Chapter Summaries

Plot points and events

• The protagonist’s third “other self,” outwardly at Foundation Establishment but fighting at Nascent Soul–level strength, confronts the former Saint Son of the Blazing Sun Sacred Land.
• The Saint Son proves far stronger than expected. He has compressed his cultivation while retaining a foundation rivaling the protagonist’s, and chains together multiple life-bound divine abilities, a True Treasure sword, and a puppet attack. The protagonist survives only because the Life-Locking True Armor can negate lethal damage.
• Trapped by another immobilizing ability, the protagonist uses Know Fortune and Misfortune to read both fighters’ fortunes. The opponent’s luck is overwhelming on his home ground, but the protagonist activates Once and for All to reverse their fortunes briefly. This disrupts the Saint Son’s casting and lets the protagonist escape the next strike.
• Meanwhile, the Blazing Sun Heavenly Venerable watches from a hidden space, explaining that his own external incarnation—empowered by his fruit-position mystique—and all the fortune of Blazing Sun Province were needed to fight the protagonist to a standstill.
• Dao Evolution challenges the Heavenly Venerable for gathering the era’s Nascent Soul True Lords and turning generations of Sacred Land cultivators into external incarnations to stop the protagonist from attaining “void-proof.” The Heavenly Venerable dismisses the risk of offending a power behind the protagonist, insisting that such a being is not present now. He hints that the protagonist may be someone extraordinary, but leaves the thought censored and unexplained.

Character developments and interactions

• The protagonist learns that raw strength and powerful defensive treasure are not enough against an opponent with a coordinated arsenal of divine abilities. His fate-related techniques and talent provide a narrow opening, showing his ability to adapt under pressure.
• The former Saint Son emerges as an exceptionally dangerous fighter whose abilities work together like a deliberate combo, making the clash feel less like a fair battle than a near-execution.
• The Blazing Sun Heavenly Venerable is revealed as the hidden architect of the confrontation and as someone wary of the protagonist’s possible identity or destiny. He and Dao Evolution openly clash over the scale and purpose of his preparations; the Heavenly Venerable ultimately backs down from their pressure contest.

Significant themes

• Power beyond appearances: The protagonist’s nominal cultivation level and the Saint Son’s compressed realm both conceal their true combat strength.
• Preparation versus fate: The Heavenly Venerable mobilizes immense resources, while the protagonist counters impossible odds by manipulating fortune.
• The cost of ambition and fear: The effort to prevent one cultivator from reaching “void-proof” involves alliances, coercion, and the sacrifice of generations of cultivators.
• Hidden identity and destiny: The Heavenly Venerable’s guarded remarks suggest the protagonist’s significance extends beyond the immediate battle, but the reason remains unresolved.

Key plot points

• The third other self fights the Blazing Sun Sacred Land’s Saint Son. Their battle grows so destructive that nearly half of Blazing Sun Province—and many people, families, and even space itself—is erased. Both combatants incur immense karmic punishment.
• During the fight, Chen Fan’s life-bound ability, the True-False Supreme Realm, creates an afterimage of the Saint Son inside its false world. Chen Fan’s Once and for All talent lets him crush it; the real Saint Son is destroyed in exactly the same way.
• The Supreme Limitless Dharma Seal responds, and Chen Fan and all three other selves break through to become Void-Proof Golden Core cultivators, earning Heaven and Earth’s recognition and gaining unlimited lifespans.
• The breakthrough exposes Chen Fan’s identity. The Blazing Sun Heavenly Venerable attacks his third other self, but I Am the Chess Player causes the killing blow to vanish.
• The Dao Evolution Heavenly Venerable intervenes on Chen Fan’s behalf, confronting Blazing Sun. He reveals that Blazing Sun is still weakened by karmic punishment and claims he can also temporarily reach Heavenly Venerable power. He says that, in the future, he will help Chen Fan achieve Void-Proof.
• Chen Fan’s third other self escapes by entering the false world. Chen Fan, now unconcerned with the Heavenly Venerables’ ensuing clash, takes out the Spacetime Token and prepares to test a theory.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Fan achieves the breakthrough he had been pursuing, and his new ability proves capable of killing a target by destroying its counterpart in the false world. He remains cautious, relying on his talents and other selves to survive.
• The Saint Son is consumed by bloodlust and ultimately killed through Chen Fan’s mutated divine ability.
• Blazing Sun Heavenly Venerable identifies Chen Fan and tries to eliminate him, but is thwarted by the Chess Player talent and challenged by Dao Evolution.
• Dao Evolution Heavenly Venerable reveals a future karmic connection to Chen Fan and openly chooses to protect him, setting himself against Blazing Sun.
• Chen Fan and Dao Evolution have not met directly in the scene, but Dao Evolution’s intervention establishes a significant, unexplained alliance or bond between them.

Significant themes

• Power and consequence: Chen Fan’s breakthrough comes alongside catastrophic destruction and a heavy karmic price.
• Reality and illusion: The True-False Supreme Realm blurs the boundary between a false-world image and its real counterpart.
• Destiny and intervention: Chen Fan’s future connection with Dao Evolution suggests that karma and future events shape present conflicts.
• Escalating stakes: A personal battle expands into a confrontation between Heavenly Venerables, while Chen Fan’s advancement marks a major shift in the wider power balance.

Summary

• The protagonist develops a plan to use the true-false supreme realm to accelerate time and travel safely into the future as an observer, beyond the reach of karmic law.
• Their real goal is to use the Spacetime Token to connect the present and future. An “other-self” would carry the token forward through time; the protagonist would then use it in the future to learn what happened and communicate with the present, potentially changing events without karmic consequences.
• Though the plan is uncertain and dangerous, the protagonist’s original body must attempt it. Blazing Sun Heavenly Venerable has severed the karma anchoring the protagonist to existence, forcing the original body to hide inside the realm. The protagonist also fears that the future self may be incapacitated or otherwise unable to intervene.
• After arranging for Number Two Other-Self to hold the Spacetime Token and recalling Number Three Other-Self, the protagonist accelerates time inside the realm. But as they near the transition to the fifth era, the realm suddenly stops, apparently blocked by the Supreme True Realm itself—perhaps at a sealed boundary at the end of time.
• Unable to reach the future, the protagonist gives up on acceleration for now and begins communicating with an other-self in the current period.

Character developments and interactions

• The protagonist shifts from speculative planning to urgent action, driven by the massacre of the Chen family and mounting concern about the future.
• Number One Other-Self is occupied with Chen Qingyan and attracting attention from powerful figures; Number Two is judged the safest to carry out the token plan; Number Three is recalled after demonstrating void-proof before two Heavenly Venerables.
• Blazing Sun Heavenly Venerable remains a major threat. His willingness to risk himself suggests the protagonist’s future self may once have become powerful, but his confidence that it cannot interfere raises alarming questions.

Significant themes

• Knowledge versus control: The protagonist seeks to learn the future in order to alter it.
• Time, fate, and causality: The plan attempts to bypass karmic law, but an unexplained barrier suggests limits beyond the protagonist’s control.
• Isolation and sacrifice: The original body must take the risk because its unusual circumstances leave no safe substitute.
• Uncertainty and foreboding: The protagonist’s missing future self and the realm’s sudden halt hint that something has gone seriously wrong.

Plot points

• Five hundred years pass, and Chen Fan discovers that the Supreme True Realm has fractured. Its barrier is cracked, spiritual energy has vanished, and karmic burden and death energy overwhelm the world.
• Chen Fan learns that Chen Qingyan’s Secret Realm survived as an independent small world, cut off from the ruined realm. His first other self had been hiding inside it.
• The Heavenly Venerables’ final battle ended without a victor when the Blazing Sun Heavenly Venerable stopped fighting, apparently realizing Chen Fan had escaped. About a year later, he killed Chen Fan’s first other self with a single palm strike, remarking that Chen Fan bore no trace of karma. The second other self survived because he was outside Blazing Sun Province and later hid in the Northern Region, a place of immense karmic burden where his innate karmic protection kept him safe.
• Roughly three centuries later, the Blazing Sun Sacred Land began aggressively expanding, seizing territory and resources while the other Sacred Lands’ Nascent Soul True Lords did nothing. Its forces brutalized cultivators and mortals, exploiting them for essence, materials, and fortune.
• Some Golden Core leaders tried to flee, but the Blazing Sun True Lord wiped them out. A few lower-level cultivators escaped to the Eastern Land of Sin and relayed the atrocities to Chen Fan—apparently as a deliberate message from Dao Yan True Lord, meant to gauge his reaction.
• More than a century later, Chen Qingyan found Chen Fan’s first other self, and they spoke.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Fan shifts from eager anticipation about the future to shock and urgent curiosity as he learns the realm has collapsed.
• His two other selves have very different fates: the first is killed by the Blazing Sun Heavenly Venerable; the second survives through caution, retreating to a dangerous region where his karmic shielding proves useful.
• The Blazing Sun Heavenly Venerable is shown to be both overwhelmingly powerful and seemingly aware of Chen Fan’s unusual lack of karma.
• Dao Yan True Lord appears to communicate indirectly through refugees, suggesting strategic interest in Chen Fan’s response.
• Chen Qingyan’s Secret Realm proves to be an extraordinary contingency, independent of the Supreme True Realm’s fate.

Significant themes

• Catastrophe and decay: the shattered realm signals a world-scale collapse.
• Power and complicity: the other Sacred Lands’ silence enables the Blazing Sun Sacred Land’s atrocities.
• Survival through caution: the second other self survives by avoiding direct conflict.
• Karma and fate: Chen Fan’s karmic anomaly shapes both his survival and the Blazing Sun Heavenly Venerable’s attention.
• Indirect communication and manipulation: Dao Yan’s message suggests that information is being used to test or influence Chen Fan.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Qingyan reveals that his awakened memories foretell the end of the age: “The Supreme Realm falls, the supreme Immortal descends.” When it happens, everyone born in the True Realm will die.
• Chen Fan realizes the warning threatens him too: although his soul came from elsewhere, his body was born in this realm.
• Chen Qingyan sends Chen Fan’s “Other Self No. 1” into a secret realm using his life-bound ability, hoping to delay its death when the outside world is destroyed. The refuge is only temporary, since it, too, originated in the Supreme True Realm.
• Chen Fan is shaken by the prospect that he must somehow survive an Immortal’s descent in only five hundred years. He also wonders why the True-False Supreme Realm can no longer accelerate time, concluding that the world may have no future left.
• Comparing this prophecy with earlier simulations, Chen Fan suspects an unknown turning point in the later timeline once prevented the catastrophe. He cannot travel back, and contacting Lin Feng about an Immortal might expose the senior to dangerous consequences.
• Unable to retreat or safely seek help, Chen Fan decides to investigate. He chooses the powerful, well-connected Dao Yan True Lord as the likeliest source of information.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Qingyan appears anguished and despairing, but still acts to protect Chen Fan’s other self. He knows Chen Fan is an “Otherworldly Demon,” yet doubts he can survive the coming disaster.
• Chen Fan shifts from shock and fear toward cautious resolve. He weighs escape, temporal limits, and the risks of asking for help before deciding to seek answers.
• Chen Qingyan asks after Chen Fan’s true body; the other self, following instructions, says it is safe. Chen Fan suspects Qingyan is relieved, suggesting lingering concern between them.

Significant themes

• Inevitable catastrophe and survival: the foretold end threatens every native of the realm, leaving even powerful figures with few options.
• Limits of knowledge and time: Chen Fan’s earlier simulations contradict the present prophecy, implying that an unknown historical change may determine whether the world survives.
• Caution and sacrifice: seeking help could endanger Lin Feng, while Chen Qingyan’s protective act can only postpone disaster rather than prevent it.

Key plot points and events

• The protagonist’s second Other-Self returns from the Secret Realm and travels to the Dao Yan Sacred Land. The Blazing Sun True Lord attacks, but the Dao Yan True Lord saves him by drawing him into his chessboard True Treasure.
• Asked about the Blazing Sun Sacred Land’s expansion, the Dao Yan True Lord confirms it is meant to prepare for the Immortal’s descent.
• The protagonist learns that Heavenly Will has been dormant for two hundred years, likely because a powerful being has suppressed it. He suspects the Mysterious Dao Master, whose Heaven’s Mandate could overpower Heavenly Will.
• The Dao Yan True Lord says he cannot stop the Blazing Sun True Lord. He illustrates the imbalance of power with a chessboard: the forces opposing the Immortal’s descent are few and surrounded.
• The protagonist concludes that only a handful of powerful figures—likely including himself, Chen Qingyan, the Dao Yan True Lord, and the Devil Master—oppose the descent. The era’s Spirit Transformation Dao Master appears to support it.
• Preventing the Immortal’s descent would require strength on the level of a Spirit Transformation Dao Master; otherwise, the opposing side has little hope.

Character developments and interactions

• The protagonist shifts from suspecting a connection between the Blazing Sun Sacred Land’s expansion and the coming catastrophe to understanding that the expansion is part of a deliberate plan. He is increasingly overwhelmed by the scale of the conspiracy and his faction’s weakness.
• The Dao Yan True Lord protects the protagonist and answers his questions, but explains that his inability to intervene is due to the overwhelming balance of power, not indifference.
• The Blazing Sun True Lord is revealed as a key agent preparing for the Immortal’s descent. The protagonist also suspects the Mysterious Dao Master is helping the pro-descent faction by suppressing Heavenly Will.

Significant themes

• Powerlessness against a grand conspiracy: The danger is organized and backed by forces beyond the protagonists’ reach.
• Allegiance and opposition: The chessboard frames the conflict as a stark division between supporters and opponents of the Immortal’s descent.
• Hidden influence and suppressed authority: Heavenly Will’s silence suggests even cosmic forces can be obstructed by stronger beings.
• Hope under impossible odds: The Dao Yan True Lord’s rescue offers temporary safety, but the board’s final image makes the resistance’s peril clear.

Key plot points and events

• Five hundred years after Blazing Sun Heavenly Venerable attacked, the protagonist is trapped in a desperate position: their key skill has been spent, they lack Heaven’s Mandate, and their Nascent Soul-level power cannot match at least two Spirit Transformation Dao Masters.
• With direct combat futile and no certainty that Lin Feng can intervene, the protagonist decides to use the Spacetime Token to alter the past.
• The token successfully connects to Number Two Other-Self 490 years earlier. The protagonist orders him to leave the Northern Land of Sin, go to Dao Yan Sacred Land, and tell Dao Yan True Lord everything that will happen over the next five centuries.
• The information is meant to reach Heavenly Will, giving it time to prepare and influence the coming conflict. The protagonist recognizes that the true outcome depends not on the immediate opponents, but on the powerful figures orchestrating events behind them.

Character developments and interactions

• The protagonist shifts from despair over their weakness to a strategic attempt to change events before they unfold. They see that simply defeating Blazing Sun Heavenly Venerable would not alter the larger scheme.
• Number Two Other-Self becomes the protagonist’s messenger in the past, acting under direct orders.
• Dao Yan True Lord is intended as the link through which the information can reach Heavenly Will.
• I Am the Chess Player unexpectedly activates during the time-travel attempt, stabilizing the connection. The protagonist recognizes that the talent can affect the Spacetime Token.
• Dao Yan True Lord’s earlier remark, “Make your plans early,” remains unexplained, adding uncertainty to the situation.

Significant themes

• Fate and intervention: The protagonist tries to use knowledge of the future to change the past, while acknowledging that the larger conflict has been planned long in advance.
• Powerlessness versus strategy: Unable to overcome overwhelming foes through strength, the protagonist turns to preparation and information.
• Hidden power structures: The apparent opponents are less important than the Spirit Transformation Dao Masters whose plans shape the conflict.
• Uncertainty of time: The protagonist cannot be sure which timeline or future the token will reach, making the successful connection especially significant.

Plot points and events

• The Simulated Clone uses the Spacetime Token to send warnings and instructions to his past self, hoping to plant “hidden seeds” that can alter the outcome of a great battle five hundred years later.
• The first intervention produces no visible change. Dao Yan True Lord and Heavenly Will must avoid openly changing the future because karmic punishment would strike them; instead, they are expected to plant a subtle, future-triggered variable.
• The Clone’s chess-player talent warns that the Mysterious Dao Master has detected the time-travel intervention. The struggle becomes a contest across five hundred years, with both sides likely trying to cancel each other’s plans.
• On the second use, the Clone instructs his past self to approach Chen Qingyan and obtain the Supreme Limitless Dharma Seal, intending to use its Deception ability to conceal his strategy.
• He makes two further interventions, at two hundred and three hundred years later—on the eve of the great battle and when it begins—planting additional instructions despite not knowing whether they will work.
• Once the Token’s uses are exhausted, the Clone is left helpless and hopes his preparations matter. In the present, the shattered Supreme True Realm falls silent: Blazing Sun True Lord emerges from the Blazing Sun Sacred Land, while an unknown Foundation Establishment cultivator arrives in a small town, signaling the final stage of fate.

Character developments and interactions

• The Simulated Clone shifts from cautious warning to desperate, calculated action. Though he recognizes the Mysterious Dao Master’s superior ability to control events, he commits to using every opportunity available.
• Chen Fan, watching from outside the Simulator, understands that the Clone has done all he can. He sees the contest as profoundly unfair: the Clone has limited information and must hide a consequential plan from an overwhelmingly capable opponent.
• Dao Yan True Lord and Heavenly Will are constrained by karmic law and therefore expected to preserve the apparent course of history while quietly planting a hidden variable.
• The Mysterious Dao Master becomes the Clone’s unseen adversary in the time-spanning contest, having apparently detected the intervention.
• Chen Qingyan is approached by the Clone’s past self as a potential source of the Supreme Limitless Dharma Seal.
• The chapter closes by introducing two opposingly ominous presences: the powerful Blazing Sun True Lord and the unidentified, seemingly ordinary cultivator.

Significant themes

• Fate versus agency: Characters try to change a fixed future, but can act only through limited, carefully placed interventions.
• Asymmetric knowledge and power: The Clone must make decisions with incomplete information while facing an opponent who appears to command the larger chessboard.
• Deception and hidden plans: Success depends not on overt changes, but on planting concealed seeds that may activate at the decisive moment.
• Persistence amid hopeless odds: The Clone knows defeat is likely, yet still acts and leaves the outcome to chance—and to his original self.

Key plot points and events

• In Blackstone Town, a resolute young man from the Northern Region’s Land of Sin reflects bitterly on the disappointing “script” of his life, then walks onward.
• Blazing Sun True Lord is drawn into an ancient chessboard by Dao Yan True Lord. The two prepare to resume their battle from five hundred years earlier; Dao Yan’s power has recovered and risen to Nascent Soul Perfection.
• With Blazing Sun occupied, Heavenly Will’s plan unfolds: it has forcibly divided its own Heaven’s Mandate and sent an artificial bearer to claim the Star Fruit Position and unseal the Heavenly Court.
• Many-Treasure Dao Lord and Falsehood True Lord try to stop the bearer, but Taiyin True Lord intervenes. She too opposes an Immortal’s descent and holds them back.
• The young man succeeds in attaining Void-Proof and becomes a Nascent Soul True Lord. The Star Fruit Position is filled, and the Heavenly Court reappears.
• Nine Heavens, Lord of the Heavenly Court, immediately leaves the world to fight the presiding Spirit Transformation Dao Master. But with Heavenly Will weakened and its control over the realm at its lowest, an unknown force from another spacetime kills the newly ascended True Lord before Taibai Jinxing’s remnant can possess him.
• The vacant Star Fruit Position causes the Heavenly Court to be sealed again. A Karmic Law Punishment is heard, but it strikes an unknown Spirit Transformation Dao Master in another spacetime—not the present.

Character developments and interactions

• The young bearer moves from disillusioned reflection to a pivotal role as the artificial bearer of Heaven’s Mandate, but is killed almost immediately after ascending.
• Dao Yan True Lord reveals his strength and determination by confronting Blazing Sun True Lord, whom he both admires and believes has made the wrong choice.
• Taiyin True Lord surprises the narrator by opposing the two attackers, despite the assumption that she had sided with Blazing Sun’s faction.
• Heavenly Will gambles by sacrificing part of its own Mandate, only to suffer a devastating reversal when its chosen bearer is destroyed.
• The narrator, watching through Number Two Other-Self, recognizes the plan and anticipates the attackers, but remains wary that the apparent gains may conceal further danger.

Significant themes

• Hope and reversal: A carefully coordinated plan appears to succeed, then collapses in an instant.
• Sacrifice and desperation: Heavenly Will weakens itself in an all-or-nothing attempt to restore the Heavenly Court.
• Fate, agency, and cosmic interference: The young man’s reflections on a poorly written life echo a world shaped by forces beyond individual control.
• Escalating stakes across spacetime: The attack and punishment reach beyond the present realm, suggesting conflicts on a much larger scale.

Plot points and events

• A hidden force from the next era intervenes: a Nascent Soul True Lord is erased, while Nine Heavens is pulled back into the Heavenly Court as it is sealed again. The attack weakens Heavenly Will’s authority over the world.
• The protagonist realizes this is a Future Dao Master, whose powers of concealment and severance had subtly prevented the protagonist from noticing the threat. The intervention appears to be retaliation for the first use of the Spacetime Token.
• The balance of power is dire: Heavenly Will is badly wounded, while three Spirit Transformation Dao Masters threaten the protagonists’ side. The protagonist sees no realistic path to victory.
• The dormant ability Late Bloomer reveals the cost of raising the protagonist’s essence to Spirit Transformation level: their true lifespan is only one hundred years. Even doubling that power with their “other selves” would not match three opponents with complete Great Daos.
• The protagonist concludes that a future version of them must have had a compelling reason to fight, but that reason does not exist in the present. They had prepared another option: the Supreme Limitless Dharma Seal’s third ability, Deception.
• Their plan is to use Deception to tell a lie so immense that it deceives the entire world, improving their odds of surviving the Immortal’s descent. In short, they intend to flee rather than fight.

Character developments

• The protagonist shifts from trying to assess a desperate battle to accepting that survival is the priority. They acknowledge their fear and their lack of exceptional talent or destiny, choosing escape over a nearly certain death.
• Their earlier request for the Supreme Treasure is revealed as strategic preparation: they sought Deception not to increase their combat strength, but to preserve a way out.
• Heavenly Will, already a crucial potential ally, is left gravely weakened and nearly powerless.

Significant themes

• Survival over heroism: The protagonist rejects a doomed stand and openly embraces the desire to live.
• Hidden influence and manipulation: The Future Dao Master’s concealment can shape what others notice—or fail to notice—even at the highest levels.
• Limits of power: Raw essence cannot substitute for a complete Dao Fruit and Great Dao.
• Fate versus choice: The protagonist questions why their future self fought, while deciding that the present self is not bound to make the same choice.

Character interactions

• The Future Dao Master acts indirectly across time, striking at Heavenly Will’s side while remaining concealed from the protagonist.
• Heavenly Will’s failed scheme leaves it weakened and unable to serve as an adequate counterweight to the enemy Dao Masters.
• The protagonist’s “other selves” factor into the calculation of possible strength, but even together they cannot make victory likely.

Key plot points and events

• Three hundred years earlier, when activating the Spacetime Token for the third time, Chen Fan set a long-term plan in motion: he instructed his “Number Two Other-Self” to spread a prophecy that the Supreme Realm would fall and an Immortal would descend.
• The Other-Self added vivid details from Chen Fan’s own future experiences. Because those events were fixed by Karmic Law, recounting them tied the Other-Self to the karmic thread of the coming catastrophe, making others wary of harming him.
• Chen Fan’s fabricated account cast him as the lone survivor of the disaster. He hoped the Blazing Sun Heavenly Venerable and the Spirit Transformation Dao Masters would believe he had witnessed the future, allowing the Supreme Limitless Dharma Seal’s power of Deception to protect him.
• Chen Fan knew the plan was risky, but his recent success in using the Seal to achieve preliminary Void-Proof and become a Golden Core powerhouse suggested its abilities could defy differences in rank and cultivation. He planned to rely on his “true-false supreme realm,” a karma-severing life-bound ability, to endure the Immortal’s descent.
• Before focusing solely on survival, he resolved to find Chen Qingyan. Dao Yan True Lord had reported that Chen Qingyan was “in dire straits, but still alive.” Chen Fan hoped to bring him into the true-false supreme realm and give him a chance to survive the coming destruction.

Character development and interactions

• Chen Fan emerges as calculating and willing to gamble everything on an elaborate deception, but his strategy is also driven by personal loyalty and longing. Saving Chen Qingyan matters to him beyond his own survival.
• Number Two Other-Self serves as Chen Fan’s agent, spreading the prophecy and becoming entangled in its karmic consequences.
• Chen Qingyan, though absent, becomes the focus of Chen Fan’s personal mission; his survival is uncertain, but he is reported to be alive.
• Dao Yan True Lord provides Chen Fan with the crucial update about Chen Qingyan. Chen Fan’s plan also depends on deceiving powerful figures—including Heavenly Will, the Dao Masters, and potentially the Immortal.

Significant themes

• Survival through deception and risk: Chen Fan’s best hope is to make powerful beings believe a carefully constructed story.
• Fate, karma, and prophecy: His claims gain force because they describe events bound by Karmic Law, yet the prophecy itself is part of a deliberate scheme.
• Self-preservation versus compassion: Even amid an approaching catastrophe, Chen Fan makes time to seek someone he cares about and try to save him.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Fan’s “other self” finds Chen Qingyan alone in the Ten Thousand Beasts Secret Realm, desperately trying to complete the Northern Region’s unfinished Dao-Burying Fruit Position despite severe backlash.
• Chen Fan urges him to leave and seek a chance to survive the inevitable descent of the Immortal. Chen Qingyan refuses: he is exhausted, has lost everyone he knew and his memories, and no longer knows why he reincarnated or what future he could hope for.
• Chen Fan points out that the fruit position is watched by powerful forces, especially the Mysterious Dao Master, making Chen Qingyan’s attempt to attain the Dao seem hopeless. Chen Qingyan knows this but insists he has no other choice.
• Seeing Chen Qingyan’s exceptional cultivation achievements—and recalling his repeated tragic fates in earlier simulations—Chen Fan recognizes that the young man’s talent is trapped by an era and a game controlled by greater powers.
• Chen Fan begins questioning his own plan to flee and weighs a desperate contingency: use the Spacetime Token’s final use for an “ultimate ascension,” burning himself to try to stop the Immortal’s descent. This offers only a slim chance and could mean certain destruction.
• In the outside world, the real Chen Fan is offered the choice to intervene in his simulated self’s decision. He declines, believing the other self should choose for himself.
• The simulated Chen Fan leaves the secret realm without deciding what to do. He has something left to verify before making his final choice.

Character development and interactions

• Chen Qingyan is revealed as brilliant but profoundly weary and isolated. His refusal to flee is not confidence in success; it stems from despair and the belief that he has no viable alternative.
• Simulated Chen Fan shifts from firm plans to escape toward sympathy and doubt. He recognizes that he, too, may be a victim of being born into the wrong era and must decide whether to preserve himself or risk everything.
• Real Chen Fan chooses not to control his other self, respecting his autonomy even though the decision may determine life or death.
• The meeting is marked by silence, shared grief, and mutual recognition. Chen Fan’s question—“Why... did neither you nor I arrive in spring?”—captures their sense of being born into a cruel, doomed age.

Significant themes

• Fate and constrained choice: Both men face paths shaped by powerful forces, leaving them little real freedom.
• Brilliance in the wrong era: Chen Qingyan’s extraordinary talent cannot overcome the timing and circumstances that entrap him.
• Survival versus sacrifice: Chen Fan must weigh a cautious gamble against self-destructive action to resist catastrophe.
• Autonomy and responsibility: Real Chen Fan refuses to make the choice for his simulated self, accepting that the other self must follow his own convictions.
• Weariness, memory, and purpose: Chen Qingyan’s loss of his past and future leaves him unable to find meaning in continued life.

Key plot points and events

• The Simulated Clone enters Blackstone Town, where the real world and the phantom of the Heavenly Court overlap amid broken space, distorted time, and failing laws.
• The Clone confronts the severely weakened Heavenly Will, accusing it of anticipating the crisis and using the Clone as its true contingency.
• The Clone concludes that the Heavenly Will had secretly hidden changes in fate, untangled karma, and subtly influenced the Clone’s decisions—helping explain why powerful Nascent Soul True Lords never intervened despite repeated changes to the fate line.
• Outside the simulation, Chen Fan realizes that his own increasingly reckless choices may have been influenced by the Heavenly Will. He traces the interference back to the fifth simulation and the coveted dao-burying fruit position.
• Chen Fan understands that both the Heavenly Will and the Mysterious Dao Master have been watching him. The latter’s presence is suddenly felt behind him, suggesting his identity has been exposed.
• Chen Fan hopes to survive until the eighth simulation ends, when he may inherit the true-false supreme realm, which can resist Supreme Existences’ influence. As danger closes in, his once and for all talent flares and the Spacetime Token activates on its own.
• Meanwhile, the Simulated Clone remains unaware of Chen Fan’s peril and considers itself wholly separate from its “original.”

Character developments

• The Simulated Clone demonstrates growing insight and composure, piecing together the Heavenly Will’s long-term manipulation and confronting it directly.
• Chen Fan shifts from confidence to terror as he recognizes that his choices may not have been entirely his own and that two supreme beings are monitoring him. He nevertheless finds a possible path to survival.
• The Heavenly Will is revealed as badly weakened but still a calculating strategist whose contingency may have depended on the Clone.
• The Mysterious Dao Master moves from hidden observer to an immediate, ominous presence, though its intentions remain unclear.

Significant themes

• Manipulation and agency: The chapter questions whether Chen Fan’s choices—and the Clone’s path—were shaped by higher powers.
• Hidden observation and exposure: Chen Fan discovers that he has been watched by beings far beyond his understanding.
• Fate, contingency, and power: The Heavenly Will’s influence over karma and fate shows how even apparent freedom may be part of a larger plan.
• Identity and separation: The ending contrasts Chen Fan’s desperate situation with the Clone’s conviction that it has no connection to its original.

Character interactions

• The Clone confronts the Heavenly Will, challenges its motives, and draws out confirmation that it had been scheming around the Clone.
• Chen Fan has no direct exchange with the Mysterious Dao Master, but senses its presence and fears an imminent confrontation.
• The Clone and Chen Fan are narratively juxtaposed: one investigates the forces shaping its world, while the other faces the consequences of those forces outside the simulation.

Key plot points and events

• The protagonist deduces that Heavenly Will deliberately created supernatural phenomena when his essence improved in Chen Qingyan’s secret realm. It was a test of his origins, not a natural reaction.
• Heavenly Will confirms that the protagonist’s methods led it to identify him as the Eternal Pole Dao Venerable, a major figure of Beyond Heaven. As a result, it initially avoided interfering too heavily.
• Heavenly Will later discovered the Blazing Sun Heavenly Venerable and secretly empowered Dao Yan True Lord to provoke a confrontation and expose the hidden force behind events.
• The protagonist realizes Heavenly Will suspects he can prevent the Immortal’s descent—and knows something about the Supreme Limitless Dharma Seal’s third ability, which may let him escape the “game.”
• He concludes Heavenly Will sabotaged that escape attempt by fabricating the spread and failure of his avatar’s “survivor” claims. It also protected Chen Qingyan, knowing the protagonist cares deeply for him, so that Chen’s danger and apparent hopelessness could manipulate the protagonist.
• Heavenly Will neither denies nor disguises the scheme. The protagonist recognizes that he has been maneuvered into a single remaining option: risk everything in a desperate gamble. He concedes, “You won!”

Character developments and interactions

• The protagonist moves from suspicion to a clear understanding of Heavenly Will’s strategy. Though outwardly calm and perceptive, he recognizes that his choices have been deliberately constrained.
• Heavenly Will drops its earlier pretense of weakness and reveals itself as calculating, manipulative, and indifferent. Its faint approval suggests respect for the protagonist’s deductions.
• Chen Qingyan remains central despite not appearing directly: his importance to the protagonist makes him a lever Heavenly Will can exploit.
• Dao Yan True Lord, the Blazing Sun Heavenly Venerable, and the Mysterious Dao Master figure in the protagonist’s reconstruction of Heavenly Will’s interventions and investigations.

Significant themes

• Fate, agency, and manipulation: The protagonist’s apparent choices have been shaped by a powerful opponent.
• Trust and deception: Real events and convincing illusions are difficult to distinguish, even for someone capable of severing karma.
• Attachment as vulnerability: The protagonist’s care for Chen Qingyan gives Heavenly Will a means to control him.
• Recognition between adversaries: By identifying the scheme, the protagonist earns Heavenly Will’s tacit approval—but understanding it does not free him from it.

Chapter summary

• A hidden confrontation is revealed: Deep within the shattered Supreme True Realm, two masked Supreme Existences face off through layers of chaotic Dao laws. One accuses the other of luring them into the Deep World and trapping them for five hundred years, all as part of a plan to gain authority. Though impressed that their opponent could suppress them despite possessing a weaker Heaven’s Mandate, they threaten to inflict a lasting “hidden wound” on them, as they did to Heavenly Venerable Changming. They admit they ultimately fell one move short.
• Chen Fan activates his final contingency: With the last battle underway, Chen Fan uses his “other self” to send a two-word message across the Broken Heaven and Earth: “Devil Master.” He needs the Devil Master—hidden within the Heaven-Reaching Stairway—to temporarily shield the severing of the karma anchoring his existence. This will let Chen Fan reconnect with Heaven and Earth and trigger Late Bloomer. He chooses the Devil Master over the nearby Heavenly Will because he does not trust the latter.
• Chen Fan wagers his lifespan and breaks through: His true body emerges from the true-false supreme realm and activates Heaven-Bartering Fortune, perfected by his other self over five hundred years and now a minor divine ability. He trades ninety-nine years of true lifespan for a massive boost. Late Bloomer drives his essence from Nascent Soul early stage through successive breakthroughs to Nascent Soul perfection limit-breaking, the realm of the Immortal Venerable. At that level, the severed karma can no longer restrain him.
• He reaches Dao Master-level essence: The enhancement continues past a second shackle. The phantom fruit position within Chen Fan’s embryonic grotto-heaven condenses with it into a Great Dao of his own. Chen Fan thereby attains Spirit Transformation Dao Master-level essence. The broken Supreme True Realm instinctively rejects him, but its incomplete rules allow him to remain briefly.
• The battle begins: Chen Fan’s gaze reaches the Spirit Transformation Dao Master stationed in Beyond the World. They exchange no spoken words; their Great Daos answer one another with a single intent:

Fight.

Character developments and interactions

Chen Fan moves from constrained Nascent Soul-level essence to a temporary, self-owned Great Dao, paying dearly in lifespan to enter the final confrontation. His reliance on the Devil Master—and refusal to trust Heavenly Will—shows how carefully he guards his plans. The two masked Supremes reveal mutual respect, suspicion, and hostility, while Chen Fan’s other self supports the plan but cannot share talents: only his true body can receive Late Bloomer’s enhancement.

Significant themes

The chapter emphasizes deception and hidden contingencies, the cost of power, and self-determination: Chen Fan forges a Great Dao of his own rather than relying on an established fruit position. It also shifts the story from plotting and preparation into an imminent, world-shaking duel.

Plot points and events

• The protagonist faces the incumbent Spirit Transformation Dao Master while in a dangerously incomplete state: he has Great Daos, but lacks true authority, a condensed Great Dao, and fruit-position mystique.
• The enemy’s authority is destruction. His first attacks nearly overwhelm the protagonist, who realizes the opponent was not weak—Senior Lin Feng had simply been extraordinarily powerful in their previous encounter.
• To survive, the protagonist sacrifices the true lifespan of a second Other-Self, superimposing two Great Daos. This lets him briefly match the incumbent, who holds back to avoid damaging the already-shattered Supreme True Realm.
• The struggle turns when an unseen force—likely the Future Dao Master—momentarily obstructs the protagonist’s Daos, allowing the incumbent to land a devastating attack and knock him out of the Supreme True Realm into a Great Thousand World.
• The protagonist expects his life-bound ability, True-False Supreme Realm, to record and kill the enemy, but it has not activated. I Am the Chess Player helps him understand that the ability requires a sufficient “connection,” such as a serious injury or a sustained fight. He has not yet managed to injure the incumbent enough.
• The incumbent then unleashes his full power. His annihilating seal reduces the surrounding world toward “none,” leaving the protagonist in mortal peril.

Character developments

• The protagonist recognizes the immense gap between his counterfeit Spirit Transformation state and genuine mastery, but responds with desperation and resourcefulness, using his second Other-Self to strengthen himself.
• His understanding of his own abilities deepens: True-False Supreme Realm is not triggered merely by time or proximity; it needs a meaningful connection to its target.
• The incumbent is revealed as a formidable but initially restrained opponent, whose caution ends once the protagonist is forced outside the Supreme True Realm.
• Senior Lin Feng’s overwhelming strength becomes clearer through contrast with the protagonist’s struggle.

Themes

• Appearance versus substance: The protagonist holds the title-like “quality” of a Dao Master without its true foundations.
• The cost of survival: His momentary advantage comes through sacrificing another self’s lifespan.
• Power constrained by circumstance: The fragile Supreme True Realm limits the incumbent’s full strength, creating the protagonist’s only opening.
• Knowledge and connection: Understanding how an ability works may be as crucial as raw power, but the protagonist discovers the requirement too late to avoid immediate danger.
• Desperation against overwhelming force: Cleverness and persistence can delay defeat, but cannot erase a vast difference in strength.

Character interactions

• The protagonist and incumbent engage in a fierce exchange of attacks, with the protagonist’s two Daos briefly holding the enemy back.
• An unidentified Future Dao Master interferes by obstructing the protagonist’s Daos at a crucial instant.
• The protagonist’s internal talents, especially I Am the Chess Player, guide his interpretation of True-False Supreme Realm.
• Chen Qingyan remains the protagonist’s last personal attachment, though she is already prepared to die.

Plot points

• The protagonist survives the Presiding Dao Master’s near-fatal attack by recalling “Number Three Other-Self,” extending their true lifespan, and bringing their third Great Dao into play. With three Great Daos, they gain the upper hand and begin injuring the deity.
• Their battle devastates the World Sea: countless small worlds are destroyed, nearby Great Thousand Universes collapse into singularities, and the conflict shakes the River of Time and Space. The protagonist also realizes that the Supreme True Realm exists outside the World Sea, supported by the Infinite Worlds.
• The protagonist sees a chance to kill the Presiding Dao Master while the Future Dao Master is unable to intervene after triggering karmic-law punishment. But the protagonist’s unresolved “existence karma” makes them a target of that same punishment.
• Two successive strikes of karmic-law punishment leave the protagonist gravely wounded. They recognize that the severed existence karma was part of a long-laid scheme, possibly involving the Future Dao Master or the Mysterious Dao Master.
• The Spacetime Token briefly delays the final punishment. Using that moment, the protagonist detonates all three Great Daos and fatally clashes with the Presiding Dao Master. They destroy the deity’s fully manifested phantom in the true-false supreme realm, but the third punishment annihilates them.

Character developments and interactions

• The protagonist moves from renewed confidence and dominance to exhaustion and acceptance of apparent defeat, then makes one final, defiant attempt to take the enemy down with them.
• Their fight with the Presiding Dao Master shifts from a direct contest of power to mutual destruction. The protagonist’s ability to injure the deity also creates a connection that helps make the deity’s phantom vulnerable.
• The Future Dao Master is absent from the battle after incurring karmic punishment, while the Mysterious Dao Master remains a suspected participant in the larger plot. The protagonist’s final act kills the Presiding Dao Master’s phantom, but not without costing their own life.

Significant themes

• Manipulation and consequences: The protagonist’s unresolved existence karma, exploited as part of a long-term scheme, turns a near-victory into catastrophe.
• Defiance and sacrifice: Even facing certain death, the protagonist uses their last opportunity to strike back.
• Cosmic scale and fragility: Entire worlds and powerful beings are insignificant beside the clash of Dao Masters.
• Exhaustion and agency: Though the protagonist feels worn down by a life controlled by others, they choose one final action for themselves.

Chapter Summary

• Believing himself dead after Karmic Law intervened, Chen Fan assumes he has become a reward for the Simulator, just as a previous simulated clone had.
• A familiar voice challenges his resignation. Chen Fan admits he cannot accept a life shaped by others’ schemes, despairing beginnings, and a predetermined ending.
• The speaker reveals himself as another Chen Fan—the version who possessed Heaven’s Mandate. He says he heard the echo of Chen Fan’s wishes, awakening the dormant Wish Echo talent.
• The two share a tender, intimate moment of recognition. The other Chen Fan affirms that he understands the protagonist’s fears, vulnerabilities, and past, and promises never to scheme against him.
• As the phantom fades into starlight that flows into Chen Fan, his senses return. He is alive and unharmed in the True-False Supreme Realm.
• A new talent manifests: Heaven’s Mandate, revealed not as a gift but as a choice and a shared legacy between the two selves.

Character Developments and Themes

Chen Fan moves from helpless resignation to renewed awareness and connection. His encounter with his other self transforms isolation into trust and offers a way to reject the fate imposed on him. The chapter emphasizes self-understanding, shared identity, defiance of predetermined endings, and the power of wishes and bonds.

Character Interaction

The central interaction is between two versions of Chen Fan. The alternate self recognizes the protagonist’s pain without judgment, while the protagonist openly expresses his refusal to accept his life’s “rotten” ending. Their mutual recognition culminates in Heaven’s Mandate as a legacy they share.

Plot points and events

• The protagonist discovers that his survival was secretly engineered: his [Myriad Selves] talent created an “Other Self” in the true-false supreme realm, which switched places with his original body when the final karmic punishment struck. The Other Self died, while the original survived—and karmic law concealed the exchange.
• He realizes [I Am the Chess Player] did not reverse reality itself. It served as an anchor through which a mysterious being from the future delayed the established fact of his death for the time it takes incense to burn.
• Trapped by the existence-karma barrier left by the Mysterious Dao Master, the protagonist is warned that leaving the false world would expose him to karmic law and certain annihilation. He rejects mere survival, insisting that he is alive and must finish his unfinished path, meet those he has not met, and become the Dream Master.
• Meanwhile, the Mysterious Dao Master and Heavenly Will continue their final contest. The Dao Master, apparently winning, uses karmic power to try to reveal Heavenly Will’s true form. Though weakened and restrained, Heavenly Will’s identity remains protected by the rule that only someone with Heaven’s Mandate can enter the world’s depths.
• The karmic mirror shatters, and punishment strikes at the future. A vastly superior figure then appears, evades karmic law, and declares himself the Dream Master.

Character developments

• The protagonist turns shock and resentment into fierce resolve. Rather than cling to safety in the false world, he chooses to continue his mission, accepting the risk of dying again.
• The Mysterious Dao Master remains confident and formidable, using his power and knowledge of self-severing to press his advantage over Heavenly Will.
• Heavenly Will is badly weakened but still possesses defenses and secrets that the Dao Master cannot easily overcome.
• The future Dream Master emerges as an overwhelming force whose presence surpasses the remaining beings’ power.

Themes

• Fate versus agency: The protagonist’s death is an “established fact,” but hidden interventions and his own choices challenge its finality.
• Sacrifice and purpose: He values unfinished duties and relationships over simply preserving his life.
• Identity and hidden selves: The body that died was not the protagonist’s original self, complicating what survival and death mean.
• Long-range planning and mystery: Talents, karmic law, and interventions from the future reveal that events have been shaped by forces beyond the characters’ understanding.

Character interactions

• The protagonist communicates with a mysterious future existence through [I Am the Chess Player], answering its intervention with defiant acceptance.
• He rejects the aged voice’s advice to remain hidden in the false world, choosing instead to pursue his purpose.
• The Mysterious Dao Master confronts Heavenly Will through a contest of power and attempts to expose her true form; Heavenly Will’s resistance and the sudden arrival of the Dream Master disrupt his apparent victory.

Plot points and events

• Chen Fan inherits the Dream Master’s full authority and will, becoming a Half-Immortal. His power lets him perceive and reshape the Myriad Worlds, but his unstable dimension limits it to one stick of incense.
• He appears before Chen Qingyan in the Ten Thousand Beasts Secret Realm and returns the Supreme Limitless Dharma Seal, asking him to live on in Chen Fan’s memory. Chen Fan then declares that he is going to his death.
• In the Deep World, the Mysterious Dao Master is caught off guard by the Dream Master’s return. The new power begins erasing their body and stripping away their Heaven’s Mandate.
• The Dao Master sends a warning into the future, then burns the remaining Mandate to use Deceive Heaven, briefly concealing them from Karmic Law. Though expelled from the Deep World, they use the opening to gather the Blazing Sun Sacred Land—its Heavenly Venerable, inhabitants, resources, and accumulated fortune—and ascend to Half-Immortal.
• The chapter ends as the two Half-Immortals’ wills collide, setting up a decisive battle.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Fan is transformed so completely that he doubts whether he is still himself, yet his final act toward Chen Qingyan shows that his personal attachments remain. He accepts his death as the likely price of confronting the Dao Master.
• Chen Qingyan stays outwardly composed but shows faint concern beneath his usual coldness, asking what Chen Fan intends to do.
• The Mysterious Dao Master shifts from hidden manipulator to desperate opponent. Rather than surrender, they sacrifice their foundation and seize power for a direct confrontation.

Significant themes

• Identity and sacrifice: Chen Fan’s transformation blurs the boundary between self and inherited will; he acts for another’s sake even as he expects to die.
• Time, fate, and resistance: Both sides exploit the River of Time and briefly evade Karmic Law, turning destiny itself into part of the struggle.
• A narrow window of power: The incense’s brief duration gives the conflict urgent, all-or-nothing stakes.
• Escalation and mirrored resolve: Each opponent reaches Half-Immortal power through extraordinary means, leaving victory, defeat, and survival uncertain.