Chapter Summaries

The Willow Tree transformed into the Azure Wood Dragon, fulfilled its wish to become a dragon, and devastated the Great Qian army. The soldiers’ united spirit wounded it before their lives were spent, but the Azure Wood Dragon regenerated and led the demon beasts into human territory, leaving Skyfire City as humanity’s refuge.

• The Willow Tree consumed Essence of Flesh and Blood and transformed into the Azure Wood Dragon, which declared that humanity’s extinction would witness its joy.
• The Azure Wood Dragon appeared on the battlefield and killed countless Great Qian soldiers with its Dragon Breath and Azure Wood Domain.
• An eighteen-year-old soldier charged the dragon and died, inspiring the soldiers to unite their Essence, Qi, and Spirit into a Battle Saber that severed one of its claws.
• The Azure Wood Dragon regenerated its claw and led the demon beasts, alongside the four great Demon Emperors, through the human defenses and into Great Qian.
• With humanity’s elite forces gathered in Skyfire City, survivors fled there with their families for shelter.

As the demonic beast race attacked humanity’s last refuge, Skyfire City, Wang Pan struggled with the reality of the people he had met in his Simulation Worlds, especially Empress Dugu. After she vanished from him and appeared deep beneath the city, she continued past the Phoenix’s corpse toward the heart of the lava.

• The Tianhua Sect Grand Elder told a Direct Disciple that the humans gathered at Skyfire City had to stay and hold out, despite the coming slaughter.
• Wang Pan embraced Empress Dugu and refused to leave her, saying he could return from death; she called him her husband before vanishing as the attack began.
• Wang Pan wondered whether the Simulation Worlds and their people had been real, concluding that Empress Dugu and everyone he had met truly existed.
• The human grand formation trapped the demonic beast experts while human forebears fought them, but the Azure Wood Dragon remained confident it could overcome the formation.
• Empress Dugu appeared deep in the underground lava, passed the Phoenix’s corpse, and continued onward with the Avian Fan protecting her from the heat.

Empress Dugu sacrificed herself beneath the supervolcano, and her soul entered a phoenix egg as the Phoenix Demon Core exploded. The blast annihilated Skyfire City and a vast portion of the planet, leaving the world in ruins and entering an ice age.

• Empress Dugu descended into the volcano, poured her strength into the Phoenix Demon Core, and died as her soul was drawn into a golden phoenix-patterned egg.
• The Phoenix Demon Core shattered and exploded, while Wang Pan sensed the danger and the Azure Wood Dragon killed the remaining human experts before attempting to flee.
• The explosion blasted a vast section of the planet into the sky, and the Azure Wood Dragon turned to ash after the grand formation delayed its escape.
• Gravity pulled enormous fragments of land back down over the following centuries and millennia, devastating the planet and ushering in an ice age.
• The supervolcano and Skyfire City vanished into a colossal crater that gradually filled with magma to become a lava lake.

Wang Pan returned from the Simulation World and received an X evaluation, extra Simulation Authorities, the King Pan Sword, and a Protection Halo. His realm advanced to Mystic Soldier Realm Stage Two, and he gained new titles, talents, and 2,160,000 Simulation Points before deciding to pursue an upgraded capitalist title in his next simulation.

• Wang Pan returned with the King Pan Sword and learned that Life Simulation had persuaded the World Will to let him visit again.
• Life Simulation gave Wang Pan an X evaluation, three additional Simulation Authorities, the King Pan Sword, and a Protection Halo.
• Wang Pan advanced to Mystic Soldier Realm Stage Two and reasoned that the Main World’s cultivation system surpassed those in Simulation Worlds at equal realms.
• Wang Pan received the Human Race Night Watchman title and four talents, including Audacious Lust and Cao Wei Legacy.
• Wang Pan earned 2,160,000 Simulation Points and decided to try for a title above capitalist in his next Simulation World.

After recovering from his latest Simulation World, Wang Pan spent time with his parents and told them he planned to travel to Chu Prefecture that afternoon. His parents cautioned him to stay alert as he left home.

• Wang Pan returned from the Simulator Administration's Special Space, slept through the day, and woke feeling refreshed.
• Zhang Yao told Wang Pan his dinner was waiting, and he ate, washed the dishes, and spent time with her before going back to sleep.
• Wang Jun asked Wang Pan whether frequent Simulation Worlds would affect him, then provoked Zhang Yao and begged her to release his ear.
• Wang Pan told his parents he was going to Chu Prefecture that afternoon, and Wang Jun reminded him to be careful while traveling.

Wang Pan traveled to Chu Prefecture and entered Chu State University, where he met Lin Xue before reuniting with Wang Xiangxiang. He gave Wang Xiangxiang his protection, which let her wield his strongest strike once in each Simulation World.

• Wang Pan arrived at Chu State University and passed its strict identity checks under the watch of the Black Tortoise phantom.
• Lin Xue tried to draw Wang Pan into a guide-for-hire arrangement, but he rebuffed her after touching her butt.
• Wang Pan greeted Wang Xiangxiang and apologized awkwardly when she reminded him he had promised to travel to Chu Prefecture with her.
• Wang Pan initiated his protection for Wang Xiangxiang, and she accepted it, gaining access to his strongest strike once in each Simulation World.

Wang Pan visited Wang Xiangxiang at Chu State University, where she learned about his powerful titles and protection. He spent the evening with her at the campus hotel and offered her two valuable cards, including a Simulator Authority Card, but she refused them.

• Wang Xiangxiang learned that Wang Pan held the titles Martial King, Supreme Sage Demon Master, and Human Race Night Watchman, and he told her to keep his abilities secret.
• Wang Pan agreed to stay for the day after Wang Xiangxiang pretended to cry, then let her show him around Chu State University.
• Wang Pan and Wang Xiangxiang went to the campus hotel, where she stayed with him rather than returning to her dorm.
• Wang Xiangxiang grew embarrassed after noticing a box on the bedside table, and Wang Pan teased her before they playfully tussled.
• Wang Pan offered Wang Xiangxiang an Identity Card and a Simulator Authority Card, but she refused because the cards were too precious.

Wang Pan gave Wang Xiangxiang two cards and spent the night with her before returning to Jiang City, where he found Battalion Commander Liu Han waiting at his home. Liu Han presented him with a reward and thanks, but Wang Pan suspected the visit had another purpose.

• Wang Xiangxiang refused Wang Pan's five hundred thousand Simulation Points, but accepted the two cards after he told her she was priceless to him.
• Wang Pan and Wang Xiangxiang shared a bed, and he held her through the night before leaving in the morning.
• Wang Pan teased Wang Xiangxiang about wetting the bed, then left her at the hotel and returned to Jiang City.
• Wang Pan arrived home and met Liu Han, who praised him and presented three thousand Simulation Points on behalf of the Jiang City Simulator Administration.
• Wang Pan questioned why a Battalion Commander had personally come to thank him for his contributions to Jiang City.

Wang Pan accepted the Jiang City Simulator Administration’s reward but declined Liu Han’s offer to join, then proposed trading brain-transplant technology that could save the dying and create powerful robotic bodies. Liu Han left to report the proposal to his superiors.

• Wang Pan accepted three thousand Simulation Points from Liu Han on behalf of the Jiang City Simulator Administration.
• Liu Han invited Wang Pan to join the Simulator Administration, but Wang Pan politely refused, and Wang Jun was relieved.
• Wang Pan offered to provide technology for transplanting brains into robotic bodies, which could extend lives and give recipients strength comparable to an Eighth-Rank Simulator.
• Liu Han objected that the higher authorities would not allow human experiments, but Wang Pan argued that the technology could save people near death from age or terminal illness.
• Liu Han asked Wang Pan to prepare the complete technical documentation and hurried away to report the proposal to his superiors.

Wang Pan’s technology was accepted for official verification, while a World Destruction Society gathering in Jiang City turned to plans for a massive blood sacrifice. The society’s leader proposed sacrificing all of Jiang City before Chu Prefecture’s cities merged.

• Xia Country’s higher-ups received Wang Pan’s technology for verification and planned limited use for severely injured or terminally ill people.
• At a manor outside Jiang City, Huai Hua discussed evading the Simulator Administration and was warned by an old man to control her emotions.
• The gathering’s members secretly guarded against the old man, suspecting that his apparent normality meant he was close to losing control.
• A powerful middle-aged man announced that Chu Prefecture planned to merge its cities, alarming the World Destruction Society members.
• The middle-aged man declared that the society would blood-sacrifice all of Jiang City before the merger and asked who supported or opposed the plan.

The World Destruction Society agreed to blood-sacrifice Jiang City, though its members had no settled plan and nearly turned on Wu Si before the old man led them into a late-night discussion. Meanwhile, the Jiang City Simulator Administration prepared to draw the Society into the open, and its aging director left the next step to Bai Shan.

• The World Destruction Society members cheered for Wu Si’s proposal to blood-sacrifice Jiang City, then faltered when he asked for a specific plan.
• The old man threatened Wu Si after he lost his temper, and Wu Si backed down under the Society members’ bloodlust.
• The old man resumed the discussion, and the Society members left the manor separately deep into the night.
• The director asked Bai Shan whether the information had been sent out and whether they should deal with the person who was no longer useful; the director ordered him kept to avoid alerting the enemy.
• The director said he would draw the World Destruction Society into the open and leave what followed to Bai Shan.

Wang Pan began a new simulation as the sole son of a wealthy merchant family in a weak magic system, where his advanced Piercing Sight gave him an unexpected advantage. He learned that his projected life ended in execution after he avenged an old beating, while his mother scolded Xiao Mei for letting him get dirty.

• The director and Bai Shan discussed the director's failed Simulator Assessment, the helpful technology Wang Pan had provided, and their plan to lure out the World Destruction Society without endangering Jiang City.
• Wang Pan spent a Simulation Authority and received the Advanced Talent Piercing Sight before starting a new Life Simulation.
• Wang Pan's generated life story predicted that he would avenge the noble who had beaten him, then be executed after the Empire confiscated his family's assets during a war.
• At age ten, Wang Pan judged the world's Magic-Guided Power weak and costly, while his father avoided him and began keeping concubines as financial backups.
• Wang Pan tested Piercing Sight on Xiao Mei, then went to the Dining Hall, where his mother reprimanded her for letting him get grass on his clothes.

Han Bingning learned that Wang Hai had fathered children with women outside the household and ordered her retainer to kill them while sparing Wang Hai. Meanwhile, Wang Pan watched men eagerly seek enlistment and recognized the empire’s exploitative recruitment as a way to advance his capitalist ambitions.

• Wang Pan apologized to Han Bingning, who forgave him and invited him to eat.
• A retainer told Han Bingning that Wang Hai’s concubines had borne him a son and that another was pregnant, so Han Bingning ordered the women killed and Wang Hai punished but kept alive.
• Han Bingning resolved to protect Wang Pan’s inheritance and eventually use the Wang family’s wealth and her former connections to secure him a noble title.
• Wang Pan saw crowds competing to enlist, learned that recruits had to provide their own weapons and food, and thought the empire’s methods could help him rise beyond his capitalist title.
• A middle-aged officer ordered his subordinate to demand five hundred Copper Coins from each remaining recruit, beating those who could not pay.

Wang Pan was extorted at the Recruitment Office and forced to register as a reservist, though he claimed to be ten years old. After returning to the estate, he told Han Bingning what happened, and she ordered the soldiers who had followed him killed.

• A minor official extorted recruits for Copper Coins, beating those who could not pay and charging others to avoid punishment.
• The minor official called out Wang Pan, who paid for himself and his two lackeys but objected to becoming a soldier.
• The official dismissed Wang Pan’s claim that he was ten and ordered him to report to the Outer City Barracks at dawn.
• The minor official sent two soldiers to follow Wang Pan, who suspected the Empire’s long survival had another explanation.
• Wang Pan ordered his two lackeys to receive fifty strokes, then told Han Bingning he had to report to the barracks.
• Han Bingning ordered a middle-aged woman to kill the two soldiers who had followed Wang Pan.

Wang Pan proved his strength to Han Bingning and agreed to delay joining the army while she sought him a noble title. She showed him her underground vault and revealed a rifle, leaving him stunned.

• Wang Pan asked to join the army, and Han Bingning agreed to let him prove his strength against the Wang family retainers.
• Wang Pan defeated all twenty or thirty retainers in the courtyard, convincing Han Bingning of his abilities.
• Han Bingning promised to seek Wang Pan a noble title soon, and he agreed to wait before joining the army.
• Han Bingning led Wang Pan through a hidden passage to an underground chamber filled with riches, weapons, and equipment.
• Han Bingning opened a concealed compartment at the end of the chamber and took out a rifle, astonishing Wang Pan.

Han Bingning gave Wang Pan the Ice Gun, a piece of Magic-Guided Technology from her fallen family, and he discovered its overwhelming power. After promising to reclaim the Han Family’s lost Magic-Tech Armor, Wang Pan learned that Han Bingning intended to secure noble status for him.

• Han Bingning explained that nobles gained their status by possessing Magic-Guided Technology and gave Wang Pan the Ice Gun, her family’s remaining heirloom.
• Wang Pan’s Magic-Guided Power resonated with the Ice Gun, forming an ice-blue bullet when he charged it.
• Wang Pan fired the Ice Gun and pierced several sets of armor, then shattered the frost-covered metal with a touch.
• Han Bingning warned Wang Pan about Magic-Tech Armor’s defenses, and he promised to reclaim the Han Family’s lost armor and restore her noble status.
• Han Bingning reassured Wang Pan that his safety mattered more than reclaiming the armor and resolved to secure noble status for him.

Wang Pan became a noble and a Thousand-Man General, then used his new authority to punish Zhou Yuan, who had previously tried to exploit him. Over the next three years, Wang Pan cultivated and refined the Ice Gun’s ammunition, reaching the peak of the Magus realm by age thirteen.

• Wang Pan realized a noble had likely targeted him to obtain his Ice Gun and expected its compatible Magic-Tech Armor owner to seek him out.
• With Han Bingning’s help, Wang Pan gained noble status and entered the Military Camp as a Thousand-Man General.
• Wang Pan recognized Zhou Yuan, who begged for his life after realizing Wang Pan had become his superior.
• Wang Pan accused Zhou Yuan of being an enemy spy and ordered Deputy General Pang to execute him.
• Over three years, Wang Pan spent more than a hundred thousand Gold Coins cultivating to the peak of the Magus realm and developed several types of Ice Gun bullets.

Over the past three years, Wang Pan became a noble and rose to command five thousand troops while his family’s business prospered under Han Bingning. When Yulan reported that well-equipped rebels had captured Pingyang County, Wang Pan suspected the campaign was a plot by someone seeking his Ice Gun.

• Han Bingning’s retainers killed Wang Hai’s mistresses and their children, and Wang Hai later died after falling ill when he learned Wang Pan had become a noble.
• Han Bingning continued giving the nobles who protected the Wang family ten percent of its profits, and they arranged for Wang Pan to be promoted in rank.
• Yulan told Wang Pan that rebel forces had captured Pingyang County and that the army had orders to suppress them and investigate who was backing them.
• Wang Pan ordered Deputy General Pang to prepare the troops to march, then noticed the nearby Military Camp had been bypassed in favor of his distant force.
• Wang Pan suspected that the well-equipped rebels had been arranged to kill him while making his death appear to be a consequence of fighting rebels.

Wang Pan’s Imperial army reached Pingyang County and faced Li Xunnan’s well-equipped rebels. Li Xunnan killed two rebel leaders who wanted to break from the Lin Family, then led the rebels out to meet the Imperial army as battle began.

• Wang Pan arrived at Pingyang County with an army of more than fifty thousand and found the county devastated and the rebels entrenched in the seat.
• Li Xunnan rejected Fifth Brother’s proposal to abandon the Lin Family and killed him and Seventh Brother when they supported the plan.
• Li Xunnan warned the remaining leaders to obey the Lin Family’s orders or leave, then heard that an Imperial army was approaching.
• Li Xunnan ordered the rebels to prepare for battle and led them out of Pingyang County Seat.
• Wang Pan saw the rebels’ orderly ranks, complete equipment, and cavalry, and the two armies began fighting.

Wang Pan charged into the battle and slaughtered rebel soldiers with overwhelming strength, defeating two powerful rebel leaders. After his sword shattered in a clash with a hammer-wielding leader, Wang Pan attacked barehanded and sent the rebel leader flying.

• Wang Pan ignored Deputy General Pang’s warning and led his men into the melee, killing the rebels who surrounded him.
• Wang Pan dodged a heavy broadsword strike, crushed the rebel leader’s throat, and kicked him into nearby rebels.
• Wang Pan caught an arrow fired from a Strong Bow and hurled it back, killing the archer.
• Wang Pan confronted a rebel leader armed with Copper Hammers, and their clash shattered Wang Pan’s sword.
• Wang Pan seized the hammer-wielding rebel leader’s wrist, crushed it, struck his chest, and leaped after his flying body.