Chapter Summaries

Chen Lin tested the new sword will he had formed by fusing three artistic conceptions and summoned Grass to learn what had happened outside. After discussing the scenario and Sword Lake, he prepared to attempt the lake and discovered that his new sword will let him fly.

• Chen Lin judged his weak but higher-order sword will could suppress ordinary sword will and decided to attempt Sword Lake the next day, after fishing on the full moon.
• Chen Lin summoned Grass and learned that an alien attack had been defeated by Gu Siming, while the Alliance’s war remained at a stalemate.
• Chen Lin explained the scenario to Grass, and she sensed that its special rhythm amplified sword will enough to bring her sword light close to the true realm.
• Chen Lin gave Grass Li Qiusheng’s sword-will-activated Storage Ring and the treasures he had collected, then asked whether she wanted to remain in the scenario longer.
• Grass suggested that Sword Woman might be controlling the scenario and that its inhabitants’ sword talent came from their generations of living in this environment.
• Chen Lin and Grass looked toward Sword Lake, and Chen Lin discovered that his new sword will let him rise into the air and fly as sword light.

Chen Lin brought Grass to the Sword Tower and the Sword Lake, hoping to learn whether she was connected to the Sword Woman and to prepare for an attempt to cross the lake. Grass sensed no connection, but her astonishing luck at fishing left her with a Sword Formula and a second catch as the chapter ended.

• Grass told Chen Lin that she sensed no connection between her origin and the Sword Will at the lake.
• Chen Lin took Grass to the Sword Tower, inherited Li Qiusheng's Contract Sword, and arranged for Grass to earn White-Clothed Swordsman status.
• Chen Lin and Grass went to the Sword Lake on the full moon night, where Chen Lin fished without success as he waited for the Rat Hour.
• Grass caught a huge, multicolored fish, which transformed into a streak of light and entered the space between her brows.
• Grass cast the fishing rod again and pulled a huge shrimp out of the lake.

Grass caught seven different creatures in Sword Lake, earning Sword Woman's extraordinary favor and obtaining the complete Linked Heart Sword Formula. After Ye Sanhuan warned Chen Lin not to enter the lake, Grass saw Sword Woman beneath the moon, and Chen Lin chose to fly into Sword Lake with her.

• Grass caught a crab, conch, dolphin, frog, and crocodile after two fish, and all seven creatures turned into light and entered her brow.
• Chen Lin led Grass away with the fishing rod, but Ye Sanhuan stopped them and warned that Chen Lin would never come out if he entered Sword Lake.
• Moonlight flooded Sword Lake, and Grass saw Sword Woman dancing above the water, though Chen Lin and the others could not see her.
• Grass reported that Sword Woman was descending toward the lake, and Chen Lin's divination gave him a vague sense that entering could turn danger into safety.
• Chen Lin took Grass and flew into Sword Lake as the moonlight began to fade.

Chen Lin reached Lake-Heart Island with Grass and met the Sword Woman, hoping to learn the sword formula. After recognizing Grass as Huiye’s sister and discovering an unexpected aura on Chen Lin, the Sword Woman laughed and returned to the lake, leaving her intentions unclear.

• Chen Lin used his sword will to cross Sword Lake, and Grass carried him to Lake-Heart Island as spectators and Sword Sect Master Xiaoling watched.
• The Sword Woman emerged from the lake and Chen Lin recognized her voice from the Sword Guest Trial.
• The Sword Woman revealed that Huiye was her sister and warned Chen Lin that passing on a message from her could cost him their friendship.
• The Sword Woman praised Grass’s innate sword body and clean heart, then said Chen Lin could not leave the island.
• The Sword Woman sensed an unfamiliar aura on Chen Lin, reacted with astonishment, laughed, and walked back into the lake.

Chen Lin returned from the Sword Woman Scenario with a powerful new Sword Will and the Burning Passion Formula, while Grass remained behind with Sword Woman. As the Spirit Boat continued toward the Sea of Despair, Chen Lin pondered Sword Woman’s cryptic words and the purpose behind the love-burning formula.

• Sword Woman taught Chen Lin the Burning Passion Formula, let him complete the departure mission, and refused to explain her cryptic remarks or remove the Sword Will from his Xikuli Cloak.
• Chen Lin returned to the Spirit Boat without Grass and told Gu Siming, Luo Sanhuai, Liu Rumian, and Divine Servant Tianshu that Grass had been kept behind for instruction.
• The Spirit Boat resumed its journey toward the Sea of Despair, and Chen Lin tested his new Sword Will, finding that it was weaker in the Reality Realm but still near the True Realm standard in offensive power.
• Gu Siming showed Chen Lin a Merit Coin and considered entering the Sword Woman Scenario, but she backed down after he warned her that it might not let her leave.
• Liu Rumian asked about the scenario, and Chen Lin warned her away while promising to help remove her Inner World Imprint after the mission.
• Chen Lin wondered whom Sword Woman had mistaken him for and examined the Burning Passion Formula, realizing that it burned romantic love to strengthen sword attacks.

Chen Lin mastered the Burning Passion Formula, a devastating Sword Formula that erased mutual love, and resolved never to use it. He practiced his unusual Sword Will, while Gu Siming recognized that its fusion path could make him stronger than ordinary Sword Cultivators.

• Chen Lin studied the Burning Passion Formula and realized that using it would erase both his and his chosen target’s genuine feelings for each other.
• Chen Lin considered the Donkey-Riding Old Man’s identity and decided he would need to visit Kaiyuan City again to uncover the truth.
• Chen Lin resolved to avoid using the Burning Passion Formula and practiced wielding his Sword Will in the void.
• Gu Siming praised Chen Lin’s sword strike and said it surpassed the True Realm, while Chen Lin admitted he could not bring out its full power as a non-Sword Cultivator.
• Gu Siming sensed that Chen Lin’s Sword Will followed a difficult fusion path and contained thunderbolt and the kingly way, along with an unknown component.

Chen Lin learned from Gu Siming that his fused sword wills drew strength from artistic conceptions of heaven, earth, and humanity, and she gave his sword will the name Yuanshi. After hearing that Hong Tingzhen had reached the Eternal Realm and war was about to intensify, Chen Lin decided to speed up their voyage toward the edge of the Sea of Despair.

• Gu Siming explained that Chen Lin’s Thunder, Tyrant Emperor, and chess artistic conceptions represented heaven, earth, and humanity, making them related and useful for future sword-will fusions.
• Gu Siming warned Chen Lin that his broad foundation could make perfection difficult and gave him an Inheritance Bead cataloging artistic conceptions in exchange for a future favor.
• Gu Siming told Chen Lin that Hong Tingzhen had reached the Eternal Realm and that the Left and Right Alliances were preparing an all-out offensive.
• Chen Lin contacted Jin Ruhua, who told him to continue his mission and not return to the Alliance before the war ended.
• Chen Lin called Gu Siming back to the Spirit Boat and accepted her name for his fused sword will: Yuanshi Sword Will.

Chen Lin studied Gu Siming’s inheritance bead and gained a clearer understanding of the Rainbow Realm’s cultivation system, including the paths of the true self and the other self. He realized that Death Gaze might prevent him from reaching Eternity and asked Gu Siming what she knew about unique secret methods.

• Chen Lin accepted Gu Siming’s suggestion to name their sect’s inheritance Kaiyuan and gave her an Inheritance Bead containing the Crit Fusion Intent Formula.
• Gu Siming studied the formula, judged it dangerous to cultivate, and admitted she had been prejudiced against Chen Lin for mistaking caution for cowardice.
• As the Spirit Boat traveled, Chen Lin studied Gu Siming’s inheritance bead and learned how artistic conceptions, laws, and the two cultivation paths related to reaching Eternity.
• Chen Lin concluded that Death Gaze’s unique, unfusable nature could leave a gap in his cultivation and block his ascent to Eternity.
• Chen Lin asked Gu Siming whether she knew anything about unique secret methods.

Chen Lin asked Gu Siming whether the Unique Secret Method would hinder his cultivation, then learned that Luo Sanhuai knew of a possible lead on the Mortal Refining Chapter. The chapter ended with Chen Lin asking for the name of Luo Sanhuai’s friend and whether he could contact him.

• Chen Lin asked Gu Siming about the Unique Secret Method, and she said that only a Dominator-tier expert could resolve it but that Chen Lin’s Seven-Star Shining Sun Cultivation Technique might let him reach the Eternal Realm without fusing his Dao with Heaven and Earth.
• Chen Lin remained worried about the incomplete technique, the missing Buddha Refining and Mortal Refining chapters, and Niuniu’s motives for giving him the Unique Secret Method.
• Luo Sanhuai overheard them and said he knew a friend who practiced the technique and had found a place where the Mortal Refining Chapter might exist.
• Luo Sanhuai explained that the place contained no origin force of heaven and earth, stripped entrants of their abilities, and lay somewhere near the Nightmare Realm’s Outer Realm Battlefield.
• Gu Siming warned Chen Lin about the danger, and Chen Lin asked Luo Sanhuai for his friend’s name and whether he could contact him.

After learning that Yan Xiaodie might know of a plane containing the Mortal Refining Chapter, Chen Lin asked Jin Ruhua to locate her and continued cultivating while he waited. Once his Kaiyuan Sword Will stabilized and he entered the True Realm, a sword Dao tribulation began, and Gu Siming warned him to face it with a sword formula.

• Luo Sanhuai told Chen Lin that Yan Xiaodie had explored a plane tied to the Seven-Star Formula and practiced three chapters of Seven-Star Shining Sun, but she was missing after being conscripted.
• Chen Lin asked Gu Siming to contact the Alliance, then sent Jin Ruhua a message asking her to find Yan Xiaodie and report the plane's entrance.
• As he traveled toward the Sea of Despair, Chen Lin cultivated sword will, Seven-Star Shining Sun, and his innate cultivation while waiting for Jin Ruhua's reply.
• After another year and a half, Chen Lin stabilized his Kaiyuan Sword Will and officially entered the True Realm.
• A sudden pressure made the swords aboard the Flying Boat vibrate, and Chen Lin realized a sword Dao tribulation had begun.
• Gu Siming warned Chen Lin that he should face the sword Dao tribulation with a sword formula rather than resist it by other means.

Chen Lin endured the Sword Tribulation, breaking its relentless attacks until an enormous black sword emerged and overwhelmed him with its destructive pressure. Refusing to use the Mermaid Sword and ruin his sword heart, he gathered his resolve and launched a desperate strike at the gigantic sword.

• Chen Lin entered the spirit infusion state and countered the Sword Tribulation's attacks with his sword will.
• Gu Siming and the others watched from the Spirit Boat as Chen Lin effortlessly shattered wave after wave of sword qi, while Gu Siming urged Luo Sanhuai and Liu Rumian to consider seeking opportunities in the Nightmare Realm.
• Tianshu spotted an enormous black sword emerging from the void, and its pressure forced everyone aboard the Spirit Boat down.
• Gu Siming said no one could help Chen Lin withstand the Heavenly Tribulation, then collapsed under the sword's pressure.
• Chen Lin rejected using the Mermaid Sword because it would destroy his sword heart and sword Dao cultivation, then struck at the gigantic black sword with a brilliant sword light.

Chen Lin lay near death after his sword strike shattered the colossal black sword, while Tianshu and Gu Siming rescued him and fled toward the Sea of Despair. Trapped in darkness, Chen Lin discovered a hidden blemish in his soul origin essence and detonated his remaining soul energy to destroy it, causing the blemish to break apart and reveal a series of clear scenes.

• Chen Lin's sword light clashed with the colossal black sword, leaving both severely damaged and Chen Lin nearly lifeless.
• Tianshu rescued Chen Lin and the black sword, then Gu Siming used green liquid to restore Tianshu and try to save Chen Lin.
• Gu Siming warned that Chen Lin's soul origin essence was close to collapse, and Luo Sanhuai steered the Spirit Boat toward the Sea of Despair.
• Little Chubby Boy searched for the missing Divine Sword with Yang Jiuniang and Ning Quan, but they abandoned him; he then asked Boss Bai to locate it.
• Chen Lin, trapped in darkness, detected a tiny soul blemish and tried unsuccessfully to separate or destroy it.
• Chen Lin detonated his remaining soul energy, and the blemish began to break apart as clear scenes appeared in his consciousness.

Chen Lin witnessed memories revealing how a Dominator-grade talisman began the Great Tribulation of Eternity and how its fragment pursued a mysterious orb into his former-life body. He realized the orb had used him as a shield, but its identity remained unknown as the memory ended in darkness.

• Chen Lin saw a Dominator-grade talisman endure attacks, release threads into the void, and trigger explosions that he recognized as the Great Tribulation of Eternity.
• A Moonlight Saber and the Firefly Divine Ability assaulted the talisman until it split, sending one half toward the moon and the other toward the person whose memories Chen Lin was viewing.
• Chen Lin recognized his former-life self as a drunken young man shortly before his transmigration, when a fleeing orb and a gray streak entered the young man's brow.
• The orb scattered into a fragment that hid in a hazy black dot, while the gray streak—revealed as half of the talisman—was bound and then exploded.
• Chen Lin inferred that the orb had used him as a puppet to escape disaster, but he could not identify it; the orb and talisman then shattered the space, and the images faded into darkness.

Chen Lin awakened aboard the Spirit Boat after less than a month, and began recovering with high-grade finger sand and a healing pill. As the group neared the Sea of Despair, he continued investigating the soul blemish and the unknown reincarnated enemy it might connect him to.

• Chen Lin awoke with Liu Rumian, Gu Siming, Luo Sanhuai, and Tianshu around him and learned that they were flying toward the Sea of Despair.
• Gu Siming said she had used all her pure life fluid on Chen Lin, so he used high-grade finger sand from the Golden Silkworm Bottle to aid his recovery.
• Gu Siming sensed possible danger, ordered Luo Sanhuai to keep the Spirit Boat moving, and gave Chen Lin a healing pill.
• Chen Lin examined the soul blemish and concluded that it might be connected to Huiye, the mysterious fiend she sought to resurrect, or that fiend's reincarnation.
• Chen Lin reasoned that the soul blemish may have formed through a reaction between part of another person's soul, the half talisman, and his own soul.
• After days of recovery, Chen Lin regained some movement, and the Spirit Boat came within a little over a year of the Sea of Despair.

Chen Lin discovered that his Soul Blemish could control the mysterious black sword, allowing him to shrink it and hide it in the Gray Ring. This erased Gu Siming’s sense of danger, but Little Chubby Boy and Little White Bird lost their ability to track the group and continued searching.

• Chen Lin recovered from his injuries and offered Gu Siming the black sword, but she refused it and warned that it might be the source of her sense of danger.
• Chen Lin tested whether containers could block Gu Siming’s warning, but her sense of danger remained, so the group hurried toward the Sea of Despair.
• Chen Lin used the Soul Blemish’s aura to shrink the black sword and stored it in the Gray Ring, causing Gu Siming’s sense of danger to disappear.
• Little Chubby Boy summoned Little White Bird to locate Chen Lin’s group, but Little White Bird could no longer sense their aura.

Chen Lin and his companions approached the Sea of Despair, where his newly condensed true principle threatened to keep him from joining their mission. Gu Siming gave him spirit-sealing liquid so he could enter, while Little Chubby Boy pursued the Divine Sword toward the same sea and Huyan Wushuang set out to find Chen Lin.

• Chen Lin stopped the Spirit Boat after his thunderbolt true principle reacted strongly to the Sea of Despair's energy.
• Gu Siming gave Chen Lin spirit-sealing liquid that could temporarily seal his true principle, warning him not to use it and to leave before it ran out.
• Chen Lin agreed to repay Gu Siming for the liquid and the life fluid she had used on him, then ordered Luo Sanhuai to continue toward the Sea of Despair.
• Little Chubby Boy consulted Little White Bird about the strange energy, learned that the realm's laws had been altered, and decided to enter the Sea of Despair to find the Divine Sword.
• Huyan Wushuang persuaded her elder companion to help locate Chen Lin and recover Li Fuyao's belongings, which she said were essential to Li Fuyao's future ascent.

Chen Lin led his group into the Sea of Despair, where the strange energy suppressed many abilities and disabled most storage treasures. As they flew toward the mission’s ruin, a palace illusion appeared, and Chen Lin attacked it with his Wooden Sword.

• Chen Lin and the others prepared for the Sea of Despair, packed their belongings, and entered after Chen Lin used a drop of spirit-sealing liquid.
• The group tested their abilities and found that most techniques were suppressed and Storage Bags could not be opened, while Chen Lin’s Gray Ring and soul blemish remained usable.
• Chen Lin learned that Gu Siming was only at the early Void Realm, then led the group toward the ruin named in their mission.
• Gu Siming warned the group, but a palace illusion filled Chen Lin’s vision and showed him dancing women and a veiled beauty.
• Chen Lin recognized the scene as an illusion, entered the Spirit Infusion State, drew his Wooden Sword, and thrust.

Chen Lin and his companions fought through the Sea of Despair, where a mysterious Veiled Woman attacked them with hidden threads. Chen Lin’s Death Gaze disrupted her scheme and forced her to vanish, leaving the group uncertain what would happen next.

• Chen Lin killed a Bat Creature with Soul-Destroying Finger and helped Luo Sanhuai escape another, while the others defeated the remaining creatures.
• Gu Siming explained that the creatures were native to the Sea of Despair, and Chen Lin and Gu Siming took positions at the front and rear as the group continued toward the ruins.
• Gu Siming used an ocher bead to reveal red threads approaching the group, and the Veiled Woman appeared, revealing herself as the source of the Bat Creatures.
• Gu Siming attacked the Veiled Woman with a talisman and fishing rod while Chen Lin supported her with Flame Palm, but the woman brushed off their attacks and targeted Gu Siming.
• Chen Lin noticed the Veiled Woman’s scheme as Gu Siming raised her divine ability, warned her to withdraw, and struck the Veiled Woman with Death Gaze, causing her to vanish.

After the Veiled Woman disrupted the group’s emotions, Chen Lin and his companions discussed her power and struggled to find their way through the Sea of Despair. They eventually spotted a floating island that appeared to match their mission’s description.

• Chen Lin checked on Liu Rumian, Luo Sanhuai, and Tianshu, who all admitted the Veiled Woman had affected their emotions, while Gu Siming said she had exploited a flaw in her state of mind.
• Chen Lin reassured Liu Rumian and Luo Sanhuai that they should stay with the group, and gave Gu Siming steamed buns until she calmed down.
• Gu Siming judged the Veiled Woman to be a powerful bizarre creature, probably a natural divine being at the third stage, and said she had once seen a level-four life.
• Chen Lin discovered that the Veiled Woman’s interference had made their map and energy readings unreliable, so the group picked a direction and continued exploring.
• Less than a month later, Chen Lin and the others found an enormous floating island with a light barrier, buildings, and exotic flowers and herbs.

Chen Lin and his companions reached the Floating Island, where Luo Sanhuai vanished after touching its barrier. As Chen Lin investigated an amber that began flashing, Gu Siming revealed what she knew about the Demon-Suppressing Temple and a mysterious Fiend; the chapter ended with Chen Lin testing the barrier by tossing two items into it.

• Luo Sanhuai touched the Floating Island’s barrier despite warnings and was sucked inside.
• Gu Siming identified the barrier as treasure light and said the entire Floating Island was a treasure.
• Chen Lin discovered that the amber from Nianshan was flashing, and Gu Siming said its inscription came from at least an Eternal Grade expert.
• Gu Siming explained the Demon-Suppressing Temple’s mysterious origins and warned Chen Lin not to investigate the Fiend sought by the Lord of the Moon Palace.
• Chen Lin questioned Gu Siming about how powerful beings could erase information about someone, then tossed two items into the barrier from different directions.