Chapter Summaries

Song Changsheng identified Song Youfu’s mouse demon as an atavistic Silver Ring Mouse with the potential to become a Silver Ring Treasure Hunting Mouse, and helped the two form an Equal Contract. Song Youfu left to cultivate, then buried the remains of Xuan Chenzi, Old Devil Wang, and their companion near a river at the foot of Vast Peak.

• Song Changsheng examined the mouse demon and recognized it as an atavistic Silver Ring Mouse whose bloodline could awaken into a Treasure Hunting Mouse.
• Song Changsheng explained that the mouse’s treasure-finding potential and Song Youfu’s good fortune made their meeting a valuable chance for both Song Youfu and the Song Clan.
• Song Youfu agreed to an Equal Contract with the mouse, and Song Changsheng bound them together under the name Yinhuan.
• Song Changsheng urged Song Youfu to cultivate diligently at the Cold Pond and learn about beast taming from Youbai.
• Song Youfu asked permission to bury the remains of those whose treasures he had taken, and Song Changsheng allowed him to choose a burial place outside Vast Peak.
• Song Youfu buried Xuan Chenzi, Old Devil Wang, and their companion together beside a river at the foot of Vast Peak.

Song Changsheng proposed combining the Song Clan’s members’ strength with the Five Elements Yin-Yang Great Array to make its defenses far more powerful. Song Xianming was intrigued but doubted whether they had the knowledge needed to create such a battle array.

• Song Youfu endured nearly two years of harsh cultivation, expelled the Baleful Qi Essence, and began seclusion to break through to Foundation Establishment.
• Song Changsheng and Song Xianming discussed whether hard work or finding a cultivation path suited to oneself mattered more, then agreed to speed up work on the great array.
• Song Changsheng suggested adapting ancient battle arrays to combine the strength of Song Clan cultivators with the Mountain Protection Array.
• Song Changsheng explained that the clan’s shared cultivation method made its members suited to form a battle array and channel their power through the great array.
• Song Xianming was moved by the proposal but wondered whether Song Changsheng had a way to overcome their lack of battle-array expertise.

Song Changsheng explained how the Song Clan could eventually strengthen its Five Elements Yin-Yang Great Array by assigning cultivators to crucial nodes, though the clan lacked enough Purple Palace Cultivators to realize the full design. Meanwhile, Jinxuan began its Third-Tier breakthrough and swallowed Golden Armor’s Demon Core to overcome its deficient bloodline; its transformation had begun, with no further obstacles expected.

• Song Changsheng told Song Xianming that the Five Elements Yin-Yang Great Array could be strengthened by stationing cultivators at key formation nodes.
• Song Xianming judged the full formation impractical for now because the Song Clan lacked five Purple Palace Cultivators and would need to commit most of its adult cultivators.
• Song Changsheng anticipated that Song Qingxing and Jinxuan might eventually become formation masters, and he trusted Jinxuan to succeed in its imminent breakthrough.
• After seven years in seclusion, Jinxuan struggled to release its bloodline power, but its low bloodline concentration threatened its Third-Tier breakthrough.
• Jinxuan swallowed Golden Armor’s Demon Core, which eased its pain and started its transformation; it shed its old shell and consumed Spiritual Herbs and Spirit Fruits to replenish its strength.
• Jinxuan began its final charge as its body and new shell expanded and hardened, releasing its bloodline power on the path to becoming a Great Demon.

After completing the Five Elements Yin-Yang Great Array, Song Changsheng strengthened it with five Dharma Artifacts and Violet Void Divine Fire while the Song Clan celebrated its new protection. Song Youfu began breaking through to Foundation Establishment, and Song Changsheng prepared to travel to Tuo Province to protect Jinxuan during its Third-Tier breakthrough.

• Song Luzhou reflected on the clan’s growing spirit-wine business and decided it was time to change the Song Clan’s centuries-old structure.
• Song Changsheng activated the completed Five Elements Yin-Yang Great Array, which enveloped the clan’s five Spirit Peaks in a vast barrier.
• Song Changsheng placed five Dharma Artifacts in the Great Array’s Formation Eyes and added Violet Void Divine Fire to the Southern Li Fire Great Array.
• Song Youfu began breaking through to Foundation Establishment, and Song Changsheng and Song Xianming judged his progress stable.
• Song Changsheng sensed that Jinxuan was approaching a breakthrough to the Third-Tier and decided to travel to Tuo Province to protect it after Song Youfu finished his breakthrough.

Song Changsheng found Jinxuan struggling to break through because a Demon King’s Source Power from Golden Armor’s inner core had overwhelmed her. He helped her refine it, enabling her to break through to the third tier, then absorbed the remaining power himself before a hostile Great Demon approached.

• Song Changsheng followed the blood pact to Jinxuan’s Spirit Peak, where thousands of Demon Beasts had gathered beneath her command.
• Jinxuan revealed that Golden Armor’s inner core held a Demon King’s Source Power that she could neither refine nor expel, leaving her unable to break through.
• Song Changsheng divided the Source Power into portions so Jinxuan could refine it, while he endured the backlash.
• Jinxuan awakened the Golden Land Turtle inheritance and broke through to the third tier as the Demon Beasts bowed to her.
• Song Changsheng drew out the remaining Source Power and refined it, improving his cultivation before Jinxuan finished consolidating her breakthrough.
• A Great Demon approached the Spirit Peak, and Song Changsheng left the Immortal Cave to confront it while Jinxuan continued consolidating her cultivation.

Song Changsheng defeated and captured a One-Horned Black Rhino that had been drawn to Jinxuan’s breakthrough, then learned through a soul search that the Black Dragon Demon King was rebuilding his forces east of the Canglan River. He realized the Demon Race might soon threaten the Great Qi Cultivation World again and decided to send the warning to Sunset City.

• A One-Horned Black Rhino charged toward Jinxuan’s spirit peak, and Song Changsheng intercepted it to protect the demon beasts gathered there.
• Song Changsheng fought the Rhino with Stabilizing Rivers and Mountains, overwhelmed it with his speed and swordsmanship, and sealed it in the Hundred Fiends Qiongqi Cauldron after it tried to self-destruct.
• The Rhino refused Song Changsheng’s offer to become the Song Clan’s Mountain Protecting Spirit Beast, so Song Changsheng searched its soul and killed it.
• Song Changsheng learned that the Black Dragon Demon King had ordered the Rhino to consolidate Demon Race forces east of the Canglan River.
• Song Changsheng recognized the threat posed by the returning Demon Race and resolved to report the news to Sunset City.

Song Changsheng stopped the One-Horned Black Rhino and let Jinxuan decide whether to return to Vast Peak or lead the demon beasts to the Demon Domain. Jinxuan set out with the beasts, while Song Changsheng remained troubled by Song Qingyun's disappearance and flew to Dingyuan City.

• Song Changsheng told Jinxuan that the Old Flood Dragon intended to bring him under its command, then offered to undo their Blood Contract if Jinxuan wanted to leave.
• Jinxuan chose to return to Vast Peak eventually, but first promised to escort his demon beasts out of Human Race territory and find them a safe settlement in the Demon Domain.
• Song Changsheng gave Jinxuan a refined golden turtle-shell artifact and the One-Horned Black Rhino's condensed essence, and told him to shatter a Jade Slip if he faced a powerful enemy.
• Jinxuan asked about Song Qingyun, and Song Changsheng explained that he had been missing for twelve years despite the Song Clan's search efforts.
• Song Changsheng described the Song Clan's suspicions that Song Qingyun had voluntarily abandoned the Lineage, while admitting he feared his son might be trapped somewhere.
• Jinxuan led the demon beasts toward the Canglan River, and Song Changsheng watched them leave before flying toward Dingyuan City.

Song Changsheng consulted Zhan Tianxia about the surviving Demon Beasts and the Black Dragon Demon King's possible return, then received a Resonance Compass and guidance on battle formations. After the City Guard defeated the gathered Demon Beasts, Song Changsheng waited near the Canglan River for Jinxuan, who returned safely from the Demon Domain with a Red-Maned Mighty Lion.

• Song Changsheng told Zhan Tianxia that the Black Dragon Demon King had ordered the One-Horned Black Rhino to gather surviving Demon Beasts along the Canglan River.
• Zhan Tianxia explained that the City Guard had already tracked the Demon Beasts and that the Black Dragon Demon King might be trying to delay Great Qi's expansion or prepare for a return.
• Zhan Tianxia gave Song Changsheng a child Resonance Compass and agreed to teach him battle formations and help refine the Song Clan's Mountain Protection Array.
• Song Changsheng studied with Zhan Tianxia for seven days, then met Niu Dazhuang and returned to wait near the Canglan River for Jinxuan.
• Jinxuan returned from the Demon Domain unscathed in less than three months, accompanied by a Red-Maned Mighty Lion.

Jinxuan returned from the Demon Domain with the relocated Mystic Armored Turtle clan safe, and Song Changsheng accepted the Red-Maned Mighty Lion as a Song Clan mount, naming it Yan Li. As they headed back toward Vast Peak, Song Changsheng received an urgent message that Song Youlin had been trapped in a formation near Xuzhou, prompting him to rush toward Sunset City to reach the area by teleportation.

• Jinxuan told Song Changsheng that it had safely settled the Mystic Armored Turtle clan in the Demon Domain, where its Golden Land Turtle bloodline had earned it passage.
• Jinxuan brought back the Red-Maned Mighty Lion, which offered to serve Song Changsheng; he accepted it under strict rules, placed a Restriction on it, and named it Yan Li.
• Song Changsheng reflected on Old Ghost Chihuo's perilous attempt to break through and Song Luzhou's decision to spend his remaining years serving the clan rather than enter seclusion.
• Song Changsheng mounted Yan Li and set off for Vast Peak with Jinxuan, but an urgent Message Flying Sword from Song Lutong intercepted them.
• Song Lutong reported that Song Youlin had killed two Heavenly Sword Sect Disciples over a Spirit Plant and was now trapped with several of them inside a powerful formation near the Yun Province–Xuzhou border.
• Song Changsheng ordered Yan Li to turn toward Sunset City so he could use its Space Teleportation Array and hurry to Song Youlin's aid.

Song Changsheng rushed toward the ancient ruins after Song Lutong crushed his Communication Jade Slip, while Song Lutong and the Qin Brothers faced the Heavenly Sword Sect and Heavenly Meridian Sect at the entrance. Jian Ming attacked Song Lutong, but Song Changsheng’s Sword Talisman struck Jian Ming down, leaving both sects astonished as Song Changsheng continued toward them.

• Song Changsheng used Sunset City's Cross-Domain Space Teleportation Array to reach Bianzhou and hurried toward the ruins after sensing Song Lutong's desperate call for help.
• Jian Ming and Qi Xuan joined Old Ghost Bai in breaking the ancient array, then discovered a dead Heavenly Sword Sect Disciple and demanded that Song Youlin answer for the deaths of three Disciples.
• Song Lutong offered to surrender the Song Clan's share of the ruins in exchange for taking Song Youlin away, but Jian Ming demanded that Song Youlin lose an arm and have his cultivation abolished.
• Jian Ming attacked Song Lutong, who blocked the strike with Song Xianming's Protective Talisman, while Qin Ze and Qin Yu entered the Immortal Cave to find Song Youlin.
• Jian Ming shattered the Protective Talisman and wounded Song Lutong, who then unleashed Song Changsheng's Sword Talisman; its black-and-white sword qi broke Jian Ming's defenses and sent him crashing to the ground.

Song Changsheng arrived as Jian Ming threatened Song Lutong and challenged the Heavenly Sword Sect elder to a duel. He decisively broke Jian Ming’s sword attacks and left him falling from the sky.

• Jian Ming struck Song Lutong with his dharma power and prepared to kill him after Song Lutong mocked the Heavenly Sword Sect.
• Song Changsheng arrived on a Red-Maned Mighty Lion and used Stabilizing Rivers and Mountains to stop Jian Ming’s sword from falling.
• Song Changsheng rebuked Jian Ming and challenged him to fight, while Qi Xuan tried to restrain the angry elder.
• Jian Ming flew up to duel Song Changsheng, who split his Sword Qi and broke his blood-fueled sword attack with plain, forceful strikes.
• Song Changsheng overwhelmed Jian Ming in their exchange, shattered his Rhombus Treasure Shield, and sent him plummeting from the sky.

Song Changsheng defeated Jian Ming and learned that Song Youlin had entered a hidden Secret Realm inside the Immortal Cave. After finding that the passage rejected those above the Purple Mansion realm, Song Changsheng sent Yan Li through and secretly contacted Zhan Tianxia, while the group waited to learn what lay beyond.

• Song Changsheng defeated Jian Ming, while Qi Xuan treated Jian Ming's lingering Sword Intent wounds.
• Song Changsheng checked Song Lutong's injuries and learned that Song Youlin and others had entered the Immortal Cave.
• A Heavenly Sword Sect disciple reported a Spatial Tunnel inside, and Song Changsheng led his companions into the cave to find it.
• Song Changsheng and Old Ghost Bai discovered the tunnel rejected them, but Yan Li passed through successfully.
• Song Changsheng concluded that the tunnel led to a Secret Realm restricted to Cultivators below the Purple Mansion realm and used the Resonance Compass to message Zhan Tianxia.

Song Changsheng confronted the Heavenly Sword Sect over its demand for Song Youlin’s life and exposed the sect’s disciples for attacking him to steal a Spirit Plant. After the truth came out, Jian Xu realized his side had no grounds to accuse the Song Clan, but the dispute remained unresolved as footsteps approached.

• Yan Li reported that the Spatial Tunnel led to a dim, ruined world where several Human Cultivators were searching, and Song Changsheng sent Song Lutong, Yan Li, and a Heavenly Meridian Sect disciple inside to investigate.
• Jian Xu and other Heavenly Sword Sect leaders confronted Song Changsheng, who defended Song Youlin and accused their disciples of trying to kill him for his Star Fruit Tree.
• Jian Xu questioned Jian Ming and Qi Xuan, and a disciple confessed that the group had attacked Song Youlin to seize the Spirit Plant.
• Jian Xu recognized that the Heavenly Sword Sect had been in the wrong, while Jian Ming spat blood and fainted after learning he had been deceived.
• Old Ghost Bai prepared to intervene, but dense footsteps sounded behind Jian Xu and the others.

Song Changsheng gathered reinforcements from the Song Clan and Sunset City, then confronted the Heavenly Sword Sect over its treatment of Song Youlin. When Jian Xu refused to hand over the offending disciples, Song Changsheng and Jian Xu went outside to fight.

• Song Changsheng summoned Song Xianming, Yuan Tianshu, and Song Clan cultivators, and invited Shen Qingxiu and Sunset City to join the Secret Realm expedition.
• Shen Qingxiu proposed that the disciples settle matters inside the Secret Realm by their own abilities, and Old Ghost Bai agreed while awaiting more Heavenly Meridian Sect reinforcements.
• Song Changsheng instructed Song Qingxing and Song Qingxi to lead the Song Clan cultivators and regroup with Song Tong and Song Youlin inside the Secret Realm.
• After Old Ghost Bai explained that the Song Clan had offered to give up its share only if the Heavenly Sword Sect let Song Youlin go unharmed, Song Changsheng demanded the offending disciples be handed over.
• Jian Xu refused Song Changsheng's demand despite offering compensation and punishment, so Song Changsheng challenged him and led him outside the immortal cave to fight.

Song Changsheng defeated Jian Xu in a duel while Song Clan cultivators entered the Immortal Cave Secret Realm and began exploring. The Heavenly Sword Sect agreed to punish its disciples, but the Heavenly Meridian Sect’s reinforcements arrived first, leaving the Heavenly Sword Sect effectively eliminated from the contest.

• Song Changsheng and Jian Xu fought to a standstill at first, but Song Changsheng ultimately won and wounded Jian Xu severely.
• Song Qingxi divided the Song Clan group, sending Song Qingxing and seven others to explore while she led the rest to join Song Lutong.
• Song Qingxing ordered the explorers to kill Heavenly Sword Sect cultivators they encountered when they could do so safely, and Song Qingxi warned them to record any conflicts.
• Jian Xu admitted defeat and agreed to punish the disciples involved in the dispute, though he refused to hand them over to Song Changsheng.
• The Heavenly Meridian Sect arrived with more than a dozen Foundation Establishment cultivators, while the Heavenly Sword Sect rushed to request reinforcements.
• Several dozen cultivators had already entered the Secret Realm, and the Heavenly Sword Sect was left behind in the struggle for it.

The forces in the cave abode debated the nature of the Secret Realm, while Jian Xu warned the Heavenly Sword Sect against attacking the Song Clan. Inside the Secret Realm, Song Qingxi’s group discovered an ancient city marked as a Royal City, leaving the Song Clan poised to explore its ruins.

• Jian Hong urged the Heavenly Sword Sect to summon reinforcements and ambush the Song Clan, but Jian Xu warned that the Song Clan could rely on the Heavenly Meridian Sect and Sunset City.
• Song Changsheng and Shen Qingxiu considered the reports of ancient buildings and concluded that the Secret Realm had likely belonged to a Hidden Sect that perished after a disaster.
• Song Youlin recounted how he escaped pursuing Heavenly Sword Sect disciples by entering the Secret Realm and later reunited with the Song Clan’s hidden guards.
• Song Changxuan reported discovering a city, and Song Qingxi led the Song Clan Cultivators toward it.
• Song Youfu uncovered a broken plaque among the ruins bearing the words “Royal City.”

Song Qingxi’s group discovered a vast ruined Royal City and began searching its intact Inner City for the inheritance of the kingdom’s presumed Golden Core ruler. Song Changsheng invited Sunset City to join the search, while Shen Qingxiu showed particular interest in learning the false king’s royal title; Song Youfu then found something in the Inner City.

• Song Youfu dismissed the ruined city’s former ruler as a false king, and Song Qingxi urged the group to search quickly before other sects arrived.
• Song Qingxi persuaded the Song Clan to notify their Sunset City allies, and Song Qingcheng returned to report the discovery and seek the Patriarch’s advice.
• Song Qingxi divided the group into pairs, and they searched toward the Inner City, where the buildings remained largely intact.
• Song Changsheng told Shen Qingxiu about the Royal City, and she accepted his invitation to have Sunset City investigate its other gates for the ruler’s title.
• Song Youfu cheered and secretly told Song Youlin that he had found something.

Song Youlin and Song Youfu used a map to find the royal city treasury and overcame its dragon-shaped guardian at the entrance. Inside, they discovered thousands of ancient battle armors, but the next storage room, meant for spirit materials, was empty.

• Song Youfu found a detailed map of the royal city, and Song Qingxi assigned him and Song Youlin to search the northeastern treasury.
• Song Youlin and Song Youfu fought the dragon engraved on the Bronze Gate until it weakened and disappeared, then opened the treasury.
• Song Youlin and Song Youfu discovered more than five thousand bronze battle armors, including fifty second-tier sets and three third-tier sets, though only around three thousand remained intact.
• Song Youfu secretly took one set of second-tier armor while he and Song Youlin stored the rest of the intact armors.
• Song Youfu opened the next storage room and found it completely empty, despite the map identifying it as the spirit-material storeroom.

Song Youlin and Song Youfu searched the royal treasury, salvaging weapons from decayed warships while Song Qingxi’s group uncovered a library and other sites. After Lian Siyu’s team found the name Qi Royal City and clashed with Heavenly Meridian Sect cultivators, Shen Qingxiu explained that the city might belong to the Great Qi Immortal Dynasty’s surviving royal line and revealed that its remnants had taken the Imperial Seal.

• Song Youlin and Song Youfu found most treasury chambers empty, then discovered four decayed spiritwood warships and salvaged a Spirit Crystal Cannon, eight Demon Hunting Ballistas, and a Drive Core.
• Song Qingxi’s group opened another treasury, the Spirit Plant Garden, and the Treasure Pill Hall, and collected a vast library of manuals and texts.
• Song Youhe found National History, and Song Qingxi ordered him to deliver it to Song Changsheng while the group continued searching.
• Lian Siyu’s team reached Qi Royal City, where her scouts encountered Heavenly Meridian Sect cultivators and a conflict broke out.
• After hearing that the city was Qi Royal City, Shen Qingxiu told Song Changsheng that it likely belonged to the Great Qi Immortal Dynasty’s remnants, who had escaped with the Imperial Seal.

Shen Qingxiu explained how Qi Zhenghuan destroyed the Lost Pearl Small World while trying to refine its world origin, and revealed why Sunset City sought the Great Qi Imperial Seal. Song Changsheng ordered the Song Clan to help Sunset City find the mausoleum, while Song Qingxi’s search in the crowded royal city uncovered clues.

• Shen Qingxiu explained that the Great Qi royal bloodline retreated into the Lost Pearl Small World after the dynasty fell, and that Qi Zhenghuan later destroyed it by attempting to refine its world origin.
• Shen Qingxiu identified the Human King's mausoleum as the likeliest place to find the Imperial Seal and ordered a Sunset City disciple to locate it.
• Shen Qingxiu hinted that the Imperial Seal had helped Great Qi's Human Kings reach the Nascent Soul realm, but withheld further details from Song Changsheng.
• Song Changsheng instructed Song Youhe to tell Song Qingxi and Song Qingxi's companions to help Sunset City find the mausoleum, while making clear the Song Clan would not risk everything for the seal.
• Song Qingxi sent Song Lutong and Song Youlin out of the small world with the Song Clan's gains, then joined Lian Siyu and others in searching the royal city as rival sect disciples followed them.
• After nearly a hundred people searched for more than a dozen hours, Song Qingxi found clues on the map Song Youfu had discovered.