Recaps

Chen Lin entered the Underground Black Market to follow the shell’s response to Xiao Qingmo, which led him to the Old Shopkeeper and a pot of lifespan-extending wine. After trading a Dominator Tier treasure as a deposit, Chen Lin left the stall and clashed with a Changting Ye Lineage cultivator who challenged his identity; three figures appeared as Chen Lin’s power surged.

• Chen Lin followed the shell’s signal through the market and found the Old Shopkeeper selling Longevity Wine, but his examination of the pot revealed no trace of Xiao Qingmo.
• When the Green-Robed Cultivator bid for the wine, Chen Lin offered Dominator Tier treasures and agreed to perform a future task for the Old Shopkeeper in exchange for the pot.
• Chen Lin left the stall and rejected the tall man’s attempt to use his supposed Ye Lineage ties, then faced the Green-Robed Cultivator, who revealed himself as a genuine Changting Ye Lineage member.
• Chen Lin denied belonging to the lineage and withstood the man’s Sword Will before advancing with a blue force field; three figures appeared and asked him to quell his anger.

At the black-market gathering, Chen Lin traded for a spirit-pointing method before Beitang Zhu recruited him to help the Seven Passions Sect seize a treasure from the Star Gate. He bound their agreement with a powerful contract and returned to Qiuye City, while Beitang Zhu discovered she could not remove it and ordered an investigation into him.

• Chen Lin traded a high-dimensional divine weapon for a First-Rank Spirit-Dotting Secret Method and Spirit-Dotting Divine Dew.
• Beitang Zhu invited Chen Lin to join the Phantom Color Pavilion as a guest elder and help the Seven Passions Sect secure a treasure when the Seven Stars Aligning appeared.
• Chen Lin agreed to the mission and used a high-grade Contract Scroll to bind Beitang Zhu to their agreement.
• Beitang Zhu arranged for Chen Lin to be contacted when the celestial phenomenon occurred, and Chen Lin returned to Qiuye City.
• Beitang Zhu found that the Phantom Color Pavilion could not remove the contract and ordered an investigation into Chen Lin.

Chen Lin killed the Old Shopkeeper after learning he had used time-law practitioners’ origin essence, then searched the man’s belongings for a way to find Xiao Qingmo. A black token led Chen Lin to Wanhuagu Valley, where he found and transplanted a seven-colored flower that might hold Xiao Qingmo’s origin; the chapter ended as he examined the Old Shopkeeper’s Strange Statue Pendant.

• Chen Lin confronted the Old Shopkeeper about Xiao Qingmo, then struck him down with the Crystal Needle when the man began describing a task in exchange for her whereabouts.
• Chen Lin searched the Old Shopkeeper’s belongings and used Hongchen’s Destiny Character to activate a black token that opened a fiefdom.
• Chen Lin entered Wanhuagu Valley, found a seven-colored flower whose cyan petal resonated with his shell, and suspected it might be connected to Xiao Qingmo’s origin.
• Chen Lin transplanted the flower into the Grotto-Heaven Jade Pendant after it began to wither, and told Grass to watch over it and protect Hongchen.
• Chen Lin returned to reality, found little of value in the Old Shopkeeper’s Storage Rings, and picked up the Strange Statue Pendant.

Chen Lin connected the Tiger Statue and Zodiac Card to the zodiac heritage, then revived the Pig Monster with a Seven-Color Nightmare Coin and tested his strength. After learning that the Pig Monster held part of a mysterious Zodiac Map, Chen Lin accepted him as a sworn subordinate and left him celebrating at Baiwei Pavilion, where Ninth Miss arrived.

• Chen Lin discovered that the Tiger Statue, Zodiac Card, and Silence Technique shared the same artistic conception, but he remained unsure whether his technique was true zodiac heritage.
• Chen Lin fed a Seven-Color Nightmare Coin to the Piggy Bank, reviving the Pig Monster and restoring his zodiac beast form.
• Chen Lin fought the Pig Monster in the Void and overpowered him after the Pig Monster demonstrated his devouring divine ability.
• The Pig Monster revealed that his inheritance included a fragment of the Zodiac Map, which Chen Lin copied onto a Character Card, and confirmed that the inheritance was unique.
• Chen Lin offered the Pig Monster the choice to leave or swear loyalty; the Pig Monster chose to follow him, and Chen Lin bound him with a contract and limited his meals to once a year.
• The Pig Monster ate and drank heavily at Baiwei Pavilion, where Ninth Miss arrived and teased Chen Lin about his new subordinate.

Chen Lin consumed Huo Jiuer’s Seven-Star Thousand-Flavor Soup, which greatly strengthened him but did not improve the soul characteristic he hoped to use for Soul Dissolution. He used the Spirit-Dotting Method on a Blind Egg, hatched a strange Little White Snake named Beloved, and then left Tianyuan Star with the Pig Monster to return to the Star River Zhao Lineage.

• Huo Jiuer gave Chen Lin the Thousand-Flavor Soup, and he consumed it in seclusion, gaining a major boost to his strength without improving his soul characteristic for Soul Dissolution.
• Chen Lin used Spirit-Dotting Divine Dew and a scroll on the Blind Egg, causing it to hatch into a Little White Snake that called itself Beloved.
• Beloved demonstrated an Emotional Influence divine ability that could affect Chen Lin despite his guarded mind, and he ordered the snake to stay quiet and stop licking him.
• Chen Lin studied the Tiger Statue for a day and night without discovering anything, then bid farewell to Huo Jiuer and bought supplies on Tianyuan Star.
• Chen Lin left Tianyuan Star with the Pig Monster and returned to the Star River Zhao Lineage.

Chen Lin learned that the Lake-Fishing Old Man had cultivated him as a pseudo-other self for harvesting, while Supreme Experts might also be closing in. After the Zhao Lineage asked him to leave for its safety, Chen Lin took his people to a shattered star, only to find that strange energy in the Void had cut off his access to the Feather Pen Scenario.

• Chen Lin and the reincarnated Flower-Petal Spirits found that their origin essence could connect to the Seven-Colored Flower, and Chen Lin hoped the Hundred Flowers Fairy could help revive Xiao Qingmo.
• Chen Lin told Chen Ling'er to prepare to send their family into the Feather Pen Scenario, explaining that he might force his way through the Realm Seal when the Seven Stars Alignment appeared.
• Deacon Sun told Chen Lin that the Lake-Fishing Old Man had raised him as a pseudo-other self and had begun preparing to harvest him, then declared the contract with Phantom Color Pavilion void.
• Patriarch Zhao warned Chen Lin that at least three Supreme Experts were in contact and that their factions had investigated Chen Lin's connection to the Hundred Fruit Orchard.
• Chen Lin accepted Patriarch Zhao's resources and left the Zhao Lineage with his people, but discovered that strange energy prevented him from entering the Feather Pen Scenario.

Chen Lin attempted soul dissolution to escape the Lake-Fishing Old Man’s planned attack, but he could not sense any other selves and had to force the soul lock to appear with Fengxue’s willow wood. While checking the procedure’s fate, he encountered Zhenyangzi, who revealed that he was Cui Xuan, and the chapter ended with Hongchen identifying him as only a clone.

• Chen Lin explained the Supreme Experts’ threat to Leng Yue, Tianshu, and Hongchen, then prepared to attempt soul dissolution while they guarded him.
• Chen Lin opened the eight soul gates, but he could not sense any other selves, so he used Fengxue’s thousand-threaded red willow to make the soul lock manifest.
• Chen Lin opened his destiny domain to check the outcome of soul dissolution and found Zhenyangzi at a destiny node.
• Zhenyangzi told Chen Lin that he was Cui Xuan and said only one Destiny Practitioner could ultimately escape the Great Thousand Worlds.
• Chen Lin struck Zhenyangzi with the Crystal Needle, but Zhenyangzi reappeared and seized it before Chen Lin summoned the True Character.
• The True Character drew Zhenyangzi’s clone and the Crystal Needle toward Chen Lin, and Hongchen said Chen Lin’s ability could not pull over Zhenyangzi’s true body.

Chen Lin corrected the destiny node, broke the Soul Lock, and achieved an incomplete Soul Dissolution that gave him power close to a Dominator. After escaping the Soul-Suppressing Beast, he was confronted by the four Supreme Experts hunting him, who revealed and trapped him.

• Chen Lin used the Crystal Needle to pierce a rune in the Light Orb, returned to reality, and unlocked the chains binding his soul.
• Chen Lin’s soul expanded uncontrollably, and his power destroyed the Heavenly Mechanism House while Hongchen protected Leng Yue and the others.
• Four Supreme Experts sent a Soul-Suppressing Beast to capture Chen Lin, but Chen Lin used the Giant Axe manifestation and Crystal Needle to defeat it.
• Chen Lin absorbed variegated crystals, brought Hongchen and the others into his Grotto-Heaven, and realized his incomplete Soul Dissolution left him near Dominator strength.
• The four Supreme Experts resumed their hunt, and Fenghua Supreme used three talismans to reveal and trap Chen Lin in the void.

Chen Lin battled Fenghua Supreme after killing one of his companions and driving two others away, but Fenghua transformed into a seemingly invincible creature. As their struggle stalled, the Little White Snake sang a sorrowful song that made Fenghua’s body begin to dissolve.

• Chen Lin blocked the fair-skinned man's Dominator-tier talisman, killed the woman with the Crystal Needle, and watched the remaining two men flee.
• Chen Lin identified the fair-skinned man as Fenghua Supreme and attacked him, but Fenghua escaped repeatedly with triangular talismans until Chen Lin's Runic Puppets caught up.
• Chen Lin tried to persuade Fenghua to reveal the Lake-Fishing Old Man's whereabouts and abandon his Slave Seal, but Fenghua attacked and then transformed by driving a black knife into his brow.
• Chen Lin's attacks failed to injure the transformed Fenghua, while the Crystal Needle lodged in his heart and left the two locked in a stalemate.
• The Little White Snake sang a mournful song, and Fenghua shed a tear as his body began dissolving from the heart outward.

After recovering from his battle with Fenghua Supreme, Chen Lin assessed his transformed soul and began cultivating the Soul Master Inheritance, but made little progress over ten years. He then answered the Zhao Lineage’s summons and recovered Chen Ling’er and the others, where he was surprised to recognize Xiyue among them.

• Chen Lin found strange remnants from Fenghua Supreme’s body and helped the depleted Little White Snake recover before retreating to heal.
• After a year, Chen Lin concluded his soul had nearly reached Dominator level and weighed the difficult paths available for his future cultivation.
• Chen Lin examined Fenghua Supreme’s talismans and other spoils, then entered seclusion to study the Soul Master Inheritance and attempt to form a Soul Eye.
• Ten years later, Chen Lin received a transmission from the Zhao Lineage and traveled to meet its messenger, who gave him a One-Time Grotto-Heaven Treasure containing his companions.
• Chen Lin released Chen Ling’er and the others from the treasure and recognized the unfamiliar woman among them as Xiyue.

Chen Lin gathered the materials Wen Xinzhao needed to strengthen the Kaiyuan Realm's protective array and learned that Xiyue had to help him complete the Seven-Star Shining Sun Method. Chen Ling'er returned from a Life Ferry task with a Deputy Captain Appointment Letter, while Chen Lin suspected the Lake-Fishing Old Man was waiting for Seven-Star Fusion to reveal the Star Gate.

• Chen Lin learned that Wen Xinzhao planned to improve the Kaiyuan Realm's array to withstand a second-rank Dominator and gave Chen Ling'er a Life Invitation Letter after she insisted on returning to the Life Ferry.
• Xiyue explained that a mysterious person had told her she needed to evolve her origin essence and complete her reincarnation, so Chen Lin gathered her and the other women to try the Seven-Star Shining Sun Method, but it had no effect outside the Seven-Star Realm.
• Chen Ling'er returned from her Life Ferry task with a perfect rating and a Deputy Captain Appointment Letter, which Chen Lin advised her to save in case she became trapped.
• Chen Lin gathered the materials Wen Xinzhao needed by bargaining with and plundering factions in the Seven-Star Realm, then sent them to the Kaiyuan Realm through Hongchen.
• Chen Lin concluded that the Lake-Fishing Old Man was likely waiting for Seven-Star Fusion and the Star Gate to appear, then learned that Mo Qiyao would remain in the Holy Land and help watch over his family.

Fifty years after settling near the Boundary River, Chen Lin learned from Lan Menghan that the Heavenly Dao Book governed the Star Ruins’ major factions and that the Lake-Fishing Old Man would return in about two hundred years. The revelation left Chen Lin questioning why no one else had told him about the book.

• Chen Lin welcomed Qian Li, who chose to stay with him because he feared he could not ascend to the True Realm alone, and gave him pills and treasures.
• A hundred years later, Lan Menghan found Chen Lin and told him that Wen Ruyu and other cultivators remained transformed after leaving the Life Task Space.
• Lan Menghan explained that the Lake-Fishing Old Man practiced Heavens Fishing and warned that the Four Seasons Villa protected him and would hinder Chen Lin’s escape.
• Lan Menghan said her innate talent could open the Realm Seal and that the Seven Stars Aligning phenomenon was expected within a hundred years, offering Chen Lin a chance to leave amid the coming chaos.
• Lan Menghan revealed that the Heavenly Dao Book listed the Star Ruins’ major factions and that the Lake-Fishing Old Man would return from the Dao Listening Assembly in roughly two hundred years.
• Chen Lin wondered whether others had deliberately concealed the Heavenly Dao Book after Lan Menghan described its pages and the thirty-six listed factions.

Chen Lin agreed to help Lan Menghan seek a starlight spirit inside the Star Gate and prepared for a dangerous confrontation with the Lake-Fishing Old Man. He met True Lord Jiuhuan and Lou Dengjie in the Outer Star Domain, learned that Xiao Qingmo was Jiuhuan’s daughter, and agreed to try to revive her through her prepared body.

• Chen Lin agreed to accompany Lan Menghan into the Star Gate to obtain a starlight spirit in exchange for her help breaking his Realm Seal.
• Leng Yue told Chen Lin that True Lord Jiuhuan and Lou Dengjie had arrived, and Chen Lin arranged to leave once Mu Xingchen finished refining the pill.
• Chen Lin met Wen Xinzhao in the Nightmare Realm, learned that the improved Wuming Grand Formation could withstand a first-rank dominator, and warned her to seal off the Kaiyuan Realm and screen it for soul smugglers.
• Chen Lin traveled with his group to the Star River Zhao Lineage’s territory, then took True Lord Jiuhuan and Lou Dengjie to an unnamed planet and warned them to keep their connection to him secret.
• True Lord Jiuhuan showed Chen Lin Xiao Qingmo’s prepared Resurrection Treasure body and revealed that she was his daughter; Chen Lin promised to do everything he could to help her reincarnate.
• Chen Lin gave True Lord Jiuhuan and Lou Dengjie treasures and pills, told Lou Dengjie that Xu Wuye was likely still alive, and departed.

Chen Lin and the seven women began Seven-Star Fusion, which drained their vitality as a Seven Realms Flower took shape. As the Upper Seven Realms lost their power and factions reacted, seven small stars appeared across the Outer Star Domain.

• Chen Lin and the women revived Xiao Qingmo by transferring the cyan petal’s reincarnation spirit into her clone.
• After waiting three months for Hongchen to recover, Chen Lin arranged the seven women by their supreme laws and began Seven-Star Fusion.
• The seven inner stars joined around Chen Lin’s Natal Runic Inscription, forming a powerful flower that consumed their energy and forced them to use variegated crystals to survive.
• Hongchen warned Chen Lin to wait for the seven Mysterious Stars before using her Destiny Character, while Chen Lin sensed the flower’s transformation and was drawn toward a point of light.
• The Upper Seven Realms rapidly lost their Heaven and Earth Essence Qi, Grand Duke White Moonlight and Xitina departed, and seven small stars appeared at separate locations in the Outer Star Domain.

Chen Lin survived a mysterious force and learned that Seven-Star Fusion had sent Yaochi and the others into samsara, leaving behind a seed and a seven-colored runic flower. As the seven Primary Stars aligned and the Star Gate appeared, Chen Lin feared he might be the Star Lord’s reincarnation, but the chapter left that possibility unresolved.

• Chen Lin used the Crystal Needle to break through a mysterious membrane, regained consciousness in the Immortal Cave, and found a seven-colored seed in his hand after Yaochi and the others vanished.
• Hongchen explained that Seven-Colored Mirage Light had drawn the women into Chen Lin and that the seed had emerged from between his brows; Chen Lin planted it in the Jade Pendant’s grotto-heaven.
• Chen Lin saw seven Primary Stars appear and discovered that his Natal Runic Inscription had become a seven-colored flower that drew starlight into the grotto-heaven, causing the seed to sprout.
• As the stars formed the Big Dipper, Chen Lin worried that he might be the Star Lord’s reincarnated body and considered destroying the flower and seed, but decided against it.
• The seven stars linked with beams of light, and a multicolored star at the end of the beam transformed into a gigantic Light Gate.

Chen Lin absorbed the Seven-Star flower and formed an incomplete Law Character Symbol that could destroy targets and drain their energy. In his Grotto-Heaven Jade Pendant, he met Saintess Heqing, who asked him to retrieve her statue from the Star Gate and warned him that the Star Lord might still be alive there.

• Chen Lin fused the Seven-Star flower into his Natal Runic Inscription, strengthening the Seven Major Laws and forming an unstable character resembling the Chinese word for law.
• Chen Lin tested the Law Character Symbol on a Puppet, destroying it and confirming that the character could erase spirituality, combine seven laws, and recover Life Origin Essence.
• Hongchen told Chen Lin that he might complete his character by fusing with himself, entering the Star Gate, or using the surviving seed, and warned him that forming a True Character was dangerous.
• Chen Lin entered his Grotto-Heaven Jade Pendant and discovered that the new seven-colored flower could speak, identifying herself as the reincarnated Saintess Heqing.
• Saintess Heqing asked Chen Lin to retrieve her statue from a seven-colored building inside the Star Gate, offered to help his loved ones and Luo Qinglan, and gave him a one-use Colorful Ring to use against the Star Lord.
• Saintess Heqing said the Star Lord might still be alive inside the Star Gate, then sealed herself within the flower and urged Chen Lin to act before the gate closed.

Chen Lin and Lan Menghan entered the Star Gate despite the disappearance of earlier explorers and found themselves in a starlit space with a changed exit and an impassable barrier. After reaching the Seven-Colored Building, Chen Lin’s attempt to pierce the barrier with the Blue Enchantress failed, and several figures approached them.

• Chen Lin traveled to the Star Gate, met Lan Menghan, and learned that dozens of cultivators had entered without returning.
• Chen Lin and Lan Menghan entered the Light Gate and found a starlit band surrounded by a dim barrier that suppressed their abilities.
• After failing to break through the barrier, Chen Lin and Lan Menghan returned to the Light Gate and discovered its aura had changed and it no longer led to the Seven-Star Realm.
• Chen Lin and Lan Menghan flew deeper into the starlit space, where Chen Lin spotted the Seven-Colored Building.
• Chen Lin tried to pierce the barrier with the Blue Enchantress, but the weapon collapsed into runes and caused him a backlash.
• Several figures flew out from deeper in the starlight and arrived before Chen Lin and Lan Menghan.

Chen Lin and Lan Menghan encountered Huang Yan and his companions at the barrier, where Huang Yan recognized their disguises and challenged them to fight. After Chen Lin and Huang Yan exchanged attacks, they unexpectedly became sworn brothers, and Xuedie asked Chen Lin for help with something.

• Huang Yan saw through Chen Lin and Lan Menghan’s disguises, identified them by name, and introduced himself as a member of Wangqi Mountain beyond Black Ring Mountain.
• Huang Yan challenged Chen Lin, whose Nine-Layered Armor barely withstood the boy’s spear thrust.
• Chen Lin’s incomplete Law Character Symbol entered Huang Yan but failed to defeat him, and Huang Yan expelled it before ending the contest.
• Huang Yan declared that Chen Lin had won and proposed becoming sworn brothers, and Chen Lin accepted and completed the blood-wine ritual with him.
• Huang Yan introduced his maid Xuedie to Chen Lin as his younger sister, and Xuedie accepted Chen Lin’s gift before asking him to help her with something.

Chen Lin agreed to explore deeper into the Star Gate after Xuedie warned that its apparent buildings were illusions and escape would be perilous. He learned about the Ascension Board and Huang Yan’s plans, but Huang Yan could not take him beyond the Seven-Star Realm’s seal, leaving Chen Lin to find his own way out.

• Xuedie persuaded Chen Lin to enter the Star Gate’s depths by explaining that the buildings beyond the Formless Barrier were illusions and that escaping without completing the tasks was extremely dangerous.
• Huang Yan told Chen Lin about the Ascension Board, the Heavenly Domain Celestial Monument, and the renamed places and gatherings in the Star Ruins.
• Huang Yan introduced his subordinates Xi Xuange, Tan Qing, and Qin Hu, and Chen Lin learned that Qin Hu had entered from the Abyss by following the pull of the seven major laws.
• Huang Yan said he had a Wangqi Mountain Pass but could not take Chen Lin beyond the Seven-Star Realm’s seal unless Chen Lin signed an irreversible exclusive contract, so Chen Lin declined.
• As the group flew deeper into the passage, Huang Yan explained that his talent ability revealed written traces targets had left in the world.

Chen Lin learned from Huang Yan that the world might be a finished book, and that three places could offer a chance to escape its rules. As the group traveled deeper into the Light Band, a green Star Gate appeared, and Huang Yan urged Chen Lin to reach the end with him.

• Huang Yan told Chen Lin that his divine ability let him see people’s past lives and that his ancestor believed everyone’s fate was fixed in a finished book.
• Chen Lin accepted Huang Yan’s challenge to resist the world’s rules and learned that the City of Yangguang, the Abandoned Land, and the Dao Listening Assembly might offer ways to change them.
• Huang Yan described the Ascension Board and the Guardian Divine Statue, while Xuedie warned that approaching the statue could erase those born from the rules; Huang Yan refused to return to Wangqi Mountain.
• Chen Lin asked Huang Yan about other cultivators and Star Gates, and Huang Yan said none had entered a gate and that Chen Lin’s incomplete true character might prevent him from opening one.
• A green Light Gate appeared after Chen Lin sensed a summons, and Xuedie explained that seven single-colored gates corresponded to the Seven-Star laws and that the ultimate secret lay farther ahead.
• Huang Yan urged Chen Lin to reach the end of the Light Band with him in hopes of escaping the Creation Tome’s rules.

Chen Lin opened a blue Light Gate for Lan Menghan, then joined Huang Yan and Xuedie in entering a seven-colored gate that led to a strange building. After discovering that it might be connected to the Star Ruins, the three explored a hall but found no statues, and the entrance passage vanished behind them.

• Chen Lin used his Law Character Symbol to open the blue Light Gate, and Lan Menghan entered after giving him a strange black talisman.
• Huang Yan gave Chen Lin crystal essence to restore his depleted energy, and Xuedie carried Chen Lin and Huang Yan to a seven-colored Light Gate.
• Chen Lin opened the seven-colored gate with his Law Character Symbol, and he, Huang Yan, and Xuedie entered a dim passage decorated with Suihan Beast reliefs.
• Huang Yan and Xuedie explained that Suihan Beasts hunted beings in the Darkness Zone, and the three continued through the passage into an ornate hall.
• Huang Yan wanted to collect a brilliant flower growing from the ceiling, but Xuedie stopped him, and the three searched the hall without finding the statues Chen Lin sought.
• Huang Yan discovered that the passage they had entered through had disappeared.

Chen Lin, Huang Yan, and Xuedie suppressed the monsters released after Chen Lin destroyed the Suihan Beast relief, then continued through the newly opened passage. Huang Yan revealed that he could not interfere with the Lake-Fishing Old Man, and warned Chen Lin that only Dominator-level methods could help him escape the old man’s control.

• Chen Lin used his Soul-Destroying Finger to weaken and destroy the Suihan Beast relief, accidentally releasing the monsters it had been suppressing.
• Xuedie and Huang Yan contained the dominator-tier Peacock Flower, shrank it, and sealed it with the Spirit-Locking Rope before Xuedie opened another passage.
• As they walked, Chen Lin asked about the Suihan Beast and his Punishment Monarch inheritance, and Huang Yan said he could not see the primal aura surrounding Chen Lin’s soul.
• Huang Yan explained that Wangqi Mountain’s contract with the Ten Great Powers prevented him from helping Chen Lin oppose the Lake-Fishing Old Man.
• Huang Yan warned Chen Lin to learn which rules the Lake-Fishing Old Man cultivated and prepare Dominator-level methods specifically suited to counter them.

Chen Lin learned that escaping the Lake-Fishing Old Man might require becoming the Soul-Breaking Clock’s Artifact Spirit, but Saintess Heqing revealed that Huang Yan was likely the Star Lord’s Remnant Soul and Xuedie was his powerful Spirit Pet. The group continued through the branching passages as Chen Lin concealed his suspicions and watched for an attack.

• Huang Yan explained that Dominators far surpassed Slave-Sealed Dominators, while Xuedie offered Chen Lin a chance to escape by becoming the Soul-Breaking Clock’s Artifact Spirit; Chen Lin postponed his decision until they found a way out.
• Chen Lin, Huang Yan, and Xuedie chose to explore the three passages together, with Xuedie leading and Chen Lin bringing up the rear while sensing danger.
• Chen Lin secretly contacted Saintess Heqing through the Grotto-Heaven Jade Pendant, and she confirmed that the building was inside the Star Gate and described the wooden exit deeper within it.
• Saintess Heqing identified Huang Yan as the Star Lord’s Remnant Soul and Xuedie as his Spirit Pet, and revealed that the Soul-Breaking Clock was intended to open the wooden door and that the Peacock Flower served Xuedie.
• Chen Lin concealed his suspicions from Huang Yan and considered that the Peacock Flower might be following them; Huang Yan stopped and asked what Chen Lin had discovered.

Chen Lin, Xuedie, and Huang Yan chose a passage after Chen Lin secretly altered Huang Yan’s divination, then broke through a stone door into a hall where they encountered a golden dragon and Sword Woman. As Sword Woman attacked Xuedie, Chen Lin called out to stop her, but the Rainbow Sword was already falling.

• Xuedie examined the three passages with Chen Lin and Huang Yan, and Huang Yan used his Divination Coins to choose the left passage after Chen Lin’s talent ability changed the result.
• Chen Lin considered attacking Xuedie and Huang Yan but held back and followed them to the Cyan Stone Door.
• Xuedie shattered the door with a punch, and Chen Lin entered the hall after Huang Yan and Xuedie.
• Chen Lin spotted Sword Woman standing beneath a pillar beside a golden dragon and wondered whether Niuniu and the others had reached the Star Palace.
• The golden dragon called Sword Woman its Divine Dragon Guard and ordered her to kill the three intruders.
• Sword Woman attacked Xuedie with the Rainbow Sword, and Chen Lin shouted for her to wait.

Chen Lin watched Xuedie and Huang Yan battle Golden Dragon, who revealed a powerful Dragon True Character and was identified as a Zodiac Beast connected to the City of Yangguang. The group agreed to explore together, and they descended through a passage revealed beneath a pillar, with Huang Yan sending Chen Lin ahead.

• Xuedie destroyed Golden Dragon's body with her handkerchief, but a Little Golden Dragon emerged and unleashed a Dragon True Character.
• Xuedie used a clone to divert the Dragon Character Symbol, while Chen Lin learned from Hongchen that Golden Dragon could not fully control it.
• Huang Yan recognized Golden Dragon as a Zodiac Beast and said the City of Yangguang was the Heavenly Domain and the Zodiac Beasts' place of origin.
• Golden Dragon agreed to travel with Xuedie, Huang Yan, Chen Lin, and Sword Woman, and revealed multicolored steps beneath a pillar.
• Xuedie and Sword Woman went down the steps, then Huang Yan sent Chen Lin ahead while he stayed behind.