Chapter Summaries

Wang Quan tried to escape the Pinnacle of the Mountain Range, but the [Tenth Reincarnation King] captured him and brought him to a world of rings. The [Tenth Reincarnation King] asked about his identity and proposed an alliance against the true [Reincarnation King], leaving Wang Quan to consider the offer.

• Wang Quan gathered valuables from the Pinnacle of the Mountain Range and tried to leave for the beacon point he had agreed on with the Purple-Robed Marquis.
• The [Tenth Reincarnation King] revealed that he had seen through Wang Quan's disguise from the start, then swallowed him and took him to a world filled with rings.
• The [Tenth Reincarnation King] asked Wang Quan whether he was a replacement for the [Ninth Reincarnation King] or a separate being.
• Wang Quan told him that his identity mattered less than being alive and possessing power, but the [Tenth Reincarnation King] admitted he wanted to find and kill the other [Reincarnation King].
• Wang Quan refused to help him, so the [Tenth Reincarnation King] proposed that they ally against the true [Reincarnation King], whom he said was Wang Quan's mortal enemy.

Wang Quan allied with the Tenth Reincarnation King, who transported him to a dangerous Underworld location where the Purple-Robed Marquis had promised to leave a growth-type magic treasure. Wang Quan invoked the treasure and sensed a black umbrella beneath him, though it seemed impossibly far away.

• Wang Quan agreed to join forces with the Tenth Reincarnation King and exchanged contact information with him.
• The Tenth Reincarnation King warned Wang Quan about the forbidden zone and its rifts to the Second Layer of the Underworld, then offered to take him there.
• The Tenth Reincarnation King sent Wang Quan to the Dao coordinate using his gigantic ring and told him the ring would return in three days.
• Wang Quan recognized the location as the place where the Purple-Robed Marquis had promised to leave a growth-type magic treasure.
• Wang Quan chanted the three-thousand-language incantation, and sensed a hole-riddled black umbrella beneath his feet that seemed very far away.

Wang Quan dug deep beneath the earth to find the Purple-Robed Marquis’s growing Magic Treasure, following its presence through magma and into the black magma at the Underworld’s boundary. As he descended toward the Second Layer of the Underworld, Flower Sprite-like creatures attacked him with poisonous smoke that dissolved his defensive spell.

• Wang Quan used dissolution killing intent to dig underground, but the Magic Treasure remained beyond his reach.
• He descended through a vast magma sea and met a winged tiger from the Fire Fire Fire Tribe, which warned him about the black magma below.
• Wang Quan ignored the warnings and entered the black magma, while the winged tiger asked him to bring back stories if he survived.
• His Legacy Purple Mansion absorbed the intense heat as he descended, but the black magma dissolved a magic artifact he released.
• Flower Sprite-like creatures released poisonous smoke toward Wang Quan’s seven orifices and pores, and laughed when his defensive spell dissolved.

Wang Quan searched the colored lava regions for the Purple-Robed Marquis’s black umbrella but found no one who knew of it. After growing three heads and six arms to match the local giants, he was brought before their elders, who questioned his resemblance to their kind.

• Wang Quan interrogated the Flower Sprites, then used [Inverted Wisdom] to search their minds and found no information about the black umbrella.
• Wang Quan descended through the white, green, and blue lava regions, but the creatures there also knew nothing about the umbrella.
• In the purple lava region, Wang Quan grew three heads and six arms to satisfy the giants, who mistook him for a little friend and carried him away.
• Wang Quan saw the giants raising reincarnated beings as livestock before they brought him to a pavilion filled with enormous elders.
• The elders recognized Wang Quan as Flower-Scatter Daoist and questioned why his spell made him resemble their lineage so closely.

Wang Quan learned that the Three Heads and Six Arms technique came from the previous dynasty and that its people were relics of an earlier age. A three-headed beauty explained that the Dynastic Cataclysm would arrive after the current dynasty’s hundred-cycle span and revealed that it involved collapsing worlds contaminating and assimilating the mortal world.

• Wang Quan told the old woman how he learned his spell, and she identified it as an old cultivation method from the previous dynasty.
• The old woman transformed into a three-headed, six-armed beauty and explained that cultivators’ dynasties rose and fell with the [All-Under-Heaven Dao Court].
• The beauty said the Hundred-Armed Giants were Lesser Aberrant Humans who had served as military officers in the previous dynasty, which ended roughly ninety-nine cycles and eleven thousand years earlier.
• The beauty told Wang Quan that a Dynastic Cataclysm would come in a few hundred years and offered to answer three of his questions because of his Legend Rating.
• Wang Quan asked what the Dynastic Cataclysm was, and the beauty explained that collapsing worlds could contaminate the mortal world and assimilate its mountains, rivers, and lakes into the Underworld and Second-Layer World.

Wang Quan learned that the Dynastic Cataclysm coincided with an even more devastating Era Cataclysm, which could only be stopped by changing the past. After the beautiful woman revealed her ancient lineage and tried to persuade him to have a child with her, Wang Quan asked about the umbrella, and she recognized it as a treasure.

• The beautiful woman explained that the Era Cataclysm would make the thirty-two layers of worlds and eighteen layers of the Underworld overlap with the Real World for fifty years, awakening beings that would devour the world.
• She told Wang Quan that survival during the Era Cataclysm depended on luck, and that the strongest beings, including immortals, could die fastest.
• The beautiful woman said Wang Quan had once descended into the First Era to kill the being who sold out the world, but had failed; killing that being in the past could end both cataclysms.
• She revealed that her Hundred-Armed Giant ancestors descended from First Era Aberrant Humans and had preserved secrets in their bloodline, then proposed having a child with Wang Quan.
• Wang Quan declined and showed the beautiful woman an image of the umbrella given to him by the Purple-Robed Marquis; she asked how he knew about the treasure.

Wang Quan learned that the black umbrella Magic Treasure had once been broken by Lady [Tianxuan] in battle and set out for the Second Layer of the Underworld to find it. The Hundred-Armed Giants gave him a pearl and a secret incantation, hoping he would use them to contact their ancestors and help them return before the coming calamity.

• The three-headed, six-armed woman told Wang Quan that her bloodline memories described Lady [Tianxuan] breaking a black umbrella wielded by a purple-robed cultivator in the Underworld.
• Wang Quan decided to search the Second Layer of the Underworld for the damaged Magic Treasure despite the dangers, and the woman gave him a luminous pearl and taught him an incantation.
• Wang Quan performed a ritual to reach the Second Layer, but his physical body could not enter, so he sent in his Yang Spirit with several Hundred-Treasure Pouches and returned his body to the Real World.
• After Wang Quan entered the Second Layer, the woman revealed to the other Hundred-Armed Giants that she hoped the pearl would help their ancestors escape back to the First Layer and support them before the calamity.

Wang Quan explored the eerily silent second layer of the Underworld, then found a populated region where ghosts and monsters hid from the Black Hair Wind. After he warned them that the deadly wind had entered their tunnel, it froze the creatures at the front into black blocks of ice.

• Wang Quan found that his black umbrella magic treasure was not in the second layer and prepared a ritual to return to the first layer before scouting the area.
• Wang Quan flew through a barrier and discovered a lively region filled with ghosts, monsters, birds, and strange beasts.
• Wang Quan landed among ghosts and monsters hiding underground and learned that the Black Hair Wind blew at the start of every month and could freeze their insides.
• Wang Quan noticed black-light-like wind entering the tunnel and warned the group, but the creatures at the front were frozen into pitch-black blocks of ice.

Wang Quan learned several conflicting legends about the Black Hair Wind and the [Land of Dead Silence], then pursued the wind and created a Black Gourd that could absorb it. The Black Hair Wind began avoiding him and raced toward the Land of Dead Silence.

• Wang Quan drove the Black Hair Wind from the tunnel with flames and questioned the ghosts about its origins and the [Lands of Dead Silence].
• Wang Quan left a cloud of the Seventy-Two Paths of Smoke and Dust to protect the ghosts and chased the Black Hair Wind toward the [Land of Dead Silence].
• The ghosts worshipped the cloud of smoke until it endured, then carried it through the wilderness and eventually built a village around it.
• Wang Quan used five-colored earth, a gourd seed, and Black Hair Wind to grow a Black Gourd, then carved Dao script on it and made it absorb the wind.
• A stream of Black Hair Wind warned the others to avoid Wang Quan, and the mass of wind swerved around him toward the Land of Dead Silence.

Wang Quan pursued the Black Hair Winds deep underground and discovered that they were sealing an enormous giant beneath black ice. The giant offered information about the black umbrella in exchange for help, leaving Wang Quan asking who had last possessed it.

• Wang Quan chased the Black Hair Winds underground and captured their attackers with his black gourd.
• Wang Quan followed the remaining Black Hair Winds into a vast underground space and discovered a giant a hundred and eight thousand li long sealed beneath black ice.
• Wang Quan showed the Black Hair Winds an image of the black umbrella, but they denied knowing it and ordered him to leave.
• The sealed giant offered information about the black umbrella in exchange for help blocking the Black Hair Winds, and Wang Quan agreed despite their warnings.
• The giant said the black umbrella originated in the first era, belonged first to the first Central Ghost Emperor of the First Layer of the Underworld, and appeared in legends about later eras.
• Wang Quan asked when the black umbrella had last appeared and what sort of living being had possessed it.

Wang Quan abandoned his search for the black umbrella and left the giant imprisoned beneath the profound ice, but he secretly stopped the Black-Hair Wind Ritual. After three million years, the giant broke free and declared his return.

• The giant told Wang Quan that the black umbrella had fallen into the Third Layer of the Underworld, and Wang Quan decided to return when he was stronger.
• Wang Quan flew away, while the Black Hair Winds mocked the imprisoned giant and claimed that Wang Quan would not keep his word.
• The Black Hair Winds dwindled and vanished after a series of underground blasts, and water began melting the profound ice around the giant.
• The giant shattered the ice, and tornado spirits formed to fight the Black Hair Winds as the giant announced that he had returned.

Wang Quan helped a sealed giant absorb the Black Hair Winds, allowing the giant to break free after three million years and transform Wang Quan’s tools into powerful treasures. The giant departed after giving Wang Quan an incantation, leaving him to wonder what forces could have sealed such a being.

• The giant awakened, used wind and fire spirit monsters to defeat the Black Hair Winds, and fully escaped his seal.
• The giant’s gaze transformed Wang Quan’s Celestial Circuit Star Great Banners and Black Gourd into third-tier magic treasures.
• The giant burned the Black Hair Winds as an offering, then thanked Wang Quan and gave him an incantation promising aid against his enemies.
• The giant vanished, and the Land of Dead Silence collapsed as the remaining Black Hair Winds were absorbed into the Black Gourd.
• Wang Quan surveyed his new treasures and considered the giant’s power, the deeper dangers of the Underworld, and his own ambitions.

Wang Quan absorbed the Black Hair Wind into his Legacy Purple Mansion and gained two Third-Tier Magic Treasures, then found that most of his other promised treasures were beyond his reach. After considering the coming cataclysms, he decided to prepare by building his reserves and linking the Second Layer of the Underworld with the Third-Layer World.

• Wang Quan watched the giant’s power and saw the Black Hair Wind ritual destroyed, then absorbed the remaining wind with his black Gourd.
• Wang Quan integrated the Celestial Circuit Star Banners and black Gourd into his Legacy Purple Mansion, where they began producing and refining resources.
• Wang Quan tried calling the Magic Treasures left by Yu Wanzhou, the Great Cultivator of Decay, and the others, but most gave no response or only a faint one.
• Wang Quan returned to the First Layer of the Underworld and traveled to City No. 95.
• Wang Quan resolved to prepare for the approaching Dynastic Cataclysm and Era Cataclysm by strengthening his cultivation, reserves, and Stone City’s permissions.
• Wang Quan decided to find a way to link the Second Layer of the Underworld with the Third-Layer World.

After the New-Method Cultivators left Stone City, Wang Quan changed its rules and discussed its future with Ruo Jinghong, Mei Niang, and the others. He urged them to cultivate quickly after revealing that a Dynastic Cataclysm and Era Cataclysm would threaten the New Continent within a few hundred years, and the group resolved to prepare for the crisis and keep fighting even in the Underworld.

• Wang Quan changed Stone City's teleportation rules to prevent New-Method Cultivators from returning, while Mei Niang described plans to build up its population and resources.
• Wang Quan proposed reconnecting with the Second Layer of the Underworld and the Third-Layer World, but Mei Niang and the others urged him to wait until they had strengthened their cultivation and expanded their safe zone.
• Wang Quan asked everyone to reach the Purple Mansion Realm within ten years and revealed the coming Dynastic Cataclysm and Era Cataclysm.
• Mei Niang clung to Wang Quan and said she wanted to enjoy herself before they died, but Wang Quan argued they could survive or continue fighting in the Underworld after death.
• Ruo Jinghong encouraged everyone to cultivate and become powerful ghosts or monsters in the Underworld, possibly even claiming the position of a regional Ghost Emperor.

Wang Quan and the other Dao Seal Cultivators agreed to spend ten years strengthening themselves before attempting to connect Stone City to the Third-Layer World and the Second Layer of the Underworld. A year later, overwhelmed by Stone City's growing population, Fairy Qin received authority to recruit caregivers and began training female martial artists at the [Pure as Ice and Jade] Manor.

• Wang Quan, Ruo Jinghong, Mei Niang, and the other Dao Seal Cultivators decided to build their foundations for ten years before attempting to connect to two other realms.
• Fairy Qin and other female cultivators cared for Stone City's many children and spirit monsters while Wang Quan cultivated beneath the Fire Mulberry Tree.
• Fairy Qin told Wang Quan that her caregivers could not keep up with the growing number of children, and he gave her authority to recruit replacements herself.
• Fairy Qin recruited several thousand female martial artists and led them to the [Pure as Ice and Jade] Manor to train in serving adults and spirit monsters.

Over five years, Wang Quan and Stone City's residents grew stronger while New-Method Cultivators began leaving established institutions to form their own sects. After receiving letters about their growing influence, Wang Quan warned Qian Xiuyue of a coming catastrophe and sent her and Senior Sister Round Face cultivation resources.

• Ruo Jinghong and the others used Wang Quan's resources to prepare Purple Mansion materials and entered the Purple Mansion Realm, while Stone City's upper ranks grew stronger.
• Wang Quan continued cultivating atop the Fire Mulberry Tree, raised his Daoist Scriptures to 49,900 volumes, and received a letter from [Ghost Emperor Heart] inviting him to the Third-Layer World.
• Qian Xiuyue told Wang Quan that her Drowning Dao Lower Court had expanded its safe zone and that she was researching an artificial sun; she also reported that New-Method Cultivators had fled to establish a sect.
• Wang Quan warned Qian Xiuyue that a great calamity would arrive in eight hundred years, urged her to stockpile sunlight, and sent her and Senior Sister Round Face Magic Treasure Purple Mansions and Top-Tier Foundation Establishment Dao Platforms.
• Senior Sister Round Face reported that New-Method sects were blocking her lineage's expansion, and Wang Quan dismissed her concern about their numbers.

Wang Quan sent Qian Xiuyue and the Round-Faced Daoist Nun thunderfire, cultivation treasures, and orders to expand safe zones ahead of a great terror eight hundred years away. Both women advanced to Magic Treasure Purple Mansion Cultivators and began strengthening their forces, while Qian Xiuyue spent her mountain of Green Fly Coins to empower her Gold-Squandering Den and stockpile sunlight.

• Wang Quan sent his senior sister thunderfire and a letter directing her to expand safe zones in the Underworld and Second-Layer World, and warned her about the great terror in eight hundred years.
• Qian Xiuyue and the Round-Faced Daoist Nun received Wang Quan's letters and treasures, replaced their Foundation Establishment Dao Platforms, and entered the Magic Treasure Purple Mansion realm a year later.
• Qian Xiuyue expanded the Lower Court and advanced the Sun Flower Spirits, while the Round-Faced Daoist Nun allied with her and expanded safe zones in the Underworld and Second-Layer World.
• Qian Xiuyue used her Gold-Squandering Den and Magic Treasure Purple Mansion to consume her mountain of Green Fly Coins and increase her strength.
• Qian Xiuyue crafted Green Beetle magical artifacts to gather more Green Fly Coins and stored vast quantities of sunlight in the treasury as Wang Quan had instructed.

The round-faced Daoist nun used Wang Quan’s thunderfire beads to confront a New Method sect that had seized territory and oppressed Orthodox Cultivators. As the sect’s Golden Core Ancestors plotted to capture her, a thunderfire bead appeared in their hall.

• The round-faced Daoist nun refined over a thousand of Wang Quan’s thunderfire beads and prepared to attack a New Method sect.
• Her cultivators warned her that the sects could unite against them, but she said she had enough reserves to deal with them herself.
• The round-faced Daoist nun arrived above a New Method sect’s mountain stronghold, where its Golden Core Ancestors were boasting about their wealth and plotting a feast.
• A messenger reported that the round-faced Daoist nun and Orthodox Cultivators were overhead, and the Golden Core Ancestors decided to seize her.
• The hall’s roof burst apart, and an egg-sized bead dropped into the middle of the Golden Core Ancestors.

The Round-Faced Daoist Nun used Wang Quan’s thunderfire bead to destroy a New-Method sect’s mountain. Ten years later, Wang Quan gathered the strengthened Dao Seal Cultivators and learned what weapons they had prepared for their planned assault on the Second Layer of the Underworld and the Third-Layer World.

• The Round-Faced Daoist Nun detonated Wang Quan’s thunderfire bead, wiping out the New-Method sect and much of its mountain.
• Ten years later, Wang Quan arrived at the pavilion in Stone City, where Ruo Jinghong, Mei Niang, and the other Dao Seal Cultivators had gathered.
• Ruo Jinghong described a lamp made with solar fire, an ancient spirit wick, and three hundred and sixty-five phantom divine beings to illuminate the Third-Layer World.
• Mei Niang and the other Dao Seal Cultivators presented Magic Treasures and evil-being porters prepared to fight the evil beings there.
• The Officiant Daoist Nun reported that ghosts and Spirit Monsters had built a Mortal World Cannon capable of blasting anything to death.

Wang Quan sent Ruo Jinghong, Mei Niang, and the other Dao Seal Cultivators to establish a foothold in the Third-Layer World while he went alone to the Second Layer of the Underworld. After descending, he found a landscape of blood-stained ghost god statues and wondered whether they were statues, sleeping beings, or corpses.

• The Officiant Daoist Nun described the Mortal World Cannon and its offspring, which could bombard enemies without limit.
• Wang Quan told the others to go to the Third-Layer World while he entered the Second Layer of the Underworld alone.
• Mei Niang teased Wang Quan and Ruo Jinghong, but Wang Quan refused her advances and everyone agreed to follow the plan to establish a foothold within seven hundred and ninety-five years.
• Wang Quan stepped into the Underworld, and its gates closed behind him as the others watched him leave.
• Wang Quan arrived in the Second Layer of the Underworld on the head of a giant stone ghost god and saw countless statues streaked with fossilized black blood.