Chapter Summaries

Song Changsheng and Niu Dazhuang battled Purple Fiend, whose Ancient Wu bloodline and Wu Poison made him a formidable opponent. After all three were gravely injured and Song Changsheng moved to finish Purple Fiend, the palace’s restrictions suddenly bound them and sealed their dharma power.

• Purple Fiend attacked Song Changsheng and Niu Dazhuang with a golden dragon and arrows coated in Wu Poison, but they identified the poison and fought back.
• Song Changsheng and Niu Dazhuang pressed Purple Fiend with their divine abilities, forcing him to reveal his mixed Ancient Wu bloodline and transform.
• Song Changsheng activated his Five Beast Battle Body while Niu Dazhuang used his Nine Revolutions Golden Body, and together they gradually wounded Purple Fiend.
• Song Changsheng struck Purple Fiend with the Spirit Severing Blade and Mountain Shaking Halberd, but Purple Fiend counterattacked and severely injured him.
• Niu Dazhuang shattered Purple Fiend’s left arm with a powerful punch, but his own golden body broke and he lost the ability to fight.
• Song Changsheng recovered enough to approach the fallen Purple Fiend, but the palace’s restrictions suddenly bound all three and sealed their dharma power.

Song Changsheng and his companions discovered that the voice behind the altar belonged to Yusu, a Nascent Soul True Lord who had survived for five thousand years. Yusu began using them to power a Conversion Array so she could merge her soul with Zhuang Yuechan, leaving Song Changsheng helpless as the process began.

• Song Changsheng and Niu Dazhuang heard a voice from the metal sphere, which opened to reveal Yusu's Nascent Soul and Divine Sense projection.
• Yusu explained that she had hidden her soul in her Nascent Soul and vessel, then revealed her plan to take over Zhuang Yuechan through a Conversion Array.
• Yusu raised Zhuang Yuechan from a jade coffin and restrained Song Changsheng, Niu Dazhuang, and Purple Fiend around the altar.
• Yusu activated the altar and used black chains to drain the three men's dharma power, completing the Conversion Array.
• Yusu began sending her memories and soul power into Zhuang Yuechan, while Song Changsheng shouted for her to stop.

Song Changsheng disrupted Yusu’s attempt to possess Zhuang Yuechan, then fought his way out of the Golden Profound Stone Cave with her and Niu Dazhuang. The story then shifted to the Wu tribe, where Wu Man announced Wu Xiao’s death and the tribe vowed revenge.

• Song Changsheng used the Restoration Pill to launch Violet Void Divine Fire at Yusu’s Nascent Soul, destroying her before she could fuse with Zhuang Yuechan.
• Song Changsheng treated Zhuang Yuechan and revived Niu Dazhuang, then Niu Dazhuang killed Purple Fiend and collected the fallen cultivators’ belongings.
• Song Changsheng and Niu Dazhuang fought through the cultivators gathered around the Golden Profound Stone Cave and escaped after three hours of battle.
• Wu Qian told the Wu tribe that Wu Xiao was dead, and Wu Man led the grieving tribe in calling for revenge.

Song Changsheng sought Peng Siying’s help to find a faster way back to Sunset City, hoping to get treatment for Zhuang Yuechan. Peng Siying gave him a Black Market token for cross-world travel, and he repaid her by revealing the location of True Monarch Yusu’s burial site.

• Song Changsheng decided to return to Crimson Firmament City and ask Peng Siying for help, despite Niu Dazhuang warning him about accumulating favors.
• Song Changsheng went alone to the Wanlong Trading House and learned from its attendant that Peng Siying had withdrawn from others after family troubles.
• Peng Siying recognized Song Changsheng as one of the cultivators who rescued Zhuang Yuechan and learned that Yuechan was important to him.
• Song Changsheng asked how to shorten the journey to Sunset City, and Peng Siying gave him a Black Market token that could grant access to cross-world teleportation arrays.
• Song Changsheng told Peng Siying that the Golden Profound Stone Cave was True Monarch Yusu’s burial site and asked her to keep his involvement secret.

Song Changsheng and Mu Guibai learned that Zhuang Yuechan would awaken with memories from True Monarch Yusu, and the Medicine King briefly roused her so they could speak. Zhuang Yuechan gave Song Changsheng the Geng Metal Qi she had risked her life to obtain, and he promised to wait for her and marry her if she still remembered their bond after merging the memories.

• Song Changsheng and Niu Dazhuang brought Zhuang Yuechan to the Black Market, where the Medicine King treated her and explained that she might remain unconscious for years while merging foreign memories.
• The Medicine King assured Song Changsheng and Mu Guibai that Zhuang Yuechan’s own consciousness would remain dominant, then used golden needles to awaken her briefly.
• Mu Guibai asked Song Changsheng and Niu Dazhuang what had happened, and Zhuang Yuechan explained that the Blood Demon had ambushed her and likely intercepted her plea for help.
• Song Changsheng comforted Zhuang Yuechan, who gave him the Geng Metal Qi she had obtained for his breakthrough and confessed she feared falling behind him.
• Song Changsheng told Zhuang Yuechan to hold on to her own identity and promised to wait for her and marry her if she remembered their bond after merging Yusu’s memories.

Song Changsheng vowed to wait for Zhuang Yuechan to awaken, then returned to the Song Clan and secluded himself with the Geng Metal Qi. Two months later, Song Changxue and Song Qingming arrived in Yang Province to hold an Immortal Ascension Assembly, while Song Qingming exposed a conspiracy implicating subordinates within several local clans.

• Song Changsheng promised Mu Guibai that he would remain devoted to Zhuang Yuechan and wait for her, however long her unconsciousness lasted.
• Song Changsheng visited Xing Zhao’s grave, learned that Song Qingluo had entered seclusion to attempt Foundation Establishment, and then returned to cultivate with the Geng Metal Qi.
• Song Changxue and Song Qingming arrived aboard the Black Star Battleship and prepared to gather eligible children from the cities under Tianyang Peak.
• Song Qingming told the local patriarchs that captured attackers belonged to an alliance operating under their names, and he urged them to investigate their subordinates within a month.
• The patriarchs hurried away to investigate, while the Immortal Ascension Assembly began and the local mortals cooperated with the Song Clan.

Song Changyang and Song Changxue oversaw an Immortal Ascension Assembly that discovered gifted twins Qin Ze and Qin Yu, while the Song Clan organized the other children with Spirit Roots into an academy. As the Seven Great Clans explained their role in an attack and blamed the Vast Righteousness Alliance, Old Ghost Chihuo ordered them to raid Xiang Province’s Green Ape Mountain Range.

• Song Changyang met the twins Qin Ze and Qin Yu during Spirit Root testing and explained that cultivators were not immortals.
• Song Changxue discovered that Qin Ze and Qin Yu had nearly identical Metal-Water and Metal-Fire Dual Spiritual Roots, and arranged for them and their family to be brought in.
• Song Changxue completed the assembly’s testing of two hundred thousand children, selected fifty for the Song Clan, and helped establish an academy for the remaining talented children under Old Ghost Chihuo.
• Song Changxue demanded an explanation from the Seven Great Clans for the attack, and their patriarchs said disloyal clansmen had plotted with the Vast Righteousness Alliance.
• Old Ghost Chihuo ordered the Seven Great Clans to execute the captured plotters and raid Green Ape Mountain in Xiang Province, planting the Song Clan’s banner there before year’s end.

Song Changsheng emerged from seclusion after refining Geng Metal Qi and learned that the Azure Ape Wang Clan had submitted to the Song Clan. When he met its young patriarch, Wang Mingren, to ask why the clan had surrendered, Wang Mingren broke down and begged him to save the lives of the Wang Clan’s eight hundred members.

• Old Ghost Chihuo forced the Seven Great Clans to execute their own rebellious clansmen, then sent Song Changxue back to the Song Clan.
• Song Changxue told Song Qingming about Chihuo’s harsh tactics, and the Black Star Battleship returned to Ling Province three days later.
• Song Changsheng spent more than a year refining Geng Metal Qi, then emerged from seclusion and read a report on the lineage’s recent affairs.
• A deacon told Song Changsheng that the Seven Great Clans had attacked the Azure Ape Wang Clan, which surrendered as soon as it saw the Song Clan’s banner.
• Song Changsheng decided the Seven Great Clans deserved praise for their actions and arranged to meet Wang Mingren, the Azure Ape Wang Clan’s patriarch.
• Wang Mingren fell to his knees before Song Changsheng and begged him to save the lives of more than eight hundred Wang Clan members.

Wang Mingren asked Song Changsheng to protect the Wang Clan after the Hengyang Lu Clan threatened them over a newly discovered spirit stone and black gold vein. Song Changsheng learned that the Heavenly Sword Sect had not ordered the threat, negotiated a possible black gold partnership with Ling Jiuxiao, and then set out to inspect the vein with Wang Mingren.

• Wang Mingren told Song Changsheng that the Wang Clan had found a rich miniature spirit stone vein and a large black gold vein, and that the Hengyang Lu Clan had threatened to destroy them.
• Wang Mingren explained that the Wang Clan had already pledged allegiance to the Song Clan after mistaking its forces for an attack over the vein.
• Song Changsheng agreed to mediate and traveled with Wang Mingren to Tianxuan Mountain, where they met Lu Zhenghui and Ling Jiuxiao of the Heavenly Sword Sect.
• Ling Jiuxiao said he had ordered Lu Zhenghui to gather black gold but had punished him for abusing the sect’s name to threaten the Wang Clan.
• Song Changsheng proposed that the Song Clan mine the black gold and sell it to the Heavenly Sword Sect at a discount, and Ling Jiuxiao agreed to consider the offer.
• Song Changsheng and Wang Mingren set out to inspect the spirit stone vein.

Song Changsheng discovered that Lu Tianchou had been abducted and learned from Li Anmin that Blood Demon Remnants were behind the kidnappings of several Heavenly Craftsmen. After Li Anmin revealed he could track Lu Tianchou and Lu Yuxiu, Song Changsheng and Zhan Tianxia rallied the major powers to prepare a rescue at Blazing Mountain.

• Song Changsheng inspected the Wang Clan’s rich Spirit Stone Vein and Black Gold vein after Wang Mingren offered the Spirit Stone Vein in gratitude.
• Song Changsheng found Lu Tianchou’s ruined home on Qiaojiang Mountain and concluded that a Purple Palace Cultivator had recently abducted him.
• Song Changsheng spread news of Lu Tianchou’s disappearance, prompting investigators to discover that two other rogue Heavenly Craftsmen had also vanished.
• Li Anmin told Song Changsheng that a Blood Demon Remnant had abducted Lu Tianchou and Lu Yuxiu, and revealed that a pair of earrings let him track them.
• Song Changsheng took Li Anmin to Zhan Tianxia, who secretly contacted the major sects and factions to organize a rescue at Blazing Mountain.

Zhan Tianxia organized a joint assault on Blazing Mountain to rescue Lu Tianchou and the other abducted Heavenly Craftsmen before the Blood Demon Sect could use them to build Sky Battleships. The attackers reached Blazing Mountain and launched their surprise strike, while Song Changsheng entered the mountain with the rescue group.

• Shen Qingxiu explained that Blazing Mountain’s Fire Spirit Vein could support Sky Battleship construction, prompting Zhan Tianxia to suspect that the Blood Demon Sect had abducted the Heavenly Craftsmen for that purpose.
• Zhan Tianxia arranged for six sects to join the assault, and Shen Qingxiu, Song Changsheng, Niu Dazhuang, and Li Anmin traveled to Little Green Peak.
• Thirteen Purple Palace Cultivators gathered at Little Green Peak and agreed to let Demon Subduing Hall Deputy Hall Master Wang Tiansheng lead the operation.
• Wang Tiansheng distributed Demon-Cleansing Pills, and representatives of the Golden Crow Sect and Heavenly Meridian Sect sealed Blazing Mountain against teleportation.
• The cultivators subdued the Blood Demon sentries and split into a nine-person rescue group and a four-person support group, with Niu Dazhuang assigned to support.
• Wang Tiansheng led the rescue group into Blazing Mountain, where they killed Blood Demon Sect members by surprise and reached the mountain’s heart.

Song Changsheng broke through Blazing Mountain to rescue Lu Yuxiu and the captured craftsmen, while Wang Tiansheng’s group attacked the Blood Demon Sect. He found Lu Tianchou fighting near the wrecked Sky Battleship, rescued him from the Blood Demons, and asked what had happened.

• Youming ordered the Blood Demon Sect’s helmsmen to face the attackers and sent a deacon to destroy the unfinished Sky Battleship.
• Song Changsheng and Wang Tiansheng’s allies broke the Wutu Heavenly Void Formation, and Wang Tiansheng engaged Youming as Song Changsheng searched for the captives.
• Song Changsheng found Lu Yuxiu in a dungeon, revived her, and concealed her in a formation while he went to find Lu Tianchou.
• Song Changsheng reached an underground chamber and saw that the Sky Battleship had broken apart and was sinking into magma.
• Song Changsheng joined Lu Tianchou’s battle, killed the Blood Demons, and asked Lu Tianchou to explain what had happened.

Song Changsheng rescued Lu Tianchou and other captives from the Blood Demons, then recruited Lu Tianchou into the Song Clan to help turn the Black Star Battleship into a true Sky Battleship. Meanwhile, Hun Sha punished the sole surviving Blood Demon helmsman from the battle before hearing that trouble had arisen in Meng Province.

• Song Changsheng learned that the Blood Demons had abducted skilled cultivators to repair a Sky Battleship, which was destroyed with ten of its workers aboard.
• Song Changsheng rescued the surviving captives and learned that the righteous forces had killed four Blood Demon Purple Palace Cultivators, though Misa escaped and Youming killed Zhang Quan and Bai Jue in a self-destruction.
• Many rescued cultivators accepted or considered recruitment, while Lu Tianchou refused the other forces and agreed to join the Song Clan as a lineage offering.
• Song Changsheng promised Lu Tianchou the resources and manpower to build a true Sky Battleship, and Lu Tianchou accepted the offer.
• Hun Sha blamed Misa for the defeat at Blazing Mountain, kicked him, and then received a report from a Blood-Robed Figure that something had happened in Meng Province.

Hun Sha lost control of the Holy Sect after Mie and the majority of its senior ranks forced her to surrender the Holy Fire Token. Song Changsheng visited the Wind Whisper Hall’s training ground, where he learned about its promising young recruits and watched Jiang Ling accept Wu Chi’s challenge.

• After learning that Soul Returnless and Blood Consort had destroyed the Meng Province branch helm, Hun Sha ordered the Protectors to pursue them.
• Mie and the senior ranks invoked sect rules to remove Hun Sha as Sect Leader, and she surrendered the Holy Fire Token after securing a promise that her followers would not be harmed.
• Song Changsheng visited the Wind Whisper Hall’s training ground and heard the deacon describe gifted recruits Jiang Ling, the Qin brothers, Wu Chi, and Song Xue.
• Qin Yu guessed that Song Changsheng might be the Patriarch, while Jiang Ling recognized him and wrestled with her mixed feelings about the Song Clan and her uncle’s death.
• Wu Chi challenged Jiang Ling to spar, and she accepted.

Song Changsheng watched Jiang Ling defeat Wu Chi, then visited Ding Qi and gave him the next part of an improved cultivation method. After Ding Qi chose to become a covert agent, Song Changsheng sensed two simultaneous breakthroughs at Vast Peak, including Xi'er’s.

• Jiang Ling used her movement technique and knowledge of Wu Chi’s fighting style to defeat him, impressing Song Changsheng.
• Song Changsheng visited Ding Qi, checked his cultivation, and gave him the Foundation Establishment Induction jade slip.
• Ding Qi chose to leave Wind Whisper Hall and become a covert agent for the Lineage.
• Song Changsheng sensed a spiritual energy vortex above Vast Peak and realized Xi'er was about to break through.
• A second vortex appeared nearby as another person began breaking through at the same time.

Song Changsheng and the others prevented Song Qingxi and Song Qingshi’s simultaneous breakthroughs from interfering with each other, and both survived their inner demon trials to reach Foundation Establishment. Song Qingxing then proposed marriage to Song Qingxi, leaving Song Changsheng to ask whether she was willing.

• Song Changsheng, Song Qingxing, and Song Chang'an slowed the merging Spiritual Qi Vortices until Song Xianming and Yuan Tianshu arrived and helped separate them.
• Song Qingshi faced memories of his father during the Divine Soul Stage, while Song Qingxi struggled against an inner demon that showed her a future of separation and loss.
• Song Qingshi and Song Qingxi each overcame their inner demons and successfully completed Foundation Establishment.
• Song Qingxing rushed to embrace Song Qingxi after she emerged from her chamber, and Song Changsheng scolded him for barging in before she had washed.
• Song Qingxing knelt before Song Changsheng and asked to marry Song Qingxi as his Dao companion, and Song Changsheng asked her whether she was willing.

Song Qingxing and Song Qingxi swore heart demon oaths and became Dao companions, while the Song Clan’s young cultivators achieved a record number of Foundation Establishment breakthroughs. Six years into Song Changsheng’s seclusion, eighteen-year-old Song Qingyun descended the mountain for his first Combat Trial, a mission to find missing Chen Clan cultivators and capture an evil cultivator.

• Song Qingxing and Song Qingxi agreed to become Dao companions and each swore a heart demon oath to remain faithful and protect the other.
• Over three months, Song Qingxia, Song Qinghong, and Song Qinghua successfully broke through, while Song Qingchi and Song Changling failed and suffered serious injuries; the clan held a Foundation Establishment Ceremony for the five successful cultivators.
• Song Qingxi and Song Qingxing exchanged tokens and went to Little Green Mountain, while Song Changsheng entrusted clan affairs to Song Luzhou and entered seclusion.
• During Song Changsheng’s seclusion, Song Qingluo achieved Foundation Establishment, and in its sixth year Song Qingyun began his first Combat Trial with Song Qingyuan and Song Qinghong.
• Song Qingyun and his companions received a mission to find two missing Chen Clan cultivators and capture an unidentified evil cultivator, then traveled for three days to a village where the cultivators had disappeared.
• Song Luyun revealed that Song Qingqian had gone ahead to safeguard the trial and that Song Qingyun had another safeguard as the three prepared to spend the night in the village.

Song Qingyun, Song Qingyuan, and Song Qinghong entered Big Willow Village to investigate the disappearance of Chen Clan cultivators, only to find its dead villagers attacking them. They confronted Can Hun at the village entrance, where Song Qingyun recognized the attackers as Corpse Ghosts and charged into battle.

• Song Qingyun warned Song Qingyuan and Song Qinghong that the silent, unlit village seemed suspicious, but the three entered Big Willow Village to seek shelter.
• Song Qingyuan paid a pale, wary villager with jade for lodging, while Song Qingqian chased a fleeing figure after spotting a spiritual-power disturbance outside the village.
• A thunderstorm brought frigid fog, and Song Qingyun and Song Qinghong fought off attacks from the burly host, whose body showed signs of long-term death and decay.
• Song Qingyun led the group through the fog and attacking villagers to the village entrance, where they found a barrier and confronted the gray-robed old man, Can Hun.
• Can Hun summoned more dead villagers with a white banner, and Song Qingyun identified them as Corpse Ghosts before charging forward to destroy them.

Song Qingyun and his companions fought Can Hun, who forged the Extreme Yin Blood Banner from the village mist, and defeated him and his two corpse servants. Afterward, the ground split open beneath them, and a streak of light shot skyward.

• Song Qingqian struck down a flying Black Robe Person, discovered it was only a skin beneath a robe, and turned back toward Big Willow Village.
• Can Hun absorbed the village mist into his banner, revealed that he had forged the Extreme Yin Blood Banner, and attacked Song Qingyun and his companions.
• Can Hun summoned Corpse One and Corpse Two, forcing Song Qinghong and Song Qingyuan to fight them while Song Qingyun faced Can Hun alone.
• Song Qingyun used the Water Severing Spear to pierce Can Hun and break the blood banner, then killed Can Hun, Corpse One, and Corpse Two.
• Song Qingyun checked on Song Qingyuan after Song Qinghong reported his injury, but an earthquake split the ground and sent a streak of light into the sky.

Song Qingyun and his companions encountered a powerful Coffin-Bearer at Big Willow Village, while Song Qingyun’s hidden guardian Jinxuan secretly pursued him and obtained a pearl from the ice coffin. Song Changsheng emerged from six years of seclusion and heard Qingyun’s account, leaving him focused on the Coffin-Bearer.

• A blindfolded man carrying an ice coffin appeared in Big Willow Village, and Song Qingqian arrived to question him before letting him leave because he was too powerful to fight safely.
• Song Qingqian found the remains of an immortal’s cave beneath the village and told Song Qingyun and the others that the lineage would investigate it.
• Jinxuan persuaded Song Qingyun to let it pursue the Coffin-Bearer, then returned with a snow-white clam pearl taken from inside the ice coffin.
• Song Qingyun and his companions returned to the lineage, where Jinxuan hid from Aunt Xue and offered the pearl to Song Qingyun.
• Song Changsheng emerged from seclusion, reunited with Song Qingyun, and listened as his son recounted the trial and the Coffin-Bearer.