Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• Chen Fan reviews intelligence from a future set a thousand years ahead. The world has changed dramatically since the immeasurable kalpa: the Nine Heavens Celestial Court has been unsealed, the Eastern Domain has withdrawn from the world, and the Blazing Sun Heavenly Venerable has become an Immortal Venerable and destroyed the Tianyan Sacred Land.
• The Blazing Sun Immortal Venerable tried to install new candidates in the vacant Tianyan fruit position, but the position ultimately disappeared. Meanwhile, the future is tightly controlled by the Starry Sky Federation, whose founder and purpose are tied to preventing a Supreme Existence from returning.
• Chen Fan learns that beginning a future simulation makes him vanish from the present. His future records describe him as missing or dead, and the Chen Family was still exterminated—apparently by the Blazing Sun Immortal Venerable to sever Chen Fan’s existence karma.
• Chen Qingyan disappeared with the Myriad Beasts Mountain Range, while the Eastern Domain vanished at roughly the same time. Chen Fan suspects “Old Self” concealed both, likely to protect the Dream Master’s legacies.
• Several figures fled to the Northern Land of Sin, including Dao Wudi and Ji Bingyan. Chen Qingyan also badly defeated Mu Changshou, stripping away most of his heaven’s mandate and leaving his Dao heart broken.
• Mu Changshou later became instrumental in unsealing the Celestial Court and attained the star fruit position, but suffered a chaotic true spirit, cut himself down, and abandoned the position. Taibai Jinxing’s Remnant Soul was expected to possess him, and the Blazing Sun Immortal Venerable claimed that possession remained inevitable.
• After processing the revelations, Chen Fan resolves to investigate the Northern Land of Sin thoroughly in his next simulation.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Fan gains a clearer picture of how his disappearance, severed karma, and future return may be connected. He remains uncertain about the highest-level forces at work but forms a concrete plan to investigate the Northern Land.
• Chen Qingyan is likely still alive and appears to have acted against Mu Changshou before vanishing with the Myriad Beasts Mountain Range.
• Mu Changshou falls from a heaven-favored prodigy into a damaged, unstable figure after Chen Qingyan defeats him. His later escape from possession and the star fruit position suggests an unexplained intervention or hidden plan.
• The Blazing Sun Immortal Venerable emerges as a powerful adversary, responsible for the Chen Family’s destruction and apparently aware that Chen Fan will return.
• Dao Wudi and Ji Bingyan both flee to the Northern Land of Sin; their later fates remain unknown.
• The relationships among “Old Self,” the Dream Master, heaven and earth, and the Supreme Immortal remain opaque, but their suspected interference shapes the chapter’s revelations.

Significant themes

• Karma and predestination: Chen Fan’s existence karma may have been deliberately severed because his return was anticipated.
• Hidden contingency plans: Mu Changshou’s improbable escape from his expected fate suggests that powerful forces have layered plans and backups.
• Restricted knowledge and hierarchy: The Starry Sky Federation controls information through cultivation-based clearance, keeping the greatest mysteries inaccessible.
• Uncertainty and unseen intervention: Major historical events may have been engineered or concealed by beings far beyond Chen Fan’s understanding.

Key plot points and events

• The protagonist searches the Federation’s records for Mo Wuyou and discovers that the Mo Family was exterminated ten years ago. Mo Wuyou’s whereabouts are unknown, but records show that Golden Cloud Hall took him in as a household slave.
• The Mo Family had been a Golden Core faction led by Mo Wuy ya. In an earlier simulation, Mo Wuy ya benefited from the special protection of rogue cultivator’s good fortune; in this unaltered future, forming a family ended that protection. After reaching only the middle Golden Core stage, he apparently provoked Golden Cloud Hall, and his lineage was destroyed.
• The protagonist decides not to kill the Golden Core powerhouse he has been interrogating, wary of attracting attention. Instead, he sets out to find Mo Wuyou.
• The protagonist also concludes that entering the Northern Land of Sin is currently too dangerous: he lacks the required golden heaven’s mandate, and severed karma prevents him from sending an alternate self there.
• If circumstances permit, he may visit Purple Cloud Sacred Land, which oversees Golden Cloud Hall, and search someone’s soul for information.

Character developments

• The protagonist shows restraint by sparing the powerhouse despite wanting the experience, and compassion by seeking out Mo Wuyou simply because he feels responsible for the younger man.
• Mo Wuyou is revealed to have fallen from his earlier position as a member of the Mo lineage to a low-cultivation household slave.
• Mo Wuy ya’s contrasting fates underscore how much outcomes depend on the simulation’s circumstances and heavenly intervention.

Significant themes

• Fate and altered timelines: Events differ sharply depending on whether the protagonist intervenes.
• The cost of status and protection: Mo Wuy ya’s good fortune applied while he remained a rogue cultivator, but establishing a lineage cost him that safeguard.
• Power and vulnerability: Even a Golden Core family can be destroyed by a stronger faction.
• Compassion amid self-interest: The protagonist balances tactical caution with personal concern for Mo Wuyou.

Character interactions

• The protagonist learns about Mo Wuyou and the Mo Family through records accessed via the Golden Core powerhouse, then releases the powerhouse rather than risk raising an alarm.
• His intended next interaction is with Mo Wuyou, whom he hopes to help; a possible later encounter with Purple Cloud Sacred Land is also anticipated.

Plot points and events

• The protagonist heads to Blazing Sun City to investigate Purple Cloud True Lord, a favored disciple of Blazing Sun Immortal Venerable who has survived from the past into the future.
• Expecting danger, the protagonist establishes a remote “other self” as an anchor to make future deployments safer, then investigates the Golden Cloud Hall, a powerful faction under Purple Cloud’s authority.
• The protagonist breaks through the Hall’s safeguards and searches the soul of its limit-breaking Golden Core leader. The memories reveal that the Mo Family was destroyed because its ancestor, Mo Wuyou, also cultivated the Tianyan fruit position, making him a rival to the Hall’s leader.
• The Hall’s leader had secretly failed to attain that fruit position—not because of its supposed lingering obsession, but because someone already possessed it. He concealed this truth by using his one-time “Bridal Robe” ability to alter his memories and shift the karma of his failure, preserving his usefulness to Blazing Sun Immortal Venerable.
• The protagonist uncovers the central revelation: Tianyan True Lord may still be alive, and the Tianyan fruit position already has an owner.

Character developments and interactions

• The protagonist remains cautious despite his confidence, planning an escape route and relying on firsthand memories rather than filtered reports.
• Mo Wuyou is revealed as a powerful cultivator of the same fruit position as the Golden Cloud Hall leader; their rivalry led to the Mo Family’s extermination.
• The Golden Cloud Hall leader proves calculating and self-preserving, deceiving his patron to avoid becoming disposable “human material.”
• Purple Cloud True Lord is revealed to be a woman, though her appearance remains hidden by Dao resonance. Blazing Sun Immortal Venerable treats her with exceptional affection, unlike the instrumental way he regards others.

Significant themes

• Information and truth: Directly recovered memories are more trustworthy than secondhand intelligence.
• Survival through deception: The Hall leader manipulates memory and karma to protect himself.
• Power and expendability: Blazing Sun Immortal Venerable treats most people as resources, with Purple Cloud as a notable exception.
• Hidden identities and uncertain death: Tianyan True Lord’s apparent death—and the true ownership of the fruit position—may be a carefully obscured truth.

• Key events: You suspect True Lord Tianyan survived his apparent death and may be connected to Heaven and Earth. You theorize that the Golden Cloud Hall patriarch’s Wedding Robe ability might have hidden Tianyan’s survival by transferring or obscuring the relevant karma, preventing the Blazing Sun Immortal Venerable from detecting the truth. You also wonder whether the patriarch himself served Heaven and Earth, but leave the theory unresolved for lack of evidence. Your immediate priority is finding Mo Wuyou.
• Meeting Mo Wuyou: You locate the quiet, hardship-worn boy working in an artifact-forging workshop inside Golden Cloud Hall. To remove him without alerting anyone, you create a convincing duplicate and secretly take away the real Mo. Before releasing him, you carefully search his soul with the Primordial Unity Nine Heavens Soul-Suppressing Seal and examine him with the True-Sight Eye.
• Character developments: Mo appears young, poor, and accustomed to silence, but the True-Sight Eye reveals an extraordinary hidden potential: his entries include Hidden Dragon in the Abyss and Chess Player (both purple-to-black), as well as the gold-ranked Heaven’s Mandate, now turned black. His status—“fate pattern replaced, heaven’s mandate shattered, supreme protection”—suggests his circumstances are far more complicated than his outward appearance implies.
• Themes and interactions: The chapter emphasizes concealed survival, manipulated fate, and the growing entanglement of powerful schemes. Its central interactions are indirect: you investigate the possible links between Tianyan, the Golden Cloud Hall patriarch, and Heaven and Earth, then act cautiously and covertly to protect and assess Mo.

Key plot points and events

• While inspecting Mo Wuyou’s fate pattern, Chen Fan discovers the unusual statuses [Fate pattern exchanged], [Heaven’s Mandate shattered], and [Supreme protection]. These echo Chen Qingyan’s earlier claim that he had once exchanged his fate with that of a future Chen Family descendant, though Mo belongs to the Mo Family and the timing does not fit.
• Mo Wuyou unexpectedly recognizes Chen Fan, despite Chen Fan concealing his face and having never met him in this timeline. He explains that Chen Qingyan told him Chen Fan was an existence with no karmic aura.
• Mo reveals that he possesses a [Spacetime Token] and used it to communicate with Chen Qingyan three times. Chen Fan realizes this must be another token in the Supreme True Realm, and that Mo’s experiences do not match the rule he and Lin Feng had deduced about the token’s links across time.
• In their first two conversations, Chen Qingyan asked about the future and Chen Fan. Mo’s attempts to provide information triggered karmic law punishment, which the token blocked. Chen Qingyan also told Mo he would accompany the Myriad Beasts Mountain Range and promised to leave him supplies in the abandoned rear mountain of Golden Cloud Hall.
• During their third conversation, last year, Chen Qingyan appeared gravely wounded and said he had fled into a Secret Realm. He instructed Mo to tell Chen Fan everything when they met a thousand years later, insisting that Chen Fan would surely return.

Character developments

• Chen Fan is shaken by the unexplained fate statuses, Mo’s recognition, and the apparent communication across time. He begins to suspect the token’s temporal rules—and perhaps his understanding of the current era—may be incomplete.
• Mo Wuyou, usually composed, reveals his intense admiration for Chen Fan and the pain driving him: after becoming a household slave following his clan’s extermination, he used the token in hopes of changing the future. His caution about using it shows how deeply he fears its consequences.
• Chen Qingyan emerges as a guiding figure across time. He anticipated Chen Fan’s importance, protected Mo through hidden supplies, and entrusted him with a message despite being wounded and under threat.

Significant themes

• Fate, identity, and exchange: Mo’s strange fate statuses raise questions about whether fate can be transferred and whether bloodline or chronology limits such an exchange.
• Time and causality: The token’s behavior challenges the rules Chen Fan previously believed, hinting that the present may be the final era or that time is unfolding differently than expected.
• Karma and the cost of knowledge: Attempts to disclose future information invite lethal punishment, making communication across time dangerous.
• Hope amid suffering: Mo’s desire to alter his future and Chen Qingyan’s promise that Chen Fan will return give him a reason to endure.

Character interactions

• Chen Fan questions Mo about how he recognized him, then presses him for details about the token and his conversations with Chen Qingyan.
• Mo speaks to Chen Fan with reverence and urgency, recounting events that turn their unexpected meeting into the fulfillment of Chen Qingyan’s long-standing instruction.
• Chen Qingyan’s past conversations with Mo shape their present encounter: his questions, protection, and final message all connect Mo’s suffering to Chen Fan’s role in the future.

Key events

• The narrator realizes “Old Self” likely engineered Chen Qingyan’s possession of the Spacetime Token and used their earlier conversations to send a message across time.
• Chen Qingyan’s words—“You will definitely return”—implied he knew the narrator was conducting future simulations. The crucial clue is the seven-year gap between the Token’s second and third activations: that unobserved period could be used to change events.
• The narrator activates the Token from the True-False Supreme Realm, linking his present to Chen Qingyan’s past. The Rainbow Talent, Fifth Black Hand, flares as the connection forms.
• Chen Qingyan reports that ten years have passed since the narrator disappeared. He found the Token four years earlier in the eastern Myriad Beasts Mountain Range, where it had never appeared in previous simulations—another sign of Old Self’s intervention.
• Asked about his Hidden Dragon in the Abyss entry, Chen Qingyan says Senior Lin Feng arranged the exchange, but he does not know how it was possible.
• Before the connection ends, the narrator asks Chen Qingyan to investigate the Blazing Sun Sacred Land and watch Purple Cloud True Person, whose current identity differs from the Purple Cloud True Lord of the past. The request is also directed at Old Self, whom the narrator believes can uncover the truth.

Character developments and interactions

• The narrator pieces together Old Self’s manipulation of the Token and decides to use it deliberately, shifting from deduction to action. He cautiously shares information with Chen Qingyan and gives him a task without explaining everything.
• Chen Qingyan appears to have knowingly accepted his fate when entering the Ten Thousand Beasts Secret Realm. He confirms he has been waiting for the narrator’s return, though the threat of Karmic Law Punishment limits what he can reveal.
• Old Self remains unseen but emerges as the likely force behind Chen Qingyan’s advance knowledge, the Token’s appearance, and the unusual timing of events.
• Senior Lin Feng is implicated through his role in arranging Chen Qingyan’s mysterious exchange.

Significant themes

• Time and hidden opportunities: The unexplained seven-year interval may allow the narrator to intervene in the past.
• Fate versus agency: Chen Qingyan seems to know his fate yet acts anyway, while the narrator searches for ways to alter events.
• Secrecy and constrained knowledge: Karmic punishment and the future’s tightly sealed information make communication and investigation difficult.
• Manipulation across eras: Old Self may be shaping events from behind the scenes, linking past, present, and future.

Plot points and events

• Chen Fan receives six-chime intelligence from his Golden Talent, Listening. His Dao-attained future self has secretly protected Chen Qingyan, investigated the Blazing Sun Sacred Land, and left the findings beneath the Chen Family’s Old Locust Tree.
• Chen Fan and Mo Wuyou visit the family ruins. The ancient locust tree still stands, and beneath its roots they find a letter and the Heavenly Secret Creation Jade Butterfly.
• The reforged jade butterfly can conceal its bearer even from a Supreme Existence. It also contains vast Heaven’s Mandate and authority from Chen Fan’s future self.
• The letter warns Chen Fan about Purple Cloud True Lord. Her life-bound major divine ability, Little Wish, was extraordinarily powerful even when she was only at Foundation Establishment, and may have counteracted some of the future Chen Fan’s authority. After advancing to Golden Core, her true spirit seemed connected to a powerful Heavenly Dao fruit position.
• Although the future Chen Fan cautions against provoking her, the Supreme Existence aiding him wants Chen Fan to target her. The jade butterfly appears deliberately prepared to help Chen Fan approach her unseen and withstand her ability.
• Chen Fan is left wondering why anyone would risk confronting such a dangerous, mysterious figure. Then his talent The Only Player triggers a plot quest: he is ordered to kill Purple Cloud True Lord at any cost, with ownership of the future Chen Fan’s authority as the reward.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Fan shifts from treating Purple Cloud as a potential source of intelligence to recognizing her as an immense threat—and puzzling over why his future self wants him to pursue her anyway.
• Future Chen Fan is revealed to have protected Chen Qingyan, gathered intelligence, and arranged both the warning and powerful concealment treasure, while still directing the present Chen Fan toward a dangerous confrontation.
• Chen Qingyan, though absent, is shown to have uncovered Purple Cloud’s unusual abilities and to have been protected by the future Chen Fan.
• Purple Cloud True Lord emerges as a figure of exceptional importance to the Blazing Sun Heavenly Venerable, with abilities that may challenge even Supreme authority.
• The jade butterfly’s history links future Chen Fan, Senior Lin Feng, and the present Chen Fan: Lin Feng strengthened its concealment, while the future Chen Fan infused it with his own authority.

Significant themes

• Destiny versus choice: Chen Fan is pushed toward a mission he does not understand, despite his instinct to avoid its target.
• The limits of power: Purple Cloud’s abilities appear capable of defying the usual hierarchy of cultivation.
• Trust and hidden motives: The future Chen Fan seems benevolent, yet his demand to confront Purple Cloud remains unexplained.
• Preparation across time: Information and treasures left by another version of Chen Fan shape the present’s choices.

Key plot points

• You accept Old Self’s request to face the exceptionally powerful Purple Cloud True Lord, though you suspect you may also have to confront her master, Blazing Sun Immortal Venerable.
• You assess your resources and find major gaps: your essence is at Immortal Venerable level, but you lack enough information about Purple Cloud’s life-bound ability and lack powerful techniques to turn that essence into a decisive advantage.
• Your usual options are limited. One ability has already been spent, another may be poorly timed, and gathering the materials for a new major divine ability would require hunting—dangerous and potentially insufficient.
• The reforged Heavenly Secret Creation Jade Butterfly awakens. It releases a vast tide of fortune, delivers a portion of Old Self’s authority, and opens a conceptual doorway.
• You recognize Old Self’s authority as an extension of the law that makes what you desire come to pass. Having just wished for attribute points, you open the door, hoping it contains a way to obtain them—or reveals Old Self’s true backup plan.

Character developments and interactions

• You move from accepting Old Self’s request to actively preparing for the confrontation, scrutinizing your weaknesses rather than relying on raw power.
• Old Self remains a mysterious but increasingly direct presence: he provides fortune and a portion of his authority, seemingly anticipating the resources you will need.
• Purple Cloud True Lord is established as a formidable threat whose power once challenged Old Self’s authority despite her low cultivation.
• Blazing Sun Immortal Venerable looms as a possible future opponent through her connection to Purple Cloud.

Significant themes

• Power versus mastery: Immense essence alone is not enough without techniques to use it effectively.
• Preparation under uncertainty: You need both intelligence and practical means before facing an unknown enemy.
• Fate, authority, and desire: Old Self’s gift turns a wish into a possible path forward, blurring the line between preparation and miraculous intervention.
• Escalating stakes: Even at Immortal Venerable level, you feel constrained by the rules and dangers of the Supreme True Realm.

Key plot points and events

• The protagonist opens an authority-made gateway and discovers the Dream Realm, a place resembling the Supreme True Realm but lacking its karmic law. He realizes that his “Old Self” secretly sent it into the future as a safe training ground where he could gather attribute points and divine abilities.
• In the Immortal Palace, he meets Chen Qingyan, who has been waiting for Old Self’s successor. Chen explains that a thousand years earlier, all Nascent Soul True Lords except himself fell to Golden Core perfection. The change coincided with Old Self severing his connection to the Dream Realm, allowing it to travel into the future.
• Chen warns the protagonist not to harm anyone from the Immortal Palace.
• The protagonist seeks information from the Buddhist Land, but its Buddha Ancestor turns out to be another manifestation of Chen. Even after using the Soul-Suppressing Seal to search the Buddha Ancestor’s spirit, he finds no trace of Senior Lin Feng.
• He then wipes out nearly everyone else in the Dream Realm—from powerful cultivators down to most mortals—while sparing the Immortal Palace’s people and leaving a small number of mortals alive. The mass kills trigger a flood of rewards: nearly ten million attribute points, thousands of minor divine abilities, and numerous major abilities.

Character developments and interactions

• The protagonist moves from surprise and investigation to recognizing the Dream Realm as Old Self’s deliberate gift. His overwhelming power lets him treat the realm as a source of resources, though he restrains himself from targeting the Immortal Palace.
• Chen Qingyan is revealed as a central figure in the Dream Realm: he leads several major factions through different identities, retains his realm after the upheaval, and serves as Old Self’s messenger. His calm welcome suggests he understands more than he shares.
• The protagonist and Chen have a brief, guarded exchange: Chen identifies him as the successor, recounts the past, and gives a warning without demanding explanations.
• The protagonist’s search for Senior Lin Feng through the Buddha Ancestor fails; the expected connection is absent.

Significant themes

• Preparation across time: Old Self’s contingency plan uses the Dream Realm to equip his successor for the future.
• Power and consequence: The protagonist’s ability to gain immense rewards through mass slaughter is framed as practical farming, while his concern about offending Chen imposes one limit.
• Truth and uncertainty: The Dream Realm’s apparent familiarity hides crucial differences, and even powerful figures such as Chen reveal only part of what they know.
• Identity and manifestation: Chen’s many roles—and the Buddha Ancestor’s connection to him—blur the line between separate people and divided selves.

Plot points and events

• The protagonist invests accumulated experience into Qi Refining Limit-Breaking, advancing from 3,000 to 4,000 layers. Heaven Rewards Diligence pushes the foundation to 5,000 layers, and Heavenly Dao Reward strengthens their essence to just below the Nascent Soul Late Stage threshold.
• They wonder whether reaching 10,000 layers might let them rival a Spirit Transformation Dao Master, but set the thought aside to focus on turning their enormous stockpile of divine abilities and attribute points into practical combat power.
• Using Fusion, they combine 2,523 control, killing, and curse-killing minor divine abilities. A talent synergy between Once and for All and Heaven Rewards Diligence raises the fusion chance to 100% for only 17 years of true lifespan, producing the minor divine ability Karma Severing.
• They begin a second fusion with 1,961 concealment, formation, nullification, and defensive abilities, seeking protection against Purple Cloud True Lord’s Little Wish. The excerpt ends before its result is revealed.

Character development

• The protagonist’s cultivation and confidence continue to grow, but they remain pragmatic: they postpone ambitions of extreme breakthroughs and prioritize immediate combat readiness.
• They show caution by preparing defenses against an uncertain threat, even though they do not know whether the authority granted by Old Self can counter Little Wish.
• They carefully track the cost of their abilities, calculating that they still have 371 years of true lifespan after the latest fusion.

Significant themes

• Power through perseverance: diligent cultivation and accumulated effort push the protagonist beyond previous limits.
• Preparation and risk management: the protagonist converts resources into useful abilities and prepares for threats before they materialize.
• The cost of power: fusion consumes true lifespan, though talent synergies make the price far lower than expected.
• Ambition tempered by practicality: the possibility of reaching godlike strength is enticing, but immediate survival and combat effectiveness come first.

Character interactions

• No direct conversations occur. The protagonist interacts with the system through prompts and confirmations, while the second fusion is motivated by concern over Purple Cloud True Lord’s ability and the authority provided by Old Self.

Key plot points

• The protagonist completes three batches of divine-ability fusion, spending seventeen years of lifespan in the final batch. The resulting minor abilities are Karma Severing, Sever Heaven’s Secrets, and Heaven’s Gift.
• Using The Only Player, the protagonist spends 300,000 attribute points to elevate them into three major abilities: Life and Death, Heavenly Secrets Palace, and Supreme Dao Transfiguration.
• After examining the abilities and deciding they may be enough to confront Purple Cloud True Lord, the protagonist postpones action to gather intelligence and coordinate with Chen Qingyan and Old Self.
• The protagonist waits for the daily Listening information—and receives an unprecedented eight-chime signal, just below the maximum of nine. The chapter ends as the Great Dao begins to reveal what it means.

Character developments and interactions

• The protagonist becomes markedly better equipped for the coming confrontation. Life and Death grants a once-per-target death effect, strength that rises with injury, and powerful attack seals. Heavenly Secrets Palace can block outside influences regardless of rank, though its durability is limited and damage can affect the protagonist. Supreme Dao Transfiguration briefly amplifies the protagonist’s qualities and abilities to their peak, but its precise effects remain unclear.
• The protagonist suspects Life and Death may be a piece of authority once lost by the Destruction Dao Master, but decides that its origin matters less than possessing it.
• The protagonist recognizes Heavenly Secrets Palace as a possible defense against Purple Cloud True Lord’s life-bound ability, Little Wish, and considers using the palace offensively to trap an enemy.
• The protagonist intends to contact Chen Qingyan and Old Self before acting, though these conversations have not yet occurred.

Significant themes

• Power gained through accumulation: Vast numbers of lesser abilities and immense resources are transformed into exceptional powers.
• Risk and limitation: Even overwhelming abilities have costs—lifespan, durability, and one-time use.
• Preparation and information: Rather than rush into battle, the protagonist seeks intelligence and allies; the extraordinary eight-chime signal hints that crucial knowledge is imminent.

Key plot points and events

• The eight chimes reveal why Purple Cloud True Lord’s Little Wish could challenge the power of the Dao-attained “Old Self”: the ability is actually a fragment of the Supreme Immortal’s power, placed in her as a contingency to disrupt a supposedly predetermined present.
• Old Self noticed the Supreme Immortal’s intervention and wants that power for himself. His plan is for the protagonist to kill Purple Cloud True Lord, obtain Little Wish through The Only Player, then merge it with his authority using Fusion.
• Alarmed by the revelation, the protagonist activates the Spacetime Token to consult Old Self.
• The token connects to Chen Qingyan after his fierce battle with Mu Changkang. Chen reports that Purple Cloud True Person’s wish has left him gravely afflicted: he cannot advance, his consciousness is clouded, and he may soon become a living corpse. He plans to retreat into the Myriad Beasts Mountain Range, where the Supreme Immortal’s protection can shield him from the ability.
• Chen also says the Blazing Sun Sacred Land is preparing to act and that he has been hunted since the protagonist asked him to investigate Purple Cloud True Person. The protagonist recognizes that this chain of events may be karmically linked to his own earlier instructions.
• Before Chen withdraws, the protagonist makes one final request—an additional safeguard in case defeating Purple Cloud True Lord proves impossible. Chen agrees to do what he can, and the token closes.

Character developments and interactions

• The protagonist moves from confidence in his accumulated methods to fear and uncertainty once he realizes Purple Cloud True Lord is backed by the Supreme Immortal. Nevertheless, loyalty and obligation to Old Self leave him feeling unable to refuse the mission. He tries to preserve an alternative through his final request to Chen.
• Old Self is revealed as a calculating ally: he deliberately loosened the constraints of the predetermined present so the protagonist could reach Purple Cloud True Lord, hoping to claim her power.
• Chen Qingyan is badly weakened yet remains cooperative. In their conversation, he recounts his injuries and predicament without demanding the protagonist’s reasons, then accepts the final task despite doubting he can complete it.
• Purple Cloud True Lord is reframed as more than an unusually powerful opponent: she is effectively an embodiment or vessel of the Supreme Immortal’s power.

Significant themes

• Predestination versus possibility: both the Supreme Immortal and Old Self act to alter a supposedly fixed present and create new futures.
• Karma and consequences: the protagonist’s past instruction to investigate Purple Cloud True Person may have helped bring about Chen’s current suffering.
• Power and obligation: the protagonist must face an opponent backed by a Supreme Immortal because Old Self’s plan—and their shared identity—makes refusal feel impossible.
• Contingency and survival: the protagonist’s final request reflects his effort to retain options against an overwhelming threat.

Plot points and events

• Watching the future simulation, Chen Fan concludes that the appearance of his “Old Self” prompted the Supreme Immortal to place Purple Cloud True Lord on the board. He suspects the attempt against her marks the simulation’s endgame and will provoke severe retaliation.
• The Simulated Clone infiltrates the Purple Cloud Sacred Land, leaving Mo Wuyou in a safe Secret Realm. The land’s childlike atmosphere—candy rain, playful spirits, and graffiti—seems to be caused by a hidden divine ability. Heavenly Secrets Palace blocks its influence, losing one point of durability.
• To clear the way for an attack on Purple Cloud, the Clone uses Number Two Other-Self to ambush an elderly Immortal Venerable in the devastated Southern Region. With the newly acquired Life and Death ability, he heavily wounds the target and activates True-False Supreme Realm, recording and crushing the enemy’s figure.
• The system calls the result a “defeat,” not a kill—a first for the Clone and a troubling sign. Two more Immortal Venerables, one youthful and one veiled in dao resonance, awaken and move toward the disturbance, drawing them away from the Sacred Land.
• Number One Other-Self remains hidden, waiting for a bigger distraction. The Blazing Sun Immortal Venerable, the strongest figure of the era, has not yet been drawn into the conflict.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Fan recognizes how complicated the future’s tangled timelines and schemes have become, but continues to follow the Clone’s plan.
• The Simulated Clone shifts from investigating Mo Wuyou to prioritizing Purple Cloud True Lord, using concealment, a decoy, and a calculated ambush to create an opening.
• The elderly Immortal Venerable is ambushed and severely wounded; the Clone’s unusual inability to register the encounter as a kill raises questions about his power.
• The other Immortal Venerables respond to the disturbance, while the Blazing Sun Immortal Venerable remains the key obstacle.
• Purple Cloud True Lord is not yet confronted; the Clone observes her domain while preparing to isolate her.

Significant themes

• Strategy and misdirection: the Clone creates a distant crisis to pull defenders away from his real target.
• Power with uncertain limits: Life and Death and True-False Supreme Realm prove potent, but the “defeat” notification suggests an unexplained constraint.
• Hidden influence and protection: Heavenly Secrets Palace shields the Clone from the Sacred Land’s mysterious childlike aura.
• Escalating stakes: the plan depends on drawing in the era’s strongest being, whose response could determine what happens next.

Plot points and events

• In the Southern Region, Number Two Other-Self destroys the last surviving fragments of the shattered domains, drawing immense karmic consequences.
• While fighting two Immortal Venerables, the protagonist discovers that the old man, young man, and mysterious figure encountered so far are all manifestations of the same being: the Blazing Sun Immortal Venerable. This explains how several Immortal Venerables appeared in a short span.
• The protagonist’s Certain Death ability cannot affect them, but stacked Life-and-Death Seals weaken them. By combining Treasure-Borrowing Method, Fishing Platform, and Heavenly Formation, the protagonist turns the fight around and begins recording the opponents’ afterimages for a possible instant kill.
• Before the stalemate can be broken, the Immortal Venerables stop fighting and a colossal palm strikes Number Two Other-Self. The Supreme True Realm resists the attack, but cannot prevent it. The protagonist’s Once and for All ability pulls Number Two back to safety.
• The protagonist identifies the attacker as the Incumbent Dao Master, who should not be able to act inside the Supreme True Realm. They deduce that Purple Cloud True Lord’s Little Wish must have let him briefly override Heaven and Earth’s restrictions.
• This revelation makes the protagonist reconsider the plan to kill Purple Cloud True Lord. Rather than facing her alone, they may have to confront the entire Supreme Immortal camp—and decide they may need to abandon the mission.

Character developments and interactions

• The protagonist shows tactical ingenuity by combining abilities to withstand two Immortal Venerables, but shifts from confidence to alarm when the Incumbent Dao Master intervenes. They prioritize survival over fulfilling Old Self’s request.
• Number Two Other-Self is nearly destroyed by the Dao Master’s strike but is rescued by the protagonist’s power.
• Purple Cloud True Lord is revealed to possess a potentially extraordinary ability: Little Wish can apparently enable interference that even defies Heaven and Earth.
• Old Self remains the source of the protagonist’s mission to kill Purple Cloud True Lord, but the protagonist no longer considers that duty worth an almost certain death.
• The chapter also recalls a previous battle against a Half-Immortal, reinforcing the danger of the mysterious Dao Master, who might sacrifice everything to reach that level.

Significant themes

• Survival versus duty: The protagonist questions whether to risk their real life for another being’s request.
• Escalating power and helplessness: A clever strategy against Immortal Venerables becomes inadequate when higher-level forces intervene.
• Limits of control: Even the Supreme True Realm’s laws can be challenged by powers capable of overriding Heaven and Earth.
• Identity and multiplicity: The revelation that three apparent Immortal Venerables are one being complicates the protagonist’s understanding of their opponents.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Fan watches the Simulated Clone weigh abandoning “Old Self’s” mission, since facing the Supreme Immortal faction and its powerful allies seems hopeless.
• The simulation presents two choices. “Old Self” intervenes from the true-false supreme realm, silently forcing Chen Fan to choose to continue the mission.
• In the simulation, a warning sounds: “Abandon it, and you will die!” The clone hesitates, while the Heavenly Secrets Palace’s durability begins steadily declining.
• The clone suspects Purple Cloud True Lord has made a wish. Golden talent: Listening reveals that her ability, Little Wish, is backed by the Supreme Immortal and has fixed the clone’s death three days later.
• The clone considers escaping into the Dream Realm, but recognizes that this would only postpone death: he would be trapped there until the Supreme Immortal descends.
• He concludes that completing Old Self’s mission—and likely eliminating Purple Cloud True Lord—is the only apparent path to survival.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Fan realizes that Old Self can influence him directly, but receives no explanation when he tries to ask why.
• The Simulated Clone shifts from firm resolve to abandon the mission to reluctant acceptance that it may be his only chance.
• Old Self insists on the mission despite the danger. His interference appears to have helped provoke the crisis he is trying to prevent.
• Purple Cloud True Lord, acting at Blazing Sun Immortal Venerable’s prompting, uses Little Wish to impose a three-day death sentence on those plotting against her.
• Blazing Sun Immortal Venerable has already sensed the clone, showing that the clone’s concealment is failing.

Significant themes

• Fate versus agency: A seemingly simple wish backed by overwhelming power fixes the clone’s outcome, leaving him with few real choices.
• The cost of interference: Old Self’s attempt to control events may have drawn attention and worsened the danger.
• Desperate survival: The clone’s options—fight, flee, or comply—each carry grave consequences.
• Irony: Old Self’s underhanded maneuver may have endangered both the clone and himself, captured in the chapter’s final remark.

Key plot points

• The protagonist evaluates ways to defeat the Mysterious Dao Master before he can ascend into a Half-Immortal. His most promising one-use talent, I Am the Mastermind, is already spent, so he considers the dangerous Transform All Beings—but its severe risk of losing himself makes it a poor choice.
• With only 337 years of true lifespan, he sacrifices another self to gain 500 more. Combined with Late Bloomer and Heaven Rewards Diligence, this lets him attain eighteen Great Daos—far beyond his expected eight.
• He sacrifices all his lifespan through Heaven-Bartering Fortune, leaving only three days, the same span allowed by Purple Cloud True Lord’s wish. The eighteen Daos dramatically elevate his body, soul, fortune, and overall power.
• His Number Two Other-Self, synchronized with this strength, emerges beyond the world to assess three Spirit Transformation Dao Masters. There he confronts the Future Dao Master, who possesses the Chaos Bell and four fully mastered Daos. The two powers meet in a tense standoff.
• The Future Dao Master recognizes the protagonist as Chen Fan, who disappeared from the present a thousand years earlier, inferring it from his lack of karmic traces. The protagonist stays silent, intending to answer through combat.

Character developments and interactions

• The protagonist shifts from searching for a clever, decisive technique to wagering everything on overwhelming strength, accepting the risk because time is nearly gone.
• The Future Dao Master is revealed as perceptive, supremely confident, and formidable despite having fewer Daos; his four Daos are complete authorities, not merely raw power.
• The protagonist and Future Dao Master exchange no attacks yet, but their mutual display of power creates a direct, high-stakes confrontation.

Significant themes

• Power and its price: The protagonist’s strength comes at the cost of his remaining lifespan and potentially his identity.
• Raw power versus mastery: Eighteen Daos make the protagonist an extraordinary threat, while the Future Dao Master’s fewer but perfected authorities show that quantity alone may not decide the contest.
• Fate, time, and exposure: With only three days left, the protagonist can no longer afford caution; his disappearance and missing karmic traces also make him a subject of scrutiny among supreme beings.

Key plot points and events

• The Number One Other-Self enters Purple Cloud Sacred Land by burning his true spirit to break the realm’s restrictions. Its playful candy rain, laughing graffiti, and animated objects are revealed as illusions.
• The land’s oppressive force steadily damages him, though the Heavenly Secret Creation Jade Butterfly and authority lent by “Old Self” just manage to hold the erosion at bay.
• He reaches Purple Cloud True Lord’s private chambers and encounters three manifestations of Blazing Sun Immortal Venerable. He attacks immediately with Life and Death, the Treasure-Borrowing Method, and Heavenly Formation.
• Meanwhile, beyond the world, the Number Two Other-Self battles the Future Dao Master. The protagonist unleashes the power of eighteen Great Daos to keep the enemy occupied and buy time for Number One.
• A powerful Life and Death assault fails to take hold. The Future Dao Master invokes the Heaven-Knowing Barrier, making the negative effects vanish as if they had never existed. He then recognizes the power as resembling authority once lost by an old friend.

Character developments and interactions

• The protagonist/Other-Selves: The two selves coordinate their roles: Number One risks entering the sacred land to confront its master, while Number Two draws the Future Dao Master’s attention. The protagonist is willing to burn his own true spirit and fight recklessly to protect that plan.
• Purple Cloud True Lord: She remains unseen, but her influence is clear: she creates the illusion-filled sacred land, summons Blazing Sun’s manifestations, and apparently uses a wish that intensifies the Heavenly Secrets Palace’s damage.
• Future Dao Master: He reveals the Heaven-Knowing Barrier’s extraordinary defensive effect and hints at a personal connection to the lost authority embodied by the protagonist’s Life and Death power.
• Blazing Sun Immortal Venerable: Three versions or aspects appear to surround Number One, turning the confrontation into an immediate, high-stakes fight.

Significant themes

• Illusion versus reality: The whimsical sacred land conceals danger and oppressive power.
• Sacrifice and urgency: The protagonist burns his true spirit and accepts escalating harm to create an opening for his other self.
• Power and its limits: Even a devastating attack based on multiple Great Daos can be nullified by a higher-order ability.
• Unresolved connections: The Future Dao Master’s recognition suggests the protagonist’s power is tied to a forgotten or lost authority—and to someone from the Dao Master’s past.

Plot points

• The protagonist realizes the Future Dao Master’s mention of “Life and Death” confirms their suspicion that the ability is a fragment of authority once lost by the Incumbent Dao Master. But the Future Dao Master’s Heaven-Knowing Barrier has made that authority unusable.
• The protagonist switches tactics, using Treasure-Borrowing Method and the Fishing Platform to steal some of the enemy’s fruit-position mystique, while Heavenly Formation tries to adapt to and counter it.
• The Future Dao Master reveals their full powers: the authorities of Eternity, which freezes existence, and Time, which locks the protagonist’s trajectory. Together, they immobilize the protagonist’s Number Two Other-Self.
• From the River of Time, the Future Dao Master unleashes a complete, peak-strength annihilation seal from the Incumbent Dao Master. The attack severely wounds the protagonist and throws the surrounding worlds and laws into chaos.
• The protagonist expects the strike to trigger karmic punishment, as it did in previous simulations, but none comes. They infer that Purple Cloud True Lord has suppressed the backlash.
• Concluding that greater stats or one-use power-ups will not solve the problem—and that they must also contend with the Incumbent and Mysterious Dao Masters—the protagonist activates the purple talent Transform All Beings, choosing Senior Lin Feng as the being to summon or transform into.
• Before that strategy can take effect, the Future Dao Master attacks again with a complete Dharma Seal and a great bell, revealing a third authority: Destiny.

Character developments and interactions

• The protagonist moves from confidence in a planned fight to shock and helplessness as the Future Dao Master’s full range of powers emerges. They then regain focus, assess their options, and choose a tactical transformation rather than relying on brute force.
• The Future Dao Master proves far more formidable than expected, combining multiple authorities and acting in coordination with the Incumbent Dao Master’s attack from the River of Time.
• The protagonist’s knowledge of Senior Lin Feng and the mysterious Future Chess Player shapes the choice of transformation: Lin Feng is the only powerful figure they feel certain they can become.

Significant themes

• Mechanics over raw power: The protagonist recognizes that superior statistics cannot overcome abilities that control time, existence, and other fundamental rules.
• Fate, time, and causality: The Future Dao Master’s powers can immobilize the present and apparently bypass the karmic consequences that once constrained interference from the future.
• Adaptation under pressure: When familiar abilities fail, the protagonist must improvise and seek a different kind of advantage.
• Escalating uncertainty: The revelation of Destiny as a third authority leaves the protagonist’s new plan—and the outcome of the fight—uncertain.

Plot points and events

• The Future Dao Master’s second attack uses the authority of Fate to make Number Two Other-Self’s gruesome death an established, seemingly unavoidable outcome. Its force devastates more than half the Myriad Worlds and erases the battlefield.
• Just before the attack lands, control of Number Two Other-Self begins to slip away from the narrator. Transform All Beings finally activates, granting the temporary ability Time Shepherding.
• Senior Lin Feng appears in the body, having survived the attack. He recognizes the narrator as his “adorable junior” and calmly assesses the unfamiliar ability.
• Lin Feng identifies the opponent as the future-born Spirit Transformation Dao Master. His arrival closes the summoned River of Time and unsettles the Future Dao Master.
• Lin Feng’s life-bound divine ability, Time Shepherding, manifests a powerful Future Self. This self breaks through the authority of Eternity and merges with the body Lin Feng already occupies.
• Strengthened by the merger, Lin Feng declares, “Now, I lack nothing.”

Character developments and interactions

• The narrator moves from panic at the apparently unbeatable combination of Fate and the Future Dao Master’s power to relief and renewed confidence when Lin Feng takes over.
• Senior Lin Feng enters with familiar warmth toward the narrator, but also with formidable composure. Though initially dissatisfied that the borrowed body provides only a fraction of his power, he quickly understands the ability’s potential and uses it decisively.
• The Future Dao Master, previously overwhelming and confident, is shaken by Lin Feng’s appearance, the collapse of his River of Time, and the arrival of Lin Feng’s Future Self.
• The narrator reaches out to Lin Feng through Myriad Selves; Lin Feng interrupts to show he already understands who the narrator is, easing their anxiety.

Significant themes

• Fate versus agency: The enemy appears to make death inevitable, but Lin Feng’s intervention overturns that certainty.
• Time, identity, and selfhood: Lin Feng’s ability lets his past and future selves act across eras, then unite in the present.
• Trust and reassurance: Lin Feng’s affectionate recognition restores the narrator’s confidence amid catastrophe.
• Power and adaptation: A seemingly limited temporary ability proves capable of changing the battle’s balance.

Plot points

• Lin Feng’s [Future Self] arrives through [Time Shepherding] and merges with his “Number Two Other-Self,” restoring far more power than the clone’s usual one-tenth imitation of him.
• The Future Dao Master recognizes the immense increase in Lin Feng’s strength and falls silent as Lin Feng calls him a “rat from the future.”
• Lin Feng attacks with the eighteen Great Daos, which he had gained at the cost of nearly all his true lifespan. He channels them through the phantom of [Beyond Heaven], overwhelming the Future Dao Master’s four authorities and devastating the surrounding world—while sparing the Supreme True Realm.
• The Future Dao Master is gravely wounded. Lin Feng’s next strike shatters the Master’s mysterious fourth Great Dao and nearly erases his manifestation.
• A previously hidden Mysterious Dao Master intervenes, shielding the Future Dao Master. Lin Feng accuses the newcomer of participating in an earlier attempt to kill him and challenges the absent Incumbent Dao Master to appear and fight.

Character developments and interactions

• Lin Feng is revealed to be vastly stronger than expected, combining his Other-Self with the power of his future self. His confidence, contempt for his opponents, and precise control over catastrophic force define the confrontation.
• The Future Dao Master, previously dominant over Lin Feng’s clone, is reduced to silence and then badly wounded. His inability to counter Lin Feng’s attack marks a dramatic reversal.
• The Mysterious Dao Master emerges only when the Future Dao Master is near defeat, suggesting a connection to the earlier conspiracy against Lin Feng.
• The narrator shifts from concern about Lin Feng’s limited strength to confidence in the advantage created by [Time Shepherding].

Significant themes

• Power across time: Lin Feng’s future strength changes the balance of a present-day confrontation.
• The cost and reward of cultivation: The eighteen Great Daos required a near-total sacrifice of lifespan, yet become decisive in battle.
• Overwhelming force tempered by control: Lin Feng’s attack destroys vast reaches of reality but leaves the Supreme True Realm untouched.
• Defiance and unfinished conflict: Lin Feng’s challenge signals that the larger struggle among Dao Masters is only beginning.