Recaps

Chen Lin led the group down the rightmost passage, where the path collapsed into the void and starlight spirits surrounded them. As Xuedie and Huang Yan revealed their hidden conflict and Huang Yan transformed into seven light orbs, Chen Lin launched the Crystal Needle and fled into the void.

• Chen Lin chose the rightmost passage by following the Wooden Chicken's divinatory verse, and the group found it ended at a void with no way back.
• Seven-colored starlight spirits appeared, surrounded Little Golden Dragon, and prompted Xuedie to warn that they had to return to the Star Palace.
• Xuedie suppressed Chen Lin, so he summoned Beloved, whose song and the Destiny Character began to threaten Xuedie.
• Xuedie transformed into a giant butterfly and revealed Huang Yan as Li Xiaowu, while Sword Woman's Rainbow Sword helped Chen Lin bind Huang Yan with the Star-Trapping Ring.
• Huang Yan split into seven light orbs that absorbed attacks, then began gathering them as the passage vanished.
• Chen Lin unleashed the Crystal Needle and fled into the void with Sword Woman.

Chen Lin and Sword Woman fled through the void while she revealed the hidden history of the Star Lord, Saintess Heqing, and the wooden door. Their escape remained uncertain as they spotted a small dark shape drifting ahead.

• Chen Lin escaped Huang Yan and Xuedie, then led Sword Woman east through the starlight spirits by following the Wooden Chicken's divination verse.
• Sword Woman told Chen Lin that Niuniu, Luo Qinglan, Xiao Xun, High Person Yunhai, Huiye, the Purple Emperor, and Princess Consort Ning had entered the secret realm, and that Huiye was Xuedie's reincarnated clone.
• Sword Woman revealed that the Star Emperor was the Star Lord's reincarnated body and that the Seven-Star Flower was Saintess Heqing's true treasure, while the Seven Realms Flower and Seven-Colored Flower were only projections.
• Sword Woman explained that the Star Lord and Saintess Heqing had created the Boundary Realm to strengthen the Seven Major Laws and locate a wooden door that might lead to higher-dimensional power and the Ascension Trial.
• Sword Woman warned that Xuedie could grow powerful by fusing with Huiye and Niuniu, then pointed out a small, dark shape drifting ahead.

Chen Lin, Luo Qinglan, and Sword Woman tried to use a seven-star flower to open a mysterious wooden door in the void. As the Star Lord and others arrived, Luo Qinglan urged Chen Lin to merge his Law character with the incomplete character formed by the flower and open the gate.

• Chen Lin and Sword Woman tried several attacks on the wooden door, but none could damage or open it.
• Sword Woman explained that the Rainbow Sword and Primordial Stele had failed to open the door, and warned that Xuedie possessed the Primordial Stele.
• Luo Qinglan arrived in the form of a Divine Phoenix, revealed she had recovered her memories, and gave Chen Lin the seven-star flower.
• Chen Lin activated the Seven-Star Shining Sun Technique, causing the flower to absorb starlight and form a Law character, while he confirmed that Luo Qinglan remained his Companion.
• The flower's incomplete Law character lacked a stroke, and Luo Qinglan warned that the Star Lord and others had arrived as she urged Chen Lin to merge his own character with it and open the gate.

Chen Lin entered the space beyond the wooden door and met an old Ascension Trial survivor, who explained the trials and offered him the Seven-Star Ladle in exchange for a promise to return and save him. The chapter ended with Chen Lin deciding whether to accept the trade or leave with a bucket of nourishing water.

• Chen Lin opened the wooden door with a grayish-white thread, but a Giant Stele stopped the others from entering, and the door pulled him inside alone.
• Chen Lin met an old man in a courtyard, who said the place was a dimensional gap and that he could only return to where he had come from.
• The old man explained that he had failed the Ascension Trial, that only one person succeeded in each trial, and that Chen Lin was likely already on the Ascension Board.
• The old man gave Chen Lin the Seven-Star Ladle to try refining and asked him to return and save him if he succeeded in leaving the Cultivation World.
• The old man said Wenchen Ke of the Life Ferry had nearly won the trial but lost to Shadow Scholar, then asked Chen Lin to choose between the ladle trade and a bucket of water.

Chen Lin refined the Seven-Star Ladle into a powerful Law Character Symbol and used it to annihilate six supreme experts who attacked him outside the Star Gate. As more survivors emerged and hostile factions gathered, Chen Lin reunited with his companions and gave injured Lan Menghan starlight spirit to refine.

• Chen Lin used his soul to refine the Seven-Star Ladle, merged its seven points of light with his Law Character Symbol, and completed part of the symbol’s missing strokes.
• Chen Lin learned from Ye Zhangge that he might have come from outside the Star Ruins, then was expelled from the courtyard and emerged beside the Star Gate.
• Six supreme experts attacked Chen Lin and unleashed a giant spear containing a True Character, but Chen Lin’s Seven-Star Ladle devoured the spear and annihilated all six.
• The Star Gate released Luo Qinglan, Niuniu, Xiao Xun, and other survivors, while Saintess Heqing, the Star Lord, the Sword Woman, and Xuedie remained missing.
• Chen Lin let Lan Menghan reach him and gave her a Life Bag containing starlight spirit to heal her injuries as the surrounding factions closed in.

Chen Lin and his companions fought off a crowd of experts after High Person Yunhai turned them against Chen Lin, and Chen Lin defeated the Celestial God Palace elder Wangyou with the Seven-Star Ladle. They escaped the weakened boundary realm, while other figures watched from afar and the Golden Dragon finally emerged from the Star Gate.

• Luo Qinglan told Chen Lin that Saintess Heqing, Sword Woman, Xuedie, Huiye, and the Star Lord had all died in their final battle, and the realm's laws began to weaken as its seven stars vanished.
• Chen Lin discovered that a starlight spirit restored and strengthened the Seven-Star Ladle, then declined to join the Purple Emperor and Princess Consort Ning as they left.
• High Person Yunhai accused Chen Lin of keeping the treasures, prompting Fu Tianxue and Wangyou to demand Chen Lin hand them over, including the starlight spirits and Lan Menghan.
• Luo Qinglan attacked Wangyou, and Chen Lin and the others joined the fight; Wangyou unleashed his Darkness Sword, but Chen Lin's Colored Character absorbed it and severely wounded him.
• Chen Lin spared Wangyou and told him to convey a message to Chunjiu, then opened a spatial fissure and led his companions away as High Person Yunhai's phantom vanished.
• Beitang Zhu considered asking her Master to invest further in Chen Lin, Xitina chose not to catch up with him, Gu Siming and two unseen women observed the area, and the Golden Dragon squeezed out of the Star Gate.

Chen Lin reunited with Niuniu, learned that she was San Niu and a fragment of the Nightmare King Seal, and watched her return to the Nightmare Realm to confront Xuedie. After speaking with Xiao Xun and Luo Qinglan, he set out to hunt the Seven-Star Realm’s Supreme Experts.

• Chen Lin asked Niuniu about the letters and San Niu, and she revealed that she had entered his tribulation of destiny to save him and was a Nightmare King Seal artifact spirit fragment.
• Niuniu warned that Xuedie would become the host of another artifact spirit fragment, took the Star Toad, gave Chen Lin a Grass Mandarin Duck, declared her love, and vanished to return to the Nightmare Realm.
• Chen Lin told Xiao Xun that he had met his mother, explained Tiezhu’s departure, and introduced the Little White Snake, who challenged Xiao Xun to a spar.
• Chen Lin inspected his spoils and suspected that the Star Lord and other powerful figures might have planned their apparent defeat and could reincarnate.
• Chen Lin told Luo Qinglan he intended to hunt Supreme Experts and offered to send everyone to the Kaiyuan Sect, but she chose to accompany him.
• Chen Lin and Luo Qinglan set out to catch the Supreme Experts off guard.

Chen Lin and his allies gathered forces for a decisive battle against the Lake-Fishing Old Man after eliminating many of his Supreme Expert subordinates. As they approached a seal node, powerful reinforcements arrived, though some could only prevent outside factions from interfering.

• Luo Qinglan defeated and annihilated Yuan Dulie, demonstrating that she could match a powerful Supreme Expert.
• Over a decade, Chen Lin, Luo Qinglan, and Lan Menghan killed more than twenty Supreme Experts and over a hundred Eternal Realm lackeys, forcing the survivors to hide or unite.
• Chen Lin decided to summon his allies and head for the seal node, while he and Luo Qinglan agreed to keep Chen Ling'er and the others with them because nowhere else was safe.
• Daidaidong and more than a hundred allies joined Chen Lin, and the president of the Ant Society placed the Chief Ant Ring in Chen Lin's care.
• Beitang Zhu, Lady Ming, Yue Shanye, and the Peach Blossom Fairy arrived; Beitang Zhu explained that they could not fight the local enemies but would stop outside factions from interfering.

Chen Lin and his allies reached Lan Menghan’s Realm Seal node in the Boundary River Wall, but struggled to gather the rare materials needed to break it while the Lake-Fishing Old Man’s forces closed in. After Lan Menghan secured the node with an emergency formation, the enemy assembled a massive cannon and fired at them.

• Lan Menghan revealed that opening the node required a special formation and rare materials, and Chen Lin supplied the items he had while seeking help from his allies and Beitang Zhu.
• Beitang Zhu refused to provide materials and warned that the Four Seasons Villa had sent someone stronger than Fu Tianxue, so Chen Lin sent Daidaidong to gather supplies and dispatched twenty others to divert the pursuers.
• Lan Menghan used Chen Lin’s Array-Setting Equipment to create a protective formation around the node as enemy forces arrived and encircled the area.
• Chen Lin stationed experts to guard against anyone approaching through the Boundary River, while the enemy assembled a huge fortress-like cannon and powered it with thirty-six crystals.
• A Supreme Expert ordered the cannon to fire, and a dazzling beam erupted toward the node.

Chen Lin and his allies endured repeated attacks from a fortress’s Spirit Cannons, while Hongchen’s Destiny Character killed the cannon operator and helped destroy the fortress. With the enemy vanguard withdrawing to await reinforcements, Chen Lin began assessing his allies’ abilities and considering how to survive the arrival of the main force.

• Chen Lin used the Seven-Star Ladle to block a devastating cannon shot, then intercepted Bai Qianjin’s Immortal-Slaying Bow arrow with the Crystal Needle.
• As the enemy repeatedly fired its Spirit Cannons and kept Bai Qianjin ready to stop a counterattack, Chen Lin ordered Hongchen to target the cannon operator and called his allies to attack.
• Hongchen’s Destiny Character ignored Bai Qianjin’s arrow, killed the operator, and returned with spoils; the Ant Society President then used Star-Shattering Thunder to blast apart the fortress.
• Chen Lin attacked the bow wielder with the Crystal Needle and used the Soul-Destroying Finger to kill many Formation Masters and Artifact Refiners, while the survivors escaped aboard a Spirit Boat.
• The Ant Society President warned Chen Lin that the Four Great Guardians’ main force, including Yue Qianqiu, was still coming, and Chen Lin asked his allies to explain their abilities so they could coordinate.

Chen Lin removed Lan Menghan’s mask after using his destiny talent to improve the outcome, awakening her unknown power as a phantom ship appeared. The ship’s blue figure then captured Bai Qianjin and vanished with him.

• The Ant Society President gave Chen Lin an Outspoken Bird talisman, and Chen Lin distributed variegated crystals to allies preparing to fight the Supreme Experts.
• Lan Menghan revealed that she belonged to the cursed Blue Jade Clan and that her mask suppressed her dangerous, unpredictable innate talent; only her destined partner could remove it safely.
• Chen Lin used the Seven-Star Ladle and his Law Character Symbol to alter Lan Menghan’s destiny, but a mysterious voice warned him about bearing the karma of changing another’s fate.
• Chen Lin removed Lan Menghan’s mask, and a ship-shaped mark appeared between her brows as a colossal phantom ship formed overhead.
• Bai Qianjin shot at the blue figure aboard the phantom boat, but the arrow passed through; the figure called the boat, ensnared Bai Qianjin with a blue rope, and vanished with him.

Chen Lin and his allies defeated the Lake-Fishing Old Man’s forces, but Lan Menghan still needed materials and a treasure to break the realm seal. After Peach Blossom Fairy appeared in Chen Lin’s grotto-heaven and gave him three peaches to restore Hongchen’s energy, the group’s next move remained uncertain.

• Chen Lin and his allies killed nine Supreme Experts and most of their support personnel, forcing the survivors to flee.
• Lan Menghan revealed that a treasure activated by a formation could break the node, but she could not open it herself and needed time to recover after using her Small Boat ability.
• Jinsheng told Chen Lin he sought Sun Chuxue because her flower-shaped birthmark could open a Secret Land containing primal power.
• The Ant Society President warned that gathering materials would be dangerous and proposed retreating into the Boundary River with a Realm-Breaking Talisman as a fallback.
• Chen Lin entered the Fruit Core Grotto-Heaven and found Peach Blossom Fairy, who warned him to protect Hongchen and used her origin essence to create three energy-restoring peaches for her.

Chen Lin tested the Peach Blossom Fairy’s peaches, then welcomed Grand Duke White Moonlight and three rescued Soul Smugglers to the Heaven-Defying Alliance. With crucial formation materials still missing, he and the Ant Society President prepared to search different Dimensional Mirages while the Grand Duke guarded the node; Chen Lin began testing whether the Life Ferry could help him obtain the materials.

• Hongchen consumed one of the peaches and returned to peak condition, confirming it could restore her vitality almost instantly.
• Grand Duke White Moonlight arrived with Xitina and three rescued men, including Li Zhaoyuan, who sought refuge from the Lake-Fishing Old Man’s hunters.
• White Moonlight supplied many formation materials, but Lan Menghan said the Multi-Eyed Stone, Nine-Tentacle Divine Conch, Circular Spirit Hemp, and Sprite Maple Leaf were still needed.
• White Moonlight explained that Chen Lin’s red dragonfly could open the Glazed Illusion Realm after consuming enough flesh and blood, while Chen Lin and the Ant Society President agreed to search the Glazed Illusion Realm and the Life Ferry.
• After learning that White Moonlight could hold off Supreme Experts, Chen Lin entered his Talent Domain, formed a Law Character Symbol, and tested possible destinies until a thread appeared when he imagined finding materials aboard the Life Ferry.

Chen Lin entered the Life Ferry with Grass, who accepted a dangerous life task, and met Adaiah at a gathering, where she traded him a multi-eyed stone. Lu Ming attacked Chen Lin for trading with Adaiah, but First Mate Angela stopped him and offered Chen Lin compensation, leaving Chen Lin's demand to have Lu Ming kill the Lake-Fishing Old Man unanswered.

• Chen Lin corrected a Light Orb node, then entered the Life Ferry with Grass and let Pearl take her to the Mission Hall, where she accepted a high-level life task.
• Pearl told Chen Lin about a newly announced gathering, where he met Adaiah and learned she had come from a special plane.
• Chen Lin asked Adaiah for materials to breach the Realm Seal, and she traded him a multi-eyed stone for one Life Coin.
• Lu Ming confronted Chen Lin over his private trade with Adaiah and struck him with a saber, consuming Chen Lin's Outspoken Bird Talisman when it saved his life.
• First Mate Angela restrained Lu Ming and offered Chen Lin compensation; Chen Lin demanded that Lu Ming kill the Lake-Fishing Old Man and all his clones within three months.

Chen Lin forced Lu Ming to agree to restrain the Lake-Fishing Old Man and received a Runic Sprite in exchange, then learned that the Life Ferry was seeking an Acting Captain for the upcoming Ascension Trial. Angela explained the selection process and the rewards, leaving the passengers to consider whether to sign up while trading began.

• Chen Lin demanded that Lu Ming fulfill a condition, and Angela ruled that Lu Ming had to comply or be erased for challenging the ferry's rules.
• Lu Ming agreed to pressure the Lake-Fishing Old Man and the Four Seasons Villa for a thousand years, but said he could not kill the Old Man or locate his clone.
• Chen Lin asked Lu Ming for several rare materials, but Lu Ming instead gave him a single-use Runic Sprite and promised to restrain the Lake-Fishing Old Man.
• After Lu Ming left, Chen Lin gave Pearl a hundred Life Coins, and Angela announced that the Captain had survived a tribulation and was seeking an Acting Captain to represent him in the Ascension Trial.
• Angela explained that candidates would face a selection in three stages and described the rewards, including an Amnesty Token, a Ship Ticket, and a higher passenger rank.

Chen Lin traded for Circular Spirit Hemp and a Great Victory Ascending Pill, then prepared to manipulate fate during the Life Ferry’s lottery. He still lacked the Nine-Tentacle Divine Conch and Sprite Maple Leaf, and the chapter left him secretly trying to secure them through the Treasure Vault drawing.

• Chen Lin traded seven Variegated Crystals for a masked cultivator’s Circular Spirit Hemp but found no one offering a Nine-Tentacle Divine Conch or Sprite Maple Leaf.
• A Thousand-Face Woman sought help removing the Everlasting Bell, but withdrew her request to Angela rather than accept Angela’s binding terms.
• Chen Lin offered the Burning Passion Sword Formula as a possible solution, and the woman traded him a Great Victory Ascending Pill for it.
• Angela ended the trading session and announced an Acting Captain selection, a lottery, and a banquet; Pearl told Chen Lin the lottery could include Exchange Tokens for the Treasure Vault.
• Chen Lin entered his Talent Domain unnoticed and began correcting destiny to try to draw the items he needed.

Chen Lin was summoned aboard the Life Ferry, where he outmaneuvered High Person Yunhai in a trade and learned the connection between Nian Kong and the Demon-Suppressing Temple. As Angela began screening candidates for the Ascension Trial, Chen Lin avoided participating, then met Zhao Qingchuan, who claimed his clan had been instructed to serve Chen Lin’s bloodline.

• Angela used a Conscription Order to summon practitioners who had earned high ratings in Life Tasks, and Chen Ling'er appeared aboard the ship.
• High Person Yunhai confronted Chen Lin and offered information about Chen Lin’s foundations in exchange for the Soulless Patriarch’s whereabouts.
• Chen Lin prompted High Person Yunhai to reveal that Nian Kong was a soul smuggler whose clones made up the Demon-Suppressing Temple, then shared what he knew about the Soulless Patriarch.
• Angela screened the newcomers for Captain Proxy candidates, and more than a hundred passed the First Trial, including High Person Yunhai.
• Chen Lin kept himself and Chen Ling'er out of the screening while Angela led the successful candidates away for the Second Trial.
• Zhao Qingchuan introduced himself to Chen Lin and said his ancestor had ordered the clan to serve Chen Lin’s descendants until their bloodline died out.

Chen Lin helped Zhao Qingchuan, learned from Pearl that a Secret Order was crucial to surviving the Ascension Trial, and took part in the Life Ferry lottery draw. Chen Lin received a manual instead of the treasures he needed, while Chen Ling'er drew a rare palm-sized Treasure Chest whose contents remained unknown.

• Chen Lin gave Zhao Qingchuan treasures to help his lineage and accepted Chen Ling'er's request that he carry out tasks in the Tianxuan Realm.
• Chen Ling'er gave Pearl her Deputy Captain Appointment Document, and Pearl warned Chen Lin that he needed a Secret Order for the Ascension Trial before the ship punished her for violating regulations.
• Angela returned with High Person Yunhai and announced the lottery draw, in which High Person Yunhai and the other candidates received Treasure Chests.
• Chen Lin chose the same nine numbers as in his previous draw but received a standard Treasure Chest containing a manual titled "Deduction and Research of Mysterious Characters."
• Chen Ling'er tapped nine numbers and received a palm-sized Treasure Chest, drawing surprised looks from Angela and High Person Yunhai.

Chen Lin received a Great Dao Pill and asked the Thousand-Face Woman to try undoing Nana’s wind chime before Wenchen Ke summoned him and revealed more about the world and its possible limits. Chen Lin returned to the Seven-Star Realm without the help he sought, just as a second wave of enemy ships arrived.

• Chen Ling'er opened the Treasure Chest and found a Great Dao Pill, which Chen Lin offered to refine for her to reduce its risks.
• Chen Lin paid the Thousand-Face Woman with Firefly Jade and Dream Special Sand to try undoing the sixteenth wind chime at Huqiu within a hundred years.
• Wenchen Ke summoned Chen Lin, used spirit wine to awaken his Soul Master inheritance, and asked him to return and take him away if he achieved transcendence.
• Wenchen Ke told Chen Lin that their world might be a book or something similar, and refused to use his authority over the Life Ferry to help Chen Lin escape his Boundary Realm.
• Chen Lin returned to the Seven-Star Realm, reported that he had obtained only the Multi-Eyed Stone and one portion of Circular Spirit Hemp, and learned that Grass was in her Life Task Space.
• More than ten hostile giant ships emerged from the void, and their combined pressure threatened to collapse Chen Lin's group's protective formation.

Chen Lin used the Great Victory Ascending Pill and the Runic Sprite to briefly reach Dominator power and improve his divine abilities, but he could not open the node. As hundreds of enemies attacked, Chen Lin assigned his allies to fight their leaders and prepared to join the battle.

• Chen Lin swallowed the Great Victory Ascending Pill, briefly reached Dominator power, then used the Runic Sprite to improve his Nine-Layered Armor and Blue Enchantress.
• Wen Tingyu learned that the Four Seasons Villa had agreed not to attack Chen Lin for a thousand years, while Beitang Zhu and the other representatives decided to stay after hearing that the Lake-Fishing Old Man had returned.
• A middle-aged man ordered the assembled Supreme Experts to attack, and Yue Qianqiu dispersed Chen Lin's seven Blue Enchantress strikes with his broom.
• Jinsheng identified Yue Qianqiu, He Qianshan, and Ji Qianhai, while the enemy's combined assault shattered most of Chen Lin's Nine-Layered Armor.
• Chen Lin restored his armor with variegated essence and ordered Lan Menghan to face Yue Qianqiu, Luo Qinglan to hold off He Qianshan, and Grand Duke to deal with Ji Qianhai.

Chen Lin killed He Qianshan with the Soul Confrontation Technique and helped turn the battle against Yue Qianqiu’s forces, but Yue Qianqiu’s mysterious broom-wielding form remained locked in combat with Hongchen and Lan Menghan. After Lan Menghan collapsed and her attack faded, Chen Lin and his companions launched a desperate assault on the old man.

• Chen Lin sent Hongchen’s Destiny Character and Lan Menghan to hold Yue Qianqiu while he attacked He Qianshan, whose Eye of Death began draining Chen Lin’s true lifespan.
• Chen Lin destroyed the Eye of Death and struck He Qianshan with the Seven-Star Ladle, but He Qianshan survived and offered to enslave him.
• Chen Lin used the Soul Confrontation Technique to kill He Qianshan, who questioned why the Art of Righteousness at the Cost of Life had worked on him before dying.
• Chen Lin joined Luo Qinglan and White Moonlight in killing Ji Qianhai, then swept the battlefield with blue light and caused the enemy’s ordinary troops to flee.
• Lan Menghan passed out as her Rule Line and Hongchen’s Destiny Character faded, but Hongchen summoned another Destiny Character and Chen Lin’s group attacked Yue Qianqiu.

Chen Lin survived Yue Qianqiu’s old man’s reality-erasing attacks when his soul’s unusual characteristic made the Dominator-level enemy vanish. After the battle, he secured temporary protection and help finding materials to break his seal, but the nine-tentacle divine conch remained elusive.

• The old man’s broom erased Chen Lin, Luo Qinglan, and Grand Duke White Moonlight’s attacks and began erasing their existence, but Chen Lin’s weakened soul entered the old man and caused him to vanish.
• Chen Lin recovered the treasures, helped Jinsheng and the others kill the remaining enemies, and watched Wen Tingyu retreat without attacking him.
• Chen Lin thanked Beitang Zhu, Peach Blossom Fairy, Yue Shanye, and Lady Ming, then said Langdang Mountain had arranged protection from Four Seasons Villa.
• Peach Blossom Fairy agreed to seek a thousand-step vine for Chen Lin’s formation, while Lady Ming explained that the other needed material, a nine-tentacle divine conch, was found only in the inaccessible Rule Forest.
• Chen Lin announced that he planned to purge the Lake-Fishing Old Man’s remaining followers, and the others listed people they wanted spared before departing.

After the Heaven-Defying Alliance defeated its enemies, Chen Lin organized the survivors, secured support from the Seven Passions Sect, and spent more than a decade preparing to escape the Seven-Star Realm. The chapter leaves Chen Lin waiting for Grass and the Ant Society President while studying runic inscriptions.

• Chen Lin assigned the survivors to search for nine-tentacle divine conch, hunt down the escaped remnants, and plan a mobile base while he and Lan Menghan guarded the node with Chen Ling'er.
• Chen Lin spent half a year reflecting on his soul's mysterious power and learning that the rare ability called erasure could eliminate Runic Practitioners and their traces.
• Over the next decade, Luo Qinglan and Grand Duke White Moonlight's teams killed many remnants, and the Seven Passions Sect agreed to help protect the Seven-Star Realm in exchange for control of the Outer Star Domain and joint development of the Abyss.
• Chen Lin accepted the Seven Passions Sect's terms, judging that its protection would help those who could not accompany him to the Star Ruins.
• Chen Ling'er told Chen Lin that Grass had not returned from the Life Ferry and that the Ant Society President remained missing, while reports from the Boundary River indicated that all was normal.

Chen Lin learned that the Seven Passions Sect possessed a secret art for separating an Other Self, though using it would require negotiation. Grass returned from her task with a powerful, costly sword technique, and Chen Lin trusted her despite sensing that she had changed.

• Beitang Zhu explained the Dominator Realm, Merit Marks, and the irreversible path of separating Other Selves, then agreed to negotiate access to the Seven Passions Sect's secret art for Chen Lin.
• Grass returned after earning a perfect evaluation and told Chen Lin that High Person Yunhai had tried to trap her, but Pearl had warned her as the Ferry's new Second Mate.
• Grass revealed that she had received a powerful sword technique with a tremendous cost and had greatly improved her Sword Will through a thousand years of fighting.
• Chen Lin learned Grass believed she had no Other Self and was approaching the Dominator Realm by honing her Sword Will.
• Grass left to help Luo Qinglan hunt the remaining Supremes, while Chen Lin told Lan Menghan that he trusted Grass completely.

Chen Lin accepted the sect’s offer to obtain a separation method and materials in exchange for retrieving a relic from the Bizarre Kingdom, then studied the dangerous Thousand-Cut Dao-Breaking Art. With the Nine-Tentacle Divine Conch still missing and the Lake-Fishing Old Man’s situation uncertain, Chen Lin gathered his returning allies to discuss their next steps.

• Beitang Zhu offered Chen Lin the separation method and array materials in exchange for retrieving the sect’s former Sect Master’s relic from the Bizarre Kingdom within three thousand years, and gave him a Star-Driving Bead as a gift.
• Chen Lin opened the scroll and learned that the Thousand-Cut Dao-Breaking Art required enduring continuous attacks on his Dao foundation, though his independent soul could limit the danger to his body.
• Chen Lin studied the array materials, judged that separating his Other Self would weaken him, and decided to wait for a safer opportunity while asking Grand Duke White Moonlight and Luo Qinglan to prepare a Mobile Base.
• After more than ten years passed without news of the Nine-Tentacle Divine Conch, most of Grand Duke White Moonlight’s group returned from the purge, and Jinsheng asked about the missing Ant Society President.
• Chen Lin reassured Jinsheng that the president might still be alive, then called everyone together to discuss what they should do next.