Chapter Summaries

Chen Lin captured an intelligent white flower, examined the spoils taken from the black-robed cultivators, and used the Heart-Inquiring Seal to question travelers from Bright Peak. He learned that powerful factions had occupied the Qian Domain’s Rainbow Bridge, including Bizarre Cultivators and a mysterious bird.

• Chen Lin used the Silence Technique and his destiny ability to draw the white flower to his Spirit Boat, then sealed it in a container.
• Chen Lin found an eternal-grade Heart-Inquiring Seal, five tokens including one marked with abyssal script, a sealed box, a white fruit, and a powerful beast bone among the black-robed cultivators’ spoils.
• Chen Lin stopped seven travelers led by Zhen Xingwu and used the Heart-Inquiring Seal to question them about the Alliance and Bright Peak.
• Chen Lin learned that Wan Zhencang still led the Alliance, Mingyue Shuanghua had been obstructed in the Kan Domain, and Jin Ruhua remained Deputy Alliance Leader.
• Chen Lin asked about the Rainbow Bridge and learned that major factions, Secluded Families, the Ancient Alien Race, Bizarre Cultivators, and a bird occupied the Qian Domain site.

Chen Lin returned to Bright Peak, where he learned that the Alliance was unstable and that powerful enemies might target him over Huyan Wushuang’s death. Jin Ruhua warned him about Wan Zhencang and advised him to remain at Bright Peak while she arranged formal recognition for his contributions.

• Chen Lin questioned seven Alliance cultivators about the white bird called Young Master Bai, learned what he could about the Alliance, and let them go.
• During the journey to Bright Peak, Grass relayed Sword Woman’s warnings about intentless stone and the Sword Dao.
• Chen Lin encountered Ouyang Ye at Bright Peak, taunted him, and watched him leave without retaliating.
• Chen Lin visited Jin Ruhua, denied killing Huyan Wushuang, and learned that Ancestor Ouyang suspected him while Sikong Fu had publicly supported him.
• Jin Ruhua warned Chen Lin that Wan Zhencang possessed the eternal spear Dust, urged him to stay at Bright Peak, and promised to seek formal recognition of his service.

Chen Lin learned that Zi Ning was the Purple Emperor reincarnated, asked the Cheng Sisters to decipher an Abyssal book, and had Kong Wuchui begin repairing his cloak. After gathering news and receiving Jin Ruhua’s summons, Chen Lin encountered a mysterious Green-Clothed Woman near the Market.

• Chen Lin learned from the Cheng Sisters that Zi Ning, accompanied by Liuyue, had visited Holy Sword Manor and been confirmed as the Purple Emperor reincarnated.
• Chen Lin gave the Cheng Sisters a method for deducing written languages and translated Abyssal Characters to help them decipher a book.
• Grass suggested Chen Lin use the Burning Passion Sword Formula by taking women as partners, but Chen Lin refused and promised not to sacrifice her.
• Chen Lin showed Kong Wuchui that he had removed the Sword Will from the Xikuli Cloak, and Kong Wuchui agreed to repair it after hearing how Chen Lin had escaped the Sword Woman’s scenario.
• Chen Lin gathered news and bought scarce supplies at the Market, then received Jin Ruhua’s message summoning him to the Mission Hall.
• A sense of dread stopped Chen Lin outside the Market, where he spotted a Green-Clothed Woman whom neither he nor Grass had sensed approaching.

Chen Lin learned that Ouyang Xue, a powerful Ouyang Family ancestor, had taken an interest in him, then secured major Alliance rewards and protection from missions. After choosing three treasures and returning to Jin Ruhua’s residence, he examined the Black Gold Feather, an Eternal-tier treasure he could not yet activate, and resolved to master Abyssal Characters.

• Chen Lin recognized the green-dressed woman as likely Ouyang Xue, learned from Jin Ruhua that she wielded the Samsara Ruler, and was warned to be cautious.
• Jin Ruhua told Chen Lin that Sikong Fu had secured the Alliance’s highest-grade merit award for him, including three Treasure Vault picks and one request.
• Sikong Fu advised Chen Lin to choose the Black Gold Feather, an Eternal-tier treasure left by the Dark Cultivators’ leader, and approved Chen Lin’s request for a thousand years without missions.
• Chen Lin collected three treasures and returned to Jin Ruhua’s residence for safety, where Cheng Lingdie was studying Abyssal Characters.
• Chen Lin examined the Black Gold Feather, found that he could not activate it, and placed it in the Gray Ring while deciding to master Abyssal Characters.

Chen Lin tested a defective Boundary-Breaking Disc and learned its risks from Jin Ruhua, who also discussed spirit rice and the path to the Dominator Realm. Grass revealed the Sword Woman’s method for fusing the True Self and Other Self, and Jin Ruhua left after warning Chen Lin that a major event was imminent.

• Chen Lin chose the Eternal Realm monster’s natal essence blood and the cracked Boundary-Breaking Disc from the Treasure Vault, then used the disc to open a passage toward the Kaiyuan Realm.
• Jin Ruhua dispersed the passage, warned Chen Lin that spatial travel at Bright Peak could give Wan Zhencang grounds to attack, and explained that the disc could misroute its user and required a long recovery.
• Jin Ruhua cautioned Chen Lin about Wan Zhencang’s strength, agreed to look for Yan Xiaodie, and asked him for the spirit rice he had found on Oddity Island.
• Chen Lin gave Jin Ruhua fluorescent rice and golden wheat, and she urged him to keep their existence secret while explaining that they could aid cultivation toward the Eternal Realm.
• Grass said the Sword Woman had described fusing the True Self and Other Self through independent clones, which had to be reunited without leaving any behind.
• Jin Ruhua received an urgent message, warned Chen Lin not to leave her residence because a major event was about to happen, and vanished.

Chen Lin deciphered the Possessed inheritance and used its Compromise Method with an abyss crystal to activate the Black Gold Feather, though the process consumed much of the crystal. After having the Xikuli Cloak repaired, he joined an Elder Assembly summoned by Wan Zhencang, whose purpose remained unknown.

• Cheng Lingdie gave Chen Lin her translation of the Possessed method and an abyss crystal she had bought in the Lower Realm.
• Chen Lin rejected the sacrificial method, traced an Inner Demon Mark into the crystal, and nearly lost himself to its backlash before completing it with help from Soul Steamed Buns.
• Chen Lin used the crystal to activate the Black Gold Feather, which annihilated a Void Beast, but the test consumed nearly a third of the crystal's energy.
• Chen Lin decided to make peace with Little Chubby Boy and Boss Bai by considering the return of the Black Little Sword, then began tracing another mark into an abyss crystal.
• Cheng Lingchan summoned Chen Lin to the Elder Assembly, where Kong Wuchui returned his repaired Xikuli Cloak and asked him to search for the Green Ruyi.
• Wan Zhencang entered the Discussion Main Hall and began the assembly without revealing its purpose.

Wan Zhencang and Jin Ruhua announced that the factions would build Rainbow City near the Rainbow Bridge and outlined the Left Alliance’s costly contribution. Chen Lin learned that the city might help repair the Heavenly Dao, but he remained worried that Wan Zhencang would soon become an even greater threat.

• Wan Zhencang announced that Rainbow City would govern matters concerning the Rainbow Bridge, and Jin Ruhua explained the seven factions that would control its districts and council seats.
• Wan Zhencang revealed that the Red-Robed King had nearly recovered and ordered the Left Alliance to supply large quantities of materials, including finger sand, for Rainbow City.
• Chen Lin suspected that Wan Zhencang’s demand to increase finger-sand extraction at the Heaven-Connecting River was meant to expose the node to the Kaiyuan Realm.
• Jin Ruhua told Chen Lin she had arranged enough finger sand for them and explained that Rainbow City could draw energy from the bridge and potentially remedy the Heavenly Dao’s flaws.
• Jin Ruhua warned Chen Lin that his Black Gold Feather could not kill Wan Zhencang without help from an Eternal Realm expert, and Chen Lin later received the costly Contribution List.

Chen Lin entered the Lantern Festival Gathering, hoping to find something that could help him deal with Wan Zhencang, and discovered that an old acquaintance, Zhang Dayou, was selling steamed buns there. Zhang Dayou told him Gourmet Island had gained a new Guardian, but Chen Lin could not connect to it from the Gathering.

• Chen Lin selected advanced materials from the Alliance's contribution list and asked Grass whether they could ambush Wan Zhencang, but she said they had no chance.
• Grass urged Chen Lin to use the Burning Passion Sword Formula, offering herself as its target, but Chen Lin refused and went to seek the Bright Sword Master's help; Sword Sect Master Xiaoling said his father could not descend without the Sword Woman's permission.
• Chen Lin entered his fiefdom and noticed that White Moonlight's Invitation Letter had activated, so he touched its images and arrived at the Lantern Festival Gathering.
• Chen Lin recognized Zhang Dayou selling food and asked about the Ten-Percent Business Stake in Jiujiu Restaurant, but Zhang said the restaurant's business had declined.
• Chen Lin learned that Gourmet Island had a new Guardian and asked whether its Rules matched those of the island in the Lower Primal Domain; Zhang said they were similar, but Chen Lin could not sense a connection to it from the Gathering.

Chen Lin learned the rules and time distortion of the Lantern Festival Gathering, then explored its lantern riddles while searching for a way to earn rewards. He failed to divine any answers and ended the chapter boarding a multideck ship.

• Chen Lin learned from Zhang Dayou that the gathering lasted three days, which would equal three hundred years outside, and that visitors could not leave early.
• Chen Lin discovered he could not summon Grass into the scenario and decided to make the best of his time there.
• Chen Lin explored the lantern-lined river and learned that solving a riddle could earn Lanshan Coins and an invitation to dine with Grand Duke White Moonlight.
• Chen Lin's divination talent failed to reveal answers to the riddles, even after he strengthened it with his little fish clone.
• Chen Lin saw a Blue Man solve a riddle and receive a Lanshan Coin, while many other visitors failed.
• After exploring the riverbank and streets without success, Chen Lin returned to the river and flew aboard a multideck ship.

Chen Lin was forced to compete in poetry after boarding the Poetry Ship during the Lantern Festival Gathering. He recited a poem from his previous life to challenge Zhuang Shimei, and the chapter ended just as he delivered its final line.

• Chen Lin learned that boarding the Poetry Ship required him to compose a poem or be thrown into the river.
• Chen Lin met Zhuang Shimei, who said that lighting the Poetry Lamp would earn him a look at her face and one request.
• Chen Lin learned that losing could mean being stripped, recorded, and displayed, so he resolved to win.
• Chen Lin recited a poem from his previous life, and the gathered crowd fell silent at its quality.
• Chen Lin turned toward Zhuang Shimei and delivered the poem's final line.

Chen Lin won the right to attend the Major Lamp Festival by making Zhuang Shimei’s Poetry Lamp bloom, but declined to see her face and asked for an earl mission invitation instead. He then found a divination-linked lantern and faced a bizarre riddle about Princess Gege Yun’s relationships with rams.

• Chen Lin made the Poetry Lamp bloom, and Zhuang Shimei confirmed that he had met her requirement and earned the right to attend the Major Lamp Festival.
• Chen Lin declined to see Zhuang Shimei’s face and asked for an earl mission invitation, but she said she could not award one; she gave him a sachet so he could return when he chose a request.
• Zhuang Shimei told her maid that Chen Lin was no suitable match and that she had to find the person destined for her before the next Major Lamp Festival ended.
• Chen Lin used his divination ability to identify an unusual floating lantern and was drawn into a dim space with a tiny sprite.
• The sprite asked whether Princess Gege Yun had relations with any rams after turning into a sheep and whether she had lambs; Chen Lin answered that she had kept herself pure.

Chen Lin solved another strange lantern riddle and gained a large reward, then learned from Lord Xila that placing in the top twelve could let him request use of the Rebirth Mirror. He continued pursuing riddles at the Lantern Festival Gathering, leaving with more than ten Light Orbs after answering a question about the Gourmet Guardian’s death.

• Chen Lin answered a riddle about Gege Yun and Gongyang, earning a Lanshan Coin as his basic reward.
• Lord Xila told Chen Lin that the top twelve riddle solvers could request a reward from Grand Duke White Moonlight, including permission to use the Rebirth Mirror.
• Chen Lin considered trying the Chess Ship but instead continued searching the river for lanterns suited to his talent.
• A pointed-mouthed creature snatched a promising lantern from Chen Lin, failed its riddle, and left after Chen Lin mocked it.
• Chen Lin answered the lantern sprite’s question by explaining that the Gourmet Guardian had been slain by a Female Sword Cultivator while they fought over a treasure in the Nightmare Realm.
• The sprite called Chen Lin Dad before dissolving, and Chen Lin collected more than ten Light Orbs.

Chen Lin solved a valued lantern riddle about Niuniu and identified himself as the person she loved, causing the statue to vanish and granting him eleven Light Orbs. He fled before he could inspect the rewards, as onlookers realized someone had solved a statue riddle.

• Chen Lin guessed that the Hidden King had eighty-one registered consorts and earned seven Light Orbs from the river lantern.
• Wu Gang warned Chen Lin that riddles attached to statues could affect a solver's life, but Chen Lin later chose to attempt one anyway.
• The statue called Chen Lin an Adjudicator and offered a riddle about someone willing to give everything for love, with hints that reduced the reward.
• Chen Lin identified the riddle's subject as Niuniu, the Scarecrow Guardian, and the statue confirmed his answer.
• Chen Lin answered that Niuniu loved him, and the statue rejected his answer before mysteriously dissolving and leaving eleven Light Orbs.
• After someone cried out that a statue riddle had been solved, Chen Lin collected the orbs and hurried away.

Chen Lin explored the Lantern Festival Gathering, collected a Grade Yi Exchange Token, and searched for more riddle rewards. At the Lucky Tree, he reunited with Xitina, who recognized him as her rescuer and declared she would make him her man.

• Chen Lin drank spirit tea, inspected his rewards, and confirmed he had earned a Grade Yi Exchange Token and a thousand Lanshan Coins.
• Chen Lin searched lanterns for more than a day, then joined the orderly lines at the Lucky Tree when his Talent Ability found no more riddles.
• A young woman recognized Chen Lin as the person who saved her in the River of Destiny, and he revealed that his real name was Chen Lin.
• Xitina verified his identity by asking him to recount what happened in the River of Destiny.
• Xitina announced that she would honor their old agreement and make Chen Lin her man, shocking the nearby visitors.

Chen Lin reunited with Xitina, who insisted that their old promise meant she had to marry him, and he accepted for practical reasons. At the lantern-riddle contest, Xitina challenged Three-Horns, and Chen Lin raised the stakes to include an attack from the loser.

• Xitina told Chen Lin that only three years had passed since their agreement and said she would remain unmarried if he refused to take her as his wife.
• Yazhan Qing and an Earl from the Endless Trading Firm both proposed to Xitina, but she rejected them as unworthy and called Chen Lin her husband.
• Chen Lin accepted Xitina's marriage proposal after weighing her strength, connections, and possible link to Fairy Yaochi and Jinlin's disappearance.
• When Chen Lin's turn came to guess a lantern riddle, Xitina stepped forward to answer in his place and told Three-Horns he would fail.
• Three-Horns wagered a thousand Lanshan Coins and demanded Xitina as his woman if he won, so Chen Lin matched the coins and added a strike from the winner as another stake.

Chen Lin won a Marquis Invitation Letter and Lanshan Coins after Xitina used her ability to make a lantern riddle unsolvable, then learned she had helped arrange the gathering and had once saved Wen Xinzhao. Xitina revealed she was a natural divine being at roughly true realm completion, but she could not help Chen Lin with his predicament until the Major Lamp Festival ended.

• Chen Lin wagered two Colored Nightmare Coins against the three-horned creature’s Marquis Invitation Letter and Lanshan Coins, and Xitina’s words ensured the creature failed the lantern riddle.
• Chen Lin tried another lantern riddle and failed, while Xitina explained that she had devised many of the riddles and had recognized him after he used a shortcut.
• Xitina told Chen Lin that the performers and business owners were tourists trapped at earlier gatherings, and that freeing the Poetry Fairy required fulfilling the ship’s rules.
• Chen Lin asked whether Xitina had taken Fairy Yaochi and Jinlin from the Rainbow Realm, and Xitina denied it but recognized Wen Xinzhao as someone she had once saved.
• Xitina explained that fate-bound promises were part of her cultivation path and said she came from Great God Heaven at roughly true realm completion.
• Chen Lin asked Xitina to help with Wan Zhencang, but she refused because she had promised to stay until the Major Lamp Festival ended.

Chen Lin learned from Xitina about the Abyss, the dangers surrounding the Rainbow Bridge, and a powerful Reincarnation Mirror that might help him fight Wan Zhencang. He spent Lanshan Coins at the festival market and ended the chapter asking a vendor about a Dragonfly Headwear resembling Mingyue Shuanghua’s.

• Chen Lin learned that Xitina could contend with weaker Eternal Realm cultivators and that Daidaixi might belong to the lineage of Daidaidong, ruler of Red Umbrella Star.
• Xitina warned Chen Lin that the Rainbow Bridge could enable an Abyssal invasion and that its appearances had brought great upheaval; Chen Lin insisted he had to return despite the danger.
• Xitina explained that Chen Lin’s festival prizes depended partly on Sister White Moonlight’s judgment and warned him to spend his Lanshan Coins before they could be confiscated.
• Xitina told Chen Lin about the Reincarnation Mirror, a powerful treasure whose use could reveal events from a previous life, and said Sister White Moonlight might provide him with a Replica.
• Chen Lin and Xitina shopped through the market, where Chen Lin asked a vendor about a costly Dragonfly Headwear similar to Mingyue Shuanghua’s.

Chen Lin bought a damaged Red Dragonfly Headwear and learned that his Gray Ring was tied to the mysterious Ant Society. At the Lantern Festival Gathering’s conclusion, he placed twelfth in the riddle contest and entered the Lantern Giant Ship, where Poetry Fairy Zhuang Shimei greeted him.

• Chen Lin bought the damaged Red Dragonfly Headwear from Wu Sanlang after Xitina vouched for the peddler and advised him how to refine it.
• Xitina discovered that Chen Lin’s Gray Ring recognized him as its master and identified it as a token of the mysterious Ant Society, warning him to be careful.
• Chen Lin showed Xitina a Triangular Pendant, and she explained that it was one of three keys to a special place that required three people to enter.
• As the Lantern Festival Gathering ended, Chen Lin received a token marking his twelfth-place finish in the riddle contest, while Xitina entered the Lantern Giant Ship to help Grand Duke White Moonlight.
• Chen Lin used his token to pass through the Lantern Giant Ship’s barrier, where Poetry Fairy Zhuang Shimei greeted him.

Chen Lin met Zhuang Shimei, learned that her home in the Qian Domain had fallen, and attended Grand Duke White Moonlight’s gathering, where he discovered the Ant Ring’s nature. The chapter ended as the banquet began and Chen Lin considered his next steps with the ring.

• Chen Lin told Zhuang Shimei that the Qian Domain had fallen and gave her a Jade Slip describing the Void Realm’s upheaval.
• Chen Lin took seat twelve at the Lantern Festival Gathering, where Wu Gang offered him a Myriad Mystery Pill in exchange for a trade favor.
• The Pink-Clothed Woman killed Wu Gang with a glance, but Grand Duke White Moonlight restored him as the gathering’s guests were drawn into the grand duke’s artistic conception.
• Chen Lin saw a girl who resembled Fairy Yaochi and wondered whether she was connected to Earth or was a transgressor like him.
• After Xitina prompted him, Chen Lin greeted Grand Duke White Moonlight, who explained that his Ant Ring bound him to the Ant Society and could not be removed without great power.
• Grand Duke White Moonlight said Chen Lin would not be forced to take missions unless he accepted benefits, then began the banquet.

At Grand Duke White Moonlight’s Lantern Festival feast, Chen Lin chose a rare dish that could reveal inheritances and used his Destiny Talent to seek a worthwhile one. His little fish clone crossed a dangerous destiny node, but the colorful light damaged its Reverse Scale and threatened his Talent Origin.

• Grand Duke White Moonlight explained the rules for selecting numbered delicacies and colored drinks, then welcomed the guests to eat and drink.
• Chen Lin chose the number twelve dish, heaven-stealing dough, and Xitina warned him about its inheritance visions and possible backlash.
• Chen Lin used his little fish clone to correct his destiny, but could not divine a specific inheritance and decided to leave the outcome to luck.
• The destiny node released powerful multicolored light that knocked away Chen Lin’s Chess Piece of Destiny and cracked the little fish clone’s Reverse Scale.
• Chen Lin guided his main destiny fish into the little fish clone and leaped past the node as the light threatened his Talent Origin.