Chapter Summaries

Gege Yun defeated Nian Kong's clone and the Demon-Suppressing Scripture, then offered Chen Lin a reward. After learning that the Immortal Realm had shattered and hearing the hidden task for Zhiwu County, Chen Lin asked to be sent to a high-level plane, and Gege Yun took him away.

• Gege Yun knocked aside the Demon-Suppressing Scripture and forced Nian Kong's clone into a sheep's body, then brought Chen Lin and Grass to White Cloud Pasture.
• Gege Yun offered Chen Lin a reward, but told him the Immortal Realm had shattered and could not be reached directly.
• Gege Yun revealed that Zhiwu County's task was to pose as a beggar and ask the Liu Family Steamed Bun Shop for a basket of buns.
• Chen Lin changed his request and asked Gege Yun to send him to a high-level plane with access to ordinary Nightmare Realm scenarios.
• Gege Yun took Chen Lin away, while Grass ordered Fat Tiger to have the sheep teach Nian Kong's clone a lesson.

Chen Lin arrived at Gourmet Island with Gege Yun and learned about its Guardians, entry tasks, and travel rules. After visiting the Music Tavern, he received an Exclusive Teleportation Token that linked Gourmet Island, White Cloud Pasture, and a plane suited to his cultivation.

• Chen Lin arrived at Gourmet Island through the Myriad Realms Conversion Channel and learned that force was forbidden there except in self-defense.
• Gege Yun explained that visitors entering in their true bodies had to prepare a qualifying dish each visit, or pay an increasingly costly Nightmare Coin fee to waive the penalty.
• Gege Yun took Chen Lin to the Music Tavern, where he noticed a bartender who resembled Qiu Mufan and met Feng Sanniang in a private room.
• Gege Yun left the tavern looking displeased, then gave Chen Lin a three-colored Exclusive Teleportation Token.
• Gege Yun explained that the token connected Gourmet Island, White Cloud Pasture, and a high-grade plane suited to Chen Lin's cultivation, with Gourmet Island required as one end of every journey.

Chen Lin explored Gourmet Island after Gege Yun gave him a Teleportation Token and borrowed ten thousand Nightmare Coins from him. He learned that entry to Food Houses required Gourmet Vouchers, bought two one-star vouchers, and ended the chapter sampling an expensive fruit-dew shop with Grass.

• Gege Yun gave Chen Lin a Teleportation Token, borrowed ten thousand Nightmare Coins, and tasked him with obtaining a Level 5 and Above Universal Food Voucher before vanishing.
• Chen Lin tested the token, then explored the market and learned that ingredients were costly and Food Houses required Gourmet Vouchers for entry.
• Chen Lin bought two one-star Universal Food Vouchers and summoned Grass, confirming that she could appear safely in the scenario.
• Chen Lin took Grass to the Stream Fruit Dew Food House and ordered two cups of fruit dew after presenting the vouchers.
• Chen Lin saw that each cup held barely a sip and grimaced at the high price.

Chen Lin and Grass sampled fruit dews on Gourmet Island, then Chen Lin submitted Drunken God Brew to the Gourmet Appraisal House. The three Wine Tasters gave it a three-star rating, and Old Tu confirmed the appraisal before the story left Chen Lin’s reward pending.

• Chen Lin discovered that Yuanli Hundred Fruit Dew stirred his vitality and gave him insight into strengthening his Flesh Origin Essence, while Grass found her own drink mildly revitalizing.
• Chen Lin sampled every variety of fruit dew with Grass, then left the Gourmet House after spending over two hundred Nightmare Coins.
• Chen Lin found the Gourmet Appraisal House and asked Old Tu whether his ready-made Drunken God Brew could be evaluated.
• Dadaini tasted the wine first and awarded it three stars, then the two other Wine Tasters also praised it and gave it the same rating.
• Old Tu confirmed the three-star appraisal, sealed the remaining wine, and placed it in a cabinet.

After earning Three-Star Gourmet status, Chen Lin used his Exclusive Teleportation Token to reach an unknown plane and found a treasure-filled floating island that he chose as a cultivation retreat. He later entered the Myriad Realms Alliance scenario, found years-old marks from Chen Ling'er and the others, and left a new message before returning to reality.

• Chen Lin received an Identity Token, ten thousand points, and three mission-penalty waivers for his Three-Star-rated Drunken God Brew.
• Chen Lin prepared with defensive treasures and his destiny lines, then teleported with Grass to an unknown plane.
• Chen Lin and Grass discovered they had landed on an isolated floating island surrounded by endless void, and Chen Lin confirmed he could still use the Tri-Color Token to return to Gourmet Island.
• Chen Lin found ancient spirit herbs and spirit crystals, decided to use the island as a cultivation retreat, and spent a month building formations and a courtyard.
• Chen Lin entered the Myriad Realms Alliance scenario and found that Chen Ling'er and the others had left no recent marks, so he erased the old traces and left a new contact mark.

Chen Lin met Gu Tianren, learned that the Floating Realm was dangerous and difficult to navigate, then survived a swarm of human-faced mosquitoes and collected their mouthparts. He began descending his Floating Island to seek a safer place, but found that lower levels weakened spiritual energy and powerful techniques.

• Chen Lin checked on Nian Kong and Du Dahai in White Cloud Pasture, then worried about how to replenish his depleted resources.
• Grass alerted Chen Lin to an approaching Floating Island, where Gu Tianren warned him about human-faced mosquitoes and described the Floating Realm’s dangers.
• When the mosquito swarm attacked, Chen Lin protected himself with the Cyan Vine Shield and destroyed the creatures with the Thunder God Sword and Five Thunders Smite the Crown.
• Chen Lin and Grass gathered more than three thousand mosquito mouthparts, then he began guiding his Floating Island downward.
• As Chen Lin descended, he found that the spiritual energy and the realm’s power weakened at lower levels, limiting the strength of techniques that used rule force.

Chen Lin returned to Gourmet Island to escape the poor cultivation conditions on his Floating Island and seek a high-grade Defensive Formation. He learned that a gourmet festival would offer valuable prizes, but failed to find a formation and left with a Two-Star Gourmet Voucher instead.

• After a year of slow cultivation and no sign of other Floating Islands, Chen Lin left Grass to guard the island and traveled to Gourmet Island.
• Chen Lin accidentally dirtied Xue Wa’s veil, gave her and the Black Snail two Nightmare Coins, and warned them not to try to extort him.
• Chen Lin learned that Gourmet Island would hold a gourmet festival in a year, with free one-star gourmet food and valuable competition prizes, and he regretted not saving his Drunken God Brew for it.
• Chen Lin tried to buy ingredients but found prices had nearly doubled, then posted a request for a high-grade Defensive Formation capable of defending against rank seven creatures.
• After two days without finding a seller, Chen Lin discovered that the Management Office had no suitable formation to exchange, so he used his points to obtain a Two-Star Gourmet Voucher.

Chen Lin visited the Great Snowy Mountain Steamed Bun Shop, where the buns briefly enhanced his clarity and cultivation insight, then went to the Stream Fruit Dew Food House to improve his body's vitality. There he encountered the Snow-White Snail, who had taken a job to pay for a Dream Veil he had accidentally dirtied, and the chapter left Chen Lin unsure how to help her.

• Chen Lin exchanged his Two-Star Gourmet Voucher for a meal at the Great Snowy Mountain Steamed Bun Shop and ordered vegetable buns, seafood buns, and wine.
• Chen Lin discovered that the buns briefly sharpened his mind and that meat buns had a stronger effect, while the wine complemented them.
• Chen Lin reconsidered opening his own shop because his Drunken God Brew seemed suited to too few Gourmet Island visitors and was expensive to make.
• Chen Lin entered the Stream Fruit Dew Food House and learned that the Snow-White Snail, now called Xue Wa, worked there because she could not afford to compensate for her dirtied Dream Veil.
• Xue Wa explained that the Dream Veil could not be cleaned, and Sweet Girl called her away before Chen Lin decided what to do.

Chen Lin tried to find a way to enter another cultivation plane, then returned to the Floating Realm and discovered a huge nearby island. He explored the island, Liangtian Continent, and found that its cities offered few resources useful to him.

• Chen Lin paid Xue Wa a hundred Nightmare Coins for her skirt and asked her to gather resources in her plane in exchange for rewards at the next Gourmet Festival.
• At the Management Office, Chen Lin learned that locating a plane without coordinates required the Guardian and cost ten thousand points, so he decided to return to the Floating Realm.
• Xue Wa returned ten Nightmare Coins to Chen Lin, and he gave them back so she could avoid her next task penalty before entrusting her with a resource list.
• Back on his Floating Island, Chen Lin learned from Grass that a massive island was drifting away and caught up with it.
• Chen Lin entered Huangyu City on Liangtian Continent after intimidating its Golden Core guards, then learned the island had seven major powers and many smaller factions.
• After searching several shops, Chen Lin found that most available resources were below the Spirit Transformation level and useless to him.

Chen Lin visited Han Zhenxiao to ask about unusual food and drink, learned of the Yulu Sect, and recruited two elderly cultivators to serve him. He sent Wang Tianlin and Zhang Xuanwang into the Taiqing Mountain Scenario to carry out his task.

• Han Zhenxiao invited Chen Lin to the City Lord Manor and served him spirit wine, which Chen Lin judged too ordinary for his needs.
• Han Zhenxiao told Chen Lin that the Yulu Sect in Yulu City specialized in spirit dew, and Chen Lin left to pursue that lead.
• Chen Lin took Wang Tianlin and Zhang Xuanwang from the city to his Floating Island and made them his subordinates with Soul Pacts.
• Chen Lin used Foundation Establishment Pills to raise Wang Tianlin and Zhang Xuanwang to Foundation Establishment, then explained their mission in the Taiqing Mountain Scenario.
• Chen Lin gave Wang Tianlin and Zhang Xuanwang the remaining Xianji Stones and sent them into the Nightmare Realm.

Chen Lin entered the Nightmare Realm to complete the task of begging for buns from the Liu Family Steamed Bun Shop, only to find it closed. He sent the Old Butler to secure the shop and secretly followed him, discovering that the Old Butler had persuaded Liu Sanniang to leave Liu Village with him.

• Wang Tianlin and his companion returned from the Nightmare Realm after successfully begging for buns, and Chen Lin questioned them about their experience.
• Chen Lin entered the Nightmare Realm and found the Liu Family Steamed Bun Shop closed, so he learned from a neighboring shopkeeper that Liu Sanniang had returned to Liu Village.
• Chen Lin met the Old Butler, heard his account of events in Zhiwu County, and learned that Liu Sanniang had once proposed sharing a life with him.
• Chen Lin ordered the Old Butler to acquire the Liu Family Steamed Bun Shop and secure the exclusive right to its name, approving even if he had to marry Liu Sanniang.
• The Old Butler went to Liu Village, brought Liu Sanniang out of her residence, and left with her on horseback while Chen Lin followed secretly.

Chen Lin secured control of the Liu Family Steamed Bun Shop and discovered its original recipe, which gave his Talent Origin a slight increase. After reading Chen Ling'er’s letter about the Immortal Palace’s imminent departure, he completed his task and left the Nightmare Realm with plans to look for old friends and investigate Li Fuyao’s courtyard.

• Xu Zhengren married Liu Sanniang, bringing the Liu Family Steamed Bun Shop under Chen Lin’s control.
• Chen Lin found the original bun recipe hidden inside the shop’s signboard and felt his Talent Origin increase after gaining insight into destiny.
• Chen Lin promised the newlyweds lifespan-extending medicine and told them to give a basket of buns to a beggar who would soon arrive.
• At Taiqing Mountain, Chen Lin found Chen Ling'er’s letter saying the Immortal Palace would depart in three months with her family and that they could later meet in a Myriad Realms Alliance scenario.
• Chen Lin disguised himself as a beggar, received buns from Liu Sanniang, and completed his task.
• After finding Li Fuyao’s courtyard emptied and its node faint, Chen Lin considered investigating Yun Xiumian’s fate and then disappeared.

Chen Lin visited Yulu City to seek spirit dew recipes and recreate the Liu Household’s steamed buns, but he could not find the key to making them despite a month of experiments. He examined his assistant Chouya, learned her real name and difficult family circumstances, and discovered her poor spiritual aptitude.

• Chen Lin entered Yulu City, found no useful spirit dew recipes, and gathered ordinary ingredients for the steamed buns.
• Chen Lin bought a steamed bun shop and tried making the buns by hand, but his talent ability could not fully reveal their destiny line.
• After a month without progress, Chen Lin paused his experiments and asked Chouya about her identity and family.
• Chouya told Chen Lin that her name was Lin Xianxian and that she had left home to avoid being sold as a slave girl.
• Chen Lin examined Chouya’s spiritual roots and found that her mixed aptitude was exceptionally poor.

Chen Lin accepted Chouya, whose real name was Lin Xianxian, as his disciple and discovered that charitable acts helped him repair a destiny line tied to the Liu Family Steamed Bun Shop's Soul Steamed Buns. After conditioning her body and giving her an ice cultivation technique, he left Ruyi Island for Yulu City as the Gourmet Festival approached.

• Chen Lin found that Chouya had weak Five Elemental Spiritual Roots and accepted her as his disciple after she begged for a chance to cultivate.
• Chen Lin and Lin Xianxian gave free steamed buns to poor people for four months, helping him reveal and partly repair a gap in his destiny line.
• Chen Lin tasted a Soul Steamed Bun and discovered it purified the soul and expelled inner demons, while Lin Xianxian asked to visit home.
• Chen Lin took Lin Xianxian to Xiaolin Village, then brought her to his floating island and named it Ruyi Island.
• Chen Lin spent three months cleansing Lin Xianxian's meridians and refining her marrow, then gave her an ice cultivation technique to practice.
• As the Gourmet Festival on Gourmet Island approached, Chen Lin returned to the Liangtian Continent and arrived in Yulu City.

Chen Lin visited Yulu Sect leader Yuan Xi to trade for a spirit dew recipe and learned about the Floating Realm’s dangers and travel methods. Yuan Xi offered to consider trading the sect’s prized Mortal Dust Spirit Dew recipe for valuable pills or pill formulas, but no agreement was reached before the chapter ended.

• Chen Lin arrived at Yulu City, met Yuan Xi, and accepted her invitation to visit the Yulu Sect.
• Chen Lin asked to trade for spirit dew recipes and told Yuan Xi that he planned to use one in the Nightmare Realm.
• Yuan Xi explained the Floating Realm’s dangerous upper layers and how mandarin duck stones helped locate distant islands.
• Chen Lin tasted eight spirit dews and said none met his needs, which centered on flavor rather than cultivation benefits.
• Yuan Xi offered to trade the Mortal Dust Spirit Dew recipe for something of equivalent value, though the sect had no finished product for Chen Lin to sample.
• Chen Lin offered pill formulas and high-grade pills, and Yuan Xi asked him to specify what he could provide.

After returning to Ruyi Island, Chen Lin examined a void beast slain by Grass and discovered that it carried beads that devoured souls. In the Nightmare Realm, he met Blue Butterfly and agreed to trade information about the Spirit Demon Realm for her Origin Orb, though he concealed that the scenario leading there required a Silver Road Guide.

• Chen Lin returned to Ruyi Island, gave Chouya cultivation pills, and learned that Grass had killed a void beast.
• Chen Lin found twelve soul-devouring beads inside the beast's tentacles and took them for later study.
• Chen Lin entered the Nightmare Realm and met Blue Butterfly, who wanted access to a plane containing demonic qi.
• Chen Lin described the Spirit Demon Realm and its Spirit-Demon Dual Cultivation techniques, and Blue Butterfly offered him an Origin Orb.
• Chen Lin agreed to let Blue Butterfly use the scenario to pinpoint the Spirit Demon Realm's location, warning her it was dangerous while withholding that it was a Silver Scenario.

Chen Lin tricked Blue Butterfly into trading him the Origin Orb for a token connected to a Silver Scenario she could not enter. After Blue Butterfly realized she had lost both the Orb and her chance to reach a plane containing demonic qi, Chen Lin suggested she try entering through a node outside Central City.

• Blue Butterfly asked Chen Lin to trade his Medium Object for the Origin Orb, and he agreed to explain the Bluestone Street scenario while concealing that it was Silver Grade.
• Blue Butterfly signed a Nightmare Realm Contract, returned with her true body, and gave Chen Lin the Origin Orb in exchange for the Pass Token.
• Blue Butterfly failed to enter the scenario and discovered that her Temporary Level 4 Road Guide could not access a Silver Scenario.
• Chen Lin denied deliberately deceiving Blue Butterfly, but she accused him of knowing the scenario's grade and demanded the Origin Orb back.
• Blue Butterfly broke down crying over losing the Origin Orb and her chance to reach a plane containing demonic qi.
• Chen Lin refused to return the Orb but suggested Blue Butterfly try entering the scenario through a node outside Central City.

Chen Lin used Soul Steamed Buns to suppress Blue Butterfly’s demonic affliction and traded her the remaining buns for the Medium Object that led to a scenario containing Origin Orbs. After Blue Butterfly escaped just before her Temporary Road Guide expired, Chen Lin realized the Black Staff resembled an enormous finger and was approached by someone who called him Brother Chen.

• Chen Lin offered Blue Butterfly a node near Central City and a deal to make Soul Steamed Buns that could suppress her condition.
• Blue Butterfly returned with Reality Realm ingredients and supplies, and Chen Lin spent nearly an hour making the buns while her Temporary Road Guide ran low.
• Blue Butterfly ate a bun, and her chaotic energy settled as the bun suppressed the effects of an ancient demon’s residual thought.
• Chen Lin demanded the method for obtaining Origin Orbs, and Blue Butterfly gave him a Black Staff Medium Object in exchange for the remaining buns under a Nightmare Realm Contract.
• Blue Butterfly used her Temporary Road Guide to leave just before it expired, and Chen Lin recognized that the Black Staff looked like a huge finger.
• A figure appeared and asked Chen Lin what he was studying.

Chen Lin learned from Kannie that Chen Ling'er and Xue Honglan had left the Tiancang Realm safely, while Xiong Ziqi had disappeared after entering the Nightmare Realm. Back on Ruyi Island, Chen Lin absorbed an Origin Orb, inspected the Black Finger, and recruited ten cultivators, taking Shi Jian as his third disciple and binding the other nine with Soul Pacts.

• Chen Lin met Kannie, learned that Chen Ling'er and Xue Honglan had left the Tiancang Realm safely, and heard that Xiong Ziqi had never returned after using the Mushroom Medium.
• Chen Lin told Kannie about Gourmet Island and promised to bring her an Exclusive Teleportation Token, then returned to the Reality Realm when Blue Butterfly did not appear.
• Chen Lin verified and absorbed the Origin Orb, strengthening his talent origin, then examined the Black Finger and stored it in a special box.
• Chen Lin brought ten cultivators back from the Liangtian Continent and had nine sign Soul Pacts.
• Chen Lin took Shi Jian as his third disciple after recalling how the young man had risked his life to protect his companions, then sent him with Wang Tianlin to learn Ruyi Island's rules.

Chen Lin prepared cultivators to explore the Nightmare Realm, but the first three died after entering the Black Finger Scenario. He then met Liu Shengyuan, learned what had happened in the Tiancang Realm, and asked Xue Honglan to meet him.

• Chen Lin warned nine cultivators about the Nightmare Realm and gave them Soul Refining Pills to strengthen their souls before exploration.
• Three months later, Chen Lin sent Han Xishan, Zhang Zhengli, and Fu Chunxiang into the Black Finger Scenario, and all three died within hours.
• Chen Lin postponed sending the remaining cultivators, ordered them to keep refining pills, and asked Wang Tianlin to test their endurance in the Myriad Realms Alliance Scenario.
• Wang Tianlin reported that Liu Shengyuan had appeared in the scenario, so Chen Lin entered and learned that Liu Shengyuan and Wu Wanshan had been guarding the node for over a hundred years.
• Chen Lin released Liu Shengyuan and Wu Wanshan from their duty, but Liu Shengyuan chose to remain and help guard the node.
• Chen Lin learned that Xue Honglan had become the Yucai Sect's sect master and reached the Spirit Transformation Realm, while Dong Yunqiu had become its great elder, and he summoned Xue Honglan to meet him.