Recaps

Chen Lin escaped the Demon-Suppressing Temple’s collapse, gained Nian Kong’s body-refining inheritance, and settled in Qingyang City to cultivate. After Luo Qinglan seized the Qingyang Sect with a Golden Core breakthrough, Chen Lin received Burning Lotus True Fire Baleful Intent and began tempering his body.

• Chen Lin and Zhao Mengru escaped the collapsing underground space, entered the Ancient Temple, and Chen Lin was separated from her after the temple’s inscription activated his Jade Talisman.
• Chen Lin completed the Seven Buddha Painting with Luo Ziqing’s Buddha Statue, entered the inheritance hall, and passed through a Golden Light Gate into a sealed chamber.
• Chen Lin recovered Nian Kong’s kasaya and teachings, mastered the first layer of the Vajra Body-Refining Art, and learned that the damaged formation might fail.
• Chen Lin escaped through the flooded temple, killed the wounded Yu Dingyi, and fled Maple Leaf Lake while a Black Flood Dragon fought other cultivators.
• Chen Lin traveled to Qingyang City, rented a remote immortal cave, reached the sixth layer of Qi Condensation, and sought dangerous conditions to strengthen his body.
• Chen Lin traded a portion of his spirit milk to Luo Qinglan for a Realm-Breaking Pill and a Marrow-Cleansing Pill formula, while Luo Qinglan left to attempt Golden Core breakthrough.
• Luo Qinglan returned as a Golden Core cultivator, defeated Huang Yu, and purged the Qingyang Sect’s traitorous lineages while Chen Lin remained in seclusion.
• He Yunhuan delivered Chen Lin Burning Lotus True Fire Baleful Intent, which Chen Lin absorbed for a month before emerging stronger and finding the market deserted.

Chen Lin helped suppress Luo Qinglan’s possession, then fled to Danding City and uncovered a Prayer Cult plot targeting him. After destroying Yue Baifeng and her companions, he escaped and continued hunting the cult’s Divine Children.

• Chen Lin helped Sun Xingyun’s patriarch and Luo Qinglan fight the evil presence, then absorbed Burning Lotus True Fire Baleful Intent and gained a red-lotus divine ability.
• Chen Lin used his Buddhist power to help Luo Qinglan regain control, declined her offer of rewards, and left Qingyang Mountain for Chu Country.
• Chen Lin killed Prayer Cult members and a Divine Child at a ruined temple, then traveled with Hu Xishan and Yu Zimo to Danding City.
• Chen Lin rejected Huang Yu’s invitation to explore an Ascension Cave, overheard Huang Yu plotting with Yue Baifeng, and learned she served the Prayer Cult.
• Chen Lin captured and questioned Huang Yu’s soul, then changed identities and tried to avoid Yue Baifeng and the Divine Child.
• Yue Baifeng tracked Chen Lin to his new residence, where Chen Lin destroyed her, Madam Xu, and the Divine Child with his Talisman Treasure.
• Chen Lin escaped Danding City and hid underground before traveling onward, where he killed another Divine Child and questioned its Divine Attendant about the Prayer Cult.

Chen Lin established his foundation, joined the Righteous Alliance as an alchemist, and tried to stay clear of the war as the Prayer Cult gained ground. After the Alliance’s defeat and his search for a route across the sea, he seized Huang Yiyi as leverage to obtain passage from the Red Fire Sect.

• Chen Lin rented Xiaoqiu Island, strengthened its defenses, attended High Person Yunhai’s trading convention, and killed Zhou Ping after the Foundation Establishment cultivator ambushed him.
• Chen Lin uncovered a dangerous influence hidden in Zhou Ping’s dagger, discarded the Yin Foundation Method and ruins map, then established his foundation with twelve pills as the Prayer Cult’s war spread.
• Chen Lin entered Danding City under the name Lin Feiyu, joined the Righteous Alliance’s Pill Pavilion, and survived a demonic attack on the mission hall that injured him and killed everyone else there.
• Chen Lin learned the Sanyang Burning Wood Technique from Luo Qinglan, rejected Ye Jingyun’s Yin-Yang Twin Birth Pill request, and left Danding City while evading Ye Jingyun and Xu Ruolan.
• Chen Lin discovered the Alliance was likely finished, killed Captain Yu, and began seeking a Teleportation Formation or passage on a sea-crossing ship.
• Chen Lin survived Feather Divine Child’s attack, traveled through towns afflicted by the Prayer Cult, and learned that the Red Fire Sect had hidden its Ocean-Crossing Large Ship and reserved most escape places for core members.
• Chen Lin learned the Red Fire Sect was preparing for battle and abducted Huang Yiyi after she offered to help him obtain what he wanted from the sect.

Chen Lin exposed a Divine Child, crafted the Ink-Hidden Spirit Boat, and escaped the Alliance’s doomed retreat after Madam White Bone’s group collapsed. At sea, he joined a damaged warship, reunited with Zhao Mengru, and began trading pills and services among its cultivators.

• Chen Lin killed Muyuan and rescued Qian Li, then traded for ink gold and began refining the Ink-Hidden Spirit Boat.
• At High Person Yunhai’s exchange meeting, Chen Lin traded spirit milk to Madam White Bone for ink gold and later joined the Yi-Three Squad under the Alliance’s Conscription Order.
• Chen Lin exposed the Divine Child disguised as Shi Yuan, earned twenty thousand merit points, and moved to the Logistics Department to make talismans.
• Nanmen Lingyue treated her demonic thoughts through sessions with Chen Lin, who refused dual cultivation but agreed to their spiritual union.
• As the Alliance ordered a retreat, Chen Lin joined Madam White Bone’s small group after learning of a teleportation formation on Island Number Nine.
• Madam White Bone’s group battled the Prayer Cult, then fled when Nanmen Wuji attacked her and she drained her male favorites to reach the Pseudo-Core Realm.
• Chen Lin escaped into the Distant Sea aboard his spirit boat, survived a sea beast’s tribulation and repeated attacks, and reached a damaged warship.
• Aboard the warship, Chen Lin reunited with Zhao Mengru, helped her establish her foundation, and negotiated trades with Zhao Hetang and Liang Shuozhen.