Chapter Summaries

Chen Zhi realized he had been reincarnated in the womb as Chen Zhixing, a doomed villain from a cultivation game, and feared he would be killed to start the protagonist’s story. After drawing max-level Heaven-Defying Comprehension, he transformed the Chen Family’s cultivation art into a superior scripture that could give him an Innate Chaos Dao Body before birth.

• Chen Zhi woke in the womb and learned that his father was Chen Tianliang and his mother hoped he would be born healthy.
• Chen Zhi recognized the Chen Family and his future identity as Chen Zhixing, a villain destined to die at the start of every game storyline.
• Chen Zhi considered avoiding the protagonist or cultivating to defeat him, but believed his character’s poor comprehension made both plans impossible.
• Chen Zhi heard his mother recite the Chen Family’s Chaos Origin True Scripture and initially gave up on learning it.
• Chen Zhi received max-level Heaven-Defying Comprehension and derived the higher-grade Innate Chaos Great Dao Scripture, which could grant him an Innate Chaos Dao Body while he was still in the womb.

Chen Zhi cultivated in the womb, steadily opening his blocked meridians and strengthening his spiritual power as Chen Tianliang risked himself to bring Ying Shuangshuang treasures. When Chen Tianliang announced he planned to enter the South Sea Ancient Secret Realm for his unborn child, Chen Zhi recognized it as a deadly fiendish land.

• Chen Zhi cultivated the Innate Chaos Great Dao Scripture for a month, gradually opening his meridians and extending his waking hours.
• Chen Tianliang and Ying Shuangshuang tried to be intimate, but Chen Zhi kicked and punched from inside the womb until Ying Shuangshuang sent Chen Tianliang away.
• Over the next two months, Chen Zhi opened more meridians and gained the ability to sense things within ten meters by projecting his spiritual power.
• Chen Tianliang stole a Fire God Grass from Chen Tianchen, who left furious after Chen Tianliang praised his sharp eye for people.
• Chen Tianliang gave the Fire God Grass to Ying Shuangshuang and said he would enter the South Sea Ancient Secret Realm to seek Foundation Establishment Divine Items for their child.
• Chen Zhi recognized the South Sea Ancient Secret Realm as a deadly fiendish land from the Ancient Era.

Chen Zhi learned that his father, Chen Tianliang, was destined to be crippled in an Ancient Secret Realm and resolved to change that fate. Before the realm opened, Chen Zhi was born with an Innate Mixed Origin Great Dao Body and promptly slapped his father.

• Chen Zhi remembered that Chen Tianliang's future injury would ruin his cultivation and help drive Chen Zhixing toward tragedy.
• Chen Zhi overheard Chen Tianliang and Ying Shuangshuang discuss the newly discovered Ancient Secret Realm and learned it would not open for more than half a year.
• Chen Zhi broke through the blockage at his Tong Tian Acupoint, obtained the Innate Mixed Origin Great Dao Body, and transformed his spiritual energy into Primal Chaos Power.
• Two months later, Chen Zhi left Ying Shuangshuang's womb and was born weighing seven jin and nine liang.
• Chen Tianliang took Chen Zhi in his arms and joked that the baby resembled him, and Chen Zhi slapped his face.

Chen Zhixing accepted that he was destined to become the villain Chen Zhixing and began planning a cultivation method while secretly learning about the world’s cultivation system. His family’s tense hierarchy came into focus when Chen Daoyan arrived with Chen Tianxiong and the sacred child Chen Zhaosheng, then turned his attention to assessing Chen Zhixing’s talent.

• Chen Tianliang proposed naming his newborn Chen Dameng, but Ying Shuangshuang suggested Chen Zhixing, and Chen Tianliang agreed.
• Over the next month, Chen Zhixing listened to his parents discuss cultivation and resolved to create a method suited to his unusually powerful spiritual sense.
• A servant announced that Chen Daoyan had arrived with Chen Tianxiong and Chen Zhaosheng, interrupting Chen Tianliang’s story.
• Chen Tianxiong criticized Chen Tianliang for taking Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, and Chen Tianliang explained that the clan’s resources had been reserved for Zhaosheng.
• Chen Daoyan defended investing the clan’s resources in Zhaosheng, whom he called born sacred and bearing the King’s Diagram, then asked to examine Chen Zhixing’s talent and innate bones.

At his Full Moon, Chen Zhixing was tested for talent and innate physique, and he decided to stop hiding his abilities and claim the resources his family could offer. After the jade showed only thirty percent of his acupoints opened, he secretly circulated the Innate Chaos Great Dao Scripture, causing it to erupt in blinding light.

• Chen Daoyan insisted on testing Chen Zhixing despite Chen Tianliang and Ying Shuangshuang worrying it was too early, while Chen Tianxiong mocked their hesitation.
• Chen Zhixing recalled Chen Tianxiong's family's future oppression of his parents and abandoned his plan to conceal his talent.
• Chen Daoyan placed the Testing Ancient Jade against Chen Zhixing's brow, and its first three patterns lit up, indicating thirty percent and a lower-grade aptitude.
• Chen Tianxiong bragged that Chen Zhaosheng had the Ancient Saint Body with ninety percent opened, while Chen Zhixing silently circulated the Innate Chaos Great Dao Scripture.
• The Testing Ancient Jade burst into blinding incandescent light.

Chen Zhixing’s Ancient Jade test revealed nine Ancient Marks, making him a Heaven’s Chosen and the Chen Family’s second such prodigy. Chen Daoyan concealed the revelation and ordered everyone to keep it secret, while the final mark stayed dark.

• Chen Zhixing’s Ancient Marks lit up one by one, first drawing delight from Chen Tianliang and Ying Shuangshuang and then astonishment as he reached eight.
• Chen Zhixing’s ninth Ancient Mark blazed, sending a rainbow beam into the sky and shocking the Chen Family with the revelation that he was a Heaven’s Chosen.
• Chen Tianxiong questioned whether the Ancient Jade was faulty, but Chen Tianliang challenged him and Chen Daoyan silenced them.
• Chen Daoyan concealed the phenomenon and ordered everyone in the hall not to spread news of Chen Zhixing’s nine marks, fearing the Chen Family’s enemies would strike.
• The tenth Ancient Mark did not light, and Chen Daoyan removed the jade as Chen Tianliang and Ying Shuangshuang felt relieved their son was not an even rarer Ten Ancient Marks Wielder.

Chen Zhixing was recognized as a Nine Ancient Marks Wielder and received the Chen Family’s support, while Chen Zhaosheng resolved to keep striving ahead of him. Two months later, Chen Zhixing was preparing to seek the cultivation techniques he needed when Chen Tianliang arrived and asked if he had learned to say “Daddy.”

• Chen Daoyan told Chen Tianliang to protect Chen Zhixing’s secret, gave him a token for the Treasure Pavilion, and left to inform the Ancestor.
• Chen Tianxiong left with Chen Zhaosheng, who said he would help his father suppress Chen Tianliang’s family and vowed not to lose to Chen Zhixing.
• Chen Tianliang celebrated Chen Zhixing’s talent, while Chen Zhixing silently added another complaint about his father’s repeated bedtime story to his ledger.
• Over the next two months, Chen Zhixing grew quickly and planned to study cultivation techniques and find a way to speak so he could obtain them.
• Chen Tianliang entered and asked Chen Zhixing if he had learned to call him Daddy.

Chen Zhixing spoke his first words, asked to study cultivation, and used Heaven-Defying Comprehension to rapidly absorb knowledge from books. Learning that the Chen Family’s future ruin began with a protagonist he had not yet found, he resolved to act before that protagonist gained power and allies.

• Chen Zhixing called Ying Shuangshuang “Mommy” but answered Chen Tianliang with “Eh,” leaving his father disappointed.
• Chen Zhixing asked to learn letters and read cultivation books, and Chen Tianliang fetched books from the Library Pavilion.
• Chen Zhixing learned every character in half a day and gradually showed his parents his unusual ability.
• Chen Zhixing read many books and mastered or learned knowledge of cultivation methods, swordsmanship, arrays, alchemy, and the Azure Profound Realm.
• Chen Zhixing recalled the Chen Family’s decline and its Apex Realm ancestor’s death in the game’s plot, then resolved to find and stop the protagonist before he grew powerful.

Chen Zhixing fused three body-tempering arts into the Ox Demon Star Transformation Scripture and began cultivating its first acupoint. After absorbing Stellar Force into his Laogong Acupoint, he felt his strength increase as Ox Demon Power and the beginnings of an Undying Golden Body took shape.

• Chen Zhixing weighed the strengths and weaknesses of five cultivation methods and decided to fuse the three body-tempering arts using his Max-Level Comprehension.
• After a month of study, Chen Zhixing created the Ox Demon Star Transformation Scripture from the Hundred Refinements Golden Body Scripture, Celestial Cycle Star Transformation Art, and Ox Demon Supporting the Heavens Skill.
• Chen Zhixing sensed the starry sky corresponding to his seven hundred and twenty acupoints and drew Stellar Force into his Laogong Acupoint.
• Chen Zhixing felt Ox Demon Power circulate through his body and saw faint golden radiance begin to forge his flesh, blood, muscles, and bones.
• Chen Zhixing's parents returned with Mung Bean Cake as he prepared to continue cultivating.

Chen Zhixing recognized that Chen Tianliang’s Reverse Malady threatened his father’s cultivation and began searching for a way to suppress it while advancing his own plans. A month later, two visitors from Heavenly Saint Palace arrived near the Chen Family to assess Chen Zhaosheng.

• Ying Shuangshuang worried that Chen Tianliang’s worsening Reverse Malady would hinder him in the upcoming Eastern Xuan Region Tournament, and Chen Zhixing resolved to find a way to treat it.
• Chen Zhixing considered how to strengthen both parents, noting that Chen Tianliang’s Reverse Malady and Ying Shuangshuang’s incompatible cultivation technique were their main obstacles.
• Over the next month, Chen Zhixing cultivated the Ox Demon Star Transformation Scripture, studied medicine to devise a way to suppress the Reverse Malady, and worked on combining two spirit techniques.
• A Gray Robed Elder told a veiled young woman that Chen Zhaosheng had an Innate King’s Diagram and nine ancient marks, and that the Heavenly Saint Palace had come to assess him.
• The young woman hoped Chen Zhaosheng would impress her.

Fei Long True Person and Mo Qingyue visited the Chen Family, hoping to assess Chen Zhaosheng for recruitment into the Heavenly Saint Palace, but learned that he was away. They agreed to enter the family under false identities and look at Chen Zhixing instead, though Mo Qingyue stayed mainly because she wanted to spend more time outside the sect.

• A phantom of Elder Chen appeared before Fei Long True Person and Mo Qingyue, who introduced themselves as visitors from the Heavenly Saint Palace.
• Fei Long True Person explained that they had come to assess Chen Zhaosheng, a Nine Ancient Marks Wielder born with a King Conferring Diagram, for recruitment.
• Elder Chen told them that Chen Zhaosheng had left with his father for the Southern Frontier Trial and would not return for another half month.
• Elder Chen suggested they examine Chen Zhixing, and Mo Qingyue agreed to stay while Fei Long True Person prepared to leave.
• Elder Chen gave them false identities from the Yun Province Jia Family and identified Chen Zhixing as Chen Tianliang's son.
• Fei Long True Person and Mo Qingyue disguised themselves as an old farmer and a young girl, then headed for the Chen Family's mountain gate.

Chen Zhixing’s family hosted Fei Long True Person and Mo Qingyue under false identities, and Fei Long judged the Chen family members to be unremarkable. After his parents left, Chen Zhixing revealed that he had created several new cultivation techniques and began forging his spiritual power into a weapon, drawing Mo Qingyue’s attention.

• Fei Long True Person and Mo Qingyue entered the Chen Family as Jia Longfei and Jia Qingyue and were welcomed by Chen Tianliang and Ying Shuangshuang.
• Fei Long True Person assessed Ying Shuangshuang, Chen Tianliang, and Chen Zhixing as having limited or ordinary potential, while Mo Qingyue agreed to stay only a few days.
• After the evening feast, Chen Zhixing sent Chen Tianliang and Ying Shuangshuang away to buy Osmanthus Cake and received notifications that he had created the Tranquil Sea Pill Formula, the Nine Revolutions Heavenly Cold Scripture, and the Hundred Refinements Divine Weapon Method.
• Chen Zhixing began using the Hundred Refinements Divine Weapon Method to shape his spiritual power into a hammer after spreading his awareness across a two-hundred-meter radius.
• Mo Qingyue sensed Chen Zhixing’s spiritual power from the neighboring Side Room and abruptly looked toward him.

Chen Zhixing secretly tempered his Mental Power into a needle and tested it on a fly while Mo Qingyue suspected his unusual talent. The next day, Chen Tianliang welcomed news that Kui Mu True Person and Zhuang Wuxian had arrived, apparently signaling that the South Sea Secret Realm had opened.

• Mo Qingyue sensed pure Mental Power coming from Chen Zhixing’s room, failed to probe past the Chen Clan’s restrictions, and grew curious about him.
• Chen Zhixing repeatedly failed to shape Mental Power into larger weapons, then succeeded in tempering it into a hair-thin needle after an hour of painful attempts.
• Chen Zhixing used the needle to kill a fly, stored it in his Sea of Consciousness, and pretended to be asleep when Chen Tianliang and Ying Shuangshuang returned with Osmanthus Cake.
• The next day, an outer disciple told Chen Tianliang that Kui Mu True Person and Zhuang Wuxian had come to visit.
• Chen Tianliang happily ordered the disciple to invite them in, reasoning that the South Sea Secret Realm must have opened.

Chen Zhixing recognized the South Sea Ancient Secret Realm as the turning point that had ruined his former life and maneuvered to keep Chen Tianliang from going. Chen Tianliang decided to stay home, while Kui Mu True Person and Zhuang Wuxian left in anger.

• Kui Mu True Person and Zhuang Wuxian arrived and told Chen Tianliang that the South Sea Ancient Secret Realm would open the next day.
• Chen Tianliang eagerly agreed to travel there, hoping to find Foundation Establishment items for Chen Zhixing and fight powerful opponents.
• Mo Qingyue and Fei Long True Person discussed helping Chen Tianliang, and Fei Long True Person offered to leave him a sword mark that could block one fatal injury.
• Chen Zhixing cried that he wanted the family to attend a lantern fair, then smeared food across Zhuang Wuxian's face when he tried to coax him.
• Ying Shuangshuang reminded Chen Tianliang that Chen Zhixing already had access to family resources, and Chen Tianliang agreed to stay home after Chen Zhixing kept crying.
• Kui Mu True Person and Zhuang Wuxian left after Chen Tianliang refused to go, both furious with Chen Zhixing.

Kui Mu True Person and Zhuang Wuxian plotted to kill Chen Zhixing at the Lin'an City lantern fair, while Chen Tianliang dismissed Ying Shuangshuang’s suspicions about them. Mo Qingyue wondered who Chen Zhixing really was, and Chen Zhixing completed half of his Laogong Acupoint refinement, reaching the second level of the Treasure Body Realm.

• Kui Mu True Person proposed ambushing Chen Zhixing at the lantern fair and luring Chen Tianliang and Ying Shuangshuang away so two mortals could kill the child.
• Ying Shuangshuang warned Chen Tianliang that Kui Mu True Person and Zhuang Wuxian seemed suspicious, but Chen Tianliang explained their urgency as a desire for revenge.
• Mo Qingyue asked Fei Long True Person whether Chen Zhixing had deliberately stopped the South Sea Secret Realm plan, then wondered who the child was.
• Chen Zhixing cultivated with the Ox Demon Star Transformation Scripture overnight and refined half of the Laogong Acupoint.
• Chen Zhixing awoke at dawn and reached the second level of the Treasure Body Realm.

Chen Zhixing concealed his cultivation and scriptures while joining Chen Tianliang and Ying Shuangshuang on a trip to Lin'an City for the lantern fair. As Chen Zhixing sensed danger, Kui Mu True Person and Zhuang Wuxian prepared an ambush, but their hired fighter demanded more payment before acting.

• Chen Zhixing reached the Precious Body Second Layer, wrote the Tranquil Sea Pill Formula and Nine Revolutions Heavenly Cold Scripture into an ancient book, and encountered Mo Qingyue.
• Chen Tianliang and Ying Shuangshuang took Chen Zhixing to Lin'an City, while Mo Qingyue vanished after they left.
• The family arrived in Lin'an City after two hours and walked through its crowded lantern fair.
• Chen Zhixing suspected Kui Mu True Person and Zhuang Wuxian would retaliate as the two watched the family from an alley with a masked, bamboo-hatted fighter.
• Kui Mu True Person asked the Bamboo Hat Figure to help lure Chen Tianliang away, but the fighter refused until Kui Mu True Person paid more.

Kui Mu True Person paid the Bamboo Hat Figure more to assassinate Chen Tianliang, who fought them both in Lin'an City and drove them beyond its walls. The battle continued as Kui Mu True Person revealed that Chen Tianliang’s Reverse Malady was expected to erupt within a hundred breaths.

• Kui Mu True Person increased the Bamboo Hat Figure’s payment by fifty percent, and they set out to attack Chen Tianliang.
• The Bamboo Hat Figure ambushed Chen Tianliang during the lantern festival, but Chen Tianliang overwhelmed him with his Black Gold Dragon Pattern Halberd.
• Kui Mu True Person joined the attack, and the two assailants fought Chen Tianliang as their battle devastated Lin'an City.
• Chen Tianliang unleashed Halberd Art: Split Heaven and Earth, blasting Kui Mu True Person and the Bamboo Hat Figure through the city wall.
• Kui Mu True Person told the Bamboo Hat Figure that Chen Tianliang’s Reverse Malady would erupt within a hundred breaths, and both attackers charged him again.

As Lin'an City descended into chaos, Ying Shuangshuang fought off a masked Spirit Wandering Realm attacker while Chen Zhixing was left alone. Two hired ruffians abducted Chen Zhixing, but he revealed a terrifying power and killed Wang Da, leaving Li Er paralyzed with fear.

• Chen Zhixing watched Chen Tianliang depart after a fierce battle and wondered how powerful his father could become if the Reverse Malady were cured.
• A Black Robed Figure attacked Ying Shuangshuang with shadow techniques, forcing her to leave Chen Zhixing in a safe spot so she could fight freely.
• Wang Da and Li Er, enticed by a reward of one thousand taels of gold, seized Chen Zhixing and carried him into an alley.
• Wang Da prepared to kill Chen Zhixing, but the child calmly struck him and exploded his head.
• Chen Zhixing stood up in the blood as Li Er trembled in terror.

Chen Zhixing killed Li Er in the alley and pretended to be a frightened child while Ying Shuangshuang fought to reach him. After transforming into a Snow Woman and killing Zhuang Wuxian, she heard Chen Zhixing cry and rushed to hold him.

• Chen Zhixing killed Li Er with a silver needle, then sat in the alley and cried to hide what he had done.
• Ying Shuangshuang rushed toward the alley, but Zhuang Wuxian blocked her and taunted her about Chen Zhixing's death.
• Ying Shuangshuang transformed into a Snow Woman and seized Zhuang Wuxian by the neck.
• Ying Shuangshuang recognized Zhuang Wuxian, threatened him and his relatives, then crushed his head.
• Ying Shuangshuang heard Chen Zhixing crying, hurried to the alley, and held him while reassuring him that she was there.

Chen Zhixing reunited with Ying Shuangshuang, learned she was a Snow Woman, and vowed to protect his family from the fate he remembered. Outside Lin'an City, Chen Tianliang unleashed his Boundless Blood Realm against the assassins and killed the bamboo-hatted attacker before turning on Kui Mu True Person.

• Chen Zhixing realized Ying Shuangshuang was a Snow Woman and embraced her, promising himself he would prevent the Chen Family's destruction.
• Chen Tianliang sensed Ying Shuangshuang's cry and tried to return to the city, but Kui Mu True Person and the bamboo-hatted Black Robed Figure blocked his way.
• Chen Tianliang confirmed his connection to Ying Shuangshuang remained intact, then opened the Boundless Blood Realm and triggered his Reverse Malady.
• Chen Tianliang overwhelmed and killed the bamboo-hatted attacker, whose hat split to reveal a Crane-haired Youthful-faced Old Man.
• Chen Tianliang pierced Kui Mu True Person with his halberd and pulled off his hood to reveal his identity.