Chapter Summaries

After Wang Pan’s defeat of the emperor’s fifty thousand troops, the emperor submitted and partnered with him to spread martial arts and expand the dynasty. As the New Army conquered neighboring nations, Wang Pan searched its ranks for cultivators, but twelve years passed before anyone learned the Sky River Qi Cultivation Method.

• The emperor traveled to the Wang Family Ancestral Land, met Wang Pan, and returned to grant him a hereditary dukedom while promoting paper and Movable Type Printing.
• The emperor formed the New Army, which Wang Xiao'er, Wang Erxiao, and more than a hundred Household Servants trained; three years later, fifty thousand soldiers destroyed a neighboring army of six hundred thousand and conquered its nation.
• The emperor offered martial arts instruction to New Army recruits, then secretly ordered the army to crush aristocratic clans and powerful families that demanded the techniques be made public.
• The New Army conquered twelve nations in a year to secure resources, while the emperor secretly sought cultivation knowledge and Wang Pan accepted his suspicions as natural.
• Wang Pan gathered several thousand skilled New Army martial artists and taught them the Sky River Qi Cultivation Method, giving each one a Low-Grade Spirit Stone daily.
• After twelve years, one person finally began practicing the Sky River Qi Cultivation Method, and Wang Pan reacted with a twitch of his mouth.

Wang Pan trained twenty-eight disciples while compressing his Magic Power in a race against his limited lifespan, and the Wang family and dynasty prospered around him. He married the emperor’s young daughter, and a year later, younger Wang family members struggled to accept that her child would be their Twelfth Grandfather.

• Wang Pan accepted the twenty-eight people who had grasped the basics of the Sky River Qi Cultivation Method as disciples and continued teaching them Fundamental Cultivation Methods.
• Wang Pan compressed his Magic Power into liquid, discovering that pills and other treasures from the Sky River Sect's Secret Treasure were too dangerous or unreliable to help him cultivate faster.
• The emperor’s third son succeeded to the throne, and the Wang family reunited and flourished as Wang Pan’s descendants multiplied.
• Wang Pan refused the emperor’s marriage proposal at first but agreed after seeing the emperor’s beautiful daughter; the eldest Imperial Prince rebelled in protest and was imprisoned.
• The emperor released the eldest Imperial Prince after the wedding and groomed him as his successor.
• A year later, younger Wang family members complained that the emperor’s new child would become their Twelfth Grandfather, but they were too afraid of Wang Pan to object.

Wang Pan reached the Golden Core Stage but realized he could not advance further without resources, while the dynasty’s New Army split into rebellion after its conquests ended. He sent four disciples to suppress the rebels, and they crushed the revolt before ordering the surrendered soldiers buried alive.

• At 160 years old, Wang Pan formed an Eighth-Grade Golden Core, extending his lifespan to five hundred years but finding that he lacked the resources to progress beyond the Early Golden Core Stage.
• When Wang Pan was 230, more than a third of the New Army rebelled, and the emperor traveled to the Wang Family Ancestral Land to ask Wang Pan for help.
• Wang Pan ordered four disciples to deal with the New Army rebellion and left the response to their judgment.
• The four disciples reached the New Army encampment in three days and, with soldiers loyal to the dynasty, defeated the rebels two days later.
• The disciples killed over 140,000 rebel soldiers, accepted the remaining surrenders, and ordered them all buried alive.

Wang Pan forced the dynasty to preserve and distribute the Sky River Sect’s Fundamental Cultivation Methods, using repeated purges to stop anyone from destroying them. After faking his death twice to expose opponents, he left the dynasty wary of the methods and prepared for a future Spiritual Energy Resurgence.

• After people failed to cultivate from the distributed Fundamental Cultivation Methods and began destroying them, Wang Pan ordered executions, and the New Army killed tens of millions over three months.
• Wang Pan had statues bearing his likeness and the methods sunk into rivers, then faked his death in the 320th year to expose those who resumed destroying the texts.
• Wang Pan returned and began another purge, killing ministers, aristocratic families, great clans, and New Army members who had destroyed methods or contacted his opponents.
• The emperor ordered monuments erected in every city and village recording the laws and the deaths caused by destroying Fundamental Cultivation Methods.
• Wang Pan’s death was announced again in the 416th year, but after twenty years he reappeared, executed tens of thousands more, and welcomed a newborn daughter into the Wang family.

Wang Pan raised his gifted daughter Wang Yue'er, then died before Spiritual Energy Resurgence arrived, leaving his family to endure centuries of upheaval and loss. When the resurgence finally came, the Wang family used his preserved resources to rapidly increase its strength and produce its first Nascent Soul Stage cultivator.

• Wang Pan taught Wang Yue'er cultivation, and she formed a seventh-grade Golden Core at age 460.
• At age 498, Wang Pan entrusted his plans to Wang Yue'er and died three months later, though many people believed he had faked his death.
• Wang Yue'er led the Wang family into hiding after the dynasty collapsed, then massacred millions when several new dynasties tried to destroy Wang Pan's Fundamental Cultivation Methods.
• Wang Yue'er died at age 496, and the Wang family later suffered internal betrayal, recovered stolen treasures, and restricted each generation to three cultivators.
• After technology devastated the Wang family, its survivors hid until Spiritual Energy Resurgence arrived 7,300 years after Wang Pan's death, whereupon they opened his Secret Treasures and began cultivating rapidly.
• The Wang family produced its first Nascent Soul Stage cultivator 7,600 years after Wang Pan's death, as spiritual energy surged again and others sensed the change.

Wang Pan learned that his plan succeeded: after Spiritual Energy Resurgence, the Wang family rose to power, shared cultivation methods, and was revered for Wang Pan’s legacy. The simulation ended with Wang Pan receiving a powerful discount privilege, advancing to Earth Soldier Realm Stage Six, and earning the Immortal King title.

• After Spiritual Energy Resurgence, the Wang family destroyed several nations that had massacred its ancestors, then shared basic and mid-tier Fundamental Cultivation Methods with other factions.
• Archaeologists discovered Wang Pan’s statue and its inscribed cultivation methods, and people honored him with the title Immortal King.
• The world transformed after nine great surges of spiritual energy, and the Wang family reached its zenith as cultivation spread across the world.
• Wang Pan learned that the Wang family endured and that ordinary people gained access to cultivation, then the Life Simulation awarded him an X evaluation, three Simulation Authorities, and a privilege to buy Simulator Mall items at one-tenth price.
• Wang Pan advanced to Earth Soldier Realm Stage Six and received the Immortal King title, which lowered Cultivation System opponents by one major realm while raising his own realm by one.

After earning the favor of a Seventh-Tier Cultivation World and 11.7 million Simulation Points, Wang Pan returned to Ancient God Star and learned that the powerful World of Sequence Nine had fallen. The Simulation Mark announced a deadly Challenger Tournament for simulators below the Human King Realm, and the promised benefits made them eager to participate.

• Wang Pan considered the Seventh-Tier World's favor a valuable opportunity but chose not to remain in the Cultivation World, then received 11.7 million Simulation Points.
• Wang Pan returned to the Main World, shared a meal with Zhang Yao, and learned that the World of Sequence Nine had been breached, leaving Ancient God Star exposed to invasion.
• Human King Realm simulators on Ancient God Star began meeting to discuss the fall of Sequence Nine and its threat to their world.
• The Simulation Mark announced a Challenger Tournament beginning in ten days, warning that participants below the Human King Realm would truly die if they were killed.
• Wang Pan wondered why simulators would enter the deadly tournament, and the Simulation Mark displayed benefits that drove them mad.

Wang Pan registered for the Challenger Tournament and warned Wang Xiangxiang not to join, while reflecting on Lan Hua’s decision to spare him. Three days later, Chu Prefecture sent reinforcements to Jiang City, where new director Nan Min began imposing rules that served his own interests.

• The Challenger Tournament announced Peak Talent, title, and Simulation Point rewards, and Wang Pan registered while deciding he would fight for first place.
• Wang Pan called Wang Xiangxiang to warn her against joining, teased her about wetting the bed, and she hung up before smashing a teddy bear in embarrassment.
• At dinner, Wang Jun lamented Lan Hua’s secret cultivation and the losses in Jiang City, while Zhang Yao worried about his safety.
• Wang Pan remembered that Lan Hua had spared him and resolved to kill Lan Hua if they met again.
• Three days later, Chu Prefecture’s team arrived, and Nan Min took over as director of the Jiang City Simulator Administration.
• Nan Min imposed strict promotion and dismissal rules, using the changes to install his allies and enrich himself.

Nan Min took Wang Pan’s reward and planned to seize more from him, while Bai Shan visited Wang Pan to recruit him and revealed the theft. Wang Pan implied he would kill Nan Min, leaving Bai Shan scrambling to stop him.

• Nan Min received Wang Pan’s three million Simulation Points and Earth Tier divine weapon, spent the points on a talent, and decided to keep the reward and target Wang Pan for more.
• Nan Min’s new rules stripped Wang Jun of his team leader position, prompting Wang Jun to bring Bai Shan to Wang Pan.
• Bai Shan invited Wang Pan to join the Jiang City Simulator Administration, but Wang Pan refused while promising to help Jiang City when needed.
• Bai Shan mentioned Wang Pan’s reward, and Wang Pan learned that Nan Min had kept it.
• Wang Pan implied that Nan Min had been killed by the World Destruction Society, and Bai Shan urgently warned him against assassinating the director.

Wang Pan forced Bai Shan to sign a contract and refused to join the Simulator Administration, then used his cultivation techniques to find and kill Jiang City director Nan Min. The chapter ended with Nan Min beheaded in his office by the King Pan Sword.

• Wang Pan denied killing the Simulator Administration's fighter and made Bai Shan sign a contract, then let him leave after he agreed.
• Bai Shan departed in fear, and Wang Pan told Wang Jun and Zhang Yao that he had refused to join the Simulator Administration.
• Wang Pan used a levitation spell to travel through the air and drew on the Sky River Sect's knowledge and his blood-and-qi detection technique.
• Wang Pan located Nan Min at the Jiang City Simulator Administration and sent the King Pan Sword through the building's defenses.
• The King Pan Sword circled Nan Min's neck, killing him and leaving his head rolling across the office floor.

Wang Pan sold Nan Min’s possessions and talents for nearly seven million Simulation Points, while Jiang City officials discovered Nan Min’s murder and traced the killing to a Heaven Tier divine weapon. The Chu Prefecture investigation exposed Nan Min’s corruption, but Zhou Lin concealed his theft of an official reward by making witnesses sign confidentiality contracts.

• Wang Pan sold Nan Min’s divine weapons and Blade Path talents to the Simulator Mall, bringing his total gains from Nan Min to nearly seven million Simulation Points.
• Nan Min’s confidants found his headless corpse, and the Jiang City Simulator Administration reported his death to Chu Prefecture.
• Zhou Lin used a Mystic Tier mirror to review Nan Min’s death and saw a Heaven Tier divine weapon kill him before the mirror broke.
• Bai Shan saw Nan Min’s corpse and felt relieved that he had signed a confidentiality contract with Wang Pan.
• Zhou Lin’s investigation exposed Nan Min’s abuse of power, and he punished Nan Min’s confidants and local simulators who had bribed him.
• After learning Nan Min had withheld an official reward, Zhou Lin made everyone who knew about it sign confidentiality contracts.

Wang Pan began a simulation with the peak talent Longevity Species, but the Wuxia world’s hostility toward his Annihilator title led to him being born as a Heavenly Eunuch and abandoned in the snow. He survived the night when servants found him outside a residence.

• Wang Pan received another reward from the higher-ups, then started a simulation two days before the Challenger Tournament and gained the peak talent Longevity Species.
• The Life Simulation generated an imperial Crown Prince scenario, encountered an error, and repaired itself into a hostile Wuxia world where Wang Pan was born a Heavenly Eunuch.
• Wang Pan’s father, a scholar from the Wang family, rejected him as a disgrace and ordered a loyal old servant to abandon him in the snow.
• Wang Pan’s mother begged to keep him, but the scholar took him away while servants restrained her.
• After the snow stopped, two servants found Wang Pan outside a residence, and one picked him up to warm him.

Wang Pan survived the Wuxia Side World’s malice and was raised by Old Eunuch Yu Chou, whose extraordinary talent made him a threat to the Yu Dynasty. By age five, Wang Pan learned why Yu Chou could not restore what he had lost: a Mythical Realm expert’s laws had made his castration permanent.

• Yu Chou agreed to raise Wang Pan, and the Simulation Mark awarded Wang Pan 20,000 Simulation Points before offering him the chance to return to the Main World.
• Wang Pan refused to leave the Simulation World, while Life Simulation explained that it had exchanged words with the Wuxia Side World Consciousness.
• Over the next three years, Wang Pan’s birth mother died, Wang Heng remarried, and Yu Chou raised Wang Pan as his own son.
• At age three, Wang Pan could read, write, and cultivate to the Acquired Realm, so Yu Chou secretly nurtured him and warned that the Yu Dynasty’s imperial family would fear his talent.
• At age five, Wang Pan asked Yu Chou why he could not recover from castration, and Yu Chou explained that a Mythical Realm expert’s laws had made his loss permanent.

Wang Pan learned that the Yu Dynasty controlled the world by eliminating or suppressing every Mythical Realm expert outside its ranks, and he realized the Grand Ancestor might eventually be outlasted. After Wang Pan reached the Innate Realm at five, Yu Chou abandoned plans to send him into the palace and fled with him from the imperial city.

• Yu Chou explained that the Yu Dynasty’s Grand Ancestor had slain the world’s Mythical Realm experts and that the dynasty hunted talents who might reach that realm.
• Wang Pan concluded the Yu Dynasty could collapse after its Grand Ancestor died and anticipated outliving him with his Longevity Species talent.
• Wang Pan broke through to the Innate Realm at five, astonishing Yu Chou and making him fear the imperial court would discover Wang Pan’s rapid cultivation.
• Yu Chou instructed his steward and left the imperial city with Wang Pan to keep him safe.
• As they traveled along the Mythical Realm-built Straight Road, Wang Pan admired it while Yu Chou described how it connected the provinces and enabled the dynasty to move armies quickly.

Yu Chou brought Wang Pan to King Capturing City after a carriage mishap and revealed his hope that Wang Pan might marry into the powerful Wu Family. Wang Pan refused to deceive a woman, and over the following years his cultivation surged until he reached the Great Grandmaster Realm at eighteen.

• Yu Chou took the reins on the Straight Road, accidentally smashed into Wu Hui's carriage, and paid ten thousand gold to settle the damage.
• After Wu Hui's caravan left, Yu Chou explained that he had hoped Wang Pan might marry the little girl from the powerful Tianhuang Wu Family.
• Wang Pan told Yu Chou he had been born knowing everything and rejected the idea of using inner force to deceive a woman.
• Yu Chou and Wang Pan traveled to King Capturing City, where Yu Chou felt safer from Mythical Realm experts who might detect Wang Pan's abnormality.
• Wang Pan continued advancing in cultivation and reached the Great Grandmaster Realm by the age of eighteen.

After Yu Chou urged him to explore the world, Wang Pan left to find his own path beyond the Great Grandmaster realm. He transformed his Humanity's Way Intent into the Momentum of Humanity's Way by challenging a great river, then began testing a way forward that did not rely on the Heavenly Dao.

• Yu Chou explained that Wang Pan needed to travel and experience the world to understand the Heavenly Human Realm, and Wang Pan agreed to leave the next day.
• Yu Chou watched Wang Pan depart, while Wang Pan traveled on foot without using cultivation.
• Wang Pan encountered a great river and repeatedly pitted his Humanity's Way Intent against its momentum, suffering injuries as his intent collapsed and reformed.
• Wang Pan completed the transformation into the Momentum of Humanity's Way, manifested a crimson dragon, and withdrew before his momentum collided dangerously with the river.
• Wang Pan realized that his path of Humanity's Way conflicted with embodying the Heavenly Heart, leaving him uncertain how to reach the Heavenly Human Realm.
• Wang Pan recovered quickly, formed his inner force into a net, and cast it into the river.

Wang Pan met Wu Neng while cooking a mutant Soft-shelled Turtle and learned about the Heavenly Venerate Sect’s hidden treasure. The two began searching together, but rival gangs blocked their way and demanded they leave their claimed territory.

• Wang Pan caught and cooked a golden mutant Soft-shelled Turtle, then shared the meal with Wu Neng, a Grandmaster from the Tianhuang Wu Family.
• Wu Neng explained the Heavenly Venerate Sect’s history and said a divine weapon bearing its mark had led people to the likely treasure site.
• Wang Pan agreed to travel with Wu Neng and search the outskirts after Wu Neng said the crowded central area had yielded nothing.
• Wang Pan and Wu Neng found no treasure as they traveled, and increasingly many martial artists were searching the surrounding area.
• The Tianhe Gang and the Good Fellows Gang separately claimed the ground ahead and behind Wang Pan and Wu Neng, leaving Wu Neng angry and asking where they were supposed to go.

Wu Neng and Wang Pan fought their way past the Good Fellows Gang, then encountered Liangqiu Qianshan of the Heavenly Venerate Sect. After discovering Wang Pan was an eighteen-year-old Great Grandmaster, she recruited him and took him and the unconscious Wu Neng with her.

• Wu Neng killed the Good Fellows Gang members blocking the way, while their leader fled and later helped Liu Han order a search for Wu Neng and Wang Pan.
• Wu Neng apologized to Wang Pan for involving him in trouble, but Wang Pan revealed a trace of his powerful aura and reassured him.
• Wu Neng explained that his extraordinary Spiritual Sense let him sense others' intentions, then Liangqiu Qianshan emerged from a tear in the void and overwhelmed him with killing intent.
• Liangqiu Qianshan prepared to kill Wang Pan, but he offered to join the Heavenly Venerate Sect and said his combat strength rivaled a Heavenly Human.
• Liangqiu Qianshan verified Wang Pan's age and recruited him, and Wang Pan carried the unconscious Wu Neng as they followed her.

Liangqiu Qianshan used a fake treasure rumor to lure thousands of martial artists into a trap, then brought Wang Pan and Wu Neng to the Heavenly Venerate Sect. The two learned the sect’s harsh rules and mandatory beast-hunting duty as they began their lives there.

• Liangqiu Qianshan ordered Heavenly Venerate Sect disciples to capture the martial artists drawn by the fake treasure, and a Heavenly Human Realm expert crushed a Great Grandmaster’s attempted breakout.
• The sect captured and sealed the strength of more than ten thousand martial artists, while Liangqiu Qianshan took Wang Pan and Wu Neng through a Space Rift to the sect’s mountain stronghold.
• Liangqiu Qianshan warned Wang Pan to overcome his fear of death, then assigned him and Wu Neng as Core Disciples before departing.
• An elderly Heavenly Human Realm expert explained that Core Disciples had to submit thirty Great Grandmaster Realm savage beasts each year and could face demotion or the Enforcement Hall for failing.
• Wang Pan learned that Core Disciples received three days to study the Heavenly Venerate Technique, that disciples could fight within limits, and that newcomers had one year of protection unless they killed someone.

Wang Pan and Wu Neng arrived at the Heavenly Venerate Sect, where Wang Pan set out to establish control through strength. After easily defeating the sect’s Great Grandmaster gatekeeper and killing Butcher Zhang Yuan, Wang Pan claimed the right to dominate the Great Grandmasters, while Wu Neng revealed his sister had once been sought by the Emperor.

• The old man assigned Wang Pan and Wu Neng to the rundown Acquired Realm residential area, but Wang Pan led Wu Neng toward the Great Grandmaster residences.
• Wang Pan declared that the Heavenly Venerate Sect would obey him and sent the gatekeeper Pan Jun flying with a glance.
• Wang Pan ignored the Great Grandmasters’ reactions and continued past Butcher Zhang Yuan’s estate, prompting Zhang Yuan to attack with his Pig Slaughtering Knife.
• Wang Pan shattered Zhang Yuan’s blade light, tore out his heart, and killed him in front of the watching Great Grandmasters.
• Wu Neng celebrated Wang Pan’s strength, and Wang Pan told him to introduce his younger sister before Wu Neng revealed that the Emperor had wanted her in the palace and that Empress was his aunt.