Chapter Summaries

Chen Lin was sent with a team from Three Kings Grotto to investigate the Tianluo Race, but realized the group was being offered as sacrifices and that Xiao Tiancheng planned to rob him. Chen Lin killed Xiao Tiancheng and his accomplices, then killed a strange woman who appeared nearby.

• Chen Lin joined a team led by Han Qingshan and realized its mostly old and weak members were being sent as sacrifices to the Tianluo Race.
• Xiao Tiancheng took Chen Lin and several others aboard his balloon, and Chen Lin suspected he intended to steal his wealth.
• Xiao Tiancheng and three accomplices ambushed Chen Lin in midair, but Chen Lin escaped, trapped them in his Primordial Spirit Domain, and killed them with Five Thunders Smite the Crown.
• Chen Lin collected Xiao Tiancheng's storage bag and waited after the balloon was destroyed.
• A stout woman with a red headscarf appeared, and Chen Lin killed her with the Soul-Destroying Finger.

After killing a Tianluo woman, Chen Lin was pursued by an unseen force and fought off a powerful, phantom-like attacker. The feeling of being watched persisted even after the fight, so he left Xiaoyuan Village on foot and continued toward the Swamp.

• Chen Lin collected the Tianluo woman's ashes and took her Red Headscarf and Wooden Basket, then looted Xiao Tiancheng's Storage Bag and found supplies and a map scroll.
• Chen Lin sensed an unseen gaze following him, but his destiny lines and secret arts could not reveal its source or what it intended.
• A Hazy Figure attacked Chen Lin with a black blade, but he countered with repeated Soul-Destroying Finger strikes and killed it, finding a Pitch-Black Short Blade and a Black Crystal among the ashes.
• Chen Lin noticed the watchful presence had grown stronger, suspected it might be tied to the Tianluo Race, and left Xiaoyuan Village on foot without using mana.
• Chen Lin rested in the snow, examined the map scroll from Xiao Tiancheng's bundle, and continued toward the Swamp.

Chen Lin encountered a Tianluo Race slaughter and learned that stone essence could conceal people from their senses. He took the injured Du Dahai under a Soul Pact and followed Xiao Tiancheng’s map toward an Ancient Cultivator Cave Abode.

• Chen Lin hid in the snow as a Tianluo Race pursuer slaughtered fleeing cultivators, then questioned Du Dahai, who had survived by playing dead.
• Du Dahai showed Chen Lin a piece of heaven-masking stone, which weakened the sensation of being watched, and revealed that he had found it in an Ancient Cultivator Cave Abode.
• Chen Lin agreed to take Du Dahai along, made him sign a Soul Pact, and learned that Du Dahai came from Xuanmu Grotto and had been sent with over eight hundred others to investigate the Tianluo Race.
• Du Dahai recognized the cave abode on Xiao Tiancheng’s map and pointed out the stone chamber where he had found the stone essence.
• Chen Lin followed the map toward the Ancient Cultivator Cave Abode with Du Dahai.

Chen Lin and Du Dahai entered the Ancient Cultivator Cave Abode, found it thoroughly explored and apparently abandoned, and decided to use it as a shelter. A damaged diary revealed that the Tianluo Race worshipped a pale-gold giant eye resembling the crimson eye from the Tianxuan Realm, and Chen Lin ended by asking Du Dahai about an unexplored location on the map.

• Chen Lin and Du Dahai found the cave entrance, descended through its concealed stone doors, and closed them to block the Tianluo Race’s watchful presence.
• Chen Lin sent Crow Puppets through the cave’s passages and confirmed that the vast abode had been searched and stripped of valuables.
• Chen Lin chose to stay and cultivate, while Du Dahai warned him that the Tianluo Race could use divine being power to take people even inside a cave abode.
• Du Dahai showed Chen Lin a damaged diary describing the Tianluo Race’s worship of an enormous eye with unfathomable powers.
• Chen Lin saw a drawing of a pale-gold giant eye matching the shape of the crimson eye from the Tianxuan Realm, then asked Du Dahai whether he had explored a location on the map.

Chen Lin and Du Dahai failed to find the Minor Spirit Realm entrance, so they planned to cultivate in the cave residence while Du Dahai considered leaving the Snow Field. Chen Lin discovered a concealed Nightmare Realm node in the courtyard and sent Fat Tiger to investigate it.

• Chen Lin and Du Dahai searched the cave residence for over a month but found no entrance to the Minor Spirit Realm.
• Du Dahai told Chen Lin he hoped to travel east beyond the Snow Field to find a legendary paradise, and the two decided to cultivate in the cave residence for a time.
• Chen Lin realized that faint nightmare qi in the courtyard came from a hidden space between the walls and sealed it with heaven-masking stone.
• Chen Lin summoned Fat Tiger, who confirmed the hidden space contained a Nightmare Realm node and said he would enter to investigate.

Chen Lin discovered that a Nightmare Realm node led to the transformed Minor Spirit Realm and explored it with Du Dahai. After Du Dahai and Fat Tiger entered a second node and failed to return, Chen Lin entered the Minor Spirit Realm himself to investigate.

• Chen Lin sent Fat Tiger through the Nightmare Realm node, then entered the safe scenario with Du Dahai and discovered it was the Minor Spirit Realm.
• Chen Lin found a second node inside the Minor Spirit Realm and warned Du Dahai that its flowers and treasures could cause nightmare transformation and might not be taken outside.
• Chen Lin trained Du Dahai in Nightmare Realm rules, then sent him and Fat Tiger through the second node to explore.
• After three days without their return, Chen Lin failed to summon Fat Tiger and suspected the scenario beyond the node was silver grade or higher.
• Chen Lin sent a Crow Puppet through the node and, after its recording showed no visible trouble, entered the Minor Spirit Realm himself.

Chen Lin encountered a White Goat that tried to transform him and then dragged him into a sheep-filled Nightmare Realm scenario. He found Fat Tiger transformed among the flocks and discovered he could pass through the supposed Formless Barrier, suggesting the scenario might not be Silver.

• Chen Lin spotted a flower missing from the Minor Spirit Realm and realized a Nightmare Realm creature had emerged through the node.
• The White Goat confronted Chen Lin, tried to turn him into a sheep, and declared that he qualified to become a Shepherd before disappearing.
• Chen Lin stepped toward the immortal cave exit and was transported to a grassland filled with flocks of human-faced sheep.
• Chen Lin found Fat Tiger among the yellow sheep, but Fat Tiger did not recognize him and continued grazing.
• Chen Lin tested the Formless Barrier and found he could pass through it, raising hopes that he could summon the Cat-headed Monster to escape.

Chen Lin discovered that the assessment required him to subdue the leaders of the goat flocks and spent two years bringing them under his command. After the last ram submitted, his token became a Shepherd Token and the Snow-White Goat congratulated him.

• Chen Lin found Du Dahai among the black goats and used Soul-Destroying Finger to stop a larger goat from attacking him.
• Chen Lin used his fate talent and the Fortune Accumulation Orb while fighting the Large Black Goat, then subdued him with the Thunder God Sword.
• Chen Lin ordered the Large Black Goat to stop bullying Du Dahai and led the flock away, then subdued another flock leader after waiting for his qi luck to recover.
• Chen Lin realized he had to subdue every flock and spent two years defeating the leaders, including the Purple Leader Ram.
• The token transformed into a Shepherd Token, and the Snow-White Goat congratulated Chen Lin on becoming a Shepherd.

Chen Lin learned that Gege Yun had made him a shepherd in the Nightmare Realm, with a salary of one Nightmare Coin a month and severe fines for any sheep that escaped. After testing his new status and arranging for Fat Tiger to help manage the flock, he left the pasture and returned to the Underground Immortal Cave, thinking of Grass, Hua Ruyu, and the others he had left behind.

• Gege Yun explained Chen Lin's shepherd duties, his freedom to leave the Nightmare Realm, and the penalties for missing sheep before disappearing.
• Chen Lin discovered the Formless Barrier was gone and used his Shepherd Token to learn more about its rules and identity-bound functions.
• Chen Lin confirmed Fat Tiger had regained his memories and appointed him deputy, warning him and the lead sheep to prevent escapes and fights.
• Chen Lin took out the Crow Puppet to scout, then broke the node and returned to the Underground Immortal Cave.
• Chen Lin checked the boxes holding Grass and Hua Ruyu, saw they had not fully recovered, and worried about Luo Qinglan, Qin Lingyu, Princess Qinghua, and the others.

Chen Lin left his secluded cave after reaching Spirit Transformation Peak Stage and fled the snowfields to escape the Tianluo Race’s disappearances. While searching for the Eastern Immortal Realm, he encountered an old cultivator and his two granddaughters stranded in the snow, and refused their plea to take the women with him.

• Chen Lin tested the Shepherd Token, then spent five years cultivating in the cave abode and advanced to Spirit Transformation Peak Stage.
• Chen Lin checked on Fat Tiger, Xiaofang, and Du Dahai in White Cloud Pasture, then left the cave abode after the Tianluo Race’s sacrificial ceremony ended.
• Chen Lin learned at Green Fire Cave that cultivators were still disappearing and decided to leave the snowfields for the Eastern Immortal Realm.
• After months of travel, Chen Lin encountered an old Nascent Soul cultivator and his two Foundation Establishment granddaughters stranded beside a broken Flying Balloon.
• Chen Lin declined to lend them a Flying Balloon or take the granddaughters with him, but offered Bigu Pills; the old man then took out another item.

Chen Lin traveled east with Cheng Lingdie, her sister Cheng Lingchan, and their grandfather, learning Taixu Script as they searched for the legendary Immortal Paradise. After reaching the Snow Field’s boundary and testing the green land beyond with a Crow Puppet, Chen Lin was struck by a sudden sense of danger as black light fell from the sky.

• Chen Lin accepted a beast-skin scroll containing a pill formula written in Taixu Script and learned that Cheng Lingdie knew around three hundred characters.
• Chen Lin agreed to take the family east toward the Immortal Paradise, warning them not to use their powers as they traveled in his Flying Balloon.
• Over more than half a year, Chen Lin studied Taixu Script with Cheng Lingdie while they endured exhaustion, blizzards, and an attack by a Tianluo villager.
• Chen Lin and his companions reached the edge of the Snow Field and saw a lush, flower-filled region beyond it.
• Chen Lin kept Cheng Lingdie beside him, sent a Crow Puppet across the boundary, and found no obvious danger before black light suddenly fell from the sky.

Chen Lin used the Blood God Pill to reach counterfeit Void Refinement strength and killed the hidden attacker, who turned out to be Lu Wanxing, the master of Golden Light Cave. After learning why Lu Wanxing had pursued Cheng Jianshan and his granddaughters, Chen Lin prepared to establish a nearby cave residence, but something in the distance caught their attention.

• A hidden Void Refinement cultivator attacked Chen Lin, forcing him to use the Blood God Pill and fight back with Scholar, the Soul-Destroying Finger, and the Thunder God Sword.
• Chen Lin killed the attacker, confirmed he was dead, and crossed out of the snow field as three Tianluo Race members appeared but did not pursue him.
• Cheng Jianshan told Chen Lin that the dead attacker was Lu Wanxing, the Cave Master of Golden Light Cave, who had selected Cheng Lingdie and Cheng Lingchan as cultivation cauldrons and kept them in the Minor Spirit Realm.
• Chen Lin examined the unconscious sisters but found nothing unusual, then ordered Cheng Jianshan to bring them along while he looked for a place to establish a nearby cave residence.
• Cheng Jianshan stared into the distance, and Chen Lin's expression changed when he followed his gaze.

Chen Lin fought off a tiny plant spirit with the help of Scholar, but a mysterious being using the Seven-Colored Ribbon rescued her and directed him to Mirage Light Mountain. There, the Wood Fairy taught him an innate power secret method and gave him a branch to protect his companions, but he returned to find the Cheng Family members already turning into plants.

• The tiny girl animated the plants and attacked Chen Lin and the Cheng Family, killing their flowers and grasses while badly injuring Cheng Lingdie and Cheng Lingchan.
• Chen Lin used his primordial spirit domain, Five Thunders Smite the Crown, Scholar’s Suppress Talisman, and Soul-Destroying Finger to expose and weaken the tiny girl, then attacked her with the Thunder God Sword.
• A mysterious being used the Seven-Colored Ribbon to stop the Thunder God Sword, rescued the tiny girl, and invited Chen Lin to Mirage Light Mountain.
• Chen Lin reached the enormous Divine Tree and met the Wood Fairy, who recognized him as an outsider and gave him the Innate Power Manipulation Secret Method.
• The Wood Fairy gave Chen Lin a branch that would shield an area from the wood element rules and told him to return to his companions.
• Chen Lin returned and found the three members of the Cheng Family dazed and turning into plants, with shoots growing from Cheng Lingdie and Cheng Lingchan’s heads.

Chen Lin rescued Cheng Jianshan and his granddaughters from the Snow Field’s wood-rule assimilation, then spent half a year mastering the Innate Formula and greatly strengthening the Thunder God Sword. After Cheng Lingdie deciphered the final Taixu character on the Nine Bone Shards, Chen Lin understood the spell recorded there.

• Chen Lin planted the Wood Fairy’s branch, which grew into a tree that dispersed the strange energy and helped Cheng Jianshan, Cheng Lingdie, and her sister recover.
• Chen Lin told the Cheng Family to stay within a thousand feet of the tree and focused on studying the Innate Formula the Wood Fairy had given him.
• After half a year of study, Chen Lin mastered the Innate Formula and used it to refine the Thunder God Sword, increasing its power substantially.
• Chen Lin reasoned that the regions around the Snow Field corresponded to the five elements and might form a powerful formation connected to the Tianluo Race and the Golden Giant Eye.
• Cheng Lingdie explained the final unresolved Taixu character on the Nine Bone Shards, allowing Chen Lin to decipher the spell in full.

Chen Lin studied the Transformation Technique while waiting for Wood Fairy, then learned from Cheng Lingdie that Kannie had invited him to explore a special scenario and shared legends about Luo. He warned Cheng Lingdie that their world was a cage and examined the valuable spoils he had taken from the Cave Master of Golden Light Cave.

• Chen Lin judged the Transformation Technique to be a powerful but impractical spell for him and began memorizing it while continuing his studies and refining the Thunder God Sword.
• Cheng Lingdie awoke and told Chen Lin that Kannie had invited him to explore a special scenario and that legends described Luo's defeat, fragmentation into Tianluo, Youruo, and Asura, and damage to the Nightmare Realm.
• Chen Lin connected the legends to the Golden Giant Eye and Crimson Giant Eye, considered whether Tianluo was sealed or suppressing Wood Fairy, and learned the next Myriad Realms Alliance gathering would be in three months.
• Chen Lin warned Cheng Lingdie to keep the Alliance secret and avoid forming her core because their world was a cage, and she agreed before leaving without learning whether he came from outside.
• Chen Lin removed the imprint from the Cave Master of Golden Light Cave's Storage Bracelet, found herbs, books, and other supplies inside, then inspected the Cave Master's spirit treasures and admired the damaged Spirit-Condensing Grade golden saber.

Chen Lin examined the treasures he had taken from the Cave Master of Golden Light Cave and discovered that the Strange Scroll involved souls and could be activated with Innate Power. Wood Fairy told him to prepare for a dangerous plan, leaving Chen Lin to seek ways to protect himself before asking Cheng Lingdie to bring her younger sister to him.

• Chen Lin examined the broken golden saber, Black Flying Sword, Qingxuan Armor, and Storage Bracelet, then studied the Strange Scroll depicting a bald man with a cauldron and crystal ball.
• Wood Fairy revealed that the Strange Scroll contained a hidden world and activated it, manifesting the bald man's Phantom Image; she explained that the crystal ball was used to extract souls.
• Chen Lin used Innate Power to activate the scroll himself and made the Phantom Image appear again.
• Wood Fairy told Chen Lin to build his Innate Power to its peak and improve his finger technique, then vanished after warning him to await her instructions.
• Chen Lin suspected Wood Fairy planned to attack the Golden Giant Eye, prepared Niuniu's Talisman and Xiaohong's white mushroom as emergency aids, and decided to rely on the Thunder God Sword.
• Chen Lin sent Cheng Lingdie a voice transmission and asked her to bring her younger sister over.

Chen Lin discovered faint purple traces in Cheng Lingdie and Cheng Lingchan's souls and learned their absent mother may have come from an unknown cave. He remained interested in the sisters' souls but refused to cross his moral limits, then finished refining the Golden Light Saber and demonstrated its extraordinary power.

• Chen Lin examined Cheng Lingdie and Cheng Lingchan's souls and found faint purple traces in both, while Cheng Jianshan's soul was normal.
• Cheng Jianshan said the sisters' mother had claimed to be from Yuehua Cave, disappeared after Lingchan's birth, and had never been found; he also asked to search for his other relatives.
• Chen Lin agreed to shelter any relatives Cheng Jianshan found and asked him to draw a portrait of the sisters' mother, while Cheng Jianshan entrusted his granddaughters to Chen Lin if he failed to return.
• Chen Lin considered whether to use the scroll to refine the sisters' souls, but rejected any method that would destroy them and decided to seek safer secret arts.
• Over the next three months, Chen Lin refined the Golden Light Saber and cut through a distant hill, leaving a rift surrounded by persistent golden rule-force particles.

Chen Lin tested his newly usable Spirit Treasures and learned that Cheng Lingdie had found a Gray-White Giant Egg at the Myriad Realms Alliance gathering. He and the sisters agreed that they would cooperate to obtain the purple energy in their souls in exchange for his help and protection, just as Wood Fairy warned him to prepare and the surrounding space began to twist.

• Chen Lin tested the Golden Light Saber, Black Flying Sword, and Qingxuan Armor, then told Cheng Lingchan and Cheng Lingdie that there was still no news of their grandfather.
• Chen Lin caught Cheng Lingchan eavesdropping while Cheng Lingdie entered the Nightmare Realm for the Myriad Realms Alliance gathering, and he reassured her that he would not harm her sister.
• Cheng Lingdie reported that eleven people attended the gathering, including Blue Butterfly and a young man from the Hongshan Realm, and that she bought a Gray-White Giant Egg for twenty Nightmare Coins.
• Cheng Lingdie offered her soul in exchange for Chen Lin sparing her younger sister, and Chen Lin explained the purple energy in the sisters' souls and offered them two choices.
• Cheng Lingdie chose to cooperate with Chen Lin and asked him to keep both sisters by his side if they escaped the realm; Chen Lin agreed to protect them.
• Wood Fairy told Chen Lin to prepare and wait for her instructions as the space around him twisted and a terrifying aura of rules surged into the sky.

Chen Lin helped Wood Fairy’s allies fight the Tianluo Race and discovered that his Soul-Destroying Finger could resist the force erasing him. Wood Fairy then drew him to a trapped Golden Eyeball, and his Thunder God Sword met its Golden Arrow.

• Chen Lin prepared his Thunder God Sword, Soul-Destroying Finger, and supplies while the battle’s growing force shook White Cloud Pasture.
• Chen Lin put Cheng Lingdie and Cheng Lingchan in a Space Bag, then used Soul-Destroying Finger to kill Tianluo fighters at Wood Fairy’s request.
• Wood Fairy warned Chen Lin that his finger technique suppressed Luo’s energy and asked him to recover before the final attack.
• When Luo’s voice began erasing Chen Lin, he used Soul-Destroying Finger on himself to stop the annihilation.
• Wood Fairy transported Chen Lin to a trapped Golden Eyeball, and Chen Lin attacked it before the eyeball fired a Golden Arrow at his Thunder God Sword.

Chen Lin wore down the Golden Giant Eye with the Soul-Destroying Finger while the five elements spirits restrained it and supplied him with pills and treasures. After the Giant Eye dissolved, the spirits opened a passage to send Chen Lin away, and he entered it carrying an earth element rule origin.

• The Golden Giant Eye blocked the Thunder God Sword and prepared to attack Chen Lin, but Wood Fairy's light strands restrained it and urged Chen Lin to keep using the Soul-Destroying Finger.
• Chen Lin repeatedly attacked the Giant Eye and refined pills with a spirit cauldron and top-tier spirit fire supplied by the five elements spirits.
• Wood Fairy gave Chen Lin a drop of water of life to restore him, and he resisted the Giant Eye's offer to reveal secrets of the true cultivation world.
• After another day of attacks, the Golden Giant Eye dissolved into light particles, which the five strands of light seized.
• Wood Fairy opened a spatial vortex to send Chen Lin out, and an aged voice gave him an earth element rule origin before he leaped into the passage.