Chapter Summaries

Chen Lin examined a strange pipe and found a pagoda that might be connected to Niuniu before meeting Shen Wenling, a powerful outsider who asked for help retrieving herbs. Chen Lin initially refused to enter Cheng Family territory, but turned back when he learned the herbs could restore a shattered soul.

• Chen Lin examined a white-bowled pipe that resembled his Nightmare Realm Pipe but could not determine whether it was a Medium Object.
• Chen Lin spotted a seven-faced pagoda resembling the one that held the Seven-Star Shining Sun Cultivation Technique and decided to return to the Li Family to secure entry to the Holy Pagoda.
• Shen Wenling recognized that Chen Lin's soul had broken through the local rule suppression and introduced himself as a rogue cultivator.
• Shen Wenling asked Chen Lin to help retrieve three herbs from Cheng Family territory, offering one plant as payment and claiming he was at the True Realm.
• Chen Lin refused, wary of the danger, but turned back when Shen Wenling revealed the plants were Soul-Restoring Grass that could restore even a scattered soul.

Chen Lin accompanied Shen Wenling to find Soul-Restoring Grass, hoping to revive Grass, but discovered Shen Anning waiting at the underground pool. After harvesting the three plants, Chen Lin remained wary as Shen Wenling transported them away with the grass still in his possession.

• Chen Lin agreed to help Shen Wenling find Soul-Restoring Grass after Shen Wenling swore his claims were true, and learned about the Holy Pagoda’s supreme treasures and Hong Tingzhen’s escape.
• Shen Wenling used an Eternal-Tier Void Beast’s claw to take Chen Lin underground, where they found Shen Anning beside the Soul-Restoring Grass.
• Chen Lin recognized Shen Anning as the woman who had tricked him out of his Tetrahedron Cube, but concealed his identity while Shen Wenling introduced them.
• Chen Lin demanded that Shen Anning swear an oath, then harvested all three blades of Soul-Restoring Grass using Shen Wenling’s instructions.
• Chen Lin refused to hand over the grass until they left Four Directions City, and Shen Wenling used the Black Claw to transport all three of them away.

Chen Lin returned safely with the soul-restoring grass and learned that the Six Great Lineages had changed the Holy Land Quota allocation to a Martial Contest. As he prepared to compete, Zhou Ximei revealed that the lineages’ inheritance treasures were fragments of a shattered Tetrahedron Cube and offered the Zhou Family’s loyalty if Chen Lin could obtain one.

• Chen Lin gave Shen Wenling the two Jade Boxes, declined his offer to cooperate in retrieving Holy Pagoda treasures, and left after revealing he already had a Holy Land Quota.
• Shen Wenling told Shen Anning that Chen Lin’s divine soul could overcome the local rule suppression and might have an innate eternal nature, then took her toward the center.
• Chen Lin returned to the Zhou Estate, inspected the soul-restoring grass, and learned from Qiuxiang that Zhou Ximei had gone to a meeting of the Six Great Lineages.
• Zhou Ximei told Chen Lin that the Six Great Lineages had replaced the old Holy Land Quota allocation with a Martial Contest, and Chen Lin agreed to try to compete.
• Zhou Ximei explained that each lineage possessed a fragment of a shattered Tetrahedron Cube that granted energy and divine abilities, then promised the Zhou Family would rise into the Six Great Lineages if Chen Lin obtained a fragment.

Chen Lin agreed to represent the Zhou Family in the Six Great Lineages' tournament after Zhou Ximei gave him a soul-attacking fan he had won from a slain outsider. On the morning of the tournament, Chen Lin encountered Shen Wenling and learned that the Ma Family appeared to have suffered a grim fate.

• Zhou Ximei asked Chen Lin to help the Zhou Family compete for a place among the Six Great Lineages, and he agreed to try.
• Zhou Ximei recounted how she and the Ma Family patriarch had killed an outsider, then gave Chen Lin the man's fan.
• Chen Lin activated the fan and discovered its sword attack could kill a living target by striking its soul.
• Chen Lin searched the Zhou Family's treasure vault but found nothing else he could use.
• Chen Lin and Zhou Ximei arrived at the assembly courtyard, where Shen Wenling offered to help Chen Lin if he failed to win a tournament slot.
• Zhou Ximei told Chen Lin that a little girl with Shen Wenling belonged to the Ma Family, leading him to suspect the family had met with disaster.

Chen Lin met Gu Chenxuan again in Four Directions City, where Gu Chenxuan used a bluff and a show of force to secure Jade Talismans for them both. They left the martial contest to catch up, and Gu Chenxuan revealed that he had come to see the Holy Pagoda Spirit, not to claim treasures.

• Chen Lin and Zhou Ximei attended a gathering where the rules for competing for twenty Jade Talismans were announced.
• Gu Chenxuan entered with a seemingly normal form, recognized Chen Lin, and demanded two places, killing one of the Six Great Lineages' experts when challenged.
• The remaining experts surrendered two Jade Talismans, and Gu Chenxuan gave one to Chen Lin; Zhou Ximei took the dead expert's possessions before joining Chen Lin.
• Chen Lin left with Gu Chenxuan, who revealed at a teahouse that his normal form had been a bluff against the Eternal Grade rules.
• Gu Chenxuan told Chen Lin that he had come to see the Holy Pagoda Spirit, famed as the greatest beauty of all time.

Chen Lin and Gu Chenxuan swore brotherhood with Shen Anning, then witnessed the Holy Land open and entered through its Light Gate. Chen Lin noticed Zhou Ximei had no entry talisman, while Shen Anning did, and planned to seek compensation from his new sworn sister for the Tetrahedron Cube.

• Gu Chenxuan told Chen Lin that Yesterday Manor drifted through the void and revealed he had saved Chen Lin from the River of Destiny.
• Chen Lin and Gu Chenxuan agreed to become sworn brothers, and Shen Anning joined their ceremony after Gu Chenxuan welcomed her.
• The three swore brotherhood before the Holy Pagoda, exchanged blood wine, and saw the pagoda illuminate as the Holy Land opened.
• The Tower Spirit appeared above the pagoda, and the gathered powerful figures bowed to her before a Light Gate formed.
• Chen Lin saw that Zhou Ximei lacked an entry talisman and followed Gu Chenxuan and Shen Anning through the Light Gate.

Chen Lin entered the Holy Pagoda’s red side and found himself in a mortal-world trial where he had no powers or money. He earned the Fat Boss’s help by making popular Mother Steamed Buns, attracting the attention of Zhao Changgui, who invited him to the Drunken Immortal Pavilion.

• Shen Wenling chose the green side of the pagoda with Shen Anning, Gu Chenxuan chose orange, and Chen Lin entered through red.
• Chen Lin arrived on a bustling street, discovered he had become a mortal, and passed a trial by ignoring the brothels along the way.
• Chen Lin learned that the next trial involved the Seven Famous Wines but found he could not pay for wine or exchange his possessions for local copper coins.
• Chen Lin persuaded the Fat Boss to partner with him and made Mother Steamed Buns that brought the Fat Boss to tears.
• The Fat Boss’s wife reported that Zhao Changgui had bought the buns, and Zhao invited Chen Lin to visit the Drunken Immortal Pavilion.

Chen Lin explored the Holy Pagoda’s first four layers, trading recipes and sampling wines, gambling, and food, but found their effects difficult to reproduce. He entered the fifth layer and discovered he had become a destiny fish in the River of Destiny, where the true trial began.

• Chen Lin raised the price of Mother Steamed Buns, then sampled Drunken God Brew at the Liu Family Tavern and felt his Primordial Spirit stir.
• Chen Lin met Qiu Mengdie and traded the Mother Steamed Bun recipe for the Drunken God Brew recipe, but neither could explain how to reproduce their infused artistic conceptions.
• Chen Lin visited the Cure Sorrows Tavern and five other taverns, sampled their wines, and traded for their preparation methods before leaving the layer.
• Chen Lin gambled in the next layer, lost most of his remaining copper coins, and won a jade carving said to attract good fortune and ward off misfortune.
• Chen Lin sampled food in the fourth layer, learned that its effects depended on the maker’s skill, and proceeded to the next layer.
• Chen Lin entered the River of Destiny as a destiny fish and realized that the pagoda’s true trial had begun.

Chen Lin found that he could use only the Chess Piece of Destiny, then lost consciousness after entering a destiny-line node. He awoke in the apparent life of a boy whose family had been devastated by cultivators, and the chapter ended as the boy found an object in the snow.

• Chen Lin confirmed that he could manifest the Chess Piece of Destiny but could use none of his other abilities.
• Chen Lin entered a destiny-line node and lost consciousness.
• An eleven- or twelve-year-old boy stayed home with his sick younger sister while their father went out to gather firewood in a snowstorm.
• When their father failed to return, the boy left to search for him, remembering that cultivators had burned the village’s forests and killed his mother.
• The boy stopped in the snow and pulled an object from his footprint.

Chen Lin awakened inside an illusion as a mortal boy whose village had been destroyed by cultivators, then tried to use winemaking to uncover the trial’s objective. After his Immortal-Slaying Brew exposed a cultivator possessing his sister, the intruder attacked Chen Lin and vanished after entering the space between his eyebrows.

• Chen Lin recovered his memories while inhabiting the boy’s body, found his sister Xiaohong and the injured hunter Luda among the village’s survivors, and moved with them into a cave.
• Chen Lin spent three months experimenting with wine, hoping to gain the power to escape the illusion, while Luda told him that colorful moonlight reflected in water could induce a wondrous state.
• Under the reflected moonlight, Chen Lin entered that state and brewed wine infused with hatred for cultivators, which he suspected might harm them.
• Luda drank the wine without effect, but Xiaohong screamed and collapsed after drinking it, revealing that a cultivator had possessed her.
• A shadow emerged from Xiaohong and lunged at Chen Lin; he entered the brewing state, and the shadow plunged into the space between his eyebrows before screaming and falling silent.

Chen Lin completed the Holy Pagoda’s trials, gained a powerful Destiny Treasure, and met a figure who revealed herself as Niuniu’s projection. After the pagoda vanished and Four Directions City began collapsing, Chen Lin escaped with a Boarding Credential for the Iron Ship Exchange Meeting.

• Chen Lin passed the destiny-river nodes, claimed a clone-type Destiny Treasure, and answered three questions to meet the Tower Spirit, who was Niuniu in another form.
• Niuniu’s projection told Chen Lin to protect the Mermaid Sword, not try to rescue her, and leave as many traces of himself in the world as possible before vanishing.
• The Holy Pagoda disappeared, and cracks spread through Four Directions City as its inhabitants panicked over the city’s collapse.
• Chen Lin reunited with Gu Chenxuan and Shen Anning, who suspected one another of causing the pagoda’s disappearance before Gu Chenxuan left for the Iron Ship Exchange Meeting.
• Shen Anning gave Chen Lin a Boarding Credential for the Iron Ship Exchange Meeting and warned him to escape, so he entered a nearby rift.

Chen Lin settled in a mountain forest in the Void Realm after escaping Four Directions City and examined the clues and treasures Niuniu had left him. He put away the items that needed more moonlight or further investigation, including a pendant that could grant an unorthodox divine ability.

• Chen Lin confirmed he was still in the Void Realm, carved out a cave in a mountain, and set up a formation.
• Chen Lin considered whether Niuniu was a reincarnated cultivator, a traveler from the future, or someone reborn in the past, but stopped guessing about her motives.
• Chen Lin examined Niuniu's two warm tears and the Mermaid Sword, sensing that the tears could unlock the sword's power and save his life.
• Chen Lin tested a fan linked to Li Fuyao, which released a powerful sword attack before its luster dimmed, suggesting it had limited uses.
• Chen Lin examined the White Jade Pipe and learned it needed years of moonlight absorption before it could summon a powerful divine being.
• Chen Lin found a living dark-gold pattern inside a jade pendant and concluded that exposing it to moonlight could let him refine it into an unorthodox divine ability.

Chen Lin used the soul-restoring grass on Grass’s withered leaf, restoring her vitality and giving him hope that she could live again. He celebrated, then examined the little fish clone and learned how it could enhance his talent ability.

• Chen Lin set aside the Jade Pendant and used the soul-restoring grass on Grass’s withered leaf, causing her origin essence to stir and faint lightning to appear.
• Chen Lin realized Grass had regained her vitality and carefully returned her leaf to its container before celebrating with Drunken God Brew.
• Chen Lin compared his wine with the mortal version of the Seven Famous Wines and found its flavor and subtle benefits superior, though he still could not brew them.
• Chen Lin summoned the little fish clone and tested its abilities, learning to switch his senses between the two fish, perceive through both, choose which remained in the destiny river, and merge them.
• Chen Lin mastered the clone’s functions and discovered that merging the fish strengthened his talent ability, but it did not help him make the Seven Famous Wines.

After reviewing his gains, Chen Lin explored a world without human inhabitants and realized he had found an unclaimed primal interface. He settled in to cultivate while sending two intelligent yaoguai to search for a way out.

• Chen Lin concluded that he would focus on other wine-making attempts for now, examined the Iron Ship Exchange Meeting token, and spent several months digesting his gains.
• Chen Lin explored the surrounding region and found only low-level yaoguai, along with a Law Origin Mid-Stage black bear and fox, whom he spared and taught.
• The black bear brought Chen Lin a large-scaled fish, whose flavor delighted him and whose power strengthened his soul, so Chen Lin ordered the bear to search for more.
• The white fox reported that the sea held no humans, and Chen Lin realized he had discovered a naturally formed, unclaimed primal interface.
• Chen Lin ordered the fox to search for unusual places and began building an immortal cave in the continent's mountains so he could cultivate.

After a hundred years in seclusion, Chen Lin prepared to investigate spatial anomalies discovered by White Fox and Big Black Bear. A Jade Talisman suddenly shattered, and he rushed to an island where he found White Fox in fox form beneath a hovering Black Silhouette.

• Chen Lin examined the charged pipe but chose not to summon anything, then received a strange fruit from Big Black Bear that had awakened the bear's intelligence.
• White Fox achieved form transformation, received a cultivation technique from Chen Lin, chose the name White Moonlight, and was told to search for spatial anomalies.
• Chen Lin stored the fruit and returned to cultivation, while Big Black Bear continued searching for large-scaled fish.
• A hundred years later, Chen Lin found a tiny green sprout emerging from Grass's withered leaf and decided to inspect the spatial anomalies.
• A Jade Talisman at Chen Lin's waist shattered, and he rushed to an island where White Fox had reverted to fox form as a Black Silhouette hovered above her.

Chen Lin summoned a powerful being from his pipe to defeat Xiao Changjiu, who had attacked him in the Kaiyuan Secret Realm. After the being killed Xiao Changjiu, it demanded payment, and Chen Lin offered food and wine before it departed.

• Chen Lin claimed to be the master of the Kaiyuan Secret Realm and tried to intimidate Xiao Changjiu, but Xiao Changjiu revealed he knew Chen Lin had arrived only a hundred years earlier.
• Xiao Changjiu attacked Chen Lin with a Black Light Sword, and Chen Lin used Death Gaze to power the Eye of Destruction but could not overcome the attack.
• A dark red palm emerged from Chen Lin's pipe, scattered Xiao Changjiu's attacks, and killed him after he invoked the Red Leaf mark.
• The summoned being demanded payment from Chen Lin, who offered Mother Steamed Bun, Soul Steamed Bun, Seven Famous Wines, and a pot of Immortal-Slaying Brew.
• The summoned being took Chen Lin's offerings and warned him to prepare payment before summoning it again, then vanished with the smoke.

After Xiao Changjiu’s death, Chen Lin recovered his belongings and found valuable treasures and starlight stones that could advance his Seven-Star Shining Sun cultivation. He left the Immortal Cave with a path toward the Fourth Star’s Star Core, but remained concerned that he still lacked two cultivation formulas and faced a dangerous route to the True Realm.

• Chen Lin confirmed White Fox’s cultivation remained intact, promised to restore her damaged soul, and searched the plane for how Xiao Changjiu had entered.
• Chen Lin refined soul-restoring pills for White Fox, then examined Xiao Changjiu’s possessions and found several powerful items he could not activate.
• After a month, Chen Lin broke Xiao Changjiu’s mark on the red leaf Storage Bag and discovered rare herbs, cultivation texts, Precious Tools, and dozens of starlight stones inside.
• Chen Lin realized the starlight stones could help him condense the Fourth Star’s Star Core, but he still lacked the Buddha Refining Chapter and Mortal Refining Chapter.
• Chen Lin considered the dangers of returning to the Inner World and attempting the True Realm breakthrough, then decided to focus on strengthening his foundation for now.

Chen Lin studied Xiao Changjiu’s belongings, learned that Red Leaf Plain lay in the Kan Domain, and continued investigating the Inner World’s sealing marks and the Imperial Decree. He forcibly refined Zhou Ximei’s jade talisman and gained the night-bound divine ability Firefly.

• Chen Lin found records identifying Red Leaf Plain as part of the Kan Domain and reflected on how smoothly he had escaped the Kun Domain.
• Chen Lin realized that Mother Steamed Buns had been loosening the sealing mark and allowing him to use traces of his Inner World energies.
• Chen Lin considered the Imperial Decree and decided he would not seek it, despite its potential to change the balance between the Inner and Outer Worlds.
• Chen Lin placed Zhou Ximei’s jade talisman in moonlight, then used Death Gaze when he could not activate its runic inscription.
• Chen Lin broke down the inscription’s consciousness, refined it into himself, and learned that the divine ability was called Firefly and worked only without sunlight.

Chen Lin tested the Firefly Divine Ability and found it could reach the true realm level under strong moonlight, then spent ten years cultivating his fourth star. Xiong Mo discovered a hidden space vortex beneath the seabed and led Chen Lin to it.

• Chen Lin tested the Firefly Divine Ability against yaoguai and found it reached Void Realm Great Perfection normally and the true realm level under abundant moonlight.
• Chen Lin entered seclusion for ten years and found that cultivating his fourth star required far more energy than expected, so he considered preparing tribulation treasures.
• Xiong Mo told Chen Lin he had found a likely space node and guided him to a location beneath the northern sea.
• Xiong Mo opened a stone enclosure, revealing a slowly turning, fist-sized space vortex.

Chen Lin found a space node and sent Xiong Mo through it, then followed and emerged in a strange river suspended in the void. After a silent fish nearly struck him, Chen Lin sensed his body disintegrating and ended the chapter searching for an explanation.

• Chen Lin found a weak space vortex and persuaded Xiong Mo to scout the other side, where Xiong Mo reported finding a river.
• Chen Lin searched Xiong Mo’s memories, erased his recent recollections, and sent him back to the cave dwelling with White Fox.
• Chen Lin set up defensive formations around the space node and entered it, emerging underwater in a place without gravity.
• Chen Lin swam to the surface and discovered the river floated in the void, stretching toward a vast azure Eternal Star.
• A silent gray fish nearly hit Chen Lin, and his talent ability warned him to evade.
• Chen Lin flew away from the river but soon sensed his body disintegrating faster, though he could find no cause.