Recaps

Wang Quan unleashed his Lifebound Divine Ability, [The Starry River Turns Above, the Curtains Fall Upon the Mortal World], which erased nearly everything within a thousand li and trapped the chariot youth. As the youth charged into the collapsing starry river, he realized the Divine Ability reached backward through time and wondered whether it had killed him in childhood.

• Wang Quan summoned an unprecedented black night that swallowed the Evil beings and other things within a thousand li, leaving their True Spirits to join the starry river.
• Wang Quan sensed another hidden being near him and replenished his Dharma Power with Golden Cores and Outer Elixirs to strengthen his Divine Ability.
• The chariot youth gathered the sea of fire into a scarlet cape, merged the silkworm with his chariot, and charged toward the starry river.
• The chariot youth realized he could not escape the Divine Ability and that even the silkworm would die with him.
• The chariot youth remembered seeing a similar starry river in childhood and concluded that Wang Quan's Divine Ability could kill across the past and present.

Wang Quan’s Divine Ability killed the Chariot Youth and the youth in black, revealing its three transformations. After the last of the seventy-two rebel kings died, Wang Quan’s Seventy-Two Paths of Smoke and Dust began transforming into a Magic Treasure.

• The Chariot Youth attacked the youth in black, then abandoned the fight when the river of stars formed an eye and cut off his life force.
• The youth in black shrank back into essence, qi, and spirit, and his True Spirit merged into the river of stars.
• Wang Quan explained that his Divine Ability had three transformations and that the Chariot Youth had died to its first change within its second form.
• The Chariot Youth’s True Spirit merged into the river of stars, and the last of the seventy-two rebel kings died.
• Wang Quan’s Dao Seal and Seventy-Two Paths of Smoke and Dust pulsed, and the smoke and dust began transforming into a flight-escape Magic Treasure bearing seventy-two banners.

Wang Quan's seventy-two traits merged into Havoc, granting him Divine Abilities tied to rebellion, war, and death. He tested Death Declaration by making an epitaph for Chariot Youth, whose figure appeared on it as the chapter ended.

• Wang Quan watched the seventy-two traits combine into Havoc, which gave him the traits Calamity: Rebellion, Calamity: War, and Calamity: Death.
• Wang Quan learned that Raise the Banner of Revolt empowered rebels, War Horn incited fighting, and Death Declaration bound the dead as Historical Anchor Points in his history.
• Wang Quan summoned paper workers to forge a gravestone and carved an epitaph for Chariot Youth.
• Wang Quan used Death Declaration to proclaim Chariot Youth dead, spending one hundred thousand streams of Dharma Power.
• Chariot Youth's figure appeared on the epitaph after Wang Quan's declaration burned into it.

Wang Quan revived Chariot Youth and the black-clad youth as tombstone-bound guardians, then organized evil beings to expand his influence in the Third Layer before visiting the Fourth Layer. He learned the Fourth Layer’s safe-zone efforts were progressing and heard that Black Hand was thriving and might have found a fortuitous opportunity.

• Wang Quan carved an epitaph for the black-clad youth, named him Abrupt Youth, and bound him alongside Chariot Youth to guard history.
• Chariot Youth and Abrupt Youth argued and tried to fight, then realized Wang Quan had left them trapped in the silent land.
• Wang Quan washed and refined evil beings’ brains, organized them into seventy-two rebel forces, and sent them expanding across the Third Layer.
• Wang Quan visited the Fourth Layer, where Ruo Jinghong and Mei Niang told him that establishing a safe zone had become easier and that its temporary area had grown to three feet across.
• Mei Niang told Wang Quan that Black Hand was thriving and seemed reluctant to return, prompting Wang Quan to wonder whether he had found a fortuitous opportunity.

Black Hand built an enormous army of evil creatures and dreamed of ruling the fourth-layer world. Wang Quan gave him the [Heavenly Tribulation Killer] Divine Ability, intensifying Black Hand’s ambition, and Black Hand began organizing his followers into an army to conquer the world.

• Black Hand gathered more than a hundred million evil creatures and declared that he would unite the fourth-layer world and be crowned king.
• Wang Quan arrived and asked Black Hand whether he had found a route for the Route Runners, but Black Hand refused to return to route running.
• Wang Quan gave Black Hand the modified [Heavenly Tribulation Killer] Divine Ability so he could nurture Tribulation Qi Magic Treasures.
• Black Hand’s followers tried to attack Wang Quan by swinging chains of evil creatures at him, but Wang Quan escaped on the Seventy-Two Paths of Smoke and Dust.
• The Divine Ability strengthened Black Hand’s ambition, and he named his followers imperial guards and ordered them to make banners, armor, and weapons for his army.
• King Black Hand led his newly organized forces to wage war in every direction and help him be crowned king.

King Black Hand’s repeated rebellions and battles caused strange objects to emerge from his belly, while Wang Quan’s planted Divine Ability eventually produced a Tribulation Qi Magic Treasure. Wang Quan prepared to return to the Mortal World before entering the third historical fragment, despite warnings about its dangers.

• King Black Hand grew stronger by leading Evils through repeated rebellions, slaughtering rebels and absorbing their survivors.
• Black Hand’s belly split open, releasing a black pearl that flew toward the ruins corresponding to Stone City; more strange objects emerged after later battles.
• In the Fourth Layer Evil World, Evils were drawn into Wang Quan’s Purple Palace Magic Treasure, where their essence, qi, and spirit helped it evolve.
• Wang Quan’s Seventy-Two Paths of Smoke and Dust captured the black pearl, revealing that his [Heavenly Tribulation Killer] Divine Ability had produced a weak Tribulation Qi Magic Treasure.
• Wang Quan told Mei Niang and Ruo Jinghong that he would return to the Mortal World to prepare for the third historical fragment, which he had promised the [All-Under-Heaven Dao Court] to enter.

Wang Quan returned to the Historical Fragments after checking on the safe zone and learned that Ying Jiaren had left a message asking him to visit. He entered her Historical Fragment and found herb spirits rebuilding the palace, but they fled at the sight of him and called him the bad master.

• Wang Quan refused to take Ruo Jinghong and Mei Niang into a Historical Fragment, telling them to focus on establishing a safe zone in the Fourth Layer Evil World.
• Wang Quan inspected the rapidly expanding safe zone in the Second Layer Evil World, then contacted the All-Under-Heaven Dao Court about the third round of Historical Fragments.
• Wang Quan learned that the third batch had already opened and that cultivators had explored more than a thousand fragments, losing over thirty million Golden Core Cultivators.
• A great cultivator gave Wang Quan a pearl containing Ying Jiaren's message asking him to come see the maid, and helped him enter her Historical Fragment.
• Wang Quan arrived at the ruins and found herb spirits repairing the palace; they recognized him as the bad master and ran away.

Wang Quan visited Ying Jiaren and the maidservant from the Great Unification Era, learned the maidservant wanted him to ask the Taboo Emperor to visit, and waited for Ying Jiaren to regain consciousness. Ying Jiaren described her accomplishments and demonstrated her modified Lifebound Divine Ability with Wang Quan as they transformed and clashed outside.

• Wang Quan found Ying Jiaren cultivating amid Sandalwood Incense and learned from the maidservant that she wanted him to ask the Taboo Emperor whether he remembered her and would visit.
• The maidservant recounted how the Emperor had ended ancient calamities through slaughter, and Wang Quan agreed to speak with him.
• Ying Jiaren regained consciousness, explained that she had mastered a method for slowing her sense of time, and taught Wang Quan the cultivation method [Withering and Flourishing].
• Ying Jiaren said she had mastered and refined Golden Core Realm spells and divine abilities, then offered to teach Wang Quan her modified Lifebound Divine Ability.
• Ying Jiaren transformed into a phoenix and Wang Quan into a dragon, and they clashed outside as she revealed her ability: “the bright moon rises over the sea; across the ends of the earth, we share this moment!”

Wang Quan learned that Ying Jiaren would leave seclusion after refining her Golden Core abilities, and she gave him a vast collection of prepared divine abilities. After hearing that the Dao Court wanted him at a meeting in three years, Wang Quan went to the source of the Fury River, where he found cultivators of every level discussing an unusual duel.

• Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren ended their battle and discussed the Mortal World, and Ying Jiaren said she would establish Bitter Cold City after sorting out her gains through more historical resets.
• Ying Jiaren gave Wang Quan a box containing a hundred and eight thousand refined divine abilities, explaining that she had made a second set for herself.
• Wang Quan left the historical fragment and learned from the great cultivator that the All-Under-Heaven Dao Court wanted him to attend a meeting in three years.
• Wang Quan traveled to the source of the Fury River intending to spar with the [Taboo Emperor] and ask about the maidservant.
• Wang Quan noticed that cultivators and monsters along the river were discussing a duel, and he realized even primordial spirit dharma form and Dao Seal Cultivators were interested.

Wang Quan learned that New-Method Cultivators were gathering to fight for the Fury River’s source, then spoke with Nine-Tailed Yaoyao about the Peach Blossom Martial Emperor. After he revealed that he had found the Martial Emperor’s imperial scripture in the Third Layer of the Underworld, Yaoyao broke down in tears.

• Wang Quan learned that powerful New-Method Cultivators had formed an army and were advancing upstream along the Fury River, with some Orthodox Cultivators joining them.
• Wang Quan met Nine-Tailed Yaoyao near the source and heard her describe its benefits and her long years of dreaming about people and things she had lost.
• Wang Quan hesitated to tell Yaoyao that he had found a scroll of the Peach Blossom Martial Emperor’s Daoist scriptures.
• Wang Quan told Yaoyao that the imperial scripture mentioned a fox demon, peach blossoms, and Drunken Life, Dreaming Death, and Yaoyao began sobbing uncontrollably.

Wang Quan collected Yaoyao’s tear-gems and delivered her message to the Taboo Emperor, who gave him a box for her and explained his history with the Peach Blossom Martial Emperor. The Taboo Emperor urged Wang Quan to become an immortal so he could enter the true source, leaving Wang Quan plotting to find a faster way to improve.

• Wang Quan gave Yaoyao sacks to collect her gemstone tears, then brought her the Peach Blossom Martial Emperor’s Imperial Scripture, which made her weep again.
• Wang Quan told the Taboo Emperor about the maid’s situation, and the Taboo Emperor gave him a box to deliver to her.
• Wang Quan challenged the Taboo Emperor and was badly beaten despite using the Peach Blossom Martial Emperor’s techniques.
• The Taboo Emperor explained that he had sparred with Peach Blossom and described how Pathway pioneers and Martial Progenitors were recognized in his era.
• The Taboo Emperor urged Wang Quan to reach immortality so he could enter the true source and help confirm the traces of a living being.
• Wang Quan left the Era Fragment and considered harvesting Bump Spirit Monsters to accelerate his cultivation.

Wang Quan preached at the Fury River source, then agreed to join the coming spell duels between the New Method and the Old Cultivation Method. He returned to Stone City, recruited Officiant, Dream, and Fairy Qin, and began preparing for their journey to Drowning Dao Lower Court.

• Wang Quan preached for six hours, helping cultivators and spirits throughout the Fury River source gain insights and powers.
• Wang Quan found Nine-Tailed Yaoyao asleep, then agreed to join the spell duels after cultivators explained their significance and the unusual New-Method opponents.
• Wang Quan traveled back to Stone City and asked Ruo Jinghong and the others to participate, but they declined so they could focus on strengthening their foundations.
• Wang Quan invited Officiant, Dream, and Fairy Qin to the duels, and the three women eagerly agreed to prepare for the trip to Drowning Dao Lower Court.
• Wang Quan and the three women began arranging their supplies and life-saving measures before the journey.

Wang Quan prepared for the duel between the New Method and the Old Cultivation Method by recruiting Bump Spirit Monsters to help him harvest chives and assemble a grand entourage. He stored the brainwashers and more than a hundred thousand Monsters in Magic Treasure Blanks, ready to release them at the duel.

• Wang Quan visited the Bump Spirit Monsters and watched them wash the brains of Stone City residents, improving their cultivation as they worked.
• Wang Quan chose the 108 most skilled Bump Spirit Monsters and housed them in a garden Magic Treasure Blank, ordering them to wash brains and other body parts for him.
• Wang Quan summoned Great Wind-Driller and Little Wind-Driller and instructed them to recruit Monsters to bolster his presence at the duel.
• Great Wind-Driller and Little Wind-Driller assembled more than a hundred thousand Monsters for scattering flowers, waving flags, shouting, drumming, and carrying Wang Quan.
• Wang Quan stored the assembled Monsters in a small-city Magic Treasure Blank and installed it within the Seventy-Two Paths of Smoke and Dust.

Wang Quan hired Ghost Gods with Green Fly Coins to speed up construction of his title, promising further rewards if they finished before the Era Cataclysm. He learned they had been saving money to buy slots to become Innate Ghost Gods and promised to buy one himself, leaving the Ghost Gods working eagerly for a chance at a ten-thousand-mountain bonus.

• Wang Quan inspected the title construction and ordered the Ghost Gods to help build it faster.
• The Ghost Gods demanded Green Fly Coins, and Wang Quan agreed to pay them one mountain of money each day while their number remained at one thousand and one.
• The Ghost Gods explained that they wanted money to buy slots to become Innate Ghost Gods, and Wang Quan promised to buy a slot alongside them.
• The Ghost Gods took on the heavy construction work, greatly increasing the project's efficiency.
• Wang Quan promised each Ghost God ten thousand mountains of money if they completed the title before the Era Cataclysm, and they cheered and returned to work.

As Wang Quan prepared for a magical duel, his companions organized an elaborate show of support, from performances and special clothing to a cannon-powered fireworks display. Fairy Qin, Dream Nun, and the Officiant Daoist Nun finished their preparations and waited to cheer him on.

• Wang Quan asked Qian Xiuyue for more Green Fly Coins, which Qian Xiuyue considered insignificant beside the vast piles at the Drowning Dao Lower Court.
• Fairy Qin rallied three thousand demonesses and female spirits to accompany Wang Quan, perform at the banquet, and compete for his favor.
• Fairy Qin persuaded Dream Nun to design revealing clothes for their plans to entertain Wang Quan.
• The Officiant Daoist Nun awakened her spirit cannons and had them promise to fill the battlefield with fireworks after Wang Quan won.

Wang Quan brought the Officiant Daoist Nun, Dream Nun, and Fairy Qin back to Drowning Dao Lower Court, where they saw how much it had changed and visited Qian Xiuyue’s thriving Sun Flower base. At a feast, the women competed for influence around Wang Quan, and Fairy Qin prepared a dance performance.

• Ruo Jinghong declined Wang Quan’s invitation to the contest because she planned to refine her Primordial Spirit, but offered to help if he ran into trouble.
• Wang Quan took the Officiant Daoist Nun, Dream Nun, and Fairy Qin to Drowning Dao Lower Court, where they found the Market Ward transformed but No. 95 Courtyard still standing.
• Wang Quan brought the three women to Seven Maidens Mountain, where Qian Xiuyue welcomed them to her vast Sun Flower base and explained that the Lower Court spent money to keep its coin mountains from overwhelming the landscape.
• Qian Xiuyue and the Officiant Daoist Nun traded private threats as they led Wang Quan and the others to a lavish feast atop a mountain of Green Fly Coins.
• Senior Sister Round Face joined the women’s covert contest and drove the Officiant Daoist Nun, Dream Nun, and Fairy Qin into retreat, while Wang Quan drank and enjoyed the scenery.
• Fairy Qin opened a chest and announced that she had brought trained dancers to perform at the feast.

Wang Quan discussed the coming contest of spells and warned that Drowning Dao Lower Court’s wealth would attract the New Method, then inspected its vast Second Layer Evil World safe zone. He left the group preparing to defend their base as the contest approached.

• Wang Quan enjoyed the banquet’s performances before explaining that the contest of spells was an inevitable clash between Orthodox Cultivators and the New Method.
• Wang Quan warned that Drowning Dao Lower Court’s wealth and Green Fly Coins would draw the New Method, and he asked Qian Xiuyue and Senior Sister Round Face to defend the Mortal World and Second Layer Evil World.
• Senior Sister Round Face told Wang Quan that the safe zone covered a million li and that the sun and moon’s renewed power was making it expand faster.
• Wang Quan and the others inspected the safe zone, where Sun Flower Spirits recited scriptures to worship the sun and moon.
• Fairy Qin suggested that the Mortal World was not another Second-Layer World, and Wang Quan said the coming contest mattered more than whether the worlds were alike.

Wang Quan traveled toward the Fury River’s source and found the New Method occupying cities, destroying Orthodox teachings, and training forces with Orthodox Cultivators’ help. When a group of Orthodox Cultivators challenged him, they declared that the tide of the times had given them courage.

• Senior Sister Round Face and Qian Xiuyue formed an alliance to ask Wang Quan for benefits after the battle, while Qian Xiuyue’s Dao companions urged her to seek his bloodline for their lineage.
• Wang Quan, the Officiant, and the others saw that the New Method had occupied the cities along the Fury River and burned the Immortal-Tutoring Bureau’s teachings, replacing it with the Immortal-Welcoming Bureau.
• Wang Quan and his companions observed New-Method Cultivators drilling spells and formations, and Wang Quan said their limited repertoire made them easy to defeat.
• New-Method Cultivators fired more than ten thousand fireballs at Wang Quan’s Seventy-Two Paths of Smoke and Dust, but he raised the cloud and the attacks burst beneath it.
• A group of Orthodox Cultivators serving the New Method confronted Wang Quan and defended their choice, with one declaring that the tide of the times had given them courage to fight.

Wang Quan and his allies overwhelmed a group of New-Method Cultivators, and the Officiant Daoist Nun captured them in her sack. The group continued toward their destination while a white dove spirit carried a warning to Parting Fire City, drawing other spirit monsters along to watch the coming battle.

• Dream Nun knocked dozens of Orthodox Cultivators unconscious with her Dream Thunderfire, and the New-Method Cultivators were unable to reach the group in the sky.
• The Officiant Daoist Nun used her sack to capture the New-Method Cultivators, then discussed their usefulness with Wang Quan, who said harvesting would be worthwhile only once they reached Golden Core level.
• The Seventy-Two Paths of Smoke and Dust continued toward the source as the New-Method Cultivators returned to the city after chasing them.
• A New-Method leader sent a white dove spirit to warn the lord of Parting Fire City that a powerful enemy was approaching.
• The white dove spread news of the coming attack to spirits along its route, and they followed it toward Parting Fire City to watch.

The white dove spirit carried warnings along the Fury River while city lords claimed they had defeated Wang Quan with four thousand Golden Cores. At the twelfth city, Wang Quan accepted a vanguard post as the Old Cultivation Method prepared for contests of magic against the New Method.

• The lord of Parting Fire City told the white dove spirit that his forces had driven Wang Quan away with four thousand Golden Cores and sent the spirit to warn the next city.
• The white dove spirit traveled from city to city, hearing each lord repeat the same claim, and led the spirit monsters in chanting, “Four thousand Golden Cores defeat Wang Quan!”
• The great cultivators of the Old Cultivation Method established twelve cities and formations along the Fury River and appointed Wang Quan vanguard officer after telling him the post might bring favor.
• The Old Cultivation Method assigned 3,908 official posts, gathered a huge force at the twelfth pass, and scheduled the contests of magic to begin in three days.
• The New-Method Cultivators also deployed troops and appointed generals as both sides prepared for the contests.

Heavenly World prodigies controlling New-Method Cultivators planned to defeat the Old Cultivation Method army in the magical duels, while native commander Jiang Wuwei stayed silent and played along. As the New Method army arrived at the twelfth pass, Wang Quan stepped forward to answer its grand display with one of his own.

• Heavenly World prodigies argued over the magical duels while native New-Method Cultivators, including Jiang Wuwei, had little say.
• The prodigies settled on sending their three vanguard officers against the Old Cultivation Method vanguards first, with the duels set to begin in three days.
• The New Method army marched toward the twelfth pass with horns, drums, spirit beasts, and a dark cloud of killing intent.
• Wang Quan’s companions offered to collect the dark cloud and destroy the army’s drums and horns.
• Wang Quan told everyone to step back and watch his grand display.

Wang Quan and the Officiant Daoist Nun used three cannon salutes to shatter the New Method army’s dark clouds and make a bloody but triumphant entrance at the twelfth pass. The New Method forces withdrew to camp, while the Orthodox Cultivators decided to weaken their confidence through repeated defeats rather than attack immediately.

• Wang Quan raised the Seventy-Two Paths of Smoke and Dust, and the Officiant Daoist Nun summoned cannons that scattered heavenly flowers and raised golden lotuses.
• The Officiant Daoist Nun fired a giant cannon with Wang Quan at its muzzle, blasting apart the New Method army’s dark clouds, killing the spirit beasts stitching them, and leaving Wang Quan bleeding from all seven orifices.
• Wang Quan challenged the New Method forces and mocked a Heavenly World cultivator before returning to the city wall with the Officiant Daoist Nun.
• Jiang Wuwei persuaded the New Method army to set up camp and recover, and its commanders agreed to fight again the next day.
• Orthodox Cultivators proposed attacking the camp for Favor, but their great cultivators urged them to chip away at the enemy’s pride through repeated failures.

Wang Quan led the Old Cultivation Method vanguards out to challenge the New Method army, then overwhelmed their spectacle with an elaborate display of spirits, music, and dancing. When the New Method vanguard officers could not rise high enough to fight him, they challenged him to come down from his cloud and duel on foot.

• Wang Quan persuaded the Old Cultivation Method vanguard officers to challenge the New Method vanguards together and led them beyond the pass.
• The New Method army sent three vanguard officers forward with a million-strong army making a grand display.
• Wang Quan summoned spirits, monsters, and female performers from the Seventy-Two Paths of Smoke and Dust, outshining the New Method army's spectacle.
• Wang Quan mocked the New Method vanguards from his cloud, and they challenged him to fight on foot after they failed to fly high enough to reach him.

Wang Quan and the Orthodox Cultivators faced the Heavenly World's New-Method Cultivators in a spell duel, but the two sides had to build cloud platforms to reach the sky. At three thousand meters, the new-method vanguards demanded a melee, then balked when dozens of Wang Quan’s vanguard officers showed up.

• Wang Quan mocked the New-Method Cultivators for being unable to fly high, so they built a towering cloud platform to launch themselves into the sky.
• The Heavenly World’s three vanguard officers demanded another platform, and both sides gathered at three thousand meters for the duel.
• The New-Method Cultivators insisted on an all-out melee, and Wang Quan reluctantly agreed after their supporters called for a fight.
• Wang Quan and several dozen vanguard officers stepped forward, prompting the three New-Method Cultivators to object that they were outnumbered.
• The Orthodox vanguard officers announced their unusual titles, while Wang Quan and the crowd challenged the three New-Method Cultivators to fight.

Wang Quan and the other Legends turned the New Method officers’ proposed duel into a melee, overwhelming the Heavenly World cultivators with their powerful divine abilities. Wang Quan captured an officer’s Nascent Soul and consciousness, leaving the New Method bigwigs to witness the slaughter.

• The three New Method vanguard officers asked to summon reinforcements, and Wang Quan and the others eagerly agreed.
• The Heavenly World cultivators rushed onto the platform while New Method bigwigs began appointing more vanguard officers to bring their followers down.
• Wang Quan and the Legends unleashed a torrent of spells and divine abilities that killed New-Method Cultivators in large numbers.
• A New-Method Cultivator attacked Wang Quan with Godslaying Spikes, but a lotus divine ability broke the spikes and pinned him down.
• Wang Quan revealed that he had taken the attacker’s Nascent Soul, then used a divine ability to put its consciousness to sleep and stored it in his Hundred-Treasure Pouch.