Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• After extensive preaching, Chen Fan’s original body pauses to let his plans progress. Both his effort to shepherd living beings and his use of deception authority require time—and enough powerful believers—to produce results.
• He activates the Chat Group and is welcomed by Wang Hao and Li Ping, who act like youngsters despite being old schemers. Chen Fan and Zhang Wenping call them out; Li Ping responds with shameless feigned concern. Chen Fan closes the chat rather than engage.
• Wu Yong has not yet joined, but Chen Fan expects him to arrive soon and trigger the first group mission. This time, Chen Fan does not want the Other Shore Realm chosen as the mission site, since he plans to claim its remnant supreme karma for himself and gain another authority.
• Chen Fan recalls that a projection of Zhen Yuanzi remains in the Other Shore Realm. Confident he can handle him, Chen Fan hopes to learn more about Wang Hao and the Primordial World—and continue preaching there.
• Using his newly acquired Immortal-Settling Journey authority, Chen Fan travels directly to the Other Shore Realm, appearing before Zhen Yuanzi.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Fan remains ambitious and strategic, balancing long-term plans with opportunities for immediate power. He is also openly irreverent toward the Chat Group’s veteran schemers.
• Wang Hao and Li Ping continue their playful, deceptive personas. Li Ping’s mock regret contrasts with Chen Fan’s memory that he has killed him twice.
• Zhang Wenping voices Chen Fan’s irritation and earns his approval for being straightforward.
• Zhen Yuanzi is established as the next key figure Chen Fan intends to confront or question.

Significant themes

• Long-term cultivation and planning: Chen Fan’s grand schemes depend on time, scale, and the right followers.
• Power through belief and deception: Authority can be strengthened by persuading enough powerful cultivators.
• Strategy and risk: Chen Fan avoids making the Other Shore Realm a group-mission location because collective involvement could introduce uncertainty.
• Cunning and distrust: The chat’s banter reflects the characters’ history of manipulation, even beneath joking familiarity.

Key plot points and events

• The protagonist sends an “other self” into the Other Shore Realm, a world of countless smaller worlds surrounding a Central Great World. Its highest cultivation stages are Dharma Body, Legend, Creation, and finally the Other Shore.
• Other Shore beings are uniquely fixed across past, present, and future, but their power depends on the realm: outside it, they fall to roughly Golden Core-level strength.
• The protagonist transforms the other self into “Old Self” using Transform All Beings, gaining temporary higher-dimensional power through Escape One. They overturn the realm and extract its Supreme Existence’s lingering karma while preventing the realm from collapsing.
• A pair of eyes appears: the remnant will of the realm’s fallen Supreme Existence. The protagonist offers to take on its residual karma and inherit its authority and power in exchange for resolving its obsession.
• The remnant recognizes the protagonist as an Otherworldly Demon. Under pressure, it accepts the offer, then acts upon the protagonist’s other self. The Only Player talent flares, initiating a special character plot quest.

Character developments

• The protagonist shows confidence and opportunism, using overwhelming power to secure the remnant’s cooperation while offering a promise whose fulfillment is not guaranteed.
• The fallen Supreme Existence is revealed to retain enough will and agency to negotiate, but it ultimately yields because it sees no alternative.

Significant themes

• Power and dependence: Other Shore immortality and strength are tied to their home realm.
• Bargaining under coercion: The protagonist frames a deal as mutually beneficial, but the imbalance of power heavily shapes the remnant’s choice.
• Identity across selves and dimensions: The protagonist acts through an “other self” transformed into a higher-dimensional being.
• Karma, inheritance, and unresolved purpose: The remnant’s lingering karma can transfer authority and power, but its obsession remains a condition of the exchange.

Character interactions

• The protagonist and the Supreme remnant negotiate directly through a higher-dimensional exchange. The protagonist offers to inherit its karma and power; the remnant asks that its obsession be resolved. Its eventual consent is reluctant and obtained under the pressure of “Old Self’s” overwhelming presence.

Key plot points and events

• The protagonist receives a golden timed mission: resolve the fallen Supreme Existence Other Shore’s lingering obsession and kill Huanhai, the Supreme Existence who caused its downfall. The reward is to raise one chosen Dao attainment directly to Great True Lord.
• After finishing the refinement of Other Shore’s residual karma, the protagonist learns that Supreme Heaven has nine layers and that its five Supreme Existences occupied the eighth. Other Shore also provides Supreme Heaven’s coordinates.
• The protagonist gains Other Shore’s authority, which grants advanced control over past, present, and future, as well as a means of reducing karmic entanglement. The protagonist judges it insufficient as a foundation for becoming a Supreme Existence.
• The protagonist’s “other self” preaches throughout the Other Shore Realm, triggering a divine ability that returns benefits, then destroys the realm to gain experience and treasures. Mortals and weaker cultivators are gathered for future use.
• Before returning to the Supreme True Realm, the protagonist imprisons a projection of Zhen Yuanzi and questions him about Wang Hao, Daoist Floating Light.

Character developments and interactions

• The protagonist gains a powerful new authority but remains cautious, recognizing that it is incomplete and relatively weak among Supreme Existences. The mission to confront Huanhai sets up a major future objective.
• Zhen Yuanzi is surprised and uneasy at being detained, but answers the protagonist’s questions rather than resisting.
• Zhen Yuanzi explains that Wang Hao is a newly ascended Heavenly Immortal beyond fate, accepted as a nominal disciple by Patriarch Bodhi, one of Zhunti’s Three Corpses. Wang Hao became a Journey to the West protagonist despite not being destined to participate, took on part of the dragon race’s karma, and advanced rapidly to Heavenly Immortal. Even a Sage could learn little about his origins beyond the claim that he came from “Beyond Heaven.”

Significant themes

• Karma and liberation: Other Shore’s authority offers ways to escape or manage karmic bonds, but not complete immunity from karmic law.
• Power and its limits: A formidable authority may still be an inadequate basis for supreme advancement.
• Destiny versus agency: Wang Hao’s rise and participation in the kalpa defy what was supposedly fated.
• Instrumental use of life and worlds: The protagonist treats the realm’s destruction as a source of cultivation resources and its people as future assets.

Chapter summary

Key plot points

• The narrator questions Zhen Yuanzi’s projection about Wang Hao, known as Daoist Floating Light, but learns that even a powerful Sage has limited knowledge of him because the Journey to the West Kalpa is making heaven’s secrets difficult to discern.
• The narrator asks whether Zhen Yuanzi could kill Wang Hao. Zhen Yuanzi says not immediately, but in about a hundred years, when the kalpa is fully underway. He believes he could potentially trade his life for Wang Hao’s, since Sages risk severe karmic consequences by intervening freely during a kalpa.
• Zhen Yuanzi judges the narrator’s “Old Self” to be comparable to the Dao Ancestor who dwells in the Violet Firmament Palace.
• The narrator confirms that Zhen Yuanzi came seeking a way out of his impending doom. His dao path is threatened, and his Earth Book is destined for destruction; he had hoped to inherit the residual karma of the Other Shore and become a Sage.
• The narrator reveals a strand of Primordial Purple Qi and promises to give it to Zhen Yuanzi in a hundred years, when the kalpa permits him to become a Sage.
• In exchange, the narrator demands two things: Zhen Yuanzi must cause as much trouble as possible for Wang Hao, and, after becoming a Sage, surrender his authority to the narrator.

Character developments and interactions

• The narrator tests Zhen Yuanzi’s knowledge and usefulness, then turns his desperate need for survival into leverage. The narrator remains cautious, showing the Purple Qi without handing it over yet.
• Zhen Yuanzi moves from respectful “Senior” to submissive “my lord” once he sees the Purple Qi. Faced with the collapse of his own path, he agrees to both demands—even the one that would effectively strip him of his authority as a Sage.
• Their conversation shifts from inquiry to negotiation: Zhen Yuanzi offers information and potential action against Wang Hao, while the narrator offers a possible route to survival and power.

Significant themes

• Desperate bargains and compromised freedom: Zhen Yuanzi accepts a future that may cost him his authority because it is preferable to certain death.
• Power under cosmic constraints: Even Sages are limited by the karmic rules of a kalpa, while the narrator’s apparent standing exceeds ordinary measures of power.
• Fate and uncertainty: The narrator postpones the final decision, aware that plans may change and that events are difficult to predict.
• Leverage and shifting loyalties: The Purple Qi transforms Zhen Yuanzi’s relationship with the narrator and turns him into a potential instrument against Wang Hao.

Plot points and events

• After leaving the Other Shore Realm, the protagonist tells Zhen Yuanzi to keep his projection intact for a hundred years, knowing he has little choice but to wait.
• The protagonist’s other self resumes preaching the Dao while the protagonist tallies enormous rewards: over 1.3 billion experience points and more than 50 million attribute points, as well as Other Shore authority.
• All experience is spent upgrading Qi Refining Limit-Breaking, raising it from 21,000 to 23,000 layers—a costly gain that leaves the protagonist frustrated.
• The protagonist saves the remaining attribute points, then fuses hundreds of minor divine abilities into End and upgrades it to the major divine ability Destiny’s End.
• Next, more than twenty major divine abilities are fused into the unprecedented Divine: End. It carries part of the Supreme Existence’s Miracle authority and has a 10% chance to instantly kill any target, once per day, ignoring level differences and mechanics.

Character developments and interactions

• The protagonist remains ambitious but is increasingly aware of how steep the path to the rumored 100,000-layer limit is, admiring Lin Feng’s achievement.
• Their confidence in the promise to Zhen Yuanzi is limited; they expect him to wait because he has no better option.
• The protagonist is more selective about upgrades now, deciding not to rush True-False Supreme Realm because the primordial spiritual root already offers a stronger version.

Significant themes

• Power and diminishing returns: Even immense resources produce only modest progress at extreme cultivation levels.
• Accumulation and risk: The protagonist turns collected abilities into stronger powers, paying lifespan to improve fusion odds.
• Miracles and possibility: Divine: End embodies the idea that the weak can overcome the strong, granting a chance to defeat even an otherwise untouchable opponent.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Fan reviews his newly gained divine abilities, especially [Divine: End], an extremely powerful instant-kill effect that can be used once per day. He sees it as a valuable safeguard despite its uncertain chance of activation and limited usefulness against Chat Group members with higher-priority Golden Fingers.
• Wu Yong joins the Chat Group, bringing the membership to five and unlocking group missions. The first mission will begin in 24 hours.
• Chen Fan asks Wu Yong whether he can still predict Chen Fan’s future now that Chen Fan has destroyed the Other Shore Realm. Wu Yong says ordinary items can no longer do so; he would need exceptionally high-specification items, comparable to high-priority rainbow talents.
• Chen Fan realizes his [Rainbow Talent: Ten Gates] may be concealing his existence from prediction. He is thrilled that this makes him harder for the group’s schemers to control.
• Chen Fan then asks Wang Hao and Li Ping whether they can foresee information about him. Both deny it, but Chen Fan trusts neither completely.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Fan gains confidence and a sense of freedom: he believes his hidden talent has disrupted the group’s ability to anticipate his actions. He cautiously tests what each member knows rather than accepting their claims.
• Wu Yong greets Chen Fan directly and shares information about the limits of his predictions. His answer also serves as a subtle probe to determine whether Chen Fan possesses an unusually powerful rainbow talent.
• Wang Hao and Li Ping resume their joking, evasive banter and claim they cannot foresee Chen Fan. Their playful denials reinforce Chen Fan’s distrust of them.
• The exchange establishes a contrast: Wu Yong is comparatively forthcoming, while the other two remain suspicious and difficult to read.

Significant themes

• Freedom from manipulation: Chen Fan’s possible immunity to prediction gives him a rare chance to escape the other members’ schemes.
• Information and trust: The group’s members conceal their capabilities, and Chen Fan must judge what to believe.
• Power with limits: Even formidable abilities such as [Divine: End] have restrictions, while high-priority talents can override or evade other powers.

Plot points and events

• The protagonist checks the three available group missions after receiving an unexpected windfall.
• Primordial Origin World (EX): The group must win the Fourth Fated War. Its difficulty seems impossibly high, so the protagonist rejects it.
• Deep World (S): The goal is to destroy the False Human Side while avoiding karmic sin, rule violations, assimilation, and corruption. The protagonist’s Judgment talent and Other Shore authority may give them an advantage.
• Supreme Heaven (SS): The group must kill at least one Supreme Existence, earning two random supreme authorities distributed by contribution. The protagonist recognizes the world as the place tied to a fallen Supreme Existence’s lingering obsession.
• The mission’s sudden appearance feels too convenient. The protagonist suspects an unseen being is manipulating them into choosing it.
• Their I Am the Chess Player talent activates, helping them detect the scheme. They conclude that their previously unknown Ten Gates talent—immune to influence from karma, destiny, and even golden-golden-finger abilities—is what protected them from being fully controlled.

Character development

• The protagonist is cautious and increasingly alert to hidden manipulation, rejecting the most dangerous mission rather than being lured by its rewards.
• They recognize the limits of their confidence: even without fearing higher-dimensional beings, confronting a Supreme Existence under another’s control remains perilous.
• They gain a clearer understanding of Ten Gates as their decisive safeguard and potential route out of the unseen scheme.

Character interactions

• No direct conversations occur. The central interaction is an implied contest between the protagonist and an unknown manipulator, with their talents—especially I Am the Chess Player and Ten Gates—helping them resist.

Significant themes

• Suspicion and conspiracy: Apparent coincidences may conceal deliberate schemes.
• Agency versus influence: The protagonist’s powers help preserve their ability to choose freely.
• Risk and reward: The missions offer powerful rewards, but their escalating dangers make careful judgment essential.
• Hidden potential: Ten Gates emerges as a crucial, previously concealed advantage.

Key events

• Chen Fan activates the rainbow talent [Ten Gates], which breaks the clouding influence over his thoughts and divine sense. He can finally reason clearly about who has been manipulating events.
• He suspects someone in the Chat Group is responsible, narrowing it to Li Ping, Wang Hao, or Wu Yong. He is least suspicious of Zhang Wenping and increasingly believes Wang Hao is behind it.
• Chen Fan thinks Wang Hao may be using the incident as a test of his rainbow talent and its ability to resist Golden Finger powers—not necessarily as a direct attempt to harm him. But Chen worries the influence could return once he leaves [Ten Gates], and his backup talent may not protect him reliably.
• Seeking a solution, Chen Fan enters the first gate and meets Zero, the Clown-Masked being who previously schemed against him. Zero immediately identifies both his predicament and the likely source: a stronger Otherworldly Demon with a Golden Finger.
• Zero offers to protect Chen Fan for a hundred years if he brings the Clown Mask into reality. Chen refuses, remembering Zero’s earlier attempt to trick him and wary of adding another dangerous schemer to his problems.
• Zero then makes a new offer: in exchange for learning the Simulator’s current level, they will shield Chen from other Otherworldly Demons’ Golden Finger interference for 150 years.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Fan shows improved clarity and caution. Although he needs help, he refuses Zero’s suspicious first offer and asks for support without surrendering control.
• Zero demonstrates uncanny insight into Chen’s situation, but remains manipulative and transactional. Their second proposal is more appealing, yet asks for sensitive information.
• Chen and Zero’s exchange is marked by mistrust: Zero calls Chen their “most beloved Gate Master,” while Chen views them as dangerous and refuses to accept the mask.

Significant themes

• Power and influence: Even after Chen gains a means to resist mental interference, the threat may persist beyond its protection.
• Trust versus self-preservation: Every potential ally may have ulterior motives, so Chen must weigh protection against the risks of accepting help.
• Information as leverage: Zero’s offer makes the Simulator’s level the price of stronger protection, turning knowledge into a strategic bargaining chip.

Key plot points and events

• Trapped by Wang Hao’s schemes, the simulated protagonist (“you”) considers making a deal with the deity called Zero. Zero asks about the Simulator’s level, then offers to settle for knowing how many golden talents the protagonist has.
• The protagonist worries that revealing information could affect Chen Fan, their original self outside the simulation. Zero clarifies that the deal is really for Chen Fan to decide: the Simulator’s Choice Intervention function lets the original self choose when major decisions arise.
• The function presents two options: accept Zero’s deal and protect the clone from Wang Hao’s abilities for 150 years, or refuse and confront Wang Hao using Purple Talent: I Am the Chess Player, risking the talent’s destruction and an uncertain outcome.
• Chen Fan chooses to accept. The simulated protagonist agrees and reveals the number and abilities of all seven golden talents.
• Zero is particularly struck by Golden Talent: Future Letter, calling it the talent with the greatest potential. It conveys not merely a possible future, but “the most real future”—the future with the highest priority.

Character developments

• Chen Fan weighs the risks and quickly chooses the option that offers protection, trusting the Simulator’s warning that a direct confrontation could destroy his key talent.
• The simulated protagonist moves from suspicion and reluctance to cooperation, while still negotiating for protection before disclosing the talents.
• Zero remains enigmatic but reveals a deeper understanding of the Simulator’s choices and expresses genuine surprise at the protagonist’s talents.

Character interactions

• The protagonist challenges Zero to guarantee 150 years of protection. Zero answers that Chen Fan can judge the guarantee through the Simulator’s choice outcomes.
• Chen Fan’s decision is imposed on the simulated self, who then provides Zero with the requested information.
• Zero singles out Future Letter and offers a cryptic explanation of its exceptional power, leaving the protagonist shaken.

Significant themes

• Choice and agency: Major decisions belong to Chen Fan outside the simulation, even though their consequences unfold within it.
• Risk, trust, and negotiation: The deal offers protection, but requires revealing valuable information to a mysterious deity.
• The nature of the future: Future Letter raises the possibility that some futures are more authoritative or “real” than others.
• Power and scale: Even extraordinary talents may be less impressive in the Supreme True Realm, underscoring the vast hierarchy of the setting.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Fan puts on the eerie Clown Mask given to him by Zero, an Otherworldly Demon behind the first gate. The mask blocks the influence of Wang Hao’s Golden Finger, clearing Chen Fan’s thoughts.
• Choosing safety over the extremely difficult SS-rank Supreme Heaven mission, Chen Fan selects the S-rank Deep World mission. The group will be forcibly transported there in twenty-four hours.
• In the Chat Group, Wang Hao openly admits he is surprised both by Chen Fan’s choice and by the apparent failure of his ability to affect him. Chen Fan angrily confronts Wang Hao and Li Ping, then leaves the chat.
• Before dawn, Chen Fan’s golden talent Listening produces its first seven-ring intel about an Otherworldly Demon. It reveals that Wang Hao went to the Other Shore Realm ahead of Chen Fan and used his ability to replace Zhen Yuanzi’s projection, preventing Chen Fan from learning about him through it and limiting possible disruptions to Wang Hao’s plans.
• Chen Fan realizes the Clown Mask has also removed the interference that previously kept Listening from revealing information about Otherworldly Demons. He suspects Wang Hao had been using his ability to suppress such intel and keep Chen Fan from uncovering his schemes.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Fan becomes more wary of Wang Hao and recognizes that his own talents may be more powerful than he thought when free of outside interference. He plans to use his golden talent Investment during the upcoming mission.
• Wang Hao appears less interested in hiding his manipulation. His earlier actions at the Other Shore Realm and his teasing in the Chat Group look like parts of a deliberate effort to control outcomes and test Chen Fan.
• Zero remains an enigmatic but helpful figure: though he refuses further discussion, the mask he provides becomes crucial to Chen Fan’s independence.
• Chen Fan’s exchange with Wang Hao is openly hostile, while Li Ping offers no meaningful response.

Significant themes

• Control versus autonomy: Wang Hao’s schemes have shaped Chen Fan’s choices and access to information; the mask gives Chen Fan a chance to resist.
• Hidden power and perception: The chapter reframes Listening’s past limitations as interference rather than weakness.
• Suspicion and manipulation: Apparent choices and casual banter may conceal carefully planned attempts to steer events.
• Cautious preparation: Chen Fan chooses a more manageable mission and intends to prepare rather than risk the higher-stakes alternative.

Plot points and events

• The protagonist considers what it means that Wang Hao’s Golden Finger replaced Zhen Yuanzi’s projection in the group’s intelligence. The change suggests the projection was fake, and helping the real Zhen Yuanzi become a Sage may require the protagonist’s other self to travel to the Primordial World.
• The Chat Group announces its first mission: enter the Deep World and destroy the False Human Side. The S-rank mission warns against karmic sin, rule-breaking, assimilation, mutation, and corruption.
• On teleportation, the protagonist uses True-False Supreme Realm to swap places with their other self, returning to the Supreme True Realm while leaving that self in the Deep World. There, the protagonist joins Wang Hao, Li Ping, Wu Yong, and Zhang Wenping, and investigates through the other self.
• The Deep World is revealed as an immense, expanding realm nested within the Surface World. The Surface World is an ordinary, human-consensus reality; the Inner World beneath it contains rule-based horrors, strange creatures, and aberrant cultivation systems.
• Powerful beings called Weird Gods rule miniature worlds, treating their inhabitants—and sometimes people taken from the Surface World—as livestock. The mission requires killing the Weird God governing the False Human world and destroying that world.
• The protagonist senses a Supreme Existence sleeping in the depths, responsible for linking the two layers. Though tempted to use the one-use-in-ten-thousand-years Judgment talent to wipe out the entire Deep World, the protagonist decides to save it for a higher-dimensional enemy. They instead consider using Transform All Beings to become “Old Self,” whose power could overwhelm the realm, but first intend to activate Investment.

Character developments and interactions

• The protagonist remains cautious and strategic, weighing overwhelming power against the value of saving rare abilities for greater threats.
• The protagonist’s other self serves as the operative in the Deep World, while the main self observes and investigates from the Supreme True Realm.
• The five Chat Group members are brought together for the mission, though this chapter focuses primarily on the protagonist’s reconnaissance rather than the group’s actions.

Significant themes

• Reality and hidden worlds: The apparently normal Surface World conceals a vast, horrifying realm with which it is symbiotically connected.
• Power and restraint: The protagonist avoids using a rare, decisive ability on an enemy they consider insufficiently worthy.
• Cosmic exploitation: The Weird Gods’ treatment of living beings as livestock turns entire worlds into managed pastures.
• Identity and deception: The replaced projection raises doubts about whether apparent representations of powerful figures are genuine.

Key plot points and events

• The protagonist meets Wu Yong and uses True-False Supreme Realm to bring him—and the protagonist’s “other self”—inside.
• Hoping to combine Golden Talent: Investment with Supreme God’s Game, the protagonist gives Wu Yong the purple talent Late Bloomer. The investment talent does not react, so the experiment fails.
• As a backup, the protagonist gives Wu Yong the Chaos Great Dao Tree. This triggers a successful investment and yields a hundred-millionfold return: the incomplete primordial spiritual root Primordial Dao-Source Ancestral Root.
• The new root’s abilities are revealed: it can nurture a complete great dao every hundred years and an authority every ten thousand; it grants the power to strip others of their great daos and to wield the mysteries and power of all great daos. Several further abilities remain locked because the root is incomplete.
• The protagonist sends Wu Yong out, then sees the new root take shape on their rank, alongside the Myriad-Void Primordial Ancient Weeping Willow.

Character developments and interactions

• The protagonist’s confidence in their growing power is reinforced, though they still approach unknown worlds and powerful figures cautiously.
• Wu Yong receives Late Bloomer and the Chaos Great Dao Tree, but appears resentful when the protagonist abruptly dismisses him.
• The protagonist treats Wu Yong as a valuable investment target, while their exchange carries a lightly comic contrast: the protagonist’s excitement over the reward versus Wu Yong’s apparent displeasure.

Significant themes

• Power gained through investment: A seemingly costly gift produces an extraordinary upgrade.
• Escalating cultivation and authority: The new spiritual root expands the protagonist’s power from using individual great daos to potentially commanding, creating, and stealing them.
• Limits and incompleteness: The root is immensely powerful, but cosmic rules prevent it from being complete, leaving some abilities inaccessible.
• Caution amid ambition: The protagonist eagerly exploits safe opportunities but avoids venturing into unknown worlds where even greater threats may lurk.

Plot points and events

• Chen Fan returned to the Deep World to complete the group mission and activated Transform All Beings, turning his other self into Old Self.
• The transformation granted the temporary ability Escape One, whose reality-altering authority let Chen Fan suppress the Deep World’s awakening Supreme Existence.
• He then wished for everyone on the False Human Side, including its Weird Gods, to be destroyed. The wish took effect, completing the mission.
• The group system credited Chen Fan with 100% contribution and awarded him a random top-grade innate numinous treasure; the other members received nothing. As group leader, Chen Fan chose not to distribute any rewards.
• Rather than stop at the mission’s objective, Chen Fan used Escape One again to wish the entire Deep World out of existence. The world began collapsing, and its Supreme Existence struggled to resist.

Character developments

• Chen Fan demonstrates growing confidence in his power and prioritizes practical rewards—experience and attribute points—over cultivating or improving the Deep World. He acts independently of the group and keeps the mission rewards.
• The Supreme Existence shifts from dormant and unaware to alarmed resistance, but proves powerless against Chen Fan’s higher-dimensional authority.
• The Weird Gods are revealed as dependent parasites within the world, unable to withstand the force destroying it.

Character interactions

• Chen Fan’s transformed other self acts as the conduit for Escape One’s power.
• Chen Fan’s actions indirectly awaken the Supreme Existence, which then attempts to defend the Deep World against him.
• The group members contribute nothing to the mission, while the system and group-leader interface formally assign the rewards to Chen Fan.

Significant themes

• Vast disparities in power: The Deep World’s highest beings are insignificant beside Chen Fan’s authority.
• Power and unilateral control: Chen Fan’s wishes reshape or erase reality without meaningful opposition.
• Pragmatism over preservation: He treats the world as a source of resources rather than something worth saving.
• Unequal reward and responsibility: The group mission is completed entirely by Chen Fan, leaving him in full control of its benefits.

• The Deep World is destroyed: The protagonist, controlling the “Old Self” through their “Other Self,” tears apart the Supreme Existence and annihilates the world in moments. The Weird Gods are powerful only because the Deep World’s rules sustain them; outside it, they are far weaker than their apparent rank suggests.
• Dao Seizure yields a Great Dao, not authority: The protagonist cannot seize the Weird Gods’ borrowed ranks, but successfully takes the Supreme Existence’s Great Dao of Truth and Falsehood. They store it in the Eternal Primordial Chaos Willow World, hoping it will produce a powerful Primordial God-Demon. They still cannot forcibly strip away authority, so they kill the Supreme Existence instead.
• A new path to authority appears: The kill grants doubled experience and attribute rewards, the major divine ability Inner World, and one Authority Fragment. Ten fragments can be synthesized into a random authority, though the number dropped depends on a Supreme Existence’s strength. The protagonist sees this as a promising route to gaining authority.
• The mission ends swiftly: The Deep World is destroyed in less than half an incense stick’s time, and the group mission concludes. The protagonist suspects this rapid finish also prevents the Chat Group’s scheming members from complicating matters. Wang Hao and the others appear unconcerned by the mission’s outcome, and the protagonist’s Other Self returns to the Supreme True Realm.
• The mission reward is extraordinary: Claiming the random rule-type ability, the protagonist receives Fate Demon Dice. Though manifested as a twenty-sided bronze die, it is described as an aggregate of rules that stands above higher-dimensional rules and is unaffected by ordinary systems. Once per event, its roll alters how smoothly the event resolves: numbers above 10 help, with 20 bringing exceptional fortune; numbers below 10 hinder, with 1 making everything go wrong. Even Transcendent Ones are affected.
• Character development and interactions: The protagonist grows more confident in their ability to exploit system rewards and sees both Authority Fragments and Fate Demon Dice as potential tools for surpassing powerful opponents. Their interaction with the other Chat Group members is brief and distant; the protagonist remains alert to their possible plots, while they show little interest in the destroyed world.
  Key themes: The difference between true power and borrowed, world-dependent strength; the pursuit and limits of authority; strategic use of rewards and systems; and the potentially overwhelming influence of fate and chance.

• Heaven and Earth Cauldron: The protagonist claims a random top-grade innate treasure. It contains a world hidden from outside laws and Heavenly Dao detection, and can nurture post-heaven items into innate ones. The protagonist initially imagines using it to produce innate treasures, but learns the process takes at least ten thousand years—even turning a post-heaven supreme treasure into a low-grade innate treasure. Disappointed, they decide the Cauldron may be more useful after future enhancement.
• Cultivation breakthrough: Rewards from the Deep Space mission—including recycled “weird objects” and Dao-spreading by the protagonist’s other self—yield one billion experience points and over three million attribute points. All experience goes into Qi Refining Limit-Breaking, raising it from 23,000 to 24,000 layers. The protagonist notes that even this enormous reward produces only a thousand-layer increase.
• Divine-ability fusion: The protagonist combines more than a hundred minor abilities into one, upgrades it with 300,000 attribute points, then fuses it with over twenty major abilities, including Inner World. The process costs seventeen years of true lifespan at each fusion stage. The result is the major divine ability Deep World.
• Character and interactions: The protagonist remains ambitious but irreverent, quickly swinging from excitement about the Cauldron’s potential to cursing its long maturation time. Their comments also show confidence in their existing Eternal Primordial Chaos Willow World, which makes the Cauldron’s contained world unimpressive by comparison. No other characters directly interact with them in this passage; the system delivers the rewards and descriptions.
• Themes: The chapter emphasizes the vast scale of the protagonist’s progression, the limits hidden within seemingly supreme rewards, and the trade-offs of power—here, long cultivation times and lifespan costs. The description of Deep World introduces a world of pervasive horror, corruption, and lethal karmic sin, contrasting sharply with the protagonist’s casual attitude toward the ability’s ominous origins.

• A “legend” proves real: The narrator realizes that the Simulator’s supposedly legendary powers—including the “Ten Thousand Arts” from an earlier simulation—have repeatedly turned out to be genuine, and suspects the system is deliberately misleading him.
• The Deep World ability is underwhelming: The newly acquired major divine ability, Deep World, creates a miniature projection of the Deep World and lets the user draw on a shadow of its ancient supreme being. Since the narrator is now powerful enough to defeat the real Deep World, he considers the ability of limited use and plans to pass it to someone else later.
• The Fate Demon Dice accelerates cultivation: The narrator uses the rule-based Fate Demon Dice to help create a Dao-Seeking Immortal Art for his Sword Dao Fruit Position. The die lands on 15, granting a “smooth sailing” enhancement that greatly improves his comprehension. Combining this with his other comprehension boosts, he completes the art in just half a day.
• A breakthrough and stronger sword power: His Sword Dao Fruit Position advances to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage, granting him 30% of its mighty power. Its mystique, White Edge, evolves from imposing the concept of being “slashed” to being “slain by a slash”—a much more potent effect that should let him injure stronger opponents, potentially including higher-dimensional beings.
• Limits remain: The narrator believes the improved White Edge may still not be enough to kill a higher-dimensional being. He expects to need further cultivation and stronger abilities to overcome that barrier.
  Character development and interactions: The narrator’s confidence in the Fate Demon Dice grows after its striking success, while his greater power makes the Deep World ability seem obsolete. His main interactions are with the Simulator and its system notifications, which prompt his choices and report the results; he also reflects on prior encounters with the Heavenly Court’s Lord and an ancient Supreme Existence as evidence of the world’s dangerous, hard-to-kill beings.
  Themes: The chapter emphasizes the gap between legend and reality, the compounding rewards of cultivation, and the limits of power—even major breakthroughs may only make previously impossible opponents vulnerable rather than conquerable.

Key plot points and events

• At dawn, the protagonist’s golden talent Listening reveals that Wang Hao plans to confront him before or during the next group mission. Unable to influence the protagonist through ordinary means, Wang Hao intends to use direct force to expose his hidden talents.
• Worried about the threat, the protagonist stays in the Supreme True Realm, where he can rely on its Karmic Law, contact Lin Feng through the Spacetime Token, and receive protection from “Old Self.”
• He accelerates the Heavenly Gate cultivators’ progress, aiming to produce several Nascent Soul True Lords. Using divine abilities, the authority of Escape One, a specially created cultivation-accelerating grotto-heaven, and two fruit-position mystiques, he boosts their cultivation speed by at least a hundredfold.
• He also sends an “Other Self” to collect Authority Fragments from a world containing a Supreme Existence. Using the authority of Immortal-Settling Journey, he chooses the Cthulhu Universe from an earlier group mission.
• The Cthulhu Universe is a vast, grotesquely corrupted realm where planets, nebulae, creatures, and even natural laws are distorted. Its Supreme Existence notices the arriving Other Self.
• The protagonist responds by activating Transform All Beings and taking the form of Old Self. The transformation grants him the temporary ability Escape One, and a Dharma body descends into the void.

Character developments and interactions

• The protagonist becomes more cautious after learning that Wang Hao may use brute force, but he responds strategically: fortifying his position, preparing allies, and pursuing Authority Fragments through a separate incarnation.
• Wang Hao is revealed as persistent and calculating. He has failed to influence the protagonist indirectly and now plans to test him in person, though his full capabilities remain unknown.
• “Old Self” serves as both the protagonist’s guardian and an active helper, using Escape One’s authority to accelerate cultivation.
• The protagonist’s Other Self encounters the Cthulhu Universe’s Supreme Existence, setting up a confrontation.

Significant themes

• Preparation versus uncertainty: The protagonist acts on foreknowledge without knowing exactly how Wang Hao will attack.
• Power and deception: Authorities and perceived reality can reshape what is possible, as shown by Dao-Seeking Peak’s cultivation effect.
• Risk through proxies: Sending an Other Self allows the protagonist to pursue power in a dangerous world while keeping his main body protected.
• Cosmic horror: The Cthulhu Universe presents corruption as all-encompassing, twisting matter, life, and even the laws of reality.

Key plot points and events

• The narrator’s “Other Self,” transformed into a higher-dimensional “Old Self,” destroys the entire Cthulhu universe and effortlessly kills its hidden Supreme Existence.
• Using the Dao Seizure authority, the narrator takes the entity’s Aberration Dao, then sends it to the Eternal Primordial Chaos Willow World. The kill yields one Authority fragment, along with experience, attributes, and the Aberration Universe ability.
• The narrator recycles the world’s unwanted abilities and combines those returns with other recent gains, receiving about 800 million experience points and five million attribute points.
• Choosing to focus on a single path, the narrator spends all experience on Qi Refining limit-breaking, raising it from 24,000 to 25,000 layers.
• To obtain more Authority fragments and Daos, the narrator considers several dangerous worlds but avoids those potentially linked to powerful figures. Instead, they use Immortal-Settling Journey to send the Other Self to a relatively safe Great World with a Supreme Existence but no higher-dimensional overlord.

Character developments

• The narrator remains ambitious and pragmatic, prioritizing power growth and rare Authority fragments, but recognizes that leveling has become extraordinarily expensive.
• They decide against developing multiple cultivation paths at once, preferring to concentrate scarce experience on Qi Refining.
• The “Old Self” is depicted as ruthless and decisive, carrying out the destruction and killing without hesitation.

Significant themes

• Escalating power and diminishing returns: Vast rewards produce only modest progress at the narrator’s current level.
• Specialization over dispersion: Limited resources make focusing on one path seem wiser than pursuing several.
• Risk management amid uncertainty: The narrator seeks powerful targets but avoids worlds entangled with higher-dimensional beings.
• Power through destruction: Annihilating worlds is treated as an efficient, if extreme, means of accumulating resources.

Character interactions

• The narrator directs the Old Self, who acts as their proxy in the Cthulhu universe and later as the intended traveler to the next world.
• The narrator transfers the seized Aberration Dao to the Eternal Primordial Chaos Willow World.
• Li Ping and Wang Hao are not present, but their suspected connections to the Supreme Martial Arts World and Supreme Heaven influence the narrator’s decision to avoid those destinations.

Key plot points and events

• The protagonist sends their “Other Self,” disguised as Old Self, to three worlds: the Desolate Realm, Nightmare Realm, and Astral Realm. Each is secretly controlled by a lone Supreme Existence that governs the world and restricts its inhabitants.
• Using the Escape One authority, the Other Self brings each world to destruction, seizes its Supreme Existence, and uses Dao Seizure to take its Great Dao. The Desolate Dao and Astral Dao prove too weak to help, though the Desolate Dao is added to the Eternal Primordial Chaos Willow World.
• The Supreme Existences are killed, but each yields only one authority fragment. Recycling the remaining spoils through Equivalent Exchange, the protagonist gains over 1.6 billion experience and more than seven million attribute points.
• The protagonist tries to use Immortal-Settling Journey to find another suitable world, but it fails. Apparently, only five worlds—including these three, the Deep World, and the Cthulhu universe—have unaccompanied Supreme Existences.
• With no further worlds available, the protagonist spends all their experience on Qi Refining limit-breaking, raising it from 24,500 to 25,500 layers.

Character development

• The protagonist remains pragmatic and ruthless, treating entire worlds and their rulers as sources of experience and resources.
• They become increasingly uneasy about how few worlds lack Higher Dimension oversight, suspecting that the broader cosmos is more dangerous and interconnected than expected.
• Their advancement reveals how steep the path has become: even 1.6 billion experience buys only 1,000 additional layers.

Significant themes

• Worlds as controlled systems: Each realm’s apparent natural development masks deliberate rule by a Supreme Existence.
• Cosmic herding and predestination: The Desolate Realm’s inhabitants are trapped in repeating cycles of extinction, with even its sole survivor dependent on the ruler’s borrowed authority.
• Escalating power costs: The protagonist can destroy worlds with ease, yet personal cultivation grows ever more expensive.
• Hidden danger and isolation: The shortage of worlds without Higher Dimension beings suggests that supposedly independent realms may be exceptions.

Character interactions

• The protagonist directs the Other Self, acting as Old Self, to investigate and destroy the three realms.
• In each encounter, the Other Self confronts a Supreme Existence, strips away its Great Dao, and kills it; the rulers’ limited rewards underline how little these victories provide beyond experience and resources.

Plot and key events

• After being unable to find a realm with an isolated Supreme Existence, the protagonist tries to use Immortal-Settling Journey to reach a world ruled by a Spirit Transformation Dao Master with a complete Great Dao.
• The ability unexpectedly fails. Suspecting Wang Hao or Li Ping has interfered, the protagonist uses Golden Talent: Listening to investigate.
• Eight-ring intelligence reveals Wang Hao’s two-pronged strategy: he has sealed off futures in which the protagonist successfully hunts these powerful beings, and secretly enlisted Li Ping to control every qualifying realm.
• Wang Hao deliberately left the Desolate Realm, Nightmare Realm, and Astral Realm accessible, apparently to demonstrate the reach of his plan.
• Unable to hunt for rapid gains, the protagonist decides to have their “other self” spread the Dao through great thousand worlds, while focusing their own efforts on the Longevity Realm, especially the Northern Land of Sin and the unexplored true Supreme True Realm.

Character developments and interactions

• The protagonist recognizes that they are outmatched in schemes, recalling that Past Li Ping had already defeated the Simulated Clone twice. They are frustrated and alarmed, but adapt rather than give up.
• Wang Hao is shown as an exceptionally formidable strategist whose Golden Finger can not only foresee and anchor futures but also seal them.
• Li Ping’s cooperation with Wang Hao extends the plan across realms. The protagonist also wonders whether the past, present, and future versions of Li Ping are one person at a higher-dimensional level.

Significant themes

• Fate and control: Wang Hao’s ability to restrict possible futures undermines the protagonist’s freedom to act.
• Power and limits: Even clever abilities and unusual protections cannot prevent the protagonist from being outmaneuvered.
• Adaptation: When the preferred path to power is blocked, the protagonist shifts toward Dao-spreading and exploration.
• Hidden worlds and incomplete knowledge: The protagonist realizes their current “Immortal Realm” is only part of the Supreme True Realm, leaving a major unexplored frontier.