Recaps

Song Changsheng freed Zhuang Yuechan from True Monarch Yusu, dealt with the Ancestral Lineage’s schemes, and prepared the Song Clan for the Allied Army Expedition. The campaign opened with Song Xianming’s forces defeating a Demon Race attack, while the Iron-Backed Black Bear began assaulting Five Elements Peak.

• Song Changsheng entered Zhuang Yuechan’s Sea of Consciousness, used the Heavenly Tribulation to annihilate True Monarch Yusu’s True Spirit, and awoke 132 days later to find Yuechan safe but exhausted.
• After recovering, Song Changsheng accepted the search for True Monarch Yusu’s buried treasure, prepared for the Guiding Emissary’s arrival, and agreed to wait until Zhuang Yuechan reached the Purple Palace Stage before marrying.
• Song Changsheng learned that the Ancestral Lineage wanted him to find Kongsang Xiruo, then secretly pursued its emissaries, captured Song Muqi, recovered the Sky-Shading Umbrella, and learned that Song Jiquan had arranged Song Luke’s death.
• Song Changsheng returned the Sky-Shading Umbrella to Song Yulong and prepared the Song Clan’s forces for the Allied Army Expedition as Great Qi mobilized against the Demon Race.
• Song Changsheng and Niu Dazhuang scouted the Demon Race’s forces, then Song Changsheng organized more than six thousand cultivators and soldiers and sent the expeditionary army toward Qīxiá Mountain.
• Song Xianming’s detached force faced the Flying Centipede, Crimson Flame Demon Tiger, and Golden-Winged Vulture while the Demon Race attacked the right wing.
• Song Xianming, Jinxuan, Song Chang'an, Song Qingxia, Chi Li, and Song Lutong helped defeat the three Great Demons and break the Demon Race army, while Yuan Tianshu killed the One-Horned Thunder Lizard.
• As Song Xianming prepared to march on Qīxiá Mountain, the Iron-Backed Black Bear attacked Five Elements Peak, where Song Yulong and more than two thousand five hundred defenders stood ready with the Sky Battleship.

Song Changsheng helped defeat the Blood Demon Sect and led a perilous campaign against the Demon Race, which ended with the deaths of Su Ding and Meng Hao. As the Song Clan expanded into Jiang Province and mended ties with other powers, Song Changsheng learned that Song Changxi and two Sunset City cultivators had died, while Song Youfu and the wounded Song Qingdian fled pursuers.

• Song Changsheng returned to Vast Peak, drove back Mie’s siege, and helped the Song Clan survive attacks by the Blood Demon Sect and Spirit Eye Immortal Fairy.
• After the Blood Demon Sect withdrew, Song Changsheng ordered the Zhang Clan exterminated for leaking his whereabouts, while Song Qingyu advanced her Foundation Establishment Pill refining.
• Song Changsheng joined the coalition’s decisive campaign, helped kill the Howling Moon Wolf King with the Five Spirits Imprisoning Heaven Array, and watched Su Ding die alongside the Black Dragon Demon King.
• The allied army routed the Demon Race, and Song Changsheng used the campaign’s rewards to strengthen the Song Clan and sell territory and teleportation arrays to other forces.
• Song Changsheng attended Su Ding’s and Meng Hao’s funerals, accepted Su Ding’s bamboo slip, and recognized that the Golden Crow Sect, Heavenly Meridian Sect, and Sunset City viewed the Song Clan more favorably.
• Song Changsheng learned Song Changxi’s soul lamp had gone out and that two Sunset City cultivators had died, while Song Youfu carried the wounded Song Qingdian away from their pursuers.

Song Changsheng strengthened the Song Clan, married Zhuang Yuechan, and spent decades cultivating before surviving a legendary Heavenly Tribulation to form a Perfect Golden Core. As his breakthrough drew attention across the cultivation worlds, Feng Changqing revealed the path ahead and sent him toward a dangerous Abyss mission.

• Song Youfu rescued Song Qingdian and helped Song Qingxing defeat the Gu Immortal Sect’s attackers, after which Song Changsheng and his allies opened and plundered True Monarch Yusu’s Treasure Vault.
• Song Changsheng strengthened Vast Peak, recovered a fragment of the Human King Sword, and began cultivating the Path of Space as the Song Clan expanded its holdings.
• Song Changsheng and Zhuang Yuechan married at Vast Peak, while Xu Yunhe secretly left them a core of ten-thousand-year mysterious ice as a wedding gift.
• Song Changsheng improved Vast Peak’s defenses and entered decades of seclusion as the clan grew, discovered two pools of Amethyst Jade Marrow, and gained Purple Palace cultivators.
• Song Changsheng endured a legendary tenth bolt of Heavenly Tribulation and refined its Law Dao Rhyme into a Golden Core, which he and Zhuang Yuechan discovered had twelve vortices.
• Feng Changqing identified Song Changsheng’s Soul Race Emperor essence blood, explained higher Golden Core grades, and urged him to retrieve an indestructible seed from the Abyss near the Canglan River.
• News of Song Changsheng’s breakthrough spread across the cultivation worlds as Peng Siying prepared to visit and Song Qingxing arrived in the Great Qian Cultivation World.

Song Changsheng strengthened the Wangyue Song Clan, welcomed allies, and rescued Xu Yunhe’s family while the conflict with the Brocade Banner Song Clan escalated into a three-match contest. Eight years later, he emerged prepared for the duel and found Xu Miaoyin waiting to enter the Immortal Ascension Assembly.

• Song Qingxing and Song Qingxi challenged the Brocade Banner Song Clan over Song Luke’s murder, then escaped after Song Qingxing defeated Song Yuqing and drove back their pursuers.
• Song Changsheng’s Golden Core Ceremony drew powerful guests, and he declared the Wangyue Song Clan and Brocade Banner Song Clan enemies after demanding justice for Song Luke.
• Song Changsheng reorganized the clan, appointed Song Qingxing to lead the Protector Hall, and ended distinctions between main and branch lineages.
• Song Changsheng helped Xu Yunhe awaken Xia Wanyun and Xu Miaoyin, learned of the mysterious jade pendant in Xu Miaoyin’s Sea of Consciousness, and recruited Xu Yunhe to lead the Hidden Guard.
• Song Minghuang rejected war with the Wangyue Song Clan, but Song Wuji pursued a three-match contest and negotiated its terms with Song Qingxi.
• Song Changsheng accepted the contest and its hostage condition, prepared Song Youfu for the Foundation Establishment match, and forged the Four Seas Pacified sword.
• Eight years later, Song Changsheng emerged from seclusion with new treasures and found Xu Miaoyin, Xia Wanyun, and Xu Yunhe waiting to join the Immortal Ascension Assembly.