Chapter Summaries

Chen Lin traded for a Space-Locking Talisman and later exchanged his medicines for rare texts and Nightmare Realm information at the Immortal Palace convention. He left with several texts that might contain knowledge about true souls and Taixu Script, while the coming plane fusion remained a looming danger.

• Chen Lin declined to bid on the Blood-Shatter Saber, then offered twenty Nightmare Coins and obtained Fairy Yue's Space-Locking Talisman.
• Fairy Yue opened the free-trading session, and Chen Lin absorbed the Fortune Accumulation Orb's qi luck before using his Fate Tentacle to alter his destiny lines at the cost of a severe backlash and talent origin.
• Chen Lin offered Nascent-Crossing Pills, Ending Hostility Pills, and Drunken God Brew in exchange for soul-related materials, Nightmare Realm items, and rare texts.
• Chen Lin rejected several offers of node locations because he already knew them or they were too far from Central City to be useful.
• Chen Lin exchanged portions of Drunken God Brew for a text on miraculous objects and several other rare texts that might hold information he sought.

Chen Lin discovered how to draw energy from the true soul wood and raised his soul power to the peak of the silver soul level as Tianxuan Day approached. After he and his companions decided to remain in their plane, Hua Ruyu returned with Gou Yushan’s Storage Bag, leaving Chen Lin shocked.

• Chen Lin warned Luo Qinglan against using Netherworld aura and promised to consider rescuing Yun Xiumian only after his cultivation improved.
• Chen Lin found instructions for refining true soul wood in a travelogue and used the method to absorb the energy from its root stalk.
• Chen Lin brought his soul power to the peak of the silver soul level but decided to save the true soul flower and find a way to refine it into a pill.
• Chen Lin, Luo Qinglan, Mu Xingchen, and Yang Zishi agreed to remain in their plane and wait for Tianxuan Day.
• Hua Ruyu told Chen Lin she had visited a node in the Spirit Demon Realm and retrieved Gou Yushan’s Storage Bag from his transformed statue.

Hua Ruyu gave Chen Lin Bone Shards she had recovered from the Spirit Demon Realm and asked to search for an important object when Plane Fusion weakened the barriers between planes. Chen Lin and Luo Qinglan found that the nine shards recorded an incomplete spell and warned that the Triangular Bone Shard might have dangerous spatial properties; as Tianxuan Day arrived, Luo Qinglan urged Chen Lin to stay close to her.

• Hua Ruyu told Chen Lin she had retrieved Bone Shards from the Ocean Floor Ruins and asked him not to summon her for up to a hundred years while she searched for an important object.
• Chen Lin gave Hua Ruyu the red gemstone from the Cat-headed Monster, but she could not remember what it was for and warned that her memories might never fully return.
• Chen Lin examined the seven Bone Shards from Hua Ruyu and found that six of their characters appeared in the Taixu Script Bamboo Scroll.
• Luo Qinglan determined that the nine Bone Shards formed an incomplete spell and cautioned that the Triangular Bone Shard might contain a small space or have other spatial properties.
• Luo Qinglan asked Chen Lin to remain beside her so she could protect him from spatial turbulence, and Tianxuan Day arrived.

As the plane fusion began, Chen Lin watched the formations unite the three realms in a realm-fixing net and learned that Hua Ruyu foresaw the fusion would fail. The chapter ended with Bai Yuandu swallowing a strange blood-red pill as he prepared for the decisive attempt.

• Chen Lin met Mu Xingchen, Jin Xingyun, and Dantai Yunjin in the Inner City, where he learned that Wanmeng was inside an unstable Nightmare Realm node and that other known nodes were unstable too.
• The plane fusion began, shaking the city and preventing Chen Lin from seeing his or Luo Qinglan’s destiny lines.
• Formations across the Southern Star Realm, Northern Star Realm, and Rainbow Realm activated and created a light net that thickened the rules of heaven and earth.
• Hua Ruyu told Chen Lin that her intuition said the fusion would definitely fail and that she wanted to keep him safe before leaving for another plane.
• The City Guard identified the descending light net as the realm-fixing net and warned cultivators not to touch its strands.
• Bai Yuandu swallowed a writhing blood-red pill on a mountain in the Rainbow Realm and began refining it as his aura surged.

As the light net completed the plane fusion, Chen Lin and his companions endured violent spatial turbulence and feared that Bai Yuandu’s plan might draw the Crimson Giant Eye. The fusion changed the realms’ laws and triggered widespread breakthroughs, while Bai Yuandu prepared to seize his chance amid the tribulations.

• Chen Lin suspected Bai Yuandu planned to undergo the immortal ascension tribulation and warned his companions that the Crimson Giant Eye might appear.
• Chen Lin chose to stay in Central City rather than risk entering a nearby Nightmare Realm node, and Jin Xingyun and Dantai Yunjin abandoned their plan to go there.
• The light net landed and merged into the earth, unleashing an hour of spatial turbulence that killed or injured cultivators caught by its rifts.
• After the turbulence ended, spiritual qi and rule intent surged, many cultivators broke through, and Yang Zishi began her nascent soul tribulation while Chen Lin advanced to the late Spirit Transformation realm.
• In the Rainbow Realm, Bai Yuandu watched the many tribulations and declared that his opportunity had arrived.

As the plane fusion completed, cultivators across the realms seized the surge in spiritual qi to advance, while Bai Yuandu used harvested souls and sacrificial clones to survive the Three Calamities. He emerged transformed and faced the Ascension Ladder, as Chen Lin sensed that a major upheaval was approaching.

• The completed plane fusion strengthened the Heaven and Earth Rules, and Wei Duxing, Chen Lin, Dantai Yunjin, and countless other cultivators advanced or attempted breakthroughs amid the destruction.
• Bai Yuandu sacrificed his essence blood and used a vortex to draw out miniature skeletons, while Ye Luo, Ling Qianxue, and others had their souls pulled from their bodies.
• Bai Yuandu kept Ye Luo and Ling Qianxue among three miniature skeletons, fused the others into himself, and summoned an immortal ascension tribulation that swallowed the surrounding tribulation clouds.
• Bai Yuandu sent a clone to divert part of the lightning calamity, then endured the remaining Three Calamities and regrew his body as a handsome young man.
• Chen Lin stabilized his late Spirit Transformation realm, while Yang Zishi formed her Nascent Soul and Dantai Yunjin reached Spirit Transformation; Hua Ruyu warned Chen Lin that an enormous upheaval was near.
• Bai Yuandu saw a colorful Ascension Ladder descend before him, ready to ascend and escape samsara.

The Crimson Giant Eye attacked the fused planes with an Immortal-Slaying Arrow, devastating the Rainbow Realm and killing Bai Yuandu’s newly restored body. Before vanishing, it sent a red streak toward Central City, where Chen Lin faced an unknown life-or-death threat.

• The Crimson Giant Eye appeared over the Rainbow Realm, and its evil aura disrupted cultivators across the fused planes.
• Bai Yuandu summoned a giant black sword and used the continent formations to attack the Giant Eye, but its Immortal-Slaying Arrow shattered the sword and struck at him.
• Bai Yuandu restrained the arrow while the Bone Bird attacked the Giant Eye, but the arrow’s final eruption destroyed his flesh, the Bone Bird, and the White Bone Holy Ship.
• A miniature skeleton survived underground, but Xuanyin captured it inside the Yellow Springs Scroll and took it away.
• The weakened Giant Eye fired a red streak toward Central City before vanishing, leaving Chen Lin in a life-or-death crisis.

Chen Lin hid in the Nightmare Realm to evade the red light that had locked onto him, leaving Grass and Luo Qinglan behind. When he later summoned Grass and Hua Ruyu, both had reverted to flowers and were gravely weakened, so he prepared Fat Tiger to contact Lord Cat if he failed to return and then attempted to go back to the Reality Realm.

• Wei Duxing realized the red light threatened him as the City-Protecting Formation weakened and the merged planes began separating again.
• Chen Lin recognized that the red light had locked onto him, told Luo Qinglan to take everyone away, and entered the Nightmare Realm using the Fishing Rod.
• Chen Lin asked Grass to guard Luo Qinglan before leaving her with the Bronze Coffin and puppets, then waited in the Small Woods with Fat Tiger.
• Chen Lin summoned Grass and found her gravely weakened in the form of a blade of grass.
• Chen Lin summoned Hua Ruyu and found that she too had reverted to a severely weakened flower.
• Chen Lin instructed Fat Tiger to contact Lord Cat and relay his preparations if he did not summon him within three days, then tried to return to the Reality Realm.

After emerging in a strange plane where mana was suppressed, Chen Lin explored a swamp and an endless snowy region, finding no living creatures or signs of cultivation. He eventually discovered a small village and began to retreat, but a woodcutter spotted his hidden Spirit Boat and called it black.

• Chen Lin escaped the mud around the Bronze Coffin and found that the strange energy weakened his mana, spells, and Spirit Treasures, while his soul power and talent ability remained largely unaffected.
• Chen Lin crossed a boundary between a summer-like swamp and a vast snowy plain, tested the conditions, and found the region empty of life.
• Chen Lin placed Grass and Hua Ruyu in Jade Boxes to recover, then entered the Nightmare Realm by projection and returned with Fat Tiger.
• Chen Lin considered entering the Myriad Realms Alliance scenario through the Gray-White Giant Bird Egg but decided to explore the plane first.
• After ten days of searching the snow with Fat Tiger, Chen Lin spotted a village and watched it from his concealed Spirit Boat without seeing anyone emerge.
• A woodcutter carrying firewood approached the Spirit Boat, looked up at Chen Lin, and remarked that it was a black boat.

Chen Lin investigated a strange snowbound village and discovered that its inhabitants followed unfamiliar rules and possessed bizarre powers. After the woodcutter attacked him with a saber that bypassed his defenses, Chen Lin found that his Soul-Destroying Finger could harm the man and killed him with repeated strikes.

• Chen Lin watched the woodcutter return to a village, then followed his footprints to investigate where he had gathered firewood.
• Chen Lin found He Zhenshan of Mingxia Grotto and a middle-aged Emerald Grotto cultivator arguing over a stump, and discovered that both were Golden Core Cultivators.
• When Chen Lin rose into the air, the two cultivators stopped fighting, called him ruthless, and fled.
• The woodcutter appeared and repeatedly wounded Chen Lin with a saber that bypassed his armor, spells, talismans, and attacks.
• Chen Lin interrupted his attempted escape and struck the woodcutter with Soul-Destroying Finger attacks, weakening him until he collapsed and died.

After killing the Woodcutter, Chen Lin traveled across the snowy plain while trying to find a cultivator settlement and recover his strength. He turned back toward the swamp to consume the true soul flower, but a tree and a figure emerging from the snow appeared in his path.

• Chen Lin confirmed the Woodcutter was dead, took his woodcutting saber, and left the battlefield with Fat Tiger.
• Chen Lin followed the footprints of two cultivators, but they faded away across the snowy plain, leaving him unable to find their settlements.
• Chen Lin decided to return to the swamp and consume the true soul flower to strengthen his Soul-Destroying Finger, avoiding spells as he traveled.
• After a month of searching, Chen Lin and Fat Tiger found no settlements, mountains, or trees until Fat Tiger spotted a lone tree ahead.
• Chen Lin and Fat Tiger hid in the snow, then Chen Lin noticed a nearby snow mound move and a head emerge from it.

Chen Lin followed a cultivator carrying a tree stump to a hidden settlement and entered Three Kings Grotto after signing its Blood Pact. He found a guarded underground community with shops and usable mana, and planned to stay while he recovered and refined the true soul flower.

• Chen Lin watched a cultivator dig up a tree stump and followed him as he carried it away beneath a balloon-like flying device.
• Chen Lin and Fat Tiger tracked the balloon’s route for weeks until Chen Lin found high ground and sent Fat Tiger into the Nightmare Realm.
• Chen Lin introduced himself as a cultivator from Emerald Grotto and met He Wangshui, who required him to sign Three Kings Grotto’s Blood Pact.
• He Wangshui gave Chen Lin a token and led him through guarded passages into the underground settlement.
• Chen Lin explored the settlement, learned that mana could be used there, and headed for an inn to recover and refine the true soul flower.

Chen Lin learned about the Tianluo race, divine weapons, and the cultivators’ history and Heaven Concealing Technique while recovering in Three Kings Grotto. After Qu Qingzhou visited to ask about pills and a distant Immortal Cavern, Chen Lin seized on his mention of dangerous monsters in the southern swamp and pressed him for details.

• Chen Lin learned that divine weapons could harm the Tianluo race, that energy use drew their attacks, and that underground caves shielded cultivators from their perception.
• Chen Lin examined the Woodcutter’s true divine Firewood Saber, kept it as a safeguard, and continued treating his injuries.
• After a month, Chen Lin recovered and learned about the vast snow-covered region, the cultivators’ ancient origins, and the Heaven Concealing Technique’s benefits and drawbacks.
• Chen Lin decided not to practice the Heaven Concealing Technique because he still hoped to return to the normal Cultivation World.
• Qu Qingzhou visited Chen Lin to ask for pills, then asked about the Immortal Cavern in the southern swamp.
• When Qu Qingzhou said people who entered the swamp never returned because of powerful monsters, Chen Lin asked what kind of monsters lived there.

Chen Lin recruited the dying Meng Hezhang to enter a Nightmare Realm scenario and learn how to leave it, helping him reach Foundation Establishment in exchange. He sent Meng Hezhang into the realm and waited outside for him to return with information.

• Qu Qingzhou explained that Meng Hezhang needed pills for a risky Foundation Establishment attempt, and Chen Lin offered help in exchange for a dangerous, secret task.
• Meng Hezhang signed a soul pact, took Chen Lin's Foundation Establishment Pill, and began his breakthrough.
• When Meng Hezhang developed an inner demon, Chen Lin used an Exorcism Pill and his own power to help him reach Foundation Establishment.
• Chen Lin taught Meng Hezhang a divine sense secret art and instructed him to find Xu Zihan in the Nightmare Realm, ask about the exit task, and keep a deciphered bone shard safe.
• Chen Lin sent Meng Hezhang into the Nightmare Realm, left a Crow Puppet to watch the room, and waited while studying Taixu Script.

After Meng Hezhang returned from the Nightmare Realm and described the cave’s exit rule, Chen Lin secured a courtyard residence and entered the realm himself to investigate. He found the meadow empty of large birds and crossed the boundary of a Level One Road Guide.

• Meng Hezhang woke after spending weeks trapped in a cave and told Chen Lin that a woman with trees growing from her body had explained how to leave by writing the number of large birds on a stone slab.
• Chen Lin used the Soul-Bewitching Technique to verify Meng Hezhang’s account, then retrieved the Bone Shard and Giant Egg and escorted him from the inn.
• Chen Lin traded a dharmic-treasure flying sword for a small courtyard residence after learning that spirit rice production in the Minor Spirit Realm had fallen and prices might rise.
• Chen Lin equipped the courtyard with formations and puppets, brought Fat Tiger out to guard him, and entered the Nightmare Realm.
• Chen Lin found the cave and meadow described by Meng Hezhang, saw no large birds, and crossed a Formless Barrier at the Level One Road Guide boundary.

Chen Lin explored the Myriad Realms Alliance gathering point, learned about the colored bird eggs and the timing of the next gathering from Kannie, and discovered that she had a mushroom linked to Xiaohong. The chapter left Chen Lin considering Kannie’s request to identify the mushroom, which might let him learn about Niuniu.

• Chen Lin explored the boundary of the Level One Road Guide, then correctly entered the character for “two” on the stone slab after two enormous birds arrived.
• Chen Lin watched the birds mate and saw the female lay a colored egg; Kannie explained that colored eggs were alive, while grayish-white eggs were dead, and warned that taking a living egg provoked the birds.
• Chen Lin introduced himself to Kannie and learned that the Myriad Realms Alliance gathering was expected in about half a year.
• Kannie stopped Chen Lin from leaving and showed him a large red mushroom, asking whether he had encountered one in a Nightmare Realm scenario that turned those it drew inside into mushrooms.

Chen Lin learned from Kannie that Nightmare Realm Scenarios had different tiers and that Xiaohong was the Guardian tied to the mushroom threatening Kannie's Lineage. After Kannie left, Chen Lin met Xiao Jingshan, a local Deacon, and settled back into secluded cultivation.

• Chen Lin told Kannie that Xiaohong was the Guardian associated with the mushroom and suggested she mention his name when seeking help in Xiaohong's Scenario.
• Kannie explained that Nightmare Realm Scenarios included ordinary and silver tiers, and that Silver Scenarios required Silver Road Guides.
• Chen Lin left the gathering, considered Kannie's warnings, and sent Fat Tiger into the Small Woods in the Nightmare Realm.
• Xiao Jingshan visited Chen Lin to investigate the newcomer, and Chen Lin gave him a Foundation Establishment Puppet to win his goodwill.
• Xiao Jingshan warned Chen Lin that spirit rice and spirit plants had been damaged in the Minor Spirit Realm, and Chen Lin later began secluded cultivation.

Half a year after arriving in the Three Kings Grotto, Chen Lin attended a Myriad Realms Alliance gathering in the Nightmare Realm to seek useful information and an Artifact Refining Art. Kannie promised him the art, but he learned little else before the gathering ended.

• Chen Lin weighed exploring Ancient Cultivator Cave Abodes for resources but decided to wait while his supplies lasted and he continued his research.
• Chen Lin found four nonhuman alliance members at the gathering and introduced himself to Chali Bu, Jin Xuanzi, Faint Shadow, and Sarina.
• Chali Bu invoked the alliance rule requiring one Nightmare Coin per answer, but Kannie paid for Chen Lin and confirmed the rule.
• Kannie asked Sarina and the others to join a dangerous expedition and offered twenty Nightmare Coins for a safe way to buy a Level 3 Road Guide, but no one helped.
• Jin Xuanzi sought a defensive or evasion treasure, and Chen Lin requested an Artifact Refining Art for Nightmare Realm treasures; Kannie promised to give him one after the gathering.
• Chen Lin asked for information about the Southern Star Realm and his current plane, but no one knew, and Kannie ended the gathering.

Chen Lin learned from Kannie that Guardian Xiaohong had rescued her transformed people and sent him a white mushroom, then memorized an Artifact Refining Art and refined the Emerald Bracelet. He reunited with Blue Butterfly, who revealed that the Southern Star Realm had shattered into dozens of fragments, and asked what Medium Object she had used to reach the safe place.

• Kannie told Chen Lin that Xiaohong had changed her people back using a mushroom and had asked her to deliver a white mushroom to him.
• Kannie taught Chen Lin a general-purpose Artifact Refining Art and warned him that taking a Colored Giant Egg would trigger an attack from the large birds.
• Kannie left a tree mark for contacting her, and Chen Lin wrote 林 on the cave wall as his own mark.
• Chen Lin mastered Kannie's soul-powered refining art and successfully refined the Emerald Bracelet, revealing its rosy-cloud gauze defense.
• Blue Butterfly arrived, and she and Chen Lin exchanged surprised greetings before discussing the Southern Star Realm's collapse.
• Blue Butterfly told Chen Lin that the realm had shattered into roughly eighty to a hundred pieces and that Tongtian City might still be intact, then Chen Lin asked what Medium Object she had used to enter.

Chen Lin learned that the Tianluo Race was preparing for a Grand Sacrifice and spent three years absorbing a True Soul Flower to strengthen his soul. After reaching the second compression of the third rank, he was warned that the sacrifice was near and asked whether he knew of unusual activity among the Tianluo Race.

• Blue Butterfly told Chen Lin she had killed Xu Zihan and found him in Xu Zihan's memories, then demanded his bracelet in exchange for a secret; Chen Lin refused and left the dream realm.
• Chen Lin confirmed that the Southern Star Realm had not completely collapsed, but he remained separated from Luo Qinglan and the others and found little useful information in the settlement.
• Shopkeeper Xiao Jingyuan told Chen Lin that the Tianluo Race's Grand Sacrifice was expected to begin in about three years and advised him to avoid going outside.
• Chen Lin entered seclusion and absorbed the True Soul Flower, raising his soul to the second compression of the third rank and gaining the ability to project a near-tangible shadow of himself.
• After three years, Xiao Jingshan visited Chen Lin, noticed that his aura had changed, and urged him to prepare for fighting the Tianluo Race; Chen Lin asked whether something unusual had happened.