Chapter Summaries

Song Changsheng traveled to Sunset City as Zhuang Yuechan’s soul fusion neared completion, then agreed to enter her Sea of Consciousness to awaken her lost consciousness. He arrived inside her mind and learned he had twelve hours to bring her back before the consequences became fatal.

• Song Changsheng left Song Luyun in charge of the clan and sent Jinxuan to guard it while he traveled to Sunset City.
• At Heavenly Sound Mountain, Song Changsheng saw the powerful killing array Mu Guibai had arranged around Zhuang Yuechan’s courtyard as a safeguard against True Monarch Yusu’s remnant consciousness.
• Medicine King found that the remnant thought had gained the upper hand and disoriented Zhuang Yuechan’s consciousness, then proposed that Song Changsheng enter her Sea of Consciousness to awaken her.
• Song Changsheng accepted the danger, and Medicine King used their merged essence blood to send his divine sense into Zhuang Yuechan’s Sea of Consciousness.
• Medicine King warned Song Changsheng that he had to awaken Zhuang Yuechan and return to his body within twelve hours.

Song Changsheng searched Zhuang Yuechan’s Sea of Consciousness and discovered True Monarch Yusu’s memories and their fusion with Yuechan. He nearly destroyed Yuechan with the Mysterious Creation Canon, and the chapter ended as Yusu reappeared in her body to taunt him.

• Song Changsheng used the soul-guidance technique to trace Zhuang Yuechan’s memories and witnessed her harsh childhood, rise as True Monarch Yusu, and eventual fusion with Yuechan.
• True Monarch Yusu confronted Song Changsheng and attacked him, but he countered her sword techniques and starfall assault.
• Song Changsheng summoned the Mysterious Creation Canon and ordered Little Nine to unleash its power against True Monarch Yusu.
• Yusu’s face changed to Zhuang Yuechan’s, and Song Changsheng ordered Little Nine to stop, but the attack struck Yuechan and dimmed her soul body.
• Song Changsheng gathered Yuechan into his arms, then shoved her away when her face changed again and Yusu taunted him.

Song Changsheng tricked True Monarch Yusu into speaking the name of the Mysterious Creation Canon, drawing the Heavenly Dao’s punishment and letting him tear her True Spirit from Zhuang Yuechan. The tribulation destroyed Yusu and left Yuechan unharmed, but Song Changsheng collapsed into darkness after shielding her.

• True Monarch Yusu admitted she had little power left and offered to leave Zhuang Yuechan if Song Changsheng would help her rebuild a physical body.
• Song Changsheng agreed to swear a Heavenly Dao Oath but asked True Monarch Yusu to swear first.
• Song Changsheng prompted True Monarch Yusu to say the name of the Mysterious Creation Canon, which caused the Heavenly Dao to target her and the jade slip.
• Song Changsheng used the Heavenly Tribulation’s attack to pull True Monarch Yusu’s True Spirit out of Zhuang Yuechan’s soul body.
• The Heavenly Tribulation annihilated True Monarch Yusu’s True Spirit, and Song Changsheng shielded Zhuang Yuechan from its remaining force.
• The Mysterious Creation Canon protected Song Changsheng, but he lost consciousness as Zhuang Yuechan cried out to him.

Song Changsheng recovered from the Heavenly Tribulation by sorting through True Monarch Yusu’s memories, where he learned about powerful techniques and the Path of Space. He awakened after 132 days to find Zhuang Yuechan at his side, and the chapter ended with him consoling her for the hardship she had endured watching over him.

• Song Changsheng reflected on how he had used the Mysterious Creation Canon to trap True Monarch Yusu, and regretted that Little Nine had fallen into a slumber protecting him.
• While recovering in his Sea of Consciousness, Song Changsheng reviewed True Monarch Yusu’s memories and studied her inheritance, including the Jade Pure Heavenly Firmament Art and her mastery of Universe in the Sleeve.
• Song Changsheng gained an epiphany about the Path of Space as his Sea of Consciousness and body gradually recovered.
• Song Changsheng woke after 132 days unconscious and reunited with Zhuang Yuechan, who told him that True Monarch Yusu’s True Spirit had been annihilated and her Origin of Law had fused into her.
• Niu Dazhuang explained that Senior Medicine King had used a sacred medicine to speed Song Changsheng’s recovery and told him how Zhuang Yuechan had watched over him.
• Song Changsheng saw how thin and exhausted Zhuang Yuechan had become and told her, “You’ve suffered so much...”

Song Changsheng awoke after recovering from his injuries and reunited with Zhuang Yuechan, learning that Xiao Qingwan had found the Myriad Spirit Immortal Herb that saved him. After Medicine King examined him, Mu Guibai privately asked whether he had also received True Monarch Yusu’s memories.

• Song Changsheng comforted Zhuang Yuechan as she fell asleep, then asked Niu Dazhuang about the Song Clan and his treatment.
• Niu Dazhuang explained that Song Changsheng’s Sea of Consciousness world had collapsed and that Xiao Qingwan had obtained the Myriad Spirit Immortal Herb to repair it.
• Song Changsheng told Niu Dazhuang that True Monarch Yusu’s remnant thought and Yusu Sword had forced him to expend too much Divine Soul Power.
• Mu Guibai, Medicine King, Zhan Tianxia, Yin Shang, Shen Qingxiu, and others arrived, and Medicine King examined Song Changsheng and found no serious lasting injury.
• After Medicine King left, Mu Guibai raised a barrier and asked Song Changsheng whether he had received True Monarch Yusu’s memories.

Mu Guibai asked Song Changsheng to lead the Song Clan in searching for True Monarch Yusu’s hidden resources, and Song Changsheng agreed. Shen Qingxiu raised the prospect of Song Changsheng and Zhuang Yuechan’s marriage, but the chapter ended with Song Changsheng believing Yuechan would refuse if he asked now.

• Mu Guibai explained Great Qi’s worsening resource shortage and asked the Song Clan to find True Monarch Yusu’s buried treasures, offering them all resources below the third tier and a share of higher-tier ones.
• Song Changsheng accepted the task and agreed to recover before deciding when the search would begin.
• Shen Qingxiu suggested that Song Changsheng and Zhuang Yuechan prepare to marry, and Song Changsheng said he was willing if Yuechan agreed.
• Yin Shang said he planned to travel to the Great Chu Cultivation World within two or three years and urged Song Changsheng to marry before the Allied Army Expedition.
• After everyone else left, Song Changsheng watched the sleeping Zhuang Yuechan and thought she would refuse if he raised marriage with her now.

Song Changsheng learned that the Ancestral Lineage had appointed a new Guiding Emissary and ordered the Song Clan to prepare for his arrival. He planned to conceal sensitive matters and face the emissary from a position of strength, while Song Qingxing prepared to attempt a breakthrough into the Purple Palace realm.

• Song Qingxi and Song Qingxing visited the recovering Song Changsheng and asked for his guidance about a message from the Ancestral Lineage.
• Song Qingxi told Song Changsheng that a new Guiding Emissary would arrive in the Great Qi Cultivation World, though the message gave no date.
• Song Changsheng recalled how past emissaries had taken gifted clan members, including Song Luke, and suspected the new emissary might have ulterior motives.
• Song Changsheng told Song Qingxi to prepare for the visit and keep certain matters hidden, while the clan continued its training and Allied Army Expedition preparations.
• Song Changsheng assured Song Qingxi that the clan could resist any attempt to exploit it, then directed Song Qingxing to cultivate in the Vast Small World and take Amethyst Jade Marrow for his breakthrough.
• Song Changsheng learned that his disciple Chi Li had gone on a training journey and resolved to make up for neglecting his instruction.

Zhuang Yuechan awoke after forty years of slumber and reunited with Song Changsheng, but insisted on reaching the Purple Palace Stage before marrying him. After Song Changsheng left Heavenly Sound Mountain, Zhuang Yuechan discovered she could wield the Law of Life inherited from True Monarch Yusu and resolved to catch up to him.

• Song Changsheng cared for Zhuang Yuechan throughout her seven-day recovery and prepared her nourishing lotus seed soup when she awoke.
• Zhuang Yuechan told Song Changsheng she had heard him during her long slumber, and they reminisced about Zhu Yiqun and Xu Yunhe, who were both missing.
• Song Changsheng proposed arranging their wedding, but Zhuang Yuechan asked to wait until she reached the Purple Palace Stage, and he agreed to respect her wishes.
• Song Changsheng and Zhuang Yuechan grew intimate, but she stopped him because she needed to prepare for her breakthrough; embarrassed, she sent him away.
• Zhuang Yuechan restored the peonies in her courtyard with the vitality of the Law of Life and recognized the inheritance from True Monarch Yusu as a path to catching up with Song Changsheng.

Song Changsheng prepared the Song Clan for the arrival of the Ancestral Lineage’s Guiding Emissary, arranging to hide promising juniors and the Human King's Sword while displaying the clan’s strength. He also assigned Song Youfu a dangerous mission to locate a Nascent Soul True Lord’s hidden treasure, leaving Youfu horrified by the task.

• Song Luyun advised Song Changsheng to send Song Youlin and other promising juniors to the Vast Small World and to invite Golden Core True Persons from Sunset City to deter the Guiding Emissary.
• Song Changsheng and Song Luyun chose Song Youfu to lead the clan’s effort to locate the treasure left by a deceased Nascent Soul True Lord, while Sunset City would handle the dangerous exploration.
• Song Changsheng reflected on Song Youlin’s steady cultivation and the importance of building a strong foundation before pursuing a high-grade Golden Core.
• Song Changsheng told Song Youlin to take over Qingxi’s work in the Vast Small World to avoid the Guiding Emissary and gave him a Jade Slip for Song Youfu.
• Song Changsheng moved the Human King's Sword into the Vast Small World to conceal the Song Clan’s dragon-shaped providence.
• After reading the Jade Slip, Song Youfu realized he had been assigned the perilous treasure mission and cried out in despair.

Song Changsheng prepared the Song Clan for the expected arrival of the Ancestral Lineage’s Guiding Emissary while Song Youfu’s team set out to search for a treasure cache. The emissaries arrived secretly at Wangyue Market, and Song Changsheng overheard two of their juniors discussing Song Yulong and the possibility that they had fled to Great Qi.

• Song Youfu led a five-person team toward the Ten-Thousand-Fathom Abyssal Pool to search for True Monarch Yusu’s treasure cache.
• Song Changsheng continued upgrading Vast Peak’s Mountain Protection Array and training cultivators to operate its formations.
• Song Xianming refined the White Jade Gold Pill and advanced to the Late Purple Mansion Stage, while Yuan Tianshu failed to advance.
• Five Guiding Emissaries from the Brocade Banner Song Clan arrived secretly at Wangyue Market, where Wind Whisper Hall spies identified them and reported to Song Changsheng.
• Song Changsheng traveled to Wangyue Market and used his Divine Sense to investigate the emissaries, then listened in as a junior named Mu Ci discussed Song Yulong and the others.
• Song Changsheng heard the junior wonder whether Song Yulong and his companions had fled to the Great Qi Cultivation World, and his eyes flashed with cold intent.

Song Changsheng uncovered the Ancestral Lineage emissaries’ plan to search for Song Yulong’s group and their Cross-Domain Flying Boat, then prepared the Wangyue Song Clan for their arrival. When Song Zhexuan presented the emissaries’ mission at Vast Peak, Song Changsheng’s greeting hinted that he expected them to bring something.

• Song Changsheng overheard Song Muci and Song Muqi plotting to find the Cross-Domain Flying Boat and use it to implicate Song Shouhe’s branch.
• Song Changsheng told Song Luyun what he had learned, and she explained Song Shouhe’s past connection to Song Yulong and their escape from the Ancestral Lineage.
• Song Changsheng ordered the clan to stay alert and conceal its members’ identities while he followed the emissaries and watched their interest in Great Qi.
• Song Zhexuan led the emissaries toward Vast Peak, where Song Luyun received them while Song Changsheng and Song Xianming watched from the mountain.
• Song Changsheng greeted Song Zhexuan and asked whether he had brought “the things,” leaving the gathered clan members confused.

Song Changsheng confronted Song Zhexuan over the Ancestral Lineage’s neglect and learned that the emissary had come to recruit the Song Clan for a mission to capture a merfolk of royal blood. Song Changsheng realized the target was likely Kongsang Xiruo, while Song Zhexuan offered him a chance to become a Golden Core candidate if he succeeded.

• Song Changsheng questioned Song Zhexuan about the missing Foundation Establishment Pills, Song Luke, and Song Yulong, while rebuking Song Muqi and Song Muci for their disrespect.
• Song Qingxuan and Song Luyun led the younger members away, leaving Song Changsheng to speak privately with Song Zhexuan.
• Song Zhexuan admitted that Song Luke had died and Song Yulong and the others had defected, then revealed that the Ancestral Lineage had sent him to assign Song Changsheng a mission.
• Song Zhexuan showed Song Changsheng a map of the Canglan River and asked him to find a merfolk of royal blood, claiming the target was young and no stronger than the Third-Tier.
• Song Changsheng suspected the target was Kongsang Xiruo, whom he had once met and who had rescued him in the Fragrant Dew River.
• Song Zhexuan offered to recommend Song Changsheng as a Golden Core candidate in the Main Lineage if he captured the merfolk.

Song Changsheng feigned willingness to help the Ancestral Lineage search for Kongsang Xiruo while bargaining for resources and securing a Wood Attribute Yang Heaven and Earth Spiritual Object. The two agreed to a sixty-year deadline, and Song Changsheng remained confident that the Song Clan could withstand pressure as he and Song Zhexuan noticed Song Muqi causing trouble outside.

• Song Changsheng weighed Song Zhexuan's offer but decided to exploit it rather than trust the Ancestral Lineage, and he pretended to be reluctant to accept the search task.
• Song Changsheng requested the Foundation Establishment Pills previously owed to his clan, and Song Zhexuan offered regular resources for thirty years plus one reasonable request.
• Song Zhexuan set a sixty-year deadline for finding the merfolk, warning that the Golden Core ancestors would come to collect if the task failed.
• Song Changsheng requested a Wood Attribute Yang Heaven and Earth Spiritual Object for Song Xianming, and Song Zhexuan agreed to deliver it within five or six years.
• Song Changsheng considered how the Song Clan's defenses could withstand the Ancestral Lineage, then invited Song Zhexuan to see Song Muqi stirring up trouble outside.

Song Qingxia defeated Song Muci without drawing her sword, then revealed that she had been saving her accumulated sword momentum to challenge Song Muqi. Song Muqi accepted the challenge and rode into the air, leaving the clash between them about to begin.

• Song Zhexuan ordered Song Muqi to step aside and let Song Muci fight Song Qingxia because their cultivation levels were more evenly matched.
• Song Qingxia fought Song Muci with her sword still sheathed, using her Sword Intent to destroy the azure python formed by Muci’s whip and force her to concede.
• Song Qingxia kept accumulating sword momentum after Song Muci left and challenged Song Muqi, asking whether she had earned the right to face him.
• Song Muqi asked Song Zhexuan for permission to fight, received a warning to be careful, and rode his sword into the air to confront Song Qingxia.

Song Qingxia’s sword strike broke through Song Muqi’s Sky-Shading Umbrella and badly injured him, while Song Changsheng recognized the umbrella as the lost artifact connected to Song Luke’s death. After treating Song Muqi and secretly marking him, Song Changsheng faced Song Muci’s accusation that he had sheltered a clan traitor, then invited the group to inspect the Cross-Domain Flying Boat.

• Song Qingxuan proposed that Song Muqi stall Song Qingxia until her gathered sword energy caused backlash, but Song Zhexuan refused to accept such a victory.
• Song Qingxia drew the Three-Foot Green Edge and unleashed a powerful slash that pierced the Sky-Shading Umbrella before striking Song Muqi’s War Armor.
• Song Changsheng recognized the Sky-Shading Umbrella as the lost spirit tool once given to Song Yulong for Song Luke, and he and Song Luyun resolved to investigate Song Muqi.
• Song Qingxia and Song Muqi both fell with serious injuries, and Song Changsheng treated them while secretly placing a concealed mark on Song Muqi.
• Song Muci accused Song Changsheng of sheltering a clan traitor and cited his use of the Cross-Domain Flying Boat, but Song Zhexuan declined to pursue the charge.
• Song Changsheng invited the group to inspect the Cross-Domain Flying Boat after Song Muci threatened to report Song Zhexuan for negligence.

Song Changsheng proved the Wangyue Song Clan had built its own spirit ships, then secretly followed Song Zhexuan’s party out of Great Qi. Once they reached the Gusu Cultivation World, he attacked them, defeated Song Zhexuan, and abducted Song Muqi.

• Song Changsheng showed Song Muci the Wangyue Song Clan’s two spirit ships, ending her accusation, and Song Zhexuan apologized for his companions’ conduct.
• Song Changsheng told Song Luyun he would secretly pursue Song Zhexuan’s party and seek to recover the Sky-Shading Umbrella, then followed them beyond Great Qi.
• After trailing the party through several provinces for over two months, Song Changsheng attacked their flying boat after they entered the Gusu Cultivation World.
• Song Changsheng overwhelmed Song Zhexuan in close combat, destroyed the fleeing flying boat, and tore through Song Qingxuan’s defensive artifact.
• Song Changsheng injured Song Qingxuan, seized Song Muqi, and escaped after warning the group not to assume their secret actions would go unseen.

Song Changsheng captured and interrogated Song Muqi, uncovering a vague prophecy behind the Brocade Banner Song Clan’s interest in Great Qi and the truth about Song Luke’s murder. After killing Song Muqi and returning to Great Qi under a changed identity, Song Changsheng discussed the clan’s response and its treasure hunt with Song Luyun, then asked to see Chi Li.

• Song Zhexuan abandoned the pursuit of Song Changsheng and took the injured Song Qingxuan and the others to Four Directions City, leaving Song Muqi behind.
• Song Changsheng concealed Song Muqi in a mountain cave and used the Soul Searching Technique to learn that the clan had come to Great Qi seeking Kongsang Xiruo and following a prophecy that said, “benefit lies in the southwest.”
• Song Changsheng learned that Song Jiquan had arranged Song Luke’s death to strengthen the Sixth Branch, then killed Song Muqi and destroyed his body.
• Song Changsheng recovered the Sky-Shading Umbrella and returned to Great Qi through the Black Market under a changed identity after traveling through other cultivation worlds.
• Song Changsheng and Song Luyun discussed the bounty against him, the failed search at the first treasure site, and Song Youfu’s move toward Qingyang Hall’s territory.
• Song Luyun told Song Changsheng that Chi Li had returned in low spirits, and Song Changsheng asked to see him.

Song Changsheng encouraged Chi Li after his defeat and taught him spear techniques, then forged him a heavy spear while reforging Song Qingxia’s spirit sword. At Five Elements Peak, he told Song Yulong that he had uncovered the truth about Uncle Lu Ke’s death and promised that everyone responsible would eventually face justice.

• Chi Li told Song Changsheng that a woman with a red-tasseled spear had defeated him in three moves, and Song Changsheng urged him to learn from the loss.
• Song Changsheng demonstrated spear techniques for Chi Li and promised to forge him a new spear, while also taking Song Qingxia’s damaged spirit sword to reforge it.
• Half a year later, Song Changsheng gave Chi Li a three-thousand-jin spear forged from extraterrestrial meteorite iron and told him to train with it.
• Song Changsheng went to Five Elements Peak, where the Song Clan’s forces were preparing for an attack, then visited Song Yulong’s branch.
• Song Changsheng gave Song Yulong a Jade Slip detailing Uncle Lu Ke’s murder and told him he had killed Song Muqi, promising that the other perpetrators would face justice.

Song Changsheng prepared Five Elements Peak and the Song Clan for the coming expedition while learning that the Blood Demon Sect planned to target the clan for the Heavenly Demonic Handbook. He then crossed the Canglan River with Niu Dazhuang to investigate the Demon Race’s unnaturally quiet territory, and they headed for the Black Dragon Demon King’s domain.

• Song Changsheng returned the Sky-Shading Umbrella, a keepsake of Song Yulong’s father, to Song Yulong and agreed to let his branch send troops to the expedition.
• Song Changsheng strengthened Five Elements Peak’s defenses as Great Qi’s major forces mobilized for war.
• The Qingtian Sect Master told Yu Dongyang that the Blood Demon Sect planned to search the Song Clan for the Heavenly Demonic Handbook and wanted her to hold off the Golden Core Cultivators guarding the rear.
• Song Changsheng showed Niu Dazhuang the Song Clan’s drilling troops, then agreed to cross the Canglan River with him to investigate the Demon Race’s silence.
• Song Changsheng and Niu Dazhuang crossed into Demon Race territory without meeting resistance and chose to visit the Black Dragon Demon King first.

Song Changsheng and Niu Dazhuang scouted the Demon Kings’ forces and learned that the expedition was part of a contest between a Human Race Supreme and a Demon Sovereign. After Mu Guibai reassured Song Changsheng about the terms and revealed he would guard the rear, Great Qi’s forces began assembling for war.

• Song Changsheng and Niu Dazhuang surveyed the Black Dragon Demon King’s territory and found tens of thousands of Demon Beasts and more than twenty great demons gathered in its swamp.
• The two scouted the other three Demon Kings’ territories and estimated that the gathered forces numbered several hundred thousand Demon Beasts and more than forty great demons.
• Niu Dazhuang told Song Changsheng that a Human Race Supreme had battled the Demon Sovereign, securing an agreement that other Demon Races would not intervene in the expedition.
• Song Changsheng visited Mu Guibai, who explained that the expedition was a contest between their race’s Supreme and the Demon Sovereign across the Canglan River, and said he would guard the rear.
• Song Changsheng returned to Five Elements Peak, and Song Luyun issued conscription orders as Great Qi’s forces assembled and set out for Zhangye County.