Chapter Summaries

Chen Lin and his companions sought entry to the Cangyuan Secret Realm after learning that outsiders had to earn contribution points as guards. He accepted offerings from Zhao Chengfeng and Qian Ziduo, then tried to negotiate entry by offering finger sand and proof that they had killed Void Beasts.

• A white-robed cultivator told Chen Lin that outsiders without Pass Tokens had to join the Guard Team and earn contribution points before entering the secret realm.
• Zhao Chengfeng gave Chen Lin a torn cloth that could not be stored even in the Emerald Bracelet, and Qian Ziduo followed by offering a Storage Bag.
• Wang Wulun and Shi Yuelan declined to offer treasures, but followed Chen Lin into the ring of light with the others.
• Two grey-robed cultivators stopped Chen Lin's group and demanded Pass Tokens; Chen Lin offered four Silkworm Bottles of finger sand to persuade them to make an exception.
• When the guards asked about his ties to a major Kan Domain power, Chen Lin said the group had been swept there by the Void Storm and offered Storage Bags of slain Void Beasts as evidence they deserved contribution points.

Chen Lin negotiated entry to the Cangyuan Secret Realm, then revealed his power by killing a golden Void Beast that overwhelmed the Guard Team. He earned a pass and the gratitude of Yang Tianping and Xu Dingshan, while Shi Yuelan revealed she came from the Inner World and asked for his help.

• Chen Lin persuaded Yang Tianping to let his group enter, but Yang Tianping required one person to join the Guard Team, so Wang Wulun chose to leave and was swallowed by a golden Void Beast.
• The Void Beast attacked the Guard Team, killing more than half its members, while Shi Yuelan told Chen Lin she came from the Inner World and offered to follow him if he saved her.
• Yang Tianping asked Chen Lin to kill the beast in exchange for an official Pass Token and permission for everyone to enter without joining the Guard Team.
• Chen Lin used Death Gaze and a sword strike from his fan to kill the golden Void Beast, earning Xu Dingshan's gratitude and a Transmission Bead.
• Yang Tianping returned Chen Lin's four Silkworm Bottles, but Chen Lin insisted he keep them, and Yang Tianping gave Chen Lin several tokens.

After entering the Cangyuan Secret Realm, Chen Lin dismissed Zhao Chengfeng, Zhao Qingyu, and Qian Ziduo, then questioned Shi Yuelan about her origins. The chapter ended when she named the other survivor from the Inner World as True Lord Wanmeng and conjured his likeness for Chen Lin.

• Chen Lin refused Zhao Chengfeng, Zhao Qingyu, and Qian Ziduo's requests to stay with him, but accepted their Transmission Beads and kept Shi Yuelan by his side.
• Chen Lin took Shi Yuelan to a spirit tea house in the crowded secret realm and asked where she came from.
• Shi Yuelan said she was from Great Dream City in the Boundless Realm and revealed that He Jiuniang, whom Chen Lin had met before, was her mother.
• Shi Yuelan told Chen Lin that her mother had died and that she had entered the Outer World with the Southern Alliance's Vanguard Squad during a cage array cycle.
• When Shi Yuelan named True Lord Wanmeng as the other survivor, Chen Lin urgently asked her to draw his likeness, and she conjured an image of the man.

Chen Lin learned how Shi Yuelan obtained the eternal-aura ring and stone tablet, then accepted her as an Accepted Disciple and gave her finger sand. The chapter ended with Chen Lin asking Shi Yuelan to use her Dream Entry ability on him.

• Chen Lin confirmed that Shi Yuelan's image showed the person he was searching for, and she explained how she and True Lord Wanmeng escaped the Outer World Powerhouses before splitting over a ring they found in the void.
• Shi Yuelan gave Chen Lin the ring and its stone tablet; Chen Lin discovered the ring could store Zhao Chengfeng's Torn Cloth but could not uncover its secrets, while the tablet showed a strange star-map vision.
• Shi Yuelan asked Chen Lin not to search or damage her soul, and Chen Lin agreed to spare her if she stayed by his side; he let her choose between becoming his Accepted Disciple and subordinate.
• Shi Yuelan became Chen Lin's Accepted Disciple, and he gave her finger sand to help her advance toward the Void Realm.
• Shi Yuelan described her Dream Entry talent and cultivation, explaining that she retained late Semi-Void strength in the Outer World, and Chen Lin asked her to use her Innate Divine Ability on him.

Chen Lin tested Shi Yuelan’s powerful Talent Domain and learned that it could suppress him but risked severe backlash if broken. After discussing cultivation and their connection to True Lord Wanmeng, master and disciple explored the market, where Chen Lin acquired a high-grade Boundary-Breaking Treasure that could let him enter the Kaiyuan Realm.

• Shi Yuelan trapped Chen Lin in her Talent Domain, suppressing his powers and making him fall toward a forest of swords.
• Chen Lin used a Soul Hand to destroy a sword and break the domain, causing Shi Yuelan to suffer a dangerous backlash that he treated with medicine and soul essence.
• Shi Yuelan explained that her Talent Domain had restrictions, while Chen Lin reflected that he had neglected life-level cultivation by focusing too much on Seven-Star Shining Sun.
• Shi Yuelan told Chen Lin that True Lord Wanmeng had fallen from early Void Realm to middle semi-void strength in the Outer World, and Chen Lin revealed they came from the same lower realm and were on good terms.
• Chen Lin and Shi Yuelan searched the market and bought starlight stone, Heaven and Earth Spiritual Entities, and a high-grade Boundary-Breaking Treasure.

Chen Lin tested a Black and White Jade Pendant that could discreetly breach spatial barriers, then spent a year observing Shi Yuelan while earning money by refining pills. After learning that Zhao Chengfeng had transformed into an Alien Race monster before dying, Chen Lin discovered that the Torn Cloth Zhao Chengfeng gave him bore part of the monster’s pattern.

• Chen Lin used the Black and White Jade Pendant to open a passage into the Wine Pot Pendant’s space and concluded it might allow travel through larger barriers, though he could not safely test it on his Kaiyuan Realm.
• Chen Lin put aside the Torn Cloth, studied the stone slab, and refined pills to support himself while keeping his identity concealed.
• Over the following year, Shi Yuelan passed Chen Lin’s secret tests, and she later reported that Qian Ziduo had told her Zhao Chengfeng died after going mad.
• Chen Lin sent Shi Yuelan to investigate Zhao Chengfeng’s death and bring Qian Ziduo to him.
• Shi Yuelan returned with a report and a portrait showing Zhao Chengfeng’s transformed Alien Race appearance; Chen Lin compared it with the Torn Cloth and confirmed its pattern matched the monster.

Chen Lin used celestial fire to awaken the pattern on the torn cloth and spoke with Zhe Min, a spiritual thought from the Swallowtail Gyre searching for a sword. Zhe Min mistook Chen Lin for Entropy’s reincarnated body and offered increasingly valuable treasures to enlist his help.

• Chen Lin found that the torn cloth resisted his attacks but reacted faintly to Death Gaze, so he sealed the immortal cave with an Isolation Array.
• Chen Lin burned the cloth’s pattern with celestial fire, causing it to writhe and speak to him.
• Zhe Min introduced himself as a being from the Swallowtail Gyre and said he was searching the Rainbow Realm for a snow-white sword.
• Chen Lin questioned Zhe Min about the sword and refused offers of a Star-Gazing Flower and a Hundred-Light Stone.
• Zhe Min offered Chen Lin a bottle of tianyi divine water after Chen Lin demanded a better reward.

Chen Lin bargained with Zhe Min for a fire secret art, then thwarted Zhe Min’s attempt to seize his body by eroding the invading spiritual will with his soul. After recovering fragments of Zhe Min’s memories, Chen Lin investigated the Market and returned with Zhao Qingyu to keep watch over her after her contact with the Torn Cloth.

• Chen Lin demanded payment before helping Zhe Min find a sword, and Zhe Min offered a fire-attribute secret art instead of Tianyi Divine Water.
• Zhe Min taught Chen Lin the Flame Palm dharmic formula, then sent spiritual will into Chen Lin’s body in an attempt to take it over.
• Chen Lin used Death Gaze to clear his thoughts, burned the Torn Cloth, and destroyed Zhe Min’s spiritual will by eroding it in his Soul Origin Essence.
• Chen Lin recovered fragmented memories that taught him Zhe Min’s language, confirmed the Flame Palm was safe to practice, and revealed a passphrase for the Traveling Merchant.
• Chen Lin questioned Shi Yuelan and Qian Ziduo, inspected the Market, and returned several days later with Zhao Qingyu, who had also come into contact with the Torn Cloth.

After six months of secluded study, Chen Lin learned that Zhao Qingyu’s brother had been corrupted by the Torn Cloth but refused to keep her close. He made Qian Ziduo his contracted subordinate, took Shi Yuelan as his formal disciple, and established the Qingyang Treasure Pavilion; three years later, the shop was thriving and Qian Ziduo brought Chen Lin a newly acquired item.

• Chen Lin told Zhao Qingyu that the Torn Cloth had contaminated her brother, then refused her request to stay by his side.
• Chen Lin made Qian Ziduo sign a Blood Pact and a soul pact, and appointed him to run a shop.
• Chen Lin accepted Shi Yuelan as his formal disciple and gave her a high-grade Innate Cultivation Technique.
• With Xu Dingshan’s help, Qian Ziduo and Shi Yuelan bought a shop, which Chen Lin named the Qingyang Treasure Pavilion.
• Over the next three years, Qian Ziduo built the shop into a successful business and acquired starlight stones for Chen Lin.
• Qian Ziduo hurried to Chen Lin and presented him with an item he had acquired that day.

Chen Lin investigated a nightmare realm token, then took Shi Yuelan into the void to test her combat skills and seek a worthy opponent for his Flame Palm. Their training was interrupted by a distant cultivator calling for help.

• Qian Ziduo gave Chen Lin a Spirit Planter Token from a colored scenario, and Chen Lin asked him to discreetly investigate powerful grotto-heaven protection arrays.
• Chen Lin realized the token could draw him into a scenario beyond the Cage Array, but decided not to explore it without first sending scouts.
• After years of studying the Flame Palm, Chen Lin took Shi Yuelan into the void and warned her that Outer World tribulations were dangerous.
• Shi Yuelan fought a Void Realm giant scorpion until Chen Lin rescued her, then later defeated a newly ascended Void Realm centipede on her own.
• Chen Lin learned that Shi Yuelan had condensed her innate law origin with a petal from a seven-colored flower, and she wondered whether he might be her father.
• A distant voice cried out to Chen Lin for help, interrupting his conversation with Shi Yuelan.

Chen Lin and Shi Yuelan encountered a powerful cloaked demonic cultivator who trapped them in darkness and attacked with lethal slashes. After the old man self-detonated to protect his grandson, Chen Lin unleashed the Firefly Divine Ability, filling the void with lights as the battle continued.

• Chen Lin put Shi Yuelan inside the Emerald Bracelet when the cloaked demonic cultivator appeared, but refused the old man's request to shelter his grandson.
• The Cloaked Person darkened the void and attacked Chen Lin, whose senses and law-warning ability were suppressed as he dodged through the darkness.
• The old man's grandson was killed, and the old man self-detonated, blasting Chen Lin away and shattering his defenses.
• Chen Lin activated the Firefly Divine Ability despite having no moonlight, draining nearly all his energy to summon a speck of light.
• Chen Lin commanded the Firefly to attack, and countless lights spread through the darkness until the void became an ocean of fireflies.

Chen Lin defeated a demonic cultivator with the Firefly Divine Ability, then killed a spatially talented seductress with the Flame Palm. After recovering, he ordered Shi Yuelan to have Qian Ziduo investigate the demonic cultivator’s race and began refining the seductress’s mysterious green bracelet.

• Chen Lin used the Firefly Divine Ability to overcome the demonic cultivator’s Darkness Domain and devour him with a swarm of fireflies.
• A seductress ambushed the exhausted Chen Lin, but his Flame Palm burned up her Red Ribbon and pursued her into the void, killing her.
• Chen Lin returned to his immortal cave, recovered for a day and night, and reviewed the battle.
• Chen Lin told Shi Yuelan to give Qian Ziduo an image of the demonic cultivator and ask him to investigate the man’s race, while keeping the old man and youth secret.
• Chen Lin examined the surviving spoils, found a green bracelet with spatial fluctuations, and used the Treasure-Refining Formula to try to refine it.

Chen Lin examined his loot, but spared a descendant of the Liekong Clan after Ji Wu appeared and reclaimed her bracelet. He discovered an unrefinable treasure and a huge cache of valuables, then Shi Yuelan returned with major news.

• Chen Lin tried to refine a burned green bracelet, but Ji Wu of the Liekong Clan appeared and explained that his descendant’s resurrection spirit was inside it.
• Chen Lin let Ji Wu take the bracelet, and Ji Wu promised him a favor after confirming the spirit remained intact.
• Chen Lin tested a strange cylinder that resisted Flame Palm and could only be stored in his Gray Ring.
• Chen Lin found a vast Storage Bag filled with eternal stones, starlight stones, and miscellaneous goods, and considered how to sell them safely.
• Shi Yuelan rushed back and told Chen Lin that something major had happened.

Shi Yuelan told Chen Lin that cloaked heretical cultivators were attacking Void Realm cultivators across the region, prompting him to suspend his travel plans and cultivate. After failing to form a fifth inner star, Chen Lin chose to focus on improving his innate cultivation and began searching for related resources.

• Shi Yuelan reported that more than a dozen attacks by cloaked heretical cultivators had been discovered, and Chen Lin told her to keep watch while he stayed in Cangyuan Grotto-Heaven.
• Chen Lin resumed cultivating Seven-Star Shining Sun, but the other four inner stars devoured the embryonic soul star and forced him to stop.
• Chen Lin weighed advancing his innate cultivation against strengthening his inner stars and chose to prioritize his cultivation, Void Domain, and natal spirit treasure.
• Chen Lin searched the Market for innate cultivation methods and resources, then began visiting trading conventions to gather innate spirit treasures, secret arts, and spiritual entities.

Chen Lin learned that heretical cultivators were overrunning the Qian Domain and that the factions planned to abandon the Cangyuan Secret Realm if the fighting spread. After discovering that the Major Factions had been withdrawing their descendants for a year, he asked Yang Tianping for a safe way out.

• Chen Lin shifted his efforts toward repairing the Xikuli Cloak so he could return to the Inner World.
• Qian Ziduo told Chen Lin that heretical cultivators had seized many grotto-heavens in the Qian Domain and were advancing toward the Kan Domain.
• Chen Lin confirmed the danger with Yang Tianping, who explained that the Void Realm's superpowers were unlikely to unite against the heretical cultivators.
• After Chen Lin gave Yang Tianping a Heaven Tier Precious Tool, Yang Tianping revealed that the Major Factions had decided a year earlier to abandon the secret realm if the Qian Domain fell.
• Chen Lin asked Yang Tianping whether he knew a safe route out.

Chen Lin decided to leave the Cangyuan Grotto-Heaven and chose to brave the journey himself rather than seek a teleportation passage. After preparing for the trip and assigning Qian Ziduo to gather information, he encountered and killed a Cloaked Person with his Firefly Divine Ability.

• Chen Lin rejected relying on Yang Tianping or the Shen Family for a teleportation slot and decided to return to the Kaiyuan Realm before continuing his journey.
• Chen Lin asked Shi Yuelan and Qian Ziduo whether they would leave with him; Shi Yuelan chose to follow, while Qian Ziduo agreed to stay and gather information and treasures.
• Chen Lin gave Qian Ziduo a sealed Cyan Bracelet true treasure to exchange for passage or protection if the Cangyuan Secret Realm was abandoned, then left the grotto-heaven with Shi Yuelan.
• After two months in the void, Chen Lin noticed that he had gone a month without encountering any living beings and was attacked by a Cloaked Person.
• Chen Lin activated the Firefly Divine Ability, and the Cloaked Person recognized it as a Moon Palace Remnant and fled before being destroyed by the fireflies.

Chen Lin fought off Cloaked Persons on his way through the void, then reached the Heaven-Connecting River and returned to his cave abode. He discovered that higher-grade flesh and blood accelerated the Divine Sprout’s growth and left a Cloaked Person captain’s Inner Core for it to absorb.

• Chen Lin examined the empty cloak and dagger left by the Cloaked Person, then continued his journey with greater caution and used his little fish of destiny clone to warn him of danger.
• Chen Lin destroyed ten Cloaked Persons, including a stronger captain whose patterned cloak resisted Firefly and who left behind two treasures and an egg-sized Inner Core.
• Chen Lin collected Storage Bags and Precious Tools from fallen cultivators, avoided further dangers, and reached the Heaven-Connecting River.
• Chen Lin swam to the node, collected finger sand, entered safely, and returned to his cave abode, where White Fox greeted him.
• Chen Lin learned that the Divine Seed grew faster when watered with better flesh and blood, gave White Fox refined Void Beast essence, and placed the captain’s Inner Core at the Divine Sprout’s roots.

Chen Lin tested the Black and White Jade Pendant and confirmed he could use it to travel between the primal plane and his immortal cave, though its damage made the passage one-way and risky. After confirming other possible ways to leave and beginning to condense his Void Domain, he was interrupted by White Fox, who reported a problem with the Divine Sprout.

• Chen Lin released Shi Yuelan in his immortal cave, explained the primal plane, and sent her out to explore while he returned to the seabed node.
• A Nihility Fish attacked Chen Lin, but he stunned it twice with Death Gaze and captured it in his Golden Silkworm Bottle.
• Chen Lin activated the Black Crystal Insect, opened a Space Passage, and traveled from the primal plane back to his immortal cave, then destroyed the passage to prevent anyone from following.
• Chen Lin assessed the Jade Pendant's risks and damage, found that the Spirit Planter Token and Transmission Talisman could offer other ways to leave, and decided to stay for now.
• Chen Lin began cultivating to condense his Void Domain using the Destiny Law, but White Fox interrupted him and said the Divine Sprout seemed to be in trouble.

Chen Lin watched the Divine Sprout rapidly transform after absorbing the Cloaked Person’s Inner Core and asked Qian Ziduo to seek more. He condensed a domain prototype, Grass recovered and returned, and she urged him to look for Blind Girl in the Nightmare Realm.

• Chen Lin found the Divine Sprout had grown and turned black after absorbing the Cloaked Person’s Inner Core, while its life force had become more vigorous.
• Chen Lin told White Fox to keep watching the Divine Sprout and asked Qian Ziduo to collect Cloaked Persons’ Inner Cores.
• Shi Yuelan reached semi-void perfection, and Chen Lin condensed a ten-thousand-mile domain prototype that could use his fate arts.
• Grass emerged from the Jade Box restored, and Chen Lin took her to enjoy the Kaiyuan Realm’s scenery.
• Grass said Blind Girl might have reached the Outer World and asked Chen Lin to try summoning her in the Nightmare Realm; he agreed.

After ten years in the Kaiyuan Realm, Chen Lin returned to Cangyuan Grotto-Heaven to collect Dark Hearts amid the war against the Cloaked People. Qian Ziduo supplied nearly a hundred cores and revealed that he already knew of a cultivator from the Inner World.

• Chen Lin learned that the Cloaked People had breached two superpowers’ sealed lands, prompting factions from the Qian, Kan, and Dui Domains to form an alliance and establish bases.
• Chen Lin chose to leave the Kaiyuan Realm with Grass, while Shi Yuelan stayed behind to cultivate and watch over the realm.
• Chen Lin and Grass traveled safely to Cangyuan Grotto-Heaven, where Chen Lin reunited with Qian Ziduo at the Qingyang Treasure Pavilion.
• Qian Ziduo gave Chen Lin nearly a hundred Dark Hearts, and Chen Lin rewarded him with Finger Sand and other supplies for his service.
• Chen Lin tasked Qian Ziduo with secretly investigating the Moon Palace and cultivators from the Inner World, and Qian Ziduo said he already knew of one such cultivator.