Chapter Summaries

Wang Quan learned that the goose egg could turn chicken eggs into blood-and-vitality-restoring goose eggs, and the Round-Faced Daoist Nun explained how it could reshape the Lower Court’s materials market. He returned to the Second-Layer World with a plan, while the cultivator who wanted to manage the goose egg waited anxiously for his answer.

• Wang Quan left the Cafeteria and asked cultivators to study the goose egg while he returned to the First-Layer World to replenish his Dharma Power.
• The cultivators discovered that the goose egg transformed nearby chicken eggs into smaller goose eggs that could restore martial artists’ blood and vital energy.
• A cultivator offered to manage the goose egg for Wang Quan, but Wang Quan contacted the Round-Faced Daoist Nun and Ying Jiaren for advice.
• Ying Jiaren declined, while the Round-Faced Daoist Nun urged Wang Quan to keep the goose egg and explained how martial artists could supply blood, organs, limbs, flesh, and bones.
• Wang Quan concluded that the goose egg could give him control over a much larger materials market and returned to the Second-Layer World, where the cultivator anxiously asked for his decision.

Wang Quan leased the mysterious goose egg to a cultivator from the Si Household for six months in exchange for a million Green Fly Coins per day. Back in the Real World, Ying Jiaren continued refining Dharma Power and practicing [Beautiful Lady Yu] with Wang Quan, hoping to reach the Yang Spirit stage.

• Wang Quan rejected a request to extend the goose egg's loan and agreed to lend it to a cultivator from the Si Household for six months at one million Green Fly Coins per day.
• Other cultivators tried to outbid the Si Household, but the Si cultivator secured the deal and promised to return the goose egg.
• Wang Quan returned to the Real World as Ying Jiaren's attendants prepared incense and medicinal materials in her courtyard.
• Ying Jiaren consumed incense smoke and a Hundred-Herb Pill while refining a hundred varieties of Dharma Power, planning to sell them and invest the proceeds in Dao Soldiers and essence.
• Ying Jiaren practiced [Beautiful Lady Yu] with Wang Quan and wondered how long it would take her to become a Yang Spirit.

Wang Quan made progress refining the Iron Chain Baleful Intent, studying Daoist Scriptures, and clearing Evil in the Second-Layer World. After agreeing to help remove anomalies affecting other baleful intents, he met Zhao Hongyi, who asked about Wu Yong claiming to work for him.

• Wang Quan refined the Iron Chain Baleful Intent without interference, advanced to seventeen thousand Daoist Scripture scrolls, and selected mountains near the Fury River for future use of the goose egg.
• Wang Quan and the cultivator surnamed Zhong cleared most of the Evil in the Cafeteria, and Wang Quan planned to deal with the Evil chefs next.
• The Round-Faced Daoist Nun told Wang Quan that anomalies had wiped out several teams working at baleful intent sites, and Wang Quan offered to help clear them away.
• Wang Quan agreed to work alongside another anomaly-clearing team, then recovered his Dharma Power.
• Zhao Hongyi visited Wang Quan and said Wu Yong had told her he was working for him; Wang Quan denied it and asked her to check with Wu Yong again.

Zhao Hongyi learned that Wu Yong had left her and rejected her attempts to bring him back, while Wang Quan avoided getting drawn into their relationship. The next morning, Wang Quan headed toward the Fury River to clear anomalies and waited at a waterfall guarded by New-Method Alliance cultivators.

• Zhao Hongyi contacted Wang Quan and discovered Wu Yong was helping refine [Iron Chain Baleful Intent] for his team.
• Wu Yong told Zhao Hongyi he had abandoned the New Method, rejected her many Dao companions, and wanted to part ways.
• Wang Quan went to the Second-Layer World to clear an Evil, then declined Zhao Hongyi's invitation to a banquet.
• Qian Xiuyue told Wang Quan that she and her group had left the Star Alliance and were preparing to build a manor.
• Wang Quan left Ying Jiaren, traveled toward the Fury River, and told a New-Method Alliance cultivator he was waiting at the waterfall.

Wang Quan learned about the hardships faced by New-Method Cultivators before joining the Round-Faced Daoist Nun and a group led by a hunchbacked old man to investigate anomalies disrupting baleful-intent production on the Fury River. The captain reported that the anomalies had taken over the underwater structures, and Wang Quan rejected the idea of simply moving elsewhere.

• Wang Quan learned that waterfall workers gave two-thirds of their gathered water vapor to the New-Method Alliance and that many turned to the New Method because orthodox cultivation places were scarce.
• The Round-Faced Daoist Nun and the hunchbacked old man arrived with a group of cultivators, and Wang Quan explained that they had been called to help deal with anomalies.
• Wang Quan and the others traveled to the Fury River's central channel and landed on a large ship refining Water Resonance Baleful Intent.
• The captain said anomalies had occupied the underwater structures and that four or five of every ten people sent down to collect baleful intent were lost.
• Wang Quan rejected the captain's suggestion to abandon the site and build new structures elsewhere.

Wang Quan and the cultivators discovered over a hundred organized anomalies gathered on a riverbed, and the Round-Faced Daoist Nun asked him to assess them. The hunchbacked old man’s group trapped the anomalies in a waterless zone and surrounded them with flames, leaving the panicked anomalies scrambling for shelter.

• The hunchbacked old man used the Sky Patrol to overcome underwater interference and reveal a riverbed filled with corpses and more than a hundred intelligent anomalies.
• Wang Quan observed that the anomalies had a hierarchy and worried that using the People-Crossing Scripture might scatter them and disrupt production.
• The Round-Faced Daoist Nun confirmed that similar gatherings appeared at other locations, while Wang Quan studied the riverbed for a way to eliminate them all.
• The hunchbacked old man ordered the cultivators to deploy Vacuum Seals, creating a waterless zone around the anomalies.
• The cultivators raised Blazing Fire Banners and formed a dome of fire around the trapped anomalies, who screamed and fled into the pavilions and rockeries.

Wang Quan used the [Wealth Commands the Gods] spell to strengthen the attacks against the riverbed anomalies, provoking them to unleash their domains. When the Magic-Sealing Ritual failed, the cultivators fled, leaving the Round-Faced Daoist Nun cursing them over their pay.

• The hunchbacked old man ordered the cultivators to attack the anomalies with black donkey hooves, blood, thunderfire, and sunlight, but the anomalies showed little serious damage.
• Wang Quan stepped onto the river and used [Wealth Commands the Gods], spending Green Beetles and Dharma Power to raise ridges that amplified the attacks.
• The anomalies released their domains, sending multicolored smoke through the mirror toward the ship.
• The hunchbacked old man and the cultivators failed to seal the anomalies' domains and fled, while the chest followed after him.
• The captain and the Spirit Monsters begged the cultivators to stay, but they escaped by air and river as the Round-Faced Daoist Nun threatened to dock their pay.

Wang Quan used Green Beetle cash and Earth Veins to suppress the anomalies beneath the great ship, then headed to another troubled Baleful Intent refining site. As he surveyed the Fury River, a group of cultivators caught up and called for him to wait.

• The captain and the ship’s crew panicked as anomalous smoke poured from the bronze mirror, but the smoke soon rolled back into it and disappeared.
• Wang Quan returned to the ship, said the anomalies had been dealt with, and asked the Round-Faced Daoist Nun to arrange tens of millions in Green Beetle cash for his next effort.
• Fish spirits found that chains had bound the riverbed anomalies and were dragging them away, while most of the Baleful Intent refining structures remained intact.
• Wang Quan explained that he had used Wealth Commands the Gods to build simple Earth Veins, drawing on the mountains and river to suppress anomalies and create a forbidden zone.
• As Wang Quan surveyed the Fury River and its banks, twenty or thirty streaks of light formed a Cloud of Auspiciousness and called, “Fellow Daoist Flower-Scatter, please wait!”

Wang Quan taught the hunchbacked cultivators how to suppress anomalies with feng shui, rituals, and earth veins, then spent their money and his Dharma Power to clear a second Baleful Intent refining site. The group learned that his method depended on abundant resources and asked him to return their tuition, but he urged them to earn more instead.

• Wang Quan stopped for the hunchbacked old man and his companions, agreed to teach them his anomaly-clearing method in exchange for First-Turn Outer Elixirs, and received the elixirs and money sent by flying swords.
• Wang Quan reached the second Baleful Intent refining site and explained how feng shui, rituals, and earth veins could draw on the river and mountains to suppress anomalies.
• Wang Quan used a water mirror to reveal a gathering of anomalies holding a meeting and taking notes beneath the river.
• Wang Quan spent ten million Green Beetles and large amounts of Dharma Power to raise earth veins and chain the anomalies down under the mountains' suppressive force.
• The hunchbacked old man said the lesson was that plenty of money and Dharma Power made the supreme path, then asked Wang Quan to return their tuition because they were poor.
• Wang Quan told the cultivators to work hard and earn money, while a young female cultivator wept that the lesson had only made them poorer.

Wang Quan guided the hunchbacked old man and the other cultivators in learning how to suppress anomalies, then disappeared after they successfully contained more than a hundred of them. The group planned to use what they had learned to create profitable forbidden zones and help patrol the Fury River.

• Wang Quan had the cultivators study the river and surrounding mountains until they understood his methods for dealing with anomalies.
• The hunchbacked old man led the group in using red threads, ritual materials, and magical artifacts to suppress the river anomalies.
• The cultivators trapped more than a hundred anomalies in the riverbed and realized they could establish forbidden zones at valuable sites.
• The group searched for Wang Quan so they could thank him, but ship captains doubted he had visited until the female cultivator confirmed he had taught them.
• The Round-Faced Daoist Nun told the hunchbacked old man to follow the Si Household's example and help patrol the baleful intent refining sites.

Wang Quan met Daoist Universal Illumination, who apologized for anomalies disrupting Wang Quan’s Baleful Intent-refining site. Wang Quan warned him to keep anomalies away from his sites and asserted that his perfected spells could kill cultivators below Foundation Establishment.

• Wang Quan entered the Second-Layer World each day to clear evil and study Daoist Scriptures with Ying Jiaren.
• A cultivator from the Si Household told Wang Quan that his friend, Daoist Universal Illumination, wanted to speak with him about the anomalies at the Fury River.
• Wang Quan met Daoist Universal Illumination in the Second-Layer World’s Scripture Repository and heard his explanation that some anomalies had escaped and grown more dangerous.
• Wang Quan warned Daoist Universal Illumination that anomalies must not attack sites where he refined Baleful Intent and claimed he could kill cultivators below Foundation Establishment who schemed against him.
• Daoist Universal Illumination challenged Wang Quan’s strength, and Wang Quan answered that he had mastered thirty-six thousand perfected spells, leaving Daoist Universal Illumination silent.

Wang Quan rejected Bald-headed Universal Illumination’s research-team invitation and left after Universal Illumination stalled over what to offer in exchange for the People-Crossing Scripture. Back in the Real World, Wang Quan made a straw effigy of Universal Illumination and warned that he would kill him if anomalies attacked his Baleful Intent refining grounds again.

• Wang Quan told Bald-headed Universal Illumination that he would not tolerate further anomalies affecting him and demanded to know what Universal Illumination could offer for his help.
• Universal Illumination invited Wang Quan to join his anomaly research team, but Wang Quan refused and offered to teach him the People-Crossing Scripture for suitable payment.
• After Universal Illumination spent too long considering an offer, Wang Quan left the Scripture Repository, and the Si Household cultivator followed to apologize.
• Universal Illumination later offered ten million Green Beetles, but the Si Household cultivator rebuked him and said Wang Quan was not someone who would be impressed by that sum.
• Wang Quan bought materials and crafted a straw effigy resembling Universal Illumination, then used magical methods to place a piece of Universal Illumination’s essence, qi, and spirit inside it.
• Wang Quan said he would spare Universal Illumination for the Si Household cultivator’s sake, but threatened to kill him if anomalies attacked his Baleful Intent refining grounds again.

Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren practiced together, and Ying Jiaren entered the Second-Layer World for the first time. She comprehended the People-Crossing Scripture, giving her a way to strengthen her Yin Spirit by delivering evil, and they prepared to study Daoist Scriptures together.

• Wang Quan found Ying Jiaren celebrating her second trait, and she told him she had killed former suitors who had pressured her to become their Dao companion.
• Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren practiced [Beautiful Lady Yu] and studied Daoist Scriptures for days while anomalies dwindled around the seventy-two baleful intent refining sites and surged in the mountains.
• After ten days, Ying Jiaren judged that her Yin Spirit could enter the Second-Layer World, and Wang Quan arranged to meet her there.
• Ying Jiaren entered the Second-Layer World, released rainbow smoke, and met Wang Quan near the dormitory area.
• Ying Jiaren read a booklet and comprehended the [People-Crossing Scripture], which cost a hundred strands of Dharma Power to recite.
• Wang Quan explained that Ying Jiaren could use the scripture to deliver evil and strengthen her Yin Spirit, and they headed for the Scripture Repository with her tent-type magic artifact and cultivation aids.

Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren tested cultivating [Beautiful Lady Yu] in the Second-Layer World, then adjusted Ying Jiaren’s training so she could strengthen her Yin Spirit before trying again. As Wang Quan prepared to help clear the Cafeteria, Round-Faced Daoist Nun delivered letters from Dream, Officiant, and Fairy Qin, who described their distant journey to a desolate new continent.

• Yin Spirit cultivators spread rumors that Wang Quan and a disguised female cultivator were studying the Scripture Repository together.
• Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren tested [Beautiful Lady Yu] in the Second-Layer World and found it greatly increased cultivation efficiency, but Ying Jiaren’s Yin Spirit weakened quickly.
• Ying Jiaren adjusted her training to spend more time refining Dharma Power and build her Yin Spirit’s foundation.
• Wang Quan prepared to descend into the Second-Layer World to join the effort to clear the Cafeteria’s evil chefs, but Round-Faced Daoist Nun brought him three letters.
• Wang Quan read Fairy Qin’s brief letter about her new literary salon, Pure as Ice and Jade.
• Officiant described the long journey with groups from more than ten thousand Lower Courts and their arrival in a barren wilderness on a new continent.

Wang Quan read letters describing the deadly frontier where the women were establishing a Lower Court, then entered the Second-Layer World with a crowd to clear the Cafeteria. The cooks attacked them, calling them fresh ingredients.

• Wang Quan read letters from the Officiant Daoist Nun and the Dream Nun describing deadly conditions and powerful cultivators on the New Continent.
• The Round-Faced Daoist Nun told Wang Quan that the women had asked her to buy ropes, hooks, and women's clothes, shoes, and stockings.
• Wang Quan postponed writing back and sent his Yang Spirit into the Second-Layer World to clear the Cafeteria.
• Wang Quan and the gathered cultivators entered the empty Cafeteria, where the cooks were chopping themselves and preparing to attack.
• The cooks smashed through the serving windows and charged the crowd, shouting that they would catch ingredients, cook dishes, and serve the guests.

Wang Quan and the cultivators battled the Cafeteria’s evil cooks before confronting a rolling, many-armed evil creature who sought to be delivered by the People-Crossing Scripture. After the group combined sunlight, spells, and Dharma Power to weaken him, the creature thanked them for helping him enter reincarnation.

• Over a hundred cultivators and hundreds of Yang Spirit cultivators used spells and sunlight to suppress the Cafeteria’s cooks.
• A ball-shaped evil creature rolled from the ruins, and Wang Quan recognized it as the creature who had spoken with him during his first visit.
• The cultivators attacked the ball, but it broke through their defenses and charged at Wang Quan as he chanted the People-Crossing Scripture.
• A female cultivator transformed into a tiger and carried Wang Quan while the others shifted to spells that slowed and restrained the ball.
• Wang Quan continued chanting as the group replenished his Dharma Power and poured sunlight onto the ball until its arms vanished and green smoke rose from its body.
• The creature shrank into a man, bowed to the cultivators, and thanked them for helping him enter reincarnation.

Wang Quan questioned a newly freed man about the Second-Layer World, learning that he came from a place called Ancestral Province and had witnessed the sky collapse. As the man departed to reincarnate, his warning about a possible future collapse left the cultivators alarmed, though Wang Quan urged them not to dwell on it.

• The strange-attired man thanked Wang Quan for helping him escape Evil and offered to answer questions before reincarnating.
• Wang Quan asked about the Second-Layer World, and the man explained that he had become Evil after the sky collapsed and later woke as a Cafeteria steward.
• The man said he knew nothing about the world beyond the walls and had never heard of the Drowning Dao, New Province, or Old Province.
• The man revealed that he had died in year 12,000 of Ancestral Province Era 100, and that other intelligent Evil within the walls came from the same period.
• After learning that the current date was year 11,000 of Old Province Era 99, the man asked whether the sky would collapse when Old Province Era 100 reached year 12,000.
• Wang Quan dismissed the possibility as irrelevant, and the man joked about how he would repay the cultivators after reincarnating before departing.

After the evil cafeteria collapsed, Wang Quan and the cultivators received purple-qi favor, and a new cafeteria appeared with food that rapidly restored Dharma Power. Back in the Real World, Wang Quan found that the cafeteria food had vanished and the mysterious book had become blank, resisting even his cutting spell.

• Wang Quan shared the strange book's romantic story with the cultivators, and the female cultivators praised it while planning to turn it into an opera.
• The cultivators left the cafeteria and watched it collapse as purple-qi favor fell upon Wang Quan, the cultivators, and several buildings.
• Wang Quan entered the newly appeared cafeteria and discovered that its food restored Dharma Power and strengthened his Yang Spirit.
• Wang Quan bought a meal and tried to bring it back to the Real World, but the food vanished when his Yang Spirit returned.
• Wang Quan found the book had turned into blank white-jade-like pages, and his golden scissors shattered when he tried to cut it.

Wang Quan examined the Second-Layer World's new favor, chose the Miscellaneous Goods Hall as a possible next target, and wrote an encouraging reply to Dream and the others. He ended up defending his suggestive letter to the Round-Faced Daoist Nun, insisting that it would keep Dream going until she could earn his money.

• Wang Quan studied the Wordless Book, put it away, and examined his new favor, which granted monthly protections, Foundation Establishment Spirit Light, primordial spirit sand, and improved building effects.
• Wang Quan decided that the long-term building enhancement was the most valuable gift and considered clearing the Miscellaneous Goods Hall next, though he planned to consult the other cultivators first.
• Wang Quan went to the Miscellaneous Goods Hall and asked the Round-Faced Daoist Nun for writing supplies so he could answer Dream, Officiant, and the others.
• Wang Quan wrote Fairy Qin a lengthy letter describing the excitement of her difficult circumstances and promising to visit Pure as Ice and Jade someday.
• The Round-Faced Daoist Nun criticized Wang Quan's letter as an attempt to arrange a distant bout, while Wang Quan claimed he was encouraging Dream to keep going and earn his money.

Wang Quan wrote letters to several fellow Daoists, then returned to the Second-Layer World and joined the cultivators as they discussed expanding their safe zone. They agreed to consider several possible targets before choosing their next building to clear.

• Wang Quan wrote letters to the Officiant Daoist Nun and the Dream Nun, and the Round-Faced Daoist Nun admitted she was reconsidering her future because she wanted a higher-grade Foundation Establishment.
• Wang Quan entered the Second-Layer World and found the cultivators gathered in the Cafeteria, where they told him the Lower Court's sunlight had become slightly purer and stronger.
• Wang Quan and the cultivators discussed clearing the Clear Water Pavilion, Nameless Lake, or the Miscellaneous Goods Hall as their next target.
• Wang Quan said he favored the Miscellaneous Goods Hall but would support the other plans, and the cultivators agreed to think it over and decide the day after tomorrow.