Chapter Summaries

Song Changsheng fused the Jia Wood Tree Heart into his Five Elements Dao Rhyme, forming his second Dao Foundation and choosing to focus on the Yin-Yang True Intent. As the Song Clan began migrating into the Vast Small World, Song Xianming inspected the settlement and prepared to expand the migration before leaving to protect Chihuo during a breakthrough.

• Song Changsheng formed a five-colored second Dao Foundation, manifested his four True Intents, and chose to deepen his Yin-Yang True Intent.
• Song Changsheng consumed a droplet of Essence of Heaven and Earth and continued cultivating as time passed.
• Song Chang'an reached Great Perfection of Foundation Establishment, while Song Xianming made progress refining the Heavenly River Crystal Sand.
• Song Xianming visited the Vast Small World and learned that ten thousand clan members had arrived safely and begun building towns and farmland.
• Song Xianming planned to transfer fifty thousand more people, expand the settlement's defenses, and continue annual migrations.
• Song Xianming told Song Qingxi he would leave to protect Chihuo, who was preparing to break through.

During his fifth year in seclusion, Song Changsheng refined the Demon Binding Rope into a high-grade Dharma Artifact and accepted an invitation to Su Ding’s 1,300th birthday celebration at the Golden Crow Sect. He arrived at Jinyang Peak with a gift and encountered Peng Siying, whose companions already seemed wary of him.

• Song Xianming arrived at Tianyang Peak and kept watch while Chihuo attempted to break through, while he privately praised Shangguan Jian’s family for their loyalty to the Song Clan.
• Song Changsheng used his final drop of Essence of Heaven and Earth to refine the Demon Binding Rope, then decided to attend Su Ding’s birthday after receiving the Golden Crow Sect’s invitation.
• After emerging from seclusion, Song Changsheng reviewed the clan’s migration to the Vast Small World and accepted Song Luyun’s fragmentary history scroll as a suitable birthday gift.
• Song Changsheng traveled through Sunset City to the Golden Crow Sect and admired the scale and deep foundations of the Jinyang Mountain Range.
• At Jinyang Peak, Song Changsheng met Peng Siying, who explained why she had come to the celebration, and a purple-robed cultivator approached with a hostile look.

Song Changsheng accompanied Peng Siying during her visit to the Golden Crow Sect, where she used him to fend off Zifu Chuan’s advances. After Peng Siying introduced him to her father, Peng Zhenxiong revealed he had met Song before and sent her away so they could speak privately.

• Peng Siying introduced Song Changsheng as her friend and the Wanlong Merchant Association’s Guest Elder, then rejected Zifu Chuan’s attempt to escort her.
• Peng Siying led Song Changsheng away, and a rival mocked Zifu Chuan before the group continued toward the Golden Pool.
• Song Changsheng and Peng Siying discussed her unwanted admirers, his thanks for her past help, and the Golden Crow Sect’s Spirit Gathering Array.
• Peng Zhenxiong emerged, and Peng Siying introduced him to Song Changsheng as her father.
• Peng Zhenxiong said he had met Song Changsheng before and asked Peng Siying to leave them alone together.

Song Changsheng explained his role in revealing True Monarch Yusu’s inheritance to Peng Zhenxiong, who rewarded him with a pass to the Black Market’s core Trade Fair. Peng Siying described the fair and the Great Qian Cultivation World’s Exchange Meeting, where Song Changsheng learned that a promising Song Clan cultivator named Song Yuqing had distinguished himself.

• Peng Zhenxiong confronted Song Changsheng about the Golden Profound Stone Cave, and Song Changsheng selectively explained how he had told Peng Siying about the inheritance.
• Peng Zhenxiong gave Song Changsheng a one-time admission pass to the Black Market’s core Trade Fair as a reward for revealing the inheritance.
• Peng Siying explained that Song Changsheng could use the pass at the Stone Gambling Pavilion and that the Trade Fair was held every ten years.
• Song Changsheng agreed to hear Peng Siying’s account of the Great Qian Cultivation World’s Exchange Meeting and asked about the Song Clan there.
• Peng Siying told Song Changsheng that Song Yuqing had reached the top five in the Arena Competition and was considered the Song Clan’s strongest hope of reaching Golden Core.

Song Changsheng learned more about the Great Qian Song Clan and was invited to a Dao discussion attended by cultivators from several cultivation worlds. At the gathering, True Lord Heavenly Sword unexpectedly appointed him to begin, while True Lord Wuxin offered a cultivation prize for first place.

• Peng Siying told Song Changsheng about the exchange meeting’s young geniuses and explained the cultivation-based talent echelons, and Song Changsheng revealed his clan’s connection to the Great Qian Song Clan.
• Peng Siying offered to bring Song Changsheng to a future trade fair in the Great Qian Cultivation World, and he thanked her before leaving.
• Niu Dazhuang reminded Song Changsheng to remember the ill Junior Sister and told him to attend a Dao discussion at Jinyang Peak the next morning.
• At the Main Hall, Niu Dazhuang told Song Changsheng that Yin Shang had gone to seek out Chu Xinrou, the granddaughter of a rogue Golden Core True Person.
• True Lord Heavenly Sword Bai Zimou ordered Song Changsheng to begin the Dao discussion, and True Lord Wuxin Bai Yan offered Ten Thousand Flower Dew as a prize for first place alongside Bai Zimou’s Inner Demon Awl.

Song Changsheng hid his abilities at the Dao Discussion Meeting, where Su Ye won first place for Great Qi, then impressed Bai Yan in a private exchange about the Dao. Bai Yan offered him lavish terms to join the Heavenly Meridian Sect, but he refused and returned with her reward, leaving Bai Yan and Bai Shuangshuang to discuss how the clan should preserve its ties with him.

• Song Changsheng gave a conventional account of the Five Elements Dao, and Shen Qingxiu explained that Bai Zimou had chosen him to represent Great Qi and seize the meeting's initiative.
• After the month-long Dao Discussion Meeting, Su Ye took first place, and Song Changsheng gained insight from the two True Lords' sermons.
• Bai Yan summoned Song Changsheng privately, questioned him about the Dao and cultivation, and offered to make him her Direct Disciple with extensive support.
• Song Changsheng declined Bai Yan's offer but accepted her gift of Ten Thousand Flower Dew.
• Bai Shuangshuang proposed eliminating Song Changsheng, but Bai Yan warned that doing so would turn Sunset City against them and stressed that clan interests came before sect interests.

Song Changsheng attended Su Ding’s birthday banquet, where he studied Qingtian Superior’s growing influence and presented the Song Clan’s gift to the Golden Crow Sect. After the celebration began, a maidservant with an ancient, imposing gaze trapped him with a strange power.

• Song Changsheng realized Bai Yan might be seeking to strengthen the Bai Clan’s influence and considered getting to know her as a potential ally.
• At Su Ding’s birthday celebration, cultivators from across several cultivation worlds arrived and presented lavish gifts.
• Song Changsheng noticed Qingtian Superior’s ambition to build a powerful sect and briefly sensed a strange gaze from her direction.
• Song Changsheng presented the Song Clan’s damaged historical scroll, earning friendly attention from the Golden Crow Sect elders and Su Ding.
• After the banquet began, Song Changsheng met the maidservant’s eyes and found himself unable to move or look away.

Su Ding used an Eye Technique to inspect Song Changsheng’s childhood memories, but the Soul Locking Technique concealed the secrets he sought and left him convinced Song was not a reincarnated Great Power. After Song returned to his companions, he learned Su Ding intended to betroth Xia Qingxue to Su Ye, leading him to suspect Su Ding was preparing for his own end.

• Su Ding used a maidservant and an Eye Technique to immobilize Song Changsheng, then entered his Sea of Consciousness to inspect his childhood memories.
• Song Changsheng’s Soul Locking Technique substituted prepared false memories, and Su Ding concluded that Song was not a reincarnated Great Power before withdrawing his divine sense.
• Little Nine told Song Changsheng what had happened, and Song calmly dismissed the frightened maidservant who had helped Su Ding.
• Song Changsheng chose not to join the young cultivators’ Exchange Meeting and later went to bid farewell to Peng Siying and Xia Qingxue.
• Peng Siying told Song Changsheng that Su Ding planned to betroth Xia Qingxue to Su Ye, prompting Song to suspect Su Ding was making arrangements for his eventual death.

Song Changsheng advised Xia Qingxue to avoid Su Ding’s plans by delaying with seclusion or a journey, while Su Ding gathered Great Qi’s Golden Core cultivators to plan a campaign against the Demon Race. The leaders agreed to prepare secretly for war within ten years, leaving the Qingtian Sect uninformed until the fighting began.

• Song Changsheng told Xia Qingxue she could stall Su Ding’s plans by entering seclusion or leaving on a training journey, and she said she would consider it.
• Peng Siying told Song Changsheng she planned to return to Four Directions City once Mu Guibai came back.
• Su Ding revealed that he had at most twenty years to live and proposed reorganizing the Expeditionary Allied Army to strike the Demon Race within ten years.
• Chen Zhongfang said the Black Dragon Demon King’s location had been identified and urged the leaders to prepare for a decisive war.
• Su Ding assigned Sunset City to support the army’s rear and the Golden Crow Sect and Heavenly Meridian Sect to advance along two routes.
• The gathered leaders agreed to keep the campaign secret from the Qingtian Sect until the war began.

Song Changsheng learned that the Two Sects and One City planned a major expedition against demon forces in ten years and chose to lead Ling Province and Yang Province in a riskier campaign for military merit. The chapter left him wondering whether Su Ding was truly nearing the end of his life.

• Song Changsheng reflected that his deception of Su Ding had succeeded and that the danger would pass once Su Ding died.
• Mu Guibai told Song Changsheng that the Two Sects and One City would launch an expedition in ten years, requiring every Foundation Establishment-level force and above to participate.
• Mu Guibai offered Song Changsheng a safer support role at Dingyuan City or a riskier deployment from Five Elements Peak to clear the North Bank of the Canglan River.
• Song Changsheng questioned how the allied army could cross the Canglan River safely, and Mu Guibai explained that powerful backers would restrain the Demon Domain's other forces.
• Song Changsheng volunteered to lead Ling Province and Yang Province in two routes, with half their forces deployed and half held back.
• Song Changsheng wondered whether the ten-year timeline meant that Su Ding was nearing death.

Song Changsheng learned that Mu Guibai feared Jinyang might target him and received protections before heading to Tianyang Peak to check on Blazing Fire Hall’s progress. The Blazing Sun Guard’s defenses caught him as he approached, and a spear-wielding cultivator demanded to know why he had come.

• Song Changsheng told Mu Guibai he suspected Jinyang’s lifespan was nearly exhausted and explained why the ten-year timeframe troubled him.
• Mu Guibai warned Song Changsheng to stay cautious, placed a protective mark on him, and gave him a fourth-tier Heavenly Travel Talisman.
• Song Changsheng reassured Mu Guibai that Zhuang Yuechan would awaken and return.
• Song Changsheng went to Yang Province to inspect Chihuo’s progress and consider how success would advance the Song Clan’s plans.
• Song Changsheng tested the Blazing Sun Guard’s defenses by approaching Tianyang Peak in disguise, but a golden barrier trapped him and a spear-wielding cultivator challenged him.

Song Changsheng tested Tianyang Peak’s defenses by fighting Chi Li and the Blazing Sun Guard, then revealed himself as Sect Master True Lord Zixu and praised their strength. He agreed to take Chi Li as a disciple and stayed at Tianyang Peak to protect Chihuo through his imminent tribulation and upgrade the mountain’s protection array.

• Song Changsheng concealed his identity and challenged Chi Li, testing the young man’s spear skills and the Blazing Sun Guard’s coordinated attacks.
• Chi Li ordered the Blazing Sun Guard to form a battle array, but Song Changsheng effortlessly shattered their strongest strike and ended the fight.
• Chiming revealed Song Changsheng’s identity as Sect Master True Lord Zixu, and Chi Li and the Blazing Sun Guard apologized for attacking him.
• Song Changsheng praised the defenses and the Blazing Sun Guard, learned that Chi Li was Chihuo’s son, and invited Chi Li to cultivate under him.
• Chiming reported that Chihuo’s breakthrough was nearing its final stage, with the Minor Inner Demon Tribulation expected within a year.
• Song Changsheng decided to remain as Chihuo’s protector and gave Chiming a list of materials for upgrading Tianyang Peak’s Mountain Protection Array.

The seven great clans of Yang Province agreed to prove their loyalty to the Song Clan by earning military merit in its coming campaign against the Demon Race. Eight months later, Chihuo began gathering spiritual energy at Tianyang Peak as he attempted to break through to the Purple Palace Stage.

• Chu Nanfeng summoned the seven clan leaders, who admitted resistance against the Song Clan was impossible and discussed how to regain its trust.
• Bai Ruohong revealed that the Song Clan had helped Chihuo prepare for his breakthrough and urged the clans to follow the Chi Clan's example of loyal service.
• Bai Ruohong proposed that the clans answer the Song Clan's call to fight the Demon Race remnants on the North Bank of Canglan River and earn military merit.
• Song Changsheng secretly listened to the gathering and left satisfied that the clans had abandoned their schemes and agreed to serve the Song Clan.
• Song Changsheng returned to Tianyang Peak and upgraded its Mountain Protection Array over the next eight months.
• Song Changsheng and Song Xianming sensed Chihuo gathering spiritual energy above Tianyang Peak and watched as he began his breakthrough.

Old Ghost Chihuo confronted the traumatic memories of his childhood during his breakthrough, reclaimed the power awakened by his grief, and advanced to the Purple Palace Realm. He emerged from seclusion and pledged himself to Song Changsheng as his servant.

• Old Ghost Chihuo’s inner demon forced him to relive the Demon Wolf attack that destroyed Great Li Village and killed his family, Master, and fellow villagers.
• Chihuo rejected the name Li Yifan, remembered how he had buried the villagers and hunted down the Demon Wolves, and overcame the inner demon by affirming who he had become.
• Chihuo broke through the Foundation Establishment Realm into the Purple Palace Realm, regained his beast-like power, and discovered a cultivation method for controlling and strengthening it.
• Song Changsheng and Song Xianming watched Chihuo’s breakthrough succeed and descended to Tianyang Peak’s main hall.
• Chihuo entered the hall, knelt before Song Changsheng, and declared himself the Young Master’s servant.

After Old Ghost Chihuo broke through to the Purple Palace Stage, Song Changsheng arranged a new role for him and discovered that Chihuo possessed an inherited Bloodline Power. Song Changsheng recognized that Chi Li had inherited and awakened the same power, then accepted him as his Direct Disciple, leaving Chiming envious.

• Song Changsheng welcomed Chihuo’s renewed loyalty, arranged a Purple Mansion Ceremony, and appointed him Grand Elder of Blazing Fire Hall.
• Chihuo offered Song Changsheng a jade slip containing a method for using Bloodline Power, which had resurfaced in his memories when he broke through.
• Song Changsheng suspected Chihuo’s Bloodline Power could be inherited and summoned Chi Li after learning that his hair had turned crimson like his father’s.
• Chihuo learned that Chi Li had established his foundation three years earlier using the Ancient Cultivator Foundation Establishment Method and agreed to let him study under Song Changsheng.
• Chi Li performed the rites to become Song Changsheng’s Direct Disciple, while Chiming watched with envy.

After Chihuo broke through to the Purple Palace Stage, Song Changsheng strengthened the Song Clan’s hold over Yang Province while rumors swirled that the Chi Clan might rebel. Chihuo’s ceremony confirmed the clans’ alliance, and Song Changsheng returned to Vast Peak to consume Ten Thousand Flower Dew and pursue Purple Mansion Great Perfection.

• Song Changsheng accepted Chi Li as his disciple and sent him to summon the leaders of Yang Province and Ling Province.
• Song Changsheng told Song Xianming that the gathering would declare the Song Clan’s sovereignty over Yang Province.
• Heavenly Sword Sect considered exploiting Chihuo’s breakthrough, but Chiming reported its covert approach to Song Changsheng, who ordered him to keep contact and act as a Hidden Agent.
• At Chihuo’s Violet Palace Grand Ceremony, Chihuo resigned as Chi Clan elder and Chiming became the clan’s second Clan Head.
• Song Changsheng accepted Chi Li as a Direct Disciple, then returned to Vast Peak, entered seclusion, and consumed Ten Thousand Flower Dew to pursue Purple Mansion Great Perfection.

Song Changsheng used Ten Thousand Flower Dew to break through to Purple Mansion Great Perfection while Song Luzhou’s attempt to reach the Purple Palace Stage failed. Song Changsheng saved Song Luzhou from his inner demon and sealed him beneath the Cold Pond Coral, leaving him to seek a way to restore his uncle’s hope of survival.

• Song Changsheng drank the Ten Thousand Flower Dew and began refining its power to break through.
• Song Luzhou took a Barrier Breaking Pill and faced memories of his family’s deaths during the Minor Inner Demon Tribulation.
• Song Luzhou’s Sea of Consciousness barrier shattered, but Song Changsheng used the Demon Subduing Heart-Calming Stone to dispel the demonic mist and save him.
• Song Changsheng treated Song Luzhou’s injuries and proposed sealing him in the Cold Pond to slow the loss of his Life Essence.
• Song Changsheng sealed Song Luzhou into a deep slumber, placed Blood Crystals in his palms, and put him in an ice coffin beneath the Cold Pond Coral with Song Xianming’s help.

After Song Luzhou’s failed breakthrough left the Song Clan without its top alchemist, Song Luyun organized medicine procurement and preparations for the coming expedition against the Demon Race. Song Changsheng delegated clan decisions to her, planned to remain behind to protect the clan, and visited Bronze Furnace Peak to inspect warship construction.

• Song Luyun assigned Song Changxue and Song Changxiu to procure pills from the Wanlong Merchant Association and ordered the clan’s second-tier alchemists to improve their skills.
• Song Luyun laid out preparations for the Allied Army Expedition, including stockpiling supplies, training troops, strengthening Five Elements Peak, and building a teleportation array at Qīxiá Mountain.
• Song Changsheng and Song Xianming discussed threats to the clan’s rear, and Song Changsheng planned to upgrade the Mountain Protection Array while remaining behind during the expedition.
• Song Changsheng decided not to deploy the Sky Battleship, harvested a Gold Han White Jade Fruit for Song Xianming, and went to Bronze Furnace Peak to inspect the ships.
• Lu Tianchou told Song Changsheng that the second Sky Battleship was undergoing final assembly.

Song Changsheng inspected the newly completed White Star Battleship and learned how its construction had been accelerated by Lu Tianchou’s disciple, Li Anmin. He rewarded Li Anmin with the promise of a Foundation Establishment Pill, then left for Meng Province while considering the Song Clan’s aging craftspeople and the younger generation who might replace them.

• Lu Tianchou showed Song Changsheng the completed Sky Battleship and explained its powerful defenses, formations, and weapons, but Song Changsheng decided the clan would keep it hidden during the expedition.
• Lu Tianchou revealed that Li Anmin had improved the construction techniques and was still struggling to establish his foundation, so Song Changsheng promised him a Foundation Establishment Pill as a reward.
• Song Changsheng named the vessel White Star and learned that powering it with a Spirit Vein would require rare materials and advanced artifact-forging and spatial expertise.
• Song Changsheng left the shipbuilding base for Meng Province and sent Song Luyun to give Lu Tianchou the remaining Lifespan Extending Peach fruits.
• Song Changsheng reflected that the Song Clan’s older cultivators and craftspeople were fading before the younger generation had fully matured.

Song Changsheng arranged for Lu Yuming to refine pills and helped Jiang Shuming pursue a Fourth-Tier talisman inheritance in exchange for a lifespan-extending treasure. Three years later, Zhuang Yuechan showed signs of awakening, prompting Mu Guibai to prepare to visit Medicine King Valley.

• Song Changsheng gave Lu Yuming a Gold Han White Jade Fruit and arranged to collect five White Jade Gold Pills in a year.
• Song Changsheng visited Jiang Shuming and offered to connect him with a seller of a Fourth-Tier talisman inheritance in exchange for a lifespan-extending treasure.
• Jiang Shuming accepted Song Changsheng's jade token and went to Fire Cauldron Mountain after Song Changsheng departed.
• Song Changsheng began upgrading the Song Clan's Mountain Protection Array using the clan's Brewing Workshop wealth.
• Three years later, Zhuang Yuechan's hand moved while Lian Siqian fed her medicinal soup, and Lian Siqian summoned Shen Qingxiu and Mu Guibai.
• Mu Guibai examined Zhuang Yuechan, confirmed that her soul aura was reviving, and decided to visit Medicine King Valley.