Recaps

Chen Fan used the last of his effect before cause ability to repel Past Li Ping’s gaze, then realized Past Li Ping had manipulated his judgment to prevent him from making another sacrifice. He accepted that he had lost, and recognized that I am the chess player had been the real source of his unpredictability.

• Past Li Ping’s power pierced Chen Fan’s second use of effect before cause and began imprinting his true form in Chen Fan’s consciousness.
• Chen Fan used his final effect before cause ability, making Past Li Ping’s gaze and indistinct form disappear temporarily.
• Chen Fan considered sacrificing Fifth Chess Player to summon Old Self, but doubted Old Self could defeat Past Li Ping.
• Chen Fan realized Past Li Ping had influenced his judgment to stop him from using Existence from Nonexistence for another sacrifice.
• Past Li Ping admitted he had manipulated Chen Fan, who accepted defeat and understood that I am the chess player had made him unpredictable.

As Past Li Ping completed his assimilation of Chen Fan, a mysterious voice from within Chen Fan’s heart revived him and a future-sent echo struck down Li Ping’s higher-dimensional presence. The chapter leaves Past Li Ping’s Ring shattered and his power gone, while the identity of the voice and the being behind the echo remains uncertain.

• Past Li Ping assimilated Chen Fan after Chen Fan had exhausted every use of [effect before cause].
• A voice from within Chen Fan’s heart asked whether he accepted this ending, and Chen Fan realized the voice sounded like his own.
• Chen Fan suspected the voice might belong to a past version of himself as his awareness returned and Past Li Ping’s power stopped affecting him.
• Past Li Ping recognized that a being summoned by Chen Fan’s [wish echo] had intervened, but a ringing echo erased his manifested eye and true form from the future.
• The echo struck Past Li Ping himself, shattering eight of the nine Colorful Class Cards in his Ring and preventing his Dharma Body from manifesting.

You realized Past Li Ping had arranged for Future Ning Chen to intercept the being summoned to aid you, but green ghostfire transformed half your body and overturned your perception of the Higher-Dimensional Land. You fell back into the Supreme True Realm, facing the Lord of the Heavenly Court, Nine Heavens, with the green flames still covering half your body.

• You inferred that Past Li Ping had schemed with Future Ning Chen to stop the being you summoned, possibly making Present Li Ping's death part of their plan.
• Past Li Ping began to realize the sound that disrupted his plan did not truly belong to you, but a sudden change cut him off.
• Pale Green Ghostfire spread from you across the past and present at the Higher-Dimensional Level, transforming half your Dharma Body and granting you immense power.
• You closed your green-flamed hand, causing your normal eye to see the same ghostfire covering the Higher-Dimensional Land as your green eye.
• Sage of Today released its power, and you fell from the Higher-Dimensional Land back into the Supreme True Realm, before the Lord of the Heavenly Court, Nine Heavens, with green flames covering half your body.

You discovered that the Green Flame let you retrieve a future, and a familiar voice urged you to accept the one where the Lord of the Heavenly Court, Nine Heavens was gravely wounded. You seized his future, leaving him shattered and exposed to the karmic law punishment.

• You realized your Green Flame-covered right side could see and touch the future through an ability you called Future Retrieval.
• You saw a future in which you and the Lord of the Heavenly Court, Nine Heavens both suffered grave wounds after the karmic law punishment struck.
• You resolved to search for a more favorable future, but a familiar voice told you, “This future... is enough.”
• You instinctively closed your Green Flame-covered right hand and grasped the future of the Lord of the Heavenly Court, Nine Heavens.
• The Lord of the Heavenly Court, Nine Heavens was gravely wounded, his Dharma Body shattered and the Investiture of the Gods List gone.
• The karmic law punishment struck toward the Lord of the Heavenly Court, Nine Heavens rather than you.

After using the green flame’s future retrieval to grievously wound the Lord of the Heavenly Court, Nine Heavens, the protagonist sought out the Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority. The Venerable Lord appeared above Central Province, and the protagonist’s new vision showed a future in which they killed him.

• The protagonist used future retrieval to unleash karmic law punishment on the already wounded Lord of the Heavenly Court, Nine Heavens, and saw him flee in the future.
• The green flame weakened, leading the protagonist to conclude that only a few uses of future retrieval remained.
• The protagonist searched the Supreme True Realm, found the other hostile Supreme Existences had hidden themselves, and focused on locating the Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority.
• The protagonist looked toward the Great Li Dynasty in Central Province, where the Venerable Lord appeared through a painting scroll.
• The Venerable Lord recited an entrance poem and declared, "You... really do exist!" while the protagonist saw a future in which they slaughtered him.

Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority questioned Chen Fan about regret and revealed that he had set a trap to meet the existence summoned by Chen Fan. Chen Fan’s summoned existence then erased Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority, and Chen Fan gained the major divine ability Twin Blossoms.

• Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority addressed the existence behind Chen Fan and asked whether Chen Fan regretted his choices.
• Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority revealed that he knew about the final battle and the echo from the future, and said he had laid an unavoidable trap to meet Chen Fan’s summoned existence.
• Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority bowed to the summoned existence and wished it the fulfillment of its desires.
• The green flame moved Chen Fan’s hand, triggering Future Retrieval and erasing Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority.
• Chen Fan received experience, 30 attribute points, and the major divine ability Twin Blossoms as the green flame dissipated.

Chen Fan reflected on how the Supreme Existence had intervened in the simulation, defeated Past Li Ping, and lent his clone the limited ability of future retrieval. After the clone gained [Twin Blossoms] by killing the [Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority], Chen Fan realized the deity had apparently been about to call his name, leaving him with a troubling suspicion.

• Chen Fan watched the Supreme Existence defeat Past Li Ping with a single echo, despite Past Li Ping's claim that the power did not truly belong to it.
• Chen Fan realized his clone had only borrowed future retrieval temporarily and had used its last charge to kill the [Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority].
• Chen Fan noted that killing the deity had earned his clone the major divine ability [Twin Blossoms].
• Chen Fan wondered why the Supreme Existence had stopped the deity from speaking further.
• Chen Fan focused on the simulation text saying the [Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority] seemed to be calling his name and began to suspect what it meant.

Chen Fan reasoned that the [Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority] had repeatedly engineered deadly trials to meet a possible Future Chen Fan, and that obtaining [Twin Blossoms] could turn the Venerable Lord into an ally in later simulations. Unsure whether Past Chen Fan and Future Chen Fan existed or might scheme against him, Chen Fan set aside his speculation and returned to the simulation text.

• Chen Fan compared the Venerable Lord's schemes to Past Li Ping's dealings with Future Li Ping and considered whether Past and Future Chen Fan existed.
• Chen Fan inferred that the Venerable Lord had arranged repeated death traps to encounter Future Chen Fan and achieve a goal connected to the Final Battle.
• Chen Fan concluded that [Twin Blossoms], which he had obtained by killing the Venerable Lord, could make the Venerable Lord his ally in future simulations or leave him unable to threaten Chen Fan.
• Chen Fan wondered whether Past Chen Fan and Future Chen Fan existed, whether they might scheme against him, and whether the [Simulator] prevented their existence.
• Chen Fan stopped speculating and returned to the simulation text on the [Simulator Screen].

After escaping into the inner world of [Hollow Willow], you examined the major divine ability [Twin Blossoms] gained from killing the [Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority]. You tested its creation and replacement powers and found that killing your created counterparts triggered neither rewards nor early replacement, but caused backlash.

• You concluded that the mysteries surrounding "Past Chen Fan" and "Future Chen Fan" concerned your real-world original, then fled into [Hollow Willow] as your temporary power was about to expire.
• You judged that the grievously injured [Lord of the Heavenly Court, Nine Heavens] could no longer threaten you in the short term.
• You inspected [Twin Blossoms] and learned that it could create a fully obedient counterpart by spending true lifespan, after which the counterpart would gradually replace the original under the ability's rules.
• You tested [Twin Blossoms] on a [Qi Refining Realm] cultivator and found that creating and replacing the counterpart each took one day of true lifespan.
• You ran further experiments and discovered that killing a created counterpart did not complete replacement early or trigger [Golden Talent: The Only Player], and instead caused backlash that cost you extra days of true lifespan.

Chen Fan reviewed his remaining talents and treasures, then used four five-elements fruit positions to strengthen [heavenly fire]. After a month of accelerated absorption, he broke through to Great True Lord.

• Chen Fan checked his player template and found that his other selves had vanished after he sacrificed [Myriad Selves], though he still retained useful talents and divine abilities.
• Chen Fan decided to save the sword dao fruit position for his original self and future simulations rather than attain the Dao with it.
• Chen Fan prepared to advance [heavenly fire] by absorbing the five-elements fruit positions he had collected.
• Chen Fan used [Word Follows the Law] to accelerate [heavenly fire]'s absorption of the four fruit positions.
• After one month, Chen Fan broke through to Great True Lord and gained sixty percent of [heavenly fire]'s Mighty Power.

The protagonist reached the Great True Lord level and regained the Heavenly River Water fruit position by killing Zhuo Zhao. After recreating its Dao-Seeking Immortal Art, he returned to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage and remained inside the Hollow Willow’s internal world.

• The protagonist reached the Great True Lord level and gained the ability to use Heavenly Rule Inscription to empower lower-ranked objects and beings or strip away their rank.
• Unable to learn much about the outside world without his other self, the protagonist chose to cultivate inside the Hollow Willow.
• The protagonist killed Zhuo Zhao and regained the major divine ability Trader and the Heavenly River Water fruit position.
• The protagonist attained the Dao of Heavenly River Water again and began recreating its Dao-Seeking Immortal Art.
• After completing the art in a little over a year, the protagonist returned to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage in Heavenly River Water.

Chen Fan reopened the Chat Group after recovering his cultivation and asked when the fourth group mission would begin, intending to time his Golden Talent: Investment. Wang Hao answered, then asked whether he was speaking to Past Li Ping or Chen Fan.

• Chen Fan decided to keep Golden Talent: Chat Group despite blaming it for bringing schemers into his simulations, because he wanted to invest in the group members.
• Chen Fan wondered how Ning Chen had survived the attack that killed Past Li Ping and considered possible explanations.
• Chen Fan asked Wu Yong and Wang Hao when the fourth group mission would begin, and Wang Hao estimated it would start within a few months to a year.
• Wu Yong said the mission's timing was largely random, while Ning Chen playfully asked why Chen Fan had not asked him.
• Wang Hao asked Chen Fan whether the person talking to him was Past Li Ping or Chen Fan.

Chen Fan confronted Wang Hao and Wu Yong about their knowledge of Past Li Ping’s schemes and the strange loss of observation in the higher-dimensional region. Wu Yong defended sending Chen Fan to the Gods and Devils Realms as his best chance to survive, leaving Chen Fan unsure whether to blame or thank him.

• Wang Hao asked Chen Fan whether Past Li Ping had replaced him or whether Chen Fan had turned the tables, and Chen Fan challenged Wang Hao’s ability to peer into the future.
• Wu Yong inferred that Chen Fan had survived because observation became impossible after Chen Fan and Past Li Ping entered the higher-dimensional region.
• Chen Fan accused Wu Yong of knowing about Past Li Ping’s schemes and sending him to the Gods and Devils Realms anyway.
• Wu Yong said Past Li Ping was certain to target Chen Fan, and that without Wu Yong’s intervention Chen Fan would have had no chance to survive.
• Chen Fan wondered whether Wu Yong had acted for his own good, but decided he wanted nothing more to do with him.

The protagonist prepared to survive the Fourth Group Mission and considered sacrificing the Chat Group talent to stop a fifth mission, though he feared it could make his world explorable. When the mission began approaching, he found that the available worlds had changed and suspected some had been removed from the selection pool.

• The protagonist planned to enter the mission world, collect returns from Golden Talent: Investment, then use Hollow Willow to return and possibly sacrifice Golden Talent: Chat Group with Existence from Nonexistence.
• He worried that losing the Chat Group might cause the Supreme True Realm to become an explorable world, so he decided to wait and assess the risks when the mission began.
• In year four, the Chat Group announced that the Fourth Group Mission would begin in 24 hours, and Ning Chen was the only member to speak.
• The protagonist reviewed the three mission choices and saw Weird Revival listed first, despite remembering it had been Mission Two in an earlier simulation.
• He ruled out time as the cause of the changed mission order and suspected the Chat Group had removed some worlds from its selectable mission pool.

The narrator discovered that the Gods and Devils Realms had appeared as a new Group Mission after eight of its nine fundamental sources were destroyed, and considered whether a higher-dimensional being had arranged it. Unable to choose the dangerous Weird Revival or Mystic Yellow Realm missions, the narrator selected Gods and Devils Realms.

• The narrator found that the Mystic Yellow Realm mission was unchanged and had only switched places with Weird Revival.
• The narrator saw that Gods and Devils Realms was now a Group Mission, despite previously declining to share its coordinates through the Chat Group.
• The narrator read the mission requirement to destroy the Human Realm, Demon Realm, and Divine Realm, and noted its S difficulty and Golden Class Card reward.
• The narrator ruled out Weird Revival and Mystic Yellow Realm because they lacked the strength and resources to face their dangers.
• The narrator chose Gods and Devils Realms, suspecting that a higher-dimensional being's attack had destroyed eight of its fundamental sources and caused it to appear as a mission.

The fourth group mission sent the members to the Gods and Devils Realms, where they were tasked with destroying the Human Realm, Devil Realm, and Divine Realm. After arriving in the Human Realm, the narrator chose Wu Yong as the target for Golden Talent: Investment, and the talent activated.

• The narrator selected the Gods and Devils Realms mission and waited for the forced teleportation.
• The group mission began with a requirement to destroy the Human Realm, Devil Realm, and Divine Realm for a Golden Class Card.
• The narrator arrived in the Human Realm with Wu Yong, Wang Hao, Zhang Wenping, and Ning Chen.
• The narrator brought Wu Yong into the True-False Supreme Realm and offered him a fortuitous opportunity.
• Wu Yong recognized that the narrator wanted to trigger Golden Talent: Investment and tacitly agreed.
• Golden Talent: Investment erupted with golden light, and a system notification sounded.

The narrator invested the chaos spiritual root Hollow Willow in Wu Yong and received a hundred-millionfold return: the Primordial Spiritual Root, Incomplete Myriad-Void Primordial Ancient Weeping Willow. The chapter leaves the narrator stunned by the returned spiritual root’s immense power and its connection to primordial chaos.

• The narrator considered which item to invest in Wu Yong and chose the chaos spiritual root Hollow Willow.
• The narrator used Golden Talent: Investment to send Hollow Willow to Wu Yong, whose mechanical body glowed with multicolored light.
• The investment system awarded the narrator the Primordial Spiritual Root, Incomplete Myriad-Void Primordial Ancient Weeping Willow, as a hundred-millionfold return.
• The narrator read that the spiritual root possessed power comparable to three chaos supreme treasures touched by primordial chaos.

The narrator examined the abilities of the incomplete [Myriad-Void Primordial Ancient Weeping Willow], whose projection had taken root in their rank and strengthened it. They failed to reclaim the [Hollow Willow] from Wu Yong and entered the [Eternal Primordial Chaos Willow World].

• The narrator discovered the [Myriad-Void Primordial Ancient Weeping Willow] had three powerful abilities and several locked abilities because it was incomplete.
• The narrator saw the willow’s projection rooted in their rank, where it stabilized their rank without causing adverse effects.
• The narrator asked Wu Yong to return the [Hollow Willow], but the root drifted beyond their reach, and Wu Yong admitted he had expected this.
• The narrator threw Wu Yong out of the [True-False Supreme Realm] and used the willow’s power to enter the [Eternal Primordial Chaos Willow World].

The protagonist became the Heaven and Earth of the Eternal Primordial Chaos Willow World, but lacked the vision to wield its full power without losing control. After discovering the realm’s origins and its Space Demon God, the protagonist returned to the Longevity Realm using Immortal-Settling Journey and sensed its hidden mastermind.

• The protagonist realized becoming Heaven and Earth had raised their power but not their vision, leaving them unable to control the realm’s full might.
• The protagonist considered how the Purple Talent Observation could grant Heaven and Earth’s vision without its usual side effects in this world.
• The protagonist discovered the roots of the Myriad-Void Primordial Ancient Weeping Willow and learned that the Space Demon God was the realm’s only born innate Demon God.
• The protagonist left the Eternal Primordial Chaos Willow World while retaining its support, which let them wield power rivaling a Supreme Existence.
• The protagonist activated Immortal-Settling Journey to return to the Longevity Realm and sensed the mastermind hidden deep within its Heaven and Earth.

You confronted the mastermind behind the Longevity Realm, but a Higher-Dimensional Existence awakened in the Northern Land of Sin and forced you to flee. You tested Immortal-Settling Journey in the Other Shore Realm and then used it to travel toward a safe, beneficial higher-dimensional future.

• You found the Longevity Realm’s mastermind assimilating its heaven and earth and prepared to attack, but the mastermind warned that the Northern Land of Sin forbade beings as powerful as you.
• A Higher-Dimensional Existence awakened, and you escaped the Northern Land of Sin with Immortal-Settling Journey and the primordial spiritual root’s protection.
• You chose not to go to the Gods and Devils Realms and instead used Immortal-Settling Journey to reach the Other Shore Realm, which had fallen into Guixu.
• You concluded that Immortal-Settling Journey could take you to realms that had once existed, including worlds from group missions, and returned to the small world.
• You directed Immortal-Settling Journey to a higher-dimensional future that would benefit you without danger, and the authority activated successfully.

The narrator used [Immortal-Settling Journey] to reach a beneficial future and discovered Ning Chen had devastated the [Human Realm], [Demon Realm], and [Divine Realm]. After harvesting the remaining deities for Golden Class Cards, the narrator faced a mysterious being who had been waiting for them.

• The narrator arrived three days in the future in the ruined [Gods and Devils Realms] and sensed three beings on the level of a Supreme Existence.
• The narrator seized the Tenth-Generation Goddess and read her history, learning about the Transcendent Gods and the rules governing the [Divine Realm].
• The Tenth-Generation Goddess's memories revealed that Ning Chen had destroyed the [Human Realm] and [Demon Realm], defeated the three Transcendent Gods, and then vanished.
• The narrator refined the Tenth-Generation Goddess and slaughtered the remaining deities, gaining over a dozen Golden Class Cards, experience, and attribute points.
• A mysterious being appeared before the narrator and said, "I've waited for you... for far too long!"

Wang Hao revealed that he had foreseen Ning Chen’s rise and had intervened in the future to leave him spoils to claim. He explained that he wanted to stop the Fifth Group Mission from beginning and asked Chen Fan to eliminate Ning Chen during the Fourth Group Mission.

• Chen Fan recognized Wang Hao as a newly ascended Supreme who was wielding the Existence Karma of a deceased Supreme from the Other Shore Realm.
• Wang Hao told Chen Fan that he had foreseen his Primordial Spiritual Root and the future destruction of the three realms by Ning Chen.
• Wang Hao said he had stopped future Ning Chen so Chen Fan could claim spoils, including Golden Class Cards from the Divine Realm.
• Wang Hao explained that he wanted to prevent the Fifth Group Mission by reducing the Chat Group’s membership.
• Wang Hao asked Chen Fan to eliminate Ning Chen during the Fourth Group Mission.

Chen Fan returned from the higher-dimensional future after Wang Hao proposed that he help kill Ning Chen, and began sorting through his gains while considering how to counter the scheme. He raised Qi Refining Limit-Breaking to seventeen thousand layers and suspected Wang Hao’s Golden Finger had overridden the safety conditions of his authority.

• Wang Hao told Chen Fan to help kill Ning Chen from three days earlier, saying he would attack first and that a Chat Group Member had to die.
• Chen Fan returned to the small world three days earlier, resolved not to agree to Wang Hao’s proposal, and reviewed his rewards.
• Chen Fan spent over 118 million experience points to raise Qi Refining Limit-Breaking from sixteen thousand to seventeen thousand layers.
• Chen Fan considered using Immortal-Settling Journey to uncover Wang Hao’s scheme safely, but rejected the idea after recalling how Wang Hao had confronted him in the higher-dimensional future.
• Chen Fan concluded that Wang Hao’s Golden Finger ability or higher-dimensional means had likely overridden his authority’s safety conditions, and favored the Golden Finger explanation.

Chen Fan sought Wu Yong's help after realizing Wang Hao's predictions had anticipated his actions, and Wu Yong confirmed Chen Fan's suspicions about the earlier scheme. Wu Yong began to reveal Wang Hao's true objective, but the chapter ended before he disclosed it.

• Chen Fan used the [Immortal-Settling Journey] to find Wu Yong and brought him into the [True-False Supreme Realm].
• Chen Fan told Wu Yong that Wang Hao wanted him to help kill Ning Chen and explained what he had learned in the higher-dimensional future.
• Wu Yong confirmed that Chen Fan's account matched what he knew and teased him for coming to beg for help.
• Chen Fan reasoned that Wu Yong's [Path Confirmation Machine] may have helped him face Past Li Ping's scheme earlier, though he remained unsure whose interests Wu Yong served.
• Wu Yong warned that knowing Wang Hao's objective might not change anything because Wang Hao could predict events ahead of Chen Fan.
• Wu Yong began to tell Chen Fan Wang Hao's true objective, but the chapter ended before he revealed it.

Wu Yong explained that Wang Hao had used his proposal to test whether a powerful backer stood behind Chen Fan while also trying to prevent the fifth group mission by killing either Chen Fan or Ning Chen. Chen Fan realized Wang Hao had anticipated that he would uncover the scheme, leaving him trapped in a deadly situation with no real backer to rely on.

• Wu Yong revealed that Wang Hao wanted to determine whether a powerful existence stood behind Chen Fan.
• Chen Fan realized Wang Hao's proposal to target Ning Chen was a probe into his supposed backer and its strength.
• Chen Fan concluded that Wang Hao also intended to prevent the fifth group mission by killing either him or Ning Chen.
• Chen Fan recalled that Wang Hao could foresee events and had likely expected him to discover the scheme.
• Chen Fan recognized that, without a real backer, he was trapped in Wang Hao's death trap.