Chapter Summaries

Chen Lin negotiated with Wei Xinan over valuable supplies and learned that Wei had obtained an Endless Rubik's Cube Core for him because of his past inheritance. Wei revealed that Chen Lin's reincarnation had erased key memories and that the world's Heavenly Dao came from Dandian Paradise, then offered to discount the Disorderly Boat materials by half. The chapter left Chen Lin with the core and a cheaper path toward preparing for the Forbidden Task.

• Chen Lin followed Wei Xinan to the Number One Pawnshop and asked whether he could supply the items on his list.
• Wei Xinan appraised Chen Lin's treasures at 3,058 trading points, far short of the 20,000 points needed for the listed supplies, and offered a redeemable pawn arrangement.
• Wei Xinan said Chen Lin would accept the Forbidden Task because destiny would drive him forward, then presented the Endless Rubik's Cube Core as an item owed to Chen Lin through an inheritance.
• Chen Lin tried fitting his Rubik's Cube Fragments onto the core, and Wei Xinan explained that Chen Lin had used it before and that his thorough reincarnation might let him use it again.
• Wei Xinan revealed that the world's Heavenly Dao came from Dandian Paradise, declined to explain his guesses about Chen Lin's other plans, and offered a fifty-percent discount on Disorderly Boat materials.

Chen Lin traded treasures with Wei Xinan for supplies and learned more about the Gate of Disorder, Floating Life City, and the Shadow Scholar’s plans. After discovering that a willow twig from his painting carried the faint aura of Dandian Paradise, Chen Lin refined another Disorderly Boat without triggering a heavenly tribulation and prepared to use it.

• Wei Xinan told Chen Lin that a Forbidden Task could earn him a Dream Horse to leave Floating Life City, but waking from the dream might return him to a point in his past.
• Chen Lin traded the Golden Cup Saber, a flying sword, a short spear, and a willow twig to Wei Xinan; Wei Xinan identified the twig as carrying a faint aura of Dandian Paradise and valued it at thirty thousand trading points.
• Chen Lin asked Wei Xinan to look after Shopkeeper Qiu, Shopkeeper Leng, Lu Xiaoyi, and True Lord Wanmeng, and Wei Xinan assured him they would be fine in Floating Life City.
• Chen Lin went to Leng Yue’s teahouse and used his Innate Talent to refine a Disorderly Boat, succeeding without a heavenly tribulation.
• Chen Lin suspected the Shadow Scholar had planned the boat’s creation and resolved to see whether he could escape the Shadow Scholar’s control.

Chen Lin entered the Gate of Disorder and arrived at the Wealth and Honor Casino, where he joined a supernatural battlefield gambling match while searching for the Shadow Scholar’s Rubik’s Cube Fragment. The match turned against the alien army when its divine envoy appeared to notice the gamblers and pulled Chen Lin down into the battlefield.

• Chen Lin chose to enter the Gate of Disorder alone and took the newly refined Disorderly Boat, suspecting it had been altered to guide him to a fixed destination.
• Chen Lin arrived in the Wealth and Honor Casino, borrowed ten red fruits from the dealer, and placed one on the Black-Armored Soldiers’ side.
• Chen Lin entered the sandtable battle and watched the Winged Angel Army overwhelm the Human Race Faction before the Black-Armored Guards summoned a black dragon that attacked the angels.
• A divine envoy descended into the alien army, looked toward the gamblers, and used an irresistible force to pull Chen Lin down from the sky.

Chen Lin was forced to fight for the Black Faction in a life-or-death Gambling Match, where he used the Seven Absolutes Technique to survive overwhelming odds. As the battle neared its end, he feigned submission to a gambler’s mind-controlling voice before launching a surprise attack and calling for the missing fat man.

• Chen Lin discovered that the gamblers had been sorted into factions and that death in the match was real, while the fat man urged him to hand over his Red Fruits.
• The White Faction launched a coordinated assault, and Chen Lin charged into battle, cutting down an Orc and other enemies with the Seven Absolutes Technique.
• Chen Lin refused to pursue the handsome man and chose instead to protect the Big-Headed Man on the High Platform, while the fat man retreated behind it.
• White-Faction gamblers surrounded Chen Lin, and he directed the remaining Black Armored Guards to gather and sustain the Divine Dragon before attacking a Black-Robed Person and striking down a Winged Angel.
• Chen Lin resisted the Little Horn Youth’s mind-control, pretended to be preparing to kill himself, then unleashed a surprise attack and shouted for the fat man to come out.

Chen Lin fought off the White Side while the fat man tried to defend the bird's nest, but the handsome man intervened and began taking it. After receiving a Seven-Color Fruit from the handsome man, Chen Lin held back as the fat man launched a desperate attack.

• Chen Lin redirected many attackers toward the platform, then battled the remaining gamblers and alien soldiers with his saber and a small bomb.
• The Black Dragon burst apart, and a gambler wounded Chen Lin before Chen Lin's explosives injured several attackers.
• The handsome man descended, learned Chen Lin's name, and evaded his strongest saber strike, saying Chen Lin reminded him of someone before giving him a Seven-Color Fruit.
• The handsome man used white light to lift the bird's nest from the Big-Headed Man while Chen Lin guarded against the gamblers and ignored the fat man's pleas for help.
• The fat man flew into a rage and propelled himself toward the handsome man with his glowing, spinning meteor hammer.

Chen Lin helped Jin Wanshan and the black faction hold off the white side until the gambling match ended, then won Profound Mystery Fruits and learned some of their uses. Jin Wanshan agreed to explain the match and its participants, leaving Chen Lin poised to hear more about the casino’s mysteries.

• Order Envoy Luofeng stopped Jin Wanshan’s meteor hammer, but a hidden bird’s nest revealed that the Big-Headed Man had deceived him.
• Chen Lin blocked the gamblers while Jin Wanshan used his remaining strength to summon three meteors, and Chen’s explosives halted two winged angels before the scene collapsed.
• The dealer declared the black faction the winner, rated Chen Lin excellent and Jin Wanshan good, and awarded Chen Lin Profound Mystery Fruits.
• A casino attendant explained that the fruits held different abilities and could grant access to matching treasure vaults, while red fruits could buy passes out of the casino.
• Jin Wanshan told Chen Lin that red-fruit wagers had greater potential payouts and revealed that Chen’s fruit was a Special Profound Fruit from Order Envoy Luofeng.
• Chen Lin introduced himself, learned the fat man was Jin Wanshan, and accepted Jin’s offer to explain the gambling match and its participants.

Chen Lin learned about the Wealth and Honor Casino from Jin Wanshan and revealed that he could craft Disorderly Boat Talismans, though with a low success rate. After Jin left to gather materials, Chen Lin decided to seek red fruit so he could leave normally and examined a new gambling table with unfavorable odds.

• Jin Wanshan told Chen Lin that the casino connected to countless realms and explained how its gambling matches worked, including the recurring battles between the Black Cloud Kingdom and an alien race.
• Chen Lin asked Jin about Order Envoy Luofeng and the White Cloud Token, but Jin knew little about either and said White Cloud Tokens were too common to identify without more details.
• Chen Lin revealed that he had entered through the Gate of Disorder using a single-use Disorderly Boat Talisman, and Jin asked him to craft another.
• Chen Lin gave Jin a list of materials and said he could make the talisman, though only about one attempt in twenty would succeed; Jin agreed to look for the materials and then left.
• Chen Lin decided to win enough red fruit to leave the casino normally, while keeping his uncertain-destination talisman as a last resort.
• Chen Lin examined a nearby gambling table where players bet on the order or number of temple bells ringing, and he saw that the house won if none rang before the incense burned out.

Chen Lin won a huge payout after correctly guessing every detail of a gourd’s contents, but he could not determine what had caused his uncanny success. Two children by a river revealed that one of them had broken the Casino’s rules to honor a promise to help someone carrying her token.

• Chen Lin used the Zodiac Rat’s Eavesdropping ability to understand the monks’ chanting, bet that the first bell would ring, and won two red fruits while gaining a boost to his karma origin essence.
• Chen Lin exchanged two red fruits with the Black-Robed Person for thirteen cyan fruits, then wagered one cyan fruit on a detailed guess about the gourd’s contents.
• The gourd produced ten peak-grade Foundation Establishment Pills, including one with seven-color patterns, exactly matching Chen Lin’s prediction.
• Dice Elder inspected Chen Lin and the gambling table, declared that nobody had cheated, and left as the bettors continued to wonder how Chen Lin had guessed correctly.
• The dealer paid Chen Lin 720 cyan fruits and the pills, while Chen Lin wondered whether his talent or the Seven-Color Fruit had caused his win.
• Beside a river, a child with upward pigtails questioned why the more mature child had broken the Casino’s rules, and the child explained that he had honored a promise to help someone carrying her token.

Chen Lin watched a horse-racing match, learned what the different colored fruits could buy, and placed small bets on a gambling match depicting Gambling Fortune Lake. When Niuniu appeared in the projection holding his old fishing rod, he realized the scene had taken place before they met.

• Chen Lin declined to race horses and asked Jin Wanshan about trading cyan fruits, learning that cyan fruits could extend life if comprehended or buy time in the Time Cultivation Chamber.
• Chen Lin recognized Gambling Fortune Lake in a new match, whose rules offered black fruits for correctly identifying what a fished-up treasure chest contained.
• Suspecting the match might have been arranged to help him, Chen Lin placed small bets on both betting methods and watched the projection closely.
• Chen Lin considered whether Xiaohua or the Flower Goddess might be helping him, but could not summon the Flower Goddess Phantom in the casino.
• Niuniu appeared in the projection with a fishing rod Chen Lin recognized as his own, leading him to conclude the scene happened before they met.

Chen Lin recognized Niuniu’s hint in the Casino’s Gambling Match and exchanged a Black Fruit for the matching Mandarin Duck Straw Weaving. After storing the pair, he returned to the main hall and, despite losing several bets in a row, stopped at an unusual Gambling Table.

• Chen Lin watched Niuniu beat the Golden Toad, haul a Treasure Chest ashore with a net, and reveal a copy of the Qi Luck Pill Refining Technique.
• Chen Lin noticed Niuniu’s unusual emphasis on mandarin ducks and went to the Black Fruit exchange hall.
• Chen Lin found a single Mandarin Duck Straw Weaving listed in the exchange booklet and traded his Black Fruit for it.
• Chen Lin joined the two straw figures Niuniu had made, confirmed they were a matching pair, and stored them in his Personal Bundle.
• Chen Lin exchanged Cyan Fruit with Jin Wanshan, then lost nine Gambling Matches in a row before stopping at an oddly shaped table.

After nine losses, Chen Lin won a high-stakes Gambling Match when a storm scattered the spirit plants into the positions he had chosen, proving his Talent Ability could work there. He received a money tree’s fruit as an extra reward, exchanged his haul for a hundred years in the Time Cultivation Chamber, and began cultivating with the Seven-Color Fruit.

• Chen Lin wagered three fruits of each color and assigned all twenty-four plant names to soil squares by drawing lots, while Feng Liuxian warned him about the risks.
• Chen Lin thought he had guessed the demon spirit holy flower incorrectly, but a sudden storm scattered the plants and left the flower in his chosen square, securing his win.
• The Dealer paid Chen Lin and confirmed that the money tree growing from the soil was his extra reward.
• Chen Lin shook the tree with his Transgressor Soul Origin Essence, gathered its fallen fruits, and ignored gamblers who tried to trade for them.
• Chen Lin exchanged fruits for a hundred years of access to the Time Cultivation Chamber, then began contemplating the Seven-Color Fruit.

Chen Lin fused his energies into a new seven-color fine thread, but the process destroyed the cultivation space and left him with almost no usable energy. After Dice Elder revived him, Chen Lin discovered the fusion had succeeded and learned he owed an enormous debt for the damage.

• After seven hundred years of cultivation, Chen Lin used a Seven-Color Profound Mystery Fruit to begin fusing the seven major laws and his other energies through his soul seed.
• Chen Lin endured ten painful fusion attempts, then swallowed dozens of fruits and gambled everything on completing the fusion as the cultivation space began collapsing.
• Chen Lin lost consciousness and later awoke in a room, where Dice Elder told him he had survived and would be billed for the costs.
• Chen Lin found that his energies had merged into a living seven-color fine thread, giving him a qualitative transformation but leaving the new origin essence too weak to sustain a great divine ability.
• Dice Elder presented Chen Lin with an enormous debt for destroying the cultivation space, and Chen Lin protested that the chamber had nearly killed him.

Chen Lin learned that his transformed energy had brushed against a taboo, then searched the treasure catalog for Endless Rubik's Cube fragments but found he needed a hundred Black Fruits to view it. At a new gambling match, he wagered all his Profound Mystery Fruits that the villagers would survive, and the chapter ended as the young man loosed an arrow at a little girl.

• Dice Elder told Chen Lin that his life-saving debt remained due with interest and warned him to use his newly formed energy carefully because it had brushed against a taboo.
• Chen Lin showed the treasure-exchange elder his eight Black Fruits and searched the catalog for Endless Rubik's Cube fragments, but learned he needed a hundred Black Fruits to view the complete catalog.
• Chen Lin joined Jin Wanshan at a gambling match where soldiers prepared to kill a group of villagers, and he tested his transformed talent ability.
• Chen Lin challenged the female Dealer to a side bet that the villagers would survive, staking all his Profound Mystery Fruits at ten to one.
• Jin Wanshan also bet on the villagers' survival, and the young man shot an arrow at a little girl as the match began.

Chen Lin won his bet when lightning saved the villagers, but the female dealer could not pay her side wager, so he claimed her as a servant under the casino’s rules. As he headed for other gambling tables, Jin Wanshan warned him that the casino was dangerous and urged him to leave before learning too much.

• Lightning struck near the little girl and among the attackers, allowing the villagers to defeat the soldiers without losing anyone.
• Dice Elder confirmed that the Gambling Table was functioning normally, and Chen Lin won his bet against the female dealer.
• The female dealer admitted she could not pay, so Chen Lin accepted her person as settlement and learned that she was Mo Ziyan, a Dominator Expert who owed the casino a large debt.
• Chen Lin left Mo Ziyan working as a dealer and asked Jin Wanshan about her past assignments.
• Jin Wanshan said he knew little about Mo Ziyan’s assignments and warned Chen Lin not to investigate the casino too deeply.

Chen Lin learned from Jin Wanshan that Chen Tiezhu had appeared in an old immersive Gambling Match and was still alive, though the match had taken place in Qingyan Country rather than Earth. As Jin Wanshan asked Chen Lin to deliver a message to his family if he escaped the Casino, Chen Lin also learned that Divine Maiden Buxi had obtained a mysterious Gemstone Necklace.

• Chen Lin questioned Jin Wanshan about a saying from Earth and learned it came from an immersive Gambling Match set in Qingyan Country more than a hundred years earlier.
• Jin Wanshan revealed that a youth named Chen Tiezhu had used the saying and produced a phantom image that confirmed Tiezhu was alive.
• Chen Lin treated Jin Wanshan to an expensive meal and asked him to recount the Gambling Match, learning it had taken place in Shadowless City and revolved around the Mandate Treasure Box.
• Jin Wanshan said a mysterious person took the Mandate Treasure Box, while Divine Maiden Buxi won a Gemstone Necklace and remained in the Casino searching for something.
• Jin Wanshan warned Chen Lin that Divine Maiden Buxi could exploit the Casino's rules, then asked him to deliver a message to his family if he escaped.

Chen Lin learned more about Outer Heaven and received a sealed message from Jin Wanshan, then investigated the dangerous Advanced Arena as a way to earn enough profound mystery fruits. He agreed to enter with Feng Liuxian only after demanding half of Feng Liuxian’s winnings if he followed Chen Lin’s bets.

• Jin Wanshan told Chen Lin that he came from the Long Spike Star Domain, described Outer Heaven’s missing Sovereign Lord and nine Heavenly Monarchs, and warned of beings above the ordinary Heavenly Dao.
• Jin Wanshan gave Chen Lin a sealed box to deliver to the Wandering Star Trading Firm in the Long Spike Star Domain if he reached Outer Heaven.
• Feng Liuxian told Chen Lin about the Advanced Arena and urged him to join an upcoming choice-based match, while Ziyan warned that its matches had a death rate as high as seventy percent and required participation after entry.
• Jin Wanshan advised Chen Lin to avoid the Advanced Arena and especially its last Gambling Table, but Chen Lin decided he needed the arena’s potential rewards to complete his objectives and repay his debt.
• Chen Lin met Feng Liuxian and agreed to enter the Advanced Arena on the condition that Feng Liuxian give him half the profound mystery fruits Feng won by following Chen Lin’s bets.

Chen Lin negotiated with Feng Liuxian to split any winnings, then entered the Advanced Arena and used his seven-color thread to eavesdrop on several rooms. He recognized Buxi in Room Five and joined her match with Feng Liuxian, where Feng suspected they had found a selection-type game.

• Feng Liuxian tried to bargain down Chen Lin's share, but eventually agreed to give him half of any winnings.
• Chen Lin and Feng Liuxian entered the Advanced Arena, where they learned that each room charged a nonrefundable admission fee and its match could only be discovered by entering.
• Chen Lin used the seven-color thread to strengthen his Zodiac Rat eavesdropping art and listened at several room doors.
• Chen Lin recognized Buxi's voice in Room Five and chose that match, paying ten cyan Profound Mystery Fruits for admission.
• Chen Lin and Feng Liuxian appeared in Room Five, where Buxi, a red-haired woman, a young man carrying a Large Black Cauldron, and a gaudily dressed man were already seated.
• Feng Liuxian suspected they had stumbled into a selection-type gambling match, while Chen Lin sat down to observe the game.

Chen Lin wagered that bandits would attack the caravan and specified their numbers, leader, casualties, and stolen chest, while several others placed bets on the chests being stolen. The match began with a white tiger attack that the caravan's guards swiftly repelled, and Chen Lin grew wary of the head guard, who seemed to notice the observers.

• Chen Lin used his talent ability and wagered all his advanced fruits that eighteen bandits led by a woman would appear after one hour, with twelve caravan members and nine bandits dying and one chest stolen.
• Hua Wuyue bet that no chests would be stolen, while Ma Niu bet that the caravan would be robbed; Divine Maiden Buxi and the red-clad woman bet that chests would be stolen, and Feng Liuxian followed their wager.
• Just before betting closed, Divine Maiden Buxi placed an additional wager matching Chen Lin's detailed bet.
• A pack of white tigers attacked the caravan, but one guard killed them all with a single strike.
• The caravan continued along the mountain road, and Chen Lin noticed that its head guard occasionally looked toward the observers in the sky.

Chen Lin correctly predicted that a woman riding a donkey would appear as a bandit and received a Heaven Crystal from Divine Maiden Buxi to restore his power. As the woman attacked the convoy guarded by a wielder of the Rivers and Mountains Sword, Chen Lin continued refining the crystal and prepared for the gambling match to develop further.

• Chen Lin asked whether entering the scene himself could satisfy his bet, and the dealer said it could not.
• A woman riding a donkey appeared exactly half an hour after the match began, confirming Chen Lin's prediction and impressing Divine Maiden Buxi.
• Buxi gave Chen Lin a Heaven Crystal, and he used the seven-color thread to refine it and absorb its energy while resisting the crystal's stray thoughts.
• The donkey-riding woman unleashed creatures from her wine gourd to seize the convoy's chests, while the guard leader used the Rivers and Mountains Sword to fight them off.
• Chen Lin suspected the sword might be connected to the Abandoned Land, prepared his technological weapons, and asked Buxi whether she had more Heaven Crystals.
• Buxi explained that she had obtained the crystal from the Casino's Treasure Vault, and Chen Lin thanked her and resolved to seek more treasures there.

Chun Jiuniang and Bafang Island’s bandits attacked the convoy, while Chen Lin watched from the gambling scenario and prepared to intervene. After a mysterious force killed Wang Buduan and Xiaohun Woman Jin Fengchai without leaving a trace, Chen Lin entered the arena with Buxi and Red Ribbon.

• Chun Jiuniang revealed that she was from Bafang Island and summoned eighteen bandits, including Kong Fang, Wang Buduan, and Jin Fengchai, to seize the shipment.
• Chen Lin negotiated with Buxi to share twenty percent of his winnings in exchange for her and Red Ribbon’s help if the scenario changed.
• Chun Jiuniang and Kong Fang trapped Dao Ziqing while Wang Buduan and Jin Fengchai attacked the convoy, using her dance to distract the guards as the bandits hauled away the carriages and chests.
• A Withered Old Man attacked Jin Fengchai with a dark dragon, while Wang Buduan suddenly lost his head and collapsed; the dragon then swallowed several of the bandits.
• Jin Fengchai returned to Chun Jiuniang without her head, bringing the bandit death toll to Chen Lin’s required nine, and Chen Lin entered the scenario with Buxi and Red Ribbon.