Recaps

Wang Quan studied the four categories of purple mansions and decided to build a legacy purple mansion that could grant him another life. He waited for the Western Extremity Golden Core Cultivators to serve as offerings, while a notice announced a Far West Spell Contest in three years, where defeated cultivators would become materials.

• Mei Niang begged Wang Quan to lend her his magic artifacts so she could establish a purple mansion, but he refused.
• Wang Quan studied the four categories of purple mansions and chose to pursue a legacy purple mansion that could let its founder live again.
• Wang Quan considered possible sites near Stone City and the Drowning Dao Lower Court, but felt each location was missing something.
• Wang Quan decided to use the Western Extremity lineage's Golden Core Cultivators as offerings to help choose a location and waited for them to arrive.
• A notice announced that the Far West Spell Contest would begin in three years, with Dao Seal Cultivators at Foundation Establishment and above eligible to participate and the defeated turned into materials.

Wang Quan initially refused to join the Far West Spell Contest, despite Ruo Jinghong and Mei Niang urging him to compete for its rewards. After entering the Second-Layer Inner Landscape and discovering that mysterious Daoist Scriptures were among the prizes, he decided he had to participate.

• Ruo Jinghong and Mei Niang urged Wang Quan to enter the contest with them, but he said he preferred to cultivate peacefully.
• Wang Quan entered the Second-Layer Inner Landscape and read that the contest would divide territory, help open more Polar Lands, and accelerate the growth of Dao Seal Cultivators.
• Wang Quan examined the rewards, which included rare resources and ways to have experts install additional cultivation realms inside the body.
• Wang Quan found the category for mysterious Daoist Scriptures and became determined to enter the contest to obtain them.

Wang Quan entered the contest’s Purple Mansion Realm division to improve his chances of obtaining the mysterious Daoist Scriptures, then spent his time strengthening his foundations while waiting for the Western Extremity Household’s cultivators. When their large force arrived in Stone City, they assumed they could gain influence there, but their confidence abruptly faltered.

• Wang Quan told Ruo Jinghong and the others he would compete in the Purple Mansion Realm division, where six volumes of mysterious Daoist Scriptures and more clues were available.
• Wang Quan registered in the Second-Layer Inner Landscape, received a Dao marker but no contest rules, and continued studying spells, refining crystal brains, and gathering Purple Mansion materials.
• Wang Quan grew impatient as the Western Extremity Household’s Golden Core materials failed to arrive, then quietly waited and practiced as the deadline approached.
• Several hundred Golden Core Cultivators, Primordial Spirit Dharma Form Cultivators, and many other cultivators arrived in Stone City through the teleportation ritual.
• The Western Extremity Household’s great cultivators mistook Stone City’s welcome for an opportunity to gain influence, but their smiles froze in the next instant.

The [Western Extremity] Lineage cultivators arrived in Stone City, discovered they were stronger than its local cultivators, and set out to claim the city and its people. At the Five-Colored Altar, city rules suddenly stripped them of their powers and confined them, leaving them terrified and bewildered.

• The [Western Extremity] Lineage cultivators received a summons to waypoint XX.YY and used their primordial spirits to scout Stone City, finding no cultivators above Foundation Establishment.
• The [Western Extremity] Lineage cultivators displayed their primordial spirits, dharma forms, and golden cores, then traveled toward the waypoint while intimidating Stone City's inhabitants.
• A Purple Mansion Cultivator threatened the weeping residents, while members of the [Western Extremity] Lineage privately planned to seize the city's resources and make its people serve them.
• The [Western Extremity] Lineage cultivators reached the Five-Colored Altar and declared that the Fire Mulberry Tree, the city, and its inhabitants would belong to them.
• Messages forbade the [Western Extremity] Lineage cultivators from using powers, harming residents, or leaving the city or altar, and chains forced their manifestations back into their bodies.
• The [Western Extremity] Lineage cultivators tried to cast spells and use treasures, but their powers failed and their escaping lights shattered.

Wang Quan began sacrificial rites in Stone City, using the [Western Extremity] Lineage cultivators trapped on the Five-Colored Altar as offerings. As the incense smoke consumed them, he declared that he wanted them to aid his cultivation.

• The Officiant Daoist Nun directed the cannon salutes, which brought Ruo Jinghong and other Dao Seal Cultivators out of the smoke and introduced Wang Quan amid a shower of flowers.
• Wang Quan ignored the [Western Extremity] Lineage cultivators' accusations and announced that he would offer sacrifices to the heavens.
• Horse demons brought Sandalwood Incense, which Wang Quan ignited as the people of Stone City joined the sacrificial rites.
• Incense smoke gathered around the Five-Colored Altar and seeped into the trapped [Western Extremity] Lineage cultivators, who could not escape or use their dharma power.
• The cultivators began dissolving into smoke, and Wang Quan ordered the smoke to come, saying he wanted them to aid his cultivation.

Wang Quan sacrificed the [Western Extremity] Lineage’s cultivators at Stone City’s Five-Colored Altar, using the rite to find a suitable site for establishing his purple mansion. The sacrifice ended successfully, and Wang Quan prepared to pursue the next step while his allies offered their support.

• Wang Quan and Ruo Jinghong led the incantations as cultivators of the [Western Extremity] Lineage turned to ash and smoke on the Five-Colored Altar.
• Wang Quan ignored the Primordial Spirit and Dharma Form Cultivators’ pleas and threats as their bodies, souls, and cultivation were consumed by the sacrifice.
• After the last cultivators vanished, Wang Quan received a beacon identifying the place best suited to establish his legacy purple mansion under his current circumstances.
• Wang Quan put away the Five-Colored Altar, confirmed to Ruo Jinghong and the others that the sacrifice had succeeded, and explained that his Polar Lands authority could have prevented the captives from escaping.
• Wang Quan told Mei Niang and the others that he intended to establish his purple mansion next and would ask for help if he needed it.

Wang Quan arrived in Far West City and learned from Twilight Daoist why his access level surpassed Twilight Daoist’s. Before the Far West Spell Contest, Twilight Daoist warned him about three powerful competitors.

• Wang Quan teleported to Far West City, where Twilight Daoist welcomed him and invited him to tour the city.
• Twilight Daoist explained that Ying Jiaren had taught him the Internal Circulation Opening Method, which he had used to expand Far West City and earn level-four access privileges.
• Twilight Daoist asked why Wang Quan’s access level was higher, and Wang Quan explained that he had opened a safe zone in the outer ring of Emperor's Tomb City rather than in the Underworld countryside.
• Wang Quan agreed to enter the Far West Spell Contest to obtain eight thousand volumes of Daoist Scriptures.
• Twilight Daoist warned Wang Quan to beware of Thousand Mechanisms Daoist, Fasting Moon Daoist, and Twin Fish Daoist, who each possessed formidable reserves and multiple Magic Treasures.

Wang Quan spoke with Twilight Daoist about the Far West Spell Contest, then traveled through increasingly dangerous anomalous weather toward the edge of the Far Western Land. He reached a vast, earthless expanse where earth, fire, wind, and water collided and flowed.

• Twilight Daoist explained that he planned to enter the Purple Mansion Realm and believed his sect's Magic Treasures would let him defeat Wang Quan in the spell contest.
• Wang Quan left, and Twilight Daoist secretly used a Magic Treasure Blank to observe and record his spells before deciding he was no match for him.
• Wang Quan crossed the anomalous weather, using spells and strange tactics to survive attacks that targeted his organs.
• After three to five days of travel, Wang Quan reached the outermost edge of the Far Western Land, where a chaotic expanse of earth, fire, wind, and water stretched ahead.

Wang Quan built a complete, top-specification Legacy Purple Mansion on the thin land at the Far West, then began sinking it into place. He prepared to fully open it by chanting eight thousand scrolls of Daoist Scriptures.

• Wang Quan laid spirit bricks as a foundation and used paper people, spirit mortar, and Dao Script to build all 108 structures of his Purple Mansion.
• As the structures rose, the abnormal weather receded, while the surrounding ocean continued eroding the thin land.
• Wang Quan sacrificed vast quantities of materials, producing 110 strands of blue smoke that entered the Purple Mansion's floor, walls, and structures.
• He infused the sinking Purple Mansion with Dharma Power until it vanished from the Present World and appeared in his Inner Landscape.
• Wang Quan entered the sunken Purple Mansion and prepared to chant eight thousand scrolls of Daoist Scriptures to fully open it.

Wang Quan completed the opening of his Purple Mansion using the Emperor's Scripture on Saving Oneself Rather Than Others, gaining unusually powerful buildings, an 8,000-year lifespan, and a larger Dharma Power limit. He decided to cultivate his Dharma Power to its limit, starting with purple qi dharmic power.

• Wang Quan chose the Emperor's Scripture on Saving Oneself Rather Than Others to complete his Purple Mansion's opening and recited it in Dao Language.
• The Purple Mansion's 108 buildings activated, joined completely with Wang Quan, and formed a book that gave him control over the mansion.
• Wang Quan discovered that his Purple Mansion's buildings were far more powerful than normal, including a Dharma Power Well that restored a thousand strands per breath.
• Wang Quan checked his Dao Seal and found that he had reached the legacy Purple Mansion realm, gained an 8,000-year lifespan, and increased his Dharma Power limit to 108,000 strands.
• Wang Quan decided to cultivate his Dharma Power to its limit and have his Dharma Power Workshop produce ten strands of purple qi dharmic power each day.

Wang Quan began refining a Legacy Purple Mansion to produce resources and strengthen the Far Western Land. After deciding to leave it there, he found a book that wildly exaggerated his deeds and mocked its claims.

• Wang Quan decided to replace his pure moon dharma power with purple qi dharmic power, which Stone City's people could gather for him.
• Wang Quan activated the Legacy Purple Mansion, which drew in earth, fire, wind, and water to create resources, veins, and puppets that cultivated the ground.
• Wang Quan made the Purple Mansion partially real and invisible to powerful outsiders, then chose to leave it at the edge of the Far Western Land.
• Wang Quan discovered that [Chronicle of the Flower-Scatter Daoist's Struggles] had recorded his work as a glorious deed accompanied by countless auspicious omens.
• Wang Quan compared the book's claims with the abnormal weather and rumbling around him and dismissed its exaggerations.

After opening his Purple Mansion, Wang Quan returned to Far West City and learned Twilight Daoist planned to open a Magic Treasure Purple Mansion for the Far West Spell Contest. Across the lands, cultivators of many ranks decided to enter or return to the Purple Mansion Realm to avoid stronger rivals and compete for the contest’s rewards.

• Wang Quan returned to Far West City as a Purple Mansion Cultivator, and Twilight Daoist congratulated him before deciding to open his sect-prepared Magic Treasure Purple Mansion.
• Thousand Mechanisms Daoist resolved to enter the Purple Mansion Realm so he could avoid powerful Foundation Establishment rivals at the Far West Spell Contest.
• Fasting Moon Daoist asked his master to help him open a legacy Purple Mansion, planning to cut away his realm and reopen it after the contest with a mysterious Daoist Scripture.
• Twin Fish Daoist decided to open a legacy Purple Mansion to evade older rivals and vowed to settle accounts with them later.
• An old Dao Seal Foundation Establishment Cultivator used his accumulated resources and support to open a Purple Mansion with fifty thousand scrolls of Daoist Scriptures.
• A Dao Seal Golden Core permanently cut away his golden core so he could enter the Purple Mansion Realm and seek contest points and rare treasures.

Wang Quan spent a year strengthening his Purple Mansion foundations and mastering vast numbers of Fundamental Methods as the Far West Spell Contest approached. Ruo Jinghong, Mei Niang, and the others also prepared for the contest, while Mei Niang’s group promised to repay Wang Quan afterward.

• Dao Seal Cultivators across the three thousand unorthodox paths, eight hundred side schools, and one hundred and eight Orthodox Mystic Sects prepared for the Far West Spell Contest, while many prodigies left their usual posts.
• Wang Quan gathered purple qi in Stone City, forged a hundred and eight thousand strands of Purple Qi Dharmic Power, and expanded his Purple Mansion to ninety-nine li.
• Twilight Daoist opened a nine-thousand-nine-hundred-and-ninety-nine-li Magic Treasure Purple Mansion and declared his confidence in the contest.
• Wang Quan used visualized copies of himself and crystal brains to master a hundred and twenty thousand Fundamental Methods, expanding his [Legacy Purple Mansion] to nine hundred and ninety-nine li.
• Ruo Jinghong, Mei Niang, and the others focused on strengthening their foundations and visualizing Wang Quan’s Magic Treasures as trump cards.
• Mei Niang brought three thousand female cultivators to offer their bodies to Wang Quan as repayment, but he blew them away and told them not to disturb his Dao heart until after the contest.

Ying Jiaren prepared her Dao Soldiers for the Far West Spell Contest while Ma Qingqiu and the other Dao Seal Cultivators gathered in the Underworld to strengthen themselves and deal with [Vertical Eye]. The chapter ended with them ordering incomplete [Vertical Eyes] to combine into a being with twelve parts pride.

• Ying Jiaren recruited three thousand top-tier martial artists, gave them resources, New Method tokens containing information about Daoist Scriptures, and brainwashed Spirit Monsters.
• Ma Qingqiu, Fierce Tiger Daoist, and the other Dao Seal Cultivators decided to remain in the Purple Mansion Realm for the Far West Spell Contest because they lacked a Golden Core cultivation method.
• Ma Qingqiu and the others discussed replacing their Purple Mansions, which they feared [Vertical Eye] could use to control them.
• Ma Qingqiu released an incomplete [Vertical Eye] from a box and whipped it for complaining about its imprisonment.
• Fierce Tiger Daoist and the other Dao Seal Cultivators released their own incomplete [Vertical Eyes] and ordered them to combine into parts expressing different traits, including twelve parts pride.

The modified Vertical Eye endured Ma Qingqiu and his companions while they discussed passing it down as a family treasure. In the White Land Forbidden Zone, Beitang Xue accepted [Ghost Emperor Heart]’s invitation to admire a moon he had staged on a newly built mountain, and he openly explained how far he would go to seduce her.

• [Vertical Eye] vowed to endure its captors until they died, while Ma Qingqiu proposed making it a bloodline heirloom.
• Beitang Xue considered the Far West Spell Contest but decided she would watch rather than risk being harvested as an expendable.
• A retainer of [Ghost Emperor Heart] invited Beitang Xue to admire the moon, and she reluctantly agreed.
• Beitang Xue arrived to find a mountain built overnight and ghosts carrying luminous pearls as moons.
• [Ghost Emperor Heart] told Beitang Xue he intended to indulge himself and make up for the pleasures he had missed.

The Far West Spell Contest began drawing cultivators, ghosts, and monsters into motion as factions prepared to travel, ambush rivals, or exploit the chaos. The Tenth Reincarnation King secretly sent Black Hand to waylay human prodigies, while Black Hand planned to use the mission to escape and hunt for his original body.

• The All-Under-Heaven Dao Court announced that the Far West Spell Contest would begin in six months, prompting cultivators and Underworld creatures to prepare for the journey and its dangers.
• The Tenth Reincarnation King deduced that interfering in the contest was perilous, then decided to send Black Hand and a group of evils into the Present World to attack powerful humans.
• Black Hand welcomed the mission as a chance to escape his ghost god masters, kill his original body, and eventually rise among the ghost gods.
• Black Hand ordered the evils to increase their smuggling and send letters recruiting displaced evils from their homeland to settle in the Underworld.

In Western Heaven City, the struggling Baldheaded Clan found success by offering their smooth heads for Daoists to roll, while Wang Quan arrived to register for the Far West Spell Contest. He entered knowing the contest was dangerous, as other Dao Seal Cultivators openly planned to harvest human materials.

• The baldheads turned their smooth heads into hand-rolling curiosities and secured a place alongside established spirit monster clans.
• Two octopus-headed members of the Baldheaded Clan tried to recruit Wang Quan at Western Heaven City's gates, but he continued toward the tallest tower.
• Wang Quan found the Drowning Dao entrance, where two Golden Core cultivators warned him that the contest was intended to harvest materials.
• Wang Quan entered the contest check-in, and the cultivators arriving after him said they intended to harvest others for the important figures above.

Wang Quan entered the Western Heaven contest, marked the scroll that bound participants’ souls, and made his way to the Drowning Dao’s great ship. He found his assigned dormitory was a vast world, where he arrived at a compound shared with other Purple Mansion cultivators.

• Wang Quan marked the magic scroll inside the tower and learned that the souls of cultivators who died in the contest would be trapped within it.
• Wang Quan contacted Ruo Jinghong, Ying Jiaren, and Mei Niang; they accepted the contest’s risks, while Ying Jiaren said she might join after completing her Dharma refining.
• Wang Quan followed the marker to the Drowning Dao’s enormous ship, where Golden Core cultivators advised Purple Mansion participants to cooperate and get to know their roommates.
• Wang Quan entered cabin 666 and discovered its interior was a world spanning a hundred and eight thousand li, with varied terrain and rows of manors.
• Wang Quan found his assigned compound and saw several Purple Mansion cultivators discussing matters beneath a loquat tree.

Wang Quan and his fellow cultivators speculated that their coming spell battle might involve more than a million people, then watched powerful cultivators recruit teams in preparation. While He Yueren and others joined teams, Wang Quan stayed unaffiliated and continued refining his plans, until a cloud of smoke appeared before him as he studied the Daoist Scriptures.

• Wang Quan met He Yueren and other cultivators, and they introduced themselves and discussed the upcoming spell battle.
• He Yueren explained that their dormitory contained over a million cultivators, leading Wang Quan and the others to fear a battle fought by enormous armies.
• Wang Quan and his courtyard companions considered the danger but accepted that they could not escape the battle.
• The cultivators heard that Lian Xingchen was recruiting a team, and more than thirty organizations formed as monsters gathered followers.
• He Yueren and other courtyard residents joined teams, but Wang Quan remained unaffiliated and planned to use his Magic Treasures to survive the first exchange.
• A cloud of smoke arrived before Wang Quan as he studied the Daoist Scriptures.

Yu Wanzhou explained how Legend Ratings could preserve legends and enable a form of revival, then asked Wang Quan to join her team. She warned that powerful contestants were targeting cultivators with Legend Ratings, and the chapter ended as someone accused them of flirting while death approached.

• Yu Wanzhou introduced herself to Wang Quan and explained that her Legend Rating fixed her legend in history and made it known to others.
• Yu Wanzhou described how cultivators with sufficiently high Legend Ratings might revive in the past or even return immediately after death.
• Yu Wanzhou invited Wang Quan to join her team, but he refused to harvest other cultivators as human materials.
• Yu Wanzhou warned Wang Quan that monstrous talents who had entered the Purple Mansion Realm were targeting cultivators with Legend Ratings, and said he had the highest rating in [Western Heaven].
• A ray of light descended, and an unknown speaker accused Wang Quan and Yu Wanzhou of flirting despite the danger facing them.

Wang Quan fought a cultivator who had come to warn him about danger and criticize his courtship of Yu Wanzhou. After losing their contest of ordinary spells, the cultivator offered Wang Quan his head to touch rather than continue fighting.

• Yu Wanzhou threatened the arriving cultivator, who warned Wang Quan that monsters wanted his flesh and blood and urged him to stop courting her and cultivate.
• Wang Quan pursued the cultivator through multiple escape techniques and countered his spells, then battled him with weapons and thunderfire as other cultivators watched.
• The cultivator's iron-ball spirits and bald companion tried to attack Wang Quan's Seventy-Two Paths of Smoke and Dust, but the cloud subdued them and used the spirits to strengthen itself.
• Wang Quan and the cultivator fought from the sky and ground into the Underworld and Second-Layer World, where spectators noted that Wang Quan's ordinary spells were stronger.
• The cultivator called off the fight, admitted his Cloud of Auspiciousness had sprung a draft, and placed his head in Wang Quan's hand, inviting him to touch it.

Wang Quan and Yu Wanzhou ignored recruitment attempts while preparing for the Far West Spell Contest, whose sect-based format was revealed the day before it began. The contest would center on capturing and defending large ships, and its scale suggested that only a fraction of the Drowning Dao’s Purple Mansion cultivators were gathered aboard.

• Wang Quan and Yu Wanzhou rejected an unnamed cultivator who sought to team up without revealing his name, then agreed to watch out for each other during the contest.
• Yu Wanzhou hid nearby as a loquat while Wang Quan ignored recruiters and news of powerful cultivators arriving and clashing ahead of the contest.
• Ruo Jinghong and the others arrived in Western Heaven City, and Ying Jiaren reported that she was aboard a ship with Foundation Establishment Cultivators, where they were being made to practice refining arts.
• The day before the contest, cultivators received notice that sects would compete for one day and one night by seizing enemy ships and protecting their own, with withdrawal allowed in exchange for one Purple Mansion.
• Yu Wanzhou told Wang Quan that each ship had one thousand and one cabins holding at least a million people each, and Wang Quan realized the contest’s scale was immense.

Wang Quan and Yu Wanzhou joined the Drowning Dao’s spell battle, only to discover that the enormous fleets were combining into a vast battlefield platform. As the Great Sun Way’s ships approached, the unprepared cultivators scrambled to organize their defenses.

• Wang Quan and Yu Wanzhou left Dormitory 666 after a warning that staying would forfeit the battle and cost them a Purple Mansion.
• Wang Quan and Yu Wanzhou tried to retreat through the crowd on deck, where cultivators argued and shoved over whether to advance or hold their ground.
• Wang Quan used a scouting spell and saw countless Drowning Dao ships collide and transform into one immense platform.
• A voice announced that the Great Sun Way’s ships would collide with theirs in three breaths, and talented cultivators raised Magic Treasures to organize the panicking crowd.
• The cultivators raised defensive spells and debated battle tactics as they complained that no one had warned them in advance.

As the sect-wide spell battle began, Wang Quan and Yu Wanzhou urged cultivators to unleash offensive spells while retreating from the opposing barrage. Wang Quan’s plan used slower-reacting cultivators as expendable cannon emplacements, and the battle left the survivors struggling to defend themselves.

• With the countdown nearly over, Wang Quan flew through the ranks and told cultivators to prepare offensive spells, and Yu Wanzhou followed his lead.
• Thousands of prodigies raced over the packed ranks, urging everyone to attack as both sides launched torrents of spells across the battlefield.
• Some cultivators transformed into cannons, tried to flee, or forfeited, while the warship’s arrays guided the opposing spell torrents past one another.
• Wang Quan retreated while casting thunderfire and repeatedly urged others to attack, as cultivators panicked under the incoming barrage.
• The first torrent struck the platform, killing or eliminating many cultivators; Yu Wanzhou and other quick-witted cultivators realized Wang Quan was using some of their side as expendable cannon emplacements.

Wang Quan survived the shrinking spell battle and advanced through the one-on-one stage by forcing opponents to concede with his Magic Treasures. The remaining cultivators were given two hours to rest before the formal spell battles began.

• The warship platform shrank as Purple Mansion Cultivators bombarded one another, eliminating most participants.
• The second stage began with one-on-one battles, and cultivators could withdraw by paying one Top-Tier Foundation Establishment Dao Platform.
• Wang Quan defeated a Great Sun Way cultivator’s resolve by revealing the [All-Heavens Banner], prompting him to concede.
• Wang Quan revealed the [Immobilization Pearl] against another opponent, who conceded after seeing he possessed two Magic Treasures.
• Wang Quan continued making opponents concede until the rooms disappeared and roughly a hundred-odd thousand cultivators remained.
• A voice announced a two-hour rest before the formal spell battles, with the same price for conceding.