Recaps

Jade-Playing Daoist Lian Nishang returned from a historical fragment and showed the others his memories, claiming he had gone there to show off. His memories revealed that he and his companions were defeated by the female historical anchor point, then won her favor and became intimate with her.

• Wang Quan and the other returning cultivators gave their memories to the great cultivators for analysis by the All-Under-Heaven Dao Court.
• Jade-Playing Daoist Lian Nishang emerged from the second vortex and told the great cultivators he wanted another chance to enter a historical fragment and show off.
• Lian Nishang projected his memories, revealing that he had possessed an ancient prodigy and could freely use spells and Fundamental Methods from the future.
• Lian Nishang and the other cultivators attacked the female historical anchor point, but she defeated them and left them kneeling before her.
• Lian Nishang and his companions clung to the woman, pleased her, and later sought her favor; Qing He watched and praised her.

Wang Quan explained that the Reincarnation King used nine historical anchor points and the Nine Dragons Contending for Succession method to become a new being across her past. After the others left the historical fragments, Wang Quan stayed behind to wait for Ying Jiaren and wondered whether he could enter her fragment.

• Wang Quan explained that Lian Nishang and eight others helped the Reincarnation King reincarnate through the Nine Dragons Contending for Succession method.
• The great cultivator deduced that killing the Reincarnation King after her reincarnation would require nine top experts to strike simultaneously at nine points in time.
• Lian Nishang and the others watched their memories of the Reincarnation King give birth to a girl before turning to ashes, and they regretted not arranging to receive anything from their descendant.
• After no one else emerged from the vortices, the cultivators departed, and Lian Nishang told Wang Quan the Dao Court would open the historical fragments again in three to five years.
• Wang Quan stayed by Ying Jiaren's vortex, and the great cultivator warned that people who spent longer in historical fragments were less likely to return.

Wang Quan entered the Historical Fragment after Ying Jiaren to find and rescue her, using Divine Abilities to locate her and the Anchor Point Yang Fan. He raced across an immense mountain range toward Yang Fan, but the chapter ended before he reached him.

• Wang Quan ignored advice to consolidate his gains and entered the vortex where Ying Jiaren had gone.
• Wang Quan descended into a Golden Core prodigy named Yang Fan and prepared to kill the Historical Anchor Point to end the fragment.
• Wang Quan used Divine Abilities to locate Ying Jiaren and Yang Fan, discovering that Ying Jiaren was alive and resisting his tracking.
• Wang Quan dispelled the Divine Ability on Ying Jiaren and locked onto Yang Fan, who did not resist being tracked.
• Wang Quan used Meteors Pierce Sparse Waters, the Moving Moon Reverses the Clouds to travel at tremendous speed toward Yang Fan.
• Wang Quan crossed into an immense mountain range filled with strange creatures and cultivators, but had not yet reached Yang Fan.

Wang Quan reached the ruined palace complex and found Ying Jiaren safe, with Yang Fan imprisoned and being tortured by her group. Ying Jiaren explained how they had used the Historical Fragment to train and grow stronger, then showed Wang Quan the complex and its connection to the Miracle Palace.

• A medicinal spirit proclaimed himself emperor and led monsters to attack nearby mountains as Wang Quan flew toward his destination.
• Wang Quan arrived at a valley filled with immense ruined palaces, hanging gardens, and lifelike reliefs, then met Ying Jiaren.
• Ying Jiaren led Wang Quan to the valley, where he saw Yang Fan impaled atop a magical artifact while spirit monsters, great monsters, and cultivators attacked him with thunderfire.
• Ying Jiaren said her group had trapped Yang Fan, repeatedly trained within the Historical Fragment, and gained powerful abilities, including her seventy-two Greater Divine Abilities and Golden Core Lifebound Divine Ability.
• Ying Jiaren revealed that a revived celestial maiden, a maidservant of [Emperor], had taught her methods to suppress Yang Fan.
• Ying Jiaren showed Wang Quan the palace complex, explaining that it was the outer perimeter of the [Miracle Palace] and pointing out its ancient monster reliefs and unusual plants.

Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren explored a ruined palace, where Wang Quan used his time trait to restore the heads of the petrified flying maidens. The flying maid explained Jiaren’s connection to the Great Lord of the Azure Heaven and the nature of [Heaven], leaving Wang Quan wondering how spreading his face across the sky might strengthen his Divine Ability.

• Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren found that the palace’s flying-maiden reliefs were living people whose heads had been separated from their bodies by the power of time.
• Wang Quan used his time trait to reattach the flying maidens’ heads, and Ying Jiaren led him to ask the surviving flying maid for a reward.
• The flying maid thanked Wang Quan and offered to share ancient history after explaining that the palace pillars could be refined into extraordinary treasures only with an Aberrant Human.
• The flying maid revealed that she had appeared because Ying Jiaren carried the aura of the Great Lord of the Azure Heaven, who had punched and kicked her.
• The flying maid explained that [Emperor] was one title of the Great Lord of the Azure Heaven, and that in her era the sky and celestial bodies formed [Heaven]’s face and eyes.
• Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren recalled [Emperor]’s words about having their faces occupy one percent of a continent’s sky, and Wang Quan wondered whether spreading his face across the firmament could strengthen [Shift Stars and Transpose the Dipper].

The flying maid told Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren about the war between eras and the Great Lord of the Azure Heaven, then Ying Jiaren explained the repeating historical fragment and its cultivators. Wang Quan met Xu Daoshou, who was torturing the anchor point Yang Fan, and claimed the All-Under-Heaven Dao Court could find a way to leave even if they failed to clear the anchor point.

• The flying maid told Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren that the war scattered the Great Lord of the Azure Heaven's palaces across different eras and warned that hearing his full titles would be fatal.
• The flying maid rested after explaining that she was lonely, while Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren played together in a small garden.
• Ying Jiaren explained that the historical fragment repeated every hundred years and that cultivators gathered materials and refined divine abilities.
• Wang Quan met Xu Daoshou, who was researching the historical anchor point Yang Fan by sawing his arms and releasing insects into his blood vessels.
• Wang Quan told Xu Daoshou and Yang Fan that the All-Under-Heaven Dao Court had developed spells and divine abilities that might let them leave the fragment, and Yang Fan challenged him to do what the Young Master had failed to do.

Wang Quan broke Yang Fan’s resolve by threatening to make his historical fragment a place of endless study and humiliation, then persuaded him to reveal its resource sites. Yang Fan learned that Ying Jiaren intended to keep him alive as the fragment’s anchor, leaving him to ask Wang Quan to scatter flowers for his ending.

• Wang Quan described how the Dao Court would repeatedly use Yang Fan’s historical fragment as a training ground and study him across countless eras.
• Yang Fan agreed to trade his treasures and knowledge of resource sites for the promise that Wang Quan would eventually kill him for good.
• Yang Fan listed the fragment’s many valuable resource sites, shocking Ying Jiaren, Wang Quan, and the others.
• Ying Jiaren declared that Yang Fan would remain alive to maintain and reset the fragment, and she ordered Xu Daoshou not to hurt him.
• Xu Daoshou vowed to protect Yang Fan, who asked Wang Quan to scatter flowers for his ending.

Wang Quan and the cultivators captured Yang Fan after history reset and found that he had shut off his consciousness. Wang Quan then went to recruit medicinal spirits to gather resources, but when they refused, he threatened them with his paper-cut iron pot.

• Wang Quan told Yang Fan he would have to keep the Historical Fragment running for about seven hundred years, so Yang Fan shut off his consciousness.
• A cultivator left the fragment to measure time in the Real World, and history reset shortly afterward.
• Ying Jiaren bound Yang Fan with a Divine Ability, and the cultivators discovered he could not perceive anything outside himself.
• Wang Quan followed Ying Jiaren's advice and went to the ruined palaces to recruit medicinal spirits as helpers.
• When the medicinal spirits refused to work for him, Wang Quan cut out an iron pot and threatened to make them leave behind their medicinal properties.

Wang Quan defeated the medicinal spirits and persuaded them to gather resources for him as mountain kings. They enlisted spirit monsters to gather and refine starlight, while Wang Quan began refining divine abilities.

• Wang Quan fought the medicinal spirits, shrinking to their size and overpowering them with magic treasures and divine abilities.
• The medicinal spirits surrendered, and Wang Quan taught them how to gather the resources he needed.
• Wang Quan sent the medicinal spirits out as mountain kings and promised to protect them if they worked properly.
• The medicinal spirits forced spirit monsters to gather starlight and taught them the trade, promising they could gain freedom and become masters themselves.
• The medicinal spirits refined the gathered starlight and stored it in gourds while Wang Quan began refining divine abilities.

Wang Quan refined [Shift Stars and Transpose the Dipper] and mastered more than a hundred top-tier Divine Abilities through repeated historical resets. When a Legend Golden Core brought news that the All-Under-Heaven Dao Court was recruiting monstrous talents and offering resources in exchange for their places, Wang Quan decided to return for a specified top-tier resource.

• Wang Quan spent thirty historical resets refining the Lesser and Greater Divine Abilities needed for [Shift Stars and Transpose the Dipper].
• Wang Quan combined thirteen Greater Divine Abilities and hundreds of Lesser Divine Abilities into a hundred-li galaxy, creating the top-tier killing Divine Ability at the cost of ten million strands of Dharma Power.
• Wang Quan continued refining top-tier Divine Abilities through a thousand historical resets and mastered more than a hundred of them while studying Daoist Scriptures with Jiaren.
• A Legend Golden Core returned from the Real World and reported that the great cultivators had contacted the All-Under-Heaven Dao Court about sending monstrous talents into the Historical Fragment for secluded cultivation.
• The Golden Core explained that those who left could receive a free top-tier advancement resource or request a specified top-tier resource, leaving the others torn over whether to stay or return.
• Wang Quan chose to return and request a specified top-tier resource because refining the remaining Divine Abilities had become slower than doing so in the Real World.

Wang Quan left Ying Jiaren to seek materials from the All-Under-Heaven Dao Court to forge his Golden Core Lifebound Divine Ability. He revealed that the ability required burning around a hundred billion Golden Cores, leaving the Dao Court cultivators stunned.

• Wang Quan told Ying Jiaren he was leaving to use the All-Under-Heaven Dao Court's promise to obtain materials for his Lifebound Divine Ability.
• Wang Quan visited the flying celestial maid, who shared ancient history and asked him to tell the Great Lord of the Azure Heaven that they were still waiting for him.
• Wang Quan gave the medicinal spirits to Ying Jiaren as their new master, and Ying Jiaren vowed to catch up with him and face the Era Cataclysm together.
• Wang Quan emerged from the vortex and asked the All-Under-Heaven Dao Court for the materials to forge his Lifebound Divine Ability.
• Wang Quan said his Divine Ability needed tens or hundreds of billions of Golden Cores as fuel, shocking the Dao Court cultivators.

Wang Quan asked the All-Under-Heaven Dao Court for eighty to a hundred billion Golden Cores to refine a powerful Divine Ability, and the Court debated whether to grant his request. The Court ultimately honored its promise and began gathering and counting the Golden Cores for delivery.

• Wang Quan asked the All-Under-Heaven Dao Court's great cultivators when they would launch the Cloud-Piercing Arrow to contact the Court about his requested resources.
• A Legend Golden Core emerged from the Historical Fragment, handed over resources from inside, and requested top-tier resources for One-Way Passage as his reward.
• The Dao Court's bigwigs argued over Wang Quan's demand, with some objecting to the enormous cost and others supporting the need for powerful cultivators before the Era Cataclysm.
• A top-ranking bigwig ordered the Court to honor its promise and provide Wang Quan with the Golden Cores, while monitoring how he used them.
• The bigwigs requisitioned Golden Cores and enlisted ghost deities and their descendants to transport and count them.

Wang Quan received a torrent of Golden Cores from the Dao Court and used them to temper his Bright Moon Golden Core, where a mysterious woman began to take shape. The horse-faced ghost god delivered one hundred million Golden Cores, while another ghost god later tried to abduct cultivators to provide Wang Quan with a kickback.

• The great cultivators told Wang Quan that the Dao Court would deliver his requested resources, and the other cultivators also requested resources for [One-Way Passage].
• A horse-faced ghost god emerged from an Underworld fissure with a basket of Golden Cores and told Wang Quan to use them in front of him without giving anyone a kickback.
• Wang Quan opened his Purple Mansion furnace and absorbed the Golden Cores' flames into his Bright Moon Golden Core, where a graceful woman appeared and wondered what era it was.
• The horse-faced ghost god emptied his basket of one hundred million Golden Cores, then left after Wang Quan said he still needed more.
• The horse-faced ghost god warned another ghost god that Wang Quan had demanded more Golden Cores, and the second ghost god tried to abduct Golden Core Cultivators for a kickback before a Sky Patrol Magic Treasure caught him.

A black-robed ghost god harvested New-Method Cultivators’ golden cores and delivered them to Wang Quan, who used them to refine the [Bright Moon Golden Core]. The Dao Court discovered that some ghost gods had stolen cores from the delivery baskets and seized them for punishment.

• The black-robed ghost god harvested golden cores from wild New-Method Cultivators, leaving their Foundation Establishment Ancestors to kill the weakened Golden Core Ancestors and take control.
• The black-robed ghost god delivered his haul to Wang Quan, who burned the golden cores in his Purple Mansion furnace to refine the [Bright Moon Golden Core].
• The ghost god kept the golden cores Wang Quan did not demand as a kickback and encouraged other ghost gods to do the same.
• Some ghost gods began stealing golden cores directly from their baskets, while Wang Quan continued requesting more and the Dao Court supplied billions.
• The Dao Court secretly inspected the deliveries, caught ghost gods whose baskets were missing golden cores, and dragged them away as research materials.

Wang Quan revived his lifebound divine ability as an ancient woman awakened within his Golden Core, protected herself from the chains, and left him a life-saving blessing. His Dao Seal recorded the new ability, increased Legend Rating, and expanded legend descriptions, leaving Wang Quan puzzled about [Emperor]’s blessing and the missing General Compendium of Unorthodox Paths.

• Wang Quan burned vast resources to revive his lifebound divine ability while chains appeared and tried to bind the sleeping woman in his Golden Core.
• The woman woke, broke the chains, learned who had sent them, and sealed the Golden Core against further intrusion.
• Unable to kill the chains’ owner through Temporal Projection, the woman saw Wang Quan, recognized his connection to [Emperor], and left a life-saving measure in his foundation before transforming into a galaxy.
• Wang Quan’s divine ability, [The Starry River Turns in Heaven, Curtains Fall in the Mortal World], was born, and his Dao Seal recorded its powers and restrictions.
• Wang Quan’s Dao Seal showed eleven additional Legend Rating points and new details about his legend, including a blessing from an ancient and mysterious being.
• Wang Quan wondered whether [Emperor] had blessed him and why the General Compendium of Unorthodox Paths was absent from his Dao Seal.

Wang Quan completed his Lifebound Divine Ability and was ordered by the Dao Court to demonstrate its power. After a ten-day journey with a female Grotto Heaven Cultivator, he reached the First Layer of the Underworld, where he was warned that the battlefield’s enemies were impossible to identify clearly.

• Wang Quan told the great cultivators that his Divine Ability was complete, and the Dao Court ordered him to demonstrate it for possible wider use.
• A female cultivator took Wang Quan aboard her handkerchief Magic Treasure and hosted him during their ten-day journey.
• The handkerchief arrived in the First Layer of the Underworld, a strange region formed from fused realms and fragments of other places.
• The female cultivator warned Wang Quan to keep a low profile on the nearby battlefield and explained that its enemies included many kinds of beings, sometimes even humans.

Wang Quan traveled with the female cultivator through a battlefield where powerful beings were pinned beneath Magic Treasures and Divine Abilities. She explained that the captives were not worth rescuing and warned him about Myth Creatures and the danger ahead.

• Wang Quan endured the slicing wind as he and the female cultivator flew across a desolate battlefield littered with broken Magic Treasures and trapped beings.
• Wang Quan suggested rescuing the captives, but the female cultivator dismissed them as weaklings and explained that their grudges kept them from helping one another escape.
• The female cultivator used Sword Qi to silence a white ghost pinned beneath a banner while nearby captives argued and refused to cooperate.
• As they passed stronger captives beneath intact Magic Treasures, the female cultivator told Wang Quan that only Legends were worth consideration and warned him to yield to Myth Creatures.
• The female cultivator revealed that Legends could become Myths at a Legend Rating of one hundred, though no one had explained the transformation to the Human Race.
• After they reached a region where Divine Abilities suppressed severed body parts, the female cultivator warned Wang Quan that the limbs belonged to Legend powerhouses and that he must not listen to them.

Wang Quan and the female cultivator crossed regions where divine abilities and mirror fragments suppressed powerful beings, then entered a false world sustained by the battlefield’s endless fighting. They neared their destination as Wang Quan asked what the battlefield was called.

• Wang Quan refused True Person Six Yang's thigh, which begged him to free it, and continued onward.
• The female cultivator explained that mirror fragments from Purple Mansions, Blessed Lands, and Grotto Heavens sealed [One-Way Passage]-level experts.
• Wang Quan learned that a Purple Mansion merged with the Inner Landscape could hold the Foundation Establishment Dao Platform, Golden Core, and Yin Spirit, and he and the female cultivator laughed over the path his life had taken.
• Wang Quan and the female cultivator crossed a vast region where fragments fell from the sky, then entered a false world that could only be shattered through continued slaughter.
• The pair crossed battlefields where bizarre beings fought, saw Evil, and neared their destination before Wang Quan asked what the battlefield was called.

Wang Quan arrived at the Heavenly Gate Battlefield and agreed to face Shibi Tianluo, a Golden Core genius who had killed thirteen Legend Golden Cores. As both armies waited for Shibi Tianluo to appear, the crowd mocked Wang Quan and expected him to lose.

• The female cultivator explained the Ninth Heavenly Gate and brought Wang Quan to the All-Under-Heaven Dao Court's army.
• A serpent-riding cultivator asked Wang Quan to fight Shibi Tianluo, and Wang Quan accepted despite the female cultivator's concern.
• Wang Quan said he had refined his divine ability using around a hundred billion Golden Cores, astonishing the two cultivators.
• The serpent-riding cultivator announced Wang Quan's challenge to both armies, while a Dao Court cultivator and a three-headed tiger demon warned and mocked him.
• Shibi Tianluo's side said he was bathing and changing, so Wang Quan waited as the gathered beings doubted his chances.

Wang Quan waited on the Heavenly Gate Battlefield for Shibi Tianluo to appear so he could test his newly refined Divine Ability. Shibi Tianluo finally arrived and attacked Wang Quan at full strength, just as Wang Quan prepared to unleash his technique.

• Wang Quan remained in the Golden Core Realm while other experts fought, refusing to leave or choose another opponent.
• Wang Quan told the giant serpent cultivator that his Divine Ability might be too powerful for even Shibi Tianluo to test its limits.
• A three-headed tiger announced that Shibi Tianluo would arrive at twilight, and Shibi Tianluo appeared as the sun began to set.
• Shibi Tianluo mistook Wang Quan's purpose and declared him unworthy, then attacked with his golden bell, treasured pagoda, and Legacy Purple Mansions.
• Wang Quan said he would show Shibi Tianluo his Divine Ability, but Shibi Tianluo interrupted him and ordered him to die.

Wang Quan used his Lifebound Divine Ability to erase Shibi Tianluo and reveal the reality beyond the Heavenly Gate Battlefield’s false sky. The star river then traveled backward through time to Shibi Tianluo’s childhood, where he asked his master to avenge him.

• Wang Quan summoned a river of stars from his eyes and immobilized Shibi Tianluo as the sky split open above the Heavenly Gate Battlefield.
• A starry night spread across the battlefield, and the river of stars swallowed Wang Quan and Shibi Tianluo.
• The river of stars destroyed Shibi Tianluo, his Magic Treasures, and his realms as Wang Quan named his Divine Ability.
• The river of stars traveled a hundred years into the past, where the six-year-old Shibi Tianluo told his master he had died and begged for revenge.

Shibi Tianluo’s account of being killed by Wang Quan caused his master to glimpse Wang Quan’s Divine Ability, which reached backward through time and killed Shibi again. In the real world, Wang Quan’s river of stars swept through the city and vanished into the distorted sky.

• Shibi Tianluo told his master and fellow disciples that Wang Quan would kill him in the future.
• Shibi Tianluo’s master asked him to visualize Wang Quan’s Divine Ability, but Shibi could not reproduce it.
• Wang Quan’s river of stars crossed time and killed Shibi Tianluo again, destroying his historical fragment.
• Shibi Tianluo’s master realized the Divine Ability had traveled upstream through time and could not warn his original self.
• In the real world, Wang Quan’s river of stars tore through the city, crushed its defenses, and surged into the scarlet, distorted sky.

Wang Quan’s Divine Ability left the experts on the Heavenly Gate Battlefield unable to analyze or even remember it safely. After they erased their memories to stop its power from spreading, they pressured the giant serpent cultivator to contact Wang Quan and teach them the technique.

• Wang Quan’s Divine Ability distorted the Heavenly Gate Battlefield and revealed a vast, grotesque landscape beneath its false sky.
• The experts failed to reproduce or analyze the Divine Ability, so they examined their memories and saw rivers of stars emerging from their eyes.
• The experts crushed their brains and erased their memories, while detached eyeballs became dancing little people before a giant foot crushed them.
• The experts confronted the giant serpent cultivator who had welcomed Wang Quan and demanded that he ask Wang Quan to teach them the Divine Ability.
• The giant serpent cultivator claimed that cultivating the Divine Ability required tens of billions of Golden Cores, leaving the experts stunned and silent.

After Wang Quan’s divine ability exposed the bloody truth behind the sky, experts fled the Heavenly Gate Battlefield, while the Dao Court discussed how to use his power and recruit him for future work. Wang Quan learned that his ability had killed Shibi Tianluo and gained Legend Rating, then agreed to keep entering Historical Fragments as the Dao Court sought his help expanding safe zones.

• The One-Way Passage experts left the Heavenly Gate Battlefield after seeing the twisted, bloody scene behind the sky, and lower-realm cultivators fled after learning why.
• A headless giant trapped beneath a shield begged for help, but the fleeing beings abandoned him and a ghostly deity mocked his efforts to escape.
• At Cloud Kerchief Courtyard, the mistress praised Wang Quan’s divine ability and asked about its structure, but he said he could not explain how he unleashed it.
• The mistress relayed the Dao Court’s request for Wang Quan to enter future Historical Fragments and create another infinitely resetting fragment, while Wang Quan said he would keep entering them.
• Wang Quan’s Dao Register reported that he had killed the Historical Anchor Point Shibi Tianluo, destroyed a city, and gained Legend Rating, leaving him wondering whether his divine ability had pursued the target on its own.
• The mistress said the Dao Court wanted Wang Quan to expand safe zones in the Polar Lands’ third and fourth layers and establish corresponding zones in the Underworld.

Stone City prepared an extravagant celebration for Wang Quan’s return, with Officiant and the others eager to welcome the pillar they feared might never come back. As the preparations reached their height, sand eagles announced that Lord Flower-Scatter was approaching on a Cloud of Auspiciousness, carrying the sun.

• Stone City’s spirits decorated buildings, positioned thousands of cannons, and prepared food and entertainment for Wang Quan’s homecoming.
• Mei Niang gathered female cultivators and demons to welcome Wang Quan, while Ruo Jinghong groomed Tongtong and rode her into the clouds to await him.
• Officiant, Dream, Fairy Qin, and the Drowning Dao Lower Court’s old members arranged lanterns, performances, and magical dreams across the city.
• Officiant gazed into the distance as sand eagles arrived and announced that Lord Flower-Scatter had returned on a Cloud of Auspiciousness, carrying the sun.