Recaps

Chen Lin found the Dawn Stone beneath Sunset Lake but could not collect it until Black Cat helped him store it in the Reliance King Seal. As the Prancing Bull turned on the survivors, Chen Lin, Black Cat, and Red-Haired Mouse were immobilized before the beast, and Red-Haired Mouse urged Chen Lin to get the peach.

• Chen Lin reached the Dawn Stone at the center of Sunset Lake, but could neither refine it nor move it into the Zhenshan King Seal.
• The Prancing Bull's bellow sent waves through the lake, and Chen Lin used the turbulence to approach the floating Dawn Stone.
• Black Cat tapped the Dawn Stone toward Chen Lin, allowing him to store it in the Reliance King Seal and escape the lake.
• Black Cat told Chen Lin that the Prancing Bull was a primal-tier life-origin, that it had devoured the others, and that Wen Ruyu was badly injured.
• The Prancing Bull's bellow knocked Chen Lin, Black Cat, and Red-Haired Mouse to the ground, and Red-Haired Mouse told Chen Lin to get the peach.

Chen Lin used the True Life Peach to defeat the Prancing Bull and claimed the rainbow spirit plant, then joined Black Cat in seeking the Divine Temple’s origin essence to cleanse the corrupted sun. Black Cat summoned the Temple, and the peach volunteered to help suppress it as they approached.

• Chen Lin released the True Life Peach, which used its power over fate to drain the Prancing Bull and restore itself.
• The Red-Haired Mouse identified the peach as a member of the True Life Peach Clan, one of the Three Great Saint Clans, and Chen Lin learned that it had acknowledged him as its master.
• Chen Lin transformed the weakened Prancing Bull into a seven-colored spirit plant, then returned to Yuming City and left its survivors in Bai Qingshui’s care.
• Black Cat took the Dawn Stone and asked Chen Lin to help her son Xiao Xun when he reached a future, unexplained milestone.
• Black Cat used her materials and a secret method to summon the Divine Temple, explaining that its origin essence could counter the dark rule in the sun.
• Chen Lin brought out the True Life Peach to help suppress the Temple, and it volunteered to handle the task as Black Cat carried them toward it.

Chen Lin and Black Cat used the Peach Spirit’s true character to obtain the Divine Temple’s origin essence and restore sunlight to the plane. The Sun returned, but Black Cat noticed the moon was still missing and suspected someone had obscured the workings of heaven.

• Black Cat explained true runic inscriptions and true characters, warning Chen Lin that his unconventional path would leave him without predecessors’ experience.
• The Peach Spirit released her Fate character, which destroyed the divine statue and drew out an indistinct character that Chen Lin used to grant the Lianyun Mountain Range to the Angler of Tiger Roar Gorge, the Tiger Demon King.
• Chen Lin and Black Cat left the Divine Temple, and it crashed outside Yuming City before they returned to the Sun with the origin essence.
• Chen Lin used the character to dispel the darkness, and the stars’ power of brilliance reignited the Sun, restoring daylight across the plane.
• Black Cat noticed that the moon had not returned, suspected someone had obscured the workings of heaven, and opened a rift with her broken Black Dagger.

Chen Lin completed the Life Ferry task with a low evaluation, then learned that the person who accepted his own task had received an excellent evaluation. After timeline merging left him injured in an unfamiliar place, he confirmed that his Natal Runic Inscription and grotto-heaven treasures remained intact and met Lu Fanxing in Lu Village.

• The Life Ferry gave Chen Lin one Life Coin and a random achievement, then granted him a lottery draw for destroying the Divine Temple and admitted him as a One-Star Ship Guest.
• Hua Yi reappeared beside Chen Lin, and Tianshu told him that only half an hour had passed outside the Ferry.
• Chen Lin watched the progress of his issued task, rated the other person's performance highest, and paid Life Coins to blur the memories they would receive.
• The Ferry's timeline merging encountered interference, so Chen Lin sent Tianshu and the others into the Fruit Core Grotto-Heaven and gave Yan Li instructions before vanishing.
• Chen Lin awoke injured in a room beside an old man and a young girl, then verified that his Natal Runic Inscription, grotto-heaven treasures, and companions were safe.
• Chen Lin healed himself and learned from the old man that the place was Lu Village and that his name was Lu Fanxing.

Chen Lin settled into secluded cultivation on Red Umbrella Star and learned how Hua Yi’s actions had advanced the faction conflict and earned her a Superior rating. After checking his cultivation and treasures, he examined the Gemstone Belt, Storage Bag, and chained Small Silver Ingot.

• Chen Lin accepted Alchemist Lu’s offer of shelter, gave him spirit herbs, and asked to cultivate undisturbed while recovering.
• Chen Lin brought Xu Wuye, Tianshu, and Hua Yi out, then sent Xu Wuye and Tianshu back into the Grotto-Heaven while Hua Yi recounted her mission and Divine Oracle.
• Hua Yi explained that the Black Cat had told her to make the faction conflict begin early, and Chen Lin learned she had received a Superior rating and gained high-dimensional abilities and treasures.
• Chen Lin confirmed his Natal Runic Inscription remained intact, found that it consumed his internal energy, and refined that energy through the Myriad Phenomena Art instead.
• Chen Lin tested the Crystal Needle’s destructive power, considered the Longevity Mirror’s limits, and took out a Gemstone Belt, a Storage Bag, and a chained Small Silver Ingot.

Chen Lin sorted through his spoils, let Hua Yi choose three items, and decided to preserve the Prancing Bull for later use while the Peach Spirit recovered. He opened his reward Treasure Chests and found a red wooden table and an inexplicable bamboo board, leaving him unsure whether the board had any value.

• Chen Lin inventoried the Silver Ingot, his belt, and his Storage Bag, then let Hua Yi take three items she liked.
• The Peach Spirit refused to absorb the Prancing Bull, saying Chen Lin needed it to eternalize his Natal Runic Inscription, and estimated that she would need around a hundred years to recover.
• Chen Lin placed the Peach Spirit in the Grotto-Heaven Jade Pendant to recover and put away the Prancing Bull until he could safely refine it and try removing its seals.
• Chen Lin reviewed the Soul-Destroying Finger formula Red-Haired Mouse had deduced, but found that it only covered the first stage and still needed testing.
• Chen Lin opened the ordinary Treasure Chest and received a red wooden table that seemed to have held the writing brush in the Exquisite Sect.
• Chen Lin opened the special Treasure Chest and received a heavy, pressure-inducing bamboo board with no writing or patterns, leaving him uncertain what it was for.

Chen Lin tested the mysterious bamboo board, then discovered that his Natal Runic Inscription merged his Chiyuan identity with his original self and interfered with the Life Ferry’s rules. After traveling to Red Umbrella City with Xu Wuye, Tianshu, and Hua Yi, he headed for the Imperial Palace to meet someone and learn why the city’s people possessed destiny bodies.

• Chen Lin tried writing on the bamboo board with a special brush and strange beast blood, but the writing soon vanished, and neither fire nor the Runic Puppet could damage it.
• Chen Lin opened the Life Treasure Chest and became Chiyuan, but his unstable form dispersed as his Natal Runic Inscription absorbed its residual energy; he later confirmed that Chiyuan’s deeds and memories remained separate in other people’s minds.
• Chen Lin found he had merged with his secondary identity and could use Chiyuan’s belongings and connection to Pearl, though the Life Ferry’s rules still remained attached to him.
• After several months, Chen Lin gave Alchemist Lu cultivation resources and a token, then left the village for the Imperial City with Xu Wuye, Tianshu, and Hua Yi.
• In Red Umbrella City, Chen Lin explained that the locals’ innate destiny bodies made his companions feel inferior, then led them toward the Imperial Palace to meet someone.

Chen Lin visited Red Umbrella Star’s imperial palace to ask Daidaidong about crossing the River of Destiny, and she warned him that the Lake-Fishing Old Man’s seal made escape perilous. After settling in the King's Manor and cultivating for a hundred years, Chen Lin emerged from seclusion and invited Daidaixi and Commander Daila to join him for a meal.

• Chen Lin crossed the rainbow bridge with his companions and asked to meet Daidaixi, who welcomed him as the benefactor who had saved her in the Boundary River.
• Commander Daila escorted Chen Lin and Daidaixi into the palace to meet Daidaidong, the sovereign of Red Umbrella Star.
• Daidaidong warned Chen Lin that the Lake-Fishing Old Man had sealed the Seven-Star Realm and that anyone born there who touched its boundary would face certain death, but she offered him access to a branch of the River of Destiny for cultivation.
• Daidaixi gave Chen Lin a deed token for a residence at the King's Manor and invited him to dine with her and his subordinates.
• After two months, Chen Lin settled in and began secluded cultivation, while asking Daidaixi to find a way into the Hundred Fruit Orchard so he could rescue Fairy Yaochi.
• A hundred years later, Chen Lin emerged from seclusion and sent Tianshu to invite Commander Daila and Daidaixi to a meal.

After strengthening his true runic inscription, Chen Lin traveled to the Hundred Fruit Orchard’s Fruit-Tasting Convention to rescue Yaochi and Jinlin. He learned they were alive but imprisoned in the forbidden zone, and encountered Feng Wanding before deciding how to proceed.

• Chen Lin refined the Prancing Bull, strengthening his runic inscription and improving his abilities, but found that his soul still could not support the Soul-Destroying Finger’s second phase.
• Chen Lin declined Daidaixi’s offer to accompany him to the convention, accepted her invitation and good-luck talisman, and left the Imperial City.
• Three years later, Chen Lin arrived at the Hundred Fruit Orchard and secretly questioned a receptionist, learning that Yaochi and Jinlin were confined in the forbidden zone and that the orchard’s leaders posed a serious threat.
• Chen Lin erased the receptionist’s memory, then explored the market and spotted Feng Wanding among the visitors.
• Feng Wanding told Chen Lin that he came from the Holy Cauldron Star Feng Family and had visited Oddity Island to explore.

Chen Lin learned that Yaochi was being punished in the Hundred Fruit Orchard and confronted its sect leader, Xiao Wujin, about taking her away. Xiao Wujin offered to help him oppose Hua Qingfeng in exchange for a favor, but refused Chen Lin’s request to use the orchard’s passage to leave the Seven-Star Realm.

• Feng Wanding told Chen Lin that the Rainbow Realm was recovering, that Ninth Miss had founded a sect on Tianyuan Star, and that the power behind the Hundred Fruit Orchard was Eight Trees.
• Chen Lin learned that the Hundred Fruit Orchard’s Heart-Refining Garden was protected by a powerful array, then returned to his quarters.
• Xiao Wujin confronted Chen Lin about using abilities on orchard disciples, and Chen Lin explained that he was searching for his companion, Yaochi.
• Xiao Wujin said only Elder Fu could decide whether Yaochi could leave, and Chen Lin demanded to know how her punishment could end.
• Chen Lin threatened to fight the orchard after learning Yaochi had been punished because Hua Yuanming wanted her as a concubine.
• Xiao Wujin asked Chen Lin to kill Hua Qingfeng in exchange for a favor, but refused to provide a passage out of the Seven-Star Realm.

Chen Lin negotiated with Xiao Wujin for variegated crystal and information about the Seven-Star Realm in exchange for helping kill Hua Qingfeng and rescue Fairy Yaochi. After confirming Yaochi had been sent to the Heart-Refining Valley, he attended the Fruit-Tasting Convention, where several unexpected figures appeared.

• Chen Lin and Xiao Wujin agreed that Chen Lin would kill Hua Qingfeng when an opportunity arose, while Xiao Wujin provided ten pieces of variegated crystal and a Jade Slip describing weak points in the realm barrier.
• Xiao Wujin warned Chen Lin that Hua Qingfeng cultivated innate runic inscriptions and wielded the Seven Passions Sword, and revealed that Yaochi's innate origin was the reason she had been targeted.
• After Xiao Wujin's clone disappeared, Chen Lin tested the Crystal Needle and confirmed that it could pierce the boundary wall of the Hundred Fruit Orchard.
• Chen Lin searched for allies and confirmed that Fairy Yaochi had been sent to the Heart-Refining Valley because of Hua Yuanming.
• The Fruit-Tasting Convention began as an auction, and Chen Lin was surprised when several figures entered the hall.

Chen Lin found Mu Xingchen among the auction guests and waited for Xiao Wujin’s signal, but when it never came, he sent a Runic Puppet to investigate Heart-Refining Valley. There he found Yaochi and Jinlin suffering beside a strange fruit tree, discovered that Feng Wanding had likely been turned into one of its fruits, and saw a mysterious boy defy the tree.

• Chen Lin recognized Mu Xingchen at the auction but kept his identity hidden, and he noticed Feng Wanding was absent.
• A young man from the Star River Zhao Lineage bought the Head-Growing Fruit with a peak-grade Nihility Fish, while the auction continued through two sessions.
• When Xiao Wujin failed to appear, Chen Lin sent a Runic Puppet to Heart-Refining Valley and used the Crystal Needle to slip through its Formless Barrier.
• Chen Lin found Yaochi and Jinlin in agony near a fruit tree whose malice unsettled even him, while a young boy remained calm and resisted the tree.
• Chen Lin recognized Feng Wanding’s features on one of the fruits and concluded that the Hundred Fruit Orchard had searched his memories.
• The boy told the tree that trapping him would not make him submit and urged it to let him go.

Chen Lin was caught in a battle over the Resurrection Fruit Tree after Hua Qingfeng’s attack threatened to collapse the Secret Realm. He rescued Yaochi and Jinlin, then joined Hua Qingfeng in destroying the soul-parasitizing fruits, and the youth demanded the final one as the fight neared its end.

• Chen Lin sensed the black fruits and accidentally awakened them, prompting Hua Qingfeng to appear and demand that Fairy Yaochi help him overcome his tribulation.
• Hua Qingfeng attacked the Resurrection Fruit Tree, causing the orchard’s trees to wither and the Secret Realm to begin collapsing.
• Chen Lin rescued Yaochi and Jinlin with a runic chain, then learned from Hua Qingfeng that Xiao Wujin had killed Yaochi’s master and intended to use the conflict to his advantage.
• Chen Lin pierced Feng Wanding’s black fruit with the Crystal Needle, then used his Soul-Destroying Finger and Blue Enchantress to weaken and destroy the other fruits.
• After Hua Qingfeng warned that the surviving fruits could expose Chen Lin to the Eight Trees, Chen Lin helped destroy them, and the youth called out for the final fruit to be left for him.

Chen Lin helped Hua Qingfeng destroy the Hundred Fruit Orchard’s witnesses and escaped with several survivors, including Yang Tian, whom he recruited for his rare ability to restore things to their original state. After decades in hiding, Chen Lin settled on an unclaimed planet to prepare for strengthening himself before leaving the Boundary Realm.

• Yang Tian killed the final black fruit with his Immaculate Body ability, and Chen Lin took him into the Grotto-Heaven Jade Pendant despite Hua Qingfeng’s warnings about leaving witnesses alive.
• Hua Qingfeng destroyed the Heart-Refining Fruit Tree and summoned Xiao Wujin; Chen Lin killed Xiao Wujin with the Crystal Needle while surviving the Life-Slicing Saber’s blow with his Nine-Layered Armor.
• Chen Lin stopped Hua Qingfeng from killing Mu Xingchen, restored Mu Xingchen from Hua Qingfeng’s divine ability, and brought Mu Xingchen and his four companions into the Fruit Core Grotto-Heaven.
• Hua Qingfeng killed the remaining visitors and every Hundred Fruit Orchard disciple, then helped Chen Lin leave through the Teleportation Formation with a Transmission Talisman.
• Chen Lin retrieved Hua Yi and the others, traveled to an unclaimed planet, built a temporary immortal cave, and invited Fairy Yaochi, Jinlin, and Yang Tian out of the grotto-heaven.
• Yang Tian agreed to follow Chen Lin, who learned that Yang Tian’s Immaculate Body could clear abnormal energy but still needed better control.

Chen Lin reunited with Mu Xingchen, learned about the companions who might join him on his dangerous journey, and prepared his allies and treasures for the future. As he began repairing the inkstone and considered how to rescue Feng Wanding, Fairy Yaochi gave him a seashell that might help him find Xiao Qingmo and urged him to seek the women connected to the Seven Realms Flower.

• Chen Lin and Mu Xingchen discussed Luo Qinglan, Mu Xingchen's survival and cultivation, and Chen Lin's plan to leave the Seven-Star Realm; Mu Xingchen asked him to spare Young Master Zhao and his companions.
• Xu Wuye chose to accompany Chen Lin into the Star Ruins and entered a feather pen scenario to pursue another opportunity at the Life Ferry.
• Young Master Zhao and his companions agreed to stay with Mu Xingchen for now, while Chen Lin moved his belongings into the Grotto-Heaven Jade Pendant and assigned tasks to his allies.
• Chen Lin used spirit liquid on the broken inkstone and left Tianshu to monitor its slow repair, then asked Yang Tian whether he could remove the abnormal energy from Feng Wanding; Yang Tian could not guarantee success, so Chen Lin postponed the attempt.
• Fairy Yaochi gave Chen Lin a seashell that could react within a hundred thousand li of Xiao Qingmo and advised him to find the women connected to the Seven Realms Flower.

Chen Lin learned that gathering the seven women reincarnated from the Seven Realms Flower might manifest its true form, and sent Fairy Yaochi to find them while returning through the Boundary River. Sixty years later, he completed a dangerous technique for forming a clone and received the fully repaired inkstone.

• Fairy Yaochi told Chen Lin that the Seven Realms Flower had seven petal reincarnations, and they discussed possible identities including Xiao Qingmo, Liu Wuying, Bai Lingling, Nalan Xuan, and the Flower Fairy.
• Chen Lin agreed to have Fairy Yaochi search for the other petal reincarnations, instructed her to seek help from Chen Ling'er and bring Grass back, and arranged to meet her in a hundred years.
• Chen Lin used the Crystal Needle to open a hole through the Boundary River Wall, then sent Fairy Yaochi, Tianshu, and Jinlin through before returning alone.
• Chen Lin cultivated on the Desolate Star for sixty years and formed a small guillotine from runes, deciding to postpone using it because splitting his consciousness was dangerous.
• Hua Yi gave Chen Lin the restored inkstone and explained that its remaining damage had repaired itself after the spirit liquid ran out.

Chen Lin obtained the Mandarin Board and learned that he needed its matching Duck Board to strike out the Secret Order, while he considered how to escape the boundary realm. He entered the Feather Pen Scenario to investigate Xu Wuye’s disappearance, discovered the Life Ferry entrances were gone, and learned that its Top Hat Buildings had vanished two hundred years earlier.

• Chen Lin used his essence blood and the password to awaken the Bamboo Board, which identified itself as the Mandarin Board and told him to find the Duck Board and escape successfully to strike out the Secret Order.
• Chen Lin weighed searching for the Duck Board against focusing on leaving the boundary realm, and decided to delay soul dissolution until Fairy Yaochi returned.
• Chen Lin learned from Hua Yi that Feng Wanding remained unconscious and Xu Wuye had not returned from the Feather Pen Scenario, so he entered the scenario to investigate.
• Chen Lin found Deluo City deserted and the Top Hat Building missing, then defeated a six-headed cyan bird and planted a Slave Seal on its remaining head.
• The bird, Qingguang, told Chen Lin that all the Top Hat Buildings had vanished two hundred years earlier and that the Life Ferry seemed to have abandoned the place.

Chen Lin learned that Xu Wuye had entered a Life Ferry before it vanished and traveled to the Holy City to meet its Grand Sage. The Grand Sage recognized Chen Lin as a Punishment Monarch and offered to make a deal, leaving Chen Lin on guard.

• Chen Lin found Yan Li in a surviving city, learned Xu Wuye had entered a Life Ferry less than a hundred years earlier, and collected Life Coins, Character Cards, and Seven-Color Nightmare Coins.
• Yan Li asked Chen Lin to obtain a Sage Fruit from the Holy City, where the Grand Sage was holding a ceremony to distribute them.
• Chen Lin tasked Cyan Bird with investigating who boarded a Life Ferry on July Third, sixty-three years earlier, promising to take him out of the realm if he succeeded.
• Chen Lin traveled directly to the Holy City and met the Grand Sage, who identified him as a Punishment Monarch and proposed a deal.

Chen Lin learned that Mo Qiyao, a Dominator from the Rainbow Realm, believed mysterious forces had struck him during his ascension and that he had survived by merging with bizarre energy. Mo Qiyao asked Chen Lin to weaken the aura without removing the protection it gave him, and Chen Lin began testing his Soul-Destroying Finger.

• Mo Qiyao told Chen Lin that he had been attacked by mysterious energy after ascending to Dominator and suspected that the Creator of the World erased threats to its foundations.
• Mo Qiyao revealed that he was a Soul Smuggler and warned Chen Lin to leave traces of himself in the world before ascending.
• Mo Qiyao explained that he had merged with bizarre energy to resist erasure, but the Nightmare Realm aura was increasingly assimilating him.
• Mo Qiyao asked Chen Lin to dispel some of the bizarre aura in exchange for treasures, and Chen Lin agreed after Mo Qiyao promised not to attack him.
• Chen Lin used the Soul-Destroying Finger on Mo Qiyao, but it only slightly weakened the black mist.

Chen Lin repeatedly used the Soul-Destroying Finger to suppress the bizarre energy eroding Mo Qiyao, who promised him a Talent Crystal for resolving the danger. Mo Qiyao then revealed what he knew about the Lake-Fishing Old Man, leaving Chen Lin questioning the man's identity and reach.

• Chen Lin used the Soul-Destroying Finger to thin the black mist around Mo Qiyao, then resumed after replenishing his soul power with variegated crystal.
• Mo Qiyao said the treatment should let him hold on for a few hundred years and offered Chen Lin a Talent Crystal if he eventually resolved the danger.
• Chen Lin asked about the Lake-Fishing Old Man, and Mo Qiyao said he had helped Mo Qiyao ascend to Dominator by opposing the Nightmare Realm.
• Mo Qiyao claimed the Lake-Fishing Old Man was trapped in the Boundary River while the Nightmare Realm remained unbroken and was probably a soul smuggler seeking to exploit the Seven-Star Realm.
• Mo Qiyao suggested the Lake-Fishing Old Man's appearances outside the Boundary River might have been through a clone, and Chen Lin asked whether the man was male or female and what he looked like.

Chen Lin left the Seven-Star Realm after learning that the Lake-Fishing Old Man might be hidden in the Boundary River, then returned to his immortal cave and learned that the Hundred Fruit Orchard crisis had been resolved. An Eight Trees emissary came to question Feng Wanding, but withdrew after recognizing Hongchen’s True Life Peach Clan; Chen Lin then sent his companions away before preparing for what came next.

• Mo Qiyao warned Chen Lin that the Lake-Fishing Old Man had anchored him as a target and gave him a soul-observing Visualization Diagram.
• Chen Lin spent three years in the Holy City helping Mo Qiyao, then left, returned to Valley City, and exited the scenario for his immortal cave.
• Chen Lin met the recovered Feng Wanding and learned from him that an Eight Trees emissary had investigated the Hundred Fruit Orchard incident.
• Feng Wanding contacted his lineage and learned that Hua Qingfeng had taken control of the Hundred Fruit Orchard and that he could return safely.
• Liu Chuanfang confronted Feng Wanding about escaping the Resurrection Fruit Tree, but withdrew after Chen Lin revealed Hongchen and Liu recognized her as a member of the True Life Peach Clan.
• Chen Lin released Zhao Xingyuan, Mu Xingchen, and the others, then sent them through a spatial gate to keep them out of danger.

Chen Lin reunited with Yaochi’s group after they left Oddity Island and began cultivating with five women connected to the Seven Realms Flower. He realized Seven-Star Shining Sun required all seven corresponding women to reach its full potential, leaving him searching for the two still missing.

• Chen Lin waited at Oddity Island’s exit until Grass, Chen Ling'er, Tianshu, Fairy Yaochi, and the others emerged, including Baihua, Leng Yue, and Qian Li.
• Fairy Yaochi introduced Bai Lingling, Liu Wuying, and Nalan Xuan, and Chen Lin took everyone to a remote planet at the edge of the Star Domain.
• Chen Lin learned that Yaochi had promised the three women that cultivating with him could help them become innate deities and runic practitioners, and they agreed to proceed.
• Chen Lin and the five women began Yin-Yang Convergence, strengthening his Natal Runic Inscription and revealing the deeper potential of Seven-Star Shining Sun.
• Chen Lin halted the cultivation after realizing the technique required all seven women corresponding to the petals; Yaochi said she had not found Sister Xiao or the woman connected to the karma petal.

Chen Lin arranged for Fairy Yaochi, Baihua, and their companions to search the Boundary River for the Seven Realms Flower’s reincarnation spirits while he continued looking for Xiao Qingmo in the Outer Star Domain. His search brought him to Tianyuan Star, where he discovered that the Ninth Miss was running Baiwei Pavilion in Qiuye City.

• Fairy Yaochi told Chen Lin that the karma petal’s reincarnation spirit was likely hidden in an independent plane in the former Boundless Realm, while Xiao Qingmo might be in the Outer Star Domain.
• Baihua suggested Chen Lin list extraordinary women he had encountered as possible reincarnation spirits, and he gave Fairy Yaochi a jade slip of candidates.
• Chen Lin traveled to the Star River Zhao Lineage and arranged for Baihua, Fairy Yaochi, Mu Xingchen, and two Zhao Lineage experts to enter the Boundary River through the Starlight River passage.
• Chen Lin used his destiny talent and Xiao Qingmo’s keepsake to follow a faint lead through the Outer Star Domain, traveling with Grass for several decades before reaching Tianyuan Star.
• Chen Lin learned about Tianyuan Star’s cities and strict surveillance system, then used a Jingyun Trading Firm map to locate the Ninth Miss’s Baiwei Pavilion in Qiuye City.
• Chen Lin reserved one serving of every dish at Baiwei Pavilion for three months later and learned that upgrading his map would unlock additional services.

Chen Lin helped Huo Jiuer gather ingredients for her attempt to make Seven-Star Thousand-Flavor Soup, hoping to earn a serving and learn about her Star Ruins connections. After searching Tianyuan Star for two years, he asked the Jingyun Trading Firm for the remaining ingredients, and Lady Ming offered to help if he became a guest elder.

• Chen Lin visited Huo Jiuer at Baiwei Pavilion and learned that she needed rare ingredients to make Seven-Star Thousand-Flavor Soup and gain the Food Cauldron's recognition.
• Huo Jiuer explained that Thousand Flavors Pavilion was a branch of the Star Ruins faction Tasteless Pavilion, and promised Chen Lin a chance to visit the Delicacies Holy Land if she succeeded.
• Chen Lin supplied Huo Jiuer with more than two hundred ingredients and set out to find the remaining ones she knew how to obtain.
• After two years of searching Tianyuan Star, Chen Lin returned to Xiayu City and asked Lady Ming at the Jingyun Trading Firm for the ingredients he still lacked.
• Lady Ming agreed to help gather the ingredients on the condition that Chen Lin join the firm as a guest elder and act on its behalf after the seven stars aligning celestial phenomenon appeared.

Chen Lin learned why the Seven-Star Realm’s factions watched for the Seven Stars Aligning, then followed Xiao Qingmo’s shell to a hidden black market. He entered by destroying its Guide Puppet and descended with a masked cultivator while posing as a member of the Changting Ye Lineage.

• Lady Ming explained that the Seven Stars Aligning might open a Star Gate, and Chen Lin agreed to join the Jingyun Trading Firm without taking on its routine affairs or risking his life.
• Chen Lin and Grass returned to Qiuye City, where Xiao Qingmo’s shell led them to the closed Yiliang Tailor Shop.
• A shop assistant told Chen Lin that the tailor shop was a teleportation formation requiring a Guiding Token, but Chen Lin pierced the door with the Crystal Needle and entered a hidden passage.
• When a one-eyed Guide Puppet demanded his Guiding Token, Chen Lin destroyed it with the Crystal Needle and met a masked cultivator carrying a Silver Token.
• Chen Lin used the false name Ye Fan and let the cultivator believe he belonged to the Changting Ye Lineage, allowing them to pass the black market’s guards.
• The White-Robed Cultivator and Black-Robed Cultivator found the Guide Puppet’s remains and sensed an aura of higher law in the powder.