Chapter Summaries

Chen Lin took Wen Xinyan into the Valley Secret Realm after she traded him a Feather Pen that required a Merit Coin to activate. After Wen Xinyan drank from the spring, Chen Lin searched for a treasure to help them leave safely and noticed something unusual about the river.

• Wen Xinyan offered Chen Lin the Feather Pen in exchange for entry to the valley, and he agreed to take her there.
• Chen Lin sent Yuan Tiancheng ahead to check the bamboo, then rewarded him with Demon God Pills after he returned safely.
• Chen Lin and Wen Xinyan entered the scenario, completed its departure task, and discussed how such missions related to a scenario's core rules.
• Chen Lin led Wen Xinyan through the valley to the spring, where she drank as much as she could to improve her chances of ascending to the True Realm.
• After Chen Lin found that the Yin-Yang Lotus had not regrown, he and Wen Xinyan searched for another treasure, and he suddenly focused on the river.

Chen Lin encountered the sentient destiny fish Daidaixi in the secret realm and traded her the rules for leaving in exchange for a destiny cultivation technique. After learning that Daidaixi could complete neither of the realm’s tasks, he left her facing the possibility of being trapped there.

• Chen Lin used his Fate Tentacle to catch the goldfish, sensed it pleading, and released it rather than harm it.
• The goldfish returned to the spring eye, failed to escape, and asked Chen Lin for help; he drew it into his Destiny River and learned her name was Daidaixi.
• Daidaixi told Chen Lin she came from Red Umbrella Star in the Red Cloud Star Domain and had been lost from the River of Destiny into the Boundary River’s Nightmare Realm.
• Daidaixi described the Boundary River’s known passages and imparted the Mortal Dust Asks Destiny cultivation technique to Chen Lin.
• Chen Lin explained the secret realm’s two tasks and his deductions, and Daidaixi realized she could complete neither task.

Chen Lin learned about the Rainbow Bridge, the Star Domains, and Daidaixi’s secret techniques before bringing her out of the River of Destiny to investigate the Triangular Building. With Daidaixi’s help, he deciphered the stone’s code, and it spat out an item.

• Daidaixi told Chen Lin that the Rainbow Bridge appeared in the Rainbow Realm and that its appearances had led people to become Supremes, then explained the World-Extinguishing Talisman and the restrictions Supremes faced.
• Daidaixi taught Chen Lin Abyssal Script and the Text Deduction Technique, then gave him the refining method for the Chain of Destiny in exchange for his help completing her mission.
• Chen Lin learned that Daidaixi could leave the river briefly because she had a Reverse Scale, then placed her in a bottle and set out with Wen Xinyan.
• Chen Lin entered the Triangular Building alone and found a patterned stone, but his attempts to activate it failed until Daidaixi recognized its markings as a code.
• Daidaixi used her Talent Ability to decipher the code and guided Chen Lin through nine steps, causing the stone’s patterns to form a glowing vortex that spat out an item.

Chen Lin obtained a black pendant from the boulder, while Daidaixi claimed a dark red one and completed her task. After she returned to the River of Destiny, Chen Lin and Wen Xinyan chose to seek another treasure, but the flowering tree they approached proved strange and potentially dangerous.

• Chen Lin used the password to obtain a black pendant from the boulder, and Daidaixi cracked its final face to claim an identical dark red pendant.
• Daidaixi said the pendant completed her task, explained she had to return through her original node, and promised to ask around for Xitina.
• Chen Lin returned Daidaixi to the River of Destiny and warned Wen Xinyan to keep the goldfish secret.
• Chen Lin offered Wen Xinyan the choice to keep collecting treasures or leave, and she chose to continue searching.
• Chen Lin and Wen Xinyan approached a flowering tree, then noticed its scaled trunk and branches formed a lifelike woman's face.

Wen Xinyan used Chen Lin’s treasures and her own tools to overcome the flowering tree’s defenses and retrieve it. A sudden mist forced them to leave the Scenario, and Chen Lin began sorting through his gains while Wen Xinyan departed with the tree.

• Wen Xinyan decided to retrieve the flowering tree, and Chen Lin lent her the Intentless Sword, Silk Scarf, and bell.
• Wen Xinyan used the bell to stun the tree, but her Silver Pickaxe could not dig through the formation protecting its roots.
• Wen Xinyan used a damaged Jade Talisman to locate the Array Core in the tree’s flower, then sent corrosive insects to disable it after the tree dodged the Intentless Sword.
• Wen Xinyan uprooted the weakened tree and shrank it, then a sudden bank of mist rose over the courtyard.
• Chen Lin and Wen Xinyan used rejection to leave the Scenario, confirmed they had kept their gains, and Wen Xinyan departed while Chen Lin stayed to sort through his rewards.

Chen Lin established mortal kingdoms and lived as a mortal to gather mortal dust aspiration force, but he rescued his dying wife, Du Yuee, after their son was taken by the Kaiyuan Sect. At the sect, he saw Du Shian struggling through the Heart-Inquiring Path as a bell rang eighteen times for an exceptional young disciple.

• Chen Lin studied the Mortal Dust Asks Destiny technique and the Chain of Destiny method, concluding that he needed mortal dust aspiration force and a dangerous visit to the River of Destiny to obtain a flower of destiny.
• Over a hundred years, Tianshu’s return helped the Kaiyuan Realm’s population grow, and Chen Lin arranged for three mortal kingdoms to be founded so their struggles could provide mortal dust aspiration force.
• Chen Lin lived under seven mortal identities and, as Shopkeeper Huang, married Du Yuee and had a son, Du Shian; after Du Shian was chosen by immortals, Du Yuee’s health failed.
• Chen Lin took Du Yuee to his immortal cave, restored her vitality with life origin essence, and went to the Kaiyuan Sect to retrieve their son.
• At the sect’s disciple assessment, Chen Lin found Du Shian struggling on the Heart-Inquiring Path and learned that an unusual girl had reached the summit; a bell then rang eighteen times.

Chen Lin took Chu Qingying and Du Shian as disciples, then sent Feng Changqing beyond the realm to investigate the Kun Domain and search for old acquaintances. As news of Mingyue Shuanghua’s rise threatened his concealment, Chen Lin reinforced a vulnerable boundary node and weighed his next cultivation path, ending with his realization that Sword Woman had meant for him to fuse with the Sword Will on the Xikuli Cloak.

• Chen Lin took Chu Qingying and Du Shian as disciples, revealing himself to Du Shian by transforming into Huang Dafu.
• Wen Xinyan reached the True Realm, and Chen Lin sent Feng Changqing beyond the realm to investigate the Kun Domain and seek Mo Furong and other old acquaintances.
• Qian Ziduo reported that Mingyue Shuanghua had reached the late True Realm, refined the Crape Myrtle Palace, and might come to the Kan Domain to take over the Left Alliance.
• Chen Lin ordered Wen Jing'an to reinforce the Heaven-Connecting River node with a defensive formation powered by several true treasures.
• Chen Lin considered training in the River of Destiny and improving Death Gaze, then realized Sword Woman had intended for him to fuse with the Sword Will on the Xikuli Cloak.

Chen Lin refined the Cloak Sword Intent, unleashing a strike powerful enough to activate the Realm-Protecting Array, and began arranging his next journey to the Sword Woman Scenario and Luoxian City. After learning of several unusual developments among his family and disciples, he examined Chu Qingying, who had reached the Semi-Void Realm in under twenty years.

• Chen Lin chose to refine the Cloak Sword Intent, and after more than a dozen years of seclusion, he released its deathly Sword Will and triggered the plane's Realm-Protecting Array.
• Chen Lin explained the disturbance to Wen Xinyan and the others, then told Tianshu and Chen Ling'er that he planned to visit the Sword Woman Scenario, retrieve Grass, and pursue his Ten Thousand Swords Firing Simultaneously plan.
• Chen Ling'er reported that Yang'er and Yue'er had reached the Semi-Void Realm, while Du Yuee and Du Shian had only barely condensed their law origins; she also told Chen Lin that Chu Qingying had advanced to the Semi-Void Realm without pills.
• Chen Lin suspected Chu Qingying might be the reincarnation of a mighty being, possibly the Purple Emperor, and asked Chen Ling'er to bring her in for examination.
• Tianshu told Chen Lin that he needed the flesh and blood essence of an Eternal Realm creature to advance, and Chen Lin said he would look for it in the Sword Woman Scenario.
• Chu Qingying arrived, paid her respects to Chen Lin, and he began examining her with his perception.

Chen Lin investigated Chu Qingying’s full-moon dreams and found that a mysterious, noble presence vanished after appearing in her dream, though its true nature remained uncertain. He then entered the Sword Realm to seek intentless stone and arrived in Sanhuan City, where Ye Sanhuan greeted him without immediately seeking revenge.

• Chu Qingying told Chen Lin that her cultivation surged after recurring dreams of a crescent moon and that she feared losing her consciousness when it became full.
• Chen Lin brought Shi Yuelan into Chu Qingying’s dream, where he saw a noble phantom resembling Chu Qingying and briefly lost access to his powers before waking.
• Chu Qingying said the mysterious energy in her bloodline had been consumed, and Chen Lin gave her treasures and told her to continue cultivating.
• Chen Lin entered the Sword Realm and learned that Ye Sanhuan had taken over Luoxian City and renamed it Sanhuan City.
• Chen Lin entered Sanhuan City to seek intentless stone, and Ye Sanhuan appeared and said she had not come for revenge.

Ye Sanhuan paid Chen Lin for the truth about leaving the Sword Realm, then asked him to help her obtain a Merit Coin so she could escape. She also offered information about a treasure and the Abyss, but Chen Lin remained wary as their negotiation continued.

• Ye Sanhuan brought Chen Lin to a teahouse and offered him the Reincarnation Sword Formula in exchange for knowing how to leave the realm.
• Chen Lin accepted over thirteen hundred pieces of Intentless Stone and told Ye Sanhuan that the Sword Woman decided whether anyone could leave.
• Ye Sanhuan explained that repeated reincarnations had cost her memories and asked Chen Lin to help her obtain a Merit Coin from an unknown Nightmare Realm scenario.
• Chen Lin refused to enter the dangerous scenario himself but agreed to take Ye Sanhuan's medium and said he might try to help.
• Ye Sanhuan offered information about her lineage's supreme treasure and the Abyss, insisting that the Abyss's treasures were immensely useful to practitioners.

Chen Lin negotiated with Ye Sanhuan for help escaping the nightmare realm and learned the location of an Abyss Passage, then traveled toward Sword Lake while gathering intentless stone and information. He learned that a powerful heretical cultivator had killed Kaiyuan City's lord and Sword Pavilion guards, and arrived at Center City to seek an audience with the Sword Woman on the next full moon night.

• Ye Sanhuan agreed to help Chen Lin in exchange for a five-hundred-year limit and his promise to help her leave, and gave him a sword containing the locations of her lineage's secret realm and the Abyss Passage.
• Chen Lin asked Ye Sanhuan to gather intentless stone, learned it could refine sword will, and received several thousand pieces before leaving Sanhuan City.
• Chen Lin left intentless stone at the Mogan Sword Shop in Nishang City, then learned the Lin Siblings had gone to Center City and followed them there.
• Chen Lin discovered that a heretical cultivator had killed Kaiyuan City's lord and Sword Pavilion guards, and learned the culprit remained near the city despite searches by three Sword Masters.
• Chen Lin obtained a list of approachable Grandmasters from an information seller and reached Center City, where he planned to seek the Sword Woman on the next full moon night.

Chen Lin visited Lin Qingyu, then went to Bright Mountain to trade steamed buns for Sword Will infused into Intentless Swords. After Sword Sect Master Xiaoling brought him to meet the Bright Sword Master, the Sword Master said he had wanted to speak with Chen Lin before.

• Chen Lin reunited with Lin Qingyu and learned that Lin Qingyuan had failed the Sword Guest Trial and returned to the Sword Pond.
• Chen Lin refined more than a dozen Intentless Swords and asked Sword Sect Master Xiaoling to arrange for Bright Mountain cultivators to infuse them with Sword Will.
• Chen Lin traded Mother Steamed Buns and Soul Steamed Buns for Sword Will, and Sword Sect Master Xiaoling agreed to help.
• Sword Sect Master Xiaoling returned and told Chen Lin that the Bright Sword Master wanted to see him.
• The Bright Sword Master dismissed Xiaoling and led Chen Lin inside to talk.

Chen Lin learned that the Sword Realm was the Sword Woman’s Sword Domain and traded his golden wheat to the Bright Sword Master for protection, Sword Will, and guidance. After preparing to meet the Sword Woman on the full moon night, he flew directly to Sword Island, prompting the gathered experts to speculate about his connection to the Sword Stele.

• The Bright Sword Master used spirit tea to reveal that many powerful beings had left marks on Chen Lin, then suggested the Sword Woman could sever their links to him if he took her away.
• The Bright Sword Master explained that the Sword Woman was a sword and the Sword Realm was her Sword Domain, then traded three favors for Chen Lin’s golden wheat.
• Chen Lin asked the Bright Sword Master to protect Lin Qingyu, infuse an Intentless Sword with his Sword Will, and guide his sword cultivation.
• Chen Lin told Lin Qingyu that leaving for the Reality Realm might require the Sword Woman’s permission and Grandmaster-level cultivation, then promised to ask about taking her out to see the wider world.
• On the full moon night, Chen Lin flew over Sword Lake and landed on Sword Island while the watching experts debated his connection to the Sword Stele.

Chen Lin returned to his Fiefdom with Grass and reunited with Wushuang and Leng Yue, learning how his people and the Inner World had fared during his long absence. He told Leng Yue he planned to take her to the Outer World later, and she revealed that they had found someone he had been searching for.

• Chen Lin left the Sword Woman's domain with Grass and used the Peerage Token to return to his Fiefdom.
• Chen Lin inspected the Fiefdom, reunited with Wushuang, and reflected that revenge against his former enemies no longer interested him.
• Chen Lin failed to summon Jinlin, Blind Girl, and Hua Ruyu, then successfully summoned Leng Yue and learned that Long Han had died attempting to reach the Void Realm.
• Leng Yue told Chen Lin that Gu Xiaohong had reached the Void Realm and managed Wangxiang City, and that Nanmen Lingyue had once left an important message for him.
• Chen Lin told Leng Yue that he would leave the Inner World again and hoped to take her to the Outer World, then learned that his people had found the person he was seeking.

Chen Lin learned that Leng Yue had found Huangfu Qingrou and arranged to bring her to his fiefdom, while he considered his next moves and Grass set out for Fairytale Town. Leng Yue returned with Aisa, who joyfully reunited with Chen Lin.

• Leng Yue told Chen Lin that Long Han had found Huangfu Qingrou in poor condition and that she remained sealed in a stone coffin, sustained by Aisa’s strengthened life origin essence.
• Chen Lin learned that four of the five cultivators who had entered the Cage Array scenario had returned, and he told Leng Yue to keep his own return secret.
• Grass claimed Sword Woman had trained her to the Late True Realm, and Chen Lin celebrated her strength before teasing her about calling him Husband.
• Grass insisted on going to Fairytale Town to see Taobao, so Chen Lin gave her protective treasures and watched her leave.
• Leng Yue returned with Aisa, who rushed into Chen Lin’s arms and told him she had missed him.

Chen Lin reunited with Aisa, Gu Xiaohong, and the still-sleeping Huangfu Qingrou in the Inner World, but refused to let Aisa leave with him while the Outer World remained dangerous. He prepared to return to the Outer World to pursue the Rainbow Bridge and investigate its possible connection to the Seven-Star Shining Sun, then noticed something unusual in his Nightmare Realm Storage Bag.

• Aisa begged Chen Lin to take her with him, and he learned she still remembered the destruction of the Tianfan Clan and wanted to seek revenge.
• Chen Lin summoned Huangfu Qingrou in the Stone Coffin and found her alive but severely weakened, then praised Gu Xiaohong's progress to the Void Realm and gave her treasures.
• Chen Lin refused Aisa's request to leave the Inner World with him, explaining that the Outer World was dangerous and that he would return for her once it settled down.
• Chen Lin told Aisa, Leng Yue, and Gu Xiaohong that he would return to the Outer World to contend for the Rainbow Bridge and investigate its connection to the Seven-Star Shining Sun.
• After the three left, Chen Lin gave Wushuang items to develop his fiefdom and noticed an unusual item in his Nightmare Realm Storage Bag.

Chen Lin examined a reacting invitation to White Moonlight’s Lantern Appreciation Banquet, then reunited with Chen Tao and learned how Rainbow Castle had grown. Chen Tao demonstrated a powerful divine ability that briefly sealed Chen Lin, but he broke free and destroyed its attack.

• Chen Lin recognized the invitation letter from his contest with Zhang Dayou and put it away, deciding to postpone investigating the banquet and Jiujiu Restaurant.
• Chen Tao greeted Chen Lin and said she had become powerful by exploring Fairytale Cottages; Chen Lin warned her not to enter the Outer World.
• Chen Tao gave Chen Lin a Storage Bag containing over ten thousand Golden Nightmare Coins and said she had upgraded Rainbow Castle to five stars.
• Chen Tao explained that a phantom rainbow above Queen Anna’s Bedchamber attracted visitors and had granted her a divine ability.
• Chen Tao used the ability to immobilize Chen Lin, but he regained movement through his Soul Blemish and shattered the character with his soul power.

Chen Lin investigated the rainbow above Rainbow Castle and learned more about Nightmare Realm ranks and the seven Nightmare Emperors. After sensing an unknown watcher, he left the Nightmare Realm with Grass and ordered Chen Tao to stop entering Story Scenarios.

• Chen Tao's Divine Ability failed against Chen Lin, and she explained that customers could repeat the Queen's task, though each attempt grew harder and more dangerous.
• Chen Lin showed Chen Tao an image of the Rainbow Bridge, and she confirmed it resembled the rainbow above Rainbow Castle.
• Chen Lin concluded the bridge connected the Star Domain and the Abyss, while the Nightmare Realm lay within the Boundary River.
• Chen Lin sensed that an unknown being was watching him, and Grass said the Cage Array also covered low-level Nightmare Realm scenarios, with Earl Rank enough to escape its restrictions.
• Grass relayed that Duke was the highest peerage rank, that seven Nightmare Emperors existed, and that advancing to Emperor required replacing one of them.
• Chen Lin sent Chen Tao back to Fairytale Town, then used the Stone Coffin and Colored Road Guide to return with Grass to the Kaiyuan Realm.

Chen Lin returned from the Sword Realm with Grass and prepared to seek a Yunming Flower to save Huangfu Qingrou. After leaving the Kaiyuan Realm, they were intercepted in the void by five suspicious cultivators, and Chen Lin and Grass launched a sudden attack.

• Chen Lin checked on Huangfu Qingrou, told Grass he planned to seek Gu Siming or Gu Chenxuan for a Yunming Flower, and agreed to take Grass with him.
• After several months of preparation, Chen Lin and Grass left the Kaiyuan Realm without the others.
• Chen Lin and Grass emerged near the Heaven-Connecting River, where Chen Lin worried their arrivals could expose the Kaiyuan Realm.
• Five black-clad cultivators surrounded them and claimed they were searching for a white flower, then demanded to question them with a Heart-Inquiring Seal.
• Chen Lin and Grass attacked the five cultivators, with Grass striking their leader as Chen Lin unleashed several techniques against the group.

Chen Lin and Grass defeated a group of black-robed cultivators, with Grass’s Sword Domain destroying the fleeing thick-browed man. After they fled the battle site and Chen Lin began examining the spoils, Grass spotted an enormous snow-white flower floating in the void.

• Chen Lin attacked the thick-browed man and used Death Gaze and other techniques to weaken him and his companions.
• Grass killed an early True Realm cultivator with one sword strike while Chen Lin slew three Void Realm cultivators.
• Grass unleashed her Sword Domain and destroyed every stream of black mist from the fleeing thick-browed man.
• Chen Lin praised Grass, reflected on their strength, and ordered her to clear away the traces of battle before they departed.
• After traveling more than a hundred thousand miles, Chen Lin stopped aboard a Spirit Boat to inspect the spoils, but Grass pointed out an enormous snow-white flower ahead.