Recaps

The true Lord of the Heavenly Court, Nine Heavens, shattered Li Ping’s Great Daos and stripped away nearly all his power, but two purple talents and the Spacetime Token kept him alive. With the token’s protection lasting only an incense stick, Li Ping weighed his escape options and faced the choice of using Wish Echo.

• The true Lord of the Heavenly Court, Nine Heavens, shattered Li Ping’s two Great Daos and reduced his rank to Qi Refining.
• Li Ping’s talents I Am the Chess Player and Once and for All activated, stopping the attack’s effects as the Spacetime Token appeared to protect him.
• Li Ping realized the token could not connect to anyone across time and would protect him only for the time it took an incense stick to burn.
• Li Ping considered escaping with the Hollow Willow, but I Am the Chess Player warned that the Lord of the Heavenly Court, Nine Heavens, could find and destroy it.
• Li Ping considered using Wish Echo despite I Am the Chess Player’s warnings, and Past Li Ping finally spoke.

Chen Fan weighed Past Li Ping’s proposal to transform into him to survive the Lord of the Heavenly Court, Nine Heavens, but grew more suspicious and resolved to use Wish Echo. The chapter ended when I Am the Chess Player unexpectedly spoke through Chen Fan’s voice, accusing Past Li Ping of deliberately steering him toward that choice.

• Past Li Ping urged Chen Fan to use Transform All Beings to become him, claiming it offered a chance to survive the Lord of the Heavenly Court, Nine Heavens.
• Chen Fan considered transforming into the True Scripture but rejected it as uncontrollable, and recalled that becoming Senior Lin Feng would trigger karmic law punishment.
• Past Li Ping reminded Chen Fan of their earlier deal involving the Creator Class Card and said he needed Chen Fan to survive until the fifth group mission.
• Chen Fan grew more wary of Past Li Ping’s motives and decided to use Wish Echo instead of transforming into him.
• I Am the Chess Player activated and spoke through Chen Fan’s Great Dao’s Voice, accusing Past Li Ping of intending to guide Chen Fan toward using Wish Echo.

Chen Fan realized that his apparent self was bait and that his true self had been hidden inside [Purple Talent: I Am the Chess Player]. He uncovered Past Li Ping’s influence over his decisions, and the hidden Chen Fan prepared to confront him openly.

• Chen Fan suspected that his true self had stayed hidden within [Purple Talent: I Am the Chess Player], leaving his other selves as bait.
• Chen Fan considered whether the hidden game had been intended to deceive Past Li Ping, who had fallen silent and watched him.
• Chen Fan realized Past Li Ping had influenced him to distrust [Purple Talent: I Am the Chess Player] and become determined to use [Purple Talent: Wish Echo].
• Past Li Ping admitted he had mistaken Chen Fan’s greatest trump card, while [Purple Talent: I Am the Chess Player] accused him of still acting.
• Chen Fan confirmed that his true self had been concealed within [Purple Talent: I Am the Chess Player], and declared that they would lay their cards on the table.

Chen Fan and Past Li Ping uncovered how True You had hidden inside [I Am the Chess Player] while using Chen Fan as bait, including during the earlier schemes involving the [Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority]. True You pressed Past Li Ping about his objective, but Past Li Ping dismissed Chen Fan's deductions and declared that his abilities and experience were far beyond Chen Fan's.

• True You stayed hidden inside [I Am the Chess Player] while Chen Fan remained exposed as bait under Past Li Ping's influence.
• True You explained that the talent's earlier shattering had hidden him and that he had delivered the warning not to turn back after escaping Past Li Ping's influence.
• Past Li Ping realized the talent's shattering before the Life-and-Death Chess Game had also concealed True You, creating three layers of Chen Fan in the scheme against the [Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority].
• True You admitted the plan and asked Past Li Ping what he had been plotting through the contingency in the [Gods and Devils Realms].
• Past Li Ping rejected True You's claim that he had deduced the objective and disdained Chen Fan's abilities, experience, and reliance on [I Am the Chess Player].

True You deduced that Past Li Ping had predicted and helped steer his journey to the actual [Supreme True Realm] because it served Past Li Ping’s goal. Past Li Ping confirmed the deduction and revealed that his greatest trump card was [Colorful entry: Omniscience].

• True You questioned why Past Li Ping had guided him toward the actual [Supreme True Realm] and concluded that the journey benefited Past Li Ping.
• True You reasoned that Past Li Ping could not control the entire realm directly, but must have used a future-predicting ability or divination to advance his plan.
• You realized that Past Li Ping had anticipated and helped bring about the hardships and pursuit True You now faced.
• Past Li Ping confirmed True You’s deduction and revealed [Colorful entry: Omniscience] as one of his greatest trump cards.

Chen Fan learned that Past Li Ping claimed to possess Omniscience and Omnipotence, but True You reasoned that these abilities could not overcome otherworldly beings’ Golden Fingers. As Past Li Ping pressed Chen Fan to use Wish Echo against an overwhelming siege, True You revealed they had another trump card.

• Past Li Ping claimed he possessed the Colorful entries Omniscience and Omnipotence, and True You rejected them as limited Golden Finger abilities.
• True You argued that Past Li Ping’s failure to prevent the use of I Am the Chess Player proved he was not truly omniscient or omnipotent.
• Past Li Ping reminded Chen Fan that he remained trapped by the future pinnacle experts of the Supreme True Realm and challenged him to escape.
• True You explained that using Wish Echo might solve the siege but let Past Li Ping create another desperate situation afterward.
• True You declared that Wish Echo was not their only trump card.

True You revealed that his apparent predicament and use of the [Spacetime Token] were part of a plan to expose the major divine ability [Sage of Today]. He accused Past Li Ping of scheming to use [Wish Echo] and [Sage of Today] to let Past Li Ping intervene in the future from the past.

• Past Li Ping doubted that True You had another trump card, since the [Spacetime Token] only protected him briefly from the [Lord of the Heavenly Court, Nine Heavens].
• True You said he had planned to activate the [Spacetime Token] and use the protected time to reveal his cards to Past Li Ping.
• The [purple talent: I Am the Chess Player] glowed as True You disclosed his major divine ability, [Sage of Today], which could randomly summon a Supreme Existence as its spokesperson.
• True You said Past Li Ping had always wanted him to use [Sage of Today], not merely [Transform All Beings] to become Past Li Ping.
• True You accused Past Li Ping of scheming for him to use [Wish Echo] and then [Sage of Today], giving Past Li Ping a chance to intervene in the future from the past.

Chen Fan realized Past Li Ping had been trying to exhaust his trump cards so he would use Wish Echo alongside Sage of Today, summoning the existence best suited to his predicament. Past Li Ping admitted he had sought to provoke that combination, but claimed his higher-grade entries would overpower Chen Fan’s talent and leave him victorious if it failed.

• True You explained that Past Li Ping’s Supreme-level strength came from Sage of Today summoning a Supreme rather than a higher-dimensional existence.
• True You connected Past Li Ping’s efforts to exhaust I Am the Chess Player and Wish Echo with his plan to make Chen Fan use Sage of Today.
• True You proposed combining Wish Echo with Sage of Today so the summoned existence would be best suited to Chen Fan’s circumstances.
• Past Li Ping admitted he had been scheming to make Chen Fan use Sage of Today, not transform into him with Transform All Beings.
• Past Li Ping argued that his higher-grade entries could overpower Chen Fan’s purple-grade talent and warned that Chen Fan had only one chance to succeed.

True You negotiated with Past Li Ping by revealing that his talents and Li Ping’s entries might have uncertain priority, making neither side willing to risk a final confrontation. The chapter ended with True You suggesting that Past Li Ping’s urgency meant the fourth Chat Group group mission was about to begin.

• True You argued that the uncertain priority of talents and entries made Past Li Ping unable to safely gamble on overpowering him.
• Past Li Ping recognized that True You wanted him to resolve the crisis in exchange for Chen Fan using neither [Wish Echo] nor [Sage of Today].
• The narrator realized that True You had used the time from the [Spacetime Token] to negotiate, reversing their desperate position.
• Outside the simulator, Chen Fan marveled that [I Am the Chess Player] had helped True You turn the situation around.
• True You told Past Li Ping that he had initially intended to preserve his trump cards and suggested that the fourth group mission was imminent.

True You confronted Past Li Ping over the imminent fourth Chat Group mission and forced him to choose between helping Chen Fan survive or risking a clash of their abilities. Past Li Ping agreed to help, but True You remained suspicious of his explanation for why he could not intervene directly in the future.

• True You identified the approaching fourth group mission as the reason Past Li Ping had been rushing him, and Past Li Ping confirmed it.
• True You demanded that Past Li Ping either save him without using [Sage of Today] or [Wish Echo], or gamble on whose abilities had higher priority.
• Past Li Ping conceded and agreed to help Chen Fan survive, provided Chen Fan did not use [Sage of Today] before the fourth group mission.
• True You demanded that Past Li Ping leave no hidden contingencies, threatening to use [Sage of Today] and [Wish Echo] if he found any, and Past Li Ping agreed.
• Past Li Ping asked Chen Fan to use [Transform All Beings] to take his form, explaining that direct intervention could provoke the Supreme True Realm's karmic law and powerful enemies.
• Chen Fan suspected Past Li Ping was concealing part of the reason he could not intervene directly, and True You was likewise unconvinced.

Past Li Ping argued that his transformed version could defeat the weakened Lord of the Heavenly Court, Nine Heavens, and True You appeared to accept their arrangement before refusing. True You then revealed that Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority had been concealed in the protagonist all along, leaving the protagonist to suspect Past Li Ping had foreseen and manipulated the entire crisis.

• Past Li Ping claimed he could defeat the weakened Lord of the Heavenly Court, Nine Heavens, even without his entries, and the protagonist saw the proposal as a way to escape safely.
• True You appeared to agree to leave his trump cards unused, then abruptly refused and addressed Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority.
• The protagonist realized Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority might have been hidden within him since before the Spacetime Token created its space.
• True You recalled using Sea of Time 914,500,000 times, leading the protagonist to suspect that Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority had disguised himself as the contingency from Longevity Great Talent.
• The protagonist concluded that Past Li Ping had known about the hidden trap and began to suspect he had covertly engineered the current situation.

Chen Fan was seized by a contingency involving the Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority, who used the Ages Dao to force him into borrowed Spirit Transformation rank and restrain his Sage of Today ability. The True You suggested Past Li Ping had used Colorful Entry: Omnipotence to arrange the contingency, but that this interference had reached its limit at the current Higher-Dimensional Level.

• Chen Fan realized the Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority had replaced Longevity Great Talent’s contingency with a copied branch, apparently through a deal with Past Li Ping.
• The branch trapped Chen Fan at Qi Refining rank, then forcibly raised him to Spirit Transformation Dao Master through borrowed attunement.
• The Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority used the Ages Dao to suppress Chen Fan’s Sage of Today ability and said it would prevent him from freely activating it.
• Chen Fan deduced that Past Li Ping had likely arranged the contingency after recognizing his unfavorable situation, rather than foreseeing the entire present through Omniscience.
• Chen Fan suspected Past Li Ping had used Colorful Entry: Omnipotence to put effect before cause and bring the Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority into the spacetime created by the Spacetime Token.
• The True You said the Venerable Lord’s interference was not too late and that Past Li Ping had reached the limit of what Omnipotence could do at the current Higher-Dimensional Level.

True You deduced that Past Li Ping had used [Colorful Entry: Omnipotence] to alter the past and create a contingency that limited [Sage of Today] during their trade negotiations. He challenged Past Li Ping to explain what prevented him from coming to the future.

• True You questioned whether [Colorful Entry: Omnipotence] could reverse cause and effect, and realized Past Li Ping had prepared the [Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority] as insurance for the negotiations.
• True You inferred that his 914,500,000 uses of [Sea of Time] corresponded to 914,500,000 times he had detected the altered past.
• True You realized Past Li Ping had erased the established fact of his repeatedly seeing through the contingency.
• Past Li Ping admitted he had used [Colorful Entry: Omnipotence] to perform Cause-Reversal, change the past, and create the contingency so True You could not freely use [Sage of Today].
• True You questioned why Past Li Ping was so restricted from interfering with the future and asked what kept him from coming there.

True You realized Past Li Ping needed him personally to activate [Sage of Today] so Li Ping could possess and replace him, possibly because a powerful being had blocked Li Ping from acting in the Future. With the [Spacetime Token] running out and [Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority] revealed as a contingency, True You faced Li Ping’s bargain without knowing whether he could safely accept.

• True You questioned whether Past Li Ping really needed [Sage of Today], since his [Colorful Entry: Omnipotence] should let him create someone else who could use it.
• True You suspected a powerful being connected to him was preventing Past Li Ping from intervening in the Future, and considered Senior Lin Feng as a possible culprit.
• Past Li Ping confirmed that he needed Chen Fan himself to activate [Sage of Today] so he could intervene in the [Chat Group]'s Fourth Group Mission through him.
• True You concluded that Past Li Ping intended to possess and replace him, but Past Li Ping did not explain what higher power restricted his actions.
• As the [Spacetime Token]'s time nearly ran out, Past Li Ping urged True You to accept their bargain, while True You worried that [Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority] would leave him vulnerable to a hidden contingency.

Past Li Ping cornered Chen Fan, who could no longer use [Sage of Today], and insisted that surrender was his only option. As Chen Fan’s final use of [I Am the Chess Player] was spent protecting him from a fatal explosion, the True You invoked [Purple Talent: Existence from Nonexistence] to overturn the ending.

• Past Li Ping argued that his superior reserves had secured victory and urged Chen Fan to work with him before the [Spacetime Token] ran out.
• The True You rejected Past Li Ping’s claim that he had no choice, reflecting on the joy of a brilliant journey rather than a perfect ending.
• [I Am the Chess Player] flared as the True You tried to weaken the [Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority]’s control and force [Sage of Today] to activate.
• Past Li Ping’s contingency unleashed a fatal burst of Mighty Power inside Chen Fan, forcing the final use of [I Am the Chess Player] to stabilize him instead of freeing him.
• As [I Am the Chess Player] shattered, the True You activated [Purple Talent: Existence from Nonexistence] and vowed to overturn the ending.

Chen Fan broke free of Past Li Ping’s influence as the spirit within [Purple Talent: I Am the Chess Player] faded, then used [Purple Talent: Existence from Nonexistence] to sacrifice the talent and fight for survival. Outside, he sacrificed [Golden Talent: Myriad Selves] and [Golden Talent: Fusion], gaining the blessings of living beings and the legacy of [Ten Thousand Arts], before preparing to use [Effect Before Cause].

• Chen Fan recognized the fading spirit within [Purple Talent: I Am the Chess Player] and answered its call before it dissipated.
• Chen Fan became the one and only Chen Fan and resolved to seize a path to survival, declaring, “...I will win.”
• Chen Fan activated [Purple Talent: Existence from Nonexistence] by sacrificing [Purple Talent: I Am the Chess Player].
• In the space created by the Spacetime Token, Chen Fan sacrificed [Golden Talent: Myriad Selves] and gained the blessing of all living beings and a brief blessing of [colored heaven's mandate].
• Chen Fan sacrificed [Golden Talent: Fusion], received the legacy of [Ten Thousand Arts], and reached a spirit transformation limit-breaking state.
• Chen Fan prepared to sacrifice [Purple Talent: I Am the Chess Player] and gained three chances to use [Effect Before Cause].

Chen Fan used the power of Ten Thousand Daos to break free from Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority’s control and rose to Spirit Transformation Dao Master, but the altered past sustaining the contingency remained. He used one of his opportunities to wield effect before cause and restore the past, beginning a contest against Past Li Ping’s opposing power.

• Chen Fan’s rank shattered back to Qi Refining Realm before Ten Thousand Daos surged through him, raising him to Spirit Transformation Dao Master and beyond.
• Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority recognized the Ten Thousand Daos Furnace as the power of Arts Dao Lord Myriad.
• Chen Fan realized that effect before cause, rather than the Ages Dao, sustained Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority’s contingency.
• Chen Fan used one opportunity to declare that Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority had never existed there and that Longevity Great Talent should have been the true owner of the contingency.
• Chen Fan found the past moment when he searched for Longevity Great Talent’s contingency and began restoring it after Past Li Ping had altered it.
• Chen Fan’s effect before cause clashed with Past Li Ping’s opposing power, and neither gained the upper hand.

Chen Fan rejected Past Li Ping’s offer to help, suspecting that Li Ping had withdrawn his power because Chen Fan’s cause-reversal talent had higher priority than Li Ping’s entry. Returning to the battlefield, Chen Fan manifested Myriad Beings Aspect through his borrowed Colored Heaven’s Mandate and survived the Lord of the Heavenly Court, Nine Heavens’ attack.

• Past Li Ping withdrew the effect-before-cause power and proposed that Chen Fan transform into him so he could help fight the Lord of the Heavenly Court, Nine Heavens.
• Chen Fan refused, arguing that Past Li Ping had not truly conceded and that his talent’s effect-before-cause had proven stronger than Li Ping’s entry.
• Chen Fan left the shattered Spacetime Token space, returning to face the Lord of the Heavenly Court, Nine Heavens and the future pinnacle experts of the Supreme True Realm.
• The Lord of the Heavenly Court, Nine Heavens attacked with layered fruit positions embodying karma, destiny, time, rules, and destruction.
• Chen Fan’s borrowed Colored Heaven’s Mandate manifested Myriad Beings Aspect, blocking the attack and filling the battlefield with fortune.

The protagonist blocked attacks from the Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority and Lord of the Heavenly Court, Nine Heavens by wielding the colored Heaven's Mandate and Myriad Dao Furnace. Nine Heavens suspected the protagonist was connected to the Arts Dao Lord Myriad, then launched another devastating attack and was struck by Karmic Law Punishment.

• The protagonist blocked Nine Heavens's powerful strike with the Visages of All Living Beings and stopped the Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority's super Great World, refining it into the Myriad Dao Furnace.
• Nine Heavens recognized the Myriad Dao Furnace and wondered whether the protagonist was a contingency left by the Arts Dao Lord Myriad, while the Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority had doubted that Myriad was real.
• Nine Heavens manifested the Nine Heavens Celestial Court and layered at least ten thousand Great Daos into an attack, still holding back the Investiture of the Gods Method.
• The protagonist met Nine Heavens's strike with the unified power of the Myriad Dao Furnace, while the attack devastated worlds and broke through the colored Heaven's Mandate's protection.
• Karmic Law Punishment struck Nine Heavens after he crossed from the present into the future to attack the protagonist.

Li Ping escaped the Lord of the Heavenly Court, Nine Heavens, by returning to the Painting World rather than fleeing beyond his reach. There, he confronted the Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority and deduced that the Venerable Lord had engineered his desperate situation so Li Ping would summon a particular existence.

• Li Ping resisted fleeing while the Lord of the Heavenly Court, Nine Heavens, suffered karmic law punishment, and returned to the Supreme True Realm and the River of Time.
• Li Ping blocked the Buddha Ancestor of the Western Region and the Fake Lord of Penglai, then crossed through Central Province into the damaged Painting World.
• The Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority remarked that Li Ping had apparently won his contest with Past Li Ping.
• Li Ping accused the Venerable Lord of seeking to make him use Wish Echo alongside Sage of Today, so he could meet the existence Li Ping summoned.
• Li Ping reasoned that the Venerable Lord had deliberately driven him into a desperate predicament while holding back his strongest attacks.

The protagonist confronted the Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority to learn whether the Lord’s schemes were meant to confirm what the protagonist would summon for Lin Feng. When the Lord tried to shut down the conversation, the protagonist threatened to sacrifice everything and fight for survival, forcing the Lord to ask what they wanted to know.

• The protagonist recalled the Lord’s earlier claim that the Lord wanted an answer for Master Lin Feng, and suspected the schemes were meant to verify a future possibility.
• The Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority tried to end the discussion by pressing the shattered World Within the Painting toward the protagonist.
• The protagonist used Colored Heaven's Mandate and the Myriad Beings Aspect to halt the Lord and demanded that the Lord clear up their doubts.
• The protagonist threatened to use Existence from Nonexistence to sacrifice their abilities and force a path to survival if the Lord refused to answer.
• The Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority fell silent, then asked what the protagonist wanted to know.

Chen Fan questioned the Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority about the past and learned that four Otherworldly Demons had existed in earlier eras. The chapter ended with the Venerable Lord explaining how the First Era’s Reincarnation Immortal established the Six Paths of Reincarnation and created the [Reincarnation] supreme fruit position.

• Chen Fan asked how the Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority had avoided Past Li Ping’s mind-reading, and the Venerable Lord implied that Senior Lin Feng had helped.
• Chen Fan asked whether he had existed in the past and whether other Otherworldly Demons had appeared; the Venerable Lord said there were no traces of Chen Fan but knew of four Otherworldly Demons.
• The Venerable Lord named Lin Feng and the First Era’s Reincarnation Immortal among the four, saying some of the others’ records had been erased.
• The Venerable Lord explained that the Reincarnation Immortal was the First Era’s Half-Immortal and had established the Six Paths of Reincarnation, remade the Supreme True Realm, and founded the Netherworld.
• The Venerable Lord said the Reincarnation Immortal had earned a response from the Earthly Dao and created the [Reincarnation] supreme fruit position.

Chen Fan learned that the Reincarnation Immortal had likely fallen, then faced the Lord of the Heavenly Court, Nine Heavens, who used the Investiture of the Gods List to try to control him. Cornered, Chen Fan activated Sage of Today and Wish Echo, trusting the Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority to reverse the situation.

• Chen Fan questioned the Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority about the Reincarnation Immortal and the remaining Otherworldly Demons, but the venerable lord said he did not know.
• The Lord of the Heavenly Court, Nine Heavens, entered the collapsing World Within the Painting and forced Chen Fan into another confrontation.
• The deity used the Investiture of the Gods List to bestow the rank of Eternal Radiance Immortal Venerable on Chen Fan and attempt to control him.
• Chen Fan realized the investiture could not be stopped without destroying the list and activated Sage of Today and Wish Echo as a last resort.

After activating [Sage of Today], you rose into the Higher Dimension and became a beacon for Past Li Ping, whose golden ability drew him toward the future. Past Li Ping’s gaze broke through restrictions and revealed his overwhelming true form, as he declared he had waited for this moment for far too long.

• [Sage of Today] sent you soaring through countless chess games until you reached the Higher Dimension.
• A dazzling golden light turned you into a beacon and pulled you toward the Supreme Existence wielding it.
• Past Li Ping used your beacon to reach from the past of the Higher Dimension into its future, breaking through restrictions with his gaze.
• [Sage of Today] protected you as Past Li Ping’s gaze drew closer, while you wondered why [Purple Talent: Wish Echo] had not brought anyone else.
• You glimpsed Past Li Ping’s true form, with nine colorful class cards joined into a flawless ring, and realized he wanted you to forget your predicament.
• Past Li Ping’s Great Dao’s Voice echoed across the Higher Dimension: “I've waited for this moment... for far too long.”

The protagonist realized Past Li Ping had orchestrated events to make him use [Sage of Today] and [Wish Echo], while sacrificing [Fusion] to block his last escape. Acknowledging that Past Li Ping had outmaneuvered him, he admitted defeat.

• [Effect Before Cause] erased Past Li Ping’s true form from the protagonist’s Sea of Consciousness, allowing him to think again.
• The protagonist wondered why [Wish Echo] had not brought help and concluded Past Li Ping must have prevented the summoned Supreme Existence from answering.
• He recognized that Past Li Ping’s proposed deal had been a fraud designed to make him use [Sage of Today] and [Wish Echo].
• The protagonist realized Past Li Ping had maneuvered him into sacrificing [Fusion], sealing off his option to fuse [Sage of Today] and fight back.
• The protagonist praised Past Li Ping’s scheme and admitted, “I lost!”