Chapter Summaries

Song Qingxi revealed that she had developed a growth liquid for spirit plants, while Song Changsheng accepted Dragon Blood Mud and granted two rogue cultivators territory in Ling Province. The chapter ended with news that the Song Clan had lost contact with both its Ancestral Lineage and Song Lu Ke, leaving Song Changsheng alarmed.

• Song Qingxi explained how to treat Crystal Fragrant Orchids and revealed that her Growth Spirit Liquid had accelerated the growth of Blazing Grass and Dew Condensing Grass.
• Song Changsheng learned from Little Nine that the Dragon Blood Mud was genuine flood-dragon blood soil and could benefit Dragon Species spirit plants such as Dragon Blood Ginseng.
• Qi Yuanli and Zhang Huaidao offered Song Changsheng Dragon Blood Mud and asked to establish their families in Ling Province.
• Song Changsheng granted Zhang Huaidao Qianyuan Peak and Qi Yuanli Qianling Peak, along with three thousand li around each, and accepted their gift.
• A deacon reported that the Song Clan had been unable to contact its Ancestral Lineage or Song Lu Ke since at least March of the previous year.
• Song Changsheng demanded to know when Song Lu Ke last contacted the lineage and what he had said.

Song Changsheng learned that the Ancestral Lineage had cut off contact, leaving Song Lu Ke’s fate uncertain, while he authorized Song Qingxi to develop tailored Growth Spirit Liquids. In Sunset City, Song Lutong and Song Luyun entered a crowded auction for Foundation Establishment Pills, where an unexpected bid opened at an enormous price.

• Song Changsheng confirmed that Song Yulong and Song Yushi’s Soul Lamps still burned, but Song Lu Ke’s lamp had gone out, and he asked Zhuang Yuechan to investigate the Ancestral Lineage.
• Song Qingxi told Song Changsheng she had concocted Growth Spirit Liquid, and he allowed her to experiment on the clan’s spirit plants except for the Dragon Blood Ginseng.
• Song Lutong and Song Luyun helped Song Qingluo reestablish the clan’s intelligence outpost in Sunset City and attended the auction for Foundation Establishment Pills.
• Xia Wanyun began the auction by announcing that it would offer one hundred and fifty Foundation Establishment Pills, with later batches sold in groups of five.
• Song Luyun urged Song Lutong to bid on the first group, but an unidentified bidder on the third floor immediately offered two hundred and fifty thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones.

Song Lutong and Song Luyun secured seven Foundation Establishment Pills at the auction, but their journey home turned dangerous when a strange Thunderstorm trapped their Flying Boat at Linfeng Pass. After receiving their distress message, Song Changsheng and Song Xianming prepared to investigate and seek help from Yuan of Nine Swords Mountain.

• Song Lutong bought the third set of Foundation Establishment Pills for two hundred thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones after a White-Clothed Man had bought the first two sets at much higher prices.
• Song Luyun secured seven Foundation Establishment Pills in total, and she and Song Lutong set off for Ling Province after informing Song Qingluo.
• At Linfeng Pass, dark clouds enveloped Song Lutong and Song Luyun’s Flying Boat, and the pair survived a prolonged lightning barrage but could not escape the vast cloud mass.
• Song Lutong and Song Luyun sent a distress message to their lineage, while Song Changsheng learned of their predicament and confirmed their Soul Lamps remained intact.
• Song Changsheng and Song Xianming suspected the incident was connected to nearby Nine Swords Mountain and decided to seek Yuan’s help and notify Sunset City.
• Song Xianming and Song Changsheng set out together for Linfeng Pass.

Song Changsheng and Song Xianming discovered that Song Lutong and Song Luyun were trapped inside a man-made array and confronted the Thunder King Hall’s Eighth Adjudicator. As Song Xianming and Yuan Tianshu fought the stronger Purple Mansion cultivator, Song Changsheng began searching the array for a way to rescue the captives, while the battle ended with Yuan Tianshu striking at the Adjudicator after Song Xianming hit his Divine Soul.

• Song Xianming, Song Changsheng, and Yuan Tianshu found that Song Lutong and Song Luyun were alive but trapped inside an array disguised as a thunderstorm.
• Song Xianming called for the hidden enemy, and the Eighth Adjudicator of Thunder King Hall appeared and declared that he had come to punish the Wangyue Song Clan.
• The Adjudicator attacked Song Xianming, and Yuan Tianshu joined the fight while the two Purple Mansion cultivators tried to draw him away from Song Changsheng.
• Song Changsheng requested reinforcements from Sunset City, studied the crude array with his Illusion Breaking Eye, and decided to enter it to locate its Formation Eye.
• The Adjudicator overwhelmed Song Xianming with lightning and pressed Yuan Tianshu, but Song Xianming struck his Divine Soul with the Soul Severing Golden Blade, allowing Yuan Tianshu to launch a counterattack.

Song Changsheng found and destroyed the formation’s iron-kettle eye, weakening the Adjudicator while Song Xianming and Yuan Tianshu fought to hold him off. Bai Zhengchun arrived and drove the Adjudicator into a desperate battle, which ended with the Adjudicator’s body crashing down from the sky.

• Song Changsheng followed a flaw in the grand formation to its iron-kettle formation eye and used the Tai Chi Diagram, Mountain Overturning Seal, and Demon Binding Rope to subdue it and erase its Artifact Spirit.
• As Song Xianming and Yuan Tianshu neared defeat, Song Xianming urged Yuan Tianshu to escape with the juniors, but Yuan Tianshu refused to abandon him.
• Bai Zhengchun arrived, blocked the Adjudicator’s attack with Heavenly Gang Shield, and declared that Thunder King Hall would be killed if it entered Great Qi.
• Bai Zhengchun attacked the Adjudicator when he tried to leave, but the Adjudicator escaped with a black sphere and fled thousands of miles.
• The Adjudicator suddenly weakened after Song Changsheng erased the Artifact Spirit, and Bai Zhengchun caught up with him; after one incense stick, the Adjudicator’s body crashed down from the sky.

After defeating Thunder King Hall’s trap, Song Changsheng persuaded Yuan Tianshu to become a Song Clan Guest Elder. On the journey home, Song Changsheng recognized a mysterious auction buyer as Yu Dongyang and worried the Vast Righteousness Alliance was preparing to act again.

• Song Changsheng claimed the Grand Profound Thunder Cloud Pot and discovered that the Eighth Adjudicator had relied on special Formation Flags rather than his own formation skill.
• Bai Zhengchun returned with the Eighth Adjudicator’s head, while Song Xianming and Yuan Tianshu survived their battle against the Thunder King Hall cultivator.
• Song Changsheng thanked Yuan Tianshu and offered him a Guest Elder position, and Song Xianming promised him equal status before Yuan accepted.
• Song Lutong and Song Luyun described the auction, including a mysterious buyer who had purchased seven Foundation Establishment Pills at high prices.
• Song Changsheng identified the buyer as Yu Dongyang and wondered whether the Vast Righteousness Alliance was preparing another move.

Song Changsheng agreed to represent Sunset City in an Arena Competition for ownership of Tuo Province, then settled the Song Clan’s Foundation Establishment Pills and prepared for the contest. He left for Sunset City still with nearly six months to train and strengthen himself.

• Song Changsheng appointed Yuan Tianshu as the Song Clan’s chief Guest Elder, alarming the surrounding forces and intensifying pressure on the Blazing Sun Sect.
• Li Ru invited Song Changsheng to fight for Sunset City in an Arena Competition against the Golden Crow Sect and Heavenly Meridian Sect, and Song Changsheng agreed after learning the contest was a year away.
• Song Changsheng instructed the elders to broaden the candidates for Foundation Establishment Pills, then selected ten clan members to receive pills and kept two in reserve.
• Song Changsheng gave Ding Qi his revised Minor Qi Induction method and handed logistical duties to Song Luzhou.
• Song Changsheng focused on refining the Grand Profound Thunder Cloud Pot and practicing Soul Severing Golden Blade and Traceless Snow Tread before the Arena Competition.

Song Qingxing deliberately drew cultivators into the Mist-Hidden Mountain Range to strengthen his Slaughter Sword Intent and began killing the people hunting him. Meanwhile, Song Changsheng charged the Grand Profound Thunder Cloud Pot with lightning, traveled to Sunset City to install a Space Teleportation Array at Wangyue Pavilion, and remembered that the Five-Year Pact had arrived.

• Song Qingxing revealed that he had deliberately provoked his pursuers so he could cultivate his Slaughter Sword Intent through slaughter, then ambushed Yang Kui's group and killed all three cultivators.
• Song Qingxing continued attacking search parties throughout the day, drawing more pursuers, including Purple Palace Cultivators, and ended the night wounded but still hunting.
• Song Changsheng absorbed hours of lightning into the Grand Profound Thunder Cloud Pot and decided to travel to Sunset City.
• Song Changsheng arrived at Wangyue Pavilion, met Song Qingluo, and explained that he had brought a Space Teleportation Array for the shop, pending a successful test and Sunset City's approval.
• Song Qingluo told Song Changsheng that Sunset City had a Black Market using a Space Teleportation Array, prompting Song Changsheng to recall Peng Siying and the Five-Year Pact.

Song Changsheng received a Foundation Establishment Pill for his work in Bianzhou and learned that he would represent Sunset City in an arena competition. He reunited with Zhuang Yuechan, then joined the other fighters to hear Zhan Tianxia reveal the secret Star Array that would help them advance before the contest.

• Song Changsheng gave Song Qingluo a Foundation Establishment Pill assigned by the Family Council of Elders to support the Lineage’s intelligence work in Bianzhou.
• Mu Guibai told Song Changsheng he would fight for Sunset City and named Yin Shang, Dazhuang, Li Ru, and Shen Shishi as the other combatants, explaining that Xing Zhao had entered seclusion to pursue the Purple Mansion Realm.
• Song Changsheng reunited with Zhuang Yuechan, met Shen Shishi, and discussed Ling Yun’s unusual sleepiness and the possibility of testing him at Sunset City.
• Niu Dazhuang led Song Changsheng to an underground palace, where Zhan Tianxia explained the arena rules and ordered the two Array Masters to improve their array skills.
• Zhan Tianxia revealed that a hidden grand array beneath them could draw down the Power of Stars and help the team advance during six months of cultivation.

Song Changsheng completed his first Star Infusion in Sunset City, arranged a teleportation array, and continued preparing for the Arena Competition. Meanwhile, Song Qingxing, still pursued in the Mist-Hidden Mountain Range, chose to enter the Abyss in search of the Fortuitous Encounter marked on his map.

• Zhan Tianxia activated Sunset City's Star Array, and Song Changsheng, Yin Shang, Niu Dazhuang, Li Ru, and Shen Shishi endured Star Infusion for varying lengths of time before stopping safely.
• Song Changsheng received Zhan Tianxia's approval to install a Space Teleportation Array at Wangyue Pavilion, then resumed cultivation and array training.
• Song Qingxing treated his poisoned shoulder after another battle and weighed whether to hide or risk crossing a deadly place to return to Great Qi.
• Song Qingxing remembered the map to a possible Fortuitous Encounter in the Abyss and resolved to enter it despite Wujie's warnings.

Song Qingxing fled Rakshasa Hall into the Abyss, leaving Wujie’s Bronze Treasure Mirror behind as he entered. Meanwhile, Song Changsheng and Sunset City’s cultivators prepared to compete with the Golden Crow Sect and Heavenly Meridian Sect for Tuo Province, ending with all three factions gathered at Dingyuan City.

• Song Qingxing escaped Rakshasa Hall’s siege with Wujie’s help, but Wujie fell into slumber after exhausting his power.
• Song Qingxing reached the Abyss, left the Bronze Treasure Mirror outside, and stepped inside; Rakshasa Hall’s Young Master later ordered his men to wait and investigate Song Xing’s past.
• After half a year of Star Infusion, Song Changsheng and the others opened their Middle Dantians ahead of time.
• Zhan Tianxia led Sunset City’s cultivators toward Tuo Province aboard a Sky Battleship, bringing Zhuang Yuechan and young cultivators along.
• Song Changsheng’s group arrived at Dingyuan City, where the Golden Crow Sect and Heavenly Meridian Sect arrived three days later, bringing three Sky Battleships together above the city.

Song Changsheng and Sunset City’s team prepared for the arena competition, where he was assigned to confront the Heavenly Meridian Sect’s Jin Yue while Yin Shang conserved his strength. The opening bell rang, and contestants from the Golden Crow Sect and Heavenly Meridian Sect claimed the arenas as Sunset City waited to make its move.

• Zhan Tianxia ordered Sunset City’s team to avoid the initial arena struggle, target the Heavenly Meridian Sect’s arena later, and have Song Changsheng try to injure Jin Yue.
• Song Changsheng refined the Book Language Sword, then received Zhuang Yuechan’s encouragement and a brief kiss before the competition.
• Song Changsheng saw his clan members cheering in the stands, recognized Blazing Sun Sect Grand Elder He Tai, and faced the arrival of Xia Qingxue and Jin Yue’s teams.
• Chief Referee Lu Yuming stated the competition rules and announced that the faction occupying an arena at midnight would win.
• At the opening bell, Qi Shuheng and Wu Qianqian rushed to claim separate arenas, with Wu Qianqian directly challenging Sunset City.

Sunset City won three consecutive matches against the Heavenly Meridian Sect as Yin Shang and Niu Dazhuang secured victories, with Niu Dazhuang surviving a dangerous fight against two Array Masters. After Song Changsheng treated Niu Dazhuang, Li Ru faced the Heavenly Meridian Sect’s last female disciple, and Song Changsheng sensed something was wrong.

• Yin Shang defeated Wu Qianqian using water, thorny vines, and his Glazed Mirror, then left the arena to rest.
• Niu Dazhuang overcame Chen Guangyu by secretly inscribing Formation Patterns and trapping him in a formation.
• Niu Dazhuang won a hard-fought match against Yang Ji'an despite his injuries, giving Sunset City three consecutive victories.
• Song Changsheng treated Niu Dazhuang, then returned to find Li Ru fighting the Heavenly Meridian Sect’s last female disciple and noticed something was wrong.

Li Ru lost to Wang Siqian after she used the Vast Sea Golden Pupils, leaving Sunset City with Song Changsheng and Shen Shishi to face Jin Yue. Song Changsheng entered the arena to keep Jin Yue from attacking Yin Shang, and trapped Jin Yue in the Heavenly Light Spirit Imprisonment Formation, turning the fight in his favor.

• Wang Siqian struck Li Ru's Sea of Consciousness with the Vast Sea Golden Pupils, but Li Ru's final attack shattered her shield and injured her before she won the match.
• Jin Yue replaced Wang Siqian and challenged Yin Shang, but Song Changsheng took the arena instead.
• Jin Yue overpowered Song Changsheng with his strength and speed, breaking the Mountain Overturning Seal and sending him crashing into the arena's edge.
• Song Changsheng used Traceless Snow Tread to evade Jin Yue's Mountain Opening strike, then activated the Heavenly Light Spirit Imprisonment Formation with pre-inscribed Spirit Stones and formation flags.
• The formation trapped Jin Yue and restricted his movement, shifting the advantage to Song Changsheng.

Song Changsheng defeated Jin Yue in the arena, narrowly surviving Jin Yue’s explosive attack and using the Impermanence Killing Formation to wound him. After Sunset City claimed the victory, Yin Shang stepped onto the arena, where Zhang Yuheng of the Golden Crow Sect challenged him.

• Song Changsheng trapped Jin Yue inside a starlight formation and used Earth Core Cold Flame, the Spirit Severing Gourd, and his sword techniques to wear him down.
• Jin Yue activated his Battle Body and nearly died when Song Changsheng’s Soul Severing Golden Blade struck, but inscriptions on Jin Yue’s body stopped the attack.
• Jin Yue launched two Moon Blades that exploded, injuring Song Changsheng, who secretly activated the Impermanence Killing Formation and left Jin Yue on the verge of death.
• Lu Yuming declared Sunset City the winner and demanded an explanation from Bai Yan over Jin Yue’s use of forbidden consumables.
• Shen Shishi helped the exhausted Song Changsheng from the arena, and Yin Shang went to claim the arena.
• Zhang Yuheng of the Golden Crow Sect stepped onto Yin Shang’s arena and challenged him.

The Golden Crow Sect challenged Sunset City for a second arena, and Yin Shang defeated Zhang Yuheng before holding off Du Yu until midnight secured both sects a place in the finals. Yin Shang collapsed from his injuries afterward, leaving Sunset City to depend on Song Changsheng recovering within seven days for the final.

• Bai Zimou backed Zhang Yuheng’s attempt to claim a second arena, and Lu Yuming allowed the challenge because no rule prohibited it.
• Yin Shang fought Zhang Yuheng with his musical artifacts and defeated him, sending Zhang Yuheng beyond the arena boundary.
• Du Yu challenged the injured Yin Shang, who kept fighting until Lu Yuming announced that Sunset City and the Golden Crow Sect had advanced to the finals.
• Yin Shang spat blood and collapsed, while the crowd doubted Sunset City could win with most of its fighters injured.
• Zhan Tianxia asked Song Changsheng whether he could recover in seven days, and Song Changsheng agreed to prepare for the final.

Song Changsheng entered the finals against Xia Qingxue after recovering from his injuries, hoping to win a foothold for the Song Clan in Tuo Province. The match began with Xia Qingxue’s mysterious ice abilities giving her the upper hand, leaving Song Changsheng’s Book Language Sword frozen and out of his control.

• Zhuang Yuechan tended Song Changsheng’s wounds, and Song Xianyun warned him that the Golden Crow Sect might disregard the rules in the finals, but Song Changsheng insisted on fighting.
• Bai Zimou chose Xia Qingxue to represent the Golden Crow Sect, confident in her strength despite keeping her abilities secret.
• A one-armed cultivator and Zhu arrived in Dingyuan City, where Zhu wagered his one hundred thousand Spirit Stones on Song Changsheng.
• Song Changsheng and Xia Qingxue entered the arena for the final match, which would decide ownership of Tuo Province.
• Xia Qingxue attacked with ice spikes, vanished among them, and froze Song Changsheng’s Book Language Sword with her gloved hand.
• Song Changsheng retreated and summoned the Spirit Severing Gourd, releasing azure-blue flames.

Song Changsheng fought Xia Qingxue for control of Tuo Province, overcoming her ice and snow Divine Ability by forging a phantom Violet Palace Furnace and awakening dharma power. Xia Qingxue admitted defeat, while Bai Zimou and Bai Yan reacted to Song Changsheng’s sudden breakthrough with very different intentions.

• Song Changsheng’s soul attacks failed against Xia Qingxue’s Sea of Consciousness Temple, and she countered his Mountain Overturning Seal with a pillar of ice.
• Song Changsheng tried to inscribe a formation while circling Xia Qingxue, but she detected it and destroyed the formation patterns.
• Xia Qingxue froze the arena and suppressed Song Changsheng, who used Primal Chaos Qi and the Earth Core Cold Flame to ignite a phantom Violet Palace Furnace within his Middle Dantian.
• Song Changsheng used his newly formed dharma power to break Xia Qingxue’s ice-and-snow Divine Ability, causing her to spit blood and concede the match.
• The spectators argued over Song Changsheng’s strength, while Bai Zimou and Bai Yan sensed his dharma power and formed opposing judgments about him.

After winning the arena competition, Song Changsheng rejected Mu Guibai’s offer to join Sunset City, earning his approval to marry Zhuang Yuechan once he reached the Purple Palace Stage. Mu Guibai then rewarded Song Changsheng with territory in Tuo Province and a Purple Vein Mother Crystal.

• Song Changsheng defeated Xia Qingxue, secured victory for Sunset City, and embraced Zhuang Yuechan in public.
• Mu Guibai asked Song Changsheng to join Sunset City and potentially become its City Lord, but Song Changsheng refused because he needed to protect his clan.
• Mu Guibai revealed that he had been testing Song Changsheng, approved his relationship with Zhuang Yuechan, and set reaching the Purple Palace Stage as the condition for their marriage.
• Mu Guibai let Song Changsheng choose a Spirit Mountain in Tuo Province, and Song Changsheng chose Five Elements Peak for the Song Clan.
• Mu Guibai gave Song Changsheng a Purple Vein Mother Crystal to improve the quality of his future Purple Mansion.

After receiving Five Elements Peak as territory for the Song Clan, Song Changsheng set out to inspect it with Zhuang Yuechan and reunited with Zhu Yiqun and Xu Yunhe. The group discovered a rare Five Elements Spirit Vein and a Five Elements Treasure inside the mountain, then sensed a Third-Tier Great Demon nearby.

• Song Changsheng gave Song Xianyun the map to Five Elements Peak and urged him to prepare materials for a Space Teleportation Array linking it to the Song Clan.
• Zhuang Yuechan joined Song Changsheng on his journey to inspect Five Elements Peak, where they reunited with Zhu Yiqun and Xu Yunhe.
• Zhu Yiqun sought a Song Clan guest elder position, and Song Changsheng agreed to test him during the trip while Xu Yunhe shared his plan to establish a sect in the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains.
• The four reached Five Elements Peak and found abundant resources, then realized its spiritual energy might come from a rare Five Elements Spirit Vein.
• Song Changsheng used his Divine Sense to discover a Five Elements Treasure within the mountain, which Zhuang Yuechan suspected was Mu Guibai's promised gift.
• The group sensed a concealed Third-Tier Great Demon on the mountain, and Zhu Yiqun urged Song Changsheng to go confront it.