Chapter Summaries

Wang Quan tested the [Self-Crossing Scripture] and a new [People-Crossing Scripture] against the evils in the Second-Layer World, discovering that wounded evils attracted their companions as prey. Back in Stone City, the Officiant Daoist Nun told him the final Construction Art Manor was complete, and he agreed to inspect it.

• Wang Quan used the [Self-Crossing Scripture] to injure the evils with his Yang Spirit's golden light and gained Yin Virtue from the wounds.
• Wang Quan used the new [People-Crossing Scripture] to reduce an elephant-like evil to golden dust and gained a cubic unit of Yin Virtue.
• After Wang Quan left the Second-Layer World, the evils devoured their wounded companions, drawn by the fragrance of their blood and flesh.
• In Stone City, the Officiant Daoist Nun watched Wang Quan cultivate and asked about his spell, and he warned that cultivating it might turn her into a book.
• The Officiant Daoist Nun told Wang Quan the last Construction Art Manor was finished, and he agreed to inspect it.

Wang Quan activated 108,000 magical artifacts to begin preparing for the Purple Mansion Realm, prompting fellow cultivators to urge him to celebrate. He agreed to hold a feast for all living beings, and Ruo Jinghong announced it as the Flower-Scatter Daoist’s gift.

• The Officiant Daoist Nun marveled at Wang Quan’s 108,000 magical artifacts and wondered how he had amassed them.
• Wang Quan inspected the manors and courtyards, then activated all 108,000 artifacts to reflect their structures for his future Purple Mansion.
• Ruo Jinghong, Ma Qingqiu, and the other Dao Seal Cultivators congratulated Wang Quan and persuaded him to hold a grand feast.
• Ma Qingqiu proposed holding the feast in the Underworld so cultivators working to clear abnormal weather would not resent them.
• Wang Quan decided to invite all living beings and ordered the cultivators to call back those risking their lives outside.
• Ruo Jinghong told them to announce that Wang Quan was bestowing the feast because he had advanced in cultivation and was in a joyous mood.

At a banquet where many guests despaired over their dangerous lives, Wang Quan encouraged the Dao Seal Cultivators to keep developing the Far Western Land and explained how to obtain magical artifacts. He declined Mei Niang’s invitation to cultivate together, and learned that Dao Seal Cultivators were discussing him and Stone City in the Second-Layer Inner Landscape.

• Spirit monsters and cultivators drank at the banquet, and some guests killed themselves or destroyed their Yin Spirits out of despair.
• Ma Qingqiu showed that the Far Western Land was improving, while Wang Quan pointed out that the guests could not wait for that future and urged everyone to make the land safer.
• Wang Quan described buying magical artifacts with Foundation Establishment Spirit Light, prompting Dao Seal Cultivators to write home and commission artifacts.
• Mei Niang invited Wang Quan to cultivate with her, but Ruo Jinghong pulled him away, and he refused to join Mei Niang.
• A cultivator told Wang Quan that he and Stone City were being widely discussed in the Second-Layer Inner Landscape, and Wang Quan said he would look after the banquet.

After the feast, Wang Quan formed a talisman-like Dao Script from the [Self-Crossing Scripture], which imprinted itself throughout his Inner Landscape. He entered the Second-Layer Inner Landscape and learned that Stone City’s growing appeal drew cultivators eager to escape overcrowded sect cities, though he had yet to learn all its advantages.

• Wang Quan spent three days watching Stone City’s inhabitants celebrate and work while reflecting on questions about the Far Western Land, the Underworld, and the Daoist Scripture.
• On the fourth day, Wang Quan recited the Dao Script born from the [Self-Crossing Scripture], exhausting twelve thousand streams of Dharma Power as it merged with his Yang Spirit and began restoring its spent essences.
• The [Self-Crossing Scripture] appeared across Wang Quan’s Inner Landscape, where Heavenly Gang, Earthly Sha, and his Drowning Water imprinted it onto the Foundation Establishment Dao Platform.
• Wang Quan entered the Second-Layer Inner Landscape and received notice that linking the Underworld and Present World had raised his access privileges to level two, 50%.
• Wang Quan asked why cultivators wanted to join Stone City, and their replies explained that the Far Western Land’s sect cities were overcrowded and left low-level cultivators with little chance to advance.

Wang Quan invited Dao Seal Cultivators to join Stone City and planned a safe zone in the Second-Layer World. The cultivators agreed to admit newcomers with reduced authority at first, and they left the daily number of openings undecided between fifty and a hundred.

• Wang Quan recognized that Dao Seal Foundation Establishment Cultivators could help rebuild Stone City and invited them to join under its rules.
• Wang Quan accepted an event to establish a safe zone in the Second-Layer World and realized he could first build a specially empowered structure in the Real World.
• Wang Quan and the Officiant Daoist Nun consulted Ruo Jinghong and others about safe-zone buildings, and the Officiant and Dream promised to build a suitable structure within three days.
• Wang Quan asked Stone City's Dao Seal Cultivators whether to accept newcomers, and they agreed to grant later arrivals less authority until they earned it through contributions.
• The Dao Seal Cultivators debated admitting ten, twenty, fifty, or a hundred newcomers per day, and Wang Quan said the exact number did not matter to him.

Stone City welcomed fifty Dao Seal Cultivators each day, boosting its workforce and lowering casualties as newcomers joined Mei Niang’s groups. The Officiant and Dream finished the house framework requested by the weapon, and Wang Quan rushed over to carve the Daoist Scriptures onto it.

• Wang Quan selected thirty female and twenty male Dao Seal Cultivators for Stone City’s first daily intake.
• Ruo Jinghong welcomed the women, while Mei Niang and the others gathered the men and promised to help them study the Daoist Scriptures.
• Mei Niang led the newcomers to clear abnormal weather, then brought the men to join her group, where they discovered hundreds of burly men waiting to cultivate with them.
• Stone City received fifty Dao Seal Cultivators each day, improving abnormal-weather clearing efficiency and reducing ordinary cultivators’ casualties.
• The Officiant and Dream completed the weapon’s house framework and called Wang Quan to carve the Daoist Scriptures onto it.

Wang Quan and the two Daoist nuns built a configurable house and carved the Daoist Scriptures into it, triggering a brief golden manifestation. In the Second-Layer World, Wang Quan found the matching house and confronted a ghostly army led by a former commandant, preparing to deliver them.

• Wang Quan inspected the house Officiant and Dream had built, which could switch between six functions, and promised to help repair their Foundation Establishment foundations.
• Wang Quan carved the Daoist Scriptures into the house and added a special character from the Self-Crossing Scripture, causing golden lines to briefly connect the scriptures.
• Wang Quan entered the Second-Layer World and found a dark room identical to the house, then began carving the scriptures there using his Yang Spirit's golden light.
• The carving drew out twisted evil chefs led by the Commandant of the Three Thousandth Camp, who said he and his men had died and become the evil beings they once fought.
• Wang Quan told the commandant he could deliver them, then transformed his Yang Spirit into 108 streams of killing intent and surged toward the evil beings.

Wang Quan used the [Self-Crossing Scripture] to drive back the twisted chefs and inscribed Daoist Scriptures on the building’s walls, creating safe zones despite the building’s resistance. After finishing the tenth volume and weakening his Yang Spirit, he saw fragments of an eleventh volume appearing on their own.

• Wang Quan’s golden light injured the twisted chefs and the commandant, who tried to block it with black water from his chef’s hat before fleeing into the darkness.
• Wang Quan discovered that the walls were emitting bluish smoke, and the walls swallowed the injured chefs to protect them from his attacks.
• Wang Quan wrote Daoist Scriptures on the pitch-black walls, while the commandant repeatedly emerged to protest and attack him.
• As Wang Quan continued writing, a wall board grew legs and tried to run away, but he blasted it back and inscribed the tenth volume on it.
• After finishing the tenth volume, Wang Quan felt his Yang Spirit weaken and noticed fragments of the eleventh volume appearing on a nearby board.

Wang Quan discovered that writing the Daoist Scriptures awakened inscriptions on the building and believed they could weaken its evil presence in the Second-Layer World. He gathered hundreds of skeptical Dao Seal Cultivators and revealed a patch of safe-zone light, then ordered them to recite the [People-Crossing Scripture] to stabilize it.

• Wang Quan finished the eleventh volume, saw characters from the twelfth appear, and returned to the Real World to recover his [Self-Crossing Scripture].
• Wang Quan summoned Dao Seal Cultivators to help establish a safe zone in the Second-Layer World.
• Ruo Jinghong and Mei Niang doubted Wang Quan's plan but gathered their allies and went to help him.
• Hundreds of cultivators arrived, and Wang Quan led them into the house and then into the Second-Layer World.
• Ruo Jinghong and the others saw a patch of white light like a safe zone, and Wang Quan told them to recite the [People-Crossing Scripture] to stabilize it.

Wang Quan and the Dao Seal Cultivators tried to inscribe Daoist Scriptures in the Second-Layer World, but cannon-wielding evil beings forced them to retreat. Seeing that Wang Quan had begun establishing a safe zone, the cultivators prepared to reenter and fight back while he continued writing.

• Wang Quan repaired the defiled Daoist Scriptures as Ruo Jinghong, Mei Niang, and the other Dao Seal Cultivators used the People-Crossing Scripture to defeat evil beings cleaning the walls.
• Wang Quan pinned the escaping wall panel with thunderfire and continued inscribing the twelfth volume while evil beings on the upper floors attacked with cannons, bows, and spears.
• After enduring a relentless barrage that disrupted his killing intent, Wang Quan shouted for everyone to retreat, and Ruo Jinghong and the others withdrew to the Real World.
• The Dao Seal Cultivators recognized that Wang Quan had established the beginnings of a safe zone and agreed to defend him and kill the cannons on their next entry.
• Wang Quan told the cultivators to fight back rather than only defend, and he led them to march out again.

Wang Quan led the cultivators into the Second-Layer World, fought off its evil creatures, and inscribed Daoist scriptures that resisted the surrounding darkness. His work expanded the safe zone and revealed that the building restored itself faster as more scriptures appeared, while the other cultivators failed to imitate him and wondered about his hidden strength.

• Wang Quan and several hundred Foundation Establishment Yang Spirits entered the familiar room and fought the evil creatures while Wang Quan repaired and inscribed Daoist scriptures.
• The Commandant chef accused Wang Quan of occupying his ancestral home, and Ruo Jinghong and Mei Niang mocked him.
• After inscribing twenty-five volumes, Wang Quan returned to the Real World to recuperate, while several Dao Seal Cultivators failed to add scriptures of their own.
• Wang Quan returned and inscribed seventeen more volumes, noticing that the building restored its scriptures faster as their number grew.
• Wang Quan told the cultivators to keep inscribing scriptures after he left, but they could not, and they speculated about the secret behind his success.

Wang Quan and the Dao Seal Cultivators battled six powerful Evils inside a strange house in the second-layer world while Wang Quan expanded a safe zone by writing Daoist Scriptures. The fight continued as the cultivators, tired of Wang Quan's sighs, deliberately burst their own eardrums so they could no longer hear them.

• The commandant chef attacked Ruo Jinghong and the other cultivators with a cannon, claiming the house was his ancestral home despite his conflicting memories.
• Ma Qingqiu and the others realized the Evils' memories seemed cobbled together, but the commandant chef insisted they were real and renewed his attack.
• As Wang Quan wrote more Daoist Scriptures, the safe zone expanded and stronger Evils appeared, including a dorm supervisor, a many-eyed spider, a many-armed Evil, and an enormous book.
• The six Evils fought the cultivators and recovered from their injuries whenever they vanished into the darkness, forcing the cultivators to wear them down over time.
• Wang Quan repeatedly returned to replenish the power of the Self-Crossing Scripture, then sighed at the slow progress of the Daoist Scriptures.
• A cultivator accused Wang Quan of showing contempt, burst his own eardrums to avoid hearing him, and inspired others to do the same.

Wang Quan and the cultivators fought the growing evil beings while he inscribed Daoist scriptures, eventually restoring an octopus evil being to her true self. She revealed the Western Expedition Army’s discovery that the fallen [All-Under-Heaven Dao Court] had been twisted and that they themselves had become evil beings, then Wang Quan asked for the Dao coordinates of the ruined court.

• Wang Quan continued inscribing Daoist scriptures as the evil beings grew stronger and attacked the cultivators with cannons.
• The evil beings launched cleaning creatures to defile the scriptures, but Ruo Jinghong and the cultivators drove them away while Wang Quan was absent.
• Wang Quan’s scriptures caused an octopus evil being to shed her corruption and return to human form as a female cultivator.
• The woman explained that she had served in the Western Expedition Army and lost her memories when the sky collapsed and the [All-Under-Heaven Dao Court] fell.
• She recounted that her group mistook the real people for evil beings until they entered the damaged Dao Court and saw its mutated, dead immortals and divine beings.
• Wang Quan asked the woman for the Dao coordinates of the fallen [All-Under-Heaven Dao Court].

After the female cultivator vanished, Wang Quan sorted through the knowledge and memories she had transmitted, including the location of the ruined [All-Under-Heaven Dao Court]. He resolved to search for the wreckage after securing the safe zone in the Second-Layer World.

• The female cultivator disappeared in a swirl of golden light, and the evil beings wondered whether their own obsessions would become lingering attachments after death.
• The evil cannons accused Ruo Jinghong, the Commandant, and the others of hiding the Dao marker, then fired on them while Ruo Jinghong’s group secretly intensified their attacks.
• Wang Quan recalled that the female cultivator had given him the Dao marker’s coordinates and extensive information, and that he had passed the [Self-Crossing Scripture] to her in return.
• Wang Quan discovered that the female cultivator’s [Self-Crossing Scripture] contained three thousand Dao Script characters and that its final characters, spells, and methods were mostly beyond his ability to perceive.
• Wang Quan found the golden book [God Says: Glazed Radiance Illuminates Past and Present] in his consciousness, but learned that he needed to master the preceding 2,999 volumes before he could study it.
• Wang Quan considered the female cultivator’s origins and the history of the [All-Under-Heaven Dao Court], then decided to seek its wreckage after he secured the Second-Layer World safe zone.

Wang Quan examined the female cultivator’s memories and learned how she obtained three rare Daoist Scriptures. The memories revealed the Western Expedition’s collapse and the damaged [All-Under-Heaven Dao Court] falling from the sky.

• Wang Quan watched the female cultivator join the Drowning Dao, but the Drowning Dao headquarters appeared as pixelation in her memories.
• Wang Quan followed the female cultivator’s life through the centuries as she refined treasures, traveled, and eventually joined the Western Expedition Army.
• The female cultivator’s great ship entered the Second-Layer World several times, where evil beings killed many cultivators and injured her.
• The Western Expedition reached the barren western land, where the cultivators cleared abnormal weather, spread Spirit Soil, and repaired the land.
• A voice aboard a great ship warned that the heavens of their homeland had collapsed, and the cultivators fled or opened the Underworld as scarlet engulfed everything.
• The female cultivator sealed three rare Daoist Scriptures, then saw the damaged [All-Under-Heaven Dao Court] fall from the sky, and Wang Quan understood how it had happened.

Wang Quan and the Dao Seal Cultivators fought the newly awakened cannon evils while expanding Stone City’s safe zone. A year later, Stone City had transformed rapidly as its cultivators worked together to build it.

• A multi-barreled cannon fused with a commandant chef, killed him, and attacked Wang Quan and the other cultivators.
• The cannon evils merged with other evils and forced the Dao Seal Cultivators to retreat toward the temporary safe zone.
• Wang Quan and the cultivators gradually gained ground, covering a wall with Daoist Scriptures while Wang Quan began inscribing a second wall.
• Cultivators urged Wang Quan to charge newcomers Foundation Establishment Spirit Light, but he refused to take payment from those forced to the Far Western Land.
• Ruo Jinghong saw that newcomers diligently completed Wang Quan’s tasks, and Stone City underwent dramatic growth in one year.

Stone City’s residents expanded the city by three thousand meters, building stronger walls and adding homes, altars, and fields while defending against anomalous weather. The work continued at a frantic pace, with the city relying on mass offerings, cultivators, and Spirit Monsters to stabilize its surroundings.

• The Flower Sprites sounded the horns, and Stone City’s thirty-six gates opened as workers poured out to prepare the ground and build foundations.
• Orthodox Cultivators shaped mountains for stone, and Spirit Monsters and cultivators raised the expanded city walls with layers of stone and reinforced mortar.
• Dao Seal Cultivators and more than a thousand cultivators from the Second-Layer World fought back anomalous weather threatening Stone City.
• The Officiant, Dream, and others built manors and altars, while newcomers were rushed into making offerings at the Five-Colored Altar.
• Dream Nun led the planting of mature Five Elements Fruit Trees and their seedlings to regulate the earth veins and flows of qi.
• Si Xiaohong and the others built housing, while Great Wind-Driller and Little Wind-Driller collected feces, cleared collapsed offerers, planted Sun Flower Spirits, and prepared spirit farmland.

A Drowning Dao Headquarters spy arrived in Stone City to investigate its supposed safe zone, but its bustling residents and their determination left her baffled. After seeing spirit monsters sacrifice themselves to cultivate a spiritual field, she was struck by Great Wind-Driller’s whip and loudly complained of the pain.

• A middle-aged female cultivator from the Drowning Dao Headquarters arrived in Stone City to investigate its safe zone and study the people she believed were affected by hysteria.
• She was surprised to find that Stone City’s residents lived with both despair and hope, and she questioned a martial artist who ate spirit monster dung to grow stronger.
• The martial artist told her that he had survived in Stone City for three months and worshipped the great sun to help open a safe zone.
• The female cultivator saw Dung Mountain, the [Sun Flower Spirit], and spirit monsters sacrificing themselves to enrich a spiritual field.
• Great Wind-Driller struck the female cultivator with his whip, and she cried out in exaggerated pain.

A powerful woman from Drowning Water Headquarters entered Stone City's Second-Layer World and discovered cultivators building a temporary safe zone by writing Daoist Scriptures. She tried to expand it herself, but her writing vanished, leaving her wondering if she had developed hysteria.

• Great Wind-Driller's magical whip shattered against the middle-aged female cultivator, who explained that her body was tougher than the artifact and said she had come with permission from Drowning Water Headquarters.
• The woman learned that Stone City had been building a temporary safe zone in the Second-Layer World and entered through the peculiar little house using her Primordial Spirit.
• Inside, she saw nearly a million Yang Spirits empowering Daoist Scriptures, cultivators fighting bizarre evils, and Wang Quan writing on the third wall.
• The woman pushed Wang Quan aside and began writing Daoist Scriptures, intending to turn the floor into a safe zone and expand it to the other floors.
• The Daoist Scriptures she wrote vanished in a single breath, and she slapped herself, insisting it must have been an illusion.

Wang Quan discovered that his merit let him imprint scriptures where a female cultivator could not, but the conversation was interrupted when evil beings in the Second-Layer World suddenly grew more than tenfold stronger. After retreating to the Real World, Wang Quan met with the female cultivator while Ruo Jinghong and the others stood guard outside.

• Wang Quan returned to the Second-Layer World and showed the female cultivator that his scriptures could permanently imprint on the walls, which he attributed to merit.
• The female cultivator revealed that her Yang Spirit’s cracks were worsening and left the Second-Layer World, telling everyone to return to the Real World for several days.
• Ruo Jinghong and the others reported that the evil beings had grown stronger, and Wang Quan ordered everyone to retreat as cannon attacks overwhelmed their defenses.
• The evil beings tried to destroy the wall scriptures, but the scriptures’ light burned the lesser evil beings into azure smoke.
• More than a million Yang Spirits and over ten thousand Dao Seal Cultivators returned to the Real World, where Ruo Jinghong and the others gathered outside the three-story building while Wang Quan spoke with the female cultivator inside.