Chapter Summaries

Lin Shen discovered that the temple-covered planet was a different version of Mystic God Star, where his card protected him at night but no Immortal Courtyard Gate appeared. After Little Stars recalled how Ancient World King had summoned a gate, Lin Shen began Shi Zhongqing’s inspection task by checking the temples for missing ghost gods.

• Lin Shen recognized the planet as Divine Temple Star and found that its temples contained ghost-god statues hanging from the rafters.
• At night, Lin Shen’s card enveloped him in immortal radiance, but neither the Immortal Courtyard nor the Jade Steps appeared.
• Lin Shen released Little Stars, which identified the place as the Mystic God Star Ancient World King had visited and described how he summoned an Immortal Courtyard Gate with a burning slip of paper.
• Lin Shen decided to follow the Work Task Guide and inspect temples for ghost gods that were missing.
• Lin Shen checked a Mountain God Temple from outside and saw that its statues were glowing.

Lin Shen investigated the temples and encountered a woman speaking from the dark Eastern Emperor Temple, who believed he was someone who had promised to return. She revealed that she was trapped and eventually identified him as the Ancient World King, leaving Lin Shen shocked and uncertain about the temple’s connection to the different Immortal Courtyards.

• Lin Shen examined the glowing temples and found the dark, ruined Eastern Emperor Temple, whose plaque bore only half its name.
• A woman inside the temple called to Lin Shen as if he had returned after a long absence, and the hall doors opened.
• The woman said she had waited for him, promised him a reward, and explained that her knowledge came from the Ancient Immortal Courtyard before the modern one was rebuilt.
• Lin Shen considered whether one of the Immortal Courtyards he had visited was the Ancient Immortal Courtyard and remained unsure how the different places fit together.
• The woman accused Lin Shen of staying silent and called him the Ancient World King, shocking him.

Lin Shen concluded that the woman in the Eastern Emperor Temple had mistaken him for the Ancient World King because he cultivated the Ageless Sutra, and he pieced together her likely identity as a high-ranking Star God Official who had once helped the king. The woman's curses then made Lin Shen freeze when she accused the Ancient World King of refining his own daughter into a pet.

• Lin Shen reasoned that the Ageless Sutra was the likeliest reason the woman sensed the Ancient World King in him.
• The woman angrily reminded the Ancient World King that she had saved him, helped him enter the Immortal Courtyard, and secured great fortune for him.
• Lin Shen inferred that the woman was likely a Star Mansion Pavilion Master who had helped the Ancient World King escape the Star God Palace and pass through the immortal gate.
• Lin Shen speculated that she might have been the South Region's former Great God Official, but he lacked the information to confirm it.
• The woman began cursing the Ancient World King and accused him of refining his own daughter into a pet, leaving Lin Shen frozen.

Lin Shen listened as a woman revealed why the Theory of Evolution he cultivated could never be complete: it had been devised to turn intelligent lifeforms into flesh-and-blood beings, an impossible premise. Her explanation left Lin Shen wondering whether his own limitless evolution could ultimately transform him into something like an intelligent brain.

• Lin Shen wondered whether Xiao Ye and Xiao Na were Ancient World King's daughters and why they had been turned into pets, but the woman offered no answers.
• The woman realized that Gu Zhi had discovered the Theory of Evolution she gave him was wrong, then went silent until Lin Shen asked why.
• The woman explained that the copy she made had been incomplete, and that no complete Theory of Evolution existed.
• The woman said six Emperor-class intelligent brains had failed to derive a way for intelligent lifeforms to evolve into flesh-and-blood beings because the premise was impossible.
• Lin Shen recognized that the woman was describing the same Theory of Evolution he cultivated and wondered whether infinite evolution could turn him into an intelligent brain.

Lin Shen learned that the woman’s account of the Theory of Evolution contradicted the version he cultivated, leaving him unsure how he had mastered a supposedly erroneous art. The woman then revealed that Lin Shen’s Ageless Sutra also had a problem and threatened that he would die unless he rescued her.

• Lin Shen wondered whether his Theory of Evolution and Third Brother’s talisman were connected to Ancient World King’s treasures.
• The woman explained that she cultivated the Ageless Sutra and mistook Lin Shen for Ancient World King, then criticized his cultivation of the Theory of Evolution.
• Lin Shen persuaded the woman to recite the Theory of Evolution and found that her supposedly patched version matched the one he had learned.
• The woman recited the original version deduced by the Great Emperor Smart Brains, deepening Lin Shen’s confusion about how he had cultivated his version.
• The woman revealed that Lin Shen’s Ageless Sutra had problems and said he would die unless he rescued her.

Lin Shen learned that the Ageless Sutra was a cultivation art for women and could eventually transform male cultivators into women and kill them. The woman offered to reveal a way to prevent this if he freed her, but Lin Shen distrusted her and asked about Stepping Immortal Courtyard.

• The woman told Lin Shen that men who cultivated the Ageless Sutra would gradually become women and die, and said Chang'e had taught her about the art.
• She revealed that Chang'e was still alive as a true immortal and that the nearby ruined temple belonged to her.
• The woman recited the Ageless Sutra, and Lin Shen confirmed it was identical to the version he had learned from the Ancient World King.
• The woman demanded that Lin Shen free her in exchange for the method to stop the transformation, but Lin Shen refused to agree without learning more.
• Lin Shen asked the woman whether she remembered Stepping Immortal Courtyard.

Lin Shen questioned whether Ancient World King's Stepping Immortal Courtyard had hidden flaws, then accidentally revealed to the imprisoned woman that he was not Ancient World King. After she attacked him, he claimed he could help her escape, and learned that Xiao Ye and Xiao Na's jade bottle and gourd were Ancient World King's treasured artifacts.

• Lin Shen examined Stepping Immortal Courtyard and concluded it was probably an art Ancient World King had acquired or created later.
• The woman grew suspicious when Lin Shen said he could no longer help her escape and realized he was not Ancient World King.
• The woman trapped Lin Shen with her spirit body and crushed his defenses, stopping when he promised he could help her escape.
• The woman identified the Mutton Fat Jade Purifying Bottle and Purple Gold Red Gourd as treasures tied to Ancient World King's life and fortune.
• Lin Shen realized Xiao Ye and Xiao Na possessed Ancient World King's treasures and regretted failing to recognize their value.

Lin Shen learned that the Mutton Fat Jade Purifying Bottle and Purple Gold Red Gourd were Great Emperor Divine Artifacts, while the woman explained how the Ancient World King had stolen them. She left him with a way to cooperate, but her account ended with the Ancient World King capturing both wounded Great God Officials.

• Lin Shen asked the woman about the Chaos Small Bell and the Great Emperor Divine Artifacts, then explained how he had found the treasure chests and obtained his inheritance and pets.
• The woman said Lin Shen would die without her method because he had cultivated the Ageless Sutra, and she identified Xiao Ye and Xiao Na as Ancient's daughters, transformed into pets to conceal the artifacts.
• The woman explained that Great Emperor Divine Artifacts were supreme weapons granted by Great Emperor Smart Brains and that each Great Emperor possessed one.
• The woman revealed that she had been the Great God Official of the South Heavenly Star God Palace and had received the Mutton Fat Jade Purifying Bottle from the Antarctic Chang Sheng Great Emperor.
• The woman recounted how the Ancient World King was trapped in her jade bottle, profited from a clash between two Great God Officials, seized both Great Emperor Divine Artifacts, and captured the two officials.

Lin Shen learned that Xiao Ye and Xiao Na were reincarnated alongside the Great Emperor Gourd and Great Emperor Jade Bottle, and Huai Nanxing demanded the Chaos Small Bell from them. The sisters denied having it and fought off Huai Nanxing’s attack, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Huai Nanxing explained that the Ancient World King had made Mu Xue’s daughters and two Great Emperor Divine Artifacts into symbiotic Deformed Species to hide the artifacts from the Great Emperor Smart Brain.
• Lin Shen summoned Xiao Ye and Xiao Na after Huai Nanxing promised to let him leave, and their artifacts blocked her dreamlike radiance.
• Xiao Ye recognized Huai Nanxing as Aunt Nan Xing, while Huai Nanxing asked the sisters for the Chaos Small Bell.
• Xiao Ye and Xiao Na denied possessing the Chaos Small Bell, but Huai Nanxing attacked them, and they used the jade bottle and gourd to resist her power.

Huai Nanxing explained that Gu Zhi had made Lin Shen and the Great Emperor Divine Artifacts reincarnate together, lowering their ranks and binding their growth. She attacked Xiao Ye and Xiao Na with Divine Firmament Lightning, and as the jade bottle and gourd struggled to hold it back, Xiao Ye asked Lin Shen to buy time to retrieve the One Leaf Boat.

• Huai Nanxing revealed that Gu Zhi had arranged for Lin Shen and the Great Emperor Divine Artifacts to reincarnate together, making them grow in a symbiotic relationship.
• Xiao Ye used the jade bottle to absorb Huai Nanxing's shifting colors, but Huai Nanxing summoned a sea of liquid Divine Firmament Lightning.
• Xiao Na and Xiao Ye used the Porcelain Gourd and jade bottle to absorb the lightning while Lin Shen dodged the bombardment.
• Xiao Ye warned that their Lower Rank artifacts could not withstand the lightning for long and said the One Leaf Boat inside the jade bottle might let them escape.
• Xiao Ye asked Lin Shen to buy time so she could retrieve the One Leaf Boat, but Lin Shen said he could not withstand the lightning.

Lin Shen faced conflicting advice from Xiao Ye and the Purple Nether Butterfly Woman about how to deal with Huai Nanxing. After learning that both sides might be plotting against him, he was tempted by the Purple Nether Butterfly Woman’s offer to help him claim the Great Emperor Divine Artifacts.

• Xiao Ye asked Lin Shen to use Fingertip Sand to distract Huai Nanxing while she and Xiao Na prepared the One Leaf Boat, claiming the spot between Huai Nanxing’s eyebrows was a weak point.
• The Purple Nether Butterfly Woman warned Lin Shen that the spot was actually where Huai Nanxing nurtured Nine Heavens Divine Thunder and accused Xiao Ye of trying to use him to subdue Huai Nanxing.
• Lin Shen asked Xiao Ye whether she knew Divine Firmament Lightning, and her changed expression revealed that she had concealed her intention to capture Huai Nanxing.
• Xiao Ye admitted that she wanted to subdue Huai Nanxing, while the Purple Nether Butterfly Woman urged Lin Shen not to trust her.
• The Purple Nether Butterfly Woman offered to use the Netherworld Marriage Great Technique to make the two Great Emperor Divine Artifacts Lin Shen’s, provided he smeared his blood on Xiao Ye, Xiao Na, and the artifacts.

Lin Shen weighed Xiao Ye and Xiao Na’s offer against the Purple Nether Butterfly Woman’s warning while considering how to claim the Great Emperor Divine Artifacts. He discovered that he could not learn the Netherworld Marriage Great Technique quickly and began planning how to make the twins cooperate with the Purple Nether Butterfly Woman’s ritual.

• The Purple Nether Butterfly Woman explained that she would help Lin Shen because she feared the Chaos Small Bell falling into Xiao Ye and Xiao Na’s hands, and she offered to teach him the Netherworld Marriage Great Technique.
• Lin Shen refused to let the Purple Nether Butterfly Woman perform the technique and began memorizing it, while Xiao Na demanded that he decide whether to cooperate with them.
• Xiao Ye explained that Lin Shen had named them after Catherine and reminded him that she and Xiao Na had treated his injuries with a Humiliation Enduring Life Stealing Agent in the Resting Tree Forest.
• The Purple Nether Butterfly Woman warned Lin Shen that Xiao Ye and Xiao Na would not let him live once they obtained the Great Emperor Divine Artifacts, but Lin Shen asked her to repeat the technique and considered her warning.
• Lin Shen realized the Netherworld Marriage Great Technique required abandoning his current divine skill and cultivating it from scratch, so the Purple Nether Butterfly Woman advised him to pretend to cooperate and demand a blood oath from the twins.

Lin Shen demanded that Xiao Ye and Xiao Na swear a Blood Oath before he would cooperate against Huai Nanxing. He left them repeating his extraordinarily long oath, with their blood smeared on themselves and the Great Emperor Divine Artifacts.

• Xiao Na demanded that Lin Shen stop waiting, while Lin Shen said their earlier concealment had destroyed his trust.
• Lin Shen proposed a Blood Oath, and Xiao Ye and Xiao Na agreed because they needed to prevent Huai Nanxing from revealing their Great Emperor Divine Artifacts.
• Lin Shen asked them to smear blood on the jade bottle and gourd, and Xiao Ye and Xiao Na complied.
• Xiao Ye told Lin Shen that she trusted him, making him feel awkward, while Xiao Na grumbled but joined the oath.
• Lin Shen recited an oath of more than three thousand words, and Xiao Ye and Xiao Na repeated it from memory.

Xiao Ye and Xiao Na attacked Huai Nanxing with their Great Emperor Divine Artifacts, and Xiao Na’s Red Gourd refined Huai Nanxing’s divine soul into an immortal pill. Huai Nanxing countered with a mirrored Red Gourd, leaving the fighters in a stalemate as Lin Shen seized his chance to attack.

• Xiao Ye and Xiao Na unleashed lightning from their Great Emperor Divine Artifacts, but Huai Nanxing absorbed their attacks with a Lightning True Talisman.
• Xiao Na transformed the Great Emperor Gourd into a Red Gourd and sucked in Huai Nanxing’s divine soul and Lightning True Talisman.
• Xiao Na received an immortal pill from the Red Gourd, swallowed it, and gained control over the Divine Firmament Lightning.
• Huai Nanxing used a Cloud Pattern Ancient Mirror to create a Red Gourd that clashed with Xiao Na’s, shattering space-time around them.
• Xiao Ye supported Xiao Na with the Jade Purification Bottle, and Lin Shen attacked Huai Nanxing’s divine soul with Fingertip Sand.

Lin Shen’s Fingertip Sand pierced Huai Nanxing’s Divine Firmament Courtyard, letting Xiao Na trap her in the Red Gourd while Xiao Ye melted away the temple with the Jade Purification Bottle. After the sisters recovered their Pet Keys from Lin Shen, Xiao Ye turned the bottle’s Spring Light against him, leaving Xiao Na questioning her sister’s sudden ruthlessness.

• Lin Shen’s Fingertip Sand pierced Huai Nanxing’s Divine Firmament Courtyard, causing her lightning to leak out and disrupting her control of the Red Gourd.
• Xiao Na used the Red Gourd to swallow Huai Nanxing’s divine soul and the ancient mirror, while Xiao Ye’s Jade Purification Bottle melted the ruined temple and exposed Huai Nanxing.
• Xiao Ye poured Spring Light over Huai Nanxing, weakening her as Lin Shen noticed a black chain fastened to her ankle.
• Xiao Ye ordered Xiao Na to use the Inverted Heavenly Dipper Technique, which drew the two Pet Keys out of Lin Shen and returned them to the sisters.
• Xiao Ye directed the Jade Purification Bottle’s Spring Light at Lin Shen, who pretended to collapse, while Xiao Na asked why they needed to hurt him after regaining their freedom.

As Xiao Ye prepared to kill the burning Lin Shen, Purple Nether Butterfly Woman persuaded him to use the flawed Netherworld Marriage Great Technique, claiming it would give him control of the Chaos Small Bell and save him. Lin Shen completed her instructions, allowing her to unleash her power and attempt to seize the bell and the two Great Emperor Divine Artifacts for herself.

• Xiao Ye argued that Lin Shen was too dangerous to spare, while Xiao Na hesitated to accept that he had to die.
• Lin Shen asked Purple Nether Butterfly Woman for help, and she explained that the Chaos Small Bell shielded her from Xiao Ye and Xiao Na's detection.
• Purple Nether Butterfly Woman convinced Lin Shen that using himself as a medium for the Netherworld Marriage Great Technique would make him the Chaos Small Bell's true master.
• Purple Nether Butterfly Woman secretly revealed that she had given Lin Shen a flawed version of the technique and planned to take the Chaos Small Bell and the two Great Emperor Divine Artifacts for herself.
• Lin Shen fulfilled the final condition, and Purple Nether Butterfly Woman unleashed her power to subdue the bell, escape her confinement, and seize the artifacts.

Lin Shen secretly used the flawed Netherworld Marriage Great Technique Purple Nether Butterfly Woman taught him to form a bond with the Chaos Small Bell and take control of the Great Emperor Divine Artifact. With Purple Nether Butterfly Woman suppressed, he turned to seize the Red Gourd and Jade Purification Bottle as they reached critical stages.

• Purple Nether Butterfly Woman tried to claim the Chaos Small Bell, but it would not respond to her.
• Lin Shen revealed that he had learned the flawed Netherworld Marriage Great Technique from Purple Nether Butterfly Woman and had secretly used it to bond with the bell.
• The Chaos Small Bell accepted Lin Shen, sent its information into his consciousness, and came under his control.
• Lin Shen suppressed Purple Nether Butterfly Woman inside the Chaos Small Bell.
• As Xiao Na refined divine souls and artifacts and Xiao Ye neared the end of suppressing and purifying Huai Nanxing, Lin Shen used the Netherworld Marriage Great Technique on them, the Red Gourd, and the Jade Purification Bottle.

Xiao Ye used the Jade Purification Bottle to overwhelm Huai Nanxing, but Huai Nanxing’s divine soul nearly killed her before collapsing. Just as Xiao Ye prepared to finish Huai Nanxing, red light began enveloping both the Jade Purification Bottle and Xiao Na’s Red Gourd, leaving the source of the interference unknown.

• Xiao Ye struggled to purify Huai Nanxing as Huai Nanxing’s lightning fought the Jade Purification Bottle’s Spring Light inside her body.
• Huai Nanxing summoned her divine soul to attack Xiao Ye, and Xiao Ye burned her blood to strengthen the Jade Purification Bottle.
• Xiao Na tried to help Xiao Ye, but Huai Nanxing’s divine soul shattered her attack and nearly struck Xiao Ye before collapsing into liquid lightning.
• Xiao Ye moved to finish Huai Nanxing, but red light enveloped the Jade Purification Bottle and Xiao Na’s Red Gourd.
• Xiao Ye suspected Huai Nanxing was responsible, though Huai Nanxing was barely alive.

Lin Shen seized the Jade Purification Bottle and Red Gourd, then used the bottle to attack Xiao Ye and Xiao Na. After discovering that harming the sisters also damaged the artifacts, he considered their offer to cooperate, but ended the chapter by revealing the Chaos Small Bell.

• Lin Shen woke unharmed, took control of the Jade Purification Bottle and Red Gourd, and halted the bottle’s attack on Huai Nanxing.
• Lin Shen activated the Jade Purification Bottle against Xiao Ye and Xiao Na, but stopped when the sisters’ injuries caused both artifacts to corrode.
• Xiao Ye offered to cooperate and claimed the sisters’ fate was bound to the Great Emperor Divine Artifacts, while Lin Shen demanded the Ancient World King’s treasures.
• Lin Shen revealed the Chaos Small Bell, shocking Xiao Ye.

Lin Shen trapped Xiao Ye and Xiao Na in the Chaos Small Bell, learned that Secret Words could reveal hidden functions of Great Emperor Divine Artifacts, and killed Huai Nanxing after refusing her bargain. As he prepared to force Xiao Na to reveal how to use the artifacts, she claimed that he was her and Xiao Ye’s real father.

• Lin Shen used the Chaos Small Bell to trap Xiao Ye and Xiao Na, then restrained Xiao Ye with tightening rings of sound.
• Huai Nanxing offered to teach Lin Shen how to use the Great Emperor Gourd and revealed Secret Words that activated the Chaos Small Bell’s Chaos Divine Light.
• Lin Shen refused to free Huai Nanxing before she told him the gourd’s Secret Words, then used Secret Words for the Jade Purification Bottle to kill her.
• Lin Shen let Xiao Na see Xiao Ye as he planned to use her sister’s life to force her to reveal the artifacts’ methods.
• Xiao Na cried out that Lin Shen was her and Xiao Ye’s real father, stunning him.