Chapter Summaries

During the Song Clan’s Immortal Ascension Assembly, Song Changsheng witnessed the discovery of rare talents, including Xu Miaoyin’s Earth Spiritual Root and Song Xiao’s Thunder Spirit Root. After Xu Miaoyin’s bloodline test returned an unknown result, Song Changsheng brought her to Cloud Reaching Hall, where she met the formidable-looking Song Xiao.

• Song Qingxiao and Song Youzhong tested children, finding several Three-Element and Dual Spiritual Roots.
• Song Qingxi told Song Changsheng that eight-year-old Song Xiao had a seven-inch Thunder Spirit Root, and Song Changsheng ordered him settled in Cloud Reaching Hall.
• Xu Miaoyin tested as having nine-inch gold and water spiritual roots, which Song Youzhong identified as an Earth Spiritual Root.
• Song Changsheng spoke warmly with Xu Miaoyin, who recognized him from her dreams and showed exceptional perception.
• Song Changsheng tested Xu Miaoyin’s blood, but the platform identified her special trait as unknown.
• Song Changsheng took Xu Miaoyin and Song Qingxi to Cloud Reaching Hall, where Qinglian reported Song Xiao’s remarkable strength and hunting prowess.

Song Changsheng assessed Song Xiao’s strength and arranged for the boy to receive special cultivation support, then prepared the Song Clan for its upcoming contest and a journey to the Great Qian Cultivation World. At home, Xu Miaoyin became Song Changsheng and Zhuang Yuechan’s adoptive daughter and Song Changshou’s disciple before the group departed for the Great Qian Cultivation World.

• Song Changsheng tested Song Xiao’s strength with a piece of Deep Sea Mysterious Iron and arranged for him to study the Thunder Dao Resonance Manual, spend time with the Thunder Spirit, and be protected as a Purple Palace Seed.
• Song Changsheng discussed Song Youfu’s and Song Qingxing’s preparations for their matches against the Brocade Banner and ordered suitable magic artifacts for Song Youfu.
• Song Changsheng decided to bring selected young clan members to the Great Qian Cultivation World and returned home with Xu Miaoyin to celebrate her Metal-Water Earth Spirit Root.
• Xu Miaoyin formally became Song Changsheng and Zhuang Yuechan’s adoptive daughter, and Song Changshou accepted her as his disciple and gave her a cultivation aid.
• Song Changsheng set out with Song Qingxing, Song Youfu, and selected clan members through Sunset City’s Space Teleportation formation for the Great Qian Cultivation World.

Song Changsheng and his clan members traveled through Twilight Cloud City, where its three ruling clans sought his help securing places at Deer Chasing Academy and offered to build teleportation arrays linking their city with Great Qi. After learning that True Lord Huaming had ties to Song Wuji, Song Changsheng continued toward the Myriad Manifestations Palace to prepare for the arranged battle.

• Song Changsheng arrived in Twilight Cloud City with Song Qingxing and five junior clan members, where the Liu, Wang, and Zhang Clans intercepted them and asked him to meet their clan heads.
• The three clan heads asked Song Changsheng to help their juniors enter Deer Chasing Academy, and he agreed to remember their request if the Song Clan later gained the means to assist.
• Song Changsheng hinted that the clans could improve ties by building Cross-Domain Space Teleportation Arrays between Twilight Cloud City and Great Qi, and Liu Xingcheng agreed to send Array Masters.
• Liu Xingcheng warned Song Changsheng that True Lord Huaming had close ties with Song Wuji, then the clans presented him with a fragment of Yin-Yang Celestial Crystal.
• After arriving in the Great Qian Cultivation World, Song Changsheng confirmed the warning about True Lord Huaming and told Song Jingrun to find an inn before they went to the Myriad Manifestations Palace the next day.

Song Changsheng brought the Wangyue Song Clan to Myriad Manifestations Palace for the arranged battle with Brocade Banner, securing Jianxin’s help and learning that victory could earn him an audience with the Palace Master. The clans met at the Trial Ground, where True Lord Huaming tried to begin the first round before Song Youfu objected that the rules had not been settled.

• Song Changsheng and his group traveled from Thousand Blades City to Myriad Manifestations Palace and were admitted with the Myriad Manifestations Token.
• Jianxin accepted Song Changsheng’s request to help in the arranged battle after reading his insights into the Heart Sword, and she gave him her own Heart Sword insights in return.
• Song Jingrun reported seeing Brocade Banner’s people, and Song Changsheng deduced that Song Yuqing would not be their only fighter; he warned Song Qingxing to wear his battle armor and told Song Youfu to put his life first.
• Song Tianyuan confronted Song Wuji over the feud with Song Changsheng, while Song Wuji defended the arranged battle as a way to protect Brocade Banner from future danger.
• At the Trial Ground, Song Changsheng agreed with Song Tianyuan to settle their grudges through the battle, and Song Youfu challenged True Lord Huaming for trying to start without first stating the rules.

Jian Xin ensured the arranged battle followed rules set by both clans, and Song Youfu fought Song Xinxuan to a draw in the first match. Song Wuji challenged the result, but Song Tianyuan accepted it, leaving the remaining matches undecided.

• Jian Xin confronted True Lord Huaming and clarified that Myriad Manifestations Palace would witness the battle without arbitrating its terms.
• True Lord Huaming announced the fight-to-the-death rules, and Song Youfu entered the Trial Ground to face Song Xinxuan.
• Song Youfu and Song Xinxuan exchanged attacks, with Song Youfu using a self-destructing arrow and Song Xinxuan unleashing his Infinite Sword Domain.
• Song Xinxuan launched a desperate sword strike as Song Youfu burned his origin to fire five arrows, and the resulting blast knocked both fighters unconscious.
• Song Changsheng stabilized Song Youfu, and Hua Ming declared the match a draw.
• Song Wuji objected that Song Youfu had violated the rules, but Song Changsheng defended the use of reusable arrows and Song Tianyuan ordered Song Wuji to accept the result.

Song Qingxing fought Song Mushang in the Violet Palace Battle and defeated him with his Innate Divine Ability, One Sword Tilts Heaven. Song Wuji realized the danger and shouted for Mushang to concede.

• True Lord Huaming inspected the Yaoguang Arrow and ruled that Song Wuji’s objection was invalid, leaving the first match a draw.
• Song Wuji urged Song Mushang to win the Violet Palace Battle, and Song Mushang entered the arena to face Song Qingxing.
• Song Changsheng identified Song Mushang’s Heavenly Spiritual Root and Blazing Sun Body as the two fighters exchanged powerful attacks that nearly destroyed the Trial Ground.
• Song Mushang unleashed Fire Dance Scorches the Plains, but Song Qingxing countered with Sword Opens Heavenly Gate and injured him through his protective robe.
• Song Mushang entered a berserk state and fought desperately, but Song Qingxing used One Sword Tilts Heaven to defeat him.
• Song Wuji shouted for the injured Song Mushang to concede.

Song Qingxing crippled Song Mushang in the Violet Palace battle, and the Song Clan’s dispute proceeded to a Golden Core battle between Song Changsheng and Song Tianyuan. Song Changsheng gained the upper hand with his Laws and Spirit Treasures as their clash escalated toward a decisive exchange.

• Song Qingxing pierced Song Mushang’s Middle Dantian before he could concede, destroying his Violet Palace Furnace, and Jian Xin ruled that Song Qingxing had not broken the battle’s rules.
• Song Tianyuan accepted that the conflict could no longer be resolved peacefully, and True Lord Huaming announced the Golden Core battle between Song Changsheng and Song Tianyuan.
• Song Changsheng and Song Tianyuan entered the aerial Trial Ground, displayed their Magic Artifacts, and began fighting after rejecting further attempts at reconciliation.
• Song Changsheng cut Song Tianyuan’s Brocade Map with Yin-Yang Law, countered the Water-Control Flag with the Water-Fire Control Technique, and had Tuntian Qiongqi swallow the Sea-Suppressing Seal.
• Song Changsheng used the Void Bell and Universe in the Sleeve to expose and capture Song Tianyuan’s Seven-Inch Nail, then attacked as Song Tianyuan unleashed Great Sun Overhead.
• Song Changsheng shattered Song Tianyuan’s black-and-white world with Yin-Yang Annihilation, and Song Tianyuan’s accumulated blazing sun came crashing down.

Song Changsheng overwhelmed Song Tianyuan with his spatial abilities and spirit treasures, leaving him gravely wounded. Song Tianyuan brought out his Golden Core to make a final attempt to perish together, but Song Changsheng enveloped him in a Tai Chi diagram.

• Song Changsheng used One Finger Settles Dust to freeze Song Tianyuan and the descending Great Sun, then the shattered attack unleashed Spatial Turbulence across the Trial Ground.
• Song Changsheng redirected the Spatial Turbulence toward Song Tianyuan and followed with Four Seas Pacified, damaging the Water-Control Flag and piercing the tortoise shell and Song Tianyuan's chest.
• Song Changsheng struck Song Tianyuan with the Spirit Severing Flying Knife and drove Four Seas Pacified through his defenses with a powerful punch.
• Song Tianyuan, badly wounded, reflected on the Brocade Banner's decline and resolved to sacrifice himself to give the clan a brief moment of peace.
• Song Tianyuan urged his sixth-grade Golden Core to perish together with Song Changsheng, who summoned a Tai Chi diagram and enveloped him in Yin and Yang Qi.

Song Changsheng defeated Song Tianyuan and forced the Brocade Banner Clan to face humiliating terms, while using the battle’s outcome to deepen its internal crisis. The Brocade Banner fled with Song Wuji, and Song Changsheng’s clan turned its attention to the captured Song Xiangjie.

• Song Tianyuan was transported out of the Trial Ground and declared defeated, giving the Wangyue Song Clan victory in the battle.
• Song Changsheng demanded that the Brocade Banner hand over its ancestral tablets, move its graves, submit its members to the Clan Register, and send Song Wuji as a hostage.
• Song Wuji collapsed after Song Changsheng imposed a ten-day deadline, and Song Zhexuan asked for time to seek his clan’s instructions.
• The Brocade Banner handed over Song Xiangjie and the wager, then left with Song Wuji without agreeing to the remaining conditions.
• Song Changsheng accepted Jian Xin’s invitation to remain at Myriad Manifestations Palace and meet its Palace Master, while his clan discussed what to do with Song Xiangjie.

After defeating Brocade Banner, Song Changsheng arranged to take control of its promised islands and warships, while insisting Song Xiangjie be returned for a clan trial. As the group entered the Myriad Manifestations Stone Forest, Song Youfu’s Silver Ring Treasure Hunting Mouse had slipped into the restricted grounds, drawn toward something deep within the forest.

• Song Changsheng ordered Song Xiangjie guarded and sent back to the Law Enforcement Hall for trial, then arranged for Song Clan forces and specialists to secure the islands and develop the East Sea.
• Song Youfu woke from his injuries, learned the clan had won, and objected to being trained in the Protector Hall; his Silver Ring Treasure Hunting Mouse emerged after advancing to Second Tier Peak-Grade.
• The Silver Ring Treasure Hunting Mouse slipped away from Song Youfu’s room and raced into a restricted area of the Myriad Manifestations Stone Forest, following a summons it sensed in its bloodline.
• Song Youfu told Song Changsheng that the mouse was missing and pointed toward the Back Mountain, leaving Song Changsheng to worry that it had trespassed into the forbidden forest.
• Song Changsheng and the others entered the Myriad Manifestations Stone Forest, where a deacon explained that its thousands of demon-king statues held inheritances and could help cultivators form Pseudo-Dharma Manifestations.

Song Changsheng accompanied the Song Clan members through Myriad Manifestations Palace’s Stone Forest, where they selected Demon King statues to contemplate. When the Palace Master, Yi Tianzheng, invited him inside, Song Changsheng discovered the Silver Ring Treasure Hunting Mouse had absorbed half the True Spirit of a Treasure Hunting Mouse statue and damaged precious herbs, leaving him to answer for its mischief.

• Song Changsheng praised Myriad Manifestations Palace’s tradition of sharing its resources and helping other cultivation forces, then advised the Song Clan members to choose statues carefully.
• Song Jingrun, Song Jingwei, Song Jingyuan, and Song Jingrui chose Demon King statues, while Song Youfu searched for the Silver Ring Treasure Hunting Mouse and Song Qingxing had not found a suitable statue.
• Song Changsheng learned the mouse was inside a forbidden palace area, and Yi Tianzheng invited him in for a chat.
• Song Changsheng entered the immortal cave and saw rare treasures, including Six-Orifice Golden Lotus, Dragonfish, and a Purple-Pattern Flat Peach Tree, before finding a Treasure Hunting Mouse statue among twelve powerful Demon King images.
• Yi Tianzheng explained that the inner statues were formed from Demon Kings’ flesh and True Spirits, then revealed the sleeping Silver Ring Treasure Hunting Mouse in his hand.
• Song Changsheng admitted he had come to plead guilty, and Yi Tianzheng said the mouse had absorbed half the statue’s True Spirit and ravaged two Spiritual Rhyme Ginsengs.

Yi Tianzheng revealed that the Myriad Manifestations Palace wanted Song Changsheng to compete for Earth Infant Fruits, after the Silver Ring Treasure Hunting Mouse absorbed part of a Demon King's True Spirit. He offered to forgive the loss and reward Song Changsheng if he represented the Myriad Manifestations Branch Academy, leaving Song to decide whether to accept.

• Yi Tianzheng praised Song Changsheng's abilities and said the Myriad Manifestations Palace had been watching him as a potential candidate.
• Yi Tianzheng explained that the palace would not accept ordinary compensation for the True Spirit consumed by Song Changsheng's Silver Ring Treasure Hunting Mouse.
• Yi Tianzheng showed Song Changsheng a map of the Southern Continent and explained that Deer Chasing Academy's Cangwu Small World held an Earth Infant Fruit Tree bearing twelve fruits.
• Yi Tianzheng described the elimination tournament for the fruits and asked Song Changsheng to represent the Myriad Manifestations Branch Academy.
• Yi Tianzheng offered to forgive the loss, let Song Changsheng choose a spirit plant, and grant him increasingly valuable rewards for placing in the tournament.

Song Changsheng accepted Myriad Manifestations Palace’s offer to compete in its elimination tournament fifteen years later, gaining a teaching elder’s token, resources, and a Six-Orifice Golden Lotus. After leaving Yi Tianzheng, he entered the Myriad Manifestations Stone Forest and was drawn to a Suanni statue, while Yi Tianzheng and an elder discussed his potential and the palace’s plans for him.

• Song Changsheng weighed the risks of the tournament, and Yi Tianzheng offered him an unoccupied East Sea island and academy support for competing fifteen years later.
• Song Changsheng accepted the offer and received a teaching elder’s waist token with one hundred thousand Contribution Points, his Silver Ring Treasure Hunting Mouse, and a Six-Orifice Golden Lotus.
• Yi Tianzheng offered Song Qingxing a chance to represent the academy, but Song Changsheng declined to commit him to the tournament.
• A Myriad Manifestations Palace deacon returned Song Changsheng’s Phoenix-Wing Flash Butterfly and guided him through the now-open Myriad Manifestations Stone Forest.
• Song Changsheng followed an unseen pull to an ancient Suanni statue and considered using it as his Dharma Manifestation.
• Yi Tianzheng and a white-haired elder discussed Song Changsheng’s talent, the tournament, and the possibility of guiding him in the Thunder Law if he comprehended the Suanni Dharma Manifestation.

Song Changsheng accompanied the Song Clan cultivators through Myriad Manifestations Palace’s Stone Forest, where they chose Demon King statues to study, while he worried about the Silver Ring Treasure Hunting Mouse. The Palace Master, Yi Tianzheng, summoned Song Changsheng and revealed that the mouse had entered his forbidden grounds and stolen from the palace’s treasures.

• The Myriad Manifestations Palace deacon explained the palace’s tradition of sharing its resources, and Song Changsheng sent the Song Clan cultivators to choose suitable Demon King statues.
• Song Jingrun chose a Mysterious Armor Dragon Turtle, Song Jingwei chose a Sky-Rending Demonic Butterfly, Song Jingyuan chose a Golden-Eyed Macaque and a Frenzied Blood Barbarian Bull, and Song Jingrui chose a Four-Tailed Sky Fox.
• Song Youfu sensed that the Silver Ring Treasure Hunting Mouse was inside the forbidden palace, and Yi Tianzheng opened the gates and invited Song Changsheng in for a chat.
• Song Changsheng entered Yi Tianzheng’s immortal cave and saw rare spirit plants, dragonfish, and twelve powerful Demon King statues, including a Treasure Hunting Mouse statue.
• Yi Tianzheng revealed that the Silver Ring Treasure Hunting Mouse had siphoned away half the Treasure Hunting Mouse Dharma Manifestation’s True Spirit and ravaged two Spiritual Rhyme Ginseng plants, then asked Song Changsheng about his concerns.

Yi Tianzheng revealed that Myriad Manifestations Palace wanted Song Changsheng to represent its Branch Academy in an elimination tournament for Earth Infant Fruits. He offered to forgive the damage caused by Song Changsheng’s mouse and promised substantial rewards if Song agreed and placed well.

• Yi Tianzheng praised Song Changsheng’s abilities and explained that the Myriad Manifestations Palace had been watching him as a potential candidate.
• Yi Tianzheng described the Southern Continent and explained that the Cangwu Small World’s Earth Infant Fruit harvest had produced twelve fruits, seven of which would be contested in an elimination tournament.
• Song Changsheng suspected Yi Tianzheng had let the Silver Ring Treasure Hunting Mouse absorb a True Spirit to pressure him into competing, so he hesitated to accept.
• Yi Tianzheng offered to forgive the damage, let Song choose a spirit plant, and exempt him from long-term academy residence if he represented the Branch Academy.
• Yi Tianzheng promised Song access to the palace’s treasure vault for placing in the top three, with additional treasures and one request if he won first place.

Song Changsheng forced Brocade Banner to accept the Wangyue Lineage as the orthodox Song Clan and took Song Yuqing away as a hostage before Song Daoling returned. Song Wuji resigned as clan head amid widespread opposition, while Song Daoling departed to defend the East Sea and news of Song Changsheng’s victory spread across the cultivation world.

• Song Yuqing volunteered to accompany Song Changsheng, and Song Wuji refused to face him despite the clan’s pleas and accusations.
• Song Changsheng secured Brocade Banner’s recognition of the Wangyue Lineage as orthodox and received the agreed compensation before Song Daoling arrived.
• Song Daoling exchanged a powerful blow with Song Changsheng, who then took Song Yuqing and escaped using Yin and Yang Qi.
• Song Daoling struck Song Wuji and called for his removal as clan head, prompting the clan members and factions to turn against him.
• Song Wuji resigned and withdrew to the Back Mountain for a century, while Song Daoling entrusted family affairs to Song Tianyuan and returned to the East Sea.
• Reports of Song Changsheng’s victory spread across the Great Qian Cultivation World, and Yi Tianzheng and Lei Kanze praised his potential.

Song Changsheng secured the Brocade Banner’s recognition of the Wangyue Lineage and began bringing Song Yuqing into the clan, while the Song Clan organized an expedition to develop the East Sea. The expedition reached Lin Hai City and prepared to claim its new territory.

• Yi Tianzheng and Lei Kanze dismissed the Brocade Banner’s likely complaints, and Song Changsheng allowed hostage Song Yuqing considerable freedom at his courtyard.
• Song Qingxi announced the Song Clan’s wager-battle victory and organized two groups to establish an East Sea branch, with Xu Yunhe and Song Qingxia assigned to lead key personnel.
• Song Changsheng learned that the younger clansmen had gained new abilities in the Myriad Manifestations Stone Forest, revealed that the Brocade Banner had acknowledged their lineage, and ordered an ancestral hall built.
• Song Changsheng warned Song Youfu to discipline the Silver Ring Treasure Hunting Mouse and cultivate diligently, then asked Song Qingxing to win Song Yuqing’s loyalty; Song Qingxing challenged him to spar.
• Xu Yunhe and the Song Clan’s expedition reached Myriad Manifestations Palace, arranged to collect the spirit islands, and traveled by teleportation array to Lin Hai City to begin the East Sea development.

Song Changsheng and the Song Clan traveled from Lin Hai City toward Yongan Island after Li Ban explained the strengths of East Sea Ocean Battleships and pledged to build a fleet for the clan. As the ship neared the island, a concealed Demon King attacked, and Song Changsheng rushed to meet its strike.

• Li Anmin and Li Ban explained how Ocean Battleships compared with the Song Clan’s flying warships, and Li Ban vowed to conquer the seas and build a fleet for the clan.
• Song Changsheng encouraged Li Ban’s ambitions and promised to support him as a future craftsman of a Fourth-Tier Sky Battleship.
• Song Zhexuan arrived with news that Brocade Banner had prepared two spirit islands for transfer, and Song Changsheng chose to inspect Yongan Island first.
• Song Changsheng suspected Song Daoling might ambush them at sea, but Song Zhexuan insisted the route was safe as their ship sailed for several days without incident.
• As the ship approached Yongan Island, a Demon King burst from a colossal wave and swung its seven-colored tail at the vessel.
• Song Changsheng recognized the attack as part of Song Daoling’s plan and leaped into the air to punch the Demon King’s tail.

Song Changsheng confronted Liuli, a Color Scale Clan Demon King, but turned their clash into an opening for peaceful trade and future cooperation. After Liuli departed, he realized the Brocade Banner had likely arranged the ambush to weaken him and use Song Zhexuan as a scapegoat, and he ordered the island and its resources carefully inspected.

• Song Changsheng calmed the sea after clashing with the Demon King beneath it, then met Liuli and learned she believed he served the Brocade Banner.
• Song Changsheng and Liuli fought briefly in the sky, and his Raging Tides sword strike impressed her without giving either side the advantage.
• Song Changsheng proposed trade and peaceful coexistence, and Liuli gave him a scale that would guide him to her when the time was right.
• After Liuli left, Song Changsheng reassured Song Zhexuan that he believed him innocent and warned that someone in the Brocade Banner had likely used him to arrange the ambush.
• Song Changsheng ordered his people to inspect the island's resources, spirit veins, harbor, and warships before they landed.

Song Changsheng inspected Yongan Island, uncovered the Brocade Banner’s sabotage, and directed the clan’s preparations to develop its new East Sea foothold. At a clan meeting, Song Jingrui proposed seeking allies to secure the Nameless Archipelago, and Song Changsheng revealed that the clan had already chosen three partners whose envoys were arriving at Vast Peak.

• Song Changsheng’s group found concealed damage to Yongan Island’s hall, harbor, warships, shellfish farm, and formation, which Song Changsheng ordered repaired.
• Song Jingrun described the surrounding islands, resources, and rival powers, while Song Changsheng warned Song Zhexuan that the clan could ally with the Vast Sea Merchant Association and Thousand Blades City.
• Song Changxuan reported promising red shrimp and marine resources, and Li Anmin recommended repairing the warships, building a shipyard, and finding local sources of raw materials.
• Song Jingrun and Song Jingxiu advised establishing outposts on nearby islands and placing Wind Whisper Hall’s East Sea Branch in Lin Hai City, and Song Changsheng approved their plans.
• Song Jingrui urged the clan to secure the Nameless Archipelago by forming alliances, and Song Changsheng revealed plans to cooperate with Sunset City, the Wanlong Merchant Association, and Twilight Cloud City.
• Song Changsheng explained that Twilight Cloud City could provide a faster, cheaper teleportation route to the East Sea, while envoys from all three proposed allies arrived at Vast Peak.