Chapter Summaries

Song Changsheng hosted guests from across the cultivation world for Song Xianming’s Purple Mansion breakthrough ceremony, as powerful sects and clans arrived with lavish gifts. The chapter ended as the representatives of the three Golden Core Sects were about to present their congratulations.

• Song Changsheng welcomed Wang Wanzhou, Liu Hongye, and Yu Xueqian, who came to congratulate Song Xianming on his breakthrough.
• Yuan Tianshu and Jiang Shuming arrived as Purple Mansion cultivators, and Song Changsheng had Song Qinghong escort them up the mountain.
• Shen Qingxiu arrived with Golden Crow Sect elder Chen Tianyang and Heavenly Meridian Sect elder Zhang Siyuan, and revealed that Song Changsheng was a registered disciple of Sunset City’s Great City Lord.
• Song Xianming opened the ceremony, and guests from Foundation Establishment forces and rogue cultivators presented their gifts.
• Yuan Tianshu offered True Lord Nine Swords’s sword Dao insights, while Jiang Shuming, Rong Shaoyuan, and representatives of other Violet Palace forces presented valuable gifts.

At Song Xianming’s Purple Palace ceremony, the Golden Crow Sect, Heavenly Meridian Sect, and Sunset City offered gifts while vying for the Song Clan’s support. When the three powers asked the clan to choose a side in a dispute over newly conquered territory, Song Xianming faced a decision that would determine the balance of votes and the Song Clan’s future alliances.

• Li Siyuan presented the Song Clan with a third-tier formation inheritance from Array King Hengtiandao, and Chen Tianyang offered a Mysterious Yin Cold Crystal obtained by True Lord Jinyang.
• Shen Qingxiu gave Song Xianming a Great Demon’s Demon Core and Yin-Yang Mysterious Gold, gifts he valued for strengthening the clan and aiding Song Changsheng’s future breakthrough.
• After the ceremony, Song Xianming took Song Changsheng to meet Shen Qingxiu, Chen Tianyang, and Li Siyuan to discuss how the newly conquered territory would be divided.
• Shen Qingxiu argued that Sunset City deserved the territory because of its long service, sacrifices in the last Beast Tide, and intelligence during the War of the Three Kings; Chen Tianyang proposed settling the dispute by vote.
• Song Xianming realized the Song Clan’s vote would decide the balance among the three Golden Core powers, while Chen Tianyang expected him to support the Golden Crow Sect.

Song Xianming backed Sunset City in the territory vote, leaving the Golden Crow Sect and Heavenly Meridian Sect to seek a new way to divide the lands. Song Changsheng rejected Yu Xueqian’s attempted seduction but learned that Chang Wudao might soon reach the Purple Mansion realm and that the Wuling Sect may have allied with the Blazing Sun Sect.

• Song Xianming voted for Sunset City, and Chen Tianyang left after the vote reached a deadlock.
• Shen Qingxiu sealed the main hall with Song Xianming, while Song Changsheng went to meet Yu Xueqian.
• Yu Xueqian knelt before Song Changsheng and tried to win his favor with her beauty, but he recognized the ploy and rebuffed her.
• Yu Xueqian offered the Yu Clan as Song Clan informants and warned that Chang Wudao was nearing the Purple Mansion realm and the Wuling Sect might have colluded with the Blazing Sun Sect.
• Song Changsheng said he would consider the information and left, confident the Song Clan could handle the coming conflict without the Yu Clan’s help.

Song Changsheng brought Zhuang Yuechan and Xing Zhao to meet his family, where a misunderstanding about Ling Yun nearly caused a scandal. After Song Changsheng explained the boy’s tragic past, Zhuang Yuechan grew closer to him, and Xia Yunxue urged her son to be clear about his feelings.

• Song Changsheng reunited with Zhuang Yuechan and Xing Zhao after Song Xianming and Shen Qingxiu finished their discussion, and Song Xianming gave each guest a protective treasure.
• Xing Zhao suggested that they visit Song Changsheng’s mother, and Zhuang Yuechan nervously agreed to meet Xia Yunxue.
• Xia Yunxue welcomed them in the courtyard, but Little Ling Yun called Song Changsheng “Father,” leading Xing Zhao and Zhuang Yuechan to mistake him for Song Changsheng’s son.
• Song Changsheng explained that Ling Yun was a child he had rescued, and Zhuang Yuechan visited the sleeping boy and learned about his past.
• After the guests left, Xia Yunxue encouraged Song Changsheng to act decisively if he had feelings for Zhuang Yuechan, and he promised to make her his mother’s daughter-in-law.

After the Song Clan formed a mutual-aid alliance with Sunset City, Song Xianming ordered the entire clan to prepare for war against the Wuling Sect. He then demonstrated the divide between second- and third-tier array mastery by transforming Wangyue Market’s defensive formation, leaving Song Changsheng with new insights.

• The Song Clan agreed to a mutual-aid alliance with Sunset City, and Song Changsheng decided to pursue his feelings for Zhuang Yuechan.
• Song Xianming announced that the entire Song Clan would prepare for war and assigned its members their military tasks, including surveillance of the Wuling Sect and martial law over the mortal world.
• Song Xianming explained that the Yu Clan had turned traitor and that Song Clan spies were watching for any attempt by the Wuling Sect to flee.
• Song Xianming brought Song Changsheng to Wangyue Market and demonstrated how he converted its second-tier formation patterns into a third-tier formation.
• Song Xianming established the Xuanyuan Water Control Array around Wangyue Market using the Water Control Bead, and urged Wang Xuande to pursue a breakthrough to third-tier array mastery.

The Song Clan prepared for war and launched a surprise assault on the Wuling Sect at White Cloud Peak. Song Xianming held back while the battle stalled, waiting for Chang Wudao and He Tai as Du Huating entrusted Liu Ruowei with an urgent task.

• Du Huating calmed the Wuling Sect elders by claiming that He Tai and reinforcements from the Blazing Sun Sect were coming, while privately suffering from an inexplicable chill.
• After receiving Yu Chengshan's intelligence, Song Changsheng suspected Du Huating's claim was a smokescreen and urged Song Xianming to convene a clan meeting.
• Song Xianming ordered the Song Clan's forces to advance into the Liuyun Mountain Range, leaving Song Xianyun to guard the clan.
• The Song Clan sailed aboard the Black Star Battleship to White Cloud Peak and attacked the Wuling Sect's Mountain Protection Array, while Song Xianming watched and waited.
• Du Huating summoned Liu Ruowei and began entrusting her with matters as the Wuling Sect faced a crisis.

Du Huating sent Liu Ruowei to evacuate the Earth Fire Sect’s promising disciples while the Song Clan’s siege of White Cloud Peak drew support from Ling Province’s factions. Yu Chengshan opened the Mountain Protection Array for the attackers, but the gap abruptly sealed after Liu Hongye’s forces entered, leaving them isolated inside.

• Du Huating gave Liu Ruowei a token, resources, and scriptures, ordering her to lead the Earth Fire Sect’s promising disciples away and preserve the sect’s legacy.
• Liu Hongye, the Wang Clan, and other Ling Province forces joined the Song Clan’s siege as the Wuling Sect’s defenses weakened and the Blazing Sun Sect failed to appear.
• Yu Chengshan and Yu Chengzhou arranged to create a diversion and open the Mountain Protection Array for the Song Clan’s final assault.
• Song Changsheng accepted the Yu Clan’s offer, ordered Liu Hongye to lead the assault, and warned the allied forces not to plunder or damage White Cloud Peak’s resources.
• Yu Chengshan opened a gap in the array during a staged explosion, and Liu Hongye led the Liuyun Sect through it while Yu Clan members fought Qiu Tianyang’s forces.
• The gap suddenly sealed behind Liu Hongye’s advancing forces, trapping them inside White Cloud Peak as an isolated force.

Song Changsheng’s forces shattered the Wuling Sect’s defenses and overwhelmed its defenders, while Du Huating died by self-destruction and Liu Ruowei escaped through a hidden teleportation array. The battle exposed Chang Wudao’s blood sacrifice and apparent breakthrough into the Purple Mansion realm, leaving Song Changsheng to order the Quasi Sky Battleship to attack him.

• Du Huating activated a concealed backup formation, but Song Changsheng ordered the Black Star Battleship and Heaven Shaking Thunders to destroy it, breaking the Wuling Sect’s morale.
• Song Changsheng’s forces attacked the remaining defenders, and Du Huating confessed that he had severed contact with the Blazing Sun Sect before killing himself through Annihilation of Body and Spirit.
• Liu Ruowei sensed the Earth Fire Sect’s fall, then led her companions through a hidden Space Teleportation Array to an unknown destination.
• A blood-colored phantom appeared above White Cloud Peak as the fallen cultivators’ bodies dried up, and Song Xianming realized Chang Wudao had used a blood sacrifice to advance.
• Chang Wudao emerged from underground claiming he had succeeded, and Song Changsheng ordered the Quasi Sky Battleship to fire at him.

Song Xianming and Song Changsheng killed Chang Wudao after exploiting a brief opening to destroy his Divine Soul and body. Song Changsheng then secured the Wuling Sect’s Treasure Vault and broke into its Scripture Repository, where he discovered a collection of valuable Jade Slips.

• Chang Wudao revealed how his demonic cultivation and Du Huating’s coercion had led to the slaughter of Wuling Sect Cultivators and the attack on the Song Clan.
• Song Xianming and Chang Wudao exchanged powerful attacks, but Chang Wudao repeatedly healed from grievous wounds.
• Song Changsheng distracted Chang Wudao with the Spirit Severing Gourd and Heaven Shaking Thunder, giving Song Xianming a chance to strike his Divine Soul with the Soul Severing Golden Blade.
• Song Xianming and Song Changsheng destroyed Chang Wudao’s body and burned the remains, while Song Xianming went to the Back Mountain to pursue survivors who had escaped through the Space Teleportation Array.
• Song Changsheng and his companions occupied the Wuling Sect’s Treasure Vault, then broke the array protecting the Scripture Repository.
• Song Changsheng reached the repository’s top floor and found more than a dozen Jade Slips on a Dragon Pattern Black Gold Display Stand.

Song Changsheng organized the Wuling Sect’s captured resources and negotiated rewards after the Song Clan’s victory unified Ling Province under its leadership. As the spoils were distributed, a mysterious purple-robed man arrived at White Cloud Peak and found a fragment of Heaven Shaking Thunder.

• Song Changsheng found the Three Talents Heavenly Star Formation and the Ride the Wind Return evasion technique among the captured records, then ordered the spoils and cultivation manuals catalogued for fair distribution.
• Song Xianming discovered the Earth Fire Sect’s collapsed Space Teleportation Array, decided to dismantle it for study, and considered using such arrays to connect the Song Clan’s distant territories.
• The Wuling Sect fell, its leaders and many cultivators died, and the Song Clan suffered few casualties while completing its conquest of Ling Province.
• Wang Qingquan, Liu Hongye, and Yu Xueqian each deferred to the Song Clan during the rewards discussion, and Song Changsheng assigned fifty percent of the spoils to the Song Clan and the rest to the Wang Clan, Yu Clan, and Liuyun Sect.
• A mysterious purple-robed man reached White Cloud Peak unseen, picked up a charred fragment of Heaven Shaking Thunder, and remarked on the Song Clan.

Song Xianming confronted a mysterious cultivator who revealed he was a Patrol Envoy of the Thunder King Hall and warned that its Adjudicators would come after the Song Clan. Back at the Hall of General Affairs, Song Changsheng reshaped Ling Province’s resource agreements, leaving the vassal clans with a share of the Spirit Stone Vein while they surrendered their Wutong Secret Realm spots.

• Song Changsheng demanded control of the Wuling Sect’s spirit veins, rejected Liu Hongye’s request for territory in the Liuyun Mountain Range, and proposed revising Spirit Stone Vein shares and Wutong Secret Realm access.
• Song Xianming pursued the unknown cultivator, discovered he had been bluffed into revealing himself, and learned that he was Lei, a Patrol Envoy sent by the Thunder King Hall.
• Lei told Song Xianming that the Thunder King Hall would send Adjudicators after him because he had used Heaven Shaking Thunder, then fled without revealing who the Thunder King was.
• Song Changsheng offered the other powers a choice between Spirit Stone Vein shares and Wutong Secret Realm spots, and the Yu Clan, Wang Clan, and Liuyun Sect chose the shares.
• Song Xianming returned to the meeting, and Song Changsheng accepted the three powers’ decision to surrender their Secret Realm spots in exchange for a portion of the Spirit Stone Vein.

Song Changsheng and Song Xianming responded to Thunder King Hall’s threat by exposing its crimes, prompting a sweeping investigation across Great Qi. After Song Xianming chose to step down, Song Changsheng completed the ancestral succession rites and became the sixth Patriarch of the Song Clan.

• Song Changsheng urged Song Xianming to alert Sunset City and Demon Subduing Hall and spread the news about Thunder King Hall’s captive mortals.
• Song Xianming told Song Changsheng to prepare to succeed him as clan head.
• Zhan Tianxia investigated missing people in Bianzhou, uncovered Thunder King Hall strongholds, rescued fewer than ten thousand mortals, and publicly revealed the findings.
• The revelations triggered a purge of Thunder King Hall strongholds and exposed Blood Demon Sect branches across Great Qi, prompting another campaign against the sect.
• Song Changsheng performed the ancestral rites at Vast Peak as Song Xianming transferred the clan head’s four tokens to him.
• Song Changsheng became the sixth Patriarch of the Song Clan, and the clan members bowed to him.

Song Changsheng succeeded Song Xianming as Patriarch, accepted the clan’s trust, and learned that the Thunder King Hall had been declared a demonic force by the Golden Core sects. After the ceremony, he confessed his love to Zhuang Yuechan and asked her to become his Dao companion; she accepted in all but words.

• Song Changsheng accepted the Song Clan Members’ cheers and promised to live up to their expectations as Patriarch.
• The Song Clan Members recited their clan rules together, while Jiang Shuming and Yuan Tianshu discussed Song Changsheng’s talent and potential.
• Shen Qingxiu asked Xiao Qingwan why she had come to see Song Changsheng, and Xiao Qingwan said he was better than his father.
• Zhuang Yuechan told Song Changsheng that Mu Guibai had warned him about the Thunder King Hall and offered the support of the Golden Crow Sect and Heavenly Meridian Sect.
• Song Changsheng and Zhuang Yuechan encountered Song Qingxi waiting at Moonfall Cliff for Song Qingxing to return.
• Song Changsheng asked Zhuang Yuechan to become his Dao companion, and she replied that words alone would not be enough as she showed her joy.

Song Qingxing entered Pan Shi City in the lawless Lu Kingdom Cultivation World, submitted an assassination mission, and learned from Shadow Pavilion that the Song Clan had gained a Purple Palace Cultivator and a new Clan Head. He bought intelligence about a Golden Core True Person’s ruin and left with new missions, promising to return alive to the person he missed.

• Song Qingxing forced his way through the crowd at Pan Shi City's gate and cut a burly cultivator in half after the man blocked his path; a richly dressed young man killed the fallen cultivator with a kick.
• Wujie warned Song Qingxing that the richly dressed young man might be a Half-Demon who had set his sights on him.
• Song Qingxing entered Shadow Pavilion and submitted the head of Blood Killing Mad Blade Jiang Tai, earning one hundred and fifty Contribution Points.
• Song Qingxing bought intelligence about the Great Qi Cultivation World and learned that Song Xianming had ascended to the Purple Mansion and Song Changsheng had become Clan Head of the Wangyue Song Clan.
• Song Qingxing purchased information about a Golden Core True Person's ruin, accepted several more missions, and vowed to return alive to the person represented by his Jade Pendant.

Song Changsheng convened the Song Clan’s first Grand Clan Meeting to reorganize its leadership and assign clear duties. The clan prepared to compete for Foundation Establishment Pills at Sunset City’s upcoming auction while also relying on Song Luzhou to refine more.

• Song Changsheng and Zhuang Yuechan said farewell at the foot of Vast Peak before he returned to convene the Grand Clan Meeting.
• The clan honored Song Xianming as Grand Elder, then approved Song Changsheng’s division of authority among five specialized elders and regional guards.
• Song Changsheng appointed Song Luzhou Logistics Elder, Song Xianyun Transmission Elder, Song Luyun External Affairs Elder, Song Chang'an Punishment Elder, and Xia Yunxue Hundred Arts Elder, while assigning other cultivators to guard the Mortal World and Wangyue Market.
• Song Lutong questioned what Song Changsheng would do, and Song Changsheng said he would personally oversee Wind Whisper Hall and the clan’s intelligence work.
• Song Changsheng announced that Sunset City would hold an auction in one month featuring more than a hundred Foundation Establishment Pills, and he set the clan’s goal at securing five.
• Song Changsheng asked Song Luzhou to refine Foundation Establishment Pills and sent Song Lutong and Song Luyun to Sunset City to bid and reestablish the clan’s contact point.

Song Changsheng settled clan matters at his first Grand Clan Meeting, including how to distribute the mortals left by Wuling Sect and who would guard Wutong Secret Realm. After the meeting, he decided to explore the Secret Realm himself and later used Soul Essence in hopes of awakening the Artifact Spirit of the Dao Scripture.

• Song Changsheng sent Song Lutong and Song Luyun to Sunset City and ordered the displaced mortals divided among the Song Clan, allied powers, and two newly built cities.
• Song Changsheng learned that the Song Clan’s birthrate had risen and ordered continued support for families with many children.
• Song Xianming approved Song Changsheng’s plan to have the Wang Clan guard Wutong Secret Realm and receive its accumulated Stalactite Spirit Liquid as payment.
• Song Changsheng decided to explore Wutong Secret Realm with Song Changan and the others after they mastered the Three Talents Heavenly Star Formation.
• Song Xianming identified Chang Wudao’s cultivation method as the Heavenly Demonic Handbook, and the two agreed to hide and seal the Jade Slip.
• Song Changsheng refined Soul Essence from Wuling Sect’s treasure vault, hoping it would awaken the Dao Scripture’s Artifact Spirit.

After refining Soul Essence, Song Changsheng awakened the Dao Scripture’s Artifact Spirit, Little Nine, and learned what it could teach him and what dangers came with its knowledge. Little Nine selected three useful techniques for him, then helped him begin an experiment in improving a basic cultivation method.

• Song Changsheng refined the Soul Essence, and the Dao Scripture unfolded in his Sea of Consciousness as he dreamed of the old Daoist who had raised him.
• Song Changsheng awakened Little Nine, who explained that it could protect his Sea of Consciousness and advise him on cultivation but could not fight or leave it.
• Song Changsheng asked whether he could return to Blue Star, and Little Nine said he might search for it after gaining the power to shatter the void but could not guarantee he would find it.
• Little Nine let Song Changsheng browse the Dao Scripture’s records, warned him when he became overwhelmed, and selected Nine Heavens Cloud Palace, Seven Absolutes, and Traceless Snow Tread for him.
• Little Nine told Song Changsheng that he could not share the Mysterious Creation Canon’s contents without attracting the Heavenly Dao, then offered to help him create or improve cultivation methods.
• Song Changsheng chose the First-Tier Minor Qi Induction method as his first improvement project, and Little Nine found several methods for reference.

Song Changsheng tested Little Nine’s ancient records against modern cultivation methods, improved “Minor Qi Induction,” and investigated Wind Whisper Hall’s intelligence work. He recruited the talented youth Ding Qi to test the revised technique, leaving its effectiveness uncertain.

• Song Changsheng and Little Nine struggled to improve “Minor Qi Induction,” discovering that many ancient techniques and array methods were crude or outdated despite offering a few useful insights.
• Song Changsheng examined Wind Whisper Hall’s reports, learned of a Golden Core True Person’s Immortal Cave conflict in the Lu Kingdom Cultivation World, and ordered the hall to monitor related intelligence because he feared Song Qingxing was involved.
• Song Changsheng visited Wind Whisper Hall’s trainees and called out Ding Qi, a youth he had rescued from White Wolf Mountain, for neglecting a lesson.
• Ding Qi demonstrated that he could hide from Song Changsheng for five breaths, impressing him with his mastery of an untraceable spell.
• Song Changsheng offered Ding Qi special resources to cultivate his revised “Minor Qi Induction” and help test and improve it, while warning that the changes might make it worse.

Song Changsheng entrusted Ding Qi with testing his uncertain cultivation method and discussed Wind Whisper Hall's manpower and funding with Song Luyun. At the Training Ground, he challenged Song Changrong, Song Changxuan, and Song Chang'an as they practiced the Three Talents Heavenly Star Formation, and their combined aura surged against him.

• Ding Qi accepted the risks of practicing Song Changsheng's cultivation method, and Song Changsheng gave him the Jade Slip, doubled his resource allotment, and allowed monthly progress reports.
• Song Xianli entered after Ding Qi left and warned Song Changsheng that Ding Qi was ambitious and calculating, while Song Changsheng said he would judge him by his contributions to the lineage.
• Song Luyun proposed recruiting Spirit Rooted people from Guihua and Mingshun into Wind Whisper Hall, and Song Changsheng approved her plan to expose Chang Wudao's suspected role in the disappearances of mortals.
• Song Changsheng approved more funding for Wind Whisper Hall and told Song Luyun to take a protective talisman before traveling with Song Tong to the Sunset City auction to buy Foundation Establishment Pills.
• Song Changsheng went to the Training Ground and attacked Song Changrong, Song Changxuan, and Song Chang'an as they practiced the Three Talents Heavenly Star Formation.
• The three cultivators trapped Song Changsheng with illusory chains and coordinated attacks, but he shattered the chains and sent them flying; they then renewed their formation and made him feel pressure.

Song Changsheng tested the Three Talents Heavenly Star Formation, funded body cultivation for its users, and sought Green Spirit Soil to improve the clan’s Spirit Plants. Meanwhile, Chihuo reached Red Sleeve Pavilion, and Song Lutong led Song Luyun and Song Qingluo toward Sunset City to rebuild the clan’s intelligence outpost.

• Song Changsheng broke Song Changrong, Song Changxuan, and Song Chang'an’s formation, then approved monthly Phoenix Blood Grass, Demon Beast flesh, and access to body-tempering facilities for them.
• Song Changsheng considered ways to accelerate Spirit Plant growth and offered a high price for Green Spirit Soil, while lamenting that Chihuo had sent no news about Shen Yin.
• Chihuo entered Red Sleeve Pavilion, felt an unexplained chill, and hesitated when the multicolored chicken feather in his hand reacted.
• Song Lutong and Song Luyun departed for Sunset City aboard Song Changsheng’s upgraded Flying Boat with clan members tasked with rebuilding the outpost.
• Song Lutong told Song Qingluo to establish the Wind Whisper Hall in Sunset City and said he would recommend him to lead it if he succeeded.