Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• The narrator again defeats and seals the two Sages of the Western Region, using the Land of the Square Inch, Yin Concealment, and the Primordial Chaos Bell. The bell will gradually convert them into part of its inner world.
• Rather than continue testing his limited Zhen Yuanzi duplicate against Dao Ancestor Hongjun, the narrator unleashes Purple Heaven Divine Thunder on Mount Sumeru. The attack destroys the Western Region’s stronghold and wipes out its powerful beings.
• The narrator gains nearly 200 million Experience Points, but becomes puzzled by the Primordial World’s apparent weakness: even its Taiyi beings seem to rely on borrowed power, contradicting his expectations.
• With the Journey to the West Kalpa altered by his victory, the narrator asks Sun Wukong to become his disciple. He intends to use their master-disciple bond and his Disciple-Teaching Returns ability to shift the karmic burden of his slaughter onto Wukong.
• The narrator sends Wukong and Zhen Yuanzi’s attendants, Qingfeng and Mingyue, on a new pilgrimage: perform eighty-one good deeds before returning to Five Villages Temple. The former Journey to the West becomes a “Journey East.”

Character developments and interactions

• The narrator shifts from destruction to managing karma and reshaping the world’s central trial for his own purposes. He remains wary of Hongjun and uncertain about the Primordial World’s true nature.
• Sun Wukong, having witnessed the narrator’s overwhelming strength, agrees to become his disciple out of fear and self-preservation. He immediately suffers the transferred karmic burden and recognizes how he is being used.
• Qingfeng and Mingyue are recruited as trusted companions for the new pilgrimage.
• Hongjun remains distant and does not intervene, leaving the narrator to speculate about his motives.

Significant themes

• Power and restraint: The narrator can devastate the Western Region, but hesitates to confront Hongjun without stronger support.
• Karma and moral responsibility: The narrator tries to redirect the consequences of mass destruction onto Wukong while disguising the transfer as a new redemptive pilgrimage.
• Rewriting fate: The narrator takes control of the Kalpa’s structure, turning a familiar journey into one centered on accumulating good deeds.
• Uncertainty about the world: The apparent gap between the Primordial World’s scale and its inhabitants’ true power raises questions about how the world works.

Key plot points

• After suppressing the Western Sages, the Zhen Yuanzi duplicate returns to Five Villages Temple. The protagonist suspects Wang Hao—Daoist Floating Light—may already have acted in secret, and decides to investigate.
• Rather than confronting Wang Hao or Hongjun, the protagonist visits the Three Pure Ones to acquire their treasures.
• Laozi reluctantly lends over the Taiji Diagram, which anchors Daoism’s fortune and underpins his Sagehood. Yuanshi Tianzun hands over the Pangu Banner after witnessing Laozi comply. The protagonist also obtains Tongtian’s Zhuxian Sword Formation, which Tongtian gives up more readily.
• The protagonist plans to use the Golden Talent Fusion to combine the Taiji Diagram and Pangu Banner, hoping to recreate some form of the Chaos Supreme Treasure. The Chaos Bell, the third treasure in the original set, is currently with Wang Hao.
• The protagonist suspects the talent’s sudden activation is a warning: the treasures or their fusion may expose an anomaly—and confirm that the protagonist is already caught in someone else’s scheme.

Character developments and interactions

• The protagonist grows more wary and strategic, focusing on uncovering a hidden move rather than confronting a stronger opponent directly.
• Laozi’s deference reflects the protagonist’s new standing after the battle with the Western Sages, but his hesitation reveals how vital the Taiji Diagram is to his power and lineage.
• Yuanshi Tianzun responds cautiously and cooperatively after seeing Laozi yield. Tongtian is the most accommodating because surrendering the Zhuxian Sword Formation does not threaten the foundation of his Sagehood.
• The Three Pure Ones’ interactions with the protagonist are shaped by fear of the fate suffered by the Western Sages.

Significant themes

• Power and coercion: The protagonist calls the treasures loans, but the Three Pure Ones understand that refusal may not be safe.
• Hidden schemes and uncertainty: The central tension is whether Wang Hao has already made an unseen move.
• Inheritance and reconstruction: The treasures are fragments of ancient Chaos Supreme Treasures, and the protagonist seeks to reunite them through fusion.
• Foundations of authority: The chapter highlights how treasures, merit, and lineage sustain the Sages’ power.

Plot points and events

• The protagonist uses Golden Talent: Fusion to combine two Supreme Treasures. Though the system demands ten years of lifespan to guarantee success, his talents reduce the actual cost to two years.
• The fusion produces a Pseudo-incomplete Chaos Supreme Treasure: the Heaven-Opening Axe. Its description reveals that both the treasure and the surrounding Primordial World are false: the world is only a possible branch of the real one.
• The protagonist realizes that Wang Hao created and controlled this possibility, first anchoring it as reality and later turning it back into an unreal possibility—apparently when the protagonist began using Fusion. The protagonist’s duplicate, Zhen Yuanzi, is now part of that possibility and cannot meaningfully affect the real world.
• Using Zhen Yuanzi, the protagonist searches Patriarch Bodhi’s sanctuary and finds it empty, then confronts Wang Hao at Zixiao Palace. Wang Hao is posing as Dao Ancestor Hongjun.
• Wang Hao confirms that the Primordial World is merely a manifested possibility and tells the protagonist to leave, threatening to send him away if he refuses. The protagonist instead challenges him, while asking him to spare his life during the fourth group mission. Wang Hao refuses: his purpose is to prevent the fifth mission, and he considers killing Chen Fan easier than killing the other group members.

Character developments

• The protagonist moves from confusion to fury as he uncovers the deception. Though he recognizes that Wang Hao’s power and methods surpass his own, he refuses to back down.
• Wang Hao is revealed as the architect of the Primordial World’s illusion and as the figure behind the identity of Dao Ancestor Hongjun. His casual confidence suggests he has anticipated the protagonist’s actions.
• Zhen Yuanzi, the protagonist’s duplicate, becomes an ineffectual pawn once the world is reduced to a possibility.

Significant themes

• Reality versus possibility: The world’s apparent reality is exposed as a constructed branch, and even its treasures and powerful beings may be false.
• Deception and control: Wang Hao has shaped events and environments so thoroughly that the protagonist’s actions within the false world seem meaningless.
• Defiance in the face of overwhelming power: Despite recognizing his disadvantage, the protagonist chooses confrontation over retreat.

Character interactions

• The protagonist and Wang Hao exchange threats and questions at Zixiao Palace. Wang Hao evades the protagonist’s question about whether he is also Hongjun in the real Primordial World, telling him to guess.
• The protagonist attempts to bargain for survival in a future mission; Wang Hao rejects the offer and makes clear that killing him is central to preventing the next mission.

Plot points

• Wang Hao, transformed into Dao Ancestor Hongjun, attacks the duplicate Zhen Yuanzi at the supreme level. The narrator also reaches that level through the power of an incomplete primordial spiritual root.
• The two clash using their abilities and authorities. The narrator tests many techniques, counters Wang Hao’s pressure, and makes substantial progress connecting with the duplicate through the True-False Supreme Realm.
• Wang Hao reveals that he can draw together the Innate Numinous Treasures that were once fragments of the Thirty-Six-Petal Chaos Green Lotus, projecting an incomplete version of the treasure into the Primordial World possibility. Its power threatens to destroy the possibility—and can kill Zhen Yuanzi.
• The narrator counters with a Pseudo-Incomplete Heaven-Opening Axe. The two treasures collide, and the narrator’s connection to the duplicate is severed.
• From the encounter, the narrator identifies Wang Hao’s fifth Golden Finger ability: he can turn real beings into part of an illusory possibility, where they are gradually assimilated into it.

Character developments and interactions

• The narrator proves capable of holding his own against Wang Hao through a wide range of powers, while recognizing that Wang Hao’s ability to manipulate possibilities is exceptionally dangerous.
• Wang Hao demonstrates both overwhelming power and ingenuity, but acknowledges the strain of projecting a Chaos Green Lotus into a possibility that cannot sustain it.
• The encounter is a direct contest between the two: Wang Hao tries to overpower the narrator through the world’s authority and a supreme treasure, while the narrator counters with his own authorities, techniques, and axe.

Significant themes

• Reality versus illusion: A possibility can absorb real beings and make them part of an unreal world.
• Escalating power and its cost: Wang Hao’s treasure projection is immensely powerful but destabilizes the possibility itself.
• Adaptation and discovery: The narrator’s experimentation during combat helps him withstand Wang Hao and uncover the nature of his ability.

Plot points

• A new eight-ring intelligence reveals that Wang Hao has paid a great price to block the protagonist’s path to the true Primordial World. He also has countermeasures ready in case the protagonist reaches it, leaving the protagonist with almost no chance of survival.
• The protagonist faces a dilemma: stay and be killed by Wang Hao during the Fourth Group Mission, or seek a way to resist him in the Primordial World despite the obstacles.
• Suspecting Zero has deliberately allowed this information to reach him, the protagonist uses Ten Gates to meet him.
• Zero admits he anticipated this crisis and offers a solution in exchange for the protagonist’s fourth use of Investment, due in year fifty-one. He wants the protagonist to grant ascension to his Strange Clown Mask.
• Zero suggests a way to stop the Fifth Group Mission: reduce the Chat Group’s membership below the number required to start a mission. Rather than let Wang Hao kill the protagonist, this could be accomplished by abandoning the Present Li Ping identity.
• However, Past Li Ping may use the final charge of The Last Supper to resurrect Present Li Ping, likely triggering another major battle. Wang Hao’s possible involvement—and whether this is part of his plan—remain uncertain.

Character developments and interactions

• The protagonist recognizes the severity of Wang Hao’s trap, but prioritizes survival and readily accepts Zero’s bargain, setting aside doubts about the mask and Investment.
• Zero reveals that he has been waiting for this moment and uses the protagonist’s predicament to negotiate for a future benefit. He offers a possible workaround but makes clear it carries risks.
• Wang Hao is portrayed as a calculating enemy whose preparations constrain both the protagonist’s options and any attempt to delay the next mission.
• Past Li Ping becomes a pivotal, potentially dangerous factor because his choice to resurrect Present Li Ping could ignite another conflict.

Significant themes

• Survival and sacrifice: The protagonist must consider surrendering a valuable future opportunity to escape an apparently sealed fate.
• Bargains and hidden agendas: Zero’s help is conditional, and his timing suggests careful planning.
• Manipulation and uncertainty: Wang Hao’s strategy may extend beyond simply killing the protagonist; even the proposed solution could play into his hands.

Plot points and events

• Chen Fan and Zero agree that killing the identity of Present Li Ping may be necessary, but doing so would provoke Past Li Ping, whose goal is to restore that identity.
• Zero warns that Past Li Ping has powerful unused abilities and could be as difficult to face as Wang Hao. His final use of [The Last Supper] can last only half an hour, but will be especially potent.
• Zero proposes that Chen Fan use [Investment] to Ascend the Strange Clown Mask. Chen Fan should then hide inside [Ten Gates] while Zero holds off Past Li Ping. Zero estimates their odds at just sixty percent.
• Zero says Wang Hao has probably anticipated their plan—not through foresight, but by reasoning that Chen Fan, unable to confront Wang Hao directly, would target another group member, most likely Present Li Ping.
• Wang Hao appears to be encouraging events, but Zero is unsure whether he wants Present Li Ping’s identity destroyed or preserved. Zero plans to use Past Shadow to test Wang Hao’s attitude.
• Back in reality, Chen Fan finds a message from Wu Yong asking whether he has a solution to the Fourth Group Mission’s predicament. Chen Fan replies that he does not, then asks if Wu Yong is offering help.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Fan accepts the dangerous plan despite doubting its low odds, and remains wary of both Past Li Ping and Wang Hao.
• Zero is strategic and composed, but their sixty-percent estimate makes Chen Fan question how dependable the plan really is. They also recognize that Wang Hao may be manipulating events.
• Wang Hao is presented as a formidable, calculating presence whose intentions remain unclear.
• Wu Yong reaches out indirectly, prompting Chen Fan to probe whether he is willing to assist.

Significant themes

• Risk and necessity: Chen Fan has few viable choices, even when the best plan offers only a modest chance of success.
• Uncertain motives and manipulation: Wang Hao may be guiding events toward an outcome whose benefit to him is not yet clear.
• Identity and conflict: The struggle over Present Li Ping’s identity puts Zero’s survival strategy in conflict with Past Li Ping’s desire to reclaim what was replaced.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Fan asks Wu Yong how he intends to help him. Wu Yong proposes a new deal: Chen Fan can visit the Level Nine Civilization and let a powerful “Transmigrator Big Shot” study him for ten years in exchange for any favor—including help confronting Wang Hao and Li Ping.
• Chen Fan is wary of the offer but asks how powerful this figure is. Wu Yong describes him as overwhelmingly superior to every Chat Group member, even the group’s most mysterious figures.
• Wu Yong explains that the Big Shot learned of Chen Fan and the other group members after Past Li Ping used many abilities during the battle in the Gods and Devils Realms. He became especially interested in Chen Fan because Chen Fan’s Golden Finger, the Simulator, could simulate the Big Shot himself.
• The Big Shot deduced that he existed within a simulation. However, he will not force Chen Fan to cooperate: Chen Fan is not the Simulator’s original owner, and coercion could provoke that original—an outcome the Big Shot wants to avoid.
• Chen Fan declines the proposal and chooses to rely on Zero’s plan, which offers a visible sixty-percent chance of success.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Fan remains cautious and skeptical. Though intrigued by the Big Shot’s reputed strength, he suspects the offer may conceal ulterior motives and prioritizes safety over a potentially powerful but risky bargain.
• Wu Yong acts as the Big Shot’s intermediary, presenting the offer and explaining the reasoning behind it. His unusually emphatic praise makes Chen Fan question whether Wu Yong is being influenced or is withholding information.
• The Transmigrator Big Shot, though never directly encountered, emerges as immensely powerful, unusually interested in Chen Fan’s Simulator, and restrained by the consequences of antagonizing its original owner.
• The conversation contrasts Wu Yong’s proposed deal with Chen Fan’s existing reliance on Zero, whose plan feels more trustworthy to him.

Significant themes

• Power and vulnerability: Even a figure capable of overwhelming the group may be constrained by the risks of acting against someone’s original counterpart.
• Trust versus caution: Chen Fan weighs an enticing promise against the danger of placing himself in a powerful stranger’s hands.
• Identity and simulation: The Big Shot’s discovery that he may exist inside a simulation raises questions about the Simulator’s reach and the relationship between original beings and simulated versions.

Key plot points

• At age 51, Chen Fan still could not find the true Primordial World, though he remained convinced it held Wang Hao’s “sliver of vitality.” His Listening talent yielded little useful information.
• He kept acting normally around Past Li Ping to conceal Zero’s plan; whether Li Ping had noticed remained unclear.
• Chen Fan replaced the Heavenly Gate True Lords he had devoured, then refined five more Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivators. His cultivation rose to 33,000 Qi Refining limit-breaking layers and 25,000 Foundation Establishment layers.
• Wary of the dangers of limit-breaking, Chen Fan postponed investing his Strange Clown Mask until Zero provided an update.
• Zero revealed that he and Wang Hao had agreed: if Zero won his second battle against Past Li Ping, Wang Hao would stay out of Chen Fan’s way until a new Chat Group member arrived. If Zero lost and Past Li Ping reclaimed the identity of Present Li Ping, Chen Fan would die.
• With his survival resting on Zero, Chen Fan chose to trust him, noting that Zero’s past actions had generally helped him and that Ten Gates prevented Zero from directly harming its owner.
• Chen Fan summoned Zhang Wenping from the Origin Starry Sky Realm through the Chat Group’s “Didi Stand-In” function, intending to invest in him with the Strange Clown Mask.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Fan is increasingly cautious about pursuing cultivation after learning that limit-breaking carries a serious hidden risk. Nevertheless, he accepts that his fate depends on Zero and acts to strengthen Zero’s influence.
• Zero has secured Wang Hao’s conditional noninterference and remains Chen Fan’s main hope of survival, though the details of his deal and the coming battle are unknown.
• Past Li Ping remains outwardly cordial with Chen Fan. Their easy, friendly conversations contrast with Chen Fan’s concealed knowledge and uncertainty about whether Li Ping suspects anything.
• Wang Hao is not directly present, but his agreement with Zero sets the stakes for Chen Fan’s survival.
• Zhang Wenping accepts Chen Fan’s investment offer and promptly teleports to the Supreme True Realm.

Significant themes

• Trust under pressure: Chen Fan must stake his life on Zero despite lacking full information.
• Secrecy and uncertainty: Chen Fan hides the plan from Past Li Ping while remaining unsure how much Li Ping knows.
• Power’s risks: Progress through limit-breaking brings diminishing gains and may lead into a dangerous trap.
• Interdependence: Chen Fan’s investment in Zhang Wenping is intended to empower Zero, whose battle may determine Chen Fan’s fate.

Key events

• Chen Fan asks Zhang Wenping to help test his golden talent, Investment, by investing the Strange Clown Mask. Zhang agrees, and the investment succeeds even though the mask itself comes from another Golden Finger ability.
• The mask returns to Chen Fan as the Infinite Rules Mask, a spectacular upgrade. Its new power lets Zero borrow the priority of Chen’s talents and project a portion of Zero’s own power into reality.
• Chen realizes the mask’s description outlines Zero’s progress from influencing reality indirectly, to gaining the right to alter it, and finally to altering reality directly. He connects this plan to Zero’s earlier manipulation of events involving Past Zero, Past Li Ping, and the Thousand-Lifetime Fate-Reversing Book.
• Zero’s projected power is limited to roughly one-tenth of what it might otherwise be, and Chen’s Ten Gates talent prevents it from being used to harm him. The chapter ends with Chen eyeing the silent Past Li Ping, anticipating the decisive move in the coming battle.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Fan becomes both the means by which Zero’s plan advances and a beneficiary of it. He is astonished by the mask’s power but reasons through how Zero engineered the outcome.
• Zhang Wenping calmly assists Chen and recognizes that Investment can affect another Golden Finger ability, expressing curiosity about its limits.
• Zero emerges as an exceptionally patient strategist: Zero apparently planned to use Chen’s investment ability to overcome the priority gap between Golden Fingers and talents.
• Past Li Ping remains silent, but Chen’s attention suggests he will be central to the next decisive confrontation.

Significant themes

• Long-term scheming and layered plans: Zero’s strategy spans past and present, with earlier events serving a larger purpose.
• Power and its limits: Borrowed talent priority enables Zero to act, but incomplete understanding and protective rules sharply constrain that power.
• Risk and reward: Chen’s investment creates a formidable new ability, yet it also advances Zero’s agenda—while Ten Gates protects Chen from its worst possible consequence.

Plot points and events

• Past Li Ping reveals he foresaw Chen Fan’s plan with Zero long ago, including the attempt to erase Li Ping’s identity in the present. He allowed it to proceed because he needs the promised final confrontation with Zero to reclaim that identity.
• Chen Fan recognizes that this showdown is the last link in their arrangement. Li Ping hints that Zero’s influence over Chen Fan has been limited, partly by Chen Fan’s mysterious Rainbow Talent.
• Zhang Wenping decides to return to his own world rather than get drawn into the impending conflict. Chen Fan thanks him for helping with the investment and approves his departure.
• Left alone with Past Li Ping, Chen Fan is told to retreat into the Rainbow Talent. Before the encounter can end, another voice challenges Li Ping.
• Past Zero appears through the Infinity Rules Mask Chen Fan received from the investment. Having taken over Present Li Ping’s identity, Zero declares that their “second round” is about to begin, and the mask settles onto Zero’s face.

Character developments

• Chen Fan understands that Past Li Ping has been manipulating events with full knowledge of his plan, but remains wary of both Li Ping and Zero.
• Past Li Ping is revealed as a patient strategist who deliberately let Chen Fan and Zero’s plan unfold so he could reach his desired confrontation.
• Zhang Wenping chooses to stay out of the conflict, prioritizing unresolved problems in his own world.
• Past Zero steps into the open, now occupying Present Li Ping’s identity and ready to face Past Li Ping.

Character interactions

• Chen Fan and Past Li Ping exchange a tense, candid recognition of their respective plans.
• Zhang Wenping briefly breaks the standoff, then bids farewell to Chen Fan and returns home.
• Past Li Ping offers Chen Fan a chance to withdraw; Past Zero immediately rejects his implied threat and confronts him.

Significant themes

• Strategy and manipulation: The major players anticipate one another’s moves and allow plans to unfold for their own ends.
• Identity and control: The struggle centers on who will possess or reclaim Present Li Ping’s identity.
• Trust and autonomy: Chen Fan must navigate the influence of powerful beings while relying on the protection of his Rainbow Talent.
• Escalating confrontation: The chapter ends with the long-awaited second clash between Past Li Ping and Past Zero about to begin.

Key plot points

• Wearing the Infinity Rules Mask, Zero becomes effectively nonexistent within reality, while their power continues to transform. The memory scene containing Past Li Ping shatters, heralding a new threat.
• Present Li Ping retreats through the Ten Gates with Zero. The talent shields them from the disaster outside, but leaves them unable to cultivate or observe the battle.
• Zero declares they will reveal their true Golden Finger ability. Outside, Chen Fan’s I Am the Chess Player talent shifts the Simulator’s view from Li Ping’s perspective to the unfolding fight.
• In the Supreme True Realm, Zero and Past Li Ping confront one another. Zero’s power is limited to one-twentieth, while Past Li Ping uses his final opportunity to draw power from the past through The Last Supper.
• Past Li Ping’s six Colorful Class Cards assemble and manifest him. After taunting Zero, he reveals the Colorful Entry: Supreme Primordial Unity Sage Dao Fruit. Its complete power can erase or invent existential frameworks and silence fundamental principles; its appearance threatens to collapse the Supreme True Realm.

Character developments and interactions

• Present Li Ping survives by retreating into the Ten Gates, but is reduced to waiting helplessly and wonders whether Zero’s challenge was aimed at Chen Fan.
• Chen Fan watches eagerly, curious about the fighters’ strength and their hidden trump cards.
• Zero remains confident despite having only a fraction of their power, refusing to answer Past Li Ping’s question about Wang Hao and demanding that he surrender.
• Past Li Ping is dismissive and self-assured. He boasts that his final use of The Last Supper allows the greatest flow of past power, then unveils an overwhelming weapon—though he claims it is only an opening move.

Significant themes

• Power under constraint: Both combatants are restricted in how much power they can bring into the present, yet each seeks to exploit a final opportunity.
• Observation and helplessness: Li Ping can escape the battlefield but cannot witness it, while Chen Fan sees events only through the Simulator.
• Escalating cosmic stakes: The Dao Fruit’s ability to undo dimensions and foundational principles pushes the conflict beyond ordinary combat and threatens reality itself.

Key plot points and events

• Past Li Ping unleashes the [Supreme Primordial Unity Sage Dao Fruit], whose overwhelming power can rewrite reality. Zero blocks its influence using [Deception], strengthened by one-twentieth of the [Infinity Rules Mask].
• Past Li Ping is astonished that Zero can resist the Dao Fruit. Zero explains that he could not simply negate it: only another Dao Fruit can truly contend with it.
• Zero reveals that he has also attained the [Supreme Primordial Unity Sage Dao Fruit] through genuine enlightenment, rather than gaining it through a Golden Finger ability. Their matching Dao Fruits collide, warping laws, dimensions, creation, and the River of Time and Space. They move their battle beyond the [Supreme True Realm] to protect it from the devastation.
• Past Li Ping warns that Zero’s limited power will not sustain the Dao Fruit for long, leaving him vulnerable when it runs out.
• Past Li Ping speculates that Zero comes from the Dao Child Era, a sealed realm where enlightenment is no longer possible, and marvels that an Otherworldly Demon could have arisen there.
• Zero uses [Deception] to force the omnipresent Past Li Ping into physical form, then attacks. Past Li Ping effortlessly erases the strike, revealing that his final use of [Golden Entry: The Last Supper] granted him additional powers beyond the Dao Fruit.

Character developments and interactions

• Zero is revealed to possess a Dao Fruit attained through enlightenment, making him far more formidable than Past Li Ping expected. He remains controlled and gives little away, even when Past Li Ping raises questions about his origins.
• Past Li Ping shifts from confidence to astonishment and suspicion as he discovers Zero’s resistance and matching Dao Fruit. He also demonstrates that he still has a powerful, unrevealed advantage.
• Their exchange is a contest of both power and knowledge: Past Li Ping probes Zero’s past, while Zero cuts off a potentially revealing question about Wang Hao.

Significant themes

• Earned power versus granted power: Zero contrasts his enlightenment with Past Li Ping’s Golden Finger-derived Dao Fruit.
• Limits and counterweights: Even immense abilities have constraints; Zero’s power is restricted, while Dao Fruits can counter one another.
• Hidden origins and secrets: Past Li Ping’s comments about Wang Hao and the Dao Child Era suggest a larger mystery surrounding Zero’s existence.
• Escalating rivalry: The battle expands from direct attacks into a clash over the fundamental laws and foundations of reality.

Key events

• Zero presses his advantage and questions Past Li Ping’s remaining trump card. He reasons that Li Ping has already used two of his three Colorful Entries: Omnipotence and Supreme Primordial Unity Sage Dao Fruit.
• Past Li Ping reveals that his trump card is already active: the final power he sent from the past is Golden-grade, not Colorful-grade.
• Zero uses Deception to make Li Ping’s manifested form dissolve, grinding away the power he has carried into the present. The Dao Fruit remains, but Li Ping is in danger of disappearing before the half-hour limit.
• Li Ping explains that, in a past simulation, a mysterious Supreme Existence from the true future killed him with a single sword cry. He now uses Golden Talent: Memory Corridor to summon one-tenth of that sword cry’s power.
• The chapter ends as the battlefield vanishes into nothingness and the overwhelming echo resounds: “Clang—”

Character developments and interactions

• Zero is confident and analytical, believing he has anticipated Li Ping’s abilities and countered his Entries. Li Ping’s composure unsettles him, however, and he begins searching for an unknown advantage.
• Past Li Ping remains calm even as Zero erases his form. He reveals that his confidence rests on a trump card drawn from a future event, not on the powers Zero has already accounted for.
• Li Ping expresses envy of Chen Fan’s abilities, especially the potential of his Simulator and the apparent lack of limits on his talent priority. Zero reacts with contempt when Li Ping mentions Chen Fan.

Significant themes

• Preparation versus the unknown: Zero has studied Li Ping’s known powers, but cannot account for a trump card rooted in an extraordinary future event.
• Overwhelming force versus schemes: Li Ping recalls how all his plans were undone by one sword cry, encapsulating the idea that sheer power can defeat even elaborate strategy.
• Past and future shaping the present: Li Ping turns an echo from the future into a weapon in the current battle.

Key plot points and events

• Past Li Ping unleashes his trump card, [golden entry: memory corridor], reproducing an echo of a sword cry from his memories. Though it carries less than a tenth of the original power, it destroys both supreme Dao fruits and annihilates Zero along with nearly all reality. Only the Supreme True Realm and Chen Fan’s Infinity Rules Mask remain untouched.
• Past Li Ping realizes the strike’s consequences may reach beyond reality itself. Before he can use [colorful entry: omnipotence] to restore things, Zero’s voice returns from nowhere.
• Zero speaks about his love of stories, arguing that he does not care whether they are “real” or “fictional”; he simply enjoys their unfolding journeys. He says Chen Fan’s story is especially unpredictable and proposes letting it continue further in the simulation.
• Text suddenly appears in the void, narrating the battle—and then declaring that Zero had already won before Past Li Ping used his trump card.
• Reality rewinds to the start of the battle. The worlds, laws, and Dao fruits are restored, while Past Li Ping begins to disappear, apparently unable to resist the narrative’s revision even with omnipotence.

Character developments

• Past Li Ping witnesses the devastating scale of his own remembered sword strike and is left stunned by Zero’s apparent survival and power. His confidence in his ability to control events falters when the story-text overturns the outcome.
• Zero reveals his deeper nature: beyond being an opponent, he is a being who delights in stories and their uncertain journeys. His return and ability to rewrite the battle suggest that his true Golden Finger may involve control over narrative or fiction.

Significant themes

• Reality versus fiction: Zero rejects a strict boundary between the two, suggesting both are parts of stories.
• Narrative power and fate: The written account does not merely describe events—it changes them, reversing reality and declaring a different victor.
• The value of the journey: Zero prizes the unfolding story over knowing its beginning or ending, especially in Chen Fan’s unpredictable case.
• Power and its limits: Past Li Ping’s near-absolute destructive force proves insufficient against Zero’s ability to reshape the narrative.

Character interactions

• Past Li Ping and Zero’s battle shifts from a clash of overwhelming powers to a contest over who determines what happened. Zero addresses Past Li Ping through a distant, mysterious Dao resonance, then the narrative itself overrides Past Li Ping’s apparent victory.
• Zero’s interest in Chen Fan reframes the confrontation: he wants the simulation—and Chen Fan’s story—to continue, while Past Li Ping’s attempt to end the battle becomes part of a larger plot Zero can rewrite.

Plot points and events

• Zero reveals his true Golden Finger ability, which manifests as words on a Light Screen that reshape reality. Past Li Ping recognizes it as a form of narrative control: a higher “story” layer can rewrite the world beneath it, overriding even overwhelming combat power.
• Past Li Ping, who had already erased Zero and prepared to reclaim Present Li Ping’s identity, realizes he has lost. Zero explains that no taboo beings will detect the changes because his ability’s priority is far beyond theirs.
• When Past Li Ping asks how Zero can wield such extraordinary priority despite originating in the earlier Dao Child era, Zero answers with one name: Chen Fan. Past Li Ping understands that Zero can draw on the priority of Chen Fan’s Rainbow Talent.
• Before disappearing, Past Li Ping asks about Zero’s relationship with Chen Fan and whether they knew each other before Chen Fan gained the Talent. Zero does not answer directly. Past Li Ping observes that Zero seems to care for Chen Fan, despite scheming against him, and that their actions ultimately benefit him.
• Past Li Ping and his phantom, formed from six Class Cards, are completely erased by Zero.

Character developments

• Past Li Ping moves from confidence in his prepared victory to admiration and acceptance of defeat. He reasons out the nature of Zero’s ability and ends with a final, unresolved curiosity about Zero’s connection to Chen Fan.
• Zero reveals a power vastly beyond his earlier deception, along with confidence that it outranks even era-defining beings. He shows unexpected patience in answering Past Li Ping, but keeps his relationship with Chen Fan secret.

Themes

• Narrative power and hierarchy: Authority over a story’s reality can surpass any force within that reality.
• Power, priority, and fate: Zero’s advantage comes not simply from strength, but from access to Chen Fan’s Talent and its extraordinary priority.
• Care intertwined with manipulation: Zero’s schemes may conceal genuine concern, leaving his motives and history ambiguous.

Character interactions

• Past Li Ping challenges Zero about the danger of rewriting reality, then presses him on the source of his priority and his relationship with Chen Fan.
• Zero answers only what he chooses: he names Chen Fan as the source of his advantage, but leaves the deeper personal question unanswered.
• Their exchange ends in mutual recognition—Past Li Ping says they are alike, and Zero agrees—before Zero erases him.

Plot points and events

• After defeating the six Colorful Class Cards, Zero lets them flee to the Gods and Devils Realms, recognizing that taking them would bring trouble rather than benefit. The victory does not guarantee future success.
• Zero detects the mysterious “big shot” Wu Yong had mentioned and calls them out. The mist-shrouded being admits they came to observe Zero’s battle and investigate the power behind the reversal of reality.
• Zero reveals that they had anticipated the visitor: a long-hidden narrative entry predicted that the big shot would come to watch and probe. The visitor is impressed by the Golden Finger’s extraordinary reach and priority.
• The big shot suspects that Zero—and perhaps the scene itself—exists within a simulation observed by the original Chen Fan.
• Zero’s suspicion turns into a direct threat, but the visitor dismisses it. With a casual gesture, they erase all surrounding reality and chaos, claiming that even Zero at full strength would not frighten them.
• The visitor boasts of surviving since the early era of the Otherworldly Demons, the Great Extinction, and the reckoning of the Supreme Dao Immortal Venerable. Zero judges them to be at least as powerful as Past Li Ping at his peak.

Character developments and interactions

• Zero remains guarded and strategic. They use their Golden Finger to draw out the visitor, then demonstrate that they anticipated the encounter. Despite their confidence, they carefully assess the visitor’s immense power.
• The big shot initially presents themselves as a curious, good-faith observer, but admits they also came to probe Zero. Their calm confidence becomes clear when they demonstrate reality-erasing power and reveal their long history.
• Their exchange shifts from cautious conversation to mutual testing: Zero threatens the visitor, while the visitor challenges Zero’s ability to follow through.

Significant themes

• Power and uncertainty: Winning one battle does not ensure lasting dominance; even a formidable victor may meet an equal or stronger opponent.
• Narrative control and observation: The Golden Finger can record events before they manifest, while the visitor’s questions raise the possibility that the apparent world is being observed from outside a simulation.
• Longevity as strength: The chapter’s saying, “The longer you live, the stronger you are,” frames survival through successive cataclysms as a mark of exceptional power.

Plot and events

• Wu Yong’s mysterious “big shot” reveals that he came to meet Chen Fan, observe the battle between Zero and another Otherworldly Demon, and assess whether to invest in Chen Fan. He is also curious about the Chat Group and Wang Hao.
• Wang Hao suddenly appears, having apparently stayed hidden. He joins Zero, making clear that they are aligned, while trading wary remarks with the big shot.
• The big shot restores reality in a transformed state: the worlds become a vast online game. Everyone receives status panels, abilities become skills, battles award experience, and the Great Dao’s power is reduced to game-like values.
• He names this transformation [Era of Equality]. Its key effect is to treat all Otherworldly Demons’ Golden Finger abilities as “plugins” of equal priority, preventing any one ability from simply overriding another.
• Zero’s attempt to use Chen Fan’s borrowed narrative ability to rewrite the game-world has limited effect. Changes become “bugs” and are quickly corrected. With only one-twentieth of his power, Zero cannot restore the whole world at once.

Character developments and interactions

• The big shot is revealed as a composed, capable strategist whose ability can reshape reality and neutralize advantages based on ability priority. He remains amused and confident throughout the confrontation.
• Wang Hao steps out of hiding and sides with Zero. He quickly understands the principle behind the big shot’s power, recognizing both its danger and the reason the being has survived for so long.
• Zero remains defiant but recognizes that his borrowed narrative ability is not enough to overcome the new rules—at least not quickly. His confidence is checked by the limits of his available power.
• Wang Hao and the big shot engage in polite but tense exchanges, each aware that the other may be dangerous. Zero and Wang Hao’s positioning together signals their opposition to the big shot.

Significant themes

• Equality as a weapon: The big shot’s “equality” does not mean fairness; it strips powerful abilities of their special precedence.
• Power and limitation: Even a high-level ability such as narrative control can fail when its user lacks the strength or scope to enforce it.
• Reality as a system: Turning existence into a game makes the world measurable and rule-bound, while also exposing the conflict between system rules and attempts to break them.
• Hidden intentions and alliances: The characters’ courteous conversation masks suspicion, and Wang Hao’s arrival clarifies the emerging sides.

Plot points and events

• The mysterious Supreme Existence explains that Otherworldly Demons become stronger with age, and that this is effectively a law of the current era. He admits he is not weak and agrees to test his strength against Zero and Wang Hao.
• His ability, [Era of Equality], turns reality into an online game. It puts authorities, Great Dao powers, Divine Abilities, and even basic attacks on the same level of priority; their main difference is how much damage they deal.
• The Supreme Existence’s attacks rapidly drain Zero and Wang Hao’s health. Zero counters by declaring through the Great Dao’s Voice that he was never hit and has practically infinite health. The game rejects literal infinity as a bug, so he instead makes his health capacity enormous. He also uses his “plugin” to multiply his attacks tenfold.
• Wang Hao adjusts even more dramatically, replenishing and vastly increasing his health and other attributes. He stacks several possible versions of himself, then attacks with their combined force, apparently reducing the opponent’s health to zero.
• The Supreme Existence takes the attacks without evading. His health bar shrinks to a single point, revealing that his real ability is a powerful game cheat he calls [Fling Trainer Pro Max]. He identifies it with [Wind Spirit Moon Shadow], a legendary plugin associated with effects such as locked health, one-hit kills, unlimited experience, and guaranteed success.

Character developments

• Zero quickly adapts to the game-like rules, using his Golden Finger as a plugin and exploiting the system’s limits rather than trying to break them outright.
• Wang Hao shows intense curiosity about the new world’s mechanics. His plugin proves especially well suited to the game, letting him amplify multiple attributes and combine alternate versions of himself.
• The Supreme Existence shifts from a seemingly reluctant challenger to a confident opponent, revealing that his apparent vulnerability hides an exceptionally powerful cheat.

Themes

• Rules and loopholes: Even a system that enforces equality can be manipulated through clever use of its rules.
• Power as adaptability: The characters’ strength comes not only from raw ability but from how effectively they translate their powers into the game’s framework.
• Reality as a game: The chapter humorously recasts cosmic powers and combat as familiar video-game mechanics—health bars, damage, dodging, and cheats.

Character interactions

• The Supreme Existence challenges Zero and Wang Hao, while Zero questions whether a fight is necessary.
• Zero and Wang Hao respond to the Supreme Existence’s attacks in different ways: Zero focuses on evasion and multiplying damage, while Wang Hao explores and upgrades the system’s attributes.
• After Wang Hao appears to wipe out his health, the Supreme Existence praises their plugins and explains the cheat that underlies his own ability.

Key plot points

• A mysterious “big shot” survives Zero and Wang Hao’s devastating attack with only one hit point, apparently protected by the Golden Finger ability Wind Spirit Moon Shadow, which grants near-absolute evasion and defense.
• Wang Hao suspects the ability has even greater, possibly “ultimate” capabilities. Zero uses Narrative to anchor the outcome that they and Wang Hao resolve the encounter, despite the power gap.
• The big shot calls Narrative troublesome but appears to have been probing rather than fighting seriously. When the simulation shows the opponent’s attack instantly killing Zero and Wang Hao, Zero rewrites the fact of their own death; Wang Hao remains composed and keeps investigating.
• Wang Hao concludes that the probe may have been designed to reveal his abilities to someone watching from outside the simulation. He suspects Zero was merely the pretext.
• Watching from outside, Chen Fan wonders whether Era of Equality—which turns reality into an online game and equalizes ability priority—might be the missing core component of his downgraded Talent, The Only Player.

Character developments and interactions

• Wang Hao stays curious and unshaken even when killed, focusing on the big shot’s powers and motives. He shifts from questioning the ability to identifying the likely purpose of the encounter.
• Zero relies on Narrative to counter otherwise overwhelming outcomes, first securing a favorable resolution and later undoing their own death.
• The big shot remains mysterious and restrained, demonstrating only part of their power while observing Zero and Wang Hao. Their acknowledgment of Narrative suggests it poses a genuine complication.
• Chen Fan connects the big shot’s ability to his own Talent and becomes eager to learn whether the entity is targeting or manipulating him.

Significant themes

• Power and priority: The encounter turns on whose abilities take precedence; Narrative can rewrite events, while Era of Equality may possess exceptionally high priority.
• Observation and hidden motives: The fight may be less a confrontation than a staged test meant to expose Wang Hao’s capabilities.
• Incomplete identity and origins: Chen Fan’s speculation raises the possibility that a seemingly separate power is the lost component of his own Talent.

Key plot points and events

• Wang Hao confronts a mysterious, powerful being who has engineered the encounter to test him. The being admits that Zero was only a distraction: Wang Hao’s abilities and motives are the real unknown.
• Zero clarifies that they merely lured the being away as agreed and had no control over what followed. Zero then withdraws from the confrontation.
• The mysterious being traps Wang Hao in a game-like realm and unleashes a simulated Great Annihilation, making him experience the destruction of countless worlds and repeated deaths.
• Wang Hao recognizes that the attacker has personally witnessed the historical Great Annihilation—an event known to be man-made, though he avoids speculating about it.
• To escape the “F-rank Instance,” Wang Hao uses a Golden Finger ability borrowed from one of his possible selves: “I will escape this Instance!” The command becomes reality, though its power is subject to a reduced priority under the attacker’s “Era of Equality.”
• Wang Hao then alters the game-like reality so his own stats display as “???” and announces another ability: “Wind Spirit Moon Shadow.” Its effects are not yet shown.

Character developments and interactions

• Wang Hao remains irreverent and composed despite being outmatched, using jokes and blunt remarks to mask—or dismiss—the pressure of the situation. Once he understands the encounter is a deliberate test, he decides to reveal some of his abilities.
• The mysterious being reveals both its caution and its experience: Wang Hao’s unpredictability makes it uneasy, prompting the test and the display of the Great Annihilation.
• Zero stays neutral and honors the agreement, clarifying their limited role before stepping aside.
• Wang Hao directly challenges both figures: he accuses the mysterious being of setting him up and questions whether Zero intends to take advantage of him.

Significant themes

• Testing and uncertainty: The mysterious being seeks to understand Wang Hao, whose many tricks make him difficult to assess.
• Power and limits: Wang Hao can bend reality with Golden Finger abilities, but those abilities still face a hierarchy and restrictions.
• The weight of history: The Great Annihilation is presented as an immense, deliberately caused catastrophe, not a natural or divine event.
• Composure under threat: Wang Hao’s humor and confidence contrast with the scale of the danger, reinforcing his refusal to be intimidated.