Recaps

Song Changsheng helped repel a vast demonic assault, gained an Acquired Star Body, and later advanced to Purple Mansion Mid-stage. As the Song Clan grew, he investigated the destabilized Wutong Secret Realm and discovered a dangerous source of laws and valuable ores.

• Song Changsheng and Niu Dazhuang discovered the Six-winged Dragon Serpent’s immense army, then escaped its pursuing demons and warned the region as the Beast Tide began.
• Song Changsheng led the Song Clan’s defense against Great Demons, endured a fierce battle with the Heavenly Star Essence, and awakened an Acquired Star Body.
• Song Changsheng joined the effort to break the Six-winged Dragon Serpent’s grand array, found its weakness, and helped free the trapped True Persons, who destroyed the serpent’s body.
• Song Changsheng received the Cloud Boots, a Thunder Heavenly Fiend Talisman, and other rewards, then returned to cultivation as his family expanded its training and intelligence networks.
• Song Youlin displayed an Earth Heavenly Spiritual Root, and Song Changsheng and Song Xianming agreed to protect his identity and provide him with the clan’s best instruction.
• Song Changsheng broke through to Purple Mansion Mid-stage, while Song Qingyun and Su Xiaoxiao were swept away by a whirlpool after fleeing a Giant-Toothed Savage Bear.
• Song Changsheng visited the Wang Clan after Wang Wanzhou’s death and agreed to investigate the increasingly unstable Wutong Secret Realm with Wang Qingquan.
• Song Changsheng and Song Xianming discovered that the Wutong Realm’s chaotic Powers of Law could aid cultivation and that its meteorite-filled plain held valuable ores, so they agreed to keep the realm sealed and sell only small amounts.

Song Changsheng strengthened the Song Clan’s administration and wine trade while investigating corruption and confronting threats from the Vast Righteousness Alliance. The arc ended with the clan preparing for a campaign in the Blood Ruin Realm and Song Changsheng agreeing to help Song Qingxi fuse with the Origin of Law.

• Song Changsheng sealed the ruined Wutong Secret Realm, took its Essence of Earth, and began organizing the Song Clan’s leadership, finances, and plans for expansion.
• Song Yushi and Xia Yunxue expanded the Song Clan’s wine business, securing trade with the Heavenly Firmament Sect, Sunset City, and other buyers as Song Changsheng funded experiments with spirit-rice wine.
• Song Changsheng restructured the Law Enforcement Hall and established an Inspection Department, whose investigations exposed and punished corrupt clan managers.
• Song Changsheng found Song Qingyun grieving over Su Xiaoxiao, encouraged him to stop blaming her, and watched over his breakthrough to Foundation Establishment.
• Song Changsheng captured a Thunder Spirit, defeated Chiyu in a duel over Dao Rhyme fragments, and learned from Nine Departures Rogue about the Vast Righteousness Alliance and its Ancient Battlefield.
• Mu Guibai gathered sect leaders to plan an attack on the alliance’s base in the Blood Ruin Realm, and Song Changsheng pledged Song Clan cultivators before deciding to bring someone home.
• Song Qingxing returned from the Abyss with the Origin of Law and asked Song Changsheng to help Song Qingxi fuse with it, while Wujie challenged Song Changsheng over his resentment toward the Song family and his doubts about love.

Song Changsheng led the Song Clan through the Blood Ruin Realm, where the coalition destroyed the Vast Righteousness Alliance and recovered powerful treasures. Back at the clan, he advanced plans for an academy and a Clan Competition, which revealed promising young cultivators, while he prepared to summon people from his list.

• Song Changsheng transferred the Origin of Law into Song Qingxi, then selected clan pillars and allies for the campaign and briefed them on its dangers.
• The Vast Righteousness Alliance attacked the coalition at Blood Ruin Valley, but Song Changsheng and the other token holders defeated its fighters and opened the ancient battlefield.
• Song Changsheng, Song Qingxing, and Zhu Yiqun explored the battlefield, discovered the Inner Treasury, and recovered the Hundred Fiends Qiongqi Cauldron and the Great Divine Ability Universe in the Sleeve.
• Song Changsheng captured and refined a third-tier Baleful Spirit into the cauldron’s Artifact Spirit, then rescued Song Lutong, Song Qinghu, and other cultivators from a life-draining metal cube.
• After the expedition, Song Changsheng exchanged his Merit Points for cultivation resources and joined Yuying to establish a Guardian Great Array at the Blood Ruin Realm entrance.
• Song Changsheng advanced the academy plan, expanded the Scripture Repository, and recognized Song Youxiang’s talent for correcting flawed talismans.
• Song Changsheng and the elders established a Clan Competition, where Song Youfu defeated Song Youdie and Song Youlin defeated Song Youqing and Song Youping.
• Song Luzhou announced Song Youlin as first place in Group B, and Song Changsheng told Song Qingqing to summon the people on his list to the Hall of General Affairs.

Song Changsheng secured the Small World, dealt with its Mist Concealing Worms, and opened a trade route for the Song Clan’s Gold Thread Charcoal. In Four Directions City, murders and his suspicions about the Snake Human Race drew him into a case that ended with the killer’s capture.

• Song Changsheng arranged for Song Youxiang to study under Jiang Shuming, helped Song Qingyu strengthen her Divine Sense, and ordered Song Youping to raise Mist Concealing Worms away from Vast Peak.
• Song Changsheng entered the Small World, found the Worm King, and later worked with Song Xianming to lure it out and destroy it with Violet Void Divine Fire.
• Song Changsheng and Song Xianming explored the Small World, considered moving the Song Clan’s Mortal World there, and discovered a valuable Gold Thread Charcoal deposit.
• Song Changsheng took Gold Thread Charcoal to Gusu and secured a trade agreement with Peng Siying’s Wanlong Merchant Association, while Song Qingxing and Song Qingyun climbed the Ascension Pavilion rankings.
• After rogue cultivators were murdered near the Ascension Pavilion, Song Changsheng and Peng Siying investigated, and Song Changsheng suspected the killings were connected to the Ancient Wu Tribe and a parasitic nonhuman creature.
• At the trade fair, Song Changsheng baited Feng Xiao into bidding three hundred thousand Spirit Stones for the Yin Yang Purple Tree sapling, then learned Feng Xiao had been killed.
• Song Changsheng told Peng Siying that a snake soul might be behind the murders and urged her to use the Soul-Seeking Art to find the killer.
• While Four Directions City remained under lockdown, City Lord’s Mansion cultivators fought in a hidden alley, then announced the murderer’s capture and lifted the lockdown.