Chapter Summaries

Song Changsheng and Xu Yunhe discovered that a hidden Third Tier Low-Grade Universe Locking Void Formation had trapped cultivators in the Griffon Mountain Range. After a demonic aura erupted and Song Changsheng’s warning failed to reach Zhuang Yuechan, he devised a plan to find her and break the formation by destroying its forty-nine nodes.

• Song Changsheng and Xu Yunhe arrived at the Griffon Mountain Range and found cultivators searching everywhere for a hidden great demon.
• Song Changsheng suspected an array was concealing the demon and used his Illusion Breaking Eye to detect vast formation patterns to the southeast.
• A surge of demonic qi erupted, and Song Changsheng realized Zhuang Yuechan and her companions had gone southeast; his warning could not pass through the activated formation.
• Song Changsheng and Xu Yunhe hurried to the formation’s edge and found a vast karst cave where the trapped cultivators would be scattered.
• Song Changsheng identified the formation as a Third Tier Low-Grade Universe Locking Void Formation and planned to locate Zhuang Yuechan and destroy its forty-nine nodes.

Song Changsheng and Xu Yunhe entered the trapped cave to find Zhuang Yuechan as a formation sealed the area and black mist separated the cultivators. Song Changsheng rescued the wounded Zhuang Yuechan from the black-robed old man with an Earth Element Divine Thunder, then stayed behind to face him while Xu Yunhe carried her away.

• Yin Shang led Zhuang Yuechan, Niu Dazhuang, and the other disciples into the Griffon Mountain Range cave to hunt the wounded Golden Armor, while Song Changsheng and Xu Yunhe followed after discovering a hidden formation node.
• The Universe Locking Void Formation activated, sealing the cave, suppressing divine sense, and spreading black mist that separated the cultivators as the old man in tattered black robes began attacking them.
• Song Changsheng sensed that Zhuang Yuechan was in danger and rushed to her, where he found the old man attacking her after she had been wounded and separated from her companions.
• Song Changsheng hurled an Earth Element Divine Thunder at the old man, shielded Zhuang Yuechan from the blast with the Tai Chi Diagram, and carried her away as the cave collapsed.
• Song Changsheng sent Xu Yunhe to carry the unconscious Zhuang Yuechan toward safety and stayed behind with a second Earth Element Divine Thunder to confront the old man.

Song Changsheng fought off the old man with his Tai Chi Diagram and Earth Element Divine Thunders, then reunited with Xu Yunhe and revived Zhuang Yuechan. After learning Hai Dongping had attacked her and the old man was carrying out a ritual, Song Changsheng decided they had to break the Universe Locking Void Formation by striking at its source.

• Song Changsheng used his Tai Chi Diagram and an Earth Element Divine Thunder to withstand the old man's attacks and force him to withdraw to pursue other cultivators.
• Song Changsheng found Xu Yunhe carrying the unconscious Zhuang Yuechan and used the Light of Revival to wake her.
• Zhuang Yuechan explained that she and her companions had been lured into a trap while pursuing Golden Armor, and that the old man had activated the formation around them.
• Zhuang Yuechan revealed that Hai Dongping had attacked and injured her, and that she had escaped using a treasure from her master.
• Song Changsheng decided they could not clear the formation nodes in time and proposed removing the firewood from beneath the cauldron.

Song Changsheng found Yin Shang, Niu Dazhuang, and the wounded Golden Armor trapped in Dong Tianxie's formations, and learned that the cultivator behind the scheme was the same man he had once helped escape. He stayed to try to break the formation and offered Golden Armor a deal.

• Song Changsheng left Xu Yunhe and Zhuang Yuechan in a concealment formation and continued alone into the cavern.
• He found Golden Armor bound as the energy source of a formation, with Yin Shang, Niu Dazhuang, and their companions imprisoned nearby.
• Yin Shang warned Song Changsheng about the formation and revealed that Dong Tianxie was using Blood Refining to make an evil artifact.
• Song Changsheng recognized Dong Tianxie as the evil cultivator he had once helped escape, and realized his past action had contributed to the current disaster.
• Niu Dazhuang identified the formation's energy source and explained that the outer Universe Locking Void Formation had forty-nine nodes.
• Song Changsheng said he would try to break the formation, then addressed Golden Armor and proposed a deal.

Song Changsheng negotiated with Golden Armor to break the Yin Baleful Spirit Locking Formation and promised to spare it in return for its cooperation. After the formation fell, Golden Armor offered its descendant as a Blood Contract Spirit Beast, and Song Changsheng agreed before Golden Armor burned away its Divine Soul.

• Song Changsheng provoked Golden Armor by comparing its disgrace to Yinyue’s courage, then offered to help avenge it against Lei Ming.
• Song Changsheng told Golden Armor that Lei Ming was dead and promised to spare it if it helped break the formation and swore never to enter Human Race territory again.
• Song Changsheng used his Illusion Breaking Eye to find the formation’s flaw, and Golden Armor sealed its leaking life force long enough for his Mountain Overturning Seal to shatter the Yin Baleful Spirit Locking Formation.
• Niu Dazhuang tried to kill Golden Armor, but Song Changsheng stopped him, and Yin Shang urged Niu Dazhuang to honor the debt they owed Song Changsheng.
• Golden Armor offered to preserve its body and Demon Core if Song Changsheng formed an equal contract with its descendant, and Song Changsheng agreed and swore an oath.
• Golden Armor burned away its Divine Soul after Song Changsheng accepted its request.

After Golden Armor sacrificed itself and left Song Changsheng its demon core and Mystic Turtle egg, Song Changsheng and the Sunset City disciples prepared to confront Dong Tianxie. Their ambush wounded him but failed to kill him, and he began unleashing another Minor Divine Ability.

• Golden Armor died after cutting off the Universe Locking Void Formation’s power source, and Song Changsheng recovered its demon core and Mystic Turtle egg.
• Yin Shang promised that the Sunset City disciples would keep the events secret, while Song Changsheng chose to stay and fight Dong Tianxie with them.
• Niu Dazhuang set up a Third Tier Low-Grade Four Symbols Prison Heaven Formation to trap Dong Tianxie when he arrived.
• Dong Tianxie countered the group’s attacks with Star Plucking Hand, breaking their formation and injuring two Sunset City disciples.
• Niu Dazhuang used his Nine Revolutions Golden Body to attack Dong Tianxie while Yin Shang’s conch played Mu Guibai’s qin music, but a ferocious ghost rescued Dong Tianxie from Niu Dazhuang’s hammer.
• Dong Tianxie recovered and invoked the Minor Divine Ability Diancang Finger.

Yin Shang, Song Changsheng, Niu Dazhuang, and the others fought Dong Tianxie, who drew power from a Blood Refining Ritual and nearly overwhelmed them. Song Changsheng burned away the Blood Sea, Yin Shang crippled Dong Tianxie with a self-detonated Spirit Artifact, and Song finished the battle with Xu Yunhe’s Sword Talisman.

• Niu Dazhuang endured Dong Tianxie’s Diancang Finger, then joined Yin Shang and the others in attacking him.
• Song Changsheng and Yin Shang helped exploit a soul attack to damage Dong Tianxie’s Evil Ghost Banner, but Dong Tianxie began a Blood Refining Ritual and gained strength from a Blood Sea.
• Yin Shang’s Purple Jade Bracelet failed to restrain Dong Tianxie because his belt blocked it, and Dong Tianxie unleashed Blood Flood Dragons that swallowed Song Changsheng.
• Song Changsheng escaped the Blood Flood Dragon with help from his Jade Pendant and used Earth Core Cold Flame to burn away the Blood Sea.
• Yin Shang detonated his xun, grievously wounding Dong Tianxie, who then tried to self-destruct.
• Song Changsheng crushed Xu Yunhe’s Sword Talisman, and its sword qi severed Dong Tianxie’s head.

Song Changsheng defeated Dong Tianxie by trapping and refining his Divine Soul, then helped Yin Shang and the others uncover Dong Tianxie's underground Blood Refining site and rescue its captives. The survivors recovered and learned of Song Changsheng's role in saving them.

• Dong Tianxie tried to seize Song Changsheng's body, but Song revealed he could manifest in his Sea of Consciousness and refined Dong's Divine Soul into the Dao Scripture, raising its awakening progress to fifty percent.
• Song proved his identity by briefly manifesting his Divine Soul, and the survivors accepted that Dong Tianxie was gone.
• Yin Shang offered Song the spoils, but Song kept Dong's Storage Bag and belt while returning the Evil Ghost Banner to Yin for Sunset City to handle.
• Song and the others found Dong's Blood Refining site beneath the battlefield and recovered the eerie bottle from the White Bone Altar.
• The group discovered more than a dozen captives, including senior Yuan and Senior Jiang, and woke them after stopping their bleeding.
• Yin Shang told the rescued Purple Palace Cultivators that Song had saved everyone, making Song the focus of the gathering.

Song Changsheng received thanks and invitations from the cultivators he had saved, while Yin Shang offered to bring him to Sunset City. On the journey, Xu Yunhe chose an unusual belt over Dong Tianxie's valuable Storage Bag, leaving Song Changsheng to realize that his friend had deliberately given him the greater share.

• Yuan Tianshu and Jiang Shuming thanked Song Changsheng, and Jiang invited him to Hundred Herbs Hall's Pill Appreciation Assembly while Yuan promised to help him.
• The rescued cultivators gave Song Changsheng tokens and offers of assistance, and Yin Shang explained how those connections could benefit the Song Clan.
• Song Changsheng told Yin Shang that True Lord Boundless Sea had injured Zhuang Yuechan, prompting Yin Shang and Niu Dazhuang to condemn him and vow to report the matter.
• Song Changsheng and the Sunset City disciples found Zhuang Yuechan and Xu Yunhe safe inside the karst cave, then accepted Yin Shang's invitation to travel back to Sunset City.
• On the Flying Boat, Xu Yunhe chose Dong Tianxie's mysterious belt instead of his Storage Bag, and Song Changsheng discovered that the bag contained great wealth and understood Xu Yunhe had given it to him deliberately.

Song Changsheng returned to Sunset City after the battle in the Griffon Mountain Range, became famous, and cared for Golden Armor’s turtle egg while waiting to meet the Great City Lord. Zhuang Yuechan then brought him to meet several elders, including Bai Zhengchun, Shen Qingxiu, and Senior Xiao, leaving him anxious about an old promise he had not fulfilled.

• Song Changsheng gave Xu Yunhe Millennial Stalactite Spirit Liquid after they returned to Sunset City.
• News of the battle spread, and Song Changsheng and Yin Shang gained renown for defeating Golden Armor and Dong Tianxie and saving powerful cultivators.
• Song Changsheng placed Golden Armor’s turtle egg on a spirit eye, fed it his essence blood, and meditated for seven days while waiting for Yin Shang’s summons.
• Zhuang Yuechan visited Song Changsheng without her veil and invited him to meet several elders who wished to thank him.
• Song Changsheng recognized the flute at Zhuang Yuechan’s waist as one he had forged for Senior Xiao and worried that she might be among the elders.
• Zhuang Yuechan introduced Song Changsheng to Bai Zhengchun and Shen Qingxiu, while Senior Xiao watched nearby.

Song Changsheng faced Bai Zhengchun’s probing offer of help against the Blazing Sun Sect, then received gifts from Bai Zhengchun, Shen Qingxiu, and Xiao Qingwan. After walking with Zhuang Yuechan and teasing her about her feelings, he returned to his Immortal Cave and discovered that Bai Zhengchun’s gift was a marked map of the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains.

• Bai Zhengchun tested Song Changsheng by offering to kill He Tai, but Song Changsheng asked Xiao Qingwan for guidance instead of accepting or refusing.
• Bai Zhengchun gave Song Changsheng a Sandalwood Box, Shen Qingxiu gave him three Red Refining Beads, and Xiao Qingwan gave him an Exhausting Body Pill.
• Bai Zhengchun told Zhuang Yuechan to show Song Changsheng around Heavenly Sound Mountain, then discussed with Shen Qingxiu and Xiao Qingwan whether Song Changsheng could be trusted.
• Zhuang Yuechan reassured Song Changsheng that Bai Zhengchun meant no harm, and Song Changsheng teased her until she blushed and fled.
• Song Changsheng returned to his Immortal Cave, checked the Turtle Egg, fed it essence blood, and opened Bai Zhengchun’s box to find a map marking a valley in the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains.

Song Changsheng learned that Skyfall Valley held the remains of the Black Dragon Demon King and set out with Zhuang Yuechan and Xu Yunhe to seek Flood Dragon Scales. Meanwhile, Mo brought Little Fatty to Ancient Sword Gate, where a seductive Senior Sister drew him up the mountain.

• Song Changsheng asked Xu Yunhe about Skyfall Valley, and Xu Yunhe warned that it lay in the dangerous depths of the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains.
• Zhuang Yuechan identified Skyfall Valley as the place where True Persons had cut flesh from the Black Dragon Demon King and offered to guide Song Changsheng there.
• Song Changsheng asked Yin Shang to watch the Turtle Egg, then met Xu Yunhe and Zhuang Yuechan before they departed by Flying Boat.
• Mo brought Little Fatty to Ancient Sword Gate, and Little Fatty rejected the shabby sect after hearing Mo call it a hidden great sect.
• A charming woman came down the mountain and enticed Little Fatty to follow her up to Ancient Sword Gate.

Song Qingxing began Foundation Establishment without a Foundation Establishment Pill and survived the Spiritual Power and Physical Body Stages, but his Divine Soul Stage exposed him to an inner demon. The demon made him believe slaughtering those closest to him would grant him power, and he approached Song Qingxi with his sword raised.

• Song Qingxing condensed his Spiritual Power, endured the violent breakthrough without a pill, and passed the Spiritual Power Stage.
• Song Qingxing used his years of body tempering to pass the Physical Body Stage and began the Divine Soul Stage.
• An inner demon revealed a blood-soaked vision to Song Qingxing and urged him to cast aside emotions and attachments.
• The demon made Song Qingxing kill visions of Song Luhai and Song Changsheng, causing his realm to rise to Foundation Establishment Great Perfection.
• Song Qingxing slaughtered visions of Xia Yunxue, Little Ling Yun, and Song Luzhou before advancing toward Song Qingxi, whom the demon claimed he must kill to prove his Dao.

Song Qingxing overcame the Demonic Qi that had corrupted him, broke through to Foundation Establishment, and reconciled with Song Qingxi. Meanwhile, Song Changsheng, Zhuang Yuechan, and Xu Yunhe reached the Ten Thousand Demon Mountain Range, where a stranger approached as they roasted meat.

• The Traceless Sword severed the Demonic Qi's hold on Song Qingxing, who rejected and destroyed the manifestation of his demonic self.
• Song Qingxing completed Foundation Establishment and transformed his sword momentum into Sword Intent, becoming the Song Clan's ninth surviving Foundation Establishment Cultivator and the first of the Qing generation.
• Song Xianyun and the others congratulated Song Qingxing, and he embraced Song Qingxi after the elders departed.
• Song Changsheng, Zhuang Yuechan, and Xu Yunhe arrived at a Spirit Mountain in the Ten Thousand Demon Mountain Range and defeated its Second-Tier Low-Grade Piebald Tiger.
• As the three roasted meat on the mountain, an unfamiliar voice called out about its fragrant smell.

Song Changsheng and his companions encountered the mysterious Drunken Old Man, who gave them wine and revealed his interest in Heavenly Immortal Grass before they continued to Skyfall Valley. After Song Changsheng scouted the valley and the group searched together, he sensed that something was watching them.

• The Drunken Old Man appeared beside the group, ate their roasted tiger meat, and made Song Changsheng, Zhuang Yuechan, and Xu Yunhe drink his wine.
• The Drunken Old Man said he wanted to buy Heavenly Immortal Grass from Skyfall Valley, then vanished; afterward, he and the White-Clothed Man discussed Song Changsheng and the wine.
• Song Changsheng and his companions decided to continue to Skyfall Valley rather than return to Sunset City to identify the wine.
• At Skyfall Valley, Song Changsheng descended first, found no immediate danger, and used a Communication Compass to bring Zhuang Yuechan and Xu Yunhe down.
• The three searched the valley together for nearly three hours, and Song Changsheng suddenly sensed something watching them from the shadows.

Song Changsheng, Xu Yunhe, and Zhuang Yuechan discovered that a Tree Demon had been using the Flood Dragon Scales as bait to lure them toward a powerful serpent. They drew the serpent out of its cave and found the scales on its body, but Song Changsheng realized it was about to transform into a flood dragon.

• Song Changsheng found a drained Unicorn Horse and followed its drag marks with Xu Yunhe and Zhuang Yuechan to a Tree Demon that attacked them.
• Song Changsheng and Zhuang Yuechan negotiated with the Tree Demon, which agreed to trade the Flood Dragon Scales for a Third-Tier defensive talisman but claimed the scales were in a cave ten li southwest.
• Song Changsheng suspected the Tree Demon was trying to make them fight a serpent in the cave, while Zhuang Yuechan used her Jade Zither to lure it outside.
• Song Changsheng struck the serpent with the Lu Wu Bell, and he, Xu Yunhe, and Zhuang Yuechan surrounded it.
• Song Changsheng spotted the Flood Dragon Scales on the serpent and warned that it had devoured the Black Dragon Demon King's flesh and was about to transform into a flood dragon.

Song Changsheng, Xu Yunhe, and Zhuang Yuechan fought a great snake that was transforming toward becoming a flood dragon after devouring the Black Dragon Demon King's flesh. After Song Changsheng killed it, tree roots suddenly erupted from the ground and attacked him.

• Song Changsheng, Xu Yunhe, and Zhuang Yuechan attacked the great snake and wounded it while preventing it from retreating to its lair.
• The great snake burned its essence blood, healed its wounds, and targeted Xu Yunhe, but Song Changsheng and Zhuang Yuechan rescued him.
• Song Changsheng bound the great snake with the Demon Binding Rope and battered it at close range.
• Song Changsheng detonated a Red Refining Bead inside the great snake, then severed its head with the Heaven Measuring Ruler.
• Countless tree roots burst from the earth and lunged toward Song Changsheng as he was about to remove the snake's scales.

Song Changsheng and his companions fought through the Tree Demon’s summoned Tree Men, only to discover it had trapped them inside the range of its breakthrough tribulation. They killed the Tree Demon before it could ascend, but the remaining heavenly thunder then turned toward them.

• The Tree Demon ambushed Song Changsheng with its roots, but Song Changsheng escaped with Xu Yunhe’s help and burned the roots with Earth Core Cold Flame.
• The Tree Demon animated hundreds of trees to drain Song Changsheng, Zhuang Yuechan, and Xu Yunhe as they fought toward its true form.
• The Tree Demon trapped the three cultivators in a blood-colored barrier and began breaking through to the Third-Tier, summoning tribulation clouds over Skyfall Valley.
• Song Changsheng and his companions unleashed their trump cards and badly wounded the Tree Demon before the tribulation descended.
• The Tree Demon triggered the heavenly thunder early and turned to tribulation ash; the remaining thunderbolts then locked onto Song Changsheng and the others.

Song Changsheng and his companions survived the tree demon’s Heavenly Punishment, and a heavenly rain restored and strengthened them. After Xu Yunhe went to search the snake’s cave, Zhuang Yuechan removed her veil and kissed Song Changsheng.

• Song Changsheng used the Lu Wu Bell to protect Xu Yunhe from the first lightning strike, but the bell was badly damaged and Xu Yunhe was knocked unconscious.
• Zhuang Yuechan spent her last defensive talisman to divert a strike from Song Changsheng, and he used the Tai Chi Diagram to shield her from subsequent lightning.
• Song Changsheng and Zhuang Yuechan endured three more strikes before the Heavenly Punishment ended and a healing rain restored their injuries and improved their cultivation.
• Xu Yunhe thanked Song Changsheng for saving his life, then flew to explore the great snake’s cave while Song Changsheng and Zhuang Yuechan stayed behind.
• Zhuang Yuechan removed her veil and kissed Song Changsheng.

After Zhuang Yuechan kissed Song Changsheng, he considered her as a possible marriage partner while searching the Tree Demon's remains and sharing its Life Origin with her and Xu Yunhe. The three companions gathered rare herbs from the defeated Demon Beast's nest, reconciled over Song Changsheng's careless remark, and left Skyfall Valley, unknowingly shedding hidden black specks.

• Zhuang Yuechan kissed Song Changsheng, then fled in embarrassment after he teased her, while Song Changsheng reflected that she could be a suitable partner.
• Song Changsheng searched the Tree Demon's remains and found its Life Origin, while the White-Clad Cultivator and the Drunken Old Man discussed the trial and Skyfall Valley's future protection.
• Xu Yunhe returned from the Demon Beast's nest with rare Spiritual Herbs, and Song Changsheng shared the Tree Demon's Life Origin with him and Zhuang Yuechan.
• Zhuang Yuechan told Song Changsheng she did not want him to describe them as mere allies, and he understood and accepted the herbs they had left for him.
• Song Changsheng, Zhuang Yuechan, and Xu Yunhe rode out of Skyfall Valley, and imperceptible black specks fell from their bodies as they passed through the mist.