Chapter Summaries

Chen Lin faced a destiny-related ordeal after advancing his talent, surviving waves of golden destiny fish by fighting and refining them before leaping over a dangerous correction node. He plunged into darkness and heard others call him a lady, but his memories and sense of identity began to fade.

• Chen Lin was trapped by destiny lines after his talent advanced, and the Ring of Destiny shielded him as he searched for a way through the ordeal.
• Chen Lin imagined a path to survival, followed a glowing line into the River of Destiny, and fought off successive waves of golden destiny fish.
• Chen Lin refined the defeated fish to restore his strength and improve his body, Origin Golden Core, and Ring of Destiny.
• Chen Lin reached a Colored Light Orb that he realized was a destiny-correction node, then used Death Gaze and his Reverse Scale to leap past its attack.
• Chen Lin plunged into darkness and heard General Qin and a woman speak as someone carried him away, while his memories and sense of identity grew confused.

Chen Lin left school to pursue martial arts, but Mother Chen revealed that his father was Chen Wentian, the wrongfully executed Grand General, and gave him the General Token and a half jade pendant. The pendant glowed in Chen Lin’s hand, and Mother Chen agreed to let him train, saying the Chen Family had its own martial arts.

• Chen Lin told his teacher he intended to leave school and become Li Iron Legs' disciple, believing martial arts offered a better path than the imperial examinations.
• Mother Chen initially forbade Chen Lin from learning martial arts, then agreed on the condition that he start a family; Chen Lin refused and declared he would not live an ordinary life.
• Mother Chen revealed a sealed jar hidden beneath the floor and showed Chen Lin a golden General Token and half a jade pendant left by his father.
• Mother Chen told Chen Lin that his father was Chen Wentian, the Grand General who had been framed and executed, and that Chen Lin was his only surviving blood relative.
• The half jade pendant glowed and revealed faint patterns when Chen Lin held it, and Mother Chen warned him to keep it secret.
• Mother Chen gave Chen Lin permission to pursue martial arts and said he did not need Li Iron Legs because the Chen Family had its own martial arts.

After mastering three streams of internal qi, Chen Lin left home to avenge the Chen Family and build a force, taking his disabled followers and San Niu with him. Using an airship and advanced weapons, he seized Yellow Peak Stronghold and expanded rapidly, leaving the Imperial Dynasty shaken after conquering three commanderies.

• Chen Lin told Mother Chen he would leave to contact his father’s former subordinates and attack Yellow Peak Stronghold, but she refused to accompany him and warned him not to invoke his father’s name before building a force.
• Chen Lin gathered his five disabled subordinates at their mountain hideout, and San Niu joined them after Mother Chen sent her along.
• Chen Lin revealed the weapons and supplies hidden underground, then tested the airship he had built and flew the group toward Yellow Peak Stronghold.
• Chen Lin bombarded Yellow Peak Stronghold from the air, killed its ringleaders, recruited the surviving bandits, and gathered ten thousand followers within a month.
• Chen Lin sent his forces to subdue nearby factions and mine ore, then used firearms and the airship to conquer three commanderies in less than a year.

During a full-moon ritual, Chen Lin was drawn into the sky by the Half Jade Pendant, and San Niu was gravely injured trying to save him. A strange woman possessed San Niu and told Chen Lin that the only way to restore her was to enter the Holy Pagoda, leaving him to decide whether to risk it.

• Chen Lin and San Niu watched the full moon together as the Half Jade Pendant began glowing and pulled Chen Lin into a moonlit orb.
• San Niu clung to the orb despite its power ravaging her body, and her blood awakened Chen Lin's birthmark and ring, freeing him from the pendant's pull.
• A black streak emerged from the pendant and entered San Niu, whose body was then controlled by a woman who claimed San Niu's soul was barely preserved.
• The woman used the Half Jade Pendant to shield Chen Lin from the Holy Pagoda's force after he activated his chess-piece treasure.
• The woman told Chen Lin that entering the Holy Pagoda was the only way to save San Niu, then went inside to bathe while he considered her demand.

Chen Lin learned from Huiye that the Soul Bead inside the Holy Pagoda might restore San Niu, so he conquered the Imperial City and prepared to enter the pagoda. After Huiye gave birth to their son, she urged him to wait until the next full moon and send subordinates inside to investigate first.

• Chen Lin challenged Huiye to leave San Niu's body, verified that San Niu had no pulse while Huiye was gone, and then believed Huiye when she returned to the body.
• Huiye explained that the Holy Pagoda suppressed transcendent power and that a Soul Bead inside it could nourish San Niu's soul origin essence.
• Chen Lin made Huiye help direct his army, captured the Imperial City in just over nine months, and postponed entering the Holy Pagoda when Huiye warned that his transcendent treasures could cause trouble inside.
• Huiye delayed the expedition until after she gave birth, and Chen Lin's first child, a boy, was born ten days later.
• Huiye told Chen Lin to wait for the annual great full moon and send subordinates into the pagoda to investigate while she preserved San Niu's life force.

Chen Lin and Huiye entered the Holy Pagoda to seek a Soul Bead that could revive San Niu and the other half of Huiye’s Jade Pendant. After fighting their way through the first six layers, they reached the perilous Seventh Layer, where they had limited time to find what they sought and clear the trial.

• Chen Lin handed the throne to his newborn son, placed Mother Chen in charge with the elders’ support, and went to the Holy Pagoda with Huiye.
• Huiye revealed that a Soul Bead might exist only on the Seventh Layer or higher, and promised to leave San Niu’s body if she found the other half of her Jade Pendant—or give up her soul essence to help revive San Niu if she failed.
• Chen Lin and Huiye cleared the first three layers, then fought through armies on the Fourth through Sixth Layers; Huiye warned Chen Lin not to break through into the Innate Realm.
• On the Seventh Layer, Huiye said they had to find a Soul Bead and the other half of her Jade Pendant while surviving an endless stream of martial arts masters before the hourglass ran out.
• Chen Lin charged into the Seventh Layer’s passage as Huiye agreed to watch for both treasures.

Chen Lin survived the Holy Pagoda’s Eighth Layer by relying on his innate treasures, then seized a Golden Book Page from Huiye before they were swallowed by a vortex. Back in Rainbow City, he realized the ordeal had advanced his innate talent and given him the Mortal Refining Chapter, and he suspected San Niu had helped him obtain it.

• Chen Lin followed Huiye through the Light Gate to the Eighth Layer, where they were separated and he discovered ten thousand identical Light Orbs.
• Chen Lin tested the Light Orbs and survived their deadly attacks because his innate treasures blocked the blows.
• Chen Lin realized he could endure the attacks until his divine ability revealed a Light Gate, and he used it to reach Huiye.
• Chen Lin attacked Huiye as she tried to take Golden Book Pages through a Colored Vortex, and he grabbed the final page before the vortex swallowed them both.
• Chen Lin awoke in his cave abode in Rainbow City and found that his innate talent had advanced and the page contained the Mortal Refining Chapter.
• Chen Lin suspected San Niu had caused Huiye to pause so he could take the page he needed.

Chen Lin discovered that San Niu’s Grass Mandarin Duck had come out of the Holy Pagoda Realm, deepening his suspicions about her and Niuniu. As the Rainbow Grand Ceremony approached, he brought Tianshu and five others to Rainbow City, gave Tianshu the Blood Dragon Bone to refine, and prepared to meet Jin Ruhua for his assigned duties.

• Chen Lin found San Niu’s Grass Mandarin Duck in his room and wondered whether San Niu and Niuniu were connected to Huiye.
• Cheng Lingdie deciphered the Blood Dragon Bone’s inheritance, identifying its original owner as a Weeping Blood Azure Dragon and finding that its cultivation method was useless to Chen Lin.
• Chen Lin bought two Void Scrolls and brought Tianshu, Chen Ling'er, Liu Rumian, Muese, Chu Qingying, and Yuan Tiancheng to Rainbow City.
• Chen Ling'er asked whether Chen Lin had destroyed the Taishi Lineage and killed Taishi Han, and Chen Lin confirmed it while warning everyone to stay in the city.
• Cheng Lingdie returned the Blood Dragon Bone, and Chen Lin gave it to Tianshu to refine while he studied the Great Fusion Technique.
• Two days before the Grand Ceremony, Chen Lin received Jin Ruhua’s summons, then stopped in midair after noticing something in his palm.

Chen Lin attended a secret Ant Society meeting after his Gray Ring revealed a mission, while also helping the Left Alliance prepare for its ceremony and headquarters relocation. The meeting ended with a search mission for a person bearing a flower-shaped birthmark, and Chen Lin learned that the Ant Society reached beyond the Boundary River.

• Chen Lin found a golden token inside his Gray Ring and learned that Ant Ring holders could attend a mission meeting.
• Chen Lin attended a Left Alliance meeting where Jin Ruhua assigned him to appear at the grand ceremony and appointed Shen Anning as an elder because she was sworn siblings with Young Master Bai, Young Master Gu, and Chen Lin.
• Jin Ruhua announced that the Left Alliance would move to its new headquarters after the ceremony and began allocating places in Rainbow City.
• Chen Lin activated the token and joined the Ant Society meeting, where he accepted a secrecy contract after dozens of attendees left.
• The Golden Figure announced a mission to find a likely Human Race member with a high-grade innate talent, a high-grade soul, and a flower-shaped birthmark on their chest.
• Chen Lin asked where the person might be, and the Golden Figure said they could be in the Plane River, Star Domain, or Abyss.

Chen Lin learned how the Ant Society worked and discovered that it opposed the Heavenly Dao’s Slave Seals, while the Ant Ring had chosen him as a Destined Person. He left the gathering with new knowledge, a debt of fifty Contribution Points, and reason to worry about Grand Duke White Moonlight.

• The Golden Figure opened the gathering to trading, but Chen Lin learned he lacked the Contribution Points needed to participate.
• A woman traded five hundred Contribution Points for smilou ore, and Chen Lin discovered he could retrieve only items stored inside his Ant Ring.
• Chen Lin asked about the Ant Society, and the Golden Figure offered to explain its rules and secrets for fifty Contribution Points.
• The Golden Figure revealed that twelve Quasi-Dominators founded the society to resist the Heavenly Dao’s Slave Seals, and explained how Ant Rings and Destined Persons worked.
• The Golden Figure warned Chen Lin to conceal his membership and told him to watch for people named in the posted missions.
• Back in his Immortal Cave, Chen Lin considered the benefits and dangers of membership, including the possibility that Grand Duke White Moonlight might become a Slave-Sealed Dominator.

During the Rainbow Grand Ceremony, Chen Lin was invited by the Mist Lord to discuss collecting rainbow flowers, but he declined to commit and returned to the celebration. There, he was surprised by the appearance of someone he had not seen for a long time.

• Chen Lin attended the ceremony with the white bird and arranged with Shen Anning to explore the Nightmare Realm after it ended.
• The Mist Lord's maid summoned Chen Lin, and he found the Mist Lord, Zhe Min, and an unfamiliar woman waiting for him.
• The Mist Lord offered Chen Lin three rewards for helping Star Vortex collect rainbow flowers, while Zhe Min urged him not to trust the white bird.
• Chen Lin said he had already promised to help Young Master Bai and had mastered only the fifth star of the Seven-Star Shining Sun Technique, then left without accepting or refusing.
• Chen Lin returned to the ceremony and saw a familiar figure he had not encountered in a long time.

Chen Lin reunited with Alan and Qian Li at Rainbow City, learned that Alan came from the weakened Xue Lineage, and discussed the possibility that their children had survived. As Alan left to return to her lineage, Chen Ling'er told Chen Lin that Junior Mother Wen was back.

• Chen Lin recognized Qian Li, learned that Alan had brought him from the Inner World, and reunited with Alan.
• Alan revealed that her real name was Xue Menglan and that she belonged to the Xue Lineage, one of the secluded families, which had little connection to the destroyed Taishi Lineage.
• Alan told Chen Lin that a soul cultivator had encountered a brother and sister, and Chen Lin considered whether the Undying True Lord had taken their children to the Netherworld.
• Chen Lin gave Alan and Qian Li Communication Jade Talismans, and Alan left to stay with her lineage until after the grand ceremony.
• Chen Ling'er found Chen Lin and told him that Junior Mother Wen had returned.

Chen Lin helped Wen Xinzhao recover after she returned gravely injured from the Land of Death, and learned that she had been trapped while searching for the Mortal Plane entrance. At Rainbow City’s Grand Ceremony, he watched Young Master Bai’s Law Flowers help some cultivators advance, and the gathering proceeded to announce appointments.

• Chen Lin went to his cave abode and used his soul blemish to suppress the strange force tormenting Wen Xinzhao’s soul, then used his first God Star to remove the domineering energy in her body.
• Chen Lin gave Wen Xinzhao a pill to reconstruct her body and learned she had entered the Land of Death seeking the Mortal Plane entrance, become trapped in a strange space, and escaped through a Teleportation Array.
• Wen Xinzhao worried that Wan Zhencang would attack Chen Lin, and Chen Lin told her he had killed Wan Zhencang and that Jin Ruhua had become Alliance Leader.
• Chen Lin returned to the Rainbow Grand Ceremony, where Young Master Bai opened the event by conjuring real Law Flowers that helped some attendees break through or condense true principles.
• The ceremony continued with brief speeches and faction representatives presenting gifts before Jin Ruhua began announcing appointments.

Chen Lin accepted White Bird’s appointment as Deputy City Lord while White Bird made chaotic appointments that angered Rainbow City’s factions. After the ceremony, Chen Lin reconciled with Wen Xinzhao and discussed his destruction of the Taishi Lineage, then learned the new appointees had failed to take over most posts; he returned to his Immortal Cave and found a sultry woman speaking with Muese.

• White Bird appointed Chen Lin and Sun Changxing as Deputy City Lords, then used a lottery to assign Rainbow City’s administrative posts and captains.
• The grand ceremony ended without the promised expert lectures, and Chen Lin checked on Wen Xinzhao’s recovery in his Immortal Cave.
• Wen Xinzhao thanked Chen Lin for avenging her, accepted their relationship as husband and wife, and learned that he had destroyed the Taishi Lineage.
• Wen Xinzhao warned Chen Lin that the Secluded Families would seek revenge and offered to find ways to divide them.
• Chen Lin asked Jin Ruhua whether White Bird’s appointees had taken over their posts, and she said that only three posts had changed hands.
• Chen Lin returned to his Immortal Cave and saw a sultry woman talking with Muese.

Chen Lin learned that the Red-Robed King wanted his help obtaining Rainbow Flowers, then focused on securing the Kaiyuan Realm before returning to the Inner World. He arranged for Wen Xinzhao to use Bright Peak as the core of a stronger defensive formation and made plans to keep Alan’s connection to him secret, leaving the realm’s future preparations underway.

• Chen Lin refused the Red-Robed King’s invitation to meet but read his letter and learned that he offered a large reward for help obtaining Rainbow Flowers.
• Chen Lin asked Wen Xinzhao whether she could strengthen the Kaiyuan Realm’s defenses, and she explained that the Divine Pagoda Coiling Dragon Array had reached its limit.
• Wen Xinzhao revealed that her lineage held the second Heaven and Earth Golden Gourd, and she agreed to try using Bright Peak as the core of a new defensive formation.
• Chen Lin advised Alan to keep their relationship private, gave her proof of their connection, and warned her to seek help from his allies if trouble arose.
• Chen Lin gathered the first batch of materials for Wen Xinzhao’s formation, observed the uneasy balance in Rainbow City, and arranged for Qian Ziduo to open a trading firm.
• Chen Lin declined to explore the dangerous Outer Realm Battlefield and told Wen Xinzhao to avoid further risks as they stood on Bright Peak in the Kaiyuan Realm.

After ten years in the Kaiyuan Realm, Chen Lin returned to the Inner World and learned that his disciple Leng Yue had been captured by Devil Lord Redbone. He reached the Six Mysteries Sect with Liu Rumian and asked its leaders for information so he could rescue her.

• Rainbow City prospered under a balance of factions, and Chen Lin warned Shen Anning not to bind the Shen Family too closely to White Bird.
• Over ten years, Tianshu reached the mid true realm, Grass advanced to true realm completion, Chen Lin’s soul star achieved greater mastery, and the Kaiyuan Sect completed the Bright Grand Formation.
• Chen Lin left Wen Xinzhao in the Kaiyuan Realm with Grass, the divine servant, and the Bright Grand Formation to protect her while he traveled to the Inner World.
• In his peerage fiefdom, Chen Lin learned from Gu Xiaohong that Devil Lord Redbone had captured Leng Yue three years earlier and established the Red Demon Sect beside the Chaos Pool.
• Chen Lin used Liu Rumian’s identity token and the Boundary-Breaking Disc to reach the Six Mysteries Sect, where Yue Tongtian and other true-realm cultivators greeted them.
• Chen Lin told Yue Tongtian and the other cultivators that he had come to investigate Leng Yue’s capture and asked them about Devil Lord Redbone.

Chen Lin destroyed the Red Demon Sect with the Azure Moon Saber and rescued his disciple Leng Yue from its underground prison. After visiting True Lord Wuming in Myriad Forms City, Chen Lin learned what was known about Fairy Yaochi, Hongming Ancestor, and Tianji Daoist, then received word that the Bai Family Patriarch wanted to see him.

• Chen Lin asked Yue Tongtian and the Six Mysteries Sect elders to accompany him against Devil Lord Redbone, then overwhelmed the Red Demon Sect with the Azure Moon Saber.
• Chen Lin searched the sect for Leng Yue, learned she was alive, and killed Devil Lord Redbone and thousands of demonic cultivators, though the Cage Array's World Will attacked his soul.
• Chen Lin found Leng Yue chained in the Ninth Layer of an underground pagoda, freed her, and restored her strength.
• Chen Lin went to Myriad Forms City and met True Lord Wuming, who said Fairy Yaochi was likely alive, Hongming Ancestor's whereabouts were unknown, and Tianji Daoist had probably escaped to the Outer World.
• A disciple told True Lord Wuming that the Bai Family Patriarch of White Tiger Town had arrived and requested an audience with Chen Lin.

Chen Lin received Bai Qingyu and several powerful cultivators who sought to make amends, then assigned them lists of people and items to find in exchange for settling past grievances. The gathering ended with True Lord Wuming asking what the Cage Array’s collapse would mean for the Inner World.

• True Lord Wuming invited Bai Qingyu to meet Chen Lin, who agreed to receive him without seeking to destroy the Bai Family.
• Bai Qingyu brought Bai Xuanying to Chen Lin, and she told him that Jin Xingyun had disappeared while exploring the Nightmare Realm; Chen Lin promised to look for him.
• Marquis Jinguān and True Lord Jiuhuan apologized for their part in Tianji Daoist’s scheme, and Chen Lin gave them lists of people and items to locate in exchange for wiping the slate clean.
• Bai Qingyu presented Chen Lin with a Void-Breaking Crystal, and Chen Lin gave him a spatial true treasure in return.
• After Chen Lin warned that Inner World treasures might become unusable when the Cage Array collapsed, True Lord Wuming asked what was weakening it and what would happen when it fell.

Chen Lin explained that the Cage Array was weakening because its core, the Crape Myrtle Palace, had been removed, and warned that its collapse would threaten powerful cultivators most. He set tasks in exchange for answers, received information about the Wangyue Realm, and left the Inner World’s leaders to mobilize their people as he returned to the Kaiyuan Sect Branch.

• Chen Lin explained the Cage Array’s dependence on the Crape Myrtle Palace and warned True Lord Wuming and the others that the array’s collapse could have severe consequences for powerful cultivators.
• Chen Lin refused to discuss the Bizarre Cultivator and the Purple Emperor’s reincarnation without payment, while the Bai Family Patriarch and Marquis Jinguān took their leave.
• True Lord Jiuhuan gave Chen Lin the Wangyue Realm’s entrance location in exchange for news about Xiao Qingmo, and Chen Lin said he believed she might be with the Mysterious Person and Jinlin.
• Chen Lin warned True Lord Wuming and True Lord Jiuhuan that the current lull was their best chance to leave the Inner World, then vanished from the Myriad Forms Palace.
• True Lord Wuming regretted how he had treated Yaochi, and True Lord Jiuhuan blamed the Tianji Daoist’s manipulation for their past choices.
• Chen Lin arrived at the Kaiyuan Sect Branch with Bai Xuanying and congratulated the Seven Mysteries Heavenly Woman on her improved cultivation.

Chen Lin organized a search for people and treasures by assigning the Six Mysteries Sect and the Myriad Demon Heavens to help, while discussing the risks and cost of taking Inner World practitioners to the Outer World. After Lou Dengjie departed and the others left, Chen Lin asked Yue Tongtian which factions and powerful cultivators had attacked the Tianfan Realm.

• Chen Lin learned that the Five Elements Realm had become inaccessible and agreed to let Yue Tongtian's Six Mysteries Sect coordinate searches using his task list, with Liu Rumian handling arrangements.
• Chen Lin gave Leng Yue supplies for Sun Qingxuan and received Lou Dengjie, who asked after Xu Wuye and gave him a Bloodline Orb to search for her.
• Chen Lin agreed to look for Xu Wuye and shared his task list with Lou Dengjie, who promised to mobilize the Myriad Demon Heavens.
• Chen Lin explained that Inner World practitioners faced severe dangers in the Outer World and offered a limited number of departure spots in exchange for task rewards or eternal-tier True Treasures.
• Lou Dengjie and Yue Tongtian left to prepare and search, while Chen Lin asked Yue Tongtian about the factions and powerful cultivators involved in the Tianfan Realm's destruction.