Chapter Summaries

Wang Quan learned that the founding temple master had found the General Compendium of Unorthodox Paths in the Great Tomb, but he refused to reveal its location. Qing He abandoned her plan to return to her Lineage after Wang Quan warned her about Heaven’s Collapse, and he urged her to remain in the past and perhaps become Great Emperor Qing He.

• The founding temple master admitted he had dug up the General Compendium of Unorthodox Paths but would not give Wang Quan the Great Tomb’s waymark or claim to have seen the other compendiums.
• The founding temple master tried to recruit Qing He as Clear Wind Temple’s holy maiden, then withdrew the offer after she threatened to boil his bones into broth.
• Qing He offered to search for the Great Tomb if Wang Quan guarded her Lineage for eight hundred or a thousand years, but Wang Quan said he could protect it for only about seven hundred years before Heaven’s Collapse.
• Qing He decided to return to protect her Lineage, but Wang Quan warned that even immortals could die in Heaven’s Collapse and suggested she might instead become Great Emperor Qing He and leave behind an Imperial Scripture.

Wang Quan and Qing He left the Historical Fragment after entrusting the new temple master with their knowledge, and he worked to preserve their legacy in Clear Wind Temple. Years later, as his life neared its end, he urged skeptical new acolytes to worship them and believe they could change their fate.

• Qing He chose to return to her Lineage despite the danger, and she and Wang Quan left their knowledge with the new temple master before departing.
• The first temple master lamented that Fu Gui and Qing He had left, while the new temple master forgot the General Compendium of Unorthodox Paths shortly after hearing about it.
• The new temple master sealed the first temple master inside a heavily reinforced coffin and buried him in the ancestral graveyard.
• The new temple master made statues of Wang Quan and Qing He, inscribed them with their teachings, and spread stories of their achievements.
• Near the end of his life, the new temple master brought newly admitted acolytes to worship the statues and told them that believing in Wang Quan and Qing He could change their fate.

A novice gained powerful spells from the statues of Wang Quan and Qing He, became Clear Wind Temple’s temple master, and transformed the temple through later generations. The chapter ended as outside cultivation organizations began resisting the temple master’s demand that they worship the statues.

• A novice received powerful, costly spells from the statues and used them to suppress challengers after inheriting Clear Wind Temple’s leadership.
• He revealed the statues’ secret, and temple members began gaining spells through worship and increasingly brutal sacrifices, making Clear Wind Temple notorious.
• A scholarly Daoist nun became temple master, organized the spells, and established rules for earning the right to make blood sacrifices.
• After ascending, the nun and later temple masters warned their successors not to ascend and to protect the statues as the future of humanity.
• When cultivators’ strength mysteriously declined, Clear Wind Temple shared its methods for refining veins in exchange for worship of the statues.
• After eighty to a hundred years, disputes arose over worshipping Wang Quan and Qing He.

The chapter recounts how Clear Wind Temple’s efforts to promote the statues of Wang Quan and Qing He sparked blood sacrifices, a devastating war, and the rise of three thousand Daoist sects. The statues remained lost, while only a few sect members retained fragments of their hidden history.

• Prodigies worshipping replicas of Wang Quan and Qing He discovered powerful methods, sought out the originals, and began blood sacrifices at Clear Wind Temple.
• The worshippers abducted cultivators for increasingly potent sacrifices, spreading fear throughout the cultivation world.
• Great cultivators blamed Clear Wind Temple for a further decline in their strength and launched a war that devastated the mortal world and lasted a thousand years.
• Clear Wind Temple was destroyed, while some of its prodigies went underground, infiltrated other sects, and eventually formed three thousand Daoist sects.
• The three thousand sects hunted down Clear Wind Temple’s remnants, erased its history, and searched for the statues for tens of thousands of years without finding them.
• A small number of cultivators later pieced together old records about the statues’ immense power, but they did not know the statues were called Heterodox Path Wang Quan Fugui and Heterodox Path Saintess Qing He.

Wang Quan returned from the Historical Fragment with the other cultivators and learned that his legend had grown remarkably long, including his exploits with Qing He. A great cultivator reviewed his memories and praised his actions, while the remaining Historical Fragment vortices stayed open.

• Wang Quan returned to the Real World, where the cultivators thanked him and Qing He announced that she had changed her name to Qing He.
• The cultivators read Qing He’s legend and teased her and Wang Quan about its account of them riding together to kill their enemy.
• Qing He recited Wang Quan’s lengthy legend, which described his journeys through history, his enemies, and the spread of Unorthodox Path methods.
• The first vortex closed as the great cultivators observed that one team had already changed history.
• Wang Quan gave a great cultivator a copy of his memories, and the great cultivator praised his efforts and his partnership with Qing He.

Jade-Playing Daoist Lian Nishang returned from a historical fragment and showed the others his memories, claiming he had gone there to show off. His memories revealed that he and his companions were defeated by the female historical anchor point, then won her favor and became intimate with her.

• Wang Quan and the other returning cultivators gave their memories to the great cultivators for analysis by the All-Under-Heaven Dao Court.
• Jade-Playing Daoist Lian Nishang emerged from the second vortex and told the great cultivators he wanted another chance to enter a historical fragment and show off.
• Lian Nishang projected his memories, revealing that he had possessed an ancient prodigy and could freely use spells and Fundamental Methods from the future.
• Lian Nishang and the other cultivators attacked the female historical anchor point, but she defeated them and left them kneeling before her.
• Lian Nishang and his companions clung to the woman, pleased her, and later sought her favor; Qing He watched and praised her.

Wang Quan explained that the Reincarnation King used nine historical anchor points and the Nine Dragons Contending for Succession method to become a new being across her past. After the others left the historical fragments, Wang Quan stayed behind to wait for Ying Jiaren and wondered whether he could enter her fragment.

• Wang Quan explained that Lian Nishang and eight others helped the Reincarnation King reincarnate through the Nine Dragons Contending for Succession method.
• The great cultivator deduced that killing the Reincarnation King after her reincarnation would require nine top experts to strike simultaneously at nine points in time.
• Lian Nishang and the others watched their memories of the Reincarnation King give birth to a girl before turning to ashes, and they regretted not arranging to receive anything from their descendant.
• After no one else emerged from the vortices, the cultivators departed, and Lian Nishang told Wang Quan the Dao Court would open the historical fragments again in three to five years.
• Wang Quan stayed by Ying Jiaren's vortex, and the great cultivator warned that people who spent longer in historical fragments were less likely to return.

Wang Quan entered the Historical Fragment after Ying Jiaren to find and rescue her, using Divine Abilities to locate her and the Anchor Point Yang Fan. He raced across an immense mountain range toward Yang Fan, but the chapter ended before he reached him.

• Wang Quan ignored advice to consolidate his gains and entered the vortex where Ying Jiaren had gone.
• Wang Quan descended into a Golden Core prodigy named Yang Fan and prepared to kill the Historical Anchor Point to end the fragment.
• Wang Quan used Divine Abilities to locate Ying Jiaren and Yang Fan, discovering that Ying Jiaren was alive and resisting his tracking.
• Wang Quan dispelled the Divine Ability on Ying Jiaren and locked onto Yang Fan, who did not resist being tracked.
• Wang Quan used Meteors Pierce Sparse Waters, the Moving Moon Reverses the Clouds to travel at tremendous speed toward Yang Fan.
• Wang Quan crossed into an immense mountain range filled with strange creatures and cultivators, but had not yet reached Yang Fan.

Wang Quan reached the ruined palace complex and found Ying Jiaren safe, with Yang Fan imprisoned and being tortured by her group. Ying Jiaren explained how they had used the Historical Fragment to train and grow stronger, then showed Wang Quan the complex and its connection to the Miracle Palace.

• A medicinal spirit proclaimed himself emperor and led monsters to attack nearby mountains as Wang Quan flew toward his destination.
• Wang Quan arrived at a valley filled with immense ruined palaces, hanging gardens, and lifelike reliefs, then met Ying Jiaren.
• Ying Jiaren led Wang Quan to the valley, where he saw Yang Fan impaled atop a magical artifact while spirit monsters, great monsters, and cultivators attacked him with thunderfire.
• Ying Jiaren said her group had trapped Yang Fan, repeatedly trained within the Historical Fragment, and gained powerful abilities, including her seventy-two Greater Divine Abilities and Golden Core Lifebound Divine Ability.
• Ying Jiaren revealed that a revived celestial maiden, a maidservant of [Emperor], had taught her methods to suppress Yang Fan.
• Ying Jiaren showed Wang Quan the palace complex, explaining that it was the outer perimeter of the [Miracle Palace] and pointing out its ancient monster reliefs and unusual plants.

Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren explored a ruined palace, where Wang Quan used his time trait to restore the heads of the petrified flying maidens. The flying maid explained Jiaren’s connection to the Great Lord of the Azure Heaven and the nature of [Heaven], leaving Wang Quan wondering how spreading his face across the sky might strengthen his Divine Ability.

• Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren found that the palace’s flying-maiden reliefs were living people whose heads had been separated from their bodies by the power of time.
• Wang Quan used his time trait to reattach the flying maidens’ heads, and Ying Jiaren led him to ask the surviving flying maid for a reward.
• The flying maid thanked Wang Quan and offered to share ancient history after explaining that the palace pillars could be refined into extraordinary treasures only with an Aberrant Human.
• The flying maid revealed that she had appeared because Ying Jiaren carried the aura of the Great Lord of the Azure Heaven, who had punched and kicked her.
• The flying maid explained that [Emperor] was one title of the Great Lord of the Azure Heaven, and that in her era the sky and celestial bodies formed [Heaven]’s face and eyes.
• Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren recalled [Emperor]’s words about having their faces occupy one percent of a continent’s sky, and Wang Quan wondered whether spreading his face across the firmament could strengthen [Shift Stars and Transpose the Dipper].

The flying maid told Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren about the war between eras and the Great Lord of the Azure Heaven, then Ying Jiaren explained the repeating historical fragment and its cultivators. Wang Quan met Xu Daoshou, who was torturing the anchor point Yang Fan, and claimed the All-Under-Heaven Dao Court could find a way to leave even if they failed to clear the anchor point.

• The flying maid told Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren that the war scattered the Great Lord of the Azure Heaven's palaces across different eras and warned that hearing his full titles would be fatal.
• The flying maid rested after explaining that she was lonely, while Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren played together in a small garden.
• Ying Jiaren explained that the historical fragment repeated every hundred years and that cultivators gathered materials and refined divine abilities.
• Wang Quan met Xu Daoshou, who was researching the historical anchor point Yang Fan by sawing his arms and releasing insects into his blood vessels.
• Wang Quan told Xu Daoshou and Yang Fan that the All-Under-Heaven Dao Court had developed spells and divine abilities that might let them leave the fragment, and Yang Fan challenged him to do what the Young Master had failed to do.

Wang Quan broke Yang Fan’s resolve by threatening to make his historical fragment a place of endless study and humiliation, then persuaded him to reveal its resource sites. Yang Fan learned that Ying Jiaren intended to keep him alive as the fragment’s anchor, leaving him to ask Wang Quan to scatter flowers for his ending.

• Wang Quan described how the Dao Court would repeatedly use Yang Fan’s historical fragment as a training ground and study him across countless eras.
• Yang Fan agreed to trade his treasures and knowledge of resource sites for the promise that Wang Quan would eventually kill him for good.
• Yang Fan listed the fragment’s many valuable resource sites, shocking Ying Jiaren, Wang Quan, and the others.
• Ying Jiaren declared that Yang Fan would remain alive to maintain and reset the fragment, and she ordered Xu Daoshou not to hurt him.
• Xu Daoshou vowed to protect Yang Fan, who asked Wang Quan to scatter flowers for his ending.

Wang Quan and the cultivators captured Yang Fan after history reset and found that he had shut off his consciousness. Wang Quan then went to recruit medicinal spirits to gather resources, but when they refused, he threatened them with his paper-cut iron pot.

• Wang Quan told Yang Fan he would have to keep the Historical Fragment running for about seven hundred years, so Yang Fan shut off his consciousness.
• A cultivator left the fragment to measure time in the Real World, and history reset shortly afterward.
• Ying Jiaren bound Yang Fan with a Divine Ability, and the cultivators discovered he could not perceive anything outside himself.
• Wang Quan followed Ying Jiaren's advice and went to the ruined palaces to recruit medicinal spirits as helpers.
• When the medicinal spirits refused to work for him, Wang Quan cut out an iron pot and threatened to make them leave behind their medicinal properties.

Wang Quan defeated the medicinal spirits and persuaded them to gather resources for him as mountain kings. They enlisted spirit monsters to gather and refine starlight, while Wang Quan began refining divine abilities.

• Wang Quan fought the medicinal spirits, shrinking to their size and overpowering them with magic treasures and divine abilities.
• The medicinal spirits surrendered, and Wang Quan taught them how to gather the resources he needed.
• Wang Quan sent the medicinal spirits out as mountain kings and promised to protect them if they worked properly.
• The medicinal spirits forced spirit monsters to gather starlight and taught them the trade, promising they could gain freedom and become masters themselves.
• The medicinal spirits refined the gathered starlight and stored it in gourds while Wang Quan began refining divine abilities.

Wang Quan refined [Shift Stars and Transpose the Dipper] and mastered more than a hundred top-tier Divine Abilities through repeated historical resets. When a Legend Golden Core brought news that the All-Under-Heaven Dao Court was recruiting monstrous talents and offering resources in exchange for their places, Wang Quan decided to return for a specified top-tier resource.

• Wang Quan spent thirty historical resets refining the Lesser and Greater Divine Abilities needed for [Shift Stars and Transpose the Dipper].
• Wang Quan combined thirteen Greater Divine Abilities and hundreds of Lesser Divine Abilities into a hundred-li galaxy, creating the top-tier killing Divine Ability at the cost of ten million strands of Dharma Power.
• Wang Quan continued refining top-tier Divine Abilities through a thousand historical resets and mastered more than a hundred of them while studying Daoist Scriptures with Jiaren.
• A Legend Golden Core returned from the Real World and reported that the great cultivators had contacted the All-Under-Heaven Dao Court about sending monstrous talents into the Historical Fragment for secluded cultivation.
• The Golden Core explained that those who left could receive a free top-tier advancement resource or request a specified top-tier resource, leaving the others torn over whether to stay or return.
• Wang Quan chose to return and request a specified top-tier resource because refining the remaining Divine Abilities had become slower than doing so in the Real World.

Wang Quan left Ying Jiaren to seek materials from the All-Under-Heaven Dao Court to forge his Golden Core Lifebound Divine Ability. He revealed that the ability required burning around a hundred billion Golden Cores, leaving the Dao Court cultivators stunned.

• Wang Quan told Ying Jiaren he was leaving to use the All-Under-Heaven Dao Court's promise to obtain materials for his Lifebound Divine Ability.
• Wang Quan visited the flying celestial maid, who shared ancient history and asked him to tell the Great Lord of the Azure Heaven that they were still waiting for him.
• Wang Quan gave the medicinal spirits to Ying Jiaren as their new master, and Ying Jiaren vowed to catch up with him and face the Era Cataclysm together.
• Wang Quan emerged from the vortex and asked the All-Under-Heaven Dao Court for the materials to forge his Lifebound Divine Ability.
• Wang Quan said his Divine Ability needed tens or hundreds of billions of Golden Cores as fuel, shocking the Dao Court cultivators.

Wang Quan asked the All-Under-Heaven Dao Court for eighty to a hundred billion Golden Cores to refine a powerful Divine Ability, and the Court debated whether to grant his request. The Court ultimately honored its promise and began gathering and counting the Golden Cores for delivery.

• Wang Quan asked the All-Under-Heaven Dao Court's great cultivators when they would launch the Cloud-Piercing Arrow to contact the Court about his requested resources.
• A Legend Golden Core emerged from the Historical Fragment, handed over resources from inside, and requested top-tier resources for One-Way Passage as his reward.
• The Dao Court's bigwigs argued over Wang Quan's demand, with some objecting to the enormous cost and others supporting the need for powerful cultivators before the Era Cataclysm.
• A top-ranking bigwig ordered the Court to honor its promise and provide Wang Quan with the Golden Cores, while monitoring how he used them.
• The bigwigs requisitioned Golden Cores and enlisted ghost deities and their descendants to transport and count them.

Wang Quan received a torrent of Golden Cores from the Dao Court and used them to temper his Bright Moon Golden Core, where a mysterious woman began to take shape. The horse-faced ghost god delivered one hundred million Golden Cores, while another ghost god later tried to abduct cultivators to provide Wang Quan with a kickback.

• The great cultivators told Wang Quan that the Dao Court would deliver his requested resources, and the other cultivators also requested resources for [One-Way Passage].
• A horse-faced ghost god emerged from an Underworld fissure with a basket of Golden Cores and told Wang Quan to use them in front of him without giving anyone a kickback.
• Wang Quan opened his Purple Mansion furnace and absorbed the Golden Cores' flames into his Bright Moon Golden Core, where a graceful woman appeared and wondered what era it was.
• The horse-faced ghost god emptied his basket of one hundred million Golden Cores, then left after Wang Quan said he still needed more.
• The horse-faced ghost god warned another ghost god that Wang Quan had demanded more Golden Cores, and the second ghost god tried to abduct Golden Core Cultivators for a kickback before a Sky Patrol Magic Treasure caught him.

A black-robed ghost god harvested New-Method Cultivators’ golden cores and delivered them to Wang Quan, who used them to refine the [Bright Moon Golden Core]. The Dao Court discovered that some ghost gods had stolen cores from the delivery baskets and seized them for punishment.

• The black-robed ghost god harvested golden cores from wild New-Method Cultivators, leaving their Foundation Establishment Ancestors to kill the weakened Golden Core Ancestors and take control.
• The black-robed ghost god delivered his haul to Wang Quan, who burned the golden cores in his Purple Mansion furnace to refine the [Bright Moon Golden Core].
• The ghost god kept the golden cores Wang Quan did not demand as a kickback and encouraged other ghost gods to do the same.
• Some ghost gods began stealing golden cores directly from their baskets, while Wang Quan continued requesting more and the Dao Court supplied billions.
• The Dao Court secretly inspected the deliveries, caught ghost gods whose baskets were missing golden cores, and dragged them away as research materials.

Wang Quan revived his lifebound divine ability as an ancient woman awakened within his Golden Core, protected herself from the chains, and left him a life-saving blessing. His Dao Seal recorded the new ability, increased Legend Rating, and expanded legend descriptions, leaving Wang Quan puzzled about [Emperor]’s blessing and the missing General Compendium of Unorthodox Paths.

• Wang Quan burned vast resources to revive his lifebound divine ability while chains appeared and tried to bind the sleeping woman in his Golden Core.
• The woman woke, broke the chains, learned who had sent them, and sealed the Golden Core against further intrusion.
• Unable to kill the chains’ owner through Temporal Projection, the woman saw Wang Quan, recognized his connection to [Emperor], and left a life-saving measure in his foundation before transforming into a galaxy.
• Wang Quan’s divine ability, [The Starry River Turns in Heaven, Curtains Fall in the Mortal World], was born, and his Dao Seal recorded its powers and restrictions.
• Wang Quan’s Dao Seal showed eleven additional Legend Rating points and new details about his legend, including a blessing from an ancient and mysterious being.
• Wang Quan wondered whether [Emperor] had blessed him and why the General Compendium of Unorthodox Paths was absent from his Dao Seal.