Chapter Summaries

Song Changsheng and his companions lured the Five Elements Spirit Beast away from its spirit vein and killed it, claiming its inner core and other valuable parts. They then returned to Five Elements Peak to investigate the treasure emitting five-colored light.

• Song Changsheng, Xu Yunhe, Zhu Yiqun, and Zhuang Yuechan confronted the Five Elements Spirit Beast on Five Elements Peak and learned it was drawing power from the mountain’s spirit vein.
• Zhuang Yuechan’s qin music and Song Changsheng’s Mountain Overturning Seal enraged the beast and drew it away from the spirit vein’s range.
• Song Changsheng, Xu Yunhe, Zhu Yiqun, and Zhuang Yuechan joined forces to slay the Five Elements Spirit Beast with thunder, sword techniques, and a golden blade.
• Zhu Yiqun claimed the beast’s flesh and blood, Xu Yunhe took its wings, Zhuang Yuechan took its shell, and Song Changsheng claimed its Five-Colored inner core.
• Zhu Yiqun suggested they inspect the gift prepared by the Great City Lord, and Song Changsheng led the group into Five Elements Peak toward the five-colored light.

Song Changsheng discovered a naturally formed Five Elements Artifact Embryo beneath Five Elements Peak, bonded with its Artifact Spirit, and refined it into the Five Elements Creation Seal. After surveying and developing the territory with his companions, he planned to pursue a Purple Mansion breakthrough, while the chapter ended as Song Clan reinforcements appeared to be arriving.

• Song Changsheng found a Third-Tier Artifact Embryo and a pool of spirit liquid, bonded with its young Artifact Spirit, named it Little Fifth, and collected spirit liquid for his companions.
• Song Changsheng, Zhuang Yuechan, Zhu Yiqun, and Xu Yunhe surveyed the surrounding territory, established a base at Five Elements Peak, and waited for the Song Clan's reinforcements.
• Song Changsheng spent half a year refining the Artifact Embryo into the Low-Grade Magic Treasure Five Elements Creation Seal.
• Song Changsheng planned to ask Xiao Qingwan to refine a Five Elements Heavenly Spirit Pill so he could attempt to break through to the Purple Mansion.
• Song Changsheng emerged from seclusion, discussed his progress with his companions, and announced that the expected visitors had arrived.

Song Changsheng welcomed Song Lutong and the first Song Clan settlers to Five Elements Peak, then helped establish the territory’s infrastructure and assess its resources. With plans underway to bring in hundreds of thousands of workers, he proposed dividing the Clan’s expanding lands into commanderies and named this territory Zhangye.

• Song Lutong arrived at Five Elements Peak with fifty Clan elites, and Song Changsheng warned him to guard the Canglan River border while reclaiming the surrounding land.
• Song Changsheng introduced Xu Yunhe and Zhu Yiqun as trusted companions, and the Song Clan group surveyed resources around Five Elements Peak.
• Song Changsheng completed a Third Tier Low-Grade teleportation array linked to Vast Peak and became a Third Tier Low-Grade Formation Master.
• Xia Yunxue reported extensive mineral veins, Spirit Veins, Spirit Gathering Places, Spirit Springs, and Spirit Plants in the territory, prompting Song Changsheng to assign a sustainable development plan.
• Song Changsheng arranged to bring in one hundred thousand workers from nine cities and recruit another two to three hundred thousand from affiliated forces under paid labor agreements.
• Song Changsheng proposed adding commanderies beneath prefectures and named the territory Zhangye.

Song Changsheng secured Zhangye County for the Song Clan and reassured Song Xianming that he would consolidate its holdings before pursuing further expansion. He traveled to Sunset City to seek a Five Spirits Pill for his planned Purple Mansion breakthrough, while Song Xianming warned that the Blazing Sun Sect might pose a renewed threat; after Xiao Qingwan agreed to arrange the pill’s refinement, an unexpected streak of light approached Song Changsheng and Zhuang Yuechan.

• Song Changsheng named the new territory Zhangye County, and Song Xianyun appointed Song Lutong its Town Guardian Envoy alongside Song Chang'an and Song Changxuan.
• Song Xianming warned Song Changsheng against overreaching, and Song Changsheng said the clan would consolidate Zhangye before expanding further.
• Song Changsheng told Song Xianming that he intended to obtain a Five Spirits Pill and attempt a Purple Mansion breakthrough in Sunset City.
• Song Xianming warned that Blazing Sun Sect leader Zhang Hongguang might have advanced toward the Purple Mansion realm, so Song Changsheng should keep his breakthrough plans secure.
• Song Changsheng asked Xiao Qingwan to introduce him to the Third City Lord, and Xiao Qingwan agreed to pass along his materials for a Five Spirits Pill that would take at least half a year to refine.
• Song Changsheng and Zhuang Yuechan planned to visit the Black Market, but a streak of light suddenly shot toward them.

Song Changsheng went to Qingxin Courtyard after learning that Soul Returnless and Blood Consort were holding Old Ghost Chihuo hostage. He faced Soul Returnless, a powerful Purple Palace Cultivator, who promised to return Chihuo only after Song answered his questions.

• Song Changsheng received a message threatening Old Ghost Chihuo and agreed to meet at Qingxin Courtyard, while Zhuang Yuechan urged him not to go alone.
• Old Ghost Chihuo and Shen Yin argued in captivity as Blood Consort threatened them and revealed that she and Soul Returnless had arranged to lure Song Changsheng there.
• Blood Consort warned Soul Returnless that involving Song Changsheng could draw Sunset City into the conflict, but he insisted on proceeding.
• Song Changsheng arrived at the courtyard and staggered under Soul Returnless's deadly eye technique before asking to see Chihuo.
• Soul Returnless introduced Blood Consort and demanded answers from Song Changsheng before he would hand Chihuo over.

Song Changsheng met Soul Returnless and Blood Consort, who revealed their knowledge of the Blood Demon Sect’s treasure and offered him its fourth jade tablet in exchange for retrieving a specific item. Song Changsheng accepted the deal, and Blood Consort brought in the people they had been holding, including an unexpected person named Yin Sheng.

• Song Changsheng questioned Soul Returnless about the Blood Demon Sect, and Blood Consort revealed that she possessed the fourth jade tablet and knew Song had the other three.
• Blood Consort explained that the jade tablet had belonged to Gu Chengxiong, whom she killed after he attacked her while she was injured.
• Soul Returnless offered Song the fourth jade tablet and the treasure’s location in exchange for bringing him one item from the Blood Demon Sect’s hidden Small World.
• Soul Returnless explained that he chose Song because Purple Palace Cultivators could not enter the Small World and Song was the strongest cultivator beneath the Purple Mansion.
• Song accepted the jade tablet and Soul Returnless’s written request, while noting that Shen Qingxiu was nearby as a safeguard.
• Soul Returnless told Blood Consort to release the hostages, including Yin Sheng, and she returned with a red-haired old man and a White-Browed Youth.

Song Changsheng rescued Old Ghost Chihuo and met Shen Yin, then learned that Soul Returnless and Blood Consort had belonged to the Blood Demon Sect, which enraged him because of the Song Clan’s losses in Sunset City. A battle erupted at the West City gate, and the chapter ended with Song Changsheng asking Bai Zhengchun how it had gone.

• Song Changsheng learned that Old Ghost Chihuo had refused to betray him, apologized through his actions, and heard Chihuo pledge his life and loyalty to him.
• Soul Returnless handed Shen Yin over to Song Changsheng, while he and Blood Consort left Sunset City to wait for a chance to obtain a treasure.
• Song Changsheng met Shen Qingxiu, Bai Zhengchun, and Zhuang Yuechan at a Tea House, where Bai Zhengchun ordered him to keep Shen Yin within thirty feet or kill him.
• After Song Changsheng paid Shen Yin one thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones, Shen Yin revealed that Soul Returnless and Blood Consort had been members of the Blood Demon Sect and that Blood Consort had led the attack on Sunset City.
• Song Changsheng grabbed Shen Yin in anger, but Shen Qingxiu made him release him and said they would wait for news of her junior fellow disciple’s arrangements.
• A battle broke out near the West City gate and lasted a quarter of an hour; Bai Zhengchun returned afterward, and Song Changsheng asked him who had won.

Song Changsheng learned why Soul Returnless and Blood Consort sought the Heavenly Clarity Demon-Purging Mirror, then agreed to help them reach the treasure trove as part of Sunset City's plan against the Blood Demon Sect. His group found the Spatial Tunnel guarded by Blood Demon Sect remnants and withdrew to wait for reinforcements.

• Bai Zhengchun and Shen Qingxiu told Song Changsheng to continue his deal with Soul Returnless because obtaining the mirror could help the siblings fight the Blood Demon Sect.
• Shen Yin revealed that he was once Yin Sheng, a former Blood Demon Sect member who inherited and led the Demon Net out of the sect.
• Song Changsheng gathered Zhu Yiqun, Xu Yunhe, and Zhuang Yuechan, and they agreed to search the treasure trove together.
• Song Changsheng's group traveled with Sunset City's cultivators to the Spatial Tunnel and discovered Blood Demon Sect remnants guarding it.
• Song Changsheng proposed withdrawing until Bai Zhengchun and the others arrived so they could plan how to deal with the guards.

Song Changsheng and the Sunset City cultivators destroyed a Blood Demon Sect camp and entered its Small World, where they encountered a vast swarm of creatures with scarlet eyes. After Song Changsheng burned a path through them, the group spotted a building ahead.

• Bai Zhengchun told Song Changsheng to use the Heavenly Clarity Demon-Purging Mirror to lure Soul Returnless and ordered the group to attack the Blood Demon Sect camp that night.
• Bai Zhengchun, Shen Qingxiu, Li Shidao, Song Changsheng, and their companions overwhelmed the camp, killed its Steering Master, and prevented its disciples from sending warnings.
• Song Changsheng assembled the four jade tablets to open the Spatial Tunnel, then led his companions into the Small World beneath a crimson moon.
• Song Changsheng and his companions traveled together through the darkness, where countless scarlet eyes watched them and then combined into a colossal creature that attacked.
• Song Changsheng used the Earth Core Cold Flame to burn through the swarming creatures, and after several hours the group reached an area without them.
• A companion spotted a building ahead, and Song Changsheng wondered whether the creatures were the danger Soul Returnless had warned him about.

Song Changsheng and his companions discovered a Blood Demon Sect complex, recovered the remains of Demon Subduing Hall cultivators, and found vast stores of Spirit Stones and other resources. After retrieving the Heavenly Clarity Demon-Purging Mirror, they left the hall and encountered a powerful stench of decay.

• Song Changsheng warned the group not to touch the merfolk-oil lamps, then opened the Main Hall and found bound, mummified corpses arranged around a bloodstained pit.
• Song Changsheng and the others identified the dead as Demon Subduing Hall elders and protectors, and he collected their remains to return them for burial.
• Song Changsheng broke the defensive array in the left side hall, allowing the group to collect millions of Spirit Stones.
• The group opened the other side hall, broke its array, and searched its stores of cultivation resources for the Heavenly Clarity Demon-Purging Mirror.
• Song Changsheng confirmed they had found the mirror, and the group collected the remaining supplies before stepping outside into a nauseating stench of decay.

Song Changsheng and his companions fought through the Blood Demon Sect’s Small World, escaped with the Heavenly Clarity Demon-Purging Mirror, and exposed a threat from Marrow-Eating Insects. After the tunnel was destroyed and they returned to Sunset City, Song Changsheng revealed that his haul was too large to fit in the main hall.

• Song Changsheng led the group through waves of rotting demonic birds and fused Marrow-Eating Insects, using the Grand Profound Thunder Cloud Pot and Mountain Overturning Seal to help them reach the Spatial Tunnel.
• The group returned to the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains, where Bai Zhengchun and Shen Qingxiu identified escaped Marrow-Eating Insects and explained the danger they posed to ordinary people and Qi Condensation Cultivators.
• Bai Zhengchun, Shen Qingxiu, and another Purple Mansion Great Cultivator destroyed the Spatial Tunnel, while Bai told Song Changsheng to keep the Heavenly Clarity Demon-Purging Mirror because Soul Returnless would come after it.
• Lord Mie arrived with Blood-Robed Cultivators, found the tunnel collapsed, and ordered an investigation into the loss of the Blood Demon Sect’s five hundred years of work.
• Back in Sunset City, Song Changsheng asked Shen Qingxiu for space to sort through his gains and said his haul would fill more than half the main hall.

Song Changsheng and his companions divided the treasures recovered from the Blood Demon Sect’s Small World, then returned the remains of Demon Subduing Hall cultivators to Hall Master Feng Zhongyi. In gratitude, Feng Zhongyi gave Song Changsheng the Demon Subduing Hall Guest Elder Token.

• Shen Qingxiu led Song Changsheng and the others to an abandoned treasure vault, then left them to sort their spoils without pressure from Sunset City.
• Song Changsheng, Zhuang Yuechan, Zhu Yiqun, Xu Yunhe, and Old Ghost Chihuo counted and divided over 2.1 million Low-Grade Spirit Stones’ worth of wealth and supplies, with Zhuang Yuechan assigning shares among the group and her sect.
• Song Changsheng opened five jade boxes, identified their treasures, and gave the Jasper Peach to Old Ghost Chihuo to help him overcome his cultivation bottleneck.
• Song Changsheng asked Shen Qingxiu to contact Feng Zhongyi and arranged for the Demon Subduing Hall’s recovered dead to be brought together in Sunset City.
• Feng Zhongyi recognized his former comrades and his master among the remains, mourned them, and thanked Song Changsheng before presenting him with a Demon Subduing Hall Guest Elder Token.

Song Changsheng exchanged the Heavenly Clarity Demon-Purging Mirror with Soul Returnless, then returned to the Song Clan and announced that he intended to break through to the Purple Palace Stage. After making arrangements for the clan and securing the Five Spirits Pill, he prepared to enter seclusion while the Blazing Sun Sect’s new strength threatened to upset the balance.

• Song Changsheng gave Soul Returnless the Heavenly Clarity Demon-Purging Mirror and left after Soul Returnless offered to meet him again at Qiuniu Mountain.
• Song Changsheng parted from Xu Yunhe and Zhuang Yuechan, then learned from Shen Yin that Zhang Hongguang had secretly broken through to the Purple Palace Stage.
• Song Changsheng returned to Vast Peak, told the elders about Zhang Hongguang, and announced that he planned to enter seclusion and attempt his own breakthrough.
• Song Changsheng recruited Zhu Yiqun as a clan retainer, appointed Old Ghost Chihuo as a clan offering, and instructed the clan to prepare for possible conflict with the Blazing Sun Sect.
• Song Changsheng arranged for Song Qingyun’s future Spirit Root examination, returned to Sunset City under the cover story that the Great City Lord would instruct him, and retrieved the Five Spirits Pill from Xiao Qingwan.

Song Changsheng entered seclusion to attempt a breakthrough while the Blood Demon Sect, the Blazing Sun Sect, and hidden allies made plans involving the Song Clan. The chapter left the Song Clan facing several threats as Hun Sha authorized a search for its suspected Sacred Scripture and He Tai was pressed to help destroy it.

• Song Changsheng entered the secret chamber with the Five Spirits Pill and Yin-Yang Mysterious Gold to cultivate in seclusion.
• Hun Sha learned from the Blood-Eyed Crow that Sunset City had struck the Blood Demon Sect and ordered Chen Gou to kill Song Changsheng, Zhuang Yuechan, and the other juniors as a warning.
• The Blood-Eyed Crow told Hun Sha that the Song Clan might possess the Blood Demon Sect's lost Sacred Scripture, and Hun Sha entrusted it with investigating and recovering it.
• Zhang Hongguang stabilized his Purple Palace cultivation, while He Tai took control of the Blazing Sun Sect's affairs.
• A masked Black Robe Person demanded that He Tai help destroy the Song Clan, threatening to expose their past dealings; He Tai considered killing him to keep the secret.

He Tai was pressured by the Black Robe Person to join a plot against the Song Clan, while Song Qingxi discovered that Song Qingxing was near death and the clan rallied to save him. In the Abyss, the elders’ strength reached Song Qingxing, allowing him to overcome the Power of Law and survive, though he fell into a deep sleep.

• The Black Robe Person threatened to expose He Tai’s collusion with Evil Demons and urged him to gather allies against the Song Clan, then left him to decide.
• Song Qingxi found Song Qingxing’s Soul Lamp flickering dangerously, and Song Xianyun and the elders began using the Heavenly Soul-Mending Array to stabilize it.
• Song Lutong, Song Chang'an, Song Changxuan, and Song Changxiu returned to Vast Peak and joined the clan’s effort to support Song Qingxing.
• In the heart of the Abyss, Song Qingxing received the elders’ power through his Soul Lamp and recognized Song Qingxi’s presence among them.
• Song Qingxing refined the thread of Power of Law, survived the crisis, and fell asleep holding his Jade Pendant.
• Song Xianming told the gathered family that Song Qingxing’s Soulfire had stabilized, and Xia Yunxue led the exhausted Song Qingxi away to rest.

Song Changsheng reforged the Yin-Yang Spirit Severing Gourd into a Low-Grade Magic Treasure and began his Purple Mansion breakthrough. While he cultivated in seclusion, the Song Clan gained new Foundation Establishment Cultivators and discovered that Song Qingyun had an Illusion Dream Body, leaving his future uncertain.

• Song Changsheng spent forty-nine days forging a golden Flying Dagger into the Yin-Yang Spirit Severing Gourd, creating the Spirit Severing Flying Knife and advancing the gourd to a Low-Grade Magic Treasure.
• Song Changsheng stored the gourd in his Middle Dantian, adjusted himself to peak condition, and began his long seclusion to break through to the Purple Mansion.
• A ragged man emerged from the Yellow Sand Gobi and declared that, after five years, it was time to go home.
• Song Qingqing successfully broke through to Foundation Establishment, bringing the Song Clan's recent total to seven new Foundation Establishment Cultivators; Song Changxue had also succeeded without a Foundation Establishment Pill.
• Song Xianyun asked Song Xianming about Song Changsheng's adopted son, Song Qingyun, whose seven-cun metal-and-water Twin Spiritual Roots and Illusion Dream Body had been discovered.
• Song Xianming explained that a senior Purple Palace Cultivator in Sunset City had offered to teach Song Qingyun, but the Song Clan worried about losing him to an ally; Song Xianming decided to wait for Song Changsheng to emerge from seclusion before deciding.

Song Qingyun began cultivation under his great-grandfather Song Xianming, who planned to strengthen the boy’s foundation with medicinal baths. A message then revealed that Song Luke’s children, Yushi and Yulong, were seeking refuge after trouble at the Ancestral Lineage, leaving Song Xianming worried that Song Luke had come to harm.

• Song Xianming agreed to personally teach Song Qingyun while Song Changsheng remained in seclusion, and Xia Yunxue brought the boy to Cloud Reaching Hall.
• Song Xianming taught Song Qingyun the Qi Guiding Art and summoned Zhu Yiqun to prepare medicinal baths to temper the child’s foundation.
• Song Xianyun arrived with a message from Yushi and Yulong, who had reached the border between Qing Province and Ling Province and asked the Song Clan for refuge.
• Song Xianming directed Song Luzhou and Song Luyun to meet the siblings and reassure them that the clan would shelter them.
• After reading the message, Song Xianming suspected that Song Luke had encountered disaster at the Ancestral Lineage and grieved over the possibility.

Song Luzhou chose to bring Song Yulong, Song Yushi, and their entire branch back to the Wangyue Song Clan after hearing how the Ancestral Lineage had mistreated them. As the group neared Vast Peak, the clan remained divided over whether to accept them, with two crucial figures still silent.

• Song Yulong told Song Luzhou that his father had died after refusing to give up his Yin Yang Purple Tree Heart, and that the Ancestral Lineage had persecuted their branch.
• Song Yulong, Song Yushi, and nearly a hundred cultivators and many mortals begged Song Luzhou to take them in.
• Song Luzhou decided to bring them home, while Song Luyun challenged him to question whether the clan should keep following the ancestors’ wishes.
• Song Luzhou rebuked Song Yulong for concealing the truth and pressuring him, then forgave him after Song Luyun intervened.
• The flying boat reached the Moon-Gazing Mountain Range as the Song Clan split between the Conservative Faction and the Young Turks Faction over whether to accept the refugees.

Song Xianyun ended the Song Clan’s debate by declaring its independence from the Ancestral Lineage and welcoming the returning clansmen, whose survivors were settled as a new branch in Zhangye County. Meanwhile, Song Changsheng began forging his Violet Palace in seclusion, while a Sunset City disciple quietly took an interest in the Earth-Grade Cultivation Chamber where he was cultivating.

• Song Xianyun denounced the Ancestral Lineage, declared that the Song Clan would stand apart from it, and ordered Song Xianzhe to reflect at the Back Mountain.
• Song Xianyun and the clan elders welcomed Song Yulong and Song Yushi home as they brought back Song Luke’s ashes; they also learned that Mu Qing had died during a failed Foundation Establishment breakthrough.
• Song Luzhou proposed letting the returning clansmen choose whether to join the Song Clan or settle as a branch in Zhangye County, and most chose to follow Song Yulong there.
• Song Changsheng took the Five Spirits Pill and used its power to begin turning the Violet Palace Furnace phantom in his Middle Dantian into reality.
• A medicine attendant at Heavenly Sound Mountain learned that Senior Martial Brother Song was using the Earth-Grade Cultivation Chamber and looked toward it with a faint glimmer of darkness in his eyes.

Blood Eye persuaded He Tai to join a plot against the Song Clan, promising to handle Sunset City’s defenses and provide additional forces. Song Luzhou learned that He Tai had secretly met with Rong Mingtao, suspected they planned to attack the Song Clan, and called the Lineage elders to a council.

• Blood Eye told He Tai that Song Changsheng was attempting to break through to the Purple Mansion realm, and He Tai recognized the danger to Blazing Sun Sect.
• Blood Eye promised to resolve Sunset City’s protection and arranged for another Purple Palace Cultivator and a Third-Tier Array Master to help He Tai attack the Song Clan.
• He Tai agreed to act and sent an elder to invite Rong Mingtao to discuss a matter affecting both sides’ survival.
• Song Luzhou urged Song Qingyang to return home and care for his pregnant wife before reading a report that He Tai had met with Rong Mingtao.
• Song Luzhou suspected the rivals had united against the Song Clan and summoned the Lineage elders to Vast Peak for an immediate council.