Chapter Summaries

Song Changsheng and the others abandoned their formation-based defense and fought the Howling Moon Wolf King with Spirit Treasures, wounding it at great cost. As the battle turned against them, Chen Wushang drew on Chen Zhongfang’s Golden Core Origin to unleash a decisive slash.

• The Howling Moon Wolf King summoned its moon-powered divine ability and shattered the formation’s Law Chains, but Chen Wushang’s Holy Spirit Black Tortoise blocked the attack.
• The Wolf King used its refined wolf fangs to pierce the Black Tortoise and wound Chen Wushang, then injured Song Changsheng and Bai Zhengchun’s Holy Spirits.
• Song Changsheng and the others separated from the Holy Spirits, used the formation’s power to approach the Early Golden Core Stage, and brought out five Spirit Treasures.
• Meng Hao harried the Wolf King with spells from his white jade scroll while Song Changsheng defended the group, giving Bai Zhengchun an opening to slash the Wolf King and drive his sword into its skull.
• Song Changsheng and Meng Hao struck the Wolf King’s Sea of Consciousness, and Su Ye wounded its abdomen with his bronze spear, but the Wolf King gravely injured Bai Zhengchun and Su Ye in return.
• Chen Wushang drew on Chen Zhongfang’s Golden Core Origin and prepared to unleash the strongest slash of his life.

Song Changsheng and his allies killed the Howling Moon Wolf King, but Meng Hao sacrificed himself to help bring it down. After recovering and finding their surviving companions, they set out for the Main Battlefield to learn the battle’s outcome and honor the fallen hero.

• Meng Hao sacrificed his life to unleash a High-Grade Spirit Treasure, letting Chen Wushang’s blade wound the Howling Moon Wolf King and break its defenses.
• Song Changsheng rescued Chen Wushang from the Wolf King’s Demon Core, then used the Five Spirits Imprisoning Heaven Array and the Hundred Fiends Qiongqi Cauldron to kill the demon and suppress its inner core.
• Song Changsheng annihilated the Wolf King’s remnant soul, collapsed from exhaustion, and was caught by Chen Wushang, who had stayed behind despite being told to leave.
• Song Changsheng recovered Meng Hao’s white jade scroll and found Su Ye and Bai Zhengchun alive, though unconscious and badly injured.
• Chen Wushang swore a Heavenly Dao Oath not to reveal Song Changsheng’s use of Spatial Power, and the group later agreed to return to the Main Battlefield.

Song Changsheng and the other wounded cultivators helped turn the battle against the Demon Kings by revealing the Howling Moon Wolf King's death, allowing Bai Yan to kill the Eight-Winged Heavenly Centipede. As the Black Dragon Demon King began its Heavenly Tribulation, Su Ding sent the others away and entered the tribulation clouds to face it alone.

• Song Changsheng and his companions returned to the battlefield and showed the Eight-Winged Heavenly Centipede the Howling Moon Wolf King's severed head, disrupting its fight with Bai Yan.
• Song Changsheng displayed the Five Spirits Imprisoning Heaven Array's formation diagram, and Bai Yan trapped and killed the Eight-Winged Heavenly Centipede after the Sky-Rending Demonic Butterfly failed to reach it.
• Bai Yan joined Bai Zimou against the Sky-Rending Demonic Butterfly, which fled after the Eight-Winged Heavenly Centipede fell.
• The Black Dragon Demon King summoned a Heavenly Tribulation, and Su Ding told Chen Zhongfang and Shi Potian to take the younger cultivators and leave.
• Su Ding entrusted the Golden Crow Sect and messages for Qingxue to Chen Zhongfang, then walked into the Tribulation Cloud to take the Black Dragon Demon King with him.

Su Ding used a forbidden Metal Cube to detonate the heavenly tribulation, killing himself and the Black Dragon Demon King. The Great Qi Expeditionary Allied Army defeated the remaining Demon Race forces, bringing the campaign to an end.

• Su Ding unleashed his Divine Ability Dharma Form and drove the Black Dragon Demon King through the tribulation clouds, but could not kill it before the heavenly tribulation descended.
• Su Ding ordered Song Changsheng and the others to retreat, then threw the Metal Cube into the tribulation cloud as the lightning struck.
• The Metal Cube exploded and detonated the tribulation cloud, killing Su Ding and the Black Dragon Demon King; Song Changsheng and the others later found only ashes at the battlefield.
• Chen Zhongfang, Bai Yan, Shi Potian, Song Changsheng, Su Ye, and others mourned Su Ding, while Mu Guibai played their shared song after sensing his death.
• The Great Qi Expeditionary Allied Army routed the Demon Race army, leaving fewer than one in ten alive and ending the campaign in the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains.

The Great Qi Expeditionary Allied Army withdrew after defeating the Demon Race, while the Demon Sovereign discovered a demonic artifact containing a human cultivator’s remnant soul and confronted an ancient monk over it. Song Changsheng returned with the army and helped prepare the Song Clan for further growth; the major powers gathered in Dingyuan City to await their rewards.

• The purple-robed man defeated the Demon Sovereign in their wager, binding the Demon Race to stay out of the Great Qi Cultivation World for a hundred years.
• The Demon Sovereign found a demonic bead containing a human cultivator’s remnant soul, but an ancient monk demanded that he hand it over.
• Song Changsheng and the allied army withdrew from the battlefield after sensing supreme experts fighting nearby, then rested at Crimson Sunset Peak.
• Song Changsheng learned that the Song Clan had expanded Qinghe Market City and told its leaders to keep investing in its growth.
• The allied army reached Dingyuan City and disbanded, while the leaders of the major powers gathered to await the assessment of merit and rewards.

Song Changsheng negotiated for the Howling Moon Wolf King's Demon Core, spent the Song Clan Legion's Merit Points on cultivation resources, and learned that an envoy from an upper sect was meeting with the major powers. Back at Vast Peak, he distributed Merit Points to the Song Clan's affiliated forces and brought out a map of Jiang Province, leaving his next move unclear.

• Zhan Tianxia divided the Demon King's spoils, awarding the Howling Moon Wolf King's Demon Core equally to Sunset City and the Song Clan after Zhao Di accepted the Heavenly Meridian Sect's share of the wolf's body.
• Song Changsheng spent the Song Clan Legion's 3.2 million Merit Points on Heaven and Earth Essence, a yin-yang lodestone, spiritual objects, an Ultimate Grade spirit stone, a talisman, Great Demon inner cores, and spirit stones.
• Niu Dazhuang told Song Changsheng that Medicine King would refine Barrier Breaking Pills for Sunset City and the Song Clan, and revealed that an envoy from an upper sect was meeting with the major powers.
• Song Changsheng returned to Vast Peak, where he divided Merit Points among the affiliated forces, giving the Chi Clan one million and the Chu and Wang Clans five hundred thousand each.
• Song Changsheng ordered a detailed map of Jiang Province brought out instead of presenting the affiliated forces with an exchange list.

Song Luyun offered Jiang Province territories and Space Teleportation Arrays to the allied forces, drawing them into heavy spending and debt. Song Changsheng then rewarded the Chi Clan for staying within its assigned role, planned to support Song Yulong’s family, and learned that the Yu Clan had mortgaged its assets to relocate to Jiang Province.

• Song Luyun announced that the Song Clan would exchange surveyed territories in Jiang Province for Merit Points and protect the families that acquired them.
• Song Luyun offered Space Teleportation Arrays, and Song Yushi introduced installment payments for arrays and territories, prompting many forces to spend nearly all their Merit Points and take on debt.
• Song Luyun presented a resource exchange list, while the Chi Clan used most of its Merit Points to lend money to other Yangzhou families instead of buying Jiang Province territory.
• Song Changsheng praised Chiming’s restraint and sent Song Qingshi to deliver Essence of Heaven and Earth to Chihuo.
• Song Changsheng planned to give Song Yulong a Barrier Breaking Pill and have his family relocate to Crimson Sunset County if he reached the Purple Mansion.
• Song Qingshi reported that the Yu Clan had mortgaged its assets to the Wang Clan, and Song Changsheng realized Yu Xueqian intended to move her clan to Jiang Province.

Song Changsheng organized the Song Clan’s recovery after its costly victory, setting new policies for distributing Foundation Establishment Pills and encouraging marriage and childbirth. The chapter left him preparing to honor Lu Tianchou’s daughter’s wedding while suspecting that Lu Tianchou’s lifespan was nearly over.

• Song Changsheng approved compensation for the fallen, ordered the Hidden Hall and Blazing Sun Guard rebuilt, and told Song Yushi to return to her branch while Song Yulong prepared to enter seclusion.
• Song Changsheng assigned Song Luyun to oversee an auction and clan affairs, then decided Foundation Establishment Pills would be allocated through both aptitude and clan contributions, with special consideration for dedicated Hundred Arts cultivators and families of the fallen.
• Song Changsheng and Song Luyun agreed to encourage clan members to marry and have children, and Song Luyun revealed that she had arranged a potential match between Song Lutong and Clan Head Wang’s younger cousin.
• Song Changsheng said he would marry Yuechan after she emerged from seclusion and asked Song Luyun to help Song Lutong meet his prospective match.
• Song Luyun told Song Changsheng that Lu Tianchou’s daughter, Lu Yuxiu, would marry his disciple Li Anmin next month; Song Changsheng arranged a congratulatory gift and worried that Lu Tianchou’s lifespan was nearly exhausted.

Song Changsheng attended the funerals of Su Ding and Meng Hao, receiving a precious bamboo slip from Su Ding that signaled reconciliation between the Song Clan and Golden Crow Sect. Afterward, he recognized that the major powers were treating him and the Song Clan with increasing goodwill, leaving the clan freer to grow.

• Song Changsheng paid his respects at Su Ding’s funeral on Jinyang Peak and exchanged condolences with Su Ye and Xia Qingxiu.
• Su Ye gave Song Changsheng an ancient bamboo slip that Su Ding had left for him, and Song Changsheng accepted it after Chen Zhongfang urged him to do so.
• Song Changsheng understood the gift as compensation and a public gesture of goodwill that could end the Song Clan’s enmity with the Golden Crow Sect.
• Xia Qingxue told Song Changsheng she planned to leave on a training journey and reaffirmed her promise to answer his request if he crushed the Jade Pendant.
• Song Changsheng attended Meng Hao’s funeral at the Heavenly Meridian Sect, where Bai Yan advised him to comprehend the Golden Core Origin he possessed.
• Song Changsheng concluded that the Two Sects and One City held friendly attitudes toward him and that the Song Clan could expand with fewer restrictions.

Song Changsheng learned that Song Changxi and two Sunset City cultivators had died while searching for True Monarch Yusu’s treasures, prompting him to seek help from Sunset City. Meanwhile, the white-robed Hall Master pursued the surviving treasure hunters, and Song Youfu fled into the mountains with the gravely wounded Song Qingdian.

• Song Changsheng studied the Buddhist scripture Su Ye had given him and found that reciting it quieted his thoughts and aided his cultivation.
• Song Luyun told Song Changsheng that Song Changxi’s soul lamp had gone out, then reported that the two Sunset City cultivators had also died; Song Changsheng decided to contact Sunset City and send Qingxing.
• The white-robed Hall Master ordered his followers to track down the two survivors and demanded that a barrier around the treasure be broken within ten days.
• Song Youfu carried the badly wounded Song Qingdian through the forest while escaping their pursuers, then turned toward the distant mountain range to evade them.

Song Youfu used the Dragon String Bow to destroy the pursuers’ tracking bead and turned their chase into a deadly hunt through the mountains. Song Qingxing reached Song Qingdian and followed Song Youfu’s trail, while Song Youfu prepared a final ambush with poison and a crimson-red arrow.

• Song Youfu hid Song Qingdian, identified the pursuers’ tracking bead, and shot it apart, blasting off Deacon Chen’s left hand.
• Song Youfu repeatedly ambushed the pursuers in the mountains, killing four and wounding others as they failed to catch him.
• Song Qingxing found the badly injured Song Qingdian and learned from a Jade Slip that Song Youfu had lured the pursuers into the mountains.
• After more than two days of pursuit, Song Youfu decided to end the chase that night and waited for the pursuers to enter his poison zone.
• Song Youfu nocked a crimson-red arrow onto the Dragon String Bow as the pursuers stepped into the poisoned area.

Song Youfu killed the pursuing squad with poisoned air and ambushes, then reunited with Song Qingxing, who had broken through to Purple Palace. After learning that the enemy was led by a Gu Master and was breaking through a treasure barrier, Song Qingxing headed back to the gorge while Song Youfu followed.

• Song Youfu used Seven Star Arrows and the toxic domain to kill members of the nine-person squad, then poisoned the three survivors as they sheltered against a mountain wall.
• Song Youfu killed the two poisoned Foundation Establishment Late Stage cultivators and pursued Chen Zhizhong, who revealed that he had been captured and controlled by Gu Insects before attempting to self-destruct.
• Song Youfu reunited with Song Qingxing, learned that Song Qingdian's life had been preserved, and described the enemy's Purple Palace leaders and the treasure barrier.
• Song Qingxing sent Song Youfu to meet a fellow cultivator from Sunset City, then flew toward the gorge where the enemy was breaking through the barrier.
• The white-robed Hall Master sensed that he had lost nine puppets and began making arrangements as the old man continued working on the barrier.

Song Qingxing investigated the valley where the treasure-hunting party had been attacked and used its lingering Sword Intent to break the Myriad Gu Burying Heaven Formation and kill the white-robed Hall Master. After confirming Chu Yuming had not harmed his clan, Song Qingxing learned that survivors and enemies remained deeper in the valley and headed there.

• Song Qingxing sensed the Sword Intent left in the valley while the white-robed Hall Master ordered Chu Yuming to lure him into an ambush.
• Chu Yuming trapped Song Qingxing with barriers, but Song Qingxing shattered them and followed him into the Myriad Gu Burying Heaven Formation.
• Song Qingxing resonated with the valley’s Sword Intent and destroyed the formation and its Gu Insects with Sword Opens Heavenly Gate.
• Song Qingxing overpowered the white-robed Hall Master and beheaded him with Sword Three while Chu Yuming pretended to help.
• Chu Yuming revealed that a Gu Insect had been draining his life and swore he had not harmed Song Qingxing’s kin; Song Qingxing spared him after checking his identity.
• Chu Yuming told Song Qingxing that survivors and enemies were deeper in the valley, and Song Qingxing rushed ahead with Chu Yuming following.

Song Qingxing and his allies secured the entrance to True Monarch Yusu’s Treasure Vault and had Chu Yuming break through its barriers. After Song Changsheng arrived and identified a better approach, the barrier was opened, revealing the vault after thousands of years.

• Song Qingxing killed the attackers, forced Chu Yuming to swear secrecy, and ordered him to break the Treasure Vault’s barriers.
• Li Hu arrived, learned that the attackers belonged to the unknown Gu Immortal Sect, and questioned Chu Yuming about how he had found the vault.
• Song Youfu confirmed Chu Yuming’s account, and the group learned that the Immortal Fate Gu had led the Gu Immortal Sect’s Hall Master to the vault.
• Song Changsheng arrived three days later and respectfully greeted Chu Yuming, then pointed out a more effective place to breach the barrier.
• With Song Changsheng’s guidance, Chu Yuming broke through the remaining barriers in less than ten hours, and the black iron gate opened.

Song Changsheng and his companions looted True Monarch Yusu’s Treasure Vault, finding Golden Core Forming Pills and other rare treasures, then returned to Sunset City. As the Song Clan and Sunset City divided the spoils, Song Changsheng chose treasures to support his cultivation and faced a difficult decision over his final share.

• Song Changsheng led Li Hu, Chu Yuming, and Song Qingxing through the vault’s concealed killing array and found a Deep Sea Sky Crystal powering the Treasure Vault.
• Song Changsheng discovered two Golden Core Forming Pills among True Monarch Yusu’s preserved treasures, while Li Hu collected rare spiritual materials; they stripped the vault and dismantled its killing array.
• Chu Yuming asked to use Sunset City’s Space Teleportation Array to return to the Great Chu Cultivation World, and Li Hu agreed to bring him to the City Lord for a decision.
• Back in Sunset City, Song Changsheng learned Song Qingdian was out of mortal danger but still unconscious, and reflected that the Song Clan needed him to reach the Golden Core Stage quickly.
• Mu Guibai revised the division of the Treasure Vault’s resources in the Song Clan’s favor, and Song Changsheng chose a Golden Core Forming Pill, Essence of Heaven and Earth, and Void Crystals before hesitating over his final portion.

Song Changsheng chose a Fourth-Tier killing array over other rare treasures and learned that the Gu Immortal Sect and many other forces had entered the Southern Continent because of the prophecy, “benefit lies in the southwest.” After Mu Guibai ordered precautions against the Gu Immortal Sect, Song Changsheng returned to Vast Peak with Song Qingdian and Song Youfu, then agreed to let Song Youfu explore the remaining treasures alone.

• Song Changsheng rejected the Life-Continuing Protection Pill and chose a Fourth-Tier killing array to strengthen Vast Peak and improve his array skills.
• Shen Qingxiu reported the Gu Immortal Sect’s history, its deadly Gu techniques, and its suspected appearance in several Cultivation Worlds.
• Shen Qingxiu revealed that unknown forces had flooded into the Southern Continent because of the prophecy “benefit lies in the southwest,” which Song Changsheng recognized from Song Muqi’s memories.
• Mu Guibai ordered cultivators to report their locations, warned rogue cultivators, and called for the sects and neighboring Cultivation Worlds to unite against the Gu Immortal Sect.
• Song Changsheng visited Zhuang Yuechan’s secluded chamber, then waited a month for Song Qingdian to recover before bringing him and Song Youfu back to Vast Peak.
• Song Changsheng approved Song Youfu’s plan to explore the remaining treasures alone and offered him one request as a reward for his service to the clan.

After the Great Qi Cultivation World’s victory brought a century of peace, Song Changsheng prepared Qinghe Market City for a major auction and met Master Zijun, who sought territory in Jiang Province. Zijun offered a fragment of the Human King Sword as leverage, leaving Song Changsheng to weigh the value of the information against the cost of granting him a domain.

• Song Changsheng rewarded Song Youfu with third-tier silk shoes modeled on the Light Smoke Silk and promised him the original after he reached the Purple Palace Stage.
• With the Great Qi Cultivation World stable after its expedition, Song Changsheng finished the shoes and traveled to Lingyue Peak as Qinghe Market City’s auction approached.
• Song Changsheng saw that Qinghe Market City had quickly grown beyond Wangyue Market and was drawing representatives from more than a hundred forces.
• Master Zijun asked Song Changsheng for territory where he could establish a lineage, explaining that years of wandering had left him longing for a home.
• Song Changsheng offered Zijun a territory near the Canglan River, but judged his promise of a hundred years of service insufficient in exchange.
• Zijun offered information about a fragment of the Human King Sword and promised to swear a Heavenly Dao Oath that the information was true.

Song Changsheng accepted Zijun’s offer of information about a Human King Sword fragment and took him to retrieve it after the Qinghe Market City auction raised 11.21 million Low-Grade Spirit Stones. They found the fragment in an Earthsplit Demon Lizard’s cavern, but the beast discovered them as Song Changsheng prepared to take it.

• Song Changsheng inspected Zijun’s possessions, found a mysterious green gemstone that stirred a longing in his divine soul, and agreed to help retrieve the Human King Sword fragment.
• Song Changsheng investigated Zijun through the Wind Whisper Hall and found no clear reason to distrust him, though he remained cautious.
• Song Luyun reported that the Qinghe Market City auction had earned 11.21 million Low-Grade Spirit Stones and that Jiang Province had gained new families.
• Song Changsheng allocated two million Spirit Stones for grand-array materials, outlined plans to expand the clan’s holdings, and entrusted clan affairs to Song Luyun.
• Song Changsheng and Zijun traveled to Long Province and entered the Earthsplit Demon Lizard’s cavern, where they found the Chengyuan sword tip embedded in the ceiling.
• The Earthsplit Demon Lizard roared from deeper in the cavern as Song Changsheng prepared to take the fragment.

Song Changsheng retrieved a Human King Sword fragment, defeated the Crack-Earth Demon Lizard, and arranged for Zijun to serve the Song Clan. After the fragment empowered the Chengyuan Sword, Song Changsheng strengthened Vast Peak’s defenses in seclusion, then learned that Song Zhexuan had arrived again from the Main Lineage.

• Song Changsheng collected the Human King Sword fragment and hurled Zijun out of the cavern before defeating the Crack-Earth Demon Lizard.
• Song Changsheng granted Zijun Riverside Peak and assigned him to watch the Water Tribe of the Canglan River in exchange for a hundred years of service.
• Song Changsheng decided to place the fragment beside the Chengyuan Sword, and the Chengyuan Sword absorbed its power and gained strength from the clan’s luck.
• Song Changsheng assigned Barrier Breaking Pills to Song Chang'an and Song Qingxia and asked Song Luyun to monitor news from the Main Lineage.
• Song Changsheng studied the Heavenly Sword Slaying Baleful Array for three years and incorporated it into Vast Peak’s Mountain Protection Array.
• Song Luyun told Song Changsheng that Song Zhexuan had arrived in the Gusu Cultivation World, and Song Changsheng prepared to meet him.

Song Changsheng rejected Song Zhexuan’s push to bring him into the Main Lineage’s Council of Elders, then reviewed the Song Clan’s growth and prepared to comprehend the Path of Space. Less than a year into his seclusion, Zhuang Yuechan began a remarkable Purple Palace breakthrough, but the Spiritual Qi vortex continued expanding even after her Mystic Bird phenomenon appeared.

• Song Zhexuan gave Song Changsheng six Foundation Establishment Pills and other resources, then offered him a place as a Transmission Elder, but Song Changsheng refused and kept the elder’s waist token.
• Song Changsheng and Song Luyun discussed the clan’s defenses, markets, new Foundation Establishment Cultivators, the Blazing Sun Guard, and plans to gather resources in Xiang Province.
• Song Changsheng entered seclusion with a Void Crystal to comprehend the Path of Space.
• Less than a year later, Spiritual Qi rushed toward Heavenly Sound Mountain as Zhuang Yuechan began breaking through to the Purple Palace Stage.
• Zhuang Yuechan manifested the Mystic Bird Soars Sky phenomenon, but the Spiritual Qi vortex kept growing, alarming Shen Qingxiu and Mu Guibai.