Chen Fan

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Chen Fan (陈凡)
Alias(es)	Iron-Boned Chen Fan — nickname in his second simulation; Chen Hei — identity used during a simulated challenge campaign; Eternal Radiance Immortal Venerable — title recorded by the Chen Family Ancestor’s future self; True Immortal Changming — title used by Xu Que 2 100 445 696.
Gender	Male
Origin	Transmigrated into the Supreme Chaos True Realm, becoming a collateral descendant of the Chen Lineage 1.
Affiliation	Chen Family/Chen Lineage; Heavenly Gate; interworld Chat Group 1 64 237.
Occupation/Role	Cultivator and Simulator user; lineage steward and martial instructor in simulations; leader of Heavenly Gate cultivators; Chat Group administrator 2 9 64 237.
Family	Orphaned young. In his second simulation, marries Zhao Qingxuan and fathers Chen An and Chen Xue 2 44.
Status	Alive in the latest supplied events; his simulated self is trapped in a lethal fairy-tale challenge 704.
First Appearance	Chapter 1 1.

Power Progression

Chen Fan can preserve cultivation from different realms through simulation rewards and Myriad Selves. His layered cultivation, borrowed ranks, and simulated breakthroughs therefore do not form a single uninterrupted realm ladder 124 194.

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Embryonic Breath Realm entry	44	Retrospectively described as entering the realm only after nearly twenty years of cultivation, shortly before his rapid rise.
Embryonic Breath, third level	2	In the second simulation, an incomplete Golden Stone Bone Tempering Art enables advancement and access to stronger martial techniques.
Embryonic Breath, great perfection	2	Body-tempering resources, a Spirit-Gathering Cushion, and rewarded Jade Marrow Liquid bring him to the realm’s peak. His final breakthrough fails; he dies at 320.
Embryonic Breath, peak	9	In a later simulation, returns to the Chen Family after five years away and no longer needs to hide this cultivation.
Heaven-grade Qi Refining	30	Breakthrough attracts Nascent Soul True Lords; the Temporal Decree conceals its location and traces.
Heaven-grade Qi Refining, perfection	35	Uses a secret realm’s source energy to advance. This cultivation grants an eight-thousand-year lifespan.
Qi Refining perfection, ninth limit-break	43	The original body inherits cultivation and 135 years of experience from a completed simulation.
Borrowed Foundation Establishment rank	79 81	Receives temporary rank through the ancestor’s Borrowed Attunement mark. Later dismisses it while retaining the Simulator upgrade it helped unlock.
Qi Refining, tenfold limit-breaking	83	Uses Unrestricted to remove the realm’s limit-breaking ceiling, then advances in Chen Qingyan’s hidden realm.
Qi Refining, 500 limit-breaking layers; Foundation Establishment, ninth-layer peak	97	A simulated cultivation checkpoint. Foundation Establishment has reached its ceiling, while further Qi Refining progress would take at least ten years by ordinary cultivation.
Golden Core, early stage — void-proof	102	Achieves preliminary Void-Proof and Heaven and Earth’s recognition, gaining unlimited lifespan. The breakthrough exposes his identity to a Heavenly Venerable.
Golden Core early stage — void-proof; Qi Refining, 300 limit-breaking layers	124	An other-self inherits this simulation reward under Lin Feng’s protection. Chen Fan synchronizes its divine abilities without directly raising the original body’s simulation cost.
Player level 99	132	The Only Player panel records level 99, with its breakthrough not yet performed.
Level 1 — cultivation sealed	183	An unexpected future simulation seals his level-99 cultivation, treasures, and divine abilities. He activates Great Accomplished Sacred Body through Ascension rather than absorb unsafe spiritual energy.
Nascent Soul, early stage — Dao-Burying Fruit Position	194	Recorded alongside preserved Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, and void-proof Golden Core cultivation.
Qi Refining, 11,500 limit-breaking layers	259	Spends 130 million experience to add another hundred layers.
Foundation Establishment, 50 limit-breaking layers	265	Uses Unrestricted to remove this realm’s ceiling. His Great Dao foundation expands from 590,000 to one million zhang.
Foundation Establishment, 9,240 limit-breaking layers	323	Reaches this checkpoint by year 100 of secluded cultivation; his Great Dao foundation measures 92.9 million zhang.
Foundation Establishment, 9,240 layers; three fruit positions at middle-stage Nascent Soul	327	Inherits the Foundation Establishment cultivation and synchronizes Dao-Burying, Heavenly Fire, and Heavenly River Water to middle-stage Nascent Soul.
Qi Refining, 16,000 limit-breaking layers	330	A build checkpoint rather than a depicted breakthrough. His essence rivals a weaker Spirit Transformation Dao Master, while his Golden Core cultivation remains early-stage and void-proof.
Temporary rebuilding through Spirit Transformation	467 468	After borrowed rank shatters to Qi Refining, the ten thousand Daos rebuild him through successive realms as a Myriad Dao Furnace. The power supplied by Existence from Nonexistence lasts only an incense stick.
Great True Lord, late stage — Heavenly Fire	485	Advances from middle-stage Nascent Soul after a month absorbing four collected fruit positions, obtaining 60% of Heavenly Fire’s power.
Qi Refining, 17,000 limit-breaking layers	498	Spends more than 118 million experience to rise from 16,000 layers. Baseline strength improves only slightly and remains around early Spirit Transformation.
Qi Refining, 33,000 layers; Foundation Establishment, 25,000 layers	648	At age 51, refines five additional middle-stage Nascent Soul cultivators. Growing awareness of limit-breaking’s dangers makes him cautious about further gains.
Qi Refining, 45,000 layers; Foundation Establishment, 43,000 layers	698	In year 71, devours fifteen middle-stage True Lords and spends accumulated experience. Seeks protection for the future 50,000-layer Foundation Establishment obstacle.

Background / History

Chen Fan spends twenty years in his new world as an unremarkable collateral descendant of a Foundation Establishment aristocratic clan. He loses his parents early, possesses mediocre aptitude, and initially struggles even to enter the Embryonic Breath Realm 1 44.

His early simulations turn remembered opportunities into practical advantages. In the second run, he becomes a respected steward, raises a family, strengthens his collateral branch, and leaves writings on cultivation and combat. Although a descendant eventually reaches Qi Refining, Chen Fan himself dies without achieving that breakthrough 2.

Repeated encounters with traps change his approach to advancement. After discovering that many rumored opportunities have already been claimed, he begins gathering information and resources for future runs instead of chasing every treasure. He initially avoids Chen Qingyan, fearing the powerful interests surrounding him, but later seeks his cooperation when isolation offers no viable escape 7 9 21 27.

As his simulations expand across eras and worlds, Chen Fan preserves cultivation, acquires divine abilities, and learns that even apparent opportunities or protective allies may carry hidden agendas. His original body increasingly serves as a protected starting point for later simulations, while simulated selves confront dangers and make choices that he cannot always predict or control 112 194 323 485.

Appearance

• Wears cultivator’s robes during his connection with the future-era Mo Wuyou, who recognizes them as clothing from a bygone age 38.
• Is described standing tall and straight during his confrontation with Chen Hei Quan 442.
• Conceals his face when meeting Mo Wuyou in a later timeline, though Mo still recognizes him 205.

Personality

Chen Fan is cautious, analytical, and highly protective of his secrets. He withdraws when an opportunity presents overwhelming danger, tests abilities before committing them, and seeks independent accounts rather than accepting a powerful schemer’s explanation. His suspicion extends to apparently benevolent figures and even possible past or future versions of himself 9 47 342 483.

He treats cultivation as a problem of resource management as much as perseverance. He delegates training to other-selves, delays rewards when they would be more useful to his original body, and looks for ways to combine ability mechanics. He also recognizes that higher cultivation alone may not overcome an opponent with superior foresight or higher-priority powers 265 323 485 515 571.

His attachment to others does not disappear as he grows stronger. The second simulation shows him supporting his wife, children, and descendants; later, Chen Qingyan’s despair makes his simulated self reconsider an escape plan. The original Chen Fan declines to dictate that self’s decision, accepting its right to choose despite the risk 2 112.

He nevertheless becomes capable of extreme ruthlessness. He considers brainwashing recruits to exploit Disciple-Teaching Returns before killing them, refines cultivators for their accumulated power, and destroys realms for rewards. In another run, he deliberately lets talented allies continue growing rather than immediately devouring them 301 526 571 665.

Abilities & Skills

Cultivation Simulator

• Runs simulations and allows Chen Fan to inherit documented rewards such as cultivation, talents, life experience, techniques, or items 2 43.
• Simulation costs increase with advancement; by Chapter 44, another attempt requires a Heaven and Earth Wonder rather than ordinary spirit stones 44.
• Supports intervention in a simulated clone’s choices, though Chen Fan sometimes refuses to exercise that control 112 359.
• Can retain an unclaimed simulation reward for later use. Abilities recorded in a simulation are not automatically part of his current build 330.
• Cannot be recharged with artificial wonders created through Heavenly Rule Inscription, even when those wonders work for cultivation 526.

The Only Player

• Provides a game-like panel with levels, experience, attributes, quests, and rewards 132.
• Enables experience-based cultivation gains and can award an defeated target’s abilities; the Venerable Lord’s death yields Twin Blossoms 259 481 483.
• Does not count converted believers as kills or credit destruction performed by Old Self as Chen Fan’s own action 301.
• Cannot be exploited by killing counterparts created through Twin Blossoms 485.
• Chen Fan gives this Golden Talent to Wu Yong as a goodwill gesture in a later simulation 698.

Myriad Selves and True Self Projection

• Creates other-selves sharing Chen Fan’s essence, potential, fortune, and cultivation advantages 83.
• Allows cultivation rewards from different realms to be preserved and synchronized rather than replacing one another 124 194.
• Supports reconnaissance, simultaneous combat, and delegated cultivation while the original body remains sheltered 265 407 673.
• Chen Fan sacrifices Myriad Selves in the second future simulation and can no longer create other-selves in that run. Later supplied simulations again show him using an other-self 485 673.

Once and for All

• A Purple Talent upgraded from Twice the Results with Half the Effort. Once initial progress is made, a task automatically proceeds toward its chosen goal unless blocked 47.
• Supplies continuous, modest idle cultivation, including progress beyond a previous cultivation limit 47.
• Helps restore clarity when Chen Fan’s thoughts or awareness are being suppressed 64 73.
• Supports escape during the Northern Land of Sin crisis, but does not let his other-selves comprehend the Dao-Seeking Immortal Art for him 265.

Unrestricted

• A single-use talent that reacts to conceptual restraints 47.
• Removes the limit-breaking ceiling of Qi Refining and, in other simulations, Foundation Establishment 83 265.
• Chen Fan preserves its use rather than spend it on an insignificant seal 47.

Perception and Intelligence

• Eye of Illusion identifies opportunities, their types, whether they have been claimed, and associated danger 9.
• True-Sight Eye/Eye of True Sight reveals cultivation templates, fate-related information, and hidden conditions. High-level interference or insufficient cultivation can obstruct it 83 194.
• Listening supplies intelligence through chime or ring notifications. Its usefulness declines when information is blocked or fewer unknown arrangements remain 207 252 624.
• Future Letter delivers one message every ten years from his own “true future”; a warning changes his choice of group-mission world 530 571.
• Observation offers Heaven and Earth’s perspective and access to lower-ranked beings’ secrets, but risks assimilating his consciousness into their will 530.
• True-Sight Eye is among the abilities lost during the second future simulation 485.

Heaven’s Mandate

• Appears both as a Purple Talent and as a life-bound divine ability synchronized from a simulation reward 124 132.
• Conceals aspects of Chen Fan’s fortune and origins from Chen Qingyan’s scrutiny 47.
• Can act protectively, erupting across the Supreme True Realm when reinforced by Once and for All 73.
• Chen Fan suspects it influences the loyalty, affection, and protectiveness of those around him; he confronts his followers about this possibility 64.
• Gathering the Supreme True Realm’s remaining providence attracts a fatal threat, according to Lin Feng 48.
• A temporarily borrowed Colored Heaven’s Mandate, manifested alongside Myriad Beings Aspect, blocks Nine Heavens’s combined attack 468.

True-False Supreme Realm

• Contains a world resembling the Supreme True Realm but without living beings; concepts such as karma and time do not exist within it 330.
• Protects Chen Fan inside it from direct and indirect influence by ordinary Supreme Existences and weaker beings 330.
• Records a target’s afterimage through an established connection, enabling attacks against the real target 330 407.
• Primordial Cause later offers a way to create the connections needed for this ability without first meeting an opponent 665.

Heavenly Fire — Heavenly Rule Inscription

• Inscribes rules onto Heaven and Earth or objects 407 526.
• Used to prohibit other combatants from employing divine abilities, guarantee Chen Fan’s attacks hit, and double their power 407 439.
• Can turn scrap iron into a functional Heaven and Earth Wonder capable of supporting heaven-grade Qi Refining breakthroughs 526.
• Cultivators advanced through these artificial wonders provide cultivation feedback; refining them lets Chen Fan absorb their accumulated primordial qi 526.

Heavenly River Water — Sea of Time

• Restores Chen Fan to full strength after his other-self is repelled by four Immortal Venerables 407.
• Allows examination of an individual’s life, as demonstrated during his investigation of the ancestor’s past self 418.

Heavenly Formation

• Enhances Chen Fan inside its boundaries 330.
• Analyzes and reproduces opponents’ divine abilities and fruit-position mystiques 330.
• Once analysis is complete, prevents those abilities from being used against him within the formation 330.

Treasure-Borrowing Method

• Borrows an opponent’s divine abilities and even fruit-position mystiques without requiring repayment 330.
• Used alongside Heavenly Formation and other suppressive abilities against the Great Li secret realm’s defenders 407.

Heaven-and-Earth Sword

• Gives a lower-ranked wielder the possibility of harming a higher-ranked target 330.
• Can enhance conceptualized objects that qualify as a “sword” 330.
• Used against Immortal Venerables and strengthened through Heavenly Rule Inscription 407 439.

Concealment and Reality-Altering Abilities

• Deceive Heaven conceals Chen Fan from powerful detection and can briefly obstruct karmic law 330.
• Word Follows the Law makes spoken words reality within its range; Chen Fan uses it to maximize fruit-position absorption 330 485.
• Karmic Law Punishment has no stated upper power limit, but risks backlash and draws karmic law’s attention 330.
• True Self prevents direct higher-dimensional corruption, rewriting, erasure, and alteration of causes or outcomes. It does not prevent every form of indirect manipulation 285 330.

I Am the Chess Player and Effect Before Cause

• Provides warnings and protective intervention against otherwise overwhelming schemes 100 265 693.
• Chen Fan uses a talent-based effect-before-cause opportunity to restore a past event altered by Past Li Ping 467.
• He believes its greater priority explains why Past Li Ping’s entry-based version withdraws 468.
• Its final intervention gives Sage of Today priority over Wang Hao’s Golden Finger. After losing the talent, Chen Fan must seek outside help against another scheme 693 702.

Temporal and Travel Powers

• Temporal Decree distorts time and information to conceal his breakthrough and opens contact with Lin Feng 30.
• Spacetime Butterfly Shadow is single-use: it rewinds to an anchor within the same era while bringing back memories, cultivation, items, and divine abilities 330.
• Immortal-Settling Journey enables travel between worlds and temporal nodes, but Chen Fan fears higher-priority powers can compromise its safety conditions 498 541 673.

Summoning and Transformation

• Intent on Past and Present materializes a figure from his memories at the cost of all memories of that figure. Completeness and strength depend on how thoroughly he understands them 330.
• Sage of Today makes him the spokesperson of a randomly selected Supreme Existence; its unpredictability makes use dangerous 330.
• Transform All Beings lets him take another being’s form. Transforming into a higher-dimensional being threatens his sense of identity; taking Old Self’s form grants temporary access to Escape One 289 665.
• Wish Echo obtains crucial aids, including a charged Spacetime Token, a mature Era Fruit, and the mysterious sword-like sound that kills Past Li Ping 47 289 500.
• Twin Blossoms is acquired from the Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority. Chen Fan tests its counterparts and anticipates using it against similar replacement schemes 481 483 485.

Disciple-Teaching Returns

• Created by fusing millions of minor divine abilities into Teach All Without Discrimination, then upgrading it 301.
• Grants Chen Fan a share of a disciple’s abilities, experience, attributes, fortune, essence, and other gains upon joining his Dao lineage 301.
• Requires wholehearted allegiance; verbal agreement alone produces no benefit 301.

Chat Group

• Connects members from different worlds and provides group missions and rewards 237.
• Gives Chen Fan administrator controls over muting, removal, reward settings, mission selection, and allocation of spoils 237.
• Mission functions depend on sufficient membership; a member’s death can disable them 342.
• Includes the Didi Stand-In function, used to summon Zhang Wenping 648.

Ten Gates

• A Rainbow Talent granting access to safe worlds containing stories and encounters with ten Supreme Existences 530.
• Understanding those beings and earning their recognition allows Chen Fan to acquire abilities, borrow power, and eventually summon assistance 530.
• Provides a refuge when facing uncertain threats and prevents Zero from directly harming its owner 648 673.
• Zero’s inability to harm him directly does not eliminate the possibility of indirect schemes 624.

Primordial Cause

• An authority synthesized from ten authority fragments 665.
• Creates karmic connections with any real existence, including ordinary ties, future-directed karma, and life-and-death bonds 665.
• Tested as a means of targeting the hidden Spirit Transformation Dao Master through True-False Supreme Realm 665.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Golden Stone Bone Tempering Art — foundational body-tempering technique obtained incomplete in the second simulation. Chen Fan later gives it to the ancestor’s past self 2 418.
• Spirit-Gathering Cushion — found in a hidden cave during the second simulation and used to assist training 2.
• Spacetime Token — rechargeable treasure linking holders across past, present, and future; stored energy can also negate attacks. Its binding prevents Chen Qingyan from using Chen Fan’s token or viewing his connection 47 48 330.
• Heavenly Secret Creation Jade Butterfly — reforged concealment treasure found beneath the Chen Family’s Old Locust Tree. Strengthened by Lin Feng and infused with future Chen Fan’s authority, it can conceal its bearer from a Supreme Existence 207.
• Heavenly Spirit Mirror — mid-grade innate numinous treasure with offensive, defensive, and formation applications 259.
• Chaos Bell — innate supreme treasure formed from the core of Pangu’s Heaven-Opening Axe; suppresses spacetime and fortune. Initially contains Donghuang Taiyi’s karma and a possession trap, but the inherited version no longer contains his remnant soul or the Battered Demon Realm 259 320 330.
• Twelfth-Rank Pure World White Lotus — top-grade innate numinous treasure providing purification, defense, Dao-heart protection, and restoration or refinement of origins 259 330.
• Dawn — dark-green sword with a spectral-green hilt; its abilities remain unidentified in the build reference 330.
• Incomplete God-Slaying Spear — damaged but formidable treasure listed among his possessions 330 485.
• Rank Nine Wisdom Gu — sacrifices true lifespan for enhanced comprehension; recorded as providing fiftyfold comprehension 301 330.
• Golden Cudgel — recovered alongside high-rank Gu treasures 301.
• Primordial Purple Qi — group-mission reward usable to assimilate the Primordial World’s Heaven and Earth 285 330.
• Mature Era Fruit — obtained through Wish Echo and delivered by Wang Hao to Old Self during the higher-dimensional crisis 289.
• Strange Clown Mask — carries Zero’s Golden Finger influence. It helps free Chen Fan from hostile interference but also lets Zero examine much of his experience and secrets 624.
• Incomplete Myriad-Void Primordial Ancient Weeping Willow — primordial spiritual root supplying power comparable to the Supreme level 515.
• Sword Dao Fruit Position — preserved for his original self rather than consumed immediately, so later simulations can benefit 485.
• Golden Finger-priority teleportation scroll — supplied by the mist-shrouded big shot as an emergency route back to the Supreme True Realm 702.

Relationships

• Zhao Qingxuan — wife in the second simulation, married through a Chen–Zhao alliance. Her death at ninety leaves him grieving 2.
• Chen An — son in the second simulation; receives his father’s support but reaches only the third level of Embryonic Breath 2.
• Chen Xue — daughter in the second simulation; shows greater promise and becomes a lineage elder’s nominal disciple 2.
• Chen Ming — Third Elder and early patron. Appoints Chen Fan as a martial instructor after observing the Hidden Dragon in the Abyss fate pattern through Fate Sight 9 10.
• Chen Qingyan — crucial ally, guide, and fellow victim of powerful schemes. Shelters Chen Fan, explains higher cultivation, provides a Heaven and Earth Wonder, and entrusts Mo Wuyou with a message for him 21 32 35 45 205.
• Lin Feng / Supreme Dao Immortal Venerable — senior transmigrator and protector. Intervenes across time, oversees dangerous inheritance, and eventually forces Wang Hao into a contract forbidding harm to Chen Fan 30 73 124 696.
• Chen Family Ancestor / Chen Hei Quan — initially a mysterious patriarch who probes Chen Fan’s origins and lends Foundation Establishment rank. His past self later becomes Chen Fan’s beneficiary and an independent strategist in the life-and-death chess game 44 79 418 419 445.
• Mo Wuyou — future-era contact who searches historical records and later delivers Chen Qingyan’s messages. Recognizes Chen Fan through Chen Qingyan’s description and regards him with admiration 38 205.
• Dao Wudi — devoted follower who urges retreat when Chen Fan leads Heavenly Gate toward apparent death 64.
• Ji Bingyan — companion whose hidden “Holy Maiden” identity Chen Fan exposes. Chen Fan questions whether Ji’s affection is directed toward him or Heaven’s Mandate 64.
• Old Self — powerful alternate Chen Fan who sends warnings, protects Chen Qingyan, and prepares treasures and intelligence. His assistance is accompanied by manipulation and unexplained objectives 183 207 252.
• Wang Hao — Chat Group member, occasional messenger, and persistent schemer. Attempts to test Chen Fan’s supposed backer and stop the Fifth Mission; Lin Feng later restricts him by contract 289 500 696.
• Li Ping / Past Li Ping — Chat Group member and adversary associated with higher-dimensional manipulation, altered history, and attempts to replace Chen Fan’s identity 323 467 523.
• Wu Yong — technically resourceful Chat Group member whose motives are initially ambiguous. Explains Wang Hao’s trap and later receives The Only Player in return for goodwill and promised help 499 500 698.
• Zhang Wenping — elusive Chat Group member whom Chen Fan later summons as an investment target; his straightforward criticism of the group’s schemers earns Chen Fan’s approval 323 541 648.
• Ning Chen — powerful Chat Group newcomer and proposed target of Wang Hao’s trap. Chen Fan considers confronting his future version potentially suicidal 342 497 498.
• Donghuang Taiyi — initially linked to a possession trap inside the Chaos Bell. Ultimately destroys the realm sustaining him to stop the takeover and restore Chen Fan’s memories 289 320 330.
• Zero — adviser and powerful ally encountered through Ten Gates. Offers genuine protection but also gathers Chen Fan’s secrets and pursues personal plans 624 648 673.
• Mist-shrouded “big shot” — powerful being associated with Wu Yong’s civilization. Fears Chen Fan’s connections to the sword cry and Era of Equality, then pledges support and provides an escape scroll 682 687 702.
• Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority — architect of the life-and-death chess game and repeated replacement traps. His final purpose remains unclear after a summoned existence uses Chen Fan’s body to erase him 407 415 481 483.
• Xu Que — admirer from the Beyond Mythology True Realm who recognizes Chen Fan as a legendary figure and explains his story’s exceptional standing 696 698.
• Story Chen Fan — supreme manifestation associated with Chen Fan’s Beyond Grade story, distinguished from the real Chen Fan by an obsessive admirer. Their precise relationship remains unresolved 698 704.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Early Simulations and the Chen Lineage

• Turns modest luck into resources, family connections, and a respected stewardship, but cannot overcome his initial aptitude in the second simulation 2.
• Abandons an unproductive treasure hunt, returns to the family, and learns that his fate pattern has changed from an ill-fated path to Hidden Dragon in the Abyss 9 10.
• Moves from avoiding Chen Qingyan to seeking his protection and negotiating cooperation 7 21 27 45.

Cross-Time Contact and Heaven’s Mandate

• Meets Lin Feng after the Temporal Decree conceals his heaven-grade Qi Refining breakthrough 30.
• Contacts Mo Wuyou in the distant future and requests deliberately vague historical information to reduce karmic risk 38.
• Learns that claiming the realm’s remaining providence may guarantee his death; Lin Feng’s promise to help triggers severe punishment 48.
• Leads Heavenly Gate toward danger, rejects retreat as an inadequate ending, and later survives an attack aimed at erasing his awareness 64 73.

Limit-Breaking and Void-Proof

• Uses True Self Projection and Unrestricted to break the Qi Refining ceiling 83.
• Builds an invincible reputation under the name Chen Hei to influence stronger observers, then achieves void-proof Golden Core 100 102.
• Inherits cultivation through an other-self under Lin Feng’s supervision, establishing the basis for his layered build 124 194.

The Thousand-Year Future

• Arrives in the Northern Land of Sin with his cultivation sealed and follows a warning against absorbing its tainted spiritual energy 183.
• Sends a projection into the future Supreme True Realm, encountering ruins, advanced weapons, and unfamiliar “Deity” terminology 194.
• Reunites with Mo Wuyou and Chen Qingyan across time, then retrieves Old Self’s letter and the reforged jade butterfly 205 206 207.
• Faces a quest to kill Purple Cloud True Lord despite warnings about her extraordinary abilities 207.

Chat Group Missions and the Chaos Bell

• Discovers his administrator privileges and begins navigating interworld missions and guarded relationships 237.
• Gains supreme treasures, removes further cultivation limits, and wins the Third Mission through a prepared coalition 259 265 285.
• Detects higher-dimensional interference, transforms in desperation, and survives Taiyi’s possession process when Taiyi destroys its supporting realm 285 289 320.
• Preserves later mission rewards for reality while cultivating in the protected Strange Passage 323.

The Life-and-Death Chess Game

• Encounters four Immortal Venerables and a hostile duplicate using his own abilities 407.
• Covertly empowers Chen Hei Quan’s past self, only to discover memories and plans extending across eras 418 419 430.
• Uses effect before cause to challenge altered history and withstands Nine Heavens with borrowed Colored Heaven’s Mandate 467 468.
• Gains Twin Blossoms after the Venerable Lord is erased, but remains uncertain whether the intervening existence was Future Chen Fan 481 483.

Wang Hao’s Trap and Later Safeguards

• Learns that Wang Hao’s proposed attack on Ning Chen is both a backer test and a means of preventing the Fifth Mission 497 498 500.
• Uses the prohibition against identical beings occupying one higher-dimensional time node against Past Li Ping’s attempted replacement 523 527.
• Acquires Future Letter and Ten Gates, then relies on Zero while developing cultivation and investment arrangements 530 571 648.
• Gains Primordial Cause and investigates Wu Yong’s Level Nine Civilization 665 673.
• Receives Lin Feng’s protection against Wang Hao, but is warned that limit-breaking still contains a major obstacle at fifty thousand layers 696.

Beyond Mythology and the Fairy-Tale Challenge

• Learns that his story is Beyond Grade and that he is its living vessel, raising fears about another manifested Chen Fan 698.
• Seeks Zero and the big shot’s help against an unavoidable story-based scheme, then chooses Dark Fairy-Tale Great World 702.
• Is captured by an admirer of Story Chen Fan and forced to save three fairy tales while assuming characters’ roles. Character death or an insufficiently exciting story can result in his execution 704.

Notable Quotes

“It should be—life through death.” 64

“Why... did neither you nor I arrive in spring?” 112

“Seek a life of brilliance, no matter the ending.” — a simulated Chen Fan reflecting on the lives of his counterparts 173

Trivia

• Chen Hei is not a unique identity: Chen Fan uses it during a simulated challenge campaign, while it also names the Chen Family Ancestor’s past self 100 418.
• His build explicitly prioritizes talents over entries, and entries over authorities, including fruit-position mystiques and divine abilities 330.
• “Supreme Existence” and “Higher-Dimensional Existence” are labels, not cultivation realm names 330.
• His cultivation rank and combat strength can diverge sharply: 16,000 Qi Refining limit-breaking layers supply Spirit Transformation-level essence while he retains cultivation in several other realms 330.
• Past Chen Fan’s existence remains disputed evidence rather than a settled fact. A senior transmigrator claims that Past Chen Fan trapped him and arranged help for the present Chen Fan, but Chen Fan questions how much of that account is true 537.
• Zero’s assertion that future Chen Fan will surpass Dao Gods and higher-dimensional beings is a prediction or claim, not a demonstrated advancement in the supplied events 682.