Chapter Summaries

Ying Jiaren cleansed evil in the Miscellaneous Goods Hall alone, improving her Yin Spirit's foundation before returning to cultivate with Wang Quan. Wang Quan then led the cultivators in cleansing the hall, while they worried they would fall behind his progress and receive little of its rewards.

• Ying Jiaren entered the Second-Layer World alone and cleansed evil in the Miscellaneous Goods Hall, where spirit monsters emerged to block her.
• Ying Jiaren told Wang Quan that cleansing the spirit monsters had quickly improved her Yin Spirit's foundation, but she concealed her knowledge of her yin virtue.
• Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren spoke at the same time about gathering beauty essence, and Ying Jiaren reacted strongly to what she wondered might be tacit understanding.
• Wang Quan and the cultivators agreed to prioritize the Miscellaneous Goods Hall, and he asked them to increase their sunlight output while explaining that he could cleanse evil faster with two sets of Outer Elixirs.
• Wang Quan recited the People-Crossing Scripture for four hours, exhausting twenty thousand strands of dharma power and clearing a large area as the other cultivators released sunlight.
• The cultivators worried that Wang Quan would finish cleansing the Miscellaneous Goods Hall before they could keep up, unaware that Ying Jiaren had also mastered the People-Crossing Scripture.

As sunlight refining became a booming industry, A Fei brought the practice to Wild Boar Slope, while cultivators used the growing supply to clear evil in the Second-Layer World. After Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren found sunlight less effective than the People-Crossing Scripture, Wang Quan prepared to develop the mountain and valley he had received as the Si Household’s goose egg return date approached.

• A Fei returned to Wild Boar Slope and taught the wild boar Spirit Monsters to refine sunlight for money.
• Cultivators flooded the Miscellaneous Goods Hall with sunlight, driving evil from most of its outer walls, doors, windows, and pillars.
• A Fei installed bronze mirrors at Wild Boar Slope to concentrate sunlight and organized the Spirit Monsters to gather and worship for greater yields.
• Sunlight production across the Mountain Range soared, but Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren stopped using it after finding it yielded less Yin Virtue than the People-Crossing Scripture and did not strengthen their spirits.
• As the Si Household’s goose egg return date neared, Wang Quan contacted the Round-Faced Daoist Nun to arrange Laborers for large-scale development of his mountain and valley.

Wang Quan arranged laborers and a designer to develop the mountains granted by the Si Household and Zhong Household, planning to train Innate Martial Artists and New-Method Cultivators there. He left with Ma Yan to survey the site, where she began examining the terrain.

• Wang Quan told the Round-Faced Daoist Nun to arrange laborers for the next day and people seeking to become Innate Martial Artists for the day after.
• Wang Quan said he expected the Si Household to return the goose egg and would take action against them if they broke their promise.
• The Round-Faced Daoist Nun urged Wang Quan to commission a manor design that would support his future cultivation, and he agreed.
• Ma Yan arrived and agreed to design the development of Wang Quan's mountains.
• Wang Quan took Ma Yan to the mountain site and explained that he planned to train a hundred thousand Innate Martial Artists and about ten thousand New-Method Cultivators every six months.
• Ma Yan flew above the valley to examine its mountains and waterways while Wang Quan noticed that her strange wind concealed her short skirt.

Wang Quan hired a female cultivator to oversee construction of a mountain settlement and asked about creating an anomalous forbidden zone. After she mentioned Hunchback’s team, she contacted him and learned he would come the next morning to build one for Flower-Scatter Daoist.

• The female cultivator presented Wang Quan with a plan for manors, housing, farmland, and spiritual resources across the mountains.
• Wang Quan hired her to supervise construction, paid her without bargaining, and told her to prepare for thousands of workers the next day and around a hundred thousand shortly afterward.
• When Wang Quan asked her to connect earth veins into an anomalous forbidden zone, she recommended Hunchback’s team instead.
• After refining the plans for several hours, the female cultivator messaged Hunchback and offered him the project on behalf of Flower-Scatter Daoist.
• Hunchback said he would bring his team the next morning to design and build the forbidden zone, and asked her to put in a good word for him with Flower-Scatter Daoist.

Fellow Daoist Ma organized tens of thousands of spirit monsters to build Wang Quan’s valley, but Hunchback never arrived. Wang Quan continued clearing evil beings in the second-layer world, and Ying Jiaren said she was ready to transform her Yin Spirit into a Yang Spirit.

• Fellow Daoist Ma assigned the spirit monsters to build roads, houses, farmland, and other features across the valley and mountain.
• Fellow Daoist Ma waited for Hunchback, but he did not respond or arrive; Wang Quan later told her he had another way to handle the anomalous forbidden ground.
• Wang Quan entered the Miscellaneous Goods Hall and permanently cleared two hundred evil beings while considering why they seemed weaker than those elsewhere.
• Wang Quan and Ying Jiaren left the hall, and Ying Jiaren told him her Yin Spirit’s foundation had reached its limit and she wanted to transform it into a Yang Spirit.
• Wang Quan agreed, and Ying Jiaren suggested they return to study the Daoist scriptures first.

Wang Quan continued cultivating and overseeing a hundred thousand recruits while the Si Household debated whether to keep the borrowed goose egg or return it. The household chose to return it early, and its elders arrived at Wang Quan’s base carrying a box.

• Wang Quan continued refining spells, studying, and clearing out Evil while Ying Jiaren branded Dao characters onto her Yin Spirit.
• The Si Household argued over whether to return the goose egg, with some members urging them to keep it and others warning that breaking their promise would damage their reputation and risk offending Wang Quan.
• The Si household head and elders decided to return the goose egg early to preserve their relationship with Wang Quan, overruling those who wanted to keep it for the remaining day.
• Wang Quan told Ma Yan that the hundred thousand recruits would cultivate using their internal organs as their foundation to become Innate Martial Artists.
• A colorful cloud bearing the Si Household’s banner arrived at Wang Quan’s base, and its elders emerged carrying a box and greeted him.

Wang Quan accepted the Si Household’s eggs and promised to release some of the Innate Martial Artists he nurtured for them to acquire. At a gathering with the Si Household, he demonstrated spells that turned sunset glow and a flower into seemingly living spirits, then showed how one could animate a rock and bargain with it for help.

• The Si Household explained why it had publicly escorted a treasure and asked Wang Quan to sell them some of the Innate Martial Artists he nurtured; he agreed to release places in the Market Ward for them to compete over.
• The Si Household gave Wang Quan a Hundred-Treasure Pouch containing a hundred thousand chicken eggs, and he invited its members to an evening banquet.
• Wang Quan transformed a streak of sunset glow into a lifelike beauty and explained that it was a temporary spirit that could one day become a Spirit Monster.
• Wang Quan transformed a flower into a speaking flower spirit, which called a rock to become a table and tried to persuade a tree to provide chairs and stools.
• The rock refused to help the flower spirit until she promised to sleep on it, then prepared to tear apart the tree that had bullied her.

Wang Quan demonstrated an intricate blend of spells by bringing objects to life for a banquet, impressing the Si Household. The Round-Faced Daoist Nun then reported that Hunchback had died in a battle, and Wang Quan chose to help the surviving members of his team.

• Wang Quan animated trees, flowers, cookware, food, and wine jars to prepare and serve a banquet, then restored them to their original forms.
• The Si Household praised Wang Quan's spells, and its cultivators left after exchanging pleasantries.
• The Round-Faced Daoist Nun arrived with several surviving cultivators and told Wang Quan that Hunchback and many members of his team had died in a battle.
• Wang Quan asked the Round-Faced Daoist Nun to wake the survivors, explaining that Hunchback's team had promised to repair his anomalous forbidden zone for free.

The weeping female cultivator told Wang Quan that Old Hunchback and the others had been ambushed after building an anomaly forbidden zone. After learning that the attackers’ masked image could infect people and might be linked to Universal Illumination, Wang Quan began a ritual to strike the anomaly behind it.

• The weeping female cultivator told the Round-Faced Daoist Nun and Wang Quan that Liu Yu had persuaded Old Hunchback to build a forbidden zone, then refused to pay and arranged an ambush when they resisted his demands.
• Wang Quan woke the surviving cultivators, and one of them visualized the attackers’ Faceless Masks, causing an eyeball to grow from his forehead until Wang Quan froze and cleansed it with the People-Crossing Scripture.
• Wang Quan suspected Universal Illumination might be connected to the attackers and prepared materials to avenge Old Hunchback and the others.
• Wang Quan used the unconscious cultivator’s black qi to reveal a vertical eye in a cloud of incense smoke, then attacked its reflected image with the People-Crossing Scripture.
• As the eye tried to sever its reflection, Wang Quan threw a command flag toward the smoke cloud and invoked Freeze.

Wang Quan attacked a vertical eye in an underground palace while its cultivator captors tried to trace him with a bronze mirror. His spells and falling charcoal repeatedly disrupted their pursuit, and the cultivators decided to leave the eye to endure the attacks until they could try again the next night.

• Wang Quan repeatedly stabbed the vertical eye with spears formed from the People-Crossing Scripture, causing it to wail and agitating the anomalies in the underground palace.
• Cultivators entered the deepest level, used magic treasure blanks to resist the eye's contamination, and tried to trace the source of the attacks.
• Wang Quan sealed his traces with eight lunar phases, but a cultivator used a bronze mirror to crack them and attempt to locate him.
• Wang Quan sent dozens of burning charcoal pieces through the basin, disrupting the tracking attempt and striking the vertical eye.
• The cultivators retreated from the charcoal and declined to risk damaging their magic treasure blanks, while the vertical eye pleaded for help.
• The cultivators told the vertical eye to endure the attacks until the next night, leaving it silent and sorrowful.

Wang Quan continued attacking the vertical eye and then used a straw figure to curse the bald Universal Illumination for Hunchback’s death. Universal Illumination’s heart repeatedly burst despite his defenses, and a curse specialist arrived to help him.

• Wang Quan stopped attacking the vertical eye, but warned that he would strike it at least a hundred times each day until it died.
• Wang Quan placed a straw figure representing the bald Universal Illumination on a rock and shot an arrow into its heart.
• The bald Universal Illumination suffered a piercing pain, found his death-substitution bronze figure unharmed, and tried replacing his heart as each new one burst.
• The bald Universal Illumination failed to trace or dispel the curse and contacted a cultivator who specialized in curses.
• The curse specialist emerged from a brazier filled with Great Sun True Fire, and the floor and surrounding area began to rot beneath him.

Bald-headed Universal Illumination sought help from a curse cultivator to remove a [Seven-Day Kill] curse that had bypassed his Death-Substitution Art. After the ritual appeared to succeed, he celebrated with a banquet, but he suddenly sprayed blood as he agreed to let the curse cultivator take some anomalies.

• The curse cultivator identified the spell in Bald-headed Universal Illumination’s chest as [Seven-Day Kill] and suspected a great Foundation Establishment cultivator had cast it.
• Bald-headed Universal Illumination gathered fifty Innate Martial Artists, and the curse cultivator sacrificed forty-nine of them in a ritual to remove the curse.
• The curse cultivator told Bald-headed Universal Illumination to replace his rotten heart, and the new heart beat as he declared himself cured.
• Bald-headed Universal Illumination hosted a banquet and ordered anomalies to sing and dance for his benefactor.
• When an anomaly refused to perform, the curse cultivator whipped it until it submitted, then asked to take several anomalies away.
• Bald-headed Universal Illumination agreed, but blood suddenly gushed from his mouth.

The bald Universal Illumination endured a series of fatal curses and hired cultivators and intelligence agents to find out who was targeting him. He learned that Wang Quan, the Flower-Scatter Daoist, was likely cursing him because of his ties to the [Strange Eye Alliance], and was advised to apologize and offer gifts if he wanted to survive.

• The curse cultivator told the bald Universal Illumination that his Qi Refining spells could not stop a likely Foundation Establishment death curse, then agreed to recruit help for a share of the man's assets.
• A group of curse specialists tried rituals and substitutes, but the curse struck the bald Universal Illumination's kidneys and later his stomach, while the specialists concluded they could not protect him.
• Intelligence agents told the bald Universal Illumination that Wang Quan, the Flower-Scatter Daoist, was cursing a [Strange Eye Alliance] expert and might also be targeting him by association.
• The bald Universal Illumination paid the agents to analyze his situation, and they advised him to approach an acquaintance of Wang Quan, prove his innocence, and offer an apology and gifts.
• The bald Universal Illumination accepted that appeasing Wang Quan was necessary if he wanted to stay alive.

Universal Illumination and the [Strange Eye Alliance] sought intermediaries to negotiate with Wang Quan, while Wu Yong joined the [Knowing] organization and passed Wang Quan a request for an audience. Wang Quan considered the message as he planned his cultivation and continued attacking the tentacled eye.

• Universal Illumination agreed to pay two million Green Beetles for an intermediary after learning the [Strange Eye Alliance] was also seeking peace talks with Wang Quan.
• Wu Yong joined the [Knowing] organization as an auxiliary member and accepted three million Green Beetles to deliver a message to Wang Quan.
• Wang Quan continued striking the tentacled eye with his People-Crossing Scripture and planned to focus more time on refining techniques and accumulating heavenly opportunity.
• Wu Yong told Wang Quan that the [Knowing] organization wanted an audience and offered to give him the three million Green Beetles if he agreed to meet them.
• Wu Yong waited with the [Knowing] members, who agreed to wait longer for Wang Quan’s reply.

Wang Quan met Wu Yong and representatives of [Knowing], who offered him twenty portions of Stellar Essence in exchange for contact and access to their intelligence. Wang Quan said he did not need the gift, leaving the negotiation unresolved.

• Wu Yong arranged for [Knowing] and the [Strange Eye Alliance] to meet Wang Quan, while the alliance's negotiations were interrupted by an argument as Wang Quan continued attacking the tentacled vertical eye.
• Wang Quan increased his attacks beyond the promised hundred, and the vertical eye pleaded with nearby cultivators to make him stop.
• Wu Yong watched Wang Quan cast spells and realized his status came from his strength, then waited respectfully until Wang Quan finished.
• [Knowing] presented Wang Quan with twenty portions of Stellar Essence and offered contact, intelligence, and payment through Wu Yong in return.
• Wang Quan said he did not need the gift and asked whether the proposed exchange was worth the essence; [Knowing]'s agents said it was.

Wang Quan refused the [Strange Eye Alliance]’s offer to settle his feud and rejected Universal Illumination’s plea for forgiveness, insisting that his curse would continue. At the Alliance’s underground palace, the Tentacled Vertical Eye feared Wang Quan’s attacks were damaging its core, but the cultivators misread its distress until one of them revealed she had used its tentacles.

• Wang Quan exchanged contact details with the [Knowing] intelligence agents, then refused the [Strange Eye Alliance]’s compensation and said he would kill the Tentacled Vertical Eye.
• Wang Quan also rejected Universal Illumination’s offer of a third of his assets, explaining that his curse had already begun and he could not risk letting his target go.
• The [Knowing] agents relayed Wang Quan’s refusal to the [Strange Eye Alliance], whose cultivators dismissed his threat to kill the Tentacled Vertical Eye.
• The Tentacled Vertical Eye realized Wang Quan’s spear attacks were damaging its core, but the female cultivators mistook its tears and tentacle gestures for gratitude and refusal.
• When one female cultivator admitted she had used the Tentacled Vertical Eye’s tentacles, the others drew close to hear more, and the eye screamed for her not to tell them.
• Several female cultivators chanted Daoist writings and incantations, bringing the woman who had used the tentacles under their control.

Bald Universal Illumination learned that Wang Quan's curses were expected to kill him, but every attempt to find help failed. He tried to unleash the anomalies imprisoned beneath his Manor and was confronted by cultivators before he could release them.

• Cultivators killed a woman infected by the vertical eye and sealed away her corpse while the eye protested that she had forced it to cooperate.
• Knowing intelligence agents told Bald Universal Illumination that Wang Quan's curses would continue, then offered help for one million Green Beetles.
• A powerful cultivator refused to help Bald Universal Illumination evade death, advising him to beg Wang Quan for forgiveness instead.
• Bald Universal Illumination drove away the curse specialists and offered all his wealth to a revenge organization for Wang Quan's death.
• Bald Universal Illumination tried to free the anomalies in his underground space, but the cages stayed shut and cultivators appeared behind him to challenge him.

Wang Quan watched Cultivator Ma and the other cultivators defeat the bald Universal Illumination, then refused the assets they had seized from him. He left them the wealth as payment on the condition that they dispose of the anomalies.

• The cultivators told the bald Universal Illumination that they supported Wang Quan because he had protected cultivators and shared his methods, unlike the bald man, who had released anomalies to kill indiscriminately.
• Cultivator Ma contacted Wang Quan, who watched through a spell mirror as the cultivators attacked the bald Universal Illumination with coordinated spells and magical artifacts.
• The cultivators killed the bald Universal Illumination's body and crushed his Yang Spirit, while Wang Quan stopped its final attempt to reach him through the mirror.
• Cultivator Ma offered Wang Quan the bald Universal Illumination's assets, and Wang Quan gave them to the cultivators as payment while ordering them to dispose of the anomalies.

Universal Illumination became an anomaly after Wang Quan’s followers looted his mountain, but Wang Quan’s curse and the People-Crossing Scripture erased him completely. Three months into his struggle with the tentacled vertical eye, Wang Quan learned that the cultivators had nearly cleared the Miscellaneous Goods Hall.

• Cultivators used gourds of sunlight to destroy anomalies and carried away Universal Illumination’s accumulated resources and buildings.
• Universal Illumination became an anomaly and tried to gather followers, but Wang Quan’s curse and five spears killed him permanently.
• Wang Quan confirmed Universal Illumination’s final death by reciting the People-Crossing Scripture, then focused on killing the tentacled vertical eye.
• Wang Quan continued attacking the tentacled vertical eye for three months, while cultivators in the Second-Layer World fought toward victory.
• A butterfly messenger told Wang Quan that the cultivators had nearly finished clearing the Miscellaneous Goods Hall and invited him to witness it.

Wang Quan finished helping clear a Second-Layer World building and dealt with the trouble Wu Yong had caused by using his name to recruit and mislead newcomers. He prepared to witness the cultivators clear the final Miscellaneous Goods Hall, confident that they could not surpass him.

• Wang Quan completed another round of recitations on Riverside Mountain, then returned to the Lower Court and met the Round-Faced Daoist Nun.
• The Round-Faced Daoist Nun told Wang Quan that Wu Yong had recruited newcomers in his name and inspired them to found a Flower-Scatter Organization and imitate his training.
• The Round-Faced Daoist Nun said she had whipped Wu Yong and sewn his mouth shut, and Wang Quan told her to have him eliminated and turned into a Dao Soldier.
• Wang Quan said the cultivators in the Second-Layer World had invited him to witness them clear the final Miscellaneous Goods Hall without his help.
• The Round-Faced Daoist Nun warned that teaching the People-Crossing Scripture could make Wang Quan dispensable, but he welcomed the cultivators' progress and privately doubted they could surpass him.