Recaps

Chen Lin learned that the Crape Myrtle Palace was a supreme treasure tied to the flawed Heavenly Dao, the Cage Array, and his own status as a prison-suppressing envoy, but he refused Mingyue Shuanghua’s offer to become a Hall Master. He then headed to the Rainbow Grand Ceremony and met Shen Anning, who reacted strangely to the token of their new sworn brother.

• Mingyue Shuanghua told Chen Lin that the Crape Myrtle Palace could help Rainbow Realm cultivators ascend to eternity and revealed her struggle with the Purple Emperor and Hong Tingzhen for control of it.
• Mingyue Shuanghua explained that the Purple Emperor had summoned an evil demon from the Abyss, and she confirmed the Silver Fairy was alive in the Inner World while discussing the Cage Array’s collapse and the Purple Emperor’s control object.
• Chen Lin told Mingyue Shuanghua about the notes describing the Dream Pursuer and a key that could open the Cage Array; she concluded that the Purple Emperor had achieved his original goal but was too late.
• Chen Lin refused the Soul Suppressing Hall Master position, was sent out of the Crape Myrtle Palace’s territory, and decided to bring his associates from the Inner World to the Kaiyuan Realm.
• Chen Lin met Shen Anning near the rainbow building, gave her the token of their new sworn brother, and saw her become startled and suspicious when she recognized its design.

Chen Lin rejected the Taishi Lineage’s offer to trade resources and a Great Primordial Pill for the Hundred-Feather Crown and Tiangang Spear, then recognized that the lineage remained a serious threat. He returned to the Left Alliance’s territory with Huangfu Qingrou and another woman and decided he would have to seek a solution in the Nightmare Realm.

• Chen Lin gave Shen Anning a token for Young Master Bai and offered to take her to a Nightmare Realm scenario where a spring could improve her chances of reaching the true realm.
• Chen Lin urged Shen Anning to visit Young Master Bai, then examined the Black Little Sword and lamented that the Gray Ring still had not produced any missions.
• Sun Changzu of the Taiqing Sun Lineage met Chen Lin and offered an apology on behalf of the Taishi Lineage, along with resources and a Great Primordial Pill in exchange for the Hundred-Feather Crown and Tiangang Spear.
• Chen Lin refused the exchange, and Sun Changzu told the Taishi Lineage’s new patriarch that Chen Lin had no intention of reconciling; the patriarch vowed to pursue an advanced Nihility Fish and later confront Chen Lin.
• Chen Lin concluded the Taishi Lineage was testing him and would seek revenge, then returned to the Left Alliance’s territory with Huangfu Qingrou and another woman to plan a response.
• Chen Lin realized that finding help in the Reality Realm would be difficult and decided to seek a solution in the Nightmare Realm.

Chen Lin reentered the Star-Plucking Clan scenario to search for divine crystals and investigate its connection to 1314, but collecting the crystals trapped him in a new mission. After discovering that the statues were bound by energy chains and that attacking one triggered a deadly backlash, he was left trying to determine how to free them.

• Chen Lin entered the Star-Plucking Clan scenario, found that he could initially leave freely, and flew down through the mist to inspect the statues below the giant palm.
• Chen Lin landed among the statues and collected more than twenty-two thousand Divine Crystals scattered across the area.
• Chen Lin discovered that he could no longer leave or pass through the mist, and concluded that collecting the crystals had triggered a new mission.
• Chen Lin examined the statues and found patterns resembling energy chains, then tested whether he could destroy one by striking its palm with the Severing Affection Saber.
• The statue’s backlash nearly injured Chen Lin, but the Heaven-Swallowing Golden Toad helped shield him; Chen Lin concluded that destroying the statues was not the solution and began considering how to save them.

Chen Lin awakened Gu Huang long enough to receive a Star-Plucking Token, then learned to use it to free and command the Star-Plucking Clan. He tested the token’s power with Mohatu and discovered that commanding the giants consumed Divine Crystals at an enormous rate, before turning his attention to four colossal statues.

• Chen Lin called out that the flowers on Qishan had bloomed, awakening Gu Huang, who asked for a Star Core and then broke free of one chain long enough to give Chen Lin a flower and a token.
• Chen Lin found that the token responded to a fragment of the shattered Crystal Stone, which transformed it into a Star-Plucking Token and revealed its ability to command the clan.
• Chen Lin spent nearly a hundred Divine Crystals to activate an ordinary statue’s star, freeing Mohatu, who swore allegiance and said he could enter the token and travel with Chen Lin.
• Chen Lin tested Mohatu in combat and saw the warrior’s spear nearly overwhelm him before the Hundred-Feather Crown stopped it.
• Chen Lin discovered that Mohatu’s single thrust consumed about fifty Brilliant Divine Crystals, then looked toward four enormous statues for his next test.

Chen Lin summoned Gu Qing from the Star-Plucking Token and learned that Gu Huang had refused to submit to a mysterious being who controlled advancement to the dominator realm. After warning Jin Ruhua that the Taishi Lineage might target him, Chen Lin proposed striking first, but she cautioned him against attacking the Secluded Families in their grotto-heavens.

• Chen Lin tested the statues’ summoning costs, then spent more than nine thousand Divine Crystals to summon Gu Qing, who said he could reach the upper eternal stage despite the seal.
• Gu Qing told Chen Lin that his brother Gu Huang had not reached the dominator realm because he refused to submit to a mysterious existence, and explained that the summoned beings continually consumed the power of brilliance.
• Chen Lin returned from the Nightmare Realm, gave Huangfu Qingrou samples to test with her devouring ability, and went to speak with Jin Ruhua.
• Chen Lin told Jin Ruhua that he had rejected the Taishi Lineage’s offer to trade for the Hundred-Feather Crown and Tiangang Spear, and that Sun Changzu of the Taiqing Sun Clan had approached him on their behalf.
• Chen Lin proposed attacking the Taishi Lineage before its Eternal Ancestor revived, but Jin Ruhua warned that the Secluded Families’ Eternal Experts might still move within their grotto-heavens and advised waiting until they emerged.

Chen Lin sought Jin Ruhua’s help locating the Taishi Lineage’s hidden Grotto-Heaven, then returned to the Sword Realm to settle an old commission and visit Lin Qingyu. After delivering Gu Huang’s message to Sword Sect Master Xiaoling, he learned that the Sword Woman was closing the plane and that he would have to leave.

• Chen Lin asked Jin Ruhua to find the Taishi Lineage’s Grotto-Heaven, and she agreed to seek her master’s help and report back in about ten days.
• Chen Lin returned Ye Sanhuan’s commission medium, learned she was dying after the Sword Woman punished her, and accepted her lineage’s necklace after promising to help her clan if he encountered its members.
• Chen Lin left Sanhuan City without visiting Kaiyuan City, spent two days with Lin Qingyu in Center City, and then went to Sword Sect Master Xiaoling.
• Chen Lin relayed Gu Huang’s message and gave Sword Sect Master Xiaoling the White Little Flower; in return, he asked Xiaoling to infuse nine Intentless Swords with Sword Will.
• When Chen Lin asked who had to submit, the Sword Woman revealed herself and announced that she was closing the plane, ordering him to leave as soon as possible.

Sword Woman warned Chen Lin that he had little time left and gave him a powerful sword will before sealing the Sword Realm. Back in Rainbow City, Chen Lin planned his next steps and heard Ouyang Ye’s offer to trade five Colored Nightmare Coins for the Heaven-Swallowing Golden Toad.

• Sword Woman told Chen Lin that everyone in the Sword Realm except Outsiders was her clone, then gave him the Intentless Sword imbued with her sword will and sent him back to his immortal cave.
• Chen Lin connected Sword Woman’s warning to Rainbow Era 1314, resolved to prepare for the danger, and considered dealing with the Taishi Lineage before traveling to the Inner World.
• Chen Lin tested the Intentless Sword with Death Sword Will and decided to save it for a life-threatening situation.
• Shen Anning told Chen Lin that White Bird had cured her with a Ten-Thousand Nirvana Pill and taught her a method to ascend to the True Realm; she still wanted to enter Chen Lin’s scenario after preparing.
• Chen Lin agreed to meet Ouyang Ye, who apologized for his past disrespect and offered five Colored Nightmare Coins in exchange for the Heaven-Swallowing Golden Toad.

Chen Lin tried to lure Ouyang Ye into the Star-Plucking Clan scenario so he could seize the Heaven-Swallowing Golden Toad’s secrets and Ouyang Ye’s treasures, but Ouyang sent successive groups of elderly cultivators instead. As Chen Lin prepared new demands for the treasure, Gu Qing warned him that Ouyang Ye—or the person Chen Lin had been waiting for—had entered the scenario.

• Chen Lin refused Ouyang Ye’s offer of five Three-Color Nightmare Coins and a Great Primordial Pill, then sold him information about the Star-Plucking Clan scenario for one coin.
• Chen Lin learned from Gu Qing that explorers could leave the giant palm by obtaining a Brilliant Divine Crystal, and arranged for Gu Qing to help those who entered.
• Chen Lin hid beneath the dense fog as five of Ouyang Ye’s explorers entered, but they ignored the Heaven-Swallowing Golden Toad and all died except one who escaped.
• Ouyang Ye sent more groups of elderly cultivators to negotiate with Gu Qing, but Chen Lin failed to lure him into the scenario and grew concerned about the cost.
• Chen Lin instructed Gu Qing to demand higher-grade Nightmare Coins, a Road Guide, or valuable Reality Realm treasures for the Heaven-Swallowing Golden Toad, but Gu Qing reported that the person Chen Lin had mentioned seemed to have entered.

Chen Lin captured Ouyang Ye and took his treasures, but spared him after Ancestor Ouyang revealed the Star Toad fragments and promised a Destiny Treasure. Ouyang Xue delivered the promised treasures, and she and her family returned to Bright Peak.

• Chen Lin ordered Gu Qing to capture Ouyang Ye, who entered the fog seeking treasure, and Gu Qing subdued him while killing his four companions.
• Chen Lin stripped Ouyang Ye of his Merit Coin, Nightmare Realm items, pills, and Great Primordial Pill, then ordered Gu Qing to search his soul.
• Ouyang Xue projected her consciousness through a Colored Light Orb and pleaded for her son's life, revealing that the Heaven-Swallowing Golden Toad was a fragment of the Star Toad.
• After Gu Qing detected a powerful seal in Ouyang Ye's soul, Chen Lin chose to spare him, and Ouyang Ye escaped with a Divine Crystal.
• Ouyang Xue visited Chen Lin and gave him the Jade Toad, the living Star-Swallowing Divine Frog, a Fusion Method, and the Ring of Destiny.
• Ouyang Xue returned to Bright Peak, where Ouyang Ye and two men were waiting for her.

Chen Lin investigated the Ring of Destiny and used his talent to refine it, though doing so cost him Xiaoyu's clone. He suspected the clone was tied to Huiye, the Lord of the Moon Palace, and planned to eliminate abilities of uncertain origin before Rainbow Era 1314.

• Ouyang Xue sent Ouyang Ye to the Ancestral Land and told her messenger that the Star Toad Fragment and secret method had been delivered to Chen Lin.
• Chen Lin studied the Great Fusion Technique, secured the Heaven-Swallowing Divine Frog, and examined the Ring of Destiny.
• Chen Lin used Xiaoyu's clone to test the ring in the Destiny River, where the ring trapped the clone and a colorful ray destroyed it as Chen Lin reached a node.
• Chen Lin found the ring had acknowledged him as its master and confirmed it could autonomously block an ash ray.
• Chen Lin regretted losing Xiaoyu's clone but decided to eliminate abilities with suspect origins because he suspected the clone was connected to Huiye, the Lord of the Moon Palace.

Chen Lin decided to investigate the mysteries surrounding Huiye and Niuniu while studying the Great Fusion Technique, then learned the Taishi Lineage's grotto-heaven location from Jin Ruhua. He left immediately to attack the lineage, while Sun Changzu and his granddaughter sensed an ominous danger and chose not to follow the Taishi group.

• Chen Lin considered whether Niuniu was Huiye's reincarnation and resolved to investigate the Drift Bottle Scenario and Guardian Hut Village, then studied the Great Fusion Technique.
• Jin Ruhua told Chen Lin that the Taishi Lineage's mobile grotto-heaven had powerful defenses, and gave him a map and a bloodline-imprinted flying sword to locate it.
• Chen Lin asked Jin Ruhua to handle the Taishi experts scattered outside the grotto-heaven, then departed for the Taishi Lineage immediately.
• At Teleportation Square, Taishi Tian threatened Chen Lin, who thanked him for removing any hesitation and teleported away.
• Sun Changzu's granddaughter felt uneasy about joining the Taishi group, and Sun Changzu abandoned his attempt to contact them after her premonition returned.

Chen Lin used Gu Qing to destroy the Taishi Lineage’s grotto-heaven and fled before the aftermath could draw further danger. Back in Rainbow City, he considered new suspicions about the Crape Myrtle Palace and learned that factions were courting him with gifts, while Jin Ruhua handled the consequences.

• Chen Lin released Gu Qing near the Taishi Lineage, and Gu Qing destroyed Taishi Han, the Qianxuan Myriad Wonder Pot, and everyone caught in the resulting collapse.
• Chen Lin saw Gu Qing’s star go dark on the Star-Plucking Token, then concealed himself and returned to Rainbow City after three days.
• Chen Lin met the Cheng Sisters, gave Cheng Lingdie Wan Zhencang’s Blood Dragon Bone to decipher, and heard her speculate that the Purple Emperor and Mingyue Shuanghua might be artifact spirits.
• Jin Ruhua asked whether Chen Lin had brought the giant who destroyed the Taishi Lineage, and Chen Lin left the matter to her handling.
• Factions connected to Wan Zhencang and the Taishi Lineage, along with Rainbow City’s major factions, sent Chen Lin lavish gifts and assurances of goodwill.

Chen Lin recovered three intact items from Gu Qing’s palm, including a mysterious disc and card that could not be stored in ordinary devices. Sun Changzu then asked Chen Lin to help his granddaughter Sun Jingning shape her soul, and Chen Lin began the intimate soul-suppression process in his Cultivation Chamber.

• Chen Lin found an intact emerald sword, a strange disc, and a blank card among the spoils on Gu Qing’s palm, but the disc and card resisted storage and gave him no clues.
• Chen Lin concealed the disc and card beneath his cloak, then received Sun Changzu, who visited with his granddaughters Sun Jingning and Sun Chuxue.
• Sun Changzu offered Chen Lin ten Myriad Law Stones in exchange for helping Sun Jingning suppress her Soul Origin Essence so she could refine her Soul Molding talent.
• Chen Lin agreed, confirmed that his Soul Level exceeded Sun Jingning’s, and learned that the process required suppressing her entire Soul Body.
• Chen Lin activated the Immortal Cave’s Defensive Formation, led Sun Jingning into the Cultivation Chamber, and extended his soul into her body to begin the procedure.

Sun Jingning successfully shaped her talent into a Life Tablet with Chen Lin’s help, and the energy released during the process awakened his soul blemish. After learning the card’s powers and secrets, Chen Lin tested whether he could now strengthen his soul blemish through cultivation.

• Sun Changzu told the Sun Lineage head that Chen Lin had destroyed the Taishi Lineage and that they had left Sun Jingning with him; the lineage head approved their plan and increased Sun Changzu’s branch’s resource allotment.
• Sun Chuxue worried that Chen Lin might harm Sun Jingning, while Sun Changzu explained that the soul fusion could help her repair her innate talent and avoid a political marriage.
• Chen Lin suppressed Sun Jingning’s turbulent soul as she assembled her soul origin essence, gradually shaping it into a card resembling one among the Taishi Lineage’s remaining possessions.
• Sun Jingning completed the shaping, and the resulting energy replenished Chen Lin’s soul and appeared to give his soul blemish a trace of vitality.
• Sun Jingning revealed that her Life Tablet could refine level-four-or-higher beings and described how it could turn one into a growing natal spirit; she also warned Chen Lin that the cards belonged to a set with a great secret.
• After Sun Jingning left, Chen Lin confirmed that his soul blemish had become active and began practicing a soul-strengthening technique to test whether it could grow.

Chen Lin explored the Main Destiny River with the Ring of Destiny, captured and refined a sentient energy cluster, and greatly strengthened his destiny origin essence. After returning to the Reality Realm, he was immediately enveloped by a powerful sense of danger.

• Chen Lin concluded that Sun Jingning had hinted the Sun Lineage might possess a Life Tablet, but he decided not to seek out other tablets.
• Jin Ruhua told Chen Lin that the Taishi Lineage's destruction had largely settled, though some members might have escaped.
• Chen Lin entered his destiny domain, used Mortal Dust Asks Destiny to break free of its restraints, and encountered a sentient energy cluster that attacked him.
• Chen Lin subdued the energy cluster with a Fate Tentacle coated in mortal dust aspiration force and brought it back to his destiny domain to refine.
• After a month of refining, Chen Lin's destiny fish doubled in size and his destiny origin essence condensed into a solid bead.
• Chen Lin returned to the Reality Realm and sensed immediate danger before he could open his eyes.

Chen Lin faced a destiny-related ordeal after advancing his talent, surviving waves of golden destiny fish by fighting and refining them before leaping over a dangerous correction node. He plunged into darkness and heard others call him a lady, but his memories and sense of identity began to fade.

• Chen Lin was trapped by destiny lines after his talent advanced, and the Ring of Destiny shielded him as he searched for a way through the ordeal.
• Chen Lin imagined a path to survival, followed a glowing line into the River of Destiny, and fought off successive waves of golden destiny fish.
• Chen Lin refined the defeated fish to restore his strength and improve his body, Origin Golden Core, and Ring of Destiny.
• Chen Lin reached a Colored Light Orb that he realized was a destiny-correction node, then used Death Gaze and his Reverse Scale to leap past its attack.
• Chen Lin plunged into darkness and heard General Qin and a woman speak as someone carried him away, while his memories and sense of identity grew confused.

Chen Lin left school to pursue martial arts, but Mother Chen revealed that his father was Chen Wentian, the wrongfully executed Grand General, and gave him the General Token and a half jade pendant. The pendant glowed in Chen Lin’s hand, and Mother Chen agreed to let him train, saying the Chen Family had its own martial arts.

• Chen Lin told his teacher he intended to leave school and become Li Iron Legs' disciple, believing martial arts offered a better path than the imperial examinations.
• Mother Chen initially forbade Chen Lin from learning martial arts, then agreed on the condition that he start a family; Chen Lin refused and declared he would not live an ordinary life.
• Mother Chen revealed a sealed jar hidden beneath the floor and showed Chen Lin a golden General Token and half a jade pendant left by his father.
• Mother Chen told Chen Lin that his father was Chen Wentian, the Grand General who had been framed and executed, and that Chen Lin was his only surviving blood relative.
• The half jade pendant glowed and revealed faint patterns when Chen Lin held it, and Mother Chen warned him to keep it secret.
• Mother Chen gave Chen Lin permission to pursue martial arts and said he did not need Li Iron Legs because the Chen Family had its own martial arts.

After mastering three streams of internal qi, Chen Lin left home to avenge the Chen Family and build a force, taking his disabled followers and San Niu with him. Using an airship and advanced weapons, he seized Yellow Peak Stronghold and expanded rapidly, leaving the Imperial Dynasty shaken after conquering three commanderies.

• Chen Lin told Mother Chen he would leave to contact his father’s former subordinates and attack Yellow Peak Stronghold, but she refused to accompany him and warned him not to invoke his father’s name before building a force.
• Chen Lin gathered his five disabled subordinates at their mountain hideout, and San Niu joined them after Mother Chen sent her along.
• Chen Lin revealed the weapons and supplies hidden underground, then tested the airship he had built and flew the group toward Yellow Peak Stronghold.
• Chen Lin bombarded Yellow Peak Stronghold from the air, killed its ringleaders, recruited the surviving bandits, and gathered ten thousand followers within a month.
• Chen Lin sent his forces to subdue nearby factions and mine ore, then used firearms and the airship to conquer three commanderies in less than a year.

During a full-moon ritual, Chen Lin was drawn into the sky by the Half Jade Pendant, and San Niu was gravely injured trying to save him. A strange woman possessed San Niu and told Chen Lin that the only way to restore her was to enter the Holy Pagoda, leaving him to decide whether to risk it.

• Chen Lin and San Niu watched the full moon together as the Half Jade Pendant began glowing and pulled Chen Lin into a moonlit orb.
• San Niu clung to the orb despite its power ravaging her body, and her blood awakened Chen Lin's birthmark and ring, freeing him from the pendant's pull.
• A black streak emerged from the pendant and entered San Niu, whose body was then controlled by a woman who claimed San Niu's soul was barely preserved.
• The woman used the Half Jade Pendant to shield Chen Lin from the Holy Pagoda's force after he activated his chess-piece treasure.
• The woman told Chen Lin that entering the Holy Pagoda was the only way to save San Niu, then went inside to bathe while he considered her demand.

Chen Lin learned from Huiye that the Soul Bead inside the Holy Pagoda might restore San Niu, so he conquered the Imperial City and prepared to enter the pagoda. After Huiye gave birth to their son, she urged him to wait until the next full moon and send subordinates inside to investigate first.

• Chen Lin challenged Huiye to leave San Niu's body, verified that San Niu had no pulse while Huiye was gone, and then believed Huiye when she returned to the body.
• Huiye explained that the Holy Pagoda suppressed transcendent power and that a Soul Bead inside it could nourish San Niu's soul origin essence.
• Chen Lin made Huiye help direct his army, captured the Imperial City in just over nine months, and postponed entering the Holy Pagoda when Huiye warned that his transcendent treasures could cause trouble inside.
• Huiye delayed the expedition until after she gave birth, and Chen Lin's first child, a boy, was born ten days later.
• Huiye told Chen Lin to wait for the annual great full moon and send subordinates into the pagoda to investigate while she preserved San Niu's life force.

Chen Lin and Huiye entered the Holy Pagoda to seek a Soul Bead that could revive San Niu and the other half of Huiye’s Jade Pendant. After fighting their way through the first six layers, they reached the perilous Seventh Layer, where they had limited time to find what they sought and clear the trial.

• Chen Lin handed the throne to his newborn son, placed Mother Chen in charge with the elders’ support, and went to the Holy Pagoda with Huiye.
• Huiye revealed that a Soul Bead might exist only on the Seventh Layer or higher, and promised to leave San Niu’s body if she found the other half of her Jade Pendant—or give up her soul essence to help revive San Niu if she failed.
• Chen Lin and Huiye cleared the first three layers, then fought through armies on the Fourth through Sixth Layers; Huiye warned Chen Lin not to break through into the Innate Realm.
• On the Seventh Layer, Huiye said they had to find a Soul Bead and the other half of her Jade Pendant while surviving an endless stream of martial arts masters before the hourglass ran out.
• Chen Lin charged into the Seventh Layer’s passage as Huiye agreed to watch for both treasures.

Chen Lin survived the Holy Pagoda’s Eighth Layer by relying on his innate treasures, then seized a Golden Book Page from Huiye before they were swallowed by a vortex. Back in Rainbow City, he realized the ordeal had advanced his innate talent and given him the Mortal Refining Chapter, and he suspected San Niu had helped him obtain it.

• Chen Lin followed Huiye through the Light Gate to the Eighth Layer, where they were separated and he discovered ten thousand identical Light Orbs.
• Chen Lin tested the Light Orbs and survived their deadly attacks because his innate treasures blocked the blows.
• Chen Lin realized he could endure the attacks until his divine ability revealed a Light Gate, and he used it to reach Huiye.
• Chen Lin attacked Huiye as she tried to take Golden Book Pages through a Colored Vortex, and he grabbed the final page before the vortex swallowed them both.
• Chen Lin awoke in his cave abode in Rainbow City and found that his innate talent had advanced and the page contained the Mortal Refining Chapter.
• Chen Lin suspected San Niu had caused Huiye to pause so he could take the page he needed.

Chen Lin discovered that San Niu’s Grass Mandarin Duck had come out of the Holy Pagoda Realm, deepening his suspicions about her and Niuniu. As the Rainbow Grand Ceremony approached, he brought Tianshu and five others to Rainbow City, gave Tianshu the Blood Dragon Bone to refine, and prepared to meet Jin Ruhua for his assigned duties.

• Chen Lin found San Niu’s Grass Mandarin Duck in his room and wondered whether San Niu and Niuniu were connected to Huiye.
• Cheng Lingdie deciphered the Blood Dragon Bone’s inheritance, identifying its original owner as a Weeping Blood Azure Dragon and finding that its cultivation method was useless to Chen Lin.
• Chen Lin bought two Void Scrolls and brought Tianshu, Chen Ling'er, Liu Rumian, Muese, Chu Qingying, and Yuan Tiancheng to Rainbow City.
• Chen Ling'er asked whether Chen Lin had destroyed the Taishi Lineage and killed Taishi Han, and Chen Lin confirmed it while warning everyone to stay in the city.
• Cheng Lingdie returned the Blood Dragon Bone, and Chen Lin gave it to Tianshu to refine while he studied the Great Fusion Technique.
• Two days before the Grand Ceremony, Chen Lin received Jin Ruhua’s summons, then stopped in midair after noticing something in his palm.

Chen Lin attended a secret Ant Society meeting after his Gray Ring revealed a mission, while also helping the Left Alliance prepare for its ceremony and headquarters relocation. The meeting ended with a search mission for a person bearing a flower-shaped birthmark, and Chen Lin learned that the Ant Society reached beyond the Boundary River.

• Chen Lin found a golden token inside his Gray Ring and learned that Ant Ring holders could attend a mission meeting.
• Chen Lin attended a Left Alliance meeting where Jin Ruhua assigned him to appear at the grand ceremony and appointed Shen Anning as an elder because she was sworn siblings with Young Master Bai, Young Master Gu, and Chen Lin.
• Jin Ruhua announced that the Left Alliance would move to its new headquarters after the ceremony and began allocating places in Rainbow City.
• Chen Lin activated the token and joined the Ant Society meeting, where he accepted a secrecy contract after dozens of attendees left.
• The Golden Figure announced a mission to find a likely Human Race member with a high-grade innate talent, a high-grade soul, and a flower-shaped birthmark on their chest.
• Chen Lin asked where the person might be, and the Golden Figure said they could be in the Plane River, Star Domain, or Abyss.

Chen Lin learned how the Ant Society worked and discovered that it opposed the Heavenly Dao’s Slave Seals, while the Ant Ring had chosen him as a Destined Person. He left the gathering with new knowledge, a debt of fifty Contribution Points, and reason to worry about Grand Duke White Moonlight.

• The Golden Figure opened the gathering to trading, but Chen Lin learned he lacked the Contribution Points needed to participate.
• A woman traded five hundred Contribution Points for smilou ore, and Chen Lin discovered he could retrieve only items stored inside his Ant Ring.
• Chen Lin asked about the Ant Society, and the Golden Figure offered to explain its rules and secrets for fifty Contribution Points.
• The Golden Figure revealed that twelve Quasi-Dominators founded the society to resist the Heavenly Dao’s Slave Seals, and explained how Ant Rings and Destined Persons worked.
• The Golden Figure warned Chen Lin to conceal his membership and told him to watch for people named in the posted missions.
• Back in his Immortal Cave, Chen Lin considered the benefits and dangers of membership, including the possibility that Grand Duke White Moonlight might become a Slave-Sealed Dominator.