Chapter Summaries

Chen Lin obtained the Insect Lock and used it to enter accelerated cultivation, then emerged badly injured outside Heavenly Tranquility City and raced toward a distant city. He reached the city’s outskirts after two days, while the Truth-Restoring Brush and the Night King remained unresolved.

• Yue Hengshan agreed to request the Insect Lock from the Holy Temple and seek an Elder Council decision on the Truth-Restoring Brush, while the Holy Lord sent the Insect Lock through a Holy Light Passage.
• Han Yu told Chen Lin that the Insect Lock could harness Spacetime Insects and suggested the Art of Facing Death as a way to defeat the Night King.
• Chen Lin received the Art of Facing Death from Han Yu’s Inheritance Button, suspected the method had been tailored to him, and asked Gu Youlan to create a disturbance with the Insect Lock.
• Gu Youlan activated the Insect Lock, and Chen Lin vanished through its halo while she followed him.
• Chen Lin appeared in a ruined village a hundred li outside Heavenly Tranquility City, healed his grievous injuries with a pill, and fled from attacking buildings without stopping to fight.
• After two days of travel, Chen Lin spotted a majestic city in the distance.

Chen Lin found that Yan Wuya, whom he identified as High Person Yunhai, was inside besieged Heavenly Sage City, and forced his way through the strange beast army to reach him. The Holy Lord agreed to consider giving Chen Lin the Truth-Restoring Brush as a merit reward if he helped repel the Night King, leaving Chen Lin injured inside the city.

• Chen Lin met Jin Wanshan outside Heavenly Sage City and learned that the city was close to falling and Yan Wuya served as a deacon inside it.
• Chen Lin decided not to wait for a battle and flew toward the city with Jin Wanshan hidden in the Devouring Heaven Pagoda.
• Chen Lin attacked the strange beasts, drew the Beast Kings away from their positions, and released Jin Wanshan to get the gates opened.
• The red gorilla Beast King struck Chen Lin with a storm of dominator-tier abilities, badly injuring him, before the Holy Lord intervened and helped him enter the city.
• Chen Lin told the Holy Lord he sought the Truth-Restoring Brush, and the Holy Lord offered to discuss it if Chen Lin helped repel the Night King.

Chen Lin learned from High Person Yunhai that both of them might be candidates who had escaped Shadow Scholar’s control, and Yan Wuya urged him to help seal Shadow Scholar’s consciousness in the Truth-Restoring Brush. Chen Lin remained wary and focused on finding a Rubik’s Cube Fragment, but Yan Wuya revealed he knew places where one might be hidden.

• Chen Lin sent Jin Wanshan to investigate Yan Wuya and asked about Feng Liuxian, Hua Wuyue, Ma Niu, and Ye Daier; Jin Wanshan reported that Feng Liuxian had died, Hua Wuyue was outside the city, and the others were in the city.
• Yan Wuya entered the chamber and revealed that he and Chen Lin might be candidates for Shadow Scholar’s reincarnation rather than his primary vessel.
• Yan Wuya said the Truth-Restoring Brush likely held Shadow Scholar’s main consciousness and urged Chen Lin to help reinforce its seal instead of claiming it as a reward.
• Chen Lin distrusted Yan Wuya’s account and said he needed a Rubik’s Cube Fragment to complete the Miracle Gambling Match; Yan Wuya confirmed he had also received that match as an option.
• Yan Wuya warned that Shadow Scholar’s return could erase Chen Lin’s identity and then offered to identify places where a Rubik’s Cube Fragment might be hidden.

Chen Lin learned that Shadow Scholar’s missing Rubik’s Cube Fragment might be hidden in the Holy Temple’s Treasure Vault, Wuzhen Tower, Zhao Village, or with the Night King. He investigated Wuzhen Tower but found its top courtesans unavailable or unimpressive, then left for the Holy Temple.

• High Person Yunhai told Chen Lin about four possible places Shadow Scholar’s fragment could be found and warned him that sealing the Truth-Restoring Brush was vital.
• Jin Wanshan confessed that someone had controlled his divine soul, and Chen Lin took him to scout Heavenly Sage City in case they needed to flee.
• Chen Lin learned that Wuzhen Tower’s courtesans had suffered heavy casualties, and that Mo Wenxian was a Sage and Lady Aqing and Lady Azi had special conditions for receiving guests.
• Chen Lin entered Wuzhen Tower, offered a Quasi-King Tier Strange Beast Origin Crystal, and demanded to see its top courtesans.
• Chen Lin went upstairs to inspect the courtesans, returned dissatisfied, and left with Jin Wanshan for the Holy Temple.

Chen Lin met Ye Daier, accepted her talent-origin crystal, and arranged for her to be excused from combat duty. After searching the Holy Temple’s accessible areas without finding the Rubik’s Cube Fragment, he asked the Holy Lord for permission to enter the forbidden third floor of the Treasure Vault, where the Truth-Restoring Brush and Tai'e Ring remained.

• Ye Daier asked Chen Lin to remove her from the suicide squad and offered him her race’s talent origin in exchange for his help.
• Chen Lin absorbed a sample of Ye Daier’s talent energy, found it greatly strengthened the seven-color thread, and accepted the origin crystal she condensed.
• Chen Lin arranged for Ye Daier and Jin Wanshan to avoid combat duties, and Ye Daier warned him that Ma Niu seemed hostile and the Holy Temple felt dangerous.
• Chen Lin searched the Holy Temple’s accessible areas for four hours, but the Rubik’s Cube Core did not react.
• Chen Lin asked to enter the Treasure Vault’s forbidden third floor, and the Holy Lord arrived and told him that only the Inheritance Stele, Truth-Restoring Brush, and Tai'e Ring remained there.

Chen Lin’s divination showed that every choice led to death, and his attempt to correct destiny destroyed his consciousness. As the Night King began to descend, Chen Lin relived Old Cultivator Chen Lin’s memories and discovered that the missing Rubik's Cube Fragment had entered his body before his transmigration.

• Chen Lin used Ye Daier’s Origin Crystal to divine the outcomes of entering or avoiding the Treasure Vault, and both led to the deaths of everyone connected to him.
• Chen Lin combined the Origin Crystal’s energy with his transgressor origin essence and tried to force a break in the destiny lines, destroying his soul seed, seven-color thread, and consciousness.
• The Night King began descending as the Holy Lord and the city’s experts prepared the Holy Light Grand Array to fight him.
• Chen Lin’s memories carried him back to Old Cultivator Chen Lin’s final moments, where a Rubik's Cube Fragment flew from a space rift and vanished into his body.
• Chen Lin realized the fragment might have fused with his physical body, though he could not explain why the Rubik's Cube Core had never detected it.

Chen Lin recovered and joined the Holy Lord’s preparations to stop the Night King’s descent, while investigating the hidden Rubik’s Cube Fragment and its possible link to a maple leaf mole. As the Holy Lord supplied him with treasures and Mo Wenxian offered another mysterious item, Chen Lin opened her box and froze at what he saw.

• Chen Lin woke after Ye Daier’s talent origin restored his consciousness, learned that the Night King was breaking through the wall of space-time, and headed to the city gate while sending Jin Wanshan to ask Ye Daier for another crystal.
• During the flight, Chen Lin examined his memories and realized the finger that had flicked the Rubik’s Cube Fragment bore a maple leaf mole like the finger from the Beauty Finger Flower.
• At the city wall, the Holy Lord explained that he planned to use the Holy Light Grand Array to disrupt the Night King’s descent, and Chen Lin agreed to help fight the strange beasts first.
• The Holy Lord offered Chen Lin several treasures, including heaven crystals, pills, a shell, and a tattered cloth, but Chen Lin doubted they could help him face the Night King.
• Mo Wenxian gave Chen Lin another box, and he froze after opening it.

Chen Lin gave the Rubik's Cube Fragments to the Holy Lord, but the restored cube failed to stop the Night King's descent and harmed the Holy Lord. After Mo Wenxian, Chen Lin, the Sages, and the gamblers all failed to activate it, Chen Lin suspected the Shadow Scholar's scheme and learned that Ye Daier had disappeared.

• Mo Wenxian revealed that she had found the final Rubik's Cube Fragment in Wuzhen Tower's main roof beam, and Chen Lin handed the fragment and the other pieces to the Holy Lord.
• The Holy Lord assembled the Endless Rubik's Cube, but it broke apart after causing strange phenomena; the Night King collapsed, and the Holy Spirit restored the Holy Lord.
• Mo Wenxian, Chen Lin, the Sages, and the gathered gamblers each tried and failed to activate the Rubik's Cube.
• Chen Lin reasoned that the Shadow Scholar had planned to use him as a vessel and restore the cube through him, but his cautious choices had disrupted that scheme.
• Chen Lin contacted Jin Wanshan to ask about Ye Daier, and Jin Wanshan reported that she had vanished from the city without anyone seeing her leave.

Chen Lin received Ye Daier’s Origin Crystal in a Star Mark Treasure Chest as the Night King’s influence prevented sunrise and threatened the Holy Light Grand Array. The Holy Lord led the Saint Clan into battle, and Chen Lin attacked the Night King’s Triangular-Hatted Monster, whose counterattack failed to stop him before Chen Lin struck again.

• Jin Wanshan brought Chen Lin a Star Mark Treasure Chest containing Ye Daier’s Origin Crystal, and Chen Lin kept it ready for use.
• The Holy Lord warned the gamblers to fight alongside the Saint Clan and announced that the Night King’s arrival would disable the Holy Light Grand Array.
• Chen Lin noticed that sunrise had not come, and the Holy Lord explained that the Night King’s invading aura had stopped it.
• The Holy Lord ordered the Saint Clan to attack the strange beast army and told Chen Lin to target the Triangular-Hatted Monster to delay the Night King’s descent.
• Chen Lin’s Heaven-Slaying Saber and Soul-Destroying Finger attacked the Triangular-Hatted Monster, whose counterattack injured Chen Lin but left the monster weakened.
• Chen Lin recovered with heaven crystals and Ye Daier origin essence, then unleashed another Soul-Destroying Finger at the weakened monster.

Chen Lin helped the Saint Clan retreat after the Triangular-Hatted Monster unleashed the Night King's power, then weighed whether to risk his life fighting the envoy. With the Saint Clan's escape gates failing and its survival plan collapsing, the Holy Lord ordered the Holy Land prepared for opening.

• Chen Lin wounded the Triangular-Hatted Monster with the Soul-Destroying Finger, but the envoy summoned the Night King's power, plunging the battlefield into darkness and turning nearby creatures against the defenders.
• The Holy Lord used Holy Light Illumination to restore the transformed creatures, then led the army back into Heavenly Sage City after the Saint Clan suffered heavy casualties.
• Chen Lin gave Jin Wanshan a Noncombat Token and tasked him with finding Ye Daier, High Person Yunhai, and other suspicious gamblers near the Holy Temple.
• The Holy Lord asked Chen Lin to help kill the envoy, but Chen Lin withheld his full commitment while considering whether the summoned figure resembled Ye Daier.
• The Holy Lord learned that Heavenly Martial City had fallen and that the gates at Wuzhen Tower and the Holy Temple had failed, then ordered Elder Yu to prepare to open the Holy Land.

Chen Lin stalled the Saint Clan while waiting for the right moment to act against the Night King, bargaining for a Resurrection Pill and learning a secret from Ma Niu. As the Saint Clan launched its final assault, Chen Lin swallowed Ye Daier’s crystal and the pill, then began to disintegrate as he prepared to use his ability.

• Chen Lin told the Holy Lord he was waiting for Yan Wuya and Ye Daier, but the Holy Light Grand Array found neither of them in the city.
• Chen Lin demanded the Saint Clan’s treasure in exchange for destroying the Space-Time Void, and the Holy Lord agreed and gave him a Resurrection Pill.
• Chen Lin urged the Saint Clan to attack the Night King’s envoy while he prepared to use his divine ability, and the Saint King led the charge.
• Mo Wenxian ordered the gamblers into battle, while Ma Niu gave Chen Lin a Light Particle containing a secret about Dandian Paradise in exchange for permission to fight on the ground.
• Chen Lin assembled the Endless Rubik's Cube Fragments, swallowed Ye Daier’s crystal and the Resurrection Pill, and began to disintegrate as he watched the Space-Time Void.

Chen Lin restored the Endless Rubik’s Cube and chose Liu Laosi’s will to strengthen his final Rainbow Slash. The strike destroyed the space-time void and drove off the Night King, leaving the Saint Clan victorious and Chen Lin honored as its future totem.

• Chen Lin burned his origin essence to restore the Endless Rubik’s Cube, then drew a reward and chose Liu Laosi’s will.
• Chen Lin used Liu Laosi’s will to unleash a Rainbow Slash as the Rubik’s Cube vanished.
• The Rainbow Slash disrupted the space-time void, surprising the Holy Lord and halting the strange beast army’s attack on Heavenly Sage City.
• The Night King appeared, panicked at the Rainbow Slash, and fled into the space-time void, where the slash followed and destroyed it.
• The Holy Lord declared Chen Lin a totem of the Saint Clan and prepared to attack the stunned strange beasts.

Chen Lin returned to the casino after winning the Miracle Gambling Match, where he reunited with the other survivors and learned that Ye Daier had helped him complete the match. Ye Daier claimed the Saint Clan’s unknown item, while Chen Lin assessed his rewards and new strength before preparing to return to the Ascension Trial space.

• Chen Lin received his gambling-match rewards and achievement points, then returned to the casino with the survivors, including Gu Youlan, Buxi, Red Ribbon, Jin Wanshan, Ma Niu, and Ye Daier.
• Buxi told Chen Lin that Yue Hengshan had let her, Gu Youlan, and Red Ribbon escape, and she and Red Ribbon gave Chen Lin communication treasures before Ma Niu departed.
• Jin Wanshan told Chen Lin that his Rainbow Slash had driven the Night King away, while Ye Daier asked to speak with Chen Lin privately.
• Ye Daier revealed that she could imitate the Night King's aura and asked Chen Lin for the unknown item; Chen Lin handed it over, and she said the Shadow Scholar could no longer threaten him as before.
• Chen Lin inspected his Insect Lock, Dawnstar Lantern, Profound Mystery Fruits, and retained portion of Liu Laosi's will, then prepared to return to the Ascension Trial space.

Chen Lin returned from the Wealth and Honor Casino with the White Cloud Token and claimed his forbidden-task reward, then decided who would leave Floating Life City with him. As he prepared to depart with Leng Yue, Wei Xinan asked to trade for Profound Mystery Fruit, and Chen Lin demanded a Primordial Tier offering.

• Chen Lin paid Jin Wanshan's debts, dissolved Mo Ziyan's contract, and learned from Gu Youlan that the third Ascension Trial would unite cultivators from every boundary realm.
• Chen Lin agreed to Li Fugui's request for a basket of steamed buns and received the White Cloud Token from Dice Elder.
• Chen Lin returned to Floating Life City, verified the token, and told the Mission Hall administrator about the Wealth and Honor Casino in exchange for help looking after people he knew.
• Chen Lin chose to leave Floating Life City with Leng Yue, while True Lord Wanmeng, Lu Xiaoyi, and Qiu Mufan stayed behind.
• Wei Xinan asked Chen Lin to trade Profound Mystery Fruit, and Chen Lin offered even Advanced Fruit only in exchange for something of the Primordial Tier.

After completing the White Cloud Token quest, Chen Lin chose a strange Gray Donkey instead of a Dream Horse and discovered it could carry him through the void. The donkey brought him back to the Trial Space, but it soon ran out of energy and asked Chen Lin for food.

• Chen Lin traded Wei Xinan five Advanced Fruits and ten ordinary fruits for a strange finger bone resembling a Soul-Unlocking Key, then used the White Cloud Token at the Floating Life Stele.
• Chen Lin received three drops of White Cloud Spirit Dew and chose the Gray Donkey after recalling Dice Elder's advice and recognizing it might be the donkey once ridden by a counterfeit Chen Lin.
• Chen Lin tried to make the Gray Donkey obey, whipped it when it demanded spirit dew, and opened a Space Rift to leave without it.
• The Gray Donkey followed Chen Lin through the rift and carried him to the place where he had entered Floating Life City, claiming it could travel to special places if given energy.
• Chen Lin warned the Gray Donkey against lying, and it admitted it had exhausted its stamina and needed energy-rich food.

Chen Lin completed the second trial early after confronting the Heavenly Dao, then reunited with his team in a protected space. Gray Donkey’s claims that he had known Chen Lin before stirred doubts about Old Cultivator Chen Lin’s past, while the donkey returned and pledged obedience.

• Chen Lin entered an abandoned settlement, triggered the completion of his side quest, and received protection slots, a Resurrection Token, treasure selections, and a question from the Heavenly Dao before the second trial ended.
• Chen Lin reunited with Yilan, Xiao He, Long Zequan, and the rest of his team, then told them to prepare for the third trial and avoid provoking Gray Donkey.
• Xiao He revealed that Shadow Scholar had linked Floating Life City, the Wealth and Honor Casino, and the Saint Realm to Dandian Paradise’s origins, then gave Chen Lin a lotus petal in gratitude for his help against Shadow Scholar.
• Gray Donkey claimed Chen Lin was the Old Cultivator Chen Lin who had once called him a brother and saved him, then ran through the boundary wall after Chen Lin rejected the claim.
• Chen Lin questioned Old Cultivator Chen Lin’s identity and his own memories, but Gray Donkey soon returned, fawned over him, and promised to behave.

Chen Lin used the Heavenly Dao’s rewards to protect his loved ones and resurrect several companions, including Qin Lingyu, while his attempt to resurrect Sword Woman failed. After years of cultivation, he questioned Chen Qingying about Gray Donkey, and she revealed that something strange had happened when Chen Lin’s former body was born.

• Chen Lin wrote the names of his family and friends on the Protection Scroll, then used the Resurrection Token to bring back Qin Lingyu, Fairy Yaochi, six other women, and Chen Qingying.
• Chen Lin failed to resurrect Sword Woman, exhausting the Resurrection Token’s final chance, then spent more than three months helping the resurrected women settle in.
• Chen Lin cultivated with Gu Youlan for ten years inside the Insect Lock before returning to reality, while keeping his unused question reward in reserve.
• Chen Lin asked Chen Qingying about Gray Donkey, gave her cultivation supplies, and explained that Gray Donkey might have been her second grandfather’s mount.
• Chen Qingying recalled that her father had told her something strange happened when Chen Lin’s former body was born.

Chen Lin entered the Third Trial with Gray Donkey, while the others were separated despite being inside the Devouring Heaven Pagoda. After receiving a vague task to find someone and retrieve what belonged to him within three days, he began investigating the courtyard where he had arrived.

• Chen Qingying told Chen Lin that a strange man had predicted he would become a mighty reincarnated being and had given him an unknown item at birth; Chen Lin used his question paper to learn it was a small wooden carving.
• The Heavenly Dao announced that the Third Trial would issue tasks after entry and warned that some rewards could not be used there, so Chen Lin handed out Transmission Talismans and put his companions inside the Devouring Heaven Pagoda.
• Xiao He said the Third Trial's space was connected to Dandian Paradise and advised Chen Lin to collect Wanderers, then stayed behind to pursue an important matter of her own.
• Chen Lin entered the Third Trial riding Gray Donkey, but found that Gu Youlan, Qin Lingyu, Fairy Yaochi, and the others had been separated from him; Gray Donkey remained by his side and explained that Floating Life City had passed dream fragments to it.
• Chen Lin received the task to find an unspecified person and retrieve what belonged to him within three days, then searched the empty courtyard with Gray Donkey and prepared to open the gate.

Chen Lin received a task to participate in the Flag-Seizing Operation and seize a black flag, then gathered allies to search for information while investigating a strange town. He entered the shop named Sun Xiaowan to look for clues, leaving Gray Donkey outside to keep watch.

• Chen Lin found a plaque naming the courtyard Kaiyuan Chen Residence and received the task to seize one black flag in the Flag-Seizing Operation.
• Fu Tianzhou and his group approached Chen Lin seeking cooperation, but a seductive woman robbed them with silver threads; Gray Donkey drove her off after she tried to geld him.
• Chen Lin gave Fu Tianzhou's group supplies and tasked them with gathering information about the Flag-Seizing Operation, while he ordered Gray Donkey to speak only with his approval.
• Chen Lin and Gray Donkey explored the crowded streets, where unusual shops were protected by rule-based force fields, as Chen Lin searched for something that belonged to him.
• Chen Lin stopped at the shop named Sun Xiaowan, told Gray Donkey to watch the street, and entered to investigate.

Chen Lin discovered that his achievement points let him enter the town’s shops and buy certain goods, which appeared connected to Dandian Paradise and used Wanderers as currency. After searching the shops and surveying the town, he stayed inside the gate while Gray Donkey briefly scouted outside; then a dark cloud arrived and began raining over the town.

• Chen Lin entered a shop that others could not access, then learned from Ye Li that the trial takers wanted to know how he had gotten inside.
• Chen Lin entered Thousand-Silk Softness and found that his purchase permission let him inspect some goods, which were priced in wanderer coins.
• Chen Lin concluded that his access and limited purchase permission likely came from his achievement points, then visited every shop without finding a clue to Task One.
• Chen Lin told Ye Li to wait at the Chen Residence while he searched the town and examined the Wilderness beyond its sole gate.
• Chen Lin sent Gray Donkey outside to scout, and the donkey returned claiming a great terror lurked beyond the gate before asking for a reward.
• Chen Lin gave Gray Donkey a spirit herb, then noticed a dark cloud overhead that began shedding rain on the town.