Chapter Summaries

Key events

• You choose to enter the true Supreme True Realm, abandoning the Northern Land of Sin as too dangerous: its powerful slumbering beings could awaken if you fought at full strength. Seeking Dao Masters in the future is also too risky because traveling there could trigger karmic punishment—and possibly alert the Supreme Immortal.
• Your goal is Penglai Immortal Island, specifically its damaged, sleeping chaos spiritual root, Longevity Great Talent. It once held two complete supreme Great Daos, though they were shattered after it was outmaneuvered by three Heaven-Throughing Chess Players.
• You reason that Penglai may trade access to those Great Daos for help securing the sword Dao fruit position for its Island Master, whose attempt to claim it is destined to end in a fatal trap.
• Using the Immortal-Settling Journey authority, you send your “other self” to Penglai. After neutralizing the island’s probes, you display the Dao-burying fruit position, proving your connection to Beyond Heaven.
• A powerful Great Dao recognizes you as a contingency of the Supreme Dao Immortal Venerable. You introduce yourself as Chen Fan, the Eternal Radiance Immortal Venerable, and offer to help the Island Master attain the sword Dao fruit position. After a pause, Penglai agrees.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Fan acts cautiously, weighing the dangers before choosing a target whose interests can be served through negotiation rather than force.
• He approaches Penglai with confidence, relying on his Beyond Heaven credentials and the sword Dao fruit position to establish trust.
• Penglai’s unseen authority initially tests him, then recognizes his status and accepts his offer—though the precise terms of the exchange remain to be worked out.

Significant themes

• Risk versus opportunity: Chen Fan avoids battles that could expose him to overwhelming enemies.
• Power through alliances: His strongest path forward is bargaining and mutual benefit, not direct combat.
• Fate, schemes, and hidden motives: The Island Master’s peril and the earlier trap reveal how major powers manipulate events, while Chen Fan tries to turn those schemes to his advantage.

Key plot points

• The protagonist meets Longevity Great Talent, an ancient, tree-like being and the source of the Great Dao’s voice. Longevity questions the claim that the protagonist has come to help Penglai’s Island Master achieve the Sword Dao Fruit Position: their plan seemed airtight.
• The protagonist reveals an unforeseen danger from Beyond Heaven: the Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority may interfere if the Island Master succeeds through the original plan. To prove it, the protagonist shows Longevity edited scenes from a future simulation.
• Longevity is initially skeptical, but believes the warning after learning the protagonist is both a contingency left by the Supreme Dao Immortal Venerable and an Otherworldly Demon.
• The protagonist offers to help the Island Master avert the danger—but asks for compensation: Longevity’s Great Daos.
• Longevity agrees to give the protagonist his incomplete Creation and Devouring Great Daos in exchange for the help. He refuses to surrender his still-developing Ages Dao, since doing so could harm his origin.
• The protagonist accepts, confident that an incomplete primordial Dao-source ancestral root can eventually nurture the acquired Daos to completion. The protagonist also privately covets Longevity himself, but is currently unable to take him without inviting severe consequences.

Character developments

• The protagonist demonstrates foresight, confidence, and a transactional streak. They use future knowledge and their identity as an Otherworldly Demon to earn Longevity’s trust, then secure a valuable bargain.
• Longevity Great Talent moves from doubt to belief and cooperation. He remains protective of his developing Ages Dao, setting a clear limit to the deal.

Character interactions

• The protagonist confronts Longevity’s skepticism with evidence from the future simulation and a revelation of their identity.
• Once convinced, Longevity negotiates rather than resists, agreeing to the exchange while withholding the Ages Dao.
• The protagonist’s blunt demand for compensation briefly catches Longevity off guard, but their familiarity with the Supreme True Realm’s temperament helps the conversation proceed.

Significant themes

• Fate versus uncertainty: Even meticulous plans can be threatened by unforeseen forces and future variables.
• Trust through proof and identity: The protagonist’s visions and status change Longevity’s judgment.
• Power as negotiation: Help is offered in exchange for powerful resources, and each party protects what matters most.
• Ambition and restraint: The protagonist desires more than the agreed Daos but recognizes the risks and limits of acting by force.

Key plot points and events

• The protagonist leaves Central Province in chaos, promising to return in a hundred years to help the Penglai Immortal Island Master attain the Sword Dao fruit position. Meanwhile, they take two incomplete Great Daos from Longevity Great Talent and plan to restore them with their primordial Dao source tree.
• To stay in contact with Longevity, the protagonist creates a powerful, independently existing incarnation and sends their “other self” out to spread the Dao.
• Five-chime intelligence reveals that the Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority had been hiding nearby. Using the life-bound ability Twin Blossoms, the Venerable Lord copied the other self and confirmed that the protagonist already possessed the Sword Dao fruit position. The Venerable Lord then quietly departed, abandoning plans to return from the Fourth Era.
• With that interference gone, the protagonist expects the Penglai Island Master’s future Dao attainment to succeed and relays the news to Longevity.
• The protagonist turns to the Jade Pool Sacred Land, kills its Sacred Lord, and obtains the lunar fruit position and the divine ability Fishing for the Moon in the Water.
• To attain the lunar Dao, the protagonist uses Escape One to make the world’s yin side dominant: mortals forget cultivators exist, and cultivators conceal themselves from mortal view. This completes the Dao-attainment rite.

Character developments and interactions

• The protagonist grows more proactive and strategic, using incarnations, Dao-seizing, and reality-altering authority to secure future gains.
• The Venerable Lord proves exceptionally perceptive and cautious, detecting the incarnation immediately and leaving once the protagonist’s Sword Dao attainment is confirmed.
• Longevity Great Talent is initially speechless at the news but accepts the protagonist’s assurance of future help.
• The Jade Pool Sacred Lord, previously suspected of being tied to a hidden contingency, shows no unusual behavior and is killed by the protagonist.

Significant themes

• Information and foresight: A brief intelligence report reshapes the protagonist’s expectations and plans.
• Hidden power and concealment: The Venerable Lord operates unseen, while the lunar Dao itself depends on cultivators and mortals being separated from one another.
• Control over the world’s order: The protagonist’s ability to redefine the boundary between the visible and hidden worlds turns a metaphysical condition into a practical route to power.
• Ambition and instrumental alliances: The protagonist makes promises and builds connections while treating factions and individuals as means to attain greater Dao positions.

Key plot points

• The protagonist directly attains the Lunar Fruit Position, protected by “Old Self,” and gains its mystique, Yin Lord Concealment.
• Its two linked abilities let the protagonist replace yang with yin to wield part of Heaven and Earth’s authority and conceal themselves by severing karma; they also let them gather Taiyin moonlight, which makes attacks bypass defenses and deal direct damage. The protagonist notes that this pairs well with the Sword Dao Fruit Position’s White Edge.
• The protagonist uses the Fate Demon Dice to enhance the task of creating a Dao-Seeking Immortal Art for the Lunar Fruit Position. It rolls a seven, imposing “twice the effort for half the result.” Progress becomes agonizingly difficult, forcing the protagonist to rely on powerful comprehension abilities and two primordial spiritual roots.
• At age 22, the protagonist’s “Heavenly Gate” plan produces its first Foundation Establishment True Person, who has broken through from the ninth-level Qi Refining limit.
• At age 23, the protagonist completes the art, reaching the Lunar Fruit Position’s Nascent Soul middle stage and obtaining 30% of its power. Both abilities grow stronger: the authority gained rises to 30%, while Taiyin moonlight accumulates twice as fast and deals twice the true damage.

Character development and interactions

• The protagonist remains confident and resourceful despite the dice’s harmful result, adapting by drawing on multiple divine abilities and spiritual roots.
• They speculate that their unusual ability to exceed ordinary Qi Refining limits comes from “self-based Qi Refining,” possibly linked to a black bead formed from a former Simulated Clone.
• The protagonist’s five “Other Selves” continue spreading the Dao; one imitates Old Self to work more efficiently.
• The Heavenly Gate’s first successful cultivator demonstrates the protagonist’s growing influence over other practitioners.

Significant themes

• Power carries a cost: the Fate Demon Dice can hinder as readily as help, making an intended task dramatically harder.
• Growth through perseverance: the protagonist endures years of difficult cultivation to complete the new art.
• Accumulating authority: greater mastery of a fruit position increases both its power and its access to Heaven and Earth’s authority.
• Concealment and direct force: the Lunar Fruit Position combines evasion and karmic concealment with attacks that bypass defenses.

Key plot points and events

• After spending three years comprehending the lunar-fruit-position Dao-Seeking Immortal Art, the protagonist finds progress slow. Their Fate Demon Dice talent has made the art especially difficult, while their Listening talent yields little new intelligence.
• With eight years remaining before the Second Group Mission, the protagonist concludes that the Heavenly Gate’s cultivators are advancing too slowly for the long-term “shepherding all living beings” plan.
• They use Fate Demon Dice to accelerate the plan, hoping for a favorable result. The die lands on nineteen, granting an extraordinary blessing “as if aided by the gods.”
• The Immortal Realm’s cultivation environment is transformed: ancient restrictions break, Heaven and Earth grant authority, and cultivation speeds soar. Lower-realm spiritual energy becomes vastly denser, while cultivators at every level advance dramatically.
• Within months, Heavenly Gate cultivators reach Foundation Establishment middle and late stages; by age twenty-four, one has reached Foundation Establishment perfection.
• The sudden rise in spiritual energy and fortune overwhelms some Embryonic Breath and Qi Refining cultivators, who die. The protagonist consumes them early and discovers that doing so greatly boosts their own cultivation, including adding over a hundred layers to both Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment limit-breaking.
• The protagonist continues bringing talented cultivators from other worlds into the Immortal Realm, whose accelerated cultivation now far surpasses that of the other worlds.

Character developments and interactions

• The protagonist shifts from patiently waiting for cultivators to mature to using rule-based power to force rapid progress, treating the resulting deaths as an opportunity to strengthen themselves.
• Their earlier intelligence revealed that Wang Hao intends to attack them during the Second Group Mission and has allied with Li Ping. The Chat Group is otherwise quiet, with Zhang Wenping and Li Ping occasionally acting lively; no further useful intelligence emerges.

Significant themes

• Power and consequence: A miraculous acceleration brings rapid breakthroughs but also kills cultivators unable to endure the transformed environment.
• Instrumental “shepherding”: The protagonist sees entire populations as cultivational resources, weighing their growth against the benefits of harvesting them.
• Rules, fate, and cosmic intervention: The nineteen roll demonstrates how Fate Demon Dice can alter not just individual fortunes but the conditions of an entire realm.
• Ambition and time pressure: The protagonist’s vast plans demand progress on a scale ordinary cultivation cannot provide.

Summary

• By age 25, many of the Heavenly Gate’s chosen cultivators had reached the limit of Foundation Establishment and were nearing the Golden Core stage. To enable their breakthroughs, the protagonist released eighteen ordinary fruit positions and anchored them above the Heavenly Gate with the Chaos Bell, giving cultivators a source of golden nature.
• The first promising cultivator chose the Great Post Earth fruit position and began cultivating golden nature. He became a Golden Core powerhouse by age 27, reached the middle stage six months later, and advanced to Golden Core perfection by age 30. Other Heavenly Gate cultivators also progressed rapidly, aided by the Fate Demon Dice’s rule-based boost to cultivation.
• The protagonist expects the leading cultivator to approach the Dao and become a Nascent Soul True Lord, while others continue advancing. Meanwhile, by consuming remnants of failed breakthroughs, the protagonist’s own cultivation rises to 26,000 Qi Refining limit-breaking levels and 9,600 Foundation Establishment limit-breaking levels.
• As the Second Group Mission nears, the protagonist eagerly awaits the ten-year trigger of the Future Letter talent, suspecting it may involve Wang Hao, Li Ping, and their fellow schemers. At pre-dawn, Listening produces an unprecedented six-ring intelligence—apparently tied to the upcoming mission—and the Great Dao begins to speak.

Character developments and interactions

The protagonist shifts from simply accumulating power to actively supporting the Heavenly Gate’s cultivation, though the cultivators are still ultimately intended to be harvested and devoured. He regards the leading cultivator as exceptional, while distinguishing these sheltered “talents” from those who survived the protagonist’s own brutal, hellish world. The Heavenly Gate’s rapid progress is largely enabled by the protagonist’s resources and the Fate Demon Dice, creating a sharp contrast between their favorable environment and the protagonist’s hard-won past.

Significant themes

• Cultivation and power through managed opportunity: The protagonist provides fruit positions and favorable conditions to accelerate others’ breakthroughs.
• Talent versus hardship: The sheltered cultivators excel in a system focused on speed, comprehension, and aptitude, unlike the protagonist’s harsher path.
• Benevolence entangled with exploitation: The protagonist helps cultivators advance while still viewing them as future resources.
• Foreshadowing and rising uncertainty: The long-awaited Future Letter and the rare six-ring intelligence signal that the peaceful period may soon end.

Key plot points and events

• Wang Hao and Li Ping manipulate the available worlds for the upcoming Second Group Mission. By eliminating lower-tier options and using Colorful Entry: Omnipotence, they leave only worlds containing higher-dimensional beings, all with at least SS difficulty. This is Wang Hao’s plan to force the protagonist into a dangerous mission.
• The protagonist waits for a second Future Letter, hoping for guidance. When it arrives, it warns in stark terms: do not choose the Heavenly Immortal Realm, where an immense scheme is beyond the protagonist’s ability to investigate.
• The Heavenly Immortal Realm is one of the three mission choices previously offered, so the protagonist suspects it may be the option selected in the most likely future. The letter provides no advice about the other two worlds, leaving the decision unresolved.
• At age 31, the protagonist’s cultivation accelerates under the lingering effect of Fate Demon Dice’s “nineteen” result. Several talents advance, and the protagonist continues making progress in limit-breaking cultivation, though talent development and available fruit positions remain constrained.
• The protagonist explores ways to prepare, but receives little help. Wu Yong again demands a “future promise,” which the protagonist is compelled to refuse. Lin Feng says his influence cannot reach beyond the Supreme True Realm, but assures the protagonist that he has arranged backup measures and that this is not a fatal tribulation. He claims to have seen the future.

Character developments and interactions

• The protagonist becomes increasingly anxious and indecisive as the mission’s danger and Wang Hao’s manipulation become clear. Despite powerful abilities and continued cultivation gains, the protagonist recognizes that they may be insufficient against the threat in the Heavenly Immortal Realm.
• Wang Hao and Li Ping emerge as coordinated adversaries, shaping the mission choices to leave the protagonist with no safe, low-difficulty option.
• Wu Yong appears unwilling to genuinely assist; his demand for a future promise seems to be a way to avoid refusing outright.
• Lin Feng offers reassurance and claims to have prepared contingencies. His statement that he has seen the future briefly alarms the protagonist, who worries he could be Wang Hao in disguise, but the Spacetime Token’s authenticity eases that suspicion.

Significant themes

• Manipulation and constrained choice: The protagonist’s mission options have been engineered to create the appearance of choice while ensuring every path is dangerous.
• Uncertain futures: The Future Letter warns of a threat but offers no solution, while Lin Feng’s confidence in having seen the future raises further questions about fate and foreknowledge.
• Power’s limits: Even the protagonist’s strong talents and cultivation may not be enough to understand or confront forces in the Heavenly Immortal Realm.
• Trust and unreliable assistance: The protagonist must weigh warnings, promises, and assurances from figures whose motives or knowledge are not fully clear.

• The new mission’s traps: Calm at first, the protagonist waits for the Chat Group’s second group mission, trusting Senior Lin Feng and expecting his I Am the Chess Player talent to activate. When the missions appear, he sees that all three choices may be dangerous:
  • Supreme Heaven offers two supreme “authorities,” but requires killing a supreme being; Wang Hao may have planted contingencies there.
  • Supreme Martial Arts World requires overthrowing the Great Qian Dynasty and offers primordial purple qi, but Li Ping’s schemes are already known to be tied to that world.
  • Heavenly Immortal World is the only unknown option, with a reward belonging to a supreme existence—but the protagonist suspects it may be Wang Hao and Li Ping’s real trap.
• A forced choice: The protagonist realizes the first two worlds may be obvious decoys designed to push him toward the third. He cannot tell whether choosing or refusing the Heavenly Immortal World is safer.
• The talents activate: At the height of his uncertainty, I Am the Chess Player activates alongside the rainbow talent Ten Gates, transporting him through the first gate to meet “Zero” again.
• Zero’s revelation: Zero confirms that ten years have passed for both of them. When asked about the Heavenly Immortal World, Zero says it already has been destroyed—by a group of Otherworldly Demons.
  Character developments and interactions: The protagonist has shifted from panic to wary, calculated suspicion, recognizing how Wang Hao and Li Ping may be manipulating his choices. His meeting with Zero suggests a possible source of crucial information, while Zero’s cryptic but direct answer sharply raises the stakes.
  Themes: The chapter centers on manipulation and constrained choice: even when the protagonist spots a trap, his options may have been arranged to funnel him into it. It also emphasizes uncertainty, the unreliability of apparently safe alternatives, and the growing importance of past connections and hidden knowledge.

Key plot points

• Zero reveals that the true Heavenly Immortal World was destroyed in an ancient, epoch-defining war involving beings of immeasurable power. The details are forbidden knowledge: learning more could attract the attention of terrifying entities.
• The Heavenly Immortal World appearing in the upcoming mission is likely only a projection of the past or a powerful being’s dream. Entering it may not be fatal, but could draw dangerous attention. Zero advises staying away if a similar world appears.
• The protagonist asks Zero about the other mission choices, Supreme Heaven and the Supreme Martial Arts World, but Zero says further information will cost something.
• The protagonist explains the predicament: the Second Group Mission will force a choice among worlds and pit them against Wang Hao’s scheme. Zero has never heard of Wang Hao or Wu Yong, suggesting they belong to an era after his own.
• The protagonist asks for help, noting that Zero could potentially lend his abilities through the Ten Gates talent. Zero instead demands one of the protagonist’s talents.

Character developments and interactions

• Zero shifts from freely sharing alarming historical information to bargaining for further aid. He presents himself jokingly as a “Great Immortal Venerable Who Relieves Suffering and Delivers Salvation,” but his teasing manner suggests he is also a shrewd negotiator.
• The protagonist becomes increasingly anxious about the mission’s stakes, seeks backup beyond Senior Lin Feng, and cautiously negotiates with Zero. They clarify that anything involving the Simulator’s main body is off-limits.
• Zero’s unfamiliarity with Wang Hao and Wu Yong hints at just how ancient he is. He offers the protagonist a choice between advice and direct intervention, then requests a talent; the chapter ends before he specifies which one.

Significant themes

• Forbidden knowledge and cosmic danger: Some truths are so far beyond ordinary understanding that merely learning them can invite disaster.
• Uncertainty and preparation: The protagonist faces a dangerous, manipulated choice and seeks multiple safeguards.
• Power comes at a price: Zero’s help is transactional, and the requested talent may carry significant consequences.
• The scale of history: The destroyed Heavenly Immortal World and Zero’s age suggest conflicts and eras far beyond the protagonist’s frame of reference.

Plot points

• “Zero” asks the protagonist for [Purple Talent: Existence from Nonexistence], promising that the power he lends in return could overturn the crisis.
• The protagonist suspects Zero is mainly trying to prevent them from sacrificing [Rainbow Talent: Ten Gates]. Zero confirms it: losing that talent would cause serious trouble for him, though the protagonist would likely perish first.
• Zero hints that the protagonist’s predicament is worse than they realize and reveals he can observe their circumstances. The protagonist infers that the eerie Clown Mask serves as Zero’s eyes, but keeps using it because it blocks other threats’ influence.
• Before the protagonist exits the first gate, Zero recommends choosing [Supreme Heaven] for the Second Group Mission. The protagonist follows his advice and selects it; forced teleportation will begin in twenty-four hours.

Character developments and interactions

• The protagonist remains wary of Zero’s offer and motives, but recognizes that Zero has extensive knowledge and influence. They decide to postpone any deal unless the crisis becomes impossible to survive.
• Zero is unusually direct about his concern over the loss of Ten Gates, while also asserting his superiority and confidence that the protagonist will eventually accept his terms.
• Their exchange is a negotiation shaped by uncertainty: Zero offers help and reveals just enough about his knowledge to influence the protagonist, while the protagonist weighs the risk of trusting him against the danger of the mission.

Significant themes

• Trust and manipulation: Zero’s advice may be useful, but his motives remain unclear.
• Power and dependence: The protagonist’s talents are both a potential escape route and something others have a stake in.
• Limited choices and looming danger: With the crisis escalating, the protagonist must act on incomplete information and rely on a potentially compromised ally.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Fan confronts Wang Hao and Li Ping about their apparent test of his abilities. Both say the worlds are dangerous and that they will accept defeat if Chen Fan eventually overturns their plans. Chen Fan likewise declares he will accept the outcome without regret.
• Wu Yong admits he wants to observe Chen Fan’s hidden trump cards rather than intervene. Wang Hao reveals that he expected Chen Fan to choose the Heavenly Immortal World—and had prepared for that—before Chen Fan’s future-letter warning led him to choose Supreme Heaven instead.
• With the Second Group Mission due in twenty-four hours, Chen Fan prepares but lets his talented allies continue growing rather than devouring them for more raw power. He trusts his other safeguards, including his arrangements with Zero and Senior Lin Feng.
• Seven-ring intelligence reveals Wang Hao inferred that Chen Fan’s unusual talents might involve future-sight and an old mentor. He strengthened his preparations in Supreme Heaven by removing restrictions on its ninth layer, potentially freeing higher-dimensional beings and arranging for them to attack Chen Fan.
• The mission begins. Its objective is to enter Supreme Heaven and kill at least one Supreme Existence. It is rated SS difficulty and offers two random supreme authorities, distributed according to contribution.
• Expecting immediate danger, Chen Fan activates Transform All Beings to take the form of “Old Self” before teleporting into Supreme Heaven.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Fan remains defiant but increasingly cautious. He accepts that the contest with Wang Hao and Li Ping may end in his defeat, while relying on preparation rather than simply maximizing his cultivation level.
• Wang Hao is shown to be exceptionally calculating: he uses Chen Fan’s world choice to infer the nature of his talents and escalates the threat by altering Supreme Heaven’s ninth layer.
• Li Ping reinforces Wang Hao’s view that these worlds are genuinely perilous, while acknowledging that Chen Fan could still ultimately win.
• Wu Yong candidly admits he is withholding help in order to learn what Chen Fan can do.
• The exchange between Chen Fan and the others is a tense contest of probing, bluffing, and mutual acknowledgment that the eventual outcome will decide who was right.

Significant themes

• Fate versus foresight: Chen Fan’s future-oriented talent changes his choice, prompting Wang Hao to adapt.
• Escalating schemes and hidden stakes: What first appears to be a test becomes a potentially catastrophic trap involving higher-dimensional beings.
• Power beyond raw strength: Chen Fan questions whether greater cultivation alone can overcome opponents with superior mechanics and preparation.
• Acceptance of consequences: Both sides claim they will accept defeat without regret, even as they continue maneuvering against one another.

Plot points and events

• The protagonist arrives in Supreme Heaven as “Old Self” alongside the other four Chat Group members. Despite possessing higher-dimensional power, they cannot see through any of the realm’s nine layers, each of which is an immense, independent world.
• The first layer consists of a main world and countless connected parallel worlds. The protagonist realizes that reaching the eighth layer is necessary to fulfill the mission of killing a Supreme Existence.
• Before they can progress, a higher-dimensional force probes and attacks them alone. Using the authority “escape one,” the Chaos Bell, the Pure World White Lotus, and the support of two primordial spiritual roots, the protagonist reveals their attacker—but doing so destroys the entire first layer.
• The attacker proves to be the world itself: a higher-dimensional existence capable of taking the form of a whole realm. The protagonist defeats it after a struggle, but discovers they cannot escape, apparently because of an ability associated with Wang Hao.
• The protagonist summons Old Self through true-false supreme realm. Old Self’s sword Dawn suppresses the first enemy, but the battle sends them into the second layer, a realm made of stairways whose steps each contain great worlds.
• Another higher-dimensional existence attacks immediately. The protagonist suspects every layer may hold one and fears the enemies may have been unsealed by Wang Hao—or may always have been there. With escape blocked and Lin Feng unable to intervene beyond the Supreme True Realm, the protagonist decides they must find Zero and fulfill their bargain.

Character developments and interactions

• The protagonist shifts from confidence to alarm and helplessness as Supreme Heaven proves far more dangerous than expected. They recognize that their own strength, even with Old Self’s help, may not be enough.
• Old Self acts as a crucial ally, arriving with Dawn and quickly suppressing the first enemy.
• Wang Hao and Li Ping remain observers, but the protagonist suspects their abilities are preventing escape and worries about the threat they would pose if they joined the fight.
• Lin Feng is acknowledged as exceptionally formidable, though restrictions keep him from helping in this realm. The protagonist’s immediate hope becomes finding Zero.

Significant themes

• Limits of power: Being higher-dimensional does not guarantee understanding or control when facing a realm of an even stranger nature.
• Escalating danger and helplessness: Each victory leads to a new layer and another enemy, turning the mission into an apparent sequence of increasingly daunting trials.
• Uncertainty and manipulation: The protagonist cannot tell whether Supreme Heaven’s threats are natural or have been released by Wang Hao, and suspects hidden powers are shaping the situation.

Key plot points

• Inside the first gate of [Ten Gates], the narrator agrees to Zero’s deal: in exchange for [Existence from Nonexistence], Zero will provide an ability that can reverse the crisis.
• The agreement unlocks a temporary borrowing of Zero’s power: [Past Shadow], which projects an impossible past into the present for a short time. Its echo is vastly weaker than the original and must not significantly alter reality, or it will attract a terrible threat.
• The narrator realizes the ability can summon a past version of Zero, then leave the gate and use [Supreme God’s Game] to give that figure the promised talent.
• Back on the battlefield, the fight resumes. “Old Self” faces three higher-dimensional beings as the Mirror World collapses, apparently forcing the narrator toward a fourth opponent. Wang Hao and Li Ping seem to be orchestrating the escalating pressure to test the narrator’s rainbow talent.
• Just before advancing, the narrator activates [Past Shadow]. The battlefield gives way to a nonexistent branch of the River of Time, from which a figure bearing the distinctive Clown Mask begins to emerge.

Character developments and interactions

• The narrator accepts a risky bargain despite uncertainty, recognizing that Zero’s ability may be the only way to survive.
• Zero reveals a calculated plan and lends the narrator [Past Shadow]. Their final remark suggests the summoned past self will give Wang Hao and Li Ping “a little shock.”
• Old Self continues to hold his own against powerful opponents, but three enemies push him into a disadvantage.
• Wang Hao and Li Ping remain observers who appear to be manipulating the escalating trial rather than seeking the narrator’s immediate death.

Significant themes

• Bargains and trust under pressure: The narrator must rely on Zero without knowing the full consequences.
• Past, possibility, and reality: The power makes an event that never happened briefly real.
• Escalating trials and observation: The battlefield’s destruction seems designed to test the narrator’s unknown ability.
• Power with limits: The summoned past is only a faint echo, and interfering too much with reality risks drawing a greater menace.

Key plot points and events

• The narrator summons a past version of Zero from the River of Time. Zero immediately insults the narrator’s weakness, but agrees to help because his future self requested it.
• The group enters the fourth level of Supreme Heaven, a void inhabited by a higher-dimensional being stronger than anything on the earlier levels.
• Zero deduces that dimensional ascension happens when a being at the limit of its rank uses an unknown process to reach a new realm. He then declares that he had already ascended—and his words rewrite reality, raising his rank without limit.
• Zero effortlessly neutralizes the fourth-level being, then erases Supreme Heaven itself, including its other higher-dimensional inhabitants and unrevealed levels.
• He turns on Wang Hao and Li Ping, identifying them as young Otherworldly Demons, and erases them as well. They reappear unharmed: Wang Hao explains that his Golden Finger anchored a future in which they were unaffected.
• Wang Hao challenges whether a past echo of Zero can truly kill them. Zero laughs, acknowledges that he is an echo, and warns them that they do not understand the gulf between them.

Character developments and interactions

• Zero: Reveals overwhelming power that can reshape reality through speech. His manner is cold, arrogant, and dismissive, though he is intrigued by Wang Hao and Li Ping’s resistance.
• The narrator: Remains far weaker than Zero and is stunned by his power, while still trying to make sense of the events.
• Wang Hao: Keeps his composure after being erased and restored, explaining how his Golden Finger protected them. His defiance provokes Zero.
• Li Ping: Unlike his usual sarcastic self, stays silent through the confrontation.
• Zero and the others: Zero treats the narrator and the two young demons as inferiors; Wang Hao’s challenge turns the exchange into an explicit contest of wills.

Significant themes

• Power and hierarchy: The chapter stresses an immense, seemingly incomprehensible gap between levels of existence.
• Reality shaped by language: Zero’s declarations do not merely describe events—they make them happen.
• Defiance and protection: Wang Hao’s ability to anchor a safe future lets him resist Zero’s apparent absolute power, at least temporarily.
• Past and future: Zero’s status as an echo of his future self raises questions about how much power—and agency—a past version can possess.

Key plot points and events

• Past Zero reveals that he can copy and use other beings’ Golden Finger abilities. He first uses Li Ping’s Annihilation, then Wang Hao’s Anchored Future to prevent the group from escaping.
• He deploys the Judgment Domain, using Anchored Future to lock in an outcome where Wang Hao and Li Ping are condemned by its highest standard.
• Li Ping argues that Past Zero is only a past reflection, so the abilities he copies are incomplete: he can use purple-level entries, but not gold- or colorful-level ones. Li Ping uses Omnipotence to destroy the domain, raise his own rank to match Past Zero’s, and elevate Wang Hao to the same level.
• Wang Hao identifies Past Zero’s ability as Deception: whatever a being believes Past Zero says will become true. Past Zero confirms this and notes his interest in Wang Hao’s ability to communicate with his future selves.
• The three begin a battle in a realm beyond the narrator’s understanding. Their clashes create and destroy immense worlds, while the narrator remains unharmed.

Character developments

• Past Zero is revealed as a resourceful but limited reflection of the past. He can borrow others’ powers and pay the cost of Anchored Future on credit, but will dissipate when payment comes due. His core ability appears to be Deception.
• Li Ping shifts from defending against Past Zero to directly challenging him, revealing that Omnipotence can raise other beings’ ranks as well as his own.
• Wang Hao demonstrates insight into Past Zero’s ability and remains capable of confronting him despite the attempted trap.
• The narrator recognizes the enormous gap between their own slow progression and the combatants’ ability to raise their power at will.

Significant themes

• Power and its limits: Even apparently overwhelming abilities have constraints, such as Past Zero’s incomplete copies and the cost he must eventually pay.
• Belief and reality: Past Zero’s Deception turns belief into truth, while Anchored Future manipulates possible outcomes.
• Inequality of power: The narrator’s frustration highlights the gulf between ordinary advancement and higher-dimensional beings’ seemingly effortless growth.
• Borrowed power and cost: Past Zero’s use of Anchored Future depends on deferred payment, making his strength temporary.

Character interactions

• Past Zero taunts Wang Hao and Li Ping while testing their abilities against them.
• Li Ping counters Past Zero’s attack and explains the limits of his copied powers.
• Wang Hao identifies Past Zero’s true ability, prompting Past Zero to acknowledge it and question how Wang Hao learned it.
• The narrator observes the escalating conflict from the sidelines, unable to fully comprehend the battle but spared its destruction.

Key events

• The narrator cannot escape the clash between Past Zero, Wang Hao, and Li Ping. Past Zero uses his ability to link the narrator’s perspective to his own, making the narrator’s rank rise alongside the demons’.
• As their ranks ascend without limit, the world shrinks from a plane to a point in their view. The narrator begins to fade into an overwhelming, seemingly empty expanse.
• Past Zero’s perspective reaches an incomprehensible higher-dimensional boundary, where the narrator senses an immense existence: a vast Dao body, apparently a corpse left by an unimaginably powerful being.
• Past Zero protects the narrator and ends the borrowed attunement, restoring their ordinary perspective. The narrator forgets what they perceived, though they suspect the experience may have been meant for their original self, who possesses the Simulator.
• After a sound like shattering, the three demons return to the realm at the supreme level. Wang Hao and Li Ping condemn Past Zero as a madman for trying to disturb an unnamed entity. Past Zero asks the narrator whether they “saw clearly.”

Character developments and interactions

• Past Zero demonstrates extraordinary control over the narrator’s perception and rank. He appears to have deliberately exposed the narrator—or possibly their original self—to a forbidden revelation, while also shielding them from its effects.
• The narrator gains a glimpse of a reality far beyond their comprehension, but the vision is erased from memory. They are left uncertain about Past Zero’s motives.
• Wang Hao and Li Ping react with fear and anger, suggesting Past Zero’s actions threatened something immensely powerful.
• Their exchange ends in unresolved tension: Past Zero does not explain himself, and the river of time grows increasingly illusory.

Significant themes

• Infinite escalation and perspective: Rising in rank transforms the world itself, reducing it from a plane to a point.
• Forbidden knowledge: The higher-dimensional revelation nearly destroys the narrator’s consciousness and cannot be retained.
• Unreliable perception and memory: The narrator senses something momentous but forgets it, leaving only suspicion and uncertainty.
• Power and recklessness: Past Zero’s daring attempt to disturb an unknowable existence alarms even his fellow demons.

Key events

• Wang Hao argues that Past Zero cannot harm him and Li Ping because their abilities should prevent his Deception from working. Past Zero reveals that Deception only requires himself to believe the falsehood; it overrides their protections and leaves both men gravely wounded.
• Past Zero explains that Wang Hao and Li Ping are bait. Killing them could draw in their past or future selves, especially Wang Hao, and endanger the narrator. As a projection of the past, Past Zero also cannot interfere freely with reality.
• Past Zero breaks the higher-dimensional world he created around the group, revealing that [Supreme Heaven] remains intact. He then declares that the beings who had escaped their seals are still imprisoned in the ninth layer, undoing their apparent escape.
• His interventions push his power to its limit: seeing “****” and resuppressing the nine beings have nearly exhausted his ability to act.
• Past Zero offers the narrator one final intervention: either kill up to three Supreme Existences to complete the group mission, or strip one Supreme Existence of their authority and then kill them. The narrator chooses the second option.

Character developments and interactions

• Past Zero demonstrates overwhelming power and a ruthless, dismissive attitude toward the younger generation. Despite his disdain, he carefully protects the narrator, explaining why he cannot simply kill Wang Hao and Li Ping.
• Wang Hao and Li Ping are exposed as powerful but outmatched: their defenses fail against Past Zero’s higher-priority ability, leaving them near death.
• The narrator moves from astonishment at Past Zero’s power to strategic decision-making, choosing the more reliable way to secure an authority and complete the mission.
• Past Zero speaks directly to the narrator, clarifying the danger posed by the two wounded schemers and offering a choice for his final act.

Significant themes

• Power and ability hierarchy: Past Zero’s “Deception” functions like reality-altering speech and surpasses the younger characters’ safeguards.
• Limits and consequences: Even immense power is constrained by taboos, the threat of a greater terror, and Past Zero’s status as a projection.
• Strategic restraint: Sparing enemies can be wiser than defeating them outright when their deaths might trigger retaliation.
• Risk versus certainty: The narrator chooses guaranteed authority seizure over the uncertain rewards of killing three opponents.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Fan directs the past “Zero” to kill Huanhai, a Supreme Existence who had plotted against the Other Shore Realm. Zero does so, completing Chen Fan’s golden timed mission and resolving the fallen Other Shore Supreme’s lingering grievance.
• Chen Fan gains Huanhai’s complete authority and plunders the Infinite Measure Great Dao, a major branch closely related to the Infinite Great Dao. He sends it to his Eternal Primordial Chaos Willow World, where it may enable another Spirit Transformation Dao Master.
• The kill yields unusually large rewards: experience, attribute points, a major divine ability, and three authority fragments. Combined with his earlier fragments, Chen Fan is two short of the ten required to synthesize an authority.
• The mission reward would advance one chosen fruit position to Great True Lord, but Chen Fan postpones using it. The group mission also awards him two complete authorities and one random complete Great Dao, since he alone contributed.
• As the past Zero prepares to disappear, Chen Fan asks him to lift Wang Hao’s seal preventing Chen Fan from hunting Supreme Existences. Zero can undo it temporarily, but Wang Hao could simply reseal it afterward.
• Zero asks Chen Fan for the purple talent Existence from Nonexistence, as his true self had requested. Chen Fan gives it to him, knowing the talent will vanish with this past projection rather than return to Zero’s true self.
• Zero disappears along with the phantom River of Time. Chen Fan then approaches the badly injured Wang Hao and Li Ping and prepares to use his golden talent Investment.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Fan secures major gains but remains pragmatic: he delays the mission reward, weighs the cost of giving up a powerful talent, and recognizes that Zero cannot permanently solve the hunting restriction.
• Past Zero remains composed as he faces dissolution. He explains the limits of changing the past and insists that the talent given to his projection cannot be treated as a gift to his true self.
• Wang Hao and Li Ping, gravely wounded, are left vulnerable after Zero’s departure; Chen Fan turns his attention to them.
• The group’s other members—Wang Hao, Li Ping, Zhang Wenping, and Wu Yong—receive no mission rewards because they contributed nothing.

Significant themes

• Power earned through risk: Chen Fan’s dangerous undertaking yields authorities, a Great Dao, and substantial rewards.
• The limits of time and identity: Zero’s past projection is distinct from his true self, and temporary changes to the future can be reversed.
• Duty and lingering resentment: Killing Huanhai serves both Chen Fan’s mission and the fallen Supreme’s unresolved grievance.
• Costly choices and pragmatism: Chen Fan sacrifices a valuable talent while carefully considering its consequences.

Plot and events

• After waiting a year for Golden Talent: Investment to become usable, the protagonist finally finds an eligible target: Wang Hao, a Chat Group member who had previously resisted being approached.
• The protagonist explains that Wang Hao has already achieved his goal and that, despite Wang Hao’s recent loss, the moment is a rare chance to activate the talent. Wang Hao reluctantly accepts the wager’s terms.
• The talent offers a choice of the protagonist’s abilities and treasures. The main candidates are the Chaos Bell, a strand of primordial purple qi, and the Gods and Devils Overlord Golden Class Card.
• After weighing the options, the protagonist invests the Chaos Bell, leaving the other two untouched.

Character developments and interactions

• The protagonist is cautious and opportunistic, waiting for Wang Hao and Li Ping to be injured before approaching them. They choose Wang Hao first because he is especially difficult to deal with and another opportunity may not arise.
• Wang Hao recognizes the protagonist’s intention to use the investment talent. Though he responds with some reluctance, he honors the wager and agrees.
• The protagonist’s past dealings with Wang Hao have made them wary: Wang Hao previously interfered with an attempt to use primordial purple qi to elevate Zhen Yuanzi.

Significant themes

• Timing and opportunity: The protagonist waits for a rare opening rather than risk approaching powerful targets under unfavorable circumstances.
• Strategic restraint: A potentially valuable reward is not automatically worthwhile; the protagonist rejects the purple qi because its limitations and uncertain usefulness outweigh its apparent power.
• Power beyond raw strength: The protagonist believes higher-dimensional power is ineffective without the right underlying mechanics, favoring a practical investment in the Chaos Bell instead.

Key plot points and events

• The narrator concludes that investing a Golden Class Card in Wang Hao would not be enough to defeat Li Ping, and decides to invest the Innate Supreme Treasure Chaos Bell instead.
• The investment triggers a hundred-millionfold return: the narrator receives the Primordial Chaos Bell, a Chaos Supreme Treasure described as an “instrument of Transcendence.”
• Its powers include suppressing beings and their Karma or Fortune, sealing entities and even concepts such as past and future, blocking most attacks, and anchoring the user’s past, present, and future—including at higher-dimensional levels.
• Though the narrator wonders whether the treasure could make them nearly invincible, they still doubts they can personally kill the gravely wounded Li Ping.
• Wang Hao correctly guesses the treasure’s significance and offers to explain Transcendence only in exchange for compensation. The narrator counters that Wang Hao already owes them for the Chaos Bell, so no deal is reached.

Character developments and interactions

• The narrator gains an extraordinarily powerful artifact and is thrilled by its potential, but remains cautious about its limits and about confronting Li Ping.
• Wang Hao is perceptive enough to infer what the narrator received and tries to use his knowledge to negotiate. The narrator refuses to pay, treating the investment as repayment enough.
• Li Ping remains gravely wounded and silent; his potential danger continues to shape the narrator’s decisions.
• With Wang Hao’s explanation unavailable, the narrator plans to ask Lin Feng or Zero about Transcendence later.

Significant themes

• Power and uncertainty: Even a seemingly supreme weapon does not guarantee victory, and its true limits remain unclear.
• Knowledge as currency: Wang Hao treats information about Transcendence as something to trade.
• Transcendence and reality: The text distinguishes Transcendence from a cultivation realm, presenting it as a symbolic level concerned with discerning illusion from truth. Its relation to higher-dimensional power is deliberately left uncertain.