Chapter Summaries

Song Qingxia arrived at Gemini Islands with reinforcements, allowing Song Youfu to prepare for his breakthrough, while Zhuang Yuechan traced the Yushu Sword’s Artifact Spirit to the Ghost Hand Sect. The sect and Zhang Yu ambushed her, but she freed Nameless and reunited him with the Yushu Sword, turning the battle in her favor.

• Song Qingxia arrived at Gemini Islands with a limited number of reinforcements, and Song Youfu prepared to hand over his duties before entering seclusion to break through to the Purple Palace Stage.
• Zhuang Yuechan followed the Yushu Sword’s guidance to the Ghost Hand Sect, where its sect master Ju Jinchou held the jade containing Nameless.
• Zhang Yu pressured Ju Jinchou to pledge the Ghost Hand Sect’s loyalty to his master and urged him to help capture Zhuang Yuechan.
• Ju Jinchou and Zhang Yu lured Zhuang Yuechan with the jade, then attacked her with help from the sect’s Mountain Protection Array.
• Zhuang Yuechan recognized Zhang Yu, severed Ju Jinchou’s hand with the Yushu Sword, and broke open the jade to free Nameless.
• Nameless returned to the Yushu Sword, restoring its full power as Zhuang Yuechan faced her attackers.

Zhuang Yuechan used the Yusu Sword and her musical arts to defeat the Ghost Hand Sect’s leaders and destroy their defenses. After killing Zhang Yu and capturing his divine soul, she began hunting the sect members who had fled.

• Nameless recognized the Yusu Sword and joined with it, allowing Zhuang Yuechan to repel the Ghost Hand Sect’s attackers.
• Zhang Yu swallowed a medicinal pill and spirit wine to raise his cultivation while Wang Xiuming activated the sect’s black-light array.
• Zhuang Yuechan used her qin music to cripple the array and kill Li Guixiong, then killed Ju Jinchou with the Yusu Sword.
• Zhang Yu reached the limit of the Purple Palace Stage, but Zhuang Yuechan overwhelmed him with the sword, zither strings, and flute music, then suppressed his escaping divine soul in a nine-story iron pagoda.
• Zhuang Yuechan broke the Mountain Protection Array, killed Wang Xiuming, imprisoned the remaining Ghost Hand Sect disciples, and pursued those who had escaped.

Zhuang Yuechan destroyed the Ghost Hand Sect, exposed the Vast Righteousness Alliance’s presence in the Lu Kingdom, and learned that Ling Mou had become powerful enough to fight several Golden Core experts. After the Alliance’s forces escaped a joint assault, Song Changsheng perfected the Yin-Yang Law by dividing his constructed world into Yin and Yang realms, leaving him poised to advance further.

• Zhuang Yuechan imprisoned the Ghost Hand Sect disciples, hunted down its escaped Foundation Establishment Cultivators, and extracted Zhang Yu’s memories, learning that the Vast Righteousness Alliance backed the Righteous Qi Sect.
• Li Xuanyi told Zhuang Yuechan that Ling Mou had gravely wounded the Snake Ancestor and the Snake Branch Grand Elder, and Zhuang Yuechan warned her that the Song Clan could offer support before sending messages to the Song Clan and Sunset City.
• Yu Dongyang reported to Ling Mou that Zhuang Yuechan had exposed the Alliance, and three powerful figures arrived as Ling Mou began ordering a withdrawal.
• Mu Guibai and the other True Persons joined the Five Poisons Sect and Rakshasa Hall in attacking the Righteous Qi Sect, but Ling Mou shielded the escape of its core forces through a Space Teleportation Array and wounded one pursuer.
• Song Changsheng divided his constructed world into overlapping Yin and Yang realms, easing the pressure on his Mental Energy and perfecting the Yin-Yang Law.

Ling Mou continued refining the Six Revolutions Hun Tian Pill while plotting to exploit conflict between the Lu Kingdom’s factions, and Zhuang Yuechan delivered Qingyin True Person’s warning about the Thunder King Hall to Miaoyin Pavilion. Meanwhile, Song Changsheng broke through to the Middle Golden Core Stage while remaining immersed in Dao comprehension.

• Ling Mou ordered Yu Dongyang to obtain mortals from the Bone Erosion Sect and prepare a new puppet, planning to fake her death once the Six Revolutions Hun Tian Pill was complete.
• Zhuang Yuechan followed rumors of two fallen Golden Core True Persons to a battlefield, where she found the wounded Qingyin True Person hiding nearby.
• Qingyin True Person gave Zhuang Yuechan a Jade Slip revealing suspicions that the Thunder King Hall was manipulating events and sacrificing herself to delay an approaching Golden Core pursuer.
• Zhuang Yuechan delivered Qingyin True Person’s message to True Monarch Lingyin, who granted her entry to the Miaoyin Sacred Realm and learned of the Thunder King Hall’s suspected role in her grandmaster’s death.
• Song Changsheng broke through to the Middle Golden Core Stage while his Dao-comprehension vision and chanting continued.

Mu Guibai recognized signs of outside forces stirring chaos across cultivation worlds, then ordered Sunset City secured when Zhan Tianxia began his Heavenly Tribulation. As allies and rivals gathered to watch, Zhan Tianxia endured eight bolts, leaving the final strike to determine whether he would break through.

• Mu Guibai discussed the turmoil in the Tianqin Cultivation World with Ye Hanyan and warned that a hidden hand might be causing unrest.
• Mu Guibai sensed Zhan Tianxia's impending breakthrough and ordered an evacuation, martial law, and strict security around Sunset City.
• Song Qingxi led Song Clan elites to support Zhan Tianxia, while Bai Yan and Chen Zhongfang traveled together to witness the tribulation.
• Zhan Tianxia faced the Heavenly Tribulation in heavy armor, enduring successive lightning strikes as his Spirit Treasure shattered.
• After eight bolts wounded Zhan Tianxia and pushed him to his limit, only the final bolt remained.

Zhan Tianxia survived his final Heavenly Tribulation by refining its lightning with Song Changsheng’s Thunder Essence and formed a Golden Core, while the Great Qi Cultivation World drew attention for its growing strength. A year later, Song Changsheng remained immersed in his study of laws as Zhuang Yuechan approached the fourth-rank Sound Master realm in Miaoyin Pavilion’s Stele Forest.

• Zhan Tianxia burned his origin and used Song Changsheng’s Thunder Essence to suppress the Heavenly Thunder, refine it, and form a lightning-wreathed Golden Core.
• The Tribulation Cloud sent down Sweet Rain, restoring Zhan Tianxia and Heavenly Sound Mountain, and Mu Guibai announced a Golden Core Ceremony for the following year.
• Bai Yan and Chen Zhongfang congratulated Zhan Tianxia as news of his breakthrough spread, bringing Great Qi’s number of Golden Core True Persons to seven and drawing attention from surrounding Cultivation Worlds.
• During the following year, Song Changsheng remained absorbed in his world of laws, the Song Clan completed its Space Channel construction and launched its first Ocean Battleships, and Zhan Tianxia’s Golden Core Ceremony neared its end.
• Zhuang Yuechan played her zither in Miaoyin Pavilion’s Stele Forest, stirred the Stone Tablets into a joint performance, and began resonating with Musical Arts Law Dao as True Monarch Lingyin decided to give her a volume of classics.

Zhuang Yuechan advanced to fourth-rank Sound Master and left the embattled Tianqin Cultivation World as Miaoyin Pavilion faced the Thunder King Hall and other threats. Song Changsheng ended his years-long Law Insights, prepared for the elimination tournament, and a Spiritual Qi Vortex gathered over White Dragon Island as Song Youfu appeared ready to break through.

• True Monarch Lingyin told Huiyin True Person that the Thunder King Hall had resurfaced across several Cultivation Worlds and might be linked to Hua Yin's death, while the Myriad Manifestations Palace could send no aid for at least ten years.
• True Monarch Lingyin instructed Huiyin True Person to give Zhuang Yuechan a jade slip after she reached fourth-rank Sound Master and send her away from Tianqin quickly.
• Zhuang Yuechan completed a year-long grand ensemble, advanced her Musical Arts True Intent into the Musical Arts Law, and learned that Zhan Tianxia had reached the Golden Core Stage.
• Huiyin True Person gave Zhuang Yuechan a jade slip entrusted by his patriarch, and she left Miaoyin Pavilion for the Yulong Cultivation World amid war and martial law.
• Song Changsheng ended his Law Insights after four years, reviewed accumulated intelligence, and prepared to temper his body before the elimination tournament.
• A massive Spiritual Qi Vortex formed above White Dragon Island, and Song Youlin believed Song Youfu was about to break through.

Song Youfu broke through to the Purple Palace Stage without experiencing a Minor Inner Demon Tribulation, leaving Song Qingxing and Song Youlin worried that a hidden danger remained. Meanwhile, Zhuang Yuechan crossed the Tianshan Mountain Range in search of the marked Tianshan Snow Lotuses needed by Wujie and Song Changsheng's Divine Soul Incarnation.

• Song Youfu formed his Violet Palace Furnace and reached the Purple Palace Stage as the gathered cultivators celebrated his breakthrough.
• Song Youfu told Song Youlin that his Minor Inner Demon Tribulation had never appeared, and Song Qingxing examined him but found no trace of Demonic Qi.
• Song Qingxing ordered Song Youfu to study a Buddhist Scripture one hundred times each day and told Song Youlin to supervise him until the Patriarch could inspect him.
• Zhuang Yuechan continued her dangerous year-long crossing of the Tianshan Mountain Range, relying on the Yusu Sword, the Concealment Carpet, and The Miaoyin Codex to survive.
• Zhuang Yuechan reached a snow valley where True Monarch Yusu had marked immature Tianshan Snow Lotuses.

Zhuang Yuechan harvested a mature Tianshan Snow Lotus but was pursued by a crazed Demon King python. Song Changsheng ended his seclusion, welcomed Song Chang'an back, and met with Zhan Tianxia and Mu Guibai, leaving to discuss Lightning Techniques before traveling to the East Sea.

• Zhuang Yuechan found and harvested a Fifth-Tier Tianshan Snow Lotus, awakening a powerful Demonic presence in the mountain range.
• Zhuang Yuechan fled from a giant, irrational Demon King python that chased her through the snowy peaks.
• Song Changsheng ended his seclusion after worrying that Zhuang Yuechan might be in danger and was delighted to find Song Chang'an alive.
• Song Changsheng arranged for Song Chang'an to preside at the Skill Transmission Hall before accompanying him to the East Sea within a year.
• Song Changsheng reviewed the clan's progress, including Song Youfu's breakthrough to the Purple Palace Stage, and considered how to find spirit materials for Wujie and his Divine Soul Incarnation.
• Song Changsheng visited Zhan Tianxia and Mu Guibai, confirmed his Middle Golden Core Stage cultivation, and invited Zhan Tianxia to discuss Lightning Techniques before their journey to the East Sea.

Song Changsheng discussed Lightning Techniques with Zhan Tianxia, received Sunset City's Golden Thread Soft Armor, and learned that Ye Hanyan possessed Divine Soul Fire. After preparing the Gemini Islands for rising dangers, he headed toward Myriad Manifestations Palace to represent it in a competition.

• Song Changsheng and Zhan Tianxia spent a year discussing Lightning Techniques, and Song Changsheng shared insights that greatly benefited Zhan Tianxia.
• Mu Guibai gave Song Changsheng Sunset City's High-Grade Spirit Treasure, the Golden Thread Soft Armor, to protect him at the Dazhen Immortal Dynasty competition.
• Mu Guibai revealed that Ye Hanyan possessed concealed Divine Soul Fire and was a prodigy with the potential to inherit Sunset City.
• Song Changsheng and Zhan Tianxia traveled to the Gemini Islands, where Song Changsheng heard that the Color Scale Clan was migrating and a counterattack might be coming.
• Song Changsheng ordered the Song Clan to stop trading with the Color Scale Clan, told Song Qingxing to prepare for the new Trial Road, and arranged for the clan to seek help from Myriad Manifestations Palace if needed.
• Song Changsheng took Song Youlin, Xu Miaoyin, Song Jingxiao, and others with him as they hurried toward Myriad Manifestations Palace.

Zhuang Yuechan survived a year trapped beneath snow after driving away the Snow Python, then set out again to reach the grand competition. Song Changsheng and his companions arrived at Myriad Manifestations Palace, where they watched its sect competition and learned how it was selecting cultivators for the Dazhen Immortal Dynasty.

• Zhuang Yuechan awoke after a year beneath the snow, and Nameless told her the Snow Python had retreated after she used music and Song Changsheng’s Sword Talisman to restore its senses.
• Zhuang Yuechan recovered for several days, then resumed her journey across the Tianshan Mountain Range; a woman in a white dress followed her.
• Song Changsheng brought Song Youlin, Xu Miaoyin, and the other juniors to Myriad Manifestations Palace, where True Lord Jianxin welcomed them and noted his breakthrough to the Middle Golden Core Stage.
• Song Changsheng watched the Palace’s grand competition beside representatives of the Brocade Banner and learned that the matches would select Purple Palace cultivators for the Dazhen Immortal Dynasty.
• Song Youlin observed that the young competitors fought with fierce techniques and seasoned experience, and Song Changsheng urged his companions to learn from them.
• True Lord Jianxin invited the young disciples to attend an Exchange Meeting after the grand competition.

Song Changsheng brought the Song Clan’s younger cultivators to the Myriad Manifestations Palace’s Exchange Meeting, where he saw the sect’s formidable Purple Mansion candidates and learned its strongest competitor was still at the academy. After warning his clan about the Brocade Banner’s hostile intentions, he joined the Golden Core candidates bound for the Dazhen Immortal Dynasty and was confronted by a cultivator who accused him of taking his place.

• Song Changsheng agreed to bring the Song Clan’s young cultivators to the Exchange Meeting so they could test themselves against disciples of the Myriad Manifestations Palace.
• Jun Tianli defeated a Violet Palace Great Perfection Cultivator, but placed sixth among the selected candidates; Jianxin told Song Changsheng that the Palace’s strongest prospect was still in the academy.
• Jianxin left with Song Changsheng to meet the Palace Master, while Song Changsheng warned the Song Clan participants to follow the rules and told Song Youlin to concede for Xu Miaoyin if needed.
• Song Zhemin urged the Brocade Banner cultivators to show no mercy to the Wangyue Song Clan in the arena, and Song Youlin warned his own group to treat them as enemies if they fought ruthlessly.
• Song Changsheng met Yi Tianzheng and the other Golden Core candidates for the Dazhen Immortal Dynasty, including the Late Golden Core Stage Ling Xiao.
• A black-robed cultivator stepped forward and accused Song Changsheng of taking his place.

Song Changsheng challenged Liu Yunxuan to settle their dispute over a place on Myriad Manifestations Palace’s team, and overwhelmed him in a contest of Law Dao Rhyme. Meanwhile, Xu Miaoyin defeated Song Lingtao at the Exchange Meeting and stopped his attempt to ambush her, leaving him facing her retaliation.

• Liu Yunxuan angrily objected to Song Changsheng taking his place, but Ling Xiao warned him to obey the team’s decision.
• Song Changsheng proposed that he and Liu Yunxuan compete through their Law Insights, and Ling Xiao agreed.
• Song Changsheng’s many powerful Law Dao Rhymes comprehensively suppressed Liu Yunxuan, shocking Yi Tianzheng and the others.
• Xu Miaoyin defeated Song Lingtao with a single strike after evading his attacks at the Exchange Meeting.
• Song Lingtao secretly fired poisoned golden needles at Xu Miaoyin, but an invisible barrier stopped them, and she turned to confront him.

Xu Miaoyin defeated Song Lingtao’s poisoned ambush, and True Person Zixuan punished Brocade Banner before Song Youlin proposed a death match to settle the clans’ grudges. Meanwhile, Song Changsheng defeated Liu Yunxuan in a contest of Law Insights, and the team began its final six-month training in the Exquisite Pagoda.

• Xu Miaoyin used her Divine Soul Power to send poisoned golden needles into Song Lingtao, whose dantian and cultivation were badly damaged.
• Song Zhemin accused Xu Miaoyin of vicious conduct, but Xu Miaoyin explained that she had acted in self-defense after Song Lingtao’s sneak attack.
• True Person Zixuan ruled that Song Lingtao had attacked first and revoked Brocade Banner’s Exchange Meeting qualification for ten years.
• Song Youlin requested a chance to settle the clans’ grudges, and Song Zhemin accepted his proposal for a death match.
• Song Changsheng defeated Liu Yunxuan in their contest, and Liu Yunxuan admitted his earlier disrespect and apologized.
• Yi Tianzheng introduced the Exquisite Pagoda’s training floors, and Song Changsheng and the others entered for their final six-month sprint.

Song Changsheng and the others entered the Dragon Transformation Pool to temper their bodies, while a death match between the Wangyue Song Clan and the Brocade Banner continued at Myriad Manifestations Mountain. Song Jingxiao defeated Song Lingjun, and Song Jingyuan’s fight with Song Muxuan ended with her jade artifact trapping his Flying Sword and bearing down on him.

• Song Changsheng and the others entered the Dragon Transformation Pool and began enduring its blood and Killing Intent as Song Changsheng considered cultivating the Slaughter Law.
• Song Jingxiao fought Song Lingjun, broke his Soft Sword, and struck him off the stage with a lightning-charged punch.
• Xu Miaoyin urged the wounded Song Jingxiao to let her bandage his arm, while Song Jingyuan volunteered for the next bout.
• Song Zhemin reluctantly sent Song Muxuan to fight Song Jingyuan after the Brocade Banner disciples challenged his hesitation.
• Song Jingyuan gained the advantage with his sword and earthen spikes, but Song Muxuan merged her jade bracelets into a halo that neutralized his Flying Sword and descended toward him.

Song Jingyuan defeated and killed Song Muxuan in a deathmatch, while Song Zhemin refused Song Youlin's challenge and led the Brocade Banner away in disgrace. Elsewhere, Song Changsheng continued training in the Dragon Transformation Pool, and Zhuang Yuechan and Nameless reached the Dazhen Immortal Dynasty, where Nameless sensed demonic qi.

• Song Jingyuan used his sword array to overcome Song Muxuan's jade bracelets and killed her, then claimed her Storage Bag and bracelets.
• Song Youlin challenged Song Zhemin to a deathmatch, but Song Zhemin refused and left with the Brocade Banner cultivators as the crowd jeered.
• Song Changsheng noticed changes in his physique and bloodline after fifteen days in the Dragon Transformation Pool, and decided to remain for a month.
• Zhuang Yuechan and Nameless crossed the Tianshan Mountain Range and approached a city pass in the Dazhen Immortal Dynasty.
• Nameless broke free from Zhuang Yuechan and flew into the air after sensing a trace of demonic qi.

Zhuang Yuechan met a white-clad Demon King who had once been a snow snake saved by True Monarch Yushu and asked for help suppressing her dangerous demonic qi. Meanwhile, Song Changsheng and Ling Xiao continued enduring the Dragon Transformation Pool, and Yi Tianzheng wondered how far Song Changsheng could go.

• A Demon King trapped Zhuang Yuechan in an isolated snowy space and revealed that she had followed her because Zhuang Yuechan’s melody had once restored her reason.
• The Demon King reminded Nameless of the white snake True Monarch Yushu had spared thousands of years earlier, then explained that an unknown object had granted her longevity while causing bouts of madness.
• Zhuang Yuechan questioned the Demon King’s intentions and tried to arrange to leave and return later, but the Demon King asked whether she did not believe her.
• After thirty-two days in the Dragon Transformation Pool, Ling Xiao produced crystalline essence blood, received Yi Tianzheng’s praise, and went to the pagoda’s second floor.
• Yi Tianzheng watched Song Changsheng remain in the Blood Pool and wondered when he would reach his limit.

Song Changsheng underwent a profound transformation in the Dragon Transformation Pool, fusing Law Dao Rhyme into his bloodline and revealing his Immeasurable Grand Dao. He emerged with a unique Star Bloodline, leaving Yi Tianzheng impressed and regretful that Song was not a disciple of Myriad Manifestations Palace.

• Song Changsheng’s Acquired Star Body emerged in the Dragon Transformation Pool, and Yi Tianzheng recognized its potential and limitations.
• Song Changsheng realized the pool was tempering his bloodline so it could carry Law Dao Rhyme and be inherited by his descendants.
• Song Changsheng began fusing the Law of Life into his bloodline, while Yi Tianzheng added precious spirit plants to the pool to support his transformation.
• Song Changsheng’s transformation stirred the stars above Myriad Manifestations Palace, and Thunder Elephant True Monarch sensed the disturbance was connected to the palace.
• Yi Tianzheng recognized Song Changsheng’s Dao as the Immeasurable Grand Dao as myriad phenomena and Law Chains surrounded him.
• Song Changsheng absorbed the pool’s remaining spiritual liquid, completed his transformation, and named his unique inherited bloodline the Star Bloodline.

Song Changsheng completed his forty-day transformation in the Dragon Transformation Pool, and Yi Tianzheng gave him Myriad Manifestations Palace’s Immeasurable Dao insights before he entered the Myriad Manifestation Illusion. There, Song Changsheng fought increasingly powerful Demon Beasts, ending with a challenge against a Fourth-Tier Great Perfection Moon-Howling Demon Wolf.

• Yi Tianzheng told Song Changsheng that he had spent forty days in the Dragon Transformation Pool and praised him for forging the Star Bloodline.
• Yi Tianzheng asked Song Changsheng to help protect the Southwest if it ever faced collapse, then gave him a jade slip containing Myriad Manifestations Palace’s Immeasurable Dao insights.
• After resting for three days, Song Changsheng entered the Myriad Manifestation Illusion and defeated a mid-grade Golden-Armored Centipede.
• Song Changsheng fought increasingly numerous and powerful Demon Beasts, eventually defeating five opponents, including three high-grade Demon Kings, after a bloody battle lasting several days.
• After resting for more than ten days, Song Changsheng began another challenge and faced a Fourth-Tier Great Perfection Moon-Howling Demon Wolf.

Song Changsheng defeated a Great Perfection Moon-Howling Demon Wolf in the Myriad Manifestation Illusion and spent several months testing himself against powerful Demon Kings. Meanwhile, conspirators from Thousand Sound Valley and another faction plotted to seize the Tianqin Immortal Dynasty’s Imperial Seal, and Song Changsheng moved on to the Mirror Image Space for his final two months of training.

• Song Changsheng fought the Great Perfection Moon-Howling Demon Wolf for more than ten hours and killed it with a punch, then recovered rapidly thanks to his Star Bloodline and the Law of Life.
• Several months of combat in the Myriad Manifestation Illusion pushed Song Changsheng to his limits; he faced two Great Perfection Demon Kings at once and suffered his first defeat.
• The Left Protector Envoy and Thousand Sound Valley’s Shi Xun and Yuxiao agreed to keep fighting Miaoyin Pavilion and seek a chance to eliminate Tian Yao and obtain the Imperial Seal.
• The conspirators planned to divert the Myriad Manifestations Palace’s attention once the Five Academies Grand Meeting began, while warning their allies not to kill its wounded Protector.
• Song Changsheng left the Myriad Manifestation Illusion and entered the third level’s Mirror Image Space to train against a mirror image of himself during his final two months.