Chapter Summaries

Song Jingxiu received Song Changsheng’s guidance before taking charge of clan intelligence, while Song Changsheng worried about missing friends and welcomed guests for his Golden Core ceremony. Zhu Yiqun and Xu Yunhe escaped the Illusion Mist Forest with a rare flower meant to save Xu Yunhe’s family, then decided to seek Song Changsheng’s help; the chapter ended as Song Changsheng began discussing Chairman Peng’s real purpose for visiting.

• Song Changsheng assigned Song Jingxiu to develop intelligence networks across Jiang Province, warned him to account for the Purple Clan and Demon Suppression Guard, and gave him an Ice-Bone White-Scale Carp for his mother.
• Song Changsheng and Zhuang Yuechan discussed incoming ceremony guests and their concern that Zhu Yiqun and Xu Yunhe had been missing for decades.
• Zhu Yiqun and Xu Yunhe escaped the Illusion Mist Forest with a rare spiritual flower, discovered they had lost more than ten years, and learned that Song Changsheng had reached the Golden Core Stage.
• Xu Yunhe hesitated to involve Song Changsheng in rescuing his wife and daughter, but agreed after Zhu Yiqun urged him to seek help.
• Song Changsheng and Zhuang Yuechan welcomed Peng Zhenxiong and Peng Siying, and Zhuang Yuechan led Peng Siying away while Song Changsheng asked Peng Zhenxiong about his purpose.

Song Changsheng received Peng Zhenxiong, who urged him to help unite the Four Realms against the coming turmoil, then welcomed Fengyuan and the many visitors arriving for his Golden Core ceremony. The ceremony was about to begin when Jian Xin of Myriad Manifestations Palace arrived with a gift from the Palace Master and Grand Elder, astonishing everyone.

• Peng Zhenxiong told Song Changsheng that prophetic warnings had stirred chaos across Southern Continent and asked him to help promote an alliance among the Four Realms; Song agreed to try.
• Peng Zhenxiong questioned Song Changsheng about Peng Siying, and Song affirmed that his heart belonged to Zhuang Yuechan; afterward, Zhuang Yuechan and Peng Siying spoke privately and agreed that Peng Siying would remain his friend.
• Song Changsheng welcomed Fengyuan and Chu Yuming, while Jian Xu arrived at Vast Peak feeling uneasy about his past choices and Feng Zhongyi urged him to yield to Song Changsheng.
• Cultivators and Golden Core experts from many cultivation worlds arrived for Song Changsheng's ceremony, presenting rare treasures and lavish gifts.
• Jian Xin, an elder of Myriad Manifestations Palace, arrived on the Palace Master's and Grand Elder's orders and presented an Enlightenment Tea Tree and a Myriad Manifestations Token.

At Song Changsheng’s Golden Core ceremony, Jian Xin arrived as an envoy of the Myriad Manifestations Palace, revealing that the powerful sect had taken an interest in him. When Song Xiangquan and Song Wuyou came from the Brocade Banner Song Clan to demand an explanation, Song Changsheng publicly severed ties with their clan and declared war, leaving the conflict irreversible.

• Jian Xin arrived at Vast Peak with congratulations from the Myriad Manifestations Palace, and her presence drew the attention of the assembled cultivators.
• Jian Xin told Peng Zhenxiong that she had come primarily because of Song Changsheng, confirming that he had attracted the Myriad Manifestations Palace’s interest.
• Song Xiangquan and Song Wuyou arrived on behalf of the Brocade Banner Song Clan, but Song Changsheng’s presence and the gathered Golden Core cultivators disrupted their planned confrontation.
• Song Changsheng demanded that the Brocade Banner Song Clan hand over the murderer of his clan uncle, then declared that the Wangyue Song Clan and the Brocade Banner Song Clan would sever all ties and become enemies.
• Song Changsheng spared Song Xiangquan and Song Wuyou as envoys but blasted their group away with his aura.

At Song Changsheng’s Golden Core Ceremony, he delivered a far-reaching sermon on the Dao of Yin and Yang, prompting Jian Xin and other Golden Core cultivators to share their own insights and extending the celebration into a two-month Dao discussion. After the ceremony ended, Peng Zhenxiong explained that Jian Xin’s Myriad Manifestations Token was more important than her other gift, leaving Song Changsheng to learn its significance.

• Bai Yan and Bai Zimou discussed the rivalry between the Brocade Banner Song Clan and the Wangyue Song Clan, while Song Changsheng returned to the gathering after his declaration of war.
• True Lord Xuanming praised Song Changsheng for opposing kin-on-kin violence, and Song Changsheng began his Golden Core Ceremony sermon on the Dao of Yin and Yang.
• Song Changsheng’s sermon expanded across several laws and lasted nearly forty hours, inspiring some cultivators to break through their bottlenecks.
• Jian Xin expounded on her Heart Sword, and other Golden Core cultivators followed, turning the ceremony into a two-month Dao discussion that concluded with Peng Zhenxiong’s sermon.
• After most guests departed, Peng Zhenxiong told Song Changsheng that Jian Xin’s Myriad Manifestations Token was the important gift she had come to deliver.

Peng Zhenxiong proposed a Four Realms Alliance and offered Wanlong Merchant Association discounts and an exclusive supply channel to win support, while Song Changsheng assessed the gifts from his Golden Core celebration. The alliance proposal remained under discussion, and Song Changsheng turned his attention to learning the Myriad Manifestations Token’s uses as Jian Xu waited to see him.

• Peng Zhenxiong proposed uniting the Four Realms against outside threats, but Bai Yan warned that competing interests could eventually break the alliance and Bai Zimou initially rejected it.
• Peng Zhenxiong offered alliance members Wanlong discounts and an exclusive supply channel, prompting Bai Yan and Bai Zimou to defer their decision while Mu Guibai said the alliance could benefit Sunset City and the Song Clan.
• Song Changsheng inspected the congratulatory gifts and assigned the Rakshasa Fruit and Crimson Core Vermilion Fruit for pill refining, the military banner to the Blazing Sun Guard, and rare materials for future artifact refining.
• Song Changsheng ordered Golden Crow essence blood sent to Qingxing and three Yin Yang Purple Tree saplings given to Xi'er for planting.
• After learning that Peng Ying'er had arrived, Song Changsheng told the deacon to make Jian Xu wait so he could ask her about the Myriad Manifestations Token.

Song Changsheng learned that the Myriad Manifestations Token opened access to influential gatherings and the Myriad Manifestations Branch Academy, offering the Song Clan a path to broader resources. Peng Siying also bestowed a Wanlong Merchant Association gold VIP Token, and Song Changsheng wondered whether Peng Zhenxiong was preparing her to succeed him as he pursued the Nascent Soul Realm.

• Peng Siying explained that the Myriad Manifestations Token granted entry to important gatherings and could provide opportunities to teach at the Myriad Manifestations Branch Academy.
• Song Changsheng considered teaching at the academy but decided the Song Clan's current challenges kept him from going for now.
• Peng Siying said the token marked the Myriad Manifestations Palace's recognition of Song Changsheng as separate from the Brocade Banner Song Clan, and he rejected her suggestion to seek mediation in their conflict.
• Peng Siying presented Song Changsheng with a gold VIP Token recognizing him as a senior Guest Elder of the Wanlong Merchant Association and allowed him to keep his former silver token for clan members.
• Peng Siying said she would stay at Wangyue Cliff while Song Changsheng entered seclusion, and he wondered whether Peng Zhenxiong was preparing her to take over the merchant association before a breakthrough to the Nascent Soul Realm.

After securing resources for the Song Clan, Song Changsheng questioned Zhang Ming and allowed him to settle near Vast Peak after he passed the Heart-Questioning Trial. He then accepted Heavenly Sword Sect’s surrender and its Sword Scripture, leaving the Brocade Banner Song Clan’s response to his declaration of war unresolved.

• Song Changsheng learned that Zhang Ming had continued kneeling at the mountain gate and invited him in to hear his background and request to serve.
• Zhang Ming described his years in the Great Xiao Immortal Dynasty’s military, and Song Changsheng tested his intentions with the Heart-Questioning Trial.
• After Zhang Ming passed, Song Changsheng permitted him to build a dwelling within a hundred li of Vast Peak while reserving judgment on whether to recruit him.
• Jian Xu begged Song Changsheng to spare Heavenly Sword Sect and offered its Sword Scripture as recompense for past offenses.
• Song Changsheng accepted the Sword Scripture, forgave Heavenly Sword Sect, and wondered how the Brocade Banner Song Clan would answer his declaration of war.

Song Luyun received a Brocade Banner Song Clan delegation seeking peace, challenged the branch elders to consider whether the Main Lineage had been draining their fortune, and rejected their claim that the culprits had been properly punished. Song Changsheng secretly met Song Shouhe, who offered a gift and damaging clan intelligence, and asked why he had betrayed his family.

• Song Zhexuan and the delegation waited without hospitality until Song Luyun arrived and explained that the Patriarch could not meet them.
• Song Luyun warned the branch elders that the Main Lineage had been robbing them of their fortune, prompting them to reconsider their declining fortunes and the Main Lineage's recovery.
• Song Zhexuan proposed reconciliation and said the Council of Elders was pursuing the culprits, but Song Qingxia challenged the claim and Song Xingxing threatened an envoy who drew his sword.
• Song Shouhe proposed a meeting with Heavenly Origin Old Ancestor, and Song Luyun sent the delegation away while arranging to keep them under watch.
• Song Changsheng summoned Song Shouhe privately, accepted his gift of a Fourth-Tier Mid Grade bamboo flute and a Jade Slip, then asked why he was passing along the family's intelligence.

Song Shouhe offered Song Changsheng intelligence and the support of Brocade Banner Song Clan’s branch lineages, hoping to use his conflict with the Main Lineage to advance their own cause. Song Changsheng agreed to maintain contact and use them as sources of intelligence, then learned Song Luyun planned to resign as Logistics Elder and enter seclusion to break through to the Purple Palace Stage.

• Song Shouhe described the branch lineages’ oppression by Song Wuji’s faction and presented a jade slip of clan intelligence as a gesture of support for Song Changsheng.
• Song Changsheng said his clan’s war against Brocade Banner Song Clan would not change, but agreed to keep ties with the branch lineages and let Song Shouhe’s relatives manage their contact.
• After Song Shouhe left, Song Xianming and Zhuang Yuechan revealed they had secretly recorded the meeting, and Song Changsheng ordered the recording preserved as evidence and leverage.
• Song Changsheng judged that the branch elders likely hoped to use his clan as a vanguard against the Main Lineage, while he planned to use them as sources of intelligence.
• Song Changsheng decided to postpone meeting Song Tianyuan, and Song Luyun said she would refuse Song Zhexuan’s request and resign as Logistics Elder before entering seclusion to break through to the Purple Palace Stage.

Song Changsheng reorganized the Song Clan’s leadership and established new promotion and assessment rules, then declared that clan members would be treated equally regardless of lineage. The chapter ended with the Zhangye County group merging into the family and relocating to guard Crimson Sunset Peak.

• Song Luyun proposed streamlining the Council of Elders and creating ranks for elders, supervisors, and deacons.
• Song Changxiu proposed a Protector Hall, and Song Changsheng appointed Song Qingxing to lead it and oversee the clan’s military forces.
• Song Changsheng announced new hall assignments, demoted elders who did not meet the new requirements, and established regular assessments and merit-based advancement.
• Song Changsheng banned distinctions between main and branch lineages and declared that talent, contribution, and strength would determine a clan member’s standing.
• Song Changsheng merged the Zhangye County group into the Song Clan, assigned Song Yulong to the Protector Hall, and ordered the group to relocate to Crimson Sunset Peak.

Song Changsheng oversaw clan affairs as Song Yushi took charge of trade and Xia Yunxue prepared to enter seclusion for a breakthrough. The chapter ended with Zhu Yiqun returning to Vast Peak after years away and telling Song Changsheng he urgently needed his help.

• Song Changsheng reassured Song Yushi that elderly clan members could remain at their old grounds and instructed her to take over trade affairs and negotiate with the Wanlong Merchant Association.
• Song Changsheng visited Xia Yunxue at the Brewing Workshop, where she praised Song Jingyuan’s brewing talent and discussed her preparations to enter seclusion.
• Song Changsheng told Xia Yunxue that Song Jingxiu had exposed and punished poachers, corrupt officials, and families involved in illegal activity in Jiang Province.
• A month later, Song Luyun, Xia Yunxue, and Song Youlin entered seclusion as Song Qingxi began extensive construction and renovations at Vast Peak.
• Zhang Ming challenged Zhu Yiqun when he appeared near Vast Peak, but stopped after recognizing Song Changsheng as True Lord Zixu.
• Zhu Yiqun reunited with Song Changsheng, confirmed his Golden Core breakthrough, and said he had returned to ask for urgent help.

Song Changsheng reunited with Xu Yunhe, who explained how he and Xia Wanyun had spent years fleeing Shadow Pavilion and revealed that Wanyun and their daughter, Xu Miaoyin, had been trapped in a supernatural slumber since childbirth. Xu Yunhe asked Song Changsheng to help find the Human-Faced Spirit-Waking Flower and awaken them.

• Zhu Yiqun brought Song Changsheng to Wangyue Market, where Song found Xu Yunhe and learned he had returned amid a life-or-death crisis.
• Xu Yunhe recounted how Xia Wanyun had saved him, how he rescued her from the Sunset City Auction, and how they escaped Shadow Pavilion's pursuit across cultivation worlds.
• Xu Yunhe revealed that Xia Wanyun had given him her cultivation and half her Life Essence to save him, and that the two later became Dao companions and had a daughter named Xu Miaoyin.
• Song Changsheng discovered that Xia Wanyun and Xu Miaoyin were in a deep, unexplained slumber, despite having no visible injuries.
• Zhu Yiqun explained that mother and daughter had been unconscious since Xu Miaoyin's birth nearly twenty years earlier, and Xu Yunhe said a physician had identified the Soul-Bewildering Lure and prescribed a Human-Faced Spirit-Waking Flower from Illusion Mist Forest.
• Xu Yunhe asked Song Changsheng to help obtain the flower, whose medicinal effects required a Golden Core True Person to bring out.

Song Changsheng used the Human-Faced Spirit-Waking Flower to awaken Xu Yunhe’s wife and daughter, but opening Xu Miaoyin’s Sea of Consciousness triggered a powerful hidden artifact. After the procedure succeeded, Song Changsheng suspected that either Xu Miaoyin or her mother held a mysterious secret, and Xu Yunhe agreed to take his family to Vast Peak.

• Song Changsheng stopped Xu Yunhe from offering to risk his life and examined the Human-Faced Spirit-Waking Flower he had brought back from Illusion Mist Forest.
• Song Changsheng and Song Changshou healed Xia Wanyun and prepared to use the flower’s medicinal liquid on her and Xu Miaoyin.
• Song Changshou strengthened Xu Miaoyin’s Divine Soul, and the two worked together to open her Sea of Consciousness and infuse the medicine.
• A hidden four-pointed-star artifact in Xu Miaoyin’s mudball palace struck Song Changshou, but Song Changsheng completed the procedure and began investigating the artifact’s origins.
• Song Changsheng and Song Changshou speculated that Xu Miaoyin or Xia Wanyun might have an unusual past, then told Xu Yunhe that the mother and daughter were beginning to awaken.
• Song Changsheng persuaded Xu Yunhe to take his family to Vast Peak to recuperate and said he had important questions about Xu Miaoyin.

Song Changsheng brought Xu Yunhe’s family into the Song Clan and arranged for Xu Yunhe to command the Hidden Guard while they investigated Xia Wanyun’s mysterious past. As Xia Wanyun awakened, the clan prepared to learn what had happened to her.

• Song Changsheng told Xu Yunhe that the Hundred Treasures Body Sculpting Pill might restore his missing arm and urged him to preserve the treasures they found in the Illusion Mist Forest.
• Zhuang Yuechan examined Xu Miaoyin and ruled out that she was a reincarnated Great Power, while Song Changsheng and Xu Yunhe suspected Xia Wanyun’s past held the answer.
• Song Changsheng persuaded Xu Yunhe to stay with the Song Clan, and Zhuang Yuechan agreed to ask about the Body Sculpting Pill and proposed that Song Changshou teach Xu Miaoyin.
• Song Changsheng offered Xu Yunhe leadership of a Xiangzhou faction or command of the Hidden Guard, and Xu Yunhe chose the Hidden Guard post.
• A deacon reported that Xia Wanyun had awakened.

Song Changsheng and the Song Clan welcomed Xu Yunhe, Xia Wanyun, and their daughter Xu Miaoyin after the mother and child awakened from twenty years of sleep. Xia Wanyun revealed that a mysterious jade pendant had once saved her life, and Xu Yunhe left for Sunset City with Song Changsheng to obtain a pill that could restore his lost arm.

• Xu Yunhe reunited with Xia Wanyun and their newborn daughter, Xu Miaoyin, and Song Changsheng and Zhu Yiqun helped care for the crying child.
• Song Changsheng reassured Xia Wanyun that the Song Clan could protect her and arranged for Xu Yunhe to buy a Hundred Treasures Body Sculpting Pill at a favorable price.
• Song Changsheng proposed that his Divine Soul Incarnation take Xu Miaoyin as a disciple, and Xu Yunhe and Xia Wanyun agreed while Zhu Yiqun also offered to teach her.
• Song Changsheng questioned Xia Wanyun about the artifact found in Xu Miaoyin's Mudball Palace, and Xia Wanyun explained that the jade pendant had appeared in her Sea of Consciousness and once killed a Purple Palace Cultivator.
• Song Changsheng concluded that Xia Wanyun might be a Heaven-Favored One and warned everyone to keep the matter secret.
• Xu Yunhe traveled with Song Changsheng and Zhuang Yuechan to Sunset City, traded treasures from the Illusion Mist Forest for the pill, and prepared to restore his lost arm.

Song Changsheng secluded himself to forge several powerful treasures while the Brocade Banner Song Clan debated whether to wage war against the Wangyue Song Clan. Song Minghuang rejected Song Daoling’s call for war and ordered punishment and compensation, but he knew the clan’s troubles would continue as he prepared to pursue a breakthrough.

• Song Changsheng began refining the Yin Yang Soul-Slaying Gourd, a spatial tool from the Void Crystal, armor and a spirit sword, and other treasures for himself and Song Qingxing.
• Song Xiangquan and his companions returned to Heavenly Dragon Peak and learned that a recording of their humiliating visit to Vast Peak had spread throughout the Great Qian Cultivation World.
• Song Wuji explained that the clan elders were split over war, with Song Jiyuan’s faction opposing it because of the costs and the Wangyue Song Clan’s ties to the Myriad Manifestations Palace.
• Song Daoling visited Song Minghuang in the Secret Realm and urged him to kill Song Changsheng, accusing him of threatening the clan and invoking Song Taiyi’s old grievance.
• Song Minghuang refused to fight, ordered Song Xiangjie punished and Song Luke’s descendants compensated, and withdrew to pursue a breakthrough while anticipating further trouble within the clan.

Song Wuji devised plans to exploit Song Xiangjie and challenge Song Changsheng to a duel after Song Minghuang refused to wage war against the Wangyue Song Clan. Intelligence about the Brocade Banner Song Clan reached Vast Peak, where Song Qingshi learned that they wanted to use Song Xiangjie to arrange a battle with the clan.

• Song Daoling told Song Wuji that Song Minghuang had rejected war and ordered Song Xiangjie punished, so Song Wuji proposed sending Song Xiangjie to attack the Wangyue Song Clan or using him to challenge Song Changsheng to a duel.
• Song Daoling agreed to let Song Wuji pursue the duel plan and offered to guard the East Sea if Song Wuji persuaded Song Tianyuan to fight Song Changsheng.
• Song Jiyuan told Song Shouhe that Song Minghuang had refused war, then approved the Fourth-Tier Sky Battleship project; Song Shouhe secretly relayed the intelligence to the Wangyue Song Clan through his family branch.
• Song Qingshi and Song Qingluo discussed the intelligence and considered Master Zhang Ming as a candidate to guard Xiangzhou, then received word that the Brocade Banner Song Clan wanted to arrange a battle using Song Xiangjie as a bargaining chip.

Song Changsheng repaired Song Qingxing’s Spirit-Connecting Soul-Capturing Treasure Mirror, awakened Wujie, and learned that he was a fourth-tier supreme-grade Alchemist. After Wujie submitted to the Song Clan, Song Changsheng agreed to Brocade Banner Song Clan’s duel challenge but made them wait and demanded meaningful stakes.

• Song Qingxi and the clan elders discussed Brocade Banner Song Clan’s challenge and decided to ask Song Changsheng for his judgment.
• Song Changsheng repaired the Spirit-Connecting Soul-Capturing Treasure Mirror and awakened Wujie, who praised his rise to the Golden Core Stage.
• Wujie recounted how Demon-Suppressing True Lord had ambushed him, torn out his soul, and refined it into a treasure mirror.
• Song Changsheng learned Wujie had been a fourth-tier supreme-grade Alchemist and invited him to help the Song Clan; Wujie agreed to submit.
• Song Qingxi reported the challenge, and Song Changsheng accepted while telling Brocade Banner Song Clan to wait about ten years and provide suitable stakes.

Song Qingxi set harsh terms for a three-match contest with the Brocade Banner Song Clan, hoping to secure an East Sea island for the Wangyue Song Clan. Song Wuji agreed to half the demands and threatened Song Xiangjie's safety, while Song Qingxi tasked Song Jingrun with negotiating for the island and more time.

• Song Qingxi sent the Brocade Banner Song Clan demands for stakes and proposed a three-match contest to be held in ten years, with victory going to the side that won two matches.
• Song Wuji rejected his adviser Song Xiangcun’s suggestion that the demands were a bluff, agreed to half the terms, set the contest five years away, and threatened Song Xiangjie’s whereabouts.
• Song Wuji accepted the three-match format and arranged to visit True Lord Huaming at the Myriad Manifestations Palace.
• Song Qingxi received the Brocade Banner Song Clan’s reply and explained that securing an East Sea island would give the Wangyue Song Clan a foothold for trade and future expansion.
• Song Qingxi assigned Song Jingrun to negotiate through the External Affairs Hall, while telling Song Jingyuan that his talents suited the Protector Hall better.

Song Changsheng agreed to the terms of the arranged duel with the Brocade Banner and prepared for the three matches while the Song Clan chose Song Youfu for the Foundation Establishment bout. Eight years later, Song Changsheng emerged from seclusion with new treasures and joined Xu Miaoyin at the clan’s Immortal Ascension Assembly as she prepared to have her spiritual root tested.

• Song Qingxi reported that Song Jingrun had agreed to a three-match duel with the Brocade Banner in eight years, and Song Changsheng accepted Song Wuji’s hostage condition, offering to serve as hostage himself if the clan lost.
• Song Changsheng rejected the Council of Elders’ proposal to pull Song Youlin out of seclusion and agreed with Song Qingxi that Song Youfu should fight in the Foundation Establishment match.
• Song Changsheng discussed Wujie’s alchemy instruction and plans to reconstruct his body, then forged the Four Seas Pacified sword in preparation for the duel.
• Song Jingyuan delivered the mission scroll to Song Youfu, who reluctantly resolved to train hard for the life-threatening match.
• Eight years later, Song Changsheng emerged from seclusion with the Yin-Yang Spirit Severing Gourd advanced and new treasures prepared for himself and Song Qingxing.
• Song Changsheng arrived at the Hall of General Affairs and found Xu Miaoyin waiting with Xia Wanyun and Xu Yunhe to take part in the Immortal Ascension Assembly.