Chapter Summaries

Chen Lin discovered that a collected rule light particle infiltrated and assimilated talent origins, but he could remove it with his innate power. After testing how different treasures interacted with the particle, he placed it in the Thunder God Sword, which responded faintly.

• Lingyun recruited Chen Lin and other God Favored Ones to collect the light particles and directed them to take the particles to Moon-Gazing City.
• Chen Lin left with Huangfu Qingrou, entered the Divine Snail Shell, and discovered the particle hidden inside his talent origin.
• Chen Lin extracted the particle, sealed it with his innate power, and found that ordinary containers and weapons could not affect it, while rule-infused treasures could interact with it to varying degrees.
• Huangfu Qingrou tried to absorb the particle but could not sense it, so Chen Lin removed it from her talent origin and cleansed the affected portion.
• Chen Lin put the particle into the Thunder God Sword, which gave a faint response.

Chen Lin and Huangfu Qingrou decided to leave the Dark Sea for the Twelfth Pillar Heaven, but the Carefree Token finally activated just as they prepared to depart. Chen Lin saw the trading assembly as a possible way to improve his situation and prepared to enter while taking precautions against Bai Ruxue’s powerful lineage.

• Chen Lin weighed the risks of entering the Light Gate and chose to focus on mastering his Dao art and strengthening himself instead.
• After several years near the Light Gate, Huangfu Qingrou gained an initial grasp of the Transformation Technique, while Chen Lin concluded that the Dark Sea’s weak rules prevented their cultivation from advancing.
• Chen Lin and Huangfu Qingrou ruled out several Pillar Heavens and chose the Twelfth Pillar Heaven as their next destination.
• As they packed to leave, Chen Lin’s Carefree Token began glowing and fluctuating, signaling that the Carefree Assembly was available.
• Chen Lin put Bai Ruxue’s associated items into her ring and told Huangfu Qingrou to wait with it if she could not accompany him to the assembly.

Chen Lin and Huangfu Qingrou entered the Carefree Assembly, paid for language-conversion beads and guides, and surveyed its market and auction arrangements. Chen Lin spotted a member of Bai Ruxue's race and realized he had been right to leave her horn behind; the chapter ended as Huangfu Qingrou pointed something out to him.

• Chen Lin and Huangfu Qingrou entered the Carefree Assembly after Chen Lin secured Bai Ruxue's ring outside the Light Curtain.
• Chen Lin exchanged spirit crystals for Carefree Coins and bought two Language Conversion Beads, learning they worked only inside the Assembly and translated only one way.
• Chen Lin and Huangfu Qingrou bought Introduction Manuals and learned about the Assembly's rules, seven-day schedule, and participant-run auctions.
• Chen Lin spotted a visitor with the same kind of Snow-White Single Horn as Bai Ruxue and was relieved he had left the horn behind.
• Chen Lin and Huangfu Qingrou entered the market, where Huangfu Qingrou suddenly pointed something out to him.

Chen Lin visited a stall at the Carefree Assembly and discovered that Drunken God Brew was a rare delicacy capable of intoxicating divine beings. He left with the wine sealed for auction and an appraisal of his other food, learning how valuable the brew could be.

• Chen Lin recognized the bottles at a stall as Four-Star Luo origin essence and bought all seven for ninety Carefree Coins each after negotiating a small discount.
• At the Exchange Office, the appraiser rejected Chen Lin’s spirit stone, pills, and other offerings, so Chen Lin presented Soul Steamed Buns, Mortal Dust Spirit Dew, and Drunken God Brew for appraisal.
• The appraiser tasted the Soul Steamed Buns and Drunken God Brew, praised both, and explained that Drunken God Brew could intoxicate divine beings and qualified for auction.
• Chen Lin agreed to auction the Drunken God Brew, and the appraiser sealed it in a Sealing Box for him to take to the auction office.
• The appraiser valued each Soul Steamed Bun at one hundred Carefree Coins and the Mortal Dust Spirit Dew at ten Carefree Coins per serving.

Chen Lin exchanged Soul Steamed Buns for Carefree Coins and befriended Mo Lin to learn about the Carefree Assembly’s rare treasures and the route to the Upper Primal Domain. He learned that River of Forgetfulness water had appeared only once at a steep price, while Mo Lin’s description of the Gate of Reality ruled out Chen Lin’s underwater Light Gate as the passage he sought.

• Chen Lin exchanged a hundred Soul Steamed Buns for ten thousand Carefree Coins after the appraiser refused to accept more in one day.
• Chen Lin bought Luo Monster origin essence from Mo Lin, accepted his Identity Pearl, and gave him a steamer of Soul Steamed Buns in exchange for information.
• Chen Lin and Huangfu Qingrou sampled spirit liquid brewed with Carefree Spring water, and Mo Lin explained that River of Forgetfulness water was a rare Netherworld treasure once traded for a damaged Seven Realms Flower.
• Chen Lin told Mo Lin that River of Forgetfulness water might resolve the incompatibility between his body and divine soul, but Mo Lin could offer no guidance.
• Mo Lin said his plane had found clues to a multicolored Gate of Reality leading to the Upper Primal Domain, leaving Chen Lin to conclude that his underwater Light Gate was not that passage.

Chen Lin learned that he needed true origin and a usable Gate of Reality to escape the Lower Primal Domain before Voidification, then searched an exchange space for supplies and information about the Nightmare Realm. The chapter ended with an information seller offering him a Nightmare Realm Medium Object in exchange for three baskets of steamed buns.

• Mo Lin warned Chen Lin that the Lower Primal Domain's Voidification could trap those born in affected planes and urged him to reach the Upper Primal Domain through a Gate of Reality.
• Chen Lin told Huangfu Qingrou that he feared the Thunder God Sword might be part of the Exterminating Sword, but concealed his concern from her.
• Chen Lin failed to exchange more Soul Steamed Buns, registered his Drunken God Brew for auction, and searched the stalls with Huangfu Qingrou.
• Chen Lin could not afford the time sand but bought two Dao-Inquiring Stones and collected several other useful items, including information about the Nightmare Realm.
• Chen Lin questioned Senior Yu about the Nightmare Realm, and Senior Yu offered him a Medium Object with deciphered rules for three baskets of steamed buns.

Chen Lin traded for information about a Nightmare Realm scenario, browsed the Carefree Assembly with Huangfu Qingrou, and met Zhao Lingyi’s sister while buying square inch tea. After several days of trading, a powerful blue-robed man approached him and asked what Xie Jinyuan was to him.

• Chen Lin bargained with an old man for a detailed account of a Nightmare Realm scenario and learned that it contained a great hall with blank paintings and a strange statue.
• Chen Lin concluded that the Nightmare Realm had returned to normal but worried that Gourmet Island, Gambling Fortune Lake, and the Myriad Realms Alliance Scenario might have changed.
• Chen Lin and Huangfu Qingrou browsed the Carefree Assembly, spent most of their Carefree Coins, and failed to find suitable Source Treasures for either of them.
• Chen Lin met Zhao Lingfang at a spirit tea shop, learned she was Zhao Lingyi’s sister, and agreed to pass him her Location Bead if they met again.
• Chen Lin exchanged Soul Steamed Buns for Carefree Coins at half the previous price and continued searching the market over the following days.
• A blue-robed man approached Chen Lin and asked what Xie Jinyuan was to him, but Chen Lin denied knowing that person and wondered whether the stranger was connected to Bai Ruxue.

Chen Lin learned from the Immortal Lord in blue how the Exterminating Sword caused Voidification and damaged the Hongming Immortal Domain. The Immortal Lord connected a Traveling Merchant’s warning to the sword’s possible awakening, then revealed he had stopped Chen Lin because he needed a pill once owned by Xie Jinyuan.

• The man in blue recognized Xie Jinyuan’s Storage Ring and privately questioned Chen Lin about how he had obtained it.
• The Immortal Lord explained that the Exterminating Sword had damaged the Tianxuan Realm, leaving its people Voidified and making it difficult for them to become True Immortals.
• He described how Hongming Ancestor’s Palm Immortal Kingdom escaped the Nightmare Realm after its master was killed, and how the resulting upheaval brought disasters to the Hongming Immortal Domain.
• The Immortal Lord told Chen Lin that leaving the Lower Primal Domain and tempering himself with higher-order laws were necessary to resolve Voidification.
• After Chen Lin mentioned a Traveling Merchant’s prediction that the plane would become fully Voidified in about five hundred years, the Immortal Lord warned that the Exterminating Sword might awaken and harm the Lower Primal Domain.
• The Immortal Lord said he had sought Chen Lin because he needed a certain pill that had belonged to Xie Jinyuan.

At the Carefree Assembly, Chen Lin traded a blue pill from Xie Jinyuan’s Storage Ring to a mysterious Immortal in exchange for information about his body-soul incompatibility. The Immortal pointed him toward the Good Fortune Immortal Lord’s secret method, and Chen Lin left to seek Huangfu Qingrou and visit the Exchange Office.

• Chen Lin gave the man in blue the unusual blue pill from Xie Jinyuan’s Storage Ring, and the man agreed to repay him with information.
• The man in blue explained that endless water came from the river of time and that River of Forgetfulness water was in the Seventh Layer of the Netherworld in the Upper Primal Domain.
• The man described Fake and True Ascension Pills, warning that the method of substituting living beings for the original materials had become an evil practice.
• After Chen Lin confirmed that he sought a cure for body-soul incompatibility caused by body-snatching, the man said a secret method held by the Good Fortune Immortal Lord might resolve it.
• The man in blue warned Chen Lin that the Good Fortune Immortal Lord was greedy and dangerous, then vanished; Chen Lin found Huangfu Qingrou, explained what had happened, and went to the Exchange Office.

Chen Lin appraised and sold several treasures and cultivation manuals to raise Carefree Coins, then entered the Carefree Assembly auction with Huangfu Qingrou. After learning the assembly occupied a powerful spatial treasure and testing how the private Auction Array worked, he settled in to wait for the auction to begin.

• Chen Lin had three ordinary Immortal Artifacts and two weakened varieties of pills appraised and sealed for auction, but kept his immortal spirit stones after learning they were worth only one hundred Carefree Coins each.
• Chen Lin sold several cultivation manuals, including Xiong Ziqi’s false Dao integration method, and earned more than thirty thousand Carefree Coins.
• Chen Lin returned to the Market to gather resources, still needing far more Carefree Coins to forge a shaft for the Dark Red Spearhead.
• Chen Lin and Huangfu Qingrou entered the Auction Hall, where Mo Lin warned them through Soul Transmission that the assembly occupied the Good Fortune Carefree Disk, the Good Fortune Immortal Lord’s Origin Treasure.
• Chen Lin activated and deactivated the Auction Array, discovering that it isolated participants inside illusory private boxes, then brewed tea with Huangfu Qingrou while they waited for the auction.

At the Carefree Assembly, Chen Lin learned the auction rules and watched the first treasures go on sale. He discovered the Thunder Emperor Stone could greatly sharpen his perception of lightning rules, but its owner demanded a lightning-attribute Pseudo-Source Treasure or an equivalent Rule Secret Art, leaving Chen Lin unsure how he could obtain it.

• Yu Qinyao welcomed the participants, explained the auction rules, and announced ten supreme treasures as the assembly’s finale items.
• Chen Lin discussed the long cultivation path with Huangfu Qingrou and agreed that pursuing it with a clear conscience was enough.
• Yu Qinyao auctioned the Illusion Flame Hook, which sold for one hundred thousand Carefree Coins.
• A Winged Man displayed the Thunder Emperor Stone, and Chen Lin found that its fluctuations more than doubled his perception of lightning-attribute rules.
• The Winged Man demanded a lightning-attribute Pseudo-Source Treasure or an equivalent Rule Secret Art for the Thunder Emperor Stone, while Chen Lin concluded he could not part with the items he had that met the requirement.

Chen Lin failed to barter for the Thunder Emperor Stone, then discovered the Myriad Wonders Flute’s powerful illusion and rule-based abilities at the auction. Believing it could protect Huangfu Qingrou, he offered several treasures, a Level 3 Road Guide, and Nightmare Coins to qualify for a trade.

• Chen Lin offered the Winged Man part of the Thunder Dragon Technique, but the man rejected it because it could not be activated with lightning attribute rule force, and their trade failed.
• A one-eyed old man brought out a verdant flute, whose music trapped Chen Lin and Huangfu Qingrou in visions drawn from their pasts before they both awoke.
• The auctioneer identified the treasure as the Myriad Wonders Flute, a superior Pseudo-Source Treasure that could unleash different powers through musical scores corresponding to a user's rule force.
• Chen Lin asked the attendant to submit his listed items, a Level 3 Road Guide, and an unrestricted amount of Nightmare Coins as possible payment for the flute.
• Huangfu Qingrou told Chen Lin she did not need the flute, but Chen Lin insisted that its power could help protect her if danger came.

Chen Lin obtained the Myriad Wonders Flute for Huangfu Qingrou, who began studying the three musical scores recorded in its Inheritance Bead. The auction then revealed a Destiny-Knowing Insect, while Chief Guyuan and his companions used an earlier auction item to try to identify someone in the hall.

• Chen Lin agreed to pay five thousand Nightmare Coins for the Myriad Wonders Flute and received it along with an Inheritance Bead.
• Chen Lin gave the flute and bead to Huangfu Qingrou, who activated the bead and began studying its three profound musical scores.
• Chief Guyuan told two powerful men that Master Wuwang's divination had led him to seek someone at the auction, then offered a patterned bottle to help verify the person's presence.
• After several more trades succeeded, the auctioneer presented a patterned bottle containing a Destiny-Knowing Insect that could release destiny force and alter destiny.

Chen Lin declined to bid on the Destiny-Knowing Insect despite its powerful fate-altering abilities, wary that its appearance was suspiciously convenient for him. After the insect was traded, he arranged for the auctioneer to offer one of his immortal artifacts anonymously.

• Chen Lin sensed a faint fluctuation in his talent origin when the auctioneer revealed the Destiny-Knowing Insect, but concealed his reaction from Huangfu Qingrou.
• The auctioneer explained that the insect could alter destiny, avert certain death, and help make the impossible possible by producing fate threads.
• Chen Lin suppressed his desire to bid, and another participant won the insect after fierce competition.
• A golden-eyed man gave Patriarch Guyuan information about the five final bidders, while warning him about three dangerous contenders.
• A single-horned man told the golden-eyed man that his grandson had stolen a valuable treasure and hidden in the Nightmare Realm before dying.
• Chen Lin declined to conduct his trade in person and asked the auctioneer to offer one of his immortal artifacts according to his submitted terms.

Chen Lin sold an Immortal Sword for Carefree Coins after failing to find anyone able to trade for his requested treasures. He then tried to negotiate for a young alien woman's high-purity time sand, but she insisted on rare time-related payment, leaving the deal unresolved.

• The auctioneer demonstrated the Immortal Sword and announced Chen Lin's requested trade items, but no suitable offers came in.
• Chen Lin agreed to sell the Immortal Sword for at least two hundred thousand Carefree Coins, and it ultimately sold for four hundred and twenty thousand.
• Chen Lin considered using Carefree Coins to restore the Dark Red Spearhead, but recognized that he still needed a skilled Artifact Refiner and might lack time before the assembly ended.
• A young alien woman offered high-purity time sand from an Imperial Time Snail in exchange for a Time-Type Pseudo-Source Treasure.
• Chen Lin asked whether the woman would accept other terms, but she said she would also take time-talent origin essence or a pure Origin Orb, which Chen Lin could not spare.

Chen Lin traded information about Ximen Wuxue for an entire bottle of time sand, then sold two immortal artifacts and continued attending the Carefree Assembly. The second day's auction began under Huang Li, a powerful Dispersed Immortal, while Chen Lin postponed seeking the Good Fortune Immortal Lord's help.

• Chen Lin told a time-talent holder that he knew Ximen Wuxue and negotiated to trade her information and a Location Bead for all of the woman's time sand.
• Chen Lin and the woman signed a No-Lie Contract, then exchanged the time sand for a Jade Slip and Location Bead containing information about Ximen Wuxue.
• Chen Lin's other two immortal artifacts sold for nine hundred thousand Carefree Coins, bringing his total above thirteen hundred thousand.
• Chen Lin inspected a grain of time sand and planned to test whether he could use it after returning home.
• After a day of trading and a short break, Huang Li began the second day's auction, and Chen Lin decided not to seek the Good Fortune Immortal Lord's help yet.

Chen Lin and Huangfu Qingrou watched the auction’s treasures before the Carefree Assembly announced a dangerous expedition through a Gate of Reality, offering Rule Transformation Beads to help participants survive in the Upper Primal Domain. Chen Lin chose not to bid, but learned that the expedition’s mysterious Light Envoy had a reputation for successful missions, leaving him and Huangfu Qingrou uncertain about the opportunity.

• The Red-Clad Woman auctioned a Reincarnation Stone that could preserve memories through reincarnation, and Chen Lin discussed its possible use to resolve the hidden danger in his body with Huangfu Qingrou.
• A majestic man appeared onstage, explained that he had been contaminated while exploring a Gate of Reality, and announced an expedition to a supposedly orderly True Realm in the Upper Primal Domain.
• The man offered one hundred exploration slots and promised successful bidders Rule Transformation Beads that would protect them from the Upper Primal Domain’s reality force for three years.
• Chen Lin decided not to bid despite wanting the beads for his family, and an attendant told him that the man was the Light Envoy, renowned for missions that brought benefits and rarely failed.
• Chen Lin and Huangfu Qingrou questioned why cultivators were bidding so eagerly, while more than five hundred people had already entered bids.

Chen Lin declined to join the Gate of Reality exploration and decided to return to the God Pillar Realm to test whether high-purity time sand could help him make destiny noodles. At the Carefree Assembly auction, he used the Soul-Destroying Finger to suppress the Scarred-Face Woman’s Soul-Devouring Gu and learned that his technique wielded Prison-Suppressing Power.

• Chen Lin rejected bidding for an exploration slot after his talent warned him against the mission, and Huangfu Qingrou agreed that they should not trust the Light Envoy.
• Chen Lin planned to return to the God Pillar Realm and use high-purity time sand to make destiny noodles, keeping the Nightmare Realm and Submarine Light Gate as other options.
• The Scarred-Face Woman offered three mid-grade Pseudo-Source Treasures, including a lightning-attribute treasure, in exchange for something that could help with the Soul-Devouring Gu implanted in her soul.
• Chen Lin invited the Scarred-Face Woman to his private box and offered to try his secret art after learning that Nascent Soul Pills could not help her.
• Chen Lin used the Soul-Destroying Finger, and the Scarred-Face Woman recognized its power as Prison-Suppressing Power and agreed to guide him in adjusting its strength.

Chen Lin exchanged two Pseudo-Source Treasures for a Thunder Emperor Stone and an inheritance on refining Pseudo-Source Treasures, while learning that his Prison-Suppressing Power could mark him as an unusually important target. As the Light Envoy claimed his Drunken God Brew, Chen Lin offered several more pots in hopes of building a connection.

• The Scarred-Face Woman, later identified as Ying Huan, recovered from sensing the Soul-Devouring Gu and gave Chen Lin the lightning Pseudo-Source Treasure, then exchanged the other two for a Thunder Emperor Stone and a Pseudo-Source Treasure inheritance.
• Ying Huan told Chen Lin that Prison-Suppressing Envoys targeted special beings such as Luo and creatures from the Netherworld and Nightmare Realm, but she did not know why; she then left the private room.
• Chen Lin studied the inheritance and learned that he could use it to repair the Dark Red Spearhead as an advanced Pseudo-Source Treasure.
• Huangfu Qingrou told Chen Lin that the people of Snow Eagle were searching for someone with Prison-Suppressing Power, prompting him to suspect the Submarine Light Gate concealed a sealed asura.
• The Light Envoy claimed Chen Lin's Drunken God Brew, and Chen Lin offered to give him several more pots.

Chen Lin received a one-use sword from the Light Envoy at the Carefree Assembly, then returned to the Dark Sea and was confronted by Xiyue, who made him her servant after he gave her Bai Ruxue’s token. He found Huangfu Qingrou safe among a gathering of powerful cultivators, including He Jinlin, and feared He Jinlin might attack him.

• Chen Lin received a tiny sword containing one strike from the Light Envoy and watched the Carefree Assembly auction conclude.
• Chen Lin and Huangfu Qingrou returned to their underwater cave, where Xiyue confronted him and demanded Bai Ruxue’s belongings.
• Chen Lin handed Xiyue Bai Ruxue’s Round Token, and Xiyue spared him but ordered him to become her servant.
• Chen Lin followed Xiyue to the surface and found Huangfu Qingrou safe beside Huangfu Ying among dozens of powerful cultivators.
• Chen Lin recognized He Jinlin, Miao Guanhai, and Zhuo Aolian among the gathered experts and feared He Jinlin would attack him.