Chapter Summaries

Song Changsheng searched Ling Mou’s belongings, found the World in the Palm technique, and learned the truth behind her plans by searching her remaining memories. The chapter ended with him discovering that her unusual eyes came from an ancestor who was a Spirit-Eyed One.

• Song Changsheng found the World in the Palm jade slip among Ling Mou’s possessions and began cultivating the spatial Divine Ability.
• Song Qingxi and the others destroyed the Vast Righteousness Alliance’s three branch headquarters and inventoried their resources.
• Song Changsheng promised Hua Yan a Magic Artifact and then used Soul Searching Technique on Ling Mou’s Three Souls and Seven Spirits.
• Song Changsheng told Song Qingxi and Wujie that Ling Mou had inherited the Treasure Bottle Sect’s legacy and planned to use a Huantian Pill to reach Nascent Soul.
• Song Changsheng explained that Ling Mou’s failed experiments, lost avatar, and Inner Demon had driven her into madness.
• Song Changsheng revealed that Ling Mou’s eyes had belonged to an ancestor who was a Spirit-Eyed One.

Song Changsheng learned the history of Ling Mou’s Spirit Eyes and secret arts, then tracked down the Demon King who had infiltrated Great Qi. He captured the demon in a borderlands city and brought it into his Dao Rule Domain.

• Song Changsheng explained that Ling Mou had fused ancestral Spirit Eyes into herself as a child, survived her clan’s destruction, and inherited secret arts from the Treasure Bottle Sect.
• Song Changsheng discussed refining the now-glass Spirit Eyes into a spatial magic tool and ordered Wujie to sort the Heavenly Fire Cauldron’s inheritances.
• Song Changsheng found Ling Mou’s Demon King token and decided to hunt down the infiltrator before it could escape to the Demon Domain.
• The Demon King debated whether it had been exposed and chose to flee toward the Lu Kingdom Cultivation World.
• Song Changsheng appeared outside the wine shop, froze the city with One Finger Settles Dust, and dragged the Demon King into his Dao Rule Domain.

Song Changsheng captured a Golden-Eyed Demon Kingdom infiltrator, but a Demon Lord’s restriction destroyed the captive’s memories before he could learn the full scheme. He convened the Demon Slaying Alliance to expose the infiltrators and coordinate a purge, then discussed further preparations with Mu Guibai.

• Song Changsheng defeated and suppressed a golden-eyed python Demon King, then captured it and used soul-searching techniques to investigate its mission.
• A restriction set by the Golden-Eyed Demon Lord burned away the captive’s Three Souls and Seven Spirits; the Demon Lord threatened Song Changsheng, who destroyed its projection and ordered an alliance assembly.
• Song Changsheng told the alliance’s Golden Core True Persons that the Golden-Eyed Demon Lord was funding forces hostile to the righteous path and revealed a list of seven infiltrators in Great Qi.
• Shi Potian, Chen Zhongfang, and Mu Guibai each volunteered to investigate or eliminate infiltrators, while Song Changsheng urged the other cultivation worlds to share intelligence and prepare for war.
• Mu Guibai warned Song Changsheng not to rely on the Five Poisons Sect and Rakshasa Hall, then urged him to plan for descendants and said his nephew could take over Chan'er’s duties upon returning.

Song Changsheng helped expose a century-long demonic infiltration across the Borderlands and secured Myriad Manifestations Palace’s support for investigations. As Hua Yan and Chi Li prepared to leave for Deer Chasing Academy, he gave them new protective magic artifacts and announced their departure was near.

• Song Changsheng asked the Wanlong Merchant Association and Master Guhong to help warn the cultivation worlds about the demonic infiltration, and Guhong promised Myriad Manifestations Palace would investigate and send Protectors.
• Investigations uncovered traitors across more than a dozen cultivation worlds, revealing that several demon kingdoms had coordinated their infiltration for a century.
• Song Changsheng refined Soul-Exterminating Flying Daggers for Hua Yan and a Blazing Yang Spear and Blazing Yang War Armor for Chi Li.
• Hua Yan reflected on how much she valued her time at Vast Peak but accepted that she had to return to her responsibilities.
• Song Changsheng gave Hua Yan and Chi Li their magic artifacts and told them to prepare for the journey to Deer Chasing Academy.

Song Changsheng and his disciples Chi Li and Hua Yan traveled to the Dazhen Immortal Dynasty so Chi Li could seek growth at Deer Chasing Academy. After Song Changsheng’s fame stirred a crowd in Gaoyang, Chi Li arrived determined to prove himself and one day proudly claim his place as True Lord Zixu’s direct disciple.

• Song Changsheng told Chi Li and Hua Yan they would leave for the Dazhen Immortal Dynasty, and Chi Li explained to Hua Yan that he wanted to face hardship and catch up with the other geniuses.
• Song Changsheng heard Chi Li’s resolve and, while worrying about Hua Yan’s pressure, began arranging the journey.
• Song Changsheng, Chi Li, and Hua Yan traveled through the Great Chu Cultivation World and reached the Dazhen Immortal Dynasty, where Shu Qi and his son Shu Qingchi received them.
• Shu Qi hurried Song Changsheng away after local cultivators recognized him as True Lord Zixu, the man who had defeated the First Prince in the Five Academies Grand Competition.
• Song Changsheng introduced Chi Li to Shu Qi without revealing their relationship, then traveled with the group to Gaoyang, where Chi Li vowed to prove himself.

Song Changsheng sought the Old National Teacher’s guidance about a mysterious crimson star and learned that The Calamity was approaching. After the Human King offered him high office and land to move the Song Clan into Dazhen, Song Changsheng refused and left, while the Human King discussed whether he was the outsider sought by the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion.

• Song Changsheng arrived at Deer Chasing Academy with Chi Li, arranged for him to take the entrance trial, and asked to meet the Old National Teacher.
• The Old National Teacher explained that Song Changsheng’s crimson star was connected to the Calamity Source Star and warned that The Calamity was drawing near.
• During their lessons, Song Changsheng visualized the Calamity Source Star, which nearly swallowed his consciousness before the Old National Teacher awakened him.
• The Human King summoned Song Changsheng and offered him a high court position, noble rank, and permission to relocate the Song Clan to Dazhen.
• Song Changsheng declined the offer and departed, after which the Human King and a masked cultivator discussed whether he was the outsider sought by the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion.

Song Changsheng avoided becoming entangled in the rivalry between the Human King and Zhao Yin, saw Hua Yan and Chi Li off on their respective paths, then visited Song Changshou’s fusion with Reincarnation True Monarch’s Spirit Body. He learned that Reincarnation True Monarch had chosen rebirth after a Heavenly Secrets Master foretold a Golden Age and an opportunity for immortality, leaving Song Changsheng questioning what the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion was plotting.

• Zhao Yin invited Song Changsheng to his residence, but Song Changsheng decided to avoid getting involved in the unresolved succession between Zhao Yin and the Human King.
• Song Changsheng told Hua Yan and Chi Li to focus on cultivation and their upcoming commitments, then personally escorted Hua Yan to the Nine Luminaries Yang Pool and Chi Li to her trial assessment.
• Song Changsheng left the Dazhen Immortal Dynasty for the Extreme Yang Land to check on Song Changshou’s fusion with Reincarnation True Monarch’s Spirit Body.
• Song Changshou reported that the fusion was progressing well and that he had recovered only a few fragmented memories from Reincarnation True Monarch.
• Song Changshou revealed that Heavenly Secrets Master Lingji had told Reincarnation True Monarch of a coming Golden Age and a path to heaven, prompting him to pursue rebirth for a chance at immortality.
• Song Changsheng wondered whether the coming calamity contradicted the prophecy and suspected that the Heavenly Secrets Masters had their own designs.

Song Changsheng considered the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion’s role in the coming Calamity and worried about how the Heavenly Dao would judge Song Changshou’s fusion with Reincarnation True Monarch’s Spirit Body. He then traveled to Pan Shi City, where True Lord Mingtai reported that Great Yang True Monarch had returned gravely wounded, creating an opening for the Chen Clan’s infiltration plan.

• Song Changsheng reasoned that the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion might have encouraged rebirth and upheaval to manipulate the world’s fate, despite the danger of provoking the Heavenly Dao.
• Song Changsheng told Song Changshou to fuse with the Spirit Body quickly and arranged a formation to draw in sunlight, while questioning whether the Heavenly Dao would recognize him as an independent being.
• Song Changsheng traveled to Pan Shi City and learned that Chen Lingxiu had gone alone to the Eastern Heaven Cultivation World to carry out the infiltration plan.
• True Lord Mingtai told Song Changsheng that Great Yang True Monarch had fought someone and returned severely wounded, leaving Eastern Heaven in turmoil and presenting a chance to infiltrate.

Song Changsheng learned that Great Yang True Monarch was severely injured and moved to strengthen the Song Clan’s infiltration of the Eastern Heaven Cultivation World. After disciplining Chen Lingxiu for risky attacks, he heard her report that an unusually perceptive spy had detected pure Demonic Qi at the Eastern Heaven Alliance’s headquarters.

• True Lord Mingtai confirmed that Great Yang True Monarch had been badly injured in a battle over a secret treasure Above the Nine Heavens, leaving the Eastern Heaven Alliance vulnerable.
• True Lord Mingtai gave Song Changsheng a bronze fragment recovered from a meteorite crater, and Song Changsheng ordered the clan to buy any other fragments they could find.
• Song Changsheng ordered the Chen Clan elders kept away from the infiltration plan and confined to Pan Shi City, then traveled to the Eastern Heaven Cultivation World.
• Song Changsheng warned Chen Lingxiu to focus on infiltration instead of hunting low-level cultivators, and she promised to restrain herself.
• Chen Lingxiu reported that a spy at the Eastern Heaven Alliance’s headquarters had sensed exceptionally pure Demonic Qi, prompting Song Changsheng to take the claim seriously.

Song Changsheng visited Beigong Youxue, the Spirit Eyes bearer whose blocked meridians had once threatened her future, and found that she had reached Foundation Establishment. Though she refused his offer to become his disciple so she could support her clan, he left her an Eye Techniques cultivation method and a way to contact him; afterward, he sensed the Treasure Hunting Mouse nearby and decided to pursue it before returning to the academy.

• Song Changsheng recalled the Beigong girl he had helped decades earlier and went to check whether she had reached Foundation Establishment.
• Beigong Youxue detected Song Changsheng's concealed presence with her Spirit Eyes, recognized him, and thanked him for the cultivation method he had left her.
• Song Changsheng offered to take Beigong Youxue as his disciple, but she declined because her clan depended on her and its Patriarch was nearing the end of his life.
• Song Changsheng accepted Beigong Youxue's decision, gave her a jade slip containing an Eye Techniques cultivation method, and told her how to find him.
• After leaving, Song Changsheng sensed the marked Treasure Hunting Mouse nearby and decided to investigate before returning to the academy.

Song Changsheng tracked down the Treasure Hunting Mouse, recovered a second mysterious fragment from its hoard, and made it search for the remaining pieces. He left for the Dazhen Immortal Dynasty, unaware that the mouse still had a hidden spatial ring and planned to defy him.

• Song Changsheng followed the Thunder Law mark to a plain, took a newborn Hornscale Horse with a strong bloodline, and found the Treasure Hunting Mouse fleeing a snake demon underground.
• Song Changsheng stopped the chase, forced the mouse to surrender the snake demon’s stolen Demon Core, and demanded compensation for the treasures it had taken from the Chen Clan vault.
• The Treasure Hunting Mouse revealed its hoard, and Song Changsheng discovered a bronze fragment that matched the one True Person Ming Tai had given him.
• Song Changsheng ordered the mouse to find the remaining fragments and planted a Restriction in its Sea of Consciousness before leaving for the Dazhen Immortal Dynasty.
• After Song Changsheng departed, the Treasure Hunting Mouse revealed a hidden spatial ring and smugly planned to outwit him.

Song Changsheng confirmed that Chi Li had passed Deer Chasing Academy’s Heart-Questioning Trial, then reported a suspected lead on a demonic Nascent Soul cultivator to the Old National Teacher. He brought two ancient bronze fragments to Thunder Elephant True Monarch, who identified them as pieces of a likely Dao Artifact and agreed to refine an imitation.

• Song Changsheng learned from Shu Qi that Chi Li had passed the trial among the first three, and gave Shu Qi ultimate-grade Thunder Law Essence in exchange for fair treatment of his junior.
• Shu Qi relayed that the First Prince wanted to meet Song Changsheng, but Song declined and went to see the Old National Teacher instead.
• Song Changsheng reported suspected traces of the demonic Nascent Soul cultivator in the Eastern Heaven Cultivation World, and the Old National Teacher agreed to investigate.
• Song Changsheng traveled to Myriad Manifestations Palace and heard from True Lord Jianxin that the Sea Race was restless and the Demon Domain’s infiltration had stirred trouble in the Borderlands.
• Thunder Elephant True Monarch examined Song Changsheng’s bronze fragments, judged them likely pieces of a Dao Artifact, and offered to refine an imitation as a reward for his handling of Hua Yan’s matter.

Song Changsheng secured Thunder Elephant True Monarch’s help in seeking [Innate Hua Ying] and exchanged a pill-refining method for a Black Market discount token. After reaching Tenglong Island, he learned that Wujie needed his protection while refining [Lesser Creation Pill], and Song Changsheng proposed taking a suitable site by force.

• Thunder Elephant True Monarch warned Song Changsheng about the Demon Race and promised Myriad Manifestations Palace would help Great Qi quell internal unrest.
• Song Changsheng asked for [Innate Hua Ying] and learned it was unavailable in the Borderlands, but Thunder Elephant True Monarch offered a connection to the Black Market and a thirty percent discount.
• Song Changsheng gave Thunder Elephant True Monarch a method for improving pills with New Year’s Eve Heaven and Earth Pure Qi, and Thunder Elephant True Monarch read it with admiration.
• Song Changsheng went to Tenglong Island and found Wujie waiting to tell him that the materials for [Lesser Creation Pill] were ready and the furnace would open on New Year’s Eve.
• Wujie asked Song Changsheng to withstand the Heavenly Punishment that might follow the pill’s refinement, and Song Changsheng proposed using a Fourth-Tier Spirit Vein at a place they would have to seize.

Song Changsheng and Zhuang Yuechan prepared to seize a giant island in the East Sea, then traveled to a Heaven-Grade Black Market to spend Law Essence on rare cultivation resources. After exploring and making several purchases, they left with their plans to meet Deacon Bai and obtain Innate Hua Ying still ahead.

• Song Changsheng explained that the Song Clan would advance its plans and take the giant island east of the Gemini Islands, whose large Fourth-Tier Spirit Vein could meet Master Wujie's needs.
• Zhuang Yuechan insisted on accompanying Song Changsheng to the island, arranging for Martial Uncle to guard the Soaring Dragon Archipelago while Chengming True Person remained at the Gemini Islands.
• Song Changsheng planned to visit the Black Market before the New Year to buy Innate Hua Ying, and Master Wujie promised he could refine Six Revolutions Hun Tian Pills once his cultivation recovered.
• Song Changsheng and Zhuang Yuechan used Thunder Elephant True Monarch's Waist Token to enter a Heaven-Grade Black Market in Lin Hai City and requested an audience with Deacon Bai.
• Song Changsheng exchanged Fifth-Tier Spiritual Herbs and ancient texts for ten bottles of Law Essence, then bought Starshine Stone Crystal powder and other resources, including discovering that Golden Core Forming Pills cost two thousand drops each.

Song Changsheng and Zhuang Yuechan learned that the Black Market could not sell [Innate Hua Ying], but secured a waist token and access to its resources. Song Changsheng then went to claim an island guarded by the Earth-Cracking Demon King and challenged it to a contest of strength.

• Song Changsheng asked Deacon Bai for [Innate Hua Ying], but Deacon Bai explained that the Five Great Sacred Lands had banned its sale and other Nine Heavens Secret Treasures.
• Zhuang Yuechan asked to join the Black Market, and Deacon Bai gave her a blank waist token.
• Song Changsheng reassured Zhuang Yuechan that he could attempt his future breakthrough without the [Six Revolutions Hun Tian Pill] and recognized the Black Market as a useful resource channel for the Song Clan.
• Song Changsheng summoned Wujie to Lin Hai City, and the three traveled to an island guarded by the Earth-Cracking Demon King.
• Song Changsheng blocked the island's central region and offered to spare the Earth-Cracking Demon King if it yielded the island, but the Demon King demanded a fight.
• Song Changsheng struck the Earth-Cracking Savage Bear hard enough to injure its paw, then promised to leave if it could shake his position.

Song Changsheng subdued the Earth-Cracking Savage Bear and prepared a remote island for Wujie to refine the [Lesser Creation Pill]. After two years, Wujie successfully refined a pill that drew a Heavenly Tribulation, and Song Changsheng recognized the sound of the [Kui Bull War Drum] in the clouds.

• Song Changsheng defeated the Earth-Cracking Savage Bear, accepted its conditions, and took its Divine Soul Imprint as collateral.
• Song Changsheng sent Big Bear's clan away from the island's center while Wujie prepared to refine the [Lesser Creation Pill] and Zhuang Yuechan searched for resources.
• On New Year's Eve, Wujie began refining the pill with five carefully chosen Five Elements Spiritual Objects and Heaven and Earth Pure Qi.
• After two years, Song Changsheng supplied tens of thousands of Mid-Grade Spirit Stones when Wujie said the cauldron lacked spiritual qi.
• The [Heavenly Fire Cauldron] released a golden pill, and dark clouds gathered as Wujie celebrated his success and a Heavenly Tribulation descended.
• Song Changsheng heard the sound of the [Kui Bull War Drum] within the thunderclouds.

Song Changsheng and Wujie faced a Heavenly Tribulation caused by the [Lesser Creation Pill], and Song Changsheng absorbed the pill’s creation power while enduring the lightning. After he entered the Tribulation Cloud and encountered the [Kui Bull War Drum], he fainted and fell, having reached Golden Core Great Perfection and awakened two more Dao Flowers.

• Wujie explained that the first bolt would punish him, the second would test the [Lesser Creation Pill], and Song Changsheng would have to swallow the pill and endure the remaining tribulation.
• The first bolt struck Wujie, leaving him gravely injured, and the second bolt hit the [Lesser Creation Pill], strengthening its spiritual resonance.
• Song Changsheng swallowed and refined the pill, then endured the following bolts as Innate Qi cleansed his body and strengthened his soul.
• Song Changsheng entered the Tribulation Cloud, where his [Lightning Dao] and [Grand Dao of Life] Dao Flowers bloomed, and he found the Thunder Pool and [Kui Bull War Drum].
• A drumbeat sent Innate Qi surging into Song Changsheng’s upper dantian, knocking him unconscious as his Law Dao Tree connected his three dantians, his dharma power became the Power of Law, and his cultivation broke through to Golden Core Great Perfection.
• The [Kui Bull War Drum], Thunder Pool, and Tribulation Cloud vanished, and Song Changsheng fell from the sky.

After the heavenly tribulation left Song Changsheng unconscious, he discovered his divine soul was trapped in his prematurely opened mudball palace. Rather than seal it and wait for a normal breakthrough, he chose to attempt the risky False Nascent Soul path as the Golden-Eyed Demon Kingdom threatened the Southwest.

• Zhuang Yuechan rescued Song Changsheng and the unconscious Wujie, while Big Bear and his clan were left to guard the island.
• After three months, Wujie awoke and explained that Song Changsheng's divine soul was trapped inside his mudball palace; he described the False Nascent Soul as a dangerous but powerful solution.
• Song Changsheng's consciousness awakened after half a year, and he contacted Zhuang Yuechan through divine sense.
• Song Changsheng chose to condense a False Nascent Soul to strengthen himself against the Golden-Eyed Demon Kingdom, and Zhuang Yuechan agreed to support him and keep his condition secret.
• Song Changsheng withdrew his divine sense and began condensing the False Nascent Soul, knowing he still had to confront his inner demon.

Song Changsheng condensed a spirit infant and faced an Inner Demon Tribulation that showed him a future in which The Calamity destroyed his clan and the world. The illusion then shifted to Song Qingxing nearing the end of the Boundless Sea of Suffering, leaving Song Changsheng’s trial unresolved.

• Song Changsheng named his Law Dao Tree Tongtian, used its Dao Flowers to draw up his Golden Core Origin, and condensed a spirit infant with a sliver of his True Spirit and Innate Qi.
• Song Changsheng awoke in a decayed Vast Small World and heard Zhuang Yuechan’s jade pendant reveal that The Calamity had devastated the world and his family had departed to confront it.
• Song Changsheng recognized the ruined world as an Inner Demon Tribulation and rejected the voice urging him to abandon his clan and pursue immortality alone.
• The inner demon claimed the calamity was an unavoidable Heavenly Dao trial and showed Song Changsheng another vision from the future.
• Twenty years into a Boundless Sword Sect Trial Road, Song Qingxing continued crossing the Boundless Sea of Suffering, driven onward by thoughts of a graceful figure, and saw a gateway in the distance.

Song Qingxing emerged from the Five Elements Trial and endured the Heavenly Tribulation, forming a nine-vortex Golden Core. After accepting a Mystic-grade Guest Elder token from the Boundless Sword Sect, he learned Shen Jingchuan had survived too and went to visit Li Yuxia.

• Song Qingxing passed through the Trial Gate and entered Heavenly Tribulation Valley, where the Boundless Sword Sect announced the coming tribulation.
• Song Qingxing reflected on his Dao and his gratitude to the Song Clan before facing the Heavenly Tribulation with Azure Peak.
• Song Qingxing cut down the lightning strikes and formed a nine-vortex Golden Core after the tribulation ended.
• A Boundless Sword Sect cultivator gave Song Qingxing a Mystic-grade Guest Elder Token, and Song Qingxing learned that Shen Jingchuan was the other survivor.
• Song Qingxing visited Li Yuxia and briefly spoke with Shen Jingchuan, who left the sect after Song Qingxing declined to get acquainted.