Recaps

Wang Quan continued cultivating and overseeing a hundred thousand recruits while the Si Household debated whether to keep the borrowed goose egg or return it. The household chose to return it early, and its elders arrived at Wang Quan’s base carrying a box.

• Wang Quan continued refining spells, studying, and clearing out Evil while Ying Jiaren branded Dao characters onto her Yin Spirit.
• The Si Household argued over whether to return the goose egg, with some members urging them to keep it and others warning that breaking their promise would damage their reputation and risk offending Wang Quan.
• The Si household head and elders decided to return the goose egg early to preserve their relationship with Wang Quan, overruling those who wanted to keep it for the remaining day.
• Wang Quan told Ma Yan that the hundred thousand recruits would cultivate using their internal organs as their foundation to become Innate Martial Artists.
• A colorful cloud bearing the Si Household’s banner arrived at Wang Quan’s base, and its elders emerged carrying a box and greeted him.

Wang Quan accepted the Si Household’s eggs and promised to release some of the Innate Martial Artists he nurtured for them to acquire. At a gathering with the Si Household, he demonstrated spells that turned sunset glow and a flower into seemingly living spirits, then showed how one could animate a rock and bargain with it for help.

• The Si Household explained why it had publicly escorted a treasure and asked Wang Quan to sell them some of the Innate Martial Artists he nurtured; he agreed to release places in the Market Ward for them to compete over.
• The Si Household gave Wang Quan a Hundred-Treasure Pouch containing a hundred thousand chicken eggs, and he invited its members to an evening banquet.
• Wang Quan transformed a streak of sunset glow into a lifelike beauty and explained that it was a temporary spirit that could one day become a Spirit Monster.
• Wang Quan transformed a flower into a speaking flower spirit, which called a rock to become a table and tried to persuade a tree to provide chairs and stools.
• The rock refused to help the flower spirit until she promised to sleep on it, then prepared to tear apart the tree that had bullied her.

Wang Quan demonstrated an intricate blend of spells by bringing objects to life for a banquet, impressing the Si Household. The Round-Faced Daoist Nun then reported that Hunchback had died in a battle, and Wang Quan chose to help the surviving members of his team.

• Wang Quan animated trees, flowers, cookware, food, and wine jars to prepare and serve a banquet, then restored them to their original forms.
• The Si Household praised Wang Quan's spells, and its cultivators left after exchanging pleasantries.
• The Round-Faced Daoist Nun arrived with several surviving cultivators and told Wang Quan that Hunchback and many members of his team had died in a battle.
• Wang Quan asked the Round-Faced Daoist Nun to wake the survivors, explaining that Hunchback's team had promised to repair his anomalous forbidden zone for free.

The weeping female cultivator told Wang Quan that Old Hunchback and the others had been ambushed after building an anomaly forbidden zone. After learning that the attackers’ masked image could infect people and might be linked to Universal Illumination, Wang Quan began a ritual to strike the anomaly behind it.

• The weeping female cultivator told the Round-Faced Daoist Nun and Wang Quan that Liu Yu had persuaded Old Hunchback to build a forbidden zone, then refused to pay and arranged an ambush when they resisted his demands.
• Wang Quan woke the surviving cultivators, and one of them visualized the attackers’ Faceless Masks, causing an eyeball to grow from his forehead until Wang Quan froze and cleansed it with the People-Crossing Scripture.
• Wang Quan suspected Universal Illumination might be connected to the attackers and prepared materials to avenge Old Hunchback and the others.
• Wang Quan used the unconscious cultivator’s black qi to reveal a vertical eye in a cloud of incense smoke, then attacked its reflected image with the People-Crossing Scripture.
• As the eye tried to sever its reflection, Wang Quan threw a command flag toward the smoke cloud and invoked Freeze.

Wang Quan attacked a vertical eye in an underground palace while its cultivator captors tried to trace him with a bronze mirror. His spells and falling charcoal repeatedly disrupted their pursuit, and the cultivators decided to leave the eye to endure the attacks until they could try again the next night.

• Wang Quan repeatedly stabbed the vertical eye with spears formed from the People-Crossing Scripture, causing it to wail and agitating the anomalies in the underground palace.
• Cultivators entered the deepest level, used magic treasure blanks to resist the eye's contamination, and tried to trace the source of the attacks.
• Wang Quan sealed his traces with eight lunar phases, but a cultivator used a bronze mirror to crack them and attempt to locate him.
• Wang Quan sent dozens of burning charcoal pieces through the basin, disrupting the tracking attempt and striking the vertical eye.
• The cultivators retreated from the charcoal and declined to risk damaging their magic treasure blanks, while the vertical eye pleaded for help.
• The cultivators told the vertical eye to endure the attacks until the next night, leaving it silent and sorrowful.

Wang Quan continued attacking the vertical eye and then used a straw figure to curse the bald Universal Illumination for Hunchback’s death. Universal Illumination’s heart repeatedly burst despite his defenses, and a curse specialist arrived to help him.

• Wang Quan stopped attacking the vertical eye, but warned that he would strike it at least a hundred times each day until it died.
• Wang Quan placed a straw figure representing the bald Universal Illumination on a rock and shot an arrow into its heart.
• The bald Universal Illumination suffered a piercing pain, found his death-substitution bronze figure unharmed, and tried replacing his heart as each new one burst.
• The bald Universal Illumination failed to trace or dispel the curse and contacted a cultivator who specialized in curses.
• The curse specialist emerged from a brazier filled with Great Sun True Fire, and the floor and surrounding area began to rot beneath him.

Bald-headed Universal Illumination sought help from a curse cultivator to remove a [Seven-Day Kill] curse that had bypassed his Death-Substitution Art. After the ritual appeared to succeed, he celebrated with a banquet, but he suddenly sprayed blood as he agreed to let the curse cultivator take some anomalies.

• The curse cultivator identified the spell in Bald-headed Universal Illumination’s chest as [Seven-Day Kill] and suspected a great Foundation Establishment cultivator had cast it.
• Bald-headed Universal Illumination gathered fifty Innate Martial Artists, and the curse cultivator sacrificed forty-nine of them in a ritual to remove the curse.
• The curse cultivator told Bald-headed Universal Illumination to replace his rotten heart, and the new heart beat as he declared himself cured.
• Bald-headed Universal Illumination hosted a banquet and ordered anomalies to sing and dance for his benefactor.
• When an anomaly refused to perform, the curse cultivator whipped it until it submitted, then asked to take several anomalies away.
• Bald-headed Universal Illumination agreed, but blood suddenly gushed from his mouth.

The bald Universal Illumination endured a series of fatal curses and hired cultivators and intelligence agents to find out who was targeting him. He learned that Wang Quan, the Flower-Scatter Daoist, was likely cursing him because of his ties to the [Strange Eye Alliance], and was advised to apologize and offer gifts if he wanted to survive.

• The curse cultivator told the bald Universal Illumination that his Qi Refining spells could not stop a likely Foundation Establishment death curse, then agreed to recruit help for a share of the man's assets.
• A group of curse specialists tried rituals and substitutes, but the curse struck the bald Universal Illumination's kidneys and later his stomach, while the specialists concluded they could not protect him.
• Intelligence agents told the bald Universal Illumination that Wang Quan, the Flower-Scatter Daoist, was cursing a [Strange Eye Alliance] expert and might also be targeting him by association.
• The bald Universal Illumination paid the agents to analyze his situation, and they advised him to approach an acquaintance of Wang Quan, prove his innocence, and offer an apology and gifts.
• The bald Universal Illumination accepted that appeasing Wang Quan was necessary if he wanted to stay alive.

Universal Illumination and the [Strange Eye Alliance] sought intermediaries to negotiate with Wang Quan, while Wu Yong joined the [Knowing] organization and passed Wang Quan a request for an audience. Wang Quan considered the message as he planned his cultivation and continued attacking the tentacled eye.

• Universal Illumination agreed to pay two million Green Beetles for an intermediary after learning the [Strange Eye Alliance] was also seeking peace talks with Wang Quan.
• Wu Yong joined the [Knowing] organization as an auxiliary member and accepted three million Green Beetles to deliver a message to Wang Quan.
• Wang Quan continued striking the tentacled eye with his People-Crossing Scripture and planned to focus more time on refining techniques and accumulating heavenly opportunity.
• Wu Yong told Wang Quan that the [Knowing] organization wanted an audience and offered to give him the three million Green Beetles if he agreed to meet them.
• Wu Yong waited with the [Knowing] members, who agreed to wait longer for Wang Quan’s reply.

Wang Quan met Wu Yong and representatives of [Knowing], who offered him twenty portions of Stellar Essence in exchange for contact and access to their intelligence. Wang Quan said he did not need the gift, leaving the negotiation unresolved.

• Wu Yong arranged for [Knowing] and the [Strange Eye Alliance] to meet Wang Quan, while the alliance's negotiations were interrupted by an argument as Wang Quan continued attacking the tentacled vertical eye.
• Wang Quan increased his attacks beyond the promised hundred, and the vertical eye pleaded with nearby cultivators to make him stop.
• Wu Yong watched Wang Quan cast spells and realized his status came from his strength, then waited respectfully until Wang Quan finished.
• [Knowing] presented Wang Quan with twenty portions of Stellar Essence and offered contact, intelligence, and payment through Wu Yong in return.
• Wang Quan said he did not need the gift and asked whether the proposed exchange was worth the essence; [Knowing]'s agents said it was.

Wang Quan refused the [Strange Eye Alliance]’s offer to settle his feud and rejected Universal Illumination’s plea for forgiveness, insisting that his curse would continue. At the Alliance’s underground palace, the Tentacled Vertical Eye feared Wang Quan’s attacks were damaging its core, but the cultivators misread its distress until one of them revealed she had used its tentacles.

• Wang Quan exchanged contact details with the [Knowing] intelligence agents, then refused the [Strange Eye Alliance]’s compensation and said he would kill the Tentacled Vertical Eye.
• Wang Quan also rejected Universal Illumination’s offer of a third of his assets, explaining that his curse had already begun and he could not risk letting his target go.
• The [Knowing] agents relayed Wang Quan’s refusal to the [Strange Eye Alliance], whose cultivators dismissed his threat to kill the Tentacled Vertical Eye.
• The Tentacled Vertical Eye realized Wang Quan’s spear attacks were damaging its core, but the female cultivators mistook its tears and tentacle gestures for gratitude and refusal.
• When one female cultivator admitted she had used the Tentacled Vertical Eye’s tentacles, the others drew close to hear more, and the eye screamed for her not to tell them.
• Several female cultivators chanted Daoist writings and incantations, bringing the woman who had used the tentacles under their control.

Bald Universal Illumination learned that Wang Quan's curses were expected to kill him, but every attempt to find help failed. He tried to unleash the anomalies imprisoned beneath his Manor and was confronted by cultivators before he could release them.

• Cultivators killed a woman infected by the vertical eye and sealed away her corpse while the eye protested that she had forced it to cooperate.
• Knowing intelligence agents told Bald Universal Illumination that Wang Quan's curses would continue, then offered help for one million Green Beetles.
• A powerful cultivator refused to help Bald Universal Illumination evade death, advising him to beg Wang Quan for forgiveness instead.
• Bald Universal Illumination drove away the curse specialists and offered all his wealth to a revenge organization for Wang Quan's death.
• Bald Universal Illumination tried to free the anomalies in his underground space, but the cages stayed shut and cultivators appeared behind him to challenge him.

Wang Quan watched Cultivator Ma and the other cultivators defeat the bald Universal Illumination, then refused the assets they had seized from him. He left them the wealth as payment on the condition that they dispose of the anomalies.

• The cultivators told the bald Universal Illumination that they supported Wang Quan because he had protected cultivators and shared his methods, unlike the bald man, who had released anomalies to kill indiscriminately.
• Cultivator Ma contacted Wang Quan, who watched through a spell mirror as the cultivators attacked the bald Universal Illumination with coordinated spells and magical artifacts.
• The cultivators killed the bald Universal Illumination's body and crushed his Yang Spirit, while Wang Quan stopped its final attempt to reach him through the mirror.
• Cultivator Ma offered Wang Quan the bald Universal Illumination's assets, and Wang Quan gave them to the cultivators as payment while ordering them to dispose of the anomalies.

Universal Illumination became an anomaly after Wang Quan’s followers looted his mountain, but Wang Quan’s curse and the People-Crossing Scripture erased him completely. Three months into his struggle with the tentacled vertical eye, Wang Quan learned that the cultivators had nearly cleared the Miscellaneous Goods Hall.

• Cultivators used gourds of sunlight to destroy anomalies and carried away Universal Illumination’s accumulated resources and buildings.
• Universal Illumination became an anomaly and tried to gather followers, but Wang Quan’s curse and five spears killed him permanently.
• Wang Quan confirmed Universal Illumination’s final death by reciting the People-Crossing Scripture, then focused on killing the tentacled vertical eye.
• Wang Quan continued attacking the tentacled vertical eye for three months, while cultivators in the Second-Layer World fought toward victory.
• A butterfly messenger told Wang Quan that the cultivators had nearly finished clearing the Miscellaneous Goods Hall and invited him to witness it.

Wang Quan finished helping clear a Second-Layer World building and dealt with the trouble Wu Yong had caused by using his name to recruit and mislead newcomers. He prepared to witness the cultivators clear the final Miscellaneous Goods Hall, confident that they could not surpass him.

• Wang Quan completed another round of recitations on Riverside Mountain, then returned to the Lower Court and met the Round-Faced Daoist Nun.
• The Round-Faced Daoist Nun told Wang Quan that Wu Yong had recruited newcomers in his name and inspired them to found a Flower-Scatter Organization and imitate his training.
• The Round-Faced Daoist Nun said she had whipped Wu Yong and sewn his mouth shut, and Wang Quan told her to have him eliminated and turned into a Dao Soldier.
• Wang Quan said the cultivators in the Second-Layer World had invited him to witness them clear the final Miscellaneous Goods Hall without his help.
• The Round-Faced Daoist Nun warned that teaching the People-Crossing Scripture could make Wang Quan dispensable, but he welcomed the cultivators' progress and privately doubted they could surpass him.

Wang Quan and the cultivators cleared the Miscellaneous Goods Hall, earning blessings and discovering that the reflected hall supplied basic materials. As they celebrated their rewards, Wang Quan wondered whether the Second-Layer World might eventually replace the Real World.

• Wang Quan joined the cultivators in clearing the hall and delivered its eight-armed boss, Eight-Slash Evil, with the People-Crossing Scripture.
• Eight-Slash Evil left behind a jade-and-gold writing brush, which Wang Quan claimed after the other cultivators offered him first pick.
• When the Real World's Miscellaneous Goods Hall was reflected into the Second-Layer World, purple-azure blessings fell on Wang Quan, a Zhong Household cultivator, and others, while the recipient of another streak remained unknown.
• Wang Quan suspected Ying Jiaren had received the unidentified blessing and found the reflected hall stocked with abundant basic materials at market prices.
• The cultivators held a feast and reported that their accumulated gifts had transformed into Foundation Establishment Spirit Light; they asked Wang Quan what he had received.

Wang Quan focused on killing the Strange Eye Alliance’s persistent vertical eye while cultivators in the Second-Layer World chose their next Evil building without him. After a few months, he finished refining the seventy-two types of Earthly Sha and planned a banquet, while the Round-Faced Daoist Nun urged him to use it to collect gifts.

• Wang Quan told the cultivators that his latest favor only enhanced buildings slightly and said he would focus on killing the vertical eye in the Real World rather than help choose their next target.
• Wang Quan returned to his routine, studied an unfamiliar writing brush, and learned that Ying Jiaren had refined Wu Yong into the first Dao Soldier.
• Over the next few months, the cultivators breached a twisted tower of Evil and reflected the Spirit Soil Hall into the Second-Layer World, where they competed for its daily Wu Earth Killing Intent.
• The Round-Faced Daoist Nun told Wang Quan that the seventy-two types of Earthly Sha were nearly finished, and he decided to refine Heavenly Sha afterward and hold a banquet on Riverside Mountain.
• The Round-Faced Daoist Nun urged Wang Quan to invite the Second-Layer World cultivators and collect their gifts, but he denied that he was trying to rake in wealth.

Wang Quan accepted the Round-Faced Daoist Nun and Qian Xiuyue’s plan to host a grand banquet at Riverside Mountain, then instantly fused Iron Chain Baleful Intent into his Yang Spirit. He tested its new powers and prepared to temper his body with it, while the women planned to showcase his speed of refinement at the banquet.

• Wang Quan agreed to hold a lavish banquet at Riverside Mountain the next day and gave the Round-Faced Daoist Nun and Qian Xiuyue thirty million Green Beetles to arrange it.
• A parrot spirit delivered Iron Chain Baleful Intent, and Wang Quan fused it into his Yang Spirit in an instant, astonishing the Round-Faced Daoist Nun.
• The Round-Faced Daoist Nun decided to have Wang Quan refine another kind of Earthly Sha before the banquet guests to display his speed.
• Wang Quan tested his Yang Spirit and found it could turn trees, rocks, and water into rust, consuming the baleful intent as it did so.
• Wang Quan used the Iron Chain Baleful Intent to withstand a Thunderfire blast, then planned to return his Yang Spirit to his body and see how the baleful intent tempered it.

After absorbing Iron Chain Baleful Intent, Wang Quan discovered that his Yang Spirit had given his flesh-and-blood body weak spell-like abilities that consumed no Dharma Power. He then practiced Beautiful Lady Yu with Ying Jiaren, and they found that combining their spirits and physical bodies more than doubled their cultivation efficiency.

• Wang Quan’s returning Yang Spirit expanded his Inner Landscape, and Iron Chain Baleful Intent increased its upper limit by a little over two-thousandths.
• Wang Quan expelled Iron Chain Baleful Intent from his body and used it to fly, immobilize a bird, and bind it with a chain formed from wind.
• Wang Quan tested his body’s spell-like abilities on creatures, then asked the Round-Faced Daoist Nun about them; she said such effects were impossible and had never happened to her.
• Wang Quan concluded that the abilities came from his Yang Spirit merging with baleful intent and wondered whether more baleful intent could grant further powers.
• Ying Jiaren proposed practicing Beautiful Lady Yu with her Primordial Spirit and physical body together, and she told Wang Quan she needed one more Dao character to reach ten thousand.
• Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren practiced Beautiful Lady Yu together and found that their combined spirits and bodies increased their reading speed and efficiency by more than twofold.

Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren advanced their cultivation through study and spell practice, while the Strange Eye Alliance tested the weakened Tentacled Vertical Eye. The test revealed that its traits had permanently lost 90% of their potency, and the Alliance ordered its cultivators to target Wang Quan and seize the weakening treasure.

• Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren studied fifteen volumes of Daoist Scriptures each after practicing [Beautiful Lady Yu] together overnight.
• Ying Jiaren explained how she cultivated spells during her grooming, then declined Wang Quan's banquet invitation because it lacked performances that would advance her spells.
• Qian Xiuyue told Wang Quan that Riverside Mountain was ready for the banquet, and he traveled there using moonlight.
• The Strange Eye Alliance questioned the Tentacled Vertical Eye, which blamed Flower-Scatter Daoist's special treasure for its decline and pleaded for rescue.
• The Alliance tested the Tentacled Vertical Eye with a mirror and discovered that Vertical Eye No. 10086's traits had permanently weakened by 90%.
• The Alliance ordered its cultivators to severely injure Wang Quan, take him in as a dog, and obtain the treasure and its refining method.

The Strange Eye Alliance planned to ambush Wang Quan at Riverside Mountain, but a banquet drew powerful cultivators from across the Second-Layer World. The Round-Faced Daoist Nun caught the Alliance plotting and ordered them to help liven up the festivities, prompting one cultivator to ready thunderfire.

• The Strange Eye Alliance discovered that the Tentacled Vertical Eye's power had fallen by 90%, then left him sealed and guarded while they went to capture Wang Quan.
• The Alliance studied Wang Quan's routine for several days and prepared to ambush him, but Riverside Mountain suddenly became busy with preparations for a banquet.
• The Alliance decided to infiltrate the banquet and attack Wang Quan, then grew fearful as powerful cultivators arrived one after another.
• The Round-Faced Daoist Nun appeared behind the Alliance, revealed she had heard their plotting, and ordered them to create effects for the banquet.
• One Alliance cultivator sneered, produced a string of thunderfire, and prepared to make his move.

Wang Quan hosted a banquet where the Strange Eye Alliance cultivators were forced to perform after a thousand Yang Spirits arrived. The guests negotiated for his hundred thousand Innate Martial Artists and agreed to help him fuse with Earthly Sha, while one performer was accidentally fired from a cannon.

• A thousand Yang Spirits descended, causing the Strange Eye Alliance cultivators to turn their threats into performances for the banquet.
• The cultivators discussed clearing evil from the Second-Layer World and negotiated with Wang Quan for his Innate Martial Artists.
• Wang Quan agreed to make all one hundred thousand Innate Martial Artists available, divided into a thousand lots, so the cultivators could use them to gather sunlight.
• The Round-Faced Daoist Nun urged the guests to help Wang Quan fuse with the remaining seventy-one strands of Earthly Sha.
• Qian Xiuyue set a cannon in motion, and it fired Little Ma’s head into the distance.

Wang Quan demonstrated his extraordinary ability to refine Baleful Intent by rapidly absorbing seventy-two strands and unleashing their combined power. The Strange Eye Alliance fled, while Wang Quan declared that he would make them witness the Evil they supported being destroyed.

• The Round-Faced Daoist Nun invited the gathered cultivators to help Wang Quan refine Baleful Intent, while the Strange Eye Alliance plotted to ambush him.
• Wang Quan swallowed strands of Frost Ice Baleful Intent and Earth-Lung Poison Baleful Intent and revealed that he had refined them immediately.
• Wang Quan absorbed seventy-two types of Baleful Intent, then used them together to demolish a boulder and found that doing so cost less than activating Iron Chain Baleful Intent alone.
• The Strange Eye Alliance slipped away from the crowd and fled, while the cultivators praised Wang Quan's abilities.
• Wang Quan refused to pursue the fleeing alliance, saying he had locked onto an Evil they supported and would make them watch it burn to ashes.

Wang Quan hosted a final night of feasting as the Innate Martial Artists and spirit monsters faced uncertain fates and his fellow cultivators prepared to part ways. The Round-Faced Daoist Nun revealed she would return to her hometown, leaving Wang Quan newly aware that even cultivators’ partings could last forever.

• As dusk fell, Wang Quan told the spirit monsters and Innate Martial Artists to feast, then invited his fellow cultivators to a quieter evening gathering by the river.
• Qian Xiuyue announced that she and several cultivators had become Dao companions, and she told Wang Quan that multiple organizations had offered them money to arrange introductions to him; Wang Quan told them to refuse such offers.
• Qian Xiuyue and her Dao companions said they planned to repay their debts and improve their cultivation, while Wang Quan promised them a wedding gift.
• The Round-Faced Daoist Nun said she would return to her hometown to gather her lineage’s strength and create Foundation Establishment Spirit Light, and Wang Quan realized their separation might be permanent.
• The Round-Faced Daoist Nun and Qian Xiuyue explained that they had tried to obtain sunlight in the Second-Layer World but could secure too little, as sunlight was in high demand.

Wang Quan learned that refined sunlight remained scarce and spoke with the Round-Faced Daoist Nun before she returned to her hometown to pursue Foundation Establishment Spirit Light. Later, he left the Fury River for the Lower Court while the cultivators he met speculated that winning his favor could earn them Foundation Establishment Spirit Light.

• Wang Quan promised the Round-Faced Daoist Nun that he would help her if she encountered trouble, and she told him she planned to seize seekers of immortality for the Lower Court to support her cultivation.
• After the feast ended, Wang Quan stayed alone by the river and watched cultivators and spirit monsters gather resources under the light of Little Sun Lanterns.
• Cultivators told Wang Quan that Hunchback's daughter had assembled a team that kept anomalies scarce along that stretch of the Fury River.
• Wang Quan asked the cultivators whether higher sunlight prices would make refining it worthwhile, then left in a sedan chair carried by Paper Palace Maidens toward the Lower Court.
• The cultivators guessed that Wang Quan was an imitator of the Flower-Scatter Daoist, then discussed rumors that winning Wang Quan's favor could earn someone Foundation Establishment Spirit Light.