Recaps

Chen Lin was confronted by two possessed Prison Guards who mistook him for Qiu Daoli and demanded the beast bone and fulfillment of an old promise. When they realized he was not Qiu Daoli, Chen Lin attacked and had Chen Bao rescue his family, leaving him facing the guards alone.

• Chen Lin recognized the possessed Huo Yuntao as the Black Little Man and Huo Tingfeng as the Shadow Monster, both former Upper Realm Remnant Cultivators.
• The two Prison Guards threatened Qin Lingyu and the others, demanding Chen Lin's life and claiming he owed them for leaving them imprisoned for thousands of years.
• Chen Lin learned the guards believed he was Qiu Daoli, whose Samsara Secret Art had supposedly promised to remove their Divine Soul Imprints.
• The guards asked whether Chen Lin had stayed in the realm for the True Spirit Remains or the True Immortal Relic, and Chen Lin suspected the beast bone was part of the True Spirit Remains.
• Huo Yuntao realized Chen Lin was not Qiu Daoli, so Chen Lin attacked, shielded Qin Lingyu and the others, and ordered Chen Bao to carry them away through space.

Chen Lin tricked the two Prison Guards into leaving, took the mysterious sphere, and reunited with his family at Huanling Lake. There, he learned Silver Fairy was recovering and heard that Huanling had found a ship full of Nightmare Coins.

• Chen Lin bluffed Huo Yuntao and Huo Tingfeng into withholding their attack, and they left to investigate other suspects.
• Chen Lin used his primordial spirit power to retrieve the sphere, suspected it might contain a remnant thought, and carried it away.
• Chen Lin reunited with Qin Lingyu and the others, then led them to Huanling Lake while avoiding dangers along the way.
• True Lord Huanling welcomed the group and gave gifts to the women and Chen Bao.
• Chen Lin learned Silver Fairy was improving in secluded cultivation, and Huanling reported finding a wrecked ship filled with Nightmare Coins.

Chen Lin attempted to board a wrecked ship guarded by a Bone Bird to claim a chest of Nightmare Coins, but the creature’s pressure stopped him. After preparing his companions and giving his daughter protective treasures, he entered seclusion to explore the Nightmare Realm on his own.

• True Lord Huanling led Chen Lin to a wrecked ship whose deck held a chest full of Nightmare Coins, but a Bone Bird guarded it.
• Chen Lin used the Xuanwu Shield to withstand the Bone Bird’s aura and take two steps toward the ship, then retreated when he could not endure the pressure.
• Chen Lin and True Lord Huanling left the Nightmare Realm, while Huanling and Anmu began exploring discovered scenarios in shifts and Chen Lin made separate, guarded spaces for his own explorations.
• Chen Lin helped Chen Qingying refine the Seizing Yin Pill, allowing her to become a flawed yin elixir cultivator.
• Chen Lin gave his daughter the Moling Ring and a teleporting Jade Talisman, then asked Qin Lingyu and Sun Caiyi to stand guard as he entered seclusion to explore the Nightmare Realm.

Chen Lin received a Treasure Chest from the Golden Toad after it learned he was connected to Niuniu, then met Shirina, who sought to trade for it. He learned the Golden Toad had killed a powerful visitor for cheating, and the chapter ended with Shirina refusing his proposed trade for eight-arm circumambulation.

• Chen Lin visited Gambling Fortune Lake, where the Golden Toad gave his Fishing Rod a golden light after asking about his connection to Niuniu.
• Chen Lin caught a golden Treasure Chest and realized the Golden Toad could influence what people caught.
• Shirina appeared and asked to trade for the Treasure Chest; Chen Lin hesitated, wary of her strength.
• Shirina pointed out the dead Shanhai Realm man's head in the lake and explained that the Golden Toad had killed him for cheating and insulting it.
• Chen Lin suggested payment in Nightmare Coins or eight-arm circumambulation, but Shirina rejected the offer and warned that the creature's corpse would quickly deteriorate.

Chen Lin opened the Golden Toad’s treasure chest and absorbed a mysterious light orb that he suspected was an Origin Orb. Afterward, his crafting talent appeared to stop working, and the chapter ended as he mobilized his qi luck force and something suddenly changed.

• Chen Lin refused the Cat-headed Monster’s offer of One-Arm Circumambulation and learned that her realm might reject or kill him.
• After Chen Lin’s projection vanished, the Cat-headed Monster and a Shadow Demon revealed that the Golden Toad’s golden qi had helped him fish up the treasure chest.
• Chen Lin opened the chest in his secluded chamber and absorbed the light orb, which took a month to fully absorb.
• Chen Lin tested his crafting talent by refining pills, but his usual invisible hand failed to appear across repeated attempts.
• Chen Lin tested spells, cultivation, formations, and other activities without success, then mobilized his qi luck force and triggered a sudden change.

Chen Lin discovered that his talent origin let him perceive and manipulate the rule-like lines governing his actions, restoring a form of his former guaranteed-hit ability. After using it to successfully refine Luoling Pills, he began testing its limits and realized it could only alter minor matters for now.

• Chen Lin activated his talent origin by spending much of his qi luck, saw a hazy image of countless lines, and learned that Gambling Fortune Lake fish replenished his qi luck.
• Chen Lin visited Chen Ling'er and the others, then learned from Mu Linglong that the Silver Fairy's condition had improved while she remained in seclusion.
• Chen Lin used a rule tendril to reconnect a broken line during pill refining and successfully produced five Luoling Pills.
• Chen Lin repeatedly tested his new ability and confirmed that its lines reflected the likely outcome of any task, while the tendril could reconnect broken lines.
• Chen Lin found that his weak talent origin could only change minor outcomes, but it could guarantee success in properly performed tasks such as refining pills below the Nascent Soul grade.

After emerging from seclusion, Silver Fairy discussed the looming destruction of their realm with Chen Lin and considered ways to escape through the Nightmare Realm. She revealed a possible route into the insect monsters’ realm, ending by mentioning a Frog.

• Chen Lin spent half a year mastering the Crimson Flame Hammer spell and caught a Golden Crab with more qi luck than the fish and shrimp in Gambling Fortune Lake.
• Silver Fairy emerged from seclusion having suppressed her Nightmare Transformation and learned that True Lord Anmu and True Lord Huanling were away seeking ways to leave the realm.
• Silver Fairy gave Chen Ling'er a Pseudo Spirit Treasure called the Thousand-Zhang Silk and presented gifts to the other women.
• Chen Lin told Silver Fairy that his Scarecrow friend remained difficult to contact and that he needed better Road Guides to explore the Nightmare Realm for space nodes.
• Silver Fairy dismissed the Netherworld as too dangerous but said entering the insect monsters’ realm might still be possible, then mentioned a Frog.

Chen Lin and Silver Fairy examined a ledger from a dangerous Nightmare Realm inn and decided to explore it together in projection. They entered the inn’s courtyard during the day, where Silver Fairy explained how she had nearly died retrieving the ledger, and they prepared to investigate further after nightfall.

• Chen Lin warned Silver Fairy that Frog was dangerous, but she said they might have to seek his help if they had no other way out.
• Silver Fairy showed Chen Lin a ledger from an abandoned inn, which listed guests and revealed that a Two-Star Itinerant Merchant named Yuan Wu had stayed there.
• Chen Lin and Silver Fairy agreed to explore the inn by projection, and Silver Fairy said she would suppress the nightmare qi in her body with a treasure.
• Three days later, Chen Lin and Silver Fairy entered the inn together and found themselves in its courtyard, where they could move around only during the day.
• Silver Fairy told Chen Lin that she had entered a candlelit side room at night, survived attacks from invisible beings using the Soul-Destroying Finger, and taken the ledger from a cabinet.

Chen Lin and Silver Fairy explored the Nightmare Realm, then examined the orb from the Far North as it revealed clearer images before shattering. A crystal fragment merged into Silver Fairy and reversed some of her Nightmare Transformation, leaving her hoping to find more.

• Silver Fairy showed Chen Lin her soul-powered broken saber and confirmed that she could use it and suppress her Nightmare Transformation inside the Nightmare Realm.
• Chen Lin and Silver Fairy left the Nightmare Realm and found the orb trembling and glowing in its box.
• Silver Fairy told Chen Lin that their world might be one fragment of a plane shattered in an ancient battle, while the orb formed images for them to record.
• The orb displayed clearer, longer images than before, then cracked apart into countless particles.
• Silver Fairy picked up a crystal fragment that melted into her hand, and after an hour of recovery, she told Chen Lin it had restored some of her transformed body to normal.

Chen Lin and the Silver Fairy studied a beast bone and images depicting an immortal sword technique, then learned that the Different Spirits would offer cultivators a way out in exchange for their soul origin essence. As disasters intensified and the Great Rift at Myriad Souls Ridge became impassable, Chen Lin was left searching for another way to protect his family and escape the collapsing realm.

• The Silver Fairy used Xiaobai's demonic power to reveal bloodline runes on the beast bone, which she identified as an inheritance from a powerful Great Monster whose essence likely lay in its eyes.
• Chen Lin and the Silver Fairy arranged six images into a sequence showing the Slender Man attacking a Crimson Giant Eye with a sword technique before the eye destroyed him and his surroundings.
• The Silver Fairy urged Chen Lin to study the sword technique in the images, then went into seclusion to examine her condition while Chen Lin copied the images and studied them.
• True Lord Huanling reported that Xuanyin True Lord had announced a Realm-Leaving Passage would open in a year, but Golden Core cultivators and above could leave only by surrendering their soul origin essence; Chen Lin and his family refused.
• Ghostly Creatures poured from the Great Rift at Myriad Souls Ridge, devastating disasters spread, and Chen Lin found the intensified yin nether qi made the route to the Southern Immortal Cultivation World impassable.
• After retreating from the Great Rift, Chen Lin flew for about two hours, then stopped in surprise at something in the distance.

Chen Lin rescued cultivators emerging from the Cangyun Secret Realm and unexpectedly reunited with Nanmen Lingyue. After explaining the threat facing their world, he learned that she knew of a place that might contain a passage to another realm.

• Chen Lin watched a secret realm open as yin nether entities and Nether Crows attacked the waiting cultivators and newcomers.
• Chen Lin killed the Nether Crows, rescued the cultivators, and learned from Xue Xian that this was the Cangyun Secret Realm’s first opening since the Great Tribulation.
• Nanmen Lingyue emerged from the secret realm, recognized Chen Lin, and learned that he had reached the Nascent Soul realm.
• Chen Lin told Nanmen Lingyue about the world’s coming destruction and the known escape option that required surrendering one’s soul origin essence.
• Nanmen Lingyue rejected becoming a servant and revealed that she knew a place where a passage to another realm might exist.

Chen Lin learned that the Cangyun Secret Realm's Demon-Suppressing Temple might contain a passage to another world, and realized it was tied to Nian Kong's sect and the Soul-Devouring Buddha. He returned to Huanling Lake and left urgently after Silver Fairy confirmed the Buddha was rumored to be a clone created by the Demon-Suppressing Temple's Arhat Realm monk.

• Nanmen Lingyue told Chen Lin that the forbidden Demon-Suppressing Temple in the Cangyun Secret Realm might hold a passage to the All-Demon Realm, but explorers had never returned.
• Nanmen Lingyue revealed that the temple stood atop Cangyun Mountain, leading Chen Lin to connect it to Nian Kong's sect; he decided not to explore it unless necessary.
• Nanmen Lingyue gave Chen Lin two Transmission Talismans and left, and Chen Lin set up a Teleportation Formation before returning to Huanling Lake.
• Silver Fairy told Chen Lin that a Buddhist monk who reached the Arhat Realm after the Gods-and-Devils War had vanished into the wilderness and might have been targeted by the Sealing Array.
• Silver Fairy said the monk was rumored to have created the Soul-Devouring Buddha, and Chen Lin hurried away after concluding the connection was real.

Chen Lin discovered a black karmic line attached to him, but the Karmic Ring Blade’s backlash prevented him from examining or cutting it. He and Silver Fairy entered the Nightmare Realm inn to investigate after dark, where they encountered an old innkeeper and chose to stay the night.

• Chen Lin used qi luck force to reveal a thick black line connected to him, but sensing it triggered a backlash that injured him.
• Chen Lin examined Nian Kong’s kashaya and two Buddhist prayer beads, finding that the beads no longer pulled him into the Nightmare Realm.
• Chen Lin decided not to risk using the Fortunate Art and prioritized escaping his current realm before the World-Destroying Great Tribulation.
• Chen Lin and Silver Fairy entered the inn courtyard before nightfall, where Silver Fairy struck at an invisible creature that their divine sense could not detect.
• Silver Fairy entered a lit room and met a gray-robed old innkeeper, who offered them a meal or a night’s lodging.
• Chen Lin stopped Silver Fairy from attacking and chose to stay, then repeated his answer after the innkeeper said only one superior room remained.

Chen Lin used Niuniu’s Princess Token to turn a dangerous encounter at Surplus Money Inn into a source of Nightmare Coins and a Level Two Road Guide. After returning to the Reality Realm, he prepared to explore Gambling Fortune Lake and tested whether the new guide would let him leave the woods.

• The innkeeper trapped Chen Lin and the Silver Fairy, but Chen Lin presented Niuniu’s Princess Token, prompting the man to reveal himself as Dark Guard Huang Xuan and kneel in respect.
• Huang Xuan sent the Silver Fairy back to the Reality Realm with her memories erased, then gave Chen Lin Nightmare Coins and a Level Two Road Guide in exchange for his Level One guide.
• Huang Xuan abruptly expelled Chen Lin from the inn, and Chen Lin kept the box of supplies while letting the Silver Fairy believe he had found them in another room.
• Chen Lin warned the Silver Fairy to avoid the inn scenario for a few days, then asked Qin Lingyu and Sun Caiyi to guard him before entering Gambling Fortune Lake.
• Chen Lin went to the woods’ edge opposite Gambling Fortune Lake and passed through an invisible barrier using the Level Two Road Guide.

Chen Lin entered the Fragrance Scented Beauty Selection and learned he had to fish up a plant by its scent or pay a steep penalty. He used Fortunate Art just before time ran out and pulled a glowing blade of grass onto the platform.

• Chen Lin left the woods and approached a valley filled with rare flowers and plants.
• The Gaudily Dressed Woman explained that each attempt cost ten Nightmare Coins and failure would trap him unless he paid one hundred coins.
• Chen Lin paid for an attempt, climbed to a fishing platform, and discovered he had to select a plant by its fragrance before the hourglass emptied.
• Unable to identify the scent sources, Chen Lin cast Fortunate Art on himself and fished toward a faint fragrance.
• Chen Lin hauled a lustrous blade of grass onto the platform as the hourglass ran out.

Chen Lin fished a girl named Grass from the Flower Fairy’s valley and learned she was a flower slave bound to him, then caught a Treasure Chest at Gambling Fortune Lake. He returned to the Reality Realm with both Grass and the chest, and turned his attention to opening it.

• Chen Lin touched a blade of grass and watched it transform into a girl who called herself his master-bound servant; he named her Grass and decided to take her along.
• Grass told Chen Lin she could follow him wherever he went and would die if he did, while he considered how useful her immunity to nightmare qi might be.
• Chen Lin caught a golden Treasure Chest at Gambling Fortune Lake and paid the Golden Toad its fishing fee.
• The Golden Toad explained that the Flower Fairy’s fishing game turned caught people into loyal flower slaves, whose abilities varied greatly, and warned Chen Lin to be careful.
• Chen Lin returned to the Reality Realm with Grass and the Treasure Chest, gave her clothes, and looked toward the chest.

After escaping the Nightmare Realm with Grass, Chen Lin took her away from his family to wait out the Fortunate Art’s backlash and investigated her unusual abilities. The backlash had yet to strike after half a month, while Grass remained unable to cultivate despite possessing a heavenly spiritual root.

• Chen Lin opened the Treasure Chest and found one hundred Nightmare Coins, then warned Sun Caiyi, Qin Lingyu, and Chen Ling'er that the Fortunate Art’s backlash was approaching and left with Grass.
• Chen Lin and Grass teleported to an underground space near the Cangyun Secret Realm, then flew to a mountaintop where Chen Lin built a shelter and set up formations.
• Chen Lin learned that Grass had once been a blade of grass, could release sword qi through a Grass Sword Technique, and possessed a strange energy he suspected was innate Sword Will.
• Chen Lin gave Grass a cultivation method while he studied the Immortal Sword Technique, and they waited safely for half a month as no misfortune occurred.
• Chen Lin found that Grass had an obscure single heavenly spiritual root, but she had made no progress cultivating, so he took out a pill to help her try again.

Chen Lin watched for the danger he expected from the Fortunate Art’s backlash while helping Grass develop her sword qi and learn the Immortal Sword Technique. Just as he wondered whether the backlash had passed without consequence, Xuanyin Patriarch appeared and declared that Chen Lin would die that day.

• Chen Lin discovered that Grass could not cultivate with ordinary energy, then learned she could fly on sword qi and began helping her practice.
• Grass mastered sword qi flight and used the Immortal Sword Technique paintings to awaken a powerful sword aura, but she collapsed from overexertion.
• Chen Lin realized the paintings’ technique used sword will and gave them to Grass, who resolved to grow strong enough to protect him.
• As the Fortunate Art’s backlash period neared its end without incident, Chen Lin stood watch on the mountain and wondered whether the Line of Destiny had spared him.
• Xuanyin Patriarch appeared from a scroll and told Chen Lin that he would die that day.

Chen Lin and Silver Fairy faced Xuanyin Patriarch and two Prison Guards, who revealed themselves as the so-called Otherworldly Spirits. As Chen Lin was overwhelmed, Silver Fairy unleashed Domain Power and told him to run, leaving their fight unresolved.

• Xuanyin Patriarch and two Prison Guards confronted Chen Lin, and Silver Fairy arrived to help him.
• Silver Fairy revealed that the Otherworldly Spirits were Prison Guards, and Xuanyin Patriarch admitted they had disguised themselves as spirits for thousands of years.
• Xuanyin Patriarch unleashed endless Yin Souls from the Yellow Springs Scroll while the two Prison Guards attacked Chen Lin and Silver Fairy.
• Chen Lin fought the Yin Souls and blocked the Black Umbrella until he was badly wounded and exhausted his Primordial Spirit Power and Soul Power.
• Silver Fairy used Blood-Weeping Shatters Heaven and Earth to unleash Domain Power, slowing the Yin Souls and all three enemies.
• Xuanyin Patriarch recognized Silver Fairy as Yun Kongchang, and Silver Fairy told Chen Lin to run because she could not hold on for long.

Chen Lin fled the Xuanyin Patriarch after Grass helped him escape the Yellow Springs Scroll, but the pursuit continued as he tried to reach a nightmare realm node. When the stars suddenly flickered into a seven-star alignment, Chen Lin recognized the omen and faced a new danger.

• Chen Lin attacked the Prison Guards with the Xuanwu Shield, then fled with Grass as the Xuanyin Patriarch trapped him inside the Yellow Springs Scroll.
• The Othershore Flowers clouded Chen Lin’s mind and drew him toward Mengpo Soup, but Grass knocked the bowl away and saved him from drinking it.
• Unable to break out with the Cold Moon Saber, Chen Lin watched Grass sacrifice her vitality to summon sword qi that opened a rift in the scroll.
• Chen Lin escaped through the rift with Grass, and the Xuanyin Patriarch pursued him after discovering the Yellow Springs Scroll was damaged.
• Chen Lin fled toward the nightmare realm node, grieving over Grass’s condition, then noticed the stars forming a seven-star alignment.

Chen Lin escaped a deadly starlight ray when Niuniu’s Straw Big Hand seized it and destroyed one of the Seven Stars, then returned to Huanling Lake with Silver Fairy and Grass. Grass survived thanks to a Light Orb Niuniu left inside her, but Niuniu was dragged away by mysterious chains, and Chen Lin remained unsure of her fate.

• The Seven Stars Alignment appeared early, and its lone starlight ray targeted Chen Lin while Xuanyin Patriarch and the Prison Guards fled in fear.
• Chen Lin summoned Niuniu, whose Straw Big Hand caught the ray and hurled it into a star, destroying it before colored chains pulled her hand back into the void.
• Before disappearing, Niuniu sent a Light Orb into Grass, who awakened; Chen Lin told Silver Fairy what had happened and concealed the chains from her.
• Chen Lin and Silver Fairy returned to Huanling Lake, where Chen Lin damaged the Teleportation Formation and checked that Grass was out of danger.
• Chen Lin learned that Grass could absorb Niuniu’s Light Orb and carry her aura, but worried about Niuniu’s condition and the chains that had imprisoned her.

Chen Lin learned that the Nightmare Realm Inn scenario had vanished, then brought Chen Bao and Grass into the Island Scenario to test their access to its barriers. He cautiously began investigating the sea with a Crow Puppet, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• Silver Fairy told Chen Lin that the Nightmare Realm Inn scenario and its Silver Immortal City node could no longer be reached, and Chen Lin suspected the beings connected to Niuniu had concealed it.
• Chen Lin entered the Island Scenario with Chen Bao and Grass, where Chen Bao crashed into an invisible barrier while trying to reach the ship.
• Chen Lin found that Grass could cross the barrier with him, unlike Chen Bao, and reasoned that the Nightmare Realm recognized her as his servant.
• Chen Lin reached the sea, tested its barrier cautiously, and extended half his body through it before taking the Crow Puppet from his Storage Bag.

Chen Lin explored the sea around the island with Crow Puppets, but two vanished in the same stretch of water, leaving a possible danger unresolved. The Silver Fairy then showed him a map of four alleged space nodes sent by the Xuanyin Patriarch as an apology, while the group discussed Frog’s disappearance and rumors that Chen Lin was Qiu Daoli’s reincarnation.

• Chen Lin sent Foundation Establishment Crow Puppets to survey the waters, but repeated searches found nothing until two puppets disappeared in the same direction.
• Chen Lin returned to the Silver Fairy and learned that the Xuanyin Patriarch had sent a map marking four space nodes as an apology for his ambush.
• The Silver Fairy warned that the Xuanyin Patriarch’s gesture and the map’s locations could not be trusted, and Chen Lin said they should delay exploring them.
• True Lord Anmu reported that Frog had disappeared again from the node at Ten Thousand Caves Mountain.
• True Lord Huanling asked whether the destroyed star had affected the Sealing Array, and Chen Lin denied causing its collapse or being Qiu Daoli’s reincarnation.

Chen Lin explored the Barrens node with Chen Bao and Grass, then discovered an unexplained pool in territory accessible with his Level Two Road Guide. After a Crow Puppet vanished there, he sent Grass to inspect it cautiously.

• Silver Fairy revealed that she had advanced to the Nascent Soul Late Stage and that Yun Family's Ancestor, Yun Kongchang, was still alive.
• Chen Lin healed himself and Grass, then traveled with Chen Bao and Grass toward the Barrens node while discovering that Grass's sword qi could kill powerful ghostly creatures.
• Chen Lin confirmed the node remained intact, entered with Chen Bao and Grass, and explored the barren areas beyond it with a Crow Puppet.
• A Crow Puppet found a seemingly ordinary pool near the limit of the Level Two Road Guide's range, but vanished when Chen Lin sent it to investigate more closely.
• After searching the accessible area and finding no other anomalies, Chen Lin agreed to let Grass scout the pool from a distance.

Chen Lin investigated the pool, used the White Jade Palm to cleanse the Image-Recording Bead, and learned that a Water Arrow had destroyed the Crow Puppet. After sending Chen Bao to search for nodes, he encountered the injured Nanmen Lingyue, who had fled into the Nightmare Realm; she explained that she had been heading to the Cangyun Secret Realm, leaving Chen Lin puzzled because its entrance should have closed.

• Grass found the nightmare-transformed Image-Recording Bead near the pool, and Chen Lin used the White Jade Palm to remove its nightmare aura and activate it.
• The recording showed a Water Arrow shooting from the pool and destroying the Crow Puppet, so Chen Lin told Grass to avoid the pool and search for nodes with Chen Bao.
• Chen Lin returned to the node and sent Chen Bao to join Grass, then saw someone open the node and enter.
• Nanmen Lingyue arrived wounded and collapsed; Chen Lin gave her a Xianji Stone and Healing Pills, then she awoke and thanked him.
• Nanmen Lingyue said a powerful ghostly creature had pursued her while she traveled toward the Cangyun Secret Realm, and she had used talismans to enter the Nightmare Realm node and seek help.
• Chen Lin questioned whether the Cangyun Secret Realm's entrance had really remained open.