Chapter Summaries

After Zhuang Yuechan’s musical arts ceremony earned her the title True Person Xuanyin, Song Changsheng discussed the Song Clan’s vulnerabilities and his responsibilities with her before she departed for the East Sea. He then began teaching his new disciple Hua Yan how to use moon essence to cleanse the chaotic Yin Qi in her Nine Yin Body, leaving her to test his breathing technique.

• The cultivators who had broken through at Zhuang Yuechan’s ceremony bestowed the title Mystic Sound on her, and the Song Clan’s spies helped spread the name True Person Xuanyin throughout the Borderlands.
• Song Changsheng and Zhuang Yuechan discussed the Song Clan’s overstretched territory, its shortage of Golden Core strength, and the need to watch Thousand Blades City and the Black Scale Race.
• Zhuang Yuechan urged Song Changsheng to pay more attention to Hua Yan and Chi Li, and Song Changsheng asked her to tell Chi Li that he wanted to see him.
• After Zhuang Yuechan departed, Song Changsheng summoned Hua Yan and explained that her Nine Yin Body’s chaotic Yin Qi prevented her from balancing yin and yang.
• Song Changsheng planned to seal Hua Yan’s apertures and guide moon essence into her each day, then taught her a breathing technique he had developed from the Yin-Yang Profound Radiance Scripture.

Song Changsheng helped Hua Yan absorb the Essence of the Moon and expel the Yin Qi from her body, while Song Qingxing survived a brutal battle on the Trial Road but was poisoned. After finding a Destiny Dice, Song Qingxing threw it away as bait and set out to find the antidote.

• Song Changsheng removed Hua Yan's acupoint seals and filled her body with the Essence of the Moon, helping her force out the Yin Qi despite residual Tribulation Qi.
• Song Qingxi sensed that Song Qingxing was in danger on the Trial Road and prayed for his safe return.
• Song Qingxing and Shen Jingchuan fought off pursuing cultivators, but Song Qingxing suffered a poisoned wound from a Blackwood Awl.
• Shen Jingchuan identified the weapon as belonging to the Wu Family and gave Song Qingxing a portrait of Wu Tiancheng, who might have the antidote.
• Song Qingxing found a Destiny Dice and threw it away to draw other trial participants toward it while he searched for Wu Tiancheng.

Song Qingxing pursued Wu Tiancheng to obtain an antidote for the poison in his body, while the [Destiny Dice] stirred violence among the trial participants and a second die appeared. Song Qingxing defeated Wu Tiancheng and demanded the antidote and his strange Divine Ability, but Wu Tiancheng claimed he needed to be taken to hidden spiritual herbs and secretly plotted against him.

• Song Qingxing discarded the [Destiny Dice], then used Wu Tiancheng's lingering aura to track him with the [Traceless Sword].
• The first [Destiny Dice] landed with a middle-aged cultivator and drew trial participants into bloody battles, while a second die appeared and reached Shen Jingchuan on a Floating Island.
• Song Qingxing sensed the second die, then caught up with Wu Tiancheng, who had stopped nearby to watch the trial's developments.
• Wu Tiancheng created lifelike duplicates to escape, but Song Qingxing's [Sword Opens Heavenly Gate] destroyed them and cut Wu Tiancheng in half.
• Song Qingxing demanded the antidote and Wu Tiancheng's Divine Ability; Wu Tiancheng claimed the antidote herbs were hidden elsewhere, offered the Divine Ability, and secretly planned against him.

Song Qingxing survived Wu Tiancheng’s ambush by destroying a Spatial Vortex, but the resulting Spatial Turbulence left him gravely injured and stranded in the Boundless Void. As he began recovering through a nirvana fueled by the [True Phoenix Blood Essence], the [Traceless Sword] carried him away and a mysterious figure appeared to repair the shattered Space Barrier.

• Song Qingxing took Wu Tiancheng’s [Thousand Shadow Tracing] and made him prepare and test an antidote before accepting it.
• Wu Tiancheng split the Floating Island, revealed a hidden Spatial Vortex, and detonated his dantian to trigger it.
• Song Qingxing struck the Spatial Vortex with the [Traceless Sword], causing it to collapse and sweep him into Spatial Turbulence.
• The other [Destiny Dice] continued toward the Trial Gate, while Shen Jingchuan wondered whether Song Qingxing had been killed.
• Song Qingxing survived with help from the [True Phoenix Blood Essence] and began healing as the [Traceless Sword] carried him through the Boundless Void.
• A towering figure emerged after Song Qingxing left and smoothed over the shattered Space Barrier.

Zhuang Yuechan traveled to the Soaring Dragon Archipelago aboard a fast new warship and summoned Chi Li to meet her. She told him that Song Changsheng wanted him to return to Vast Peak, leaving Chi Li hopeful that he would finally have a chance to spend time with his master.

• Zhuang Yuechan praised the Heavenly Craftsmanship Hall's new warship and discussed its progress on a Fourth-Tier Sky Battleship and Li Ban's inventions with Lu Yuxiu.
• After arriving at the Soaring Dragon Archipelago, Zhuang Yuechan asked Chi Li and Xu Miaoyin to return from their training expedition and meet her.
• Chi Li, Xu Miaoyin, and Song Jingxiao defeated a group of Sea Demons before a message summoned them to Tenglong Island.
• Zhuang Yuechan told Chi Li that Song Changsheng had asked him to return to Vast Peak, while Xu Miaoyin and Song Jingxiao would stay with her to cultivate.
• Chi Li left the hall with Song Jingxiao, overwhelmed and tearful at the prospect of finally seeing Song Changsheng.

A mysterious figure repaired the unstable Trial Road while Song Changsheng trained Hua Yan in a moon-essence breathing method he was developing into a new Song Clan heart method. A deacon then reported that Elder Chi Li had returned to the clan, and Song Changsheng prepared to summon him.

• A towering figure surveyed the Trial Road, watched its pursuers and swordsman, and repeatedly repaired Spatial Vortices threatening his created space.
• Song Changsheng taught Hua Yan to absorb the Essence of the Moon and expel the Yin Qi within her body, but she completed only four circuits per hour.
• Song Changsheng explained that Hua Yan's slow progress came from his still-imperfect breathing method, which he hoped to develop into a powerful heart method for the Song Clan.
• Song Changsheng told Hua Yan that his returning Senior Martial Brother would test the method's yang section, while she tested its yin section, and then expounded on the Dao of Yin and Yang.
• A deacon reported that Elder Chi Li had returned and was waiting at the Hall of General Affairs, prompting Song Changsheng to open his eyes and consider summoning him.

Song Qingxing recovered on a Floating Island, absorbed the [Nirvana Flame] into his [Violet Void Divine Fire], and learned that the [Traceless Sword] had independently protected him. He reached the Trial Gate and joined Shen Jingchuan in slaughtering trial participants to make another [Destiny Dice] appear, leaving the survivors gathered for a final battle.

• Song Qingxing healed from his injuries, broke through, and devoured the [Nirvana Flame] with the [Violet Void Divine Fire].
• The [Traceless Sword] told Song Qingxing he had slept for ninety-six days, and he learned that one [Destiny Dice] had already reached the Trial Gate.
• Song Qingxing killed a hidden trial participant and learned that more deaths were needed for another [Destiny Dice] to form.
• Song Qingxing ambushed Shen Jingchuan near the Trial Gate, but the two recognized each other and Shen Jingchuan revealed that a woman had already entered the gate.
• Song Qingxing and Shen Jingchuan fought together, killed nearly forty trial participants, and drove the survivors to gather before the Trial Gate for a decisive battle.

Song Qingxing and Shen Jingchuan used their [Destiny Dice] to shatter the trial-takers’ alliance and slaughter nearly everyone gathered at the Trial Gate. They entered the gate, while the remaining contestants fought over a newly appeared die and died in the ensuing chaos.

• Mingwei gathered the surviving trial-takers at the Floating Island and urged them to unite against Song Qingxing and Shen Jingchuan.
• Song Qingxing and Shen Jingchuan charged the island, and the trial-takers attacked them with their divine abilities.
• Song Qingxing threw his [Destiny Dice] into the crowd, causing the alliance to collapse as the trial-takers fought over it.
• Shen Jingchuan threw his own die into the scramble, while Song Qingxing and Shen Jingchuan killed contestants who seized the dice.
• After fewer than ten trial-takers remained, Song Qingxing and Shen Jingchuan reclaimed their dice and entered the Trial Gate, while a fourth die appeared before Mingwei.
• Mingwei died in the ensuing siege, and the last surviving contestant was killed by a hidden attacker after picking up a bloodstained die.

Song Qingxing endured the Path of Thorns and became trapped in an illusion of the Blood Rain Calamity, where he resisted his apparent fate by striking at the collapsing heavens. He broke free near the end of the trial and stepped toward Flame Demon Purgatory, still wondering why the illusion had shown him another person’s body.

• Song Qingxing entered the Path of Thorns, chose to endure the poisonous spikes rather than destroy them to advance safely, and pressed on as they wounded him and tormented his Divine Soul.
• Song Qingxing became trapped in an illusion of a mortal town during the Blood Rain Calamity and watched its residents drown as the world flooded.
• Song Qingxing recalled the calamity’s history, refused to accept his apparent death, and used Sword Opens Heavenly Gate against the collapsing sky.
• Song Qingxing awoke on the thorn road, cut free from thorns wrapped around his throat, and realized his defiance had broken the illusion.
• Song Qingxing completed the Path of Thorns and approached the second trial, Flame Demon Purgatory, while questioning whose body the illusion had shown him.

Song Qingxing hunted Flame Demons, strengthened himself and the Traceless Sword, and advanced through the remaining trials before entering the Boundless Sea of Suffering. Meanwhile, Song Changsheng prepared Chi Li and Hua Yan to verify his new cultivation method, while a mysterious figure gathered baleful qi and worried about an approaching calamity.

• Song Qingxing recognized that the Flame Demons resembled creatures he had encountered in the Abyss and tested whether their essence could strengthen the Traceless Sword.
• Song Qingxing hunted nearly four hundred Flame Demons, absorbing their essence and greatly improving himself and the Traceless Sword.
• Song Qingxing passed Boulder Space and gained the Myriad Swords Returning to the Sect divine ability in the Void Sword Mound.
• Song Qingxing entered the Boundless Sea of Suffering and endured its corrosive trial without wavering.
• A towering figure questioned whether Song Qingxing was the outsider sought by Heavenly Secrets Pavilion, collected Ferocious Baleful Qi from the Void Sword Mound, and vanished.
• Song Changsheng told Chi Li to cultivate the yin section alongside Hua Yan's yang section so they could verify his new cultivation method, then said he would meet Grandmaster Wujie.

Song Changsheng welcomed Wujie back to life in a reconstructed body, and Wujie pledged his loyalty to the Song Clan. Their discussion of the missing [Heavenly Fire Cauldron] raised the possibility that Ling Mou had survived, and they planned to search for clues on New Year's Eve.

• Wujie emerged from the spirit pool in his new body and pledged to serve Song Changsheng and the Song Clan.
• Song Changsheng told Wujie to focus first on treating cultivators left with Inner Demons after failed Purple Palace breakthroughs, and promised to appoint him chief Guest Elder of the Hall of Hundred Arts.
• Wujie questioned whether the [Heavenly Fire Cauldron] had truly been destroyed with Ling Mou, pointing to her disciple Yu Dongyang and the suspicious destruction of the Vast Righteousness Alliance's spirit plants.
• Wujie argued that Ling Mou might still be alive and that the [Heavenly Fire Cauldron] could be tied to the Treasure Bottle Sect's alchemy method of drawing on Heaven and Earth Pure Qi at the turn of the year.
• Song Changsheng agreed to observe the situation on New Year's Eve using his qi-observing abilities and, if possible, the help of a master of qi observation.

Song Changsheng investigated the possibility that Ling Mou had survived and arranged preparations for New Year's Eve while helping his disciples cultivate. Chi Li successfully formed Primal Chaos Qi, and Hua Yan began the dangerous process of using the Essence of the Sun to balance her Nine Yin Body.

• Song Changsheng agreed to postpone Wujie's Lesser Creation Pill and asked him to focus on resolving his inner demon while preparing to investigate Ling Mou on New Year's Eve.
• Song Changsheng checked on Song Xianming in seclusion, then arranged for Hua Yan and Chi Li to cultivate the Essence of the Moon and Sun.
• Chi Li formed Primal Chaos Qi, verified Song Changsheng's cultivation method, and helped him name the Tai Chi Primal Chaos Scripture.
• Hua Yan exposed herself to sunlight and endured the Essence of the Sun attacking the yin qi in her Nine Yin Body.
• Hua Yan fused Sun Essence and Moon Essence into Primal Chaos Qi, and Song Changsheng transformed it into mostly yin qi with a small amount of yang qi to stabilize her.

While helping Hua Yan balance the Yin Qi in her Nine Yin Body, Chi Li awakened a powerful pure Yang bloodline, and Song Changsheng intervened to control its dangerous eruption. Chi Li recovered with golden eyes, while Song Changsheng recognized the awakening as a chance to learn more about the bloodline.

• Song Changsheng had Chi Li use his Pure Yang Power to help Hua Yan complete the balance of Yin and Yang, then watched as the forces gathered around them.
• Chi Li's bloodline awakened during their cultivation, and Song Changsheng realized that Hua Yan's Yin Qi had triggered the change.
• At Song Changsheng's direction, Hua Yan sent her Yin Qi into Chi Li to spur the awakening, but Chi Li's body became overwhelmed by clashing Yin and Yang forces.
• Song Changsheng cut off Hua Yan's Yin Qi and suppressed Chi Li's uncontrolled Pure Yang Power, while Hua Yan confirmed that she had planted a Fire Seed within herself.
• After resting until morning, Chi Li awoke with golden eyes, and Song Changsheng wondered what the change might mean.

Song Changsheng helped Chi Li awaken his Golden Crow Bloodline, guided him to change his cultivation method, and learned that Hua Yan’s Tianque had been mended. At Myriad Manifestations Academy, True Lord Longxiang rewarded Song Changsheng with the Palace’s Dao insights and agreed to help Hua Yan reach an Extreme Yang Land, while Song Changsheng secured plans for Deer Chasing Academy and a New Year’s Eve qi observation.

• Chi Li described a vision that revealed the Golden Crow Sun Radiance Art, and Song Changsheng confirmed his Golden Crow Bloodline had awakened again.
• Song Changsheng instructed Chi Li to cultivate the Golden Crow Sun Radiance Art with the yang volume of the Tai Chi Primal Chaos Scripture as support, and Chi Li accepted the reprimand and began changing his method.
• Song Changsheng left Hua Yan to cultivate at the clan and traveled to Myriad Manifestations Academy, where he told True Lord Longxiang that her Tianque had been mended.
• True Lord Longxiang rewarded Song Changsheng with a Jade Slip containing Myriad Manifestations Palace’s inherited Dao insights.
• True Lord Longxiang recommended Deer Chasing Academy’s Nine Luminaries Yang Pool for Hua Yan and agreed to write Song Changsheng a letter of introduction for Master Guhong to observe the Song Clan’s qi on New Year’s Eve.

Song Changsheng learned from Yi Tianzheng that breaking through to the Nascent Soul Realm depended on resolving one’s deepest obsession, then prepared the Song Clan for a coming purge of evil-path remnants. As Hua Yan and Chi Li prepared to travel to Deer Chasing Academy, Ling Mou continued a secret plan in Bingzhou to refine the Six Revolutions Hun Tian Pill.

• Master Guhong agreed to read Song Changsheng’s aura in exchange for discussing the Dao of Yin and Yang with him on New Year’s Eve.
• Yi Tianzheng explained that the Nascent Soul breakthrough hinged on overcoming an inner obsession, and he warned Song Changsheng to watch for disturbances in the East Sea.
• Song Changsheng upgraded the Soaring Dragon Archipelago’s defenses, then arranged for Hua Yan and Chi Li to enter Deer Chasing Academy together after the New Year.
• Song Changsheng told Hua Yan to prepare for a purge of the Vast Righteousness Alliance’s remnants and said Master Guhong would assist the Song Clan.
• In Bingzhou, Yu Dongyang warned Ling Mou that unrest was growing, but Ling Mou dismissed the complaints and demanded that the remaining sixty thousand virgin boys and girls be gathered for her plan.

Yu Dongyang ordered the gathering of sixty thousand children for Ling Mou’s pill refinement while privately planning to escape her control. Song Changsheng spotted a strange crimson star, then used New Year’s Eve Qi-gazing to locate Heaven and Earth Pure Qi descending in the north and led the Song Clan’s forces toward Bingzhou.

• Yu Dongyang issued Ling Mou’s order requiring children across Qingtian Sect territory to undergo unified education, while realizing he could not meet her demands and needed a way out.
• Song Changsheng saw an unnamed crimson star appear and vanish, then told Song Qingxi to bring Master Guhong to Vast Peak and avoid alerting the Qingtian Sect.
• Song Changsheng asked Master Guhong to use the Qi-Gazing Art on New Year’s Eve to search for an evil-path remnant who had obtained a pill-refinement inheritance.
• As Heaven and Earth Pure Qi descended at midnight, Master Guhong detected it in the north, and Song Changsheng saw it was likely within the Great Qi Cultivation World.
• Song Changsheng took Hua Yan, Chi Li, Song Qingxi, and the clan’s main fighters toward Bingzhou at top speed.

Song Changsheng ambushed Ling Mou at Five Finger Peak, sealing the area to prevent her escape and confronting her as she tried to refine the Six Revolutions Hun Tian Pill. Their battle began with both revealing formidable powers, while Yu Dongyang attempted to flee and ran into Hua Yan.

• Song Changsheng arrived at the Qingtian Sect, ordered Hua Yan and the others to surround Five Finger Peak, and established a Space Blockade with specially prepared Formation Flags.
• Song Changsheng attacked Five Finger Peak, shattered its protective array, and called Ling Mou out.
• Ling Mou escaped the exploding alchemy room but found her prepared routes and spatial treasure blocked by Song Changsheng's formation.
• Song Changsheng and Ling Mou clashed with their Great Divine Abilities, and Ling Mou revealed her Golden Core Great Perfection cultivation and Law Treasure.
• Yu Dongyang tried to flee during their contest, but the Space Blockade stopped him, and Hua Yan confronted him.

Hua Yan captured Yu Dongyang while Song Changsheng defeated Ling Mou in the sky above Five Finger Peak. After shattering Ling Mou’s Golden Core, Song Changsheng used the Soul-Seizing Spirit Hook to extract her soul and memories in search of the Heavenly Fire Cauldron.

• Hua Yan overpowered Yu Dongyang, bound him with Extreme Yin Qi, and silenced him after he insulted Song Changsheng.
• Song Changsheng summoned the Yusu Sword and struck Ling Mou through her folded spatial barriers, damaging the Glazed Mirror and wounding her.
• Ling Mou shattered the Glazed Mirror in a desperate attack, but Song Changsheng’s Golden Lotuses blocked the fragments.
• Song Changsheng suppressed Ling Mou’s attempt to self-destruct her Golden Core, then pierced and shattered it with the Yusu Sword.
• Song Changsheng captured Ling Mou and, when she refused to reveal the Heavenly Fire Cauldron’s location, used the Soul-Seizing Spirit Hook to extract her soul and memories.

Song Changsheng killed Ling Mou, captured Yu Dongyang, and uncovered their scheme to refine the [Six Revolutions Hun Tian Pill] using thousands of children. After handing the Qingtian Sect’s remaining affairs to Chen Zhongfang, he returned to Vast Peak to interrogate Yu Dongyang and Ling Mou’s Three Souls and Seven Spirits for clues to the Treasure Bottle Sect’s ruins.

• Song Changsheng burned Ling Mou’s Spirit Body, found that her eyes resisted the [Violet Void Divine Fire], and recovered the [Heavenly Fire Cauldron] from her storage artifact.
• Hua Yan reported that Yu Dongyang had been captured and that the Qingtian Sect’s four Purple Palace Cultivators had surrendered; Song Changsheng ordered Song Qingxi to seize the sect’s resources.
• Song Changsheng explained Ling Mou’s identity and death to Chen Zhongfang, then followed Chi Li to an Underground Palace where they found tens of thousands of corpses used as catalysts for the [Six Revolutions Hun Tian Pill].
• Yu Dongyang revealed that the Qingtian Sect had supplied the children for Ling Mou’s pill; Song Changsheng left Chen Zhongfang to deal with the sect and took Yu Dongyang away.
• Back at Vast Peak, Song Changsheng began interrogating Yu Dongyang and Ling Mou’s Three Souls and Seven Spirits for information about the Treasure Bottle Sect’s ruins.

Song Changsheng interrogated Yu Dongyang to uncover the Qingtian Sect alliance’s operations and Ling Mou’s connection to the Treasure Bottle Sect. Yu Dongyang revealed Ling Mou’s crimes and possible ties to a hidden Demon King, and Song Changsheng dispatched teams to destroy the alliance’s remaining branch halls while searching for a way to track the Demon King.

• Song Changsheng questioned Yu Dongyang about the alliance’s branch halls, its dealings with the Golden-Eyed Demon Kingdom, and Xu Mei.
• Yu Dongyang revealed three dormant branch halls in Meng Province, Lin Province, and Cangzhou, a Spiritual Herb plantation in Bingzhou, and suspected Demon Kings hiding in Great Qi; he said Xu Mei had died attempting a breakthrough.
• Yu Dongyang explained that Ling Mou had replaced [Innate Hua Ying] in the [Four Revolutions Hun Tian Pill] with the Heart’s Blood of virgin boys and girls, and had taken someone else’s eyes to regain her sight.
• Yu Dongyang recorded what he knew and asked to die with dignity, so Song Changsheng arranged for him to take his own life.
• Song Changsheng ordered Chi Li, Hua Yan, Song Luzhou, and the others to attack the three branch halls, then searched Ling Mou’s Storage Bag for the Demon King token.