Chapter Summaries

Song Changsheng killed Xie Kui, a newly awakened Zombie who possessed the memories and powers of Reincarnation True Monarch, then learned that the Corpse Raiser might know where the Chen Clan’s ancestral land lay. He secretly followed the Corpse Raiser back to his corpse-raising ground and confronted him there.

• Song Changsheng rejected Xie Kui’s offer to bargain and attacked him with lightning, then overcame his defenses and stopped his attempt to escape into the heavens.
• Song Changsheng restrained Xie Kui, searched his soul, and learned that the Spirit Body belonged to Reincarnation True Monarch, who had left a strand of divine thought inside it.
• Song Changsheng dispersed Xie Kui’s consciousness, preserved the Spirit Body in the Soul Locking Bronze Coffin, and decided to pursue the Corpse Raiser for information about the Chen Clan’s ancestral land.
• The black-robed Corpse Raiser fled the Chaotic Ancient Domain and returned to his corpse-raising ground, unaware that Song Changsheng had followed him in secret.
• Song Changsheng appeared behind the Corpse Raiser and asked what he would do if he discovered who was pursuing him.

Song Changsheng defeated and soul-searched the Corpse Raiser, learning that his name was Yin Wuxie and discovering the location of a Chen Clan treasure trove. In Pan Shi City, Zhuang Yuechan used her qin music to calm the infected True Lord Mingtai and quell the citywide unrest, while Song Changsheng learned that the corpse-raising plot’s mastermind, Mr. Corpse, had planned to replace Mingtai.

• Song Changsheng defeated the Corpse Raiser’s zombies, killed the Long-Haired Zombie, and captured the Corpse Raiser with Kongsang Xiruo’s palace.
• Zhuang Yuechan watched True Lord Mingtai’s corpse poison break free, then played the Soul-Calming Melody to restrain him and calm Pan Shi City’s unrest.
• Song Changsheng searched the Corpse Raiser’s soul, learned that he was Yin Wuxie, and found out that Yin Wuxie had opened two Chen Clan treasure troves.
• Song Changsheng learned that Mr. Corpse had trained Yin Wuxie and planned to replace True Lord Mingtai before Song Changsheng intervened.
• Song Changsheng noted that Mingtai had been infected with corpse poison and turned to examine Yin Wuxie’s Storage Bag.

Song Changsheng searched Yin Wuxie's Storage Bag, discovered the Soul-Seizing Spirit Hook, and returned to Pan Shi City, where Zhuang Yuechan had calmed the city with her qin. They restrained True Lord Mingtai during his corpse transformation and began trying to suppress the corpse poison, while planning to use Pan Shi City as a source of information north of Heavenly Mountain.

• Song Changsheng found the Nine Nether Corpse-Nurturing Secret Scroll and the Soul-Seizing Spirit Hook among Yin Wuxie's meager remaining possessions, then took the usable treasures and burned the corpse and Storage Bag.
• Song Changsheng returned to Pan Shi City and found Zhuang Yuechan's qin music had calmed the city and temporarily restrained True Lord Mingtai.
• Zhuang Yuechan explained her plan to build ties with Pan Shi City, and Song Changsheng offered to use his knowledge of an Extreme Yang Land to remove Mingtai's corpse poison.
• When Mingtai's transformation resumed, Song Changsheng imprisoned him with Spatial Power while Zhuang Yuechan soothed him with her jade flute.
• Song Changsheng threatened anyone exploiting the chaos, then took Mingtai to an underground chamber with Zhuang Yuechan and began using pure yang treasures to suppress the corpse poison.

Song Changsheng saved True Lord Mingtai from the worst effects of his Corpse Poison and secured his agreement to cooperate with Pan Shi City. As Song Changsheng and Zhuang Yuechan headed for the Array Dao Academy, news emerged that Song Youping’s Spirit-Devouring Golden Insects had forced the Sea Race to negotiate with the Human Race.

• Song Changsheng used Pure Yang Power and flute music to suppress True Lord Mingtai’s Corpse Poison, but explained that only an ancient Extreme Yang Land could remove it completely.
• Song Changsheng told the elders of Pan Shi City that True Lord Mingtai was stable for now and asked the city to watch for news from the surrounding region.
• After True Lord Mingtai awoke, Song Changsheng proposed an information-sharing partnership and urged him to consider a stronger path forward for Pan Shi City.
• True Lord Mingtai agreed to cooperate with Song Changsheng, who revealed his name before departing with Zhuang Yuechan for the Array Dao Academy.
• Song Youping’s self-reproducing Spirit-Devouring Golden Insects spread across the sea and devastated Spirit Plants, prompting Kongsang Lifeng to negotiate with the Human Race.

Kongsang Lifeng agreed to destroy the Demon Dandelion Flowers but refused to withdraw the Sea Race troops, keeping the war active to cover his allies’ plans. Song Changsheng and Zhuang Yuechan arrived at the Array Dao Academy, where its guardian elder welcomed them and opened the Scripture Repository to Song Changsheng.

• True Lord Longxiang and True Monarch Heavenly Manifestation demanded that Kongsang Lifeng destroy every Demon Dandelion Flower and withdraw his forces, but Kongsang agreed only to destroy the flowers.
• Kongsang told Shenyun that the continuing military pressure would cover their allies’ activities, then ordered every Demon Dandelion Flower destroyed and demanded that the Blood Soul Demonic Sect accelerate its work.
• Song Changsheng and Zhuang Yuechan reached the Array Dao Academy and marveled at its enormous floating island and anti-gravity array.
• The guardian elder welcomed Song Changsheng and Zhuang Yuechan, recognized a powerful force within Zhuang Yuechan, and explained that True Monarch Yingyue was away on an urgent assignment.
• The guardian elder invited Song Changsheng to browse the academy’s Scripture Repository, and an elegant young woman approached them.

Song Changsheng explored the Array Dao Academy’s Star Picking Pavilion, where a mysterious guardian elder explained why the academy preserved countless competing texts and advised him to begin on the three hundredth floor. After climbing to the five hundred and ninetieth floor, Song Changsheng felt a powerful pull calling to him.

• Song Changsheng and Zhuang Yuechan reached the Star Picking Pavilion, and their guide explained its history, vast collection, and formation tests.
• Zhuang Yuechan chose to visit the Valley of Absolute Silence while Song Changsheng entered the pavilion and questioned why its basic texts repeated so much information.
• The pavilion’s gray-robed elder told Song Changsheng that the academy preserved differing accounts because each could hold meaning for future readers, then advised him to start on the three hundredth floor.
• Song Changsheng broke through the formations and climbed to the five hundred and ninetieth floor, where he found advanced array inheritances and notes from Fifth-Tier Array Masters.
• As Song Changsheng prepared to continue toward the six hundredth floor, he felt a powerful pull calling to him.

Song Changsheng followed a mysterious pull to the Ten Ultimates Dao Formation and studied its five array diagrams, while Zhuang Yuechan trained her music in the Valley of Absolute Silence. After the Scripture Repository elder summoned him, Song Changsheng asked why Supreme Juntian and the other array masters had donated their inheritances.

• Song Changsheng found a jade slip containing the upper volume of the Ten Ultimates Dao Formation and witnessed visions of cultivators donating their knowledge to Star Picking Pavilion.
• Song Changsheng studied the five array diagrams in the jade slip and recognized their potential to unite Song Clan Cultivators.
• Zhuang Yuechan entered the Valley of Absolute Silence, heard a flawless qin performance, and used it to identify and correct imperfections in her playing.
• Song Changsheng mastered the five formations, searched unsuccessfully for the remaining two parts, and learned that True Monarch Yingyue had returned.
• Song Changsheng met the Scripture Repository elder and asked why Supreme Juntian and the others had willingly contributed their inheritances.

Song Changsheng left his formation insights at Star Picking Pavilion and earned the Array Dao Academy’s respect, then met True Monarch Yingyue to discuss combining his body-engraved formations with the academy’s methods. Yingyue revealed that his Impermanence Killing Formation came from a remnant of the legendary Third Killing Formation Under Heaven and offered him access to the Myriad Formations Cave Heaven if their cultivation methods were successfully merged.

• The pavilion elder told Song Changsheng that Star Picking Pavilion might hold the answer he sought, but he would have to qualify to return and search for it himself.
• Song Changsheng donated a Jade Slip containing his formation insights, and Array Tinder appeared to thank him, revealing that he was only the third person in a century to leave behind an inheritance.
• Song Changsheng met True Monarch Yingyue at Moon Reflection Palace, where she offered him spiritual liquid as a reward and proposed combining his body-engraved formations with the academy’s cultivation methods.
• True Monarch Yingyue examined Song Changsheng’s Impermanence Killing Formation and explained that He Yunxuan had adapted it from a remnant of the Third Killing Formation Under Heaven.
• True Monarch Yingyue offered Song Changsheng access to the Myriad Formations Cave Heaven, where the remnant formation was kept, if the new cultivation method was successfully merged.

Song Changsheng guided Li Chengjun through the dangerous process of cultivating Engraving Arrays with the Body, and Li Chengjun successfully engraved the Impermanence Killing Formation within himself. True Monarch Yingyue proposed developing linked miniature formations with an external energy source, while an urgent transmission arrived at the Gemini Islands for Zhan Tianxia and Song Qingxing.

• Li Chengjun agreed to risk his life cultivating Engraving Arrays with the Body so he could seize an opportunity to remain beside True Monarch Yingyue.
• Song Changsheng guided Li Chengjun through twelve rounds of body tempering over two months, and Li Chengjun survived.
• After recovering, Li Chengjun engraved formation patterns across his bones, meridians, and acupoints, successfully forming the Impermanence Killing Formation within his body.
• Li Chengjun tested the formation against Song Changsheng, unleashing two powerful attacks before collapsing from exhaustion.
• True Monarch Yingyue urged Song Changsheng to explore linking multiple miniature formations and powering them with an external energy source.
• An urgent transmission from Sunset City arrived at the Gemini Islands for Zhan Tianxia and Song Qingxing.

The Song Clan learned that Bai Zhengchun had died in the Boundless Sword Sect trial, prompting Zhan Tianxia to unleash his grief while Song Qingxing reaffirmed his decision to enter the next trial. At the Array Dao Academy, Song Changsheng and the Fourth-Tier Array Masters had just settled on a preliminary plan for body-engraved linked formations when news of Bai Zhengchun’s death reached him.

• Song Youfu explained that Sunset City’s message concerned the coming Boundless Sword Sect trial and that Song Qingxing was expected to take part.
• Zhan Tianxia erupted from Black Dragon Island in grief, and Song Qingxing announced that Bai Zhengchun had died in the trial grounds without his remains being recovered.
• Song Youfu urged Song Qingxing to reconsider the dangerous trial now that the Song Clan could obtain Golden Core Forming Pills, but Song Qingxing refused, saying he sought to break through his limits.
• Song Qingxing ordered the clan not to disturb Zhan Tianxia as Chengming True Person watched over him, and he reflected on how he had come to understand grief and loss.
• Song Changsheng and the Array Dao Academy’s Fourth-Tier Array Masters agreed on a preliminary experimental plan for engraving linked formations into the body.
• A message from the Wangyue Song Clan reached Song Changsheng through the Myriad Manifestations Palace and informed him of Bai Zhengchun’s death.

After learning that Bai Zhengchun had died, Song Changsheng sent Zhuang Yuechan home to inform the clan while he completed his work with the Array Dao Academy. True Monarch Yingyue rewarded him with Array Dao insights and access to the Myriad Formations Cave Heaven, where he found the remnant of the Third Killing Formation Under Heaven.

• Song Changsheng received word that Bai Zhengchun had fallen and told Zhuang Yuechan, who immediately decided to return to the sect alone.
• True Monarch Yingyue gave Song Changsheng a passage token to the Myriad Formations Cave Heaven and warned him not to let Engraving Arrays with the Body reach heretics or demonic cultivators.
• Song Changsheng and the Array Dao Academy Formation Masters spent three months verifying and improving Engraving Arrays with the Body, and True Monarch Yingyue approved their results.
• Li Chengjun delivered True Monarch Yingyue’s detailed Array Dao insights to Song Changsheng, who then said farewell to the Formation Masters.
• Li Chengjun led Song Changsheng to the Myriad Formations Cave Heaven, where Song found a damaged stone tablet bearing the remnant of the Third Killing Formation Under Heaven.

Song Changsheng entered the Myriad Formations Stele Forest and learned that sensing Dao Rhymes could determine whether a cultivator had the potential to reach the Nascent Soul Realm. He moved close to the Third Killing Formation Under Heaven to capture its Dao resonance, while True Monarch Yingyue and another cultivator watched and wagered on whether he would succeed.

• Song Changsheng used his jade tablet to enter the Myriad Formations Stele Forest and sensed the Array Dao Rhymes permeating it.
• Song Changsheng realized that True Monarch Yingyue had given him access to test his ability to sense Dao Rhymes and his potential to reach the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Song Changsheng ignored the safer approach and moved close to the Third Killing Formation Under Heaven, enduring its killing intent as he tried to identify its Dao resonance.
• After several hours, Song Changsheng steadied his Dao Heart and began distinguishing the formation's resonance from the many others in the stele forest.
• True Monarch Yingyue and a middle-aged cultivator watched Song Changsheng, and they wagered an ancient scroll on whether he could capture the formation's Dao resonance.

Song Changsheng discovered that the Third Killing Formation Under Heaven’s Dao essence was mixed with the stele forest’s killing intent, then used the Illusion Breaking Eye to comprehend the broken formation. He began drawing its killing intent into his body as the Impermanence Killing Formation dissipated, and True Monarch Yingyue watched as he appeared close to succeeding.

• Song Changsheng realized he had mistaken other formations’ Dao essence for that of the Third Killing Formation Under Heaven, while True Monarch Yingyue and a middle-aged cultivator discussed his potential role in the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion’s plans.
• Song Changsheng spent ten days searching the Myriad Formations Stele Forest before concluding that the Third Killing Formation Under Heaven’s Dao essence was concealed within its killing intent.
• Song Changsheng stopped blocking out the killing intent, captured the formation’s Dao essence, and entered the stele’s Void Space, where he saw the broken array diagram.
• Song Changsheng used the Illusion Breaking Eye to see through the killing formation’s essence and remained motionless for a month as True Monarch Yingyue observed him.
• The killing intent in the Myriad Formations Stele Forest poured into Song Changsheng, the Impermanence Killing Formation in his body dissipated, and True Monarch Yingyue realized he had chosen the most difficult path and might succeed.

Song Changsheng engraved the Third Killing Formation Under Heaven into his body, and True Monarch Yingyue sealed its excess killing intent before he left the Array Dao Academy. He departed to return to his clan, first heading for the Eastern Heaven Cultivation World to search for a treasure and the Extreme Yang Land.

• True Monarch Yingyue watched as a force in Song Changsheng’s dantian neutralized the killing intent he absorbed from the Third Killing Formation Under Heaven.
• Song Changsheng erased the Impermanence Killing Formation and engraved his patched version of the Third Killing Formation Under Heaven into his body, using both his Middle and Lower Dantians as Formation Eyes.
• The excess killing intent threatened to erupt, so True Monarch Yingyue transported Song Changsheng out of the Myriad Formations Cave Heaven and sealed it within his dantian.
• Song Changsheng thanked True Monarch Yingyue, promised to record his insights for Star Picking Pavilion, and declined her unspoken wish for him to stay at the Academy.
• The next morning, Li Chengjun brought Song Changsheng to the prepared Space Teleportation Array, and Song Changsheng asked to travel to the Eastern Heaven Cultivation World.

Song Changsheng searched the Eastern Heaven Chen Clan’s hidden retreats for surviving descendants and their stored resources, finding several sites already looted before discovering a trove beneath Crescent Lake. After taking its contents, he emerged to find three sword-riding figures surrounding him.

• Song Changsheng traveled through the Eastern Heaven Cultivation World, where the former Chen Clan’s territory had been taken over by the Eastern Heaven Alliance, and searched for the clan’s hidden retreats.
• Song Changsheng found that a hidden site beneath a newly built city had been occupied and another beneath Great Wilderness Mountain had been emptied by a treasure-seeking Demon Beast, so he left Thunder Essence as bait for it.
• Song Changsheng reached Crescent Lake, found its Concealment Formation intact, and used Reincarnation True Monarch’s Identity Waist Token to open the Chen Clan’s secret chamber.
• Song Changsheng examined the chamber’s pills, scriptures, and Spirit Stones, collected its contents, and discovered three sword-riding figures surrounding him above the lake.

Song Changsheng discovered a Beigong girl with heavenly spirit eyes and gave her a cultivation method to address her narrow meridians before continuing to the Chen Clan’s hidden refuge. There, he found four powerful Fourth-Tier Puppets, but their energy cores were exhausted, leaving him to consider whether he could obtain Deep Sea Sky Crystal.

• Song Changsheng calmed the Beigong Clan’s Foundation Establishment Cultivators and learned that a young girl had detected his concealed presence with her heavenly spirit eyes.
• Song Changsheng gave the girl a cultivation method that might repair her narrow meridians, then departed after telling the clan to forget their meeting.
• Song Changsheng entered the Chen Clan’s hidden refuge using Reincarnation True Monarch’s Waist Token and found no sign of surviving Human Cultivators.
• Song Changsheng reached the altar guarding the Small World and identified its four bronze statues as Fourth-Tier Puppets forged to protect the entrance.
• Song Changsheng tried to awaken the puppets but found their energy exhausted and realized they needed scarce Deep Sea Sky Crystal.

Song Changsheng entered the Chen Clan’s hidden Small World, discovered its rich Medicine Garden and treasures, and confronted the descendants and Earth Spirit guarding it. After overpowering the Earth Spirit and securing their cooperation, he learned the clan’s forces had left two centuries earlier and that the Medicine Garden had already been harvested once.

• Song Changsheng opened the altar’s spatial gate and entered a Small World with a Fifth-Tier Spirit Vein, a vast Medicine Garden, and the Night Illuminating Divine Bird.
• Song Changsheng found several million Chen Clan descendants living in the Small World and exposed their attempt to pose as clan elders.
• Song Changsheng revealed that he knew about the Earth Spirit hidden beneath the town, then severed its arm and threatened its core until it agreed not to fight.
• The Chen Clan elders offered Song Changsheng the Small World’s treasures and explained that the clan had withdrawn its elite forces about two hundred years earlier.
• Song Changsheng learned that the Medicine Garden had already been harvested once, though many spiritual herbs had matured since then and the Chen Clan’s scriptures were backed up in a repository.

Song Changsheng took control of the Chen Clan’s Small World and discovered a vast medicine garden filled with rare Spirit Plants and materials that could strengthen the Song Clan. After deciding to keep the garden as a secret resource, he followed Chen Tianxing toward the Scripture Repository to inspect the Chen Clan’s three great ultimate arts.

• Song Changsheng tried to persuade the Earth Spirit to leave the Small World, but it refused to abandon its lord’s command and warned that it would fight to the death if necessary.
• Song Changsheng made Chen Tianxing and Chen Luowei guide him through the medicine garden while keeping the Startled Swan Sword ready to deter any tricks.
• Chen Tianxing revealed a hidden batch of Golden Core Forming Pill materials, which Song Changsheng took along with the other stored spiritual materials.
• Song Changsheng inventoried the garden’s valuable Spirit Plants, including Golden Core Forming Pill ingredients, a Heavenheart Fruit Tree, a Nine Luminaries Jade Flower, Yin-Yang Twin Lotuses, and Reincarnation Plums.
• Song Changsheng decided to keep the Small World as the Song Clan’s secret medicine garden and harvested several of its most valuable plants.
• Chen Tianxing offered to show Song Changsheng the Scripture Repository and its three great ultimate arts, and Song Changsheng agreed.

Song Changsheng entered the Chen Clan’s Scripture Repository and met the lingering thought of True Lord Haoyang, who offered the Three Supreme Arts in exchange for Song Changsheng preserving the clan’s bloodline. Song Changsheng accepted the Heavenly Dao Oath and received the arts, then asked how to handle Reincarnation True Monarch’s spirit body.

• Song Changsheng used the Chen Clan waist token to enter the Scripture Repository and reached its top floor, where a projection appeared and revealed itself as True Lord Haoyang.
• True Lord Haoyang learned of the Chen Clan’s decline and offered its Three Supreme Arts in exchange for Song Changsheng teaching them to a Chen Clan disciple and protecting the clan until that disciple could fend for themselves.
• Song Changsheng swore a Heavenly Dao Oath to accept the condition, and True Lord Haoyang gave him Flowers Bloom in an Instant, the Nine Profound Void Scripture, and the Spirit Taming Canon.
• Song Changsheng examined the three arts, recognized their value, and asked True Lord Haoyang how he should handle Reincarnation True Monarch’s spirit body.

Song Changsheng learned that Reincarnation True Monarch’s True Spirit had shattered inside the spirit body and arranged to use it for his Divine Soul Incarnation in exchange for protecting the Chen Clan. After subduing the Night Illuminating Divine Bird and leaving a replacement in the Small World, he prepared to inspect the clan’s young cultivators and fulfill his agreement with True Lord Haoyang.

• True Lord Haoyang revealed that the fragments within the spirit body were Reincarnation True Monarch’s shattered True Spirit, and Song Changsheng offered his Divine Soul Incarnation as a vessel in exchange for supporting the Chen Clan’s future descendants.
• Song Changsheng took the Chen Clan’s records, offered its survivors protection and relocation, and told Chen Tianxing to prepare the clan’s young cultivators for inspection.
• Chen Tianxing tried to make Chen Lingxiu attend to Song Changsheng, but Song Changsheng sent her to say farewell to her family and encouraged her to preserve her resolve against the Eastern Heaven Alliance.
• Song Changsheng spent half a month refining a replacement for the Night Illuminating Divine Bird, then defeated and subdued its Artifact Spirit after a prolonged battle.
• Song Changsheng installed the replacement in the Small World, and Chen Tianxing presented the Chen Clan’s eligible cultivators for inspection.