Recaps

Chen Lin learned from Sun Chuxue’s letter that soul dissolution could cause a soul to flee, so he postponed the technique while investigating a passage through the Soul-Severing Sea and managing the worsening crisis in the Void Realm. After Jin Ruhua reached Eternity, Chen Lin entrusted the Kaiyuan Realm to her as he prepared to rescue Niuniu.

• Chen Lin visited the Soulless Sect’s former grounds and learned from Yu Qianshan that the Soulless Patriarch had left three years earlier, leaving Sun Chuxue’s sealed letter for him.
• Chen Lin read Sun Chuxue’s warning that soul dissolution could make a soul escape, learned of a possible passage in the Soul-Severing Sea, and discovered that she belonged to a secretive primal race.
• Chen Lin searched the Soul-Severing Sea and found several possible passages in Primordial Era ruins, then traveled the Inner World and assigned Wen Jing'an to decipher the altars.
• Chen Lin searched for information about escaping souls but found nothing, postponed soul dissolution, and focused on other cultivation while the Void Realm’s Void Rifts worsened.
• Chen Lin dealt with dangerous tricky beasts but could not stop the Void Rifts, and he spent the following years gathering Merit Coins and exploring ways to obtain high-dimensional formation materials.
• Jin Ruhua arrived in the Kaiyuan Realm after reaching Eternity, and Chen Lin asked her to take charge while he went to rescue Niuniu.

Chen Lin helped Tianshu endure the Three-Kill Tribulation, using the Chain of Destiny and a Rainbow Flower to let him reach the Eternal Realm. As Tianshu completed his ascension, a Void Rift appeared over the Kaiyuan Realm, and a sword strike from within it pierced Grass as she shielded Chen Lin.

• Chen Lin told Jin Ruhua he intended to investigate the schemes behind the crisis and eventually leave for a higher space, while Jin Ruhua showed him Holy Sword Manor's God-Slaying sword.
• Chen Lin hunted Tricky Beasts across the Rainbow Realm, then returned to the Kaiyuan Realm and fed their corpses to Tianshu as Tianshu's breakthrough approached.
• A year later, Tianshu faced the Three-Kill Tribulation, and Chen Lin used Fate Transmission, the Chain of Destiny, treasures, and a Rainbow Flower to help him survive and ascend to the Eternal Realm.
• A black line appeared in the Kaiyuan Realm's sky and heralded a Void Rift, which disrupted the tribulation as Tianshu finished absorbing its energy.
• Chen Lin flew toward the rift while Chen Ling'er and Grass warned him; Grass intercepted a Sword Qi attack from inside the rift, but it pierced her between the brows.

Chen Lin saved Grass with divine fluid from Chunjiu of the Celestial God Palace, then prepared to enter the Nightmare Realm to rescue Niuniu. He arrived at Guardian Hut Village and found it abandoned, but he restored the Scarecrow Cottage yard before going inside.

• Chen Lin attacked the Void Rift after Grass was struck down, but Chunjiu defeated his attacks and gave him divine fluid to preserve Grass's life.
• Chen Lin used the divine fluid to halt Grass's voidification, and she eventually regained consciousness, though she needed decades to recover fully.
• Tianshu completed his transformation and gained the Blood Shadow Claw divine ability, while Chen Lin warned himself against directly altering destiny again.
• Chen Lin decided to enter the Nightmare Realm to rescue Niuniu, bringing Hua Yi and Little Black Cat with him.
• Chen Lin arrived at Guardian Hut Village and found its huts empty and decayed, then swept the Scarecrow Cottage yard, repaired the swing, and entered the cottage.

Chen Lin used the Rainbow Sword to enter a hidden space and found Niuniu bound and near death, but a gathering of powerful figures emerged as he approached her. The chapter ended with several more figures appearing, leaving the identity of the scheme’s main player unresolved.

• Chen Lin searched the deserted Guardian Hut Village for clues, then used the Rainbow Sword to activate the Cloth Doll and enter its connected space.
• Chen Lin found Niuniu bound to a Pitch-Black Colossal Pillar amid rows of scarecrows and began approaching her.
• Chen Lin discovered Gu Siming disguised as a scarecrow, and she revealed that Yesterday Manor had helped him for its own purposes.
• Huiye and High Person Yunhai appeared, and Gu Siming identified High Person Yunhai as the one who had taken Star Emperor’s body.
• Sword Woman appeared, called Chen Lin her husband, and warned that Lake-Fishing Old Man’s Rule Line might descend if the Seven-Star chains were broken.
• Several figures emerged from the Void, leaving Chen Lin stunned.

Chen Lin encountered Luo Qinglan, Star Emperor’s seven clones, and High Person Yunhai at the map’s end, then tried to rescue Niuniu while uncovering the factions’ pursuit of the Primordial Stele. The chapter ended with Huiye ordering Luo Qinglan to destroy the Star Emperor’s clones.

• Chen Lin recognized Luo Qinglan and Qing Emperor among the arrivals, while Qing Emperor and High Person Yunhai exchanged accusations about their old conflict.
• High Person Yunhai suggested that Luo Qinglan was Saintess Heqing’s reincarnation and asked whether Chen Lin was Star Lord’s reincarnation; Chen Lin instead asked Luo Qinglan whether she still acknowledged him as her husband, and she nodded.
• Chen Lin rushed toward the raised platform to rescue Niuniu, but High Person Yunhai restrained him with black runic inscriptions; Chen Lin resisted, attacked, and identified Yunhai as the soul that had escaped from Soulless Patriarch.
• Chen Lin urged the gathered figures to help rescue Niuniu and told them that Bizarre Creatures from the Bizarre Kingdom were invading through Space Rifts; Red Emperor warned that disturbing the Seven-Star Realm’s rules could alert Lake-Fishing Old Man.
• Sword Woman agreed to help on the conditions that Chen Lin give her the Rainbow Sword and help free her from being a Sword Spirit; Huiye then challenged Gu Siming over the Primordial Stele and ordered Luo Qinglan to destroy Star Emperor’s clones.

Chen Lin and his allies fought High Person Yunhai and Huiye over the Holy Temple's key, but their attacks struggled against Yunhai's higher-level power. After Luo Qinglan revealed her phoenix form and restrained Huiye's crescent moon, Chen Lin unleashed the Sun-Swallowing Earthworm against Yunhai; as the others prepared their decisive attacks, the Seven Sovereigns turned their arrow on Luo Qinglan.

• Luo Qinglan revealed that Ningbaixue had taken control of the Holy Temple, and High Person Yunhai exposed that he held its key.
• High Person Yunhai lifted his seal and used powerful runes to evade and repel Chen Lin and the others' attacks.
• Luo Qinglan manifested a phoenix form, while Chen Lin attacked Yunhai and the Seven Sovereigns and Sword Woman fought their opponents.
• Chen Lin's Soul Master aura slowed Yunhai's runes, allowing Chen Lin to send the Sun-Swallowing Earthworm to engulf him in flames.
• Luo Qinglan sealed Huiye's crescent moon as the Sword Woman attacked Huiye and the Seven Sovereigns launched a Seven-Colored Arrow at Luo Qinglan.

Chen Lin switched to his Chiyuan identity, rescued Niuniu, and drove off High Person Yunhai and Huiye, though both escaped. After defeating the Seven Sovereigns, he left the space as Yuan Shanyue, while Niuniu and Sword Woman set out to seek the Holy Temple.

• High Person Yunhai sent the Soulless Patriarch's soul after Chen Lin, but Chen Lin froze it with the Soul Confrontation Secret Art and severed one of Niuniu's chains with the Rainbow Sword.
• Huiye used Night and Firefly to darken the space and cut Chen Lin's connection to the Rainbow Sword, so Chen Lin switched to his secondary identity as Chiyuan.
• Chiyuan reclaimed the Rainbow Sword, freed Niuniu from her remaining chains, and attacked High Person Yunhai, who exploded his body and escaped with the Soulless Patriarch's soul.
• Huiye transformed into motes of light and fled while Niuniu sent the scarecrows after him; Chiyuan struck at Huiye but could not destroy every mote, and Gu Siming also disappeared.
• Chiyuan killed the Seven Sovereigns' clones after Niuniu identified the Red Emperor as a replica, then spoke with Luo Qinglan before she vanished.
• Niuniu gave the Rainbow Sword to Sword Woman and proposed that they seek the Holy Temple together; Chiyuan gave Niuniu the name Yuan Shanyue and left the space.

Chen Lin returned to the Town Demon Realm, learned about the Holy Temple plans, and revisited places tied to his past. After discovering that Tianyuan Island had reappeared and exploring its ruins, he headed to Qingyang Sect and spotted a woman bathing near his old cave dwelling.

• Chen Lin met the Sun-Swallowing Earthworm, approved the name Chen Tiezhu, and learned that Niuniu and the others planned to seek Luo Qinglan and explore the Holy Temple with the Rainbow Sword as a key.
• Chen Lin left Silver Immortal City, reflected on people from his past while flying over the Wuding Sea, and discovered that Tianyuan Island had returned.
• Chen Lin questioned an exploration team from Silver Immortal City, learned that Tianyuan Island had appeared three years earlier, and continued deeper into the continent.
• Chen Lin found Danding City in ruins and visited Qingyang Sect, where memories of his former life there resurfaced.
• Chen Lin flew toward his old cave dwelling and saw a woman emerging from a pool.

Chen Lin encountered Ye Jinxuan, the former Fairy Zixia, on the Demonic Island and destroyed the seven Demonic Beads while learning how she had survived. As he prepared to leave, Ye Jinxuan revealed a demonic fetus that looked exactly like Qian Li, leaving Chen Lin to face the possibility that it was his offspring.

• Chen Lin recognized Ye Jinxuan, subdued her, and discovered a Demonic Bead within her nascent soul; the bead attacked him before the Ghost King Saber devoured it.
• Chen Lin revived Ye Jinxuan with spirit liquid, and she explained that seven Demonic Beads had consumed an ancient demon and that their seal bound her to the island.
• Ye Jinxuan identified the other six beads as belonging to the island’s Seven Devil Lords and agreed to guide Chen Lin in exchange for his help.
• Chen Lin killed the six Devil Lords and destroyed their Demonic Beads, strengthening the Ghost King Saber, then warned Ye Jinxuan not to threaten the realm.
• Ye Jinxuan told Chen Lin she had borne a demonic fetus while under the Lust Demonic Bead’s influence and showed him the egg-shaped fetus, whose baby looked exactly like Qian Li.

Chen Lin left the Boundary River by accident and began exploring the Outer Star Domain, seeking high-grade energy sources to restore Chen Tiezhu. After reaching Black-Silver Divine City and visiting a gemstone shop, he encountered an innate life-form whose presence Chen Tiezhu found familiar.

• Chen Lin learned that Fairy Zixia’s Demonic Fetus had bonded with the island, promised to inform Qian Li, and left her to cultivate there.
• Chen Lin returned to the deserted Kaiyuan City, spent the night in his old home, then departed and accidentally crossed into the Outer Star Domain.
• Chen Lin arrived on Dahuang Star and hired Gelu to guide him through Black-Silver Divine City to the Tiandu Gem House.
• Chen Lin showed the shop’s proprietor an ancient hexagonal crystal, gained access to the third floor, and asked to buy better fire-attribute gemstones.
• Chen Lin saw a green-haired innate life-form leave a neighboring room, and Chen Tiezhu told him she seemed familiar.

Chen Lin bought rare energy treasures from Yue Yingxian’s Tiandu Gem House and settled in Black-Silver Divine City to investigate her knowledge of variegated crystal. He also decided to stay out of the conflict over the Primordial Stele while the Youlong Star Domain grew unstable.

• Chen Lin bought a secret pattern true fire stone, a Seven-Star Yuan-Nourishing Bracelet, and a dazzling liquid color crystal from Yue Yingxian in exchange for an ancient witch crystal stone.
• Yue Yingxian gave Chen Lin an honored-guest talisman, and she told Yue Yue'er that she wanted to befriend powerful experts amid the unrest following Youlong Supreme’s death.
• Chen Lin spent three days shopping and then traveled across Dahuang Star for a year, finding few useful goods and learning that Youlong Supreme’s failed tribulation had affected the Boundary River’s barrier.
• Chen Lin reflected on Gu Siming’s long-running schemes and told Chen Tiezhu to warn Xiao Xun and Niuniu to guard against her.
• Chen Lin chose not to join the others’ struggle for the Primordial Stele and bought a shop on the same street as Tiandu Gem House.

Chen Lin opened the Oddity Pavilion and traded dream special sand with Adaiah for a variegated crystal and her promise to deliver innate life spirit liquid. After Adaiah left, Tiezhu deduced that she likely possessed the same Formless Symbiosis Dense Seal as Chen Lin, suggesting she was the secondary identity of the person who had taught him the technique.

• Chen Lin opened the Oddity Pavilion with Gelu and Lin Xinyi as assistants, and Yue Yingxian visited to congratulate him and ask why he had opened the shop.
• Adaiah came looking for thousand-threaded red willow, dream special sand, or Firefly Jade, and offered a variegated crystal in exchange for one of them.
• Chen Lin traded Adaiah some dream special sand for the variegated crystal and accepted her IOU for innate life spirit liquid to be delivered within six months.
• After Adaiah left, Chen Lin asked Tiezhu about the familiar presence he had sensed, and Tiezhu concluded that Adaiah likely possessed the Formless Symbiosis Dense Seal.
• Chen Lin suspected Adaiah was the secondary identity of the person who had taught him the Formless Symbiosis Dense Seal.

Chen Lin learned that the Dark Year might bring rare treasures and began weighing his plans to find a passage from the Seven-Star Realm. After Lin Xinyi revealed a secret about the city’s Divine Stone, Adaiah returned with an offer she claimed could change his life.

• Chen Lin rejected the invitation to Grand Duke White Moonlight’s festival and continued investigating Yue Yue’er’s gemstone shop and the approaching Dark Year.
• Yinshu reported that Yue Yue’er collected unusual crystals for her Myriad Crystal Banner and that Firefly Jade might appear on Great Yellow Mountain during the Dark Year.
• Chen Lin considered gathering materials for soul dissolution and planned to attend the passengers’ gathering aboard the Life Ferry before deciding whether to accept a life task.
• Lin Xinyi revealed her truth-guiding innate talent and reported that the Six Great Powers expected the city’s Divine Stone to produce extraordinary spirit dew during the Dark Year.
• Chen Lin met Adaiah, who offered to discuss a potentially life-changing deal at her residence, and agreed to go with her.

Chen Lin visited Adaiah’s Grotto-Heaven Treasure, learned about high-dimensional spaces, rule runes, and Soul Dissolution, and agreed to help her collect Firefly Jade during the coming Dark Year. Adaiah then prepared to explain the dangers of Soul Dissolution, while Chen Lin remained committed to pursuing it.

• Adaiah brought Chen Lin into her high-grade Grotto-Heaven Treasure and explained how a grotto-heaven could evolve through Dao essence or rules.
• Adaiah questioned Chen Lin about the dream special sand and learned that he possessed the Eight-Gate Lock-Summoning Technique and intended to undergo Soul Dissolution.
• Adaiah explained Creators, high-dimensional beings, and rule runic inscriptions, then gave Chen Lin sprite-race spirit dew that let him experience the formation of those runes.
• Chen Lin and Adaiah discussed their Soul-Unlocking Methods, and Adaiah warned him that Soul Dissolution carried grave risks.
• Adaiah asked Chen Lin to help her gather Firefly Jade from the Thousand-Head Fireflies during the coming Dark Year, and they agreed that he would receive thirty percent.
• Adaiah began to explain Soul Dissolution after Chen Lin promised to cooperate.

Adaiah explained the stages, dangers, and preparations for Soul Dissolution to Chen Lin, including how it could force him to confront and fuse with all his other selves. After offering to find him Cui Xuandie specimens, she heard Chen Lin ask where the passage to the Star Ruins was.

• Adaiah explained that Soul Dissolution required Soul Rooting, Soul Fortification, a Soul-Unlocking Key, and the summoning and fusion of Chen Lin's other selves before unlocking the Soul Lock.
• Adaiah revealed that she had arranged for the Lake-Fishing Old Man to be trapped for a thousand years, and Tiezhu reminded Chen Lin that Adaiah had once taught him the Symbiotic Sealing Technique.
• Adaiah explained how a stronger other self could take over Chen Lin or escape the Soul Dissolution technique, and warned him about the unpredictable tribulation that followed unlocking the Soul Lock.
• Chen Lin told Adaiah about the six Soul-Unlocking Objects he knew, and Adaiah deduced that Cui Xuandie could help counter the Soul Dissolution tribulation.
• Adaiah offered to find Chen Lin several Cui Xuandie specimens, and Chen Lin asked her to share the location of the passage to the Star Ruins.

Chen Lin learned from Adaiah that reaching the Star Ruins would require surviving the River of Rules and crossing dimensional obstacles, then considered waiting to learn from her soul dissolution. Two years later, he sought variegated crystal from Yue Yingxian’s visitor, who offered it only in exchange for Chen Lin joining the fight for the Firefly Jade; Yue Yingxian also wondered whether Chen Lin had caused a reaction in her gemstone.

• Adaiah warned Chen Lin about the dangers of the Star Ruins, gave him a single-use Sprite Queen's Tear, and shared information about dimensional gaps and safer routes between realms.
• Chen Lin reviewed the routes to the Star Ruins and decided to wait for Adaiah to undergo soul dissolution before choosing how to proceed.
• Two years later, Chen Lin visited the Tiandu Gem House after Yinshu reported that a mysterious man was meeting Yue Yingxian.
• Yue Yue'er tried to turn Chen Lin away, but Yue Yingxian let him upstairs, where Chen Lin asked the dignified visitor for variegated crystal and a way to resist rule erosion.
• The visitor refused to sell a rule-resistant treasure and offered variegated crystal only if Chen Lin joined him in fighting for the Firefly Jade; Chen Lin declined and left.
• Yue Yingxian told her Second Brother that her gemstone had briefly fluctuated when Chen Lin appeared, but he dismissed the possibility that Chen Lin was connected to her tribulation.

Chen Lin accepted Yue Yingxian’s gift of dazzling liquid color crystal, but grew wary when she asked about his lineage and brought up Zhenyangzi. He then boarded the Life Ferry for its Centennial Gathering, where a wine-tasting challenge offered the chance to earn access to the Second Mate’s trades.

• Chen Lin learned that Daidaixi’s royal lineage on Red Umbrella Star held powerful destiny-related treasures, and decided to seek variegated crystal before approaching her.
• Yue Yingxian brought Chen Lin two portions of dazzling liquid color crystal, asked about his Wizard inheritance, and offered to acknowledge him as her younger sister.
• Yue Yingxian mentioned Zhenyangzi, but Chen Lin denied knowing him and later dismissed the possibility that he could still be controlled by Zhenyangzi or Nian Kong.
• Pearl summoned Chen Lin to the Life Ferry, where he arrived at the Centennial Gathering and learned that he could earn the Second Mate’s wine by completing a trade.
• The Second Mate opened the gathering with a wine-tasting challenge, and Chen Lin began looking for someone to trade with.

Chen Lin traded information about Soul-Unlocking Objects for two Variegated Crystals at the Life Ferry gathering and sampled several of Tuxedo’s rare wines. Tuxedo gave him another glass as a welcoming gift, hoping he would never need to use its effect.

• A Phantom Mask passenger traded a Three-Eyed Four-Eyed Flower to the long-eared old man for ten Life Coins, and both received wine from Tuxedo.
• Chen Lin exchanged information about six auxiliary Soul-Unlocking Objects with a Two-Star passenger for a Variegated Crystal, while warning that one detail was not fully confirmed.
• Chen Lin drank Soul-Splitting Wine and watched the other passengers’ trades continue; after his own offer found no match, he moved to a neighboring table.
• A youthful masked passenger traded Chen Lin another Variegated Crystal for the Soul-Unlocking information, imposing a restriction against reselling it during the gathering.
• Chen Lin recognized that another wine resembled Drunken God Brew and explained its effects to Tuxedo, who accepted his answer and poured him another glass as a welcoming gift.

Chen Lin was barred from trading at the gathering but acquired a mysterious hat whose ancient last letter revealed that the fireflies on Great Yellow Mountain were characters from a book. He was left questioning the book’s power and the connection to Firefly Jade.

• Chen Lin violated the trading rules by listing too many requested treasures, so Tuxedo banned him from trading and collected three Life Coins from Pearl as punishment.
• Back at his shop, Chen Lin bought a strange dark hat from Liu Siji for one Semi-Void Pill after Tiezhu detected hidden characters on it.
• Chen Lin translated the incomplete markings and learned they were a last letter addressed to Mosdi, asking him to meet the writer about a major secret.
• Yinshu reported that Adaiah had gone to the Red Cloud Continent and asked Chen Lin not to search for her, then later recovered the missing piece of the hat from the Spiritual Field.
• Chen Lin completed the letter and discovered that fireflies on Great Yellow Mountain had killed a powerful spirit beast and were characters from a book, leaving him puzzled by the book’s power and Firefly Jade.

Chen Lin investigated the origins of Firefly Jade and learned that Thousand-Head Fireflies appeared to be real demon insects, though their nature remained uncertain. Yue Yingxian then revealed that she was facing a formless Dao tribulation and believed Chen Lin was the person fated to help her survive it.

• Chen Lin questioned Shopkeeper Xiao, who showed him Firefly Jade and described the Thousand-Head Fireflies he had encountered on Great Yellow Mountain.
• Chen Lin gathered reports for several years, learning that most people considered the Thousand-Head Fireflies real demon insects linked to Emperor Qianling’s lost Spirit Hound.
• Yue Yingxian visited Chen Lin with two portions of dazzling liquid color crystal, and Chen Lin recognized that she was undergoing a great Dao tribulation.
• Yue Yingxian told Chen Lin that Zhenyangzi’s divination pointed to him as the person who could help her survive, and offered him a share of her clan’s variegated crystal allocation in exchange for his aid.

Chen Lin attended a meeting to negotiate the black-gold dew allocation, where Fairy Yaochi appeared alongside a powerful delegation from the Hundred Fruit Orchard. After Yaochi said she already loved someone but could not remember his face, her senior brother threatened Chen Lin and challenged him to withstand one move.

• Chen Lin rejected Yue Yingxian's request for help, then spent decades studying soul dissolution while waiting for news from his companions.
• Lu Xiaochuan invited Chen Lin to help the Lu Lineage secure a share of the black-gold dew, and Chen Lin assured him he could keep the situation under control.
• Fairy Yaochi arrived at the meeting with Jinlin, a white-robed senior brother, and a saber wielder; Lu Xiaochuan explained that the Hundred Fruit Orchard was a powerful, mysterious faction.
• The white-robed man demanded ninety percent of the black-gold dew and singled out Chen Lin to answer whether he agreed.
• Chen Lin questioned Yaochi about her relationship with her senior brother, and the saber wielder's attack failed to penetrate the Armor of Hope.
• Yaochi said she already had a companion whom she loved, and her senior brother threatened Chen Lin before offering to spare him if he survived one move.

Chen Lin defeated Feng Baiyu and the saber wielder, claimed most of the black-gold dew, and discovered a hundred high-dimensional fruit trees inside a Grotto-Heaven Treasure. He decided to stay in his current identity long enough to obtain the Firefly Jade and black-gold dew, despite the risk of retaliation.

• Chen Lin broke through Feng Baiyu’s apple’s suppression and killed the saber wielder after Feng Baiyu recognized the divinity’s radiance and begged for mercy.
• Chen Lin used the Ancient Witch Eyeball to stop Feng Baiyu from escaping, killed him, and let Fairy Yaochi and Jinlin leave.
• Chen Lin claimed ninety percent of the black-gold dew, returned to his shop, and examined the three items taken from his enemies.
• Chen Lin learned the apple could communicate with its tree and discovered that Feng Baiyu’s fruit-pit waist ornament was a small Grotto-Heaven Treasure containing a hundred high-dimensional fruit trees.
• Chen Lin considered switching back to his original identity if danger grew, but chose to wait for the Firefly Jade and black-gold dew before changing identities.

During the Dark Year, Lin Xinyi was attacked by a mysterious vine linked to a higher-dimensional Otherworld, and Chen Lin used Tiezhu to drive it back and investigate its source. After securing Lin Xinyi and arranging for Lu Xiaochuan to watch his shop, Chen Lin returned to find a mysterious Giant Egg in the Lu Lineage’s gift.

• When the Dark Year plunged the Youlong Star Domain into darkness, a dark red vine emerged from between Lin Xinyi’s brows and trapped her inside a Formless Barrier.
• Chen Lin had Tiezhu break the barrier and used the Ghost King Saber to wound the vine, forcing it to retreat into Lin Xinyi.
• Tiezhu opened a brief view into a higher-dimensional room filled with vines, where Chen Lin spotted a branch bearing a red string and a gash connected to Lin Xinyi.
• Chen Lin learned that Tiezhu could reopen the passage near Lin Xinyi, then moved her into the Fruit Core Grotto-Heaven to recover.
• Lu Xiaochuan asked Chen Lin to forgive the Lu Lineage and offered to watch his shop, then gave him a bundle before leaving.
• After failing to learn anything about Adaiah, Chen Lin returned to the shop and found a human-head-sized Giant Egg covered in runic inscriptions inside the bundle.

Chen Lin learned that the Lu Lineage had given him a viable blind egg, then met Adaiah and heard about the Abandoned Land and its summons to Dominators. They reached Great Yellow Mountain to investigate the Thousand-Head Fireflies, where Yinshu reported that a mysterious luminous image had appeared when Dark Descent began.

• Elder Qin explained that the Lu Lineage's blind eggs came from crossbreeding many spirit-beast species, and Chen Lin stored the viable egg for later.
• Chen Lin left Elder Qin in charge of the shop and departed for Great Yellow Mountain with plans to investigate the Firefly Jade and the Hat Last Will.
• Adaiah identified Mosdi as a fourth-rank Dominator and told Chen Lin that the Abandoned Land summoned Dominators, with primal power helping resist its pull.
• Chen Lin and Adaiah discussed the Abandoned Land while traveling, then reached Great Yellow Mountain and saw cultivators gathering to hunt Thousand-Head Fireflies.
• At Dahuang City, Yinshu reported his gathered information and told Chen Lin that a brief luminous image had appeared above Great Yellow Mountain when Dark Descent began.

Chen Lin examined records of a mysterious projection at Great Yellow Mountain and learned that space rifts in the Boundary River led to a separate plane connected to the Bizarre Kingdom. Adaiah offered to manifest Yue Yingxian’s formless tribulation for Firefly Jade, then revealed that Chen Lin and Yue Yingxian were each other’s tribulation-facing person and that their shared tribulation had begun.

• Yinshu reported a brief projection of ruins at Great Yellow Mountain, and Chen Lin summoned Yi Qiuyuan, Feng Qi, and Yue Yingxian to learn what they had seen.
• Chen Lin examined the three experts’ recorded memories and noticed a dark red vine in Yue Yingxian’s clearer image, which reminded him of a place connected to Lin Xinyi and the Large Yellow Dog’s death.
• Yue Yingxian said the Boundary River’s rifts led to a plane connected to the Bizarre Kingdom, while Chen Lin warned that the Great Yellow Mountain projection might bring danger from a High-Dimensional Space.
• Adaiah refused Chen Lin’s offer to join forces with the others and offered to help Yue Yingxian manifest her formless tribulation in exchange for Firefly Jade.
• After Yue Yingxian and the others left, Adaiah admitted she could not discern the tribulation but explained that Chen Lin and Yue Yingxian were each other’s tribulation-facing person, so they shared the formless tribulation that had begun.