Chapter Summaries

Song Youfu discovered the imperial mausoleum entrance in the imperial harem by turning the Four Sacred Beast pillars, awakening four powerful guardian puppets. After the gathered factions defeated the puppets, they collected their valuable remains and entered the mausoleum together, while the wounded were sent out of the Lost Pearl Small World.

• Song Qingxi concluded that the mausoleum lay somewhere in the imperial harem and decided the Song Clan should find its entrance and report the discovery to secure benefits.
• Song Youfu found a barrier beneath the central plaza and rotated the Four Sacred Beast pillars until their eyes fired beams and the sculptures awakened as guardian puppets.
• Song Qingxi, Lian Siyu, Xue Wanjun, and Jian Chen agreed that the factions should cooperate, then assigned one puppet to each faction.
• The factions battled the four puppets for three hours, suffering two deaths and nineteen injuries before destroying them.
• Song Youfu recognized the puppet fragments as valuable spirit materials, and Song Qingxi sent Song Youhe to escort the injured out before the others headed for the mausoleum entrance.

Song Qingxi and the Song Clan accompanied Lian Siyu and Sunset City through the underground mausoleum, where they found a pyramid believed to hold the final Human King's tomb. When the Imperial Seal burst out of the tomb, it broke through Sunset City's attempts to seize it and began awakening the surrounding statues.

• Song Changsheng healed the wounded Song Clan members and learned that the Heavenly Sword Sect and Heavenly Meridian Sect had also entered the royal city.
• Song Qingxi, Lian Siyu, and their companions entered the underground city and evaded the other factions, who were distracted by its artificial sun and moon.
• The group found a pyramid surrounded by vast formations of statues, chariots, and warships, and Lian Siyu led Sunset City toward its Bronze Gate while the Song Clan stayed behind.
• Lian Siyu's group crossed a flight-ban formation, climbed the White Jade Stairs, and broke the restriction on the Bronze Gate.
• The pyramid shook, and a white jade seal burst from behind the gate; it struck Lian Siyu aside and broke through the cultivators' attempts to intercept it.
• The seal's radiance fell on the surrounding statues, causing their bronze rust to peel away.

The Imperial Seal awakened a vast army of puppets in the Human King's Mausoleum, and Jian Chen's attempt to seize it triggered their attack on the cultivators. The Song Clan retreated while fighting off pursuit, and Song Qinghong identified the puppets as Living Puppets made from trapped souls.

• The Imperial Seal's light awakened nearly twenty thousand armored puppets, and Song Qinghong realized they had been crafted as an enormous puppet army.
• Song Qingxi ordered the Song Clan to retreat carefully while remaining ready to support the surrounded Sunset City cultivators, and Lian Siyu led her group away from the seal.
• Jian Chen tried to capture the Imperial Seal with a golden bell, but the seal shattered his Spirit Artifact and provoked the puppets into attacking.
• The puppet forces split into groups and charged the Heavenly Sword Sect, Heavenly Meridian Sect, Sunset City cultivators, and Song Clan; the flying chariots killed two Heavenly Sword Sect cultivators with arrows.
• Song Youfu and the Song Clan fought off a pursuing formation of three thousand infantry puppets, and Song Qinghong identified them as Living Puppets whose victims' souls were trapped forever.

Song Qingxi and the Song Clan escaped the Living Puppet Legion while the Heavenly Sword Sect and Heavenly Meridian Sect suffered heavy losses. After Song Qingxi and Song Qingxing returned to investigate, a colossal sword struck the Imperial Seal and shattered it, scattering its fragments across the underground world.

• Song Qinghong explained that destroying the seal might stop the Living Puppets, but the Song Clan refused to risk the consequences and retreated while other factions remained surrounded.
• Jian Chen used a protective talisman to break the Heavenly Sword Sect’s encirclement, but many of its weaker cultivators were killed as the survivors fled.
• Xue Wanjun threw a Thunder Bead at the seal, and the Puppet Legion suddenly withdrew, prompting Song Qingxi and Song Qingxing to return and investigate.
• Song Qingxi and Song Qingxing found the seal dimmed but intact while the Heavenly Meridian Sect and Sunset City remained under attack.
• A colossal sword appeared and shattered the Imperial Seal, scattering its fragments across the underground world.

The destruction of the white jade seal scattered its fragments and the Human King’s burial treasures across the battlefield, sparking a scramble among the sects. Song Changsheng examined armor recovered by the Song Clan and realized it could strengthen his developing battle formation.

• Jian Chen and the Heavenly Sword Sect destroyed the seal, causing treasure-filled light clusters to burst from the Bronze Gate and the puppets to lose their coordination.
• Song Qingxi and Song Qingxing collected burial treasures while Lian Siyu led the surviving Sunset City cultivators to pursue the seal fragments, and Xue Wanjun sent people to watch them.
• Song Youfu and the others intercepted fragments of the Imperial Seal, including a large piece bearing part of a golden symbol.
• Jian Chen, Xue Wanjun, and Song Qingxi and Song Qingxing entered the pyramid after gathering the treasures outside.
• Song Changsheng examined the bronze war armor Song Lutong had sent back, discovered that its formations linked multiple sets together, and considered combining it with his battle formation.

Song Changsheng reviewed the Song Clan’s vast haul from the archive and praised Song Youfu for repeatedly finding valuable things. Meanwhile, Song Qingxing and Song Qingxi explored the Human King’s mausoleum, where the Traceless Sword led them to a magnificent palace and confronted a golden dragon phantom.

• Song Changsheng assessed the archive’s treasures, especially the spiritual soil, which gave the Song Clan enough to establish several large Spirit Fields and secure its own Foundation Establishment Pill supply.
• Song Lutong, Song Youhe, and Song Youlin recalled that Song Youfu had found the spiritual soil, mausoleum entrance, and Qi Royal City layout map, prompting Song Changsheng to recognize his profound fortune.
• Song Youfu and Song Green Jade stayed behind in the underground world and discussed the Imperial Seal fragment while Song Qingxing and Song Qingxi continued through the mausoleum’s traps.
• Song Qingxi and Song Qingxing passed through burial chambers and learned from Jade Tablets that the coffins belonged to accomplished ministers and imperial clansmen.
• After the pyramid shook, the Traceless Sword flew deeper into the mausoleum, leading Song Qingxing and Song Qingxi to a grand palace where it faced a phantom golden dragon.

Song Qingxing and Song Qingxi witnessed the Traceless Sword defeat an ancient sword in the pyramid and absorb its power, but the victory triggered the royal mausoleum’s collapse. Song Youfu escaped the underground world after detouring to retrieve the falling “moon,” while Song Qingxing and Song Qingxi fled with the ancient sword.

• The Traceless Sword absorbed Song Qingxing’s blood, defeated the golden dragon phantom, and drew the ancient sword’s points of light into itself.
• Song Qingxing picked up the ancient sword, and he and Song Qingxi decided to take it to Song Changsheng for identification.
• The pyramid and underground world began collapsing, so Song Qingxing carried Song Qingxi and fled with the ancient sword.
• Song Youfu contacted Song Changxuan, who ordered him to head for the exit without waiting for the others.
• Song Youfu turned aside to retrieve the falling “moon,” then escaped to the royal city as the underground world collapsed.

Song Youfu escaped the collapsing Qi Royal City and learned that Song Qingyu and Song Youhua had not survived, while the other factions also suffered heavy losses in the underground mausoleum. The survivors returned to the Immortal Cave with the Song Clan’s gains, where Jian Wuyou learned that Jian Chen was dead and collapsed in grief.

• Song Youfu found Song Qingxi’s group outside the ruins, but Song Qingyu and Song Youhua never appeared after Qi Royal City sank.
• The survivors pieced together how Jian Chen had obtained the Great Qi Immortal Dynasty’s cultivation method, touched Qi Zhenghuan’s coffin, and died when the pyramid’s destruction triggered the mausoleum’s collapse.
• Song Youfu reported Jian Chen’s death, and Song Changxuan described the severe casualties suffered by the Heavenly Sword Sect, Heavenly Meridian Sect, and Sunset City.
• Song Qingxi shared the Song Clan’s seal fragments with Lian Siyu, and the two groups returned through the teleportation gate to the Immortal Cave.
• Jian Wuyou learned that Jian Chen had perished, spat blood, and fainted.

After the expedition, the factions disputed who would control the Small World, while Sunset City feared the Imperial Seal had shattered. Song Changsheng gave the Song Clan’s share to Sunset City to withdraw from the conflict, then demanded that Jian Xu honor their agreement by punishing a surviving Heavenly Sword Sect disciple who had tried to murder others and seize their treasures.

• Jian Wuyou collapsed, and Heavenly Sword Sect cultivators rushed to help him as the factions reckoned with their losses.
• Lian Siyu told Shen Qingxiu that only a quarter of the presumed Imperial Seal fragments had been recovered, while Song Changsheng doubted the seal could truly have shattered.
• Jian Xu argued that the Heavenly Sword Sect should control the Small World, then joined Old Ghost Bai in trying to exclude Sunset City from its development.
• Song Changsheng agreed to divide the Small World into three shares, then transferred the Song Clan’s share to Sunset City and withdrew from further involvement.
• Song Changsheng reminded Jian Xu of their agreement and accused a surviving Heavenly Sword Sect disciple of attempting murder and robbery; the disciple knelt to accept punishment, and Jian Xu raised his hand to strike.

After leaving the underground mausoleum, Song Changsheng guided the Song Clan through its worsening tensions with the Heavenly Sword Sect and investigated the seal fragments they had recovered. Little Nine identified the fragments as part of a general’s or marshal’s seal and named the ancient sword Bearing Abyss, leaving the clan to search their recovered texts for its history.

• Jian Xu destroyed a Heavenly Sword Sect disciple’s cultivation for attempting to rob others, then tried to exclude Song Changsheng from talks about developing the Small World.
• Song Changsheng asked Shen Qingxiu to search for the remains of two dead Song Clan members and secure the Small World’s Spatial Tunnel gates before leaving with his companions.
• Yuan Tianshu lamented the Heavenly Sword Sect’s decline, while Song Changsheng and Song Xianming reassured Song Youlin that the clan stood behind him.
• Back at Vast Peak, Song Changsheng assembled the clan’s eighteen seal fragments, and Little Nine identified their inscription as the Primordial Era character for “general,” ruling out the Imperial Seal.
• Song Changsheng examined the ancient sword from the pyramid, and Little Nine identified its name as Bearing Abyss; Song Qingxi suggested searching the recovered archive texts for its history.

Song Changsheng dealt with treasures brought back from the underground mausoleum, including a fourth-tier Treasure Pearl and a Lifespan Extending Peach that could grant the Song Clan’s elders more years to live. He left the peach’s cultivation arrangements to Song Qingxi.

• Song Chang'an conscripted nearly twenty elders and clan elders to catalog and copy the huge trove of jade slips for the Scripture Repository.
• Song Youfu offered Song Changsheng a fourth-tier Treasure Pearl, which could aid cultivation and serve as the Formation Eye of a Fourth-Tier Mountain Protection Array.
• Song Youfu gave up the Treasure Pearl in exchange for one clan request and asked for free access to the Scripture Repository, so Song Changsheng sent him to help catalog the texts.
• Song Youlin presented a peach tree he had found in Yun Province, and Song Changsheng identified it as a Lifespan Extending Peach that could prolong the lives of Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment cultivators.
• Song Youlin offered the tree to the clan, and Song Changsheng granted him a request to use later, noting that the peach might help Fifth uncle and Chihuo extend their lives.
• Song Changsheng brought the Lifespan Extending Peach to the Spirit Plant Garden and called on Song Qingxi to arrange its care.

Song Changsheng supported Song Qingxi’s plan to restore the spirit soil and entrusted her with the secret Lifespan Extending Peach. He then learned that Chengyuan was a remade fragment of the Sword of the Human King, a treasure that gathered and suppressed a dynasty’s luck, and realized why Sunset City sought the Imperial Seal.

• Song Qingxi explained that restoring the spirit soil would cost heavily, and Song Changsheng authorized a trial on half the fields with clan funding if it succeeded.
• Song Changsheng inspected the clan’s rare spirit plants and gave Song Qingxi the Lifespan Extending Peach, ordering her to protect it and keep its effects secret.
• Song Chang’an presented Song Changsheng with records identifying Chengyuan as a reconstructed portion of the original Sword of the Human King.
• Song Changsheng learned that Chengyuan could gather and suppress the Great Qi Immortal Dynasty’s luck, though its power had faded after the dynasty fell.
• Song Changsheng explained to Song Chang’an and the others that luck existed for individuals, clans, and nations, then understood why Sunset City was searching for the Imperial Seal.

Song Changsheng explained how the Song Clan’s fortune had declined and recovered through its connection to him, then revealed that the Human King Sword could suppress the clan’s fortune. He planned to place the sword in the Soul Lamp Hall and ordered the secret kept, leaving the clan ready to begin the process.

• Song Changsheng recounted how Song Yungui’s death had dragged down the Song Clan’s fortune, while his own arrival and cultivation had turned its decline into prosperity.
• Song Changsheng explained that the Human King Sword could suppress the Song Clan’s fortune, and Song Chang'an and Song Luzhou agreed it should be used.
• Song Changsheng said the sword had to acknowledge him as its master before its fortune could connect with the clan’s.
• Song Changsheng planned to place the Human King Sword in the Soul Lamp Hall, where clan members’ faith and sacrifices could gather the family’s fortune.
• Song Changsheng declared the matter top secret and warned Song Chang'an and Song Luzhou that anyone who leaked it would be punished.

Song Changsheng awakened the Chengyuan Sword’s Artifact Spirit and led the Song Clan in gathering its fortune beneath the sword. After seeing fortune take the shape of a purple dragon, he traveled to Sunset City to claim the clan’s rewards and received an offer of two Heaven and Earth Spiritual Objects.

• Song Changsheng awakened Giant Spirit within Chengyuan, then brought the sword to the Soul Lamp Hall to begin gathering the Song Clan’s fortune.
• Song Changsheng led the clan elders and cultivators in three bows, binding their fortune and the blessings of their ancestors to Chengyuan.
• Song Youlin contributed a river of fortune, while Song Youfu’s fortune appeared as a young dragon; their offerings helped Chengyuan manifest a purple dragon above the Soul Lamp Hall.
• Song Changsheng concealed Chengyuan and prepared the Song Clan’s seal fragments and selected archive texts for negotiations in Sunset City.
• Song Changsheng met Shen Qingxiu in Sunset City, where she presented a reward document promising two Heaven and Earth Spiritual Objects that he could choose freely.

Song Changsheng received Sunset City’s rewards and negotiated over the Song Clan’s Imperial Seal fragments and copied texts. After learning the fragments formed a Great General’s Seal rather than the Imperial Seal, he settled their sale and went to visit Zhuang Yuechan, who might awaken within several years or decades.

• Shen Qingxiu gave Song Changsheng a fourth-tier artifact-forging inheritance, three drops of Essence of Heaven and Earth, and two Heaven and Earth Spiritual Objects.
• Song Changsheng chose Wood Attribute Yang and Earth Attribute Yang Spiritual Objects, then showed Shen Qingxiu the Song Clan’s Imperial Seal fragments.
• Shen Qingxiu identified the fragments as pieces of the Great General’s Seal of the Great Qi Immortal Dynasty and bought them for one hundred thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Song Changsheng handed over three Storage Bags of copied scriptures and ancient texts for Sunset City to assess in exchange for compensation.
• Shen Qingxiu told Song Changsheng that Zhuang Yuechan might awaken in three to twenty years, and he went to visit her.

Song Changsheng visited the still-unconscious Zhuang Yuechan, worried that the Nascent Soul True Lord’s Origin of Law might overwhelm her, then left to conclude negotiations with Sunset City. Shen Qingxiu offered the Song Clan a generous package of resources after discovering the value of the texts he had brought, leaving Song Changsheng to consider what to request.

• Song Changsheng visited Zhuang Yuechan after thirty years of unconsciousness and worried that True Monarch Yusu’s lingering consciousness might consume her.
• Lian Siqian took over caring for Zhuang Yuechan and revealed her affection for Song Changsheng, while Lian Siyu warned her that Song Changsheng and Zhuang Yuechan were pledged to each other.
• Song Changsheng fed Zhuang Yuechan ginseng soup and told her he hoped she would wake soon, then left at dawn to meet Shen Qingxiu about the negotiations.
• Shen Qingxiu told Song Changsheng that Sunset City had found several valuable books among his offerings and proposed compensation of spirit stones, rare materials, pill ingredients, and medicinal pills.
• Song Changsheng weighed the generous offer against his desire to exchange for Sunset City’s scriptures and ancient texts.

Song Changsheng accepted Shen Qingxiu’s trade offer and went to Hundred Herbs Hall to arrange for a Barrier Breaking Pill and visit Song Youxiang. He found her ready to return to the Song Clan’s service and promised to prepare her for Foundation Establishment, leaving her curious about an even better reward awaiting her at home.

• Song Changsheng accepted the Demon King Inner Core and other resources from Shen Qingxiu, then requested a Heaven and Earth Spiritual Object for Song Xianming.
• Song Changsheng decided to ask Lu Yuming of Hundred Herbs Hall to refine a Barrier Breaking Pill and traveled there to visit Song Youxiang.
• Song Youxiang completed Golden Needle Talismans at an impressive speed, while Fang Zhongsheng urged her to become Jiang Shuming’s Direct Disciple; she refused because she wanted to bring talisman knowledge back to the Song Clan.
• Fang Zhongsheng led Song Youxiang to greet Song Changsheng, who gave him a Third-Tier Peak Grade talismanic inheritance for Jiang Shuming.
• Song Changsheng told Song Youxiang that the Song Clan would arrange her Foundation Establishment and hinted that an even better reward awaited her when she returned.

Song Changsheng arranged for Lu Yuming to refine Barrier Breaking Pills while the Song Clan prepared to strengthen its control over the surrounding powers by offering them access to cultivation inheritances. The chapter ended with Song Luyun summoning Chiming for a private meeting with the Song Clan’s Great Elder.

• Song Changsheng told Song Youxiang that the Song Clan had obtained a fourth-tier talismanic inheritance and gave her a Marrow Cleansing Pill before leaving for Fire Cauldron Mountain.
• Song Changsheng asked Lu Yuming to refine Barrier Breaking Pills using a Demon King Inner Core, and Lu Yuming agreed to deliver five pills in exchange for the rest of the batch.
• Song Luyun gathered leaders from Ling Province and Yang Province and offered them second-tier and higher inheritances in exchange for Contribution Points or Spirit Stones.
• Song Luyun announced that the Song Clan’s Great Elder wished to speak privately with Chiming, and Chiming agreed to go behind the hall.

Song Luzhou rewarded Chiming with Lifespan Extending Peaches for Old Ghost Chihuo and ordered Blazing Fire Hall reorganized into the Blazing Sun Guard. The Song Clan prepared to expand its military presence in Yangzhou as tensions with the Heavenly Sword Sect worsened.

• Song Luzhou gave Chiming three Lifespan Extending Peaches for Old Ghost Chihuo and explained that the gift recognized the Chi Clan's service to the Song Clan.
• Song Luzhou told Chiming that the Song Clan would establish the Blazing Sun Guard from Blazing Fire Hall, beginning with five hundred volunteers receiving standardized training, equipment, and generous benefits.
• Chiming agreed to organize the volunteers and learned that Song Clan elders would return to Yangzhou after the Trade Fair to oversee the reorganization.
• Song Luzhou selected Song Lutong, Song Qinghong, and Song Qingxia to lead the Blazing Sun Guard's training and operations.
• Chiming returned to the External Affairs Hall with the clan's selected inheritances and recognized that the Song Clan's favor had changed how others viewed him.

Song Changsheng and Song Xianming planned the Song Clan’s expansion, resource distribution, and leadership changes while Song Changsheng prepared to enter seclusion. After the clan appointed new elders and organized its plans for the Vast Small World, Song Changsheng began refining the Jia Wood Tree Heart and the Essence of Heaven and Earth, bringing his Five Elements Dao Rhyme close to completion.

• Song Yushi reviewed the Trade Fair’s profits and defended selling cultivation legacies to affiliated forces, arguing that the Song Clan was strong enough to manage any consequences.
• Song Changsheng met with Song Xianming and handed over resources and transmission gates, asking him to stabilize the Vast Small World’s Spatial Tunnel and prepare to relocate ten thousand people there.
• Song Changsheng assigned Barrier Breaking Pills to several clan members and Chihuo, and urged Song Xianming to push Song Luzhou into seclusion.
• Song Xianming and Song Changsheng agreed that Song Luyun would become Logistics Elder and Song Changxue would take over as External Affairs Elder.
• Song Changsheng entered seclusion with the Jia Wood Tree Heart and the Essence of Heaven and Earth, preparing to complete his Five Elements Dao Rhyme.