Recaps

As the White Bone Throne collapsed, the narrator realized the True Lords had watched him because his simulations repeatedly changed his predetermined Fate, and understood how their schemes had used him against Chen Qingyan. The narrator exchanged a silent appraisal with Chen Qingyan before the simulation ended in his death.

• The narrator deduced that one True Lord had kept him alive and guided him to the White Bone Throne so he could use Burial Dao to sever his Destiny from Chen Qingyan’s.
• As the throne and White Bone Steps crumbled, the narrator realized his changing Fate across simulations had drawn the True Lords’ attention.
• The narrator accepted that his simulated self could not affect his original self’s Destiny and watched his existence approach Annihilation.
• A voice called the narrator’s final gamble a small link in higher schemes, but he ignored it and silently told Chen Qingyan, “Brilliant!”
• Chen Qingyan smiled faintly and silently replied, “Not bad,” before the narrator’s consciousness dissolved and the simulation ended.

After learning that his simulations had drawn the attention of Nascent Soul True Lords, Chen Fan realized that claiming a reward could expose his changing fate and hasten his death. He decided to seek Chen Qingyan’s help in the next simulation, using future information as leverage, and left his cultivation progress secondary to finding protection.

• Chen Fan reviewed the memories from the Fifth Simulation and concluded that changes to his fate had attracted the Nascent Soul True Lords’ scrutiny.
• He decided not to claim a reward from the Fifth Simulation, fearing that it would make his altered fortune and gained information visible to the True Lords.
• Chen Fan considered asking Chen Qingyan for help, offering information from the Simulator as bargaining leverage, or continuing to simulate in hopes of gaining a protective talent.
• He chose to contact Chen Qingyan in the next simulation and seek protection, accepting the risk of bargaining with him rather than waiting for the True Lords to kill him.

Chen Fan began the Sixth Simulation with the blue Talent Ascension, choosing to keep its rewards from exposing his real body to notice. As the simulated clone considered which blue Talent to upgrade, it settled on Beloved Object, but the chapter ended before it used the Talent.

• Chen Fan used 100,000 low-grade Spirit Stones to begin the Sixth Simulation and drew the blue Talents Ascension and Fortune, along with the green Talent Divine Body.
• Chen Fan rejected Fortune because it might draw the attention of the Nascent Soul True Lords, and chose Ascension to strengthen an existing Talent without making his Destiny conspicuous.
• At age 20, the simulated clone claimed the Fifth Simulation's carried-over reward of life experience and Talents instead of cultivation, which might attract the True Lords' notice.
• The clone weighed upgrading Twice the Results with Half the Effort or Eye of Illusion, but concluded that greater efficiency or insight would not help it overcome the forces manipulating its Destiny.
• The clone focused on Beloved Object, which could provide what it needed most, and prepared to use it.

The protagonist used Beloved Object to obtain a Heaven and Earth Wonder, then ascended the talent into Wish Echo and received a mysterious Damaged Spacetime Token. After waiting a year without apparent danger, the protagonist began breaking through to Heaven-grade Qi Refining, where an unexpected change occurred.

• The protagonist used Beloved Object to obtain the Heaven and Earth Wonder needed for a safe breakthrough to Heaven-grade Qi Refining.
• The protagonist used Ascension on Beloved Object, transforming it into the Purple Talent Wish Echo.
• The protagonist activated Wish Echo and received a token engraved with “Time,” identified as a Damaged Spacetime Token.
• The protagonist failed to activate the token and decided to wait a year to see whether it would protect against a Nascent Soul True Lord’s scrutiny.
• At age 20, the protagonist began breaking through to Heaven-grade Qi Refining and succeeded quickly, but an unexpected change erupted.

Chen Fan used the [Temporal Decree] to evade the Nascent Soul True Lords’ detection and connected with a powerful Transmigrator from a previous Era. The scholar survived a heavenly backlash and introduced himself as Lin Feng, the [Supreme Dao Immortal Venerable].

• The [Temporal Decree] concealed Chen Fan from the Nascent Soul True Lords investigating his Heaven-grade Qi Refining breakthrough.
• The [Temporal Decree] opened a Light Screen through which Chen Fan met a scholar who recognized him as an [Otherworldly Demon] from the next Era.
• Chen Fan admitted he was a Transmigrator, and the scholar deduced that he had a [Golden Finger] and had arrived less than a hundred years earlier.
• Chen Fan introduced himself as a member of the [Chen Family], but the scholar’s attempt to divine his precise origins triggered a bolt of [Karmic Law] lightning.
• The scholar survived with only a scorched robe hem and revealed that he was Lin Feng, a [Nascent Soul True Lord] known as the [Supreme Dao Immortal Venerable].

The protagonist learned that Lin Feng had attained the Dao of Beyond Heaven and was warned that speaking about the Past could trigger deadly karmic punishment. After the Spacetime Token ran out of energy, Lin Feng sent Chen Qingyan to bury the Heavenly Mystery Creation Jade Butterfly beneath the Chen Family’s old locust tree, leaving the protagonist intent on finding it.

• Lin Feng stopped the protagonist from asking about Beyond Heaven, explaining that interference with the Past would bring Heavenly Dao Correction and karmic punishment.
• The protagonist asked how an unlucky Embryonic Breath Realm cultivator should escape Nascent Soul True Lords plotting against him, and Lin Feng mentioned a legend about a jade butterfly that concealed fate.
• The Damaged Spacetime Token lost energy and returned to the protagonist’s possession, prompting him to suspect it needed Heavenly Dao Power to recharge.
• After the token’s connection ended, a powerful karmic lightning tribulation struck Lin Feng in Beyond Heaven, but he survived and wondered whether the protagonist’s enemies were unusually powerful.
• Chen Qingyan arrived as Lin Feng’s disciple, and Lin Feng ordered him to bury the Heavenly Mystery Creation Jade Butterfly at a specified location beneath the Chen Family’s old locust tree.

The narrator found the [Heavenly Secret Creation Jade Butterfly] beneath the old scholar tree, then learned that Chen Qingyan had been waiting for their arrival and offered to protect them. During a year of traveling together, Chen Qingyan explained the hierarchy of [Nascent Soul True Lord] Fruit Positions, leaving the narrator with a new understanding of the powers and limits governing the realm.

• The narrator touched the old scholar tree and retrieved the hidden [Heavenly Secret Creation Jade Butterfly].
• Chen Qingyan came to the narrator’s residence, recognized them as his Master’s old friend, and explained that he had reincarnated into the [Chen Family] to guard the Jade Butterfly and await them.
• Chen Qingyan offered to safeguard the narrator’s journey, and they became traveling companions.
• During their travels, Chen Qingyan told the narrator that his era had more than a hundred confirmed [Nascent Soul True Lords].
• Chen Qingyan described the three tiers of Fruit Positions: [Void-Proof-type], those nurtured by heaven and earth, and derivative or ordinary extrarealm Fruit Positions.

After learning more about Lin Feng and the powers of Beyond Heaven, the narrator followed Chen Qingyan to a hidden secret realm containing part of Chen’s plan from his previous life. Chen retrieved a concealed note that would guide the next stage of that plan.

• Chen Qingyan revealed that his former Supreme Fruit Position was a Void-Proven Fruit Position and explained Beyond Heaven’s status, while the narrator learned about his past-life cultivation and reason for reincarnating.
• With Chen Qingyan’s guidance and accumulated cultivation insights, the narrator advanced to Late Qi Refining within a year.
• At age 24, the narrator set aside plans for seclusion and followed Chen Qingyan to a hidden inheritance site he had prepared in his previous life.
• Chen Qingyan explained that the secret realm’s opportunities depended on Fortune and that he had come to recover instructions hidden there because his reincarnated memories and soul were incomplete.
• The narrator reflected that years of efforts had recharged the Temporal Decree to only 13.5 percent before Chen Qingyan uncovered a glowing note from a concealed stone wall.

After reaching Qi Refining Perfection, the protagonist followed Chen Qingyan into the Myriad Beasts Mountain Range to find an old acquaintance, but a hostile Ancient Buddha forced them to flee. Chen Qingyan used the Supreme Limitless Dharma Seal to rewind them to the dormant secret realm and explained its time-anchor ability.

• Chen Qingyan told the protagonist to meet an old acquaintance in the Myriad Beasts Mountain Range, then helped them absorb the secret realm’s energy and reach Qi Refining Perfection, raising the Damaged Spacetime Token’s charge to seventy percent.
• The protagonist traveled with Chen Qingyan to the Myriad Beasts Mountain Range, where Chen Qingyan explained that Supreme Venerable Fruit Positions were absent and Nascent Soul True Lords remained hidden.
• After entering the secret realm, Chen Qingyan sensed familiar auras in all four directions, and the pair chose to head west based on the protagonist’s warnings from earlier simulations.
• The pair reached an ancient temple, where an Ancient Buddha attacked them with a massive golden palm after Chen Qingyan realized they had come to the wrong place.
• Chen Qingyan blocked the attack with a Dharma Seal and used it to return them to the dormant secret realm, explaining that the Supreme Limitless Dharma Seal could rewind to a spacetime anchor.

After Chen Qingyan explained his Rewind treasure and left to investigate the east of the Secret Realm, you began centuries-long cultivation to limit-break your Heaven-grade Qi Refining. By age 30, Chen Qingyan had not returned, but Twice the Results with Half the Effort was doubling your Dao Attainment progress.

• You learned that Chen Qingyan's Supreme Limitless Dharma Seal came from his master, Lin Feng, and that its Rewind power had only one use remaining.
• Chen Qingyan told you to stay in the Secret Realm and cultivate while he went alone to meet an old acquaintance in the unexplored east.
• You learned that Heaven-grade Qi Refining allowed up to nine Limit-Breakings, and that your first required five hundred years of Dao Attainment.
• You began cultivating in seclusion at age 25 after Chen Qingyan left supplies and warned you not to venture outside.
• At age 26, you discovered that Twice the Results with Half the Effort doubled your Dao Attainment progress, reducing the estimated time for your first Limit-Breaking to about 250 years.
• By age 30, Chen Qingyan had still not returned, while your aura and control of spiritual energy had steadily improved.

The narrator spent decades cultivating in the secret realm while waiting for Chen Qingyan, nearly leaving when an inexplicable restlessness overwhelmed them. The Spacetime Token calmed their mind, and Chen Qingyan eventually returned with his cultivation restored to Foundation Establishment.

• The narrator continued cultivating despite isolation and frustration over having no fortune or opportunities.
• After decades of suppressing an urge to leave the secret realm, the narrator nearly rushed outside, but the Damaged Spacetime Token dispelled the restlessness and revealed its master-protection function.
• The narrator discovered that the Token's charging progress had fallen from over seventy percent to forty-five percent after protecting them.
• The narrator resumed cultivation, accumulated three hundred years of Dao Attainment by Age 90, and found several Ancient Relics by Age 110.
• At Age 120, Chen Qingyan returned to the secret realm with his cultivation restored to Foundation Establishment.

Chen Qingyan appeared in the Secret Realm as an already-dead figure and passed the Supreme Limitless Dharma Seal to his Martial Uncle before vanishing. The seal awakened its Amplification ability, and with the Secret Realm recharged, the Martial Uncle began powering the Spacetime Token to contact Lin Feng.

• The Martial Uncle used the Eye of Illusion and learned that Chen Qingyan had willingly died to secure him a Sliver of Vitality.
• Chen Qingyan handed over the Supreme Limitless Dharma Seal, vanished, and left a final message warning that the era was dark and difficult.
• The Martial Uncle learned that the seal's Amplification ability boosted cultivation, Comprehension, Fate Pattern, and Fortune.
• The Secret Realm finished recovering its energy, and the Damaged Spacetime Token reached sixty percent charge.
• The Martial Uncle poured the Secret Realm's energy and his magical power into the Spacetime Token to contact Lin Feng, the Supreme Dao Immortal Venerable.

Chen Fan used the Damaged Spacetime Token to contact Mo Wuyou, a boy from the Starry Sky Era a thousand years in the future. Mo found a vague historical record matching Chen Fan’s circumstances and revealed that the cultivator it described died beneath the old pagoda tree of his Lineage.

• The Damaged Spacetime Token connected Chen Fan to a schoolboy in a modern city, and Chen Fan realized he had reached the Future rather than Lin Feng’s Past.
• Chen Fan introduced himself and described his era, while the boy identified the declining fruit position cultivation method from history books.
• The boy introduced himself as Mo Wuyou, a descendant of the Mo Family, and said his family had been wiped out.
• Chen Fan asked Mo Wuyou to search historical records for clues about his fate without mentioning specific names.
• Mo Wuyou found a vague record of a Qi Refining Perfection cultivator who reached nine levels of limit-breaking and died beneath the old pagoda tree of his own Lineage.

After the Future’s Karmic Law Punishment nearly killed him, the Heavenly Secret Creation Jade Butterfly protected him, and Lin Feng explained the Spacetime Token’s past-and-future pattern. The protagonist chose to cultivate toward Foundation Establishment, reaching the third Qi Refining Limit-Breaking layer and resolving to remain in the Secret Realm until he broke through.

• The Heavenly Secret Creation Jade Butterfly shielded the protagonist from the Karmic Law Punishment, and Lin Feng explained that odd uses of the Spacetime Token connected to the Past while even uses connected to the Future.
• The protagonist considered using Rewind or Amplification to escape his foretold death, then chose to cultivate and pursue Foundation Establishment.
• With Amplification and Twice the Results with Half the Effort, he reached Qi Refining Limit-Breaking First Layer after two months and greatly increased his cultivation speed and Rank.
• He advanced to Qi Refining Limit-Breaking Second Layer in Year 125, raising his overall cultivation efficiency to roughly two hundredfold.
• He reached Qi Refining Limit-Breaking Third Layer in Year 129, attained roughly eight-hundredfold cultivation efficiency, and noticed his Fortune had improved.
• The protagonist continued cultivating in the Secret Realm, determined to stay until he reached Foundation Establishment unless a fatal threat appeared.

You reached the ninth limit-breaking in Qi Refining, discovering that each breakthrough condensed new strands of primordial qi and transformed your Essence. Your cultivation speed reached a hundred thousand times its initial rate, and you identified which items could recharge the Damaged Spacetime Token.

• You broke through the fourth, fifth, and sixth limit-breakings as your cultivation speed rose dramatically.
• You realized each limit-breaking condensed additional strands of primordial qi, which could eventually merge into a flawless innate Great Dao foundation.
• You reached Qi Refining perfection and the ninth limit-breaking in Year 131, with your rank surpassing the Chen Family Ancestor’s.
• Your cultivation speed stabilized at 100,000 times its initial rate, and your growing fortune helped you find another intact Heaven and Earth wonder.
• You determined that Ancient Relics, the jade bones of Foundation Establishment cultivators, and Heaven and Earth wonders could recharge the Damaged Spacetime Token.

You focused on charging the [Spacetime Token] while pursuing further Limit-Breaking, but the Secret Realm collapsed as the Ancient Buddha attacked. The token triggered your final [Rewind], sending you back to the start of your long seclusion and saving your life.

• You chose to remain in the Secret Realm and charge the [Spacetime Token] rather than risk a Foundation Establishment breakthrough outside.
• You continued condensing [primordial qi] beyond [Qi Refining Perfection, Ninth Limit-Breaking] and raised the token's charge to eighty percent with ten [Ancient Relics].
• You came close to condensing a tenth strand of [primordial qi] as the token reached ninety percent charge.
• The Secret Realm began collapsing under an immense power, and the Ancient Buddha's attack induced unnatural hesitation that stopped you from using [Rewind].
• The [Spacetime Token] spontaneously activated the [Supreme Limitless Dharma Seal]'s [Rewind], undoing the collapse and the Ancient Buddha's attack.
• You returned to the Secret Realm more than a hundred years earlier, shortly after Chen Qingyan's departure, having used your final [Rewind].

After returning to age 24, you found that Chen Qingyan could not accompany you and that your remaining escape route was to reach Foundation Establishment. A Nascent Soul True Lord’s Bloodline Curse destroyed your foundation, and your attempt to break through beside the Chen Family’s Old Locust Tree failed, ending in your death.

• You realized Rewind could not bring Chen Qingyan back or affect Nascent Soul True Lords, leaving you without your greatest advantage.
• You inspected the Damaged Spacetime Token and found its charging progress at 40%, but an unseen power struck your bloodline and began collapsing your rank and Dao Foundation.
• You recognized the attack as a Bloodline Curse aimed at the Chen Family and concluded that the enemy feared the Supreme Limitless Dharma Seal’s third ability.
• You left the Secret Realm to attempt an immediate Foundation Establishment breakthrough and appeared beside the Chen Family’s Old Locust Tree.
• Your breakthrough failed as the Bloodline Curse and collapsing Dao Foundation disrupted your Primordial Qi, and you died.

Chen Fan chose to claim his simulated cultivation and talents, gaining Qi Refining Perfection Ninth Limit-Breaking and the memories of 135 years. His breakthrough upgraded the Simulator, unlocking Purple Talent draws and multiple-Talent selection before he prepared for the Seventh Simulation.

• Chen Fan learned that his unclaimed reward from the previous simulation let him choose two rewards this time.
• Chen Fan chose the cultivation realm and life experience with talents, gaining Ninth Limit-Breaking Qi Refining and 135 years of memories and insights.
• Chen Fan's breakthrough triggered a Simulator upgrade that unlocked Purple Talent draws, guaranteed a Purple Talent for the next simulation, and let him select two Talents from five.
• Chen Fan resolved to adjust to his new cultivation and continue simulating until he could escape the forces controlling his fate.

Chen Fan discovered that his next simulation required a Heaven and Earth wonder, then met the Chen Family Ancestor, who questioned his rapid cultivation and revealed that Chen Qingyan’s reincarnation was tied to a karmic debt to the Supreme Dao Immortal Venerable. The chapter ended with the ancestor explaining that he was only obliged to help protect Chen Qingyan until he grew stronger.

• Chen Fan saw that his next simulation would cost one Heaven and Earth wonder and concealed his true cultivation beneath an Embryonic Breath Realm aura.
• The Chen Family Ancestor arrived and confronted Chen Fan about his sudden rise to Qi Refining Perfection, asking whether he was a reincarnated mighty being or carried a Golden Core Powerhouse’s sect Fortune.
• Chen Fan asked the ancestor about Chen Qingyan’s origins, his reason for reincarnating into the Chen Family, and the ancestor’s role in it.
• The Chen Family Ancestor revealed that he had once received a favor from the Supreme Dao Immortal Venerable and that Chen Qingyan’s reincarnation was part of the resulting karmic debt.
• The Chen Family Ancestor said he only had to help Chen Qingyan and keep him safe until he had grown.

After the Chen Family Ancestor left him uncertain about the family’s intentions, Chen Fan sought out Chen Qingyan to obtain a Heaven and Earth Wonder for his next simulation. Chen Qingyan deduced that Chen Fan was an Otherworldly Demon and agreed to provide the wonder, but demanded to see the Spacetime Token in three days.

• Chen Fan suspected the Chen Family Ancestor was hiding things and decided the family would not provide him with a Heaven and Earth Wonder through the ancestor’s promised opportunity.
• Chen Fan used his cultivation to find and tug at Chen Qingyan’s karmic thread, drawing his attention.
• Chen Qingyan visited Chen Fan and failed to identify the Heaven and Earth Wonder underlying his Qi Refining cultivation.
• Chen Fan offered to show Chen Qingyan the Spacetime Token in three days in exchange for a Heaven and Earth Wonder.
• Chen Qingyan deduced that Chen Fan was an Otherworldly Demon and agreed to deliver a Heaven and Earth Wonder the next day, insisting that Chen Fan show him the token three days later.

Chen Fan began his seventh simulation after Chen Qingyan delivered a metal-element Heaven and Earth Wonder. He selected the purple Talents [Unrestricted] and [Heaven's Mandate], and the simulation began.

• Chen Fan waited in a secluded mountain cave while bringing himself into peak condition.
• Chen Qingyan arrived and left a metal-element Heaven and Earth Wonder at the cave entrance.
• Chen Fan used the Wonder to recharge the Simulator and began drawing Talents for his seventh simulation.
• Chen Fan drew three purple Talents and two blue Talents, including [Heaven's Mandate], [Unrestricted], and [Observation].
• Chen Fan rejected [Observation] because its assimilation risk might leave the simulation stuck, then chose [Unrestricted] and [Heaven's Mandate].
• The Simulator loaded Chen Fan's two selected Talents and began the simulation.

Chen Fan gained the purple Talent [Once and for All], which gave him continuous idle cultivation, and obtained a fully charged [Damaged Spacetime Token] through [Wish Echo]. He tried to have Chen Qingyan use the token to contact Lin Feng, but it refused to acknowledge him.

• Chen Fan upgraded [Twice the Results with Half the Effort] into [Once and for All], gaining automatic progress toward tasks and nonstop passive cultivation.
• Chen Fan used [Wish Echo] to obtain a fully charged [Damaged Spacetime Token] and planned to give it to Chen Qingyan to contact Lin Feng.
• Chen Fan tested [Unrestricted] and found it reacted to restrictions, but he chose to save the one-use Talent for a critical moment.
• Chen Qingyan arrived two days later and said he could no longer discern Chen Fan's fate or origins, which seemed to be due to [Heaven's Mandate].
• Chen Fan gave Chen Qingyan the [Damaged Spacetime Token] and explained his plan to seek Lin Feng's guidance without triggering karmic punishment.
• Chen Qingyan tried to activate the token, but it remained dormant and he returned it, saying the Divine Artifact did not acknowledge him.

Chen Fan used the [Spacetime Token] to contact Lin Feng and asked what would happen if he gathered the realm’s remaining providence and attracted a supreme being’s attention. Lin Feng warned that Chen Fan would be doomed, then suffered a devastating [Karmic Law] Punishment that severed the connection.

• Chen Fan activated the [Spacetime Token], and Lin Feng appeared through a Light Screen that Chen Qingyan could not see.
• Lin Feng suspected Chen Fan had used the token before, but accepted his evasive explanation without pressing him.
• Chen Fan identified himself as a descendant of the [Chen Family] and asked about the risks of obtaining the realm’s [Heaven’s Mandate].
• Lin Feng said that gathering the [Supreme True Realm]’s remaining providence and attracting a supreme being would leave Chen Fan with no chance of survival.
• Lin Feng declared that he would help Chen Fan as his senior, triggering an exceptionally powerful [Karmic Law] Punishment that shattered the Light Screen and drained the token.

Chen Fan found Lin Feng’s warning parchment and planned to explore a secret realm with Chen Qingyan, but the Chen Family Ancestor then warned that Chen Qingyan was a counterfeit. A second parchment contradicted the first, leaving Chen Fan facing conflicting instructions about whom to trust and whether to establish his foundation.

• Chen Qingyan vaguely remembered that Lin Feng had hidden something beneath the Chen Family’s old locust tree, so Chen Fan dug up a parchment there.
• Chen Fan read Lin Feng’s warning that a Spirit Transformation Dao Master might use someone familiar to steal Heaven’s Mandate, and that Chen Fan needed to establish his foundation.
• Chen Fan found no abnormalities in Chen Qingyan’s information template and decided to visit the secret realm with him as a testing ground.
• The Chen Family Ancestor secretly visited Chen Fan and claimed that Chen Qingyan was a fake because the real Chen Qingyan had died long ago.
• The Chen Family Ancestor gave Chen Fan a second parchment that warned him to trust no one, avoid Chen Qingyan, and never establish his foundation.

After receiving a second parchment warning him never to reach Foundation Establishment, you suspected Chen Qingyan and fled the Chen Family to hide in Blackstone Town. There, strange good fortune continued to follow you, including an encounter with an injured sacred-land disciple, leaving you wary that Heaven's Mandate was drawing trouble closer.

• The Chen Family Ancestor gave you a parchment from a jade casket left by Lin Feng, and you compared its warning against the decree Chen Qingyan had helped you find.
• You decided Chen Qingyan was too dangerous to trust and reasoned that Heaven's Mandate would keep you alive until Foundation Establishment, so you secretly left the Chen Family.
• At age 21, you settled in Blackstone Town, where you defeated a bullying rogue cultivator and became the town's de facto boss.
• You rejected a stream of beautiful female cultivators who kept finding excuses to approach you, suspecting Heaven's Mandate was influencing your luck in romance.
• You found the gravely injured Yao Guang, a Foundation Establishment disciple of the Eastern Region Sacred Land, and stabilized her in a cave before knocking her unconscious and leaving her protected by wards.