Chapter Summaries

Wang Quan transformed his Yin Spirit into a limit-breaking Yang Spirit and discovered its unusual traits. He began planning for foundation establishment and put his Yang Spirit to work refining power, then found Ying Jiaren missing from the Scripture Repository.

• Wang Quan withdrew his Yin Spirit, checked his death-substitution items, and prepared for the transformation in a coffin.
• Wang Quan transformed his Yin Spirit into a Yang Spirit beyond the supreme grade, whose traits included Evil Vanquishing and producing foundation establishment spirit light and primordial spirit sand.
• Wang Quan examined the Yang Spirit's abilities and decided to save up for a powerful foundation establishment rather than establish his foundation with only a few strands of spirit light.
• Wang Quan had his Yang Spirit use the [Great Sun Across the Sky Art] to refine great sun magic power while his physical body studied Daoist scriptures.
• Wang Quan went to the Scripture Repository to look for Ying Jiaren but did not find her.

Wang Quan met the white-haired Ying Jiaren in the Scripture Repository and learned that she had also mastered a First-Rank Dao Seal. She agreed to practice Beautiful Lady Yu with him to advance their study of Daoist Scriptures, and they went to her courtyard to begin.

• Wang Quan noticed that the Scripture Repository’s Daoist Scripture students were mostly newcomers and encountered Ying Jiaren, whose hair had turned white.
• Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren confirmed that they had both mastered a First-Rank Dao Seal.
• Ying Jiaren asked why Wang Quan had encouraged her to master the Ten Thousand Scrolls Dao Canon, and he explained that he wanted a partner to practice Beautiful Lady Yu with him.
• Ying Jiaren said she wanted to become stronger and control her own destiny, and Wang Quan promised to protect her from those who tried to force her.
• Ying Jiaren agreed to practice Beautiful Lady Yu with Wang Quan and invited him to her courtyard residence.
• Ying Jiaren required Wang Quan to bathe and change clothes before they began their cultivation.

Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren practiced the [Beautiful Lady Yu] spell together, which greatly improved their study of Daoist Scriptures. They agreed to cultivate together every night, ending when it was time to gather purple qi.

• Ying Jiaren prepared Sandalwood Incense and showed Wang Quan the brains she had set aside for future use; he warned her that using them with so little Dharma Power could damage her mind.
• Ying Jiaren asked Wang Quan to remove his external kidneys because her Fundamental Method required her to remain in a pure yin state, and he agreed.
• Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren activated the [Beautiful Lady Yu] spell and studied Daoist Scriptures while moving through its postures, with their learning accelerating as they coordinated.
• Ying Jiaren passed thirteen tests and Wang Quan passed five during their ten-hour session, with Wang Quan completing five volumes of Daoist Scripture.
• Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren agreed to cultivate together each night until it was time to gather purple qi.

Wang Quan planned to pursue Foundation Establishment Spirit Light, refine his Yang Spirit’s defenses, and improve his Life Cultivation while reviewing his growing resources. He asked the Round-Faced Daoist Nun to find at least eighty beautiful women so he could fully practice [Beautiful Lady Yu].

• Wang Quan set Foundation Establishment Spirit Light as his main goal, followed by honing his Yang Spirit’s Heavenly Gang and Earthly Sha and practicing Life Cultivation when time allowed.
• Wang Quan reviewed his First-Rank Dao Seal and found that his lifespan, Daoist Scripture progress, Dharma Power, and resources had increased substantially.
• Wang Quan considered whether to invest ten strands of Heavenly Opportunity in Ying Jiaren after learning more about her plans and progress.
• Wang Quan contacted the Round-Faced Daoist Nun and requested at least eighty beautiful women to help him practice a spell.
• Wang Quan specified that the women should cleanse their bodies with particular materials, avoid cultivation and union spells for a month, and be paid for their expenses.
• Wang Quan explained that he wanted to supply materials for [Beautiful Lady Yu] and bring the spell’s power and effects to their limit.

The Round-Faced Daoist Nun recruited more than a hundred beauties to help Wang Quan refine [Beautiful Lady Yu], which he successfully strengthened by harvesting their Beauty Essence. Wang Quan arranged specialized care for the women and asked the Round-Faced Daoist Nun to find out about Foundation Establishment Spirit Light as he prepared to establish his foundation.

• The Round-Faced Daoist Nun selected more than a hundred beauties and arranged their housing, materials, and wages.
• Wang Quan paid the Round-Faced Daoist Nun three million Green Beetles and went to the Lower Court residence to refine his technique.
• Wang Quan harvested Beauty Essence from the women, and the spell talisman of [Beautiful Lady Yu] gained a layer.
• After the women fell asleep unharmed, Wang Quan specified their future diet and asked for flower spirits to care for them.
• Wang Quan asked the Round-Faced Daoist Nun to inquire about Foundation Establishment Spirit Light because he planned to prepare for Foundation Establishment.

Wang Quan learned how Foundation Establishment Spirit Light was refined and planned to pursue a faster route while searching Daoist Scriptures for a more complete method. After settling on a cultivation routine, he joined his Yang Spirit in refining Dharma Power as Ying Jiaren practiced her incense-based method.

• The Round-Faced Daoist Nun explained that Foundation Establishment required spirit light, which had to match one of the major categories of Heavenly Gang or Earthly Sha borne by a cultivator’s Yang Spirit.
• She told Wang Quan that refining spirit light was costly and slow, and that hiring others could produce many strands at once.
• Wang Quan decided to study more Daoist Scriptures while arranging for spirit light to be refined, using the Nun’s method if he found no better account.
• Wang Quan planned to clear evil from the Cafeteria in the Second-Layer World, gather Beauty Essence for [Beautiful Lady Yu], and cultivate with Ying Jiaren.
• Wang Quan and his Yang Spirit gathered moonlight to refine Dharma Power while Ying Jiaren refined Dharma Power by burning Sandalwood Incense with the [Wondrous Incense True Self Method].

Wang Quan revealed that he was the newly advanced Yang Spirit behind the People-Crossing Scripture and joined the cultivators clearing the Cafeteria. He destroyed several Flood Dragon evils with unusual ease, leaving him and the others wondering whether the Cafeteria's source had weakened or his new Yang Spirit had strengthened him.

• Wang Quan entered the Second-Layer World openly as a Yang Spirit, and the cultivators recognized him as the Flower-Scatter Daoist.
• Wang Quan revealed to the physical-body cultivator that he was Fellow Daoist People-Crossing Scripture, surprising the gathered cultivators.
• Wang Quan directed the group to carve Daoist Scriptures across the Cafeteria's exterior and clear it from the outside inward.
• Wang Quan recited the People-Crossing Scripture and destroyed three Flood Dragon reliefs, each with only one recitation.
• The physical-body cultivator suspected the Cafeteria's source had weakened, while Wang Quan privately considered that his Yang Spirit's Evil Vanquishing trait might explain his increased power.

Wang Quan rapidly cleared evil beings in the Second-Layer World, gained Yin Virtue, and strengthened his Yang Spirit. After practicing [Beautiful Lady Yu], he told the Round-Faced Daoist Nun that he planned to refine all seventy-two kinds of earthly sha and revealed that his Yang Spirit was supreme-grade.

• Wang Quan used the People-Crossing Scripture and the First-Turn Outer Elixir to clear a hundred and ten evil beings, while the other cultivators struggled against the Cafeteria’s defenses.
• The cultivators realized Flower-Scatter Daoist’s unusually efficient clearing might come from his growing strength, and the evil beings mocked them before fighting back with a spell array.
• Back in the Present World, Wang Quan checked his First-Rank Dao Seal, gained Yin Virtue, recovered his Dharma Power, and practiced [Beautiful Lady Yu] on the beauties.
• Wang Quan asked the Round-Faced Daoist Nun to hire people to refine foundation establishment spirit light, but learned the Miscellaneous Goods Hall had no heavenly gang or earthly sha available.
• Wang Quan said he would refine one strand of each of the seventy-two kinds of earthly sha, and revealed that he had transformed into a supreme-grade Yang Spirit.

Wang Quan learned that his supreme-grade Yang Spirit could bear twelve strands of Heavenly Gang and seventy-two strands of Earthly Sha, and he planned to refine them in batches before pursuing Foundation Establishment Spirit Light. After his Yang Spirit rapidly grew stronger while clearing evil beings, the other cultivators grew envious and one decided to learn the People-Crossing Scripture.

• The Round-Faced Daoist Nun envied Wang Quan's supreme-grade Yang Spirit and explained the advantages of refining Heavenly Gang and Earthly Sha.
• Wang Quan and the Round-Faced Daoist Nun decided to refine Earthly Sha and Heavenly Gang in separate batches, postponing Foundation Establishment Spirit Light because of the cost.
• Wang Quan returned to the Second-Layer World and found that clearing a hundred evil beings had increased his Yang Spirit's radiance by one cun and earned him five thousand points of Yin Virtue.
• The cultivators noticed Wang Quan's rapid growth and thanked him before he went to clear more evil beings.
• After Wang Quan left, the cultivators used Thunderfire against the evil beings in the murals, but the building quickly restored itself and the evil beings mocked them.
• One cultivator declared that he would learn the People-Crossing Scripture, alarming the others.

Wang Quan taught the cultivator surnamed Zhong the People-Crossing Scripture despite the others’ fears that it could turn him into an anomaly. Zhong used it to attack a female evil in a mural, while the other cultivators decided to wait years before trying the scripture themselves.

• Wang Quan returned to the Second-Layer World and learned that the cultivator surnamed Zhong wanted to study the People-Crossing Scripture, despite his fellow cultivators’ objections.
• Zhong assured the others that his Daoist Scriptures were nearly caught up with his Fundamental Method and promised Wang Quan a favor in exchange for the scripture.
• Wang Quan taught Zhong the People-Crossing Scripture, while the other cultivators refused to learn it until they saw whether Zhong remained safe.
• Zhong recited the scripture before a mural, sending weapons of Dharma Power after a female evil until they pierced her.

Wang Quan and Zhong cleared Evil in the Second-Layer World, while Wang Quan also refined Dharma Power and practiced with Ying Jiaren. After more than ten days, Wang Quan saw that Zhong had become dangerously obsessed with using the People-Crossing Scripture, but Zhong remained unsure whether he should rest.

• Zhong permanently cleared an Evil with the People-Crossing Scripture and joined Flower-Scatter in clearing the Cafeteria.
• Wang Quan cleared ten Evil, gained Yin Virtue, and strengthened his Yang Spirit before returning to the Present World.
• Wang Quan gave Ying Jiaren a million Green Beetles, practiced Daoist Scriptures with her, and advised her to choose Spirit Refining as her second trait.
• Wang Quan and Zhong worked to clear Evil for more than ten days, and Wang Quan noticed Zhong’s bloodshot eyes and relentless behavior.
• Wang Quan warned Zhong that the People-Crossing Scripture was affecting his mental state and urged him to rest, but Zhong angrily questioned whether he should stop.

Wang Quan continued helping the cultivator surnamed Zhong clear out Evil as the man lost his memories but resisted becoming an anomaly. After the Zhong Household thanked Wang Quan, the Round-Faced Daoist Nun told him she had assembled a team to refine Iron Chain Baleful Intent, and he agreed to inspect their first attempt.

• Wang Quan persuaded the cultivator surnamed Zhong to return to the Present World, while other cultivators explained that the man’s abnormal condition had begun before he received the People-Crossing Scripture.
• The cultivator surnamed Zhong kept coming to the Second-Layer World at night to clear out Evil, even as he forgot people and things, and returned to the Present World before Wang Quan arrived each morning.
• A representative of the Zhong Household thanked Wang Quan and offered to repay the favor, while explaining that the family believed the People-Crossing Scripture might have helped keep his eldest brother alive.
• The Zhong Household charged cultivators to study the man after he became a mindless cultivator focused on redeeming Evil, but Wang Quan declined to join the research.
• The Round-Faced Daoist Nun told Wang Quan she had gathered more than five hundred beauties for him and prepared a team to refine Iron Chain Baleful Intent.
• Wang Quan agreed to inspect the team’s first refinement the next morning and said he would discuss other Killing Intent selections afterward.

Wang Quan continued clearing the Cafeteria of evils while weighing which Earthly Sha to refine, and another cultivator advised him to choose one from each major category. When the roof’s twisted guardian evils attacked, Wang Quan drove them into hiding and the cultivators began carving Daoist Scriptures on the roof.

• Wang Quan told the cultivator in his physical body that he could not decide which seventy-two Earthly Sha to refine, and the cultivator advised him to choose one from each major category as a foundation.
• Wang Quan finished clearing the evils from the Cafeteria’s walls, doors, windows, and hall pillars, leaving only the roof’s four guardian evils and central head.
• The evil White Tiger broke Wang Quan’s People-Crossing Scripture chains and attacked, so the cultivators helped defend him while he repeatedly lashed it with new scripture chains.
• Wang Quan’s repeated attacks drove the evil White Tiger into the roof tiles, and the other roof evils also hid themselves.
• Wang Quan urged the cultivators to carve Daoist Scriptures onto the roof, but the tiles erased their characters and then sprouted legs and fled when Wang Quan’s Yang Spirit landed.

Wang Quan used his Yang Spirit to cleanse evil roof tiles and discovered that sunlight could also weaken the evil beings in the Cafeteria. He proposed having weaker cultivators refine sunlight for the others to use, leaving the cultivators considering how to organize the effort.

• Wang Quan's Yang Spirit cleansed the evil roof tiles, and he explained that sunlight might be the reason it could vanquish evil.
• Wang Quan attacked the White Tiger and the other evil beings in the Cafeteria with the People-Crossing Scripture until he ran out of Dharma Power and returned to the Present World to recover.
• The cultivators tested gathered sunlight on the roof tiles, then collected more sunlight, briefly dimming the sky across the surrounding area.
• Wang Quan refined a strand of sunlight with the Great Sun Across the Sky Art and found it much weaker than the People-Crossing Scripture, but proposed paying other cultivators to refine it in bulk.
• A cultivator calculated that a hundred refined strands could equal one use of Wang Quan's People-Crossing Scripture and suggested New-Method Alliance leaders compel New-Method Cultivators to refine sunlight.

Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren continued studying Daoist Scriptures while Ying Jiaren revealed that she was refining Dao Soldiers to deal with the people troubling her. Wang Quan then traveled to the Fury River to refine Iron Chain Baleful Intent, where the Round-Faced Daoist Nun awaited his command.

• Wang Quan and the cultivators finished carving Daoist Scriptures onto tiles and repaired the Cafeteria roof, but Yin Spirit cultivators discovered that its evil food had grown stronger and entered with the cultivator surnamed Zhong to fight it.
• In the Real World, Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren studied Daoist Scriptures together, and Wang Quan's progress slowed after reaching 16,000 volumes.
• Ying Jiaren told Wang Quan that people still troubled her, but she was refining Dao Soldiers to make them settle accounts and test their strength.
• Wang Quan traveled to a mountain beside the Fury River to refine Iron Chain Baleful Intent, and the Round-Faced Daoist Nun said the waiting team was ready.

Wang Quan watched the team refining [Iron Chain Baleful Intent] and arranged for them to begin producing seventy-two types of Killing Intent. The work was disrupted when New-Method Cultivators clashed with the fish spirits, leaving Wang Quan and the Round-Faced Daoist Nun wondering why the newcomers had come to the riverbank.

• The Round-Faced Daoist Nun took Wang Quan above the Fury River to observe the team’s elaborate refining process.
• Wang Quan learned that the team could produce a strand of high-grade [Iron Chain Baleful Intent] in a year by harvesting and honing Killing Intent.
• Wang Quan asked how to accelerate the process, then agreed to begin refining seventy-two types of Killing Intent at once.
• The refining boats rocked as fish spirits fled the riverbed with red ribbons of Killing Intent.
• The Round-Faced Daoist Nun reported that New-Method Cultivators gathering black sinking sand had clashed with the fish spirits, despite usually working farther out in the river.

Wang Quan watched the Round-Faced Daoist Nun settle a dispute with sand-collecting cultivators who had interfered with the fish spirits refining Baleful Intent. He recognized his former companion Wu Yong among them and arranged for the laborers to work off their compensation by helping refine Baleful Intent.

• Wang Quan asked the refinement leaders to meet with the cultivators collecting black sinking sand and waited to see how they handled the conflict.
• The Round-Faced Daoist Nun returned with the leaders and more than a dozen bruised cultivators, including Wu Yong, after confronting them.
• Wu Yong recognized Wang Quan and worried that his old companion would mock him, while Wang Quan recognized Wu Yong but chose not to hold their past against him.
• The Round-Faced Daoist Nun proposed fining the laborers, threatening them when they said they could not pay.
• Wang Quan ordered the laborers to work refining Baleful Intent and use their wages to pay their debt.
• The refinement leaders took Wu Yong and the other laborers to work with the fish spirits in the riverbed.

Wu Yong’s exhausted crew wanted to leave Zhao Hongyi’s dangerous black-sand assignment and work for Wang Quan, whose fish spirits earned reliable wages refining baleful intent. Wu Yong agreed to seek Wang Quan’s help, but the overseers dismissed his claim that they had been fellow immortality seekers as an outdated story.

• After finishing a long shift grinding killing intent against iron pillars, Wu Yong learned that the fish spirits worked for Wang Quan and earned good wages.
• Wu Yong’s companions criticized Zhao Hongyi’s treatment of them and urged him to find a way to work for the Flower-Scatter Daoist instead.
• Wu Yong agreed to ask a friend who knew Wang Quan to help them get hired, while his companions urged him to address Wang Quan as their master.
• Wu Yong went to the summit and asked the overseers to let him see Wang Quan, explaining that they had been in the same cohort of immortality seekers.
• An overseer laughed and said many people had already claimed to know Wang Quan, dismissing Wu Yong’s story as outdated.

Wu Yong failed to reach Wang Quan and learned that Wang Quan was overseeing a massive effort to refine seventy-two kinds of Earthly Sha. Meanwhile, cultivators drove down the cost of sunlight and attacked the Cafeteria’s evils, where Wang Quan arrived to face another ambush.

• Wu Yong repeatedly tried to see Wang Quan, but the foremen explained that Wang Quan was refining seventy-two kinds of Earthly Sha and urged Wu Yong to focus on working with them.
• Cultivators marveled at Wang Quan’s resources, while others explained that lineage costs kept them from refining all their baleful intent at once.
• A Yang Spirit cultivator delivered gourds of refined sunlight, and true-body cultivators bought them as they worked to expand the New Method and lower the price.
• The cultivators poured sunlight through holes in the Cafeteria roof and took turns entering to kill evils and weaken the Cafeteria’s source.
• Wang Quan entered the Cafeteria, where a roast suckling pig recognized him and rallied the evils to attack.

Wang Quan fought the cafeteria evils with illusions and the People-Crossing Scripture, awakening and destroying a roast goose and its pursuers. After the roast chicken vanished, he found a living goose egg with no evil aura and decided to ask the cultivators about it.

• Wang Quan used paper guards, illusions, and Illusory Moon Yin Thunder to defend himself from the cafeteria evils.
• Wang Quan spotted a roast goose resisting his illusions and used the People-Crossing Scripture to expose and pursue it.
• The roast goose remembered its death and repeated slaughter, mistook Wang Quan for its rescuer, and vanished into blue smoke.
• Wang Quan used the People-Crossing Scripture to destroy the roast chicken that had taken over the pursuit.
• Wang Quan found a living goose egg among the roast chicken's remains and continued clearing out the cafeteria evils.