Recaps

You learned that the current Penglai Immortal Island Island Master was a replacement for the true Penglai Island Lord. [Longevity Great Talent] explained that the true lord had reincarnated his entire true spirit during the Fourth Era to restore his damaged Dao attainment and gain another fruit position.

• You summoned [Longevity Great Talent] and asked why the current Penglai Immortal Island Island Master was secretly trying to eliminate you.
• [Longevity Great Talent] revealed that the current Island Master was a replacement, not the true Penglai Island Lord.
• [Longevity Great Talent] described the Fourth Era, when the [Nine Realms Gate] and [Western Buddhist Land] threatened Penglai Immortal Island while its allies and the true lord were in difficulty.
• [Longevity Great Talent] explained that the true Penglai Island Lord reincarnated his entire true spirit in Central Province to cultivate anew, gain a second fruit position, and restore his damaged Dao attainment.

Longevity Great Talent explained the ranking of the ten strongest life-bound divine abilities and the true Penglai Island Lord’s plan to pursue the Sword Dao Fruit Position. The plan collapsed when the returning Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority joined the Nine Realms Gate in attacking him, becoming an enemy of Beyond Heaven.

• Longevity Great Talent explained that the ten title-level life-bound divine abilities included Time Shepherding, True-False Supreme Realm, Karma Thief, Creation from Nothing, and Twin Blossoms.
• Longevity Great Talent said the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion’s ranking had not been updated since the Supreme Dao Immortal Venerable destroyed the sacred land nearly two eras earlier.
• Longevity Great Talent revealed that the true Penglai Island Lord planned to reincarnate and pursue the Sword Dao Fruit Position in Central Province.
• Longevity Great Talent explained that the Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority returned and used Twin Blossoms to oppose the Penglai Island Lord’s attempt to attain the Sword Dao Fruit Position.
• Longevity Great Talent said the Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority joined the Nine Realms Gate in striking down the true Penglai Island Lord and had become Beyond Heaven’s most terrifying enemy.

Longevity Great Talent explained how Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority used [Twin Blossoms] to create the current Penglai Island Lord and revealed that he was behind the scheme against the narrator. He suggested that the rule against infighting within [Beyond Heaven] was why the narrator had not been killed outright.

• Longevity Great Talent revealed that Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority used [Twin Blossoms] to create an identical being, complete with the original's powers and fruit positions.
• Longevity Great Talent explained that the true Penglai Island Lord died in Central Province, after which the duplicate attained the Dao and reclaimed his position.
• Longevity Great Talent traced the later founding of the [Great Li Dynasty] by Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority and the return of the [Nine Heavens Celestial Court].
• Longevity Great Talent confirmed that Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority was behind the narrator's predicament and that the narrator could not rely on [Beyond Heaven].
• Longevity Great Talent said the rule forbidding [Beyond Heaven] members from fighting one another likely prevented the enemy from killing the narrator directly.

On day seventeen, Chen Fan learned that Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority had trapped him with Twin Blossoms: either Chen Fan killed his duplicate and came under the Venerable Lord’s control, or the duplicate replaced him. As Chen Fan searched for a way to act, his talents stopped him from transforming into Senior Lin Feng, and he suspected Lin Feng had created the Immortal Realm to make a future self possible and protect him.

• Eight rings of Golden Talent: Listening revealed that Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority had created another Chen Fan with Twin Blossoms, who would eventually replace him unless Chen Fan killed the duplicate and became controlled by the Venerable Lord.
• Chen Fan realized that both killing the duplicate and waiting for it to replace him led to disaster, and he considered taking the initiative with Transform All Beings.
• When Chen Fan tried to transform into Senior Lin Feng, I Am the Chess Player and Once and for All halted the talent, warning that Lin Feng did not exist in this era and that karmic law punishment would correct the transformation.
• Chen Fan reasoned that the genuine Supreme True Realm had no future self of Lin Feng like the one sealed in Beyond Heaven in the Immortal Realm.
• Chen Fan suspected that Senior Lin Feng had caused the Immortal Realm to emerge so he could deploy a future self into it, possibly to protect Chen Fan.

The protagonist searched for a way out of the death trap imposed by the returned Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority and realized Lord of the Heavenly Court, Nine Heavens might be a possible ally. After testing the Chaos Bell and Pure World White Lotus to no avail, the protagonist learned they had five days to slay the Venerable Lord.

• The protagonist considered using Purple Talent: Transform All Beings to summon a powerful existence, then identified Lord of the Heavenly Court, Nine Heavens as a potential ally who could be transformed into.
• The protagonist confirmed they could transform into Lord of the Heavenly Court, Nine Heavens, but held off until they had suitable bargaining chips.
• The protagonist used the Chaos Bell and Twelfth-Rank Pure World White Lotus in an attempt to alter the death trap.
• Seven Rings intelligence told the protagonist that the treasures could not resolve the crisis and that they had five days to slay the returned Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority.

Number One Other-Self uncovered the Great Li Dynasty’s history and the weakness of its cultivation world, then killed its four Nascent Soul True Lords and swept away countless other cultivators. After gathering the spoils, it turned its attention to the Great Li Imperial House to see whether the Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority would intervene.

• Number One Other-Self learned that the Great Li’s founding emperor had died after ascending to the throne, while the Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority had helped cause the dynasty’s decline and forbade cultivators from interfering in mortal affairs.
• Number One Other-Self discovered that the Great Li cultivation world had four Nascent Soul True Lords, all at most in the Nascent Soul Middle Stage, and killed them after confirming they had no backers.
• The system awarded Number One Other-Self the [Water in the Spring] and [Wallside Earth] fruit positions, along with other rewards, bringing it closer to a breakthrough to Great True Lord.
• Number One Other-Self slaughtered sects, factions, and rogue cultivators across the Great Li cultivation world, then recycled the remains of Golden Core Powerhouses and Foundation Establishment True Persons for additional rewards.
• Number One Other-Self turned toward the Great Li Imperial House to test whether the Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority would intervene and to uncover the house’s secrets.

Chen Fan fought four Immortal Venerables to keep one other-self occupied while sending another into the Great Li Imperial House’s secret realm. A familiar voice expelled the second explorer, and Chen Fan discovered that another version of himself had attacked.

• Four Immortal Venerables severely wounded Chen Fan’s Number One Other-Self and forced him out of the Great Li Imperial House’s secret realm.
• Chen Fan restored himself, returned to battle, and fought the four Immortal Venerables with Number Two Other-Self’s help.
• Chen Fan sent Number Three Other-Self into the secret realm to explore while Number One and Number Two fought the Immortal Venerables.
• A voice using Heavenly Rule Inscription declared that Chen Fan could not enter the secret realm, expelling Number Three Other-Self.
• Another Chen Fan, created by the Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority’s Twin Blossoms, struck Number Three Other-Self with Heaven-and-Earth Sword.

Chen Fan deployed his final two other selves to investigate the Great Li Imperial House’s secret realm, only for Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority to reveal that it was connected to the World Within the Painting. The Lord created powerful painted versions of the Penglai Island Lord and Buddha Ancestor Shakyamuni Tony, then demanded that Chen Fan reveal his true body.

• Chen Fan sent out his final two other selves after his first three were occupied, and used them to investigate the Great Li Imperial House’s secret realm.
• Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority froze the secret realm and recognized Chen Fan’s other selves as creations of an Otherworldly Demon.
• Chen Fan realized his two new other selves had been pulled into the World Within the Painting.
• Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority conjured painted versions of the Penglai Island Lord and Buddha Ancestor Shakyamuni Tony from two Heavenly Painting Scrolls.
• The painted figures attacked Chen Fan’s other selves and drove them back in battle.
• Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority asked whether Chen Fan’s true body would reveal itself.

Chen Fan found himself trapped in the Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority’s death trap, with his true body apparently the only piece the enemy still wanted. Past Li Ping warned him against transforming into Lord of the Heavenly Court, Nine Heavens, and Chen Fan realized Nine Heavens might already know about his talent and have planned around it.

• Chen Fan concluded that the Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority had lured him into an unsolvable trap to draw out his true body.
• Past Li Ping urged Chen Fan to meet the Venerable Lord, then warned that transforming into Nine Heavens might not make Nine Heavens help him.
• Past Li Ping suggested that Nine Heavens could know about Chen Fan’s Transform All Beings talent and might scheme to exploit Chen Fan’s transformation.
• Chen Fan recalled that Nine Heavens had witnessed him transform into Lin Feng during the battle in the River of Time.
• Chen Fan realized the Future Dao Master may have intercepted his Other Self to prompt that transformation and reveal his talent to Nine Heavens.
• Fearing Nine Heavens had planned around his talent, Chen Fan abandoned the idea of transforming into him.

Chen Fan hesitated to meet the Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority despite Past Li Ping’s prediction that he would, and waited when his talents urged him not to act. The Venerable Lord then brought Chen Fan directly into the World Within the Painting.

• Chen Fan questioned Past Li Ping’s claim that meeting the Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority was his best choice, pointing out that he still had trump cards.
• Past Li Ping said his Golden Finger foresight showed Chen Fan meeting the Venerable Lord in person and insisted that this future was nearly certain.
• Chen Fan considered using Wish Echo, but I Am the Chess Player and Once and for All activated, and a Great Dao voice told him to wait.
• The Venerable Lord gave Chen Fan ten breaths to come meet him, but Chen Fan stayed hidden inside Hollow Willow’s inner space.
• After Chen Fan did not appear, the Venerable Lord said he would come find him, and Chen Fan suddenly found himself teleported into the World Within the Painting.

The narrator was sealed in the Painting Dao World’s deepest reaches and watched scenes from Senior Lin Feng’s youth, learning that the Supreme Immortal faction had won the Second Era. The chapter leaves young Lin Feng trapped amid the Great Li Dynasty’s collapse, as its emperor became a monster and resistance failed.

• The narrator sealed his other self with the Space Great Dao, then was transported to the core of the World Within the Painting.
• The narrator obeyed the active I Am the Chess Player talent and waited as the Painting Dao replayed Senior Lin Feng’s past.
• The Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority explained that Lin Feng had been an Otherworldly Demon born in the dark Third Era, after the Supreme Immortal faction won the Second Era.
• Young Lin Feng lived in the Great Li Dynasty, where the emperor sacrificed the dynasty’s fortune and countless people to pursue immortality.
• A Hateful Monk rescued Lin Feng from starving refugees, and the two survived in a ruined temple while refusing to prey on others.
• The Great Li emperor became an Embryonic Breath Realm monster, and the Resistance Army’s attempts to overthrow him failed.

The Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority explained that the Great Li Emperor’s sacrifice of the dynasty’s Fortune would bring karmic retribution, which unfolded through Senior Lin Feng’s childhood suffering. During a famine, the Hateful Monk protected ten-year-old Senior Lin Feng from three desperate refugees and was mortally wounded.

• The Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority revealed that the Great Li Emperor’s retribution was close at hand.
• As the Great Li Dynasty’s Fortune vanished, disaster and famine worsened the lives of young Senior Lin Feng and the Hateful Monk in a ruined temple.
• Three starving refugees found Senior Lin Feng and the Hateful Monk and attacked them for food.
• The Hateful Monk fought off and killed the refugees while shielding Senior Lin Feng, leaving himself near death and the boy only lightly injured.
• Senior Lin Feng wept and begged the Hateful Monk not to die as the wounded monk began to speak.

The painting revealed how ten-year-old Lin Feng ate Hateful Monk to survive and developed a powerful hatred, just as Qingyang True Person arrived to recruit him. The Heavenly Painting Scroll shattered as Lin Feng’s hatred surged, and Qingyang True Person revealed that a Golden Core True Lord was behind the scheme.

• Lin Feng remembered Hateful Monk’s regrets and his final plea for Lin Feng to eat him and live.
• Young Lin Feng forced himself to eat Hateful Monk’s flesh, and his grief and hunger gave rise to overwhelming hatred.
• Qingyang True Person appeared and offered to take Lin Feng into the Greenwood Sect, while Lin Feng’s Heaven's Mandate emerged.
• Lin Feng recognized Qingyang True Person as responsible for the calamity and screamed for his death, causing the painting to distort and shatter.
• Before the Heavenly Painting Scroll broke, Qingyang True Person said the scheme had been caused by a Golden Core True Lord.

The Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority revealed that the Golden Core True Lord was what people now called a Nascent Soul True Lord, and that the history he had shown Chen Fan was illusory and did not exist in the present. He left Chen Fan with a startling challenge: to play a game of life-and-death chess.

• Chen Fan wondered why Qingyang True Person had called the realm a Golden Core True Lord, since he knew Golden Core experts and Nascent Soul True Lords by different names.
• The Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority explained that a Golden Core True Lord was what was now called a Nascent Soul True Lord.
• He said the history he had shown Chen Fan was an illusion in which the Golden Core Powerhouse realm had never existed.
• Chen Fan asked why the Venerable Lord had shown him that illusory history, but the Venerable Lord instead said Chen Fan should never have appeared at this point in time.
• The Venerable Lord declared that he wanted to play a game of life-and-death chess with Chen Fan.

The Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority revealed that he wanted Chen Fan to play a life-and-death wager for a purpose tied to Lin Feng, and threatened to keep killing him until he agreed. Chen Fan accepted, and learned the game would be decided by which of their chosen candidates became the next emperor of the true Great Li Imperial House.

• Chen Fan suspected the Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority knew about the Simulator and questioned why he wanted a life-and-death game.
• The Venerable Lord said his purpose was to verify a possibility connected to his master, Lin Feng, but denied that Chen Fan would travel to the past.
• Past Li Ping confirmed the Venerable Lord was telling the truth, and the Venerable Lord threatened to kill Chen Fan on every future visit if he refused to play.
• The Venerable Lord said the loser would die in this attempt, while the winner would claim the other's life, and Chen Fan accepted the wager.
• The Venerable Lord revealed the true Great Li Imperial House and explained that the game was to determine whose chosen candidate would become the next emperor.

You and the Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority agreed to compete by choosing champions for the Great Li throne, while the Venerable Lord slowed time across Central Province to prevent your assimilation. Your talents then revealed that Chen Hei Quan’s past self was in the Great Li Imperial House, and you realized he was the champion you were meant to choose.

• The Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority proposed a contest to help chosen champions become emperors, with neither side acting personally and no restrictions on methods or outcomes.
• To keep the Life-and-Death Chess Game from ending through your assimilation, the Venerable Lord merged the World Within the Painting with Central Province and slowed time there to its limit.
• The Venerable Lord chose the Eldest Prince as his champion, while you delayed choosing anyone and waited for your talent to guide you.
• On the nineteenth day, Purple Talent: I Am the Chess Player and Golden Talent: Listening revealed that Chen Hei Quan had been split into past, present, and future selves by the Supreme Dao Immortal Venerable.
• You deduced that Chen Hei Quan’s past self was in the Great Li Imperial House and that he was the champion you should choose for the contest.

The narrator traced his connection to the Chen Family Ancestor and used it to locate the ancestor’s Past Self in the Mortal Realm. After choosing Chen Hei for the Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority’s game of life and death, the narrator began approaching him while posing as a secluded master.

• The narrator recalled that the Chen Family Ancestor had once asked for a favor in exchange for a Heaven and Earth Wonder, and realized their debt of gratitude could help locate him.
• The narrator used Word Follows the Law to search the chaotic Mortal Realm, and I Am the Chess Player cracked again as the images settled on the Chen Family Ancestor’s Past Self.
• The narrator identified the young wandering swordsman as Chen Hei, established a deeper connection with him, and chose him for the game of life and death.
• The Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority accepted the choice and began the game, requiring the narrator to help Chen Hei become the next emperor without personally intervening.
• The narrator investigated Chen Hei’s difficult past and found him teaching thugs a lesson while taking money to support himself.

Chen Fan secretly guided Chen Hei’s past self, providing a cultivation legacy, resources, and a heavenly spiritual root so he could grow powerful. After Chen Hei reached Embryonic Breath Realm perfection, he revealed that he had awakened as Chen Hei Quan and called himself half a chess player.

• Chen Fan secretly arranged for Chen Hei to find a cultivation legacy and resources, then used a pill to give him a supreme-grade heavenly spiritual root.
• Chen Hei rapidly advanced through the Embryonic Breath Realm, reaching its second stage in the first year and perfection in the second.
• After reaching perfection, Chen Hei stopped cultivating and asked the unseen Chen Fan to reveal himself.
• Chen Fan appeared as a wisp of divine sense, and Chen Hei said he had waited a long time and asked whether Chen Fan was Chen Fan.
• Chen Fan searched Chen Hei’s soul but found nothing unusual, while Chen Hei declared himself Chen Hei Quan, awakened in this age and now half a chess player.

Chen Fan learned that Chen Hei’s golden heaven’s mandate, Heaven and Earth Soul, preserved his true spirit’s memories and let his past, present, and future selves pass information across time. Chen Hei’s future self had instructed his past self to wait for Chen Fan, leaving Chen Fan astonished by the ancestor’s willingness to stake everything on his arrival.

• Chen Fan deduced that Chen Hei’s ability to communicate across time came from his golden heaven’s mandate.
• Chen Hei explained that Heaven and Earth Soul let heaven and earth record his true spirit’s memories and provide him with a portion of its power.
• Chen Hei said that the Supreme Dao Immortal Venerable split him after the ability awakened, allowing his past, present, and future selves to share some information.
• Chen Hei revealed that his future self had told him to wait for Chen Fan and make no unusual moves until Chen Fan approached him.
• Chen Fan asked whether Chen Hei would have waited his whole life if Chen Fan never appeared, and Chen Hei said he would decide based on the circumstances.

Chen Hei explained that the highest path of Qi Refining was Self-Refinement, then ruled the Mortal Realm and founded the Great Qian Dynasty. As its fortune gathered around him, Heaven and Earth entered the chess game and sent a supreme treasure to Chen Hei: a bronze coffin.

• Chen Hei said Heaven-grade Qi Refining was not the highest breakthrough and named Self-Refinement as the most perfect method.
• By year three, Chen Hei had conquered the Mortal Realm, founded the Great Qian Dynasty, and become its First Qian Emperor.
• Chen Hei spent two years building the dynasty, and the Mortal Realm's fortune eventually converged upon him amid spectacular visions.
• A crack opened over Central Province as the Mighty Power of Heaven and Earth entered the realm, prompting the Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority to send out a scroll.
• Heaven and Earth's supreme treasure descended before Chen Hei and revealed itself as a bronze coffin.

Chen Hei broke through to qi refining by refining his fallen future self, while Heaven and Earth disrupted the process and powerful onlookers gathered. Senior Lin Feng appeared through the Heavenly Painting Scroll, silenced the intruders, and Chen Hei emerged with a supreme foundation and the ability to break his limits repeatedly.

• Chen Hei opened the bronze coffin and revealed the fallen Chen Family Ancestor, his future self from the Fourth Era.
• Chen Hei explained that his future self had fallen to fuel his Self-Refinement breakthrough, and he drew power from the World Within the Painting, Central Province, and the ancestor’s life and cultivation.
• Heaven and Earth entered the fray as the world’s origin was drawn into Chen Hei, widening the rift and attracting the attention of powerful figures.
• Senior Lin Feng appeared in the Heavenly Painting Scroll and changed a rule of the True Realm, stopping the rift from expanding and driving away the watching powers.
• Chen Hei completed his breakthrough at the first level of qi refining perfection limit-breaking, with strength comparable to an ordinary Foundation Establishment True Person.
• Chen Hei began cultivating beyond the usual limits and told the narrator that Self-Based Qi Refining, backed by Heaven and Earth, let him continue breaking limits.

You learned that Chen Hei practiced Self-Based Qi Refining to forge his Way of Void-Proof, not to pursue limitless qi refining. By the Sixth Year, he had reached Foundation Establishment, and he explained how schemes had turned his three great fortuitous encounters into disasters, beginning with his lost chance to obtain the Thieving Immortal’s life-bound divine ability.

• You asked Chen Hei whether Heaven and Earth had imposed the limit-breaking restriction, and he explained that it applied to Self-Based Qi Refining.
• Chen Hei said his future self, the Chen Family Ancestor, may have witnessed and improved Self-Based Qi Refining, then revealed that he practiced it to forge his Way of Void-Proof.
• By the Sixth Year, Chen Hei had become a Foundation Establishment True Person and awakened a minor life-bound divine ability.
• Chen Hei explained that his future self had been forced to condense a minor divine ability, which bound his past and present selves to do the same.
• Chen Hei described how his first great fortuitous encounter, obtaining the Thieving Immortal’s Karma Thief legacy, became a disaster after the Supreme Dao Immortal Venerable split him and the Supreme Immortal faction interfered.
• Chen Hei said the interference forced his future self to merge with the Chen family fortune, trapping his cultivation at Foundation Establishment and preventing him from obtaining the Thieving Immortal’s life-bound divine ability.

Chen Hei reached the Foundation Establishment Limit-Breaking Ninth Level, then asked to enter the Great Li Imperial House's Secret Realm. There, you discovered that the imperial house used a Dao Edict to grant fruit-position powers, leaving the purpose of Chen Hei's visit unresolved.

• Chen Hei advanced to the Foundation Establishment Limit-Breaking Ninth Level, but his great dao foundation stopped expanding.
• Chen Hei said he wanted to visit the Great Li Imperial House's Secret Realm, and you agreed to conceal and teleport him there.
• You entered the Secret Realm and learned that the Great Li Imperial House used the Dao Edict to grant fruit-position powers based on officials' ranks and merits.
• You discovered that the Great Li Emperor, Left State Preceptor, and Right State Preceptor held the fruit positions Neck Golden Dragon, Great Sea Water, and Thunderclap Fire.
• You suspected the arrangement of the three fruit positions was designed by the Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority to prevent the Great Li Emperor from becoming the sole dominant power.

The narrator investigated the Great Li Imperial House and its Dao Edict System while seeking the Right State Preceptor’s Thunderclap Fire fruit position. In the Life-and-Death Chess Game, Chen Hei waited in seclusion as the Eldest Prince gained the upper hand in a struggle against the Great Li Emperor and the Eighth Prince.

• The narrator discovered that the Great Li Imperial House was dominated by cultivators and that the Eldest Prince remained at the ninth level of Foundation Establishment Limit-Breaking despite becoming the leading heir.
• In year seventeen, Chen Hei chose to hide and cultivate in the Great Li Secret Realm, telling the narrator to wait patiently.
• The narrator recognized Chen Hei’s confidence as more reckless and mad than the Future Self’s measured demeanor.
• By year twenty, several princes had died or been exiled, leaving the Eldest Prince and Eighth Prince as the main rivals, with the Emperor backing the Eighth Prince to check the Eldest Prince’s rise.
• In year twenty-one, the Eldest Prince’s allies took over vacant official posts through the Dao Edict System, while officials on the Eighth Prince’s side died or defected, and the Emperor failed to reverse the shift in power.

As the Great Li princes’ struggle stalled, the narrator suspected the Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority planned to use the Sword Dao fruit position to help the Eldest Prince attain the Dao and force the Old Emperor to abdicate. Chen Hei welcomed the possibility, leading the narrator to wonder whether the fruit position was one of Chen Hei’s two remaining great opportunities.

• The narrator watched the Eldest Prince and Eighth Prince’s conflict remain unresolved while Chen Hei delayed his breakthrough and offered no clear explanation of his plans.
• Seventeen years later, the Eldest Prince’s forces had become evenly matched with the Eighth Prince’s, and the narrator suspected the Venerable Lord was pursuing a way around the Old Emperor’s refusal to abdicate.
• The narrator conjectured that the Venerable Lord might use the Sword Dao fruit position to help the Eldest Prince attain the Dao and compel the Old Emperor to abdicate or kill him.
• The narrator told Chen Hei the theory, and Chen Hei replied that the Eldest Prince should attain the Dao if that was the plan.
• Chen Hei reacted excitedly to the Sword Dao fruit position, prompting the narrator to suspect it was one of Chen Hei’s two remaining great opportunities.