Recaps

Chen Lin explored the Abyss and found a hidden passage beneath the statue Ji Yueqing had described. After activating it, he sent his true soul inside while leaving Chen Ling'er and Hongchen to guard his body, with instructions to leave if he did not return within ten days.

• Chen Lin gave up on the factions' help, left White Moonlight and the others guarding the node, and searched the Boundary River and Nightmare Realm before heading into the Abyss.
• Chen Lin reached the Abyssal Depths, found the statue linked to Luo, and discovered the lake and altar Ji Yueqing had marked on her map.
• Chen Lin destroyed the statue, took its nearly depleted crystal eye, and used it to activate the altar, which formed a passage entrance.
• Chen Lin summoned Chen Ling'er, left Hongchen with her to protect his body, and told her to seek help from the Peach Blossom Fairy if he failed to return within ten days.
• Chen Lin separated his true soul from his physical body and entered the passage, which vanished behind him.

Chen Lin explored a sealed space, destroyed a hostile presence in a Giant Tripod, and found a mysterious box containing a map-like scroll. The scroll led him and Chen Ling'er to an Immortal Realm Fragment, where they planned to search for an item and clues about her mother.

• Chen Lin entered a crimson-mist-filled space, cut the chains suspending a Giant Tripod, and destroyed the weakened entity inside it.
• Chen Lin found Ji Yueqing's corroded communication treasure, then discovered a durable box containing a black key-like object, a dark red sphere, and a shifting paper scroll.
• Chen Lin reunited with Chen Ling'er and, months later, used the scroll to identify a shattered plane as an Immortal Realm Fragment.
• Chen Lin told Chen Ling'er they would first seek the item marked on the scroll, then search the fragments for traces of her mother.

Chen Lin and Chen Ling'er searched the shattered Immortal Realm for clues about her mother, Sun Caiyi, and discovered that she had lived there as a cultivator five thousand years earlier. They set out to find more answers, but the Qianlin Sect had no record of where she went after she disappeared.

• Chen Lin found a diary in the ruins that mentioned the Star Ruins, then gave Chen Ling'er the journal to use for her boundary-realm map.
• Chen Lin sent out runic clones to investigate the Immortal Realm while discussing soul dissolution and Other Selves with Chen Ling'er, who accepted two secret arts from him.
• A runic clone reported that a woman matching Sun Caiyi had appeared in a distant fragment five thousand years earlier, and Chen Lin and Chen Ling'er hurried there.
• Chen Lin summoned the Qianlin Sect's Sect Leader, who confirmed that Sun Caiyi had joined the sect as a Void Refinement Realm Outer Sect Deacon before suddenly disappearing.
• The Sect Leader said Sun Caiyi had left no Soul Lamp, and Chen Lin and Chen Ling'er vanished without learning where she had gone.

Chen Lin found a sliver of Sun Caiyi’s soul in an innate spirit crystal, giving Chen Ling'er hope that her mother could be resurrected. After returning to the Outer Star Domain, he left his companions behind and entered the River of Destiny alone to test a route through the Star Ruins.

• Chen Lin and Chen Ling'er searched for Sun Caiyi, and Chen Lin discovered that an innate spirit crystal at the Myriad Treasures Pavilion carried her aura.
• Chen Lin extracted a sliver of Sun Caiyi’s soul from the crystal and explained that resurrecting her would require a suitable body and finding the rest of her soul.
• Chen Lin returned with Chen Ling'er to the Outer Star Domain and, after the Ant Society President failed to return, decided to travel alone through the River of Destiny.
• Chen Lin reassured Luo Qinglan about protecting his family and discussed the uncertain possibility of resurrecting Sun Caiyi.
• Chen Lin gave the fruit-core Jade Pendant and the people inside it to Chen Ling'er, then entered the River of Destiny alone.

Chen Lin entered the River of Destiny in his true body, tested his possessions and abilities, and traveled upstream. After discovering that the light-filled void outside the river nearly destroyed him, he returned to the water and encountered Zuo Xiwen.

• Chen Lin confirmed that Hongchen and Little White Snake could withstand the Destiny Rule, while his two other test subjects needed his protection.
• Chen Lin found that he could use the Grotto-Heaven Jade Pendant and Silver Ingot Bracelet, and that his abilities were strengthened inside the river.
• Chen Lin used Daidaidong's Fate Pointer to travel upstream and learned that leaving and reentering his Talent Domain did not change his position in the river.
• Chen Lin surfaced from the River of Destiny and was wrapped in countless strands of light that his methods could not fend off.
• Chen Lin plunged back into the river, where the strands vanished, and saw Zuo Xiwen waiting at a fork.

Chen Lin crossed the Dimensional Barrier and followed Zuo Xiwen’s directions to a node, but it unexpectedly brought him to a cave where a strange woman gave him a ring before sending him into the Star Ruins. He was left wondering how the node had led him there and why the woman had mistaken him for someone sent to visit her.

• Zuo Xiwen told Chen Lin how to find a node near Ten-Surname Village and gave him a Revival Fruit to help him strip away his Other Selves.
• Chen Lin collected destiny flowers and a small fruit-bearing tree while following the Round Disc through the River of Destiny.
• Chen Lin prepared his abilities and crossed the Dimensional Barrier, using the Crystal Needle to break through its shifting lights and shadows.
• Chen Lin followed Zuo Xiwen’s directions to a node, but emerged in a damp cave where a tethered woman questioned him and called him a soul smuggler.
• The woman gave Chen Lin a silvery-white ring and sent him into the Void, leaving him to suspect he had reached the Star Ruins and puzzle over the cave’s connection to the node.

Chen Lin reached Lu Island, met cultivators attending the Hibiscus Convention, and learned that a breached plane had flooded nearby markets with mysterious goods. He accompanied Ning Yu to a stall selling gambling Lamp Pots, where Ning Yu opened one and obtained a bright red fruit.

• Chen Lin followed a Location Bead to Lu Island, where Mu Chengzhou, Qu Fengchun, and Mo Yi invited him to attend the Hibiscus Convention with them.
• Chen Lin learned that Lu Island was a shared commercial market and that the Hibiscus Convention was a gathering for pairing cultivators with companions.
• Chen Lin left the others to browse the market, searched for Nine-Tentacle Divine Conch, and learned that it might be sold at the Azure-Crested Heavenly Palace or in the sealed Rule Forest.
• Chen Lin befriended Ning Yu, who explained that goods from a breached plane had recently flooded the markets around the Thousand-Tower Ruin.
• Ning Yu bought a gambling Lamp Pot with a variegated crystal, opened it, and received a bright red fruit.

Chen Lin opened a Lamp Pot and acquired Sprout, a rule-born Divine Maiden who became his subordinate and agreed to gather resources for him on Lu Island. After establishing a shop and learning more about the Market, he followed Ning Yu to the Hibiscus Pavilion to see its White Sprites.

• Ning Yu drew an Inaction Fruit and three pieces of variegated crystal from Lamp Pots, while Chen Lin's pot produced a cloud-robed Divine Maiden who called him Master.
• Chen Lin named the Divine Maiden Sprout and assigned her to collect nine-tentacle divine conch and variegated crystal marrow on Lu Island.
• Chen Lin learned that Sprout could communicate with him through a rule contract, then tasked her with running Sprout Grocery Store after buying land on the Market's outskirts.
• Ning Yu declined to join Chen Lin's shop, and the two discussed Chen Lin's refusal to treat Sprout as a cultivation cauldron.
• After Ning Yu explained the Hibiscus Pavilion's matchmaking service and its connection to Yin-Yang Island, Chen Lin agreed to accompany him there to see the White Sprites.

Chen Lin visited Yin-Yang Island’s Hibiscus Pavilion with Ning Yu and learned that its marriage convention offered rule-blessed matches for a fee. After looking through the third-floor album without choosing anyone, he discovered that someone had paid to view his detailed information, obligating him to disclose it under threat of a tenfold penalty.

• Ning Yu gave Chen Lin a detailed map of the Star Ruins factions and explained that his lineage kept Ascension Trial information secret.
• Ning Yu and Chen Lin qualified for the Hibiscus Pavilion, with Ning Yu receiving intermediate status and Chen Lin receiving advanced status from the Matchmaker’s Eye.
• Chen Lin asked about Wen Siyue, and a Yin-Yang Sect cultivator told him she was on Yin-Yang Island preparing for the Flag-Seizing Tournament before Senior Sister Wu intervened.
• Chen Lin followed He Wuzhao to the third floor and learned that the album charged variegated crystals or Silver Hibiscus Coins for fuller match information.
• Chen Lin finished browsing the album without choosing a match, but it announced that someone had paid to view his detailed information and that he had to disclose it or pay ten times the cost.

Chen Lin was forced into a recognized companion status with Yue Bingling by the Hibiscus Pavilion’s rules, then left Lu Island to search for nine-tentacle divine conch. After failing to find any near the Thousand-Tower Ruin, he continued toward Wudaopo and chose to cross the Sand Sea directly.

• Chen Lin used his soul body and a mysterious characteristic to enter false information into the Hibiscus Pavilion’s Marriage Document, but Yue Bingling used a Yin-Yang Token to establish companion status with him.
• Chen Lin confronted the Hibiscus Pavilion over the forced status, then accepted the tower master’s apology and variegated crystal marrow and left after learning Wen Siyue was cultivating on Yin-Yang Island.
• Sprout told Chen Lin that Ning had left for the Hanchuan Boundary Realm and given him an invitation to the Ning Family during the upcoming Boundary Realm Exchange Convention.
• Chen Lin departed Lu Island and searched the markets near the Thousand-Tower Ruin for nine-tentacle divine conch, but found none and continued toward Wudaopo to contact Dugu Batian.
• After traveling for two years, Chen Lin and Little White Snake reached the Sand Sea, and Chen Lin decided to cross it rather than take a longer route around.

Chen Lin survived the Sand Sea’s corrosive energy and a monster’s tentacle, then rescued Su Wanyi and her infant son from a giant Flying Boat. After using the Seven-Star Ladle to escape the Sand Sea, he agreed to travel with Su Wanyi toward Wudaopo, where he noticed a bent blade of grass.

• Chen Lin used his Soul Wings and Nine-Layered Armor to cross the Sand Sea, then fought off a massive tentacle with the Seven-Star Ladle and the Soul Confrontation Secret Art.
• Chen Lin found a giant beast-shaped Flying Boat containing Su Wanyi, her infant son, and two unconscious men, and he gave the survivors medicinal pills and spirit liquid.
• Su Wanyi asked Chen Lin to take her son to the Wang Lineage of Little Xuan Island, but Chen Lin instead used the Seven-Star Ladle to tear open space and bring the Flying Boat out of the Sand Sea.
• Su Wanyi introduced herself as the wife of Wang Qingchuan and offered her lineage’s service; Chen Lin gave the name Lin Feiyu and agreed to travel with her toward Wudaopo.
• Su Wanyi began treating the two injured men from her lineage, while Chen Lin pointed out a bent blade of grass.

Chen Lin brought Su Wanyi and the surviving members of the Wang Lineage back to Little Xuan Island, then searched for the source of a Soul-Condensing Herb that had stirred a faint reaction in his soul. After their inquiries at every shop came up empty, Su Wanyi suggested the herb might have absorbed its peculiar aura from something stored beside it.

• Chen Lin noticed that one Soul-Condensing Herb faintly affected a hidden trait in his soul and decided to investigate its origin in the Shattered Star Ring.
• Chen Lin and Su Wanyi reached Little Xuan Island, where Su Wanyi arranged for the purple cloud soil to be unloaded and took charge of the weakened Wang Lineage.
• Chen Lin studied the art of separating his other selves while a Runic Puppet investigated the Shattered Star Ring, and Su Wanyi later gave him a box of promised payment.
• Su Wanyi asked Chen Lin to become an attendant of the Wang Lineage, but he declined and offered to help with threats if her lineage traced the herb's origins.
• Chen Lin and Su Wanyi visited every shop where she had bought Soul-Condensing Herbs but found no clues, so Su Wanyi proposed that the herb might have absorbed its aura from another stored item.

Chen Lin traced the unusual aura in the soul-condensing herbs to supplies bought at the Li Family Market, but his attempt to divine its source nearly destroyed his Talent Domain. After surviving through the Reverse Scale, he found that his talent had changed and become connected to the Main Destiny River, then paused his investigation when Su Wanyi called to him.

• Chen Lin failed to use his talent to locate the source of the aura, confirmed Su Wanyi had not lied, and concluded that the mysterious trait was interfering with divination.
• Su Wanyi recalled that the Wang Lineage had bought the first soul-condensing herbs at the Li Family Market, and Chen Lin found a soul-nourishing grass from the same purchase that carried a similar aura.
• Chen Lin erased the manager's memories, then depleted his soul origin essence so that only the part bearing the trait remained and used his talent to find a clue at the Li Family Market.
• When Chen Lin tried to reach the clue's node in destiny fish form, the node drew him in and made his body and domain turn transparent, but his Reverse Scale restored him long enough to escape.
• Chen Lin recovered with Hongchen's aid and discovered that his Talent Domain now contained branching lines connected to the Main Destiny River, though it had no nodes to correct.
• Su Wanyi called to Chen Lin, and he put Hongchen and Little White Snake away before going outside.

Chen Lin confronted the Li Family after learning that its spirit herbs came from the Totem Secret Realm, then used his Soul Master Deterrence Power to escape their ambush. He later bluffed Li Huaxuan into believing he was connected to the clan’s hidden past, and the Li patriarch admitted the family had activated a treasure but could not enter the true secret realm.

• Chen Lin questioned the Li Family Market shopkeeper about the spirit herbs and learned they likely came from the Totem Secret Realm.
• Li Qianming and five Li Family elders surrounded Chen Lin and Su Wanyi, but Chen Lin stunned them and left the shop with her.
• Su Wanyi returned to Little Xuan Island and worried that the Li Family would retaliate, while Chen Lin declined to flee or hide the Wang Lineage.
• Li Huaxuan arrived at the Wang Lineage with rebirth ginseng for Su Wanyi’s son and asked to meet Chen Lin.
• Chen Lin used his Soul Master Deterrence Power to control the conversation, and Li Huaxuan claimed the Li Family had activated the treasure but could not reach the true secret realm.

Chen Lin inspected the Li Family’s Rooster Totem Statue, discovered it was connected to the Zodiac Beasts, and tested its power before leaving without entering its secret realm. The Li Family secretly planned to lure him into the realm and use a Life-Slaying Lock to seize his gains, while Chen Lin returned to Little Xuan Island and began examining his Fierce Tiger Pendant.

• Chen Lin pressured Li Huaxuan into taking him to the Li Family headquarters to inspect the Primordial Totem, where Li Qianming apologized for attacking him.
• Chen Lin recognized the statue as a Zodiac Beast, accepted a vial of variegated essence, and considered how several beings and objects he had encountered might be among the Twelve Zodiacs.
• Li Huaxuan explained that his family had obtained a Black Feather from the Rooster Statue, and Chen Lin used the Silence Technique to test the statue before retreating when it resisted.
• Chen Lin declined Li Huaxuan’s offer to enter the secret realm and left; Li Huaxuan revealed to Li Qianming that he planned to trap Chen Lin with a Life-Slaying Lock inside the realm.
• Chen Lin reassured Su Wanyi that the Li Family would not attack the Wang Lineage for now, refused to take Zhe'er as his disciple, and then examined the Fierce Tiger Pendant.

Chen Lin used variegated essence to awaken the Fierce Tiger Pendant, which opened a passage into a dangerous stone forest. He discovered clues that the secret realm was connected to the Bizarre Kingdom, then began breaking through the stone formation as the rocks fused into a single mass.

• Chen Lin fed the Fierce Tiger Pendant an entire bottle of variegated essence, awakening it and revealing its Dominator-tier aura.
• The tiger opened a passage, and Chen Lin entered a stone forest where moving boulders trapped him inside a formation.
• Chen Lin learned from Hongchen that unusual life auras lay deeper in the forest and recognized their resemblance to the Nightmare Realm and the Bizarre Kingdom.
• Little White Snake spotted soul-condensing herb in the rubble, confirming that the area was the Li Family's Totem Secret Realm and linking it to the Bizarre Kingdom.
• Chen Lin attacked the boulders with his Mystic Gold Spear, shattering many before the remaining rocks rose and fused into one mass.

Chen Lin defeated the Stone Tiger and gained the tiger roar divine ability, then discovered that the Secret Realm contained separate zodiac regions linked by a map. After testing how entry and travel worked, he confirmed he could return to cleared regions and ended by entering through the rabbit region before crossing into the tiger area.

• Chen Lin fought the Variegated Giant Tiger and destroyed it with a spear strike that pinned it in place.
• Chen Lin found a round bead in the rubble, which the Fierce Tiger Pendant absorbed, granting him the tiger roar divine ability.
• Chen Lin combined tiger roar with the Silence Technique and discovered that he could use the roar while the Silence Technique was active.
• Chen Lin passed through a newly opened boundary into the grassland, where he sensed the Silence inheritance and received another section of the map.
• Chen Lin concluded that the twelve zodiac beasts each corresponded to a region and that clearing them all would reveal the passage to the true Secret Realm.
• Chen Lin tested reentry from reality, then used the Silence inheritance to enter the grassland again and crossed into the Zodiac Tiger's area.

Chen Lin acquired the Chinese Zodiac Ox inheritance and learned how the secret realms could transport him and objects, though their fixed exit points limited their usefulness. As he prepared to confront the Li Family, Little White Snake revealed that she was a zodiac beast whose inheritance had been suppressed.

• Chen Lin merged minds with Hongchen, received the defensive sound-based inheritance Playing the Lute to a Cow, and entered the Zodiac Ox region to inspect Crouching Ox Mountain.
• Chen Lin confirmed that the Zodiac regions could transport him to fixed exit locations and carry inanimate objects, but could not bring ordinary living beings with him.
• Chen Lin decided to negotiate with the Li Family and checked that Hongchen and Little White Snake were ready in case conflict arose.
• Little White Snake proposed merging minds with Chen Lin, but the attempt triggered an inheritance's intent and briefly caused her body to change.
• Little White Snake told Chen Lin that she was a zodiac beast whose inheritance had been suppressed, and Chen Lin considered whether he could obtain or share the heritages of other zodiac beasts.

Chen Lin obtained the Pig and Rat Zodiac inheritances, then traded with Li Huaxuan for the Totem Statue and information about the Totem Secret Realm. After discovering the Li father and son had prepared an ambush, he struck first but fell into their formation and sent his soul toward the Rooster Statue, where a ghost face swallowed him.

• Chen Lin used his special trait to obtain the Pig Zodiac’s Big Mouth ability and replenished the Rat Card with variegated essence to gain Heavenly Ear.
• Chen Lin offered Li Huaxuan sixty years of innate lifespan and help withdrawing the warrant against his clan in exchange for the Totem Statue.
• Li Huaxuan demanded that Chen Lin retrieve his daughter’s Life Tablet and provide two bottles of variegated crystal marrow; Chen Lin agreed, signed a Soul Contract, and received the marrow and a Jade Slip.
• Chen Lin used Heavenly Ear to learn that Li Huaxuan and Li Qianming planned to ambush him, then attacked them as they entered the underground hall.
• The Li father and son vanished as clones, and Chen Lin advanced into the hall, where the Life-Slaying Lock formation trapped him and the Nine Flying Swords failed to break his armor.
• Chen Lin sent his soul into the altar toward the Rooster Statue, but a Jet-Black Ghost Face appeared and swallowed him.

Chen Lin escaped the Li Family’s Life-Slaying Grand Formation with the Totem Statue and returned to his body, then went to Wudaopo to meet Dugu Batian. Dugu Batian’s attempt to understand Chen Lin’s escape raised the possibility that the Lake-Fishing Old Man had deliberately let him go, and Wen Tingyu appeared after Chen Lin was sent to rest.

• Li Huaxuan realized Chen Lin had escaped with the Totem Statue, and he decided to relocate a core group of the Li Family rather than pursue the Wang Lineage.
• Chen Lin used the Chinese Zodiac Tiger Secret Realm to escape, reunited with his physical body, and questioned Little White Snake about her changed divine ability.
• Chen Lin went to Dugu Batian’s headquarters, where Dugu Batian explained that his divine soul remained affected by bizarre rules despite his restored body.
• Chen Lin used his Soul-Destroying Finger on Dugu Batian, but Dugu Batian found the effect too weak to resolve the problem without risking damage to his soul origin essence.
• Dugu Batian suspected the Lake-Fishing Old Man had deliberately allowed Chen Lin to escape and told him to rest while he sought advice about the bizarre rule.
• After a maid led Chen Lin away, Wen Tingyu of the Four Seasons Villa appeared before Dugu Batian.

Wen Tingyu learned from Dugu Batian about the Seven-Star Ladle and secret orders, while the two ended their engagement. Chen Lin planned for the Ascension Trial, obtained rare crafting materials from the Dugu Clan, and noticed a strange floating peak as he toured Wudaopo.

• Wen Tingyu asked Dugu Batian about Chen Lin, and Dugu revealed that Chen Lin carried Ye Zhangge's Seven-Star Ladle and explained how secret orders worked.
• Dugu Batian exchanged information about the Ascension Trial for the annulment of his engagement to Wen Tingyu, then warned her against raising her cultivation before the trial.
• Chen Lin weighed his need to improve his strength, find the other Mandarin Duck Board, and search for the Nine-Tentacle Divine Conch.
• Chen Lin learned from Dugu Xiuxiu that the Dugu Clan could trade in the Azure-Crested Heavenly Palace and requested a collection of crafting materials.
• Dugu Xiuxiu brought Chen Lin myriad transformation flowing gold and other materials for the Myriad Image Shield, though two requested materials were missing.
• While touring Wudaopo with Dugu Xiuxiu, Chen Lin spotted a disconnected floating mountaintop with a strange aura and asked which lineage owned it.

Chen Lin defeated Huangfu Ling in a contest of attacks, then discovered Huangfu Ling’s jade pendant could restore Sun Caiyi’s remnant soul. Sun Caiyi revived without her memories and revealed that she remembered a technique called the Five Elements Primordial Art for forming a body from a soul.

• Dugu Xiuxiu explained that the Sun Lineage’s holy land had been destroyed by a Peerless Powerhouse, and Chen Lin later encountered Xiahou Ling confronting her.
• Chen Lin challenged Huangfu Ling to exchange one attack each, endured Huangfu Ling’s spear unharmed, and used his Crystal Needle to defeat him and claim his jade pendant.
• Dugu Xiuxiu explained that Huangfu Ling wanted to use her metal spirit physique as a cultivation cauldron to practice the Five Elements Primordial Art.
• Chen Lin placed Huangfu Ling’s jade pendant beside Sun Caiyi’s sealed remnant soul, and Hongchen helped restore the soul’s vitality.
• Sun Caiyi emerged from the cocoon and absorbed the jade pendant, but she could not remember Chen Lin or her past.
• Sun Caiyi said she remembered a cultivation technique called the Five Elements Primordial Art that could condense a physical body from a soul.

Chen Lin helped Dugu Batian eliminate the bizarre aura, received a fast flying treasure, and returned to Lu Island after a long journey. There, Sprout reported that his divine fluid had made the grocery store successful and warned that powerful bizarre creatures had entered the Star Ruins.

• Chen Lin learned that Sun Caiyi's memories of the Five Elements Primordial Art had been hazy until she absorbed the energy from Xiahou Ling's jade pendant, then sent her to cultivate in the Grotto-Heaven.
• Chen Lin spent six months refining the Myriad Image Shield's rough blank with help from the Dugu Family, then received an invitation to the Azure-Crested Heavenly Palace from Dugu Batian.
• Chen Lin and Dugu Batian spent three years destroying the bizarre aura in Dugu Batian's body, and Dugu Batian warned Chen Lin that powerful bizarre creatures had emerged from the Bizarre Kingdom.
• Dugu Batian gave Chen Lin the Qingming Shuttle, and Chen Lin left Wudaopo, entered the Zodiac Secret Realm, and returned to Lu Island five years later.
• Chen Lin discovered that Sprout's divine fluid had drawn many customers to Sprout Grocery Store and praised Sprout for obtaining variegated crystal marrow and variegated crystals.
• Sprout told Chen Lin that powerful bizarre creatures had entered the Star Ruins and that even dominator-tier experts had been killed.

Chen Lin refined the Chinese Zodiac Rooster’s heritage, strengthened his true solar fire, and struggled through a brutal attempt to separate Lin Ergou, discovering that the Shadow Scholar had arranged his cultivation path. After a failed attempt to sever another self left him injured, the Azure-Crested Heavenly Palace opened, and Chen Lin entered it with Little White Snake.

• Chen Lin learned that factions in the Northern Domain were migrating because Bizarre Creatures had entered the Star Ruins, then obtained the Rooster heritage and its Dawn-Breaker ability.
• Chen Lin entered the Rooster secret realm, used its connection to the rising sun to strengthen his true solar fire, and considered returning to the Inner World amid the growing danger.
• Chen Lin began practicing the Thousand-Cut Dao-Breaking Art, endured three years of agony, and separated Lin Ergou from himself at the cost of some cultivation and bodily dominator power.
• Chen Lin used variegated crystal marrow to reveal countless connections to other selves and severed a faint line, suffering backlash that left him collapsed until Hongchen and Xinya helped him recover.
• Chen Lin saw the Azure-Crested Heavenly Palace appear on his glowing invitation, instructed Xinya and Hongchen to watch the shop, and entered the palace with Little White Snake.

Chen Lin traded treasures at the Azure-Crested Heavenly Palace's convention and joined it as an Attendant after Bai Lingyu recruited him for his identity as Punishment Monarch. He received a Qingxuan Token and discovered that the Treasure Vault held the nine-tentacle divine conch he needed, but he would have to earn Contribution Points to obtain it.

• Chen Lin entered the trading convention, where Bai Lingyu explained the rules and offered a Songstress's Blessing in exchange for an Exquisite Treasure Chest.
• After Bai Lingyu rejected his initial offerings, Chen Lin let her inspect his Storage Precious Tool, and she exchanged several pieces of dark-green ore and a painting for one bottle of variegated crystal marrow.
• Bai Lingyu invited Chen Lin to become an Attendant because he was Punishment Monarch, and Chen Lin accepted after learning the duties, penalties, and Contribution Point rewards.
• Bai Lingyu gave Chen Lin a Qingxuan Token, which he bound to his divine soul and used to learn about its functions and search the Heavenly Palace's Treasure Vault.
• Chen Lin found that the nine-tentacle divine conch cost three hundred Contribution Points and that only three remained, then turned his attention to Bai Lingyu's offer of a Myriad Tribulations Questioning Dao Pill.