Chapter Summaries

Song Luzhou prepared the Song Clan for a possible attack, but Sunset City refused to intervene because True Lord Heavenly Sword had arrived. Blood Eye secretly completed a mysterious setup, and the Blazing Sun Sect and Rong Clan launched their forces toward Ling Province, where the Song Clan and its allies prepared to defend.

• Song Luzhou recalled clan members, concentrated forces, and sent Song Luyun to warn Sunset City, while keeping Wangyue Market defended after Song Xianyun objected to abandoning it.
• Zhan Tianxia told Song Luyun that True Lord Heavenly Sword was in Sunset City and that Sunset City could not aid the Song Clan without risking conflict with the Golden Crow Sect.
• Bai Zimou told Mu Guibai that powerful figures should not interfere in the grudges of those below, then lost their chess game after Mu Guibai revealed a prepared counterplay.
• Blood Eye and the Black Robe Persons established a hidden arrangement outside Sunset City, after which Blood Eye ordered He Tai to act.
• He Tai mobilized the Blazing Sun Sect, and Rong Mingtao led the Rong Clan's forces toward Ling Province; Song Luzhou activated the Clan Protecting Array and called allied clans and sects to defend Vast Peak and Wangyue Market.

The Song Clan and its allies prepared Vast Peak’s defenses as the Blazing Sun Sect and Rong Clan advanced, while Zhang Hongguang’s detachment attacked Wangyue Market. The chapter ended with He Tai confronting Song Xianming above Spirit Plant Mountain as his forces charged the array.

• Zhang Huaidao and Qi Yuanli arrived at Wangyue Market to reinforce Song Changrong and help protect the market.
• Wang Qingquan, Liu Hongye, and Yu Xueqian brought their forces to Vast Peak, where Song Luzhou assigned defenders to the formations and mountain positions.
• The Blazing Sun Sect and Rong Clan coalition reached the Moon-Gazing Mountain Range, and Zhang Hongguang took five Foundation Establishment Cultivators and three hundred Qi Condensation Cultivators to attack Wangyue Market.
• Song Changrong activated the Xuanyuan Water Control Array and counterattacked with the Black Star Battleship, prompting Zhang Hongguang to engage the ship himself.
• Song Xianming, Song Luzhou, and Yuan Tianshu went to Spirit Plant Mountain, where Song Xianming taunted He Tai before He Tai’s disciples charged the array.

Xu Mei secretly prolonged the assault on the Song Clan before using a Third-Tier formation to destroy the Three Mountain Linked Formation. With the Thousand Illusion Maze Formation still active, the invaders stormed Vast Peak and the Song Clan began a bloody counterattack in the mist.

• Xu Mei concealed that she could already decipher the Three Mountain Linked Formation and urged He Tai to keep attacking while she prepared a way to prolong the battle.
• The Blazing Sun Sect and Rong Clan launched another assault, but Liu Hongye and the defenders repelled them and inflicted heavy casualties.
• Xu Mei told He Tai and Rong Mingtao that she would need five days to prepare a formation, while Song Chang'an warned Song Changjun against underestimating the enemy.
• Xu Mei activated a Third-Tier formation that shattered the Three Mountain Linked Formation, and Song Xianming ordered the clan to prepare for the real battle.
• He Tai split his forces to seize the three spirit mountains, then led the remaining cultivators into the Thousand Illusion Maze Formation on Vast Peak.
• Song Qingxia, Song Hongqing, Song Qingshi, and other Song Clan cultivators ambushed the disoriented invaders as fierce battles erupted across the mountain.

Song Xianming and Yuan Tianshu fought the invading Purple Palace Cultivators while the Song Clan struggled against the Blazing Sun Sect within its fog-shrouded array. Song Changjun died defending his clansmen, and Song Chang'an avenged him as the aerial battle also ended.

• Song Xianming confronted He Tai, Rong Mingtao, Zhang Yu, and the Black Robe Person, while Yuan Tianshu fought Zhang Yu and the others besieged Song Xianming.
• Song Qingming reinforced Song Chang'an and Song Changjun, helping them defeat a Blazing Sun Sect squad whose cultivator could see through the fog.
• Song Changjun died from his wounds after refusing a Blood Coagulation Pill, and Song Chang'an went after Huang Xun to avenge him.
• Song Chang'an found and killed Huang Xun, then returned carrying his severed head as a streak of sword light descended from the sky and the aerial battle ended.

Song Xianming’s clan survived the first attack at Vast Peak, while Xu Mei discovered how to weaken the Song Clan’s protective formation and the attackers prepared a decisive battle. At Wangyue Market, Song Qingxing returned and launched a surprise assault on Zhang Hongguang, but a golden Compass blocked the Black Star Battleship’s strike, leaving Qingxing in danger.

• Song Xianming suffered injuries from overusing the Clan Protecting Array, and Yuan Tianshu warned that the next attack would be the final offensive.
• Xu Mei identified the three Spirit Mountains as pillars powering the Song Clan’s formation and planned to target them during the next assault.
• Zhang Hongguang ignored He Tai’s order to join the front lines, choosing to remain at Wangyue Market while Song Changrong strengthened its defenses.
• Wujie delivered Song Qingxing’s message to Song Changrong, who agreed to cooperate with Qingxing’s plan.
• Song Qingxing attacked Zhang Hongguang’s encampment, using a Bronze Mirror to disrupt him as the Black Star Battleship fired.
• A golden Compass shielded Zhang Hongguang from the battleship’s fatal strike, and Song Changrong realized Qingxing was in danger.

Song Qingxing and the Song forces defeated Zhang Hongguang’s attack on Wangyue Market, then rushed to reinforce Vast Peak. As Blazing Sun Sect and Rong Clan forces launched a fierce assault on the outer Spirit Mountains, Song Luzhou committed the remaining reserves to the battle.

• Zhang Hongguang’s Natal Magic Treasure shielded him from Song Qingxing’s attack, but Song Changrong’s Black Star Battleship and Song Qingxing’s sword strikes grievously wounded him and forced him to flee.
• Song Qingxing and the Black Star Battleship routed the Blazing Sun Sect forces at Wangyue Market, killing their Foundation Establishment Late Stage cultivator and capturing more than one hundred twenty disciples.
• Song Changrong left Zhang Huaidao and Qi Yuanli to guard Wangyue Market and led the Song forces toward Vast Peak to provide reinforcements.
• Zhang Hongguang returned to He Tai’s camp and described his defeat; He Tai then ordered an assault on the three outer Spirit Mountains for the next morning.
• Song Xianming recognized that the enemy’s Third-Tier Array Master had countered his plans, and Song Luzhou deployed Song commanders and reinforcements across the three mountains.
• As casualties mounted and Spirit Embroidery Mountain and Jade Bamboo Mountain came under severe pressure, Song Luzhou committed his remaining forces to reinforce them.

Song Yulong rallied the refugees at Zhangye to reinforce the Song Clan, helping turn the battle at Jade Bamboo Mountain and force the enemy to retreat. Afterward, Blood Eye told He Tai that Song Changsheng was about to emerge from seclusion and proposed capturing him to force the Song Clan to submit.

• Song Yulong persuaded the clanspeople at Zhangye to join Song Changxuan and reinforce the Song Clan, leaving a child to protect the clan’s home.
• Song Xianming sent Song Yulong’s nearly hundred Qi Condensation Cultivators to Jade Bamboo Mountain, where their arrival let the Song Clan counterattack and drive back the Blazing Sun Sect and Rong Clan forces.
• Song Qingxing kept Song Changrong from revealing the Quasi Sky Battleship, allowing the enemy forces to withdraw safely.
• He Tai met secretly with Blood Eye, who warned that Song Changsheng was about to emerge from seclusion and suggested capturing him to make the Song Clan submit.

Song Changsheng broke through to the Purple Palace realm, awakened the Yin-Yang Annihilation divine ability, and spent nearly a month consolidating his cultivation. After learning that the Song Clan had been at war with the Blazing Sun Sect, he hurried to return, while He Tai and Blood Eye prepared an ambush for him.

• Blood Eye persuaded He Tai to ambush Song Changsheng when he returned to aid the Song Clan, insisting that Song Changsheng remain alive until Blood Eye obtained the Sacred Scripture.
• He Tai shared the ambush plan with Rong Mingtao and the others, concealed Blood Eye's involvement, and clashed with Zhang Yu, who left with Xu Mei.
• Song Changsheng broke through in seclusion as a Purple Mansion Phenomenon appeared over Heavenly Sound Mountain, startling the cultivators there.
• Song Changsheng learned from Little Nine that the Primal Chaos Qi had mutated his Violet Palace Furnace and discovered that he had gained the Yin-Yang Annihilation divine ability.
• After consolidating his cultivation, Song Changsheng learned that Zhuang Yuechan was away and asked Yin Shang about the Song Clan's situation.
• Song Changsheng learned of the conflict and hurried to activate the Space Teleportation Array back to the family, despite Song Qingluo's reassurance that the fighting had paused.

Song Changsheng was ambushed in a spatial tunnel by He Tai, Vast Sea, and Rong Mingtao, but he used his artifacts and talismans to injure He Tai. As Vast Sea broke free and attacked from behind, Song Changsheng unleashed the Spirit Severing Gourd’s Gourd Soul Slash.

• Song Changsheng escaped the Four Fiends Imprisoning Heaven Array and discovered that He Tai, Vast Sea, and Rong Mingtao had surrounded him.
• Vast Sea revealed that his divine soul inhabited a living puppet, and he joined He Tai and Rong Mingtao in attacking Song Changsheng.
• Song Changsheng sent Little Fifth to hold off He Tai’s Silver Flood Dragon Mace and used the Grand Profound Thunder Cloud Pot to trap Vast Sea and Rong Mingtao in a thunderstorm.
• Song Changsheng wounded He Tai with close-range blows and pierced his chest with a Wind Blade released from an Azure Phoenix Jade Pendant.
• Vast Sea broke free as Song Changsheng prepared to finish He Tai, forcing Song Changsheng to use Gourd Soul Slash.

Song Changsheng escaped Vast Sea and Rong Mingtao, then turned back and killed He Tai before the other two caught up. Cornered and bolstered by an Exhausting Body Pill, he unleashed Yin-Yang Annihilation as Vast Sea and Rong Mingtao tried to wear him down.

• Song Changsheng escaped He Tai's ambush and sent Message Flying Swords toward Vast Peak and Heavenly Sound Mountain to summon reinforcements.
• Song Changsheng lured He Tai into a one-on-one fight, defeated him, and killed him with a sword before annihilating his soul.
• Vast Sea and Rong Mingtao caught up with Song Changsheng, who swallowed Shen Qingxiu's Exhausting Body Pill to boost his strength.
• Song Changsheng focused his attacks on Vast Sea while enduring Rong Mingtao's spells, forcing Vast Sea to unleash a massive sphere of compressed river water.
• Song Changsheng invoked Yin-Yang Annihilation, and the enormous eyes behind him began to open.

Song Changsheng fought Vast Sea and Rong Mingtao to a near-fatal standstill, while his clan received his plea for aid and attacked the enemy camps at Vast Peak. The Song Clan routed the Blazing Sun Sect and Rong Clan, though Song Changsheng’s fate remained unknown as reinforcements raced to find him.

• Vast Sea detonated a Blood Galuo Fruit, breaking Song Changsheng’s ability and injuring all three fighters; Song Changsheng then destroyed the Grand Profound Thunder Cloud Pot, killing Vast Sea’s body and critically wounding Rong Mingtao before falling into the river unconscious.
• Song Luzhou received Song Changsheng’s message asking for aid, and Song Xianming confirmed its authenticity before Drunken Old Man urged them to attack the enemy camp.
• Song Xianming and Drunken Old Man charged the Blazing Sun Sect and Rong Clan camps with Yuan Tianshu, while Zhang Hongguang fled and abandoned his forces.
• Yuan Tianshu attacked the Blazing Sun Sect forces as Song Luzhou led the Song Clan into the battle, and many enemy cultivators fled or were killed.
• Song Qingxing and the others arrived aboard the Black Star Battleship, destroyed the Rong Clan breakout group, and helped the Song Clan wipe out the trapped enemies, crippling both opposing forces.

After the Blazing Sun Sect and Rong Clan suffered devastating losses, Song Xianming and his allies searched for the missing Song Changsheng and found evidence of a desperate battle involving Demonic Path Followers. Unable to determine whether Changsheng had escaped or been captured, Song Xianming and Bai Zhengchun prepared to confront the Rong Clan, then caught a spying spirit beast that might know what happened.

• Wang Yuesong ordered the Blazing Sun Sect to hide news of its defeat, recall its disciples, and abandon its outside holdings, while unrest spread through Yang Province and Xiangzhou.
• Song Xianming and the Drunken Old Man followed the battle traces and met Bai Zhengchun and Shen Qingxiu, who explained that a blockade and a Four Fiends Imprisoning Heaven Array had stopped them from reaching Song Changsheng.
• Bai Zhengchun found He Tai's corpse, Song Changsheng's blood, and a fragment of Changsheng's self-destructed Dharma Artifact, but could not tell whether Changsheng had escaped or been captured.
• Song Xianming learned that Changsheng's Soul Lamp had only dimmed and declared he would demand his grandson's whereabouts from the Rong Clan, while Bai Zhengchun vowed to accompany him.
• Shen Qingxiu caught a spying, intelligent pangolin-like beast, and the group realized it might provide clues about Song Changsheng.

Song Xianming and the others searched the Fragrant Dew River for the missing Song Changsheng while news of his battle spread throughout the Great Qi Cultivation World. Song Changsheng awakened in the care of Kongsang Xiruo, a sheltered merfolk girl, and promised to keep her location secret as she asked him about the outside world.

• A little beast told Song Xianming's group that Song Changsheng had fallen into the Fragrant Dew River after a devastating battle.
• Bai Zhengchun's tracking ritual and repeated searches along the river failed to locate Song Changsheng, so Shen Qingxiu urged Song Xianming to seek the Great City Lord's help.
• Reports of Song Changsheng's Purple Palace breakthrough, Innate Divine Ability, and fight against three opponents spread across the Great Qi Cultivation World.
• Blood Eye grew furious over the Holy Sect's failed operation and vowed that Song Changsheng could not be allowed to live.
• Song Changsheng awoke nine days after Kongsang Xiruo rescued him and removed the Blood Fiend Qi from his body.
• Kongsang Xiruo revealed that she had never met another human, and Song Changsheng promised not to harm her or reveal her location before she asked him about the outside world.

Song Changsheng searched for a way out of Kongsang Xiruo’s underwater palace and ultimately entered a dangerous array that might trap him forever. Before leaving, he promised to visit her again and exchanged gifts with his lonely new friend.

• Song Changsheng warned Kongsang Xiruo that the outside world was dangerous, then discovered he could not contact his clan or leave through the restrictions.
• After recovering from his injuries, Song Changsheng examined the barrier but could not find a way through it.
• Kongsang Xiruo revealed her father’s array as another possible exit, and Song Changsheng chose to enter it despite the risk.
• Song Changsheng promised Kongsang Xiruo he would visit again and gave her a sword-shaped pendant and Moonlight Wisdom Orchid seeds.
• Kongsang Xiruo gave Song Changsheng a jade box, and he stepped into the vortex as she watched him leave.

Song Changsheng returned from the hidden waters with the Cold Pond Coral Kongsang Xiruo had given him and reunited with his family at Vast Peak. After learning the Song Clan’s heavy losses, he ordered compensation for its allies and declared a campaign against the Blazing Sun Sect and the Xiangzhou Rong Clan.

• Song Changsheng realized Kongsang Xiruo’s father had made the underwater passage a test of courage, then discovered her gift was a precious Cold Pond Coral.
• Song Changsheng returned to Vast Peak, reunited with Xia Yunxue, and told Song Xianming how he had survived; he vowed to repay Kongsang Xiruo’s kindness.
• Song Changsheng convened a Grand Clan Meeting and learned that the Song Clan and its affiliated forces had suffered heavy casualties, while Song Xianyun was too badly injured to attend.
• Song Changsheng ordered battle rewards, double compensation, and access to parts of the Family Treasury for allied forces that had fought for the Song Clan.
• Song Changsheng declared that the Song Clan would prepare for war and attack the Blazing Sun Sect and the Xiangzhou Rong Clan in ten days.

After returning to the Song Clan, Song Changsheng visited the gravely ill Song Xianyun and discovered that his lifespan was nearly exhausted. He also heard Song Qingxing’s wish to become Dao companions with Song Qingxi, then began preparing for the battle against the Blazing Sun Sect and the Rong Clan without asking Sunset City for aid.

• Song Yulong thanked Song Changsheng and offered his clan’s help in the coming battle, but Song Changsheng told him to rest and focus on nurturing his household.
• Song Changsheng visited Song Xianyun and used the Light of Revival, but realized the old man’s injuries and dwindling lifespan could not be reversed.
• Song Qingxing asked Song Changsheng to approve his becoming Dao companions with Song Qingxi, and Song Changsheng told him to wait until she could be consulted.
• Song Changsheng wrote to the Great City Lord about his return and plans to attack the Blazing Sun Sect and the Rong Clan, but deliberately did not request Sunset City’s support.

Song Changsheng led the Song Clan’s forces into Yang Province to destroy the Blazing Sun Sect and subdue its allies, while Wang Yuesong prepared for a desperate defense. The Black Star Battleship reached Tianyang Mountain, where Song Changsheng called for Zhang Hongguang to come out.

• Song Luzhou assigned Song Clan elders and cultivators to the campaign, and Song Changsheng led them away aboard the Black Star Battleship.
• Song Changsheng killed a Blazing Sun Sect spy, ordered Wind Whisper Hall to monitor the region, and allowed news of the invasion to spread.
• Wang Yuesong learned that Song Changsheng was alive, ordered the Blazing Sun Sect to prepare for battle, and resolved to defend the sect despite receiving no reply from potential allies.
• Several Yang Province clan patriarchs boarded the Black Star Battleship and abandoned their alliance against the Song Clan; Song Changsheng explained that he wanted them to witness the Blazing Sun Sect’s defeat.
• The Black Star Battleship arrived at Tianyang Mountain, and Song Changsheng shouted for Zhang Hongguang to come out.

Song Changsheng and the Song Clan attacked the Blazing Sun Sect, forcing Zhang Hongguang to emerge from seclusion despite his fatal injuries. Zhang Hongguang fought Song Changsheng and attempted to self-destruct, but Song Changsheng killed him with Yin-Yang Annihilation, leaving the Blazing Sun Sect’s formation under attack.

• Song Changsheng ordered the Song Clan to attack the Blazing Sun Sect’s formation while Zhang Hongguang refused to emerge, and Huang Liqun used the formation’s Control Tokens and the Blazing Flame Star-Scorching Bead to defend it.
• Song Changsheng and Song Xianming searched for flaws in the formation as Wang Yuesong repeatedly begged Zhang Hongguang to emerge from seclusion.
• Wang Yuesong broke through the Bronze Gate and found Zhang Hongguang gravely weakened by Song Qingxing’s sword wound, then persuaded him to fight for the sect.
• Zhang Hongguang emerged and burned his origin to battle Song Changsheng, who gradually gained the advantage with his techniques and Spirit Severing Gourd.
• Zhang Hongguang tried to self-destruct, but Song Changsheng suppressed him with his Yin-Yang Divine Ability and destroyed his body and divine soul.

Song Changsheng led the Song Clan’s assault on the Blazing Sun Sect and refused to spare its survivors, even as the Golden Crow Sect intervened. Zhan Tianxia exposed the Blazing Sun Sect’s links to evil demons, and Chen Mingzhao destroyed the Scripture Repository, ending the sect.

• Song Changsheng killed Zhang Hongguang, and the Song Clan broke through the Blazing Sun Sect’s grand formation and drove its disciples up Tianyang Peak.
• Song Changsheng killed the Blazing Sun Sect disciples hiding in a cave and joined the siege of the Scripture Repository, where Wang Yuesong held the classics as leverage.
• Song Changsheng rejected Wang Yuesong’s offer to trade the classics for the survivors’ escape, but Chen Mingzhao arrived and asked the Song Clan to stop its attack.
• Zhan Tianxia presented a Blood Galuo Fruit as evidence connecting the Blazing Sun Sect to evil demons and Vast Sea, persuading Chen Mingzhao to withdraw his support.
• Chen Mingzhao declared the Blazing Sun Sect guilty and destroyed the Scripture Repository with a single palm strike.

Song Changsheng destroyed the Blazing Sun Sect, then intimidated Yang Province’s clan patriarchs into obedience by exploiting their secret alliance against the Song Clan. After undermining their trust in one another, he led his people toward Xiangzhou to confront the Rong Clan.

• Chen Mingzhao personally destroyed the Blazing Sun Sect’s last hope and left the remaining cleanup to Song Changsheng and his clan.
• Zhan Tianxia warned Song Changsheng that attacking the Rong Clan could unite the other Violet Palace Forces against the Song Clan.
• Song Changsheng ordered Song Qingxing and the clan members to clear the battlefield, cremate the bodies, and salvage the sect’s resources and texts.
• Song Changsheng told the seven Yang Province patriarchs that the Song Clan lacked the manpower to govern the province and proposed appointing one of them as its representative.
• Song Changsheng named Chu Nanfeng as the representative, then revealed enough knowledge of the patriarchs’ secret alliance to frighten them and make them distrust one another.
• Song Changsheng led his people toward Xiangzhou.