Recaps

Chen Lin defeated Guangzhenzi in a battle of destiny, claimed the treasures hidden beneath the lake, and learned from Guangzhenzi’s memories about his long rise and imprisonment in the Chessboard Scenario. Back in his fiefdom, Chen Lin examined the altered chess piece and Guangzhenzi’s relics, but remained uncertain who had created the matching Treasure Maps.

• Chen Lin absorbed the colored energy, returned to human form, and found a stone coffin buried deep beneath the lakebed.
• Chen Lin opened the coffin, confirmed Guangzhenzi had died when his Destiny Fish was destroyed, collected his belongings, and burned his body.
• Chen Lin learned from Guangzhenzi’s memories that they had belonged to the Five Directions Temple and that Guangzhenzi had been a martial nephew of Daoist Tianji.
• Chen Lin examined the chess piece and found it could form a golden chessboard-shaped net in his destiny river, though its power remained unclear.
• Chen Lin reviewed Guangzhenzi’s memories and discovered his rise to rank nine of the Void Realm, his failed attempt to reach the true realm, and his search for treasure in the Nightmare Realm.
• Chen Lin compared his Treasure Map with Guangzhenzi’s identical map, wondered who had made them, and examined Guangzhenzi’s sealed Bagua Mirror, a True Treasure from the Ancient Daoist Sect.

Chen Lin learned how Guangzhenzi had tried to use him to obtain a chess piece and enter the Colored Light Orb, then claimed Guangzhenzi’s treasures, including talismans that could help him weather tribulations. He returned to the Six Mysteries Sect, where Heng Hanshan greeted him and offered to take him to see the recovering Liu Rumian.

• Chen Lin learned that Guangzhenzi had been trapped in the Third Trial for ten thousand years and had schemed to use Chen Lin’s chess piece to enter the Colored Light Orb.
• Chen Lin examined Guangzhenzi’s treasures and selected a golden Heaven-Covering Talisman and two silver ones to help him face future tribulations.
• Chen Lin stored the treasures and Guangzhenzi’s Peerage Token, then returned to reality in the Six Mysteries Sect.
• Heng Hanshan greeted Chen Lin and invited him to call him Eldest Senior Brother.
• Heng Hanshan told Chen Lin that Liu Rumian was recovering in the Origin Pool and had asked him to bring Chen Lin to see her.

After spending nearly a year at the Six Mysteries Sect, Chen Lin learned that the route to the Wangyue Realm lay in the Five Elements Realm and reflected on how his choices shaped his fate. Liu Rumian recovered and confirmed that she intended to join the Vanguard Team to cross the Cage Array despite the risks.

• Chen Lin studied the Six Mysteries Sect’s texts, received Yue Tongtian’s guidance, and obtained a ray of space law light from the Bai Family Patriarch.
• The Seven Mysteries Heavenly Woman told Chen Lin that a teleportation formation on the Five Elements Platform led to the Wangyue Realm, and Chen Lin’s reflection on missed choices deepened his understanding of destiny.
• Liu Rumian recovered from her year in the Origin Pool and joked with Chen Lin and Fairy Yaochi about the rumors that he had visited every brothel flower in one night.
• Fairy Yaochi asked whether Liu Rumian planned to join the Vanguard Team, and Liu Rumian said she would risk the Cage Array because this cycle was predicted to be unusually weak and dangers were emerging in the Inner World.

Chen Lin learned that True Lord Jiuhuan had been a vanguard and continued concealing his identity while weighing which team to join. Back in Myriad Forms City, he tested the Chess Piece of Destiny and discovered it could reveal a person's changing destiny, then watched it move onto a chosen node.

• Liu Rumian said she planned to seek reality force in the Outer Realms, while Fairy Yaochi invited her to join her.
• Chen Lin discussed Prison-Suppressing Envoys and possible vanguards with Liu Rumian and Fairy Yaochi, learning that True Lord Jiuhuan had once been a vanguard.
• Chen Lin suspected Xiao Qingmo had recognized him at the auction, but decided to keep using Lin Xi's identity and consider joining True Lord Jiuhuan's team after meeting Marquis Jinguān.
• Chen Lin left the Six Mysteries Sect with Fairy Yaochi, returned to Myriad Forms City, and began testing the Chess Piece of Destiny on an elderly cultivator.
• Chen Lin found that the chess piece revealed shifting bright and dark nodes in the elderly cultivator's destiny river, then made it land on a chosen node.

Chen Lin tested the Chess Piece of Destiny and learned how it could guide or alter living beings’ fates, along with its risks and limits. He then used it against Master Yuan, placing its white side on a bright node and leaving the outcome unresolved.

• Chen Lin used the piece on a dangerous node in Zhao Qishan’s destiny river, watched it resolve the calamity, and later recovered the piece after Zhao Qishan passed through the node.
• Chen Lin learned that Zhao Qishan survived a yin soul storm at the Three Immortals Cavern Ruins after his old injury flared and he left his companions early.
• Chen Lin tested the piece on cultivators of different levels and determined that it could eliminate or stabilize opportunities and calamities, but its use consumed energy and risked backlash or detection.
• Chen Lin confirmed that the piece could be used without harming his own destiny river, then chose Master Yuan as his next target.
• Chen Lin observed Master Yuan’s destiny nodes at a Spirit Wine House and placed the piece, white side up, on a bright node before leaving.

After three years of preparation, Chen Lin’s chess piece guided Master Yuan into a fatal destiny node, and Chen Lin learned that Master Yuan had died refining an extraordinary pill. Chen Lin turned his attention to gathering the remaining Seven-Star Shining Sun chapters and preparing to visit White Cloud Pasture.

• Chen Lin reviewed his cultivation progress, his growing prayer grass, and his plans to strengthen himself before the Cage Array’s transition.
• Chen Lin watched Master Yuan’s destiny fish enter the dangerous node, where it struggled and vanished, causing Master Yuan’s destiny river to collapse and returning the chess piece to Chen Lin.
• Chen Lin learned that Anna had not returned and Nanmen Lingyue had not visited the Ocean Floor Ruins, then resolved to pursue the missing cultivation chapters and visit White Cloud Pasture.
• Chen Lin learned that Master Yuan had found a yin-yang twin birth flower and secretly refined an Attracting Heavens Pill to seek advancement to the True Realm.
• A Golden Ray descended when Master Yuan completed the pill and reduced him to flying ash.

Chen Lin learned that the White Jade Terrace had obtained the Monster Refining Chapter from the Myriad Demon Pagoda and asked Xu Wuye to help him acquire it. Xu Wuye agreed to seek her master's approval for an exchange, while Chen Lin prepared to enter White Cloud Pasture.

• Chen Lin asked Fairy Yaochi about Daoist Tianji, the node divination, and the Western Buddhist Sect, then learned that True-Realm Experts planned to take the passage if the divination succeeded.
• Chen Lin contacted Xu Wuye and asked whether the Myriad Demon Pagoda contained a Treasure Chest like his.
• Xu Wuye recognized the chest's Seven-Star Shining Sun dharmic formula and explained that the White Jade Terrace's core disciples alone could practice its Monster Refining Chapter.
• Chen Lin offered to exchange the God-Refining Chapter and promised not to share the Monster Refining Chapter with anyone else.
• Xu Wuye agreed to ask her master for permission and told Chen Lin to wait for her reply.

Chen Lin exchanged the God-Refining Chapter with Lou Dengjie for the original Soul Refining Chapter, memorized it, and learned that three other chapters had surfaced. After Xu Wuye left, Chen Lin decided to begin a trip he had been postponing.

• Xu Wuye told Chen Lin that Lou Dengjie refused to share the Monster Refining Chapter but offered to trade a copy of the Soul Refining Chapter for Chen Lin's God-Refining Chapter, and Chen Lin agreed.
• Xu Wuye warned Chen Lin to keep his cultivation of the Seven-Star Shining Sun Technique secret and told him that the Immortal Refining Chapter had also surfaced in imperfect copies.
• Chen Lin visited Fairytale Town, where Chen Tao showed him over a hundred Golden Nightmare Coins earned from five white-robed customers connected to Yiming, who had sought out Anna's cottage.
• Xu Wuye returned with the original page of the Soul Refining Chapter, which Chen Lin memorized before giving it back and reclaiming his God-Refining pages.
• Xu Wuye said the Monster Refining, Soul Refining, and Immortal Refining Chapters had surfaced, while the other three remained missing; after she left, Chen Lin reviewed the Soul Refining Chapter and summoned Grass to begin his trip.

Chen Lin returned to White Cloud Pasture and found it abandoned, then used Guangzhenzi's stone coffin to discover a way to change his physical body's location through his fiefdom. He forced open a route from the Minor Spirit Realm to the Lower Primal Domain and reached his old Ancient Cultivator Cave Abode, where his powers were heavily suppressed except for his Soul Force and the Cloak of Xikeli.

• Chen Lin found White Cloud Pasture deserted and, wary of the weakened node to the Minor Spirit Realm, returned to his fiefdom to prepare.
• Chen Lin had Long Han carry his physical body in Guangzhenzi's stone coffin and discovered that the coffin let him change his body's location in reality through the fiefdom.
• Chen Lin used a Pseudo-True Treasure-grade Realm-Breaking Talisman to open a route from the Minor Spirit Realm to an abandoned cave abode in the Tianluo Plane, then entered the Lower Primal Domain.
• Chen Lin recognized the cave abode as his former home and found that the Lower Primal Domain suppressed most of his powers, while his Soul Force and the Cloak of Xikeli remained unaffected.

Chen Lin explored the sealed halls around the Ancient Cultivator Cave Abode and tested which Nightmare Realm scenarios he could reach from the Lower Primal Domain. After breaking through several nested chambers, he entered another hall, where the guillotine mark on his wrist suddenly glowed and urged him to act.

• Chen Lin found that he could sense Lower Primal Domain scenarios but was blocked from Upper Primal Domain scenarios, and concluded that a Lower Primal Domain Peerage Retainer could help him move his physical body between domains.
• Chen Lin had Scholar open the final stone door, revealing a stone hall packed with statues and sealed without an exit.
• Chen Lin and Grass pierced the walls and discovered successive nested halls, finding that the stone essence weakened his connection to the Nightmare Realm.
• Grass could not damage the golden hall, so Chen Lin used the Mermaid Sword to bore through its wall and enter the next chamber with Grass and Scholar.
• Chen Lin's guillotine mark flared as soon as he stepped into the chamber, and he raised his broken saber defensively.

Chen Lin met Princess Gege Yun, learned the truth about mirror images, transcendence, and Betrayers, and fused with a Nian Kong Clone. After Gege Yun warned him about the Nightmare Law Controller and their future enmity, Chen Lin prepared to use a Realm-Breaking Talisman to enter the Lower Primal Domain.

• Princess Gege Yun appeared before Chen Lin, explained that the Monk was a Nian Kong Clone, and described mirror-image fusion and transcendence.
• Gege Yun explained how the Nightmare Realm Projection had changed and warned Chen Lin that Betrayers were powerful beings who had escaped the nightmare rules.
• Gege Yun gave Chen Lin the Nian Kong Clone, and Nian Kong agreed to the fusion while asking Chen Lin to spread Buddhist Dharma Seeds if he ever transcended the world.
• After the fusion, Gege Yun erased Fat Tiger’s mark and warned Chen Lin to conceal his Adjudicator Emblem and beware the Nightmare Law Controller.
• Chen Lin considered the danger his emblem posed to Hua Ruyu and the Blind Girl, then sent Grass into the Thunder God Sword and activated a Realm-Breaking Talisman to seek the Lower Primal Domain.

Chen Lin used a Realm-Breaking Talisman to return to the Tiancang Realm, where he learned that the Yucai Sect had changed greatly and that an unknown Supreme Elder had seized control. He revealed himself as the sect’s founder and went to confront the Supreme Elder, leaving with Feng Yuqing leading him inside.

• Chen Lin rejected a dangerous passage, used another Pseudo-True Treasure-grade Realm-Breaking Talisman, and arrived safely in the Tiancang Realm.
• Chen Lin learned that more than a thousand years had passed and that the Yucai Sect was now controlled by a mysterious Supreme Elder called the Xiaoyao Ancestor.
• Chen Lin decided to seek the Nightmare Realm Demon-Suppressing Temple to find Nian Kong’s clones and the Treasure Chest, and considered earning merit from the Nightmare Law Controller.
• Chen Lin heard that the Yucai Sect had been seized and hurried to its mountain gate, where Feng Yuqing and two disciples tried to stop him.
• Feng Yuqing recognized Chen Lin as the sect’s founder and welcomed him back, and Chen Lin flew up the mountain to confront the Supreme Elder.

Chen Lin returned to the Tiancang Realm and found Li Fuyao waiting for him at the Yucai Sect, where she had arranged for Xue Honglan to undergo secluded cultivation. Li Fuyao asked him to retrieve an item, and she revealed that she had predicted his return by tracing his mirror image in the realm before producing a monk as a sign of sincerity.

• Feng Yuqing told Chen Lin that his master had been summoned by the Supreme Elder and had been missing in a Minor Spirit Realm for two hundred years.
• Chen Lin challenged the sect’s mysterious occupant, and Li Fuyao emerged from the palace and greeted him as her lord.
• Li Fuyao explained that she had sent Xue Honglan into her Minor Spirit Realm for secluded cultivation to give her a chance to reach Void Refinement.
• Li Fuyao asked Chen Lin to retrieve an item and explained that she knew he would return because his mirror image existed in the Tiancang Realm.
• Li Fuyao activated an Isolation Array and produced a monk from a ball of white light.

Chen Lin refused Li Fuyao’s request to retrieve an item from another region of the Nightmare Realm, then accepted the Nian Kong Clone and learned how the Yucai Sect’s survivors had fared. He restored Chen Yueyao’s vitality and began merging with Nian Kong, who warned him to beware of Li Fuyao.

• Li Fuyao brought Chen Lin a captured Nian Kong Clone and asked him to retrieve an item from another Nightmare Realm region, but Chen Lin refused and accepted the clone instead.
• Chen Lin learned that Dong Yunqiu had disappeared, Yue Tianyi had been injured by Li Fuyao, and most of the people he knew were dead or gone.
• Chen Lin gave Feng Yuqing pills and treasures, then met Chen Yueyao, a descendant of the Chen Family whose acquired spiritual root had left her near death.
• Chen Lin used his power to restore Chen Yueyao’s youth and vitality, then went to a secluded mountain cave to merge with Nian Kong’s clone.
• Nian Kong agreed to cooperate, asked Chen Lin to spread Buddhist Dharma Seeds in other Main Worlds, and warned him that Li Fuyao could not be trusted.
• Chen Lin agreed to Nian Kong’s request and began the merger.

After fusing with the Nian Kong Clone, Chen Lin suspected Li Fuyao had captured Chen Ling'er and the others, so he prepared to take Li alive. When Li returned with Xue Honglan, Chen Lin attacked, but her powerful counterattack left him poisoned and fighting for his life.

• Chen Lin learned from the Nian Kong Clone's memories that Li Fuyao had visited the Immortal Realm and might know what happened to Chen Ling'er and the others.
• Chen Lin raised Chen Yueyao to Foundation Establishment, made her his Peerage Retainer, and brought his body back to the Tiancang Realm inside the Stone Coffin.
• After half a year, Li Fuyao returned to the Yucai Sect with Xue Honglan, who had reached the Void Refinement Realm.
• Chen Lin ambushed Li Fuyao with Death Gaze, but she resisted and launched a Tri-Color Arrow that destroyed the Flaming Giant Tiger, damaged the Immortal Refining Gourd, and broke his Golden Battle Armor.
• Grass controlled the Thunder God Sword to stop the arrow, but the sword shattered and Grass's fate became uncertain as Chen Lin was wounded.
• Li Fuyao triggered a Round Bead, and Xue Honglan spat a black object into Chen Lin that began corroding his body and soul; Chen Lin burned his inner star, released the Star Ring, and sent out a scroll and Scholar.

Chen Lin survived Li Fuyao’s apparent death but discovered that she had invaded his consciousness, and he waited for Death Gaze to recover so he could confront her. After revealing herself inside his destiny river, Li Fuyao offered him a chance to join forces, but Chen Lin rejected her and attacked with the Chess Piece of Destiny.

• The Heavenly Tribulation devastated the Yucai Sect and its surroundings as Chen Lin escaped inside the Stone Coffin while Scholar carried him away.
• Chen Lin ordered Scholar to search the flooded crater for Grass’s original body, then hid in a barren mountain as his consciousness steadily faded.
• Scholar failed to find Grass and recruited cultivators to search the crater while Chen Lin waited for Death Gaze to recover.
• Chen Lin used Death Gaze to expose Li Fuyao inside his destiny river, but the attack only weakened her, and she survived his Blade of Destiny.
• Li Fuyao struck Chen Lin, then offered to join forces to seize a great opportunity; Chen Lin refused and attacked her with the Chess Piece of Destiny.

Chen Lin killed Li Fuyao in the destiny river, then returned to find Grass missing and began a search that lasted for months. With no trace of her in the Great Sea, he set out for Wanhuagu Valley, hoping she had returned there.

• Chen Lin used a Destiny Treasure to kill Li Fuyao, survived the fate backlash, and watched her destiny river collapse.
• Chen Lin returned to the Yucai Sect and told Feng Yuqing that Xue Honglan was dead; the Scholar reported that he had found Grass’s small Trichromatic Short Bow but not Grass herself.
• Chen Lin ordered a bounty and a continent-wide search for Grass, promising a major cultivation increase, a Thousand-Lifespan Pill, and an additional wish to whoever found her or a fragment of her.
• After months of searching the Great Sea and its seabed, Chen Lin found no trace of Grass and decided to search Wanhuagu Valley.

After months of searching for Li Fuyao’s relics, Chen Lin entered the changed Gambling Fortune Lake Scenario to reach Wanhuagu Valley and see whether Grass had been resurrected. Despite the scenario suppressing his Destiny River, he forced his talent to work, rolled a three, and vanished toward Wanhuagu Valley.

• Chen Lin instructed Feng Yuqing and the others to widen the search for Li Fuyao’s relics, comforted the grieving Yue Tianyi, and ordered Chen Yueyao to remain in secluded cultivation.
• Chen Lin tested the Tri-Color Short Bow, checked his other treasures, and entered the Gambling Fortune Lake Scenario with the Fishing Rod.
• Golden Toad told Chen Lin that entry now cost one hundred Nightmare Coins and that the die’s results determined which area he entered; he also mentioned the Seven Sovereigns.
• Chen Lin found his Destiny River suppressed and spent more talent origin to manifest it, then followed a destiny line toward a node while dodging an Ash Ray.
• Chen Lin rolled a three, which sent him to Wanhuagu Valley, and disappeared in the die’s golden light.

Chen Lin returned to Wanhuagu Valley and learned its new Silver Grade rules required him to catch a beauty flower without using Nightmare Coins to escape failure. The Luxurious-Robed Woman gave him a Silver Fishing Rod and a withered leaf that might help resurrect Grass, and Chen Lin successfully made a catch at the first fishing platform.

• The Luxurious-Robed Woman told Chen Lin that the changed rules forced every entrant to fish and made each attempt harder, with no Nightmare Coin penalty exemption.
• Chen Lin learned that a dead beauty flower could not be resurrected directly, then gave the Luxurious-Robed Woman ten Golden Nightmare Coins.
• The Luxurious-Robed Woman gave Chen Lin a Silver Fishing Rod and a withered leaf from Grass, explaining that the leaf could sense her remaining aura and offer a chance at resurrection.
• Chen Lin chose the first fishing platform so he could leave quickly and search for Grass's lingering aura.
• Chen Lin used the Golden-Eyed Meng Giant Egg's destiny origin essence to manifest a destiny line, broke through a Formless Barrier with the Blade of Destiny, and used the Reverse Scale to pass the node.
• Chen Lin cast the Silver Fishing Rod and pulled a streak of golden light from the valley floor.

Chen Lin discovered a faint trace of Grass’s origin essence and brought it to Aisa for help. Aisa could not revive Grass, but she offered to condense an Origin Bead that would preserve Grass’s consciousness for at least a thousand years.

• Chen Lin fished up a golden flower that transformed into a martial artist named Jinlin, who insisted on serving him as his master.
• Jinlin sensed the aura of Wanhuagu Valley beneath the seabed, leading Chen Lin to find a tiny remnant of lightning that entered Grass’s withered leaf.
• Chen Lin realized his life force could not restore the leaf and concluded that Master Sagu or the Spirit Plant Guardian might be able to save Grass.
• Chen Lin brought the leaf to Aisa, whose life ability kept Grass’s remaining vitality from fading and could sustain it for about a year.
• Aisa agreed to condense an Origin Bead that could preserve Grass’s trace of consciousness for at least a thousand years.

Aisa condensed an Origin Orb for Chen Lin, and he spent the next two years searching for a way to save Grass while tending to his people. As Chen Lin weighed the danger of attending a divination with True Realm experts, Chen Yueyao reported that someone had turned in Li Fuyao’s bracelet.

• Aisa gave Chen Lin the Origin Orb at great cost, and he stored it with Grass’s withered leaf and an Innate Thunder Stone.
• Chen Lin made six-star Soul Steamed Buns for Aisa and Jinlin, and the food improved Jinlin’s spear techniques but had no visible effect on Aisa’s cultivation.
• Over two years, Feng Yuqing became Yucai Sect’s leader, Chen Yueyao condensed her Golden Core, and Chen Lin’s searches for Li Fuyao’s Relic and Master Sagu found no leads.
• Chen Lin worried that fate backlash from his confrontation with Li Fuyao might strike during his planned divination with Marquis Jinguān and other True Realm experts.
• Chen Yueyao appeared through Chen Lin’s Peerage Token and told him someone had turned in Li Fuyao’s bracelet.

Chen Lin verified that Li Fuyao’s bracelet contained a colored road guide and three colored nightmare coins, then arranged a bounty for a jade pendant before returning to the Upper Primal Domain. He secured access to a time-altering cultivation chamber from Xu Wuye, though he planned to attend Marquis Jinguān’s gathering first.

• Chen Lin examined Li Fuyao’s bracelet, confirmed it was genuine, and gave Huang Ying a scale containing Jinlin’s one-use strike after she asked for help killing Ancestor Qingyun.
• Chen Lin found an Earl peerage token, a mysterious painting, a colored road guide, and three colored nightmare coins in the bracelet; he confirmed the guide was higher grade than a Level 4 Gold Road Guide but refrained from testing the coins’ energy on it.
• Chen Lin ordered Chen Yueyao to have Feng Yuqing issue a plane-wide bounty for a jade pendant, promising Feng Yuqing advancement to the Dao Integration Realm if they found it.
• Chen Lin recruited several subordinates, returned to his fiefdom, and transferred his physical body with Leng Yue back to the Upper Primal Domain.
• Chen Lin asked Xu Wuye for a time-altering cultivation chamber to refine the Light of Space Law, and she offered to redeem a high-grade chamber for him with her Contribution Points.
• Chen Lin told Xu Wuye he would attend Marquis Jinguān’s gathering before traveling to the White Jade Terrace, and she agreed to meet him there afterward.

Chen Lin joined a divination team at the Divination Land to help locate the Cage Array, despite growing concern about the Seven-Star Array’s safety. As the array began drawing on his destiny force and talent origin, Tianji Daoist ordered Fairy Yaochi to transfer primordial yin qi to him mouth-to-mouth.

• Chen Lin arrived in Myriad Forms City and refused Fairy Yaochi’s invitation to join her Vanguard Squad, then went with her to meet True Lord Wuming and Yue Tongtian.
• True Lord Wuming used a Boundary-Breaking Disc to bring Chen Lin and the others to the Divination Land, where Chen Lin encountered Zhenyangzi and learned that Chen Ling'er had sent him a message.
• Tianji Daoist assembled five True Realm cultivators and fourteen lower-ranked cultivators to operate the Seven-Star Array, assigning Chen Lin and Fairy Yaochi to one of its Array Cores.
• Yue Tongtian questioned whether the divination would be safe, but Tianji Daoist admitted that he could not guarantee it and warned that they could not remain in the void for long.
• The cultivators channeled destiny force through the Array Cores while True Lord Jiuhuan opened a rift for higher-order energy, causing Chen Lin’s talent origin to slip from his control.
• Tianji Daoist ordered Chen Lin to keep channeling destiny force and Fairy Yaochi to transfer primordial yin qi to him mouth-to-mouth.

Chen Lin and Fairy Yaochi were trapped in the Seven-Star Array as Tianji Daoist and the others pushed ahead with their divination, sacrificing the array’s occupants. Chen Lin escaped into a Destiny Scenario with Fairy Yaochi, where he recognized a well connected to a frog he had believed he destroyed.

• Fairy Yaochi transferred her primordial yin qi to Chen Lin, helping him endure the energy pouring into the Seven-Star Array.
• True Lord Jiuhuan widened the Space Passage, and the array cores began devouring the occupants’ Destiny Origin Essence; two cultivators were consumed.
• Tianji Daoist chose to continue the divination despite Yue Tongtian’s warning, while Chen Lin used Death Gaze to weaken the array spirit and escaped with Fairy Yaochi using a Colored Road Guide.
• A crowned giant frog emerged from the Space Passage and unleashed a devouring force on those left behind.
• Chen Lin failed to use his Peerage Token in the Destiny Scenario, then recognized its well and river as familiar; when he approached the well, it vanished.

Chen Lin and Fairy Yaochi explored a strange scenario where a river appeared to reflect the River of Destiny, then were forced into its waters. Chen Lin became a destiny fish and defended himself from an attacker before spotting a beautiful fish approaching.

• Chen Lin and Fairy Yaochi searched the scenario after the well disappeared, finding only a strange river and no way out through the surrounding dimness.
• Chen Lin suspected the river was a projection of the destiny river and tested whether Fairy Yaochi could sense his presence through his talent ability.
• The river grew turbulent and spatial pressure intensified, forcing Chen Lin to grab Fairy Yaochi and jump into the water.
• Chen Lin transformed into a destiny fish among others swimming upstream, dodged an attack, and killed his assailant with a Blade of Destiny.
• Chen Lin saw a particularly beautiful fish swimming toward him from the retreating shoal.