Recaps

Song Changsheng returned from Four Directions City with new resources and strengthened the Song Clan, while the search for Zhang Sheng’s killer exposed a Thunder King Hall plot to ignite war. As the sects clashed at Mount Tianniu, Thunder King Hall joined the battle, and the old woman confronted one of its Golden Core cultivators.

• Song Changsheng killed Feng Wujin and Wu Dian, secured the Yin Yang Purple Tree sapling and other spoils, then returned to the Song Clan with Song Qingxi and Song Qingxing.
• Song Changsheng arranged a Cross-Domain Space Teleportation Array, expanded the clan’s wine trade, and obtained Amethyst Jade Marrow, which Song Qingxing and Song Luzhou both declined.
• Song Changsheng investigated Zhang Sheng’s disappearance, learned Jian Xu had killed him, and withdrew Song Clan personnel from Xiangzhou as tensions between the Heavenly Firmament Sect and Heavenly Sword Sect mounted.
• Mu Guibai revealed that Thunder King Hall had manipulated Zhang Sheng’s death to provoke war and assigned Song Changsheng and other allies to destroy its strongholds.
• Mu Guibai took Song Changsheng to Xuzhou, while Zhao Jiuming redirected the main battlefield to Mount Tianniu after the Bearded Big Man threatened Jian Wushuang’s breakthrough.
• Zhao Jiuming launched a surprise assault on Mount Tianniu, and Thunder King Hall joined the battle after Batu waited for Zhao Jiuming to call for help.
• Batu attacked Qu Jinsong, but True Lord Zhaoming intervened, and the old woman arrived to face Batu’s summoned Golden Core ally.

Song Changsheng strengthened the Song Clan, helped Jinxuan break through to the Third-Tier, and learned that the Demon Race was gathering near the Canglan River. As Jinxuan returned with a new ally, Song Youlin became trapped in a clash with the Heavenly Sword Sect, prompting Song Changsheng to rush to his aid.

• Jian Wushuang died under tribulation lightning as the Heavenly Sword Sect mourned, while Song Changsheng returned to Vast Peak and entered seclusion.
• Song Changsheng advanced to Late Purple Mansion, strengthened the Song Clan’s finances and defenses, and began constructing a Five Elements Yin-Yang Great Array.
• Song Youlin left Vast Peak to train, while Song Youfu found the Dragon String Bow and Seven Star Arrows, bonded with the mouse demon Yinhuan, and began harsh cultivation.
• Song Changsheng completed the great array as Jinxuan used Golden Armor’s Demon Core to awaken its Golden Land Turtle inheritance and break through to the Third-Tier.
• Song Changsheng defeated and killed a One-Horned Black Rhino, learned the Black Dragon Demon King was gathering Demon Beasts, and reported the threat to Zhan Tianxia.
• Jinxuan escorted the Mystic Armored Turtle clan to the Demon Domain and returned with the Red-Maned Mighty Lion Yan Li, whom Song Changsheng accepted as a restricted spirit beast.
• Song Lutong reported that Song Youlin was trapped near the Yun Province–Xuzhou border after killing Heavenly Sword Sect Disciples, so Song Changsheng hurried toward him through Sunset City.
• Jian Ming attacked Song Lutong after rejecting his offer to surrender the Song Clan’s share of the ruins, but Song Lutong’s Sword Talisman struck Jian Ming down.

Song Changsheng and the Song Clan explored a fallen royal city, survived its puppet army, and recovered treasures and clues about the Great Qi dynasty. Back in Vast Peak, Song Changsheng bound the clan’s fortune to Chengyuan and negotiated with Sunset City before visiting Zhuang Yuechan.

• Song Changsheng defeated Jian Ming and Jian Xu, then led the Song Clan into the Secret Realm, where Song Qingxi’s group discovered Qi Royal City.
• Song Youlin and Song Youfu uncovered the city’s treasury, while Song Qingxi and allied factions found the mausoleum and awakened its puppet army by opening the tomb.
• Jian Chen destroyed the Imperial Seal, disrupting the puppets, and Song Qingxi’s group recovered treasures and fragments before the underground world collapsed.
• Song Qingxi shared the seal fragments with Lian Siyu, and the survivors returned to the Immortal Cave as the factions counted their losses.
• Song Changsheng brought the recovered treasures and texts to Vast Peak, where Little Nine identified the ancient sword as Bearing Abyss and Song Chang’an’s records revealed Chengyuan’s link to Great Qi’s fortune.
• Song Changsheng awakened Giant Spirit within Chengyuan and bound the Song Clan’s fortune to the sword in the Soul Lamp Hall.
• In Sunset City, Shen Qingxiu rewarded Song Changsheng with spiritual objects and an artifact-forging inheritance, bought the Song Clan’s Great General’s Seal fragments, and told him Zhuang Yuechan might awaken within three to twenty years.

Song Changsheng strengthened the Song Clan, secured Chihuo’s breakthrough and prepared for the coming campaign against the Demon Race. After three years of seclusion and preparations, Zhuang Yuechan showed signs of awakening, and Mu Guibai set out for Medicine King Valley.

• Song Changsheng accepted Sunset City’s compensation, arranged pills and inheritances for the clan, and began completing his Five Elements Dao Rhyme in seclusion.
• Song Changsheng attended Su Ding’s birthday, concealed his memories from Su Ding’s probing, and learned that Su Ding planned a Demon Race expedition within ten years.
• Song Changsheng volunteered to lead forces from Ling Province and Yang Province, then went to protect Chihuo as he prepared to break through.
• Song Changsheng tested the Blazing Sun Guard, upgraded Tianyang Peak’s defenses, and watched Chihuo overcome his inner demon and reach the Purple Palace Realm.
• Chihuo became Grand Elder of Blazing Fire Hall, and Song Changsheng accepted Chi Li as his Direct Disciple while Chiming became the Chi Clan’s second Clan Head.
• Song Changsheng saved Song Luzhou from his inner demon and sealed him in an ice coffin, while the clan prepared troops, supplies, defenses, and a hidden Sky Battleship for the expedition.
• Song Changsheng began upgrading the Song Clan’s Mountain Protection Array, and three years later Zhuang Yuechan’s hand moved as her soul aura began to revive.