Recaps

Chen Fan learned the Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority had engineered his predicament and accepted a life-and-death contest over who would shape Great Li’s next emperor. Chen Hei rose as Chen Fan’s champion, while the struggle between the princes continued and Chen Fan suspected the Sword Dao fruit position was central to Chen Hei’s plans.

• Longevity Great Talent revealed that the Penglai Island Lord had been replaced and that the Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority had helped destroy the true lord, while Chen Fan learned a Twin Blossoms duplicate threatened to replace him.
• Chen Fan sent his Other Selves into the Great Li Imperial House’s secret realm, where the Venerable Lord trapped them in the World Within the Painting and showed Chen Fan Senior Lin Feng’s tragic past.
• The Venerable Lord challenged Chen Fan to a life-and-death chess game over the next Great Li emperor, and Chen Fan chose Chen Hei as his champion against the Eldest Prince.
• Chen Hei revealed his Heaven and Earth Soul and built the Great Qian Dynasty, then used his future self’s remains and the realm’s power to break through Self-Based Qi Refining.
• Chen Hei advanced toward Foundation Establishment Limit-Breaking and entered the Great Li Secret Realm, where Chen Fan discovered that the Dao Edict distributed fruit-position powers among imperial officials.
• As the Eldest Prince and Eighth Prince competed for power, Chen Fan suspected the Venerable Lord meant to use the Sword Dao fruit position to force the Old Emperor from the throne.
• Chen Fan told Chen Hei his theory, and Chen Hei’s excitement about the Sword Dao fruit position made Chen Fan suspect it was one of his remaining great opportunities.

Chen Hei Quan attained the Sword Dao Fruit Position, then used cause-reversal to force the Supreme Dao Immortal Venerable to withdraw Time Shepherding and reset the world. Afterward, Chen Fan faced a coalition of powerful enemies and was battered beyond the Supreme True Realm as Nine Heavens appeared before him.

• The Eldest Prince reached Golden Core and pursued the Sword Dao Fruit Position, but Chen Hei Quan emerged from it and shattered his grotto-heaven.
• Chen Hei inscribed his true spirit on the Sword Dao Fruit Position and attained Golden Core, while Chen Fan killed the Old Emperor and both State Preceptors.
• Chen Hei Quan’s Present Self merged with his Past Self, and Chen Hei attained the Sword Dao Fruit Position as the Life-and-Death Chess Game ended with Heaven and Earth’s victory.
• Chen Hei Quan used the True-False Supreme Realm’s erasure and Temporal Fallacy to force the Supreme Dao Immortal Venerable to retract Time Shepherding, resetting the world before bidding Chen Fan farewell.
• The Buddha Ancestor, Nine Heavens, and other powers attacked Chen Fan, who sacrificed talents and abilities to escape their mystiques and briefly gain Immortal Venerable-level strength.
• Chen Fan fought the assembled powers in the River of Time, but their coordinated attacks shattered his amplified power and cast him into the True Myriad Worlds.
• The Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority continued attacking Chen Fan, while Nine Heavens crossed from the present into the future and appeared before him Beyond the World.

Chen Fan outmaneuvered Past Li Ping’s schemes long enough to survive Nine Heavens and confront the Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority. But when he finally activated Sage of Today and Wish Echo, Past Li Ping used the opening to trap him and leave him admitting defeat.

• The Lord of the Heavenly Court, Nine Heavens shattered Li Ping’s Great Daos, but the Spacetime Token protected him as Past Li Ping urged Chen Fan to use Transform All Beings.
• Chen Fan and True You revealed that True You had hidden within I Am the Chess Player, then exposed Past Li Ping’s plans to steer him toward Wish Echo and Sage of Today.
• True You negotiated for Past Li Ping to save Chen Fan without either talent, but the Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority emerged as a contingency that suppressed Sage of Today.
• Past Li Ping’s contingency unleashed Mighty Power, and Chen Fan sacrificed I Am the Chess Player, Myriad Selves, and Fusion to gain Existence from Nonexistence and the power to reverse cause and effect.
• Chen Fan restored Longevity Great Talent’s contingency, rejected Past Li Ping’s offer, and faced Nine Heavens with the Myriad Beings Aspect and Myriad Dao Furnace until karmic law punished Nine Heavens.
• Chen Fan confronted the Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority, learned about the Reincarnation Immortal and other Otherworldly Demons, then faced Nine Heavens’s attempt to control him with the Investiture of the Gods List.
• Chen Fan activated Sage of Today and Wish Echo, but Past Li Ping used the resulting beacon to reach across time and draw near in the Higher Dimension.
• Effect Before Cause erased Past Li Ping’s image from Chen Fan’s mind, and Chen Fan realized Past Li Ping had blocked his summoned help and engineered his predicament, then admitted defeat.

Chen Fan survived Past Li Ping’s attack with the intervention of a mysterious higher-dimensional power, then gained Future Retrieval and the Twin Blossoms ability. During the Fourth Group Mission, he returned to the Gods and Devils Realms and discovered that Wang Hao had arranged a trap to test whether a powerful being stood behind him.

• Past Li Ping assimilated Chen Fan, but a ringing echo erased Past Li Ping’s manifested form and shattered most of his Colorful Class Cards.
• Pale Green Ghostfire transformed half of Chen Fan’s Dharma Body, giving him Future Retrieval, which he used to direct karmic law punishment at the Lord of the Heavenly Court, Nine Heavens and erase the Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority.
• Chen Fan gained Twin Blossoms, tested its lifespan cost, advanced heavenly fire to Great True Lord, and rebuilt his Heavenly River Water Dao-Seeking Immortal Art.
• The Fourth Group Mission began, and Chen Fan chose Gods and Devils Realms, where he invested Hollow Willow in Wu Yong and received the incomplete Myriad-Void Primordial Ancient Weeping Willow in return.
• Chen Fan used the primordial willow’s power and Immortal-Settling Journey to reach the ruined Gods and Devils Realms, where he learned Ning Chen had destroyed the Human Realm and Demon Realm before defeating the Transcendent Gods.
• Wang Hao revealed that he had stopped future Ning Chen so Chen Fan could collect the Divine Realm’s spoils, then asked Chen Fan to help kill Ning Chen and prevent the Fifth Group Mission.
• Chen Fan returned three days into the past and consulted Wu Yong, who explained that Wang Hao was testing whether a powerful existence stood behind Chen Fan.
• Chen Fan realized Wang Hao’s plan could kill either him or Ning Chen to stop the Fifth Group Mission, leaving Chen Fan trapped if he had no real backer.