Recaps

After awakening the Life Simulator System, Chen Fan spent a hundred low-grade Spirit Stones to simulate a possible future and chose to retain his life experience and the green Talent Copper Skin and Iron Bones. He gained knowledge of future events in the Chen Lineage and the location of a body-tempering spirit herb.

• Chen Fan broke through to the Flawless Body stage of the Embryonic Breathing realm, awakening the Life Simulator System.
• Chen Fan recharged the system with a hundred low-grade Spirit Stones and started his first simulation.
• In the simulation, Chen Fan advanced to the peak of the second Embryonic Breathing stage, survived an ambush, failed to break through, and discovered an immature body-tempering spirit herb.
• Chen Fan chose to retain his simulated life experience and Copper Skin and Iron Bones, gaining a stronger body and knowledge of the spirit herb's location.

Chen Fan’s second simulation, aided by the green talent Slight Fortune, brought him three opportunities, great strength, and status within the Chen Lineage, but he never broke through to Qi Refining. The simulation ended with his death at age 320, and he could choose to retain his realm, memories and talent, or two items.

• Chen Fan chose the green talent Slight Fortune and began his second simulation, where he retrieved a Body-Tempering Spirit Herb and gained recognition through the Lineage tournament and a caravan escort.
• Chen Fan found an incomplete Golden Stone Bone Tempering Art, married Zhao Qingxuan, and later discovered a Spirit-Gathering Cushion in a predecessor’s cave abode.
• Chen Fan reached perfection in the Embryonic Breath Realm, earned the nickname Iron-Boned Chen Fan, and became a Lineage steward after helping secure a Black Iron Vein.
• Chen Fan devoted himself to his family and branch, leaving behind a legacy of martial insights as his descendants gradually prospered.
• Chen Fan failed twice to break through to human-grade Qi Refining and died in meditation at age 320.
• The simulation offered Chen Fan his final cultivation realm, his life experience and Slight Fortune talent, or the Golden Stone Bone Tempering Art and Spirit-Gathering Cushion.

After reaching Great Perfection of the Embryonic Breath Realm, Chen Fan secretly earned Spirit Stones through Black Market missions to fund another simulation. He drew three powerful blue talents and began the third simulation with Twice the Results with Half the Effort.

• Chen Fan broke through to Great Perfection of the Embryonic Breath Realm in a secluded cave and discovered that his next simulation cost 10,000 low-grade Spirit Stones.
• Chen Fan disguised himself and completed Black Market missions cautiously, gathering Spirit Stones over three months.
• Chen Fan returned to his cave and spent 10,000 Spirit Stones to start his third simulation.
• Chen Fan drew Random Fortuitous Encounter, Twice the Results with Half the Effort, and Can Take a Couple Hits.
• Chen Fan selected Twice the Results with Half the Effort, and the simulation began.

At age 20, you learned that Heaven-grade Qi Refining required a Heaven and Earth Wonder and left the Chen Family to search for one. By age 21, you had found a Fire-type wonder site that would mature in five years and began taking dangerous jobs to save the entry fee, aided by your talent’s knack for finding opportunities and unexpected riches.

• You studied the Supreme Treasure grades and decided to pursue Heaven-grade Qi Refining by merging with a Heaven and Earth Wonder.
• You left the Chen Family and spent a year searching for information, eventually learning of a Fire-type wonder site in the Myriad Beasts Mountain Range that would mature in five years.
• You learned that the Blazing Fire Sect demanded one hundred thousand low-grade Spirit Stones for an entry permit, so you began taking high-risk missions to raise the money.
• Your talent guided you toward favorable opportunities during missions, helping you hunt beasts, find valuable ore, and uncover unexpected treasures.
• You sold the recovered materials through Black Market outposts, steadily increasing your savings for the entry fee.

At the Secret Realm, a disguised Chen Family side-branch cultivator found that Chen Qingyan had already taken the Heaven and Earth Wonder he had been seeking. Chen Qingyan warned him that the treasure was bait in a hidden scheme and urged him to leave the realm while he still could.

• At age 25, the cultivator saved a hundred thousand Spirit Stones, bought an admission jade token from the Blazing Fire Sect, and waited for the Secret Realm to open.
• At age 26, he entered the Secret Realm in disguise and followed his intuition to a secluded valley containing a Heaven and Earth Wonder.
• He found Chen Qingyan holding the sealed crimson crystal that contained the Wonder, and recognized him as a fifteen-year-old Chen Family main-branch prodigy.
• Chen Qingyan blocked the cultivator's path, recognized him as a Chen Family side-branch member, and explained that the Wonder was bait in a scheme by a hidden mastermind.
• The cultivator thanked Chen Qingyan, who advised him to leave the Secret Realm immediately if he wanted to survive.

Chen Fan’s third simulation ended when a Golden Core powerhouse killed him while targeting Chen Qingyan in the Secret Realm. Afterward, Chen Fan suspected Chen Qingyan was a reincarnated cultivator and chose to keep the simulation’s experiences and the Talent Twice the Results with Half the Effort.

• Chen Qingyan revealed that the Secret Realm turned cultivators into Heaven and Earth Wonders and warned that it was about to change.
• Chen Qingyan sensed a Golden Core powerhouse had lured him into a trap, and its power killed him and Chen Fan.
• Chen Fan ended the six-year simulation and suspected Chen Qingyan was an old cultivator reincarnated.
• Chen Fan chose the simulation’s life experience and Talent Twice the Results with Half the Effort, gaining both while keeping his own consciousness intact.

After the Third Simulation, Chen Fan resolved to stay cautious and avoid Chen Qingyan and major sect Secret Realms while using his Talent to gather Spirit Stones. He began the Fourth Simulation with the blue Talent Eye of Illusion and set goals to find an unclaimed Heaven and Earth Wonder, survive, and gather information.

• Chen Fan reflected on the Blazing Fire Sect’s deadly scheme and concluded that Chen Qingyan concealed something important.
• Chen Fan used Twice the Results with Half the Effort to gather Spirit Stones while avoiding direct-line descendants and Chen Qingyan.
• After half a month, Chen Fan accumulated ten thousand low-grade Spirit Stones and began the Fourth Simulation.
• Chen Fan chose the blue Talent Eye of Illusion from the three options.
• Chen Fan’s simulated self set goals to pursue Heaven-grade Qi Refining, seek an unclaimed Heaven and Earth Wonder, survive, and investigate opportunities and dangers.

The narrator tested [Eye of Illusion], learning that it revealed detailed profiles and sometimes glimpses of other cultivators’ future opportunities, but using it drained mental energy. After weighing the risks of claimed opportunities, the narrator resumed searching for an unclaimed Heaven and Earth Wonder to reach [heaven-grade Qi Refining].

• The narrator used [Eye of Illusion] on a pebble and Chen Ming, then tested it on Chen Xiaowu and discovered it could reveal [Entry] for targets in the same realm or lower.
• The narrator stopped using the ability after it caused intense mental fatigue and avoided examining Chen Qingyan for fear of provoking him.
• The narrator left the [Chen Family] and continued searching for a vital [Heaven and Earth Wonder], testing [Eye of Illusion] along the way.
• The narrator saw assessments predict opportunities for cultivators, including a Crimson Blood Ginseng and a piece of geng metal, but decided these were already claimed by their Fortune.
• The narrator failed to view their own profile and began avoiding ill-fated cultivators while observing those favored by destiny to locate unclaimed Fortune.

Chen Fan used the Eye of Illusion to search Blazing Sun Province for an unclaimed Heaven and Earth Wonder, but found none and returned to the Chen Family to prepare for his next simulation. Third Elder Chen Ming appointed him a Martial Instructor, and when Chen Fan asked why, Chen Ming brought up the Hidden Dragon in the Abyss Fate Pattern.

• Chen Fan saw that the Myriad Beasts Mountain Range’s Blazing Fire Sect Secret Realm held a claimed opportunity and posed extreme danger, so he abandoned his search there.
• Over the next two years, Chen Fan explored perilous sites across Blazing Sun Province, avoided danger with the Eye of Illusion, and found no unclaimed Heaven and Earth Wonders.
• Chen Fan gave up forcing his search for opportunities and returned to the Chen Family after five years away, claiming he had gained a modest opportunity.
• Third Elder Chen Ming offered Chen Fan a Martial Instructor position, which Chen Fan accepted while wondering about Chen Ming’s motives.
• After receiving his appointment, Chen Fan confronted Chen Ming, who praised his directness and asked whether he had heard of the Hidden Dragon in the Abyss Fate Pattern.

Third Elder Chen Ming revealed that the protagonist’s fate had changed from an Ill-Fated Path to the rare Hidden Dragon in the Abyss, though its cause remained uncertain. The protagonist became a Martial Instructor and learned that Chen Qingyan had vanished under circumstances pointing to a Golden Core Powerhouse’s involvement.

• Chen Ming explained his Fate Sight spell and identified the protagonist’s current fate as Hidden Dragon in the Abyss, promising great potential if the right opportunity arose.
• The protagonist learned that he had borne an Ill-Fated Path before leaving home, and Chen Ming proposed that a powerful cultivator had altered his fate or someone had exchanged their fate patterns.
• The protagonist thanked Chen Ming for his help, and the next day he began work as a Martial Instructor at the Lineage’s Martial Training Ground.
• The protagonist secretly watched for news of Chen Qingyan and learned that he was missing, though his Soul Lamp remained lit.
• Chen Ming revealed that the Chen Family Ancestor’s attempt to divine Chen Qingyan’s whereabouts had failed and injured him, suggesting a Golden Core Powerhouse had erased the trail.
• The protagonist asked about Chen Qingyan’s identity, but Chen Ming said a Soul Contract prevented him from discussing it.

After years of waiting for a safe opportunity to awaken his Hidden Dragon in the Abyss Fate Pattern, the protagonist witnessed Chen Qingyan’s return to the Chen Family. Using Eye of Illusion, he learned that Chen Qingyan was a reincarnated Nascent Soul True Lord who had once taken that Fate Pattern from him and had returned to repay his karmic debt.

• The protagonist declined a powerful elder’s offer of marriage and continued serving as a Martial Instructor while keeping his future uncertain.
• After four years without finding an opportunity, the protagonist resolved to search for a relatively safe way to awaken his Fate Pattern and waited for guidance.
• At age thirty-one, Chen Qingyan returned, and the Chen Family Ancestor confirmed that he was genuine.
• The protagonist used Eye of Illusion on Chen Qingyan and saw entries identifying him as a True Lord Reincarnation, a Chess Player, and someone with a Life of Misfortune.
• The protagonist realized Chen Qingyan had used Life Exchange to take his Hidden Dragon in the Abyss Fate Pattern and had returned to repay the resulting karma.

Chen Qingyan visited you at night as a powerless mortal and admitted he had once stolen your Fate Pattern to prolong his life. To repay the debt, he offered you three choices, ending with help to awaken your Hidden Dragon in the Abyss Fate Pattern.

• Chen Qingyan appeared in your room and explained that he had lost his cultivation but could still use remnants of his Mind-Reading art.
• Chen Qingyan revealed that he was a reincarnated True Lord and questioned how you knew about the Blazing Fire Sect's Secret Realm.
• You concealed your knowledge of the Simulator behind deliberate mental defenses, preventing Chen Qingyan from reading your thoughts.
• Chen Qingyan admitted he had stolen your Fate Pattern to extend his life and said he had returned to repay his Karma.
• Chen Qingyan offered three forms of compensation: a Heaven and Earth Wonder, a lead to an unclaimed opportunity, or help finding the catalyst to awaken your Hidden Dragon in the Abyss Fate Pattern.

After choosing to awaken the [Hidden Dragon in the Abyss] Fate Pattern, the protagonist was betrayed and mortally wounded by Chen Qingyan. As the truth emerged, the protagonist realized the Chen Family had been turned into puppets and a [Golden Core Powerhouse] was behind the scheme.

• The protagonist rejected the safer [Heaven-grade Qi Refining] option and asked Chen Qingyan to awaken the [Hidden Dragon in the Abyss] Fate Pattern.
• Chen Qingyan approached the delighted protagonist and pierced their chest, crushing their heart.
• Chen Qingyan revealed that the Chen Family had been turned into marionettes and that the protagonist had been caught in a setup.
• The dying protagonist recognized that the third elder, Chen Ming, had orchestrated the deception.
• A smiling Chen Ming arrived, and the protagonist realized that he too was a puppet controlled by a [Golden Core Powerhouse].

Chen Qingyan revealed that Chen Fan’s fate pattern had been borrowed from a future descendant of the Chen Family, forcing Chen Ming to help complete the causal ritual. Chen Ming agreed to spare Chen Fan, but a sudden upheaval interrupted him before he could finish speaking.

• Chen Qingyan pleaded with Chen Ming to spare Chen Fan, the Chen Family’s last surviving bloodline.
• Chen Qingyan explained that he had taken a future descendant’s Hidden Dragon in the Abyss fate pattern and that causality required Chen Fan to bear and then lose it.
• Chen Ming agreed to spare Chen Fan and explained that Chen Qingyan’s scheme had forced him to help complete the fate pattern’s ritual.
• Chen Ming revealed that the ritual would let the dead Chen Qingyan use his Supreme Fruit Position to reincarnate, and Chen Qingyan tacitly confirmed the plan.
• A sudden upheaval erupted before Chen Ming could finish speaking.

Chen Fan’s fourth simulation ended when the Puppet Chen Ming attacked him under the control of a mysterious force, leaving Chen Qingyan’s warning unfinished. After retaining his memories and talents, Chen Fan realized that the Golden Core Powerhouse might also be a pawn and wondered why the first two simulations had been different.

• The Puppet Chen Ming suddenly attacked Chen Fan, fatally smashing his skull despite the Golden Core consciousness’s attempts to regain control.
• The Golden Core Powerhouse realized a True Lord—or some other force—was controlling the Puppet and cried out as it attacked Chen Fan again.
• Chen Qingyan began to reveal that the being behind the Puppet was not the True Lord, but Chen Fan died before hearing the rest.
• The simulation ended after nine years, and Chen Fan chose to retain his memories and the talents Eye of Illusion and Twice the Results with Half the Effort.
• Chen Fan reviewed the simulation and concluded that both Third Elder Chen Ming and the Golden Core Powerhouse might have been pawns in a deeper scheme.
• Chen Fan questioned why these events had not occurred in his first two simulations.

Chen Fan reviewed the disastrous Fourth Simulation and realized that powerful beings could deceive his [Eye of Illusion], though he could not identify what had caused the change in events. He began the Fifth Simulation, chose [Beloved Object] over [Question and Answer], and focused on gaining the strength to reach Heaven-grade Qi Refining.

• Chen Fan concluded that [Eye of Illusion] could not see through interference from beings far above his rank and suspected that his own actions had caused the Fourth Simulation's catastrophe.
• Using what he had learned and his Talents, Chen Fan gathered one hundred thousand low-grade Spirit Stones in three days.
• Chen Fan spent the Spirit Stones to begin the Fifth Simulation and received the Talents [Beloved Object], [Question and Answer], and [Transcendent Comprehension].
• Chen Fan considered using [Question and Answer] to uncover hidden truths but decided that knowledge without strength could put him in greater danger.
• Chen Fan chose [Beloved Object], intending to obtain what he needed to break through to Heaven-grade Qi Refining.

The protagonist used the Beloved Object talent to obtain a black bead and refined it to achieve Heaven-grade Qi Refining. They left the Chen Family behind and headed for a distant cultivator gathering place to earn Spirit Stones and acquire stronger spells.

• The protagonist secretly summoned a black bead with Beloved Object in an abandoned house and began refining it.
• With Twice the Results with Half the Effort, the protagonist refined the bead into a Chaos current and broke through to Heaven-grade Qi Refining, reaching Middle Qi Refining.
• The protagonist assessed their new Primordial Qi and resolved to conceal their cultivation and avoid returning to the Chen Family.
• The protagonist set out for a distant, prosperous gathering place to earn Spirit Stones and buy stronger Spellcraft.

The protagonist visited a Treasure Pavilion and learned that the rare spellcraft Know Fortune and Misfortune could improve a cultivator’s Rank, making it his new goal despite its enormous price. After he left, the Foundation Establishment steward was overcome with terror at something unseen.

• The protagonist entered the Treasure Pavilion, where a steward escorted him to the Heaven-grade Spellcraft section after detecting his Heaven-grade Qi Refining foundation.
• The protagonist found Know Fortune and Misfortune, but its price of five hundred million low-grade Spirit Stones made him hesitate.
• The steward explained that the spellcraft came from a failed Minor Divine Ability Seed and could improve a cultivator’s Rank and Dao Foundation.
• The protagonist resolved to earn enough Spirit Stones to buy Know Fortune and Misfortune, then left the pavilion.
• After the protagonist departed, the steward saw something unseen that left him trembling with fear.

At age 21, you accumulated enough Spirit Stones to buy the [Know Fortune and Misfortune] Spellcraft and began using it to read other people's fortune. After advancing to its second stage and reading your own fortune, you saw death qi everywhere and realized your days were numbered.

• At age 21, you used the [Eye of Illusion] and [Twice the Results with Half the Effort] to gather nearly a hundred million Spirit Stones.
• By age 23, you earned more wealth by offering fate-reading services as the "Fate-Seer Layman," bringing your savings to five hundred and forty million Spirit Stones.
• You returned to the [Treasure Pavilion] and paid five hundred million Spirit Stones to redeem the [Know Fortune and Misfortune] Spellcraft Blueprints.
• You mastered the first stage in one day and used it to spot an Embryonic Breath Realm client's impending misfortune, warning him to avoid action.
• At age 24, you advanced to the second stage, which let you read your own fortune; when you tried it, you saw death qi everywhere and concluded your days were numbered.

After discovering that a Golden Core powerhouse’s influence had cloaked him in overwhelming death luck, the protagonist decided to seek help from Chen Qingyan, a reincarnated True Lord with extraordinary fortune. He planned to survive until the Myriad Beasts Mountain Range Secret Realm opened in a year and contact Chen Qingyan before he entered it, despite risking the Golden Core powerhouse’s attention.

• The protagonist used [Know Fortune and Misfortune] again but could not see through the death luck, and concluded that a Golden Core powerhouse was behind it.
• Rejecting the prospect of waiting for certain death, the protagonist decided that Chen Qingyan’s immense fortune might offer his only chance to escape the death trap.
• The protagonist contacted a Chen Family acquaintance and learned that Chen Qingyan had left to travel and his whereabouts were unknown.
• The protagonist recalled that Chen Qingyan would appear at the Secret Realm in the Myriad Beasts Mountain Range, which would open in a year.
• The protagonist resolved to go to the Secret Realm and reach Chen Qingyan before he entered, accepting the danger of attracting the Blazing Fire Sect’s Golden Core powerhouse.

At age 25, the narrator used Wind-Listening Ears to locate Chen Qingyan before the Myriad Beasts Mountain Range Secret Realm opened and persuaded him to help with their growing Death Luck. Chen Qingyan agreed to bring the narrator into the secret realm, leaving them to wait three days and trust his plans.

• The narrator bought Wind-Listening Ears and spent a month cultivating it to minor attainment so they could detect Chen Qingyan.
• After waiting near the registration point, the narrator sensed Chen Qingyan, recognized that he had reached the peak of the Embryonic Breath Realm, and called out to him.
• The narrator led Chen Qingyan to a secluded room and asked for help, explaining that they carried Death Luck and had glimpsed him in the Future.
• Chen Qingyan rejected the narrator’s claim of seeing the Future, but recognized their Heaven-grade Qi Refining foundation and agreed to help them as a Chen Family descendant.
• Chen Qingyan told the narrator to enter the Myriad Beasts Mountain Range with him, and the narrator accepted without hesitation.
• The narrator chose not to warn Chen Qingyan about the Blazing Fire Sect’s Golden Core Powerhouse and waited three days for the secret realm to open.

You followed Chen Qingyan into the White Bone Forest, where he confronted the Golden Core Powerhouse who had pursued him. The elder revealed ties to the space fruit position, and Chen Qingyan began a trial meant to awaken those caught in a larger game.

• You followed Chen Qingyan north through the secret realm and reached the White Bone Forest, where no other competitors or signs of opportunity appeared.
• Chen Qingyan challenged someone in the void, and a Golden Core Powerhouse manifested as an old man in gray robes.
• Chen Qingyan recognized the elder’s space fruit position and accused him of serving another power.
• The elder claimed they had no choice and pointed out that Chen Qingyan had been reduced to his current state by a Golden Core cultivator.
• Chen Qingyan concluded that the elder was an unawakened piece in the game and began a trial to awaken them, triggering a massive upheaval in the White Bone Forest.

Chen Qingyan used a vast reserve of white bones to form an unfinished White Bone Throne and sent Chen Fan toward it, claiming its power could break his Death Luck. As Chen Fan learned that attaining its Fruit Position would leave him only a single Incense Stick to live, he chose to climb anyway rather than face certain death without answers.

• Countless skeletons assembled into an immense but unfinished White Bone Throne while Chen Qingyan watched.
• Chen Qingyan told Chen Fan that the throne was a Nascent Fruit Position whose power could break his Death Luck and restore clarity to certain beings.
• Chen Fan began walking toward the throne, but the gray-robed elder revealed that attaining its Fruit Position would leave him only a single Incense Stick to live.
• Chen Qingyan admitted he was using Chen Fan to his fullest advantage, believing his arrival and chance to attain the Dao were part of higher-level arrangements.
• Knowing his choices were either immediate death or a brief life after attaining the Dao, Chen Fan stepped onto the first stair of the White Bone Throne.

The narrator climbed the White Bone Steps, sacrificing their body and memories to reach the White Bone Throne and demand the truth behind their repeated deaths. They learned the site was a nascent dao-burying fruit position and sat upon the throne, poised to see the schemes woven through their fate.

• The narrator ascended the White Bone Steps as the staircase consumed their body and raised their rank, leaving only a remnant soul.
• An ancient voice asked what the narrator sought, and the narrator demanded the truth, refusing to die in ignorance.
• The narrator realized they had died upon stepping onto the stairs and concluded that Nascent Soul True Lords had manipulated them as a pawn from the moment they entered the Treasure Pavilion.
• The ancient voice granted the narrator's wish, declaring that its final afterglow would lend strength to Beyond Heaven and removing the barrier to the throne.
• The narrator learned that the Burial Ground of the Dao was a nascent dao-burying fruit position whose White Bone Steps required burying the self.
• The narrator sat upon the White Bone Throne and used the rules of burial dao to look across their fate, ready to uncover the truth behind their deaths.

You took the unstable Burial Dao nascent fruit position and used its fleeting power to inspect and untangle your Destiny. After severing your bond with Chen Qingyan, you discovered that four Nascent Soul True Lords had interfered with your fate, including the Treasure Pavilion’s True Lord.

• You sat upon the White Bone Throne and gained power approaching Nascent Soul, but the throne began cracking because its incomplete structure could not bear the strain.
• You used the Burial Dao power to examine your Karma and found your Fate Lines tightly entwined with Chen Qingyan’s.
• You struggled against Chen Qingyan’s defenses and severed the bond that had forcibly tied your Destiny to his as the throne rapidly collapsed.
• You saw that four Nascent Soul True Lords had meddled with your Destiny and began unraveling their connections.
• You realized the Treasure Pavilion’s True Lord had participated in the scheme that led you into the trap involving Know Fortune and Misfortune.