Chapter Summaries

Chen Lin declined True Lord Wanmeng’s request to explore the Nightmare Realm while he prepared for the dangers of plane fusion. A month later, White Dove announced she was leaving with the Holy Monarch’s group, promised to search for Silver Fairy and the others, and gave Chen Lin a powerful sword talisman for protection.

• True Lord Wanmeng warned Chen Lin that plane fusion might be dangerous and proposed exploring a Nightmare Realm scenario with multiple nodes, but Chen Lin postponed the expedition.
• Chen Lin suspected True Lord Wanmeng might want his Level Two Road Guide and returned to the Inner City, where he rented an immortal cave and began studying Hundred Flowers Fairy’s wine-brewing inheritance.
• Chen Lin hoped to brew Drunken God Brew as preparation for plane fusion, despite knowing he was unlikely to reach the Void Refinement Realm in time.
• White Dove visited Chen Lin and said she was leaving with the Ancestor and others to inspect formations on other continents before returning to the Rainbow Continent.
• Chen Lin asked White Dove to watch for information about Silver Fairy and the others, and she agreed.
• White Dove gave Chen Lin a sword talisman from City Lord Wei that could unleash an attack equivalent to a Ninth Layer Dao Rhyme expert, and Chen Lin accepted it.

After three years of secluded cultivation in Central City, Chen Lin opened his primordial spirit domain and strengthened his Thunder God Sword. He prepared Drunken God Brew and, back in the Nightmare Realm, considered another trip to Wanhuagu Valley to find a servant before summoning Grass.

• Chen Lin hired cultivators to gather information about Silver Island, gave Ending Hostility Pills to Jin Xingyun and his companions, and began secluded cultivation.
• After three years, Chen Lin opened a primordial spirit domain containing his innate divine ability and Five Thunders Smite the Crown.
• Chen Lin used the Thunder God Sword to erode the mark on the Celestial Ring and studied the recipe for Drunken God Brew.
• Chen Lin brewed Drunken God Brew and placed it in a Fermentation Vessel within a formation to ferment.
• In the Nightmare Realm, Chen Lin learned that Grass and Fat Tiger had found nothing, then considered fishing for another servant in Wanhuagu Valley.
• Chen Lin summoned Grass to his side.

Chen Lin returned to Wanhuagu Valley to fish for Grass’s powerful Tri-Color Flower sister, using his destiny ability to improve his chances. Despite the doubled fee and penalty, he successfully pulled up the flower.

• Grass suggested that Chen Lin seek out a powerful Tri-Color Flower sister who wanted to leave the valley and might cooperate with his fishing.
• Chen Lin used his destiny ability and a fate tentacle to close the gap in his predicted fate line, then brought Grass with him.
• The Gaudily Dressed Woman revealed that the second visit cost twenty Nightmare Coins and failure carried a two-hundred-coin penalty, which Chen Lin accepted.
• At the fishing platform, Grass sensed her sister by her threefold fragrance, and Chen Lin cast his rod toward it.
• Chen Lin hauled up an exquisitely beautiful Tri-Color Flower.

Chen Lin fished Hua Ruyu out of Wanhuagu Valley and learned she was a powerful being equivalent to a late Dao Integration Realm cultivator. The Cat-headed Monster offered to help him reach the plane where his wife and daughter were, leaving him with a new lead and a request to fish up another treasure chest.

• Chen Lin named the woman he fished out Hua Ruyu, and Grass welcomed her back.
• Hua Ruyu knocked Fat Tiger down after he behaved improperly, then Fat Tiger's spiritual intelligence seemed to weaken.
• The Cat-headed Monster arrived, recognized Hua Ruyu as Lady Monalisa, and revealed she was equivalent to a late Dao Integration Realm powerhouse.
• The Cat-headed Monster agreed to take Chen Lin to the Pool Scenario if he gave Lady Monalisa a Red Gemstone should she recover her memories.
• The Cat-headed Monster gave Chen Lin a whisker to summon her when he found a scenario he could enter physically, then asked him to help fish up another treasure chest.

Chen Lin investigated Silver Island while adapting to life with Hua Ruyu and cultivating in Central City. He learned that Silver Island’s ruler had a spatially gifted rooster spirit beast, but worsening instability at sea halted further inquiries, while Chen Lin continued searching for ways to use his soul treasures.

• Chen Lin returned from the Nightmare Realm with Hua Ruyu, tested her abilities, and arranged concealed clothing for her.
• After a year, Chen Lin received information that Silver Island’s Early Spirit Transformation Island Master relied on a powerful rooster-like spatial spirit beast, which might be Chen Bao.
• Chen Lin decided not to investigate Silver Island personally and sent word for Mu Xingchen to bring Luo Qinglan to Central City when possible.
• Chen Lin cultivated with several powerful pills for two years, but reports showed that unstable space around the Myriad Star Archipelago made travel there too dangerous.
• Chen Lin visited the All Things Pavilion seeking soul-related texts and continued discreetly searching for instructions on using his true soul wood and true soul flower.

Chen Lin learned that the Hundred Flowers Fairy was suddenly compelled to attempt Ascension to Void Refinement after absorbing energy from a portrait. She asked him to safeguard a Jade Box in case the tribulation changed her, and the group set out for the tribulation platform.

• Chen Lin accepted an invitation to a trading convention and learned that Hua Ruyu still lacked the energy she needed to strengthen her cultivation.
• The Hundred Flowers Fairy summoned Chen Lin to witness her tribulation, and Jin Xingyun confirmed she had just emerged from secluded cultivation.
• Chen Lin met True Lord Wanmeng, congratulated him on reaching mid Spirit Transformation, and again delayed their planned exploration of a node.
• At the Hundred Flowers Fairy's residence, Chen Lin found Jin Xingyun, Dantai Yunjin, and Shang Xuelian waiting and comforted Shang Xuelian after her failed breakthrough.
• The Hundred Flowers Fairy explained that energy absorbed from a portrait had triggered her opportunity to ascend, gave Chen Lin a Jade Box to hold, and asked the others to guard her at the tribulation platform.

The Hundred Flowers Fairy survived the seven bolts of her Void Refinement tribulation, but remained trapped in the inner demon tribulation. When Chen Lin approached to help, a mighty figure appeared to have seized her body and noticed his unusual talent.

• The Hundred Flowers Fairy prepared the Ten Directions Tribulation-Wipe Formation and asked Chen Lin to look after Shang Xuelian if she failed to survive.
• A powerful cultivator arrived to protect the Hundred Flowers Fairy under an agreement, and she began her tribulation as spectators gathered.
• The Hundred Flowers Fairy endured the first five lightning bolts without moving, then overcame the Three-Color and Five-Color Tribulation Lightning with her techniques and formation.
• The Hundred Flowers Fairy remained motionless for nearly half an hour during her inner demon tribulation, so Chen Lin decided to approach and investigate.
• The Hundred Flowers Fairy opened her eyes, declared that she and the mighty figure were one, and turned to Chen Lin after recognizing him as a talent holder without a mark.

Chen Lin escaped the Hundred Flowers Fairy by entering a Nightmare Realm Node after tricking her with the Thunder God Sword. The Fairy weakened herself to suppress the tribulation clouds, then fled as Central City's experts approached.

• The Hundred Flowers Fairy’s presence caused the tribulation clouds to gather again, and Chen Lin fled the city with a Myriad-Mile Instantaneous Talisman.
• The Hundred Flowers Fairy caught up with Chen Lin in a distant valley and questioned him about escaping her mark and possessing innate power.
• Chen Lin showed her the Thunder God Sword, then used its lightning to break free and raced into the Nightmare Realm Node.
• The Hundred Flowers Fairy tried to pull Chen Lin out of the node with her White Flower, but the flower’s central petal split and its vortex collapsed.
• The tribulation clouds gathered again, so the Hundred Flowers Fairy merged the flower’s petals into herself until her aura fell to that of an ordinary Void Refinement cultivator.
• As figures approached from the distance, the Hundred Flowers Fairy merged into the void and fled.

Chen Lin entered a dangerous Nightmare Realm scenario and discovered that the Hundred Flowers Fairy had left a split soul inside a petal, which asked him to take it to another plane. As Chen Lin searched for a connecting node, someone opened one from outside and slipped through.

• Chen Lin found that the scenario's dense nightmare qi rapidly threatened to transform him, though the Thunder God Sword and Grass protected him.
• Chen Lin opened the Jade Box and met the Hundred Flowers Fairy's split soul, who explained that she needed to leave the plane to evade the reincarnated mighty figure pursuing her.
• The Hundred Flowers Fairy said the loss of her intent would weaken the Faceless Flower and force her pursuer to suppress her cultivation, but Chen Lin still judged her too dangerous to confront.
• Chen Lin and the Hundred Flowers Fairy agreed to search for a node leading to another plane, and Chen Lin began exploring with a spatial Sense Talisman.
• Grass spotted ripples on a tall tree, and Chen Lin realized someone had opened the node from outside just as a shadow slipped through.

Chen Lin questioned Gou Yushan, a traveler from the Spirit Demon Realm, and learned about his plane and pursuer. When Gou tried to leave through the node, it rejected him, leaving Chen Lin to suspect the scenario’s rules had sealed their way out.

• Chen Lin and his companions confronted a short, spear-wielding humanoid who identified himself as Gou Yushan from Peach Blossom Island in the Spirit Demon Realm.
• Gou used a bone shard to resist the nightmare qi, and the Hundred Flowers Fairy confirmed his honesty after his spell was destroyed by the realm.
• Chen Lin learned that the Spirit Demon Realm had both spirits and demons, that its strongest beings were Rank Seven, and that Gou had fled a formidable enemy.
• Gou offered Chen Lin a seventh-grade Spirit Treasure for the location of another node, while Chen Lin instead requested information about Gou’s plane, surroundings, and enemy.
• When the nightmare qi began overwhelming Gou, Chen Lin warned him that their own powerful enemy might still be outside, but Gou attempted to leave anyway.
• The node repelled Gou, Chen Lin’s Crow Puppet, and Chen Lin’s hand, leading Chen Lin to suspect they could not leave until they fulfilled the scenario’s conditions.

Chen Lin and his companions discovered that they could not leave the cyan stone street, and their Road Guides could not cross the scenario’s boundaries. With nightmare transformation threatening Gou Yushan, they searched for a way out and began testing the statues, but found no clue.

• Chen Lin failed to pass through the node, then bound Gou Yushan with a Soul Contract and used innate power to delay his nightmare transformation.
• Chen Lin led Gou Yushan, the Hundred Flowers Fairy, and Grass along the street, where they encountered a barrier that neither their Road Guides nor the Hundred Flowers Fairy could cross.
• Chen Lin found that the barrier extended through the surrounding woods and above the treetops, confirming that their Road Guides had stopped working.
• After examining the street and trees without finding anything unusual, Chen Lin decided to investigate the statues using Crow Puppets.
• Chen Lin sent more than a dozen Crow Puppets toward and onto the statues, but they showed no reaction beyond revealing the boundary’s extent.

Chen Lin and his companions discovered that attacking a statue activated a vast Statue Army, leaving them facing an overwhelming threat. As the army marched toward them, Chen Lin ordered Grass to strike the statues on the other side.

• Chen Lin failed to summon the Cat-headed Monster with the Cat Whisker, then agreed to test whether destroying something could change the Nightmare Realm.
• Chen Lin ordered Grass to strike one statue, which rose and sounded an alarm that awakened the statues around it.
• Nearly ten thousand statues formed ranks and marched toward Chen Lin and his companions.
• As Gou Yushan panicked and the army's pressure overwhelmed the group, Chen Lin ordered Grass to attack the statues on the other side.

Chen Lin and his companions faced two armies of statues before the Black Pagoda Bruiser appeared and challenged them to fight. Hua Ruyu killed him and Chen Lin discovered his token opened a blocked node; Hundred Flowers Fairy entered first as they prepared to leave for the Spirit Demon Realm.

• The two Statue Armies gathered at Bluestone Street but held their positions instead of attacking each other.
• The Black Pagoda Bruiser rode through the Formless Barrier and challenged Chen Lin’s group to fight.
• Hua Ruyu stepped forward and killed the Black Pagoda Bruiser with her flower powers, leaving behind a Black Token.
• Chen Lin tested the Black Token and found it let him reach through a node’s Mysterious Energy seal, though it did not let them pass through the Formless Barrier.
• Chen Lin’s group chose to leave for the Spirit Demon Realm, and Hundred Flowers Fairy entered the node first with her petal’s Defense Light Barrier activated.

Chen Lin discovered that only the person who obtained an exit token could use the space node, so he left the Nightmare Realm while the Hundred Flowers Fairy and Gou Yushan remained behind to fight for their own escape. In the Spirit Demon Realm, he made plans to protect his allies and waited in concealment, but neither of the others emerged after two hours.

• Chen Lin tested the space node and found that Gou Yushan and the Hundred Flowers Fairy were rejected, while Grass and Hua Ruyu could enter as his contract servants.
• Chen Lin gave Gou Yushan two high-grade talismans and the Hundred Flowers Fairy a Soul Sword Talisman, then left the Nightmare Realm with Grass and Hua Ruyu.
• Chen Lin arrived in the Spirit Demon Realm and sensed that primordial demon qi was mixed with the spiritual power in the air.
• Chen Lin considered how to protect Luo Qinglan, Yang Zishi, and his other allies, and planned to use the Cat Whisker and the Cat-headed Monster if necessary.
• Chen Lin hid his Spirit Boat with its Invisibility Formation and waited, but the Hundred Flowers Fairy and Gou Yushan had not appeared after nearly two hours.

Chen Lin waited in the Spirit Demon Realm after the node swallowed Gou Yushan and left the Hundred Flowers Fairy near death, then helped her recover while preparing Hua Ruyu to return through the node. Ten days after Hua Ruyu departed, she came back with an unexpected figure, leaving Chen Lin stunned.

• Chen Lin marked nearby reefs and an island with positioning tools and a teleportation array, then rescued the Hundred Flowers Fairy’s fading soul with a Nine-Turn Soul-Condensing Pill.
• The Hundred Flowers Fairy said a black-armored war general had killed Gou Yushan and turned him into a statue, while she survived with Chen Lin’s Soul Sword Jade Talisman.
• Chen Lin gave the Hundred Flowers Fairy more pills and waited on a fortified island as she recovered, but declined her suggestion to seek out local cultivators.
• Chen Lin sent Hua Ruyu through the node with a token and supplies to check the route back to the Southern Star Realm, and she returned ten days later.
• As Chen Lin moved to greet Hua Ruyu, another figure leaped out of the node and stopped him in his tracks.

Lan Ruxue visited Chen Lin and returned Niuniu’s talisman, which she believed had frightened the mysterious expert who recovered it. She asked Chen Lin to seek the Ascension Pill formula if he encountered the skeletal old man, then urged him to return with her to the Immortal Palace for protection from the reincarnated expert.

• Lan Ruxue arrived in Chen Lin’s plane and crushed a rank-six Dark Giant Flood Dragon that blocked their way.
• Lan Ruxue noticed a ruin beneath the seabed, but she and Chen Lin continued to the island where Chen Lin was staying.
• Lan Ruxue gave Chen Lin Niuniu’s talisman, explaining that Yu Gongyuan had delivered it after a mysterious expert asked him to pass it on.
• Lan Ruxue concluded that the mysterious expert had returned the talisman out of fear of its Guardian, then asked Chen Lin to obtain the Ascension Pill formula if he met the skeletal old man again.
• Chen Lin told Lan Ruxue that the reincarnated expert had targeted his talent origin, and Lan Ruxue warned him not to assume its mark was removed.
• Lan Ruxue advised Chen Lin to have a Guardian examine his talent origin and offered to take him to the Immortal Palace for protection.

Chen Lin returned to Central City, reunited with Mu Xingchen and Yang Zishi, and tried to find a way to stop Mu Xingchen’s assimilation before settling into cultivation in the Immortal Palace. A year later, he emerged to learn that Central City had grown overcrowded and tensions were rising as Tianxuan Day approached.

• Chen Lin returned to Central City with an Immortal Palace Identity Token and checked on Luo Qinglan, whose recovery was progressing well with Yang Zishi’s help.
• Chen Lin tried using the Thunder God Sword’s remaining origin essence to treat Mu Xingchen, but stopped when he realized it would destroy Mu Xingchen along with the assimilated energy.
• Chen Lin recorded the Nightmare Realm node locations he knew and gave copies to Mu Xingchen to share with True Lord Wanmeng and others, keeping the Jingguang Realm node secret except from Yang Ziqing and Zhou Shiwu.
• Chen Lin settled his companions into the Immortal Palace and began secluded cultivation, using its dense spiritual qi and the Four Symbols Spirit-Swallowing Pill.
• After a year of cultivation, Chen Lin asked Mu Xingchen about events in Central City and learned that tensions had risen, factions were active, and the city was overcrowded with cultivators.

Chen Lin learned that Shang Xuelian had entered a dangerous Spirit Demon Realm node and that the Listen-Wind Post had closed, then opened a storage pouch taken from a Black Flood Dragon. Examining its contents revealed Hua Ruyu could absorb Demonic Qi and that two bone shards reacted to the Thunder God Sword’s Innate Power, leaving Chen Lin with two mysterious characters to investigate.

• Mu Xingchen reported that True Lord Wanmeng was exploring a Nightmare Realm node, Shang Xuelian had entered the Spirit Demon Realm node, and the Listen-Wind Post had been closed for days.
• Chen Lin ordered Mu Xingchen to seek information about other plane nodes and learned that the dark object from the Black Flood Dragon was an Ancient Yaoguai storage pouch opened by pure monster power.
• Chen Lin used a formation and a monster core to open the pouch, finding Common Grade Spirit Treasures, demon crystals, gemstones, and two bone shards.
• Hua Ruyu absorbed the demon crystals through her horns, but said their energy was too low-grade to restore her abilities.
• Chen Lin brought a bone shard into the Nightmare Realm’s Small Woods, where it manifested, and reasoned that it might contain Immortal Power and connect the Ocean Floor Ruins to an Immortal Abode.
• Chen Lin struck both bone shards with the Thunder God Sword’s Innate Power and saw a different unfamiliar character appear on each before the markings vanished.

Chen Lin waited for Luo Qinglan to awaken while investigating the Taixu Script on two bone shards. After she revived, she resolved to recover in time for the coming plane fusion and began studying the script.

• Chen Lin offered to take Yang Zishi as a formal disciple, but she lowered her head without answering, so he let her return to cultivation.
• Mu Xingchen identified the bone-shard writing as Taixu Script, used by immortals, and told Chen Lin that Luo Qinglan might recognize it.
• A month later, Luo Qinglan awakened from the Vermilion Bird Feather, and Chen Lin told her about his search for Lingyu and the others and the approaching plane fusion.
• Luo Qinglan said her bloodline danger should be gone and urged Chen Lin to take Yang Zishi as a concubine, but he insisted they focus on surviving the plane fusion.
• Luo Qinglan recognized the bone-shard characters as Taixu Script and began studying them while refining the Nine-Turn Soul-Condensing Pill.

Chen Lin and Luo Qinglan studied Taixu Script and prepared for Tianxuan Day before attending a trading convention at the Immortal Palace. The convention opened with a dangerous yin-soul treasure, and Fairy Yue then presented a blood saber with a potentially deadly cost.

• Luo Qinglan shared her Taixu Script annotations with Chen Lin and explained that one character on the bone shard seemed to describe a spell.
• Chen Lin resumed cultivation and studied Taixu Script while waiting for Tianxuan Day, then agreed to attend the Immortal Palace trading convention with Luo Qinglan.
• Chen Lin and Luo Qinglan discussed finding her a better soul cultivation technique or a way to rebuild her dharma body before entering the convention.
• Fairy Yue opened the convention by presenting a Soul-Sealing Bead containing an untamed Void Refinement-level yin soul, which a cultivator bought for two thousand spirit crystals.
• Fairy Yue introduced the Blood-Shatter Saber, warning that its blood spirit could reach late Void Refinement but might drain its wielder's vital blood completely.