Recaps

Wang Quan began refining his Golden Core on Three-Legged Cauldron Mountain, feeding it vast quantities of treasures and New Method Golden Cores while ghost gods assisted him. After a year, the twin women he had visualized wove a new figure into the forming core, which sent a beam of golden light through the mortal world and the Underworld.

• Wang Quan poured True Solar Fire and countless treasures into Three-Legged Cauldron Mountain and gave the ghost gods spells to help refine his Golden Core.
• The ghost gods watched as Wang Quan used New Method Golden Cores to visualize twin women, whose first forms remained in the mountain while later images merged into it.
• Over months, the twin women grew increasingly lifelike as tens of millions of Golden Cores and other materials accumulated around them.
• After a year, the twins caught the falling Golden Cores, spun them into golden threads, and wove a new female figure.
• The newly woven figure leaped into the ball above the twins, and a beam of golden light pierced through the mortal world and the Underworld.

Wang Quan’s golden-core refinement produced vast, tangible manifestations across the Real World and Underworld, drawing powerful cultivators to Crouching Tiger Mountain. After watching him consume ten million new method golden cores in a year, many great cultivators left, while some golden core cultivators remained.

• Golden light shattered the skies of the Real World and Underworld as Wang Quan and his twin sat motionless during the refinement at Three-Legged Cauldron Mountain.
• Resources emerged from Crouching Tiger Mountain, and Wang Quan summoned Qian Xiuyue and Senior Sister Round Face to help cultivators gather them.
• Golden lotuses and auspicious blessings spread across thirty thousand li, while great cultivators traced the manifestations to Wang Quan’s golden-core refinement and wondered about its mysteries.
• Wang Quan let the great cultivators observe, but prepared to defend himself with the [Sky Patrol Magic Treasure], the [Drowning Dao Court], and the [All-Under-Heaven Dao Court] if they tried to seize his golden core.
• After a year of watching Wang Quan consume ten million new method golden cores, many great cultivators abandoned their plans and left, while some golden core cultivators stayed.

Wang Quan spent twelve years refining an enormous Golden Core in Three-Legged Cauldron Mountain, while the Ming Yue he visualized became mysterious, independent beings. As Golden Core Cultivators gathered to seize the treasure, a powerful female cultivator killed one of them and demanded that the newcomers leave their Golden Cores.

• Wang Quan added materials, recited Daoist Scriptures, and used his Purple Mansion’s Dharma Power to refine the Golden Core as auspicious manifestations spread across the region.
• In the ninth year, the twin Ming Yue descended into the Real World, questioned Wang Quan about the era, then returned to Three-Legged Cauldron Mountain and entered the growing Golden Core.
• By the twelfth year, Wang Quan had used up more than a hundred million New Method Golden Cores and all the materials in Three-Legged Cauldron Mountain, creating a Golden Core three thousand three hundred zhang across.
• Golden Core Cultivators arrived near Dragon and Tiger Mountain and discussed working together to seize the treasure.
• A female Golden Core Cultivator pinned a newcomer with her gaze and burned him to ashes with her Wind of Yin and Yang, Life and Death.
• The female Golden Core Cultivator ordered the remaining newcomers to leave their Golden Cores before going.

In the fifteenth year of refining his golden core, Wang Quan completed the preliminary preparations and shared his method with Dao Seal Golden Core Cultivators. They were astonished by its immense cost, and Wang Quan explained that reproducing it would require control of both a city in the Polar Lands and a great city in the Underworld.

• Orthodox Golden Core Cultivators who arrived later surrendered their golden cores, then learned the Dao Seal cultivators considered them worthless and began cultivating to improve them.
• Orthodox Golden Core Cultivators used Earth-Sprung Golden Lotuses and auspicious manifestations to nourish their cores, while more cultivators gathered around Wang Quan's refining endeavor in rings.
• Wang Quan guarded Crouching Tiger Mountain for years, but the watching cultivators made no trouble and instead studied the golden core he was refining.
• In the fifteenth year, Ming Yue and the others vanished from the core, leaving a moonlike golden core rising within Three-Legged Cauldron Mountain.
• Dao Seal Golden Core Cultivators offered Wang Quan resources and two first-tier magic treasures for his method, but he asked for future assistance instead and explained his refinement and visualization methods.
• The Dao Seal cultivators balked at the enormous cost, and Wang Quan told them a city in the Polar Lands would not suffice without a great city in the Underworld.

Wang Quan continued refining his enormous golden core while the Dao Seal Cultivators around him completed their own. As his estimate for finishing kept growing, Ying Jiaren decided to bring Bitter Cold City's Golden Cores to help haul his core upward by force.

• The Dao Seal Cultivators left after learning the extraordinary materials Wang Quan needed, while he insisted that effort could still obtain them.
• Qian Xiuyue completed the first-grade [Ice and Fire Gods and Devils Pill], and Wang Quan urged her to expand the Drowning Dao Lower Court's territory.
• The Round-Faced Daoist Nun completed [A Hundred Charms and a Thousand Reds in the Mortal World] so Wang Quan could use it as a material for [Three Thousand Drowning Water].
• Mei Niang and Ruo Jinghong finished their golden cores, and Ruo Jinghong promised to keep Mei Niang from bullying Wang Quan.
• Ying Jiaren warned Wang Quan that Reincarnation cultivators, including New-Method Spirit Transformation patriarchs, had ambushed her, but she was safe in Bitter Cold City.
• Ying Jiaren completed her two golden cores, then offered to bring Bitter Cold City's Golden Cores to haul Wang Quan's slowly rising golden core upward by force.

Ying Jiaren gathered Golden Core cultivators to help Wang Quan, but many came hoping to mock him and search for a heavenly treasure. As Wang Quan continued refining his Golden Core at Crouching Tiger Mountain, a woman caught and bound him with her Divine Ability and Magic Treasure.

• Ying Jiaren recruited Golden Core cultivators in Bitter Cold City and led them toward Wang Quan at Crouching Tiger Mountain.
• The cultivators noticed auspicious manifestations and golden lotuses near the mountain, realized they could be used to refine treasures, and hurried to find the source before Wang Quan.
• Beitang Xue, Ruo Jinghong, Mei Niang, and other Golden Core cultivators also headed toward Wang Quan's location.
• Wang Quan continued refining his special Golden Core as its ascent slowed, then received messages that Ying Jiaren and the others were approaching.
• A woman caught Wang Quan with her Heaven-and-Earth Hand, defeated his attempt to fight back, and bound him with the Shimmering Gold Rope.

Mei Niang seized Wang Quan, but Ruo Jinghong and Ying Jiaren intervened, ending the fight and driving the rivals away from him. The Dao Seal Golden Cores then gathered around Three-Legged Cauldron Mountain as Wang Quan refined cores, and after a year many left when the golden lotuses and manifestations no longer helped them.

• Mei Niang seized Wang Quan, but Ruo Jinghong caught up and fought her while Tongtong and the watching Golden Cores became involved.
• Beitang Xue told the Bitter Cold City Golden Cores that Mei Niang and Ruo Jinghong were exploring love, and Mei Niang briefly seduced one of them.
• Ying Jiaren attacked Mei Niang and Ruo Jinghong, then warned them to stay away from Wang Quan; Wang Quan flew to Three-Legged Cauldron Mountain to continue refining cores.
• The Dao Seal Golden Cores gathered near the mountain, collected manifestations and golden lotuses, and pursued their cultivation while Wang Quan refined cores.
• After a year, many newly advanced Golden Cores left for the Polar Lands or the Third-Layer World, while a few stayed behind.

After fifty-five years of refining, Wang Quan and the others hauled his golden core out of Three-Legged Cauldron Mountain and sent it from the Underworld into the mortal world. Its arrival created a thirty-thousand-li cultivation wonderland, while its heartbeat deepened the cultivators’ understanding and Wang Quan began absorbing it into his Purple Mansion.

• Ruo Jinghong suggested pulling Wang Quan’s slowly rising golden core out of Three-Legged Cauldron Mountain, and the cultivators agreed to help.
• Wang Quan, the cultivators, and the ghosts and gods hauled the golden core upward, enduring the mountain’s intense flames until it broke free.
• Wang Quan chanted an incantation, and the golden core shot through the boundary between the Underworld and the mortal world.
• The golden core’s arrival brought auspicious manifestations, golden lotuses, and new veins across thirty thousand li, benefiting living beings, ghosts, and monsters.
• The golden core’s heartbeat enhanced the cultivators’ understanding, and Ying Jiaren, Ruo Jinghong, Beitang Xue, and the others began reading Daoist scriptures.
• Wang Quan released his Purple Mansion and began absorbing the golden core into it.

Wang Quan struggled to accommodate the Bright Moon Golden Core, whose immense power cracked his Purple Mansion until its inhabitants and treasures worked to hold it together. Chu Zhaoren revealed herself within the core and explained that she had hoped to return to the mortal world, then withdrew and let the Golden Core settle into Wang Quan’s Purple Mansion.

• Ying Jiaren and others guarded Wang Quan as he began accommodating the Bright Moon Golden Core, while Mei Niang tried to distract him and then gathered cultivators to practice Beautiful Lady Yu.
• As the Golden Core nearly entered the Purple Mansion, its growing size cracked buildings, so Wang Quan sent monsters and martial artists to repair and brace them and used his Magic Treasures to stabilize the damage.
• Wang Quan questioned the Golden Core and learned that Chu Zhaoren had been waiting for a chance to return to the mortal world through Bright Moon, but his foundations could not yet bear her.
• Chu Zhaoren said she had died in the primordial chaos and told Wang Quan to seek the Great Unification Epoch Belt if he could enter it.
• Chu Zhaoren withdrew from the Golden Core, which shrank to normal size and entered the Purple Mansion as the damaged structure rumbled.

Wang Quan’s Golden Core and Purple Mansion merged, transforming his inner world and giving him a prolonged surge in wisdom. He selected a framework of one hundred and eight Divine Ability classifications and completed his advancement into a Golden Core Cultivator.

• The restored Purple Mansion took shape, and Wang Quan allowed the turtle monster to carry its Hall Pillar as Baxia.
• During the merging’s surge of clarity, Wang Quan studied the one hundred and eight Divine Ability categories and selected all of them, then refined his choices to three hundred and twenty-four smaller classifications.
• The Golden Core and Purple Mansion imprinted themselves upon each other, while the Yang Spirit and Foundation Establishment Dao Platform received matching patterns.
• The Heavenly Gang and Earthly Sha merged into the Golden Core, which became the Great Sun above the expanding Purple Mansion.
• Wang Quan fully mastered [People today see not the moon of ancient times, only the bright moon of that year first shining upon mankind] and became a Golden Core Cultivator.

Wang Quan completed his Golden Core after fifty-five years of refinement, and learned it could hold ten million strands of Dharma Power. As his companions celebrated, they explained that Orthodox Golden Cores were exceptionally difficult to obtain, leaving the scale of his achievement clear.

• Wang Quan emerged from his cultivation, and Ruo Jinghong, Beitang Xue, Ying Jiaren, Mei Niang, and the other Golden Core cultivators congratulated him.
• Wang Quan checked his Dao Seal and revealed that his Golden Core could hold ten million strands of Dharma Power, astonishing the gathered cultivators.
• Ruo Jinghong and the others organized a feast, using monsters' blood essence and Tongtong's Yellow Steed Aura to prepare wine while Ying Jiaren summoned sprites to serve it.
• Mei Niang boasted that she would win Wang Quan, but Ying Jiaren beat her into silence.
• A Great Void Gate cultivator explained that New-Method Golden Cores held far less Dharma Power and that even one Orthodox Golden Core was hard to obtain.

Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren traveled together through the lands transformed by the Golden Core Manifestations, then began following the Fury River to find its source. They learned that the river’s waters could not be depleted and continued toward a legendary mechanical dam said to lie another hundred thousand li away.

• After the cultivators ended their feast, Ruo Jinghong, Mei Niang, and the others returned to the Polar Lands, while Ying Jiaren stayed with Wang Quan.
• Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren revisited the Drowning Dao Lower Court and nearby mountains, where Wang Quan discovered that True Solar Fire had burned away every anomaly in the Lishui Lower Court.
• Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren decided to trace the Fury River to its source, despite traveling beyond the thirty-thousand-li region without finding it.
• A powerful cultivator invited Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren to join his sect, but Ying Jiaren said they belonged to the Drowning Dao and Wang Quan declined.
• As they continued upstream, sects told Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren that the Fury River remained unchanged despite enormous water withdrawals and that a mechanical dam stood another hundred thousand li ahead.

Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren traveled upstream along the Fury River, witnessing its enormous mechanical dam and learning about the mist and stone figures near the river’s source. They continued toward the source as more cultivators and greater demons gathered, while a local cultivator recalled how the opening of the Polar Lands had reduced the number of distant visitors.

• Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren reached the vast mechanical dam, where monsters and cultivators gathered resources and built enormous magical siege equipment.
• Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren spotted a rotating patch of light over distant mountains and hurried upstream to avoid trouble.
• A greater demon invited Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren to travel together, but they declined and continued on their own.
• Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren encountered ancient stone figures that kept order and rescued those lost in the terrifying water mist.
• A cultivator explained that the mist came from spray near the Fury River’s source and that fewer distant cultivators had visited since the Polar Lands opened.

Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren followed the Fury River upstream and discovered that only cultivators with powerful foundations could ascend to its highest regions. They learned that even Legend Cultivators had never reached the river’s true source, leaving them one step away from a destination no one had seen.

• Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren saw the Fury River pouring down from an enormous sky vortex and sensed an ancient, desolate aura.
• Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren flew upstream through the cascading river, passing demons and cultivators as the river grew vast around them.
• Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren learned that a cultivator’s foundation determined how high they could ascend, and that ordinary Golden Core Cultivators could not reach their level.
• Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren passed Dao Seal Golden Core Cultivators, whose foundations and speed fell short of theirs.
• Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren reached a region occupied by sparse Dao Seal Primordial Spirit and Dharma Form Cultivators, who explained that no Legend Cultivator had ever reached the Fury River’s source.

Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren ascended the Fury River and reached a cloud platform where cultivators, including the nine-tailed fox Yaoyao, gathered. Yaoyao invited the newcomers to continue toward the river’s true source.

• Ying Jiaren and Wang Quan continued climbing while the other cultivators stayed behind to await the Legend Cultivators’ lectures.
• Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren reached a cloud platform occupied by cultivators from many realms and the great demon Yaoyao.
• Yaoyao mistook Wang Quan’s rosy light, wine, and Seventy-Two Paths of Smoke and Dust for signs that her legendary beloved had arrived, but a cultivator pointed out that Ying Jiaren matched those signs too.
• The cultivators teased Yaoyao and examined Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren, leaving the pair unsettled by their strange behavior.
• Yaoyao asked Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren whether they wanted to pursue the Fury River’s true source, and Wang Quan agreed and invited everyone to go together.

Wang Quan, Ying Jiaren, and Nine-Tailed Yaoyao climbed toward the source of the Fury River and discovered it was a history fragment containing the Glazed Glass River and a youth called the Great Lord of the Azure Heaven. When the youth recognized Wang Quan, the fragment pulled Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren inside.

• Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren continued upward with Nine-Tailed Yaoyao, while the other Legend Cultivators stopped as they reached their limits.
• Nine-Tailed Yaoyao explained that announcing their names could build a foundation for future legend points, then stayed behind as Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren pressed on.
• Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren found a vast crystal fragment containing the Glazed Glass River and learned that it was a history fragment linked to the Great Lord of the Azure Heaven.
• Ying Jiaren reasoned that they could reach the source because they had killed a historical anchor point in another history fragment.
• Wang Quan decided to enter the fragment despite Ying Jiaren's concerns, believing his Bright Moon Golden Core and martial skills would help him survive.
• The youth inside the fragment recognized Wang Quan, and the fragment trembled and pulled Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren inside.

Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren entered a fragment of history where their cultivation was suppressed and challenged a young Lord Azure Heaven. Wang Quan’s confidence in the advances of new-era martial arts collapsed when the youth shattered his strongest seal and followed with a deadly Peacock Fist.

• Ying Jiaren sensed that her cultivation and physical strength had been suppressed, while Wang Quan saw the historical fragment as an opportunity to defeat the youth.
• Wang Quan approached the youth and claimed that modern martial arts had surpassed the crude techniques of the old era.
• The youth charged with a mantis-shaped martial technique as the old fisherman warned him not to take Wang Quan’s attack head-on.
• Wang Quan used Cover the Sky with One Hand, but the youth countered with the Heaven-Overturning Seal and shattered Wang Quan’s hand.
• The youth caught up with the flying Wang Quan and struck with Peacock Fist, leaving Wang Quan unable to find a martial art that could block it.

Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren were overwhelmed by the ancient youth, who explained that ruthless resolve let him use his full strength. He offered to train them, and they attacked him together, but neither could come close to harming him.

• Wang Quan used his remaining techniques to block the youth’s Peacock Fist, but the blow sent him into the fisherman’s grave pit, badly injured.
• Ying Jiaren told the fisherman to enlarge the pit so she could share Wang Quan’s grave, then the youth criticized their weak fighting spirit.
• The youth told Wang Quan to harbor the will to slaughter all living beings and described killing loved ones to eliminate weaknesses before battle.
• The youth said he had killed everyone who knew how to extend life with human skins, then offered to help Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren improve their strength.
• The youth forced Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren to attack him, repeatedly knocking them into the grave pit while his clothes remained untouched.

Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren encountered an ancient youth in the historical fragment, who strengthened them before sending them out. After returning with golden bodies and greatly enhanced [Life Cultivation], Wang Quan briefly reentered the fragment and came back battered, then he and Ying Jiaren prepared to preach the Dao.

• The youth defeated Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren, told them about the [Glazed Glass River]'s source, and warned them to leave before they became bound to the historical fragment.
• The youth denied knowing the historical anchor points Wang Quan described, then sent them out and said they could call him [Emperor].
• Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren returned from the fragment with golden flesh, sinews, bones, and organs covered in strange patterns, and their injuries healed without using Dharma power or [Life Cultivation].
• Wang Quan's [Life Cultivation] power surged, and he wondered whether he could beat the youth if he went back into the fragment.
• Wang Quan reappeared battered and claimed he had only had a nightmare, then he and Ying Jiaren agreed to preach the Dao and discuss impressive titles for themselves.

Nine-Tailed Yaoyao and the Legend Cultivators speculated that Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren had strengthened their foundations by slaying historical anchor points. Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren began preaching from above, and their listeners realized that their life-cultivation methods differed greatly from those of the present.

• Nine-Tailed Yaoyao returned to the Legend Cultivators and said Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren were still pursuing the source of the Fury River.
• The Legend Cultivators deduced that Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren had each slain a historical anchor point in the old era, explaining their exceptional foundations.
• The Legend Cultivators prepared to preach the Dao while waiting for Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren to return.
• Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren announced that they would preach the Dao to all living beings, and the creatures along the Fury River fell silent to listen.
• Nine-Tailed Yaoyao and the other listeners gained insights from the life-cultivation methods, then noticed that those methods differed from present-day ones.

Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren preached about life cultivation beneath the fragment, sharing insights gained from their brutal training. Their listeners gained powerful improvements and new abilities, and the chapter ended with the pair finishing their sermon as thanks poured toward them.

• Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren preached about life cultivation, demonstrating their insights as their organs and ribs manifested outside their bodies.
• A great monster used the sermon’s teachings to transform his blood, flesh, sinews, and bones, restoring his bloodline to its ancestral form.
• Unaffiliated cultivators imitated the monsters’ methods and strengthened their life cultivation, with one clever cultivator combining several methods to advance a realm.
• Legend Cultivators including Nine-Tailed Yaoyao awakened flesh-and-blood Divine Abilities suited to their cultivation and combat systems.
• Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren finished preaching and smiled at each other as thanks surged toward them from every direction.

Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren’s preaching strengthened the wild cultivators and great demons, while Wang Quan’s Legend Rating rose enough to unlock a legendary Title. They discovered that forging their respective Titles required vast quantities of materials and considered asking the [All-Under-Heaven Dao Court] to provide them instead of the next realm.

• The wild cultivators and great demons thanked Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren after their preaching, which empowered many demons and helped a fish demon revert into a Kunpeng.
• Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren’s Legend Ratings rose from 12 to 15, and Wang Quan realized his gains came from his connection to the taboo creature [Di].
• Wang Quan learned he could condense the Title [Bygone Days], but its blueprint required thirty-six million types of materials and spanned a million li.
• Ying Jiaren told Wang Quan she had obtained the Title [Temporal Projection], which would let her travel freely across the mortal world, Underworld, and Reincarnation if she could forge it.
• Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren decided to ask the [All-Under-Heaven Dao Court] for Title materials in place of the next realm.

Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren shared their Dao insights with the gathered cultivators before joining Nine-Tailed Yaoyao for a feast. Nine-Tailed Yaoyao asked about the Fury River and how to kill historical-fragment anchor points, and Wang Quan showed her the method as the three discussed the power of killing.

• Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren received no response from [the All-Under-Heaven Dao Court] about their resource request and joined the gathered Legend Cultivators and great demons.
• Nine-Tailed Yaoyao and the others expounded the Dao, then the cultivators departed level by level until only Nine-Tailed Yaoyao remained with Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren.
• Nine-Tailed Yaoyao invited Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren aboard her boat and asked what lay at the source of the Fury River.
• Wang Quan explained that the river flowed from a fragment of an era, and Nine-Tailed Yaoyao asked to learn how he had killed an anchor point.
• Wang Quan visualized how he killed Liu Yong, and Nine-Tailed Yaoyao laughed that killing could resolve anything despite her fear of being too weak to do so.

After hearing Nine-Tailed Yaoyao’s strange secrets, Wang Quan resolved to pursue the title [Bygone Days] as a source of hope against the coming cataclysms. The All-Under-Heaven Dao Court agreed in principle to his and Ying Jiaren’s resource application but summoned them to justify it.

• Nine-Tailed Yaoyao told Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren disturbing stories about great cultivators before leaving at dawn.
• Ying Jiaren suggested delaying the title project and focusing on cultivation, but Wang Quan explained why he needed to forge [Bygone Days] as a trump card and a source of hope.
• Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren received a projection from a member of the All-Under-Heaven Dao Court’s Polar Lands Fourth Division about their application.
• The Dao Court’s representative said the application was approved in principle but that senior figures wanted to question them about the materials and how they would benefit other cultivators.

Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren entered the hidden realm of powerful cultivators to explain why they wanted to forge Titles and what they would do with them. The figures remained unconvinced, warning that Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren might be the last beings ever to possess Titles.

• Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren entered a dark realm where candle flames containing watchful eyes questioned them about their plans for Titles.
• Wang Quan said he wanted to bring hope to ordinary cultivators, then revealed his knowledge of the coming Era Cataclysm and vowed to help weaker beings survive and rebuild the world.
• Wang Quan explained that he would fight the source of the cataclysm by killing evil beings in the Second-Layer World and clearing monsters from the Underworld, but the figures said they were already being hunted by stronger enemies.
• Ying Jiaren proposed making their Title-forging method public so the Dao Court could study it, but the figures explained that Titles were unique, costly, and likely near extinction.