Chapter Summaries

Chen Lin and Xiao Qingmo joined forces in the destiny river to defeat the weakened Xue Yinping, but the solar gold essence then drove their bodies toward burning out. As they sank into the Cold Pool, Xiao Qingmo revealed her face and urged Chen Lin to begin resonating with her inner stars, while a distant burst of starlight drew cultivators to an empty Ice-Sealed Canyon.

• Chen Lin used his destiny talent to confront Xue Yinping's fusiform destiny fish as Xiao Qingmo fought to resist the body-snatching.
• Xiao Qingmo's destiny fish restrained Xue Yinping while Chen Lin attacked with the Blade of Destiny and Chess Piece of Destiny; Xue Yinping exploded and her light merged into Xiao Qingmo.
• Chen Lin and Xiao Qingmo sank into the Cold Pool as solar gold essence intensified the heat in their bodies, and Chen Lin could not use Death Gaze to suppress it.
• Xiao Qingmo woke, removed her necklace and veil, and told Chen Lin to begin as their inner stars resonated together.
• A flower petal lit deep in the Earth Abyss, while a burst of starlight appeared near Ice-Sealed Canyon and prompted cultivators to investigate; they found the canyon empty.

Chen Lin investigated why his Inner Stars linked with Xiao Qingmo’s and found that Fairy Yaochi could only share energy with his through her active cooperation. At the Vanguard Trading Convention, he persuaded Mo Furong to help him test the linkage, agreeing to her conditions in exchange for offering her a chance to survive the Cage Array’s transition.

• Chen Lin tested his Inner Stars with Fairy Yaochi and discovered they could weakly borrow each other’s energy if she cooperated during dual cultivation.
• Chen Lin tried contacting Xu Wuye to recover his broken saber but received no reply, then sought information about cultivators who practiced the Seven-Star Shining Sun Cultivation Technique.
• Chen Lin tested his connection with an unconscious Vanguard from the Spirit Beast Sect but could not sense the man’s Inner Star.
• Chen Lin attended the Vanguard Trading Convention with Hogge, Bai Yu, and Lu Guanyun, then approached Mo Furong of the Eight-Sides Tower.
• Chen Lin offered Mo Furong Golden Nightmare Coins and a void-travel device in exchange for helping him test Inner Star linkage through dual cultivation.
• Mo Furong agreed on the conditions that they remain in Tianxiang City and Chen Lin publicly recognize her as his concubine; Chen Lin accepted.

Chen Lin tested whether Mo Furong’s inner star resonated with his own, then conjectured that the connection depended on using a seven-colored flower to form an innate law origin. Fairy Yaochi named several cultivators who had done so, and Chen Lin left planning to investigate further while preparing to survive the array and eventually rescue her master.

• Chen Lin brought Mo Furong to his cave abode and found that her inner star did not resonate with his.
• Chen Lin suspected that Fairy Yaochi and Xiao Qingmo were connected to him because they had used seven-colored flowers to condense their innate law origins.
• Fairy Yaochi told Chen Lin that Liu Wuying of the Shadow Gate and Bai Lingling of White Tiger Town had used seven-colored flowers, and that the Moon God had done so in an earlier generation.
• Chen Lin told Fairy Yaochi about the True Realm being in the underground Cold Pool and suggested that True Lord Wuming might have been corrupted by a bizarre creature.
• Fairy Yaochi regained her resolve to attempt the array and agreed that they should survive first, then seek a way to return and rescue her master.

As the Cage Array’s cycle approached, Chen Lin studied soul secret arts and compared competing star maps to find a possible escape node while deciding to remain hidden as Lin Xi. He finally agreed to meet Mo Furong after hearing that powerful people were trying to force her into dual cultivation.

• Chen Lin stayed in Tianxiang City as the Cage Array’s fluctuations grew, avoiding cultivation and outside contact while the Vanguards hid from the Grand Formation.
• Gu Yu sent Chen Lin the Tianxing Clan’s star map and asked him to consider node number three; Chen Lin asked how many Vanguard Squads planned to use it.
• Chen Lin compared the Tianxing Clan’s map with one from Fairy Yaochi, identified another possible node, and rejected Xiao Qingmo’s choice to avoid exposing himself to his enemies.
• After learning that Witch Nalan Xuan could recognize his Seven-Star Shining Sun cultivation, Chen Lin resolved to use Lin Xi’s identity in the Reality Realm.
• Chen Lin initially refused to see Mo Furong, but agreed after his messenger reported that she had fled people trying to force her into dual cultivation.

Mo Furong told Chen Lin that Ming Lun had attacked her, and Chen Lin lured Ming Lun and his men away from Tianxiang City before killing them. As Chen Lin disposed of the evidence, the Cage Array began its cycle, and he headed back toward the city.

• Mo Furong told Chen Lin that Ming Lun and three subordinates had cornered and humiliated her, and Chen Lin asked about their strength and weapons.
• When Ming Lun demanded that Chen Lin hand Mo Furong over, Chen Lin told his servant to say he would deliver her, then knocked her unconscious and hid her in the Emerald Bracelet.
• Chen Lin waited in a mineral corridor outside Tianxiang City and ambushed Ming Lun’s group with a Tri-Color Arrow, killing Ming Lun and his three companions.
• Chen Lin collected the spoils, destroyed the bodies and traces with fire, and discarded everything but the shuttle-shaped True Treasure into the sea.
• The Cage Array began its cycle as Chen Lin prepared to return to Tianxiang City.

As the Cage Array began its cycle, Chen Lin joined Gu Yu’s Vanguard Squad and helped settle who would travel with them and which passage to take. The group chose a newly calculated, remote node and left Tianxiang City to begin the journey.

• Chen Lin arrived at Gu Yu’s residence and met the new members Xing Qingyu and Garen, whose low cultivation made him question whether they could reach the node.
• Chen Lin released Mo Furong and arranged for her to join the squad under the same conditions as Gu Yu’s other companions.
• Mo Furong, Xing Qingyu, and Garen signed an ordinary Soul Contract after Chen Lin explained the situation to Mo Furong.
• Gu Yu revealed a remote passage newly calculated by the Tianxing Clan, and Chen Lin and the others agreed to choose it.
• The squad planned a route to avoid other teams, left Tianxiang City, and flew toward the node as cultivators across the region began their journeys.

Chen Lin and his companions raced toward the formation’s node, and Bai Yu secretly offered him a deal in exchange for help reaching a Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land. After a month-long journey, the group reached the Gale Wind Layer and began preparing to break through it.

• Chen Lin stored Mo Furong in the Emerald Bracelet, tested Ming Lun’s Armor-Piercing Shuttle, and confirmed it could be powered by Inner Star Force.
• Bai Yu secretly proposed an alliance, offering to lead Chen Lin to a rogue cultivator settlement in exchange for help if she faced danger; Chen Lin agreed only conditionally.
• Bai Yu warned Chen Lin that Lu Guanyun might retaliate against her, but Chen Lin believed their contract with the Nine-Eyed Beast’s crystal core would restrain him.
• Chen Lin and the others traveled for over a month to reach Gu Yu’s chosen node as the formation’s anomalies grew more violent.
• At the Gale Wind Layer, Lu Guanyun offered to protect Bai Yu, but she moved beside Gu Yu instead; Gu Yu then led the group upward into the layer.

Chen Lin and his companions crossed the Gale Wind Layer, where he killed a Devouring Heaven Beast and took its Energy Sphere. Above the firmament, Ming Du confronted Chen Lin over the Ming Family deaths and the Armor-Piercing Shuttle, and their battle triggered the Cage Array’s defenses.

• Chen Lin used his golden wings and Celestial Fire to destroy a Devouring Heaven Beast, then collected its Energy Sphere as Gu Yu and the others escaped.
• Gu Yu led the group above the Gale Wind Layer, released Xing Qingyu, Garen, and Mo Furong, and identified an opening in the shifting Cage Array.
• Ming Du arrived with Fu Xiaoge and accused Chen Lin of killing Ming Family members, while Chen Lin admitted it and threatened to attack the Cage Array with the Armor-Piercing Shuttle.
• Bai Yu tried to escape through a Light Gate, but Ming Du’s Gray Lines trapped her and weakened the group’s connection to the Cage Array.
• Chen Lin used the Armor-Piercing Shuttle to draw out Ming Du’s beast bone, then attacked with the Tri-Color Short Bow; Gu Yu joined the fight after Chen Lin warned that the Ming Family would leave no witnesses.
• The fighters’ energy shattered the surrounding formation lines, and the Cage Array began pouring beams of starlight down on them.

Chen Lin survived the Cage Array’s attack by hiding inside the Stone Coffin, then waited near a node to observe others attempting to escape. After witnessing a True Realm powerhouse pass through without triggering the array, he memorized the route and prepared to try the node himself.

• Chen Lin sheltered Mo Furong and Bai Yu in the Stone Coffin, which concealed them from the Cage Array’s starlight; afterward, he erased Bai Yu’s memories of the coffin and learned about her Outer Realm lineage.
• Chen Lin traveled to the node and waited under the Xikuli Cloak, concluding that the cloak also hid him from the array’s detection.
• Two vanguards attempted to breach the node, but the Cage Array annihilated them with starlight.
• A True Realm powerhouse entered the node surrounded by green light and moved through the array without provoking a response.
• Chen Lin memorized the powerhouse’s route, recalled Gu Yu’s Star Map, and fired an arrow from the Tri-Color Short Bow at the node.

Chen Lin navigated the Cage Array in the Stone Coffin, surviving increasingly dangerous starlight attacks by absorbing their power and strengthening his cultivation. After condensing his Fourth Star and reaching the second rank of the Void Realm, he escaped the formation through another node.

• Chen Lin entered the Cage Array through a node and guided the Stone Coffin along the route he had memorized, stopping when the distant array patterns became unclear.
• Chen Lin briefly emerged to study the star-river patterns, but a speck of starlight entered his body; he suppressed it by circulating the Seven-Star Shining Sun Cultivation Technique and absorbing its energy.
• When Chen Lin observed the patterns again, multicolored starlight slipped through the Stone Coffin and ravaged his body, but his soul held out as he gradually suppressed the attack.
• Chen Lin hurried onward as the new grand formation began taking effect and cultivated the Demon-Refining Chapter, condensing his Fourth Star and advancing to the second rank of the Void Realm.
• Chen Lin made brief, frequent observations to avoid further attacks, then reached another node and used his short bow to break its barrier and escape the Cage Array.

Chen Lin escaped into the Outer World but was confronted by people who sought to capture him, and he used Hua Ruyu’s True King Token to bluff his way free. He avoided heading to the True King’s Manor and searched for a safe place, then discovered the two unconscious people he had brought with him were close to death.

• Chen Lin emerged from the node and found six people waiting, including two captives, as the black-robed old man prepared to arrest him.
• Chen Lin displayed his Prison-Suppressing Envoy Token, but the Pale-Faced Man ordered Old He to capture him anyway.
• Chen Lin showed the True King Token, convincing the Pale-Faced Man to let him leave and prompting the group to report his suspicious identity to Crape Myrtle Palace and the True King’s Manor.
• Chen Lin fled without intending to visit the True King’s Manor, then used the Colored Road Guide and Peerage Token to sense his fiefdom but decided against spending his Colored Nightmare Coins to return.
• Chen Lin opened the stone coffin and found the two unconscious people inside near death, then put away the coffin and used his innate power to wake them.

Chen Lin, Bai Yu, and Mo Furong escaped the Cage Array into the Outer World and set out to find Bai Yu’s Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land. Their search ended in a fight when a giant black scorpion attacked them, and Chen Lin’s first strikes failed to pierce its shell.

• Chen Lin confirmed that his reality-based methods and talent ability still worked in the Outer World, and that the Emerald Bracelet remained usable.
• Bai Yu and Mo Furong awakened, and Chen Lin told them they had escaped the Cage Array; Bai Yu then used a bloodline bird to point them toward the Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land.
• Chen Lin explained the Outer World’s dangers, gave Mo Furong innate spiritual entities to help her endure reality’s erosion, and led the two women through the void.
• After traveling roughly a million li without locating the destination, the trio encountered a hundred-zhang Black Giant Scorpion that launched black light at them.
• Chen Lin used the Bagua Mirror to intercept the attack and sent his Armor-Piercing Shuttle toward the scorpion, while Bai Yu also attacked; neither attack harmed it, and the shuttle could not pierce its shell.

Chen Lin killed a giant scorpion in the void, then met an envoy from the True King's Manor who verified his True King Token and offered him a gift. He declined to visit the manor for now and continued with Bai Yu and Mo Furong toward the grotto-heaven blessed land.

• Chen Lin used Death Gaze, soul attacks, celestial fire, and the Bagua Diagram to weaken and kill the giant scorpion, then absorbed its energy and stored its body.
• Chen Lin woke Bai Yu and Mo Furong, and Bai Yu apologized for being a burden while Chen Lin reminded her to guide him to the grotto-heaven blessed land.
• A magnificent ship from the True King's Manor appeared, and a brocade-robed elder asked who held the True King Token.
• Chen Lin presented the token and privately explained that Bei Wumeng, a disciple of the True King, had given it to him; the elder verified his account and offered him a Small Golden Bag.
• Chen Lin declined to visit the True King's Manor until he had finished his business and reunited with his companion, then urged the others to continue their search.

Chen Lin examined the brocade-robed old man’s gifts and learned from an information ball about the Void Realm, its dangers, and its cultivation system. When Bai Yu recognized the name of a nearby danger zone from her lineage’s records, Chen Lin suspected her ancestor’s grotto-heaven blessed land might lie near it.

• Chen Lin found a Storage Bag, Mysterious Stones, an Innate Treasure bracelet, and an information ball among the old man’s gifts, then gave the bracelet to Mo Furong.
• Chen Lin learned that the Outer World was called the Void Realm, that fallen Eternal Experts became stars and eventually Mysterious Stones, and that Void Realm cultivators used reality force.
• Chen Lin considered how to cultivate without relying so heavily on Niuniu’s arrangements and decided to strengthen his soul.
• Chen Lin asked Bai Yu to sense the place she sought, but she still could not locate it even after forcing out three drops of origin essence blood.
• Chen Lin warned Bai Yu and Mo Furong about the nearby Sea of Destruction Stars, and Bai Yu said the name appeared in her lineage’s records.

Chen Lin and his companions encountered a battle near the Sea of Destruction Stars, and he killed four attackers who tried to silence them. He then joined Di Yunhu and the other surrounded cultivators in pursuing the remaining enemies.

• Chen Lin decided to continue traveling another million miles before seeking another way to locate the Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land.
• Di Yunhu of Water Moon Grotto-Heaven asked Chen Lin for help, but four black-clad cultivators rushed at Chen Lin and Bai Yu as they tried to withdraw.
• Chen Lin sent Mo Furong into the Emerald Bracelet and used the Bagua Mirror, Death Gaze, and his treasures to kill all four attackers.
• Chen Lin told Bai Yu to collect the spoils, then flew toward the three surrounded cultivators rather than leave them behind.
• Di Yunhu attacked the fleeing encircling cultivators while Chen Lin sealed the area with the Bagua Diagram and joined the fight.

Chen Lin helped Di Yunhu defeat the black-robed attackers, then received an Eternal Crystal and directions to Myriad Star Tower from Shui Shuxuan. He left to seek the rogue cultivators’ gathering place, while Shui Shuxuan and her companions departed without revealing the ambush to anyone.

• Chen Lin intensified his attacks after Di Yunhu promised a reward, allowing Di Yunhu to break free of the black-robed people’s battle array.
• Di Yunhu summoned a silver-armored figure and struck down several attackers, but the short-haired leader transformed and used a huge claw to overwhelm Di Yunhu and threaten Chen Lin and the others.
• Chen Lin weakened the claw with Soul-Destroying Finger strikes, and Di Yunhu then destroyed the short-haired leader with his silver spear.
• Shui Shuxuan thanked Chen Lin and gave him an Eternal Crystal, while Di Yunhu urged her to reward him respectfully.
• Shui Shuxuan told Chen Lin that Myriad Star Tower was a gathering place for rogue cultivators and gave him a Sensing Bead to find its entrance.
• Chen Lin refused her invitation to Water Moon Grotto-Heaven and left; Shui Shuxuan, Di Yunhu, and their other companion then departed and agreed to keep the encounter secret.

Chen Lin and Bai Yu found the Myriad Star Tower and entered its first layer, where Chen Lin chose to settle on the second layer with Bai Yu and Mo Furong. The three claimed a small island and began gathering information about the Outer World.

• Chen Lin reunited with Bai Yu, explained that the Myriad Star Tower revolved around the Destruction Star River, and asked whether her lineage knew about the Eternal Crystal.
• After months of safe travel, Chen Lin used the Sensing Bead to locate the Myriad Star Tower and entered with Bai Yu.
• Chen Lin and Bai Yu arrived on the tower's first layer, learned about its three layers, and decided to remain together.
• Chen Lin brought Mo Furong out and asked her to choose whether to stay; she agreed and began addressing him as her husband.
• Chen Lin led Bai Yu and Mo Furong to the second layer, claimed an unoccupied island, and began visiting nearby cultivators for information.

Chen Lin visited a market on the second layer of the Myriad Star Tower, where he learned about its dangers, powerful cultivators, and Eternal Crystals. After buying crystal rice from Muese and gathering information, he left with Bai Yu and Mo Furong, now aware that high-level trading took place on the third layer.

• Chen Lin found the market after two wary cultivators pointed him toward a square star island, then visited a stone hut with Bai Yu and Mo Furong.
• Chen Lin bought a hundred grains of crystal rice from Muese for an eternal stone and offered him another stone in exchange for information.
• Muese told Chen Lin that the market had no rules, the strong held power, and True Realm experts such as Fire Dragon Venerable and Lord Zhuo Yunhuang were on the third layer.
• Muese explained that Eternal Crystals held the lingering power of fallen Eternal Experts, which could be borrowed through the Spirit Communication Art.
• Chen Lin learned that the market operated only on trading days and that high-level treasures were traded on the third layer.
• Muese's older brother delivered the crystal rice, and Chen Lin left the market with Bai Yu and Mo Furong.

Chen Lin claimed a Star Island and discovered that a group of cultivators had come to seize it and find a hidden treasure. After dealing with them, he captured Gelisi of the Yangguang Clan, who offered to swear allegiance in exchange for his life.

• Chen Lin bought supplies at the Market and chose a larger Star Island for his group.
• A tall, thin cultivator and four companions tried to drive Chen Lin, Bai Yu, and Mo Furong off the island, revealing they recognized the women as cultivators from the Inner World.
• Chen Lin trapped and sealed the five intruders, then searched their souls and caught a small humanoid creature attempting to flee.
• Chen Lin learned the group planned to summon a powerful backer and refined all five cultivators away.
• The creature introduced itself as Gelisi of the Yangguang Clan and warned that killing it would bring the clan's pursuit.
• After Gelisi failed to persuade Chen Lin to spare it, it offered to swear allegiance, and Chen Lin accepted.

Chen Lin bound Gelisi to himself with a blood oath and examined the Eye of Destruction Gelisi had found, accidentally unleashing its destructive aura. After recovering, they discussed the Cage Array’s shifting locations, and Chen Lin ended by asking Gelisi whether he was male or female.

• Gelisi swore a blood oath of loyalty to Chen Lin, then handed over the Eye of Destruction he had found in the Destruction Star River.
• Chen Lin activated the Eye of Destruction with Death Gaze, and its aura began disintegrating Gelisi, Bai Yu, and Mo Furong before Chen Lin closed it and restored them with his inner star force.
• Gelisi observed that Chen Lin’s energy had greatly enhanced the Eye of Destruction, and Chen Lin kept the treasure, promising to compensate him later.
• Gelisi identified Chen Lin’s Star Map as a partial map of the Cage Array but explained that its changing patterns made a node’s location in the Void Realm impossible to determine.
• Chen Lin told the group to recover and develop the Star Island, then asked Gelisi whether he was male or female.