Chapter Summaries

The Song Clan prepared to face the Silver Moon Demonic Wolves by coordinating with Ling Province’s major factions and readying an escape route for its strongest youths. Yinyue led the wolves to Vast Peak, where the Thousand Illusions Tracking Array turned the opening clash into a deadly hunt, and Song Xianming and Yinyue prepared to confront each other.

• Song Xianming ordered the Song Clan to withdraw its members and persuaded Ling Province’s major forces to follow the clan’s defense plan.
• Song Xianming told Song Xianyun to arrange an escape route for several promising youths and Song Luzhou in case the Clan Protecting Array fell.
• Yinyue rejected a subordinate’s request to hunt for blood food and drove the demon wolf army through Ling Province toward the Moon-Gazing Mountain Range.
• The Song Clan activated the Thousand Illusions Tracking Array at Vast Peak and sent more than five hundred cultivators to meet the advancing wolves.
• Song Qingxia killed a demon wolf inside the mist as fighting spread across the mountain’s foot.
• Song Xianming and Yinyue sensed each other across the battlefield and turned their killing intent toward one another.

Song Qinghong and Song Chang'an fought off demon wolves as the Song Clan defended Vast Peak, while the Yu and Wang families struck the retreating wolves from ambush. The next day, Yinyue led a renewed assault and Song Xianming unleashed the formation’s sword attack against him.

• Song Qinghong lured a late First-Tier demon wolf into his Quicksand Array, killed it, and recovered the remains of a Song Clan Member it had eaten.
• A Second-Tier demon wolf attacked Song Qinghong, but Song Chang'an arrived and slew it with his Sword Array after a fierce battle.
• The Song Clan repelled the wolves at Vast Peak, and Yinyue ordered his forces to hunt for blood food before attacking again.
• The Yu and Wang families ambushed the hunting wolves, prompting Yinyue to send five Second-Tier demon wolves and three hundred First-Tier demon wolves to confront them.
• Yinyue led the remaining wolves against Vast Peak, wounded Song Xianyun, and charged toward Song Xianming.
• Song Xianming activated the grand formation and summoned a Sword Qi-wrapped flying sword to strike Yinyue.

Song Xianming and the Song Clan fought off Yinyue’s first assault, but the clan suffered heavy losses and Song Xianyun’s future Dao Path was severed. As Yinyue prepared a new attack and Song Changsheng hurried back toward Vast Peak, Song Xianming sent Song Luzhou to lead the younger clan members to safety and stayed behind to fight.

• Stabilizing Rivers and Mountains wounded Yinyue, but Yinyue withdrew rather than risk a prolonged fight inside the great array.
• Song Chang'an found Song Xianyun gravely injured, and Song Luzhou said that only another Azure Sky White Jade Pill could preserve his Dao Path.
• After the Song Clan counted thirty-two dead and nearly forty wounded, Song Xianming ordered the great array shifted fully to defense.
• Yinyue stopped attacking and secretly refined Human Race cultivators and Demon Beasts as blood food, while Song Changsheng learned of the crisis and rushed toward the Moon-Gazing Mountain Range.
• Yinyue returned with the demon wolves and launched a full-scale assault, so Song Xianming gave Song Luzhou a key and ordered him to evacuate the younger clan members through the Back Mountain.
• Song Xianming stayed behind to defend Vast Peak and challenged Yinyue to fight.

As Yinyue shattered the Song Clan’s protective barrier and attacked Vast Peak, Song Changsheng hurried back after failing to contact the Lineage. He rescued Xia Yunxue and Song Lutong from human attackers in the Mortal World, then set out with them aboard the Black Star Battleship to reinforce the Lineage.

• Yinyue used the Howling Moon Heavenly Wolf’s power and suicidal demon-wolf attacks to break the Song Clan’s barrier, then charged Vast Peak as Song Xianming fought to hold it back.
• Song Changsheng nearly succumbed to an inner demon while worrying about the Lineage, but calmed himself and redirected the Black Star Battleship toward the Mortal World to seek information and help.
• Song Changsheng found Law Enforcement Hall disciples fighting white-robed cultivators outside a city and killed the attackers before joining Xia Yunxue and Song Lutong in the aerial battle.
• Song Changsheng, Xia Yunxue, and Song Lutong defeated the white-robed cultivators; Xia Yunxue explained that they had been targeting mortals and burying something outside the city.
• Song Changsheng revealed that the Black Star Battleship could strengthen the Lineage’s chances, and Xia Yunxue agreed to leave Song Changxuan guarding the city while the three of them flew to support Vast Peak.

The Song Clan fought a desperate battle against the Great Demon Yinyue, sacrificing Song Luyao and Song Luhai before Song Changsheng arrived to help Song Xianming kill it. In a hidden cave, the younger clan members waited anxiously for the battle’s outcome, and a victory bell finally rang.

• Song Luyao sacrificed herself to block Yinyue’s Innate Divine Ability, allowing Song Xianming to wound the demon wolf.
• Song Luhai gave his life to damage Yinyue’s Inner Core, and Song Xianming severed one of its forelegs with his next strike.
• Song Changsheng arrived aboard a black warship and blasted Yinyue, giving Song Xianming the chance to cut off its head.
• Song Changsheng burned and destroyed Yinyue’s Divine Soul with a Li Fire Heaven-Burning Talisman and the Spirit Severing Gourd.
• Song Luzhou stopped Song Changxue from leaving the hidden cave and reminded the juniors that they had to preserve the Song Clan’s inheritance.
• Song Qingshi heard the battle fall silent, and the victory bell rang, leaving the cave’s occupants overjoyed.

After the battle left the Song Clan devastated, Song Changsheng took charge of its recovery while Song Xianming remained unconscious. Once Song Xianming awakened, he entrusted the clan to Song Changsheng and entered seclusion to attempt a breakthrough to the Purple Mansion realm, leaving Song Changsheng as acting patriarch.

• Song Changsheng secured the clan, organized the cleanup, and convened a meeting to assess casualties, damage, and resources lost in the battle.
• Song Changsheng assigned the wounded to treatment, ordered repairs to the Clan Protecting Array, arranged compensation for the dead and injured, and authorized an attempt to refine Foundation Establishment Pills from the Great Demon's core.
• Song Changsheng treated Song Xianyun and the other wounded, approved urgent requests for supplies and compensation, and considered selling demon beast materials through the Wanlong Merchant Association.
• Song Qinghua reported that Song Xianming had awakened, and Song Xianming praised Song Changsheng's management before giving him the Heavenly Net and Demon Binding Rope.
• Song Xianming announced that he would enter seclusion to challenge the Purple Mansion realm and appointed Song Changsheng to govern the clan as acting patriarch.
• After Song Xianming entered seclusion, Song Changsheng announced funerals for Song Luyao, Song Luhai, and the clan members who had died in the battle.

After mourning the Song Clan members killed in battle, Song Changsheng witnessed Song Qingxing honor Song Luhai and accept his decision to enter seclusion for Foundation Establishment. At the Clan Meeting, Song Changsheng reassigned key posts and proposed sending the Black Star Battleship to destroy the remaining Demon Wolves on the Liuyun Battlefield, drawing immediate objections.

• The Song Clan buried its battle dead, and Song Changsheng comforted Song Xiancheng and Song Changyue before paying respects at the graves.
• Song Qingxi returned grieving Song Luhai, and Song Changsheng found Song Qingxing privately honoring his teacher with a sword strike.
• Song Changsheng explained that Song Lingyun was an orphan Song Qingxi had adopted and asked Xia Yunxue to accept him as his son; she agreed to seek the Great Elder's approval.
• Song Qingxing announced that he would enter seclusion, rejecting Song Qingxi and Xia Yunxue's advice to wait for a Foundation Establishment Pill.
• Song Changsheng assigned new Clan posts at the first Clan Meeting, then announced that the Black Star Battleship would attack the remaining Demon Wolves on the Liuyun Battlefield.
• Song Chang'an and Xia Yunxue opposed another war, but Song Changsheng insisted that the plan would benefit the Clan.

Song Changsheng planned to stabilize Ling Province and restore the Song Clan’s finances by sending the Black Star Battleship to aid the Liuyun Mountain Range. He then tortured and soul-searched a captive, uncovering a mysterious mortal-abduction operation and a powerful array-breaking artifact.

• Song Changsheng persuaded the clan elders to build a future market, auction vacant resources, and use the Black Star Battleship to aid the Liuyun Mountain Range.
• After Du Huating and Liu Hongye offered rewards for assistance, Song Changsheng sent Xia Yunxue, Song Lutong, and Song Chang'an to battle the Demon Wolves.
• Song Changsheng interrogated the captive by torturing him and using the Soul Search Technique, killing him in the process.
• Song Changsheng learned that the captive, Bai Zhisheng, belonged to the Thunder King Hall, whose Ling Province branch had abducted hundreds of thousands of mortals for unknown purposes.
• Song Changsheng discovered that the attackers had possessed a Thunder Shock Pellet capable of damaging array foundations and resolved to obtain its refining method.

Song Changsheng learned that the Thunder King Hall had imprisoned and bled more than a hundred thousand mortals, then arranged for the survivors and recovered Thunder Shock Pellets from its outpost. The clan faced the threat of a Purple Palace Cultivator arriving within three years, while Song Xianyun finally awoke with his lifespan and foundation badly damaged.

• Song Changsheng sent Song Changxuan to raid the Thunder King Hall's den at White Wolf Mountain, where Changxuan cleared its remaining guards and discovered a mass of imprisoned mortals.
• Song Changsheng sent the Law Enforcement Hall to rescue the survivors, learned they had been kept underground and bled for cultivation, and ordered them integrated into the Song Clan while the children with Spirit Roots were assigned to the Wind Whisper Hall.
• Song Changsheng learned that the Thunder King Hall might send a Purple Palace Cultivator within three years, and received the recovered Thunder Shock Pellets and their refining method.
• Song Changsheng tested five Thunder Shock Pellets against a Second Tier High-Grade Heavenly Gang Array, then ordered Song Changrong to secretly refine more.
• Song Xianyun awoke after a long unconsciousness and calmly acknowledged that his damaged foundation and lost lifespan left him with only a few years to live.

After destroying the Silver Moon Wolf Clan, the Song Clan used its victory to attract cultivators from devastated Bianzhou to a major auction and prepare a new market. Song Changsheng refined a high-grade Sword Pill and planted Phoenix Blood Grass, but Song Lutong arrived seeking answers about the auction.

• Liu Hongye and Du Huating watched the Quasi Sky Battleship devastate the battlefield, while Liu Hongye reclaimed authority in Liuyun Sect and Du Huating began seeking an ally for Wuling Sect.
• Xia Yunxue and the others returned with spoils worth hundreds of thousands of Spirit Stones, and Song Changsheng spread news of the Song Clan's victory and upcoming auction across the surrounding provinces.
• Cultivators from Bianzhou considered the auction as a chance to acquire Spirit Veins and treasures or settle in Ling Province, and Fellow Daoist Qi persuaded Fellow Daoist Zhang to attend for an Ascending Dragon Pill and a high-grade Sword Pill.
• Song Changsheng delegated administration to Song Xianyun and entered seclusion to refine Sword Pills, while Xia Yunxue organized the auction and Song Chang'an explained how its new site would grow into a market.
• Song Changsheng refined a Second-Tier High Grade Sword Pill, then brought Song Qingxi to plant Phoenix Blood Grass on Spirit Plant Mountain so it could reproduce and strengthen the clan's physiques.
• Song Lutong flew to Spirit Plant Mountain, indignant about the auction, just as Song Changsheng and Song Qingxi were preparing to leave.

Song Changsheng manipulated the Spirit Artifact auction to keep two artifacts for the Song Clan, then negotiated with Wuling Sect and Liu Hongye over the new Market. He refused to sell Shops, offered leases instead, and Liu Hongye moved to claim ten of them.

• Song Changsheng persuaded Song Lutong to bid for a Spirit Artifact at the auction, concealing his plan to use him as a shill and return two artifacts to the Song Clan’s Treasure Vault.
• Du Huating and Wuling Sect’s leaders debated how to secure a share of the new Market, while Li Siyang warned them that the Song Clan’s Quasi Sky Battleship and Song Changsheng made coercion dangerous.
• Liu Hongye and Du Huating arrived at the Song Clan together after privately agreeing to negotiate for Market profits.
• Song Changsheng told the visitors that the Market would be rebuilt gradually and agreed to let them participate, but said Shops would be leased rather than sold.
• Song Changsheng offered twelve prime Shops at five hundred Low-Grade Spirit Stones per year under ten-year minimum leases, and Liu Hongye requested ten Shops for his sect.

Song Changsheng prepared the Luoshui Market for its auction as cultivators poured in, then used its defenses to swiftly capture and execute a Foundation Establishment Late Stage attacker. The spectacle cowed the Market’s visitors, while Song Changsheng began investigating the mysterious bronze ring that had briefly broken through the Heavenly Net’s restraints.

• Liu Hongye, Du Huating, and Yu Chengshan divided the twelve Market shops between the Liuyun Sect and Wuling Sect, and Liu Hongye and Du Huating arranged to consign treasures to the auction.
• Song Changsheng inspected the Clan Treasury as the auction approached, while the Luoshui Market filled with shops, cultivators, and visitors.
• Du Huating regretted that the Wuling Sect had taken only two shops after seeing the Market’s unexpected popularity, and he hoped Chang Wudao would soon break through to the Purple Mansion.
• Song Changsheng and the Song Clan’s elite guarded the Market, where Song Lutong had previously killed a Foundation Establishment rogue cultivator for breaking the no-fighting rule.
• A black-robed old man attacked the Quasi Sky Battleship, but Song Changsheng used the Market’s formations and a rope to capture him, then ordered his execution.
• Song Changsheng examined the attacker’s Mid-Grade Spirit Artifact bronze ring, curious about how it had broken the Heavenly Net’s restraints.

Song Changsheng oversaw the Song Clan’s three-day auction, which drew cultivators from across the region and brought in intense bidding for rare treasures. The auction ended successfully, and Song Changsheng called a family meeting to tally the proceeds.

• Song Changsheng identified the Void-Breaking Ring and found a Vast Righteousness Alliance deacon’s token among the defeated old man’s belongings, which deepened his concern about the coming turmoil.
• Song Luyun hosted the crowded auction and demonstrated a Second-Tier High Grade Sword Pill, which the cultivator surnamed Zhang won for forty thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones.
• The second day’s auction drew fierce bids for materials from Yinyue and Ascending Dragon Pills, and the old man surnamed Qi obtained one of the pills.
• On the final day, a Foundation Establishment Rogue Cultivator bought the Water Settling Flag, while the Song Clan’s Spirit Veins and vacant mines also sold.
• Song Lutong bought the Mountain Opening Axe after outbidding the Xu Clan elder, and Song Chang'an secured the Heaven-Equalizing Sword without arousing suspicion.
• Song Changsheng concluded the auction and convened a family meeting to count the Song Clan’s gains.

After the Song Clan’s auction brought in a large windfall, Song Changsheng arranged to spend the proceeds on needed resources and welcomed Song Luzhou’s successful refinement of five Foundation Establishment Pills. The Clan selected five candidates to use the pills, and Song Changsheng set out for Yuanzhou to purchase supplies.

• Xia Yunxue reported that the auction and shop leasing had brought 390,400 Low-Grade Spirit Stones into the treasury, including 280,400 in pure profit, and Song Changsheng proposed spending most of the funds on resources from the Wanlong Merchant Association.
• Song Luzhou emerged from a month of seclusion with five Foundation Establishment Pills, delighting Song Changsheng and Song Xianyun despite feeling that his first refinement could have gone better.
• Song Xianyun urged the Clan to use the pills to strengthen its Hundred Arts talents, and Song Changsheng proposed reserving two for the Clan Competition and selecting three through the Council of Elders.
• Song Changjing and Song Changxiu won the competition, while the Council selected Song Changrong, Song Luyun, and Song Changqi as the other pill candidates.
• Song Changsheng arranged for all five candidates to enter seclusion, then prepared to travel to Yuanzhou with a large sum of money.

Song Changsheng traveled to Yuanzhou to sell resources and buy supplies for the Song Clan, but Yu Dongyang intercepted him on the way and challenged him over a Vast Righteousness Alliance deacon’s death. After they fought to a draw, Yu Dongyang ended their enmity, and both men looked forward to meeting again.

• Song Changsheng gathered 400,000 Low-Grade Spirit Stones and raw materials, then traveled by Flying Boat to Yuanzhou to trade and purchase resources for the Song Clan.
• Song Changsheng considered the Jade Tablet linked to the Blood Demon Sect’s treasure as he journeyed toward the Wanlong Merchant Association branch.
• Yu Dongyang ambushed Song Changsheng and questioned him about killing a Vast Righteousness Alliance deacon.
• Song Changsheng and Yu Dongyang fought for nearly half an hour, matching one another’s attacks and abilities.
• Song Changsheng blocked Yu Dongyang’s Sword Sweeps the Nine Heavens with his Tai Chi Diagram, and Yu Dongyang declared their enmity wiped clean.
• Song Changsheng departed, while Yu Dongyang vowed to defeat him in a future encounter.

Song Changsheng bought supplies for the coming conflict at the Wanlong Merchant Association and discovered that Peng Siying’s Silver VIP Token made him a Guest Elder, earning him a major discount. As he returned to his lineage, Sunset City’s defenders braced for a decisive battle after a dragon’s roar signaled the demon beasts’ advance.

• Song Changsheng sold demon beast materials and bought talismans, medicines, seeds, and refining materials from Li Mingyang at the Wanlong Merchant Association.
• Song Changsheng showed Li Mingyang his Silver VIP Token, and Li Mingyang recognized him as a Guest Elder and recalculated his bill at a steep discount.
• Song Changsheng used his remaining funds to buy Earth Element Divine Thunder, a protective jade pendant, and more pills before returning toward his lineage.
• Xu Yunhe sat wounded among the dead on Sunset City’s wall and mourned the loss of the defenders who had fought beside him.
• A dragon roared from the distant mountains, and the defenders feared that the decisive battle had begun.

Black Dragon Demon King led a million-member demon horde out of Black Water Great Marsh to destroy Sunset City, but Mu Guibai appeared after reaching the Golden Core Realm and the Golden Core True Persons ambushed the demon king. The two sects’ armies arrived, crushed the Beast Tide, and invaded the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains.

• Black Dragon Demon King emerged from Black Water Great Marsh with over a million demons and ordered Lei Ming to destroy Sunset City.
• As the defenders doubted Great City Lord Mu Guibai’s absence, Zhuang Yuechan and Xu Yunhe rallied them to fight.
• Mu Guibai’s qin music halted the demon horde, then he appeared and revealed that he had broken through to the Golden Core Realm.
• Su Ding, Chen Zhongfang, Bai Zimou, Shi Potian, and Bai Yan ambushed Black Dragon Demon King while Mu Guibai confronted Lei Ming with a Spirit Treasure sword.
• The Golden Crow Sect and Heavenly Meridian Sect arrived with their armies, routed the demon horde, and advanced into the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains.

Song Changsheng learned that the war between the Two Great Sects and the Beast Tide had been orchestrated to lure out and kill the Black Dragon Demon King. In Sunset City, Mu Guibai and Su Ding explained the plan’s cost and motive, leaving Xia Qingxue to confront the moral price of Su Ding’s choice.

• Song Changsheng received reports of the Two Great Sects’ sudden alliance and suspected that their war had been staged as part of a larger plan.
• Zhan Tianxia told Mu Guibai that Sunset City had lost thousands of people, including Qianri, Qianyue, Huguang, and Mingxiu, then asked whether Mu Guibai had known about the scheme.
• Mu Guibai said he had learned the truth from Su Ding after breaking through to Golden Core and seeking reinforcements against the Black Dragon Demon King.
• Xia Qingxue confronted Su Ding at Jinyang Peak and asked whether the war with the Heavenly Meridian Sect had been an act.
• Su Ding admitted that he had devised the plan with the Heavenly Meridian Sect to draw out the Black Dragon Demon King before his own lifespan ended, accepting the deaths of many cultivators to protect Great Qi.
• Xia Qingxue fell silent, understanding both Su Ding’s reason for the sacrifice and the anger of those who had died as pawns.

Mu Guibai revealed that Great Qi planned to invade the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains to replenish its dwindling cultivation resources, and the major factions formed a Coalition Army. As Song Changsheng prepared the Song Clan to benefit from the campaign, he learned that Song Xiantu, Sun Chuanming, and eight members of Wangyue Pavilion had died, and resolved to travel to Sunset City himself.

• Mu Guibai explained to Zhan Tianxia that Great Qi’s declining cultivation resources had prompted several True Persons to plan an expansion into the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains.
• Ten days later, the Golden Crow Sect, Heavenly Meridian Sect, Sunset City, Heavenly Sword Sect, Gauze Washing Sect, and Hundred Herbs Hall formed a Coalition Army to wage war against the Demon Race.
• Song Changsheng considered how the Song Clan could secure resources after the Coalition Army weakened the Demon Beasts, and planned to prepare the clan for the opportunity.
• Song Qingluo delivered Song Xiantu’s Jade Slip to Song Changsheng and reported that Song Xiantu, Sun Chuanming, and all eight members of Wangyue Pavilion had perished.
• Song Luzhou explained that Song Luyao had concealed the deaths, and Song Changsheng resolved to go to Sunset City to retrieve the dead and seek benefits for the Song Clan.

Song Changsheng reunited with Xu Yunhe and Zhuang Yuechan in Sunset City, recovered the remains of Song Xiantu, Sun Chuanming, and the other Song Clan cultivators, and learned about the Coalition Army’s campaign into the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains. After uncovering reports of a wounded Great Demon near Griffon Mountain Range, he set out with Xu Yunhe to hunt it.

• Song Changsheng arrived in ruined Sunset City and reunited with Xu Yunhe, who told him that the Blood Demon Sect had infiltrated the city during the battle.
• Xu Yunhe explained that Zhuang Yuechan had helped collect the fallen cultivators’ remains, and Song Changsheng met with her at Heavenly Immortal Restaurant.
• Zhuang Yuechan revealed that Song Xiantu, Sun Chuanming, and the others had been preserved in ice coffins beneath Heavenly Sound Mountain, and Song Changsheng retrieved them the next morning.
• Song Changsheng summoned the lineage’s Wind Whisper Hall spies and learned that a wounded Great Demon was hiding near Griffon Mountain Range, while unverified reports described ancient ruins in Thunderous Mountain.
• Song Changsheng decided to pursue the Great Demon and persuaded the wary Xu Yunhe to accompany him; the two left Sunset City for Griffon Mountain Range.