Recaps

Chen Lin discussed selling the Hundred-Eye Centipede and a hunt for a Thousand-Eye Centipede with He Xuanling, while concealing the source of his resistance to Evil Land rules. After He Xuanling examined Grass, he proposed leading a team on the hunt and offered participants an equal share of the rewards and a chance to have him refine a treasure.

• He Xuanling refused to buy Chen Lin's Hundred-Eye Centipede but offered to find a sect buyer, then asked how Chen Lin had killed it.
• Chen Lin claimed that he and Grass had killed the centipede together, crediting Grass's special Sword Body and his own Soul Secret Art.
• Chen Lin found Yun Duanshui pestering Grass, rejected the Illusion Sword Sect chief disciple's offer to recruit her, and led her away.
• Elder Huang told Yun Duanshui that Chen Lin had brought in a powerful centipede and appeared to be a silver soul expert, prompting Yun to leave.
• He Xuanling confirmed Grass could resist an Evil Land's rule force and proposed leading a team to hunt a Thousand-Eye Centipede, with equal rewards and a treasure-refining opportunity for key participants.

Chen Lin refused He Xuanling’s dangerous Thousand-Eye Centipede mission and avoided the Mirror Light Pavilion, fearing its treasure would expose his demonic seed. He later learned that two soul secret arts were for sale and considered offering the difficult-to-teach Soul-Detaining Technique instead.

• Chen Lin declined He Xuanling’s offer to join the mission, despite Grass volunteering to go in his place.
• Chen Lin returned home, rejected Grass’s escape plan, and decided to stay wary of the Illusion Sword Sect Chief Disciple while considering whether to leave the area.
• Chen Lin received word that the seller had agreed to sell both soul secret arts through the Return to Truth Pavilion.
• Manager Gu quoted fifty spirit crystals for the pair, and Chen Lin objected to the high price.
• Manager Gu asked Chen Lin whether he had a soul secret art to sell, so Chen Lin explained that his Soul-Detaining Technique came from a body infusion inheritance and might be difficult for others to learn.

Chen Lin sold the Soul-Detaining Technique to Manager Gu’s shop, then discovered that Yun Duanshui was watching him because of Grass. He decided he could not flee Black Tower City yet and concluded that killing Yun Duanshui was the best way to end the threat.

• Chen Lin sold the Soul-Detaining Technique for the spirit crystals needed to buy two secret arts and agreed not to sell it widely on the Northern Wilderness Continent.
• After Chen Lin left, Yun Duanshui ordered his men to watch him, investigate his background, and report when he left the city.
• Chen Lin used a young female cultivator to identify the people watching him, then searched her recent memories and rewarded her with pills.
• Chen Lin learned that Yun Duanshui was behind the surveillance and suspected he still had designs on Grass.
• Chen Lin decided that fleeing Black Tower City would be too dangerous and resolved that killing Yun Duanshui was the best solution.

Chen Lin discovered that Yun Duanshui likely mistook his silver soul for a sign that he belonged to the Soulless Sect, and he learned Soul Wings to fly in the Nightmare Realm. After hearing that He Xuanling’s hunt for the Thousand-Eye Centipede had ended in disaster, Chen Lin met him and was offered a powerful treasure to join another hunt.

• Chen Lin found an account of the Soulless Sect and concluded that his silver soul had made Yun Duanshui wary of attacking him.
• Chen Lin studied Soul Wings, mastered it, and confirmed that he could use it to fly in the Nightmare Realm, though the road guide’s barrier still blocked him horizontally.
• Chen Lin received a message from He Xuanling and learned from Zhao Jiuzhou that all the cultivators who joined He Xuanling’s Thousand-Eye Centipede hunt had failed to return.
• Chen Lin went to the Deacon Hall, where He Xuanling offered him a single-use spirit treasure with spirit-transforming-grade power if he and Grass helped hunt the centipede.

Chen Lin refused He Xuanling’s dangerous request to help hunt the Thousand-Eye Centipede, then sought another way to contact the Mirror Light Pavilion and borrow its Huaxuan Mirror. Elder Huang offered to make an introduction in exchange for Chen Lin using his unusual soul power to activate a mysterious scroll, which appeared identical to one Chen Lin had found in the Shanhai Realm.

• Chen Lin rejected He Xuanling’s offer to help hunt the Thousand-Eye Centipede, despite the promise of help clearing the heterogeneous energy from his body.
• He Xuanling explained that Spirit Transformation Cultivators could not harness rule force in the Evil Land, then left Chen Lin several Transmission Talismans after Chen refused again.
• Elder Huang offered to introduce Chen Lin to the Mirror Light Pavilion’s pavilion master in return for Chen Lin activating an object with his high-grade soul power.
• Elder Huang revealed a blank, soul-draining scroll, and Chen Lin recognized it as nearly identical to the scroll he had found in the Shanhai Realm.
• Chen Lin asked Elder Huang to explain the scroll’s nature.

Chen Lin grew suspicious of Manager Huang’s request to activate a secret scroll and tested a similar scroll from his own possession. After repeated soul attacks failed to reveal its occupant, Chen Lin used the Soul-Detaining Technique and began pulling a hazy figure out of the scroll.

• Manager Huang asked Chen Lin to sign a spirit pact and use his high-grade soul power to activate a scroll, but Chen Lin refused to decide until the next day.
• Chen Lin returned to his cave abode, examined his own matching scroll, and used the Soul Piercing Technique and Soul-Destroying Finger to test it.
• Chen Lin discovered that the scroll reacted faintly to repeated Soul-Destroying Finger strikes, but he could not force its hidden occupant out.
• Chen Lin learned that Manager Huang belonged to the Illusion Sword Sect and suspected that he and Yun Duanshui were scheming against him and Grass.
• Chen Lin used the Soul-Detaining Technique, and its silver hand began pulling a hazy figure out of the scroll.

Chen Lin discovered that Mo Zhenlou had hidden a remnant soul in a Resurrection Scroll, killed him, and learned the scroll could preserve and restore a soul. After refining it and placing a strand of his soul essence inside, Chen Lin considered fleeing the city and unexpectedly saw a faint line of destiny when he imagined helping Manager Huang activate a scroll.

• Chen Lin lured Mo Zhenlou’s remnant soul out of the scroll, survived his hidden attack with Grass’s help, and used a soul search before Mo Zhenlou’s soul vanished.
• Chen Lin learned that the scroll was a resurrection treasure, refined it, and lodged a strand of his soul origin essence inside it.
• Chen Lin realized Manager Huang had wanted to use the scroll to devour his silver soul and decided he needed to leave the city, where Manager Huang, Yun Duanshui, and He Xuanling had targeted him.
• Chen Lin failed to manifest a line of destiny for escaping through the Teleportation Formation, but a faint line appeared when he imagined helping Manager Huang activate the scroll.

Chen Lin discovered that his innate talent could now alter possible future events, but it required scarce qi luck force. After adjusting the destiny line for his meeting with Manager Huang, Chen Lin met him at a market pavilion and demanded an introduction to the master of the Mirror Light Pavilion before activating the Resurrection Scroll.

• Chen Lin studied the branching destiny line about Manager Huang and realized his talent could influence future events but could not reveal every outcome.
• Chen Lin consumed qi luck fish and Golden Crabs to form the Fate Tentacle, then connected a favorable branch to the severed destiny line.
• Chen Lin decided to proceed with the meeting, carried Grass hidden in a disguised Space Bag, and sent Manager Huang a Transmission Talisman from a Spirit Food Pavilion.
• Manager Huang arrived with the scroll, and Chen Lin insisted that he first arrange an introduction to the master of the Mirror Light Pavilion.

Chen Lin went with Manager Huang to the Mirror Light Pavilion, but learned that Pavilion Master Wei was in seclusion and the Huaxuan Mirror was unavailable. Back at the Spirit Food Pavilion, Chen Lin stalled before using the soul-devouring scroll, then called for witnesses, and a young girl stepped forward.

• Chen Lin insisted that Manager Huang sign a spirit pact and pay him before he attempted to activate the scroll.
• Manager Huang brought Chen Lin to the Mirror Light Pavilion, where Elder Yu said Pavilion Master Wei was in seclusion with the Huaxuan Mirror and gave Chen Lin a Transmission Talisman.
• Chen Lin told Elder Yu he had information that might help Pavilion Master Wei, then returned to the Spirit Food Pavilion with Manager Huang.
• Chen Lin agreed to honor his promise but argued that they should use the scroll somewhere open, frustrating Manager Huang as he continued to stall.
• Manager Huang gave Chen Lin one stick of incense to prepare and said he could find witnesses, so Chen Lin shouted an offer of two Top-Grade Spirit Stones in the dining hall.
• A young girl appeared before Chen Lin and volunteered to witness the transaction.

Chen Lin secured Ye Luo as a witness to the scroll’s activation after paying her a hundred Top-Grade Spirit Stones, believing she was the turning point in his destiny. Ye Luo’s late Spirit Transformation Second Uncle joined them, took the scroll from Manager Huang, and sensed that something extraordinary was inside it.

• Chen Lin offered Ye Luo a hundred Top-Grade Spirit Stones to sign the spirit pact and witness the transaction, and she agreed by clapping palms with him.
• Ye Luo’s Second Uncle arrived, revealed himself as a late Spirit Transformation Cultivator, and initially tried to take her away.
• Ye Luo insisted on honoring her agreement, so her Second Uncle agreed to join her as a witness.
• Chen Lin revealed that the transaction concerned activating the scroll, and Manager Huang tried to stop him and put the scroll away.
• Ye Luo’s Second Uncle seized the scroll, restrained Manager Huang, and questioned him about the dangerous presence inside it.

Chen Lin and Manager Huang fought after the scroll exposed its hidden remnant soul, while the little girl sacrificed herself to free her Second Uncle. The gray-robed old man arrived, took Manager Huang’s remnant soul, and seized Chen Lin as he tried to leave, revealing a power that shocked him.

• Chen Lin warned the middle-aged man as the scroll trapped him in black light, while Manager Huang escaped and attacked Chen Lin with a Bloody Skull.
• The little girl removed her Round Bead and summoned a White Bone Giant Claw, which freed the middle-aged man and left her near death.
• The middle-aged man destroyed the scroll with his Cyan Giant Saber and turned to help the little girl.
• Grass struck Manager Huang with the Immortal Sword Technique, killing him, and Chen Lin captured his remnant soul with the Soul-Detaining Technique.
• A gray-robed old man arrived, took Manager Huang’s remnant soul, identified the little girl as the Ye Lineage’s little princess, and seized Chen Lin as he attempted to escape.

After the little girl’s life was saved with a Vitality Pill, Chen Lin offered to refine a pill to restore her damaged Soul Origin Essence in exchange for ingredients and help removing the foreign energy in his body. The group reached an agreement in the Black Pagoda, where Chen Lin and Ye Zhengming received tokens while Nangong went to borrow the Huaxuan Mirror.

• Nangong examined the little girl and used a Vitality Pill to restore most of her vitality, but Ye Zhengming revealed that her Soul Origin Essence was nearly depleted and blamed Black Tower City for her condition.
• Chen Lin denied being a Soulless Sect disciple, then offered to examine the girl and said he could refine a pill to restore her damaged Soul Origin Essence, though he could not promise to cure her congenital defect.
• Ye Zhengming agreed to provide the ingredients, and Nangong offered to borrow the Huaxuan Mirror to remove the heterogeneous energy in Chen Lin’s body.
• Nangong brought Chen Lin, Grass, and the others to the Black Pagoda’s top floor, where Chen Lin and Ye Zhengming received Identity Tokens.
• Chen Lin gave Ye Zhengming a list of substitute treasures rather than the actual Nascent Soul Pill ingredients, keeping the pill formula from being exposed.

Chen Lin used the Huaxuan Mirror to clear the heterogeneous energy from his body and regained access to his powers, though he could not locate the hidden demonic seed. After refining a batch of Nascent Soul Pills for the Ye Lineage, he gave them to Ye Zhengming to help Miss Ye.

• Chen Lin asked Pavilion Master Wei to activate the Huaxuan Mirror and offered him the Good Fortune Spirit-Condensing Art in exchange for a Spirit Pact and an Inner Demon Oath protecting his secrets.
• Pavilion Master Wei used the Huaxuan Mirror to purge the heterogeneous energy from Chen Lin, allowing his mana, silver soul power, and other energies to revive.
• Chen Lin searched for the demonic seed but could not detect it, and he kept the Demon-Suppressing Ring in place.
• Chen Lin and Pavilion Master Wei exchanged Transmission Talismans after completing their deal, and Chen Lin spent the following days cultivating in his cave abode.
• The Ye Lineage delivered the requested pill materials, and Chen Lin entered seclusion to refine a batch of Nascent Soul Pills.
• Chen Lin gave the pills to Ye Zhengming, who confirmed they were sound and hurried to Miss Ye.

After Ye Luo recovered, Chen Lin learned of her rare talent and fatal condition, then wondered whether he was the person destined to change her fate. Ye Luo revealed that she had sensed something change when they first met and had followed him to the tavern, leaving Chen Lin wary of the prophecy and its implications.

• Chen Lin learned that Ye Luo had awakened after a month of treatment and that her Nether Communication talent had saved Ye Zhengming, though her condition prevented her from advancing beyond Qi Condensation perfection.
• Chen Lin considered refining more Nascent Soul Pills before leaving and wondered about Manager Huang, the Resurrection Scroll, and the Nightmare Realm.
• Ye Luo visited Chen Lin wearing a Soul-Sealing Bead and said she no longer wanted him to worry about restoring her soul, since she believed she had little time left.
• Ye Luo explained that a fortune-teller called Daoist Destiny had predicted she would meet someone who could change her fate after turning eighteen, prompting Chen Lin to suspect the prediction might refer to him.
• Ye Luo said she had sensed a change when she first saw Chen Lin outside the tavern and had followed him there, leading him to realize their meeting was not a coincidence.

Chen Lin agreed to serve as an external elder of the Ye Lineage for ten years and traveled with Ye Luo to Baishuang City. As the group departed through a teleportation formation with Ye Qingcheng, Grass refused Yue Wuya’s offer to take her as a disciple, while Chen Lin left his Resurrection Scroll and other unfinished business behind.

• Ye Zhengming invited Chen Lin to become an external elder and secured his agreement to stay with the Ye Lineage for ten years while caring for Ye Luo.
• Chen Lin packed his belongings, said farewell to Zhao Jiuzhou and the others, and set out with Grass and Ye Zhengming.
• At the Teleportation Hall, Yue Wuya tested Chen Lin with his sword will and offered to take Grass as his disciple, but Grass refused.
• Ye Qingcheng arrived, greeted Ye Luo affectionately, and led the group into the teleportation formation bound for the Ye Lineage.
• Chen Lin departed knowing he would leave his Resurrection Scroll hidden behind and would have to postpone his plans to repair his damaged spirit treasures.

Chen Lin settled into Baishuang City as an Elder of the Ye Lineage, refining pills and cultivating while Ye Luo’s damaged soul remained only partly healed. Three years later, he accompanied Ye Luo to a Dao lecture and unexpectedly reunited with Zhao Jiuzhou, whose cultivation had advanced to late-stage perfection.

• Ye Zhengming introduced Chen Lin to the Ye Lineage patriarch, gave him an Elder Token, and escorted him to his new residence in Baishuang City.
• Chen Lin assigned Ye Qin to manage the servants, warned them to keep outsiders out of his main cave, and installed his own formations.
• The Ye Lineage supplied Chen Lin with pill materials and Nascent Soul formulas, while he refined pills, cultivated, and gathered yin souls in preparation for future plans.
• Over three years, Ye Luo visited Chen Lin often, but her soul defect remained unresolved and Nascent Soul Pills became less effective.
• Ye Luo urged Chen Lin to attend a Dao lecture by a Void Refinement expert, and the two headed to the crowded venue before Baishuang City's Trading Convention.
• Chen Lin met Zhao Jiuzhou at the lecture and was astonished to learn that Zhao had reached perfection in the late stage.

Chen Lin attended Baishuang City’s trading convention with Ye Luo while considering how to sever his line of causality and investigate the demonic seed. Ye Luo confided in him about her failing health and despair, and the chapter ended as Ye Qianxuan began his cultivation lecture.

• Zhao Jiuzhou praised Chen Lin’s combat strength but decided not to invite him on an operation because his movements were restricted and he was tied to the Ye Lineage.
• Chen Lin considered using the convention to find treasures, prepare for the backlash from severing his line of causality, and detect the Celestial Demon’s aura.
• Ye Luo explained that her connection to the Otherworld and defective soul prevented her from reaching foundation establishment, and she feared severing the connection would destroy her soul.
• Ye Luo asked whether Chen Lin hated her and offered to ask Ye Qianxuan to lift his house arrest, but Chen Lin urged her not to give up on herself.
• Ye Luo said Chen Lin’s friendship had already changed her destiny, and the Mind-Awakening Drum sounded to announce Ye Qianxuan’s lecture.
• Ye Qianxuan welcomed the gathered cultivators and began sharing his cultivation insights.

After attending Ye Qianxuan’s lecture, Chen Lin went to Baishuang City’s Trading Convention to search for useful goods and ancient texts. He bought earth-attribute material and several books, including an original text about demons and monsters that might help him learn about celestial demons.

• Ye Qianxuan lectured for four hours on cultivation, and Chen Lin gained insights that could help him advance to the peak of the Nascent Soul Early Stage.
• Chen Lin returned to his immortal cave to absorb the lecture’s lessons, then went to the Central Market after Ye Luo did not answer his Transmission Talisman.
• Chen Lin bought a piece of Luomen stone for three Top-Grade Spirit Stones after bargaining with a stallholder.
• Chen Lin found a stall selling ancient texts and selected several works on pill formulas, talismancrafting, and demons and monsters.
• Chen Lin paid for unrestricted usage rights and obtained an original copy of Detailed Analysis of Demons and Monsters.

Chen Lin met Zhao Jiuzhou for a meal, received an ancient Ending Hostility Pill formula, and learned that a strange crystal had rapidly increased Zhao Jiuzhou’s cultivation. The chapter ended with Chen Lin asking where the crystal came from.

• Chen Lin invited Zhao Jiuzhou to a restaurant and learned that Zhao was seeking a pill master to refine a rare pill that could assist with Ascension to Spirit Transformation.
• Zhao Jiuzhou gave Chen Lin the ancient Ending Hostility Pill formula, and Chen copied it onto a jade slip.
• Chen Lin asked Zhao Jiuzhou about his rapid cultivation progress, and Zhao explained that a strange crystal had released profound energy into his body and raised his cultivation.
• Chen Lin expressed surprise at Zhao Jiuzhou’s luck and asked whether he had tracked down the cultivator who traded him the crystal.

Chen Lin learned that Zhao Jiuzhou planned to search for strange crystals in the Evil Land, then investigated ways to help Ye Luo and understand his demonic seed. After reading a book on demons and monsters, Chen Lin spotted an inscription on its back that left him frozen.

• Zhao Jiuzhou told Chen Lin that crystals found near the Thousand-Eye Centipede had greatly increased cultivators’ cultivation, but they could only be detected at night.
• Zhao Jiuzhou revealed that he and several cultivators planned to search for the crystals, while Chen Lin warned him to be cautious and could not join because he was confined to Baishuang City.
• Chen Lin considered using his soul-related abilities to repair Ye Luo’s defect, but concluded that only a Nascent Soul Pill or a rare natural treasure could restore her soul origin essence.
• Chen Lin returned to his immortal cave, found that Ye Luo had not replied to his Transmission Talisman, and began studying Detailed Analysis of Demons and Monsters.
• Chen Lin found little information about demonic seeds in the book, but noticed an inscription on its back and froze after reading it.

Chen Lin discovered that Nian Qing’s ancient text tied him to the Demon-Suppressing Temple and resolved to sever that connection after the trading convention. He studied ancient crafting inheritances, became determined to refine a growing Shadow Puppet, and ended the chapter investigating a stall selling purported otherworld objects.

• Chen Lin inferred that Nian Qing and the monks of the Seven Buddha Painting had come from the Upper Realm, then resolved to sever his causal connection to the Demon-Suppressing Temple and discard the Kashaya.
• Chen Lin studied the ancient pill, talisman, and puppetry inheritances, finding that their materials were largely extinct or unfamiliar.
• Chen Lin learned that a Shadow Puppet could grow like a cultivator and decided he could meet the Three-Mysteries Puppet-Refining Art’s demands by using his second primordial spirit and replenishing his other origin essences.
• Chen Lin learned from Ye Zhengming that a soul specialist was examining Ye Luo, then bought all the materials for an Ending Hostility Pill and most of the materials for a Shadow Puppet.
• Chen Lin visited another market and approached a crowded stall after hearing a cultivator ask whether its wares were otherworld objects.

Chen Lin investigated the Tianyun Sect’s treasure-gambling stalls and used his destiny ability to improve his odds of winning a rare Solidifying Infant Pill. The chapter ended as he opened his second large Jade Box and found a pill inside.

• Chen Lin discovered that the Tianyun Sect sold sealed blind boxes containing Otherworld Items, treasures, or pills, and learned that the sect came from the Golden Spirit Mountain Range.
• After watching cultivators lose money at the stalls, Chen Lin bought several boxes himself but found only ordinary and impure spirit stones.
• Chen Lin manifested a destiny line for the most valuable box, then decided to spend two qi luck fish to correct its break.
• Chen Lin returned to the stall, bought two large Jade Boxes, and found an ordinary spirit stone in the first.
• Chen Lin opened the second Jade Box and revealed a perfectly round pill.

Chen Lin used his destiny ability to obtain a Solidifying Infant Pill and a Nightmare Realm carving, then refined the pill to strengthen his nascent soul. Ye Luo brought him to meet Yu Qianyue, the Medicine God Valley Sect Leader, who wanted to discuss Chen Lin with him.

• Chen Lin bought a Jade Box containing a Solidifying Infant Pill, and the stallholders reacted with shock because it had been drawn earlier than expected.
• Chen Lin used Qi Luck Fish to obtain a Nightmare Realm carving from another stall, then suspected the Tianyun Sect could manipulate luck and waited for its people to approach him.
• Chen Lin returned to his immortal cave, refined the Solidifying Infant Pill overnight, and found that his nascent soul had become about twice as condensed.
• Ye Luo told Chen Lin that Yu Qianyue’s attempts to resolve her soul problem had failed and that the Medicine God Valley Sect Leader wanted to meet him.
• Ye Luo brought Chen Lin to the Main Peak, where he met Lineage Patriarch Ye and Yu Qianyue; the Patriarch left them to talk.

Chen Lin gave his modified Nascent Soul Pill formula to the Medicine God Valley sect master, who identified the five missing ingredients from the original formula. Chen Lin and Ye Luo then attended the Baishuang City auction, which opened with a Heavenly Fragrance Qingxuan Flower.

• The Medicine God Valley sect master invited Chen Lin to join his sect, but Chen Lin declined because his agreement with the Ye Lineage was still in effect.
• Chen Lin gave the sect master his Improved Nascent Soul Pill Formula, and the sect master explained that he had been commissioned to restore the ancient formula to treat Ye Luo.
• Chen Lin showed the sect master the altered portions of the Original Pill Formula, and the sect master identified five replaced spiritual herbs and recorded their names for him.
• Chen Lin reassured Ye Luo that he would refine the Authentic Nascent Soul Pill if they found the ingredients, and they flew together to the auction.
• Lineage Patriarch Ye welcomed the attendees, and Ye Qianlun explained the auction rules before opening the bidding on a Heavenly Fragrance Qingxuan Flower.

Chen Lin attended the Ye Lineage auction, bought origin soul liquid and a damaged jade pendant, and learned that the Tianyun Sect made Qi Luck Pills. He resolved to seek the pill formula or buy pills from the sect after the auction.

• Chen Lin declined to bid on the Qingxuan flower, and Ye Luo offered to give him one grown by the Ye Lineage.
• Chen Lin won a large bottle of origin soul liquid for six hundred Top-Grade Spirit Stones and later bought materials for Ending Hostility Pills and Shadow Puppets.
• Chen Lin bid two Spirit Crystals for a damaged Ancient Cultivator Jade Pendant that could conceal soul fluctuations and provide weak soul defense.
• The blue-robed elder introduced a Qi Luck Pill made by the Tianyun Sect, prompting angry complaints from cultivators who had lost money at its treasure-gambling stall.
• Chen Lin recognized the pill as a possible way to increase qi luck and resolved to seek its formula or buy a batch from the Tianyun Sect after the auction.