Chapter Summaries

• Plot: Zero and Past Li Ping confront each other, with Zero questioning why Li Ping and Wang Hao repeatedly targeted Chen Fan. Their conversation turns to Li Ping’s Omniscience and Omnipotence entries: Zero argues that their limits at higher dimensions imply that the higher-dimensional realm was created by a Golden Finger ability with greater priority. Li Ping confirms the hierarchy is unfavorable to him, but warns that Zero’s choice to descend through six Class Cards—rather than fight in the present—shows he fears Li Ping’s other abilities. Zero agrees, explaining that this version is only a Past Shadow carrying some of his powers. When Li Ping challenges him to explain who he is and where the real Present Li Ping went, Zero cannot answer; Li Ping declares they will settle it by fighting. The two unleash power capable of destroying the great realm.
• Meanwhile: Watching through his other self, Chen Fan realizes the scheme is not aimed at him and that he can leave the Gods and Devils Realms normally. He has his other self use Transform All Beings to become “Old Self,” then invokes Escape One to erase the sole remaining realm, the Human Realm, completely.
• Character developments and interactions: Zero reveals his analytical, probing nature, trying to understand Li Ping’s motives, powers, and origins. Past Li Ping shifts from suspicion to interest, then challenges Zero when he cannot identify him. Their exchange is a tense contest of deductions and guarded admissions, ending in a direct clash. Chen Fan, by contrast, moves from unease to calm certainty and acts decisively without involving himself in their duel.
• Themes: The chapter explores the limits and priority of seemingly absolute powers, the uncertainty of identity and altered timelines, and the contrast between grand cosmic confrontation and detached, pragmatic action.

Key plot points and events

• After the three realms of Gods and Devils Realms are destroyed, the Chat Group distributes mission rewards according to contribution. Chen Fan receives a Great Dao; Li Ping is awarded a Supreme Existence’s divine ability and authority.
• The narrator uses their Group Leader privileges to transfer Li Ping’s rewards to themself, then claims the Light and Time Great Dao, the Spring and Autumn Dream ability, and authority over light and time.
• Rather than leave with the returning group, the narrator uses this authority—amplified by I Am the Chess Player and Once and for All—to investigate the realm’s River of Time. The river breaks open, revealing an actual, deeply hidden scene from the past.
• In that scene, Li Ping appears at the height of his power, with a flawless ring of nine Colorful Class Cards and apparent command over past, present, and future. Yet he is preparing for a formidable opponent.
• The opponent is revealed as Senior Lin Feng, whose presence and mastery of the Dao overshadow Li Ping’s. Lin Feng challenges him: “Why not let me take your measure?”

Character developments

• The narrator gains powerful temporal abilities and uses them not just for practical advantage but to uncover concealed history. Their reaction shifts from excitement to awe and near fear before the ancient powers on display.
• Past Li Ping is shown as vastly more formidable than expected—seemingly able to treat reality and destiny as a play—yet not invincible: Lin Feng’s arrival makes him wary.
• Lin Feng is established as an overwhelming, confident presence, capable of dominating the scene even in Li Ping’s own realm.

Character interactions

• The narrator treats Li Ping’s reward as fair game, reasoning that Li Ping is effectively gone and was never someone to trust.
• The central interaction is the tense confrontation between Past Li Ping and Lin Feng. Li Ping waits for and braces against him; Lin Feng arrives and openly challenges him.

Significant themes

• Power and its limits: Even a seemingly all-encompassing being can fear someone stronger.
• Time, history, and hidden truths: The narrator’s new authority exposes a genuine past that ordinary access to the River of Time could not reveal.
• Observation and manipulation: Li Ping’s apparent ability to perceive and shape events is set against the narrator’s role as a “chess player,” suggesting that control over reality may be contested at an even higher level.

Plot and events

• The chapter returns to the past, revealing that the earlier fight Past Li Ping mentioned was against Senior Lin Feng.
• Though Li Ping is at his peak, protected by a perfect Ring of nine colorful Class Cards, he is wary of Lin Feng and makes no move.
• Lin Feng’s actions trigger an immense karmic-law punishment, powerful enough to threaten the entire Gods and Devils Realms. Li Ping’s Ring contains the devastation, preventing it from destroying the realm.
• Lin Feng laughs and manifests the real Beyond Heaven, an immense domain filled with origin laws. He sends thousands of Immortal Venerable imprint-phantoms to attack Li Ping. The attack is only a probe; Li Ping emerges unharmed.
• Lin Feng then activates Time Shepherding, merging with his future self. The karmic punishment dissipates, and Lin Feng announces that he has discerned Li Ping’s identity and Golden Finger: “draw one entry per year.” He also identifies Li Ping’s colorful “omnipotence” entry as the reason his probe failed.

Character developments and interactions

• Past Li Ping is shown as formidable but cautious: he contains the karmic catastrophe, survives Lin Feng’s overwhelming attack, and even suggests they withdraw.
• Senior Lin Feng is revealed as an extraordinary, daring opponent who willingly endures karmic punishment to investigate Li Ping’s ability. His future self’s merger lets him complete that investigation.
• Their encounter is a tense exchange of probing and countermeasures: Li Ping’s defenses blunt Lin Feng’s attacks, while Lin Feng ultimately uses his insight into the future to uncover Li Ping’s power.

Themes

• Power and restraint: Even beings of immense strength assess one another cautiously; Lin Feng’s assault is exploratory rather than decisive.
• Knowledge as power: Lin Feng’s true aim is to discover how Li Ping’s Golden Finger works.
• Consequences of transcending limits: Lin Feng’s attempt to perceive the future draws catastrophic karmic retaliation, underscoring the danger of meddling with cosmic laws.

• Lin Feng overwhelms the past: Senior Lin Feng reveals that his life-bound ability, Time Shepherding, lets him inspect every future. He then destroys the entire Gods and Devils Realms—even through Past Li Ping’s protection—and challenges Li Ping to show whether his eleven colorful entries can counter him. The vision cannot capture everything Lin Feng says or does.
• Li Ping escalates: Rather than rebuild the realm, Past Li Ping combines the powers of his nine Class Cards, from Zero Returner to Creator, into himself. His perception and influence extend across past, present, and future. He attacks with Omnipotence, using Cause-Reversal to redirect karmic punishment onto Lin Feng.
• Lin Feng counters with Beyond Heaven: Lin Feng dismisses the tactic as a derivative Golden Finger power and uses Beyond Heaven to nullify Golden Finger abilities. The karmic punishment disappears, demonstrating a power that Chen Fan suspects may depend on ability priority.
• Li Ping reveals a higher power: Acknowledging Lin Feng’s advantage, Li Ping says he will test the strength of a Supreme Dao Immortal Venerable. He activates his third colorful entry, Supreme Primordial Unity Sage Dao Fruit. Cause-Reversal returns, while Lin Feng’s nullification and the tolling of Beyond Heaven cease. Li Ping becomes unobservable to Chen Fan.
• The simulation cuts off: The Simulator reports that its level is too low to observe the higher-dimensional information. Chen Fan is stunned by the apparent scale of Li Ping’s new entry and worries it may transcend ordinary ranks. Before the chapter can reveal what happens next, an unexpected change begins.
  Character developments and interactions: Lin Feng displays confidence, curiosity, and overwhelming control, treating Li Ping’s abilities as familiar and counterable. Li Ping, initially caught off guard, adapts by drawing on his combined powers and finally unveils an ability that defeats Lin Feng’s apparent counter. Chen Fan watches as an increasingly alarmed observer, but his Simulator cannot keep up.
  Themes: The chapter emphasizes escalating power, the limits of knowledge and observation, and the struggle between apparently absolute abilities. It also raises the question of priority: whether one power can truly nullify another, or whether a higher-level ability can overturn the rules.

Plot points and events

• Chen Fan’s simulation initially stops because its level is too low, but his purple talent I Am the Chess Player interferes and lets it continue.
• Past Li Ping uses the rainbow entry Supreme Primordial Unity Sage Dao Fruit, overwhelming the past scene and somehow detecting Chen Fan in the present.
• Li Ping’s power begins overwriting Chen Fan’s reality and cracks I Am the Chess Player. Chen Fan realizes that Ten Gates could protect him, but he is too immobilized to activate it.
• Three tolls from the Primordial Chaos Bell briefly free Chen Fan from Li Ping’s influence, allowing him to activate Ten Gates and escape into its chaos.
• Unsure whether Li Ping can still reach him, Chen Fan stays inside and returns to the first gate, where he meets Zero again.
• Zero explains that Li Ping’s entry works like a cheat that instantly grants maximum level and apparently allows him to obtain whatever abilities he wants.

Character developments

• Chen Fan is shaken by the revelation that an opponent within a simulated past can reach into the present and threaten his talents. He stays cautious and begins questioning how his protections work.
• Past Li Ping is revealed as an extraordinarily powerful, reality-threatening figure whose abilities can challenge even Chen Fan’s high-priority talents.
• Zero appears to understand the crisis and offers a blunt, if incomplete, explanation of Li Ping’s power.

Character interactions

• Past Li Ping directly identifies Chen Fan and imposes his influence on him across the boundary between past and present.
• The Primordial Chaos Bell intervenes at the critical moment, giving Chen Fan the opening to escape.
• Zero greets Chen Fan with questions that suggest the encounter may not have surprised him, then explains the nature of Li Ping’s rainbow entry.

Significant themes

• Limits of knowledge and simulation: Li Ping’s power exceeds what the simulation can record.
• Reality and boundaries: A figure from the past breaks through the supposed separation between an observed scene and the observer.
• Power and countermeasures: Chen Fan survives through layered protections and a brief intervention, but the source and limits of that rescue remain uncertain.

Key plot points

• Past Li Ping activates the Supreme Primordial Unity Sage Dao Fruit, transcending ordinary measures of strength, dimensions, and even past, present, and future. He erases Senior Lin Feng from the past, seemingly ending the fight.
• Lin Feng’s voice reveals that Li Ping’s overwhelming power comes from a Golden Finger entry formed from a Dao Fruit—not from a higher-priority ability.
• The battlefield transforms into Beyond Heaven, which contains and neutralizes Li Ping’s power. Lin Feng returns as a projection and uses Time Shepherding to manifest his own Supreme Primordial Unity Dao Fruit.
• Lin Feng declares that before the era of Otherworldly Demons and Golden Fingers, he alone ruled the Supreme True Realm as the Supreme Dao Immortal Venerable.
• The chapter ends with the two Dao Fruits colliding. Their conflict rewrites reality and its laws, with victory and defeat apparently determined before existence itself begins.

Character developments

• Past Li Ping reaches an apparently absolute state, treating all systems and concepts as insignificant. Yet his supremacy is challenged when Lin Feng reveals a power of the same ultimate order.
• Senior Lin Feng is revealed to possess a matching Dao Fruit and a formidable history predating the current Golden Finger-dominated age.
• Chen Fan, watching the simulation, realizes it can continue beyond the Simulated Clone’s perspective and eagerly follows the battle to uncover both fighters’ true abilities.

Significant themes

• Power and perspective: At the highest levels, conventional scales of strength and dimensional hierarchy become meaningless.
• Golden Fingers versus ancient authority: Modern power may depend on ability priority, but Lin Feng points to an older order in which he held supreme authority.
• Reality as something mutable: The combatants can erase histories, overturn causality, and rewrite existence.
• The limits of supremacy: Li Ping appears invincible, but Lin Feng’s equal Dao Fruit turns absolute dominance into a genuine contest.

Character interactions

• Chen Fan and the simulation: Chen Fan observes events beyond the clone’s viewpoint, drawn in by the chance to see the fighters’ hidden trump cards.
• Li Ping and Lin Feng: Li Ping attempts to erase Lin Feng, but Lin Feng counters through Beyond Heaven and confronts him with an equal Dao Fruit. Their exchange is both a clash of power and a lesson about the history of the Supreme True Realm.

Key plot points and events

• Senior Lin Feng’s projection reveals that he has held the advantage over Past Li Ping all along. Using his life-bound ability, Time Shepherding, Lin Feng manifests a second Supreme Primordial Unity Sage Dao Fruit.
• Past Li Ping recognizes that he is likely to lose, but challenges Lin Feng’s confidence and asks how he could possess another supposedly unique Dao Fruit.
• Lin Feng’s Beyond Heaven weakens Li Ping’s Dao Fruit. Lin Feng’s higher-level authority then overwhelms it, sealing its powers and forcing its principles into retreat.
• Lin Feng collapses the layer of Beyond Heaven imprisoning Li Ping. Though Li Ping’s Dao Fruit’s origin survives, its usable power crumbles, leaving his defeat—and apparent death—inevitable.
• As the prison breaks, Li Ping sees the true scale of Beyond Heaven: thirty-three layers, each a realm and Dao, rising to the boundary between existence and nonexistence. He realizes Lin Feng created them and understands the Supreme Dao Immortal Venerable’s claim that “there is only me” as fact, not arrogance.
• Li Ping sincerely concedes defeat and praises Lin Feng as invincible. However, he adds that the others have not lost—and a sudden upheaval begins in the present world.

Character developments

• Senior Lin Feng is revealed as vastly more powerful than Li Ping and as the creator of Beyond Heaven’s thirty-three layers. His calm confidence is paired with contempt for Li Ping’s level.
• Past Li Ping moves from defiance to clear-eyed acceptance. He admires Lin Feng without reservation, while his final remark suggests that the wider conflict remains unresolved.

Significant themes

• Overwhelming differences in power: Victory is decided by the Dao Fruits’ relative levels, not by individual techniques.
• The limits of understanding: Li Ping’s defeat exposes how little he knew about Beyond Heaven and the scale of Lin Feng’s power.
• Humility before strength: Li Ping admits defeat honestly once he recognizes the truth.
• Defeat is not the end of the conflict: Li Ping’s final words shift attention from his personal loss to the fate of others.

Character interactions

• Lin Feng and Li Ping exchange pointed challenges: Li Ping questions Lin Feng’s certainty and the apparent duplication of a unique Dao Fruit; Lin Feng refuses to explain and declares Li Ping doomed.
• Their confrontation ends not with mutual reconciliation, but with Li Ping’s genuine admiration and a parting warning that the present-world struggle continues.

Plot points

• Lord Nine Heavens enters Beyond Heaven, empowered by the Supreme True Realm and the genuine Investiture of the Gods List, which grants him multiple identities and a new Dao Fruit. He confronts Lin Feng and refuses to let him preserve the sealing of the past.
• Lin Feng dismisses Nine Heavens and another ally as insufficient to change the outcome. He realizes two more enemies are involved: one who interfered with his attempt to reclaim the Western Region’s Buddha Ancestor, and another who has been disrupting the past.
• Wang Hao appears amid a disturbance in the past, while karmic punishment strikes Lin Feng. Wang Hao’s uncertain place in time—past, present, or future—makes his Golden Finger’s influence difficult to predict.
• A Supreme Existence then descends from the future and threatens the present-day Immortal Realm, forcing Lin Feng to divide his attention. Past, present, and future are now all in turmoil.
• Lin Feng recognizes that his opponents have gathered nearly every surviving Otherworldly Demon and concealed their plan from his foresight ability, Time Shepherding. Wang Hao admits he orchestrated the long-running scheme to undo the sealed past and alter the battle from an era ago.
• Lin Feng praises Wang Hao’s audacity and asks his name. Wang Hao reveals that, though he has lived as a “nobody,” his true name is Wang Hao.

Character developments and interactions

• Lin Feng drops his casual demeanor and becomes wary as the scale of the coordinated attack emerges. Despite being targeted, he remains composed and openly admires the ingenuity of his opponents.
• Nine Heavens openly defies Lin Feng, presenting himself as a powerful ally in the effort to break the sealed past.
• Wang Hao is revealed as the plot’s central strategist: comparatively weak in direct power, but patient, calculating, and willing to gamble against overwhelming odds. He treats Lin Feng with genuine respect, though his humility does not hide his confidence.
• The exchange between Lin Feng and Wang Hao is both adversarial and respectful: Lin Feng commends Wang Hao’s scheme, while Wang Hao argues that Lin Feng stands beyond ordinary categories of power.

Significant themes

• Strategy versus strength: Wang Hao’s planning lets a weaker figure challenge a vastly superior opponent.
• Fate and time: The coordinated upheavals across past, present, and future threaten to overturn an outcome Lin Feng considered settled.
• Respect between enemies: Lin Feng recognizes the skill of the conspiracy’s architect even as he faces the trap.
• Defying the heavens: The chapter frames the conflict as a struggle by “chess pieces” to challenge the forces that control the game.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Fan reviews a simulation of the ancient battle between Past Li Ping and Senior Lin Feng. He learns that Li Ping won decisively, contrary to his earlier assumption that Li Ping had lost.
• Chen suspects Wang Hao helped orchestrate the plan to break the “sealed past.” Since Li Ping and Wang Hao can still influence events in the present, Chen wonders whether they won the battle—or left some contingency behind.
• Chen Fan’s [I Am the Chess Player] talent activates again, splitting the Simulator screen: one side continues showing the past battle, while the other reveals the Simulated Clone’s progress in the Eleventh Ordinary Simulation.
• In that simulation, the clone is shaken when Past Li Ping reveals his trump card and a mysterious power reaches him through the sealed past. He believes [Ten Gates] may have saved him from a dangerous situation.
• Zero reassures the clone that events have gone according to plan. The clone privately questions Zero’s motives and wonders whether Zero has been plotting against him.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Fan becomes more suspicious and curious about the hidden history behind Li Ping, Wang Hao, and the sealed past. He begins to see the old schemers as potential victors or planners rather than simply figures from the past.
• The Simulated Clone grows uneasy about both the power reaching through the seal and Zero’s unexplained influence. Though he distrusts Zero, he only voices his accusations internally.
• Zero remains calm and reassuring, implying that the unfolding events were expected, while revealing nothing about his intentions.

Significant themes

• Hidden history and uncertain victory: The truth of the ancient battle—and what its outcome means for the present—remains unresolved.
• Fate versus control: The characters suspect that major events may be part of a larger plan, but cannot tell who is truly directing them.
• Trust and manipulation: The clone’s wariness toward Zero is heightened by the possibility that the eerie Clown Mask can distort his judgment.

Plot points

• Zero explains that his original target may have been the protagonist, but after meeting Past Li Ping he redirected his plans toward him. The protagonist suspects Zero’s earlier schemes—including replacing Present Li Ping and granting the protagonist Past Shadow—were aimed at the protagonist before Zero changed course.
• The protagonist reasons that Zero may have switched targets because the protagonist discovered the plot, aided by the Clown Mask’s ability to let Zero observe through his perspective.
• Zero asks who would win a direct fight with Past Li Ping. The protagonist says Zero would prevail because Past Zero has a Golden Finger, far beyond Li Ping’s Colorful Class Cards.
• Zero counters that raw strength is not decisive: he expects to lose the battle, perhaps because Li Ping can use Golden Entry: The Last Supper, a contingency capable of affecting the higher-dimensional future from the past.
• Zero warns the protagonist to stay inside, then reveals that losing the battle would not mean losing the larger “chess game.” The fight in the present may be a diversion designed to draw out and exhaust Li Ping’s contingency.
• The protagonist suspects Zero’s real move concerns the earlier battle in the Gods and Devils Realms, between Senior Lin Feng and Past Li Ping. I Am the Chess Player activates, and the chapter ends with two simulation screens showing the past and present battles side by side.

Character developments and interactions

• The protagonist pieces together Zero’s shifting motives, but remains uncertain about what Zero ultimately wants from Past Li Ping. He answers Zero’s question confidently, then recognizes that the apparent duel may be only part of a larger strategy.
• Zero appears candid about changing targets, yet continues to conceal his true objective. His calm warnings and cryptic distinction between winning a battle and winning the “chess game” reveal his strategic mindset.
• Their conversation is a contest of inference: Zero tests the protagonist’s understanding, while the protagonist tries to expose the plan behind Zero’s words.

Significant themes

• Battles versus strategy: A likely loss in a direct fight may still serve a broader plan.
• Foreknowledge and manipulation: Future letters, observation abilities, and simulations shape decisions before events unfold.
• Contingencies and hidden costs: Li Ping’s powerful safeguard may itself be something Zero hopes to force him to use.
• Parallel timelines: The paired screens suggest that battles in the past and present may eventually intersect.

Plot points and events

• Lin Feng, now physically manifested and armed with a feather fan, recognizes Wang Hao’s skill but concludes that his visible schemes are not enough to achieve their goal.
• He drops his earlier admiration and reveals cold murderous intent, demanding that Wang Hao stop hiding his real methods.
• Wang Hao accepts the challenge. A true projection of the Supreme Immortal enters the conflict, sending a vast tide of Dao power through reality. Causes and effects become confused, and even the powerful Dao Fruit of a Primordial Unity Sage instinctively dims.
• Lin Feng is shocked: the war of karma has begun earlier than expected.
• The intervention escalates further. Beings from inaccessible higher dimensions descend to obstruct Lin Feng, forming an immense encirclement that threatens to erase the Supreme True Realm itself.
• Wang Hao announces that the “grand show” has begun. Lin Feng welcomes the challenge and, as karmic punishment intensifies, invokes [Time Shepherding].

Character developments

• Lin Feng shifts from measured appreciation to open hostility, but remains confident despite recognizing the scale of the threat. He decides to face the encirclement himself.
• Wang Hao remains composed throughout the escalating crisis. His relief at revealing the full plan suggests he has been carrying the burden of arranging this confrontation.

Character interactions

• Lin Feng tests Wang Hao’s claims and presses him to reveal everything.
• Wang Hao responds respectfully but defiantly, promising to demonstrate his true methods.
• The two frame the approaching conflict as a contest: Wang Hao presents his “grand show,” while Lin Feng challenges him to deliver a flawless conclusion.

Significant themes

• Hidden plans and revelation: The apparent schemes are only the opening act of a much larger confrontation.
• Escalating cosmic conflict: The battle expands beyond the known world, drawing in the Supreme Immortal and forces from higher dimensions.
• Causality and fate: The Dao tide disrupts cause and effect, while the war is explicitly tied to karma.
• Defiance under overwhelming odds: Lin Feng meets an almost universal attempt to destroy him with confidence and resolve.

Plot points and events

• Lin Feng unveils his life-bound ability, Time Shepherding, summoning versions of himself from different points in time. It stabilizes parts of the conflict across the past and present, but the higher-dimensional being’s attack still threatens to break Lin Feng’s seal on the past and destroy the present world.
• To counter it, Lin Feng uses Beyond Heaven to replace the present world. Because this manifestation of a Dao fruit can keep raising its rank, it becomes a vast cosmic realm rather than an easily erased “point,” blocking the higher-dimensional being’s strike.
• The Supreme Immortal’s projection acts as an anchor that lets Beyond Heaven continue ascending. This saves Lin Feng from losing his direction as his rank rises, but it also puts Wang Hao, Li Ping, and the Lord of the Heavenly Court, Nine Heavens, under crushing pressure.
• Wang Hao recognizes that the projection creates a dilemma: if it remains, Lin Feng’s growing power will overwhelm them; if it disappears, their side will lose its support and be defeated even faster. Though Lin Feng is already gaining the upper hand, Wang Hao reveals a final gambit.
• Wang Hao brings down the Higher-Dimensional Land, halting the rank ascension of both Beyond Heaven and the higher-dimensional adversary. Their ranks begin to fall instead, and the conflict shifts: Lin Feng can no longer draw on endless rank growth, while the fallen higher-dimensional beings may now attack him directly.

Character developments and interactions

• Lin Feng displays exceptional strategic and combat power, turning the Supreme Immortal’s projection—originally intended to hinder him—into an anchor that strengthens his position. He remains relentless in attacking the opposing trio, but Wang Hao’s last move gives him pause.
• Wang Hao moves from admiring Lin Feng’s ingenuity to accepting that conventional tactics cannot win. His calm, reflective explanation of the danger of rising too high culminates in a desperate, high-stakes gambit. He openly challenges Lin Feng to face the entire higher dimension.
• Li Ping and Nine Heavens fight alongside Wang Hao under the pressure of Lin Feng’s rising power. Their side appears close to defeat until Wang Hao changes the rules of the battle.
• Wang Hao acknowledges Lin Feng as the strongest, while Lin Feng answers not with words but with intensified attacks. Their exchange combines respect with direct opposition.

Significant themes

• Power and its limits: Even seemingly limitless power depends on structures and rules—and can become vulnerable when those foundations collapse.
• Strategy and reversal: Lin Feng repeatedly turns threats into advantages, but Wang Hao counters by changing the battlefield itself.
• Risk and sacrifice: Wang Hao’s gambit may unleash unknown dangers, but he accepts the risk as the only chance to alter the outcome.
• The instability of ascension: Rising in rank brings overwhelming strength, yet also dependence on anchors and exposure to a catastrophic fall.

Plot points and events

• As the Higher-Dimensional Land begins to collapse, Lin Feng realizes Wang Hao has not attacked the force sustaining the higher dimension itself. Instead, he has broken the land that acts as a barrier between certain higher-dimensional beings and the present world.
• With the barrier falling, those beings can descend into [Beyond Heaven], where ranks are also dropping. Lin Feng deduces that Wang Hao’s Golden Finger can alter the past, anchor the present, and peer into the future—an ability resembling Lin Feng’s [Time Shepherding].
• Wang Hao admits Lin Feng’s assessment is accurate and says he would never have dared challenge him had he known the full reach of Lin Feng’s ability.
• A host of Higher-Dimensional Existences descends, intent on destroying Lin Feng, breaking the seal, and reshaping past, present, and future. Lin Feng recognizes some of them and reminds them that they previously chose survival in the past over death in the present.
• One veiled being rejects that choice and declares that the group will make a third option by defeating Lin Feng. Lin Feng dismisses them as cowards hiding their identities and refuses to treat them as worthy opponents.

Character developments

• Lin Feng demonstrates keen insight, reconstructing Wang Hao’s strategy and remaining composed as the situation escalates. His contemptuous final response shows his confidence in his strength and his refusal to dignify the attackers.
• Wang Hao drops his composure enough to show madness, resolve, and solemnity. He openly acknowledges the danger Lin Feng would pose if he had understood Wang Hao’s ability.
• The descending Higher-Dimensional Existences reveal regret over their earlier decision to survive in the past rather than face Lin Feng in the present. Their disguises suggest they fear his ability to target them through time.

Themes

• Power and strategic knowledge: Wang Hao’s plan depends on concealed abilities and manipulating the conditions of the conflict.
• Choice and regret: The descending beings once chose one form of survival but now try to reject its consequences.
• Confrontation with the past: Lin Feng’s ability to alter history makes past actions—and hidden identities—dangerously relevant.
• Pride and contempt: Lin Feng’s refusal to engage with opponents who conceal themselves reinforces his overwhelming confidence.

Character interactions

• Lin Feng methodically explains Wang Hao’s plan, while Wang Hao confirms the deduction and acknowledges Lin Feng’s formidable power.
• Lin Feng addresses the descending beings as former decision-makers who are now attempting to reverse their choice.
• One unidentified being speaks for the group, challenging Lin Feng; Lin Feng answers by mocking their anonymity and dismissing them as unworthy of his attention.

Plot points

• In the Beyond Heaven battlefield, Lin Feng uses Time Shepherding again, reaching into the “past of the past” and erasing thousands of invading beings from history.
• The karmic law corrects the battlefield afterward—not by undoing Lin Feng’s action, but by rewriting everyone’s memories and records so the erased beings are no longer remembered. Fewer than twenty opponents remain.
• Lin Feng admits he does not know the attackers’ identities, but says he can eliminate every possible suspect rather than risk letting one escape.
• He confronts Wang Hao, reasoning that Wang Hao used his “Golden Finger” to gather the attackers as disposable distractions and delay Lin Feng.
• Lin Feng concludes that Wang Hao’s apparent plan cannot defeat him by itself. Wang Hao must be buying time for a more powerful, hidden figure—the true “chess player.”

Character developments and interactions

• Lin Feng demonstrates the extraordinary reach of Time Shepherding, despite the severe karmic backlash it provokes. He is ruthless and analytical, turning the enemy’s lack of identifiable targets into a reason to destroy them all.
• Wang Hao remains composed after the mass erasure and offers no denial of Lin Feng’s deductions. His confidence suggests the events are unfolding according to a larger plan.
• Lin Feng and Wang Hao engage in a pointed exchange: Lin Feng exposes Wang Hao’s likely role as a strategist and provocateur, while Wang Hao implies that Lin Feng’s interpretation fits the logic of the Supreme True Realm.

Significant themes

• Time manipulation and its cost: Changing the past can erase beings from history, but it draws fierce karmic retaliation.
• History, memory, and identity: Karmic correction alters not only events but also what survivors remember and what the erased beings were.
• Sacrifice and manipulation: The attackers appear to have been used as cannon fodder to buy time.
• Chess and hidden agency: The chapter reframes Wang Hao as a piece in a larger contest, hinting at an unseen opponent with the decisive move.

Key events

• Wang Hao smiles without confirming or denying Lin Feng’s suspicions. Their exchange is cut short when the Supreme Immortal’s projection descends.
• Lin Feng realizes the projection can use “effect before cause”: it fixes an outcome first, then forces reality to supply the causes. It anchors the fact that Lin Feng will suffer a defeat at some point in the future—not that it can defeat him now.
• Lin Feng faces a coalition of powerful enemies: Li Ping, Wang Hao, the Lord of the Heavenly Court, Nine Heavens, the projection, and sixteen higher-dimensional Supreme Existences.
• The enemies attack together, but Beyond Heaven shields Lin Feng. He crushes the sixteen beings, killing ten and incapacitating the remaining six.
• Lin Feng then uses Time Shepherding to exile the Supreme Immortal’s projection into a possible future. In that future, the realm is ruined and the projection’s destruction is fixed; Lin Feng crushes it there.
• The collapsing future converges on the battlefield, burying the projection. Though it falls, the projection has already anchored Lin Feng’s future defeat.

Character developments and interactions

• Lin Feng remains composed under overwhelming pressure and demonstrates greater command of causality and time, defeating even the projection by exploiting the limits of its power.
• Wang Hao remains inscrutable, offering only a smile and no answer to Lin Feng.
• The Supreme Immortal’s projection proves capable of rewriting reality’s causal order, but its power is limited: it cannot erase Lin Feng from the past or defeat him outright, so it secures a future defeat instead.
• The chapter’s main interaction is a sudden, coordinated assault on Lin Feng, followed by his decisive counterattack. The six surviving opponents are left unable to fight.

Significant themes

• Causality and reality: The projection does not predict the future; it imposes an outcome and makes reality construct the path to it.
• Power and limitation: Even an apparently invincible being is constrained by the consequences and scale of its actions.
• Victory with a cost or caveat: Lin Feng defeats the projection, but its anchored future outcome leaves an unresolved threat.

Key events

• Lin Feng maintains overwhelming dominance over Li Ping and the Lord of the Heavenly Court, Nine Heavens, despite their two matching Dao Fruits opposing his one. He warns that he can defeat them all in less than half a quarter-hour and probes Wang Hao about the hidden power behind him.
• Wang Hao refuses to identify that power openly, then secretly urges Li Ping to hold out for another half an incense stick. He claims Nine Heavens is saving his strongest cards for the coming immeasurable kalpa, while Li Ping has trump cards of his own.
• Convinced that Lin Feng is far more powerful than expected, Li Ping demands to know who Wang Hao serves before risking those cards. Wang Hao says the being comes from the future, belongs to the Supreme True Realm, and is an Otherworldly Demon—someone capable of defeating Lin Feng.
• Half persuaded, Li Ping decides there is enough hope to keep fighting. He activates two colorful entries, True Heaven and True Eighteen Layers of Hell. Their power triggers sudden, immense changes throughout beyond heaven.

Character developments and interactions

• Lin Feng remains confident and dominant, but is dissatisfied with Wang Hao’s evasive answers and continues testing him.
• Wang Hao stays composed despite the apparent defeat, using a concealed Golden Finger ability to communicate privately with Li Ping. He finally reveals enough about his backer to persuade Li Ping to act.
• Li Ping shifts from desperation and reluctance to cautious resolve. Though he doubts that anyone could rival Lin Feng, his belief in Wang Hao’s claim gives him a reason to use his trump cards.
• Nine Heavens remains a major ally in the battle, but Wang Hao believes the Lord is withholding some strength for the future catastrophe.

Significant themes

• Hidden powers and uncertain futures: Wang Hao’s mysterious ally, said to come from the future, suggests the conflict is part of a larger game.
• Desperation versus hope: Li Ping’s choice to reveal his trump cards depends on whether he believes defeat can still be avoided.
• Overwhelming strength and strategic restraint: Lin Feng’s advantage is clear, while the others must weigh immediate survival against preserving power for what lies ahead.

Key plot points and events

• Li Ping activates two supreme Golden Finger powers: True Heaven and True Eighteen Levels of Hell. These are not ordinary realms but genuine, reality-bearing great realms, so Lin Feng cannot simply erase them or kill Li Ping outright.
• True Heaven surrounds Lin Feng with immense merit and power, while granting Li Ping protections such as resurrection, sealing immunity, an eternal soul, and resistance to copying. True Hell adds endless karmic punishment and judgment, with its own indestructibility and unique nature.
• Together, the two realms replace the Heavenly Dao and Earthly Dao. Li Ping’s omniscience and omnipotence let him replace the Humanity Dao as well, allowing him to contest Beyond Heaven and challenge the present world itself.
• Lin Feng responds by entering the realms and attacking Li Ping. Though the clash appears to put them on roughly equal footing, Lin Feng uses the divine ability Twin Blossoms to create countless lesser realms that obstruct and batter Heaven and Hell.
• Lin Feng then pulls Li Ping out of the two realms and annihilates him. Li Ping promptly returns, explaining that he cannot die while the realms endure—and that destroying them would destroy everything. He believes he can hold Lin Feng off for at least half an incense stick.

Character developments

• Lin Feng recognizes that Li Ping’s power is unusually difficult to counter because the realms have genuine existence, not merely Golden Finger effects. He shifts from straightforward attack to using copied realms and tactical separation.
• Li Ping demonstrates that he can now withstand Lin Feng’s attacks and threaten the structure of the world itself. His confidence rests on the realms’ mutual dependence with his survival.

Significant themes

• Truth versus imitation: Lin Feng can copy countless realms, but none have the reality-bearing nature of Heaven and Hell.
• Power and limitation: Even overwhelming abilities have boundaries when opposed by something of higher priority or genuine existence.
• Cosmic balance and replacement: Li Ping’s contest involves replacing the three fundamental Daos and the present world, not merely defeating an opponent.
• Interdependence: Li Ping’s survival depends on the continued existence of the realms that protect him.

Character interactions

• Lin Feng confronts Li Ping directly, trying first to overpower him, then using Twin Blossoms to hinder the realms and forcibly extract him.
• Li Ping explains the condition of his apparent immortality and warns Lin Feng that destroying the realms would have catastrophic consequences.

Plot points

• Li Ping’s True Heaven and True Eighteen Layers of Hell could become even stronger if completed, potentially letting him contend with Lin Feng. He has deliberately left them incomplete, however, and has mainly used them to buy time.
• Lin Feng realizes Li Ping’s goal and uses Time Shepherding to remove Li Ping and his two true worlds from the current battlefield, casting them into possible futures.
• Lin Feng then confronts Wang Hao. He kills the Wang Hao before him, but discovers through Time Shepherding that this was only a copy: Wang Hao’s real self is hidden in a possible future, apparently using his Golden Finger to shift himself into that possibility.
• Lin Feng responds by projecting himself into countless possibilities and attacking every Wang Hao he can find, determined to eliminate them all rather than risk missing the real one.
• In one such future, Li Ping sees that Lin Feng has suppressed every variable: Li Ping and Wang Hao die, while the Lord of the Heavenly Court, Nine Heavens, escapes. Lin Feng’s power can make a possible future feel nearly real and threaten to carry its events into reality.
• Faced with imminent destruction, Li Ping resolves to use another of his powerful, long-cooldown colorful entries as a last resort.

Character developments and interactions

• Lin Feng proves calculating as well as overwhelmingly powerful: he identifies Li Ping’s delaying tactic, tests Wang Hao, and adapts quickly when he discovers Wang Hao’s true body is elsewhere. He also grows more impressed by Wang Hao’s ability.
• Li Ping recognizes that his incomplete worlds left him vulnerable and feels frustrated by Lin Feng’s control over possibilities. Despite his fear, he retains a final trump card.
• Wang Hao is revealed to have concealed his true self among possible futures. His apparent death is not the end of him, prompting Lin Feng’s sweeping attack across those futures.
• Lin Feng and Li Ping are locked in a contest of trump cards, while Lin Feng and Wang Hao clash over whether Wang Hao can hide beyond Lin Feng’s reach. The Heavenly Court’s lord withdraws from the unfolding disaster.

Significant themes

• Possibility versus reality: Lin Feng’s Time Shepherding blurs the boundary between potential futures and the present.
• Hidden resources and strategic restraint: Li Ping’s incomplete worlds and Wang Hao’s concealed true self show how power can depend on what remains unseen—or unused.
• Escalation and survival: Each revelation forces the characters to answer with a stronger ability, leaving Li Ping’s final trump card as the chapter’s cliffhanger.

• Wang Hao’s plan collapses: He had assembled forces and contingencies across three eras to keep Lin Feng occupied, including help from the Heavenly Court’s Lord Nine Heavens, a projection of the Supreme Immortal, and Li Ping. But Lin Feng’s ability, Time Shepherding, banishes Li Ping, while Lin Feng exposes Wang Hao’s hiding place among future possibilities.
• Wang Hao’s last defense fails: Wang Hao tries to make countless past and future possibilities real, forcing them into the present world. The disruption shakes even Beyond Heaven, but Lin Feng dismisses the possibilities as incomplete and erases them. Wang Hao survives by hiding again, while wondering whether Lin Feng’s immense power might make him vulnerable to karmic punishment—though attempting it would likely cost Wang Hao his life.
• Li Ping activates a powerful artifact: From a shattered possibility, Li Ping invokes the Thousand-Lifetime Fate-Reversing Book, a plundered golden finger that lets him reincarnate, retain his abilities, and push them beyond their limits. He believes its priority matches Lin Feng’s nullification ability, so it should activate successfully.
• A hidden player intervenes: An unseen golden-finger ability shackles Li Ping as he activates the Book, its priority apparently surpassing both his own power and the Book. Li Ping realizes he has been manipulated. A figure concealed by another golden finger appears behind him, identifiable only by an eerie Clown Mask, and declares that it has waited a long time for this moment.
  Character developments and interactions: Wang Hao shifts from confidence to desperation as his carefully layered strategy is dismantled. Lin Feng remains calm and dominant, taunting Wang Hao while demonstrating control over reality’s possibilities. Li Ping makes a bold attempt to escape through reincarnation, only to discover that someone else has anticipated him. The masked figure’s sudden appearance introduces a new, ominous force whose relationship to Li Ping—and possible connection to the larger scheme—remains unknown.
  Themes: The chapter emphasizes the limits of manipulation and contingency when faced with overwhelming power, the struggle over who controls fate and reality, and the danger of hidden schemes within schemes. It ends on a cliffhanger, suggesting that Li Ping’s fate may be governed by a power even greater than the ones already in play.

Key plot points

• Past Zero ambushes Past Li Ping on the battlefield, revealing the true purpose of the ability [Past Shadow]: it can make an impossible past real for a short time.
• Zero used [Purple Talent: I Am the Mastermind] to plant a command in that impossible past: when Li Ping activated [Colorful Entry: Thousand-Lifetime Fate-Reversing Book], he would have to use it on Zero instead.
• Because the Purple Talent’s priority surpasses Li Ping’s Golden Finger ability, Li Ping’s attempt to activate the book is redirected. The restrictions on Past Shadow do not stop the plan, since it was arranged to influence the present without significantly altering the established course of events.
• Zero explains that he needs Li Ping’s ability. Li Ping recognizes that the present-day battle was a distraction and that Zero’s real scheme targeted this moment in the past.
• The book activates, appearing from Zero’s soul and beginning to record the events and Fate-Reversal Points of his current lifetime.

Character developments and interactions

• Past Zero is revealed as a calculating strategist who has been planning around the rules of time and causality. He refuses to explain his origins or clarify whether he comes from a more distant past or an elusive future.
• Past Li Ping quickly pieces together Zero’s plan but is powerless to resist it. He asks whether Zero is also plotting against Chen Fan; Zero leaves the question unanswered with “Take a guess.”
• Their exchange is tense and unequal: Li Ping understands the trap, while Zero controls the outcome and offers only a brief explanation of his motives.

Significant themes

• Causality and the past: an impossible past can be brought into reality to shape the present.
• Power, control, and manipulation: Zero’s plan succeeds by exploiting a higher-priority ability to override Li Ping’s intended action.
• Fate versus resistance: once the command takes effect, Li Ping recognizes that the outcome is effectively settled.
• Hidden motives and uncertainty: Zero’s origins and broader intentions—including his possible plans for Chen Fan—remain unresolved.