Recaps

Chen Fan sorted through the treasures and abilities from the Supreme Martial Arts World, then fused its many minor divine abilities into Disciple-Teaching Returns. He discovered it rewarded him for disciples who joined his Dao lineage wholeheartedly and began considering how to exploit that requirement.

• Chen Fan reviewed the Rank Nine Wisdom Immortal Gu and other treasures, noting that he wanted the Fate Gu owned by Gu.
• Chen Fan fused the many divine abilities from different Dao lineages and obtained Teach All Without Discrimination.
• Chen Fan upgraded the minor divine ability into the major divine ability Disciple-Teaching Returns using attribute points.
• Chen Fan tested the ability and discovered that targets had to join his Dao lineage wholeheartedly to provide feedback.
• Chen Fan realized he could brainwash targets, recruit them to gain rewards, and then kill them for additional gains.

The protagonist converted a share of Confucianism’s authority into the major divine ability Word Follows the Law, then advanced his Dao-Seeking Immortal Art while spreading his Dao lineage across the Myriad Worlds and the Supreme True Realm. He learned that Zhuo Zhao’s origins traced to the Second Era and that she appeared to be part of a Supreme Immortal’s scheme.

• The protagonist set aside the primordial purple qi, stored the Incomplete God-Slaying Spear, and had Old Self transform his share of Confucianism’s authority into Word Follows the Law.
• The protagonist used Word Follows the Law with Disciple-Teaching Returns to send his three other selves across the Myriad Worlds and compel all living beings to join his Dao lineage.
• The protagonist spent a hundred years of true lifespan enhancing his comprehension, bringing his Dao-Seeking Immortal Art progress to two-thirds by Year 48 and reaching six thousand layers of foundation establishment limit-breaking.
• The protagonist’s three other selves completed the Myriad Worlds preaching mission, then spread his lineage through the Dream Realm, Taiyin Sacred Land, and other places in the Present, including Zhuo Zhao.
• Old Self traced Zhuo Zhao’s origins to the Second Era of the Past and said she seemed to be part of a Supreme Immortal’s scheme.

After killing Zhuo Zhao, the protagonist gained the Heavenly River Water supreme fruit position and had Number One Other-Self attain its Dao by changing a dynasty’s fate across time. The protagonist then advanced the Dao-burying fruit position and continued cultivating and creating Dao-Seeking Immortal Arts.

• The protagonist killed Zhuo Zhao and gained the Trader divine ability and the Heavenly River Water supreme fruit position.
• The protagonist examined Heavenly River Water’s sea of time mystique and had Number One Other-Self attain its Dao by bringing forward the destruction of a cultivation dynasty.
• The protagonist burned a hundred years of true lifespan to boost comprehension and set three other selves to Foundation Establishment cultivation.
• In Year 51, the protagonist completed the Dao-Seeking Immortal Art for the dao-burying fruit position and reached Nascent Soul middle stage in it.
• The protagonist began creating the Dao-Seeking Immortal Art for Heavenly River Water as the other selves reached Foundation Establishment limit-breaking, layer 6,100.
• In Year 53, the protagonist’s Enlightenment Tree triggered and doubled comprehension again.

After years of avoiding the Chat Group, you learned that the fourth group mission had begun and reviewed its three dangerous destinations. The Dream World mission tempted you with a chaos spiritual root, leaving you considering whether its Higher-Dimensional Existence could help despite the danger surrounding you.

• You spent nearly a year in ultimate Dao comprehension, bringing the heavenly river water Dao-Seeking Immortal Art close to halfway complete.
• In Year 55, the system announced that the fourth group mission would begin in 24 hours, and you opened the Group Leader's admin interface.
• You reviewed the Mystic Yellow Realm mission to kill an Immortal and judged its SS difficulty a sign that a Higher-Dimensional Existence was involved.
• You examined the Weird Revival mission to destroy the Ghost Post Office and realized it could force you to confront the god who could restart the world.
• You considered the Dream World mission, whose reward was a chaos spiritual root of your choice, and was tempted by its promise of help while facing a dire situation.

Chen Fan prepared for the Fourth Group Mission by transforming into his Higher-Dimensional Old Self, then entered the Dream World and met Wu Yong. Wu Yong revealed a Life-and-Death Sticker that showed Chen Fan was certain to die during the mission.

• Chen Fan chose the Dream World mission and read the Chat Group logs, where Wu Yong said he had something important to tell him.
• Chen Fan transformed into his Old Self and gained a Higher-Dimensional version of Escape One before the mission began.
• Chen Fan entered the Dream World and enclosed himself and Wu Yong in a Great Thousand World.
• Wu Yong demanded payment, and Chen Fan gave him an Other Self and the Golden Cudgel in exchange for the Life-and-Death Sticker.
• The Life-and-Death Sticker stayed white, and Wu Yong told Chen Fan that he would surely die in the Fourth Group Mission.

You sent Number One Other-Self into a passage created by the Dream World’s Higher-Dimensional Existence and reached the Ideal Realm, where the being revealed your past memories and called you someone with a bitter fate. It refused to change your certain-death ending or help you unconditionally.

• You and Wu Yong investigated the Dream World, then you sent Number One Other-Self, transformed into Old Self, to explore when a strange passage appeared for each group member.
• Number One Other-Self entered the passage and traveled through countless dimensions, guided by a higher-dimensional voice.
• At the path’s end, the Dream World’s Higher-Dimensional Existence asked what you resembled and described your bitter fate, including your distrust and severed memories.
• Your past and memories appeared along the path, and the being welcomed you to the Ideal Realm.
• You asked whether it could prevent your certain death or help you, and it refused both.

The narrator met the Higher-Dimensional Existence, who demanded a satisfying story in exchange for help and explained that the narrator’s story was too incomplete to accept. The Existence left after describing it as mysterious, great, despairing, and filled with bitter self-redemption.

• The narrator offered to pay for the Higher-Dimensional Existence’s help, but they asked for a story instead.
• The Higher-Dimensional Existence explained that they had created the Dream World to escape worldly schemes and to devour stories that strengthened their ability.
• They revealed that the passage had let them savor the narrator’s memories and that they were also experiencing the stories of the other four arrivals.
• The Higher-Dimensional Existence said they knew about the Chat Group mission but refused to help in exchange for the narrator’s story because it was incomplete.
• As the passage disappeared, the narrator asked how the story tasted, and the Higher-Dimensional Existence called it mysterious, great, despairing, and filled with bitter self-redemption.

You explored the Dream World, recruited nearly all its inhabitants into your Dao Lineage, and raised your cultivation to Foundation Establishment Limit-Breaking, Nine Thousand Layers. An eight-rings intelligence revealed that the Higher-Dimensional Existence of the Dream World had lured you there out of obsession with your story and might help protect you.

• You asked Wang Hao to reveal his Golden Finger because the Life-and-Death Sticker still foretold your death, but he refused and promised to help you.
• You explored the Dream World and used Escape One to bring nearly every weaker inhabitant into your Dao Lineage without provoking the Higher-Dimensional Existence.
• You gained hundreds of millions of experience points, millions of attribute points, and several Supreme Existences as disciples.
• You spent your experience points on Foundation Establishment Limit-Breaking and advanced from Six Thousand Five Hundred Layers to Nine Thousand Layers.
• Your Golden Talent: Listening triggered an eight-rings intelligence revealing that the Higher-Dimensional Existence had deceived you to keep you in the Dream World because They were obsessed with your story.

You waited for information from Golden Talent: Listening, then spent eight hundred years of true lifespan to raise your comprehension to fiftyfold and finish the Heavenly River Water Dao-Seeking Immortal Art. The Heavenly River Water fruit position advanced to Nascent Soul Middle Stage, but you gained no guidance for reaching Nascent Soul Late Stage.

• The Dream World's Lord rang eight times and kept you alive because it wanted to witness your story's ending.
• You found no useful information in Golden Talent: Listening's reports and resumed cultivating the Heavenly River Water Dao-Seeking Immortal Art.
• You reclaimed Number Two Other-Self and spent eight hundred years of true lifespan to raise your comprehension to fiftyfold.
• You completed half the art in a month, three-fifths in three months, and four-fifths after a year.
• You finished the Heavenly River Water Dao-Seeking Immortal Art after two years, advancing its Supreme Fruit Position to Nascent Soul Middle Stage.
• You gained no method for advancing Heavenly River Water to Nascent Soul Late Stage and had to find your own way forward.

Facing a warning that his memories would return within a year, Chen harvested the Dream Realm and confronted the Taiyin True Lord, suspecting Senior Lin Feng was behind her. With no path of retreat in the Fourth Group Mission, he chose to strike first and began confronting the group members about their intentions; the chapter ended as he asked Li Ping if he had finished acting.

• Chen entered the Dream Realm and raised his foundation establishment limit-breaking cultivation to level 9,100 by harvesting its resources.
• Chen confronted the Taiyin True Lord and asked whether she was Senior Lin Feng, but she denied knowing him.
• With his cultivation gains exhausted and Wu Yong and the Lord of the Dream World having sentenced him to death, Chen decided to take the initiative.
• Through Number One Other-Self, Chen told Wang Hao to witness his death and returned Wu Yong's Life-and-Death Sticker, accusing him of using it to test for a hidden trump card.
• Chen visited Zhang Wenping, then confronted Li Ping and asked whether he had enough of acting.

Chen Fan confronted Li Ping and accused him of being the Higher-Dimensional Existence hidden in the [Chat Group], laying out how Li Ping had manipulated events to target him. Li Ping finally spoke in a higher-dimensional voice, confirming Chen Fan’s deduction.

• Chen Fan used the power of "Number One Other-Self" to replay his experiences for Li Ping, who acted shocked and denied knowing what Chen Fan meant.
• Chen Fan accused Li Ping of being the Higher-Dimensional Existence in the [Chat Group] and of being connected to the one in the [Gods and Devils Realms].
• Chen Fan reasoned that Li Ping had lured him to the [Gods and Devils Realms] and used outside forces because the [Chat Group] Rules prevented him from harming Chen Fan directly.
• Chen Fan connected Li Ping to the ambush during the [third group mission] and explained why he had ruled out Wang Hao, Zhang Wenping, and Wu Yong.
• Li Ping sighed in a higher-dimensional voice and told Chen Fan that pretending not to know the truth would have been better for them both.

Chen Fan’s Simulated Clone faced Li Ping, who revealed that his Golden Finger was [Draw One Entry Per Year] and proposed a truth-bound question game. Outside the simulation, Chen Fan had to choose whether to let his clone play, knowing that refusing would permanently forfeit an important truth.

• Li Ping transformed into a Higher-Dimensional Existence, but the Chat Group rule prevented him from attacking Chen Fan’s other self.
• Li Ping proposed that he and Chen Fan each ask one question, with neither allowed to lie and the game ending if either refused to answer.
• Li Ping said his Golden Finger was [Draw One Entry Per Year] and claimed a [golden entry] let him detect lies.
• Li Ping warned that if Chen Fan refused to play, they would never have another chance to speak and Chen Fan would lose access to an important truth.
• The Simulator offered Chen Fan the choice to accept the game and face unknown dangers or refuse and forfeit that truth, leaving him reluctant to choose either option.

Chen Fan agreed to Li Ping’s question-and-answer game after [I Am the Chess Player] pushed him to choose, and Li Ping revealed why he was scheming against him. The game ended with Chen Fan disclosing that his original body was thirty-seven years in the past, while Li Ping realized Chen Fan had erased his true spirit’s memories to block his mind-reading.

• Chen Fan chose to agree to Li Ping’s game after an impulse from [I Am the Chess Player] surged through him.
• Li Ping used [Zero Returner] to draw Chen Fan’s Number One Other-Self into a secluded space and began the question-and-answer game.
• Chen Fan asked what Li Ping hoped to gain, and Li Ping cited his reward-drop entry, his ability to break the Chat Group’s rules, and his need to keep Chen Fan’s original body from learning more about the future.
• Li Ping asked how far in the past Chen Fan’s original body was and how many simulations it had run.
• Chen Fan answered that his original body was thirty-seven years in the past, and Li Ping recognized that Chen Fan had erased his true spirit’s memories to prevent him from reading his mind.

The simulated self questioned Li Ping about his plans and made him watch the original self’s eleven simulations. Li Ping praised those experiences but revealed his own despair, leaving the simulated self to continue with his third question.

• The simulated self erased his true spirit memories with Old Self to prevent Li Ping from reading his mind, then answered Li Ping’s question about the original self’s age and number of simulations.
• The simulated self asked what Li Ping would do with that information, and Li Ping said he would tamper with extracted items, memories, or cultivation to alert or influence his counterpart in reality.
• Li Ping asked what the simulated self had experienced in each simulation, and the simulated self reproduced the events of all eleven simulations for him.
• Li Ping praised the simulated self’s repeated escapes from despair and admitted he lacked a Simulator and had been shaped by despair.
• The simulated self avoided pressing Li Ping about his past and returned to asking his third question.

Li Ping revealed that a Higher-Dimensional Existence from the future might be working to stop the fifth group mission, then asked about the Simulator’s talents. Chen Fan refused to answer through the simulation choice function, and the game ended before the clone disclosed those secrets.

• Li Ping explained that higher-dimensional beings could still have futures as possibilities that had not yet been witnessed and anchored.
• Li Ping said the future existence might be connected to a Chat Group member and could be trying to prevent the fifth group mission.
• Li Ping asked what talents the Simulator had given the clone and what those talents did.
• Chen Fan chose to refuse the question, wary of the danger and unwilling to expose the Simulator’s secrets.
• The clone sensed Chen Fan’s choice and declared that he refused to answer and wanted the game to end.

Chen Fan’s simulated clone realized that Li Ping had used the question-and-answer game itself to trigger a mechanism that could expose Chen Fan in reality. After Li Ping left, the clone considered the future Higher-Dimensional Existence’s role in the coming Fifth Group Mission and changed its plans.

• Chen Fan’s clone blocked Li Ping from leaving and accused him of hiding a scheme in the game itself.
• Li Ping admitted that Chen Fan had figured it out, then left without explaining the mechanism.
• Chen Fan realized the game might have allowed Li Ping in reality to notice and locate him, and feared being exposed.
• The clone kept Number One Other-Self in the Dream World and reasoned that the game’s effect was likely limited and not immediate.
• The clone concluded that a Higher-Dimensional Existence from the future might be attacking the Chat Group to prevent it from reaching the Fifth Group Mission.

After Old Self restored the Simulated Clone’s erased memories, the Simulated Clone confronted Wang Hao in the Dream World and accused him of manipulating events from the future. He concluded that Wang Hao’s Golden Finger was a high-priority ability to peer into the future and communicate with his future self.

• In Year Fifty-Eight, Old Self purged the higher-dimensional influence from the Simulated Clone’s memories, restoring the erased past and leaving him despairing over the scheme he saw.
• The Simulated Clone told the Lord of the Dream World that his story might soon end, then sought out Wang Hao and accused him of secretly plotting everything.
• Wang Hao challenged the Simulated Clone’s reasoning and argued that his past help had kept the Simulated Clone alive, while suggesting Zhang Wenping was the real suspect.
• The Simulated Clone explained how the Future Riddle Machine and Li Ping’s answer had steered him toward seeking Wang Hao’s protection, which he believed was the future plotter’s intended outcome.
• The Simulated Clone reasoned that Wang Hao needed him alive until the Fourth Group Mission and accused him of acting to preserve the group’s five members.
• The Simulated Clone identified Wang Hao’s Golden Finger as high-priority future sight that could let Wang Hao’s future self cross time and space to interfere and speak with his present self.

The protagonist confronted Wang Hao about Li Ping’s ambush and Wang Hao’s ability to foresee the future, and Wang Hao confirmed the protagonist’s conjecture. As Wang Hao hinted that the protagonist had chosen this future, a sudden upheaval struck the protagonist’s main body in the Supreme True Realm.

• The protagonist argued that Li Ping’s attention had been drawn to Wang Hao during the Third Group Mission and suggested Li Ping had ambushed him.
• Wang Hao dropped his immortal-sage façade and affirmed the protagonist’s conjecture.
• The protagonist asked whether Wang Hao’s Golden Finger had foreseen the confrontation and led him into a certain-death future.
• Wang Hao said the protagonist had still chosen this future and revealed that he had intended to let him live for another ten years.
• The protagonist’s main body in the Supreme True Realm felt something wrong, and he realized the crux of the problem.

Chen discovered that Donghuang Taiyi and the Battered Demon Realm were behind the force overwriting his true spirit, following a scheme Wang Hao had set in motion in an earlier era. As Old Self failed to intervene, Donghuang Taiyi began replacing Chen, convinced by Wang Hao’s prediction that the plan would succeed.

• Chen traced the strange connection corrupting his memories to the Battered Demon Realm inside the Chaos Bell, while an unknown power blocked Old Self’s attempt to save him.
• Chen regained awareness inside the Battered Demon Realm and confronted Donghuang Taiyi, asking how he had bypassed True Self and when his plot began.
• Donghuang Taiyi revealed that Wang Hao had approached him before Chen obtained the Chaos Bell and instructed him to create the Battered Demon Realm as a contingency.
• Donghuang Taiyi explained that Wang Hao had predicted Chen would form a deep connection with the realm, allowing the contingency to replace Chen at his root.
• Chen asked whether Donghuang Taiyi was certain the plan would work, and Donghuang Taiyi cited Wang Hao’s claim: “I have already seen the [future]!”

Chen Fan escaped Donghuang Taiyi’s attempt to replace him when Donghuang Taiyi burned and destroyed the Battered Demon Realm, severing their connection and choosing to help him. Chen Fan recovered his complete memories and gained the right to use the Chaos Bell, then remembered that he had planned this encounter with Donghuang Taiyi before erasing part of his memories.

• Donghuang Taiyi’s will eroded Chen Fan’s memories as he prepared to replace him and revive himself.
• Donghuang Taiyi unleashed the Solar True Fire, burning the Battered Demon Realm and briefly halting the erosion of Chen Fan’s memories.
• Donghuang Taiyi told Chen Fan he had chosen to help him, then the Chaos Bell destroyed the Battered Demon Realm and severed their connection.
• Chen Fan recovered his memories, learned he had gained the right to use the Chaos Bell, and heard Donghuang Taiyi’s final words.
• Chen Fan remembered that before his conversation with Wang Hao, he had sought out Donghuang Taiyi and told him, “I need you.”

Chen revealed his Simulator to Donghuang Taiyi and asked him to commit his hidden plans and the Chaos Bell’s power to helping him, promising to aid Taiyi in return. Taiyi offered to erase Chen’s true spirit memories and sever their karma, and Chen accepted despite suspecting Taiyi had his own connections to the higher-dimensional schemers.

• Chen told Donghuang Taiyi that he was inside a future simulation and revealed the Simulator as his Golden Finger.
• Chen demanded that Taiyi help him with all his strength, including using the Chaos Bell and any secret plans, and promised to help free Taiyi from his predicament.
• Chen asked how many higher-dimensional beings were plotting against him and what other schemes they had prepared.
• Donghuang Taiyi offered to use the Chaos Bell to erase the relevant memories from Chen’s true spirit and sever the karma, while refusing to reveal more about his own plans.
• Chen accepted Taiyi’s proposal.

After recovering from the Battered Demon Realm, Chen Fan discovered that Old Self was fighting three higher-dimensional beings and feared Wang Hao had anticipated his moves. The Lord of the Dream World opened a passage and promised to protect Chen Fan as he entered it, while the Chat Group announced his mission reward.

• Chen Fan returned to peak condition and suspected Donghuang Taiyi had sacrificed himself to escape a death trap tied to Wang Hao’s scheme.
• Old Self battled three higher-dimensional beings outside the Supreme True Realm, so Chen Fan transformed into Old Self and went to the Dream World for help.
• The Lord of the Dream World manifested, reshaped the rules, and opened a passage while promising to protect Chen Fan.
• Chen Fan entered the passage through the experiences of his story, and the Chat Group announced his mission completion and a Self-Selected Chaos Spiritual Root reward.

After the Fourth Group Mission, Chen Fan received a random fruit position as an extra reward and analyzed the hidden motives of the other Chat Group members. He remained trapped in the Strange Passage, saving his mission rewards for his original body and cultivating in seclusion while awaiting the Lord of the Dream World’s instructions.

• The Chat Group awarded Chen Fan a random fruit position for contributing 100% to the Fourth Group Mission, while the other members received nothing.
• Chen Fan reviewed the suspected motives and abilities of Zhang Wenping, Wang Hao, Wu Yong, and Li Ping, but remained uncertain about their plans.
• Chen Fan chose not to claim his mission rewards, intending to preserve them for his original body and future simulations.
• By year sixty, Chen Fan had reached 9,200 layers of foundation establishment limit-breaking and consolidated his great Dao foundation to 92,500,000 zhang.
• Chen Fan continued cultivating in the passage; by year one hundred, he had reached 9,240 layers and a 92,900,000-zhang great Dao foundation.

While cultivating in the Strange Passage, the narrator observed Old Self’s battle and wondered why his opponents spared the Supreme True Realm. A Golden Finger ability then began rewriting the narrator’s existence, and the chapter ended with half his true spirit overwritten while the Lord of the Dream World failed to intervene.

• The narrator learned through Number One Other-Self that Old Self remained locked in battle with three Higher-Dimensional Existences without the Supreme True Realm being harmed.
• The narrator sensed that his true spirit, memories, and Dao were being rewritten, despite his [True Self] ability failing to activate.
• The narrator suspected Wang Hao, Li Ping, or Zhang Wenping of using a Golden Finger ability to prevent the Fifth Group Mission from beginning.
• The rewriting intensified and overwrote half the narrator’s true spirit, while the Lord of the Dream World did not appear to notice.

As Li Ping replaced Chen Fan, he revealed that he and the Higher-Dimensional Existence from the [Future] had arranged Chen Fan’s ending and that Li Ping had manipulated his suspicions. Before his consciousness was erased, Chen Fan made Li Ping his Archrival and unleashed [Karmic Law Punishment], then died as the simulation ended.

• Li Ping began replacing Chen Fan and revealed that he had influenced Chen Fan’s suspicions with [Golden Entry: Marionette] as part of a plan agreed upon with the Higher-Dimensional Existence from the [Future].
• As his memories were overwritten, Chen Fan confronted the absent [Lord of the Dream World] and declared that he would never accept this ending.
• Number One Other-Self teleported Chen Fan to the [Supreme True Realm], where Chen Fan activated [Purple Talent: Bitter Fruit] and designated Li Ping as his Archrival, gaining a colorful-quality orb effect.
• Chen Fan’s final consciousness activated [Karmic Law Punishment] at its highest power against Li Ping.
• Chen Fan died, and the simulation ended.