Recaps

Chen Lin learned that he might be undergoing a formless tribulation alongside Yue Yingxian and went with Adaiah to investigate Great Yellow Mountain. As Chen Lin agreed to help Yue Yingxian survive her tribulation, a Thousand-Head Firefly escaped through the boundary.

• Adaiah warned Chen Lin that his true body might be suffering a formless tribulation and gave him a gemstone that could trace danger to its source.
• Adaiah identified Zhenyangzi as a renowned diviner of the Emergent Daoist Sect and proposed finding the book that could produce Firefly Jade.
• Chen Lin and Adaiah reached Great Yellow Mountain, where Feng Qi reported that dozens of cultivators had died hunting unusually powerful Thousand-Head Fireflies.
• Yue Yingxian told Chen Lin that her treasure had reacted to him twice, and Chen Lin concluded that he was probably her tribulation-facing person.
• Chen Lin offered to help Yue Yingxian survive her tribulation in exchange for ten pieces of variegated crystal, but someone announced that a Thousand-Head Firefly had escaped through the boundary.

Chen Lin and Adaiah fought the mutated Thousand-Head Fireflies as they escaped Great Yellow Mountain, while Chen Lin gathered Firefly Jade and learned more about Yue Yingxian’s suspected formless tribulation. After days of fighting, powerful outsiders began containing the wider disaster, but Chen Lin learned that people from the Celestial God Palace had arrived.

• Thousand-Head Fireflies breached Great Yellow Mountain and overwhelmed the valley, but Chen Lin and Yue Yingxian broke their illusions and fought them off.
• Chen Lin discovered that the Ghost King Saber absorbed a mysterious aura from Firefly Jade, then joined Adaiah in guarding the valley exits and killing the fireflies.
• Yue Yingxian offered Chen Lin dazzling liquid color crystal and her Natal Gemstone as possible payment, and said she suspected their formless tribulation was causing her to choose him over her deceased husband in an illusion.
• Yue Yingxian explained how she and her husband had bound an Everlasting Bell on Huqiu, and Chen Lin set aside his questions when more fireflies surged from the valley.
• Over dozens of days, Chen Lin killed more than a thousand fireflies and collected two jin of Firefly Jade, while some escaped and devastated Dahuang Star.
• Powerful figures from the Outer World began hunting escaped fireflies, and Chen Lin learned that people from the Celestial God Palace had arrived.

Chen Lin impersonated Elder Chunjiu’s Divine Envoy to deflect Qu Zixian’s suspicions and avoid surrendering his Firefly Jade. He joined Qu Zixian’s party to explore the valley, where his Silence Technique proved effective against high-dimensional energy, and the chapter left him urging Yue Yingxian and her Second Brother to stay behind.

• Qu Zixian confronted Chen Lin, who claimed Chunjiu had made him her Divine Envoy and showed Chunjiu’s bottle as proof.
• Chen Lin learned Han Wangxian’s disappearance had drawn the Celestial God Palace’s attention, then decided to use his original body in the Star Ruins.
• Qu Zixian demanded Chen Lin’s Firefly Jade, but Chen Lin refused, and the party agreed to investigate the valley together.
• Qu Zixian introduced Moka, Ba Gu, and Zhou Anshi, whose spatial abilities and connection to Great Sky Lake drew Chen Lin’s interest.
• Ba Gu’s sound attack disoriented the Thousand-Head Fireflies, while Moka dispelled Ba Gu’s illusion and Chen Lin discovered his Silence Technique suppressed the sound waves.
• Yue Yingxian gave Chen Lin the variegated crystal, and he urged her and her Second Brother to remain outside the valley.

Chen Lin and the others entered the valley, where a strange force suppressed their energy and a swarm of Thousand-Head Fireflies attacked them. After Chen Lin’s Ghost King Saber destroyed the fireflies, Qu Zixian reacted with alarm to the weapon and told Chen Lin to keep it, leaving Chen Lin suspicious that the saber concealed a serious secret.

• Qu Zixian tested the valley with his flying swords, discovered an invisible barrier and a book within a secret realm, then required the group to follow his orders as they went deeper.
• Chen Lin, Yue Yingxian, Moka, Ba Gu, Zhou Anshi, and Qu Zixian crossed the barrier, where their energy became suppressed and increasingly agitated.
• Tiezhu sensed the book in a cave and warned Chen Lin that its characters were flying toward them as points of light.
• Moka’s protective light barely covered Chen Lin and Yue Yingxian, so Chen Lin shattered the fireflies’ illusion and destroyed the Thousand-Head Fireflies with the Ghost King Saber.
• Qu Zixian recognized the Ghost King Saber, rejected Chen Lin’s claim that Chunjiu had bestowed it, then backed away and said his martial aunt had given Chen Lin the saber.

Chen Lin and Qu Zixian's group found a blank book in the cave, but when it reached Chen Lin, the Ghost King Saber’s ghost face leapt onto it and the group attacked him. Chen Lin resisted their assault, but Yue Yingxian was badly injured protecting him as Qu Zixian prepared another strike.

• Qu Zixian ordered Chen Lin to enter the cave with the others, where they found an apparently ordinary, blank book on a cyan stone.
• Qu Zixian used his authority as an official disciple of the Celestial God Palace to force Chen Lin to pick up the book, then turned its pages without finding any writing.
• After the others examined the blank book and passed it back, the Ghost King Saber activated on its own and its ghost face lunged onto the book.
• Qu Zixian, Moka, Ba Gu, and Zhou Anshi attacked Chen Lin together, while Chen Lin broke through Qu Zixian’s suppression and defended himself with his heart of indomitability, the Mystic Gold Spear, and the Armor of Hope.
• Yue Yingxian blocked Qu Zixian’s flying sword for Chen Lin and was severely injured, but Qu Zixian merged his swords and launched another attack.

Chen Lin switched to his original body to escape the valley’s energy corruption and used the Soul-Destroying Finger against Qu Zixian’s group and the ghost face hidden in a book. As Moka died and the book resisted Chen Lin’s attacks, Qu Zixian and Zhou Anshi opened a black-hole vortex and sent a giant flying sword into it.

• Chen Lin’s secondary identity and the others lost control of their energy, so he switched to his original body and killed Ba Gu with the Soul-Destroying Finger.
• Chen Lin attacked the book protecting the Ghost King Saber’s ghost face while keeping Qu Zixian, Moka, and Zhou Anshi under pressure; their treasures and abilities blocked his soul attacks.
• Yue Yingxian sided with Chen Lin and used her Red Gemstone to weaken Moka’s Formless Barrier.
• Moka abandoned his defenses and charged Chen Lin, but his unstable energy detonated and destroyed him.
• Qu Zixian summoned a third sword and asked Zhou Anshi to open the void; Zhou Anshi formed a vortex around a black hole, and Qu Zixian launched his giant flying sword into it.

Chen Lin and the others escaped the valley with help from an unknown archer, but their powers were suppressed after they emerged. As Chen Lin fought Qu Zixian and Zhou Anshi with a sword, Zhou Anshi accused Qu Zixian of poisoning his younger brother.

• Chen Lin, Qu Zixian, Zhou Anshi, and Yue Yingxian escaped the Dominator’s collapsing sphere through the black-hole passage after an emerald arrow shattered it.
• The four emerged in a strange place where their supernatural abilities and treasures no longer worked, and Chen Lin seized Qu Zixian’s fallen Flying Sword.
• Yue Yingxian joined Chen Lin, while Qu Zixian and Zhou Anshi stood together; Chen Lin’s sword strike failed to kill Zhou Anshi, who drew a dagger.
• Chen Lin attacked Qu Zixian, but Zhou Anshi refused to help him, so Qu Zixian threatened Zhou Anshi over his younger brother’s poison.
• Zhou Anshi asked how Qu Zixian knew his younger brother had thousand-child heart-inquiring poison and accused him of ordering the poisoning.

Chen Lin, Zhou Anshi, and Yue Yingxian explored a supernatural-energy-suppressing island after killing Qu Zixian, then discovered ruins linked to the legendary Shadow Scholar. Learning that a powerful vine guarded the Hexagonal High Tower, Chen Lin chose to investigate a distant wooden house first, and the three headed toward it together.

• Chen Lin and Zhou Anshi subdued Qu Zixian, and Zhou Anshi killed him after Chen Lin promised to help find a cure for his younger brother's poison.
• Chen Lin, Zhou Anshi, and Yue Yingxian explored the island, found the ruins and Hexagonal High Tower, and learned that the secret realm was associated with the Shadow Scholar.
• Yue Yingxian explained the Shadow Scholar's legend and the powerful inheritances found in his ruins, while Chen Lin and his companions introduced themselves and agreed to proceed cautiously.
• After exploring the island for more than half a month, Chen Lin discovered that his Spirit Infusion Realm ability still worked, though he warned that a powerful dark red vine guarded the tower.
• Chen Lin rejected Zhou Anshi's offer to scout alone and led the group on a detour toward a remote wooden house to investigate the ruins away from the tower.

Chen Lin, Zhou Anshi, and Yue Yingxian explored the island’s abandoned buildings and found a plank bearing Wuji Zi’s martial arts and a record of the Wordless Celestial Book. As their lifespans dwindled, they approached the central tower, where they saw different names on its plaque and Yue Yingxian recognized the vine as possibly an Everlasting Vine.

• Chen Lin learned from Tiezhu that he could use ten percent of his Flame Divine Ability once, then led Zhou Anshi and Yue Yingxian to the wooden house.
• The three found a plank inscribed with Wuji Zi’s account of crossing an Invisible Barrier, his failure to unravel a Wordless Celestial Book, and the Wuji Divine Skill; Zhou Anshi copied the technique.
• After searching the outer buildings for nearly a month, the three found only ore, half an inkstone, and a journal, while realizing that their innate lifespans were being consumed.
• Zhou Anshi proposed scouting the Hexagonal High Tower, and Chen Lin and Yue Yingxian joined him, believing the tower might hold a way out.
• At the tower, Chen Lin saw the words “Three Flavors Study,” Yue Yingxian saw “Gate of Myriad Tribulations,” and Zhou Anshi saw “Scripture Pavilion.”
• Yue Yingxian studied the vine hanging from the tower’s upper window and said it looked like an Everlasting Vine.

Chen Lin entered the tower and relived several alternate lives, including a life on Earth and a version of Lin Ergou’s life without him. He passed the tower’s trial and found himself in the Vine Room, where the vine offered him one book and he asked whether an Everlasting Bond could be dissolved.

• Chen Lin, Zhou Anshi, and Yue Yingxian agreed to enter the tower after identifying a vine that might be an Everlasting Vine.
• The tower showed Chen Lin an alternate life in which he answered a blind date kindly, married the girl, and spent a happy life with her.
• Chen Lin experienced another life as Cheng Hao, a poor boy in Ming Dynasty Earth who died young and alone.
• Chen Lin watched an alternate Lin Ergou obtain Zhenyangzi’s inheritance and the Riddle Mask, make Nana fall in love with him, and later enter a High Dimensional plane.
• Chen Lin resolved to accept his own choices and discovered he had arrived in the Vine Room, where a spiritual entity called the study boy said he had passed the trial and could choose one book.
• Chen Lin learned his companions had not yet completed the trial and asked the vine whether an already formed Everlasting Bond could be dissolved.

Chen Lin survived the tower trial, outwitted the Everlasting Vine, and took a Wordless Celestial Book before escaping with Yue Yingxian and Zhou Anshi. After hearing their accounts, he learned the formless tribulation might have been suppressed rather than truly eliminated.

• The Everlasting Vine attacked Chen Lin after suspecting his connection to its red-string contract, and Chen Lin wounded it with Tiezhu’s flames and his sword.
• The vine offered to guide Chen Lin to a book if he promised Tiezhu would burn down the tower, and Chen Lin questioned it about Everlasting Vine contracts and his companions.
• Chen Lin ignored the vine’s chosen book and took another, triggering the tower’s rules to transport him safely out as the vine raged.
• Chen Lin reunited with Yue Yingxian and Zhou Anshi, who thanked him and offered favors before Zhou Anshi moved them into the void.
• Chen Lin and his companions compared their trials, and Yue Yingxian said the formless tribulation had recurred in her past lives and might only have been suppressed.

Chen Lin learned more about the Wordless Celestial Book and received the Shadow Scholar’s inheritance, including a secret method for entering childlike innocence and detailed guidance on the spirit infusion realm. He began studying the inheritance in Black-Silver Divine City, while the threat of the ghost face and his uncertain path out of the Seven-Star Realm remained unresolved.

• Yue Yingxian and Zhou Anshi speculated that the Wordless Celestial Book had suppressed Chen Lin’s formless tribulation and admitted they could not remember something connected to the ghost face.
• Yue Yingxian and Zhou Anshi agreed to search for treasures that could help Chen Lin withstand the River of Rules, and Yue Yingxian promised to obtain him a variegated crystal within three years.
• Chen Lin returned to Dahuang Star, searched Great Yellow Mountain for Adaiah, then changed his appearance and went to Black-Silver Divine City to examine his gains.
• Chen Lin opened the Wordless Celestial Book, absorbed its contents, and learned that it carried the Shadow Scholar’s inheritance and could use spirit script to create objects or living beings.
• Chen Lin discovered that the inheritance included a secret method for entering childlike innocence and guidance on the intent, spirit infusion, and Creator stages.
• Chen Lin began comprehending the inheritance’s detailed material on the spirit infusion and Creator stages.

Chen Lin learned the truth about Lin Xinyi’s past-life contract, then spent three years preparing to leave the Boundary River and pursue soul dissolution. After acquiring the promised variegated crystal, he departed Dahuang Star and headed for the Red Cloud Star Domain.

• Chen Lin learned that Lin Xinyi had once been Nie Ziqing of the White Light Star Domain and remained bound by an Everlasting Vine contract connected to Bai Wujing.
• Chen Lin and Lin Xinyi discovered that the White Light Star Domain had vanished a hundred thousand years earlier, and Chen Lin concluded Bai Wujing was probably dead; Lin Xinyi chose to leave her past behind and remain his maidservant.
• Chen Lin received five Cui Xuandie, a Three-Eyed Fortune Shell, and a True Bat Ear from Adaiah, leaving him one soul-unlocking object short of attempting soul dissolution.
• Three years later, Chen Lin found the Boundary River manageable, saw the Kaiyuan Realm developing safely, and prepared to leave with Tianshu and Hua Yi.
• Cheng Lingdie deciphered the Secret Realm notes, allowing Chen Lin to learn the Spatial Leap secret method, though his current ability limited its range and power.
• Lin Xinyi brought Chen Lin the variegated crystal promised by Yue Yingxian, and Chen Lin left Dahuang Star for the Red Cloud Star Domain.

Chen Lin waited in Peach Sea for the Peach Banquet auction while mastering the Childlike Innocence secret method. Xiaohua awakened and explained the Wordless Celestial Book’s significance, then offered a dangerous alternative route out of the Seven-Star Realm as Chen Lin weighed his options.

• Chen Lin learned that Peach Sea would not activate its long-range formation to Red Umbrella Star, so he decided to wait ten years for the Peach Banquet auction and its Teleportation Tokens.
• After seven years of studying the Wordless Celestial Book, Chen Lin mastered the Childlike Innocence secret method and searched the market for thousand-threaded red willow and variegated crystal without success.
• Xiaohua awakened in Chen Lin’s cave, heard about his plans and difficulties, and gave him an artifact-refining method for the Myriad Image Shield to help withstand the River of Rules.
• Xiaohua examined the Wordless Celestial Book and urged Chen Lin to make it his main focus, explaining that the Shadow Scholar was the only clearly documented Creator and warning him against relying on the Primordial Stele to ascend.
• Xiaohua offered to use two Void Passages to force Chen Lin out of the Seven-Star Realm, but warned that space storms made the route extremely dangerous and that the Lake-Fishing Old Man’s seal would still interfere.
• Chen Lin judged the River of Destiny route safer and asked Xiaohua how much of her cultivation had recovered.

Chen Lin learned that soul dissolution was far more dangerous than he had thought, while Xiaohua left for the Life Ferry to escape pursuit by her family. He then entered the Fate River using the Sprite Queen's Tear and began testing how much of his power remained usable there.

• Xiaohua warned Chen Lin that soul dissolution had caused two of her friends to fail, and advised him to seek a Rank Seven Dominator to guard him.
• Xiaohua explained that her father, a Fifth Rank Dominator, and her intended fiancé's clan might kill Chen Lin because she had fled her engagement and formed a contract with him.
• Chen Lin gave Xiaohua his Life Coins, Character Card, and black Round Disc, and she vanished to pursue a Life Ferry ticket.
• Chen Lin weighed the risks of soul dissolution and decided his unusual soul, Soul Master Inheritance, and other aids might give him a chance.
• Chen Lin activated the Sprite Queen's Tear with Soul Force and entered the Fate River in his own body.
• Chen Lin found that several abilities still worked in the Fate River, but most of his powers were suppressed to less than a tenth of their strength.

Chen Lin rescued a badly injured high-dimensional alien from the River of Destiny and used rare fruits to restore his body. He then returned to the market with Hua Yi, where Shopkeeper Luan offered him an ancient tome about rare Spirit Plants for a steep price.

• Chen Lin found a wounded blue humanoid drifting in the River of Destiny, brought him back in the Grotto-Heaven Jade Pendant, and decided to try to save him.
• Chen Lin treated the alien with Spirit Liquid, Black-Gold Dew, and several fruits, discovering that coconut-like fruits healed the alien's body.
• After half a year, the ripe coconut fruits had restored most of the alien's body, and Chen Lin left Tianshu to care for him while he visited the market with Hua Yi.
• Chen Lin gave Hua Yi his Seven-Color Bracelet for protection as they searched for supplies and information about the fruits in his Fruit Core Grotto-Heaven.
• Shopkeeper Luan showed Chen Lin an Elder Ancient Text by Ning Tianyue and asked for ten thousand high-grade Star Crystals, or one thousand for a copy under a nondisclosure contract.

Chen Lin studied Ning Tianyue’s tome, learning about rare spirit plants and recognizing the Realm-Leaping Fruit he had taken from the white-robed young man. As the Peach Banquet auction began, he watched the first item appear and saw a little girl standing on its jade disk.

• Chen Lin read about rank-four and rank-five spirit plants, confirmed his apple was a Realm-Leaping Fruit, and stored it in his Grotto-Heaven Jade Pendant for safekeeping.
• Chen Lin learned more about thousand-threaded red willow and rank-six everlasting vine, then discussed the tome’s mysterious, possibly rank-seven spirit plant with Tiezhu.
• Chen Lin checked on the still-unconscious Blue Alien and studied the Fruit Core Grotto-Heaven’s spiritual fruits to plan his cultivation.
• Chen Lin attended the Peach Banquet with Hua Yi, searched the crowds for familiar figures, and found none before the auction began.
• Mo Yuanshan opened the auction and presented the first item, revealing a little girl standing on a jade disk.

Chen Lin attended an auction in the Peach Sea, where he won the allegiance of a peak-grade Peach Spirit and named her Hongchen. He befriended Young Master Jing and agreed to become his sworn brother, gaining a possible connection to the Jingyun Trading Firm’s resources.

• Chen Lin watched Young Master Jing bid one hundred thousand high-grade star crystals for the peak-grade Peach Spirit, but she rejected his pledge of allegiance.
• Young Master Jing offered the Peach Spirit to anyone who could form a bond with her, and Chen Lin succeeded when he gave his blood.
• Chen Lin named the Peach Spirit Hongchen, and she pledged herself to him as their bond strengthened.
• Chen Lin thanked Young Master Jing and exchanged Transmission Talismans with him, introducing himself as Zhao Zhengyuan.
• Young Master Jing proposed that they become sworn brothers, and Chen Lin accepted and drank wine with him.

Chen Lin learned about Jing Yuanzhou’s past and the dangers and history of the Star Ruins while discussing the Everlasting Bell contract and the Riddle Mask with him. Jing Yuanzhou agreed to obtain a section of thousand-threaded red willow for Chen Lin, then asked whether Chen Lin intended to dissolve his soul.

• Chen Lin learned that Jing Yuanzhou was a holy-bone prodigy whose bone had been stolen in childhood, leaving him crippled and exiled from the Jing Lineage.
• Jing Yuanzhou explained the Star Ruins’ four known regions, the Bizarre Kingdom’s near-destruction of its factions, and the dangers of exploring unknown planes.
• Chen Lin told Jing Yuanzhou and the Yellow-Clothed Maid that his other self had formed an Everlasting Bell contract with a bizarre creature, and revealed that the Riddle Mask had helped create it.
• Jing Yuanzhou and the Yellow-Clothed Maid reacted strongly to the Riddle Mask and learned Chen Lin had encountered it in a Life Ferry mission plane.
• Chen Lin asked about thousand-threaded red willow, and Jing Yuanzhou offered to have a section sent from headquarters, then asked if Chen Lin planned to dissolve his soul.

Chen Lin learned about the powers of the Star Ruins, questioned Hongchen about her origins and desire for freedom, and watched the auction. He secured Mo Yuanshan’s Pill Dao inheritance by offering an Eternal Treasure with a high-dimensional trait, leaving himself committed to an expensive exchange.

• Young Master Jing explained the Ten Great Powers of the Central Area and how a power’s strength depended on its dominators, supreme treasures, and influence over rules.
• Chen Lin questioned Hongchen about her memories and transformation, while Tiezhu detected that she secretly resisted serving as a maid; Chen Lin decided he would offer her freedom if she wanted it.
• Chen Lin watched the auction and considered the value of spiritual fruits and the need to improve his crafting skills, but he did not bid on the lots before the Pill Dao inheritance.
• Chen Lin joined the bidding for Mo Yuanshan’s Pill Dao inheritance as its price rose, then offered an Eternal Treasure with a high-dimensional trait.
• Mo Yuanshan waived the assessment and sent Chen Lin the Inheritance Bead, and Chen Lin accepted that he would have to complete the costly exchange.

Chen Lin studied Mo Yuanshan’s pill inheritance before discovering that the auctioned Bell-Gathering Beast was Xu Wuye, captured and held for sale. He resolved to save her as bidders offered treasures, while the cloaked seller rejected the offers and demanded complete bids.

• Chen Lin bought materials for the Spirit Beast Egg and Myriad Image Shield, then read Mo Yuanshan’s inheritance and considered using the Nascent Soul Pill formula to improve his Qi Luck Pill Refining Technique.
• Mo Yuanshan revealed that a Supreme Expert called the Black Demon King was attending the auction, and Chen Lin learned that ten Teleportation Tokens would be auctioned the next day.
• The auction presented a female Bell-Gathering Beast, and Mo Yuanshan explained her potential and invited bidders to view her human form.
• The Bell-Gathering Beast transformed into Xu Wuye, whom Chen Lin recognized through her appearance and the Round Bead’s reaction.
• Chen Lin decided he had to save Xu Wuye, but Jing Yuanzhou declined to bid and the cloaked seller rejected several offers of treasures.
• The cloaked seller told interested bidders to list everything they would offer, promising to respond to the bids together.

Chen Lin exchanged five rainbow flowers to save Xu Wuye from the Heaven Realm Slave-Catching Team, but their powerful backing left him isolated and in danger. After the auction, the Peach Blossom Fairy sent Hongchen a rare Immortal Peach, and Chen Lin suspected his identity as a stowaway had been exposed and the Slave-Catching Squad would come for him.

• Chen Lin offered rainbow flowers for Xu Wuye, and the cloaked man tortured her and repeatedly raised the price before Mo Yuanshan forced him to honor the deal.
• Chen Lin took Xu Wuye and her cage into his Grotto-Heaven Treasure, but Jing Yuanzhou had already left after learning that a powerful enemy was present.
• Chen Lin had Tiezhu return to their lodging to warn Tianshu and conceal the Blue Alien, then stayed to bid on useful items and obtained a Teleportation Token.
• After the auction, the Peach Blossom Fairy held a simplified Peach Banquet and gave Chen Lin a peak-grade Immortal Peach that Hongchen identified as her own true form.
• Chen Lin gave the peach to Hongchen and concluded that the Peach Blossom Fairy expected him to be captured because the Slave-Catching Squad had uncovered his identity.

After the Peach Sea closed its Teleportation Formations, Chen Lin stayed in Peach Blossom City and joined a small trading convention while searching for useful treasures. He traded Cracked Tree Bark for another Bone Sparrow Feather, and the old man asked whether Chen Lin had obtained the bark himself.

• Chen Lin discovered that the Blue Alien's Gem Bracelet resisted his soul-mind probing, so he sealed it away and asked Lin Xinyi to treat the alien with Black-Gold Dew.
• Chen Lin found the Teleportation Hall closed and chose to remain in Peach Blossom City rather than risk being inspected while leaving the Peach Sea.
• Chen Lin attended a trading convention organized by Qian Wanjin, Shopkeeper Shi, and Liang Hu, where Qian Wanjin exchanged a transformed blood ginseng for a Bone Sparrow Feather.
• Chen Lin offered the old man in black half a piece of Cracked Tree Bark, and the old man traded him another Bone Sparrow Feather.
• The old man recognized the bark's Nightmare Realm aura and asked Chen Lin whether he had obtained it himself.

Chen Lin attended an exchange meeting, traded for Bone Sparrow Feathers that could strengthen his Death Gaze, and found none of the treasures he sought. The meeting grew lively when Shopkeeper Qian offered a Star Toad core linked to a dangerous Nightmare Realm scenario, and Fairy Shangguan bid a planet for it.

• Chen Lin traded information about a scenario to the black-robed elder for two Bone Sparrow Feathers and discovered that his Death Gaze could absorb their origin essence.
• Chen Lin requested treasures to heal soul origin essence or Dominator Tier light of space law, but no one offered anything.
• Fairy Shangguan sought variegated crystal and explained that a partner of the Thousand-Face Clan gained a talent blessing and access to Thousand-Face Mountain; Chen Lin declined to trade his crystal.
• Shopkeeper Shi bought a thousand hundred valley orchid grass from Qiya for three hundred and sixty Eternal Pills.
• Shopkeeper Qian presented a Star Toad core that could lead to a Nightmare Realm scenario requiring three Merit Coins and a five-color Road Guide, and said he would sell it to the highest bidder.
• Fairy Shangguan offered Shopkeeper Qian a Gold-Attribute Planet made entirely of red cloud gold ore for the Star Toad core.

At an exchange meeting in the Peach Sea, Chen Lin learned that Fu Tianduo had sealed the region while searching for a powerful cultivator, with Fenghua Supreme assisting him. Chen Lin suspected he was the target, traded information about the Feather Pen scenario and a medium to the black-robed old man, then left after declining an offer involving the Star Toad Fragment scenario.

• Chen Lin stayed out of the bidding for the red cloud gold planet to keep his identity hidden, then asked Shopkeeper Shi why the Peach Sea teleportation formation had closed.
• Shopkeeper Shi revealed that Fu Tianduo, a disciple of Lake-Fishing Old Man, had sealed the Peach Sea to capture a cultivator and had enlisted Black Demon King and Fenghua Supreme.
• Chen Lin recognized Fenghua Supreme as the man behind the World-Extinguishing Talisman that had suppressed the Rainbow Realm, and considered his chances of surviving the search.
• After the exchange meeting ended, the black-robed old man took Chen Lin to the Drunkenness-Free Tower and asked about the Feather Pen scenario.
• Chen Lin agreed to provide a medium and scenario information under a contract barring the old man from entering for a hundred years, then traded a Healing Spiritual Fruit for three Merit Coins.
• The black-robed old man asked whether Chen Lin wanted to enter the scenario tied to the Star Toad Fragment, but Chen Lin refused and left the tower.