Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• In the Northern Land of Sin, two world-spanning great daos—Destruction and Death—appear, followed by a supreme figure. The second-round match is set: Lin Feng will face three Spirit Transformation Dao Masters.
• Meanwhile, in the Purple Cloud Sacred Land, the protagonist’s Number One Other-Self is badly pressured by the Blazing Sun Immortal Venerable, who is supported by the Purple Cloud True Lord’s buffs. The protagonist’s most decisive Life and Death effect has already been spent, and the Heavenly Secrets Palace is rapidly losing durability.
• With no time to spare, the protagonist activates the single-use Supreme Dao Transfiguration, greatly elevating his abilities, fortune, rank, and—most notably—wisdom.
• Using the Heavenly Formation and Fishing Platform, he borrows the power and fortune of Central Province, then detonates the gathered energy. The blast wounds the Blazing Sun Immortal Venerable and devastates the Purple Cloud Sacred Land.
• The protagonist projects the Heavenly Secrets Palace outward, drawing the Immortal Venerable and his two incarnations inside. This removes the Purple Cloud True Lord’s buffs and shields the protagonist from the karmic sin he unleashes.
• While karmic sin steadily erodes the enemies’ strength and fortune, the protagonist’s other selves attack. He then crushes the Immortal Venerable’s recorded afterimage, causing the original and both incarnations to burst apart. The entire fight lasts less than a minute.

Character developments

• The protagonist recognizes that he has been using his many abilities inefficiently. Under Supreme Dao Transfiguration, he becomes calm, clear-sighted, and exceptionally inventive, combining his powers into a lethal sequence.
• The Blazing Sun Immortal Venerable goes from confident superiority to stunned confusion, then is killed before he can use his signature mystique or life-bound ability.
• The Purple Cloud True Lord initially plays a crucial support role by strengthening the Immortal Venerable, but her buffs are stripped away once the fight moves into the Heavenly Secrets Palace.

Significant themes

• Resource management and timing: A previously spent ability cannot be reused, and the Heavenly Secrets Palace’s durability makes a quick victory essential.
• Adaptability and strategic mastery: The protagonist wins by combining powers creatively rather than relying on a single attack.
• Power versus perception: The Immortal Venerable’s physical advantage proves insufficient against the protagonist’s heightened insight and preparation.
• The cost and force of overwhelming power: The victory comes through a single-use transformation and the destruction of much of Central Province’s gathered power.

Character interactions

• The Purple Cloud True Lord supports the Blazing Sun Immortal Venerable with buffs, giving him an early advantage over the protagonist’s Other-Self.
• The protagonist’s Other-Selves coordinate with the Heavenly Secrets Palace, borrowed Central Province power, and karmic sin to isolate and weaken their opponents.
• Once the protagonist separates the battlefield from the Purple Cloud True Lord’s influence, the fight turns decisively in his favor.

Summary

• After Lin Feng gains the upper hand against three Spirit Transformation Dao Masters, the protagonist kills the Blazing Sun Immortal Venerable in one devastating combo using Supreme Dao Transfiguration. The Heavenly Secrets Palace is left with only 45 durability, but the protagonist initially believes the way is clear.
• Purple Cloud True Lord is missing. With time running out and the palace weakening, the protagonist uses the one-time wish echo talent to find a way forward.
• Instead of revealing Purple Cloud’s location directly, the talent transforms into I Am the Chess Player. The protagonist realizes the current events are still part of a chess game—and that victory may be an illusion engineered by Heaven and Earth and the Supreme Immortal.
• A mysterious Dao resonance reveals that Purple Cloud True Lord is in Heavenly Will’s Deep Space, and that the situation has been arranged by Heaven and Earth. The protagonist suspects the Supreme Immortal is involved too, but cannot yet discern the scheme or “Old Self’s” role.
• The protagonist faces a stark choice: retreat and likely lose the chance to reach Purple Cloud, or knowingly press into a trap. They also recognize that their original self, outside the Simulator, has activated the simulation-choice function and somehow influenced their decision to continue.

Character developments and interactions

• The protagonist shifts from confidence after winning the battle to suspicion and indecision. The new talent lets them perceive that they are being manipulated, but offers no clear way to escape the game.
• Lin Feng remains locked in combat with the three Dao Masters beyond the world, apparently dominating them.
• Purple Cloud True Lord is absent from the ruined room and is believed to be hidden in Deep Space.
• The protagonist questions the motives of Old Self, the Supreme Immortal, Heaven and Earth, and their own original self. Their plans and alliances remain uncertain.

Significant themes

• Apparent victory and reversal: Success may be precisely the moment when an unseen plan turns against the protagonist.
• Agency and manipulation: The protagonist must decide whether their choices are truly their own, especially after realizing the original self may have affected their course.
• Incomplete knowledge: Even heightened insight reveals the trap’s outline, not its purpose—or how to survive it.
• Risk versus opportunity: Retreat preserves safety but may forfeit the only chance to reach Purple Cloud; advancing could mean walking into a prepared ambush.

Plot points and events

• Outside the simulation, Chen Fan sees that he can either abandon the attempt or continue despite the slim odds. An unseen force guides him to choose to continue, which he recognizes as his “Old Self’s” intent.
• The Simulated Clone refuses to rush to Deep Space. Although Heavenly Secrets Palace is deteriorating and time is running out, he first seeks to discover what contingency Heaven and Earth have prepared.
• Using the Spacetime Token for an unexpected third and final activation, he contacts Chen Qingyan. Gravely wounded and surrounded by fallen Foundation Establishment and Golden Core cultivators, Chen Qingyan confirms that Void-Proof has perfected the Fruit Position.
• Chen Qingyan then escapes into the Ten Thousand Beasts Secret Realm as the Token’s one-incense-stick connection ends.
• With this answer revealing a key thread in the larger scheme, the Clone invokes the Purple Heaven’s Mandate and asks the I Am the Chess Player Talent to open Deep Space. The Talent answers with a transcendent declaration: “—Granted!”

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Fan remains doubtful that the Clone can win, but accepts that “Old Self” is directing events and continues watching.
• The Simulated Clone shows caution and strategic patience: rather than rush into the final battle, he gathers crucial information first. He also takes the rare step of directly communicating with his Chess Player Talent.
• Chen Qingyan is exhausted and near his limit, apparently worn down by the Purple Cloud True Person’s deadly wish. Despite his condition, he provides the key confirmation the Clone needs.
• The exchange between the Clone and Chen Qingyan is brief but consequential: Chen Qingyan’s answer helps the Clone understand the hidden arrangement behind the coming conflict.

Significant themes

• Fate and agency: The choices of both Chen Fan and the Clone seem influenced by powers beyond their control, while they still attempt to act strategically.
• Hidden schemes and information: The Clone’s priority is to uncover the enemy’s safety net before entering the decisive battle.
• Preparation and turning points: The third Token activation supplies the final clue, and the Talent’s response signals a major shift toward the confrontation in Deep Space.

Key plot points

• Your “Number One Other-Self” enters Deep Space, a forbidden realm beyond normal spacetime, with help from the Future Chess Player.
• He discovers a World Tree whose four ripe fruits contain immense worlds, with a fifth fruit still developing. Powerful protections prevent him from approaching the ripe fruits.
• A hidden woman addresses him as “big brother.” Your Heavenly Secrets Palace projection reveals her and suppresses her abilities. Her appearance matches your long-sought image of Purple Cloud True Lord.
• She produces an incomplete Dao Artifact bearing the character for “life.” Your Certain Death effect activates, but the artifact blocks much of your Life-and-Death Seal. You believe you can still defeat her.
• Before you can press the attack, a mysterious force freezes Deep Space and strikes your Other-Self with Spirit Transformation Dao Master-level power, leaving him near death.
• The attacker declares, “We have waited for you… for far too long!” The voice and imperial “we” reveal the attacker as the Lord of the Heavenly Court, who never truly vanished after the Immeasurable Kalpa and has been waiting for you.

Character developments and interactions

• The protagonist reaches what seems like a decisive confrontation, confident that his powers can overcome Purple Cloud True Lord, only to discover a far greater threat.
• Purple Cloud True Lord appears youthful and lively, but her concealed abilities and incomplete Dao Artifact make her a dangerous opponent. Her “big brother” greeting suggests a personal connection that remains unexplained.
• The Lord of the Heavenly Court is revealed as a patient, overwhelmingly powerful presence with a long-standing interest in the protagonist.
• The encounter between the protagonist’s Other-Self and Purple Cloud is interrupted before their conflict can resolve; the Heavenly Court Lord’s intervention redirects the confrontation entirely.

Significant themes

• Hidden identities and unresolved history: Both Purple Cloud True Lord’s relationship to the protagonist and the Heavenly Court Lord’s long wait point to a deeper past.
• Limits of power and preparation: Even carefully combined abilities and an apparent advantage can be overturned by a stronger force.
• The persistence of the past: The Lord of the Heavenly Court’s survival shows that events thought concluded may still shape the present.

Key plot points and events

• The Lord of the Heavenly Court appears as Heaven and Earth’s hidden contingency. As a Spirit Transformation Dao Master unrestricted by the Supreme True Realm’s rules, he overwhelms the protagonist’s options and leaves Number One Other-Self alive, seemingly to wear down the Heavenly Secrets Palace.
• The protagonist could recall that self and abandon the plan, since none of the other selves can harm the Lord—but chooses not to.
• Beyond the World, Number Two Other-Self, controlled by Senior Lin Feng, battles three Spirit Transformation Dao Masters. Lin Feng senses a change and looks toward the ruined Southern Region.
• Number Three Other-Self arrives at those ruins, where a faint karmic thread once enabled the protagonist to enter the Supreme True Realm despite having had all existence-karma erased.
• The protagonist now understands that Old Self secretly preserved that thread and had been helping from the shadows. With every contingency exposed, Destiny’s final chapter begins.

Character developments and interactions

• The protagonist recognizes the hidden hand behind the karmic thread and continues the plan despite the Lord of the Heavenly Court’s overwhelming advantage.
• Old Self is revealed as the force behind the protagonist’s survival and return, concealing the aid so thoroughly that neither the protagonist nor the Mysterious Dao Master noticed it at first.
• The Lord of the Heavenly Court is revealed as Heaven and Earth’s ultimate safeguard; his restraint toward Number One Other-Self suggests a deliberate strategy.
• Lin Feng senses the shift during his battle and directs his attention toward the Southern Region.

Significant themes

• Hidden contingencies and fate: Both Heaven and Earth and Old Self have prepared secret safeguards.
• Limits of power: The Supreme True Realm’s rules make the difference between the protagonist and the Lord effectively insurmountable.
• Karma and concealed intervention: A seemingly impossible trace of karma becomes the clue to Old Self’s unseen protection.
• Choice amid apparent defeat: The protagonist refuses to retreat even when victory seems lost.

Key plot points and events

• Number Three Other-Self enters the Ten Thousand Beasts Secret Realm through a doorway opened by the Future Chess Player’s move. The realm, like the Eastern Domain, had been hidden from the Supreme True Realm for a thousand years.
• He travels north to the unfinished Dao-Burying Fruit Position, where Chen Qingyan has been waiting for him. Chen reveals his Golden Core Perfection Limit-Breaking realm and begins ascending the Fruit Position.
• The narrator uses his final one-time Unrestricted Talent to remove the last obstruction. Chen completes the Fruit Position’s evolution, attains the Dao-Burying Fruit Position, and becomes a Nascent Soul True Lord.
• Chen’s attainment causes the Ten Thousand Beasts Secret Realm to reappear in the Supreme True Realm, completing the narrator’s plan and allowing the realm to reconnect with the present.
• The narrator then confronts Heavenly Will and explains his deductions about the Lord of the Heavenly Court, Purple Cloud True Lord, and the Star Fruit Position. Heavenly Will confirms that his theory is correct.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Qingyan fulfills the purpose of his thousand-year wait, attaining the Dao after the narrator clears the final barrier. Their reunion is brief but deeply significant; their shared history and Chen’s perseverance are conveyed more through action than conversation.
• The narrator reveals how his understanding of the larger game has sharpened. He had suspected the truth behind the Heavenly Court’s hidden contingency and now uses the return of the secret realm to expose it.
• Heavenly Will moves from surprise and lament to admiration and reluctant acknowledgment, praising the narrator three times before confirming his deductions.
• Purple Cloud True Lord and the Lord of the Heavenly Court are not present, but their relationship is central to the revelation: the Lord has been unable to leave Deep Space because he is bound to Purple Cloud True Lord through her Star Fruit Position.

Significant themes

• Patience and long-awaited fulfillment: Chen’s thousand-year wait culminates in his attainment of the Dao.
• Hidden plans and interconnected fates: The Eastern Domain and Ten Thousand Beasts Secret Realm were both contingencies, and their return reveals how long-term schemes fit together.
• Power through binding and compromise: The Lord of the Heavenly Court’s apparent inaction is explained not by weakness but by being constrained through a shared-interest arrangement.
• Knowledge as leverage: The narrator’s deductions expose the concealed structure of the game and make it possible to act at the decisive moment.

Key plot points and events

• Sensing the upheaval in the Supreme True Realm, the Lord of the Heavenly Court prepares to leave Deep Space and enter the conflict.
• The Purple Cloud True Lord warns him not to go. He dismisses her as a fraud who depends on her life-bound divine ability and doubts she could withstand Chen Fan’s power. He also insists that his nine-heavens fruit position gives him contingencies.
• The Purple Cloud True Lord’s presence abruptly changes. A supreme voice reveals that the figure is actually the Supreme Immortal, acting through her manifestation. The Immortal recognizes that the Lord’s fruit position is incomplete and that his true spirit lacks memories, but notes that he appears to have entered the game willingly.
• The Supreme Immortal says she needs more time to alter the established facts of the fifth era. Once she does, she can bring more of her power into play, and “all shall be void.”
• In the Supreme True Realm, three bell tolls shake the cosmos: they shatter silence, reshape laws and karma, and proclaim a return.
• A vast rift opens in the heavens, revealing an independent supreme domain—the embodied laws of origin. Beyond Heaven descends, and a fair-faced scholar with a feather fan steps forth, bearing traces of warmth in his smile.

Character developments

• Lord of the Heavenly Court: His confidence and impatience are challenged when he discovers the Purple Cloud figure is the Supreme Immortal herself.
• Purple Cloud True Lord / Supreme Immortal: The young True Lord’s body becomes the vessel for a vastly greater presence, whose plans reach across eras and whose power is not yet fully unleashed.
• Beyond Heaven: Returns to the Supreme True Realm as an imposing, enigmatic figure whose appearance marks the conflict’s final stage.

Character interactions

• The Lord confronts the Purple Cloud True Lord, questioning her strength and warning that he has his own safeguards.
• The Supreme Immortal answers by identifying the nature of his fruit position and incomplete true spirit, then directs him to do his utmost while she completes her preparations.
• Beyond Heaven’s return is announced not through dialogue but through the bells and the realm’s reaction.

Significant themes

• Endgame and return: The events signal that the long-running game has reached its final phase.
• Hidden identities and incomplete knowledge: The apparent Purple Cloud True Lord is revealed as a manifestation of the Supreme Immortal, while the Lord’s own spirit is missing memories.
• Fate, karma, and rewritten reality: The bell tolls reshape laws and straighten karma; the Supreme Immortal seeks to alter the established facts of an era.
• Power and contingency: Even beings who wield immense power may depend on incomplete positions, secret plans, and timing.

Key plot points and events

• The genuine Senior Lin Feng reunites with the protagonist, revealing he foresaw this encounter and recognized the protagonist as someone from the future. Their meeting completes a long-awaited stage of the plan.
• The protagonist’s Number Three Other-Self and Lin Feng travel into Deep Space, where they confront the Lord of the Heavenly Court. Despite the realm’s home-ground advantage, Lin Feng overwhelms the Lord, while the projected Heavenly Secrets Palace disables the enemy’s techniques.
• The protagonist brings in the Number One Other-Self and activates several powerful methods to secure a connection with Purple Cloud True Lord. As the protagonist tries to crush her recorded image, she plucks an unripe fifth fruit from the Origin World Tree.
• The fruit becomes an Era Fruit. Purple Cloud True Lord emerges from its multicolored light and uses a Little Clay Figure and [Little Wish] to rewrite reality. Though incomplete, the fruit explodes, shattering Deep Space and destabilizing the Supreme True Realm and the Myriad Worlds.
• A devastating, illusory gaze descends—like the one that previously ended the protagonist’s attempt to attain the Dao. This time, it targets the protagonist’s original body inside the True-False Supreme Realm.

Character developments and interactions

• Senior Lin Feng appears warm and composed, confirming he anticipated the meeting and understands the larger plan. He proves powerful enough to dominate the Lord of the Heavenly Court even on the Lord’s home ground.
• The protagonist moves from confidence in the battle’s apparent outcome to alarm as Purple Cloud’s hidden trump card overturns it. Their earlier experience with the destructive gaze makes them recognize the danger immediately.
• Purple Cloud True Lord reveals a startling connection to the Origin World Tree’s fruit. She admits she underestimated the protagonist but remains confident that the unripe Era Fruit can destroy them.
• The protagonist, Lin Feng, and the Other-Selves coordinate their powers against the Heavenly Court’s Lord and Purple Cloud, but the fruit’s reality-altering effect overwhelms their preparations.

Significant themes

• Fate and foreknowledge: Lin Feng’s visions and the carefully arranged reunion suggest events are unfolding within a long-running plan.
• Escalation and hidden power: A battle that seems decisively won is overturned by an unexpected artifact and a force far beyond ordinary combat.
• Reality’s fragility: The Era Fruit makes the worlds seem like paper, showing that even the fundamental laws of existence can break.
• Recurring catastrophe: The returning illusory gaze links the current crisis to the protagonist’s earlier failure, suggesting that past calamities remain an ongoing threat.

Key plot points and events

• An illusory gaze belonging to the Supreme Immortal descends on Chen Fan, apparently fixing his annihilation as an unavoidable outcome. It destroys the True-False Supreme Realm and seems to destroy him too.
• At the last moment, several abilities combine to avert his true death. I Am the Chess Player activates, while Heaven Rewards Diligence and Once and for All unleash the Primordial Unity Nine Heavens Soul-Suppressing Seal.
• The Seal’s second ability, Cause Severance, transfers the relevant karma and karmic sin onto the True Scripture, briefly letting it act beyond the notice of Karmic Law. The Myriad Selves talent then reveals that the Chen Fan struck by the gaze was only an other-self avatar.
• This hidden intervention awakens a terrifying True Word. Across the myriad worlds, beings—including Nascent Soul True Lords, Spirit Transformation Dao Masters, and even the Supreme True Realm—are overwhelmed and become devotees of its unseen ruler.
• Powerful figures try to evade or resist the Word: the Future Dao Master uses Time, Eternity, and Destiny; the Incumbent Dao Master flees into the Northern Land of Sin; and the Mysterious Dao Master uses Deceive Heaven. Number Two Other-Self also remains unaffected.
• The Word has no effect on those in Deep Space, including Lin Feng, Nine Heavens, the Lord of the Heavenly Court, Purple Cloud True Lord, and Chen Fan’s other-selves.
• A colossal, incomprehensible book appears in a supreme dimension and clashes with the Supreme Immortal’s projected gaze, while an even greater confrontation unfolds beyond mortal understanding.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Fan survives through layered planning and hidden resources, but I Am the Chess Player is exhausted in the process. His survival depends on the fact that the destroyed body was an avatar, not his true self.
• The chapter reveals that Chen Fan had one unused other-self deployment opportunity, concealed from all witnesses. His other-selves and allies in Deep Space are among the few untouched by the True Word.
• The Dao Masters respond according to their powers and limitations: some flee or manipulate time and fate, while the Mysterious Dao Master conceals itself rather than invoking a Great Dao.
• The Supreme Immortal’s gaze and the True Scripture’s book-like manifestation are set against each other, suggesting a clash between immense cosmic authorities.

Significant themes

• Cause, effect, and fate: A seemingly fixed death is overturned by manipulating karma and reversing the relationship between cause and outcome.
• Hidden survival and contingency: What appears to be Chen Fan’s death is revealed as the destruction of an avatar, underscoring the value of concealed plans.
• The limits of power and perception: Even the strongest beings are vulnerable to the True Word, while the book and the conflict above ordinary reality remain impossible to comprehend.
• Cosmic consequences: Chen Fan’s narrow escape triggers an event that affects the entire myriad worlds.

Chapter summary

Key events

• The Supreme Immortal’s projected gaze destroys the false-true supreme realm, while the protagonist’s original body falls into the Supreme True Realm.
• The protagonist’s Cause Severance ability summons the “True Scripture,” which blocks the immortal’s gaze. The protagonist realizes they have become the Scripture’s anchor—and that it is assimilating them into a ruler of the Supreme True Realm.
• With assimilation inevitable, the protagonist decides to finish Old Self’s quest by killing Purple Cloud True Lord, who has been weakened by backlash from the immortal’s possession.
• In Deep Space, the protagonist asks Senior Lin Feng to kill them after an incense stick’s time, setting a limit on how long they can remain before the Scripture takes over.
• Together with their Number One and Number Three Other-Selves, the protagonist attacks Purple Cloud True Lord and kills her with less difficulty than expected. The kill grants major rewards, including partial authority over Little Wish and the star-fruit position.
• The quest is completed, and the protagonist receives ownership of the authority of another self who attained the Dao. They consider fusing this reward with another ability to resist assimilation, but the odds are too low.
• When the agreed time expires, Lin Feng’s strike annihilates the protagonist. The simulation ends.

Character developments and interactions

• The protagonist accepts that both possible outcomes—assimilation or death—are unavoidable, but chooses to act decisively and complete the quest first.
• They remain wary of the True Scripture, sensing its connection to them as both intimate and threatening.
• Senior Lin Feng appears unsurprised by events and agrees to the protagonist’s request, though the protagonist doubts they would have received answers about what was happening.
• The protagonist coordinates with their Other-Selves to exploit Purple Cloud True Lord’s helpless state and finish her off.

Significant themes

• Agency in the face of fate: Though the protagonist cannot escape death, they still choose how to spend their final moments.
• Power and its cost: The True Scripture offers protection but threatens to erase the protagonist’s identity through assimilation.
• Coincidence and uncertainty: The simulation’s events feel suspiciously convenient, but the protagonist accepts the outcome and focuses on what they can accomplish.
• Completion and sacrifice: The protagonist secures the quest reward before willingly accepting the fatal end.

Summary

After completing the First Future Simulation, Chen Fan reviews its events and struggles to make sense of the many unanswered questions—especially the Origin World Tree, the Era Fruit in Deep Space, and the mysterious “true scripture.”
The unripe Era Fruit had broken through the Heavenly Secrets Palace’s lockdown, letting its holder use and strengthen Little Wish. This drew the Supreme Immortal’s attention and nearly derailed the simulation. Chen Fan suspects the fruit was connected to changing the established facts of the Fifth Era, but the simulated clone had to unseal Senior Lin Feng to escape the crisis. The Supreme Immortal ultimately claimed the fruit.
The simulation’s apparent turning point came when I Am the Chess Player used Cause Severance, the second ability of the Primordial Unity Nine Heavens Soul-Suppressing Seal. This provoked the “true scripture,” a power associated with a forbidden history before the First Era. Its force was great enough to clash with the Supreme Immortal on a higher plane, backlash through Purple Cloud True Lord, and create an opening for the clone. The clone killed Purple Cloud True Lord and completed the mission, then died—ending the simulation.
Chen Fan finds the outcome suspiciously convenient. The mission seemed destined to fail, yet the true scripture reversed the situation at just the right moment; even the clone sensed something was a “coincidence.” Chen Fan cannot identify what is wrong, but hopes that inheriting the clone’s memories and experience will clarify matters.

Rewards and choices

After the Simulator reached LV4, Chen Fan could choose three rewards from each simulation. For this simulation, he considers the clone’s life experience and talents essential, along with the third reward, which contains much of the clone’s and “Old Self’s” accumulated gains. He also wants the ninth ordinary simulation’s third reward: loot tied to the clone’s death and its credited kill of the Mysterious Dao Master, including potentially valuable powers, treasures, experience, and attribute points. Since he can select only three rewards, he must choose among these prizes and the current simulation’s cultivation realm.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Fan moves from reviewing events to weighing the risks and value of his reward choices. He remains unsettled by the apparent coincidences.
• The simulated clone acts decisively in the crisis, unsealing Senior Lin Feng, exploiting the Supreme Immortal’s distraction, and sacrificing its survival to complete the mission.
• The Supreme Immortal pursues the Era Fruit but is checked by the true scripture’s intervention.
• Purple Cloud True Lord, possessed by the Supreme Immortal, suffers backlash during the clash and is killed by the clone.
• Old Self is treated as a stakeholder in the simulation’s gains, making the third reward feel obligatory to Chen Fan.

Significant themes

The chapter emphasizes uncertainty and hidden history, as the true scripture suggests that the world’s past contains forces and entities beyond current understanding. It also raises questions about fate, causality, and manipulation: events align so precisely that Chen Fan suspects more than coincidence. Finally, the reward decision highlights the tension between power, knowledge, and opportunity, since choosing one benefit means giving up others.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Fan preserves the cultivation-realm reward from the Ninth Ordinary Simulation for later, choosing instead to inherit the rest of the First Future Simulation’s rewards and experiences.
• He relives the simulated life with near-perfect realism, from his early days in the Northern Land of Sin through the final battle in Deep Space and his deliberate death to avoid being assimilated by the True Scripture.
• The experience also reveals events beyond the simulation’s original endpoint: the little beggar Chen Fan once helped later prospers, and Mo Wuyou is safely hidden in a protected grotto-heaven.
• Most startlingly, the story continues after Chen Fan’s simulated clone is killed. A surviving scrap of the True Scripture gathers its True Words into a horrific domain, above the Myriad Worlds but below the Supreme True Realm. Its influence threatens to deform even powerful cultivators.
• The Simulator stops showing events when a higher-dimensional disturbance emerges, citing its insufficient level. Chen Fan concludes that reaching Spirit Transformation may unlock greater access—and possibly the ability to intervene in simulations.
• He claims the remaining rewards: a vast reserve of attribute and experience points, the major divine ability Little Wish, and Old Self’s authority. He postpones fusing the latter two until he can do so safely inside a simulation.
• The chapter ends as he claims Option Three from the Ninth Ordinary Simulation and receives a new system notification.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Fan prioritizes the tempting abilities and authority of the Mysterious Dao Master over preserving powerful abilities from the recent simulation. He believes he can recover the fused abilities later, but keeps the Soul-Suppressing Seal as a possible future choice.
• His immersive review gives him a deeper understanding of his simulated self’s choices and their consequences.
• The little beggar’s improved life shows that the simulated clone’s kindness endured beyond its own death. Mo Wuyou, meanwhile, benefits from Chen Fan’s careful efforts to keep him hidden and help him cultivate.
• Chen Fan remains frustrated by the Simulator’s limits but is newly intrigued by the possibility of higher-level access.

Significant themes

• Power and trade-offs: Chen Fan weighs immediate rewards against rarer abilities and long-term opportunities.
• Identity and agency: The simulated life feels real, yet Chen Fan can only watch its aftermath rather than influence it.
• Consequences beyond death: The clone’s death does not end the upheaval it set in motion; the True Scripture continues to affect the world.
• Cosmic horror and limits of knowledge: Even distant observation of the new domain is dangerous, and higher-dimensional forces exceed what the Simulator can reveal.
• Kindness and legacy: The clone’s aid to others continues to matter after its death.

Key plot points and events

• Killing the Mysterious Dao Master rewards Chen Fan with doubled experience and attribute points, plus three major spoils: the incomplete divine ability [Six Lives, Five Ages], the Heaven’s Mandate [Deceive Heaven], and the Fire Supreme Fruit Position [Heavenly Fire]. [Authority] does not drop.
• [Six Lives, Five Ages] can eventually create counterparts across different eras who share memories and abilities, but this fragment is inactive; Chen Fan needs at least one more fragment. He realizes the Mysterious Dao Master’s version was incomplete too.
• [Deceive Heaven] conceals its user even from powerful beings and can briefly obstruct Karmic Law. [Heavenly Fire] grants the mystique [Heavenly Rule Inscription], letting Chen Fan impose rules through the laws of heaven and earth on those beneath his cultivation.
• With the rewards inherited, Chen Fan prepares to start another simulation—until Zhuo Zhao suddenly speaks from within the True-False Supreme Realm.
• Chen Fan concludes she came with his simulation rewards as a “pet.” He tests whether he can command her and asks why she did not speak earlier. Zhuo Zhao explains that she was obeying his instruction not to disturb him.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Fan gains formidable new powers but is frustrated that his coveted divine ability remains unusable until he finds another fragment.
• Zhuo Zhao, a Heavenly Venerable whom his simulated self controlled with [I Am the Mastermind], has been carried into the present through the rewards system. She is angry and humiliated by Chen Fan’s commands, but explains her silence plainly.
• Their exchange reveals that Chen Fan’s commands still affect Zhuo Zhao, while her concealment was strong enough to escape his notice.

Significant themes

• Power and its limits: Even extraordinary rewards may be incomplete or constrained by rules.
• Control and autonomy: Zhuo Zhao’s status as a “pet” raises questions about the consequences of Chen Fan’s past control over her.
• Inheritance across time: The divine ability’s counterparts and Zhuo Zhao’s arrival both connect the present to events from simulation timelines.

Chapter summary

Plot and events

• Chen Fan considers killing Zhuo Zhao for the reward, but decides to spare her. He expects to need a powerful bodyguard in a future simulation, where his cultivation will be sealed. He also recognizes that he can keep her alive in reality and use her as a repeatable opponent in simulations.
• With enough energy for another simulation, Chen Fan chooses the Tenth Normal Simulation rather than a future simulation. The first future simulation had been exceptionally dangerous: the clone faced the Supreme Immortal faction and could not overcome the Future Dao Master, even after accumulating eighteen Great Daos. Chen Fan also still wonders how certain future Nascent Soul True Lords gained their attunements and what lies in the Immortal Realm.
• He believes the present is comparatively safe because it is “Old Self’s” domain, and looks forward to a chance to rapidly build strength.
• The talent draw produces no colorful-tier talent. Chen Fan sees that one golden talent is guaranteed, with the rest drawn from the purple tier. The chapter begins revealing the retained talents, including Judgment, which can punish targets according to their karmic sin, and Supreme God’s Game, which lets him pass certain powers to others while potentially removing their memories and karma. The chapter ends before the full talent list is shown.

Character development and interactions

• Chen Fan’s view of Zhuo Zhao is pragmatic and game-like: he treats her as both a useful bodyguard and a renewable resource for simulated encounters. He ignores her resentful look rather than engaging with her.
• His choice to avoid another future simulation shows caution after the previous clone’s near-impossible ordeal; he prioritizes building strength in a more controlled setting.

Themes

• Power and risk: Chen Fan weighs the value of strength against the extreme danger of the future simulation.
• Strategic use of people and systems: Zhuo Zhao and the simulation mechanics are treated as resources to exploit.
• Karma and judgment: The newly revealed talent introduces moral consequence as a force that can affect even powerful beings.
• Unanswered mysteries: The origins of future attunements and the nature of the Immortal Realm remain unresolved.

Chen Fan reviews three talents retained from earlier simulations—Incomplete Immortal Domain, Equipment Slot, and Equivalent Exchange—then considers the talents drawn for the current simulation.

Key events and decisions

• Life-and-Death Arena lets him challenge one opponent at their peak. The winner takes everything, including identity, abilities, fortune, and karma. Chen Fan recognizes its enormous potential now that he has Old Self, though he would avoid opponents on the level of Supreme Immortals.
• Bitter Fruit rewards repeated defeats and victories against a chosen nemesis with increasingly valuable loot orbs. Chen Fan sees a way to build up orb quality across simulations, making the talent especially valuable.
• Rule Horror creates accumulating rules that punish violators, but its risks and apparent connection to a Deep World Supreme Existence make Chen Fan reject it.
• Sealing can suppress nearly every aspect of an opponent, at the cost of True Lifespan and with a chance of failure. He decides it could be useful in a future simulation, but is unnecessary for this one.
• When Hardship Ends, Good Fortune Arrives guarantees great success on the action following a major setback. Chen Fan notes its potential, but doubts he can reliably meet its demanding trigger.
• Observation lets him view the worlds from Heaven and Earth’s perspective, revealing lesser existences’ secrets, but each use risks assimilation. Its repeated appearance makes him suspect the Simulator is hinting at a larger scheme. He considers keeping it for later, but refuses to choose it now.

Character development and interactions

Chen Fan evaluates each talent strategically, weighing immediate usefulness against long-term value and risk. His confidence in Old Self makes him more willing to consider powerful confrontational abilities, while his caution keeps him from choosing talents with dangerous side effects. There are no direct interactions with other characters; the chapter focuses on Chen Fan’s internal deliberation and his growing suspicion of Heaven and Earth.

Significant themes

The chapter emphasizes power versus cost, risk management, and long-term planning. It also highlights the uncertain boundary between opportunity and catastrophe in talents tied to fallen Supremes, and builds suspense around the possible hidden agenda of Heaven and Earth.

Summary

Key events

• Chen Fan examines the golden talent Chat Group, which makes him its owner and administrator. It offers basic member controls and powerful privileges, including choosing missions and rewards first, requesting combat assistance, and setting rules; further permissions will unlock as he grows stronger.
• The description suggests that worlds and powers may exist beyond the Myriad Worlds—and even beyond the Supreme True Realm. Chen Fan connects this possibility to clues from earlier talents and other mysterious entities.
• He selects Chat Group as his golden talent, then chooses the purple talents Equivalent Exchange and Bitter Fruit. Equivalent Exchange will let him trade surplus resources for more useful ones, while Bitter Fruit can help him improve the quality of his orb marks through repeated simulations.
• He retains his other talents except Observation and Rule Horror, then confirms the selections. The tenth normal simulation begins.

Character development and interactions

• Chen Fan is excited by the possibility of accessing allies and resources beyond his own world, and sees Chat Group as a way to gain support outside the established “chessboard.”
• His choices reflect a preference for steady, practical growth. He rejects Observation because he dislikes its side effects, despite leaving open the possibility of choosing it again later.
• The Simulator processes his selections and starts the new run; no other characters appear directly in this chapter.

Significant themes

• Vast, unknown realities: The chapter hints that existence may extend far beyond the worlds Chen Fan knows.
• Strategic progression: He chooses talents for long-term resource management and cumulative advancement.
• Trust and cooperation: Chat Group promises powerful aid and connection, though Chen Fan also anticipates the possibility of members exploiting one another.

Key plot points and events

• At age 20, Chen Fan begins a new simulation with confidence, knowing his “Old Self” is watching over him.
• He checks his status and finds it unchanged apart from three additional talents. His immense power and mostly purple-or-higher talents make the one-use Ascension talent redundant.
• Chen activates his Chat Group talent and joins a group with three members from extraordinary realms: Wang Hao, Li Ping, and Zhang Wenping.
• The group welcomes him, but Wang Hao quickly asks what his “Golden Finger” is—the special ability each member apparently possesses. Chen refuses to answer until Wang Hao reveals his own.
• Chen explores the group’s features and discovers he is its administrator. He can mute or remove members, adjust rewards, and—once a fifth member joins—gain priority in selecting missions and control how mission spoils are distributed.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Fan is more self-assured than before, guarded about revealing his abilities, and pleased to discover the advantages of being group owner.
• Wang Hao, a Human Immortal from the Primordial World, is curious and direct, pressing Chen to disclose his Golden Finger.
• Li Ping cautions against judging the members’ worlds against one another and notes that people naturally dislike being asked to reveal their powers.
• Zhang Wenping teases the group’s crude language and warns Chen that Wang Hao is powerful.
• The first three members seem to share an established rapport, leaving Chen as the newcomer; their curiosity about one another’s abilities is mutual, but no one openly reveals theirs.

Significant themes

• Trust and secrecy: Members are intrigued by one another’s powers but reluctant to expose them.
• Power and hierarchy: The members’ formidable worlds and abilities shape how they speak to one another, while Chen’s administrator status gives him hidden leverage.
• Connection across worlds: Shared language and humor give Chen a fleeting sense of returning to his former life.
• Opportunity and self-interest: The group’s future missions could offer rewards, and Chen recognizes that his control over their distribution could benefit him personally.

Summary

• The Chat Group remains limited: No fifth member joins. The narrator discovers that each world can have only one member, and that the Myriad Worlds count as part of the Supreme True Realm, so they cannot be invited.
• The narrator strengthens “Old Self”: Using the Fusion talent, the narrator fuses “ownership of Old Self’s authority” with the Supreme Immortal’s Little Wish ability. Despite the fusion’s tiny initial success chance, talents reduce the cost and guarantee success. Rather than creating a new ability, the fusion completes and greatly amplifies Old Self’s power, making him eligible for “transcendence.”
• The Present becomes truly fixed: The fusion strengthens the narrator’s Fifth Black Hand talent and unlocks Effect Five. The Present’s last “sliver of vitality”—the possibility that the other Heaven-Throughing Chess Players could alter it—is eliminated. Old Self now controls the Present, and its variables, fate, tribulations, and destiny are fixed. The narrator concludes that neither the Supreme Immortal nor Heaven and Earth can defeat him there.
• The narrator waits for guidance: Hoping to consult Old Self before taking revenge on the Mysterious Dao Master, the Incumbent Dao Master, and the Blazing Sun Sacred Land, the narrator gets no reply and waits for the Listening talent to activate.
• Seven tolls reveal the wider consequences: The Supreme Immortal and Heaven and Earth have sensed that the Present is fixed. The Supreme Immortal’s plan—using Purple Cloud True Lord and Little Wish to help break that fixed state—has failed. Both powers shift their remaining schemes toward the Future and the Northern Land of Sin. The Supreme Immortal leaves behind only the incomplete Incumbent Dao Master and the Blazing Sun Sacred Land, while Old Self still forcibly claims the Present’s era fruit.

Character developments and interactions

The narrator becomes more confident in Old Self’s dominance, though Old Self’s silence leaves the narrator’s immediate plans unresolved. The Supreme Immortal responds to defeat by abandoning the Present and regrouping around the Future; Heaven and Earth is bewildered and suspects either a contingency by Lin Feng or that the narrator is an Otherworldly Demon. The chapter frames Old Self’s advance as a direct checkmate of their joint schemes.

Significant themes

• Control versus uncertainty: Old Self’s strengthened authority eliminates the last possibility of change in the Present.
• The “sliver of vitality”: A rule that normally preserves a chance of escape or reversal is finally overridden.
• Strategic retreat and escalation: The Supreme Immortal and Heaven and Earth abandon one battlefield, shifting the conflict toward the Future and the Northern Land of Sin.

Key plot points and events

• The narrator realizes that “Old Self” is likely confronting Heaven and Earth and the Supreme Immortal. Their plans for the present have collapsed because Old Self gained the same “sliver of hope”—Purple Cloud’s Little Wish—through the Simulator, neutralizing their advantage. He has also apparently seized an era fruit from the origin world tree.
• Expecting Old Self to be clearing away the enemies’ remaining contingencies, the narrator sends an other-self to destroy the Blazing Sun Sacred Land. Using Heaven-Bartering Fortune, Late Bloomer, and Heaven Rewards Diligence, he boosts his power enough to erase the Sacred Land in a single strike.
• The Blazing Sun True Lord is absent, apparently having fled with the Mysterious Dao Master to the Northern Land of Sin. The narrator finds the sleeping Purple Cloud True Person among the survivors and captures her, but cannot yet search her soul.
• He hunts down and kills Many-Treasure Dao Lord and Falsehood True Lord beyond the world. Their fruit-position powers yield experience, attribute points, and the many-treasure and illusion-reality fruit positions, but little useful intelligence: both had severed their ties to the past to survive the Third Era’s calamity, leaving them severely weakened and constrained.
• The narrator destroys the Treasure Pavilion, then sends one other-self to the Chen Family, intending to help them replace the Blazing Sun Sacred Land, repay the Chen Family Ancestor, and assist Chen Qingyan.
• A second other-self confronts the Incumbent Dao Master. Empowered by four Great Daos, he overwhelms and kills him, ending a publicly recognized power.

Character developments

• The narrator shifts from understanding the larger conflict to acting decisively as a dominant force, settling old scores and reshaping the balance of power.
• Old Self is revealed as having gained the crucial hope that once belonged to Purple Cloud, and is likely removing the enemies’ remaining influence.
• Purple Cloud True Person is captured, making her a potential source of information once the narrator can overcome the restrictions on soul-searching.
• Many-Treasure Dao Lord and Falsehood True Lord are exposed as far weaker and more limited than they appeared in earlier simulations.
• The narrator’s attitude toward Chen Qingyan becomes openly supportive: he intends to help him despite any hidden identity or motives.

Significant themes

• Reversal of fortune: The once-dominant Blazing Sun Sacred Land is destroyed almost instantly, echoing the idea that power and status can change.
• Consequences and score-settling: The narrator turns past grievances and debts into present action.
• Power and constraint: Even formidable Dao Lords are restricted by past choices, calamities, and karmic law.
• Hope and changing fate: The “sliver of hope” shifts hands, altering what is possible in the present.

Character interactions

• The narrator acts against the forces associated with Heaven and Earth and the Supreme Immortal, while Old Self appears to confront those powers directly.
• He captures Purple Cloud rather than killing her, preserving the possibility of learning what she knows.
• He repays the Chen Family Ancestor and offers Chen Qingyan help, contrasting these gestures with his ruthless treatment of former enemies.
• His four-Dao other-self defeats the Incumbent Dao Master in a direct confrontation, publicly demonstrating the narrator’s overwhelming strength.

Plot points

• After defeating a Spirit Transformation Dao Master’s partial body, the protagonist’s system awards a huge amount of experience and attribute points. The enemy’s true self remains hidden in the Northern Land of Sin.
• The protagonist’s Number One Other-Self returns to the Chen Family and searches the Supreme True Realm, but cannot find the Chen Family Ancestor. A search across the realm also turns up no trace of the Tianyan True Lord, Dao Wudi, Chen Ming—or Chen Qingyan.
• The protagonist realizes that these missing figures were likely contingency pieces placed by Heaven and Earth or the Supreme Immortal. Because “Old Self” has fixed the present, the two powers are abandoning their arrangements there and staking everything on the future.
• Recalled records identify the Chen Family Ancestor, Chen Heiquan, as a Heaven-and-Earth-backed figure whose intended destiny was repeatedly thwarted. Chen Ming, meanwhile, had served as a puppet of the Blazing Sun Heavenly Venerable. The protagonist tentatively classifies the Tianyan True Lord and Dao Wudi as Heaven and Earth’s pieces.
• Chen Qingyan remains an unresolved mystery. He had previously appeared to be a reincarnated True Lord and seemed inactive across the simulations, yet has now vanished too. The protagonist turns to investigate the Lord of the Immortal Palace in the Northern Domain, also named Chen Qingyan.

Character developments and interactions

• The protagonist’s doubled Immortal Venerable essence makes his Other-Self powerful enough to survey the entire Supreme True Realm, but even that power cannot detect the missing figures or their traces in time and history.
• The protagonist connects earlier clues about the Chen Family Ancestor, Chen Ming, and the Tianyan True Lord to the larger struggle between Heaven and Earth and the Supreme Immortal.
• His confidence gives way to alarm and uncertainty, especially over Chen Qingyan, whom he had regarded as Senior Lin Feng’s third disciple. He receives no answer from Old Self and cannot locate the Devil Master or the Heaven-Reaching Stairway, leaving the Northern Domain lead as his next step.

Significant themes

• The present versus the future: With the present fixed, powerful forces withdraw their pieces and concentrate on future events.
• Hidden identities and erased existence: Important figures disappear so completely that even history, karma, and the River of Time hold no record of them.
• Destiny manipulated and derailed: Chen Heiquan’s intended fortune becomes misfortune, illustrating how larger powers can distort—or sabotage—fated lives.