Chapter Summaries

Wang Pan used his account-banning authority to frighten the Nine-Headed Snake and alarm the simulators, while Lu Wushuang learned how dangerous the power could be. Meanwhile, Qin Hu defended the camp from enemy scouts and reported the kills to his Squad Leader, claiming the credit belonged to his whole squad.

• Wang Pan showed the group that he could ban a simulator’s account, prompting Gongsun Qingli and the Nine-Headed Snake to apologize and Lu Wushuang to flee for help.
• Lu Sheng learned about Wang Pan’s power from Lu Wushuang, warned him not to provoke Wang Pan, and beat him for acting recklessly.
• Wang Pan withdrew from the group after warning the others to be careful, while Nine-Twist Begonia urged the simulators to reach the Human King Realm.
• Qin Hu spotted enemy scouts near the camp, killed both with wooden spears, and gathered their supplies to help Qin An survive the cold and hunger.
• Before dawn, Qin Hu brought the scouts’ heads and loot to Gao Da, who offered thirty taels of silver for each head, and Qin Hu said the whole squad deserved the credit.

Wang Pan reflected on the Human Path and Heavenly Path, deciding to develop his cultivation by personally experiencing the Cultivation System. After Wang Xiangxiang returned from practical combat class, he taught her the Heavenly Net Finger and left her unconscious on the bed as she began learning it.

• Wang Pan realized that chatting in the Cross-World Chat Group had cost him more than two million Simulation Points.
• Wang Pan judged the Human Path: Imperial Ultimate Scripture to be his strongest foundation and planned to experience the Cultivation System to better understand the Heavenly Path.
• Wang Pan considered how his deep foundation could let him grow rapidly in the Human King Realm, though he still lacked the basis to create a Heavenly Path cultivation technique.
• Wang Xiangxiang returned from practical combat class boasting that she had defeated her opponent, and Wang Pan teased her before promising to teach her a powerful move.
• Wang Pan tapped Wang Xiangxiang's forehead, briefly knocking her unconscious, and taught her the Heavenly Net Finger, one of his ten refined Martial Skills.

Wang Pan outfitted himself and Wang Xiangxiang with items from the Simulator Mall, then trained her in Heavenly Net Finger inside a Consciousness Space while protecting her spirit with Nether Soul Fruits. Wang Xiangxiang reached the skill’s entry level and woke up, where Wang Pan comforted her and ordered a meal.

• Wang Pan bought two Spatial Rings, durable clothes, outfits and jewelry for Wang Xiangxiang, and Nether Soul Fruits from the Simulator Mall.
• Wang Pan fed Wang Xiangxiang a Nether Soul Fruit and used his consciousness projection to teach her Heavenly Net Finger in her Consciousness Space.
• Wang Xiangxiang struggled through repeated defeats, abandoned her free Martial Skills from Chu State University, and gradually improved at Heavenly Net Finger.
• Wang Pan continued feeding Wang Xiangxiang Nether Soul Fruits as she practiced until she reached the entry level of Heavenly Net Finger.
• The Consciousness Space shattered and Wang Xiangxiang woke up; Wang Pan calmed her and called the front desk to prepare a meal.

After helping Wang Xiangxiang endure her first lessons in the Heavenly Net Finger, Wang Pan warned her to keep the technique secret and promised to protect her. He gave her a Spatial Ring stocked with defensive dresses and jewelry, leaving her with new equipment and a way to store it.

• Wang Xiangxiang broke down after repeatedly failing to learn the Heavenly Net Finger in the Consciousness Space, and Wang Pan comforted her.
• Wang Pan warned Wang Xiangxiang to keep the Heavenly Net Finger hidden and told her to inform him if she ever used it.
• Wang Pan and Wang Xiangxiang ate the meal delivered to their hotel room, then teased each other afterward.
• Wang Pan gave Wang Xiangxiang a Spatial Ring and bound it to her with her blood.
• Wang Pan explained how the ring worked and told Wang Xiangxiang it contained defensive dresses and jewelry.

Wang Pan comforted Wang Xiangxiang before crossing her boundaries during the night, leaving her angry with him in the morning. When she accidentally unleashed the Heavenly Net Finger at him, he was unharmed and reassured her.

• Wang Xiangxiang worried that Wang Pan was wasting resources on her, but he reassured her and told her to rest.
• Wang Pan touched Wang Xiangxiang while she pretended to be asleep, and she eventually spoke up, but he continued despite her distress.
• Wang Xiangxiang got up to wash after the night, then ordered Wang Pan to sleep when she returned.
• Wang Xiangxiang woke angry and attacked Wang Pan with a pillow, then accidentally fired the Heavenly Net Finger at him.
• Wang Pan let the attack collapse before it reached him and comforted Wang Xiangxiang as she apologized.

Wang Pan revealed to Zhang Yao that he had always known she and Wang Jun found him as a newborn, and she finally confirmed the truth. The family reconciled, while Wang Pan and Wang Xiangxiang returned to their familiar teasing before she hurried off to class.

• Wang Xiangxiang called Zhang Yao to ask whether Wang Pan had been adopted, and Zhang Yao denied it.
• Wang Pan told Zhang Yao that he remembered being abandoned in the snow and that she and Wang Jun had saved and cared for him.
• Zhang Yao admitted she had found Wang Pan while pregnant with Wang Xiangxiang and explained that she and Wang Jun had planned to keep it secret.
• Wang Pan reassured Zhang Yao that he would always be her child, and Wang Xiangxiang said she was happy to share their mother with him.
• Wang Xiangxiang playfully scolded and hit Wang Pan, then rushed off when she realized she was nearly late for class.
• Wang Pan reflected that he wanted a peaceful life but would have to grow stronger and more ruthless to survive.

Wang Pan learned that Murong Qiushui would soon arrive in Chu Prefecture and decided to stay there, then spent the night with Wang Xiangxiang after changing hotel rooms. The chapter ended with Wang Pan deciding not to rush their relationship.

• Wang Pan cleaned the damaged hotel room and watched a news report announcing that Murong Qiushui would arrive in Chu Prefecture to handle matters involving the World Destruction Society.
• Wang Pan decided to delay his return to Jiang City and stay in Chu Prefecture.
• Wang Xiangxiang returned from class, and Wang Pan arranged to move them to a new room after dinner; the hotel waived the damage fees.
• Wang Pan carried Wang Xiangxiang into the new room, and they spent the night together under her condition that he do nothing else.
• After Wang Xiangxiang went to the bathroom, Wang Pan decided not to rush their relationship.

Wang Pan began a new Life Simulation with the Peak Talent Wealth Can Reach the Gods and learned he would become a powerful poison cultivator, only to be killed by a rapidly advancing Outer Disciple. After vowing to defeat the future protagonist, he entered the multiplayer simulation world, which was introduced as the Tianyuan Continent.

• Wang Xiangxiang left for school after waking beside Wang Pan, and Wang Pan later got up to begin a Life Simulation.
• Wang Pan received the Peak Talent Wealth Can Reach the Gods, which let him buy anything if he had enough money.
• In the simulation, Wang Pan survived his village's destruction, became a Poison Person, forged the Myriad Poison Body, and rose to the Nascent Soul Stage while pursuing revenge.
• Wang Pan spared an Outer Disciple at a Holy Maiden's request, but the disciple reached the Nascent Soul Stage within three years and killed Wang Pan.
• Wang Pan vowed to defeat the Son of Fortune, and the simulation began in the multiplayer world of Tianyuan Continent, where he had been born in Yan Kingdom.

Wang Pan reflected on the dangers ordinary people faced in a cultivation world while living as a three-year-old in a poor farming family. After sharing their only meat with his parents, he overheard Wang Hong decide to join the Hunting Team, leaving Li Na fearful for their family’s future.

• Wang Pan considered how cultivators and supernatural dangers made life perilous for ordinary people, and noted that an unknown human threat would soon affect his village.
• Wang Hong returned home with a frog, and Li Na prepared it as a rare treat for the family.
• Wang Pan gave a frog leg to each parent and refused to eat until they accepted their shares.
• After Wang Pan fell asleep, Wang Hong told Li Na he planned to join the Hunting Team to provide meat and save money for their son’s schooling.
• Li Na objected because a villager had recently died on a hunt, but Wang Hong argued that he wanted Pan’er to have a better life.

Wang Pan began secretly cultivating while trying to warn his parents about the village’s coming destruction. Elsewhere, Shi Bu died when Su Li and the Red Demon Daoist’s battle destroyed a city, and Su Li refined the demon’s corpse into a Breaking Infant Pill.

• Wang Hong left early to visit the village chief, while Wang Pan urged Li Na to leave the village after dreaming that everyone there would die.
• Wang Pan accepted that his parents would not take his warning seriously and began cultivating the Sky River Record, quickly reaching the first level of Qi Refining.
• Shi Bu, a simulator born into a wealthy family, celebrated entering a cultivation world and imagined gaining power and beautiful companions.
• Su Li pursued the Red Demon Daoist above Shi Bu’s city, and their battle killed hundreds of thousands of residents, including Shi Bu.
• Su Li defeated the Red Demon Daoist and burned the city into a lake of magma while refining the demon’s corpse into a Breaking Infant Pill that took the form of a laughing crimson infant.

Wang Pan used his cultivation to punish Li Ergou for sneaking into his home, then captured Li Ergou’s soul in an oil lamp. The Netherworld Sect’s elders fought over Wang Pan, and Sect Master Wang Yue declared him her disciple and the sect’s Holy Son.

• Wang Hong left with the Hunting Team while Li Na and Wang Pan waited at home.
• Li Ergou planned to exploit Li Na while Wang Hong was away and sneaked into the courtyard at midnight.
• Wang Pan restrained Li Ergou, tortured him with spells, killed him, and sealed his soul inside an oil lamp.
• Netherworld Sect elders watched Wang Pan and argued over who should take him as a disciple.
• Wang Yue overruled the elders and made Wang Pan her disciple and the Holy Son of the Netherworld Sect.

Wang Pan was welcomed as the Netherworld Sect’s Holy Son and showered with gifts, including a Dao Artifact, while Wang Yue claimed she would keep them for him. He ended up across Wang Yue’s lap as she spanked him for calling her his future wife and failing to think about the sect’s finances.

• Wang Yue led the elders to meet Wang Pan, who stayed calm despite their frightening appearances and Nan Li’s supernatural display.
• Hundred Infants Daoist gave Wang Pan a Startling Spirit Drum, and Nan Li offered him a Soul Bottle Banner before the elders piled on more treasures.
• Wang Pan asked Wang Yue for a gift, but she told him to call her Master and said she would keep the gifts until he was older.
• Wang Yue secretly intended to keep Wang Pan’s treasures because the Netherworld Sect was poor, while Wang Pan warned her not to withhold them.
• Wang Pan said Wang Yue could become his wife when he grew up, so Wang Yue scolded him and spanked him.

Wang Yue took Wang Pan and his parents to the Netherworld Sect, where he rapidly advanced his cultivation and reflected on the enemies and sacred lands hinted at by a Life Simulation Event. The chapter ended with Wang Yue teasing him and raising an Image Stone to record his reaction.

• Wang Yue punished Wang Pan, then threatened to send him into Boundless Purgatory with the new recruits unless he survived.
• Wang Yue summoned Wang Pan's parents, Wang Hong and Li Na, and brought the family back to the Netherworld Sect.
• Wang Pan explained his recruitment to his parents while concealing the sect's dangers, then spent a month cultivating and reached Qi Condensation Stage Level 13.
• Wang Pan considered which nearby sacred land might have recruited his enemy from the Life Simulation Event and vowed to find and kill him.
• Wang Yue approached Wang Pan as he brooded and raised an Image Stone to record him, prompting him to protest.

As the Netherworld Sect began recruiting disciples, hundreds of thousands of hopefuls entered its deadly examination. On the White Bone Bridge, Wei Daofang was isolated by a supernatural illusion and confronted by his murdered wife, whom he had betrayed to fund his journey.

• Wang Yue teased the infant Wang Pan as two months passed and the Netherworld Sect prepared to recruit disciples.
• Hundreds of thousands gathered at the sect’s mountain gate, including Han Ti, a disfigured young man, a blind little girl, and a girl carrying a blood-red umbrella.
• The sect’s elders imposed strict rules and led the applicants across the White Bone Bridge, where Black Mist devoured anyone pushed too close to its edge.
• After several hundred people cried out in awe at the sect’s spiritual energy, Golden Core disciples dragged them away with Black Mist chains.
• Wei Daofang heard a woman’s voice and found himself alone on the bridge, where a ghostly woman calling him her husband appeared.
• The woman revealed herself as Wei Daofang’s newlywed wife, whom he had drugged and sent to another man to obtain money for his journey.

The Netherworld Sect’s disciple assessment began with many candidates disappearing into the White Bone Bridge’s Black Mist, while elders discussed Wang Pan’s appointment as Holy Son and Wang Yue’s petty nature. At the sect’s gathering, Wang Pan confronted hostile True Disciples and openly called his master petty, leaving the elders stunned.

• Wei Daofang lost himself and walked into the Black Mist, and other candidates vanished on the White Bone Bridge as well.
• Elder Zhou and Elder Li discussed Wang Pan’s appointment as Holy Son and Wang Yue’s dangerous grudge-holding.
• The remaining assessment candidates reached the Netherworld Sect’s plaza, where Wang Yue and Wang Pan stood before the gathered elders and True Disciples.
• Wang Pan threatened the True Disciples who glared at him, and most restrained themselves because Wang Yue was present.
• Wang Pan called Wang Yue petty, and an Inner Elder spat out his Ghost Silk Tea in surprise.

Wang Pan was publicly punished by Wang Yue, then stunned the Netherworld Sect by defeating Wu Qi and killing him with one step. The sect hailed Wang Pan as Holy Son, but he soon angered Wang Yue again and fled as she chased him with a stick.

• Wang Yue spanked Wang Pan for calling her petty, then softened when he praised her beauty and physique.
• Wang Pan attacked Wu Qi after the True Disciple mocked him, and his Life-Ending Fist destroyed Wu Qi’s main Fierce Ghost.
• Wang Pan used the Immortal King title to crush Wu Qi and his Fierce Ghosts, prompting the Netherworld Sect to acclaim him as Holy Son.
• New arrivals reached the plaza, where the sect’s roaring auras and cheers killed more than a third of them before Inner Elders intervened.
• Wang Pan asked Wang Yue whether she would still send him to Boundless Purgatory, then demanded the return of his greeting gifts.
• Wang Yue chased Wang Pan with a stick while elders silently hoped he would one day overthrow her tyranny.

After Wang Pan killed a Nascent Soul cultivator, more than a hundred thousand candidates were teleported into the Netherworld Sect’s Boundless Purgatory for disciple selection. Wang Yue announced Wang Pan’s Holy Son Ceremony for March 18, then forced him to stay at Netherworld Peak instead of enjoying the privileges of Holy Son Peak.

• The candidates watched Wang Pan’s display, and the Teleportation Array sent them into Boundless Purgatory.
• Wang Yue chased Wang Pan around the platform while the elders and True Disciples avoided getting involved.
• The elders and True Disciples turned on Wang Pan, caught him, and watched as Wang Yue beat him.
• Wang Yue announced the Holy Son Ceremony for March 18 and ordered the elders to notify the sects of Qing Province.
• Wang Yue made Wang Pan choose between Netherworld Peak and Holy Son Peak, and Wang Pan agreed to remain with her at Netherworld Peak.

Wang Pan enjoyed life on Netherworld Peak while studying Dual Cultivation techniques and considering how to cultivate Heavenly Dao energy. News of his appointment as Holy Son spread across Qing Province, drawing suspicion and hostility from rival sects, especially the Jade Pond Sacred Land.

• Wang Pan had his parents settled in a city within the Netherworld Sect’s territory and urged them to have more children, knowing cultivation could keep him away for long periods.
• Wang Pan lounged among the Maidservants while Wang Yue remained in seclusion, then asked Qianhua to bring him Dual Cultivation techniques and rewarded her with a Spirit Fruit.
• Wang Pan studied several Jade Slips throughout the day, mastering their techniques and treating them as part of his foundation while he searched for a way to cultivate Heavenly Dao energy.
• The External Affairs Elder sent invitations announcing Wang Pan’s appointment as Holy Son to sects and great schools throughout Qing Province.
• An elder from the Supreme Profound Sacred Land wondered how long the new Holy Son would survive, while another powerful sect ordered its spies to investigate him.
• Duke of the East urged the Jade Pond Sacred Land to stop Wang Pan from growing stronger, blaming the Netherworld Sect for old personal grievances and recent losses.

The Netherworld Sect’s habit of hosting celebrations to collect gifts had angered forces across Qing Province, though many still prepared to attend Wang Pan’s Holy Son Succession Ceremony. Meanwhile, Wang Pan studied the Netherworld Sect’s vast Scripture Pavilion and reflected on cultivation methods, leaving him intrigued by Dual Cultivation and thinking about Wang Yue.

• The Valley Master of Heavenly Blade Valley lamented that his sect depended on one Void Refinement Stage Supreme Elder and could not risk offending the Netherworld Sect.
• The chapter described how the Netherworld Sect repeatedly held celebrations to collect gifts, eventually inviting only First-rate Forces and other holy lands while squeezing its guests for money.
• Second-rate Forces and First-rate Forces received invitations to Wang Pan’s Holy Son Succession Ceremony, while the other holy lands reacted with varying degrees of cooperation or hostility.
• Wang Pan spent his days between Netherworld Peak and the Scripture Pavilion, where he studied the Netherworld Sect’s extensive collection of cultivation knowledge.
• Wang Pan read about Dual Cultivation methods and considered their balanced approach superior to methods that exploited others, though he had not decided to practice one.
• Wang Pan thought of Wang Yue as he contemplated trying Dual Cultivation someday, then shuddered at the memory of her ruthless treatment of him.

Wang Yue emerged from seclusion after breaking through to the Dao Integration Stage, realizing that Wang Pan's constant aggravation had helped her relax enough to advance. She tried to approach him, but he fled; later, Wang Yue fell asleep in his rocking chair while Wang Pan returned to his failed planting experiment and prepared another Seven-Colored Spirit Fish with the black goat.

• Wang Yue realized she had broken through to the Dao Integration Stage after Wang Pan repeatedly angered her and eased the pressure she felt as Netherworld Sect's Sect Master.
• Wang Yue found Wang Pan relaxing in his rocking chair, but he panicked and ran when he saw her.
• Wang Yue settled into Wang Pan's rocking chair, dismissed the maidservants, and fell asleep while Wang Pan escaped.
• Wang Pan found that the Soul Nurturing Wood seeds he had planted in a sixth-grade Medicine Field had not sprouted, blamed the Scripture Pavilion's cultivation advice, and replanted the wilted plants he had pulled up.
• Wang Pan caught a Seven-Colored Spirit Fish and prepared it in an iron pot while a black goat urged him on and started the fire.