Recaps

Wang Quan suppressed the anomalies at the Fury River, cleared the Cafeteria, and began organizing a large-scale development of his mountain valley. As he and Ying Jiaren focused on the Miscellaneous Goods Hall, Ying Jiaren reached the limit of her Yin Spirit’s foundation and prepared to pursue a Yang Spirit.

• Wang Quan used earth veins, money, and Dharma Power to bind anomalies at the Fury River, then taught other cultivators how to create forbidden zones at baleful intent sites.
• Wang Quan confronted Universal Illumination over escaped anomalies and threatened him with a straw effigy after warning him to keep anomalies away from his refining grounds.
• Ying Jiaren entered the Second-Layer World, learned the People-Crossing Scripture, and practiced it with Wang Quan to strengthen her Yin Spirit.
• Wang Quan and the cultivators cleared the Cafeteria’s cooks and helped its ball-shaped steward escape Evil, after which the Cafeteria collapsed and bestowed favor on them.
• Wang Quan wrote back to Fairy Qin, the Officiant Daoist Nun, and the Dream Nun, then joined the cultivators in choosing the Miscellaneous Goods Hall as their next target.
• Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren used the People-Crossing Scripture to clear the Miscellaneous Goods Hall while A Fei organized the wild boar Spirit Monsters to produce sunlight for money.
• Wang Quan hired Ma Yan to plan development of his mountain valley and arrange housing, farmland, and spiritual resources for the workers and cultivators he intended to gather.
• Wang Quan told Ma Yan he had another way to handle the anomalous forbidden ground, then Ying Jiaren said her Yin Spirit’s foundation had reached its limit and asked to transform it into a Yang Spirit.

Wang Quan avenged Hunchback's team by cursing Universal Illumination and attacking the Strange Eye Alliance's Tentacled Vertical Eye, refusing their offers of compensation. As the Second-Layer World cultivators cleared more halls, he refined seventy-two types of Baleful Intent and held a banquet that drove the alliance's would-be attackers into retreat.

• The Si Household returned the goose egg, gave Wang Quan a Hundred-Treasure Pouch of chicken eggs, and sought access to his Innate Martial Artists.
• Wang Quan learned of the ambush on Hunchback's team and attacked the vertical eye through its reflection while placing a death curse on Universal Illumination.
• Wang Quan established contact with [Knowing] but rejected compensation from the [Strange Eye Alliance] and Universal Illumination.
• Cultivators killed Universal Illumination's body and Yang Spirit, and Wang Quan's curse and spears destroyed the anomaly he became.
• Wang Quan helped clear the Miscellaneous Goods Hall, claimed Eight-Slash Evil's writing brush, and later learned that cultivators had also reflected the Spirit Soil Hall into the Second-Layer World.
• Wang Quan tested Iron Chain Baleful Intent's effects on his Yang Spirit and body, then improved his study efficiency by practicing Beautiful Lady Yu with Ying Jiaren.
• The Strange Eye Alliance infiltrated Wang Quan's banquet to capture him, but fled after powerful guests arrived and he demonstrated his immediate refinement of seventy-two types of Baleful Intent.
• Wang Quan made one hundred thousand Innate Martial Artists available to the cultivators, promised the Round-Faced Daoist Nun help before her departure, and asked whether higher sunlight prices would make refining it worthwhile.

Wang Quan strengthened his body, mastered the final Daoist scroll, and began preparing for Foundation Establishment while helping expand the Second-Layer World’s safe zone. He ended the stretch with 108 combined Earthly Sha and Heavenly Gang traits, as Ying Jiaren pursued her own cultivation.

• Wang Quan used the People-Crossing Scripture to torment the Tentacled Vertical Eye for ten days, then defeated the Strange Eye Alliance’s cultivators in an illusion and earned yin virtue for the kill.
• Wang Quan completed a massive sun-and-incense ritual that opened all 1,001 Qi Refining apertures, linked his body to Riverside Mountain, and strengthened his seventy-two Earthly Sha traits.
• Wang Quan delivered Sun Flower Spirits to the Round-Faced Daoist Nun, who returned home, killed a Lineage elder, and demanded that her Lineage choose whether to harvest or be harvested.
• Wang Quan mastered the final Daoist scroll with Ying Jiaren, expanded his Inner Landscape, and learned that his Foundation Establishment required 365 tiers of Spirit Light built with thirty-six special spells.
• Wang Quan invested in the Lower Court’s thirty-six halls and rented out perfected spells, then discovered a method in the Daoist Scriptures to suppress his rebellious organs in the Second-Layer World.
• Wang Quan subdued his heart’s rebellion and learned from the Si Household that attempts to teach the People-Crossing Scripture to cultivators nearing anomaly had ended in death, and he agreed to help clear Evil and expand the safe zone.
• The Round-Faced Daoist Nun reported her cooperation with New Method sects, the Officiant Daoist Nun reported completing Foundation Establishment with twelve strands of Spirit Light, and Ying Jiaren advanced her Life Cultivation.
• Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren studied scriptures and refined Dharma Power for over two months, then Wang Quan absorbed thirty-six Heavenly Gang and linked them with his seventy-two Earthly Sha, gaining 108 traits and greatly strengthening his killing intent.

Wang Quan strengthened his cultivation and helped expand the Lower Court’s safe zone while preparing for Foundation Establishment. When the Round-Faced Daoist Nun’s lineage came under attack, he left Riverside Mountain to save her and confronted the forces behind the assault.

• Wang Quan developed Multiple Arms Art, performed a ritual that transformed his spells, and began preparing for Foundation Establishment while Ying Jiaren helped him acquire and refine Drowning Water.
• Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren built a Foundation Establishment Dao Platform as the Strange Eye Alliance’s attempts to infiltrate the Market Ward failed against its sunlight.
• Wang Quan, Ying Jiaren, and other cultivators recited the People-Crossing Scripture and fought the Evils, gradually expanding a safe zone in the Second-Layer World.
• Wang Quan continued strengthening his Dao Platform, and the Round-Faced Daoist Nun warned him that New-Method Cultivators and others had attacked her lineage over a blue lotus.
• Wang Quan left Ying Jiaren in charge of Riverside Mountain and rushed to the Round-Faced Daoist Nun’s homeland, where he found her defending an ice mountain against a coalition.
• Wang Quan arrived and demonstrated his spells against the attackers, killing many before demanding to know who had ordered the assault and the attempt to take the blue lotus.
• Wang Quan used Image Tracing to kill attackers and learned that the Strange Eye Alliance had backed the plot, but the Blue Lotus immobilized the fighters and shattered them into mist.
• Wang Quan rescued the Round-Faced Daoist Nun as the Blue Lotus’s unknown owner asked him to help find the plotters who had damaged the treasure.