Chapter Summaries

Black Heaven Dao Lord subdued the World Destruction Society’s summoned servants and forced the survivors to serve Wang Pan, while Mo Yue narrowly survived a lethal attack by resurrecting through a seed. Wang Pan led the group into Chu State University, leaving the Black Tortoise’s Remnant Soul to pretend it had seen nothing.

• Black Heaven Dao Lord ordered the Fox-Eared White-Haired Little Loli to serve Wang Pan, but she and the others tried to flee, so Black Heaven Dao Lord captured them and drained the man with Azure Gold Scales.
• Mo Yue watched from hiding, realized the summoned servants were real, and was nearly killed when Black Heaven Dao Lord attacked him from hundreds of miles away.
• A seed revived Mo Yue from his corpse, growing into a plant that produced a baby who rapidly matured into Mo Yue’s adult form.
• Black Heaven Dao Lord forced the Fox-Eared White-Haired Little Loli, the voluptuous beauty, and the sickly young man to reaffirm their loyalty, then killed the World Destruction Society backbone members.
• Wang Pan led Black Heaven Dao Lord and the three surviving servants into Chu State University, while the Black Tortoise’s Remnant Soul played dead.

Jiang Tao killed a powerful Humanoid Scroll Tribe creature and activated Chu State University's grand array, but the battle took a grim turn when Wang Pan arrived with members of the World Destruction Society. Wang Pan refused to explain himself, and Black Heaven Dao Lord began crushing the entrance formations with his overwhelming aura.

• Jiang Tao pierced the Humanoid Scroll Tribe's Divine Soul and killed it, though the attack left him gravely wounded.
• Jiang Tao ordered Hua Qin to activate the grand array's Second Stage, which trapped and killed many Scroll Tribe creatures, including Human King Realm fighters.
• A gateway opened, and Jiang Tao recognized the newcomers' aura as belonging to the World Destruction Society and suspected Black Tortoise Remnant Soul had betrayed them.
• Wang Pan arrived with three World Destruction Society members and Black Heaven Dao Lord, prompting Jiang Tao to demand an explanation.
• Wang Pan refused to explain, then gestured for Black Heaven Dao Lord to advance, and the Dao Lord's aura began collapsing the entrance formations.

Wang Pan forced the World Destruction Society members and his Fox-Eared White-Haired Little Loli servant to fight the Retainer Clan invasion while Black Heaven Dao Lord watched over the arriving Retainer Clan forces. After a day of battle, Chu State University stood amid mountains of Retainer Clan corpses, and Jiang Tao worried that Xia Capital might face an even greater threat.

• Jiang Tao froze under Black Heaven Dao Lord’s pressure and let Wang Pan’s group pass, then wondered whether the grand formation could stop them.
• Wang Pan sent the Sickly Youth and the alluring beauty into battle against the Retainer Clan, and both died fighting.
• Wang Pan ordered the Fox-Eared White-Haired Little Loli to resist the invasion; after she targeted weaker enemies, Black Heaven Dao Lord sent a Human King Realm Ninth Tier Retainer Clan creature to kill her.
• Wang Pan joked with Black Heaven Dao Lord, who gathered powerful Retainer Clan creatures behind him as they obeyed him without question.
• After a day of fighting, Chu State University’s fighters stood atop piles of Retainer Clan corpses, while Jiang Tao worried about the strength of the forces descending on Xia Capital.

Wang Pan effortlessly killed the Scroll Tribe members at Chu Prefecture before leaving, while Xia Country prepared its hidden strength beneath Xia Capital for a massive invasion. Ordinary citizens and advanced weapons held off the first waves until Xia Country’s two Five Emperors Realm experts slew a descending enemy, and hundreds of thousands of Simulators marched out to join the battle.

• Wang Pan killed a Human King Realm Perfection Scroll Tribe member with one finger, then left the cleanup to Black Heaven Dao Lord.
• Xia Capital’s Underground City assembled hundreds of thousands of Simulators and mobilized ordinary citizens to defend its Star Chain.
• When the Scroll Tribe invasion began, Xia Country’s weapons, drones, and mech pilots inflicted heavy casualties, with soldiers sacrificing themselves to hold the line.
• Xia Country’s two Five Emperors Realm experts teamed up and killed the first Five Emperors Realm Scroll Tribe member.
• Hundreds of thousands of Martial General Realm Simulators marched from the city gates in four legions as the Black Tortoise, Vermilion Bird, Azure Dragon, and White Tiger phantoms appeared above them.

Xia Country’s four legions and other Simulators repelled the Scroll Tribe Tide, but the costly victory left the Star Chain and the country’s borders vulnerable. Just as Chen Cheng ordered most forces to return home while guarding the Star Chain, an enormous spatial bubble appeared, prompting an urgent call for reinforcements.

• Xia Country’s four legions used the Four Spirits Grand Array to slaughter Scroll Tribes, killing powerful enemies and pushing the tide back.
• Over three days, Xia Country lost dozens of Human King Realm Simulators and suffered heavy losses among its Marquis Conferment Realm and Martial General Realm forces.
• Xia Country’s Human King Realm Simulators argued over whether to withdraw troops from the Underground City, and Chen Cheng ordered most forces to return while half the Human King Realm Simulators and Chen Cheng and Tianze remained to guard the Star Chain.
• A huge spatial bubble emerged at the Star Chain, and the Marquis Conferment Realm squad requested reinforcements, fired a signal flare, and withdrew to watch from a distance.

Tianze and Chen Cheng discovered that a powerful Scroll Clan creature threatened Xia Capital, so they ordered a mass evacuation and sent the Thirteenth Border Army Corps to carve out a route. When the Azure Emperor Realm Peak Purple-Gold Rat emerged, the two Five Emperors Realm Simulators unleashed their trump cards and fought to delay it while Xia Country evacuated.

• Tianze and Chen Cheng ordered the evacuation of Xia Country and sent the Thirteenth Border Army Corps to destroy the small countries blocking the escape route.
• The Thirteenth Border Army Corps mobilized, broke through enemy defenses, and opened a path for the citizens being transferred.
• More than a hundred Human King Realm Simulators headed to the Thirteenth Border Army Corps, while the remaining Simulators prepared to control Xia Capital's grand formation.
• The spatial bubble burst, and an Azure Emperor Realm Peak Purple-Gold Rat emerged and demanded that the people submit and provide Blood Food.
• Tianze and Chen Cheng raised their realms to Azure Emperor Realm and attacked the Purple-Gold Rat to hold it back.

The Purple-Gold Rat outmaneuvered Tianze and Chen Cheng, devoured Chen Cheng, and turned to hunt the fleeing Human King Realm Simulators. When it cornered Murong Qiushui at a Teleportation Array, a phantom resembling Wang Pan appeared from her body and confronted it.

• The Purple-Gold Rat overwhelmed Tianze and Chen Cheng, while Chen Cheng cut off half his body to escape its attack and quickly regenerated.
• Tianze seized the Purple-Gold Rat’s tail and smashed it into the ground, then used his Natal Divine Weapon to cut its apparent corpse apart.
• Tianze realized the fight had gone too smoothly, and the Purple-Gold Rat revealed that it had devoured Chen Cheng from within and planned to feed on the fleeing Simulators.
• Murong Qiushui tried to escape through a Teleportation Array, but the Purple-Gold Rat destroyed it and caught her before she could flee.
• A phantom resembling Wang Pan emerged from Murong Qiushui and declared that those who violated the Heavenly Rules would suffer countless tribulations, then brought Majestic Heavenly Might down upon the Purple-Gold Rat.

Murong Qiushui’s Heavenly Rules failed to stop the Purple-Gold Rat, but their trigger drew Wang Pan’s consciousness into the sealed Xia Capital Underground Space. Wang Pan weakened the Spawn and attacked it with Burning Heaven, leaving their battle raging as Tianze shielded the surviving Simulators.

• The Purple-Gold Rat devoured the lightning figures, pierced Wang Pan’s phantom, and left Murong Qiushui and the trapped Human King Realm Simulators facing death.
• At Chu State University, Black Heaven Dao Lord killed Human King Realm brood creatures while Jiang Tao, Hua Qin, and Wu Yang cut down Marquis Conferment Realm creatures.
• The next day, Wang Pan sensed that his Heavenly Rules on Murong Qiushui had been triggered and descended into the Xia Capital Underground Space.
• Wang Pan’s Overlord Creature talent weakened the Purple-Gold Rat by one major realm, and he summoned ten suns with Burning Heaven.
• The Purple-Gold Rat transformed into a gigantic Spawn and tried to devour the suns while Tianze protected the Human King Realm Simulators from the clash.

Wang Pan killed the Azure Emperor Realm Peak creature that attacked Xia Capital, and Murong Qiushui revealed that the consciousness protecting her belonged to her eighteen-year-old son. After Xia Country secured the capital and launched an assault at its border, Wang Pan returned to his body and prepared to enter the Simulation World again.

• Wang Pan used Boundless Purgatory to kill the creature as it tried to escape through the Star Chain, and the Power of the Great Sun burned its corpse to ashes.
• Tianze asked Murong Qiushui who had intervened, and she revealed that the powerful being was her son, who was eighteen years and a few months old.
• The Human King Realm Simulators reacted with shock, while they and the others repaired the Teleportation Array, gathered the dead, and cleaned up the battlefield.
• The Thirteenth Border Army Corps crushed the neighboring small country, whose ruler and other officials fled after Xia Country's attack.
• Wang Pan finished his meal, returned to his room, and used an authorization to enter the Simulation World.

Wang Pan received the Mythical Talent: Mirror Image and activated the Human King Realm advancement mission, entering the dangerous Ancient God Realm. He lived as a disgraced scholar supported by courtesans, while a lingering sense that the world was unreal remained unresolved.

• Wang Pan discovered that his Golden Finger had produced the Mythical Talent: Mirror Image, whose power seemed greater than Mythical Talent: Overlord Creature.
• Wang Pan activated the Human King Realm advancement mission despite the warning that failure in the Ancient God Realm would erase him completely.
• Wang Pan was born a celebrated prodigy in the Empty Nether Ancient Kingdom, but after rivals ruined his examination prospects, he squandered his family fortune and lost his home.
• Wang Pan moved into the Sea Sky One Color Building and supported himself with famous poems, becoming a favorite of the courtesans without paying for his stay.
• Wang Pan saved nearly a hundred thousand taels over several years but continued to feel that he had forgotten something important and that the world was not real.
• Wang Pan dismissed his unease, grinned, and told the women to keep the music and dancing going.

After years of worsening memory and frailty, Wang Pan appeared to die, but he woke just as his steward tried to seize his estate. The servants forced him into a coffin and nailed it shut, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Wang Pan noticed his memory and strength fading, briefly questioned why mirrors were unknown, and later grew into a frail old man.
• A maidservant reported that Wang Pan had died, prompting the steward to rush in and scheme to claim his property.
• Wang Pan opened his eyes and confronted the steward, who ordered the guards to carry him away and declare him dead.
• The guards and maidservants forced Wang Pan into an ebony coffin and nailed it shut while the steward prepared to take his estate and flee.

Wang Pan was sealed in a coffin and buried alive by his servants, who divided and fled with his wealth. Years later, after the steward grew rich and powerful through corruption, Wang Pan’s former residence changed hands, and the buried coffin was revealed to contain a cracked Bronze Mirror instead of his corpse.

• The steward divided Wang Pan’s estate among himself, the guards, and the maidservants, then warned them to keep the murder secret and leave the Imperial City.
• The estate guards buried Wang Pan’s coffin in the courtyard, ignoring his cries as he suffocated inside.
• Three days later, the steward sold the properties, secretly kept more than half the proceeds, and fled with his family while the others scattered.
• The steward became a county magistrate, exploited the people with local elites, and later earned a promotion despite the county’s ruin.
• Chen Jia bought and renovated Wang Pan’s former residence, while the buried coffin beneath it held only a cracked Bronze Mirror.

Wang Pan survived the birth of his Mythical Grade Talent: Mirror Image as a cracked Bronze Mirror, then used the world’s Origin Dao to repair himself. While he recovered, the Empty Nether Ancient Kingdom collapsed into civil war and foreign occupation, leaving three rival powers and a deserted imperial capital.

• Wang Pan regained his memories after the Earth Dragon Turning Over devastated the imperial city and killed the Empty Nether Ancient Kingdom’s imperial line.
• Wang Pan realized the Mythical Grade Talent: Mirror Image had transformed him into a mirror and began using Origin Dao to mend his cracked body.
• The Emperor’s death sparked rebellion, power struggles, and the rise of rival claimants and the Path of All Beings.
• Neighboring nations invaded the Empty Nether Ancient Kingdom and seized half its territory while its factions fought among themselves.
• Twelve years later, the Great General, the Princely Lord, and the Path of All Beings remained as the kingdom’s three major powers, while the imperial capital lay abandoned in ruins.

After Li Hao's sister Li Rongrong fell gravely ill, he searched the imperial capital's ruins for treasure to pay for a doctor, unaware that men in their shantytown were exploiting her in exchange for food. He finally uncovered an ebony coffin and prepared to take its burial goods to save her.

• The chapter described how the ruined imperial capital became a dangerous town where scavengers sought buried wealth and the poor struggled to survive.
• Li Hao cared for his feverish sister, Li Rongrong, and left to search the ruins for something valuable enough to buy her treatment.
• Chang Kun and several other men visited the unconscious Li Rongrong, leaving small amounts of food in exchange for abusing her.
• Li Hao searched until nightfall without finding anything, then tripped and recognized the object that had cut his forehead as ebony.
• Li Hao dug up an ebony coffin, prayed for the occupant's forgiveness, and kicked it open to reach its burial goods.

Li Hao broke open an Ebony Coffin hoping to find valuables to pay for medicine for his sister, but found only a cracked Bronze Mirror. When he returned home, he discovered Li Rongrong had died, yet he denied the truth and rushed to the Medical Hall; the doctor agreed to follow him to the coffin site after Li Hao promised its remains could be sold.

• Li Hao smashed the Ebony Coffin and found no burial goods or remains, only a cracked Bronze Mirror, which he took with him.
• Li Hao returned to the Thatched Hut and realized Li Rongrong was dead, but he told himself medicine could still save her and ran to find a doctor.
• The old doctor refused to help without payment until Li Hao offered the Bronze Mirror and told him about the shattered Ebony Coffin.
• The doctor brought two sturdy apprentices and followed Li Hao through the shantytown toward the coffin site.

After Li Rongrong died, Li Hao learned she had been sexually abused and had traded her body for food, then accepted a pact with the Ancient God Wang Pan for revenge and to preserve her corpse. As Wang Pan took Li Hao’s immense Humanity’s Destiny, he revealed that the original Li Hao had died and a new being born from his obsession now controlled his body.

• The elderly physician confirmed that Li Rongrong had been dead for at least half a day and that she had suffocated after being sexually abused by multiple people.
• Li Hao realized the food his sister had brought home had been payment for enduring the abuse, and he spent the night mourning her before washing and dressing her body.
• Wang Pan offered Li Hao the power to take revenge and a way to preserve Li Rongrong’s corpse in exchange for Li Hao’s Humanity’s Destiny, and Li Hao accepted.
• Wang Pan explained that Li Hao’s original self had died and that a new Li Hao, formed from his lingering obsession, had taken control of his body.
• Wang Pan drew Li Hao’s Humanity’s Destiny into the Bronze Mirror, repairing its Dao Injuries as the Red Dragon around Li Hao dissolved into the mirror.

Wang Pan used Li Hao’s Humanity’s Destiny to repair the Bronze Mirror and reach the Mystic Emperor Realm, then punished those who had buried him and stolen his estate. After Li Hao awakened, Wang Pan proposed a new master-disciple pact to guide and protect him in exchange for a future favor, and Li Hao agreed.

• Wang Pan absorbed Li Hao’s Humanity’s Destiny, reached the Mystic Emperor Realm, and realized that mastering all nine origins could let an Ancient God transform nine times.
• Wang Pan preserved Li Rongrong’s body in deep-blue ice and used the mirror to trace the servants who had buried him and seized his estate.
• Wang Pan erased those servants and their relatives within three generations from existence, including their traces in other people’s memories.
• After half a month, Li Hao awakened with a powerful, condensed spirit and told Wang Pan their transaction was over.
• Wang Pan offered to guide Li Hao into the path and protect his Dao in exchange for a future favor, and Li Hao accepted.

Wang Pan realized the Simulation Mark’s silence might mean he could not return from the Ancient God Realm, then explained the realm’s suppression of Li Hao’s spiritual power and revealed the people responsible for Li Rongrong’s suffering. Li Hao rejected a plan that would kill innocent residents and left to pursue revenge himself, while Wang Pan chose not to interfere in his conflicts with ordinary people.

• Wang Pan suspected that he could not leave the Ancient God Realm because the Simulation Mark had stopped responding.
• Wang Pan explained that Li Hao’s spiritual power was suppressed and warned him that his enemies would not wait for him to wield the Origin.
• Wang Pan used a mirror to reveal more than a hundred people who had tormented Li Rongrong, and Li Hao sensed their locations.
• Wang Pan suggested setting fire to the crowded shantytown, but Li Hao refused because its innocent residents would die too.
• Li Hao entrusted Li Rongrong’s remains to Wang Pan and left to pursue his enemies, while Wang Pan resolved not to intervene in his struggles with ordinary people.

Wang Pan extended the lives of Li Hao’s enemies so Li Hao could personally resolve his obsession, then resumed cultivating the Ancient God Realm’s origins. In the shantytown, Chang Kun pressured his young daughter-in-law to bear another child for the Chang family, and she accepted after he offered her an egg.

• Wang Pan sent strands of origin power to protect Li Hao’s enemies and prolong their lives until Li Hao could kill them himself.
• Wang Pan hid the Thatched Hut from everyone but Li Hao and focused on cultivating the Ancient God Realm’s Heaven and Earth Origin.
• Chang Kun’s daughter-in-law begged him to feed Chang Fulin, but Chang Kun refused and questioned why she had not conceived after thirteen years of marriage.
• Chang Kun proposed fathering another child with his daughter-in-law to preserve the Chang family bloodline, saying he would not stop her from leaving Chang Fulin afterward.
• Chang Kun offered her an egg, and his daughter-in-law accepted it despite her guilt toward Chang Fulin.

Li Hao killed Chang Kun after witnessing his abuse of Chang Fulin’s wife, then left the surviving family unharmed. He entered Tu Gang’s courtyard and faced Tu Gang and his armed thugs.

• Chang Kun prepared to assault his daughter-in-law and threatened Chang Fulin, who was tied to a pillar.
• Li Hao quietly entered Chang Kun’s home, then killed Chang Kun while Chang Kun’s daughter-in-law waited in the inner room.
• Chang Kun’s daughter-in-law panicked at the sight of Chang Kun’s severed head, and Li Hao assured her he had come only for Chang Kun before leaving.
• After Li Hao departed, Chang Kun’s daughter-in-law freed Chang Fulin and put on her clothes.
• Li Hao entered Tu Gang’s courtyard, where Tu Gang ordered him out and nearby thugs rushed over with weapons.