Chapter Summaries

Plot points

• Facing a death trap set by Wang Hao, Chen Fan asks Wu Yong for a solution.
• Wu Yong offers a Disaster-Class Exclusive Shelter, a futuristic device that shields anyone inside from all outside harm—including Golden Finger abilities and higher-dimensional beings.
• The shelter’s steep price is a future promise: a contract that would bind not only Chen Fan’s simulated self but also the original Chen Fan in reality, who possesses the Simulator.
• Wu Yong wants a guarantee of his continued existence in case a powerful “Future Chen Fan” emerges. He suspects this future being may be the original Chen Fan’s higher-dimensional future self.
• Chen Fan recognizes the contract as the Trade Contract he encountered in an earlier simulation, though he no longer has the talent that previously let him inspect it.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Fan is wary of Wu Yong’s offer but sees that accepting may be his best chance to survive. He reflects that, as a simulated clone, he might gain the benefit while the original bears the cost.
• Wu Yong reveals that his help is also self-protection. He knew about Wang Hao’s scheme and has turned the crisis into an opportunity to secure a future safeguard.
• Their exchange shifts from rescue to negotiation: Chen Fan asks about the price, and Wu Yong openly explains his motives and the contract’s reach.

Significant themes

• Survival versus obligation: Chen Fan must weigh immediate safety against a promise that could bind his real-world original.
• Identity and responsibility: The chapter questions whether a simulated self can make commitments on behalf of the person who created it.
• Fear of the future: Wu Yong’s request reflects anxiety about the potential power and intentions of a future Chen Fan.
• Self-interest and trust: Wu Yong offers genuine protection, but his aid serves his own need for security.

Plot points and events

• Wu Yong offers Chen Fan a trade: in exchange for a “future promise” that Wu Yong can call in later, Chen Fan may use the Disaster-Class Exclusive Shelter to escape the death trap.
• Chen Fan can reject any request Wu Yong makes, but must eventually agree to one he is capable of fulfilling. Wu Yong insists the contract requires Chen Fan’s genuine, unforced consent.
• To sweeten the offer, Wu Yong revises the contract to guarantee Chen Fan’s survival for the remainder of the Fourth Group Mission, as well as access to the shelter.
• Outside the simulation, the real Chen Fan receives a prompt to intervene in his clone’s choice. Accepting would significantly alter the simulation and cause unknown effects; refusing would leave it unchanged.
• Wary that those effects might threaten him in reality, Chen Fan chooses to reject Wu Yong’s offer. The simulated Chen Fan feels compelled by the intervention and refuses.

Character developments and interactions

• The simulated Chen Fan is desperate and seriously tempted, recognizing he has no apparent way out of the death trap. Still, he questions why Wu Yong needs a voluntary contract and remains suspicious of his motives.
• Real Chen Fan prioritizes his own safety over his clone’s short-term chance of survival. He doubts Wu Yong’s explanation and fears the promise could give Wu Yong leverage over him in the future.
• Wu Yong presents himself as a potential ally, claiming he wants protection from the suspected future Chen Fan. His offer grows more generous, but the contract would leave the clone’s future dependent on Wu Yong’s continued help.

Significant themes

• Agency and coercion: The contract’s validity depends on genuine consent, while the simulation intervention overrides the clone’s choice through an irresistible impulse.
• Trust and hidden costs: A seemingly favorable bargain may conceal long-term risks, especially when one party holds power over the other.
• Self-interest and sacrifice: The original Chen Fan must choose between helping his clone survive now and avoiding potentially dangerous consequences for himself later.

Key events

• The narrator rejects Wu Yong’s offer, losing his support and feeling increasingly vulnerable to Wang Hao’s schemes.
• The fourth group mission—destroying the Human, Demon, and Divine Realms—is too dangerous to attempt early. The narrator is only around an ordinary Supreme Existence, while the Divine Realm still contains three hidden Supreme Existences.
• Before dawn, the narrator’s Golden Talent: Listening activates the Great Dao Bell’s long-awaited eight-rings intelligence. It reveals that the Gods and Devils Realms conceal the final surviving Colorful Class Card, [Creator], which can raise its holder to a higher-dimensional existence.
• The card has never been found or obtained. It is one of the world’s nine fundamental sources; the other eight have shattered, weakening the world.
• The narrator realizes Past Li Ping may have left the card as a contingency and is still a threat. With Wang Hao plotting ahead and Past Li Ping lurking behind, the narrator feels trapped.
• Considering a desperate gamble with [Existence from Nonexistence], the narrator concludes it would not be enough. They decide they need a real protector—possibly an Otherworldly Demon with a powerful Golden Finger—and suddenly think of someone who might fit.

Character developments and interactions

• The narrator shifts from anxious helplessness to searching for a concrete ally, recognizing they can no longer rely on their own strength.
• Wu Yong accepts the refusal without argument, quietly putting away the Trade Contract and leaving; his departure confirms the narrator has lost his help.
• Wang Hao remains an immediate, calculating danger, while Past Li Ping emerges as a second, hidden adversary whose influence may extend to the concealed Creator card.
• The narrator briefly hopes for intervention from the speculative “Future Chen Fan,” but dismisses that possibility as unreliable.

Significant themes

• Isolation and dependence: refusing help leaves the narrator exposed, and brute force cannot solve the predicament.
• Hidden contingencies and layered schemes: information that seems useful reveals an even larger danger.
• Power and world stability: the shattered Colorful Class Cards have diminished the world, while the last one may determine its fate.
• Uncertainty and hope: despite bleak odds, the narrator’s sudden identification of a possible protector offers a tentative path forward.

Key plot points and events

• Facing Wang Hao and Past Li Ping’s schemes—and no longer able to rely on Wu Yong—the protagonist devises a two-part plan: seek help from Senior Lin Feng’s sealed clone in the future “Immortal Realm,” and remain in the Supreme True Realm afterward, where powerful beings and rules may constrain his enemies.
• The protagonist suspects Lin Feng’s Golden Finger could provide unusual abilities or a way to counter other Golden Fingers. He uses Immortal-Settling Journey to enter the future Immortal Realm, first withdrawing the primordial spiritual root’s boost so the realm’s restrictions will not reject him.
• On arrival, he finds the realm much as it was in the earlier simulation, dominated by the Starry Sky Federation. He searches for Chen Qingyan but cannot locate him. He detects the Blazing Sun Immortal Venerable, Purple Cloud True Lord, and the Heavenly Court’s Nine Heavens, who appears to have escaped his seal and is allied with Blazing Sun.
• Although powerful enough to destroy Blazing Sun and Purple Cloud, the protagonist avoids provoking Nine Heavens—and possibly the Supreme Immortal—before carrying out his larger plan.
• Instead, he unleashes his power on almost everyone else in the realm, leaving only a tiny fraction alive and reducing the Planetary Federation to ruins. He leaves the message “Chen Fan was here,” then gains a huge haul of experience, abilities, treasures, and fruit positions through The Only Player. Heaven Rewards Diligence doubles the rewards.

Character developments and interactions

• The protagonist shifts from considering a direct confrontation to a cautious, layered strategy. He recognizes that raw strength may not overcome opponents whose Golden Fingers give them decisive advantages.
• His treatment of the Immortal Realm’s inhabitants shows both his overwhelming power and his dark, irreverent humor: he spares key figures to avoid disrupting the plan, but massacres nearly everyone else and taunts Chen Fan with his inscription.
• Lin Feng remains a hoped-for ally rather than an active participant; the protagonist intends to unseal his clone and ask for help.
• The protagonist’s search for Chen Qingyan remains unresolved. Nine Heavens’s secret alliance with Blazing Sun presents a serious potential obstacle.

Significant themes

• Strategy over strength: The protagonist seeks ways to counter superior abilities and limit his enemies’ options instead of relying solely on force.
• Power and restraint: He can devastate the realm but deliberately avoids actions that could trigger a more dangerous conflict.
• Escalating consequences: His accumulating abilities and rewards make him increasingly powerful, while his choices risk drawing the attention of still greater forces.

Key events

• The narrator tallies an enormous haul from the previous events: over 210 million experience, more than two million attribute points, numerous divine abilities, hundreds of True Treasures, and one Dao Artifact.
• With no longer possessing the talent Fusion, they leave their divine abilities untouched and spend all their experience raising Qi Refining limit-breaking from 17,000 to 18,000 layers. The narrator notes that progress has become increasingly difficult.
• After nearly wiping out the Cultivation World, they stop rather than further antagonize the Blazing Sun Immortal Venerable and other powerful figures. They still cannot find Chen Qingyan, whom they suspect Heaven and Earth or the Supreme Immortal have hidden.
• Instead of pursuing Chen Qingyan, they use the authority of Immortal-Settling Journey to travel to the cave in the future Immortal Realm where an unfinished Dao-Burying Fruit Position remains.
• The narrator begins the familiar attainment ritual, completing Self Burial, Enemy Burial, and Heaven and Earth Burial. Though Heavenly Will resists, the narrator uses the Unrestricted talent to overcome the fruit position’s final void-proof restriction.
• They successfully attain the Dao-Burying Fruit Position, and distant shackles break—signaling a long-awaited change.

Character developments and interactions

• The narrator shows greater restraint and strategic focus: they abandon the tempting search for Chen Qingyan and prioritize their immediate plan to unseal Senior Lin Feng’s clone.
• Their growing power is evident, but so is the rising cost of advancement: an enormous reserve of experience yields only 1,000 additional Qi Refining layers.
• The narrator directly opposes Heavenly Will during the ritual, overcoming its resistance through Unrestricted. Their earlier connection to the fruit position also matters: despite having sacrificed it, they can attain it again because their Golden Core perfection cultivation remained intact.
• The narrator avoids provoking the Blazing Sun Immortal Venerable and the other surviving Nascent Soul True Lords, recognizing that further slaughter would mainly antagonize them rather than achieve a useful result.

Significant themes

• Escalating power and diminishing returns: Progress requires ever-greater resources.
• Restraint and prioritization: The narrator chooses the necessary objective over pursuing a hidden enemy.
• Defiance of cosmic limits: The successful void-proof shows the narrator using their unique talent to surpass a restriction enforced by Heavenly Will.
• Preparation for a greater change: The broken shackles foreshadow a major development tied to attaining the fruit position.

Plot

• A bell tolls three times, heralding the Supreme’s return. A vast rift opens across time and space, revealing Beyond Heaven, an independent World Domain whose power rivals the source of the Great Dao.
• The protagonist recognizes the familiar scene from the Simulated Clone’s past—but is now much stronger, yet trapped in an even more hopeless death trap.
• Inside Beyond Heaven, the protagonist finds Senior Lin Feng, still a reassuring ally despite being a clone. Through Dao resonance, the protagonist explains the crisis and proposes a plan.
• Lin Feng says his memories of the Golden Finger have been erased, but urges the protagonist to proceed: his original self in the Past will surely help.
• Since the protagonist is in the Future and cannot use the Spacetime Token to reach the Past directly, they use the authority of Immortal-Settling Journey to travel to the Present of the Immortal Realm.

Character developments and interactions

• The protagonist remains desperate but acts decisively, relying on an unconventional route to seek help.
• Senior Lin Feng’s warmth and loyalty reassure the protagonist. Though he is only a clone and lacks key memories, he affirms their bond and confidence in his original self.

Significant themes

• Trust and continuity across time: Lin Feng’s clone and original self remain connected by loyalty, even when memories differ.
• Resourcefulness in the face of despair: The protagonist adapts the plan when direct travel to the Past proves impossible.
• Power and peril: The protagonist’s greater strength does not prevent them from facing a seemingly unsurvivable crisis.

Key plot points and events

• The protagonist returns to the Immortal Realm’s present using the authority of Immortal-Settling Journey, provoking the Karmic Law and an imminent punishment.
• They shield themselves with the incomplete myriad-void primordial ancient weeping willow, using its ability to erase traces in primordial chaos. The karma and punishment gathering around them dissipate.
• This protection has limits: the protagonist can only glimpse the present dimly and can barely influence it. They sense that “Old Self” has noticed their arrival, but decide not to seek help.
• Their priority is to contact Senior Lin Feng in the past with the Spacetime Token. They reach his original body and, relieved that he appears unharmed, quickly recount the events of the simulation and ask him to analyze their predicament.
• Lin Feng listens and concludes that “there is still a thread of hope.”

Character developments and interactions

• The protagonist is resourceful but nearly out of options: their previous trump cards are exhausted, leaving the newly acquired willow as their main defense. They also show caution by withholding future-related details that might expose Lin Feng to Karmic Law punishment.
• Lin Feng is calm, attentive, and reassuring. He understands that the protagonist wants help assessing their situation and offers cautious hope rather than an immediate solution.
• The protagonist and Lin Feng share a trusting mentor–student relationship: the protagonist gives a detailed account, and Lin Feng listens before responding.

Significant themes

• The limits of power: Even mighty beings are subject to the Karmic Law, and survival depends on evasion as much as strength.
• Secrecy and consequence: Knowledge of the future can itself be dangerous, so the protagonist carefully controls what they reveal.
• Hope amid desperation: Though stripped of most resources and facing a dire situation, the protagonist seeks guidance—and Lin Feng sees a possible way forward.

Plot points

• The narrator, trapped in a dangerous group mission, asks Senior Lin Feng for a way to survive. Lin Feng says there may still be hope, but first the narrator must understand who is influencing events.
• Lin Feng argues that Wu Yong’s Trade Contract was not primarily meant to secure a future promise. It was a probe to learn whether the narrator’s true body could intervene in the simulation.
• Wu Yong may also have helped the narrator indirectly: his influence led the narrator to use the Spacetime Token and meet Lin Feng.
• Lin Feng believes the narrator has been under others’ influence since the Fourth Group Mission began. Wang Hao may have shaped the narrator’s earlier actions, including acquiring the primordial spiritual root and traveling into the higher-dimensional future.
• Lin Feng concludes that Wu Yong likely arranged for the narrator to meet him—possibly to disrupt Wang Hao’s plans or advance his own. Wu Yong may want the narrator to clash with Wang Hao while he watches from a distance.
• Lin Feng also warns that the speculative “Future Chen Fan” cannot be relied upon.

Character developments and interactions

• The narrator shifts from believing Wang Hao and Past Li Ping are the only threats to realizing Wu Yong may have subtly steered their choices too. This makes the narrator more suspicious and uncertain about their own agency.
• Senior Lin Feng acts as a calm, perceptive adviser, revealing the broader pattern of manipulation without offering a direct rescue plan. His unusual, wistful reaction to Ning Chen’s name raises the possibility of a significant past connection.
• Wu Yong emerges as a subtle strategist whose motives remain unclear: he may be probing the narrator, helping them survive, and trying to interfere with Wang Hao.
• Wang Hao is described as especially powerful at planning and manipulation, though his exact intentions remain uncertain.
• Lin Feng and the narrator discuss Wu Yong, Wang Hao, Past Li Ping, Ning Chen, and the possible future self “Future Chen Fan”; Lin Feng’s remarks deepen the narrator’s concern about all of them.

Significant themes

• Agency versus manipulation: The narrator’s plans may have been shaped by others from the outset.
• Hidden motives and layered schemes: Deals and apparent help may serve several purposes at once.
• Uncertainty and trust: The narrator cannot confidently identify allies, enemies, or even the source of their own decisions.
• Strategic conflict: Wu Yong may be positioning the narrator against Wang Hao while avoiding direct involvement himself.

Key events

• Lin Feng deduces that Wu Yong’s influence has steered the protagonist into a plan meant to draw Lin Feng into a confrontation with Wang Hao. Wang Hao appears willing to let the scheme proceed. Lin Feng says he will help, then conducts a dangerous deduction that triggers karmic-law punishment.
• When the Spacetime Token’s brief connection ends, the protagonist returns to the ruined future Immortal Realm. The karmic aura around them disperses, and they tell Lin Feng’s avatar everything they learned. Unsure what Lin Feng’s true body will do, they decide to stay close to the avatar for protection.
• At dawn on the second day of the Fourth Group Mission, the protagonist’s listening talent delivers new intelligence: the Lord of the Heavenly Court, Nine Heavens, has recovered from his earlier injury, located the protagonist in the future realm, and is preparing to cross over from the present to attack again.

Character developments and interactions

• The protagonist recognizes how thoroughly Wu Yong has guided their actions and feels overwhelmed by the schemes surrounding them. They remain dependent on Lin Feng and seek safety by staying beside his avatar.
• Lin Feng shows warmth and resolve toward the protagonist, accepting the risk of karmic backlash to help. His avatar calmly receives the protagonist’s account, suggesting a connection with his true body.
• Wu Yong and Wang Hao remain largely offstage but are revealed as willing participants in a plan that may force Lin Feng and Wang Hao into conflict.
• Nine Heavens shifts from a past threat to an imminent one, having recovered and prepared a new attack.

Significant themes

• Manipulation and layered schemes: The protagonist is a pawn in a plan whose real target may be Lin Feng.
• Sacrifice and protection: Lin Feng bears dangerous consequences to assist a junior.
• Powerlessness amid larger forces: The protagonist understands more of the plot but lacks the strength to change its course.
• Rising danger: The revelation of Nine Heavens’s return introduces a time-sensitive threat.

Key plot points and events

• Three years after the earlier encirclement, the real Lord of the Heavenly Court, Nine Heavens moves against the protagonist just as Wang Hao, Wu Yong, and other Chat Group members begin plotting. The protagonist realizes Nine Heavens had likely recovered long ago and was waiting for this precise moment.
• The protagonist tries to use Immortal-Settling Journey to travel to the “final day” and investigate. It fails both when they request an absolutely safe place and when they settle for a relatively safe one.
• Changing the destination to a relatively safe place the day before the final day succeeds—but the protagonist remains in the same place and time: the second day of the Fourth Group Mission.
• The protagonist deduces that this must mean tomorrow is the final day, and that the “safe place” is the Immortal Realm, where Lin Feng’s avatar can protect them.
• They then reinterpret an earlier trip to the third-day future. It was not the same point in the higher-dimensional sequence: by the time the protagonist from the first day arrived there, the “final day” had already passed, and the protagonist from that day had already died.
• The chapter ends with the protagonist concluding that their downfall was effectively predetermined from the start of the mission—and suspecting Wang Hao arranged the timeline to conceal what happened.

Character developments and interactions

• The protagonist shifts from alarm at Nine Heavens’s involvement to intense, reluctant detective work. They use the limits of their authority to infer how the timeline is structured, but the discovery leaves them feeling helpless.
• Wang Hao emerges as an exceptionally calculating opponent. His earlier influence over the protagonist’s time-jump may have hidden the protagonist’s future death, though his exact purpose remains unclear.
• Nine Heavens appears to have been waiting for the right moment to act, coordinating his move with the Chat Group’s schemes.
• Lin Feng’s avatar is identified as the reason the Immortal Realm is relatively safe; the protagonist consults him to confirm that time has not changed.
• Wu Yong and the other Chat Group members are implicated in the plot against the protagonist, with Lin Feng indicating that their scheme was meant to provoke him into acting.

Significant themes

• Predestination and fatalism: The protagonist believes their fall was fixed before they understood the danger.
• Manipulation and hidden schemes: Wang Hao’s influence and the coordinated timing of the antagonists make earlier events seem deliberately misleading.
• Time, causality, and perspective: Different “nodes” on the same apparent day can represent distinct points in a higher-dimensional sequence, overturning the protagonist’s assumptions.
• Knowledge without control: The protagonist uncovers the likely truth but may be too late to change the outcome.

Plot points and events

• On the third day—the “final day”—Chen Fan asks Lin Feng’s avatar whether he can use Immortal-Settling Journey to visit a future node where another version of himself exists, potentially creating multiple copies.
• Lin Feng rules this out: the ability has not ascended to the higher-dimensional level, and a rule forbids two identical beings from occupying the same node. Attempting it would result in Chen Fan’s annihilation.
• Lin Feng also mentions other restrictions tied to karmic law and “forbidden knowledge,” though he cannot explain them further. Chen Fan realizes this rule also explains why his earlier attempts to travel to the final day failed.
• At dawn, Golden Talent: Listening triggers its final eight-ring revelation. It explains that higher-dimensional realms originally had no rules; powerful beings established them, and their authority outranks Chen Fan’s ability. Merely learning about such beings can attract their attention, and Chen Fan is currently far beneath their level.
• Chen Fan considers whether his Simulator might one day grant him an ability with enough priority to overcome those rules.
• The future Immortal Realm then suffers a major upheaval: a rift opens, but a restriction prevents a powerful being from entering. The being’s movements unleash waves of karmic law. Chen Fan recognizes it as the recovered Lord of the Heavenly Court, Nine Heavens, whose arrival confirms that the final day has begun.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Fan shifts from searching for a loophole to recognizing the vast power gap between himself and the beings who govern higher-dimensional reality. Even so, he wonders whether he might eventually surpass their authority.
• Lin Feng acts as a cautious adviser, answering Chen Fan’s question while withholding—or lacking—further knowledge about the forbidden restrictions.
• Chen Fan’s response to the revelation is a mix of awe, alarm, and speculation; the arrival of Nine Heavens turns abstract danger into an immediate threat.

Significant themes

• Power and hierarchy: An ability’s usefulness depends not only on what it can do, but on whether its authority outranks the rules governing reality.
• Limits of knowledge: Some truths are dangerous to know, especially when they concern beings powerful enough to notice those who learn about them.
• Identity and existence: The rule against identical beings sharing a node blocks Chen Fan’s plan to multiply himself.
• Foreshadowing and inevitability: The failed travel attempts and earlier revelations lead toward the final-day confrontation with Nine Heavens.

Key plot points and events

• The true Lord of the Heavenly Court, Nine Heavens begins forcing his way into the Immortal Realm from the present, targeting the future. The karmic law detects the intrusion, preventing him from using his full power without suffering punishment.
• A strange fluctuation accelerates the Immortal Realm’s collapse. Senior Lin Feng’s clone identifies its cause: the Era Fruit, hidden deep within the realm, has altered an unanchored fact and helped the Lord overcome the realm’s rejection.
• The Lord descends through the shattered sky and absorbs the version of himself that had remained in the Immortal Realm. This confirms that the earlier Lord was his clone.
• Senior Lin Feng’s clone concludes that the Era Fruit did not fully remove the realm’s resistance: the Lord has instead inherited the karma he left there and retains less than one ten-thousandth of his strength.
• The Lord points out that Lin Feng is also present only through a clone, declaring the matchup fair. Their confrontation is now inevitable.

Character developments and interactions

• The narrator recognizes the Era Fruit’s role and recalls its extraordinary ability to alter established facts, but realizes too late that this could have offered a chance to intervene. They suspect schemers Wang Hao and Wu Yong influenced their thinking, then hold back as the fruit has already been used.
• Senior Lin Feng’s clone stays composed, observes events, and taunts the Lord by exposing the limits of his weakened state.
• The Lord of the Heavenly Court, Nine Heavens uses the Era Fruit and his Immortal Realm clone to secure his descent. He acknowledges that Lin Feng is likewise a clone, framing their coming battle as an even contest.

Significant themes

• Fate and causality: The Era Fruit can change facts before they become fixed, while karmic law still imposes consequences.
• Power with limits: Even a being capable of crossing realms must contend with rejection, karma, and reduced strength.
• Deception and uncertainty: The Lord’s clone, the true body, and the hidden contingency reveal how much remains concealed.
• A looming clash: The chapter ends by setting up a momentous battle between two powerful but incomplete manifestations.

Plot points

• As Senior Lin Feng’s clone battles the true Lord of the Heavenly Court, Nine Heavens, an unseen force seizes the protagonist and carries them out of the Immortal Realm and the Supreme True Realm.
• The protagonist cannot resist—not even with the primordial willow’s void-erasing ability—and is also prevented from activating their talent, Existence from Nonexistence. Senior Lin Feng’s clone is similarly controlled and remains trapped in battle.
• The protagonist suspects another Chat Group member is responsible, most likely Wang Hao or Ning Chen, but cannot identify the ability or its user. They reason that activating their defensive talent beforehand would only give a calculating enemy time to wait out its short duration.
• As the protagonist is dragged beyond the reach of karmic law, they realize the force resembles a higher-dimensional script: a predetermined story that its “actors” cannot alter.
• Just before the protagonist crosses beyond karmic law, everything abruptly freezes. An invisible power halts the script, and a cold, contemptuous scoff sounds.

Character developments and interactions

• The protagonist is reduced to helplessness and nears despair, but clings to the hope that the supreme existence who has rescued them before—implicitly Senior Lin Feng—will intervene.
• Senior Lin Feng’s clone notices the protagonist’s peril but cannot help because the force controls him and Nine Heavens keeps him occupied.
• Nine Heavens appears to be distracting or holding back the clone rather than directly pursuing the protagonist.
• The unidentified controller’s power is portrayed as far beyond ordinary abilities, manipulating both the protagonist and the battle like scripted characters. The sudden pause suggests a new, exceptionally powerful presence has intervened.

Significant themes

• Predestination versus agency: The force turns events into an unchangeable script, stripping characters of choice.
• Helplessness and reliance on trust: With their own powers unavailable, the protagonist survives psychologically by trusting a rescuer.
• Power beyond established rules: Escaping karmic law and freezing the script imply forces operating at a higher dimensional level.
• Manipulation and misdirection: The battle between Nine Heavens and Lin Feng’s clone conceals the real attack on the protagonist.

Key plot points and events

• Lin Feng’s familiar, scornful snort interrupts the forceful “script” that had threatened the narrator. The narrator suspects Lin Feng used a Golden Finger ability, though he cannot tell whether Lin Feng appeared in person or left an ability behind.
• The narrator returns to the Immortal Realm using the authority of Immortal-Settling Journey. The script’s influence does not return, but he senses that an immense, unseen upheaval has taken place.
• A figure descends from a higher dimension via a strange, rune-covered stairway. As he approaches the present world, he becomes increasingly clear and powerful.
• The narrator recognizes the figure as Ning Chen, then immediately doubts the identification, sensing that this being is somehow not truly Ning Chen.
• When the figure forces his way into the present world, karmic law punishment strikes. He withstands it unharmed and then dissolves the punishment with a wave, demonstrating power beyond anything the narrator has witnessed.
• The figure enters the Immortal Realm without triggering rejection from the Supreme True Realm, looks at the narrator, and greets him: “Chen Fan, I never thought I’d see you again!”

Character developments and interactions

• The narrator moves from fear and uncertainty to stunned curiosity. Lin Feng’s intervention gives him hope, but the arrival of the apparent Ning Chen raises new questions about identity and power.
• Lin Feng remains unseen, but his intervention proves pivotal: his snort breaks the script’s control and prevents the immediate threat from continuing.
• The apparent Ning Chen is revealed as a being from a higher dimension who can descend into the lower world, withstand and erase karmic punishment, and enter the Immortal Realm without resistance. His nostalgic greeting suggests a prior connection with Chen Fan.
• The narrator directly questions the figure’s identity, but receives no answer until the final greeting. Their reunion is framed as a mystery rather than a clear recognition.

Significant themes

• Reality versus imposed narrative: The “script” can control events, but Lin Feng’s intervention disrupts its authority.
• Dimensional hierarchy and overwhelming power: The descending figure’s presence reshapes the narrator’s understanding of what exists beyond the known realms.
• Identity and recognition: Though the being looks and resonates like Ning Chen, the narrator instinctively insists he is not Ning Chen.
• Unresolved connections across time or worlds: The final greeting implies that Chen Fan and this mysterious figure share a history not yet explained.

Plot points and events

• Chen Fan meets a version of Ning Chen who claims to be from the Higher-Dimensional Future, not the past. Future Ning Chen says he knows how Chen Fan’s story ends: Chen Fan died long ago and has no future.
• Chen Fan doubts this, especially since a mysterious higher-dimensional force had recently saved him. He suspects Future Ning Chen may be lying, though he worries something may have happened to his own future self.
• Future Ning Chen attacks with a vast, sky-covering hand. Chen Fan repeatedly uses Immortal-Settling Journey to escape, but the attack follows him and cannot be evaded.
• With no safe way to flee or withstand the blow, Chen Fan activates his Purple Talent: Existence from Nonexistence. He sacrifices nearly all his remaining talents—including The Only Player, Chat Group, Listening, Heaven Rewards Diligence, Once and for All, and Fifth Black Hand—to maximize his chance of survival.
• He preserves four talents he still needs: Bitter Fruit, Transform All Beings, Judgment, and I Am the Mastermind. He also keeps his cultivation, judging that sacrificing it would add little against an opponent at this level.

Character developments

• Chen Fan remains skeptical and resourceful under pressure. Faced with an unavoidable attack, he commits to sacrificing powerful assets rather than relying on escape or brute force.
• Future Ning Chen is revealed as a formidable, enigmatic antagonist. He claims privileged knowledge of Chen Fan’s fate but offers little explanation before attacking.

Significant themes

• Fate and the future: Future Ning Chen’s claim that Chen Fan has no future raises questions about whether the future is fixed—and who, if anyone, can alter it.
• Uncertainty and trust: Chen Fan cannot verify Ning Chen’s identity or story, and the revelation may be a lie or a partial truth.
• Sacrifice and survival: Chen Fan gives up valuable talents to gain even a chance against an overwhelming threat.
• Power through mechanisms: The scene emphasizes that at the supreme level, victory depends less on raw strength than on the workings of abilities and techniques.

Character interactions

• Chen Fan challenges Ning Chen’s identity and asks whether he came from the Higher-Dimensional Past.
• Ning Chen dismisses that interpretation, identifies himself as a future version, and taunts Chen Fan with his alleged death.
• Their exchange turns immediately into combat, forcing Chen Fan to abandon conversation and prepare a desperate countermeasure.

Key plot points and events

• The protagonist’s sacrificed talents return as powerful abilities. Most notably, The Only Player grants endless resurrection; Chat Group grants one-time uses of rule-setting, forced invitations, and blacklisting; Listening can hear secrets from the past and future; and other talents provide visible progress toward any goal and steer the protagonist toward the best available outcome.
• The greatest return comes from Fifth Black Hand: “Old Self” can temporarily escape his confinement to the present and intervene in the future—even manifesting there in his true form.
• As Future Ning Chen’s overwhelming palm strike approaches, the protagonist stands his ground. Old Self appears in a higher-dimensional realm and destroys the attack effortlessly.
• Future Ning Chen recognizes that the protagonist sacrificed everything to enable Old Self’s intervention. His pleased response—“I’ve waited far too long for this moment!”—suggests the crisis may have unfolded according to his plan.

Character developments and interactions

• The protagonist shifts from helpless evasion to resolute defiance, trusting the power his sacrifices have unlocked. He considers using his recovered Chat Group privileges against Future Ning Chen, but doubts that rules could restrain an enemy with ways to break them.
• Old Self moves from a distant, restricted presence to an active force in the future, instantly reversing the battle by annihilating Future Ning Chen’s strike.
• Future Ning Chen remains composed and appears to understand the protagonist’s sacrifices. His final declaration implies that Old Self’s arrival—or the confrontation itself—was something he had anticipated and wanted.
• The protagonist and Old Self are now effectively aligned against Future Ning Chen, but the latter’s apparent foresight leaves their advantage uncertain.

Significant themes

• Sacrifice and return: The protagonist gives up his talents, but their returns transform him and make an otherwise impossible intervention possible.
• Power and perspective: The battle’s balance changes when Old Self arrives from a higher dimension; what seemed unstoppable is suddenly insignificant.
• Free will versus orchestration: Future Ning Chen’s final line raises the possibility that the protagonist’s desperate choices were part of someone else’s design.
• Immortality and agency: The player’s ability to revive endlessly promises survival, while the new powers offer ways to influence events across time and dimensions.

Key plot points and events

• Future Ning Chen reveals that Senior Lin Feng’s intervention had stopped him from using his Main God Space abilities—otherwise, he claims, the protagonist would already be dead. The protagonist suspects Lin Feng’s power can suppress or neutralize others’ golden fingers.
• The protagonist’s progress bar shows only 10% for escaping the supposedly inevitable death trap, and 0% for killing future Ning Chen, despite Lin Feng’s help and the support of “Old Self.”
• With little time left on the temporary Existence from Nonexistence talent, the protagonist and Old Self attack together. Old Self reaches the higher-dimensional realm, while the protagonist concentrates his power and self-destructs, relying on the resurrection ability gained through sacrificing The Only Player.
• The combined attack nearly kills future Ning Chen—but the kill-progress bar remains at zero. Ning Chen is unaffected by Old Self’s assault and reveals his real advantage: he now controls the entire Main God Space.
• Main God Space appears in the higher-dimensional realm as a colossal, cocoon-like world. Ten higher-dimensional beings emerge from it, joining future Ning Chen.
• The eleven attackers overwhelm the protagonist, killing him even with Old Self protecting him. The protagonist resurrects back in the small world, while Old Self remains behind to face them.

Character developments and interactions

• The protagonist shifts from hoping his allies have turned the tide to fighting desperately, using self-destruction as an offensive tactic because resurrection makes the risk survivable. His return to the small world leaves him unable to help Old Self.
• Future Ning Chen is exposed as having deliberately allowed the protagonist to believe he had the advantage. Though initially restricted from using Main God Space’s powers, he reveals that he has regained the higher-dimensional level and commands Main God Space and its forces.
• Old Self proves capable of manifesting at the higher-dimensional level and combines his power with the protagonist’s attack. He is left alone against overwhelming opposition.
• Senior Lin Feng remains offstage, but his earlier intervention is credited with preventing future Ning Chen from using his golden finger.

Significant themes

• False hope and concealed power: apparent advantages and successful attacks prove meaningless against an unseen trump card.
• The limits of measurable progress: the progress bars offer insight, but their dismal readings underscore how far the protagonist is from victory.
• Sacrifice and persistence: the protagonist gives up powerful talents and repeatedly risks death, relying on resurrection to keep fighting.
• Escalating odds: the conflict expands from a confrontation with one enemy into a battle against an entire higher-dimensional force.

• The crisis: Future Ning Chen crushes the Main God Space and summons ten higher-dimensional beings to attack “Old Self,” leaving him outnumbered eleven to one. The narrator realizes Old Self’s temporary ability to affect the future depends on a short-lived sacrifice, so their protection will soon end.
• The narrator’s counterattack: The narrator uses [Transform All Beings] to transform into Old Self and enter the Higher-Dimensional Land. Finding Old Self holding his own against the attackers with Dawn, the narrator hands him the Chaos Bell, Twelfth-Rank Pure World White Lotus, and God-Slaying Spear. The narrator then exploits Old Self’s reality-shaping power and their own resurrection ability to repeatedly self-detonate at higher-dimensional scale, hoping to overwhelm the enemy.
• The plan fails: The opposing beings emerge unharmed because the phantom Main God Space absorbs every explosion. The narrator detonates and resurrects tens of thousands of times, but the phantom remains untouched, leaving them in despair.
• Character developments and interactions: The narrator shifts from helplessness to desperate, self-sacrificing action, giving Old Self their strongest treasures and repeatedly risking destruction. Old Self remains composed enough to explain what is happening. Future Ning Chen and the other higher-dimensional beings loom as formidable opponents, though they do not appear to be fighting at full strength.
• Themes: The chapter emphasizes the gap between individual power and overwhelming systems, the limits of clever tactics when an opponent can absorb every attack, and the stubborn resolve to keep fighting even when the odds seem impossible.

Plot points and events

• Chen Fan’s mass self-destruction fails to damage the Main God Space projection. Its progress bar remains unchanged, and future Ning Chen explains that the projection’s power extends into the Higher-Dimensional Land.
• The projection retaliates by creating thousands of higher-dimensional copies of Chen Fan. They explode and kill him; he realizes the projection absorbed and reflected all the damage he had dealt—effectively, it has perfect damage reflection.
• Though Chen Fan’s transformed “Old Self” survives under the protection of the Chaos Bell and Pure World White Lotus, neither he nor his allies can overcome future Ning Chen and the Main God Space.
• Chen Fan considers using his newly unlocked Chat Group leader privileges to force Ning Chen into the group and impose rules. A glimpse of the higher-dimensional future reveals that this plan fails: another being’s Golden Finger blocks the rules, and all eleven higher-dimensional beings overpower Chen Fan and Old Self.
• With no viable strategy left, Chen Fan’s sacrificed talent, Once and for All, activates automatically to pursue the best possible outcome. It deactivates and then reactivates Transform All Beings, preparing to turn Chen Fan into an unexpected target. The chapter ends before revealing who.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Fan moves from desperate experimentation to near-total despair, but retains enough resolve to consider any remaining option. He is surprised when his talent takes control and hints at a possible turnaround.
• Future Ning Chen remains calm and confident, explaining the projection’s overwhelming power rather than treating Chen Fan’s attack as a threat.
• The other higher-dimensional beings are revealed to include at least one more Golden Finger user, who can counter the Chat Group’s rules. Together, they overwhelm Chen Fan and Old Self.
• Chen Fan’s relationship with Old Self is framed as a practical alliance: Old Self can withstand the reflected explosions but cannot defeat the enemy.

Significant themes

• Escalating power and helplessness: Each apparent solution is neutralized by a still-greater force.
• The danger of reflection: Chen Fan’s attack becomes a weapon against him.
• Limits of cleverness and control: Even Chat Group privileges cannot guarantee obedience when opponents have comparable abilities.
• Fate and unexpected hope: Once and For All overrides Chen Fan’s choices, suggesting that the best outcome may come from a transformation he would not have chosen himself.

Plot points

• Chen Fan’s apparent “most favorable outcome” transforms him into Past Li Ping, despite Li Ping’s history of plotting against him. Chen Fan realizes this may serve the same purpose as Wu Yong’s advice to contact Past Li Ping in the Gods and Devils Realms.
• Using Group Leader privileges, Chen Fan forcibly brings Li Ping into the Chat Group and imposes rules requiring him to obey the Group Leader and act in their interests.
• Transform All Beings activates, granting Chen Fan the temporary Zero Returner Colorful Class Card and manifesting Past Li Ping in the Higher-Dimensional Land.
• Li Ping surveys the battlefield and recognizes that he is a reproduction bound by the Chat Group’s rules, without his Golden Finger ability. He also deduces that Future Ning Chen is only a projection: Ning Chen has not yet died, so he cannot fully descend.
• Li Ping summons the dormant Creator Colorful Class Card from the Gods and Devils Realms. It flies to him and imbues the Blank Class Card in his hand with its power. Li Ping declares that his turn has begun.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Fan turns an earlier sacrifice of his Golden Talent into a practical means of controlling Li Ping, apparently making the risky transformation useful.
• Past Li Ping appears calm, perceptive, and confident. Though constrained by Chen Fan’s imposed rules, he quickly understands the situation and reveals that he can call upon the Creator card.
• Future Ning Chen acknowledges that he cannot use his Golden Finger and challenges whether Li Ping can truly oppose the entities present. Li Ping counters by exposing Ning Chen’s incomplete, projection-like state.
• Li Ping largely ignores Ning Chen at first, focusing instead on the assembled entities and the implications of his appearance.

Significant themes

• Fate and alternate paths: The transformation may reach the same “best path” that Wu Yong’s advice pointed toward, by a different route.
• Control versus agency: Chen Fan’s Chat Group rules constrain Li Ping, but Li Ping still demonstrates formidable insight and power.
• Incomplete power and hidden potential: Ning Chen’s projection and Li Ping’s missing ability contrast with the latent Creator card now restored to him.
• Revelation and reversal: Li Ping’s arrival turns an apparent disadvantage into a dramatic shift in the battlefield’s balance.