Recaps

The Fourth Group Mission offered three worlds tied to the Beyond Mythology True Realm, including a corrupted fairy-tale realm connected to Xu Que and a story-plundering mission. The narrator realized the options were not coincidences and concluded that someone had schemed against him.

• The narrator reviewed the Dream World mission and considered its friendly higher-dimensional being, though its spiritual-root reward held little appeal.
• The narrator recognized the Dark Fairy-Tale Great World as the Beyond Mythology True Realm where Xu Que was trapped, and feared getting involved in a chess game between powerful beings.
• The narrator saw the Invaded Fantasy Story Series mission and recognized its villain-story formula and the mysterious Book of Stories reward.
• The narrator realized all three mission worlds were connected to the Beyond Mythology True Realm and concluded that someone had schemed against him.

Chen Fan sought Zero’s advice about a Beyond Mythology True Realm existence plotting against him, then asked the big shot for protection. After receiving a teleportation scroll, he chose the Dark Fairy-Tale Great World mission and had twenty-four hours before forced teleportation.

• Chen Fan consulted Zero, who admitted they did not know who was plotting against him and said he could not avoid the coming confrontation.
• Chen Fan asked Wu Yong to inform the big shot, who arrived and agreed to protect him.
• The big shot gave Chen Fan a Golden Finger-priority Teleportation Scroll and explained it would let Chen Fan return to the Supreme True Realm while the big shot teleported to him.
• Chen Fan rejected the SSS-rank Invaded Fantasy Story Series mission and chose Group Mission Two: Dark Fairy-Tale Great World over Dream World.
• The Chat Group announced that forced teleportation would occur in twenty-four hours.

Chen Fan was pulled out of the Dark Fairy-Tale Great World by a powerful, mysterious being who revealed that the world’s invasion was part of a scheme. When Chen Fan tried to escape, the big shot’s teleportation scroll shattered, leaving him trapped.

• Chen Fan entered the Dark Fairy-Tale Great World but was suddenly unable to move and was pulled beyond it by an unknown power.
• Chen Fan saw the world’s fairy tales corrupted by an Outer God, along with Xu Que, the other Chat Group members, and the invading being.
• A mysterious Great Dao’s Voice identified the Outer God and claimed its purpose was to meet Chen Fan, then questioned whether he was really Chen Fan.
• Chen Fan realized the mastermind had orchestrated the invasion and used the Outer God, the Dark Fairy-Tale World, and Chen Fan as pieces in its scheme.
• Chen Fan tried to escape with the big shot’s teleportation scroll, but it shattered, revealing that the mastermind had a high-priority Golden Finger ability.

Chen Fan realized the Supreme Existence wanted to meet Story Chen Fan rather than him, and the being trapped him with a torn page from the Book of Stories. He forced Chen Fan into a dangerous chess game tied to the Fourth Chat Group Mission, leaving Chen Fan with no choice but to save three fairy tales.

• The Supreme Existence called Chen Fan weak and revealed his desire to meet the Chen Fan manifested by a story.
• Chen Fan asked whether the being wanted to meet his story's vessel, but the being angrily insisted that Chen Fan was unworthy of being him.
• The mist-shrouded big shot and Zero appeared, but the Supreme Existence refined Chen Fan with a torn page from the Book of Stories and transported him to a library.
• The Supreme Existence challenged Chen Fan to save three fairy tales by taking characters' roles, warning that failure or a character's death would mean Chen Fan's death.
• The Supreme Existence explained that he wanted to make an interlude in Chen Fan's story to attract Story Chen Fan, and Chen Fan reluctantly accepted the game.

Chen Fan entered “The Emperor’s New Clothes” as a down-and-out tailor and reunited with Xu Que, who had already resolved other dark fairy tales. They investigated the palace ahead of the emperor’s fashion parade, but the emperor’s behavior and the ministers serving as his tailors left Chen Fan puzzled.

• Chen Fan chose to enter “The Emperor’s New Clothes” as an ordinary tailor and learned that the emperor would parade his new fashions in three days.
• Chen Fan found Xu Que in a forest cabin, explained the larger schemes and his task, and learned that Xu Que had resolved “Snow White” and “Black Swan.”
• Chen Fan learned that Xu Que worked as the palace’s appointed gunman and asked him to bring him into the palace to investigate.
• Chen Fan entered the palace as Xu Que’s assistant, met an emperor who seemed reasonable, and noticed that the ministers dressed plainly while the emperor wore magnificent clothes.
• Chen Fan discovered that the two tailors making the emperor’s new clothes were ministers whom the emperor had hired to sew despite their lack of tailoring skill, then left the palace with Xu Que.

Chen Fan and Xu Que realized that the emperor’s invisible clothes and the ministers’ foolishness came from the young prince’s perspective, and that the clothes were real. Chen Fan ordered Xu Que to kill the prince, ending the dark fairy tale.

• Chen Fan stopped Xu Que from telling the naked emperor the truth and praised his clothes so they could leave the palace safely.
• During the emperor’s nationwide tour, Chen Fan questioned whether magic made the clothes invisible, but Xu Que said his hunting rifle would have reacted if magic were involved.
• Chen Fan realized the story reflected a child’s perspective and concluded that the prince believed the king was naked and the ministers were poor tailors.
• Chen Fan and Xu Que reached the prince’s carriage, where Chen Fan ordered Xu Que to open fire and kill the prince.
• Xu Que’s shot ended the tale of The Emperor’s New Clothes.

After erasing the prince in “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” Xu Que gained a hunter identity and took the narrator and three Dwarfs into the corrupted “Cinderella” tale. They watched Cinderella flee the ball and her relatives mutilate their feet to fit her slipper, then confronted her before the prince arrived.

• Xu Que used his hunting gun to erase the prince and explained that killing sources of corruption granted him new identities and led him to another corrupted fairy tale.
• The hunting gun teleported Xu Que, the narrator, and three Dwarfs to a house in Cinderella’s world, where they learned the prince’s ball would take place that night.
• The narrator and Xu Que watched Cinderella leave for the ball, but detected no magic and saw no fairy, pumpkin carriage, or other familiar storybook signs.
• The next day, Cinderella’s aunt and her daughters mutilated their feet to fit the slipper while Cinderella watched, and the prince began searching ordinary households for her.
• The narrator and Xu Que confronted Cinderella before the prince reached her home, and the narrator ordered Xu Que to fire.

After resolving Cinderella’s dark fairy tale, the narrator and Xu Que entered The Little Mermaid, where Xu Que became the prince. A magical wave swept him away in a suspicious accident, and although someone rescued him, the source of the magic remained unknown as they returned to the palace.

• The narrator and Xu Que shot Cinderella, ending the corruption in her fairy tale.
• Xu Que learned that his next identity was the prince in The Little Mermaid, and the narrator and the three Dwarfs became his guards.
• At the seaside, Xu Que’s Hunting Rifle reacted to nearby magic before a wave swept him into the sea and immobilized the others.
• A blurry figure pushed Xu Que ashore and vanished, and the narrator carried him back to the carriage.
• Xu Que woke and reported that someone had rescued him; the narrator suspected it was the Mermaid Princess but cautioned against assuming who caused the incident.
• After confirming that the Hunting Rifle no longer reacted to magic, Xu Que returned to the Royal Palace with the narrator.

Chen Fan and Xu Que investigated the king’s sudden marriage arrangement and learned that a mermaid princess had proposed to Xu Que, while the king was dying from a mysterious illness. Suspecting magic was involved, they left the palace determined to wait for more clues, with Chen Fan promising to protect Xu Que.

• Xu Que detected a strong magical reaction as Chen Fan learned the king planned to marry him to a foreign princess.
• The king told Xu Que that the mermaid princess had fallen in love with him and sent an envoy to request their marriage.
• The king revealed that he was terminally ill and insisted the marriage was an honor Xu Que could not refuse.
• Chen Fan and Xu Que suspected magic had caused the king’s illness, and Xu Que wondered whether the mermaid princess was behind it.
• Xu Que recalled that magic had harmed people around him before but had not affected him, leading Chen Fan to conclude that magic could not act directly on Xu Que.
• Chen Fan urged Xu Que to wait before acting and promised to keep him safe if the situation became impossible.

The narrator investigated the Mermaid Princess’s engagement to Prince Xu Que and discovered that the king was the Wizard and the source of corruption. Xu Que shot the king, while the narrator told him the Wizard’s magic had caused the princess’s feelings, though the narrator did not know whether she had truly liked him.

• Prince Xu Que and the Mermaid Princess held their engagement ceremony, where she arrived with legs but no voice.
• The narrator suspected the Wizard and questioned the Mermaid Princess in writing, learning that she could bring the Wizard to meet them another time.
• After the guests departed, the narrator revealed that the king was the Wizard who had bargained for the Mermaid Princess’s voice.
• The narrator ordered Xu Que to shoot, and Xu Que’s rifle confirmed that the king was the source of corruption.
• The narrator told Xu Que that the Wizard’s magic had likely caused the Mermaid Princess’s feelings, leaving Xu Que distressed about whether she had ever liked him.

After completing the mission by uncovering the Wizard’s plan, Xu Que returned to the story library and faced the Supreme Existence, who threatened to kill him to force Story Chen Fan to appear. Story Chen Fan finally intervened, revealing a reflection of himself in the Transcendent Immortal Realm.

• Xu Que deduced that the Wizard had planned to possess the King and then the Mermaid Princess, and he completed the mission by saving the three fairy tales.
• Xu Que returned to the library of the Remnant Pages of the Book of Stories and encountered the Supreme Existence, who repeatedly called for Chen Fan to visit.
• When Story Chen Fan did not appear, the Supreme Existence turned on Xu Que, and Xu Que threatened to kill himself to provoke a response.
• The Supreme Existence tried to erase Xu Que with story fragments, but a distant sigh dispersed its power.
• The library transformed into a projection of the Transcendent Immortal Realm, where Xu Que saw the reflection of a True Immortal surrounded by countless beyond-grade stories.

Chen Fan’s simulation resumed after he returned from the reach of a mysterious existence, and he learned that its Golden Finger fragment had matched the priority of his own talent. The Group Mission was declared complete, awarding Chen Fan a wish and ten billion experience points, and he examined the wish’s one-use power.

• Chen Fan watched the simulation resume after he left the range of an unknown force.
• The Simulated Clone returned to the Supreme True Realm, where Zero and the mist-shrouded Big Shot explained that a Golden Finger fragment had prevented them from intervening.
• The system declared the Group Mission complete and awarded Chen Fan the mission’s wish and ten billion experience points, while Xu Que received a Top-Grade Innate Numinous Treasure.
• Chen Fan used Eye of True Sight to inspect the wish and learned it was a one-use vessel formed from a beyond-grade story that could resolve most of his current troubles.

After receiving a wish-granting ability and ten billion experience points, Chen Fan reached forty-eight thousand levels of Qi Refining limit-breaking and asked Wu Yong about the Supreme Existence. Wu Yong offered to investigate in exchange for one of Chen Fan’s talents, and Chen Fan agreed to give him a blue talent, prompting Wu Yong to request a ride over.

• Chen Fan received the wish-granting ability and ten billion experience points as rewards from the group mission.
• Chen Fan spent the experience points on Qi Refining limit-breaking and reached forty-eight thousand levels.
• Chen Fan asked Wu Yong whether he knew the identity of the Supreme Existence who had pulled the strings.
• Wu Yong said he needed one of Chen Fan’s talents to unlock a tool that could investigate the being’s origins, and Chen Fan realized Wu Yong had already used the purple talent he had previously given him.
• Chen Fan offered Wu Yong the blue talent Ascension instead, and Wu Yong immediately sent a Didi Combat Hire request to come over.

The narrator gave Wu Yong the Blue Talent: Ascension so he could use the Investigation Machine to learn about the mastermind behind the Fourth Group Mission, but the device revealed only that it was a Book of Stories book spirit. Later, the narrator learned the being had originated in a widely believed derivative story that the shattered Book of Stories had made real, and that Story Chen Fan had allowed it.

• The narrator bestowed Blue Talent: Ascension on Wu Yong, who used it to activate the Investigation Machine without needing a sample.
• The Investigation Machine identified the target as a book spirit born from a derivative story, but could not reveal its powers or abilities.
• The narrator attacked Wu Yong over the meager results, failed to hurt him, and sent him away.
• In Year 77, the narrator refined fifteen Mid-Stage Nascent Soul True Lords and advanced their Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment limits.
• The narrator received eight-ring intelligence that the being had once been a protagonist in a widely circulated derivative story that the shattered Book of Stories had made real with Story Chen Fan's tacit approval.

Chen Fan learned from Wu Yong that every world in the Fifth Group Mission was a True Realm, and suspected Wang Hao was preventing the mission from starting to keep the Chat Group from interfering with his plans. He refused to trade a golden talent for the mission's start time, leaving the future uncertain.

• Chen Fan asked Xu Que about stories based on him, but Xu Que could not identify which one had become reality or explain Chen Fan's true future.
• At age 78, Chen Fan used Fate Demon Dice to seize and refine sixteen Mid-Stage Nascent Soul True Lords, raising his Qi Refining limit-breaking to 48,500 layers and his Foundation Establishment limit-breaking to 46,000 layers.
• Wu Yong repeatedly tried to sell Chen Fan tools and demanded a golden talent to confirm when the Fifth Group Mission would begin.
• Wu Yong said that all the Great Realms in the Fifth Group Mission were True Realms, which Chen Fan believed explained Wang Hao's efforts to stop it.
• Chen Fan refused to pay for the start time because it was not essential, might change, and he might not survive until the mission began.

At age 79, the narrator chose Xu Que as an investment target and invested the Space Great Dao in him. The return was the Primordial Chaos origin source [Domain Cosmos], whose power exceeded the narrator’s expectations.

• The narrator continued devouring mid-stage Nascent Soul True Lords and advanced his Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment limits, then decided to invest in Xu Que.
• Xu Que arrived through the “Didi Combat Hire” feature, and the narrator discovered he was a colorful investable target.
• The narrator invested the Space Great Dao in Xu Que and received the Primordial Chaos origin source [Domain Cosmos] as a hundred-millionfold return.
• The narrator used [Purple talent: Eye of True Sight] to learn that [Domain Cosmos] transcended rules and could reach or create any destination he envisioned.

You tested the abilities of the primordial chaos origin source [Domain Cosmos], which let you reach any place and draw power from primordial chaos fragments. After using it to create a world containing the [Time Great Dao], you began having your other selves refine that Dao and other Great Daos that chaos could not directly access.

• Xu Que thanked you for giving him the [Space Great Dao], and you restricted its power while teaching him spells and cultivation methods.
• You canceled the Didi Stand-In Fighter service and returned to your original world to test [Domain Cosmos].
• You used the origin source to reach a world formed from the [Time Great Dao], but found that [Dao Seizure] could not claim the unrefined Dao.
• You had an other self transform into "Old Self" and begin refining the [Time Great Dao], a process expected to take ten years.
• You tried to reach worlds containing other refined Great Daos, but learned they were inside true realms beyond chaos's influence.
• You assigned ordinary other selves to refine branch Great Daos while "Old Self" continued refining the [Time Great Dao].

You used Domain Cosmos to travel to a Primordial Chaos fragment that had become a top-tier Great Realm guarded by a Higher-Dimensional Existence. Suspecting that such beings remained in worlds to claim the fragments’ power, you protected yourself and prepared to confront the realm’s guardian.

• You used Domain Cosmos to travel to a Primordial Chaos fragment that turned out to be a vast Great Realm.
• You realized the realm was guarded by a powerful Higher-Dimensional Existence that had not originated there.
• You inferred that the guardian and other Higher-Dimensional Existences might be seeking the power of Primordial Chaos fragments, including the fragment behind Supreme Heaven.
• You wondered whether Wang Hao knew about the fragments and whether his Golden Finger could help him obtain their power.
• You shielded yourself with the Primordial Chaos Bell, paused the other self’s cultivation of the Time Great Dao, activated Purple Talent: Transform All Beings, and plunged into the world to face its guardian.

The protagonist entered the Eternal Life Realm and confronted the higher-dimensional existence who held the Gate of Eternal Life and claimed the realm’s Primordial Chaos Fragment. Unable to intimidate one another or risk a decisive fight, they left matters at a proposal to share the fragment.

• The protagonist learned that the Eternal Life Realm and its cultivation system originated from the Gate of Eternal Life, which the higher-dimensional existence possessed.
• The higher-dimensional existence noticed the protagonist and the Primordial Chaos Bell, then manifested its true form holding the Gate of Eternal Life.
• The protagonist said they had come for the world and asked whether the higher-dimensional existence knew about Primordial Chaos Fragments.
• The higher-dimensional existence claimed the realm’s fragment and argued that the protagonist could not defeat it outright, while the protagonist asserted that rules could not constrain them.
• The higher-dimensional existence proposed sharing possession of the Primordial Chaos Fragment to avoid a fight and establish a connection.

The narrator learned how the Eternal Life Great Heavenly Venerable claimed to obtain a Primordial Chaos Fragment’s power, then used Domain Cosmos to gain the qualification to refine one. Seeing the Eternal Life Realm’s true nature, the narrator discovered the venerable had concealed the fragment behind the Gate of Eternal Life and had never intended to share it.

• The narrator agreed to cooperate with the Eternal Life Great Heavenly Venerable and learned they had refined only five percent of the realm’s power through prolonged assimilation.
• The Eternal Life Great Heavenly Venerable explained that beings lacking primordial-chaos qualification could not easily refine or destroy a Primordial Chaos Fragment.
• The narrator used Dao Seizure to obtain the Eternal Life Great Dao from the Supreme Existence born from the Gate of Eternal Life’s artifact spirit.
• The narrator activated Domain Cosmos, temporarily became a being of primordial chaos, and gained the qualification to refine a fragment.
• The narrator perceived that the Eternal Life Realm was formed from power spilling out of a fragment and realized the Eternal Life Great Heavenly Venerable had deceived them.
• The narrator saw the Gate of Eternal Life in the venerable’s palm and understood that the true Primordial Chaos Fragment lay beyond the gate.

The narrator activated Fate Demon Dice to secure the Primordial Chaos Fragment behind the Gate of Eternal Life and battled the Great Heavenly Venerable of Eternal Life. The Great Heavenly Venerable yielded the treasure after recognizing the narrator as an Otherworldly Demon, leaving the narrator to wonder whether the dice had influenced his surrender.

• The narrator rolled a fifteen with Fate Demon Dice, blessing the attempt to seize the Primordial Chaos origin source from the Great Heavenly Venerable of Eternal Life.
• The narrator revealed knowledge of the Primordial Chaos Fragment behind the Gate of Eternal Life, then used Primordial Cause and True-False Supreme Truth to kill the Great Heavenly Venerable, who revived through the treasure.
• The narrator repeatedly struck down the Great Heavenly Venerable with White Edge and Heaven-and-Earth Sword, while the Great Heavenly Venerable used the Eternal Life Realm to attack.
• The narrator used Yin Concealment to contest control of the Eternal Life Realm, prompting the Great Heavenly Venerable to suspect the narrator was an Otherworldly Demon and offer to surrender the Gate and its fragment.
• The narrator accepted the Gate of Eternal Life and discovered a narrow crack through which the Primordial Chaos Fragment's power had leaked; the Great Heavenly Venerable explained how he had widened it.

After failing to open the Gate of Eternal Life, you summoned the primordial chaos origin source to draw out the Primordial Chaos Fragment within it. The fragment rapidly raised your Qi Refining Limit-Breaking to 49,999 layers, and you stopped before reaching 50,000, wary of advancing without preparation.

• You examined the Gate of Eternal Life and learned that it was a Chaos Supreme Treasure containing a Primordial Chaos Fragment and had created the Eternal Life Realm.
• You decided to use Golden Talent: Investment on the Gate of Eternal Life, hoping to obtain a Primordial Chaos Grade treasure in return.
• You failed to open the Gate of Eternal Life and summoned the primordial chaos origin source, Domain Cosmos, to pull out the fragment.
• You touched the tiny Primordial Chaos Fragment and felt its power raise your cultivation at a frenzied pace.
• You stopped your Qi Refining Limit-Breaking at 49,999 layers, fearing the consequences of reaching 50,000 without preparation.

Chen Fan prepared for the tribulation of fifty thousand layers of Qi Refining limit-breaking with Big Shot and Zero’s help, then confronted Heavenly Will in the depths of Heaven and Earth. Heavenly Will revealed it had only been testing him and would claim Heaven’s Mandate if he died before reaching the threshold.

• Chen Fan arranged for Big Shot and Zero to support his breakthrough, left an other self guarding the Eternal Life Realm, and returned to the Supreme True Realm.
• Big Shot prepared potions while Zero stood ready to intervene, and Chen Fan began the tribulation by absorbing the Primordial Chaos Fragment.
• Heaven and Earth assimilated Chen Fan and drew his consciousness before Big Shot’s Purification Potion cleared the effect.
• Chen Fan resisted Heavenly Will by seizing Heaven-and-Earth authority and inscribing favorable rules, bringing their fight to a standstill.
• Heavenly Will admitted it had been testing Chen Fan and said it would take Heaven’s Mandate if he died before reaching fifty thousand layers of Qi Refining.

Eternal Radiance Immortal Venerable encountered the Immortal Venerable of Eternal Bliss in the depths of Heaven and Earth, where the latter warned him that he could not defeat the Mortal Transcendence Immortal Venerable. The revelation suggested that the Mortal Transcendence Immortal Venerable had escaped Eternal Bliss’s control and outplayed Heaven by half a move, but Eternal Radiance remained suspicious of Eternal Bliss’s intentions.

• Eternal Radiance Immortal Venerable met the Immortal Venerable of Eternal Bliss, who introduced himself as a figure from the erased Second Era.
• The Immortal Venerable of Eternal Bliss removed the pressure of Heaven and Earth and advised Eternal Radiance not to proceed farther.
• Eternal Bliss warned that the Mortal Transcendence Immortal Venerable would crush Eternal Radiance if they fought.
• Eternal Bliss called himself a Chess Player who had lost and described the Mortal Transcendence Immortal Venerable as someone who had outplayed Heaven by half a move.
• Eternal Radiance suspected that the Mortal Transcendence Immortal Venerable was the Second Era Otherworldly Demon who created the Qi Refining Limit-Breaking Path, while questioning whether Eternal Bliss had told the full truth.

Changming learned that Immortal Venerable of Eternal Bliss was a fallen Otherworldly Demon who wanted Changming to survive and Mortal Transcendence Immortal Venerable to die. The venerable explained why resurrection on the Qi Refining Limit-Breaking Dao put him at risk, then Changming asked why he had been warned not to advance further.

• Changming asked whether Immortal Venerable of Eternal Bliss was an Otherworldly Demon, and the venerable admitted it but said he had fallen long ago.
• Immortal Venerable of Eternal Bliss said his aim was for Changming to live and Mortal Transcendence Immortal Venerable to die.
• The venerable revealed that his Golden Finger allowed resurrection, but each return would put him back on the Qi Refining Limit-Breaking Dao and draw Mortal Transcendence Immortal Venerable's attention.
• Immortal Venerable of Eternal Bliss said he had been waiting for someone to surpass those before them or bring down Mortal Transcendence Immortal Venerable, and that Changming was the only one to reach fifty thousand layers.
• Changming asked what the venerable had meant by telling him not to go any farther.