soul Hive’s thirty-sixth samsara with his memories intact, but found himself growing up in a world without supernatural powers. At ten years old, he still had no clue what the Undying Soul Lotus wanted him to discover, and he continued preparing for danger in a hidden cave.

• Chen Lin realized the Undying Soul Lotus Petal had let him keep his memories in the Soul Hive and remain there after birth.
• Chen Lin grew up as a quiet boy in a world where supernatural powers could not be cultivated, and accepted the woman who raised him as his mother.
• Chen Lin collected several pieces of ore from Uncle Han and teased his mother about settling down with him before fleeing her fire poker.
• Chen Lin went to his concealed cave, built as a refuge because his mother had once been pursued by enemies.
• Chen Lin used his surviving Ten Attempts One Hit talent to make ordinary objects and began preparing technological weapons from Zhou Jing's books.
• Chen Lin examined his notebook beside his rudimentary forge and accumulated supplies.

Chen Lin married Xiaolian after a veiled woman arrived in the village and left him a lotus lantern, but he could not discover the lantern’s secret before she vanished through a hidden passage. After Xiaolian gave birth to Chen Fan, Mother Chen captured Alan, the top courtesan of Wuzhen Tower, and forced her on Chen Lin as a concubine.

• Chen Lin decided to consider leaving the village, but delayed when a wealthy, veiled woman moved into Uncle Han’s former house.
• Mother Chen bought Xiaolian and arranged her marriage to Chen Lin; during the wedding, Alan’s steward delivered a snow-white lotus lantern on the fifteenth day of the third month.
• Chen Lin searched Alan’s empty courtyard and learned from Mother Chen that a hidden passage connected it to the mountain; Mother Chen also identified Alan as Wuzhen Tower’s top courtesan.
• Mother Chen forced Chen Lin to take pills and consummate his marriage with Xiaolian, who became pregnant and gave birth to a boy named Chen Fan.
• Mother Chen showed little interest in Chen Fan, captured Alan, and brought her back to become Chen Lin’s concubine before restarting the pill-fueled frenzy.

Chen Lin learned that Mother Chen was a Transcendent who had used the Soul Hive to test whether he was the person she sought, then sent him through thirty-six lifetimes that revealed the destiny river. As the Soul Hive expelled him, he learned Alan was in the Netherworld, entrusted their children to Uncle Han, and vanished, suspecting Mingyue Shuanghua stood behind the events.

• Chen Lin told Mother Chen he would stop having children and leave, but she revealed her Transcendent power and sent a light particle into his brow.
• Chen Lin experienced thirty-six lifetimes, awakened to the destiny river, and saw himself swimming upstream as a silver fish.
• As the Soul Hive began expelling him, Chen Lin found Alan with their children, Chen Fan and Chen Meng, and learned she was in the Netherworld while Xiaolian was the Undying True Lord.
• Chen Lin suspected Mingyue Shuanghua had orchestrated the Soul Hive events and rushed to entrust both children to Uncle Han.
• Chen Lin gave Uncle Han the Chen Family home and his possessions, left keepsakes for the children, and vanished from the Soul Hive.

After spending eighteen years in the Soul Hive, Chen Lin emerged with greater mastery of the Destiny Law but no Soul Hive and no certainty that Mingyue Shuanghua would continue helping him. He learned that a True Realm Convention tied to changes in the cage was approaching, then discovered that the Piggy Bank had returned the Golden Nightmare Coin he used to summon the Pig Monster.

• Chen Lin woke after eighteen years in the Soul Hive and found that all seventy holes had closed and cracks covered the Soul Hive.
• Chen Lin concluded that his mother was Mingyue Shuanghua and regretted losing her concern after she learned he was not the person she sought.
• Chen Lin learned from Long Han that Qing Zhe had gone missing and her Soul Lamp had dimmed, then sent him to ask Moyu Jiao for details.
• Chen Lin ordered Yang Wentai to contact Nanmen Lingyue and asked Leng Yue to monitor the upcoming True Realm Convention in Myriad Forms City, which was reportedly connected to changes in the cage.
• Chen Lin tried to summon the Pig Monster with a Golden Nightmare Coin, but the Piggy Bank returned the coin instead of consuming it.