Chapter Summaries

Plot points and events

• The narrator and the Mysterious Dao Master fight a cataclysmic battle outside the Supreme True Realm, deliberately sparing that final refuge. Their Half-Immortal power destroys more than half the Myriad Worlds.
• The Dao Master argues that both have only an incense stick of time before karmic punishment ends them—and that the narrator’s countdown began an instant earlier. The narrator counters that this tiny difference is enough: they will win “in the next instant.”
• The narrator crushes the simulator’s phantom inside the True-False Supreme Realm. Since the Dao Master’s existence depends on that source, they vanish, giving the narrator a narrow victory.
• The narrator restores the shattered Myriad Worlds but cannot repair the Supreme True Realm by force. They merge the True-False Supreme Realm into it, allowing it to heal.
• The narrator transfers the authority gained from that merger to Chen Qingyan, hoping it will help him survive his own fate.
• When the narrator’s time expires, they accept Karmic Law Punishment without resistance and die.
• In a glimpse of the Future, a gravely wounded Spirit Transformation Dao Master receives word that the Dream Master has returned and the Present’s ending is sealed. A gaze from the Present then strikes them, leaving their fate unknown.

Character developments and interactions

• The narrator moves from an apparently losing position to victory through insight rather than superior force. They show compassion and responsibility by restoring the worlds, aiding Chen Qingyan, and accepting death calmly.
• The Mysterious Dao Master is revealed to depend on the simulator’s existence. Their confidence collapses when the narrator destroys its phantom; they disappear.
• Chen Qingyan receives a portion of the narrator’s newly gained supreme authority, though his survival remains uncertain.
• The narrator and the Dao Master communicate chiefly through their battle and a brief exchange about their remaining time. The final message and distant gaze connect events in the Present and Future, but the outcome is unresolved.

Significant themes

• Time and narrow margins: A single instant determines the victor when both opponents face an unavoidable deadline.
• Freedom from foundational constraints: The narrator defeats an apparently overwhelming foe by destroying the source that sustains them.
• Sacrifice and legacy: The narrator uses their last moments to restore the worlds and empower another before accepting death.
• Truth and falsehood: Merging the True-False Supreme Realm with the Supreme True Realm turns paradox into renewal.

Plot points and events

• Chen Fan meets Lin Feng, the senior transmigrator and Supreme Dao Immortal Venerable, through the Spacetime Token.
• Facing a mysterious Dao Master who will kill him once the connection ends, Chen Fan urgently asks whether Lin Feng knows the Dream Master—the supposed source of the life-bound ability, the True-False Supreme Realm.
• Chen Fan fears the legacy may be a trap, since the Dream Master is a Half-Immortal and may know everything the simulated clone experienced. Checking the simulation confirms the clone has declared, “I am… the Dream Master,” suggesting the Dream Master has a plan in motion.
• Lin Feng says he has never heard of the Dream Master, but identifies anyone bearing the title “Master” as a likely Half-Immortal.
• Before Chen Fan can explain his danger, Lin Feng tells him to speak freely and declares that even a Half-Immortal must yield before his edge.
• Encouraged, Chen Fan decides to reveal the True-False Supreme Realm and ask Lin Feng to assess whether he should use it or rely on Lin Feng to intervene.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Fan shifts from guarded suspicion to cautious trust. He considers Lin Feng’s help but remains wary of the immense karmic consequences such aid might bring.
• Lin Feng presents himself as confident enough to challenge a Half-Immortal, reassuring Chen Fan without yet explaining the full extent or source of his power.
• Their exchange is marked by Chen Fan’s urgent, probing questions and Lin Feng’s calm, authoritative encouragement.

Significant themes

• Trust versus self-preservation: Chen Fan must decide whether to rely on a possibly dangerous legacy or accept help at a potentially terrible cost.
• Power and uncertainty: Even formidable figures may be outmatched by Half-Immortals, but Lin Feng’s confidence suggests the hierarchy may not be absolute.
• Destiny, knowledge, and hidden plans: The Dream Master’s apparent awareness of the simulation raises fears that Chen Fan’s choices—and even his safeguards—may be anticipated.

• Chen Fan reports the simulations: After the Eighth Simulation ends, Chen Fan keeps the life experiences and talents from his simulated death and urgently tells Lin Feng what happened across all eight runs. He describes the simulations as glimpses of a future that has not yet happened, but does not reveal exactly how his ability works. His account makes clear that the early runs were largely failures, while gaining Heaven’s Mandate let him escape a deadly scheme and glimpse a vast chessboard of powerful forces.
• The danger becomes clear: Chen Fan now believes the Mysterious Dao Master and Heavenly Will have been targeting him, and that the Dream Master may not be on his side. In the final simulation, his clone even reached power comparable to the Dream Master, strengthening his suspicion that something about that figure is deeply wrong. With his current life seemingly at risk, Chen Fan sees no point in withholding the truth from Lin Feng.
• Lin Feng offers a two-part solution: Calm and confident despite the threat, Lin Feng considers Chen Fan’s options—hide inside the true-false supreme realm or rely on Lin Feng to intervene—and proposes doing both. He promises to confront the dangers outside and resolve whatever hidden threats lie within the realm, treating the situation as manageable.
• Chen Fan’s confidence in Lin Feng: Lin Feng’s assurance dispels Chen Fan’s fear. Chen Fan cannot explain why he trusts him so completely, but years of simulated experience, Lin Feng’s reputation, and the sense of safety he inspires make even the Half-Immortal Dream Master seem less impressive by comparison.
• Rewards and looming interruption: Chen Fan reviews the Eighth Simulation’s rewards: he could inherit either his cultivation, his life experiences and talents, or his possessions. Having already chosen the experiences and talents, he can still later take the cultivation reward, which would grant the realm’s life-bound divine ability.
• The threat closes in: As the Spacetime Token’s connection fails, three enormous booms—among many—strike from Lin Feng’s side, apparently the effects of karmic-law punishment. Once the screen shatters, the token’s reflection reveals the Mysterious Dao Master’s eyes behind Chen Fan, full of cruel amusement. Chen Fan realizes the Dao Master deliberately let him see them—but, just then, his I Am the Chess Player talent flares with brilliant purple light.
  Character developments and themes: Chen Fan shifts from cautious uncertainty to open distrust of the Dream Master and reliance on Lin Feng. Lin Feng’s composure and certainty establish him as a powerful protector, while the Dao Master’s taunting gaze makes the immediate danger unmistakable. The chapter emphasizes fate versus agency, trust amid manipulation, and the struggle to survive when powerful beings treat lives like pieces in a game.

Summary

• Lin Feng intervenes: As Chen Fan faces an apparent threat through the remains of the Spacetime Token, karmic law surges and freezes time, space, and the surrounding laws. The mocking eyes in the reflection become terrified when Lin Feng, Chen Fan’s immensely powerful senior, appears and challenges whoever is threatening him.
• Chen Fan inherits the simulation reward: Lin Feng tells Chen Fan to claim his cultivation inheritance so he can inspect its life-bound divine ability. Chen Fan uses an “other self” to receive the cultivation first, avoiding a rise in the Simulator’s energy cost, then synchronizes the ability himself.
• Unexpected discovery: Alongside the [true-false supreme realm], Chen Fan finds that [heaven’s mandate] has already awakened as a second life-bound divine ability: [legacy]. He has little time to investigate further.
• Lin Feng clears the danger: Lin Feng examines the false world within Chen Fan’s ability and declares it safe for him to use. He then orders Chen Fan to enter it and wait while Lin Feng prepares to assess the era.

Character developments and interactions

Chen Fan’s lingering fear vanishes when Lin Feng arrives; he trusts his senior completely and follows his instructions. Lin Feng acts as a protective mentor, personally checking Chen Fan’s inheritance and the false world before allowing him to proceed. The unseen threat, by contrast, shifts from cruel amusement to terror at Lin Feng’s presence.

Significant themes

The chapter emphasizes trust and protection, as Chen Fan can rely on Lin Feng in a crisis; power and authority, shown by Lin Feng’s ability to halt the world and inspect Chen Fan’s abilities; and hidden potential, revealed through Chen Fan’s newly discovered [legacy] ability. The final promise to “weigh” the era hints at a major confrontation or reckoning to come.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Fan obeys Lin Feng’s instruction and enters the [false world], wondering whether Lin Feng has again used his life-bound ability to act across time—and what punishment or consequences might follow.
• Once Chen Fan is gone, Lin Feng stops suppressing his aura. His sealed [Beyond Heaven] stirs, but he quiets it, saying the time is not right.
• Lin Feng confronts the [Mysterious Dao Master], whose schemes had involved unsealing Beyond Heaven to test whether the sealed Lin Feng was his original body. Lin Feng’s mere presence overwhelms him.
• Lin Feng’s words trigger a catastrophic event: every publicly known [Nascent Soul True Lord] dies, and the [Blazing Sun Sacred Land] disappears.
• The Mysterious Dao Master protests that Lin Feng’s interference could hasten the final battle. Lin Feng destroys his dharma body and shatters his Great Dao, then restores him—but leaves behind a corruption that is slowly consuming his Great Dao and [heaven’s mandate].
• Lin Feng explains that his life-bound ability warns that uncovering the Dao Master’s identity would bring the final battle forward. He suspects the Dao Master comes from Lin Feng’s own era, perhaps tied to one of the great Dao Source Divine Churches or former Sacred Lands.
• Unable to kill him, Lin Feng seals the Dao Master away and departs.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Fan remains awed by Lin Feng and follows his order, while anxiously trying to learn what is happening outside the false world through his other self.
• Lin Feng reveals overwhelming authority and restraint: he can devastate the present, but chooses not to pursue the mystery far enough to trigger the final battle. He humiliates, punishes, and ultimately contains the Dao Master.
• The Mysterious Dao Master, formerly a terrifying adversary to Chen Fan, is reduced to helplessness. He can only protest, endure Lin Feng’s mockery, and fear the lasting damage to his Great Dao.

Significant themes

• Power and perspective: A figure who seemed nearly insurmountable to Chen Fan is insignificant beside Lin Feng.
• Restraint and consequences: Lin Feng’s power could reshape the era, but even he must avoid actions that might prematurely ignite a greater conflict.
• Mystery and hidden origins: The Dao Master’s identity remains unknown, with clues suggesting a connection to Lin Feng’s era.
• Humiliation and control: Lin Feng not only defeats his opponent but leaves him alive under a lingering, irreversible punishment.

Key plot points and events

• Lin Feng reaches the Myriad Beasts Mountain Range, where an unexpected formation—and the presence of a mysterious Dream Master—confirms that events have deviated from his earlier calculations. His reaction suggests he has uncovered something important.
• Beyond the World, a Supreme Existence finds its connection to an ally inside the Supreme True Realm cut off. Lin Feng appears, suppresses the era’s Incumbent Dao Master, and judges that the being is incomplete in its authority, Dharma Body, and True Spirit.
• Lin Feng’s appearance is temporary. Before fading, he spares the suppressed Dao Master, then uses the Supreme Limitless Dharma Seal’s Rewind ability. A river of time carries the worlds and their inhabitants back to before his future self arrived.
• Lin Feng sets a spacetime anchor and orders the effects he inflicted on the Spirit Transformation Dao Master—who possesses Heaven’s Mandate—to be preserved through the rewind.
• In the False World, Chen Fan witnesses the aftermath being undone: the four Nascent Soul True Lords are alive again, the heavenly anomalies disappear, and the erased Blazing Sun Sacred Land returns. He goes to investigate and finds the hidden cave peaceful and empty.
• Chen Qingyan then approaches Chen Fan with a grave expression, but the chapter ends before he explains what happened.

Character developments

• Lin Feng remains confident and calculating, but the Dream Master’s unexpected presence briefly surprises him. Though he wants to help his younger self directly, he chooses to limit his interference and preserve only selected consequences.
• The Incumbent Dao Master is revealed as powerful enough to attract Lin Feng’s attention, yet fundamentally flawed and easily suppressed by him.
• Chen Fan has witnessed the scale of Lin Feng’s power, but the rewind leaves him confused about what he saw and what remains changed.
• Chen Qingyan’s serious demeanor signals that he may bring important news or a warning.

Significant themes

• Time and consequence: Rewind restores events while allowing certain effects to persist, showing that history can be altered without erasing every consequence.
• Restraint and causality: Lin Feng deliberately avoids excessive interference, partly to reduce karmic punishment and keep his larger plan intact.
• Power and incompleteness: Lin Feng’s judgment of the Incumbent Dao Master highlights the difference between possessing great authority and being truly complete.
• Hidden plans and anomalies: The Dream Master’s presence suggests that Lin Feng’s carefully anticipated history contains an unexpected element.

Character interactions

• Lin Feng confronts and suppresses the Incumbent Dao Master, dismissing its deficiencies but sparing its life.
• Lin Feng’s actions indirectly shape Chen Fan’s experience: Chen Fan witnesses the destruction and then the reversal, but cannot understand the cause.
• Chen Qingyan meets Chen Fan at the end, setting up a further revelation.

Key plot points

• Chen Qingyan tells Chen Fan that Lin Feng’s intervention has ended the immediate crisis and that he has left behind a “seed of victory.”
• Lin Feng used the forbidden Rewind ability of the Supreme Limitless Dharma Seal, apparently limiting his interference with the present and the resulting karmic punishment. Chen Fan realizes that the effect Lin Feng had inflicted on the Heaven’s-Mandate-bearing Spirit Transformation Dao Master was preserved.
• This revelation prompts Chen Fan to revisit the eighth simulation. He suspects that the Blazing Sun Heavenly Venerable—and perhaps the entire Blazing Sun Sacred Land—was connected to the mysterious Dao Master, possibly as a means for that being to influence the present. He recognizes this as an unconfirmed theory.
• Chen Fan asks whether Lin Feng survived the karmic punishment. Chen Qingyan recounts how the three Dao Origin Divine Churches and five Sacred Lands joined forces and marched against Beyond Heaven, apparently hoping to force Lin Feng to recall his future self.
• Lin Feng endured the punishment and fought eleven Heavenly Venerables alone. He defeated all eleven in a single exchange, bringing their factions to ruin and restoring Beyond Heaven’s authority across the Supreme True Realm.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Fan moves from confusion to understanding as he receives the Dharma Seal and its information. He is shocked by the scale of Lin Feng’s ordeal and begins forming a new theory about the Blazing Sun Heavenly Venerable.
• Chen Qingyan, usually impassive, speaks with unusual gravity and reverence. His account reveals both his loyalty to Lin Feng and his awe at his master’s victory.
• Their exchange highlights Chen Fan’s concern for Lin Feng: despite the strategic importance of the “seed of victory,” his first urgent question is whether Lin Feng was all right.

Significant themes

• Time, karma, and intervention: Lin Feng’s use of Rewind shows the risks of altering the present and the need to limit karmic consequences.
• Sacrifice and protection: Lin Feng accepts immense danger while preserving Chen Fan’s chance of victory.
• Overwhelming power and reputation: The defeat of eleven Heavenly Venerables establishes Lin Feng as an unmatched force and restores fear of Beyond Heaven.
• Uncertainty and hidden connections: Chen Fan’s speculation suggests that past, present, and future events—and seemingly separate characters—may be linked through deeper forces.

Key plot points

• Chen Fan realizes that Chen Qingyan’s understanding of Lin Feng—and Lin Feng’s true power—is incomplete. The Mysterious Dao Master’s fear of Lin Feng’s apparent future self suggests Lin Feng may be far stronger than even a Half-Immortal.
• Chen Fan asks to visit the Secret Realm Chen Qingyan left behind in his previous life. He clarifies that he is speaking through a clone and that his true body is safely hidden. Chen Qingyan agrees and sets out with him.
• Back in the true-false supreme realm, Chen Fan finishes settling the simulation’s karmic affairs and turns to the rewards he has yet to claim: the full experiences from the eighth simulation.
• He inherits the simulated clone’s memories and emotions, reliving its seven-year ordeal—from gaining a Half-Immortal legacy to losing its existence karma, confronting despair, and making a final gamble.
• The clone’s phantom appears to Chen Fan, declares its story complete and its life satisfying, then fades into the great dao. Chen Fan answers its farewell with a single word: “Magnificent!!!”

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Fan becomes more aware of how little he knows about Lin Feng and recognizes the clone’s experiences as a profound, lived history rather than mere information. He gives the departing phantom a brief but deeply felt farewell.
• Chen Qingyan remains composed and seems to have anticipated Chen Fan’s interest in the Secret Realm. He cooperates without probing Chen Fan’s explanation.
• The simulated clone reaches a peaceful conclusion, satisfied that its story and mission are finished. Chen Fan’s response acknowledges its courage and legacy.
• Lin Feng’s reputation grows more mysterious: even the formidable Mysterious Dao Master appeared afraid of him.

Significant themes

• The limits of knowledge and power: Lin Feng’s true strength remains unknowable, while appearances offer only hints of deeper forces.
• Memory as lived experience: inheriting the simulation means absorbing its emotions and hardships, not simply recalling events.
• Sacrifice, completion, and legacy: the clone’s life ends without regret, and Chen Fan’s farewell honors what it accomplished.

Chapter Summary

• Chen Fan upgrades the Simulator to LV.3. After refining the rewards from the eighth simulation, he temporarily synchronizes with his “other self’s” Golden Core cultivation through the golden talent Myriad Selves. This triggers the Simulator’s advancement, after which Chen Fan returns to his original Qi Refining cultivation.
• The upgrade greatly improves talent selection. The Simulator now guarantees at least one golden talent in its pool, offers nine talents at a time, permits two refreshes, and lets Chen Fan select three unfixed talents for a simulation. A new retention feature also allows him to save an unchosen temporary talent for the next simulation.
• Higher cultivation brings a higher simulation cost. At Golden Core rank, a simulation costs ten True Treasures; once Chen Fan’s original body returns to Qi Refining, the cost resets to one Heaven and Earth Wonder. He has no attempts remaining, so he must obtain that resource.
• Chen Fan relies on his other self to find it. The projection has Golden Core power and the life-bound divine ability Heaven’s Mandate, gained in an earlier simulation. Its ability, Legacy, remains mysterious, but the projection can use the True-False Supreme Realm to transfer treasures to Chen Fan.
• The other self enters the secret realm openly. No longer trying to conceal his presence, he releases his aura and Heaven’s Mandate. Natural treasures rise from across the realm and gather around him, including an incomplete True Treasure. He collects them and sends a Heaven and Earth Wonder to Chen Fan.
• The chapter ends with the next simulation beginning. With the required resource in hand, Chen Fan commands the Simulator to start.

Character Developments and Interactions

Chen Fan shows greater confidence in the security of his original body, which is protected inside the False World. He is willing to let his projection draw attention from powerful beings because he believes the original remains safe. The two versions of Chen Fan work in tandem: the other self uses its power and fortune to secure the resource, then transfers it to the original.

Significant Themes

The chapter emphasizes strategic growth through preparation, the expanding possibilities of the system, and the value of cooperation between Chen Fan’s original body and projection. It also develops the contrast between apparent vulnerability and hidden security: the projection can act boldly because the original body is protected elsewhere.

Summary

Key plot points and events

• Chen Fan begins the ninth simulation after successfully recharging the simulator with one Heaven and Earth Wonder.
• His nine drawn talents include several powerful purple options. The chapter details six of them:
  • Observation lets him briefly view the myriad worlds from the perspective of heaven and earth, revealing the schemes and abilities of lesser beings. However, each use risks assimilating his consciousness into heaven and earth.
  • Heaven Rewards Diligence promises returns proportionate to effort, regardless of aptitude.
  • Copy lets him copy one entry from another being, including its current state and associated karma, but only once per target and with a ten-year wait between uses.
  • I Am the Mastermind allows him to issue one irresistible command to a target, provided he ranks higher than them.
  • Incomplete Immortal Domain manifests a projection born from a fallen Supreme Existence’s obsession. It may offer tremendous power or reveal dangerous truths, but could also unleash catastrophe.
  • Life-and-Death Arena forces a duel to the death against a chosen being at their peak. The victor takes everything from the loser, including identity, power, fortune, and karma.
• Chen Fan rejects Observation for now: using it would require him to leave the safety of the true-false supreme realm, exposing him to the mysterious Dao Master.
• He is intrigued by the possible existence of the Immortal Domain and wonders whether an approaching immortal came from it, but dismisses the speculation as uncertain. He decides to retain the talent for a later simulation rather than risk using it prematurely.
• The chapter ends while the talent list is still being revealed; the remaining options are deferred to the next installment.

Character development

• Chen Fan remains cautious and pragmatic despite being tempted by extraordinary powers. He prioritizes survival and strengthening his foundations over immediate gains.
• He shows growing awareness of how talent choices can carry severe consequences, weighing not just their benefits but their costs and risks.

Significant themes

• Power versus risk: The strongest talents can also threaten Chen Fan’s identity, safety, or the world itself.
• Patience and preparation: Chen Fan chooses to postpone risky opportunities until he is better positioned to use them.
• Uncertainty and truth: The Immortal Domain may be real, delusion, or something in between; the chapter emphasizes that dangerous revelations can be difficult to verify.
• Effort and reward: The “Heaven Rewards Diligence” talent introduces the idea that persistence can overcome limitations in aptitude.

Character interactions

• There are no direct encounters between characters in this chapter. Chen Fan’s decisions are shaped by the looming threat of the mysterious Dao Master and the anticipated arrival of an immortal, while the talents describe possible future encounters with other beings.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Fan reviews the final purple talents, including Equipment Slot, which grants an item’s core ability but consumes the item, and Equivalent Exchange, which trades anything he owns for something of precisely equal value.
• He examines the golden talent The Only Player. Though incomplete and downgraded, it gives him exclusive access to a player panel and quests, lets him see NPC affection, and rewards him with experience and loot for killing NPCs. Two further abilities are locked.
• Chen Fan selects The Only Player as his golden talent, then chooses Heaven Rewards Diligence and I Am the Mastermind as his two additional talents.
• He retains Incomplete Immortal Domain, Equipment Slot, and Equivalent Exchange for possible future use, then begins the ninth simulation.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Fan is astonished by The Only Player’s potential and recognizes it could let him progress far faster than the world’s ordinary inhabitants.
• He weighs each option carefully, balancing immediate strength against future flexibility. He keeps dangerous or situational talents in reserve rather than selecting them now.
• His choice of I Am the Mastermind reflects his growing appreciation for powerful one-use abilities as potential lifesaving trump cards.
• No other characters appear directly; the chapter focuses on Chen Fan’s decisions and his prospective relationship to the world’s inhabitants as “NPCs.”

Significant themes

• Power and agency: The Player talent positions Chen Fan as an exception who can exploit—or potentially reshape—the world’s rules.
• Strategic restraint: He considers not only which powers are strongest, but also the risks of overcrowding future talent options.
• Value and sacrifice: Equipment Slot and Equivalent Exchange emphasize that powerful gains may come at an irreversible cost.
• Potential versus incompleteness: The golden talent is formidable despite being damaged, hinting at even greater power if its missing components are restored.

Key plot points and events

• At age 20, Chen Fan enters the Ninth Simulation with a powerful collection of talents, including the golden talents the Only Player and Myriad Selves.
• Activating the Only Player reveals a game-like status panel. It shows his level, talents, items, abilities, and attribute points, though it does not display cultivation details as accurately as Eye of True Sight.
• The talent also exposes hidden data in the world: the True-False Supreme Realm appears with an enormous health bar, underscoring how formidable the half-immortal legacy realm is.
• Chen tests Heaven Rewards Diligence and Once and for All. The first doubles cultivation experience; the second lets him gain that bonus through idle cultivation, potentially giving him four times the usual growth rate.
• I Am the Chess Player warns him not to use Wish Echo yet. He instead spends Ascension to upgrade Copper Skin and Iron Bones into the blue talent Great Accomplished Sacred Body, but its benefits are unimpressive compared with Chen’s existing strength.
• Chen realizes his main body is hidden inside the realm while his Other Self operates outside. Since the Only Player may treat them as one entity, he suspects he can use his talents indirectly through the Other Self.

Character development

• Chen is confident and methodical, inspecting his talents and testing how they work together rather than rushing into action.
• His initial excitement gives way to mild frustration when he finds that the Only Player is limited by his hidden main body.
• That frustration turns to renewed excitement when he sees a possible way around the limitation through the Other Self.

Significant themes

• Power through synergy: Talents become more effective when combined, particularly in Chen’s accelerated cultivation.
• Information and strategy: Chen uses system data and warnings to assess his situation and plan ahead.
• Constraints and workarounds: Even powerful abilities have limits, but careful reasoning may reveal ways to bypass them.
• Progress versus present strength: A talent can be impressive in principle yet offer little to someone already far beyond its starting benefits.

Character interactions

• Chen has no direct interactions with other characters in this chapter. His key “interaction” is with his talents: I Am the Chess Player cautions him about Wish Echo, while the Only Player and Myriad Selves prompt his theory about the Other Self.

Key plot points and events

• After confirming that the flaw in his “other self’s” talent synchronization was fixed, the protagonist first strengthens his original body. He uses the purple talent Unrestricted to break the cap on accumulated Heavenly Dao rewards.
• The rewards from 291 limit-breakings pour in, raising his essence from Golden Core Early Stage to Middle Stage. Heaven Rewards Diligence then doubles the reward, pushing him to the peak of Golden Core Middle Stage.
• With his original body safely protected, he sends his other self to investigate the mysterious Chen Family Ancestor, Chen Heiquan, using the Eye of True Sight.
• The reading reveals that Chen Heiquan was meant to possess a gold-grade Heaven’s Mandate and rise to meet the coming tribulation. Instead, his opportunities became disasters, his memories are missing, and his “true self” is absent. The report says five Dao Masters and a Supreme Existence conspired against him.
• The protagonist infers that Heaven and Earth may have secretly prepared Chen Heiquan as a pawn against the descending Immortal, but that plan was exposed and defeated.
• Outside the simulation, Chen Fan considers whether he, too, is part of Heaven and Earth’s plan—or merely a replacement for Chen Heiquan. He then recognizes an alternative: the Spacetime Token and his Myriad Selves talent may evade karmic law, making him an exception rather than a pawn. The possibility frightens him, since Heaven and Earth may already know he exists.

Character developments

• The protagonist grows more powerful and more willing to act freely, no longer restrained by fear of attracting powerful beings’ attention.
• His view of the larger conflict shifts: what looked like scattered schemes may be a struggle between Heaven and Earth and the Immortal.
• Chen Heiquan is recontextualized as a once-favored, tribulation-bound figure whose fate was overturned by hostile forces.
• Chen Fan’s confidence gives way to dread as he confronts the possibility that his unusual existence has drawn Heaven and Earth’s notice.

Significant themes

• Fate versus agency: gifted destinies can be subverted, while someone seemingly outside fate may still be caught in a greater design.
• Hidden manipulation: Dao Masters, Heavenly Will, and even the protagonist may be pieces in a vast contest.
• Power and preparation: the protagonist’s breakthrough gives him freedom to investigate and act.
• The danger of being exceptional: escaping karmic law may not mean safety; it may make one more conspicuous.

Character interactions

• The protagonist’s original body supports his other self by providing a secure base from which the latter can investigate without restraint.
• The other self secretly examines Chen Heiquan, avoiding direct confrontation while uncovering his fate and condition.
• Chen Fan interprets the simulation’s findings, connecting Chen Heiquan’s failed destiny to a possible conflict between Heaven and Earth and the Immortal.

Summary

The narrator realizes the conflict between the [Immortal] and the [Supreme True Realm] may be far more complex than they understood. In every previous simulation, a variable from the future appeared, even when the known agents who might have caused it were absent. The narrator suspects Heaven and Earth has a hidden trump card that keeps the [Immortal] from fully descending—and may have been manipulating events all along.
Fearing that Heaven and Earth has noticed them, the narrator orders their powerful “other self” to flee before the Chen Family Ancestor can detect the surveillance. At that moment, [I am the chess player] and the dormant [The Only Player] activate, issuing a Golden Timed Mission: travel east and uncover the truth about the Eastern Region, a seemingly desolate, law-broken End-of-Dharma Land. The reward is a [Half-Immortal Artifact], but the mission gives no clear explanation of its deeper purpose.
The mission’s activation triggers the destruction of the narrator’s [Heaven’s Mandate] talent. It is rapidly consumed in what seems like a sacrifice, draining the fortune and vitality of its associated divine ability. [I am the chess player] warns that Heaven’s Mandate will vanish completely in ten days, after which the narrator’s survival is uncertain. The narrator concludes that Heaven’s Mandate may have shielded them from Heaven and Earth’s interference and concealed their karmic traces. They also suspect Heaven and Earth helped them escape the influence of the [Mysterious Dao Master] and [Heavenly Will] in the past, perhaps to preserve them as a tool in its struggle.
The narrator believes the mission may be the only chance [I am the chess player] could secure before Heaven and Earth’s retaliation. They immediately send their other self east, hoping that discovering the truth—or claiming the reward—will offer a way to survive. Outside the Simulator, an unseen presence in the [true-false supreme realm] reacts with shock and fury.

Character developments and interactions

• The narrator shifts from believing their hidden original body is safe to recognizing that Heaven and Earth may be watching and manipulating them. Despite fear and pain, they act quickly, sending their other self east.
• [I am the chess player] reveals its urgency through the mission and its warning, apparently sacrificing Heaven’s Mandate to create a narrow opportunity for the narrator.
• The “other self” follows the narrator’s command and escapes east; its superior cultivation keeps the Chen Family Ancestor unaware of the surveillance.
• The unseen presence reacts angrily to the events, suggesting the mission or the collapse of Heaven’s Mandate has disrupted someone’s plans.

Significant themes

• Hidden manipulation and uncertain agency: The narrator questions whether they have been protected—or used—as a pawn by Heaven and Earth.
• Surveillance and vulnerability: A supposedly secure hiding place offers no guarantee of safety against a power above all Daos.
• Sacrifice and survival: Heaven’s Mandate is consumed to open a possible path forward, but the outcome remains uncertain.
• Truth as a last hope: The mysterious Eastern Region may conceal the key to understanding the larger conflict.

Key plot points

• The protagonist sends his “other self” to the Eastern Ruins and discovers a formidable World Barrier. The player panel reveals that the clearance item True-False Supreme Realm can bypass it, so he orders synchronization and is transported inside.
• There, Chen Qingyan recognizes him as the prophesied Savior. Chen believes the protagonist has already received part of his master’s legacy and offers the remainder if he repairs the world’s flaw.
• The protagonist realizes the Dream Master’s plan may be tied to the True-False Supreme Realm. He suspects the key divergence from an earlier simulation was a vast will that tried to possess his clone after it obtained the ability.
• Chen brings the other self to the Immortal Palace and shares the world’s history: the setting is in the Fourth Era, during an unexpectedly begun immeasurable kalpa.
• The Heavenly Court, Blazing Sun Sacred Land, and western Buddhist Land have allied against the eastern Immortal Palace. Northern powers remain neutral, and the conflict is concentrated in Central Province. The fighting is restrained, as both sides seem wary of something.
• Victory in the kalpa depends on fortune: unifying the Supreme True Realm guarantees victory and a chance at transcendence; otherwise, the faction with the most fortune in the late kalpa period wins.

Character developments and interactions

• The protagonist shows quick judgment, using the clearance item rather than attacking the barrier, and carefully investigates why this timeline differs from the previous simulation.
• Chen Qingyan is initially imposing and skeptical of the protagonist’s weak cultivation, but his lack of karma marks him as unusual. He then treats him as the expected Savior and offers a bargain involving his master’s legacy.
• The protagonist and Chen exchange little directly beyond Chen’s explanation, but their encounter places the protagonist inside the Dream Master’s apparent design.

Significant themes

• Destiny versus agency: the Savior prophecy and the Dream Master’s scheme suggest a predetermined role, while the protagonist tries to uncover and navigate the plan.
• Timeline divergence and hidden causes: a past possession attempt may have changed events between simulations.
• Power and legitimacy: the kalpa’s decisive currency is fortune, making unification—or accumulated influence—the route to transcendence.
• Uncertainty and restraint: the sudden calamity and the factions’ cautious warfare hint that important forces or dangers remain concealed.

Key plot points and events

• The narrator, speaking through their “Other Self,” challenges Immortal Palace Master Chen Qingyan about why they have been singled out as the prophesied Savior.
• Chen explains that his Master foretold an Immortal’s descent would trigger an immeasurable calamity and destroy the True Realm. Someone inheriting the Master’s mantle would appear to answer fate.
• The narrator suspects these events may be part of the Dream Master’s scheme, recalling that their clone became the Dream Master in a previous simulation. Chen says the Dream Realm in the Myriad Beasts Mountain Range likely served to select the narrator, since only someone with that legacy could enter this world.
• Chen refuses to discuss the other legacy, but reveals that the legacy the narrator possesses is his Master’s life-bound divine ability. He says the other legacy’s whereabouts will become clear if the narrator wins Central Province’s fortune for the Immortal Palace.
• A story quest activates: the narrator must represent the Immortal Palace, defeat the rival factions, and help carry out its plan. The reward is Golden Core Middle Stage cultivation, “void-proof.”
• The narrator agrees to play along, but first asks whether they may use their full strength. Chen permits it and transports their Other Self to Central Province.

Character developments and interactions

• The narrator remains wary and questions Chen directly, piecing together that the “selection” and the Savior prophecy may be part of a larger design. They agree to the quest strategically, not out of unquestioning faith.
• Chen is guarded, withholding information about forbidden matters and the other legacy. His silence when asked whether he has designs on the narrator effectively confirms the suspicion.
• Despite the distrust and unanswered questions, the narrator’s status panel shows Chen’s affinity has risen from 60 to 69—evidence of unusually strong trust, though still just below the system’s “deep affection/close friendship” tier.

Significant themes

• Fate versus manipulation: Prophecy may guide events, but the narrator suspects the Dream Master is orchestrating them.
• Secrecy and withheld history: Chen redirects questions about the past and the calamity toward the contest for Central Province.
• Trust amid uncertainty: The narrator accepts Chen’s mission while recognizing that Chen may have his own agenda.
• Power and responsibility: The narrator’s unique legacy may be essential to saving the realm, and they insist on knowing whether they can wield their full strength.

Plot points

• Central Province is a dense, dangerous web of cultivation factions competing for the scattered fortune left after True Person Dao Evolution’s apparent fall.
• The mission panel reveals that the True Lords secretly helped Dao Evolution approach void-proof as bait to gather the province’s fortune. Someone interfered at the crucial moment, damaging and sealing the Tianyan Dao Fruit and scattering the fortune.
• The protagonist suspects the struggle involved rival powers—possibly the Immortal Palace and Heavenly Court—and that Chen Qingyan intends for the protagonist to claim the dangerous fruit and serve as a vessel to reunite the fortune.
• Before the protagonist’s other self can investigate further, three Golden Core cultivators spring a coordinated ambush, with a fourth Golden Core Perfection cultivator overseeing it. Their aim is to force a death and expose the protagonist’s origins and foundations.
• The protagonist blocks the opening attack with the Life-Locking True Armor, then sacrifices over ten thousand years of lifespan to empower the other self. The “Late Bloomer” ability and “heaven rewards diligence” talent combine, granting power twice that of an ordinary Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivator.
• The other self swiftly kills the three attackers and their hidden overseer. The Golden Core cultivators later resurrect through their fruit positions, but are left shaken.
• Doubled rewards provide 200,000 experience and numerous treasures. Since experience cannot directly advance Golden Core cultivation, the protagonist uses it to raise Qi Refining limit-breaking from 300 to 500 layers, reaching ordinary combat strength comparable to Golden Core Late Stage.

Character developments

• The protagonist demonstrates keen strategic insight, recognizing both the political stakes of the Tianyan fruit and the ambush’s investigative purpose.
• Rather than retreating or hiding their strength, the protagonist responds with overwhelming force and discovers that their talent can double the effects of other power boosts.
• Their view of the Central Province’s cultivators shifts: they are now seen less as threats and more as sources of experience and advancement.

Character interactions

• The three ambushers coordinate their sword attack, concealment, and curse against the protagonist’s other self; a fourth cultivator watches from concealment.
• The protagonist’s other self counters the attack and kills all four, demonstrating a vast gap in power.
• The resurrected cultivators watch in fear and disbelief as the protagonist turns their attention toward the larger factions behind them.

Significant themes

• Power and hidden agendas: The contest over Central Province’s fortune is driven by schemes disguised as a quest for individual attainment.
• Risk and exploitation: The Tianyan fruit may be both a path to power and a trap designed to make the protagonist a tool.
• Growth through conflict: The protagonist converts enemies and experience into rapid advancement.
• Escalating ambition: The chapter closes with a challenge to uncover the true depth of Central Province’s struggles.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Fan uses his life-bound divine ability, the True-False Supreme Realm, to destroy the recorded images of four Golden Core powerhouses. Their real-world life auras vanish too, killing them outright.
• The system rewards him with experience, attribute points, and four complete divine-ability legacies: three minor abilities and the major ability Heavenly Formation. He realizes his golden talent, The Only Player, may let him acquire divine abilities whole rather than as fragments.
• He traces the dead cultivators’ backing to the Ethereal Sect, which is protected by the Heavenly Court. He attacks the sect, but an invisible barrier stops him.
• A blue-robed True Lord appears and urges him to let the matter go, explaining that the four Golden Cores were expendable pawns. Chen Fan considers withdrawing to avoid a risky fight and needless conflict with the Heavenly Court.
• The True Lord introduces himself as Taibai Jinxing. Chen Fan immediately changes his mind, turning back with sudden hostility and demanding to know the name again.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Fan demonstrates the devastating reach of his divine ability and gains confidence in the extraordinary potential of his talent. He is initially pragmatic about backing down, but Taibai Jinxing’s name provokes an intense reaction.
• Taibai Jinxing appears calm and authoritative, intervening on the Heavenly Court’s behalf and attempting to defuse the confrontation.
• The exchange shifts from Chen Fan’s attack on a minor sect to a potentially significant personal conflict with Taibai Jinxing.

Significant themes

• Power and survival: The chapter presents a world where the strong dominate and lesser forces serve as disposable pawns.
• Escalating consequences: A seemingly limited act of retaliation draws Chen Fan into the orbit of the Heavenly Court.
• Exceptional talent and reward: Chen Fan’s ability to obtain complete divine legacies sets him apart from other prodigies.
• A charged name: The cliffhanger suggests that Taibai Jinxing’s identity carries special significance for Chen Fan.

Key plot points

• You recognize Taibai Jinxing’s Star Fruit Position and remember his betrayal in an earlier simulation. Rather than risk a direct fight, you trap him briefly with Heavenly Formation and strike at the Ethereal Sect.
• Taibai breaks free and blocks your attack, confirming that his true strength and Fruit Position vastly outclass your “other self.” You then use the true-false supreme realm to erase the sect, its disciples, and its foundations from existence.
• Destroying the sect earns major rewards. You invest all experience in cultivation, advancing from 500 to 700 layers of Qi Refining limit-breaking, with an aura approaching Golden Core perfection.
• In Central Province, a Golden Core perfection cultivator uses an unusual heaven’s mandate to absorb fortune and summon the Tianyan Fruit Position. Four other Golden Core perfection cultivators arrive, each carrying the same Fruit Position’s golden nature: five contenders now vie for one Dao.
• Amid the impending battle, the Buddha Ancestor invades your “other self” through a Buddhist chant. You can suppress the consciousness but not destroy it. A second declaration appears to trigger some karmic effect, which a higher rule cuts off. Facing imminent backlash, you invoke Heaven-Bartering Fortune.

Character developments and interactions

• You remain strategic despite your anger toward Taibai: you avoid a costly confrontation, eliminate the sect instead, and quickly use the rewards to strengthen your cultivation. Your growing power does not prevent you from being vulnerable to beings far above your realm.
• Taibai Jinxing demonstrates the immense advantage conferred by his Star Fruit Position and deeper foundations. He blocks your strike but does not pursue you.
• The five Golden Core perfection cultivators emerge as rivals for the Tianyan Fruit Position, setting the stage for a major struggle over the Dao.
• The Buddha Ancestor directly targets your weakest “other self.” Your resistance surprises him, but he gains control of the situation, forcing you to resort to a desperate countermeasure.

Significant themes

• Power versus strategy: You cannot defeat Taibai head-on, so you rely on timing, unusual abilities, and indirect action.
• The cost and consequences of ambition: A single Fruit Position draws five powerful claimants into a potentially deadly contest.
• Vast disparities of power: Even after a dramatic cultivation increase, you remain exposed to higher beings’ influence.
• Intrusion, control, and resistance: The Buddha Ancestor’s invasion tests the limits of your control over your other selves—and your ability to resist forces beyond ordinary cultivation.

Plot points and events

• Fearing that an excessive power surge would draw rejection from heaven and earth, the protagonist carefully limits the lifespan sacrificed to Late Bloomer. Sacrificing eighty years raises him to Nascent Soul Perfection Limit-Breaking, a level comparable to an Immortal Venerable. With Heaven Rewards Diligence adding more essence, the advancement stabilizes.
• He synchronizes this power with his “other self,” allowing it to escape the Buddha’s attempt to seize control through Myriad Selves.
• The Buddha · Shakyamuni · Present Self appears. The quest panel reveals that he is still exceptionally powerful despite being weakened: victory requires destroying his past self, now embodied by the entire Western Buddhist Land.
• The Buddha’s Pure Land fruit position begins dissolving the protagonist’s other self into the Dao. The protagonist sacrifices another fifteen years and reaches fifth-level Nascent Soul Limit-Breaking, briefly stopping the process—but the Buddha then invokes Past and Present and apparently kills the other self.
• Reality resets to the start of the battle, apparently as a dream rather than a rewind through time. Given another chance, the protagonist sacrifices his last four years of true lifespan and pushes himself to ninth-level Nascent Soul Limit-Breaking, with double the essence.
• This time, his power overwhelms and erases the Buddha’s possession attempt. The Buddha does not appear, so the protagonist sends his other self toward the Western Buddhist Land to confront him there, while continuing to investigate the Tianyan fruit position.

Character development and interactions

• The protagonist shifts from cautious power management to an all-in strategy after being killed at fifth-level limit-breaking. He remains determined and defiant, choosing to pursue the Buddha rather than settle for the contested fruit position.
• The Buddha is curious and composed when he first encounters the protagonist’s unusual power, but his supernatural abilities prove lethal. After the protagonist’s second, far greater surge, the Buddha avoids a direct confrontation.
• The protagonist and his other self act as a coordinated unit: the protagonist’s cultivation boosts the other self, who resists possession and later serves as the weapon sent against the Buddhist Land.

Significant themes

• Power and sacrifice: Advancement comes at the cost of lifespan, forcing the protagonist to weigh survival against the need to overcome a superior foe.
• Escalation and adaptation: Defeat teaches the protagonist to abandon restraint and exploit a second chance.
• Buddhist doctrine as power: The Buddha’s chants and fruit positions are not merely spiritual ideas; they shape reality, dissolve opponents, and seemingly reset events.
• Courage versus intimidation: The Buddha’s reluctance to face the protagonist after his power-up highlights the world’s tendency to prey on the weak while avoiding the strong.