Recaps

Wang Ping strengthened his alliances and prepared Nanlin Road for war while uncovering Cheng Xi’s schemes and the forces gathering against him. The arc ended with his allies launching coordinated battles against Linshui Prefecture and First Day.

• Wang Ping advanced his Divine Arts cultivation, then learned Zi Luan had vanished and faced rumors that he had ambushed him.
• Wang Ping crushed attacks on Hong Yuan and Qin Zifeng, uncovered Rogue Cultivator temples’ involvement, and secured Daoist Wanzhi’s Fourth Realm lineage slot.
• Wang Ping ordered a purge of corrupt Chu Kingdom officials as Linshui Prefecture prepared to invade, while Daoist Wanzhi warned him of the burdens of pursuing the Fourth Realm.
• Wang Ping secured aid from the Nine Tripod Sect and the Jimin Association, while Li Miaolin revealed that he had traced Cheng Xi’s network and agreed to work with Wang Ping.
• Ke Yue told Wang Ping that First Day had helped Zi Luan escape and that Zheng He and Wu Quan were organizing forces against him in Mozhou Road.
• Wang Ping accepted support from the Demon Domain and True Sun Sect, then agreed to Chongyuan Prefecture’s terms and ordered a counterattack against Linshui Prefecture.
• Wang Ping’s allies attacked First Day forces in Shuijiang Prefecture, while Min Yuyan led a successful assault against Linshui Prefecture’s cultivators.

Wang Ping helped establish the Dao Palace and spent decades preparing for advancement, eventually completing the Sky-Veiling Talisman and merging with a spirit vein to reach the Fourth Realm. After revealing his breakthrough and visiting Daoist Wanzhi, he learned from True Lord Yuanwu that outside pollution was worsening the world’s spiritual disorder and that the crisis needed his attention.

• Wang Ping helped the Seventh Prince’s allies defeat Cheng Xi, then received the Fourth Realm slot of Taiyan from True Lord Yuanwu as the factions gathered to establish the Dao Palace.
• The cultivators formed the Dao Palace, divided its seats and territories, and approved plans for communication devices, Power Pills, and new Human Way teachings.
• Wang Ping refined his formations and Puppets, repeatedly tested advancement methods, and eventually entered secluded cultivation, entrusting Thousand Wood Temple to his allies.
• After twenty-two years of calculations, Wang Ping completed the Sky-Veiling Talisman, merged his Primordial Spirit with a spirit vein, and spent sixty years completing the transformation.
• Wang Ping awoke in the Fourth Realm, tested his new abilities, and found that the Datong Kingdom had unified the realm and established temples to worship him as the Saint Emperor.
• Wang Ping revealed his Fourth Realm aura above Thousand Wood Temple, drawing the attention of cultivators across the southern lands, then traveled to the Six Hearts Sect to visit Daoist Wanzhi.
• Daoist Wanzhi took Wang Ping to meet True Lord Yuanwu, who explained that outside pollution had worsened the world’s spiritual disorder and that aging Fourth Realm cultivators needed someone to address the crisis.

Wang Ping became the Southern Dao Lineage Prefect and Chief Host of the Second Seats, then inspected the Moon Outpost and fought an Outer Realm attack. He learned of a Star God rebellion and Daoist Chongxing’s offer, and began arranging a search for Wei Kong.

• True Lord Yuanwu appointed Wang Ping head of the Southern Dao Lineage and Second Seat, gave him the Transfer Talisman secret art, and set him a thousand-year deadline to deal with the Outer Realm Object.
• Wang Ping broke Lord Xiaoshan’s seal, recovered the Taiyan Talisman secrets, and inscribed Changqing’s future appointment as Dao Palace Prefect.
• Wang Ping led the southern sects’ homage ceremony, received the title of Prefect from True Lord Yuanwu, and became Chief Host of the Second Seats.
• Wang Ping and Ao Hong joined Bu Qiong’s lunar inspection, reached the Moon Outpost, and examined its formations, records, and Luring Array.
• Wang Ping and the others helped repel an Outer Realm attack, then pursued a malicious Star God scout that declared the world needed to change.
• Wang Ping learned that the scout’s Star God core was a Starry Sky Resonator, while Ao Hong urged him to act against the old predecessors of the Yuqing Sect.
• Wang Ping reviewed records of missing and rebellious Star Gods, arranged for Leng Kezhen and Qingjiang to search for Wei Kong, and secretly met Daoist Chongxing.
• Daoist Chongxing offered Wang Ping a Fourth Realm True Spirit Dharma artifact and locations of other True Spirits, and Wang Ping summoned Leng Kezhen and Qingjiang to meet him.

Wang Ping managed Star God Alliance disputes and a series of crises while the Spirit Serpent Clan relocated and Yulian began inheriting its bloodline. After receiving Lord Xiaoshan’s Wood Spirit Origin, Wang Ping turned his attention to the coming siege of Wei Kong and Daoist Cang Yue’s message.

• Wang Ping assigned Alliance duties, arranged Wu Fu’s advancement under a five-hundred-year service condition, and joined the campaign against the Fire Spirits and the Sun Sect.
• Wang Ping and Ao Hong agreed that Wang Ping would secretly monitor Yuqing Sect, but Cang Yue attacked it to reclaim his Master’s body and received a thousand-year front-line sentence.
• Wang Ping helped the Spirit Serpent Clan relocate to Sanhe Prefecture, while Yulian received Xin Shi’s inner core to begin her bloodline inheritance.
• A disaster at Cloud Sparrow Mountain disrupted the Third Realm advancement process, and Wang Ping later learned that Liuyun had granted two Taiyan slots to Liu Shuang.
• Wang Ping replaced Daoist Tongyu’s Physical Body with the Netherworld Body, received news that the search for Wei Kong was nearing an encirclement, and learned that Zhao Yu'er had died in meditation.
• Liu Ling began destroying her spiritual meridians after learning of Zhao Yu'er's death, but Wang Ping restored her appearance and Liu Shuang arranged care for her and the two disciples’ legacies.
• Wang Ping tasked Zi Luan with merging Six Hearts Sect into Thousand Wood Temple, then received the Art of the Colossus and three Command Flags.
• Wang Ping used the Command Flags to meet Lord Xiaoshan’s projection, accepted the Wood Spirit Origin, and considered the risks of the Wei Kong siege before Dong Can reported Cang Yue’s calling card.