Chapter Summaries

Wang Quan and the cultivators used the Nine Dragons Spewing Fire Diagram to overwhelm the uncanny New Methods, forcing their Flesh and Blood Altars to merge and endure wave after wave of attacks. As the spell battle continued, Wang Quan replenished the cultivators’ Dharma Power and revealed that his Golden Core had been refined from around a hundred billion Golden Cores.

• The Fire Dragon Fire-Blowing Diagram shattered a Flesh and Blood Altar’s defenses, and the uncanny New Methods fled or joined forces against its attacks.
• The one thousand and one uncanny New Methods fused their Flesh and Blood Altars together, but they could find no weakness in the formation diagram.
• Wang Quan and the cultivators kept attacking the altars while using the Sky Patrol Magic Treasure to analyze their methods.
• With Wang Quan replenishing their Dharma Power, the Golden Core cultivators practiced perfected fire arts and launched spells for hours.
• Wang Quan studied Daoist Scriptures while distributing Dharma Power, then told two Legend Cultivators that his Golden Core had been refined from around a hundred billion Golden Cores.

Wang Quan refused the Legends’ offers to cultivate together, while the two Legends continued advancing their Daoist Scriptures as they guarded the burning flesh-and-blood altar. Meanwhile, New Method leaders complained about their defeats, but a Ministry of Personnel director dismissed their reports and doubted the uncanny New Method practitioners were truly trapped.

• The Legend Primordial Spirit and Legend Dharma Form praised Wang Quan’s rumored power, and Wang Quan denied that he had covered the sky with one hand or sought a Myth title.
• The Legend Dharma Form and Legend Primordial Spirit offered to cultivate with Wang Quan through [Beautiful Lady Yu], but he refused both offers because he preferred women and did not want to risk helping a Legend in exchange for cultivation.
• The Legend Primordial Spirit and Legend Dharma Form began cultivating together while the [Nine Dragons Blowing Fire] formation diagram burned the merged flesh-and-blood altar, leaving both sides deadlocked.
• New Method leaders sent memorials blaming the uncanny New Method practitioners for their defeats, and Jiang Wuwei listed their alleged crimes while demanding their recall.
• A Ministry of Personnel director reviewed the memorials and battle footage, dismissed the New Method leaders’ complaints, and doubted that the uncanny New Method practitioners had been trapped.

After the Heavenly World ordered the New Method cultivators and Jiang Wuwei to return, Jiang Wuwei prepared to leave the Mortal World and tried to arrange a people-smuggling deal with Wang Quan. Wang Quan refused, warning that the Heavenly World was their enemy and wanted to harvest them.

• The Ministry of Personnel received orders to recall the New Method cultivators and Jiang Wuwei to the Heavenly World.
• The New Method bigwigs packed to return, while Jiang Wuwei bid farewell to his family and friends and made plans for his wives and daughters.
• Jiang Wuwei asked to meet Wang Quan and proposed smuggling people to the Heavenly World in exchange for cultivation resources.
• Wang Quan refused to trade people, though he offered to exchange Golden Cores and Nascent Souls for other resources.
• After Jiang Wuwei left, Wang Quan told a Grotto Heaven Grand Cultivator that the Heavenly World was the one trying to harvest them.

Wang Quan gave up his place in the formation diagram and set out to harvest New Method cultivators along the Fury River with the Officiant and the others. When he discovered poor monsters had paid sand eagles to sneak aboard his smoke and dust, he let them stay and work for him.

• Wang Quan rejected spending a hundred years refining the flesh-and-blood altar and gave up his place in the formation diagram.
• Wang Quan told the Officiant and the others they would harvest Golden Cores and Nascent Souls from New Method cities along the Fury River.
• The Officiant Daoist Nun and the monsters prepared the Seventy-Two Paths of Smoke and Dust for their journey.
• Wang Quan discovered sand eagle monsters were charging other monsters Green Fly Coins to sneak aboard, then fleeing with their rope ladders and leaving some passengers to fall.
• The monsters who had paid to join Wang Quan's group asked to stay and work for food and lodging, and Wang Quan offered them meals, lodging, and ten Green Fly Coins a day until they saved enough to leave.

The Mountain Reliance Sect Master tried to keep her sect out of the conflict between the New Method and the Old Cultivation Method, but Wang Quan arrived and demanded Golden Cores. She sent her disciples to collect them and entertained the donkey demon delivering the order.

• The Mountain Reliance Sect Master built up the Mountain Reliance Sect while keeping it out of the fighting near the Fury River.
• After Wang Quan took four thousand Golden Cores two years earlier, the Mountain Reliance Sect Master became increasingly cautious and prepared underground tunnels for escape.
• Wang Quan arrived in the city with the Seventy-Two Paths of Smoke and Dust, and a donkey demon ordered each unaffiliated sect to deliver one hundred Golden Cores within ten days.
• The Mountain Reliance Sect Master sent her Foundation Establishment disciples to capture New-Method Golden Core cultivators, telling them to preserve the Golden Cores and use Sandalwood Incense if they faced danger.
• The Mountain Reliance Sect Master offered the donkey demon tea and female donkey companions, and he asked her to arrange white horse demons instead.

The Mountain Reliance Sect recruited the donkey demon and other Monsters, then used their worship of Wang Quan to empower his portrait as a potential Magic Treasure. After learning that the sect was first to complete its Golden Core quota, Wang Quan felt a premonition of a connection and decided to visit it personally.

• The Mountain Reliance Sect master persuaded the donkey demon to stay by promising him a place in the sect and a chance to worship Lord Flower-Scatter.
• The donkey demon recruited more than a dozen Monsters, and the Mountain Reliance Sect master welcomed them with food, drink, and female demons.
• The Monsters worshipped Wang Quan’s portrait, channeling incense power and karmic power into it and strengthening its potential as a Magic Treasure.
• Wang Quan and his followers collected and sorted Golden Cores while tracking which unaffiliated sects had failed their quotas.
• After ten days, Dream Nun told Wang Quan that the Mountain Reliance Sect had completed its task first, and Wang Quan decided to deliver it a gift in person after sensing a connection to the sect.

Wang Quan visited the Mountain Reliance Sect, strengthened its portrait treasure, and rewarded the sect for refining a hundred Golden Cores. He warned the Mountain Reliance Sect Master that an era cataclysm would arrive in a little over six hundred years, leaving her to consider how the sect might survive.

• The Mountain Reliance Sect Master used the monsters' worship and the disciples' Dharma Power to strengthen Wang Quan's portrait, then encountered Wang Quan in person.
• Wang Quan sealed a Yang Spirit fragment and a dormant resurrection Divine Ability inside the portrait, refined its structure, and added the Greater Divine Ability [Shift Stars and Transpose the Dipper].
• Wang Quan gave the Mountain Reliance Sect Master a reward for delivering a hundred Golden Cores and told her to keep refining the portrait using her own methods.
• Wang Quan advised the Mountain Reliance Sect Master to expand the sect underground and eventually climb toward the source of the Fury River to improve its chances of surviving the coming cataclysm.
• The Mountain Reliance Sect Master asked whether the Dao Court's stone statues could protect people, and Wang Quan confirmed they offered hope but said Orthodox Cultivators would fare worse than unaffiliated cultivators.