Chapter Summaries

Jin Ruhua announced Rainbow City's rules on fees, residence, faction peace, conduct, contribution points, and loyalty, meeting resistance to the ban on switching factions before Chen Lin helped secure acceptance. After the meeting, she gave Chen Lin Golden Gourd Sect treasures and Bright Peak's token, and they discussed Wen Xinzhao, Yesterday Manor, and his request to borrow the Cheng Sisters.

• Jin Ruhua set fees for the Rainbow Bridge section above Rainbow City, exempted construction contributors, and outlined residency and tribulation rules.
• Jin Ruhua announced a peace treaty among the seven city factions, a ban on fighting and trespassing, a contribution point system, and a rule barring defectors from the other factions and Rainbow City.
• Bosailuo and other elders opposed the defection rule, but Chen Lin argued that other factions would not accept them, and Jin Ruhua promised to honor her earlier commitments.
• Jin Ruhua and Chen Lin discussed the search for Wen Xinzhao and the absence of Yesterday Manor, then she gave him Alliance treasure and a Golden Gourd Sect token that could help claim Bright Peak.
• Chen Lin asked to borrow the Cheng Sisters to decipher Abyssal Characters, and Jin Ruhua agreed after he reassured her that he would not betray the Left Alliance.

Chen Lin became sworn brothers with the white bird, who revealed a way to explore the Rainbow Bridge and seek its Rainbow Flowers. The Rainbow Halo had begun to appear, and the white bird planned to gather allies before the flowers matured; he reacted uneasily when Chen Lin named Gu Chenxuan of Yesterday Manor.

• Chen Lin visited the white bird and agreed to become his sworn brother, taking the rank of Second Brother while the bird named himself Fourth Master Bai.
• The white bird used a Crystal Ball to project Chen Lin onto the Rainbow Bridge, where Chen Lin saw the Rainbow Sword and seven colored flowers before returning safely.
• The white bird explained that the Rainbow Sword could threaten even a Supreme and that Rainbow Flowers formed when the Rainbow Halo appeared.
• The white bird showed Chen Lin the faint Rainbow Halo through the Crystal Ball and promised to contact him when the Rainbow Flower was ready to collect.
• Chen Lin said his other sworn siblings were Gu Chenxuan of Yesterday Manor and the Shen Family's daughter, and the white bird reacted to the name Yesterday Manor.

Chen Lin secured the white bird’s approval for his justification for killing Wan Zhencang and learned more about the bird’s origins and dealings. After receiving three identity tokens, Chen Lin visited Hong Tingzhen, who asked how Bei Wumeng was doing.

• Chen Lin showed the white bird the Blood Dragon Bone and shattered Little Tower as evidence that Wan Zhencang had betrayed the righteous path, and the white bird accepted the justification.
• The white bird revealed he came from Xiaoxingao and reacted strongly when Chen Lin said he had acknowledged Daidaixi as his younger sister.
• The white bird freed Little Chubby Boy and ordered him to tell the Mist Lord that he accepted the Star Vortex cultivators’ conditions.
• The white bird gave Chen Lin three identity tokens for entering and leaving Rainbow City, asking him to keep one and pass on the other two.
• Chen Lin went to the True King’s Manor, where Hong Tingzhen received him and asked how Bei Wumeng was doing.

Chen Lin received the Buddha Refining Chapter from Hong Tingzhen, who warned him that obtaining the Mortal Refining Chapter depended on the technique’s creator and that the Eternal Fire could turn against him. As Chen Lin left, June approached and told him the Purple Emperor was in secluded cultivation, prompting him to ask why the reincarnated Purple Emperor had not gone to the Crape Myrtle Palace.

• Chen Lin told Hong Tingzhen that Hua Ruyu should still be in the Inner World and that he would search for her after returning.
• Hong Tingzhen explained that the Mortal Refining Chapter was nearly impossible to obtain unless its creator had designated the cultivator, then gave Chen Lin the Buddha Refining Chapter.
• Hong Tingzhen warned Chen Lin that forming the Eternal Fire carried a high risk of it turning against him and asked him to bring his disciple to visit once he found her.
• June stopped Chen Lin as he left and praised him for killing Wan Zhencang despite his early true realm cultivation.
• June said the Purple Emperor was in secluded cultivation, and Chen Lin asked why he had not gone to the Crape Myrtle Palace after reincarnating.

Chen Lin received June’s request to place a Gemstone Ring on a statue on Oddity Island, then visited Mingyue Shuanghua and learned from Yun Xueyao of a possible lead to the Silver Fairy. Mingyue Shuanghua offered him a position as Soul Suppressing Hall Master in the Crape Myrtle Palace and began explaining the palace’s power, leaving Chen Lin wary of her motives.

• June gave Chen Lin a Gemstone Ring and asked him to put it on a particular statue on Oddity Island within a thousand years to repay his debt to her.
• Chen Lin visited the Crape Myrtle Palace to see Mingyue Shuanghua, where he reunited with Mu Qingchen and met Yun Xueyao, the Silver Fairy’s niece.
• Yun Xueyao told Chen Lin that the Silver Fairy had sent her family a directive about their ancestor’s dangerous cultivation Dao field and gave him its location on a Jade Slip.
• Mingyue Shuanghua offered Chen Lin the position of Soul Suppressing Hall Master, but he refused because he was the Left Alliance Vice Alliance Leader.
• Mingyue Shuanghua revealed that the Crape Myrtle Palace was a wondrous treasure whose power could grant a hall master extraordinary benefits, then changed her aura to a dignified, holy presence.

Chen Lin learned that the Crape Myrtle Palace was a supreme treasure tied to the flawed Heavenly Dao, the Cage Array, and his own status as a prison-suppressing envoy, but he refused Mingyue Shuanghua’s offer to become a Hall Master. He then headed to the Rainbow Grand Ceremony and met Shen Anning, who reacted strangely to the token of their new sworn brother.

• Mingyue Shuanghua told Chen Lin that the Crape Myrtle Palace could help Rainbow Realm cultivators ascend to eternity and revealed her struggle with the Purple Emperor and Hong Tingzhen for control of it.
• Mingyue Shuanghua explained that the Purple Emperor had summoned an evil demon from the Abyss, and she confirmed the Silver Fairy was alive in the Inner World while discussing the Cage Array’s collapse and the Purple Emperor’s control object.
• Chen Lin told Mingyue Shuanghua about the notes describing the Dream Pursuer and a key that could open the Cage Array; she concluded that the Purple Emperor had achieved his original goal but was too late.
• Chen Lin refused the Soul Suppressing Hall Master position, was sent out of the Crape Myrtle Palace’s territory, and decided to bring his associates from the Inner World to the Kaiyuan Realm.
• Chen Lin met Shen Anning near the rainbow building, gave her the token of their new sworn brother, and saw her become startled and suspicious when she recognized its design.

Chen Lin rejected the Taishi Lineage’s offer to trade resources and a Great Primordial Pill for the Hundred-Feather Crown and Tiangang Spear, then recognized that the lineage remained a serious threat. He returned to the Left Alliance’s territory with Huangfu Qingrou and another woman and decided he would have to seek a solution in the Nightmare Realm.

• Chen Lin gave Shen Anning a token for Young Master Bai and offered to take her to a Nightmare Realm scenario where a spring could improve her chances of reaching the true realm.
• Chen Lin urged Shen Anning to visit Young Master Bai, then examined the Black Little Sword and lamented that the Gray Ring still had not produced any missions.
• Sun Changzu of the Taiqing Sun Lineage met Chen Lin and offered an apology on behalf of the Taishi Lineage, along with resources and a Great Primordial Pill in exchange for the Hundred-Feather Crown and Tiangang Spear.
• Chen Lin refused the exchange, and Sun Changzu told the Taishi Lineage’s new patriarch that Chen Lin had no intention of reconciling; the patriarch vowed to pursue an advanced Nihility Fish and later confront Chen Lin.
• Chen Lin concluded the Taishi Lineage was testing him and would seek revenge, then returned to the Left Alliance’s territory with Huangfu Qingrou and another woman to plan a response.
• Chen Lin realized that finding help in the Reality Realm would be difficult and decided to seek a solution in the Nightmare Realm.

Chen Lin reentered the Star-Plucking Clan scenario to search for divine crystals and investigate its connection to 1314, but collecting the crystals trapped him in a new mission. After discovering that the statues were bound by energy chains and that attacking one triggered a deadly backlash, he was left trying to determine how to free them.

• Chen Lin entered the Star-Plucking Clan scenario, found that he could initially leave freely, and flew down through the mist to inspect the statues below the giant palm.
• Chen Lin landed among the statues and collected more than twenty-two thousand Divine Crystals scattered across the area.
• Chen Lin discovered that he could no longer leave or pass through the mist, and concluded that collecting the crystals had triggered a new mission.
• Chen Lin examined the statues and found patterns resembling energy chains, then tested whether he could destroy one by striking its palm with the Severing Affection Saber.
• The statue’s backlash nearly injured Chen Lin, but the Heaven-Swallowing Golden Toad helped shield him; Chen Lin concluded that destroying the statues was not the solution and began considering how to save them.

Chen Lin awakened Gu Huang long enough to receive a Star-Plucking Token, then learned to use it to free and command the Star-Plucking Clan. He tested the token’s power with Mohatu and discovered that commanding the giants consumed Divine Crystals at an enormous rate, before turning his attention to four colossal statues.

• Chen Lin called out that the flowers on Qishan had bloomed, awakening Gu Huang, who asked for a Star Core and then broke free of one chain long enough to give Chen Lin a flower and a token.
• Chen Lin found that the token responded to a fragment of the shattered Crystal Stone, which transformed it into a Star-Plucking Token and revealed its ability to command the clan.
• Chen Lin spent nearly a hundred Divine Crystals to activate an ordinary statue’s star, freeing Mohatu, who swore allegiance and said he could enter the token and travel with Chen Lin.
• Chen Lin tested Mohatu in combat and saw the warrior’s spear nearly overwhelm him before the Hundred-Feather Crown stopped it.
• Chen Lin discovered that Mohatu’s single thrust consumed about fifty Brilliant Divine Crystals, then looked toward four enormous statues for his next test.

Chen Lin summoned Gu Qing from the Star-Plucking Token and learned that Gu Huang had refused to submit to a mysterious being who controlled advancement to the dominator realm. After warning Jin Ruhua that the Taishi Lineage might target him, Chen Lin proposed striking first, but she cautioned him against attacking the Secluded Families in their grotto-heavens.

• Chen Lin tested the statues’ summoning costs, then spent more than nine thousand Divine Crystals to summon Gu Qing, who said he could reach the upper eternal stage despite the seal.
• Gu Qing told Chen Lin that his brother Gu Huang had not reached the dominator realm because he refused to submit to a mysterious existence, and explained that the summoned beings continually consumed the power of brilliance.
• Chen Lin returned from the Nightmare Realm, gave Huangfu Qingrou samples to test with her devouring ability, and went to speak with Jin Ruhua.
• Chen Lin told Jin Ruhua that he had rejected the Taishi Lineage’s offer to trade for the Hundred-Feather Crown and Tiangang Spear, and that Sun Changzu of the Taiqing Sun Clan had approached him on their behalf.
• Chen Lin proposed attacking the Taishi Lineage before its Eternal Ancestor revived, but Jin Ruhua warned that the Secluded Families’ Eternal Experts might still move within their grotto-heavens and advised waiting until they emerged.

Chen Lin sought Jin Ruhua’s help locating the Taishi Lineage’s hidden Grotto-Heaven, then returned to the Sword Realm to settle an old commission and visit Lin Qingyu. After delivering Gu Huang’s message to Sword Sect Master Xiaoling, he learned that the Sword Woman was closing the plane and that he would have to leave.

• Chen Lin asked Jin Ruhua to find the Taishi Lineage’s Grotto-Heaven, and she agreed to seek her master’s help and report back in about ten days.
• Chen Lin returned Ye Sanhuan’s commission medium, learned she was dying after the Sword Woman punished her, and accepted her lineage’s necklace after promising to help her clan if he encountered its members.
• Chen Lin left Sanhuan City without visiting Kaiyuan City, spent two days with Lin Qingyu in Center City, and then went to Sword Sect Master Xiaoling.
• Chen Lin relayed Gu Huang’s message and gave Sword Sect Master Xiaoling the White Little Flower; in return, he asked Xiaoling to infuse nine Intentless Swords with Sword Will.
• When Chen Lin asked who had to submit, the Sword Woman revealed herself and announced that she was closing the plane, ordering him to leave as soon as possible.

Sword Woman warned Chen Lin that he had little time left and gave him a powerful sword will before sealing the Sword Realm. Back in Rainbow City, Chen Lin planned his next steps and heard Ouyang Ye’s offer to trade five Colored Nightmare Coins for the Heaven-Swallowing Golden Toad.

• Sword Woman told Chen Lin that everyone in the Sword Realm except Outsiders was her clone, then gave him the Intentless Sword imbued with her sword will and sent him back to his immortal cave.
• Chen Lin connected Sword Woman’s warning to Rainbow Era 1314, resolved to prepare for the danger, and considered dealing with the Taishi Lineage before traveling to the Inner World.
• Chen Lin tested the Intentless Sword with Death Sword Will and decided to save it for a life-threatening situation.
• Shen Anning told Chen Lin that White Bird had cured her with a Ten-Thousand Nirvana Pill and taught her a method to ascend to the True Realm; she still wanted to enter Chen Lin’s scenario after preparing.
• Chen Lin agreed to meet Ouyang Ye, who apologized for his past disrespect and offered five Colored Nightmare Coins in exchange for the Heaven-Swallowing Golden Toad.

Chen Lin tried to lure Ouyang Ye into the Star-Plucking Clan scenario so he could seize the Heaven-Swallowing Golden Toad’s secrets and Ouyang Ye’s treasures, but Ouyang sent successive groups of elderly cultivators instead. As Chen Lin prepared new demands for the treasure, Gu Qing warned him that Ouyang Ye—or the person Chen Lin had been waiting for—had entered the scenario.

• Chen Lin refused Ouyang Ye’s offer of five Three-Color Nightmare Coins and a Great Primordial Pill, then sold him information about the Star-Plucking Clan scenario for one coin.
• Chen Lin learned from Gu Qing that explorers could leave the giant palm by obtaining a Brilliant Divine Crystal, and arranged for Gu Qing to help those who entered.
• Chen Lin hid beneath the dense fog as five of Ouyang Ye’s explorers entered, but they ignored the Heaven-Swallowing Golden Toad and all died except one who escaped.
• Ouyang Ye sent more groups of elderly cultivators to negotiate with Gu Qing, but Chen Lin failed to lure him into the scenario and grew concerned about the cost.
• Chen Lin instructed Gu Qing to demand higher-grade Nightmare Coins, a Road Guide, or valuable Reality Realm treasures for the Heaven-Swallowing Golden Toad, but Gu Qing reported that the person Chen Lin had mentioned seemed to have entered.

Chen Lin captured Ouyang Ye and took his treasures, but spared him after Ancestor Ouyang revealed the Star Toad fragments and promised a Destiny Treasure. Ouyang Xue delivered the promised treasures, and she and her family returned to Bright Peak.

• Chen Lin ordered Gu Qing to capture Ouyang Ye, who entered the fog seeking treasure, and Gu Qing subdued him while killing his four companions.
• Chen Lin stripped Ouyang Ye of his Merit Coin, Nightmare Realm items, pills, and Great Primordial Pill, then ordered Gu Qing to search his soul.
• Ouyang Xue projected her consciousness through a Colored Light Orb and pleaded for her son's life, revealing that the Heaven-Swallowing Golden Toad was a fragment of the Star Toad.
• After Gu Qing detected a powerful seal in Ouyang Ye's soul, Chen Lin chose to spare him, and Ouyang Ye escaped with a Divine Crystal.
• Ouyang Xue visited Chen Lin and gave him the Jade Toad, the living Star-Swallowing Divine Frog, a Fusion Method, and the Ring of Destiny.
• Ouyang Xue returned to Bright Peak, where Ouyang Ye and two men were waiting for her.

Chen Lin investigated the Ring of Destiny and used his talent to refine it, though doing so cost him Xiaoyu's clone. He suspected the clone was tied to Huiye, the Lord of the Moon Palace, and planned to eliminate abilities of uncertain origin before Rainbow Era 1314.

• Ouyang Xue sent Ouyang Ye to the Ancestral Land and told her messenger that the Star Toad Fragment and secret method had been delivered to Chen Lin.
• Chen Lin studied the Great Fusion Technique, secured the Heaven-Swallowing Divine Frog, and examined the Ring of Destiny.
• Chen Lin used Xiaoyu's clone to test the ring in the Destiny River, where the ring trapped the clone and a colorful ray destroyed it as Chen Lin reached a node.
• Chen Lin found the ring had acknowledged him as its master and confirmed it could autonomously block an ash ray.
• Chen Lin regretted losing Xiaoyu's clone but decided to eliminate abilities with suspect origins because he suspected the clone was connected to Huiye, the Lord of the Moon Palace.

Chen Lin decided to investigate the mysteries surrounding Huiye and Niuniu while studying the Great Fusion Technique, then learned the Taishi Lineage's grotto-heaven location from Jin Ruhua. He left immediately to attack the lineage, while Sun Changzu and his granddaughter sensed an ominous danger and chose not to follow the Taishi group.

• Chen Lin considered whether Niuniu was Huiye's reincarnation and resolved to investigate the Drift Bottle Scenario and Guardian Hut Village, then studied the Great Fusion Technique.
• Jin Ruhua told Chen Lin that the Taishi Lineage's mobile grotto-heaven had powerful defenses, and gave him a map and a bloodline-imprinted flying sword to locate it.
• Chen Lin asked Jin Ruhua to handle the Taishi experts scattered outside the grotto-heaven, then departed for the Taishi Lineage immediately.
• At Teleportation Square, Taishi Tian threatened Chen Lin, who thanked him for removing any hesitation and teleported away.
• Sun Changzu's granddaughter felt uneasy about joining the Taishi group, and Sun Changzu abandoned his attempt to contact them after her premonition returned.

Chen Lin used Gu Qing to destroy the Taishi Lineage’s grotto-heaven and fled before the aftermath could draw further danger. Back in Rainbow City, he considered new suspicions about the Crape Myrtle Palace and learned that factions were courting him with gifts, while Jin Ruhua handled the consequences.

• Chen Lin released Gu Qing near the Taishi Lineage, and Gu Qing destroyed Taishi Han, the Qianxuan Myriad Wonder Pot, and everyone caught in the resulting collapse.
• Chen Lin saw Gu Qing’s star go dark on the Star-Plucking Token, then concealed himself and returned to Rainbow City after three days.
• Chen Lin met the Cheng Sisters, gave Cheng Lingdie Wan Zhencang’s Blood Dragon Bone to decipher, and heard her speculate that the Purple Emperor and Mingyue Shuanghua might be artifact spirits.
• Jin Ruhua asked whether Chen Lin had brought the giant who destroyed the Taishi Lineage, and Chen Lin left the matter to her handling.
• Factions connected to Wan Zhencang and the Taishi Lineage, along with Rainbow City’s major factions, sent Chen Lin lavish gifts and assurances of goodwill.

Chen Lin recovered three intact items from Gu Qing’s palm, including a mysterious disc and card that could not be stored in ordinary devices. Sun Changzu then asked Chen Lin to help his granddaughter Sun Jingning shape her soul, and Chen Lin began the intimate soul-suppression process in his Cultivation Chamber.

• Chen Lin found an intact emerald sword, a strange disc, and a blank card among the spoils on Gu Qing’s palm, but the disc and card resisted storage and gave him no clues.
• Chen Lin concealed the disc and card beneath his cloak, then received Sun Changzu, who visited with his granddaughters Sun Jingning and Sun Chuxue.
• Sun Changzu offered Chen Lin ten Myriad Law Stones in exchange for helping Sun Jingning suppress her Soul Origin Essence so she could refine her Soul Molding talent.
• Chen Lin agreed, confirmed that his Soul Level exceeded Sun Jingning’s, and learned that the process required suppressing her entire Soul Body.
• Chen Lin activated the Immortal Cave’s Defensive Formation, led Sun Jingning into the Cultivation Chamber, and extended his soul into her body to begin the procedure.

Sun Jingning successfully shaped her talent into a Life Tablet with Chen Lin’s help, and the energy released during the process awakened his soul blemish. After learning the card’s powers and secrets, Chen Lin tested whether he could now strengthen his soul blemish through cultivation.

• Sun Changzu told the Sun Lineage head that Chen Lin had destroyed the Taishi Lineage and that they had left Sun Jingning with him; the lineage head approved their plan and increased Sun Changzu’s branch’s resource allotment.
• Sun Chuxue worried that Chen Lin might harm Sun Jingning, while Sun Changzu explained that the soul fusion could help her repair her innate talent and avoid a political marriage.
• Chen Lin suppressed Sun Jingning’s turbulent soul as she assembled her soul origin essence, gradually shaping it into a card resembling one among the Taishi Lineage’s remaining possessions.
• Sun Jingning completed the shaping, and the resulting energy replenished Chen Lin’s soul and appeared to give his soul blemish a trace of vitality.
• Sun Jingning revealed that her Life Tablet could refine level-four-or-higher beings and described how it could turn one into a growing natal spirit; she also warned Chen Lin that the cards belonged to a set with a great secret.
• After Sun Jingning left, Chen Lin confirmed that his soul blemish had become active and began practicing a soul-strengthening technique to test whether it could grow.

Chen Lin explored the Main Destiny River with the Ring of Destiny, captured and refined a sentient energy cluster, and greatly strengthened his destiny origin essence. After returning to the Reality Realm, he was immediately enveloped by a powerful sense of danger.

• Chen Lin concluded that Sun Jingning had hinted the Sun Lineage might possess a Life Tablet, but he decided not to seek out other tablets.
• Jin Ruhua told Chen Lin that the Taishi Lineage's destruction had largely settled, though some members might have escaped.
• Chen Lin entered his destiny domain, used Mortal Dust Asks Destiny to break free of its restraints, and encountered a sentient energy cluster that attacked him.
• Chen Lin subdued the energy cluster with a Fate Tentacle coated in mortal dust aspiration force and brought it back to his destiny domain to refine.
• After a month of refining, Chen Lin's destiny fish doubled in size and his destiny origin essence condensed into a solid bead.
• Chen Lin returned to the Reality Realm and sensed immediate danger before he could open his eyes.