Recaps

Chen Lin attended the Baishuang City auction, bought a Qi Luck Pill, and watched its increasingly extraordinary highlight treasures exceed his means. The auction ended with the Heavenly Fire Purgatory Saber on offer, as an Emaciated Old Man opened bidding with a massive offer for his daughter.

• Chen Lin won the Qi Luck Pill for three hundred top-grade spirit stones after a bidding war.
• The auction sold a 150-Year Longevity Pill for two hundred spirit crystals and a One-time Sword Talisman for twenty-eight spirit crystals.
• A defensive Spirit Treasure sold for ninety-one spirit crystals, and the Great Desolation Holy Body Art drew bids from major sects and factions.
• Ye Qingcheng demonstrated the spirit-transforming grade Heavenly Fire Purgatory Saber, whose power left Chen Lin awed but did not affect Ye Luo.
• An Emaciated Old Man bid two thousand spirit crystals for the saber, saying it was meant for his daughter.

Chen Lin tested the Qi Luck Pill, refined Ending Hostility Pills, and examined the auctioned Jade Pendant and a Buddhist pill formula. He learned the formula described a Golden Bodhi Pill that could help him condense a Golden Body, a realm he had not known how to reach.

• Wang Tiangu secured the auction treasure without further bids, and the auction ended before the high-level cultivators dispersed for the Exchange Meeting.
• Chen Lin returned to his immortal cave, swallowed the Qi Luck Pill, and found its qi luck force too weak to support refining without an additional qi luck fish.
• Chen Lin successfully refined two perfect Ending Hostility Pills and calculated that they could sell for about three hundred Top-Grade Spirit Stones each.
• Chen Lin refined the Circular Jade Pendant and found that it concealed his silver soul and warned him of probing, though its cracked body offered little defense against Soul Secret Arts.
• Chen Lin read the Buddhist pill formula from the Medicine God Valley Sect Leader and discovered it described a Golden Bodhi Pill that could help him condense a Golden Body.

Chen Lin decided he would use the Golden Bodhi Pill only after severing the Line of Causality, then attended the Ye Lineage’s Exchange Meeting. The gathering opened amid tensions between powerful human and nonhuman cultivators, as Lineage Patriarch Ye urged them to trade before investigating signs of evil demons in the north.

• Chen Lin weighed the Golden Bodhi Pill’s promise of a Golden Body and greater strength, but resolved not to use it until he had severed the Line of Causality.
• Chen Lin entered the Ye Lineage’s masked Exchange Meeting, where he saw Wang Tiangu and three one-eyed cultivators from the Tuoba Lineage.
• A skeletal old man and a cloaked companion arrived, followed by Bai Yunsheng, whose confrontation with Wang Tiangu nearly triggered a fight.
• Lineage Patriarch Ye and Ye Qingcheng arrived with a gray-robed old man and persuaded Wang Tiangu and Bai Yunsheng to withdraw their auras.
• Lineage Patriarch Ye announced signs of evil demons in the north and asked the attendees to trade needed items before investigating.
• Lineage Patriarch Ye sought rare ingredients for an Authentic Nascent Soul Pill and asked Bai Yunsheng, the skeletal old man, and the One-Eyed Giant for three specific spiritual herbs.

At the Exchange Meeting, Chen Lin traded the damaged Xuanshan Seal for golden tear liquid, while powerful cultivators completed other trades before departing for the Black Pagoda. After the meeting, Chen Lin learned that the Tianyun Sect people had already left the city, then returned to his immortal cave and found Ye Qingcheng waiting.

• Lineage Patriarch Ye and other Void Refinement experts traded for rare treasures, and the one-eyed giant exchanged golden tear liquid for items related to giant bloodlines and spirit treasures.
• Chen Lin learned that golden tear liquid could help awaken eye-related divine abilities and traded his damaged Xuanshan Seal for ten drops.
• Nie Wuchang displayed ghost slaves and a White-Haired Flying Corpse, traded them to interested cultivators, and left with the other powerful figures for the Black Pagoda.
• Ye Qingcheng presided over the rest of the Exchange Meeting, where Chen Lin made several trades before the gathering ended at dawn.
• Chen Lin searched for the Tianyun Sect people but learned they had left the city after the auction, so he returned to his immortal cave and found Ye Qingcheng waiting there.

Chen Lin refined a spiritually awakened Nascent Soul Pill for Ye Luo, then used the Fortunate Art and Karmic Ring Blade to sever the causality connecting him to the demonized Nian Kong. He left Ye Qingcheng with the pill and went into seclusion to endure the art’s backlash.

• Ye Qingcheng brought Chen Lin the rare ingredients for the Nascent Soul Pill, and Chen Lin agreed to refine it for Ye Luo.
• Chen Lin used qi luck fish and the Fortunate Art to correct the pill’s destiny line, then refined a spiritually awakened pill.
• Chen Lin used the Karmic Ring Blade, a Giant Lobster, and the Fortunate Art to sever his line of causality, causing the blade to shatter and the Old Monk to suffer a transformation.
• Chen Lin used the lingering effect of the Fortunate Art on the golden tear liquid before leaving the Pill Refining Chamber.
• Chen Lin gave Ye Qingcheng the pill and asked her to tell Ye Luo he would spend six months in seclusion recovering from a secret art’s severe drawbacks.

Chen Lin waited anxiously for the Fortunate Art’s backlash, which still had not appeared after more than three months. On Tianxuan Day, Ye Luo began Foundation Establishment with the Ye Lineage’s ancestor and Wang Tiangu trying to stop the mysterious force draining her energy.

• Chen Lin prepared for the Fortunate Art’s backlash, sent Grass outside Baishuang City to wait, and secluded himself while the backlash failed to arrive.
• After learning that Baishuang City was quiet but an Evil Land had changed, Chen Lin declined Ye Luo’s invitation to watch her Foundation Establishment on Tianxuan Day.
• Ye Luo’s Soul Origin Essence recovered, and the Ye Lineage’s ancestor, Fish Sect Master, and Wang Tiangu gathered to help her establish her foundation and investigate her connection to another plane.
• Ye Luo took a Foundation Establishment Pill, but an invisible force began siphoning away her energy despite the Forbidden Interdiction Formation.
• The Ye Lineage’s ancestor released a talisman and Wang Tiangu summoned a Vermilion Bird phantom to block the force draining Ye Luo.

Ye Luo’s Foundation Establishment triggered her talent ability and summoned a White Bone Entity from the Otherworld, forcing Lineage Patriarch Ye and the others to fight for their lives. The entity retreated when the heaven and earth will sent down multicolored tribulation lightning, which then struck Chen Lin’s immortal cave.

• With Lineage Patriarch Ye and Wang Tiangu helping stabilize her, Ye Luo liquefied her spiritual power, tempered her physique, and began condensing her divine sense after the planes connected.
• Ye Luo’s talent ability activated as her divine sense formed, and the White Bone Entity began forcing its way into the Northern Star Realm despite the group’s efforts to stop it.
• Lineage Patriarch Ye tried to destroy Ye Luo’s talent origin, but the entity shielded her; Wang Tiangu fled, while Yu Qianyue prepared to escape.
• The White Bone Entity caught Lineage Patriarch Ye’s Natal Flying Sword and nearly struck him, but Ye Luo’s plea made it pause as her body rapidly withered.
• A multicolored tribulation descended, causing the White Bone Entity to retreat into the void before the lightning redirected toward Chen Lin’s immortal cave.

Chen Lin was caught in an overwhelming heavenly tribulation, but the demonic seed inside him forced the White Jade Palm to reveal the immortal soul within and save him. The immortal soul confronted the Crimson Eyeball with a sword dance, leaving Chen Lin and the realm’s cultivators watching the clash.

• Chen Lin tried to escape his cave abode, but the heavenly tribulation locked down space and struck him despite his Lightning-Attracting Stones, talismans, and Xuanwu Shield.
• As Chen Lin faced death, the demonic seed seized his body and threw the White Jade Palm into the tribulation; the palm caught and dispersed the lightning.
• The Crimson Eyeball appeared in the sky, and the White Jade Palm revealed a sword that dispelled the demonic qi surrounding Chen Lin.
• The immortal soul within the palm attacked the Giant Eye, whose crimson beam caused widespread bodily mutations across the Northern Star Realm.
• The immortal soul used a sword dance to bind the crimson beam, then vanished into a brilliant sword strike aimed at the Giant Eye.

Chen Lin escaped the Giant Eye’s attack by entering the Nightmare Realm with the Blood Handkerchief, while Lineage Patriarch Ye and Ye Qingcheng secured his body. After investigating the room and worrying about the demonic seed, Chen Lin discovered that he could not return to the Reality Realm, leaving him trapped in the scenario.

• The Giant Eye wounded by the Celestial Projection turned its power on Chen Lin, whose body mutated as he tried to escape.
• Chen Lin used the Blood Handkerchief to enter the Nightmare Realm, and the Giant Eye withdrew as the plane’s rules and spiritual energy returned to normal.
• Lineage Patriarch Ye and Ye Qingcheng found Chen Lin’s body, recognized that he had entered the Nightmare Realm, and took him away.
• Chen Lin materialized in a woman’s bedchamber, checked his body and belongings, and found no sign of the demonic seed.
• Chen Lin decided to wait in the room, but when he tried to return to the Reality Realm, no repelling force appeared and he realized the scenario was trapping him.

Chen Lin was trapped in a wedding scenario where a Phoenix Crown transformed his appearance and began changing his body, while nightmare qi threatened to consume him. Disguised as a bride, he boarded a strange flying palanquin with another silent bride, and the Flower Fairy who joined them was dragged away after trying to lift his veil.

• Chen Lin realized the scenario would not let him leave until he fulfilled an unknown condition, and Cuiniang and her maids dressed him as a bride.
• The Phoenix Crown changed Chen Lin's face and began altering his body, but he used his silver soul power to resist its energy as nightmare qi seeped into him.
• Chen Lin used his Spirit Eye Divine Ability to see the transformed servants, the Emperor Emeritus, and the bizarre black palanquin waiting outside.
• Chen Lin was placed in the palanquin opposite a silent bride, and it flew away before landing to collect a Petite Bride with a flower for a head.
• The Flower Fairy tried to lift Chen Lin's veil, but the Faceless Man declared her disqualified as a bride and dragged her out as she screamed.

Chen Lin and the remaining brides reached a scarlet estate, where the Faceless Man began a second selection by ordering them to cross a skull-burning brazier. Chen Lin survived by flying over the flames, caught the baby groom’s favor, and received a reward as the selection continued.

• The bridal sedan carried Chen Lin and four other surviving brides to an isolated scarlet estate surrounded by barren wilderness and ghostly creatures.
• The Faceless Man announced that the brides had to cross a brazier of deathly white flames, and the First Bride, Beauty Luo, cleared it using a flash of light.
• Beauty Huang, the nervous bride, walked into the brazier and burned to ashes after failing to find her way across.
• The Faceless Man called for Beauty Chen, and Chen Lin realized the name referred to him and flew over the brazier on energy wings.
• The baby on the tray praised Chen Lin’s wings, and the Faceless Man ordered a golden-haired monster to reward him with a golden box containing a Blood-Red Gem.

Chen Lin passed the second bridal selection and used his Destiny ability to choose a box safely in the third. He was sent to the bridal chamber with an unopened treasure box, where he began inspecting it beneath his veil.

• The Plump Bride crossed the brazier, and the Petite Bride struck the Baby King, who regenerated and rewarded her with a ruby.
• The Faceless Man began the drawing-prizes selection, and Chen Lin repaired a break in his Destiny Line so he could choose safely.
• The Petite Bride opened a box and was attacked by a black monster, but her ruby destroyed it.
• Chen Lin chose and opened a box, passed the selection, and was escorted to the bridal chamber.
• A Faceless Man warned Chen Lin not to lift his veil and left him with his treasure box, which Chen Lin began examining beneath the veil.

Chen Lin received the title of Consort Chen and a powerful infusion that strengthened his soul, then tried to avoid being sent alone to the bridal chamber. He forced the attendants to bring Beauty Yun with him and discovered that she was Yun Xiumian.

• Chen Lin tested the Emerald Bracelet but could not activate its power without a specialized refining art.
• The Baby King held an investiture, naming Chen Lin Consort Chen and granting him Source Soul Infusion, which advanced his soul toward the Golden Soul state.
• The Baby King titled Beauty Luo a Noble Lady, Beauty Hu a Talented Lady, and Beauty Yun a Pleasing Lady, giving each a reward.
• As the brides were sent to separate chambers, Chen Lin ordered Beauty Yun to accompany him, claiming the Baby King did not favor her.
• Chen Lin demanded that Beauty Yun remove her veil, and he recognized her as Yun Xiumian.

Chen Lin suspected that Yun Yiren was a Nightmare Realm projection of Yun Xiumian and tried to learn more about the realm before the Xuanyin Great King banished him to the Cold Palace. He arrived there and found Meng Po, whose name deepened his suspicions about a connection to the Xuanyin Patriarch's Yellow Springs Scroll.

• Chen Lin privately told Yun Yiren that he was Chen Lin, but she did not recognize him and explained her origins in Elm Tree Village and Ancient Bridge Village.
• Chen Lin examined Yun Yiren's wooden hairpin, found traces of nightmare qi, and suspected she was a projection of Yun Xiumian; she gave him the hairpin as a gift.
• The Xuanyin Great King arrived, stripped Chen Lin of his consort rank, and ordered him banished to the Cold Palace.
• White-Haired Monsters dragged Chen Lin to a dilapidated building, where a Faceless Man handed him over to Meng Po for punishment.
• Chen Lin recognized the name Meng Po and wondered whether the realm had been projected from the Xuanyin Patriarch's Yellow Springs Scroll.

Chen Lin paid Meng Po to secure a clean cell and a bowl of Mengpo Soup in the Cold Palace, where abandoned consorts endured brutal confinement. After seeing how dangerous escape seemed and learning the soup was affordable, he began considering how to survive until he could find a way out.

• Chen Lin gave Meng Po five Nightmare Coins, and she led him down into the Cold Palace while he used his golden soul power to withstand the intense yin cold qi.
• Chen Lin saw Consort Xu trapped in a cell, begging for soup and suffering Meng Po’s whip when she cursed her captor.
• Chen Lin passed a veiled woman who paid one Nightmare Coin for a bowl of Mengpo Soup and drank it.
• Meng Po gave Chen Lin a clean cell, fresh bedding, and a bowl of soup, then told him she would return once a day.
• A disheveled prisoner in the opposite cell asked Chen Lin whether he would sell his Mengpo Soup.

Chen Lin discovered that another cultivator had entered the Cold Palace in her physical body and, as deaths among the consorts mounted, sought a way to escape. A veiled cultivator contacted him and began teaching him a soul secret art for voice transmission.

• A disheveled consort offered Chen Lin a spirit crystal for Mengpo Soup, but he refused to trade and later realized she was an outsider cultivator.
• Lineage Patriarch Ye kept watch over Chen Lin, ordered Ye Zhengming to help Ye Luo stabilize her cultivation, and continued searching for the Immortal Sword as powerful cultivators arrived in Baishuang City.
• Chen Lin watched Consort Xu and two other consorts die, with their corpses swallowed by a stone statue or otherwise removed, and grew increasingly worried about his own fate.
• A veiled woman from the room diagonally across from Chen Lin recognized that he was a cultivator in projection form and offered to teach him a soul secret art for voice transmission.

Chen Lin mastered a secret art for discreet long-distance soul messages and learned from the Veiled Woman that they were trapped in the Yellow Springs Scroll, a true spirit tier Spirit Treasure inside the Nightmare Realm. He discovered that Dao Monarch Xuanyinzi had fled there after a failed attempt to reach the Dao Hearing Realm and become bound to the Nightmare Realm.

• Chen Lin learned the Veiled Woman's soul-message secret art and exchanged information with her about their origins and how they entered the Nightmare Realm.
• Meng Po inspected the cells, and Chen Lin bought a bowl of Mengpo Soup while the Veiled Woman did the same.
• After Meng Po left, Chen Lin gave his spare bowl of soup to the injured woman across from him, who thanked him and promised to repay him.
• The Veiled Woman asked about Chen Lin's golden soul power, then identified their prison as the inner space of Dao Monarch Xuanyinzi's Yellow Springs Scroll.
• The Veiled Woman explained that Xuanyinzi had fled into the Nightmare Realm after failing to reach the Dao Hearing Realm, but its rules had trapped him and he had merged with it.

Chen Lin learned that the Cold Palace was inside the nightmare-transformed Yellow Springs Scroll, while the Veiled Woman planned to use his golden soul power to escape. The Xuanyin Great King arrived to punish Lan Mengqiu, whose escape attempt wounded the Ceremonial Faceless Man before a mysterious arrow pierced Meng Po.

• Chen Lin learned from the Veiled Woman that the Yellow Springs Vortex drew people into the Yellow Springs Scroll and turned them into potential brides of Dao Monarch Xuanyinzi.
• Chen Lin questioned the female cultivator across from him, confirmed she had been pulled inside by accident, and spent the following days searching for another way out while the Veiled Woman stayed silent.
• Meng Po arrived with the Ceremonial Faceless Man carrying the baby Xuanyin Great King, who sentenced Lan Mengqiu to Soul-Splitting Punishment.
• Lan Mengqiu escaped her cell as blue light and pierced the Ceremonial Faceless Man, but the Xuanyin Great King struck her down.
• As Meng Po moved to take the tray, a black-snake-like arrow pierced her despite her attempts to evade it.

Chen Lin escaped the Cold Palace with the Veiled Woman and the other consorts after she attacked Meng Po and freed the prisoners. Guided by White Dove, he headed for Spirit Peak, where he hoped to escape the Yellow Springs Scroll through a space rift, but terrifying energy fluctuations awaited him near the summit.

• The Veiled Woman shot Meng Po and freed Chen Lin and the other prisoners, while the Faceless Man used the golden tray to hold off Baby King.
• The Veiled Woman led Chen Lin to the stone door, where Chen Lin destroyed one statue with Soul-Destroying Finger and the unconscious Alluring Young Matron destroyed the other.
• The Veiled Woman fled toward Spirit Peak and told the consorts to split up; Chen Lin rescued White Dove and escaped the courtyard as Xuanyin Great King broke free and pursued the Veiled Woman.
• White Dove told Chen Lin that Spirit Peak held space rifts leading to the Reality Realm and that Nightmare Realm creatures were suppressed there, so Chen Lin took her along.
• Chen Lin flew toward Spirit Peak, killing monsters with Soul-Destroying Finger, and felt terrifying energy fluctuations near the summit.

Chen Lin and the young female cultivator entered a hidden passage inside Spirit Peak to escape the battle at the summit, where they encountered and captured a fire essence. The girl revealed that spiritual qi had returned in the passage and realized Chen Lin was only a projection.

• The young female cultivator told Chen Lin that she sought fire essence to cure her father and that an ancient record placed a passage near three unusual boulders at the mountain's base.
• Chen Lin trusted her oath, and they searched the mountain's foot until an explosion exposed the three boulders as the passage entrance.
• After the Veiled Woman screamed in pain at the summit, Chen Lin took the girl into the passage and climbed upward through its increasingly hot flames.
• A powerful fire essence attacked Chen Lin, but he weakened it with Soul-Destroying Finger strikes while the girl trapped it in a silver net and sealed it with a Spirit-Receiving Talisman.
• The girl sensed spiritual qi and nightmare qi in the passage, then asked Chen Lin whether he had entered as a projection.

Chen Lin reached the summit with the young cultivator after battling two fire essences, and the Veiled Woman helped them survive. He learned that the Xuanyin Great King had left temporarily and that the group was waiting for an unpredictable space rift to escape, but the young cultivator then offered information about his unanswered question.

• Chen Lin gave the young cultivator the first captured fire essence, then used his remaining golden soul power to protect her when two more attacked.
• A black streak from above destroyed Chen Lin's attacker, and he helped the young cultivator trap and capture the other fire essence before she fainted.
• Chen Lin carried the young cultivator to the summit, where he found the Veiled Woman, the Blue Queen, and two recovered Spirit Transformation women.
• The Veiled Woman explained that the Xuanyin Great King had left to rest after his strength weakened and that they were waiting for a dangerous, unpredictable space rift to escape.
• Chen Lin failed to learn what would happen if he entered the Reality Realm in a projection state, but the young cultivator woke and said she knew about it.

Chen Lin learned that projections trapped in the Nightmare Realm could survive a space rift by entering another scenario, and discovered that the Blue Queen believed Xuanyinzi had deliberately drawn them into the Yellow Springs Scroll. After several days of recovery and introductions, a space rift finally appeared overhead.

• The young cultivator told Chen Lin that a projection could use another Nightmare Realm item to enter a different scenario and return through its expulsion force.
• The Blue Queen explained that the Yellow Springs Scroll had not fully transformed and that Xuanyinzi had likely allowed them to escape as part of his plans.
• The Blue Queen revealed that Xuanyinzi had probably granted Chen Lin golden soul power because he wanted something Chen Lin possessed or feared something backing him.
• The group waited three days without the Xuanyin Great King appearing, then shared their backgrounds and learned that the Blue Queen had reached the ninth layer of dao rhyme.
• The young cultivator said she came from the Rainbow Continent, drawing a noticeable reaction from the Blue Queen.
• After two more days, a space rift finally appeared overhead.

Chen Lin escaped the bridal procession realm with Grass and returned to Baishuang City, where Lineage Patriarch Ye questioned him about the heavenly tribulation and the being that had intervened. He learned that Ye Luo had reached Foundation Establishment and was left uncertain about the patriarch’s colder attitude.

• Chen Lin summoned Grass and crossed the Space Rift with her, but the sunlight began to dissolve his body until Grass used her fishing rod to take them to the Gambling Fortune Lake Scenario.
• After Chen Lin escaped, the Blue Queen killed the two Spirit Transformation women, then took the young female cultivator through the rift with the Veiled Woman.
• Chen Lin recovered in the Small Woods, waited for his golden soul power to return, and expelled himself from the Nightmare Realm.
• Lineage Patriarch Ye questioned Chen Lin about the heavenly tribulation, and Chen Lin blamed the Nightmare Realm item he had been studying before showing him the Blood Handkerchief.
• Lineage Patriarch Ye used a secret art to ask about the being that had resisted the tribulation, and Chen Lin claimed he knew little about the divine soul housed in an object.
• Lineage Patriarch Ye told Chen Lin that Ye Luo had reached Foundation Establishment and left; Chen Lin found he was not under house arrest and considered leaving Baishuang City if necessary.

Chen Lin returned to his cave residence after surviving the backlash, assessed the dangers surrounding his abilities, and searched for a way to deal with the Demonic Seed. Ye Luo recovered and advanced to Foundation Establishment, but ten days later Ye Zhengming told Chen Lin that the Ye Lineage had ended their agreement early and was sending him away.

• Chen Lin returned to his cave residence, rewarded the maids with pills, and resolved to stop using the Fortunate Art while seeking the Qi Luck Pill formula from the Tianyun Sect.
• Chen Lin failed to find the Demonic Seed in his soul or body, asked a trading firm to gather Golden Bodhi Pill materials, and sought an artifact-refining technique and materials for a spiritual body.
• Ye Luo visited Chen Lin after recovering and reaching Foundation Establishment, revealed that she could control her connection to the Otherworld and summon nearly half of the White Bone General, and announced she had become a Ye Lineage elder.
• Ten days later, Ye Zhengming told Chen Lin that Ye Luo's recovery and Foundation Establishment had ended his ten-year agreement with the Ye Lineage ahead of schedule, and presented him with a token from the Ancestor.

Chen Lin left Baishuang City, recovered the Resurrection Scroll, and traveled with a caravan to Qianyuan City while planning his next steps against the Demonic Seed. After settling into the welcoming city, he searched for ingredients for Golden Bodhi Pills and found a shopkeeper who seemed familiar with Lamp-Lighting Fruit.

• Chen Lin decided the Ye Lineage had driven him away out of fear and accepted the generous supplies Ye Zhengming had given him.
• Lineage Patriarch Ye revealed that he planned to open the Secret Realm using Ye Luo's improved ability and seek the Dao-Inquiring Stone.
• Chen Lin retrieved the Resurrection Scroll in Black Tower City and joined a caravan traveling to Qianyuan City.
• Chen Lin arrived in Qianyuan City, rented an immortal cave, and began searching the market for Lamp-Lighting Fruit and three-sun mysterious light baleful qi.
• A shopkeeper recognized Lamp-Lighting Fruit as rare and appeared familiar with it, giving Chen Lin hope of finding the ingredient.