Recaps

Wang Quan and Qing He fought Wang Ming, whose stolen authority had trapped Clear Wind Temple in a repeating history, and killed him after his guardians failed to intervene. They left the restored world with their teachings, which shaped later sects and legends, before Wang Quan returned to the Real World.

• Wang Quan learned the [General Compendium of Unorthodox Paths], mastered its winds, and attacked Wang Ming in confinement, while a vision of the world’s decay revealed the danger surrounding him.
• Wang Quan and Qing He prepared for Wang Ming’s emergence, read the temple masters’ diaries, and joined the residents in a battle that destroyed Clear Wind Temple and the town.
• Wang Quan and Qing He pursued Wang Ming to Clear River, where his guardians were dead, then trapped him and waited until his authority vanished before killing him.
• Wang Quan and Qing He returned to the restored temple, learned that Wang Quan’s arrival had weakened Wang Ming’s authority, and discussed Qing He’s choice to protect her Lineage despite the coming Heaven’s Collapse.
• Qing He and Wang Quan departed after leaving their knowledge behind, and the new temple master raised statues of them that later became the source of powerful spells and blood sacrifices.
• Clear Wind Temple’s practices sparked a thousand-year war, and its remnants formed three thousand Daoist sects that erased the temple’s history while searching unsuccessfully for the statues.
• Wang Quan returned to the Real World, where Qing He announced her chosen name, the cultivators read their legends, and a great cultivator praised their work together.

Wang Quan entered Ying Jiaren’s historical fragment, helped the cultivators exploit its repeating eras, and returned to forge a devastating Lifebound Divine Ability. After he used it to kill Shibi Tianluo across time, the Dao Court sought his help expanding safe zones, and Stone City prepared to welcome him home.

• Wang Quan entered Ying Jiaren’s fragment, found her group trapping Yang Fan, and agreed to help keep the fragment running in exchange for Yang Fan’s resources and knowledge.
• Wang Quan recruited and organized medicinal spirits to gather materials, then used repeated historical resets to refine powerful Divine Abilities before returning to the Real World for Golden Cores.
• Wang Quan burned billions of Golden Cores to revive his Lifebound Divine Ability, and the woman in his Golden Core transformed into the starry river ability he named [The Starry River Turns in Heaven, Curtains Fall in the Mortal World].
• The All-Under-Heaven Dao Court took Wang Quan to the Ninth Heavenly Gate, where he accepted a challenge to fight Shibi Tianluo and demonstrated his new Divine Ability.
• Wang Quan’s starry river killed Shibi Tianluo in the present and again in the past, destroyed the historical fragment, and tore through the city and battlefield.
• The experts failed to reproduce Wang Quan’s Divine Ability, while the Dao Court asked him to create more infinitely resetting fragments and expand safe zones in the Polar Lands and Underworld.
• Stone City’s residents prepared a celebration, and Officiant announced Wang Quan’s return on a Cloud of Auspiciousness, carrying the sun.

Wang Quan tested protective lanterns and prepared Stone City’s cultivators to establish a Fourth-Layer World safe zone after learning of the [Madmen] threat. He subdued powerful evil creatures with scripture, arranged to send them to work in the Underworld, and negotiated with the Tenth Reincarnation King for his Divine Ability.

• Wang Quan tested Qian Xiuyue and Senior Sister Round Face’s lanterns against evil beings and Underworld creatures before returning to Stone City.
• The Dao Court warned Wang Quan that the [Madmen] had created the Drowning Dao Lower Court and supplied resources for linking the worlds.
• Wang Quan increased his Underworld authority through sacrifice and arranged an expedition to the Third Layer with Second Layer Ghost Gods.
• Wang Quan discovered that Ghost Emperor Heart’s gift was Mechanical Emperor: Winter and concealed his control over it while reserving it for a crisis.
• Wang Quan led the cultivators into the Fourth-Layer World and established a safe zone beneath Stone City’s ruins after learning that natives and [Madmen] had fought there.
• Wang Quan obtained scripture from the youth in the Taboo Emperor’s Era Fragment and taught the cultivators to put the threatening evil creatures to sleep.
• Wang Quan recruited evil beings with promises of paid work and sent Black Hand to seek a route from the Fourth-Layer World to the Underworld.
• Wang Quan agreed to take the Tenth Reincarnation King’s Reincarnation Divine Ability on the condition that the Tenth Reincarnation King owed him a future favor.

Wang Quan mastered the Reincarnation King Divine Ability, defeated the Madmen and led a strike on their base before descending into the Third Layer of the Underworld with twelve Ghost Gods. There he met a tiger tribe whose patriarch revealed that a legendary Heavenly Demon Tiger-Wang Quan shared his name, and Wang Quan began preparing to establish a safe zone.

• Wang Quan learned the Reincarnation King Divine Ability from the Tenth Reincarnation King, studied its difficult passages, and discovered that other cultivators could not understand it.
• Wang Quan defeated the Madmen who challenged his territory, then faced their young senior brother in a deadly contest of secret arts and recovered from being burned to ash.
• After learning about the Immortal World and the Madmen, Wang Quan led a surprise attack on Snow-Treading Madmen’s base, destroyed its forces, and killed Snow-Treading Madmen in a dream.
• Wang Quan brought Snow-Treading Madmen into his Purple Mansion and returned to Stone City, where he and the cultivators studied the Madmen’s memories and cultivation methods.
• Wang Quan and twelve Ghost Gods entered the Third Layer of the Underworld, found a sunlit world, and encountered a tiger demon who told them how monsters had arrived there.
• Wang Quan followed the tiger demon to its tribe, where White Tiger Number Thirteen described a woman from the Great Unification Era and a legendary Heavenly Demon Tiger-Wang Quan.
• Wang Quan told the Ghost Gods to gather materials for a safe zone, then traded his regenerating organs with the tiger demons until one kidney sprouted legs and ran away.