Chapter Summaries

Wang Pan stopped the Black Tiger Gang from wrecking his family’s establishment and let them go only after ordering them to eat one hundred Wealth and Status Cakes. He hinted that he had found more interesting prey, prompting Xun Kuang to urge his son to earn Wang Pan’s trust.

• Wang Pan and Xun Youcai went downstairs and found Zhou Hui’s men attacking the Wang family’s establishment.
• Zhou Hui ordered his men to stop and begged Wang Pan for mercy, explaining that he had taken the job because he needed money and planned to flee Baiyang City.
• Wang Pan ordered Zhou Hui’s group to eat one hundred Wealth and Status Cakes before leaving, then told Xun Youcai that they were small fry and that he had found better prey.
• Xun Youcai asked his father, Xun Kuang, what Wang Pan meant by better prey.
• Xun Kuang told Xun Youcai to build a close relationship with Wang Pan and do whatever Wang Pan asked of him.

The Zhang Family planned to use its three Blood Exchange Realm experts and allied families to attack the Wang family, force Wang Ji to return, and target his wife and child. Wang Ji revealed to Qin Yan that he had used the Zhang Family to expose their allies and intended to kill the Youzhou Governor before destroying them.

• Zhang Tang argued that Qin Yan remained in the Blood Exchange Realm and urged the Zhang Family to strike at the Wang family.
• The Zhang Family elders agreed to rally their secret allies, attack the Wang family, and spare Wang Ji's wife and child to force him to return.
• Qin Yan asked Wang Ji why he did not simply slaughter the Zhang Family, and Wang Ji explained that he had been using them to identify the families plotting against him.
• Wang Ji said the Zhang Family could not be allowed to remain after planning to harm his wife and child.
• Wang Ji told Qin Yan that they needed to kill the Youzhou Governor first, and Qin Yan worried about the consequences and his unpaid brothel bills.

Wang Pan gathered Wang family retainers and disguised City Guard officers to begin a campaign against the families in Baiyang City. He led the assembled force to the Bai Family estate and ordered an assault.

• Zhou Zhanghong explained why the Black Tiger Gang had to flee Baiyang City, and his subordinates chose to leave with him.
• Wang Pan learned from Nan Fei that the Wang family could call on five Thousand-Man Generals and potentially mobilize the City Guard.
• Wang Pan ordered Nan Fei to gather the men and informed Wang Ji that he intended to clean up Baiyang City.
• Wang Pan addressed the gathered retainers, left half behind to guard the estate and protect his mother, and led the rest out.
• Wang Pan brought his force to the Bai Family estate and ordered the experts to attack.

Wang Pan continued attacking Baiyang City's powerful families, while Wang Ji let him fight and secretly prepared support. As Wang Pan stormed the Chen Family estate, he challenged its peak Muscle and Tendon Changing Stage fighter.

• Wang Pan killed a Muscle and Tendon Changing Stage martial artist at the Bai Family estate, then led his group to attack more households.
• Wang Ji told Qin Yan to follow Wang Pan secretly and ordered their people to stand ready to help the Wang family if trouble arose.
• Xun Kuang told Xun Youcai to wait for the Wang family to need help, but Xun Youcai secretly took guards to follow Wang Pan and cheer him on.
• The Baiyang City prefect tried to mobilize the City Guard, learned its commander and Thousand-Man Generals had left the city, and gave up intervening.
• Wang Pan's group entered the Chen Family estate, where its guards repelled several attackers and its head confronted them.
• Wang Pan charged the Chen Family head, a peak Muscle and Tendon Changing Stage martial artist, and claimed him as his opponent.

Twelve-year-old Wang Pan destroyed the Chen Family and led the Wang family against other clans, prompting the Zhang Family to gather a coalition against them. Surrounded by dozens of Muscle and Tendon Changing Stage martial artists, Wang Pan charged into the enemy as Nan Fei and the others tried to protect him.

• Wang Pan killed Chen Chen, and the Wang family swiftly slaughtered the remaining Chen Family members.
• The Zhang Family decided to rally other families against the Wang family, while Zhang Yuan secretly sent out the message after being bought off.
• Wang Pan led his people in wiping out twelve families, and other clans either joined the Zhang Family or asked the Wang family what it intended to do.
• Dozens of Muscle and Tendon Changing Stage martial artists blocked Wang Pan and his group, but Wang Pan charged into the crowd and killed one of them.
• The Zhang Family urged the coalition to attack and seize the Wang family's assets, while Nan Fei and the Thousand-Man Generals rushed to protect Wang Pan.

Wang Pan battled a crowd of Muscle and Tendon Changing Stage warriors while Qin Yan watched over him, allowing the fight to sharpen his combat skills. When Zhang Family Blood Exchange Realm warriors joined the attack, Qin Yan intervened and left Wang Pan eager to learn his Saber Qi technique.

• Nan Fei and the Thousand-Man Generals held back after hearing Qin Yan’s transmission, while Wang Pan fought through the encircling warriors.
• Wang Pan dodged a broadsword strike, killed an attacker, and continued fighting as Zhang Tang ordered the Zhang Family to join in.
• Three Zhang Family Blood Exchange Realm warriors closed in on Wang Pan, prompting Qin Yan to rush into the battlefield.
• Qin Yan killed the three Blood Exchange Realm warriors with three saber strikes and stopped the other fighters from fleeing with a blast of Saber Qi.
• Wang Pan asked Qin Yan how he released Saber Qi and whether he could learn the technique.

Qin Yan demonstrated Saber Qi to Wang Pan, then advised him to seek conviction through repeated struggles. Two years later, Wang Pan had reached the peak of the Blood Exchange Realm and entered Hundred Fragrances Pavilion, intent on changing his fate.

• Qin Yan explained that Saber Qi came from conviction fused with perfected techniques and qi and blood, then slaughtered the Muscle and Tendon Changing Stage cultivators who had attacked them.
• The Youzhou Governor was poisoned to death, and the emperor sent an Imperial Prince to take charge of You Province and its troops.
• Qin Yan told Wang Pan that he would need to fight through repeated life-and-death struggles to discover his deepest conviction.
• Over the next two years, Wang Pan reached the peak of the Blood Exchange Realm and studied swordsmanship and other Martial Skills while the Wang family expanded its Guard Squad.
• Wang Pan entered Hundred Fragrances Pavilion with his attendants, believing that taking down all the girls there at once would raise his Life Simulation Event completion rate.

Wang Pan left Hundred Fragrances Pavilion after a month of relentless training, earning a powerful talent and enough strength to reach the peak of the Bone Forging Realm. Qin Yan saw Wang Pan’s breakthrough and begged to learn his method, then returned to Firefly Pavilion after Wang Pan claimed he could not explain it.

• Wang Pan spent a month at Hundred Fragrances Pavilion, exhausting the girls and driving away its customers.
• Mu Rong entered the pavilion to bring Wang Pan home, but left flushed and stopped interfering.
• Wang Pan received 500 Simulation Points and the Intermediate Talent: Bone and Blood Connection, along with 50,000 Simulation Points.
• Bone and Blood Connection replenished and increased Wang Pan’s qi and blood, bringing him to the peak of the Bone Forging Realm.
• Qin Yan saw Wang Pan’s transformation and begged him to reveal how he had broken through.
• Wang Pan said he did not know how it worked, and Qin Yan returned to Firefly Pavilion with his hopes dashed.

At twenty-two, Wang Pan accompanied his aging father, Wang Ji, on a successful trade mission to the Great Kang Empire, hoping to prevent the Wang family’s predicted decline. On the return journey, an army of over ten thousand Great Martial Empire cavalry attacked the caravan, and Wang Ji ordered the guards to hold them off while he was taken to safety.

• Wang Pan spent several years training his swordsmanship, visiting Qin Yan’s sect, and preparing to protect the Wang family from its impending decline.
• Wang Pan persuaded Wang Ji to let him join the trade journey to the Great Kang Empire, where the Wang family exchanged goods for valuable cultivation resources and established a trade agreement with a tribe.
• Wang Pan remained wary on the return journey, suspecting that the caravan might encounter the attack that had caused the Wang family’s decline in the Life Simulation Event.
• The caravan reached You Province and traveled to within a day or two of Baiyang City before a force of over ten thousand Great Martial Empire cavalry charged toward it.
• After the cavalry killed a messenger with an arrow, Wang Ji ordered the guards to hold the attackers off and told the Muscle and Tendon Changing Stage guards to take him away.

Wu Qianjue’s cavalry destroyed the Wang family’s guards and seized their goods, prompting Wang Ji to flee Baiyang City with his household. The Youzhou Governor planned to claim the Wang family’s abandoned properties to help fund his army.

• Wu Qianjue ordered his cavalry to slaughter the Wang family’s guards, then blamed the attack on a Great Kang Empire border invasion.
• Wang Ji ordered Wang Pan to pack valuables and take the family to Lanzhou, leaving their real estate behind.
• Other families began dividing up the Wang family’s properties, and some pursued the fleeing household, but Wang family guards killed them.
• The Youzhou Governor learned that the Wang family had fled and decided to take over their abandoned assets to support the Youzhou Army.

After arriving in Lanzhou, Wang Ji and his family settled under Qin Yan’s protection, and Wang Pan learned why conviction was necessary to break through to the Heavenly Gang Realm. Wang Pan rose to become Yanhua Sect’s foremost core disciple, while a meteor devastated White Bone Forest in the Great Kang Empire.

• The Wang family arrived in Lanzhou, where Qin Yan had arranged their residence, and Qin Yan warned Wang Ji that the Youzhou Governor was too powerful to confront.
• Qin Yan explained that a martial artist needed to fuse conviction, a perfected Martial Skill, and qi and blood to break through to the Heavenly Gang Realm, and Wang Pan realized he had not found his conviction.
• Wang Pan joined Yanhua Sect and became its foremost core disciple through his overwhelming strength, despite being unable to use Saber Qi or Sword Qi.
• A meteor struck White Bone Forest in the Great Kang Empire, destroying the forest and nearby tribes and triggering further disasters.
• The Great Martial Empire suffered comparatively minor damage, and Wang Pan was twenty-five years old that year.

After years of disasters and internal warfare, Beggar united the Great Kang Empire and led an invasion that captured You Province. The Great Martial Empire assembled an army in Lanzhou, where Wang Pan saw an opportunity for Yanhua Sect to enter the conflict and seize power.

• Following an unusually harsh winter and years of famine and tribal warfare, Beggar united the Great Kang Empire and called for an invasion of the Great Martial Empire.
• The Great Kang army invaded You Province, where the Great Martial Empire sent an inadequate force and the Prince guarding the province fled as it fell.
• Beggar promised the surviving Youzhou soldiers fair treatment and better lives, and eighty thousand veterans surrendered to him.
• Beggar's army treated civilians well but confiscated the wealth of merchants and powerful clans after taking You Province.
• The Great Martial Empire mobilized two million soldiers in Lanzhou under Wu Wudi and Wu Qianjue, and Wang Pan recognized that Yanhua Sect could exploit the battle to challenge the empire.

Wang Pan remained in the simulation and helped the Yanhua Sect and Great Kang Empire defeat the Great Martial Empire, then advised the newly founded Feng Kingdom. At fifty-one, he had reached the peak beneath the Heavenly Gang Realm but still could not break through its vast divide.

• Wang Pan rejected returning from the simulation, shared his plans with the Yanhua Sect Sect Master, and remained to influence the war and the realm.
• During the decisive battle in Lanzhou, the Yanhua Sect turned its hundreds of thousands of troops against the Great Martial Empire, helping Great Kang rout its forces and kill Wu Wudi.
• The Yanhua Sect joined Great Kang, the Great Martial Empire collapsed into rebellion, and the beggar later unified the realm and founded the Feng Kingdom.
• Wang Pan refused a military title and served as a civil official, advising the beggar on reforms, farming tools, and a canal that eventually made Desolate Prefecture the empire's granary.
• At fifty-one, Wang Pan had cultivated the first six martial realms to unprecedented heights but remained unable to strengthen his body further or overcome the gap to the Heavenly Gang Realm.

Wang Pan spent his life trying to enter the Heavenly Gang Realm without comprehending conviction, but died before finding a way. After Feng Kingdom was nearly destroyed in its war with the Tianyang Empire, a scholar used Wang Pan’s research to create the Cave Heaven Realm, turning the tide and inspiring later generations to honor Wang Pan as a pioneer.

• Wang Pan led the Martial Arts Research Institute while serving as Prime Minister, and the beggar allowed him to retain his power because he trusted Wang Pan would not outlive him.
• Feng Kingdom expanded rapidly, then fought the Tianyang Empire for twenty years as Wang Pan retired and continued researching martial arts.
• Wang Pan finally comprehended conviction as he died at the age of 112, and the emperor posthumously made him a Duke.
• After Feng Kingdom suffered repeated defeats, a scholar discovered Wang Pan’s notes and devised the Cave Heaven Realm by combining the first six realms’ powers.
• The first Cave Heaven Realm martial artist defeated a veteran Heavenly Gang Realm fighter, and Feng Kingdom’s new warriors went on to defeat the Tianyang Empire.
• Feng Kingdom conquered many nations, and generations later people honored the scholar as the Martial Ancestor and Wang Pan as a pioneer.

After completing his Life Simulation, Wang Pan received an SSS evaluation, gained the Pioneer title, and discovered how conviction combined with perfected martial skills to create Intent. Now recovered and stronger, he considered choosing a Natal Divine Weapon but found the prices far beyond his means.

• Wang Pan received an SSS evaluation, gained the Pioneer title, doubled his combat power, and earned 192,000 Simulation Points.
• Wang Pan shared his Robust Physique talent with his mother, Zhang Yao, and found that his injuries had fully healed.
• Wang Pan realized his conviction was life and death, merged it with his perfected martial skill, and awakened Life and Death Intent.
• Wang Pan learned that Soldier Realm Simulators needed Natal Divine Weapons and browsed the mall for a sword.
• Wang Pan closed the mall after seeing that even lower-tier sword artifacts cost more Simulation Points than he could afford.

Wang Pan decided to enter a Special Simulation World to forge a powerful sword artifact, spending most of his Simulation Points on Identity Cards and an Elementary Swordsmanship Legacy. He shared his Robust Physique talent with Zhang Yao and gave Wang Jun an Identity Card, leaving his father stunned by how quickly he had advanced.

• Wang Pan learned that abnormal death in a Special Simulation World would be real and that he could not use outside Cultivation Systems, but he chose to enter one rather than settle for a Mystic Tier weapon.
• Wang Pan spent twenty thousand Simulation Points on two Identity Cards and one hundred and fifty thousand on the Elementary Swordsmanship Legacy, absorbing its specialized sword knowledge.
• Wang Pan shared his Robust Physique talent with Zhang Yao, whose body turned red and began sweating as her strength and energy increased.
• Wang Pan gave Wang Jun an Identity Card, but Wang Jun urged him to save his Simulation Points for himself and Xiangxiang.
• Wang Pan revealed that he was already a Yellow Soldier Realm Tier 2 Simulator, shocking Wang Jun, who had thought he was still a Sixth Rank Simulator.

Wang Pan told Wang Jun that his Simulator rank had rapidly advanced, and his father warned him to keep it secret as unnatural deaths overwhelmed Chu Prefecture. The family’s conversation ended on a lighter note as Wang Pan praised Zhang Yao’s rejuvenated appearance.

• Wang Pan revealed his rapid advancement to Yellow Soldier Realm Tier 2, and Wang Jun cautioned him to conceal his strength until he could protect himself.
• Wang Jun explained that officials were considering relocating Chu Prefecture’s residents to Tianchu City because Simulators could not protect the region’s vast population.
• Wang Jun told Wang Pan that unnatural deaths in Jiang City were rising sharply and warned that the World Destruction Society and the Saviors might target him if they learned of his rapid progress.
• Wang Pan agreed to keep his rank secret, and he and Wang Jun hid their discussion when Zhang Yao called them to eat.
• Wang Pan complimented Zhang Yao’s youthful appearance, and she laughed that Xiangxiang would disagree with his praise.

Wang Jun was shocked to see Zhang Yao looking young again, and Wang Pan’s family celebrated the change over lunch. Wang Xiangxiang called from Chu State University, learned what had happened, and secured Wang Pan’s promise that he would help her regain her youth in the future.

• Wang Jun saw Zhang Yao’s youthful appearance and praised her, while Wang Pan nearly exposed his father’s hidden private money.
• Zhang Yao told Wang Jun and Wang Pan to wash their hands and eat, and Wang Jun chose not to ask how Wang Pan had helped her.
• Wang Xiangxiang video-called her family from Chu State University and was surprised to see Zhang Yao looking young.
• Wang Xiangxiang asked Wang Pan to help her regain her youth when she grew old, and he agreed in exchange for a kiss.
• Wang Xiangxiang kissed the camera and ended the call, leaving Wang Jun sulking because she had not spoken to him.

Wang Jun returned to the Simulator Administration and was assigned two cases involving mass deaths, then led his squad to investigate the World Destruction Society. When he learned that Golden Orchard was under attack, he rushed toward the residential complex at full strength.

• Wang Jun returned to work at the Simulator Administration and agreed to treat his colleagues to barbecue after his shift.
• The branch director assigned Wang Jun cases concerning the blood-drained villagers of Shuangtang Village and a Flesh and Blood Altar at a Jiang City New District residential complex.
• A World Destruction Society leader incited cloaked followers to slaughter residents and offer their flesh and souls to the World-Destroying Beast.
• Wang Jun led his squad to raid a World Destruction Society stronghold, but his team found too few members there to account for the killings.
• After Intelligence reported that Golden Orchard had lost contact, Wang Jun recognized it as the target and surged toward it at full strength.

Wang Pan rescued Zhang Yao from the World Destruction Society’s attack on their residential complex and reunited her with Wang Jun. After she was safe, Wang Pan hunted down Li Qing, killed him, and forced the remaining attackers to flee.

• Wang Pan broke into Zhang Yao’s room, told her that people had been killed in the complex, and carried her out while killing an attacker at their door.
• Wang Pan cut down several World Destruction Society members who tried to stop him and escaped the complex with Zhang Yao.
• Wang Pan reunited Zhang Yao with Wang Jun, who ordered his squad to hunt the attackers while Wang Pan returned to fight.
• Wang Pan pursued Li Qing and crushed him in midair with overwhelming force.
• The World Destruction Society members abandoned calls for revenge and scattered after Li Qing’s death.