Chapter Summaries

Zhuang Yuechan broke through to the Purple Mansion Mid-stage and prepared for her Violet Palace Celebration, while Song Changsheng advanced his understanding of the Laws of Space. Song Changsheng reunited with Zhuang Yuechan, honored her wish to wait until their wedding night, and presented her with a Beauty Retention Pill.

• In Sunset City, cultivators debated the expanding spiritual qi vortex as Zhuang Yuechan’s breakthrough continued, and an old cultivator explained that accumulated power could let someone advance through several realms at once.
• Zhuang Yuechan emerged from seclusion at the Purple Mansion Mid-stage, having chosen not to advance further, and Mu Guibai arranged a Violet Palace Celebration and told her that Song Changsheng had been notified.
• While in seclusion, Song Changsheng learned to wield Spatial Power and planned to cultivate the divine abilities One Finger Settles Dust and Drawing a Circle as a Prison.
• Song Changsheng received the invitation to Zhuang Yuechan’s celebration, accepted a Beauty Retention Pill from Song Luyun as a gift for her, and hurried to Sunset City.
• Song Changsheng and Zhuang Yuechan reunited in her courtyard and shared an intimate moment, but he stopped before going further and said he wanted to wait until their wedding night.
• Song Changsheng gave Zhuang Yuechan the Beauty Retention Pill he had brought for her.

Song Changsheng and Zhuang Yuechan’s marriage alliance was formally arranged after her Violet Palace Celebration, and Song Changsheng decided to refine a jade hairpin as a betrothal gift. As the alliance shifted Great Qi’s balance of power, Ling Mou resolved that the Heavenly Sword Sect must pursue a different course.

• Song Changsheng and Zhuang Yuechan discussed cultivation for three months before attending Zhuang Yuechan’s Violet Palace Celebration, where Niu Dazhuang complained that Yin Shang had neglected Sunset City after marrying Chu Xinrou.
• Zhuang Yuechan explained to Song Changsheng that Yin Shang’s choices were likely sacrifices for the sect, even though his absence and silence had upset Niu Dazhuang.
• Song Xianming and Xia Yunxue met with Mu Guibai and other Sunset City elders to settle Song Changsheng and Zhuang Yuechan’s marriage arrangements, and Xia Yunxue gave Zhuang Yuechan a Song Clan heirloom bracelet.
• Xia Yunxue announced that the wedding would take place three years later, and Song Changsheng decided to refine a jade hairpin himself as a fourth-order betrothal gift.
• Sunset City and the Song Clan sent out wedding invitations, strengthening their alliance while the Golden Crow Sect and Heavenly Meridian Sect made no public response.
• Ling Mou explained to Yu Dongyang that the alliance had helped create a stable three-way balance in Great Qi, then declared that the Heavenly Sword Sect must act from another direction.

Ling Mou redirected her plans from Great Qi to the Lu Kingdom Cultivation World, while a wanted one-armed man learned of Song Changsheng and Yuechan’s upcoming wedding and decided to return to Great Qi despite the danger. Zhu Yiqun learned of the wedding after waking from a long sleep, and Song Changsheng finished a dual-form artifact before trying to cut open an unexplained gemstone.

• Ling Mou ordered Yu Dongyang to scout the Lu Kingdom Cultivation World and find a puppet force to support.
• A one-armed man in the Great Xiao Cultivation World heard that Song Changsheng and Yuechan would marry in two years and told his wife he planned to return to Great Qi to see them.
• The one-armed man’s wife warned him that returning could expose the couple to danger, but ultimately agreed to wait for him.
• A woman woke Zhu Yiqun by beating him and gave him an invitation announcing Song Changsheng’s marriage to Yuechan, surprising him after he had slept for seven or eight years.
• Song Changsheng completed a fourth-tier low-grade dual-form artifact that changed from a jade hairpin into a short sword, then slashed at the gemstone he had received from Zijun to inspect its interior.

Song Changsheng absorbed the power inside a mysterious gemstone, greatly strengthening his divine soul and divine sense before preparing a special magic tool for his wedding. As guests from across several cultivation worlds gathered at Vast Peak, he led the wedding procession toward Sunset City.

• Song Changsheng opened the gemstone, and the Mysterious Creation Canon absorbed most of its overwhelming soul-enhancing power, allowing him to refine the remainder over half a year.
• Song Changsheng's Sea of Consciousness more than doubled in size, and his divine sense reached three thousand zhang, giving him strength comparable to an Early Golden Core Cultivator.
• Song Changsheng decided to refine a special magic tool for the wedding, while the Song Clan prepared Vast Peak for the arriving guests.
• Song Xianming led the family elders to Sunset City with the betrothal gifts, and Zhu Yiqun arrived and was assigned to oversee the wedding banquet.
• Peng Siying arrived with Qingluan and offered to help the Song Clan find a Fourth-Tier Earth Master to improve its spirit vein.
• After receiving guests and joining in Dao discussions, Song Changsheng led the wedding procession aboard the Flying Boat toward Sunset City.

Song Changsheng and Zhuang Yuechan held a grand wedding that strengthened the Song Clan and Sunset City alliance, then exchanged wedding rings and consummated their marriage. The celebration also brought word that Xu Yunhe had secretly returned, though he left again without meeting them, while Song Changsheng learned that Song Qingyun was missing.

• Song Changsheng insisted on a grand wedding, and Zhuang Yuechan prepared to leave Sunset City with a lavish dowry and the support of her sect.
• Song Changsheng and Zhuang Yuechan completed their wedding rites at Vast Peak as cultivators from across the region presented gifts and attended the feast.
• Zhu Yiqun offered to take Song Qingyun as his disciple, but Song Changsheng told him that Song Qingyun had gone missing.
• A deacon brought Song Changsheng a congratulatory note and a restricted brocade box, and Song Changsheng recognized Xu Yunhe's handwriting.
• Song Changsheng and Zhu Yiqun tracked Xu Yunhe's lingering aura but could not find him; Xu Yunhe secretly drank the wedding wine and left a core of ten-thousand-year mysterious ice as a gift.
• Song Changsheng and Zhuang Yuechan exchanged wedding rings, declared their devotion to each other, and spent their wedding night together.

On their wedding night, Song Changsheng and Zhuang Yuechan advanced their cultivation, but Song Changsheng delayed his own breakthrough to pursue a higher-quality Golden Core. After Zhu Yiqun left to search for Yun He in Great Xiao, battle reports revealed a worsening crisis across the Southwest, prompting Song Changsheng to urgently strengthen the Song Clan.

• Zhuang Yuechan broke through to the Late Purple Mansion Stage, and Song Changsheng celebrated her recovery by making peonies bloom in their courtyard.
• Song Changsheng and Zhuang Yuechan prepared to return to Sunset City, where Zhu Yiqun announced he was leaving for Great Xiao to bring Yun He back.
• Song Changsheng and Zhuang Yuechan escorted Zhu Yiqun to Wangyue Market and saw him off through the Space Teleportation Array.
• Shen Qingxiu showed Song Changsheng reports of multiple Violet Palace Forces being destroyed or attacked, revealing that the Southwest was entering a dangerous period.
• Song Changsheng accelerated preparations to upgrade Vast Peak's Mountain Protection Array and Spirit Vein, while Song Lutong and Song Qingxi entered seclusion to pursue breakthroughs to the Purple Mansion.

Song Changsheng completed the Song Clan’s preparations and entered secret seclusion as Great Qi rapidly developed and conflict flared along the Canglan River. Five years into his seclusion, Song Yulong failed his breakthrough and could not try again for at least thirty years.

• Song Changsheng hired Black Mountain to advance Vast Peak’s spirit vein, then upgraded the clan’s defenses and cultivated ties with the Fourth-Tier Earth Master.
• Song Changsheng assigned clan members their duties and entered seclusion in the Wutong Small World with a bottle of Heaven-and-Earth Essence.
• Cultivators flocked to the Canglan River to hunt Water Demons and gather resources, prompting the Water Tribe to retaliate and kill thousands.
• Two Sects and One City met with Song Xianming and declared that large-scale slaughter on the Canglan River must stop, but rogue cultivators resumed hunting and Great Demons retaliated.
• Song Yulong attempted to break through the Foundation Establishment Realm’s limit but failed the Minor Inner Demon Tribulation; Song Xianming saved his life, though Yulong could not attempt another breakthrough for thirty years.

Song Changsheng perfected his Yin-Yang and spatial true intents during seclusion while the Song Clan strengthened its population and defenses amid rising tensions with the Canglan River water demons. The chapter ended with Song Qingxi breaking through to the Purple Palace Stage, making the Song Clan the strongest force beneath Two Sects and One City.

• Song Changsheng fused Yin-Yang and spatial true intents into a technique that moved him a thousand li instantly, then headed deeper into the Wutong Small World to study the Laws of Space.
• Song Qingxia began cultivating to break through to the Purple Mansion, while the Song Clan completed most of its mortal relocation and grew to more than 2.5 million people and over 2,500 cultivators.
• After a Great Demon approached Crimson Sunset Peak, Song Luyun reinforced the county and the Song Clan joined the Two Sects and One City in condemning large-scale hunting of water demons.
• At the Jiazi Clan Meeting, Song Luyun announced the birth of Song You Nian’s son, Jingrun, adjusted clan development policies, and appointed Zijun acting town guardian of Crimson Sunset County.
• When the elders rejected moving the Blazing Sun Guard to Jiang Province, Song Luyun proposed the Demon Suppression Guard, which formed with 500 members and began patrolling the border three years later.
• In the fifteenth year of Song Changsheng’s seclusion, Song Qingxi broke through to the Purple Palace Stage, becoming the Song Clan’s fourth Purple Palace Cultivator.

After the Blood Demon Sect’s expansion into the Lu Kingdom stalled at the Abyss, Song Qingxing and Song Qingxi were assigned to new posts but were called to assist Song Xianming after Yuan Tianshu vanished in a collapsed mine. The three defeated a swarm of Metal Devouring Beetles and discovered a rich titanium gold vein alongside a vast amethyst deposit, whose size could determine whether it contained valuable Amethyst Jade Marrow.

• The Blood Demon Sect established itself through the Bone Erosion Sect, but its first Abyss expedition led by Mie ended with the whole team’s Soul Lamps going out; twenty years later, Hun Sha sent another group to explore.
• Song Qingxing returned to the Song Clan, where cultivators were unnerved by his new smiles, and learned that Song Qingxi had arranged a nearby posting so they could stay close.
• Song Luyun summoned Song Qingxing and Song Qingxi after Yuan Tianshu disappeared while investigating a cave-in and aggressive black beetles at a mine near Lingyue Peak.
• Song Xianming identified the beetles as Metal Devouring Beetles and led Song Qingxing into the pit, where they found a rich titanium gold vein and signs of a large amethyst deposit.
• Song Xianming and Song Qingxing joined Yuan Tianshu in fighting the beetles, and the three killed most of the swarm before Song Xianming began treating Yuan’s wounds.
• Song Qingxing investigated the amethyst vein as Song Xianming considered whether its size might mean it contained Amethyst Jade Marrow.

Song Xianming and the Song Clan discovered a vast Amethyst Ore Vein beneath a collapsed mine and excavated it for three years in search of a marrow pool. Song Qingxing finally found a pool containing Amethyst Jade Marrow and valuable Jade Marrow Paste, leaving the clan with a major new resource.

• Song Xianming confirmed that the newly exposed Amethyst Ore Vein was enormous and ordered the Song Clan to investigate it while keeping outsiders away.
• Song Qingxi reported that the cave-in had been caused by Metal Devouring Beetles disturbed by mining, and Song Xianming arranged burials, aid for the injured, and an end to the surviving miners’ labor sentences.
• Song Luyun organized a secret excavation, and Song Youping volunteered to study the Metal Devouring Beetles and their ability to corrode and refine metals.
• After outsiders who ignored the Song Clan’s warning disappeared, the clan mined toward the vein’s core for three years, with Song Qingxing carefully completing the final excavation.
• Song Qingxing discovered a marrow pool containing Amethyst Jade Marrow, pale-purple marrow liquid, and Jade Marrow Paste.

Song Xianming’s clan secured a second Amethyst Jade Marrow pool and eased tensions with affiliated forces by offering breakthrough guidance, while years of upheaval brought deaths and changes across Great Qi. After thirty years in seclusion, Song Changsheng completed minor achievement in Yin-Yang and Spatial Laws and prepared to leave the Wutong Small World.

• Song Qingxing and Song Youhui found a second marrow pool, giving the Song Clan two pieces of Amethyst Jade Marrow every hundred years.
• Song Xianming chose to attend Wang Qingquan’s funeral, and the Song Clan offered Foundation Establishment cultivators access to their predecessors’ breakthrough insights, prompting affiliated forces to report their attempts openly.
• Over the following eleven years, Song Lutong and Song Chang’an failed their breakthroughs, while Song Qingxia became the Song Clan’s fifth Purple Palace Cultivator of its main line.
• Song Changsheng used the Heaven-and-Earth Essences to raise his Yin-Yang True Intent and Spatial True Intent to minor achievement in their respective laws.
• Song Changsheng decided against further comprehension, opened his eyes, and vanished from beside the Wutong Small World’s barrier.

Song Changsheng attempted to form his Golden Core by facing the Heavenly Tribulation without external protection, while his family and several powerful cultivators watched. After surviving a legendary tenth bolt of thunder, he refined a Golden Core as the tribulation cloud dispersed.

• Song Changsheng prepared for his breakthrough in the Black Gold Cultivation Chamber, and Zhuang Yuechan waited outside until she reached Purple Mansion Great Perfection.
• The Song Clan evacuated Vast Peak as Song Changsheng's immense tribulation cloud gathered, while Song Xianming ordered the Mountain Protection Array activated.
• Song Changsheng shut down the array and declared that he would endure the Heavenly Tribulation without external aid; Bai Zimou, Bai Yan, Mu Guibai, and Ling Mou arrived as observers.
• Song Changsheng shattered the first bolt with Sword Qi, endured the following lightning strikes, and used his Tai Chi Diagram to redirect the ninth bolt.
• A legendary tenth bolt struck Song Changsheng's soul, but he endured it and refined the Heavenly Tribulation's Law Dao Rhyme within his Violet Palace Furnace into a Golden Core.

Song Changsheng completed his Golden Core breakthrough, becoming Great Qi’s youngest Golden Core Cultivator and earning the acclaim of the Song Clan and the cultivation world. After the celebrations, he discovered his core was an unprecedented black-and-white Perfect Golden Core with twelve vortices, then asked Zhuang Yuechan about the changes of the past forty years.

• Feng Zhongyi and Hua Ruoxi witnessed Song Changsheng’s breakthrough and reflected on how his rise would change Great Qi’s balance of power.
• Song Changsheng thanked Mu Guibai and received congratulations from Bai Zimou and Bai Yan, who warned him that a vicious battle awaited.
• Song Changsheng announced that the Song Clan would hold a Golden Core Grand Ceremony and open feast the following year, then reunited with Xia Yunxue and Zhuang Yuechan.
• Song Changsheng showed Zhuang Yuechan his black-and-white Golden Core, and they discovered it had twelve vortices, exceeding even a flawless Golden Core.
• Song Changsheng named his core a Perfect Golden Core and decided not to dwell on its unexplained nature, then asked Zhuang Yuechan what had changed during his forty-year absence.

Song Changsheng mourned Song Lutong and learned that his transformed Divine Soul qualified him to cultivate Divine Soul Incarnation. Feng Changqing also revealed the Golden Core grades above Ultimate Grade, leaving Song Changsheng to consider what kind of Golden Core he had formed.

• Song Changsheng visited Song Lutong's grave, reflected on the clan's losses, and reassured Lu Yuxiu that she and Li Anmin need not worry about the delayed Sky Battleship.
• Song Changsheng ordered Song Qingxing to deliver an invitation to the Ancestral Lineage, demand the culprits behind Lu Ke's past ambush, and carry protective treasures on the journey.
• Song Changsheng entered his Sea of Consciousness and met Feng Changqing's projection, who identified his Soul Race Emperor essence blood and advised him to cultivate Divine Soul Incarnation.
• Feng Changqing explained that Grand Avenue and Primordial Golden Cores stood above Ultimate Grade, then asked Song Changsheng which grade he had condensed.

Song Changsheng received Feng Changqing’s teachings and a warning to retrieve a mysterious seed from the Abyss before the coming Calamity, then began cultivating a dangerous soul-splitting ability. News of his Golden Core breakthrough spread across the realms, and Peng Siying hurried to prepare a congratulatory gift.

• Feng Changqing taught Song Changsheng about Grand Dao Laws and urged him to pursue an unconventional path beyond his senior martial brothers.
• Feng Changqing told Song Changsheng to retrieve an indestructible seed from the Abyss near the Canglan River, warning that the Alien Race and the coming Calamity could make the journey more dangerous.
• Feng Changqing vanished after placing answers to Song Changsheng’s questions in a sphere of light, and Song Changsheng returned to his room and began condensing the Soul-Slaying Blade.
• News of Song Changsheng’s Golden Core breakthrough spread widely, drawing cultivators toward the Great Qi Cultivation World.
• Peng Siying learned of Song Changsheng’s breakthrough and set out with Hong Luan to choose a congratulatory gift, while Peng Zhenxiong prepared to visit him as well.
• Song Qingxing stepped out of the Space Teleportation Array as news of Song Changsheng’s breakthrough reached the Great Qian Cultivation World.

Song Qingxing and Song Qingxi arrived at the Brocade Banner Song Clan’s ancestral land to deliver a challenge from their newly Golden Core patriarch, Song Changsheng. After Song Qingxi exposed the clan’s crimes against their kin, Song Qingxing wounded a Violet Palace Great Perfection cultivator with one sword, leaving the two sides on the brink of a fight.

• Song Qingxing and Song Qingxi entered Soaring Dragon City and announced that the Wangyue Song Clan had come to pay its respects at Heavenly Dragon Peak.
• Song Qingxi told the crowd that Song Changsheng had reached the Golden Core Stage and invited the ancestral lineage to his ceremony.
• Song Qingxi accused the Brocade Banner Song Clan of murdering Song Luke, stealing the Yin Yang Purple Tree Heart, and persecuting the Wangyue Song Clan; she demanded that those responsible be brought as gifts to the ceremony.
• Song Wuji appeared and challenged the couple, but Song Qingxi refused to recognize him as their patriarch and warned that Song Changsheng would seek justice if he refused their demand.
• A hook-nosed Violet Palace Great Perfection cultivator attacked the couple, and Song Qingxing wounded him with a single sword strike before challenging the Song Clan’s assembled cultivators.

Song Qingxing fought Song Yuqing after Song Wuji summoned the Song Clan Protector Elder, and gained the upper hand even after Yuqing released his cultivation restriction. Song Wuji then ordered Song Xianghu to challenge Song Qingxi, who faced him calmly as he attacked.

• Song Qingxing defeated Song Xiangming with one sword strike, and Song Wuji summoned Song Yuqing to answer the challenge.
• Song Yuqing sealed one layer of his cultivation and fought Song Qingxing, but Song Qingxing cut through his fan and wounded him with Sword Opens Heavenly Gate.
• Song Yuqing released his cultivation restriction and moved the battle high into the sky, where Song Qingxing gradually gained the advantage.
• Song Wuji ordered Song Xianghu to capture Song Qingxi as leverage, and Song Xianghu challenged her while onlookers jeered.
• Song Qingxi drew her Green Jade shortsword and prepared to fight Song Xianghu as he charged at her.

Song Qingxing defeated Song Yuqing and rescued Song Qingxi from the Brocade Banner Song Clan’s stronghold, while Song Jiyuan prepared to use the scandal to challenge Song Wuji’s authority. After escaping, Song Qingxing revealed that he had been badly injured and went with Song Qingxi to a nearby city to recover.

• Song Qingxing unleashed his sword strike, defeated Song Yuqing, and answered that the technique was called Sword Emerges Heaven Tilts.
• Song Yuqing admitted defeat, withdrew from matters concerning the Wangyue Song Clan, and left.
• Song Wuji ordered his followers to capture Song Qingxing and Song Qingxi, but Song Qingxing drove back Song Xianghu and escaped with Song Qingxi using a spatial pearl.
• Song Jiyuan learned that Song Wuji had mishandled Song Luke’s Purple Mansion inheritance and planned to impeach him before the returning Heavenly Origin Old Ancestor.
• After escaping the pursuers, Song Qingxing revealed his internal injuries, and he and Song Qingxi entered a nearby city in disguise to find a place to recover.

Song Tianyuan tried to punish Song Xiangjie for harming his kin, but Song Daoling intervened and shifted the blame onto dead or lesser offenders before demanding that the Great Qi Branch submit to the clan. Meanwhile, Song Changsheng examined his powerful Divine Soul Incarnation, named him Song Changshou, and planned to forge him a body.

• Song Tianyuan cited the Clan Rules and demanded Song Xiangjie be seized, but Song Daoling arrived and protected him by blaming Song Qingxuan and other participants.
• Song Daoling ruled that Song Xiangjie would be stripped of his posts and sent to the frontier, while Song Tianyuan accepted the decision for the time being.
• Song Daoling accused the Great Qi Branch of sheltering traitors and demanded that its Patriarch bring Song Qingxing and the alleged traitors to beg forgiveness.
• Song Tianyuan argued that the Great Qi Branch had been wronged and urged reconciliation with Song Changsheng, but Song Daoling threatened to send the clan's forces if they refused to attend the Golden Core Ceremony.
• Song Changsheng discovered that his Divine Soul Incarnation was near the Early Golden Core Stage and named him Song Changshou.
• Song Changshou revealed that he shared Song Changsheng's knowledge of formations and artifact forging, and Song Changsheng promised to find him a body.

Song Qingxi and Song Qingxing returned from the Brocade Banner Song Clan, prompting Song Changsheng to discuss its factional struggles and consider how the Wangyue Song Clan might exploit them. Song Jingxiu was summoned to meet Song Changsheng before taking a major intelligence post in Sunset City, where the chapter ended with the Patriarch asking what he wished to say.

• Song Changshou adapted to the custom puppet body Song Changsheng had made for him and entered seclusion to master it and develop his soul arts.
• Song Changsheng discussed the clan’s possible future leadership with Zhuang Yuechan, then welcomed Song Qingxi and Song Qingxing back from their trip.
• Song Qingxi reported on Song Yuqing, Song Wuji, and the Brocade Banner Song Clan’s history of East Sea losses and factional conflict.
• Song Changsheng, Zhuang Yuechan, and Song Qingxi considered using ties with the branch families to intensify the Brocade Banner Song Clan’s internal divisions.
• Song Changsheng decided to transfer Qing Luo back to the family and mentioned a promising young man who could replace him in Sunset City.
• Song Jingxiu met Song Changsheng in the Heart-Questioning Array, and the Patriarch explained the importance of his new intelligence post before asking what he wished to say.