Chapter Summaries

Chen Lin waited in Frog City for Luo Qinglan while cultivating and teaching Yu Jiuer, then obtained Thunder Roar Beast crystal cores from Xuan Qingyun in exchange for refining medicine. He discovered that his innate thunder pattern could absorb and control thunder power far more effectively than before, and left to test its newly transformed strength.

• Chen Lin settled into the Four Seas Trading Firm and taught Yu Jiuer medicine refining while waiting more than a year for Luo Qinglan.
• Chen Lin advanced to Qi Condensation Level 9 but failed to break through to Foundation Establishment because the plane lacked sufficient spiritual qi and he lacked the required ingredients.
• Xuan Qingyun brought Chen Lin two Thunder Roar Beast crystal cores and agreed to exchange them for Chen Lin refining second-rank liquid medicine from supplied ingredients.
• Chen Lin found that his innate thunder pattern absorbed the first crystal core's power on its own, though the core filled less than a fifth of its capacity.
• Chen Lin tested the thunder pattern outside the city and discovered he could release controlled amounts of its power without revealing the pattern, destroying a boulder with a thunder-made sword.

Chen Lin reunited with Luo Qinglan after years apart, and their reunion brought him into the Foundation Establishment Realm. Ten years later, Grass recovered from overtaxing herself, while Chen Lin and Luo Qinglan still had not found the Nightmare Realm Node.

• Chen Lin found that Luo Qinglan had not left any sign at his secret marks, then waited in the city while cultivating and refining medicine.
• Chen Lin told Yu Baifeng he had learned to refine Third Rank Crystal-Transforming Liquid Medicine and asked the Four Seas Trading Firm to search for Luo Qinglan; Yu Baifeng soon brought her to him.
• Chen Lin and Luo Qinglan reunited, and after spending the night together, Chen Lin advanced into the Foundation Establishment Realm.
• Chen Lin and Luo Qinglan discussed the danger to Mu Xingchen and Zhuge Hengyun, the fate of Qin Lingyu and Sun Caiyi, and their search for the Nightmare Realm Node.
• Over the next ten years, Luo Qinglan and Zhuge Hengyun searched for Yu Gongyuan, the others, and Frog’s traces while Chen Lin cultivated; Grass then awoke after recovering from overtaxing herself.

Chen Lin reunited with Luo Qinglan and Grass, then secretly built a formation to simulate a lightning tribulation so he could advance from Foundation Establishment. After the simulated tribulation worked, Yuguang Yan and Yu Gongyuan arrived, and Chen Lin greeted them as possible allies in finding a way out of the world.

• Luo Qinglan thanked Grass for protecting Chen Lin, and Grass returned her bow but continued to call her Matriarch.
• Chen Lin learned that Zhuge Hengyun could not divine useful information and that Mu Xingchen suspected a Nightmare Realm node lay beneath the imperial palace.
• Chen Lin visited Fat Tiger in the Nightmare Realm, then decided to simulate a lightning tribulation with tier-five lightning monster cores and the Thunder God Sword.
• Three months later, Chen Lin, Luo Qinglan, and Grass set up formations on a mountain, and Chen Lin successfully used the simulated lightning to undergo his Golden Core tribulation.
• Grass stopped Yuguang Yan and Yu Gongyuan from approaching, then Chen Lin finished the tribulation, reunited with Yuguang Yan, and respectfully greeted the Crystal Clan Great Elder.

After leaving the Jingguang Realm, Chen Lin and his companions headed toward Tongtian City, where he hoped to find help returning to Liangyi City and addressing their bodily problems. A Black Demon Sect elder targeted Luo Qinglan, but Chen Lin used a genuine Murong Lineage token to secure their passage; meanwhile, a Spirit Transformation woman recognized him and planned revenge.

• Chen Lin and Luo Qinglan prepared for the possibility that Yu Gongyuan might betray them, but they later signed a spirit pact with Yu Gongyuan and Yuguang Yan and left the Jingguang Realm through its hidden node.
• Chen Lin gave Yu Jiuer his courtyard and Crystal Clan assets, then rejected Luo Qinglan's suggestion to establish a base in the Myriad Stele Forest and chose to travel to Liangyi City instead.
• Lan Zhihan of the Black Demon Sect tried to seize Chen Lin's group after recognizing Luo Qinglan's Divine Phoenix Body, but Chen Lin showed a genuine Murong Lineage token and persuaded him to let them go.
• Lan Zhihan ordered Tushan to follow Chen Lin's group and investigate them, while a scantily clad Spirit Transformation woman recognized Chen Lin and vowed to take revenge for their past encounter in the lower realm.
• Chen Lin sensed that they were being followed and led the group toward Tongtian City, intending to seek Murong Feng's help and visit Zhang Tianyue's family near Baimu City.

Chen Lin visited Murong Feng in Tongtian City, delivered news of Murong Qing, and requested help reaching Liangyi City and treating his companions’ assimilation. Murong Feng gave them a secret art to suppress the evil demons’ will, and Chen Lin later brought Zhang Tianyue’s grandson along as Luo Qinglan prepared to rebuild the Qingyang Sect.

• Chen Lin, Luo Qinglan, and Grass entered Tongtian City’s inner city to visit Murong Feng, while Mu Xingchen and Zhuge Hengyun waited outside.
• Chen Lin gave Murong Feng Murong Qing’s token and reported that she had reached the first layer of Dao Rhyme; Murong Feng was delighted and agreed to arrange travel to Liangyi City.
• Murong Feng examined Luo Qinglan and said her assimilation could not be cured, but gave Chen Lin a secret art that could suppress the evil demons’ will and allow the assimilated to cultivate.
• Zhuge Hengyun swore an inner demon oath of loyalty to Chen Lin, and he, Luo Qinglan, and Mu Xingchen began studying the secret art.
• Chen Lin gathered information and resources around the city, visited Baimu City, and brought Zhang Tianyue’s grandson with him after helping him establish his foundation.

Chen Lin waited in Tongtian City as unstable space prevented his group from returning to Liangyi City, while Luo Qinglan prepared to risk a Nirvana Rebirth Method during her Ascension. After turning down a soul for his treasure refinement, Chen Lin was approached by a mysterious woman claiming that an old acquaintance from Guyuan City wanted to meet him.

• Chen Lin worried that the realm was disintegrating and learned that Luo Qinglan planned to use the Nirvana Rebirth Method to eliminate her hidden dangers during Ascension.
• Chen Lin reluctantly agreed to Luo Qinglan's plan, and she entered secluded cultivation while he and his companions gathered supplies in Tongtian City.
• Chen Lin inspected a Yin Xuan Beast's soul for refining the Spirit Treasure Scholar but rejected it as too low-ranked and expensive.
• A Golden Core woman told Chen Lin that her young lady, an old acquaintance from Guyuan City, wished to meet him, but Chen Lin refused to go without knowing her name.
• Three figures appeared in Chen Lin's path, and one teased him for still being hot-tempered.

Chen Lin ran into Blue Butterfly, Ye Jingyun, and Xu Ruolan, who had become powerful cultivators since their past in Guyuan City. Blue Butterfly sought his help meeting Murong Feng, but Chen Lin hesitated after learning Lan Zhihan still threatened Luo Qinglan and Blue Butterfly insisted he decide that day.

• Chen Lin recognized Blue Butterfly, Ye Jingyun, and Xu Ruolan, and assessed their cultivation, noting that Blue Butterfly had reached the Spirit Transformation Realm.
• Blue Butterfly offered Chen Lin a pill to restore his Nascent Soul cultivation, but he refused and tried to leave.
• Blue Butterfly stopped Chen Lin and asked him to arrange a meeting with Murong Feng, explaining that she belonged to the Black Demon Sect and had seen him with a Murong Lineage token.
• Chen Lin refused to help, but Blue Butterfly warned that Lan Zhihan, who served Murong Qianling, still had designs on Luo Qinglan and offered to share information and help oppose him.
• Chen Lin said he would consider the request and answer the next day, but Blue Butterfly insisted he decide that day.

Chen Lin learned that Lan Zhihan wanted Luo Qinglan’s pure bloodline origin essence to activate an Immortal Stele Fragment, then kept their group hidden in Tongtian City under Murong Feng’s protection. As the core fragment drew powerful cultivators and the danger grew, Chen Lin decided they could no longer safely remain in the city.

• Chen Lin refused Blue Butterfly’s request to meet Murong Feng, then returned home with Grass and told Luo Qinglan about Lan Zhihan’s approach.
• Chen Lin reported the matter to Murong Feng, who explained that Lan Zhihan wanted Luo Qinglan’s bloodline origin essence to activate an Immortal Stele and gave Chen Lin a Jade Talisman for protection in Tongtian City.
• Chen Lin researched the Myriad Stele Forest, learned that Immortal Stele Fragments required exceptionally high-tier energy, and moved his group into a guarded inner-city immortal cave.
• As the Immortal Stele’s manifestation dragged on and powerful cultivators arrived, Zhuge Hengyun warned that major changes were coming, and Chen Lin began seeking escape routes beyond the Murong Family’s control.
• Blue Butterfly told Chen Lin that the newly emerged fragment was part of the core and required even purer, higher-tier energy, prompting him to conclude that his group could no longer stay in Tongtian City.

Chen Lin planned to flee Tongtian City with Luo Qinglan to protect her from possible interest in her bloodline, but sought news and help before acting. After learning that Lan Ruxue had reached the dao integration realm, he used the news to visit Murong Feng and cautiously ask whether powerful cultivators might target Luo Qinglan.

• Chen Lin decided that returning to the Jingguang Realm was their best escape route, but planned to use a short-range Teleportation Array Disk to avoid being watched as they left Tongtian City.
• At the Listen-Wind Post, Chen Lin collected replies from Yang Ziqing and Murong Qing; Yang Ziqing reported that he and Yang Zishi were well, while Huang Liu had reached the spirit transformation realm.
• Murong Qing's message said Murong Feng had contacted her, Lan Ruxue had reached the dao integration realm and would hold a ceremony, and Chen Lin should avoid using the mysterious Listen-Wind Post for confidential messages.
• Chen Lin visited Murong Feng and reported that Lan Ruxue would hold a ceremony, then raised his concern that high-level cultivators might target Luo Qinglan because of the Immortal Stele.
• Murong Feng questioned whether Chen Lin suspected him, and Chen Lin instead cited their encounters with the Black Demon Sect and said he feared its people were watching them.

Chen Lin learned that the Immortal Stele selected eligible talent holders and true spirit descendants for trials and inheritances, then prepared with his companions as the Stele appeared. As its activation began, a voice told them to get ready and said they could seek help from the Murong Lineage if they faced danger.

• Chen Lin learned from Steward Lu that the Immortal Stele could draw qualified people into its own space for trials and inheritance rewards.
• Chen Lin told his companions the truth, and they discussed the danger of facing powerful cultivators inside the Stele.
• Chen Lin sent out Teleportation Array Disks and marked their locations while everyone prepared for the Stele's appearance.
• The Immortal Stele manifested in the Myriad Stele Forest, and factions began recruiting true spirit descendants and talent holders.
• Blue Butterfly offered to ally with Luo Qinglan inside the Stele, but Chen Lin refused.
• A majestic voice announced that the Immortal Stele was about to activate and urged them to prepare.

The Immortal Stele appeared over the Tianfang Continent, devastating Tongtian City before drawing talent holders and true spirit descendants into its sealed interior. Chen Lin reunited with Luo Qinglan and Yang Zishi and gathered with several acquaintances, but the Giant Stele had yet to reveal what it wanted from them.

• Murong Feng revealed that he had been watching Chen Lin and the others, then the cave residence collapsed as the Immortal Stele Fragments merged into a gigantic stele above Tongtian City.
• The Giant Stele sealed space, disabled escape methods, and sent rays of light that transported Chen Lin, Luo Qinglan, Zhuge Hengyun, and countless others away.
• Chen Lin and Luo Qinglan arrived in a bone-filled space beneath a black stele, discovered that most powers were suppressed, and could not use his items to summon Grass.
• Chen Lin found Yang Zishi among the gathered people and explained the Immortal Stele's appearance to Shen Baiquan, asking him to help watch over her.
• Alan and Ling Qianxue joined them, and Chen Lin asked Alan what the Immortal Stele intended and how they should respond.

Chen Lin and the other cultivators waited for the Immortal Stele to reveal its purpose, but an old man who touched it withered into dry bones. As the crowd tried to understand the danger, Li Chenshui offered Chen Lin a shop and a place in the Liangyi Sect, but Chen Lin declined to join.

• Alan said the surrounding space was turbulent and suggested that cultivators with greater innate talent had landed closer to the Immortal Stele; she explained that innate talents manifested laws, which included origin and branch laws.
• More than ten thousand cultivators gathered around the Immortal Stele, while Chen Lin avoided approaching the Murong Family because of its internal conflicts.
• An old man named Elder Qian flew up and touched the Immortal Stele, then separated from it and fell apart into white bones.
• Li Chenshui advised the group to observe the Immortal Stele before acting and offered Chen Lin a shop in Liangyi City and a position in the Liangyi Sect.
• Chen Lin thanked Li Chenshui for the offer but declined to join the sect because Luo Qinglan was rebuilding her own sect's mountain gate.

The cultivators formed a Temporary Elder Council to organize tests of the Immortal Stele, and Chen Lin learned that Alan’s Wuzhen Tower identity carried great influence. The first new test ended in death, and a second cultivator triggered a sudden change when he touched the stele at a different spot.

• The Murong Lineage proposed a Temporary Elder Council after finding no residual energy on the remains, and the gathered cultivators agreed to establish one.
• The factions argued over how to choose council members, then selected more than thirty elders based on cultivation and faction strength; the Murong Family gained three seats, while Li Chenshui and Alan took seats for their groups.
• The council divided the cultivators into thirty teams and ordered them to test the Immortal Stele in turn.
• The first team sent a white-haired foundation establishment cultivator to the stele, where he fell silent and later died as a heap of withered bones.
• The next team sent a golden core cultivator, who moved to the middle of the stele and touched it at the Murong elder’s direction, triggering a sudden change.

After the Immortal Stele killed another cultivator and the search revealed no other exit, Chen Lin’s group returned to the stele as the Elder Council resumed testing. The Myriad Spirit Sect’s Saintess, Ximen Wuxue, volunteered to approach it, leaving the crowd astonished as he flew toward the stele.

• The Golden Core Elder touched the Immortal Stele, triggered a glowing mark on his brow, and died, prompting Chen Lin to suspect that a powerful talent ability might affect the stele.
• The Elder Council paused the tests, sent groups to search for another exit, and then ordered them back when spatial turbulence blocked their way.
• Ling Qianxue told Chen Lin that she could borrow power from a horned Otherworld creature, and Chen Lin warned her not to rely too heavily on its strength.
• Chen Lin examined Yang Zishi’s destiny lines and found no obvious sign of danger in the short term.
• The groups reported that the Immortal Stele was the only possible exit, so the Elder Council drew lots and selected Team Three to test it.
• Ximen Wuxue, the Myriad Spirit Sect’s Saintess, volunteered to approach the Immortal Stele and flew toward it.

Ximen Wuxue and another cultivator vanished after activating the Immortal Stele, while approaching spatial turbulence threatened everyone still below. Chen Lin tested his Innate Divine Ability on several cultivators, then sent Yang Zishi to the stele and watched her safely disappear, leaving him confident that he and Luo Qinglan could also escape.

• Ximen Wuxue activated the Immortal Stele and vanished in a burst of light, and a sword-wielding cultivator soon did the same.
• Spatial turbulence began advancing toward the cultivators, so Chen Lin agreed with Luo Qinglan that they needed to try the stele before conditions worsened.
• Chen Lin used his Innate Divine Ability to compare cultivators' fates with what happened at the stele, finding that those with intact destiny lines vanished while those with severed lines became dry bones.
• Chen Lin told Yang Zishi to touch the stele at its base, and she vanished safely after a bright line connected to her palm.
• More cultivators died as others were transported away, causing the remaining crowd to hesitate.

Chen Lin and Luo Qinglan approached the Immortal Stele while Chen Lin warned Zhuge Hengyun that his destiny line showed a near-fatal danger. Chen Lin secretly severed Lan Zhihan’s destiny line, then Alan touched the stele and escaped as Lan Zhihan and several others died.

• Chen Lin examined Zhuge Hengyun’s destiny line, saw it was almost broken, and warned him to wait and observe before touching the Immortal Stele.
• Chen Lin and Luo Qinglan rose toward the stele, followed by Alan, Ling Qianxue, and other cultivators who believed Chen Lin knew how to survive the trial.
• Lan Zhihan caught up with Chen Lin and Luo Qinglan, threatened them, and continued toward the stele with two companions.
• Chen Lin used the Fortune Accumulation Orb and the Blade of Destiny to sever Lan Zhihan’s destiny line, suffering a backlash that left him weakened.
• Chen Lin checked Alan’s intact destiny line, and Alan touched the Immortal Stele and vanished safely as Lan Zhihan and several others fell dead.

Chen Lin and Luo Qinglan emerged from the Immortal Stele and discovered that its inheritance may have involved resurrection schemes targeting innate talent holders. After Murong Feng protected them from the Enforcement Team, they went to meet him while considering how to remove the traces left by a mighty figure.

• Chen Lin attacked a conscious light orb inside his fate screen with the Blade of Destiny, wounded it, and drove it away before the screen collapsed.
• Chen Lin and Luo Qinglan returned outside their immortal cave, where Mu Xingchen told them they had been gone for less than half an incense stick and that the Immortal Stele had fallen back into the Myriad Stele Forest.
• The Enforcement Team ordered Chen Lin and Luo Qinglan to report to the City Lord Manor, but Murong Feng intervened and sent the team away.
• Luo Qinglan told Chen Lin that the light orb had strengthened her bloodline and granted her the Phoenix Dances Through the Nine Heavens inheritance, while Chen Lin described how he had resisted a similar orb.
• Chen Lin and Luo Qinglan concluded that the Immortal Stele might be part of mighty figures’ resurrection contingencies, and Luo Qinglan planned to use the Nirvana Technique to remove the traces left by one.
• Chen Lin and Luo Qinglan flew to Murong Feng’s residence to pay their respects.

Chen Lin and Luo Qinglan reported their Immortal Stele inheritances to Murong Feng, who revealed that experts planned to merge the Southern Star Realm, Northern Star Realm, and Rainbow Realm on the next Tianxuan Day. After receiving Luo Qinglan’s inheritance and rewarding both cultivators, Murong Feng sent them away while space remained unstable.

• Chen Lin and Luo Qinglan told Murong Feng about entering the Immortal Stele, and Chen Lin described his inheritance as a qi luck ability.
• Murong Feng revealed that experts from three realms planned to merge them on the next Tianxuan Day, less than forty years away, after a Holy Monarch from the Rainbow Realm proposed the undertaking.
• Luo Qinglan gave Murong Feng a Jade Slip containing the fire spell Phoenix Dances Through the Nine Heavens, which could become a Dao art.
• Murong Feng rewarded Luo Qinglan with a pendant that concealed her bloodline and gave Chen Lin high-grade pill formulas for his personal use.
• Murong Feng dismissed Chen Lin and Luo Qinglan, promising to contact them once space had stabilized.

After returning to Liangyi City, Chen Lin learned that Yang Zishi had gained a talent ability that could purify objects and energy, and began investigating whether it could remove the dangerous marks left by powerful beings. Yang Zishi’s purification affected Luo Qinglan’s assimilation, but only very slowly, leaving Chen Lin hopeful that it could help once Yang Zishi grew stronger.

• Chen Lin left Tongtian City with Luo Qinglan, Zhuge Hengyun, Mu Xingchen, and the others, and Murong Feng escorted them safely to Liangyi City.
• Chen Lin returned to his residence, where Yang Ziqing welcomed the group and Luo Qinglan gave him a Pseudo Spirit Treasure.
• After Luo Qinglan and Zhuge Hengyun entered seclusion and Mu Xingchen went searching for an opportunity, Chen Lin questioned Yang Zishi about her experience in the Immortal Stele Space.
• Yang Zishi explained that she had devoured the light orb and revealed that her talent, Purification, could cleanse impurities from objects and energy bodies.
• Chen Lin tested Yang Zishi’s ability and found that it could remove even nightmare realm aura, though the process was extremely slow.
• Yang Zishi used her ability on Luo Qinglan’s assimilation, and Luo Qinglan sensed a slight improvement that might take over a hundred years to become substantial.

After returning to Liangyi City, Chen Lin learned that Yang Zishi could purify the evil energy affecting Luo Qinglan and discussed his recovery and the coming plane fusion with old acquaintances. He discovered Shen Baiquan had likely died in the Immortal Stele, then met Alan to discuss serious business.

• Luo Qinglan asked Chen Lin to leave so she and Yang Zishi could discuss Yang Zishi's purification ability further, and Chen Lin went to the Myriad Pill Pavilion.
• Chen Lin visited Huang Liu, congratulated her on reaching the Spirit Transformation Realm, and told her about the planned fusion of the Southern Star Realm, the Northern Star Realm, and the Rainbow Realm.
• Huang Liu gave Chen Lin a Beauty Elevation Pill as a gift for Luo Qinglan and said she would prepare for the upheaval caused by plane fusion.
• Chen Lin learned that Shen Baiquan had not returned from the Immortal Stele and concluded that he had died during the trial; he also heard that Li Chenshui had returned and was in seclusion.
• At Wuzhen Tower, Alan noticed Chen Lin's reduced cultivation and teased him, but he resisted her Mortal Dust Heart Intent and asked her to discuss serious business at a nearby Spirit Food Pavilion.