Chapter Summaries

Song Changsheng learned about Hundred Herbs Hall’s Great Unity Green Jade Fruit and negotiated with Lu Yuming to help Jiang Shuming leave the hall in exchange for lifespan-extending pills and rare materials. The chapter ended with Lu Yuming agreeing to Song Changsheng’s terms and summoning Jiang Shuming to discuss his departure.

• Jiang Shuming explained that Hundred Herbs Hall’s Third-Tier Great Unity Green Jade Fruit tree had grown from a side branch brought from an ancient Secret Realm, while Lu Yuming had used the remaining Fourth-Tier pills.
• Song Changsheng offered Jiang Shuming a guest elder position, a Fourth-Tier talismanic inheritance, and several possible places to settle; Jiang Shuming accepted his help in leaving Hundred Herbs Hall.
• Song Changsheng asked Lu Yuming for three Green Jade Sixty-Year Pills and offered to persuade Jiang Shuming to depart, warning that hesitation could lead to conflict.
• Lu Yuming agreed to provide the pills if Song Changsheng forged the Heavenly Fire Cauldron, and Song Changsheng also secured a side branch and the remaining fruit core.
• Lu Yuming agreed to the terms and ordered his aide to invite Jiang Shuming in.

Song Changsheng brought Song Youxiang and Jiang Shuming back into the Song Clan’s orbit, then used a Green Jade Sixty-Year Pill to awaken Song Luzhou from decades of suspended sleep. Song Luzhou learned how much the clan had changed and grieved for his lost family, while Zhuang Yuechan began her breakthrough to Purple Mansion.

• Song Youxiang told Song Changsheng how she had excelled in talismans at Hundred Herbs Hall and asked to return to the Song lineage.
• Jiang Shuming agreed to leave Hundred Herbs Hall and join the Song Clan, where Song Changsheng offered him Xiangzhou to establish his own tradition; Jiang also handed over three pills and a Great Unity Green Jade Fruit branch.
• Song Changsheng discovered that Song Luzhou’s body was nearing its limit, fed him a Green Jade Sixty-Year Pill, and helped him absorb its medicinal power over three days and two nights.
• Song Luzhou awakened and learned that Yunmei and Lutong had died, while Song Xianming and Song Changsheng told him of the Song Clan’s growth and Song Changsheng’s Golden Core achievements.
• Song Changsheng urged Song Luzhou to recover before attempting another breakthrough, and Song Luzhou learned that his mother was in seclusion to reach Purple Mansion.
• Days later, spiritual qi gathered above Vast Peak as Zhuang Yuechan began her breakthrough, and Song Changsheng and Zhuang Yuechan watched the vortex form.

Xia Yunxue faced the Inner Demon Tribulation during her breakthrough, and Song Changsheng’s voice and the Demon Subduing Sutra helped her escape the inner demon and become a Purple Palace Cultivator. Afterward, the Song Clan prepared for her Purple Mansion Ceremony while Song Changsheng began studying the sutra for clues that might help future breakthroughs.

• Song Changsheng and Zhuang Yuechan joined Song Xianming outside Xia Yunxue’s seclusion chamber as the clan gathered spiritual energy to aid her breakthrough.
• In her inner demon illusion, Xia Yunxue relived Song Luyan’s death and was tempted by a voice promising to reunite them, while the clan’s incense, formation, and demon-expelling artifacts struggled to contain her demonic qi.
• Song Changsheng called out to Xia Yunxue, and she recalled and recited the Demon Subduing Sutra, driving back the inner demon as the breakthrough succeeded.
• Xia Yunxue emerged as a Purple Palace Cultivator and learned that Song Youlin had succeeded but another relative had not; the clan then prepared for her Purple Mansion Ceremony.
• Song Changsheng began closely studying Su Ding’s Buddhist scripture, hoping to understand the Demon-Subduing Chapter and reduce the danger of future Inner Demon Tribulations.

Song Changsheng recruited Jiang Shuming and his disciples to establish the Jade Talisman Sect in Xiangzhou, appointing Zhang Ming to lead the Formless Guard there. As preparations for Xia Yunxue’s Purple Mansion Ceremony continued, Song Changsheng learned that the Demon Lord of the Tuolong Clan wanted to meet him.

• Song Changsheng decided to send Zhang Ming to Xiangzhou to help Jiang Shuming and lead a new Formless Guard, and Zhang Ming pledged his loyalty.
• Jiang Shuming arrived at Vast Peak with seven second-tier Talisman Masters and four First-Tier Talisman Masters, and Song Changsheng welcomed them into the clan.
• Song Changsheng gave Jiang Shuming a Fourth-Tier talismanic Dao inheritance and offered support for his new Jade Talisman Sect, which he agreed to establish in Xiangzhou.
• Jiang Shuming, his disciples, and Zhang Ming left for Xiangzhou to establish the sect and organize its defenses.
• Song Changsheng received a message from Mu Guibai saying that the Demon Lord of the Tuolong Clan wished to see him.

Song Changsheng and the other human cultivators met the Canglan Water Monarch, who warned them against further harm to the Water Tribe and rewarded them for saving his son, E Min. He explained that the South Sea Return Ruins had drawn away his forces, and began describing the mysterious abyss as the chapter ended.

• Song Changsheng left Zhuang Yuechan and traveled to the Canglan River to meet the Water Monarch with Mu Guibai, Shi Potian, and Bai Zimou.
• E Kun led the cultivators through the river to the Water Mansion, where they met the powerful Canglan Water Monarch.
• The Water Monarch warned the humans to stop plundering the Water Tribe, then thanked them for preserving E Min's body and gave each cultivator a scale and a treasure-vault token.
• The Water Monarch said each scale could summon up to three Demon Kings and explained that he had been away suppressing the South Sea Return Ruins when E Min underwent his tribulation.
• Bai Zimou asked what the South Sea Return Ruins was, and the Water Monarch began describing a great abyss far east of the South Sea.

Song Changsheng and the others learned about the danger of the South Sea Return Abyss before entering the Tuolong Clan’s Treasure Vault to choose their rewards. As Song Changsheng searched the vault, a familiar aura drew him toward its depths.

• The Canglan Water Monarch explained that the sealed Return Abyss could threaten the four seas if it broke free, then told Song Changsheng that the Canglan River would answer its emperor’s call to war.
• After the group left, the Canglan Water Monarch asked a diviner to read Song Changsheng’s fate; the divination left the old man injured and showed Song Changsheng as a blank void.
• Song Changsheng felt someone secretly watching him, and Mu Guibai warned him to keep his distance from the Tuolong Clan.
• E Kun led Song Changsheng, Mu Guibai, Shi Potian, and the others into the Treasure Vault, where each could choose one item.
• Song Changsheng surveyed the vault’s many treasures and followed a familiar aura calling to him from its depths.

Song Changsheng found the missing sword-edge fragment of the Great Qi Immortal Dynasty’s Human King Sword in the Tuolong Clan’s Treasure Vault and brought it back to Vast Peak. After the Canglan Water Monarch devastated the Demon Domain in retaliation for an attack on his son, Song Changsheng uncovered the fragment and watched Chengyuan Sword respond to it.

• Song Changsheng recognized a rusted fragment in the Treasure Vault as the missing sword edge of Bearing Abyss and chose it over the other treasures.
• E Kun told the Canglan Water Monarch what Song Changsheng had taken, and the Water Monarch recognized the fragment and ordered a gift sent to Song Changsheng’s mother’s Purple Mansion Ceremony.
• As Song Changsheng and the others departed, the Canglan Water Monarch unleashed a massive flood that swept through the Demon Domain and devastated the Golden-Eyed Demon Lord’s territory.
• The Golden-Eyed Demon Lord confronted the Canglan Water Monarch but backed down, and Song Changsheng and his companions returned home.
• At Vast Peak, Song Changsheng removed the rust from the sword fragment, and Chengyuan Sword trembled with excited sword hums in response.

Song Changsheng restored the Chengyuan Sword and witnessed the rise and fall of the Great Qi Immortal Dynasty through its memories, then claimed the sword’s Human Dao Luck and assigned it to guard Vast Peak. As Xia Yunxue’s Purple Mansion Ceremony began, a special guest from the Tuolong Clan arrived.

• Song Changsheng reunited the Chengyuan Sword with its fragment and witnessed the founding of Great Qi and the Last King of Qi’s final battle and death.
• The Chengyuan Sword accepted Song Changsheng, who used it to gather the luck of those sincerely devoted to him and severed most of the Brocade Banner’s bloodline connection to the Wangyue Song Clan.
• Song Changsheng discovered that the Chengyuan Sword let him distinguish loyalty and wield Human Dao Luck, then assigned it to guard Vast Peak.
• Xia Yunxue’s Purple Mansion Ceremony began, drawing guests and lavish gifts from the Song Clan’s allies, including Mu Guibai in person.
• E Kun of the Tuolong Clan arrived at Vast Peak on his lord’s orders with a Millennium East Pearl and seven-colored coral.

At Song Changsheng’s Purple Mansion Ceremony, E Kun of the Tuolong Clan offered a gift and left, prompting Mu Guibai to warn Song Changsheng to keep his distance from the Canglan River. After the banquet, Song Changsheng refined a Luck Puppet and began reproducing the Heavenly Fire Cauldron, where he discovered something suspicious.

• E Kun arrived at Song Changsheng’s ceremony, gave him a conch containing an East Pearl and seven-colored coral, and departed for the Canglan River.
• Song Changsheng explained that E Kun had come to thank them for helping defeat the demons after the Water Monarch’s son failed his tribulation, while Mu Guibai privately warned him about the Water Monarch’s interest.
• Song Changsheng and Mu Guibai discussed the Path of Space after the banquet, and Song Xianming appointed Song Luzhou to take charge of the Skill Transmission Hall.
• Song Changsheng refined a Luck Puppet, a dangerous artifact that could sever another person’s luck at the cost of backlash to its user.
• Song Changsheng began replicating the Heavenly Fire Cauldron from Lu Yuming’s materials and blueprint, then discovered something fishy about it.

Song Changsheng spent nearly a year crafting the replica Heavenly Fire Cauldron and a fan for Song Qingxi, then secluded himself to strengthen his Law comprehension for the coming elimination rounds. After two years he advanced his Laws of Space and Yin-Yang Law and developed two divine abilities; he received a large supply of cultivation resources, then heard that a rumor had begun spreading through Great Qi.

• Song Changsheng studied the encrypted script and strange protrusions on the Heavenly Fire Cauldron blueprint, then pondered the hidden forces and political tensions in Great Qi.
• Song Changsheng spent half a year refining the replica Heavenly Fire Cauldron and another four months making the Divine Bird Heavenly Fire Fan for Song Qingxi; Lu Yuming delivered pills and the cauldron was handed over.
• Song Changsheng began secluded cultivation to improve his Laws before the elimination rounds, relying on resources and insights left by Feng Changqing.
• After two years, Song Changsheng raised his Yin-Yang Law and Laws of Space to the Great Accomplishment Stage and developed the World-Ending Grinding Mill and Spatial Phasing.
• Song Qingxi brought Song Changsheng a Storage Bag containing resources obtained through True Lord Jianxin, including Essence of Heaven and Earth and pills.
• Song Changsheng asked about recent events in Great Qi, and Song Qingxi told him that a rumor had begun spreading.

Song Changsheng investigated a rumor that a Merfolk Royal Family member was hiding in Great Qi and discovered the Brocade Banner had helped spread it to flush her out. After finding Kongsang Xiruo’s underwater palace, he called for her but received no answer, leaving her whereabouts uncertain.

• Song Qingxi told Song Changsheng that cultivators were searching Great Qi for a rumored merfolk royal, and they suspected the Brocade Banner had started the rumor.
• Song Changsheng consulted Myriad Manifestations Palace and learned that Kongsang Lifeng, a merfolk feudal lord, was preparing to attack the Brocade Banner and the Vast Sea Merchant Association.
• Song Qingxi activated Sunset City’s Spiderweb, which traced the rumor to Song Zhejiu in Rogue Cultivator City.
• Song Changsheng captured and soul-searched Song Zhejiu, learned that the Brocade Banner knew little about Kongsang Xiruo, and imprisoned him.
• Song Changsheng followed the hidden entrance into Kongsang Xiruo’s underwater palace and called her name, but no one answered.

Song Changsheng found Kongsang Xiruo unconscious in the riverbed palace and discovered that her royal bloodline had awakened ahead of time. After helping her refine its power for five days, he watched her wake and recognize him, while a powerful tribulation gathered above the Fragrant Dew River.

• Song Changsheng broke through the riverbed palace's defensive formation and found Kongsang Xiruo unconscious in her bedchamber.
• Song Changsheng discovered that Kongsang Xiruo's Merfolk Royal Family bloodline had awakened and overwhelmed her, leaving her body in a protective coma.
• Song Changsheng used his dharma power to help Kongsang Xiruo suppress and refine her bloodline power over five days.
• Song Qingxi's Thunder Shock Pellets failed to distract the searching cultivators because Song Changsheng remained away longer than expected.
• A vast thunderstorm formed above the Fragrant Dew River, and cultivators including Mu Guibai, Bai Zimou, Chen Zhongfang, Shi Potian, and Bai Yan sensed that someone was undergoing tribulation.
• Kongsang Xiruo woke after Song Changsheng finished helping her and recognized him with delight.

Song Changsheng reunited with Kongsang Xiruo, discovered that her emotional tears became precious Merfolk Tear, and learned her bloodline awakening had brought her close to a Demon King tribulation. As she began the tribulation above the Fragrant Dew River, Bai Zimou recognized her as a merfolk, putting her safety at risk.

• Song Changsheng apologized for breaking his promise, and Kongsang Xiruo wept Merfolk Tear as she told him about her lonely century beneath the river.
• Song Changsheng revived Kongsang Xiruo's withered Moonlight Wisdom Orchid and warned her that people were searching for her because of her royal identity.
• Song Changsheng offered to take Kongsang Xiruo to the Tuolong Clan or bring her to his family, but her Demon King tribulation suddenly gathered over the Fragrant Dew River.
• Song Changsheng opened the palace barrier, gave Kongsang Xiruo his tribulation experience, and left her to face the lightning while he met Mu Guibai outside.
• Mu Guibai and Song Changsheng persuaded Bai Zimou and Bai Yan to observe rather than interfere, while Mu Guibai warned that the Tuolong Clan might need to protect Kongsang Xiruo.
• Kongsang Xiruo emerged from the river and charged into the Tribulation Cloud, and Bai Zimou recognized her as a merfolk.

Song Changsheng protected Kongsang Xiruo as she endured ten bolts of heavenly lightning and awakened a powerful royal bloodline. After Bai Zimou challenged him to withstand three sword strikes, Song Changsheng accepted, and their battle remained unresolved as their strongest techniques clashed.

• Bai Yan warned Bai Zimou that seizing Kongsang Xiruo could bring the Tuolong Clan and other powers against the Golden Crow Sect, while Song Changsheng worried over her tribulation.
• Kongsang Xiruo survived the first nine lightning bolts, awakened her bloodline, and faced a deadly tenth bolt that revived her hidden vitality.
• Song Changsheng caught the exhausted Kongsang Xiruo and refused Bai Zimou's demand to surrender her, so Bai Zimou offered to leave if Song Changsheng could take three sword strikes.
• Song Changsheng accepted Bai Zimou's challenge and matched his first sword strike with the Suanni Dharma Manifestation.
• Bai Zimou used his Sword Dao domain and Unity of Man and Sword, but Song Changsheng evaded one strike with Spatial Phasing and countered another with the World-Ending Grinding Mill.
• Song Changsheng and Bai Zimou's techniques clashed for an hour, leaving the grinding mill shattered and Bai Zimou's sword chipped.

Song Changsheng defeated Bai Zimou in their agreed contest, concealed Kongsang Xiruo’s identity, and brought her back to the Song Clan. At a clan meeting, he reviewed the East Sea fleet and the Space Channel project before Song Youping unveiled Metal Devouring Beetles as a new method for underwater mining.

• Song Changsheng’s World-Ending Grinding Mill trapped Bai Zimou in its Yin-Yang domain, and Bai Zimou conceded after delivering more than the agreed three sword strikes.
• Bai Zimou left without reporting Kongsang Xiruo to the Golden Crow Sect, while Bai Yan departed after warning Song Changsheng about keeping her close.
• Song Changsheng and Mu Guibai agreed to hide Kongsang Xiruo’s identity, and Song Changsheng refined her Underwater Mansion after she secretly consented.
• Song Changsheng returned to Vast Peak, entrusted Kongsang Xiruo’s care to Zhuang Yuechan, and briefed the elders on the clan fleet and the Space Channel under construction.
• Song Qingxi reported that the clan’s underwater mining operation remained limited, and Song Youping presented Metal Devouring Beetles that could mine deep-sea metal veins efficiently.

Song Changsheng approved Song Youping’s Metal Devouring Beetle mining trials, established the Spirit Insect Hall under his leadership, and sent him to Gemini Islands. While Song Youping demonstrated the beetles’ deep-sea mining ability with Song Youfu, a massive shadow suddenly attacked.

• Song Qingxi explained that raising Metal Devouring Beetles could greatly reduce mining costs, and Song Youbai persuaded the elders that a cautious trial was feasible.
• Song Changsheng ordered Song Youping to test the beetles at Gemini Islands and told Song Youfu to purchase underwater mining equipment from the Wanlong Merchant Association.
• Song Changsheng learned that three shipyards were building six ocean-going warships, then watched the beetles devour Refined Iron and heard how Song Youping had developed the Silver Winged Metal Devouring Beetle.
• Song Changsheng appointed Song Youping Hall Master of the new Spirit Insect Hall, granted him a spirit island, and urged him to prepare for a future breakthrough to the Purple Palace Stage.
• Song Youping joined Song Youfu in the deep sea and released tens of thousands of beetles to mine Deep-Sea Darksteel, but a massive black shadow lunged at him.

Song Youfu fought off sea demons attacking the Gemini Islands while Song Youlin intercepted a much larger swarm led by the Sea Yaksha Clan. With reinforcements delayed, Song Youfu rushed to defend the harbor, where an unseen attacker suddenly obliterated the sea demons threatening it.

• Song Youfu killed a strange warty sea demon, then heard more of its kind approaching with Song Youping beneath the sea.
• Song Youfu stayed behind to hold off the attackers while Song Youping went to seek reinforcements, and Song Youlin confronted a vast sea demon swarm led by Yexiao of the Sea Yaksha Clan.
• Song Youlin wounded Yexiao, but three more Sea Yakshas emerged to attack him.
• Song Youping learned that the alliance could send only Foundation Establishment Cultivators to help Song Youfu, though someone offered to go personally.
• Song Youfu used Song Youping's secret medicines and flew toward the harbor, where an unknown force destroyed the sea demons attacking it.

Song Yuqing repelled a Sea Yaksha raid on a Song Clan spirit island while the East Sea Alliance defeated another Sea Yaksha force at sea. The chapter ended with Song Qingxing ordering the alliance to prepare for another attack.

• Song Yuqing killed the Night Fiends attacking the spirit island and drove their Third-Tier Sea Yaksha commander into retreat.
• Wanlong Merchant Association warships arrived and helped Song Youfu’s forces defeat the remaining Night Fiends.
• Song Youping worried that Song Yuqing might escape, but Song Youfu explained the clan was not restricting him and the Patriarch had said not to stop him if he chose to leave.
• Song Qingxing arrived to aid Song Youlin, then killed nearly a thousand Sea Demons with one sword strike and joined the battle against the exposed Sea Yakshas and great demons.
• Song Qingxing and the East Sea Alliance defeated the Sea Yaksha force, killing every Third-Tier Sea Race member and Sea Demon before the survivors could escape.
• Song Qingxing ordered the alliance to clean up the battlefield, return to the islands, and prepare for another attack.

After the Sea Yaksha Clan attacked the Gemini Islands, Song Qingxing and Song Yuqing prepared the East Sea Alliance’s defenses using intelligence Song Youfu obtained from Liuli. A month later, Song Qingxi sent Song Xianming and Thunder Shock Pellets as reinforcements while Song Changsheng remained in seclusion.

• Song Qingxing urged the Alliance elders to strengthen the Gemini Islands’ defenses instead of retreating, and Song Yuqing pledged to fight alongside them by presenting a Sea Yaksha’s head.
• Song Yuqing proposed defensive measures, including weapons, formations, underwater warning devices, and underground shelters for mortals.
• Song Youfu and Song Youping met Liuli, who traded detailed intelligence on the Sea Yaksha Clan for one hundred bottles of Hundred-Beast Pills.
• Song Qingxing learned that the enemy force included at least three Demon Kings and dozens of Third-Tier Great Demons, then agreed to support Song Yuqing’s preparations.
• After receiving the battle report a month later, Song Qingxi dispatched Song Xianming and a stockpile of Thunder Shock Pellets to reinforce the Gemini Islands.

Song Changsheng encountered a bottleneck in Thunder Law and decided to seek a thunderstorm in the East Sea while checking on the Gemini Islands. As the islands prepared for a possible Sea Yaksha Clan counterattack, he learned that Song Jingxiu had found a vast thunderstorm nearby.

• Song Changsheng discussed Kongsang Xiruo, the fading merfolk rumors, and the Sea Yaksha Clan threat with Zhuang Yuechan, then left for the East Sea.
• Song Changsheng and the East Sea Alliance elders assessed the Sea Yaksha Clan's likely response as the Gemini Islands began preparing for war.
• Song Xianming inspected the islands' defenses, learned Song Yuqing was overseeing them, and asked to meet him.
• Song Changsheng arrived at Lin Hai City and asked Song Jingxiu to find nearby thunderstorms; Song Jingxiu reported one thirty thousand miles east of Yongzhou Island.