Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• The protagonist enters the Dream Realm as “Number One Other-Self” and meets Lord of the Immortal Palace Chen Qingyan.
• Chen Qingyan confirms that his connection to the Chen Qingyan in the Supreme True Realm has recently broken. He reveals that he is not necessarily the original Chen Qingyan, but a contingency who possesses some of the original’s memories.
• The contingency says he first became aware of the other Chen Qingyan roughly ten thousand years ago. Their connection strengthened fifteen years ago—the same age recorded for Chen Qingyan by the Chen Family.
• Shaken by the revelation, the protagonist leaves the Dream Realm and uses Immortal Venerable-level power to anchor the southern domain’s fortune around the Chen Family for ten thousand years, partly as repayment. He then waits for “Old Self” to explain, but receives no response.
• A new member, Wu Yong of a Level Nine Civilization, joins the Chat Group. With five members now present, group missions unlock, and the first mission is scheduled to begin in 24 hours. The protagonist sees the mission through the group owner’s admin panel.

Character developments

• The protagonist / Chen Fan: His relief at Old Self’s recent breakthrough collapses into distrust and helplessness after learning that Chen Qingyan’s history may reach back ten thousand years. He remains emotionally conflicted and wants answers from Old Self.
• Lord of the Immortal Palace Chen Qingyan: Reveals that he is a contingency tied to an “original self,” not necessarily the original himself. His knowledge is limited, and he is barred from entering the Supreme True Realm.
• Wu Yong: Enters the group but does not respond, leaving his identity and civilization’s circumstances unexplained.
• The other group members: React with complaints about the mission system and curiosity about Wu Yong’s Level Nine Civilization.

Significant themes

• Trust and hidden identities: Chen Qingyan, a trusted friend, may be part of a long-running plan the protagonist does not understand.
• Power and control: Even after major progress, the protagonist feels like a piece on a larger chessboard.
• Memory and contingency: The chapter raises questions about originals, copies, and how much a person can know about the plans that shaped them.
• Duty amid uncertainty: The protagonist repays the Chen Family despite his emotional turmoil, while the new group mission introduces another looming obligation.

Character interactions

• The protagonist questions Lord of the Immortal Palace Chen Qingyan about his connection to the Supreme True Realm version; their exchange exposes the ten-thousand-year timeline and the contingency’s limited knowledge.
• Chen Fan reacts privately with dismay and urgently sends another self to seek Chen Qingyan, even as he continues watching the simulation.
• The Chat Group members trade complaints and questions about the newly announced mission and Wu Yong’s Level Nine Civilization, while the protagonist alone can access the group-owner panel.

Key plot points and events

• Presented with three group missions, the protagonist rejects the near-impossible EX-rank war in the Primordial Origin World and the dangerous S-rank Deep World mission. They choose the A-rank Other Shore Realm mission: inherit a fallen Supreme Existence’s karma, risking backlash, for a chance at a complete Great Dao. The group must depart in 24 hours.
• With the mission coming, the protagonist spends over 110 million experience on Qi Refining Limit-Breaking. They rise from 300 layers to 6,000, then Heaven’s reward pushes them to 7,000.
• Frustrated by the steepening cost of further advancement, the protagonist turns to fruit positions. Using Myriad Selves, they assign the Heavenly Fire position to their Number One Other-Self.
• The Other-Self’s immense strength and the withdrawal of other powers’ contingencies make the Heavenly Fire ritual—requiring dominion, sovereignty, and supremacy—trivial. He attains the position, granting the protagonist the mystique Heavenly Rule Inscription.

Character developments

• The protagonist shows caution in choosing a mission, avoiding risks they judge excessive, while remaining intent on maximizing strength before departure.
• Their rapid cultivation gains reveal both extraordinary potential and growing frustration with the sharply increasing cost of progress.
• The Number One Other-Self is established as a remarkably powerful and unprecedented figure: at twice an Immortal Venerable’s essence, he can claim a Supreme Fruit Position without a conventional ritual.

Significant themes

• Power and escalating costs: Even enormous reserves yield diminishing progress at the highest cultivation levels.
• Risk versus reward: The protagonist favors a comparatively safer mission despite its uncertain dangers and limited eligibility.
• Exceptional talent and rule-breaking: Myriad Selves lets the protagonist bypass the usual limitation of attaining only one fruit position.
• Supremacy and legitimacy: The Heavenly Fire ritual rewards sovereignty and being “the strongest,” which the Other-Self fulfills through overwhelming power.

Character interactions

• The protagonist evaluates the Chat Group’s mission options but makes the selection independently; the group offers no notable response.
• The Other-Self acts as the protagonist’s means of attaining Heavenly Fire. The fruit position draws the attention of powerful beings across time, who investigate his origins but cannot discover them.

Key plot points and events

• After attaining the Dao of Heavenly Fire, the protagonist exchanged the remaining Star, Many-Treasure, and Falsehood fruit positions through Equivalent Exchange. The exchange yielded experience, attribute points, and three True Treasures; Heaven Rewards Diligence doubled the experience and attributes.
• He then traded away a vast stockpile of inherited treasures and curiosities for more rewards. The three True Treasures gained from the first exchange could not be exchanged again, preventing a loophole.
• Spending his accumulated experience on qi refining limit-breaking, he reached eight thousand layers. His baseline essence rose to the Heavenly Venerable level, though progress had become increasingly costly.
• With “Old Self” still silent, he went to the Northern Domain’s Dream Realm and asked Chen Qingyan for permission to kill its cultivators. Chen allowed him to kill only a few True Lords, so he targeted and killed several holders of major divine abilities, gaining abilities including Heavenly Formation, Fishing Platform, Treasure-Borrowing Method, Intent on Past and Present, and Intent-Creation Assimilating False Body. He also acquired and upgraded Heaven-and-Earth Sword.
• He next searched the Myriad Beasts Mountain Range for the Dream Master’s first legacy, but “Number One Other-Self” could not find an entrance and had to leave.
• At dawn, seven chimes delivered intelligence: after winning the Present chess game, the other self who had attained the Dao went to Deep Space. Unable to approach the nonexistent founding tree and pressured by Heaven and Earth, he was assimilating the era’s fruit—effectively assimilating the Present itself. Though he constantly watched the protagonist, he could not intervene or communicate.

Character developments and interactions

• The protagonist grows substantially stronger and becomes more deliberate about acquiring power, using both Equivalent Exchange and targeted hunts for divine abilities. His decision to kill Dream Realm cultivators reflects his increasingly pragmatic, ruthless approach.
• Chen Qingyan acts as a gatekeeper: he rejects the protagonist’s request to kill nearly everyone outside the Immortal Palace, but permits a limited number of killings.
• The Dao-attained other self is revealed to be trapped in an extreme process of self-strengthening. His continued attention to the protagonist is tempered by his inability to help.

Significant themes

• Power has diminishing returns: advancement remains possible, but each additional limit-breaking layer demands immense resources.
• Power through exchange and sacrifice: unwanted treasures and powerful opponents alike become means of further growth.
• Isolation despite connection: the other self watches the protagonist, yet their circumstances prevent communication or aid.
• Assimilation and the cost of survival: strengthening oneself against overwhelming forces may require consuming or absorbing an entire era.

Plot points and events

• The narrator learns that “Old Self” has been unable to reply because he is forcibly assimilating the present. He also discovers that the World Tree in Deep Space is actually the Nonexistent Founding Tree, a prize so powerful that Old Self is willing to risk much to claim it.
• The Chat Group’s first mission begins. The five members are forcibly transported to the Other Shore World, where they must inherit the karma of a fallen Supreme Existence; the mission carries a risk of backlash and promises a random complete Great Dao.
• The group arrives in a world made up of many smaller worlds surrounding a central Great World. Though that central world appears to be a martial-arts setting, its deeper cultivation path leads through Dharma Body, Legend, and Creation realms to the Other Shore.
• A being from the Other Shore explains the world’s structure and its defining principle: those who ascend become fixed across past, present, and future, with all timelines converging into one enduring existence.
• The five newcomers are detected immediately, but the Other Shore beings do not attack. The narrator cautiously assesses the others and holds back from synchronizing with a Great Dao, preferring to see what the group—and the locals—will do.
• The informant suddenly manifests across time and space and unleashes an immense attack, apparently aimed at only one of the five.

Character development and interactions

• The narrator feels relieved that Old Self is safe, despite being unable to help him. On the mission, he is wary and strategic: he recognizes that he cannot gauge his companions’ strength and avoids provoking either them or the local powers.
• Wang Hao, who presents himself as a newly advanced human immortal, seems especially interested in speaking with the narrator. The narrator declines to engage deeply, uncertain how powerful Wang Hao truly is.
• Li Ping, Zhang Wenping, and Wu Yong arrive alongside Wang Hao, their priestly, technological, and robotic appearances making the team an unusual mix. None of them can be assessed by the narrator.
• The group shares information but remains mutually cautious, with each member apparently waiting for someone else to test the situation first.
• The Other Shore informant shifts from guide to aggressor, abruptly targeting one of the newcomers; the intended victim is not yet revealed.

Significant themes

• Power and uncertainty: Even with formidable safeguards and abilities, the narrator cannot judge his companions or the Other Shore’s inhabitants.
• Caution and trust: The group must cooperate while withholding confidence in one another, and the narrator relies on contingency plans rather than taking immediate risks.
• Time and identity: Ascension to the Other Shore fixes a being across every point in time, raising the stakes of existence beyond ordinary cultivation.
• Risk and ambition: Old Self’s pursuit of the Founding Tree and the mission’s dangerous reward both suggest that extraordinary power comes at serious cost.

Key plot points and events

• A powerful being from the Other Shore probes Wang Hao. Wang Hao meets the attack with equal force, revealing strength comparable to a Spirit Transformation Dao Master.
• The being recognizes Wang Hao as coming from the Primordial World. It reveals that it is only a projection of a mighty Primordial World figure, and warns that the Other Shore contains several such projections and other dangers.
• The group realizes the Other Shore Realm is controlled by formidable beings who can perceive arrivals across past, present, and future. Their mission—to retrace the realm’s cultivation path and inherit the karma of its creator—may involve forces as powerful as Half-Immortals or Immortals.
• The group considers suppressing the Other Shore’s inhabitants, investigating and cooperating with the being they encountered, or staying hidden. Wang Hao refuses cooperation for fear his origins will be exposed, so they choose to observe quietly.
• Wang Hao creates a small world that shields the group from the powerful beings’ surveillance. Before dawn, the narrator’s Listening talent triggers six chimes, beginning a new revelation.

Character developments and interactions

• Wang Hao demonstrates extraordinary strength and caution. He answers the projection’s questions without revealing much, later avoids an alliance, and protects the group by creating a hidden realm.
• The narrator reacts with shock to Wang Hao’s power and the revelation that the opponent is merely a projection, then helps assess the group’s options.
• Li Ping enthusiastically praises Wang Hao’s world-creation, while hinting that his own Gods and Devils Realms may be unusually advanced.
• The Other Shore being probes the newcomers’ identities, apologizes for its initial test, and offers a warning rather than attacking again.

Significant themes

• Hidden power and uncertain origins: Wang Hao’s strength—and the Primordial World’s reach—far exceeds the group’s expectations.
• Survival through caution: In a realm dominated by beings who can perceive across time, concealment and observation are safer than direct confrontation.
• Powerful forces pursuing their own agendas: Projections and secret abilities suggest the group is caught amid larger schemes.
• Risk and opportunity: Inheriting the realm’s creator’s karma could bring great rewards, but also dangerous backlash.

Key plot points and events

• Six-chime intelligence reveals that the mysterious being who negotiated with the group is a projection of Zhen Yuanzi, the Patriarch of Earth Immortals from the Primordial World. During the Journey to the West Kalpa, Zhen Yuanzi’s Dao path has been obstructed and his Earth Book—his companion top-grade innate treasure—is destined for destruction. He has come to the Other Shore Realm seeking a narrow chance to survive.
• The narrator trades this information to Wang Hao in exchange for knowledge of the Primordial World’s cultivation system and power levels.
• Wang Hao says the realm sequence is Mortal, Human Immortal, Earth Immortal, Heavenly Immortal, Taiyi, Daluo, and Saint. The Primordial World has no separate Quasi-Saint realm. Zhen Yuanzi’s projection has Daluo-level strength, equivalent to a Spirit Transformation Dao Master in the Supreme True Realm.
• Wang Hao is only at Heavenly Immortal—equivalent to a Golden Core powerhouse—and has not attained a Dao Fruit. He claims his Golden Finger lets him fight far above his level.
• The narrator shares the intelligence with the group. The next day, further intelligence reveals Wang Hao has secretly contacted Zhen Yuanzi’s projection, learned part of the truth about the Other Shore, and agreed to cooperate with him.
• The narrator suspects Zhen Yuanzi’s “sliver of hope” concerns inheriting the karma of the fallen Supreme Existence who created the Other Shore Realm. This conflicts with the group’s own mission to inherit that karma, but the narrator stays cautious and observes rather than confronting Wang Hao.
• Wu Yong suddenly calls out Wang Hao’s secret deal. He transforms into a radio and broadcasts the Great Dao’s Voice of Wang Hao’s conversation with Zhen Yuanzi, exposing their agreement to everyone.

Character developments and interactions

• The narrator uses their Golden Talent, Listening, to gather and barter intelligence. Though wary of Wang Hao’s strength and hidden plans, they choose restraint, trusting their safeguards and remaining interested in exploring the Other Shore.
• Wang Hao is shown to be secretive and exceptionally powerful for his stated cultivation level. After learning Zhen Yuanzi’s identity, he independently seeks him out and forms a partnership.
• Zhen Yuanzi is revealed as a desperate but formidable projection, seeking a way past the destruction awaiting him in his home world.
• Wu Yong shifts from an enigmatic, shape-changing “robot” into an unexpected investigator and broadcaster, forcing Wang Hao’s private arrangement into the open.

Significant themes

• Information as power: The narrator’s intelligence becomes a bargaining tool and shapes the group’s decisions.
• Hidden strength and concealed motives: Wang Hao’s Golden Finger lets him exceed his apparent limits, while his private cooperation raises questions about his true intentions.
• Competing claims to fate and inheritance: Zhen Yuanzi’s hope and the group’s mission may depend on the same Supreme Existence’s karma.
• Caution amid opportunity: The narrator weighs the risks of intervening against the value of continuing to explore the Other Shore.

Chapter Summary

Key plot points and events

• A recording captures a conversation between Wang Hao and Zhen Yuanzi. Wang Hao offers to help Zhen Yuanzi attain the Dao if Zhen Yuanzi lets him see, but not take, the karma left by a fallen supreme being in the Other Shore Realm.
• To make his promise credible, Wang Hao reveals that he is Daoist Floating Light, a nominal disciple of Patriarch Bodhi, and says Zhen Yuanzi could destroy his true body if he broke the agreement. Zhen Yuanzi accepts, provided they act within a hundred years.
• After hearing the recording, the narrator realizes Wang Hao’s interest in the karma is likely connected to his Golden Finger—and that the narrator had helped bring this arrangement about.
• Wang Hao, angered that the recording has exposed him, distorts the Minor Thousandfold Realm and unleashes pressure. Wu Yong points out that the Chat Group prevents members from directly attacking one another.
• Wu Yong refuses to rely on Wang Hao to complete the Group Mission, since neither the nature of Wang Hao’s Golden Finger nor the Chat Group’s judgment of success is known.
• Wu Yong privately asks the narrator to subdue Wang Hao, offering the unplayed remainder of the recording—said to reveal the truth about the Other Shore Realm—in exchange for cooperation. The narrator agrees and makes a move.

Character developments

• Wang Hao is revealed as willing to disclose his identity and make a risky bargain to gain access to the supreme karma. His anger at the recording’s exposure shows how sensitive he is about his motives and abilities.
• Zhen Yuanzi carefully weighs Wang Hao’s assurances before agreeing, demonstrating caution and strategic calculation.
• Wu Yong shifts from confrontation to negotiation, seeking a dependable route to complete the mission and offering valuable information as payment.
• The narrator remains outwardly calm but is personally interested in the same karma. They agree to confront Wang Hao for both practical and personal reasons.

Significant themes

• Trust and leverage: Wang Hao uses his vulnerable true body as a guarantee; Wu Yong uses information to secure the narrator’s cooperation.
• Hidden motives and uncertainty: Wang Hao’s reason for wanting to “see” the karma remains unexplained, and his Golden Finger’s function is unknown.
• Power versus restraint: Wang Hao can devastate the surrounding realm, but Chat Group rules prevent him from directly attacking another member.
• Information as power: The recording changes the balance between the characters, while Wu Yong’s withheld material becomes a bargaining tool.

Character interactions

• Wang Hao and Zhen Yuanzi negotiate through Dao resonance, with suspicion gradually giving way to agreement.
• Wang Hao and Wu Yong clash over whether the group can trust Wang Hao to fulfill the mission.
• Wu Yong privately recruits the narrator by trading the rest of the recording for help against Wang Hao.
• Li Ping, Zhang Wenping, and the narrator witness the confrontation; only the narrator chooses to intervene.

Key plot points and events

• The narrator confronts Wang Hao, whose power has grown enough to manifest a complete Great Dao. The narrator tries to stop him from helping Zhen Yuanzi obtain the karma of a fallen Supreme Existence, since that conflicts with the group mission.
• The narrator’s formation and abilities initially weaken Wang Hao, but Wang Hao’s damaged Ninth-Rank World-Destroying Black Lotus breaks through them. The narrator uses Heavenly Fire’s rule inscription to suppress the lotus temporarily and strikes Wang Hao, cutting away part of his Dao resonance.
• Before the fight can end, Zhen Yuanzi’s projection intervenes with Earthly Dao authority. Outnumbered, the narrator withdraws to the Minor Thousandfold Realm.
• Witnessing the battle, Li Ping abandons his earlier deference to Wang Hao and begs the narrator to take him under his protection. The narrator ignores him and presses Wu Yong to play the rest of the recording.
• The recording reveals Zhen Yuanzi’s theory that a hidden, “true” Other Shore Realm exists beyond the known worlds, and that the Supreme Existence’s karma lies there. However, neither Zhen Yuanzi’s projection nor Wu Yong knows where it is.
• On the third day, the narrator receives a startling revelation: there is no separate third layer. The entire Other Shore Realm is itself the karma left by the Supreme Existence’s final gaze. The revelation ends with a warning about whether anyone would still dare to attain the Dao after learning this.

Character developments and interactions

• The narrator demonstrates formidable power and tactical ingenuity, but recognizes the danger of fighting Wang Hao and Zhen Yuanzi together. Their pursuit of the truth remains tied to the group mission.
• Wang Hao is revealed to possess a complete Great Dao and a powerful lotus treasure. Despite his strength, he does not use his Dao authority against the narrator, and he continues pursuing the Supreme Existence’s karma with Zhen Yuanzi.
• Zhen Yuanzi’s projection openly backs Wang Hao, arguing that their differing aims make conflict inevitable.
• Li Ping reverses his allegiance after seeing the narrator’s strength and Wang Hao’s disregard for the group.
• Wu Yong supplies the recording, helping expose the hidden-world theory, though he has no further information.

Significant themes

• Power and allegiance: Characters shift loyalties according to demonstrated strength and commitment to the group.
• Knowledge and uncertainty: The supposed hidden realm proves to be a mistaken interpretation, while the truth raises even greater existential questions.
• Ambition and consequence: The final warning casts doubt on whether attaining the Dao is worth the danger of understanding the Other Shore Realm’s true nature.

Key plot points

• The protagonist learns that the entire Other Shore Realm is the residue of a fallen Supreme Existence. To claim its karma, they must control, assimilate, or destroy the realm—but doing so may trigger a backlash.
• The mission is dangerous: besides the Supreme Existence’s possible contingency, the protagonist would face the realm’s strongest Spirit Transformation Dao Masters, Wang Hao, and Zhen Yuanzi. Zhen Yuanzi’s projection might even prompt his true body to intervene.
• To reduce the risk of possession, the protagonist enters the true-false supreme realm and sends in Number Two Other-Self, over whom their “myriad selves” talent gives them control.
• They decide to destroy the Other Shore Realm and use the purple talent Transform All Beings to transform the other self into “Old Self,” a vastly stronger form. The transformation succeeds, and a Dharma body descends with an aura of eternal certainty. The system grants the temporary ability “escape one.”

Character developments and interactions

• The protagonist recognizes that the mission’s apparent reward conceals a serious trap, drawing on the precedent of the Dream Master being erased by karmic law after exposing himself.
• Rather than risk their main self, they act cautiously through Number Two Other-Self, then choose overwhelming strength as their best means of carrying out the destruction.
• Their plans place them on a collision course with the Other Shore’s powerful inhabitants and potentially Wang Hao and Zhen Yuanzi; the chapter ends as the transformed “Old Self” appears.

Significant themes

• Power and hidden costs: Supreme karma offers immense potential but may carry a dangerous backlash.
• Caution through proxies: The protagonist uses an other self to contain the risks of exploration and transformation.
• Strength versus mechanics: Raw power may not overcome special abilities, so the protagonist seeks a more decisive advantage.
• Uncertainty and escalation: The Other Shore Realm’s lack of karmic law makes the fallen Supreme Existence’s possible contingency especially unsettling.

Key plot points and events

• While Chen Fan assesses his newly gained ability, “Old Self” possesses Number Two Other-Self and wipes out countless subsidiary worlds with a single command. The destruction yields more than 340 million experience and three million attribute points, doubled by Heaven Rewards Diligence. Chen Fan spends the experience to raise Qi Refining Limit-Breaking from 8,000 to 9,000 layers.
• Old Self then commands that there be no more Other Shore beings. The Central Great World’s Surface World disappears, dozens of Other Shore beings are annihilated, and the river of time collapses—erasing past, present, and future. Old Self then keeps the world from vanishing completely, but a pair of powerful eyes briefly resists his ability.
• The eyes, revealed as the fallen Supreme Existence’s lingering karma, choose Wang Hao. The group mission is declared complete, with Chen Fan credited with 99% of the contribution. Chen Fan distributes the additional rewards to the other members, and the group is teleported away before the world’s destruction.
• Back in the Supreme True Realm, Chen Fan reviews the mission’s spoils: further experience, attribute points, over ten thousand minor divine abilities, and three Dao Artifacts. Selling surplus treasures brings in more resources. He uses 260 million experience to raise Qi Refining Limit-Breaking to 9,100 layers.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Fan remains pragmatic and generous with the group’s rewards, while focusing his gains on advancement. He recognizes that even apparently powerful enemies may be benefiting from borrowed attunement ranks.
• Old Self demonstrates overwhelming, reality-altering power, but seems to notice something about the Supreme Existence’s lingering karma and refrains from interfering when it chooses Wang Hao.
• Wang Hao is singled out by the mysterious eyes and becomes the focus of an unexplained change, though its effects are not yet revealed.
• Wu Yong, Li Ping, and Zhang Wenping survive the catastrophe and receive rewards based on their mission contributions. Li Ping, the Priest, is examined by the eyes but ultimately passed over.

Significant themes

• Power and scale: Old Self’s commands erase worlds, beings, and even time, placing ordinary measures of strength in perspective.
• Borrowed power and deceptive status: Some beings’ apparent higher ranks are borrowed, affecting how their defeat is valued and rewarded.
• Karma and hidden forces: The fallen Supreme Existence’s lingering karma acts independently, selecting Wang Hao despite Old Self’s dominance.
• Progress through accumulation: Even enormous rewards produce relatively modest advancement, underscoring how difficult Chen Fan’s cultivation path remains.

Key plot points and events

• The narrator gains a huge amount of experience in the Other Shore Realm, raising their limit-breaking level by 100 layers and reaching Nascent Soul limit-breaking, second stage. They also accumulate 14.5 million attribute points, despite failing to obtain the fallen Supreme Existence’s karma.
• Using the Golden Talent Fusion, they combine more than 15,000 minor divine abilities into three new abilities: Divine Punishment, Spacetime Projection, and Sage’s Advent.
• The narrator spends 300,000 attribute points to upgrade them into major divine abilities:
  • Karmic Law Punishment lets them wield the power of karmic law, but risks attracting its attention and backlash.
  • Spacetime Butterfly Shadow sets an anchor and rewinds time and space, restoring the user’s memories, cultivation, items, and abilities—but only within the same era and usable once.
  • Sage of Today grants the random blessing of a Supreme Existence and makes the narrator its representative.
• The narrator recognizes that Spacetime Butterfly Shadow is identical to Rollback, an ability associated with the Supreme Limitless Dharma Seal, and suspects that such powerful abilities may be refined from major divine abilities.

Character development and interactions

• The narrator remains pragmatic, eagerly converting a massive haul of abilities into stronger powers and treating the attribute-point cost as minor.
• Their reaction shifts from shock at acquiring the potentially dangerous power of karmic law to wary amusement and suspicion about the randomly chosen Supreme Existence.
• There are no direct encounters with other characters; the chapter’s central interaction is the narrator’s uneasy relationship with powerful forces—especially karmic law and the unpredictable Supreme Existences.

Significant themes

• Power and risk: The new abilities offer enormous strength, but each carries a serious danger or uncertainty.
• Systematic progression: The narrator uses fusion and upgrades to turn accumulated resources into a stronger, more specialized arsenal.
• Hidden origins of power: The link between Spacetime Butterfly Shadow and Rollback hints at how legendary abilities may be created.
• Distrust of randomness: The narrator is especially wary of being chosen by a Supreme Existence, viewing divine protection as potentially treacherous.

Key plot points and events

• After the first group mission, Chen Fan asks Wang Hao about the supreme karma of the Other Shore Realm. Wang Hao reveals it rivals a Primordial World Sage in strength, but he has not yet attained the Dao. Chen Fan is frustrated that Wang Hao claimed the mission’s reward despite Chen doing almost all the work.
• Chen Fan tries to contact “Old Self” again without success, then investigates the Jade Pool Sacred Land. He finds no sign that the land or its ancestor, Taiyin True Lord, is a hidden contingency of Heaven and Earth or the Supreme Immortal.
• Over the following year, Chen Fan’s Listening talent yields less and less useful information. Its one notable revelation is that the Devil Master, after observing the upheavals in the Present, severed his connection to it and cut off the Heaven-Reaching Stairway, apparently to plan for the future.
• Chen Fan concludes that Old Self’s continuing assimilation of the Present is leaving fewer unknown schemes and secrets behind. With fewer threats to contend with, he uses the time to grow stronger, destroying numerous realms for experience and attributes.
• Wang Hao becomes mostly silent in the Chat Group; Li Ping and Zhang Wenping remain its most active members, while Wu Yong is largely absent. Chen Fan also fails to enter the Northern Land of Sin.
• By age 22, another Foundation Establishment True Person emerges in the Chen family. Under Chen Fan’s guidance, he develops a slaughter-based divine ability and becomes the new patriarch.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Fan remains wary and proactive, using leverage to make Wang Hao answer while investigating possible hidden forces. He accepts that Old Self’s silence may signal ongoing assimilation and takes advantage of the relative calm to develop his power.
• Wang Hao is still prickly and guarded, but admits both the strength of the supreme karma and that he has not attained the Dao. He subsequently withdraws from group conversation.
• Old Self remains unreachable, though Chen Fan increasingly believes his assimilation is progressing.
• The Devil Master abandons his connection to the Present and prepares for future plans.
• Chen Fan and Taiyin True Lord meet briefly; Chen finds no evidence that she or the Jade Pool Sacred Land conceals a larger scheme.
• Chen Fan continues supporting the Chen family from behind the scenes, guiding its new patriarch’s rise.

Significant themes

• Unequal credit and rivalry: Chen Fan’s resentment over Wang Hao receiving the mission’s reward despite Chen’s greater contribution.
• Uncertainty and hidden power: Chen Fan cannot be sure what Wang Hao’s abilities are, while potential schemes and powerful figures remain difficult to assess.
• A world becoming fixed: Old Self’s assimilation appears to reduce the number of unknown arrangements in the Present.
• Opportunity in calm: With fewer immediate threats, Chen Fan focuses on cultivation, realm-clearing, and strengthening his family.

• Learning the path of advancement: At age 23, you meet Lord of the Immortal Palace, Chen Qingyan, in the Dream Realm, hoping to uncover secrets of the Second Era. He reveals how Nascent Soul cultivation progresses: early-stage True Lords wield about 10% of their fruit position’s power, middle-stage 30%, Great True Lords 60%, and Heavenly Venerables 90%. To reach the middle stage, you must create a personal Dao-Seeking Immortal Art by combining your fruit position with your Dao path. This requires three things: the art itself, a stable grotto-heaven and perfected Dao foundation, and deeper Dao attainment. Your foundation and attainment are already sufficient, leaving the art as the obstacle.
• Creating a new ability: Rather than wait for insight to develop naturally, you kill Dream Realm cultivators to collect minor insight-boosting abilities. You fuse them, spend a hundred thousand attribute points, and obtain the major divine ability Dao-Comprehension Tree. It grants a powerful state of Dao comprehension once every ten years and permanently improves insight and wisdom. During your first session, you glimpse a projection of the legendary tree and spend several months in heightened comprehension, completing roughly one-fifth of the Dao-Seeking Immortal Art for both heavenly fire and the dao-burying fruit position.
• Ongoing efforts and reputation: You visit the Western Buddhist Land, but find no trace of Senior Lin Feng: the Buddha Ancestor is still only part of Chen Qingyan’s true spirit. From ages 24 to 27, you continue developing the art, occasionally chatting with members of the Chat Group and destroying worlds in the Myriad Worlds. Your repeated destruction earns you the name Dao-less Devil Lord, which you disregard. Meanwhile, “Old Self” continues assimilating the Present, a process you expect could take an immense amount of time.
• Turning toward the future: At age 29, you activate the Spacetime Token, despite its limited usefulness and the danger of karmic-law punishment. You hope to see Mo Wuyou, learn how the future has developed, and discover whether Chen Qingyan, the Chen Family Ancestor, or others have reached it. The token’s screen appears, and a youthful voice begins to speak; the chapter ends before the speaker is identified.
  Character developments and interactions: You remain pragmatic and relentless, using lethal means and valuable resources to accelerate your cultivation. Chen Qingyan is knowledgeable but guarded, offering cultivation principles while withholding deeper secrets. Your search for Lin Feng ends in disappointment, and your curiosity about Mo Wuyou and the future drives your next move.
  Themes: The chapter emphasizes cultivation as a combination of insight, personal innovation, and long-term effort; the costs and limits of manipulating time and karma; and the contrast between pursuing wisdom and causing widespread destruction.

Key plot points and events

• Through the Spacetime Token, the protagonist speaks with Mo Wuyou and explains what happened in a previous simulation. Mo Wuyou cannot provide information about the protagonist, Chen Qingyan, or the Chen Family Ancestor because his access is too limited.
• Mo Wuyou remains in dire circumstances: his clan was destroyed, and he is a household slave at Golden Cloud Hall. Unable to find Mo Wuyou’s ancestor, the protagonist leaves him a large fortune, sealed so only Mo Wuyou can claim it. The Token then shuts down.
• At age 30, the protagonist tests whether Equivalent Exchange can recycle the Spacetime Token. The system rejects it because the Token is not solely the protagonist’s property. The protagonist concludes that its fragments are shared among the present, past, and future holders: themself, Senior Lin Feng, and Mo Wuyou.
• At age 31, the Chat Group announces its second group mission. The protagonist reviews three choices: an SS-rank mission in the Heavenly Immortal Realm, a B-rank mission in a Fantasy Plane, and an S-rank mission in a Cthulhu-infested universe.
• Judging the first mission too dangerous and the second’s reward too weak, the protagonist selects the Cthulhu universe. Forced teleportation is scheduled for 24 hours later.

Character developments and interactions

• The protagonist shows lingering gratitude toward Mo Wuyou, treating him as a junior who helped in earlier simulations and arranging support despite being unable to rescue him directly.
• Mo Wuyou remains powerless and uninformed about higher-level matters, underscoring the gap between his circumstances and the protagonist’s.
• In the Chat Group, Li Ping panics about the mission and begs Chen Fan—the protagonist—for protection. Zhang Wenping is excited, while Wang Hao and Wu Yong remain silent.
• The protagonist stays pragmatic and self-reliant, weighing mission risks and considering escape to the True-False Supreme Realm if the Cthulhu mission proves overwhelming, even if the other members are left to fend for themselves.

Significant themes

• Shared ownership and connection: The Spacetime Token’s fragments appear to belong to multiple holders across different points in time.
• Power and limited access: Mo Wuyou’s inability to help reflects how knowledge and agency are constrained by strength and status.
• Loyalty and obligation: The protagonist repays Mo Wuyou’s past help by leaving him resources.
• Risk, reward, and self-preservation: The protagonist chooses a dangerous mission based on its potential reward, while preparing an escape route rather than relying on the group.

Key plot points and events

• Knowing an S-rank mission is imminent, the protagonist decides to strengthen his abilities. His Dao-Seeking Immortal Art is still incomplete, especially its heavenly fire path; the Dao-burying fruit position has progressed even less and seems less useful to him.
• He spends his reward from the previous group mission on Infinite Epiphany, a one-use ability that lets him pursue a single comprehension goal until he achieves it. He uses it to complete the heavenly-fire portion of his art.
• After twenty-four hours, the second group mission begins: enter a Cthulhu-infested universe, destroy the universe, and defeat the source of its corruption. The reward is an Innate Supreme Treasure.
• Upon arrival, the group is exposed to the gaze of a Supreme Existence. The protagonist and his companions are transported into the true-false supreme realm.
• The protagonist sends Li Ping, Zhang Wenping, and Wu Yong into a Minor Thousandfold Realm for safety, then considers summoning “Old Self,” since only that persona seems capable of confronting a threat on this scale.
• He also notices that Wang Hao was not teleported back and may have remained unharmed under the Supreme Existence’s gaze. This convinces the protagonist that Wang Hao may have a hidden trump card and gives him another reason to investigate.

Character developments and interactions

• The protagonist is increasingly pragmatic: he prioritizes useful abilities, abandons his planned choice of a karma-based divine ability, and protects his companions by removing them from the immediate danger.
• Li Ping responds to the overwhelming threat by clinging to the protagonist and pleading for protection, calling him “Daddy Chen.”
• Zhang Wenping and Wu Yong are also caught up in the danger; Wu Yong’s information becomes chaotic under the Supreme Existence’s influence.
• The protagonist’s trust in Old Self remains central, while his curiosity about Wang Hao’s unexplained survival pushes him toward confronting the mystery rather than retreating.

Significant themes

• Power and preparation: Even immense cultivation is not enough when facing a Supreme Existence; the protagonist needs powerful abilities and possibly Old Self.
• Protection versus investigation: He secures his companions’ safety but chooses to pursue the danger and uncover the truth.
• Hidden strength and uncertainty: Wang Hao’s apparent survival hints that other characters may possess secret powers or connections.

Plot points and events

• The protagonist’s purple talent, Transform All Beings, again summons Old Self, granting the temporary ability Escape One. Old Self takes possession of the protagonist’s Number Two Other-Self and is sent through the Chat Group into the Cthulhu Universe.
• The universe is a profoundly distorted, mind-affecting realm filled with aberrant creatures. Using True-Sight Eye, the protagonist discovers that many of them are test subjects in an aberration testing ground, their apparent strength borrowed from a Supreme Existence.
• Old Self encounters Wang Hao, who has apparently attained the Dao through lingering karma connected to a Supreme Existence from the Other Shore Realm. Wang Hao rewinds a world sea, draws the universe’s River of Time into alignment with it, and opens a passage to the likely source of the corruption.
• Old Self ignores the passage at first and declares that the entire universe should perish of its own accord. Its consciousness resists, but the resulting collapse destroys vast numbers of aberrant creatures. Old Self then follows Wang Hao through the passage to confront the Supreme source.
• As Old Self’s power generates a stream of kill notifications—and the protagonist’s experience and attribute points—he resumes Infinite Epiphany and continues developing the Heavenly Fire portion of the Dao-Seeking Immortal Art, now nearly halfway complete.

Character developments and interactions

• The protagonist remains unable to intervene directly in a supreme-level conflict, but benefits from Old Self’s intervention and uses the opportunity to advance his cultivation technique.
• Old Self once again serves as the protagonist’s overwhelming proxy, clearing enemies while pursuing the mission’s true target. The protagonist believes this extra destruction is partly intended to help him grow stronger.
• Wang Hao has undergone a major transformation: still recognizably himself, he now carries the presence and authority of a Supreme Existence. He and Old Self move toward the source of corruption, though Old Self initially disregards Wang Hao’s invitation into the passage.

Significant themes

• Borrowed power and transformation: Many seemingly formidable beings are projections whose strength comes from a higher existence; Wang Hao’s own ascent may likewise be tied to a supernatural connection.
• The limits of perspective: The protagonist can observe a battle between supreme beings but cannot meaningfully take part in it.
• Progress through opportunity: Even amid cosmic horror, the protagonist turns Old Self’s actions into experience, attributes, and further Dao comprehension.
• Corruption and cosmic horror: The Cthulhu Universe’s impossible forms and hostile laws depict a reality warped by an invasive Supreme Existence.

Plot points and events

• By Year 33, the Cthulhu universe is already doomed, with most of it destroyed and the rest expected to vanish within a decade. Chen Fan is using the time to develop his Heavenly Fire Dao-Seeking Immortal Art, which is nearly three-fifths complete.
• His Enlightenment Tree ability activates while Infinite Epiphany is still in effect, creating an even stronger state of comprehension. This sharply accelerates his progress: by Year 35, the art is four-fifths complete.
• In Year 37, the universe is reduced to the final void. Its consciousness appears as a malformed being on the level of a Spirit Transformation Dao Master, which Chen Fan suspects is another projection of the Supreme Existence.
• The group mission ends. Chen Fan is credited with 78% of the contribution, Wang Hao with 22%, and the other three members with none. Chen Fan receives the main reward—an Innate Supreme Treasure—and uses his authority as group leader to keep Wang Hao’s Mid-Grade Innate Numinous Treasure, giving him only a True Treasure instead. Chen Fan walks away with three major treasures.
• The group members return to their own worlds. Chen Fan then reviews the mission and considers why Golden Talent: Listening revealed no information about Wang Hao or the other group members, despite triggering repeatedly during the four-year mission.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Fan makes rapid progress on his cultivation art, but also shows his self-interest by diverting Wang Hao’s reward to himself. He later reasons that the group members’ shared identity, rather than their strength or origins, explains the limits of his talent.
• Wang Hao contributed substantially to the mission but receives far less than the system’s allocation indicated, because Chen Fan overrides the reward distribution.
• Chen Fan’s main interaction with Wang Hao and the others is through the mission and its rewards; all return to their respective worlds once the task is complete.

Significant themes

• The limits of knowledge: Even a powerful information-gathering talent has blind spots.
• Self-interest and unequal reward: Chen Fan prioritizes his own gains despite Wang Hao’s contribution.
• Accelerated cultivation amid destruction: The collapsing universe gives Chen Fan a deadline, while his overlapping epiphanies offer a way to make progress faster.
• Otherness and shared identity: Chen Fan concludes that the group members are all Otherworldly Demons, and suspects that this identity makes them impossible for Golden Talent: Listening to perceive.

Key plot points and events

• The protagonist reviews the rewards from the Cthulhu universe: over 510 million experience points and more than five million attribute points, doubled by Heaven Rewards Diligence.
• All experience goes into Qi Refining Limit-Breaking, raising the protagonist’s foundation from 9,300 to 11,400 layers. Their essence surges from Immortal Venerable first stage to ninth stage, then undergoes a further transformation.
• The breakthrough briefly lets the protagonist perceive the Great Dao, the whole of heaven and earth, and powerful entities—including “Old Self” and the nonexistent founding tree. But this flood of perception nearly causes the protagonist’s body, cultivation, and true spirit to dissolve into the Dao.
• I Am the Chess Player and Once and for All activate, drawing Old Self’s attention. Old Self intervenes, halting the dissolution and clearing away the overwhelming information.
• Realizing the experience resembled the dangerous Observation talent—which grants heaven-and-earth perspective but risks assimilation—the protagonist retreats to the true-false supreme realm.
• A comparison with “Number Two Other-Self” shows the protagonist’s normal strength now matches that self empowered by two Great Daos. They can walk the Supreme True Realm without being rejected and believe even the Lord of the Heavenly Court could not defeat them without Heavenly Will’s blessing. Senior Lin Feng remains far beyond their reach.
• The protagonist has over 23 million attribute points but still needs nearly 60 million more to upgrade the major divine ability true-false supreme realm. The Cthulhu abilities and treasures are mostly unusable: they distort users and erode sanity. The protagonist recycles them with Equivalent Exchange.

Character development and interactions

• The protagonist makes a tremendous leap in power, but learns that heightened perception carries a potentially fatal cost: heaven and earth may assimilate them.
• The protagonist’s abilities protect them indirectly: I Am the Chess Player attracts Old Self’s notice, and Old Self saves them by intervening. This suggests a significant connection between the protagonist’s power and the wider cosmic order.
• The protagonist reassesses their limits with cautious confidence: formidable in the Supreme True Realm, yet still vastly beneath Senior Lin Feng.
• The protagonist interacts mainly with their own “Number Two Other-Self” for a strength comparison; their other key encounter is the intervention of Old Self.

Significant themes

• Power and peril: Advancement brings immense strength but can expose the protagonist to dangers beyond ordinary combat.
• Knowledge as a threat: Seeing too much can overwhelm identity and lead to assimilation.
• Cosmic hierarchy and dependence: The protagonist’s survival depends on powerful external forces, while their strength remains relative to beings like Lin Feng.
• Corruption and discernment: Vast rewards are not automatically useful; Cthulhu-style powers must be rejected because of their sanity-destroying, deforming effects.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Fan uses 130 million experience to advance his Qi Refining Limit-Breaking cultivation by another hundred layers, reaching 11,500 layers.
• He inspects the three major rewards from the mission:
  • Heavenly Spirit Mirror, a mid-grade innate numinous treasure with offensive, defensive, and formation uses.
  • Twelfth-Rank Pure World White Lotus, a top-grade treasure capable of purification, supreme defense, and protecting the Dao heart.
  • Chaos Bell, an innate supreme treasure formed from the core of Pangu’s Heaven-Opening Axe. It can suppress spacetime, stabilize fortune, and withstand all arts and tribulations—but contains remnants of the Demon Realm and the Demon Emperor’s karma.
• Though wary of the Chaos Bell’s potential dangers, Chen Fan recognizes that its fortune-stabilizing power could let him safely explore the Northern Land of Sin. After checking that “I Am the Chess Player” shows no reaction, he claims the bell.
• In the group chat, Wang Hao asks about Chen Fan’s bonus reward. Chen Fan initially describes it as a low-grade innate numinous treasure, then asks about Donghuang Taiyi. Wang Hao realizes Chen Fan may have received the Chaos Bell and angrily complains that he earned only an ordinary true treasure despite years of struggle.
• Chen Fan reminds Wang Hao that his own trump card, “Old Self,” is stronger than the fallen Supreme Existence Wang Hao relied on, reinforcing his standing as the stronger ally.
• Wang Hao explains that Donghuang Taiyi was a peak Great Encompassment expert, famed as “invincible beneath the Sages,” and that he fought eight Ancestral Witches. He estimates Taiyi’s peak strength relative to Zhen Yuanzi at roughly 70–30.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Fan is thrilled by the treasures, especially the White Lotus and Chaos Bell, but remains cautious about the bell’s hidden karmic burden. His exchange with Wang Hao also shows his confidence—and willingness to assert his superiority.
• Wang Hao is frustrated and jealous over Chen Fan’s extraordinary reward. Despite his outburst, he provides useful historical details about Donghuang Taiyi.
• The chat’s other members, Li Ping and Zhang Wenping, continue their usual flirtatious banter in the background.

Significant themes

• Power comes with risk: The Chaos Bell offers near-absolute protection and control over fortune, but may carry dangerous karmic consequences.
• Unequal rewards and resentment: Chen Fan’s exceptional prize contrasts sharply with Wang Hao’s disappointing one.
• Strength and hierarchy: Chen Fan emphasizes that powerful beings—and even Supreme Existences—can differ greatly in strength.
• Caution amid opportunity: Chen Fan weighs the bell’s dangers against the possibility it unlocks, particularly entering the Northern Land of Sin.

Key plot points and events

• The narrator receives the Chaos Bell, an Innate Supreme Treasure containing a battered Demon Realm, and explores it.
• The exploration awakens Donghuang Taiyi, whose resonance comes from the realm’s Heavenly Dao. Though the realm is weak, Taiyi is reputed to be formidable, so the narrator prepares by synchronizing four Daos.
• The narrator explains the Supreme Chat Group and the Bell’s origins, but withholds their identity and other information.
• Taiyi expresses hope that the Chat Group may offer him a way out and invites the narrator inside, claiming he owes them a karmic debt. The narrator suspects a trap and demands that Taiyi reveal his real purpose.
• When the narrator insists on claiming the Bell outright, Taiyi asks what they will offer in exchange. The narrator decides not to bargain and activates the purple talent “I Am the Mastermind.”
• The talent fails against Taiyi directly because no mastermind is detected behind him. The narrator then targets the entire Demon Realm instead. Since Taiyi is the force controlling it, the talent succeeds: the narrator gains one minute to issue a compulsory command.
• The narrator orders that their commands must always take priority over Taiyi’s. The command takes effect, giving the narrator a powerful connection to the realm and the ability to destroy it with a thought.

Character developments

• The narrator moves from cautious assessment to decisive action, recognizing Taiyi’s likely manipulation and using the talent creatively when a direct attempt fails.
• Donghuang Taiyi appears pleased and hopeful at first, presenting himself as indebted and offering an opportunity. His enthusiasm fades when the narrator sees through the performance and demands control of the Bell. He is revealed as the mastermind behind the Demon Realm, though not behind himself.

Significant themes

• Caution and mistrust: The narrator refuses to accept Taiyi’s friendly invitation at face value.
• Power through ingenuity: Unable to dominate Taiyi directly, the narrator targets the world he controls.
• Survival and leverage: Taiyi’s remaining strength and connection to the realm are his means of survival, while the narrator’s new authority shifts the balance of power.
• Limits and loopholes: The talent’s restrictions shape the confrontation, but a broader target offers a workaround.

Character interactions

• Taiyi tries to establish a friendly, indebted relationship and invites the narrator inside; the narrator rejects the overture as a likely scheme.
• The two negotiate indirectly over the Chaos Bell, with Taiyi demanding compensation and the narrator refusing to trust him.
• The narrator ultimately bypasses a direct confrontation by overriding Taiyi’s authority through control of the Demon Realm.