Recaps

Wang Quan cultivated in the Underworld while searching for Foundation Establishment spells and waiting for contact from Drowning Water headquarters. He received an invitation to join the Far Western Land and began studying its route, eager to go.

• Wang Quan returned from the Underworld to the Present World and continued Dharma Refining while studying Daoist Scriptures with Ying Jiaren.
• Wang Quan spent more than three months teaching Prince Eye-Seizer's cultivation method in different Underworld cities, where some old and weak beings dissolved into Dharma Power.
• Wang Quan found no Foundation Establishment spells in the Lower Court and learned that neither the old cultivators nor the major Lineages knew the location of Drowning Water headquarters.
• Wang Quan received a message inviting him to join the Far Western Land within three years and warning that refusal would bring consequences for him and his descendants.
• Wang Quan decided to go to the Far Western Land and used his identity token to reveal its route map.

Wang Quan studied the route to the Far Western Land and prepared to leave, settling his affairs with Ying Jiaren, Qian Xiuyue, and the Round-Faced Daoist Nun. After more than ten days, he formally said farewell to the Drowning Dao Lower Court and set out through the Second-Layer World.

• Wang Quan searched the Second-Layer Inner Landscape for information about the long route and learned that its stops might support lower courts along the way.
• Wang Quan gave Ying Jiaren a copy of his route map and told her to contact him as Flower-Scatter Daoist after she entered the Second-Layer Inner Landscape.
• Wang Quan told Qian Xiuyue he was leaving and advised her to keep developing the Sunlight Alliance and accumulating Foundation Establishment Spirit Light.
• Wang Quan reassured Qian Xiuyue that she and her lineage could remain influential even if she did not go to the Far Western Land.
• The Round-Faced Daoist Nun advised Wang Quan to flee danger and hide in secluded cultivation if necessary.
• Wang Quan bade farewell to the Drowning Dao Lower Court and entered the Second-Layer World to travel toward the Far Western Land.

Wang Quan traveled through the Second-Layer World and helped Su Mali fight the evils inhabiting a flesh-covered manor. After they destroyed the manor and its Door Gods, Su Mali introduced herself and invited Wang Quan to travel with her to the Far Western Land.

• Wang Quan followed the Dao beacon map across the Second-Layer World, using the People-Crossing Scripture to destroy evil along the way.
• Wang Quan reached an abandoned manor under attack by grotesque flesh and joined the golden-lit cultivator inside in reciting the People-Crossing Scripture.
• Wang Quan fought the manor’s gate-face evil with Thunderfire and the People-Crossing Scripture while the hidden cultivator attacked it with golden light.
• Wang Quan and the cultivator defeated the gate-face evil and another gate-face, each of which left behind a Door God painting.
• Wang Quan watched the flesh-covered manor vanish into ruins, then met Su Mali of the Great Sun Way, who asked him to travel with her to the Far Western Land.

Wang Quan and Su Mali tried to turn a ruined manor in the Second-Layer World into a safe zone, then rebuilt its counterpart in the Real World to investigate the surrounding devastation. Wang Quan learned from a group of spirit monsters that rebellion and famine had left a thousand miles scorched and driven the survivors to the brink.

• Su Mali told Wang Quan that her identity token had kept her waiting for a temporary companion, and she explained that her Door Gods Paintings could guard a residence in the Underworld.
• Wang Quan and Su Mali rebuilt the ruined manor with paper figures and spirit creatures, but darkness consumed it before it could become a safe zone.
• Wang Quan and Su Mali descended into the Real World, buried the bones around the manor, and rebuilt it while searching for clues to its destruction.
• Wang Quan surveyed the surrounding land and found only bones, abandoned villages, and red-eyed spirit monsters for hundreds of miles.
• Wang Quan questioned a group of normal spirit monsters, and a weasel spirit explained that rebellion, famine, and warfare had killed the people and left the region desolate.

Wang Quan built and stocked a fortified manor, gathering more than a thousand spirit monsters to maintain it and giving them a way to survive together. The manor manifested as a safe zone in the second-layer world, where Wang Quan and Su Mali left it behind, assured it would endure for at least a hundred years.

• Wang Quan transported spirit monsters into his Foundation Establishment Dao Platform and gathered more than a thousand of them.
• Wang Quan established a manor with farmland, ritual prayers that accelerated crops and herbs, production shops, and walls reinforced by earth veins and drowning water.
• Wang Quan taught the spirit monsters daily worship rituals and urged them to unite and defend the manor; they promised to guard it.
• Wang Quan and Su Mali entered the second-layer world, where the manor appeared as a safe zone and a little favor descended upon them.
• Su Mali said the safe zone could last at least a hundred years, and Wang Quan agreed before they set off.

Wang Quan and Su Mali traveled between waypoints, clearing evil creatures and rebuilding an abandoned village. After settling more than a hundred survivors there, they wondered whether the widespread devastation was deliberate and decided to seek answers in the Second-Layer Inner Landscape.

• A beam of white light strengthened the safe zone Wang Quan and Su Mali had just left, and Dao Script sank into its buildings before their identity tokens trembled without revealing any information.
• Wang Quan and Su Mali traveled together, recited the [People-Crossing Scripture] to earn Yin Virtue, and cleared the evil creatures from an abandoned village.
• Wang Quan repaired the village and connected it to the earth veins while Su Mali found more than a hundred starving survivors within ten thousand li.
• Wang Quan healed the survivors and taught them cultivation and martial methods, while he and Su Mali helped them prepare to rebuild and left them resources.
• A white light strengthened the new safe zone, and Wang Quan and Su Mali discussed the desolate waypoints before deciding to ask about them in the Second-Layer Inner Landscape.

Wang Quan and Su Mali restored ten safe zones while traveling through devastated regions, then entered the Underworld to take a shortcut. Wang Quan used his standing and protection tokens to preach and gain the Underworld beings’ favor, while Su Mali hoped he would secure a token for her too.

• Su Mali asked cultivators why vast regions were empty, then lamented that ordinary people and spirit monsters had died without cause.
• Wang Quan and Su Mali established ten safe zones over more than a month by searching for survivors and repairing ruins.
• Su Mali recalled being nearly cooked by Underworld beings, but Wang Quan assured her that his connections would protect her.
• In the Underworld, Wang Quan preached as the Flower-Scatter Daoist, earning tokens, cultivation methods, and invitations from powerful beings.
• Wang Quan led Su Mali away by a rope, and she asked him to get her an Underworld token the next time they reached a city.

Wang Quan traveled through the Underworld and the Real World toward the Far Western Land, meeting and parting with a series of companions along the way. He continued his journey alone after resisting several male cultivators’ invitations to study and cultivate together.

• Wang Quan and Su Mali crossed the Underworld in a dozen or so days, emerged on a snowy mountain far from where they had entered, and parted ways.
• Wang Quan set up an anomaly exclusion zone while waiting, then met Fierce Tiger Daoist and traveled with him before they separated.
• Wang Quan traveled with a female cultivator from the Gilded Gold Dao, then reached a city with a teleportation vortex and parted from her.
• Wang Quan met Niu Dali, who urged him to study the Daoist Scriptures together and praised the advice he had received from Ma Qingqiu.
• Wang Quan continued toward the Far Western Land, rejected several male cultivators’ invitations, and resisted their arguments by thinking of Ying Jiaren and other female cultivators.

After a year of travel, Wang Quan reached the last stop before the Far Western Land and reunited with Ma Qingqiu and other cultivators bound for the same destination. The group prepared to travel onward as a team, but left its leadership undecided while some cultivators gathered to study Daoist scriptures.

• Wang Quan arrived at the enormous teleportation city and found Ma Qingqiu, Niu Dali, Su Mali, Fierce Tiger Daoist, and other cultivators waiting there.
• Ma Qingqiu and Wang Quan compared how long they had delayed Foundation Establishment and traveling to the Far Western Land.
• A puppet told the cultivators they would be treated as a small team, warned them to raise their clearance, and announced they would soon be sent to an outpost.
• Ma Qingqiu proposed serving as the team's liaison because he belonged to the Orthodox Mystic Sects, but other cultivators rejected choosing a leader before seeing everyone's abilities.
• A female cultivator suggested studying Daoist scriptures to help the group get acquainted, while Wang Quan declined to join; those interested entered her expanded tent as the others introduced themselves nearby.

Wang Quan joined a group of cultivators preparing to enter the Far Western Land, where his identity token was upgraded and granted him clearance based on his previous work and early arrival. He ended the chapter with level-three clearance and planned to recruit subordinates, strengthen himself, and establish a foothold.

• Wang Quan and the other cultivators exchanged identities and formed a small group, crafting magical artifacts to communicate across a million li.
• Wang Quan entered a teleportation array with the other Dao Seal Cultivators and arrived in a crude city surrounded by strange skies and dangers.
• A puppet warned the cultivators not to resist their token upgrades, then shattered as golden light transformed their identity tokens.
• Wang Quan's token granted him level-two clearance and privileges to issue compulsory missions and requisition cultivators and other subordinates.
• Wang Quan's token credited him for creating safe zones and arriving early, raising his Far West clearance to level three.

Wang Quan investigated the barren Far Western Land and discovered that the city was a safe but clearance-restricted cultivation center surrounded by a terrifying Second-Layer World. The cultivators agreed to improve the land and sky before bringing over cannon fodder, since the soil could not grow food.

• Wang Quan received level three clearance and joined the other cultivators in investigating the city and seeking Foundation Establishment methods and spells.
• Wang Quan surveyed the outskirts and found that the land was barren, its shallow soil unable to support crops, and its earth veins sustained the city walls.
• Wang Quan entered the Second-Layer World with his Yang Spirit, fought evil creatures attached to buildings, and withdrew after sensing hundreds of thousands of powerful enemies.
• Wang Quan returned to the base and learned that the city offered free Foundation Establishment methods and spells, while its halls, supplies, meals, and construction benefits depended on clearance.
• A female cultivator urged the group not to bring over cannon fodder until they had modified the land and sky enough to grow food.

Wang Quan and the other cultivators debated how to develop the city, then visited the Mission Hall to inspect ways to earn access points. He decided that expanding into the Second-Layer World would require refined sunlight and began searching for suitable Foundation Establishment methods.

• The cultivators argued over how to improve farmland and divide its produce, while Wang Quan stayed uninterested in the debate.
• Wang Quan and a female cultivator sent their Yang Spirits to nod along and led dozens of cultivators to the Mission Hall.
• Wang Quan examined the missions and learned that raising his access level required a hundred thousand points, then considered using refined sunlight to clear Evil and reflect buildings into the Second-Layer World.
• Wang Quan and the other cultivators went to the Transmission Hall, where he filtered the available methods down to the Wu Earth Exposition Method and the Thick Earth Exposition Method.

Wang Quan mastered thirty-six Foundation Establishment spells and used [Foundation Establishment Spirit Soil Art] to strengthen an Earth Vein, discovering it worked ten times more efficiently than its Qi Refining counterpart. As he kept working without rest, other cultivators marveled at his pace, until someone tried to plant a tree and was warned the Earth Veins needed more time to nurture the land.

• Wang Quan searched for spells related to Earth Veins and mastered all thirty-six Foundation Establishment spells, which required their Qi Refining versions as prerequisites.
• Wang Quan tested [Foundation Establishment Spirit Soil Art] and found its spirit soil strengthened an Earth Vein ten times as efficiently as soil gathered with [Spirit Soil Art].
• Wang Quan used his Primordial Spirit to continuously gather spirit soil, observing the growing Earth Vein nourish and solidify the surrounding land.
• Ma Qingqiu and other cultivators wondered how Wang Quan could keep casting without resting to recover his Dharma Power.
• After several hours, cultivators warned Fellow Daoist Flower-Scatter not to plant a tree because the land lacked enough vitality.

Wang Quan performed a lengthy ritual to plant a Five Elements Fruit Tree in the fragile land, with a cultivator molding earth into incense to help him. The tree took root and began strengthening the earth veins, accelerating the land-reclamation project.

• Wang Quan brought out a Five Elements Tree, and the cultivators agreed to let him try planting it ahead of schedule.
• Wang Quan set up the Five-Colored Earth Altar and began worship, but his Sandalwood Incense burned away at an abnormal rate.
• A female cultivator used the Earth-to-Incense Molding Art to create incense from earth and ease the burden on Wang Quan.
• Wang Quan completed his worship, cast seventy-two spells, and planted the Five Elements Fruit Tree with Foundation Establishment Spirit Soil.
• The tree took root and nourished the fragile land, leading a cultivator to say the reclamation project could advance more than ten times faster.

Wang Quan planted three thousand Five Elements Fruit Trees to strengthen the earth veins, then used his authority to locate and invite cultivators from his homeland. The chapter leaves Officiant, Dream, Si Xiaohong, and their companions still trapped in a deadly battle with a strange wind, while the fighters around them schemed to push them to the front.

• Wang Quan and the other cultivators planted three thousand Five Elements Fruit Trees, making the earth veins more stable and the forces beneath the earth less violent.
• Wang Quan rejected farming between the trees and told the cultivators to expand farmland outside while he went to recruit Foundation Establishment Cultivators.
• A red-copper puppet explained that Wang Quan's level-three authority let him teleport at least one hundred Orthodox Cultivators or ten thousand martial artists or spirit monsters at a time.
• Wang Quan gave the puppet several hundred names, and it located 122 people whose leaders had lower authority than his; Wang Quan ordered it to send invitations.
• Officiant, Dream, Si Xiaohong, and other cultivators continued suffering losses against a strange wind while the Dao Seal cultivators refused to help.
• A New-Method Cultivator accused Officiant and the others of slacking, and the Orthodox cultivators at the front demanded that they be sent forward to fight.

Wang Quan brought the Officiant Daoist Nun, Dream, Si Xiaohong, Fairy Qin, and other cultivators to Stone City after forcibly requisitioning them from the battlefield. He explained that their work would expand safe zones across three worlds, leaving the rescued cultivators ready to help with his plan.

• A New-Method cultivator charged toward the front after the [Dao Seal] cultivators ordered him and others to advance, but the Officiant Daoist Nun and her companions were requisitioned and withdrew.
• The [Dao Seal] cultivators received orders not to obstruct the transfer, then told orthodox Foundation Establishment cultivators to fall back and New-Method cultivators to advance.
• Wang Quan waited at Stone City's ritual teleportation hall until the Officiant, Dream, Si Xiaohong, Fairy Qin, and the others arrived.
• The reunited cultivators wept and described their suffering, including Si Xiaohong, who had only her head left and was trapped in a water vat.
• Dream Nun described how they had once stabilized dangerous land by using cultivators to wear away anomalous weather, building yin caverns, and refining earth veins.
• Wang Quan asked the group to help expand safe zones by bearing spells, tending spiritual plants, worshipping celestial bodies, and controlling magical artifacts.

Wang Quan healed the cultivators' injuries in Stone City, including Si Xiaohong's severe condition, and restored the group to full health. With their strength and hope renewed, he prepared to assign them spells and have them help with his work.

• Wang Quan reassured the cultivators that he could treat injuries caused by abnormal weather and began by healing Officiant.
• Wang Quan healed the lightly injured cultivators and restored those with missing limbs or blind eyes.
• Wang Quan used [Incense Drowning Water] to overcome the strange power resisting his Healing Spell and cleared Si Xiaohong's injuries.
• Wang Quan accelerated Si Xiaohong's body restoration, and she adjusted her new body's proportions as it grew.
• Wang Quan, Officiant, and the other cultivators spent six hours restoring the remaining gravely injured cultivators.
• Wang Quan told the cultivators to carry spells and control magical artifacts, and they agreed to help as long as they did not have to fight outside the city.

Wang Quan used spirit soil, magical artifacts, and the Five Elements Fruit Trees to stabilize Stone City’s earth veins and help the cultivators reclaim farmland. After they harvested enough spirit grain to feed fifty thousand people, they turned to Wang Quan for advice on whose cannon fodder to summon first.

• Si Xiaohong recognized Wang Quan from the Drowning Dao Lower Court, and Wang Quan explained that he had used the spirit soil himself.
• Wang Quan explained that Egg Birth Art let cultivators bring companions, and a female cultivator released and recalled hundreds of cultivators, spirit monsters, and martial artists from eggs.
• Wang Quan used top-grade magical artifacts from the Drowning Dao Lower Court to stabilize the earth veins and accelerate the growth of the Five Elements Fruit Trees.
• After three days, the cultivators confirmed that the earth veins had stabilized and worked together to reclaim farmland and grow spirit grain.
• The cultivators debated whose cannon fodder to summon first, then asked Wang Quan what he thought.

Wang Quan helped the cultivators plan the new outpost’s food production, earth veins, and spiritual energy, then left the ongoing labor to them. Ruo Jinghong of the Rouge Gate approached him to propose deeper cooperation.

• Wang Quan urged the cultivators to establish earth veins, farm fields, and construct spirit veins for New-Method Cultivators.
• The cultivators decided to recruit a hundred thousand Orthodox Foundation Establishment Cultivators and forty thousand farm-skilled spirit monsters and martial artists.
• Wang Quan instructed the Officiant Daoist Nun and the others in spells and Foundation Establishment, and told them to rest at night.
• Ma Qingqiu reported that each outpost could recruit only twenty thousand Orthodox Foundation Establishment Cultivators per day, while the group had recruited sixty thousand farming spirit monsters.
• Wang Quan said the Five Elements Fruit Trees and his companions would cover his contribution to the outpost’s labor.
• Ruo Jinghong of the Rouge Gate introduced herself as a Second-Rank Dao Seal and level-two authority holder, then proposed in-depth cooperation with Wang Quan.

Ruo Jinghong allied with Wang Quan, and they went to choose neighboring base plots in Stone City. The cultivators learned that plot locations depended on access levels and began claiming land, while Ma Qingqiu urged Wang Quan to choose a spot beside his.

• Ruo Jinghong explained through her actions that she wanted to work with Wang Quan because his high-level access and ability offered her a better chance of survival, and Wang Quan agreed to join forces.
• Ruo Jinghong and Wang Quan exchanged contact details and headed to the Planning Hall to choose base plots together.
• Ma Qingqiu persuaded the cultivators to give ordinary Foundation Establishment Cultivators earth-vein spells, while the cultivators assigned spirit monsters to eat and produce manure.
• Wang Quan and Ruo Jinghong waited at the Planning Hall for the other cultivators before asking the land-distributing puppet about plots.
• The puppet explained that plots lay in three rings, that the third ring offered the best chance to expand later, and that access levels restricted which rings cultivators could choose.
• Ma Qingqiu claimed a second-ring plot, helped Mei'er and other scripture students mark nearby plots, and urged Wang Quan to choose a spot beside his.

Wang Quan organized the cultivators to survey Stone City, claim a third-ring territory, and build an enormous ritual altar intended to stabilize the Far Western Land. As the construction impressed their rivals, Ma Qingqiu suspected Wang Quan had obtained level-three access.

• Wang Quan sent the cultivators to survey the land and chose a site by Stone City's northern wall for their settlement.
• Wang Quan claimed a third-ring area and planted ritual-node banners to lay the foundations of an enormous altar.
• Wang Quan described how the altar could help clear abnormal weather, stabilize the land, and secure a future for the settlers, inspiring the cultivators to begin construction.
• The cultivators built manors, residences, fields, and a palace for studying Daoist scriptures across Stone City.
• Mei'er wondered who had reached level-three access, and Ma Qingqiu concluded that Wang Quan was the likely candidate, recalling that he had seemed capable when they first met.

Wang Quan prepared a grand sacrificial ceremony in Stone City, gathering cultivators and Spirit Monsters to burn Sandalwood Incense as part of the ritual. The ceremony advanced through its first stages, leaving the Officiant and Dream Nun ready to fire the cannon for Wang Quan’s call of snow.

• Ma Qingqiu told Mei'er about Wang Quan’s strength and how he had inspired Ma Qingqiu to gain the second level of authority, though neither knew how Wang Quan obtained the third.
• Stone City gained a hundred thousand Orthodox Foundation Establishment Cultivators and over two hundred thousand farming Spirit Monsters, including chives that helped sustain the settlement’s livestock.
• Mei'er and Ruo Jinghong discussed their celebration of Daoist Scriptures, and Wang Quan agreed to let their people join his grand sacrificial ceremony if they brought plenty of Sandalwood Incense.
• Cultivators and Spirit Monsters gathered outside the altar with incense, and Wang Quan began the ceremony by calling for wind and then thunder.
• Thunderfire burned the incense and struck the participants, causing the Spirit Monsters to collapse and burning away a third of the cultivators’ incense.
• The Officiant and Dream Nun prepared the cannon as Wang Quan called for snow, and they lit the fuse before the chapter ended.

Wang Quan’s sacrificial ceremony drained the cultivators and spirit monsters but stabilized the newly born seasons, earning everyone a thousand permission points. He decided to hold the ceremony again every few days, despite their protests.

• Wang Quan continued the sacrificial ceremony until the Orthodox Foundation Establishment Cultivators, Ma Qingqiu, Ruo Jinghong, and Mei'er collapsed from exhaustion.
• Wang Quan used [Manifest the Four Seasons] and magic artifacts to stabilize the newborn seasons and synchronize them with the Real World's seasons.
• More than a hundred thousand golden spheres appeared, illuminated the Manor altar, and left golden patterns across its buildings and ground.
• The cultivators discovered that their identity tokens had awarded them 500 permission points for participating in the seasons’ birth and another 500 for stabilizing seasonal changes.
• Wang Quan told the exhausted participants to return to work and announced that they would perform another sacrificial ceremony in a few days.
• The Officiant Daoist Nun berated the protesting spirit monsters and ordered them to eat more grass before the next ceremony.

Wang Quan’s grand sacrifice raised his Far West authority to level four, giving him the power to carry out a compulsory conscription. He promised the Orthodox Cultivators another ceremony in three days, while the spirit monsters dreaded having to endure it again.

• The Orthodox Cultivators asked Ma Qingqiu and the other [Dao Seal] cultivators when they could hold another worship ceremony, but the cultivators deferred to Wang Quan.
• Wang Quan received fifty thousand authority points for the birth of Stone City’s seasons and solar terms, and his Far West authority rose to level four.
• Wang Quan tested his new power by trying to conscript the Far Western Land’s highest-authority cultivator, but learned that he would conscript himself within the current area.
• Wang Quan told the excited Orthodox Cultivators that he would hold another grand sacrificial ceremony in three days.
• Wang Quan urged the spirit monsters to recover and invoked survival of the fittest, prompting a goat spirit to eat leaves and a leopard spirit to ask a pig spirit for meat.

Wang Quan led another sacrifice that slightly cleared Stone City's sky and earned the cultivators permission points, while Ma Qingqiu and the others began preparing their own plan to combat the abnormal climate. At the Five Elements orchard, Wang Quan chose cattle grass to enrich the soil after a toad spirit proposed it, though the spirit also suggested the more valuable haze grass.

• Wang Quan led the cultivators in restoring the spirit monsters and announced that they would hold another sacrifice in three days.
• Ma Qingqiu asked the cultivators to help refine a set of magical implements for fighting the abnormal climate, and they agreed to assist her.
• Ruo Jinghong and the other cultivators debated whether to support Wang Quan, with Ruo Jinghong backing him while Fierce Tiger Daoist argued they should still compete with him.
• Wang Quan inspected the Five Elements Fruit Trees and found that Stone City's weak earth and poor soil prevented them from flowering and bearing fruit.
• Si Xiaohong brought Wang Quan a group of farming spirit monsters, and their toad spirit leader recommended planting cattle grass to enrich the soil before suggesting haze grass as a more valuable alternative.