Chapter Summaries

Song Changsheng investigated the thunderstorm near Yongzhou Island after learning about it from Song Jingxiu and discovered that it had suddenly expanded and engulfed the island. He rescued a ship of fleeing cultivators, then pressed deeper into the storm, where drumbeats and cattle bellows sounded near its core.

• Song Jingxiu reported the Sprout Plan's growing network of agents and shared intelligence about a major thunderstorm near Yongzhou Island, so Song Changsheng set out to investigate.
• A deacon informed Song Jingxiu that the storm had suddenly expanded severalfold, and he sent Song Changsheng a warning.
• Song Changsheng reached Yongzhou Island, saw the devastation, and saved a fleeing Ocean Battleship by shielding it from the lightning.
• The cultivators told Song Changsheng that they had heard drumbeats and cattle-like roars inside the storm, and he sent them safely away under his protection.
• Song Changsheng entered the storm's core, endured increasingly powerful lightning, and continued toward the source of the drumbeats and cattle bellows.

Song Changsheng endured the thunderstorm’s Golden Thunder and witnessed the memories of a dead world before discovering a mysterious Thunder Pool at the storm’s core. When he reached for the ancient drum submerged within it, a Kui Bull phantom appeared, revealing that the artifact might be the legendary Kui Bull Drum.

• Song Changsheng’s body was repeatedly destroyed and restored by Golden Thunder as he entered a strange state and witnessed the ruins of an ancient city.
• Song Changsheng explored memories of a world buried beneath yellow sand and realized that the entire world had died.
• Song Changsheng awoke to find a miniature projection of that world floating in his Violet Palace Furnace, then charged toward the thunderstorm’s core.
• Song Changsheng endured Azure Thunder with the help of his artifacts and Kongsang Xiruo’s underwater palace until he found the Thunder Pool producing the storm.
• Song Changsheng reached toward the ancient drum submerged in the pool, triggering a bovine roar and the appearance of a Kui Bull phantom.

Song Changsheng escaped the Thunder Pool with a fist-sized amount of Thunder Essence after encountering the Kui Bull Drum, then healed aboard a rescued warship. He learned the ship belonged to the smuggling Nine Rivers Trading Company of the Great Zhen Immortal Dynasty and suspected its cargo was unusual.

• Song Changsheng was driven back by the Kui Bull Drum’s phantom and collected Thunder Essence with his Yin-Yang Spirit Severing Gourd as the Thunder Pool vanished.
• Song Changsheng left the area, while True Lord Jianxin and the other cultivators investigated the vanished lightning and concluded a thunder-path Strange Treasure had likely appeared.
• Song Changsheng returned to the rescued warship, treated his lightning injuries, and meditated for several days as the vessel resumed sailing.
• Song Changsheng learned from the steward that the ship belonged to the Nine Rivers Trading Company of the Great Zhen Immortal Dynasty and was smuggling cargo.
• Song Changsheng questioned why the company had risked an unusual sea route, and the steward’s expression changed.

Song Changsheng uncovered a smuggling operation carrying Void Demon Crystals and learned that the Brocade Banner Song Clan had been its intended buyer. He impersonated the clan’s Transmission Elder, took over the deal, and secured a long-term supply, leaving the smugglers eager to serve him.

• Song Changsheng identified the steward’s wound as damage from hiding Void Demon Crystals in his body and learned the ship’s crew had smuggled the crystals out of Great Zhen.
• The steward explained that the original buyer had failed to meet them and revealed that the buyer was the Brocade Banner Song Clan.
• Song Changsheng claimed to be Song Yuqing, a Brocade Banner Transmission Elder, and persuaded the steward to hand the cargo over to him.
• Song Changsheng agreed to buy the remaining fifty-jin annual quota and offered to pay 9,500 Spirit Stones per jin for future deliveries.
• The steward accepted Song Changsheng’s offer and pledged to serve him.

Song Changsheng secured a long-term supply of Void Demon Crystals, tested their destructive power, and began preparing weapons and plans for the Sea Yaksha Clan’s expected attack on the Gemini Islands. After discovering that Thunder Essence contained Thunder Law Dao Rhyme, he hesitated to use it as a bargaining chip with Thunder Elephant True Monarch, while Song Qingxing continued accumulating his strongest sword strike.

• Song Changsheng paid the ship’s steward for one hundred jin of Void Demon Crystals and arranged for another batch to be delivered in half a year.
• Song Changsheng secretly watched the ship depart, then inspected the Gemini Islands’ defenses and settled on a nearby spirit island to intervene if needed.
• Song Changsheng tested the crystals, refined ten powerful Thunder Shock Pellets from them, and considered using formations to strengthen them against the Sea Yaksha Clan.
• True Lord Jianxin invited Song Changsheng to Myriad Manifestations Mountain, said she had seen him during the thunderstorm, and reported new progress on the unknown runes he had asked her to investigate.
• Song Changsheng absorbed a drop of Thunder Essence and discovered it contained fragments of Thunder Law Dao Rhyme, making him reluctant to offer it to Thunder Elephant True Monarch.
• Song Qingxing continued accumulating power at White Dragon Peak for the strongest sword strike of his life.

Song Qingxing prepared to face a Demon King while the Song family braced for war, and Song Changsheng mastered a new thunder technique before seeking help from the Myriad Manifestations Palace. He learned that his runes came from the Treasure Bottle Sect, then discovered that Thunder Elephant True Monarch had identified him at the heart of the storm and pressed him to reveal what he saw.

• Song Qingxing nurtured the Traceless Sword with his own blood and told Song Yuqing to handle the Sea Race's probing and produce more Thunder Shock Pellets.
• Song Xianming praised Song Yuqing's work, while Song Qingxing discussed the coming conflict with the Brocade Banner and the Song family's forces still traveling to the Great Qian Cultivation World.
• Song Changsheng advanced his Thunder Law to the Great Accomplishment Stage and tested the destructive Five Thunder Seal.
• Song Changsheng met True Lord Jianxin, who identified the runes as a cipher and incomplete alchemical inheritance from the Ancient Era Treasure Bottle Sect and gave him a copied booklet.
• Song Changsheng told True Lord Jianxin that the rune-bearing Four-Legged Square Tripod had been stolen by the Vast Righteousness Alliance, then met Thunder Elephant True Monarch.
• Thunder Elephant True Monarch explained how he traced Song Changsheng's aura and Dao Rhyme from the thunderstorm and asked what Song Changsheng had seen there.

Song Changsheng revealed that the legendary Thunder Pool and the missing Kui Bull Drum lay within the storm, then negotiated Myriad Manifestations Palace’s support for the East Sea Alliance against the Sea Yaksha. Back at Vast Peak, he and Wujie uncovered part of the Heavenly Fire Cauldron’s cipher, which described a remarkable spirit pill.

• Song Changsheng told Thunder Elephant True Monarch that he had seen the Thunder Pool and Kui Bull Drum inside the thunderstorm, and offered him the Thunder Pool spirit liquid he had collected.
• Thunder Elephant True Monarch warned Song Changsheng to keep the spirit liquid hidden and sent him to True Lord Jianxin to discuss his request.
• Song Changsheng declined Myriad Manifestations Palace’s offer to wipe out the Sea Yaksha and instead secured a Protector to oversee the East Sea Alliance’s war without intervening until the final moment.
• Song Changsheng returned to Vast Peak, delivered Thunder Essence for Zhan Tianxia, and worked with Wujie and Song Qingyu to reveal the Heavenly Fire Cauldron’s cipher while refining pills.
• Wujie copied the deciphered inheritance and identified a peculiar spirit pill that could seize the creation of heaven and earth.

Song Changsheng and Wujie examined the Heaven-Seizing Creation Pill recipe and began considering how to test its unusual refining method with substitute materials. After Wujie revealed a pill that could save Song Chang'an, news arrived that a Demon King had appeared near the Gemini Islands, and Song Changsheng set out to deal with the threat.

• Wujie explained that the Heaven-Seizing Creation Pill required rare materials and could draw Innate Qi into the body, while Song Changsheng doubted that anyone had ever successfully refined it.
• Wujie proposed using downgraded substitutions to test the recipe's refining method, and Song Changsheng agreed to supply materials for experiments.
• Song Qingyu noticed golden patterns on a Spirit Recovery Pill she had refined, but Song Changsheng found no unusual effect after swallowing it.
• Wujie revealed that the Soul-Purifying Pill could save Song Chang'an and planned to have Song Qingyu and Song Changsheng's Fifth Uncle practice refining it.
• A messenger reported that a Sea Yaksha Demon King had appeared near the Gemini Islands, and Song Changsheng decided to go there himself.

Song Changsheng and Ji Shinian watched the Sea Yaksha Demon King probe the Gemini Islands’ defenses, then followed its retreat to locate the enemy army. They discovered the Sea Yaksha had split its forces, with one group advancing toward the Brocade Banner’s Soaring Dragon Archipelago.

• Song Jingxiu secretly informed Song Changsheng of the Sea Yaksha attack, and Song Changsheng arrived to find Li Chenming concealed while the formation endured the Demon King’s assault.
• Song Changsheng met Ji Shinian of the Myriad Manifestations Palace as the Gemini Islands’ great formation counterattacked and drove the probing Demon King away.
• The Sea Yaksha Demon King withdrew after damaging outer defenses, and Song Yuqing ordered the alliance to prepare for the coming war.
• Song Changsheng and Ji Shinian followed the Demon King to a hidden force of at least ten thousand Sea Demons and learned that two other upper-grade Demon Kings were present.
• An upper-grade Demon King led an elite squad toward the Brocade Banner’s Soaring Dragon Archipelago, prompting Song Changsheng and Ji Shinian to pursue the divided enemy forces.

The East Sea Alliance fought off a massive sea demon invasion as Li Chenming trapped Ye Moluo and Night Fu Ke inside the Gemini Islands’ defense array. Song Youfu and other Song Clan cultivators distinguished themselves in battle, and the chapter ended as Song Qingxing opened his eyes after Ye Moluo was badly wounded.

• Ji Shinian and Song Changsheng observed the approaching sea demons and agreed that the Gemini Islands’ forces should prove themselves without their intervention.
• Niu Dazhuang directed the warships to fire on the sea demons, while Ye Moluo and Night Fu Ke attacked the core islands and Li Chenming trapped both Demon Kings inside his array domain.
• East Sea Alliance cultivators emerged from hiding and fought the sea demon horde, while Song Youfu used his archery to kill enemies and protect his allies.
• Ji Shinian praised Song Youfu, Song Yuqing, and Song Qingxing, and identified Niu Dazhuang, Song Youlin, and Song Jingyuan as promising cultivators.
• Li Chenming activated a chain of killing arrays that severely wounded Ye Moluo, and Song Qingxing opened his eyes as Night Fu Ke urged Ye Moluo to retreat.

Li Chenming’s formation trapped the Demon Kings, and Song Qingxing gravely wounded Ye Moluo with a sword strike, forcing Night Fu Ke to seek a way out. As the East Sea Alliance began an organized retreat, Ji Shinian invited Fellow Daoist Zixu to investigate the Sea Yaksha Clan’s ancestral ground.

• Li Chenming’s killing formation wounded Ye Moluo, and Song Qingxing struck him with Slaughter Sword Intent, nearly destroying his Demon King True Form.
• Night Fu Ke protected Ye Moluo and attacked the formation domain, while Li Chenming ordered a message sent to the battlefield outside.
• Song Youfu used a signal artifact to alert Song Yuqing that the Demon Kings were breaking out.
• Song Yuqing signaled a retreat, and Song Youlin and Song Xianming helped coordinate the alliance’s withdrawal under the fleet’s cover.
• Song Changsheng observed the retreat, and Ji Shinian asked Fellow Daoist Zixu to accompany him to the Sea Yaksha Clan’s ancestral ground.

Song Changsheng refused Ji Shinian’s invitation to investigate the Sea Yaksha Clan until the Gemini Islands had repelled the attack, then joined him after the Sea Demons withdrew. He planted a Void Demon Crystal Thunder Shock Pellet beneath their retreat route, devastating the Sea Yaksha forces, while he and Ji Shinian continued toward the clan’s territory.

• Song Changsheng declined Ji Shinian’s first invitation, and the East Sea Alliance withdrew safely into the Gemini Islands as Night Fu Ke ordered the Sea Yaksha army to retreat.
• Song Daoling surveyed the damage to the Brocade Banner Song Clan, while Song Changsheng accepted Ji Shinian’s invitation to investigate the Sea Yaksha Clan.
• Song Changsheng buried a Thunder Shock Pellet made with a Void Demon Crystal beside the Third-Tier Water Spirit Vein where the Sea Demons would rest.
• The pellet detonated as Night Fu Ke, Night Mishah, and Ye Moluo gathered, killing most nearby Sea Demons and badly wounding Ye Moluo.
• Song Changsheng and Ji Shinian reached the Sea Yaksha Clan’s territory, an enormous trench beneath the deep sea marked by a faint scarlet glow.

Song Changsheng and Ji Shinian attacked the Sea Yaksha stronghold to investigate rumors of a fallen True Dragon. While Ji Shinian fought the clan’s powerful ancestor, Song Changsheng entered the trench and discovered a vast Water Spirit Vein and the True Dragon’s skeletal remains.

• Song Changsheng broke the restriction over the trench with Azure Thunder, revealing the Dragon Might within.
• Song Changsheng overwhelmed Ye Minghong with his Suanni Dharma Manifestation until the Sea Yaksha ancestor attacked him with a giant hand.
• Song Changsheng broke the attack with Four Seas Pacified, then evaded the ancestor’s attempt to capture him.
• Ji Shinian ambushed the ancestor with Origin-Sealing Needles and fought to hold him back while Song Changsheng entered the trench.
• Song Changsheng found a fourth-rank Water Spirit Vein and an enormous True Dragon skull beneath an unfinished palace.

Song Changsheng looted the Dragon Blood Mud and spirit plants around the True Dragon Skeletal Remains, then defeated Ye Minghong while Ji Shinian held off the Sea Yaksha Demon King. With the palace array broken and its defenders unable to stop him, Song Changsheng entered the palace to search for the Sea Yaksha Clan's Treasure Vault.

• Song Changsheng found valuable Dragon Blood Mud and spirit plants growing around the True Dragon Skeletal Remains and swept them away with Universe in the Sleeve.
• Song Changsheng broke through the Xuan Water Heavenly Fiend Array protecting the palace and discovered Ye Minghong hiding inside.
• Song Changsheng overwhelmed Ye Minghong with his lightning and spatial abilities, severed his body, and trapped his fleeing inner core in the Hundred Fiends Qiongqi Cauldron.
• Ji Shinian blocked the enraged Sea Yaksha Demon King and urged Song Changsheng to continue looting.
• Song Changsheng entered the palace and spread his Divine Sense through it to find the Sea Yaksha Clan's Treasure Vault.

Song Changsheng searched Ye Minghong’s memories, raided the Sea Yaksha Clan’s Treasure Vault, and discovered Blood Spirit Stones formed from True Dragon blood. After locating the mined Spirit Stone Vein, he joined Ji Shinian in retreating from the trench, and the two prepared to divide their spoils.

• Song Changsheng soul-searched Ye Minghong and learned that the Sea Yaksha Clan had fled catastrophic losses in the South Sea, while an unidentified Human Cultivator had arranged the palace’s defenses.
• Song Changsheng used Ye Minghong’s memories to find the Treasure Vault and took its spirit materials and four chests of Blood Spirit Stones formed from True Dragon blood.
• Song Changsheng searched two Third-Tier Sea Yaksha for the Spirit Stone Vein, found its section near the trench had already been mined, and collected the remaining True Dragon Skeletal Remains.
• Song Changsheng messaged Ji Shinian to retreat while Ji Shinian fought Ye Shinu, then used his White Tiger Dharma Manifestation to break away with Song Changsheng.
• Song Changsheng and Ji Shinian landed on a deserted island, acknowledged each other’s contributions, and agreed to split their gains evenly.

Song Changsheng and Ji Shinian divided the Sea Yaksha spoils and discovered the devastating aftermath of the trap Song had left behind. Back at the Song Clan, Song Changsheng prepared to enter seclusion while Zhuang Yuechan planned a journey, and the chapter ended with them unable to identify a mysterious pill.

• Song Changsheng and Ji Shinian divided the recovered treasures, including Blood Spirit Stones, Dragon Blood Mud, and True Dragon remains, without opening their Jade Boxes or Jade Bottles.
• Song Changsheng and Ji Shinian found that the enhanced Thunder Shock Pellets had devastated a Third-Tier Spirit Vein, leaving a vast pit and deadly spatial rifts that may have killed many Sea Yakshas.
• Song Changsheng parted from Ji Shinian, gave Song Jingxiu instructions for a future Void Demon Crystal exchange, and returned to the Song Clan to prepare for secluded cultivation.
• Zhuang Yuechan told Song Changsheng that she intended to travel north and search for items left by True Monarch Yusu, and Song Changsheng agreed to support her journey.
• Song Changsheng and Zhuang Yuechan opened their recovered bottles and identified Blood Tempering Pills, Tenfold Body-Refining Pills, and Thousand Beast Pills, but could not identify the pills in the final bottle.
• Song Changsheng called Wujie to examine the unidentified pills.

Song Changsheng learned that a pill taken from the Sea Yaksha Clan was a Dao Comprehension Pill and found evidence linking it to an ancient source near the Gemini Islands. After distributing several treasures, he prepared to enter seclusion and break through again, while sending Song Qingxi to arrange protective pills for Zhuang Yuechan.

• Wujie identified the gold-patterned pill as a Fourth-Tier Supreme-Grade Dao Comprehension Pill that could simulate an Epiphany.
• Song Changsheng and Song Qingxi found a matching mark on the bottle containing Grand yin Gui Water, leading Song Changsheng to suspect ruins near the Gemini Islands.
• Song Changsheng gave Zhuang Yuechan a Blood-Weeping Fruit and kept the poisonous Sinful Dragon Vine rather than placing it in the Family Treasury.
• Song Changsheng assigned Song Qingxi to distribute pills to the clan’s Spirit Beasts and arrange for Master Lu and Medicine King to refine pills from valuable materials.
• Song Changsheng told Wujie that his realm had begun to loosen and that he would enter seclusion to break through, using the Dao Comprehension Pill to comprehend the laws.

Song Changsheng sent Jinxuan to the Demon Domain to gather intelligence and train, while he entered seclusion with a Dao Comprehension Pill. After months of hearing scriptures that revealed the Three Thousand Great Daos, Song Changsheng realized he needed to create a world and evolve the Daos within it.

• Song Changsheng told Song Qingxi to strengthen the clan’s river defenses and seek intelligence on the Demon Domain, then asked about Jinxuan’s stalled cultivation.
• Song Qingxi brought Jinxuan pills and Alligator Dragon essence blood, then told him the clan would send him into the Demon Domain to gather intelligence and train.
• Jinxuan protested the assignment, but Song Qingxi told him to prepare to leave and said Yan Li would take over his duties.
• Song Changsheng entered seclusion and consumed a Dao Comprehension Pill, which let him hear scriptures expounding the Three Thousand Great Daos.
• After months of struggling to comprehend the scriptures, Song Changsheng realized he should create a world and use the scriptures to evolve the Three Thousand Great Daos.

Song Changsheng used a Dao Comprehension Pill to evolve a world and observe its laws, while Jinxuan entered the devastated Demon Domain and Zhuang Yuechan began seeking True Monarch Yusu’s legacies. The chapter ended with Zhuang Yuechan calling for the Yusu Sword’s hidden spirit to return.

• Song Changsheng formed a stable Void Space, created a continent, and watched laws and karma evolve as the process strained his Mental Energy.
• Jinxuan entered the Demon Domain and found the land still devastated by the Canglan Water Monarch’s Flooding of the Demon Nation, leaving him unsure where to seek intelligence.
• Zhuang Yuechan left the Song Clan on a training journey to find True Monarch Yusu’s legacies before her deadline.
• Zhuang Yuechan returned to Golden Profound Stone Cave and learned that the Yusu Sword’s Artifact Spirit and spiritual essence had been hidden there.
• Zhuang Yuechan plunged the blood-soaked Yusu Sword into the ruins and called, “Spirit, return!”

Zhuang Yuechan recovered the Yusu Sword’s spiritual charm but discovered its artifact spirit was missing, while Song Changsheng advanced his understanding of the laws in seclusion. Meanwhile, Wujie and the younger Song Clan cultivators tested the Heaven-Seizing Creation Pill method, and the clan fleet reached the Gemini Islands.

• Zhuang Yuechan restored the Yusu Sword’s spiritual charm and, after realizing its artifact spirit had vanished, sent the sword flying out of the cave to search for it.
• Song Changsheng completed his understanding of the Five Element Laws and reflected on the Dao Comprehension Pill’s remarkable effects.
• Wujie guided Song Qingyu and Song Luzhou in refining two pills with the qi of Heaven and Earth, confirming that the Heaven-Seizing Creation Pill method was feasible.
• Wujie ordered Song Qingyu to arrange tests of the pills and told Song Luzhou to refine a Soul-Purifying Pill for his nephew.
• Song Jingxiao, Xu Miaoyin, and Chi Li discussed their assignments as the fleet entered the East Sea.
• The Song Clan fleet arrived at the Gemini Islands, bringing fresh manpower for their development.