Chapter Summaries

Chen Lin and Gu Siming fought the three Huyan Lineage cultivators, using their secret arts and treasures to turn the battle around. After Huyan Wushuang and the old man fell, Li Fuyao remained a threat, and Gu Siming suddenly vanished after pressing the orb to her brow.

• Chen Lin learned that Gu Siming could not reuse the Box of Time, then sent her to fight the old man while he faced Li Fuyao and Huyan Wushuang.
• Chen Lin attacked Li Fuyao with the Black Little Sword, which pierced her colorful radiance and weakened her aura, while Huyan Wushuang unleashed her Red Ribbon and began forming a deadly pattern.
• Chen Lin used Death Gaze and the Soul Confrontation Secret Art on Huyan Wushuang, leaving her unable to resist as Tianshu swallowed her.
• Gu Siming used Lifespan Confrontation to exhaust the old man's remaining lifespan, and he died while Chen Lin's sword continued to hold Li Fuyao at bay.
• Gu Siming warned Chen Lin that Li Fuyao was about to break free, then pressed the orb to her brow and vanished in a burst of light.

Chen Lin and his companions faced a boy and a talking bird who sought the black Divine Sword, but their attacks failed against the pair’s strange abilities. As Gu Siming prepared to teleport them away, the bird realized the Rainbow Realm had supposedly been struck by a World-Extinguishing Talisman and questioned how it still existed.

• After Li Fuyao escaped, Chen Lin kept the black sword, and Gu Siming identified it as an eternal-grade treasure.
• A chubby boy and the white bird confronted Chen Lin’s group and demanded the Divine Sword, saying Chen Lin had to die because the sword carried his aura.
• Chen Lin and his companions attacked, but their techniques passed harmlessly through the boy; Tianshu’s Darkness Domain and Chen Lin’s Silence Technique helped reveal the boy’s hidden position before the pair vanished.
• The boy and the bird argued, while Gu Siming secretly prepared a teleportation treasure to help the group escape.
• The boy and the bird recognized Chen Lin’s Firefly Divine Ability as belonging to the Moon Palace and discussed the Rainbow Realm as a place from an ancient story.
• The bird asked how the Rainbow Realm could still exist and retain Heaven and Earth Essence Qi if a World-Extinguishing Talisman had struck it.

Chen Lin stalled Boss Bai and Little Chubby Boy with a poem while Gu Siming prepared an escape. After she transported the group away, she collapsed, and Chen Lin used life essence and the Black and White Jade Pendant to try to keep her alive as his danger warning persisted.

• Chen Lin challenged Boss Bai's refinement and recited a flattering poem, satisfying the bird and persuading it to delay its attack.
• When Gu Siming activated her escape, Boss Bai sealed the area and Little Chubby Boy shot at Chen Lin, but the group vanished in the azure light.
• Little Chubby Boy blamed Boss Bai for letting them escape, while the bird flew after the group and took the larger Muddled Fruit with it.
• Gu Siming transported Chen Lin and the others through a strange time-law effect before telling Chen Lin to take her back to his plane.
• The group emerged from the Void, where Chen Lin found Gu Siming unconscious and near death, treated her, and infused the Black and White Jade Pendant with advanced soul source as his danger warning remained.

Chen Lin escaped to the Kaiyuan Realm with Liu Rumian, Tianshu, and Gu Siming by forcing the damaged Black Crystal Insect to open a passage, then spent three months unconscious recovering. After awakening, he learned Gu Siming had left for Yesterday Manor and began assessing the damaged treasure and his other spoils.

• Chen Lin used soul origin essence to widen a passage with the Black Crystal Insect, damaging it, then carried Gu Siming through with Liu Rumian and Tianshu.
• A white bird arrived too late to stop them, then transformed into a white-robed young man and flew off to explore the realm.
• Chen Lin woke after three months unconscious, and Chen Ling'er told him Gu Siming had left for Yesterday Manor using a Realm-Breaking Talisman.
• Chen Lin learned that Aunt Liu and the Great Cyan Pill were investigating mysterious corrosive ore in the Seafloor Trench, while White Moonlight and Feng Changqing were in hiding.
• Chen Lin examined the damaged Black Crystal Insect and his spoils, then found that the golden wheat and fluorescent rice could neither be cooked nor ground into flour.

Chen Lin met the newly human-shaped Feng Changqing, received pill liquid from the Great Cyan Pill, and learned about the Spirit-Sealing Cauldron and the possible power of a Wish Pill. He concluded that Huiye might have mistaken him for the Mysterious Fiend’s reincarnation, then watched the Great Cyan Pill subdue the Transparent Pill and react strangely to it.

• Chen Lin met Feng Changqing, learned of his exceptional cultivation talent, and planted a spiritual seal in him to prevent betrayal.
• The Great Cyan Pill gave Chen Lin a bottle of pill liquid and discussed the Spirit-Sealing Cauldron, identifying it as a Four Symbols Bagua Furnace and the Azure Leaf as a remnant of a spirit-nourishing tree.
• The Great Cyan Pill said a Wish Pill might restore someone if traces of them remained, leading Chen Lin to suspect Huiye had mistaken him for the Mysterious Fiend’s reincarnation.
• Chen Lin decided to maintain the appearance that he was the Fiend’s remaining trace while secretly seeking a way to manage the danger.
• The Great Cyan Pill opened the bottle and used cyan threads to restrain the Transparent Pill, then trembled and begged Chen Lin not to interrupt as he admired it.

Chen Lin let the Great Cyan Pill keep the Wish Pill as his Pill Companion in exchange for a favor, then asked the pill about golden wheat, fluorescent rice, and what it remembered of a high plane. The Great Cyan Pill identified the spirit rice and revealed that ore in the Seafloor Trench had restored some of his memories.

• The Great Cyan Pill weakened the Wish Pill and declared that he wanted her as his Pill Companion, while Chen Lin demanded an explanation.
• The Great Cyan Pill refused to help Chen Lin reach the True Realm and explained that the Wish Pill could only fulfill the wishes set by her refiner.
• Chen Lin agreed to give the Wish Pill to the Great Cyan Pill in exchange for a favor, and the pill safely embraced her.
• Chen Lin showed the Great Cyan Pill golden wheat and fluorescent rice, which the pill identified as spirit rice once bestowed by the Lord of the Moon Palace on Red Hair Old Ancestor.
• The Great Cyan Pill said Oddity Island was linked to the Abyss of Despair and a passage to a high plane, then revealed that ore in the Seafloor Trench had restored some of his memories.

Chen Lin questioned the Great Cyan Pill about the world beyond the Rainbow Realm and learned of the Boundary River, the Star Domain, and the Abyss. After learning how to prepare the spirit rice, he planned to seek chaos water and refine the Four Symbols Bagua Furnace, but the Xikuli Cloak still prevented him from returning to the Inner World.

• Chen Lin asked the Great Cyan Pill about his origins and the outside world, and learned that a princess had brought him to the Rainbow Realm and that Supremes were its highest known experts.
• After absorbing black ore, the Great Cyan Pill recalled that the Rainbow Realm lay within the Boundary River, near the Star Domain, while the Abyss lay beyond its other side.
• The Great Cyan Pill explained that the Nightmare Realm might exist both within the Boundary River and beyond it, and he could not recall how the princess entered the Rainbow Realm.
• The Great Cyan Pill told Chen Lin to cook the fluorescent rice and golden wheat with chaos water, Four Symbols fire, and a Bagua Furnace to strengthen yin-yang power and the Unique Secret Method.
• Chen Lin considered finding chaos water in the Inner World, but the Sword Will in the Xikuli Cloak's hole kept him from returning, so he began restoring his soul and preparing to refine the Spirit-Sealing Cauldron.

Chen Lin used the Unnamed Treasure-Refining Formula to refine the Four Symbols Bagua Furnace, subduing its artifact spirit with Big Black Dog’s hair and claiming the cauldron as his own. Afterward, he told Chen Ling'er about the Boundary River and discovered that a booklet she had found might contain a written language matching the altar’s runes.

• Chen Lin prepared the altar and began refining the Four Symbols Bagua Furnace with Chen Ling'er’s help.
• Chen Ling'er showed Chen Lin a booklet whose runes resembled those appearing in the formation, and he asked to study it after the refinement.
• The cauldron’s artifact spirit attacked Chen Lin with the phantom Four Divine Beasts, but Big Black Dog’s hair suppressed it.
• Chen Lin absorbed the little beast’s consciousness, became the cauldron’s primary artifact spirit, and gained some of its pill-refining memories.
• Chen Lin explained his star domain stowaway origins and shared what he knew about the Boundary River and cultivation systems, urging Chen Ling'er to improve her life level.
• Chen Lin concluded that the booklet’s markings were likely a written language, then continued studying them.

After a century of cultivation, Chen Lin sent Tianshu to learn how the war was going and visited the Great Cyan Pill to ask for Memory Stones. The Great Cyan Pill gave him some ore and revealed that he had recovered a memory: the mystic runes Chen Lin had asked about were a form of writing.

• Chen Lin used the Four Symbols Bagua Furnace to improve his pill refining and cultivated his innate abilities, Seven-Star Shining Sun, Sword Dao, and Soul-Slicing Guillotine.
• After a hundred years, Chen Lin gave Tianshu a Communication Jade Talisman and instructed him to check the war, contact Elder Jin only if the situation was favorable, and keep the Heaven-Connecting River space node secret.
• Chen Lin visited the Seafloor Trench and found the Great Cyan Pill and Ruyuan watching yaoguai mine ore.
• Chen Lin asked the Great Cyan Pill for Memory Stones, and the Great Cyan Pill handed him several pieces of ore while saying he was experimenting with another use for them.
• The Great Cyan Pill told Chen Lin that he had recovered a little of his memory and that the mystic runes Chen Lin had asked about were a form of writing.

Chen Lin investigated the abyssal script on the altar and spent twenty years improving the Soul-Slicing Guillotine while waiting for Tianshu. When Tianshu returned, he reported that the Alliance had suffered three defeats after Red-Robed Cultivators joined the Dark Cultivators, leaving Chen Lin worried about the fate of the Sword Saint and Hong Tingzhen.

• The Great Cyan Pill told Chen Lin that the runes were abyssal script, recalling that a Princess had described similar inscriptions inside an abyss crystal.
• Chen Lin traced the altar’s possible connection to the Abyss to the gold-spotted soul-crossing stones Gu Siming had given him, but could not confirm their origin or contact her.
• Over twenty years, Chen Lin failed to advance his cultivation but raised the Soul-Slicing Guillotine to the true realm level by studying and testing it.
• While reflecting on old companions and Hong Tingzhen’s rapid rise, Chen Lin heard Chen Ling'er announce Tianshu’s return and went to meet him.
• Tianshu told Chen Lin that Red-Robed Cultivators had joined the Dark Cultivators about eighty years earlier and that the Alliance had lost all three major battles; Chen Lin asked whether the Sword Saint and Hong Tingzhen were still alive.

Chen Lin learned that the Alliance had suffered heavy losses and was now defending only the Kan and Kun Domains, while the Star Vortex offered limited support. After contacting Qian Ziduo through a special Transmitting Box, Chen Lin considered how to stay informed and prepare in case the Alliance abandoned the Kan Domain.

• Tianshu told Chen Lin that Hong Tingzhen and the Sword Saint were unable to fight, but they had gravely wounded the King of the Red-Robed Cultivators, and Chen Lin's God-Slaying Crossbow had killed the leader of the Dark Cultivators.
• Tianshu reported that the Left Alliance held the Kan Domain and the Right Alliance held the Kun Domain, while the Star Vortex had sent mostly clones to help the Alliance.
• Chen Lin asked whether the Dark Cultivators and Red-Robed Cultivators were connected to the Abyss, and Tianshu said no such theory had surfaced.
• Tianshu gave Chen Lin a Transmitting Box from Qian Ziduo, and Chen Lin used it to tell Qian Ziduo to deliver the Jade Talisman to Elder Jin and gather materials and information about the Abyss.
• Tianshu told Chen Lin that Qian Ziduo had reached the Void Realm and expanded the Qingyang Treasure Pavilion in the Cangyuan Secret Realm.
• Chen Lin rewarded Tianshu and sent him to rest, then considered how to prepare in case the Alliance retreated from the Kan Domain.

After Wen Xinzhao unexpectedly entered Chen Lin’s plane, she revealed that their encounter had led to the birth of twins and asked to bring her endangered lineage there. Chen Lin agreed to shelter the children and allow ten Wen Lineage members to join the Kaiyuan Sect under strict conditions, and Wen Xinzhao left to fetch them.

• The Divine Pagoda stirred, and Wen Xinzhao emerged after entering the plane through her knowledge of its formation.
• Wen Xinzhao offered to reinforce the plane’s formation and provide valuable resources in exchange for moving her lineage there, but Chen Lin refused.
• Wen Xinzhao warned that Chen Ling'er and the others could become targets, then revealed that she had given birth to twins fathered by Chen Lin after their encounter a century earlier.
• Wen Xinzhao explained that Wan Zhencang was persecuting her lineage and that her children and clanspeople were in danger.
• Chen Lin agreed to take in the twins and allow ten Wen Lineage members into the Kaiyuan Sect, requiring them to join the sect, sign a Soul Pact, and swear a Great Dao Oath.
• Wen Xinzhao accepted Chen Lin’s terms and left to bring the group within six months.

Wen Xinzhao reunited Chen Lin with their children and brought him news about the Alliance’s war against bizarre cultivators, who may have come from the Abyss. Chen Lin learned that a recluse might be able to read his Abyssal book, and Wen Xinzhao offered to arrange a meeting if he treated both children equally.

• Wen Xinzhao returned with Chen Siyang and Wen Siyue, and Chen Lin welcomed them as his children despite their strange ages and lack of law origins.
• Chen Lin introduced the Wen Lineage members to his people, required them to swear oaths and sign Soul Contracts, then had Chen Ling'er show the children around.
• Wen Xinzhao told Chen Lin that the Alliance factions were consumed by infighting and hoarding resources while the war against the bizarre cultivators continued.
• Wen Xinzhao explained that seized items bore Abyssal script, leading the Alliance to suspect that the dark and red-robed cultivators came from Abyss-affected planes to search the Rainbow Realm.
• Chen Lin showed Wen Xinzhao his book, and she confirmed its writing was Abyssal script but said she knew a recluse who might be able to read it.
• Wen Xinzhao offered to help Chen Lin meet the recluse in return for his promise to treat Chen Siyang and Wen Siyue equally.

Chen Lin and Wen Xinzhao addressed the cultivation defects of their children and rebuilt the Divine Pagoda’s grand formation, placing its control in Chen Lin’s hands. Wen Xinzhao then prepared to return to protect the Wen Lineage, while Chen Lin gave her a powerful scroll to aid her survival.

• Wen Xinzhao explained that Yang'er and Yue'er could not condense law origins because of their extreme yin and yang talents, and Chen Lin promised to help them while keeping his solution secret.
• Chen Lin and Wen Xinzhao discussed Oddity Island, Yesterday Manor, and the Divine Pagoda’s teleportation passage before Wen Xinzhao tested Chen Lin and learned he had entered the True Realm.
• Wen Xinzhao provided the materials and expertise to make 108 Coiled Dragon Pillars, and Chen Lin and the gathered cultivators spent three years completing the upgraded formation.
• Chen Lin bound the Golden Token and activated the Divine Pagoda Coiling Dragon Array, which drew on stellar power and enveloped the Kaiyuan Realm.
• Wen Xinzhao asked for a Sub-Token so she could return to her threatened clansmen, and Chen Lin gave her the Sword of Adjudication scroll before leaving.

Chen Lin established the Kaiyuan Sect and gave Wen Xinxuan a pill and talismans to help her ascend. The Great Cyan Pill then warned him that leaving the Boundary River before merging with a Nightmare Realm projection would bring annihilation, leaving Chen Lin uncertain whether Earth lay within its bounds.

• Chen Lin founded the Kaiyuan Sect, assigned its elders and hall leaders, and tasked Wen Jing'an with the Formation Hall.
• Chen Lin gave Wen Xinxuan a Tianxu Pill to aid her ascension and Tribulation Crossing Talismans, and agreed to make intelligent puppets for her herb gardens.
• Chen Xinxuan told Chen Lin that her younger siblings seemed innocent and well-behaved, and he instructed her to watch them discreetly and keep them equipped with defensive treasures.
• Chen Ling'er said she preferred staying single, and Chen Lin urged her to focus on cultivation and monitor her younger siblings.
• The Great Cyan Pill recalled that the Nightmare Realm was the reverse side of each plane and that merging with its projection could free someone from the Boundary River's restrictions.
• The Great Cyan Pill warned Chen Lin not to leave the Boundary River or enter the Abyss before merging with a Nightmare Realm projection, and Chen Lin wondered whether Earth was inside the Boundary River.

Chen Lin spent more than twenty years cultivating while events unfolded among the Wen Lineage and the Alliance. He discovered that his children could activate the Yin-Yang Lotus together, and he took them to the Pill Refining Room to confirm something else.

• Wen Xinxuan ascended to the Void Realm with a Tianxu Pill, and Liu Rumian reached the perfected Semi-Void Realm as she cleared most of her Inner World Brand; Chen Lin gave Liu a pill but she chose to delay ascending.
• Qian Ziduo told Chen Lin that the bizarre cultivators remained quiet after their leaders were weakened, while the Alliance’s Major Factions continued competing for power instead of counterattacking.
• Chen Lin examined Chen Siyang and Wen Siyue, then found that neither could activate the Yin-Yang Lotus alone.
• Chen Siyang and Wen Siyue activated the lotus together with their talent abilities and used it to absorb each other’s energy, allowing them to balance their yin-yang power.
• Chen Lin warned his children to keep the lotus secret, then led them to the Pill Refining Room and took out the Four Symbols Bagua Furnace.

Chen Lin used the Two Siblings' growing yin-yang power to cook fluorescent spirit rice porridge, then tested its effects on an old ape. The porridge helped the ape undergo form transformation, and he joined Chen Lin as a willing servant, though he warned that the rice's energy was difficult to control.

• Chen Lin discovered that the Two Siblings' yin-yang power could make the spirit rice change, then guided them until they condensed their law origins.
• Chen Lin and the Two Siblings successfully cooked fluorescent spirit rice porridge, which released a powerful, fresh fragrance.
• Chen Lin fed a small portion of the porridge to an old ape, who absorbed its energy for hours before beginning form transformation.
• The old ape survived three tribulation lightning strikes, transformed into a gaunt old man, and recognized Chen Lin as the Sect Master.
• The old ape thanked Chen Lin and offered to serve him, then reported that he had absorbed less than twenty percent of the porridge's energy and could barely control his mana.

Chen Lin tested the spirit rice’s effects, named the transformed ape Yuan Tiancheng, and discovered that golden wheat could strengthen his inner stars while both kinds of rice together improved Death Gaze. After the rice experiments strained his children’s innate talents, he set aside further attempts to cultivate Death Gaze and entered seclusion to condense his Fifth Star’s Star Core.

• Chen Lin helped the old ape absorb the spirit rice’s energy, named him Yuan Tiancheng, and had him cultivate in a secluded chamber.
• Chen Lin refined fluorescent rice porridge and found that it nourished his body, soul, and primordial spirit, but not his inner stars or Death Gaze.
• Chen Lin considered contacting Old Servant Qi about his rice stipend, the Abyss, and Abyssal Script, but decided to wait and conserve his supply.
• Over ten years, Chen Lin tested the rice and found golden wheat strengthened his inner stars, while porridge made from both kinds of rice together strengthened Death Gaze; the latter severely strained the siblings’ innate talents.
• The siblings reached Law Origin Mid-Stage but showed signs of mental instability, so Chen Lin stopped their cultivation and sent them out to temper their minds.
• After confirming that the Alliance’s situation had not changed, Chen Lin entered seclusion to condense his Fifth Star’s Star Core.

Chen Lin condensed the core of his fifth star, strengthening his soul and celestial fire, but learned that the process had triggered another void storm and the appearance of a mysterious Rainbow Bridge in the Kun Domain. As he considered seeking mortals to develop his talent, he sent Tianshu to investigate the bridge and several other matters, then offered White Moonlight a chance to explore the outside world.

• Chen Lin condensed the fifth star core despite a black star trying to swallow its radiance, survived the heavenly tribulation, and gained greater inner star force, celestial fire, and soul strength.
• The Kaiyuan Realm prospered under the Wen Lineage, and Chen Lin considered bringing in mortals to help the plane and improve his talent ability.
• Chen Lin learned from Qian Ziduo that another fierce void storm had appeared and that a Rainbow Bridge had emerged in the Kun Domain after the storm.
• Chen Lin gave Tianshu a Realm-Protecting Array Sub-Token and ordered him to investigate the Rainbow Bridge, find Yan Xiaodie, and watch Yesterday Manor and Wen Xinzhao.
• Chen Lin asked White Moonlight whether she wanted to leave the plane and explore the outside world, and she eagerly asked if she could go.

Chen Lin reasoned that a dominator characteristic might let him unravel the Sword Will on the cloak, so he began strengthening Death Gaze with fused Spirit Rice Porridge. After years passed, Wen Xinyan visited him seeking help to break through to the True Realm.

• Chen Lin concluded that Death Gaze might need a higher level to counter the cloak’s dominator Sword Will, and began refining fused Spirit Rice Porridge to strengthen it.
• Chen Lin continued his cultivation for several years while White Moonlight returned injured after Void Beasts attacked her, and Tianshu reached the Peak Void Realm.
• Yuan Tiancheng announced that Wen Xinyan had come to see Chen Lin, who invited her into the Grand Hall.
• Wen Xinyan told Chen Lin that her cultivation had reached a bottleneck and asked for help breaking through to the True Realm.