Recaps

Chen Lin and Gu Chenxuan swore brotherhood with Shen Anning, then witnessed the Holy Land open and entered through its Light Gate. Chen Lin noticed Zhou Ximei had no entry talisman, while Shen Anning did, and planned to seek compensation from his new sworn sister for the Tetrahedron Cube.

• Gu Chenxuan told Chen Lin that Yesterday Manor drifted through the void and revealed he had saved Chen Lin from the River of Destiny.
• Chen Lin and Gu Chenxuan agreed to become sworn brothers, and Shen Anning joined their ceremony after Gu Chenxuan welcomed her.
• The three swore brotherhood before the Holy Pagoda, exchanged blood wine, and saw the pagoda illuminate as the Holy Land opened.
• The Tower Spirit appeared above the pagoda, and the gathered powerful figures bowed to her before a Light Gate formed.
• Chen Lin saw that Zhou Ximei lacked an entry talisman and followed Gu Chenxuan and Shen Anning through the Light Gate.

Chen Lin entered the Holy Pagoda’s red side and found himself in a mortal-world trial where he had no powers or money. He earned the Fat Boss’s help by making popular Mother Steamed Buns, attracting the attention of Zhao Changgui, who invited him to the Drunken Immortal Pavilion.

• Shen Wenling chose the green side of the pagoda with Shen Anning, Gu Chenxuan chose orange, and Chen Lin entered through red.
• Chen Lin arrived on a bustling street, discovered he had become a mortal, and passed a trial by ignoring the brothels along the way.
• Chen Lin learned that the next trial involved the Seven Famous Wines but found he could not pay for wine or exchange his possessions for local copper coins.
• Chen Lin persuaded the Fat Boss to partner with him and made Mother Steamed Buns that brought the Fat Boss to tears.
• The Fat Boss’s wife reported that Zhao Changgui had bought the buns, and Zhao invited Chen Lin to visit the Drunken Immortal Pavilion.

Chen Lin explored the Holy Pagoda’s first four layers, trading recipes and sampling wines, gambling, and food, but found their effects difficult to reproduce. He entered the fifth layer and discovered he had become a destiny fish in the River of Destiny, where the true trial began.

• Chen Lin raised the price of Mother Steamed Buns, then sampled Drunken God Brew at the Liu Family Tavern and felt his Primordial Spirit stir.
• Chen Lin met Qiu Mengdie and traded the Mother Steamed Bun recipe for the Drunken God Brew recipe, but neither could explain how to reproduce their infused artistic conceptions.
• Chen Lin visited the Cure Sorrows Tavern and five other taverns, sampled their wines, and traded for their preparation methods before leaving the layer.
• Chen Lin gambled in the next layer, lost most of his remaining copper coins, and won a jade carving said to attract good fortune and ward off misfortune.
• Chen Lin sampled food in the fourth layer, learned that its effects depended on the maker’s skill, and proceeded to the next layer.
• Chen Lin entered the River of Destiny as a destiny fish and realized that the pagoda’s true trial had begun.

Chen Lin found that he could use only the Chess Piece of Destiny, then lost consciousness after entering a destiny-line node. He awoke in the apparent life of a boy whose family had been devastated by cultivators, and the chapter ended as the boy found an object in the snow.

• Chen Lin confirmed that he could manifest the Chess Piece of Destiny but could use none of his other abilities.
• Chen Lin entered a destiny-line node and lost consciousness.
• An eleven- or twelve-year-old boy stayed home with his sick younger sister while their father went out to gather firewood in a snowstorm.
• When their father failed to return, the boy left to search for him, remembering that cultivators had burned the village’s forests and killed his mother.
• The boy stopped in the snow and pulled an object from his footprint.

Chen Lin awakened inside an illusion as a mortal boy whose village had been destroyed by cultivators, then tried to use winemaking to uncover the trial’s objective. After his Immortal-Slaying Brew exposed a cultivator possessing his sister, the intruder attacked Chen Lin and vanished after entering the space between his eyebrows.

• Chen Lin recovered his memories while inhabiting the boy’s body, found his sister Xiaohong and the injured hunter Luda among the village’s survivors, and moved with them into a cave.
• Chen Lin spent three months experimenting with wine, hoping to gain the power to escape the illusion, while Luda told him that colorful moonlight reflected in water could induce a wondrous state.
• Under the reflected moonlight, Chen Lin entered that state and brewed wine infused with hatred for cultivators, which he suspected might harm them.
• Luda drank the wine without effect, but Xiaohong screamed and collapsed after drinking it, revealing that a cultivator had possessed her.
• A shadow emerged from Xiaohong and lunged at Chen Lin; he entered the brewing state, and the shadow plunged into the space between his eyebrows before screaming and falling silent.

Chen Lin completed the Holy Pagoda’s trials, gained a powerful Destiny Treasure, and met a figure who revealed herself as Niuniu’s projection. After the pagoda vanished and Four Directions City began collapsing, Chen Lin escaped with a Boarding Credential for the Iron Ship Exchange Meeting.

• Chen Lin passed the destiny-river nodes, claimed a clone-type Destiny Treasure, and answered three questions to meet the Tower Spirit, who was Niuniu in another form.
• Niuniu’s projection told Chen Lin to protect the Mermaid Sword, not try to rescue her, and leave as many traces of himself in the world as possible before vanishing.
• The Holy Pagoda disappeared, and cracks spread through Four Directions City as its inhabitants panicked over the city’s collapse.
• Chen Lin reunited with Gu Chenxuan and Shen Anning, who suspected one another of causing the pagoda’s disappearance before Gu Chenxuan left for the Iron Ship Exchange Meeting.
• Shen Anning gave Chen Lin a Boarding Credential for the Iron Ship Exchange Meeting and warned him to escape, so he entered a nearby rift.

Chen Lin settled in a mountain forest in the Void Realm after escaping Four Directions City and examined the clues and treasures Niuniu had left him. He put away the items that needed more moonlight or further investigation, including a pendant that could grant an unorthodox divine ability.

• Chen Lin confirmed he was still in the Void Realm, carved out a cave in a mountain, and set up a formation.
• Chen Lin considered whether Niuniu was a reincarnated cultivator, a traveler from the future, or someone reborn in the past, but stopped guessing about her motives.
• Chen Lin examined Niuniu's two warm tears and the Mermaid Sword, sensing that the tears could unlock the sword's power and save his life.
• Chen Lin tested a fan linked to Li Fuyao, which released a powerful sword attack before its luster dimmed, suggesting it had limited uses.
• Chen Lin examined the White Jade Pipe and learned it needed years of moonlight absorption before it could summon a powerful divine being.
• Chen Lin found a living dark-gold pattern inside a jade pendant and concluded that exposing it to moonlight could let him refine it into an unorthodox divine ability.

Chen Lin used the soul-restoring grass on Grass’s withered leaf, restoring her vitality and giving him hope that she could live again. He celebrated, then examined the little fish clone and learned how it could enhance his talent ability.

• Chen Lin set aside the Jade Pendant and used the soul-restoring grass on Grass’s withered leaf, causing her origin essence to stir and faint lightning to appear.
• Chen Lin realized Grass had regained her vitality and carefully returned her leaf to its container before celebrating with Drunken God Brew.
• Chen Lin compared his wine with the mortal version of the Seven Famous Wines and found its flavor and subtle benefits superior, though he still could not brew them.
• Chen Lin summoned the little fish clone and tested its abilities, learning to switch his senses between the two fish, perceive through both, choose which remained in the destiny river, and merge them.
• Chen Lin mastered the clone’s functions and discovered that merging the fish strengthened his talent ability, but it did not help him make the Seven Famous Wines.

After reviewing his gains, Chen Lin explored a world without human inhabitants and realized he had found an unclaimed primal interface. He settled in to cultivate while sending two intelligent yaoguai to search for a way out.

• Chen Lin concluded that he would focus on other wine-making attempts for now, examined the Iron Ship Exchange Meeting token, and spent several months digesting his gains.
• Chen Lin explored the surrounding region and found only low-level yaoguai, along with a Law Origin Mid-Stage black bear and fox, whom he spared and taught.
• The black bear brought Chen Lin a large-scaled fish, whose flavor delighted him and whose power strengthened his soul, so Chen Lin ordered the bear to search for more.
• The white fox reported that the sea held no humans, and Chen Lin realized he had discovered a naturally formed, unclaimed primal interface.
• Chen Lin ordered the fox to search for unusual places and began building an immortal cave in the continent's mountains so he could cultivate.

After a hundred years in seclusion, Chen Lin prepared to investigate spatial anomalies discovered by White Fox and Big Black Bear. A Jade Talisman suddenly shattered, and he rushed to an island where he found White Fox in fox form beneath a hovering Black Silhouette.

• Chen Lin examined the charged pipe but chose not to summon anything, then received a strange fruit from Big Black Bear that had awakened the bear's intelligence.
• White Fox achieved form transformation, received a cultivation technique from Chen Lin, chose the name White Moonlight, and was told to search for spatial anomalies.
• Chen Lin stored the fruit and returned to cultivation, while Big Black Bear continued searching for large-scaled fish.
• A hundred years later, Chen Lin found a tiny green sprout emerging from Grass's withered leaf and decided to inspect the spatial anomalies.
• A Jade Talisman at Chen Lin's waist shattered, and he rushed to an island where White Fox had reverted to fox form as a Black Silhouette hovered above her.

Chen Lin summoned a powerful being from his pipe to defeat Xiao Changjiu, who had attacked him in the Kaiyuan Secret Realm. After the being killed Xiao Changjiu, it demanded payment, and Chen Lin offered food and wine before it departed.

• Chen Lin claimed to be the master of the Kaiyuan Secret Realm and tried to intimidate Xiao Changjiu, but Xiao Changjiu revealed he knew Chen Lin had arrived only a hundred years earlier.
• Xiao Changjiu attacked Chen Lin with a Black Light Sword, and Chen Lin used Death Gaze to power the Eye of Destruction but could not overcome the attack.
• A dark red palm emerged from Chen Lin's pipe, scattered Xiao Changjiu's attacks, and killed him after he invoked the Red Leaf mark.
• The summoned being demanded payment from Chen Lin, who offered Mother Steamed Bun, Soul Steamed Bun, Seven Famous Wines, and a pot of Immortal-Slaying Brew.
• The summoned being took Chen Lin's offerings and warned him to prepare payment before summoning it again, then vanished with the smoke.

After Xiao Changjiu’s death, Chen Lin recovered his belongings and found valuable treasures and starlight stones that could advance his Seven-Star Shining Sun cultivation. He left the Immortal Cave with a path toward the Fourth Star’s Star Core, but remained concerned that he still lacked two cultivation formulas and faced a dangerous route to the True Realm.

• Chen Lin confirmed White Fox’s cultivation remained intact, promised to restore her damaged soul, and searched the plane for how Xiao Changjiu had entered.
• Chen Lin refined soul-restoring pills for White Fox, then examined Xiao Changjiu’s possessions and found several powerful items he could not activate.
• After a month, Chen Lin broke Xiao Changjiu’s mark on the red leaf Storage Bag and discovered rare herbs, cultivation texts, Precious Tools, and dozens of starlight stones inside.
• Chen Lin realized the starlight stones could help him condense the Fourth Star’s Star Core, but he still lacked the Buddha Refining Chapter and Mortal Refining Chapter.
• Chen Lin considered the dangers of returning to the Inner World and attempting the True Realm breakthrough, then decided to focus on strengthening his foundation for now.

Chen Lin studied Xiao Changjiu’s belongings, learned that Red Leaf Plain lay in the Kan Domain, and continued investigating the Inner World’s sealing marks and the Imperial Decree. He forcibly refined Zhou Ximei’s jade talisman and gained the night-bound divine ability Firefly.

• Chen Lin found records identifying Red Leaf Plain as part of the Kan Domain and reflected on how smoothly he had escaped the Kun Domain.
• Chen Lin realized that Mother Steamed Buns had been loosening the sealing mark and allowing him to use traces of his Inner World energies.
• Chen Lin considered the Imperial Decree and decided he would not seek it, despite its potential to change the balance between the Inner and Outer Worlds.
• Chen Lin placed Zhou Ximei’s jade talisman in moonlight, then used Death Gaze when he could not activate its runic inscription.
• Chen Lin broke down the inscription’s consciousness, refined it into himself, and learned that the divine ability was called Firefly and worked only without sunlight.

Chen Lin tested the Firefly Divine Ability and found it could reach the true realm level under strong moonlight, then spent ten years cultivating his fourth star. Xiong Mo discovered a hidden space vortex beneath the seabed and led Chen Lin to it.

• Chen Lin tested the Firefly Divine Ability against yaoguai and found it reached Void Realm Great Perfection normally and the true realm level under abundant moonlight.
• Chen Lin entered seclusion for ten years and found that cultivating his fourth star required far more energy than expected, so he considered preparing tribulation treasures.
• Xiong Mo told Chen Lin he had found a likely space node and guided him to a location beneath the northern sea.
• Xiong Mo opened a stone enclosure, revealing a slowly turning, fist-sized space vortex.

Chen Lin found a space node and sent Xiong Mo through it, then followed and emerged in a strange river suspended in the void. After a silent fish nearly struck him, Chen Lin sensed his body disintegrating and ended the chapter searching for an explanation.

• Chen Lin found a weak space vortex and persuaded Xiong Mo to scout the other side, where Xiong Mo reported finding a river.
• Chen Lin searched Xiong Mo’s memories, erased his recent recollections, and sent him back to the cave dwelling with White Fox.
• Chen Lin set up defensive formations around the space node and entered it, emerging underwater in a place without gravity.
• Chen Lin swam to the surface and discovered the river floated in the void, stretching toward a vast azure Eternal Star.
• A silent gray fish nearly hit Chen Lin, and his talent ability warned him to evade.
• Chen Lin flew away from the river but soon sensed his body disintegrating faster, though he could find no cause.

Chen Lin survived a disintegrating force in the Heaven-Connecting River by eating Mother Steamed Buns, but learned that Xiong Mo had vanished to the same danger. After returning to the Void Realm, he encountered a group led by a blue-robed woman who proposed a trade.

• Chen Lin ate a basket of Mother Steamed Buns and waited until the sensation of disintegration stopped.
• Chen Lin returned through the hidden river node and learned from White Fox that Xiong Mo had vanished after his body began fading.
• Chen Lin found Xiong Mo’s immortal cave empty and concluded that the disintegrating force had erased him and his belongings.
• Chen Lin warned White Fox to avoid Xiong Mo’s cave, then returned to the Void Realm through the seabed node.
• A blue-robed woman approached Chen Lin with several companions and asked whether he would trade.

Chen Lin learned about the Heaven-Connecting River, its valuable finger sand, and the deadly Nihility Fish, then entered the river to test his defenses and gather treasure. Li Xiaoping and her disciples recognized him from afar as he went in.

• Chen Lin refused Li Xiaoping’s request to trade for finger sand, gave her the name Chen Kaiyuan, and then asked other cultivators about the river.
• Mu Moke and his wife told Chen Lin they had no finger sand or suitable gathering treasure, and they speculated about his identity after he left.
• After questioning more than a dozen groups, Chen Lin learned that finger sand aided cultivation but could dissolve matter, while invisible Nihility Fish posed an even greater danger.
• Chen Lin reviewed how Mother Steamed Bun and his innate talent could protect him, examined his Crystal Silk Net, and decided to gather finger sand in the river.
• Chen Lin plunged into the Heaven-Connecting River, and Li Xiaoping and her disciples watched from afar, recognizing him and wondering which faction he belonged to.

Chen Lin collected about two thousand grains of finger sand from the Heaven-Connecting River and met Li Xiaoping to negotiate a trade. Just as he was about to accept her starlight stone, Saili offered more, leaving Chen Lin caught between the competing buyers.

• Chen Lin cautiously entered the Heaven-Connecting River, gathered about two thousand grains of finger sand, and returned safely to the surface.
• Chen Lin met Li Xiaoping, who asked to buy one thousand grains and offered a large piece of starlight stone.
• Saili of the Horned Eye Clan interrupted their negotiation and offered two pieces of starlight stone for Chen Lin's finger sand.
• Li Xiaoping reminded Chen Lin that he had already agreed to trade with her.

Chen Lin traded finger sand with Saili and Li Xiaoping, then accepted Li Xiaoping's offer to guide him to the West Courtyard Shen Clan. He met Shen Anning at the clan's secret realm and prepared to enter a Void Passage with her.

• Chen Lin divided two thousand grains of finger sand between Li Xiaoping and Saili, rejecting Saili's offer to buy them all and identifying himself as Chen Kaiyuan of the Kaiyuan Sect.
• Li Xiaoping warned Chen Lin that the Horn-Eye Clan was powerful, then offered to guide him to the West Courtyard Shen Clan after learning he knew the faction.
• Li Xiaoping used her Flying Boat to traverse the void with Chen Lin and her three disciples, reaching the entrance to the Shen Clan's secret realm.
• Chen Lin told the gatekeepers he was Shen Anning's sworn Second Brother and had come to visit Shen Wenling, and Shen Anning came out to greet him while looking for Gu Chenxuan.
• Shen Anning led Chen Lin and Li Xiaoping through the secret realm and warned Chen Lin not to resist the spatial fluctuations as they approached a Void Passage.

Chen Lin reunited with Shen Anning at the Shen Clan headquarters and gave her a basket of powerful steamed buns. He asked her about the Iron Ship Exchange Meeting and the Inner World, and she dismissed the Inner World as a worthless illusion, leaving him questioning her judgment.

• Chen Lin arrived at the Shen Clan headquarters with Shen Anning, while Li Xiaoping went to find Shen Yunxiao at the Sword Washing Pavilion.
• Shen Anning told Chen Lin that she had been forced to return to the Kan Domain and had reached the Void Realm in less than a hundred years of secluded cultivation.
• Chen Lin gave Shen Anning steamed buns he had made, and she praised them and accepted several baskets to share with the Ancestor.
• Chen Lin asked Shen Anning about the Iron Ship Exchange Meeting, and she invited him to her courtyard after suspecting he was from the Inner World.
• Chen Lin asked Shen Anning about the True King's Manor and the Inner World, and she said Void Realm cultivators regarded the Inner World as a low-grade illusion with no value.

Chen Lin learned from Shen Anning about the Purple Emperor’s true role in sealing the Inner World and the state of the Void Realm, then left the Shen Family Residence for the Heaven-Connecting River. He planned to attend the Iron Ship Exchange Meeting and began gathering finger sand to prepare for it.

• Shen Anning told Chen Lin that the Purple Emperor had summoned a bizarre creature to pursue a breakthrough, then sealed it in the Rainbow Realm to preserve his chance of survival.
• Shen Anning explained that Void factions still reinforced the Cage Array and advised Chen Lin to conceal his Inner World origins; she also dismissed the Imperial Decree as a fabrication and described the mysterious Demon-Suppressing Temple and its novice monk Nianshan.
• Chen Lin learned about the Iron Ship Exchange Meeting and received Shen Anning’s recipe for soul steamed buns before leaving the Shen Family Residence with advanced formations.
• Chen Lin traveled for more than three months to the Heaven-Connecting River, encountering and defeating a void beast along the way.
• Chen Lin decided to attend the next Iron Ship Exchange Meeting and collect finger sand for trade, choosing not to risk hunting Nihility Fish.
• Chen Lin took out a Crystal Silk Net and flew into the Heaven-Connecting River to gather finger sand.

Chen Lin was attacked in the Heaven-Connecting River by a powerful scarlet figure, but the Pipe’s Superior Deity killed the intruder and gave Chen Lin a divine seed. The danger passed, though Chen Lin suspected his plane and his fate were entangled with hidden forces.

• Chen Lin gathered finger sand, inspected the hidden Space Node, and considered how to avoid revealing its location.
• A red-light attacker ambushed Chen Lin, so he fled through the node into his plane and summoned the Superior Deity with the Pipe.
• The scarlet figure recognized the Superior Deity as the Lord Main God and begged for mercy, but the deity killed him and left behind a Storage Bag.
• The Superior Deity said blood spirits prevented further manifestations in this world, gave Chen Lin a divine seed, and requested Immortal-Slaying Brew as payment.
• Chen Lin gave the deity three jars of brew, wondered who had arranged the Pipe’s appearance, and caught the divine seed.

Chen Lin secured the primal interface, established the Kaiyuan Grotto-Heaven, and recruited local yaoguai to help manage it. After discovering valuable supplies among the Blood Spirit clone’s belongings, he began refining the divine servant seed with his own blood to prevent it from betraying him.

• Chen Lin used the Bagua Mirror, Armor-Piercing Shuttle, and Eternal Crystal as cores to build a grand formation protecting the space node.
• Chen Lin named the plane the Kaiyuan Grotto-Heaven, appointed White Fox as Enforcing Elder, and gave her a fox cultivation technique.
• White Fox presented more than a dozen yaoguai, and Chen Lin marked them as servants, awakened their intelligence, imparted knowledge, and gave them names.
• Chen Lin found three golden Silkworm Bottles in the Wine Pot Pendant, including two containing Nihility Fish, and discovered dozens of full Silkworm Bottles and Crystal Silk Nets in the Storage Bag.
• Chen Lin learned how to nurture the divine servant seed and began refining it with his natal essence blood so the servant would be unable to betray him.

Chen Lin prepared a divine servant, cultivated for ten years, and finally joined the Iron Ship Exchange Meeting when his Iron Shard activated. After failing to find his Inner World acquaintances, he asked Gu Chenxuan for help, and Gu Chenxuan publicly offered a reward for information about them.

• Chen Lin completed the blood talismans, planted the divine seed on the continent’s highest peak, and arranged for White Fox to feed it.
• Chen Lin spent ten years cultivating the Fourth Star and resolved to seek a powerful fire-attribute treasure to help ignite its Star Core.
• When the Iron Shard lit up, Chen Lin teleported to the Iron Ship and found himself among cultivators at the exchange meeting.
• Chen Lin examined the Iron Ship and his suppressed abilities, then searched the crowd for Gu Chenxuan, Shen Anning, and familiar people from the Inner World.
• Gu Chenxuan offered to help Chen Lin find his Inner World friends, then called out to the meeting and promised a reward to anyone with information about them.

Chen Lin reunited with Gu Chenxuan and Shen Anning aboard the trading ship, where Gu Chenxuan’s wine helped ease the suppression on Chen Lin’s innate power. Chen Lin then searched for rare treasures and began negotiating with Elder Jinxuan for a powerful strange fire, but the chapter ended before they reached a deal.

• Gu Chenxuan publicly searched for Inner World cultivators, drawing attention to Chen Lin, before reuniting with Shen Anning aboard the Iron Ship.
• Gu Chenxuan shared All Things Intoxicated with Chen Lin and Shen Anning, and the wine stirred Chen Lin’s innate law origin and weakened the Inner World Brand’s suppression.
• Chen Lin asked Gu Chenxuan how he had entered Fairytale Town, learned he had used a Colored Road Guide, and declined to borrow it.
• Chen Lin searched the trading convention for needed treasures, acquired some starlight stone, and asked Shen Anning for help finding a seller of strange fire.
• Chen Lin offered Elder Jinxuan a Nihility Fish for a strange fire, and Elder Jinxuan presented a replica of the Ancient Buddha Cyan Lamp, demanding at least two Nihility Fish plus the Golden Silkworm Bottle.