Chapter Summaries

• Major revelations: Seven-ringing messages reveal that Dao, Buddha, and Martial God are not separate Supreme Existences but three manifestations of the original being, Dao, who divided himself after reaching a dead end. This explains their united support for Martial God and their opposition to the protagonist. Another revelation identifies Confucianism as the world’s fourth Supreme Existence: he suspected the three were one and had sought outside help, with Gu as his ally from the outset.
• The final era: The ninth era is the last, making its outcome decisive for every Dao lineage. Confucianism is competing to preserve his own lineage, as are Gu, Monster, Demon, Spellcaster, and the others. The protagonist connects this to the Supreme True Realm’s apparent limit of five eras but cannot explain the discrepancy.
• Events and conflict: The protagonist spends the third day ignoring Li Ping, still resentful over his role in the earlier Gods and Devils Realms events. On the fourth day, Confucianism urgently summons him and Gu, then announces that Dao, Buddha, and Martial God have already started a war. The protagonist suspects the timing is deliberate and that he has been maneuvered into acting before he can spend years gathering intelligence with his Listening talent.
• Character dynamics and development: The protagonist remains wary of allies and adversaries alike, recognizing that everyone—including himself—keeps secrets. Confucianism concealed the full reasons for seeking help; the protagonist, in turn, has hidden Wang Hao’s potential as Supreme-level support. Gu appears as a powerful, established ally, displaying several highest-level Dao resonances. Caught off guard by the sudden war, the protagonist contacts Wu Yong through another version of himself and begins, “I need you…”
• Themes: The chapter emphasizes hidden identities, strategic deception, and the danger of incomplete information. It also raises the stakes through the finality of the ninth era, turning the struggle over Dao lineages into a contest over the world’s ultimate fate.

Plot points

• With [I Am the Chess Player] destroyed and [Wish Echo] unusable, Gu has few ways to escape his desperate situation. He bargains with Wu Yong, trading the [Heavenly Spirit Mirror] and one of his remaining “other selves” to use the [Future Riddle Machine].
• Wu Yong admits he knew the machine could solve its riddle, but says its answer warned that Gu’s future would be miserable and that solving it now was the best course. Gu presses the button and learns the truth about his predicament; the revelation leaves him despairing. Wu Yong cannot help, so Gu turns to Wang Hao.
• In the Ninth Era, war erupts in the [Supreme Martial Arts World]. Since Supreme Existences generally cannot fight directly, their Dao Lineages battle on their behalf. The Martial God’s alliance—led by the Great Qian Dynasty, Buddhism, and Daoism—begins by purging Confucianism.
• Gu and Confucianism, supported by Old Self, join forces against Great Qian. Meanwhile, Monster, Demon, and Spellcaster attack from outside, creating a coordinated assault. Gu’s side initially gains the advantage, and the conflict approaches its conclusion after only a few days.
• The opposing forces recognize Old Self’s overwhelming power and unite against Gu’s alliance, but still struggle to threaten it. Confucianism’s reality-shaping power and Gu’s unusually formidable practitioners and techniques prove decisive.

Character developments and interactions

• Gu is forced into increasingly costly choices: he gives up a valuable treasure and one of only three remaining other selves to obtain the riddle’s answer. Though he is desperate and furious at Wu Yong’s withholding of information, he continues acting aggressively in the war, apparently seeking a swift end.
• Wu Yong is revealed as a calculating, self-described “crooked merchant” who withholds the machine’s function while claiming the trade was in Gu’s best interests. Despite the bargain, he cannot resolve Gu’s newly revealed predicament.
• Old Self, through the “Number One Other-Self,” proves stronger than any single Supreme Existence in the world. His interventions repeatedly turn setbacks for Gu’s side into victories.
• Wang Hao is the person Gu approaches after Wu Yong admits he cannot help, though the chapter gives no further details about their exchange.

Significant themes

• Knowledge has a price: Gu must surrender scarce resources to uncover the truth, and the answer brings despair rather than reassurance.
• Manipulation and trust: Wu Yong’s concealed knowledge complicates the bargain and leaves Gu questioning the cost of relying on others.
• Power through alliances and institutions: The war is fought mainly through religious lineages, with coalitions and coordinated attacks shaping its course.
• Overwhelming power and strategic imbalance: Old Self’s strength, alongside the exceptional abilities cultivated by Gu and Confucianism, makes the conflict lopsided even when enemies unite.
• Urgency and hidden motives: Gu’s unusually aggressive push for a quick victory hints that the battle’s speed may be driven by more than ordinary military strategy.

Key plot points and events

• The surviving Time Dao Immortal Venerable, who had hidden inside a painting, emerges and uses “None Before, None After” to summon beings from the Gu and Confucian Dao eras. His intervention makes victory in the war seem impossible for any side.
• To avert a devastating all-out conflict, the Supreme Existences negotiate a seven-round tournament between three alliances: the protagonist, Gu, and Confucianism; Martial God, Dao, and Buddhism; and Monster, Demon, and Spellcaster. The agreed condition is three wins out of seven.
• The protagonist accepts the tournament despite having strong reasons to continue the war: fighting has rapidly earned them experience, attribute points, and powerful abilities. Their choice is unusual, especially since Gu and Confucianism oppose the tournament.
• During the war, the protagonist gains abilities and treasures from multiple Dao lineages, including the Rank Nine Wisdom Immortal Gu, Buddhist and Daoist techniques, and Confucian Haoran Righteous Qi. Their talent, The Only Player, classifies other lineages’ supreme arts as major divine abilities.
• Despite facing enemies of vastly different realms, the protagonist’s kills are all counted as Golden Core Perfection, limiting the rewards per kill. Their immense numbers, however, still make the conflict exceptionally lucrative.
• The tournament begins in a world created jointly by the nine Supreme Existences. The protagonist learns that a similar contest took place in the Sixth Era, when Gu’s victory helped shape later events.
• Using Listening, the protagonist obtains the opposing alliances’ contestant rosters, giving their side an advantage in choosing counter-matchups.

Character developments and interactions

• The protagonist remains focused on accumulating power, but agreeing to a tournament marks a surprising departure from their usual willingness to let a profitable war continue. The reason is left uncertain: they may be racing to finish missions, or pursuing another goal.
• Gu and Confucianism clearly prefer not to hold the tournament, while the protagonist agrees, creating tension within their own alliance.
• The Supreme Existences negotiate because neither side wants the likely cost of an unrestricted war, even though the protagonist’s alliance has the upper hand.
• The Time Dao Immortal Venerable’s return and mass summoning reshape the conflict, forcing enemies to negotiate and cooperate through formal competition.

Significant themes

• Power versus restraint: The protagonist stands to gain enormously from continued warfare but accepts a negotiated alternative.
• The limits of borrowed power: Powerful beings across the Dao lineages cannot advance beyond ranks derived from the Supreme Existences’ Great Daos.
• Strategy and information: The tournament’s outcome may depend as much on roster knowledge and matchup choices as on individual strength.
• Uncertainty behind decisions: The protagonist’s motives for accepting the tournament remain deliberately ambiguous.

Chapter summary

The chapter recounts a five-match arena contest between the Rebel Army (the narrator, Gu, and Confucianism), the Great Qian Dynasty (Martial God, Buddhism, and Dao), and a Third Party (Monster, Demon, and Spellcaster).

• Match 1: The Rebel Army’s Wuji Demon Venerable, founder of the Law Dao, overwhelms both Great Qian’s Jin Chanzi—a Buddhist master who achieved Dao Unification in nine lifetimes—and the Third Party’s Demon God King. He kills them both, giving the Rebel Army its first victory.
• Match 2: The Rebel Army’s Time Dao Venerable uses the Spring-Autumn Gu to draw powerful figures from history and exhausts Great Qian’s Laozi and the Third Party’s Great Sage of the Demon Race, along with Laozi’s incarnations. The Rebel Army takes a second victory.
• Matches 3 and 4: Great Qian and the Third Party coordinate to target the Rebel Army’s Confucian sages. Kong loses when both opponents focus on him, and another Confucian sage suffers a similar defeat. The Third Party wins the fourth match.
• Match 5: The Rebel Army fields the Strength Dao Immortal Venerable, but Great Qian’s final contender—a Martial Dao cultivator supported by much of Great Qian’s fortune and fused with more of Heaven and Earth—wins. The Strength Dao Venerable’s raw power cannot overcome his opponent’s structural advantages.

Character developments and interactions

The Wuji Demon Venerable and the Time Dao Venerable are established as devastating, self-assured fighters; the narrator particularly admires the latter’s ruthlessness and reserve. The Confucian sages are formidable in their own right, but become vulnerable when their enemies cooperate against them. In the final match, the Strength Dao Immortal Venerable is defeated not for lack of strength, but because his opponent is backed by political fortune and a greater union with Heaven and Earth.

Themes

The battles contrast individual might with teamwork and institutional support: the Rebel Army’s first two victories come from exceptional fighters, while later losses show the power of coordinated attacks, fortune, and alignment with Heaven and Earth. The chapter also emphasizes historical and accumulated power, especially through the Time Dao Venerable’s ability to summon figures from across the ages.

Key plot points and events

• In the sixth round of the conflict, Chen Fan sends out the Soul Path Immortal Venerable as his final fighter. Having fed extensively on the Netherworld’s “buffet,” the Immortal Venerable defeats both opponents, securing victory for the rebel army.
• Chen Fan’s faction ends the Great Qian Dynasty’s rule and wins the ninth era. Confucianism and Gu are allowed to preserve their Dao Lineages; the Martial God, Buddhism, and Daoism resist but cannot overcome the rebel faction’s overwhelming strength.
• The mission system confirms Chen Fan’s success and awards him a cultivation method for advancing the fire supreme fruit position, Heavenly Fire, to Great True Lord. The method requires devouring several other five-elements fruit positions—metal, wood, and earth—which Chen Fan realizes may be nearly impossible to obtain.
• The Chat Group awards Chen Fan a strand of primordial purple qi and a Top-Grade Innate Numinous Treasure, based on his overwhelming mission contribution. Wu Yong receives a minor divine ability; the other members receive nothing.
• The rewards prompt Chen Fan to notice something disturbing: he has been rushing to complete the mission without understanding why. Searching his memories, he discovers that he erased one of them himself. His major divine ability, True Self, activates, revealing that a higher-dimensional being is affecting him.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Fan wins through careful planning and control of the alliance, but his apparent mastery gives way to alarm when he detects an unexplained compulsion and a self-erased memory.
• The Soul Path Immortal Venerable proves decisive, killing two enemies after being saved for the final round.
• Wang Hao’s complete lack of action stands out to Chen Fan, especially since the primordial purple qi should have been highly desirable to him. This absence helps trigger Chen Fan’s scrutiny of the mission.
• Chen Fan distributes or claims the group rewards according to the system’s contribution rankings, choosing not to keep Wu Yong’s minor reward.

Significant themes

• The inevitability of change: eras end regardless of the factions’ wishes.
• Strategy and alliance: Chen Fan’s victory comes from preparation, timing, and coalition-building, though his alliance with Confucianism is purely practical.
• Power’s hidden costs: the Heavenly Fire breakthrough requires rare fruit positions, turning a major reward into a difficult long-term obstacle.
• Agency and manipulation: Chen Fan’s unnatural urgency, erased memory, and True Self’s activation suggest that even his choices may be subject to higher-dimensional interference.

Chapter summary

• Chen Fan is baffled when the simulated clone voluntarily erases his memories. Watching events through the simulator, he knows the clone had coordinated with Wu Yong and approached Wang Hao, who stayed silent during the third group mission. The clone’s major divine ability, True Self, activated as it sensed an outside influence—suggesting a hidden higher-dimensional being in the supposedly S-rank Supreme Martial Arts World.
• The clone investigates but finds no obvious culprit. This makes little sense: the mission should contain only Supreme Existences, and his Listening talent has repeatedly detected powerful beings elsewhere without ever reporting one here. Yet True Self keeps activating, more and more urgently, convincing him he has been caught in another scheme.
• With I Am the Chess Player already shattered, the clone recognizes that he cannot understand or counter higher-dimensional forces on his own. He turns instead to the Chaos Bell, a higher-dimensional treasure, and calls upon its inhabitant, Donghuang Taiyi.
• The clone accuses Donghuang Taiyi of knowing about the scheme, pointing out that he is effectively the bell’s spirit. Taiyi neither confirms nor denies it, responding only that one use of the bell remains. The clone also asks whether Taiyi knew of an earlier incident in the Gods and Devils Realms; Taiyi again refuses to answer directly.
• The clone warns that his death could destroy the Battered Demon Realm, which is linked to him, but Taiyi remains unshaken. Seeing no other option, the clone spends the Chaos Bell’s final use—not to defeat the enemy or expose the mastermind, but simply to gain a brief period of absolute safety.

Character development and interactions

• The simulated clone shifts from methodical investigation to reluctant acceptance of his limits. He realizes that without his shattered talent, he is merely a piece on someone else’s board, and chooses survival over victory.
• Donghuang Taiyi remains inscrutable and apparently confident in his position. His evasive replies imply knowledge of the danger, but he offers no explanation or assistance.
• Their exchange becomes a tense negotiation: the clone presses Taiyi for answers and threatens consequences, while Taiyi calmly repeats the cost of using the bell.

Significant themes

• Powerlessness before higher dimensions: Greater strength is not enough to matter without the ability to perceive or contest the forces shaping events.
• Knowledge without control: The clone can recognize that he is being manipulated but cannot stop it.
• Survival over triumph: Faced with an incomprehensible threat, he spends his last resource merely to buy time.
• Uncertainty and hidden motives: Taiyi’s silence, the unexplained danger, and the failure of Listening deepen the sense that the real setup remains concealed.

Key plot points

• After escaping the Chaos Bell’s engulfing body, the protagonist reviews the lost stretch of memory. They realize their spirit should be immune to interference from higher-dimensional beings, yet someone apparently made them erase their own memories.
• Fragments show that Wu Yong once approached them and struck a deal, but the terms and consequences are unknown.
• A Chat Group notification reveals that return teleportation has been disabled using Group Leader settings—something the protagonist never authorized. They infer that the hidden enemy’s long-planned scheme centers on the Chat Group.
• The enemy is likely an Otherworldly Demon and possibly a group member, whose identity escaped the protagonist’s Listening talent.
• Of the five members, Li Ping is ruled out, and Wu Yong seems unlikely because he had previously offered the protagonist a glimpse of the truth. Suspicion settles most strongly on Wang Hao, with Zhang Wenping also remaining a possibility.
• The protagonist considers fleeing to the Supreme True Realm but rejects it as too dangerous. Their last hope, the one-use talent Wish Echo, has already been expended without their knowledge. With escape blocked and no trump card left, they conclude they are trapped in a dead end.

Character developments and interactions

• The protagonist shifts from trying to untangle the missing memories to urgently identifying the traitor and seeking escape. Their confidence collapses as each option fails.
• Wu Yong’s mysterious past deal becomes newly significant, though its purpose remains unresolved.
• Wang Hao’s apparent inactivity becomes suspicious, while Zhang Wenping remains under consideration. The group’s ordinary interactions are recast as possible deception by a hidden enemy.

Significant themes

• Betrayal and concealed identity: A trusted group member may have been a powerful enemy all along.
• Memory and agency: The protagonist may have made consequential choices—including using Wish Echo—without retaining any memory of them.
• Isolation and helplessness: The blocked return route and unavailable allies leave the protagonist with no reliable refuge or support.

Plot points

• With the Chaos Bell’s protection fading and his trump card mysteriously already spent, the narrator faces an unknown higher-dimensional threat. He decides to use Transform All Beings on himself, since transforming through an “other self” could produce an uncontrollable result—and the powerful figures he knows are either unavailable or hostile.
• The story shifts to the Supreme True Realm, where Wang Hao waits with a fragment of the Jade Disc of Creation, whose concealment ability offers some defense against higher-dimensional scrutiny.
• When the Chat Group announces that return teleportation is disabled and group-leader settings are complete, Wang Hao enters Deep Space under the Purple Heaven’s Mandate.
• Deep Space defies ordinary concepts such as time, space, karma, and destiny. At its end, Wang Hao discovers the Nonexistent Founding Tree, whose lone, unripe fruit contains a world that may eventually rival the Primordial World.
• Wang Hao’s awe and longing disturb the supreme being meditating beneath the tree. The being turns toward him, revealing power so overwhelming that Wang Hao recognizes he could be destroyed with a thought.

Character developments and interactions

• The narrator moves from desperation to decisive action, accepting unknown risks as his only remaining option.
• Wang Hao is cautious and increasingly alarmed. A prior encounter with Karmic Law Punishment convinced him that the realm is far more dangerous than the narrator’s warning suggested, prompting him to bring his strongest defensive artifact.
• Wang Hao privately curses the narrator for claiming there were no higher-dimensional existences, while recalling the narrator’s repeated warnings to be careful.
• The supreme figure beneath the tree remains still until Wang Hao’s longing draws his attention; their direct encounter is about to begin.

Significant themes

• Power and vulnerability: Even a temporary “supreme” can be utterly insignificant before a truly superior being.
• Caution amid the unknown: Both men rely on warnings, artifacts, and preparation, yet Deep Space remains impossible to understand.
• Ambition and temptation: The world within the tree’s fruit inspires Wang Hao’s longing, and that desire immediately carries consequences.
• The limits of transformation and knowledge: The narrator cannot safely imitate someone whose true power he has never witnessed, while Wang Hao’s extraordinary vision still cannot make sense of the realm.

Key plot points and events

• Wang Hao delivers a fully mature Era Fruit—from the Nonexistent Founding Tree—to “Old Self.” He explains that Chen Fan obtained it through [Wish Echo] and urgently needs help against a higher-dimensional being. Old Self opens the sealed box, examines the fruit, and sends Wang Hao back to the Supreme True Realm.
• Chen Fan remains trapped inside the Chaos Bell, whose defenses are buckling under an invisible, conceptual assault from a higher-dimensional being.
• Donghuang Taiyi warns Chen Fan that he can protect him for less than half an incense stick longer. Despite Taiyi’s earlier evasiveness, he is clearly paying a steep price to hold the attack back.
• With little time left and the bell close to breaking, Chen Fan activates [Purple Talent: Transform All Beings], choosing to transform into a higher-dimensional being. The talent begins reshaping his true spirit, overwhelming his sense of self and bathing his body in purple light.

Character developments and interactions

• Wang Hao acts as Chen Fan’s messenger, conveying both the Era Fruit and the urgency of Chen Fan’s situation. Realizing he has been sent back, he abandons any thought of returning to the Primordial World.
• Old Self responds to the delivery without explanation, but his reaction to the mature fruit suggests its importance—and its potential role in his advancement.
• Donghuang Taiyi continues protecting Chen Fan even though the reason remains unclear. Chen Fan notices the contradiction between Taiyi’s past secrecy and present sacrifice, but does not press him while time is running out.
• Chen Fan shifts from questioning Taiyi to decisive action, accepting the dangerous, identity-altering power of his talent as his only apparent chance of survival.

Significant themes

• Power and sacrifice: Taiyi’s protection comes at a severe personal cost, while Chen Fan risks losing his sense of self to survive.
• Secrecy and trust: Taiyi’s unexplained motives contrast with his clear willingness to defend Chen Fan.
• Transformation and identity: Chen Fan’s talent offers a way to confront a higher-dimensional threat, but its first use on his original body threatens to erase or rewrite who he is.
• Urgency and opportunity: The mature Era Fruit may represent a breakthrough for Old Self, while Chen Fan faces a deadline measured in moments.

Key plot points and events

• As Chen Fan’s Transform All Beings talent reaches its climax, the Chaos Bell briefly protects his fading awareness. Donghuang Taiyi asks whether the process has begun, suggesting he knows something about Chen Fan’s situation.
• A supreme force breaks through the bell’s protection, seemingly erasing Donghuang Taiyi and threatening Chen Fan. A forbidden chant intervenes, lifting Chen Fan briefly into a higher dimension.
• Chen Fan’s existence collapses and reforms as the True Scripture, granting him the temporary ability True Word. The transformation triggers a vast supernatural effect: a torn page falls into the Supreme Martial Arts World, whose fragments turn its inhabitants—including all eight Supreme Existences—into fanatical believers within moments.
• The influence spreads beyond that world. In the Supreme True Realm, the Past issues a whisper that amounts to a declaration of war against the Present and Future. The Simulator cannot show what follows because its level is too low and the higher-dimensional information stream is broken.
• Outside the simulation, Chen Fan deduces that his Simulated Clone is arranging for Old Self to ascend and cross time to save him. The chapter ends as the Simulator resumes, announcing: “Simulation continues.”

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Fan survives only through forces beyond his understanding. Unable to observe the outcome, he shifts from despair to cautious hope and resolves to raise his cultivation and the Simulator’s level.
• Donghuang Taiyi communicates with Chen Fan and appears aware of the transformation, but vanishes when the supreme power strikes.
• Wang Hao is serving as a Messenger in the Supreme True Realm and appears to have the Simulated Clone’s trust. Chen Fan therefore rules him out, for now, as the hidden higher-dimensional enemy.
• The Simulated Clone and Old Self are linked by a suspected rescue plan: Wang Hao’s Era Fruit and Old Self’s near-transcendent power suggest the Clone is helping Old Self ascend.
• Chen Fan remains suspicious of Zhang Wenping, though he admits the identity of the disguised enemy is uncertain.

Significant themes

• Transformation and loss of self: Chen Fan’s ascent requires the collapse and reconstruction of his identity.
• Cosmic influence and helplessness: Even supreme beings are vulnerable to the True Word, while Chen Fan cannot perceive the higher-dimensional conflict he has triggered.
• Faith as contagion: The Scripture’s power converts entire populations into worshippers, making belief a force of domination.
• Limits of knowledge and trust: The Simulator’s obscured information and the possibility of hidden enemies leave Chen Fan unable to act with certainty.

Plot points and events

• A higher-dimensional entity’s “True Word” spreads from the past through the Myriad Worlds and into the Supreme True Realm, warping reality and turning beings into Believers.
• Wang Hao remains protected by the Fragment of the Jade Disc of Creation and the weakening effect of Karmic Law, but realizes the corruption is still spreading and considers retreating.
• The spread abruptly stops when a powerful voice declares, “I want this ‘True Word’ to vanish completely.”
• Wang Hao recognizes the voice as belonging to Old Self, who has unexpectedly crossed into the higher dimension in less than half a day.
• Old Self briefly clashes with the source of the True Word, wins, and removes it from the Present. The corrupted worlds are restored, and the True Word is erased even from their inhabitants’ memories.
• Despite rewriting a fixed Present—something normally forbidden by Karmic Law—Old Self suffers no backlash because he has both become a higher-dimensional being and assimilated the entire Present.

Character developments and interactions

• Wang Hao is wary and frustrated, reflecting that helping Old Self has brought him danger. His surprise at Old Self’s rapid breakthrough confirms how extraordinary the achievement is.
• Old Self undergoes a decisive transformation, rising from the limit of a Supreme Existence to a higher-dimensional being with authority over the Present.
• The chapter’s central interaction is Old Self’s confrontation with the higher-dimensional force behind the True Word. Though the clash is brief and occurs beyond ordinary perception, Old Self emerges victorious.

Significant themes

• Transcendence and power: Old Self’s breakthrough overturns the assumed limits of the Supreme True Realm.
• Time, causality, and authority: His ability to rewind a fixed Present challenges the supposedly absolute laws of Karmic Law.
• Corruption and restoration: A force can reshape countless worlds, yet an equal or greater power can erase its effects—including the memories of those affected.
• The cost of involvement: Wang Hao’s predicament highlights the danger of being caught in conflicts between beings of vastly different power.

Key events

• Outside the Simulator, Chen Fan realizes that “Old Self”—his future, higher-dimensional self—has interfered with reality by temporarily lifting the Simulator’s restrictions. He wonders whether simulation and reality are connected, but recognizes that even higher-dimensional beings cannot easily reach the real world.
• The simulation reveals that Chen Fan, transformed into the “True Scripture,” is barely resisting its overwhelming influence through the safeguard of Transform All Beings and the protection of True Self.
• The True Scripture consumes the Supreme Martial Arts World in only two breaths, turning its laws, beings, and energy into extensions of its “True Word.”
• While Chen Fan’s True Scripture battles an invading higher-dimensional existence through clashing rules, a second being launches a surprise attack and blasts away part of the invader.
• The damage opens the Scripture to its first page, revealing the word “Ruler” and proclaiming: “The Ruler… shall return!”
• Chen Fan recognizes the attacker as the higher-dimensional being from the Gods and Devils Realms, marked by numerous Class Cards—including two rainbow cards. The True Scripture gains another True Word and becomes vastly stronger, but Chen Fan remains in danger as his consciousness struggles to sustain the transformation.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Fan pieces together more of “Old Self’s” reach and the Simulator’s mysteries, but is left with major unanswered questions.
• As the True Scripture, Chen Fan experiences the horrifying gap between dimensions firsthand. He is shocked by the attacker’s ruthless methods and focuses on finding a way to preserve his fragile consciousness.
• The True Scripture and the first higher-dimensional invader are locked in a contest of rules. The Gods and Devils Realms being intervenes as an ally through a calculated ambush, turning the fight into a two-on-one struggle.

Significant themes

• Dimensional power and helplessness: Lower-dimensional worlds are as vulnerable to higher-dimensional beings as paper is to an author.
• Reality, simulation, and causality: Old Self’s interference raises the possibility that separate simulations and reality may connect at a higher level.
• Cunning and overwhelming advantage: The attack relies on surprise, numbers, and the True Scripture’s escalating power.
• Identity and survival: Chen Fan’s greatest immediate challenge is retaining his own consciousness while using a power that exposes him to forces beyond comprehension.

Key plot points and events

• The protagonist, transformed into the higher-dimensional True Scripture by [Purple Talent: Transform All Beings], continues fighting two higher-dimensional beings. The Scripture invokes its second and third “True Words,” spreading corruption across countless lower-dimensional worlds.
• The prolonged battle is effectively a stalling contest: the True Scripture has extraordinary durability, but the protagonist’s remnant spirit is rapidly deteriorating from the strain and the talent’s lethal side effects.
• A multicolored [Zero Returner] Class Card appears and pulls the combatants into a realm that forces everything back toward its original state. The True Scripture begins reverting into the protagonist’s fragile spirit, leaving them unable to fight back.
• The protagonist gives up, believing the battle lost and that Old Self will not arrive. One opponent’s words suggest they had anticipated Old Self and prepared for his intervention.
• At the last moment, a sword’s ringing cry pierces the zero-returning realm. Old Self arrives in person, driving a huge dark-green blade between the protagonist and the two enemies.

Character developments

• The protagonist reaches the limit of their power and endurance. Their transformation into the True Scripture provides immense strength, but also threatens to erase their identity; once it begins to fail, they must confront their helplessness and despair.
• Their thoughts reveal deep, unresolved needs beneath the struggle: security, time to grow peacefully, trustworthy friends, and grief over Chen Qingyan’s disappearance and their own status as a simulated clone.
• Old Self’s arrival transforms him from a distant source of hope into an active participant in the conflict, though the chapter ends before his confrontation unfolds.

Significant themes

• Power and its cost: An extraordinary ability can be both a weapon and a threat to the user’s selfhood.
• Helplessness against greater forces: The protagonist’s preparation and strength prove insufficient against higher-dimensional schemes.
• Hope and despair: The protagonist relinquishes hope just before Old Self’s dramatic arrival.
• Identity and existence: The fight to remain oneself—rather than be assimilated, erased, or reset—runs throughout the chapter.

Character interactions

• The protagonist, as the True Scripture, clashes with two higher-dimensional beings, who appear to restrain them through calculated attacks and exploit the transformation’s limited duration.
• One enemy taunts the protagonist about Old Self’s absence and reveals confidence that his intervention had been accounted for.
• Old Self’s sword cuts through the enemies’ zero-returning domain and positions itself protectively between them and the protagonist.

Key plot points

• The narrator’s surviving fragment of consciousness watches “Old Self” confront two higher-dimensional beings in the Zero Returner’s strange realm.
• Old Self wields Dawn, a colossal Half-Immortal Artifact, and reveals that his extraordinary strength comes from the Supreme True Realm. He destroys the strange land and, with a thought, restores the lower-dimensional worlds devastated by the True Scripture.
• He then transports the battlefield and his opponents to a domain he creates himself. The Gods and Devils being counters with the Zero Returner card, which drags everyone back and weakens Old Self’s authority.
• The Chat Group being attacks with an enormously amplified sword strike, but Old Self says “Still” and halts everything, erasing the attack and its techniques without apparent effort.
• Old Self spots a third higher-dimensional being concealed nearby and accepts the prospect of fighting all three.

Character developments and interactions

• Old Self is revealed as vastly more powerful and composed than his opponents expect. He protects the narrator’s last wisp of consciousness, reverses catastrophic damage across countless worlds, and remains unshaken even when his authority is suppressed and he faces a combined assault.
• The Gods and Devils being shifts from demanding answers to expressing disbelief, repeatedly using the Zero Returner’s card to regain control of the battlefield.
• The Chat Group being, initially silent, joins the fight with a devastating surprise attack—but it fails completely.
• The narrator perceives the conflict more clearly through Old Self’s higher-dimensional rank, though much of the battle remains beyond their comprehension.

Significant themes

• Power and origin: Old Self’s claim to the Supreme True Realm suggests a source of strength beyond ordinary higher-dimensional advancement.
• Creation and restoration: He can both create a domain and undo destruction on an immense scale.
• Composure against overwhelming odds: Even coordinated attacks and reality-altering powers do not visibly unsettle him.
• Escalation and confidence: The revelation of a hidden third opponent turns the confrontation into an apparent one-against-three battle, which Old Self welcomes.

Key plot points and events

• A third higher-dimensional existence returns to the battlefield, leaving “Old Self” apparently facing three Supreme Existences.
• Rather than fight a costly battle, Old Self uses a higher-dimensional word—“Swift”—to take the protagonist back to the Supreme True Realm. He explains that he could fight, but had no reason to.
• The protagonist is brought to Deep Space, where he meets Wang Hao.
• Old Self explains that he became higher-dimensional by assimilating the “true, predetermined present” ahead of time, using the already-ripened Era Fruit the protagonist had obtained through Wish Echo. Wang Hao had delivered the fruit.
• The protagonist cannot remember this crucial period and doubts Wang Hao was merely a courier. He asks Wang Hao why he trusted him with the fruit—and why Wang Hao obeyed.
• Wang Hao says he had “no choice,” then reveals the reason: the protagonist’s Golden Finger ability is the Simulator.

Character developments and interactions

• Old Self shows overwhelming power and confidence, but also pragmatism: he prioritizes rescuing the protagonist over proving himself in a three-on-one fight.
• The protagonist has recovered but remains unable to move during the battlefield escape. Later, his missing memories and unexplained trust in Wang Hao leave him unsettled.
• Wang Hao reacts to Old Self with reverence, suggesting he recognizes the danger and stature of a true higher-dimensional being. His cryptic explanation hints that the Simulator gave the protagonist leverage over him.
• The protagonist confronts Wang Hao directly, but Wang Hao’s final revelation raises more questions than it answers.

Significant themes

• Pragmatism over pride: Old Self refuses an unnecessary fight, focusing on the purpose of his journey.
• Hidden causes and missing memories: The protagonist’s past choices remain obscured, making his own history difficult to trust or understand.
• Power and agency: Wang Hao’s claim that he had “no choice” suggests the Simulator can influence or constrain others, foreshadowing its significance.
• Escalating cosmic danger: Multiple higher-dimensional beings are drawn into the conflict, though the wider world may contain powers capable of opposing them.

Key plot points

• Wang Hao reveals that Chen Fan had previously told him the [Simulator] was his Golden Finger, shocking Chen Fan, who considers it an absolute secret even within the simulation.
• Wang Hao reconstructs their earlier conversation, showing how Chen Fan approached him after concluding that a higher-dimensional being had trapped him.
• Chen Fan explains that his [Listening] ability cannot detect information about transmigrators or warn him about the trap. He reasons that someone in their Chat Group must be plotting against him.
• Chen Fan offers Wang Hao the primordial purple qi—the likely reward of the Third Group Mission—in exchange for carrying a box containing a fully ripened era fruit into the Deep Space of the Supreme True Realm and delivering it to the Supreme Existence there.
• When Wang Hao asks why Chen Fan needs him specifically, Chen Fan argues that Wang Hao has protection or a trump card from a higher-dimensional existence. Chen Fan suspects the hidden enemy targets him not because of his rewards, but because of the powerful beings connected to him.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Fan appears unusually vulnerable, admitting that he has reached a dead end, but remains analytical and strategic. He uses the primordial purple qi as leverage and presses Wang Hao to accept that they share a larger threat.
• Wang Hao is skeptical and reluctant to get involved, yet the valuable reward makes him interested. In the present, he uses the recovered memory to confront Chen Fan with what he knows.
• Their relationship is defined by mutual suspicion and careful negotiation: Chen Fan needs Wang Hao’s help, while Wang Hao probes the risks and motives behind the request.
• Chen Fan’s “Old Self” senses his violent reaction to the revelation about the Simulator and silently shields him, underscoring the danger of the secret.

Significant themes

• Secrets and exposure: Chen Fan’s reaction shows how crucial the Simulator is to his survival and how dangerous it would be for others to know about it.
• Trust under uncertainty: The two characters cooperate only through cautious bargaining and incomplete knowledge.
• Higher-dimensional manipulation: The chapter frames the group’s troubles as part of a conflict involving hidden powers and unseen protection.
• Inference and strategic leverage: Chen Fan turns the limitations of his ability into evidence, then uses a major reward to secure help.

Key plot points and events

• The narrator confronts Wang Hao with the theory that higher-dimensional beings are watching the Chat Group and may stand behind its members.
• Wang Hao confirms the possibility but says he does not know which being is targeting the narrator.
• The narrator reveals that the higher-dimensional observer has been watching the current events too, and asks Wang Hao—and the higher-dimensional being behind him—to help.
• Wang Hao suspects the primordial purple qi is meant as payment for protection. The narrator denies this, saying their death is already fated and they are only delaying it.
• The narrator reveals that their Golden Finger is the Simulator. Wang Hao realizes the conversation is likely taking place in a simulation, where even he and the higher-dimensional beings may be simulated versions.
• The narrator explains that their true self can observe whether Wang Hao interferes, and offers the primordial purple qi along with an “opportunity” to pledge loyalty.
• Fearing that antagonizing the narrator could endanger his real self, Wang Hao accepts.

Character developments and interactions

• The narrator shifts from questioning Wang Hao to asserting control through strategic revelations. Despite believing their own death is inevitable, they remain composed and use the Simulator’s power to test Wang Hao’s intentions.
• Wang Hao moves from suspicion and anger to shock, envy, and wary submission. Once he grasps the possible reach of the Simulator, he decides that loyalty is safer than resistance.
• Their exchange becomes a contest of leverage: Wang Hao probes the narrator’s motives, while the narrator gradually reveals enough to make refusal seem dangerous.

Significant themes

• Fate and agency: The narrator accepts a seemingly fixed death while still trying to shape what happens before it.
• Power and information: The Simulator’s potential transforms the balance of power as much as its actual abilities do.
• Reality and uncertainty: Wang Hao cannot know whether the simulation is real, but the possibility that it is real is enough to influence his choice.
• Pragmatism over pride: Wang Hao concludes that survival and self-interest matter more than dignity in a world ruled by overwhelming power.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Fan learns that his Simulated Clone openly revealed the Simulator to Wang Hao, yet the [Simulation Choice Function] did not activate. He concludes that this disclosure—and Wang Hao’s response—cannot affect the tenth simulation’s outcome.
• The Clone’s words suggest his fall is unavoidable: it is the ending others want, and also part of a game he himself has arranged to test something.
• Chen Fan realizes the danger may have begun when the Clone opened the [Chat Group]. Higher-dimensional beings connected to its members already knew about the Simulator and may have made plans against him.
• He considers avoiding the threat by selecting the [Chat Group] talent after the simulation but never opening it. Still, he doubts this will be enough, since he may have underestimated the being inside the group.
• Chen Fan suspects Wu Yong’s trade involving the [Future Riddle Machine] was meant to make the Clone recognize that he was in a certain-death situation. He interprets it as a possible signal of support from Wu Yong or a higher-dimensional being connected to him.
• The chapter ends with Chen Fan questioning why he sought out Wang Hao and assumed Wang Hao would side with him, wondering whether Wang Hao—or the being behind him—had been influenced or had acted on his behalf.

Character developments

• Chen Fan shifts from shock to wary analysis. He tries to infer the motives and alliances of powerful beings, but recognizes that he may not understand their plans—or know whom to trust.
• The Simulated Clone appears to have knowingly accepted an inevitable death, while revealing the Simulator and setting up a test whose purpose remains unclear.
• Wu Yong is reinterpreted as possibly acting to alert the Clone to his doomed position and signal allegiance, though Chen Fan cannot tell whether this was Wu Yong’s own choice or a higher being’s.
• Wang Hao becomes uncertain in Chen Fan’s eyes: Chen Fan had trusted him, but now questions whether that trust was justified or shaped by outside forces.

Significant themes

• Fate versus agency: The Clone’s death is presented as fixed, even as he tries to use it to verify something.
• Hidden power and manipulation: Higher-dimensional beings may be influencing events without Chen Fan’s knowledge.
• Trust and allegiance: Apparent allies may be acting under unknown motives or outside influence.
• Incomplete knowledge: Chen Fan can only reconstruct events from fragments, leaving crucial questions unresolved.

Character interactions

• The Clone’s disclosure to Wang Hao becomes the central event Chen Fan analyzes, though he cannot tell whether Wang Hao’s response mattered.
• Wu Yong’s exchange through the [Future Riddle Machine] is treated as a possible warning or gesture of support toward the Clone.
• Chen Fan’s prior decision to approach Wang Hao is now under scrutiny: he wonders whether Wang Hao truly chose to support him or whether some hidden influence shaped their connection.

Key plot points

• Chen Fan learns that his past self told Wang Hao to travel to the Supreme True Realm, complete the Third Group Mission, and wait for a signal. The signal would be the Chat Group temporarily closing the teleportation channel.
• Past Chen Fan warned Wang Hao that he would lose these memories and instructed him to explain everything again if asked. He also shared some of his Heaven’s Mandate so Wang Hao could enter Deep Space and meet “Old Self.”
• Chen Fan accepts that his fate may be death, but becomes more determined to understand why his memories and part of his true spirit were erased. Old Self says a higher-dimensional being’s ability is affecting them, and restoring them will take time.
• Still unconvinced by the claim that Wang Hao was needed to escort the mature Era Fruit, Chen Fan asks Wang Hao why he was chosen. Wang Hao admits he does not know.
• Chen Fan asks about Wang Hao’s Golden Finger. Wang Hao refuses to reveal it, fearing that disclosure would expose and damage it.
• To earn Chen Fan’s trust, Wang Hao gives him a Fragment of the Jade Disc of Creation, whose concealment ability can partially shield against higher-dimensional observation and influence. He also lets Chen Fan keep the primordial purple qi, then returns to the Primordial World.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Fan shifts from suspicion and confusion toward reluctant acceptance of his grim prospects, while remaining intensely curious about his lost memories. He trusts Wang Hao enough to accept the fragment, though he still doubts the explanation for Wang Hao’s role.
• Wang Hao is cooperative but keeps his Golden Finger secret. He seeks to rebuild trust with Chen Fan across possible future simulations or reality, offering the fragment as proof of goodwill.
• Old Self confirms that the memory loss involves a higher-dimensional power, but cannot restore the memories immediately.
• The conversation shows a cautious alliance: Chen Fan presses Wang Hao for answers and information, while Wang Hao responds honestly where he can and offers a protective artifact instead of revealing his most sensitive secret.

Significant themes

• Memory, identity, and fate: Chen Fan’s erased memories shape his choices, while he confronts the possibility that death is unavoidable.
• Trust under uncertainty: Both men cooperate without full disclosure, using actions and tokens of goodwill to build confidence.
• Higher-dimensional limits and hidden causes: Even powerful beings may be unable to undo certain effects, and the true purpose behind Wang Hao’s involvement remains unresolved.

Key plot points and events

• After Wang Hao departs, Chen Fan examines the Jade Disc fragment and puts it away; its ability to hide things from higher-dimensional beings is redundant now that “Old Self” has ascended.
• Chen Fan asks Wu Yong about the answer to an earlier Future Riddle Machine puzzle. Neither of them knows it, so the mystery remains unresolved.
• “Old Self” explains the powers gained after absorbing the Present and ascending to a higher dimension. Within the Supreme True Realm, his words can become law, he can influence karmic judgments, and he has effectively become the Heaven and Earth of the established Present.
• His new ability, Reincarnation, lets him control Fourth Era beings below the Spirit Transformation Dao Master realm and restart the Present—including the myriad worlds, World Sea, and Supreme True Realm—while retaining his own memories. Each restart returns the world to the era’s beginning, though certain established facts, such as the creation of a void-proven fruit position, cannot be undone.
• Chen Fan wonders whether the original Heaven and Earth had similar powers and whether its restarts might have affected him. He recalls his Reincarnator card but sets the concern aside.
• Chen Fan recycles unwanted treasures, gaining experience and attribute points. He invests nearly a billion experience in qi refining limit-breaking, raising it from 11,500 to 16,000 layers. His strength increases greatly, though he cannot measure it precisely. He is also nearing the attribute-point threshold for upgrading the true-false supreme realm.

Character developments

• Old Self has advanced into a higher dimension, gaining authority over the Present and a near-absolute ability to reshape its timeline.
• Chen Fan continues strengthening himself while reflecting on the nature and possible history of Heaven and Earth. His power grows, but he remains uncertain about its scale.
• Wu Yong cannot clarify the riddle, leaving Chen Fan without answers.

Significant themes

• Power and perspective: Higher-dimensional beings differ chiefly in their elevated perspective and dimensional status; only beings at that level can oppose them.
• Control of reality and time: Reincarnation can reset an entire world-system, but even seemingly absolute power has limits.
• Uncertainty about history: The possibility that Heaven and Earth was created through assimilation—and may have used its own resets—raises questions about the reliability of the past.
• Progress through accumulation: Chen Fan’s enormous investment yields substantial growth, yet advancement at the highest levels remains demanding.

Character interactions

• Chen Fan exchanges brief messages with Wu Yong, but their shared ignorance leaves the riddle unanswered.
• Chen Fan questions Old Self about his new abilities and listens as Old Self explains the scope and limits of Reincarnation.
• The interaction highlights their contrast: Old Self now possesses world-shaping authority, while Chen Fan remains an increasingly powerful observer trying to understand it.