Chapter Summaries

After fusing the Sky-Veiling Talisman, Wang Ping awakened a Heavenly Eye that could view the past and uncertain futures, then learned how to cultivate the Wood Spirit using Taiyan Talisman Volume Two. He was summoned by True Lord Yuanwu as Central Province lay in ruins, and returned to find Thousand Wood Temple’s people alive but the surrounding land devastated.

• Wang Ping developed a golden Heavenly Eye after the Sky-Veiling Talisman fused with him, and used it to see the histories of Yulian and a tea table.
• Wang Ping learned the Sky-Veiling Talisman could alter attacks and conceal him from the Heavenly Secrets, then received instructions for cultivating the Wood Spirit and Lord Xiaoshan’s warning to inspect beneath Sanhe Prefecture first.
• Wang Ping used the Heavenly Eye to identify Fifth Realm powers of time, space, the Starry-Sky Dream, and reproduction in the traces left by those who rescued Cheng Xi.
• True Lord Yuanwu summoned Wang Ping, while Kai Yun left for Central Continent Star and Wang Ping returned to Thousand Wood Temple.
• Wang Ping found his disciples safe, learned that Yulian’s parents had protected their clansmen with Bright Moon Pool’s formation, and saw the fire-damaged land surrounding his intact courtyard.

True Lord Yuanwu left Wang Ping in temporary charge of the world and tasked him with controlling chaotic spirituality after Central Province was devastated. Wang Ping returned to Thousand Wood Temple, ordered its disciples to organize relief and await the Second Seat meeting.

• True Lord Yuanwu told Wang Ping to disperse the contamination across the Central Continent, then departed with the others and entrusted him with controlling chaotic spirituality.
• Yulian shielded Wang Ping from the collapsing courtyard as he wondered what rules could restrain the True Lords.
• Wang Ping sensed Ao Hong heading toward the Southeast Islands and received Mansu's summons for a Second Seat meeting in two hours.
• Wang Ping surveyed Central Province's devastation and noted that only Huishan City and Shangning City had survived among its settlements.
• Wang Ping ordered the heads of Thousand Wood Temple's courtyards to return with their disciples, then told Liu Shuang to organize relief for Zhonghui City and surrounding Village Towns and have Immortal Realm cultivators await orders.

After the great fire, Wang Ping and the Second Seat members organized the cleanup and recovery of Central Province, while the Star God Alliance agreed to fund repairs to the outer-space transfer formation. Wang Ping then went to check on the Spirit Serpent Clan and arrived at the ruined Capital City, where Mansu and Kai Yun had begun confronting the disaster.

• Liu Shuang assigned disciples to stabilize Zhonghui City and consolidate Thousand Wood Temple’s internal affairs as the temple regained calm.
• At the Second Seat meeting, Mansu proposed clearing Central Province’s soot, establishing Dao Palace outposts, and restoring the land around True Sun Mountain, and the members agreed.
• Bu Qiong arranged for the Star God Alliance to fund repairs to the outer-space transfer formation and staff the Moon Outpost, and Wang Ping accepted the arrangement.
• Bu Qiong told Wang Ping that Quan Wen wished to meet him, and Wang Ping said he would make contact after handling the immediate crisis.
• Wang Ping used Blessing Talismans to protect Bright Moon Pool, the Spirit Serpent Clan, Lin Chen, and Hui Min before flying to Capital City.
• Wang Ping observed the polluted energy storm above Capital City as Mansu worked to suppress it, and Kai Yun arrived beside him.

Wang Ping helped clear Central Province of pollution and began restoring the ecology around the ruins of True Sun Mountain, which he renamed Taiyan Mountain and chose as the site for reestablishing his sect. After agreeing on how the Taiyan Sect and Earth Cave Sect would divide their work in the north, he prepared to visit Yulian’s clansmen, but an Earth Vein cultivator’s Life and Death Light Screen appeared nearby.

• Wang Ping, Mansu, Prefect Yuxing, Cang Ji, and the others cleared the pollution and twisted entities from Central Province, sending the waste into outer space.
• Wang Ping found the True Sun Sect’s base sealed, then returned to the ruins of True Sun Mountain as Zhi Gong began planning its restoration.
• Wang Ping renamed True Sun Mountain Taiyan Mountain and summoned Thousand Wood Temple Disciples to help restore the waterways and establish the Taiyan Sect.
• Wang Ping and Kai Yun restored vegetation and introduced animals and fish, while Zhi Gong received Kai Yun’s maps for planning Central Province’s recovery.
• Wang Ping and Zhi Gong agreed that the Earth Cave Sect would settle in northwest Central Province while the Taiyan Sect spread its teachings in the south.
• Wang Ping planned to visit Yulian’s clansmen in Sanhe Prefecture, but Yulian sensed Wen Hai’s Life and Death Light Screen rising to the south.

Wang Ping followed a Wood Spirit aura from Sanhe Temple to a hidden underground chamber beneath the East Sea, where he discovered a sealed site connected to Thousand Wood Temple. Guan Xi revealed that the Star God Alliance had searched the chamber before, and Wang Ping ended the chapter questioning whether he could trust Guan Xi.

• Wang Ping destroyed the twisted creatures in the southern region and began restoring the lands around Bright Moon Pool with Yulian’s help.
• Wang Ping discovered that an intact cave beneath Sanhe Temple concealed living Wood Spirit runes, which he could see with the power of his four talismans.
• Wang Ping followed the Wood Spirit aura through descending caves and seawater to a hidden chamber three thousand miles away, where Huai Tree roots surrounded a bronze wall engraved with teleportation runes.
• Guan Xi appeared in the chamber and explained that members of the Star God Alliance and Six Hearts Sect had searched for it after attacking Thousand Wood Temple, but a powerful Wood Spirit formation had stopped them.
• Guan Xi said Senior Yuxiao had claimed the chamber would open for a particular person, and Wang Ping asked whether Guan Xi could be trusted.

Wang Ping entered the transfer array and found an enormous Huai Tree whose presence sent him and Yulian back to the bronze wall with a black sphere and a secret hand seal. After returning to Thousand Wood Temple, he began investigating the sphere, while Guan Xi disappeared and was reborn elsewhere in devotion to the Saint's Way.

• Guan Xi told Wang Ping the wall held a transfer array and said he wanted to keep Senior Yuxiao's legacy from the Star God Alliance, so Wang Ping entered the array with Yulian.
• Wang Ping and Yulian arrived in a vast cavern and discovered an enormous Huai Tree radiating dense Wood Spirit aura.
• Wang Ping sent a Golden Armored Soldier to touch the tree, and the tree's suction force transported him and Yulian back to the bronze wall with a secret hand seal and a black sphere.
• Guan Xi's body burned away, and he was reborn on a desolate mountain as Liu Huaien surrendered his consciousness to the Saint's radiance.
• Wang Ping and Yulian returned to Thousand Wood Temple, where Wang Ping used the Divine Art Array and the remembered hand seals to investigate the black sphere.

Wang Ping awakened the black metal sphere, which revealed itself as the artifact Star Sea and showed him visions of its cosmic origins and history. After learning it had once accompanied Ancestor Master Yuxiao, Wang Ping was left with the artifact spirit’s confirmation.

• Wang Ping fed Wood Spirit Qi into the metal sphere, causing it to crack and release a five-zhang space filled with pure spiritual energy.
• Wang Ping stopped the sphere’s power and used the Heavenly Eye to investigate it, whereupon its artifact spirit appeared and identified the sphere as Star Sea.
• Wang Ping spent the night sorting through Star Sea’s visions of its formation in the universe and its journey among the stars.
• Wang Ping resumed the visions and saw a young man use Star Sea to cultivate to the Third Realm before it became obscured after his advance to the Fourth Realm.
• Wang Ping asked whether the young man was Ancestor Master Yuxiao, and Star Sea’s artifact spirit confirmed it.

Wang Ping learned that the great fire had devastated the Southern cultivation world and began considering how to rebuild the Taiyan Sect and aid the survivors. The chapter ended with Yuan Zheng reporting that nearly all of Wang Ping’s gathering members had perished, after Daoist Master Zichen sent a calling card.

• Wang Ping concealed Star Sea and learned that Ancestor Master Yuxiao had instructed Xiao Shan to go beneath Sanhe Prefecture if anything happened to him, but Xiao Shan never came.
• Liu Shuang reported that Hu Yin had died protecting her clansmen, Zhao Mingming was gravely injured, and most Southern cultivators had perished in the fire.
• Ao Hong asked Wang Ping for Spirit Wood trees or pills to help restore the Southeast Sea Region, and Wang Ping advised him to have Jiang Cun and Yang Shu handle the trade with the Yuqing Sect.
• Wang Ping checked on his Puppets across the Central Continent and considered rebuilding the Taiyan Sect alongside his other urgent tasks.
• Daoist Master Zichen sent a calling card from the True Sun Sect, and Yuan Zheng reported that almost all of Wang Ping’s gathering members had died in the fire.

Wang Ping received news about the aftermath of the Capital City disaster and met with several visitors whose lives had been changed by it. After Ruan Chunzi asked to survive in a Puppet body, Wang Ping offered him a chance to seek a new spiritual body within a Hundred Years.

• Yuan Zheng told Wang Ping that the Capital City disaster had killed three core Rogue Cultivators and nearly wiped out the gathering’s peripheral members, then proposed moving Sun Shulin and his disciples south from Nine Tripod Sect.
• Wang Ping approved the relocation, ordered Yuan Zheng and Shuang'er to help establish an Artifact Cultivator sect, and told him to keep investigating Earth Cave Sect.
• Daoist Master Zichen delivered Rongyang’s letter, which explained True Sun Sect’s plans for Xu Chun and warned Wang Ping not to become too involved in Yuqing Sect’s coming actions in West Continent.
• Zichen reported that Feng Miao had gone mad after the Fire Spirit invaded her body, and he told Wang Ping that True Sun Sect would move its southern outpost back to the northern snow mountains.
• Ruan Chunzi described how the Capital City’s people had burned to ashes and confessed that his spiritual veins were nearly destroyed, then asked Wang Ping to preserve his consciousness in a Puppet body.
• Wang Ping offered to make Ruan Chunzi a temporary Puppet body and help him find an unoccupied spiritual body from the Demon Race within a Hundred Years.

Wang Ping transferred Ruan Chunzi’s consciousness into a Puppet, then learned from Hu Qianqian of the devastation in Baishui Prefecture. Star Sea explained Yuanwu’s motives and warned that the Star God Alliance’s growing resentment toward the True Lords’ rules could lead to conflict.

• Wang Ping refined Ruan Chunzi’s Primordial Spirit Consciousness and placed it in a Puppet, allowing Ruan Chunzi to awaken with his memories intact.
• Ruan Chunzi said he would not cultivate for now and left with the Fire Lizard protecting him; Wang Ping refused to give him the True Sun Sect’s Fourth Realm slot.
• Hu Qianqian reported that Baishui Prefecture’s Daoist grounds had been destroyed and most of her clansmen had died, while Hu Lin and two juniors survived.
• Star Sea said Yuanwu had helped Wang Ping partly to stabilize the Wood Spirit and ensure that someone could repair the world if future conflict destroyed it.
• Star Sea warned that many Fifth Realm cultivators in the Star God Alliance might resist the True Lords’ restrictions, then vanished; Wang Ping put away the metal sphere.

Wang Ping examined the fused Sky-Veiling Talisman with the Heavenly Eye and saw how an ancient Old Huai Tree had created it by observing the universe and learning to conceal reality. He then used the Heavenly Eye on the Gold Probing Ball, where he encountered a Chaotic Consciousness and witnessed the memories of a cultivator who became a True Spirit after a failed advancement.

• Wang Ping split off part of his Primordial Spirit, sent it to an outer-space transit station, and placed another Clone Talisman in the underground caverns to aid his cultivation.
• Wang Ping tested the Sky-Veiling Talisman against Yulian's Ice Spike Technique and saw it sever the spell's connection to her, though the ability consumed considerable energy.
• Wang Ping used the Heavenly Eye to observe the Sky-Veiling Talisman and saw an ancient Old Huai Tree develop the ability to deduce the future and conceal reality, eventually turning its branches and leaves into the first Sky-Veiling Talismans.
• Wang Ping shared the Old Huai Tree's memories with Yulian, and they reflected on the ancient universe's vast starry sky.
• Wang Ping used the Heavenly Eye on the Gold Probing Ball, repelled its Chaotic Consciousness with a beam of golden light, and saw the memories of a man whose hatred of the Demon Race drove him to pursue cultivation.
• The man's failed advancement to the Fourth Realm corrupted his unstable spirituality with Chaotic Consciousness and turned him into a True Spirit.

Wang Ping refined the Gold Probing Ball, oversaw Taiyan Mountain’s reconstruction, and killed Wang Sen after his cultivation of a cruel secret art spiraled out of control. He began organizing the Taiyan Sect’s return, assigning leaders and tasks while the sect stronghold took shape.

• Wang Ping and Yulian explored the Gold Probing Ball’s memories and transfer network, then Wang Ping subdued the True Spirit inside and made it obey him.
• Liu Shuibin and five other Third Realm Earth Vein cultivators rebuilt Taiyan Mountain’s foundation, with the mountain taking shape over several days.
• Wang Ping discovered that Wang Sen’s Third Realm breakthrough had unleashed chaotic spirituality, killed him, and cleansed the pit where he had practiced the secret art.
• Wang Ping ordered Liu Shuang to summon Zi Luan and rearranged assignments for the Taiyan Sect’s members as the sect prepared to reunite.
• Wang Ping assigned Dong Can to spread the Dao in West Continent and investigate True Sun Sect, while Zi Luan returned to oversee the Taiyan Sect stronghold.
• Wang Ping took Yulian into outer space to refine the Mask of Faces.

Wang Ping refined the 'Mask of Faces' by placing it in a Puppet, discovering that it could twist cause and effect but had limited power. He returned to Central Continent Star and found Taiyin Sect and Linshui Prefecture Cultivators fighting in the southern seas of Hushan Kingdom.

• Wang Ping used the 'Heavenly Eye' to examine the 'Mask of Faces' and saw Kai Yun forging it from an unknown metal.
• Wang Ping tried to refine the mask through spirit creatures and Puppets, but Star Sea explained that a Puppet carrying Wang Ping's Primordial Spirit could master it with his help.
• Wang Ping created a Puppet with a copied consciousness, and with Star Sea's aid fused it with the 'Mask of Faces' over half a year.
• Wang Ping tested the Puppet's power, which repaired its injuries and made the 'Seven Star Sword' miss by twisting cause and effect.
• Wang Ping sealed the Puppet in a talisman and returned with Yulian to Central Continent Star, where he found Taiyin Sect and Linshui Prefecture Cultivators clashing in Hushan Kingdom's southern seas.

Wang Ping prepared Thousand Wood Temple to become a secluded cultivation dojo while overseeing the reestablishment of the Taiyan Sect and assigning his disciples their roles. He left the sect’s preparations in Zi Luan’s hands and turned his attention to Shen Xiaozhu, placing three jade slips before her.

• Wang Ping learned through the Cave Heaven Mirror that Ao Hong had provoked the Taiyin Sect, leading to fighting and a Yuqing Sect attack on the Taiyin Sect’s dojo.
• Wang Ping remained at Thousand Wood Temple as the Sanhua cat chose to stay there, while Liu Shuang reported plans by Yuan Zheng, Wen Hai, and Qu Bo to rebuild sects.
• Wang Ping dismissed Thousand Wood Temple’s remaining menial disciples and used seeds and vines to let vegetation reclaim its grounds, declaring it a pure cultivation refuge.
• Zi Luan described the Taiyan Sect’s new structure, and Wang Ping appointed Que Cai and Li Miaolin deputy sect masters and instructed them to secure control of Third Realm opportunities.
• Wang Ping told Xuan Ling he could choose a quiet place for a dojo, and Xuan Ling selected the forest north of Winter Water Mountain.
• After Zi Luan and the others left, Wang Ping placed jade slips containing the Body Outside Technique, the Art of the Colossus, and his cultivation insights before Shen Xiaozhu.

Wang Ping passed on the Taiyan Sect’s inheritance and future responsibilities to Shen Xiaozhu, then welcomed Ke Yue and Luo Feng after they left First Day. At a meeting with the Demon Race, Quan Wen sought permission for its members to travel through Central Province, and Wang Ping demanded stronger guarantees before considering the proposal.

• Wang Ping gave Shen Xiaozhu three jade slips and instructed her to go to West Continent, assist Dong Can, and focus on spreading the Dao.
• Ke Yue and Luo Feng arrived seeking refuge after withdrawing from First Day, and Wang Ping had Liu Shuang introduce them to Zi Luan.
• Wang Ping and Yulian met Quan Wen at Mianzhu County to discuss the Demon Race’s plans, where they found Zhang Xinghuai had also come.
• Quan Wen said the Demon Race wanted to travel through Central Province peacefully and offered to register its members and punish rule-breakers.
• Wang Ping rejected reliance on basic laws and said Central Province would remain a world of the Human Way; Quan Wen identified Hu Yin’s leadership as the reason the Demon Race and Southern Cultivation World coexisted peacefully.

Wang Ping negotiated Demon Race assistance for Central Province and agreed to help Bu Qiong and Quan Wen’s allies build an outer-space Ecological Zone as a retreat. Afterward, Zhang Xinghuai revealed that he planned to sever ties with Thousand Wood Temple to pursue the Fourth Realm of the Six Golden Body Mantras, and Wang Ping accepted his decision.

• Wang Ping warned Quan Wen that enforcing rules against Demon Race clansmen could revive hatred, and Quan Wen agreed to discuss the matter with Zhi Gong and Kai Yun before seeking broader agreement.
• Quan Wen offered Demon Race clansmen to help restore Central Province’s ecology, and Wang Ping accepted the assistance on behalf of its survivors.
• Bu Qiong asked Wang Ping to establish a transfer formation for an outer-space Ecological Zone, and he advised reducing its planned size and involving the Sparrow Clan to improve its Spirit Gathering Array.
• Wang Ping agreed to treat the Ecological Zone as a retreat and directed Bu Qiong to have the Taiyan Sect handle the transfer formation while he entered Secluded Cultivation.
• Zhang Xinghuai told Wang Ping about a secret gathering of cultivators that helped its members avoid risks, then said he intended to sever ties with Thousand Wood Temple to pursue the Fourth Realm of the Six Golden Body Mantras.
• Wang Ping accepted Zhang Xinghuai’s three bows on behalf of Second Senior Brother and told him to take care of himself.

Wang Ping prepared Thousand Wood Temple for a century of secluded cultivation and began absorbing the two 'Wood Spirit Origins' within his Wood Spirit embryo. After the embryo grew into a Huai Tree and fused with him, he resumed absorbing the Origins.

• Wang Ping gathered Thousand Wood Temple’s cultivators, announced that he would enter a hundred years of secluded cultivation, and barred outsiders from the mountains.
• Wang Ping assigned Hu Qianqian to create a Starlight Illusion while he built formations to conceal the mountains and contain the Wood Spirit Qi.
• Wang Ping activated the formations at the plaza and entered meditation as Yulian guarded his Physical Body and Hu Qianqian maintained the illusion.
• Wang Ping prepared formations and treasures to refine the two 'Wood Spirit Origins' within his Wood Spirit embryo, then began absorbing their energy.
• The Wood Spirit embryo grew into a Huai Tree, broke free of Wang Ping’s body, and then transformed back and fused with his Primordial Spirit and Physical Body.
• Wang Ping left his body with his Primordial Spirit Consciousness again and continued driving the Wood Spirit within him to absorb the two 'Wood Spirit Origins'.

Taiyan Sect prepared to hold its reestablishment Dharma assembly as cultivators and dignitaries arrived at the newly rebuilt mountain. Jiang Cun reunited with Xia Yao, while Old Daoist Wu and Wen Hai discussed the growing tension between Zhi Gong and the Demon Race.

• Taiyan Sect completed its main construction and welcomed visiting cultivators for a ten-day Dharma assembly before its reestablishment.
• Old Daoist Wu and Wen Hai reunited at the east gate and discussed Prefect Changqing’s seclusion and Zhi Gong’s conflict with the Demon Race.
• Jiang Cun arrived with Yang Shu and Hong Ze, saw Xia Yao, and tried to set aside his feelings for her.
• Xia Yao visited Jiang Cun at his courtyard, and the two spoke about their years apart and the Dao Scripture passed down by Prefect Changqing.
• Old Daoist Wu and Wen Hai watched Northern and Southern Earth Cave Sect cultivators compete and speculated about Taiyan Sect’s dealings with the Demon Race.

Wang Ping continued his secluded cultivation while the Taiyan Sect spread its faith and negotiated with the Demon Race. After two more years, his consciousness reached a Puppet repairing an outer-space transfer array, where Daoist Chongxing revealed that extraterritorial energy was keeping him alive.

• Yang Rong stopped the two little white foxes from fighting, while Liu Shuang explained that Wang Ping and his allies would not attend the Taiyan Sect’s reestablishment ceremony.
• Wang Ping learned that Zhi Gong had reached a preliminary agreement with the Demon Race and ordered Yang Rong and Zuo Liang to propose trade and a two-hundred-year trial period.
• Treasure seekers flocked to the ruined Capital City, where valuable crystals and buried wealth drew people into growing unrest.
• Wang Ping opened his eyes after two years of cultivation when he learned that a Puppet repairing the outer-space transfer array had encountered Daoist Chongxing.
• Daoist Chongxing showed Wang Ping a massive meteorite and said that its extraterritorial energy was prolonging his life.

Wang Ping learned of Daoist Chongxing’s regrets and received a transfer-network map before returning to meditation. Fifteen years later, after Taiyan Sect weathered a conflict involving Shangdan Sect, Yuqing Sect, and the Demon Race, Wang Ping’s Puppet encountered Yu Heng and Zi Xuan while repairing formations in outer space.

• Daoist Chongxing warned Wang Ping that the Star God Alliance’s internal conflicts would eventually affect the Mystic Sect, then passed him a transfer-network map and left to assimilate into a True Spirit.
• Wang Ping and Yulian reflected on Chongxing’s regret and the need to advance further, while Liu Shuang and Yang Rong continued their lives at Thousand Wood Temple and beyond.
• Liu Shuang and reinforcements helped Daoist Yuanzheng repel Shangdan Sect and Yuqing Sect cultivators who had tried to stop him from leaving with Shangdan Sect’s inheritance.
• Unaffiliated Jade Clarity cultivators invaded Haizhou Road and Mozhou Road, but the Demon Race drove them out, and Zi Luan arranged for Hushan Kingdom’s cultivators to retreat.
• After another ten years, Wang Ping’s Puppet encountered Yu Heng of Shangdan Sect and Zi Xuan of Yuqing Sect while repairing transfer formations in outer space.