Recaps

Wang Quan linked the Underworld layers, brought the Fire Mulberry Tree and Beitang Xue’s Golden Core cultivators to the Third Layer, and connected several worlds to strengthen their defenses. Back in Stone City, he cracked down on the Reincarnation, Afterlife, and Future groups, then studied an Imperial Scripture and redirected research toward martial golden cores.

• Wang Quan received an Imperial Scripture from the remembered children before their memory world collapsed, then enlisted the ghost gods to link the Second and First Underworld layers.
• Wang Quan brought a hundred thousand ghosts and monsters to the Second Layer and charged the Stone Bull Ghost God with expanding a Manor as their bloodlines evolved.
• Wang Quan carried the Fire Mulberry Tree into the Third Layer, used it to drive back Evil, and forced the pavilion’s Evils to turn against Door Panel Evil.
• Wang Quan recruited Beitang Xue and over ten thousand Golden Core cultivators to surround the pavilion with overlapping safe zones and link them to other worlds through a Five-Colored Altar.
• Beitang Xue traveled through the cloud pillar to Stone City, offered Wang Quan her services, and wrote to Ma Qingqiu, who refused to leave his attempt to capture City No. 11.
• Wang Quan arrested members of the Reincarnation, Afterlife, and Future groups, rejected their demands to promote the New Method, and authorized the Officiant Daoist Nun to arrest rebels.
• Wang Quan read the ghost gods’ Imperial Scripture about refining a supreme golden core and changed Stone City’s incentives to encourage martial artists to experiment with martial golden cores.

Wang Quan led Stone City in clearing anomalous weather and linking the Polar Lands’ cities, while safe zones spread through the Underworld. After reaching a sixth-grade Dao Seal, he gathered resources and brought Three-Legged Cauldron Mountain to Crouching Tiger Mountain to begin refining his Golden Core.

• Wang Quan summoned the Real World’s Great Sun into the Third-Layer World, creating a White Land that helped protect its inhabitants from evil beings and darkness.
• Wang Quan learned that Ghost Emperor Heart’s original body lay beneath Emperor’s Tomb City and agreed to help him, then received the Legend Rating needed to solidify his history.
• Wang Quan ordered Stone City to focus on the Real World, and its forces battled anomalous weather as the city expanded and its inhabitants built safe zones.
• Wang Quan sent teams to connect the Far Western Land’s cities, and the links strengthened the Polar Lands, created Spirit Veins, and weakened anomalous weather.
• Ye Quanzhen and thousands of Grotto Heaven cultivators established safe zones in the Second Layer of the Underworld as the All-Under-Heaven Dao Court connected the Fifth-Layer World.
• Wang Quan completed sixty thousand scrolls of Daoist Scriptures, advanced to a sixth-grade Dao Seal, and chose a special Golden Core to refine.
• Wang Quan gathered the required materials and brought Three-Legged Cauldron Mountain from the Underworld to Crouching Tiger Mountain, while his companions prepared their own Golden Cores.
• Wang Quan began refining his Golden Core on the Five-Colored Altar as Ruo Jinghong, Mei Niang, Ying Jiaren, and the others hurried to refine theirs.

Wang Quan completed his Bright Moon Golden Core and became a Golden Core Cultivator, then traveled with Ying Jiaren to pursue the Fury River’s source. After gaining new insights and raising their Legend Ratings, they sought the All-Under-Heaven Dao Court’s support for forging Titles and faced questions about the coming Era Cataclysm.

• Wang Quan refined the Bright Moon Golden Core over many years, drawing cultivators who watched, gathered its blessings, and eventually helped pull it free of Three-Legged Cauldron Mountain.
• Wang Quan absorbed the core into his Purple Mansion, learned that Chu Zhaoren had died in the primordial chaos, and completed his transformation into a Golden Core Cultivator.
• Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren traveled upstream along the Fury River, passed a great mechanical dam and many cultivators, and reached a history fragment containing the Glazed Glass River.
• Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren entered the fragment and challenged the youth called Emperor, who defeated them but left their bodies strengthened with strange patterns.
• Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren preached life-cultivation methods to the beings along the river, helping demons and cultivators gain new powers and raising their Legend Ratings from 12 to 15.
• Wang Quan learned the blueprint for the Title [Bygone Days] required thirty-six million types of materials, while Ying Jiaren obtained the blueprint for [Temporal Projection].
• Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren asked the All-Under-Heaven Dao Court for Title materials, and Dao Court representatives questioned them about their plans and the coming Era Cataclysm.
• Wang Quan vowed to help weaker beings survive the cataclysm, but the representatives warned that Titles were unique, costly, and likely near extinction.

Wang Quan oversaw the construction of [Bygone Days], refined several Divine Abilities, and entered a new historical fragment with Ying Jiaren. There he became Fu Gui, tried to kill Wang Ming as a child, and ended up leading a group of children against him while both sides trained for their coming clash.

• Wang Quan organized the construction of [Bygone Days] in the Underworld, hired ghosts and monsters as workers, and used fair wages to make the project advance rapidly.
• Wang Quan chose [Time] and [History] as traits, then spent years refining Divine Abilities while Ying Jiaren managed an immense incense-worship following.
• Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren prepared for the second historical fragment, and Wang Quan gave Qian Xiuyue and his allies Magic Treasures before leaving.
• Wang Quan entered the fragment as Fu Gui, learned he was destined to become Wang Ming’s friend and later be killed by him, and resolved to assassinate him first.
• At Clear Wind Temple, Wang Quan attacked Wang Ming with an iron nail, but Temple Master Clear Wind stopped him and assigned the boys to work together.
• Wang Quan and Wang Ming repeatedly tried to injure or kill each other, while the temple’s senior Daoists intervened and kept them under supervision.
• Wang Quan recruited Qing He and other childhood companions to attack Wang Ming, who was confined after seriously injuring one of the girls.
• Wang Quan and the other children waited armed outside Wang Ming’s solitary room, while Wang Ming used his anchoring authority and trained in confinement as both sides prepared for their conflict.