Recaps

Song Changsheng traveled with the Myriad Manifestations Palace delegation to Dazhen, where the Purple Palace Grand Competition tested his strength and brought him closer to an Earth Infant Fruit. He defeated Li Yufeng and Ji Liangyu to reach the Arena A final against Zhao Yin, while Zhuang Yuechan returned safely.

• Song Changsheng defeated his mirror-image trial, then joined the delegation bound for Dazhen as Song Youfu reported a Sea Demon gathering near Ghost King Valley.
• The Sea Race attacked across the East Sea while Song Qingxing and other cultivators defended threatened islands, and Song Youping proposed using modified Metal Devouring Beetles against the Sea Race’s spirit-draining plants.
• At the Purple Palace competition, Hua Yan led Myriad Manifestations Palace to a top-three finish in the small-world trial and earned access to Deer Chasing Academy’s Nine Luminaries Yang Pool.
• Song Changsheng defeated Ji Bingxiu in the arena’s first round, while Ling Xiao sacrificed his future potential to defeat Long An and entrusted the sect’s burden to Song Changsheng.
• Song Changsheng received a bye into the semifinals, where he defeated Li Yufeng with a single punch and then overcame Ji Liangyu’s spatial and death techniques.
• Song Changsheng reached the Arena A final against Zhao Yin, and Zhuang Yuechan arrived safely after gathering Tianshan Snow Lotus.

Song Changsheng defeated Zhao Yin, earned recognition in Dazhen, and pursued new array knowledge while helping Zhuang Yuechan and confronting corpse cultivators. At the Array Dao Academy, he began developing body-engraved formations, but news of Bai Zhengchun’s death reached him as Song Qingxing prepared for the Boundless Sword Sect trial.

• Song Changsheng fought Zhao Yin to exhaustion, and Zhao Yin conceded the Jia Arena victory to him, earning Song Changsheng the championship and induction into the Hall of Glory of the Five Academies.
• Song Changsheng visited Five Hua Cave Heaven, received an Earth Infant Tree leaf, and discussed the Star Chart with True Monarch Lingji and the Old National Teacher, who gave him the Primordial Star Record.
• Song Changsheng gave True Monarch Yingyue He Yunxuan’s method and learned that Gu Yiyi had left the Array Dao Academy, then departed for the Chaotic Ancient Domain with Zhuang Yuechan.
• Song Changsheng and Zhuang Yuechan uncovered a corpse-raising chamber, freed Xie Kui from the Corpse Raiser’s control, and tracked down and captured Yin Wuxie, learning that he had opened two Chen Clan treasure troves.
• Song Changsheng and Zhuang Yuechan calmed Pan Shi City’s crisis and stabilized True Lord Mingtai’s corpse poison, then agreed with Mingtai to cooperate and share information.
• At the Array Dao Academy, Song Changsheng studied the Star Picking Pavilion and found the upper volume of the Ten Ultimates Dao Formation, while Zhuang Yuechan refined her qin playing in the Valley of Absolute Silence.
• True Monarch Yingyue offered Song Changsheng access to the Myriad Formations Cave Heaven if he helped merge body-engraved formations with the academy’s cultivation methods, and Li Chengjun successfully engraved the Impermanence Killing Formation into his body.
• Song Qingxing refused to withdraw from the Boundless Sword Sect trial after Bai Zhengchun died there, while Song Changsheng and the Array Dao Academy’s Fourth-Tier Array Masters planned experiments with linked body-engraved formations.

Song Changsheng mastered the Third Killing Formation Under Heaven, uncovered the Chen Clan’s hidden legacy, and took part in the East Sea Alliance’s fight against Ye Shinu and the Blood Soul Demonic Sect. He returned to Vast Peak with new resources and plans as Zhuang Yuechan approached a Golden Core breakthrough and he considered ways to restore Wujie and Song Changshou’s bodies.

• Song Changsheng entered the Myriad Formations Cave Heaven, endured the Third Killing Formation Under Heaven’s killing intent, and engraved his own version into his body.
• Song Changsheng recovered the Chen Clan’s hidden Small World and treasures, swore to protect its descendants in exchange for the clan’s Three Supreme Arts, and brought its survivors to the Eastern Heaven Cultivation World.
• Song Changsheng and True Lord Mingtai destroyed a Shadow Demon Cult outpost, then Song Changsheng explored Extreme Yang Lake and recovered its treasures.
• Song Changsheng received rewards from Myriad Manifestations Palace and investigated the East Sea Alliance’s war, then attacked the Sea Yaksha Clan and battled Ye Shinu and his guards.
• You Lianyue rescued the wounded Ye Shinu, while Song Changsheng killed Night Fu Ke, destroyed Ye Moluo’s True Spirit, and urged the alliance to find the Blood Soul Demonic Sect’s lair.
• Song Changsheng gave Song Qingxing True Phoenix Blood Essence before the youth left for the Boundless Sword Sect’s Trial Road, then returned to the Gemini Islands and visited Bai Zhengchun’s grave with Mu Guibai.
• Song Changsheng discussed preparations for looming conflict with Mu Guibai, learned of Song Shang’s Fourth-Tier Sky Battleship plans, and returned to find Zhuang Yuechan’s musical Dao resonance nearing a breakthrough.
• Song Changsheng learned that an Alchemy Master was refining a body-reconstruction pill for Wujie and offered Song Changshou two paths to regain a body.

Song Changsheng reorganized the Song Clan, investigated the Golden-Eyed Demon Kingdom’s alliance with the Blood Demon Sect, and helped dismantle the Blood Demon Sect and Vast Righteousness Alliance. After returning to Vast Peak, he uncovered the Brocade Banner’s curse attack and confronted its leaders, leaving Song Zhexuan to negotiate on the clan’s behalf.

• Song Changsheng transferred Song Changshou’s soul into Reincarnation True Monarch’s spirit body, restored puppets, and helped plant the Willow Ancestor branch before Song Qingxing departed for the Boundless Sword Sect’s Trial Road.
• Song Changsheng reorganized the Song Clan’s affiliated territories and guard forces, assigned Town Guardian Envoys, distributed cultivation resources, and arranged for Old Ghost Chihuo to bring Yang Province’s families under control.
• Song Qingxing met Li Yuxia, learned how Bai Zhengchun had sacrificed himself after reaching the Golden Core Stage, and entered the Trial Road while the Song Clan began a period of seclusion.
• Song Changsheng entered the Golden-Eyed Demon Kingdom, learned that a Golden Land Turtle had taken Jinxuan, and captured the Blazing Fire Demon King after trapping him near the Great Qi border.
• Song Changsheng and his allies learned that the Golden-Eyed Demon Kingdom had allied with the Blood Demon Sect, then attacked the Blood Demon Sect and pursued its fleeing leaders toward the Abyss.
• Song Changsheng and the allied Golden Core cultivators confronted Ling Mou, who destroyed herself during their battle, while Hun Sha and other Blood Demon leaders escaped into the Abyss.
• Song Changsheng supported Song Jingxiao and Xu Miaoyin’s breakthroughs, then discovered that Yu Xinchou had cursed them under Song Jiyuan’s orders and that Song Jinglin had supplied their movements.
• Song Changsheng broke the Brocade Banner’s defensive array and accused its leaders of the curse attack, while Song Tianyuan secured Song Zhexuan’s release so he could negotiate.