Chapter Summaries

Song Changsheng obtained a Spirit Wine recipe from the Drunken Old Man after bringing him Heavenly Immortal Grass, while the Drunken Old Man and Bai Zhengchun prepared to confront a restless presence beneath Skyfall Valley. Song Qingxing emerged from seclusion and agreed to lead the Song Clan’s Immortal Ascension Assembly delegation before heading to the Mortal World.

• The Drunken Old Man warned Song Changsheng, Zhuang Yuechan, and Xu Yunhe about parasitic Spirit Insects in Skyfall Valley and gave them a Bamboo Leaf Green Spirit Wine recipe in return for the Heavenly Immortal Grass.
• Song Changsheng recognized that the recipe could help the Song Clan expel Pill Toxin, then left for Sunset City with his companions.
• The Drunken Old Man and Bai Zhengchun returned to Skyfall Valley, where Bai Zhengchun prepared to use his blood-red saber against the restless presence beneath the mist.
• Song Changsheng considered the Void-Breaking Ring’s ability to break spatial confinement and the Tai Chi Diagram’s resistance to Heavenly Thunder.
• Song Qingxing asked Song Xianyun to station him in the Mortal World, and Song Xianyun assigned him to lead the Song Clan’s Immortal Ascension Assembly team with Song Qingxi, Song Changkang, and Song Changyuan.
• Song Qingxi noticed Song Qingxing’s difficulty communicating with strangers and resolved to help him improve.

Song Qingxing returned to the Mortal World to preside over the Immortal Ascension Assembly and visited his childhood home in Kaiyang City. After reuniting with his brother and nephews, he asked for the bronze mirror his mother had given him, and his reaction hinted that it mattered for reasons he did not explain.

• Song Changxuan welcomed Song Qingxing and Song Qingxi at the Garrison Manor, where Song Qingxing reluctantly attended a clan banquet.
• Song Qingxing and Song Qingxi traveled to Kaiyang City, his hometown, and found that his childhood home had become a much larger courtyard.
• Song Qingxing reunited with his elder brother Song Yuan, who excitedly showed him the home and introduced his nephews Song Tang and Song Jun.
• Song Qingxing told Song Yuan that the clan had sent him to preside over the Immortal Ascension Assembly.
• Song Qingxing asked whether his mother's bronze mirror was still in his room, and Song Yuan confirmed that it had been kept there untouched.

Song Qingxing discovered that the Bronze Mirror had tainted him with Demonic Qi and forced its Artifact Spirit, Wujie, to submit to him. Meanwhile, Song Changsheng and Zhuang Yuechan returned to Sunset City as the allied expedition against the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains approached, leaving Song Changsheng concerned about who would go to war.

• Song Qingxing found the Bronze Mirror in his childhood room and confronted Wujie, its Artifact Spirit, with the Traceless Sword.
• Wujie revealed that he was a damaged Spirit-Connecting Treasure whose Demonic Qi had accidentally affected Song Qingxing at birth.
• Song Qingxing demanded Wujie submit to him, threatening to destroy him, and Wujie finally agreed.
• Song Changsheng's group returned to Sunset City, where Zhuang Yuechan said the first Allied Army of the Great Qi Cultivation World would form within ten days.
• Zhuang Yuechan told Song Changsheng that Sunset City would be a main force and that Yin Shang, Niu Dazhuang, and other senior figures would enter the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains; Song Changsheng wondered whether she would go as well.

Song Changsheng met Mu Guibai, who explained Bai Zhengchun’s test and offered an apology for the dangers in Skyfall Valley. Song Changsheng accepted a rare defensive Minor Divine Ability and learned he would receive the rewards for defeating Dong Tianxie, including a Yin Yang Purple Tree Heart within thirty years.

• After returning to Heavenly Sound Mountain, Xu Yunhe and Zhuang Yuechan entered seclusion, while Xing Zhao escorted Song Changsheng to meet Mu Guibai.
• Mu Guibai and Bai Zhengchun discussed Bai Zhengchun’s test of Song Changsheng and their wish to avoid repeating past mistakes involving Zhuang Yuechan and the Song Clan.
• Mu Guibai gave Song Changsheng Bai Zhengchun’s apology: a Jade Slip containing the Heavenly Gang Shield Minor Divine Ability, which Song Changsheng accepted.
• Song Changsheng explained how he had deduced that Bai Zhengchun secretly blocked a Heavenly Thunderbolt during the tribulation in Skyfall Valley.
• Mu Guibai presented Song Changsheng with the City Lord’s Mansion’s bounty for killing Dong Tianxie: one hundred thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones and three bottles of Purple Marrow Foundation Pills.
• Mu Guibai told Song Changsheng that the Sunset City Auction House would provide the promised Yin Yang Purple Tree Heart within thirty years, leaving Song Changsheng thrilled by the chance to advance to Purple Mansion.

Song Changsheng received Mu Guibai’s guidance and became his Registered Disciple, gaining a Waist Token and an Immortal Cave. After mastering the Heavenly Gang Shield, he began cultivating the final two diagrams of the Five Beast Body Tempering Art.

• Mu Guibai guided Song Changsheng through his cultivation questions and, impressed by his talent, accepted him as a Registered Disciple and gave him a Waist Token and an Immortal Cave.
• Mu Guibai received True Person Su Ding, while Xing Zhao congratulated Song Changsheng on becoming a fellow disciple.
• Song Changsheng found that the Turtle Egg was growing stronger and realized he needed a fast way to reach the Pill Appreciation Assembly in Meng Province.
• Song Changsheng studied the Heavenly Gang Shield and mastered the Minor Divine Ability after more than ten days of practice.
• Song Changsheng used the Flood Dragon Scales and Ape Heart to view the five beasts together and learn the Flood Dragon and Six-Armed Ape methods of body tempering.

Song Qingxing completed the Immortal Ascension Assembly mission and returned to Kaiyang City, where he reunited with his family and confronted Wujie's insistence that he seek the clan head position. He refused, admitting that he could not rival Song Changsheng.

• Song Changsheng tempered his body in Sunset City's Gravity Chamber and sparred with Xing Zhao, Niu Dazhuang, and others.
• Wujie submitted to Song Qingxing, hoping Song Qingxing would sever his demonic corruption and eventually restore him.
• Song Qingxing ignored Wujie's advice to compete for clan head and supervised the spiritual-root tests, which found eighteen qualified children across six cities.
• Song Qingxing and Song Qingxi returned to Kaiyang City, where Song Qingxi healed the tree planted by their father and Song Qingxing agreed to a family gathering.
• Song Qingxing brought out the Spirit-Connecting Soul-Capturing Treasure Mirror and told Wujie he would not compete for clan head because he was no match for Song Changsheng.

Song Changsheng witnessed Jinxuan hatch and prepared to travel to the Pill Appreciation Assembly after learning that the Coalition Army was advancing into the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains. Mu Guibai warned him to be cautious and arranged a companion to leave with him the next day.

• Song Qingxing reunited with his family, then thanked Song Qingxi for leaving him spirit liquid before admonishing her for breaking the Clan Rules.
• Song Changsheng watched the Turtle Egg hatch into a golden land turtle, named the newborn Jinxuan, and planned to hide it in a Spirit Beast Bag.
• Song Changsheng learned that Yin Shang, Niu Dazhuang, Xing Zhao, and other cultivators had joined the Coalition Army heading into the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains.
• Mu Guibai told Song Changsheng that three Demon Kings were preparing to ambush the vanguard but expressed confidence in an unprecedented victory.
• Song Changsheng told Mu Guibai he was leaving for Meng Province, and Mu Guibai arranged for him to travel with a companion the following day.

Song Changsheng and Zhuang Yuechan traveled to a port to board an inter-realm Flying Boat bound for Meng Province. Song Changsheng used his Wanlong Merchant Association Silver VIP Card to secure free passage and a luxurious room, while his teasing of Zhuang Yuechan brought their relationship closer.

• Zhuang Yuechan met Song Changsheng and revealed she had come along despite being in seclusion; she teased him about being her junior disciple, and he flirted until she fled in embarrassment.
• Song Changsheng and Zhuang Yuechan reached the Flying Boat port, where Jiang Qing explained the route and ticket prices to departing passengers.
• Song Changsheng presented his Silver VIP Card, prompting Jiang Qing to waive their fares and lead them to the ship's finest suite.
• Jiang Qing mistakenly called Zhuang Yuechan Song Changsheng's wife, and Song Changsheng let the misunderstanding stand to save them Spirit Stones.
• Zhuang Yuechan pinched Song Changsheng for letting Jiang Qing call her his wife, then blushed as he teased her about having tacitly agreed.

Song Changsheng and Zhuang Yuechan arrived in Fire Cauldron City for Hundred Herbs Hall’s Pill Appreciation Assembly amid a killing blamed on the Blood Demon Remnants. After learning that an attacker had demanded the Heavenly Fire Cauldron, they were left facing the threat hanging over the assembly.

• Song Changsheng explained how he received the Wanlong Merchant Association’s Silver VIP Token, and Zhuang Yuechan teased him that the Peng Family’s young miss might want him as a son-in-law.
• Song Changsheng and Zhuang Yuechan arrived in Meng Province and learned that a Demon Subduing Hall disciple had been killed and his body thrown at Fire Cauldron City’s gate.
• Zhuang Yuechan told Song Changsheng that the secretive Vast Righteous Alliance might be an outside force or the Rogue Cultivator Alliance under another name.
• Song Changsheng and Zhuang Yuechan entered the tense city and met Bai Wuming, who said the Blood Demon Remnants were behind the killing and urged them to stay inside.
• After Bai Wuming sent Song Changsheng and Zhuang Yuechan to their lodging, a hidden informant revealed that an attacker had escaped and demanded the Heavenly Fire Cauldron before the assembly ended.

Song Changsheng identified the Blazing Sun Sect’s He Tang as a dangerous rival after He Tang provoked him, while both men investigated the recent killings in Fire Cauldron City. At the Pill Appreciation Assembly on Fire Cauldron Mountain, Song Changsheng watched He Tang and his Dao Protector closely as Hundred Herbs Hall began presenting its first pill for appraisal.

• Song Changsheng fed Jinxuan in his Immortal Cave, then learned that the hostile cultivator nearby was He Tang, a leading young cultivator of the Blazing Sun Sect.
• He Tang grew angrier when Song Changsheng ignored his provocation, then asked his Dao Protector about the people killed in Fire Cauldron City and whether the Blazing Sun Sect could profit from the affair.
• After ten quiet days, Song Changsheng, Zhuang Yuechan, and the other guests ascended Fire Cauldron Mountain for Hundred Herbs Hall’s Pill Appreciation Assembly.
• Song Changsheng and Rong Shaoyuan exchanged a glance after spotting He Tang, while He Tang’s Dao Protector warned that Zhuang Yuechan’s closeness to Song Changsheng might signal an alliance with Sunset City.
• Lu Yuming welcomed the guests and raised a toast before Bai Wuming announced that the assembly would begin with Hundred Herbs Hall’s improved Spirit Nurturing Pill.

Song Changsheng sampled Hundred Herbs Hall’s new pills at the Pill Appreciation Assembly while He Tang became interested in Zhuang Yuechan. Meanwhile, a spreading rash outbreak and a murder in Fire Cauldron City revealed a threat aimed at the Heavenly Fire Cauldron, and masked conspirators prepared to act.

• Song Changsheng found the improved Spirit Nurturing Pill more effective than the original, while He Tang learned Zhuang Yuechan’s name and considered using a marriage alliance to strengthen his claim to the Blazing Sun Sect’s leadership.
• Song Changsheng tested the Turtle Breath Pill and other new medicines as Bai Wuming left the assembly to handle trouble in Fire Cauldron City.
• Jiang Shuming and Bai Wuming struggled to contain a rapidly spreading illness that caused Cultivators across Fire Cauldron City to develop unbearable rashes and scratch themselves bloody.
• A disciple reported that Zhang Cheng had been murdered with a blood-written warning demanding the Heavenly Fire Cauldron, and Bai Wuming ordered Jiang Shuming to protect Fire Cauldron Mountain rather than summon Lu Yuming away from it.
• Masked conspirators in a hidden brick house learned that Lu Yuming had not been fooled and ordered their group to begin its move.

Song Changsheng and Zhuang Yuechan survived a Heaven-Slaying Thunder attack at the Pill Appreciation Assembly, where rogue cultivators launched a coordinated assault on Hundred Herbs Hall. Trapped on Fire Cauldron Mountain, Song Changsheng was confronted by He Tang, whose attack began to strengthen Song Changsheng through his body-forging technique.

• Lu Yuming ended the Pill Appreciation Assembly early and gave each attending group a Heavenly Spirit Pill as several Purple Palace Cultivators offered to support Hundred Herbs Hall.
• Song Changsheng spotted a middle-aged cultivator holding Heaven-Slaying Thunder and shielded Zhuang Yuechan with the Tai Chi Diagram as the artifact exploded, killing and injuring people across Fire Cauldron Mountain.
• Song Changsheng saw rogue cultivators, including Zhang Yan, attacking Lu Yuming and realized the assault on Hundred Herbs Hall had been organized in advance.
• Lu Yuming activated the Sect Protecting Great Array and sealed Fire Cauldron Mountain, while Song Changsheng could not find Rong Shaoyuan.
• He Tang confronted the injured Song Changsheng, and the two fought hand to hand as Zhuang Yuechan engaged He Tang's Dao Protector.
• He Tang's punches bruised Song Changsheng, but Song Changsheng's body-forging technique made him stronger with each blow, and he counterattacked by striking He Tang's chest.

Song Changsheng killed He Tang during the Vast Righteousness Alliance’s attack on Fire Cauldron Mountain, while the attackers stole Hundred Herbs Hall’s Heavenly Fire Cauldron and escaped. Lu Yuming suspected a traitor within the hall as Jiang Shuming and Bai Wuming learned who had carried out the raid.

• He Tang attacked Song Changsheng, but Song Changsheng countered his sneak attack and used the Spirit Severing Gourd and Mountain Overturning Seal against him.
• He Tang’s Dao Protector, Uncle Yang, sacrificed himself to shield He Tang from Song Changsheng’s Mountain Overturning Seal.
• He Tang used his Minor Divine Ability, but Song Changsheng’s Heavenly Gang Shield reflected it back; Song Changsheng then killed He Tang and destroyed his divine soul.
• Song Changsheng and Zhuang Yuechan discussed the Heavenly Fire Cauldron as the Vast Righteous Alliance tore open the Sect Protecting Great Array and escaped with the treasure.
• Lu Yuming realized his connection to the Heavenly Fire Cauldron had vanished, suspected a traitor in Hundred Herbs Hall, and identified the Vast Righteousness Alliance as the culprit to Jiang Shuming and Bai Wuming.

Song Changsheng returned from Fire Cauldron Mountain after Hundred Herbs Hall rewarded the Song Clan and launched a Blood Killing Order against the Vast Righteousness Alliance. He reached home to find the clan’s Market thriving and learned that Qingxing had reached Foundation Establishment, then saw a cheerful little figure waiting at his courtyard gate.

• Lu Yuming ordered Jiang Shuming to issue a Blood Killing Order with a five-million-Low-Grade-Spirit-Stone bounty, while Bai Wuming reported that a poisonous insect had infected most of Fire Cauldron City.
• Jiang Shuming accepted Song Changsheng’s account that He Tang had attacked first and awarded the Blazing Sun Sect’s medicinal-pill allotment to the Song Clan as compensation.
• Song Changsheng left Zhuang Yuechan with half of their Yin Yang Jade Pendant and returned to Ling Province after nearly three months of travel.
• He Tai wanted to attack the Song Clan over He Tang’s death, but Wang Yuesong and the others persuaded him to wait because the Xiangzhou Rong Clan threatened the Blazing Sun Sect’s border.
• Song Changsheng visited the expanding Wangyue Market, checked on the clan elders, and learned from Song Xianyun that Qingxing had reached Foundation Establishment.
• Song Changsheng returned to his courtyard and found a fair, plump little darling lying across the threshold, grinning at him.

Song Changsheng reunited with Xia Yunxue, Song Qingyun, Song Qingxi, and Song Qingxing, then held a clan meeting to address the Song Clan’s security and growth. He proposed joining the next coalition campaign and lifting birth restrictions, leaving the clan elders to weigh the risks of expanding its population.

• Song Changsheng returned to the courtyard, delighted when Song Qingyun called him father, and praised Song Qingxi’s cultivation.
• Song Changsheng found Song Qingxing cultivating with an unfamiliar technique; Song Qingxing said he planned to leave the mountain for training after attending the clan meeting.
• Wujie emerged from the Bronze Mirror and discussed Song Changsheng’s keen intuition with Song Qingxing.
• Song Changsheng spent a peaceful evening with Xia Yunxue, Song Qingxi, Song Qingxing, and Song Qingyun before convening a clan meeting the next morning.
• Song Changsheng warned the elders about the Vast Righteous Alliance and proposed sending a group to join the third coalition force in the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains.
• Song Changsheng proposed lifting the Song Clan’s birth restrictions, and Song Chang'an objected that doing so might be premature.

Song Changsheng laid out a plan to strengthen the Song Clan by encouraging childbirth, improving cultivators’ benefits, expanding Spirit Rice production, and developing the family’s trade and cultivation arts. After the Council Hall agreed to his proposals, he entrusted family affairs to the elders while preparing to enter seclusion, and gave Song Lutong a Heavenly Spirit Pill to aid his breakthrough.

• Song Changsheng won Song Xianyun’s support for lifting childbirth restrictions, and Xia Yunxue proposed rewards for families with more children.
• Song Changsheng set out compensation for births, higher cultivator stipends, and enough Spirit Rice for cultivators to have porridge at every meal.
• Song Changsheng ordered affiliated forces to pay tribute in Spirit Rice and explained how the Song Clan could use its surplus to expand its Spiritual Herb trade at Wuling Sect’s expense.
• Song Changsheng gave Xia Yunxue a Bamboo Leaf Green brewing recipe that could dispel Pill Toxin, and she left to organize its production.
• Song Changsheng proposed hiring Hundred Arts of Cultivation consultants, then announced that he would enter seclusion and leave family affairs to Song Xianyun and Song Luzhou.
• Song Changsheng gave Song Lutong a Heavenly Spirit Pill and urged him to advance to the Foundation Establishment Late Stage.

Song Changsheng prepared Song Qingxing for a perilous journey, then entered seclusion after recording his techniques and insights for the Song Clan. Three years later, a vast purple qi dragon descended over Vast Peak, interrupting his retreat.

• Song Changsheng gave Song Qingxing a Godslaying Flying Dagger, divine ability records, Thunder Shock Pellets, and an array plate before telling him to return alive.
• Song Qingxing left with Song Qingxi's jade pendant and followed Wujie's plan to travel through the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains toward the Lu Kingdom Cultivation World.
• Song Changsheng added his techniques and cultivation insights to the Song Clan's Gold Treasury Pavilion, entrusted his turtle to Xia Yunxue, and entered seclusion.
• During Song Changsheng's seclusion, Song Changrong, Song Luyun, and Song Changxiu broke through, while Song Changqi died attempting a breakthrough and Song Changjing survived a failure.
• Song Changsheng refined a Heavenly Spirit Pill and advanced his cultivation, then continued his seclusion to improve his array and artifact skills.
• In the third year of Song Changsheng's seclusion, the Clan Protecting Array activated and a mighty dragon of purple qi descended over Vast Peak.

Song Changsheng glimpsed the Heavenly Dao while watching Song Xianming’s breakthrough, collapsed, and was rescued by the projection of his master, the Qingtian Sword Immortal. After recovering, he reunited with Jinxuan and Little Ling Yun, then received Song Xianming’s summons to Cloud Reaching Hall.

• Song Changsheng used his Illusion Breaking Eye to see the Heavenly Dao’s symbols and understand the character “Dao,” then collapsed as the symbols vanished.
• The Song Clan celebrated Song Xianming’s successful ascension to the Purple Mansion Realm while Song Changsheng lay unnoticed beneath fallen leaves.
• The Qingtian Sword Immortal appeared in Song Changsheng’s Sea of Consciousness and helped restore his weakened soul.
• Song Changsheng woke, recorded the fragmentary cultivation insights he remembered, and realized that peering into the Heavenly Dao had nearly killed him.
• Song Changsheng returned to his courtyard, where he met Jinxuan and reunited with Little Ling Yun, who called him Daddy.
• Song Xianming sent Song Changsheng a Divine Sense message summoning him to Cloud Reaching Hall after consolidating his cultivation.

Song Xianming celebrated his breakthrough to the Purple Palace with his clan and set a grand ceremony for three months later, while Song Changsheng learned that the succession would wait until the older generation had finished its duties. Across Ling Province, rival leaders panicked at the news, and Du Huating discovered that Chang Wudao was close to breaking through but needed something alarming from him.

• Song Changsheng, Song Xianyun, and Song Luzhou congratulated Song Xianming in Cloud Reaching Hall, where Song Xianming gave Ling Yun a jade pendant and praised Jinxuan.
• Song Xianming appointed Song Luzhou to bear more responsibility and set the Violet Palace Grand Ceremony for three months later.
• Song Xianming told Song Xianyun that the older generation had to settle its affairs before handing the lineage over to Song Changsheng.
• News of Song Xianming's breakthrough reached the Great Qi Cultivation World, prompting leaders of the Wuling Sect and Liuyun Sect to argue over whether to resist or flee.
• Du Huating visited Chang Wudao, who revealed that he was near the final step of his breakthrough but still lacked one thing, then whispered an order that horrified Du Huating.

Du Huating secured support for Chang Wudao’s breakthrough while the Liuyun Sect weighed its choices under the Song Clan’s growing power. Song Changsheng delivered invitations across the Great Qi Cultivation World, and the Song Clan’s Violet Palace Grand Ceremony began on the seventh of February.

• Chang Wudao urged Du Huating to make the right choice, and Du Huating ordered Liu Ruowei to select twenty talented Wuling Sect disciples for intensive cultivation.
• Du Huating told the Wuling Sect assembly that Chang Wudao was at the final step of his breakthrough and promised half a year of support, including free use of the Treasure Vault.
• Liu Hongye received Song Chang'an’s invitation to the Violet Palace Grand Ceremony and decided the Liuyun Sect would attend with a generous gift.
• Song Changsheng delivered invitations to allied and rival Violet Palace forces and Golden Core Sects, then returned to find Song Qingxi waiting at Moonfall Cliff for someone who had not come home.
• On the seventh of February, the Song Clan opened the mountain gate at Vast Peak, and the Violet Palace Grand Ceremony officially began.