Recaps

Chen Lin met Yang Qianxing to discuss exploring the Nightmare Realm and learned more about the Lower and Upper Primal Domains, celestial demons, and the Soulless Patriarch. He provided Nightmare Realm items and resources to fund further expeditions, asking Yang Qianxing’s explorers to investigate several scenarios and search for Yun Xiumian.

• Yang Zihua told Chen Lin that Yang Qianxing wanted to explore Nightmare Realm scenarios through projection and use what they learned to investigate Gourmet Island.
• Chen Lin and Huangfu Qingrou visited Yang Qianxing, who explained the relationship between the Lower and Upper Primal Domains and said the Soulless Patriarch might be a Great Vehicle Practitioner hiding from the Luo Monsters.
• Chen Lin told Yang Qianxing about the Tianxuan Realm’s current situation and the people who had fallen there, including Wei Duxing.
• Chen Lin presented several Nightmare Realm items and described their scenarios, including the Myriad Realms Alliance, Zhiwu County, and the Blood Handkerchief scenario where Yun Xiumian was trapped.
• Chen Lin gave Yang Qianxing ten thousand Nightmare Coins, two Road Guides, pills, and spirit crystals to support the expeditions and reward the explorers.

Chen Lin accepted Yang Zihua’s Heaven-Defying Pill and began refining it to raise his cultivation before the River of Styx Pact deadline. Five years later, inner demons emerged during the process, but he suppressed them with Soul Steamed Buns while Huangfu Qingrou kept watch outside.

• Yang Zihua gave Chen Lin a Heaven-Defying Pill that she and her mother had secretly taken from Yang Qianxing, warning him about its inner-demon side effects.
• Chen Lin accepted the pill and told Yang Zihua to seek endless water, which could let him make Wish Noodles to help remove her curse.
• Chen Lin returned to his cave residence and decided to use the pill to hasten his progress toward false Dao Integration.
• Huangfu Qingrou urged Chen Lin to reconsider, but he reassured her that his Soul Steamed Buns could help counter the pill’s inner demons.
• After a month of preparation, Chen Lin entered the Cultivation Chamber and began refining the Heaven-Defying Pill.
• Five years later, Chen Lin’s inner demons manifested as black qi and dark figures in his eyes; he ate a steamer of buns to suppress them, then told Huangfu Qingrou he was all right.

After emerging from ten years of seclusion with his cultivation at Void Refinement perfection, Chen Lin sought Yang Qianxing’s help preparing to advance, but learned he would have to find another way to undergo his tribulation. Yang Qianxing proposed delaying the breakthrough to improve his talent and help his daughter, while Chen Lin insisted he had to advance before the Leaving Fire Dao Monarch reached Dao Hearing.

• Chen Lin emerged from seclusion after refining the Heaven-Defying Pill and reached Void Refinement perfection, then reunited with Huangfu Qingrou.
• Chen Lin asked Yang Qianxing to guard him during his breakthrough, but Yang Qianxing explained that the Divine Pillar formation’s Divine Punishment Light prevented him from leaving the city to help.
• Yang Qianxing told Chen Lin that explorations had found progress in the Bun Scenario and the Handkerchief Scenario, then questioned how Chen Lin had suppressed the Heaven-Defying Pill’s effects.
• Chen Lin revealed that his Soul Steamed Buns relied on his qi luck talent, and told Yang Qianxing that he had repelled a mysterious existence that tried to seize his talent origin.
• Yang Qianxing urged Chen Lin to postpone advancing and use qi luck objects and talent-enhancing treasures to help his daughter reach Foundation Establishment, and Chen Lin agreed while warning that he had to advance before the Leaving Fire Dao Monarch reached Dao Hearing.

Chen Lin and Yang Qianxing discussed changes to the Nightmare Realm scenarios, including the transformation of Zhiwu County into Carefree City under Li Fuyao. Chen Lin then prepared for his Dao Integration tribulation, but the shield he commissioned proved weaker than expected, and he asked Xu Chenxuan about refining an Otherworld scale into a single-use defense.

• Yang Qianxing told Chen Lin that explorers had found the Handkerchief Scenario's survivor transformed into a woman, who died after naming the Xuanyin Underworld Emperor.
• Yang Qianxing explained that Zhiwu County had become Carefree City, ruled by Li Fuyao, and that its departure mission now required delivering a landscape scroll for appraisal.
• Chen Lin received a copy of the new scenario's landscape scroll and agreed with Yang Qianxing to continue exploring it.
• Chen Lin decided to seek qi luck objects for his ascension, while preparing to undergo his tribulation in the Dark Sea if Yang Qianxing could not find enough within a year.
• Xu Chenxuan gave Chen Lin a silver shield that achieved only seventy percent of its expected performance, then examined the Otherworld Green Scale Chen Lin offered for a single-use tribulation item.

Chen Lin learned that Xu Chenxuan had entered Guardian Hut Village and sought the Medium Object that led there, hoping it would help him reconnect with Niuniu. After discovering Baili Qing had traded it away for a friend who had already left Third Pillar Heaven, he also noticed a replica of the Exterminating Sword displayed at the Hundred Swords Sect.

• Xu Chenxuan told Chen Lin that he had entered Guardian Hut Village about two hundred years earlier, where a fish-shaped boy had made him process fish and left his divinity origin essence damaged.
• Chen Lin suspected the village was where Niuniu lived and asked Xu Chenxuan for its Medium Object, but learned that Baili Qing had recently bought it.
• Xu Chenxuan examined Chen Lin's Green Scale and agreed to attempt a simple refinement, though he warned it could not become a spirit treasure.
• Chen Lin went to the Hundred Swords Sect, saw a sword resembling the Exterminating Sword on its display rack, and met Baili Qing.
• Chen Lin asked Baili Qing to sell him the Salted Fish Medium Object, but she said she had traded it for a friend who had already left Third Pillar Heaven.

Chen Lin learned that the medium he needed was now with Miao Yuwu of the Divine Sword Sect in First Pillar Heaven, and decided to seek it himself after completing his false Dao Integration advancement. While preparing for that breakthrough, he received a powerful defensive scale from Xu Chenxuan and considered how to survive the seven-colored heavenly tribulation.

• Chen Lin asked Baili Qing to contact Miao Yuwu about trading for the medium, but Baili refused to intervene after explaining she had given it to Miao Yuwu as a gift.
• Baili Qing gave Chen Lin a sword catalog, which he destroyed after leaving the Hundred Swords Sect because he feared it might expose his identity or track him.
• Chen Lin abandoned plans to send others to First Pillar Heaven and decided to wait until he had advanced before traveling there himself to negotiate with Miao Yuwu.
• Chen Lin studied the risks of using Xiong Ziqi's secret art for a false Dao Integration advancement and hoped his seventh-level Dao Rhyme would improve his chances.
• Three months later, Chen Lin collected the refined scale from Xu Chenxuan and tested its green defensive barrier, which easily repelled an attack from the Cyan Vine Shield.
• Chen Lin decided he needed more innate power to prepare for the seven-colored heavenly tribulation and called Huangfu Qingrou to continue refining the Xiao Luo origin essence.

Chen Lin received several qi luck objects from Yang Qianxing and prepared to use them to help Yang Zihua attempt Foundation Establishment again. He tested a new way to manipulate her Destiny River, asking her to imagine the attempt as he tried to isolate that event’s fate.

• Chen Lin learned that Yang Zihua’s failed attempt to reach Foundation Establishment had further shortened her lifespan, and that Yang Qianxing had gone to First Pillar Heaven.
• Yang Zihua delivered three Qi Luck Pills, a Four Direction Monster Core, and a Fortune Orb, explaining where her father had obtained them.
• Chen Lin examined Yang Zihua and found that her vitality was recovering, though her lifespan had likely been reduced by another twenty years.
• Chen Lin brought Yang Zihua into the Cultivation Chamber and used his Destiny Divine Ability to observe her Destiny River.
• Chen Lin asked Yang Zihua to imagine attempting Foundation Establishment while he tried to manifest and correct the fate line for that specific event.

Chen Lin used his Destiny River ability to discover that Yang Zihua’s path to orthodox Foundation Establishment was severed, but he found a faint thread in her yin foundation path and helped her complete it. After she succeeded, he went to the Cultivation Chamber to use his remaining qi luck force to try to correct the line for his own advancement to Dao Integration.

• Chen Lin examined Yang Zihua’s Destiny River and found her orthodox, demon, and demonic Foundation Establishment paths severed, while her yin foundation path held a faint thread beyond the break.
• Chen Lin used his Fate Tentacle to join the thread to Yang Zihua’s line and urged her to begin Foundation Establishment using the Yin Foundation Method.
• Yang Zihua absorbed the yin soul origin essence Chen Lin gave her and successfully achieved Foundation Establishment while Chen Lin held the line together.
• Huangfu Qingrou gathered the escaping yin qi and returned it to Yang Zihua, who thanked her and resumed cultivating to consolidate her foundation.
• Chen Lin asked Huangfu Qingrou to take him to the Cultivation Chamber, where he manifested his own Fate Screen and used the remaining qi luck force to make his advancement line begin to appear.

Chen Lin used his destiny-reading talent to assess his chances of advancing to false Dao Integration and corrected two dangerous gaps in his fate line, suffering severe backlash. He left the Immortal Cave with Huangfu Qingrou to seek a safer place to advance, while Yang Zihua stayed behind to consolidate her cultivation.

• Chen Lin realized his first prediction concerned true Dao Integration, then made a detailed prediction for false Dao Integration and found five dangerous gaps in the fate line.
• Chen Lin used a Fortune Orb and his Fate Tentacle to reconnect the completely severed gap tied to merging his lesser Dao with the Great Dao, but the backlash left him bleeding from all seven orifices.
• Chen Lin decided to correct the gap tied to forming a false true self, abandon his plan to weather the tribulation in the Dark Sea, and advance within the Divine Pillar's range.
• Chen Lin's attempt to correct the first gap caused him to spit blood and lose consciousness, but he recovered enough to leave the Cultivation Chamber with Huangfu Qingrou.
• Chen Lin told Yang Zihua to remain in the Immortal Cave and consolidate her cultivation, then departed with Huangfu Qingrou.

Chen Lin prepared to undergo a False Dao Integration advancement in the secluded Yucang Mountain Range, using the furnace purgatory stone to begin the trials. He completed the first trial and experienced the greater mastery of a Dao Art, but remained uncertain how to make his lesser Dao resonate with the Great Dao.

• Chen Lin used Scholar to test the Teleportation Array Disk before teleporting to an underground chamber, destroying the formation, and escaping to the Yucang Mountain Range with Huangfu Qingrou.
• Chen Lin chose a site within the Divine Pillar's protective range, checked his fate screen, and set up the Ten Directions Tribulation-Wipe Formation, defensive formations, and a Spirit Gathering Great Array.
• Huangfu Qingrou found no nearby danger but warned that the spiritual vein was weak, so Chen Lin used a large supply of spirit crystals to power the Spirit Gathering Great Array.
• Chen Lin and Huangfu Qingrou took their positions, and Chen Lin began his breakthrough preparations while Scholar and the Crow Puppets kept watch.
• Chen Lin activated the furnace purgatory stone and endured its internal flames as he gathered and refined his essence, energy, and spirit.
• Chen Lin completed the first trial and sensed the artistic conception of greater mastery of a Dao Art, then began the second trial of making his lesser Dao resonate with the Great Dao.

Chen Lin completed Dao Integration and began enduring the tribulation, drawing attention across the Three Pillars and alerting his enemies. As he absorbed the lightning with his body, the purple-robed elder and the brocade-clad man watched from concealment and waited for a chance to attack.

• The purple-robed elder and the brocade-clad young man learned Chen Lin had left Three Pillars City and set out to find him while Yang Qianxing was away.
• Chen Lin merged the alignment between his True Self Dao and the Heaven and Earth Dao, completing Dao Integration and causing heaven and earth to resonate.
• Experts in First Pillar Heaven and Third Pillar Heaven sensed the resonance, while the purple-robed elder and the brocade-clad man realized Chen Lin had advanced sooner than expected.
• Chen Lin activated his Spirit-Gathering Formation, transformed into a Dao Integration cultivator, and began the lightning tribulation by meeting its first bolt with his body.
• Huangfu Qingrou checked the surroundings as Chen Lin faced the next bolt, while the purple-robed elder and the brocade-clad man remained hidden and watched for an opportunity to strike.

Chen Lin endured the seven-color tribulation lightning while concealing how easily he could withstand it, as hostile cultivators waited to attack once his tribulation ended. Just as they prepared to strike, the clouds gathered again and formed another, weaker five-colored bolt, leaving everyone unsure what would happen next.

• Huangfu Qingrou warned Chen Lin that a powerful expert was watching, so he pretended to be badly injured by the tribulation lightning.
• The purple-robed old man and the brocade-clad young man watched Chen Lin, hoping to keep him alive long enough to use Soul Search and learn about time sand and the Soul Leaving Beast.
• Chen Lin used the Green Scale and then revealed his Cyan Vine Shield to withstand successive bolts, while concealing that the Thunder God Sword absorbed the lightning without injuring him.
• As the final bolt passed and the clouds dispersed, Chen Lin fell still while Huangfu Qingrou and hostile onlookers waited for the inner demon tribulation to end.
• The purple-robed old man and the brocade-clad young man emerged to attack, but the clouds gathered again and formed a five-colored bolt that remained suspended before descending with reduced force.

Chen Lin completed his Dao Integration tribulation, revealed his power, and killed the attackers who tried to exploit his inner demon ordeal. After learning his identity, experts across Three Pillars City headed toward Leaving Fire City, where Chen Lin was going to confront Leaving Fire Dao Monarch.

• Chen Lin used his Five Thunders Smite the Crown Spiritual Art during his tribulation, while Huangfu Qingrou realized the lightning was not a genuine extra tribulation strike.
• The purple-robed elder attacked Chen Lin and the brocade-robed young man targeted Huangfu Qingrou, but Scholar’s Suppress Talisman helped her escape the sword strike.
• Chen Lin seized the elder’s Purple Giant Banner, crushed the elder with a Thunderbolt Giant Hand, and dragged the fleeing young man back before killing him and searching his soul.
• Huangfu Qingrou feared Chen Lin’s demonic aura meant his inner demon had not been suppressed, while Chen Lin summoned a vast Thunderstorm Ocean.
• A messenger told Baili Qingfeng that the newly ascended cultivator was Lin Feiyu and was heading toward Leaving Fire City to confront Leaving Fire Dao Monarch.
• Baili Qingfeng and experts from other factions and cities departed for Leaving Fire City to witness the coming battle.

Chen Lin attacked Leaving Fire City to confront the Leaving Fire Dao Monarch and rescue Madam Colorful Butterfly, but the Dao Monarch used the Fire Spirit Vein and Myriad Fire Ring to suppress him. The Dark Red Spearhead pinned the Dao Monarch despite his defenses, and his desperate counterattack exposed twelve imprisoned women to the watching experts.

• Chen Lin shattered Leaving Fire City's defensive formation and broke open the mountain where the Leaving Fire Dao Monarch cultivated, while the Dao Monarch tried to subdue Madam Colorful Butterfly.
• Madam Colorful Butterfly warned Chen Lin about an ambush, but he ignored her and attacked the Leaving Fire Dao Monarch with the Burning Heavens Spear.
• The Leaving Fire Dao Monarch used the Myriad Fire Ring and the Fire Spirit Vein to extinguish Chen Lin's fire attack and disable the Burning Heavens Spear.
• Chen Lin unleashed the Dark Red Spearhead, whose spatial rules restrained the Leaving Fire Dao Monarch despite the fire phoenix's attempt to free him.
• The Leaving Fire Dao Monarch summoned a fiery bead and unleashed the fire sprites, destroying the mountain and revealing twelve women bound to stone pillars.

Chen Lin killed the Leaving Fire Dao Monarch, but his demonic corruption nearly drove him to kill Madam Colorful Butterfly until Huangfu Qingrou reached him with Soul Steamed Buns. Destroying the stone platform freed Madam Colorful Butterfly and awakened Xiyue from the Jade Coffin, while Huangfu Qingrou was left deciding whether to give Chen Lin the Demon-Washing Fruit.

• The Leaving Fire Dao Monarch's Myriad Fire Ring manifested a Fire Phoenix, but Chen Lin weakened it and killed the Leaving Fire Dao Monarch with the Dark Red Spearhead.
• Huangfu Qingrou arrived and found Chen Lin trying to kill Madam Colorful Butterfly, then reminded him who she was and fed him a Soul Steamed Bun.
• Madam Colorful Butterfly urged Huangfu Qingrou to destroy the central stone platform, and its destruction dispersed the sealing power and shook the plane.
• The Jade Coffin opened in Yuetian City, and Xiyue appeared before Huangfu Ying asking where the person who drove back the enemy was.
• Madam Colorful Butterfly escaped her chains and gave Huangfu Qingrou a Demon-Washing Fruit, while a slender woman assured her that it was genuine.

After killing the Leaving Fire Dao Monarch, Chen Lin recovered from his demonic corruption but found Dao Integration Experts surrounding Fire Cloud Mountain. He and Huangfu Qingrou descended into a passage to investigate a sealed heretical entity, while He Jinlin and the other Great Vehicle Practitioners learned of the killing and entered a Light Curtain through the Divine Pillar.

• Huangfu Qingrou fed Chen Lin a Demon-Washing Fruit, restoring his clarity, and Chen Lin sent the rescued women away before warning Huangfu Qingrou that his inner demon remained dangerous.
• Chen Lin refused to flee because Dao Integration Experts guarded Fire Cloud Mountain, then took Huangfu Qingrou into a passage after sensing a sealed heretical entity below.
• Dao Integration Experts gathered outside Fire Cloud Mountain but stayed back and guarded the exits while they waited for He Jinlin to decide whether to intervene.
• He Jinlin, Miao Guanhai, and Zhuo Aolian received reports that Lin Feiyu had killed Zhen Zizai, the Leaving Fire Dao Monarch, and debated whether He Jinlin should act.
• He Jinlin said he would investigate Lin Feiyu's demonic corruption, then joined Miao Guanhai and Zhuo Aolian in opening a Light Curtain at the Divine Pillar and entered it.

He Jinlin and two other Great Vehicle Practitioners arrived at Leaving Fire City to confront the cultivator who had killed the Leaving Fire Dao Monarch, but a little girl subdued the Evil Eye and drove them away. She then searched for Lin Feiyu and rewarded Huangfu Ying by treating her hidden affliction.

• He Jinlin, Miao Guanhai, and Zhuo Aolian learned that Lin Feiyu had entered the underground Fire Spirit Vein, then saw the Evil Eye emerge from beneath Fire Cloud Mountain.
• Zhuo Aolian revealed that Zhen Zizai had tried to refine the Evil Eye's origin essence, and He Jinlin attacked the eye with his broadsword to kill it and Lin Feiyu.
• A little girl stopped He Jinlin's golden qilin barehanded, captured the Evil Eye in a pouch, and forced the gathered cultivators to leave.
• The little girl detained Huangfu Ying and Zhen Linyu, learned that Lin Feiyu might still be underground, and sent Zhen Linyu to investigate.
• The little girl identified Huangfu Ying's lingering rule force as the cause of her stalled cultivation and gave her purifying spirit liquid, which Huangfu Ying drank.

After escaping Leaving Fire City, Chen Lin and Huangfu Qingrou hid on a remote island in the Dark Sea while he worked to resolve his inner demon and study his Dao Art. Their discussion of the world’s Evil Eye Monsters left Chen Lin suspecting that an Asura True Form might be sealed there.

• Huangfu Ying drank the purifying spirit liquid, and the little girl claimed her as a servant and ordered Zhen Linyu to find Lin Feiyu under a Soul-Breaking Talisman.
• The little girl took control of Leaving Fire City, appointed Huangfu Ying its city lord, and renamed it Moon-Gazing City.
• At the edge of the Dark Sea, Chen Lin refused Madam Colorful Butterfly’s request to travel with him and flew away with Huangfu Qingrou.
• Chen Lin and Huangfu Qingrou traveled deeper into the Dark Sea, then settled in a hidden cave on a small island.
• Chen Lin questioned Huangfu Qingrou about Evil Eye Monsters, and her account that they were all red led him to suspect an Asura True Form was present.

Chen Lin sorted the spoils from his recent battles, gave Huangfu Qingrou several treasures, and discovered the Heavenly Soul Bell, a powerful soul-attacking secret art. He learned how its previous owner had plotted against him and resolved to remain wary of underestimating anyone.

• Chen Lin inspected Leaving Fire Dao Monarch's Myriad Fire Ring, kept it for himself, and gave Huangfu Qingrou the purple flag and other treasures.
• Chen Lin and Huangfu Qingrou spent several days together before returning to their separate cultivation chambers.
• Chen Lin examined Madam Colorful Butterfly's fire marrow essence and set it aside, thinking it might help Luo Qinglan rebuild her body.
• Chen Lin found the Heavenly Soul Bell secret art on a bamboo slip and learned it could attack souls as powerful as those of Void Refinement cultivators.
• Chen Lin recalled through Soul Search how the brocade-clad young man had tracked him and joined the purple-robed elder in attacking during his tribulation.
• Chen Lin reflected that the two attackers had misjudged his strength and reminded himself never to underestimate anyone.

Chen Lin weighed whether to pursue the Blade of Destiny or Five Thunders Smite the Crown as his Dao art, then decided to cultivate both, prioritizing the lightning technique. After sixty years, he had eliminated his lingering inner demon and advanced Five Thunders Smite the Crown to the ninth layer of Dao rhyme.

• Chen Lin inspected the spoils from the young man in brocade and found a box filled with time sand, while keeping the two boxes of eight-arm circumambulations sealed.
• Chen Lin considered the risks of having two Dao arts and the benefits of his Thunder God Sword, then decided to cultivate both rather than abandon either.
• Chen Lin sensed a possible connection between the round token, the key, and Huangfu Ying's jade coffin, but lacked enough information to confirm it.
• Chen Lin made Five Thunders Smite the Crown his primary Dao art and began cultivating with the Thunder God Sword's guidance.
• After sixty years and a vast quantity of Soul Steamed Buns, Chen Lin eliminated his inner demon and advanced Five Thunders Smite the Crown to the ninth layer of Dao rhyme.

Huangfu Qingrou attempted Ascension to Void Refinement and survived the tribulation, but suffered severe aftereffects after absorbing the Divine Punishment Light. While fleeing the commotion, Chen Lin rescued a ship under attack and learned that the Pillar Heavens had changed, with Moon-Gazing City now reigning supreme.

• Chen Lin agreed to Huangfu Qingrou's Ascension attempt and warned her not to absorb the Divine Punishment Light.
• Huangfu Qingrou passed the lightning tribulation but swallowed all the Divine Punishment Light, collapsed, and endured lingering harm and worsening inner demons.
• Chen Lin fed Huangfu Qingrou Soul Steamed Buns and fled with her after the Ascension drew attention.
• Chen Lin used the Heavenly Soul Bell to kill two rank six sea beasts attacking a ship, though its power also knocked the ship's cultivators from the air.
• Lu Kongyuan told Chen Lin that all the Pillar Heavens had changed and that Moon-Gazing City now reigned supreme.

Chen Lin learned that Xiyue had transformed Leaving Fire City into Moon-Gazing City and raised Huangfu Ying to the Dao Integration Realm, then waited in seclusion while Huangfu Qingrou recovered from the Divine Punishment Light. After they discussed whether to approach the Light Gate or Huangfu Ying, Chen Lin’s prediction failed to reveal any destiny lines, convincing him that Xiyue made going to Third Pillar Heaven too dangerous.

• Chen Lin questioned cultivators and learned that Xiyue ruled the Pillar Heavens through Moon-Gazing City, where Huangfu Ying had become a Dao Integration Realm Expert.
• Chen Lin took Huangfu Qingrou to a concealed island and stayed in seclusion while helping her absorb the Divine Punishment Light and expel her Inner Demon.
• After three years, Huangfu Qingrou awoke, and Chen Lin told her about Xiyue, Moon-Gazing City, and the possibility that the Light Gate led to a higher-level plane.
• Chen Lin and Huangfu Qingrou considered investigating the Light Gate or contacting Huangfu Ying in Third Pillar Heaven, and Chen Lin decided to accompany her.
• Chen Lin’s fortune-predicting ability failed to manifest any destiny lines, so he warned Huangfu Qingrou not to go to Third Pillar Heaven.

Chen Lin and Huangfu Qingrou traveled toward the Light Gate after sensing changes in the world, then learned that Xiyue had publicized it as a source of rule light particles. A captive’s Sensing Bead revealed that Zhen Linyu had distributed many such beads across the Pillar Heavens to search for someone, leaving Chen Lin uncertain what it could detect.

• Chen Lin and Huangfu Qingrou noticed space growing sluggish and decided to investigate the Light Gate in Fourth Pillar Heavens.
• They encountered many cultivators heading toward the Light Gate and captured Li Zifeng and Huang Lianshan to question them.
• Li Zifeng explained that Xiyue had announced the Light Gate’s rule light particles and offered rewards for delivering them to Moon-Gazing City.
• When Chen Lin threatened a Soul Search, Huang Lianshan admitted he had concealed a Sensing Bead distributed by Zhen Linyu.
• Huang Lianshan revealed that Zhen Linyu had sent many Sensing Beads to different Pillar Heavens and patrols the Dark Sea to find an unknown target.

Chen Lin discovered that the Sensing Bead reacted to the energy of his Soul-Destroying Finger rather than the Thunder God Sword, easing his fear that Immortal Superior Xiyue sought his sword. He tested a possible countermeasure and found that shrinking his body weakened the bead’s response.

• Chen Lin questioned two cultivators about the Sensing Bead, then sealed their divine souls, erased their memories, and hid them in a miniature space.
• Chen Lin tested the bead with his talent origin and innate power, then realized its strongest reaction came from his Soul-Destroying Finger.
• Chen Lin concluded Xiyue might be searching for him because of the Soul-Destroying Finger and suppressed his soul power to weaken the bead’s detection.
• Chen Lin shrank himself to about two feet tall and saw the Sensing Bead’s response weaken.

Chen Lin and Huangfu Qingrou reached the submarine Light Gate, where they watched cultivators collect strange light particles and learned that Immortal Superior Xiyue urgently needed them. Chen Lin stayed hidden while he studied the gate and considered testing his token and key.

• Chen Lin shrank his soul, disguised himself as a young boy, and flew with Huangfu Qingrou to the Light Gate.
• Chen Lin spotted Yang Qianxing, Baili Qingfeng, and a Divine Sword Sect woman discussing Immortal Superior Xiyue and the missing Lin Feiyu.
• A Void Refinement cultivator collected a light particle and left, confirming Chen Lin's understanding that only certain cultivators could collect them.
• Chen Lin recognized that the Light Gate's patterns matched his Round Token, but kept the token and key sealed while he waited for the other cultivators to leave.
• After a batch of light particles emerged, Lingyun asked the surrounding cultivators to collect them for Xiyue; Yang Qianxing and Baili Qingfeng agreed, while the woman said she could not help because she was not a God Favored One.