Recaps

Past Zero let the narrator perceive the Otherworldly Demons’ endlessly ascending ranks and the incomprehensible Dao body at the endpoint of higher dimensions, then restored the narrator’s perspective and erased the memory. The three demons returned to the Supreme Level, and Past Zero asked whether the narrator had seen clearly.

• Past Zero attached the narrator’s field of vision to himself, allowing the narrator to witness the ranks of Past Zero, Wang Hao, and Li Ping ascending without limit.
• The narrator saw the Present World shrink to a point and glimpsed an incomprehensible existence that appeared to be an enormous Dao body or the corpse of a powerful being.
• Past Zero protected the narrator, ended the borrowed perspective, and caused the narrator to forget what they had sensed.
• Past Zero, Wang Hao, and Li Ping returned to the realm at the Supreme Level, while Wang Hao and Li Ping called Past Zero a madman for trying to disturb something.
• Past Zero asked the narrator whether they had seen clearly as the branch of the River of Time grew increasingly illusory.

Past Zero overwhelmed Wang Hao and Li Ping with his Deception ability, then restored the damaged higher dimensions while warning that killing the two would summon dangerous versions of them. Nearly exhausted after suppressing nine higher-dimensional existences, he offered to complete the group mission, and you chose for him to seize a Supreme Existence’s authority and kill its owner.

• Past Zero used Deception to grievously wound Wang Hao and Li Ping despite their efforts to counter his ability.
• Past Zero explained that Wang Hao and Li Ping were bait, since killing them could bring their past or future selves to intervene.
• Past Zero shattered the false world around [Supreme Heaven] and restored the first through fourth layers, then suppressed the nine higher-dimensional existences back into the ninth layer.
• Past Zero said his actions had nearly exhausted him and offered to kill three Supreme Existences or seize one’s authority before killing its owner.
• You chose for Past Zero to take a Supreme Existence’s authority and then slaughter its owner.

Chen Fan killed Huanhai, completed the group mission, and gained three complete authorities and a complete Great Dao. After the past Zero vanished with the talent Chen Fan gave him, Chen Fan turned to the wounded Wang Hao and Li Ping and prepared to use Investment.

• Chen Fan had the past Zero kill Huanhai, gaining Huanhai's authority, the Infinite Measure Great Dao, experience, attribute points, and authority fragments.
• Chen Fan completed the golden timed mission and declined to use its reward immediately, while the Chat Group awarded him two complete authorities and a random complete Great Dao.
• The past Zero told Chen Fan he could undo Wang Hao's seal temporarily but that Wang Hao could restore it, then asked Chen Fan for Existence from Nonexistence.
• Chen Fan granted Existence from Nonexistence to the past Zero, who vanished along with the phantom River of Time.
• Chen Fan approached the gravely wounded Wang Hao and Li Ping and prepared to activate Investment.

After waiting for a suitable target, you used Golden Talent: Investment on Wang Hao and chose the innate supreme treasure Chaos Bell as the investment. The chapter ended before the investment’s return was revealed.

• You waited for the Second Group Mission to find a suitable target, since Wu Yong had already used his investment slot and Zero could not trigger the talent’s assessment.
• You chose the injured Wang Hao and explained that his defeat made this the right opportunity to use Golden Talent: Investment.
• Wang Hao accepted the investment after recognizing your intention and agreeing to pay the wager he had lost.
• You considered investing the Chaos Bell, primordial purple qi, or the Golden Class Card Gods and Devils Overlord.
• You chose to invest the innate supreme treasure Chaos Bell and ruled out the other two options.

You invested the Innate Supreme Treasure [Chaos Bell] in Wang Hao and received the Chaos Supreme Treasure [Primordial Chaos Bell], an instrument of Transcendence with powers over suppression, sealing, protection, and anchoring. Wang Hao refused to explain Transcendence without compensation, and you left without learning more.

• You chose to invest the Innate Supreme Treasure [Chaos Bell] in Wang Hao, and Golden Talent: Investment returned the Chaos Supreme Treasure [Primordial Chaos Bell].
• You examined the treasure’s abilities and learned it could suppress, seal, protect against, and anchor existences across the past, present, and future.
• You considered attacking the gravely wounded Li Ping but decided the new treasure still might not let you kill him.
• Wang Hao guessed that you wanted to ask about Transcendence and refused to explain it unless you offered compensation.
• You pointed out that you had already invested the [Chaos Bell] in Wang Hao, but the two failed to reach an agreement, so you left planning to ask Senior Lin Feng or Zero instead.

After returning to the Supreme True Realm, you spent 1.2 billion experience points to raise Qi Refining Limit-Breaking to 27,000 layers and examined three authorities gained from the mission. You also received the Life Great Dao and placed it in the Eternal Primordial Chaos Willow World before turning to the Golden Timed Mission reward.

• You combined your experience points and spent all 1.2 billion on Qi Refining Limit-Breaking, reaching 27,000 layers.
• You examined the Huanhai authority, which let you expand designated numerical attributes without an upper limit.
• You reviewed the Myriad Things authority’s transformation and body-replacement abilities, finding them too restricted compared with powers you already had.
• You examined the Heavenly Calamity authority, which permanently granted fundamental authorities of heaven and earth and could help protect Heavenly Gate cultivators from tribulations.
• You received the complete Life Great Dao, put it in the Eternal Primordial Chaos Willow World, and turned to the Golden Timed Mission reward of raising one fruit position’s dao attainment to Great True Lord.

Chen Fan wondered what the past “Zero” had wanted him to see in an incomprehensible place as he watched the simulation continue. The Heavenly Gate’s talents began attaining Nascent Soul fruit positions, while Chen Fan planned to harvest them and keep the fruit positions available for others.

• Chen Fan questioned why the past “Zero” had revealed the incomprehensible existence and why he had shown disdain for higher-dimensional beings.
• At age thirty-two, Chen Fan’s Heavenly Calamity authority reduced cultivation casualties among Heavenly Gate talents to one percent of their former level.
• Talented One Number One attained the Great Post Earth fruit position and became a Nascent Soul True Lord, while Chen Fan waited to see if he could advance before devouring him.
• Chen Fan used Heavenly Rule Inscription to make Heavenly Gate cultivators accept their deaths as ascension and continue cultivating.
• At age thirty-three, no other talents attained fruit positions, but at age thirty-five two talents attained Fire in the Furnace and Willow Wood.
• Talented One Number One continued studying the Dao-Seeking Immortal Art and had completed only one-fifth of the required progress.

Over the years, the protagonist’s talented cultivators reached new fruit positions, and devouring one powerful Nascent Soul True Lord greatly increased the protagonist’s limit-breaking layers. At age forty, the protagonist received the third Future Letter, which warned that everything had gone wrong and ordered them to find Past Li Ping in the Gods and Devils Realms before the Third Group Mission.

• In Year Thirty-Eight, a foremost talent comprehended the Dao-Seeking Immortal Art of Great Post Earth and reached the Nascent Soul Middle Stage, then the protagonist devoured him and sharply increased their limit-breaking layers.
• The protagonist sensed an increasingly severe incompleteness in heaven and earth at Foundation Establishment: 10,000 Layers and planned to ask Senior Lin Feng or Zero about it.
• In Year Thirty-Nine, five beings attained fruit positions and became Nascent Soul True Lords, while two earlier Nascent Soul True Lords continued comprehending their Dao-Seeking Immortal Arts.
• In Year Forty, two more talents became Nascent Soul True Lords, and the protagonist’s Golden Talent: Future Letter produced its third letter.
• The letter warned that everything was wrong and told the protagonist to find Past Li Ping in the Gods and Devils Realms before the Third Group Mission so he could correct it.
• The protagonist wondered what had happened to Present Li Ping and recalled that Li Ping’s contingency, The Last Supper, was hidden in the deepest layer of space in the Human Realm.

Chen Fan tried to negotiate with Li Ping for access to his past self, but Li Ping demanded Chen Fan’s [purple talent: I am the mastermind] in exchange. After threats failed and Wu Yong could not predict the consequences, Chen Fan was left to decide whether to trade the talent.

• Chen Fan contacted Li Ping and asked to use [golden entry: the last supper] to reach Past Li Ping.
• Li Ping agreed to negotiate but demanded Chen Fan’s [purple talent: I am the mastermind], refusing Chen Fan’s offer of [blue talent: Ascension].
• Wang Hao urged Chen Fan to give Li Ping the talent, while Chen Fan threatened to call on Zero, the [Otherworldly Demon] who had killed them before.
• Wang Hao hinted that he and Li Ping had their own trump cards, and Li Ping warned that killing him could prevent Chen Fan from meeting his past self.
• Chen Fan asked Wu Yong for advice, but Wu Yong said he could not predict Chen Fan’s futures because of his unknown rainbow and golden talents.

The protagonist agreed to Li Ping’s deal, met him in the Gods and Devils Realms, and granted him the talent I Am the Mastermind. The exchange triggered a memory revealing that Li Ping’s past self had fought nine Supreme Existences and remained alone after the Human Realm was destroyed.

• The protagonist agreed to meet Li Ping face-to-face and required that the next use of Investment be on him.
• The protagonist sent an other self to the Gods and Devils Realms through Immortal-Settling Journey.
• The protagonist used Supreme God's Game to transfer I Am the Mastermind to Li Ping.
• Li Ping froze the Human Realm, Demon Realm, and Divine Realm, then activated The Last Supper.
• The protagonist received a memory of one Supreme Existence battling nine others until the Human Realm shattered.
• The protagonist recognized the surviving Supreme Existence as Past Li Ping.

Chen Fan spoke with Past Li Ping after activating his contingency and agreed to stay in contact until the unusual change in the Third Future Letter arrived. By age forty-one, Chen Fan had gained no useful information from Past Li Ping, but his Golden Talent: Investment had finished cooling down.

• Past Li Ping recognized Chen Fan as the Chat Group leader he had predicted and asked why Chen Fan had activated his contingency.
• Chen Fan explained that his future self had instructed him to find Past Li Ping and shared the Third Future Letter’s contents.
• Past Li Ping verified Chen Fan’s account, and they agreed to remain in contact until the unusual change described in the letter arrived.
• Chen Fan left the Gods and Devils Realms, planning to return to Present Li Ping when his investment talent finished cooling down.
• At age forty-one, a Heavenly Gate talent attained the Karma system’s Fixed Lunar Position and became a Nascent Soul True Lord.
• Chen Fan spent the year in contact with Past Li Ping without gaining useful intelligence, then learned that Golden Talent: Investment had finished cooling down.

Chen Fan invested Primordial Purple Qi in Li Ping and received Primordial Dao Qi, an item that qualified him to advance beyond the end of the Dao. Li Ping then proposed a Question-and-Answer Game, leaving Chen Fan to decide whether to risk probing each other for information.

• Chen Fan chose to invest a strand of Primordial Purple Qi in Li Ping instead of giving him the Gods and Devils Overlord Class Card.
• The investment yielded Chen Fan a hundred-millionfold return: a wisp of Primordial Dao Qi that was necessary for breaking through to a higher realm.
• Chen Fan examined the Primordial Dao Qi and wondered what it meant to advance one step further at the end of the Dao.
• Li Ping asked Chen Fan what he had received, and Chen Fan asked Li Ping what the end of the Dao was.
• Li Ping proposed a Question-and-Answer Game, and Chen Fan agreed to play so they could seek useful information.

The protagonist questioned Li Ping about transcendence, the end of the Dao, and the realm above Nascent Soul True Lord. Li Ping revealed that Spirit Transformation Dao Masters were Nascent Soul True Lords using borrowed attunement to the Great Dao’s rank, leaving the protagonist unsure whether even higher realms were genuine.

• The protagonist agreed to Li Ping’s question-and-answer game and asked whether transcendence was a realm above the higher-dimensional level; Li Ping explained that it meant finding a path to a higher realm, not attaining one.
• Li Ping asked what the protagonist received for investing primordial purple qi in him, and the protagonist answered that it was a wisp of primordial dao qi.
• The protagonist asked about the end of the Dao, and Li Ping identified it as the realm above Nascent Soul True Lord in the Supreme True Realm.
• The protagonist explained that he wanted to meet Li Ping’s past self because he could foresee a highest-priority future that other existences could not influence.
• Li Ping revealed that Spirit Transformation Dao Masters were not the true realm above Nascent Soul True Lord but Nascent Soul True Lords with borrowed attunement to the Great Dao’s rank.
• The protagonist realized this explained why defeating Spirit Transformation Dao Masters had yielded no Great Dao drops, and wondered whether supreme existences and higher-dimensional beings were also using borrowed ranks.

After Li Ping ended the Question-and-Answer Game, the protagonist concluded that the higher-dimensional level might be false and sought confirmation from Senior Lin Feng. Lin Feng warned that learning “Spirit Transformation is not Spirit Transformation” was forbidden knowledge that could attract a terrifying existence, but it had not yet targeted the protagonist or Li Ping and Wang Hao.

• The protagonist refused to reveal the abilities of [Rainbow Talent: Ten Gates], and Li Ping ended the game and sent the protagonist’s other self away.
• On the way back to the [Supreme True Realm], Past Li Ping refused to explain further, so the protagonist analyzed whether Past Zero and the higher-dimensional level were real.
• The protagonist activated the [Damaged Spacetime Token] instead of [Rainbow Talent: Ten Gates] and told Senior Lin Feng about Li Ping and the [Primordial Beginning Dao Favor].
• The protagonist asked whether [Spirit Transformation Dao Masters], Supreme Existences, and the higher dimension were false, and Lin Feng explained that Li Ping had exposed forbidden knowledge to draw a terrifying taboo existence’s attention.
• The protagonist questioned why the [Simulator] and [Purple Talent: I Am the Chess Player] had not reacted, and Lin Feng said the same forbidden knowledge had not caused that existence to target Li Ping or Wang Hao either.
• The protagonist suspected the [Primordial Chaos Bell] might be protecting them, then worried that the main body outside could still be in danger as Lin Feng’s voice continued.

Senior Lin Feng explained why the powerful existence ignored those below Nascent Soul True Lord and suggested Li Ping wanted to bargain over a way to evade its notice. He revealed that Supreme Existences borrowed the rank of Heaven and Earth, while the higher-dimensional level remained too complicated to explain openly.

• Senior Lin Feng said the powerful existence would notice someone only after they advanced beyond Nascent Soul True Lord, and that Li Ping and Wang Hao might be maintaining their realms to avoid its attention.
• Senior Lin Feng speculated that Li Ping wanted to trade an ability to evade that existence's notice, and you wondered whether he was laying plans for a future simulation.
• You asked Senior Lin Feng whether Supreme Existences and higher-dimensional beings were real, and he said that truth and falsehood had no fixed boundary, though all such realms counted as false by the measure of borrowed attunement rank.
• Senior Lin Feng asked whether you had seen Supreme Existences leave their worlds, leading you to connect their confinement and their authority to the rank of Heaven and Earth.
• You asked what rank higher-dimensional existences borrowed, and Senior Lin Feng warned that the matter involved many beings and should not be discussed openly, so you stopped pressing him.

The simulation revealed Senior Lin Feng’s immense confidence and deepened Chen Fan’s suspicions that realms beyond Nascent Soul True Lord were manipulated. Chen Fan deduced that Higher-Dimensional Existences borrowed their ranks from an enormous corpse, then resolved to survive and become a schemer himself.

• You asked Senior Lin Feng about his realm, and he claimed only the Supreme Immortal was worthy of comparison with him.
• Chen Fan reacted to the revelation that Spirit Transformation and higher realms involved borrowing authority, and suspected a taboo being had sealed off advancement to control cultivators.
• Chen Fan connected Past Zero’s freedom and disdain for higher dimensions to a possible genuine breakthrough beyond the fabricated realm.
• Chen Fan deduced that Higher-Dimensional Existences borrowed their ranks from an enormous corpse, with their strength depending on their distance from it.
• You told Zero about your recent experiences, but Zero only smiled, so you decided to focus on survival and become an Old Schemer.

The narrator advanced their cultivation by devouring Nascent Soul True Lords as the Heavenly Gate’s fruit positions filled and the Fate Demon Dice boosted breakthroughs. The chapter ended with Past Li Ping secretly calculating, while the narrator arranged future opportunities for the still-weak Mo Wuyou.

• At age 42, the narrator learned through Golden talent: Listening that Li Ping had eavesdropped on their conversation with Senior Lin Feng, but gained no information about the mysterious existence.
• Three Heavenly Gate members became Nascent Soul True Lords, leaving ten fruit positions vacant, while existing True Lords continued comprehending the Dao-Seeking Immortal Art.
• At age 43, the [fire in the furnace] and [willow wood] True Lords reached the Nascent Soul middle stage, and the narrator devoured them, raising Qi Refining to 27,500 layers and Foundation Establishment to 13,000 layers.
• At age 44, five more Heavenly Gate members attained fruit positions and the [hornwood dragon] True Lord reached the Nascent Soul middle stage; the narrator devoured that True Lord and raised their realms to 27,800 and 14,000 layers.
• At age 45, all fruit positions had been attained, but no True Lord advanced to the middle stage; Past Li Ping remained quiet and calculated, while the narrator arranged opportunities for Mo Wuyou in the future.

Chen Fan raised his cultivation limits by refining Nascent Soul Middle Stage True Lords as the third group mission finally began. He found that Wang Hao admitted to scheming, while the mission’s first option, Primordial Beginning, described a power beyond his expectations.

• In Year 46, Chen Fan refined three Nascent Soul Middle Stage True Lords, raising his Qi Refining Limit-Breaking to twenty-nine thousand five hundred layers and his Foundation Establishment Limit-Breaking to fifteen thousand five hundred layers.
• Chen Fan remained unable to understand the Third Future Letter’s warning that everything was wrong and that Past Li Ping must set things right.
• In Year 47, no cultivators advanced to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage, and Chen Fan refined cultivators who had died failing their breakthroughs.
• The third group mission was announced, and Li Ping and Wang Hao teased Chen Fan about finding Past Li Ping; Wang Hao openly confirmed he was scheming around the mission.
• Wu Yong said he could not predict the mission, so Chen Fan opened the group leader interface and inspected its three options.
• Chen Fan read the first option, Primordial Beginning, and was astonished by its description of a power that preceded the formation of the Dao.

The protagonist reviewed three group mission worlds and rejected the Primordial Beginning as impossibly dangerous, while weighing the risks of Supreme Martial Arts World and Gods and Devils Realms. The chapter ended with both remaining choices tied to Li Ping and likely containing contingencies he had prepared.

• The protagonist saw that the Primordial Beginning mission had unknown requirements and rewards and an unranked difficulty, and decided it was too dangerous to enter.
• The protagonist found Supreme Martial Arts World had replaced Weird Weird Weird as the second mission option, with a requirement to overthrow the Great Qian Dynasty and an S-rank difficulty.
• The protagonist hesitated to choose Supreme Martial Arts World because it was closely connected to Li Ping and seemed even more dangerous than Supreme Heaven.
• The protagonist discovered Gods and Devils Realms was the third mission option, despite Li Ping still being alive, and feared the Chat Group might eventually select the Supreme True Realm too.
• The protagonist read that the Gods and Devils Realms mission required destroying the Human Realm, Demon Realm, and Divine Realm, with an SS-rank difficulty and a reward of everything belonging to a Supreme Existence.
• The protagonist remained undecided between Supreme Martial Arts World and Gods and Devils Realms, suspecting Li Ping had prepared contingencies in both.

Chen Fan weighed which world to choose for the third group mission and sought advice from Past Li Ping and Zero. After Zero warned him about the dangers of Li Ping’s native world, Chen Fan decided on [Supreme Martial Arts World], but an unexpected voice challenged his choice.

• Chen Fan asked Li Ping whether he was alive, then realized Li Ping had misunderstood and did not know why [Gods and Devils Realms] was available for the mission.
• Past Li Ping recommended [Gods and Devils Realms] but refused to explain his reasoning.
• Chen Fan consulted Zero, who advised choosing [Supreme Martial Arts World] because [Gods and Devils Realms] was Li Ping’s native world and could contain beings capable of rivaling an [Otherworldly Demon].
• Zero explained that [Supreme True Realm] once produced [Dao Children] to oppose [Otherworldly Demons], but incomplete heaven and earth had ended their birth and left the demons dominant.
• Chen Fan resolved to choose [Supreme Martial Arts World], but a Great Dao’s voice stopped him and asked whether he was making the worst possible choice.

Past Li Ping warned the narrator not to choose Gods and Devils Realms for the third group mission, arguing that doing so would lead to the ending in the Third Future Letter. He explained that the world could become a group mission world only after its native Chat Group member died, leading the narrator to suspect Present Li Ping had been dead for a long time.

• Past Li Ping warned the narrator that choosing Gods and Devils Realms would lead to the Third Future Letter's ending.
• Past Li Ping said his Omniscience had revealed Zero's help during the second group mission and questioned why Zero would assist the narrator.
• Past Li Ping recalled that Gods and Devils Realms appeared as a group mission world in the second future simulation, despite the Chat Group's rule that a member's death was required.
• Past Li Ping admitted that he had used Omnipotence to alter the Chat Group's judgment, but said this depended on his present self already having fallen.
• The narrator realized the implications and asked Past Li Ping whether Present Li Ping had been dead for a long time.

Past Li Ping argued that the present Li Ping had fallen and that Zero was targeting him, urging Chen Fan to choose Gods and Devils Realms for the Third Group Mission. Outside the Simulator, Chen Fan received an intervention prompt asking whether to trust Past Li Ping or Zero.

• Past Li Ping claimed that his Last Supper entry could project the memory scene only if his present self had already fallen, and said he had waited to identify who was behind the trap.
• Past Li Ping identified Zero as the one targeting him and argued that the appearance of Gods and Devils Realms proved the present Li Ping was a fake.
• The simulated Chen Fan questioned Past Li Ping's claims, but Past Li Ping said his words were meant for Chen Fan outside the simulation and presented them as a choice.
• Chen Fan saw the Simulation Choice Intervention prompt: he could trust Past Li Ping and choose Gods and Devils Realms, or trust Zero and choose Supreme Martial Arts World.

Chen Fan reasoned that Zero was manipulating the Simulated Clone and that Past Li Ping might be the best ally against Zero. He chose to trust Past Li Ping, but the simulation revealed that the clone had been compelled to choose the Gods and Devils Realms and realized he was being influenced.

• Chen Fan concluded that Zero had likely manipulated the Simulated Clone and was scheming against Past Li Ping.
• Chen Fan decided to trust Past Li Ping and selected Option One.
• The Simulated Clone felt an irresistible urge to trust Past Li Ping and choose the Supreme Martial Arts World for the Third Group Mission.
• The Simulated Clone instead selected the Gods and Devils Realms, triggering forced teleportation in twenty-four hours.
• After the compulsion vanished, the Simulated Clone realized Chen Fan had intervened and suspected that he was being influenced.

You confronted Zero about manipulating you, but they refused to explain their broader plans and said their use of [Purple Talent: I Am the Mastermind] was meant to stop you using it on them and verify something. With the Third Group Mission less than a day away, you learned that Past Li Ping had anticipated the present situation and prepared contingencies in the [Gods and Devils Realms], where his [Golden Entry: The Last Supper] would trigger when you arrived.

• You accused Zero of scheming against you and asked whether they aimed to destroy Past Li Ping or pursue another goal.
• Zero admitted setting up a game and using you, but refused to reveal their ultimate purpose.
• Zero said [Purple Talent: I Am the Mastermind] was meant to prevent you from using it on them and to verify something, then refused to say what.
• You left [Rainbow Talent: Ten Gates] as the Third Group Mission approached, while the Heavenly Gate's Nascent Soul True Lords remained too weak to refine.
• Your [Golden Talent: Listening] produced eight rings of intelligence, revealing that Past Li Ping had anticipated the situation, prepared reserves in the [Gods and Devils Realms], and planned to trigger [Golden Entry: The Last Supper] when you arrived.

Chen Fan returned to the [Gods and Devils Realms] for the Chat Group’s SS-rank mission and watched Past Li Ping’s hidden contingency destroy the [Demon Realm] and [Divine Realm]. Past Li Ping emerged from a ring formed by six Colorful Class Cards to face Present Li Ping, whom Zero had replaced.

• Chen Fan used [True-False Supreme Realm] to return to safety while his other self scouted the Human Realm, where Present Li Ping was missing.
• Wang Hao predicted that more than ten higher-dimensional existences would clash, while Wu Yong said the senior would lose nothing regardless of the outcome.
• Past Li Ping’s Colorful Class Cards shattered the three realms, destroying the [Demon Realm] and [Divine Realm] and annihilating their Transcendent Gods.
• Six Colorful Class Cards fused into a ring, while Present Li Ping appeared with three more cards and a Clown Mask.
• Past Li Ping emerged from the ring and silently confronted Present Li Ping.