Chapter Summaries

Chen Lin survived a disintegrating force in the Heaven-Connecting River by eating Mother Steamed Buns, but learned that Xiong Mo had vanished to the same danger. After returning to the Void Realm, he encountered a group led by a blue-robed woman who proposed a trade.

• Chen Lin ate a basket of Mother Steamed Buns and waited until the sensation of disintegration stopped.
• Chen Lin returned through the hidden river node and learned from White Fox that Xiong Mo had vanished after his body began fading.
• Chen Lin found Xiong Mo’s immortal cave empty and concluded that the disintegrating force had erased him and his belongings.
• Chen Lin warned White Fox to avoid Xiong Mo’s cave, then returned to the Void Realm through the seabed node.
• A blue-robed woman approached Chen Lin with several companions and asked whether he would trade.

Chen Lin learned about the Heaven-Connecting River, its valuable finger sand, and the deadly Nihility Fish, then entered the river to test his defenses and gather treasure. Li Xiaoping and her disciples recognized him from afar as he went in.

• Chen Lin refused Li Xiaoping’s request to trade for finger sand, gave her the name Chen Kaiyuan, and then asked other cultivators about the river.
• Mu Moke and his wife told Chen Lin they had no finger sand or suitable gathering treasure, and they speculated about his identity after he left.
• After questioning more than a dozen groups, Chen Lin learned that finger sand aided cultivation but could dissolve matter, while invisible Nihility Fish posed an even greater danger.
• Chen Lin reviewed how Mother Steamed Bun and his innate talent could protect him, examined his Crystal Silk Net, and decided to gather finger sand in the river.
• Chen Lin plunged into the Heaven-Connecting River, and Li Xiaoping and her disciples watched from afar, recognizing him and wondering which faction he belonged to.

Chen Lin collected about two thousand grains of finger sand from the Heaven-Connecting River and met Li Xiaoping to negotiate a trade. Just as he was about to accept her starlight stone, Saili offered more, leaving Chen Lin caught between the competing buyers.

• Chen Lin cautiously entered the Heaven-Connecting River, gathered about two thousand grains of finger sand, and returned safely to the surface.
• Chen Lin met Li Xiaoping, who asked to buy one thousand grains and offered a large piece of starlight stone.
• Saili of the Horned Eye Clan interrupted their negotiation and offered two pieces of starlight stone for Chen Lin's finger sand.
• Li Xiaoping reminded Chen Lin that he had already agreed to trade with her.

Chen Lin traded finger sand with Saili and Li Xiaoping, then accepted Li Xiaoping's offer to guide him to the West Courtyard Shen Clan. He met Shen Anning at the clan's secret realm and prepared to enter a Void Passage with her.

• Chen Lin divided two thousand grains of finger sand between Li Xiaoping and Saili, rejecting Saili's offer to buy them all and identifying himself as Chen Kaiyuan of the Kaiyuan Sect.
• Li Xiaoping warned Chen Lin that the Horn-Eye Clan was powerful, then offered to guide him to the West Courtyard Shen Clan after learning he knew the faction.
• Li Xiaoping used her Flying Boat to traverse the void with Chen Lin and her three disciples, reaching the entrance to the Shen Clan's secret realm.
• Chen Lin told the gatekeepers he was Shen Anning's sworn Second Brother and had come to visit Shen Wenling, and Shen Anning came out to greet him while looking for Gu Chenxuan.
• Shen Anning led Chen Lin and Li Xiaoping through the secret realm and warned Chen Lin not to resist the spatial fluctuations as they approached a Void Passage.

Chen Lin reunited with Shen Anning at the Shen Clan headquarters and gave her a basket of powerful steamed buns. He asked her about the Iron Ship Exchange Meeting and the Inner World, and she dismissed the Inner World as a worthless illusion, leaving him questioning her judgment.

• Chen Lin arrived at the Shen Clan headquarters with Shen Anning, while Li Xiaoping went to find Shen Yunxiao at the Sword Washing Pavilion.
• Shen Anning told Chen Lin that she had been forced to return to the Kan Domain and had reached the Void Realm in less than a hundred years of secluded cultivation.
• Chen Lin gave Shen Anning steamed buns he had made, and she praised them and accepted several baskets to share with the Ancestor.
• Chen Lin asked Shen Anning about the Iron Ship Exchange Meeting, and she invited him to her courtyard after suspecting he was from the Inner World.
• Chen Lin asked Shen Anning about the True King's Manor and the Inner World, and she said Void Realm cultivators regarded the Inner World as a low-grade illusion with no value.

Chen Lin learned from Shen Anning about the Purple Emperor’s true role in sealing the Inner World and the state of the Void Realm, then left the Shen Family Residence for the Heaven-Connecting River. He planned to attend the Iron Ship Exchange Meeting and began gathering finger sand to prepare for it.

• Shen Anning told Chen Lin that the Purple Emperor had summoned a bizarre creature to pursue a breakthrough, then sealed it in the Rainbow Realm to preserve his chance of survival.
• Shen Anning explained that Void factions still reinforced the Cage Array and advised Chen Lin to conceal his Inner World origins; she also dismissed the Imperial Decree as a fabrication and described the mysterious Demon-Suppressing Temple and its novice monk Nianshan.
• Chen Lin learned about the Iron Ship Exchange Meeting and received Shen Anning’s recipe for soul steamed buns before leaving the Shen Family Residence with advanced formations.
• Chen Lin traveled for more than three months to the Heaven-Connecting River, encountering and defeating a void beast along the way.
• Chen Lin decided to attend the next Iron Ship Exchange Meeting and collect finger sand for trade, choosing not to risk hunting Nihility Fish.
• Chen Lin took out a Crystal Silk Net and flew into the Heaven-Connecting River to gather finger sand.

Chen Lin was attacked in the Heaven-Connecting River by a powerful scarlet figure, but the Pipe’s Superior Deity killed the intruder and gave Chen Lin a divine seed. The danger passed, though Chen Lin suspected his plane and his fate were entangled with hidden forces.

• Chen Lin gathered finger sand, inspected the hidden Space Node, and considered how to avoid revealing its location.
• A red-light attacker ambushed Chen Lin, so he fled through the node into his plane and summoned the Superior Deity with the Pipe.
• The scarlet figure recognized the Superior Deity as the Lord Main God and begged for mercy, but the deity killed him and left behind a Storage Bag.
• The Superior Deity said blood spirits prevented further manifestations in this world, gave Chen Lin a divine seed, and requested Immortal-Slaying Brew as payment.
• Chen Lin gave the deity three jars of brew, wondered who had arranged the Pipe’s appearance, and caught the divine seed.

Chen Lin secured the primal interface, established the Kaiyuan Grotto-Heaven, and recruited local yaoguai to help manage it. After discovering valuable supplies among the Blood Spirit clone’s belongings, he began refining the divine servant seed with his own blood to prevent it from betraying him.

• Chen Lin used the Bagua Mirror, Armor-Piercing Shuttle, and Eternal Crystal as cores to build a grand formation protecting the space node.
• Chen Lin named the plane the Kaiyuan Grotto-Heaven, appointed White Fox as Enforcing Elder, and gave her a fox cultivation technique.
• White Fox presented more than a dozen yaoguai, and Chen Lin marked them as servants, awakened their intelligence, imparted knowledge, and gave them names.
• Chen Lin found three golden Silkworm Bottles in the Wine Pot Pendant, including two containing Nihility Fish, and discovered dozens of full Silkworm Bottles and Crystal Silk Nets in the Storage Bag.
• Chen Lin learned how to nurture the divine servant seed and began refining it with his natal essence blood so the servant would be unable to betray him.

Chen Lin prepared a divine servant, cultivated for ten years, and finally joined the Iron Ship Exchange Meeting when his Iron Shard activated. After failing to find his Inner World acquaintances, he asked Gu Chenxuan for help, and Gu Chenxuan publicly offered a reward for information about them.

• Chen Lin completed the blood talismans, planted the divine seed on the continent’s highest peak, and arranged for White Fox to feed it.
• Chen Lin spent ten years cultivating the Fourth Star and resolved to seek a powerful fire-attribute treasure to help ignite its Star Core.
• When the Iron Shard lit up, Chen Lin teleported to the Iron Ship and found himself among cultivators at the exchange meeting.
• Chen Lin examined the Iron Ship and his suppressed abilities, then searched the crowd for Gu Chenxuan, Shen Anning, and familiar people from the Inner World.
• Gu Chenxuan offered to help Chen Lin find his Inner World friends, then called out to the meeting and promised a reward to anyone with information about them.

Chen Lin reunited with Gu Chenxuan and Shen Anning aboard the trading ship, where Gu Chenxuan’s wine helped ease the suppression on Chen Lin’s innate power. Chen Lin then searched for rare treasures and began negotiating with Elder Jinxuan for a powerful strange fire, but the chapter ended before they reached a deal.

• Gu Chenxuan publicly searched for Inner World cultivators, drawing attention to Chen Lin, before reuniting with Shen Anning aboard the Iron Ship.
• Gu Chenxuan shared All Things Intoxicated with Chen Lin and Shen Anning, and the wine stirred Chen Lin’s innate law origin and weakened the Inner World Brand’s suppression.
• Chen Lin asked Gu Chenxuan how he had entered Fairytale Town, learned he had used a Colored Road Guide, and declined to borrow it.
• Chen Lin searched the trading convention for needed treasures, acquired some starlight stone, and asked Shen Anning for help finding a seller of strange fire.
• Chen Lin offered Elder Jinxuan a Nihility Fish for a strange fire, and Elder Jinxuan presented a replica of the Ancient Buddha Cyan Lamp, demanding at least two Nihility Fish plus the Golden Silkworm Bottle.

Chen Lin traded his two Nihility Fish and Golden Silkworm Bottles for a Blue Lamp, only to learn that a monk had an identical lamp for a single fish. At the exchange meeting, he discovered that Liu Rumian was in danger in Five Lights City and was asked to pay for help rescuing her.

• Chen Lin exchanged two Nihility Fish and both Golden Silkworm Bottles with a Fire Cloud Palace elder for a Blue Lamp said to contain Eternal Flame.
• Nianshan offered Chen Lin an identical Ancient Buddha Cyan Lamp for one Nihility Fish, but Chen Lin refused because he had none left.
• Chen Lin traded for spiritual herb seeds, pill-refining and talismancrafting materials, and several inheritances before continuing to browse the exchange meeting.
• Wu Qingmei told Chen Lin that Liu Rumian had asked her to find him and that Liu had offended a powerful cultivator in Five Lights City.
• Chen Lin agreed to help Liu Rumian, and Wu Qingmei demanded one Nihility Fish as payment for mediating on her behalf.

Chen Lin negotiated with Wu Qingmei to help his friend in exchange for two bottles of finger sand, then traded two of his Four Directions City brews for a Rejuvenation Fruit and gave another bottle to Hu Jiuling. As the exchange meeting ended, Nianshan came to buy the remaining Drunken Buddha Brew, and Chen Lin asked whether he had the Buddha Refining Chapter.

• Chen Lin offered Wu Qingmei two bottles of finger sand to help his friend, and told her that his friend could seek aid from Gu Chenxuan or Shen Anning if needed.
• With Shen Anning beside him, Chen Lin set up a stall and attracted buyers by advertising three mystical spirit wines from Four Directions City.
• A True-Realm Expert traded Chen Lin a Rejuvenation Fruit for the Drunken Demon Brew.
• Hu Jiuling took Chen Lin's Drunken Monster Brew as a gift, and Shen Anning warned him that the Holy Fox Clan expert was powerful.
• Nianshan arrived to buy the Drunken Buddha Brew, and Chen Lin asked whether he possessed the Buddha Refining Chapter.

Chen Lin returned to the Kaiyuan Realm with an amber from Nianshan, who warned him that the Seven-Star Shining Sun Technique had troubling origins. After checking his treasures and tending to his responsibilities, Chen Lin began cultivating in seclusion.

• Nianshan told Chen Lin that the Demon-Suppressing Temple had neither the Seven-Star Shining Sun Technique nor the Buddha Refining Chapter, warned him about the technique's origins, and traded him an amber containing a changing runic inscription for Drunken Buddha Brew.
• Chen Lin returned to his cave abode, examined the amber, and decided to keep practicing the Seven-Star Shining Sun despite Nianshan's warning, while questioning the Demon-Suppressing Temple's role in his past.
• Chen Lin used a drop of Rejuvenation Fruit juice to revive Grass, inspected the Ancient Buddha Cyan Lamp, and discovered that Gu Chenxuan's gourd held a large supply of All Things Intoxicated.
• Chen Lin spent over a month planting spiritual herb seeds, then checked the Divine Seed with White Fox and gave her Void Beast flesh and blood to continue tending it.
• Chen Lin told White Fox not to disturb him unless something important happened, returned to his cave abode, and began cultivating in seclusion.

After two hundred years of cultivation, Chen Lin prepared cautiously for his next breakthrough, organized his yaoguai into Kaiyuan Sect roles, and checked on the recovering Grass. Outside the Heaven-Connecting River, he learned of a devastating void storm and confirmed that Wu Qingmei was known in Five Lights City before asking about Liu Rumian.

• Chen Lin advanced the Demon Star to the threshold of lighting its Star Core but decided to gather information and tribulation treasures before attempting it.
• White Fox reported that Ying Huan, Wang Dahu, and Xie Xiaohong had reached the Law Origin Mid-Stage, while Bao San and the little white rabbit had died in failed breakthroughs.
• Chen Lin appointed Ying Huan, Wang Dahu, and Xie Xiaohong as Kaiyuan Sect deacons, assigning them surveillance, divine-seed care, and oversight of the waters.
• Chen Lin saw that Grass had recovered substantially, then entered the Heaven-Connecting River and emerged without gathering finger sand.
• Lu Guangqiao told Chen Lin that a void storm had swept through the Void Realm sixty years earlier, displacing cultivators and collapsing grotto-heaven blessed lands.
• Chen Lin traded Lu Guangqiao a thousand grains of finger sand for eternal stones, learned that Wu Qingmei was a well-known Pavilion Master in Five Lights City, and asked whether Lu Guangqiao knew Liu Rumian.

Chen Lin reached the Shen Family after weakening his Inner World Imprint, which freed many of his suppressed abilities but also damaged his laws, body, and cultivation. He learned that a mysterious black star may have caused the Void Storm, then heard that Shen Anning’s Second Uncle wanted to see him.

• Chen Lin finished his transaction with Lu Guangqiao and flew toward the Shen Family while testing his newly restored abilities.
• Chen Lin assessed how removing the Inner World Imprint had weakened his laws and physical cultivation, then decided to focus his future training on the Seven Supreme Laws, his soul, and Seven-Star Shining Sun.
• Chen Lin arrived at the Shen Family Residence and showed Shen Anning’s token to the gatekeepers.
• Shen Anning told Chen Lin that investigators believed the Void Storms had formed because of a newly appeared black star in the Upper Starry Sky.
• Shen Anning said her Second Uncle had returned and wanted to meet Chen Lin.

Chen Lin spoke with Shen Wenling about the Holy Pagoda, the Cage Array, the Purple Emperor, and the Upper Seven Realms, then learned that Shen Wenling was searching for Li Fuyao. Chen Lin admitted he had killed her after she caused his wife's death, but suspected Li Fuyao could have survived through resurrection.

• Shen Wenling praised Chen Lin's cultivation and asked whether he had caused the Holy Pagoda's disappearance; Chen Lin explained that he had claimed a destiny-related benefit that merged with his innate talent.
• Shen Wenling explained that some Nightmare Realm scenarios lay beyond the Cage Array's blockade and recounted the Purple Emperor's history, Entropy, and the array's reach across the Rainbow Realm, Nightmare Realm, and Seven Realms.
• Chen Lin asked about the Upper Seven Realms, and Shen Wenling said they were sealed subordinate planes with no conventional passages and warned Chen Lin to stay away.
• Shen Wenling asked Chen Lin to describe the Nightmare Realm scenarios linked to the Inner World, and Chen Lin shared his knowledge and showed him related items.
• Shen Wenling revealed that he was searching for Li Fuyao, and Chen Lin admitted that he had killed her after she caused his wife's death but suspected she could resurrect.

Chen Lin learned that the Emerald Bracelet was connected to Shen Wenling’s mysterious old friend and possibly to Li Fuyao’s powerful parents, leaving him worried about future danger. After returning to the Kaiyuan Realm, he prepared tribulation treasures and began lighting his Star Core.

• Shen Wenling took the Emerald Bracelet from Chen Lin, then returned it and advised him to visit Yesterday Manor.
• Chen Lin told Shen Anning that Li Fuyao, whom he had killed in the Inner World, was the missing daughter Shen Wenling wanted him to find.
• Shen Anning warned Chen Lin to hide the bracelet and invoke Yesterday Manor’s name if its owner came after him, but refused to identify that person.
• Chen Lin changed his appearance and returned to the Kaiyuan Realm, resolving to focus on strengthening himself.
• Chen Lin gathered tribulation treasures and starlight stones, prepared his Immortal Cave, and began lighting his Star Core.

Chen Lin ignited the Fourth Star’s Star Core after the Ancient Buddha Cyan Lamp unexpectedly restored his connection to a mysterious star, but the Core formed black and began mutating his body when he activated the Demon Star. As a heavenly tribulation struck, he tried to suppress the spreading mutation with lightning and other energies, but it reached his soul, consciousness sea, and law origin.

• Chen Lin’s attempt to ignite the Star Core lost its connection to the mysterious star when a Black Star pulled away the incoming stellar essence.
• The Ancient Buddha Cyan Lamp shattered, and its golden Buddha shadow restored the connection, allowing the starshine to enter Chen Lin and ignite his Star Core.
• Months later, Chen Lin found that the Fourth Star’s Star Core was black and larger than his other Star Cores.
• Chen Lin activated the Demon Star to investigate, triggering a painful mutation that blackened his body as a heavenly tribulation gathered.
• Chen Lin ordered the White Fox to retreat, swallowed the Golden-Eyed Giant’s natal essence blood, and faced the lightning tribulation head-on.
• Chen Lin used the Seven-Star Shining Sun Technique, tribulation lightning, and a spirit platform umbrella mushroom to suppress the Demon Star’s aura, but the mutation spread into his soul, consciousness sea, and law origin.

Chen Lin survived a powerful heavenly tribulation, purged the bizarre aura from his Demon Star, and discovered that a remnant had altered his celestial fire. After investigating its possible ties to Entropy and the Demon-Suppressing Temple, he entered the Heaven-Connecting River for supplies and found its surroundings deserted.

• Chen Lin used Soul-Destroying Finger to repel the bizarre aura, then endured the heavenly tribulation, which refined his body and partly erased his Inner World Brand.
• Chen Lin spent a month combining Soul-Destroying Finger and Death Gaze to purge the Demon Star, but a black wisp remained in the Three-Color Flame and strengthened it.
• Chen Lin realized the black energy carried Entropy's bizarre aura and suspected it had entered through starlight tainted by the Black Star.
• Chen Lin considered possible links among Entropy, Niuniu, and the Demon-Suppressing Temple, then set aside his unanswered questions and entered the Heaven-Connecting River to gather supplies.
• Chen Lin collected five bottles of finger sand and found no cultivators around the river, leaving him worried that the route to his Kaiyuan Realm might be closed.

Chen Lin traveled toward the Cangyuan Secret Realm with five survivors from the Qian Domain, learning that a void storm had destroyed their home and driven Void Beasts into the region. When they reached the entrance, several cultivators rushed inside and immediately came back out.

• Chen Lin killed an entry void realm Void Beast that was hunting Zhao Chengfeng and four other semi-void cultivators.
• Chen Lin learned that the group had been displaced from the Qian Domain by a void storm, and suspected the Black Star and Entropy had caused it.
• Chen Lin introduced himself as Yu Yuehai and traveled with Zhao Chengfeng, Zhao Qingyu, Qian Ziduo, Wang Wulun, and Shi Yuelan toward the Cangyuan Secret Realm.
• Chen Lin killed two more Void Beasts on the way and reached the secret realm's entrance with the group.
• Several cultivators flew into the entrance ring, then immediately emerged again before Chen Lin and the others could enter.