Recaps

Chen Lin brought his family and companions to Oddity Island and used seven-star Mother Steamed Buns to remove their Inner World Brands. There, he discovered that Chen Siyang and Wen Siyue could see and draw energy from Yin-Yang Valley, and Old Servant Qi said their innate yin-yang bodies might make them eligible to become the Master’s disciples.

• Ninth Miss explained the Thousand Flavors Pavilion and its Thousand-Flavor Soup, then left after Chen Lin promised her a portion of his delicacy.
• After a year, Chen Lin’s Round Token formed an identity halo, and he confirmed that Cheng Lingdie’s cultivation had advanced toward the True Realm.
• Chen Lin arranged temporary residence on Oddity Island for his companions and family, then gave seven-star Mother Steamed Buns to remove their Inner World Brands.
• Chen Ling'er told Chen Lin she had located a high-level scenario connected to her search, and he gave her more steamed buns before she departed.
• Chen Lin brought Chen Siyang and Wen Siyue to Yin-Yang Valley, where they saw its fields and drew energy from the valley through Wen Siyue’s Yin-Yang Lotus.
• Old Servant Qi recognized the siblings’ innate yin-yang bodies and said they might be recommended to the Master as disciples.

Chen Lin arranged for his children to learn Yin-Yang Sect techniques, then spent six months cultivating before attending the restored Oddity Convention. There, Huo Qing proposed that Chen Lin take Ninth Miss as his official companion, then offered him Chess Pieces of Destiny in exchange for a Rainbow Flower.

• Old Servant Qi gave Chen Lin yin and yang cultivation techniques for his children, and Chen Lin and Wen Xinzhao agreed to let them learn them.
• Chen Siyang and Wen Siyue absorbed the techniques and began cultivating together, while Chen Lin warned Wen Xinzhao not to inquire into their methods.
• Chen Lin spent half a year cultivating at Oddity Island, prioritizing Seven-Star Shining Sun and other abilities while setting aside cultivation related to destiny.
• Chen Lin attended the Oddity Convention with Wen Xinzhao and his companions, where Guo Tiezui welcomed them with his laughter and Chen Lin served food and wine.
• Huo Qing approached Chen Lin, disparaged his companions, and asked him to take Ninth Miss as his official companion; Chen Lin refused.
• Huo Qing showed Chen Lin Chess Pieces of Destiny and offered them in exchange for Chen Lin helping him obtain a Rainbow Flower.

At the Oddity Convention, Chen Lin traded for valuable supplies but found no information about the Five-Grain Soul-Nourishing Art or a safe way to absorb abyss inheritances. A mysterious woman gave him tools for extracting and refining an inheritance in exchange for a promise to take her beyond the Seven-Star Realm, and Chen Lin began testing one of them.

• Chen Lin refused Huo Qing's request for Rainbow Flowers but traded his chess pieces for spirit rice, then learned he still needed three more pieces to complete a set.
• Chen Lin met Fire Wa and the Mist Lord, declined their Rainbow Flower and Abyss proposals, and traded with the convention's Oddities for Merit Coins, a five-color Road Guide, and other treasures.
• Chen Lin failed to find information about the Five-Grain Soul-Nourishing Art before Guo Tiezui ended the convention, but a mysterious woman offered him a Prison-Spirit Bottle and a scroll in exchange for a promise to take her beyond the Seven-Star Realm.
• Chen Lin lent Chen Ling'er the five-color Road Guide, and she entered the target scenario to attempt projection fusion.
• Chen Lin examined the woman's items, discovered they bore the same mysterious figure, and used the Prison-Spirit Bottle to extract an intact glyph from an abyss crystal.
• Chen Lin studied the changing glyph and activated the bottle again, preparing to absorb and refine the inheritance.

Chen Lin mastered the Five-Grain Soul-Nourishing Art and spent a century strengthening his soul, while his companions advanced on Oddity Island. After Feng Wanding asked about the Life Ferry and mentioned a suspected high-dimensional treasure, Dream Gu’s messenger invited Chen Lin to appraise it at the Dream Tower.

• Chen Lin refined the inheritance in the Prison-Spirit Bottle, then spent several years comprehending and mastering the Five-Grain Soul-Nourishing Art.
• Chen Lin tested different energy sources and found that Five-Color Nightmare Coins, internal energy, yin-yang spirit rice, soul ash, and other options could sustain the art.
• Over a hundred years, Chen Lin strengthened his soul root, while Chen Siyang and his sister advanced to the True Realm and became formidable through their combined technique.
• Chen Lin met Feng Wanding, traded information about the Life Ferry for a Golden Saint Pill, and explained that entry required becoming a Sishi in a dangerous scenario.
• Feng Wanding told Chen Lin that Dream Gu had found a suspected high-dimensional treasure in the Abyss, and Dream Gu’s messenger arrived with an invitation for Chen Lin to appraise it at the Dream Tower.

Chen Lin joined the Oddities at Dream Tower to inspect a treasure Dream Gu had found in the Abyss and recognized it as the Glazed Cup, the vessel of the Glazed Secret Realm. He could make it respond but could not overcome its spiritual will, and after everyone else failed to activate it, he returned home expecting Dream Gu to approach him again.

• Chen Lin accepted Dream Gu's invitation and traveled to Dream Tower with Feng Wanding, Huo Qing, and Ninth Miss, while asking Ninth Miss to keep seeking a Thousand Flavors Pavilion invitation for him.
• Dream Gu showed the gathered Oddities a crystalline cup she had seized from the evil god Qiliao in the Abyss, and Chen Lin recognized it as the Glazed Cup.
• Chen Lin warned that the cup was a dangerous Grotto-Heaven Treasure and agreed to try activating it in exchange for half of anything inside, but its spiritual will resisted him.
• Dream Gu offered three Illusion Dream Beads as an added reward, and Feng Wanding and the other Oddities tried unsuccessfully to activate the cup.
• The Musician and Ninth Miss managed to make the cup glow faintly, but no one activated it, so Dream Gu dismissed the gathering and Chen Lin returned to his residence.

Chen Lin cultivated the Seven-Star Shining Sun and negotiated with Dream Gu to activate the Glazed Cup in exchange for rare spiritual entities. While discussing the transaction, Dream Gu revealed the rules governing Other Selves and Dominator advancement, leaving Chen Lin with a clearer understanding of the Star Emperor’s plan and its uncertain prospects.

• Chen Lin chose to cultivate the Seven-Star Shining Sun while he waited for Dream Gu to seek his help again.
• Dream Gu contacted Chen Lin in a dream, and he agreed to help activate the Glazed Cup in exchange for her divine source and the promised payment.
• Dream Gu delivered the Glazed Cup, three Illusion Dream Beads, and another patterned bottle, then told Chen Lin she had founded the Dameng Sect.
• Dream Gu explained the Purple Emperor’s history and said he had likely revived in the Rainbow Realm by merging with an evil god that was one of his Other Selves.
• Dream Gu explained that becoming a Dominator required merging with every Other Self under the same system of rules, and that the Star Emperor created the Nightmare Realm to replicate Other Selves and evade those restrictions.
• Dream Gu said Nightmare Realm Projections only advanced someone toward becoming a Dominator if they merged with them after becoming unique, and she wondered why the Star Emperor had not completed his plan.

Chen Lin traded his share of the Glazed Cup’s Seven-Color Colored Glaze Fluid for Dream Gu’s mysterious Gray Sapling, then cultivated for centuries as the stars and Rainbow Bridge stirred. The Rainbow Halo appeared ahead of schedule, and Hong Tingzhen suspected Chen Lin’s Seven-Star Shining Sun cultivation had caused it.

• Chen Lin activated the Glazed Cup, and Dream Gu returned with four bottles of Seven-Color Colored Glaze Fluid and two Storage Rings from inside.
• Dream Gu traded Chen Lin the Gray Sapling for the liquid, explaining that she had found it in a miraculous orchard reached by following a Void Flying Horse.
• Chen Lin used the Heaven Opening Eye Divine Ability to see three hidden fruits on the Gray Sapling, planted it in his Grotto-Heaven Jade Pendant, and inspected the growing flower bud and Muddled Fruit Tree.
• Chen Lin refined two Illusion Dream Beads, merged his sword wills into the Death Sword Will, and then focused on cultivating Seven-Star Shining Sun for five hundred years.
• The stars throughout the Void Realm churned, and the Rainbow Halo appeared early above Rainbow City.
• Hong Tingzhen asked Jin Ruhua whether Chen Lin’s cultivation had caused the sudden celestial disturbance as the Deliberating Elders gathered around them.

Chen Lin completed the Seven-Star Shining Sun Cultivation Technique on Oddity Island and formed Sunfire, but Huiye’s attempt to claim it failed when she discovered he was not her intended target. Huiye vanished after telling Chen Lin to visit their offspring and preserve the bloodline.

• Radiance from the island’s sun, moon, and stars streamed into Chen Lin’s residence as Chen Lin chose to merge the seven Star Rings despite suspecting the breakthrough had been arranged.
• Chen Lin struck a match to ignite the fire seed, and it began draining energy from his body and soul until the Mandarin Duck Straw Weaving disintegrated and replenished him.
• Chen Lin turned the process around and poured his own essence into the fire seed, forming Sunfire as the seven Inner Stars and Star Rings recovered around it.
• Huiye appeared as a Mermaid Phantom and attacked the Sunfire, absorbing power from the sun, moon, and seven Inner Stars to wield dominator power.
• Huiye failed to merge with the flames and realized Chen Lin was not her intended target, then vanished after calling the Sunfire a gift and urging him to visit their offspring.

Chen Lin completed the Seven-Star Shining Sun and ascended to eternity, but learned that he still needed to undergo a dangerous heavenly tribulation. Warned that ascending within the Seven-Star Realm would expose him to the Lake-Fishing Old Man, he considered traveling to the Life Ferry instead.

• Chen Lin completed the Fire Seed’s transformation, ascended to eternity, and reined in his Sunfire after Old Servant Qi warned him about disrupting Yin-Yang Island.
• Old Servant Qi explained that Chen Lin had to undergo his tribulation outside the Rainbow Realm and suggested the Abyss, while Chen Lin weighed its dangers against other possible destinations.
• Feng Wanding, Guo Tiezui, and Ninth Miss discussed ways to help Chen Lin leave the island; Ninth Miss offered protection in the Abyss in exchange for a Rainbow Flower and revealed that the Rainbow Bridge had manifested early.
• Dream Gu privately warned Chen Lin not to undergo his tribulation in the Seven-Star Realm, since merging with its Heaven and Earth Dao would put him under the Lake-Fishing Old Man’s scrutiny.
• Chen Lin declined to decide on hiring protection, explained the danger to Chen Siyang and Wen Siyue, and settled on the Life Ferry as a possible destination for his tribulation.
• Chen Lin considered whether to reach the Life Ferry with a Ship Ticket or through the Feather Pen scenario and the Life Letter’s space.

Chen Lin persuaded Dream Gu, whose real name was Nansheng Meng, to accompany him into the Life Letter's space after her Daydream compelled her to accept. He entered the Nightmare Realm to prepare for his tribulation, found Deluo City swallowed by the Light Calamity, and ended the chapter defeating a powerful bizarre creature.

• Chen Lin asked Dream Gu to join him in the Life Letter's space, but she initially refused because she was refining seven-color colored glaze fluid.
• After preparing and consulting the island's oddities, Chen Lin learned that Dream Gu's Daydream had compelled her to accept his invitation; she revealed her real name was Nansheng Meng and described her Dream Realm lineage.
• Chen Lin entered the Nightmare Realm with the Feather Pen and discovered that darkness from the Light Calamity had left Deluo City abandoned.
• As Chen Lin headed toward the Top Hat Building, an invisible attacker covered him in writhing frost, and he identified it as a powerful higher-dimensional bizarre creature.
• Chen Lin counterattacked with Soul-Destroying Finger and other abilities, exposed the creature's form, and destroyed it with a barrage of strikes.

Chen Lin reached the Top Hat Building after killing a King Tier bizarre creature and learned that its remains could help Yan Li extend his life. He gave Yan Li half the creature’s skin in exchange for valuable items and claimed Deluo City for the Yan Lineage, then prepared to enter the Life Ferry.

• Chen Lin arrived at the Top Hat Building with the Jade-Eyed King’s eyeball and remains, and Yan Li’s people verified that he had killed a King Tier bizarre creature.
• Yan Li told Chen Lin that the King Tier creature had devastated Deluo City and that the Life Ferry had sheltered the surviving Sishi.
• Chen Lin used the Soul-Destroying Finger to stabilize Yan Li’s abnormalities, and Yan Li urged him to take control of Deluo City.
• Yan Li asked to trade for some of the Jade Shadow King’s Remnant because refining it could extend his lifespan, and Chen Lin agreed to sell him half for Spiritual Entities, Divination Art inheritances, and Divine Weapons.
• Chen Lin claimed Deluo City for the Yan Lineage, gave Yan Li half the Remnant, and stopped him from leaving while injured as Chen Lin prepared to enter the Life Ferry.

Chen Lin entered a new Life Letter task after studying the Life Ferry, only to discover that the mission required him to expose Du Xiaolian, humiliate He Chengfeng, and marry Nana. He found himself in a higher-level plane with his abilities disrupted and learned that the first two targets were powerful leaders, leaving him to seek strength and find Dream Gu.

• Chen Lin entered the envelope Light Gate, examined the flowing rivers of light, and received a Life Letter after choosing a direction for the Letter Pigeon.
• Chen Lin read the sender's three wishes: expose Du Xiaolian, make He Chengfeng submit, and marry Nana; he chose Dream Gu as his helper but could not add Yun Feiyan without spending ten Life Coins.
• Chen Lin arrived in a dim, prison-like room and found that abnormal energy clashed with his own, preventing him from using his Divine Abilities while leaving some Internal Energy and Soul Force available.
• Chen Lin read a collection of tales and learned that He Chengfeng led the Extreme Sword Sect and Du Xiaolian was the Ice Clear Pavilion's Saintess, making the task extremely dangerous.
• Chen Lin decided to seek strength, pursue Nana's objective while looking for Dream Gu, and carefully stepped outside the room.

Chen Lin took over Lin Ergou’s body in Black Stone Town, killed Qin Dasheng with the Soul-Destroying Finger, and concealed his involvement while avoiding a search. After learning that Nana haunted the town and that the world’s cultivation laws suppressed much of his power and equipment, he began planning to leave and search for Dream Gu.

• Chen Lin found himself in Wild Dog Alley and killed Qin Dasheng with the Soul-Destroying Finger when Qin Dasheng ordered him to empty a chamber pot.
• Chen Lin denied knowing how Qin Dasheng died as the alley’s residents gathered, and Old Man Liu warned that Nana might have caused the soul’s disappearance.
• Chen Lin took Qin Dasheng’s Red String storage device, then hid in his room with the Grotto-Heaven Jade Pendant as men searched the alley and destroyed the corpse.
• Chen Lin tested his abilities and cultivation items, discovered that spells and technology failed in the plane, and learned that opening spatial storage could damage lower-grade devices.
• After several days in Black Stone Town, Chen Lin learned that evil specters trapped the town and Nana was the strongest among them.
• Chen Lin overheard tavern patrons discussing another death like Qin Dasheng’s and considered leaving town to search for Dream Gu.

Chen Lin returned to Wild Dog Alley, used his new strength to kill Yao Chengyi after the man tried to extort him, and let the residents spread word of his abilities. The Zhou Family recruited him into its Outer Branch, where he gained a residence, regular income, and access to cultivation texts as he planned his next move.

• Chen Lin returned to Wild Dog Alley and decided he needed an excuse for his sudden increase in strength while living as Lin Ergou.
• Yao Chengyi demanded a portion of Qin Dasheng’s Divine King Liquid and threatened to take Chen Lin to the Zhou Family’s Enforcement Team over the Mountain and Sea Pearl.
• Chen Lin accused Yao Chengyi of stealing, revealed his second-layer cultivation, and killed him with Black Tiger Steals Heart when Yao Chengyi tried to turn the neighbors against him.
• Chen Lin presented Yao Chengyi’s death as self-defense, took his money pouch, and let the residents believe Qin Dasheng’s treasures had helped him master a heterogeneous art.
• Zhou Xingwu invited Chen Lin to join the Zhou Family’s Outer Branch, and Chen Lin accepted and left Wild Dog Alley with him.
• Several days later, Chen Lin settled into a separate Zhou Family residence, received money and access to books, and began planning his next move.

Chen Lin learned about the dangers and cultivation system of this world, joined the Zhou Family by marrying Zhou Qingshuang, and developed his strength while preparing to cross the Black Stone Mountain Range. He confirmed that his Soul-Destroying Finger could counter the local bizarre entities, but his attempt to summon a heavenly tribulation instead connected his sunfire to the three suns.

• Chen Lin studied the Zhou Family's texts, learned how powerful the world's cultivators and bizarre creatures were, and decided to strengthen his soul and internal energy before taking risks.
• Zhou Xingyun offered Chen Lin three ways to join the Zhou Family, and Chen Lin chose to marry into the family in exchange for a high-grade guiding technique.
• Chen Lin obtained the Three Suns Qi Gathering technique, merged Lin Ergou's energy with his own, and married Zhou Qingshuang.
• After a year of cultivation, Chen Lin left Black Stone Town and tested the Soul-Destroying Finger in a cave, confirming it could counter the local bizarre entities.
• Chen Lin tried to summon a heavenly tribulation by guiding his sunfire, but no tribulation appeared; instead, his sunfire connected mysteriously with the three suns.

Chen Lin tested the Soul-Destroying Finger in the Light and Dark Sea, defeated a bizarre creature, and attempted to undergo a tribulation on a remote island, but his true solar fire refined itself instead of drawing down heavenly lightning. After three years of cultivation, he returned to Chaos Chess Island and discovered he could separate a powerful soul clone from his body.

• Chen Lin left Black Stone Town by sea to evade the Zhou Family’s surveillance and test his Soul-Destroying Finger and resistance to eerie aura.
• Inside a dark patch, Chen Lin killed a bizarre woman with the Soul-Destroying Finger and collected high-grade soul ash, then spent a month crossing the dangerous waters.
• Chen Lin reached a secluded island and tried to undergo a tribulation, but his true solar fire refined itself for half a month without summoning one, so he returned to Black Stone Town.
• The Zhou Family scolded Chen Lin and arranged two more concubines for him, while he focused on strengthening his soul and mastering Treading Snow and Plucking Plum.
• Three years later, Chen Lin had reached the initial realm fourth layer and formed a solid true soul body, which he split off as a soul clone on Chaos Chess Island.

Chen Lin fought off Zhou Changfeng’s attempt to capture him, then lied about a treasure to secure a chance to leave Black Stone Town. As he prepared to flee across the sea, Dream Gu contacted him from Ningxuan Prefecture and said she was trapped there before the Black Bead shattered.

• Chen Lin realized Liu Ergou’s consciousness had fused with his and that Life Coins could grant permission, while Zhou Changfeng demanded he leave a descendant or join the Zhou Family’s escape.
• Zhou Changfeng attacked Chen Lin with a binding net, but Chen Lin’s soul body escaped and countered with the Soul-Destroying Finger until Zhou Changfeng called off the fight.
• Zhou Changfeng offered to take Chen Lin out of Black Stone Town in exchange for the True Yang Treasure’s location, and Chen Lin invented a story about finding it in a cave beneath Small Hill.
• Chen Lin decided to leave alone across the sea rather than risk returning to the Zhou Family or crossing the Black Stone Mountain Range.
• The Black Bead connected Chen Lin to Dream Gu, who said she was trapped in Ningxuan Prefecture and asked him to come find her before the bead shattered.

Chen Lin joined the Zhou Family’s evacuation to Ningxuan Prefecture, where Zhou Changfeng revealed a treasure site containing sun stones tied to Chen Lin’s True Yang inheritance. After Chen Lin entered the city to search for Dream Gu, a Black Crow Sect cultivator attacked him, and the chapter ended as Chen Lin countered with his Soul-Destroying Finger.

• Zhou Qingshuang told Chen Lin the Zhou Family would abandon him unless he produced an heir, and Chen Lin gave her cultivation resources before accepting their separation.
• Zhou Changfeng showed Chen Lin two sun stones and asked him to help explore the treasure site after they reached Ningxuan Prefecture.
• The Five Major Families escaped Black Stone Town through a tunnel and, after learning that Jingan City had fallen, decided to enter Ningxuan Prefecture’s capital.
• Chen Lin entered the city alone, investigated the Black Crow Sect’s headquarters, and searched for Dream Gu.
• A black-clad Black Crow Sect cultivator attacked Chen Lin, who defended himself with a bellyband before striking back with his Soul-Destroying Finger.

Chen Lin traded a copy of his Seven-Star Shining Sun inheritance to Fu Honglian for two bottles of ten-thousand-year ice marrow and a promise of a Residence Token, but Fu Honglian and his sister betrayed him. The sister took Chen Lin’s body and led his soul to her courtyard, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Chen Lin used Sunfire to drive back Fu Honglian’s three-legged crows, prompting Fu Honglian to ask about his true-yang inheritance and offer him permission to live in the city.
• Chen Lin bargained with Fu Honglian for a high-grade tribulation aid, received two bottles of ten-thousand-year ice marrow, and handed over a copied inheritance in a conch.
• Fu Honglian summoned his sister to guard Chen Lin while he examined the inheritance, and she captured Chen Lin’s body with a black rope as he separated his soul.
• Fu Honglian and Chen Lin’s soul attacked each other unsuccessfully, while Fu Honglian tried to claim Chen Lin’s Mountain and Sea Pearl.
• Fu Honglian’s sister claimed Chen Lin’s body and led his soul to her courtyard, where servants greeted her as “the beauty.”

Chen Lin escaped Beauty Fu’s attempt to capture him and struck a bargain with her, trading promises of soul cultivation and Solar Fire Condensation for her help and protection. While refining a Sun Stone, he experienced a strange ascent of consciousness and saw the sun.

• Beauty Fu tried to force Chen Lin to reveal where he got his Sun Stones, but Chen Lin used Soul Confrontation to injure her and escape his restraints.
• Chen Lin reclaimed his belongings, returned Beauty Fu’s God-Trapping Rope, and secured her oath to protect him in the city before giving back her other possessions.
• Beauty Fu asked Chen Lin about the True Yang Treasure and soul cultivation, and he revealed its entrance and offered to teach her Solar Fire Condensation in exchange for her help and Sun Stones.
• Beauty Fu arranged lodging for Chen Lin and left to find the Zhou Family Patriarch, while Chen Lin began refining a Sun Stone on the roof.
• The Sun Stone sent Chen Lin’s consciousness rising above the Northern Domain until he saw an immense fireball and recognized it as the sun.

Chen Lin explored the sun through the Golden Ray and suspected he needed to absorb energy from all three suns to transform the True Solar Fire. He learned that Xing Henshui had imprisoned Dream Gu and planned to marry her at his accession ceremony in three months, leaving Chen Lin to seek a way to contact Beauty Fu.

• Chen Lin entered a sun through the Golden Ray, survived its heat, and woke exhausted with the True Solar Fire altered.
• Chen Lin learned from Yaoning that Xing Henshui had imprisoned Nansheng Meng, also known as Dream Gu, after she refused to become his companion.
• Chen Lin used a second Sun Stone to visit another sun and realized the Sun Stone's energy helped the True Solar Fire protect his consciousness.
• Chen Lin concluded he might need to absorb energy from the western sun to transform the True Solar Fire.
• Yaoning returned and told Chen Lin that Xing Henshui would become sect leader in three months and planned to marry Dream Gu and perform dual cultivation with her at the ceremony.
• Chen Lin asked Yaoning to find someone secretly while he considered how to get the news to Beauty Fu.

Chen Lin tried to strengthen his True Solar Fire with a Sun Stone, triggering a crisis that drew attention from powerful factions across the world. A flower bud absorbed the raging flames and transformed into Xiaohua, a beautiful girl who retained her memories and agreed to remain by Chen Lin’s side.

• Yaoning told Chen Lin that Xing Henshui had captured Beauty Fu’s older brother and extracted his Natal Crow, then gave Chen Lin five Sun Stones after threatening the Zhou Family into handing them over.
• Chen Lin delayed going to rescue Beauty Fu, asked Yaoning to watch the city gates, and began preparing to use a Sun Stone to strengthen his True Solar Fire.
• The suns flickered when Chen Lin absorbed energy, prompting powerful figures and factions across the world to search for whoever had obtained North Sun’s fire source.
• The mutated flame overwhelmed Chen Lin’s inner stars until he brought the flower bud from Wanhuagu Valley into his body, where it absorbed the flame’s energy and calmed it.
• The flower opened and became a girl; Chen Lin gave her a robe and mask, named her Chen Xiaohua, and asked how strong she had become.

Chen Lin learned that Xiaohua was a powerful higher-dimensional lifeform and discovered that his Soul-Destroying Finger was a punishment technique linked to the Bizarre Kingdom. After Xiaohua taught him the Fire Control Technique, Chen Lin began using the three suns’ power to refine his body and clear the karmic marks entangling him.

• Xiaohua explained that the Nightmare Realm was an extension of the Bizarre Kingdom and warned Chen Lin that his Soul-Destroying Finger identified him as a potential Punishment Monarch.
• Xiaohua said she could fight late Upper Realm opponents but warned that helping Chen Lin might lower his Life Ferry task rating; she also explained the Star Ruins and Three Rooms.
• Xiaohua advised Chen Lin to use the powerful solar energy to clear the marks entangling him and passed him the Fire Control Technique.
• Chen Lin spent three days absorbing Xiaohua’s inheritance, then sensed and controlled the transformed origin essence within his true solar fire.
• Chen Lin drew energy from the three suns, contained the resulting flames with the Fire Control Technique, and began refining his body.

Xiaohua used the true solar fire and Chen Lin’s Great Fusion Technique to purge his mixed energies and fuse his Death Gaze with other powers, leaving him with only four core energies. After Xiaohua withdrew to avoid drawing the Life Ferry’s attention, Chen Lin consulted Yaoning and set out for the Black Stone Mountain Range.

• Xiaohua strengthened Chen Lin’s flames, removed several treasures and abnormalities from his body, and transferred the Heaven-Opening Eye into his innate talent.
• With Xiaohua’s help, Chen Lin fused the Death Gaze with the black sword ray and the diamond-shaped eyeball, then implanted the resulting eye into his destiny fish.
• Xiaohua ended the fusion, warned Chen Lin that she could no longer assist without harming his rating, and retreated into the Grotto-Heaven Jade Pendant.
• After three days, Chen Lin stabilized his body and learned from Xiaohua that she did not recognize the Spirit Infusion Realm and suspected it was an unusual path based on childlike innocence.
• Chen Lin left his room, found that Beauty Fu had not returned, planned with Yaoning, and departed the prefectural city for the Black Stone Mountain Range.

Chen Lin and Yaoning traveled to the Black Stone Mountain Range, where Fang Wenji of the Extreme Sword Sect attacked after sensing solar power on Chen Lin. Nana’s bizarre illusion briefly ensnared them, but Chen Lin broke free and overwhelmed Fang Wenji, leaving Nana alive and the mission unresolved.

• Yaoning warned Chen Lin that powerful factions were searching for North Sun’s fire source and offered to protect his family.
• Chen Lin and Yaoning reached the Black Stone Mountain Range and followed Chen Lin’s warning of danger to a peak near the True Yang Treasure.
• Fang Wenji confronted Chen Lin, sensed his solar power, and attacked him with a flying sword; Yaoning fled while Chen Lin used the boulder to draw the attack toward a shadow.
• Nana’s voice trapped Chen Lin and Fang Wenji in an illusion of a wedding procession and a sinister river, but Chen Lin broke free with the Soul-Destroying Finger.
• Chen Lin unleashed Death Gaze, True Solar Fire, and other techniques against Fang Wenji, incapacitating him while sparing Nana so he could complete his mission.