Chapter Summaries

Song Changsheng saved Lu Yuxiu by removing the corrupted blood parasitizing her dantian, but he suspected the Blood Demons had used her as part of a larger plan. After Lu Tianchou thanked him, he presented Song Changsheng with his Second Tier Peak-Grade Black Star Battleship.

• Song Qingxing sensed a repulsive aura near the Spirit Field and drove it away with his Sword Qi.
• Song Changsheng stabilized Lu Yuxiu and concluded that the corrupted blood had been the source of her illness, though its escape may have advanced the Blood Demons' plan.
• Lu Yuxiu woke and thanked Song Changsheng, who told her that she needed rest to recover.
• Song Changsheng asked Lu Tianchou whether he had noticed anything unusual, but Lu Tianchou rushed inside to see his daughter.
• Song Changsheng invited Lu Tianchou's disciple Li Anmin to visit the Song Clan, then Lu Tianchou emerged and presented him with the Black Star Battleship.

Song Changsheng accepted Lu Tianchou’s Quasi Sky Battleship and departed for the Heavenly Sword Sect, while a Blood-Robed Figure and the Demon Kings prepared to move against Great Qi. The Black Dragon Demon King ordered the beasts to march on Sunset City.

• Lu Tianchou gifted Song Changsheng the Black Star Battleship and agreed to repair his damaged flying boat while he was away.
• Song Changsheng warned Lu Tianchou that the attack on Lu Yuxiu was likely no accident, then left Qiaojiang Mountain with Old Ghost Chihuo and Song Qingxi aboard the Black Star Battleship.
• A Blood-Robed Figure learned of an order from the Venerable Master and vanished before confronting Song Changsheng or Lu Tianchou.
• The Black Dragon Demon King met with Lei Ming and received word that the Golden Crow Sect and Heavenly Meridian Sect could not intervene, then agreed to attack Sunset City with the Blood Demon Sect’s support.
• The Black Dragon Demon King ordered the gathered Demon Beasts to march on Sunset City.

Sunset City faced a massive beast tide led by the Thunderous Demon King, while Zhan Tianxia ordered young disciples to defend the city and train in battle. After Sunset City’s first attacks drove back the cannon fodder, the mystic armored turtles advanced toward the walls as hidden elders watched and refused to intervene.

• Zhan Tianxia and a middle-aged man discussed the danger posed by the old flood dragon, then Zhan Tianxia assigned commanders to the city’s four sides and ordered them to punish retreat and disorder.
• Niu Dazhuang led the North City’s defenses as ballistae, spells, and formations slaughtered thousands of demon beasts and halted the tide’s advance.
• The Thunderous Demon King rebuked its forces and ordered Golden Armor to lead the mystic armored turtles against Sunset City.
• Zhang Yanhe began resting after the first wave retreated, then saw the massive mystic armored turtles approaching through the battlefield.
• On Heavenly Sound Mountain, the hidden elders debated whether to help Niu Dazhuang, but upheld Zhan Tianxia’s decision to let the juniors face the attack.
• At North City, Niu Dazhuang ordered the defenders to prepare the spirit crystal cannons.

Niu Dazhuang’s forces devastated the Mysterious Armor clan with Spirit Crystal Cannons and attack formations, but Golden Armor survived as Lei Ming ordered the beast horde to assault Sunset City. The beasts withdrew after suffering heavy losses, while a disguised Blood-Robed Figure entered the city carrying a stolen Law Enforcement token and set her sights on its Fourth-Tier Spirit Vein.

• Niu Dazhuang waited until the Mystic Armored Turtles neared the city before ordering three volleys from the Spirit Crystal Cannons, which battered Golden Armor and killed or wounded its clansmen.
• Niu Dazhuang activated Sunset City’s Third-Tier attack formations, and the Thunder God’s lightning and the Six-Armed Demonic Ape severely injured Golden Armor while the Mystic Armored Turtles sacrificed themselves to protect their patriarch.
• Lei Ming ordered a full-scale attack after Golden Armor’s clan had been devastated, but the beast horde retreated when the Silver Moon Demonic Wolf Great Demon proposed destroying Sunset City’s Spirit Vein from within.
• Zhang Yanhe rested and ate beside Steward Liu after the battle, while Zhuang Yuechan’s Law Enforcement Disciples patrolled the city under martial control.
• A Blood-Robed Figure used a stolen waist token to disguise herself as a Law Enforcement Disciple and vanished into the city, intent on its Fourth-Tier Spirit Vein.

Song Changsheng brought his companions to Ten Thousand Swords City to prepare for their visit to the Heavenly Sword Sect’s Sword Stele. He entered a secret Black Market through a spatial array and encountered a seller offering a Demon King Inner Core.

• Song Changsheng disguised Old Ghost Chihuo with a Human Skin Mask so he could accompany the group to the Heavenly Sword Sect without being recognized.
• The group reached Ten Thousand Swords City, where Song Changsheng hired a guide and arranged for Chihuo to take the others to the Heavenly Armament Pavilion while he visited the Black Market.
• Song Changsheng entered the Black Market through a Spatial Array and discovered that it gathered many Foundation Establishment Cultivators from beyond Xuzhou.
• A furtive voice asked Song Changsheng whether he wanted to buy a Demon King Inner Core.

Song Changsheng sold his demonic-path spoils at the black market and traded his High-Grade Demonic Spirit Artifact for Millennial Stalactite Spirit Liquid and spirit stones. Still searching for Flood Dragon Scales, he explored a stone-gambling pavilion and watched a confident woman buy a costly batch of stones.

• Song Changsheng sold most of his demonic-path resources for eighteen thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones and traded the Demonic Wheel for Millennial Stalactite Spirit Liquid and one hundred ninety Mid-Grade Spirit Stones.
• A crowd offered to buy Song Changsheng’s spirit liquid, but he refused and asked instead for Flood Dragon Scales; no one had any to trade.
• Song Changsheng entered a pavilion and learned from a woman that its stones came from an Ancient Battlefield and could contain hidden treasures.
• The woman explained her stone-gambling methods and selected sixteen stones, while Song Changsheng used his Illusion Breaking Eye to see that only six held spiritual light.
• The woman paid nearly seven thousand spirit stones for her picks and insisted on opening them all despite Song Changsheng’s warning to try a few first.

Song Changsheng used his Illusion Breaking Eye to help Siying choose stones for a gambling match against Chen Menglong, who had challenged her for the Jade Exquisite Pagoda. The chapter ended as both sides brought their three stones to be cut, with the outcome still undecided.

• Siying had Zhao Bin cut her first-floor stones, most of which were worthless, though one contained a living Third Tier Low-Grade Spirit Plant.
• Siying went upstairs and lost three thousand Spirit Stones on an empty stone before Chen Menglong mocked her and challenged her to gamble for the Jade Exquisite Pagoda.
• Chen Menglong proposed that each side select three stones within half an hour, with the Black Market judging whose treasures were more valuable.
• Song Changsheng offered to choose Siying's stones using his Illusion Breaking Eye, and she accepted despite his warning that Chen Menglong had come prepared.
• Song Changsheng selected three stones rich in green spiritual light for Siying, and both sides brought their stones to the cutters.

Song Changsheng helped Peng Siying defeat Chen Menglong in a stone-gambling wager, winning rare spirit plants and a Silver VIP Card from the Wanlong Merchant Association. As Song Changsheng prepared to leave the Black Market after asking Peng Siying to find news about Flood Dragon Scale, a Black Robe Person said the Pavilion Master wanted to see him.

• Song Changsheng revealed Azure Underworld Steel from his first stone, but Chen Menglong’s short companion uncovered a more valuable Secret Tear Stone.
• Song Changsheng’s second stone yielded Phoenix Blood Grass worth 120,000 Low-Grade Spirit Stones, putting Peng Siying ahead in the wager.
• Song Changsheng and Chen Menglong opened their final stones, and Song Changsheng’s Blood-Secreting Orchid secured his victory over Chen Menglong.
• Peng Siying gave Song Changsheng a Silver VIP Card and revealed that she was the daughter of the Wanlong Merchant Association’s Chairman.
• Song Changsheng refused offers for the Phoenix Blood Grass, asked Peng Siying to look for news about Flood Dragon Scale, and was stopped by a Black Robe Person carrying the Pavilion Master’s summons.

Song Changsheng met Pavilion Master Bai, who invited him to help search an Ancient Immortal-Demon Battlefield in exchange for a Yin Yang Purple Tree Heart, giving him five years to decide. Meanwhile, Song Qingxi and her companions shopped for Magic Artifacts in Ten Thousand Swords City, where the attendant offered Song Qingxing one of the pavilion’s treasures after none of the available flying swords pleased him.

• Song Changsheng followed the Black Robe Person to meet Pavilion Master Bai while Peng Siying waited outside.
• Pavilion Master Bai explained that the Stone Gambling Pavilion sought people with abilities to see through gambling stones and invited Song Changsheng to join a future expedition to the Ancient Immortal-Demon Battlefield.
• Pavilion Master Bai offered Song Changsheng a Yin Yang Purple Tree Heart and gave him five years to decide, then Song Changsheng left with a Jade Slip.
• Song Changsheng reunited with Peng Siying and said he planned to find his companions outside the Black Market.
• Old Ghost Chihuo took Song Qingxi, Song Qingxing, and Little Ling Yun sightseeing before bringing them to the Heavenly Armament Pavilion.
• Song Qingxi bought three First-Tier Peak Grade Magic Artifacts, and the attendant offered to show Song Qingxing the pavilion’s treasures after he rejected its Second-Tier Low-Grade flying swords.

Song Qingxi bought Song Qingxing a mysterious black sword that he alone believed he could refine, while Song Changsheng weighed the dangers of the Black Market’s offer. Back at the inn, Song Changsheng began preparing to break through to Foundation Establishment Late Stage.

• Song Qingxi paid twenty thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones for a black sword that buyers had been unable to refine, and Song Qingxing sensed that it was calling to him.
• Pi Xiu introduced himself and his contracted spirit beast, A-Bao, after noticing the sword, while Old Ghost Chihuo escorted Song Qingxi and Song Qingxing away.
• Song Changsheng considered whether the force behind the Black Market intended to use recruited cultivators as expendable searchers in the Immortal-Demonic Ancient Battlefield.
• Song Changsheng examined Song Qingxing’s sword, learned that Song Qingxing believed he could refine it, and warned the group to stay with Chihuo while he attempted a breakthrough.
• Song Changsheng set up an isolation formation, sat on the Tai Chi Diagram, drank Millennial Stalactite Spirit Liquid, and began breaking through to Foundation Establishment Late Stage.

As Sunset City endured the Beast Tide, Wu Luochuan attacked a patrol and fought his way through the city after Xu Yunhe and Zhuang Yuechan identified him. A disguised figure then ordered a hidden plan to begin ahead of schedule.

• The Thunderous Demon King sent Yinyue and more than ten thousand Silver Moon Wolves to raid the rear of Bianzhou and Ling Province.
• Zhuang Yuechan visited Xu Yunhe during her patrol, and they discussed their search for Wu Luochuan and the Silver Moon Wolf Clan's attack.
• Wu Luochuan ambushed the patrol, killed four disciples, and revealed his zombie form before Xu Yunhe recognized him.
• Zhuang Yuechan, Xu Yunhe, and the patrol disciples attacked Wu Luochuan, but he broke free and fled, causing destruction as they pursued him.
• A disguised figure wearing an Enforcement Team uniform watched the pursuit and used a Blood-Colored Waist Token to order the plan to begin.

Blood-Robed Figures triggered a citywide crisis by planting indestructible Blood Spears throughout Sunset City, while Zhuang Yuechan tried to restore order and Wu Luochuan escaped. At Heavenly Sound Mountain, Bai Zhengchun confronted Blood Consort and three other Blood Demon Sect Steering Masters, then revealed four hidden Purple Palace Cultivators as the fight began.

• Blood-Robed Figures planted scarlet Blood Spears across Sunset City, and the spears absorbed attacks and drained anyone who touched them.
• Zhuang Yuechan ordered the Law Enforcement Disciples to suppress rioting and search for the Blood Demon, while Wu Luochuan escaped into the shadows.
• Xu Yunhe comforted Zhuang Yuechan, who regained her resolve and coordinated the city's response.
• At Heavenly Sound Mountain, Bai Zhengchun confronted Blood Consort as she prepared to activate the final node of the formation.
• Blood Consort summoned three other Blood Demon Sect Steering Masters, and the four attacked Bai Zhengchun.
• Bai Zhengchun called out hidden allies, revealing four Purple Palace Cultivators who appeared above the battlefield and prepared to fight.

Sunset City repelled a Blood Demon Sect invasion at terrible cost while Song Changsheng, unaware of the battle, advanced to Foundation Establishment Late Stage and searched for a lead on Flood Dragon Scales. He ended the chapter fleeing Red Sleeve Pavilion after its courtesans overwhelmed him, then returned to prepare for a visit to the Heavenly Sword Sect.

• Blood Consort and the Blood Demon Sect infiltrated Sunset City, but Bai Zhengchun, Shen Qingxiu, and the city's other Purple Palace Cultivators defeated them after a battle that devastated nearly half the city.
• Zhuang Yuechan ordered twelve recovered remains to be kept rather than cremated and apologized to Song Changsheng for failing his instructions.
• Song Changsheng broke through to Foundation Establishment Late Stage and met Peng Siying, who told him the Wanlong Merchant Association could not provide the Flood Dragon Scale bracer and suggested seeking the information dealer Shen Yin.
• Song Changsheng followed a bewitching fragrance to Red Sleeve Pavilion, but fled when the women crowded around him and the chicken feather did not lead him to Shen Yin.
• Song Changsheng returned to the inn and told Song Qingxi and Song Qingxing to rest before their visit to the Heavenly Sword Sect, while Song Qingxi noticed the scent of the brothel on him.

Song Changsheng explored the Heavenly Sword Sect’s Sword Stele Forest and gained an unexpected lesson on refining Sword Pills from the Wordless Stele. Elsewhere, the injured Blood Consort woke in a cave and discovered that her estranged brother Soul Returnless had rescued and treated her.

• Song Changsheng and his companions entered the Sword Stele Forest, where a Heavenly Sword Sect Disciple explained its 118 sword-art steles and the legendary Wordless Stele.
• Song Qingxing went straight to the Wordless Stele, while Song Changsheng surveyed the other steles and realized their inscriptions only worked for enlightenment at the forest.
• Song Changsheng sat before the Wordless Stele and entered a vision in which an old man demonstrated and began teaching the refinement of a Sword Pill.
• Blood Consort awoke in a mountain cave after escaping Sunset City and recognized Soul Returnless when he entered.
• Soul Returnless treated Blood Consort’s wound and told her he regarded her as his younger sister, but Blood Consort condemned him as a traitor and vowed to kill him.

Song Changsheng learned that the Mysterious Creation Canon came from Qingtian, the Qingtian Sword Immortal, and received several restricted gifts from him. After awakening from the Sword Stele, Song Changsheng comprehended the embryonic form of Sword Intent and sought a quiet room to examine his new insights.

• Little Fatty complained that the Heavenly Sword Sect had stopped admitting visitors, but the old man seized him and insisted on bringing him along to take the Sword Stele.
• Song Changsheng refined his first Sword Pill in the Sword Stele’s vision and watched the old man demonstrate how to seal Sword Intent.
• The old man told Song Changsheng that he had created the Mysterious Creation Canon after Feathering Ascension and recognized their connection through the scripture.
• The old man gave Song Changsheng several light orbs sealed by restrictions, introduced himself as Qingtian, and urged Song Changsheng to seek him after Feathering Ascension.
• Song Changsheng awoke before the Sword Stele and, guided by Qingtian’s words, comprehended the embryonic form of Sword Intent.
• Song Changsheng asked a Heavenly Sword Sect Disciple to take him to a quiet room while five days remained before the Stele Forest closed.

Song Changsheng uncovered a memory fragment explaining how to awaken the Dao Scripture’s dormant Artifact Spirit, then comprehended a secret art for assessing aptitude. Song Qingxing endured Sword Venerable Wushang’s trial, rejected his inheritance, and unexpectedly gained a Sword Embryo before returning to study another Stone Tablet.

• Song Changsheng used the Tai Chi Diagram to enter his Sea of Consciousness and unlocked a memory fragment from Qingtian Sword Immortal.
• Song Changsheng learned that the Dao Scripture was a magic artifact whose Artifact Spirit could be awakened with items that nourished the Divine Soul, then began studying the Dao Scripture.
• Song Qingxing repeatedly challenged Sword Venerable Wushang, rejected the offer to become his Registered Disciple, and was defeated after striking at him with a sword hilt.
• Sword Venerable Wushang sent a beam of white light into Song Qingxing, who later discovered that he had condensed a Sword Embryo.
• Song Qingxing found Song Qingxi studying a Stone Tablet and joined her, while Song Changsheng remained immersed in the Dao Scripture as Little Ling Yun woke hungry.
• Song Changsheng awakened and realized he had learned a secret art for assessing another person’s aptitude.

Song Changsheng and his companions left the Sword Stele Forest after refusing Zhu Ming’s attempt to recruit Song Qingxing into the Heavenly Sword Sect. After Song Changsheng spent over forty thousand Spirit Stones on soul-nourishing items to advance the Jade Slip’s Artifact Spirit awakening, they tried to leave Ten Thousand Swords City, only to learn that the city had been sealed after the Wordless Stele was stolen.

• Song Changsheng evaluated his aptitude as mid-high grade, then discovered he had spent three days cultivating while Little Ling Yun slept hungry.
• Song Qingxi and Song Qingxing shared their gains from the Sword Stele Forest, and Song Changsheng decided the group should return to the clan because the Demon Race was invading the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains.
• Zhu Ming tried to recruit Song Qingxi and Song Qingxing into the Heavenly Sword Sect, but both refused and left with Song Changsheng.
• Song Changsheng spent over forty thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones on soul-nourishing items, raising the Jade Slip’s Artifact Spirit awakening progress by only about one percent.
• At the city gate, Song Changsheng learned from Pi Xiu that Ten Thousand Swords City had been sealed because criminals stole the Heavenly Sword Sect’s Wordless Stele.

Song Changsheng learned that the Heavenly Sword Stele had been stolen and watched the Heavenly Sword Sect overpower Li Tianzhao as it stopped people from leaving Ten Thousand Swords City. Meanwhile, the thief and his master approached the inspection line, Song Changsheng befriended Pi Xiu over wine, and news from Vast Peak revealed that Song Changan had successfully established his foundation.

• Pi Xiu told Song Changsheng that the Heavenly Sword Stele had been stolen and Ten Thousand Swords City sealed, while Li Tianzhao challenged the Heavenly Sword Sect's restrictions.
• Li Tianzhao tried to force his way out, but a Heavenly Sword Sect elder defeated him, discouraging the crowd from resisting the inspections.
• Little Fatty and his master joined the inspection queue, with the old man assuring Little Fatty that the Devouring Spirit Body concealed the stolen stele.
• Song Changsheng thought he spotted Brother Zhu leaving the city, then accepted Pi Xiu's invitation and shared refined Monkey Wine with him and A-Bao.
• Song Xianming and Song Xianyun worried about the approaching Silver Moon Demonic Wolves before Song Changan's breakthrough brought the Song Clan another Foundation Establishment Cultivator.

Song Chang'an and Song Changxuan achieved Foundation Establishment, while Song Changxue, Song Luyuan, and another cultivator died or failed during their attempts. Meanwhile, Liuyun Sect and Wuling Sect struggled with factional divisions as their leaders debated how to prepare for the Silver Moon Demonic Wolf and the Song Clan's growing strength.

• Song Chang'an successfully achieved Foundation Establishment, and Song Luhai urged him to consolidate his cultivation and visit the elders.
• Song Changxue's Foundation Establishment attempt failed when an Inner Demon overwhelmed her, but Song Xianming and Song Xianyun expelled it and saved her life.
• Song Changxuan achieved Foundation Establishment, while Song Luyuan and another cultivator died after their breakthrough attempts failed.
• Liuyun Sect and Wuling Sect expanded through mergers, but their internal factions and rivalries kept both sects divided.
• Yu Chengshan proposed buying Foundation Establishment Pills, but Qiu Tianyang and Du Huating opposed him while Li Siyang abstained.
• Du Huating worried about the Silver Moon Demonic Wolf and waited for Chang Wudao to emerge from seclusion and resolve Wuling Sect's problems.

Song Changsheng left Ten Thousand Swords City and assigned Old Ghost Chihuo to find Shen Yin and the former leader of the Taotie Monster Hunting Team. Meanwhile, the Silver Moon Demonic Wolves advanced toward Ling Province, and Song Xianming organized the Song Clan’s defenses as the invasion threatened Vast Peak and the clan’s Mortal World.

• Song Changsheng returned from Ten Thousand Swords City, visited Lu Tianchou, and continued searching for Shen Yin without success.
• Song Changsheng ordered Old Ghost Chihuo to seek Shen Yin for information about Flood Dragon Scales and to locate his former employer, the leader of the Taotie Monster Hunting Team.
• Song Luyao reported that one force of Silver Moon Demonic Wolves was heading toward the Liuyun Mountain Range while the Great Demon-led main force was likely targeting the Song Clan.
• Song Xianming ordered the clan to recall its disciples, gather at Vast Peak, and harvest resources from nearby mountains.
• Xia Yunxue warned that the Mortal World and its hundreds of thousands of people needed protection, so Song Xianming sent her, Song Changxuan, Song Lu Hen, and Song Changyun there with Law Enforcement Disciples.
• Song Xianming called on Wuling Sect, Liuyun Sect, the clan’s affiliated forces, the Wang Clan, and the Yu Clan to restrain the wolves while the Song Clan faced the main force.